Office Of The City Administrator - Regular Meeting

let's get this party started good morning and welcome to the Rules and Legislation Committee meeting on this Thursday July 16th the time is 1030 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 are here in person and would like to submit a speaker card, please fill out a card and turn it into a clerk representative either before the item is called into record or 10 minutes after this meeting began. This meeting began at 10.30, so that cutoff time to submit a speaker card is 10.40. or before the item is called, whichever comes first. Online speaker cards were due 24 hours before this meeting began, so those are no longer being accepted. So with that, on roll, Council Member Brown. Present. Council Member Fife.

Excuse.

Council Member Ramachandran. Aye. And Chair Jenkins.

Aye.

There are three members present, one excused, Council Member Fife. Before I go to the first item, is there any announcements, Council President?

No announcements.

No announcements, going to item one, which was the draft minutes. There are no minutes to be approved at this time, so this now takes me to item two. Item two is determination of scheduling of outstanding committee items, which is your pending list for rules. And I have one speaker for this item.

Anything from the administration?

No changes.

Anything from my colleagues? All right, let's go to the speaker.

I have Blair Beekman for item two. I do not see him in the room nor on Zoom, so. the public speakers i'll entertain a motion brown there was a motion by council member brown seconded by council member ramachandran to approve item two as is on roll council member brown aye council member ramachandran aye and um council member fife excuse council member jenkins aye And item number two is approved with three ayes, one excused, five. That now takes us to item three, new scheduling. Item 3.1 is a resolution authorizing the city administrator to one, enter into an agreement with the state of California Department of Transportation for the sponsorship and maintenance of Grand Performance Mural Restoration Project located at the Grand Avenue underpass of Interstate 580 in Oakland and enter into an agreement with SOA Village Housing Inc for restoration of the mural and ongoing maintenance in coordination with artists Daniel Galvez and the Keith scholar and this item is being requested to be scheduled for the July 21st City Council agenda on consent. There is a rule 24 but will also need a urgency finding I'll read in the rule 24 listed here and then staff is at the podium to state the urgency finding and the rule 24 is the grand performance mural restoration must begin on October 1st 2026 to utilize the dry weather window deferring this item to the September 2026 would leave insufficient administrative lead time for the Department of Transportation to execute the necessary contract in Caltrans permit agreements directly jeopardizing a fully funded landmark community project

Good morning, Bridget Ruiz-Reveso, Councilmember Wong's staff. We received the finalization of the three grants that I believe that are to fund this project just last week, and so therefore we wanted to move as quickly as possible to be able to meet the October 1st deadline.

Thank you.

Thank you for that urgency finding for item 3.1. Also noting council member five present at 1034. Now moving on to item 3.2. Item 3.2 is adopt a resolution authorizing the city administrator to execute an employment agreement between the city of Oakland and the chief of police, James Beer, for a total annual compensation of $403,694.96, which includes an annual salary of $358,839.96 and premium pay provided under a mou between the city of oakland and the oakland police management association in the amount of forty four thousand eight hundred fifty five dollars as well as either an auto allowance of seven hundred fifty thousand dollars per month or seven hundred and fifty dollars apologies per month or use of a city vehicle um this is being requested to be scheduled for the july 21st City Council agenda on consent there is an urgency finding and rule 24 I'll read them into record the rule 24 is due to the time-sensitive need to finalize an employment agreement with the chief of police James beer following this appointment as chief of police prior to the City Council summer recess timely approval the agreement will allow the city to move forward with the terms of the chief's employment and compensation and support the city's ongoing public safety priorities. The urgency finding is to ensure that the city promptly executes an employment agreement with the chief police, James Beer, following his appointment as the chief of police prior to the city council summer recess. Timely approval of the agreement will allow the city to move forward with the terms of the chief's employment and compensation and support the city's ongoing public safety priorities. This now takes us to item 3.3. 3.3 is adopt a resolution appropriating and allocating $50 million of proceeds of sale of the city of Oakland's undivided 50% interest in the Coliseum complex to California public employee. employees retirement systems for a discretionary payment of cities unfunded accrued liability for retirement benefits and this item is being requested to be scheduled for the July 21st City of Council agenda on a non-consent and we will need a rule 24 and urgency finding thank you

Thank you, Brad Johnson, Director of Finance. The Rule 24 and urgency findings are as follows. This item was originally contained as a component of the Second Amendment to the Coliseum sale purchase. It was removed at first reading in order to distinguish it as a fiscal item on the advice of the city attorney. The urgency in Rule 24 reasons are that the city may close on this deal prior to the reconvening of the council in September, and due to the compound interest received by the city's investments in the CalPERS system over the course of the fiscal year, delaying the payment to CalPERS beyond when we would be able to make it may result in reduced long-term savings to the city of Oakland due to the lack of the ability of time for the CalPERS system to invest and deal with the city's contribution as a supplementary payment.

Thank you.

Thank you for that. We will now move to item 3.4. Item 3.4 is a resolution authorizing and directing the city administrator to execute a severance agreement between the city of Oakland and Justin Johnson to provide Johnson a severance payment in the amount of $409,737.24 in exchange for Johnson's execution of a general release and waiver of claims against the city. This item is being requested to be scheduled for the July 21st City Council agenda on non-consent.

This item is being withdrawn by the District 7 office.

So noted, item 3.4 is to be withdrawn, no new scheduling date. Thank you. Now moving to item 3.5, a resolution in celebration of the LGBTQ plus pride in Oakland and the 16th annual, excuse me, 16th anniversary of the Oakland's Pride Parade and Festival and honoring LGBTQ plus leaders who have built a legacy service, excellence and resilience in our city this item is being requested to be scheduled for the september 15th city council agenda on consent there is a rule 24 and i'll read that in which this item is being scheduled to the um to the consent calendar but is a ceremonial in nature and such items traditionally go directly to full council i do see staff good morning uh bridget release revezo for council member wong she would like to be added as a co-sponsor to this item excellent thank you

And I would like to as well, thank you.

Excellent, and I also received a note that the Office of the Mayor would also like to be added as well.

So noted, we are adding to item 3.5, Council Member Wong, Ramachandran, and Mayor Lee. Moving to item 3.6 is receiving information report from the city auditor on the performance audit of the vacant property tax. This item is being requested to be scheduled for September 22nd, Finance and Management Committee agenda. Item 3.7 is receive an informational report on the operational financial status of the city-owned parking garages, evaluation of parking operator performance, and review of the city's parking operations alternative. This item is being requested to be scheduled for the September 22nd Finance and Management Committee agenda. we will now move to the recommendations from the july 14th committee starting with the finance and management committee item 3.8 i will be reading in the short titles 3.8 is a grant funds from the oakland fund for purpose of technology and audit the committee approved the recommendations of staff and forward this item to the july 21st city council agenda on consent Item 3.9, one-year update of the fiscal year 2026-2030 Oakland Roadmap. This item was received and filed in committee. Item 3.10, fiscal year 2025-2028 city-wide strategic plan one-year update. The committee approved the recommendations of staff and to receive and forward this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on consent. item 3.11 the parking operations contract extension the committee approved as amended the recommendations of staff to forward this item to the july 21st city council agenda on consent with an amendment to the legislation to extend the contract through the end of the year and request to staff to provide in the supplemental report a list of all city parking facilities and report on the garage by garage data Item 3.12, reimbursement resolution general obligation bonds. This item, the committee approved the recommendations of staff to forward this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on consent. And item 3.13, performance service agreement with waiver of Tyndale LLP for forensic audit services. The committee approved the recommendations of staff into for this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on consent with the request to staff to provide a supplemental report with the following how the company meets the small local business requirements names of all of the subcontractors what kind of findings have this company been able to uncover for other cities and what were those outcomes and what can we expect in terms of performance improvements I will now move to the recommendations from the July 14th Public Works and Transportation Committee. Reading in the short title starting from item 3.14 is AC Transit Fruitvale Avenue Cooperation Agreement. And the committee approved the recommendations of staff to forward this item to the July 21st City Council Agenda on Consent. item 3.15 collision repair contracts for light and heavy vehicles the committee approved as amended the recommendations of staff and to for this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on non-consent to only approve these approved sections two and eight of the legislation related to the quality body and fender and the sequel findings with the remaining proposed contracts one three four five six and seven to be rescheduled after the summer break noting there was a no vote this item is being requested to be scheduled to non-consent Item 3.16, Municipal Facility Energy Assessment Professional Services Agreement Award. The committee approved the recommendations of staff and to forward this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on consent. Item 3.17, $750,000 Bay Area Air Quality Management District Grant. The committee approved the recommendations of staff and to forward this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on consent. Item 318 is the Broadway Streetscape Improvement Construction Contract Award. The committee approved the recommendations of staff and to forward this item to the July 21st City Council Agenda on Consent. Item 3.19 is the REAP 2.0 Hint Funds for the West Oakland UBM Pilot. The committee approved the recommendations of staff and to forward this item to the July 21st City Council Agenda on Consent. item 3.20 the city response to the 2025-2026 alameda county civil grand jury report the committee approved the recommendations of staff and to afford this item to the july 21st city council agenda on consent item 3.21 the professional services contract amendment with the alta planning and design inc for the 7th street connection project the committee approved the urgency finding and the committee also approved as amended the recommendations of staff to afford this item to the july 21st city council agenda on consent with the amendment to add supplemental attachments a and b to be included in the agenda staff report We'll now move to the recommendations from the July 14th Economic and Workforce, excuse me, Economic and, excuse me, Community and Economic Development Committee. Item 3.22, Chapter 8, Tax Sale Authorization. It consists of two pieces of legislation. There was an urgency finding written to record and the committee approved the recommendations of staff and to forward this item to the July 21st City Council Agenda on Consent, both pieces of legislation. Item 3.23 also consists of two pieces of legislation. It is the seminary point debt and rent forgiveness. The committee, the urgency finding was stated and approved on the record and the committee approved the recommendations of staff to for both pieces to the July 21st city council agenda on consent. Item 3.24, the physical year 2025-26, quarter one, quarter two, update on code enforcement activities. The committee received and filed this item. Item 3.25, the professional services agreement with Boroto Co. for signage and wayfinding services. The committee approved the recommendations of staff to forward this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on non-consent due to the 3-1 vote.

Is there something from the administration?

Winning will from the city administrators office staff is requesting that this item go to consent Staff has already met with councilmember hunger to get his approval Thank you

Thank you so much, so noted. Item 3.25 will go on consent on July 21st. Moving to item 3.26, acceptance and appropriation of workforce development funds for fiscal year 2026 through 27. The committee approved the recommendations of staff to afford this item to the July 21st City Council on consent. We will now move to the recommendations from the July 14th Life Enrichment Committee agenda. Item 3.27, the construction resource center grant agreement for, excuse me, for mentor protege program support services. The committee approved the recommendations of staff and to forward this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on consent. Item 3.28, the HUD Continuum of Care Program. The committee approved the recommendations of staff and to forward this item to the July 21st City Council Agenda on Consent. Item 3.29, the ACOCAP 2026, excuse me, CSBG resolution. The committee approved the recommendations of staff and to forward this item to the July 21st City Council Agenda on Consent. Item 3.30, the Oakland, paratransit for the elder and disabled program measure BB funds for fiscal year 2627 the committee approved the recommendations of staff and to afford this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on consent I will now move to the recommendations for the July 14th Public Safety Committee Item 3.31, the operational agreement between the City of Oakland and Alameda County for period from ratification through December 31st, 2035. The committee approved the recommendations of staff and to forward this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on consent. item 3.32 apricot 2026 annual report in amended use policy the committee approved the recommendations of staff and to afford this item to the july 21st city council agenda on consent item 3.33 the contract with bright research group for training and capacity building services the committee approved the recommendations of staff and for this item to the july 21st city council agenda on consent Item 3.34, the OPD fiscal year 2025 award, Edward Byron Memorial Justice Assistance Grant. The committee approved the recommendations of staff to forward this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on consent. Item 3.35, the OPDRSI helicopter maintenance contract. The committee approved the recommendations of staff and to forward this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on consent. Item 3.36, OPD Surveillance Technology 2025 Annual Report. The committee approved as amended the recommendations of staff and to forward this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on consent with an amendment to the legislation striking section A regarding the automated license plate reader and to delete the reference to attachment E. Item 3.37, the MOU between the City of Oakland and California Highway Patrol. The committee approved the recommendations of staff and to forward this item to the July 21st City Council Agenda on Consent. And that concludes all of your new items.

Council Member Brown.

Excellent, thank you so much. I wanted to take the opportunity to schedule the Education Partnerships Committee meeting for Monday, September the 28th at 3.30.

Can you state that again?

Absolutely. So Education Partnerships Committee meeting Monday, September the 28th at 3.30.

Thank you so much. Thank you. Do we have any public speakers?

Yes, we do. We have Kevin Daly and Blair Beekman. If you are here in person, please line up behind the podium and state your name for the record. If you are participating via Zoom, please raise your hand. I will take those who are in person first. Good morning, Mr. Daly.

Kevin Daly, I want to talk to 3.11 and 3.7 on parking garages. I enjoyed, appreciated the Finance Committee meeting Tuesday and discussion of the contract extension, and I'm really glad to see that the Finance Department and Director Johnson has added 3.7 to look at the operation and financial Uh, status of parking garages. There's another aspect and that is dealing with the, uh, with the policy perspective, both, and this week should cover both parking garages and street parking as well as other forms of transportation. For the past nine months to a year, we've been discussing parking reorg. Now it's reorg. Uh, it would be good to have department of public works and oak dot present to department of public works on what is the parking policy as it relates to parking garages and to street parking. And I'm hoping to reach out to council member Unger's office as well as the public works and transportation committee. And that's because a lot of the very good questions from council on the Finance Committee were related to policy and not just on the financial aspects. Thanks.

Thank you for your comments, Mr. Daly. We will now move to Zoom speakers. Blair Beekman, you're unmuted. You may begin.

Hi, Blair Beekman. I wanted to speak on items 3.2, 3.3, 3.11, 3.18, 3.37 and 3.38. Hi to everyone. So this will be three minutes. To begin 3.2, James Beer appointed as Oakland police chief. I'm in agreement, a nice agreement that, you know, new police chief Beer, he has a long history with OPD, so he can be navigable in how community works. And I'm hopeful that from that, You know as much as administration and City Council has made a big push towards the idea of wanting to be you know focusing on a city administration point of view with our issues you're starting to better see that it is community that's really defined our good best police practices over the past 10 years. And I think you want to be trusting that. We've had three police killings in the past year where we had three in the previous 10. So that's another concern that we have to be really focusing on our community. in how to address our police issues. They're really needed. And I'm hoping administration's understanding that better and respecting that. Good luck in that effort and we ourselves will be learning that. With the Coliseum payment allocation ideas, you just had a tax lien forgiveness policies so you can create good social services practices for troubled areas in Oakland. that can be working with the County of Alameda. So good luck in those sort of efforts explaining that to with the Coliseum purchase things and how that negotiation process moves along. It can help I think with the negotiation process that we all want it to go well. Good luck in the ways to make it go so so we can be assured it can go well. Parking operator contract extension things. Thanks for the words of Kevin. I mentioned before the importance of if you do ALPR work you know, that, that's a part of, uh, a basic part of, uh, parking, uh, garages and stuff. If you do the policy work and public policy work, it's really good examples of best practices. And everyone, when they learn that kind of stuff, they get excited and, and understanding the process of best practices with, uh, tech policies. So good luck in, in studying that and Broadway streetscape, the same thing, uh, with all the money going to this project. And when you guys are talking about, um, the future of tech that's gonna be involved with this. If you make that an open public process and create really good public policies with it, that's gonna bring people to Oakland. They're gonna wanna see good tech policies in their downtown area. That is a real important draw in understanding. It builds our best selves. So good luck on those efforts. The other two items on surveillance stuff, I'll talk about upcoming. Thank you.

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

Thank you for the public speakers. So noting 3.1 with urgency finding, noting 3.3 with urgency finding, noting 3.4 withdrawn, 3.5 adding the co-sponsors of Council Member Wong, Council Member Ramachandran, and Mayor Lee, and 3.25 move to consent. And we have a wonderful Ed Partnership Committee that is scheduled to Monday, September 28th at 3.30. I'll entertain a motion.

So moved.

Second.

I'm not sure who gave the second.

There 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.

Council Member Ramachandran. Aye.

And Chair Jenkins.

Aye.

Item number three is approved as amended with four eyes. That now takes us to item four. Item four is the review of the draft agenda's pending list in the city council and committee meetings. These are the July 21st city council agenda, your canceled July 23rd rules, your pending list, and your canceled July 28th committees and July 30th rules.

Anything from the administration?

We have no changes.

We have two speakers for this item Kevin Daly and Blair Beekman. Kevin Daly is passing I do have Blair Beekman please unmute yourself and you may begin.

Hi thank you Blair Beekman. In September you're going to be having you know upcoming overall policies on how you know, report backs on overall practices of your police on a number of issues in September. I feel it can be a fair time to offer that I was incredibly disappointed that in your public safety committee a couple of days ago, you could not, you excluded any talk of AOPR use and what's going on with flock at this time. You guys have been with the FLOC contract for the past six months that has not been signed. And I have no clue if past May, if it's been signed or not. You guys aren't making that information accessible to the public. And I think you guys have an awesome responsibility to make that information in the very least accessible and understandable what the holdup is and what's going on with that. We have to wait till September, October or November to get the police report on all of this. I got to wait till then to understand why you said it was urgent that the contracts had to be signed by March of 2026. And now it's July and it's quite possible the flock contracts haven't been developed. So there's a real problem. And you guys have to be, I think, really developing ideas and explanations to the public what's going on. And I'm waiting for those explanations from yourselves. Please work on that. It's an awesome plan you guys have set up that the community helps define a future of an AOPR vendor besides block. That means we could be deciding on a future of a corporation that doesn't practice war to the same degree. And that's an awesome thing the community can be working on. Why not do this process really well? You guys are making it really overly complicated and it's shameful almost.

That concludes your item for speakers.

Thank you for your comments. I'll entertain a motion. Five. Ramachandra.

That was a motion by Councilmember Fife, seconded by Councilmember Ramachandra to approve item four as is on roll. Councilmember, sorry, one moment. Councilmember Brown. Aye. Councilmember Fife. Aye. Ramachandra. Aye. Chair Jenkins.

Aye.

Item four is approved as is with four ayes. That now takes us to open forum. I have Kevin Daly and Blair Beekman. Kevin Daly is passing. Blair Beekman, you are unmuted. You may begin.

Hi, Blair Beekman. Thanks for the meeting. Sorry to read the right act previously. My final words, I got confused in how to speak. It often happens that the timer is about to end and I get confused in how to speak better. Sorry about that. What I meant to say was that it seems to be a warning to ourselves that there's a problem and we've got to really work on it. And please work on it. Please find ways to explain to the community what the problem is, what's the holdup, what exactly is the process, why the contract isn't being signed. I think it could be accomplished. I mean, the intentions of what we can be working on are so incredibly decent. It is the way we practice as a community. And so let's do this well and let's do it right, please. With that all said, yeah, at the committee meetings a couple of days ago, a lot of comment on the vendor situation at Lake Merritt in Oakland. Good luck in those efforts to work that out. I started really...

Thank you for your comments, and if I may, before we end, just want to take a moment to acknowledge one of our staffers. You guys know me as Candace I.C.E., but we have a Candace A.C.E. in our office, and she will be leaving us, so this will be the last meeting that she will be in before we go on break, before we come back. Candace Evans we want to thank you for being a part of our team we're gonna miss you and I just wanted to acknowledge you in this moment and make sure you got your flowers before we leave you so thank you so much and we'll send something out before she actually leaves so we can all acknowledge her together but because this is her last meeting I just wanted to acknowledge that at this moment thank you so much but that was concluding your open forum speakers thank you yeah thank you thank you for your service this meeting is adjourned