Oakland
Menu

Noel Gallo

Councilmember, District 5, Oakland City Council

Raised homelessness and encampments at four meetings. Named East Oakland most often: 12 times.

13 of 19transcribed meetings with their voice identified
3.1min a meeting at the City Council, at least
23questions at the City Council
22 of 22present at roll calls, from the clerk

Also sits on 3 committees

See all
Share card

Five clips, newest first

“How do you choose where you direct a street sweeper to go in and clean up the street throughout the city?”Noel GalloMember · Public Works and Transportation Committee · Jun 23, 2026 · 19:54Play at 19:54
“So for me, as a resident of this city, how much am I paying annually to maintain our storm drains?”Noel GalloMember · Public Works and Transportation Committee · Sep 22, 2026 · 27:16Play at 27:16
“…for the public’s information, these are rates that have been approved by the voter, correct?”Noel GalloMember · City Council · Jun 2, 2026 · 2:23:58Play at 2:23:58
“…the cannabis money that we used to get, millions of dollars? Where’s that going?”Noel GalloMember · City Council · Jun 1, 2026 · 45:57Play at 45:57
“It’s not the city responding. Even the streets in front that the city should take care of, they’re not doing it. But when I call Caltrans, they’re the ones that come out and clean under the freeways. But yet the city does not enforce the rules that we have about illegal dumping, about the trash, about the homeless activity.”Noel GalloMember · Public Works and Transportation Committee · Jan 13, 2026 · 56:04Play at 56:04

Officials only. Public speakers are counted, never named.

Issues Gallo raised, by number of meetings

We count who raised an issue, not which side they took.

Every roll call, and Gallo’s other bodies

Present at 22 of 22 roll calls at the City Council

From the clerk’s own record. We don’t compare members on it.

PresentExcusedAbsentOldest first, 1 square per roll call

Absent 0. Nov 4, 2025 to Oct 20, 2026.

Official roll call, from the clerk →
What they talk about

Streets, traffic and parking took 20% of Gallo’s speech with a checked topic

By the agenda item on the floor when they spoke, at the City Council and its committees (clerk’s agenda times). 158 of 217 minutes of their speech have a checked topic. How much they talk about it, not which side they take.

Streets, traffic and parking20%
Arts, culture and libraries3.4%
Development and land use1.3%
Taxes and fees1.2%
Parks and recreation1.0%
Health and behavioral health0.3%
Questions

Gallo asked 23 questions at the 13 City Council meetings where we identified them

At least this many: direct questions only.

Of Gallo’s 54 questions to city departments at the Public Works and Transportation Committee, 31 went to public works, streets and sanitation.

Who they question: 71 questions to a department, 2 bodies · Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 8, 2026.

Public Works and Transportation Committee54 questions to city departments
Public Works and Transportation Committee: questions by department
DepartmentShareQuestions
Public works, streets and sanitation3157%
Transportation and transit1833%
Administration, HR, contracts and facilities47%
Auditors, inspectors general and ethics12%
City Council17 questions to city departments
City Council: questions by department
DepartmentShareQuestions
Budget, finance and controller1271%
Administration, HR, contracts and facilities212%
Planning and zoning212%
Economic development, business and licensing16%
Neighborhoods Gallo named

7 places Gallo named in meetings

Lines where Gallo named the place, read by two AI readers that both agree it means that place. Each dot plays the newest one; brighter means named more often.

Oakland
  • East Oakland 12 times
  • Lake Merritt 7 times, the most of any official
  • Fruitvale 3 times, the most of any official
  • West Oakland 3 times
  • Chinatown 1 time
  • Montclair 1 time
  • Peralta Hacienda 1 time

Places are drawn at the centre of their own boundary in the city’s neighborhoods (CEDA) file (City of Oakland Open Data Portal); a well-known area with no boundary of its own sits at its OpenStreetMap point. A dot says the place was named, not where Gallo was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Gallo’s voice

41, newest first. The date opens the meeting; the time plays the video at Gallo’s first remark.

  1. Sep 28, 2026Education Partnership CommitteeSchools and youth7.0 min31:10
  2. Sep 22, 2026Public Works and Transportation Committee8.4 min27:11
  3. Sep 22, 2026Life Enrichment CommitteeDevelopment and land use · Schools and youth2.5 min14:52
  4. Jul 14, 2026Public Works and Transportation Committee4.0 min11:47
  5. Jul 13, 2026City CouncilDevelopment and land use6.1 min47:35
  6. Jul 7, 2026City Council3.1 min5:18:09
  7. Jun 23, 2026Public Works and Transportation Committee5.3 min7:10
  8. Jun 23, 2026Life Enrichment CommitteeSchools and youth1.8 min40:09
  9. Jun 16, 2026City Council0.0 min4:30:17
  10. Jun 9, 2026Public Works and Transportation Committee2.5 min18:15
Show all 41Show fewer
  1. Jun 2, 2026City CouncilPolicing and public safety5.4 min1:00:10
  2. Jun 1, 2026City CouncilBudget and spending16.4 min38:58
  3. May 26, 2026Public Works and Transportation Committee12.1 min26:04
  4. May 26, 2026Life Enrichment CommitteeSchools and youth3.4 min16:56
  5. May 19, 2026City Council7.4 min26:58
  6. May 12, 2026Public Works and Transportation Committee13.1 min6:26
  7. May 12, 2026Life Enrichment CommitteeSchools and youth3.5 min5:40
  8. Apr 21, 2026Public Works and Transportation Committee8.0 min13:29
  9. Mar 24, 2026Public Works and Transportation Committee17.1 min8:37
  10. Mar 24, 2026Life Enrichment CommitteeArts, culture and libraries5.1 min30:27
  11. Mar 16, 2026City Council3.9 min7:40
  12. Mar 10, 2026Public Works and Transportation CommitteePublic transit6.3 min1:18:34
  13. Mar 10, 2026Life Enrichment CommitteeHomelessness7.2 min55:46
  14. Feb 24, 2026Public Works and Transportation Committee7.8 min14:28
  15. Feb 24, 2026Life Enrichment Committee2.4 min51:18
  16. Feb 10, 2026Public Works and Transportation Committee5.5 min56:01
  17. Feb 10, 2026Life Enrichment Committee0.8 min1:57:39
  18. Feb 3, 2026City CouncilPolicing and public safety5.5 min28:38
  19. Jan 27, 2026Public Works and Transportation Committee1.0 min14:38
  20. Jan 20, 2026City CouncilAppointments to boards and commissions9.1 min2:35
  21. Jan 13, 2026Public Works and Transportation Committee7.2 min18:21
  22. Jan 13, 2026Life Enrichment CommitteeSchools and youth2.4 min9:01
  23. Jan 6, 2026City Council1.1 min19:29
  24. Dec 16, 2025City Council0.4 min7:01:52
  25. Dec 9, 2025Public Works and Transportation Committee7.0 min12:35
  26. Dec 9, 2025Life Enrichment CommitteeSchools and youth · Parks and recreation4.5 min14:24
  27. Dec 2, 2025City Council0.2 min1:57:09
  28. Nov 18, 2025Public Works and Transportation Committee5.7 min8:10
  29. Nov 18, 2025Life Enrichment Committee0.3 min1:09:21
  30. Nov 4, 2025City CouncilDevelopment and land use0.7 min50:31
  31. Oct 28, 2025Public Works and Transportation Committee6.5 min38:21
How we identify who is speaking · blind check, pooled across five cities: of 410 council lines drawn, 352 right, 0 wrong, 1 unclear, 57 couldn’t be judged

We identified Gallo’s voice at 41 meetings across four bodies. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Gallo was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Noel Gallo’s name only when both agree and a code check finds the name said on, or just before, their turn. Voices our transcripts merge with someone else’s are never attributed, so every count here undercounts what Gallo said. For councils and their committees, of 410 lines drawn, 352 were right, 0 wrong and 1 unclear, and the checkers couldn’t judge 57. We have since removed the voices behind 110 of those lines (0 wrong, 1 unclear, the rest we had already held for other reasons). Of the 300 lines we still publish, the checkers could judge 268: all 268 right (90% lower bound 0.99). They couldn’t judge the other 32. The check is one sample pooled across the five cities, not of Gallo or of Oakland alone.