February 10, 2026 · City Council
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Voting (RRV) From: City Manager Recommendation: Review the completed Re-Weighted Range Voting (RRV) rankings for all outstanding City Council referrals and adopt a Resolution approving the list of prioritized referrals to city staff. Financial Implications: None Contact: Mark Numainville, City Clerk, (510) 981-6900 Adjournment I hereby request that the City Clerk of the City of Berkeley cause personal notice to be given to each member of the Berkeley City Council on the time and place of said meeting, forthwith. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the official seal of the City of Berkeley to be affixed on this 5th day of February, 2026. /s/ Adena Ishii, Mayor Public Notice – this Proclamation serves as the official agenda for this meeting. 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Questions regarding public participation may be addressed to the City Clerk Department (510) 981-6900 or by email at clerk@berkeleyca.gov. Tuesday, February 10, 2026 AGENDA Page 3 Page 3 Page 4 Page 1 of 16 01 Special Meeting Item Office of the City Manager ACTION CALENDAR February 10, 2026 To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council From: Paul Buddenhagen, City Manager Submitted by: Mark Numainville, City Clerk Subject: 2026 City Council Referral Prioritization Results Using Re-Weighted Range Voting (RRV) RECOMMENDATION Review the completed Re-Weighted Range Voting (RRV) rankings for all outstanding City Council referrals and adopt a Resolution approving the list of prioritized referrals to city staff. FISCAL IMPACTS OF RECOMMENDATION There are no direct fiscal impacts related to the review and approval of the referral list. CURRENT SITUATION AND ITS EFFECTS Through the December 2, 2025 City Council meeting, there were 53 outstanding long- term referrals to staff. The list did not include referrals that the City Manager classified as short-term referrals or budget referrals. On January 27, 2026, the Council reviewed the raw scores assigned by Council, reviewed the referrals marked for removal, and took action to remove 14 referrals from the list. After the January 27 meeting, staff applied the RRV formula to the scores for the remaining 39 referrals, resulting in a prioritized list. These results are presented to the Council as Exhibit A to the resolution in Attachment 1. Adopting the resolution will formally set the Council referrals prioritization for 2026. This year, three referrals tied for the top score. In accordance with the intended function of the RRV system, all three referrals were assigned the #1 priority and the algorithm was engaged starting with the next highest scored referral. This prevents any lower scored referral from jumping over one of the referrals that tied for the top score when the algorithm and weighted votes are applied. These results will guide the City Manager and the Budget & Finance Committee in development of Strategic Plan projects and funding allocations needed for the referrals. Some flexibility in the order in which the referrals are assigned will need to be exercised by the City Manager to ensure that staff in each department has the available capacity to 2180 Milvia Street, Berkeley, CA 94704 ● Tel: (510) 981-7000 ● TDD: (510) 981-6903 ● Fax: (510) 981-7099 E-Mail: manager@berkeleyca.gov Website: http://www.berkeleyca.gov Page 5 Page 2 of 16
Using Re-Weighted Range Voting (RRV) February 10, 2026 start work on the highly rated referrals and that there are adequate funding resources to complete the referrals. BACKGROUND In 2016, the City Council adopted a system of Re-weighted Range Voting (RRV) to prioritize City Council referrals to staff. The RRV system enables City Council to provide direction to staff on which referrals are highest priority and should be completed first. Reweighted Range Voting is a proportional voting system designed for a blend of fairness and consensus, meaning that it ensures some representation for minority views as well. It accomplishes this by reducing the influence of Councilmembers in proportion to the points they have awarded to the referrals prioritized thus far. Under RRV, Each Councilmember rates every referral on a scale of zero to five. There is no limit to repeat scores (i.e. a Councilmember could give every referral a five). When the scores are tallied, the referral with the highest total score becomes the 1st priority. Once the first referral is assigned, the scores for the remaining referrals are reweighted based on how much influence each Councilmember has had up to that point (based on the score they assigned, 0 - 5). If a Councilmember assigns high scores to several referrals, they use up the strength of their weighted vote more quickly and exercise diminishing influence when the scores are reweighted for subsequent referrals. This guarantees equal influence throughout the full list. If a Councilmember did not score a referral, the default score was set to zero. ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AND CLIMATE IMPACTS There are no identifiable environmental effects or opportunities, or climate impacts, associated with the subject of this report. RATIONALE FOR RECOMMENDATION This recommendation carries out the direction of the Council to implement a prioritization process for City Council referrals to staff. ALTERNATIVE ACTIONS CONSIDERED Council may decide to forgo a prioritization process and continue the referral process with no structured tracking or prioritization of referrals. CONTACT PERSON Mark Numainville, City Clerk, (510) 981-6900 Attachments: 1: Resolution Exhibit A: 2026 RRV Prioritized Referral List Page 2 Page 6 Page 3 of 16 RESOLUTION NO. ##,###-N.S. APPROVING THE 2026 LIST OF PRIORITIZED CITY COUNCIL REFERRALS USING THE REWEIGHTED RANGE VOTING SYSTEM WHEREAS, On March 8, 2016 the City Council approved the use of Re-weighted Range Voting (RRV) for the prioritization of City Council referrals to staff; and WHEREAS, the City Council has assigned scores to all the referrals; and WHEREAS, the Re-Weighted Range Voting formula was applied to the ratings to create a weighted list of prioritization. NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Berkeley that the list of prioritized referrals contained in Exhibit A, with the removal of certain referrals by Council direction, is hereby approved. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council grants the City Manager the authority to assign referrals to staff in a manner that ensures equitable distribution among departments and does not exceed the capacity of departmental staff to start work on the highly rated referrals even if that results in the referrals being assigned in an order that differs from the approved list. Exhibits A: List of Prioritized Referrals Page 7 Page 410, February of2026 16 Attachment 1 - Exhibit A RRV - City Council Referral Prioritization Results 1/(1+ W/5) Tracking Meeting Date Title Recommendation Sponsor Responsible Rank number Department DMND0004159 5/7/2024 Budget Referral: Vision Zero Rapid Response on 1. Refer to the City Manager to incorporate the City of Oakland's Neighborhood Bike Terry Taplin, Mark Public Works 1 Bicycle Boulevards?DMND0004159 Route Implementation Guide for all Bicycle Boulevards designated in the City of Berkeley's Humbert Bicycle Plan, pursuant to the City's Vision Zero Action Plan, Complete Streets Policy, and other applicable policies and plans; and to prioritize proactive and retroactive implementation of standards on Bicycle Boulevards in response to recent traffic collisions, with consideration for quick-build interventions that can be removed, modified or made permanent to advance Vision Zero Action Plan goals. DMND0004008 3/8/2022 Referral to Implement State Law AB 43 for Refer to the City Manager to implement state law AB 43 on High-injury commercial Rashi Kesarwani, Public Works 1 Reduced Speed Limits on High-Injury corridors as identified in our Vision Zero Annual Report, 2020-2021 in order to allow a Terry Taplin, Rigel Commercial Corridors?DMND0004008 reduction in speed limits by 5 miles per hour; - Any other corridors covered by AB 43, as Robinson, Susan appropriate, in order to implement reduced prima facie speed limits and identify those Wengraf corridors for future traffic studies where prima facie limits are presently unsafe. Upon completion of this referral, we note that a budget allocation would be needed in the amount of $25,000 to $50,000 for new speed limit signage. Funding will be requested later (likely for the FY 2023-24 budget) in order to allow time for staff to determine the applicable streets for additional signage. DMND0004191 2/22/2022 Southside Complete Streets - Limiting Cars on Refer to the City Manager to develop a community process to explore limits on private Public Works 1 Telegraph?DMND0004191 automobiles on Telegraph Avenue and make recommendations. Staff should engage merchants, property owners, students, visitors and tourists, artists, UC Berkeley, local schools, faith institutions, relevant government agencies including AC Transit, and other stakeholders, as well as relevant city commissions, such as the Transportation Commission and the Commission on Disability. In the evaluation of various approaches, staff should consider strategies to: • Maintain access for public transit, emergency vehicles, refuse collection vehicles, delivery vehicles, and other commercial vehicles that are essential to Telegraph business operations • Preserve access for people with disabilities and reduce conflicts between pedestrians and bicyclists • Improve the pedestrian environment and meet the needs of merchants and the commercial district 1 of 13 Page 8 Page 510, February of2026 16 Attachment 1 - Exhibit A RRV - City Council Referral Prioritization Results Tracking Meeting Date Title Recommendation Sponsor Responsible Rank number Department DMND0004232 11/18/2025 Recommendations for the Formulation of Policy Committee Recommendation: to send the item to Council with a Qualified Positive Terry Taplin Finance 2 Advanced Fiscal Policies to Institutionalize Recommendation with the changes as proposed by Councilmember Taplin as follows: Strategic Bond Issuance, Optimize Municipal Investment Returns, and Leverage 1. Structured Bond Issuance Framework Intergovernmental and Philanthropic Capital Refer to the City Manager assessment, analysis, and presentation to the Council of a Funding?DMND0004232 potential comprehensive fiscal policy every two years that institutionalizes, codifies, and makes publicly accessible, a regular, predictive schedule for general obligation bond issuance. This potential policy, in addition to and alongside existing practices, may be informed by actuarial and capital market analysis of the City's bonding capacity and be modeled on established frameworks utilized in fiscally disciplined jurisdictions such as San Francisco, Santa Monica, and others. The goal is to remediate the City's substantial deferred maintenance liabilities and strategically advance the Capital Improvement Program (CIP).