The Oakland Public Safety Committee met on Tuesday, May 26, 2026, at 6:07 PM. The committee approved minutes and the schedule of outstanding items, and considered several major agenda items including the 2026-2030 Community Violence Reduction Plan (CVRP), a false alarm reduction contract, a local hazard mitigation plan, and a background investigations contract. All items were forwarded to the June 2 City Council meeting with various recommendations.
Good evening and welcome to the public safety committee meeting of Tuesday, May twenty sixth, two thousand twenty-six. The time is now six. Oh seven PM, and this meeting may come to order. Before taking roll, I will provide instructions on how to submit speaker cards for items on this agenda. If you're here with us in chamber and would like to submit a speaker card, please fill one out and turn one into myself or a clerk representative no later than ten minutes after the start of this meeting or before the item is read into record. Registering to speak via Zoom is now due twenty-four hours prior to the start of this meeting time. This meeting came to order at six. Oh seven PM, and speaker cards will no longer be accepted ten minutes after, making that time six seventeen PM. We'll now proceed with taking role. Council members Brown present. Present. We have no speakers. We just need a motion. Second. Thank you. That's a motion made by Councilmember Brown, seconded by Councilmember Fife to accept the appropriate accept the draft minutes from the committee meeting of May 12, 2026. On roll council members Brown. Aye. Five. All right. Houston's excuse and Chair Wong. Aye. Thank you. Item number one passes with three eyes, one excused Houston. Reading in item two, determination of schedule of outstanding committee items. And we have one speaker that signed up to speak. Okay. Colleagues, city administration. Do the chair. I have nothing. Okay. Thank you. Move approval of the um pending list. Okay. Great. Second. Yes, we'll go to public comment. Thank you. Calling in the name that signed up to speak on item number two, Rajni Mandal. Rajni, you can unmute yourself and begin your comments. Rajni Mandel District 4. This is regarding the NSA update. For tomorrow's federal court hearing on Oakland's negotiated settlement agreement. I wanted to take a moment to recognize something important. For the first time in the history of the NSA process, OPD has reached compliance with all 51 tasks. A milestone that reflects years of work and more recently, extraordinary collaboration. I want to acknowledge the leadership and efforts of Mayor Barbara Lee, Chief James Beer, Assistant City Administrator Michelle Phillips, Deputy Chief Lisa Osmus, Deputy Chief Baron Smith, City Attorney Ryan Richardson, Bridget Martin, and many staff across OPD, the City Administrator's Office, City Attorney's Office who have worked tirelessly behind the scenes. Tomorrow's hearing will likely focus not on whether progress has happened, but whether it can last. I hope we recognize how much hard work has gone into reaching this point and continue supporting the leadership and collaboration that have brought Oakland here. Thank you.