The Rules and Legislation Committee met on December 4, 2025, at 10:32 AM to consider scheduling for upcoming council and committee meetings, a business tax relief ballot measure, a charter amendment for the police and fire retirement board, and campaign finance ordinance cleanup. The committee approved most items, some with urgency findings, and scheduled them for future dates.
Good morning and welcome to the rules and legislation committee of Thursday, December 4th. Before I call roll, I will um give speaker card instructions. If you're looking to speak on a any agenda item, please fill out a speaker's card and return that card to the clerk representative before the item is called for discussion. Excuse me, city council staff order in the chambers. Actually, that means you. Additionally, if you were looking to submit an online speaker card, they were due twenty-four hours before the start of this meeting. As per the council rules of procedure, speaker cards are due ten minutes after the start of this meeting. This meeting was called to order at ten thirty-two. So speaker cards are due at ten forty-two AM this morning. On roll for this meeting, are Council Member Brown. And Chair Jenkins. Letters to you uh that hopefully um I it's really important. I feel that you have we have to be practicing um that a lot of people are upset about the flock process and that it really seems that we have a chance to talk about it more openly, and that if this item eventually comes back in in January and goes straight to city council, I felt I feel it should be returned as an item that more as an information item and not as a full agenda item. It seems a lot more discussion is needed. I spoke to the concepts of of we can be having a review process in the next six months and and and consider a new contract uh uh vendor, and um we can make short, you know, three month contracts with flock until we work out a new vendor if if a new contract is absolutely needed with Flock. And I think we need to seriously uh consider reducing the amounts of ALPRs we need overall, reducing the amounts can actually create the same amount of public safety for neighborhoods, and we have to be having that conversation as well. Um, so there's a lot to be talking about. I don't think things can just be uh quickly approved. I hope we can have dialogue and discussion, and that brings community uh harmony and really good practices. Thank you, Mr. Beakmer for your comments. Do we have a motion? I believe there was a motion by Brown. I just need a second. Second on the motion for item two, the minutes for November 13th and 20th, moved by council member brown, second by council member Fife. Starting with council member Brown, aye, council member five, aye, council member Ramachandran. Aye, Chair Jenkins, aye. Motion passes with a vote of four ayes. Moving on, sorry, motion passes with a vote of four ayes. Moving on to new scheduling starting with item 3.1, a resolution in support of the Bay Area Air District's timely implementation of rules nine through four and nine through six that establish zero emission building appliance standards with appropriate flexibility to ensure equity and business development on the December 9th community and economic development committee agenda, and just noting that this item would be going to committee next week, it does need an urgency. Is there somebody from the district two office to offer the urgency finding a urgency finding? Hi, yes. Uh, this is Council Member Wong. Um so for the first item, the reason that we have an urgency finding around this is uh these particular zero emission uh appliance rules. Um we want to have a vote on this in time for the December 10th hearing that the um Bay Area uh air district is having. So there's a urgency around getting out our stance as a city prior to that. So the question would be if it's going to committee, it would have to go to so if it's going to committee on the ninth and the meetings on the 10th, full city council hasn't weighed in on it. Just through the chair, sorry to introduce just noting the presence of council member wong, we do need to adjourn into a special meeting. Okay, I'll entertain one second. I'll entertain a motion. Second, brown brown, then five, then brown. On the motion, sorry, on the motion to adjourn to the special meeting moved by council member five with a go second by council member brown. Councilmember Brown. Aye. Councilmember Fife, aye. Council Member Ramachandran. And Chair Jenkins. I motion passes with a vote of four ayes. Council Member Brown. Okay, so uh to the chair.