The Oakland City Council met on Tuesday, February 17, 2026, at 3:31 PM. Six members were present (Brown, Fife excused, Houston excused, Ramachandran, Unger, Wong, Chair Jenkins). The council pulled item 5.1 (disparity study) from the consent calendar for rescheduling, adopted the consent calendar with an 8-0 vote, honored NBA slam dunk champion Keishawn Johnson with a proclamation, and paid tribute to the late Reverend Jesse Jackson.
Good afternoon and welcome to the council meeting of Tuesday, February 17th. Before I call roll, I will go over speaker card instructions. If you'd like to speak on any agenda item, please fill out a speaker's card and return that card to a clerk representative before the item is called. If you're looking to turn in an online speaker card, they were due 24 hours before the start of this meeting. And if you want to speak on any agenda item, this meeting was called to order at 3 31 p.m. So speaker cards will be due by 5 31 or before the item is called, whichever comes first. On roll for this meeting are Council members Brown present. Council Member Fife. Is excused. Present. Council Member Houston. Excuse Councilmember Ramachandran. Sorry, President Member Ramachandran. Present. Councilmember Unger. Here. Councilmember Wong. Present. And Chair Jenkins. Present. Showing six members present at this time. Two excuse five and Houston. Do you have any announcements before we begin? No announcements. Going to item three modifications. So 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 no votes, change agenda order. So I'm going to pull item number five point one. We want to um Dr. Ramsey to be here to discuss the disparity study. So I'm going to pull that for this session, and with the intent that it will come back March 2nd. We'll be working with me to get Dr. Ramsey to schedule it with that. I need a second to pull this item. We'll pull on the item, but we will hear any public speakers that came to speak on this item. Council Member Fife is excused. Councilmember Gaio. Council Member Houston is also excused. Council Member Ramachandren. And if you signed up to speak on this item, you will still be able to speak. So typically at the end of meetings, we have council member announcements where we acknowledge success and losses with the um some successes and some losses with the slam down contest uh local Oaklander one and um with losses we had um the loss of Reverend Jesse Jackson. So the mayor will be coming uh on the next item to speak to that is to the mayor's staff is the mayor ready. When we call in 5.1 Councilmember Brown, excellent. Thank you so much. Um so I'll just make the announcement that um Keyshawn Johnson um is about 10 minutes out, and so then the mayor um will be joining us to honor him and his accomplishments. Thank you. Without any other changes to the agenda, if not, we'll wait on the mayor. Okay. So we will move on from item three. We will take in 5.1.