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.

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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.

So you have some questions to things that are on the agenda.

So once you participate, we'll uh adjourn into a special meeting.

Um, I'll make a motion on this item to move approval.

Second on the draft minutes moved by council member brown, seconded by council member Ramachandron.

On roll council members.

Aye.

Brown, aye.

Okay.

Five.

Excuse Ramachandron.

Aye.

Chair Jenkins.

Aye.

The motion passes with three ayes, one excused, council member five.

Moving to new new scheduling, item number three, starting with item three point one.

Receive an oral informational report on the Oakland Police Department's data sharing policy for automated license plate readers, including all policies related to sharing information with immigration and customs enforcement ice to go on the July 22nd, 2025 special public safety committee agenda.

Is there somebody here from District 2 to state the urgency finding?

Good morning, Kimberly Jones, Chief of Staff for Council Member Wong.

Please bear with me because I have glasses but still can't read with them.

Our urgency finding is the federal government is engaging in escalated mass deportation actions after the recent federal budget increases for ice and CB, these actions are likely to increase on July 14th.

The SF standard reported that the Oakland Police Department automatic license plate reader data had been shared with ICE.

It is urgent that the city council and public understand OPD's limits on data sharing.

Thank you.

No need for urgency finding as the committee is a special committee, so there's no need for urgency finding for 3.1 or 3.2.

Okay.

Okay.

Thank you.

If I may through the chair of Canvas from the City Administrator's Office for item 3.1 if it's amendable to Councilmember Wang, if we can ask that this item be um oral be removed and it be an informational report as staff would like to include a supporting document for this item.

We are requesting oral reports, and we are requesting that the we remove the oral report so staff can submit a supporting document to support this uh report.

So if we can with this oral report actually have it to be an informational report so we can submit supporting documents for this item for the 22nd, yes.

Okay, that would be fine for item 3.1.

Yes, okay, okay.

Thank you.

Moving to our next item 3.2, receive an oral informational report on the Department of Transportation's planning for use of the 1.4 million dollars allocated for sideshow abatement and the budget adopted by council in June 2025 to go on the July 22nd, 2025 special public safety committee agenda.

To district two, is there a reason that this isn't going to public works and transportation?

Since sideshows are criminal activity, we'd like to hear it in public safety.

Is Councilmember Unger still here?

Are you okay with that?

Okay.

So is this going on the 22nd?

Perfect.

Thank you.

Moving to our next item, item 3.3.

Adopt a resolution recognizing the extraordinary vegetation management performance of Ecosystems Concepts Inc., its herders and caprine goats staff as the organization executes its contractual agreements with the city of Oakland, designed to mitigate the risk of wildfires by deploying hundreds of grazing goats into high risk fire zones to reduce the amount of hazard hazardous vegetation to go on the September 30th, 2025 Public Works and Transportation Committee agenda.

And item 3.4 adopt a resolution authorizing the city administrator to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the city of San Leandro, establishing that the city of San Leandro will process planning and building entitlements for improvements to an existing structure and parking lot at one East 14th Street 10701 International Boulevard, a property located within both jurisdictions and act as a lead agency for the purposes of review under the California Environmental Quality Act to go on the September 30th, 2025 Community and Economic Development Committee agenda.

And through the chair, I believe we have staff here for a dias request.

Dave David Jones, Treasury, we do have a request for three resolutions this morning that are in conjunction with the ordinance that just passed this past Tuesday.

It was item number 11.

So we're requesting for these items, these three resolutions, excuse me, to go to the uh September 16th City Council meeting.

And just to kind of let you know, these three resolutions have to go after the ordinance.

So the ordinance was item number 11 this past Tuesday, and these three resolutions that I will read need to go after the ordinance.

So the first resolution is approving the issuance and sale of one or more series of excuse me, City of Oakland General Obligation Bonds, measure DD and/or measure U in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $300 million, and City of Oakland general obligation refunding in the aggregate principal amount not to exceed $55 million, approving the terms of sale of said bonds, approving the form of and authorizing the execution and delivery of a fiscal agent agreement, continuing disclosure certificate, and a bond purchase agreement, approving the form of and authorizing the distribution of a preliminary official statement and authorizing the execution and delivery of an official statement and authorizing necessary action items related thereto.

The second resolution will be resolution identifying projects authorized for funding with proceeds of City of Oakland General Obligation Bonds Measure U, Series 2025 B1's tax exempt, and series 2025 B2s taxable issued pursuant to the 2022 Affordable Housing and Infrastructure Bond Ordinance Measure U and allocating bond proceeds for the identified projects, and then the following third resolution resolution declaring the official intent to reimburse certain expenditures from proceeds of indebtedness in conjunction with Oakland Trust for Clean Water and Safe Parks Measure D D and the 2022 Affordable Housing and Infrastructure Bond Measure U.

And those items will go or we're requesting to go to September 16th, City Council Member meeting following the ordinance that was uh item number 11 this past Tuesday.

Thank you.

Consent.

Non consent.

To the to the parliamentarian.

I mean it's the pleasure.

The rules committee has jurisdiction to determine the consent and non-consent calendars of the ordinance to the staff.

Is there a reason this needs to go on non consent?

And also to the committee, you can um you can reorder the agenda up until the agenda for the 16th prints.

So you could also reorder the agenda at next week's rules committee.

If these are placed on non-consent today, you could put them on consent next week.

Traditionally they've been on non-consent.

Is there a legal reason as to why it needs to be on non-consent outside of the traditional?

Tell me.

I mean, we can we can follow up, but I prefer it they could go on non-consent to be heard.

Also, through the chair to the committee, the staff has requested that these be heard after the or final adoption of the ordinance, which would appear on the consent calendar.

So if these are heard after they'd have to be on non-consent.

So we'll talk, we'll discuss it next week's world.

So for now we'll say non-consent.

Sure, thank you.

And through the chair, I believe this concludes our new scheduling for this week.

Sir Speaker.

Yes.

For item three, once you hear your name, please approach the podium, or please raise your hand in the Zoom app, Ms.

Sado Olabala, and Greg Feldman.

Hello, Council.

My name is Greg Feldman.

I'm a vice president with Allied Universal.

I'm here today to voice our company's request to schedule and push forward the Oakland Public Works Staff recommendation and award of the citywide security service contract.

You know, this decision should be based on Excuse me, Mr.

Feldman.

There's no security item on the agenda.

Uh Council President, I was advised that I would still be able to speak should it shift to open form.

Mr.

Sado, Ms.

Sada, order in the chambers.

Yeah.

Can you can you just relate it to just continue?

You're sure.

Okay.

This decision should be based on the requirements of the RFP that was developed by the public works team who has the expertise in administering these types of contracts to fully compare all offerers.

The formal selection process that was created by the Public Works Evaluation Committee and the lengthy multi-step process that was undertaken should not be discredited by ignoring staff's recommendation and proposing an alternate award based on what appears to be personal preference.

It goes against the entire transparency of the process.

Those employees live in and represent every single district within the city of Oakland.

And that's a number five times the entire workforce of Marina Security, who I may remind the council is a San Francisco headquartered company, not an Oakland headquartered company.

For over 20 years now, Allied Universal has been a business resident in Oakland and continues to serve our con our clients.

There's a reason why city or our clients, such as the Port of Oakland, the Oakland Museum, the Kapoor Center, Kaiser, Amtrak, all of these clients and many more continue to use Allied Universal for their security needs.

Allied Universal is an original signatory of the Bay Area CBA over 20 years ago and remains in good standing with the union today.

Our partnership on this proposal with a small LBE who is a black woman veteran-owned company guarantees that a portion of this contract remains right here in the city of Oakland.

The safety and security of the city of Oakland is something that I hold dearly.

Whether it's going with my kids to the Oakland Public Library and then competing in the summer read a thon and getting my 20 days of reading for my kids, or my wife running around Lake Merritt every single Saturday.

The city of Oakland deserves to have safety and security as a priority.

Our recommendation is a schedule and push forward the original agenda item and award Allied Universal and adhere to the applicable legal requirements.

Thank you.

At some point, we have to deal with the fact that people don't speak to the items on the agenda.

Um the ordinance, the general obligation bond issuance, why it should be on non-consent, mainly because this is a risk action that you're taking.

Because of the risk, the risk is you're gonna have to probably pay more higher interest.

The risk is it's gonna be difficult to find an institution that wants to do business with you, and it's gonna that risk means it should be on non-consent for this government.

As it relates to the other items, 3.1.

You have an extreme interest in protecting people who here are here illegally.

I cannot get you to deal with the fact that as deportation is taking place, black and African American people are being deported out of the city of Oakland.

And just give you an example, we have in the city of Los Angeles.

Of Compton is Latino, sixty-two percent of South Central is Latino, 70% of Watts is Latino, and here in East Oakland, 60% of East Oakland is Latino.

We are being pushed out, and you have this engagement to protect people who are not citizens of Oakland, but you don't engage in protecting African Americans and this city.

3.3 uh recognizing uh this the individual you want to recognize, but I go back to you have unfairly not taken actions on Ort Shanks Jr.'s uh approval in June of 2024, the summer to make available on Mandela a plaque and changing of certain uh streets.

Um the next one is 3.4.

A need you uh you're talking about a need for a contract with San Leandro.

You need to have a contract put in place with the City of Piedmont as it reflects their ability to use the city of Oakland's libraries.

You haven't had that for the last 15 years, and every year the city of Piedmont gives you amount of money to use our libraries based on what they decide they want to give us, and you also do not have a contract with ABC, it ended security, it ended on June 30th, and you're going month to month without a contract.

You know, I'm out of order, but I'm not this much out of order as y'all are out of order.

How can you legally do business, have security here without a contract?

You have a legal.

Thank you for your comments.

Chair, that was our last speaker.

I want to take a motion on item three with the inclusion of the diet's request.

So moved.

Second, thank you.

On item three moved by council member Ramatran, seconded by council member five to accept item three as amended, including the dias requests read into record on roll, council members brown.

Aye, five, aye, Rama Chandron.

Aye, and Chair Jenkins, thank you.

The motion passes with four ayes to accept item three as amended.

Moving to our next item, item number four, review of draft draft agendas pending list, city council and committee meetings, and we have one speaker for this item.

Good morning, Candace from the City Administrator's Office.

I would like to bring your attention to the canceled July 22nd Finance and Management Committee agenda.

The one item listed there, item number three, we would ask that that item be rescheduled to the September 30th Finance and Management Committee.

Thank you.

Is there gonna be a special LED to um Council Member Fife?

A special LEC, yeah, LEC.

No.

But I um would like to speak on this item after after uh public comment after the speakers concluded with their comments, okay.

Councilmember Houston, at what point on the agenda were you planning to speak?

You're gonna speak it open for.

Okay.

Let's go to the public speaker, Miss Asado La Bala.

So I find it insulting and deplorable what Ms.

Wong implied that if we had a health component where beds would be available for our critically ill homeless community in Chinatown it would be a threat to the seniors so I'm calling for some investigations of what's going on in Chinatown you have a grant that was put in place for China Chinatown to have access to uh Jack London Square that grant was intended for communities that were victims of redlining and econom or imminent domain which wasn't happening in Chinatown Chinatown also received an ambassador's grant for safety in the community they were supposed to have the ability with through family bridges to spread that out to other communities that grant Chinatown's double parking goes on every day with no parking technicians ticketing anybody Chinatown has had issues with gambling and prostitution and it's been ignored Chinatown has received 32 million dollars from measure you for a recreational a new recreational center when the community agreed that they were going to pay for the recreational center you gave them 32 million dollars but the whole project is going to be 74 million dollars and you're beginning the project not knowing where the rest of the money is coming for you had an increase of uh security policed in Chinatown with an exorbitant amount of overtime that went to police officers we need to have a report out on that you also have uh taken down the basketball courts at the Lincoln Recreational Center with the objective of not allowing blacks to come into the community you need to I ask you to investigate that you haven't done it okay you need to have a report out of the neighborhood works america program that's in Chinatown and how they are affording housing to all of Oakland that's not happening.

Mr Sada do you want to continue Councilmember Fai I apologize I thought the city administration was still speaking um and had additional comments to make but I do want to move the life enrichment committee meeting scheduled for next Tuesday july 22nd to 9 30 um seeing as we're moving up other I believe it's 9 30 as we're moving the public safety committee uh agenda up as well okay so special 9 30 a.m l ec yes uh council member brown um i just wanted to double check that that will be enough um i haven't had a look at how many items are on the lac um agenda um and i just want to confirm that public safety is currently scheduled at 10 30 or at eleven okay okay so we have fmc on the 22nd is counseled with item three going to the um 9 30 fmc meeting LECT I'm sorry yeah for September 30th for finance um lec will be a special meeting uh 9 30 a.m.

September 16th is going to be our first council meeting back after recess on September 30th the fifth Tuesday for special committee meetings and just noting that September 9th will be a city holiday California missions day I'll understand a motion.

So moved second thank you this item item number four was moved by council member Fife, seconded by council member Ramachandran to accept item four as amended on roll.

Council members brown.

Aye.

Five.

Aye.

Ramachandren.

Aye.

And Chair Jenkins.

Aye.

The motion passes with four ayes to accept item four as amended.

We have two speakers for our open forum.

Mr.

Sada ollabala and Courtney White.

Councilmember Houston.

You want to come after Mr.

Sada?

Okay.

I want to uh make an announcement first.

Uh tomorrow is the uh Orley Brown scholarship banquet.

Uh I had the honor of meeting Miss Brown two years ago.

I went to the banquet last year, and I'll be going tomorrow.

It's uh it's an exceptional amount of work she's been able to accomplish, and it started with her own salary being the source of the funding for the scholarships for the African American community.

So I hope those of you who are able to support her uh will do that.

She is just a fantastic human being.

Uh the other thing I'm concerned with there was a report of twelve thousand dollars from Measure Z being spent by the police department to go to Washington DC for a memorial, and uh that those funds were not uh capable of being used for what the the Baboro was something they needed to go through, but they shouldn't have spent that money.

And my question is how do they get the capacity to spend the money?

And lastly, I want to go back to this issue of gentrification and uh how we have to at some point lay out some directions on how we're gonna deal with gentrifications that's going on not only in this city, it's going on in Chicago, it's going on in New York, it's for African Americans, it's going on in DC.

Of course, Los Angeles, uh to some degree in New Orleans, but we're dealing with it.

You've got to discuss, we are just as valuable as anybody else.

You spend money to support other people, do that.

But when you're supporting people, and we got an unemployment rate of 8.9 African Americans in this city, and it's only 4.2 for whites, 4.5 for Latinos, something's wrong.

And we would we homelessness, 50 to 60 percent for African Americans.

Okay, absolutely.

Do we need to adjourn to a special meeting?

So moved.

Second, thank you.

On the motion made by Councilmember Five, seconded by Councilmember Brown at 1102 a.m.

to adjourn the rules and legislation committee and enter into a special city council meeting due to the presence of councilmember Houston's participation today's meeting on roll.

Council members brown.

Aye five, aye, Rama Chandran, aye and Chair Jenkins.

Aye.

The motion passes with four ayes, and we have entered into a special city council meeting.

Thank you.

Madam Clerk, I want to make sure that the council member gets his time.

Can you put two minutes on the clock for me?

Absolutely.

Thank you, thank you.

Um, I just I'm speaking to the public.

I'm speaking to the audience, and I'm speaking to all my council members.

Wayne is not here.

The public is watching.

They are watching.

Um K Top, can you play the video?

It was really um heart-wrenching when uh I was sitting on the dais, and one of my constituents came up and said something that had been for the last two years.

And I've been in office a hundred and ninety-two days, right?

And I feel still feel responsible.

K-topp, can you play that video, please?

Do you remember when the young lady go ahead?

And this is about scheduling, correct?

It's about scheduling.

Okay.

It's about scheduling, because it's about that EMP plan that we're gonna be bringing up for council, and that's why I keep saying that the public is watching.

This thing has to be changed.

So is K Top.

Um, you say K Top was ready.

I got minutes, so I'm okay.

They are right.

I sent it to them about 30 minutes ago, so I put them on blast a little bit.

I'm sorry.

Yes, I do too, and I want the public to see it.

Because it's shameful.

The the person that she mentioned is a senior, 79 years old.

And each one of us, each one of us, if we had to walk out the door and open our gate and see what was in front of her, it's shameful.

It's shameful.

Her son just got out of prison, did 25 years.

You think he's gonna let his mama live like that?

I'm not.

And I'm telling the public, and I'm telling Oakland Public Works, if that car is not moved, I'm gonna take a forklift and move it myself.

I'm gonna move it myself.

Um so she has to walk out of here, President.

I got five seconds.

No, no, no.

Just continue.

Okay, top just can't.

Because she has to walk out of her or her her house and open her gate three feet away, and it's been there for over two years, and this guy threatened her, threatened her daughter.

He said, I haven't took my meds, um, I'm not gonna be responsible for what I do and had a knife in his hand.

79 years old, one of our seniors, right?

So I wanted the public, because they're watching, and I wanted each council member to see this.

Because if Carol Five, if you had to do it, Brown, if you had to do it, President, if you had to do it, Wang is not here.

If you got Ramachad, if you had to walk out with your baby and see that, and let your child see that.

That's heart-wrenching.

And the late Darryl Carey said this to me, and I'm gonna always repeat this.

He said, if we're not mad now, when are we gonna get mad?

If we're not angry now, when are we gonna get angry?

It is hurtful when you see what just happened.

And she called me out on the dice, and I expect to be called out on the diet.

So is it ready?

If somebody else wants to speak in front of me, excuse me.

I did want to say one thing.

If you drive up a Lision Fields on real REA, there's a for sale sign, uh Canon Oaks Drive, four for sale signs for houses, Hanson, four for sale signs, Surrey, one for sale sign, Elysian Fields, three three for sale signs from uh Keller and uh Mountain to Edwards, three for sale signs.

Something's going on.

People are selling their homes or trying to, and the question is why.

Thank you, sir.

So um, while they're doing it, I just like to share that.

When you guys see this the public, when you see this, if your mother had to walk out and see that every day for two years.

If your mother was threatened with a knife and said, I didn't have my meds, you heard what happened in District 6 when Lauren Taylor was in office.

What happened?

That person said they was gonna kill that person and they killed them.

Do we want that to happen?

So I'm I'm I'm I'm putting this on the record.

If that car is not moved this weekend, I'm gonna take a forklift and I'm gonna move it myself and place it where public works will pick it up.

And if that trash is not moved, I'm gonna remove that also.

So um, if it well, what you want to do now, President, since it's not up.

Try, I want to see.

Um we can wait.

A couple more minutes.

Councilmember Fife.

I have to say through the chair to council member Houston, that though your methods are unconventional, they are methods that I've had to take as well in terms of acting independently to make sure that our seniors and uh impacted neighborhoods are cared for.

And so I do appreciate you um raising this concern of your constituent.

I had an elderly constituent in my district uh maybe a year or two ago now, um, who it was a very tragic situation where an individual who the family had been trying to get mental health services since he was 15, took the life of an elderly um post office worker, uh, because he was not um taking his medications as well.

So we do have to take these situations seriously because it can lead to harm and in fact, um harm that we can't get back.

And I do want to say, just in honor of Dilma Spruel, that we do need to take these situations more seriously when there are individuals that are potentially dangerous on our streets who need mental health services that might end up in prison because of the actions that they take.

So I I understand the passion that you have for this issue.

I share your passion, and I look forward to working with the entire council to make sure that we pass the appropriate policies and take the appropriate actions to move a lot faster for our constituents.

So I want to appreciate that.

Thank you, Councilmember Fife.

So is it up yet?

If it's not, I don't want to hold up the public.

I don't want to hold up and take hostage of the city council, right?

So here it is.

Just play it.

It doesn't need to be.

I want to caution the body that you are already beyond item three, which is scheduling, and this item is not agendized, so council should not be engaging in the lengthy discussion.

But the council is engaging in dialogue about an item that is not agendized.

No, they you could do do what you're supposed to do, President.

No, please proceed, please play the video.

We just can't engage you.

So play the video, doesn't need to audio.

Because picture speak a thousand words.

So she was saying that council member Houston, you are my council member, and I'm calling you out on the dais.

And she did.

She spoke and said that she had to deal with more taxes than I will my mortgage.

And the Oakland zoo that I pay bond measure taxes for, I cannot be.

They can't go to the parks already.

But now they can't do it on the streets.

Yes.

So homelessness, mental illness, and drug addiction are three different things.

Homelessness does not, we don't have a whole bunch of homelessness going on in Oakland only.

We got mental illness and drug addiction.

A lot of the people that I have encountered want to be in the street, but you can't live on my street now with tires and gas cans and feces.

And for months I've been trying to get somebody to come out and look.

I've asked you, council member, to come and look, and you haven't come and look.

I need you to come and look.

Mr.

Jenkins, I want to vote no on measure A.

You can stop it now.

You can stop it now.

That wasn't the video, and I'm sorry for holding up the council.

They can't play it.

It showed the video of the the constituents' house and the conditions.

I'll bring this back another time so we can look at it, but I appreciate the time and I appreciate everyone listening to me.

Thank you.

Oh, there was a video there.

Help me, please.

She has to walk out this gate and see this every morning.

And we moved it off the sidewalk right here.

Please help.

Please help.

Over a year.

So this 79-year-old woman has to walk out her door every single day and see that.

When I went over there and visited it yesterday, they had three young um children playing across the street.

Their mother, their grandmother lived there for sixty-two years, have to walk out that door every day to see that.

That's unacceptable.

And all I'm saying is I'm gonna bring attention to it.

And if things don't happen in the time frame that they should, I will do them myself.

I've shown that over and over, and I will.

So all I'm saying is let's please please help this senior, 79-year-old senior.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Houston, for your advocacy for the constituents of District 7 seeing no more comments from any of the council members.

This meeting is at Alcatraz this morning reviewing the facility.

Yeah, they over there this morning.

So I know y'all want to advocate, so put that in your lawsuit today.

That they can't come to Alcatraz, okay?

At one o'clock, y'all gonna be talking about.