Gordon Wozniak

If elected, Gould would be the first student to win a major city position since then-UC Berkeley graduate student Nancy Skinner was elected to the council in 1984.

Come Nov. 8, voters will decide whether to approve Measure T1, which would allow the city to issue a $100 million bond that would fund infrastructure and facility repairs, such as Berkeley’s streets, parks and senior centers.

Berkeley City Council discussed possible ballot measures for the upcoming November municipal election at a special meeting Tuesday evening. Additionally, it considered which issues should be included in a community survey that will be conducted in March to gauge the public’s interests.

Berkeley City Councilmember Lori Droste has never seen her 3 year-old son behave as well as he did when they went to his first city council meeting together. Droste said he now asks her to come to “the castle” with her, their nickname for her office.

Wozniak is in the process of cleaning out his office in City Hall. He presides over District 8, which covers the Clark Kerr Campus and the majority of the Elmwood neighborhood and consists largely of homeowner residents.

Berkeley City Council moved forward with two consumer warning measures at its Tuesday meeting. One would highlight the possible risks of cell phones, while the other would remind car users at the gas pump how fuel emissions contribute to global warming.

As of Tuesday morning, updated ranked-choice voting results show that Lori Droste leads by 0.1 percentage points in the race for the District 8 City Council seat, only four votes ahead of runner-up George Beier.

Incumbent councilmember Kriss Worthington of District 7 and George Beier of District 8 are leading the polls as of Thursday’s updated election results.

As of 12:45 a.m., Droste was ahead of three other District 8 hopefuls, with a 1.24-point lead over runner-up Mike Alvarez Cohen, chair of the city’s Zoning Adjustments Board. George Beier, president of the Willard Neighborhood Association, came in third with about 26 percent of the vote. Jacquelyn McCormick, head of the Claremont Elmwood Neighborhood Association, came in fourth with 18.9 percent of the vote.

Measure R, which would have expanded and implemented more stringent regulations for Downtown buildings and created a Civic Center zoning overlay to protect historic parks and buildings, failed to pass Wednesday with 73.87 percent of Berkeley residents voting against the measure.