The Oakland City Council’s Finance and Management Committee met on Tuesday, December 9, 2025, starting at 9:30 AM. All four committee members were present: Councilmembers Brown, Unger, Wong, and Chair Ramachandran. The committee approved previous meeting minutes, scheduled outstanding items, and acted on six substantive items, including an audit of the Kids’ First Fund, salary schedule amendments, an IT software contract, the redevelopment agency’s Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule (ROPS), and an engineering services agreement. Several items were forwarded to the December 16, 2025 City Council meeting.
Item 3 – Audit of the Kids’ First Oakland Children’s Fund (FY 2018–19 through FY 2023–24)
Item 4 – Classification Plan Amendments and Salary Schedule Changes
Item 5 – Waiver of Competitive Bid and Contract with HDL Software
Item 6 – Redevelopment Successor Agency ROPS and Administrative Budget (FY 2026–27)
Item 7 – Engineering Services Contract with Francisco & Associates
Item 8 – Withdrawn
Online speaker requests were due yes twenty-four hours prior to this meeting, making a time yesterday at nine thirty a.m. The meeting came to order at nine thirty. Speaker cards would no longer be accepted ten minutes after the meeting has begun, or if the item has been read into record, whichever comes first, making that time nine forty a.m. With that, we would now proceed to take roll. Councilmember Brown. Present. Councilmember Unger. Here. Councilmember Wong. Here. And Chair Ramachandran. Present. We have four members present. And before we begin, Chair, do you have any announcements for us today? Um, no announcements. Look, looking forward to getting through our seven items. And I believe this is the last committee of the year, so looking forward to this being productive. Thank you. Thank you for that. Yes, it is in the holiday spirit. We would start with our first item of the day, and that's approval of the draft minutes from the committee meetings that was held on October twenty-eighth, twenty twenty-five, and the special meeting that was held on November eighteenth, twenty twenty-five. We'll entertain a motion. I will move approval. Second. Thank you. We have a motion made by Councilmember Unger, seconded by Councilmember Brown to accept the draft minutes of the committee meetings of October 28, 2025, and the special meeting on November eighteenth, twenty twenty-five. As is on roll, Councilmember Brown. Aye. Councilmember Unger. And Councilmember Wong? Aye. And Chair Roma Chandren. Aye. This motion passes with four eyes to accept the draft minutes of the committee meetings on October twenty-eighth and November eighteenth, twenty twenty-five as is. Moving to item two, this is determination to schedule outstanding committee items. This is also known as your pending list. And we do have one speaker for this item. Thank you to the administration and changes. Okay, we can move to public speakers. Thank you. Calling our public speakers, Miss Asada. I'm calling for a report on the four hundred thousand dollars that was allocated for the World Cup. The reason being that in July of 2025, the Alamini City Council met and agreed to through the hotel transaction tax, to fund $150,000 for as a hundred and fifty thousand dollars. So you already had a hundred and fifty thousand dollars from the City of Alameda committed to the $700,000. And I'm gonna talk about this in open forum with more detail. But it looks like you took on the whole responsibility of funding for the World Cup, the $700,000, when it was written that Alamedia County, the City of Alameda, the City of Berkeley, and the City of Oakland, along with the Roots Organization, would be responsible for financing. And that didn't happen. So I need a report on how we got to fully fund everything when the City of Alameda already funded in July $150,000. So this trichology and this mismanagement that was identified and the uh grand jury reporting is this is one example. So we need a report on how we got to take the full responsibility for funding this.