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Good morning and welcome to the Public Works and Transportation Committee meeting of today Tuesday January 13 2026
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42 a.m. With that we proceed to take roll
councilmember Gallo
Councilmember Houston. Thank you councilmember Wong
Here. Thank you and chair Unger
Here we do have four members present and before you begin chair Unger. Do you have any announcements for us today?
no announcements
Thank you move into our first item of the day, which is approval of the draft minutes from the committee meeting on December 9th
2025
and we do have
zero speakers for this item
Okay, I will make a motion that we approve the minutes
We have a motion made by
chair Unger
seconded by councilmember Gaia to accept
To accept the draft minutes of the committee me on December 9 2025 as is on roll councilmember Gaia
councilmember on Houston
Councilmember Wong I and chair Unger
Hi, this motion passes with four eyes to accept the draft minutes of the committee meeting being held on December 9
2025 as is item to determination to schedule outstanding committee items and you do have two speakers for this item
All right. Let's hear from our speakers, please
Thank you when I call your name, please approach the podium if you're participating via zoom
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person speakers before zoom speakers miss Asada and Kevin Dolly I'm asking
for the following topics be considered rate considered for discussion in this
body where's the clock system if we can have K talk display the clock please
thank you I haven't started can you can you put it back to okay that's fine
Thank you. We need to have a discussion on the role of Park and Rec Advisory Board and
where they have authority to make recommendations or to make decisions. We need to have a report
on the tree cutting permitting process. We need to have a report on projects, how they
They are funded as related to the streets.
Ticketing of stolen cars needs to be brought up.
Broken parking meters in the city.
Cleaning up of debris from sewers because a lot of flooding took place in Oakland because
there was debris in the sewer entrance and we need to know how to clean up.
related to transportation, the number of city vehicles not being used and just
sitting in that parking lot over there, contracts that may involve possible
contact with gas lines if they're doing work, protected bike lanes by district,
you got some districts like six and seven and five that don't have any
protected bike lanes and that's a bias, encampment cleanup and security
contract updates so we can get this done and don't wait until staff comes here
and say we didn't have a chance to do this we didn't have a chance to do that.
And lastly any meetings related to public works like last night that
That organization was taking private information
and putting in some computer system.
I refuse to take part in that.
So any meetings that are being held
that the city participates in,
make sure that privacy is not invaded.
That concludes your public speakers for item two.
All right, staff, anything on the pending report?
Betsy Lake, Assistant City Administrator,
nothing from the administration.
Okay.
I will make a motion that we approve the pending list.
We do have a motion made by Chair Unger,
seconded by Council Member Houston.
To accept the termination,
schedule an outstanding committee items,
also known as your pending list as is on roll.
Council Member Gallo.
Aye.
Council Member Houston.
Aye.
Council Member Wong.
Aye.
And Chair Unger.
Aye.
This motion passes with four ayes.
To accept the termination and schedule outstanding
committee items as is moving to item three.
adopt a resolution authorizing an agreement
with the Montclair Village Association
for the operation of the management
to the Lasalle Garbage, excuse me, garage,
located at 6235 Lasalle Avenue
and the Scout Lot located at 2250 Mountain Boulevard
for a period of five years
and the annual compensation for 295,000,
including 275,000, two reimbursable operating expenses,
20,000 in management fees,
For a total amount not to exceed 1,476,000,
waiving the competitive proposals,
qualification, solicitation requirements,
waiving the local and small local business enterprise
requirement, and adopting the CEQA findings.
And you do have eight speakers for this item.
Why don't we hear from staff first, please?
Good morning, Chairperson Unger,
members of the committee and the public.
My name is Michael Ford
with the Department of Transportation.
The item that you had before you this morning
is concerns the city's off-street parking program.
Since that program was established
as Article 27 of the city charter in 1955,
the city has relied on professional contractors
to operate and manage city-owned garages and lots.
This particular item concerns two facilities
in the Mount Clare Commercial District.
the LaSalle Garage, consisting of 305 spaces
and the Scout Surface Lot with 28 spaces.
Since the garage was first built in the 1970s
and expanded in the 80s,
the city has turned to Montclair Village Association
or its predecessor,
the local business improvement district,
to operate and manage the facility.
This arrangement is similar to other arrangements we have
at other city-owned garage, all of which
are managed by third parties.
Since I started working with Daniel Swofford and the Montclair
Village Association team in 2013,
I have had only positive experiences.
Montclair Village Association has consistently
earned its customer service incentives.
And I do not recall ever receiving
a complaint about the garage operations or the conditions
of the facilities.
LaSalle Garage took the lead about four years ago
when our garages went gateless.
This friction, low friction, and relatively low cost
of controlling access and revenue at our garages
effectively integrates on-street and off-street parking payments
and enforcement systems.
In doing so, we were able to avoid a costly new parking
access and revenue control system, which would likely
of cost of the city between two and four million dollars.
The recommendation that you have before you today
include waiving the competitive process,
adopting CEQA findings,
waiving the SLBE LBE requirement,
although I understand Montclair Village Association
will be securing its certification soon if not already,
and authorizing staff to finalize and execute
a multi-year agreement with NVA.
This concludes my presentation
and I stand by ready to answer your questions
or address any concerns.
Thank you.
Questions, council members?
Council member Houston.
On the hires, will they be hiring Oaklanders to staff,
be staffing?
Through the chair, council member Houston,
this is the same operation that's been in place for years.
So my expectation would be that they would continue
to do the same thing that they've been doing.
We could enlist Daniel Swofford to let us know
who his current staff is and to understand
if they're actually Oaklanders.
I'm not sure if T and others are actually
Oakland residents or not.
Yeah, I like to know that.
I mean, because if we're doing the same thing
over and over, we need some little change,
especially if we're waving the LBE and the SLBE.
and you know that I'm a strong advocate for that.
Who's liable for any break-ins and things like that?
Is that them or is that the city?
Any break-ins or anything that's happening on the lot?
Yeah, through the chair.
So is there any crime, any break-ins?
So all of our operators, including MVA,
are responsible for carrying insurance.
So they have garage operator's insurance.
They're expected to indemnify the city.
They would take the lead on any lawsuits
and these sorts of things.
So that's one of the advantages
of having a professional operator
is they're sort of our first line of defense.
Thank you, through the chair.
So I've seen your projections that you're anticipating
that with time that we're going to get more and more revenue
and actually have a net gain.
Can you just explain these projections?
Yeah, through the chair, thank you for the question.
So the master fee schedule includes rates
that allowed us to recently change the hourly rate
at the garage.
And that was in order to make sure that we were covering
the rising costs over the last couple of years.
In Mount Clare Village,
we have implemented demand responsive parking
where we have premium zones and value zones.
And we've wanted to treat that garage as if it was a value
zone to try to drive people to the garage
rather than taking the spaces on the street.
So this still matches the lower prices
in the core of the district.
So it's a little bit more expensive,
but it's still a value.
And it will help us cover the increasing costs
over the last couple of years.
I know this is not a scope, but I
would want to explore how to expand
that demand responsive model across the city.
Since I know not every neighborhood has that.
And then just to clarify,
the fees that we see in Table 2,
those are all set by the master fee schedule
that we voted on last spring, basically.
That's correct.
So through the chair, our parking operators,
whether it's Montclair Village Association
or Wellington and Chinatown
or City of Oakland Parking Partners,
they're implementing our direction.
We're directing them how to manage the garages, and the City Council sets the fees.
We do have the flexibility in the master fee schedule.
If you look at it in the public, we do have the word max in the master fee schedule.
And that's been there for quite a long time before I came.
And that was designed so that we do have a little bit of flexibility.
So if a garage has a six hour rate, we would be able to go below $6.
But we wouldn't be able to go above $6.
And that way, we're able to flex a little bit.
Interesting.
Yeah.
OK, that's helpful.
Final question is just on this whole customer satisfaction
incentive fee.
Is that something that we have citywide?
Yeah, so through the chair, about 11 years ago,
we implemented this template for our scope of services
for off-street parking.
And it included a customer service incentive.
Basically what that does is it has our operators actually do a customer satisfaction survey.
So they're actually getting data and input from their customers to make sure that they're
responsive and doing a good job and it's that data that is being evaluated.
And we know that they don't try to gain that system to increase their own revenues.
Yeah, so they supply all of the backup data and we're able to validate that it's not being
gamed.
Okay, got it.
Count remember guy. It's Monclare the business improvement district. What are their sites are. I know there's one in Chinatown. Who's who's actually overseeing or monitoring the daily park at through the chair. Thank you for the question. Council member guy.
So we have approximately 20 off-street parking facilities, and they are managed in different ways.
Montclair Village Association is responsible for two.
In Chinatown, Pacific Renaissance Plaza is managed by Wellington, Montclair Village acquisition.
And then we have an operator called City of Oakland Parking Partners, which is responsible for a large portfolio.
includes City Center West Garage,
includes Dalzil Garage in 250,
Franco-Gauer Plaza, 1800 San Pablo,
and a host of other ones.
So the money that is being generated
by the individual parking lots,
who in the city is accountable
or monitoring what is being generated?
Thank you, through the chair.
So all of the off-street parking operations,
The Public Parking is a program within Oak Dot.
That's one of the many programs that is in the Parking and Mobility Division.
And so, myself and my staff are responsible for working with the Montclair Village Association.
We do monthly operation reviews.
We do tours.
We respond to issues.
And then those operators are responsible for making sure that the revenues are properly
collected. We're using Park Mobile and IPS multi-space pay-by-plate meters and
those are all of those revenues are deposited directly into city bank
accounts and so all that ultimately we're paying back to our operators are
authorized expenses and small per space management fees. Okay so the money that
it's being generated within the city of oak we're monitoring the amounts but
those amounts of dollars that are generated are going to what department
the finance department directly so through the chair the fund multi-purpose
reserve fund 1750 is has been used as the de facto offstreet parking fund for
decades and so when we receive revenues from our off-street parking operations
they are recorded in 1750 which is a part of the general fund so it's
basically all general funds and but the program itself is has been part of
either Public Works or since DOT was created it's been the off-street
parking programs been managed by Oak Dot. So we would be able to direct to to
identify the the amount of revenue generated by the parking lots that we
have on an annual basis considering the fact that we're challenged financially
and I can assure you the next year we're gonna be having a difficult financial
time so but we can recognize where that money's going and so the last question
that I have there are other city parking lots for example like the one here is
City Hall was open for many many years but it's been closed for now years. They
could generate more revenue that could become account I mean a safe place to
park for anyone coming to City Hall or coming downtown what is keeping that
light close still. Through the chair so you're referring to Clay Street Garage
right here behind City Hall so it was red tagged it was deemed seismically
unsafe back in 2016 and it was a decision to close it in the interest of
public safety and as far as the how it will be disposed of in the future I'm
not aware of any specific plans there have been some reports brought in the
past but it's it's been a couple years since like economic workforce
development and others and I still recall that 2016 2016 it's been close
since 2016 where's the administrator in terms of getting that active so we can
put it back to use because for even for council member it was a primary
location apart to come to City Council meetings and not having to park on the
street where like one of our employees they stole her car in front of City Hall
and they broke into my car twice coming to a City Council meeting and so if the
city administrator can give a report back when are we gonna take care of that
property that's been closed since 2016 there could be a revenue generating
location for the city of Oakland thank you for the information thank you
anything else council members all right why don't we hear from our speakers
please thank you when I want to call your name please approach the podium
state you're new for the record if you're participating via zoom please
to raise your hand so you're easily identified.
We will take in person before Zoom.
Tammy Byrd and Keith, Daniel Swahard,
Andrew Jones, George Spies,
Mrs. Sada, Kevin Dahle, and Blair Beekman.
Good afternoon Chair Unger, members of the committee.
My name is Daniel Swahford.
I'm the executive director
of the Montclair Village Association
and the managing partner for the Montclair parking operations.
I also serve as the Director of the Temescal District,
Laurel District, and work closely
with other districts around Oakland, for the record.
Just wanted to say thank you.
It's been an honor to serve in my tenure
for the last 15 years in supporting parking operations
in the Montclair District to honor the history
of the parking garage.
The merchants of the district help finance originally
structure back in the 70s when it was just a parking lot having a layer story
and then two more stories in the 80s and really valued how important it is to
incorporate parking into the economic activity of the district. In working with
you know DOT since they took over the role of facilitating parking we've been
able to pilot multiple programs in the district including flex parking district
wide about 10 years ago, as well as the gateless program that the city was wanting to do and saw
the facility there as a way to see how that would all come together.
Proud to have some wonderful staff to your question, council member, four part-time staff,
one full-time manager, three part-time staff, two of them live in Oakland, one of the four
was recently displaced but lives close by they've all been there for well the
longest almost 20 years and have a great relationship as ambassadors to to the
community to make sure the facility is safe to make sure the people that come
to the the facility whether they're regular monthlies or visitors know that
Oakland is welcome welcoming them help orient them to the commercial district
and answer any questions that they might have for Oakland
at large as very knowledgeable and caring individuals.
Just want to understand.
Thank you for your comment.
Good afternoon.
Hope all are well.
My name is Andrew Jones, Oakland-born raised resident
and business owner and also the chief operating officer
for the Uptown-Downtown Community Benefit Districts.
I'm here today in support of Daniel's motion or item
But also just to kind of highlight something, partnership is the key to these bids success
and you can see it here in the DOT's partnership with the Montclair Association.
We all know that this private partnership, public private partnership that we formed
over the last few years is critical to downtown success in these business corridors.
I just want to highlight one of the most impactful partnerships that we've had
over the last 17, well, really since they took over from OPD
in the past, you know, seven-ish years is with DOT
around parking enforcement and parking lot management.
So I'm here as just to kind of highlight the need
to explore any changes to DOT structure and what they oversee
and how their funds and the projects
that they oversee are managed before any significant changes
are made. I just want to say that we are deep in collaboration around issues of public safety,
parking enforcement in the nighttime entertainment zones, how the operation of these parking lots
are structured, and how they impact the community that uses them. I have been through countless
chiefs, OPD chiefs, I've been through countless directors of economic development of public works
in the last 17 years. The steadfast nature of what we've had over the past five years as we
approach these really complicated issues of violence in downtown around our
entertainment district I would just encourage you before any changes are
made to the structure that we explore it fully and that we are looking for
partnerships and operations all of this is at Jeopardy if you move rashly or
without clarity thank you for your time I appreciate it very much hi my name is
Keith Sherholz I'm an Oakland resident of over 30 years a homeowner and a proud
DoT staff person it's been my great fortune to work for the city of Oakland for 26 years. This will be my 27th year
Working for the city and for the last eight years. I've worked with Michael Ford and the parking office
Predominantly and I am here to basically beg you to do a full investigation of any changes with parking and the DoT
The innovation the department has shown towards parking revenues for flex time
In so many ways has been phenomenal the commitment of the staff the idealism of the people in oak dot and the success
the numbers bear it out of
Working on parking issues. I please please please beg the City Council
from the bottom of my heart to investigate any changes to oak dot at all and I
have nothing but praise for oak dots staff their commitment their focus on the future their
Integrity their ethics their commitment to
Every single positive thing for the city especially for future planning
And I think that the vision of the city that has been part of the Department of Transportation's original plan
Which the city council supported that integrity has to be held up
So I'm asking people on the city council. Please investigate ask for the hard numbers ask for the tough questions
for any changes in the current oak dot situation
Because from my own experience
26 27 years working for the city
I've never seen any program more successful better led the higher rate of morale and I've got a petition from the staff
To oppose any changes in the current system, and I'd like to leave that with the city council staff
It's very detailed and if they have questions. I'm sure we can answer them. Thank you
Good morning. My name is Tammy bird. I'm the parking meter collection supervisor
I was just on behalf of some of the members in our parking mobility
We want to I want to address the finance takeover
It was stated by finance that this takeover intended to approve time timeliness
Collectibility and customer service experience, but you got to remember parking is not just customer service
Parking is also a field operation combined with policies enforcement and not just collections
Finance does back in revenue not public facing compliance systems
Moving departments does not fix process bottlenecks
There was no cost efficiency analysis
There is no service level data showing finance could perform better
This takeover reorg is incomplete risk of disruption and future reversal is high
Highly likely labor laws are not satisfied and no proof of takeover of finance taken over approved services
So I'm just asking you guys, please look into
All aspects of this takeover. I put I've been here almost 15 year almost 16 years
I put my 16 years of salary on parking mobility straight up. Thank you
Council members. Hello. My name is George speeds. I'm a co-organizer with traffic violence rapid response
We are a as you know a pedestrian safety
organization and I'd like to speak also to the meta issue of
How parking enforcement works in the city
Everyone knows the old saying build it and they will come the same thing is true for transportation as it is for birdhouses and baseball
fields
It's called induced demand by the planners and engineers and has been understood since the early days of automobiles
In this case my concern is about the rumored move of parking management and enforcement from oak dot to finance
The decisions we make about parking will influence the choices that people make about their transportation options
Because of this treating parking as a revenue stream as it would be under finance. I suspect is counterproductive
Decisions about the provision
Pricing an exclusion of parking must remain within the Transportation Department in order to allow them to actively manage
Parking as part of the larger transportation system in Oakland
Please require the administration to bring any potential changes to the council through this committee
For a wider airing of the issues involved
We must treat parking policy and enforcement not as a revenue stream, but as a dynamic tool for building cities
Effective curb management through smart pricing,
exclusions, and other techniques is essential for reducing congestion,
supporting local businesses, as you've already heard,
and ensuring public safety.
Rampant double parking in commercial districts demonstrates this very vividly.
Providing Oak Dot with the mandate to use best practice parking management
isn't just about parking and revenue.
It's about making Oakland more accessible,
productive, and livable for everyone.
Thank you so much
Kevin Dally I'm a member of Transport Oakland
Living Glenview and I am a regular user of the LaSalle parking garage and I even parked my car there. I
don't just
ride bikes take transit they do a great job and
I am really concerned about the city administrators plan to move parking from
to finance especially without public input. 2013 city council passed the
parking principles. 2016 Oak Dot was created and parking was part of Oak Dot
from the beginning. If there is a desire to move parking let's have a clear
public discussion about it. Both council should approve and allow for public
input. Not only do I oppose it but as I understand it all or most of the
business improvement districts in Oakland oppose the move of parking. I've
communicated Savlin Krause, I think, damn, lost your name, their please and
Any council members talk to the business improvement districts, including Jack London,
including Montclair Village Association, there is opposition for moving it.
By carefully planning the rate of street parking,
especially you have one empty parking spot on each block,
it means there will not be as much traffic of people circling,
trying to look for parking.
There won't be as much parking in bike lanes,
won't be as much parking on crosswalks and blocking ramps. Please preferably
keep parking in Oak Dot, but if there is a desire to move it, discuss it first.
Thanks. Hi, Blair Beekman. Thanks for the previous public comment. I've been
attending Oakland public meetings for 10 years now, and there's a long
tradition of bouncing programs around from one department to another and I
don't know exactly why that happens yet but I do know the pattern and I thought
a nice suggestion was made previously to have a bit more public input to the
process may be more appropriate for our Oakland future but I'm not sure but I
it's certainly an idea because there's something there can be some good
arguments for keeping programs in specific places that I mean just make
sense that Department of Transportation would be housing parking issues. In
addressing this issue and for other parking facilities structures that were
mentioned here, there was no mention of the technology involved. I don't know
how important that is and relevant to this beginning subject matter you're
talking, but it should be a part of upcoming conversations definitely and
how the technology can be accountable for the parking structures. Actually, you
know, if you work with the ALPR, you know, data collection, you know, that often is
taking tickets and stuff at parking facilities these days and stuff, that
actually can be made for really good examples how to practice tech
accountability well, and how to practice good policies, bring those policies to the PAC,
then share them with the community, you know, or, you know, just the ways to make it an
open, accessible process with technology issues using the parking facility programs.
I think it offers a good practice, how to do our technology practice as well.
Just a reminder.
Thank you.
We off topic aren't we? We not on the agenda item, we talking about parking so I'm going
to throw myself into this conversation and try to get back on the subject. We need to
look at parking, it's not working. We got double parking going on in Chinatown for years
and nothing's going, nothing's being done about it. We got citations being placed on
stolen vehicles, and when people recover their cars, they're being charged for parking illegally
when their vehicles had been stolen.
We have parking that is going on where you have parkings in certain areas and times around
Lake Merritt, different times.
Over here, you have parking until 1 o'clock in the morning.
Who is having oversight over illegal parking if it's going on in there?
they don't have it going on. We need a review of parking. We have the parking and towing
component of the RVs and all those vehicles where people, homeless people are, and we
haven't gotten a report. You've got people today giving you a recommendation without
a performance evaluation. Somebody's saying, this group has been here doing it 17 years.
That's the performance evaluation.
So why would we have a contract for five years
when you're dealing with a deficit?
You don't have to have a five-year contract
with that $295,000.
Where's that coming from?
I think I identified where it was coming from.
But if you look at the report, they've been losing money,
and they're projecting that one year out of five,
they made money at one of these parking sites,
but they're projecting they're gonna make money.
What is this organization, the Montclair Parking Association,
why do they want to have oversight of this?
Would be my question.
What is the benefit of it for them?
When there's a parking citation, who goes in there
to give citations?
Is it our parking people, or do they have their own people
giving citations?
And I could go on and on.
But I want to see numbers that say, for 17 years, the...
Thank you for your comments.
That concludes your public speakers for item three.
All right, Council Member Houston.
Yeah, I would like to know,
it doesn't have to be answered here,
but was the functions of this,
it says right here, oppose or take over finance.
Was the finances in the finance department before
it was a DOT and then it came back?
Or can I talk to this right here?
this is not a scope.
Through the chip through the chair Celia Warren, office of the city attorney, I believe
we are on the Montclair parking lot and that the public speakers connected parking issues
broadly.
But I think when we start questioning things, if they have given us related to their sort
of tangent is a little bit outside of Brown Act.
Okay.
Got it.
Got it.
Got it.
Okay.
Thank you.
Back to staff, as it relates specifically to the Montclair
parking lot.
Thank you, Michael.
And just to comment, I think parking
is really critical for our goals to revive our small businesses.
I hear that consistently, especially in Chinatown,
how important it is to, well, frankly, they
want to lower the parking costs.
And I'm wondering, on the flip side,
I've also heard from our parking operators
that the operating expenses have gone down and so,
for example, in Grand, the Grand Avenue parking lot
has started to get just covered in like illegal dumping,
encampments, things like that.
So I'm wondering, how do we arrive at the operating expense?
This particular proposal is $295,000 per year.
How do you arrive at that decision?
And then when we wind up voting on the master fee schedule,
Are these operating the expenses of things
that then drive that dollar amount
when it comes to the cost that we put on our parking garages?
Thank you.
Through the chair, thank you, Council Member Wong,
for the questions.
Concerning the expenses, we are asking for a contract capacity
that provides us what we consider
to be based on experience and an understanding of what
what the costs are to be the necessary and sufficient minimum costs of running the garage.
And no more, no more, no less.
And in terms of the, as you were alluding to, the fees that can be charged.
Going back to the rationale behind having a little bit of flexibility in the master fee schedule.
Setting an upper limit, but then giving us the flexibility to fluctuate.
That's a great example of where we do want to make sure that we're cost-recovering.
We obviously want to maximize revenues, but the purpose of the garages, as stated in the
city charter, is to add value to the surrounding commercial district.
That's why it's so important that we partner with a partner like Montclair Village Association
because they have an intimate understanding of what
the needs are for the district from a business perspective,
from a community perspective.
And so we're able to work with them
and make sure that the hours are appropriate,
that the various types of programs,
whether it's Sunday, Saturday programming,
whether it's evening programming.
And we actively try to manage the garage
to cover costs, maximize revenues,
but ultimately add value to the commercial district.
And that's true of any area.
And then you also talked about some of our surface lots,
not scout lot, but lake park lot under 580.
It's challenging.
Over the last five years, the amount of illegal dumping,
encampments, crime, the amount of incidents
that our operators are responding to
is putting a real strain on our capacity.
And we're doing the best that we can,
but it's just that the challenge is going up
and we're trying to keep the costs low.
So that's why there's sometimes a disconnect
and people feel like we're not responding fast enough
or we're not doing a thorough enough job,
but we're really trying to do the best we can
with the limited resources we have.
And that's all part of what your direction
as a parking policy, your parking principles
that were adopted in 2013, they charged staff
with actively managing the parking system.
That's what I think I was just describing
when it comes to actively managing a garage like La Salle.
Okay, and that operating expense,
the 295 per year that you're asking for,
does that directly influence the actual parking fees
that we charge?
Through the chair, so in this case, as I mentioned earlier,
the LaSalle Garage is part of our demand response
of parking, and we wanted to treat it
as if it was a value zone.
So people would go directly there instead of parking
right in front of, you know,
pizza or one of the other businesses there.
They'd go there if they don't mind walking a little bit
and they could pay a little bit less.
Now we've had to recently increase the rate,
I think a dollar an hour,
And we've done that in order to make sure
that we're still cost-recovering,
that we are making sure that we're able to keep up
with rising expenses.
And what are we talking about?
We're talking about insurance.
We're talking about the cost of maintaining the elevator,
of repairing the lights, of making sure
that the stairwells are clean, salaries of our ambassadors.
So that's what we're trying to balance and meet
the needs of the commercial district.
OK.
That's helpful.
I'll make a motion to adopt a staff recommendation.
We got one more question from Councilmember Houston.
Yeah, that's it.
Through the chair, Michael Ford.
So if there's a ticket inside, I just
want to get clear in my head, if there's a ticket inside somebody
parking a handicap zone, who tickets them?
Thank you.
Through the chair, I appreciate you asking the question
because I know some of our public comments
were concerned about how the garages are
being operated and enforced.
So in fact, because we're a public agency,
we have the ability to use codes
and enforce with our parking enforcement staff.
So we're able to bring the same technicians
who are driving through the commercial district,
enforcing yellow zones, enforcing meters.
They drive into the garage
and they're actually using vehicle-mounted
license plate recognition technology
so that they can efficiently drive through the garage,
the parking permits, either monthly parking permits
or transient hourly permits,
they automatically go into the ALPR system.
So when our technicians are driving down a aisle,
they'll come across a car and the license plate
will say no permit.
And then if there's no permit, they get out and verify that,
put a citation on the windshield.
That citation is just like a citation
that we issue on the street.
It goes through the same process,
and so the off-street parking and the on-street parking
from an enforcement perspective
have been completely integrated,
and this goes back about four and a half years ago
when we came to council and explained
that it was in the best interest of the city
to go gateless and utilize the resources
that we had for managing on-street
by extending it to off street.
So I hope that answers your question.
Sorry, I have one more question.
So this last weekend I went to Walnut Creek with my mom.
They have like free parking for three hours.
Like how do we compete with that?
So what are the other cities,
especially because they're, I assume,
also governed by the same cost recovery?
Are they just providing subsidies?
What are they doing to make their parking garages
so affordable, do you know?
Yeah, through the chair.
So parking is local, local, local.
And so it can vary considerably from one part of Oakland
to another.
And certainly, if we go to other municipalities
or other areas, the cost structure
can vary considerably.
But what we're trying to do is make sure
that we charge the right price.
We want to charge the lowest price
to achieve the maximum utilization.
And that's where we say we'd like
to see a block or a garage about 85% full
so that people are not hunting for it
and they're able to get in there.
And when we're able to lower the rate, we will.
And that's what we call value zones.
But generally what we're trying to do
is make sure that there's parking available
for customers and visitors.
And that's what meter rates are used for.
Okay, thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you, we have a motion made by Council Member Wong,
seconded by Council Member Gallo,
to approve the recommendations of staff
the board decide on to the January 20th, 2026 City Council agenda on consent on roll. Councilmember
Gallo? Aye. Councilmember Houston? Aye. Councilmember Wong? Aye. And Chair Unger? Aye. This motion
passes with four ayes to approve the recommendation of the staff and the board decide on to the
January 20th, 2026 City Council agenda and that is on consent. As a reminder item four
regarding the measure DD grant agreement land trust watershed acquisition was withdrawn from
this agenda and rescheduled to the February 10th, 2026 public works and transportation committee
agenda. Moving to item five. This item requires an urgency vote. I would just need a motion.
So moved. Do we have a second for the urgency vote?
We have a motion made by Chair Unger, seconded by Councilmember Gallo, to approve the urgency
finding on roll. Councilmember Gallo? Aye. Councilmember Houston? Aye. Councilmember Wong? Aye.
And Chair Unger? Aye. I will now read the item into record. Adopt a resolution authorizing the
city administrator to negotiate and enter into a delegated maintenance agreement with Caltrans
to include the maintenance activities, such as weed abatement, litter and debris removal,
on-ramps and off-ramps, two, accepting the appropriate, appropriating up to 375,000 from
Caltrans to connection with the agreement, and three, making CEQA findings. And you do have
three speakers for this item. Why don't we hear from staff first, if we have anyone?
Good afternoon, Chair and members of the committee. My name is Cesar Macias. I manage state and federal affairs for Mayor Barbara Lee.
Thank you for advancing this item forward. I just want to say this is a top priority not only for the mayor, but for the city of Oakland.
We've been in many conversations in partnership with the city administrator and public works and our state partners to ensure that this agreement includes Oakland's requests.
And we believe that this will also help advance
one of Oakland's main priorities,
which is to keep the town clean.
Also want to mention Kristin Hathaway from Public Works
is here if the committee has any questions about this item.
Thank you.
All right, council members, questions.
Council member Houston.
Hello, good morning to the chair.
So on the sites, it was 57 sites prior to this.
Are they gonna be a part of the same 57 sites
on which sites are gonna be worked on?
That's one question.
Yeah, I'll refer to Kristin to answer that for you,
Councilmember Houston.
Okay.
Good morning, Councilmembers Kristin Hathaway,
Oakland Public Works.
Through the chair, the Oakland Public Works crews
did a site assessment and chose a subset
of the 57 locations that they could safely do
since we are doing this work in-house.
So we have selected 29 locations that we'll be doing.
And who's gonna be managing that?
Because I'm real familiar,
because one of them was Council Member Gayo's district
that was really blighted and a lot of work was put into that.
Wanna make sure that one, I'm not stepping over,
I'm a council member, but needs to be took care of
in a couple in district seven also.
So who's gonna be managing that?
And is it gonna be data collected with before and afters
just the whole package to show that it is successful. Yes so this is going to be
managed by our Keep Oakland clean and beautiful division and the team will be
providing all of the data to Caltrans and that information we can share as
well. It'll be before and after pictures, information on volumes collected and any
other services performed like weed abatement etc. And who will be through
the chair who will be the manager of that? John Hillman, our operations manager for
KOCB. Okay. You said 29 sites of the 57? It's going to be 29? Correct, yes. And the
other ones remain under Caltrans responsibility. Okay, all right. Thank you.
For that information, but the reality is we can't even take care of our own
facilities so we should be clean. Caltrans, I mean, International is a state
highway and the highway patrol used to monitor that street. But what you have is you have
government, the sheriff, or let's say the county, the state, and the city, and not cooperating
with responsibilities that they have. I do call Caltrans and they do respond. It's not
the city responding. Even the streets in front that the city should take care of, they're
they're not doing it.
But when I call Caltrans, they're the ones that come out
and clean under the freeways.
But yet, the city does not enforce the rules that we have
about illegal dumping, about the trash,
about the homeless activity.
We can come and do that in Oakland anywhere we want to,
but the city's not enforcing that rule.
So for me to take on additional responsibility
that I can't even take care of my own property
and then take care of what the state is accountable for.
And that's the area that's been missing for years.
And I have to go to the Caltrans office on Grand Avenue
to help me out when St. Charles wants to,
you start parking under the freeway,
I have to go ask them so they can open it up
because Caltrans has secured some underneath the freeway
because we don't deal with the homeless encampment
and all that negative activity that's there,
impacting our streets.
So my only concern, since I clean the streets every day,
and I know the Caltrans people,
I don't know if you have the numbers,
I mean, I call them directly, they come and take care of it.
But it's out of control in Oakland,
so my only reservation is,
I'm gonna take on additional responsibility,
where I can even take care of what I'm supposed to be,
taking care of with OPD, Oakland Public Works.
And so for me, I just wanna make sure
that if it's Caltrans property or they take care of it,
it's if Alameda County, they take care of it
and not having us jumping out there
because we're gonna get an additional 25 cents
to be able to do that where I cannot even take care
of my own home.
So I just, those are my reservations
as opposed to holding Caltrans accountable
for dealing with their streets,
dealing underneath the freeway,
and dealing with the on and off ramps,
and dealing with 42nd Avenue's estate highway.
They should be cleaning it.
But we're waiting, we're doing as volunteers
picking it up every day.
Anyway, so I think that,
have you had that communication directly?
I mean, we used to have a monthly with Caltrans.
As the leaderships, I used to run public the parks of recreation but they were there taking
care of their state properties.
Are you meeting monthly with them to make sure it gets done because I don't see that
happening.
Yeah council member first of all I want to acknowledge what you're saying and we I understand
we included special language and the agreement to ensure that that the clean ups don't interfere
with already scheduled city priorities. To your point about meeting with Caltrans,
we do meet with them. We have a collaboration meeting with the governor's office every month.
We're actually meeting this Friday. There's a collaboration meeting to discuss partnership
with not only illegal dumping, but also our homelessness crisis. And those are happening
monthly with the supervisors, Caltrans, the governor's office, and the mayors in our districts.
And I know some of the council members have joined those conversations as well.
Councilmember Houston joined one a couple of months ago.
And I don't know, Kristin, if you would like to add more about how we are addressing overtime
and disagreement.
I'm going to receive $375,000 from Caltrans to take care of their property.
Yeah.
Through the Chair, we have had previous agreements with Caltrans to maintain their freeway ramps.
This is very common where they have agreements with local jurisdictions.
We previously had a $1.6 million CCMA Clean California Maintenance Agreement with them,
and we did contract out to a third party.
This is a relatively small agreement for a limited amount of time, and we're only going
to be working on overtime to get this work accomplished, and we don't have any other
budgeted overtime.
It's not, it won't interfere with our other priorities.
Yeah, so just to get assurances, you all feel you do have the capacity then, because I think
I understand that, for example, the weekend blitzes have paused.
And so I just want to say that is something that we want because I've noticed I've got
to say I was in your district councilmember Houston the other day and it looks like the
it's noticeable how much worse the legal dumping has gotten also in my district.
And so it's not going to interfere with some of that work here.
It's not the same staff or through the chair.
No, it is the same staff.
We have limited, over time, other over time opportunities,
because as I mentioned, it's not in the budget.
And we have only a small amount of overtime
for blitzes at the moment, unless other funding is
identified, so staff made the assessment
that they had the capacity to do this additional work.
Like I said, it's a pretty small contract.
It's probably for a relatively limited period of time.
We're Caltrans to offer more money for a bigger contract.
We would look at contracting out to a third party.
Okay, and you think it would it would improve the cleanliness around highway off-ramps and what it like is the reason is
Caltrans just
It's better coordination. What would be the reason that we should enter this instead of say to my colleagues questions
Instead of just holding Caltrans accountable for doing that cleanup work. Can you just walk us through that?
Through the chair. I mean I
I'm not gonna speculate on what Caltrans resources are
But I think that this gives the city more direct control over litter abatement at specified locations
We know we can we can get to it and we have the funding to do that
I don't know what Caltrans resources are to get to all of their locations across the state
So this gives the city a little bit more advantage in terms of getting to those areas more quickly
Okay, and I did see San Francisco has a similar agreement did they find that in San Francisco that it ultimately improved the cleanliness over there
I I don't have that information. Okay the problem. Thank you
Through the chair because it's coming from the mayor's office and president Jenkins
I'll move it and follow it and trust that it could be done because I've seen it happen before thanks
I'll second it any other
Questions from council. All right. Let's go to our public speakers, please
When I call your name, please approach the podium if you're participating via zoom, please raise your hands. You're easily identified Kevin Dali
Mrs. Asada and Blair Beekman. I
Didn't seen some asinine things, but this takes the cake
Thank You. Mr. Gallo. I
Wish you would have brought it up in the meeting last night that y'all attended. We do not have
efficient staff to attend to the blight and illegal dumping that's going on in Oakland
and what dummy thought that we have the capacity to help some other organization with their
issue of illegal dumping.
And you say it's overtime, if we got overtime, we got limited staff, very limited staff.
So why was this considered?
Whoever this came to should have said right away.
is struggling to deal with illegal dumping. I go up Keller. For two and a half weeks,
we have had mattresses and chairs sitting with nobody coming to take it away. And we've
called 311. We made calls. And that's all over the city. Over there at that elementary
school, Howard Elementary, went there last night, illegal dumping, dumped all the way
way on our elementary schools. This is insulting. And for somebody to say because it comes from
the mayor and it comes from Jenkins, that gives it a priority to seriously consider
it. Seriously consider that Cal Tran needs to take care of their business. We don't have
the staff. We got illegal dumping to the fact that it is almost impacting our health and
well-being and to offer to clean up somebody else's area and you don't even
know who gets to designated areas who gets to decide that Caltrans or us this
is an emergency item no this is high class stupidity we need to work on
getting rid of the illegal dumping in Oakland with every Avenue hire more
staff, get more money, get more equipment, and then to offer...
Hi, thank you. Blair Beekman, thanks a lot for this item. From me, you had council items
here back in November talking about what to do about the future of unhoused issues. And
it was some ordinance ideas that were pretty... I don't know if they're ordinance or not,
There were ideas that were pretty difficult to fathom, and we kind of stepped back from
it as a community process, and thank you that you did, and it needs a bit more thought.
From that, we realized there are serious trash issues that we're trying to work on and find
ways to address.
You spent November and December then trying to work on offering different trash measures
here at Council and Committee meetings, so thank you immensely for that sort of effort.
I think this item is a continuation
of that sort of effort, thank you.
Councilperson Gallo has very nicely described
what Caltrans really can be doing for this item
and he's made it a very comprehensive approach,
what we should be expecting and really working towards
for this item in the future.
And it should be ways to really ask Caltrans
to start doing that sort of work
and effort and coordination.
So good luck how you can be doing that.
This sounds like it'd be a friendly little compliment
to, you know, good Caltrans efforts.
And good luck that we coordinate and work that out
in the coming months,
and that we're working on these trash issues together
and inviting everyone to this process.
I know in being from San Jose,
we used to have dumpster days on weekends in neighborhoods
where there was unhoused people and housed people
bringing them together to bring their garbage and trash into these huge dumpsters and we
collected on a Saturday and it would be a big occasion.
Good luck in considering those sort of options as well.
Thank you.
Mr. Kevin Dowley, do you wish to still, thank you, that concludes your public speakers for
S5.
Councilmember Gayle.
Am I on?
Yeah.
You know another example besides Caltrans is the railroad.
I call the railroad weakling, they come and clean around the railroads because their trains
wind up running over people and I found two, three dead people where the train hits them.
I've been there cleaning up the railroad, but they're coming out.
So I think it's, you know, Caltrans, the railroad company, and the other governmental bodies
need to be accountable because not only is that going on with Caltrans, the railroad,
but now I'm also cleaning the schools because they laid off many of the custodians.
So I want to make sure that my children go to a clean environment and walk back home.
But I think we need to work with other governmental bodies to make sure that they're accountable
for their facilities and their property, and that's an area that's been missing with the
leadership here from administration dealing with the other governmental bodies that at
one time growing up here in East Oakland, we've always had issues of violence.
But I never saw a piece of trash on the street, or illegal dumping, or people coming into
Oakland and trashing it, and then feeling sorry for them.
So the bottom line is, for government here from the administration, we need to make sure
that the other governmental bodies that are here are held accountable, because otherwise
we're not going to be able to create a clean, safe environment in this city of Oakland.
Thank you.
Councilmember Wong. I have one more question directed at staff. So for me to
vote yes on this I will say it's important to understand if does by
voting yes on this or entering into this MRU are we absolving Caltrans of
their responsibility? Are they fully contracting out to the city the
responsibility for cleaning up the areas around the highway off ramps etc. or
or would this allow the city to augment Caltrans's effort?
Now we can clean up those areas.
I think that's an important distinction
for me to understand for my vote.
So can you elaborate on that?
Yeah, through the chair.
The agreement is giving the city of Oakland
the responsibility for cleaning those areas
for the period of time in which the agreement is in effect,
and I would defer to the city attorney's office
if they disagreed or had any additional information.
So, for example, Council Member Guyer just mentioned
he calls up Caltrans to help with some areas
in his district.
I do the same.
We would no longer be able to make those phone calls
and ask Caltrans to support any cleanup efforts
based off of that?
Through the Chair, I don't believe it precludes
Caltrans from coming to clean.
I mean, they have the authority to come clean
on their properties at any time.
And again, this is a subset of Caltrans locations
throughout the city.
So there's plenty of locations that the city
is not taking on through this agreement.
So that's my understanding
of the division of responsibility.
Okay, so we would have the responsibility outlined
in the, but we can still make phone calls
on an informal ad hoc basis.
I just I'm feeling uncertain about what this contract really represents now
Yeah through the chair the they are asking us to do routine litter abatement and weed activities
There are other maintenance activities that happen on freeways that they're responsible for potentially, you know
For example potentially a guardrail replacement on a freeway ramp. That would be Caltrans responsibility. So we have a limited
Set of maintenance activities that we're taking on on in these locations
Okay, and Caltrans would no longer be doing that and the city would
For yeah through the chair for the period of this agreement. They would not be doing litter removal or weed abatement at those
specified locations
So our staff will be doing this work on overtime is that correct correct and so we're not robbing from their
regular workday, we don't have overtime money
to pay them to do extra work.
This is overtime money that we're getting extra
from the state to do this work.
That's correct.
Thank you.
Councilmember Houston.
I'm very familiar with these 57 sites and it's 29 sites
and what happens is that we need to start prosecuting
similar with Councilmember Gaius.
We need to prosecute, right?
And some of these individuals are in our city,
dumping on city property.
It flows over the Caltrans property
and then the city looks bad
because they only cleaning up a part of the city's property
and not cleaning up Caltrans.
And while they're out there, I'm very familiar with this.
So it makes sense for this to happen in those areas.
If you guys are not familiar with the 57 sites
or the 29 sites that they're picked,
It's a property line, and people come and dump it.
It goes over to Caltrans, and while they're out there,
they're just able to clean up city.
And then it looks like they didn't fully clean it.
So they could be cleaning up the Caltrans spillover
at the same time.
So I understand, and that's why I said
I wanted to see the 29 sites,
because I'm very, very familiar with it.
And it just makes the city look bad
if they go out there and clean half of it,
when they're right there, and they're getting paid,
and they're cleaning the other portion of it.
So I'm in full support of it
because I'm very familiar with it and it's needed.
It makes the city look bad if they go out there
and clean half of it because people don't know
that that is Caltrans property at that time
on those 29 sites.
So I move this.
Councilmember Wong.
One more question.
So just to get assurances,
you think that the city will ultimately be cleaner
as a result of this agreement.
Yes or no?
Yes, these are prominent locations throughout the city.
Okay.
I mean, I think the idea of accountability
for our state departments, I like that idea in theory.
I think in practice, it's really hard to do that.
So, yeah.
Excellent, thank you.
Okay.
We have a motion made by Councilmember Houston,
seconded by Chair Unger
to approve the recommendations of staff
before this item to the January 20th, 2026
city council agenda on consent.
On roll council member, Gallo.
No.
Council member Houston.
Aye.
Council member Wong.
Aye.
And chair Unger.
Aye.
This motion passes with three ayes one no, Gallo.
To approve the recommendations of staff
before this item to the January 20th city council agenda
and that is on consent moving to open forum.
I think it would be on non-consent
if we had a dissenting vote.
On non-consent, that is correct.
I'll restate the motion.
That is a motion made by Council Member Houston,
seconded by Council Member Chair Unger,
to approve the recommendations of staff
before this item to the January 20th City Council agenda
and that is on non-consent.
Moving to open forum.
Wanna call your name, please approach the podium.
If you're participating via Zoom,
please raise your hands so you're easily identified.
Charlton Burks, excuse me if I mispronounce your name,
Kevin Dalley, and that's Blair Beekman and Mrs. Sada.
That's the public works available through the weekend.
Everybody's working.
They're gonna do this project overtime.
You know what that means?
They're gonna be working at night.
Our staff works from eight to five or eight to six.
Overtime is gonna be at night.
We don't have any staff not working
Because we understand and we work in seven days a week.
Y'all some stupid people.
And I'll say it again.
If we could refrain from ad hominem attacks, please.
When you do stupid stuff, you're going to be called stupid.
We don't have no overtime when everybody's
working seven days a week.
The only overtime would be at nighttime
they would be working.
The stupid stuff you did with that permitting with the trees.
three years after the trees are cut down.
You wanna find somebody close to a million dollars.
That person wanted to develop the property.
For three years they've been denied the opportunity
to develop their property.
Have you been charging them a vacancy tax
because nothing is happening on the property?
Then you got staff members that come
and you ask them why three years?
One says because we understaff.
The number one says is because we don't have a process to bring this issue forward to hold
this person about the property owner accountable.
That's stupid, too.
Three years.
Then you have an advisory board making decisions about trees being cut down.
And I looked at your process.
That's supposed to come to you after the advisory board makes a recommendation.
I've never seen you come with a decision about cutting down trees, and that's stupid.
So I'm going to speak to this again, Gallo.
Thank you.
And I hope you bring it up again when it comes to the ...
And I do apologize.
We have a public speaker, Derek Kilgore.
Hello.
My name is Charlotte Niles Bergson.
I'm a parking control technician over with Oak Dot.
And so I just wanted to take a few minutes just to ask that you guys consider when the
vote, if a vote comes to the floor, to pause and for a vote to pause and to look into and
ask for clarity and data for the move from finance to Oak Dot.
After OPDOT for the last eight years, we have accomplished so many things.
We are full-time.
We have a cohesive relationship with OPD, the engineers, fire department.
We're working on hills campaigns and working and managing lakeside.
If no other city, small or large, in the United States, and even in Europe and around the
world has parking enforcement under finance.
The reasons that I was given, it was because that's how it used to be, that enforcement
is a source of revenue, and it's potentially going to increase the salary of some of the
finance staff, and they're trying to move away from Michael Ford.
All of those things have nothing to do with parking enforcement.
Parking enforcement is for safety of the citizens, for the community.
If you put me under finance and I step out of that vehicle with a big old finance department,
and like you said, Gayo, we're going to be in some type of budgetary crisis, the citizens
are going to look at me as I'm here to collect.
So I just want to just find out the reasoning why that the City of Oakland is going to move
away from a proven probe.
Thank you for your comment.
Hi.
Blair Beekman.
Thanks for the meeting today.
Thanks for the council person guy who has the current and hopefully one term Trump federal
administration continues to publicly speak and work only in terms of forceful takeover
around the world at this time, instead of negotiation and dialogue.
His continual war posturing and actions is simply exacerbating bad feelings of both law
enforcement and the everyday public in his currently overly violent plans of how to address
the undocumented in this country.
I hope he can make some changes.
It is a tremendous relief that the city of Oakland is finding ways to offer Oakland the
SF area and this planet ways to more openly question and to more clearly address neighborhood
surveillance technology future at this time and learning to leave flocked surveillance.
We are trying to address peace, better reasoning, and public participation and not war secrecy
and the needs of harm in decision making.
This may be a good example of patience and compromise for all sides and simply may be
a shining guiding light in how the new Oakland City Council and the Oakland community can
better consider their decision making with future community items.
But to again go over some of its continuing questions and concerns, are we going to be
truly committed to find a new ALPR vendor?
To again describe, I feel it can be of help to have something like a six-month update
to the Council or committee and how the new ALPR vendor procurement process is moving
forward.
And I hope there can be follow-up Oakland committee meetings and open public discussion
that reduced placement of surveillance tech in local neighborhoods can often do the same
amounts of public safety work as an oversaturation or plethora of surveillance technology placed
in a neighborhood. We simply can be working to help keep our federal
government in check here at the local level at this time.
Thank you. But I have a few additional questions in part two of this public
comment at open forum time. It's a public safety committee meeting today.
Please try to review. I'll be using zoom at that time.
Thanks for the meeting today, guys. Hi, Kevin Dally, Transport Oakland.
Unfortunately, back to some fire code issues.
It appears that the Fire Code, as we passed it, is a violation of copyright law.
I have heard from the International Code Council, Deputy General Counsel from them,
who they own the copyright for most of the California Fire Code
and the International Fire Code.
And they have stated that by including the entire Appendix D as part of the Fire Code,
it is a violation of their copyright.
So at some point we should come back and revisit it and decide how to fix it.
One possibility is we join the lawsuit which opens up the fire code and other building
code so it can be publicly considered.
I think that would be a great idea, but I don't think we should fall into this.
I think it should be a carefully decided step to enter the lawsuit rather than accidentally
entering it.
The other possibility is go ahead and figure out how we can rewrite it so it does follow
the copyright law and make sure that three years from now we're not in an emergency situation
where we only have a few days to review the fire code.
Anyway, thank you.
Good morning, everyone.
Good morning, everyone. My name is Derek Kilber, I'm the supervisor to for the vehicle enforcement unit. Um, we get the blight of vehicles off the street
I would like to start by saying keeping the current program under department transportation ensures continuity efficiency and subject matter expertise
Under the leadership of michael for dlt structure is best suited for managing transportation operations maintaining compliance and supporting effective decision making
Moving programs to finance could disrupt workflows and weaken specialized oversight
retaining them under DLT preserves focus, accountability, and operational effectiveness.
I also wanted to add that I've been a lifelong resident of the City of Oakland since birth since 1966.
I've been with the City of Oakland since 2006,
and I've been managing this unit for the past four years.
We're just about to go full-time with our full-time staff.
Our interviews have been completed.
We interviewed 24 candidates,
and I would like to say that moving my department under OPD would
disrupt the city and do the the citizens a great dish harm for each and every one
of your constituents. So with that being said I would like to see our parking I
would like to see our parking preserved the way it is. I don't see the reason to
move backwards when we got made so many strides moving forward under DLT moving
back on the finance and management would be a total disaster for everyone
involved including yourselves. So with that I give back my time thank you.
That concludes your public speakers for open forum.
All right. I believe that concludes our meeting unless anybody has anything.
All right. We are adjourned. Thank you.