Office Of The City Administrator - Regular Meeting

Thank you.

good morning and welcome to the Rules and Legislation Committee meeting on this Thursday July 9th the time is now 1031 and this meeting shall come to order before I call roll I would like to give instructions on how to submit a speaker card for items on this agenda if you're here in person and would like to submit a speaker card Please fill out a speaker card and turn it into a clerk representative either before the item is called or ten minutes after this meeting began Again, this meeting started at 1031 so that time will be 1041 we will stop receiving in-person speaker cards Online speaker cards were due 24 hours before this meeting began So those will no longer be accepted at this time with that we will now call roll on roll for this meeting, one moment. Council Member Brown.

Present.

Council Member Fife.

Present.

Council Member Ramachandra. Present. And Chair Jenkins.

Present, good morning.

Good morning, we have four members present. Before I go to the first item, do you have any announcements, Council President Jenkins?

Yes, we are calling a special meeting the 13th at 10.30, special meeting of the city council.

Thank you so much for that, so noted. We will now move the time.

10.30 a.m.

Thank you.

Also, we will be canceling July 23rd rules. 28th, no.

23rd, no.

23rd. Let me on camera looking crazy.

Thank you for that, Council President. She is just so renoting, restating that you have called a special meeting on July Monday, July 13th at 1030 a.m., as well as canceling July 23rd rules. Correct. Thank you so much. With that, we will now move to the first item. Item number one is approval of the draft minutes for the committee meeting on May 28th, June 18th and June 25th, 2026. I have one speaker for this item.

Move approval.

Let's go to the public speaker.

Thank you so much. I have Blair Beekman. If you would like to speak to this item, Blair, please raise your hand in the queue so we can unmute you and give you the opportunity to make your comments. You've been unmuted, you may begin.

Hi, Blair Beekman. I signed up for this item. I think I'm going to pass this time, and good luck for meeting today. Thank you.

Thank you so much for your comments. There was a motion by Council Member Brown, seconded by Council Member Fife to approve Item 1, the committee meeting minutes for May 28th, June 18th, and June 25th. On that, on roll, Council Member Brown?

Aye.

Fife? Aye. Councilmember Ramachandran? Aye. And Chair Jenkins? Aye. Item number one is approved with four ayes. Thank you for that. Moving to item number two. Item number two is the determination of scheduling of outstanding committee items, which is your pending list for rules. And I have two speakers.

Anything from the administration?

No changes at this point.

Thank you, let's go to our public speakers.

Thank you so much for that. I have Ms. Assata Olaballa and Blair Beekman for item number two, your pending list. And it looks like Ms. Assata is passing on that. Blair Beekman, I see you in the queue. You may unmute yourself to begin your time.

Blair Beekman, also passing, thank you.

Thank you so much. Need a motion for item number two.

Move the pending list.

Second.

And that was a motion by Council Member Brown, seconded by Council Member Ramachandran to approve item two as is on roll. Council Member Brown? Aye. Bife? Aye. Ramachandran?

Aye.

And Council Member Jenkins? Aye. Item number two is approved as is with four ayes. That now takes us to item three, new scheduling. Starting with item 3.1, which I believe there will be a title change right into record. Welcome.

Thank you. Good morning. Ashley Cannett, Director of Economic and Workforce Development. Our Rule 24 justification is that we need to bypass committee because we just came to terms with OAC yesterday, and we need to accommodate two city council meetings before recess to enable a potential sale as early as September. The revised title is as follows. An ordinance, number one, authorizing the city administrator to amend the purchase and sale agreement of the city of Oakland's undivided 50% interest in the Coliseum complex located at 7000 Coliseum Way, Oakland, California, to allow the simultaneous sale of the arena parcel for the lump sum payment of $50 million. and the stadium parcel for $60 million with seller financing from the city crediting the $5 million deposit held by the city prior to the sale. Number two, authorizing the city administrator to negotiate and execute an agreement pursuant to which the buyers agree to pay to the city 6% of the annual gross ticket sales for any event at the arena parcel and the stadium parcel less applicable taxes. Number three, Amending ordinance number 13801 CMS, conditioning the sale to require development of onsite affordable housing and other benefits to solely the sale of the city's interest in the stadium parcel. Number four, authorizing the city administrator to facilitate closing prior to December 31st, 2026, by redirecting to the buyer of the stadium parcel a portion of the pro rata share of the city's annual subsidy of the stadium parcel, based on a per day amount of $16,438.36, limited to the period between the stadium parcel closing and December 31st, 2026. And number five, adopting California Environmental Quality Act findings, thank you.

thank you so much for that title change being read into record and just noting that this item as it shows in the scheduling july 14th this actually will be going to the july 13th special city council meeting at 10 30 that was just called by council president And we will now move to item number 3.2. It is a title change and I will read in the new title. A new title is a resolution authorizing the city administrator to amend the professional services contract With Alta planning plus design for 7th Street Connection project by increasing the contract amount by 747 747 thousand two hundred and eighty eight dollars for the total contract not to exceed three million nine hundred fifty five thousand four hundred and four dollars extending the contract expiration date to December 31st 2030 waving to the extent required further advertising competitive bidding or competitive selection requirements under the OMC sections and adopting CEQA findings. This item is being requested to be scheduled for the July 14th public works and transportation committee and this will this has an urgency finding so i will read that into record which is staff staff needs council's resolution before the summer recess so that staff may move forward with project design and meet the federal funding milestones at the end of the year we will now move to item 3.3 3.3 is also a title change but only the second piece of legislation is the uh has a change in title i will read the first part in it consists of two pieces of legislation one a resolution authorizing the city administrator to remove delinquent city of oakland code enforcement liens and unlean fees cost assessments and civil penalties on certain tax defaulted properties for a period of four years to facilitate the development of these properties into affordable housing via Alameda County Chapter 8 tax sale program and limiting the aggregate amount of the liens removed pursuant to this authorization to nominally value the not to exceed $10 million and acknowledging the transmutation of these code enforcement liens into um propagated chapter eight sale proceeds that will be paid to the city of oakland and two i will read in the new title a resolution authorizing the city administrator to remove delinquent city of oakland vacant property tax liens on certain tax defaulted properties for a period of four years for facilitate to facilitate the development of these properties and affordable housing via Alameda County Chapter 8 tax sales program, acknowledging the transmutation of these vacant property tax liens into prorated Chapter 8 sales proceeds that will be paid to the City of Oakland and limiting the aggregate amount of the liens removed pursuant to this authorization. to nominal value not to exceed $10 million. And this is requested for the July 14th Community Economic Development Committee agenda. This will need an urgency finding if staff will be present to read that into record.

Good morning. Caleb Smith for the City of Oakland Housing Community Development Department. The urgency finding for this item is as follows. This item is urgent as the Alameda County Board of Supervisors is expected to approve a Chapter 8 tax sale at the July 14th meeting. The City Council will therefore need to authorize the release of uncollectible liens on Chapter 8 tax sale properties by the end of July to avoid possible disruptions to the Chapter 8 tax sale of 8215 MacArthur Boulevard. Thank you.

thank you so much for that and urgency finding we will now move on to item 3.4 which has a title change again this is two pieces of legislation but the title change is only at the second piece so I will read the first part and then the new titles the second piece following that the first resolution is authorizing the forgiveness of a city loan to at athena mt of up to two million dollars in outstanding principal plus all accrued and unpaid interest and fees and a city revolving lien of credit to savage after with a final outstanding balance of $1,500,000 plus accrued and unpaid interest and fees for the Foothill Seminary Point retail project, each contingent upon the sale of the transfer of the project to a qualified purchaser and making appropriate CEQA findings. And two, I will read in the new piece of legislation, an ordinance, the new title of the second piece of legislation, an ordinance authorizing the forgiveness of outstanding and future rent balance in the amount up to $40,000 for scenario point LLC pursuant to ground lease with the city contingent on the sale or transfer of the leasehold interest in the property to a qualified purchaser and making CEQA findings. This item is being scheduled for the July 14th Community and Economic Development Committee agenda, and this too needs an urgency finding.

Hi, good morning. My name is Teresa Lopez. I am with the Public-Private Development Division in Economic Workforce Development. And the urgency finding is that we want to correct the ordinance title so that it can be heard on the July 14th CD Committee and July 21st CD Committee. And the reason we want this to be heard before the break is that the property is in forbearance. The lender extended it to April 21st. If we wait till September, it will extend the time period that developer will be able to sell the property. He cannot sell it without authorization to forgive the loan, the debt, the loan and the rent on the property because it's over leveraged and that's why we're pursuing this resolution and ordinance.

Thank you.

Thank you for that urgency fine you stated on the record. We're now moving to item 3.5 3.5 is a resolution in support of assembly bill 1588 vehicles side show enhancements and this is being requested to be scheduled for July 21st 2026 City Council agenda on consent

Is there a world 24 and I just want to make a statement for the council members counts rules has governance over these legislations and so we're going to be hearing them substantively and rules from here on out but we'll let these two go so come on up with the world 24.

Good morning Bridget Ruiz for Vezo staff for council member Charlene Wong up until today these resolutions have typically gone from rules straight to the Council So noted we will now move to item three point eight

Item 3.6, adopt the following pieces of legislation. One, a resolution conditionally approving a final map for the track number 8697 located at 8750 Mountain Boulevard for a 35 lot subdivision within parcel nine of the track 8320 at part of the property owned by oak knoll venture acquisitions llc and adopting sequa findings and two a resolution conditionally approving a final map for track number 8698 located at 8750 mountain boulevard for a 24-lot subdivision within parcel 10 of the of track 8320 at part of the property owned by the okno venture acquisition loc and adopting sequel findings and this item is being requested to be scheduled for the july 21st city council agenda on consent and i see staff for the rule 24.

Good morning, Reginald Basile, right-of-way division manager, OakDOT. This item concerns the approval of final maps for two parcels at Oak Knoll, the largest real estate development project in the city. And importantly, these two parcels, 9 and 10, will bring online some 54 units of single-family housing. The map approval for these two parcels has been delayed on the city side for several months. We need urgent action to demonstrate to residents of the city of Oakland and our real estate partners that we're committed to being good regulators and good partners in bringing new housing units online. Final urgency item is that the chief engineer has determined that the final maps are consistent with the tentative maps previously approved. We've collected some $13 million in guarantees for the public infrastructure work that will be needed for these parcels. And the council approval in this issue, as is always the case for final maps, is ministerial, so we won't be quashing debate on these matters.

Thank you.

Thank you for stating that rule 24 on the record. Now moving to item 3.7. Adopt a resolution authorizing the city administrator to enter into a governance MOU with the Bay Area Urban Area Security Initiative approval authority, which will provide overall governance of the UASI grant program as well as other grant programs under jurisdiction of the approval authority across the Bay Area regional government. effective December 1st, 2025 through November 30th, 2030. And this item is being requested to be scheduled for the July 21st City Council agenda on consent. There is a Rule 24. I will read that into record. The Bay Area UASI operates on a federal Homeland Security grant funding cycle with established deadlines for execution of participating jurisdiction agreements, delaying the introduction introduced by the full committee process risks jeopardizing Oakland's eligibility to receive or expand UASI allocated funds within the current program year, potentially resulting in forfeiture of federal dollars already designated for Oakland. Moving to item 3.8, it is a resolution confirming the appointment of Terry Buxton as a member of the Cannabis Regulatory Commission. This item is being requested to be scheduled for July 21st. City Council agenda on consent. The rule 24 is due to the recent quorum challenges experienced by the Cannabis Regulatory Commission. item 3.8 is a resolution confirming the mayor's appointment of a 3.9 thank you item 3.9 a resolution confirming the mayor's appointment of Paige Tomlin as a member of the head start advisory board this item is being requested to be scheduled for July 21st since city of council agenda on consent the rule 24 is to fill the recent vacancy on head start advisory board Item 3.10 is a resolution confirming the reappointment of Edgar Rodriguez-Ramirez, Priya Jagannathan, and Ricky Jackson, and members of the Children's Initiative Citizens Oversight Commission. This item is being requested to be scheduled for July 21st, 2026 City Council Agenda on Consent. The rule 24 is to ensure continuation, continuance of quorum for Children's Initiative Citizens Oversight Commission. Item 3.11 is a resolution confirming the mayor's appointment of Nia Jacobs to the Cultural Affairs Commission. This item is being requested to be scheduled for July 21st, 2026 City Council Agenda on Consent. The rule 24 is to fill the current vacancy on the Cultural Affairs Commission to ensure continuations Item 3.12 is a resolution confirming the mayor's appointment of Braxton, Gunter, and Ronald Busby to the Privacy Advisory Commission. This is being requested to be scheduled for the July 21st. City Council agenda on consent. Item 3.13 is a resolution in support of SB 954, a bill changing the Non-Housing California Environmental Quality Act exemption. This item is being requested to be scheduled for the July 21st City Council Agenda on Consent, and we will need staff to read in Rule 24 for this item. Is Council Member Wong's staff present to state Rule 24 for the record?

Yes, good morning. Bridget Ruiz-Ravezzo, staff member for Councilmember Wong. These items, once again, typically go from rules to straight to council.

And so on this item, I would like the opportunity to be added as a co-sponsor, and then also I know that sending this straight to council would be beneficial to ensure that the city's support is made known prior to the final vote on this item in the Senate.

Okay, great, thank you. Thank you for that. Rule 24 and noting Council Member Brown was added as a co-sponsor. Moving to item 314, it is an ordinance amending the reenacting ordinance number 13561 for the Cultural Affairs Commission to enable a quorum with the majority of the appointed members establishing an authority to create standing committees. allowing the Commission to appoint the chairperson and make other clarifying edits this item is being requested to be scheduled for the July 21st City Council agenda on consent I will read in the rule 24 staff requests that this item proceed directly to the full City Council in lieu of consideration by the life enrichment committee due to the time sensitive nature of the proposed ordinance Item 3.15, it is two pieces of legislation. I will read in the first piece of legislation, which is a resolution accepting the police commission selection panel slate of Ricardo Garcia-Costa and Johnny Harrison to serve on the Oakland Police Commission, or a resolution rejecting the police commission's selection panel slate of Ricardo Garcia-Costa Garcia Acosta and Johnny Harrison to serve on the Oakland Police Commission this item is being requested to be scheduled for July 21st City Council agenda on non-consent Moving to item 3.16, which is receive the 2526 informational consolidation annual performance and evaluation report for community development block grant, home investments partnership, emergency solutions grant, and housing opportunities for persons with AIDS. This is being requested to be scheduled for the September 15th city council agenda as a public hearing. The rule 24 for this item is that the caper is due to HUD by September 28th, 2026. Now moving to item 3.17, a resolution authorizing the city administrator or designee to enter into a cooperative contract agreement with governmentjobs.com, Inc., DBA, NeoGov, for human resource information systems, subscription services for a two-year period starting July 1st, 2026. through June 30 of 2028 in the amount not to exceed $1,077,547.98 and waiving the competitive multi-step solicitation process and the local small business enterprise requirements. This item is being requested to be scheduled for September 22nd. Finance and Management Committee, and that concludes all of your new scheduling at this time. I do have several speakers for this item.

Council member?

Yes, so I also have a new scheduling item. I emailed the clerks and so I'll just read the title. A resolution authorizing reimbursement for Council President Kevin Jenkins and Council Members Rowena Brown and Ken Houston, travel costs to Washington D.C. for attendance at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundations annual legislative conference from September 16th through the 20th and that is to go to the Tuesday, July 21st meeting.

Let's go to the public speakers.

As I call your name, please approach the podium in any order and state your name for the record. If you are participating via Zoom, please raise your hand so I can easily identify you. We'll take those who are in person first, followed by those who signed up for Zoom. And the speakers are Ms. Asada Olaballa, Blair Beekman, both signed up for three items, as well as, sorry, John Jones III, and Zach, who also signed up for three items. In any order, if you signed up to speak under item three, and you're here in chambers in person, please approach the podium, we will take those.

I just want to remind our public speakers we have all our interns in here and I want to set a wonderful example for all of our interns.

John Jones III for the record. Good morning through the chair. I want to urge you all to move the item related to 3.1, Coliseum, forward to full council. And I'm excited about this because the sheer and utter complexity that was involved in this deal that I know a lot of people are not aware of. A lot of people are not aware that real estate transactions occur in closed session, and when that happens, it opens the door for people to speculate. There's been rampant and just gross speculation that I'm not going to even get into. But I'll say this real quickly. It's important for people to understand that it was already tough. Collison was unique because it was under the authority of two distinct municipalities. That happens nowhere else in this country. But this deal actually has six entities, right? You got ASCG, you have the A's, you have Communities for a Better Environment. So to do this bollison act to meet the needs of everyone involved was like really a miracle. So I just want to thank everyone, and I want to thank Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan, because under her leadership with the Coliseum specifically.

Thank you for your comments. Next speaker.

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Thank you for your comments. Your time has ended. Thank you so much.

Thank you, sir.

So I wanna know why y'all going to Washington, D.C.? Are you going to Washington, D.C. to talk about reparations that's not happening for black people? Are you going to be talking about the fact that we got 10% unemployment, 70% of the homeless? Are you going to be talking about the fact that I can't get you to have a discussion on gentrification in this chamber or nowhere in this city? Or have a discussion on the fact that we haven't had sanctuary city intervention impact, negative impact? What in the hell y'all gonna talk about? Because I come to every meeting talking about black people and you just sit there and look at me. So I object to y'all going to Washington, D.C. Now let's talk about this beautiful black man, Omar Farmer on 3.515. Now it's the probability, you didn't go through the process you usually go through where y'all interview the people in this room. But you're gonna pass it since Ricardo wasn't the person you were attacking. You're gonna approve Ricardo now, the Spanish guy, but the black man is off. 45 people applied for this job of being on the commission. Only 10, the members of the commission, by the way, the selection panel, you changed that. It was your majority black selection panel, now it's majority white. So I guess you're comfortable with white people selecting these people. So of the candidates, they had to select 10. Nobody selected Omar Farmer for their top 10. Omar Farmer has a history of involvement that cannot be disputed. a history working with veterans, he still does that, working with the board commission security issue, working on Measure Z, head chair of Measure Z, working on many, many ad hoc committees, four ad hoc committees on the police commission. Oh, but he don't deserve to be back on there, that black man don't deserve it. but you got another black man that's gonna come on there. Oh, what has he done? He's on the business improvement association for Temasell, okay? What is it that you allow one woman to come in here and destroy the character and integrity of Omar Farmer and you proceed to uplift it, this black man? Then you go through a process of the police commission where we don't know who was selected. You selected the police commission today. The last time we had the police commission selection process, the public got to see all of the candidates. Now you've done it in secret. I don't know who else was involved. But we had a chance to hear all of those candidates. Probably a black man was left out and you're satisfied with who you got. Do not go to Washington, D.C. All you're doing is going there and acting like you're doing something for black people.

Thank you so much for your comments, Ms. Asada. Your time has ended. We will now go to those who signed up online. Mr. Beekman, please unmute yourself. You may begin.

Hi, thank you, Blair Beekman. Thanks for the public comment. I have three items set up, 3.7, 3.12, 3.15, or a few. Thanks for the words of the first public commenter that spoke on all the work that is being done to work on the future of the Coliseum. And thank you for the previous work of Rebecca Kaplan that you mentioned. From the previous work of our good councilpersons, good luck to our current councilpersons and how they can navigate working with the county. It was a lot of work previously and hopefully maybe this time around a good mediation process can be taking place. Good luck in your efforts. You can be working council with the new county, well, with the county at this time in your new rules. I wanted to mention with item, the Bayuasi. Oh, okay.

Yeah.

Okay. Okay.

I wanted to mention with the Feiyuwasi issues that I'm trying to learn. I came here back last year, December through March, just in a panic that Feiyuwasi is going through some serious, serious changes. They are still, but it may be not so bad as I first thought. There may be parts of a democratic process that will continue, although they are consolidating their process, it seems like. How they do that openly and clearly, I hope you can still work with them on and ask that of them and demand that of them. Good luck in the efforts in working with Bayawaski. And that, man, it is a place that is a public meeting place, and the community should really go to their meetings and see what their contribution is to our local national security and law enforcement priorities. I mean, if you want to have a voice in that, it's important to attend those meetings and see what they do. And on to items 3.15. It sounds like you are possibly going to bring back one of the previous police commissioners. Thank you if you can be doing that. That is a pretty amazing thought to me, if you can be, because he really deserves it. And thank you that you're trying to mediate a new future in Oakland that invites all parts, and you're listening to that. And thank you. I can't thank you enough for doing that. Thank you. So good luck to the meeting that the previous commissioner can be returned to his place, if that's what I heard correctly earlier. And then there was one more item on a person to the PAC to be appointed. Good luck that we can talk about Locke more clearly. We can talk about ideas of peace, not war, actually, and that's an interesting concept for our future. Good luck how we can work towards that. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments. That concludes our speakers for this item.

Thank you so much to everybody that came out and spoke, noting 3.1, title change, 3.2, urgency finding, 3.3, urgency finding, 3.4, urgency finding and a title change, 3.5, rule 24, 3.6, rule 24, 3.13, was it rule 24? And a diocese request by Council Member Brown to go to the July 21st on consent. With that, I'll entertain a motion. That's amended. So moved.

Second.

Thank you, and that was a motion by Council Member Brown, seconded by Council Member Ramachandran to approve item three as amended. On roll, Council Member Brown.

Aye.

Council Member Fife. Aye. Ramachandran. Aye. Chair Jenkins. Aye. Item number three is approved as amended with four ayes. That now takes us to item four. Item number four is review of the draft agenda's pending list city council and committee meetings. We have here your July 14th committees, July 16th rules, your pending list, and your July 21st council and July 23rd rules and legislation committee agenda.

Thank you to the administration. Any changes? Administration has no changes at this time. Okay, then we will move to public comment.

Thank you. As I call your name, please approach the podium in any order. And again, if you are participating via Zoom, please raise your hand. I have Ms. Asada Olabala, Zach, and Blair Beekman in any order. Good morning, Ms. Asada.

First, you need to report on the overpayment of city employees. When are you going to get that money back? You committed $700,000 for the remodeling of the Roots soccer. You weren't supposed to pay the full $700,000. Alameda and Berkeley, the city of Berkeley was supposed to make a contribution, but what the report should reflect, what do we gain in terms of finances as a result of committing to the World Cup? you have eighty one thousand dollars that was spent by the children's initiative to remove portables from skyline high school that was on the agenda last week at the school board meeting that money is supposed to be used for early childhood development you need to find out how that happened You need to have a report on sanctuary cities and how it impacts the lives of jobs and housings of African Americans. You need to have a report on gentrification, how it impacts the lives of African Americans. You need to have a report on the city administrator spending up to $250,000. The last report was done in 2023. That's supposed to be an annual report. It has not happened, and it is scheduled to happen in 2027. You need to have a report on Costco environmental status. That's serious. You need to have a report on your so-called reparations that everybody's talking about, but you have never taken a position creating an ordinance or resolutions related to reparations. You need to have a report on the parking violation, I'm sorry, the parking validation that's allowed for anyone that uses the City Ice Center. You need to have a report on the schools of arts use of that land, when we gonna get that land back so we can use it for housing. You need to have a report on the waiting list of 5,000 people who are waiting to get housing according to the Oakland Housing Authority. You need to have a report on the Howard Durant Library funding, when that funding's gonna.

Thank you for your comments, Ms. Assata. Next speaker.

So my understanding of this is that I believe with the approval, I do understand. I have a little bit of issue with the Public Works and Transportation Committee. Our DES rule list will not be being sent into any of the circuits based on how you guys see writing, based on a bond ETF. So how the BART bonds are seen. When I have to hack your guys' systems in nine different languages to validate the wonderment cryptocurrency, knowing that nonprofits don't offer three one-day passes as a way in any of the nonprofits, and it's an executive order. It's no question asked in view of Interpol. How that is wondered, pre and post the door assignment to ETF standards, yes, there is an issue. When you guys ask that that is wondered in these types of forms, being able to polynomial, binomial walk and show you as a grant of the city and the county is a humongous issue based on the view of federal legislation to the two-year treasury note. When this is wondered a little bit, public safety is a requestment. I do believe personally it should be 28 to 34. Ask it as a compromise at 16 to 27 and say you don't understand community fundraising, SBA. There is a police credit union in this community and why the F you don't use it compared to paying the highest federal consultant fees in the country is fucking effing bullshit. Excuse my language. When this is wondered to the Port Liaison Committee draft, I do have a little bit issue with knowing that they're going through it from the environmental QECD. I do have an issue with the housing. I believe it's absolutely bullshit, and I'm gonna say it again.

Sir, I request you to please mind your language.

Understood. The community and the county legislation office only says that there are 8,200 within the county that are homeless. We have 5,000 in just the city. That's it.

Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, Blair Beekman, please unmute yourself and you may begin.

Hi, Blair Beekman. On your upcoming committees this July, I think what you were starting to hint at in June, you're going to be addressing budget deficit issues a bit more, I think, I would guess. How we can have those conversations, I don't exactly know how you guys want to work that idea. You know, I've just been describing what San Diego has been going through. They have the second highest budget deficits for a city only to Oakland. And I've described that in Oakland, you guys have made a real important effort that you concentrate on social services first and then talk about the budget. San Diego has really been learning those lessons. And I'm just interested now how exactly the programs you have to be considering for budget deficit issues that I think has been included in ideas such as how workers can take a pay cut in their uh health care and in their retirement plans um i've been trying to say that's a i don't think that's quite the right approach and they can take a small uh pay cut altogether you know like 50 bucks a month 600 bucks a year and that brings a budget savings of almost two million dollars if you have a staff of uh 2,500 3,000 workers so you know i'm i'm um You know, how do we navigate those things and have the conversation and make the connection that there is important deficit issues you guys do have to acknowledge and work on, and you guys have been doing it incredibly responsibly. Thank you. So good luck how you can be working on that and that we can do it well. And to quickly conclude, yeah, as I said before, Zach Unger wrote, tried to write outlines about working towards peace for our community future. It's an important concept that we're trying to understand. Good luck how we can be learning that we can create our policies.

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

Thank you. If there are no council member comments, we have, I apologize, District 7 office, please go ahead.

2026 there was an item that was presented in conjunction with another item that item was 5.5 titled encampment and payment management team operations and had a presentation that was not presented during city council meeting on july 7 2026 that would have answered questions from other council members council member houston would like to request this item to come back to next council meeting on july 21st 2026 we're asking for a rule 24 to bypass committee and go straight to council Due to the EAP going into effect on July 14th, 2026, it is important for the council members to have clarity on the cabinet management abatement team operations.

Thank you. So just for clarification.

So Madam City Clerk. Asha Reed, City Clerk and Clerk of the Council. So during that meeting, those two items were taken together. And I believe one of your colleagues said they were going to work with Council Member Houston to bring a different item back, possibly for action. But that item was already dispensed with.

And through the chair to the body just for clarity if you're trying to schedule an item that would be done under item three of this agenda which has already occurred. So we need to be brought back as a new scheduling item at this point.

Thank you. I will entertain a motion.

So moved. Second.

And that was a motion by Council Member Fife, seconded by Council Member Brown to approve item four as is. On roll, Council Member Brown.

Aye.

Council Member Fife. Aye. Council Member Ramachandran. Aye. And Chair Jenkins is excused. Item four is approved with three ayes, one excused. That now takes us to item number five. Item number five is receive an informational report from the city attorney office regarding the cases the city attorney's office has brought pursuant to the Oakland Municipal Code Chapter 1.10. I have four speakers for this item.

Thank you. To the city attorney's office.

Yes. Deputy City Attorney Sima Ropini is here to present the report. Thank you. Good morning, counsel.

here to present the informational report on the Civil Protection of the People of Oakland Ordinance, or we call it OMC 1.10 for short. For those of you who were on council in July 2023, you might remember this ordinance. And for those of you who were not on council at that time, this ordinance was passed unanimously by city council. And what it did was it gave the city attorney explicit authority to enforce all of the Oakland Municipal Code. Prior to this, the city attorney could enforce some but not all of Oakland's laws. And by enforce, I mean when one of our laws is violated, the city attorney can file a lawsuit, a civil lawsuit under the law. The ordinance also gave the city attorney authority to seek a range of meaningful remedies for the city and for Oakland residents, tenants, and workers, and others who are harmed by our laws being violated. Importantly, the ordinance was designed to promote equitable enforcement of our laws. Equity was built into the ordinance We had worked with the Department of Race and Equity to conduct a racial equity impact analysis but prior to passage and that was in the staff report and that's attached here as attachment B. The reason that we're here today is because the ordinance required the city attorney to collect data on lawsuits filed under the ordinance and to present a report to council within three years of passage and the report will be publicly available on our website. So we have this report that we put forward to the committee, and as the report says, the city attorney filed five lawsuits under the ordinance over the last three years, including lawsuits to protect the rights of Oakland tenants, workers, and residents. Two of the lawsuits are still pending. One was dismissed, one was settled, and one is mostly resolved, and the details of those lawsuits is in the report. The city attorney also included this ordinance in demand letters. We are often able to resolve issues short of filing a lawsuit. And overall, because OMC 1.10 has been useful for our office, we plan to continue using this tool, and we also have some next steps that are included in the report make our use of this tool more meaningful and robust. For example, we will be creating a plan to collect enforcement data more thoroughly and consistently across the teams that are using the ordinance in the office. We will follow the current cases through and collect demographic data on the outcomes and impacts of litigation. We will develop additional training for attorneys in our office about conducting an equity analysis when using OMC 1.10 and we will be consulting with DRE, the Department of Race and Equity in this process. We have consulted with them and they continue to be a good thought partner for us and I'm happy to answer any questions about the report.

Thank you, colleagues. Okay, I've not I will ask a couple of quick questions. I very much remember this being brought forward back in 2023 and glad to hear that your office had some success in utilizing it in a few cases. My first question is, so you mentioned that it's also been invoked in demand letters. What type of cases are those?

This is primarily used by the affirmative litigation division in our office. And the types of cases that we bring, there are a lot of housing cases. So cases where tenants complain to the city about their rights being violated by landlords. We also have used it in worker protection cases. cases where our minimum wage and paid sick leave and other worker protection laws are being violated and there are complaints to the city or to our office about that. We also have a fair number of public nuisance matters where there's a business that is engaging in conduct that's creating a public nuisance in Oakland. and residents are being harmed, and so we might include this, and this is actually a great tool to address public nuisances locally, so we have used this tool in some of our public nuisance matters. Those are some examples of the types of cases that our team has worked on. I mean, we work on a range of issues, but those are some of them.

That's great, and I understand, having written a lot of demand letters in my previous legal career, that these can be very impactful. And on that note, if members of the public have a complaint, obviously your office cannot take all of them, how does, for example, if there's a serious, there's a set of tenants that have a major issue and want to seek the city attorney's use of this OMC, how do they engage with your office and raise that?

Yeah, that's a great question. So we do get lots of complaints from the public and we have three units within the affirmative litigation division that you know we work together but we also have kind of different focus areas we have a housing justice initiative that's one of the units that focuses on tenant protection cases and so the members of the public can So there's also the neighborhood law law corps which is a team of like four to five attorneys that Will address complaints that come in I think that the contact information that we probably have on the website is for the neighborhood law corps because they're a little bit closer to the ground they can also so they can contact the neighborhood law corps if you look at the Oakland City Attorney's website and you find the neighborhood law court or the affirmative litigation division you should find there at least an email if not also a phone number so that's one way to contact our team and that's where a lot of direct complaints and inquiries come through is the neighborhood law core and sometimes they'll get rooted then to the housing justice initiative for example if it's a ten if it's like a large tenant protection case uh also we you know we hear from council members about complaints that have come to the city we hear from non-profits legal aid organizations um and also filing complaints with city departments. For example, the Department of Workplace and Employment Standards is sort of the first stop for worker rights violations. If you think you're not being paid minimum wage or that your rights are being violated in the workplace, you can file a complaint with the Department of Workplace and Employment Standards, and that information is on their website. We have worker protection attorneys on our team who work with that department. help them with resolving cases, filing lawsuits, et cetera. You can file complaints, tenants file complaints with our building code department all the time. And we also work with code to address some of those issues, especially when we're seeing a pattern in practice.

Okay, thank you. And I remember two and a half, three years ago asking this question, but if you can refresh and remember, how is 1.10 different from the powers that the affirmative litigation team already has?

So the city attorney already had the authority to enforce a number of Oakland laws, but not every single Oakland law. And so when this ordinance passed, it became, it gave the city attorney clear authority to enforce all of the Oakland municipal code. It also gave the city attorney meaningful remedies that were not available under every single Oakland law. So some laws say when the city attorney brings a lawsuit under this ordinance, the city attorney can seek penalties that will go to the city. Some of the ordinances had said the city attorney can seek for residents or workers or tenants who are harmed. Some ordinances didn't say that. So this OMC 1.10 provides a clear authority to seek a range of remedies that make our work meaningful, that can be a deterrent to actors that are repeatedly violating the law. and that allow the city to recoup money for the city as well as for people who are harmed and who might be owed back rent or who might be owed back wages and things like that.

Okay, thank you. We can move to public speakers.

Thank you. I apologize.

Does Councilmember Houston have a question or comment on this?

Not on this, but something else.

Okay, then we'll wait for this item to be dispensed. Thank you.

Thank you. As I call your name, please approach the podium. If you signed up via Zoom, please raise your hand so I can easily identify you. I have Ms. Asada Olabala, Derek Barnes, Blair Beekman, and Zach for item number five. In any order, please.

that I'm a full-time angry black woman. And like James Baldwin said, to be black and conscious in America, you have to be in a constant state of rage. And I agree with that. Now, what I take from this is the thing that made me first angry with the city attorney's office is when Desley Brooks had to sue the city attorney's office for not representing her appropriately with that Elaine Brown issue. I remember Janelle Harris when she sat on the police commission and it was fortunately represented that she was doing something that she wasn't happening related to the former police chief Fitzpatrick, city attorney's office did nothing. And Ms. Harris suffered a break in her, a misunderstanding of her character and integrity that has cost her dearly. I remember the Bay case that the city attorney on many occasions has done nothing to bring resolve to the Bay case where police officers killed the Bay brothers. I remember the police commission having to defend itself on several occasions because the city attorney's office did nothing. I have no respect for the city attorney's office, the way they handle Mr. Hazard on his number of the cases, how they avoid and do not do things appropriately. So I got issues with the city attorney's office, particularly when it relates to this case coming up with the $900,000 that y'all being sued for these trees, that fine. I wonder how the city attorney's office is going to handle that one. You're probably going to have to end up doing a settlement which is absolutely ridiculous you should intervene in any in the first place before this happened but the city's attorney's office no respect for it thank you for your comments next speaker

In regards to this case, I wish to challenge an inter-appellate application. 14-55690, 18-6348, John Henke v. Santa Clara University. Patrick Bacchier v. California Victim and Compensation Government Claim Board, 14-17043. Neil Silver, VA, Higher Education Assistant Agency, 1615664. Anthony Cassius, State Bar of California, 21-15, or excuse me, 21-55900. And the view of Davis versus McDonoghue, Wooster v. the United States, Grafis v. Rodriguez. Our graphics Rodriguez v. Holder and Parker so the US Pork Association would be the United States I wish to fully move the application of the bond holding and the view of the Oakland promise and to contempt and Asked that it be an inner appellate review for great or gross blatant malice and intentional negligence Malice claim against the state of California a malice claim against the state or the city of Oakland and the county of Alameda for purposes of gross negligence Um, I am asking that the cases, um, Anthony Cassis of the State Board of California shows it to regulatory bond holdings tied to investment schemes, um, based on performance-based or consulting, as you see to shooting. Neal Servers shows it to bond liquidity and applications to it based on debt financing across multiple regions.

Patrick Bonner shows it Compensation based on intrinsic property the intrinsic property would be the short Thank you for your comments I will now move to zoom speakers if you've signed up to speak on item 5 Please raise your hand so I can easily identify you. I have Blair Beekman and Derek Barnes Blair you have been unmuted. You may unmute yourself and begin I

Hi, good luck in the continuing practices of equity with this item, how we can do that better as a city and a community. It takes a lot to understand statistics and statistics in working towards equity. Good luck what you can be doing, what we can all be doing together, what this item can help contribute to our good future. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments. And Derek Barnes. If you wish to speak as you signed up for item five, you are unmuted, you may begin.

Madam Clerk, no comments from me. I sent a note earlier this morning to remove me from the speaker queue. Thank you, though, bye-bye.

Thank you. That concludes your speakers for this item.

Okay, thank you. I will entertain a motion.

I'll make the motion. Are we moving the item to the full council?

So under your council rules, you of course have the authority to receive it here or move it to the full council. I think the recommendation from our office is that this body can receive it in committee.

Okay, excellent. I'll make that motion to receive and file in committee. Second.

And that was a motion by Council Member Brown, seconded by Council Member Fife to receive and file item number five in committee on roll. Council Member Brown?

Aye.

Fife? Aye. Councilmember Ramachandran. Aye. And Chair Jenkins is excused. This item was received and filed in committee with three ayes and one excuse. We will now move to open forum. I have Ms. Assata Olaballa, Derek Barnes, Blair Beekman, and Zach.

To show you how ridiculous the selection panel issue is, of the 45 candidates that applied, One of the 10 that went through was Doug Wong, the person that y'all rejected two times. Out of the 45 candidates, Doug Wong made it to the top 10. That shows you how credible this process is. Now let me go back to the Sanctuary City thing. Sanctuary City, the problem with it for me, It's not having people come here illegally or legally. It's once they get here, there is a impact that happens. The impact is jobs. The impact is housing. So they have been here, people who have come here in immigrant status, African Americans are now 10% of the unemployment, 70% of the homeless, We are not getting jobs and we're not getting homeless and people who are coming here illegally and what I mean.

Apologies, Mrs. Sato, your time has ended. Thank you. Council Member Houston, would you like to speak before we move to the next?

Yes, good morning, colleagues. I have a question, and I wanna speak to the city attorney on this, if you don't mind, through the chair. At the meeting at 3.30 on Tuesday, 7-7-26, I had had two items that come forward, and that was 5.4, 5.5, and our president merged them together, right? but what had happened was when Mr. Cubic came up, I don't know if it was K-Top or whatever, Council Member Fife, that he was saying that he had the wrong PowerPoint, right? But then he spoke to it, and then the PowerPoint of 5.4, which was receive an information report on inventory of city-owned property, he kind of went over that, And Council Member Brown, so Council Member Fife had had a couple of questions that were very critical, right? And if she would have got that information, she would have been able to understand some of the things that needed to be addressed. But that PowerPoint was not presented. And I said it when I sat in this chair. Wait, hold on, hold on, hold on. The PowerPoint isn't presented. And now I'm hearing that I gotta wait till September or August for this PowerPoint to come up. I wanna ask through the city attorney's office that this PowerPoint was very critical for the EAP that's being launched on 7-14, right? And my colleagues needed to understand what was in here. And it was overlooked that I put it on the agenda. And it wasn't done on purpose, Council Member Brown. Things do happen. But I understand, but I should not have to wait, and my public shouldn't have to wait, and my colleagues, even though they can get it, I wanted it explained by that group, Amari, that understands this is on the ground. So I'm very disappointed that this was not presented and I had waited for this. Now we're going on break. So through the chair to the city attorney's office, how do I get this scene presented? Because I had asked for it to be presented before we went on a break. This is critical that they explain this to me and my colleagues. So why do I have to wait for something I had planned, that I had went through the process I went through the process, so how do I do this? Because I'm not gonna wait that long, because the public needs to hear this, and my colleagues need to get it presented to them, not from their interpretation.

Through the Chair to the Rules Committee and Councilmember Houston, first I want to note we're in open forum, and so this item is not agendized right now, but just to respond briefly, as Madam City Clerk said earlier, both of those items were dispensed, like finally dispensed with at Council, so they were both received by the Council, and therefore that item is dispensed with as of now. Of course you can bring a scheduling request for a new item back to this body and that would be submitted to the clerk and then taken up on item three at the next rules and I'd be happy to talk to you after the meeting. When is the next rule? Next Thursday.

Huh?

Next Thursday?

So let me ask this question. If it's brought to next rules next Thursday, what would be the earliest meeting that this could be presented to my colleagues and the public? The public needs to see this.

It could go to the July 21st council meeting if this body and the council make an urgency finding to hear it with less than 10 days notice.

Okay, so I need an urgency finding because I have put it on the calendar. Listen to me, Cal leads, I put it on the calendar and it was overlooked. I need Council Member Brown, I need you to see it and present it by them. Council Member Fife, I need you to see it. I need my whole colleagues to understand that this is what's been happening. And then this might answer some of the questions from the individuals that's actually implementing this process. So Trinity, did you hear that? Okay, I need that done so we can come back to the rules and get this done before our break. Thank you.

Through the chair, understanding that we are open forum, just making it clear that There are city council and city administrator established processes that must line up for stuff to end up on the agenda. So please make sure that you're in contact with the administration for scheduling your items so all the components come together. And just because I am over the TV station that was mentioned, it is also important that there's alignment so all the correct materials end up in the packet and with KTOP representation. And I'll leave it there, thank you.

Ken Slade, I need to blow off some steam, bud. Ken Slade, I need to blow off some steam. I just want to make sure that everybody understood. I know I'm gorgeous, Ken. I know I'm gorgeous. Um, Project Kyrex is a go. Um, I am authorizing a review of active, uh, duality of theater, um, for full application of the SLAP Act. Uh, Project Video Game is now a compliant review, um, Mark LaCroix, Cheryl Villeval, Matrida Perderos. She has permission to escort as Queen Marinela. Lenora Abigail Sheva, Aberdeen Brunswick. The Eurofire typhoon is to be followed every time he goes into international waters. Authorization DMOC coordinator.

Thank you for your comments. Next speaker is Blair Beekman. You are unmuted. You may unmute yourself and begin.

Hi, Blair Beekman. Thanks for the meeting.

To try to further talk about Oakland strong mayor issues. And, you know, I meant to add from the previous meeting, you know, that you guys are working on an IBA process like the city of San Diego already has. San Diego is not having success with it. They need organization for the actual programs, you know, city programs themselves. And I want to trust that you guys can work that out with the IBA. Good luck how you can do that. But Sandia was working on an office of a coordinator. It can be like a small city manager kind of job to help organize. And I hope that can be considered for yourselves as well. There are some important issues around what is the future role of the city administrator of Oakland? Is their role going to start to change a bit more?

Thank you for your comments. That concludes our open forum speakers.

Thank you the meeting is adjourned.