The Berkeley City Council convened a regular meeting focused on ceremonial recognitions, consent calendar approvals, and public comments. The council honored local sports champions and community members, received positive audit updates, and approved a consent calendar including items on noise ordinance amendments, grant applications, and police accountability. No action items were on the agenda, leading to a relatively short meeting.
Okay, I think we're gonna get started. Alright, everyone, I am calling to order the Berkeley City Council meeting. Today is Tuesday, October 14th, 2025. It is 6.07 p.m. And clerk, could you please start us off with a roll? Okay, Councilmember Kisserwani. Here. Taplin. Present. Councilmember Bartlett is currently absent. Tregum. Present. O'Keefe. Here. Blackaby. Here. Unapara. Here. Humbert. Here. And Mayor Ishii. And Vice Mayor Humbert is uh participating in the meeting remotely this evening, pursuant to the Brown Act as amended by AB 2449 under the just cause uh exception. A quorum of the council is participating in person at the physical location that is noticed on the agenda. And uh Vice Mayor Humbert, if you could please provide a general description of the circumstances relating to your need to appear remotely. Whoever did not disclose any medical diagnosis or other confidential medical information. All right, thank you, Mr. Clerk. I have a mild cold that I don't want to transmit to anyone else. Okay, and please disclose if anybody at your location is 18 years of age or older, and if so, um the general nature of their relationship with you. Yeah, there's no one else present in my home office. Okay. And uh Vice Mayor Humbert will participate through both audio and visual technology during the meeting. And Councilmember Bartlett is present. Very good. Thank you. And thank you, Vice Mayor Humbert, for not passing on your cuties to us. Um and the next on our agenda is our land acknowledged uh acknowledgement statement, and that will be this month uh by Councilmember Taplin. The city of Berkeley recognizes that the community we live in was built on the territory of Hutchun, the ancestral and unceded land of the Chicono speaking uh Ohlone people, the ancestors and descendants of the sovereign and Verona Band of Alameda County. This land was and continues to be of great importance to all the Olone tribes and descendants of the Verona Band. As we begin our meeting tonight, we acknowledge and honor the original inhabitants of Berkeley, the documented 5,000 year history of a vibrant community at the West Berkeley Shell Mound, and the Ohlone people who continue to reside in the East Bay. We recognize that Berkeley's residents have and continue to benefit from the use and occupation of this unceded stolen land since the city of Berkeley's incorporation 1878. A stewards of the laws regulating the city of Berkeley, it is not only vital that we recognize the history of this land, but also recognize that the Alone people are present members of Berkeley and other East Bay communities today. The City of Berkeley will continue to build relationships with Luzon tribe and to create meaningful actions that uphold the intention of this land acknowledgement. Thank you very much. And I think it's worth noting that um Monday was Indigenous People's Day. So hopefully folks were able to attend our Indigenous People's Say Pow Wow, which was on Saturday at Civic Center Park. And so I have some um ceremonial matters this evening, and we have two attorments in memory, but I want to start with our very exciting one. So if you'd like, you'd come on up. Yeah. So I'm gonna put my my hat on for this.