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Good afternoon and welcome to the public safety meeting of Tuesday, January 13th,

2026 the time is now 1 34 p.m and this meeting may come to order before taking

roll i will provide instructions on how to submit speaker cards for items on this

agenda if you're here with us in chamber and

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

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this meeting or before the item is read into record

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meeting time this meeting came to order at 1 34 p.m

and speaker cards will no longer be accepted 10 minutes after making that time uh 1 44 pm

we'll now proceed with taking roll uh council members brown present council member five

present council member houston present and chair wong present thank you we have four members

present chair before we begin do you have any announcements at this time yes just um an

announcement that January is human trafficking prevention month and you

know as many of you know that this is one of my top priorities it is just

modern-day slavery within happening here in Oakland and especially in district 2

and I just want to give a thanks to councilmember Fyfe for supporting me

yesterday as well as a councilmember Houston for dropping by as well so and

that's it thank you reading an item number one approval of the draft minutes

from the committee meeting held on December 9th, 2025.

We do have two speakers that signed up for this item.

Okay.

Yeah, let's go to it.

Calling in the names that signed up to speak

on item number one, Mrs. Sada Olabala and Blair Beekman.

Edward's slavery is very important word

and I don't want it misused.

So are you talking about people who have been against their will,

forced to be in a situation where they do labor for free?

Yes, accurate.

Okay, all right.

Or not for free, but forced, yes, and coerced.

Okay.

Be careful with that word, please.

Yes, ma'am.

I would like to see the minutes reflect that

when we're talking about citizens' options for public safety grants,

I have no problem with the helicopters, but that is a very broad topic that includes personnel,

equipment, and training. And if you could have more on the training component being brought

forward a little bit more with the use of those funds, it would help because that's a part of the

NSA. The cognitive behavior theory that was brought up in that last meeting, now that theory

has to do with a person being able to identify and change negative thoughts, patterns, and behavior.

But nobody says, what are we talking about, specifically,

when we're engaging in creating cognitive behavior theory?

Are we talking about racism?

Are we talking about biases, implicit and explicit bias?

And where do we see it existing in the police department that we have to deal with it?

We don't go into enough detail when items are coming before us.

And the last one was the ceasefire evaluation.

You have to get some type of, you say it's evidence-based.

Ceasefire, what is the evidence that the evaluation will produce?

And what is the intense social services that ceasefire is supposed to provide?

I have never seen that being presented in any evaluation, any presentation.

when y'all keep saying ceasefire is working,

you only talk about the opportunity to deal with an exchange of thought and ideas

through the coaching process that you have, the life coaches.

So let's do a little bit better with the evaluation on ceasefire

because y'all really drive me crazy about you keep bragging about how it's working.

Thank you for your comments, Ms. Olabala.

Switching to Zoom user Blair Beekman.

You can unmute yourself and begin your comments.

Hi, thank you, Blair Beekman.

I wanted to speak to the meeting minutes.

Thank you for the words of the previous speaker on cognitive therapy training.

Clarifications, important subject matter that it's clarified well.

Thank you.

Thank you. On the meeting minutes previously, you had a review of surveillance technology

items reported for the year 24 or 2025. I wanted to quickly comment. It's going to be

my mantra here in Oakland for the next few months. Hopefully it can be helpful and convincing.

I know it's uncomfortable a bit, but with our upcoming technology issues that you very interestingly have agreed to want to better address the future of block ALPR vendor use and find a new vendor in the next few years,

I think the complement to that is the idea that we can actually be considering how to reduce actual surveillance technology in local neighborhoods.

that's been proven that more strategically placed technology in local neighborhoods

in lesser amounts can actually do the same amounts of public safety work in a neighborhood.

And I can just say that for the next few months,

and hopefully it can have some sort of resonance and meaning,

and we can begin a bit more of an open public dialogue and subject discussion on it.

I think it's important and it should be an important part of reviewing the importance of a new ALPR vendor.

And I think it's a part of that whole system of more responsible practices.

That minimal use of technology can actually do just as much as a plethora of tech.

And I think we have to explore those options and really be a regular part of our lives.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments, Chair.

That concludes all speakers on item number one.

Okay.

okay yeah I don't want to thank the public commenter because that does remind me that

we need to reschedule the item that we scheduled for a future date on the surveillance use

report so I will I will plan on doing that any comments from colleagues councilmember

Brown move approval of the meeting minutes okay I'll second that thank you we have a

motion made by councilmember Brown second by chair Wong to approve the

committee meeting committee meeting minutes draft minutes from December 9

2025 on roll councilmember Brown aye five aye he's soon aye and chair Wong I

thank you item number one passes with four eyes now reading an item to

determination of scheduled outstanding committee items we have three speakers

that signed up for this.

Let's move to that.

Calling in the names that signed up to speak on item number two,

Mrs. Sada Olabala, Jennifer Finley and Rajni Mandel.

I'm requesting that the schedule,

y'all fully understand that I understand that y'all not going to do none of this stuff.

I'm coming here fully equipped not to have any expectations from this body because you don't do anything that I feel is important in my frame of work that I'm doing, particularly around African Americans.

So I'm not asking you for anything because you're not doing anything that's important to me and the people I'm concerned about.

But you should do a reflection on how you require background checks.

You just had an appointment of two people to the police commission where background, it was approved in rules.

Background checks had not been done.

You brought that up.

And you can't move an item forward to say, oh, we're going to do it before it comes to council.

Are y'all serious?

Background checks are important.

And somebody needs to challenge OUSD that does not require background checks for volunteers as long as a teacher is supervising them.

Now they're doing that because of the illegal immigrants,

they don't want them to have background checks.

The other thing is, there are two items

that have been pushed to the side.

The NFL player that was killed were under police supervision.

And November of 2024, a police officer shot

and killed a person, and we've never had that brought up

in any form or fashion, right over here by the plaza.

Now, it was identified early on that this was the person who was over the police officers

association.

They called it by name, and then all of a sudden that story died.

The other thing I'm concerned about is the NSA stop data.

You have to look at that data.

You have to look at the data, and nobody's looking at it, particularly who gets citations,

who gets warning, who gets no actions, students who are picked up for truancy, a whole bunch

stop that's my last miss millie cleveland did you want to speak on item two still okay

millie cleveland from district four uh there are two items i would like you to consider for

scheduling. The first one is macro has existed for going on three years with absolutely no

evaluation. The original ordinance actually stated that it wouldn't even become citywide

until there was an evaluation. So for the life of me, I cannot understand why this council

continues to authorize funding for macro when there's been no evaluation. I think that's

really irresponsible. The other thing that I would like to ask you to consider is having more reports

from OPD about ICE. How often has ICE been in the city? How many 911 calls have been received due to

ICE? How many interactions have occurred when OPD showed up to an occurrence with ICE? What training

has OPD received regarding issues of ICE? Have you requested copies of the training? Do you have

any knowledge of the training OPD has? What memos OPD has provided for dealing with ICE?

They say that ICE informs them, but I cannot get a council member to ask OPD to report on

what's happening with ICE.

So I think these are scheduled items

that you need to consider, please.

Thank you for your comments.

Switching to Zoom user Rajneem Mandal,

you can unmute yourself and begin your comments.

Rajneem Mandal, District 4.

I wanted to speak to the Skelly hearing process

and how it intersects with the ongoing transition

of misconduct investigations from internal affairs to CIPRA.

According to OPD's most recent reporting,

there are currently 46 discipline cases waiting for Skelly hearings involving 64 officers.

OPD also reports that it has 18 trained Skelly hearing officers available.

The Skelly backlog has been steadily declining throughout 2025 following process improvements

put in place by OPD and Human Resources in late 2024, including moving the process online

and expanding who can conduct hearings.

It's important to be clear about roles.

Skelly hearings are handled by OPD and Human Resources with support from the City Attorney's

Office.

CIPRA does not schedule or conduct Skelly hearings.

As the City continues the transition of investigations from Internal Affairs to CIPRA, I urge the

Committee to keep investigative timelines separate from Skelly timelines.

There are different stages of the discipline process which are controlled by different

departments.

Clear reporting on where delays occur, whether during investigation, Skelly, or final discipline,

IS ESSENTIAL FOR ACCOUNTABILITY AND FOR MAKING INFORMED DECISIONS ABOUT STAFFING AND RESOURCES.

MY REQUEST IS SIMPLE. AS THIS ITEM MOVES FORWARD, PLEASE

ENSURE THAT REPORTS CLEARLY DISTINGUISH EACH STEP IN THE PROCESS AND IDENTIFY WHICH DEPARTMENT

IS RESPONSIBLE SO SOLUTIONS ARE TARGETED TO THE RIGHT PLACE.

THANK YOU.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.

that concludes all speakers on this item okay fantastic and I did want to

note because I know one of the public speakers has an interest in the macro

special session that has been in discussion you might notice that we've

one of our deputy city administrators Joe DeVries has transitioned to become

the director of animal services and so we were working on that there's been a

leadership transition um aca phillips is now um i think you'll be serving in this role now with us

so uh we are continuing we will work on that but leadership changes have um delayed some of that

okay any other comments from colleagues or questions okay seeing none

i'll make a motion to move the item

Thank you we have a motion made by councilmember Brown seconded by councilmember

five to accept the determination of schedule about standing committee items

as is on roll council members Brown I by Houston I and chair Wong I thank you

item number two passes with four eyes reading in item three adopted resolution

authorizing the city administrator to enter into a memorandum of

understanding with the santa clara stadium authority and the city of santa

clara for the oakland police department to provide tactical support and security

for super bowl 60 on february 8 2026 and the fifa world cup event from june 11

2026 to july 19 2026 and we have three speakers that signed up

let's go to the staff report first

Good afternoon. I'm Captain Perez Angeles with the Oakland Police Department and as

mentioned we are seeking council's approval for via sign MOU to have the ability to assist the

city of Santa Clara with Super Bowl 16. We will be providing tactical security. I'm more than

happy to answer any questions you may have on the resolution and agenda report

that I was submitted okay let's go to public comment

calling in the names I signed up to speak on item number three missus

Osada Olabala, Blair Beekman, and Rajni Mandal.

I thought we were gonna get a little bit more detail

of tactical support to what extent and security,

to what extent understaffed police department,

Can we take the risk of having less officers not available on the streets of Oakland?

And you have to say, yes, we can.

And if you say, yes, we can, then anything that happens could be identified as because you allowed less officers to be available.

And that's your decision to make.

I would say no.

crowd management and what equipment is going to be used, traffic control. They've got a lot of

stuff. Are we going to be doing all of this stuff? And then as it relates to the World Cup. Now,

I thought y'all were going to take a position of stepping away from any involvement with the World

Cup when that organization decided to give Trump this peace prize, made up an award for Trump,

saying he was a world peace leader just to appease his behind, and that's a lie.

There's nothing peace going on.

So this organization has fraudulently given this leader, so-called leader, an opportunity to shine,

and y'all going to back that program.

Plus, you need to clear up that $700,000 that you made available for this event

when the city of Alameda committed to be a part of the total $700,000

and committed $150,000 towards this thing happening.

You are footing the total bill.

The other thing is the draw has shown

that we're getting the least popular contestants to come to Oakland.

The teams that are coming here are not the high-ranking teams.

So are we going to be making any benefits from this?

To what level?

But y'all don't...

Thank you for your comments, Ms. Assata.

Blair Beekman, you can unmute yourself and begin your comments.

Hi, thank you.

Blair Beekman.

Thanks for the words of Assata Olopala.

Yeah, I've been feeling the same way about the World Cup, same as City of Oakland and

the previous public speaker, actually.

I'm disappointed in how they're thinking and working.

And good luck for trying to make the best of it.

And thank you.

Good luck in how Oakland will be working the Super Bowl things.

It's always a headache and a problem in the excitement of it all.

And it brings more and more law enforcement issues that sometimes become a pain afterwards.

The after effects of the Super Bowl can be disheartening sometimes.

Good luck we work on the after effects of the Super Bowl

and just return to our normal lives and not start over-believing.

You're working a lot with AUSI on these.

AUSI is going possible through some serious changes in how it's going to

exist for itself in the future.

And I've been trying to talk to you as a part where we are aware of that.

And we try to be open in conversations about what direction they want to be headed towards in the future.

I don't think they should be solely responsible for that direction.

direction and that it really can and could be a big area of immunity effort to define

our future from just awareness and planning.

So don't be afraid to ask questions at Super Bowl night.

They'll be open to discuss, but you have to kind of push them a little to get that answer.

I think once you do, it's .

BEAKMAN oh it looks like we don't have them um sorry one moment rajni you could unmute yourself

and begin your comments rajni mandal district four i wanted to raise two practical concerns

with this item that i think merit committee attention first is staffing opd is currently

operating at roughly 500 active sworn officers compared to an authorized strength of about 680.

So when OPD deploys officers to assist other jurisdictions under agreements like this,

those officers are temporarily unavailable in Oakland.

So even when all costs are reimbursed, staffing availability is not.

So the question here isn't fiscal, it's operational.

With staffing already well below authorized levels, how does OPD ensure that Oakland's baseline patrol coverage,

response times, and neighborhood safety are not impacted when officers are deployed elsewhere?

Second, I want to clarify a common misconception about the federal negotiated settlement agreement.

The NSA governs OPD officers wherever they operate, including when they assist other jurisdictions.

But it does not bind outside agencies that assist OPD in Oakland.

That creates a real asymmetry.

It is procedurally easier for OPD to send officers out under its own policies and federal oversight

than it is for OPD to receive assistance from agencies that are not subject to the NSA

and may be reluctant to operate under heightened scrutiny.

So as the committee evaluates this agreement,

I encourage you to keep that asymmetry in mind as part of the broader operational context.

Understanding how the NSA affects outbound and inbound assistance differently

is important to evaluating these agreements responsibly.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments. Mr. Beekman raised his hand.

Sure, let's allow him to finish his comment. Mr. Beekman, you can finish off your comments.

Hi. Thank you. 23 seconds. Really nice of you to allow me to finish. I'm at the BART station and it just cut me off. I think it's because of a BART train pass through.

with 15 seconds, yeah, good luck that we can be talking about a future of open public participation for the future of Bayouasi.

Bayouasi was built on public oversight. We should continue public oversight. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments, Chair. That concludes all speakers on item number three.

Okay, thank you. Captain Perez-Angelis, if you can come back to the podium.

I did, you know, similar to the line of questioning, as you know, I had some concerns around this proposal too because of the understaffing that we face. Can you speak more about how this would affect?

Yes, and I apologize for my short introduction.

So prior to coming to this, we did have a lot of planning meetings with the executive team from OPD and the OPOA.

I know our chief of police did have concerns about staffing levels.

So one of the directives that we received is that nobody on Super Bowl Sunday that is scheduled to work can be assigned to this detail of working the Super Bowl.

So what that means is that the individuals that are going to work,

if approved, the detail are individuals that are on the regular day off.

So pretty much they're going to volunteer to work on their day off to work this detail.

That will not affect operations because we do not intend to pull anybody

who's on duty that day to work this detail.

Additionally to this, the EOC will be activated at level three.

just to have communications between the O.

What is the EOC?

Emergency Operations Center.

And the goal of that behind that is to have awareness

of all the events that are going to be happening

throughout our city.

Like, I know we'll have one in the convention center,

a Super Bowl watch party.

I understand they're expecting about 3,000 people

to attend this incident,

so that's got to be staff and desperate situation awareness

to ensure that we have the proper amount of officers

to respond in case there's an incident.

In addition to that, the Alameda County Sheriff's Department, they agreed to provide support for us.

In case there's an emergency in Oakland that requires a SWAT team, they will, they agreed to respond and cover us via mutual aid.

But at the same time, at the direction of the chief, we are to break from the Super Bowl.

And if the SWAT team is required, we are to come back and fulfill the need of the city if we have a critical incident in the city.

now when we participated in Super Bowl 50, we took about 25 officers. Santa Clara has not been specific as to how many they need. We based on our numbers, we plan to take 25 officers from the tactical team to assist with with the detail.

So as I mentioned before, I just want to make sure that again, no resources are going to be pulled from that day to fill that detail.

That detail is going to be filled by officers who are volunteers who are off on that day.

Okay.

And can you, because I noticed one of the days that is being proposed is June 19th.

As you know, that's Juneteenth.

And historically that day can sometimes be associated, unfortunately, with shootings.

and here in Oakland, would that affect our response at all?

If we have an incident like we had in the past?

Uh-huh, yeah.

Well, the initial response is going to be the officers that are on duty.

Then from there, the supervisors are on scene make an assessment.

And if they make a decision that there's a tactical need for resources,

then they'll activate what we call the blue alert, which means we will get called,

which means in turn that we will have to leave that detail and come and respond to that.

Or we can coordinate with the Alameda County Sheriff's Department,

which they have agreed to provide us support while we work if approved that detail.

So we pretty much planned it and then have contingencies ready to address any safety issues.

Okay. So it would not affect the response time should something happen?

No, because one of the things is that the team is already going to be in tactical gear

with their gear down there.

And if they call us, we'll come straight to the incident instead of coming to to the

department, grabbing the gear and then responding to the scene.

I think it'll be more time proficient that way.

We'll get to here faster.

OK.

And what is.

How has Santa Clara also in return helped Oakland PD?

Well, we have already been successful when it comes to mutual aid.

We obviously in Oakland, we have incurred a lot of critical incidents.

I think the last one that I can think about was July.

In July, when we lost law enforcement officer, parole officer, that required a tactical response.

We had an overwhelming response from San Jose's SWAT team, Fremont.

All the neighbors to these immediately send their resources, which was really appreciated.

Thankfully, the incident was resolved quickly within four hours,

but the amount of support that we get from outside agencies via mutual aid is amazing.

I think it's important that we maintain that relationship with outside agencies

whenever we are in need of mutual aid or vice versa.

Now, like this situation, the Super Bowl is the most viewed event in the country that day.

obviously there's a lot of safety concerns and then what they want trying

to do is make sure they have the appropriate amount of tactical security

to provide security for the attendees

I'm going to turn towards colleagues Councilmember Brown excellent um well

thank you Councilmember Wong you asked a handful of the questions that I had but

but through the chair to the officer.

Thank you so much for kind of providing some of the feedback.

I did have some questions about, of course,

I guess it was a decade ago, the Super Bowl was also

being hosted and I had some questions around like,

oh, how do we navigate that?

But I think what's most important is that at this time,

as you all know, OPD is extremely understaffed.

And so I hear you around what the process would look like

in the event that there was an incident here in Oakland

and ensuring that officers that are on overtime

would return back to Oakland.

But I guess I'm curious about the process on the front end.

So maybe you could walk me through that.

Is it a phone call that the chief receives saying,

you saying, hey, you know what, we need 15 officers and then there's more of a call out to see who's available.

Can you walk me through that process?

And then how it relates to the current staffing levels that we have within the city on the Super Bowl day?

Absolutely. Good question.

So as of now, the Oakland Police Department tactical team has about 60 members.

We're a part-time team.

There's four sections in the slot team.

you have your tactical dispatchers, you have your drone operators,

you have your hostage negotiators,

and then you have the entry team element and then the sniper element.

So it's five elements.

So if we have if we encounter a critical incident, the protocol is the following.

The watch commander will respond to the scene.

And if he believes that this that type of incident requires a tactical response,

what he does, he radios our dispatch center

and it directs them to activate a blue alert.

Immediately after that, within minutes, every single person

who is part of the SWAT team receives a phone call.

And that phone call will direct them to the incident and where to respond.

So because on that day, if approved, like I believe half of the team will be in tactical gear,

meaning the entry team and the sniper team,

all we would have to do is drive time from Santa Clara to get here and to respond. That's how our protocol works. That's the initial steps that need to be taken. And in addition to that, our emerging operations center, as I mentioned before, is going to be operating. So they'll receive information. And if the Oakland Police Department needs additional resources from different departments, they will have the ability to provide those. Either if we need additional tactical

the teens for whatever reason, they can summon those via a mutual aid. I see in are these officers, I guess maybe I'm slightly confused and so the officers that would be showing up to help support Santa Clara. Are they actually on overtime or are they working their regular shifts? Yes, that's a good question. So they will be on overtime and that overtime is going to be paid. We're going to send this. The local police department is going to send them the bill and we should be getting reimbursed by the city of

I see. Okay, and then I guess maybe one last thing for consideration in reading through the report. It doesn't explicitly state that this would be off-duty officers operating on overtime.

time, and so I want to offer to my colleagues that perhaps we ensure that the resolution

kind of explicitly states that it would be, you know, off-duty officers.

I do have the language if you want me to read it on the record.

Yeah, let's have that.

Okay, so it says, resolve that the deployment of Oakland Police Department personnel for

any event shall not reduce on-duty staffing levels for patrol or specialized units below

opd's established operational baseline i'll second that thank you for preparing that

okay um any other comments or questions councilmember brown are you i'm good you're good okay

OK.

Yeah.

Yes, thank you, Chair Wong.

Through the chair to our officer here,

help me understand what happens if an overtime presence

is needed in the city of Oakland.

Because from what statistics say, things

that I've heard over the years, is that during Super Bowls,

particularly when an opposing side loses.

There's an increase in domestic violence,

an increase in 911 calls,

that sex trafficking tends to be more prevalent.

So I'm trying to understand

how the needs of Oakland will be met

if there is an increased need.

If this many officers, 25 officers,

Yes, ma'am.

are in Santa Clara help me understand what the response could potentially be in the need of increased

well in the face of increased need in the city of Oakland.

Good question. So yes, so the as mentioned before these officers that are working are on volunteer bases.

So if there is a need for officers to come in on overtime because of there is a need we commanders

can put out via messaging email that we need that type of coverage and they can come and cover for

on overtime the needs. Unless it's considered an emergency then again we can activate that one call

where we tell everybody to come in and assist with with the critical incident. This happened during

previous events during George Floyd. We did get called in where all our days were up counts

canceled and everybody had to come and work. I've been here for 19 years. I don't think we have ever

been to that level besides certain events. So that's how we would cover it. When it comes to the

sex trafficking and domestic violence, we do have our special victims unit does have one officer

assigned to the FBI task force, which is monitoring this type of activity. Our special victims unit

is running operations in the city of Oakland in regards to sex trafficking. I know they have an operation, I believe, this week.

So we are working with the other agencies besides the city of Santa Clara, other federal agencies to make sure that the needs are met,

not only in, obviously, in the Levi's Stadium, but throughout like our city when it comes to those type of incidents.

So is it mandatory if there is a critical need in the city of Oakland, mandatory overtime would be imposed?

We cannot impose we cannot mandate people to work overtime unless it's an emergency by that need to come in meaning.

I don't want to do the incident I can think let's say we we have a large event with with civil unrest or protest where it requires everybody the chief of police can mandate everybody to come in and cancel the days off and come and work.

So how do you how would you define emergency? It wouldn't be just a lot of calls. How would

how is an emergency defined?

Well, the if we have an increase of calls for service or incidents that need to be addressed,

what we do on a daily basis is that area commander puts out emails, notifications saying we need

we have openings on for officers to come and work over time to come and work details.

Again, we cannot mandate them to come and work on something like to cover a beat or cover an assignment.

We're not there yet.

We can't mandate it to work overtime unless we're dealing with an emergency,

which requires all hands on deck to come and work that situation.

And the only one that comes to mind to me is during George Floyd, as I mentioned.

Everybody got called in.

All our days were canceled.

because we had to work that during that work period.

Do you know how many officers that the Santa Clara Stadium Authority is requesting from the Bay Area?

I don't know the number, the total number they are requesting.

But I'm assuming they're requesting officers from every jurisdiction.

Yes, and then they requested the Oakland Police Department because we helped them during Super Bowl 50.

So we have that relationship with him.

So they did reach out and ask us if we could assist.

Oh, they asked specifically for Oakland?

Yes.

Oh, wow.

Do you know if they asked for anybody else?

Or is it only OPD?

Oh, no, it's not only OPD.

There's multiple agencies that are going to be helping with this event.

And is this something that OPD, because I'm really struggling with authorizing,

well utilizing my vote to authorize officers when the opoa is consistently talking about the lack of

officers on the streets for oakland every single day so to me that is a contradiction so i'm

struggling with that contradiction and why it would make sense to vote to support sending

somebody do the math for me what is 25 500 what is the percentage i'm not the mathematician here

That seems like a significant number of officers to authorize when we have a little over 500 officers on duty.

That just doesn't make sense to me mathematically.

No, that's a really good concern.

And again, just as I mentioned before, the chief of police did emphasize that if you're assigned to work that day, you're not to be assigned to that detail.

So again, the people who are working this detail are people that are volunteering.

So they want to go to the Super Bowl.

they want they want to work in detail yes okay thank you

Through the chair how you doing sir good how you doing

This this makes sense to me

And let me say why from what I just heard sitting back is that they can already be geared up

They're gonna be geared up they 50 miles away if this voluntary

I might be at Nolan Park Zoo, right?

And then I got to leave my kids.

I got to go home.

I got to get my fit on.

I got to go get the car.

Then I got to come down or whatever I got to do to gear up to come.

If you call them, this is voluntary.

They're going to be off.

So whatever, they're going to have people that are officers that are volunteered, already geared up on overtime that Santa Clara is going to pay.

This is what I just heard.

So I don't see a problem with them.

If they want to do it, that's what they want to do.

and if we do have a problem, the officers are already geared up.

So I'm willing to move this the way it is.

Oh, but my council member made an amendment.

So can you say that amendment again, council member?

Because I don't understand why we're making an amendment

if they already geared up.

Go ahead.

But I just want to hear it, though.

Yeah, go ahead.

Excellent.

Thank you.

So the resolve clause was resolve

that deployment of Oakland Police Department personnel

for any event shall not reduce on-duty staffing levels

for patrol or specialized units below OPD's

established operational baseline.

Yeah, that's good.

I'll go for that because that's what he said, that too.

So that's going to be real good.

So when are we going to get paid when they,

so I'll go back to that money.

So do we have to wait for Santa Clara to get paid,

or they pay us and then they just, how's that payment work?

The way I understood it is that Santa Clara is going to reimburse the city of Oakland, the Oakland Police Department, and then Santa Clara is going to get reimbursed by the NFL.

But we will get paid by Santa Clara first, and then Santa Clara has got to seek payment from the NFL.

And then I do want to add something.

I mean, just the importance of mutual aid and having those relationships with our neighbor agencies.

I mean, we've been through this before multiple times.

We're multiple agencies from as far as Kings County, Chico, have come converged to the city of Oakland to assist us whenever we need any help.

I think it's important to have that relationship.

I mean, no matter what, anytime we seek mutuality, they have always come.

We have a good relationship.

I just want to continue to have that.

And as I mentioned, staffing levels and on-due personnel will not be affected with this deployment.

And through the chair.

So I like that.

I like it.

It's good.

We're going to get our money back.

They're going to be geared up if we need it.

We already built a relationship 10 years ago, right?

Yes.

Okay.

So I've seen somebody just walk up.

My backup.

How are you doing?

Yeah, that's right.

That's right.

I was going to run.

Sorry, I was coming from another meeting and I was out in the field, so I apologize for

the dress.

But I was listening as I was driving over here.

I heard some of the concerns, some of the questions.

Just to clarify a little bit on staffing.

So the optimal number is to send 25.

But that is not what we will send if the needs are needed here in the city of Oakland.

So again, the goal would be to send 25.

Santa Clara could ask Oakland we need 50 officers if we can't accommodate that

we're not going to send that we're only going to send the amount of officers that

we have that we can accommodate the assistance that we're not jeopardizing

what is needed here in the city of Oakland sorry I was like running to get

up here sorry about it so anyways with that like I said I just want everyone

to understand that the priority is the city of Oakland I know there's a couple

of events that we're hearing that may be scheduled for a Super Bowl if those

aren't staffed we're not sending officers to Santa Clara we're ensuring

that those are staffed first once those are staffed anyone else who is not

working can then go to Santa Clara I know that the J Henry Kaiser Center is

looking at hosting a watch party and that was a concern you know OPD usually

doesn't work Santa Clara I mean at J Henry Kaiser Center because they have a

pretty good security staff that can handle their own but they have reached

OUT AND IF THAT IS THE CASE THAT THEY WANT OPD'S ASSISTANCE WE WILL ENSURE TO STAFF THAT AND

I'VE ALREADY GIVEN THE DIRECTIVE THAT IF WE CANNOT STAFF THAT WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE SENDING

OFFICERS TO SANTA CLARE IF WE CAN'T STAFF OUR OWN STUFF HERE IN THE CITY OF OAKLAND BECAUSE WE

WILL TAKE OUR OWN CITY PRIORITY FIRST BEFORE SENDING OFFICERS OUTSIDE THE CITY.

YEAH AND I WILL SAY I SPENT THIS MORNING GRILLING THE POLICE CHIEF BECAUSE I WAS WORRIED

about all of the questions that we've raised this morning.

And one thing, if you could just confirm this

for the public record, that first of all,

it sounds like if there was some sort of emergency,

I think about the potential for violence to outbreak,

that we don't actually have, whoever is off duty,

we cannot suddenly call them on duty that day.

That is not something that we could do.

And also it sounds like it could actually improve the response time because we would have this voluntary unit now deployed out in Santa Clara if they needed to be called back to Oakland.

They could. Can you confirm that for the public record? That is correct. So if we have officers that are off duty and there's an incident that's occurring, we can't mandate people to come in like like Captain President just said, unless it is considered an emergency.

Again, I think someone had asked, again, I was listening and driving to run it up here.

I think one of the questions may have been, what do you consider an emergency?

When you look at a potential emergency, it'd be some type of large-scale event that had the potential to create either mass violence,

casualty, or vandalism that we would consider an emergency where we then mandate officers to come in based on the needs of the department and to keep the city safe.

So that's how we would kind of look at like that line of what we would consider an emergency again

Like captain president was saying with the George Floyd protests, right? It was large-scale

you know

fortunately there was you know some vandalism and looting that was going on but

Enough where we had to ensure the safety of everyone here in the city of Oakland

So we mandated all the officers to come in and we reached out for mutual aid

so again when we look at you know what's an emergency would be something that

would be considered a large-scale event that could potentially cause mass

to scrub destruction here in the city of Oakland where we need to just keep the

city of Oakland safe okay and what do you think of the likelihood is that

we're actually going to staff that June night June 19th event given sure yeah I

heard that question as well so again Juneteenth has always been a very kind of

hot topic here in the city of Oakland so we already have pre-authorized captains

who are going to be incident commanders and operations planned for specific

holiday events so those are already going to be staffed with overtime

officers those officers won't be going to work because I know it's in June that

would be FIFA so again if we need 50 officers for that event and we only get

30 i'm not sending 20 to go help with santa clara's fifa we are going to make sure that whatever that

captain determines is needed for that event is filled and then if there are additional officers

left that want to go we'll look at that but again the priority is going to be the city of oakland

staffing the city of oakland ensuring the city is safe and that we have enough staff on hand

during these different events before we even think about sending people outside the city

okay and if we're ready to vote no on this and we didn't approve it would there be a rupture with the relationship with Santa Clara do you think I'm sorry I didn't hear the first what what would be if we as council voted no on this would there be a rupture in the relationship with Santa Clara do you think they may not be willing to help us in return or what would be the consequence sure I don't think I don't think there would be a rupture okay I just think it would send a little bit of a message again you know with

all the Bay Area cities dealing with their own issues.

When one city reaches out to another, we try and assist when possible.

Again, we also know that we may not always be able to assist,

but we also like to try and keep those relationships intact,

where if we may need someone, they come to us.

If they need us, we go to them.

Okay, that's helpful.

And then I also have finally a question just around the fee structure here,

which is the reimbursement that we'd be getting,

potentially getting from Santa Clara.

What is included in that?

Is that just straight up the salary?

Or are we getting salary plus?

Is there any?

Yeah.

Sure.

So like any other overtime event

that we would have our officers working here,

we are going to charge the same

if they were outside the city.

So again, like when you look at PG&E's requesting for officers,

the big four downtown requesting for officers,

any type of overtime event that's occurring here in the city we have a structured price

for officer sergeant all the way up and so we will send that same price structure to

being reimbursed in santa clara okay

uh councilmember fife did you have a question just a quick question this has been really really

helpful so thank you for all the clarifying answers that you provided uh is there uh dates or

events where Santa Clara has sent officers here or sheriffs here?

I don't know if they have officers or sheriff.

I don't know what they do over there.

So a good question.

So Santa Clara County, they have officers.

So Santa Clara PD and Santa Clara County sheriffs.

I know that the sheriffs have assisted the Santa Clara County Sheriff's

Department has assisted here in the past in Oakland.

I don't believe the actual police department themselves have.

Obviously, they're a much smaller agency,

so it's more challenging for them to then provide resources.

But the county itself has.

And I know that there was another question, I believe, around human trafficking.

Yes.

So Captain Perez had mentioned that we're going to have one officer that our vice unit is running operations.

So this month is Human Trafficking Awareness Month, where our department has ramped up the operations that we're running all the way through the month of January.

We will also be running operations through the Super Bowl period.

We will also have an officer with the FBI in the San Francisco EOC running operations with them to ensure that we are deterring any type of human trafficking that may be going on.

So we are out there strongly trying to make arrests for individuals coming here, trying to solicit for sexual activities, trying to save our victims who are out there being trafficked.

So we are running many, many operations leading up to the Super Bowl, and we will be also continuing to run those operations to deter anyone from coming to the city of Oakland to engage in sexual activity as far as solicitation of sex.

Is there any overlap in the same personnel that could go to staff some of these World Cup events?

Just because there's a ripple effect when people do overtime, then they have limitations in terms of other things.

you know they have to have a rest period all of that could there be that type of ripple effect

so again um the way we have it structured in the chief's mandate and my mandate is that

those operations are going to be staff first obviously our policies dictate rest period

stuff like that so if an officer does not have that rest time in between we will not authorize

them then go try and turn around on two hours of sleep to then go work in santa clara so again

And the officers that are going to work outside the city of Oakland and Santa Clara will be following under all of our own policies and procedures as well.

And so there are multiple operations that are going to be run as far as surrounding sex trafficking.

And our vice unit has stated that they're only going to give up one person to go help with our federal partners, with the FBI, to ensure that they're getting information.

the rest of the team is going to be focused strictly on human trafficking.

They're not sending any officers to Santa Clara.

And again, this is just on an overtime, on their days off,

but the vice unit is really passionate about trying to reduce human traffic here in the city of Oakland,

so they don't want to be deterred from their operations that they're running.

And we don't want to deter them from that because we want to make sure that when people come here to the city of Oakland,

they know that if they're engaging in the purchase of sex trafficking,

that they will be held accountable.

okay councilmember houston go ahead thank you to the chair how you doing deputy chief johnson how

are you doing sir how are you good all my questions was answered from the beginning and i moved it

with councilmember brown's amendments i just had one question and it's kind of a little bit outside

of the scope no it's not um you said it was keep it keep it somewhat in no it's in there please

you had mentioned that it was 60 uh part-time tactical um officers is that's true it's 60.

yes so our our tactical team is made up of a part-time we're a part-time team so what that

means is that each officer has a primary job here in the department and their secondary role would

either be on the entry team sniper team hostiles negotiator or drone operator or our dispatchers

their primary job would be regular dispatching, but they also do toast dispatching, which is a

tactical dispatching, which is a special skill. And so those men and women have primary functions

here at the department. And then if they're off duty, when a critical incident occurs,

they are then called back in to address that critical incident. So a lot of times,

you know, we have officers, our men and women and our professional staff that are off duty at the

time a critical incident may occur. A lot of times those occur at two, three, four in the morning,

right and so they then get called back in to help address that critical incident

there would be no different if something were to occur here in the city of Oakland

you know during the Super Bowl I know that you know there's a there's a you

know that everyone likes to celebrate during the Super Bowl and you know I

think someone had mentioned when I was driving up and running up the stairs and

out of breath that you know domestic violence things like that occur and call

volumes do go up that does occur and at that point it would be up to the watch

commander if some if additional needs resources were needed if the watch

commander when the watch commander is on scene and if it's like let's say after

hours they are basically the chief of police in the city making the calls and

so then they would run up the chain of command hey we need X Y & Z to help with

the calls or this critical incident and then they get that authorization to go

ahead and do that and that call would then come in thank you chief thank you

chief so I moved it with the amendment of Brown and I'm just keep moving actually

I think based off of that conversation, I would want to make an amendment to the amendment.

Just it sounds like there's the potential for to be increased activity.

So I would want to amend it.

So it's not just baseline, but just that we can ensure activities that are not just the baseline,

but any increased activities that would happen in Oakland during this period.

So yes, Councilmember Brown.

Thank you, Councilmember Wong. I'm not quite sure what you specifically mean, but I guess

like through the chair to either the administration or the parliamentarian, I've submitted the

amendment. So if, and I know this item is going to be going to the council, so perhaps,

member you can submit a supplemental of what you want yeah I can read out can I read out like a

slightly amended version of this okay try it again yes okay so resolved that deployment of Oakland

police department personnel for any event shall not reduce on-duty staffing levels for patrol or

or specialized units below OPDs,

established operational baseline,

and any additional needs that come forward

during this time period.

Semicolon, excuse me, and be it.

Come forward during this time period.

Yes.

Okay.

And through the chair, if I may, real quick,

just to keep in mind,

I think that amendment sounds great,

but just keep in mind that during this time period,

if we are deployed to Santa Clara, that Santa Clara is going to be reimbursing our cost.

When we have to then staff additional officers here in the city of Oakland, the city of Oakland bears that cost.

So just when we look at budgetary constraints, we already, we have a lot of things set in place to ensure the safety of everyone here in the city of Oakland during that time period.

But just be mindful that, you know, if there are certain amendments that are put in where it's saying that, you know, we shall staff, which we, we will do.

and I have no issue deploying our officers to staff that,

but just thinking budgetarily that the city of Oakland

is going to be responsible for those costs.

And as a department, we just have to make sure

that we are following and trying to not go above our budget

that we have budgeted for these.

So just something to keep in mind.

Sure, and I think the intention of the amendment

is not to say that we will be adding,

but in case there's additional needs here,

these will be the things that we address first,

not in Santa Clara is going to be secondary to whatever is needed here in Oakland. Yeah,

and that's the responsible for paying for that too. Yep. Yeah, and the chief has made that very

clear that we will ensure that all events here in the city of Oakland are prioritized over officers.

Again, I get the draw of I want to go work Zulu. I want to go work FIFA, right? It's cool. But

again, we have a city to protect and the city is going to be the priority. And so I get that you

may want to go, but if we can't fill this, then no one's going to go. So that is directed from

the chief and myself. And that was my other question is even if we go forward with this,

if it turns out that there is the next week's unpredictable, it turns out the needs are so

intense here in Oakland, we may not send anyone. Correct. Correct. And again, like I know Santa

Clara can request, they request 100 officers, right? But we can only send what we think is

feasible to ensure that the city stays safe while those officers are gone even though they're on

their day off even though they are working overtime again if the unknown happens do we have

the ability to call those men and women back in so we want to make sure that we have enough staffing

here we're not deploying our resources so much that if this if an event were to occur where we

needed additional resources we didn't have those resources available to us so that's definitely on

the forefront of myself and chief beer's mind okay council member and then i just wanted just for

clarity um because i i heard and understood um you know just the details that you know we wouldn't

be sending officers you know that are currently scheduled um and the whole purpose of the amendment

is just to actually just put it in the legislation just saying hey these are the parameters

and then i believe that the sentence that councilmember wong is adding it just says

any additional needs that come forward during this time do you still feel that that's most

appropriate to add um whereas i i do think so because i think if there if there are things

that come here i i want to make sure that beyond the operational baseline the additional needs that

happen in Oakland come first before Santa Clara. Okay I just think that it

based on what we know already and what's been budgeted for as far as like OPD

operations the key dates and events that we know always are kind of what's

happening in the city of Oakland I feel like those have been accounted for and

so potentially the sentence is like broadening the scope when you say any additional needs that come

forward when we already know the EOC is going to be operate up and operational for the Super Bowl

just some of the other parameters that we know are in place can you walk me through that how

WITH THIS JUST THE PHRASE ANY ADDITIONAL NEEDS

COUNCIL MEMBER HOUSTON I ALREADY MADE A MOTION TO ACCEPT COUNCIL MEMBER BROWN'S MOTION

AND I'M I'M NOT I'M BEING RESPECTFUL BUT THE POLICE KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING THEY'RE NOT GOING TO

LEAVE OUR COMMUNITY HE ALREADY SAID IT OVER AND OVER THEY'RE PART-TIME THEY'RE ALREADY GEARED UP

up if they're ready they will come if we need them so can we just move this and move forward please

Yes, thank you.

It was just brought to my attention that I wanted to get a little clarification while

you all are dealing with this. I'm reading from a member of public of the public that says when an

off-duty officer makes an arrest outside city limits it's typically considered a private

citizens arrest not an arrest under their official authority unless it's an emergency situation

involving immediate threat to life or property. Does that apply here? So when we are going there

for mutual aid that would not apply but if an arrest were made Santa Clara would be the primary

agency who would come and take custodial over that individual and process individual because it is in

their city in their county so they would be processing that individual so Oakland would not

be bringing that person back here to the Alameda County for processing we would write what's called

a supplemental report provide that to the Alameda I'm sorry Alameda provide it to Santa Clara PD

and they would then take physical custody and charge that case in their county so citizens

ARRESTS UNTIL THE JURISDICTIONAL. NO WE STILL HAVE POLICE AUTHORITY BECAUSE OF THE MOU THAT WOULD BE

SIGNED AND THEN THEY WOULD TAKE CUSTODY OF THAT BODY. UNDERSTOOD. THANK YOU. YOU'RE WELCOME.

LET'S PROCEED WITH THE VOTE. YEAH. AND WE'LL STICK WITH COUNCILMEMBER BROWN'S ORIGINAL AMENDMENT.

all right thank you yeah i just wanted to clear on the record thank you for that okay so we have

a motion made by council member brown seconded by council member houston to approve the recommendations

of staff um to approve the recommendations of staff as amended to include the resolve clause

stating the deployment of the open police department personnel for any event shall not

reduce uh sorry reduce on duty staffing levels for patrol or specialized units below opd's

established operational baselines and be it and for sorry for this as amended

with those amendments to the January 20th City Council agenda on consent that's

the correct emotion all right on roll council members Brown aye why I'm sorry I

didn't hear where we ended with the amendments can you restate that yes that

was the amendment to include the resolve clause that councilmember Brown

originally read which is the deployment of the Oakland Police Department's

personnel for any event shall not reduce on-duty staffing levels or patrol or

specialized units below OPDs established operational baselines and be it I was

just advised by the city attorneys that I guess my amendment to the amendment was

going to create some sort of administrative anyways we're just going

with councilmember Brown's original for this most yeah well we deliberated this

to death yes I I remember you saying I and chair Wong I thank you I remember

three passes with four eyes to be forwarded as amended to the January 20th

City Council agenda on consent now reading in item number four adopt a

resolution one authorizing the city administrator to execute an informational

or sorry an information technology professional services agreement with a

Medical Priority Consultants Inc. doing business as Priority Dispatch Corp. for a licensing

and hosting software suite to support fire and medical dispatch operations from October

1st, 2025 through September 30th, 2028 in an amount not to exceed $150,000 with an option

to extend the agreement for two additional years with a total amount not to exceed $250,000

and without returning to council.

Two, authorizing a one-time payment not to exceed $233,030

to pay outstanding invoices from fiscal years 2022 to 2025.

And three, waiving the competitive multi-step solicitation process

for the acquisition of information technology systems requirement

and local slash small business program enterprise requirements.

And we have two speakers that signed up for this.

Okay, we'll go to the staff.

presentation. Thank you. Good afternoon, counsel. I'm Dave Eberle. I'm the fire communications

manager for the Oakland Fire Department. If you'll forgive me, I have some background to

give you, especially for our newer members, and I have some bullet points to read so I

don't ramble. I also have a second part. It's a little bit of news that I'd like to share

at the end of this. The emergency dispatch, ProQA dispatch software program we are discussing

today has been in place since 1995 and is required by the County of Alameda to maintain

the department status as an accredited center of excellence.

Maintaining the ACE accreditation in medical dispatch demands adherence to software updates

as well as updates and medical triage cards as protocols change.

Approval of this resolution will authorize the Fire Department Dispatch Center to continue

providing medical triage and provide fire triage for 911 emergency calls.

The Medical Priority Dispatch System module allows FDC to quickly triage medical calls

and dispatch the right resources.

The Fire Priority Dispatch System module will allow FDC dispatchers to quickly triage and

dispatch the appropriate resources for all medical emergency structure and vegetation

fire call types.

Adoption of this resolution and subsequent authorization of a new contract agreement with priority

dispatch will ensure there is no interruption of critical emergency dispatch services.

The Oakland Fire Department dispatch center staff of dispatchers provides emergency medical

dispatch to approximately 65,000 emergency calls for services annually.

The medical priority dispatch system, MPDS, used by FDC is internationally recognized

standard for providing medical instructions and dispatching services for 911 callers.

The MPDS evaluates calls and allows for rapid dispatch of appropriate first responders and

county transport ambulance based on its internationally recognized standards of service to the public.

Oakland is the only city in Alameda County with a tiered response system that evaluates

calls and allows for the rapid dispatch appropriate first responders and county transport ambulance

based on its internationally recognized standards of service to the public.

Of the 65,000 medical calls triaged in MPDS in 2025, FDC was able to determine that 17,990

of them were low acuity that did not require a fire department response or lights and siren

response from the county transport ambulance.

This kept fire department resources available for high acuity emergencies, both medical

and suppression related.

calls require the highest level of oversight and continuous audit and review. This contract

will assist in meeting the requirements to maintain the dispatch center's ACE accreditation

as well as provide an unbiased, external, and consistent audit process for this critical

community service. Adoption of this resolution and subsequent authorization of a new contract

agreement with Priority Dispatch will ensure there is no interruption of critical emergency

dispatch services. So that is the background I wanted to provide you. And I have some news

that is literally hot off the press, if I may. We were notified last Friday, January

9th of the following news. The Oakland Fire Department Fire Dispatch Center has been recognized

by the International Academies of Emergency Dispatch as an accredited center of excellence

for emergency medical dispatch. Out of all the emergency medical dispatch centers in

California, Oakland Fire Dispatch Center is the 16th ACE. We have received this

designation six times in the history of our collaboration with them. The

International Academies of Emergency Dispatch, IAED, is the standard setting

organization for emergency dispatch services worldwide. Accreditation and

subsequent reaccreditation from the IAED is the highest distinction given to

emergency communication centers certifying the center is performing at or

above established standards for the industry centers who earn a status are

the embodiment of dispatch done right and have demonstrated strong local

oversight rigorous quality processes and a commitment to data-driven continuous

improvement and I'm here for questions okay great I do have a few questions so

So just to confirm this is just an extension of the ongoing technology does this doesn't

have any say improvements to our 911 dispatch center.

Well actually if I could correct the chair.

The new product that we want to implement is fire pro QA currently and we have been

an ace as I mentioned for the medical side we do not have the fire pro QA product.

This contract allows us to acquire that product so that we are able to do the same thing for

fire and rescue calls as we do for medical calls.

Is that clear, Chair?

It does help.

And what would that new thing be if you could explain that?

So this is, so we have the emergency medical dispatch program.

This is a separate but equal program called Fire Pro QA that the dispatchers will be trained

on and utilized.

So when someone calls that my house is on fire, we follow the protocols just like we do for medical calls.

Okay, gotcha.

One thing I just wanted to note is before Joe actually left to his role at the animal services,

one thing we'd been working through was actually discrepancies in macro calls,

like the data in macro calls versus what we were seeing from the OPD side of things in the 911 dispatch center.

AND IF THIS AT ALL CAN HELP IMPROVE THOSE DISCREPANCES, I WOULD WANT TO SEE THAT ADDRESSED.

CHAIR YAN, QUITE FRANKLY, THIS IS VERY SPECIFIC TO MEDICAL TRIAGE AND DISPATCH AND FIRE TRIAGE AND DISPATCH

AND DOESN'T HAVE A CONNECTION TO MACRO.

OKAY. GOTCHA.

ANY QUESTIONS FROM COLLEAGUES? COUNCILMEMBER BROWN.

excellent hello good afternoon good to see you really quick question so for this current system

how does it compare to other options that are on the on the market the cost and the quality

there really are no other options i don't want to use the trite term that it's the only game in town

i am aware of some homegrown systems that agencies have developed themselves and obviously that

that would not be available to us. But this is the best system

both in the medical side as well as the fire suppression side.

They have as I've already mentioned.

They have been around for many many years board certified by

physicians on the medical side and certified by a fire

profession to fire professionals as well on the fire side.

Okay excellent. And then I guess my other flag it does

mentioned in the report about the invoices on this item. And so just wanted to just I

guess out of curiosity, can you share some awareness on how the invoices were kind of

you know, they piled up, I guess. Yes, Council Member Brown, because we did not have an existing

contract, we were not able to pay on those invoices. So they backed up, which is why

I'm here before you today in hopes that we can move this forward, get those invoices paid, and move on.

They've been very patient with us.

We have an excellent relationship with them.

I can speak to that more if you need, but that is basically the short version.

Excellent. Thank you.

Yeah, Fife.

Oh, that was my question.

Great. Thank you.

Okay, public speakers. Calling in the names that signed up to speak on item

number four, Ms. Asada Olabala and Rajni Mandal.

I'm gonna get to this in a minute. When you look up the general orders of the

Oakland Police Department relative to mutual aid and references on-duty members. You just had a

discussion related to off-duty members. You need to check into that. You need to check into if

there's any conflict with any general orders of the Oakland Police Department that the jurisdiction

of Santa Clara would create an issue for our police department because we don't go by those

rules. You also need to look into the fact that Santa Clara

is a sanctuary city, but it does have contracts

where they give data to ICE. And do you want to have

involvement with that component? Related to this

item, this says that the contract is from

October 1st, 2025.

How can we have a contract that starts October 1st,

2025, and he just said we didn't have a contract. So I don't know how you deal with that because

y'all don't usually do business like that. That's something OUSD does. Then when it comes to the

funding, it says funds from Measure M are pending. In other words, the funding have not officially

have been identified. It also says that you have to seek approval of the carry forward of unused

Measure M funds from fiscal year 2025.

And under these circumstances, why would you

not having funding available ask for optional

extension when you're seeking funding?

You don't go after an extension when you don't have the money already to do for what you

already have. So I don't understand that.

I just don't understand how you were able to operate without a contract

and then from 2022 to 2025.

Thank you for your comments.

Rajni, you can unmute yourself and begin your time.

Rajni Mundell, District 4.

I want to use today's agenda item on fire department dispatch technology

as a launching point to raise a broader governance question

about how major public safety technologies are being implemented.

This report describes continued and expanded use of advanced dispatch software at the fire department, including triage systems that directly affect how emergency resources are deployed.

These tools are critical and no one disputes their value.

However, this raises an important consistency issue.

The city has been deliberating policies around GPS-based vehicle location technology tied to the city's upgraded dispatch system.

For OPD, that technology has remained inactive pending policy approvals and council action.

At the same time, OFD has moved forward with piloting related dispatch functionality, even though the underlying system is shared.

So my question is not about whether this technology should be used, as the City Auditor has already recommended it as a way to improve response times.

My question is about process and oversight.

Specifically, what approvals were required for OFD to pilot the dispatch tools?

Were those approvals administrative, or did they include council authorization?

And if council approval is required for one department's deployment, why is the process different for another when the technology is shared?

I raise this because transparency and consistency matter, especially for public safety systems that affect every Oakland resident.

If pilots are moved forward without council review, that should be clearly articulated.

And if council approval is required, then stalled items should be brought back with clarity about ownership and timelines.

I respectfully ask the committee to request a brief status update from staff on how dispatch-related technologies, including GPS-based systems, are being approved, piloted, and governed across departments.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments, Chair.

That concludes all speakers on this item.

Okay, great.

I will entertain a motion.

Council Member Brown.

yes um i'll make a motion to um move this item to the january 20th um council meeting okay second

thank you thank you we have a motion made by council member brown seconded by chair wang

to approve the recommendations of staff and to forward this item to the january 20th

city council agenda on consent on roll council member brown aye bye

aye Houston aye and chair Wong aye thank you item number four passes with four eyes to be forwarded

to the January 1st City Council agenda on consent moving on to open forum we do have four members

that signed up to speak Mrs. Sada Olabala Jennifer Finley Blair Beekman and Rajni Mondal

I want to address some concerns around the police commission.

I was very disappointed last week with the Ruse commission, the Ruse body questioning

an individual recommended by the mayor for the police commission.

I looked into the person's background, and I already said y'all didn't do any background

checks on the person, but the person's background has no police background whatsoever.

He claims he's been at meetings of the police commission.

I've never seen him.

But the questions he was asked were related to constitutional policing.

He couldn't answer it.

The question about three things he would do about the NSA, he couldn't answer.

His interpretation that the police commission members weren't getting along, this is the

best police commission as far as the relationship they have.

We've had some past, but for him to imply that this current police commission is not

getting along was a bald-faced lie.

Then for Mr. Jenkins to imply that the letter that was being sent out was attacking the

council, that was a draft letter, and when they met last Thursday, they reconstructed

the letter because they don't want to seem like they are adversarially attacking the

council, and they concentrated on some other things.

This commission that you currently have works well together.

They know what they're doing.

Now this new person you're bringing in, he's going to have to be taught a whole bunch of stuff.

But I just can't believe that you would put out here that that commission is trying to attack the city council.

And that's not true.

Saying that they have a letter.

The letter has been changed.

Thank you for your comments, Ms. Olapala.

Rajni, you can unmute yourself and begin your two minutes.

Rajni, Mandel, District 4.

I wanted to raise an issue related to NSA Task 2 and how investigative timelines are currently being assessed and reported.

Task 2 requires that at least 85% of misconduct investigations be completed within 180 days.

Recent monitoring reports indicate that CIPRA cases have been excluded from Task 2 analysis

because many of those investigations are not being completed within the required timeframe.

As a result, current Task 2 compliance assessments do not reflect the full investigative picture.

This is not simply an internal affairs to CIPRA transition issue.

It reflects unresolved capacity, systems, and transparency gaps at CIPRA.

CIPRA does not publicly report total case volumes, how many cases exceed the 180-day deadline,

or provide a current annual report for fiscal years 24-25.

These gaps matter because task two compliance, sustainability findings, and court reporting are all affected.

Without complete and transparent CIPRA data, neither council nor the public has a clear picture of overall investigative timelines.

I brought this up at police commission meetings over the past six months to no avail, and they recently hired Director Lawson to the full-time position in closed session, when all previous hires were done publicly with opportunity for community input.

I respectfully urge the committee to prioritize transparency by supporting regular public reporting from CIPRA on case volumes and 180-day compliance, so Task 2 assessments are accurate, complete, and credible. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments. Blair, you can unmute yourself and begin your two minutes.

No problem.

blocked, it is my personal feeling that Oakland City Council, Oakland City Government, and OPD

together still had to very much weigh, balance, and arrive at their own decisions in how to best

address all parts of the Oakland community about the future of blocked in Oakland. This would be

no small task. I hope there can be ways to consider this as positive, constructive, and hopeful in our

Oakland community future. To continue, Mr. Eugene Hazard, who offers public comment often at Oakland

public council and committee meetings has developed a legal list of procedural best practices and what

was not done well procedurally with the agenda item approval of new city council agenda meeting

procedures at the december 16th city council meeting mr hazard and progressive oakland

community advocacy also has a list of public meeting procedures that were not followed at

oakland special meetings this fall and i myself am not fully clear the procedural rules in the

the Public Safety Committee vote of November 18th, but then allowed for a whole ALPR approval

and as well, attention, good compromises at the December 16th City Council meeting.

Some in Oakland may want to start over with the Oakland public meetings from this fall.

I feel in the very least, we need to better learn in Oakland in 2026 to know when a council

agenda item is being overly rushed for approval and that it can be okay to slow it down.

As one thing should be clear in looking for an upcoming new ALPR vendor, positive good

options choice and decisions can always be addressed and available for the future of the

oakland public process thanks a lot everyone thank you for your comments share that concludes all

speakers for open forum i think so council member fife yeah i just wanted it on the public record

that when this initial decision was made about the police commissioners i was in europe and was not

able to participate in that conversation but some of the activities and the the

origin of the decisions made behind the vote to not move forward Omar Farmer

and Ricardo what is Ricardo's last name it doesn't matter

Garcia Garcia with Acosta was deeply concerning to me I am in the process of

reviewing if there were some legal things that weren't adhered to in terms of our charter.

So I will be continuing that research, but very concerned about the rationale given to not move

their applications forward, particularly because the selection committee moved forward the same

names. So I want to ensure the independence of our police commission, and I will be,

doing the work to ensure that what we're doing as a body is in alignment with the

charter and the will of Oakland voters. Thank you.

Okay. Thank you. Well, with that, let's, yep. Okay. And with that, we will go ahead and dismiss

today's meetings. Meeting adjourned.

Thank you.