Office Of The City Administrator - Regular Meeting

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morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. And welcome to the rules and legislation committee meeting on this Thursday, April 23.

The time is now my apologies. One moment, please. The time is now ten 04:34, and this meeting shall come to order. Before I give role, I would like to give instructions on how to submit a speaker card for an items on this agenda. If you are here, with us in person and would like to submit a speaker card, please fill out the speaker card and turn the card into the clerk representative either before the item is read into record or ten minutes after this meeting began.

The meeting began at 10:34, so that time will be 10:44. Registering to speak via Zoom online, speaker cards cards were due twenty four hours before this meeting began, which, at this time we are no longer taking online speaker cards. So once again, this meeting began at 10:34. Speaker cards will no longer be accepted at 10:44. And with that, council president Jenkins, we will start with roll. And on roll for this meeting is council member Brown. Present. Council member Fife. Present. Council member Ramachandran. Present. And chair Jenkins.

Present.

On role, present is for members. We are now going to move to item one, which we currently do not have minutes at this time. So moving on to item two, which is a termination of scheduling of outstanding committee items. I have one speaker for this item.

Let's go to the speaker.

Kevin Dally. And the speaker as withdrawing his card at this time, no speakers for this item. I need a motion for item two.

Move approval of item two. Second.

And that was a motion by council member Brown, seconded by council member Fife to approve item two. Pending list determination of outstanding committee items as is on roll. Council member Brown? Aye. Council member Fife? Aye. Council member Ramachandran? Aye. Council member chair Jenkins?

Aye.

Item two is approved with four ayes. We will now move to new scheduling, item number three. Starting with item 3.1, and if I may state the next eight items, 3.1 through 3.8 will need, rule 24 and whatever changes. So I will read those titles in, and then I will ask staff to present the rule 24 and any additional changes to the item 3.1 through 3.8. So, again, starting with item 3.1 is a resolution in support of s b thirteen thirteen, an act to enhance oversight, accountability, and state support for public water systems to ensure safe drinking waters.

And this is being requested to be scheduled for 05/05/2026 city council agenda on consent. Item three.

So rule 24 and we also want to go to May 19 on consent. Typically these items bypass committee and we want to ensure that if affirmative, we can get the support into the California State Legislature to support this bill.

Thank you for that council president Jenkins. And just so noting, so items 3.1 through 3.8 are all stated as council president Jenkins, needing the rule 24 and being changed to the May 19 city council agenda on consent. So continuing on to item 3.2, which is a resolution in support of a b eighteen twenty one to amend the California Public Records Act to refine responses, time frames. And this, again, is being scheduled to, requested to be scheduled for May 19. City council agenda on consent.

Item three three, a resolution in support of s b thirteen fourteen, safeguard public health by establishing zoning, operational, and sale regulations on smoke shops, also being requested to be scheduled before May 19 on consent.

Council member Ramachandra.

Thank you. For 3.3, I'd like to be added as a cosponsor.

Thank you. Noting council member Ramachandra is to be added to item 3.3.

Anybody else wanna be cosponsors on the smoke shop item? Council member Fife.

Why not? Let's make it a party.

You too? Let's put this too. This is four.

Five. It's unanimous. So

Wong got to it first. So Wong, Ramachandra, and Jenkins, and Fife.

I would like to make a motion to adjourn to a special meeting.

Motion to adjourn into a special meeting. Is there a second?

Second. And there was a motion by council member Fife, seconded by council member Brown to adjourn in a special meeting at the presence of council member Wong. On roll, council member Brown

Aye. In Houston.

In Houston. My apologies. And council member Brown, aye. Council member Fife? Aye. Council member Ramachandran? Aye. And chair Jenkins? Aye. We are now adjourned into a special meeting at the presence of council member Houston and council member Wong. Thank for that. So just noting item 3.3 is now adding council member Ramachandran, council member Wong, and I apologize. Is it council member Fife or who who else? Council member Houston?

No. No. Wong, Fife, Ramachandran. And there's there's some more. Just look at your agenda. There's opportunities.

Okay. Council member Ramachandran, Wong, and Fife will be added to item 3.3. Now moving to item 3.4, a resolution in support of a b seventeen thirty eight to modernize local building and inspection building inspections practices by authorizing remote inspections, and this is being scheduled for the May 19 city council agenda on consent. Item three five is a resolution in support of s b twelve thirty related to enhance illegal dumping abatement penalties and state and local resources to address illegal dumping under penalty code action section thirty three seven four point three. This is also being requested to be scheduled for May 19, city council on, consent.

Item 3.6 is a resolution in support of a b twenty three ten relating to expanding illegal dumping and pro prohibitions to include transportation for purposes of illegal dumping disposal under, penal code section three seven four point three, and this is being requested to be scheduled for May 19, city council agenda on consent. Item 3.7, a resolution in support of s b four one seven to provide state bond funding for development, rehabilitation, and preservations of affordable housing in California, and this is being requested for May 19, city council on consent.

Council member Fife, would you like to co sponsor that affordable housing bond 2026?

Well, thank you for the offer, mister president. Sure. Absolutely.

Apologies. Can on 3.4, a b seventeen thirty eight, can I be added as a cosponsor? I already submitted letters of support on that one.

Yes. Thank

you. So 3.4, Ramachandran. 3.7, Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026 cosponsored by council member Fife.

Thank you for that. And now moving to 3.8, a resolution in support of a b twenty three five. One regarding the Shelter Bed Transparency Act, and this is being requested to be scheduled for May 19. City council agenda on consent, again, items one three point one through 3.8 also stated rule 24. Is there anybody that wanna be added?

Council member Brown.

Yes. Thank you so much, sir. So for item 3.8 AB twenty three fifty one, I also have already submitted a letter of support on this one so would like to join as a

co sponsor.

Absolutely. Council member Fife, shelter beds. Council member Fife. And

noting item 3.8 adding council member Brown. Now moving to item 3.9 which I believe staff is here to read in a title change. 3.9, the replacement of septic tanks drain field. Thank you.

Hello, council. My name is Quincy Williams and I am the assistant capital improvement project coordinator for Oakland Parks Recreation Youth Development and I'm here to present the title change for the recommendation that staff recommends that the city council adopt a resolution authorizing to waive the local and small business enterprise requirements and request for proposal qualifications for the competitive process. Two, to execute construction contracts and total amount not to exceed $312,000 and 8 $312,078.44 for capital repairs and placement at Feather River Camp. This Feather River Camp is located at 5469 Open Camp Road, Quincy, California 959701 with Ackley Engineering to replace three septic tanks and drain systems in a total amount not to exceed $225,762 and b, Aqua One Incorporated to replace a drinking water system and a total amount ought to exceed 87,216 and 44¢ and 3 to adopt appropriate California Environmental Quality Act findings.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you for that. And just noting for the record, this item is being requested to be scheduled for May 5, city council agenda on consent and I will also read in the rule 24. The rule 24 is that the septic drain and drinking water systems are broken and need replacement without emergency funding to replace these items. The 2026 Feather River camping season will not occur. I do see, council member Ramachandran's handwriting.

Thank you. Just as it pertains to scheduling, because this is being requested to go on consent, is this funding that's already authorized and this is just execution of the contracts or would this money be coming from a new source?

It's coming from the, emergency repairs, funding source. So this is the authorization to access those those funds to, pay for the vendors.

Okay. And what the is that general purpose funds or is there a different code for

that? There's a different code for that.

Okay. If if you can please share with my office before the meeting where exactly the funding is coming from Yes. Because yeah.

Thank you. Alright.

Pfeif.

Thank thank you, council president. I was just wanting to hear the waiver rationale. It was shared with our office that the need for bypassing committee, was urgent, but I wasn't aware about the waivers until yesterday. So if there could be a waiver rationale stated. Hello, mister Williams.

Yes. Hello, council member Vaib. So the rationalization is that, because of the location of, Feather River that the rationale to support for local vendors will not come in a timely manner because of location being five hours away. That is cost prohibitive for us to be able to hire someone local and to go through that process. Second thing is is that the vendors that we have for this particular project have intimate knowledge of the problems.

And so they'll be able to, pending authorization, start work immediately. Also because Feather River, as some of you may know, is one of the oldest programs that is put on by Oakland Parks Recreation Youth Development. And so if we do not expedite this request, Feather River may not start on time and that would impact and then that's a race and equity issue. Also, right now, we're in a space in which the environmental concerns that are not being met.

So I I wanna Sorry. I I wanna get us back on scheduling.

Okay.

Yeah. Okay. I I think council member five, that's the basis with council member five. Thank you.

Alright. Thank you.

Thank you so much. So now dispense with item 3.9. With the title change and being scheduled to May 5 on consent, moving to item three ten is a resolution authorizing and directing the city attorney to compromise and settle the case of Andrew Marshall versus City of Oakland, city attorney file number 37037 in the amount of 512,500 $5,512,500. Department of Transportation, dangerous conditions requested to be scheduled for May 5. City council agenda on consent and this item along with the next two items will need a rule 24. Yes.

Through the chair to the committee, three ten, three eleven, and three twelve are resolutions authorizing settlement agreements and these routinely bypass committee and go straight to council.

Thank you for that rule 24 of items three ten through three l 12. And then moving to item three, 11 and reading into record, a resolution authorizing and directing the city attorney to compromise and settle the claim of Vima Harris versus City of Oakland city attorney number C38038 in the amount of $695,000. Human services department breach of contract property damage being scheduled for 05/05/2026 city council agenda on consent, as well as item 3.12, a resolution authorizing and directing the city attorney to compromise and settle the case of Susan Sanchez as successor in interest to Kenneth Sanchez deceased versus the city of Oakland, a public entity, city attorney number 35641, and the sum of a $130,000. Department of Transportation dangerous conditions being requested to be scheduled on May 5, city council agenda on consent. And again, items three ten through three twelve, rule 24 was stated on the record.

Moving to item three thirteen is a resolution submitting to the voters at the November third twenty twenty six general municipal election, a measure that would amend city charter to, amongst other things, simplify the process and for appointing police commissioners by only having regular police commissioners that are appointed, one each by the council members and one by the mayor, strengthen the independence of the office of inspector general by having the city auditor rather than the city commission appoint the inspector general, streamline the process for appointing police chiefs by using the same process used to appoint other department heads and directing the city clerk to take any and all action necessary under the law to submit this measure to the voters at the November third general election and making appropriate CEQA findings on the 05/07/2026 rules and legislation committee agenda. Item 3.14 is a resolution approving the city of Oakland landscaping and lighting assessment district fiscal year 2026 through 2027 preliminary engineering report declaring the intention to levy and collect the annual landscaping and lighting district assessment for physical year 2026 to '27, and three settling setting June 20 06/02/2026 at 03:30 as the date and the time for the public hearing.

This item is currently only being scheduled today to the 05/12/2026 finance and management committee agenda.

Through Through the chairs,

winning from the city administrator's office. This item,

is only going to, finance and not going to the June 2 as a public hearing.

Thank you for that. City administration, noted. Item three fourteen is just being scheduled to the May 12 city council agenda. May 12 finance and management committee agenda today. Thank you for that.

Moving to item three fifteen, which is a resolution acknowledging the urgency and expediting actions to remedy illegal dumping through an through an illegal dumping expenditure action plan authorizing the city administrator to implement the idea plan by negotiating and entering into contract grant agreements and expenditures in the total amount not to exceed $1,100,000, pursue partnership with county, regional, and or state agencies to enhance these efforts. Two, waiving the extent necessary that the city advertising and competitive bidding and LSLBE program participation and multi step technology acquisition requirements for the contracts. Three, appropriating and allocating an amount not to exceed $1,100,000 for budgeted funds. Comprehensive cleanup funds for these purposes, for accepting inappropriate additional funds for public and private sources, and authorizing the city administrator to actively seek and apply for such funds and to amend existing contracts and or enter into a contract consistent with the purpose of this resolution and in, furtherance of the plan in a total amount not to exceed the value of such additional appropriated funds. And five, directing the city administrator to return to council within one year to of the adoption of the resolution to provide an informational report on actions taken funds received and expended and contracts awarded pursuant to this plan.

The authority granted by the resolution on May 12 on the 05/12/2026 public works and Transportation Committee agenda. Item

Kaplan.

Thank you so much. Rebecca Kaplan, project manager for illegal dumping. I want to, thank and express that councilmember Fife and Wong have asked to be cosponsors of this item. Thank you so much, and much appreciation to you all.

Beautiful. Councilmember Wong?

Just, thanks. Wanna thank Rebecca for her partnership and, yes, wanna be added to as a cosponsor on this item.

Sounds good.

Okay. Thank you.

Council member Houston. What committee is this going to? Public works. Okay. Would you like to be added as a cosponsor? Okay. Absolutely. Anyone else?

Work on this topic, sir. Thank you.

Thank you.

So noted we have item three fifteen. We're adding council member Fife Long in Houston. We are now moving to item 3.16, which is conduct a study session to receive an informational presentation and report on draft land use framework developed as part of the general plan update phase two process and receive public comments and provide feedback to staff on the draft land use framework. This is being requested to be scheduled for May 12, Community and Economic Development Committee agenda. Item three seventeen is a resolution authorizing a one year MOU for the receipt of in kind services with, Digital Lift for digital literacy training and related services at the Oakland Senior Center valued in a total amount not to exceed $67,500 and authorizing the city administrator to accept additional services and extend the MOU with digital life for up to three additional years.

This is being requested to be scheduled for May 12, life enrichment committee agenda. Item 3.18, I believe, has a title change if staff's present to read in the title change.

Yeah. I'll go ahead and enter Monica Davis, deputy city administrator. The title should read, adopt the resolution. Should I go ahead and read all the fall and all the following points remain the same? I can read them if that's desired.

Yes. You are noting that this is going to be one resolution. So, yes, just read the title in its entirety as if this is going to be

Adopt the resolution, one, authorizing administrator to sign and execute an agreement with the California Department of Health Care Services and its third party administrator related to the California Providing Access and Transforming Health, Capacity and Infrastructure Transition Expansion and Development Program Intergovernmental Transfer Award to implement CalAIM Ready Oakland Project and deliver enhanced care management and community supports for high need Medi Cal population in Oakland and two, accepting and appropriating the DHSCS Path Cited IGT award in an amount not to exceed $1,351,113.75 which requires non federal local share equal to 50% of the award and three, authorizing the city to commit the required non federal local share equal to 50 down 50% of the total DHCSIGT award in the amount of $675,556.75 in order to draw down the corresponding federal match for DHCS on the 05/12/2026 Life Enrichment Committee agenda.

Thank you for that, administrator Davis. And just noting that three eighteen was is not three p multiple pieces of legislation. It's just one resolution, and the, city administration just read that single title into record. Thank you for that title change. And moving to item 3.19, which is a resolution authorizing the city administrator to enter into an agreement with Bureau Compression Inc.

For the purchases, service, and or repair of self contained breathing apparatus units and, turnout gear cleaning extractors for the three year period in the amount not to exceed $600,000 with the option to extend the agreement up to two years in the amount not to exceed $200,000 per year without returning to counsel for a total contract amount not to exceed $1,000,000 over the possible five year term and waiving the advertising and competitive bidding requirements in local small local business enterprise program provisions for the proposed purchase agreement to be scheduled for the May 12 public safety committee agenda. Item 3.2 is a resolution awarding an agreement a grant agreement to community initiatives for the term of 07/01/2026 to 06/30/2027 for community activation service related to the Oakland ceasefire lifeline strategy in the amount not to exceed a $100,000. This is being requested to be scheduled for May 12, public safety committee agenda. Item 3.21, which is a resolution in support of renaming the plaza at the LGBTQ community center Moore Hope Plaza after Peggy Moore and Hope Wood. This is being requested to be scheduled for the May 19 city council agenda on nonconsent.

And noting that, I'll read in the rule 24 requesting that, to ensure that the community renaming celebration to rename the plaza at the LGBTQ Community Center in honor of the lives and legacies of local icon Peggy Moore and Hope Wood will take place as intended in June as placed as part of the pride month celebration. Item 3.22 is a resolution in recognition of the May 2026 as affordable housing month and recognizing the importance of deeply affordable housing for creating healthy and safe economically vibrant communities being requested to be scheduled for the May 19 city council agenda on as a ceremonial.

Council member Brown.

Excellent. Thank you so much. We would like to shift this to, not a ceremonial item. So I guess on non.

Consent. Thank you.

So noted item 3.22 will be placed on the consent calendar on May 19. Item 3.23 is an information report from the Oakland Housing Authority on the status of their programs and current projects. This is being requested to be scheduled for May 26, community and economic development committee agenda. Item 3.24 is a title change. This item was previously scheduled for the May 26 public safety.

The new title is a resolution adopting the 2026 to 2020 2031 Oakland local hazardous mitigation plan as an amendment to the safety element of the Oakland general plan and adopting appropriate California Environmental Quality Act findings. And again, this is, being scheduled for the May 26 public safety committee agenda as well as the June 2 city council agenda as a public hearing. Moving to item 3.25, this is an informational report on the implementation and performance of the city of Oakland's prompt payment policy. This is being requested to be scheduled for 06/09/2026 finance and management committee agenda. Item 3.26 is an information report from the city administrator as required by required in OMC nine point zero eight point two six zero section five as a as it applies to the law enforcement activity stitution no.

Larry. Excuse me. I messed this up. Outcome physicals outcomes and community and impact and equity review. And this is being requested to be scheduled for the September 22 public safety committee agenda.

Through the chair we have a title change for this. The title would read receive an informational report for from the city administration as required in section five of ordinance thirteen eight seven three. Okay. Thank you.

Thank you for that title change. And noting this is being requested to be scheduled for September 22 public safety committee agenda. Now moving to the recommendations from committee on April 21, starting with the special finance and management committee agenda item 3.27. I will be reading in the short titles. It's fiscal year twenty six to twenty seven, landscaping and lighting assessment district intention.

And the committee approved the recommendations of staff to be forwarded to the May 5 city council agenda on consent. Item 3.28, the budget advisory commission recommendations to amend the consolidated physical policy to redefine excess real estate transfer tax review, and this is this was received and filed in committee. Item 3.29, budget advisory commission for fiscal year twenty five to twenty seven, budget process assessment and recommendations. This too was received and filed in committee. Item three thirty, budget advisory commission recommendations on the proposed June 2026 40,000,000 parcel tax measure.

This was received and filed in committee. Item 3.31, the salary survey results. This item was also received and filed in committee. And 3.32, this was the information report on special revenue collection project. This item was received and filed in committee. Moving to recommendations from the

Council member Brown.

Excellent. Thank you so much. So for item 3.32 I was interested in, I believe both myself and council member Ramachandran were interested in, here let me make sure I have the right one. Actually, it's 3.31. We wanted to special revenue collection.

Yeah. Yeah. 33.32. I believe we wanted to I wanted to do a title change on this one so that it says council member Brown and council member Ramachandran. And then in addition, we were interested in having this report come back quarterly.

So this one was received in file. So if you wanna bring it back, please bring it back as a new scheduling request. Okay. Okay.

Would like to change the names of the council members. It currently reads council member Kaplan and Ramachandra.

But I believe this item was received and filed in committee, so it's been dispensed with. And I understand you wanna bring it back as a recurring item, and that would be the would would require a new scheduling item, and you can indicate sponsors as you see fit. Okay.

Thank you for that. We are now moving to the recommendations from the April 21 special public works and transportation committee starting with item 3.33, which is the issuance of an unconditional certificate of completion for MacArthur Transit Village phase one public improvements. The committee approved the recommendations of staff to be forwarded to the May 5 city council agenda on consent. Item 3.34 was the easement at 260 Oak Street. The committee approved the recommendations of staff to be forwarded to the May 5 city council agenda on consent.

Item 3.35, which was an adoption of the federal compliant flood plan management ordinance and flood hazardous map. The committee approved the recommendations of staff to be forwarded to the May 5 city council city council agenda on consent. Item 3.36, which was the Public Works Equipment Service Division cooperative purchase agreement. The committee approved the recommendations of staff to be forwarded this item to the May 5 city council agenda on nonconsent. Item 3.37, consultant contract amendment for the Fire Station 29 project.

The committee approved staff recommendations to be forwarded to the May 5 city council agenda on consent. And the item 3.38, the storm water trash loaded reduction compliance information report, this item was received and filed in committee. The recommendations from the April 21 special community and economic development committee agenda. Item 3.39, the fire alarm building, museum of jazz, and art new exclusive negotiating agreement. The committee approved the recommendations of staffs to be forwarded to the May 5 city council agenda on consent.

One second. Item 3.36 public works. There was a no vote. I assume it was Council Member Houston, are you okay with that going to consent as opposed to non consent? No, no, no, no. No, you were doing good work on behalf of the people of Oakland. Item 3.36 from public works, you put, registered a no vote. Are you okay with it going to consent as opposed to non consent? Consent. Okay, 3.36 will go on consent.

Noted. Now resuming back to the regular order of the agenda. I believe we dispensed with 3.39. That item was the alarm building fire alarm building, museum of jazz and art exclusive negotiating agreement that was requested to be scheduled for May 5 on consent. Item 3.4, surplus land declaration and disposition of a city owned parcel.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff to be forwarded, to the May 5 city council agenda on consent. Item 3.41, authorization to disperse resilience hub grant funds to the Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation for community outreach activities. The committee approved staff's recommendations to be forwarded to the May 5 city council agenda on consent. Now moving to the recommendations for the April 21 special life enrichment committee agenda starting with 3.42, the library agreement with the city of Piedmont. This item was approved the committee approved staff's recommendations to be forwarded to the May 5 city council agenda on consent.

Item 3.43 is a the library agreement with the city of Emeryville. The committee approved the recommendations of staff to be forwarded to the May 5 city council agenda on consent. Item 3.44, the contract for customized goods and apparel. The committee moved this item to the pending list, no date specific. Item 3.45, the acceptance of the Oakland Park and Recreation Foundation grant.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff to be forwarded to the May 5 city council agenda on consent. Item 3.46, the mayor's summer youth employment program and OFCY summer program service term award fiscal year twenty six through twenty eight. The committee approved the recommendations of staff to be forwarded to May 5 city council agenda on consent. And item 3.47, the LSLBE certificate and road map update, the committee received and filed this item. Moving to recommendations from the April 21 special public safety committee agenda starting with 3.48 which is OPD Cellulubrite Technology.

The, committee approved the recommendations of staff to be forwarded to May 5 city council agenda on non consent. And this was again due to a three one vote.

Council member Fife, completely fine to say no. Are you okay with this going to consent as opposed to non consent?

I'm sorry, I didn't hear what you said.

3.47, you're completely fine to say no. Oh, know. 348.

3 so I will preemptively say for 3.4 eight and 3.49, my position is the same. I think it warrants discussion.

Okay.

Thank you for that. Moving to items. So item 3.48 is being scheduled for the nonconsent calendar on May 5. Item 3.49, Purigen Technologies contract. This, committee approved the recommendations of staff and to forward the item to the May 5 city council agenda on nonconsent.

Item 3.5, the OPD Federal Task Force twenty twenty five annual reports. The committee approved staff recommendations to be forwarded to the May 5 city council agenda on consent. Item 3.51 is the negotiated settlement agreement update. The committee received and filed this item. Item 3.52, the ceasefire lifeline contract.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff to be forwarded to the May 5 city council agenda on consent with the request to bring forth a biannual information report regarding the ceasefire lifeline contract that speaks to the scope of the work of the, faith in action East Bay. Item 3.53, audit of the Oakland Police Oversight Agencies, the Oakland Police Commission, the Community Police Review Agency, and the office of the inspector general. The committee received and filed this item. And that concludes your new scheduling. I have several speakers for this item.

Well, you, madam clerk. That was a lot of reading. Thank you. If someone can bring her some water, that'd be great. Thank you to But the public as well for sitting through this. Can't wait to hear from the public speakers, especially miss Drake.

Thank you. I will call the public speakers when you approach the podium. Please state

your name One second. For Council member Houston, did you have something?

Good morning. Good morning. And I I wanted to speak to I pulled that off of consent I mean, not consent to consent. I I didn't know. I said no on the 03/1936 because it was three out of 33 vendors. It was only three from Oakland. And it does warrant discussion.

Let's move it back to non consent. We'll move that back to non consent so we can talk with the departments

about that.

And that's what I wanted. But I wanted to keep it moving because I can say what I need to say in two minutes. But if you wanna do that, I I agree with you because it does need discussion. It does. So thank you so much.

I wanted to speak to our 3.13 on the the the the ballot measure I'm trying to amend. Right? It says, this ballot measure to amend the city charter to improve civilian oversight of OPD. Improve, not remove. Right? So individuals are saying some false narrative that I'm trying to dismantle the police commission. It's not. Yeah. I have three items that I'd like to speak to. I I have a question. Who who on in the council has been to the selection panel? Have I I wanna raise their hands even if a council member's in

the As far as scheduling. Right?

Okay. So what I'll do is this is an emergency to me. Right? And let me tell you why is this sched this needs to be scheduled. Can you share why it should be scheduled quicker and express that?

No. No. No. You have all the time you want within reason, but just make sure your comments are related back to scheduling.

And it is. It's to schedule this this this amendment to the charter. And what I like to do is I like to just go over it and speak to you know what I do, president? President. Yeah. Just moving on, and I will express it later whenever we get to come back to rules in the committee. But I just want to make sure that people understand the public understands that this amendment is going to improve the city charter.

Thank you for your service.

Let's go to the public speakers.

Okay. And just noting that, in item 3.36 is now going back to consent on May 5 nonconsent on May 5. Council member Brown.

Excellent. And then, just that one slight edit, for item 3.15, I would also like to be added. Thank you so much.

Thank you so very much, and thank you for your work during budget season to make sure money would be available for these projects. Thank you.

So just to reiterate, item 3.15, which is the illegal dumping expenditure plan. We, from the Oakland Public Works Department, we have council member Fife, council member Wong, council member Houston, and we are now adding council member Brown. Correct. Okay. Alright. Thank you for that. I am now going to read the public speakers' names. For those who are participating via Zoom, please raise your hand so we can easily acknowledge you, and we will call you after we call those who are here in in person. And please state your name for the record. Council member Houston who just spoke, Blair Beekman with, multiple cards.

I have Miguel LaRosa with multiple cards. I have Millie, Cleveland with multiple cards. Jose Dorado with, one card. I have Pamela Drake with one card, Antoine with one card. And I did have a card with no name on it, so I'm not exactly sure if this is I have Antoine already, so this is yes. All names have been called. If I called your name and you're here in person, please approach the podium and state your name for the record. And you'll be given your speaking time. We will take those who, names I've called.

Not all at once. Come on.

Thank you.

So I have two minutes. I have two minutes.

My name is Millie Cleveland. I live in District 4. I'm here with the coalition for police accountability. You know, right after the city auditor instructed the public safety committee that the Oakland Police Commission needs more independence and funding, not charter changes, council member Houston comes up with a proposal to change the charter that weakens civilian oversight. It does not improve civilian oversight.

It weakens it by eliminating the community role in the selection process. It's trying to the reason why the police commission, the charter set up the selection panel was to assure the independence from influence from political from politics like the city council or the city administration. That's why you have selection panel. The council has the opportunity to appoint members to the selection panel who would do diligence interview, check references, and review the applicants to assure that they are qualified to represent the issue of constitutional policing on the police commission. So what council member Houston is trying to do is to eliminate the role of the community in the identification of qualified commissioners, eliminate the role of the community in vetting potential police police chiefs from which the mayor then makes a final decision.

This is an attack against the community. It is disrespectful to the community, and it is totally opposite to what the city auditor recommend.

Thank you, miss Milley. Miss Drake, you wanna come first? Okay. No. You come first, miss Drake.

Miss Drake.

I'm Pamela Drake. I'm with the Wellstone Club, a block by block organizing network, CPA, and the new progressive working group. So I'm here to say I gotta give it to Sam Houston. He resurrected George Orwell from the grave. Because everything about this is Orwellian.

It does not increase independence. I think the city attorney looks confused when I'm saying that. It does not increase independence quite obviously. It was a really well thought out innovative idea that only Oakland could come up with something as innovative as community oriented as having a selection panel that takes it one step removed from politics and allows people to vet and observe and be part the public can be part of the vetting and that then get people onto the Thank

you, miss Drake. Do you have anything else to say?

No. I think you should stop this in its tracks. It's not worthy of a charter change. It's not worthy of even talking about it.

Thank you, miss Drake.

Kevin Dally. I fear that yeah. I was the one who forgot to write my name on the card. I've been spoiled by the online system that already knows my name. But couple items, 3.2, the records act response time.

I definitely appreciate that the council is moving ahead with this, but it's a two part problem. It's great to have a quick response time. Even better would be to accurately get records released. I find that certain departments, especially administrator, come back saying that there are no responsive records. And then back and forth, email, specify exactly what records I know exist, and eventually the record does get released.

So good news, I guess, with 3.2, we'll have a ten day turnaround before they falsely tell me that there are no responsive records, and then I can move onward to the next request. And I'd like to take a careful look at how things are, how requests are being handled. I'm also looking forward sort of to 3.13, the police commission, a detailed discussion. I'm pretty skeptical on this this item. Not look not really looking forward to the discussion, but but I'm glad there will be a full discussion before it before consideration of passing or not.

Thanks.

Thank you, mister Daly.

Thank you.

Anybody else? Tuan? Oh. I'm here

to support item 3.13. Just we we just need more accountability, more results. Oakland has been under federal oversight for over two decades, and that should be concerning for everybody. It's costing us millions and millions of dollars, and yet we don't really have the public safety that we need. We still cannot chase when a person goes into a jewelry store, rob that jewelry store, and goes out the front door with diamond, gold, or whatever they want because it's a property crime.

So if they break into your car and they're stealing your backpack and your wallet, you still cannot chase. I don't know if you guys have been to the police commission selection process, but that process is absolutely broken and needs to be improved. It is slow. It is fragmented. It is complicated. We need to improve our public safety. So I encourage you to support item three point

Thank you, Tuan. I have Jose Dorado.

I see my good friend, council member Welch walked in. Are you walking in so that the city of Emeryville will give us more money for the libraries? Hey. Hey. All of you guys are out of order. Good day, counsel. Everyone. You're not out of order, sir.

I know. I know. I'm not. Okay. I asked her for all of them. Okay? I'm gonna give it a shot. Three minutes? Okay. Alright. I'm gonna start with three point five one. Okay? I know personally that, mister Shane and mister Burris want out of that. Okay? But until you guys pick a police chief, okay, and do, like, one year and comply to all that stuff, Getting off that is not gonna happen. Okay? You know, the judge ain't gonna go with that. You know it. I know it. Alright? So get a police chief and get that going. Okay? The the no the negotiated settlement. Okay? I know about that pretty good, so let's just start there.

K. 3.1, I'm not gonna mess with. 3.2. 3.3. 3.4. Okay. 3.5. The anything for a legal dump and do it. I'll I've lived in this city over fifty years. I'm sick and tired of it. Okay? The people that come visit Oakland just say, oh, it's Oakland, so we can throw our trash away. All that stuff's gotta go. Let's get rid of those people if they don't wanna do it. Septic tanks, 800,000 doll $800,000 for four? Okay. That's ridiculous. Alright? My brother lives in Northern California. He has septic tanks on his property.

Everybody up there has septic tanks. Okay. They don't cost a $100,000 per replace. Alright? The lawsuits, I don't know what to say about that. Too many Sanchez's are making money in the lawsuits. So that's all I can see. Anything with DHCS, I can't touch that. The fire department and anything the fire department wants, they should get. Okay? You're you have an understaffed group of people working hard hours. Okay? It's the same thing for the police. Okay? The communications and all that, until we can clean up this city, the privacy concerns and all of that to me is BS.

Okay? You guys gotta have let the police do what they want. That staff is about a 100 feet 50 people underserved, okay, for this community. Alright? So let them have what they want until if we get it cleaned up so that it's safe, then we can worry about privacy concerns. Okay? If people are worried about that, quit screwing up so you have to worry about people looking behind your shoulder. Alright? God, landscape and lighting. I have trees put in my house in front of my house because of the city.

Okay? I had no recourse until you came out with the thing where you were gonna charge people money for cutting down the trees. I have a bone to pick about that. I'm gonna sue the city, get my house taken care of. My city councilman, I've talked to personally. He I'm not the union council. He don't give a shit about me. Okay? Alright. Budget Budget Advisory Committee, $4,040,000,000 dollar parcel tax. I'm sick and tired of paying taxes. Okay? Alright. This is BS. You guys can't

Thank you for your comments. Your time is up.

Thank you, sir. Thank you for your comments.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, sir. Very kind. I wish the microphones would have caught that. And he said we're doing a good job.

I will now go to the Zoom speakers. I have Blair Beekman and Miguel La Rosa. I will allow Blair to speak first. I do see Kathy Leonard's hand raised, I do not have her card for Kathy Leonard. Blair Beekman, you have it unmuted. Please begin.

Hi. Thank you. Blair Beekman. I'm in San Diego at this time, so I'm calling in. I've been, you know, watching you guys council meetings as of late. And, boy, San Diego is really going through, like, serious budget deficits the same as yourselves in Oakland. You guys have the one two in worst deficits of the state for local cities. And there San Diego is taking such a sad approach compared to you guys. You guys are practicing, you know, social services and care for community, and and we're practicing austerity in San Diego, and it really, really hurts. They wanna budget cut everything, and services are being cut a lot.

I hope you guys can really talk to San Diego, and and there can be good exchanges about the importance of social services programs, and we don't have to cut everything in order to practice good budgeting. Thank you for your patience with that. I wanted to offer three items, 3.5, 2.6, and 3.15 on items around the anti litter things, working on litter issues. You know, with your recent items you just passed on on new RV housing, unhoused issues, and unhoused issues overall, I was kinda disappointed in that and how you voted on that. I was hoping, like, with the flock issues, you came up with really creative ideas on compromise to to variate from ideas and come up with kind of your own thinking.

And I think it was kind of brilliant, you know, that served all parts of the community. You really tried to serve everybody, and you didn't quite do that for the litter for the RV issues. Think a lot of the RV issues and unhealthy issues have to do with litter. And and so you have a ton of items today on litter issues, and so you really wanna be working on them, and you're taking that extra effort to work on litter now. And I I I just wish, you know, we could have been doing more to that we already have these practices that they can be on call when, you know, city government asks, you know, people to to leave and stuff.

I don't I don't quite yet understand fully what the reform measures about, and I hope to learn that. I think we need as much police as we think we do, and I was just really hoping for a variation on and and that, you know, our main concern is just litter. We we really have a bad litter problem and how to get everyone involved in that. I've talked about tech accountability, how that could be of help, inviting the community process. And I'm interested how councilperson Gallo's ideas on getting the state more involved.

You have May a funding started in January that's gonna be running out soon. What are you working on with community to work through the summer on litter issues overall? You should be developing really good practices by now. Good luck in those efforts, and thanks for your time with myself going all around here. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments. I do apologize. I'm not the gentleman that spoke in person was Miguel. Is Jose Dorado person? If not, that are all our speaker for item three.

So thank you for everybody that came out to speak. Thank you to the clerk for going through that long, agenda. Bear with me for accuracy 3.1 through 3.8 with an urgency finding and scheduled to the May 19 City Council meeting on consent. 3.3, we are adding co sponsors of Fife and Wong. 3.7, we are adding cosponsor council member five, three point eight. We are adding cosponsor of council member Brown, 3.9. We will note the title change, 3.14. We'll go to May 12 FMC three point one five. Yes. Trinity?

Through the chair, good morning. I was hoping to add the council member Houston to be a cosponsor on several several items. Items.

Please proceed.

Item three point give me one second. Apologize. Council member Houston request to be added as a cosponsor to item 3.3 subject s b thirteen fourteen, assembly member Men of Menkihar Bar. I apologize. Smoke shops locations hours of operation and sale of nitrous oxide. Item 3.5 s b twelve thirty strengthening illegal dumping and enforcement. Item 3.6 a b twenty three ten strengthening illegal dumping liability and enforcement. And item 3.8 AB 2,351, the Shelter Bed Transparency Act.

Okay. So we'll approve all of those except for 3.3 because we have too many people on there.

Understood. Thank you.

So council member Ramachandra.

Sorry if you said it. I didn't hear it.

3.4.

334.

Okay. Thank you. Alright. Let's try this again. So all all of items 3.1 through 3.8 will go to May 19 on consent with urgency finding. 3.3 will be adding cosponsors of five long Ramachandran. 3.4, council member Ramachandran will be added as a cosponsor. 3.5, council member Houston will be added as a cosponsor. 3.6, council member Houston will be added as a cosponsor. 3.7, we will add council member five as a cosponsor.

3.8, we will add council member Brown as a cosponsor. Did I miss any on those? And council member Houston on 3.8 and Fife on 3.8. Okay. So then you good?

Alright. 3.9, title change, 3.14, May 12, FMC, 3.15, co sponsors will be Five Hawaiian, Houston, and Brown, 3.18 will be a title change. Three point two two will be moved to consent, and 3.26 will be a title change. Did I miss anything? And World twenty four on threeten through threetwelve.

Okay.

Seeing that complicated ramble, I'll entertain a motion as amended.

Excellent move approval of the item threes.

Second.

That was a motion by council member Brown, seconded by council member Fife to approve item three as amended and stated on record. On roll, council member Brown. Aye. Fife. Aye. Ramachandran. I think we're both doing it. I think

there's a discussion. Sorry? Aye.

Council member chair Jenkins.

Council member Fife.

If you could repeat the sponsors on, the smoke shop item.

So the smoke shop are five Wong Ramachandra.

I will say that it was it was brought to my attention by the East Oakland representative council member Houston that he's very concerned about all the number of smoke shops in his district.

So so here, take me off of there, put Houston on there. I Yeah. So no. You'll be on there because we represent D 6 and D 7 together, so it's fine. Houston on there, take Jenkins off. No. No, all good. So let's go back. Noting that we are removing Jenkins from 3.3 and it will be sponsored by Fife, Wong, Houston, and Ramachandra.

Thank you. And if I can, just with that change, recall the role for as amended council member Brown Fife. Council member Brown? Aye. Council member Fife? Aye. Ramachandran? Aye. And Chair Jenkins? Aye. Item number three is approved as amended with four ayes. We will now go to item four. One moment. Item four is the review of the draft agendas, pending list, and the city council agendas in in committees. We have the canceled May 28 and rules for the thirtieth, I believe.

What is this? Yes. Rules for the thirtieth, your pending list and your May 5 council agenda draft agenda as well as your rules for May 7. And we do have two speakers for this item.

Anything from administration?

Jody Christian, finance department agenda coordinator. We are requesting two changes. So first, the finance and management committee pending list. For items on May 12, FMC item number one, the FLSA overtime report, we are requesting this be moved to June 23 FMC. Rationale due to its complex nature, we're still working on it.

The second request is on the May 5 city council draft agenda. Item number 5.2, the parking. We are requesting this be moved until June 16 city council. Rationale, we would like to hold off until after the mayor has released her proposed budget.

Anything else from administration? Seeing none. Seeing nothing from my colleagues, let's go to council member Fife.

I'm gonna I would like to remove a couple things from the pending list for the life enrichment committee. Pending no date specific items including the repeal of the 2020 encampment management policy is seeing that that was passed. We can remove that from pending no date specific in addition to that is item number two pending no date specific, and we can also remove, number four, the contract for customized goods and apparel as that will come through the administration. We also yeah. We'll keep it there for now.

So the two are removing the repealing the encampment management and whatever. And what item is that, council member Fife?

Two and four.

So items two and four from LEC. We are removing them from the pending list. Thank you.

Let's go to our public speakers.

If I call your name, approach the podium in any order. If you're participating in Zoom, please raise your hand and state your name for the record. Kevin Dally and Miguel LaRosa in any order.

Dally, I see an error on the May 5 council agenda 6.8. I think it may just be a title an error in the title where there's some salary positions. The parking administrator is still on the list on the title even though it has been pulled out. So if that is just a title, then that's great. But if it's more than that, then I encourage us to move the parking administrator out of there.

I also I appreciate May that the parking reorg has been moved to June. We still don't have the parking administrate administrator positions having gone through finance committee. It was due to come up in in April, I believe it was, and it was pulled off. I think it would make sense to put the parking administration new positions to be slightly before the before parking reorg comes to the full council. So that might be early June.

Even better, of course, is to drop it completely, but that's probably not gonna happen at today's meeting. Thanks for your consideration.

Thank you for your comments. And if I can, before the next speaker approaches, to address the comments that was stated by the speaker, We do not change the titles once the recommendations from committee have been made. They'll be noted in the minutes history, which you would see on the agenda for that date. And then once the the amendments from the committee are approved by the full council, then we will update the title when the legislation comes. We'll we'll get the updated legislation that will reflect the amendments and the changes.

Explanation. I learned something new every time.

No problem. Thank you so much, mister Dalley. Our last speaker for this item is Miguel Larelle. And it looks like Miguel is taking back his request to speak for item four item four, so we will have completed our speakers for item four.

Bear with me. LEC, we're removing items two and four from the pending list. May 5 item, FMC five two moved to June 16. FMC item one is gonna be scheduled to June 23. Did I miss anything?

The changes to the finance the life enrichment committee?

Yeah. Okay.

Say it one more time. LEC items two and four removed from the pending list.

And then you said the items from finance? I'm sorry. Did I miss? Yeah. Yes. Okay.

You want me say them again?

No. Just a new motion.

I move approval of items for

Second.

And that was a motion by council member Brown, seconded by council member Ramachandran to approve item four as amended. On roll, council member Brown? Aye. Council member Fife? Aye. Ramachandran? Aye. Chair Jenkins? Aye. And item four is approved as amended with four ayes. That now takes us to item five. Item five s five is a resolution confirming the mayor mayor Barbara Lee's appointment of Doug Long to serve on the Oakland Police Commission as the mayor's alternate appointee. And I have three speakers for this item.

President, please proceed. Thank you, council president, and members of the committee. Preston Kilbourg, deputy chief of staff to mayor Barbara Lee. So here to speak in support of the mayor's appointment of mister Doug Wong to the Oakland Police Commission in the alternate seat. Over the past year, the city, as you all know, has made meaningful progress on public safety. And while this progress is significant, public safety remains a top priority for the mayor and continued leadership and oversight are essential. Mr. Doug Wong brings decades of public safety and community service experience. He's a retired fire engineer, former legislative staffer and longtime leader in emergency preparedness and supporting community organizations. Mr.

Wong has spent his career strengthening collaboration between government and the communities that he serves. I do wanna thank

One second. Pause. Oh,

please. Apologies for the record. We do need to have an urgency stated on the record before we move on with this item. Don't Happy

to

make was added. Yeah.

Thanks for flagging. Yeah. So the we're requesting an urgency finding with the recent resignations of folks on the police commission. We're asking that council grants a urgency finding to allow us to move the appointment of Doug Wong as an alternative alternative police commissioner.

Thank you. A motion and a second and a recall vote for that, urgency. So moved. We need a motion and a vote for second. Okay. And for the urgency findings stated on record, have a motion by council member Brown, seconded by council member Ramachandran. On roll, council member Ramachandran Brown. Excuse me. Aye. Council member Fife. Aye. Ramachandran. Aye. And chair Jenkins. Aye. Thank you so much. That urgency finding was approved with four ayes. I apologize. You may move on to

the thing. Appreciate you lifting it up. Thanks, Clerk. So yeah. So I'll finish with thanks council member Ramchandran and council member Wong for their sponsor or cosponsorship. I'll leave with mister Wong as present today and prepare to make some remarks or take some questions if you have them. Thank you all.

Thank you so much and thank you for bringing this forward. I was actually in the grocery store this morning and people were very excited about mister Wong coming to the police commission. I was like, wait a minute, this is what people are stopping me about in the grocery store. So, Mr. Wong, do you wanna have some comments or do you wanna end? Excuse me? Hey, district six, mind you, D six. Shop right. Mister Wong?

So good morning. My name is Douglas Wong. I look forward to working with the police commission and the city council and the public. It's my second time around. Unfortunately, was I got injured earlier in the year, but I'm healthy. But I've been lying to my wife that I'm not, so she can still take care of me. But I look forward to working and volunteering for the city.

Thank you so much. And just a question before council member Ramachandra. And have all background checks been done?

Completed and submitted to the to the city administrator's office.

Thank you. Council member Ramachandra.

Thank you. Just wanna acknowledge and appreciate all of the work that you've done for the city of Oakland on the neighborhood level and caring about public safety, environmental justice, racial equity. I think you will be an excellent addition addition to our police commission and very enthusiastic about supporting your candidacy. Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you. Council member Fife.

Yes. Thank you. Thank you, chair. I just wanted to offer another opportunity to respond to the question that I asked when you first came. You do have a lot of experience life experience just engaging with public safety issues, but I wanted to give you another opportunity to answer the role that constitutional policing plays in in your work and and to explain to us your your perspective on constitutional policing.

Well, one thing is policing is a combined effort of the neighborhood and the police officers which we entrust for our safety. So you have to look at both sides of the coin because when we call the police, we're calling them to help us. And so sometimes we don't we, the public, do not feel that the police officers are responding the way we think they should. So this is where the police commission comes in working with the police officers, working with the what I really wanna do is get rid of

the

NSA. We're working towards getting that out so we can use that money to strengthen the police department and our community services.

Are you complete? Yeah. So I just wanna say I'm I'm we are entering a new era of policing in this country and in this city. And it's important that the individuals that we are pointing to positions of leadership understand that constitutional policing ensures that we are governed by law enforcement officers that respect the constitutional rights of the individuals that they come in contact with. I did not hear that in your response, but it is so critical especially in the African American communities and neighborhoods where we've seen a history and pattern of and in Oakland specifically of of violating the constitutional rights of Oakland residents.

In addition, it's important that in your role, in your leadership role, that it's not about keeping the NSA or getting rid of the NSA, but doing the critical work that ensures that our our police department is in compliance. That should be the overarching objective.

Because if we get rid of it and we still

police are experiencing the same challenges internally, then we'll just recreate the patterns of history that Oakland has seen. So I just wanted to say that to you because your position will be critical.

I definitely agree with you. In in a sense that when I was growing up, it was us against them. Us, the citizens of the communities against the police, what we can get away with. Now as I've gotten more involved in the community and throughout, it's more in my opinion how we work together to provide a safe community. Now I tell a lot of people, they complain to me and I said, you know, we are the city.

And we and because we are the city, we don't the city council can only do so much. The mayor can only do so much. But we as citizens have to work with our police officers. And we want them to work with us and the civil manager, civil to work with us civilly. So we understand where they're coming from and they can understand where we are. That's why I always tell people, get out there, introduce yourself to police officers. They can put a face out there. So with constitution, everybody has their rights and I really strongly believe the rights of the citizens takes precedence over anything else.

I would encourage you to be in in relationship with organizations and individuals and even literature that that talk about constitutional policing and what that means. Again, I and I don't wanna take up too much time. You've been here before, but that question wasn't fully answered the first time that I asked Yeah. Or or second. But thank you.

Councilmember Brown.

Excellent. Well, you so much. It's good to see you back. I hope you're feeling much better. And as was stated, I know that we all kinda got the opportunity to ask you some various questions and so just wanted to give you also the opportunity to answer the question that I had asked around you know what would you say are your biggest priorities stepping into this role? Your top priorities.

Well, there's a lot of reading which I'm sort of plowing through. Biggest priority is working towards so we first of all, to have less complaints about the police officers. Getting getting the police officers more involved in our community. So I'm a big proponent of ceasefire community policing because that gets the officers out there with us to see how we live and what we do and understand our ways and our attitudes. So that's one of my goals to work.

I belong to several organizations in Chinatown and District 4 and also working with the Oakland senior centers in in different capacities of teaching the first aid CPR. And I understand where they're coming from. And now that I'm a senior, I under you know, it gives me better insight of what's happening out there.

Okay, any more comments? If not, I wanna give you another opportunity. I don't believe council member Fife's question was answered in a way just straight up constitutional policing, what is your definition of it?

So this country was built. Yeah. I worked out in West Oakland for many years. I worked out in the grocery store. I worked with black community. We played basketball together. And I and I saw the difference of how the police acted to the different cultures in the city of Oakland. And and I'm I will read up on constitutional policing for sure to get a better grasp and hopefully, any questions I can ask you, council member Fife, on what your interpretation is?

I'll entertain a motion.

We do have speakers for this item. If we are done with this portion, I will call those speakers up to the podium. Miguel LaRosa, Kevin Dally, and Blair Beakman. If you're participating via Zoom, please raise your hand. And as you approach the podium or once you're unmuted, please state your name for the record.

Did we get a card from miss Milley?

I

Miss?

If this is okay, she has much better thoughts than

If there was no card presented, then you can't cede your

time to the I I have my card.

Don't

I I don't have a card from miss Milley for this item. So she would have to submit a speaker card in order for you to cede Yeah. Time to

I cede my time to her?

You cannot cede your time to her because she did not submit a speaker card for this item. Was for an S.

Maybe if Ms. Milley stood up there with you.

Yeah. Okay. This comes back to some of the challenges with having to know ahead of time what topics are relevant. So I guess I can't I'm tell them what to say. Yeah. So I Tell

them that the NSA remains in existence. It doesn't go away.

Yeah. Yes. The NSA remains in existence and doesn't go away. And I am concerned that so many potential nominees were turned down a few weeks ago. And it's great to have one person approved, but it'd be even better to have all of them brought back and approved as a group.

So the 52 tasks have to

remain in compliance. You could have done a different Yeah.

So choices. You We we do need to make sure that all of the tasks remain in compliance. And as council member Fife has said, even if we get off of the federal oversight, we still need to do a good job with policing. It doesn't matter I mean, it does matter whether we're on oversight, but but even if we're off, we need to do a good job better than we have been doing. It's concerning to have a commissioner that wants

to get rid of the

Yeah. And it it is concerning to have a commissioner that gets rid of the NSA. Anyway, I think this is good. Sorry for the Thank

you for your innovation. We do have Miguel and La Rosa left for speakers on this item.

Okay. I I really didn't know what to say. I was glad you were here, mister Wong. Okay. I I highly approve of him. I like people like this on that police council. Really chilled, know know what they're doing. Okay? To know to negotiate settlement. Okay? I used to do work in law, you know, to the IT guy, media tech. Okay? And I've run into this particular thing. Okay? And like I said, you guys gotta get a police chief, gotta get all that stuff in right, gotta have guys like this on a commission.

Okay? And after a year, you have the police chief and they have everything in order, haven't done anything to screw it up. I think you're gonna get your relief from the negotiate agreement. Okay? That's my personal belief on it. To try and do it prior to that, I don't think the judge is gonna let you out. I know the lawyers want you guys want wanna be out, but the way it is, it's just not happening. Okay? So, absolutely. Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments. We do have one last speaker. I do see, I'm not sure if you wanna, Blair Beekman. You are unmuted. You may begin.

Alright. Blair Beekman, thanks for this item. You know, I've been speaking a lot on this item over the past few months now. I mean, I really like the former commissioners. I felt they were really cool, and they were really doing a good thing.

And I have inexperience with the community process, and I kinda I got a bit confused over the role of a police commission versus the police advisory board. And think they're important. I hopefully, this can be a time to remind us that I think it was the police advisory board as it was created, you know, in the past ten years that had real specific intentions to be really community focused and to pick up where the police commission was wasn't doing a good enough job for. And it seems like you're really trying to separate those two groups right now and have very distinct lines. The police commission serves every, you know, serious government practices, whereas the PFT serves more of a community effort and community question that can be more acceptable.

And I don't know how this speech is gonna go. I don't know if that separation we're going through right now is I mean, it's understandable, but I I don't know how much of it is worth it to work towards when when you're specifically firing good people. So good luck what you can be doing with this. I learned important words from this current commissioner about compromise and the importance of compromise and working towards unity. Those are really important concepts, but as councilperson Price stated, we're entering a new era, of policing, and we have to really ask what is that compromise about?

Are we really trying to move forward in our compromise? And that should always be the question in in unity and compromise at this time. Is it also moving us forward and not continuing the status quo? Thanks.

Thank you for your comments. That concludes our public speakers for item number five.

Thank you so much. And I wanna say I want this item to go to nonconsent. The question that council member Fifex, I don't believe was answered satisfactorily. And I believe that potential commissioner Wong should meet up with the council members, talk to them about how you see your role on the council. But I I just wanna ensure that we're doing a thorough process in vetting. And so with that, I'm gonna make a motion for this to go to council on nonconsent. Council member Ramachandra.

Oh, that was from earlier. But while I have the mic, I I appreciate all all the questionings, and I think that mister Wong has a real history of service in this city. And I hope that more council members can see. You know, it's it's easy to ask and stumble on a question when you're put on the spot, but as a volunteer for this city, he's put in hours and hours of blood, sweat, and tear into our tears into our community. And I hope that others get a chance to recognize decades of public service because it's really easy to say nice things on a mic and much harder to actually put in labor for the people, which is something that I'm excited to have a voice of someone who's done that in our community before.

Thank you. Thank you, council member Ramachandra. I got a second from Brown. Council member Houston?

And I agree with council member Ramachandra. I interviewed him myself, asked him all the questions online. I mean, was on the phone for at least forty five minutes just talking. And it's hard to stand up here and speak to to power. It's hard. Right? And so I understand it and I agree and I and I and I respect him. I agree what you said what just said. And he's a great candidate, and he was a mayor's, appointment. And I respect the mayor also. So thank you.

Thank you, council member Houston, council member five, and then we'll go to a vote.

I think all those things can be true, but I I just wanna make it clear to the public and to the the candidate. I I don't know you. The one question that I had is the one question that I also asked a month ago, and there was still no definitive answer. And the second time that you were asked about constitutional policing after I defined what it was, you still didn't answer that question. If we're doing this is hard work.

This is going to be hard work in a very politicized environment around policing when there are polarized perspectives. So it it's not just the answer about community I mean, constitutional policing, but it's also about playing black playing basketball with black folks in West Oakland is the perspective on on this process and this position. I am sure that you are a wonderful man. We've had we had a really good conversation when you hear it the first time. And I'm concerned that this this work is becoming extremely politicized in a way that we are we are voting based on bias.

And I intend to be fully transparent even though it's uncomfortable, even though I'm alone, to state that what I experienced the the first and second time with you speaking to this body is is deeply concerning about not being able to answer the questions. I appreciate the fact that the council president is suggesting this go to non consent, and I would like to have converse maybe a few conversations with you before this comes back to council. But what I heard today about expediting getting out of the NSA but not doing the work to ensure that the tasks are completed is very concerning. So I would like to I was I was prepared to abstain or vote no based on what I heard today and at the previous meeting and looking at a resume that did not explain the details of jobs, but rather just a list was there there are a number of things that are are creating concerns, but I'm also very open to dialogue, to hearing why you think you are the right person at this time for this position, and then we can go from there.

Absolutely. And I really hate myself to have to say this. The May 5 agenda is getting quite impacted so we might have to have a special meeting. Please take the roll.

Oh, there was a motion by council president chair Jenkins, seconded by council member Brown to approve item s five to go to the May 5 city council agenda on nonconsent. On roll, council member Brown. Aye. Council member Fife. Aye. Ramachandran. Aye. Chair chair Jenkins. Aye. And item number s five is approved with four ayes to be moved to the May 5 city council agenda on nonconsent.

That now takes us to open forum. As I call your name, please approach the podium or raise your hand in the Zoom queue and state your name for the record. I have Miguel La Rosa, Kevin Dally, and Blair Beak Beakman in any order, please, for open forum.

You're exactly right, miss Fife, about the negotiated negotiated agreement. All all parts would have to be completed. The I missed on a lot of stuff here. Okay? There's so much. Three minutes for over 30 items. Okay? It's ridiculous. Ridiculous. Alright? But time is time and it is to put there. It's the rules. Okay? So, I'm cool with that. I'm going to come and give you guys notice that I've been bullied by the unity council and Noel for about over twelve years. Okay? Alright. So, I'm gonna deal with that in my own way. Alright? I've told those guys what I intend to do and I'm I'm going like full nuclear on those guys.

Okay? You know, it's a long story. I'm not gonna play it here. Alright? But I'm putting it out on the record. I would like to talk to the mayor. I'm gonna talk to the feds. Okay? Anyway, I respect all of you. Thank you for the meeting, and that's all I can say. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments. Kevin Dally? I'll pass. And our last speaker, Blair Beekman, you've been unmuted. Please begin your comments.

Hi. Blair Beakman. Yeah. I'm not sure, about the deposit that wants to be, new items put into it from the into the charter. I understand you're going for some sort of separation thing from the p a CPBAB, but I don't know if that's the right approach. Nice words on a subject matter. Good luck to it. You know, it's really difficult. You know, we try to work past the status quo, but I've really I've lost a few steps in my life, and it's hard for me to to to keep up with with the latest of best practices. I'm trying my hardest.

Good luck towards sensitivity and patience and with the with this current Oakland Commission issue, and good luck to all of us. I also wanted to mention just another thank you for what you've done with the flock item. I really, feel wherever this compromise has come from, it possibly has help from the police, on it, OPD and CHP. It was a very reasonable compromise, And there are important lessons in it, and I hope in this time that we're in continual war again that we can be we're working towards a new AOPR vendor at this time. How is that process going?

It's time to start asking more regularly if that's going well, what are the next steps happening, any new facilitations taking place, community efforts. Good luck with that. Good luck with community efforts with trash issues. You had some good community starts in the in January and February about trash in neighborhoods. I hope that's really growing, and by the summer, it should be really expanding well. And like councilperson Gallo has offered, state funding can be a really good resource for that and can save budget dollars as well. Thank you again for how you help the love life philosophy with budget concerns, and I hope San Diego San Diego can learn important.

Thank you. That was your final open forum speaker.

Thank you. This meeting is adjourned.