The Rules and Legislation Committee met on January 15, 2026, to discuss scheduling of agenda items, review pending lists, and hear public testimony. The committee approved amendments to agenda assignments and rescheduled several items. Key decisions included moving a proposed reorganization of the Department of Transportation's parking division to a future meeting, reassigning an ordinance on prostitution offenses to the Public Safety Committee, and adjusting committee meeting dates.
New Scheduling Items (Item 3) The committee considered multiple agenda items for future committee meetings. Key items included:
Agenda Review and Pending List Changes (Item 4) The administration proposed several changes to draft agendas and pending lists:
Good morning and welcome to the Rules and Legislation Committee of Thursday, January 15th. Before I call roll, I will give speaker card instructions. If you would like to speak on any item on this agenda, please fill out a speaker's card and give that card to a clerk representative before the item is called or 10 minutes after the start of the meeting. This meeting started at 1031. So your last opportunity to turn in the speaker's card will be at 1041 AM. OR BEFORE THE ITEM IS CALLED FOR DISCUSSION WHICHEVER COMES FIRST ON ROLL FOR THIS MEETING ARE COUNCIL MEMBERS BROWN PRESENT COUNCIL MEMBER FIVE PRESENT COUNCIL MEMBER RAMACHANDRAN EXCUSED AND CHAIR JENKINS PRESENT WE'LL BE CHAIRING THIS MEETING SHOWING THREE MEMBERS PRESENT ONE EXCUSE RAMACHANDRAN DO YOU HAVE ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS BEFORE WE BEGIN YEAH HAPPY FOUNDERS DAY TO ALL MY FAVORITE AKAs That's it. Happy Founders Day to the AKAs. There are no minutes to be approved for this meeting. Going to new scheduling items, starting with item 3.1, receive an information report from the city administrator on the proposed reorganization of the Department of Transportation's parking division, including the rationale for the proposal a fiscal impact statement including any new or unfrozen staff costs and an analysis of operational cost savings a summary of outreach that occurred to department of transportation staff the public and the business community and information on how the change would impact the parking division's collaboration with other other departments this is asked to go before the january 27th public works committee agenda is there anything for the administration my apologies candace from the city administrator's office just to confirm we're on item 3.1 is that correct that's correct yes um uh administration is asking and i'm not sure if the um council members who brought this item forward are present but um we are asking that this item be moved to the february 10th uh transportation uh public works and transportation committee agenda if yes that is okay with both myself and councilmember Unger okay February 10th thank you so much moving to item 3.2 adopt a resolution honoring Michael P Ford for being awarded the national parking association's innovator of the year award on the January 27th Public Works and Transportation Committee agenda. Item 3.3 I believe has a title change. Is there somebody here from District 2 to read in the title change or somebody from the city attorney's office? Oh District 1. No District 2 you got me confused. Okay we'll come back to that. I'm I'm going to be added as a co-sponsor to this item. 3.3. District 2 can go and grab. Oh, are you going to read in the title change? Okay, come on up. No, we're on item 3.3. Good morning. Yes, the title change is Ordinance Amending Oakland Municipal Code 9.08.260, Prohibition of Prostitution and Prostitution-Related Offenses to Conform to State Law. One, by repealing the offense of loitering for the purpose of engaging in prostitution. 2 adding loitering for the purpose of purchasing commercial sex as an offense 3 allowing for the administrative assessment of fines against sex purchasers sex traffickers and properties used for prostitution and 4 creating a human trafficking survivor support fund thank you so do you need to read it in before i go to cancel number five okay council member fife yes through the chair to our district two um staff is there a reason this is going to life in richmond and not public safety uh yeah through the chair thank you for asking um so our amendments to this municipal code are intended to benefit all stakeholders in the community and along International Boulevard,