Yes.

Good afternoon and welcome to this council meeting.

It is Tuesday, May 19th, and this meeting shall come to order.

Before I call roll, I would like to give instructions on how to submit a speaker card for items on this agenda.

If you are here in person participating and would like to submit a speaker card, you must fill out a speaker card on the table in the middle of the room and turn it into a clerk representative across from the table, either before the item is read into record or two minutes, two hours after this meeting began.

Unger, my apologies.

Present.

Thank you.

Councilmember Wong.

Present.

And Chair, Council President Jenkins.

Present.

We have six member present to two excused.

I will now go to our first item, item number three, modifications to the agenda.

Any modifications to agenda?

CNN.

Or is there anything from the administration for modifications to the agenda?

Thank you for that.

I will now go to our um we have no uh item four, we have no uh public hearings at this time, so we will order item five, which are non-consent items starting with item 5.1.

I will read this item into record.

It is a resolution commemoratively renaming the plaza, a public right-of-way at the Oakland LGBT community center as More Hope Plaza.

I do have three speakers for this item.

Thank you.

Councilmember Brown.

Excellent.

Um so I'll go ahead and uh speak first and then turn it over to Councilmember Wong.

Um, so um I am beyond uh honored and humbled to be a part of the renaming of the plaza near the Oakland LGBTQ cultural center in the heart of the cultural district.

More Hope Plaza.

This renaming honors the lives and legacy of Peggy Moore and Hope Wood.

These two women were trailblazers in the Bay Area through their passion for social justice, advocacy, and community organizing.

Tragically, they were killed in a car accident May 2024, leaving behind uh just a huge loss here in Oakland and beyond.

And so for those of you who don't may not know uh who was Peggy, um, but I'm confident that many of you have so many stories to tell about her visionary leadership.

Peggy was someone who worked on both uh the Barack Obama campaign and Hillary Clinton presidential campaigns, and also ran for Oakland City Council, a seat that I currently hold and mentored so many of us finding our way in public service and organizing.

I even had the opportunity to volunteer on one of her campaigns while learning my own path forward.

Peggy was a fierce advocate for marriage equality and worked really work alongside countless community organizations and initiatives across the East Bay in pursuit of social justice.

That same passion and fire is exactly why Peggy and her partner Hope Wood were such a perfect match after meeting in 2008 while working on the Obama campaign.

Hope was someone who also had uh accomplished a lot, um, as well as attending the Harvard Kennedy School, Color of Change and Courage of Courage and the Courage campaign.

Together, Peggy and Hope created their consulting firm, Hope Action Change, and continued to shape movements and communities throughout the East Bay for many years.

And so this tragic, this sudden and tragic loss of Peggy and Hope was deeply felt across the entire city of Oakland and the LGBTQ plus community as well as BIPOC communities.

So the renaming of this plaza outside the Oakland LGBTQ cultural center is more than just a ceremonial recognition, it is a commitment to honoring the legacy of two women who fought tirelessly to create a more equitable and just world.

More Hope Plaza will stand as a lasting reminder that queer history cannot and will not be erased in Oakland.

And then lastly, I do want to thank the leadership uh from the Oakland LGBTQ Cultural Center, Jeff Myers, Joe Hawkins, Brandon Horami, for their partnership and leadership.

Um, in addition, I also want to thank the Department of Transportation team, uh, of course, the city attorneys, the Office of Mayor Barbara Lee, and my colleague Councilmember Wong for all of your support and helping bring this vision to life.

And so uh tears to the newest plaza in Oakland, More Hope Plaza.

And so I'll tend to turn it over to Councilmember Wong, who I believe is gonna share a video.

Is that a motion?

Yes, all right, councilmember Wong.

Uh first of all, I'm just so uh privileged and proud to be the council member that um is not only a queer woman of color, but also represents the LGBTQ uh cultural district, um which is just such an icon, and for uh Peggy Moore and Hope Wood to be celebrated, um, you know, in spite of the horrifying loss of their lives due to this uh due to traffic violence, um, but um I'm glad we can we can celebrate.

So this is what I see as a celebration of their lives.

Um I did want to just fill in a few other things that weren't uh noted that um Peggy Moore was also the co-founder of Sisters, Steppin' in Pride.

This was really to celebrate queer women of color in Oakland.

She was the past president of the E-Space Stonewall Democratic Club and uh Hope Wood, as well as um Moore, they were leading organizers against the horribly discriminatory proposition eight that happened in California, and following the striking down of Proposition Eight, um it was uh Peggy and and Hope.

They had a wedding celebration at Lake Merritt also in District 2.

Um, and it was really such a landmark and public celebration of of marriage equality, and so um they've continued that they just have such a legacy, and I'm so proud to to celebrate them.

And I think the other thing is beyond just their resumes and accomplishments.

I also wanted to note um Peggy's her why.

Why did she do everything that she did in politics and Oakland?

And so I dug into the Peggy Moore archive, so to speak, and I have a video to share.

Um this was an interview, just three-minute clip uh with our favorite uh vlogger, uh Zenny.

Um, we can play the clip.

Who's Peggy Moore?

Where'd your girl who's more?

Right, yeah, no more.

So look, I'm born and raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Uh I'm the oldest of four.

Uh raised by my mother, stepfather, my biological father who um is in Maryland.

He's now deceased, and I have about, you know, six siblings on that side, but raised with my four siblings.

Um, you know, I went grew up in Oklahoma, uh, went to junior college, but I pretty much worked all of my life.

Uh left Oklahoma and went to Texas and stayed in Texas for about seven years.

Uh, and then I left Texas and then I discovered California and came out for vacation.

Uh and then I came off of vacation, I decided this is the place I wanted to be because I can actually fully express myself.

Be yourself.

Yeah, completely.

And you know, that was you know, as a young, you know, lesbian coming out, not quite sure what all of that meant.

Um, but in San Francisco and the Bay Area, uh, I never won't forget uh one of my one of my mentors, the name is Sydney Weinstein and hairdresser in San Francisco, heterosexual woman, just that was she took me to my first lesbian wedding, and it was it was it was like one of the first things I knew when I came to town.

That was like 20 plus years ago.

Yeah.

This is before it was legal, but it was really just love, right?

Ina and Iana never will forget it.

Walked into the room in this young lesbian from Oklahoma.

Hundred black, women of color, yeah.

Majority black.

I was like, where am I?

Oh my god, yeah, it must be like this, right?

Did you meet a bitch?

No, not there.

It's like 79.

Wow.

But I know some.

Yeah.

I know some lesbians.

But I that's another story for another time.

Yeah, definitely.

So it was it was that moment when I I was I felt whole.

I felt like the stereotypes of what it was like being gay.

Was really just completely different for me.

This was a body of women who had children and families and educators and professionals and people who were doing their lives and fully engaged, right?

Um, and then I left the wedding, I was like, okay, where are they?

Where we're gonna find the people.

And it was that moment where I recognized that so many people in the community really chose not to come out.

They couldn't come out for a lot of two reasons, whether it's because of their job or because of their children or their own personal struggle about being out.

Um but it was but it was because of that.

And I knew that I had to be out, not only for myself, but for those who couldn't.

I had to be a voice to say yes, we do have some strong, dynamic, beautiful black lesbians that are around.

Thank you.

And I, you know, I wanted to just note too about um Peggy that um even though we didn't cross many paths.

Actually, when I was running in the at-large race as the long shot candidate, lost to of course my colleague here on the dais, but um uh I had met up with Peggy, and uh she had actually offered to to help.

I was like, and which is a rare quality in politics where you're helping the long shot candidate, but she said you're a queer woman of color.

I want to help you, and that is the type of person that she was was always extending the ladder behind her.

So um I just uh yeah, I think I think it's important to also just um note somebody's what what's at their heart.

Not only was she a giant, she had a giant heart.

Thank you, Councilmember.

I think you missed something.

You know where she shot that video at the Lakeshore Cafe, which is now Peach.

District 2.

There we go.

Councilmember Houston.

Yes, I like to celebrate Peggy.

Man, Peggy go way back.

Uh, when she was working in um Home Depot in Emeryville when I was doing construction, I went in there, met her.

She was a manager, and she embraced me from the jump.

You know, and every time I went in there, she took care of me.

She'd say, Can't go to special order desks, I got you.

I'll get in and out because it was real packed up, so I like to embrace her.

And when she ran for mayor, you know, when I ran for my first seat.

She inspired me, she told me some things.

She came out on my first when I did a tour about um illegal dumping.

I did Councilmember Brown.

I did my first tour um through um on that 3.5 mile stretch on San Angel Boulevard.

And Peggy came out.

She showed up.

She went with me on a tour.

She said, Ken, this is horrendous, right?

So I just want to celebrate Peggy more.

Um I never really told her, you know, how much she met or the things that she did for me to inspire me.

So that means just tell people, you know, just tell people, you know, when you see them.

John, what's up, man?

Just tell them.

I got love for you, right?

Just tell them because you never know when might be tomorrow.

You never know.

So I just want to celebrate Peggy.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Houston.

Council Member Ramatandra.

Thank you.

Um, several years ago, when I was for the first time ever, vaguely contemplating running for office, I met Peggy at an LGBTQ political training from Equality California.

And she was one of the first people who gave me advice, real advice on running for office.

And I'll never remember the honesty about which she spoke about what can how campaigning can take a toll on you, your relationship, and thinking through what your values are and whether it's worth it, and it definitely can be.

So as one of the first people ever, specifically LGBTQ women who gave me advice.

I remember her words often to this day.

Um thank you colleagues for honoring her today.

Thank you.

I want to thank Councilmember Ramachandra.

I mean, Councilmember Brown and Council Member Wong for bringing this forward.

Had the pleasure of knowing Peggy for quite some time since I was a staffer working for Supervisor Keith Carson, and when she was working for uh Mayor Libby Shaff and Peggy ran a number of campaigns, was really active in the political scene, really active.

Um equality and uh always always always loved my conversations with Peggy.

She was full of joy and uh I was very sad when she and Hope tragically lost their lives, but I I don't think of I don't think there's any uh more deserving people to rename this after Council Member Wong or is that later?

All right.

Sorry, I forgot.

I was gonna say something pivoty after that clip, and then I got so sucked in that I forgot what I was gonna say.

Um but the reason I do love that clip is because it was clear to me in watching it that Peggy was inspired by Oakland, and then Peggy would go on to inspire other Oaklanders, especially LGBTQ Oaklanders.

So uh that's why I thought it was important to share it at this at this meeting.

Thanks.

All right, Councilmember Brown, then we'll go to public comment.

Excellent.

Um were we gonna hear from the mayor's office as well?

Councilmember Wong, were you able to confirm on the item?

There they will not be saying, so I think we can move to public comment.

Okay, excellent, thank you.

Thank you.

Let's go to public comment.

As I call your name, please approach the podium.

Um if you're here in person, if you're participating via Zoom, please raise your hand so I can easily identify you.

As usual, we'll start with those who are here in person in chambers.

Miss Olavala, Jean Hazard, and Isaac Coss Reed.

In any order, please approach the podium for item 5.1.

Oh, we got our Prague Commissioner here.

Thank you for that uh recognition of my service.

But uh I'm here to recognize Peggy Moore.

Uh such an icon when I saw it on the agenda, I thought apart from wanting to speak for Affordable Housing Month, I had to come out and honor her.

Seeing her in Lakeshore Cafe was kind of trippy because that's like where my family, where my boys grew up running into her with my mother-in-law all the time.

Um I knew and loved her uh at the risk of offending a current city staff member, um, who I don't see in the room any longer.

She was the first person I backed against an incumbent.

And I remember her uh uh kickoff celebration party was at Lake Merritt at the pergola where my wife and I started salsa by the lake, and she had us do a little dancing as part of the she had like an Afro Cuban energy that that she carried forth in her own spirit in politics.

Um, you know, I wanted to say also worked with her as a public affairs professional.

She went into the private sector and she fought for her clients beautifully and in the same way that she fought for the people when she was in the public sector.

So may her memory not just inspire to be uh inspire us to be our best civic selves, but also may it be a reminder of how important safe responsible driving and roads are to a civil society, I was probably one of the first persons who met Peggy when she came here.

Most folks don't realize, and we would do political strategies, and most folks don't realize she was supposed to run for the assembly.

That Mia Bata has but then she decided instead to open up a consulting firm, and that's when she uh was a consultant for Libby Shaft's campaign.

It hurt me because I was ready to hit the ground for assembly race, and it was sad what happened to her.

I was at Hope's and her wedding at the return, I mean in the uh atrium, and came over to the place on Broadway for the reception.

But yeah, she had a good heart, good spirit, good person.

You know, to drain my energy when y'all start using that term a woman of color.

This this beautiful black woman was outstanding, and her blackness should always stay in place because we struggle as black women to get recognition to be respected.

The only time you hear is be angry black women.

So in the future, when you're dealing with black women, keep that perspective black in place.

And a woman of color, we are not women of color.

We are strong black women.

And the last thing is uh there are a lot of us here in this city.

Some of us are not getting out just to, I'm glad this sister is.

Again, and hope someday she will get her due respect in this chamber.

Thank you for your comments.

That concludes our public speech for this item.

Thank you so much.

So we have a motion and a second.

I apologize.

I have a motion by Councilmember Brown.

The second is Wong.

Um I stated on the record motion by Councilmember Brown, seconded by Wong to move item uh to approve item 5.1 on roll.

Councilmember Brown.

Aye.

Councilmember Vife is excuse Councilmember.

Uh Guile.

Aye.

Houston.

I.

Ramachandran.

Aye.

Onger.

Aye.

Wong.

Aye.

Chair Jenkins.

Aye.

Item 5.1 is approved with seven eyes, one excuse.

That now takes us to item number S 5.2.

I will read the item into record.

Item 5.2 is adopt a resolution approving the appointment of an annuity without a 180-day break in service where the appointment is necessary to fill a um critically needed position before 180 days have passed since the employee's retirement in accordance with the government code section one two one two two four and seven five two two point five six.

I have one speaker for this item.

ACA Baker.

Thank you.

And through the chair and the council.

My name is Chuck Baker, Assistant City Administrator.

We are bringing this item forward uh to retain a retiring employee that is supporting critical and time-sensitive work with the Oakland Army base.

Uh John Monetta's been working uh on this particular project exclusively for over fifteen years.

And so this ensures continuity during his transition into retirement.

While it's administrative in nature, Calper's regulations require council approval.

And Brendan from our economic and workforce development department will provide additional detail.

Happy to answer any questions.

Good afternoon.

Brendan Moriarty, Director of Real Estate and Special Projects.

Um I'll be very quick with this one.

So John Manetta has uh worked for the city since uh 26 years ago, so 26 years of service here, most of the time working on the Oakland Army-based project.

He's currently a project manager too in the economic and workforce development department.

He is planning to retire as um in the coming days, and we would like to hire him back as a retired annuitant.

It's a temporary part-time position.

It's a strategy we use in the administration when we need specialized skills performing work of a limited duration.

Um it would be no more than fifth uh part-time, 50% uh full-time equivalent.

Um so he would be supporting on uh helping to ensure that we meet our obligations under a quarter billion dollar state grant, um, ensuring that we're compliant with environmental regulations, ensuring continuity in real estate negotiations, such as for the Costco uh project, coordinating with agencies around a variety of complex projects, and then training other staff so that we can continue the work in the in the long term and and as um assistant city administrator Baker said Calper's regulation simply requires an act um non-consent um to approve uh continuation of that service after retirement without a break.

So that's why we're here um to ensure no um loss and continue operations here.

So that is it.

Available answer questions and uh thank you much very much for the time.

Thank you.

We wish them well in retirement, councilmember Houston.

Uh turn your mic on.

Councilmember McGuy will turn your mic on.

Sit on now.

Just two one two.

Yeah, thank you.

Uh I've known uh Mr.

Maneta for many, many years.

Certainly have known his work, appreciated the work that has contributed to this uh city of Oakland.

Uh and with that, I'll make a motion to approve uh staff's recommendation.

Thank you.

Um I was gonna make a motion.

This passed unanimously out of the committee I chair finance, and um I will second the motion.

Thank you.

And through the chair, I like to just share something with the staff.

I met John Manetta twenty-four years ago.

Uh we worked together, he saved the city hundreds of thousands of dollars when they had they were gonna be fined like ten thousand dollars a day with the EPA, and um that's what I have first started of as a um community-based organization helping out the justice impacted and unhoused.

And he actually hired us to actually do the SWEP, and and and he saved the city hundreds of thousands of dollars and worked it out of that um that violations that they had with the EPA.

So he's a competent person.

I'm sad to lose him.

He's uh I love some Johneta, right?

So uh if he's listening, John, um I'm glad to keep you here and uh keep doing the great work.

EAP is so part of your uh lexicon, you can't stop saying it.

Submit EPA.

Yeah, I was thinking about the AP.

Yeah, it's the same one.

So EPA.

Thank you.

Let's go to the public speakers.

Mr.

Sada Olabala.

Like I said in finance committee, I have no problem with this gentleman continuing his work.

I do have a tremendous problem with anything going on at the Army base.

Oakland Army base is heavily contaminated with toxic substances, including lead, arsenic, petroleum projects, asbestos, and other solvents.

These pollutants remain in the soil and remain in the groundwater, causing significant environmental and public health concerns for the surrounding West Oakland community.

The site has required extensive remediation with remediation failures throughout with high levels of contamination still in place.

Dean they it has been deemed that the parts of the site are too costly to develop for residential, commercial, or temporary shelter use, but you're ignoring that, and you you do this a lot.

You ignore the best interests of health and safety to do things that are going to be financial beneficial in this city.

So the the man, okay, anything going on at West Oakland Army Base is inappropriate and not safe.

Thank you, Mr.

Sada.

Does that conclude the public speakers?

That concludes our public speakers.

Okay.

There was a motion by Councilmember Guyo, seconded by Council Member Ramachandran to approve item S.5 S5.2 on that um parole.

Council Member Brown, aye.

Councilmember Fife is excused, Councilmember Guile.

Houston.

Ramachandran.

Aye.

Unger.

Wong.

I and Chair Jenkins.

Item number S 5.2 is approved with seven eyes one excuse five.

That now takes us to item S5.3.

I will read the ordinance into record.

Adopt an ordinance authorizing the borrowing of funds and the issuance and sale of the 2026-27 tax revenue anticipation notes in principal amount not to exceed 200 million dollars payable from revenues received for it accrue to the general fund of the city during the fiscal year 26 through 27 in approving certain related matters.

I do have one speaker for this item.

All right, good afternoon, uh President Jenkins and Council members.

Um, David Jones with the Treasury Bureau.

Uh before you this afternoon is the first reading of the ordinance providing for the borrowing of funds and the issuance and sale of the 26-27 notes payable from revenues received during the 26-27 fiscal year in an amount not to exceed 200 million dollars.

Uh the note will mature in less than 15 months, and the city has done this successfully over over the years, if you will.

Uh, the funds will be used to finance the temporary cash flow needs, basically arising from fluctuations in monthly and tax receipts, as well as including a prepayment of the city of uh of Oakland unfunded accrued liability, uh, which allows for the city to garner a 3.34% discount from CalPERS.

The ordinance only approves for the borrowing of funds, and we will be coming back next month for the second reading of this ordinance, as well as a resolution approving the documents for the transaction, and I'm available for any questions that you may have.

Thank you.

See no question.

Oh, Councilmember Ramachandra.

Thank you.

Just another statement.

This passed out of finance committee unanimously, and I'm happy to make a motion.

Got a motion and then council member Guile.

You want to turn your mic on?

Yeah, I mean, he's going off.

There you go.

That's off again.

All right.

Anyway, so is this an ongoing practice every year where we do this type of borrowing?

That is correct.

That is correct.

And so when do we make we borrow the money?

When do we repay the money?

And approximately 15 months.

And it basically is to s to smooth out the fluctuations in your revenues throughout the course of the of the um the fiscal year.

And this money will specifically the 200,000 be used for your general fund, you know, operations essentially.

For the general funds, operations, not a specific activity or service.

No, no, just operations as well as potentially uh prefunding your CalPERS accrued liability contribution, which would allow for us to receive a discount from uh from Cal Purst.

Thank you.

I'll second the motion.

Thank you.

All right.

Let's go to the public speakers.

Ms.

Asada Olabala.

I found it interesting during the discussion period of this item in finance that nobody brought up that the arrangements are that the money would be repaid within one year, not only be repaid using expected future revenue, such as fees, grants, or taxes.

So it sounds like you might be looking for measure E money, that's future money, to be the source of how you repay this, and now we're talking about measure E is strongly gonna fail, thank God.

Uh, vote no on measure E, please, everybody.

Uh, but that was never discussed fiscally, that should have been a point of clarification.

We have to pay this back in one year.

You brought it up, Mr.

Gallo.

It wasn't brought up in committee.

And the actual identification of how we will pay this back in one year.

And the last question should have been if we don't pay it back in what year, what are the consequences for not paying it back in one year?

Do we have to give a council member up or what?

What is the consequences?

We got a motion and a second.

There was a motion by Council Member Ramachandran, seconded by Councilmember Gaio to approve this ordinance on introduction.

Councilmember Brown.

Aye.

Councilmember Fife is excused.

Councilmember Gaio.

Aye.

Councilmember Houston.

Aye.

Councilmember Ramachandran.

Aye.

Councilmember Unger.

All right.

Councilmember Wong.

Aye.

Chair Jenkins.

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

Councilmember Fife.

Moving to your consent calendar, which includes all of item six.

Starting with item 6.1.

Approval of the draft minutes from the meeting of May 5th, 2026.

Item 6.2, a declaration of a local emergency due to the AIDS epidemic.

Item 6.3, a resolution renewing the declaration of medical cannabis health emergency.

Item 6.4: a declaration of a local emergency due to homelessness.

Item 6.5 is an ordinance for the easement at 260 Oak Street.

Item 6.6 an ordinance for adoption of a federally compliant flood plan.

Item 6.7 a re a resolution for SB 1313 for public water systems grant loans related to PFAS.

Item 6.8 a resolution for AB 1821 for the California Public Records Act.

Item 6.9 a resolution for SB 1314 for smoke shops, locations, hours of operation, and sale of nitrous oxide.

Item 6.10, a resolution for assembly bill 1738.

Item 6.11, a resolution for SB 1230, strengthening illegal dumping enforcement.

Item 6.12, a resolution in support of assembly bill 2310 for illegal dumping liability and enforcement.

A resolution support of SB 417.

Item 6.14, a resolution for AB 2351.

Item 6.15, a resolution celebration of May 2026 as Affordable Housing Month.

Item 6.16, a resolution for support of assembly bill 1837.

Video imaging of parking of violations on public transit vehicles.

Item 6.17.

A resolution authorizing reimbursed reimbursement for council member Cobb.

Item 6.18, a resolution for Gary Payton commemorative street renaming.

Item 6.19, a resolution for settlement for Madison Clark versus the City of Oakland.

Item 6.20, a resolution for national prescription opiate, opioid legislation.

Item 6.21, a resolution for appointments to the commission on persons with disabilities.

Item 6.22, a resolution for district one appointment to the budget advisory commission.

Item 6.23, a resolution for fiscal year 26 to 27, landscaping and lighting assessment district.

Item 6.24, a resolution for HSIP 9, rectangular rapid flashing beacon project, construction contract award, item 6.25, a resolution for cooperative agreements for purchasing electrical equipment and accessories with Gay Bar Electric Company.

Item 6.27, a resolution for Caltrans Community Cleanup and Employment Pathway Grant.

Item 6.28, a resolution for digital lift digital literacy training for older adults.

Acceptance of intergovernmental transfer award, item 6.30, a resolution for OFCY 24 through 25.

Final year in independent annual evaluation.

Item 6.31, a resolution for ceasefire lifeline contracts.

Item 6.32, a resolution for purchasing agreement with Bauer compressors, and your final item 6.33, a resolution for purchase agreement with Ellen Curtis and Sun.

And I believe staff has some amendments to item six point six.

Hi, good afternoon.

Um councilmember Jenkins, a member of the council, uh Chief Building Official Cecilia Muila.

I wanted to bring forth item 6.6 as the adoption of this floodplain ordinance as an emergency ordinance pursuant to city charter section 213.

Um it's necessary for the immediate preservation of public peace, health, and safety because failure to adopt FEMA compliant floodplain management regulations by May 25th would result in suspension of the City of Oakland's uh good standing with the National Flood Insurance Program or the NFIP, thereby jeopardizing the availability of federal funding uh for our constituents and the eligibility for certain forms of federal disaster uh assistance in the event of a natural disaster or other flood-related events.

So immediate adoption is further necessary to ensure continued implementation of the updated floodplain management standards that protect life property and public infrastructure from flood hazards, and we would like to amend uh the ordinance to include this statement.

Um it's also important to know that uh the flood floodplain ordinance did pass with a four-zero vote at public works committee and a seven-one vote at council's first reading.

Thank you.

Thank you, we will also include an amendment to the ordinance with findings.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Any through the chair if I could, I'd also ask the council to include in their approval of the consent calendar to continue item 6.5 to the June 2nd council meeting, which is the council meeting immediately following this meeting.

So the motion should include that we're gonna continue item six point five to the following meeting and the amendments that staff read, correct?

All right, all right, no comments from my colleagues, then we'll go to public comment.

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

As with practice, persons in chambers will be taken first.

Those on Zoom will be taken immediately after.

And please raise your hand on zoom so I can easily identify you.

And those in chambers, please state your name and steps of the podium in any order.

Kevin Daly, Carla Guerrera, Dwayne Nelson, John Jones the third, Arthur Shanks, Mrs.

Ada Olabala.

Have you with multiple items for the maximum amount of time?

Mr.

Hazard, I have you with multiple items for the maximum amount of time.

Jason Dixon, Isaac Coss Reed, Annie Elaine Leadberry, Nima Link, Cecilia Wynne, Renee Hayes, Jesse Williams in any order.

And again, if you're on Zoom, please raise your hand so I can easily identify you.

I'm I'm speaking on the consent calendar today.

There are many items on the consent calendar, but before uh I speak on the particulars, there's some statistics that the council should know about days.

So there are 52 weeks in a given year.

And 20 of those weeks approximately are council weeks.

Which means that there's about a 38% chance that any given week will be a council week.

Now there are 365 days in a year.

And there is a one in seven chance that that day will be a Tuesday.

And there's a one in 365% chance that that will be a birthday.

So if we combine all of these statistics together, that there is a 14% chance that any birthday will be on a Tuesday, and a 38% chance that that Tuesday will happen to be a council day.

Multiplied by the point.

You can extend the time.

His mic wasn't on, I don't think.

I'm sorry, I didn't give you all your time.

So you have two minutes left.

Thank you.

So I think it's important for the council to know that information on the consent calendar.

Today is Councilmember Rowena Brown's birthday.

Happy birthday.

Council member.

And I know she keeps it a secret, so she might be mad at me for doing this, but I have lit you a candle, which is Palo Santo.

So I don't know if you can blow this out from there.

You want to try?

Happy birthday, Councilmember.

Thank you, Nima.

Hello, Council.

Hello, Council members.

I'm here speaking on item 6.18, the renaming of uh commemorative plaque for Gary Payton.

Um I grew up in East Oakland.

Um I was able to spend some time with his father, Gary Payton Sr.

Um, he knew I wasn't much of a basketball player, so he mentored me off the court, right?

And Gary Payton is carrying on that legacy.

Um he expressed to me how he wants to revitalize uh basketball courts uh that aren't as attractive in Oakland, and it's uh it's just good that we uplifting uh community members that has poured into the community.

Um, so thank you uh the to the Peyton family and uh council member uh no um uh it's just real important that um we uplift our community members um uh so yes, thank you to the Peyton family.

Um, Jason Dixon, uh Zarek Payton, uh Brandon Payton, and the whole Peyton family.

Thank you.

Before you go, can you give me your name?

Arthur Shanks.

Hey, hey, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, how y'all doing?

How y'all doing?

Good afternoon.

My name is Cecilia W.

And I am here as a Hope and Justice Committee member with St.

Mary Center.

I am proud to be a member also with the East Bay Housing Associations.

East Bay Housing is a member-driven organization, convening and diverse coalition that advocates to produce, preserve, and protect affordability housing opportunities for low-income communities in the East Bay.

Our membership of over 400 individuals and organizations include groups, faith, institutions, and residents of affordable housing across Alameda and Counter Costa counties.

Thank you, Oakland City Council for recognizing Affordable Housing Month and affirming your commitment to affordability housing.

Good afternoon, good afternoon.

As we celebrate affordable housing here in Oakland, we are joined by EPHO members and staff who are organizing more than 25 public events across the East Bay this month to educate our community about key aspects of affordable housing and housing justice.

Our program this year includes a great lineup of events, community celebrations, days of action, panel discussions, housing workshops, community trainings, and more.

There are also grand openings and groundbreakings of new affordable housing communities that showcase and celebrate what is possible when community members, nonprofits, and local governments come together.

You can view a vis a list of events at eBo.org slash events.

Thank you.

Hi, my name is Jesse Williams.

I'm also representing St.

Mary's Center here in Oakland.

Uh the goal of Affordable Housing Month is to lift and up and up the center lift up this the center of those and center of those affected by housing crisis.

This month we call attention to the housing affordability crisis, lift up solutions, celebrate our achievements, invite all community members to join us in our movement.

As we continue this work, we are reminded that real change only happens when communities come together to prevent and advocate for one another.

We can keep each other safe and housed, but only if we work together and remain committed to a vision of a racially and economically just East Bay, where everyone has access to safe, stable, and affordable housing.

On behalf of St.

Mary's Center and East Bay Housing Organization, I thank you very much for this honor, and we hope to see you soon at one.

Hello.

And I'm with the East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation.

Thank you so much to City Council for your support and leading a strong affordable housing culture here in Oakland.

Thank you so much to HCD staff and OHA staff for their hard work in collaborating with Abaltzi this year.

We've been able to work on four affordable housing new construction projects with the city this year.

That includes Sun Lake, the Phoenix, Clara E.

Chan residence at Chinatown Bart, and 34th and San Pablo apartments.

Abalzi is proud to be an anchor partner on meeting the affordable housing needs of Oaklanders for the last 50 years and is excited to be leading 15% of Oakland's current construction and pre-development in the pipeline.

Thank you so much to all of our partners and all of the residents helping to advocate for affordable housing and stability.

Thank you so much.

For the record, John Jones III here to speak in support of item 6.18.

Before I speak, I just want to do a moment, a quick moment of silence for all the loved ones and family members who was impacted by the horrible tragedy on 80 fifth.

And um behalf on behalf of my family, I want to just give a special shout out to OG Frog from 85th.

My uncle OG Ben is from 85th.

And when my uncle passed away a couple months ago, Frog came to the funeral and spoke on his behalf.

And with that being said, this commemoration for Gary Payton.

I love the fact that it's occurring on the same birthday as El Hajman Ligel Shabbaz, aka Malcolm X.

I see Davis referred to Malcolm X as our Prince, a shining black prince.

And I think so were those words are also can and most certainly apply to the one.

Thank you for bringing this resolution forward and recognizing this important moment.

And more importantly, thank you to all the council for investing in affordable housing and good policies that are driving down costs.

Cost of homeownership is down in Oakland.

I know that's not good news for everybody, but it is certainly good news for affordability.

And also, I can't believe we made it this far in the meeting without noting the huge success that was realized today of a 20% reduction in the point account for homelessness in the city.

So kudos to staff for um all their work, Emily Weinstein and her team.

They've truly been delivering on the promise of affordable housing in the city.

I'm lucky enough to work with Ebaltsey uh that spoke earlier.

Um, and we'd like to reiterate our invitation to their groundbreaking and night market next Friday at the 34th in San Pablo project.

It's gonna be beautiful.

Hope to see you there.

Um, Miss Brown, you are so blessed to be born on Malcolm's birthday as well as the fact that you've been gifted with so many talented.

Happy birthday, Malcolm.

Okay, so I would hope at some point staff would be instructed related to items 6.6.

You have to do something about bringing items for which they are time constraints that you have to immediately move on something.

Make sure that staff is instructed to do everything in a timely manner.

That tree notice of violation took three years for them to give a notice of violation.

Uh item six uh six point one nine, the lawsuit, Department of Transportation.

I keep asking you, when are you going to bring a discussion to the table about the number of lawsuits that are being in court relating to the Department of Transportation, mostly around potholes?

We have to have that discussion and stop these lawsuits.

Uh item 6.25, cooperative agreement.

Do y'all understand this is a cooperative agreement from the city of Kansas City, Missouri?

What does that mean, Council members?

You're gonna approve it, rubber stamp it.

Do you understand what that means?

A cooperative agreement.

S6.26 illegal dumping plan.

Like I said in committee, we have a culture of disrespect related to illegal dumping going on.

That culture has to change and it won't change anytime soon.

All of these initiatives we're gonna be being repeating, picking up trash, because people do not respect the cleanliness of this city.

Item 6.27 grant for youth employment.

We got 2.1 million dollars for our youth employment summer program to be expanded past the summer.

But we got these young people picking up litter, cleaning up uh graffiti and abatement.

We gotta find better ways to have our children engage.

We have a lot of children, a lot of problems with our youth, and we got to give them some opportunities to have activities of substance.

6.28, the literacy training for older adults, uh our senior centers all open up, Mr.

Houston.

They all open now.

Good.

Uh 6.29.

Uh nonprofits.

Uh that is that is an item involving nonprofits, the Lau family, and the Spanish-speaking Unity Council is getting rich off of the city of Oakland.

You give them too much money.

6.31 ceasefire life strategy.

I have asked you and over and over, present the data of effectiveness of ceasefire.

Have not seen it.

That's the last one.

My name is Dwayne Nelson, district three West Oakland resident, proud supporter of the Arsenal Football Club, presumptive champions of the English Premier League for the first time in 23 years.

I rise in opposition to uh item 6.26, the 1.1 million dollar spend on the legal dumping.

Uh the mayor last night, councilmember won.

Uh talked about how the budget reflects our values and commitment to transparency, but I don't feel like we're getting that from public works here.

Now you're about to bypass the procurement process.

We don't have any KPIs.

What's going on with that?

Why are you gonna allow them to do that?

And also, they said they're ready to execute right away.

If they're ready to execute right away, why do we have to wait a year before we get a report?

I don't understand why this council isn't exercising their oversight.

I don't think the urgency is about spending the money.

It's out on those streets, the same streets that you're on, Monday through Sunday picking up trash.

I want to see urgency around the outcome here, not on spending the money.

You need more frequent reporting, and you need to see those KPIs.

Thank you.

One second.

I need a council member to come to the dais.

I need one council member to come to the dais.

So we do not have a quorum.

We need to wait.

We cannot continue this meeting.

Oh, there we go.

No, he finished.

He finished.

Thank you.

If your name was called and you wish to speak, please approach the podium.

Good evening.

Much respect to the president.

And uh I've been in communication with item 61.18 with uh Mr.

Noel and uh Rosa and uh just appreciate the council creating this platform for us to speak weekly, and cheers to everybody here out of all the places we can be.

We're here uh trying to make Oakland a better place.

But um Oakland has a lot to be proud of, too.

Uh specifically this item I'm speaking on, but we're doing a lot of good things in Oakland.

It's not just things we need to fix.

So I just wanted to say that.

But yeah, cheers everyone here.

Let's make sure we keep appreciating uh the things we're doing good and the things we can work on as well.

But uh yeah, I'm here um speaking on behalf of um Gary Payton.

I appreciate the city council, the mayor's office, everybody involved, Mr.

Jones, Mr.

R.

Shanks, and uh appreciate all your time and your effort.

And uh we we're basically here to uh, as they already spoke, and considering honoring Gary Payton, the legend, Gary Payton, the glove, with the street naming.

This means a lot personally to me because the Peyton family helped shape my life.

Gary's uh father helped guide me at a young age when I uh became a father at an early age.

He uh he helped me and uh I passed on a blessing to the community.

Like he uh helped me uh coach me in basketball and uh helped me through mentorship and discipline in the community and uh with my time is uh.

Can you give me your name, please?

Thank you.

All right.

I'm getting tired of this council and you, Mr.

Dickens, violating the rules.

This is the transcript from April 14th, 2026, on the protected tree ordinance.

And I got it on May 5th.

I handed out to you the following.

Look at it.

Guile.

I tried to tell you don't do a motion for uh reconsideration at that May 5th meeting.

But you want to rush back in here and listen to the lies from the city attorney.

April 14th.

That matter died.

Cassidy didn't have President Jenkins a majority vote.

The mayor refused to break the tie.

Let me tell you what the legal opinion of two previous city attorneys.

The core legal consensus under both John Russell, city attorney, 2000 to 2011, and Barbara Parker to uh 2011 to 233.

It's dictated by the Oakland City Charter, the definitive legal posture on what happens during that tie vote when the mayor declines to break its uh break it.

Core legal mechanism.

If the mayor declines, the item fails under both Russo and Barbara Parker.

The legal opinions of the city attorney have consistently maintained a bedrock principle of municipal law.

Get it.

And uh parliamentarian won't you listen?

Because you you have to clarify what I'm saying.

A tie vote means there's no majority of permanent vote.

Therefore, the motion legislation fails.

Russo's opinion reinforced that with council members split evenly.

The item is effectively frozen without a majority.

If the mayor does not step in to provide the fifth vote, the item cannot legally pass.

So what you did, and there's no such thing for your edification, Mr.

Guile.

There was no such thing as a motion for reconsideration.

But you with the city attorney said to you, I tried to warn you in the bathroom, and I was going to out you when you got in here.

It's illegal.

So how do you correct it?

You got a cue and correct under the law.

Government code 54954 prohibits motion for reconsideration without agenda.

You didn't even agendize May 5th.

It has to be agendized.

Thank you, Mr.

Hazard.

Well, can you address it in open forum?

I'm the bill.

Mr.

Hazard.

Can you address it in open forum, please?

In open forum.

Your time is up.

You can now move this minute.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Thank you, Mr.

City Court.

Mr.

Hazard.

You're violent.

You're violating the Brown Act, or Mr.

Bayer.

You're violating the Brown Act.

You're violating the Brown Act, Mr.

Hazard.

Mr.

Hazard, open forum.

Mr.

Mr.

Hazard.

You can not approve the minute in its constant.

Thank you, Mr.

Hazard.

You'll be back for open forum.

That's okay.

Okay.

Kevin Daly, are you in the chair?

No vote.

In the chamber.

Thank you, Mr.

Hazard.

The Zoom speaker, Miss Barrera.

Please unmute yourself and begin your comments.

I have you with one card for item 6.15.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, Council members.

My name is Carlaguerda.

I am the policy and advocacy senior manager at the Unity Council, and I'm speaking in support of IM 615, Affordable Housing Month.

On behalf of the Unity Council, we wish Council Member Brown a happy birthday.

And we also want to thank you all for bringing forward this resolution for acknowledging the collective work happening across Oakland to build protect and preserve affordable housing.

This best Friday, we celebrated the exciting groundbreaking of 2700 International Boulevard development that's uh very beautiful and it's 75 units uh multifamily affordable housing uh development with 22 units set aside for formerly homeless veterans.

This was only possible because of Measure U funds and your support.

Across our portfolio, the Unity Council currently has 408 affordable units under management, five hundred and eighty-nine units built and preserved, and six hundred and 670 units in the pipeline.

We look forward to many more years of building affordable homes together.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Kevin Daly, I do not see him in the chamber or on Zoom.

That was your last speaker.

I'll entertain a motion.

Excellent.

Um, thank you so much.

If you would like, um, Council President Jenkins, if you want to put time on the clock, because I'm going to be speaking to a number of the uh items.

So to start off, um, with the items that um we are supporting um from our state legislators, um SB 1314 for the smoke shops, um, both of the legislation around illegal dumping, as well as the affordable housing bond, which is SB 417, um, also assemblymember Bonte's AB 2351 around the shelter bedrancy act.

We know that this is super important to ensure accountability, um, and also that there's data to help address um homelessness in our city and getting and getting the accurate data.

Um, I do want to shout out the recent results of the point in time count where the city of Oakland showed a 20% reduction in homelessness.

Um, and I think that that is absolutely um amazing.

Um, earlier uh before the council meeting, I had the opportunity to connect with um a handful of our community organizations that are supporting uh the work of building more affordable housing, um, as well as our amazing city staff from HCD uh during uh affordable housing month.

And so as the chair of community and economic development, uh it is um the tradition to ensure that we are recognizing May as affordable housing month.

We know that this is so crucial, giving all given all of the federal cuts that are taking place um in social services, rental assistance, grants to support with affordable housing.

Um I did want to just shout out that at the next CED meeting on May the 26th, we will uh have a handful of items coming um to uh report back on the city of Oakland's annual regional housing needs allocation, receiving different uh various data, as well as a report from the Oakland Housing Authority as well.

And so I just wanted to give a huge shout out to all the organizations and community members and all of the great work of so many of our providers working to build more affordable housing in our city, and then lastly, I did want to thank city staff uh as well as my council colleagues that were on the council budget committee uh for the allocations to help support the illegal dumping expenditure action plan, and we know that these investments will definitely help uh mitigate the impacts of illegal dumping in our communities, and so that's item 6.26.

Um, all of which um I'm a hundred percent in in support of, and so I'll make that motion to move the consent calendar as amended as amended.

All right, Councilmember Houston.

Through the chair before Council Member Houston begins, just including that that amendment includes this item 6.5 continue to the next council meeting, which I believe is June 2nd and item 6.6 as amended in an emergency ordinance.

Councilmember Houston, then Councilmember Guile.

Um, through the chair, I really don't know where to start.

So a bunch of things that I like to address on here.

I want to just piggyback on my council member Brown's agree with which what she's saying.

Um a tragedy happened in my district um on 85th.

Um, and it's tragic, it's tragic.

Um, individuals ran down, it's still under investigation.

I'd like to um close this meeting mentioning the deceased and the ones that were injured, and it's maybe a couple that I won't say because I'm not sure if their family um knows the condition, but um Robert Dixon called him frog.

Um he was from 85th, and I got a call at one twenty-three on Sunday, May the 17th in the morning, and um they said, Can where are you?

And I went out there and it was just tragic, right?

And I thought it was the frog from 11-5, you know, two frogs.

There's one from 115 and there's one from 85th, and I thought it was that one, but it wasn't, but this is just a tragic situation.

So I wanted to end the meeting with um saying the individuals that were deceased.

Maybe this might be more appropriate for item number seven, right?

When we have announcements and adjournments.

Yes.

Yes, so but I wanted to talk about some other things.

Okay, but I'll bring that up.

I'll bring that on under seven.

I wanted to talk about on the the street warming, or it's really the flashing beacon on um S 6.24.

Um, when you think about it, since 117, 2020, Misha Singleton was um ran over on 98th.

And then um 517 2023, you had Carlos ran over on 98th.

This is all in my district.

My district's been suffering, right?

And I just uh I appreciate all my council members understanding what's happened in my district to embrace it, and then on uh 4-1, um, Lewis was ran over.

I wanted to mention Misha, she was she was killed.

She had seven kids on 98th.

Yeah, so this is somebody that I um that I knew personally that I did work with in the community at Stonehurst Elementary School, right?

With the legal dumping, she was a straight advocate and she left left behind seven children.

My community has been suffering, right?

And then at one o'clock, these individuals was ran down.

It's a lot more to it, but I just want to tell everybody that's out here that's listening.

Let's just wait until the investigation is over before we make some some um some moves or some decisions on what we gonna do because this can be very, very dangerous in a critical situation with the things that are happening.

But what I'm saying is just wait.

Just wait until the police do what they have to do to investigate.

Um, and on the legal dumping pieces like 6.11, 6.12 that my colleague was talking about, um, these these issues, and I'm gonna say it again.

My community's been suffering, right?

These some of these penalties is too light.

I'm gonna go with it, and I endorsed them, right?

I'm gonna go with them, but some of these penalties is $500, $1,000.

They've been dumping hazardous contaminated materials in my community for decades, right?

People need to be prosecuted, people need to go to jail, right?

Because it's been happening to my people.

My mother's black, my father's Latino.

I touch both worlds, and that's I touched both worlds, and they've been impacted on a whole nother level.

District 7.

Councilmember Wayne, impacted on levels where they drop off a bestis.

Things that the dump won't take.

So think about this.

Things that the dump won't take, that it would take a special permit to go dump it.

They dump it in my community where my seniors and my babies are.

So let me say this.

These people that are dumping on my community, the support, the new DA, the DA that's in place, because she's gonna prosecute.

She's gonna prosecute, right?

And what we need to do was some money put to the side through the budget, because I only had three small things that I wanted in my budget.

It was about public safety, homelessness, and um the EEOs.

The EEOs are the individuals that actually collect the the the data, collect the addition, right?

They need to be safe too.

And if you don't have the right information and they don't collect the right data, how can you prosecute these fools that's dumping in my community?

So my thing is this that money that was put to the side in the last budget, and I know council member Brown heard me because she had mentioned something about it.

I want to find out how our EEOs are going to be trained to collect the data.

Say, for instance, somebody go to the block and they shoot, right?

They're not just gonna sweep up the bullets, they're gonna collect them, right?

So what we're doing is we just collect, we just cleaning up trash that's dumped in our community instead of logging it in so we can prosecute these fools that's dumping in my community.

Because my community's fed up.

People ready to stand up on a whole nother level because they ain't gonna keep doing this now that I'm elected.

My fat I'm from a different fabric.

People don't understand where what what trickles through my bloodline, right?

So I'm from a different fabric, and I'm tired of my babies in my community being dumped on.

So these things, these fines is way too light.

But I supported it because we gotta start somewhere.

But what here's my last point.

Is not working, it has not worked.

It has not worked.

Councilmember Guile goes out every day, every week on cleaning up, which should be applauded.

But we're not a cleanup service.

We need to deter this problem and prosecute these fools that's dumping in my community.

Or we're gonna have to do something else to these fools.

And let me say this to you it's not only a public health and safety issue on the people that have to clean it up, other people have to live amongst it.

It's another public health and safety issue for the people that report it because it's individuals that reported it that they got guns pulled on them, pull a gun on me.

I shoot back.

Um council member, I think you've exceeded your time.

Did you want to wrap up?

Okay, all right.

You want to write you want to wrap it up?

To say that uh I'm I'm gonna support these these things, but we're being a little bit too soft.

We need to be harder because it's a it's proof.

I've been in this game for 20 something years, and it has not changed but got worse.

So we must do something different, President.

That's all I'm saying.

Thank you.

Is that a second?

All right.

So we have a oh council member.

Thank you.

You know, Councilmember Houston brought up a good point on item um S 6.26, which I supported.

I'm really glad that we're going to have a thoughtful expenditure plan moving forward.

But I do want to uplift what he said about the positions that were put in in the past budget.

So when we're thinking about expenditure, what about the environmental environment officers that we put in there?

What about I'm looking at the budget amendments right now?

Unfreeze two EEOs for illegal dumping enforcement.

Um, add funds for technology improvements to a desk illegal dumping, eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

OM for environmental officer training, um, OM for environmental crime data collection, public information officer, Oakland Proud illegal dumping education campaign, unfreeze the painter for graffiti abatement.

These are things that are budgeted.

So we think about expenditures.

Where, if if these positions haven't been hired, where is that money?

And so I hope that they're going if they're not going to these positions but haven't which haven't been hired that they're going somewhere related to illegal dumping, but as we think about dumping illegal dumping expenditures, I would like to understand, not today because it's not this is not here, but where's the money that's already been expended that we've already put in the budget around these matters?

And I I'm grateful to Councilman Brown and Houston for uplifting what we put in the budget, but we only have the power to put items in the budget, not control what happens to it once it once it's there.

So I I know that there's they're thoughtful leaders in all of these departments, and I wanna I wish I I hope that there's more transparency moving forward.

Councilmember McGill, turn this mic on.

Am I on to testing one, two, three?

Alright, thank you.

Uh thank you for that information.

Uh I'm not gonna get into the legal dumping right now, but but if you have a recommendation, I can give you one that, but you know, you gotta understand.

Okay, San Leandro, sitting next door, they're allowed to go once a month to waste management and dump their trash, like other cities do.

Why can't Oakland do that?

Why?

And I've been recommending we do that, right?

As opposed to going down to the uh public works yard, having people stand there over time whole day waiting for people to come drump their trash, then they got to take it a waste management.

But San Leandro, I was there Saturday unloading our trucks, long line of cars, and I could say, where are they from?

Oh, they're all from San Leandro bringing their trash and unloading it free.

And why can't Oakland do the same thing?

You know, members of the council.

Come on, let's why can't we do that here as they do in other cities?

But I want to take take my two minutes and recognize Gary Payton uh as we celebrate and not only his contributions, but for those of you that don't, I see a lot of young people that don't know Oakland in the past, Oakland at one time was the fifth largest market in the country for recruiting professional athletes.

The fifth largest market in the country for recruiting professional athletes from basketball, football, baseball, and so forth, and uh you would see them at our high schools a lot, recruiting uh a lot of our youngsters that were graduating from Oakland High, Fremont, McClyman's, and so forth.

As an example, you have Marshawn Lynch, uh, Gary Payton, uh Damian Lillard is still playing, Ricky Henderson, Jason Kidd, still coaching, uh, Brian Shaw, Bill Russell, uh Paul Pierce, um Dave Stewart that I played baseball with in high school, uh, Hall of Famer, uh, Kurt Floyd, and many others that came out of Oakland, and I just want to thank the family.

Uh Gary Payton Jr.

is playing for the Golden State Warriors still, and I'm sure he'll be present in our dedication with some other uh warrior athletes.

But I want to publicly thank Gary Payton for his contribution.

I know there's a couple of schools in East Oakland where he's contributed to the basketball court.

Uh he came out of Jefferson elementary school, his mother taught her Jefferson Elementary School, and uh, but uh on June 18th, for those of you that are interested in joining us, please come out and celebrate and recognize his contribution because not only you know our schools in in East Oakland, but there's other elementary schools where um the Golden State Warriors, Jason Kidd, and many others have contributed for his development, but I want to thank the family uh of Gary Payton for joining us, and certainly it's an honor to recognize uh his leadership contributions, and um I've already received uh from Dave Stewart and other professional athletes that want to join you, and uh it's an honor to have you and thank you so much and um and I'll second the motion on the items.

All right, thank you, Councilmember Guy.

Um Councilmember.

Oh, you already seconded Councilmember Houston already second.

Councilmember Wong.

Since we're all weighing in here, um, I just wanted to talk about that.

I I think in the upcoming budget process, we have an opportunity.

I think we need um at least one full-time OPD officer that's dedicated to illegal dumping and graffiti vandalism.

I've been engaged in this uphill battle with our city staff on to get to have somebody to give a crap about the graffiti problem.

So this is related to item 6.12, right?

Absolutely.

Yes, it is so um, but uh, yeah, I just and the other thing that was noted in the auditors's report, right, is that when their team had notified OPD, nobody actually bothered to file, you know, actually investigate the crime of illegal dumping.

So we need to dedicate some resources, and on top of that, the other problem is the DA didn't even take up the case.

So we have multiple issues to solve, but we I think as a body need to start really be unified in pressuring both the DA and our own police department to make some changes because it's these quality of life crimes that continue to contribute to the fact that people do not feel safe and they do not feel like it's a clean city, and like we don't have basic pride in the city of Oakland when we allow this to happen.

Thank you, Councilmember.

So we have a motion and second.

I believe that's going on in Houston.

Yes, we have a motion by Councilmember Brown, second by council member Houston to approve the consent calendar, which also includes continuing item 6.5 to the next council meeting of June 2nd, and with item 6.6 as amended and as an emergency ordinance, councilmember Brown, aye.

Councilmember Fife is excused, Councilmember Guyo.

Aye.

Councilmember Houston.

Aye.

Councilmember Ramachandran.

Aye.

Councilmember Unger.

Aye.

Councilmember Wong.

Aye.

And Chair Jenkins.

I motion passes with a vote of seven ayes.

That concludes all your action items.

Moving to item seven, which is council acknowledgements and announcements.

Yes.

So in addition to uh the victims that tragically lost their lives on 85th Avenue this weekend when I joined this meeting in memory of Wilson Wiles Jr., um former council member uh who departed and former police commissioner who did uh wonderful work for the city of Oakland while he was here.

Uh I also want to say happy birthday to Kevin Garnett, Malcolm X, and my council member, Councilmember Brown.

Thank you.

Um happy birthday, Councilmember Brown, happy AAPI Heritage Month, happy women's health month.

Um, and I in addition to all of the names mentioned, I wanted to also adjourn in the memory of Christopher Buckley, who just succumbed to a battle with cancer.

He's a former arborist for the city of Oakland who spent his time um really committing to the cause of supporting and uplifting Oakland trees, including um for many years after he retired.

Um he continued to work tirelessly to beautify the city of Oakland and balance it with historic preservation, public green space, and the importance of well-maintained street trees.

He personally donated and planted and cared with his own hands for thousands of Oakland trees.

Um, and yes, thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Houston.

So through the chair, I want to say happy birthday.

Happy birthday.

Um, and in in memories and of the injured, the deceased and the injured, um, Robert Dixon Frog, 85th, forever, um, Charles Blackman, deceased, um Sylvester Patterson, and injured um Deshaun and Gabriela.

I'm gonna go call Gabriella, it's another one that I'm not gonna mention because I'm not sure family knows, but I want to end the meeting and for the deceased and the injured in my district.

Thank you, Councilmember.

Let's go to open forum.

As a car name, please approach the podium in any order, please state your name for the record before beginning.

If you are on Zoom, please raise your hand so I can easily identify you.

You will have one minute to address the council, Kevin Daly, Miss Asada Olabala, Mr.

Hazard, Sylvia Guzman, Cynthia Rodriguez, Jacqueline Guillen, Daniela Lopez, Asuena, Serrano Hernandez, Alicia Pablo, Jason, Chalez, Brianna, Ramirez, Bruce Condi, Linda Wade, Fic P.

Fiomo, Alberto Para, Thomas Sabird, Mark Robles, Renee Moon, Lacretia Flemings, Melvin Calamy, Gudelia Cruz Hernandez, Mary Leckett, Kathy Harris, Sharon Green Pace, I think this is a duplicate, Kathy Harris, Cora Clark, Isabel Ruiz, Michelle Washington, Greg Slider, excuse me, Greg Slaughter and Crystal Harding.

So it's real clear 54950, the government code and the government code 54960.

Actions taken in violation of key open meeting laws are avoidable by the court.

City must expressly, and this is you all know this now.

You have to cure and correct May 5th, 2026 public hearing.

President Jacobs vote no on Jenkins, vote no on uh measuree.

Uh the minutes, uh an accurate record of what actually happened, not a declaration of whether what happened was legal.

May 5th was legal, illegal, guile.

Open your mouth.

Get a uh legal opinion from the city attorney.

I gave you the illegal opinion from uh Russo and Barker.

May 14th was April 14th was fail.

Thank you, Mr.

Hazard.

Your time is up.

An effective voice, not just a channel.

Good afternoon, council members.

My name is Sylvia Guzman.

I'm a healthy housing champion with La Clínica de la Rasa.

I live, work, and play out of East Oakland.

I'm a mother of three and recently a grandmother to one.

When my youngest children were born, they were born into a building that was infested with lead.

Lucky we were able to move out to here.

I'm talking here to talk to you about proactive rental inspections.

Many of the families that grew up with my children are now parents themselves, like my eldest.

Most of these families continue to live there being impacted by the conditions in the outside.

If you walk by that building, it's now falling from the outside in.

It's literally falling, and you can see that.

I'm here to ask you for proactive rental inspections.

As council members, you have the power to help prevent children from being exposed to lead before it causes irreversible harms.

Unfortunately, I see this in those neighbors.

Today I'm here to ask that you have the power to create these policies and give priority to prevent and good afternoon.

City Council members, my name is Cynthia Rodriguez, I'm an Oakland resident, and I'm also a youth break coordinator for La Clinica Healthy Homes Initiative, where we work to address the ongoing issue of lead exposure in Oakland.

So throughout this school year, our youth have had the opportunity to learn about the dangers of lead and how deeply this issue impacts our communities.

They have worked hard to raise awareness, educate the community, and advocate for the health and safety of their families, their friends, and community members.

Today we come before you in hope and urgency.

We ask that the LED settlement funds be used to strengthen and expand the lead abatement and proctor rental inspection program so that more families can live in safe and healthier homes.

Thank you for your time.

Good morning.

I mean, good afternoon, City Council.

My name is Daniela Lopez.

I am an 18-year-old senior in high school and a resident of Oakland.

I am part of Casa Chet in collaboration with Healthy Homes Initiative to support healthier and safer communities for youth and families.

Throughout this program, I've learned more of civic engagement and how important it is for you, young people to speak up about issues affecting our community.

Today we are here to talk about our policy campaign focused on lead exposure and the importance of lead abatement programs.

With the support of Casa Che, we are here advocating in support of using the city's led settlement funds to start an equitable led abatement program and proactive rental inspection program.

These policies are important to me because they help create safer homes, healthier communities, and better opportunities for children to grow and succeed.

Thank you for your time.

I'm a senior in high school, and I am a member, and I'm here today as a member of the Youth Bridge program, like as a chip in collaboration with the Healthy Homes Initiative.

Today I want to bring attention to a problem our community faces on a daily basis lead contamination in houses.

Lead contamination has been a serious problem in Oakland for almost half a century now.

In a report done by KQED, it was reported that 83% of rental houses in Oakland are lead contaminated.

Many of these houses are occupied by immigrant families who are often unaware of the dangers that are being exposed to, leaving them at a great disadvantage and at risk of the Paliping health conditions in life.

And even if the families are aware of the dangers that are being often exposed to, they are often unable to speak up and advocate for themselves due to factors such as language barriers, immigration status, and economic insecurity.

So I come here today as to ask for your support, the city plans to use the lead settlement funds to create an equitable lead abatement program supported by the one.

My name is Brianna Ramirez.

I am 16 years old.

I attend Oakland Technical High School and I'm here today to speak about how lead is affecting our community.

Lead exposure is a serious health issue, especially for children.

There is no safe amount of lead exposure for children because it can affect brain development, learning, behavior, and growth.

Many people are exposed to lead without even realizing it.

Lead can be found in older homes through peeling paint, contaminated dust, old water pipes, and soil.

This is important in Oakland because many buildings and homes in our city were built before 1972 and may still contain lead materials.

Families should not have to worry about whether their water or homes are safe.

As a student, I believe every child deserves a healthy and safe environment where they can learn and grow without being harmed by something preventable.

Our community needs more awareness, safer housing conditions, and action from local leaders to help protect families from lead exposure.

If we work together as a community, good afternoon, council members.

My name is Jacqueline Guian.

I am 16 years old and I am currently a junior at Cristo Rey de La Salle.

I am a part of La Clinica's Healthy Homes Initiative, working to address the issue of lead in homes and protect families in our community.

Lead poisoning is a serious issue because it can affect children's brain development, behavior, growth, and ability to learn and concentrate.

This issue matters deeply to me because many families in Oakland, especially in the Fruitville area, live in older homes where lead paint is still a danger.

Many families may not even realize their homes contain lead hazards, and their children should not have to grow up in unsafe environments that can harm their health in future.

As young people, we care about creating safer and healthier communities for for future generations.

That is why we are asking for continued investments in lead prevention programs, home inspections, and resources for families affected by lead exposure.

Thank you for your time.

Hello, everyone.

My name is Alicia Paulo.

I'm a senior at CCPA.

Today I'm here on behalf of Healthy Housing Initiative with La Clinica.

In Oakland, there are many challenges we face, one of them being lead poisoning.

Today we are seeing the impacts it has on children, and no one is doing anything about it.

Those who are exposed to lead have many health problems like cognitive, emotional, physical development that could be long term.

As a teen living in Oakland, specifically East Oakland, I have seen the impacts of lead firsthand.

My little sister who is seven years old was exposed to lead in a house she would spend time in.

She began having stomach pain.

This was the start of her suffering.

We began looking for answers, and it wasn't until she got tested that we found her pain was due to lead poisoning.

No child should have to go through this.

Luckily, she was taken care of.

But imagine how many children in Oakland are currently experiencing these same health issues, and no one is doing anything about it.

This is why I am here to advocate for those who can't be here today.

I want you to know that I'm advocating not only for my sister, but for the future of other children.

Hello, my name is Kathy Harris, and I live at 1428 105th Avenue.

I just want to thank Councilman Jenkins and Ms.

Brown and Ken Houston for coming to our apartment building with the city administrators and the building inspectors, fire chiefs, and whoever else was it was a bunch of people there, inspecting our building.

Um I just want to say that we, as residents there want our building cleaned up, and I don't know what they're gonna do about it.

Can you tell me what they're gonna do about it?

Anybody have a guess?

Uh Jen Houston is my counsel number.

Yeah, we'll make sure that you guys get updates.

Okay, great.

Thank you.

Good evening, everyone.

Good evening.

My name is Crystal Harding.

I'm representing All Children Thrive, uh, California and the Haven's Court Safe Homes Initiative.

Shout out to those youth that just spoke.

Give it up for them.

That's what I'm talking about.

Um, ACT is a community-led movement transforming how cities address childhood trauma, bringing together residents, city staff, and elected officials to co-design policies and programs that foster child and family well-being.

Communities of color in East and West Oakland, including Haven's Court, are among the most at risk for childhood lead poisoning in the entire state.

Fruitvale had higher lead poisoning rates than Flint, Michigan at the height of its water crisis.

We know that it has some permanent harm and damages.

And Oakland has over 14 million from the 2019 legal settlement with the paint companies.

We want you to take action and move this money forward, uh, invest in the equitable lead hazard abandonment program and the proactive rental inspection.

We thank you for your time.

Thank you.

I just want to uh encourage African American black people, take an opportunity to embrace yourself and talk about what's going on with us.

We're so open-hearted, we're always talking about everybody, but concentrate on us.

Nothing wrong with that.

I am concerned about the West Oakland Senior Center.

I just got a text that is still not open.

I'm gonna say vote no on measure E.

And we have an important decision to make in this city, and I want to address it right now.

We have to appoint a police chief.

And I am in a position, my position is it can't come from a person from within the Oakland police department.

That culture of the police department is well protected.

Somebody's got to come in here and change the culture and be willing to make a difference.

And it's not gonna happen with anybody that's already in that police department.

When they came here and gave a report and said that no longer do we have racial profiling in the uh Oakland police department.

How you doing, Council members?

I'll talk to you earlier today, President Jenkins.

Okay, I want to do what I need to do right now.

I need to ask you to stand.

I need to ask Councilmember Brown.

Can she please stand?

You know I'm coming at you, Councilmember Houston.

I need you to stand.

Okay.

This is what I want to tell you guys.

To me personally, you guys have the dream team for Oakland Station.

The reason why I say that, Councilman Brown, when you came there, you left a grown man in tears because he you listened to him.

He felt real good when you did that.

Okay, and I thank you and he thanks you.

President Jenkins, when you came on the Saturday, I got a call 8 30 Sunday morning to get my butt over to Oakland Station because you came there with a team.

And one of the team members you came with is sitting over here.

And I'm gonna do this in front of your colleagues, uh, Mr.

Houston.

Like I owe you an apologies for the things I said in the past, because after the conversation that me and you had and what you've been doing, you just did it on the under You have anything else to say.

Okay, you let me know what you was doing, and we appreciate that.

You guys should take a vow.

Seriously.

I have one more place that I need you and Brown to come to, and that's City Towers, 8th Street in Oakland.

It's just as bad as Oakland Station.

And with the team effort that we're doing together, we're gonna get we'll get that building together like we do on Oak Oakland Station.

Ken, I'm gonna tell you, I am with you a hundred percent behind circling that building that they trying to build, and let's shut it down.

We're gonna do it as we're gonna do it as a team.

Me and you're gonna be up front.

You're gonna be you're gonna be the general, I'm gonna be your lieutenant right up on you, because I'm gonna stand up there for the nobody in there, okay?

And I personally, personally thank you guys.

All right.

Before you go, can you give me your name, please?

Sir.

What is it?

Your name.

Oh, I'm sorry.

My name is Gregory Slaughter.

Thank you.

And I'm a resident of uh Oakland, California.

Next morning on the 28th, I'm proud to say I'll be 73 years old.

I'm still handsome too.

Okay.

Hello.

Um, my name is Tomasa Bird, and I live at um 105 um international in a new building, so-called.

Um I've uh had so much problems.

I broke my wrist being there.

Uh, unless my car, um I've been there for five years, and nothing's being done about the bars in my bathroom.

I fell so many times and I'm sick and tired of it.

You people are helping me where shit.

Five years without bathroom bars, and I just been following all the time.

Um I feel and they said I have to pay for my bars to be put in the bathrooms.

From what I know, I'm not supposed to it's they were supposed to be there already, and I've been writing down every year for bars in my bathroom, and nothing's being done.

There's still no bars.

I had went out and all they had was plastic bars, and it's I went together.

Can you can you guys give uh I need to ask her a question?

Can give her 20 more seconds.

Oh, okay.

Was there anything else you have to say?

Uh yeah, I have I have it it rained in my department, and uh I had roaches the following day.

I I would really hate to wake up wounds crawling on me.

I really need that done.

Thank you, ma'am.

If your name was calling you in the chambers and you wish to speak during open form, please approach the fort, excuse me, the podium.

At this time, all names have been called.

Um, if no, if open form is done, I would like to ask the council if I too could do an adjournment in honor of Edam May Johnson.

Um, if you know she used to come to council meetings all the time, and she passed away on April 21st.

So I would ask that the council adjourn in her honor and her services, I believe our Friday, May 22nd.

Thank you for that, Councilmember Houston.

Through the chair, I wanted to tell all the individuals that came out from the Oakland station.

I got you.

I got you.

And let me say this.

When we went out there, um expired fire extinguishers, handrails didn't work.

Um the roll-up door didn't work.

It smelled like stench, and it was just awful.

No one should have to live like that.

And let me tell you what I did.

I'm gonna bring it to the next council member meeting.

I'm gonna bring the bottle, the glass of roaches that I got from there.

I'm gonna show it.

I'm gonna put it online.

So I'm gonna say, do you wanna live like that?

I have them, and I'm gonna bring them, and I'm gonna show them what you had, because you showed me some and I went there and got got them myself.

So I'ma show the public.

Should my seniors, should my Oaklanders have to live like this, would you live like this?

And you're gonna say no, it's appalling, and I'm gonna bring it, I'm gonna show it.

Thank you, council member.

Yeah, thank you, and thank you for everyone that uh joined us uh this afternoon.

Uh for those that brought up the issue of lead and the paint, there is a process for that.

The city does have you was awarded five million dollars, and the county has nine million dollars.

All right, but the process for if you get ill, you go to child if you're a child, you go to children's hospital, they'll do the testing, and they'll submit that information to the city or or to the county for service.

If you know if you're an adult, you can go up to Kaiser and get tested, and they'll submit that information to the city or to the county uh to follow up, test uh your facility, your home, and also remove the the lead, the paint, the lead and the paint, and uh so we'll all ask the city administrator.

Uh we've been through this challenge where there have been some lead in the pain issues, but we have not responded as a city.

All right, and we've been at this for a number of years, and I've tried working with the county, but then the county says we deal with the county and not the city, because that's city property, and the city has been finally we hired a consultant group to tell us how to do it after a number of years.

And uh so if we can respond to those that are here, because we do have the money, and I'll give you this last example because it happened here at City Hall, my office upstairs.

This is a hundred and thirteen-year-old building.

All right, and so what happened is one of my assistants' child got ill, and he went we he went to children's hospital and he came back extremely positive with lead in the paint.

But the mom said, Well, you know, I already had my home tested, it's not there, but she brings her child here to mine, then she went to got tested, and the numbers were extremely, extremely high.

But I'm trying to work with the city with the inspectors to come, but it took a while to get it done, but I'm still waiting for the results of the lead and the pain issue.

Because in some of our offices, the lead is falling through the walls through the ceilings, the windows, and the the strong paint came out of the windows that we have.

And but I'm still waiting for the inspectors came a month later to inspect my office, but I'm still waiting for the results because I saw your previous office upstairs, man.

That pain spilling left and right.

And I know you're no longer there, but I know I'm still up there.

But anyway, so I think that city administrator, you need to communicate and let the council members know where are we with the lead in the pain issue.

Um outside of council and making sure that we get on that lead settlement money getting out.

Councilman Wong.

I um just on the topic of lead, on last Friday I went to Castleman, Councilmont High School with the Frontline Catalysts uh group, and something that I had picked up there from one of the student presentations where they were doing lead testing given all the lead in the school pipes, is that they basically rely on these electronic filtration systems, and there is literal only one working drinking fountain for the entire school.

And I know that's on the s that is part of you know capital improvements for the school district, but man, it's just totally unacceptable to have lead going into our children's bloodstreams like that.

Thank you, Councilmember.

All right, reforms done, adjournments are done.

Oh no, now it's time for enjoyments.

Thank you.

We adjourn this evening in honor of all the victims of the eighty-fifth Avenue tragedy, those who passed and those who are injured, Wilson Ryos Jr., Christopher Buckley, and Edma May Johnson.

Thank you.

This meeting is adjourned.