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and Transportation Committee meeting
of Tuesday, November 18th.
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We'll now proceed with taking roll.
Council Member Gallo.
Present.
Thank you.
Council Member Houston.
Absent for now.
Absent for now.
Council Member Wong.
A present.
Thank you and Chair Unger.
Present.
Please let us know if Council Member Houston shows up
we need to do a vote to make it appropriate.
Okay, thank you.
Noting three members present and one absent Houston.
And before we begin, Chair,
do you have any announcements at this time?
No announcements, nice to see everyone.
All right, starting off with item number one,
there are no minutes to be approved.
Item number two,
determination of schedule of outstanding committee items,
and we do have one speaker that signed up.
First, colleagues or staff,
Do we have anything for the pending list?
Through this year no, we do not.
All right, let's hear from our speaker please.
Calling in the names I signed up for item number two,
Kevin Dalley.
Want to formally, sorry, Kevin Dalley from co-chair
of the Policy and Legislative Committee of the Bicyclist
and Pedestrian Advisory Commission.
I want to formally suggest to this committee
that I'd like to see two parts of the fire code
to the Public Works and Transportation Committee and that's section 503 of
chapter 5 as well as appendix D if the fire marshal chooses to add those two to
the state fire code. And I know the fire marshal wants this done by the end of
the year so we're coming up on timelines. We'll be talking about it at the BPAC
Thursday by the way. Thank you. Thank you chair that concludes our speakers on
this item would anybody like to make a motion to accept the pending list so
moved I think we got a motion from councilmember gayo and a second from
councilmember Wong sorry I still online thank you that was a motion made by
councilmember gayo seconded by councilmember Wong to approve the sorry to
accept the determination of schedule of outstanding committee items as is on
roll councilmember Gallo aye councilmember Wong aye and chair Unger
aye thank you item number two passes with three ayes one absent Houston now
reading in item number three adopted resolution awarding a construction
contract to Gallagher and Burke Inc. for the lakeside drive slash Lake Merritt
Boulevard complete street projects project number one zero zero five three
1 for the lowest responsible and responsive bidder in accordance with project plans
Specification state requirements and with contractors bid in the amount of eight million eight hundred ten thousand seven hundred fifteen dollars and adopting appropriate
California environmental
Sorry environmental
Quality Act of findings also noting. I believe councilmember Houston is now logged on. We just need a motion. Okay
Council would you help us with the framing of this motion that we need?
so the
Assembly bill just requires that the
But I'm sorry the motion for what motion to allow
Councilmember Houston to join us. Yes
So the the body just has to approve the ability to appear by
Teleconference since he submitted the paperwork for an emergency circumstance a routine regular. I will make the motion that we approve this
method of teleconferencing
Second thank you. That was the motion made by count chair Unger seconded by council member Wong
To accept councilmember Houston's a B 2 4 4 9 virtual participation on roll councilmember Gail
Councilmember Wong I and chair Unger. I thank you motion passes with three eyes
Councilmember Houston your camera just needs to be remained on for the duration of this meeting
No problem. Thank you. And then so we read an item number three and we do have
Three speakers that sign up for this item
Why don't we hear from staff first and then we'll go to the speakers
Good morning chair and committee. This is a
Adot construction contract and it
constructs pedestrian bicycle transit and vehicular
Traffic safety improvements on lakeside Drive between 13th and 19th
Lake Merritt Boulevard first Avenue between lakeside Drive and International and
17th Street between Madison Street and lakeside Drive it also includes an alternate for
pedestrian lighting improvements on East 12th between first Avenue and 11th Avenue and
International Boulevard between 9th Avenue and 11th Avenue and I would note one caveat with this is
That a major portion of the funding for this project is measure you
So we're actually getting ahead of ourselves a little bit and in anticipation of the bond sale
So we recommend this highly for approval
Okay questions from council members
Councilmember Gallo. It's my microphone. Yeah, can you hear it? Okay?
Yeah to a city staff. Thank you for and I support your recommendation
But, you know, we're talking about lakeside drive, Lake Merritt Boulevard, and so forth.
And one of the recommendations that I would have since I walk with my daughter and my wife, Lake Merritt, every once a week,
that we take a look at the walking trail within Lake Merritt, because it's out of, I mean,
You know, I go to other cities and do the walks in their tourist areas or their neighborhood
areas.
You know, you're not going to run into holes and this and that at Lake Merritt, and Lake
Merritt is considered the jewel of Oakland.
And I remember being parks manager stationed purposely at Lake Merritt, so it would be
the cleanest, safest, most welcoming site
in the city of Oakland.
And so my recommendation to you is to take a look
at the inside walking trail and the maintenance of the lake
because it's an embarrassment.
It's not the jewel of Oakland like it used to be.
And anyways, I would, if there's a way you can include
that on your list, because the people are walking
along the lake, but you're running into all kinds
of other challenges, and that should be the most attractive location to walk and enjoy
children's fairyland and all the other activities.
But thank you, and I'll make a motion to approve the item.
Thank you.
Councilmember Wong.
Thank you.
Through the chair, this project, half of it is in my district, and a very important project.
I just have a couple of questions related to the costs.
So it was noted in the report that the bid, and this is the lowest bid, and the one that's
being recommended was 18% higher than the estimate.
What is going on there?
Through the chair to the councilmember, right now the market is fairly volatile.
And so typically when you look at a job like this, we have a risk assessment we have to
to make, which would be if we cancel this procurement
and we did it again, would we get a better price?
Typically you don't.
We believe that this is very likely the best price we're
going to get for this project, even though we have a 18% gap
between where our engineers' estimate is
and where our contractors ended up.
Typically it's in your commodities pricing.
A lot fluctuates based on the price of cement
and the price of liquid asphalt.
I've not looked specifically to see where where we had deviations there but but the markets very volatile right now and even things like aluminum we're seeing big increases in aluminum pricing which is impacting all of our projects.
Okay. That's helpful. And then just just to understand too since I did some math with the Gallagher and Burke's adjusted base bid with the discount this is a seven point six five million.
was noted, plus the bid alternative of $994,000. It adds up on my map to 8.65 million instead of
the 8.8 million being recommended by staff. Just because, again, is individuals responsible for
just wise and responsible stewardship of taxpayer funding? I'm trying to understand.
It's not a huge gap but nonetheless it's about a hundred fifty thousand dollars higher than the lowest bid that the as I understand it according to these tables.
So why wouldn't we reward eight point six five million instead of eight point eight.
So so those calculations are actually done by the Department of Workforce Employment Standards that the bid alternates.
I would I would have to defer to them within the within the document here.
It talks about that the base bid plus that bid alternate
to get to the 8.8 million.
And then my other question is just,
I would like, in some of these reports going forward,
just what I know mileage is not a perfect estimate here.
But just to get a sense of how much mileage this project is
going to cover, just not just for this one,
but on a going forward basis,
just to make these decisions as council.
But otherwise I do second the motion
made by Councilmember Gayo.
Do we have any other comments?
But no other comments from council?
All right, let's go to our speakers please.
Calling in the names that sign up for item number three.
If you're here in chamber, please come up to the podium.
If you are on Zoom, please raise your hand to be identified.
Kevin Dalley, Blair Beekman, and David Boatwright.
Hi, Kevin Dally from Transport Oakland.
I'm excited to see these changes,
which I think will help to make safer streets
for pedestrian cyclists and for drivers as well.
And I'm really excited to see the bond sales moving forward,
crossed fingers, of course.
And we've been looking forward to the bond sales
and for fixing streets for, well, the past year or so
delayed sales. Thanks. David Boatwright, District 4. This probably isn't a
question directed to transportation, but I was curious when the bond offering is
going to be made. I heard it was going to be in November, but we're halfway
through the month already. Calling in Blair Beekman, if you're on Zoom, please
raise your hand. If not, Chair, that concludes all speakers on this item.
all right I think we have a motion and a second thank you we have a motion made
by councilmember guy Oh seconded by councilmember Wong to approve the
recommendation of staff and to forward this item to the December 2nd 2025 city
council agenda on consent on roll councilmember guy Oh I councilmember
Houston feel uncomfortable speaking on this item because of some of the
situations has happened so I'm just gonna stay silent on this would that be
count it as an abstention then yes the options are yes no or abstain
councilmember Houston remain silent you can mark that as an abstain thank you
councilmember Wong aye and chair unger aye thank you motion passes with three
eyes one abstain Houston now reading in item number four adopted resolution one
approving ongoing cooperative purchase agreements exceeding 250 thousand
for Oakland Public Works Bureau of Maintenance
and Internal Services Equipment Services Division.
Commodity goods and services contract
as outlined in table one in an additional amount
not to exceed $6,310,000 and extend contract dates listed
and to adopting appropriate
California Environmental Quality Act findings,
and we have one speaker that signed up for this item.
All right, let's hear from our staff, please.
My name is Erica Vasquez,
Management Assistant at Equipment Services.
Basically these are our list of 15 cooperative agreements
that we need increased or extended cooperative agreements
that includes $250,000 or more.
I don't know if you have any specific questions
but it's just to kind of keep us going with our workflow.
We have contracts that include parts and services
to for our vehicles and equipment,
including the Ford store and our fire trucks.
Could you just explain what a cooperative agreement is?
A cooperative agreement is when we piggyback
from another contract that another city entity may have.
So it can be maybe a state contract
or a cooperative purchasing agency like Source Well,
where they're kind of like the middle person
between the city and the vendors.
So we pretty much get the same price and commodity.
So we're going for like apples and apples.
So say the city of Sacramento has Albright women out to bid
They're getting say like five Ford cars
Then we can pig it back from that contract that way
We do not have to spend our time resources, and we will get the same
price and commodity
With with just using that same contract
great we have questions from Council
councilmember guy yes, thank you for the information and
Certainly there's a great need when it comes to public works need for new vehicles
for servicing vehicles and because we have a number of rentals that
That we should be replaced. I'm I guess the question I have for you. What is our plan?
To accommodate or to provide public works new vehicles updated vehicles
To maintain the service that's required not only the vehicles, but we're also looking at mechanics
We need additional workers to service the vehicles that we have and I'm gonna talk about vehicles
I'm talking anything from police department fire department public works cleaning up the streets in the city and
I'd like to get a recommendation from you down to a plan. What is our plan?
Not not only leasing and renting, but you know, there's some cities that are
Electrifying their purchasing vehicles that are electrified and so what is our plan to do that?
Councilmember I'm gonna let my manager step in and he could probably elaborate
Good morning. My name is Joseph Williams equipment services manager. So we've developed several plans
We've developed a 10-year fleet replacement plan to forecast out what it's gonna cost us per year to keep our fleet
on a regular schedule, we developed special plans for police and fire.
We've conveyed all these needs to the budget office.
We just have not secured any replacement funding with the exception of approximately $5 million to the Oakland Police Department in the last three years.
And as far as I'm aware of, we don't have any funding currently for the funding needed to execute this replacement plan.
So like I said, since 2022, I probably developed four to five different plans and the fleet
just continues to age without funding.
Yes, to our board chairperson, I would like to have our public works representatives provide
that information so we can plan and make sure that our staff members have the vehicles to
do the job.
So yes, sir.
Richard Battersby, Assistant Director
Bureau of Maintenance and Internal Services
of Oakland Public Works.
Just to add on to what Mr. Williams stated,
my understanding is there has been $5 million allocated
this year and the next year that has not been designated,
which department gets to utilize it.
So since fleet replacement was decentralized in July 2023,
there's not really a single coordinating party
within the city. But we are in the process of starting discussions with police department
and with fire department to see how far that $5 million will go. And just give you guys
some ballpark ideas. That's maybe 35 fully equipped police vehicles. That's maybe two
fire apparatuses. And those are exclusive. That's for $5 million. That's what you can
get. For a battery electric street sweeper, we are in the process of trying to complete
the fleet electrification transition a battery electric street sweepers about
nine hundred thousand dollars give or take so these are the ballpark numbers
we're dealing with it's purely a matter of not having the resources available
but we're happy to share those plans with you and the rest of the city
council and we have just as recently as last week fire department was bugging me
said hey give me the updated numbers Richard so we've got some numbers out
We just need to be able to find the funding. Thank you. Have we brought our staffing levels at the mechanics shop?
Where should be or we see how many vacancies? No, we have not we have
Vacancies and unfilled positions. I think and Joey are we about thirty percent vacant on the heavy equipment?
Yeah, so ten positions down between technician and service worker, so that means we have to outsource more work
So that's why you see these 15 contracts here why we're having to increase and extend our vendor networks or support network
We cannot complete the work internally and that's not a good good deal for the city
Number one because it costs more just in the labor expenses
But number two now we have to incur transport time and we're at the mercy of those vendors that are performing the repairs
And we're just one of many customers and they have believe me. They have all the business they can handle right now
Thank you, and I'll check in with you to bring that information to the City Council because we're all making public safety in a clean city
Our priorities. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you
Councilmember Wong
Thank you through the chair a couple of I want to hone in on a couple of these
Contracts the larger dollar amounts the Golden State emergency vehicle service
The Peterson trucks incorporated in the Ford store in San Leandro. What services are they expected to provide to the city of Oakland?
Yeah, good question. They actually provide us parts and services the Golden State emergency vehicle service. That's strictly for fire apparatus
We have approximately 40 to 50 trucks with an average age of probably 15 years
So you can imagine the amount of parts and equipment failures those trucks are experiencing
So we're seeing an increase in the costs associated with procuring those parts.
We do most of that work internally, so that's mostly for parts.
As far as the Ford Store, San Leandro, we have another Ford vendor local to Northern California, but not as local as the Ford Store.
This is our local vendor that does all of our Ford repairs and
maintenance that we don't get to internal, also provides us with parts.
So yeah, we're seeing an increase, approximately 25 to 30% in parts due to the tariffs and
due to other issues that are going on, so the increase are coming and they're not reducing at all.
What was the other one you had mentioned?
Horsor, Golden State Fire?
Peterson Trucks.
Peterson Truck is a local heavy equipment repair vendor.
So we will send heavy equipment trucks and assets there.
Again, the heavy equipment trucks have an average age of between 13 and 15 years old.
So those are front line trucks that are used every day in public service.
And so as these trucks break down, frequently we have internal staff members that are doing the work, but they're just overwhelmed.
And so we'll utilize local vendors, that's one of the local vendors that we utilize for performing repairs.
Trucks are mostly public works and department transportation.
Okay, that's helpful.
I think this work is incredibly important.
to underline everything that council member guy who has said about the importance of the maintenance in order to carry out the work.
I will say that I've noticed a number of the reports coming from public works.
I don't see like some sort of performance measure or some sort of are we holding our contractors accountable to certain timelines to deliverables when they come
before council and so that's something I just want to see more out of the department when
we have to make these voting decisions to make sure when I approve a $6.3 million amount
of money that we're gonna get something, that we're getting something out of that and that
we have accountability measures in place for our contractors.
So for our contractors, we have people that monitor the invoice as the work is done.
We actually give the invoice to a mechanic to verify the actual work is performed and
is performed to our satisfaction before the equipment is returned to service.
So we are verifying, making sure we're not double billed, making sure everything is, it should be, on every case by case basis.
There aren't any large, like you'll see a multi-million dollar contract, we're not issuing POs for multi-million dollars.
Most POs are issued in the hundreds of dollars or thousands of dollars range, but there's thousands of invoices.
so we go through every invoice to make sure and correct it before we process of a payment.
That sounds like a good quality control mechanism,
but what I don't see still is what is the work that they're
expected to deliver when I approve this contract.
So this is just something I want to see more out of the department. Thank you.
Okay. Council Member Houston.
I agree with my council members Wang and Noel. I'll move that item.
Thank you. Moving to public speakers, Mr. Kevin Dalley, you can come up to the
podium. Hi, Kevin Dalley from Transport Oakland. I know that this is primarily
repair of various vehicles, including emergency vehicles, but this is an
opportunity to mention the importance of purchasing of the vehicles, that the
fire code suggested by the fire marshal wants to design streets around the
the emergency vehicles we have purchased.
So turning radius, street width, etc is chosen around the vehicles.
And as we move towards purchasing new vehicles,
I'm hoping that we can look at purchasing vehicles that fit
the streets we have and the streets we want to have.
Narrow streets make slower traffic, wider streets, faster traffic,
more deaths, more injuries.
So let's work on purchasing trucks
that meet our traffic safety needs.
Thanks.
Thank you.
That concludes our speakers.
And we do have a motion made by Council Member Gayo,
seconded by Council Member Houston,
to approve the recommendation of staff
and to forward this item to the December 2nd,
2025 City Council agenda on consent,
on roll Council Member Gayo.
Aye.
Council Member Houston.
Aye.
Council Member Wong.
Aye.
And Chair Unger.
Thank you item number four passes with four four eyes now reading in item number five
adopt an ordinance amending Oakland Municipal Code chapter
10.20 speed limits and adopting appropriate, California
Environmental Quality Act findings to reflect changes in Oakland Street Network and to modify speed limits on Broadway and International Boulevard
And we do have one speaker that signed up for this item
All right. Let's hear from staff, please
Hi, good morning. Craig Raphael. I'm a planner with the Department of Transportation here to present this item.
This is an administrative item to ensure that the Oakland Municipal Code or OMC accurately reflects our current roadway network.
So we're proposing an ordinance with a series of administrative edits that align street names with their current usage,
fix some errors, and delete duplicates, things of that nature.
There's also a couple of specific corridor updates on Broadway.
So reducing the speed of a small segment of Broadway to 20 miles per hour between 27th Street and
Piedmont Avenue due to updated surveys as well as on International Boulevard,
making the speed consistently 25 miles per hour based on recent speed surveys within City of Oakland right of way.
Happy to answer any questions.
Does this also apply to me in my 1983 Supra?
Or can I get an exemption?
Council members, any questions?
Yes, yes.
How about the enforcement?
How do we enforce the speed limits?
It's an example of international boulevard, right?
The only thing that the sheriff does
is enforce the inside the bus, but not the bus lane.
And that's the work that Oakland public,
but Oakland Police Department is responsible for.
Is there any other recommendations
that the city's bringing forth in terms of how do we
can reduce the speed limit, but how do we monitor that?
Because right now, in the streets that I live,
it's out of control, man.
We don't have the number of police officers
that we should have.
Then there's a great debate about the flock cameras
that will help slow some of us hoodies down to make sure
that we adhere to the red lights and the speed limits,
and so forth.
Yeah.
Good morning, Council Members.
Megan Weir, Assistant Director with the Department
of Transportation.
Thank you, Council Member Gallo, for the important question
with respect to speed and how our speed limits are related.
OKDA has an inter-agency initiative,
Safe Oakland Streets.
That's a partnership with the Police Department,
the Department of Race and Equity in
our city administrator's office and
focusing both on having speed limits that support
safe speeds as well as implementing speed safety cameras,
which is a proven tool that we're working
quickly to implement in Oakland streets as one of
six cities that's authorized to have a pilot
within the state of California is one approach
partnering with the police department with
their limited resources to focus on
the high-injury network and
streets where we see the highest concentrations of severe and fatal injuries are two key strategies
for that work, but foundational to that is ensuring that we have speed limits that slow speeds to
provide the guidance to slow speeds to save lives, which is what this report is helping us achieve.
So for the public's information, the speed limit on Oakland streets will be 25 miles per hour.
It varies by location and the report provides updates
to the OMC.
So on some streets, it's 25.
Other streets, we actually have state authorization
to go as low as 20.
So it varies.
And we're working to bring the OMC in alignment.
Yeah.
If you can share that with us, because we know,
I know that the minute I go to Alameda, it's 20 miles.
I better go 20 miles per hour.
Or there will be a consequence with the cameras greeting me
and saying hello and goodbye to Alameda.
But is there a plan beyond fixing the street?
And how do we monitor the safety?
If it's 20, 25 miles per hour, how
do I make sure that I adhere to that?
That's a critical question with respect to evaluation.
So for example, for the speed safety cameras
that we'll be implementing later this year,
evaluation is a key piece of that work.
So we'll be looking at, we have pre-data
on how fast vehicles are driving
and then looking at how speeds are changed
with the deployment of those cameras.
We also, as resources permit,
do evaluations of our projects as well
to ensure that the design speed
something that we're achieving through the capital improvements that we're implementing.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Through the chair, I'm all for this.
But I have the same questions that Councilmember Gayo has on the enforcement piece. I think the
speed cameras, there's only going to be 18, and that is limited by state law, correct?
I was recently reading through the history of the red light cameras, at least what I could find
in the news. What exactly happened with the red light cameras and why don't we
have them up? Why don't we have those up? Yeah so there was a red light camera
program in Oakland and there's several problems associated with it. Namely by
state law they use facial recognition technology. Each violation had to be
approved by the police and the fines were quite steep I believe around $500.
There is new legislation that was just passed that enables municipalities in
California to set up a red light camera program with much lower fines and
outside of the police department, and that is something that we're looking at under SB 720.
Okay, that's great.
When can we get a report out on that?
I would love to get some updates on the implementation of that,
since I have heard so many distraught people in my district
about the rampant speeding?
Sure, yeah.
The legislation was just signed by the governor.
So it's going to take a bit of time to do the analysis.
But we anticipate sometime next year
we could provide a report on that.
When could it be actually implemented, the timeline?
Just enlighten, especially of the traffic control unit
being disbanded in OPD.
I have concerns around how we're going
to enforce, let's lower the speed limits,
but also, I don't think we're enforcing them right now.
Yeah, I can't give an exact timeline right now.
If it followed a similar timeline as the speed camera
rollout, likely we would need to first issue a request
for proposals to actually get a vendor,
do the data analysis, community outreach.
So likely would not be next calendar year.
It would be after that.
But obviously, it's something we're definitely exploring right now.
Okay. That sounds good.
Any other thoughts on how?
Because the 18 speed cameras is,
in my opinion, not enough to enforce the speeding.
Any ideas on what we could do as council to really address what we see as reckless driving?
What I see as reckless driving?
Good morning again, Megan Weir,
Assistant Director with the OT.
Another policy tool that we've been really interested in
is something that's referred to as speed governors
or technology that's in vehicles that prevents drivers
from exceeding extreme speeds, which
are the ones that are really associated
with the most severe and fatal injuries.
There is a movement that's been growing across the country
with respect to exploring how this type of technology
could be implemented, particularly
among people who are convicted of repeated excessive speeding
violations, potentially also correlated
with injuring other members of the public.
So I think thinking about the pervasiveness of speed,
the limitations of capital improvements and enforcement,
thinking with respect to what are technologies that
could be implemented in vehicles to fundamentally
prevent the most egregious driving behaviors,
there's a growing surge of interest across the country
in this type of technological solution as well.
And that's something we would be happy to brief
your office on if of interest.
Okay, great.
That sounds good.
Thank you so much.
Council Member Houston, your hand up.
Yes, sir.
I'm through the chair, Megan and Raphael.
I've been reading and I noticed that it says
Broadway is 20 miles an hour. International has two different speed limits. One is 25
and one is 30. On International, where is that? And like Councilmember Noel Gayo mentioned
in Alameda, it's 20 miles an hour throughout the whole city, except for when you come through
the Posey Tube, it's 25 that it tells you when you go over to the Constitution, tells
you to slow down to 20. So my question is, in International, where is that location where
It goes from 20 and 25 and Broadway is 20 miles an hour.
We have three different speed limits.
Can you respond to that, please?
Sure.
I'm Joe Wang with DOT.
International is being set at 25 throughout the entire corridor
within Oakland's jurisdiction.
That's from the lake all the way to 42nd Avenue.
Just to clarify.
So I read something about 30 miles an hour.
So I read that rhyme.
Yeah, it's not 30 miles per hour.
Okay.
Okay, I'll look that up and I'll reach out
because I saw something that said 30.
It was like it changed in a document.
I'll look it up and I'll send an email to the office
to find out if I'm clear about that.
Sure.
Thank you.
Council Member Wong.
Oh, just making a motion to accept staff recommendation.
Okay.
Yes, I'd like to second the motion,
but just give you one more bit of advice
and I'll be happy to work with you.
Growing up here in Oakland, in East Oakland,
you couldn't graduate high school
unless you had a driver education class.
And that taught me what the speed limit was,
what the rules were on the road,
and prepared me to get my driver's license
when I graduated from high school.
So, I think if we can share that information,
just so the student body getting back
to what we used to do working together between the city
and Oakland Unified in terms of educating our youngsters
that these are the rules of the street
that we have in place and we should follow.
Thank you, and I'll second the motion.
Thank you, moving on to our public speakers.
Mr. Kevin Dali, you can come up to the podium.
Thanks, Kevin Dali.
I'm the co-chair of the Policy and Legislative Committee
of the Bicyclist and Pedestrian Advisory Commission.
A few weeks ago, we received a report from OATDOT,
which includes their brand new map,
which lets you look up speed limits
on different streets in Oakland.
It's a very useful tool, not guaranteed to be 100% yet
since it's just been released,
but anyone who's interested should give it a look.
I am seeing part of international showing a 30 mile an hour on that map,
but I'm not sure if that's correct.
It's a very new map.
One thing that in addition to everything that OakDOT has mentioned about speed limits,
it's also important to include traffic calming.
And traffic calming is another technology that strongly discourages speeding.
and on International Boulevard in particular that has reduced the deaths and injuries substantially
over the past year or so.
I expect that the AC Transit Oakland Interagency Liaison Committee will be looking at updates
of International Boulevard and the traffic safety and three of the four members of this
committee are on the Interagency Liaison Committee.
member Wong, Gallo and Houston. So I think it'll be great to look at that
street in particular and what traffic calming is done there and look at what
we can do to extend it. I'm hoping that our committee can, that the BPAP
committee will look at a deeper dive on some of the speed limits and see other
areas where we can reduce the speed limits while we do traffic calming.
Thanks
Thank you for your comments chair. That concludes our speakers councilmember Houston has
Councilmember Houston. Yes do the chair. I'm looking at
The data here. It says ten point twenty point zero three
Zero speed limit of 30 miles per hour and it does show it on the map and it does show it on
Foothill Boulevard
14 yeah, it says it says it on the map
So it's a discrepancy there because I see three different speed limits one is 20 miles an hour on
Broadway and then it's a 25 miles an hour then it's a 30 mile an hour
Can I get that clarified because it does status?
Yeah on the report
Yeah, sure just to reiterate the purpose of this ordinance is to change the speed limit to 25
There are segments on international that's currently 30. We want to change it to 25 despite what the map may show
Okay, I'm good with that
Okay. Thank you
We have a motion made by councilmember Wong second by councilmember Gayo
So approve the recommendation of staff and support with this to the December 2nd
2025 city council agenda on consent on roll councilmember Gayo. Aye councilmember Houston
Councilmember Wong I and chair Unger I
Thank you item number five passes with four eyes to be forwarded to the December 2nd City Council agenda on consent
Before moving on to open forum just noting that item number three the resolution regarding lakeside Drive slash Lake Merit Boulevard complete street construction
Contract award will be on non consent as this passed with three eyes and one abstained
Now going on to open forum
Calling in the names that sign up for open forum. If you're here with us in chamber
You can come up to the podium or if you're on zoom, please raise your hand to be easily identified Kevin Dally and Blair Beekman
Mr. Dally do you still wish to speak?
Okay
Chair that concludes all speakers for open forum
All right, let's adjourn
Thanks, everybody
Thank you