Public Works Committee - Regular Meeting

Thank you.

Good morning.

Oh, excuse me. Good morning and welcome to the Public Works and Transportation Committee meeting for today. Today is July 14th. The time is now 11.35 a.m. And this meeting has come to order. Before taking roll, I will provide instructions on how to submit a speaker's card for items on this agenda. If you are here with us in chambers and you would like to submit a speaker's card, please fill one out and turn it to a clerk representative to my left, your right. Before the item is read into record, online speaker requests were due 24 hours prior to this meeting. This meeting came to order at 11.35 a.m. Speaker cards will no longer be accepted 10 minutes after the meeting has began. Or like stated before, if I read the item into record, making that time 11.45 a.m. And with that, we will now proceed to take roll. Councilmember... Gaio?

Present.

Thank you. Council Member Houston? Present. Thank you. Council Member Wong? Present. Thank you. And Chair Unger? Here. We do have four members present, and before we begin, Chair Unger, excuse me, do you have any announcements?

Yeah, we've got a packed agenda today, so we're going to limit public speakers to one minute, and for all of us, let's try to keep our comments and questions brief so we can get through the whole agenda. Thank you.

Thank you, Chair Unger. Once again, public comment will be limited to one minute on all agenda items. Moving to item one, approval of the draft minutes from the committee meeting on June 23rd, 2026. Second. We do have a motion made by Councilmember Gallo, seconded by Councilmember Wong to accept the draft minutes from the committee meeting on June 23rd, 2026 as is. On roll, Councilmember Gallo. Aye. Thank you. Councilmember Houston. Aye. Thank you. Councilmember Wong. Aye. Thank you. And Chair Unger? Aye. This motion does pass with four ayes. To accept the draft minutes from the committee meeting on June 23rd, 2026, as is moving to item two, determination of scheduled outstanding committee items. This is also known as your pending list. And you do have one speaker.

Council members, staff, administration, anything for the pending list?

Nothing from the administration. Thank you.

Good morning, committee members. Megan Weir, Assistant Director of OakDOT. We do have an item on the pending list, the Safe Oakland Streets annual report that we'd like to request be scheduled to the September 22nd Public Works and Transportation Committee.

Say that again? Is there a file ID? Is that what you're asking?

I can follow up with the file information. I don't have it readily available.

That's great. If you could follow up with that, we will get it done. Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Moving to our public speaker, Blair Beekman. If you're participating on via Zoom, please raise your hand. And I don't see it. I don't see Blair Beekman.

All right, let's move on. We have, I will make the motion to accept the pending list. Second.

We do have a motion made by Councilmember Gallo, seconded by Chair Unger, to accept as amended the termination schedule of outstanding committee items. The amendments is moving Safe Oakland Street Report, file ID 260861, to the September 22nd Public Works and Transportation Committee meeting. Yes, please. Thank you. On roll, Councilmember Gallo.

Aye.

Councilmember Houston? Aye. Thank you. Councilmember Wong? Aye. And Chair Unger? Aye. This motion does pass with four ayes to accept as amended the termination schedule outstanding committee items, which is also known as the pending list. Moving to item three. Adopt a resolution authorizing the city administrator to execute an internal governmental cooperation agreement with the Alameda County AC Transit for the Fruitvale Avenue Transit signal priority project and adopt appropriate CEQA findings. And you do have three speakers for this item.

Great, thank you. Let's hear from our staff, please. Hello, good morning, California. Manuel Corona here, transportation planner with the Department of Transportation. The item before you is to request authorization for the city administrator to execute an intergovernmental cooperative agreement with AC Transit for the Fruitvale Transit Signal Priority Project. AC Transit's project will deliver transit improvements that will increase transit reliability for East Oaklanders. The intergovernmental cooperative agreement between the city and AC Transit outlines responsibilities associated with design, construction, support, and ongoing operation and maintenance. Once the project is completed, ownership will be transferred to the city of Oakland, where fiscal impact is expected to be minimal. with maintenance of traffic signals equipment absorbed within existing operations. Equipment associated with this project will be maintained by AC Transit. Therefore, staff recommends that the city council authorize the city administrator to execute an intergovernmental cooperative agreement with AC Transit for the Fruitvale Transit Signal Priority Project.

All right, council members, questions? Council member Wong, I believe you are next in the queue.

I was just going to move the item. Thank you for your work on this.

Councilmember Gallo I think you're gonna need to press the button yes I want to publicly thank you for your work it's long overdue and certainly it's going to make a big difference in terms of the safety transportation on the Fruitvale corridor serving our seniors and the rest of the community so with that I make a motion to approve the item thank you I'll second that any other questions from council members

Oh, all right, great. Then let's go to our speakers, public speakers.

Thank you, calling in our public speakers for item three, Mrs. Sada, Blair Beekman, and Kevin Dolly. If you are participating via Zoom, please raise your hand so you're easily identified. Thank you.

I'm gonna ask you to pay attention to reports that consistently have to use the language people of color. You see, there is no such thing biologically in science as race. It's an inventive social construct with the purpose of allowing certain people to have a position, a higher ranking. We're all human beings. So what's the purpose of saying that we have a bus transit service opportunity and the majority of the people are gonna get it are people of color? What difference does it make? That social construct to constantly put people into groups and sometimes to put people in the groups where we all having the same experience and we're not. Low income, seniors, it doesn't matter. The bus service exists for anybody that wants to use it. Then you say the cost, you don't say- Thank you, Mrs.

Otter.

Oh, I'm sorry. No, you're fine. Thank you so much.

Kevin Daly, definitely strongly support this work. It'd be great to always mention synchronizing the pedestrian crossing time as well. On International Boulevard, frequently the pedestrians have to wait for a very long time to cross in order to optimize the bus rapid transit, the tempo crossing, even though obviously passengers on the tempo do become pedestrians once they leave the tempo, but definitely support it. Thanks.

Thank you. Moving to our Zoom speaker, Blair Beekman. Okay, that concludes your public speakers for item three. We do have a motion made by Council Member Wong, seconded by Council Member Gallo to approve the recommendations of staff and afford this item to the July 21st, 2026 City Council agenda on roll. Council Member Gallo?

Aye.

Thank you. Council Member Houston?

Aye.

Thank you. Council Member Wong. Aye. And Chair Unger. Aye. This motion does pass with four ayes to approve the recommendations of staff and afford this item to July 22nd, 2026 City Council agenda. And through the body, would that be on consent or non?

Consent, please.

Thank you so much. Moving to item four. Adopt a resolution authorizing a city administrator to award a contract to Ron, number one, Ron DePratt Ford in the amount not to exceed $1,400,000 to provide collision repair and body shop services for light vehicles for a three-year term, September 1st, 26 through September 1st, 29, and two one-year options to renew in response to RFQ 406535. Two, quality body and fender in an amount not to exceed $1,050,000 to provide collision repair and body shop services for light vehicles for a three-year term, September 1st, 26, to September 1st, 29, and two one-year options to renew in response to RFQ 406535. Three, Falcon Collision Repair in an amount not to exceed $525,000 to provide collision repair and body shop services for light vehicles for a three-year term, September 1st, 26 to September 1st, 29, and a two one-year options to renew in response to RFQ 406535. For Molo Brothers Body Shop in an amount not to exceed $525,000 to provide collision repair and body shop services. For light vehicles for a three-year term, September 1st, 26 to September 1st, 29. And two one-year options to renew in response to RFQ 406535. five bowler brothers body shop in amount not to exceed 1 million 750 000 to provide collision repair and body shop services for heavy vehicles in a three-year term september 1st 26 to september 1st 29 and two one-year options to renew in response to rfq 406529 Six, Falcon Collision Repair in an amount not to exceed $1,750,000 to provide collision repair and body shop services for heavy vehicle for a three-year term, September 1st, 26 to September 1st, 29, and to one-year options to renew in response to RFQ 406529. Seven, making findings under Oakland Municipal Quote Sections 204, 050, and 20451, and waiving any further formal advertising and bidding requirements to extend necessary, and eight, and adopt appropriate CEQA findings, and you do have two speakers for this item.

All right, for the record, I've been driving city vehicles for 30 years, and I haven't crashed one yet, so this one's not on me. Knock on wood. Let's hear from staff, please.

Thank you for that clarification, Chair Unger. Richard Battersby, Assistant Director of Oakland Public Works, Bureau of Maintenance and Internal Services, the largest bureau in public works, encompassing facilities, fleets, sewers, and storm drain. I'm here to talk to you today about a facilities contract regarding collision repair, none of which will support Chair Unger because he doesn't have collisions. and i also wanted to note for the record this also represents public works entry into the longest staff recommendation for 2026 so thank you city clerk for that efficient and error-free reading the city operates a fleet of approximately 1500 vehicles unfortunately during the course of operation these vehicles become damaged by collisions either with other vehicles or other objects and we have a history of about 50 collisions a year Previously, we've been performing the body repairs. We have an internal body repair shop. We don't do any painting, but we have three body repair FTEs. Those three FTEs have been vacant for at least the past year, a couple of them longer, and we have recently filled one, but we will be filling another. This has resulted in us having to increase the amount of repairs that we send to outsourced body vendors, collision repair vendors, which is why I'm here with this contract today. Previously, we only had a single collision repair vendor that was Moeller Brothers. And due to the conditions or circumstances that I just described, we have exceeded that contract capacity and we have not been able to repair vehicles for the last month or so. So this is a very important agenda item. Currently, we have 25 vehicles, accident repair vehicles that are awaiting repair. 22 of those are Oakland Police Department vehicles. So again, it's very critical that we get these contracts established. The contracts for collision repair total $7 million, and this is over a three-year period with two optional one-year extensions. The two optional one-year extensions give us the ability, if the vendors demonstrate that they're performing acceptably and they're delivering good value to the city, we can offer them an extension on that contract without having to come back to council. we bid this opportunity put it out rfp as the commitment that i've made numerous times in committee and city council we are moving away from co-op contract procurement process to bidding and that's to ensure we're getting best value but also to allow oakland vendors an opportunity to bid of the seven million dollars in contract capacity before you and keep in mind that's just expenditure authority it's not committing budgeted funds this just gives us the ability should we need it the amount is probably more than we need but that's us erring on the side of caution of the seven million half 3.5 million is for light duty and the other half 3.5 million is for heavy duty on the light vehicle collision repair contracts uh we sent notices to and i should have counted them but it looks like there's at least 10 and we received one two three four responsive bids one of which was an oakland-based vendor i understand another oakland-based vendor is on the list as not submitting a response Apparently they feel that they weren't contacted. So we are doing some information, but as the time of this presentation, I don't know if there was a disconnect, but we did get four responsive bids and we awarded those four vendors percentages based on a scoring criteria. That scoring criteria includes lowest cost, competitive pricing, location, and also awarding to multiple vendors gives us some operational flexibility and it gives us options where we don't have all of our eggs in one basket. Ron Duprat Ford was awarded approximately 40% of the total light duty repair contract. And this is just an estimate for the purpose of this agenda report. We're not sure what the actual breakdown will come out to because obviously we can't predict exactly how much accidents are going to cost to repair. they ronda pratt ranked highest because of the lowest overall cost and then quality body and fender which is the oakland-based vendor they were awarded 30 of the contract and we acknowledge it is a very desirable to keep oakland city of oakland dollars within city of oakland and keep oaklanders working and they're also closer to us which gives us better response times and more rapid turnaround The other two vendors, Falcon Collision and Moeller Brothers, were each awarded 15%. And I will note that Moeller Brothers was the prior incumbent for light duty body repairs. They're still gonna get a piece of the body repair action. For the heavy duty side, we only received two responsive bids, none of which were Oakland-based vendors. So accordingly, we awarded 50% to each, and those vendors are I'm on the wrong page here. Oh, that's right on the front. Um, molar brothers and Falcon also received the heavy duty by repair, which is why I was looking in the agenda report for the two additional vendors, but they were already noted in the light duty. So apologize for that. Um, with that, I'm here to answer any questions.

Thanks for the report. Council Member Houston, please.

Good morning, Mr. Battersby, through the chair, I'm looking at these these documents and I see one Oakland based in West Oakland and I just want to share with you in District 6 I mean really District 5 and District 7 have some of the most body shops in Oakland right and so let's look at this real quick because so we have Falcon Collision in Concord they got two contracts not one Then we have Mohler Brothers, that's how you pronounce it, two contracts there in San Leandro. Then we have Ron and Dixon, right? And then we do have Quality Body and Fender in West Oakland. I know that company very well and that's in district, that's in Carol Fife's district. But what I don't like is that Pacific Collision. is from district 7 and they do major work for Caltrans and they've been underserved for so long, Mr. Battersby, when there was an encampment on their street. And that's on Hagenberger Loop. That affected their business just majorly, Mr. Battersby, majorly. People didn't want to come. Caltrain didn't want to drop their cars off there. And they said that they didn't receive this, and that's why I came over to you, because I just didn't want to just throw you off. I wanted to find out what email, because I spoke to them this morning. They did not receive that, and they're a qualified company. i have a question for you mr battersby you said it's 25 um automobiles in the queue ready for body work is that what you said through the chair that's correct okay so so this is not urgent And this is not an emergency. And that's where I always say that being in this seat, they always have some emergency and urgent that we gotta get it done, gotta get it done, gotta get it done. And then we make decisions that aren't in the best interest of the city. And I'm gonna say this one more time, in the best interest of the city. This what I see right here is not in the best interest of my city. um because i see one company from west oakland and we have many many many many qualified in district five and seven many because that's what they do that's their skill sense um so i want to hold this here until i find out that um why pacific collision qualified qualified that was underserved that was um that had um lost so much business mr battersby when these homeless encampments was in their their area and they said they weren't um contacted so that's why i came over to you said what email did you get who'd you speak to because um This right here doesn't make me feel good that in the best interest of the city of Oakland, especially if it's only 25, this is not like it's an emergency. I wanna find out what's going on and get more qualified individuals or companies in five and seven that have those business all along the corridor.

through the chair i'd like to respond to council member houston as far as the contact notices that go out to the potential bidders that would be a question for purchasing purchasing is under finance department not within public works briefly before this meeting i reached out to my staff to try to get in touch with someone from purchasing to see how their contact list worked and i was glancing behind me to see if we had anyone. I don't think we do, but I'll definitely get an answer to you for that. But just to be clear, I don't want to rush anything through council, but just understand we can't perform any accident repairs currently. We currently have no contract out of those 25 vehicles, 22 are OPD. We haven't been replacing opd patrol vehicles regularly for three years and the last time we bought opd patrol vehicles was in 2022 when we had 37 opd units hung up at the san leandro dealer because allegedly we couldn't pay for them so it's essentially it is critical that we repair the vehicles we have because it doesn't seem we have scheduled regular ability to procure replacement vehicles so we got to make do with what we have

So through the chair, how many OPD vehicles?

Through the chair, 22, although one or two of those may not be patrol vehicles.

Oh, so that means three. So is anyone can speak from the police department here, please?

Pardon me?

Through the chair, is anyone, so that means it's only three that really are outside of the police department. Is anyone here that can speak for the police department, please? Through the chair, I need to speak to someone. Because let me just share this with you. I was elected to fight for the city of Oakland across the board. And this is not a rush. If the police department says that they can deal with having their 23 that's repaired and it's not gonna affect them, I wanna find out why Pacific Collision wasn't. That's where I stand.

and uh through the chair council member houston would you be comfortable with a partial award perhaps to quality the oakland-based vendor that is on the contract list so we can at least move some vehicles through the repair shop and get them back in service yes sir i would i would accept that mr battersby is that going to give you enough capacity because we're not going to be able to get back to this until after the recess if Yes, Chair Unger, that's, it would be a million dollars, or, yeah, $1,050,000. That would be adequate to get us through the break.

Okay, so Council Member Houston, are you proposing an alternate?

Yeah, alternate that we, Quality, Body, and Fender, we give them that, yes. I'm satisfied with that, Oakland-based. Sounds good to me.

Okay, so if we're going to do something different than what staff recommended, you're welcome to make a motion.

It just has to be clear. I wanna make a motion to award Quality, Body, and Fender the amount of money that Mr. Battersby said to get us through until we find out about these others.

For clarity, what was the amount Mr. Battersby said? We need to be exact.

Yes, the amount of $1,050,000 over a three-year period with two optional one-year extensions.

So you need a second?

I need a second.

I have a question. I'd like to, if we can, is it about this substitute motion? i'd like to get some so let's get some clarity on the substitute motion first before we move on to additional questions what is the amount one million and fifty thousand dollars chair hunger okay and did we have a second for that

Just make some of my own comments so I Share some of the concerns that councilmember Houston has expressed I would also add that there are a number of auto body shops in district 2 You know them on the east side and they're all minority owned businesses. And so One I do want to acknowledge by the way before I just get into my concerns that thank you for doing procurement process since the norm has been a cooperative agreement um but one of the questions I just have is who makes it onto this an invitation list so table one it's noted as these are the list of vendors that are invited to participate how are those determined and assessed since um I there's a number of auto body shops that I know of in the city of Oakland that are not on the invitation list

Yes, thank you for the question. Through the chair, for an activity like this, Equipment Services Public Works knows of some vendors which we would provide to purchasing, but this realistically is a question for purchasing, how they conduct the RFP process, where they advertise, how they determine who they reach out to directly, and I'm afraid I just can't answer that question from the Public Works perspective on this contract.

Okay and my other question is just beyond since this item is going to if we move this forward per councilmember Houston's motion that then we would be returning into the fall with this item what I suppose would be a reasonable timeline since I think that'll just hold us over until the I don't think it's gonna be enough capacity, of course, for the next three years, so what would be a reasonable timeframe for an RFP? And I know that we're going to continue this item in October, it sounds like, but I would love to just know that answer now.

yeah through the chair that amount i estimate would be enough to get through october considering the normal volume of accidents since we currently have 25 vehicles stacked up for accident repairs i'd have to do some analysis and see and we can definitely get that information back to you and we can definitely get the information on how the outreach is conducted and which vendors were and weren't contacted regarding this but i would i would suggest that if if we approve just the 1 million 50 000 that buys enough time to satisfy the questions that the committee has here um hopefully i mean i can't really predict the com the committee or council's response once purchasing brings the information back so that's kind of my hesitation and giving you a definitive answer because it's really like outside of our purview

Okay, that's helpful. And then final question is just around this Ron Duprat for they received the most percentage of this RFP funding and they are out in Dixon, California. That's about an hour away. I just imagine it would add cost for transportation. Did their response include that transportation cost? I just am trying to imagine what that looks like since that is significantly far away from Oakland.

yeah through the chair um i can't speak to that specifically i do know that some vehicles that are in an accident are still drivable others they could be transported by tow we currently use ronda pratt ford for ford factory repair and maintenance mechanical repair and maintenance so we've already got an established relationship with them we just have to do an analysis on their hourly rate which i understand was significantly lower than any other vendor and then compare that to what potential transportation costs in time, labor time, if it's our staff, or if we're actually paying for a tow truck. I just don't have that information here now.

Okay, that sounds good. And yeah, I think when we continue the item, the supplemental materials would be great. I'll go ahead and second Council Member Houston's motion.

Just to be clear, Mr. Battersby and City Minister Lake, is this, with this motion, will this, give us enough capacity to get through to the end of the recess with the repairs that you need to do? Is this gonna severely hinder our operations?

Chair Unger, I'm comfortable saying it'll get us through the break. My trepidation is what happens after that when we bring the information back? With the additional contract, do we end up in this process again, or will we make a decision at that point? So I'm confident we can get to October beyond that.

Councilmember guy. Yes. Thank you. I drive your vehicles every day All right, and it used to be in this city of Oakland in this city of Oakland They're the council that understood talked a lot about illegal dumping a clean neighborhood, but I don't have the tools to do it I don't have the trucks to do it we go by there every weekend to rent and ride your vehicles, and during the week, and you don't have them, they're broke, there's something happened. I used to have 10 mechanics, but I only have three. So those are internal decisions that this council and city administrator, you're accountable for. You want a clean, safe city, you gotta have the tools to do that, and the personnel to get the work done. And so the reality for me is, At one time we would buy, at least when I was around, we would buy 50 to 100 brand new vehicles every year. Part of our budget. And we would have the mechanics to do the work so I can pick up the trash. I can have my street sweepers on the street doing their job they're supposed to be doing daily. But I think that we need to be able to provide the resources to get the work done. Right now, we didn't even bring about all the vehicles we rent. How many of you look at the police vehicles? They're from Enterprise Rental. You look at Herc Rental, where we rent our trucks from, because we don't have them. So the bottom line for me is we have to replace and have the mechanics available. to do the work to have the trucks and the vehicles available so we can be on the street delivering what the public paid us for. And so I would, you know, we can delay it and delay it and delay it, but we've been delaying this now for a number of years. And the quality of service that I give Chinatown and the others, I don't have the tools to do it with. So the bottom line for me is, Get the vehicles repaired so we can. I don't want to show up on a Saturday or Sunday or during the week because I come out on Wednesdays now. And you have, well, the truck didn't work. Well, we can't do this. We can't do that because the vehicles are sitting there. Then I go to your yard on the other side. Man, I see 40. I see the number of police cars wrecked sitting there. that haven't been serviced for a while. So I guess for me, the bottom line is for this government, this council, and this administrator, the director, administrator Betsy Lake, I thank you for coming out on Sunday and riding along and seeing what's on the street, but you also got a chance to see the yard where all the vehicles are sitting there, have been sitting there, not operable, and yet I got personnel that If they had an extra truck, they would go out and keep my streets clean. But the reality is we need more mechanics and we need the vehicles to get the job done.

Thank you.

And so for me and I, we can, I know you want to cut me off, but they can go off and off and off and talk pie in the sky stuff. But the bottom line is you have to become straightforward. So we don't blame you and give reports about how we're not cleaning our streets. Thank you for that information, and I support your recommendation to get the job done. Thank you.

Council Member Houston.

Let's focus. Pie in the sky. That's disrespectful. And let me tell you why, because four of the vehicles that was damaged was damaged by your crew that picked them up. So let's get focused, okay? So stop. We're not talking about mechanics. We're talking about body work, so through the chair. I set that on that West Oakland Body Shop, my revision to this, and let's move it. I got a first and a second. Let's see if we got a third.

So I'd like to clearly restate the motion and then go to our public speakers if possible.

What's that?

Can we clearly state the motion and make sure we have clarity on what we're voting on?

To the maker and the mover of the motion, Councilmember Houston, to be clear, you are amending the second portion of the legislation regarding equality, body, and fender, and your amendment is to, in the amount of $1,050,000 over a three-year period with two optional one-year extensions, is that correct? Thank you, and the remaining portions of this legislation will remain the same under your amendment? Thank you.

Okay, let's hear from our public speakers, please.

Moving to our public speakers, Ms. Assata and Blair Beekman.

I'm trying to follow this process. The speaker said that on average you have 50 collisions per year. At the same time he's saying at this point we have 22 or 23 vehicles that need collision work. So what you're saying is we have 20 something cars over what period of time, what is the period of time for which a collision happens and the service needed for the repair of the car happens? Is there a timeframe already established? Is it because of lack of funding, we now have 22 cars that need repairs? Or is it, what is the reason? The other thing is, when I looked up that dealership, it said Vacaville. Is that the same as Dixon, where you said it is? The same area? Okay, so we got Vacaville, we got San Leandro, Concord, and then Oakland.

Thank you for your comment, Ms. Assata. Blair Beekman, if you're participating via Zoom, please raise your hand. Okay, that concludes your public speakers. We do have a motion made by Councilmember Houston, seconded by Councilmember Wong to approve as amended the recommendations of staff and the board deciding to July 21st City Council agenda. And once again, the amendments are to the second portion of this legislation regarding the quality, body, and fender portion of the legislation. With the amendments of that portion to state, Please, go ahead, Council Member Wong.

Just to confirm, the rest of the contracts are going to come before this body again in the fall time for a vote, correct?

Okay, good, thank you. Go ahead, Council Member Houston.

Apologies, and through the Chair, and you're gonna come back and find out why that company was not, or, the condition of why that company wasn't reached out to or if they had the wrong email to, right? You'll get with me before that through the chair.

Okay. We've heard back from purchasing. They didn't tell me how, and I'm assuming it's an email and I've asked them to provide me the email. And I just wanted to clarify also, if we go down to just the single Oakland based vendor to perform repairs, that's better than not having any. But as far as cycling vehicles through, we planned on having an award to four, which would give us the capacity to get the vehicles repaired more quickly, some of which the police vehicles date as far back as October 2025. So that's why the number is as high as it is. It's about six months worth of accident vehicles, which aligns with 50 accidents per year. And Council Member Guyot, to your point, we have not been replacing vehicles regularly since 2023. That's when fleet replacement was decentralized. Prior to that, as you mentioned, we would replace 150 to 200 vehicles per each master lease municipal financing cycle we no longer have that capability so for the last three years we've essentially been replacing nothing so we absolutely got to make do with what we have thank you for the accommodation council member houston so we can get these vehicles back on the road okay thank you we've got a long agenda so we need to move forward thank you

Just to the parliamentarian, do you have a clarification?

Yeah, just a point of clarity is I hear different council members having different understandings and I want to make sure that the record and the vote is quite clear. So council member Houston, I understand your motion for line item two, sorry, line item four to be that everything stays the same except for part two, quality body and fender. You're just changing the duration. Instead of two year with options to renew, it's one year with two one year optional renewals. Is that correct? Okay. Is that the motion you seek to make, Council Member Houston?

City Minister Lake, is that?

I didn't recall a discussion over the term of the the term of the agreements changing did I miss something I understand that we were only leaving the we were leaving the resolution as it pertained to quality body and fender only but we were not changing the term of quality body and fender so just for clarity It is removing everything but quality body and fender and all the quality body and fender terms would remain as proposed.

Okay, Council Member Wong, did you have an additional question?

Nope.

All right, are we all clear on what we're voting on? You want to do it one more time?

All right, so the city attorney has asked me to clarify that the remaining contracts in this resolution will not be moving forward today or at the next council meeting, that they will come after the break with an updated supplemental report.

Thank you.

And through the chair to the city attorney, please restate the motion regarding the quality body offender so that it's very clear on that specific portion of the legislation, thank you.

So the motion is to approve quality body and offender in the amounts and the time frames proposed in the staff report and to remove the remaining proposed contracts to be brought back in a supplemental report after the break. Thank you.

We do have a motion made by Councilmember Houston, seconded by Councilmember Wong, to approve as amended the recommendations of staff and the board deciding to the July 21st, 2026 City Council agenda with the amendment stated on motion on record by City Administrator Betsy Lake to approve the quality and offender of the amounts of the timeframes proposed in the staff report and to remove the remaining proposed contracts. to be brought back in a supplemental report after the summer break.

Yeah, just a parliamentarian point of clarity that they can come back as a separate item, but not a supplemental.

Thank you for that clarity. On roll, Council Member Gallo.

No, I'm supporting the original recommendation from staff. We gotta get the work done.

So that's a no to Council Member Houston.

Yeah, because you crashed three of them.

Yes. Thank you. Council Member Wong. Aye. Thank you. And Chair Unger. Aye. This motion does pass with three ayes and noting one no. Council Member Gallo. To approve as amended recommendations of staff and for this item to July 21st, 2026 City Council agenda and due to Council Member Gallo's no, it will be recommended for non-consent. Moving to item five. Adopt a resolution authorizing the city administrator to award an executed professional services agreement with KW Engineering for energy assessment and consulting services in an amount not to exceed $364,685 for the municipal facility energy assessment project number 1008000 and adopting CEQA findings. And you do have three speakers for this item.

All right, let's hear from our staff, please.

Good morning Chair and committee members. I am Nick Cartagena, Capital Improvement Program Manager with Oakland Public Works. Happy to be here with you today to discuss energy assessments on 20 city facilities. I'm here to request authorization to award a professional services contract or agreement to KW Engineering, an Oakland headquartered firm with extensive experience working on city facilities. The firm was selected through a competitive process in which 12 firms were submitted proposals to conduct energy assessments at 20 city-owned facilities through a federal grant from the Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program. These assessments will look at each building's heating and cooling, lighting, electrical systems, and the roof, walls, and windows, then tell us what's inefficient, what it will cost to fix, and what we'll save. That information sets us up to go after capital funding, utility rebates, and future grant opportunities. The selected facilities were identified from the city's unfunded CIP project list using council's nine criteria scoring framework. which prioritizes equity. Eight of the 20 facilities serve underserved communities, including senior centers, recreational centers, and emergency cooling centers. The contract amount is not to exceed $364,685. This grant is funded through the Department of Energy. All work must be completed by July 31st, 2027 to meet federal reporting requirements. There is no general fund impact and no local match requirement. In summary, staff requests authorization to award a professional services agreement to KW Engineering not to exceed $364,685, fully funded by the Department of Energy grant with no general fund impact and no local match. I'm happy to answer any questions you may have, thank you.

That's excellent, thank you. Council members, questions? All right, seeing none, let us go to our speakers, please.

Thank you, and I'll call your name. Please approach the podium. If you are participating via Zoom, please raise your hands so you're easily identified. Mrs. Osada, Kevin Dahle, and Blair Beekman.

So, the report identifies that the assessment of the 20 properties are the properties that have the greatest need. So, I looked up the district of each one of these properties, and only one is in District 7, and only one is in District 6. So, those are two Prop districts that have a lot of needs. And that tends to be an agenda that you follow all the time. District six and district seven are not being assessed. But you make the statement that these, and you didn't put it in your report by district. I had to look it up. So you're doing a report where you're going to identify data identification, but you don't know if you have the money to do corrective action. And you're not looking at those data centers that use a lot of electricity.

Thank you, Mrs. Sato, for your comment.

Uh, Kevin Daly, uh, thanks. I appreciate this report. Uh, there's a couple other items in the equitable climate action plan that like to examine, uh, not only electrifying the buildings, but look at the time shifting of the electrical use electricity. in the middle of the night tends to have a higher carbon content than electricity produced during the day during peak solar periods so it'd be good to look at that to reduce not only local carbon emissions but global emissions as well thanks thank you all for your comments moving to our zoom speakers and i do not see blurbing me so that concludes your public speakers bottom three

Okay, let's, anything from Council Member Gallo?

Yes, I'll make a motion to approve the item.

Thank you, we do have a motion made by Council Member Gallo, seconded by Council Member Wong, to approve the recommendations of staff and afford this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on roll. Council Member Gallo? Aye. Council Member Houston is out of his seat, excuse me. Council Member Wong? Aye. And Chair Unger?

Aye.

This motion does pass with three ayes, one excuse. Houston, to approve the recommendations of staff and afford this item to July 21st, city council agenda and through the body, would that be consent?

Yes, please.

Thank you. Moving to item six. Adopt a resolution, one, accepting and appropriating a reimbursement grant from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District Transportation Fund for the Clean Air Change Program in an amount not to exceed $750,000 for eligible costs associated with the installation of 15 Two, port direct current fast electric vehicle charging stations for a total of 30 charging stations at the city's maintenance service centers, 7101 Edgewater Drive. Two, authorizing the city administrator to execute the grant agreement and related documents. And three, adopting CEQA findings. And you do have three speakers for this item.

Excellent. Let's hear from Mr. Battersby, please.

Thank you, Chair Unger, Richard Battersby, Oakland Public Works Assistant Director. I'm here before you asking that you grant approval for us to accept the $750,000 grant from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. This is but one of a 10 grant project encompassing $16 million.

Excuse me, we do need a quorum. Thank you, please continue.

Thank you. Through the chair, I can have that effect on people sometimes. The larger overall fleet electrification grant project, it's valued at $16 million. $9 million of that is through grant funding, as I mentioned, through 10 grant providers, including Federal EPA, BACMED, California Energy Commission, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Alameda County Transportation Fund for Clean Air, et cetera. The overall project's bringing 139 electric vehicle charging stations at six city locations, and it's adding 15 vehicles to the fleet that we otherwise could not have provided. However, they're somewhat specialized. We'll be getting three battery electric street sweepers, one battery electric refuse truck, and 11 battery electric Silverado pickup trucks as part of that project. I just wanted to note and thank the staff that worked on this. Tony Vargas is a temporary contract service employee because we lack the internal expertise and resources to pursue. And then once the grants were awarded, do the grant reporting and administer the project. So Tony Vargas knocked the ball out of the park. and Hartini Chu, Erica Vasquez in Equipment Services, and in particular, Angelo Fullen, who's the Acting Equipment Services Manager. If not for their efforts, we wouldn't have this $750,000 that was added on top of the already existing grant project. So with that, I'm here for your questions.

Excellent. Colleagues, questions? Okay, I'll second that and let us hear from our public speakers, please.

Thank you, want to call your name, please approach the podium. If you are participating via Zoom, please raise your hand. Mrs. Sada, Kevin Dolly, and Blair Beekman.

Kevin Daly, thanks for presenting this. This looks like great news, especially with the street sweepers. I'm hoping we can find some electric street sweepers for the bike lanes as well as for the full size, but I know that may be a while off. I'm also hoping that we can, I know in many cases employees are encouraged to use electric bikes that are charged by, well, that are supplied by the city. Will they be able to charge at these locations as well? That's probably pretty simple to add on if it isn't there already. Thank you.

I had to evacuate. If I would have had an electric car, I would have been in trouble because we had no electricity. All of it was down in Louisiana. The majority of it was down in Mississippi. Gas stations were open. I could get gas. So if there's an emergency, and you're moving towards this electricity, but electricity has problems. High repair bills, I'm sorry, not electric, electrical vehicles have high repair bills. Battery limits and weather that is extreme. Batteries are used, they use, look, lithium and cobalt. These are things that are crucial threats to the environment. It causes a grid strand on charging with the electrical company. So we got problems and y'all don't talk. We push things and we don't look at everything involved in it. If you have to evacuate and you got all of these electric cars and the electricity is down all through whatever areas,

Thank you for your comment, Ms. Osada. That concludes your public speakers. We do have a motion made by Council Member Gallo, seconded by Chair Unger, to approve the recommendations of staff and afford this item to the July 21st City Council Agenda on Rural. Council Member Gallo? Aye. Council Member Houston is excused. Council Member Wong. Aye. And Chair Unger. Aye. This motion does pass with three ayes, one excuse. Houston, for this item to the July 21st City Council agenda and through the body would that be considered on?

Yes, consent please.

Thank you. Moving to item seven. Adopt a resolution, one, awarding a construction contract to McGuire and Hester for the Broadway Streetscape Improvements Project number 1006953, the lowest responsive and responsible bidder, in accord with the project plan's specifications, state requirements, and with contracts bid in the amount of $20,881,650, and two, adopting appropriate CEQA findings, and you do have three speakers for this item.

All right, let's hear from Megan Weir, please.

Thank you. Thanks so much, Chair Unger and committee members. I'm here, Megan Weir, Assistant Director of Department of Transportation. I'm pleased to be here today before you to request that you consider the resolution awarding the construction contract for the Broadway streetscape improvements project to McGuire and Hester. This project includes transportation safety and transit improvements on two segments of Broadway through the heart of Oakland from 2nd to 11th Street and from 20th to Grand Avenue, extending the current transit lanes between 11th and 20th Street. The project includes dedicated red bus-only lanes, new bus shelters, seating and trash cans, pedestrian lighting, street trees, upgraded traffic signals and transit signal priority, as well as pedestrian crossing improvements including curb extensions, ABA-compliant curb ramps, and median islands. More buses run on Broadway than in any other street in Oakland and its current design leads to bus delays and unreliable travel times for bus riders. Broadway is also part of the city's high injury network, meaning that it's just one of just 8% of our city streets where severe and fatal crashes are concentrated. In upgrading Broadway, we're being responsive to a number of historic plan documents. The project's fully funded by federal, state, and local grants. Because it's funded by a federal grant, the construction contract award must abide by federal rules, including the suspension of the disadvantaged business enterprise program. We received three bids through a competitive bidding process, and McGuire and Hester submitted the lowest bid, which was 16.6% below the city's engineer estimate. Thanks so much for your consideration, and I'm pleased to respond to any questions you might have.

That's great. This is an exciting project. I'm looking forward to it. Colleagues, questions? Council Member Houston, please.

I'd like to, through the chair, I'd like to move this.

All right. Council Member Wong.

Thank you through the chair. Thank you so much for your work on this good segment of this is in district 2 Is this project going to be coordinated with the Oakland Alameda access project just given the overlap?

Question councilmember Wong. We've been the project team has been working closely with the Oakland Alameda project to ensure close coordination as well as communications and so that there's no overlap or extended any additional delay due to that coordination. So it's happening on a weekly basis.

Great. Perfect. Thank you. I'll second.

Okay. Speakers, please. Public speakers.

If you want to call your name, please approach the podium. If you're participating via Zoom, please raise your hands. You're easily identified. Mrs. Sada, Kevin Dolly, and Blair Beekman.

Kevin Daly, this Broadway project is a great project, especially adding the bus lanes. Looking forward to having more reliable bus service. Bringing more passengers to the buses from cars might do more to reduce carbon emissions than some of our previous items. The other ones aren't bad, but this one could do more. Of course, we still need to worry about how to get money to AC Transit so that it can continue running reliable buses on those routes, which brings us back to the sales tax. Council can't do anything about it, but let's remember it. Thanks.

There are districts that get a whole lot of attention. The last item where they're doing assessments for air quality, 20 assessments, only one being done in District 7, one in District 6. The rest of them were going to 3, 4, and 5. I was looking for you to tell you that. So this is District 2, which Chinatown gets a lot of attention related to But if you remember, AC Transit is gonna be doing some evaluation based on lack of funding, and some of that is gonna be not continue to have all stops in place. So does this need to be coordinated after we get a report from AC Transit related to what services will be provided, including potential elimination of stops? Also, You've got to stop this bike lane thing. Broadway is not suitable for any kind of riding of bikes.

Thank you. Thank you for comments.

Moving to our Zoom speaker, and I do not see Blair Beekman. We do have a motion made by Councilmember Houston, seconded by Councilmember Wong to approve the recommendations of staff and afford this item to the July 21st, 2026 City Council agenda on roll. Councilmember Gallo is excused. Councilmember Houston. Aye. Thank you, Council Member Wong. Aye. And Chair Unger. Aye. This motion does pass with three ayes, one excuse, Gaio. To approve the recommendations of staff and afford this item to the July 21st, 2026 City Council agenda and through the body, would that be consent or not? Consent, please. Thank you. Moving to item eight. Adopt a resolution authorizing a city administrator to finalize and execute a purchase agreement with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission as administrator of the Clipper Regional Transit Fare Payment Program in an amount not to exceed $400,000 using previously appropriated regional early action planning 2.0 higher impact transformative grant funds to purchase a distribution approximately 1,000 prepaid clipper cards for the West Oakland Universal Basic Mobility Pilot and making findings to waive the city's formal advertising competitive bidding and request for proposal and qualifications. And you do have three speakers for this item.

All right, let's hear from staff, please.

Thank you. Good afternoon to the committee members and the public. My name is Kirby Olson, supervising transportation planner in the Department of Transportation. We do have a short presentation on this great program today that will be given by my team member, Colin Peathy. So come on up, Colin.

Thanks, Kirby. Hello, committee members. So today we'll be giving you more information about our request for council to approve staff to authorize a new contract with MTC slash Clipper to extend a second phase of the universal basic mobility pilot in West Oakland. Oh, sorry. So universal basic mobility refers, just giving you some background information, it refers to a range of programs that offer financial subsidies for selected participants to spend on transportation services. So we first started a UBM pilot in East Oakland that accompanied the launch of the Tempo Bus Rapid Transit Project. And just from the jump, these are all fully grant funded projects from outside funds that did not require any matching funds. So we launched this first pilot in East Oakland, saw it was successful. Then we got more grant funding from Alameda County Transportation Commission to launch a pilot in West Oakland accompanying a bus stop improvement project called West Oakland Transit Improvements. and then in 2023 the city housing community developing yeah excuse me housing and community development department received 10 million dollars from the regional early action planning grant 2.0 high impact transformative program to to implement the mandela station development project next to west oakland bart at the time though they didn't pursue any action related to the ubm portion of the funds included which is why we're here now today So in evaluating the pilots that we've implemented in East and West Oakland, we saw that they've been successful in increasing transit ridership, reducing traffic congestion, and improving air quality. We also found that these programs are especially helpful for very low-income households. So this grant allocation would be used to implement a second phase of the UBM pilot in West Oakland, and we plan to distribute clipper cards with up to $400 for up to 1,000 people living and working in West Oakland. So to your right on the slide is the study area. It's the same as in the first phase of the pilot and our eligibility requirements for participating are that you must live or work in West Oakland, that you must earn less than the area median income and must not be a city employee. so while we were almost nearly completed with the west oakland pilot we wanted to give you some initial findings from east and west oakland pilots the vast majority of participants spend their funds on clipper carter ac transit service and also the vast majority of participants are very low income in west oakland nearly 80 percent participants earn less than fifty thousand dollars a year Participants also reported change in the way they travel. Up to nearly half of participants did so in West Oakland. And in both pilots, we saw nearly the same amount of people driving less often. So this is meeting all the program objectives. So in particular regarding ClipperCard and why we want to execute a contract with them is because we saw that, as we mentioned in the slide earlier, majority of folks are using their funds on Clipper. We had previously used prepaid debit cards through Uzio Inc. so that folks could purchase shared mobility trips, but now given program usage and also some efficiencies, we're planning to switch to Clipper. Clipper staff noted that they're able to waive the physical cost of the cards, And they're also able to provide customer service support, which would free up a lot of staff time. And so there's some great efficiencies that we want to take advantage of in this contract. So by waiving formal advertising and competitive bidding requirements, we would be able to execute a purchasing agreement with Clipper and continue this UBM pilot in West Oakland. The fiscal impact of this action would allocate, excuse me, we've already allocated $450,000 towards the UBM pilot. We're planning to use 400,000 of those funds on the clipper subsidies and then $50,000 towards administration of the pilot. And just to read this formally, and this is the action we're requesting. To finalize and execute a contract purchasing agreement with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission slash Clipper in support of the West Oakland Universal Basic Mobility Pilot financial incentives in the form of 1,000 prepaid Clipper cards at a cost of $400,000. providing the necessary spending authority for the agreement and waiving the advertising, bidding, and the request for qualifications slash proposal competitive selection requirements. And looking to the future, since these pilots have been successful, we anticipate this next phase of the West Oakland pilot will be just as much successful. We're looking towards implementing a citywide program so that all residents can take advantage of this benefit. You know, we're seeing it's meeting the program goals of reducing driving and providing economic benefit for very low-income households, so we'd like to extend that to all Oakland residents. And as an additional benefit, we could potentially use this program as a way to help mitigate the impacts of new development by providing this program as an option for developers to pay in-lieu fees so that they can provide a transit pass for their new residents or employees. And with that, we'll take any questions you might have. Thank you.

All right, very cool program. Thank you for the presentation. Council Member Wong.

Thank you so much for your work on this. I fully support this. One question I just have is it's been documented in some of the reporting around students who are trying to access the youth free bus program as well as the Clipper Card program. Do you anticipate the same challenges with enrollment here?

I don't really anticipate those challenges. One issue we did come up against was attempted email fraud on the program, just given our survey structure. People use bots to try to take advantage of it. So therefore, we're planning to have cards distributed at AC Transit's slash Clipper's office in downtown Oakland.

Okay, great. And what is the plan for outreach on this program?

So in the past, we've partnered with many local West Oakland institutions, like the St. Mary's Center, Ebalt City California Hotel, Monarch, St. Andrews, all the social service and affordable housing providers there, as well as working with the West Oakland Library, attending the Juneteenth Block Party. So we have a very long list of community partners that we work with.

Great, thank you so much. I'll move the item.

Thank you. I'LL SECOND IT AND WE'LL GO TO COUNCILMEMBER HOUSTON FOR COMMENT.

THANK YOU THROUGH THE CHAIR. THANK YOU. YOU SAID IT WAS A PILOT IN EAST OAKLAND AND THAT WAS THE FIRST PILOT IN 2017 TO 2021 WHICH IS FOUR YEARS. CAN YOU GIVE ME JUST LIKE A LITTLE BIT YOU SAID IT WAS SUCCESSFUL. JUST GIVE ME LIKE A LITTLE BECAUSE I WASN'T AROUND. I'VE ONLY BEEN IN OFFICE 16 MONTHS. GIVE ME A LITTLE ELEVATOR PITCH ON HOW THAT WAS SUCCESSFUL.

Of course, and through the chair. So the actual grant project was implemented from 2020 to 2021. I included those dates just to show that this is the time it took to apply for and receive the grant. So in East Oakland in particular, we saw transit ridership increased by 12%. and driving decrease by about six percent for for folks who were taking either of those modes and in general i would say that you know anecdotally from from folks i've talked to uh they've stressed to me that you know this allows them to see family members they might not otherwise see you know purchase amtrak tickets to visit family out of town and also just cover their basic needs. A lot of these folks, as I mentioned earlier, earning less than $50,000 a year are on and urgently need these kind of benefits to help them live their daily lives. And I'll let my supervisor Kirby speak to any other anecdotes.

The only thing I'd add is that that grant program distributed a total of $250,000 to residents that live within a half mile of the AC Transit Tempo line in East Oakland.

How much was that again, through the chair?

$250,000 in transit subsidies that they could use to ride the bus, essentially.

All right, thank you.

Okay, let's hear from speakers, please.

Moving to our public speakers, Ms. Assata, Kevin Dahle, and Blair Beekman.

This don't make sense. So the main purpose is to reduce people who are driving to use the buses. And then you say you were able to determine that people were driving less. How did you do that? Because, you don't answer my questions. So people are driving in any given area. You don't know what, they don't necessarily live in West Oakland. They can be coming from any part of the city or even out of the city. So how are you determining that people drive in an area? And then you have clipper cards. Are these special clipper cards that when they're used, you have a specific identification of these 1,000 clipper cards? Or are they the same clipper cards like all the rest of them? How are you keeping up with these clipper cards? I just, this doesn't make sense to me how you get evidence data to determine this as being successful.

Kevin Daly, this sounds like a great program. And to me, it makes sense. It really sounds like it's another one of today's agenda items that are reducing carbon emissions by encouraging people to take rapid transit. or slow buses, sorry, standard buses as well. Moving people out of cars into their buses should make it safer for pedestrians and cyclists as well. There'll be fewer cars driving on Broadway and more buses in the bus lane, which of course we just heard about in the previous item. I'm looking forward to the extension of this program to all of Oakland and not Definitely worth starting out slow, and I'm hoping we move ahead. There's problems with Clipper, but it's the best solution to our transit.

Thank you for your comment. Moving to our Zoom speaker, Blair Beekman. I do not see him. That concludes your public speakers for item eight. We do have a motion made by Councilmember Wong, seconded by Chair Unger, to approve the recommendations of staff and afford this item to the July 21st, 2026 City Council agenda on roll. Councilmember Gallo is excused. Councilmember Houston. Council Member Wong and Chair Unger. Aye. This motion does pass with three ayes, one excused. Gallo to approve the recommendations of staff and afford this item to the July 21st City Council agenda and through the body would that be considered or not?

Consent please.

Thank you. Moving into item nine. Adopt the resolution authorizing the city, the council president to submit a response on behalf of the city council to the 2025 through 2026 Alameda County Civil Grand Jury Report. And you do have three speakers for this item.

All right. Oakland's public works director and on June 15th the Alameda county civil grand jury released an annual report that included essentially a chapter on illegal dumping and it made eight recommendations we by law are required to respond to those recommendations within 90 days Those responses are drafted and included at attachment B. Because of that 90-day deadline falling within council's recess, there is some urgency to make sure that we do approve those responses. And what that approval will do was authorize the council president to submit those responses to the Alameda County Civil Grand Jury in a timely fashion. For some of you, this might feel a bit like deja vu, and it should. And the reason I say that is we've been having conversations over the past several months about illegal dumping. And we've made significant progress in advancing both policy and implementations of our illegal dumping strategy. You might remember that this committee and council approved significantly higher fines for illegal dumping. This committee and council approved a legal dumping expenditure plan to fund the three E's. That's the city's strategy to abate illegal dumping, education, enforcement, and eradication. We approved an adopted budget that includes more funding for both eradication and enforcement. THE MAYOR SECURED A $9.25 MILLION INVESTMENT FROM THE CRANKSTART FOUNDATION TO ACCELERATE IMPLEMENTATION OF THAT 3E STRATEGY. AND WE ALSO RESPONDED TO OUR OWN OAKLAND CITY AUDITORS REPORT ON ILLEGAL DUMPING AND ITS 17 RECOMMENDATIONS. Most of what I just described either happened after or while the Alameda County Civil Grand Jury was finalizing its report. So you don't see those actions represented in the report, understandably, because they were filing, likely finalizing the report at the same time. As we sit here today, there is encouraging news. The grand jury report is again showing alignment with what the mayor, this committee, council, the city auditor, staff, and also the community are saying about our 3Es approach. Because we've discussed these items several times in the past several months, I'm not gonna do thorough updates of all of the items, but I do wanna highlight three items that are updates that this committee may not be aware of. First, next week, we are meeting with the five Oakland chambers to discuss proposed amendments to our mandatory commercial garbage service ordinance. That's a mouthful, but this will make it easier for us to enforce and collect against businesses that don't have sufficient garbage service because a business that does not have a sufficient garbage service, some of that garbage is likely to end up on our streets and sidewalks. We will return by September with those proposed amendments to this committee and then ultimately for council approval in late September. Second, the Privacy Commission recently approved an amendment to the city's automated license plate reader use policy so that OPD can share illegal dumping related video and data with Oakland Public Works. that approval was from the privacy commission and we expect that by september that approval will come to the city council third bulky block parties are back you might have gotten the press release this morning but the first of four bulky black parties uh uh and remember these bulky black parties were restored after the Council adopted the illegal expenditure action plan to fund these block parties. Our first one is taking place on July 25th at 7101 Edgewater from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oaklanders just need to bring a government-issued photo ID plus some mail showing that they, oh, sorry.

Can I just interrupt you for a sec? We have been joined by Council President Jenkins, so we need to adjourn into a full council session. I'll make that motion.

Thank you, we have a motion made by Chair Unger, seconded by Council Member Wong, in the presence of Council President Jenkins to adjourn the meeting of the Public Works and Transportation Committee meeting and to convene into a special meeting of both council. The time is now 12.56 p.m. on roll. Council Member Gallo. Aye. Thank you, Council Member Houston. Aye. Thank you, Council Member Wong. Aye. And Chair Unger. Aye.

Aye. Sorry for the interruption.

No problem. For those bulky black parties, we need a government-issued ID plus some mail, ideally from a utility, showing proof of residential address in Oakland. With that, staff recommends that the committee approve the proposed responses forward them to the City Council for final approval after which the council president can then submit them on behalf of the City Council within that statutory deadline happy to answer any questions you may have

I think this is great. And the grand jury captures a moment in time. And unfortunately, they got us right when we were in the process of implementing all of their recommendations. So I think we are well ahead of where their report says we are. So anything from my colleagues? Council Member Houston.

Through the chair, this is great. On page six, when it says illegal dumping expenditures action plan, where's the EEOs in that? Were they included in this? Enforcement officers?

They weren't specifically addressed through the illegal dumping expenditure action plan, other than that plan provides budget for us to implement handheld technology to make the work of the EEOs more efficient and easier. More importantly for the EEOs, The budget that council adopted unfroze one of those EEO positions. And so the really good news as we sit here today is we have three EEOs who are scheduled to start in early August. And so with that, we should be staffed up in our environmental enforcement officers in a much better way than we have the last couple years.

and through the chair. So this is just information. It's very important in this conversation that our EEOs are trained for hazardous and hazmat materials because as we all know that the city attorney can only do fines. We need prosecution. And the only way to prosecute is if the data is collected. It has to be data driven. Data driven that we can give the right information to the Alameda County District Attorney for what? So they can proceed and prosecute to the full extent of the law. As we all know, especially in my district, you took a ride with me. that there's no limit to what they will dump in my community, and I'll say this, and me and the president, he's out in the audience, we always talk about this. It's a crime against our community that was happening. On E Street right now, right now, between 105th and 98th, or let's reverse that, 98th to 105th, where the children's path of travel is horrible. and school is out, it's about to start, you have everything there, so I'm gonna say this, and I'm just gonna reiterate, that it's very, very, very important that we have the right tools so we can give the information to the district attorney, because she's willing to prosecute, but we have to do it the right way. Because I'm gonna say this to you, and I'm gonna share this, and I'm gonna end it with this. This is a crime against our community, and the things that they dump on these streets, the waste management will not take. And when you think about it, our children have to walk through this, Council Member Unger, and then they track this into their homes, onto their floors, because they walk that street every day. It's horrendous, take a ride with me. So it's very important for our EEOs to be armed up so that documentation that goes to the district attorney can be used and not thrown out. I've been there too with Nancy O'Malley, so I know how important that is.

Councilmember Wong.

Thank you. Through the chair, fantastic report and also really appreciate all the progress that the Public Works Department has been making on this under your leadership. One thing I just have a question on is on finding 2618. So this is around the grand jury's recommendation around regulating private junk haulers and the response from the department is that this should really be tackled at the regional and state level i was wondering if you could elaborate on that why that is um since i do have an interest in looking at the regulation of the city level is i really want to understand that rationale

First, let me share what the city is currently doing around junk haulers, which they are subject to the same rules around illegal dumping. And so the more we enforce, the more cameras we get out there, the more EEOs we have doing investigations, we'll see more enforcement actions against junk haulers who improperly dispose of the materials they pick up. The second is on the city's website, we do have a list of junk haulers who've got the appropriate licensing to conduct the work. And so I'd encourage residents who are looking for some help to find that list. You could do a quick internet search for City of Oakland junk haulers, and you'll see that list come up. Third, more directly to your question, There could be a potential legislative changes where we essentially end up with a registry of sorts for junk haulers, so that there is some pre-checking of the junk hauler to make sure they understood the rules, that they actually were bringing the materials they collect and disposing of them properly. Where we see on the staff side some struggles there is it's very, very, very, very likely that that's gonna cross city boundaries. And so for that reason, a regional or a state approach is gonna be much more effective, we think, than just doing it within our city limits.

Okay, that's helpful. And let's say we did this at the county level, what would be the regulatory body who would handle that at the county level?

Think it would be the Board of Supervisors and that's something that I can do some Digging to make sure that that's correct and get that information back to you.

Okay. Great. Thank you.

I will move this item Okay, looks like we've got a second from councilmember Houston Moving to our public speakers.

Mrs. Sada Blair Beekman and Kevin dolly. I Ms. Assata. Moving to our online Zoom, Blair Beekman. And I do not see Blair. So we do have a motion made by Council Member Wong, seconded by Council Member Houston to approve the recommendations of staff and afford this item to the July 21st City Council agenda. On roll, Council Member Gallo. Aye. Thank you. Council Member Houston. Aye. Council Member Wong. Aye. Thank you. And Chair Unker. Aye. The motion does pass with four ayes to approve the recommendations of staff and report this item to the July 21st, 2026 City Council agenda and through the body would that be on consent?

Yes, please.

Thank you, moving to item.

Unless there's some statutory reason why a grand jury response can't be on consent.

I think it can go on consent and if it can't, I'll double check. Okay, thank you.

Moving to item S10, which is supplemental 10. This item does require a urgency vote as it was on the three-day agenda as a title change. We do need a motion.

So moved.

Thank you. We do have a motion by Chair Unger, seconded by Councilmember Gallo to approve the urgency. I will now read the item into record. Adopt a resolution authorizing the city administrator to amend the professional services contract with Alta Planning plus Design Inc. for the 7th Street Connection project for increasing the contract amount by $747,288 for a total contract amount not to exceed $3,955,404, extending the contract expiration date to the December 31st, 2030, waiving to extent required further advertising competitive bidding or competitive selection requirements under the Oakland Municipal Code Sections 204050 and 204051 and adopting CEQA findings. And you do have three speakers for this item as well.

All right, let's hear the staff report.

Good afternoon. My name is Amit Silvan, Principal Civil Engineer with Department of Transportation. Some information regarding this project. The 7th Street Connection project aims to create a safer and more accessible transit corridors for motorists, cyclists and pedestrians using this major connection from West Oakland to downtown. The project provides a protected Class 4 bikeway on 7th Street from Mandela Parkway to MLK Way and on Gerry Adams Way from Castro Street to MLK Junior Way, closing a critical gap in the city's bikeway network. The project will also reduce the number of existing travel lanes, construct bus boarding islands and transit shelters, improve pedestrian accessibility and safety through winding sidewalks, reconstructing curb ramps, expanding intersection corners and install pedestrian-scale lighting, plant new trees and upgrade the corridor's ageing traffic signal equipment. In September 2022, the City Council authorized execution of a professional services agreement with Alta to provide engineering services for this project. Several unforeseen circumstances encountered during the design have necessitated additional design and environmental support services from the consultant and an extension of their contractual period of performance. Adoption of the proposed resolution with authorized the city administrator to amend the existing contract with Alta to continue providing design services and construction support needed for project completion the current the contract amendment will be fully supported by available state grant funds as the project advances 200 percent design plans and completion of the environmental process Alta is uniquely familiar with the project's design and is best position to continue providing professional services as the project is consultant. The proposed amendment increases the contract by around 750,000 to provide additional services for a revised total not to exceed approximately around $4 million. Therefore, staff recommends that this resolution be adopted in the next city council meeting to be held on July 2026. And, Chair Anger, I also want to share that two documents were inadvertently left out of the agenda package. These documents serve as background information. Attachment A was project location map and Attachment B was a copy of the consultant's amendment request. So the city attorney office has advised that if the committee wants them included when the item goes to council, city council, they can be provided through the appropriate process before the city council meeting.

Okay, do we need to make an amendment to include those?

Yes, so if this body would like for attachments A and B to go to council, the motion made by this body would need to include that.

Okay, I'd like to make the amendment that we move the item with the attachments included. All right, council members, questions? Okay, let's hear from our speakers. From the public, please.

Thank you. When I call your name, please approach the podium. State your name for the record. And if you are participating via Zoom, please raise your hand. Ms. Asada, Kevin Daly, and Blair.

Kevin Daly, I'll keep it short. Great project. 7th Street is not... safe pre-project afterwards. It should be a lot safer for pedestrians, cyclists, and for taking the bus, which runs right by. So look forward to seeing it approved, thanks.

Thank you.

We have to use rule 28 for this item. Why couldn't it be brought in a timely manner through rules? This item identifies that you'll be adding better bus stops and lighting, adding speed cameras to key areas for safety. Now, you have an item on public safety where you're looking at all surveillance technology, whether to keep it or to eliminate it. So any items that come up until you make that decision that has something to do with using cameras, Just like the last item, the recommendation from the grand jury was to share license plate information. And that man didn't bring up the recommendations from the grand jury, which including larger trash bins, having what they call a garage saw. The grand jury didn't ask you to come up with your own stuff, it asked you to respond to their recommendations.

Thank you so much for your comment, Ms. Osada. Blair Beekman, I do not see Blair. We do have a motion made by Councilmember Chair Unger, seconded by Councilmember Gallo to approve as amended the recommendations of staff and afford this item to July 21st, 2026 City Council agenda. And the amendments is to add a supplemental attachments A and B to be included in the agenda staff report. On roll, Councilmember Gallo.

Aye.

Thank you. Council Member Houston. Aye. Council Member Wong. Aye. And Chair Unger. Aye. This motion does pass with four ayes to approve as amended the recommendations of staff and the board this item to July 21st. City Council agenda.

On consent, please.

Thank you. Moving to open forum.

That's fine.

Moving to open forum, Ms. Asada, Ms. Kenwa Parker-Brightsman, and excuse me for mispronouncing your name, Blair Beekman, Kevin Dolly, Joyous Morrell, Shinobi Howard, Dashawn Taylor, Nita Bee, Shauna Wilhead Sr. And I have two cards for you. Ann Marks. And Timothy Killings. If I mispronounce your name, I do apologize. Please state your name for the record. If you are participating via Zoom, please raise your hand. And as practice, we will take in-person speakers before Zoom speakers. You may begin, thank you.

My name is Anita Bee, and I've been a street vendor in Oakland since I was 19 years old. I'm 55 years old now. When I started street vending, there were no laws that existed, so what I was doing was not illegal. Six years ago, the first set of laws that were created that made what I do for a livelihood illegal. I want you to know that street vending is not just about food or commerce, it's about dignity. It's about who gets to exist in public space. It's about whether Oakland remains a city for working class families, especially those from the fat lands who can survive, build, and thrive. And for many families, vending has been the difference between poverty and stability. It has paid rent, fed children, sustained entire economies and communities. And what the city has been doing since May 1st, 2026, has been a total violation of not just the Constitution, but several state laws that were put in place to protect street vendors. The city has used public works department staff and equipment and trucks to destroy the property of both permitted and unpermitted vendors without warning, without receipts, without any notice of how to get their property back despite the fact they have been destroyed. Thank you for your comment, Ms. Neda.

My name is Joyce. I am one of many second and third generation street vendors in Oakland that set up at Lake Merritt, downtown North Oakland and East Oakland. I have helped my mom street vent since I could walk. My mother and I have been vending since before your street vending permits, fees, rules existed. Vending paid for my education, put food on my table, clothes on my back, and paid bills. I have worked a nine to five, but always stayed loyal to my family business. In fact, without having both a nine to five and street vending, we would not be able to survive in Oakland's cost of living and impacted working class families like mine. The word has spread across Oakland that the city of Oakland and the mayor's office is cracking down on vendors actions by the OPD, Public Works, and building and planning staff have done are not humane, civilized, or illegal. From rolling up to food vendors, not giving them warning, and throwing away their stuff is illegal. I think it's interesting that the same equipment you use to throw our stuff away is the same stuff that you use to do your suite encampments. Thank you for your comment.

My name is Deshawn Toler. I am a street vendor, and I sell and make clothes for Lake Merritt. On Friday, the city police sees my product and set up. leading me to not knowing where my product is at and they never gave me a receipt for it, leading me to be unhoused. Not to mention a sergeant hopped into my car and drove the way without calling a towing company, without doing proper procedures for it as well. So following back to what they were saying, the city is doing all types of illegal things to stop street vending that helps provide families and everything like that. So that's all I have to say.

Good morning. My name is Quanah Parker-Brightman. I'm executive director of United Native Americans. I've come here today to stand with my brothers and sisters in the community as far as the street vendors. I am interested in wondering if the City Council has adopted SB 946 as far as decriminalizing street vending. Obviously, what you're hearing from my brothers and sisters here in the community is you're not aware of that or you haven't trained the officers of OPD or the Sheriff's Department. That very much, you know, really needs to be rectified as far as the treatment of people, especially our community. Okay, that's one thing we'd really like to see done here today is the treatment of all of our community treated with respect. Thank you very much.

Hello, I'm Shinobi Howard. I'm also a street vendor. And they seem to have a lot of complaints about the things that go on at the lake. So Public Works, we have asked for larger garbage cans. We asked for assistance with just a lot of things that are going on with the lake. So also we clean up at the lake. We pick up the trash when we vent and when we leave. The trash is picked up. We rake up everything. We'll put everything near the garbage spaces. We asked the city just to give us larger garbage bins so we could place more things up in there. At the end of the day, we're all vendors and we just take care of the other things that we have to. Thank you.

Hello, my name is Timothy Killings. I'm a street vendor at Lake Merritt. Also, I work at OUSD Public Schools as a community schools manager. I'm here because the city's approach to vendor enforcement at Lake Merritt is unacceptable. The vendors at Lake Merritt are not the problem. They are part of the economic and cultural fabric of Oakland and many black, indigenous, and working class families trying to make an honest living. Oakland has already displaced much of the African American community through decades of policy decisions. We should not continue that legacy by criminalizing the very people who are still here creating culture and economic opportunity. The militarized response to vending and the repeated shutdowns of the lake important cultural celebrations like Juneteenth send a clear message about whose presence is welcomed and whose is not. The people most affected by this decision, the vendors themselves, are too often excluded from conversations that shape these policies. Current vendor policies prioritize comfort of visitors and outside interests over the livelihoods of Oakland residents and the communities that have built the culture of this city. I understand this department is not

solely responsible for decisions but every department involved has a responsibility if i called your name and you would like to speak on the on open forum please state your name for the record thank you

Yeah, good afternoon, Ann Marks. I am coming here just to introduce or reintroduce myself in my new role with PG&E. I think a lot of you know me. I worked for the city of Oakland back in the 90s, the early 2000s, and working here in the nonprofit community for a long time. I've been a commissioner for the city and I live here. My family's here, I love it here. I was happy to have the opportunity to be part of PG&E and use that as an opportunity to work with my city. I look forward to doing that. I just want to raise your awareness about one thing, which is that PG&E used our resources and our time to lobby on behalf of SB 1218 in Sacramento. The illegal dumping affects a lot of things, but it really affects our ability to do work because often it's on top of our assets and keeps us from doing what we need to do. I've heard from enough of you to know that nobody likes it when it takes us longer than it should to do our work in our city. So thank you for your time, and I look forward to working with you.

So, uh-oh, what's this? The late merit vendors, majority of them African Americans, for years you have targeted them and you use the Public Works Board to target them with a pilot program. You didn't have the courage to target them on your own. You used that group to target them with fines, ticketing, no parking, all kind of issues around majority black vendors at Lake Merritt. This has been going on for a couple of years. But you have vending all over this city that doesn't get the same attention. Is it because this is a large number of African Americans who are vending over there at Lake Merritt? But you need to have a review of that pilot vending program that was developed by a bunch of regular citizens to target these vendors. And you have, one more thing, I can't say it, but we have.

Thank you so much for your comment, Ms. Asada. Kevin Dollar, you're passing. Thank you. Moving to our Zoom speaker, Blair Beekman. Please unmute yourself and begin your one-minute comment.

Hi, thank you. Blair Beekman. I've been busy with the San Diego public meetings today. I missed talking about the future redevelopment of the Broadway area. Don't forget to think about all the tech accountability policies and best practices that you can add to the future of that area. And when you do, it really helps with it's an important draw in why people will come to Oakland. If they see good tech accountability in action, they want to be around that. Don't you think? I really work on it, I hope. I also hope that my previous public comments at the special council yesterday, I didn't say well enough, but just to really thank yourselves. It seems like city administration is taking the time, effort, and care to consider the concepts of community participation at this time. If they're not, I get a sense they're trying to. Good luck in those continued efforts to try to, and thank you.

That concludes your speakers for open forum.

All right, meeting is adjourned. Don't go too far. We're getting the band back together in seven minutes.