Good morning and welcome to the rules and legislation, excuse me, I'm usually
sharing rules. Good morning and welcome to the Public Works and Transportation
Committee meeting on this Tuesday, this is June 9th, the time is 11 33 and this
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on roll for this meeting council member guy Oh president council member Houston excuse
excuse council member Wong present and chair under here we have three members present one
excuse council member Houston we will now you have no announcements we will go to our
I do have one speaker for this item.
Okay, I will second it, and let's hear our speakers, please.
All right, noting Council Member Houston arriving at 1134.
I have one speaker for this item that is Zach Tyler
for item number 1134.
Okay, I will second it, and let's hear our speakers, please.
All right, noting Council Member Houston arriving at 1134.
I have one speaker for this item that is Zach Tyler
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Requestment of active theater for a review for a state measure for purposes of duality
For that as an economic planner and as a commercial developer by that
of that of the view of the state I request an independent audit of under the sunshine act and
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Nine thank you for your comments that concludes your speaking for this item
That concludes your speakers for this item. We have a motion by councilmember Gallo seconded by councilmember Unger to approve
Item number one, which is the minutes for May 26 2026 on roll council member
Gaia, aye
Councilmember Houston, aye
Also remember long I and chair hunger I item number one is approved with four eyes
That now takes us to item number two
And number two is the determination of scheduling of outstanding committee items, which is your committee pending list
I do have four speakers for this item
Do we have anything from staff nothing from the administration at this time? Okay colleagues anything for the pending list
All right. Let's hear from our speakers, please. Thank you
As I call your name, please approach the podium if you're participating here with us in person as soon as you get to the podium
Please state your name for the record for those who are participating online. Please raise your hand so I can easily identify you and
As usual we'll start with those who are in person and then followed by those who are participating online
I have Zach, Miss Asada Ola Bala, Lars, Barnes, and Blair Beekman in any order.
If I've called your name and you're hearing person, please approach the podium.
So, in view of Jared and SFV Fast Track, and SFR investment pool via the state, I am submitting
a casualty of the acknowledgement of torque and duality of clause and the
acknowledgement over the record as the chairman and CEO of TSO capital Lotus
capital investment and operation analyst and Royce investments a sales tax
property tax and tax abatement zoning are scheduled to be asked to be audited
and view of the city. I have asked as a
request under the Sunshine Act and Oakland v. Simon properties for a
review of active theater complied to bankruptcy. In the view of the state
emergency management doctrine indicated a field of study based on quantifiable
expressions of deviance. In the view of application we are currently exhibiting
a measure that increases the property tax and sales tax and view a zoning based
on the domicile application. I asked as a sovereign citizen, an independent agent,
that this be a measure that the city and the community takes full-hearted in
view of active combat tied to the two-year Treasury note and via the 10
year Treasury note. This is a qualifiable application where this city was
supposed to be in bankruptcy based on the review of active theater. I ask that
we take a quantifiable review standard and start asking ourselves if sales tax
is something that we need tied to our inflation to CPI. Please understand that
to what is wondered in Bond ETFs for the view of going forward and view of
sovereign citizenship. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker if you're
participating in person. Thank you. It is my understanding that you allow free
parking at the ice skating center four to one clock Monday through Friday and
on Saturdays 8 a.m. till 1 a.m. It has been stated in an article that over
100,000 people use that center every year how much revenue are we losing
This is the case.
We need to have a report on
the monsoon.
Because we give this free
parking.
We need to have a report on the
moss wood toddler center
outdoors the maddening is
completely tore up.
We need to have a report on any
city site that creates a safety
issue because of lack of
maintenance or repairs.
We need a report from the
have them on transportation
permits that have the
transportation permits center.
That deals with all as good
excavation permits side work
repairs in parklets.
We need a report from the Oakland
school of the arts.
Park that you have allowed them to use
they have turned that into their park.
That is supposed to be a piece of
they have put up on the
that you said you're going to
let him use it until twenty
twenty seven.
When you would then take the
property and create affordable
housing on the property they
have put for a artificial turf
down their signs like that's
their park.
How is that working out.
Lastly we need a report that
deals with any interruption of
sidewalk use because vendors or
Now go to our Zoom users.
I see large, you have been unmuted, you may begin.
Thank you, can you hear me?
Yes, we can, you may begin.
Okay, thank you.
So I am a resident in the Diamond District
and there has been some repaving,
I think that's been going around.
The neighborhood is very excited to have it done,
but there has been some frustrations
through the email chain that I wanted to address.
mostly that there is a lack of timely communication
regarding the no parking around the neighborhood
or really no communication at all.
And there's no signage on who to contact
so we can get any further information.
So the signs are posted throughout the neighborhood
that we can't park on the streets
for the duration of almost an entire month.
And it's kind of confusing where we're expected to park
if not anywhere around our surrounding streets
for the whole month.
There's also a huge communication
about how we might go about requesting speed bumps
because once the streets are repaved,
the neighborhood is worried
that cars will just be speeding down.
I know that some of my neighbors
have tried to get a hold of Oak Dot,
but the emails that were given to eat,
like who to email for this were not valid
and we were just getting met with dead-end emails.
That's really all I have to say, thank you.
Thank you, and our last speaker that I don't see in Zoom
was Blair Beekman, so that concludes your public commenters
for item number two, we need a motion.
So moved.
And that was a motion by Councilmember Unger,
seconded by Councilmember Wong,
to approve item two, the determination of scheduling
outstanding committee items as is on roll council member guy
Council member Houston. Aye council member Wong. Aye and chair longer
I item number two is approved with four eyes as is
That now takes us to item number three
Item number three is adopt a resolution summarily vacating a public utility easement located at seven four seven
52nd Street to the property owner Children's Hospital
in the Divinity College
school and research center at
Oakland and adopting appropriate
sequel findings I have.
One speaker for this item.
Excellent we'll hear the report.
Good morning reginal Brazil
division manager right of way
management at oak dot.
I'm here today to talk about.
An item related to the Benioff
Children's Hospital.
Seven forty seven fifty second
street in the city.
to a company that will want to
live on private property at
this location- in recent years
the hospital is coordinated with
PG and E to relocate the
utilities that were installed
in that easement.
They've established a new easement
document and hope that is here
today to ask council to approve
the summary vacation of the old
easement that will clear the way
for construction on that part of
the property.
Thank you I appreciate the work
from our public speaker please. We have one speaker for this item, Blair Beekman, and I do not see him in the queue.
Oh, we have council member Gio would like a question. Thank you for that information and
certainly we appreciate the work of Children's Hospital and I just left Life Academy. We'll be
touring Children's Hospital throughout the summer and having our high school students become
volunteers at children's Hospital so I'll make a motion to approve the item
okay any other questions through the chair I was also gonna ask read if you
could provide the prior commenter with the appropriate email address to reach
DOT all right do we still need a second yes I'm happy to second it okay I'm
sorry you say okay and we have a motion by councilmember guy Oh seconded by
councilmember houston to approve item three to be forwarded to the june 16th city council
agenda on consent yes please with that on roll councilmember guile yes councilmember
houston aye councilmember wong aye chair on item number three and before you move on if
you could provide to the public the proper email address thank you the email address
request is do t online permits at Oakland C A dot gov and staff will be on alert to
look for your message on the emergency no parking topic. Thank you thank you for that
thank you and with that we will now move on to item number four item four is a resolution
awarding a purchase order to own equipment sales ink this lowest responsible and responsive
bidder in accordance with the RFQ custom equipment specifications and contractors be at any amount
not to exceed $2,500,000 for the purchase of three-vector truck-mounted single-engine
combination sewer cleaners and adopting CEQA findings, exemption findings.
And we do have two speakers for this item.
Okay.
Who doesn't love a good sewer pump truck?
I'm just going to put it in here.
I'm just going to turn it over to Chris to hear from staff,
please.
Thank you, Chair Unger.
Richard Battersby, Assistant Director
for the Bureau of Maintenance and Internal Services.
Under my purview is the Sewer Division, also Storm Drain
Division, and the Sewer Fund 3100.
Before you, we have a purchase agreement
to buy three sewer flusher trucks.
You may recall from previous discussions,
Lately seven of those eight have been out of service and we've been renting two units
At a cost of fourteen thousand dollars each so almost thirty thousand dollars a month
In order to perform the mandatory sewer cleaning as dictated by the federal sewer consent decree
We've got to clean a hundred and eighty four miles a pipe every year
Fortunately, we built up due to the hard work and fantastic efforts of our sewer team
We have met our productivity requirements
But had we lost those sewer vehicles earlier in the year, it would have been devastating and the city can face potential flines
This agenda report will authorize acquisition of three replacement sewer flusher trucks. They're about
$750,000 each each truck is slightly customized to its application. So they're not all the exact same cost
We did go out to RFQ as I mentioned earlier
We are trying to avoid cooperative agreements
as much as possible for two reasons.
One, to increase local participation
and hopefully get some more Oakland businesses on contract.
And number two, that process is much faster
going through RFQ, RFP.
And I think that's about it.
And I will add that we are seeing
very few replacement vehicle agenda reports
and that's due to equipment replacement
being decentralized in 2023.
The sewer fund, 3100 is an enterprise fund,
so we do have funding available.
But the other departments in public works
and other departments, or other divisions
in other departments are not able
to replace their equipment.
So this is becoming a critical issue for the city.
Normally we replace about 150 vehicles
during the timeframe, 2023, to present
when we stop that service.
So we're continuing to get behind
and replacing vehicles.
I think some of you, probably all of you saw
some of the recent press events where the mayor
was speaking with some of the aged fire department vehicles
and police vehicles, and also the public works vehicles
fall in that same category.
These three sewer trucks will help us dig out of that hole,
but there's a lot more work to be done
than I'm available for your questions.
All right, digging out of the hole, sounds good.
Councilmember Houston, your first thank you.
Mr. Richard, through the chair,
how many trucks do you need,
cause you said something just now,
to stay in compliance with the federal directives?
How many trucks do you think you need?
Yes, through the chair, I think we're where we need to be.
I believe there were three on order.
I did see one brand new flusher truck
and one brand new CCTV closed circuit television truck
at the equipment yard so they are arriving.
Our hope is to replace all of the existing eight
apparatuses and retain a couple of them
just to have an additional spare factor.
So I think with this acquisition, we're well on our way
and we will continue to replace the equipment regularly
as it ages and becomes unserviceable.
Yes, and thank you, Mr. Richard.
And through the chair again,
what's the warranty look like?
Cause what's the difference between owning it and renting it?
Because if you rent it, you don't have to do the repairs,
but if you own it, you have to do the repairs.
What's that warranty look like?
True.
Through the chair, I think this equipment
comes with generally a one-year warranty.
There may be a longer warranty on some of the chassis items,
as well as the auxiliary engines.
I'd have to actually go into the contract.
The difference between renting and owning
a piece of equipment like this, renting
is OK for a short-term period.
but as we operate the equipment,
because it is a construction apparatus in addition
to flushing sewers, we also use these Bactor trucks
and Vacon trucks to do excavation work.
So we actually, it's, I forget the exact terminology,
but we actually use the flusher truck
to do hydro excavation.
So they're very versatile units,
but they can become damaged and worn in our rental use.
And then when we turn the vehicle back in,
and we have to pay to have those repairs made.
So renting's usually not a good idea,
only for very short-term periods.
And last question through the chair.
Councilmember Gallo always mentions
that now he's listened to him when he says this
about all these trucks that are in the yard
that haven't been repaired.
So is it any way possibly we can get a longer warranty
on that because you just mentioned a bunch of things
the damage that happens that you have to repair it or when you do turn it in you
have to pay for that cost is it any way we can get a better warranty so it's not
something that we'll be having in the yard or having to repair quite often is
it any way we could do a you said one year warranty yes through the chair I
think I think that's standard on some of the heavy equipment again I'd have to
check the specifics of the contract. I don't know offhand. Some of the other
manufacturers have, especially the lighter duty vehicles, are like a three
year, 36,000 mile type warranty. What you're talking about is exploring the
use of an extended warranty and I'm happy to do that. It does come at an
additional cost but it is an effective strategy. One that I saw the highway
patrol used to their advantage. They timed their vehicle replacement and paid
extra for the extended warranty so it is very effective. We'll have to do a cost
analysis to see if it makes sense with sewer equipment and construction
equipment. So through the chair thank you can you do that because we want to do
what's best for the city in the long run to keep the equipment up so we can keep
it moving. Absolutely through the chair we will include that as an option in
future RFP, RFQ's price with standard warranty, price with extended warranty.
Thank you for that information, what we need to do as members of the council and city administrators
be able to bring back a report in terms of the vehicles that the City of Oakland has
could use to clean our streets to provide the safety that includes the police department,
public works, transportation, because the reality is we're way outdated in terms of
replacing the number of vehicles that are operable.
Can you share just briefly with the public
in terms of how many vehicles should be replaced,
the trucks and the cars and so forth
that we haven't done for years?
Yes, thank you for the question, Council Member Gallo.
Through the Chair, I would say we're behind,
I'd probably have to look up the number and get back to you.
We have a annual report that we do
that it's in the form of a report card or a pie chart
that shows the assets to be replaced by condition and age.
Probably more than half of the fleet
is recommended for replacement now.
So we're talking about a number in the 600 or 700 range.
So we are quite a bit behind.
We do have a agenda report coming.
After the fiscal year, because of the summer break,
the timing was such we couldn't get it in
before the end of the fiscal year,
we actually went out and hired a consultant
to take a look at how the city
is conducting their equipment replacement
and make some recommendations as far as best practices
and getting back into a regular replacement cycle.
We expect to have that, I'd say July or perhaps August
depending on the scheduling.
I'd like to work with you to make sure
the council understands our need.
You know, we talk about a clean city,
make all these policies and reports and studies,
but the reality is we need the tools to get it done.
So how am I gonna deal with the illegal dumping
if I don't have the trucks and tools to do it?
Talk about it.
More we sit here at city hall, more policies, more ordinances.
But so the only other, but I'll work with you
in terms of clearly identifying for this government,
the city council and administration,
what are the needs that we have
when it comes to the tools necessary to get the job done.
And so that's one action.
But at the same time, where other cities are heading
and electrifying the vehicles that they're purchasing,
and does the city of Oakland have the tools and the locations
where the future vehicles, if we buy,
they're going to be electrified.
We need to be able to plug them in.
So I'd like to work with you to bring back to this council
the need of numbers, but at the same time,
considering what the future is called
and calling for is electrifying the trucks
and the cars that we purchase.
Thank you for that information
and I move approval of the item.
Okay, we have a Council Member Wong.
Thanks.
First of all, I wanted to actually commend
the way that you wrote this report.
I don't know if this was necessarily in response
to some of my comments around wanting to see more metrics,
but I like how you laid out the economic argument
as to why this was needed
instead of just renting out the trucks.
One question I have is, well, first of all,
I agree with my colleagues' comments
on the extended warranty,
but how long on average can we expect these trucks
to last for?
Yeah, through the chair, thank you, Council Member Wong.
And yes, we do listen to what the council puts out and try to incorporate that into
our future activities.
Thank you.
I think an average age for a unit like this where the funding is not the limiting factor
would probably be between five and seven years because of the hard use.
Here at the city of Oakland, we're hitting the 10-year mark.
I don't know if we included that in this specific agenda report, but we do have that data on
the age.
running our equipment about twice as long as what the industry best practice
recommends. That does hurt the resale value as well. Typically when you sell
equipment like this you can generate some revenue that you can in turn
use to buy additional vehicles but when they're basically so worn out by the
time we get rid of them it really lowers the resale value. We get a little bit
more than scrap but not as much as we could with an effective replacement
program on time cycles.
Okay.
Gotcha.
That's helpful.
And just one other question, which is, I believe we're under the consent decree by the EPA
on our sewage system.
Can you just speak specifically as to how this equipment will help us meet that consent
decree?
Yes, absolutely.
through the chair the federal consent decree is a
requirement
By the oversight authorities the federal EPA and also the regional water quality control board
Due to sewer discharges during wet weather events East Bay mud and the city of Oakland and other satellite
agencies other cities in the area
Have requirements by the federal government that we clean so much of the sanitary sewer collection system each year
And it comes down to 20 percent so each year. We clean 20 percent of our nine hundred and twenty miles
And so every five years we should have cleaned the entire system, and then there's also a requirement that we CCTV
10% of our sanitary sewer collection system that comes out to 92 miles a year in
Order to run the CCTV cameras the pipes first have to be cleaned
So that's one use for the flusher trucks
The other uses as preventive maintenance to go out and hit pipe segments on a regular basis to ensure that they're operating at optimal
Capacity and then also we have high-frequency
Locations where we've experienced problems. There's been a sewer spill or another sewer incident
So we send the trucks out there to clean those areas more frequently than once every five years
some as frequently as every six months until we can have the resources to go in and do a capital improvement project and
and replace or rehabilitate, he rehabilitate the pipeline.
Okay, all right, thank you so much.
Thanks for working on this,
and I'll second the motion.
If I may, through the chair,
I believe Council Member Houston seconded the item.
And we do have two speakers for this item.
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And as usual, we'll start with those who are in person
and then we will follow up with those
who are participating online.
I have Miss Asada Ola Bala and Blair Beekman.
Miss Asada, we're on item number four, would you?
Thank you.
East Bay Mudge, you have to pay for piping.
Okay, so something that hit me,
You said you're trying to avoid a cooperative agreement.
Now, what I just looked up, cooperative agreements
are supposed to be beneficial to local government agencies.
They're supposed to simplify the buying process.
They're supposed to provide public transparency.
It's supposed to create efficiency of delivery.
And it's supposed to produce
consistency of the product.
So, I don't know if you wanna know,
but I wanna know based on cooperative agreements
is supposed to be so beneficiary,
why is this department saying
we're trying to avoid cooperative agreements?
The $30,000 a month rental that you've been paid,
collectively, how much money?
You said you paid $30,000 a month.
Well, what is the total amount of spending
that this department has to have put out
for rental of many trucks.
And the reason why I'm asking is,
sometimes our staff members don't do things
in a timely manner.
And have we been renting for a long period of time
where we could have taken up this matter
and avoided paying the rental costs
to an exceptional amount.
for the vote of the council
and that should be delved into
as well.
Thank you for your comments our
last speaker is Blair beatman
but I do not see him in the
queue so that concludes your
cup of the commenters for item
four.
And I had a motion by council
member Kyle seconded by council
member.
Houston to approve item four.
It to be forwarded to the June
sixteenth city council agenda.
item number five.
And chair under item number four is approved.
To be forwarded to the June sixteenth city council agenda
on consent thank you for that we will now go to item number.
Five.
Adopt an ordinance amending ordinance in ordinance
scooters, LLC, formerly Bay Area Motive LLC to operate a bike share program, authorizing
the city administrator to negotiate and execute an amendment to the bike share program, 20-30,
excuse me, program franchise agreement with LIF to extend the term to no later than December
31st, 20-32, and authorizing advertising signs on the bike sharing program equipment pursuant
the Oakland Planning Code and adopting CEQA findings.
I have several speakers for this item.
Okay, thank you.
Let's hear their presentation please.
Good morning council members and the public.
My name is Kirby Olson.
I'm staff to the Department of Transportation.
I have a very brief presentation for you today
about this item which concerns an extension
of the franchise for the bike sharing program.
So some background on this item,
Our bike sharing program in Oakland is operated by Lyft
under the name Bay Wheels.
This program is at no cost to the city
other than my staff time to manage the program.
The system in Oakland includes
about 500 electric bicycles and 350 standard pedal bikes.
These bikes must be docked
at one of 102 stations in Oakland.
Ridership in Oakland has been greatly impacted
by the COVID-19 pandemic.
So the system launched first in 2017,
but the ridership has grown by about 30% year over year
since 2023.
So we've seen good recovery in ridership
and 2026 is on track to be the highest ridership year ever.
We've actually seen a 50% year over year increase
from quarter one of 2025.
This is a map of the 102 bike share stations in Oakland.
And this is a table show, or a chart showing
ridership over time. So you can see a big drop off in 2020 and 2021 and 2022 as a result of the
COVID pandemic and then a good steady increase since 2023. The program has a fairly complex
governance model so there is the master contract is the program agreement between the Metropolitan
Transportation Commission and Lyft. That agreement will be expiring next year and so MTC is planning
to extend that until July 2032, with another option to extend by six months to December
2032.
There's also a coordination agreement between MTC, LIFT, and all of the five cities that
participate in this regional program, Oakland, Berkeley, Emeryville, San Francisco, and San
Jose.
That term coincides with the program agreement, and then there's our agreement with LIFT,
which is a 10-year franchise agreement that was signed in July 2016 and is now coming
up for expiration next month.
So the action requested today is to extend the franchise agreement with Lyft until December
2032, and this would put our agreement in coincidence with the regional program agreement
so that there's no gap in the program.
Other than that change in the expiration date, there are no changes requested
for the franchise agreement, and the ordinance does include a reference to advertising,
So the program has had advertising since it launched in 2017 and that would continue with the franchise extension
and that's my presentation and
Happy to take any questions
Can you just briefly tell us about the finances of this? Do they pay us? Do we pay them?
What kind of money are we talking about?
Very little money changes hands. So there's just my staff time as I mentioned
there is also a revenue sharing formula and
And that is based on the amount of revenues that come in from the advertising and the
writership.
That, there is a minimum amount of revenue that must be achieved before there is any
revenue sharing.
That's only been achieved once in the history of the program, and so it was a very small
amount of money, and so that's, yeah.
And that funds has already been accepted and appropriated
when the franchise was originally signed and passed.
Great, thank you.
Council Member Wong.
Thank you, thanks for this presentation
and all your hard work on this.
Just in terms of the placement of the docks,
thank you for sharing that map.
I was just looking at it on my phone actually.
I noticed a lot of the docks are in the western
and northern part of Oakland.
But what drives the decision making around the dock placement?
The decision making around dock placement
is primarily to locate them in places
where they will be well used.
And that is primarily based on job density and population
density in proximity to public transportation.
And also, as we expand the footprint of the system,
we also want to do so in a way that
has a certain amount of density.
And so for example, we wouldn't want to establish a station
like a satellite station that's very
far from the existing stations, because typically,
bike share is used for relatively short trips.
And so we did complete a system expansion last year.
We added 20 new stations.
But those were primarily added in places
to sort of slowly grow the footprint of the system
and not to establish stations that are some distance
from the system, if that makes sense.
OK.
I think it does, I get questions sometimes
actually on a more just like literally block by block level.
And I'm just wondering, do you all take feedback
on the placement can we work together?
Cause there's a couple of stations where I have stakeholders
that just think, you know, move it over a block
because it's inconveniently placed and all of that.
Absolutely.
So I would encourage them to just reach out to me.
Okay.
and we can work with them on that.
If you have the ability to move some of the stations.
Okay, great.
And you also noted in the report that
some of these stations are going to be taken offline,
the lower utilization.
Do you have a sense of where those are right now?
Yeah, so the general report did also mention
some of the terms of the program agreement amendment
that is been, that's being currently negotiated
between MTC and Lyft.
There are, and so we included the terms in Attachment A,
however, that is not under the purview of City of Oakland,
but it was more for your information.
And there are some terms, one of them is that
if there is a station that is extremely low ridership,
that Lyft can start to charge a fee for those stations.
However, before that fee takes effect,
which I believe is in two years
after the agreement is signed,
the city will have the opportunity
to move any underperforming stations to a nearby location,
and those stations would not be subject to that fee.
So we do not anticipate having to pay that fee
because we will take advantage of the option
to move any underperforming stations
somewhere nearby that we think might perform better.
Okay, all right.
Final question is just around,
What happens if somebody gets injured?
Especially with the e-bikes, they can go pretty quickly
if they malfunction or maybe someone's just not wearing
a helmet, is the city liable for their injury?
Well, that's a, I mean, I think there's a lot of scenarios
that could occur there.
I don't wanna speak for every possible scenario,
but of course the program does have all the standard terms
of city contracts such as indemnification,
insurance, et cetera.
Okay, all right, thank you.
the state of the county.
Council member Houston your next
in the queue.
Thank you to the chair and you
mentioned exactly what I wanted
to speak about chair is about
where's the finances how does
Oakland make some money I mean
that you know they have how many
docs are they did you say one
hundred and two that's
advertising.
I mean every time they see that
here and think that it's just something that's not that safe and this is safe
this is just little they're doing it I'll sit for a second
councilmember younger do you want me to continue or wait you tell me
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Yeah, if we could close that door, that'd be great.
Okay, thank you Local 21.
Let's talk about bikes.
Where were we?
I think, was Councilmember Houston, were you in the middle of questions?
Or was it Councilmember Gallo?
All right, can you put Houston on the mic, please?
Yeah, I want to go back to where I started.
Please do.
That was democracy at the highest level.
I don't know how all those people got through security, but we're about to find out.
So, on that level, what I was saying is, I think I was at advertising when it came to
they have, you said, how many locations do they have?
120.
So, where are we, because the council chair had mentioned, where are we benefiting?
Where are we benefiting when it comes to economics?
Are we getting any money?
how many hours did you spend on this as a whole?
Did they pay for that?
I need to find out,
cause I'm gonna say keep it in committee
until I find out how Oakland is benefiting as a business.
Cause we keep running this city like it's not a business.
This is a business.
I want to find out how we benefit as a business.
Through the chair to council member Houston,
it's a great question.
There are a number of ways that the city benefits.
So if the city were to procure a system
such as this on our own, we would be...
The last time that we estimated,
it would cost something like $8 million a year
because these systems tend to not cover their own costs.
So it provides a great benefit to city of Oakland
because our citizens have a new relatively low cost,
low carbon mode of transportation.
It allows people to access our BART stations,
our job centers, people to get home, et cetera.
And so in almost every part of the country,
when a city wants to procure a system like this,
they have to pay for it.
There's a few places where the system pays for itself,
like New York City, places that are incredibly dense,
that have a ton of ridership.
And then there's places like the Bay Area
where the system more or less breaks even.
And in Oakland, so we're part of a regional program.
The majority of the revenues and the rides
are happening in San Francisco.
Of course, we do have a lot of rides occurring here,
but it's not enough for the system
to be profitable on its own.
So that's one of the benefits
of being in a regional program.
But you mentioned revenues in general,
and there are revenue sharing, as I mentioned earlier.
That part of the agreement is governed
by the program agreement,
not by the city's franchise agreement.
So the franchise agreement does not discuss
revenue sharing at all.
The program agreement includes two ways actually
that the city can receive revenue from the program.
The first is through revenue sharing
from advertisement and from ridership.
And so as I mentioned,
that threshold has only ever been reached once
in the 10 years of the program.
There's another way which is liquidated damages.
So essentially there's a number
of key performance indicators for the program.
If the operator lift doesn't meet
those key performance indicators, then they get a fine.
That's called the liquidated damages,
and we have actually received liquidated damages
a number of times, probably almost every single quarter
since the program launched.
Those funds are required to be reinvested
back into the program, and that requirement was set
when the funds were originally accepted and appropriated,
and we use those for staff time.
And then you mentioned a question of staff time,
So I am currently the staffer on the bike share program.
I probably spend maybe 10% of my time
supporting the program.
There have historically been grants from MTC
also that cover staff time.
We have one right now that's about to be closed out,
but moving forward, it doesn't appear
that there's gonna be any future funding from MTC.
So we will need to appropriate that staff funding
through the budget.
Council Member Gaya.
I just want to move forward with the item.
So is there, I'll make a motion to support that.
Okay, I'll second it.
Any other comments from council?
Okay, speakers, please.
As I cause your name, please approach the podium.
If you're participating online, please raise your hand
so I can easily identify you.
And when you approach the podium,
please state your name for the record.
Ms. Asada Olavala, Kevin Dally, Buffalo Solentjern,
Colin Hughes, and Blair Beekman in any order?
Kevin Deeley, definitely support this resolution.
I want to mention one more item
where I think there's a benefit
that the amount of space that many, many bike shares take up,
you could get maybe one car parked there, maybe two.
Often it's on the corner
where you're not allowed to park cars anyway.
It also takes cars off the street.
And that's a benefit that's not a financial benefit,
well, not an easily measurable financial benefit,
but it is still a benefit to Oakland.
Fewer people on this, fewer cars on the street,
less fewer collisions, fewer accidents,
maybe even more people visiting the businesses.
And I think that is worth looking at also, thanks.
Thank you for your comments.
Next speaker.
Hello council members my name is Colin Hughes and I'm the principal for bike
share
at the Metropolitan Transportation Commission which serves as the regional
program manager for the Baywheels system
throughout the region
and I'm here to speak in support of Oakland's franchise agreement
for Baywheels.
MTC has made significant recent investments in Baywheels including
bringing e-bikes back to Oakland.
Baywheels is dependent on daily to connect Oaklanders with their city
to the broader East Bay, including Berkeley, Emoryville,
and soon Alameda, and to transit, including BART
and AC Transit, and to San Francisco, San Jose,
and the broader Bay Area region.
Baywheels ridership has grown roughly 30% year over year,
as Kirby mentioned, since 2023, and in 2026,
the system has already set multiple daily, weekly,
and monthly all-time ridership records.
So the momentum is very high, and 2026 we're on pace
to have the highest ridership year in the system's history.
Extending Oakland's franchise agreement
keeps that momentum going and provides
the operational continuity that riders,
the city, and the region depend on.
MTC would also like to thank the city
for its continued partnership and its staffing
to maximize the benefits of the system
to Oaklanders and the region.
Thank you.
Thank you for your comments.
Next speaker.
These are the bikes that they rent.
We've had some previous discussions about the bikes that are rented and the issue of
monitoring regulatory violations that can be committed when these bikes are not following
the regulations that are required.
That issue became challenging because there's only one person that was assigned to give
tickets.
I guess that's what they were, tickets or notice of violations to users, and so it wasn't
done right.
It wasn't done completely right because it was underrepresented in terms of catching
people for whatever reason the violations were committed.
So has that been corrected because there are a lot of abuses like going through red lights
or abusing the equipment, damaging the equipment, whatever.
Another issue is when I was protesting in front of the homeless encampment at Lake Merritt,
I observed a lot of these bikes being taken by the homeless community and converted for
their usage.
So, what is the loss issue related to stealing or vandalism and is the loss so much of an
issue that the investment can be considered challenging.
And does this also involve the schoolers, is that another discussion?
But I mean I don't really know
what's going on in this
discussion.
Okay they don't know.
They in another land when I'm
up here it's like you talking
to the walls.
But anyway you.
Thank you for your comments
missus out a.
Next speaker please.
Friends enemies and ignorant
people your mail address me as
buffalo soldier.
It just flat is a who.
That that crook who was
First question is, in your franchise with Oakland,
the restaurants pay money
when their institutions interrupt parking.
Do you pay that?
Second question, to you members of the city council,
do you understand what going to the pump means?
I'm a bike rider.
I was riding bikes around here before they had bus lifts.
These people, they want me to keep going to the pump.
They want you to get tired of the cost
of maintaining your bicycle and get one from them.
My question to you, City Council, the city administrator,
poor lion sap.
He didn't know that grand theft property
rape was going on every time they cleaned up.
As I said then, I say, now, that's
or corruption.
Now, a good part of y'all wasn't here when word came through.
Word came through in 2024.
The truth is a light check yourself before you wreck yourself.
That's why we have all you new city council members.
Is that clear?
Now, about that check yourself before you wreck yourself,
I have to vote with Bill Houston there.
How much is Oakland getting off of this?
that's why we're here to talk
about the cost for this and how
many.
Sit on your behind administrators.
Is this lift program support
see.
I'm just a pole procedure I know
if I go through your stuff and
put my phone in there you go let
me have a bike for chief price.
But when you talk about costs.
Thank you for your comments that
concludes our speakers for this
through the chair.
I don't know who all have been an entrepreneur or a business
owner, but Oakland has to be ran like a business.
And when I say that is Lyft, they
have cars driving around our city all day long.
Do they advertise in their cars and say, fly Oakland?
Let me just share this with you the chair.
I'm going to say no.
I want to hold it here.
I wanna see what Oakland is getting
because let me share this,
a business person wouldn't do that
unless they're getting something else out of it
where Oakland should be getting something out of it.
Oakland has a bad reputation right now.
I just spoke to some people out of state
and said, oh, I'm gonna fly here.
I'm gonna not come here.
I'm not gonna stay in your hotel.
I'm gonna stay in the new one in Alameda, right?
So Lyft has cars.
Couldn't they put fly Oakland here,
visit this restaurant in their cars.
We have to get something out of it.
It just can't be paying salaries being paid.
It's some salaries being paid, right?
So I'm gonna say no, or I wanna hold it here
because I wanna see what Oakland is gonna get out of it.
Oakland needs to get some benefits.
Thank you.
There was a motion by Council Member Gallo,
seconded by Council Member Unger,
to approve staff recommendations to be forwarded
to the June 16th City Council Agenda on consent.
Depending on how the vote goes.
Yes, it's true.
On-royal council member Gail.
Aye.
Council member Houston.
No.
Council member Wong.
Aye.
And council member Chair Unger.
Aye.
Item number three, excuse me, number five is approved
with three ayes, one no to be forwarded to the June 16th
city council agenda on non-consent due to the no vote.
That now takes us to our last item, item number six,
or item of a discussion.
Item number six is a resolution authorizing, excuse me,
authorizing the city administrator
to award a construction contract to McGuire and Hester
for Martin Luther King, Jr. Way,
streetscape improvement project,
the lowest responsible and responsive bidder
in accordance with the project plan specifications,
state requirements and with contractors being in the amount of
26 million four hundred ninety nine thousand three hundred and thirty nine dollars and fifty cents in adopting
Appropriate CEQA findings. I have three speakers for this item
Thank you. Let's hear about the project, please
Great. Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is Emily Ellers
I work for the Department of Transportation leading the major projects division
I'm here today to request that we award the contract for the Martin Luther King Jr.
streetscape improvement project to McGuire and Hester, the lowest and responsible bidder.
So just a bit on the project, the traffic safety project spans MLK Junior Way from 2nd Street to 14th Street.
The street is located on our high injury network, which is the 8% of our streets that account for 60% of severe and fatal collisions.
The corridor currently lacks protected bicycle infrastructure to physically separate people biking from vehicles including heavy vehicles and has existing sidewalk accessibility gaps.
The scope of this project is a direct response to years of community engagement dating back to 2017.
When we ask community members their top priorities, the answers included safety for all roadway users,
especially people walking and biking, traffic calming, urban greening, and freight access, especially on the blocks near the Port of Oakland.
To deliver on these priorities, this project will install upgraded sidewalks, curb ramps, pedestrian ball-bouts, and pedestrian countdown heads.
A protected two-way sidewalk level cycle track with upgraded traffic and
bike signals, pedestrian lighting, pedestrian seating.
79 new street trees, almost doubling the tree canopy along the corridor.
And then wider travel lanes and an additional southbound travel lane between the block,
project is funded by state and
local grants including grants
from the Metropolitan
Transportation Commission and
the California State
Transportation Agency.
These grants do not restrict
the use of the city's local and
small local business enterprise.
Several months ago we initiated
a competitive bidding process
and received four bids.
In alignment with the local and
small business enterprise
program, we offered bid
discounts to encourage local
partnerships beyond what we
to encourage local partnerships beyond the requirements of the LSLBE program.
Two bidders achieved the maximum 10% discount by establishing approved mentor protege agreements with certified very small local firms.
After the application of these bid discounts, McGuire and Hester emerged as the lowest responsive and responsible bidder.
Their bid came in at $26,499,339.50 which is 8% below the city's engineer's estimate.
of 29 million staff recommends awarding this construction contract to McGuire and Hester to advance construction of these long awaited safety improvements and thank you and I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have.
Councilmember Houston.
I love it.
through the chair Maguire and Hester is a good company.
They are in my district, and matter of fact,
they're responsible.
They're doing SLBE, small local businesses.
They've been in our city for over 100 years.
I wanna move this item.
Councilmember Gallo.
I do have a question.
Can you talk a little bit about the potential change orders
and what the cost of those might be?
Yeah, so the standard specifications
for the Public Works construction code
recommends or the protocol is a 25% change order.
So by right, we could approve 25% change orders.
So above the 26.5 million,
things come up during construction
that we just cannot anticipate.
So some change orders are inevitable.
Obviously on a project this scale,
25% really adds up. So we need to and director Rowan has been working with our construction management team on some updated protocols to ensure that
We're getting the best value and and the change order process is not being abused and would those come back to council for approval?
Not above 25% so we can yeah 25% so below 25%
We can issue the change order. Of course, they're escalating levels of approval
I I could not approve a change order at my level it goes to our director above $100,000
But if the change orders is something extreme were to happen along the corridor
Let's say a sewer line bursts and it costs millions and millions of dollars to repair
And it costs more than 25% of the value of the contract then we are coming back to council to address that
I think I would just ask that we
Always look at these change orders very critically, especially in a project of this size and not just sort of rubber stamp
millions of dollars in change orders. Absolutely as someone managing the
program funds I'm extremely sensitive to those change orders. Thank you. Councilmember Wong.
Thank you. I just want to make sure since the price tag on this is what 29
million dollars for about 12 blocks that this is going to be a significant
upgrade for the district. I think with two-way cycle track. So this isn't my
district but this is right across the way and I know that something that is
incredibly challenging about this whole corridor is the connectivity between
Jack London and the downtown area is part of this project going to be you
know making it brighter because I just I would love to have more connectivity
and ways that people feel safer actually just walking from downtown to Jack
And will that accomplish that this project accomplished this I would say so so the scope of the project is
widening the sidewalks on the east side of MLK from 14th Street down to 2nd Street and
When we widen that sidewalk we're creating space for people biking so there'll be a cycle track
So it'll be a designated area for people biking and it'll make pedestrians who are walking on the street further away from vehicles
So that alone will make it a more comfortable
pedestrian environment.
Plus the additional street trees were hopeful
that the street is a more welcoming, friendly place
for people walking and biking.
And in terms of the connection to Jacqueline and Square,
this is not directly part of this project,
but another project we're working on
are under crossing improvements.
When we were doing our outreach,
the biggest barrier we heard was that freeway.
So crossing under 880 is challenging, it's not welcoming,
It's not comfortable, people avoid it.
So we are going to be improving the undercrossing along MLK
so that we don't just have beautiful cycle tracks
and widened sidewalks north and south of the freeway,
but we also have lighting and gate keeping
underneath the freeway so that it just doesn't feel
so far away.
Jacqueline Square is not far from downtown Oakland,
but it can feel so because of the undercrossing barrier.
Okay, thanks so much.
Thanks for your work on this.
Councilmember Houston.
through the chair last question i like sitting on your your your committee
under
under because we have some of the similar the same questions about uh...
change orders are really like that
i don't know if you see everything that picture when it shows contract shows a
little boat
and it sells change order missus yet
have you ever saw that is really uh... hilarious so
explain to me about the change order piece
when you say twenty five percent is that per scope of work with a change order
overall 25% because it's tricky?
It's the latter.
So overall, 25% is a total project value.
And on a project this complex, we're rebuilding the street,
redoing the drainage, widening the sidewalks.
It's a really complicated and to your point,
Council Member Wong, relatively costly project.
So 25% above the 26.5 million.
So what is that, about five and a half, $6 million total
for the whole scope, not just individual bid items,
25% for that.
Okay, so how do we keep up on that change order?
Because that's important, because as a contractor,
I remember how people manipulate that.
Not saying that this has nothing to do with that company,
I'm just gonna follow Councilmember Unger's
that change order, we want to keep up with change orders
on McGuire and Hester or any company.
It's about the best interest of Oakland, any company.
So how do we keep up on that?
Absolutely. I may have to follow up with you on that my division works on the planning the engagement the design
I don't manage the construction of the project. So I want to make sure I'm not giving you in
Accurate information on how they manage the change order process
I do know that the project manager is involved in improving all change orders
So someone on our team on the project team will be reviewing those change orders making sure that they're absolutely necessary and consistent
in terms of what we're going to
do with the scope and the
grants so this is fully grant
funded we can't do anything
that's not in the grant.
So if we can follow up maybe
after the meeting I can
connect you with our
construction management
division who could answer more
detailed questions.
I'm getting way out beyond
construction ever the big or
Trinity Hall to reach out to
find out okay thank you.
We have a motion a second we do
I'm I'm not sure if we call the
speakers for this item.
Atsada Ollabala, Kevin Dalley, and Blair Beekman.
Whenever y'all speak about sidewalks,
I get thoroughly confused because it's my understanding
that private property owners are responsible
for the sidewalks.
So are you doing sidewalks that completely cover
the city of Oakland property and not commercial
or residential sidewalks?
Is that clear?
Okay, nobody's in the room.
Then there's a timeline for completion.
Sometimes when you put in a contract timeline for completion and that timeline is not met,
then the contractor has to pay a fee to you for not completing it on time.
Is that in the contract?
Commercial businesses interruption.
Are we having any interruption potential of businesses?
And how do we help those businesses stay financially viable?
I know you had that problem when they did the work on International.
It became a concern for the businesses to stay functional and profitable.
Parking for residents, any interruption of parking for residents is going to happen.
So you have a $26.4 million project.
If you're seeing the itemized breakdown of all the work that's going to be done to substantiate
that proper funding is going to the areas, I tend to believe too much money is spent
on bike lanes.
Also project totally completed.
I didn't understand out here when they did the work that they put that white tape down
there for months instead of just putting the paint down.
They they had concrete and completely paved the streets and then they were digging it up
To do something under that had to be repaired under the kind of the pavement
so
If they have to come back and do any work, I know you say change all thank you for your comments
You're welcome. Next speaker, please
Kevin dally I look forward to the completion of this project to make
MLK safer for pedestrians and cyclists and
Wonderful to have wider sidewalks especially and protected by claims. Thanks
Thank you for your comments. All speakers have been called for this item
We do have a motion by councilmember Houston seconded by councilmember Guile to approve staff
Recommendations to be forwarded to the June 16th City Council agenda
On roll for this councilmember Guile
Houston I
Wong I
chair under I and item number six was approved with four eyes to be forwarded to the June 16th city council agenda on consent
with that
We will now go to open forum open forum. Sorry
I have Zach
Mississauga Ola Bala, Kevin, Dally Blair Beekman and Samuel Ramsey in any order if you're participating here in person in chambers
Please approach the podium state your name for the records following those in person. We will take those who are on line
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thank you
thank you for your comments next speaker for this item
open forum
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a sex abuser
According to allegations, other municipalities have taken it upon themselves to act immediately.
You have done nothing.
What is your intent around that?
What is your intent?
Now, thank you, thank you, Mr. Gallo.
I'm also concerned with the demonstration you just had in here with your employees.
I think it was very disrespectful for the union to put on the ballot Measure E representing
a citizens initiative when it was a collaboration with the city and the union.
What makes it extremely difficult, only 32% of all your city employees live in Oakland,
32%, so that was insulting to have people put on the ballot something for which the
majority of people, 68%, I'm sorry, that might be wrong, don't even contribute to the ballot
measure or pay taxes or take their checks and go outside of Oakland, so whenever the
union comes around I don't want to hear it. I want to give you something on a
good note. You have a relationship as council members that I highly respect.
You collaborate and work together extremely well. I go to school board
meetings and that is a hot mess. They are so insulting and disrespectful to each
other. So continue to have that opportunity to work together for
whatever you're doing but you're very respectful of each other and I appreciate
that as someone has to sit here and watch your leadership. Thank you. Thank
you for your comments. Next speaker. We noted Kevin Daly is passing. Semir Ramsey.
Good afternoon, CEO of Oakland. My name is Semir Ramy. I'm with the California Oakland
Union of Hummus for mental health outreach for independent living. We have a broken
his system in this country, been broken all along.
We need to start all over again.
You was on point.
How you gonna let somebody else come in from here
and do the same thing for him?
And how could a department here tell y'all no?
They should be fired, like he said.
Oh, that violated any people's rights.
Y'all need to start broken on stuff.
Let's take it to your people.
So we don't have all these problems.
Mr. Manchin was the problem, not the people.
I don't know where all this money's going,
with 100 million dollars coming, they sit here a year.
Hadn't done nothing with y'all, but I've been working here
for 35 years, not missing no more.
And it's wrong what y'all are doing with your people.
It's sad.
So, don't make, nobody homeless no more.
Leave him with that.
Those three shelters, y'all can give me enough information
so I can have it paid for by her.
I can do all that.
And we're gonna build seniors since I'm in the hospital.
So if we can get these streets cleaned up,
well, except for y'all say okay.
Have a good day.
Thank you for your comments.
All speakers have been called for open forum.
That concludes our open forum speakers.
All right, this meeting is adjourned.
Thank you.