The City Council and the Oakland Redevelopment Successor Agency met concurrently on Tuesday, September 15, 2026, at 3:34 PM in the City Council Chamber. Council President Kevin Jenkins presided. Seven members were initially present (Councilmember Houston arrived late), and the meeting adjourned at 7:11 PM. The agenda was reordered to hear Items 5.1, 5.2, and 4.1 first, followed by the Consent Calendar. Key actions included approving the police commission slate, ratifying a five-year police union contract, and receiving the annual HUD performance report. Public comment was extensive, with 62 speakers during Open Forum and many more speaking on specific items.
The Consent Calendar was approved 8-0, with Councilmember Fife registering a no vote on Item 6.9.
Good morning, good afternoon. For those who are here to participate in the council meeting, council members, we need you to your seat as we're about to begin. All right. Good afternoon and welcome to the uh city council meeting on this Tuesday, September 15th. The time is now 334, and this meeting shall come to order. Before we give instructions, excuse me, before we begin and call roll, I would like to give instructions on how to submit a speaker card for items on this agenda. If you are here participating in person and would like to spit submit a speaker card, please follow the speaker card on my right, your left, and turn it into a clerk representative on your left, my right, or excuse me, my left, your right. Um before the item is read into record or two hours after this meeting began. Again, the meeting began at 3 34. So again, speaker cards will be due either two hours after this meeting began or before the item is read into record, whichever comes first. Participate of submitting a speaker card online was due 24 hours before the meeting began, so we will not be taking speaker cards at this time for online speakers. With that, I will call roll on roll for this meeting. Councilmember Brown. Present. Councilmember Fife. Present. Councilmember Guile. Councilmember Houston is not in his seat. Council member Ramachandran. Present. Unger. Here. Wong. Present. And Council President Jenkins. Present. So we have seven members present and one excused. With that, um, I would like to make an announcement for those who are participating here in chambers or would like to speak to an item if you signed up for an item that is not on this agenda, that's not germane to the items on this agenda. Your speaker card will be moved to the open form section. So if you are signed up to speak and you are not speaking to an item that's listed on this agenda, you will be moved to the open form section for those who um want to speak to items that are not listed on today's agenda. With that, council president Jenkins. Do you have any announcements before I go to the first item? No, I know. I forgot how to use this. No announce who rusty. No announcements. Welcome back. Thank you so much. Oh, and one more announcement. I apologize. Um, we are having some issues, some technical issues with the closed captioning. So if you are um on the broadcast and trying to get closed captioning, it wasn't working properly. Um you can sign up via Zoom and you should be able to access it there, or you'll we will have the closed captioning active once the medium is played back. And one moment because of the amount of speakers, speaker time will be limited to 90 seconds. Thank you for that for that announcement, and we will now move on to the first item on the agenda item number three, which is modifications to the agenda and the procedural items. So I would uh propose to council to move items item 5.1 to the top of the agenda 5.2 after that, and then here 4.1 after that. Hearing no opposition. All right. So noted, we will take the agenda out of order. Um, as called by the chair, item 5.1 will be heard first, followed by item 5.2, then 5.4 and the remaining balance of the agenda.