Good morning and welcome to the rules and legislation committee meeting on this Thursday, March 5th.

The time is now 10 34.

And before I call roll, I would like to give instructions on how to submit a speaker card for an item on this agenda.

If you are here participating with us in chambers in person, please submit a speaker card to a clerk representative before the item is called or 10 minutes after this meeting has begun, which this meeting began at 10 34, so that will be 10 44.

If you would like to register a speaker card online, those were due 24 hours before this meeting began, so that would have been 10 34 yesterday.

So again, if you would like to submit a speaker card in your hearing chambers, please fill out a speaker card and turn it into a clerk representative before the item is read into record or before 10 44.

With that being said, I will now commence with roll on roll for this meeting.

Councilmember Brown.

Present.

Councilmember Fife, present.

Present.

And Council President Chair Jenkins.

Present.

Good morning, Governor.

Good morning.

Thank you for that.

Before I go to the first item, Council President, do you have any announcements?

Yes, the rules for next week will start at 9 a.m.

Again.

The rules for next week will start at 9 a.m.

I hope everybody's here.

So noted rules next Thursday will be at 9 a.m.

With that being stated, we're going on to the first item.

Item number two is approval of the draft minutes for the committee meeting on February 19, 2026.

We have no speakers.

Need a motion.

I'll move approval of the minutes.

Second.

And that was a motion by Councilmember Brown, seconded by Councilmember Fife to approve the draft minutes for February 19th, 2026.

On roll, Councilmember Brown.

Aye.

Councilmember Fife.

Aye.

Councilmember Ramachandran.

Aye.

And Chair Jenkins.

Aye.

Item number two was approved with four eyes.

Moving on to the new scheduling items, starting with item 3.1.

Item 3.1 is a resolution authorizing the city administrator to apply for, accept, and appropriate up to 1,600,000 in funds from the state of California Department of Housing and Community Development.

Pro housing and this incentives pilot program for capitalized service reserves for affordable housing and two make grants or development loans upon the new construction of the multifamily rental affordable housing program or the rapid response homeless housing program contingent on funding availability, and this is being requested to be scheduled for March 10th, 2026 community and economic development committee agenda.

Item 3.2 is receive an oral informational report on the Oakland Police Department's compliance with the negotiated settlement agreement, and this item is urgent because council has not heard a status upd to be scheduled for the March 26th public safety committee agreement.

And this is very important for the podium.

Good morning.

Michael Wimsat with Council Member Wong's public safety priorities.

Um city administration has pointed to the availability of presenters by this date as well.

Thank you.

So it's my understanding to the administration that there is a report that comes in April.

Is that correct?

To the chair.

Um, yes, staff is planning to schedule this item under item four today to go to the April 21st meeting.

Um I think she would like an earlier appraisal of what NSA compliance efforts are looking like in addition to April.

And we have spoken to OPD indicating their availability as well.

What's the adverse impact that would occur if it's not heard?

Um just in the earlier the better in terms of informing ongoing oversight and budget setting priorities, then the public safety committee will consider.

I guess to the rest of colleagues, I'm not hearing an adverse impact and also rule 26b of the council rules of procedure, planning and coordination of informational reports depending on the complexity.

Informational reports can be costly to the city because their preparation can expend its significant staff time and other resources accordingly.

Requests for informational reports should be minimized and shall be consistent with the city council approved meeting calendar, which details due dates for reports to the city administration's office, reports to the clerk and agenda distribution.

So if we're hearing a report in April, and there's no valid adverse impact that would occur if we waited till April, uh, I want to let the rest of the colleagues weigh in to this.

What do you guys want to do?

What are the dates?

What are the what's the difference in time frame?

What what this particular date and the scheduled date?

So an oral report would be heard March 10th, and then another report would be heard in April.

Is the April oral report as well?

No.

We should opt.

I'm not telling us what we should do.

If we're getting a report with written documents that is coming to April, that is a more thorough and comprehensive report.

It's I would argue that it's more logical to get the more thorough report.

Um, since it's what three weeks time frame in between.

April, you said April 10th.

April 21st.

Oh, four weeks.

Okay.

Any, so we'll push it to April.

Thank you.

And for clarity, we are not scheduling this item or are we scheduling item 3.2.

It'll be we're scheduling an item number four.

Is that correct?

Yes, staff will.

Or no, sir.

So we will not schedule it, and item number four, the report for the NSA will be scheduled.

Oh, thank you for that.

So noting 3.2, no action is being taken on this item.

Moving on to item 3.3.

The next three items, just two, the public and staff will require rule 24 statements.

So staff, please be prepared to approach the podium and state your rule 24.

Item 3.3 is a resolution in support of the California Senate Bill 959 Grayson, which would one empower local fire officials to determine whether California schools should cancel classes due to the threat of wildfires.

Two ensure that the schools would not lose average daily attendance funding for preemptively canceling classes when facing wildfire danger, and three, keep students and residence in Oakland and neighborhood community neighboring communities safe as the frequency and severity of the wildfire continues to increase statewide, and this is being requested to be scheduled for the March 16th.

Special city council agenda on consent.

Do we have a rule 24 for this item?

Yes, thank you.

Typically, um items involving state legislation go straight to council.

The urgency is that the author um Senator Grayson as well as co-authors include um our senators, Ari Geen and Assemblymember Wex are co-authors of um have all requested that letters of uh the resolutions in support arrive as early as possible before these items are heard.

Thank you for that.

So noted.

Rule 24 was stated.

Item 3.4.

This is a resolution in support of HR 5356, the National Infrastructure Bank Act of 2025.

This item is also being requested to be scheduled to the special March 16th City Council agenda on consent.

Do we have someone available to state the Rule 24 to why this is bypassing committee?

Thank you.

Yes, um, this is an advisory resolution in support of a congressional bill, and to be redundant, these items typically are scheduled straight to council.

Thank you for that.

Item 3.5 is a resolution authorized the reimbursement in an amount not to exceed two to two thousand five hundred dollars per person from the city council contingency fund for traveling cost of council president Jenkins.

Kevin Jenkins, excuse me, deputy chief of staff to council president Kevin Jenkins and Deputy Policy Analyst to the Council Member Zach Council Member Zach Unger to travel to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for federal advocacy.

And this is also being requested to be scheduled to the March 16th City Council agenda, special city council agenda on consent.

Is there a rule 24 needed to be stated for this item as well?

Typically, uh items go straight to council.

Thank you for that, Council President.

And moving on to item 3.6.

Item 3.6 is receiving informational report regarding progress in the 2023-2025 on implementing the 2030 Equitable Climate Action Plan.

This item is being requested to be scheduled to the March 24th, 2026 Public Safe Public Works and Transportation Committee Agenda.

Item 3.7 is an ordinance, one authorizing the city administrator to negotiate and execute a lease agreement with the nonprofit non-profit Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation for the Tyrone Kearney Park at 10501 Alkalinis Drive, Oakland at the rate of $0.00 for a term of two years with five one-year options to extend them for maintenance and workforce training, and two making findings that the below market rate in the city's best is in the city's best interest, and three making California Environmental Quality Act findings.

And this is being requested to be scheduled for the March 24th CED committee agenda.

Item 3.8 is a resolution approving in accordance with the city council budget appropriations and allocations as adopted by the fiscal year 25 through 27 budget ongoing cooperative purchase agreement exceeding two thousand five hundred thousand two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for citywide commodities and services contracts as set forth in table one in the amount not to exceed two million two million nine hundred thousand dollars to be scheduled for the March 24th life enrichment committee agenda.

Item 3.9 is receiving information report on one the impact of the ordinance number 13825 CMS that amends the local and small local business enterprise LSLBE program certificate requirements and two recommendations for potential changes to the LSLBE program to be scheduled for the March 24th life enrichment committee agenda.

Item 3.10.

This is a title change, and the I will read in the new title.

The new title is Adopt a Resolution One authorizing the city administrator to enter into a two-year contract with law enforcement technology solutions lets for the period commencing upon contract signing and the amount of eleven thousand one hundred and twenty-four dollars and seventy-six cents and to extend the agreement for up to two additional years in the amount not to exceed eleven thousand four hundred and fifty-eight dollars and fifty cents without returning to council for the total contract amount not to exceed 22,583 and 26 cents and two waiving the competitive multi-step solicitation process and the local small local business enterprise requirements requesting to be scheduled for the March 24th public safety committee agenda.

Item 311 is a request to schedule the education partnership committee from council member Brown, the chair of education partnership on March 30th, 2026 at 3 30.

Councilmember Brown.

Yes, I just wanted to.

I don't know if this item needs to stay in this manner, but I was informed that as the chair of education partnerships, I can just call for the scheduling of the meeting.

Yes.

Yeah.

Thank you.

So note it education partnership is scheduled for March 30th at 3 30.

Moving on to item 312 is receiving information report from the budget advisory commission back on their recommendations to amend the consolidated fiscal policy CFP to rip redefine excess as it relates to real estate transfer tax revenues RETT to be scheduled on the April 21st, 2026 Finance and Management Committee agenda.

And our last new scheduling item, item 313, is receive an information report from the budget advisory commission back assessments and recommendations of the fiscal year 2025-2022 city budget process, and this is being requested to be scheduled for the April 21st 2026 Finance and Management Committee agenda, and I have two speakers for this item.

That is all your new scheduling.

Thank you.

Let's go to our public commenters.

As I call your name, please approach the poll amendment menu order if you're participating via Zoom.

Please be sure to raise your hand so I can easily access you.

I have uh Rajani Mondal and Kevin Daly.

Kevin Dally, you have signed up for all items so you get the max amount of time.

Thank you.

Rajni Mundal District 4 as for 3.2.

As staff prepares the report on OPD's progress towards NSA compliance, I encourage you to include several updates discussed at the January CMC.

The 2024 AA discipline report identified disparities in internally generated cases.

And importantly, these findings were discovered and disclosed by OPD itself.

And the department has acknowledged the need to understand the root causes behind them.

So that work is now moving forward through a qualitative study connected to DGOM3.

And uh the deeper analysis is critical because the court has consistently emphasized that sustainable compliance requires understanding process, not just statistics.

It includes examining investigative practice, supervisory review, and officer perceptions of fairness in the disciplinary system.

Including these updates will give council and the public a clearer picture of Oakland's continued path towards sustainable compliance.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Kevin Daly, very briefly, I'm also looking forward to learning more about OPD compliance and looking forward someday of being out of the consent decree on that item.

I thanks.

And that concludes all of your public commenters for item three.

Okay, so noting withdrawing 3.2, noting the will 24 on 3.3, noting rule 24 on 3.4, noting the world 24 on 3.5.

I'll entertain a motion.

And the urgency on 31.

Move approval.

And that was a motion by council member five, seconded by councilmember Brown to approve item three as amended as stated by the council president on roll.

Councilmember Brown.

Aye.

Councilmember Fife.

Aye.

Councilmember Ramachandran.

Aye.

And Chair Jenkins.

Item number three is approved with four eyes as amended.

We now go to item number four.

Item four consists of your draft agendas, pending lists, city council um special uh September 17th i'm excuse me, March 17th, uh draft agenda and your canceled March 16th draft agenda, as well as the um committee meeting agendas for March 10th.

Councilmember Houston, do you plan on participating?

I'll entertain a motion to adjourn into a special closed session special session so moved second and that was a motion by council member five seconded by council member brown to uh convene into a special uh meeting at the presence of council member houston council member brown aye council member five aye council member rama chandron aye and chair jenkins we are now convened into a special meeting with the presence of council member houston thank you council member houston what possibly could bring you here today morning my colleagues you know what brought me here today um so how many minutes do I have president I'm just saying because my I got a great council aide over there Trinity Hall she always keeps me in line so she made some notes just in case you only gave me two minutes president so don't we owe you some minutes okay so here we go so um I respectfully request to my colleagues that the EAP get scheduled with the rule 28 on 310 26 because I just want this for the record because I'm getting all these calls I'm getting these emails from everybody's district president stating that why is the EAP not being brought forward and let me see September October November December January February March I think that's about seven months President so I'm just I'm looking at these dates right here um it says City of Oakland 2026 homeless strategic action plan on life enrichment on 310 26 at 4 p.m I don't I'm kind of like you know the things that make you go hmm that makes me go hmm how's this being presented before the EAP that was done I think I counted eight months I think seven months I think it was president so what I want to do is um ask for the EAP to be scheduled at the same time that the mayor's strategic plan is being scheduled and that's three thank you Trinity that's three 10 26 at 4 p.m because this is urgent and I understand that um my council member Fife had always said that we have to have places to place these individuals you know when we move them off the streets um however it's gonna take for SOPs standard operation procedures it's gonna take about three months for um that to be implemented you know so it'd be good to press this because the public is very very concerned president president very concerned I'm talking about from the businesses to my seniors to my children I just got a text just now from that um statement and this wasn't even from my district president stating good morning Mr.

Houston whenever you have time can you please give me a call we didn't get a chance to talk yesterday at that great event that we had in your district about the ticketing um about this issue at hand regarding the encampments in my neighborhood this is not even my district president please give me a call soon as you're available that's just one not including the young the the senior that was crying yesterday on the phone please help me please help me what can you do it's not me I did my job my job is to create I I read the the charter real good president my job is to create legislation and policy I created that policy and that legislation with the help of my great Ruscriber Patricia Brooks.

We created the policy now it's time for my colleagues to give the people what they deserve and what they want.

And what is that?

To bring it forth to full council, the encampment management policy to be adopted, right um so I wanted to go to full council, but I'm willing to to go at the same time as the mayor's homeless strategic action plan.

I am.

I am.

So I'd like to issue a rule 28 to put that on there.

If this body doesn't want to send it to full council where it deserves to go, Councilmember Ramachanda.

Councilmember Brown.

Councilmember Fife and my president Kevin Jenkins.

That's where it deserves to go.

Because I think I counted out one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight months.

And I'm going to say it like this at the end.

I got a call from somebody at the top.

It said, Ken, don't let them take away your happiness.

Cause I was I've been very angry because I see my people suffering.

But I'm not gonna let it take away my happiness, and I'm gonna stay happy because let me say this.

I did my job.

I did my job.

I did my legislation, and that's up to you guys.

And the public is watching.

So on the record, for the record, I wanted to go to full council, but I will accept it going to life enrichment with a rule 28 on 310, 2026 at 4 p.m.

at the same time as what?

Thank you, Trinity.

Homeless strategy strategic action plan.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Houston.

And thank you.

Through the chair to Councilmember Houston.

Um my life enrichment committee agenda is impacted on the 10th, but I do support this item going to full council.

I think if it does go to a full council meeting, it should be a special meeting.

So it is the only item that's heard.

If it is heard in my committee, we will because I have an impacted agenda, we will likely push into public safety and have committee meetings running late for that day.

So to manage schedules, and because on at least one of the times we've heard this in the past, we had a hundred speakers.

I think this is an item of such substance that it necessitates the amount of time necessary for the public to speak about this item and to hear the full commentary from from our colleagues.

So I think again, I would be um amenable to it moving to the full city council as a special meeting.

Finding my colleague, I agree with you.

I totally agree with you 100%.

It needs its own, and I have a meeting with the mayor's office, I think on the 12th, not think.

I don't use think maybes, ifs, I don't use those words.

So I'm gonna say this, it's on the 12th, I'm gonna meet with the mayor about some some just some um issues that just wording that needs to be corrected, because I think we're on the same page.

So council member Fife, I agree with you.

So with what my colleagues gonna do in rules, it's your job.

Let me see, colleagues, you guys want to weigh in.

I will support a special city council meeting with one agenda item.

Um, that being the EAP, and maybe the strategic action plan from the mayor comes out of LEC.

We can hear those two items on the same day at a special meeting.

Are you guys amenable to that?

Yes and yes.

Okay, you will get a the item.

We'll get a special meeting to be determined later.

Could be six months from now, it could be six days from now.

We don't know.

All right, thank you, Councilmember Houston.

Councilmember Brown.

Excellent.

Um, thank you so much.

I wanted to draw your attention to the special draft agenda for the special city council meeting.

It is item six point six, I believe it is.

Yeah, item 6.6, Oakland's commitment to gender affirming care, um, with uh sp the authors being council member unger and brown would like to add council member wong.

So that's item 6.6 on what?

On the special uh sit March 16th um council meeting, thank you.

Administration.

Um we do from the city administrator's office.

Um we would like to draw your attention to the draft agenda for March 17th, the council city council meeting.

Um 4.1 the planning appeal item.

Staff is asking for that item to be withdrawn, and we'll we will reschedule that item to um at a future rules committee.

All right, Caleb.

We have a title change in urgency finding for uh the agenda for the March 10th Community Economic Development Committee.

Um, new title is as follows.

Staffer recommends that the city council adopt a resolution authorizing the city administrator to one accept and appropriate up to 4.4 million dollars in grant funds from the federal lead hazard reduction grant program.

Two enter into a professional services agreement with Habitat for Humanity East Bay Silicon Valley Inc.

in an amount not to exceed $4 million $21,094.30 cents to provide grant administration and management construction services for the lead based paint mitigation healthy homes programs and to waive the city of Oakland's local and small local business enterprise program requirements, local employment and open apprenticeship requirements, and request for proposal qualifications, competitive process requirements.

Three, upon completion of a competitive procurement process, enter into one or more agreements in a total amount not to exceed 300,000, sorry, 334,878 dollars thirteen cents with one or more workforce development services providers to expand the supply of workers and firms available to conduct lead-based paint mitigation and healthy homes work and four make grants to eligible property owners for the remediation of lead based paint hazards and healthy home improvements.

And the urgency finding is as follows.

This item needs to be heard at the next available council meeting to satisfy timeline requirements from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, HUD.

A condition of receiving this grant is signing a grant agreement with HUD in a timely manner after the initial award letter, and council approval is required for this authorization.

Thank you.

Thank you, and that's item three CED would I thank you.

And what's the urgency finding?

Uh the urgency finding again is this item.

Okay, got it, got it, got it.

Yeah, got it.

Chrissy Love, Community Homelessness Services in the Human Services Department.

And we would like to request the HAP Six Winter Relief and Oprah agenda item currently on the Life Enrichment Committee pending list to be scheduled to the March 10th life enrichment committee meeting on an urgency finding because we need to use the funds as soon as April 1st.

All right, thank you.

Good morning, Tracy Jones, OPD police services manager.

We have two items to be scheduled from the public safety pending lists in the biannual biannual and quarterly section for March 24th, the staffing report, and for April 21st, the NSA report.

March 24th will be what?

Staffing report.

The biannual staffing report.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you.

Good morning.

Jody Christian, Finance Department.

I'd like to bring your attention to the Finance and Management Committee pending list, bottom of page four, pending no date specific item number one.

It's another information report from the budget advisory commit commission on the proposed June 2026 40 million dollar parcel tax measure to support essential city services and fiscal stability.

We request this be scheduled to the April 21st Finance and Management Committee so that it can go along with the other two BAC reports at the same meeting.

Thank you.

Um Matthew Malson with Councilmember Zach Unger's office.

We would like to move item three on the annual reports for the public works and transportation committee, the annual report on bicyclists and pedestrian advisory commission, and put that annual report and schedule it for the March 24th Public Works and Transportation Committee.

Thank you.

Council Member Ramchandra.

Do we have any public comments?

Yes, we do have one public comment speaker for this item, Kevin Daly.

Yeah.

Kevin Daly.

I am looking forward to the uh March 24th uh BPAC report.

But also I'm looking forward to the March 10th public works and transportation report from parking reorganization.

Yesterday, the bicyclist and pedestrian advisory commission sent a letter re asking further questions of the city administrator, uh signed by Chair Whipp's Vice Chair Jessup and Commissioner Rajer.

I'm looking forward to hearing answers to a lot of these questions.

As a community member and co-chair of the policy and legislative committee of BPAC, we have asked many times for information about the reorganization without getting clear answers.

If it's possible, I'd like the city administrator to work on uh producing the report, a written report early enough that we can read it and prepare comments to it.

I'm also looking forward to the finance committee hearing about the new position that is that is planned for being in charge of parking enforcement and is a few levels higher than the current position of the person in charge of parking enforcement.

Thank you.

Thank you.

So noting item number three to CED, title change urgency finding.

Is there something else from the administration on rules?

Oh.

Hello, Trisha Barua with um early childhood and family services.

I'd like to request an urgency finding uh to move uh our item uh that's currently on the pending no date specific list of rules, um fiscal year 26-27 non-competitive head start baseline grant application to the upcoming um uh March 16th City Council meeting with this urgency finding.

The proposed resolution is urgently needed to authorize the submission of the head start non-competitive baseline grant application for fiscal years 2026 through 2031.

The Office of Head Start needs to receive the completed application by April 1st, 2026, missing the stud line jeopardizes the head start, early head start non um early head start program that serves underserved children and families for the city of Oakland.

Can you state the item again?

Uh the item um it is uh from the human services department.

Uh or it's item number four from the pending list.

Which pending list?

Uh the world's pending list.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay.

All right, thank you.

Thank you.

Okay.

Any anything else?

No more changes.

I hope so.

So CED item number three, title change, urgency finding.

Um LEC item number four, scheduling to March 10th with urgency finding, finance and management.

Item number one scheduled to April 21st, public works item number three scheduled to March 24th.

Rules item four, um, urgency finding public safety committee.

Um, biannual staffing will be heard March 24th and item number one public safety April 21st.

We'll hear the NSA item.

I'll entertain a motion.

Second.

And that was a motion by Councilmember Ramachandran.

Seconded by Councilmember Fife to approve item four as amended as stated on the record, including the urgent bindings that was also stated on the record on roll for this item, council member Brown.

Aye.

Aye.

Ramachandren.

Aye.

Chair Jenkins.

Item number four is approved as amended with four eyes.

And that completes your that um item.

We are now on open forum, and we have two speakers.

We have Rajmyundal and Kevin Daly.

Rajni Mandel District Four, I want to raise a concern about the role of the Oakland Police Commission and tracking NSA compliance.

According to the agenda for the Commission's March 12th special meeting, uh the Oakland Police Department is asked to provide biweekly reports on the status of NSA tasks and subtasks using a formal reporting template.

Well, compliance with the NSA is determined by the federal monitor and the court.

The commission is not the monitor and does not assess or deem compliance.

At the same time, the mayor's upcoming town hall on constitutional policing and NSA progress will include city leadership discussing these updates, and the police commission is not participating because it does not have a role in the federal consent decree process.

Council rules emphasize efficient use of staff time and avoiding unnecessary duplicate duplication of reporting.

Creating a parallel compliance reporting structure risks adding administrative burden at a time when the department should remain focused on sustainability and exit from the NSA.

Thank you.

Thank you for c comments.

I have Kevin Daly.

Are you wishing to speak?

Okay, and that concludes your uh open forum comment.

This meeting is adjourned.

Um, I think that's a good thing.