Personnel Commission - Regular Meeting

You're on. Thank you, Candy. Wednesday, May 21, it is 05:03PM. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the May 21 special personnel commission meeting.

The personnel commission is now holding in person meetings of City Hall in Conference Room 2 A. Members of the public can now attend meetings in person or virtually via the Zoom platform. Before we move on, I'd like to note that the AB 2,561 presentation is being pulled from tonight's agenda and will be presented to the city council on June 3. Now, please join me for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge the allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, and And they're all.

I've got stared on. Thank you. Well, let's get started. Commissioner Cortez requested to participate in tonight's meeting via Zoom under AB 2,449, a Brown Act teleconferencing rules based on just cause provisions. Oh, there you are. With the baby. With the baby.

Yes. Hi, everyone. Hi.

Hi, Commissioner Cortez. Well, thank you for joining us. And You're welcome. That sweet little baby as well.

Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. I'm a little under the weather, but, so that's probably why I have my that's why I have my face mask on. I'm trying to keep him from getting sick, hopefully. Okay.

We're gonna do a roll call, but, since we don't know his name, we won't call him.

Is Enzo, by the way.

So, Candy, let's do a roll call.

Good evening, commissioners. As I read your name, please respond with here. Chair Wright.

Here.

Commissioner Cortez. Here. Commissioner Gruelbnecht? Here. Commissioner Farr? Here. And Commissioner Wu? Thank you, Chair Wright. I turn it back to you.

Thank you, Candy. Now let's move to the next item on tonight's agenda. It is now time for public comments. The Personnel Commission welcomes your comments and requests that speakers present their remarks in a respectful manner. Speakers wishing to address the Personnel Commission should limit their comments to three minutes. Now I will ask Candy Jackson to moderate public comments portion of the meeting. At the end of public comments, we will address any questions that come up. Candy?

Thank you, chair Ray. If you wish to speak and you are using the Zoom application, please click the raise hand button and your name will be called. If you are dialing in, press 9 to raise your hand on the phone and press 6 to unmute yourself. Please mute all other audio before speaking. Your area code and last three digits of your phone number will be called when it is time for you to speak. If there is disruptive feedback or excessive noise during the meeting, your audio will be disabled. When called to speak, please begin by stating your name and limit your remarks to the treatment. To all right, we have no public comments at this time.

Thank you, Candy. Now let's move to the next item on the agenda. Drum roll, election of officers. Before I open the floor for nominations, Candy and I will go over the process. Candy?

Thank you, chair Ryan. Commissioners can make nominations from the floor. You will need to state your name and your nominee for the record. Chair Ryan will ask the nominee if they accept or define the nomination. This process will continue until we have a list of nominees or if we only have one.

Chair Wright will convene a vote via roll call to accept the list of nominees for the record, then we will proceed to the election process. If there is one nominee for the position, the nominee is offered up to two minutes to address the commission, then chair Wright will convene the voting process via roll call vote to appoint the nominee to the position. If there are multiple nominees for the position, the nominee in order of the nominations that were made is offered up to two minutes each to address the commission. Chair Wright will then open the floor to members to make a motion to appoint the nominee. Motions are accepted in order as received.

If the motion receives a second, he will convene the voting process to elect the nominee via roll call vote. This process will be repeated until a majority vote is reached to appoint one nominee as chair and one nominee as vice chair. Chair Wright, return it back to you. Thank you, Candy. Are there any public comments regarding this? No questions?

No comments? No public comments. Alright. The floor is now open for nominations. Okay.

I nominate commissioner Wright to to take another term.

I said I'm

not. We have legal here for this one. Yes. There's I'll see somebody. The reason not to. Really?

So so what I I think going forward, and so what Vadim might not know is that we've made some adjustments to the appointed officials handbook in the city council. And so this is going to be prospectively going forward If chair Wright is nominated and wins the election for chair tonight, he will only be able to serve one term without being reelected, and he can't serve any more than two consecutive terms thereafter, it needs to rotate. And if there's no one who's willing to step up to take that role, then it will be bestowed upon the person with the most tenure, but not the last serving chair. And so the council made the ad hoc committee on boards and commissions made that recommendation because they wanted to see more commissioners have an opportunity to serve a hearing.

We just need more commissioners.

Right. That's true.

But we normally have booked up, what, seven?

I think so. Yeah.

Seven. And that's opening up, what, September?

That is correct. What's the word I'm looking for? Recruitment commissioners is happening right now. And so the city clerk's office is soliciting individuals to be part of this commission as well as others.

K.

Chair, yes. Your current service as chair is not to prohibit you from being appointed again. Alright.

Yes. Good job.

Yeah. Know. I'm so funny.

Well, you know, I do enjoy doing it. So I'm honored if you want me to do it, I'll continue to do it. It's a good example. Thank you. Thank you. I I try to lead by example, I'm flattered. I really am because I I love doing this. But I love being a part of this group, and I love, you know, working with everybody at Citi staff. So I will how do I accept that, Candy? I accept the nomination, and we vote on it?

We accept the nomination, and you can ask if there's any other nominations for chair.

Are there any other nominations for chair?

What can I say? Close the close the board.

Alright. Locations. Alright. Okay. So now do we vote on this before we do the nomination for vice chair? Correct?

Yeah. The name?

You could do them at the same time. I would go through the nomination process since you've already Okay. Elected all the nominations from chair. And then there would be a motion made for chair and vice chair. There would be a second for that motion. K. So we're vocal.

Alright. So Rainey Wright's been nominated as chair, but now we're gonna open nominations for vice chair.

I have a question, or maybe it's the wrong time. But who is the vice chair?

We don't have one. Yeah. Know. Yeah.

I don't we would like to have one.

Yeah. Our vice chair resigned because she moved out of the area. So would one of you ladies be comfortable in being nominated for vice chair? What does the vice chair do? If I'm not here, you just read script. You know? Right, Candy?

Alright. I know.

Yeah. Shit. You know? Are you picking up with that? Okay. Which one would like to be nominated? Okay. Alright. So we are going to nominate commissioner Gruel as, the vice chair. Do I have any other nominations for that? So no nominations. We have one nomination for commissioner Gruel for vice chair. So now the nomination process is now closed so we can vote.

Second?

You would need a motion.

We need a motion. I move that we do I have to do both?

A motion to appoint commissioner Wright as chair commissioner rule as my second class.

Yeah. But he said. Alright.

So a motion has been made Yeah. To nominate, Randy Wright as chair and commissioner Rule as vice chair. Do I have a second on that? Second. We got a second on it.

We'll do a roll call, please. Okay. A roll call vote, Andy. Thank you for being here.

Thanks. Anytime. Thank you. I will now move to a roll call vote. When I read your name, please respond with aye or no. Chair Ray.

Aye.

Commissioner Cortez. Aye. Commissioner Brule Neff? Aye. Commissioner Farr? Aye. Thank you. A motion was made by commissioner Farr and seconded by commissioner Brule Neff. The motion carries with four ayes.

Now we're gonna move on to action items. Thank you. Thank you, and welcome as the vice chair. Thank you, commissioner Martin. And thank you, commissioner Cortez. Alright. Let's move on to action item action items. Just a reminder to the commissioners that staff will begin by presenting the agenda item. Once the presentation is complete, commissioners who have questions or comments on the item, please raise your hand. I will then call on the commissioners.

Let's get started with our only action item this evening, which is item one. This item is a public hearing item to review and recommend to counsel adoption of revised salary plan for fiscal year 2026. Presenting this item is Valeria Cesaris, human resources analyst.

Thank you. Good evening, commissioners. My name is Valeria Casares, and I'm in city of Hayward. And today, I'll be presenting the revisions to the fiscal year 2026. So Okay. Next slide. So the first revisions to the salary plan are cost of living adjustments. So pursuant to the negotiated terms between the MOUs, between the HPOA, s SEIU, level 21, and HAM. Hola adjustments will be applied to all represented classifications affected 06/30/2025. Increases are listed on this table above.

So that's 5.5% for HPOA and 4% for SCIU local twenty one and Haiti. Additionally, a 4% COLA adjustment will be applied to all unrepresented nonexecutive classifications effective 06/30/2025 as well. These scheduled COLA increases were previously negotiated by council last September and are included in the fiscal year 2026 proposed operating budgets. There is no additional fiscal impact for these. And then finally, we have pursuant to section a of DHPOA MOU police lieutenant will receive an additional salary adjustment of 1.25%, and that is also effective 06/30/2025.

Their total increase will be 6.75%. And just like the COLA increases, this is also included in the fiscal year 2026 proposed budget. There's no additional fiscal impact for 2026. That concludes my presentation, and I will turn it over to the commission for any questions.

Thank you. Valeria. Excuse me. Commissioner. I mean. What's your title? Analyst. Oh, analyst. Sorry. Questions from the commissioners? I have a few. Go for it. No. You go. Commissioner Park, please.

Well, thank you for the presentation of the charge. I was just wondering because you said this is this will negotiate with the various unions, and it's really not a COLA. It's a it's a it's a a pay raise because the COLA is normally based on the consumer price index. Here in the Bay Area was 2.89.

Exactly right.

And so I didn't seem to negotiate, which is great. I just think it was a little misleading to call it COLAs. But I was also wondering about the underclassifications. Who are those, and why are they getting the same pay increase as the that were negotiated with the units.

So our unrepresented employees consist of our HR employees, our city attorney staff employees, several of our exec well, all of our executive team members, deputy directors of departments, and individuals that are in confidential positions who are not a part of the union are individuals that are part of the unrepresented resolution. And why they get the same is generally what the city has done is they follow HAY, which is the Hayward Management Employees Association. And so they do similar work, and so therefore, what we negotiate generally with Hague, we follow suit and provide that to our unrepresentative ways. We feel that it is important to make sure that all employees are compensated fairly and trying to say that they're unrepresented, therefore, we don't have to pay them as much is not necessarily a mispernentous.

You also have negotiated, contracts, like, with the police union that is above that so that it seems I mean, if the if it's fairly, it seems like it should be across the board. And so I'm I'm having a little bit of

But we do we do negotiate individually with each of our unions, and there are some provisions within our union contracts with our pub public safety employees that require us to keep them within the top four of the market versus with other employees who are expected to to be brought to the midpoint of the market. So those are other negotiated items within a public safety contract like our BOA and our 19 o nine firefighters.

Thank you. Commissioner Parr, I am in alignment. Right now, the cost of living is about 2.89 in the Bay Area. San Francisco and I and I I agree with commissioner Parr. Using the term COLA is totally not appropriate for this because this is not COLA. These are increases negotiated by the union. San Francisco does it. They lock them in for three years. And we're we're doing this every year. Is that correct?

Yes. So they received an adjustment last July, this July, and the next

Yeah. Why why don't we do this and and have, like, maybe two or three year agreements like other cities have? Why are we doing it every year?

We do actually have multiple year agreements, and so these are items that are negotiated in either three, four, and sometimes five year contracts, but we bring it forward each time to be ratified. But all four years or all three years of what we typically here have called COLA adjustments have been negotiated for contract.

But see the COLA is from the general public, this is very misleading because the general public as we represent, as commission part, we see that the cost of living what it is, and they look at this goal, why is Hayward doing this? San Francisco's just gave their staff, I think it was 2.6 or 2.8%. And so this is a little misleading, and I know it's within the city budget. But do we know right now what the city of Hayward's budget deficit is?

Yes. That's $12,600,000. Another thing that I wanted to bring up was the discussion of how we use COLA's cost of living. I know I understand it's generally sometimes tied to consumer price index, and it also can be negotiated, which we do negotiate with our collective bargaining units. We also like to make sure that they were keeping them in pace with the market.

And so in bringing them to market, we generally do market surveys, and our market is our close peer proximity jurisdictions. And when we know that those peers are generally giving an average of threes, fours, and fives to their collective bargaining units, we're hoping to keep pace with that market. And so this cost of living is not simply just tied to the consumer price index. We are trying to pay the market cost of labor in our market as it's been defined by our close for years.

Understood. When when do you have when the city negotiates with these unions, and I think I've mentioned this in other meetings, is do we ever just present them to say, here's the budget, this is what we have, there is no more? And sometimes I don't feel the city's aggressive enough in pushing back. And I'm not anti union, but I know the union represents their desk interest versus how much money you got to pay. They're gonna negotiate what's in the best interest. And so then I really don't feel the city of Hayward is aggressive enough in pushing back respectfully by just being very transparent saying, this is what we have in the budget. This is what we can afford. That's it.

I think you're absolutely correct. And I think that the sentiment that you have shared is one that is being shared now with the council and also individuals who would be responsible for negotiating future collective bargaining agreements. Looking back, we had not necessarily had those budgetary cons consonants and considerations, but we absolutely had to change the way that we do bargaining. Something that director Fry had initiated before her departure was a consulting engagement for a compensation philosophy for the city, which this will be a part of. That work is not complete, but we do hear your concerns. We do share your concerns, and it intends to actually do something different going

Question would be that coming from a union background, we negotiate contracts for three to five years, and every year reflects the COLA and more increases. So if we're gonna be doing this this is a double COLA, actually, you know, for 2025. The the the COLA that we have point is 2.5, and we have 5.54%. So he said that will increase. And they're right. You know, this is misleading quality COLA. He said an increase. And but coming from the union background, the agreements already reflect all this. They looked into this. So anyone who is in the union should not be part of these increases, but people that are not represented.

So the these increases that you see in your staff report today reflect the amounts that are a part of the negotiated collective. They expired already? No. They have not. These these are a part of it. We just closed bargaining with all of our ancillary unions, and so now we have three to five year contracts with most of them. And these increases, negotiated increases, to use your your term, are a part of those contracts. And so this is what was already negotiated.

Okay. So they so next year, when this comes to the table, we should not

make about those increases. But

The ones that were negotiated for the next year. Yeah. But And part of the work that you all are doing in terms of PC reform is trying to understand what we should be bringing to you. Because, again, these are negotiated contracts that have already been approved. And right now, the way that the language of the personnel rules and the personnel commission work has been written require us to bring this to you, but it's already it's really more so to ratify because it's already been Already done. But the work that we need to do and I'll make an I'll make an announcement at the end of this meeting encouraging you all to join one of the committees. Yeah. We need to do some work to rewrite the ordinance of the personnel commission Gotcha. And to make sure that what we bring to you is God. Yeah.

And but I I take your your comments, and we can go back as a as a team and and think about how we explain these increases in a different way.

Yeah. Because you only see once they're being bored, right, more or less when we meet. So to be an efficient timetable for a month, then, you know, we should be more efficient about this. You know, a union contract should not be every year presented us, but, you know, this is what it is. We already boarded last year. We're just giving you this as a point of reference. To

have something to ask us, let's say, we've mentioned this before, to vote on it, which means nothing because it's already been ratified. Yeah. And it's gonna go to council. It's already done. The I really feel that maybe for the city to possibly change the language on that word COLA because as commissioner Gruel said, this is not a Cola at all.

You know? And and it's very misleading, especially the city being very transparent and this being on the city. But And the citizens are, you know, they looked at that and they go, well, you know, I work down the street, boy, my my call increase is only 2.5. 2.5, but yet, you know, look what the city's giving. And and actually, it's not. And then with when we are, meaning the city's negotiating with the different unions, who is the person that is sitting in on those negotiations? You know, the unions have their representation. Who at the city of Hayward is representing the city of Hayward?

It, you know, it depends. Based on the bargaining unit, there are different individuals that sit at the table. But, generally, we would have our legal representation, especially for our public safety units. And we would have the head of HR. We would have the deputy director of HR, somebody from employee relations or labor relations as a part of that meeting.

Generally, in terms of tables, I sit at them as the assistant city manager. And then for certain bargaining units like SCIU, we may have representatives from maintenance services and clerical that represent individuals that have the greatest number of SEIU members at that table. And then as it relates to IFTTP local twenty one, we would often have IT and also our development services because those are the departments that have those employees. They would understand deep operational aspects. We always have someone that understands the operational aspects of the work at the table.

We generally have our finance represented representative at the table, and we have the full flanks of the HR representatives at the table.

And we never, have to contract an outside resource to come to assist in negotiations.

In terms of our negotiating with our public safety partners, in particular, HPOA, we do have contracted services through Sloan Supply.

Yeah. We why is that services through most?

Why don't you at

the end? Look. There you go.

It is it is a best practice to separate city representatives and have a spokesperson that is a third party so they can represent the council's interest at that table. What What do we

pay for that? I do not have that information. Because from what I've raised, it's quite a bit of money that we pay on this one. Quite a bit. A lot.

It is a great service that is provided. They not only provide chief negotiating at the table, but they provide industry knowledge so they can look at what's happening at other marketing teams and help our strategy. Right. Okay.

Is that all is that all of the

unions or just the police?

Not every union. Most of the, larger unions will have will contract services for a chief negotiator.

So the city contracts? Correct. Yeah. That's what you're talking about.

Would we be able to, at a future meeting, be able to be presented to what the city pays, these independent contractors, to be part of these negotiations?

So what I would suggest is this is information you can possibly provide to your body via an email to follow-up, but would not necessarily be an merchandise item because it doesn't necessarily fall within the scope of this month. Yeah.

Okay. That'll be good.

Are you with that? Yeah.

I'm good enough for that.

Alright. So I was just you know? Sure. Because I think what the concern has been, you know, the term COLA, the percentages, cost of living, blah blah blah blah, not with no describes it, blah blah blah for me, would be that, you know, the city's in a $12,600,000 deficit. We're 31,600,000.0 falling short of the $46,000,000 target for the reserves.

We have 8 and a half million dollar loss in revenue, a decrease in sales tax. So the concern is all of this I know. And our biggest expense is salaries, you know. It's also knowing that the city's in a serious financial situation operating in the reserves that, you know, we're just wanting to watch out for taxpayers' monies because that's who we're representing. You know? And that's, I think, where the questions are, you know, coming from, is from the heart of people living here. Right, commissioner Martin?

I agree. And I also know that in the in the past when the city's been a financial bind, the unions have actually stepped up and not not any of these 4%. They've got they're actually they're not advocating for that in this situation, but they have given back to the city.

Interesting.

Yeah. I mean, you look historically, it's not that long ago.

Has during any of these negotiations, has that ever been brought up about the city, you know, being in a deficit and that, you know, possibly, you know, these it's too late now, but saying, you know, we can't go that high because, look, we're in deficit right now, but we can do this.

So all of these contracts were negotiated prior to our awareness of this most recent deficit. And so, you know, again, looking forward prospectively, it is the city's intent to share with our union partners where we are financially and what we can afford so that we stand with them in a place of bargaining and good faith around what the city can afford. Yeah. We need to

be more responsible about it. In what way? But if we can't, it increases. You know? It's like, we can't Right. For now.

Yeah. Because it's it's a little there's nothing getting done now. But I think going forward, all everything that we've had to contribute could be taken to, you know, to the bank and say, hey. You know, this is what we have in the bank, but we don't have the bank. You know? So any other questions from the commissioners regarding this? All very well merited questions. Yeah. Alright. Thank you. That was a spirited conversation and very enlightening. Thank you, assistance manager. Okay. The public is now invited to comment on this item. Please raise your hand if you wish to speak on this item. Andy?

No public comments. Okay.

Seeing that there's no question to public comment, may I have a motion to recommend to counsel the adoption of the revised salary plan for fiscal year 2026. I have a motion from commissioner Rule. Do I have a second?

I'll second.

Oh, thank oh. Thank you, Commissioner Cortez. Okay. We have a motion to recommend accounts of the adoption of salary plan. The motion made by Commissioner Gruel, seconded by Commissioner Cortez. Candy, please do a roll call vote.

Thank you. I will now move to a roll call vote. When I read your name, please just bind with I or no. Chair Wright.

I'm gonna abstain.

Commissioner Cortez? Aye.

Aye.

Commissioner Brule Neff? Aye. And commissioner, the theme does that carry with two eyes?

It does not. It does not.

It's With one extension. Right.

It says still without one extension.

So you have a quorum Quorum. Present of four. Mhmm. So you need three votes to carry this whole. So at this point, you can

Okay.

You can revote. Well, it's gotta be for council anyway. Yeah.

It would get to council with a essentially, no recommendation from Right. I think it was letting yourself.

Right.

Okay. So we're gonna move on.

Okay. So let me just add the last part then because you're not rebooting. Correct? Okay. No. Okay. Thank you. A motion to recommend to counsel the adoption of the revised salary plan for fiscal year 2026 was made by commissioner Rule Net, and seconded by commissioner Cortez. The motion failed with two ayes, one no, and one extension. I turn it back to you, Chair Rule.

Thank you, Kandi. Let's move on. Again, as mentioned earlier, the AB 2,561 presentation has been pulled from tonight's agenda and will be presented to city council on June 3. Let's move on to announcements by staff and the commission. Staff?

Good evening. I've been asked to make the presentation from staff. As you might already know, director of human resources, Britney Fry, has turned her resignation. And we'll be starting the next chapter of her career with the city of Newark as their HR director. We wish Britney the best of luck and thank her for all the positive collaboration, contributions, and enhancements that she brought to HR in the city.

In the meantime, myself, Virginia Youngblood, will be placed as the interim director of HR. City attorney Michael Lawson has been placed as the interim city manager. On last night, the city council took unanimous vote in closed session to place our city manager, Doctor. Ana Alvarez, on administrative leave. And so it is like I'm sorry.

On what? Administrative leave. It is very likely that our city attorney, Michael Lawson, will be acting as not an interim city manager, but an acting city manager for the duration of an executive search to find our permanent city manager. We are still looking for commission participation in the PC subcommittees. Details were sent to the commissioners on January 31 and also on March 28 earlier this year. And so please do participate in one of the subcommittees to help us reform the ER personnel commission.

Subcommittees are fun. You don't have to do it in person. You can do it You

can do it Zoom.

You can do it Zoom. Yep. Absolutely. I've done mine in person. I think I did one on Zoom. But yeah. So they they they'll make it very, very convenient for your schedule, whatever you're comfortable with. So I really highly recommend that the commissioner participate in one of the subcommittees because they're gonna be very beneficial to make all of this better. Any other announcements? Comment would be, I know the city invested quite a bit of finances into an extensive executive search for the current city manager.

So I would just hope that considering we talk money and everything else, that I feel that we have two very qualified assistant city managers that possibly one of them could be selected as our new city manager.

An additional announcement. Assistant city manager Dustin Clausen has also tendered his resignation and will be moving on to a wonderful new opportunity in San Leandro.

You're stealing our people. He's be

a manager. He is going to be, I think, a deputy city manager at San Leandro.

He's a very.

You're just here all by yourself now.

For now.

Alright. Yeah. Any other any other Sure. Chair Bright,

if we could just come back to the salary plan just for a minute. The muni the municipal code puts as one of the responsibilities of this commission to approve, modify, or reject the salary plan to the city council. Right now, you have taken no action by your vote. Alright. You do have to take an action because the municipal Okay. Requires it. So Alright. You could alternatively so you've you've taken the the motion was to approve and that motion failed. Have to take a new motion. That motion would have to be made either to modify, reject, or however you want to frame that.

Happy to assist in that framing. But you need a recommendation to the city council, and now you don't have one.

Alright. We we don't have the power to modify anything.

I know that. Well, you you make a recommendation to the city council. Yes. So you may recommend to modify as you wish, but your duty under the municipal code is to make a recommendation to the city council.

Okay. Right now, by Instead of me abstaining, I should just say no. Alright. So then we'll take a vote on it again. Is that what you're saying?

Or we can make an even bigger update.

In the alternative, your motion could be to reject the Okay. Instead of to approve, your motion could be to reject. Alright. You will take that vote. And if then you have three votes, then that would be your recommendation to the city council. Alright. But there needs to be some kind of a

So you want a motion made to reject the existing

Into the settlement.

So we're gonna vote again. Okay. So And just to clarify,

I do not make your motion to wait. I'm happy to help you word that motion. There's been on the floor so far, you've had a motion to approve. That motion Got two ayes, one abstention, and one no, and therefore, that motion failed. Right. You have your options are to have a different motion on the floor, which could be to reject the current plan or update to the the plan, you could have a motion to modify it in whatever way you see fit, or you could do another motion to approve and see if anyone changes their mind to see if it passes. So those are your three options.

K. So we're gonna make a motion to either approve or reject. Alright. So does anyone wanna make a motion to approve or reject the existing salary plan. So moved. Okay. We have a motion by commissioner Gruel. Do we have a second?

That's That the the Sorry.

The the motion needs to be to approve or to not eject.

Yes. That's what I said.

So it's one or the other. It's a motion to reject or a motion to approve.

Oh, okay. Yeah. We both. Okay.

You're gonna make a motion to Reject. Reject Second. The approved salary plan. Do I have a second?

I second.

We have a second from commissioner Parr to

reject. The first motion?

Commissioner Grohl.

Okay.

And then commissioner Parr seconded.

Okay. So now I will move to a roll call vote. When I read your name, please respond aye or no. Chair Wright.

So the motion to reject.

Yes.

Aye.

Commissioner Cortez. Aye. Commissioner Brunette. Aye. Commissioner Park. Aye. Thank you. A motion to reject the Thank you. Recommendations to counsel. Is that correct? Yes. Okay. A motion to reject the recommendation to counsel the adoption of the revised salary plan for fiscal year 2026 was made by commissioner and seconded by commissioner. Motion carries with four Sorry. Yeah.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for clarifying it. Any other comments, announcements? Any any more commission? I didn't cut it. Your game is quite a bit tonight. You know? Alright. And we don't have our city council liaison here. The next report is from the director of human resources, Got you. You. Which we just had. And direct deputy director of Texcen, your turn. You're on.

No additional comments. Thank you very much. Okay. Thank you, deputy director Hefson. Any announcements from the commissioners? I have in mind. Tomorrow between two and four, Carmen's Barbecue, West A and Royal Street. It's car miss Carmen's 90 birthday. Okay. What what what She will be there.

And what they have done historically is the Hayward Police Department, they do a drive through. But if anyone's available, it's just a sweet, wonderful little celebration, and she will be there probably with a little tear on. And family and friends all have come by and bite in, have some barbecue or some Jamaican rum punch. But that's a milestone for her. I mean, it's '99, and the old girl still goes to her in a restaurant. You know? So it's a it's a and forty seven, forty eight years, I believe, they've been a landmark here in the city of Hayward.

You know? And really good barbecue.

Really good barbecue. You know? So that's the announcement from

That's tomorrow.

That's tomorrow. Anytime after 02:00 on West A And Royal Street. So I believe that's it, and we don't need to make a motion to adjourn. I believe we have everything. And thank you, Commissioner Cortez and the little baby. And it is 05:45PM, and we are gonna adjourn the meeting.

Thank you. Thank you, everyone.

Thank you.