Remarks by Lance L. Davis
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When this item was circulated earlier in the week. So let's just make sure we get that full list on the record.
All right, very good, thank you. That item is approved.
And Councillor Scott, everybody. Now we have everybody. Very good. Councillor Klingon would like to take up items 4.3 and 4.4 together. Seeing no objection, we'll waive the rules to take up those items together. Madam Clerk, would you read those both into the record?
All right, thank you. Any discussion? All right, seeing none, those items are approved with a copy to sustainability and infrastructure. And then Councillor Klingon would like to waive the rules to take up items 4.5 and 4.6 together. Seeing no objection, Madam Clerk, would you please read those items?
Okay, thank you. Any other discussion? All right, seeing none, those two items are approved then with a copy to Sustainability Infrastructure Council cleaning. You want those to go to committee as well? Yeah. Okay. And S and I have had the same conversation together. Those could theoretically be a finance discussion, but I assume you'd want to keep the... Yeah, I'd like to keep it in public.
All right, very good. So a copy of those will be sent to sustainability and infrastructure. All right, before we get to our next out of order, item 721, I just want to check, is there anyone in the room specifically here for another item that I haven't mentioned, any item other than 721? No, okay. If so, we would take that up out of order so you don't have to wait since we're gonna go into executive session pretty soon here, but hopefully not for long. All right, so Madam Clerk, let's take up item seven. If there's no objection, we'll suspend the rules to take item 7.21 out of order.
We have Manager Hellman here. Manager Hellman, would you please get us started on this, what I anticipate will be a very, we'll call it a long process, a long and thorough process with due diligence.
Thank you, Manager Hellman. And I will note, not in terms of deliberation, but just for the sake of completing the record, because I think it's important to recognize the council's role. If we go back to the first slide, please. In June of 2020, I submitted, or put together, together with Councillor Scott and submitted with Councillor Mbah, a resolution calling for a civilian oversight body, actually, I think it was a two-entity structure that we had at the time. I think we made the mistake of trying to lay out in that resolution a lot more detail than we probably were ready to. But that…
Attorney Sergu, is this item appropriate for executive session? Could you please approach and give the council an opinion?
All right, very good. Council Bob moves to adjourn into executive session. Would you please call the roll?
Yes, and I think I misspoke. I'm not technically adjourning. We are simply going into executive session, and we will come back into open session at the conclusion of executive session.
Let's start with a roll call to establish a quorum coming out of the next session.
All right. No votes were taken in executive session other than the vote to adjourn out of executive session. I see Citizen Huff in the background. Are you here, Crystal, for a specific item, perhaps 6.7.3 and or whatever the corresponding I'm happy to take those out of order now if you're here just for those items. I don't want to keep you around. All right, so before we pick up item 721 off the table, if there's no objection, could we take up items? Help me out here. Counselor Link, it's 7.3. And then the corresponding administration submission is... Which one? Oh, right, of course. Sorry,…
Okay, just in terms of the procedure, given that 10.1 is on the supplemental item, that was sort of due to the Monday holiday and the sort of sequencing and getting that prepared, it just wasn't ready before the submission deadline, so we won't have a deliberation on that, but because it is a zoning ordinance amendment, it also very much overlaps or is sort of essentially the same subject matter as the other item there's just sort of maybe maybe some little differences in approach we will refer both of those items to land use with a copy to the planning board for a scheduled public hearing…
Excellent, thank you for that. So stay tuned for good public hearing and robust committee discussion on those items. Now let's go back to, so we addressed 7.1. Let's take up item 7.21 off the table. This was the update on civilian oversight. We heard Manager Hillman present prior, when we first began discussing this item. I'm told that that sort of presentation will stand. Are there questions or comments or discussion? This is, as I said, this is sort of the opening of the public process to, well, I shouldn't say that. We have, as we just heard, there's been long and robust public processes…
Why don't we do this? Why don't we, why don't we, I see Councilor Scott raises his hand. We'll go around the room, and to the extent that we don't hit any of the things that were brought up, because to the extent things were brought up in executive session that are appropriate for open session, I want to make sure that they do get stated. So if we don't touch on my list here, then I'll flag it, and if we do, then we're good. So Councilor Scott, go ahead.
Council Scott, I got to save some of the stuff for when I sit down and talk, so I'll let you stop there if you'd like to. Other discussion?
Very good. Other discussion? Councilor Link?
Okay. Council Bob, would you take the presidency for a moment?
Thank you. And manager Helman, you mentioned in the listed on the slides, the pre the primary reference documents. Are those at this stage? Or is there a plan to make those sort of? Is there is there is there a page on the on, you know, somewhere in the city website, whether that's the public safety for all sub page or anywhere to that first, we can attach them to agenda items, but it's not the easiest thing to find. So there's a clear way to get folks to them.
Thank you for that. I think to make it as direct a request as possible, if there's a... there's a reason other than just technical logistics which of course we'll understand we'll work through if there's a reason other than that to not you know put them right on that that sub page within the public safety for all site because I think that's where I'd go to look for them you know if I was and so that then if you could you bring that back to me if there's if there's any of the concerns of that yeah let me happy to have the conversation so I don't want to say like you know please do that but if…
Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Manager Hillman and Attorney Sirigu and Mr. Mayor, for all your input so far on this. I'll try not to echo too much what my colleagues have already stated, but, you know, As Councillor Scott noted, the history of this issue goes back to 2020. That process, that council process, led to sort of a two-stage effort. One was looking at the state of civilian oversight across the country, and to be fair, Councillor Scott and I actually did that initially ourselves, had countless hours of conversations with folks from as far away as Oakland and as close as…
Any further discussion? Okay, so that item will be placed on file. As I said, we will look forward to a new submission and a more formal presentation from the administration, possibly at the next meeting. If we're not right there yet, we don't want to rush it, so then if it's at a subsequent meeting, then that's fine. Obviously, there's... There are timing considerations that are involved, but we do want to get this right. We do want to put the horse in front of the cart this time in terms of having a community process that results in a policy proposal, and then we take all the related steps…
All right, Councilor Whelan, request that the report be accepted as submitted. Any discussion on the report? All right, seeing none, the report is accepted. I believe that leaves two items for roll call vote. Is that right, Madam Chair?
All right, very well, thank you. Next item.