Good afternoon and welcome to the special city council meeting of Monday, March 16th, 2026.

Before I call roll, I will go over speaker card instructions.

If you'd like to fill out a speaker's card on any item, please fill out a speaker's card before the item is called for discussion.

You can do so by filling pulling a card at the front table and giving it to a clerk representative before the item is called, or two hours after the start of the meeting.

This meeting was called to order at three thirty-two.

So making that time five thirty-two is your last opportunity to turn in speaker cards or before the item is called for discussion, whichever one comes first.

Councilmember Gaio.

Here.

If approved, this action will be final passage.

Going to item 6.5, an ordinance regarding Senate Bill 79 Planning Code implementation ordinance.

This item also will be final passage if approved.

This afternoon.

A resolution regarding International Day of Happiness.

Item 6.8, a resolution for citywide cooperative agreements for fiscal years 26 through 27.

Item 6.9, a resolution support of California Senate Bill 959.

Item 6.10, a resolution in support of HR 5356.

Item 6.11 is a resolution for travel reimbursements from the council contingency fund for travel to Philadelphia for federal advocacy.

Item 6.13 a resolution regarding the Oakland Alameda Access Project.

Delegated Maintenance Agreement Amendment.

Item 6.14 includes multiple pieces of legislation regarding the affordable housing and sustainable communities program cycles eight and nine.

A resolution for lead hazard reduction grant program.

Item 6.16 an information report right regarding the HCD anti-displacement strategic action plan.

Grant application round four.

Item 6.18.

A resolution for professional services agreement amendment with American Building Services Inc.

Item 6.19, a resolution for adhofine art services contract.

A resolution regarding innovation interfaces contract renewal.

Item 6.21, a resolution regarding HAP winter relief and OPRI.

Item 6.22, a resolution for OPD cadet program funding.

Item 6.23, a resolution for Tom O'Neill, Mabel Page versus City of Oakland.

Item 6.24, a resolution for a settlement for Phil Moshagos versus the City of Oakland.

And that is your final consent item.

And you do have speakers on this item.

Councilmember.

And then council member.

Thank you.

But secondly, I I want to bring that issue back to the council because I'm getting a good number of requests from the neighborhood where there are some cannabis operations, but they don't have the legal one, is the permits.

Secondly, they don't have the waterproof situation that they need to have water protection or the water in case of an emergency.

And also there's a good number of uh smoke shops throughout your district, specifically in mine, where they are providing uh the marijuana sales illegally, and uh we need to get that back in order in our neighborhoods uh and make sure that I want to do want to hear from the administration how many millions are we collecting annually because at one time they used to bring the millions of dollars cash in a bus and give them to the city, but we didn't know where it was being spent.

So if you can give us a financial report, that would be great, and also do the follow-up with the fire department uh in terms of the inspections, so the operations and also with our department, our office to make sure that we are permitting, but we're doing legal permitting and checkups to that operation.

Then the last one I'll bring up is this on this uh consent agenda is has to do with the lead hazard uh in our homes, and I'm the chairperson, the precedent of the lead hazard joint effort between the county and the city of Oakland.

And uh we meet on a monthly basis, but the reality that's happening in my office this week last week.

My chief assistant, Rosa and her little boy wound up with lead in the paint issue.

Children's hospital reported the little boy with contamination.

Then my assistant went for a checkup and she had a high contamination, and we removed some samples of the paint falling in our office at City Council, and they were tested, and they were tested at very high levels of lead in the paint issue.

And I share that with you because I went to the county, and the county said, I'm sorry, we cannot help the city.

Even though they have 9.5 million dollars to legally we sued and we have money for that money sitting in there not being used in our neighborhood, and they can assist us to do an inspection.

I went to my city staff that we have five million dollars for years that we have not been using, and well, I'm sorry, but I can't help you.

We've got to find an inspector.

But the bottom line is I have the data, the documentations, the tests that are in front of us with that issue existing here as City Hall, and but I I asked the administration to please uh make and make sure that I get the inspector legally come and test our office to make sure that our city hall is a safe place to um to do business in because we didn't meet with your but your uh buildings department and other departments, but you know, I got one of those but but who's gonna pay for the inspector anyway.

So that's we need to address that issue.

Thank you uh for that in for that uh time to be able to share that with you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember, and sending well wishes to your staff and her child, and we'll work with the administration to make sure that the city council offices are getting tested.

You want to go after council member hews?

Councilmember Houston, then Wong, then Ramachandra, then Brown.

You were in the queue.

So through the chair, I just wanted to piggyback on what super um uh councilmember guile mentioned.

Um councilmember Guyo, there was a illegal marijuana facility to just think they can come into our district and do whatever they want to do.

They started actually building out this facility, they put all these units on top, 26 units on top without getting structural um permits, no permits, councilmember guile.