Mayor exceeds jurisdiction authority under 305 of the Oakland City Charter in the recent hiring of Anne Kirkpatrick has Oaklands new Police Chief

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Atten:  Milad Dalju, enforcement
Please add the following documentation to my written complaint filed in your office on January 12, 2017 regarding Mayor Libby Schaaf,s  violation of 218 noninterference of the Oakland City Charter when she exceeded her jurisdictional authority pursuant to 305 of the Oakland City Charter in her direct hands on in the recent selection and hiring of the Police Chief.  This is a clear violation of 218 of the Oakland City Charter.

503 of the Oakland City Charter gives exclusive the authority to "hire,fire,and discipline "All city employees including the Police Chief, thus a clear violation of 218 of the city charter.

Evidence and substation of her interference is noted in the media accounts below where she has articulated not only the firing of three police chiefs in nine days(which again exceeding her jurisdictional ) , but her hiring of the new police chief.
Media accounts include the following:
Los Angeles Times  June 17, 2016. OAKLAND LOSES THIRD CHIEF IN NINE DAYS WILL OPERATE UNDER CIVILIAN CONTROL by James Queally

​"I'm hoping to not have to FIRE anyone else anytime soon", said the mayor laughing in response to a question from a reporter.  

"As the mayor of Oakland I have to run a police department not a frat house"
USA TODAY. June 15, 2016  Trevor Hughes
"Oakland's Mayor fired the City's interim police chief less than a week after appointing him to run the department..."
"Speaking to reporters Wednesday Mayor Libby Schaaf declines to Specify why she FIRED the interim chief"
FOX NEWS June 16, 2016
INTERIM OAKLAND POLICE CHIEF FIRED AFTER SIX DAYS ON THE JOB AMID SEX SCANDAL
"The Mayor of Oakland, RELIEVED the city' s interim police chief of his duties Wednesday less than a week after he was APPOINTED to the post...Schaaf went on to call Fairies HIRING a MISTAKE and said SHE should have taken more time to vet the officer.

Oakland City Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan said Wednesday that the City Council had NOT been briefed on the Mayor's reason for FIRING the interim chief
CNN  June 20, 2016. by Catherine Shoicet, Mayra Cuevas, Steve Alvasy
THE LATEST TWIST: AN INVESTIGATION INTO RACIST TEXT MESSAGE
"That, Schaaf said, MADE HER DECIDE TO HOLD OFF ON APPOINTING ANOTHER INTERIM COP"EAST BAY NEWS BLOG Friday June 17, 2016  by Darwin Bondgraham and Ali Winston
"City Administrator Sabrina Landreth is running the oakland Police.  I FEEL THIS IS AN APPROPRIATE TIME TO PLACE CIVILIAN LEADERSHIP OVER THE DEPARTMENT, SAID SCHAAF"