.Thursday Must Read: Transportation Commission to Leave Oakland; Circumcision Ban Appears to Be Dead

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1. It’s official: the Metropolitan Transportation Commission will be leaving Oakland, reports Cecily Burt at the Trib. The agency, which has long been mulling a move to San Francisco, officially voted 12-2 yesterday to leave its current space on 8th Street and buy a new building at 390 Main Street in San Francisco. The MTC — along with the Association of Bay Area Governments, with which it was sharing a headquarters, and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District — have been looking for a new space for awhile now, and the Air Quality District has already approved relocating to the new buidling in San Francisco. The ABAG voted a couple weeks ago in closed session to not go along with the move, but yesterday’s MTC vote means it and the Air Quality District will be moving ahead — with or without the ABAG. It’s unclear whether ABAG will change its position or just stay where it is in Oakland, but either way, the MTC’s decision is a blow for Oakland, which stands to lose a major employer, as well as to Mayor Quan, who’d been actively fighting to keep the MTC in the city.

2. From the LA Times: Governor Brown criticized the UC and CSU systems for recruiting high-profile (and highly paid) chancellors and presidents yesterday. California’s public college and universities have long looked out of state to find new leadership, but in the face of massive budget cuts — and just after San Diego State hired Elliot Hirshman, a $400,000-a-year president poached from Maryland — Brown implored the CSU and UC systems to look for cheaper in-house talent. “I believe on the campuses now there are many people who don’t make near that salary” — meaning Hirshman’s — that should have been groomed for leadership,” Browntown told the LA Times.

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