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.

Reading.

The mayor's here.

Actually, the mayor's here.

You ready, Mayor?

I think calling in item seven, which is council acknowledgement and announcements.

And mayor uh Keisha is about five minutes out.

Okay.

So we'll wait.

I'll do Reverend Jackson later or good.

Well, Ms.

President, can we wait on Keisha?

Yeah, we can wait.

Okay.

And I'll I'll wait.

All right, okay.

We can call in 5.1.

Calling in item 5.1 receiver information report on the 2024 City of Oakland disparity study prepared by Mason Tillman Associates.

Pursuant to resolution number 89058, as stated, this item will be rescheduled in rules, but you can speak if you would like at this time.

Calling in the speakers, Blair Beekman, Derek Barnes, Kevin Daly, Mrs.

Ada Olabala, and Edda Johnson.

In any order, if you're in chambers, please approach the podium.

So uh I'm sick and tired of you people playing games with black people.

You don't need the Mason Tillman report to understand that disparities are going on related to black contractors.

You already know that.

So we this has been going on for decades.

Then the city administrator submits a report and he doesn't identify that's important that the recommendations be followed up during the meeting of committee, nobody's nobody said we need to take the recommendations and bring them forward to council for full approval of the recommendations based on that report.

You're playing games with black people again, so you've been knowing for years this problem.

You've been using proposition 209 to say we can't do anything.

Well, you ignore the law that says illegal immigrants can't come into this country.

So I'm telling you, ignore proposition 209 and do everything you can to support black people economically and housing.

You are you are priding yourself on being a sanctuary city, but you're not a city that looks after the best interests of African Americans.

We have 9% unemployment.

The state of California is 14% unemployment.

We have the uh homeless situation that nothing is happening of any significance.

But as soon as illegal immigrants got an issue, you jump through hopes and create ordinances.

The basin Tillman report is gonna result in absolutely nothing changing.

When you want to do something seriously, you'll just step forward and let it happen.

It will not be based on a report.

It needs to happen.

I know you're not gonna do nothing.

You're doing absolutely nothing for black people, and that's why I'm in the room to tell you about it.

Thank you, Ms.

Olabala.

Your time is up.

Hi, Senator Johnson, community organizing.

It's a shame what I have experienced in the last two years with the city of Oakland.

My civil rights have been violated.

You city administrator.

You thought I was stupid.

All I do is I know how to handle my business when I am disrespected and when I, especially when I do the things the right way.

I went every level.

But you all, I put in my uh the uh put in a uh a paper to get food for the city and code compliance, building codes.

You with the pictures of my house, they fixed another house.

Uh-huh.

I filed a claim against the city of Oakland.

2.5 billion dollars.

I got the proof.

You allowed that.

Ms.

Johnson, I'll leave.

You allowed it.

Excuse me, pause our time.

No, let me finish.

I came here to talk about this.

I want to let you finish.

Please only address the chair.

Please only address me.

Only address me, not anybody else, okay.

But anyway, I've been violated.

My work, the work have never been done in my place.

I have had heart surgery.

I've been in and out of the hospital.

Good thing I worked all my life.

But they misusing my insurance with undocumented.

I keep trying.

I have a disability.

And they can't repair me like they were trying to because of the condition that you all have left me.

And who's there in the other house?

Nobody.

But how many times have they fixed the house upstairs?

We're the undocumented, making mantropinome, blowing up stuff, fell on me.

Yeah.

Send me into cardiac arrest.

Broke my teeth from the ceiling falling on my head.

My teeth been paid for, they still haven't, they can't put them in until my health get better.

The devil is a liar.

Now we're going to federal.

Thank you, Ms.

Johnson.

Your time is up.

Thank you, Ms.

Johnson.

And Mr.

Hazard, I have a card for you for this item as well.

I'm addressing the community.

Not you.

So you can't tell me who to address.

This is for public edification.

And if you all want to come along, come right along because you end up sitting there doing nothing when we address you.

I don't even know why this is on the non consent.

What?

Why is it necessary to discuss the disparity amongst black folks?

The data is clear.

This should be on the consent calendar.

When it comes to immigrants, no disrespect.

You put it on the consent calendar.

You approve it.

But when it comes to black folks, you gotta you have a task force.

Shame on you.

I'm addressing you.

Mr.

President, shame on you.

Because when it comes to black folks, y'all are silent.

This item was two times the disparity study.

And Dr.

Ramsey did a wonderful job.

The first one in 2017.

Somebody said it wasn't worth the paper, it was on.

Then you gave her another contract.

Well deserved.

Now, it's thorough.

So why is this on the consent calendar?

It's been vetted in the committee.

You should be approving this on the consent calendar, not on the non-consent.

Or are you uh deciding who's gonna be on the sponsorship?

Then that's fine.

Then that means collective approval.

Thank you, Mr.

Hazard.

Your time is up.

Blair Beekman, Derek Barnes, Kevin Daly.

I don't see you in chambers.

If you're on Zoom, please raise your hand if you still wish to speak.

At this time, all names have been called.

Councilmember Fife.

I just wanted to speak to the item uh around the disparity study that came to my committee last week.

I spoke with the city administration as well as Dr.

Ramsey, and we decided collectively to pull the item because she couldn't be reached to ensure that she would be in council to give the full presentation in the way that she did to the life enrichment committee.

We and the committee felt that the entire body should hear the presentation that was presented, and um, and then go from that point.

So I wanted to just articulate that for the record that this was a decision that was made in partnership with Dr.

Ramsey to ensure that the public had all of the information possible.

Um, and I look forward to that item coming back on March third to the full city council.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um seeing no more comments.

I just wanted just to make a comment about 6.11 about the watershed.

We're not on the consent item.

We're on item 5.1.

You can you could address that on the next item.

Okay, okay.

Thank you.

Councilmember Brown.

No.

Okay.

So we're gonna.

Madam Mayor.

Mr.

President, members of the council, and to all of you, really happy to be here for a minute.

And I want to just take a moment to um congratulate Kishad where here you are.

Now, I want to welcome you home.

And I want to just say how proud we are of you.

The town is proud of you.

And I mean that from the bottom of my heart.

We all do.

Congratulations on winning the NBA slam dunk competition at the All Star Weekend.

Congratulations.

And Oakland has always been a place that produces greatness.

Oakland athletes.

And I want to salute your coach, your family members, your father.

You know, I have a connection to your family that I didn't realize until last night.

So it was a great reunion for me.

And let me just say today, one of our own, you're standing right here in a sitting right here.

Look like you're standing in City Hall.

You attended Invision Academy of Arts and Technology.

And then you took the game to San Diego State and helped lead the Aztecs all the way to the NCAA championship game, then on to Arizona.

Draft night came, and your name wasn't called, but you didn't quit.

You earned a contract with the Miami Heat.

And I want you to know I have nephews and a niece who live in Florida, and they are so happy about this day.

But you're an example of Oakland grit.

And that's Oakland's spirit.

And most recently, you competed in the NBA slam dump contest at All Star Weekend, which I mentioned in front, and I watched this as you were winning.

In front of the entire country.

You really showed out.

Really looks like first round.

You brought out the Bay Area Legend E 40.

You leaped clean over him and threw it down.

Yeah, that was I've been following you.

That was a historic Oakland moment in the dunk contest.

Final round, you took off from the free throw line, one handed windmill jam.

You brought the Oakland spirit that night, and you put Oakland in the spotlight on a national stage.

Just like Dame, just like James.

That's what this town does.

Afterward, you said, and I want to quote what you said.

You said, all the kids out there keep dreaming.

Anything can happen.

So Keisha, those words mean everything coming from you.

They may not believe it from me, but they believe it from you.

Because every kid in this city can really look at you, and they can see themselves.

So on behalf of the city of Oakland, our council members, our residents, just uh say thank I we say thank you.

We're deeply grateful to you because you continue to make our town proud.

Thank you again.

Give the whole team a round of applause.

Okay.

And we have a mayor's proclamation today also, so why don't you come on out and join us here?

Maybe we'll give you a photo.

Oh, go down here.

You want to have a few words.

Please feel free to have words if you want.

Come on, let's do it.

Let's do it.

I got something for this.

First of all, um, you know, it's an honor, it's an honor.

Um, I wear Oakland on my sleeves, literally, you know.

I got it, I got a tattooed on me, you know.

Not only is it on me, but it's also it's also in me.

It's in my blood, you know.

I I take pride and saying I'm from Oakland, you know, like you said.

We got an extra swag to it to us, we got extra confidence, you know.

And I just want to show the world, like, you know, being in Oakland, it's always like the odds is always against you, just being from Oakland, you know, the um the upbringing that we have, you know, it's a beautiful, it's a beautiful place though that we live in.

And I just wanted to show that.

I just want to show like the confidence, the swag, our soil, and I put I feel like I did a good job representing this overall, and yeah, like to be here in front of y'all.

Like, I just think I'm I think I'm doing something right, you know.

Um, and it's always good to um let somebody know that they're doing something right, but I'm never satisfied, you know.

It's just more is store, so I'm gonna continue to make us proud, continue to make the kids proud, and pay forward always pay homage to everybody, you know.

So thank y'all for honoring me, and yeah, the sky's a limit.

You know, this is only the start of the uh what a journey gonna take me.

Appreciate it.

So we'll come down here and take photos, and then after that, council members can have comments.

Okay.

So I want to thank uh Councilmember Brown for helping coordinate this, making sure that Keisha Adam family could come here today.

And I think what's amazing after winning the slam dunk contest, Councilmember Brown, Councilman Brown didn't win the slam talk contest.

Just standing there waiting for autographs.

And gonna do.

I salute you, and you're from the town, and you do town.

We got that town swag.

You know it.

We got it.

Let's do it.

Thank you so much.

Madam Mayor.

Thank you very much.

Kashan, you know, I'm getting ready to present some thoughts about someone who I know, whether you knew him personally or not.

I know he loved you and he paved the way for so much in your life to have, and that's the Reverend Jesse Jackson.

He loves sports.

I've been with him in many games.

He passed away early this morning.

He was a legend, a force of nature, a warrior, but he also was a personal friend.

So I'm glad you're here.

God bless you.

Ms.

President, members of the council, residents of Oakland, it really is with a heavy heart, yet with a deep sense of gratitude to present a proclamation today on behalf of the city of Oakland, honoring the life and legacy of a great leader, and yes, a great world leader, the Reverend Jesse Lewis Jackson, who loved Oakland, California.

He passed away this morning at the age of 84.

And first, my condolences and my love go to Jackie, his wife, his sons, he was grandfather to his entire family, including his sister-in-law who lives here in Oakland.

Reverend Jackson was a towering figure in the American civil rights movement, a confidant of Dr.

Martin Luther King Jr., you may have seen him on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel when Dr.

King was so untimely assassinated.

He was the founder of Operation Push and the Rainbow Coalition.

He was an unrelenting advocate for economic equity and justice for over six decades.

And as I said, he was a close friend and mentor of mine.

Oakland could claim Reverend Jackson as one of its own.

He had a deep, enduring connection to the city.

Connections he spoke about with love and with pride.

And just this past December, my family and I, we uh he lived in Chicago, and I said, on Christmas, I wanted to be there.

And we went to see Reverend Jackson and spent the day with him on December 25th.

And he could not speak, but he was very present, very aware.

And we talked about a lot, the campaigns, and I was his state finance chair in 1988 during his presidential primary.

And he his eyes lit up when we talked about it.

We were communicating, and I said, Reverend, I said, Do you remember going to the churches in Oakland and talking about voter registration?

And we were at Evergreen Baptist Church, and the pastor, and he blurted out the Reverend J.

L.

Richards.

And now he had not said one word.

He couldn't communicate at all.

But when I said Oakland and Evergreen, he knew who the pastor was, Reverend J.

L.

Richards, and he spoke that in uh his um state where he could not could not verbalize much, but he would mutter, and you would hear what he was saying and understand him, but he was very clear when we talked about uh Evergreen Baptist Church and uh JL Richards also uh he was he officiated at my son's wedding at my son was married at Mills College in the chapel, and Reverend Jackson um officiated at this at the wedding, and it was written up in Ebony Magazine.

So I took the magazine for him to see, and my two granddaughters who had never met, and he saw them and his eyes lit up, he smiled, he held their hand, he looked at my son and smiled, and he he knew he was responsible uh for that.

That was just this past December, and it was it was an amazing day for me personally because uh he was not only a great leader, but he never lost his humanity and never lost his love for people in general, even people he did not know, but especially for people like myself who he mentored and helped.

When I won elections throughout my life, he would call me at midnight and congratulate me, and then he would pray with me.

He would pray with me every single time, every election, even this mayor's election, he was called his people, his son called, and he would mutter something on the phone.

I knew what he was saying, murmur.

And he would also in the past give me words of wisdom, who to look out for, how to deal with certain people, be careful.

You know, he would give, give me advice as he prayed for me for being able to step up and speak truth to power and to deliver for the most marginalized for people who had been not seen in this country.

In December of 2020 2006, some of you may remember, some may not.

He came right here to Oakland and stood aside me at a community forum to help enroll, mainly uh African Americans and people of color, seniors in Medicare Part D.

He would come to Oakland for different events that we held to bring people out so that people would know their rights and know what the government, the federal government was pushing forward so that they could be educated about the benefits that they may or may not have heard of.

And I remember that day because he showed up all of the time for everyday people in cities like ours, long, long after the cameras were gone.

Here in Oakland, he kicked off a youth violence prevention program focused on education and job oper job training and uh jobs.

His uh two historic presidential campaigns, 1984, actually, the convention then was in San Francisco, and he gave a very uh clear speech about what we needed to do to be inclusive in terms of the power of people in this democracy and why we needed to exercise our political power.

It was a tough speech to the Democratic Party campaign because of that speech.

Uh, although not all the way where we need to be the Democratic Party is more democratic than it was before Reverend Jackson.

His campaigns expanded the democratic process for millions, built coalitions that paved the way for future leaders, including uh President Barack Obama, uh, and proved that uh anyone, ordinary people, who organized and unafraid can move mountains.

And he wanted us to remember that.

Uh, and that's and he registered over seven to eight million people during his presidential campaign, people in rural in the rural South, people who never would have been part of a coalition of people of color and of people who are marginalized, of people who were poor.

Uh he brought us together and saw that we had more in common than not.

He built the coalitions again that paved the way for future leaders, and he proved that you know, he understood the nature of politics, but also policies and also delivery of what this American dream supposedly holds for everyone, which still has not delivered to many in our country.

I remember being um with him one day and said, you know, uh Jesse, the House of Representatives, we've never honored you.

And he was so humble, he said, Well, you know, it's one of those things.

It wasn't a big deal for him, but I decided that we would do that.

So I um wrote a resolution and we passed it on the House floor, honoring his life and his legacy.

But um he came and he sat in the gallery and he watched it past the House, and he was just um so humble and so happy that we were able to do that.

You know, um, he was uh a lot of people don't know that uh he was also a global leader.

He actually um negotiated the release of hostages in Iraq.

I was at the airport, it was in DC, and he brought them back.

He negotiated the release of prisoners in Cuba.

Uh I was at the airport when he brought them back.

Uh, heads of state listened to Reverend Jackson.

Uh he was a world leader.

He helped President Mandela become president and was involved in the Free South Africa movement.

I was an observer in South Africa during the elections.

Reverend Jackson was there as an observer and a monitor, and of course, as a VIP, and we won those elections.

Uh, the South African people won those elections with the help of Reverend Jackson and the help of many here in Oakland.

He was revered around the world.

And I hope that we remember him as a person who wanted to make this country better, a person who wanted to make the world a better place for everyone.

He was very close with many people here in Oakland and in the East Bay.

Uh I'll mention a few names.

The late supervisor Wilma Chan, uh Wilma was very close with Reverend Jackson and helped him in his campaigns.

Butch Wing, Josie Camacho, many, many people here in Oakland didn't.

People didn't know how close they were with Reverend Jackson, but I could be in another city and here Reverend Jackson was with people from Oakland with him.

Um he had a very close-knit staff, they were his confidants, and many of his team staff members went on to work for President Obama and also for President Biden.

Many of the Rainbow Coalition people who he trained, who he helped carve their own paths, ended up working in the White House.

They never would have done that had it not been for Reverend Jackson.

And so finally, I'll just say he coined some term some terms and messages, and they were not clichés, but they are very profound that I hope young people right now remember, especially in this day and time of what we know is taking place in Washington.

Keep hope alive.

You all know, keep hope alive.

We gotta keep hope alive.

That's Reverend Jackson.

I still say that.

I am somebody.

When so many black people felt so marginalized, we still haven't come full circle.

Uh, but I am somebody.

Um also uh Reverend Jackson reminded us and told us we were African Americans, you know, and there was some controversy around that, but we he stood the ground and he explained why he thought we should if we felt it were appropriate to call ourselves African Americans.

That was Reverend Jackson, that's where it all started.

Reverend Jackson was, of course, a minister, and as a person of faith, I love listening to sermons.

He was an unbelievable pastor.

He used the scriptures as our North Star.

He interpreted the scriptures uh in a very revolutionary way.

Feed the hungry.

That shouldn't be so hard to understand.

He quoted the eight beatitudes.

He spoke brilliantly about how as a preacher, he could be a preacher, the country preacher, that's what he called himself, for social, racial, and economic justice.

And I'll close by uh screw with the scripture that he would use frequently.

He said, What is um the Lord command of us?

And he would say, he would cite this uh, do justice, um, love mercy, and work humbly with thy God.

Every time I hear that, I think of Reverend Jackson.

That was his his mandate, and that was his message for all of us.

And so today, I am heartbroken.

Um he passed away yesterday.

Uh he actually yesterday was the 11th anniversary of my mother's death.

And Reverend Jackson came out to be with me, and he was with her and prayed with us the day before she passed away.

Uh and so for him today, as we think about him and his legacy personally, I'm deeply grateful for his life, for his legacy, for his prayers, and for what he has done to help our young people understand that the world is yours, that you must keep hope alive.

You are somebody, and that we will overcome.

God bless you.

Thank you again.

Thank you, Mayor Lee.

And we will adjourn this meeting in memory of um Reverend Jesse Jackson and any other council members have or any council members have any announcements before we get to the business of the people.

I wanted to make an announcement that this is the first year of the fire horse lunar new year.

Actually, and for those of you who don't know, the fire horse is actually incredibly powerful here.

It happens every 60 years, and it's actually a the fire horse is associated with revolution.

So in 1966, the Black Panther Party was actually formed here.

Um it's also a key year associated with associated with the women's liberation movement.

So time will tell what that means for the city of Oakland, but um uh this is this is gonna be a fun year.

That's all I can say.

Thanks.

And oh, come visit Oakland's Chinatown in Little Saigon.

Uh, there's a lot of activities going on.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember.

Councilmember Houston.

I like to say this on the 17th, right?

Um Huey Newton's birthdays today.

Legendary.

Legendary should give a round of applause for Huey Newton, and he would be disappointed in us right now on the way our streets look, the way our people are suffering in this rain.

Uh he would be disappointed.

He would be totally disappointed on what we're doing, and we're not passing this EAP.

That is going to address this critical problem we have.

So I wish Huey was here with me.

Thank you, Councilmember Houston.

Uh happy birthday to Dr.

Huey P.

Newton.

Seeing no more announcements, we will go to item six, the consent calendar.

Thank you, Council President Jenkins.

I'll just make a quick announcement welcoming Candice Parker Tree to my team as the assistant city clerk.

Today is our first day.

Thank you.

Um, going into the consent calendar, which is item six.

Welcome back.

Welcome back home.

Starting with item 6.1, approval of the draft minutes from the meeting of February 3rd, 2026.

Item 6.2, a resolution regarding a declaration of a local emergency due to the AIDS epidemic.

Item 6.3, a resolution regarding a declaration of medical cannabis health emergency.

Item 6.4, a resolution for a declaration of a local emergency on homelessness, item 6.5, an ordinance amending municipal code, chapter 9.08.260 regarding prohibit prohibition prohibition of prostitution.

Adoption of this item will be final passage.

A resolution confirming the mayor's appointment to the head start advisory board.

Item 6.9 information report regarding the multi-year plan to meet voter mandated staffing and service level service level excuse me.

Item 6.10, a resolution for construction contract amendment for citywide payment rehab for 2022.

Project number 1006 337.

Item 6.11, a resolution for measure DD grant.

Agreement for Segoria Tay Land Trust Watershed Acquisition.

Item 6.12, a resolution for foreign trade zone number 56.

Application for alternative site framework.

Item 6.13, a resolution accepting the impact fees annual report for years 24 through 25.

Item 6.14, a resolution for the sugar sweetened beverage distribution tax.

Community grants for fiscal year 25 through 27.

Item 6.15, a resolution for fiscal year 25 through 27.

Biennial grants.

Any comments from the council members?

Councilmember Houston.

Which one are you commenting on?

6.11, the watershed.

Okay.

Yeah, I just wanted to share.

I wanted to find out Trinity.

Can you come up to the podium, please?

I wanted just to find out how do we apply and restore our watersheds in D7.

I remember when it's a piece of property we call the automobile graveyard, where they had 243 cars that we had removed with all that contamination and things like that was just flowing into that watershed over there.

And I remember playing with, you know, having to get frogs, fish, salamanders, and lizards, and it's nothing there no more.

You know, how do we?

So Trinity, what do we talk about in our um our morning huddle this morning?

Good afternoon.

Uh through the chair.

Uh this morning during our huddle, we were discussing some of the um environmental justice that district seven needs.

Um, we have marshes and creeks and slows and just various waterways that um back in the council members' day were lively with marine life, and um we're seeking to kind of restore that.

So we're just looking to figure out what the process is to perhaps designate a steward of sorts for the areas of district seven, back in the council members' day.

Justin, can you uh make sure that public works connects with district seven to ensure that we talk about the watersheds in district seven?

Okay.

Uh, thank you.

I uh just wanted to make a comment on item 6.5.

I wanted to thank my colleagues for your support and passing this item.

I also wanted to note that I've been in conversations with some of the anti-trafficking advocates, some of which are in the audience today.

And um, what we've been talking about is the fact that the legislation that is poised to pass today will actually be a model that can serve not only for the city of Oakland because it's not enough to displace exploitation.

We have to end it, and um, it's not enough just to displace it from the city of Oakland.

So uh many of the advocates will actually be going to other cities to to advocate that we use this legislation that we are passing today across the nation and including in other cities in California, and I'm proud to state that.

Thank you.

Thank you for your diligence and work on this item.

Um, any more council members before we go to the public speakers?

All right, seeing none, let's go to the public speakers.

As I call your name, please approach the podium in any order.

Please state your name for the record before beginning.

If you were on Zoom and you wish to speak, and you submitted a card, please raise your hand so I can easily identify you once your name is called.

Blair Beekman, Derek Barnes, Fatima Yosef, Steven or Stephan Cole, Katherine Sternbeck, Mr.

Boatwright, Jasmine Marie Brown, Christina, Verisa for Visa, Mary Susan Kane, Simon, Mrs.

Ada Olabala.

Have you with multiple items?

Janice Jacobs, Miss Edda Johnson, I have you with multiple items, Crystalin Good, Vanessa Russell, Tim Vender Linsky, Maribel Tadeo, Mr.

Hazard, I have you with multiple items.

Kim Olson.

Go ahead, Mr.

Hazard.

In Alameda County, bail amounts of Penal Code 288, Penal Code 266 are determined by the Superior Code of California, County of Alameda Official Bail Schedule.

If a specific event is not listed on the county's 24 misdemeanor and felony bail schedule, the bail is calculated by a multiplying statutory midterm.

So what that means is Wang's thing that y'all approved.

Those traffickers can get bailed.

They could go into jail today, get arrested, and that's what I gave you.

Read it.

It's real clear.

They get bailed as opposed to fitnol.

Look on the back.

What's the bail amount for the rest of fitnol?

In the United States, there's no minimum amount of fitnol required for an arrest as possession of many amount can lead to criminal charges due to its extreme potency.

And you sit there on your behinds, and you want to go something that's really incidental and it's not gonna do anything, and you got the law right here.

Penal code 266, read it, bail for folks who traffic young people.

And yet you don't do anything about fitnol.

You don't even declare it an emergency, really.

The city of Oakland has not formally adopted a specific municipal code or citywide emergency declaration declaring fitness a public health emergency.

As opposed to children being used for sex, which is more criminal, the death of a child, or somebody being used to sell their bodies.

But yet you remain silent.

And uh Councilmember Wang, you get up there and do this presentation.

I got the facts.

You don't talk about what the criminal code is.

Those are misdemeanors.

Thank you, Mr.

Hazard.

Your time is up.

Thank you, council members, for this opportunity to advocate on behalf of Oakland's waterways and diverse communities.

My name is Tim Velinski.

I serve on the board of Directors for Friends of Saucil Creek.

I'm urging you to approve resolution, the resolution to award measure DD funds to the Segorate Land Trust to purchase the 16-acre parcel that has been nurtured for decades by the Chen family.

This transaction was made possible by the generosity of the family, the perseverance of your own staff person, Michael Perlmetter, and the unique vision of the land trust to rematriate sacred lands across the East Bay.

Your approval of this resolution protects an ecological anchor for the Salsal Creek watershed and a cultural anchor for indigenous people.

The health of Creeks and Rivers depends on the integrity of their headwaters.

And the spiritual health of indigenous people depends on the condition and fate of their ancestral lands.

With this resolution, the city council has an unprecedented chance to secure the headwaters of Salsal Creek while rematriating the parcel to its original stewards.

Thank you.

Good afternoon.

My name is Stephen Cole, and I am speaking to item number 6.9.

I'm a cog carrying member of Oakland Public Library.

And the last time I was here, I was with a number of other library advocates to lobby for maintenance of effort, language to be included in Measure C in 2022.

The council agreed, and that language appeared in the text of Measure C.

Measure C passed with uh 82.4% of the vote.

Uh Oakland is uh generous and love their libraries.

So it is dismaying to me and a number of other library advocates that we discover that this maintenance of effort, uh language is imperiled currently.

Thank you, sir.

Your time is up.

Thank you, Council.

Uh Kim Olson, SOS Meals on Wheels.

Also, speaking uh for Mercy Brownbag, who's my colleague here in the audience.

Uh, urging your support for item 6.14, the sugar sweetened beverage funds.

These funds will uh provide nutrition programs like myself, like SOS Mills on Wheels and Mercy Brownbag.

Uh key nutritional services for some of our city's most vulnerable residents.

Mercy Brown Bag will serve 5,000 Oakland seniors uh each year with this funding.

Meals on Wheels will serve 1,300 homebound seniors in Oakland with this funding.

Specific with this funding, we will also give additional diabetic friendly snack packs and hydration education to our homebound seniors.

We give those seniors who are diabetic, prediabetic, and those from demographics that were most targeted by sugar sweetened brevage, those that need that healthy uh intervention the most.

So we are excited to do take these funds to continue using them because we've been using them.

Good afternoon.

My name is Vanessa Russell, and I'm the founding executive director of Love Never Fails.

Um, and I just wanted to express my gratitude to you, council members, for placing um item number 6.5 on the consent calendar today.

Um I just want to thank you for prioritizing the health and safety of survivors of human trafficking here in Oakland.

Um, Leva Never Fails has served and housed survivors over the last 15 years.

This is the first time in history that I know of that we have prioritized the safety of survivors while also holding the buyers accountable for their harmful actions.

Um, today you send a strong message to Oakland's children and adult vulnerable adults that have been ensnared in the life that have not chosen that life, that they are worth being protected, that they are loved and valued and seen.

You also send a message very strongly to the world in the midst of the Epstein file cover-ups that and the heartbreaking victim blaming.

Thank you, Miss Russell.

Your time is up.

Good afternoon, Council members, Mr.

President.

My name's Mary Kane Simon, and I have the great privilege of being the uh co-chair, vice chair of uh your Oakland Public Library Commission.

I'm here to speak on item 6.9.

Um, uh echoing what the gentleman earlier said, um, it's very important to restore the maintenance of effort funding to the library.

So I want to congratulate and express appreciation.

The council, the city seems to be on the road to getting back into compliance with what the laws require.

Uh I'm afraid to say I'm a retired attorney now, but I think the city has been on shaky legal ground for a long time in not having the necessary funds appropriated for the libraries to bring it into compliance.

This is in the city auditor's uh own report to the council, so I'm not going to belabor that argument, but I just want to just quickly urge you to keep in mind.

I know that making.

Thank you.

Your time is up.

Good afternoon.

Speaking to item 6.9, my name is Chia Azuma, District 6 resident, taxpayer, and chair of the Library Commission.

A big part of what the Library Commission does is to provide citizens' oversight of revenues generated by two parcel taxes funded funding our libraries.

That's measure C and measure D.

Measure C was passed by voters in 2022 by an overwhelming 82%.

And it came with a few stipulations.

Measure C specifies that in addition to tax money collected from us property owners, the city must contribute a minimum of 14.5 million dollars a year from the general fund.

This is what is what's referred to as the maintenance of effort MOE.

And I need to make this clear the minimum of 14.5 million dollars every year.

This is not an option.

This is a minimum requirement that the city must meet every year.

Thank you, your time is up.

Yes.

Hello, I'm Janice Jacobs, and I've been an activist on the issue of human trafficking for at least the past 15 years.

And over this time, I've seen lots of public officials get up and take a stand against uh trafficking.

But you are the first city council, and I'm I'm so moved by your unanimous support for this resolution to finally penalize sex buyers for the harm that they're causing our children, our schools, and every level of uh high school, middle school, elementary schools in Oakland are seeing the effects of people coming into our city, raping our children, and leaving the devastation.

This resolution is so important, and that we finally take a stand that we will not tolerate sex traffic sex buying in our town, and we have to also pair this with a comprehensive strategy so that everyone knows that you should you can't.

Good afternoon, everyone.

My name is Kristin Good, and I'm here on behalf of Covenant House, California.

For those of you who don't know, we're a crisis youth shelter and have a location in Jack London Square, where we provide sanctuary to 18 to 24 year olds that are overcoming housing instability.

I have the privilege of serving as the director of mental health and wellness programs, and I'm grateful to be here with you all on this rainy Tuesday.

We at Covenant House California are so grateful to Councilmember Wong's focus on human trafficking.

This vulnerable group needs more resources, protection, and safe spaces that are dignifying and will meet each person where they're at and not leave them there.

Our hope is that the public safety committee will continue to raise awareness for the needs of young people experiencing homelessness and exploitation on our streets in Oakland, and that service providers who are ready to support them are funded and sustainable.

Thank you.

Hi, Edda Johnson.

I'm just gonna bring it to your attention.

Day and night sitting in a truck with them running.

The whole shift and on international in East Oakland.

Sitting in two of them, but when you call for help, you can't get one.

I say I guess I have to walk up to East 14 to go get one and make them come down, but they don't work for us.

They see a lot of things going on, but you do not y'all letting them make and how much do they get paid in an hour?

Just sit there, they don't even get out and mingle.

Don't even walk, getting overweight, over fat and out of shape, eating, and sitting.

You know, you got to start checking on some of this stuff that you that work that you hired to work for you.

It's against the law.

There's a lot of laws broken here in Oakland, and they need to be fixed.

And as soon as possible, because you don't, you're not even studying your areas.

You notice it's on, and then they won't raises and stuff.

You need to get rid of them.

Hire a team that can control some of this stuff that's going on here.

David Boatride, District 4.

Item 6.7, Oakland Public Safety Planning and Oversight Commission appointee.

I hope Miss Wynne can have an immediate impact on this commission.

Meetings are scheduled at no particular time during the month.

There is no list of current commission members on the city website.

Meetings are posted and canceled without adequate notice.

And the city's coordinator for this commission does not respond to emails.

Item 6.15, biennial grants.

I again recommend that all grants issued by the city be made with the requirement that at a minimum that a at minimum annual reports to the city document spending in detail, a list to the beneficiaries of each grant.

Administrative cost limits are established, and the specific outcomes of the grant are included, and that the city employee, the city employee assigned to oversee the grant spending and activities be required to make an annual report to the city, the council committee where the grant is authorized.

This kind of documentation and oversight should help guide the committees as to which grantees merit further funding in the future.

Item 6.9.

This was a very thorough report.

I thought I was fairly knowledgeable about measure MM, but the numbers didn't add up to the annual value quoted in the measure statement.

2.7 million dollars.

Uh it's probably too late now, but I'd love to talk to a staff member who could clarify some of the information about the measures.

Thank you.

Sean Sullivan, District 3, uh speaking on 6.5.

I want to uh thank the council for agendizing and putting this forward.

Uh I have been involved with this issue in trying to address the trafficking of our children uh in the city since I began my work with Covenant House some 30 years ago.

And I really want to applaud this legislation.

Ten years ago, with Council Member Guy, I said on a another iteration of a human trafficking task force and did a lot of studying on the issue, and it always comes down to we do not have enough money to help these young people.

Uh and so I want to applaud this legislation because it has in here punitive fines for the sex buyers, so that if we can arrest them and hold them accountable, we can eventually develop a fund to help young people out of this.

The young people that are led into this life unfortunately have no resources, and it is up to you, and I thank you for for providing those.

Thanks.

Hi, sorry, hi everyone.

My name is Maribel Tadeon.

I'm a survivor shaped by the mental and physical realities of gender-based violence that the flats of Oakland have long forced this native residents to endure.

I stand before you as an advocate with shade movement, fighting for survivors of labor and human trafficking.

I have been given the opportunity to stand on the front lines with the survivors, not only to support them, but to educate, uplift, and empower them as they rebuild their lives.

My passion is rooted in helping people understand their worth, know their rights, and access the tools they need to move forward with strength at nignity.

I'm here to voice my support for the recent change to the penal code that holds individuals who solicit sex accountable.

Education and empowerment are critical, but so is accountability.

When harmful choices fuel exploitation and trafficking in our communities, there must be clear consequences.

True change happens when we both empower survivors and address the systems and behaviors that cause them, cause harm.

If you don't address the challenges of gentrification as it impacts, particularly African Americans.

Sanctuary city status is not in the strategic plan as it impacts negatively African Americans.

Homelessness is not in the strategic plan with any substance.

Public housing with the Oakland Housing Authority, authority over thousands of homes, you never address it.

Declaration of homelessness, 6.4.

You can't talk about 6.5 intervening with human trafficking when you do absolutely nothing with human homelessness of any competency.

You had a housing project that was completed in November for homeless people, 101 apartments, and they haven't moved into those apartments to this date.

6.7.

Before you approval Jenkins and Ramashandon going to DC for federal advocacy, what you gonna advocate for?

It's sure not gonna be black people.

I wish I wish you would identify when you go out of town what you're doing.

6.7 Qualifications for measure NN, and by the way, rule 24 for what I just talked about.

Rule 24 puts for 627 for 6.7, 6.8.

That means it never went before council.

6.9 means you never, you are not in compliance with measure Q, measure N, Measure W, never measure X, 6.13.

You have housing, 13 housing projects, full under construction since 2023, not complete.

You have three seeking additional funding.

You have two complete with not being occupied.

You see, when you have these reports, you don't go into detail.

You have housing, but they don't they don't have enough money, or they're not complete, or you don't have people in the housing.

You say that you are providing resources and excess and uh support supports excessively in an equitable manner.

You're not doing that.

Okay.

So 6.16.

You have $700,000 total without returning the console, and you're talking about you don't want to have people have thank you, Ms.

Olabala.

Your time is up.

Okay.

Don't talk about body growth yesterday.

I'm talking about black people who have always been.

Good afternoon, everyone.

My name is Karina Gould.

I'm the tribal chair for the Confederated Villages of Lashan Nation, and I'm also the one of the directors of the Segorite Land Trust, the first urban indigenous women-led land trust in the country based here in Huchoon, my traditional homeland.

Before it was Oakland, it was called Huchun.

Our place that we have hundreds of place of waterways and sacred sites along this in this city that you can no longer see.

But thankfully, the city of Oakland has become partners with the Segorite Land Trust and trying to figure out ways to return land and waterways to our people.

A way that the cities can partner now with the traditional tribal people of this land who has been taking having their land and waterways taken away from them.

A place where City of Oakland can't take care of always the land and waters that they have to take care of.

And that this is a great partnership, and I thank you so much for taking.

Thank you, ma'am.

Your time is up.

Thank you.

Moving to the Zoom speaker, starting with Fatima Youseth.

Hi, my name is Christina VC, and I'd like to cede my time to Jasmine Brown.

There's no seating time in open, I mean on the consent calendar.

So if you want to speak, you need to take your minute.

Good afternoon, council members.

My name is Jasmine Brown.

I am here representing 211 Alameda County, which is operated by Eden INR.

I am the I am.

Excuse me.

Please pause our time.

But let's talk after this, please.

I really want to hear from you.

Please restart our time.

And I think that's valid.

Let's let's check it.

I hear you.

Um, I'm serving as the chief executive officer, and I'm here in support of item SB 615, and I want to thank the Life Enrichment Committee for advancing this funding forward.

I recognize that our physical office is not in Oakland, but over half of our callers are Oakland residents.

We serve 25,000 um Oakland residents this fiscal year, which is 49% of all the clients that we serve.

That includes connecting people to housing, health, um, medical services, including seniors, people that are experiencing domestic violence.

I know as somebody that is from Oakland and has relied on two on one during housing instability, how important two and one is to this community, and we're looking forward to continuing and strengthening our partnership and serving the residents of Oakland and Alameda County.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Now moving to the Zoom speaker, starting with Fatima Youssef.

Please unmute yourself and begin your comments.

Good afternoon.

My name is Fatima Yusuf, and I'm a resident of District 1 and a member of Oakland Public Library Advocates.

It's critically important to fund libraries as they're a safe space for kids to learn.

We're glad that the council is engaging with maintenance of effort provisions.

However, the plan lacks meaningful specifics to guarantee that the return to maintenance of effort effort will occur as promised.

The city has often struggled with long-term budget planning, and this plan seems primarily aspirational.

We're concerned that failing to adequately fund the maintenance of effort over an extended period of time may eventually make the entire parcel tax collection vulnerable to legal challenge.

The Oakland Public Library system provides so many important services to residents like citizenship resources to immigrant Oakland residents, free kids science classes, and connecting vulnerable residents with critical resources such as free food and dental services.

I urge the council to commit to adequately funding these efforts and supporting these services.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you for your comments.

Catherine Sternbeck, you are next.

Please unmute yourself and begin your comments.

Thank you.

My name is Catherine Sturbanz.

I'm advocacy chair of the Friends of the Oakland Public Library and former chair of the city's library commission.

Oakland's public library advocates are glad that the council is engaging with the maintenance of effort provisions.

However, the plan lacks meaningful specifics to guarantee that the return to maintenance of effort for measure C will occur as promised.

The city has often struggled with long-term budget planning, and this plan seems primarily aspirational.

The council should proceed with urgency to make a more concrete plan.

Library advocates remain concerned that failing to adequately fund the maintenance of effort over an extended period of time may eventually make the entire parcel tax collection vulnerable to a legal challenge.

More than 80% of Oakland voters voted yes for measure C to collect these funds exclusively for library services.

Please don't betray their trust.

Demand a more concrete plan to return to maintenance of effort.

Thank you very much.

Thank you for your comments, Blair Beekman.

You are next.

Please unmute yourself and begin your comments.

Alright, thank you, Blair Bakem.

Um I wanted to speak to the uh amendment brought by Council President Wang.

Uh it's an important item.

It was at council a few weeks ago.

Uh a lot of speakers were there, um, a lot of people who had experience uh with prostitution.

Um, there's many ways to address this sort of item.

I hope you can be uh mindful of all sides of how to address process the issues of prostitution, what it entails, and um uh good luck in your efforts and how you can be uh in really addressing this issue.

Uh I know uh Santa Clara County has a good uh human trafficking program to address human trafficking issues.

Definitely talk to them about this project and and the city of San Diego.

They need some help and better understanding how to address their uh their uh prostitution issues, really progressive ideas is what's needed.

Good luck in what you're trying to do with this item and how to really listen to all sides uh uh when they have issues and problems, and good luck that we address human trafficking overall.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments, Derek Barnes.

If you're in the chamber on Zoom, steps of the podium or raise your hand at this time.

All names have been called.

I'll entertain a motion.

Second, on the motion by Council Member Guy, second by councilmember Ramachandran to adopt the consent calendar.

You guys don't have to put yourself in the queue.

Let me get to you.

Councilmember Brown.

Aye.

Council Member Five, aye, Council Member Guillo.

Aye.

Councilmember Houston.

Aye.

Councilmember Ramachandran.

Aye.

Councilmember Unger.

Aye.

Council Member Wong.

Aye.

And Chair Jenkins.

Aye.

Motion passes with the vote of eight eyes.

You've already dispensed with item seven going to open forum.

As I call your name, please approach the podium in any order or raise your hand if you are participating via Zoom.

So I can easily identify you.

Jesse Kane.

Blair Beekman, Miss Asada Olabala.

I think Paul Hall, Mr.

Hazard, Inez, Ig Sir the Exerta.

Sorry if I said it incorrectly.

Raineta Hall.

Victoria Montana.

In any order, please approach the podium.

I will be in court Thursday regarding the special election.

When I filed an ex parte written mandate, it's going to be on procedures because for the last two hundred and seventy-six days.

On my ex parte, but they haven't told you that.

I'd be surprised if they don't show up, madam city attorney.

It's regarding the writ.

The city is already imposing an illegal sales tax on the residents of Oakland.

On October 1.

My writ will void the special election ballot measure.

Once they get to the mayor.

Thank you, Mr.

Hazard, for your comments.

Good evening.

My name is Inezi Skierda, and I wanted to speak today in favor of the return of the land at the headwaters of Saucel Creek through the grant of unused measure DG funds to the its ancestral caretakers, the confederative villages of LaShawn Nation.

I applaud this move, and I think it's an important for the future of the environmental landscape in the Oakland Hills.

And it's really important.

I grew up in those colded uh creeks.

So it's really important that those lands get stewarded.

The people of this land, indigenous people have a very special connection.

They know the ancestral names of those waterways, they know the ancestral names of those plants of those trees of those species.

Um them having access to this land is gonna mean that they're gonna be able to practice, continue to practice their cultural and their cultural uh knowledge.

Um, and it's it's a great way for like this this fake country to see that another world is possible, the land can be a return back to indigenous people, and it won't be the first time that Oakland does it, so we're setting an example.

Um so I just want to say thank you again, and yeah, I just want to uplift the people of the land, my relatives, and thank you so much.

Uh good evening, council members.

My name is Rainetta Hall, and I'm with the uh 7th district, and I've heard a lot of what hasn't been done, what needs to be done.

There is a lot to be done, but I want to thank today, um Miss Levite Levate and Councilman Houston for their work that they did.

Um recently we had an encampment around our church area, and we called in and asked, could you please see that this encampment is moved for the safety of the people?

The members were afraid to come.

The church, and we were right by their foothill square shopping center, and it was an ugly blight, and just in a matter of a few days as promised, it was removed.

And we want to thank you so much, Councilman Um Houston and everyone who was involved.

And I'm a native Oaklander.

Okay, born and raised in Oakland, born right there on West and Woods Street, and I know Oakland, and Oakland was a great place, and it will continue.

Do the chair, can I say share something about the the constituent that just said that it wasn't just removing the encampment, we embraced it.

Um that individual was had we had got them shelter before and sheltered twice, and they left the shelter and we got them shelter again.

So the the treatment for mental conditions have to be addressed, but it wasn't just closing down the encampment, it was embracing it in a humane way at the same time.

So and we did remove the um the trash also, and they were both it was a black female and a black male um with some animals too.

So it was humanely removed.

So I appreciate you guys coming out.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

Do you have time?

Yes.

Okay, I'm gonna have you go last, all right.

Okay, okay.

My name is Paul Hall, H A L L.

First, I would like to say I thank and respect everyone on the board on the on the council session.

I know that the test you have in Oakland is very, is very wide, and I respect each and everyone with Barbara Lee and all.

But I'd also like to thank uh my councilman Ken Houston, how he did it in the humane way of cleaning up our neighborhood.

I know I came to Oakland in 1978.

I love Oakland, and I'm gonna continue to love Oakland.

And anything I can do for Oakland, my council, I told my councilman, anything I can do, I am willing to help, and I respect each and every councilman, uh, mayors and police staff in the city of Oakland.

And that's all I have to say.

Thank you very much for listening.

Amen.

Thank you.

Councilmember Houston, you have some lovely constituents, just happy.

Uh, is there any more speakers in public?

If not, we're gonna let our partner from SBA.

Yeah, we're gonna let them go.

Any speakers online?

Let's go to our speaker online and then we'll hear from our partner from the SBA.

Blair Beekman.

All right, uh Blair Beekman, thanks for the meeting today.

Thanks uh a lot for the words, Mayor Lee.

It was really nice just to hear that and you hear just our past and our history and um nice to hear, you know, Mayor Lee working with uh uh the Reverend Jesse Jackson on negotiation uh and peace issues and um practicing peace.

It was just uh really nice remembering things and and good luck that we can continue to uh work on uh Jesse Jackson's practices that I think are just more and more clear as time goes on.

Thank you.

I also wanted to mention that um I'm I'm really disappointed that you're only allowing one minute for uh open forum.

I hope you can return it to two minutes.

And uh, you know, just uh Mr.

Hazard spoke today.

Good luck that we're working on overall practices of good public meeting management and and accountability within the public meeting process.

It's important uh in 2026.

Let's hope that's a revolution.

Thank you, Mr.

Beekman, Ms.

Asada.

He's from my government, Chair Privileged.

So the item uh 6.4 on the agenda.

I'm sorry, 6.

Well, where y'all have an apartment that was built for 101 people, you ribbon cut in November for low-income and homeless, and the reason why they're not having anybody in that those apartments yet is because E.

Oakland, Asian Local Development Corporation still owes the contract the money.

Y'all need to do something about that.

The city administrator is supposed to provide for you an annual report on his ability to spend up to 250,000 dollars.

He hasn't done it since 2023.

You need to have that happen.

When you allow for grants in the uh agenda today, you gave it a grant to the Vietnamese organization, community organization.

The VS Nice community is only two percent of the Oakland POM, and they can get a grant.

Thank you, Ms.

Olavala.

Your time is up.

All righty.

Thank you all for your time today.

Council members, other officials.

I am Jesse Kane, a public affairs specialist with the U.S.

Small Business Administration, the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience.

I'm here to share with you about our resources and presence in the area following the disaster declaration of the Oakland apartment fire, which occurred last month.

So firstly, we opened our disaster loan outreach center last week that is going to be at the Rotunda Building Suite 110.

Their hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.

to 6 p.m.

It's staffed with customer service reps, which will be able to answer survivors and those impacted by the disaster.

We'll be able to answer their questions and help them with the application process.

So about the process, SBA offers fixed low interest rate disaster loans to those impacted by the disaster.

This not only includes small businesses but also homeowners, renters, and nonprofits.

And also not only for physical damage when talking about small businesses and nonprofits, they could be eligible for economic injury with our working capital loans.

And lastly, I'm ultimately looking forward at collaborating with you all in the future to reach those survivors and those that were impacted by the fires, and I'm looking at collaborating with other local service organizations to reach and engage with as many survivors and those impacted that we can.

Myself and one of my colleagues, Christian Lewis will be in the back.

We would love to contact, share our contact information with you and engage with you about what's next in the future.

So thank you all very much.

Thank you.

Any questions from the Miss Edda, the fire was in downtown Oakland.

Um I think it was what 19th and Broadway, 70, 17th of Broadway.

But there are some businesses that I've reached out to.

There are several independent contractors that were living in that building that my office has made connections with, and we'll continue to do that outreach to the individuals that were impacted.

So thank you for making yourself available.

And if there are any more connections that need to be made or anything else, you've been working with Deborah, she's amazing in the district three office.

Um I have your card now so we can continue the conversation.

Thank you.

Perfect.

Thank you.

Thank you for your support.

Thank you for your help.

Councilmember Houston, did you have a comment before we come?

Yes.

I just like to to comment.

Um, Mr.

Gene Hazard had mentioned about the cannabis.

I asked the same questions why I was on the agenda, and I got some reasonable um answers back, and I'll speak to him about that.

But on the fit and all, um, in my prior job description, I lost three individuals, and one of my individuals from fit and them all, and one of my individuals lost his baby, two years old from touching the fit and all.

So I got my eye jumping right now.

I have personal experience.

I always talk about my personal experience.

If I don't have personal experience, I won't speak on it.

I'll just let my colleagues speak on it because that's what they're good at.

But when it's something about personal experience, I understand about the fentanyl because I lost three workers and a baby from um Vit and all.

So um I do understand what he was saying.

So that's all I wanted to say.

Thank you, council member.

If no, if no more, we'll go to the mor immemorial.

Yep.

We adjourn in honor of Jesse Jackson.