Remarks by Loraine
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Here. Thank you and welcome everyone. We're excited to be here in person tonight with options for those who choose not to be here in person to still participate virtually. Thank you for your cooperation and for helping us maintain an efficient and accessible meeting environment. There are several ways to participate in public comment tonight. For those attending in person, you may complete a yellow request to speak slip and hand it to the deputy city clerk. If you're participating remotely in Zoom, you may use a raise your hand feature and you'll be called upon at the appropriate time. If…
Thank you very much and please stay there a moment so we can present the proclamation and take a photo with you and any other police officers who wish to join, thank you. And Julian's mom. Thank you all. We have another ceremonial item for Hispanic Heritage Month, which we are also celebrating at this time. I'd like to invite to the podium Adriana Fernandez-Arriada from El Concilio, San Mateo County. And I have this proclamation that I will read and then give you the floor. And thank you for joining us. Whereas, National Hispanic Heritage Month was enacted into law on August 17, 1988, and is…
Thank you. Please stay a moment so we can take a photo. Okay, one more. Code enforcement officer appreciation week. I'd like to invite to the podium to celebrate Zachary Dahl, director of community development, and anyone else who's part of code enforcement. I feel like I saw some faces. I have a proclamation to share. All right, I'll try my best. Whereas the city's code enforcement team. This seems like I may get some names wrong. And that would be unfortunate. So I'll just say the city's code enforcement team. many of whom are here with us today, are dedicated and highly qualified…
Excellent. Please pardon us a moment while we come and join you for a photo. Thanks everybody for bearing with us as we had a lot to celebrate. We are now moving beyond the ceremonial portion of tonight's meeting, which includes the business items being considered by the council. For that reason, I would like to remind all in the room and online that at this time we'll be enforcing our rules of decorum. As such, we do not allow for cheering, jeering, or booing during the business portion of the meeting, as this tends to put a chill on public comment. Our goal is to ensure that all…
Thank you, and at this time, given we have received quite a bit of public comment on items 11 and 12, I'm just going to start by pulling those items from consent calendar. And I will ask if anyone else has any other items they wish to pull. Seeing none, are there members of the public who wish to comment on any consent calendar item? Now would be the time to make your comment. This is for consent calendar items only. Although, I actually think, yeah, I wonder if we can separate this and perhaps I can take advice from the city manager.
Okay, thank you. Is there a motion from council to approve those items? So moved.
Okay, thank you. We have a motion and a second. Deputy City Clerk, can you please call roll on those items?
Thank you. And at this time, given one of those items included appointing a new member to one of our commissions, or rather our district, I would like to invite our newly appointed commissioner to come to the front of the dais to receive the oath of office from our deputy city court. Thank you. Thank you very much. I did pull items 11 and 12 for discussion. With regard to item 11, I had a couple of questions for staff, but before we get to that, I think we could open public comment on that item.
That sounds reasonable under the circumstances to me. Deputy City Clerk, perhaps you can count the number of requests.
Thank you very much. Thank you to those who gave public comment. We're going to close public comment on item 11. And I just pulled this because I did want to ask a question or two about item 11 to staff. One was, well, actually before I do that, maybe I'll just quickly check to see if there was any response to any comments that we heard from staff before I asked.
Thank you. So we heard public comment from a few folks about the audit portion of, I think, you know, recommendation five. I'm going to go to the item to make sure I am following it in the report. But I mainly wanted to ask about that in our response letter, because For example, this current draft letter notes with regard to R5 that the audit report's recommendation has been implemented. Some folks are claiming that is not the case. Could you please speak to that?
We we did receive an email that noted that I mean, I think we've heard a little comments that what is shared may not be. A full report, but rather sharing of audit logging.
I see. So recommendation five I'm reading now says the audit reports produced by the ALPR operator should substantiate compliance. And what I think I'm hearing from you is that does not necessarily mean that those audit reports are to be published to the public, but rather as long as audits are being conducted, those audit reports that are being conducted and produced, are compliant with California law and our policy.
Okay, I appreciate this. Would you be willing to share the most recent audit report with council?
Thank you very much. Those are my questions related to this item. Do any other council members have a question? Deputy Mayor Fernandez.
Seeing no others, I'll thank the Chief for his time and mention that personally, I am satisfied with the answers to the questions, and I'm OK with moving ahead. on this item, so I will make a motion to, oh, I guess I'll just make the tiniest, pettiest addition, but if we could remove one R from my name, that would be great. City Attorney, did you, okay. So assuming that should be simple enough, I will make a motion to approve item 11. Okay, we have a motion and a second. Deputy City Clerk, may we have a roll call vote, please?
Thank you. So we do have one remaining item that was pulled, item 12. I'll just note before we finish tallying public comment for that item that if you commented on item 12 just a moment ago, well, I'll just say that if you're in line to give public comment, please, there's no need to repeat anything you may have mentioned earlier. That's all. But with that, Deputy City Clerk.
Thank you. I will close public comment on item 12. And I have I pulled this because I had a couple questions again. So thank you for your patience and understanding with this. But my first question was relating to comments we heard about the no disclosure language noted in our grand jury report, R6,
Thank you. I did, City Attorney, I did ask you a similar question earlier, and I wondered if you wouldn't mind sharing your thoughts.
Thank you both. I appreciate that. I also wanted to ask a little bit. Chief, you actually, I think alluded to it a little bit in our special session item. I was curious about what we, how long we, think we would be operating if we were to accept this amendment with both systems running simultaneously. We've heard concern about having two systems, even if they are in the same place, even if they are capturing similar data. It would seem to me that part of the idea behind this is that if, for example, we as a city felt comfortable with the axon system as opposed to the flock system, or found we…
Thank you. Finally, is there any flexibility in this amendment that might allow us to potentially postpone this decision so that we could have a public meeting in between?
So even one month, you think, would be too long to wait?
OK, thank you. I'm just looking around to see if other council members have any questions or thoughts.
Thank you, Council Member Newsom. So I pulled this because in addition to hearing the public comment, which I feel like we would have heard whether I pulled it or not tonight, I wanted to ask a couple of questions and get a sense of more information about the item, where we were with it, what flexibility there might be. Partly because we haven't talked a lot about AOPRs here in council. This is the first time I've done it, and this is my fourth year. I WANTED TO DO, YOU KNOW, I FRANKLY UPON HEARING PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS AND THE CONCERNS, MY FEELING, MY GUESS IS THAT IT'S THE TIP OF THE…
so if i might i think part of the issue is um we if we were to agree with this amendment um by the time we get to november 2027 my understanding is we would then to some extent be kind of locked in um so i i would ask that we consider a date before then