Nate Miley
Nate Miley | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors from the 4th district | |
| Assumed office November 2000 | |
| Member of the Oakland City Council from the 6th district | |
| In office 1992–2000 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 7, 1951 Suitland, Maryland, U.S. |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | Franklin & Marshall College (BA) University of Maryland, Baltimore (JD) |
Nate Miley is a member of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors and represents District 4 in Alameda County, California.[1] He was first elected in November 2000 after serving on the Oakland City Council from the 6th district.[citation needed]
Early life[edit]
Miley was born on May 7, 1951 in Suitland, Maryland. He graduated from the Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania with a bachelor of arts degree in 1974, then earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Maryland Law School.[1] He then moved to Oakland, California as a Jesuit volunteer.[citation needed] He began his community involvement with the Oakland Community Organizations (OCO) in 1976 and since then, has worked with community-based groups.[citation needed]
Early career[edit]
In 1990 Wiley was a financial planner.[2]
Before representing District 4, Wiley was on the Oakland City Council in District 6.[citation needed] He was re-elected in 1994 and 1998.[citation needed] In 1986, founded the United Seniors of Oakland and Alameda County (USOAC). He was elected President of the Board in November 2010.[1]
Current position[edit]
Miley was elected to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors in November 2000.[1] In January 2021, he was elected vice-president by the board.[citation needed]
Fourth District[edit]
The Fourth Supervisorial District includes Pleasanton, including the adjacent unincorporated Castlewood and Happy Valley areas; the Lower Hills, South Hills and Elmhurst areas of Oakland; the unincorporated communities of Castro Valley, Cherryland, and Fairview; and most of the unincorporated community of Ashland.[1]
Legislation[edit]
Miley authored the Safe Medication Disposal ordinance, the first such ordinance in the nation to mandate product stewardship from pharmaceutical companies. The ordinance was passed in 2012 and it requires drug manufacturers to take ownership of the disposal costs of unused medicines in Alameda County.[3]
Trade associations representing the manufacturers and distributors of pharmaceutical products filed a lawsuit against Alameda County, alleging that the ordinance violated the dormant Commerce Clause of the Constitution of the United States, as it interfered with interstate commerce. The United States District Court for the Northern District of California found that the ordinance does serve a legitimate public health and safety interest and the relatively modest costs to producers do not unduly burden interstate commerce.[3] On May 26, 2015, when the Supreme Court of the United States refused to hear the challenge brought by the pharmaceutical industry against the county without comment, which affirmed the 9th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals decision upholding the U.S. District Court's decision in favor of Alameda County's Safe Drug Disposal Ordinance.[3]
Miley also initiated[how?] the following community services and projects: the opening of Youth Uprising to enrich the lives of youth 13-24; the creation and construction of the Ashland REACH Youth Center; building a state-of-the-art homeless facility for families and those suffering with HIV/AIDS at the East Oakland Community Project; leading the campaign for Measure A for essential countywide healthcare funding, reauthorized in 2014; creating a countywide Violence Prevention Initiative; opening the state-of-the-art Castro Valley library; enacting a responsible Alcohol Education Ordinance, and bringing an unprecedented level of community engagement to the urban unincorporated area through the Eden Area Livability Initiative.[citation needed]
Current priorities[edit]
More than nine years ago a resolution by the Alameda County Board of Supervisors called for national reconciliation and reparations due to centuries of slavery in the U.S. On October 6, 2020, the Board of Supervisors moved to reaffirm the June 7, 2011 resolution[4] to urge for a formal apology from the U.S. government and economic reparations for African Americans. The reaffirmation of the resolution is being led[how?] by Alameda County Supervisors Keith Carson and Miley. Both supervisors signed the original resolution in 2011.[4] Carson said the resolution was an effort to resolve racial divisions, while Miley said it could be used as a springboard to create new policies.[5]
Illegal dumping[edit]
In 2017, Miley created a regional Illegal Dumping Taskforce to implement local ordinances and work toward greater enforcement of statewide illegal dumping laws.[1]
- On October 31, 2019, AB&I Foundry teamed up with Miley and the Alameda County Illegal Dumping Project to complete Phase 1 of a tree0planting project in East Oakland. This project will improve the air quality, increase cooling, slow traffic, and deter illegal dumping in the neighborhood. Phase 2 took place on Saturday, November 2.[6]
- On April 16, 2019 hosted a community meeting to the discuss an illegal dumping pilot in Oakland.[7]
- On April 22, 2019, a pilot program seeking the new methods of addressing chronic illegal dumping in East Oakland was introduced to curb illegal dumping in the area.[7]
Community development[edit]
Miley authored the Eden Area Livability Initiative (EALI), and the Ashland Cherryland Healthy Communities Collaborative (ACHCC).[1]
- On February 10, 2020, Supervisor Nate Miley, TURN - The Utility Reform Network and East Bay Community Energy hosted a town hall meeting on the need for a clean, reliable power grid.[3]
- On February 13, 2020 Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley held a panel discussion in Pleasanton to spotlight the mental health services available in the Tri-Valley and the current state of those services in the public and private sectors.[8] The services discussed included the Alameda County Behavioral Health Services, Axis Community Health, John Muir Health, Pleasanton Unified School District, Stanford Health Care ValleyCare, Sutter Health, and NAMI Tri-Valley (National Alliance on Mental Illness).[8]
- On February 24, 2019, Miley announced the launch of the Joy and Justice Campaign, a nonpartisan voter registration and advocacy initiative. This campaign is a collaboration among Miley, The Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Center, 100 Black Women, Black Women Organized for Political Power and the local Alpha Kappa Alpha Chapter.[9]
- On May 20, 2020, Alameda County Supervisors Keith Carson and Nate Miley held a virtual town hall to discuss creative ways to raise awareness about Census 2020 in African and Latinx Communities. In the town hall, challenges such as digital disconnect, seniors sheltering in places alone, disability, homelessness, low interest/survival mode, and mistrust were addressed and discussed.[10]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 "About Nate Miley - Board of Supervisors - Alameda County". www.acgov.org. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
- ↑ Charles C. Hardy, "On School Board, New Members See Better Times Ahead," San Francisco Examiner, June 6, 1990, image 24
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Newsroom: Alameda County Safe Drug Disposal Ordinance Making Headlines — Alameda County District Attorney's Office". www.alcoda.org. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Tavares, Steven (2020-10-05). "Carson, Miley to urge for apology, reparations for slavery". EAST BAY CITIZEN. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
- ↑ "Reparations for African Americans, Alameda County supervisors say". East Bay Times. 2020-10-07. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
- ↑ "AB&I Foundry Joins Supervisor Miley's Tree Planting Initiative To Beautify Oakland". Retrieved 2021-01-15. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Supervisor To Unveil Illegal Dumping Program". SFGATE. 2019-04-21. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Walsh, Jeremy. "News Digest: Bubbles & Bacon downtown; Miley hosting mental health panel". www.pleasantonweekly.com. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
- ↑ "Joy And Justice Campaign Launches Today At Black Joy Parade". SFGATE. 2019-02-24. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
- ↑ faithinthebay (2020-05-19). "Census 2020: A Virtual Town Hall for African American & Latinx Communities". Faith in the Bay. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
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