This regular meeting of the Oakland Public Works and Transportation Committee convened at 11:30 AM on October 28, 2025, with a quorum present. Councilmember Houston participated remotely due to a contagious illness. The committee reviewed and voted on eight agenda items, including routine approvals, infrastructure projects, sidewalk repair funding, a parking restriction amendment, and a resolution supporting a new BART station feasibility study. An informational report on illegal dumping featured a volunteer cleanup effort, which received a formal commendation.
Good morning and welcome to the Public Works and Transportation Committee meeting of Tuesday, October 28th, 2025. The time is now eleven thirty AM, and this meeting may come to order. Before taking roll, I will provide instructions on how to submit speaker cards for items on this agenda. If you're here with us in chamber and would like to submit a speaker card, please submit. Um, please fill it out and turn one in to myself or a clerk representative no later than ten minutes after the start of this meeting. This meeting came or or before the item is read into record. Registering to speak via Zoom is now due twenty-four hours prior to the start of this meeting time. This meeting came to order at eleven thirty AM, and speaker cards will no longer be accepted ten minutes after this meeting has begun, making that time eleven forty AM. We'll now proceed with taking roles. Councilmember Guile. Councilmember Houston is currently absent. Council Member Wong. And Chair Unger. Moving on to item number one. Oh, noting the presence of Council Member Houston at eleven thirty-one a. Okay. Perfect. Just one moment. So when she gets back in a minute or two, we will proceed. We have a quorum. All right, as we're waiting for the attorney, let's go out of order here and do one item that um doesn't need to be. Um that's mostly an informational report. That would be item eight. And we put that up. Our attorney's coming back. Okay, I believe our attorney has some information about remote participation. Yes, good afternoon. So I do understand that Council Member Houston will be hearing remotely via government code section five four nine five three J two that he is ill and has a contagious illness pursuant to the rules. And we need to maintain an in-person quorum. Okay, Councilmember Houston, did you hear those requirements and meet them? Yes, I do. No one is in the room. No, it was, but I thought it would leave. Excellent. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, proceeding with item number eight. Uh I'll reread it into the record. Receive an informational report from Andy Wong on illegal dumping and commending him for working to keep Oakland clean. And um, Andy, you have the um clicker, so you have control of the presentation. I just want to say that's right. Mr. Speaker, Oakland's council members, city staff, attorneys, and the general public. So you know, my whole go here is I hope that I can be one of many stepping stones for better solutions to come because everybody deserves to thrive and grow in a healthy and clean environment. So to start out with, my name is Andy Wong, and I'm a resident of Livermore, California, and since twenty twenty-one, I've embarked on a journey to help beautify communities throughout the Bay Area, including Oakland. And as a solo volunteer, I have tackled numerous messes in urban and rural settings, such as these ones that you see here. So these are some illegal dumping sites that I cleaned up, and this is what the before look like. And the and you can see that after the cleanup, everything looks so much better, cleaner, and it's just a sight to behold. And it's just such a shame to see places trashed the way they are. So I've done cleanups that are very massive, such as these ones that you see here.