Good morning and welcome to the rules and legislation committee of.

Sorry, let me move my computer of Thursday, November 6th, which is my birthday.

Before we go.

Thank you.

Birthday.

Shameless plug for myself.

Before I go into calling roll, I will give directions for speaker card.

If you'd like to fill out a speaker's card on any item, you must fill out your speaker's card before the item was called for discussion or 10 minutes before the start of this meeting.

If you are here, you can fill out a card by going to one of the clerk representatives at the front.

If you're looking to fill out an online speaker card, that time has passed.

So they were due 24 hours before this meeting.

On roll for this meeting are council members Brown.

Councilmember Fife.

Sorry, I enter you guys mics on after I said I would.

Present.

Council Member Brown.

Oh, Councilmember Fife.

Council President Jenkins is excused and council member Ramachandron present.

We'll be chairing this meeting, showing three members present and one excused Jenkins.

Your first item is approval of the draft minutes from October 23rd, 2025.

And we have no speakers on this item.

Move approval.

I'll second it.

On item two, approval of the minutes moved by Councilmember Brown, seconded by Councilmember Ramachandran.

Councilmember Brown.

Aye.

Councilmember Fife.

Aye.

And Chair Ramachandran.

Aye.

Motion passes with a vote of three ayes, one excused Jenkins.

Going to item three, which is new scheduling.

Starting with item 3.1.

Receive the informational cash management report for fiscal year 25 through 26.

First quarter ended September 30th, 2025.

This is asked to go before the November 18th 2025 Finance and Management Committee Agenda.

Item 3.2, a resolution approving ongoing cooperative purchase agreements exceeding $250,000 for Oakland Public Works.

Bureau of Maintenance and Internal Services, Commodity Goods and Services Contract as outlined in Table 1, and an additional amount not to exceed $6,310,000 and extend contract dates listed and adopting appropriate SQL findings on the November November 18th Special Public Works and Transportation Committee Agenda.

Item 3.3 I believe has a title change.

Timothy Green, Planner 3 in the planning and building department.

Um the new title is adopt an ordinance as recommended by the City Planning Commission.

One amending Title 17 of the Oakland Municipal Code, the planning code to A, adjust regulations for permitted and conditionally permitted activities and facilities for purposes of providing greater opportunities for ground floor activities and ease the permitting burden for commercial civic and low-impact industrial activities.100 of the Oakland municipal code for the purpose of removing the limit on public street closures for restaurant, retail, cafe, parklet, and other businesses to close and use public right-of-ways to encourage public safety, business development, and healthy outdoor use and enjoyment of public spaces until December 31st, 2026, unless further extended by City Council and adopting appropriate SQL findings on the November 18th life enrichment committee agenda.

Item 3.5 is a title change.

I will read the new title into record.

Receive an information report of the city's programs responding to domestic violence on the November 18th public safety committee agenda.

Item 3.6 your final item for new scheduling has a title change.

Correct.

Good morning, Candice Parker Trigg from the City Administrator's Office.

I would like to read the new title into record, which is receive an informational report on the annual report summarizing services and the general information for the early childhood and family services division, including head start programming.

Thank you.

Thank you for that title change, and that concludes your items for item three under new scheduling.

And you do have one speaker, Councilmember Brown.

Okay, excellent.

So I just had a quick question about item 3.3.

I just wanted to confirm that this is not an addition to the November 18th meeting.

But it was previously titled Citywide Permit Reform.

Is that is that the title change?

Or is this now a new additional item scheduled for the November 18th meeting?

Through the chair to the administration.

This is a new item, but we will be removing an item for from the November 18th meeting to adjust the calendar for that day.

Okay, that sounds good because I think that that um agenda is quite impacted.

And then through the chair to council member Fife, um I am interested in the item that you have scheduled for public right-a-ways, and it's going to LEC.

I guess uh my question is is this an item that is normally scheduled to public works?

Um I personally have a conflict and won't be able to attend that like listen into that LEC.

Um, but I guess I'm just curious how come it's not going to public works.

There we go.

Yes, um, thank you for the question.

Uh items.

Sorry.

Items that enrich um the public use and uh contribute to our entertainment and uh activity zones, many of which are in my district that uh have asked me to extend this program, want to bring this back and extend it for additional activities that they want to engage in, so public street closures help facilitate vibrant communities, which is the purpose of the life enrichment committee.

So that's why it's coming to this committee.

All right.

And I also want to say that 4 p.m.

is a time where um many of the businesses that have reached out to me about this particular piece of legislation are able to attend so that it's it's in a at a later time during the day, and the again the businesses that have asked me to extend this program have said that that's a time that they can make it to the meeting.

And I definitely understand the concern.

Um, and as soon as the recording is out, if you can't grab it, then I can definitely send that to you.

Okay, um, sounds good.

I guess I'm just getting concerned about like what precedent we're setting around where items should be scheduled.

I think there were folks that even mentioned that you know the EAP is normally scheduled under life enrichment.

Um, and so I think we're just um continuing to maybe set a precedent where items that are normally scheduled in subject matter committees are being scheduled elsewhere.

So I think that at this time that's just all I'm trying to bring attention on the matter.

I completely agree, and I completely um have supported that that suggestion.

I do feel like again, this is um a contribution to the vibrant communities that are in the district three uptown and downtown districts, and I voice that same concern about not following protocol.

Uh, I just don't think that this falls in line with with that sentiment.

Okay, thank you.

Okay, thank you so much.

And then uh Department of Transportation, it will be um are are they working on this item or which department is it?

Just want to confirm.

I'm working with uh economic and workforce develop.

I'm working with several different departments.

I'm working with staff and in several different departments.

Okay, thank you so much for the feedback.

No problem.

Uh we can move to public speakers if there are any.

And just to clarify that item 3.6, which was the last through the chair, which was the last title change read into record, we'll be going to the December 9th life enrichment committee.

Going to our public speakers, item three point, I'm sorry, Blair Beekman.

I have you for um five items.

We will adjust the time clock for you.

Please unmute yourself and begin your comments.

All right, thank you.

Uh Blair Beekman.

I uh wrote yourselves uh a letter and um this morning to state that I only wanted to speak on item three point one.

Uh I sent that to the city clerk's office uh because when I sent uh when I signed up yesterday, there was nothing available for item three point one, it was just item three.

None of the items within three point within the three was listed.

So um I'll just speak on item three point one.

That's my main concern today.

And hopefully we can coordinate better in the future on this item uh when I send you guys an email in the morning.

Um cash management uh report for FY uh 2025 and 26 first quarter fund uh ended uh September 2025.

Uh September 30th.

Uh I wanted to comment.

Um it's my feeling on cash management reporting uh uh for issues that um you guys actually I understood your budget planning and being from San Diego.

You know, I was kind of following along how you were working in the past six months.

Um, and that uh you know I I was in Oakland with when uh Mayor Tower was still here and all the budget crunch things you were going through at that time.

You had budget availability uh for the uh first uh part of the year coming into this year, and September is starting to be the time that we need more funding for our macro services and other projects, which have been doing a really good job.

Violent crime is down in Oakland.

Mayor uh uh accomplish things uh in terms of crime, I think.

I and I think we're all understanding that so good luck in what you can be working on this time.

I think even Trump sees what we've been doing in Oakland, and I hope he really learns the important lessons that we need funding dollars right now from federal levels, not more federal agents, but we need funding dollars to continue our good macro programs.

Good luck in these continued good efforts and um what you can be doing, and I think we can really make those asked at the federal level and have good mediation and conversation.

Good luck in those efforts.

Thanks a lot.

Thank you for your comments, Mr.

Beekman.

That was our only public speaker, all right.

I will entertain a motion.

Um first let me apologize.

Let me read in the changes.

We have a title change to item 3.3, a title change to item 3.5, and a title change to item 3.6, and I'll now entertain a motion.

Um move approval on these items, second, and there was a motion by council member brown, seconded by council member five to a approve item three as amended.

Councilmember Brown.

Aye, council member five, aye.

Council President Jenkins is excused, council member Ramachandran.

I motion passes with a vote of three ayes, one excused Jenkins going to item four, which is review of the draft agendas, pending list city council and committee meetings and oral report.

No longer oral report out of closed session.

But just uh you have your rules and legislation committee for November 13th, your pending list, and your committee agendas for November 18th and rules on November 20th.

Um administration.

Good morning, thank you.

We do have staff at the podium who have some changes to the agendas.

Good morning.

I'm Cindy King Program Planner for the Human Services department.

We have a slight revision for the item number six.

I apologize.

Do you mind speaking a little closely into the night?

Thank you.

Is this better?

Okay.

Good morning.

I'm Cindy King, program planner for the Human Services Department.

We have a slight revision for the item number six for the November 18th life enrichment committee agenda.

The correct title is resolution authorizing the city administrator to enter into an agreement with the youth ventures joint powers authority, YVJPA through its fiscal sponsor, Philanthropic Ventures Foundation in the amount of 150,000 per year for fiscal years 25, 26 and 2627 for the City of Oakland's annual contribution to the YVJPA.

Thank you.

And are there other changes?

I believe there should be.

No, yes, there is another change.

My apologies.

I will be stating that change again, Candice Parker from the City Administrator's Office, bringing your attention to the draft November 18th CED committee agenda.

Okay.

Item number six, the HCD anti-displacement strategic action plan.

We're asking that this item be withdrawn from November 18th and rescheduled to December 9th CED.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And I will read in a change as well on FM, the finance committee meeting on November 18th as well.

I would like to edit the name of the sponsor for item four, which currently reads Councilmember Kaplan, and I would like to sponsor this item instead.

And we can move to if there are no more comments or changes, we can move to the public speakers.

Thank you.

We have one speaker on this item, Blair Beekman.

All right, thank you, Blair Beekman.

Uh, to speak to the public safety committee meeting coming up on the 18th.

Uh, thank you very much for at the previous uh meeting last week.

You decided to uh have the AOPR issue placed on the public uh safety committee meeting.

Um I was a really man a great learning experience for myself about how you know remember 10 15 years ago in the state of 9-11 and continual war.

If we were to ask about questions about law enforcement, we'd have to say national security, we can't talk about it openly, approve it.

Let's move on.

You know, it was just cut and dry.

Now we can have these conversations openly and publicly now.

So thank you immensely that you can be doing this uh efforts.

We can seriously be questioning.

I think uh the future use of block.

I I don't think we're questioning so much that uh ALPRs will continue to be used in Oakland, but that we can use less amount of ALPRs and they can still do the same amount of public safety needed.

We have to be very focused that AOPRs are meant specifically for uh license plate reader use and not as a fora of different surveillance technology uses it can have.

Um, if we use it specifically for one specific purpose, it can still do a very important job for public safety, and from that we can be uh better asking the question do we actually really need block as our representative for uh coordinating ALPR check in the city?

There are other agencies available that have better standards of best practices, how to work that I think we need to look into and review, and we're gonna be doing all of that on the 18th.

And I just wanted to remind that uh it can be an open uh thoughtful process that we can be talking about.

Good luck in those efforts.

How to how to do that, and uh it's it's exciting and hopeful.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments, Mr.

Beakman.

That was the only speaker for this item.

All right, summarizing uh the three changes to upcoming agendas as read read into the record by staff.

Changes to an item at CED, life enrichment and finance on November 18th.

Um, I will entertain a motion.

Okay, motion to move these items along.

Thank you.

Second.

On the motion to approve item four, with the changes noted, moved by council member brown, seconded by council member five.

Councilmember Brown.

Councilmember.

Aye.

Council Member Five.

Aye.

Chair, I'm sorry, Council President Jenkins' excused and Chair Ramachandran.

Aye.

Motion passes with a vote of three ayes, one excuse, Jenkins.

Going to your final action item on this agenda.

Item five, adopt a resolution confirming Mayor Barbara Lee's reappointment of Jennifer Rank to the City Planning Commission serving her second three-year term.

There are no speakers on this item.

Thank you.

We will hear from Preston with the mayor's office.

As all of you know, the planning commission continues to play a vital role in guiding our city's development and growth through careful review of land use applications, zoning matters, and long-term planning initiatives.

Maintaining experienced commissioners ensures continuity and ongoing projects and continuity in decision-making processes.

Upon our team interviewing Jen, the mayor's office is excited to move forward in the reappointment of Jen.

Um we thank you for your consideration.

Um and I understand Jen is here today.

Um if any of you have any questions or want to give the opportunity to give some remarks if any of you wish.

Thank you all.

Thank you, colleagues.

Questions for the mayor staff, applicants, comments.

Okay.

If not, we'll move to public speakers.

We have no public speakers on this item, so I will entertain a motion.

Okay.

So I'll make a motion um to approve this appointment and forward it to um the city council meeting, which is December 2nd.

On uh consent.

Second.

On item five, move by council member brown, seconded by council member five to go approve the item and go to December 2nd on consent.

Councilmember Brown.

Councilmember Five.

Aye.

Chair Ramachandran.

Aye.

Motion passes with a vote of three ayes, one excuse, Jenkins.

That was your final action item.

Moving to the open forum speakers, Blair Beekman, Teresa, Teresa, Teresa, Winnie, and Candace Parker.

Shrek.

Mr.

Beakman.

And after open forum, if anyone is interested, we will um sing happy birthday.

Mr.

Beekman, you oh, yeah.

Mr.

Beekman, um, please unmute yourself and begin your comments.

Hi, thank you.

Thanks for the meeting today.

Um, yeah, to try to better clarify.

Um congratulations on uh what I think uh is an interesting uh November 5th election.

Uh first of all, and hopefully it can be a good uh uh impetus to what to expect in 2026.

Um is hopeful in that way.

Uh I'm interested in how um the Bay Area and the San Francisco mayor did a really good job in in talking with the Trump administration and getting him to not bring in more federal agents and more ICE agents into the Bay Area.

Interesting that happened.

I think it can set a precedence in how to talk about more well reasoned planning that Oakland has and how to address their future crime issues.

And that I hope I, you know, so I made the suggestion that why don't we talk to the federal administration on the very basic, simple, straightforward terms that we asked for money for our crime fighting services, like macro.

Uh, let's work to to ask for the best of ourselves at this time and show them what our best selves are.

Because that's what we're doing well.

So I mean, that's when we s explain that to Trump.

Man, hopefully he's getting that message now, and he can start passing that along and working with other cities in those good terms, instead of just more military, more ice, you know, and that whole uh thing he's on.

Um so good luck in those efforts.

It can make peace around the world, by the way.

Uh, how to negotiate peace around the world, by the way.

And with that said, umasi, um, they've made some really uh, you know they're the emergency planning for the Bay Area, they made a lot of changes recently to themselves.

Um they're very questionable.

I hope we can be developing a really open Bay Area community dialogue on the future of Bay OASI and not have it be hidden and secretive.

Please ask questions about what Bay OASI is doing right now.

Please.

Thank you.

Hi, hello everyone.

My name is Teresa Onlevon for the record.

I would like to wish our boss lady, Madam City Clerk Asha Reed, the best, happiest birthday ever.

Woo!

Good morning, Candace Parker Trig.

I'm coming here as a citizen this morning to speak on behalf of the wonderful, amazing, beautiful, elegant, graceful woman who presents every Tuesday and Thursday for the City Council of Oakland.

Asha, Madam Clerk Reed.

Woo!

I know we can't see time in open forum, but I know um my colleague uh Winnie Wu would like to seat her minute, but I understand if that is not allowable at this time, but again, I just wanted to take this time to acknowledge and recognize a hard-working person, not just as a colleague, but as a friend who I've known for over I don't know how many plus years and inside work and outside, and she's amazing, and she does her hardest work to make sure that the city has um the public is given information that is transparent and clear and just and I just want to make sure that she's acknowledged and recognized.

There's a lot of things that get put out about people who do this business, and I just want to note that she is one that is true to what she does and make sure she recognizes all those who are around her.

So she's amazing.

She needs to be recognized.

And today we're recognizing her because it is her birthday, and she is here doing her job, so you guys know Asha, madam clerk read is the best.

Thank you so much.

I also wanted to go ahead and just do that.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Yes.

Okay, I don't want to go too far and do any illegal stuff, so that's all that I'm gonna play for that.

But thank you again so much, everyone, and just happy birthday again, Asha Reed.

Thank you so much for all your hard work.

Thank you.

Those of you who know me know that I do not like attention.

So thank you, everybody.

Let me get you.

Thank you.

I'm not very joy.

Oh, go ahead.

Oh, me.

Oh, I don't, you're in the queue.

If not, let's fine.

Yes, I um also have been witnessing Clerk Reed, even as the assistant clerk now for over a decade.

And on your birthday, the way that I I celebrate, because I also don't like attention, um, as a Scorpio.

So we're sisters in this month of November.

Um I I've seen you just really take this job seriously in a non-political way and show up for the people that you work with, and now that you have pre people working under you, I've seen you take care of this job is and take care of them as well.

You get a lot of criticism that is undue.

You get a lot of pressure that you don't deserve, and you wear it amazing.

Like it's it's so classy, as Candice said, and um, I have the most utmost respect for you and and everything that you do because you do it flawlessly, and you don't even break a sweat with all of the challenges that you experience.

And so I'm honored to know you and I'm honored to learn from you because this has been a lesson over the last 10 years.

And again it's your personal new year.

I hope you have some resolutions that include celebrating and taking time for yourself to enjoy.

So happy birthday.

I want to say happy birthday okay.

Okay on that very joyful and uplifting note with gratitude to the city clerk the meetings adjourned.