Good morning and welcome to the Rules and Legislation Committee of Thursday, January 22nd,

2026. I will go over speaker card instructions before calling roll. If you'd like to speak on

any item on this agenda, please fill out a speaker's card before the item is called,

or 10 minutes after the start of this meeting this meeting was called to order at 10 30 a.m

so your last opportunity to turn in the speaker's card will be 10 30 10 40 a.m or before the item is

called if you're looking to turn in an online speaker card that time has passed as they were

due 24 hours before the start of this meeting on roll are council members brown present council

member fife is excused council member ramachandran present and chair jenkins present 23 members

present one excuse five do you have any announcements before we move on with the agenda

no let's follow our process

calling item two approve the draft minutes from the committee meeting of january 8th 2026.

move approval

second there was a motion by councilmember Brown seconded by council

member five to accept the minutes councilmember Brown I councilmember

five is excused councilmember Rama Chandran I in chair Jenkins I ocean

passes with the vote I'm sorry you do you do have speakers on this item miss

Asada Olabala and Blair Beekman.

So on the occasion of January the 8th in rules, you had the MOU for Caltran.

I think when items come to you for approval to committee, there needs to be a digesting

of if sufficient information is being pursued in order to make a final decision.

So with this item, there was no information about what specific areas are being targeted.

There was no information about what staff would be used.

They said it would be overtime staff being used and so forth.

So I think this body needs to look into whether or not the reports allow for, where's the clock?

Okay.

Thank you.

Okay.

The item that had the delinquent business tax, I think that item cannot be pursued unless you look at the number of items,

a number of businesses that are closing monthly, and there is a report that does exist from the city on that

before you make any decision.

The selection panel nomination for police commission,

that item should have gone to committee.

It is such an intense item to send it straight to council

with all the time-consuming issues that were presented.

It needed to go to committee.

Early care that was on the agenda, that item for funding,

the funding would have started in June of 2025,

and someone should have questioned how that was possible.

Lastly, the Community Police and Advisory Board annual report should include the $50,000 that is being contributed to them from PG&E with no indication on how the neighborhood committees can spend that money.

That each neighborhood committee is getting $1,000 and with no direction on how the money is being spent.

Thank you, Ms. Olabala. I do not see Mr. Beekman in the Zoom queue.

i'll entertain a motion

second on the minutes there was a motion by council member ramachandran

seconded by council member brown to approve the minutes from january 8th

2026 council member brown aye council member fife is excused council

member Ramachandran aye and chair Jenkins aye motion passes with a vote of

three eyes one excuse to five one to item 3.1 which is starting item 3 of new

scheduling item 3.1 adopt a resolution confirming the appointment of Jen Oakley

to the Commission on homelessness on the February 3rd City Council agenda on

consent and we'll need a rule 24 for this going straight to council and just

noting this is also coming from the mayor's office and not the city

administrator's office

Okay, so customarily these appointments go straight to Council.

Going to Item 3.2, also from the Office of the Mayor, a resolution confirming the Mayor's

appointment of jati singh and salim sharif for the cultural affairs commission this is asked to go

before the february 3rd city council agenda on consent these items typically go straight to

consent going to item 3.3 a resolution affirming the mayor's appointment of kevin beecham sharon

tipton gwendolen thomas knight carlette garrett leslie smith and ronda ramirez

as members of the commission on aging this is asked to go before the february

3rd city council agenda on consent these items typically go straight to consent

thank you going to item 3.4

a resolution authorizing the city administrator to appropriate funds levied from the paramedic

services act of 1997 measure n and measure n in in an amount not to exceed 3 million 398 dollars

I'm sorry $398,114.26 entered into a cooperative agreement with striker sales LLC for the purchase

of maintenance lease and repair of advanced life support equipment for a total amount not to exceed

$679,622.85 in waiving the advertising and competitive bidding process requirements and

local business small business enterprise program provisions for proposed

cooperative agreement this is asked to go before the February 3rd City Council

agenda on consent oh this is winning from the city administrators office

staff is requesting that this item be withdrawn so noted thank you going to

item 3.5 a resolution authorizing and directing the city count excuse me the

city attorney to compromise and settle the case of Tiffany Nault versus Malc v.

Malcolm and Ann Plant, Superior Case Court number 24CV069134 by payment in

the amount of $75,000. This was for a dangerous condition. Ask to go before the

February 3rd City Council agenda on consent and council decisions regarding

settlement are customarily sent directly to council was item 3.6 a

resolution authorizing directing the city attorney to settle the case of

State Farm Insurance versus the city of Oakland Alameda County Superior Court

case number two four CV 07 one two four six any amount of thirty thousand

dollars and zero cents for a dangerous condition is also asked to go before this

February 3rd City Council agenda on consent and same rule 24 statement it's

customary for council decisions on settlements to go directly to council

item 3.7 a resolution author authorizing and directing the city attorney to

settle the case of Gizvani Marquez and Hiram Hernandez versus the city of

Oakland timing when Alameda County Superior Court case number two two CV

zero two four one four six in the amount of one hundred twenty five thousand

dollars in no sense for Oakland Police Department negligence this is also asked

to go before the February 3rd City Council agenda on consent and this is

also a settlement decision that customarily goes directly to council

that's the rule 24 statement thank you item 3.8 a resolution in support of

California Assembly Bill 1537 which would prohibit California peace officers

from working or volunteering for any entity that engages in immigration

enforcement establish failure to comply with that restriction as grounds for

decertification as a peace officer require peace officers to report any

secondary employment related to immigration enforcement and require

that records related to secondary employment of peace officers be public

records this is asked to go before the february 3rd city council agenda on consent we also need

a rule 24 for this item going directly to council and so for any advisory resolutions those can be

scheduled straight to council per our rules of procedure going to item 3.9 a resolution

authorizing the city administrator to enter into a professional services agreement with image trend

llc to replace the oakland fire department's record management system with a national emergency

response information system compliant artificial intelligence powered fire and ems rms software

for a total amount of one million six thousand six hundred and fifty nine dollars for the term

beginning january 1 2026 through december 31st 2028 and extend the agreement for up to two years

in an amount not to exceed 362 584 dollars without return returning to city council for a total

contract amount not to exceed 1 million 369 243 dollars on the february 10th public safety committee

agenda and that concludes all of your items for new scheduling and you do have

two speakers on this item

public speakers as I call your name please approach the podium in any order

through the chair to Miss Olaba I was waiting for him to tell me to call the

public speakers as per the process. Ms. Asada Olabala and Blair Beekman.

Okay thank you madam clerk. The appointment to the homeless commission

has to do somebody has to deal with the process of how the appointments are

come to a conclusion. So the mayor, it's been changed that the mayor appoints these

persons based on what qualifications, based on what qualifications has to be

presented. A resume has to be presented to you to conclude because you're very

concerned about the process. You also have to delve into the issue of that body

hasn't met since September of 2025. You also have to delve into that point in time, I'm going to

bring it up, survey that's going on today is not an accurate count. It's a count that undercounts

who is out here homeless, and we need to have some form of an accurate count in place.

So the process that you have for the item that is identified as item 3.8, support of this resolution.

Now, you're looking at immigration and having said that related to your officers, why didn't you take up the issue of your officers who are being assigned to Santa Clara as off-duty officers and off-duty officers are considered civilians?

And you won't take up that mandate of the general order of the Oakland Police Department.

You also have item 3-9, which states a very important item about equipment in place for our fire department,

but you keep avoiding there is no process for evacuating the children from Skyline High School.

So at the meeting the other day of OUSD, they spoke, Mr. Jenkins, how you were at the meeting,

very concerned about the gun violence and wanting to do something.

What about the evacuation of the children in case there is a fire?

That doesn't exist.

Let's have a process that's consistent for every level of public safety at Skyline High School.

Lastly, having to do with immigration that was identified in item 3.3 of concern,

you have to understand that you are a sanctuary state,

but they have many counties and cities that are not sanctuary cities.

So you have to look at that, and in the case of Fremont, Haywood,

Richmond, I'm sorry, not Richmond, Piedmont,

Livermore, and Dublin, they're not sanctuary cities.

And so if you are in Alameda, Dublin is in Alameda.

So what is your position on cities that are not sanctuary cities

all sanctuary counties they have counties Huntington Beach Oroville

Riverside Orange County not sanctuary

Thank You Mr. Olabala for your comments moving to Mr. Beekman Mr. Beekman please

unmute yourself and begin your comments. Hi Claire Beekman I mainly wanted to

speak only on one item today 3.8 so I will not be taking the whole three

minutes I just wanted to simply offer thank you for your work on this item

any ways that we can work at the local level to address and limit federal

overreach on on these ice issues right now at this time is incredibly important

and decent and human thank you good luck in your continued good work I know at

to county level, Supervisor Nikki Fortunato-Bass is working on ways that ICE agents cannot enter

into public spaces if possible. Words to that effect. San Jose and Santa Clara County have

been doing some awesome work in that way also. I wanted to quickly offer with my remaining 24

seconds that any ways that we can be creating better oversight to fully make sure that when

agents come in, they are practicing de-escalation and demilitarization in their process. That has to

be key. If they're going to be working in our cities, you know, how we work. It's hopeful they

won't work at all, but if they do, let's make good ask. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Beekman, and that

concludes your speakers for item three. Okay, so noting 3.1 will be changed from city administrator's

office to the mayor's office and 3.4 being withdrawn I'll entertain a motion

so moved

second on the motion by councilmember Ramachandran second by councilmember

Brown to adopt item 3 as amended councilmember Brown aye councilmember

Ramachandran aye chair Jenkins aye motion passes with a vote of three eyes

and one excused by going to item 4 a review of the draft agendas pending with

City Council and committee meetings before you are the agendas for the

meetings for the week of January 27th including the counts canceled CD and

public safety noting a special public safety meeting in the place of the

cancellation as well as your draft City Council in rules that you anything from

administration um nothing from the administration at this time wow beautiful all right let's go to

public speakers as i call your name please approach the podium in any order miss assada olabala

and mr beekman and rajni mandal

I'm asking that the item of sanctuary city be reconsidered,

that you state that you are a city, you are not a sanctuary city for criminals, okay?

That Oakland is a non-sanctuary city for criminals.

Ethics Commission, you need to put into scheduling that this Ethics Commission's ad hoc meetings are not being publicly noticed, that the Charter Reform Working Group is meeting in secret, some kind of explanation if that's true or not.

The city administrator's annual report on his spending up to $250,000 has not been reported on since 2023.

That report should come forward.

Housing authorities report on public housing, including the number of Section 8 vouchers that have been converted to mortgage payments.

Report on the 2025 business closure.

A report on mutual aid in cities that are not sanctuary cities like Dublin, Pleasanton, and Livermore.

A report on what off-duty police officers are working in jurisdictions where they not have sanctuary status.

From 2027 to 2019, you had 35,000 homes lost to foreclosure.

We need a report of the number of homes lost to foreclosure from 2020 to 2025.

Report on the impact of gentrification and sanctuary city status on African Americans' economic and housing concerns.

A report on city funding for outreach for applying for police and other commissions.

How much money you're willing to spend for outreach.

A report on why Oakland was not included in the state grant of $419 million for homelessness.

A report on outstanding invoices.

Thank you, Ms. Olabala. Your time is up.

Rajneemundal, District 4.

I'll wait for the timer.

Okay, I can go? Okay.

I'm speaking on MACRO to raise a procedural request, not a position on the program itself.

MACRO is subject to biannual reporting to Council, and the last formal report to the Public Safety Committee was in May of 2025.

Since then, the program has continued to operate and expand, but Council has not received a scheduled comprehensive update.

Regular reporting is especially important for programs that operate across departments and involve public safety response, staffing models, and service handoffs.

Without timely reports, Council doesn't have a consistent opportunity to review performance,

capacity, outcomes, or implementation challenges.

So I'm therefore requesting that Council formally agendize the overdue biannual macro

report for the Public Safety Committee so there is a clear public record and an opportunity

for structured oversight.

The request is not about approving or opposing macro, it's just about ensuring that existing

reporting commitments are met and that Council oversight keeps pace with program operations.

And so this is why role clarity and sequencing matter, both for program reporting like macro

and for the oversight structures created to monitor how public safety funds are planned,

allocated, and evaluated.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Moving to the Zoom speaker, Blair Beekman, please unmute yourself and begin your comments.

Hi, thank you, Blair Beekman.

I wanted to comment on the upcoming special public safety committee meeting at the end of January.

You have a really interesting item on the future of neighborhood community policing.

Good luck with the subject matter.

It's kind of new to me.

I reviewed the layout, how you want to be working.

It's an awesome chart process where you have different neighborhood community groups working, I guess, on neighborhood issues, a place that you can bring your neighborhood concerns.

And thank you for that.

You even have something akin to block parent programs, so the 50s and 60s, it sounds like, you know, where people can go and talk to someone in the neighborhood if they need some sort of help.

So good luck with this program.

It sounds really interesting and hopeful.

I was really hopeful that our previous police review board commission persons could be a good lead and a good example of best practices, how to develop our future of policing and community.

and I hope they can still be viable candidates in your list of upcoming 13 nominations.

I hope they can still be considered.

Good luck in those efforts.

Thanks a lot for this item.

Thank you.

Thank you.

That was the last speaker.

Thank you.

I'll entertain a motion.

Move approval.

Second.

On the motion by Council Member Brown, seconded by Council Member Ramachandran.

to approve item 4 councilmember Brown I house member 5 is excused councilmember

Rama Chandran I and chair Jenkins I motion passes with a vote of three eyes

one excuse councilmember five going to open forum as I call your name please

approach the podium in any order please state your name for the record before

beginning miss Asada olabala Blair Beekman and Rajni mandal one of the

reports we need to have is the $700,000 that was supposed to come from several cities to support

Oakland roots with the FIFA, and you ended up paying the whole $700,000. So we need to find out

why that happened. I want to report last night that the Ethics Commission appointed two members

to their commission. The charter allows them to self-select their members, self-select.

and they had a pool of eight candidates who applied.

In the second round, five were chosen to move on.

One was eliminated as an appointee by the mayor,

so four people were there last night

to be considered for appointment to the Ethics Commission.

And they did a good job of interviewing.

All the candidates were extremely qualified.

Nothing against that.

But the process that allows them to self-appoint, the process of a very limited candidate pool,

is what you're saying you need to say.

See, you need to see a more open process with more diversity of candidates, blah, blah, blah, blah.

So that didn't happen last night.

And so are you going to change the charter?

No.

You're not going to change the charter.

So the process that you have now says that the Oakland Police Commission needs to have

a broader look at, and that means that the two candidates, Mr. Farmer and Mr. Costa,

it's not because of them, it's because you didn't have a greater pool of candidates.

So no matter who was brought to the council last Tuesday, it could have been Jane and

Mackey, you would have said no, because the process wasn't what you want it to be.

So I'm going to go and tell them tonight.

It's not about you.

And I'm going to explain to them what happened with the Ethics Commission so they can feel

good about themselves, knowing that we have this diversity.

The mayor...

I'm speaking on the OFD agenda item to raise a procedural issue under Measure NN, not a

policy position.

Measure NN establishes the Oakland Public Safety Planning and Oversight Commission,

OPSPOC, as a planning, monitoring, and advisory body while reserving appropriation and authorization

of funds to the City Council.

At the last Opsbach meeting, the Chair stated that City Attorney guidance indicates Measure

NN expenditures for the next few fiscal years are already set and that Opsbach's four-year

strategic plan will take effect later.

If that's the case, it raises an importance governance question.

What role Opsbach is intended to play with respect to near-term funding decisions that

are already before Council?

In recent Opsbach materials, some strategic planning documents go beyond high-level goals

and metrics, and instead describe specific service approaches, operational concepts,

and resource assumptions.

When those materials are not tied to department-initiated proposals and cannot take effect for several

years, it becomes unclear whether Opsbach is reviewing implementation or shaping programs

without authority.

This is not a comment on Opsbach's intent or value.

It's a request for process clarity.

For Measure NN to function as designed, Council should clarify on the record how Opsbach planning

departmental program origination and council appropriations are meant to interact particularly

during this interim period before the first four-year plan takes effect thank you thank you

moving to our zoom speaker mr blair beekman please unmute yourself and begin your comments

hi uh blair beekman uh thanks a lot for this item well it's still open forum so thank you for our

open forum thank you um yeah i i wanted to continue uh just a few words that uh i feel

that the previous police commissioners um they they made a very much of a commitment to be

listening more to all voices of the community the same as many have and i know you've made a big

push that you feel there needs to be a more equal process of a dialogue of the community

man i've been hoping this past year has been enough and you guys are still pushing it and i

wish you could pull back a bit. And good luck in those efforts to try to and realize that these

are two really good commissioners who have good ideas, I think, for the most part. And I'm hopeful

what they can accomplish. And I think they've head us toward a good direction in understanding

best practices. So I hope they can be considered still. Good luck in our efforts with that.

good luck that we can be really addressing the Trump administration. We have just been developing

really good practices here in Oakland and the Bay Area to address crime. It's a lot more than

technology. I mean, we're applying really good practices. We got to share that with other cities

around the country and with the federal administration, and they have to begin to

really listen and offer dialogue and conversation towards those good goals. In the end, it's how to

solve our issues. Their federal

ice things are just abhorrent

and we have to be clear on that.

And I'm really hoping that they don't

get this continual free pass to do

this stuff. And we have to really

make a stand and I think we can.

Good luck how we can do that

in the coming year. Thank you.

Thank you this meeting, Sajar.

Thank you.