All right.

We're going to call today's meeting of the Rules and Open Government Committee to order,

so we'll have roll call, please.

Candelas?

Here.

Duan?

Here.

Foley?

Here.

Kame?

Here.

Cohen?

Here.

We have a quorum.

Thank you.

Welcome to the Rules and Open Government Committee, and I want to remind everyone here in attendance

to follow our code and conduct, which is in the agenda.

The first item today is to review the council meeting for Tuesday, February 3rd.

It has a 9.30 closed session and a 1.30 regular session.

Consent starts on page 5 and continues on pages 6 and 7.

And Section 4, we have an amendment to the gaming control ordinance.

Section 5, actions related to the taxiway at the airport.

Section 8, we have a few business improvement district items.

And no land use.

So we'll move on to public comment.

Blair?

All right, back to committee.

we have Councilman Candelis. Thank you, Chair. I see the ad sheet as an attachment with regards to

an item to be placed on the consent agenda with it's a receipt of gifts related to SJ26. So I

just wanted to hear from staff what this item pertains to and why specifically is it being

recommended to be placed on the consent agenda.

Councilmember Kevin

Fisher from the Assistant City

Attorney. This is

because of the number of events that

are going to be going on over the Super Bowl

and various things like tickets,

tickets over $50

would be a prohibited gift

under our gift ordinance.

It's really a blanket

authorization which

is allowed under our meaning code

for city officials, city employees who attend these events in an official capacity

as representatives of the city to be able to accept all the different things that could come up.

We're not talking about tchotchkes or things like that.

It's really tickets, anything that would be otherwise considered a gift

and could potentially be prohibited.

These will be reported as gifts to the city,

and then it will be reported to the state under, I believe it's Form 801 or 802.

Okay.

And then, you know, I guess, you know, given that, you know,

one of the first major events is happening next Sunday, you know, I, you know,

it just caught my attention and jumps out at me.

And, you know, I would move approval of the agenda for next Tuesday

with the additional of this ad sheet.

However, I will ask if this item could be a standalone item outside of the consent calendar

to allow for transparency in the community, ultimately an opportunity to weigh in

and not under the auspician of the consent calendar.

I'm curious.

We can do that.

Okay, perfect.

Thank you.

Yeah, we certainly have the right to make that recommendation for any item on the agenda.

We have a motion and a second.

I don't see any other hands for discussion, so let's vote.

Motion carries 5-0.

So next is the review of the agenda for the week after, February 10th.

Recommended cancellation evening session, so 9.30 closed session and 1.30 regular session.

We have consent starting on page 5.

Oh, it's only two items on page 5.

Section 3.3, we have a mid-year budget review.

a potential ballot measure

increasing the transit occupancy tax.

Section 6 is our power content and rates

for clean energy.

Section 8 is wheat abatement commencement report.

And there is one item on land use.

Oh, actually, I think there were...

Oh, there's one item.

There's an administrative hearing on the appeal

on a property at Story Road.

And I guess that will happen at the end of the agenda since there's no evening session.

Public comment, please.

Larry?

Hi, everybody.

This is my last week in the Bay Area.

I return to San Diego next week.

I clean my storage space.

I got a smaller space.

I'm going to be traveling again, and I hope we can be building a good world so my travel will be safe.

I wanted to speak to item 3.3, among other things, I suppose is the way to say that.

Mid-year budget review 2025-26.

I wanted to quickly offer that in the transportation sector, I don't know how much it's affecting here in the Bay Area,

but I've noticed in San Diego and a few other places around California,

they're having kind of a reckoning in 2027 about their future budget issues.

And I don't know if it's here in the Bay Area as well.

I think it's important they review their budget issues, not in terms of cutting services and then raising rates.

And I hope that can be applicable to any of these mid-year budget review issues.

I hope we're beginning of a time where, you know, we were talking previously before COVID started of new economic models and designs and planning how we build our budget in communities.

And it's time we start to really invest and look into those ideas and what that can be instead of cutting services and taxing people more and raising rates and inflation.

It's a really dumb paradigm that I think we can have much better models of how we use our money in the future that we were just starting to talk about before COVID.

I hope we can really start to begin that again.

It is of American design, and we should be wanting to work on it, or U.S. design.

Good luck how we can work on it in the upcoming budget year.

Thank you.

Back to the committee.

Okay.

Back to the committee.

Any questions or a motion?

Motion.

Move approval.

Second.

All right.

We have a motion and a second and no further comments, so let's vote.

Motion carries 5-0.

So now we're on to our consent calendar.

Today we have six items on consent.

Do we have public comment on consent?

Blair?

Hi. Thank you. Blair Beekman.

You very nicely put a letter from myself into the public record this week.

Thank you.

I was talking about Bayou-Wassie issues.

I really have to learn to practice to send a cover letter to city clerk's office to describe my public letter asks.

And thank you, public record asks. Thank you, you did.

I'm continuing my kick on how to make the Bay-Uwasi process more clear to our communities of the Bay Area.

That's the federal agency that's in charge of emergency planning and preparedness for Bay Area cities.

They're going through pretty serious changes.

They were created after the era, after the beginnings of 9-11, in the area specifically with a very specific purpose to have public oversight and the public meeting process to define their practices, to help define.

It was unique, and I felt when we were working to end Urban Shield, you know, I started attending their meetings there more.

They worked to end Urban Shield, by the way.

In that time period, I realized this is awesome that a federal agency is practicing public oversight.

And currently the current Bayouasi crew and staff, they want to change that.

They want to end it.

And they're not fully committed to that, but we're heading in that direction.

They keep cutting services away more and more.

My letter today is one way to address their future they're trying to build

and how we can be building a future that's more accountable and clear and still works with the public.

It's so vital that our federal agencies dedicated to national security work with the public.

And we've really been losing that here in the Bay Area with NICRC.

NICRC used to have a public meeting process.

They ended it.

So our federal agencies are leaving the public process here in the Bay Area concerning national security.

I think we should be making a stand to ask the...

Back to committee.

All right.

Do we have a motion on the consent calendar?

Move for approval of the consent calendar.

All right.

We have a motion and a second.

Let's vote.

Motion carries 5-0.

And so now we're on to our first discussion item.

Number one is a Children's Youth Service Master Plan

and Latino Health Assessment

submitted by Councilman Campos,

who I see is ready in the box.

So I want to give a brief overview.

thank you chair um i want to thank you all for the opportunity to present the recommendations

forwarded to the rules committee through the joint n se and c s fc meeting on december 10th 2025.

i also want to thank city staff who helped me prepare the recommendations a couple of months ago

in particularly i'm grateful to angel rios jim shannon andrea flora shelton olympia williams and

Jill Born for their help and support. You and your staff have been terrific thought partners,

and I am thankful to have the opportunity to work with you to advance family-friendly policies

benefiting thousands of residents in our community. I also appreciate the strong support from my

colleagues on the Neighborhood Services and Education Committee. Thank you for your leadership

as we tackle tough issues like affordability and economic mobility through the youth empowerment

work that we find in the Children Youth Master Plan. The aim of this memo is to ensure that we

are continuing to build that pathway for expanding the Children Youth Master Plan,

not only its effectiveness in the pilot sites that have been identified, but in our ultimate goal in

ensuring that it reaches every district of the city. And so finally, I want to thank the Rules

Committee for your consideration this afternoon. I know you have a tough role balancing workload

and many competing priorities.

So the workload analysis has been prepared by administration

demonstrating a fair and reasonable approach to this memo.

And I thank Angel for explaining the staff recommendations to my team and I,

and I support the recommendations that were proposed by staff

and the request that rules committee accept them.

So happy to answer any other questions.

Thank you.

Thank you, Council Member.

back oh let's go to public comment first there

hi thank you I was I've been attending Oakland City Council meetings lately

they've been doing some interesting work in compromise to leave their block

program. At their meeting yesterday, they have their committee meetings all day yesterday

on Tuesdays, and they, one of their items was talking about the future of trafficking,

and it's a real concern to the area, and they're finding new ways to address it. I know, I don't

know how applicable it is to this item, but I know that Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors

does great work with trafficking issues.

And how that, and I know a former council person, Aranis,

she's a part of that process.

And the work in making sure youth doesn't fall through the cracks,

maybe that's the age level we're talking about here.

I hope it can be of help in some way of addressing our trafficking issues.

What you can be doing together with Oakland,

I hope can be hopeful, helpful, and promising in the upcoming few years.

Definitely connect, and it's a tough subject,

and I just thought I would mention it this time as options for services to talk about this type of issue.

Thank you.

Back to the committee.

Okay, thank you.

We'll start with Vice Mayor Foley.

Great, thank you.

First, I want to thank Council Member Campos for presenting this memo to us

and for keeping youth front and center of decisions that we make.

Rules Committee typically sees these proposals before asking for workload analysis,

and then we're typically the ones who instruct the workload analysis from staff.

So, Lee, I'm wondering if you can explain why this is coming to us this way.

What happened?

Sure. You know, and I think I'll start with, I think some advice from the administration was given to Councilmember Campos on this route and trying to advance this conversation.

So you're absolutely right. Typically, any type of proposal, the Rules Committee is allowed to weigh in on whether a workload analysis is relevant or not.

And so I think the administration missed that step and that this went to a standing committee and then needed to be referenced to the rules committee to really look at that workload.

A standing committee actually can't direct staff work.

It can certainly request information or request additional items be added to their agendas, but they can't actually direct staff or ask for workload analysis.

The workload analysis is really for the rules committee and then direction of any council appointee is, you know, some of that is delegated by council to the rules committee, but for the most exceptions, those are full council.

So we missed that step in that this came in from a different route.

So we are working on cleaning that up.

Actually, Kevin and I are working together on a rules memorandum or an info memo on the rules resolution that you all passed on what's the scope of a standing committee versus the scope of the rules committee versus the scope of a full council.

So that will be ready in the coming weeks so everyone knows that.

But in this case, we kind of missed that step and went ahead and did the workload analysis.

Thank you.

I think that would be really helpful having a list of this is what the committee, standing committee, this is the rules process, et cetera.

So I'm concerned about the process, but thank you for sharing that.

I will move to approve the workload analysis from staff with the following changes.

When the NSE committee workplaces are done for fall 2026, please highlight these additions so the rules committee can ensure the committee workload is not too great, because it's our responsibility to look at those work plans and then pass them along, keeping a focus on the council focus areas.

I'd also like to direct the city manager and attorney to come back with a verbal update to the Rules Committee on the Rules Resolution and Informational Memo, which you've already mentioned, Lee, to the full council so everyone is following the same process.

And with that, I so move.

Okay, so just to be clear, you're moving the main item along with those two additions.

Yes. And moving into the main item, at this point, since the workload analysis has been done, most of this is things that are referred through the budget process and also future work back with NSE?

Yeah, so there's a certain amount of workload.

Your next item is going to add one of the items from this memorandum onto the workload.

Others are for later on in the year, so we can highlight those when those work plans come forward for the Rules Committee

so they can make sure they're properly balanced, especially now that you guys have gone to the every other month.

As the council member mentioned, a great deal of some of this work was already underway.

some of it's already been to the Youth Empowerment Alliance and a few others

the real workload that we felt we needed a yellow light was the request for

managers budget addendums just really embedding that into the budget process

that does require quite a bit of staff analysis in time and we'd like the full

council to make those decisions so we've yellowlit those but the rest of it can

move forward okay I'm just just looking at the memo it says 1b request that the

city manager prepare a manager's budget addendum so by approving this item today

are we requesting that? Because you're saying that was yellow lighted, so I just want to make sure

that we're clear about what this action is asking of administration.

We are saying that 1A, B, and C are yellow lit.

Okay. In the staff analysis, so the request for managers budget addendums.

So section one is yellow lit. Yes. But if we approve the memo today, are we saying go ahead and do those things?

My understanding is that the vice mayor moved the workload analysis is what you typically do.

Okay, so you're moving the... I move the workload analysis.

Well, you're moving acceptance of workload analysis, right, with the green light items going forward and not the yellow light items.

Correct.

Okay. I just want to make sure because the workload analysis is just sort of...

It isn't necessarily a recommendation.

It's just a analyzing.

Yeah, analyzing.

So I want to make sure the recommendation is clear.

Okay, so we're recommending moving forward with items two and above on this memo,

but not item one at this time.

And then is that a correct assessment?

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, two and above in terms of numbers.

Yes.

All right.

I think, okay, Council Member.

I appreciate trying to uncomplicate a complicated analysis,

but I guess my question is,

so if we are yellow-lighting the recommendations in 1A,

a request for MBAs on implementation,

basically for pilot programs as part of the Children's Youth Services Master Plan,

I mean, in the administration's scope, it says that should it be directed by the council.

So is Councilmember Campos then recommended to insert this as part of the mayor's March budget message as a memorandum?

or I mean I'm confused from the recommendation to our colleague

on how to move these recommended items forward

given the rules committee's purview

and what we're saying going forward and what we're pausing.

Sure.

Yeah, so the council member bringing those up

as part of the deliberations for the 26-27 budget process

would be the most effective way.

the first opportunity to do that would be the hearing of the mayor's March budget message.

Got it.

Or the mid-year budget review.

Or priority setting, too, right?

It's saying mid-year.

Note that when given the 25-26 mid-year budget will be released January 30th,

it would be then accomplished through an MBA should it be directed by the city council.

So technically, we can direct through a memorandum through the midyear because it is a budget item.

Given its perspective, there's nothing that says that we can't direct something for early consideration,

so we have that information as a council to be able to better advocate for these items given the budget prospects next year.

Am I incorrect in this?

I would say a general practice, and sorry if the workload analysis is confusing,

mid-year is an opportunity for us to reflect on the current year and how revenues are coming in

versus expenditure and an opportunity for the manager to recommend adjustments so that we end

the year close to where we need to be to have an ending fund balance for the following year. So it

is very much about this year versus, you know, MBAs are, they are addendums to a proposed budget

and information request as part of a planning and strategic planning process for the council to

engage in for the following year. So, you know, without checking in on the city attorney, I think

it'd be much more appropriate for MBA requests to be brought up at that first hearing as part of the

March message or during budget study session request for more information. I will say on

priority setting this year, you know, there's no actual action agendas for priority setting.

I think you know the mayor's memorandum which we tried to help with this year last year we went

through priority setting and there was a lot of recommendation and advice given to Jennifer

the the administration you know we're conferred with as part of the the mayor's March budget

message but it varies much the mayor's the council will have an opportunity through priority setting

to tell the mayor what they're interested in because ultimately Jennifer and the other

appointees take their direction around preparing the budget completely based off of what council

passes as part of that. So it's basically direction to the mayor to include. So you don't request

MBAs through priority setting to the mayor because he doesn't do those, but you can certainly request

information or more analysis as part of the proposed budget. Got it. And so we have to direct

as part of the March message. Yeah. Okay. All right. And that helps clarify the, I guess, my

confusion and in the recommendation to if if we want if the council member

wanted to direct the action from 1a b and c as part of the considerations for

the March budget message and deliberations with our respective brown

acts for the budget that would probably be the better avenue to do so correct

Correct. Okay, thank you.

Yeah, but certainly all of us should be expressing our priorities at the study session next week,

which wouldn't be directing an MBA, but would just be saying,

here's things we would love to see in the budget.

Correct. Yes, everyone should be giving their list of not only priorities,

but also given the situation we're in, the list of areas where we feel more comfortable making disinvestment

versus new investments because of the fiscal situation we're in.

Right, and just to be clear, it's a listen and learn session for the mayor.

He and his staff will be taking notes on everything we say,

but there's no motions that will be made at that point.

That is correct.

At the study session.

There's no action agendized for that meeting whatsoever.

Right. Thank you.

Okay, so we have a motion and a second, so let's vote on this item.

The motion carries 5-0, and that brings us to the updated action plan, updated work plan

for NSE, which includes the update based on the previous item.

So just have public comment first.

Claire?

Hi.

I'm Blair Beekman.

And quickly looking over the memo, this item seems a companion to the previous item.

And then I thought I read this was scheduled to begin its process by June or so.

And this item is here now.

Would it be appropriate to ask if because of upcoming Super Bowl things, is that why this,

the previous item has made such a quick detour to this committee at this time?

maybe it can be talked about how it can relate to that

if true. I mentioned the things in Oakland

going on right now.

I guess that's about it. Good luck

how to be working on this. By the fall

it sounds like you should have a full program

really going and implemented

if I'm reading the memo

correctly.

Thanks for your time.

Thanks to committee.

Alright, do we have a motion on this item?

No move.

Second.

Okay, we have a motion in a second. I don't think there's any further discussion, so let's vote.

Motion carries 5-0.

And we are on to our last item, which is open forum.

Blair?

Hi, Blair Beekman. Last open forum here for a while.

I guess to start, the City of Oakland, as I said previously,

they have compromised and they have worked to end their FLOC program in the next two years.

And in that upcoming two-year time period, they're supposed to be working on ways

to find a procurement of a new vendor, ALPR vendor.

It's been an incredible relief that with all this going on with the Trump administration,

both internationally and domestically, the city of Oakland has taken the steps

that says that we want to be more in control of our surveillance and our national security state.

We want local control.

And I think that it's so reassuring that they want to be working in those good terms

and we can be thinking in those good terms.

We really have a lot of power here at the local level to ask for peace and work towards peace

and demand that when Trump's going to be coming in with Venezuela and Iran right now,

He's got a new international plan going on.

He's going to bring that back here to the local level.

I think we're very well attuned and equipped to know how to say no.

And you can get some help and advice from the community to really say no to efforts of war

and that we practice peace here at the local level.

And good luck what we're going to have to be preparing for in the next year.

and I'm counting on you guys to want to work towards peace

and really say no to Trump's idea of dialogue

through warfare internationally and domestically.

We can really ask him for dialogue in terms of peace

just as Mayor Mahan did this past fall.

He did awesome in that way.

If we can really get him there, Trump, to that place,

we can be talking about our future programs

in much more good terms.

Good luck how we can do that. Thank you.

Back to the committee.

All right.

We are adjourned at 2.29 p.m.

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