The Barbara Lee administration now has its first 16 official hires, and they include former SF City Controller Ben Rosenfeld, who held a similar transition job when Danel Lurie was sworn in as San Francisco Mayor.
It is now two weeks to the day since the Chronicle called the race and declared that Barbara Lee had won the Oakland mayoral election, with Lee herself declaring victory the next day. But the glow of victory will quickly run into the rude awakening of Oakland’s massive budget deficit and ongoing crime issues. So Lee will have to hit the ground running, and she’s trying to do just that, as the Chronicle reports Lee has named the16 hires to her new transition team.
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