Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Good morning and welcome to the rules and legislation meeting of Thursday, December,

I'm sorry, not December, January 29, 2026. Before I call roll, I will go over speaker card

instruction for this meeting. If you'd like to speak on any agenda item, please fill out a

speaker's card before the item is called as our rules of procedure state you have

ten minutes to sign up after the start of this meeting this meeting started at

10 31 a.m. so you have until 10 41 to sign up for an item or before the item

is called if you're looking to turn in an online speaker's card the opportunity

to do that has passed as they were due 24 hours before the start of this meeting

unroll our council members Brown president council member five president

Councilmember Ramachandran present and chair Jenkins who will be chairing this meeting present showing four members present at this time

Do you have any announcements?

No announcements this morning

Starting with

Item two approval of the draft minutes from the committee meeting of

January 15 2026 I do not have any speakers on this items. We just need a motion

I'll make that motion.

I'll second.

On the minutes moved by council member Brown, seconded by council member Fyfe.

Council member Brown.

I council member Fyfe.

I council member Ramachandran.

I and chair Jenkins.

motion passes with a vote of four eyes going to item three which is new scheduling started with

item 3.1 a resolution confirming the appointment of ashita milk house as a meal house excuse me as a

member of the cannabis regulatory commission on the february 5th city council agenda on consent

the rule 24 reason for this going straight to council is commission commission appointments

typically proceed directly to the full council and the urgency finding as this item is going

past the two-week noticing deadline the urgency finding this appointment is necessary as soon as

possible to ensure quorum for the commission's february meeting

so we have to vote on this the urgency finding

So we'll include it in the motion.

Thank you.

Going to item 3.2, receive an information report on the 2024 City of Oakland Disparity Study

prepared by Mason Tillman Associates pursuant to resolution number 89058.

And this is asked to go to the February 10, 2026 Life Enrichment Committee agenda.

So this is coming from the Office of the City Administrator.

I know Council Member Fyfe works pretty diligently on this as well.

I'd like to be added as a call sponsor.

Councilor.

Thank you. If the administration's open to it, me as well.

Me too.

Okay, so we got Ramachandran Jenkins, 5.

Liz, 5 first.

She did the heavy lifting on this.

Hey mom.

Adding three point.

Welcome to this to your son's place of employment.

Adding council members five Rama Chandran and chair, excuse me, President Jenkins to

item 3.2 item 3.3 may have a title change trinity you have the title change

oh good chair good morning um i am registering a title change for item 3.3 um do i need to

read the original recommendation please just read through the chair please just read the

new title the new title will be motion to designate council member houston as vice chair

the public safety committee thank you going to item 3.4 received an

informational cash management report for fiscal year 25 through 26 second quarter

ended December 31st 2025 on the February 24th Finance and Management

Committee agenda item 3.5 adopt a resolution authorizing the city

administrator to negotiate and execute an amendment to the 1991 delegated

maintenance agreement between the city and California Department of

Transportation to include maintenance activities related to the Oakland

Alameda access project and making sequel findings on the February 24th Public

Works and Transportation Committee agenda item 3.6 in ordinance as

recommended by the Planning Commission admitting title 17 of the Oakland

municipal code to amend chapter 17.96 s-14 housing sites combining zone

combining zone to update the definition of the definition of development project

and to include a conditional use permit procedure for non-housing developments

and update the work live and live work residential to non-residential unit area

as referenced throughout title 17 to correspond with revisions to the

California building code and Oakland building regulations and making

appropriate sequel findings this is asked to go to the February 24th 2026

CED committee and on the March 3rd 2026 City Council agenda as a public hearing

item 3.7 in ordinance as recommended by the Planning Commission amending title 17

of the Oakland Municipal Code to add chapter 17.86 section s dash 8 abundant and affordable

homes near transit come combining zone regulations identifying sites eligible and ineligible or

or excluded from the Senate Bill 79 property development standards, making related Oakland

zoning map amendments to designate parcels within the S-8 combining zone, and to identify

whether such designated parcels are eligible for or excluded from the Senate Bill 79 property

development standards and making appropriate CEQA findings on the February 24th CED committee

and the March 3rd 2026 City Council agenda as a public hearing I'm 3.8

adopting ordinance reaffirming the city of Oakland sanctuary city policy

collecting collectively the various resolution numbers listed in ordinance

number one three five one five prohibiting the use of city property for

non-city purposes and consolidating and codifying these provisions as chapters

of the Oakland Municipal Code this is asked to go before the February 24th

Public Safety Committee agenda item 3.9 will be taken care of at another point

of this agenda and moving to your recommendations from the January 27th

Finance and Management Committee I'm 3.10 regarding the Oakland P for its

investment portfolio as of September 30th 2025 receipt was received and filed

in the Finance Committee I'm 3.11 regarding the information reports

ratings for gold bond series 2025 this item was also received and filed in the

Finance and Management Committee going to item 3.12 fiscal year 25 through 28

citywide strategic plan six-month update the committee approved the

recommendations of staff and to receive and forward this information report to

the february 3rd city council agenda on consent adam your recommendations from the january 27th

public works and transportation committee item 3.13 regarding the consultant contract amendment

for fire station 4 project the committee approved the recommendations of staff and forwarded this

item to the february 3rd city council agenda on consent item 3.14 the resolution honoring dr michael

p ford the committee approved the recommendations of staff and forwarded this item to the february

3rd city council agenda on consent recommendations from the january 27 special public safety committee

item 3.15 community excuse me community policing advisory board annual report

the committee received and filed this item in committee item 3.16 the ordinance amending

chapter excuse me amending oakland municipal code section 3 9.08.260 the committee approved

the recommendations of staff and also forwarded this item to the february 3rd city council agenda

on consent recommendations from the january 27th life enrichment committee

the item for the SAMHSA Oakland recast program fiscal year 25 through 26.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff and forwarded this item to the February 3rd

city city council agenda on consent that does conclude item three and you do have speakers on

this item let's go to the speakers excuse me as I call your name please approach the podium

in any order please state your name for the record before beginning if you are on zoom

please raise your hand so i can easily identify you if you are in the chambers

please step to the podium you can begin your comments

blair beekman and miss assada olabala

Hi, Blair Buechman. Thanks for the meeting today. Happy Thursday to everyone. I wanted to speak on items 3.8, 3.11, 3.12, and 3.17.

3.8 is continuing to work on sanctuary city things, updating them. Thank you.

It's good that we review our sanctuary city policies and what we can be working on.

And how this relates to items 3.11 and 3.12, I've been really trying to push that we can mediate

and ask for dialogue from the current federal administration.

If we show them our best practices of what we're doing with macro,

with social services programs besides law enforcement.

I think it is an awesome combination that the federal administration will have to listen

and learn to understand what are better practices we can be doing in this country

besides this current reign of terror he's trying to offer

as how to develop our future of crime issues,

how to work on crime issues in our local communities.

I really think we can mediate that.

and have good dialogue.

I keep asking for that from all sides.

And now Trump, in pulling back from Minneapolis,

I've just learned is he's willing to take over

the entire housing development process in LA after the fires.

They are lagging a bit.

He's taking an approach that's way over dominating again.

If he works with LA instead of trying to take the lead,

that is the kind of organizational efforts I hope we can be working on together

and that it's a cooperative process what we need to be doing

towards best practices and it isn't this

terrorist domination. He is specifically working towards that goal

in the end it's a really wrong approach

and I hope we're really having discussions about that and really trying to convince

him that we have to be talking about dialogue, keeping our streets

safe and not this terror. And there can still be large numbers. Obama back in 2012 and 2013,

he was deporting 400,000 plus a year. And we were all really angry about that. But he was doing it

in a way that was much more sensible than what the Trump administration is currently offering.

So I hope all of that can be discussed and we can become a lot more reasonable.

It's really up to him how to do that.

And he won't be, it won't be held against him if he does.

But I mean, I guess if he does want to continue this,

he's guaranteeing himself he's out of here in four,

which we all kind of want around here.

But I'm just trying to work so that we work in peace

and cooperation and mediation and good dialogue.

We gave good examples here in the Bay Area back in the fall,

how to really do that.

We didn't have to have a bunch of ICE agents come in

based on best practices.

Good luck. We can continue that with your budget issues and the like. Thank you.

I apologize, Mr. Daly. I had a card with no name. The handwriting looked like Ms. Olabala,

but it is your card. Thank you.

Thanks. I appreciate it. I was going to try anyway. Kevin Daly, Transport Oakland. I really,

I'm glad to see Senate Bill 79, it's 3.7, to add affordable, abundant and affordable housing near

transit, except it's a little bit misleading. SB 79 excludes buses from the list. It even includes

the tempo system, the BRT tempo system. It only includes trains, light rail, and subway.

Oakland is not required to limit itself to what SB 79 states.

It's allowed to go beyond that.

And I know that Senator Wiener had originally hoped to include frequent bus service as well as train service.

I'm sure everyone here knows Oakland used to have light rail, the key system.

It was torn down before my time.

but once they moved from light rail to normal tires, it no longer counts.

But let's see if Oakland can push further and have more housing near buses as well as the BART system.

Thanks.

Council Member Houston, do you have a comment?

I want to say good morning first off and I want to thank all my colleagues and you know it's ironic

being on the public safety and as a vice chair I'm out at the automobile graveyard where I moved

243 cars that was there for about 15 years and now I went out to analyze it today because we're

be removing it it's like 34 just came back man i cut my hand so i'm saying public safety is issue

what if some of the kids was playing on those cars you know what i'm saying so i'm just saying i'm

glad that you and councilmember janani brought that up so people can be vice chair especially

on their subject matter expertise so i want to thank you guys for that so i'm gonna go up there

with the mayor real quick and then i'm gonna go looking for you so you're going to kaiser yeah

I'm gonna go I'm going yeah I'm going to go to Kaiser first

then go meet with the mayor so so let me just say this I'm going up there I'm

gonna holler real quick then I'm a bounce okay okay all right thank you for everybody

council member Fyfe

um yeah go to Kaiser first um I just I I've said in jest that I wanted to be

a co-sponsor of item 3.4 because i've been working on this for six years and i've been pushing since

i've been a council member um to to bring this information forward but i i do want to remove

myself from being a co-sponsor this item is being brought forth um by the city administrator's

office and i'm glad that he has worked with uh different different departments to ensure this

is moving forward um but i would also argue that there has been no council member that has worked

no sitting council member that has worked on this process as hard and as diligently and as long as

i have and i respectfully ask that this item come forward without any co-sponsors other than

the the actual co-sponsor i mean the actual sponsor in the city administrator's office

i'm not sure if any of my colleagues have spoken with the city attorney's office regarding this

item there have been some concerns raised and i i ask that we all remove ourselves as co-sponsors

can you to the council member five to my colleague can you help me understand the

reasoning for us removing ourselves from the legislation

Yes, number one, because this is an item that Mason Tillman worked on.

This product that is being presented is something that no council member has participated with,

and it's being brought forward now, so it's a little late after the study was done,

but the advocacy that moved it forward was very concentrated with a few organizations and a few people.

And if there is a reason for the co-sponsorship, I think that should be discussed on the record

of what efforts have gone into moving this forward.

Because as I said, I know I've been a part of this process internally and externally for at least six years.

and as a council member and prior to that as a civilian that was just in the community on this effort.

So is there a reason why this should not come directly from the city administrator's office?

Yeah, most definitely.

So I think it does come directly from the city administration's office.

It did come from Mason Tillman.

and co-sponsoring doesn't necessarily mean that we did the work, but that we support

this as we do with many Senate bills and many Assembly bills.

Since I've been a council member back when Barbara Parker was the city attorney, I've

been pushing for this as interim mayor.

I've been pushing for this.

I've worked with a number of the black contractors in pushing for the release of the disparity

study as well.

I want to be clear that the differentiation between what you said and what I'm saying

is this is not legislation specifically.

And there has been counsel from the city administrator's office about how we should

engage with a disparity study, direct counsel from them.

I'm not sure, again, if you've been in conversation with the city attorney's office on those details.

and again thank you for laying out your your work and your support of black

contractors and trying to get this information out and I would like to hear

the same thing from the other co-sponsor but that is my suggestion you know a

councilmember being that I respect you I will remove my name as co-sponsor and

I'll ask councilmember I'm trying to do it as well and I respect your seniority

on this and I respect your leadership and and your humility in doing that as

well thank you all right so noting the 3.1 urgency finding noting 3.2 will not

have any co-sponsors noting 3.3's title change noting that we're removing 3.9

and we'll address it in item 4. We'll entertain a motion. Oh I'm sorry district 2.

Thank you and good morning. On behalf of council member Wang I am here to ask

that 3.16 be removed be moved to non-consent. Can you explain to me why?

yes councilmember Wong would really like for this issue to get the full

attention that it deserves and she would like to be able to talk about this issue

that plagues our community in front of the City Council full City Council thank

you so much and then I also would note that in Public Safety Committee we are

bringing an amendment yeah two amendments to further strengthen the legislation as well I know

the city attorney had said that that wasn't that we could still move forward on consent but

transparency and just really like I said making sure that the public really understands the how

important this issue is in our community she would really like for it to be on non-consent

Councilmember Ramachandra. Thank you. I'll support that and also use this to reiterate that our rules of procedure does give this, even with a unanimous missed vote, the chair of committees can make a recommendation of whether or not an item should proceed to consent or non-consent. This body rules has the ultimate authority. But since the chair is making that request, I'm happy to have it be heard on non-consent because I do

believe this is a matter of public interest on the February 3rd meeting

thank you thank you and through the chair just asking noted that council

members will have amendments that you include those amendments in the packet

which is due today by four four so the public also has time to digest those

amendments before the meeting and those viewing at home can also access the

amendments without being in the meeting yeah they will be in the clerk's office

as requested thank you so noting 3.1 urgency finding 3.3 title change 3.9

withdrawn and going to be addressed in item 4 3.16 move to non consent I'll

entertain a motion so moved second on the motion by councilmember Rama

Chandran second by councilmember five to approve item three new scheduling as

amended councilmember Brown hi councilmember five I and councilmember

Ramachandran aye and chair Jenkins motion passes with a vote of four eyes

going to item four which is a review of draft agendas pending list city council

and committee meetings I'm attached to this item are all your committees for

next week and draft agendas and pending list for the meetings of the week of

February 9th please state any changes to any of those items at this time my name

is must watch your net I'm civil engineer from Department of Transportation I

would like to have your attention on the draft February 10 thousand seeing

Public Works and Transportation Committee agenda item 3 for the subject

construction contract amendment for citywide payment rehabilitation project

number 100 6337 so the title change it will be staff recommends that the City

Council adopt a resolution to increase the change order limit for the contract

with McGuire and Huster for the project 106.337 citywide payment rehabilitation

from 25% to 27.5% of the original contract amount for a total contract not

to exceed 19,230,000 to $418.75 and waiving the competitive process to the

extent necessary. Thank you sir. Good morning. Hugo Ramirez, Deputy Director of the Housing

and Community Development Department. Through the chair, with regard to Community and Economic

Development Committee draft agenda, item number three, Anti-Displacement Strategic Action Plan,

scheduled for february 10th the administration would like to reschedule it for march 10th

excellent thank you so much i know we've had a lot of dialogue about this item

i just want to note just for the public that the last communication that i had received was

that there would be great urgency around placing it on ced for the 24th and i guess now it's march

the 10th and so i think that my ask is just ensuring that it is indeed scheduled for march

the 10th as it continues to shift through the chair that is the plan it is to provide the

administration sufficient time to make any necessary modifications that will be determined

in the middle of february thank you okay

thank you um i would like to move item 4.1 currently scheduled on the february 3rd meeting

related to the violation of the protected tree ordinance item to april 14th this is in order to

give all parties more time as well as council members more time to very thoroughly collect and

review all documents. We have let all of the parties know of my interest in postponing this

to the 14th as well. Can you state the dates and the item again, please? Yes, it's item 4.1 on the

February 3rd Council meeting and I would like for this to be moved to the April

14th Council meeting on non-consent

thank you

I would like to bring your attention to the February 10th draft Public Safety

Committee agenda item number four which is the ITPSA with Image Trend LLC we

would like to ask that this item be rescheduled to February 24th Public

safety committee and if I may I don't know if there's staff here for our from

economic workforce and development I thought that there might be a title

change on the draft February 10th CED agenda I don't know if you have any

speakers maybe we can go that and see if we can find staff regards to that

Michael

um to move the short title authorizing the city administration to negotiate terms and enter into

an advertising signs relocation agreement with out front foster interstate l lc from the february

10th cd committee to the march 24th ced item number six on february 10th will be rescheduled

to 324 correct okay thank you thank you

calling public speakers if you would like to speak on any agenda item please I'm sorry wrong

spiel as a car your name please approach the podium in any order please state your name for

the record before beginning if you're on zoom please raise your hand so I can easily identify

you if you still wish to give public comment Kevin Daly and Blair Beekman

hi Kevin Daly with transport Oakland and I appreciate that we are bringing an

informational report to Public Works on transportation on the dismantling of

parking from the Department of Transportation it will be moving pieces

to the finance committee sorry finance department and the police department and

I think this is important enough and affects more than just public works and

transportation it definitely affects the finance department no councilmember

Ramachandran is chair it affects public safety I encourage all council members to

attend the February 10th meeting on public works and transportation because

it is changing a massive amount of the city without council input.

And I'm sure you've all heard once the city administrator convinced this body to postpone

the hearing to February 10th, they announced that the positions will be moved on February

7th, three days before the scheduled postponed hearing.

I hope that we can also discuss the possibilities of changes to the municipal code to include

parking as a division of transportation.

This is the way it was until 2017.

The city charter allows that.

I will be sending out communication to council members to suggest ways that this could happen

in the near future.

Thank you both Councilmember Brown and Councilmember Unger for supporting the informational report.

Hi, Blair Beekman. I want to speak on the Life Enrichment Committee coming up.

Thank you for the information being shared from the previous speaker.

I didn't know about the February 7th changes to items before the February 10th meeting

on future changes of the transportation agency to the finance agency.

If that's still applicable, it's questionable, and good luck that you're working on it.

And very much of a thank you to the city clerk for clarifying that we need to have amendments available

if there are going to be changes and updates to upcoming council meetings.

Thank you for her clarification that the public can see those amendments beforehand

and that we get ready for that.

That's good public meeting practices.

Thank you.

I want to talk about Life Enrichment Committee issues about SAMHSA.

They were at Life Enrichment Committee last week.

No, a couple days ago.

about just kind of a certain part of doing mental health,

providing mental health services and how we can be relying

on SAMHSA in those mental health services.

I tried to comment that as we are going through changes

in how we address mental health and addiction,

to have good mental health tools ready to go is really important,

I think, and needed and necessary.

And I think SAMHSA, as part of an overall goal of how we're building our communities,

it sounds like a really great program to help with mental health.

And I just wanted to remind everyone of that.

And how it helps with budgeting issues.

Sorry if I didn't better clarify how we can be working on good mediation for our budget issues on the previous item.

That was the context and how I was speaking to it.

So thank you for the SAMHSA item at Life Enrichment coming up.

And then we talk about good mental health.

It's really needed.

Thank you.

any more speakers madam clerk so that so noting public works 210 item 3 with a title change public

safety item 4 rescheduled to 224 cd 210 item 3 rescheduled to 310 item 6 rescheduled to 324

and February 3rd Council item 4.1 rescheduled to April 14th with a public hearing I'll entertain a motion

so moved

second

on the motion by council member five seconded by council member Brown to

approve item four as amended councilmember Brown I also member Fyfe I

and councilmember Rama Chandran I and chair Jenkins I motion passes with a

vote of four eyes that concludes your action items you do have two speakers

for open forum

Blair Beekman and Kevin Daly.

Thanks.

This is Kevin Daly speaking for myself now.

Speaking for myself as someone who talks a lot at city council meetings,

I've noticed that the most important items that come up before city council

often have the speaking limit changed from 120 seconds to 60 seconds.

You know, the most important ones are with the largest number of people.

It is difficult to get complex statements into 60 seconds.

And I understand how annoying we can be.

It's just wanting to comment at city council meetings and how much time it takes up if you have 20 speakers at 120 seconds each.

but I think it's an unfortunate habit to lower the speaking time on the most complex and most

important issues. It'd be great if we could talk longer on the coming parking policy one and we'll

reach out to Chair Unger on that but it's a general problem with the council. Thank you.

Hi, Blair Beekman.

Today is officially my last time here.

It's a public space.

I leave this weekend, and yeah, so I'm here today one more time.

Thank you for the words of the previous speaker.

In being from San Diego, I've noticed the same thing that he said.

Sometimes time is shortened here when I wish it could be a little longer.

In San Diego, they have a great system where they know how to really adjust times for one minute, two minutes, and one minute thirty.

They use one minute thirty quite frequently, and they use it very well and very decently.

And it takes practice to figure out how to do that well, and they really practice it.

It's a very helpful tool, that a minute thirty.

In San Diego, they get really upset when it's at 1.30, but man, for me, here in the entire

Bay Area, it's either two minutes or one minute.

Nobody knows how to work 1.30.

We used to in the beginning of the Zoom process.

Good luck in how you can be working towards that again.

Other public meeting issues, I really wanted to come here today to speak one more time

on public meeting issue things to begin to clarify myself.

I'm concerned that there is a certain tone being set in having to speak directly to items

with the disapproval of the previous PRC commissioners last meeting

and through the flock issues in the fall.

It was a very regimented system, and I think comment from staff and board,

it was really difficult just to have an open public conversation.

And I think we have to develop a legal language where we parse out what we can talk about as legal for the item

and to offer additional dialogue within the public meeting dais here for items in the future.

Hopefully I can talk more about this in the future.

Good luck on public meeting accessibility.

Thank you.

Good luck, Mr. Beekman.

We will miss you.

Thank you.

Anybody?

More comments?

All right.

This meeting is adjourned.

Thank you.

Thank you.