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"After 11 years as Richmond's city manager, Robert C. Bobb moved to Oakland, Calif., where he took the same job in November 1997.An ailing Oakland had just ditched its council-manager government &amp;#151; similar to Richmond's &amp;#151; for a strong-mayor government, which ended up putting the city's mayor and manager on equal footing, with both of them a step above city council.So far, the reshuffling has worked. Civic and political observers are closely watching Oakland, which has solved community problems and in the last three years has recruited 300 new firms into the city and 10,000 jobs.Bobb and Mayor Jerry Brown &amp;#151; California's former governor &amp;#151; are coming to Richmond to discuss how they turned Oakland around."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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