Good morning.

And welcome to the rules and legislation committee of April 2nd.

Before I start, I'm sorry, before I call roll, I will go over speaker card instructions.

If you would like to submit a speaker card for any item on this agenda, you must fill out a speaker's card before the item is called for discussion.

If you're looking to turn in an online speaker card, those cards were due twenty-four hours before the start of this meeting.

Present.

Showing three members present, one excuse Councilmember Ramachandran.

There are no minutes to approve at this meeting.

Going to item three, which is new scheduling.

Item 3.1 adopts a resolution confirming the mayor's appointment of Razu engine to the bicyclist pedestrian advisory board.

This is asked to go to the April 14th Special City Council agenda on consent.

Rule 24 reason the bicycle and pedestrian advisory commission currently has a special vacancy.

Filling the seat now ensures the commission can continue its work without disruption, particularly as the city advances critical safety and infrastructure initiatives affecting cyclists and pedestrians.

Item 3.2, a resolution confirming the mayor's reappointments of Ingrid Severson, Cynthia Elliott, and Jacqueline Long as members of the community policing advisory board.

This is asked to go to the April 14th Special City Council agenda on consent.

The Rule 24 reason.

The Oakland Community Police Advisory Board currently has multiple vacancies and may experience quorum issues.

Filling these seats now is essential to ensure the board can continue its work without disruption, particularly as it addresses the critical matters related to police oversight, accountability, and community trust.

Item 3.

A resolution amending and restating the council rules of procedure in their entirety in order to add Rule 33 regarding hybrid meetings and technological disruptions on the April 16th rules and legislation committee agenda.

Item 3.4.

A resolution approving the appointment of an annuity without a 180-day break in service, where the appointment is necessary to fill a needed position before 180 days have passed since the employee's retirement in accordance with government code sections 21224 and 7522.56.

This is asked to go to the April 21st Finance and Management Committee agenda.

Through the chair.

Authorize the issuance of notice of availability under the surplus land act prior prioritize offers that provide affordable housing consistent with the surplus land act and make related sequel findings on the April 21st CED committee.

Item 3.8 is a title change.

I'll read the new title.

A resolution authorizing the city administrators to negotiate and execute a new exclusive negotiating agreement with the Museum of Jazz and Art for Development of a Museum and Art facility on the property located at 1310 Oak Street for an 18-month term.

Condition on payment of 10,500 exclusive negotiation payment with one additional six-month administrative extension, condition on payment on excuse me, oven additional $3,500 and adopting SQL findings on the April 21st CED committee.

Item 3.9 a resolution amending a professional services agreement with trustees of the University of Pennsylvania for a term of July 1, 2025 to December 31st, 2028 to add 200,000 for a total amount not to exceed 639,000 952 dollars to evaluate the City of Oakland ceasefire lifeline strategy and waiving the city of Oakland local small local business enterprise program requirements and bidding process and awarding a grant agreement to Faith in Action East Bay for the term of July 1, 2026 to June 30th, 2027 for services related to Oakland ceasefire lifeline strategy for total cost not to exceed 150,000 on the public safe.

I'm sorry, April 21st public safety committee agenda.

And this does conclude all your items for new scheduling.

You do have speakers on this item.

Let's go see the speakers.

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

Please raise your hand on Zoom so I can easily identify you.

Kevin Daly, Blair Beekman.

And Brianna Horton, in any order, please approach the podium or raise your hand so I can identify you on Zoom.

Again, if you're in chambers, please step to the podium.

Otherwise, we will move on to the Zoom speakers.

As no one is at the podium, we will go to the Zoom speakers.

I see Blair Beekman.

I have you with multiple items.

Please unmute yourself and begin your comments.

Hi, thank you, Blair Beekman.

Happy April.

Um I wanted to comment on items 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3.

Uh about the uh appointment of a person to the bicycle pedestrian advisory committee.

Uh BPAC.

Um thanks again uh for this committee.

I think they do interesting work.

I hope they're uh it's my main point to always ask groups like BPAC and um the PAC uh connect and have good connections and understandings together.

I think um they can be uh they they share uh similar thinking on a lot of items, and yet in some ways they can be very different.

And uh I I hope there can be ways to bring the two groups together and uh in the importance of BPAC building uh safe safe roads for their bicycle future for the bicycle future.

Um, I hope they can be want to be accountable with the tech involved and uh uh learning that language and understanding together.

Good luck how we can do that as a community process for item 3.2.

Um, district reappointments to community policing advisory board.

Uh am I getting the sense that these persons recommend it are the people taking over from the previous uh people who have been uh dismissed.

Um I'd sad if this is the case.

If it is the case, and uh if this is happening, I hope their the previous leadership, the the previous thinking can find a place in the future of Oakland, and that it can be uh a good voice and a respected voice and an important voice, and we can continue the balance and the and of what uh our future can be.

Um, good luck how we find a really good balance and that all voices can be respected and have a place in our community process.

3.3 is uh uh council rules of procedure.

My gosh, um cali the state of California created this uh Senate Bill 707.

All public meetings in California under Brown Act rules have to follow uh have to use Zoom in the future.

So I think this is what this is addressing.

Um good it's uh it's a very nice thing to do.

It it offers a lot of more public accessibility that people can call use Zoom for public meetings now.

I don't know how Oakland's gonna use it.

Good luck in in working with community on that, and it does have to address unfortunately uh voices from many different people.

Uh good luck in in working out good uh legal concepts and that uh we can all understand as a community process and that the quorum is incredibly important and and trustworthy, and and good luck that we developed that as a community.

We all can do that together.

And um, yeah, so thanks.

Thanks for the items here today.

Thank you, Mr.

Beekman.

Going to Mr.

Dally, Kevin, please unmute yourself and begin your comment.

Hi, this is Kevin Daly.

I'm concerned or interested in three dot for the exception to the 180-day waiting period for retired and new attempts.

Right now, I I don't yet see a description of how the city administrator would determine that there's a critically needed position to allow an exception for the state law that requires 180-day period.

I'd like to see a description of that.

I hope this has nothing to do with the uh parking administrator.

Uh like the previous speaker next item.

I'm also interested in seeing Zoom installed at other meetings besides the city council one.

I definitely appreciate it today.

Uh but looking forward to seeing it at BPAC meetings, which are currently listen-only availability, uh, and hoping Oakland's able to move ahead with that.

And I'm looking forward to seeing Razu uh join BPAC.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you for your comments, Mr.

Daly.

Brianna Horton, are you in the chamber on Zoom?

Step to the podium or raise your hand.

Otherwise, at this time, all names have been called noting the change of item 3.4 being moved to the May 12th FMC, I'll entertain a motion.

So moved.

A second.

On the motion by Councilmember 5, second by Council Member Brown to approve item three as amended.

Councilmember Brown.

Aye.

Council member five.

Aye.

Councilmember Ramachandran is excused.

Chair Jenkins.

Aye.

Motion passes with a vote of three ayes, one excused.

Going to item four, review of draft agendas, pending lists, city council and committee meetings.

You do have speakers on this item.

Reminding the public that April 25 is finance and management committee will start at 9 a.m.

And I see a representative from District 2.

Um, on behalf of Council Member Wang, um, there is an item on the uh CED list for April 21st.

Um, the first item uh adopting a resolution authorizing the city administrator to negotiate terms and enter into an advertising signs resolution agreement with outfront foster interstate.

Uh she would like to put that on the uh pending list with no date specific.

Excellent.

Um, if I may, Council President, um, that works for um as chair of CED that works for me.

Thank you.

Through yeah through the chair, can um you please clarify what agenda uh the item is on that's listed under item four on the agenda it's the April 21st CED agenda, so it's not listed on the pending list.

Is it item one number one item number one on the pending list?

Thank you.

Anything else?

Any speakers as a calling name, please approach the poem.

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

Please state your name for the record before beginning.

Kevin Daly, Blair Beekman, Brianna Horton, and Raji Mandal.

Rajni Mandal District 4.

I'm asking that item 24036 be placed back on a future council agenda.

For months we've heard the same concern.

Oakland's police oversight system has structural problems, overlapping roles, unclear authority, and gaps in accountability.

The city auditor was clear.

This is not just about staffing, it's about governance.

And when governance is unclear, the outcome is predictable, inconsistent process, uncertain authority, and decisions that don't hold up to public scrutiny.

Item 240336 begins to address this by simplifying appointments and restoring clearer lines of accountability.

But the bigger question remains: is this system actually working?

Reagendizing 24036 gives council the chance to answer in that openly and with the public because if we don't take this up now, we are accepting a system where accountability is optional.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Moving to the Zoom speakers.

Starting with Mr.

Beekman, please unmute yourself and begin your comments.

Hi, uh Blair Beekman.

Uh I wanted to comment on the upcoming finance committee.

Um, thanks for the previous words of public comment.

Um, that could speak to concepts of balance and that we practice balance well in the future of the appointment process.

Good luck in those sort of efforts.

Um I'm interested in the finance uh things coming up that you are going to continue the talk about public safety over time for OPD.

Um, I thought it was a really interesting um uh discussion at finance on March 10th, as all the meetings were, uh, committee meetings that day.

It was just a really uh informative lesson to me.

And on uh public comment uh added, you know, the police offered I thought I felt good factual information, and they tried to be as honest as possible, and then community also offered really good uh public comment in return.

And I it was just a great session, and I hope we continue those sort of efforts of learning and uh understanding.

Um I'm interested if finance they'll be handling the future of the uh trash issues that council person Gayo very nicely spoke to you back in January and February.

Uh that the state of California can have an important part in the future of track collection, and we don't have to pay for the services.

Um, how is that going?

The the recent funding from January uh is going to end probably around April, um late April, May, I I would guess.

How is that going overall?

And um just a good luck in in addressing uh the tech accountability issues needed in that subject, uh you know, with um litter uh trap trash issues and stuff.

Uh if we would do that openly and accountably, uh it invites uh our better selves and best practices, and uh that's how you build a city.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments, Mr.

Beekman.

Going to Mr.

Daly.

Please unmute yourself and begin your comments.

This is Kevin Galley to discuss the pending list for the finance committee, requesting that we place the two items related to the position for parking administrator back on the pending list for finance and make sure that the items appear on the finance committee before the items move to full council, hoping that they are put on when the city administrators ready to present on the issue.

The parks administrator was pulled from the finance committee at a previous uh meeting, and in the back and fourth, we never quite put the two positions back on the pending list for finance.

It's important for council to follow the normal procedure and have finance committee consider the positions before they come to the poll council.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

All names have been called.

Beautiful.

So noting item one or item one C D sending that April 24th, sending that to the pending list.

Is that correct?

No dates specific.

I'll entertain a motion.

Oh, and a reminder.

April 21st Finance Committee will start at 9 a.m.

Uh move approval of the pending list.

Second.

On the motion by Councilmember Brown, second by council member five to approve the pending list.

Councilmember Brown.

Aye.

Council Member Five.

Aye.

Count I'm sorry, Council President Jenkins.

Aye.

Noting that Councilmember Ramachandran is excused.

Motion passes with a vote of three ayes.

That was all of your scheduling and action items for this meeting.

Moving to open forum.

Kevin Daly, Blair Beekman, and Miss Rajimandal.

Please approach the podium and raise your hand so I can easily identify you, please.

Rajni Mundal District 4.

The police commission just made a major decision off agenda and out of public view.

A commissioner was elevated in closed session, but that decision was not listed on the agenda, so the public had no notice and no opportunity to comment.

That alone undermines public trust.

And it's inconsistent.

In May 2024, this was handled in open session with a public agenda and a vote.

So the question is simple.

Why was this handled differently this time?

This individual was rejected twice by city council, but now is positioned to become a full commissioner anyway.

If council said no, how does this process respect that decision?

Council Oakland is still under federal oversight, and the court has been clear.

Progress depends on alignment and collaboration.

Actions like this create confusion and conflict when the city needs to be working together.

At a time when Oakland is so close to exiting federal oversight, that carries real risk.

Thank you.

Moving to your Zoom speaker, Blair Beekman.

Please unmute yourself and begin your comments.

Hi, thank you.

Um SB 707 starts at the beginning of July, the Zoom item for the public.

Uh, good luck in what we can do as a community together.

Uh before then.

Um what else do I want to mention?

Oh, the strong mayor issues.

Um, uh real good luck that um I he I heard the words from public comment about governance, and man, I thought that was such a beautiful term.

It's so well described that however we move forward, I hope it's towards governance.

And I I mean, being from San Diego, you know, they've been the council committee process has been trying to develop, you know, really good examples of governance, of better governance.

The strong mayor keeps rejecting it in San Diego.

Is that what's going to happen in in Oakland?

We can only accept examples if it's from the strong mayor position.

Um governance is vitally important.

Uh good luck in how we can do that.

I think it can come from uh council city manager position to thank you, Mr.

Beekman, for your comments.

All names have been called.

Thank you.

This meeting is adjourned.