The Oakland City Council meeting on October 21, 2025, addressed routine consent items and a highly debated police commission reappointment slate. The council approved the consent calendar with one dissent and voted to reject the police commission appointments, returning them to the selection panel for further recruitment.
Good afternoon. Good afternoon and welcome to the City Council meeting of Tuesday, October 21st, 2025. Before I call roll, I will go over speaker card instructions. If you'd like to fill out a speaker card on any agenda item, please fill out a speaker's card before the item is called for discussion, or you have an hour and a half from the start of this meeting. This meeting started at three thirty-three. So that time will be five. If you were looking to submit a comment online, that period has closed, as those cards are due twenty-four hours before the start of this meeting. If you wish to speak to any item or make a motion, you must press the button to get into the queue, and the council president will allow you to speak in the order that you press the button to request to speak. On roll for this meeting, are council members Brown present. Council Member Fife is excused, Councilmember Gaio is running late. Council Member Houston. Present. Councilmember Ramachandran. Present. Councilmember Unger. Here. Council Member Wong. So don't press the button until I press it, but I can hear you and Chair Jenkins. Present. Showing six members present at this time. There are no special orders. Are you doing love? Council Member Brown. Okay. Excellent. Well, um, colleagues, community, um, I just wanted to take a moment. Um, this week is Oakland's love life week, and so I wanted to start by reading the um abbreviated acknowledgement. So it reads, we acknowledge that in service to our beloved city of Oakland and all its citizens, adhering to the city's official model, Oakland love life. We enter into this space committed to embody love as our guiding principle. We acknowledge love life as our motto as we denounce violence in all forms and the conditions that create it. We acknowledge acknowledge that when we demonstrate love, we also exhibit respect, kindness towards each other. We commit to acts of love as an intentional force to generate tangible solutions in regards to all of our actions. We recognize as leaders we must set an example and precedent for those in community who have entrusted us with these duties. We welcome and appreciate all contributions to the space, even when expressing disagreement. We request that we lead with love in your heart. We seek to find common ground, tangible solutions that demonstrate love for our city, its residents, and all constituents. We acknowledge that when we lead with love, we are able to uplift a thriving city rooted in equity, equality, justice, inclusion, and opportunity for all. We commit to the action of love life as our model and our mantra. Thank you. Thank you so much, Councilmember. Going to item three, there are no special orders of the day going to item four, which is modifications to the agenda and procedural items. Thank you, Madam Clark. I uh I'd like to pull item 5.5. So there's a motion and a second. Are there any objections? Councilmember Unger. I'd like to hear it. Yeah. Um there's some I there's some issues with the item that I want to see addressed before we have a second reading, and I want to get a time to talk with the department and some other relevant key stakeholders for this. So since there was an objection, we need to go to a roll call.