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?