Public Works Committee - Special Meeting

Good morning and welcome to the Public Works and Transportation Committee meeting of Tuesday, November 18. The time is now 11:30AM and this meeting may come to order. Before taking roll, I will provide instructions on how to submit speaker cards for items on this agenda. If you're here with us in chamber and would like to submit a speaker card, please fill one out and turn one into myself or a clerk representative no later than ten minutes after the start of this meeting or before the item is read into record. Registering to speak via Zoom is now due twenty four hours prior to the start of this meeting time. This meeting came to order at 11:30AM and speaker cards will no longer be accepted ten minutes after making that time 11:40AM. We'll now proceed with taking role. Council member Gayle? Present. Thank you.

Council member Houston? Absent for now. Absent for now. Council member Wong? Present. Thank you. And chair Unger?

Present. Please let us know if council member Houston shows up. We need to do a a vote to make it appropriate.

Okay. Thank you. Noting three members present and one absent, Houston. And before we begin, chair, do you have any announcements at this time?

No. Don't. Nice to see everyone. No announcements. Nice to see everyone.

Alright. Alright. Starting off with item number one, there are no minutes to be approved. Item number two, determination of schedule of outstanding committee items and we do have one speaker that signed up.

First, colleagues or staff, do we have anything for the pending list?

Through each year, no. We do not.

Alright. Let's hear from our speaker, please.

Calling in the names assigned up for item number two, Kevin Dally.

Want to formally alright. Sorry. Kevin Dally from co chair of the policy and legislative committee of the bicyclist and pedestrian advisory commission. I want to formally suggest to this committee that I'd like to see two parts of the fire code come to the Public Works and Transportation Committee, and that's section five zero three of chapter five, as well as appendix d if the fire marshal chooses to add those two to the state fire code. And I know the fire marshal wants this done by the end of the year, so we're coming up on timelines. We'll be talking about it at the BPAC Thursday, by the way. Thank you.

Thank you, chair. That concludes our speakers on this item. Just a motion.

Would anybody like to make a motion to accept the pending list? All right.

So moved.

I think we got a motion from Council Member Gallo and a second from Council Member Wong. Sorry I stole the line.

Thank you. That was a motion made by Council Member Gallo, seconded by council member Wong to approve the oh, sorry. To accept the determination of schedule of outstanding committee items as is on roll. Council member Gayo? Aye. Council member Wong? Aye. And chair Unger? Aye. Thank you.

Item number two passes with three ayes, one absent in Houston. Now reading in item number three. Adopt a resolution awarding a construction contract to Gallagher and Burke Inc. For the Lakeside Drive slash Lake Merritt Boulevard complete street projects, project number 1005314, the lowest responsible and responsive bidder in accordance with project plans, specifications, state requirements, and with contractors bid in the amount of $8,810,715 and adopting appropriate California environment to oh, sorry. Environmental Quality Act findings.

Also noting, I believe council member Houston is now logged on. We just need a motion.

Okay. Counsel, would you help us with the framing of this motion that we need?

So the the assembly bill just requires that the so I'm sorry. The motion for what?

The motion to, allow, council member Houston to join us.

Yes. So the the body just has to approve the ability to appear by by teleconference since he submitted the paperwork for an emergency circumstance. So it's a routine regular motion.

I will make the motion that we approve this, method of teleconferencing.

Second.

Thank you. That was the motion made by count chair Unger, seconded by council member Wong, to accept council member Houston's a b two four four nine virtual participation. On roll, council member Gayo?

Aye.

Council member Wong? Aye. And chair Unger? Aye. Thank you. Motion passes with three ayes. Council member Houston, your camera just needs to be remained on for the duration of this meeting.

No problem.

Thank you. And then, so we read an item number three, and we do have three speakers that signed up for this item.

Why don't we hear from staff first, and then we'll go to the speakers.

Good morning, Chair and Committee. This is a DOT construction contract and it constructs pedestrian bicycle transit and vehicular traffic safety improvements on Lakeside Drive between 13th And 19th, Lake Merritt Boulevard 1st Avenue between Lakeside Drive International and 17th Street between Madison Street and Lakeside Drive. It also includes an alternate for pedestrian lighting improvements on East 12th between 1st Avenue and 11th Avenue and International Boulevard between 9th Avenue and 11th Avenue. And I would note one caveat with this is that a major portion of the funding for this project is Measure U. So, we're actually getting ahead of ourselves a little bit in anticipation of the bond sale.

So, we recommend this highly for approval.

Okay. Questions from council members? Council member Gaye.

Is my microphone on? Yeah. I can hear it. Okay. Yeah.

To city staff, thank you for and I support your recommendation, but the you know, we're talking about Lakeside Drive, Lake Merritt Boulevard, and so forth. And one of the recommendations that I would have since I walk with my daughter and my wife Lake Merritt every once a week, that we take a look at the walking trail within Lake Merritt because it's out of I mean, I go to other cities and do the walks in their their tourist areas or their neighborhood areas, you know, you're not gonna run into holes and this and that at Lake Merritt. And Lake Merritt is considered the jewel of Oakland. And I remember being being parks manager stationed purposely at Lake Mary so it'd be the cleanest, safest, most welcoming site in the city of Oakland. And so my recommendation to you is took a look take a look inside walking trail and the maintenance of the lake because it's it's an embarrassment.

It's not the jewel of Oakland like it used to be. And, anyways, I would if there's a way you can include that on your list because the people are walking along the lake, but, you know, you're running into all kinds of other challenges and and that should be the most attractive location to to walk and enjoy Children's Fairyland and all the other activities. But thank you. And I'll make a motion to approve the item. Thank you.

Council member Wong.

Thank you. Through the chair, this project, half of it is in my district and very important project. Project. I just have a couple of questions related to the cost. So it was noted in the report that the bid and this is the lowest bid and the one that's been recommended was 18% higher than the estimate. What is going on there?

Through the chair to the council member. Right now the market is fairly volatile and so typically when you look at a job like this, have a risk assessment we have to make, which would be if we cancel this procurement and we did it again, will we get a better price? Typically you don't. We believe that this is very likely the best price we're going to get for this project. And even though we have a 18% gap between where our engineers estimate is and where our contractors ended up, typically it's in your commodities pricing.

It a lot fluctuates based on the price of cement and the price of liquid asphalt. I've not looked specifically to see where we had deviations there, but the markets very volatile right now and even things like aluminum. We're seeing big increases in aluminum pricing which is impacting all of our projects.

Okay, that's helpful. And then just to understand too since I did some math with the Gallagher and Burke's adjusted base bid with discount. This is a $7,650,000 that was noted plus the bid alternative of $994,000 It adds up on my map to $8,650,000 instead of the 8,800,000.0 being recommended by staff. What's just because again is individuals responsible for just wise and responsible stewardship of taxpayer funding? I'm trying to understand it's not a huge gap but nonetheless it's about $150,000 higher than the lowest bid that the as I understand it according to these tables.

So why wouldn't we reward 8,650,000.00 instead of 8.8?

So those calculations are actually done by the Department of Workforce Employment Standards, bid alternates. Would have to defer to them. Within the document here, it talks about that the base bid plus that bid alternate to get to the 8,800,000.0

Okay. And then my other question is just I would like in some of these reports going forward just you know what I know mileage is not a perfect estimate here but just to get a sense of how much mileage this project is going to cover just not just for this one but on a going forward basis just to make these decisions as counsel. But otherwise I do second the motion made by council member Gaio.

Do we have any other comments? But no other comments from counsel? Alright. Let's go to our speakers, please.

Calling in the names that signed up for item number three. If you're here in chamber, please come up to the podium. If you are on Zoom, please raise your hand to be identified. Kevin Dally, Blair Beakman, and David Boatwright.

Hi. Kevin Dally from Transport Oakland. I'm excited to see these changes, which I think will help to make safer streets for pedestrians, cyclists, and for drivers as well. And I'm really excited to see the bond sales moving forward, crossed fingers, of course, and we've been looking forward to the bond sales and for fixing streets for well the past year or so of delayed sales. Thanks.

David Boatwright, District four. This probably isn't a question directed to transportation, but I was curious when the bond offering is gonna be made. I heard it was gonna be in November, but we're halfway through the month already.

Calling in Blair Beakman. If you're on zoom please raise your hand. If not chair that concludes all speakers on this item.

Alright. I think we have a motion and a second.

Thank you. We have a motion made by council member Gayos seconded by council member Wong to approve the recommendation of staff and to forward this item to the 12/02/2025 city council agenda on consent. On roll, council member Gayo?

Aye.

Council member Houston?

I feel uncomfortable speaking on this item because of some of the situations that's happened, so I'm just gonna stay silent on this.

Would that be counted as an abstention then?

Yes. The options are yes, no, or abstain.

Council member Houston?

Remaining silent.

You can mark that as an abstain. Thank you. Council member Wong? Aye. And chair Unger? Aye. Thank you. Motion passes with three ayes one abstain Houston. Now reading in item number four. Adopt a resolution one approving ongoing cooperative purchase agreements exceeding $250,000 per Oakland Public Works Bureau of Maintenance and Internal Services Equipment Services Division, commodity goods and services contract as outlined in table one in an additional amount not to exceed $6,310,000 and extend contract dates listed and two, adopting appropriate California Environmental Quality Act findings. And we have one speaker that signed up for this item.

Alright. Let's hear from our staff, please.

Name is Erica Vasquez, management assistant at Equipment Services. Basically, these are our list of 15 cooperative agreements that we need increased or extended cooperative agreements that includes $250,000 or more. I don't know if you have any specific questions, but it's just to kinda keep us going with our work workflow. We have contracts that include parts and services to for our vehicles and equipment, including the Ford store and our fire trucks.

Could you just explain what a cooperative agreement is?

A cooperative agreement is when we piggyback from another contract that another city entity may have. So it can be maybe a state contract or a cooperative purchasing agency like Sourcewell where they're kind of like the middle person between the city and the vendors. So we pretty much get the same price and commodity. So we're going for like apples and apples. So say the city of Sacramento has already went out to bid and they're getting say like five Ford cars, then we can piggyback from that contract.

That way we do not have to spend our time, resources and we will get the same price and commodity with with just using that same contract.

Great. We have questions from council. Council member Gaye.

Yes. Thank you for the information and, certainly there's a great need when it comes to public works, need for new vehicles, for servicing vehicles. And because we have a number of rentals that that we should be replaced. I'm I guess the question I have for you, what is our plan to accommodate or to provide public works new vehicles, updated vehicles to maintain the service that's required. Not only the vehicles, but we're also looking at mechanics.

We need additional workers to service the vehicles that we have. And I'm we're not talking about vehicles. I'm talking anything from police department, fire department, public works, cleaning up the streets and the city. And I'd like to get a a recommendation from you down to a plan. What is our plan? Not not only leasing and renting, but, you know, there's some cities that are electrifying. They're purchasing vehicles that are electrified. And so what is our plan to do that?

Council member, I'm gonna let my manager step in and he could probably elaborate.

Good morning. My name is Joseph Williams, equipment services manager. So we've developed several plans. We've developed a ten year fleet replacement plan to forecast out what's gonna cost us per year to keep our fleet replaced on a on a regular schedule. We've built special plans for police and fire. We've conveyed all these needs to the budget office. We just have not secured any replacement funding with the exception of approximately $5,000,000 to the Oakland Police Department in the last three years. And as far as I'm aware of, we don't have any funding currently for the funding needed to execute this replacement plan. So like I said, since 2022, I've probably developed four to five different plans and the fleet just continues to age without funding.

Yes. To our board chairperson, I I would like to have our public works representatives provide that information so we can plan and, make sure that our staff members have the vehicles to do the job. So

Yes, sir. Richard Battersby, assistant director, Bureau of Maintenance Internal Services of Oakland Public Works. Just to add on to what mister Williams stated, my understanding is there has been $5,000,000 allocated this year and the next year that, has not been designated, which department gets to utilize it. So since fleet replacement was decentralized in July 2023, there's not really a single coordinating party within the city, but we are in the process of starting discussions with police department and with fire department to see how far that $5,000,000 will go. And just, you know, give you guys some ballpark ideas where that's maybe 35 fully equipped police vehicles.

That's maybe two fire apparatuses, and those are exclusive. That's for 5,000,000. That's what you can get. For a battery electric street sweeper, we are in the process of trying to complete the fleet electrification transition. A battery electric street sweeper is about $900,000, give or take. So these are the ballpark numbers we're dealing with. It's purely a matter of not having the resources available, but we're happy to share those plans with you and the rest of the city council. And we have just recently as last week, fire department was bugging me. Said, hey. Give me the updated numbers, Richard. So we've got some numbers out there. We just need to be able to find the funding.

Thank you. Have we, brought our staffing levels at the mechanic shop to where it should be or we still have many vacancies?

No. We have not. We have, vacancies and unfilled positions. I I think and, Joey, are we about 30% vacant on the heavy equipment?

Approximately 10 positions since this budget cycle.

Yeah. So, 10 positions down between technician and service worker. So that means we have to outsource more work. So that's why you see these 15 contracts here, why we're having to increase and extend our vendor network, our support network, we cannot complete the work internally. And that's not a good good deal for the city, number one, because it costs more just in the labor expenses. But number two, now we have to incur transport time, and we're at the mercy of those vendors that are performing the repairs. And we're just one of many customers, and they have believe me, they have all the business they can handle right now.

Thank you. And I'll check-in with you to bring that information to the city council because we're all making public safety and a clean city our priorities. Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

Council member Wong.

Thank you. Through the chair, a couple of I wanna hone in on a couple of these contracts, the larger dollar amounts, the Golden State Emergency Vehicle Service, the Peterson Trucks Incorporated, and the Ford store in San Leandro. What services are they expected to provide to the city of Oakland?

Yeah. Good question. They actually provide us parts and services. The Golden State Emergency Vehicle Service, that's strictly for fire apparatus. We have approximately 40 to 50 trucks with an average age of probably fifteen years, So you can imagine the amount of parts and and equipment failures those trucks are experiencing.

So we're seeing an increase in in the cost associated with procuring those parts. We do most of that work internally, so that's mostly for parts. As far as the Ford store, San Leandro, we have another Ford vendor local to Northern California, but not as local as a Ford store. This is our local vendor that does all of our Ford repairs and maintenance that we don't get to internal, also provides us with parts. And so, yeah, we're seeing an increase approximately 25 to 30% in parts due to the tariffs and due to other issues that are going on.

So the increase are coming, and they're not they're not reducing at all. What was the other one you had mentioned? CorSoar, Golden State Fire?

Peterson trucks.

Peterson truck is a local heavy equipment repair vendor. So we will send, like, heavy equipment trucks and assets there. Again, the heavy equipment trucks have an average age of between 13 and 15 years old. So those are frontline trucks that are used every day in public service. And so as these trucks break down, frequently, we have internal staff members that are doing the work, but they're just overwhelmed. And so we'll utilize local vendors. That's one of the local vendors that we utilize for performing repairs. Trucks are mostly public works and department transportation.

Okay. That's helpful. I think this work is incredibly important. I wanna underline everything that council member Gayo has said about the importance of the maintenance in order to carry out the work. I will say that I've noticed a number of the reports coming from public works.

I don't see like some sort of performance measure or some sort of are we holding our contractors accountable to certain timelines to deliverables when they come before council. And so that that's something I just wanna I wanna see more out of the department when we have to make these voting decisions to make to make sure when I approve a $6,300,000, you know, amount of money that we're gonna get something that we're getting something out of that and that we have accountability measures in place for contractors.

Yeah. So for our contractors, we have people that monitor the invoice as the the work is done. We actually give the invoice to a mechanic to verify the actual work is performed and is performed to our satisfaction before the equipment is returned to service. So we are verifying, making sure we're not double billed, making sure everything as it should be on every case by case basis. There aren't any large like you'll see a multi million dollar contract. We're not issuing POs for multi million dollars. Most POs are issued in the hundreds of dollars or thousands of dollars range, but there's thousands of invoices. And so we we go through every invoice to make sure and correct it before we process a repayment.

That sounds like a good quality control mechanism, but what I don't see still is what is the work that they're expected to deliver when I approve this contract. So this is just it's something I wanna see more out of the department. Thank you.

Okay.

Council member Houston.

I agree with my council members, Wang and, Noel. I'll move that item.

Thank you. Moving to public speakers. Mister Kevin Dolly, you can come up to the podium.

Hi. Kevin Dally from Transport Oakland. I know that this is primarily repair of various vehicles, including emergency vehicles, but this is an opportunity to mention the importance of purchasing of the vehicles that the fire code suggested by the fire marshal wants to design streets around the emergency vehicles we have purchased, so turning radius, street width, etcetera is chosen around the vehicles and as we move towards purchasing new vehicles I'm hoping that we can look at purchasing vehicles that fit the streets we have and the streets we want to have. Narrow streets make slower traffic, wider streets, faster traffic, more deaths, more injuries. So let's work on purchasing trucks that meet our traffic safety needs.

Thanks.

Thank you. That concludes our speakers, and we do have a motion made by council member Gayos, seconded by council member Houston to approve the recommendation of staff and to forward this item to the 12/02/2025 city council agenda on consent on roll. Council member Gayos?

Aye.

Council member Houston? Aye. Council member Wong? And chair Unger? Aye. Thank you. Item number four passes with four four ayes. Now reading in item number five. Adopt an ordinance amending Oakland municipal code chapter 10.2 speed limits and adopting appropriate California Environmental Quality Act findings to reflect changes in Oakland Street network and to modify speed limits on Broadway and International Boulevard and we do have one speaker that signed up for this item.

Alright. Let's hear from staff please.

Hi, good morning. Craig Raphael, I'm a planner with the Department of Transportation here to present this item. This is an administrative item to ensure that the Oakland Municipal Code or OMC accurately reflects our current roadway network. So we're proposing an ordinance with a series of administrative edits that align street names with their current usage, fix some errors and delete duplicates things of that nature. There's also a couple of specific corridor updates on Broadway.

So reducing the speed of a small segment of Broadway to 20 miles per hour between 27th Street and Piedmont Avenue due to updated surveys as well as on International Boulevard making the speed consistently 25 miles per hour based on recent speed surveys within Oakland, City Of Oakland right of way. Happy to answer any questions.

Does this also apply to me and my 1983 Supra or can I get an exemption? Okay. Council members, any questions?

Yes. Yes. How about the enforcement? How do we enforce the speed limits? Okay. As an example, International Boulevard. Right? The only thing that the sheriff does is enforce the inside the bus, but not the bus lane. And that's that that's the work that Oakland public but Oakland Police Department is responsible for. Is there any other recommendations that that the city's bringing forth in terms of how do we we can reduce the speed limit, but how do we monitor that?

Because right now in the the streets that I live is out of control, man. Right? We don't have the number of police officers that we should have. Then there's a great debate about the flock cameras that'll help slow some of us hoodies down to make sure that we adhere to the red lights and the speed limits and so forth.

Good morning, council members. Megan Weir, assistant director with the Department of Transportation. Thank you for council member Gayo for the important question with respect to speed and how our speed limits are are related. OCDOT has interagency initiative, Safe Oakland Streets, that's a partnership with the police department, the Department of Race and Equity in our city administrator's office and focusing both on having speed limits that support safe speeds as well as implementing speed safety cameras, is a proven tool that we're working quickly to implement in Oakland Streets. It's one of six cities that's authorized to have a pilot within the state of California is one approach partnering with the police department with their limited resources to focus on the high injury network and the streets where we see the highest concentrations of severe and fatal injuries are two key strategies for that work.

But foundational to that is ensuring that we have speed limits that slow speeds to provide the guidance to slow speeds to save lives, which is what this report is helping us achieve.

So so for the public's information, the speed limit in on Oakland streets will be 25 miles per hour?

It varies by by location, and the report provides updates to the OMC. So on some some streets, it's 25. Other streets, we actually have state authorization to go as low as 20. 20. So so it it varies, and we're working to bring the OMC in alignment.

Yeah. You if you can share that with us, because we know I know that the minute I go to Alameda, it's 20 miles. I better go 20 miles per hour, or there'll be a consequence. And with the cameras greeting me and saying hello and goodbye to Alameda. But is there a plan beyond, you know, fixing the street and how do we monitor the safety? If it's twenty, twenty five miles per hour, how do I make sure that that I adhere to that?

That's that's a critical question with respect to evaluation. So, for example, for the speed safety cameras that we'll be implementing later this year. Evaluation is a key piece of of that work. So we'll be looking at we have pre data on how fast vehicles are driving and then looking at how speeds are changed with the deployment of those cameras. We also, as resources permit, do evaluations of our projects as well to ensure that the design speed is something that we're achieving through the capital improvements that we're implementing.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Through the chair, I'm all for this, but I have the same questions that council member Gayer has on the enforcement piece. I think the speed cameras, there's only gonna be 18, and that is limited by state law. Correct? I was recently reading through the history of the red light cameras, at least what I could find in the news. What exactly happened with the red light cameras and why don't we have them up? Why don't we have those up?

Yeah. So there was a a red light camera program Oakland and there's several problems associated with it namely by state law they use facial recognition technology. Each violation had to be approved by the police and the fines were quite steep I believe around $500. There is new legislation that was just passed that enables municipalities in California to set up a red light camera program with much lower fines and outside of the police department and that is something that we're looking at under SB seven twenty.

Okay. That's great. When can we get a report out on that? I I would love to get get some updates on the implementation of that since I have heard so many distraught people in my district about the the rampant speeding.

Sure. Yeah. The legislation was just signed by the governor. Okay. So it's gonna take a bit of time to do the analysis but we anticipate sometime next year we could provide a report on that.

Okay. When could it be actually implemented, the timeline? Just in light especially of the traffic control unit being disbanded in OPD, I have concerns around how we're going to enforce, you know, let's lower the speed limits but also I don't think we're enforcing them right now.

Yeah. I can't give an exact timeline right now if it followed a similar timeline as the speed camera rollout. Likely we would need to first issue a request for proposals to actually get a vendor do you know do the data analysis community outreach. So likely would not be next calendar year would be after that but obviously it's something we're we're definitely exploring right now.

Okay. That sounds good. And any other thoughts on how because the 18 speed cameras is, in my opinion, not enough to enforce the speeding. Any ideas on what we could do as counsel to to really address what we see as reckless driving? What I see as reckless driving.

Good morning again, Megan Weir, assistant director with DOT. Another policy tool that we've been really interested in is something that's referred to as speed governors or technology that's in vehicles that prevents drivers from exceeding extreme speeds, which are the ones that are really associated with the most severe and fatal injuries. There's a movement that's been growing across the country with respect to exploring how this type of technology could be implemented, particularly among people who are convicted of repeated excessive speeding violations potentially also correlated with injuring other members of the public. So I think thinking about the pervasiveness of speed, the limitations of capital improvements and enforcement, thinking with respect to what are technologies that could be implemented in vehicles to fundamentally prevent the most egregious driving behaviors. There's a a growing surge interest across the country in this type of technological solution as well.

And that's something we would be happy to to brief your office on if if of interest.

Okay. Great. That sound that sounds good. Thank you so much.

Council member Houston, you have your hand up.

Yes, sir. Through the chair. Megan and Rafael, I've been reading and I noticed that it says on Broadway, it's 20 miles an hour. International has two different, speed limits. One is twenty five and one is 30. On International, where is that? The and like, council member Noel Gallo mentioned, in Alameda, it's 20 miles an hour throughout the whole city except for when you come through the Posey 2, it's 25 that it tells you when you go over to Constitution, tells you to slow down to 20. So my question is in international, where is that location where it goes from twenty and twenty five? And and Broadway is 20 miles an hour. We have three different speed limits. Can you respond to that, please?

Sure. I'm Joe Wang with DOT. International is being set at 25 throughout the entire corridor within Oakland's jurisdiction. That's from the lake all the way to 42nd Avenue. Just to clarify.

So I read something about 30 miles an hour. So I read that wrong?

Yeah. It's it's not 30 miles per hour.

Okay. Okay. I'll look that up, and I'll reach out because I saw something that said 30. It was like a it's it's it changed in the document. I'll look it up, and I'll send a a email to to the office to find out if I'm clear about about that. Sure. Thank you.

Council member Wong.

Oh, just making a motion to accept staff recommendation. Recommendation.

Okay. Yes. I'd I'd like to second the motion, but just give you one more bit of advice, and I'll be happy to work with you. Growing up here in Oakland, in East Oakland, you couldn't graduate high school unless you had a driver education class. And that taught me what the speed limit was, what the rules were on the road, and prepared me to get my driver's license when I graduated from high school.

So I think if we can share that information just so the student body, getting back to what we used to do working together between the city and and, Oakland Unified in terms of educating our youngsters, that these are the rules of the street that we have in place and we should follow. Thank you and I'll second the motion. Thank

you. Moving on to our public speakers, mister Kevin Dalley, you can come up to the podium.

Thanks. Kevin Dally, I'm a co chair of the Policy and Legislative Committee of the Bicyclist and Pedestrian Advisory Commission. A few weeks ago, we received a report from ODOT, which includes their brand new map, which lets you look up speed limits on different streets in Oakland. It's a very useful tool, not guaranteed to be 100% yet since it's just been released, but anyone who's interested should give it a look. I am seeing part of International showing a 30 mile an hour on that map, but I'm not sure if that's correct.

It's a very new map. One thing that, in addition to everything that Oak Dot has mentioned about speed limits, it's also important to do, to include traffic calming. And traffic calming is another technology that strongly discourages speeding. And on International Boulevard in particular, that has reduced the deaths and injuries substantially over the past year or so. I expect that the AC Transit Oakland interagency liaison committee will be looking at updates of International Boulevard and the traffic safety, and three of the four members of this committee are on the interagency liaison committee, council member Wong, Gario, and Houston.

So I think it'll be great to look at that street in particular and what traffic calming's done there, and look at what we can do to extend it. I'm hoping that our committee can that the BPAC committee will look deep at a deeper dive on some of the speed limits and see other areas where we can reduce the speed limits while we do traffic calming. Thanks.

Thank you for your comments, chair. That concludes our speakers. Council member Houston has his hand raised.

Council member Houston.

Yes. Due to chair, I'm looking at the data here. It says ten point twenty point zero three zero speed limit of 30 miles per hour, and it does show it on the map. And it does show it on Foothill Boulevard 14th. Yeah. It says it says it on the map. So it's a discrepancy there because I see three different speed limits. One is 20 miles an hour on Broadway, and then it's a 25 miles an hours, and it's a 30 mile an hour. Can I get that clarified? Because it does state this, yeah, on the report.

Yeah. Sure. Just to reiterate, the purpose of this ordinance is to change the sleek speed limit to 25. There are segments on international that's currently 30. We wanna change it to 25 despite what the map may show.

Okay. I'm I'm good with that.

Okay. Thank you. We have a motion made by council member Wong, seconded by council member Gaio to approve the recommendation of staff and support with this to the 12/02/2025 city council agenda on consent. On roll, council member Gaio?

Aye.

Council member Houston? Aye. Council member Wong? Aye. And chair Unger?

Aye.

Thank you. Item number five passes with four ayes to be forwarded to the December 2 city council agenda on consent. Before moving on to open forum, just noting that item number three, the resolution regarding Lakeside Drive slash Lake Merritt Boulevard complete street construction contract award will be on nonconsent as this passed with three eyes and one abstained. Now going on to open forum, calling in the names that sign up for open forum. If you're here with us in chamber you can come up to the podium or if you're on Zoom please raise your hand to be easily identified.

Kevin Dally and Blair Beakman. Mister Dally do you still wish to speak? Okay Chair that concludes all speakers for open forum.

All right. Let's adjourn. Thanks everybody.

Thank you.