The Government Accountability Project: Melodi Dice

The Emeryville Government Accountability Project

Citizen Access

As part of the on-going effort to strengthen democratic institutions and citizen 

involvement in Emeryville, the Tattler will publish the telephone numbers of 

elected officials as they become known.  

For decades here politicians made their phone numbers public and would take 

calls from constituents.  Sadly, this tradition has been waning, and citizen access 

has eroded.  Meanwhile, developers and other corporate interests who would feed 

at the public trough routinely meet with the politicians and city staff in closed door 

sessions. 

We are dismayed to see this weakening of citizen access to the levers of power 

even while corporate access has never been stronger.  Accordingly, we now 

add the telephone number of  School Board President, Melodi Dice to the list of numbers of Emeryville's elected officials.  Ms Dice, it should be noted, refused to provided her telephone number to the Tattler but we were able to locate it.

Future would be politicians should take warning:  If you win office and try to 

keep your telephone number confidential, the Tattler will publish it if we can find it.

Here then is the newest contact-

Melodi Dice, School Board President:

(510) 655-4354*

Here is the list so far:

City Council

Nora Davis -  (510) 652-2199

Kurt Brinkman - (510) 774-1551*

Jennifer West - (510) 420-5795

Ruth Atkin - (510) 915-0167*

Jac Asher - (510) 333-8437  

School Board

John Affeldt - (510) 547-7757

Joy Kent - (510) 922-1714

Miguel Dwin - (510) 381-2023*
Christian Patz - unlisted 

*unlisted but obtained by the Tattler