The committee reviewed upcoming City Council agendas and took action on a memo to prohibit city property from being used for federal civil immigration enforcement, citing urgency due to national political rhetoric and enforcement actions. The meeting also included public comments on various topics.
It's two o'clock, so we're gonna call today's meeting of the rules and open government committee to order. Uh, we'll start with roll call, please. Candelas. Here. Foley, can we absent Cohen? Here. We have a quorum. Thank you. All right. Welcome to the October 22nd meeting of the Rules and Open Government Committee. As a reminder, we expect all attending to follow the code of conduct located in the agenda. Failure to comply with this code of conduct and behavior, which will disturb, disrupt, or impede the orderly conduct of the meeting, may result in removal from the meeting. We are going to start today with the review of the October 28th City Council agenda. The special starting time for closed session of 9 a.m. Open session starting at 1 30 and no evening session. And consent starts on page five and ends on page six. Section three, we have our homelessness activities audit report. Actions related to purchase order for fire apparatuses. An amendment to the vendor agreement with VSP. An amendment to the agreement with Standard Insurance Company and Life Insurance Company of North America. And Vision Zero East San Jose safety improvements for Center Road. Section four, we have an ordinance prohibiting law enforcement officers from concealing identities. And section eight, a grant agreement with We Hope for the Arena Hotel Operation. Also in section eight, an immunicode amendment related to building standards. We also have an ad sheet. Do we have any public comment? Yes, Blair, go ahead and make your way to the podium. Hi, Flair Beekman. I'm going to be back in the Bay Area for the next few months. So I return from San Diego. Nice to be here. And learning that is been a really valuable lesson for myself. And I just thought I'd share that at this time. And then thank you so much for the item that you have about asking an ordinance working towards an ordinance prohibiting law enforcement officers from concealing their identities in San Jose. That's something to definitely bring back to San Diego and chair. And good luck in the work. I hope they can those can be returned to saying something like federal agents or something like that. Good luck in those type of efforts as well. My remaining time, I just kind of wanted to say hi and redo reintroduce myself to your cells at this time and uh hope all is going well and uh good luck with the meeting today. Thank you. Back to the committee. All right, thank you. Do we have any comment? Move approval of the agenda and the ad sheets, and I'm really happy to see all the appointments to the senior commission. All right, we have a motion and a second, so let's vote. Okay, that motion carries 4-0. And we will now do our first review of the agenda for the November 4th council meeting with a 9.30 closed session and 1 30 regular session. And consent starts on page five. Continues on pages six, seven, and eight. Section three, we have our FPPC interviews for the for appointments to that board.