Oakland voters will decide the fate of a $600 million bond measure to improve city streets, add more affordable housing and upgrade some facilities.

If approved in November, the bond would annually cost property owners an average $69 per $100,000 assessed value.

“Housing has been the No. 1 issue in the poll that was done in deciding whether or not to do this measure,” Councilwoman Desley Brooks said in opposing the measure, which would earmark $100 million of the $600 million for affordable housing.

“The amount of money that we’re putting into housing, that we say is a crisis in this city, I don’t think is sufficient,” she said.

The council approved the measure by a 7-1 vote July 19, with Brooks voting no.

Councilman Abel Guillen noted the proposal cites $2.5 billion in unfunded city capital needs and said he has a 20-page, single-spaced list of potholes in his district alone that need fixing.

“The voters should have the opportunity to decide,” he said.

“It may not seem like a lot of money,” Brooks said of the amount the proposed bond would cost property owners, “but when you put that on top of the garbage bill and the county bond measure and the school district measure and whatever other measures are going to go on, it is a lot for my constituents,” she said.

“They are suffering under the burden of all these taxes that we’re putting on them,” Brooks said.

Alameda County also has a $580 million affordable housing bond on the November ballot. If approved, that would cost property owners an average $12 to $14 per $100,000 of assessed value.

Oakland Unified is asking November voters to approve a $120 annual parcel tax.

Surveys commissioned by the city found that residents supported the Oakland bond by more than the two-thirds level required for it to pass.

The measure had 74 percent approval in February, a city-commissioned survey found. In June, a follow-up survey found support had grown to 79 percent.

In addition to the $100 million for affordable housing, Oakland’s proposed 2016 Infrastructure Bond would allocate $40 million each for fire and police facilities.

An additional $35 million would be earmarked for parks, recreation and senior centers; $20 million for water, energy and seismic improvements; and $15 million for libraries.

The biggest piece of the bond measure, $350 million, would go toward street paving and reconstruction and bicycle and pedestrian improvements, including bikeways, sidewalks, paths, stairs, streetscape, curb ramps and traffic calming measures.

The council would set project priorities, but it is required to establish a citizens oversight commission, or assign the task to an existing commission.

“We would rely on this body to make the decisions about how this money is going to be spent? I’m deeply, deeply concerned,” Brooks said.

The county bond measure, if voters approve it, “would provide an estimated $89 million for the construction of new affordable housing and other eligible uses in Oakland,” Assistant City Administrator Claudia Cappio told the council.

If Oakland and Alameda County’s bond measures both pass, the city would use the county money for new construction and its own bond funds for affordable housing preservation and rehabilitation and to “bring other existing housing stock under affordability protection,” Cappio said.

Contact Mark Hedin at 510-293-2452 or mhedin@bayareanewsgroup.com.