The Oakland City Council held a special concurrent meeting on November 4, 2025, at 9:00 AM. The agenda included a consent calendar with 28 items, a public hearing on the open space element extension, a proposed overhaul of council rules of procedure, a response to the Alameda County Civil Grand Jury report, and presentations from Caltrans on the Vision 980 and I-580 truck access studies. Key outcomes included approval of most consent items, adoption of the open space extension and grand jury response, and the failure of the proposed rules amendments after multiple substitute motions. Item 8 (27th Street Complete Streets contract) was pulled and rescheduled to December 2.
Good morning and welcome to the special concurrent meeting of the Oakland City Council. Before I call roll, I will go over speaker card instructions. If you would like to speak on any agenda any agenda item on this agenda, please fill out a speaker's card before the item is called or hour and a half from the start of this meeting. This meeting was called at nine AM. So that would be 10 30 AM this morning. You can fill out a speaker's card by going to the table at the front where the clerk representative is seated. If you're looking to fill out a card online, that time has passed as they were due 24 hours from the start of this meeting. Councilmember Fife. Councilmember Unger. Councilmember Wong. And Councilmember Ramachandron, who will be sharing this meeting? Showing five members present and three members excused. Your first item on this agenda is item three. I'm sorry, did you have any announcements today? No, happy election day after this meeting. If we haven't voted yet, that is an option to you. And starting with item three on special orders of the day. And correction we do have one speaker on this item. To the city administrator, should we wait for a speaker or we can come back to this? Okay, then in the next item we'll uh change the order and come back to this. Thank you. Noting we will come back to item 3.1 to item 4 modifications to the agenda procedural items. Thank you to the administration. I believe there's a change that you all would like to make. Through the chair. Uh yes, that we would request that the item be uh pulled for uh further consideration and vetting um at this time. Which which item item number 27 street. Yeah, the 27th Street. Uh item number eight, 27th Street, complete street uh construction award contract. Thank you. And I believe we need a full vote of council to officially pull this off. Um I will uh make the motion. And to the administration, is this to pull it off and put it on the pending list with no dates specific or move it to a future council meeting? Through the chair, we would request we move to a future council uh meeting, um, likely the next meeting um that you all have scheduled is at the 20th. So through the chair, the next city council meeting would be December 2nd. Second, thank you. So the vote would be to poll the item, and then there'd also be a scheduling motion for the full council would be scheduling this item to the December 2nd meeting on consent, yes. Through the chair to the city attorney, is there motion to pull the it to withdraw and reschedule to December 2nd? On consent. On consent. There was a motion to remove item eight on this agenda and schedule to December 2nd. I will read item eight. Item eight is the 27th Street Complete Streets Construction Contract Award. It was adopted resolution awarding a construction contract to regret construction for the 27th Street Complete Streets Project, project number 1003978, the lowest responsive responsible and responsive bidder in accordance with project plans, specifications and state requirements, with contractors bid in the amount of 10 million four hundred and eighteen thousand dollars. I'm sorry, eighteen thousand five hundred seventy-three dollars and fifty cents, and as opting appropriate sequel findings. There was a motion by council member Ramachandran, seconded by councilmember Brown to withdraw this item, reschedule it to December 2nd. Council and Madam Clerk. Um consent, I'm sorry. The body will still hear the speakers when we get to the I was gonna say that, yes. And just with with uh regular practice, as this item was removed in this meeting, we will still hear speakers on that item.