Good morning and welcome to the rules and legislation committee meeting on this Thursday
July 9th the
Time is now 10 31 and this meeting shall come to order
before I
Call roll. I would like to give instructions on how to submit a speaker card for items on this agenda
If you're here in person and would like to submit a speaker card
Please fill out a speaker card and turn it into a clerk representative either before the item is called or 10 minutes after this meeting began
Again, this meeting started at 10 31. So that time will be 10 41 will stop receiving in person speaker cards online
Speakers cards were due 24 hours before this meeting began. So those will no longer be accepted at this time with that
We will now call roll on roll for this meeting
Councilmember Brown present councilmember fight
President councilmember Ramachandran present and chair Jenkins present. Good morning. Good morning
We have four members present before I go to the first item. Do you have any announcements council president Shinkin?
Yes, we are calling a special meeting that
13th at 1030 special meeting of the city council
Thank you so much for that. So noted
We will now move
the time in 30 a.m.
Also, we will be canceling July 23rd rules
28th no
Thank you for that council president Jeans was just so
Renoting and restating that you have a called a special meeting on July Monday, July 13th at 10 30 a.m
as well as canceling
July 23rd rules
Thank you so much with that. We will now move to the first item item number one is approval of the draft minutes for the committee meeting on
May 28th June 18th and
June 25th 2026. I have one speaker for this item move and move approval
Let's go to the public speaker
Thank you so much. I have Blair Beekman if you are
And I just want to thank you
for this time and for all your
support and for all your support
and for all your support.
I would like to speak to this
item, Blair.
Please raise your hand in the
queue so we can unmute you and
give you an opportunity to make
your comments.
You've been unmuted.
You may begin.
Hi, Blair Beekman.
I signed up for this item.
I think I'm going to pass this
time, and good luck for meeting
today.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for your
comments.
There was a motion by Council
In June 25th on that on roll councilmember Brown. All right. Aye. Council member Ramachandran
I and chair Jenkins. Aye item number one is approved with four ayes
Thank you for that moving to item number two number two is the determination of scheduling of outstanding committee items
Which is your pending list for rules?
And I have two speakers
Let's anything from the administration
Thank you, let's go to our public speakers. Thank you so much for that
I have miss Asada Ola Bala and Blair Beekman for item number two you're
Pending lists and it looks like miss Asada is passing on that Blair Beekman
I see you in the queue. You may unmute yourself to begin your time
Where big man also passing? Thank you. Thank you so much
Need a motion for item number two
move the pending list
Second that was a motion by councilmember Brown seconded by council member Ramachandran
To approve item 2 as is on roll councilmember Brown. I buy I
Ramachandran I and council member Jenkins item number
2 is approved as is with four eyes
That now takes us to item 3 new scheduling
Starting with item 3.1, which I believe there'll be a title change read into record. Welcome
Thank you. Good morning. Ashley can it director of economic and workforce development development our rule 24 justification
is that we need to bypass committee because we just came to terms with OAC yesterday and we need to accommodate two city council meetings before
recess to enable a potential sale as early as September
The type the revised title is as follows an ordinance number one
Authorizing the city administrator to amend the purchase and sale agreement of the city of Oakland's undivided 50% interest in the Coliseum complex
Located at 7,000 Coliseum Way, Oakland, California
To allow the simultaneous sale of the arena parcel for the lump sum payment of 50 million dollars
And the stadium parcel for 60 million dollars with seller financing from the city crediting the five million dollar deposit held by the city
prior to the sale
number two
Authorizing the city administrator to negotiate and execute an agreement pursuant to which the buyers agree to pay to the city
6% of the annual gross ticket sales for any event at the arena parcel and the stadium parcel less applicable taxes
number three
Amending ordinance number one three eight zero one CMS
Conditioning the sale to require development of on-site affordable housing and other benefits to solely the sale of the city's interest in the stadium parcel
number four
Authorizing the city administrator to facilitate closing prior to December 31st
2026 by redirecting to the buyer of the stadium parcel a
portion of the pro rata share of the city's annual subsidy of the stadium parcel based on a per day amount of
$16,000 four hundred sixteen thousand four hundred and thirty eight dollars and thirty six cents
Limited to the period between the stadium parcel closing and December 31st
2026 and number five adopting California Environmental Quality Act findings. Thank you
Thank you so much for that title change being read into record and just noting that this item as it shows in the scheduling
July 14th is actually will be going to the July 13th special city council meeting at 1030 that was just called by council president and
We will now move to item number
3.2. It is a title change and
I will read in the new title a
New title is a resolution authorizing the city administrator to amend the professional services contract with
Alta planning plus design for 7th Street connection
project by increasing the contract amount by
747
Seven hundred forty seven thousand two hundred and eighty eight dollars for the total contract not to exceed
three million nine hundred fifty five thousand four hundred and four dollars extending the contract
Expiration date to December 31st 2030 waving
To the extent required further advertising competitive bidding or competitive selection requirements under the OMC
sections and
adopting
Sequa findings this item is being requested to be scheduled for the July 14th
public works and transportation committee and this will this has an urgency finding so I will read that into record which is
staff
staff needs councils resolution before the summer recess so that staff may move forward with
Project design and meet the federal funding
milestones at the end of the year
We will now move to item three point three three point three is also a title change
But only the second piece of legislation is the has a change in title
I will read the first part in it consists of two pieces of legislation
One a resolution authorizing the city administrator to remove delinquent city of Oakland
Code enforcement liens and unlean fees costs assessments and civil penalties on certain tax defaulted properties
For a period of four years to facilitate the development of these properties into affordable housing
be an Alameda County chapter 8 tax sale program and limiting the aggregate
amount of the liens removed pursuant to this authorization to
Anomaly value the not to exceed ten million dollars and
acknowledging the
transmutation of these code enforcement liens into
Propricated Chapter eight sale proceeds that will be paid to the city of Oakland and
to I will read in the new title a
Resolution authorizing the city administrator to remove delinquency of Oakland vacant property tax liens on certain tax defaulted properties
For a period of four years for facilitate to facilitate the development of these properties and affordable housing
via Alameda County chapter 8 tax sales program acknowledging the
Transmutation of these vacant property tax liens into
prorated chapter 8 sales proceeds that will be paid to the city of Oakland and limiting the aggregate amount of the liens
Removed pursuant to the author this authorization
to nominal value not to exceed 10 million dollars and this is
Requested for the July 14th community economic development committee agenda
This will need an urgency finding if staff will be present to read that into record
Good morning Caleb Smith for the city of open housing community development department
The urgency finding for this item is as follows
This item is urgent as the Alameda County Board of Supervisors is expected to approve a chapter 8 tax sale at the July 14th meeting
The City Council will therefore need to authorize the release of uncollectible liens on chapter 8 tax sale properties by the end of July
To avoid possible disruptions to the chapter 8 tax sale of 82 15 MacArthur Boulevard. Thank you
Thank you so much for that
Urgency finding we will now move on to item 3.4, which has a title change again
This is two pieces of legislation, but the title change is only at the second piece
So I will read the first part and then the new titles the second piece following that
the first resolution is authorizing the forgiveness of a city loan to at
a
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empty of up to
Two million dollars in outstanding principal plus all accrued and unpaid interest in fees and a city
revolving lien of credit to
savash
after sure
With a final outstanding balance of one million
Five hundred thousand dollars plus accrued and unpaid interest in fees for the foothills seminary point
retail project each contingent upon the sale of the transfer of the project to a qualified purchaser and
making appropriate sequel findings and two I will read in the new
piece of legislation an ordinance off the new title of the
Second piece of legislation ordinance authorizing the forgiveness of outstanding and future
rent balance in the amount up to
$40,000 for scenario point LLC pursuant to ground lease with the city contingent on the sale or transfer of the
Leasehold interest in the property to a qualified purchaser and making a CEQA findings
This item is being scheduled for the July 14th community and economic development committee agenda and this to needs and urgency finding
Hi good morning my name is Teresa Lopez I am with the private private development
division in economic workforce development and the urgency finding is
that we want to correct the ordinance title so that it could be heard on the
July 14 CD committee and July 21st CD committee and the reason we want this
to be heard before the break is that the property is in forbearance. The lender
extended it to April 21st. If we wait till September it will extend the time
period that developer will be able to sell the property. He cannot sell it
without authorization to forgive the loan, the debt, the loan and the rent on
the property because it's over leveraged and that's why we're pursuing this
resolution and ordinance. Thank you. Thank you for that.
Thank you for joining us.
Thank you for joining us.
We are now moving to item 3.5.
3.5 is a resolution in support of assembly bill 1588 vehicles sideshow enhancements and
this is being requested to be scheduled for July 21st, 2026 city council agenda on consent.
Is there a rule 24 and I just want to make a statement for the council members counts
rules has governance over these legislations.
And so we're going to be hearing them substantively in rules from here on out, but we'll let these
two go.
So come on up with the rule 24.
Good morning.
Bridget Ruiz-Reveso, staff for Council Member Charlene Wong.
Up until today, these resolutions have typically gone from rule straight to the Council.
We will now move to item
3.6
and 3.6 adopt the following pieces of legislation one a resolution conditionally approving a
Final map for the track number eight six nine seven located at eighty seven fifty mountain
Boulevard for a 35 lot subdivision within parcel nine of the track eighty three twenty at part of the property owned by open old
Venture acquisitions LLC and adopting sequel findings and to a resolution
conditionally approving a final map for track number eight six nine eight located at eighty seven fifty
Mountain Boulevard for a 24 lot subdivision within parcel ten of the
Track eighty three twenty at part of the property owned by the open own venture acquisition LLC and adopting sequel findings
And this item is being requested to be scheduled for the July 21st city council agenda
on consent and I see staff with the rule 24. Good morning Reginald Bazzil,
right-of-way division manager Oak Dot. This item concerns the approval of
final maps for two parcels at Oak Knoll, the largest real estate development
project in the city, and importantly these two parcels 9 and 10 will bring
online some 54 units of single-family housing. The map approval for these two
parcels has been delayed on the city side for several months. We need urgent
action to demonstrate to residents of the city of Oakland and our real estate
partners that we're committed to being good regulators and good partners in
bringing new housing units online. Final urgency item is that the chief engineer
has determined that the final maps are consistent with the tentative maps
the city of Miami. We've done a
would be are you are an area
security initiative approval
authority which will provide
overall governance of the UAS I
grant program as well as other
grant programs under
jurisdiction of the approval
authority across the bay area
regional effective December 1,
2025 through November 30, 2030
and this item is being
requested to be scheduled for
the July 21st city council
agenda on consent.
OASI operates on a Federal Homeland Security grant funding cycle with establishing established deadlines for
execution of participating in jurisdiction agreements delaying the
Introduced by the full committee
Really process risks
Jeopardizing Oakland's eligibility to receive or expand UASI allocated funds within the current program year potentially
Resulting in for a picture of federal dollars already designated for Oakland
Moving to item three point eight. It is a resolution confirming the appointment of terry
Buxton Buxton as a member of the cannabis regulatory
Commission this item is being requested to be scheduled for July 21st City Council agenda on consent
The rule 24 is due to the recent quorum challenges experienced by the cannabis regulatory Commission
item
3.8 is a resolution confirming the mayor's appointment of
3.9
Thank you. Item 3.9 a resolution confirming the mayor's a point appointment of page
Tomlin as a member of the head start advisory board. This item is being requested to be scheduled for July 21st
Since City Council agenda on consent the rule 24 is to fill the recent vacancy on head start advisory board
item
3.10 is a resolution confirming the reappointment of Edgar Rodriguez Ramirez prior
Jagga not that Nathan
And Ricky Jackson and members of the children's initiative citizens oversight commission
This item is being requested to be scheduled for July 21st
2026 City Council agenda on consent the rule 24 is to ensure
continuation
Continuance of quorum for children's initiative citizens oversight commission
item
3.11 is a resolution confirming the mayor's appointment of Nia Jacobs to the cultural affairs commission
This item is being requested to be scheduled for July 21st 2026 City Council agenda on consent
The rule 24 is to fill the current vacancy on the cultural affairs commission to ensure
continuation
item
3.12 is a resolution confirming the mayor's appointment of Braxton Gunter and Ronald Busby to the Privacy Advisory Commission
the
This is being requested to be scheduled for the July 21st
City Council agenda on consent
item
3.13 is a resolution in support of SB
954 a bill changing the non housing, California
Environmental Quality Act exemption this item is being requested to be scheduled for the July 21st
City Council agenda on consent and we will need staff to read in a rule 24 for this item is
Council member Wong staff present to state a rule 24 for the record
Yes, good morning
Bridgett Ruiz-Rueveso
staff member for Councilmember Wong these items once again typically go from rules to
straight to council and so on this item, I would like the opportunity to be added as a co-sponsor and then also I know that
Sending the straight to council would be beneficial to ensure that the city support
Is made known prior to the final vote on this item in the Senate. Okay. Great. Thank you
Thank you for that rule 24 and noting council member Brown was added as a co-sponsor
Moving to item three fourteen it is an ordinance amending the reenacting ordinance number one three five six one
For the cultural affairs commission to enable quorum with majority of the appointed members establishing an authority to create standing committee
allowing the commission to appoint the chairperson and make other clarifying edits
This item is being requested to be scheduled for the July 21st City Council agenda on consent. I will read in the rule 24
staff requests that this item proceed directly to the full City Council in lieu of
Consideration by the life enrichment committee due to the time sensitive nature of the proposed ordinance
item
3.15 it is two pieces of legislation
I will read in the first piece of legislation, which is a resolution accepting the police Commission selection panel slate of
Ricardo Garcia Costa and Johnny Harrison to serve on the Oakland police commission or
a resolution rejecting the police Commission's selection panel slate of Ricardo
Garcia Acosta and Johnny Harrison to serve on the Oakland Police Commission
This item is being requested to be scheduled for July 21st City Council agenda on nine consent
Moving to item three point sixteen
Which is receive the twenty five twenty six informational consolidation annual performance in the evaluation report?
For community development block grant home investments partnership emergency solutions grant and housing opportunities
for persons with AIDS
This is being requested to be scheduled for the September 15th city council agenda as a public hearing
The rule 24 for this item is that the caper is due to HUD by September 28th
2026
now moving to item
2017 a resolution authorizing the city administrator or designee to enter into a cooperative contract agreement with
Government jobs.com ink DBA neo gov
for human resource information systems
Subscription services for a two-year period starting July 1st 2026 through June 30 of 2028 in the amount not to exceed
one million seventy seven thousand five hundred forty seven dollars and ninety eight cents and
and waiving the competitive multi-step solicitation process
and the local small business enterprise requirements.
This item is being requested to be scheduled
for September 22nd.
Finance and Management Committee
and that concludes all of your new scheduling at this time.
I do have several speakers for this item.
Councilmember.
Yes.
So I also have a new scheduling item.
I emailed the clerks.
And so I'll just read the title.
resolution authorizing reimbursement for council president Kevin Jenkins and
council members Rowena Brown and Ken Houston travel costs to Washington DC
for attendance at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's annual
legislative conference from September 16th through the 20th and that is to go
to the Tuesday July 21st meeting. Let's go to the public speakers. As I call your
name, please approach the podium in any order and state your name for the record.
If you are participating via Zoom, please raise your hand so I can easily identify you.
We'll take those who are in person first, followed by those who signed up for Zoom.
And the speakers are Ms. Asada Olibala, Blair Beekman, both signed up for three items as
the third.
Well, sorry, John Jones the third and Zach, who also signed
up for three items.
In any order, if you signed up to speak under item three,
and you're here in chambers in person,
please approach the podium.
We will take those.
And I just want to remind our public speakers,
we have all our interns in here.
And I want to set a wonderful example for all of our interns.
John Jones III, for the record.
that did not work for me.
And I just want to say thank
you so much for the chair.
I want to urge you all to move
the item related to 3.1
college CM4 to full council.
And I'm excited about this
because the sheer and utter
complexity that was involved in
this deal that I know a lot of
people are not aware of.
A lot of people are not aware
that real estate transactions
just grow speculation that I'm not gonna even get into. But I'll say this real
quickly, it's important for people to understand that it was already tough.
Colosseum was unique because it was under the authority of two distinct
municipalities. That happens nowhere else in this country. But this deal
actually has six entities, right? You got A, SCG, you have the A's, you have
communities for a better environment. So to do this Bobbison Act to meet the
needs of everyone involved was like really a miracle. So I just want to thank
Thank you for your comments next speaker.
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purchase the coliseum I choose to regard a request from the leaving international and
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of the review, that there be a complementary application
to Amendment Ordinance CMS 13-801 and set of the housing
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to challenge Ladeira V the United States and the tax sale authorization as the
principal agent and TSO capital investments the operation a director and
capital capital as well as the
application as a field analyst and Warburg pinkus and
Janice capital I wish to ask why the LaWanda building has been purchased for two years and has not been
Redeveloped and via low-income housing to the surrounding community
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field agent and responsible controllers Ronald Jeffery Rockefeller aimed rooster Eisenhower Kemper Kennedy
I wish to challenge the right of review of the state to administrative application and
and VW International via James Herbert and Mercy Housing via the United States.
By the point of sale of in-depth forgiveness, I wish to challenge an application in the
review of Interstate Appellate, moving it against the capital application in view of
the two-in-the-ten-year Treasury note.
Based on the application of the review of the state, I do not believe that the outstanding
balance in the depth of forgiveness is enough.
I wish to ask that in view of the voucher program across the state and view of understanding
the resolution to ask the Bay Area even skin tragedy initiative and a grant poster for
jurisdiction across innovate Bay Area I asked that be wondered on to the way what you called
the dammit I can't think of it I do also thank you for your comments your time has ended
thank you so much thank you sir I want to know why y'all going to Washington DC
are you going to Washington DC to talk about reparations that's not happening
for black people are you going to be talking about the fact that we got 10%
unemployment 70% of the homeless are you going to be talking about the fact that
I can't get you to have a discussion on gentrification in this chamber or no
way in this city or have a discussion on the fact that we haven't had thank
city intervention impact negative impact what the hell y'all gonna talk about
cuz I come to every meeting talking about black people and you just sit
there and look at me so I object to y'all going to Washington DC now let's
talk about this beautiful black man Omaha former on 3.5 15 now it's the
probability you didn't go through the process you usually go through where
where y'all interviewed the people in this room,
but you're gonna pass it,
since Ricardo wasn't the person you were attacked in.
You're gonna approve Ricardo now, the Spanish guy,
but the black man is off.
45 people applied for this job of being on the commission.
Only 10, the members of the commission,
and by the way, the selection panel, you changed that.
It was the majority black selection panel,
not its majority white,
so I guess you're comfortable
with white people selecting these people.
So of the candidates, they had to select 10.
Nobody selected Omar Farmer for their top 10.
Omar Farmer has a history of involvement
that cannot be disputed.
A history working with veterans, he still does that.
Working with the Bort Commission security issue.
Working on Measure Z, head chair of Measure Z.
working on many, many ad hoc committees,
four ad hoc committees on the police commission.
Oh, but he don't deserve to be back on there.
That black man don't deserve it.
But you got another black man that's gonna come on there.
Oh, what has he done?
He's on the Business Improvement Association for Temesel.
Okay.
What is it that you allow one woman to come in here
and destroy the character and integrity of Omar Farmer,
and you proceed to uplift it, this black man?
When you go through a process of the police commission where we don't know who was selected,
you selected the police commission today, the last time we had the police commission
selection process, the public got to see all of the candidates, now you've done it in secret.
I don't know who else was involved, but we had a chance to hear all of those candidates,
probably a black man was left out and you satisfied with who you got.
Do not go to Washington, D.C.
All you're doing is going there and acting like you're doing something for black people.
Thank you so much for your comments, Mrs. Sada.
Your time has ended.
We will now go to those who signed up online.
Mr. Bikman, please unmute yourself, you may begin.
Hi, thank you.
Blair Bikman.
Thanks for the public comment.
I spoke, I have three items set up, 3.7, 3.12, 2.15, or a few.
Let's put the words of the first public commenter
that's spoken all the work that is being done
to work on the future of the Coliseum.
And thank you for the previous work of Rebecca Kaplan
that you mentioned.
From the previous work of our good council persons,
good luck to our current council persons
and how they can navigate working with the county.
It was a lot of work previously
and hopefully maybe this time around
a good mediation process can be taking place.
Good luck in your efforts,
how you can be working council with the new county,
well, with the county at this time in your new rules.
I wanted to mention with item, the Baywasi.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
I wanted to mention with the Baywasi issues
that I'm trying to learn.
I came here, you know, back last year,
December through March, just in a panic that the ayahuasca is going through some serious,
serious changes. They are still, but it may be not so bad as I first thought. There may
be parts of a democratic process that will continue, although they are consolidating
their process, it seems like. How they do that openly and clearly, I hope you can still work
with them on and ask that of them and demand that of them. Good luck in the efforts in working with
with Bay Wasi and that man it is a place that is a public meeting place and the community
should really go to their meetings and see what their contribution is to our local national
security and and and law enforcement priorities I mean if you want to have a voice in that
it's important to attend those meetings and see what they do.
And onto items 3.15 it sounds like you are possibly going to bring back one of the previous
Police Commissioners. Thank you if you can be doing that. That is a pretty amazing thought to me if you can be because
he really deserves it and and thank you that we are trying to you're trying to mediate a new future in
Oakland and and that invites all parts and you're listening to that and thank you. I can't thank
you enough for doing that thanks. So good luck to the meeting that the previous Commissioner can
be returned to his place. That's what I heard correctly earlier. And then there was one more
item on a person to the PAC to be appointed. Good luck that we can talk about block more
clearly. We can talk about ideas of peace, not war actually. And that's an interesting
concept for our future. Good luck how we can work towards that. Thank you.
Thank you for your comments. That concludes our speakers for this item.
Thank you so much everybody that came out of unspoke noting 3.1 title change 3.2 urgency finding 3.3 urgency finding
3.4 and see finding in a title change 3.5 rule 24 3.6 rule 24 3.13
Was it rule 24 and a dies request by council member Brown's to go to the July
21st on consent with that. I'll end channel motion as a minute
so moved
Thank you and that was a motion by councilmember Brown seconded by councilmember
Ramachandran to approve item three as amended on roll councilmember Brown
Councilmember fight I
Ramachandran I chair Jenkins item number three is approved as amended with four ayes
That now takes us to item four
Item before is review of the draft agendas pending list City Council and committee meetings
We have here your July 14th committees
July 16th rules your pending list and your July 21st council in July 23 rules and legislation committee agenda
Thank you as I call your name, please approach the podium in any order and again if you are participating via zoom
please raise your hand I have missus out all the bala zack and blair beakman in any order good morning missus outta
First you need a report on the overpayment of city employees employees when you're gonna get that money back
you committed seven hundred thousand dollars for the
Remodeling of the roots soccer you weren't supposed to pay the full seven hundred thousand
Alameda and Berkeley the city of Berkeley was supposed to make a contribution
But what the report should reflect what do we gain in terms of finances as a result of committing to the World Cup?
You have $81,000 that was spent by the children's initiative to remove
Portables from Skyline High School that was on the agenda last week at the school board meeting that money is supposed to be used
For early childhood development you need to find out how that happened
You need to have a report on sanctuary cities and how it impacts the lives of jobs and
housings of African Americans. You need to have a report on gentrification, how it impacts the
lives of African Americans. You need to have a report on the city administrators spending
up to $250,000. The last report was done in 2023. That's supposed to be an annual report. It has
not happened and it is scheduled to happen in 2027. You need to have a report on Costco
community and so that's that's
that's that's that's important
we need to have a full
environmental status that's
serious you need to have a
report on your so-called
reparations that everybody's
talking about but you have
never taken a position created
an ordinance on resolutions
related to reparations.
You have to you need to have a
report on the parking violation
I'm sorry the parking
validation that's allowed for
anyone that uses the city ice
center.
For housing, you need to have a report on the waiting list of 5,000 people who are waiting
to get housing according to the Oakland Housing Authority.
You need to have a report on the Howard Durant Library funding, when that funding's going
to happen.
Thank you for your comments, Ms. Asada.
Next speaker.
So my understanding of this is that I believe with the approval, I do understand it, I have
a little bit of issue with the Public Works and Transportation Committee.
Our DES rule list will not be being sent into any of the circuits based on how you guys
see writing, based on a bond ETF, so how the BART bonds are seen.
When I have to hack your guys' systems in nine different languages to validate the wonderment
Cryptocurrency knowing that nonprofits don't offer three one-day passes as a way in any of the nonprofits and it's an executive order
It's no question asked in view of Interpol
How that is wondered pre and post the door assignment to ETF standards
Yes
There is an issue
When you guys ask that that is wondered in these types of forms being able to polynomial by normally a walk
And show you as a grant of the city in the county is a humongous issue
Based on the view of federal legislation to the two-year Treasury note
When this is wondered a little bit public safety is a request mint
I do believe personally it should be 28 to 34 ask it as a compromise at 16
To 27 and say you don't understand community fundraising SBA
Or more there is a police credit union in this community and why the F you don't use it compared paying the highest
Federal consultant fees in the country is fucking effing bullshit excuse my language
When this is wonder to the port liaison committee do you draft?
I do have a little bit issue with knowing that they're going through it from the environmental
Q ecd I do have an issue with the housing. I believe it's absolutely bullshit, and I'm gonna say
Understood
the community and the county legislation
Office only says that there are 8200 within the county that are homeless. We have 5,000 in just the city
That's it. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker Blair Beekman, please unmute yourself and you may begin
Hi
On your upcoming committees
This July I think what you were starting to hint at in June. You're going to be dressing
budget deficit issues a bit more, I think I would guess.
How we can have those conversations,
I don't exactly know how you guys want to work that idea.
You know, I've just been describing
what San Diego has been going through.
They have the second highest budget deficits
for a city only to Oakland.
And I've described that in Oakland,
you guys have made a real important effort
that you concentrate on social services first
and then talk about the budget.
San Diego has really been learning those lessons.
And I'm just interested now how exactly the programs
you have to be considering for budget deficit issues
that I think has been included in ideas such as,
you know, how workers can take a pay cut in their healthcare
and in their retirement plans.
I've been trying to say that,
I don't think that's quite the right approach
and they can take a small pay cut altogether,
you know, like 50 bucks a month, 600 bucks a year.
And that brings up budget savings of almost $2 million
if you have a staff of 4,500, 3,000 workers.
So, you know, I'm, you know, how do we navigate those things
and have the conversation and make the connection
that there is important deficit issue you guys
do have to acknowledge and work on.
And you guys have been doing it incredibly respectfully.
Thank you.
So good luck how you can be working on that
and that we can do it well.
And to quickly conclude, yeah, as I said before,
Zach Unger tried to write outlines
about working towards peace for our community feature.
It's an important concept that we're trying to understand.
Good luck how we can be learning
that we can create our policies.
Thank you for your comments.
That concludes our public speakers for this item.
Thank you, if there are no council member comments,
we have, I apologize, District 7 office, please go ahead.
2026.
There was an item that was presented in conjunction
with another item.
That item was 5.5 titled,
Encampment and Bayman Management Team Operations
and had a presentation that was not presented
during city council meeting on July 7, 2026.
That would have answered questions
from other council members.
Council member Houston would like to request this item
to come back to next council meeting on July 21st, 2026.
We're asking for rule 24 to bypass committee
and go straight to council.
Due to the EAP going into effect on July 14th, 2026,
it is important for the council members to have clarity
on the encampment management abatement team operations.
Thank you.
So just for clarification to Madam City Clerk.
Asha Reed, City Clerk and Clerk of the council.
So during that meeting,
those two items were taken together.
And I believe one of your colleagues said
We're going to work with councilmember Houston to bring a different item back possibly for action
but that item is was already dispensed with and
Through the chair to the body just for clarity if you're trying to schedule item that would be done under item 3 of this agenda
Which has already occurred so we need to be brought back as a new scheduling item at this point
Thank you. I will entertain a motion
So moved second and that was a co-motion by council member five seconded by council member Brown to
approve item for as is
On roll council member Brown. I council member fight. I
Council Marama Chandra and chair. Jenkins is excused item four is approved with three eyes one excused
That now takes us to item number five item number five is receiving information report from the city attorney
Office regarding the cases the city attorney's office has brought pursuant to the Oakland municipal code chapter
1.1 zero I have four speakers for this item. Thank you to the city attorney's office
Yes, I'm deputy city attorney Sima Ropini is here to present the report. Thank you. Good morning council
Here to present the informational report on the civil protection of the people of Oakland ordinance or we call it OMC
1.10 for short. For those of you who are on council in July 2023, you might remember
this ordinance. And for those of you who are not on council at that time, this ordinance
was passed unanimously by city council. And what it did was it gave the city attorney
explicit authority to enforce all of the Oakland Municipal Code. Prior to this, the
city attorney could enforce some, but not all of Oakland's laws. And by enforced, I
I mean, when one of our laws is violated,
the city attorney can file a lawsuit,
a civil lawsuit under the law.
The ordinance also gave the city attorney authority
to seek a range of meaningful remedies for the city
and for Oakland residents, tenants, and workers,
and others who are harmed by our laws being violated.
Importantly, the ordinance was designed
to promote equitable enforcement of our laws.
Equity was built into the ordinance.
We had worked with the Department of Race and Equity
to conduct a racial equity impact analysis,
but prior to passage, and that was in the staff report,
and that's attached here as attachment B.
The reason that we're here today is because the ordinance
required the city attorney to collect data
on lawsuits filed under the ordinance,
and to present a report to council
within three years of passage,
and the report will be publicly available on our website.
So we have this report that we put forward to the committee,
and as the report says, the city attorney filed five lawsuits
under the ordinance over the last three years,
including lawsuits to protect the rights of Oakland tenants,
workers, and residents.
Two of the lawsuits are still pending.
One was dismissed, one was settled,
and one is mostly resolved,
and the details of those lawsuits is in the report.
The city attorney also included
this ordinance in demand letters.
we are often able to resolve issues
short of filing a lawsuit.
And overall, because OMC 1.10 has been useful
for our office, we plan to continue using this tool
and we also have some next steps
that are included in the report
to make our use of this tool more meaningful and robust.
For example, we will be creating a plan
to collect enforcement data more thoroughly
and consistently across the teams
that are using the ordinance in the office.
We will follow the current cases through
and collect demographic data on the outcomes
and impacts of litigation.
We will develop additional training for attorneys
in our office about conducting an equity analysis
when using OMC 1.10 and we will be consulting with DRE,
the Department of Race and Equity in this process.
We have consulted with them and they continue
to be a good thought partner for us.
And I'm happy to answer any questions about the report.
Thank you, colleagues.
Okay, I've not, I will ask a couple of quick questions.
I very much remember this being brought forward
back in 2023 and glad to hear that your office
had some success in utilizing it in a few cases.
My first question is, so you mentioned
that it's also been invoked in demand letters.
what type of cases are those?
This is primarily used by the affirmative litigation division
in our office, and the types of cases that we bring,
there are a lot of housing cases,
so cases where tenants complain to the city
about their rights being violated by landlords.
We also have used it in worker protection cases,
cases where our minimum wage and paid sick leave
and other worker protection laws are being violated
and there are complaints to the city
or to our office about that.
We also have a fair number of public nuisance matters,
where there's a business that is engaging in conduct
that's creating a public nuisance in Oakland
and residents are being harmed.
And so we might include this
and this is actually a great tool
to address public nuisances locally.
So we have used this tool in some of our public nuisance matters.
Those are some examples of the types of cases that our team has worked on.
I mean, we work on a range of issues, but those are some of them.
That's great.
And I understand, having written a lot of demand letters in my previous legal career,
that these can be very impactful.
And on that note, if members of the public have a complaint,
obviously your office cannot take all of them.
How does, for example, if there's a serious,
there's a set of tenants that have a major issue
and want to seek the city attorney's use of this OMC,
how do they engage with your office and raise that?
Yeah, that's a great question.
So we do get lots of complaints from the public
and we have three units within
the Affirmative Litigation Division that, you know,
we work together, but we also have kind of different
focus area is we have a housing justice initiative,
that's one of the units,
that focuses on tenant protection cases
and so the members of the public can,
so there's also the neighborhood law, law corps,
which is a team of like four to five attorneys
that will address complaints that come in.
I think that the contact information
that we probably have on the website
is for the neighborhood law corps
because they're a little bit closer to the ground.
They can also, so they can contact the neighborhood law
corps if you look at the Oakland City Attorney's website
and you find the neighborhood law corps or the affirmative
litigation division, you should find there at least an email,
if not also a phone number.
So that's one way to contact our team,
and that's where a lot of direct complaints and inquiries
come through is the neighborhood law corps.
And sometimes they'll get rooted then
to the Housing Justice Initiative.
For example, if it's like a large tenant protection case.
Also, we hear from council members
about complaints that have come to the city.
We hear from nonprofits, legal aid organizations,
and also filing complaints with city departments.
So, for example, the Department of Workplace
and employment standards is sort of the first stop
for worker rights violations.
If you think you're not being paid minimum wage
or that your rights are being violated in the workplace,
you can file a complaint with the Department of Workplace
and Employment Standards and that information
is on their website.
And we have worker protection attorneys on our team
who work with that department
and help them with resolving cases,
filing lawsuits, et cetera.
You can file complaints, tenants file complaints
with our building code department all the time.
And we also work with code to address some of those issues,
especially when we're seeing a pattern in practice.
Okay, thank you.
And I remember two and a half, three years ago,
asking this question.
But if you get a refresh, remember,
how is 1.10 different from the powers
that the affirmative litigation team already has?
So the city attorney already had the authority
to enforce a number of Oakland laws,
but not every single Oakland law.
And so when this ordinance passed,
it became, it gave the city attorney clear authority
to enforce all of the Oakland Municipal Code.
It also gave the city attorney meaningful remedies
that were not available under every single Oakland law.
So some laws say when the city attorney brings a lawsuit
under this ordinance, the city attorney can seek penalties
that will go to the city.
Some of the ordinances had said the city attorney
can seek money for residents or workers
or tenants who are harmed.
Some ordinances didn't say that.
So this OMC 1.10 provides clear authority
to seek a range of remedies that make our work meaningful,
that can be a deterrent to actors
that are repeatedly violating the law
and that allow the city to recoup money for the city
as well as for people who are harmed
and who might be owed back rent
or who might be owed back wages and things like that.
Okay, thank you.
We can move to public speakers.
Thank you.
As I.
I apologize.
Discounts under Houston have a question or comment on this.
Not on this, but something else.
Then we'll wait for this item to be dispensed.
Thank you.
Thank you.
As I call your name, please approach the podium.
If you signed up via Zoom, please raise your hand
so I can easily identify you.
I have Ms. Asada Olabala, Derek Barnes, Blair Beekman,
and Zach for item number five.
any order please. Then I'm a full-time angry black woman and like James Baldwin
said to be black and conscious in America you have to be in a constant
state of rage and I agree with that. Now what I take from this is the thing that
made me first angry with the city attorney's office is when Desley Brooks
had to sue the city attorney's office for not representing her appropriately
I remember Janell Harris when she sat on the police commission and it was
fortunately represented that she was doing something that she wasn't happening
related to the former police chief, Fitzpatrick, city attorney's office did
nothing and Miss Harris suffered a break in her misunderstanding of her
character and integrity that has cost her dearly.
that has cost her dearly.
I remember the Bay case
that the city attorney on many occasions
has done nothing to bring resolve to the Bay case
where police officers killed the Bay brothers.
I remember the police commission having to defend itself
on several occasions because the city attorney's office
did nothing.
I have no respect for the city attorney's office
the way they handle Mr. Hazard on his number of the cases,
how they avoid, and do not do things appropriately.
So I got issues with the city attorney's office,
particularly when it relates to this case coming up
with the $900,000 that y'all being sued
for these trees, that fine.
I wonder how the city attorney's office
gonna handle that one.
You're probably gonna have to end up doing a settlement,
which is absolutely ridiculous.
You should have intervened in the first place
before this happened but the city's Attorney's Office no respect for it
thank you for your comments next speaker
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compensation and government claim board 14-17-043.
Neal Silver be a higher education assistant agency 16-15-664.
Anthony Cassius, State Bar of California 21-55900.
In the view of Davis vs. McDonoughue,
Worcester v. the United States,
Grafus Rodriguez,
or Grafus Rodriguez v. Holder,
and Park Association,
the U.S. Pork Association v. the United States,
I wish to fully move the application of the bond holding
in the view of the Oakland Promise into contempt
and ask that it be an inter-appellate review
for great growth blatant malice and intentional negligence,
a malice claim against the state of California,
a malice claim against the city of Oakland
and the county of Alameda for purposes of gross negligence.
I am asking that the cases, Anthony Cassis
via the State Bar of California shows it
to regulatory bond holdings tied to investment schemes
based on performance based or consulting as you see the shooting
new server shows it to bond liquidity
and applications to it based on debt financing across multiple regions
patcher barter shows that uh... compensation
based on intrinsic
property
the intrinsic property would be the short of them
thank you for your comments
I will now move to Zoom speakers.
If you've signed up to speak on item five,
please raise your hand so I can easily identify you.
I have Blair Beekman and Derek Barnes.
Blair, you have been unmuted.
You may unmute yourself and begin.
Hi. Good luck in the continuing practices of equity with this item.
How we can do that better as a city and a community.
It takes a lot to understand statistics
and statistics and working towards equity.
look what you can be doing what we can all be doing together what this item can
help contribute to our good future thank you thank you for your comments and
Derek Barnes if you wish to speak as you signed up for item 5 you are muted you
may begin madam clerk no comments for me I sent a note earlier this morning to
And if you do I'll remove you from the speaker queue.
Thank you though, bye bye.
Thank you.
That concludes your speakers for this item.
Okay, thank you.
I will entertain a motion.
I'll make the motion.
Are we moving the item to the full council?
So under your council rules,
you of course have the authority to receive it here
or move it to the full council.
I think the recommendation from our office
is that this body can receive it in committee.
Okay, excellent.
I'll make that motion to receive in file and committee.
Second and that was a motion by councilmember Brown singing about councilmember five to receive and file item
Number five in committee on roll councilmember Brown. I
buy I
Come from a Chandra and chair Jenkins is excused
This item was received and filed in committee with three eyes and one excuse. We will now move to open forum
I have miss Asada, Olavala
Derek Barn, Blair Beakman, and Zach.
Okay.
To show you how ridiculous the selection panel issue is, of the 45 candidates that applied,
one of the 10 that went through was Doug Wong, the person that y'all rejected two times.
Out of the 45 candidates, Doug Wong made it to the top 10.
This shows you how creditable this process is and let me go back to the sanctuary city
thing.
Sanctuary city, the problem with it for me, it's not having people come here illegally
or legally.
It's once they get here, there is an impact that happens.
The impact is jobs.
The impact is housing.
they have been here people who have come here in the immigrant status, African Americans
are now 10% of the unemployment, 70% of the homeless. We are not getting jobs and we're
not getting homeless and people who are coming here illegally and what I mean apologies miss
Asada your time has ended thank you. Councilmember Houston would you like to speak before we
move to the next? Yes good morning colleagues. I have a question and I want to speak to
to the city attorney on this if you don't mind
through the chair, at the meeting at 3.30 on Tuesday,
7, 7.26, I had had two items that come forward.
And that was 5.4, 5.5, and our president
merged them together, right?
But what had happened was when Mr. Cubic came up,
I don't know if it was K-Top or whatever,
Council Member Fife, that he was saying
that he had the wrong PowerPoint, right?
but then he spoke to it and then the PowerPoint of five point
four, which was receiving information report on inventory of city owned
property. He kind of went over that and council member Brown. So,
so council member five had had a couple of questions that were very critical,
right? And if she would have got that information,
she would have been able to understand some of the things that she dealt with
that, that needed to be addressed. Um,
but that PowerPoint was not presented.
And I said it when I sat in this chair.
Wait, hold on, hold on, hold on.
The PowerPoint isn't presented.
And now I'm hearing that I gotta wait till September
or August for this PowerPoint to come up.
I wanna ask through the city attorney's office
that this PowerPoint was very critical for the EAP
that's being launched on 714, right?
And my colleagues needed to understand what was in here.
and it was overlooked, that I put it on the agenda.
And it wasn't done on purpose, Council Member Brown.
Things do happen, but I understand,
but I should not have to wait,
and my public shouldn't have to wait,
and my colleagues, even though they can get it,
I wanted it explained by that group,
a Mari that understands it's on the ground.
So I'm very disappointed that this was not presented,
and I had waited for this.
we're going on um break. So through the chair to the city attorney's office how do I get this
scene presented because I had asked for it to be presented before we went on a break this is
critical that they explain this to me and my colleagues so why do I have to wait for something
I had planned that I had went through the process I went through the process so how do I do this
on the table but I'm going to
hear this because I'm not going
to wait that long because the
public needs to hear this and
my colleagues need to get it
presented to them that from
their interpretation.
Through the chair to the rules
committee and councilmember
Houston first I want to know
we're an open forum and so this
item is not agendized right now
but just to respond briefly as
Madame city clerk said earlier
that item is dispensed with.
As of now, of course you can bring a scheduling request
for a new item back to this body.
And that would be submitted to the clerk
and then taken up on item three at the next rules
and I'd be happy to talk to you after the meeting.
When is the next rules?
Next Thursday.
Huh, next Thursday?
It's also, let me ask this question,
if it's brought to next rules next Thursday,
what would be the earliest meeting
that this could be presented to my colleagues
and the public, the public needs to see this.
It could go to the July 21st council meeting
if the body, if this body and the council
make an urgency finding to hear it
with less than 10 days notice.
Okay, so I need an urgency finding
because I have put it on the calendar.
Listen to me, colleagues.
I put it on the calendar and was overlooked.
I need Councilmember Brown, I need you to see it,
and present it by them, Councilmember Fife,
I need you to see it.
I need my whole colleagues to understand
that this is what's been happening.
And then this might answer some of the questions
from the individuals that's actually implementing
this process.
So, Trinity, did you hear that?
Okay, I need that done so we can come back to the rules
and get this done before our break.
Thank you.
Through the chair, understanding that we are open forum
just making it clear that there are city council
and city administrator established processes
that must line up for stuff to end up on the agenda.
So please make sure that you're in contact
with the administration for scheduling your items
so all the components come together.
And just because I am over the TV station
that was mentioned, it is also important
that there's alignment so all the correct materials
end up in the packet and with K-Top for presentation.
And I'll leave it there, thank you.
Ken Slade, I need to blow off some steam, bud.
I need to blow off some steam.
I just want to make sure that everybody understands.
I know I'm gorgeous, Ken.
I know I'm gorgeous.
Project Kyrex is a go.
I am authorizing a review of active duality of theater for full application of the Slap
Act.
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Matria O'Pierdero, she has permission to escort as Queen Maranella,
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fouled every time he goes into international waters. Authorization DMOC
coordinator. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker is Blair Beekman. You are
unmuted. You may unmute yourself and begin. Hi, Blair Beekman. Thanks for the meeting. To try to
further talk about Oakland strong mayor issues and you know I meant to add from
the previous meeting you know that you guys are working on an IPA process like
like the city of San Diego already has.
San Diego is not having success with it.
They need organization for the actual programs,
city programs themselves.
And I wanna trust that you guys can work that without,
work that out with the IBA.
Good luck how you can do that.
But San Diego was working on an office of a coordinator.
It can be like a small city manager kind of job
to help organize.
and I hope that can be considered for yourselves as well.
There are some important issues around what is
the future role of the city administrator of Oakland?
Is their role going to start to change a bit more?
Thank you for your comments.
That concludes our open forum speakers.
Thank you. The meeting is adjourned.