The Alameda County Board of Supervisors held its regular meeting on October 28, 2025, beginning at 9:30 AM. The meeting included discussion and votes on consent calendar items, a mass motion for routine items, and two major discussion items (20 and 47) concerning shelter system reforms and Measure W essential services funding. The board also adopted several ordinances, issued proclamations for Veterans Day and Filipino American History Month, and received public comments on the Ethical Investment Policy and other topics. Closed session settlements were reported. Due to only three supervisors being present, all items requiring a four-fifths vote were continued to a 2:00 PM special meeting.
Item 20 – Shelter System Bednight Rate and Transition
Item 47 – Measure W Essential Services Fund Allocations
Ordinances (Items 7, 42, 50, 67)
Set Matters
Recording in progress. Good morning, everyone. I'm gonna call the Board of Supervisors regular meeting of October 28th, 2025 is now in session. Speakers joining the meeting via teleconference. Please unmute your microphone. Will the Kirk the excuse me? Will the clerk please call the roll call? Supervisor Marquez. Present. Supervisor Tam, excuse Supervisor Miley. Supervisor Fortunatabas. Present. President Halbert, excused. We have a quorum. Thank you so much. Those that would like to please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Thank you. The Board of Supervisors welcomes you to its meetings. The board allows in-person and remote observation and participation by members of the public at its meetings. The County of Alameda recognizes the important and invaluable role of public participation and government. Please be reminded that disruptive conduct that renders orderly conduct of the meeting unfeasible will not be tolerated. This includes disruptive conduct that may occur through public comment. The chair will order the removal of individuals who are willfully disrupting the meeting so that the meeting may continue in an orderly manner. For those attending the meeting in person, if you would like to speak on an item on the agenda during public input, please submit a speaker card to the clerk so your name can be called to speak at the appropriate place on the agenda. The clerk will now provide brief instructions on how to verbally participate in public comment through online teleconferencing. Detailed instructions are provided in the teleconferencing guidelines. A link to the document is included in today's agenda. If you are joining the meeting using a computer, use the button at the bottom of your screen to raise your right your hand to request to speak. When called to speak, please unmute your microphone and state your name. If you are calling in, dial star nine to raise your hand to speak. When you are called to speak, the host will enable you to speak. If you decide not to speak, notify the clerk when your call is unmuted, or you may simply hang up and dial back into the meetings. As a reminder, you may always just observe the meeting without participating by clicking on the view now link on the county's webpage at ACGov.org. When called, you will have two minutes to speak. Please limit your remarks to the time allocated. Public comment will generally alternate between in-person and online speakers as determined by the president of the board and subject to overall time limits. Thank you. Thank you, Clerk. Um, I do have a statement from our uh vice chair of the board, vice president Tam. Um I'd like to read it into the record. Um the recent state audit of the Alameda County's Department of Children and Family Services, CFS, exposes some very serious issues that need to be corrected. After receiving the report, the board of supervisors ask that Andrea Ford, Director of Social Services Agency, and Michelle Love, Assistant Agency Director, Department of Children and Family Services, report monthly at the board's work session meeting on the steps they have taken to correct the problems highlighted in the audit. In addition, Supervisor TAM as chair of the board social services committee will be meeting monthly with Ms. Ford, agency director. Her quote is we are failing the most at risk children of Alameda County, stated TAM. The children who are responsible for the children who we are responsible for have been neglected and abused by those whom they relied upon to protect them. We cannot allow our county system to fail them again. Again, that is a statement I'm reading into the record on behalf of Supervisor TAM, and just want to note for the public's information. Um there was a press release yesterday by Senator Dr. Aisha Wahab, and just want the public to know that uh the county takes the findings of the report seriously.