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good afternoon and welcome to the life enrichment committee meeting of today January 13 2026 the

time is now 4.02 p.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're here with this

and chambers and would like to submit a speaker card please fill one out and turn it into myself

before the item is read into record online speaker requests were due 24 hours prior to this meeting

this meeting came to order at 4 00 2 p.m speaker cards will no longer be accepted 10 minutes after

the meeting has began making that time for 12 p.m with that we will now proceed to take roll

council member gallo present thank you council member wang present council member houston is

excuse and chair fife

present we have three minute members present one excuse houston moving to

council excuse me chair fife do you have any announcements for us today i do not have any

announcements announcements we can get right into the agenda please thank you moving to item one

approval of the draft minutes from the committee meeting being held on december 9th

2025 and you have no speakers for this item i'll entertain a motion

i'll second we have a motion made by councilmember gallo seconded by chair five to accept approval

of the draft minutes of the committee meeting on held on december 9 2025 as is on roll council

member gallo aye council member houston is excused council member wong aye and chair five

I motion passes with three eyes when excused Houston to accept the draft

minutes of the committee meeting held on December 9 2025 as is moving to item

four determination schedule outstanding committee items which is also known as

the pending list and you do have one speaker for this item okay before we

hear from our public speaker I'll ask the administration if there's anything

any proposed changes on the agenda no proposed changes okay what I have madam

city clerk is that item three on a life enrichment pending list no date specific

the fiscal year 2024 25 cultural funding grants we will withdraw that

item the council already approved a resolution on April 14th 2025 regarding

these grants so that is my only change and through the chair would that be

would that be withdrawal with no due date yes thank you okay moving to our

public speakers mr sada

I continue to request that at some point the quality of life that's being

impacted by our sanctuary city status and have a discussion on that. You just can't create an

ordinance that's saying you're a sanctuary city and you have a lot of things coming up. You do

talk about how you want your police not to be involved with ICE as a sanctuary city, but you

don't talk about some of the economic and housing challenges as a result of being a sanctuary city.

You don't talk about the fact that many of the people who are involved in being non-citizens have expired visas.

You have 20,000 commercial licenses that were revoked by the California Department of Education because these people's visas had expired.

You have over 250,000 to 300,000 licenses administered by the Department of Vehicles

that have to be reissued because they were issued with visas expired.

So have that conversation.

I'm also concerned about the governor's budget.

You have to have a conversation that the proposed budget last week by the governor

is reducing housing and homelessness contributions by 56%.

You have to have a conversation that the application for any child assistance from the government

of this country is saying that you can't use certain words.

You can't use black.

You can't use racism.

You can't use DEI.

You can't use trauma.

You can't use discrimination.

How are we going to handle that?

When is that conversation going to take place?

housing projects you have five uh three in district two one in district three one in

district five and none in district six and district seven when are we going to look at the

yes thank you mrs i'm moving to our online speaker blair beekman please

unmute yourself and begin your two-minute comment

All right, thank you.

Blair Beekman.

I don't have comments for this item.

I'll just simply wait for item three.

I think we're going to talk about item three next,

if that's correct, and I'll just wait for item three.

Is that correct?

Yes, thank you so much.

Thank you so much, Blair.

Thank you.

That concludes your public speakers for item two.

I just need a motion yes councilmember guy

patient that's long overdue before the city council and that is I would like to request and

have an idea I don't come back to the life enrichment committee and that is received

an update or a status report from Oakland Unified School District.

It said one time they were here present once a month giving us information,

and certainly Alameda County used to be sitting there giving us a report on the status of the county

in relationship to Oakland.

But still it's a life enrichment

activity within the families, children, and the city of Oakland,

and I would like to invite individuals from Oakland Unified to give us a status.

We're this Oakland Unified School District today, economically, educationally,

because certainly it is greatly challenged,

and we as a city need to work in cooperation.

So I just wanted to work with you on having them report back to us.

All right.

I'm happy to bring that report to the Life Enrichment Committee.

I do know that Council Member Brown, with education partnerships in the committee that she chairs, is also hearing that information there as well.

And I'm on that committee.

Okay.

But I would like, I mean, we haven't met, we haven't got into the heart of the matter.

You haven't met yet?

I haven't.

I'm on the committee, but I haven't seen the invitations that have been part of that.

Okay.

But anyway, so I think if we talk about life in Richmond as a city, and certainly our school's a priority, having raised three daughters and a son in Oakland, it is the priority to make sure they're in cooperation with Oakland Unified.

because I'll leave you this last point just as an example.

You know, my crew, my workers here in my office,

we're out there cleaning schools daily

to make sure that they're safe and clean

for the children that are attending our neighborhood schools.

Thank you.

Yes, ma'am.

There was a meeting of the OUSD last week

to develop their calendar,

and as it related to the partnership meetings,

i question why no identification of dates were on their calendar and they say they're waiting for the

city it's their responsibility to create the times and dates for the two bodies to meet

i'll work with you council member guy on that agenda item

I'll second thank you we have a motion made by council member Gail seconded by chair five

to accept determination schedule outstanding committee items as amended the amendments as

follows withdrawing item three under no date specific regarding the fiscal year 2425 cultural

funding grants and on the roll and noting council member houston president 409 pm excuse me

unroll council member gallo aye council member houston i'm staying i don't i wasn't here i don't

yeah i abstain council member wang aye and chair fife aye we have three eyes and one abstention

council member houston to accept determination scheduled outstanding committee items as amended

with the amendment stated on record moving to item three

adopt a resolution accepting and appropriating a summer food program grant from california

department of education and the united states department of agriculture in the amount of 426

thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars two authorizing the city administrator to negotiate

and enter into a professional services agreement with with uptown uptons incorporated and flows

friendly school lunches for food services three accepting the appropriate additional sfsp funding

from any source to become available and authorizing the city administrator to amend the above psas to

increase the amounts within the 2026 sfsp term and for waiving the competitive rfp local process

local and small local enterprise program requirements and you do have two speakers for

this item thank you and i see michael is here dude were we able to get your slides to k-top for your

presentation yes we were k-top if you could cue the slides and how much time did you need for the

presentation um like five five minutes that's what i thought all right wonderful um good afternoon

chair members of the life enrichment committee my name is michael ocondry from the human services

department and today's item concerns the city of oakland's 2026 summer food service program

with the city has operated for nearly 40 years to reduce child food insecurity during the summer

months when school is not in session. For the 2026 program year the city has been

awarded up to $426,870 in federal and state reimbursement funding through the

USDA and the California Department of Education. These funds will allow us to

provide free nutritious meals to children and youth in neighborhoods where

food insecurity is most concentrated at no cost to participants with no general

purpose fund impact so it will allow us to accept this funding, authorize

agreements with these vendors as well as waive the competitive RFP process for

the summer of 2026 which is I'll just touch on why we are choosing not to do

an RFP this year. In 2025 we did go through an RFP process where two vendors

were selected after going through a competitive process. Federal SFSP

regulations allow annual contract renewals for up to four years and renewals may

occur without issuing a new RFP, thereby the city is exercising an existing

compliant renewal option. And the rationale behind this is primarily to

avoid multi-month procurement delays. The RFP process tends to take a lot of time

that could be spent setting up the program for success. It preserves

continuity with vendors already trained in federal compliance requirements, meal

documentation and monitoring and delivery and site coordination and allow staff to

focus on standard operating procedures monitoring compliance improvements and

faster and more reliable vendor payments in 2025 the program served more than

66,000 launches across nearly 50 sites nationwide and for 2026 we're planning

for approximately 70,000 launches and snacks and snacks with the capacity to

with capacity to extend if needed.

While federal rules prohibit the collection

of participant-level demographic data, all sites are located

in census tracts where at least half the children qualify

for free or reduced-price meals.

As a result, the program primarily serves low-income,

black, brown, immigrant, multilingual,

and working-class families who are disproportionately affected

by summer hunger.

Beyond Nutrition, it supports neighborhood institutions

like libraries and rec centers,

creates seasonal employment and ensures continuity of service for families who rely on school year meal programs.

It's completely reimbursed by the state at the rate of $5.31 per meal.

And we have two vendors, each of whom will be authorized, will be going to contract for $213,435 per vendor.

So I'm looking ahead.

we're looking to focus on strengthening our internal systems and to have a

workshop this calendar year to invite vendors who might be interested in

bidding in future years to ensure that they are well equipped and understand

all the program requirements to participate in the future thank you

thank you mr. Kanji I just if you could just articulate publicly some of the

concerns that I've shared with your office and department just so it's

stated for the record around the changes that you've made to your program so that our vendors

are getting paid on time. I know there were some issues and concerns about that I've shared.

Yes. If you could just state publicly what changes have been made to ensure that the

billing is done on time from our vendors and that they are getting the payments when they

provide those services in a timely manner yes unfortunately there were some delay delay payments

dealing dealing with issues um prior program years 2023 and 2024 primarily where contracting delays

and processes within the city led to vendors having long periods of time before they received

their payment um subsequently in 2025 we tightened our internal systems to ensure that vendors were

being or invoicing us and being received receiving their payment within a timely fashion

we also ensure that we're moving the contracting process as early as possible

ensuring that the vendors are under contract prior to the program starting means that they can invoice

us as time goes on essentially periodically over the course of the program and i'm happy to say

that the pro these problems that played previous years were not an issue for 2025 and we don't

and visit them continuing to be a problem for this current year thank you for the changes that were

made um a few years ago this issue was used politically by individuals that were not

necessarily concerned about the programs but wanted to create challenges for the city and

really articulate some issues that were not necessarily issues happy to hear that in 2025

you've worked all of that out that shows that staff are really focused on what's important that's our

CHILDREN SO THANK YOU FOR SHARING THAT INFORMATION AND MADAM CITY CLERK IF THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS

FROM THE COMMITTEE THEN WE CAN TAKE PUBLIC COMMENT COUNCILMEMBER GAYO AND THEN COUNCILMEMBER

HOUSTON FOR THE PUBLIC'S INFORMATION HOW DO WE ARRIVE HOW MANY YOU SAID YOU SERVE 52 000 STUDENTS

during the summer we serve 66,000 lunches 66,000 during the summer months

yeah over 10 weeks of the summer of 2025 those individual number of meals that

were served how do we arrive at that number it's basically based on need we

have almost 50 sites and each week they give us a list of number of meals that

they require and we ensure that the vendors are only paid for the number of

complete meals that is knows that come that meet the federal meal pattern

requirement and also have a milk included and are within the correct temperature guidelines.

So all the meals that are being paid for are the meals that are actually ordered by the

sites and consumed by children over the summer.

So your request for the funding amount justifies the number of children that we have in need?

Yes.

Or is there a greater need that perhaps we should be getting more resources?

Yes.

Yes, in the past, this program has been supplemented by the sugar-sweetened beverage tax program

to the tune of up to $2 per meal, which was not available last year

and almost led to the program being canceled entirely.

And thankfully, within the department and external sources who are interested,

we're able to rally donations from such organizations at the East Bay Community Foundation

who were able to provide a supplement to ensure that every,

We're not only able to have a program, but we're able to pay our vendors at a rate that ensured a guaranteed meal quality.

So we are obviously looking and hopeful for additional support because every additional dollar helps and amplifies meal quality and children satisfaction greatly.

And these summer meals are provided at what type of locations?

They're prepared by the vendors at their inspected facilities and then they are transported to

the sites by delivery vendors in temperature controlled vehicles so that once they receive

the location, the staff at those sites, the library staff, the reclater staff, they're

trained to handle the meal and ensure they're within, they remain compliant and safe.

So it's our libraries and schools that we provide the service to the neighborhood.

I'm sorry, could you repeat that?

IT'S OUR LIBRARIES AND SCHOOL SITES WHERE WE DELIVER THE SERVICE TO OUR FAMILIES.

YES, LIBRARIES, PARKS AND REC SITES AS WELL AS OTHER COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS LIKE CHURCHES,

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS, AND LIKE SPORTS TEAMS.

ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU.

THANK YOU.

THROUGH THE CHAIR, HOW ARE YOU?

I SEE HERE PUBLIC LIBRARIES, SEVEN PUBLIC LIBRARIES, PARK AND REC CENTERS, THERE'S 19

OAKLAND COMMUNITY AND SCHOOL SITES, THERE'S 23. SO IT'S LIKE 49 SITES OR LOCATIONS AND

SEVERAL OF THEM ARE IN DISTRICT 7. MY THING IS, I HEARD YOU SAY THAT IT WAS FOR LOW INCOMING

AND FOOD INSECURITIES AND IT'S JUST LUNCHES, CORRECT? LAST YEAR WE ONLY HAD LUNCHES BUT

In the past, we've done two meals a day, either a breakfast or a snack and a lunch,

and we anticipate, hope, to be able to have two meals this upcoming summer.

Yeah, breakfast is real important.

And the vendors are in, one is in Hayward and one is in Emeryville.

How long have you been working with the one in Hayward?

Almost a decade prior to my participation in this program.

They have participated in the RFP almost every year,

and they've been a customer who understands the program and provide meals that the children like

both vendors actually and that's the one in hayward about 10 years you say um the one yeah the yeah

the one in the one in a one and the one in um emeryville well they're looking in the montclair

they're in their kitchen is in oakland but um they are that's flo's school lunches they've been

participated about six or seven years but both are long-standing vendors who have history with

the program. Yes, it says they're located at 158 Emeryville, California, and the other one is 3667

Depot Road. Do we have any vendors in Oakland that could supply these type of lunches and

breakfasts and things like that? Do we have any? Yeah, like the goal is to open in the future. We

would like to have more local and small vendors. I want to have them really fully understand the

requirements of the program so the goal is to facilitate opportunities to teach

them a kind of workshop setting and show them the requirements and what it takes

to operate a food program at this scale and for that demographic so do these

vendors do they have subcontractors no they are small they are independent

um small businesses okay yeah i'm i'm i know we can feed ourself you know take care of ourselves

could we look for some vendors not saying that they're not adequate i'm not saying that at all

but can we get some some vendors in oakland that can take care of our own people um

that'd be great so you said they may open it up again yeah but we hope we hope we plan to have

another irp in 2027 and at that time we want to provide the resources to give the local vendors

the opportunity to participate and have the best chance for success which is why we're planning

that workshop and just to your point uh council member houston these are points i've raised over

the years as well and what we've run into with our vendors our food providers is that they may be

really really good about providing that service but not so good on the business

side which means making sure that you're keeping your receipts that you're

invoicing the city on time and doing a host of other things and we've run into

some vendors that have had problems of being the the service provider and the

business person so one of the things that I'm working on is to try to create

a training program or partnership program where our small businesses get

the support so they can contract with the city but do that effectively so that

they can grow their businesses and that they are Oakland based and providing the

services that our our kids need particularly in this field and because

the Oakland Unified School District has a pathway that is based in hospitality

and we have so many commercial kitchens I know in my district I'm not sure about

the other districts as well I'm trying to pull that together into an actual

PROGRAM WHERE THEY'RE LEARNING THE SKILL BUT THEY'RE GETTING THE BUSINESS ACUMENT AS WELL

SO YOUR POINT IS IS NOT FALLING ON DEAF EARS YOU'RE YOU'RE MAKING VERY IMPORTANT POINTS

THANK YOU THAT'S BEING LIKE SOMETHING LIKE WE'RE GOING TO WORK ON TOGETHER WHEN IT COMES TO

THE SMALL LOCAL BUSINESS SLEBA OKAY I'M GOOD WITH THAT OKAY THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER WONG

I was just going to also touch upon a similar issue, and I would just recommend to you if we find real issues with getting the small businesses.

I noted in the report around the federal audit requirements and documentation, all of that.

On the public work side of things, I think they do.

I see a lot of subcontracting to my colleagues points of subcontracting with these smaller vendors to get them actually the opportunities through our programs without even if they're not ready today to say take on those administrative requirements.

So, but clearly this is on your radar already, so appreciate it.

And I do know that if we don't approve this today,

that we would disrupt the program for 2026, correct?

Yes, definitely.

We're definitely at the clock now.

So as soon as we can get this going and get them under contracts,

then we can start planning for the program.

Okay.

And then for the two vendors that we have been working with,

is there any data or tracking around the nutrition?

like what kind of meals are they serving are they healthy meals is this part of their grant

requirements they need to meet yes in order for the meals the meals need to be reimbursed by the

state and they have to meet certain guidelines they have to meet a nutritional meal pattern

meaning they need to contain several items milk grain piece of fruit and need to fit between within

the correct temperature otherwise they're not compliant and the meals are rejected and the

vendors do not get paid for that day.

We also, well, they have to publish their menu ahead of time each week, and we publicize

that, have the kids' children aware of what's being eaten.

And we also, people who have special requirements, dietary requirements, religious requirements,

not that they serve pork or anything, but we definitely factor those in to ensure that

people's needs are being met.

And we definitely garner feedback from, we have our sites garner feedback, direct feedback

from the children and they let us know which meals they like which meals are not working which

ones are being wasted and we use that process to improve the process so that um the feedback

keeps being good okay sounds good that's it

moving to our public speakers miss assada and blair beekman

I want to concentrate on the quality of food.

I'm concerned with the large amount and volume of food items that are being recalled.

If there is a recall of anything that we are distributing,

is there a backup plan to provide food for children?

When you look at what is called culture preference for food, in other words, we have a diverse community where people of certain groups prefer certain food items, and do we accommodate that?

I'm also concerned about some of the food risk issues, eating disorders, allergies,

restrictive foods for some children, and things like iron deficiency.

Do we accommodate some of these needs?

I know it's not possible, but it's important to bring it up.

We also have to pay attention to the nutrition standards that are out here,

the safety standards that are out here.

we have to pay attention to, when I say safety, the storage of food and the contamination potential of food.

We have to look at too much high sodium, too much sugar, whole grain, milk quality of those things,

preferred carbs, high protein items being available.

So I know y'all tried to talk about where it's coming from,

but we got a lot of things that are involved in the quality of food.

And so what have you been given to demonstrate that quality is going to be in place for these young people?

And I am particularly concerned about young people today are very picky eaters.

And I remember in New York when they were trying to accommodate,

my grandchildren drive me crazy with that,

because we used to say you eat it or you don't eat.

moving to our zoom speaker blair beekman please unmute yourself and begin your two-minute comment

Thank you.

Hi.

Thank you, Blair Beekman.

I don't attend enough Life Enrichment Committee meetings,

and this, boy, this was really nice to hear today.

And yeah, thank you very much for it.

Thank you that you've worked out its problems

over the past few years, and it sounds

like it's in a good place.

And with some work and effort, you

can be introducing more local vendors

to the future of this program.

and good luck how how this process is uh working for this summer and that

our kids can have food and it's it's a really good sounding program

uh thank you that's all

to chair five council members staff thank you for allowing me to speak even

though i didn't fill out a speaker card my name is nyle taylor i am the chair of the sugar sweet

and beverage tax advisory board i work very closely with michael and i just want to express

my support of reintroducing city funding allocation to oakland summer food program

as you all know ssp the grant program was one of the programs impacted by the budget cuts due to

the city's financial deficit so i'm excited to see the revamp of the work we were doing up to 2025

where we saw an increase in food education access to hardy and healthy food options particularly

in our food deserts and for our children who are the most vulnerable and for the swapping of sugar

sweetened beverages for water so just wanted to go on record and say that thank you for your time

and your commitment to a healthy oakland thank you for the comment nice before we um before we

before I call for a vote I did want a point of clarity Michael if you could there was something

that we discussed previously around the number of vendors that were responding to the RFPs that were

put out before can you say a little bit you spoke to this previously but I just want to really

clarify for the record that we don't have a lot of people that are capable of responding to the

the criteria for this RSP RFP.

Correct. Could you speak to that a little bit more?

Well, yes. A few years ago,

I'm due to the mandate from this council to

actively seek smaller vendors.

A few years ago, we actively solicited vendors.

We asked just asked around in the community within the food circle.

So we had a huge, very large,

we had about five vendors in the year 2023.

I mean, the smaller ones had their challenges as not all bad,

but then last year, due to the timing, we put out the RFP quite late,

and we didn't have as much time to publicize,

and we had a smaller response rate.

And so we only got a large response when we actively went out

and asked the community for vendors who would be interested in this.

but when we just put it out without any form of notification there's not as many people applying on their own.

Thank you for sharing that. Yes, Councilmember Houston.

Apologies, I was late. I wasn't sure if we recognized Dr. Jason Lester and

I was lucky or fortunate to meet him last night and it was a pleasure meeting him and he was really

concerned about things like what they're talking about right now and he's in the

audience too. Dr. Lester did you want to share anything on this topic? He had a

good spill speech yesterday I took his paperwork I told him I was gonna use some

of his words. Just want to acknowledge the inequities just want to acknowledge I

hear what you're saying about diversifying the group of people that

that can provide in Oakland, providing for Oakland.

And our goal is to get in front of this situation

so people are paid on time

and that we're able to address this thing.

We're hoping that this upcoming summer

we will have amazing outcomes

and we won't be wasting food

and that things are gonna work out.

The goal is next time when this opens up for an RFP

that we will have enough time

and put it out there so that we can get

a wide, broad net of people coming to help with us.

But overall, I ditto everything that Michael has said.

Thank you, thank you, I appreciate that.

Thank you all for your commentary to this committee.

Michael, I wanna thank you for your work on this process

and paying attention to my concerns.

And I know Nefertis is not here,

but I gotta give a shout out for Nefertis,

understanding what I was putting down

in terms of my concerns around this issue as well.

So I'm happy we're moving in the right direction

and getting on the right track and I will I will acknowledge councilmember

gallo and then I will ask for a vote

we have a motion a second from Noel gallo and councilmember Houston we have a motion made by

councilmember gallo seconded by councilmember Houston to approve the recommendations of

staff and afford this item to the January 20th city council agenda and through the chair to

body would this be on consent or non-consent

on consent on roll councilmember gallo councilmember houston aye councilmember wong aye

and chair fife aye the motion passes with four eyes to approve the recommendation of staff and

afford this item to the january 20th 2026 city council agenda and that is on consent moving to

open forum we have two speakers that signed up for open forum miss assada and blair bieckman

excellent we'll hear from our public speaker

so the trump administration is attempting to freeze billions of dollars to five states one of

the states is california and he's trying to cut money for the temporary assistance for needy

families program known as cal works he's trying to cut money to child care and the development fund

He's trying to cut money to the social services block grant.

And the courts, I think, are trying to hold it up.

We also have a 92-page audit from the state auditor report that just came out

with $70 billion in taxpayer funds having to do with have been misused,

They're claiming fraud. $25 billion, I'm sorry, $2.5 billion in SNAP fraud is being identified.

$25 billion in fighting homelessness has been identified as using fraud.

We also have an article that just came out where we have not had a report from the city administrator

on the $225,000 in contracting funds he's allowed to spend,

and that hasn't happened since 2023.

And that's supposed to be an annual report on the city administrator's ability to spend up to $220,000.

So we got a lot of issues going on with money and the lack of it,

and you need to prioritize some discussion about, particularly with homelessness,

because I think a report came out that we funded six months of homelessness.

We had to eliminate some homelessness programs, and that Homeless Commission needs to report to you what they're doing,

and we need to start identifying prioritizations around housing, taking care of child care issues.

That's very important that we deal with that if Trump is going to be interfering with our capacity to have the funds necessary to do it correctly.

moving to our zoom speaker blair you may unmute yourself and begin your two-minute comment

all right thank you blair beekman thanks for the life enrichment committee meeting today

nice to be a part of it um as oakland now has better options and choices in our local policy

making towards peace and better human reasoning and his current local crime numbers are also

being reduced in Oakland and across the state at this time. This is part three of my public

comments today, by the way. Thank you for the patience to the Oakland community as we are all

trying to understand how tech accountability and the future of neighborhood surveillance technology

and data collection can be equals in understanding this concept that Oakland can continue to develop

a well-balanced approach of social services, the Oakland Macro Program, open accountable tech

practices and law enforcement all working together as how to build the future of Oakland

neighborhood public safety. I'm returning to San Diego in early February as I spent the last four

months cleaning my storage locker. The city of San Diego will be having their yearly review of

their own surveillance and technology ordinance in early February. It is hopeful that at that time

as they may want to begin to better address their own future of possibly leaving PLOC as the main

ALPR vendor, and to hopefully be considering how reduced amounts and yet more strategic placement

of surveillance technology in local neighborhoods can continue to fulfill mostly the same current

public safety needs. There are San Diego council persons who have already openly discussed and have

wanted to work towards these type of concepts in city council public meetings, but the slow grind

political machinery can simply weigh down on us all. Oakland has hopefully found a way of good

compromise in how to slowly leave the Flock ALPR vendor that San Diego can learn some important

lessons about at this time. And from this, let's hope the City of Oakland can be learning and

working towards some good answers to better address the future of slowing down the public

meeting process when needed and ensuring a more clear procedural public meeting process in 2026.

thanks a lot for the meetings today everyone thank you

thank you for your comment blair and that concludes your public speakers for open forum

that was the last item

What just happened?

All right, everyone, the meeting is adjourned.

Thank you.