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The Oakland City Council Rules and Legislation Committee convened on October 8, 2026 at 10:31 AM, with all four members present (Brown, Fife, Ramachandran, Jenkins). The meeting addressed scheduling of numerous items, including consent calendar items, public comments, and two urgent appointments to the Planning Commission. The meeting adjourned at 11:58 AM.
New Scheduling Items (3.0 – 3.26) The committee heard requests to schedule 27 items to various future committee meetings and the full City Council. Key discussions included:
Floor Item (added during meeting): A resolution accepting a $250,000 HUD Community Project Funding grant for Brooklyn Basin was introduced and scheduled to City Council on consent for October 20.
S5 & S6 – Appointments to City Planning Commission
Good morning and welcome to the rules and legislation committee meeting on this Thursday, October 8th. The time is now 1031, 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 the agenda. If you are here in person, would like to submit a speaker card. Please fill out a card on the table there and hand it to a clerk representative either before the item is read into record or 10 minutes after this meeting began, whichever comes first. Online speaker cards were due 24 hours before this meeting began, so we will no longer be accepting online speaker cards, but you can again fill out a speaker card here in person, turn it into a clerk representative before the item is called into record, or 10 minutes after this meeting began, the meeting can begin at 1031. With that, I will now call roll. On roll for this meeting, I have council member excuse me, Brown. Present. Fife present. Ramachandra? Present. Chair Jenkins. Present. Thank you. And we have four members present at this time. I will now um council member uh chair Jenkins. Do you have any announcements before I go to the first item? No announcements. No announcements. Thank you so much. Uh moving on to item number one is approval of the draft minutes for the committee meeting um on April 30th, 2026, June 9th, 2026, and July 16th, 2026. And I need a motion. Approval. Second. That was a motion by Councilmember Brown and seconded by Councilmember Fife to approve the draft minutes for April 30th, July 9th, and July 16th. One moment. Aye. Councilmember Ramachandra? Aye. Chair Jenkins. Item number one is approved with four eyes. Now moving on to item number two, which is a termination of scheduling of outstanding committee items, which is also known as your pending list. And I have three speakers for this item. Anything from the administration? Nothing at this time, thank you. Anything from my colleagues. Seeing that, let's go to public speakers. Thank you so much. I have Rajni Mandal, Mrs. Ada Olabala, and uh Blair Beatman in any order. Rajne Mandel District 4. Uh, if council considers reform of Charter Section 604, I encourage you to look closely at the relationship between the police commission and the office of inspector general. Under the current structure, the commission is responsible for overseeing OIG. But the question is whether the commission is actually supervising the IG's priorities and use of resources. Oakland currently budgets nearly a million dollars for an OIG with two employees, including personnel costs, benefits, and overhead. Meanwhile, OIG has undertaken discretionary policy reviews that overlap with work being done elsewhere, while more than a hundred thousand dollars has been spent on an outside auditing firm without a completed audit and another auditor RFP being pursued. These aren't simply funding questions, they are governance questions.