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Hello, everybody.

We are just waiting until we have quorum, and then we can get started.

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okay I believe we have quorum let's get this party started good morning and welcome to the

public works and transportation committee meeting of today Tuesday January 13 2026 the time is now

11 32 a.m and this meeting has come to order before taking roll I will provide instructions

on how to submit a speaker's card for items on this agenda if you are here with us in chambers

and you would like to submit a speaker's card,

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before the item is read into record.

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The meeting came to order at 11.32 a.m.

Speaker cards will no longer be accepted 10 minutes after the meeting has began,

making that time 11.42 a.m.

With that, we proceed to take roll.

Council member Agayo.

Council member Houston.

Present.

Thank you.

Council member Wong.

Interesting.

Here.

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And Chair Unger.

Here.

Here.

We do have four members present.

And before we begin, Chair Unger,

do you have any announcements for us today?

No announcements.

Thank you.

first item of the day, which is approval of the draft minutes from the committee meeting on December 9th, 2025.

And we do have zero speakers for this item.

OK, I will make a motion that we approve the minutes.

We have a motion made by chair Anger, seconded by Councilmember Gaia to accept

to accept the draft minutes of the committee meeting on December 9,

2025 as is on the roll.

Council member Gallo.

Council member Houston.

I.

Council member Wong.

I. And chair Unger.

I. This motion passes with four eyes to accept the draft minutes

of the committee meeting being held on December 9, 2025, as is.

Item two, determination to schedule outstanding committee items.

And you do have two speakers for this item.

All right, let's hear from our speakers, please.

thank you when i call your name please approach the podium if you're participating via zoom please

raise your hands so you're easily identified as practice we will take in-person speakers

before zoom speakers miss assada and kevin dolly

i'm asking for the following topics be considered rate

considered for discussion in this body uh where's the clock system

If we can have KTOP display the clock, please.

Thank you.

I haven't started.

Can you put it back to?

Okay, that's fine.

Thank you.

We need to have a discussion on the role of Park and Rec Advisory Board

and where they have authority to make recommendations or to make decisions.

We need to have a report on the tree cutting permitting process.

We need to have a report on projects, how they are funded as related to the streets.

Ticketing of stolen cars needs to be brought up.

Broken parking meters in the city.

Cleaning up of debris from sewers because a lot of flooding took place in Oakland

because there was debris in the sewer entrance,

and we need to know how to clean up.

Lawsuits related to transportation,

number of city vehicles not being used

and just sitting in that parking lot over there.

Contracts that may involve possible contact with gas lines

if they're doing work.

Protected bike lanes by district.

You got some districts like six and seven and five that don't have any protected bike lanes, and that's a bias.

Encampment cleanup and security contract updates so we can get this done.

And don't wait until staff comes here and say, we didn't have a chance to do this, we didn't have a chance to do that.

And lastly, any meetings related to public works like last night, that organization was taking private information and putting in some computer system.

I refuse to take part in that.

So any meetings that are being held that the city participates in, make sure that privacy is not invaded.

that concludes your public speakers for item two

all right uh staff anything on the pending report

Betsy Lake assistant city administrator nothing from the administration okay

I will make a motion that we approve the pending list

we do have a motion made by chair Unger seconded by councilmember Houston to accept

determination schedule not standing committee items also known as your pending list as is

on the roll council member Gaia aye council member Houston aye council member Wong aye

and chair Unger aye this motion passes with four ayes to accept determination and schedule

standing committee items as is moving to item three adopt a resolution authorizing an agreement

with the montclair village association for the operation of the management to the lasalle garbage

excuse me garage located at 6235 lasalle avenue and the scout lot located at 2250 mountain

boulevard for a period of five years and the annual compensation for 295 000 including 275 000

TWO REIMBURSABLE OPERATING EXPENSES 20 000 IN MANAGEMENT FEES FOR A TOTAL AMOUNT NOT TO

EXCEED 1 MILLION 476 000 WAIVING THE COMPETITIVE REPROSALS QUALIFICATION SOLICITATION REQUIREMENTS

WAIVING THE LOCAL AND SMALL LOCAL BUSINESS ENTERPRISE REQUIREMENT AND ADOPTING THE CEQA

FINDINGS AND YOU DO HAVE EIGHT SPEAKERS FOR THIS ITEM

WHY DON'T WE HEAR FROM STAFF FIRST PLEASE

good morning chairperson Unger members of the committee on the public my name is Michael Ford

with the Department of Transportation the item that you had before you this morning

is concerns the city's off-street parking program since that program was established as article 27

of the city charter in 1955 the city has relied on professional contractors to operate and

city-owned garages and lots. This particular item concerns two facilities

in the Mount Claire commercial district. The LaSalle garage consisting of 305

spaces and the Scout surface lot with 28 spaces. Since the garage was first built

in the 1970s and expanded in the 80s, the city has turned to Mount Claire

Village Association or its predecessor, the local business improvement district,

to operate and manage the facility.

This arrangement is similar to other arrangements we have at other city-owned garage,

all of which are managed by third parties.

Since I started working with Daniel Swofford and the Mount Claire Village Association team in 2013,

I have had only positive experiences.

Mount Claire Village Association has consistently earned its customer service incentives,

and I do not recall ever receiving a complaint about the garage operations or the conditions of the facilities.

LaSalle Garage took the lead about four years ago when our garages went gateless.

This friction, low friction, and relatively low cost of controlling access and revenue at our garages

effectively integrates on-street and off-street parking payments and enforcement systems.

In doing so, we were able to avoid a costly new parking access and revenue control system,

which would likely have costed the city between $2 and $4 million.

The recommendation that you have before you today include waiving the competitive process,

adopting CEQA findings, waiving the SLBE, LBE requirement,

although I understand Montclair Village Association will be securing its certification soon, if not already,

and authorizing staff to finalize and execute a multi-year agreement with NVA.

This concludes my presentation, and I stand by ready to answer your questions or address any concerns.

Thank you.

Questions, council members?

Council member Houston.

on the hires will they be hiring Oaklanders to staff be staffing through

the chair councilmember Houston this is this is the same operation that's been

in place for years so my my expectation would be that they would continue to do

the same thing that they've been doing we could enlist Daniel Swofford to let us

know who his current staff is and to understand if they're actually Oaklanders I'm not sure if

T and others are actually Oakland residents or not yeah I like to know that I mean because if

we're doing the same thing over and over you know we need some little change especially if we we

waive in the LBE and the SLB and you know that I'm a strong advocate for that who's liable for any

break-ins and things like that is that them or is that the city any break-ins or anything that's

happening on the lot yeah through the chair so if there if there are any is

there any crime any break-ins so all of our operators including MVA are

responsible for carrying insurance so they have garage operators insurance

there they're expected to indemnify the city they would take the lead on any

lawsuits and these sorts of things so that's that's one of the advantages of

having a professional operator as their sort of our first line of defense thank you

thank you through the chair um i so i seen your projections that you're anticipating that

with time that we're going to get more and more revenue and actually have a net gain

can you just explain these projections yeah through the chair thank you for the for the

question so the master fee schedule includes rates that allowed us to recently change the

hourly rate at the garage and that was in order to make sure that we were covering the rising costs

over the last couple of years.

In Mount Claire Village,

we have implemented demand-responsive parking

where we have premium zones and value zones.

And we've wanted to treat that garage

as if it was a value zone,

to try to drive people to the garage

rather than taking the spaces on the street.

So this still matches the lower prices

in the core of the district.

So it's a little bit more expensive,

but it's still a value.

and it will help us cover the costs, the increasing costs over the last couple of years.

I know this is out of scope, but I would want to explore how to expand that demand responsive model across the city

since I know not every neighborhood has that.

And then just to clarify, the fees that we see in Table 2,

those are all set by the master fee schedule that we voted on last spring, basically?

That's correct.

so through the chair um our parking operators whether it's montclair village association or

wellington and chinatown or city of oakland parking partners they're implementing our direction we're

we're directing them how to manage the garages and the city council sets the fees we do have the

flexibility in the master fee schedule if you look at in the public we do have the word max

in the master fee schedule.

And that's been there for quite a long time before I came.

And that was designed so that we do have a little bit of flexibility.

So if a garage has a six-hour rate, we would be able to go below $6,

but we wouldn't be able to go above $6.

And that way we're able to flex a little bit.

Interesting.

Okay, that's helpful.

Final question is just on this whole customer satisfaction incentive fee.

is that something that we have citywide yeah so through the chair about 11 years ago we implemented

this template for our scope of services for off-street parking and it included a customer

service incentive basically what that does is it has our operators actually do a customer

satisfaction survey so they're actually getting data and input from their customers to make sure

THAT THEY'RE RESPONSIVE AND DOING A GOOD JOB AND IT'S THAT DATA THAT IS BEING EVALUATED.

AND WE KNOW THAT THEY DON'T TRY TO GAME THAT SYSTEM TO INCREASE THEIR OWN REVENUES.

YEAH, SO THEY SUPPLY ALL OF THE BACKUP DATA AND WE'RE ABLE TO VALIDATE THAT IT'S NOT BEING GAMED.

GOT IT. GREAT. THANK YOU.

COUNCILMEMBER GAYO.

IT'S MONCLAIR THE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT WHAT OTHER SITES ARE AND I KNOW THERE'S ONE IN CHINATOWN

WHO'S WHO'S ACTUALLY OVERSEEING OR MONITORING THE DAILY PARKING THROUGH THE CHAIR THANK YOU FOR

THE QUESTION COUNCIL MEMBER GAIO SO WE HAVE APPROXIMATELY 20 OFF STREET PARKING FACILITIES

and they are managed in different ways montclair village association is responsible for two

in chinatown pacific renaissance plaza is managed by wellington montclair village acquisition and

then we have an operator called city of oakland parking partners which is responsible for a large

portfolio includes city center west garage includes dalziel garage in 250 franco franco gower plaza

1800 san pablo and a host of other ones so the money that is being generated but by the individual

parking lots who who in the city is accountable or monitoring what is being generated thank you

through the chair so all of the off street parking operations the public parking is a program within

oak dot that's one of the many programs that is in the parking and mobility division and so

Myself and my staff are responsible for working with the Mount Claire Village Association.

We do monthly operation reviews.

We do tours.

We respond to issues.

And then those operators are responsible for making sure that the revenues are properly collected.

We're using Park Mobile and IPS multi-space pay-by-plate meters.

And all of those revenues are deposited directly into city bank accounts.

And so all that ultimately we're paying back to our operators are authorized expenses and small per space management fees.

So the money that is being generated within the city of Oak, we're monitoring the amounts,

but those amounts of dollars that are generated are going to what department?

The finance department directly?

So through the chair, the fund, multipurpose reserve fund 1750,

has been used as the de facto off-street parking fund for decades.

And so when we receive revenues from our off-street parking operations, they are recorded in 1750, which is a part of the general fund.

So it's basically all general funds.

But the program itself has been part of either Public Works or since DOT was created.

It's been the off-street parking program has been managed by Oak Dot.

So we would be able to identify the amount of revenue generated by the parking lots that we have on an annual basis,

considering the fact that we're challenged financially, and I assure you the next year we're going to be having a difficult financial time.

But we can recognize where that money's going.

And so the last question that I have, there are other city parking lots, for example, like the one here at City Hall.

It was open for many, many years, but it's been closed for now years.

They could generate more revenue.

They could become a safe place to park for anyone coming to City Hall or coming downtown.

What is keeping that lot closed still?

Through the chair.

So you're referring to Clay Street Garage right here behind City Hall.

So it was red tagged.

It was deemed seismically unsafe back in 2016.

And it was a decision to close it in the interest of public safety.

And as far as how it will be disposed of in the future, I'm not aware of any specific plans.

There have been some reports brought in the past, but it's been a couple years since, like economic workforce development.

And I still recall that 2016.

2016, it was December of 2016.

It's been closed since 2016.

Where's the administrator in terms of getting that active so we can put it back to use?

Because for Councilmember, it was a primary location to park, to come to city council meetings.

And not having to park on the street where, like, one of our employees, they stole her car in front of City Hall,

AND THEY BROKE INTO MY CAR TWICE COMING TO A CITY COUNCIL MEETING.

AND SO IF THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR CAN GIVE A REPORT BACK, WHEN ARE WE GOING TO TAKE CARE

OF THAT PROPERTY THAT'S BEEN CLOSED SINCE 2016 THAT COULD BE A REVENUE-GENERATING LOCATION

FOR THE CITY OF OAKLAND. THANK YOU FOR THE INFORMATION.

THANK YOU.

ANYTHING ELSE, COUNCIL MEMBERS?

All right. Why don't we hear from our speakers, please?

Thank you.

When I call your name, please approach the podium.

State your name for the record.

If you're participating via Zoom, please raise your hand

so you're easily identified.

We will take in person before Zoom.

Tammy Bird.

Keith.

And Keith.

Daniel Swahard.

Andrew Jones.

George Spees.

Miss Assata.

kevin dolly and blair beekman

good afternoon chair unger members of the committee my name is daniel swafford i'm the

executive director of the montclair village association and the managing partner for the

montclair parking operations i also serve as the director of the temescal district laurel district

and work closely with with other districts around oakland for the record just wanted to say thank

you it's been an honor to serve in my tenure for the last 15 years in supporting parking operations

in the montclair district to honor the history of the parking garage the merchants of the district

helped finance originally the structure back in the 70s when it was just a parking lot adding a

layer a story and then two more stories in the 80s and really valued how important it is to

incorporate parking into the economic activity of the district in working with you know dot since

they took over the role of facilitating parking we've been able to pilot multiple programs in the

district including flex parking district-wide about 10 years ago as well as the gateless program

that the city was wanting to do and saw the facility there as a way to to see how that would

all come together. Proud to have some wonderful staff to your question, a

council member. Four part-time staff, one full-time manager, three part-time staff.

Two of them live in Oakland. One of the four was recently displaced but lives close by.

They've all been there for, well, the longest, almost 20 years and have a great relationship as

ambassadors to to the community to make sure the facility is safe to make sure the people that

come to the the facility whether they're regular monthlies or visitors um know that oakland is

welcome welcoming them help orient them to the commercial district and answer any questions

that they might have for for oakland at large as as very knowledgeable and caring individuals

just want to thank you for your comment

Good afternoon. Hope all are well. My name is Andrew Jones, Oakland born, raised, resident

and business owner, and also the chief operating officer for the Uptown Downtown Community

Benefit Districts. I'm here today in support of Daniel's motion or item, but also just

to kind of highlight something.

Partnership is the key to these bids' success,

and you can see it here in the DOT's partnership

with the Montclair Association.

We all know that, that this private partnership,

public-private partnership that we've formed

over the last few years is critical to downtown success

in these business corridors.

I just want to highlight one of the most impactful partnerships

that we've had over the last 17, well, really,

since they took over from OPD in the past you know seven-ish years is with

DOT around parking enforcement and and parking lot management so I'm here as

just to kind of highlight the need to explore any changes to DOT structure and

what they oversee and how their funds and and the projects that they oversee

are managed before any significant changes are made I just want to say that

that we are deep in collaboration around issues of public safety,

parking enforcement in the nighttime entertainment zones,

how the operation of these parking lots are structured

and how they impact the community that uses them.

I have been through countless chiefs, OPD chiefs.

We've been through countless directors of economic development,

of public works in the last 17 years.

The steadfast nature of what we've had over the past five years

as we approach these really complicated issues of violence in downtown around our entertainment

district.

I would just encourage you before any changes are made to the structure that we explore

it fully and that we are looking for partnerships and operations.

All of this is at jeopardy if you move rashly or without clarity.

Thank you for your time.

I appreciate it very much.

Hi, my name is Keith Sherholtz.

I'm an Oakland resident of over 30 years, a homeowner, and a proud DOT staff person.

It's been my great fortune to work for the City of Oakland for 26 years.

This will be my 27th year working for the City.

For the last eight years, I've worked with Michael Ford and the parking office predominantly.

I am here to basically beg you to do a full investigation of any changes with

parking and the DOT. The innovation that the department has shown towards parking

revenues for flex time in so many ways has been phenomenal. The commitment of

the staff, the idealism of the people in Oak Dot, and the success, the numbers bear

it out of working on parking issues I please please please beg the City

Council from the bottom of my heart to investigate any changes to OakDOT at all

and I have nothing but praise for OakDOT's staff their commitment their

focus on the future their integrity their ethics their commitment to every

single positive thing for the city especially for future planning and I

think that the vision of the city that has been part of the Department of

Transportation's original plan which the City Council supported that integrity

has to be held up so I'm asking people on the City Council please investigate

ask for the hard numbers ask for the tough questions for any changes in the

current oak dot situation um because from my own experience 26 27 years working for the city

i've never seen any program more successful better led the higher rate of morale and i've got a

petition from the staff to oppose any changes in the current system and i'd like to leave that with

the city council staff it's very detailed and if they have questions i'm sure we can answer them

Thank you.

Good morning.

My name is Tammy Bird.

I'm the parking meter collection supervisor.

I was just on behalf of some of the members in our parking mobility.

I want to address the finance takeover.

It was stated by finance that this takeover intended to improve timeliness, collectability,

and customer service experience.

But you've got to remember, parking is not just customer service.

is also a field operation confined with policies enforcement and not just collections finance does

back in revenue not public facing compliance systems moving departments does not fix process

bottlenecks there was no cost efficiency analysis there is no service level data showing finance

could perform better this takeover reorg is incomplete risk of disruption and future reversal

is highly likely labor laws are not satisfied and no proof of takeover of finance taken over

approved services so i'm just asking you guys please uh look into all aspects of this takeover

i put i've been here almost 15 years almost 16 years i put my 16 years of salary on parking

mobility straight up thank you council members hello my name is George Spies

I'm a co-organizer with traffic violence rapid response we are a as you know a

pedestrian safety organization and I'd like to speak also to the meta issue of

how parking enforcement works in the city everyone knows the old saying build

it and they will come. The same thing is true for transportation as it is for birdhouses

and baseball fields. It's called induced demand by the planners and engineers and has been

understood since the early days of automobiles. In this case, my concern is about the rumored

move of parking management and enforcement from Oak Dot to finance. The decisions we

make about parking will influence the choices that people make about their transportation

options. Because of this, treating parking as a revenue

stream, as it would be under finance, I suspect, is counterproductive.

Decisions about the provision, pricing,

and exclusion of parking must remain within the Transportation Department

in order to allow them to actively manage parking as part of the

larger transportation system in Oakland.

Please require the administration to bring any potential changes to the Council through

this committee for a wider airing of the issues involved.

We must treat parking policy and enforcement not as a revenue

stream, but as a dynamic tool for building cities.

Effective curb management through smart pricing, exclusions, and other techniques is essential

for reducing congestion, supporting local businesses, as

you've already heard, and ensuring public safety. Rampant

double parking in commercial districts demonstrates this very vividly.

Providing OakDot with the mandate to use best practice parking management isn't just about parking and revenue.

It's about making Oakland more accessible, productive, and livable for everyone.

Thank you so much.

Kevin Daly, I'm a member of Transport Oakland.

I live in Glenview and I am a regular user of the LaSalle parking garage and I even park my car there.

I don't just ride bikes, take transit.

They do a great job.

And I am really concerned about the city administrator's plan to move parking from Oak Dot to finance, especially without public input.

2013, City Council passed the parking principles.

2016 Oak Dot was created and parking was part of Oak Dot from the beginning.

If there is a desire to move parking, let's have a clear public discussion about it.

Both council should approve and allow for public input.

Not only do I oppose it, but as I understand it,

all or most of the business improvement districts in Oakland oppose the move of parking.

I've communicated Savlin Krause, I think, damn, lost her name. Please, any council members,

talk to the business improvement districts, including Jack London, including Montclair

Village Association, there is opposition for moving it. By carefully planning the rate of street

parking, especially you have one empty parking spot on each block, it means there will not be

as much traffic of people circling trying to look for parking. There won't be as much parking in

bike lanes, there won't be as much parking on crosswalks and blocking ramps. Please

preferably keep parking in Oak Dot,

but if there is a desire to move it, discuss it first.

Thanks.

Hi, Blair Beekman.

Thanks for the previous public comment.

I've been attending Oakland public meetings for 10 years now,

and there's a long tradition of bouncing programs around

from one department to another.

and I don't know exactly why that happens yet, but I do know the pattern

and I thought a nice suggestion was made previously to have a bit more public input to the process,

maybe more appropriate for our Oakland future, but I'm not sure.

But it's certainly an idea because there can be some good arguments for keeping programs in specific places

is that, I mean, it just makes sense that Department of Transportation would be housing parking issues.

In addressing this issue and for other parking facilities structures that were mentioned here,

there was no mention of the technology involved.

I don't know how important that is and relevant to this beginning subject matter you're talking,

but it should be a part of upcoming conversations, definitely,

and how the technology can be accountable for the parking structures.

Actually, you know, if you work with the ALPR, you know, data collection,

you know, that often is taking tickets and stuff at parking facilities these days and stuff,

that actually can make for really good examples how to practice tech accountability well

and how to practice good policies, bring those policies to the PAC,

then share them with the community, you know, or, you know, just the ways to make it an open,

accessible process with technology issues using the parking facility programs.

I think it offers a good practice how to do our technology practice as well.

Just a reminder.

Thank you.

We're off topic, aren't we?

We're not on the agenda item.

We're talking about parking, so I'm going to throw myself into this conversation

and try to get back on the subject.

We need to look at parking.

It's not working.

We got double parking going on in Chinatown for years,

and nothing's being done about it.

We got citations being placed on stolen vehicles,

and when people recover their cars, they're being charged for parking illegally

when their vehicles had been stolen.

We have parking that is going on where you have parking in certain areas

and times around Lake Merritt, different times.

Over here, you have parking until 1 o'clock in the morning.

the morning who is having oversight over illegal parking if it's going on in there. They don't

have it going on. We need a review of parking. We have the parking and towing component of

the RVs and all those vehicles where homeless people are, and we haven't gotten a report.

You got people today giving you a recommendation without a performance evaluation. Somebody's

saying this group has been here doing it 17 years.

Where's the performance evaluation?

So why would we have a contract for five years

when you're dealing with a deficit?

You don't have to have a five-year contract.

With that $295,000, where is that coming from?

I think I identified where it was coming from.

But if you look at the report, they've been losing money.

and they're projecting one year out of five they made money at one of these parking sites,

but they're projecting they're going to make money.

Why does this organization, the Montclair Parking Association,

why do they want to have oversight of this would be my question.

What is the benefit of it for them?

When there's a parking citation, who goes in there to give citations?

Is it our parking people or do they have their own people giving citations?

And I could go on and on.

But I want to see numbers that say for 17 years the performance.

Thank you for your comments.

That concludes your public speakers for item three.

all right councilmember Houston yeah I would like to know it doesn't have to be

answered here but was the the the functions of this it says right here

oppose a takeover finance was the finances in the finance department

before it was a DLT and then it came back or she cannot talk to this right

here and I speak can I talk to this if this is out of scope through the chip

through the chair Celia Warren office of the city attorney I believe we are on

the Montclair parking lot and that the public speakers connected parking issues

broadly but I think when we start questioning things if they have given us

related to their sort of tangent is a little bit outside of Brown Act okay got

it got it got it okay thank you i have a question actually back to staff as it relates specifically

to the montclair parking lot thank you michael um and i just to comment i i think parking is really

critical for our goals to revive our small businesses i hear that consistently especially

in chinatown how important it is to well frankly they want to lower the parking costs and

um i'm i'm wondering on the flip side i've also heard from our parking operators that the

operating expenses have gone down and so for example in grand the grand avenue parking lot

has started to get um just covered in like illegal dumping encampments things like that so i'm

wondering how do we arrive at the operating expense this particular proposal is 295 000

per year how do you arrive at that decision and then when we wind up voting on the master fee

schedule are these operating the expenses the things that then drive that dollar amount when

it comes to the cost that we put on our parking garages thank you through the chair thank you

you councilmember Wong for the for the questions concerning the the expenses we are asking for a

contract capacity that provides us what we consider to be based on experience and an understanding of

what the costs are to be the necessary and sufficient minimum costs of of running the

the garage and uh no more no more no less and in terms of the um as you were alluding to the

the fees that can be charged going back to the the rationale behind having a little bit of

flexibility in the master fee schedule setting an upper limit but then giving us the flexibility to

um to fluctuate that that's a great example of where we are we do want to make sure that we're

cost recovering we obviously want to maximize revenues but but the purpose of the garages

as stated in the city charter is to add value to the surrounding commercial district and that's why

it's so important that we partner with a partner like montclair village association because they

have an intimate understanding of what the needs are for the district from a business perspective

from a community perspective and so we're able to work with them and make sure that the hours

are appropriate that the various types of programs whether it's sunday saturday programming

whether it's evening programming and we actively try to manage the garage to cover costs maximize

revenues but ultimately add value to the to the commercial district and that's true of any area

And then you also talked about some of our surface lots, not scout lot, but Lake Park lot under 580.

It's challenging.

Over the last five years, the amount of illegal dumping, encampments, crime,

the amount of incidents that our operators are responding to is putting a real strain on our capacity.

and we're doing the best that we can,

but it's just that the challenge is going up

and we're trying to keep the costs low.

So that's why there's sometimes a disconnect

and people feel like we're not responding fast enough

or we're not doing a thorough enough job,

but we're really trying to do the best we can

with the limited resources we have.

And that's all part of what your direction

as a parking policy,

your parking principles that were adopted in 2013,

they charge staff with actively managing the parking system.

That's what I think I was just describing when it comes to managing, actively managing a garage like LaSalle.

Okay.

And that operating expense, the $295 per year that you're asking for, does that directly influence the actual parking fees that we charge?

Through the chair.

So in this case, as I mentioned earlier, the LaSalle garage is part of our demand-responsive parking.

Okay.

And we wanted to treat it as if it was a value zone.

So people would go directly there instead of parking right in front of Pete's or one of the other businesses there.

They'd go there if they don't mind walking a little bit, and they could pay a little bit less.

Now, we've had to recently increase the rate, I think a dollar an hour.

And we've done that in order to make sure that we're still cost recovering, that we are making sure that we're able to keep up with rising expenses.

And what are we talking about?

WE'RE TALKING ABOUT INSURANCE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE COST OF MAINTAINING THE ELEVATOR OF

REPAIRING THE LIGHTS OF MAKING SURE THAT THE THE STAIRWELLS ARE CLEAN SALARIES OF OUR AMBASSADORS

SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO BALANCE AND MEET THE NEEDS OF THE COMMERCIAL DISTRICT

OKAY THAT'S HELPFUL I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO ADOPT A STAFF RECOMMENDATION

NO WE GOT ONE MORE QUESTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER HOUSTON YEAH THAT'S IT UM THROUGH THE CHAIR MICHAEL

FORT SO UM IF THERE'S A TICKET INSIDE I JUST WANT TO GET CLEAR IN MY HEAD IF THERE'S A TICKET

INSIDE SOMEBODY PARKING A HANDICAP ZONE WHO TICKETS THEM THANK YOU THROUGH THE CHAIR I APPRECIATE

YOU ASKING THE QUESTION BECAUSE I KNOW SOME OF OUR PUBLIC COMMENTS WERE CONCERNED ABOUT HOW THE

garages are being operated and enforced so in fact because we're a public agency we have the ability

to use codes and enforce with our parking enforcement staff so we're able to bring the

same technicians who are driving through the commercial district enforcing yellow zones

enforcing meters they drive into the garage and they're actually using vehicle mounted license

plate recognition technology so that they can efficiently drive through the garage the parking

permits either monthly parking permits or transient hourly permits they automatically go into the alpr

system so when our technicians are driving down a aisle they'll come across the car and the license

plate will say no permit and then if there's no permit they get out and verify that put a citation

on the windshield that citation is just like a citation that we issue on the street goes through

the same process and so um the the off-street parking and the on-street parking from an

enforcement perspective have been completely integrated and this goes back about four four

and a half years ago when we came to council and explained uh that it was in the best interest of

the city to go gateless and utilize the resources that we had for managing on street by extending

it to off street so i hope that answers your question sorry i have one more question um so

this last weekend i went to walnut creek with my mom they have like free parking for three hours

like how do we compete with that so what are the other cities especially because they're i assume

also governed by the same cost recovery?

Are they just providing subsidies?

What are they doing to make their parking garages so affordable?

Do you know?

Yeah, through the chair.

So parking is local, local, local.

And so it can vary considerably from one part of Oakland to another.

And certainly if we go to other municipalities or other areas,

the cost structure can vary considerably.

But what we're trying to do is make sure that we charge the right price.

We want to charge the lowest price to achieve the maximum utilization.

And that's where we say we'd like to see a block or a garage about 85% full so that people are not hunting for it and they're able to get in there.

And when we're able to lower the rate, we will.

And that's what we call value zones.

But generally what we're trying to do is make sure that there's parking available for customers and visitors.

and that's what like meter rates are used for okay thank you thank you we have a motion made

by council member Wong seconded by council member Gio to approve the recommendations of staff and

afford to cite until the January 20th 2026 city council agenda on consent on roll council member

Gio aye council member Houston aye council member Wong

aye and chair Unger aye this motion passes with four eyes to approve the recommendations of

staff before this item to the January 20th 2026 city council agenda and that is on consent

as a reminder item four regarding the measure DD grant agreement land trust watershed acquisition

was withdrawn from this agenda and rescheduled to the February 10th 2026 public works and

ACRESPITATION COMMITTEE AGENDA MOVING TO ITEM FIVE.

THIS ITEM REQUIRES AN URGENCY VOTE.

I WOULD JUST NEED A MOTION.

SO MOVED.

DO WE HAVE A SECOND FOR THE URGENCY VOTE?

WE HAVE A MOTION MADE BY CHAIR UNGER, SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER GAYO TO APPROVE THE URGENCY

finding on on roll council member gaia council member houston council member wang i and chair

hunger i i will now read the item into record

adopted resolution authorizing a city administrator to negotiate and enter into a delegated maintenance

agreement with the cal with caltrans to include the maintenance activities such as weed abatement

litter and debris removal on ramps and off ramps except two accepting the appropriate

appropriating up to 375 000 from caltrans to connection with the agreement and three

making sequel findings and you do have three speakers for this item

why don't we hear from staff first if we have anyone

Good afternoon chair and members of the committee. My name is Cesar Macias. I manage state and federal affairs for Mayor Barbaralee. Thank you for advancing this item forward. I just want to say this is a top priority not only for the mayor but for the city of Oakland.

We've been in many conversations in partnership with the city administrator and Public Works and our state partners to ensure that this agreement includes Oakland's requests.

And we believe that this will also help advance one of Oakland's main priorities, which is to keep the town clean.

I WANT TO MENTION KRISTIN HATHOWAY FROM PUBLIC WORKS IS HERE IF THE COMMITTEE HAS ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS ITEM. THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT. COUNCIL MEMBERS, QUESTIONS? COUNCIL MEMBER HOUSTON.

HELLO GOOD MORNING THROUGH THE CHAIR SO ON THOSE ON THE SITES IT WAS 57 SITES PRIOR TO THIS

ARE THEY GOING TO BE A PART OF THE SAME 57 SITES ON WHICH SITES ARE GOING TO BE WORKED ON

THAT'S ONE QUESTION YEAH I'LL REFER TO KRISTEN TO ANSWER THAT FOR YOU COUNCIL MEMBER HEESEN OKAY

GOOD MORNING COUNCIL MEMBERS KRISTEN HATHWAY OAKLAND PUBLIC WORKS THROUGH THE CHAIR

the Oakland Public Works crews did a site assessment and chose a subset of

the 57 locations that they could safely do since we are doing this work in-house

so we have selected 29 locations that we'll be doing and who's going to be

managing that because I'm real familiar as one of them was councilmember Giles

district that was really blighted and a lot of work was put into that I want to

make sure that one I'm not stepping over my council member but needs to be took

care of in a couple in district 7 also so who's gonna be managing that and is

it gonna be data collected with before and afters and just the whole package

to show that it is successful yes so this is gonna be managed by our keep

Oakland clean and beautiful division and the team will be providing all of the

data to Caltrans and that information we can share as well it'll be before and

after pictures information on volumes collected and any other services

PERFORMED LIKE WEED ABATEMENT ET CETERA AND WHO WILL BE THE CHAIR WHO WILL BE THE MANAGER OF THAT

JOHN HILLMAN OUR OPERATIONS MANAGER FOR KOCB OKAY

YOU SAID 29 SITES OF THE 57 IT'S GOING TO BE 29 CORRECT YES AND THE OTHER ONES REMAIN UNDER

CALTRANS RESPONSIBILITY. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU FOR THAT INFORMATION. BUT THE REALITY IS WE CAN'T EVEN TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN FACILITIES THAT WE SHOULD BE CLEANING.

CALTRANS, I MEAN INTERNATIONAL IS THE STATE HIGHWAY AND THE HIGHWAY PATROL USED TO MONITOR THAT STREET.

But what you have is you have government, the sheriff, or let's say the county, the state, and the city not cooperating with responsibilities that they have.

I do call Caltrans and they do respond.

It's not the city responding.

Even the streets in front that the city should take care of, they're not doing it.

But when I call Caltrans, they're the ones that come out and clean under the freeways.

but yet the city does not enforce the rules that we have about illegal dumping,

about the trash, about the homeless activity.

We can come and do that in Oakland anywhere we want to,

but the city is not enforcing that rule.

So for me to take on additional responsibility

that I can't even take care of my own property

and then take care of what the state is accountable for,

And that's the area that's been missing for years.

And I have to go to the Caltrans office on Grand Avenue to help me out.

When St. Jarlett wants to use their parking under the freeway,

I have to go ask them so they can open it up

because Caltrans is secure some underneath the freeway

because we don't deal with the homeless encampment

and all that negative activity that's there impacting our streets.

So my only concern, since I clean the streets every day, and I know the Caltrans people,

I don't know if you have the numbers, I mean, I call them directly, they come and take care of it.

But it's out of control in Oakland, so my only reservation is I'm going to take on additional responsibility

where I can even take care of what I'm supposed to be taking care of with OPD, Oakland Public Works.

and so for me I just want to make sure that if it's Caltrans property,

they take care of it.

It's if Alameda County, they take care of it,

and not having us jumping out there because we're going to get an additional 25 cents

to be able to do that where I cannot even take care of my own home.

So I just, I mean, those are my reservations.

as opposed to holding Caltrans accountable

for dealing with their streets,

dealing underneath the freeway,

and dealing with the on and off ramps,

and dealing with 42nd Avenue's estate highway.

They should be cleaning it.

But, you know, we're waiting,

we're doing this, volunteers picking it up every day.

Anyway, so I think that,

have you had that communication directly?

I mean, we used to have a monthly with Caltrans as the leadership.

I used to run public the parks and recreation, but they were there taking care of their state properties.

Are you meeting monthly with them to make sure it gets done?

Because I don't see that happening.

Yeah, council member, first of all, I want to acknowledge what you're saying.

and I understand we included special language

in the agreement to ensure that the cleanups

don't interfere with already scheduled city priorities.

To your point about meeting with Caltrans,

we do meet with them.

We have a collaboration meeting

with the governor's office every month.

We're actually meeting this Friday.

There's a collaboration meeting to discuss partnership

with not only illegal dumping but also our homelessness crisis.

And those are happening monthly with the supervisors,

Caltrans, the governor's office, and the mayors in our districts.

And I know some of the council members have joined those conversations as well.

Council member Houston joined one a couple of months ago.

And I don't know, Kristen, if you would like to add more about

how we are addressing overtime in this agreement.

I'm going to receive 375,000 from Caltrans to take care of their property.

Yeah through the chair we have had previous agreements with Caltrans to maintain their

freeway ramps this is very common where they have agreements with local jurisdictions.

We previously had a $1.6 million CCMA Clean California Maintenance Agreement with them

and we did contract out to a third party.

Since this is a relatively small agreement for a limited amount of time and we're only

going to be working on overtime to get this work accomplished and we don't have any other

budgeted overtime, it's not, it won't interfere with our other priorities.

Yeah, so just just to get assurances you all feel you do have the capacity then because I think I understand that, for example, the weekend blitzes have paused.

And so I just want to say that is something that we want because I've noticed I've got to say I was in your district, Councilmember Houston, the other day.

And it looks like the it's noticeable how much worse the illegal dumping has gotten also in my district.

and so it's not going to interfere with some of that work here?

It's not the same staff?

Through the chair, no, it is the same staff.

We have limited overtime, other overtime opportunities,

because as I mentioned, it's not in the budget,

and we have only a small amount of overtime for blitzes at the moment,

unless other funding is identified.

So staff made the assessment that they had the capacity to do this additional work.

Like I said, it's a pretty small contract.

It's probably for a relatively limited period of time.

Were Caltrans to offer more money for a bigger contract,

we would look at contracting out to a third party.

Okay. And you think it would it would improve the cleanliness

around highway off ramps and what it like is the reason is Caltrans

just it's better coordination.

What would be the reason that we should enter this instead of say

to my colleagues questions instead of just pulling Caltrans accountable for

doing that cleanup work can you just walk us through that through the chair I

mean I I'm not going to speculate on what Caltrans resources are but I think

that this gives the city more direct control over litter abatement at

specified locations we know we can we can get to it and we have the funding to

THE CITY IS A LITTLE BIT MORE ADVANTAGE IN TERMS OF GETTING TO

THOSE AREAS MORE QUICKLY. AND I SEE SAN FRANCISCO HAS A

SIMILAR AGREEMENT. DID THEY FIND THAT IN SAN FRANCISCO THAT IT

ULTIMATELY IMPROVED THE CLEANLINESS OVER THERE? I DON'T

HAVE THAT INFORMATION. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

from the mayor's office and President Jenkins I'll move it and and follow it

and trust that it can be done because I've seen it happen before thanks I'll

second it any other questions from council all right let's go to our public

speakers please when I call your name please approach the podium if you're

participating via zoom please raise your hands you're easily identified Kevin

Dolly, Ms. Assata, and Blair Beekman. I didn't see some asinine things but this

takes the cake. Thank you Mr. Gallo. I wish you would have brought it up in the

meeting last night that y'all attended. We do not have sufficient staff to attend

to the blight and illegal dumping that's going on in Oakland and what dummy

thought that we have the capacity to help some other organization with their issue of illegal

dumping. And you're saying it's overtime. If we got overtime, we got limited staff,

very limited staff. So why was this considered? Whoever this came to should have said right away,

Oakland is struggling to deal with illegal dumping. I go up Keller. For two and a half weeks,

We have had mattresses and chairs sitting with nobody coming to take it away.

And we've called 3-1-1.

We made calls.

And that's all over the city.

Over there at that elementary school, Howard Elementary, went there last night, illegal dumping, dump all the way on our elementary schools.

This is insulting.

And for somebody to say because it comes from the mayor and it comes from Jenkins, that gives it a priority to seriously consider it.

Seriously consider that Caltran needs to take care of their business.

We don't have the staff.

We got illegal dumping to the fact that it is almost impacting our health and well-being.

and to offer to clean up somebody else's area,

and you don't even know who gets to designated areas,

who gets to decide that, Caltran or us?

This is an emergency item?

No, this is high-class stupidity.

We need to work on getting rid of the illegal dumping in Oakland

with every avenue, hire more staff, get more money, get more equipment,

and then to offer...

Thank you, Mr. Carroll.

Hi. Thank you, Blair Beekman.

Thanks a lot for this item.

From the...

You had council items here back in November

talking about what to do about the future of unhoused issues.

And it was some ordinance ideas that were pretty,

I don't know if they're ordinance or not,

but they were ideas that were pretty difficult to fathom.

And we kind of stepped back from it as a community process.

And thank you that you did.

It needs a bit more thought.

From that, we realized there are serious trash issues

that we're trying to work on and find ways to address.

You spent November and December then trying to work on offering different trash measures here at council and committee meetings.

So thank you immensely for that sort of effort.

And I think this item is a continuation of that sort of effort.

Thank you.

Councilperson Gallo has very nicely described what Caltrans really can be doing for this item.

and he's made it a very comprehensive approach, what we should be expecting and really working towards for this item in the future.

And it should be ways to really ask Caltrans to start doing that sort of work and effort and coordination.

So good luck how you can be doing that.

This sounds like a friendly little compliment to good Caltrans efforts.

and good luck that we coordinate and work that out in the coming months and

that we're working on these trash issues together and inviting everyone to this

process. I know in being from San Jose we used to have dumpster days on weekends

in neighborhoods where there was unhoused people and house people bringing them

together to bring their garbage and trash into these huge dumpsters and we

collected on a Saturday and it would be a big occasion. Good luck in considering

those sort of options as well thank you mr. Kevin Dolly do you wish to still

thank you that concludes your public speakers for s5

councilmember Gaya am I on yeah you know another example besides Caltrans is the

railroad I call the railroad weakling they come and clean around the railroads

because their trains wind up running over people,

and I found two, three dead people when the train hits them.

I've been there cleaning up the railroad, but they're coming out.

So I think it's, you know, Caltrans, the railroad company,

and the other governmental bodies need to be accountable

because not only is that going on with Caltrans, the railroad,

but now I'm also cleaning the schools

because they laid off many of the custodians.

So I want to make sure that my children go to a clean environment

and go back, walk back home.

And so, but I think we need to work

with other governmental bodies

to make sure that they're accountable

for their facilities and their property.

And that's an area that's been missing

with the leadership here from administration

dealing with the other governmental bodies

that at one time growing up here in East Oakland,

we've always had issues of violence,

but I never saw a piece of trash on the street

or illegal dumping

or people coming into Oakland and trashing it and then feeling sorry for

them so so the bottom line is for government here from the administration

we need to make sure that the other governmental bodies that are here are

held accountable and because otherwise we're not going to be able to create a

clean safe environment in this city of Oakland thank you and

Council member Wong I have one more question directed at staff so for me to vote yes on this

I will say it's important to understand it does by voting yes on this or entering into this MRU

are we absolving Caltrans of their responsibility are they fully contracting out to the city

the responsibility for cleaning up the areas around the highway off ramps etc or would this

allow the city to augment caltrans's effort now we can clean up those areas i think that's an

important distinguish a distinction for for me to understand for my vote so can you elaborate on that

um yeah through the chair um the agreement um is giving the city of oakland the responsibility

for cleaning those areas for the period of time in which the agreement is in effect and i would

would defer to the city attorney's office if they disagreed or had any additional information.

So for example, Council member guy just mentioned he calls up Caltrans to help with some areas in

his district. I do the same. We would no longer be able to make those phone calls and ask

Caltrans to support any cleanup efforts based off of that through the chair. I don't believe it

precludes okay Caltrans from coming to clean I mean they can they have the authority to come clean

on their properties at any time and again this is a subset of locate Caltrans locations throughout

the city so there's plenty of locations that the city is not taking on through this agreement

so that's my understanding of the division of responsibility

okay so we would have the responsibility outlined in the but we could still make phone calls on an

informal ad hoc basis I just I'm feeling uncertain about what this contract really represents now

yeah uh through the chair the they are asking us to do routine litter abatement and weed

activities there are other maintenance activities that happen on freeways that they're responsible

or potentially you know for example potentially a guardrail replacement on a freeway ramp that

would be caltrans responsibility so we have a limited set of maintenance activities that we're

taking on on in these locations okay and caltrans would no longer be doing that and the city would

for yeah through the chair for the period of this agreement they would not be doing litter removal or

or weed abatement at those specified locations okay thank you so our staff will be doing this

work on overtime is that correct correct and so we're not robbing from their regular work day we

are we don't have overtime money to pay them to do extra work this is overtime money that we're

getting extra from the state to do this work that's correct thank you councilmember houston

I'm very familiar with this these 57 sites in this 27 29 sites and and and what happens is is

that we need to start prosecuting similar with soup Councilmember guys we need to prosecute right

and some of these individuals are are in our city dumping on city property it flows over

the Caltrain property and in the city looks bad because they only cleaning up a part of

city's property and not cleaning up caltrans and while they're out there i'm very familiar with this

so um it makes sense for this to happen in those areas if you guys are not familiar with the 57

sites or the 29 sites that they're picked it's a property line and people come and dump and it

goes over to caltran and while they're out there they're just able to clean up city and then it

looks like they didn't clean it fully clean it so they could be cleaning up the caltran spillover

at the same time so i understand and that's why i said i wanted to see the 29 sites because i'm

very very familiar with it and it just makes the city look bad if they go out there and clean half

of it when they're right there and they're getting paid and they're cleaning the other portion of it

so i'm in full support of it because i'm very familiar with it and it's needed it makes the

CITY LOOK BAD IF THEY GO OUT THERE AND CLEAN HALF OF IT BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THAT THAT

ISN'T CALTRANS PROPERTY AT THAT TIME ON THOSE 29 SITES SO I MOVE THIS COUNCIL MEMBER WONG

SO JUST TO GET ASSURANCES DO YOU YOU THINK THAT THE CITY WILL ULTIMATELY BE CLEANER AS A

RESULT OF THIS AGREEMENT YES OR NO YES THESE ARE YEAH THESE ARE PROMINENT LOCATIONS

throughout the city okay i mean i think the idea of accountability for our state departments i like

that idea in theory i think in practice it's really hard to do that so yeah excellent thank

you okay we'll have a motion made by council member houston checking it seconded by chair

unger to approve the recommendations of staff before deciding to the january 20 20 26 city

City Council agenda on consent.

On roll, Council Member Gallo.

No.

Council Member Houston.

Aye.

Council Member Wong.

Aye.

And Chair Unger.

Aye.

This motion passes with three ayes, one no.

Gallo.

To approve the recommendations of staff

and to forward this item to the January 20th

City Council agenda, and that is on consent.

Moving to open forum.

I think it would be on non-consent if we had a dissenting vote.

On non-consent, that is correct. I'll restate the motion.

That is a motion made by Council Member Houston, seconded by Council Member Chair Unger.

To approve the recommendations of staff before this item to the January 20th, City Council agenda,

that is on non-consent. Moving to open forum.

When I call your name, please approach the podium.

If you're participating via Zoom, please raise your hands. You're easily identified.

Next slide.

Charlton Burks, excuse me if I mispronounce your name, Kevin Dolly, and that's Blair Beekman,

and Ms. Asada.

They have public works available through the weekend.

Everybody's working.

They're going to do this project over time.

You know what that means?

They're going to be working at night.

Our staff works from 8 to 5 or 8 to 6.

Overtime is going to be at night.

We don't have any staff not working because we understaffed,

and we're working seven days a week.

Y'all are some stupid people, and I'll say it again.

If we could refrain from ad hominem attacks, please.

When you do stupid stuff, you're going to be called stupid.

We don't have no overtime when everybody's working seven days a week.

The only overtime would be at nighttime they would be working.

The stupid stuff you did with that permitting with the trees.

Three years after the trees are cut down, you want to find somebody close to a million dollars.

That person wanted to develop the property.

For three years, they've been denied the opportunity to develop their property.

Have you been charging them a vacancy tax because nothing is happening on the property?

Then you got staff members that come and you ask them why three years.

One says because we understaff.

The number one says is because we don't have a process to bring this issue forward to hold this person, the property owner, accountable.

That's stupid, too.

Three years.

then you have an advisory board making decisions about trees being cut down.

And I looked at your process.

That's supposed to come to you after the advisory board makes a recommendation.

I've never seen you come with a decision about cutting down trees.

And that's stupid.

So I'm going to speak to this again, Gallo.

So thank you and I hope you bring it up again when it comes to the.

Thank you.

And I do apologize.

We have a public speaker, Derek Kilgore.

Hello.

My name is Charlotte Niles Bergson.

I'm a parking control technician over with Oak Dot.

And so I just wanted to take a few minutes just to ask that you guys consider when the vote, if a vote comes to the floor, to pause and for a vote to pause and to look into and ask for clarity and data for the move from finance to OakDot.

Under Oak Dot, for the last eight years, we have accomplished so many things.

We are full-time.

We have a cohesive relationship with OPD, the engineers, fire department.

We're working on hills campaigns and working and managing lakeside.

If in no other city, small or large in the United States and even in Europe and around the world, has parking enforcement under finance.

The reasons that I was given, it was because that's how it used to be.

That enforcement is a source of revenue.

And it's potentially going to increase the salary of some of the finance staff.

and they're trying to move away from Michael Ford.

All of those things have nothing to do with parking enforcement.

Parking enforcement is for safety of the citizens, for the community.

If you put me under finance and I step out of that vehicle with a big old finance department,

and like you said, Gyo, we're going to be in some type of budgetary crisis,

the citizens are going to look at me as they're I'm here to collect so I just want to just find

out the reasoning why that the city of Oakland is going to move away from a proven pro thank you for

your comment

Hi.

Larry Beekman.

Thanks for the meeting today.

Thanks for the words of Councilperson Gairo.

As the current and hopefully one-term Trump Federal Administration continues to publicly speak

and work only in terms of forceful takeover around the world at this time,

instead of negotiation and dialogue,

his continual war posturing and actions is simply exacerbating bad feelings of both law enforcement

and the everyday public in his currently overly violent plans

of how to address the undocumented in this country.

I hope you can make some changes.

It is a tremendous relief that the city of Oakland is finding ways to offer Oakland,

the SF area, and this planet ways to more openly question

and to more clearly address neighborhood surveillance technology future at this time

in learning to leaf lock surveillance.

We are trying to address peace, better reasoning, and public participation

and not war secrecy and needs of harm in decision making.

This may be a good example of patience and compromise for all sides and simply may be a shining guiding light in how the new Oakland City Council and the Oakland community can better consider their decision-making with future community items.

But to again go over some of its continuing questions and concerns, are we going to be truly committed to find a new ALPR vendor?

To again describe, I feel it can be of help to have something like a six-month update to council or committee and how the new ALPR vendor procurement process is moving forward.

and I hope there can be follow-up Oakland committee meetings and open public discussion

that reduced placement of surveillance tech in local neighborhoods can often do the same amounts of public safety work

as an oversaturation or plethora of surveillance technology placed in a neighborhood.

We simply can be working to help keep our federal government in check here at the local level at this time.

Thank you.

But I have a few additional questions in Part 2 of this public comment at open forum time.

It's a public safety committee meeting today.

Please try to review.

I will be using Zoom.

at that time. Thanks for the meeting today, guys.

Hi. Kevin Daly, Transport Oakland. Unfortunately, back to some fire code issues. It appears that

the fire code, as we passed it, is a violation of copyright law. I have heard from the International

Code Council, Deputy General Counsel from them, who they own the copyright for most of the California Fire Code and the International Fire Code.

And they have stated that by including the entire Appendix D as part of the Fire Code, it is a violation of their copyright.

So at some point we should come back and revisit it and decide how to fix it.

One possibility is we join the lawsuit which opens up the fire code and other building codes so it can be publicly considered.

I think that would be a great idea, but I don't think we should fall into this.

I think it should be a carefully decided step to enter the lawsuit rather than accidentally entering it.

The other possibility is go ahead and figure out how we can rewrite it so it does follow the copyright law

and make sure that three years from now we're not in an emergency situation

where we only have a few days to review the fire code.

Anyway, thank you.

Good morning, everyone.

My name is Derek Hilger.

I'm the supervisor, too, for the Vehicle Enforcement Unit.

we get the blighted vehicles off the street.

I would like to start by saying keeping the current program under Department of Transportation

ensures continuity, efficiency, and subject matter expertise.

Under the leadership of Michael Ford, DOT structure is best suited for managing transportation operations,

maintaining compliance, and supporting effective decision-making.

Moving programs to finance could disrupt workflows and weaken specialized oversight.

Retaining them under DOT preserves focus, accountability, and operational effectiveness.

I also wanted to add that I've been a lifelong resident of the city of Oakland since birth,

since 1966.

I've been with the city of Oakland since 2006, and I've been managing this unit for the past

four years.

We're just about to go full-time with our full-time staff.

Our interviews have been completed.

We interviewed 24 candidates, and I would like to say that moving this department, my department

to under OPD, would disrupt the city and do the citizens a great disharm for each and every

one of your constituents.

So with that being said, I would like to see our parking,

I would like to see our parking preserved the way it is.

I don't see the reason to move backwards when we got made so many strides moving forward under DLT.

Moving back into finance and management would be a total disaster for everyone involved, including yourselves.

So with that, I give back my time. Thank you.

That concludes your public speakers for open forum.

All right. I believe that concludes our meeting unless anybody has anything.

All right. We are adjourned. Thank you.

Thank you.