Score another victory for former Black Panther leader Elaine Brown who, having won a $4 million-plus judgment after being shoved head over heels by City Councilwoman Desley Brooks, is on track to gain control of the million-dollar piece of city land that was at the center of the fight.

And the sale price is only $1.

“The council approvals are all in place,” said city spokesman Scott Horton.

The city-owned property in West Oakland would go to Brown’s Oakland & the World Enterprises nonprofit, which plans to build low-income rental housing and provide commercial space where former prison inmates can open small businesses.

“This project is to create opportunity for people who have been marginalized and excluded by this society,” Brown, the nonprofit’s unpaid CEO, told us.

The project was at the heart of the 2015 argument between Brown and Brooks at the Everett and Jones barbecue restaurant at Jack London Square. Brooks reportedly told Brown that the project was “of no benefit to black people” and threatened to kill its city funding.

The war of words escalated, and Brooks shoved the then-72-year-old Brown across a row of chairs. Brooks suffered a torn rotator cuff and had to be hospitalized.

Police investigated the incident, but no charges were filed. An Alameda County Superior Court jury was less forgiving when Brown filed suit, however — finding the city liable for $3.78 million in damages and putting Brooks herself on the hook for another $550,000 in punitive damages. The city and Brooks say they will appeal.

Brooks lost on another front as well — she wasn’t able to kill the project.

“She didn’t talk to me, and if she had I don’t think it would have made any difference,” said City Council President Larry Reid.

Instead, the council voted 6-0 in June — with Brooks abstaining — to approve the transfer of the 0.7-acre parcel near Seventh and Campbell streets to Oakland & the World.

The nonprofit has been renting the lot from the city for use as an urban farm. The site has an estimated value of $1.4 million, but city officials agreed to make it available for “a nominal consideration” — namely, $1 — in return for the nonprofit’s keeping the housing affordable for 55 years.

“What can I say? Elaine Brown and I are a good negotiating team — although Elaine did most of the negotiating,” said Zach Wasserman, the nonprofit’s general counsel and a board member.

Not that there was much to negotiate.

According to Reid, no other development was on the horizon for the city parcel.

“Probably in the long term, nobody would develop that site and it would sit vacant,” he said.

In addition to the land deal, the city is giving $800,000 to Brown’s group to build the project. The nonprofit also got a huge boost from the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, in the form of $12.7 million in affordable-housing bond money.

Supervisor Keith Carson, for whom Brown was working when she founded the nonprofit, kicked in $620,000 from his taxpayer-funded personal office account.

Brown’s nonprofit is teaming up with McCormack Baron Salazar, one of the nation’s leading for-profit developers, to build the project. If all goes to plan, Brown said, groundbreaking will happen by year’s end.

“We are building brand-new housing and making it affordable to live in a city that has one of the highest rental rates, but also a very high homeless rate,” she said.

Brown sees it as further vindication following her successful lawsuit.

“We had a victory there (in court), and will have a victory at Seventh and Campbell streets when we create this oasis,” she said.

As for Brooks’ reaction?

“No comment.”

Job vacancy: No sooner did Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck announce Friday that he plans to retire this summer than speculation began over a possible successor — and one potential candidate whose name was floated was San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott, who was a deputy chief under Beck.

“No, the chief is happy where he is at, and plans to live up to his commitment to the people of San Francisco to be the chief of this department,” said Sgt. Michael Andraychak, an SFPD spokesman.

In fact, we’re told that Scott, who has been on the job here for a year, called Martin Halloran of the San Francisco police union to make clear he’s not interested in the L.A. job.

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