Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf is walking a tightrope when it comes to saving the Raiders and A’s, with a new poll finding that — while a good chunk of likely voters say keeping the teams is important — it’s not as important as dealing with problems like crime, creating jobs and the rising cost of housing.

The Chamber of Commerce poll of 600 likely voters asked respondents to rate the importance of host of issues on a scale of 1 to 7 — with 7 being “very important.”

Keeping the Raiders scored a rating of 4.3. Keeping the A’s scored 4.7.

Keeping either team came in below supporting local small businesses, which got a 5.8; public safety, 5.7; and building more housing, 5.3.

The poll, by Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz and Associates, was conducted from Oct. 9 to 13 and has a margin of error of plus or minus four percentage points.

Although the two sports teams are not at the top of voters’ to-do list, they do have an ardent following — with 25 percent and 22 percent of those surveyed saying it’s “extremely important” to hold onto the A’s and Raiders, respectively.

Add in those who feel keeping the teams is somewhat important, and the Raiders’ support rises to 40 percent and the A’s to 47 percent.

Opinions run high on the other side as well, with 30 percent of those surveyed saying keeping the Raiders “was not at all important.” Twenty-one percent said keeping the A’s was not important.

“In each case, there are more voters who think it is important to keep the team than not,” said pollster David Metz.

With Las Vegas beckoning the Raiders, Schaaf will come under increasing pressure to find a way to keep the team in town. At some point, she may also have to find a solution to the A’s desire for a new ballpark.

She has some political capital to work with — the new poll found that 53 percent of respondents give her a favorable rating.

“Some people were surprised that I didn’t mention sports teams in my State of the City address, but right now my highest priorities continue to be around public safety, infrastructure, housing and income security,” Schaaf told us.

“There will be a deal (for the Raiders), but it will be a responsible one,” said Schaaf, who has promised not to spend public money on a new stadium. “It’s a tightrope, but we are walking it.”

Exporting UCSF jobs: UCSF plans to lay off dozens of tech workers and outsource about a fifth of its information technology systems jobs to India — a move the university says will save it about $30 million over five years.

And other University of California campuses — particularly those with medical schools — may follow suit.

“The cost of providing this complex IT is a huge challenge, and we are trying to be creative,” said UCSF Vice Chancellor Barbara French, noting that the data demands for medical research have increased dramatically in recent years.

Outsourcing to India, however, has set off alarm bells with the union representing university professionals.

“Once again, high-salary UC administrators show their disconnect from the workers, patients and students, pursuing one consultant-driven boondoggle after another,” said Keith Pavlik, a member of Local 9119 of the University Professional and Technical Employees-Communication Workers of America union.

As part of the deal, UCSF has signed a five-year contract worth $50 million with one of India’s largest IT providers, HCL Technologies. It has also outsourced contracts for IT security and other specialized services.

In all, 49 of UCSF’s 565 IT workers assigned to the central system will be laid off in February. Another 17 positions will be left vacant.

HCL Technologies has run into controversy elsewhere in the U.S. Earlier this year, 250 laid-off tech workers at Walt Disney World in Florida filed a class-action suit against Disney, HCL and another outside vendor, claiming that the businesses collaborated to replace them with immigrant workers brought in on temporary H-1B visas. Those visas are supposed to be reserved for workers with special skills that can’t otherwise be found in the U.S.

Green acres: San Francisco could soon be the landlord for a solar farm in Kern County.

It all started when Supervisor John Avalos introduced legislation in March to end the city’s long-running lease agreement with Chevron to pump oil and gas from an 800-acre plot in Kern County that was bequeathed to the city in the 1940s. All indications are that the city will pull out when the lease expires in 2020.

The catch is that, while it’s not environmentally correct, the oil drilling does bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for the library system and Golden Gate Park.

As it turns out, the timing might be right. A combination of dwindling oil on the Kern County land and lower oil prices has reduced San Francisco’s take from the site from a high of $951,000 in 2011 to $319,000 last year.

So now John Updike, the city’s director of real estate, is proposing that the city lease out another 600 acres it owns in Kern and Fresno counties for a giant solar farm. Updike estimates the sun power could generate as much as $400,000 a year in revenue.

“That keeps us even-Stephen,” Updike said.

And maybe a bit greener.

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