OAKLAND - Developer Phil Tagami sent PolitickerCA.com an e-mail over the weekend wanting revise, extend and clarify his comments made during an interview with KTVU Friday morning.

During that interview the TV station reported that he wanted to require Mayor Ron Dellums to sign a time sheet each day to account for his hours on the job as the city's chief executive. Tagami, a major player in Oakland and East Bay politics, actually wants his idea to go further than that.

Here is his full statement:

"There needs to be serious and immediate reform of our city government. Faith in our local government is at an all-time low, yet we are being asked to do more with less.

We can accept the challenge but in return ask that a formal, independent process be initiated to reform the city charter, or we must take it on ourselves to make changes by voter initiative.

As a start, I am asking that the City Council consider the following two simple reforms:
1) A requirement for either all full-time council members with commensurate pay, or a part-time council with clarity over the range of authority. This way the council members and staff will have the time and money to do the work that needs to get done; or it will be clear they are solely for setting policy and need to get out of the way of those who are going to get the work done.

2) A requirement that city staff, council and constitutional officers; auditor, city attorney (including the mayor) have time sheets. An organization reflects its leaders, they say; "well we want everyone putting in their time with accountability".

On the issue of the Mayor, as the head of government, He/she needs to set an example for all city employees. The Mayor needs to be as accountable and accessible as anyone else working for the city as is expected in all communities."