Good morning.

Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome to the rules and legislation committee meeting on this Thursday, April twenty third.

The time is now my apologies one moment, please.

If you are here with us in person and would like to submit a speaker card, please fill out the speaker card and turn the card into the clerk representative either before the item is read into record or ten minutes after this meeting began.

So that time will be ten forty-four.

Registering to speak via Zoom online.

We are now going to move to item one, which um we currently do not have minutes um at this time.

So moving on to item two, which is a termination of scheduling of outstanding committee items.

I have one speaker for this item.

Let's go to the speaker.

Kevin Daly.

And the speaker as withdrawing his card at this time.

No speakers for this item.

I need a motion for item two.

Uh move approval of item two.

Second.

And that was a motion by council member brown, seconded by council member Fife to approve item two.

Uh pending list, determination of outstanding committee items as is on roll.

Council member Brown.

Aye.

Councilmember Fife.

Aye.

Council Member Rama Chandren.

Aye.

Council member uh Chair Jenkins.

Aye.

Item two is approved with four eyes.

We will now move to new scheduling.

Item number three.

Starting with item 3.1, and if I may state the next eight items 3.1 through 3.8, we'll need um rule 24 and whatever changes.

So I will read those titles in, and then I will ask staff to present the rule 24 and any additional changes to the item 3.1 through 3.8.

So again, starting with item 3.1 is a resolution in support of SB 1313, an act to enhance oversight accountability and state support for public water systems to ensure safe drinking waters.

And this is being requested to be scheduled for May 5th, 2026 City Council agenda on consent.

Item 3 so uh the rule 24 and we also want this to go to May 19th on consent.

Typically, these items bypass committee, and we want to ensure that if affirmative, um, we can get the support into the California state legislature to support these support this bill.

Thank you for that, council president Jenkins.

And just so noting, so items 3.1 through 3.8 are all stated as uh council president Jenkins um needing the rule 24 and being changed to the May 19th City Council agenda on consent.

So continuing on to item 3.2, which is a resolution in support of AB 1821 to amend the California Public Records Act to refine responses uh time frames, and this again is being scheduled to uh requested to be scheduled for May 19th, City of Council agenda on consent.

Item 3.3 a resolution in support of SB 1314, safeguard public health by establishing zoning, operational and sale regulations on smoke shops, also being requested to be scheduled before May 19th on consent.

Councilmember Ramachandra.

Thank you.

Um for 3.3.

I'd like to be added as a co-sponsor.

Thank you.

Absolutely.

Noting council member Ramachandran is to be added to item 3.3.

anybody else want to be co-sponsors on the smoke shop item?

Councilmember Fife.

Why not?

Let's make it a party.

You two, I suppose too.

Five.

It's unanimous.

So Wong got to it first.

So um Wong Ramachandran Jenkins and Fife.

I would like to make a motion to adjourn to a special meeting.

Motion to adjourn into a special meeting.

Is there a second?

Second.

And there was a motion by council member five, seconded by council member brown to adjourn in a special meeting at the presence of council member wong.

On roll, council member Brown.

Aye in Houston.

In Houston, my apologies.

And uh Councilmember Brown, I council member Fife.

Aye.

Councilmember Ramachandran.

Aye.

And Chair Jenkins.

Aye.

Uh we are now adjourned into a special meeting at the presence of Council Member Houston and Councilmember Wong.

Thank you for that.

So just noting item 3.3 is now adding Councilmember Ramachandran, Council Member Wong, and I apologize.

Is it Council Member Fife or whom else?

Councilmember Houston.

No, no, Wong Fife.

Rama Chandran.

There's there's some more.

Just look at your agenda.

There's opportunities.

Okay, Councilmember Ramachandran Wong and Fife will be added to item 3.3.

Now moving to item 3.4, a resolution in support of AB 1738 to modernize local building and inspection building inspections practices by authorizing remote inspections, and this is being scheduled for the May 19th.

City Council agenda on consent.

Item 35 is a resolution in support of SB 1230 related to enhance illegal dumping abatement penalties and state and local resources to address illegal dumping under penalty code action section 3374.

Item 3.6 is a resolution in support of AB 2310 relating to expanding illegal dumping and prohib prohibitions to include transportation for purposes of illegal dumping disposal under uh penal code section 374.3 and this is being requested to be scheduled for May 19th City Council agenda on consent.

Item 3.7 a resolution in support of SB 417 to provide state bond funding for development rehabilitation and preservations of affordable housing in California, and this is being requested for May 19th, City Council on consent.

Council Member Fife, would you like to co-sponsor that affordable housing bond 2026?

Well, thank you for the offer, Council President Sure.

Absolutely.

Umologies, can on 3.4, AB 1738.

Can I be added as a co-sponsor?

I already submitted letters of support on that one.

Yes.

So 3.4 Ramanchandran 3.7 Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026 co-sponsored by Council Member Fife.

Thank you for that.

And now moving to 3.8.

Um a resolution in support of AB 2351 regarding the shelter bed transparency act, and this is being requested to be scheduled for May 19th.

City Council agenda on consent again items one 3.1 through 3.8 also stated rule 24.

Is there anybody that want to be added?

Councilmember Brown.

Yes, thank you so much, sir.

So for item 3.8 AB 2351.

I also have already submitted a letter of support on this one, so would like to join as a co-sponsor.

Absolutely.

And Council Member Fife.

Shelter Bits.

Councilmember Fife.

And noting item 3.8 adding council member Brown.

Now moving to item 3.9, which I believe uh staff is here to read in a title change.

The point nine, the replacement of septic tanks, drain field.

Thank you.

Hello, council.

My name is Quincy Williams, and I am the assistant capital improvement project coordinator for Oakland Parks Recreation Youth Development.

And I'm here to present the uh title change for the recommendation that staff recommends that the city council adopt a resolution authorizing the city administrator to weigh the local and small business enterprise requirements and request for proposal qualifications for the competitor process to um to execute construction contracts and total amount not to exceed 312,000 dollars and eight three hundred and twelve thousand and seventy-eight dollars and forty-four cents for capital uh repairs and placement at Feather River Camp.

This Feather River Camp is located at 5469, Oakland Camp Road, Quincy, California 9597 with AC Engineering to replace three septic tanks and drain systems in a total amount not to exceed 225, uh 762 dollars and B Aqua 1 incorporated to replace a drinking water system and a total amount on to exceed 87,216 and 44 cents and three to adopt appropriate California Environmental Quality Act findings.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you for that.

And just noting um for the record, this items be requested to be scheduled for May 5th, City Council agenda on consent, and I will also read uh in the rule 24.

Um the rule 24 is that the septic drain and drinking water systems are broken and need replacement without emergency funding to replace these items.

The 2026 Feather River camping season will not occur.

I do see um council member Ramachandran's hand written.

Thank you.

Just as it pertains to scheduling, because this is being requested to go on consent.

Is this funding that's already authorized, and this is just execution of the contracts, or would this money be coming from a new source?

It's coming from the uh emergency repairs uh funding source.

So this is the authorization to access those those funds to um pay for the vendors.

Okay, and what the is that general purpose funds, or is there a different code for that?

There's a different code for that.

Okay, if if you can please share with my office before the meeting where exactly the funding is coming from.

Um because yeah, thank you.

All right.

Right.

Thank thank you, uh, council president.

I was just wanting to hear the waiver rationale.

Um it was shared with our office that the need for bypassing committee was urgent, but I wasn't aware about the waivers until yesterday.

So if there could be a waiver rationale stated.

Hello, Mr.

Williams.

Yes, hello, council member five.

So the rationalization is that um because of the location of uh feather river that the um rationale to support for local vendors uh will not come in a timely manner because of the location being five hours away.

Um that is cost prohibitive for us to be able to hire someone local and to go through that process.

Second thing is is that the vendors that we have for this particular project have uh intimate knowledge of the problems, and so they'll be able to pending authorization start work immediately.

Um, also because Feather River, as uh some of you may know, is uh one of the oldest programs uh that is uh put on by Oakland Parks Recreation Youth Development.

And so if we do not uh expedite this request, uh Feather River may not start on time, and that would impact, and then that's a race and equity issue.

Um, also right now uh we're uh in a space in which the environmental concerns that are not being met.

So I I want to uh sorry, I I want to skip us back on scheduling.

Okay.

Yeah, okay.

I I think council member five that suffices with council member five.

Thank you.

All right, thank you.

Thank you so much.

So now dispense with item 3.9 with the title change and being scheduled to May 5th on consent.

Moving to item 310 is a resolution authorizing and directing the city attorney to compromise and settle the case of Andrew Marshall versus City of Oakland.

Um city attorney file number 37037 and the amount of five hundred twelve thousand five hundred five hundred twelve thousand five hundred dollars, Department of Transportation Dangerous Conditions requested to be scheduled for May 5th.

City Council agenda on consent, and this item along with the next two items will need a rule 24.

Yes, through the chair to the committee 310, 311, and 312 are resolutions authorizing settlement agreements and these routinely bypass committee and go straight to council.

Thank you for that.

Rule 24 for items 310 through 312, and then moving to item 31 and reading it into record a resolution authorizing and directing the city attorney to compromise and settle the the claim of Vima Harris versus City of Oakland City Attorney number C three eight zero three eight and the amount of six hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars, human services department breach of contract property damage being scheduled for May 5th, 2026, City Council agenda on consent, as well as item 3.12, a resolution authorizing and directing the city attorney to compromise and settle the case of Susan Sanchez as successor in interest to Kenneth Sanchez deceased versus the City of Oakland, a public entity, city attorney number 35641 in the sum of 130,000 dollars, Department of Transportation Dangerous Conditions being requested to be scheduled on May 5th, City Council agenda on consent, and again items 310 through 312 rule 24 was stated on the record.

Moving to item 313 is a resolution submitting to the voters at the November 3rd, 2026 general municipal election a measure that would amend city charter to um amongst other things simplify the process and for appointing police commissioners by only having regular police commissioners that are appointed, one each by the council members and one by the mayor, strengthen the independence of the office of inspector general by having the city auditor rather than the city commission appoint the inspector general, streamline the process for appointing police chiefs by using the same process used to appoint other department heads and directing the city clerk to take any and all action necessary under the law to submit this measure to the voters at the November 3rd general election and making appropriate CEQA findings on the May 7th, 2026 rules and legislation committee agenda.

Item 3.14 is a resolution approving the City of Oakland Landscaping and Lighting Assessment District Fiscal Year 2026 through 2027 preliminary engineering report declaring the intention to levy and collect the annual landscaping and lighting assessment district assessment for physical year 2026 through 27 and three settling setting June 2020 June 2nd 2026 at 3 30 as the date and the time for the public hearing.

Um this item is currently only being scheduled today to the May 12th 2026 Finance and Management Committee Agenda.

Um through the chefs waiting from the city administrator's office.

Um this item is only going to finance and not going to the June 2nd as a public hearing.

Thank you for that.

City administration, so noted item 314 is just being scheduled to the May 12th City Council agenda.

Um May 12th Finance and Management Committee agenda today.

Thank you for that.

Moving to item 315, which is a resolution acknowledging the urgency and expediting actions to remedy illegal dumping through in through an illegal dumping expenditure action plan authorizing the city administrator to implement the idea plan by negotiating and entering into contract grant agreements and expenditures in the total amount not to exceed $1,100,000.

Pursue partnership with county, regional and or state agencies to enhance these efforts, to waive the extent necessary that the city advertising and competitive bidding and LSLBE program participation and multi-step technology acquisition requirements for the contracts, three appropriating and allocating an amount not to exceed $1,100,000 for budgeted funds, comprehensive cleanup funds for these purposes, four accepting and appropriate additional funds for public and private sources and authorizing the city administrator to actively seek and apply for such funds and to amend existing contracts and or enter into a contract consistent with the purposes of this resolution and in uh furtherance of the plan in a total amount not to exceed the value of such additional appropriated funds, and five, directing the city administrator to return to council within one year to of the adoption of the resolution to provide an informational report on actions taken, funds received and expended, and contracts awarded pursuant to this plan, the authority granted by the resolution on May 12th on the May 12th, 2026 Public Works and Transportation Committee agenda.

Item Kaplan.

Thank you so much, Rebecca Kaplan, project manager for legal dumping.

I want to uh thank and express that council members Fife and Wong have asked to be co-sponsors of this item.

Thank you so much and much appreciation to you all.

Beautiful.

Councilmember Wong.

Just uh thanks.

Want to thank Rebecca for her partnership and yes, want to be added to as a co-sponsor on this item.

Sounds good.

Okay, thank you.

Councilmember Houston.

What committee is this going to?

Public works.

Okay.

Would you like to be added as a co-sponsor?

Okay.

Yes, it is.

Absolutely.

Anyone else?

Work on this topic, sir.

Thank you.

Thank you.

So noted we have item 315.

We're adding council member Fife Wong and Houston.

We are now moving to item 3.16, which is conduct a study session to receive an informational presentation and report on draft land use framework developed as part of the general plan, update phase two process, and receive public comments and provide feedback to staff on the draft land use framework.

This is being requested to be scheduled for May 12th.

Is a resolution authorizing a one-year MOU for the receipt of in-kind services with a digital lift for digital literacy training and related services at the Oakland Senior Center valued in a total amount not to exceed $67,500, and authorizing the city administrator to accept additional services and extend the MOU with digital life for up to three additional years.

This is being requested to be scheduled for May 12th life enrichment committee agenda.

Item 3.18, I believe has a title change.

If staffs present to read in the title change, yeah.

Uh I'll go ahead and enter Monica Davis, Deputy City Administrator.

Uh the title should read adopt the resolution.

Um read the all the following and all the following points remain the same.

I can read them if that's desired.

Yes, you are noting that this is going to be one resolution.

So yes, just read the title in its entirety as it's going to be.

Adopt the resolution one authorizing the city administrator to sign and execute an agreement with the California Department of Health Care Services and its third party administrator related to the California providing access and transforming health capacity and infrastructure transition expansion and development program intergovernmental transfer award to implement the Cal Aim Ready Oakland project and deliver enhanced care management and community supports for high need Medicaid population in Oakland and accepting and appropriating the DHSCS past cited IGT award in an amount not to exceed 1,351,113.75 cents, which requires non-federal local share equal to 50% of the award and three authorizing the city to commit the required non-federal local share equal to 50 down 50% of the total DHCS IGT award and amount of $675,556 and 75 cents in order to draw down the corresponding federal match for DHCS on the May 12th, 2026 life enrichment committee agenda.

Thank you for that administrator Davis.

And just noting that 318 was is not three piece uh multiple pieces of legislation, it's just one resolution, and the uh city administration just read that single title into record.

Thank you for that title change.

And moving to item 3.19, which is a resolution authorizing the city administrator to enter into an agreement with Bureau Compression Inc.

for the purchases service and or repair of self-contained breathing apparatus units and uh turnout gear cleaning extractors for the three-year period and the amount not to exceed $600,000 with the option to extend the agreement up to two years any amount not to exceed $200,000 per year without returning to council for a total contract amount not to exceed $1 million over the possible five-year term and waiving the advertising and competitive bidding requirements and local small local business enterprise program provisions for the proposed purchase agreement to be scheduled for the May 12th public safety committee agenda.

Item 3.20 is a resolution awarding an agreement, a grant agreement to community initiatives for the term of July 1st, 2026 to June 30th, 2027 for community activation service related to the Oakland ceasefire lifeline strategy and the amount not to exceed 100,000 dollars.

This is being requested to be scheduled for May 12th public safety committee agenda.

Item 3.21, which is a resolution in support of renaming the plaza at the LGBTQ community center, Moore Hope Plaza after Peggy Moore and Hope Wood.

This is being requested to be scheduled for the May 19th City Council agenda on non-consent and noting that um I'll read in the rule 24 requesting that uh to ensure that the community renaming celebration to rename the plaza at the LGBTQ community center in honor of the lives and legacies of local icon Peggy Moore and Hope Wood will take place as intended in June as placed as part of the Pride Month celebration.

Item 3.22 is a resolution in recognition of the May 2026 as affordable housing month and recognizing the importance of deeply affordable housing for creating healthy and safe economically vibrant communities being requested to be scheduled for the May 19th City Council agenda on as a ceremonial.

Council Member Brown.

Excellent.

Um thank you so much.

Um we would like to shift this to um not a ceremonial item.

So I guess on non-consuming so consent.

Consent.

Thank you.

So noted item 3.22 will be placed on the consent calendar on May 19th.

Item 3.23 is an informational report from the Oakland Housing Authority on the status of their programs and current projects.

This is being requested to be scheduled for May 26th Community and Economic Development Committee Agenda.

Item 3.24 is a title change.

This item was previously scheduled for the May 26th public safety.

The new title is a resolution adopting the 2026 through 2020 2031 Oakland local hazardous mitigation plan as an amendment to the safety element of the Oakland General Plan and adopting appropriate California Environmental Quality Act findings.

And again, this is uh being scheduled for the May 26th public safety committee agenda as well as the June 2nd City Council agenda as a public hearing.

Moving to item 3.25.

This is an informational report on the implementation and performance of the City of Oakland's prompt payment policy.

This is being requested to be scheduled for June 9th, 2026 Finance and Management Committee Agenda.

Item 3.26 is an information report from the city administrator as required by required in OMC 9.08.260 section five as a as it applies to the law enforcement activity.

No Larry, excuse me.

I messed this up.

Outcome physicals outcomes and community and impact and equity review.

And this is being requested to be scheduled for the September 22nd public safety committee agenda.

Through the chair, we have a title change for this.

The title would read receive an informational report for from the city administration as required in section five of ordinance 13873.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you for the title change.

And noting this is being requested to be scheduled for September 22nd public safety committee agenda.

Now moving to the recommendations from committee on April 21st, starting with the special finance and management committee agenda.

Um item 3.27.

I will be reading in the short titles.

It's physical year 26 through 27 landscaping and lighting assessment district intention.

And the committee approved the recommendations of staff to be forwarded to the May 5th City Council agenda on consent.

Item 3.28, the budget advisory commission recommendations to amend the consolidated physical policy to uh redefine excess real estate transfer tax review, and this is um this was received and filed in committee.

Item 3.29 budget advisory commission for physical year 25 through 27 budget process assessment and recommendations.

This too was received and filed in committee.

Item 330, budget advisory commission recommendations on the proposed June 2026 40 million parcel tax measure.

This was received and filed in committee.

The salary survey results.

This item was also received and filed in committee.

And 3.32.

This was the information report on special revenue collection project.

This item was received and filed in committee.

Moving to recommendations from the council member Brown.

Excellent.

Um, thank you so much.

So for item 3.32.

Um I was interested in I both I think I believe both myself and council member Ramatandran were interested in uh here.

Let me make sure I have the right one.

Actually, it's 3.31.

Um we wanted to special revenue collection.

Yeah, actually, yeah, three um 3.32.

I believe we wanted to, I wanted to do a title change on this one so that it says council member brown and council member Ramachandran, and then in addition, we were interested in having this report come back quarterly.

So this one was received in PAL.

So if you want to bring it back, please bring it back as a new scheduling request.

Okay, okay.

Would like to change the names of the council members.

It currently reads council member Kaplan and Ramachander.

But I believe this item was received and filed in um committee, so it's been dispensed with, and I understand you want to bring it back as a recurring item, and that would be the uh what would require a new scheduling item and you can indicate sponsors as you see fit.

Okay.

Thank you for that.

We are now moving to the recommendations from the April 21st Special Public Works and Transportation Committee starting with item 3.33, which is the issuance of an unconditional certificate of completion for MacArthur Transit Village Phase 1 public improvements.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff to be forwarded to the May 5th City Council Agenda on Consent.

Item 3.34 was the easement at 260 Oak Street.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff to be forwarded to the May 5th City Council Agenda on Consent.

Item 3.35, which was an adoption of the federal compliant flood plan management ordinance and flood hazardous map.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff to be forwarded to the May 5th City Council City Council Agenda on Consent.

Item 3.36, which was the Public Works Equipment Service Division Cooperative Purchase Agreement.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff to be forwarded this item to the May 5th City Council agenda on non-consent.

Item 3.37 consultant contract amendment for the fire station 29 project.

The committee approved staff recommendations to be forwarded to the May 5th City Council Agenda on Consent.

And the item 3.38, the stormwater trash loaded reduction compliance information report.

This item was received and filed in committee.

The recommendations from the April 21st Special Community and Economic Development Committee Agenda.

Item 3.39, the Fire Alarm Building Museum of Jazz and Art New Exclusive Exclusive Negotiating Agreement.

The committee approved the recommendations of staffs to be forwarded to the May 5th City Council agenda on consent.

One second.

Item 3.36 public works.

There was a no vote.

I assume it was Councilmember Houston.

Are you okay with that going to consent as opposed to non-consent?

No, no, no, no, no, no.

No, you were doing good work on behalf of the people of Oakland.

Item 3.36 from public works.

You put registered a no vote.

Are you okay with it going to consent as opposed to non-consent?

Consent.

Okay, 3.36 will go on consent.

So noted.

So noted.

Now resuming back to the regular order of the agenda, I believe we dispensed with 3.39.

That item was the alarm building, fire alarm building museum of jazz and art exclusive negotiating agreement that was requested to be scheduled for May 5th on consent.

Item 3.40 surplus land declaration and disposition of a city-owned parcel.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff to be forwarded to the May 5th City Council Agenda on Consent.

Item 3.41 Authorization to disperse resilience hub grant funds to the Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation for Community Outreach Activities.

The committee approved staff's recommendations to be forwarded to the May 5th City Council Agenda on Consent.

Now moving to the recommendations for the April 21st Special Life Enrichment Committee agenda starting with 3.42, the library agreement with the city of Piedmont.

This item was approved.

The committee approved staff's recommendations to be forwarded to the May 5th City Council Agenda on Consent.

Item 3.43 is a the library agreement with the city of Emoryville.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff to be forwarded as to the May 5th City Council Agenda on Consent.

Item 3.44, the contract for customized goods and apparel.

The committee move this item to the uh pending list, no date specific item 3.45.

Uh the acceptance of the Oakland Park and Recreation Foundation grant.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff to be forwarded to the May 5th City Council Agenda on Consent.

Item 3.46, the Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program and OFCY Summer Program Service Term Award Fiscal Year 26 through 28.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff to be forwarded to May 5th City Council Agenda on Cent.

And item 3.47, the LSLBE certificate and road map update.

The committee received and filed this item.

Moving to recommendations from the April 21st special public safety committee agenda, starting with 3.48, which is OPD Cellubrite Technology.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff to be forwarded to May 5th City Council agenda on nonconsent.

And this was again due to a 3-1 vote.

Councilmember Fife, completely fine to say no.

Are you okay with this going to consent as opposed to non-consent?

I'm sorry, I I didn't hear what you said.

3.47.

You completely fine to say no.

3.48.

Three so I will um preemptively say for 3.48 and 3.49.

My position is the same.

I think it warrants discussion.

Okay.

Thank you for that.

Moving to items.

So item 3.48 is being scheduled for the non-consent calendar on May 5th.

Item 3.49, um, Purge and Technologies contract.

This I committee approved the recommendations of staff and to forward the item to the May 5th City Council agenda on non-consent.

Item 3.5, the OPD Federal Task Force 2025 annual reports.

The committee approves staff recommendations to be forwarded to the May 5th City Council agenda on consent.

Item 3.51 is the negotiated settlement agreement update.

The committee received and filed this item.

Item 3.52, the ceasefire lifeline contract.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff to be forwarded to the May 5th City Council agenda on consent with the request to bring forth a biannual information report regarding the ceasefire lifeline contract that speaks to the scope of the work of the um faith in action east bay.

Item 3.53 audit of the Oakland Police Oversight Agencies, the Oakland Police Commission, the Community Police Review Agency, and the Office of the Inspector General.

The committee received and filed this item.

And that concludes your new scheduling.

I have several speakers for this item.

Well, thank you, Madam Clerk.

That was a lot of reading.

So if someone can bring her some water, that'd be great.

But thank you to the public as well for sitting through this.

Can't wait to hear from the public speakers, especially Miss Strike.

Thank you.

Um I will call the public speakers when you approach the podium.

Please state your name for the uh council member Houston.

Did you have something?

Good morning, good morning.

And I I wanted to speak to uh pulled that off of consent.

I mean, non-consent to consent.

I I did no, I said no on the 3.36.

Um, because it was three out of 33 vendors, it was only three from OK and it does warrant discussion.

Let's move it back to non-consent.

We'll move that back to non-consent so we can talk with the departments and that's what I wanted uh but I wanted to keep it moving because I can say what I need to say in two minutes.

But if you want to do that, I agree with you because it does need discussion.

It does, so thank you so much.

Um I wanted to speak to our 3.13 on the the ballot measure I'm trying to amend, right?

It says um this ballot measure to amend the city charter to improve civilian oversight of OPD.

Improve.

Not remove, right?

So individuals are saying some false narrative that I'm trying to dismantle the police commission.

It's not three items that I like to speak to.

I'll I have a question.

Um who who on the in the council has been to the selection panel.

Have in I want to raise a hand, even if a council members as far as scheduling, right?

Okay.

So what I'll do is um this is an emergency to me, right?

And let me tell you why is this schedule.

This needs to be scheduled.

Can you share why it should be scheduled quicker and express that?

No, no, no.

You have all the time you want um within reason, but just make sure your comments are related back to scheduling.

And it is it's the schedule this this this um this amendment um to the charter.

Um, and what I like to do is I like to just go over it and speak to it.

You know what I'll do?

President, President.

Yeah, just move it on, and I will express it later whenever we get to come back to rules in the committee.

But I always wanted to make sure that people understand the public understands that this amendment is going to improve the city charter.

Thank you for your service.

Let's go to the public speakers.

Okay, and just noting that um in item 3.36 is now going back to consent on May 5th, non-consent on May 5th.

Uh Councilmember Brown.

Excellent.

And then um just that one slight um edit um for item 3.15.

I would also like to be added.

Thank you so much.

Thank you so very much, and thank you for your work during budget season to make sure money would be available for these projects.

Thank you.

So just to reiterate item 3.15, um, which is the illegal dumping expenditure plan.

We um are from the Oakland Public Works Department.

We have Councilmember Fife, Council Member Wong, Councilmember Houston, and we are now adding Council Member Brown.

Correct.

Okay.

All right, thank you for that.

I am now going to read the public speakers' names uh for those who are participating via Zoom.

Please raise your hand so we can not easily acknowledge you, and we will call you after we call those who are here in person.

Um, and please state your name for the record.

Um, Councilmember Houston who just spoke, Blair Beekman with uh multiple cards.

I have Miguel LaRosa with multiple cards.

I have Millie Um Cleveland with multiple cards, Jose Dorado with um one card.

I have Pamela Drake with one card, um, and Twan with one card.

And I did have a card with no name on it, so I'm not exactly sure if this is I have Twan already, so this is yes.

All names have been called.

If I called your name and you're here in person, please approach the podium and state your name for the record, and you'll be giving your speaking time.

We will take those who uh names I've called.

Not all at once.

Come on.

Thank you.

Two minutes.

Uh my name is Millie Cleveland.

I live in District 4.

I'm here with the coalition for police accountability.

Um, you know, right after the city auditor instructed the public safety committee that the opa Oakland Police Commission needs more independence and funding, not charter changes.

Council member Houston comes up with a proposal to change the charter that weakens civilian oversight.

It does not improve civilian oversight, it weakens it by eliminating the community role in the selection process.

It's trying to the reason why the police commission, the charter set up the selection panel, was to assure the independence from influence from political from politics like the city council or the city administration.

That's why you have uh a selection panel.

The council has the opportunity to appoint members to the selection panel who would due diligence, interview, check references, and review the applicants to assure that they are qualified to represent uh the issue of constitutional policing on the police commission.

So what council member Houston is trying to do is to eliminate the role of the community in the identification of qualified commissioners, eliminate the role of the community in vetting potential police uh police chiefs from which the mayor then makes the final decision.

This is an attack against the community.

It is disrespectful to the community, and it is totally opposite to what the city auditor recommends.

Thank you, Miss Milley.

Ms.

Drake, you want to come first?

Okay.

No, you come first, Miss Drake.

Ms.

Drake.

Okay.

I'm Pamela Drake.

I'm with the Wellstone Club, block by block organizing network, CPA, and the new um uh progressive working group.

So I'm here to say I gotta give it to Sam Houston.

He resurrected George Orwell from the grave.

Because everything about this is Orwellian.

It does not increase independence.

I think the city attorney looks confused when I'm saying that.

It does not increase independence, quite obviously.

It was a really well thought out innovative idea that only Oakland could come up with something as innovative as community oriented as having a selection panel that takes it one step removed from politics and allows people to vet and observe and be part the public and be part of the vetting and that then get people onto the first unbiased cost.

Thank you, Ms.

Drake.

You have anything else to say?

No, I think you should stop this in its tracks.

It's not worthy of a charter change.

It's not worthy of even talking about.

Thank you, Ms.

Drake.

Kevin Daly, I fear that.

Yeah, I was the one who forgot to write my name on the card.

I've been spoiled by the online system that already knows my name.

Uh but a couple items 3.2, the records act response time.

I definitely appreciate that the council is moving ahead with this.

But it's a two-part problem.

It's great to have a quick response time, even better would be to accurately get records released.

I find that certain departments, especially the city administrator, come back saying that there are no responsive records.

And then back and forth, email specify exactly what records I know exist, and eventually the record does get released.

So good news.

And then I can move onward to the next request.

And I'd like to take a careful look at how things are, how requests are being handled.

I'm also looking forward, sort of, to 3.13, the police commission, a detailed discussion.

I'm pretty skeptical on this uh this item.

Not looking not really looking forward to the discussion, but but I'm glad there will be a full discussion before it before consideration of passing or not.

Thanks.

Thank you, Mr.

Daly.

Thank you.

Anyone else, Twan?

Oh, I'm here to support item 3.13.

Um we just need more accountability, more results.

Uh Oakland has been under federal oversight for over two decades.

And that should be concerning for everybody.

It's costing us millions and millions of dollars, and yet we don't really have the public safety that we need.

We still cannot chase when a person goes into a jewelry store, rob that jewelry store, and goes out the front door with diamond gold or whatever they want because it's a property crime.

So if they break into your car and they're stealing your backpack and your wallets, you still cannot chase.

I don't know if you guys have been to the police commission selection process, but that process is absolutely broken and needs to be improved.

It is slow, it is fragmented, it is complicated.

We need to improve our public safety.

So I encourage you to support item 3.

Thank you, Swan.

I have Jose Dorado.

I see my good friend uh Councilmember Welch walked in.

Are you walking in so that the city of Emoryville will give us more money for the libraries?

Hey, hey, all of you guys are out of order.

Uh good day, Council.

Everyone.

You're not out of order, sir.

I know, I know.

Okay.

Um I asked uh her for all of them.

Okay.

I'm gonna give it a shot.

Three minutes.

Okay.

All right.

I'm gonna start with 3.51, okay.

I know personally that uh Mr.

Shane and Mr.

Burris want out of that, okay.

But until you guys pick a police chief, okay, and do like one year and comply to all that stuff, getting off that is not gonna happen, okay.

You know, the judge ain't gonna go with that.

You know it, I know it, all right.

So get a police chief and get that going, okay.

I know about that pretty good.

So let's just start there.

Okay, 3.1, I'm not gonna mess with 3.2.3, 3.4, okay, 3.5.

The anything for a legal dump and do it.

I I've lived in this city over 50 years.

I'm sick and tired of it, okay.

The people that come visit Oakland, just say, Oh, it's Oakland, so we can throw our trash away.

All that stuff's gotta go.

Let's get rid of those people if they don't want to do it.

Septic tanks, eight hundred thousand dollars, eight hundred thousand dollars for four.

Okay, that's ridiculous, all right.

My brother lives in Northern California, he has septic tanks on his property.

Everybody up there has septic tanks.

Okay, they don't cost a hundred thousand dollars per replace.

All right.

Uh the lawsuits, I don't know what to say about that too many Sanchezes or making money in the lawsuits.

So that's all I can see.

Anything with DHCS, I can't touch that.

The fire department and anything the fire department wants, they should get okay.

You're uh you have an understaffed group of people working hard hours.

Okay, it's the same thing for the police, okay.

The communications and all that, until we can clean up the city.

The privacy concerns and all of that to me is BS, okay.

You guys gotta have let the police do what they want.

That staff is about a hundred feet fifty people under served, okay, for this community.

All right.

So let them have what they want until if we get it cleaned up so that it's safe, then we can worry about privacy concerns, okay.

If people are worried about that, quit screwing up so you have to worry about people looking behind your shoulder.

All right.

Um God, landscape and lighting.

I have trees put in my house in front of my house before the city, okay.

I had no recourse until you came out with the thing where you were gonna charge people money for cutting down the trees.

I have a bone to pick about that.

I'm gonna sue the city, get my house taken care of.

My city councilman I've talked to personally.

He it I'm not the uni counsel, he don't give a shit about me, okay.

All right, but you budget advisory committee, forty forty million dollar parcel tax.

I'm sick and tired of paying taxes, okay.

All right, this is BS.

You guys can't ban thank you for your comments.

Your time is uh thank you, sir.

Thank you for your comments.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, sir.

Very kind.

I wish the microphones would have caught that.

But he said we're doing a good job.

I will now go to the Zoom speakers.

Um I have Blair Beekman and Miguel LaRosa.

I will um allow Blair to speak first.

I do see Cappy Leonard's hand raised, but I do not have our card for Cappy Leonard.

Uh Blair Beakerman, you haven't unmuted.

Please begin.

Hi.

Thank you, Blair Beekman.

Uh I'm in San Diego at this time.

Um, so I'm calling in.

Uh I've been, you know, watching your council meetings as of late, and uh boy, San Diego is really going through uh like serious budget deficits, the same as yourselves in Oakland.

You guys have the one two in uh worst deficits of the state for local cities.

And there Hagel is taking such a sad approach compared to you guys.

You guys are practicing, you know, um social services and care for community, and and we're practicing austerity in San Diego, and it really really hurts.

They want to budget cut everything.

And services are being cut a lot.

I hope you guys can really talk to San Diego, and there can be good exchanges about the importance of social services programs, and we don't have to cut everything in order to uh practice good budget.

Thank you for the uh the patience with that.

I wanted to offer um three items three point five, two point six, and three point uh one five on um items around uh the anti uh litter things, working on litter issues.

You know, with the recent uh items you just passed on on new uh RB uh housing unhoused issues and unhoused issues overall.

Um I I was kind of disappointed in that and how you voted on that.

I was hoping, like with the block issues, you came up with really creative ideas on compromise.

Uh to variate some ideas and come up with kind of your own thinking.

And I think it was kind of brilliant.

Uh, you know, that served all parts of the community.

You really tried to serve everybody, and you didn't quite do that for uh the litter for the uh RB issues.

I think a lot of the RB issues and unhoused issues have to do with litter, and and so you have a ton of items today on litter issues, and so you really want to be working on them, and you're taking that extra effort to work on litter now.

And um I I I just wish you know we could have been doing more to that.

We already have these practices that they can be on call when uh you know city government asks you know people to to leave and stuff.

I don't I don't quite yet understand fully what the reform that you're talking about, and I hope to learn that.

I don't think we need as much police as we think we do.

And I was just really hoping for variation on and that you know our main concerns is litter.

Yeah, we're really have a bad litter problem and how to get everyone involved in that.

I've talked about check accountability, how that can be a help in fighting the community process, and I'm interested how uh uh council person gallo's ideas on getting the state more involved.

You have uh may funding started in January that's gonna be running out soon.

What are you working on with community to work through the summer on litter issues overall?

You should be developing really good practices by now.

Um good luck in those efforts and uh thanks for your time with myself going all around here.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

I do apologize.

I'm not sure uh the gentleman that spoke in person was Miguel is Jose Dorado Person.

If not, that are all our speaker for item three.

So thank you for everybody that came out to speak.

Thank you to the clerk for going through the long uh agenda.

Bear with me for accuracy, 3.1 through 3.8 with an urgency finding and scheduled to the May 19th City Council meeting on consent.

3.3.

We are adding co-sponsors of 501.

Uh 3.7.

We are adding co-sponsor council member 5 3.8.

We are adding co-sponsor of council member brown 3.9.

We will note the title change 3.14 will go to May 12th.

Uh FMC 3.15.

Yes, Trinity.

Through the chair, good morning.

Um, I was hoping to add the council member Houston to be a co-sponsor on several items.

Please proceed.

Item 3.

Uh give me one second.

Apologize.

Um, Councilmember Houston requests to be added as a co-sponsor to item 3.3, subject SB 1314, assembly member men of men he har.

I apologize.

Uh smoke shops, locations, hours of operation and sale of nitrous oxide.

Um item three point five, SB1230, strengthening illegal dumping enforcement.

Item 3.6 AB 2310, strengthening illegal dumping liability and enforcement, and item uh 3.8 uh b two three five one, the shelter bed transparency act.

Okay.

So um we'll approve all of those except for 3.3 because we'll have uh um too many people on there.

So thank you.

So council member chandra.

Um sorry if you said it, I didn't hear three point four name on three uh three point three and four.

Okay.

Thank you.

All right, let's try this again.

So all of items 3.1 through 3.8 will go to May 19th on consent with urgency finding 3.3 will be adding co-sponsors of five long Ramachandra 3.4, Councilmember Ramachandra will be added as a co-sponsor, 3.5, council member Houston would be added as a co-sponsor 3.6, council member Houston will be added as a co-sponsor 3.7.

We will add council member five as a co-sponsor, 3.8.

We will add council member brown as a co-sponsor.

Did I miss any on those?

And council member Houston on 3.8 and 5 on 3.8.

Yeah.

Okay.

So then you good.

All right.

Um 3.9 title change, 3.14, uh, May 12th, FMC 3.15.

Co-sponsors will be 51 Houston and Brown 3.18 will be a title change, 3.22 will be moved to consent, and 3.26 will be a title change.

Did I miss anything?

We talked about four.

And rule 24 on 310 through 3 12.

Okay.

Seeing that complicated uh that complicated ramble, I'll entertain a motion as amended.

Excellent move approval of the item three.

Second.

That was a motion by council member Brown, seconded by council member five to approve item three as amended and stated on record.

On roll council member Brown.

Aye.

Five.

Aye.

Ramachandran.

Oh, I think we both doing it.

Oh I think there's a this discussion.

Sorry.

Aye.

Aye.

Are we council member chair Jenkins?

Councilmember Fife.

If you could repeat the sponsors on the smoke shop item.

So the smoke shop are five won Ramachandra.

I will say that it was uh it was brought to my attention by the East Oakland representative, Councilmember Houston, that he's very concerned about all the number of smoke shops in his district.

So here, take me off of there, put Houston on there.

I yeah.

So no, you'll be on there because it's we represent D6 and D7 together, so it's fine.

Houston on there, take Jenkins off.

No.

No, I'll good.

So let's go back.

Noting that we are removing Jenkins from 3.3, and it will be sponsored by Five Wong Houston and Rama Chandra.

Thank you.

And if I can um just with that change, recall the role for as amended, Councilmember Brown Fife, Councilmember Brown.

Aye.

Councilmember Fife.

Aye.

Rama Chandrin.

Aye.

And Chair Jenkins.

Aye.

Item number three is approved as amended with four ayes.

We will now go to item four.

One moment.

Item four is the review of the draft agendas, pending lists, and the city council agendas in committees.

We have the counciled May 28th and rules for the 30th, I believe.

What is this?

Yes, rules for the 30th, your pending list, and your May 5th council agenda draft agenda, as well as your rules for um May 7th.

And we do have two speakers for this item.

Anything from the administration?

Jody Christian, Finance Department Agenda Coordinator.

Um, we are requesting two changes.

So first, the Finance and Management Committee pending list for items on May 12th, FMC, item number one, the FLSA overtime report.

We are requesting this be moved to June 23, FMC.

Rationale due to its complex nature.

We're still working on it.

The second request is on the May 5th City Council draft agenda.

Item number 5.2, the parking reorg.

We are requesting this be moved until June 16th, City Council.

Um rationale.

We would like to hold off until after the mayor has released her proposed budget.

Anything else from administration?

Seeing none, seeing nothing from my colleagues.

Let's go to uh council member five.

I'm gonna uh I would like to remove a couple things from the pending list uh for the life enrichment committee.

Um pending no date specific items, including the uh repeal of the 2020 encampment management policy is uh seeing that that was passed.

We can remove that from pending no date specific in addition to um that is item number two, pending no date specific, and we can also remove uh number four the contract for customized goods and apparel as that will come through the administration.

Uh we also yeah, we'll keep it there for now.

So the two are removing the a camp repealing the cabinet management and whatever and what item is that council member five two and four.

So items two and four from LEC, we are removing them from the pending list.

Thank you.

Let's go to our public speakers.

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

If you're participating in Zoom, please raise your hand and state your name for the record.

Kevin Daly and Miguel LaRosa in any order.

Dally, I see an error on the May 5th uh council agenda 6.8.

I think it may just be a title.

An error in the title where there's some salary positions.

The parking administrator is still on the list on the title, even though it has been pulled out.

So if that is just a title, then that's great.

But if it's more than that, then I encourage us to move the park administrator uh out of there.

I also I appreciate May that the parking reorg has been moved to June.

Uh we still don't have the parking administration administrator positions having gone through finance committee.

It was due to come up in April, I believe it was, and it was pulled off.

I think it would make sense to put the parking administration new positions to be slightly before the uh before parking reorg comes to the full council.

So that might be early June.

Even better, of course, is to drop it completely, but that's probably not gonna happen at today's meeting.

Uh thanks for your consideration.

Thank you for your comments, and if I can before the next speech or approach, just to address the comments that was stated by the speaker.

Um, we do not change the titles once the uh recommendations from committee have been made, they'll be noted in the minutes history, which you would see on the agenda for that date.

And then once the um the amendments from the committee are approved by the full council, then we will update the title when the legislation comes.

Um we'll we'll get the updated legislation that will reflect the amendments and the changes.

Explain I learned something new every no, no problem.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Dally.

Our last speaker for this item is Miguel LaRule.

And it looks like Miguel is re um taking back his request to speak for item for item four, so we will have completed our speakers for item four.

Bear with me.

LEC, we're removing items two and four from the pending list.

Um May 5th item FMC 52 move to June 16th, FMC.

Um item one is gonna be scheduled to June 23rd.

Did I miss anything?

The changes to the finance, uh the life enrichment committee list.

Okay.

Say it one more time.

LEC items two and four um removed from the pending list.

And then you said the items from um finance.

I'm sorry, did I miss it?

Yeah, yes, okay.

You have to say item again.

No, no, uh, just an emotion.

Uh move approval of items four second.

And that was a motion by council member brown, seconded by council member Ramachandran to approve item four as amended on roll.

Council member brown.

Aye.

Council member Fife.

Aye.

Rama Chandran.

Aye.

Chair Jenkins.

Aye.

And item four is approved as amended with four ayes.

That now takes us to item five.

Um, item five S five is a resolution confirming the mayor, Mayor Barbara Lee's appointment of Doug Wong to serve on the Oakland Police Commission as the mayor's alternate appointee.

And I have three speakers for this item.

Preston, please proceed.

Well, thank you.

Thank you, Council President, um, and members of the committee.

Preston Kilgore, Deputy Chief of Staff to Mayor Barbara Lee.

So here to speak in support of the mayor's appointment of Mr.

Doug Wong to the Oakland Police Commission, the alternate seats.

Um, over the past year, the city, as you all know, has made meaningful progress on public safety.

Um, and while this progress is significant, public safety remains a top priority for the mayor, and continue leadership and oversight um are essential.

Uh Mr.

Doug Wong brings decades of public safety and community service experience.

Um, he's a retired fire engineer, former legislative staffer, and longtime leader in emergency preparedness, and uh supporting community organizations.

Mr.

Wallong has been his career strengthening collaboration between government and the communities that he serves.

I do want to thank one second.

Pause.

Oh, please.

Apologies for the record.

We do need to have an urgency stated on the record before we move on with this item.

I don't know.

Yeah, happy to make it.

Thanks for flagging.

Um yeah, so the requesting an urgency finding with the recent resignations of folks on the police commission.

We're asking that um council grants a urgency finding to allow us to move the appointment of Doug Wong as an alternative alternate police commissioner.

Thank you.

A motion and a second and a recall vote for that um urgency.

So moved.

We need a motion and vote for second.

Okay.

And uh for the um urgency finding stated on record, we have a motion by council member brown, seconded by councilmember Rama Chandrin on role Councilmember Ramachandra Brown, excuse me.

Hi, Councilmember Fife, uh Rama Chandron.

Aye.

And Chair Jenkins.

I thank you so much.

That urgency finding was approved with four eyes.

I apologize, you may move on to the thing.

Appreciate you lifting it up, thanks, Clerk.

Um, so yeah, so I'll finish with thanks, Councilmember Ram Chandran and Councilmember Wong for their sponsor or co-sponsorship.

Um I'll leave with Mr.

Wong's presence today and prepared to make some remarks or take some questions if you have them.

Thank you all.

Thank you so much, and thank you uh for bringing this forward.

I was actually in a grocery store this morning, and uh people were very excited about uh Mr.

Wong coming to the police commission.

Uh and I was like, wait a minute, this is what people are stopping me about in the grocery store.

So, Mr.

Wong, do you want to have some comments or do you want to end?

Excuse me.

Hey, District 6, my D6.

Shop right.

Okay, we're doing it.

Mr.

Wong.

So good morning.

My name's Douglas Wong.

Uh, look forward to working with the police commission and the city council and the public.

Um it's my second time around.

Unfortunately, I was uh I got injured earlier in the year, but um I'm healthy, but I've been lying to my wife that I'm not, so she can still take care of me.

But uh I look forward to working and volunteering for the city.

Thank you so much.

Uh and just a question before Council Member Ramachandran have our background checks been done.

Completed and submitted to this um to the city administrator's office.

Thank you.

Councilmember Ramachandra.

Thank you.

Um, just want to acknowledge and appreciate all of the work that you've done for the city of Oakland on the neighborhood level and caring about public safety, environmental justice, racial equity.

I think you will be an excellent addition to our police commission and very enthusiastic about supporting your candidacy.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Fife.

Yes, thank you.

Um thank you, Chair.

I just wanted to offer another opportunity to respond to the question that I asked when you first came.

Um you do have a lot of experience, uh, life experience just engaging with public safety issues, but I wanted to give you another opportunity to answer um the role that constitutional policing plays in in your work and and to explain to us your your perspective on constitutional policing.

Well, what one thing is policing is a combined effort of the neighborhood and the police officers which we entrust for our safety.

So you have to look at both sides of the coin because when we call the police, we're calling them to help us.

And so sometimes we don't we the public do not feel that the police officers are responding the way we think they should.

So this is where the police commission comes in uh working with the police officers working with the what I really want to do is get rid of the NSA.

We're working towards a get getting that out so we can use that money to uh strengthen the police department and our community services.

Are you complete?

Yeah, so I just want to say um I'm I'm we are entering a new era of policing in this country and in this city, and it's important that the individuals that we are appointing to positions of leadership understand that constitutional policing ensures that we are governed by law enforcement officers that respect the constitutional rights of the individuals that they come in contact with.

I did not hear that in your response, but it is so critical, especially in the African American communities and neighborhoods where we've seen a history and pattern of and in Oakland specifically of violating the constitutional rights of Oakland residents.

In addition, it's important that in your role in your leadership role, that it's not about keeping the NSA or getting rid of the NSA, but doing the critical work that ensures that our police department is in compliance.

That should be the overarching objective, because if we get rid of it and we still are experiencing the same challenges internally, then we'll just recreate the patterns of history that Oakland has seen.

So I just wanted to say that to you because your position will be critical.

I definitely agree with you.

Um in the sense that when I was growing up, it was uh us against them, us the citizens and the communities against the police, what we can get away with.

Now as I've gotten more involved in the community and throughout, it's more in my opinion, how we work together to provide a safe community.

Now I tell a lot of people, they complain to me, and I said, you know, we are the city.

And we and because we are the city, we don't the city council can only do so much.

The American only do so much, but we as citizens have to work with our police officers, and we want them to work with us and the civil manager, civil um to work with us civilly, so we understand where they're coming from and they can understand where we are.

That's why I always tell people get out there, introduce yourself to police officers.

They can put a face out there.

So with constitution, everybody has a rights, and I really strongly believe the rights of the citizens takes precedence over anything else.

I would encourage you to um be in in relationship with organizations and individuals and even literature that that talk about constitutional policing and what that means.

Um again, I and I don't want to take up too much time.

You've been here before, but that question wasn't fully answered the first time that I asked.

Yeah, or or second, but thank you.

Okay.

Councilmember Brown.

Excellent.

Um, thank you so much.

It's good to see you back.

Um hope you're feeling much better.

Um and as was stated, I know that we all kind of got the opportunity to ask you some various questions, and so just wanted to give you also the opportunity to answer the question that I had asked around um, you know, what would you say are your biggest priorities um stepping into this role?

Your your top priorities.

Well, there's a lot of reading, which I'm sort of plowing through.

Um biggest priority is working towards so we first of all to have less complaints about the police officers getting and getting the police officers more involved in our community.

So I'm a big proponent of ceasefire community policing, because that gets the officers out there with us to see how we live and what we do and understand our ways and our attitudes.

So that's one of my goals to work uh I belong to several organizations in uh Chinatown and District Four, and also um working with the Oakland Senior Centers in different capacities of teaching the first aid and CPR.

And I understand where they're coming from, and now that I'm a senior, I understand you know it gives me better insight of what's happening out there.

Okay, any more comments?

If not, I want to give you a another opportunity.

Uh I don't believe Councilmember Five's question was answered in the way just straight up um constitutional policing.

What is your definition of it?

So this country was built.

Yeah, I worked out in West Oakland for many years.

I worked out in the grocery store, I worked with the black community.

Um we played basketball together, and I and I saw the difference of how the police acted to the different cultures in the city of Oakland.

And uh, and I'm I will read up on constitutional policing for sure to get a better grasp, and hopefully I any questions I can ask you, Councilmember Fife, on what your interpretation is.

I'll entertain a motion.

We do have speakers for this item.

Uh if we are done with this portion, I will call those speakers up to the podium.

Miguel LaRosa, Kevin Daly, and Blair Beekman.

If you participate in via Zoom, please raise your hand.

And as you approach the podium, or once you're unmuted, please state your name for the record.

Did we get a card from Miss Milley?

I'm sure if this is okay.

She has much better thoughts than if there was no card presented, then you can't cede your time.

I I have my card, don't I?

I didn't I don't have a card from Miss Milley for this item.

So she would have to have submitted a speaker card in order for you to cede time to her.

Can I cede my time to her?

You cannot cede your time to her because she did not submit a speaker card for this item.

It was for the additional maybe if Miss Millie stood up there with you.

Yeah.

Okay.

Um this comes back to some of the challenges with having to know ahead of time what topics are relevant.

Uh so I guess I can't.

I'm gonna tell them what to say.

Yeah.

So I tell them that the NSA remains in compli uh in existence, it doesn't go away.

Yeah.

The yes, and the NSA remains in existence and doesn't go away.

And I am concerned that so many uh potential nominees were turned down a few weeks ago, and it's great to have one person approved, but it'd be even better to have all of them brought back and approved as a group.

52 tasks have to remain in compliance.

You could you could have done it differently.

Yeah.

So choices.

We we we do need to make sure that all of the tasks remain in compliance.

And as council member Fife has said, even if we get off of the federal oversight, we still need to do a good job with policing.

It doesn't matter.

I mean, it does matter whether we're on oversight, but even if we're off, we need to do a good job better than we have been doing.

It's good to have a commissioner that wants to get rid of the NSA.

And yeah, and it it is concerning to have a commissioner that gets rid of the NSA.

Anyway, I think this is good.

Sorry for the uh but thank you.

Thank you for your innovation.

We do have Miguel and La Rosa left for speakers on this item.

Okay, I I really didn't know what to say.

I was glad you were here, Ms.

Wall.

Okay, I I highly approve of him.

I like people like this on that police council, really chill, no know what they're doing, okay.

Uh the no the negotiated settlement, okay.

I used to do work in law as a you know the night guy, media tech, okay.

And I run into this particular thing, okay.

Like I said, you guys gotta get a police chief, got to get all that stuff in right.

Got to have guys like this on a commission, okay.

And after a year you have the police chief and they have everything in order, haven't done anything to screw it up.

I think you're gonna get your relief from to the negotiate agreement, okay?

That's my personal belief on it.

To try and do it prior to that, I don't think the judge is gonna let you out.

I know the lawyers want you guys want to be out, but the way it is is just not happening.

Okay.

Um so absolutely.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

We do have one last speaker.

I do see uh, I'm not sure if you want to uh Blair Beekman.

You are unmuted, you may begin.

All right, Blair Beekman.

Thanks for this item.

Um you know, I've been speaking a lot on this item uh over the past few months now.

I mean, I really liked the former commissioners.

I felt they were really cool, and they were really doing a good thing.

And um I I have inexperience uh with the community process, and I kind of I got a bit confused over the role of a police commission versus the uh police advisory board.

And um important, I hope we this can be a time to remind us that I think it was the police advisory board as it was created, you know, in the past 10 years that had real specific intentions to be really community focused and uh to pick up where the police commission were what wasn't doing a good enough job for.

And it seems like you're really trying to separate those two groups right now and have very distinct lines.

The police commission serves every, you know, uh serious government practices where the PSP serves more of the community effort and community questions that can be more acceptable.

And um I don't know how this is gonna go.

Um I don't know if that's separation we're going through right now is I mean it's understandable, but I I don't know how much of it is worth it to work towards when when you're Ms.

Smith specifically firing good people.

So um good luck what you can be doing with this.

I learned important words from this current commissioner about uh compromise and the importance of compromise and working towards unity.

Um those are really important concepts.

But as council person price stated, we're entering a new era uh of policing, and we have to really ask what is that compromise about?

Are we really trying to move forward in our compromise?

And that should always be the question in unity and compromise at this time.

Is it also moving us forward and not continuing the status quo?

Um thank you for your comments.

That concludes our uh public speakers for item number five.

Thank you so much.

Uh and uh want to say I I want this item to go to non-consent.

Uh the question that council member Fipax uh uh I don't believe was answered satisfactorily.

And I believe that uh potential commissioner Wong should meet up with the council members, talk to them about how you um see your role on the council.

But I I just want to ensure that we're doing a thorough process embedding.

And so with that, I'm gonna make a motion for this to go to council on non-consent.

Councilmember Ramatandra.

Oh, that was from earlier.

But while I have the mic, I I appreciate all the questionings, and I think that Mr.

Wong has a real history of service in this city, and I hope that more council members can see, you know, it's it's easy to ask and stumble on a question when you're put on the spot.

But as a volunteer for this city, he's put in hours and hours of blood, sweat, and tear into our tears into our community.

And I hope that others get a chance to recognize decades of public service because it's really easy to say nice things on a mic and much harder to actually put in labor for the people, which is something that I'm excited to have a voice of someone who's done that in our community before.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Ramanchandra, and I got a second from Brown.

Uh, Councilmember Houston.

And I agree with Councilmember Ramachana.

Um, I interviewed him myself, asked them all the questions online.

I mean, we were on the phone for at least 45 minutes just talking.

Um, and it's hard to stand up here and speak to to power.

It's hard, right?

And so I understand it and I agree in the and uh and uh respect him.

I agree with what you said, what you just said, and he's a great candidate, and he was a mayor's um appointment.

And I respect the mayor also.

So thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Houston, Councilmember Fife, and then we'll go to a vote.

I think all those things can be true, but I just want to make it clear to the public and to the um the candidate.

I I don't know you.

Um the one question that I had is the one question that I also asked a month ago, and there was still no definitive answer.

And the second time that you were asked about constitutional policing after I defined what it was, you still didn't answer that question.

If we're doing this is hard work, this is going to be hard work and a very politicized environment around policing when there are polarized perspectives.

So it it's not just the answer about community, I mean constitutional policing, but it's also about playing black, playing basketball with black folks in West Oakland is the perspective on on this process and this position.

I am sure that you are a wonderful man.

We've had uh we had a really good conversation when you hear it the first time.

And I'm concerned that this work is becoming extremely politicized in a way that we are we are voting based on bias, and I uh intend to be fully transparent, even though it's uncomfortable, even though I'm alone to state that what I experienced the the first and second time with you speaking to this body is is deeply concerning about not being and able to answer the questions.

I appreciate the fact that the council president is suggesting this go to non-consent, and I would like to have converse uh maybe a few conversations with you before this comes back to council.

But what I heard today about expediting getting out of the NSA, but not doing the work to ensure that the tasks are completed is very concerning.

Um so I I would like to, I was I was prepared to abstain or vote no based on what I heard today and at the previous meeting and looking at a resume that did not explain the details of jobs, but rather just a list was there are a number of things that are are creating concerns, but I'm also very open to dialogue to hearing why you think you are the right person at this time for this position, and then we can go from there.

Absolutely.

And I really hate myself to have to say this.

The May 5th agenda is getting quite impacted, so we might have to have a special meeting.

Please take the roll.

Oh, there was a motion by council uh president chair Jenkins, seconded by council member Brown to approve item S five to go to the May 5th City Council agenda on non-consent on roll, council member Brown.

Aye, council member five, aye, Rama Chandrin.

And Chair Chair Jenkins.

I and item number S5 is approved with four eyes to be uh moved to the May 5th City Council agenda on non-consent.

That now takes us to open forum.

As I call your name, please approach the podium or raise your hand in the Zoom queue and state your name for the record.

I have Miguel La Rosa, Kevin Daly, and Blair Beekman.

In any order, please for open forum.

You're exactly right, Ms.

Fife about the negotiated agreement.

All parts of it have to be completed.

Okay.

The uh I miss on a lot of stuff here.

Okay, there's so much three minutes for over 30 items.

Okay, it's ridiculous.

All right.

But time is time, and it is the rules, okay?

So I'm cool with that.

Uh I'm gonna come and give you guys notice that I've been bullied by the unity council and Noel for about over 12 years, okay.

All right, so I'm gonna deal with that in my own way.

All right.

I've told those guys what I intend to do, and I'm I'm going like full nuclear on those guys, okay.

You know, it's long story.

I'm not gonna play it here.

All right, but I'm putting it out on the record.

I would like to talk to the mayor.

I'm gonna talk to the feds, okay.

Anyway, uh I respect all of you.

Thank you for the meeting, and that's all I can say.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Kevin Daly.

Oh, and our last speaker, Blair Beekman.

You've been unmuted.

Please begin your comments.

Hi, uh, Blair Beekman.

Yeah, I'm not sure uh about new items put into it from the into the charter.

Uh I understand you're going for some sort of separation thing from the PA CPBAB, but I don't know if that's the right approach.

Uh nice words uh on a subject matter.

Um good luck to it.

Um, you know, it's really difficult.

Um we try to work past the status quo, but I'm really I've lost a few steps in my life, and it's hard for me to keep up with uh with the latest of best practices.

I'm trying my hardest.

Uh good luck towards sensitivity and patience and uh with the uh with this current Oakland Commission issue and uh good luck to all of us.

Um I also wanted to mention uh just another thank you for uh what you've done with the flock item.

Um I really um feel wherever this compromise has come from, it's possibly has help from the police uh on it, OPD and CHP.

It was a very reasonable compromise.

And uh I'm important lessons in it, and I hope in this time that we're in continual war again, that we can be uh we're working towards uh a new AOPR vendor at this time.

How is that process going?

It's time to start asking more regularly if that's going well, what are the next steps happening, any new facilitations taking place, community efforts?

Good luck with that.

Good luck with community efforts or trash issues.

You had some good community starts in the in January and February about trash and neighborhoods.

I hope that's really growing, and by the summer, it should be really expanding well.

And like uh council person gallows offered, uh, state funding can be a really good resource uh for that uh and can save budget dollars as well.

Thank you again for how you have the love life philosophy with budget concerns and I hope San Diego can learn important.

Thank you.

That was your final open forum speaker.

Thank you this meeting's adjourned