Thank you.

good afternoon and welcome to the city council meeting of tuesday january 20th 2026 before i

call roll I will go over speaker card instructions if you would like to speak

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passed as online speaker cards are due 24 hours before the start of this meeting all roll council

members brown present council member fife present council member gallo brisson council member houston

council member ramachandran present council member unger president council member wang

present and chair jenkins present showing eight members present at this time

chair Jenkins do you have any announcements before we begin no

announcements going to item three modifications to the agenda and

procedural items including but not limited to request to reschedule items

from consent to non consent items to the next council agenda speak on consent

calendar register votes or change order of items or pull items held in committee

To President Pro Tem Gallo, 6.9 Caltrans maintenance agreement.

So in committee, you voted no, and the mayor's office attempted to reach you.

Would you like us to pull that off of consent, or do you want to register a no vote on the consent?

Yes, sir.

I will continue to add communications with Public Works and other members of the city administration,

and I will continue to vote no on the consent item,

Caltrans Maintenance Agreement Amendment on page 10, S6.9.

And do I need to explain it now?

No, then the other item that I would like to consider a no vote is page 11, S.6,

the mou between opd and the santa clara police department okay to send opd over to monitor the

game okay okay thank you um we will register that at the appropriate time uh anybody want

to pull anything off of consent if not we can send the staff members home that are on consent

thank you number three

going to item 4 which will be consideration of items with the statutory public hearing

you do have one public hearing I need a motion to open the public hearing

on the motion by councilmember Gallo second by councilmember Houston to open the public hearing

council member brown aye council member fife aye council member gallo aye council member houston

council member ramachandran aye council member unger aye council member wong aye and chair jenkins

aye motion passes with a vote of eight eyes now reading the item into record conduct a public

hearing and upon conclusion adopt a resolution confirming the report and notice of liens for

delinquent business taxes with penalties interest and administrative and

assessment charges and overruling any protests and objections related to the

liens included in said report and authorizing the recordation of liens and

directing the notice of lien and assessment charges be turned over to the

county tax collector for collection there are four speakers on this item

Good afternoon and Happy New Year everyone. My name is Nicole Welch, Revenue and Tax Administrator.

I'm before you. Staff recommends the adoption of the proposed resolution which will authorize

the placement of liens on real property for unpaid city of Oakland business taxes and authorize the

subsequent assessment pursuant to Chapter 5.04 of the Oakland Municipal Code. Should the fees

and charges remain unpaid prior to the transfer recording upset special assessment levies to the

alameda county tax collector and auditor controller for inclusion on the next property tax roll the

liens will be recorded against the number has gone down is 1 800 properties um parcels in the amount

of $5,186,449.10 as well as $397,075 for administrative fees for a total property tax

roll of $5,583,524.10. The proposed assessments represent delinquent taxes for residential and

commercial properties up to tax year 2025. Failure to place liens to recover the delinquent

taxes will result in a loss of five million five hundred and eighty three thousand five hundred and

twenty four dollars and ten cents in revenues to the general purpose fund i am here if you have any

questions thank you let's go to the oh count no councilmember mishandre um thank you for doing

this effort on a super timely basis so we can recruit funds that are owed to us as a city for

for business taxes. I have a question. So the $5 million, which I realize is a little

less because you've brought down the number of delinquent parcels, which notably is great

and an indication that your efforts on educating the public is paying off, that more folks