The committee convened to review and schedule upcoming agenda items for council and committee meetings, discuss informational reports on police data sharing and sideshow abatement, and address administrative matters such as bond resolutions. The meeting also included significant public testimony on security contracting and constituent concerns, culminating in an adjournment into a special city council meeting.
Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today's rules and legislation committee meeting of Thursday, July 17th, 2025. The time is now 10:33 a.m. This meeting has come to order. If I can get K-Top to turn up my mic, please turn it up, please. Before taking roll, I will provide speaker instructions on how to submit a speaker's card for this meeting. Two comment in-person members of the public must submit a separate speaker card for each item on the agenda. Online speaker requests were due 24 hours prior to the start of this meeting, which was yet. If K-Top can turn up my mic, please.m. Therefore, speaker cards will be accepted up until 1043 a.m. Please submit your speaker cards by 1043 a.m. I will now proceed with taking role of members present on roll. Council members Brown. Present five. Present. Ramachandran. Excused. Right here. And Chair Jenkins. Present. Thank you. Showing all four members present through the chair to K Top. If you could turn the dais mics up, please so that the public can hear us. Thank you so much. Before we get started, Chair, do we have any announcements before we begin? No announcements. Thank you. Moving to our first item, approval of the draft minutes from the committee meetings of July 3rd, 2025. We have one speaker on this item. Yes, through the chair. Which one is it? Through the chair of the rules and legislation committee minutes. Okay. So this is not correct. I just want to spend some time, not on the third, but what happened last week? You had approval of through rules eight of $27 million for contracts for head start using Rule 24, bypassing committee, knowing that we have problems with head start related to fraud, discrimination of employees, and discrimination at various sites. That should have gone to committee. You had an economics opportunities grant that was going to supposedly going to remodel a training soccer facility. You had 2.8 million dollars for paving and maintenance equipment when you only have one crew for paving paving in the city of Oakland. You had an NSA report scheduled for June for September and a committee meeting when you're going to meet with the judge in September related to the NSA. You also had some confusing dialogue about what was going to happen with the security contracts. One of the uh members read into uh the minutes, approval for something having to do with Allied, and uh the other uh security company. It was thoroughly confusing. And now on the minutes, you have absolutely nothing. Absolutely nothing going on related to this, and you owe you owe the company. Councilmember Brown. Um, just wanted to note the presence of council member unger and council member Houston. Um, so do we need to adjourn into a special meeting? Not unless they're participating. Participate to schedule.