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City Council — Tuesday, October 13

6:00 PM · Berkeley Unified School District Boardroom 1231 Addison Street Berkeley, CA 94702

The agenda is posted — link below.

Speak in the room at 1231 Addison St, on Zoom or by phone, or email council@berkeleyca.gov -- by noon the day before to reach councilmembers in the last packet before the vote.

Comment by Monday, October 12 for the Tue, Oct 13 meeting.

Agenda (PDF)·Council agendas

Checked against Berkeley's agenda listing today — Friday, October 9, 2026. This card rebuilds itself every crawl.

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Say somethingIn the room, on Zoom, by phone, or in writing to the whole Council. Written comment is never too late.
What’s scheduledCouncil meetings, rebuilt from the city’s agendas and Granicus after each Council meeting.
Who decidesEight district councilmembers and a separately elected Mayor. Nine votes; five carry.
The November ballotRanked-choice voting, four Council seats and the City Auditor.
Council does not meet at City Hall. Regular meetings are held in the Berkeley Unified School District Boardroom, 1231 Addison Street. City Hall, at 2180 Milvia Street, is the City Clerk’s address and the venue for closed sessions — going there on a Tuesday evening is the single most common way to waste one.

How Berkeley is governed

Berkeley is a council–manager city with an unusual council for California: eight districts, each electing one member, plus a Mayor elected separately by the whole city. That makes nine votes, and five of them carry a motion. The Mayor presides and votes, but has no veto and no separate executive authority.

All three of those offices — Mayor, Council and City Auditor — are elected by ranked-choice voting. You rank candidates in order of preference instead of picking one. There is no separate runoff, because the ranking is the runoff.

Terms are four years and staggered, so half the council is up at a time. Districts 2, 3, 5 and 6 and the Mayor are elected in presidential years; districts 1, 4, 7 and 8 and the City Auditor are elected in the midterms.

Day-to-day the city is run by a professional City Manager the Council hires. Two other bodies matter more than most residents realise: the Zoning Adjustments Board decides most development applications and only reaches Council on appeal, and the Rent Stabilization Board is elected by the voters in its own right rather than appointed. Both are on the bodies page.

Because there are districts, there is a shortcut Mountain View residents do not have: one of those nine people is specifically yours, and getting an item raised usually starts with them.

What this site is

berkinfo.org is an independent, non-commercial mirror of Berkeley’s public record. It is not run by the city. It carries no advertising and sets no tracking cookies.

It exists because the public record here is technically public and practically hard to read. Berkeley has no agenda API. Its agendas are ordinary web pages, its site RSS feed is empty and malformed, and every meeting is published at two different, both-valid addresses with different content and different date formats — so anyone building a feed by hand ends up listing every meeting twice. This site reads the Granicus feed and the city’s agenda pages every night, deduplicates them, keeps its own copies of the PDFs so the links do not rot, and writes the parts that change back into the page automatically.

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