Let's get this party started.

Good morning, and welcome to the rules and legislation committee meeting on this Thursday, July 16th.

The time is 1030, 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 and would like to submit a speaker card, please fill out a card and turn it into a clerk representative either before the item is called into record or 10 minutes after this meeting began.

This meeting began at 10 30, so that cutoff time to submit a speaker card is 1040 or before the item is called, whichever comes first.

Online speaker cards were due 24 hours before this meeting began, so those are no longer being accepted.

So with that, on roll, council member Brown.

Present.

Councilmember Fife.

Excuse.

Councilmember Ramachandran.

Aye.

And Chair Jenkins.

Aye.

There are three members present.

One excuse Councilmember Fife.

Um before um I go to the first item.

Is there any announcements, Council President?

No announcements.

No announcements going to item one, which was the draft minutes.

There are no minutes to be approved at this time.

So this now takes me to item two.

Item two is determination of scheduling about standing committee items, which is your pending list for rules.

Um and I have one speaker for this item.

Anything from the administration?

Uh no changes.

Anything from my colleagues.

All right, let's go to the speaker.

I have Blair Beekman for item two.

For the public speakers, I'll entertain a motion.

Brown.

There was a motion by Councilmember Brown, seconded by Council Member Ramachandran to approve item two as is on roll.

Council member Brown.

Aye.

Councilmember Ramachandran.

Aye.

And um council member five, excuse council member uh Jenkins.

Aye.

And item number two is approved with three ayes, one excused five.

That now takes us to item three, new scheduling.

Item three point one is uh resolution authorizing the city administrator to one enter into an agreement with the state of California.

And enter into an agreement with SOA Village Housing Inc.

for restoration of the mural and ongoing maintenance in coordination with artists Daniel Um Galvez and then Keith Scholar.

And this item is being requested to be scheduled for the July 21st.

Would leave insufficient administrative le uh led uh led time for the department of transportation to execute the necessary contract and cow trans permit agreements directly jeopardizing a fully funded landmark community project.

Good morning, Bridget Ruiz Revezo, uh Council Member Wong's staff.

I uh we received the finalization of the three grants that I believe that are um uh to fund this project just last week, and so therefore we need wanted to move as quickly as possible to be able to meet the October 1st um deadline.

Thank you.

Thank you for that.

Urgency finding for item 3.1.

Also noting um council member five present at 1034.

Um now moving on to item 3.2.

Item 3.2 is adopting resolution authorizing the city administrator to execute an employment agreement between the city of Oakland and the Chief of Police James Beer for a total annual compensation of 403,694 dollars and ninety-six cents, which includes an annual salary of 358,839 dollars and ninety-six cents and premium pay provided under a MOU between the City of Oakland and the Oakland Police Management Association in the amount of 44,855 dollars, as well as either an auto allowance of 750,000 dollars per month or 750 dollars apologies per month or use of a city vehicle.

Um, this is being requested to be scheduled for the July 21st City Council agenda on consent.

There is an urgency finding um and a rule 24.

I'll read them into record.

The rule 24 is due to the time sensitive need to finalize an employment agreement with the chief of police James Beer following his appointment as chief of police prior to the city council summer recess.

Timely approval of the agreement will allow the city to move forward with the terms of the chief's employment and compensation and support the city's ongoing public safety priorities.

The urgency finding is to ensure that the city promptly executes an employment agreement with the chief police beer James Beer following his appointment as the chief of police prior to the city council summer recess.

Timely approval of the agreement will allow the city to move forward with the terms of the chief's employment and compensation and support the city's ongoing public safety priorities.

This now takes us to item 3.3.

Um 3.3 is adopt a resolution appropriating and allocating $50 million of proceeds of sale of the City of Oakland's undivided 50% interest in the Coliseum Complex to California public employee employees retirement systems for a discretionary payment of city's unfunded accrued liability for retirement benefits, and this item is being requested to be scheduled for the July 21st.

City of Council agenda on a non-consent, and we will need a rule 24 and urgency finding.

Thank you.

Thank you, Brad Johnson Director of Finance.

The rule 24 and urgency findings are as follows.

The uh this item was originally contained as a component of the uh second amendment to or the second amendment to the column CM sale purchase.

It was removed at first reading in order to distinguish it as a fiscal item at on the advice of the city attorney.

The urgency and rule 24 reasons are that the city may close on this deal prior to the reconvening of the council in September, and due to the compound interest received by the city's investments in the CalPurse system over the course of the fiscal year, delaying the payment to CalPur's beyond when we would be able to make it may result in reduced long-term savings to the city of Oakland due to the lack of the ability of time for the CalPur system to invest and deal with the city's contribution uh supplementary payment.

Thank you.

Thank you for that.

We will now move to item 3.4.

Item 3.4 is a resolution authorizing and directing the city administrator to execute a severance severance agreement between the city of Oakland and Justin Johnson to provide Johnson a severance payment in the amount of 40949,737.24 cents in exchange for Johnson's execution of a general release and waiver of claims against the city.

This item is being requested to be scheduled for the July 21st City Council agenda on non-consent.

This item is being withdrawn by the district seven office.

So noted item 3.4 is to be withdrawn.

No new scheduling date.

Thank you.

Now moving to item 3.5, a resolution in celebration of the LGBTQ plus pride in Oakland and the 16th annual anniversary, excuse me, 16th anniversary of the Oakland's Pride Parade and Festival and honoring LGBTQ plus leaders who have built a legacy service excellence and resilience in our city.

This item is being requested to be scheduled for the September 15th.

There is a rule 24, and I'll read that in, which this item is being scheduled to the um to the consent calendar, but is a ceremonial in nature, and such items traditionally go directly to full council.

I do see staff.

Good morning.

Bridget Ruiz Raveso for Council Member Wong.

She would like to be added as a co-sponsor to this item.

Excellent, thank you.

And I would like to as well.

Thank you.

Excellent.

And I also receive the note that the office of the mayor would also like to be added as well.

So noted, we are adding to item 3.5 Councilmember Wong, Rama Chandrin, and Mayor Lee.

Moving to item 3.6 is receive an informational report from the city auditor on the performance audit of the vacant property tax.

This item is being requested to be scheduled for September 22nd Finance and Management Committee Agenda.

Item 3.7 is receive an information report on the operational financial status of the city-owned parking garages, evaluation of parking operator performance, and review of the city's parking operations alternative.

This item is being requested to be scheduled for the September 22nd Finance and Management Committee Agenda.

We will now move to the recommendations from the July 14th committee, starting with the Finance and Management Committee.

Item 3.8, I will be reading in the short titles.

3.8 is a grant funds from the Oakland Fund for Purpose of Technology and Audit.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff and forward this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on consent.

Item 3.9 one year update of the fiscal year 2026-2030 Oakland Roadmap.

This item was received and filed in committee.

Item 3.10 physical year 2025-2028 citywide strategic plan one year update.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff and to receive and forward this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on consent.

Item 3.11, the parking operations contract extension.

The committee approved as amended the recommendations of staff to forward this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on consent with an amendment to the legislation to extend the contract through the end of the year and request to staff to provide in a supplemental report a list of all city parking facilities and report on the garage by garage data.

Item 3.12 reimbursement resolution general obligation bonds.

This item the committee approved the recommendations of staff to forward this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on consent and item 313 performance service agreement with waiver of 10 well LLP for forensic audit services.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff and to forward this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on consent with the request to staff to provide a supplemental report with the following.

How the company meets the small local business requirements, names of all of the subcontractors, what kind of findings have this company been able to uncover for other cities and what were those outcomes and what can we expect in terms of performance improvements.

Reading in the short title starting from item 3.14 is AC Transit Fruitvale Avenue Corporation Agreement, Cooperation Agreement.

And the committee approved the recommendations of staff to forward this item to the July 21st City Council Agenda on Consent.

Item 3.15 collision repair contracts for light and heavy vehicles.

The committee approved as amended the recommendations of staff and to forward this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on non-consent to only approve the approve sections two and eight of the legislation related to the quality body and fender and the CEQA findings with the remaining proposed contracts one, three, four, five, six, and seven to be rescheduled after the summer break.

Um there was a no vote.

Um this item is being requested to be scheduled to non-consent.

Item 3.16 municipal facility energy assessment professional services agreement award.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff and to forward this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on consent.

Item 3.17, 750,000 Bay Area Air Quality Management District Grant.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff and to forward this item to the July 21st City Council Agenda on Cent.

Item 318 is the Broadway Streetscape Improvement Construction Contract Award.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff and to forward this item into the July 21st City Council agenda on consent.

Item 3.19 is the REAP 2.0 hint funds for the West Oakland UBM pilot.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff and to forward this item to the July 21st City Council Agenda on Consent.

Item 3.20, the City Response to the 2025-2026 Alameda County Civil Grand Jury Report.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff and to forward this item to the July 21st City Council Agenda on Consent.

Item 3.21, the professional services contract amendment with the ALTA Planning and Design Inc.

for the 7th Street Connection Project.

The committee approved the urgency finding and the committee also approved as amended the recommendations of staff to forward this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on consent with the amendment to add supplemental attachments A and B to be included in the agenda staff report.

Excuse me, economic and excuse me, community and economic development committee.

Item 3.22 Chapter 8 Tax Sale Authorization.

It consists of two pieces of legislation.

There was an urgency finding read into record, and the committee approved the recommendations of staff and to forward this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on consent, both pieces of legislation.

Item 3.23 also consists of two pieces of legislation.

It is the seminary point debt and rent forgiveness.

The committee, the urgency finding was stated and approved on the record, and the committee approved the recommendations of staff to forward both pieces to the July 21st City Council agenda on consent.

Item 3.24, the fiscal year 2025-26 quarter 1 quarter 2 update on code enforcement activities.

The committee received and filed this item.

Item 3.25, the professional services agreement with uh Boroto Co.

for signage and wayfinding services.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff to forward this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on non-consent due to the 3.1 vote.

Is there something from the administration?

Um we don't move from the city administrator's office.

Staff is requesting that this item go to consent.

Um staff has already met with council member Unger to get his um approval.

Thank you.

We can move it to consent.

Thank you so much.

So noted item 3.25 will go on consent on July 21st.

Moving to item 3.26, acceptance and appropriation of workforce development funds for fiscal year 2026 through 27.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff to forward this item to the July 21st City Council on consent.

We will now move to the recommendations from the July 14th life enrichment committee agenda.

Item 3.27, the construction um resource center grant agreement for um excuse me for mentor uh protey program support services.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff and to forward this item to the July 21st City Council Agenda on Consent.

Item 3.28, the HUD Continuum of Care Program.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff and to forward this item to the July 21st City Council Agenda on Cent.

Item 3.29, the ACO CAP 2026 S excuse me CSBG resolution.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff and to forward this item to the July 21st City Council Agenda on Consent.

Item 3.30, the Oakland Paratransit for the Elder and Disabled Program Measure BB funds for fiscal year 26-27.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff and to forward this item to the July 21st City Council Agenda on Consent.

I will now move to the recommendations for the July 14th Public Safety Committee.

Item 3.31, the operational agreement between the City of Oakland and Alameda County for period from ratification through December 31st, 2035.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff and to forward this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on consent.

Item 3.32, Apricot 2026 annual report and amended use policy.

The committee approves the recommendations of staff and to forward this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on consent.

Item 3.33, the contract with Bright Research Group for training and capacity building services.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff and forward this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on consent.

Item 3.34, the OPD um fiscal year 2025 award Edward Byron Memorial Justice Assistant Grant.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff to forward this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on consent.

Item 3.35, the OPDRSI helicopter maintenance contract.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff and to forward this item to the July 21st City Council on agenda on consent.

Item 3.36 OPD Surveillance Technology 2025 annual report.

The committee approved as amended the recommendations of staff and to forward this item to the July 21st City Council Agenda on Consent with an amendment to the legislation striking sections, Section A regarding the automated license plate reader and to delete the reference to attachment E.

Item 3.37, the MOU between the City of Oakland and California Highway Patrol.

The committee approved the recommendations of staff and to forward this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on consent.

And that concludes all of your new items.

Councilmember Brown.

Excellent.

Thank you so much.

I wanted to take the opportunity to schedule the education partnerships committee meeting for Monday, September the 28th at 3 30.

Can you state that again?

Absolutely.

So education partnerships committee meeting Monday, September the 28th at 3 30.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Do we have any public speakers?

Yes, we do.

We have Kevin Daly and Blair Beekman.

If you are here in person, please line up behind the podium and state your name for the record.

If you are participating via Zoom, please raise your hand.

I will take those who are in person first.

Good morning, Mr.

Daly.

Kevin Daly, uh want to talk to uh 3.11 and 3.7 on parking garages.

I enjoyed appreciated the finance committee meeting Tuesday and discussion of the contract extension.

And I'm really glad to see that the finance uh department uh and and director Johnson has added 3.7 to look at the operation and financial uh status of parking garages.

There's another aspect, and that is dealing with the uh with the policy perspective, both and this week should cover both parking garages and street parking, as well as other forms of transportation.

For the past nine months to a year, we've been discussing parking reorg.

Now it's reorged.

Uh it would be good to have Department of Public Works and Oak Dot present to Department of Public Works on what is the parking policy as it relates to parking garages and to street parking.

And I'm hoping to reach out to council member Unger's office as well as the public works and transportation committee.

And that's because a lot of the very good questions from council on the finance committee were related to policy and not just on the financial aspects.

Thanks.

Thank you for your comments, Mr.

Daly.

We will now move to Zoom speakers.

Blair Beekman, your unmuted, you may begin.

All right, Blair Beekman.

Um, I wanted to speak on items 3.2, 3.3, 3.11, 3.18, 3.37, and 3.38.

Uh, hi to everyone.

Um, so this will be three minutes.

Um to begin 3.2, James Beer, uh appointed as Oakland Police Chief.

Um, I I'm an agreement, a nice agreement that you know uh new police chief beer.

Um, he has a long history with OPD, so he can be navigable in how community works.

Um, and I'm hopeful that from that, you know, as much as administration and city council has made a big push towards the idea of wanting to be, you know, focusing on a city administration point of view with our issues, you're starting to better see that it is community that's really defined our good best police practices over the past 10 years.

And I think you want to be trusting that.

We've had three police killings in the past year where we had three in the previous 10.

So that's another concern that we have to be really focusing on our community in how to address our police issues.

They're really needed.

And and I'm hoping administration's understanding that better and respecting that.

Good luck in that effort in ourselves relearning that.

Um, with the uh Coliseum payment allocation ideas, um, you just had a uh tax lien forgiveness policies, uh, so you can create uh you know good uh social services practices for for um you know troubled areas in Oakland.

Um that can be working with the county of Alameda.

So good luck in those sort of efforts explaining that to you with the Coliseum purchase things and how that negotiation process moves along.

Um it can help, I think, with the negotiation process that we all want it to go well.

Good luck in the ways to make it go so so we can be assured it can go well.

Um parking operator contract extension things.

Thanks for the words of Kevin.

I've mentioned before the importance of if you do ALPR um work, you know, that that's a part of uh a basic part of uh parking uh garages and stuff.

If if you do the policy work and public policy work, it's really good examples of best practices.

And everyone, when they learn that kind of stuff, they get excited and and understanding the process of best practices with uh tech policy.

So good luck in the in studying that.

And Broadway Streetscape, the same thing.

Uh, with all the money going to this project.

And when you guys are talking about um the future of tech that's gonna be involved with this, if you make that an open public process and create really good public policies with it, that's gonna bring people to Oakland.

They're gonna want to see good tech policies in their downtown area.

That is a real important draw and understanding.

Um it builds our best sells.

So good luck on those efforts.

The other two items on uh surveillance stuff I'll talk about uh upcoming.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

That concludes our public speakers for item three.

Thank you for the public speakers.

So noting 3.1 with our urgency finding noting 3.3 with urgency finding, 3.4 with draw on 3.5, adding the co-sponsors of Council Member Wong, Council Member Ramatandrin and Mayor Lee, and 3.25 move to consent, and we have a wonderful ed partnership committee that is scheduled to Monday, September 28th at 3 30.

I'll entertain a motion.

So moved.

Second.

I'm not sure who gave the second, if it was five or no.

Uh there was a motion by council member Brown, seconded by Councilmember Raman Chandran to approve item three as amended.

On roll council member Brown.

Aye.

Councilmember Fife.

Hi.

Councilmember Ramachandrin.

Hi.

And Chair Jenkins.

Hi.

Item number three is approved as amended with four eyes.

That now takes us to item four.

Item four is the review of the draft agenda's pending list in the city council and committee meetings.

These are the July 21st City Council agenda.

Your canceled July 23rd rules, um, your pending lists and your canceled July 28th committees and July 30th rules.

Anything from the administration?

Uh we have no changes.

Nothing from the colleagues, public speakers.

We have two speakers for this item, Kevin Daly and Blair Beekman.

Um, Kevin Daly is passing.

I do have Blair Beekman.

Um, please unmute yourself and you may begin.

Hi, thank you.

Uh Blair Beekman.

In uh September, you're going to be having uh, you know, upcoming um overall uh policies uh on how um you know report backs on on overall uh practices of your police uh on a number of issues uh in September.

Um I I feel it can be uh a fair time to offer that I was incredibly disappointed that in your public safety committee a couple days ago, you could not um you excluded any talk of AOPR use and and what's going on with flock at this time.

Um you guys have been with the flock contract for the past six months that has not been signed, and I have no clue if it passed May, if it's been signed or not.

You guys aren't making that information accessible to the public.

And I think you guys have an awesome responsibility to make that information the very least accessible and understandable what the holdup is and what's going on with that.

We have to wait till September, October, or November to get the police report on all of this.

I gotta wait till then to understand why you said it was urgent that the contracts had to be signed by by March of 2026, and now it's July, and it's quite possible the block contracts haven't been developed.

So there's a real problem, and you guys have to be, I think, really developing ideas uh and and explanations to the public.

What's going on?

And I'm waiting for those explanations from yourselves.

Please work on that.

Um, uh we have uh it's an awesome plan you guys have set up that the community helps to find a future of an AOPR vendor besides block.

That means we can be deciding on a future of a of a corporation that doesn't practice war to the same degree, and that's an awesome thing.

The community can be working on.

Why not do this process really well?

You guys are making it really overly complicated, and it's uh shameful almost.

And and that concludes your uh item four speakers.

Thank you for your comments.

I'll entertain a motion.

Five Rama Chandra.

That was a motion by Councilmember Five, seconded by Councilmember Rama Chandran to approve item four as is on roll.

Council member sorry, one moment.

Councilmember Brown.

Aye, Councilmember Fife.

Aye.

Rama Chandran.

Aye, Chair Jenkins.

Aye.

Item four is approved as is uh with four eyes.

That now takes us to open forum.

I have count uh Kevin Daly and Blair Beekman.

Kevin Daly is passing.

Blair Beekman, you are unmuted.

You may begin.

Hi, Blair Beekman.

Thanks for the meeting.

Sorry to read the right act previously.

Um my final words, I I got confused in how to speak.

Uh it, you know, it often happens that the timer is about to end, and I get confused in how to speak better.

Sorry about that.

And what I meant to say was that it seems to be a warning to ourselves that there's a problem, and we gotta really work on it and please work on it.

Please find ways to to explain to the community what the problem is, what what's the holdup, what exactly is the process, why the contract isn't being signed.

Um, I think it could be accomplished.

I mean, the the intentions of what we can be working on are so incredibly decent.

It is the way we practice as a community, and I so we let's do this well and let's do it right, please.

With that all said, um, yeah, uh at the committee meetings a couple days ago, a lot of comment on the vendor situation at Lake Merritt in Oakland.

Good luck in those efforts to work that out.

I started really thank you for your comments, and if I may, before we end, um, just want to take a moment to acknowledge one of our staffers.

Um, you guys know me as Candace ICE, but we have a Candice ACE in our office, and she will be leaving us.

So this will be the last meeting that she will be in before we go on break and before we come back.

So, Candice Evans, we want to thank you for being a part of our team.

We're gonna miss you.

And I just wanted to acknowledge you in this moment and make sure you got your flowers before we leave you.

So thank you so much.

And we'll send something out before she actually leaves so we can all acknowledge her together.

But because this is her last meeting, I just wanted to acknowledge that at this moment.

Thank you so much.

But that was concluding your open forum speakers.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Thank you for your service.

This meeting is adjourned.