The Community & Economic Development Committee of the Oakland City Council met on July 14, 2026, from 1:30 PM to 3:20 PM to consider several items, including a tax sale authorization for affordable housing, debt forgiveness for the Seminary Point retail project, a code enforcement update, a signage contract, and workforce development funds. The meeting featured extensive public comment on street vendor enforcement and community engagement.
To the community and economic development committee meeting of Tuesday, July 14th, 2026. The time is now one thirty 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, 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, whichever occurs first. Registering to speak via Zoom is now due 24 hours prior to the start of this meeting, and this meeting came to order at one thirty PM, and speaker cards will no longer be accepted ten minutes after, making that time one forty p.m. We'll now proceed with taking roll. Oh, this is Ramachandran. Oh, sorry, Ramachandran. Excuse. Ramachandran excused and chair Um. Thank you. We have three members present, one excuse Ramachandran. And Chair, before we begin, do you have any announcements at this time? Yes, um, so first off, um, just want to make the announcement that this will be uh one of our last uh CED meetings until September of the twenty-first. I just want to thank all of the departments uh that have presented over the course of the last couple of months, HCD, EWD, planning and building, and thank you all for all of your hard work. Um, I also did want to take a moment of uh personal um privilege to shout out um two uh interns in my office, um, Sana, as well as Mariana, who also served on this the school board as a school board representative, and it will be heading off to college in the fall. Um, but we're so proud to have you in the office during the summer. Um so everyone, uh please um feel free to go introduce yourself and learn all about uh some of the things that they're working on. Um, and then also um, I would make the announcement uh just to ensure that we are staying on time with the amount of um agenda items that we have. I will limit public comment to one minute. Thank you so much. Thank you, Chair. Noting the presence of Councilmember Ramachandran at 1 32 p.m. Reading in item one, approval of the draft minutes from the committee meeting of June twenty-third, two thousand twenty-six. We have no speakers on this item. Just need a motion. Excellent. Thank you so much. Colleagues. Councilmember Fife. So moved. Okay. Excellent. Thank you. Thank you. We have a motion made by council member Fife, seconded by Council Member Ramachandran. To accept the draft minutes from the committee meeting of June 23rd, 2026. On roll council members Five. Aye. Rama Chandran. I and Chair Brown. Aye. Thank you. Item one passes with four eyes to accept the draft minutes from the committee meeting of June 23rd, 2026. Item two, determination of schedule of outstanding committee items. And we do have a number of speakers that signed up to speak on this item. Okay. Thank you so much. So to the administration, any changes? No changes at this time.