Thank you all to all the members of the public who have come to the life enrichment committee meeting.

We're just waiting for quorum.

I see one of my council members on the committee just outside.

So as soon as we get her inner seat, then we're going to get started.

All line speaker requests were due twenty four hours part of this meeting.

We have a motion made by Councilmember Gallo, seconded by Councilmember Houston to accept the draft minutes of the meeting of May 12, 2026 as is on roll, Councilmember Gallo.

Aye.

Councilmember Houston.

Aye.

Councilmember Wong?

Aye.

And Chair Five.

Aye.

This motion passes with four ayes to accept the draft minutes of the May 12th, 2026 as is.

Uh to my committee members, I need to change the order of the agenda.

I wanted to move item five last to allow the HSD item to be heard consecutively.

So the order would be item number four, then item number six, then item number five.

I just need a second.

Thank you.

We have a motion motion made by Chair Five, seconded by Councilmember Guillo to change the order of today's life and retreat committee agenda on role.

Councilmember Gallo.

Hi.

Councilmember Houston.

Aye.

Councilmember Wong.

Aye.

And Chair Five?

Aye.

Once again, we will change the order after item two.

It will be item number four, six, my apologies.

Item number three, it would then be item four, six, and then five.

Thank you.

Moving to item two, determination and schedule outstanding committee items.

And there are no speakers for this item.

I'll entertain a motion.

Second.

We do have a motion made by Councilmember Gaio, seconded by Councilmember Wong to accept determination to schedule outstanding committee items, which is your pending list as is on roll, Councilmember Gaio.

Aye.

Councilmember Houston.

Aye.

Councilmember Wong?

Aye.

And Chair Five.

Aye.

This motion does pass what four ayes to accept determination of schedule outstanding committee items, which is the pending list as is.

Moving to item three.

Receive an informational report from the chair of Oakland's Mayor's Commission on persons with disabilities regarding their status and recent activities.

And you do not have any speakers for this item.

Wonderful.

Thank you for being here with us today for this presentation.

Madam City Clerk, if you could put seven minutes on the clock.

Hello.

Chair Fife and Life American Committee.

I'm Anwar Perudi.

I am Chair of the Mayor's Commission on People with Disabilities and I'm happy to be providing my third annual update on our commission to council.

Um to start with some of the positives this year.

Uh despite some um some hiccups that slow down nomination and appointments of new commissioners due to the change in mayoral staff.

Um we have had a number of new commissioners join, and I'm happy to report that they are the most active commission.

We this is the most active the commission has been uh in my tenure with many of our commissioners participating um more than I've ever seen in and out of meetings in pursuit of of our strategic goal, which is attached attachment B.

And our attachment A, which I won't spend too much time on today, provides detailed updates on the presentations, the correspondences, um, all the activities we've had uh throughout the year, working with various different city uh departments with various different outside organizations, and uh on various tasks, including a lot of uh project feedback, a lot of long-range planning feedback, things like that.

Um I'd like to move on to oh also the uh we were able to conduct our annual community needs survey um this year and would direct you to the report to see some of the outcomes of it.

Um notable ones, uh, as similar to last year uh we still have many needs and housing that needs and transportations, but we've also found that there are um there is an important lack in just information available to Oaklanders on how to access even existing city resources, and we're working on trying to improve just the distribution of you know, making sure people know what resources are available to them, rather than making use of them.

Some challenges we want to highlight are staffing, which we'll get to in a bit, uh a constant challenge.

Um, we have had challenge with emergency preparedness, where we've uh after a lot of like research and going back and forth found that, for example, um the fire department does not have a emergency wheelchairs.

We don't have 24 7 staff ready for emergency preparedness, and that we're worried that um existing staff are not well enough trained to handle people with disabilities, and those worries about our emergency preparedness are are uh come up often, along with worry worries about construction compliance, where we see very often that um construction around the city is not compliant to standards and are uh serving as barriers to Oaklanders um extremely often.

Um as mentioned, there are definitely lacks a lack of resources.

We um have some requests on uh improving, especially uh housing.

Um, the uh AIP program from HCD in particular could use some love.

It's a great program that is understaffed and under-resourced and could use the resources, especially in the face of the current Smith litigation around affordable accessible housing.

Lastly, I want to move on to some of our asks for this year.

Um, we will continue to we are starting to work on our survey, community survey for the next year and ask for your support in distributing that uh using your mailing list and resources to help get that uh extend our reach further than it has been in the past.

We like I said, we have asked around uh supporting HCD along with Oak DOT to um help both prepare for um be proactive around housing and Smith litigation and to continue working on the current settlement as y'all have done in the past, and I appreciate and finally uh the most important top issue for us is uh staffing of our ADAA programs division.

Right now it is staffed by two uh wonderful staff members, but it is missing at least three, two of which have been promised by this council, but have not been delivered.

In fact, since my last time, since my time here last year, those positions have been moved um over to Oak Dot and effectively all intents and purposes been eliminated, which is important which is backsliding on our commitments to people with disabilities.

Um this has pretty dire consequences.

If you'll permit me to share personally, I don't think you can see it here, but like just this last weekend, trying to walk uh to a friend's house.

I trying to avoid a SAP obstruction, walked headfirst into um inappropriately placed construction equipment, suffered pretty rough hit, um, was shocked by the uh trauma from the collision, had blood pouring down my face, um, was extremely frustrated and frankly humiliated at my inability to walk my own city.

And thankfully I was only a block away from my friend's house who could help take care of me.

Uh thankfully it was not worse, and um I'm able to be here today.

Um, but this is not an isolated incident.

These kinds of barriers exist throughout the city.

Um in our outreach in working with um our commission hosted a neighborhood walking tour last year to support Oakland's general plan outreach, and staff were shocked to hear from Oaklanders' testimonials that, like, for example, people in wheelchairs, up to um a quarter of their trips that they start there, they aren't able to complete.

Um that's a full fourth of their trips they just have to give up on mid-trip because of obstructions in the built environment.

Um, this is a direct outcome of failing to staff our uh ADA divisions, uh, it our ADA programs division uh failing to staff at least even the architectural uh associate that they've been asking for for upwards of a decade.

I take some responsibility in not pushing hard enough on getting that position funded and ask that you take that accountability with me, and that we move forward on getting this funded.

Um, this is not technically difficult.

This has been promised to the department in the past, and um and then withheld.

Financially, this should not be a big ask.

In fact, uh a quick uh cursory overview of our city attorney's annual reports over the past few years demonstrates millions of dollars, anywhere from three to eighteen million dollars per year on infrastructure settlements alone.

Uh, an architectural associate successfully mitigating even just one settlement uh pays for one to twenty years of their salary by itself.

They should not be financially challenging.

Um we have some recommendations on how to move forward specifically, for example, having those positions funded through an internal service funding model that takes from all departments equally instead of relying only on the Oak DOT budget.

And ask and would we are uh available to talk more and see this through.

I ask that before I'll be here in the chambers throughout through the rest of the meeting and ask before you leave here today, come find me and set up some time to talk through this, and please help us get this done this budget cycle so that we can bring more dignity to the lives of Oaklanders with disabilities.

Um that concludes my report.

Uh again, there's plenty of details not included in the uh attachments.

Happy to discuss more of those now or later.

And thank you so much for your time.

I appreciate the time support you've given us even as I ask for more of it.

Thank you, Anwar.

And I I do want to apologize and and hope you are feeling better for what happened to you.

That sounds incredibly scary and painful.

And so, yes, we do want to work towards making things safer in our community for people with disabilities in Oakland.

Um, Madam City Clerk, do you have uh do we have speakers on this item?

So I will entertain questions for our presenter from the committee.

Councilmember Guyot.

Thank you for the information.

For the m for the public's uh understanding, can you define a person with disabilities?

How is that defined here in Oakland?

There are many different disabilities uh many different definitions I could go on.

Um that are classically used are any person who has some sort of impairment that prevents um any sort of like key life function, such as mobility, um, like cognitive ability, um, things like that, uh, and spans um spans the gamut of uh like difficulty moving, difficulty hearing, like uh sensory disabilities, cognitive disabilities that make it hard to parse the environment around you.

And I point out that um no one uh everyone knows someone with a disability, everyone will eventually have a disability if they live long enough.

Um we have a large elderly population in Oakland, and I'm happy um to report that we are on good terms with like our uh commission on aging and we work together often.

Um and these are matters that also pertain to our youth who are also in some respects like uh don't have full accessibility to the world.

So so disability is defined more physical challenge that we have, not mental, but physical.

It is both.

Okay, and is there a an age group that you know to receive the services?

Do I have to be 35 and over to qualify for disability, or can I be 12 years old and be disabled and qualify?

And anyone can qualify if they have a disability, though you will eventually qualify just by matter, just by what age does to us, right?

Um and and life, just as that is.

So right now, the city services that we're providing, the majority are providing to perhaps people with a disability that are on wheelchair can't walk physical, uh, but it's what age group are we providing the housing and the other services.

Um I can't say for certain I'd want to follow up exactly, though I'd note that we aren't providing nearly as many services as we should be, and um that uh yeah, I'll leave it at that for now.

So right now, so the services that Oakland provide those with disability are more housing related.

Um I would ask our uh department um our access coordinator could better answer exactly what services they're able to provide, but generally they do a lot of behind the scenes work with staff to make sure that new housing, new uh transportation projects, new all sorts of things are um compliant, that we're building things accessibly.

Um I point out, like, and I've seen this through my advocacy as well that you cannot properly serve people with disabilities without experience with disability, that lived experience is extremely crucial, and it's essential that we have staff within the city who know exactly what it's like to be disabled and who have those experiences so that everything we do, because this touches everything we do, is done with a lens of disability.

Um, when we fail to do that, it leads to um trauma and problems for people with disabilities.

It leads to a large amount of legal uh liability and settlements that we see, and it leads to a worse quality of life for our most vulnerable neighbors.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Guile.

Councilmember Wong.

I wanted to ask about the intersection of housing, older housing stock and those with disabilities actually a neighbor of mine.

I uh learned had left my apartment building because uh we have a really crappy elevator, and um it's it's an older housing unit, and he had gotten injured and uh was not able to use the stairs and had recently learned.

I think that apartments that were uh older than the Costa Hawkins Act before 1983 are not covered by ADA.

Is that true?

Can you speak more about that?

Yes, and I think this is the subject of the Smith litigation where systematically um we cannot rent control um any housing newer than I believe it's nineteen ninety.

Any housing um however the ADA only applies to housing newer than nineteen ninety, which means that there is a systematic gap where you literally cannot have um affordable rent controlled housing that is required to be ADA accessible.

Is there anything we can do about that?

Um we're currently being sued for that right now.

Yeah, vocal.

We're currently yeah, we're currently being sued, and I um I think talking with city attorney and with our program staff um can help inform what our options are.

Um but yes, I think that there is the I I just want to interject.

What needs to happen in order for uh Oakland to be able to make these units available is to change state law.

This is state law that governs um Costa Hawkins.

You know, there were several attempts to repeal Costa Hawkins over the years.

I'm very familiar with those efforts, but it's vi it because we are bound by that.

There's very little the city of Oakland can do right now.

So just to answer your question, but we should support any efforts that occur at the statewide level.

Yeah, that's my personal perspective.

No, makes sense.

Um, and then there's this elevator ordinance enforcement.

Uh do you mind educating us and what what is that elevator ordinance?

So this is an ordinance we passed just in a couple years modeled after modeled after an ordinance that's existed in Berkeley for almost three decades that basically is supposed to um put fines on buildings that fail to notice and repair elevators within um 24 hours to a week, depending on this circumstance.

Umtably the enforcement for that new ordinance falls on the people who are affected by it, they need to basically seek those damages themselves, which is a massive barrier, and effectively makes enforcement extremely difficult.

Got it.

I say we have a new law in the book that should help with this elevator problem, but the way it's implemented makes it hard to enforce it.

Okay, interesting.

Thank you.

So I'm I'm aware that there has been a request for the life enrichment committee to help support advocacy with the mayor's office and um some other budget requests.

The budget requests would be a full city council S.

And so that's why I'm going to recommend that we move this to the full city council so that we can have those conversations at at that time.

I think they're pertinent.

Again, as you stated, and while in your presentation, um, those commitments have already been made.

So we just need to follow up with that second step.

So I will make a motion for um this item to be.

I'll wait for the city clerk to okay.

I'm gonna make a motion for this item to be moved to the full city council on non-consent.

Thank you, Chair Fife.

We do have a motion to be by Chair Five, seconded by Councilmember Guyo to receive and forward this item to the June 2nd City Council agenda on role, Councilmember Gaio.

Aye.

Councilmember Houston.

Aye.

Councilmember Wong.

Aye.

And Chair Five?

Aye.

This motion passes with four eyes to receive and forward this item to the June 2nd City Council agenda.

And the request was for non-consent.

Moving to M1.

Moving to item four.

Adopt the resolution one amending resolution number nine through eight one nine to extend the agreement with City Span Technologies for 12 months for the client services and contract database, ongoing grants management, licensing, user support, project management and custom programming for Oakland fund for children and youth funded programs in an amount not to exceed $200,000 for July 1st, 26th to June 30th, 27, and waiving the competitive multi-step solicitation process for the acquisition of computerized of information technologies and waiving local and small local business enterprise requirements and there are no speakers.

Good afternoon, LEC Chair Fife and fellow council members.

My name is Robin Love, and I'm the children and youth services manager within the Human Services Department.

I am here today to seek your approval to proceed with amending resolution 90819 to extend the contract with City Span Technologies for our client services and contract database, ongoing grants, management licensing, user support, and uh project management and custom programming.

This extension will allow us to uh continue with the smooth onboarding of new programs and offboarding of old programs during the transitional phase as we have recently closed our RFP and are getting geared up for a fiscal year 26-27.

It'll also allow us staff time to adequately prepare, publish, and fully conduct the information technologies professional service request for proposals, which was released and is currently open for all vendors.

City span technologies received a zero um availability analysis from the from Du West, the Department of Workforce and Employment Standards.

Without this database, as you can see by our waiver um justification, we will not be able to conduct effectively and efficiently the business of uh managing our grants.

We'll have more grants this year, and so this database is vital and essential for us to uh do the work that we need to do around grants management.

It increases accuracy, it reduces errors, and it allows me to uh receive an expenditure report uh in real time so I can manage our funds as well as all agency reporting is entered into this city span database.

We have also opened up City span to uh the Office of Workforce Development Board for the Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program so that they now are working with their grantees uh in city span.

I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have.

Colleagues, yes, councilmember guy.

Working with city span technologies, so within the human services department, we have a few divisions that actually have a city span uh uh technologies and the database.

We have significantly invested and built out the database to accommodate our specific needs.

There are early conversations about how can uh city span uh be uh shared with other departments and what the cost would look like uh because it is a very robust database and allows us to do so many things, including produce the data uh about who we serve and the demographics.

And they would they report directly to who within the city of Oakland to you?

Yes.

Okay, so we uh contract directly with city span technologies.

Okay, thank you.

We meet weekly uh motion.

Okay.

Okay.

I'll second.

Thank you.

We have a motion made by Councilmember Gaio.

Seconded by Chair Five to approve the recommendations of staff and afford the side onto the June 2nd City Council agenda on roll.

Councilmember Guyo.

Aye.

Councilmember Houston.

Aye.

Councilmember Wong.

Aye.

And Chair Five.

Aye.

This motion passes with four ayes to approve the recommendations of staff.

And a four decide unto the June 2nd City Council agenda.

And through the maker, is it a consent or not consent?

Consent.

Thank you.

Moving to item six.

And I'm Robin Love.

I haven't changed my title.

I'm the children and youth services manager within the human services department.

I'm here today to seek your authorization to amend resolution 900.

Ms.

Love.

Um, are you for item six as well?

I thought we switched them, so my two would be together.

I may have missed that.

Yes, ma'am.

I would need to read it into record real quick.

Okay.

Going too fast.

No.

Thank you.

Uh reading in item number six.

Adopt the resolution amending resolution number nine zero three one zero, which awarded Oakland Fund of Children and Youth grants providing direct services for fiscal year 24 through 25 to replace the lead agency for the Healthy Wealthy Wise program from children and outreach, children and youth outreach to the youth employment partnership without changing the grant award amount to 225,000.

And there are no speakers for this item.

Thank you.

I'll begin.

Um the youth employment partnership is one of our uh very important programs.

They do a lot of work with our uh career and our employment services for youth uh in 2024, 2025.

YEP absorbed the program uh community uh youth outreach.

And so we wanted to make sure that we updated our uh contract and spending authority.

I should have brought this to you uh when we did the renewals for 2526.

We tried to QA our work and when it came up that we had not actually made the official change of the program uh to youth employment partnership.

I wanted to bring it back to you as soon as possible in order to get your authorization.

Uh YEP has exceeded or met the majority of all their objectives.

They are located uh in the fruitville neighborhood, and we're excited that they were able to absorb this program because it is vital to the uh children and youth that it serves.

And I'm happy to answer any questions you may have.

Colleagues, Councilmember Gaio.

Okay, no, just um I want to thank um your leadership in terms of reaching out to youth employment programs.

I and for the members of the public, uh, the YAP has it's a program, the neighborhood's been around for many years, uh, not only you know providing these services, but also helping youngsters that want to continue their education to receive their diplomas, but also to learn they learn how to build construction, building portable shares for the homeless and down the street, and and most of all, I just want to publicly thank YAP because they're out there cleaning my neighborhood with me, and they come out and take care of the streets that we work on, and not only their own immediate neighborhood, but uh but uh thank you for this information and I'm honored to make a motion to approve the item.

Thank you, thank you.

Thank you.

We have a motion made by Councilmember Guyo seconded by Councilmember Houston to approve the recommendations of staff and afford decide onto the June 2nd City Council agenda on roll, Councilmember Gaio.

Aye.

Councilmember Houston.

Aye.

Councilmember Wong Aye and Chair Five?

Aye.

This motion does pass with four eyes to approve the recommendations of staff and afford decide onto the June 2nd City Council agenda and through the body that will be on consent or nine.

Consent.

Thank you.

Moving to item five.

Adopt a resolution directing the city administrator to develop an immortalization program to relocate industrial recycling facilities operated by the California waste Solutions and CAS, Inc.

from areas in the West Oakland to address negative environmental impacts on local residents and proceed to Planning commission and immortalization legislation no later than December the 31st, 2026, and there are no speakers.

Okay, do we have Brendan Moriarty in?

Is he here?

I just wanted to make sure you were here just in case you had the.

Okay.

So this is an item that I am bringing forward to this body.

It is been a long time coming that West Oakland does significant work to address recyclers, and just over overarching the overarching issue of pollution in the district.

And this is one of the ways that we are trying to do that.

Relocating heavy industry from residential neighborhoods is a long-standing community and city objective, particularly for West Oakland residents who've been subject to disproportionate exposure from polluting industries.

Although I'm the council member for West Oakland at this time, I've been a longtime supporter and advocate for environmental issues across the city from East Oakland to West Oakland.

I've spent the last 10 years in coalition with residents, everyday residents who are trying to move polluting industries out of their neighborhoods.

And in 2012, the city revised its redevelopment plan for the Oakland Army base to include relocation of California waste solutions and CAS from the West Oakland neighborhood to the North Gateway area on the Oakland Army base as a key community benefit.

This resolution details the decade-long effort to relate relocate these two recyclers per the revised redevelopment plan, including ENAs and an LDD, I should probably say exclusive negotiating agreement, a lease and development disposition agreement with CWCWS specifically.

So I'm trying to not use acronyms so much.

However, due to circumstances outside of the city's control, including parties not meeting the terms of their agreements, all contracts have lapsed, which has left the city the opportunity to explore alternatives for relocating these recyclers.

As a point of clarification, the memo that is in your packet states that all agreements have lapsed as of December 2022.

I want to note that that date applies only to CAS with regard to CWS.

The LDDA termination notice was sent to the city in May of 2025.

I want to define what amortization is because a lot of people don't know.

Amortization is a process by which jurisdictions like the City of Oakland can phase out non-conforming land use after a period of time that is sufficient to allow the owner of the business or the property to relocate.

The city's adopted environmental justice element of the city's 2045 general plan identifies amortization as a process to allow the city to identify and prioritize non-conforming land uses, which would include existing polluting industries like truck intensive uses, auto body uses, recycling uses, and more.

To phase out over time, we are going to use this process.

We are seeking to use this process, and we're asking to work with the city administrator's office to bring back specific legislation.

Amortization is also discussed in the West Oakland specific plan.

In line with the city's development in line with the city's planning documents, the proposed legislation directs the city administrator to one develop an amortization legislation timeline, including making any necessary findings, developing a specific time frame for amortization to occur, and creating a list of alternative sites to reload relocate industrial recycling facilities operated by California Waste Solutions and CAS, and then two to proceed to the planning commission with amortization legislation no later than December of this year in preparation for the council's consideration.

I hope that was clear.

I'm willing to answer any questions.

We also have our city staff here who are um able to answer questions as well.

But basically, what I'm asking for this body to do is move legislation through life enrichment to the full city council to phase out these two major polluters out of West Oakland and to find alternative sites for them.

And we have no speakers on this item, so it's all this committee.

Councilmember Wong.

So um effort.

They're related, but they're also not directly related.

The connecting factor is that there has been expressed interest in utilizing the Army base for these two sites, as stated in my comments.

Both of these sites are both of these organizations, CAS and CWS both had contracts to develop at that location, but over the years they've fallen out of their contracts with the city of Oakland.

So because they weren't able to fulfill the aspects of those contracts, the site is available for alternative uses.

Okay.

Okay.

Say that.

Um and then I I have a question, I think that is for Brendan.

This list of alternative sites, do are we restricted to looking at alternative sites in Oakland or I mean these are companies that operate regionally.

Through the chair, my name is Brendan Moriarty, Director of Real Estate, and uh we'll follow the direction of the of the resolution, what the legislation um asked us to do.

Um and I don't recall, does it specifically say Oakland only?

Um does not, it looks like.

Well, one specific one, the one we're still in contract with for recycling services in the city of Oakland, okay, not in a residential neighborhood where there are consistent fires, consistent impacts to the overall health of our residents in in those locations.

But again, I would prefer that we are able to continue to um experience the revenue that we receive from those organizations, but the health of the constituents that I serve is the top priority.

Yeah, okay.

Councilmember Houston, I see your your light on, and then I Councilmember Guy, did you have questions as well?

Yeah, thank you.

And thank you for bringing this up as we've we've had uh here at the city of Oakland a long historical challenge with CWS.

Uh and specifically in this area, locating their recycling or a location for them to since they pick up their our recycled goods from every home.

And the challenge has always been in challenging with waste management where waste management has a facility CWS didn't have and when we started this whole process and but certainly I don't want those sites located in my district at all.

Not even come nearby.

Maybe Ken will be open to that, but not in my area.

And um, but I thought uh Madam Chair person, I thought that one is you know, I'm not sure what the deadline is to renew the contract with CWS with recycling, because that's gonna be a challenge, and so what's with uh waste management going together.

Um I can understand, you know, in terms of removing that operation uh from West Oakland, uh, but I don't have have any idea where I would locate that in Oakland and certainly don't want it in our neighborhoods.

Uh so good luck with that process.

Thank you.

And it's more of a legal.

Thank you, Councilmember Guy.

Councilmember Houston.

Through the chair.

I thought of CWS, they lost their they lost their their contract right with the Army Base, so they're stuck to where they are unless they find some other location, right.

Okay.

And since we're talking about property, someone is gonna come up and speak about something, and I want the city administrator and the city attorney to address us on the record so um we know as a city how we're gonna move on helping my small business in my district.

So that'd be an open form.

Understood, thank you.

If there are no other questions, I will make a motion to move this to the full city council.

Uh it will probably need more debate though, I'm sure.

Yeah.

Okay.

So I have a motion by councilmember Houston.

I mean, I'm sorry, second.

I made the motion a second by councilmember Houston to non-consent.

Yeah.

And thank you, Chair Five, to correct my mispronunciation of the word is a mortization.

We do have a motion made by Council Chair Five, seconded by Councilmember Houston to approve the recommendations of staff and before I decide until the June 2nd.

2026 City Council agenda on role, Councilmember Guyo.

Aye.

Councilmember Houston.

I councilmember Wong.

Chair Fife.

I and I do want to thank the planning and building department, whoever's over there representing that was available to answer questions.

Give me one second.

I need to finish the motion.

Oh, I'm sorry.

And thank you to um, thank you to real estate.

Four eyes.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff before I decide until the June 2nd, 2026 city council agenda and the request was non-consent.

Moving to open forum.

I would also like to thank the city clerk for putting up with my shenanigans and uh appreciate you immensely.

Thank you.

It is it's so wonderful to be here.

I want to call your name, please approach the podium, state your name for the record.

You do have two minutes if you're participating via Zoom, please raise your hand.

So you're easily identified, and we will take in person before our Zoom speakers.

Anthony Del Toro, David Boatwright, Jeffrey Cayo, and excuse me for mispronouncing your name as well.

Rosa Gyron, Lara Cabral, Cabrol, Yasmin Villabala, Villa Balba, Brianna Gomez, Pamela Lopez.

If I called your name, please refer to the podium, state state your name for the record, and you do have two minutes.

Thank you.

Uh good afternoon.

My name is excuse me.

I'm sorry, one moment.

I I do want to allow Councilmember Houston to say uh a couple words before you speak.

Yes, uh, through the chair.

As a uh the the representative of District 7, I have a business owner here that's very responsible to speaking at open forum about this this uh real estate piece that he can explain more, and I just wanted it on the record so the city attorney, the city administrator can help him move through this piece.

So Anthony, go ahead, boss.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, uh Council.

Thank you for having me.

Um basically, my my situation's a little different.

Um I am a business owner.

I used to work in the nonprofit sector for about 10 years, ran a uh organization called uh California with Outreach with Mr.

Henry Woods and um did that for about 10 years, opened up a body shop so I can help kids do my own business.

Long story short, there's a there's an organization that's at the corner of my body shop that the city of Oakland owns that they got illegal permits to basically build a hundred and fifty thousand dollar portable on my property.

Now, I don't know about you guys, but I don't know nobody that can build and get permits in any one of your guys' backyard.

So how can they do that in mine?

I've helped the community, I've given jobs, I've donated, I've done everything I was supposed to do as a community person, and now I um I have to sell my lot because we're gonna purchase a different lot to expand the business.

I've already got I've already lost two potential clients because the person doesn't want to leave, and it's an organization that the city of Oakland is given the authority to not move.

So I don't know what else to do.

I reached out to Mr.

Uh Kent.

Um he's my he's in my district.

I I'm I'm I don't know what else to do.

You know what I mean?

And and I know that if it was any one of your guys', you guys would be doing a lot more than what I'm getting, you know, help with.

And it's just very frustrating.

I'm a business owner, I pay taxes.

Um, I clean up my own neighborhood.

I do a lot because there's a our district is very uncertain.

I mean it's just un underserved and and I mean I know Kent Kent's out there by himself out there with us helping us doing whatever we can do.

At this point it's just frustrating.

So as a business owner and as somebody who's done their due diligence with the community what I what would what else?

Thank you for your comment I apologize I did miss the top but the city attorney I could repeat it.

I do have a quick question can I ask it can you uh tell me the name of your business and where you're located.

B and M collision 9901 Pippin Street we own that sh it's right on the corner and right across the street is a lot um I don't have it's two parcels I don't have the addresses in front of me even though I own them but it's two parcels.

It's on Pittman Street and the East Bay Boxing Association which is a great organization that the lady Donna is doing everything she can do.

So I'm not knocking her but I you know she is the ED and I just want to know what it is that we can do together because she's like left without resources I mean as the person like I think I got it.

What do I what do I do?

I think I got it.

And I don't know how you guys got permits to get on my lot that's just crazy.

Like I don't understand that.

I think we're gonna the city administrators' office is going to help you kind of think through that that issue.

Thank you.

Yeah we can follow up thank you.

Does time just begin on my first word or please take your name for the record.

My name is Jeffrey Cal.

Dear council members my name is Jeffrey and today I come to speak on behalf of the mental health crisis affecting our community one in five members of our community are affected by a mental health disorder and surveys show that more than 50% cannot find the help that they need with policies like macro already supporting our community and policies like Prop 1 having major implications on how we budget around this issue we have already completed the hardest step starting however it is more important that we do not forget that we still have some ways to go school based health centers are currently caught between scrambling for compensation from insurance companies and very volatile funding from pop prop 30 63 and now Prop 1.

Prop 63 fluctuates with the economy and Prop 1 is a bond it's a one-time payment that doesn't s system uh systematically solve for anything by establishing some sort of baseline uh funding annually for them young citizens affected by mental health issues can finally find help creating a community where people feel safe seeking treatment is essential if we want to continue fighting for a healthier and better city overall mental health affects students families workers people of all ages throughout our city when people cannot access treatment the effects are felt across the entire community from schools and workplaces to public safety and homelessness services as a life enrichment committee committee you play a key role in shaping the health and well being of our community I urge you to prioritize I urge you to prioritize preventative uh mental health care and ensure that future funding decisions go towards access to early treatment for those who need it most instead of late reaction based treatment so when voting on budgeting for mental health policies please do not think about it as just another piece of legislation but as a way to benefit 9000 members of our community thank you for your time hi good evening my name's Laura Cabran um I don't know if my time starts yet thank you um I'm the program director of the Safe Passages Baby Learning Communities Collaborative program that's been funded by OFCY uh for 15 years um I want to thank all the council members and OFCY for the support throughout this time.

We've been able to reach thousands of families in Oakland, children and their parents um during that time and um I'm here to support the grant recommendations that are gonna come to you soon um and uh thank OFCY and the POC for just how committed they are to funding as many kids and youth as possible.

A lot of the funding went to older youth this time, and which is much needed and we appreciate it as an organization.

We fund from the spectrum from early childhood to young adults.

Many of the kids that started in our programs 15, 16 years ago are now teenagers, so they need that funding as well.

Many of them are in workforce development programs serving our program now and giving back to the program and their community.

So we're very much in favor of the recommendations and the older youth funding, but as a uh early childhood program, we're also here as advocates for the little ones and their families.

So we would like um for OFCY reserve funding to be dedicated to early childhood funding and funding more of these programs that are not just programs like playgroups and workshops, but we connect families early on to other resources and really special opportunities that we've been using your investment to offer courses, to offer also just additional support for health and uh mental health related needs for families and just essential needs as well, like food distributions, diapers, and thank you for your comment.

Thank you.

Good evening.

Uh my name is Yasmin, and I am here to be have on the Safe Pash Baby Learning Community Collaborate program.

I have I am a parent of Ford Children's and uh resident of East Oakland.

Thank you for your continuing dedication to children and families in Oakland.

I I am in support of the upcoming OFCY grant recommendations.

I want to acknowledge the difficult decisions that were made when selecting proposals and understand why more funding was dedicated towards older youth.

I have two teenage boys and appreciate the support provided to teens.

I am also the mother of two young children, so I would like to request all FCY reserve funds be dedicated to early childhood and elementary after school programs.

I have experience in the impact programs like the Safe Passage Baby Learning can have on families.

The program connects me to Alameda County Office of Education Opportunity Academy of the Safe Pass Wellness Center.

I am receiving my high school diploma this summer through the academy, and the program has offered me support through my time at their academy.

It is a type of special support offered by early childhood programs to provide additional service that will be missing unless we dedicate more funds to early childhood.

Please consider committing all FCY reserve funds for early childhood and elementary programs after school.

Thank you.

Congratulations on your degree.

The program has been part of my life since I was a child.

My mom attended the play groups of me and my younger siblings, and through those programs, she found community support and lasting relationships, including meeting my godmother, Vero, who's also part of Safe Passages herself.

Now, years later, I have the opportunity to give back to the same community that once supported my family.

And through Safe Passages Baby Learning program, I have helped with food distributions, toy distributions during the holidays, and um giving back to those families that are in need.

I have seen firsthand how these programs bring people together and create safe supportive spaces for children and parents.

Early childhood programs are not just programs, they are opportunities for families to feel more connected, supported, and empowered.

That is why committing future funding to early childhood and elementary school after school programs is so important when we invest in early learning and community support.

We also invest in the future of Oakland's children and families.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you for your comments.

Miss Love, are you still in the building?

Okay.

Okay.

After we're done, can the city administrator's office or someone from your department speak to these speak to this organization about what their asks are?

Yes, I can see that.

Oh okay.

Thank you.

No, ma'am.

Thank you.

Hi.

My name is Rosa Hiron, and I work for Safe Passages Baby Learning Community Collaboration Program.

And I have had the honor of working for that pro for the program for 16 years and serving so many wonderful Oakland families.

I would like to thank of FCY and this committee for the support and dedication to children and families in Oakland.

For the last 16 years, I have seen firsthand how programs like baby learning help families with young children grow and build a strong connections.

I would like to request committing OFCY reserve funds to early childhood and elementary after school programs.

One more thing.

Hi, my name is Pamela Lopez.

I am here today to support the OFCY grant recommendation that will be presented to this committee in an upcoming meeting.

I am also here to ask that you consider funding more early childhood programs through OFCY reserve funds.

Early childhood programs serve families who depend on this resource and safe spaces to help their child grow.

Every child deserves opportunity to learn, grow, play in a safe supportive environment without more funding.

Many families will lose will lose access to programs that truly make a difference in their child's lives and futures.

Early childhood programs are not only beneficial beneficial for children today, but they're also an investment in the future of our community.

Thank you for your continued support and funding for programs like baby learning.

We understand that there are many important programs that are limited funds to advocate.

We truly appreciate what OFCY had already made in the early childhood rec um education and families we serve, consider funding the more early childhood programs through OFCY Reserve Funds.

Thank you.

David Bowery.

These comments apply not only to the life enrichment committee items.

I believe the effectiveness of all city measures and significant projects, including grants to outside entities, be required to make at least semi-annual periodic brief reports to the related city committees.

Better follow-up and oversight of city operations will aid in dec decreasing time and money losses that are currently occurring in too many occasions.

The only regular example of this city awareness effort is the crime reporting by the police department.

That concludes your public speakers for open forum.

Oh, it's almost five o'clock.

This meeting is adjourned at 4 59 p.m.

Thank you.