I'm going to turn it over to the.
before the item is read into record online speaker requests were due 24
hours prior to this meeting. This meeting came to order at 11.35 a.m.
speaker cards were no longer be accepted 10 minutes after the meeting has began
or like stated before if I read item into record making that time 11.45 a.m.
And with that we will now proceed to take roll
councilmember
Gallo
Thank you councilmember Houston present. Thank you councilmember Wong
Present. Thank you and chair ugher here
We do have four members present and before we begin council chair ugher. Excuse me. Do you have any announcements?
Yeah, we've got a packed agenda today. So we're gonna limit public speakers to one minute and
for all of us let's try to keep our comments and questions brief so we can
get through the whole agenda. Thank you. Thank You Chair Unger. Once again, public
comment will be limited to one minute on all agenda items. Moving to item 1,
approval of the draft minutes from the committee meeting on June 23rd, 2026.
Second. We do have a motion made by Councilmember Gallo, seconded by
the committee meeting on June
twenty one day.
This motion does pass with four
eyes to accept the draft
minutes of the committee
meeting on June twenty third
twenty twenty six as is on
roll comes from a guy oh I thank
you council member Houston I
thank you council member long.
I thank you and chair under I
this motion does pass with four
eyes to accept the draft
minutes of the committee
meeting on June twenty third
twenty twenty six as is moving
to item two determination of
Thank you everyone we do have one speaker.
Council members, staff, administration anything for the pending list?
Nothing from the administration thank you.
Good morning committee members, Megan we're assistant director of OakDOT we do have an
item on the pending list the safe Oakland streets annual report that we'd like to request
be scheduled to the September 22nd Public Works and Transportation Committee.
is there a file ID is that what you're asking?
I can follow up with the with the file
and for me I don't have everybody available.
That's great if you could follow up with that.
We will get it done. Thank you.
Thank you very much.
The street's report move into our public speaker.
Blair Beekman, if you're participating on via Zoom,
please raise your hand.
And I don't see it.
I don't see Blair Beekman.
All right. Let's move on.
We have I will make the motion
you accept the pending list. We do have a motion made by councilmember Dio
seconded by account chair Unger to accept as amended determination schedule
outstanding committee items. The amendments is moving safe Oakland Street
reports. File ID 260861 to the September 22nd public works and
transportation committee meeting. Yes please. Thank you. On roll councilmember
Aye.
Councilmember Gail?
Aye.
Councilmember Houston?
Aye.
Thank you.
Councilmember Wong?
Aye.
And Chair Unger?
Aye.
This motion does pass with four ayes to accept as amended, determination to schedule outstanding
committee items which is also known as the pending list.
Moving to item three, adopt a resolution authorizing the city administrator to execute an internal
governmental cooperation agreement with the Alameda County AC Transit for the Fruitvale
have a new transit signal priority project and adopt appropriate sequel findings and you do have three speakers for this item. Great. Thank you. Let's hear from our staff please. Hello. Good morning.
I'm here. Transportation planner with the Department of Transportation. Data before you is to request authorization for the city administrator to execute an intergovernmental cooperative agreement with AC transit for the Fruitville transit signal priority project.
AC Transit's project will deliver transit improvements that will increase transit reliability for East Oaklanders.
The inner governmental cooperative agreement between the city and AC Transit outlines responsibilities associated with design,
construction, support, and ongoing operation and maintenance.
Once the project is completed, ownership will be transferred to the city of Oakland,
where fiscal impact is expected to be minimal, with maintenance of traffic signals equipment absorbed within existing operations.
Equipment associated with this project will be maintained by AC transit therefore staff recommends that the City Council authorize the city administrator
To execute an intergovernmental cooperative agreement with AC transit for the Fruitvale Transit signal priority project
All right council members questions
Council member
Wong I believe you are next in the queue. I was just gonna move the item. Thank you for your work on this
Councilmember Gallo. I think you're gonna need to press the button. Yes, I went to publicly
Thank you for your work as long overdue and certainly it's gonna make a big difference in terms of the safety
transportation on the Fruva corridor
Serving our seniors and the rest of the community
So with that I make a motion to approve the item. Thank you
I'll second that any other questions from council members
All right, great then let's go to our speakers public speakers. Thank you. Calling in our public speakers for item three
Mrs. Asada Blair Beekman
And Kevin Dolly if you are participating in vision, please raise your hands. So you're easily identified. Thank you
I'm gonna ask you to pay attention to reports that consistently have to use the language
people of color
You see there is no such thing
technology and science as race.
It's an inventive social construct with the purpose of allowing certain people to have
a position, a higher ranking.
We all human beings.
So what's the purpose of paying that we have a bus transit service opportunity and the
majority of the people are going to get it are people of color.
What difference does it make?
social construct, to constantly put people into groups, and sometimes to put people into
groups where we all have in the same experience and we're not. Low income, seniors, it doesn't
matter. The bus service exists for anybody that wants to use it. Then you say the costs,
you don't say ...
Thank you, Mrs. Arta.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Thank you.
No, you're fine.
Thank you so much.
staff not least strongly support this work.
It'd be great to always mention synchronizing the pedestrian crossing time as well.
On International Boulevard, frequently the pedestrians have to wait for a very long time
to cross in order to optimize the bus rapid transit, the tempo crossing, even though obviously
passengers on the tempo do. Become pedestrians once they
leave the tempo up but definitely support it thanks.
Thank you move into our zoom speaker blurb big man. OK that
concludes your public speakers ride him through you do have
a motion made by council member one second by council member
guy to approve the recommendations of staff and
afford this item to the July twenty. Twenty twenty six city
council agenda on roll. Councilmember Gallo. Aye. Thank you. Councilmember Houston. Aye. Thank you.
Councilmember Wong. Aye. And chair Unger. Aye. This motion does pass with four ayes to approve the
recommendations of staff and the four deciding to July 22nd, 2026 City Council agenda and through
the body would that be on consent or not? Consent please. Thank you so much. Moving to item four. Adopt
The resolution authorizing the city administrator
to award a contract to Ron.
Number one, Ron Deprat Ford,
in the amount not to exceed 1,400,000
to provide collision repair and body shop services
for light vehicles for a three-year term,
September 1st, 26th through September 1st, 29th,
and two one-year options to renew
in response to RFQ406535.
Two, quality body and offender in amount not to exceed
$1,050,000 to provide collision repair and body shop services for light vehicles for
a three-year term, September 1, 26 to September 1, 29, and to one-year options to renew in
response to RFQ406535.
3, Falcon collision repair, in amount not to exceed $525,000 to provide collision repair
and body shop services for light vehicles for a three-year term, September 1, 26 to
to September 1st, 29, and a two one-year options to renew
in response to RFQ406535 for Moeller Brothers Body Shop
in an amount not to exceed $525,000
to provide collision repair and body shop services
for light vehicles for a three-year term,
September 1st, 26, to September 1st, 29,
and two one-year options to renew
in response to RFQ406535,
Five, Roller Brothers Body Shop in amount not to exceed $1,750,000 to provide collision,
repair and body shop services, four heavy vehicles in a three-year term, September 1st,
26th to September 1st, 29th, and two one-year options to renew in response to RFQ406529.
Six, Falcon Collision Repair in amount not to exceed $1,750,000 to provide collision repair
and body shop services for heavy vehicle for a three-year term, September 1st 26 to
September 1st 29, and to one-year options to renew in response to RFQ 406529, 7 making
findings under Oakland municipal section 204, 050, and 20451, and waiving any further for
more advertising and bidding requirements to extend necessary and 8 and adopt appropriate
And you do have two speakers for this item.
All right, for the record, I've been driving city vehicles for 30 years, and I haven't
crashed one yet, so this one's not on me.
Knock on wood.
Let's hear from staff, please.
Thank you for that clarification, Chair Unger.
Richard Battersby, Assistant Director of Oakland Public Works, Bureau of Maintenance and Internal
Services, the largest bureau in public works, encompassing facilities, fleets, sewers, and
storm drain.
I'm here to talk to you today about a facilities contract regarding collision repair none
of which will support chair Unger because he doesn't have collisions and I also wanted
to note for the record this also represents Public Works entry into the longest staff
recommendation for 2026 so thank you city clerk for that efficient and error free reading.
The city operates a fleet of approximately 1500 vehicles unfortunately during the course
of operation, these vehicles become damaged by collisions, either with other vehicles
or other objects. And we have a history of about 50 collisions a year. Previously, we've
been performing the body repairs. We have an internal body repair shop. We don't do
any painting, but we have three body repair FTEs. Those three FTEs have been vacant for
at least the past year, a couple of them longer. And we have recently filled one, but we will
be filling another. This has resulted in us having to increase the amount of repairs that
we send to outsourced body vendors, collision repair vendors, which is why I'm here with
this contract today. Previously, we only had a single collision repair vendor that was
Mueller Brothers, and due to the conditions or circumstances that I just described, we
have exceeded that contract capacity and we have not been able to repair vehicles for
the last month or so. So this is a very important agenda item. Currently, we have 25 vehicles,
accident repair vehicles that are awaiting repair. Twenty-two of those are Oakland Police
Department vehicles. So again, it's very critical that we get these contracts established.
The contracts for collision repair total $7 million, and this is over a three-year period
With two optional one-year extensions the two optional one-year extensions are
Give us the ability if the vendors
Demonstrate that they're performing acceptably and they're delivering good value to the city
We can offer them an extension on that contract without having to come back to Council
We bid this opportunity put it out RFP as the commitment that I've made numerous times in committee and city council
We are moving away from co-op contract procurement process to bidding, and that's to ensure
we're getting best value, but also to allow Oakland vendors an opportunity to bid.
Of the $7 million in contract capacity before you, and keep in mind, that's just expenditure
authority.
It's not committing budgeted funds.
This just gives us the ability, should we need it.
The amount is probably more than we need, but that's us airing on the side of caution.
Of the $7 million, half $3.5 million is for light duty, and the other half, $3.5 million
is for heavy duty.
On the light vehicle collision repair contracts, we sent notices to, and I should have counted
them, but it looks like there's at least 10, and we received one, two, three, four responsive
bids, one of which was an Oakland-based vendor. I understand another Oakland-based vendor
is on the list as not submitting a response. Apparently, they feel that they weren't contacted,
so we are doing some information. But at the time of this presentation, I don't know if
there was a disconnect. But we did get four responsive bids, and we awarded those four
vendors percentages based on a scoring criteria. That scoring criteria includes
lowest cost, competitive pricing, location, and also awarding to multiple
vendors gives us some operational flexibility and it gives us options
where we don't have all of our eggs in one basket. Ron Dupret Ford was awarded
approximately 40% of the total light duty repair contract and this is just an
estimate for the purpose of this agenda report, we're not sure what the actual
breakdown will come out to because obviously we can't predict exactly how
much accidents are going to cost to repair. They, Ron DePrat, ranked highest
because of the lowest overall cost and then Quality Body and Fender, which is
the Oakland based vendor. They were awarded 30% of the contract and we
acknowledge it is a very desirable to keep Oakland, City of Oakland dollars
within the City of Oakland and keep Oaklanders working and they're also
closer to us which gives us better response times and more rapid turnaround.
The other two vendors Falcon collision and molar brothers were each rewarded
15% awarded 15% and I will note that molar brothers was the prior incumbent
for light duty body repairs they're still going to get a piece of the body
repair action. For the heavy-duty side, we only received two responsive bids, none of
which were Oakland-based vendors. So accordingly, we awarded 50% to each, and those vendors
are ... I'm on the wrong page here. Oh, it's right on the front.
Mohler Brothers and Falcon also received the heavy-duty body repair, which is why I was
I was looking in the agenda report
for the two additional vendors,
but they were already noted in the light duty,
so I apologize for that.
With that, I'm here to answer any questions.
Thanks for the report.
Council Member Houston, please.
Good morning, Mr. Battersby.
Through the chair, I'm looking at these documents,
and I see one Oakland-based in West Oakland,
and I just want to share with you in District Six,
really district five and district seven have some of the most body shops in
Oakland right and so let's look at this real quick because so we have Falcon
collision and conquer they got two contracts not one then we have
Moeller Brothers that's how you pronounce the two contracts there in
San Leandro then we have Ron and Dixon right and then we do have quality body
and I know that that that company very well and that's in district that's in
Carol Fife's district but but what I don't like is that Pacific collision is
from district seven and they do major work for Caltrans and they've been
underserved for so long mr. Battersby when it was an encampment on there in
in their, on their street.
And that's on Hagenberger Loop.
That affected their business just majorly, Mr. Battersby.
Majorly, people didn't want to come,
Caltrans didn't want to drop their cars off there.
And they said that they didn't receive this
and that's why I came over to you
because I just didn't want to just throw you off.
I wanted to find out what email
because there, I spoke to them this morning,
they did not receive that and they're a qualified company.
I have a question for you, Mr. Battersby.
You said there's 25 automobiles in the queue
ready for bodywork, is that what you said?
Through the chair, that's correct.
Okay, so this is not urgent,
and this is not an emergency,
and that's where I always say that being in this seat,
they always have some emergency and urgent
that we gotta get it done, gotta get it done,
gotta get it done, and then we make decisions
that aren't in the best interest of the city.
And I'm gonna say this one more time,
in the best interest of the city.
This what I see right here is not in the best interest
of my city because I see one company from West Oakland
and we have many, many, many, many qualified
in district five and seven.
Many, because that's what they do.
That's their skill sets.
So I want to hold this here until I find out
that why Pacific Collision qualified,
qualified, that was underserved, that was that had lost so much business, Mr. Battersby,
when these homeless encampments was in their area. And they said they weren't contacted.
So that's why I came over to you and said, what email did you get? Who would you speak
to? Because this right here doesn't make me feel good that in the best interest of the
of Oakland, especially if there's only 25. This is not like it's an emergency. I want
to find out what's going on and get more qualified individuals or companies in five
and seven that have those business all along the corridor.
Through the chair, I'd like to respond to Council Member Houston. As far as the contact
notices that go out to the potential bidders, that would be a question for purchasing. Purchasing
under finance department not within public works. Briefly before this meeting I reached
out to my staff to try to get in touch with someone from purchasing to see how their contact
list worked, and I was glancing behind me to see if we had anyone. I don't think we
do, but I'll definitely get an answer to you for that. But just to be clear, I don't want
to rush anything through council, but just understand, we can't perform any accident
Repairs currently we currently have no contract out of those 25 vehicles 22 or opd
We haven't been replacing opd patrol vehicles regularly for three years and the last time we bought opd patrol vehicles was in
2022 when we had 37 opd units hung up at the San Leandro dealer because allegedly we couldn't pay for them so
It's essentially it is critical that we repair the vehicles. We have because it doesn't seem we have
I think that's it's been scheduled regular ability to
procure replacement vehicles. So we gotta make do with what we
have. So, to the chair. How many OPD vehicles through the
chair? Twenty-two although one or two of those may not be
patrol vehicles. So, that means three. So, is anyone can speak
from police department here? Police. If that's the one.
Pardon me. I'll repeat the question. Anyone. So, that
means it's only three that really are outside of the
I'm going to be here for the police department. I need to speak to someone. Let me share this with you. I was elected to fight for the city of Oakland across the board. This is not a rush if the police department says they can deal with their having their 23 that's repaired and it's not going to affect them. I want to find out why Pacific collision wasn't. That's where I stand.
with a partial award perhaps to
quality the Oakland based
vendor that is on the contract
list so we can at least move
some vehicles through the
repair shop and get them back
in service.
Sir, I would I would accept
that.
Mr. Battersby, is that going to
give you enough capacity because
we're not going to be able to
get back to this until after
the recess if yes, Chair
Unger that's it would be a
million dollars or 3.2 million
dollars for this.
There's a lot of money in the
open space.
Yeah, 1,050,000 that would be
adequate to get us through the
the break.
Okay.
So councilmember Houston.
Are you proposing an alternate
alternate that we.
Quality body offender.
We give them that.
Yes, that's that I'm satisfied
with that Oakland base sounds
good to me.
Okay.
and you know you're you're
you're you're all you're all
there to to clear I want to
make a motion. To award
quality body offender the
amount of money that Mr
Battersby said to get us
through until we find out
about these others. For
clarity what was the amount
Mr Battersby said we need to
be exact yes the amount of
one million fifty thousand
dollars over a three year
period with two optional one
year extensions. So you need
Is it about, is it about this substitute motion?
I'd like to get some,
let's get some clarity on the substitute motion first
before we move on to additional questions.
What is the amount?
One million and $50,000 chair longer.
Okay, and did we have a second for that?
Just make some of my own comments.
So I share some of the concerns
that council member Houston has expressed.
I would also add that there are a number
of auto body shops in district two.
You know them on the east side
and they're all minority owned businesses.
And so one, I do wanna acknowledge by the way
before I just get into my concerns
that thank you for doing a procurement process
since the norm has been a cooperative agreement.
But one of the questions I just have is
who makes it onto this invitation list?
So table one, it's noted as these are the list of vendors
that are invited to participate.
How are those determined and assessed?
Since there's a number of auto body shops
that I know of in the city of Oakland
that are not on the invitation list.
Yes, thank you for the question through the chair.
For an activity like this, equipment services,
public works knows of some vendors
which we would provide to purchasing.
But this realistically is a question for purchasing,
how they conduct the RFP process where they advertise,
how they determine who they reach out to directly.
And I'm afraid I just can't answer that question
from the public works perspective on this contract.
Okay, and my other question is just beyond,
since this item is going to,
if we move this forward per Council Member Houston's motion
that then we would be returning into the fall
with this item, what I suppose would be a reasonable timeline
since I think that'll just hold us over until the...
I don't think it's gonna be enough capacity, of course,
for the next three years.
So what would be a reasonable timeframe for an RFP?
And I know that we're going to continue this item
in October, it sounds like,
but I would love to just know that answer now.
Yeah, through the chair,
that amount I estimate would be enough to get through October considering the
normal volume of accidents since we currently have 25 vehicles stacked up
for accident repairs I'd have to do some analysis and see and we can definitely
get that information back to you and we can definitely get the information on
how the outreach is conducted and which vendors were and weren't contacted
regarding this but I would I would suggest that if if we approve just the
one million fifty thousand dollars that buys enough time to satisfy the
questions that the committee has here hopefully I mean I can't really predict
the committee or council's response once purchasing brings the information back
so that's kind of my hesitation and giving you a definitive answer because
is this really outside of our purview?
Okay, that's helpful.
And then final question is just around
this Ron Duprat for they received the most percentage
of this RFP funding and they are out in Dixon, California.
That's about an hour away.
Was the, I mean, just imagine it would add costs
for transportation.
Did their response include that transportation cost?
I just am trying to imagine what that looks like
since that is significantly far away from Oakland.
Yeah, through the chair.
I can't speak to that specifically.
I do know that some vehicles that are in an accident
are still drivable.
Others, they could be transported by tow.
We currently use Ron DePratt Ford for Ford factory
repair and maintenance, mechanical repair and maintenance.
So we've already got an established relationship with them.
We just have to do an analysis on their hourly rate,
which I understand was significantly lower
than any other vendor, and then compare that
to what potential transportation costs in time,
labor time if it's our staff,
or if we're actually paying for a tow truck.
I just don't have that information here now.
Okay, that sounds good.
And yeah, I think when we continue the item,
the supplemental materials would be great.
I'll go ahead and second Council Member Houston's motion.
Just to be clear, Mr. Battersby and city minister Lake,
is this, with this motion, will this give us enough capacity
to get through to the end of the recess
with the repairs that you need to do?
Is this gonna severely hinder our operations?
Chair Unger, I'm comfortable saying
it'll get us through the break.
My trepidation is what happens after that
when we bring the information back.
Do we, with the additional contract,
do we end up in this process again,
Or will we make a decision at that point?
So we can, I'm confident we can get to October beyond that.
Okay.
Council Member Gallo.
Yes, thank you.
I drive your vehicles every day.
All right, and it used to be in this city of Oakland.
In this city of Oakland, the council that understood
talked a lot about illegal dumping, a clean neighborhood,
but I don't have the tools to do it.
I don't have the trucks to do it.
We go by there every weekend to rent, ride your vehicles,
and during the week, and you don't have them.
They're broke.
There's something happened.
I used to have 10 mechanics, but I only have three.
So those are internal decisions that this council
and city administrators, you're accountable for.
You want a clean, safe city,
you gotta have the tools to do that,
and the personnel's to get the work done.
And so the reality for me is at one time we would buy,
at least when I was around,
we would buy 50 to 100 brand new vehicles every year,
part of our budget,
and we would have the mechanics to do the work
so I can pick up the trash,
I can have my street sweepers on the street doing the job
they're supposed to be doing daily.
And, but I think that we need to be able to provide
resources to get the work done. Right now we don't even bring about all the
vehicles we rent. How many of you look at the police vehicles? They're from
enterprise rental. You look at her rental where we rent our trucks from because we
don't have them. So the bottom line for me is we have to replace and have the
mechanics available to do the work to have the trucks and the vehicles
available, so we can be on the street delivering what the public paid us for.
And so, I would, you know, we can delay it and delay it and delay it, but we've been
delaying this now for a number of years, and the quality of service that I give Chinatown
and the others, I don't have the tools to do it with.
So the bottom line is, for me, is get the vehicles repaired so we can.
I don't want to show up on a Saturday or Sunday or during the week because I come out on Wednesdays now and
You have well the truck didn't work. Well, we can't do this. We can't do that because the vehicles are sitting there
Then I go to your your yard on the other side man. I see 40
I see the number of police cars wrecked sitting there
That haven't been serviced for a while
So I guess for me the bottom line is for for this government this council and this administrator
The director administrator Bessie Lake
I drove I you know, thank you for coming out on Sunday and riding along and seeing what's on the street
But you also got a chance to see the yard
Where all the vehicles are sitting there have been sitting there
Not operable and yet I got personnel that if they had an extra truck
that would go out and keep my streets clean.
But the reality is we need more mechanics
and we need the vehicles to get the job done.
Thank you.
And so for me and I, we can,
I don't know if you want to cut me off,
but they can go off and off and off
and talk pie in the sky stuff.
But the bottom line is you have to be come straight forward.
So we don't blame you and give reports
about how we're not cleaning our streets.
Thank you for that information and I support
your recommendation to get the job done.
Thank you.
Council member Houston.
Let's focus.
Pie in the sky.
Just disrespectful.
And let me tell you why,
cause four of the vehicles that was damaged
was damaged by your crew that picked them up.
So let's get focused.
Okay, so stop.
We're not talking about mechanics.
We're talking about body work.
So through the chair.
I accept that on that West Oakland body shop.
My revision to this and let's move it.
I got a first and a second.
Let's see if we got a third.
So I'd like to clearly restate the motion
and then go to our public speakers if possible.
Can we clearly state the motion
and make sure we have clarity on what we're voting on?
To the maker and the mover of the motion,
Councilmember Houston, to be clear,
you are making the second portion of the legislation
regarding equality, body and fender,
and your amendment is to end the amount of $1,050,000
over a three-year period with two optional one-year extensions?
Is that correct?
Thank you.
And the remaining portions of this legislation
will remain the same under your amendment.
Thank you.
Okay, let's hear from our public speakers, please.
Moving to our public speakers,
Mrs. Sada and Blair Beekman.
I'm trying to follow this process.
The speaker said that, on average,
you have 50 collisions per year.
At the same time, he's saying at this point,
we have 22 or 23 vehicles that need collision work.
So what you're saying is we have 20-something
cars over what period of time.
what is the period of time for which a collision happens
and the service needed for the repair of the call happens?
Is there a timeframe already established?
Is it because of lack of funding?
We now have 22 cars that need repairs?
Or is it because, what is the reason?
The other thing is, when I looked up that dealership,
it said Vacaville, is that the same as Dixon
the city's. The city's the same.
Where you said it is the same
City Council agenda and once again, the amendments are to the second portion of this legislation regarding the quality body and fender
portion of the legislation
With the amendments of that portion to state
Please go ahead. Councilman Wong just to confirm the
Rest of the contracts are going to come before this body again in the fall time for
For a vote, correct? Okay. Good. Thank you. I'll reach
Do you have a question or
comments?
Go ahead, Councillor Ferguson.
Apologies.
And through the chair, and you're going to come back and
find out why that company was not, or the condition of why
that company wasn't reached out to or if they had the wrong
e-mail, too, right?
You're going to get with me before that through the chair.
Okay.
We've heard back from purchasing.
They didn't tell me how, and I'm assuming it's an e-mail,
and I've asked them to provide me the e-mail.
to just the single Oakland-based vendor to perform repairs.
That's better than not having any.
But as far as cycling vehicles through,
we planned on having an award to four,
which would give us the capacity
to get the vehicles repaired more quickly,
some of which the police vehicles
date as far back as October, 2025.
So that's why the number is as high as it is.
It's about six months worth of accident vehicles,
which aligns with 50 accidents per year.
And Council Member Gallo, to your point,
we have not been replacing vehicles regularly since 2023.
That's when fleet replacement was decentralized.
Prior to that, as you mentioned,
we would replace 150 to 200 vehicles
per each master lease municipal financing cycle.
We no longer have that capability.
So for the last three years,
we've essentially been replacing nothing.
So we absolutely gotta make do with what we have.
Thank you for the accommodation.
Councilmember Houston so we can get these vehicles
back on the road.
Okay, thank you.
We've got a long agenda, so we need to move forward.
Thank you.
To the parliamentarian, do you have a clarification?
Yeah, just a point of clarity.
They hear different council members
having different understandings,
and I want to make sure that the record
and the vote is quite clear.
So Councilmember Houston, I understand your motion
for line item two, sorry, line item four,
to be that everything stays the same,
except for part two, quality, body, and fender.
You're just changing the duration,
instead of two year with options to renew,
it's one year with two one year optional renewals.
Is that correct?
Okay, is that the motion you seek
to make Council Member Houston?
City Minister Lake, is that?
Sorry, I didn't recall a discussion
over the term of the agreements changing.
Did I miss something?
understand that we were only leaving the
We were leaving the resolution as it a pertain to quality body and fender
Only but we were not changing the term of quality body and fender. So just for clarity
It is removing everything but quality body and fender and all the quality body and fender terms would remain as proposed
Okay
Councilmember Wong did you have an additional question?
nope
All right, are we all clear on what we're voting on?
All right, so the city attorney has asked me to clarify that the remaining contracts in this resolution will not be moving forward
Today or at the next council meeting that they will come after the break
with an updated supplemental report
At the chair to the city attorney, please restate the motion regarding the quality body offenders
So that's very clear on that specific portion of the legislation. Thank you
so the
motion is to approve quality body and fender in the amounts and the time frames proposed in the staff report and
To remove the remaining proposed contracts to be brought back in a supplemental report after the break
Thank you
We do have a motion made by Councilmember Houston
Seconded by Councilmember Wong to approve as amended the recommendations of staff and afford this item to the July 21st
2026 City Council agenda
With the amendment stated on motion on record by city
Administrator Betsy Lake to approve the quality and offender of the amounts of the time frames proposed in the staff report and to remove the remaining
proposed contracts to be brought back in a supplemental report after the summer
break. Yeah just a parliamentary point of clarity that they can come back as a
separate item but not a supplemental. Thank you for that clarity. On roll
councilmember Gallo. No I'm supporting the original recommendation from staff
we got to get the work done. So that's a note. Councilmember Houston. Yeah because
you crashed three of them. Yes. Thank you. Councilmember Wong. Hi. Thank you and
motion to approve as amended.
and the city's budget. And the
city's budget is in the right
way of doing services in an
amount not to exceed three
hundred sixty four thousand six
hundred and eighty five dollars.
For the municipal facility
energy assessment project number
one zero zero eight zero zero
zero and adopting. Seachem
findings and you do have. Three
speakers for the side of. All
right let's hear from our staff
please. Good morning chair and
with you today to discuss energy assessments on 20 city facilities.
I'm here to request authorization to award a professional services contract or agreement
to KW Engineering, an Oakland headquartered firm with extensive experience working on
city facilities.
The firm was selected through a competitive process in which 12 firms were submitted proposals
to conduct energy assessments at 20 city-owned facilities through a federal grant from the
of the Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency
and Conservation Block Grant Program.
These assessments will look at each building's heating
and cooling, lighting, electrical systems,
and the roof, walls, and windows,
then tell us what's inefficient,
what it will cost to fix, and what we'll save.
That information sets us up to go after capital funding,
utility rebates, and future grant opportunities.
The selected facilities were identified
from the city's unfunded CIP project list
using Council's nine criteria scoring framework,
which prioritizes equity.
Eight of the 20 facilities
serve underserved communities,
including senior centers, recreational centers,
and emergency cooling centers.
The contract amount is not to exceed $364,685.
This grant is funded through the Department of Energy.
All work must be completed by July 31, 2027
to meet federal reporting requirements.
There is no general fund impact and no local match requirement.
In summary, staff requests authorization
to award a professional services agreement to KW Engineering
not to exceed $364,685, fully funded
by the Department of Energy grant
with no general fund impact and no local match.
I'm happy to answer any questions you may have, thank you.
That's excellent, thank you.
Council members, questions?
All right, seeing none, let us go to our speakers, please.
Thank you, and I'll call your name,
please approach the podium.
If you are participating via Zoom,
please raise your hand so you're easily identified.
Mrs. Asada, Kevin Dolly, and Blair Beekman.
So the report identifies that the assessment
of the 20 properties, the properties
that have the greatest need.
So I looked up the district of each one of these properties,
and only one is in district seven,
and only one is in district six.
So those are two districts that have a lot of needs,
and that tends to be an agenda that you follow all the time.
District six and district seven are not being assessed,
But you make the statement that these,
and you didn't put it in your report by district.
I had to look it up.
So you're doing a report where you're gonna identify
data identification but you don't know if you have the money
to do corrective action and you're not looking
at those data centers that use a lot of electricity.
Thank you Mrs. Sada for your comment.
Kevin Dalley, thanks, I appreciate this report.
There's a couple other items
in the Equitable Climate Action Plan
that like to examine not only electrifying the buildings,
but look at the time shifting of the electrical use.
Electricity in the middle of the night
tends to have a higher carbon content
than electricity produced during the day,
during peak solar periods.
So it'd be good to look at that
to reduce not only local carbon emissions,
but global emissions as well.
Thanks.
Thank you all for your comments.
Moving to our Zoom speakers.
And I do not see Blair Bingme,
so that concludes your public speakers' item three.
Okay, let's, anything from Council Member Gallo.
Yeah, so I'll make a motion to approve the item.
Thank you we do have a motion made by councilmember Gallo second by councilmember Wong to approve
the recommendations of staff and afford this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on
roll councilmember Gallo aye councilmember Houston is out of his seats excuse councilmember
Wong aye and chair ugher aye this motion does pass with three ayes one excused Houston to
approve the recommendation as a staff and for deciding to July 21st City Council agenda
and through the body, would that be consent?
Yes, please.
Thank you.
Moving to item six, adopt a resolution.
One, accept an appropriating reimbursement grant
from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District
Transportation Fund for the Clean Air Change Program
in an amount not to exceed $750,000
for eligible costs associated with the installation
fifteen two port direct current fast electric vehicle charging stations for
a total of 30 charging stations at the city's maintenance service centers 71
zero one Edgewater Drive to authorize an incident made a straighter to execute
the grant agreement and related documents and three adopting CEQA
findings and you do have three speakers for this item. Excellent let's hear from
Mr. Battersby please. Thank You chair Unger, Richard Battersby, Oakland public
works assistant director.
I'm here before you asking that you grant approval
for us to accept the $750,000 grant from the Bay Area
Air Quality Management District.
This is but one of a 10 grant project encompassing
$16 million.
Excuse me.
We do need a quorum.
Thank you.
Please continue.
Thank you.
Through the chair, I can have that effect on people sometimes.
The larger overall fleet electrification grant project,
it's valued at 16 million.
9 million of that is through grant funding,
as I mentioned, through 10 grant providers,
including federal EPA, BACMed, California Energy Commission,
the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Alameda County
Transportation Fund for Clean Air, et cetera.
The overall project's bringing 139 electric vehicle charging
stations at six city locations.
And it's adding 15 vehicles to the fleet
that we otherwise could not have provided.
However, they're somewhat specialized.
We'll be getting three battery electric street sweepers,
one battery electric refuse truck,
and 11 battery electric Silverado pickup trucks
as part of that project.
I just wanted to note and thank the staff
that worked on this.
Tony Vargas is a temporary contract service employee
because we lack the internal expertise
and resources to pursue, and then once the grants were awarded,
do the grant reporting and administer the project.
So Tony Vargas knocked the ball out
of the park and Hartini Chu, Erika Vasquez,
and Equipment Services, and particular Angelo Fulen, who's
the acting equipment services manager.
If not for their efforts, we wouldn't have this $750,000
that was added on top of the already existing grant project.
So with that, I'm here for your questions.
Excellent, colleagues, questions?
Okay, I'll second that and let us hear
from our public speakers, please.
Thank you, wanna call your name,
please approach the podium.
If you are participating via Zoom, please raise your hand.
Mrs. Sada, Kevin Dalley, and Blair Beekman.
Kevin Dalley, thanks for presenting this.
This looks like great news,
especially with the street sweepers.
I'm hoping we can find some electric street sweepers
for the bike lanes as well as for the full size,
but I know that may be a while off.
I'm also hoping that we can,
I know in many cases employees are encouraged
to use electric bikes that are charged by,
well, that are supplied by the city.
Will they be able to charge at these locations as well?
That's probably pretty simple to add on
if it isn't there already.
Thank you.
I had to evacuate, if I would have had an electric car, I would have been in trouble
because we had no electricity, all of it was down in Louisiana, the majority of it was
down in Mississippi, gas stations were open, I could get gas.
So, if there's an emergency, and you're pending, you're moving towards this electricity, but
electricity has problems, high repair bills, I'm sorry, not electric, electrical vehicles
have high repair bills, battery limits and weather that is extreme. Batteries are used,
they use Lucreum and cobalt. These are things that are crucial threats to the environment.
It causes a grid strand on charging with the electrical covers. So we've got problems and
y'all don't talk. We push things and we don't look at everything involved in it. If you
have to evacuate you got all of these electric cars and the electricity is
down all through whatever areas. Thank you for your comment Ms. Asada. That concludes
your public speakers we do have a motion made by Councilmember Gallo seconded by
Chair Unger to approve the recommendation of the staff and the
board this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on rural Councilmember
Gallo. Aye. Councilmember Huston is excused. Councilmember Wong. Aye. And Chair Unger. Aye.
this motion does pass with three ayes one excused Houston to approve to for
the excitement to the July 21st City Council agenda and through them into the
body would that be considered on yes consent please thank you moving to item
seven adopt the resolution one awarding a construction contract to McGuire and
Hester for the broad Broadway streetscape improvements project number
one zero zero six nine five three the lowest responsive and responsible bidder
and a chord with the project plans specifications state requirements and
with contracts bid in the amount of twenty million eight hundred and eighty
one thousand six hundred fifty dollars and and to a pro adopting appropriate
sequel findings and you do have three speakers for this item all right let's
hear from Megan we're pleased thank you thanks so much chair under and committee
members I'm here Megan we're assistant director of the Department of
Transportation I'm pleased to be here today before you to request that you
consider the resolution awarding the construction contract for the Broadway
streetscape improvements project to McGuire and Hester this project includes
transportation safety and transit improvements on two segments of Broadway
through the heart of Oakland from 2nd to 11th Street and from 20th to Grand
Avenue extending the current transit lanes between 11th and 20th Street. The
project includes dedicated red bus only lanes, new bus shelters, seating and trash
cans, pedestrian lighting, street trees, upgraded traffic signals and transit
signal priority, as well as pedestrian crossing improvements including curb
extensions, ABA compliant curb ramps and median islands. More buses run on
on Broadway than in any other street in Oakland,
and its current design leads to bus delays
and unreliable travel times for bus riders.
Broadway is also part of the city's high-injury network,
meaning that it's just one of just 8% of our city streets
where severe and fatal crashes are concentrated.
In upgrading Broadway, we're being responsive
to a number of historic planned documents.
The project's fully funded
by the federal, state, and local grants.
Because it's funded by a federal grant,
construction contract award must abide by federal rules including the
suspension of the disadvantaged business enterprise program and we received three
bids through a competitive bidding process and McGuire and Hester
submitted the lowest bid which was sixteen point six percent below the
city's engineer estimate thanks so much for your consideration and I'm pleased
to respond to any questions you might have. That's great this is an exciting
project and looking forward to it colleagues questions councilmember
Houston please I like to do that you like to move this all right council
member one thank you through the chair thank you so much for your work on this
good segment of this is in district two is this project going to be coordinated
with the Oakland Alameda access project just given the overlap question
councilmember one we've been the project team has been working closely with the
and I think that's a good thing.
I think that's a good thing.
I think that's a good thing.
I think that's a good thing.
I think that's a good thing.
I think that's a good thing.
I think that's a good thing.
I think that's a good thing.
I think that's a good thing.
I think that's a good thing.
I think that's a good thing.
I think that's a good thing.
I think that's a good thing.
I think that's a good thing.
dalley and blair bigman
kevin dalley
broadway project is a great project especially
adding the bus lanes looking forward to having more reliable bus service
bringing more passengers to the buses from cars might do more
to reduce carbon emissions then some of our previous
items
the other ones aren't bad but this one could do more
course we still need to worry about how to get money to AC transit so that it
continues continue running reliable buses on those routes which brings us
back to the sales tax. Council can't do anything about it but let's remember it
thanks. There are districts that get a whole lot of attention the last item
where they're doing assessments for air quality 20 assessments only one being
done in district seven one in district six the rest of them were going to three
four and five I was looking for you to tell you that so this is district two
which get Chinatown gets a lot of attention related to this but if you
remember AC Transit is going to be doing some evaluation based on lack of funding
and some of that is going to be not continue to have all stops in place so
So does this need to be coordinated after we get a report from AC Transit related to
what services will be provided including potential elimination of stops?
Also you've got to stop this bike lane thing.
Broadway is not suitable for any kind of riding of bikes.
Thank you for comments.
the motion is seconded by the.
councilmember. And I'm happy to
And through the body would that be consent for not consent, please. Thank you. Move into item 8
Adopt a resolution authorizing is city administrator to finalize and execute a purchase agreement with the Metropolitan Transportation Committee
Commission as administrator of the clipper regional transit fare payment program and an amount not to exceed
$400,000 using previously
the city's formal advertising
Thank you. Good afternoon to the committee members and the public. My name is Kirby Olson,
supervising transportation planner in the Department of Transportation. We do have a
short presentation on this great program today that will be given by my team member, Colin Pithi.
So come on up, Colin. Thanks, Kirby. Hello, committee members. So today we'll be giving you
more information about our requests for council to approve staff to authorize a new contract with
MTC, slash clipper to extend a second phase of the universal basic mobility pilot in West Oakland
So universal basic mobility refers on just giving you some background information
Refers to a range of programs that offer financial subsidies for selected participants to spend on transportation services
so we first started a UVM pilot in East Oakland that accompanied the launch of the tempo bus rapid transit project and
On just from the jump these are all fully grant funded projects from outside funds that did not require any matching funds
So we launched this first pilot in East Oakland saw it was successful
Then we got more grant funding from Alameda County Transportation Commission to launch a pilot in West Oakland
Accompanying a bus stop improvement project called West Oakland transit improvements and then it's 2023
the City Housing and Community Development Department received ten million dollars from the regional early action planning grant
2.0 high-impact transformative program
to implement the Mandela Station development project next to West Oakland BART. At the time though
they didn't pursue any action related to the UBM portion of the funds included, which is why we're here now today.
So in in evaluating the pilots that we've implemented in East and West Oakland
We saw that they've been successful in increasing transit ridership
Reducing traffic congestion and improving air quality
We also found that these programs are especially helpful for very low-income households
so this grant
allocation would be used to implement a second phase of the UBM pilot in West Oakland and
We plan to distribute Clipper cards with up to $400 for up to 1,000 people living and working in West Oakland
So to write on the slide is the study area. It's the same as in the first phase of the pilot and
Our eligibility requirements for participating are that you must live or work in West Oakland
That you must earn less than the area median income and must not be a city employee
So while we were almost nearly completed with the West Oakland pilot
we wanted to give you some initial findings from East and West Oakland
pilots. The vast majority of participants spend their funds on clipper card or AC
transit service and also the vast majority of participants are very low
income. In West Oakland nearly 80% participants earn less than $50,000 a
year. Participants also report change in the way they travel. Up to nearly half of
participants did so in West Oakland and in both pilots we saw nearly the same
amount of people driving less often so this this is meeting all the program
objectives. So in particular regarding Clipper card and why we want to execute
a contract with them is because we saw that you know as we mentioned the slide
earlier folks majority of folks are using their funds on Clipper. We had
previously used prepaid debit cards through Uzio Inc so that folks could
purchase shared mobility trips but now given program usage and also some
efficiencies we're planning to switch to Clipper. Clipper staff noted that
they're able to waive their physical cost of the cards and they're also able
to provide customer service support which would free up a lot of staff time
and so there's some some great efficiencies that we want to take
advantage of in this contract. So by waiving formal advertising and
competitive bidding requirements we would be able to execute a purchasing
agreement with CLPR and continue this UVM pilot in West Oakland. The
fiscal impacts of this action would allocate, no, we, excuse me, we've already
allocated $450,000 towards the UVM pilot. We're planning to use 400,000 of
those funds on the CLPR subsidies and then $50,000 towards administration of
of the pilot.
And just to read this formally, this
is the action we're requesting to finalize and execute
a contract purchasing agreement with the Metropolitan
Transportation Commission slash CLPR in support
of the West Oakland Universal Basic Mobility Pilot
financial incentives in the form of 1,000 prepaid CLPR cards
at a cost of $400,000 providing the necessary spending
authority for the agreement and waiving advertising, bidding,
and the request for qualifications
slash proposal competitive selection requirements.
And looking to the future,
since these pilots have been successful,
we anticipate this next phase of the West Oakland pilot
will be just as much successful.
We're looking towards implementing a citywide program
so that all residents can take advantage of this benefit.
We're seeing it's meeting the program goals
of reducing driving and providing economic benefit
for very low-income households.
So we'd like to extend that to all local residents.
And as an additional benefit,
we could potentially use this program as a way
to help mitigate the impacts of new development
by providing this program as an option
for developers to pay in lieu fees
so that they can provide a transit pass
for their new residents or employees.
And with that, we'll take any questions you might have.
Thank you.
Very cool program. Thank you for the presentation councilmember Wong
Thank you so much for your work on this. I fully support this one question
I just have is it's been documented in some of the reporting around students who are trying to access the youth
Free bus program as well as the clipper card program. Do you anticipate the same challenges with enrollment here? I
Don't really anticipate those challenges
One issue we did come up against was an attempted email fraud on the program. Just given our survey structure
People use bots to try to take advantage of it. So therefore we're planning to have cards distributed at
AC transits
Clippers office in downtown Oakland. Okay, great. And what is the plan for outreach on this program?
So in the past we've partnered with many local less Oakland institutions like st
The St. Mary's Center, a Baltimore City, California hotel, St. Monarch, St. Andrews,
all like the social service and affordable housing providers there, as well as working
with the West Oakland Library, attending like the Juneteenth block party.
So we have a very long list of community partners that we work with.
Great.
Thank you so much.
I'll move the item.
Thank you.
I'll second it and we'll go to Councilmember Houston for comment.
Thank you through the chair.
Thank you.
you said it was a pilot in East Oakland and I was the first pilot in 2017 to
2021 which is four years can you give me just like a little bit you said it was
successful just give me like a little because I wasn't around only been in
office 16 months give me a little elevator pitch on how that was successful
of course and through the chair so this the actual grant project was implemented
from 2020 to 2021 I included those dates just to you know show that we'd like
this is the time it took to like apply for and receive the grant. So in East
Oakland in particular we saw transit ridership increase by 12% and driving
decrease by about 6% for folks who were taking either of those modes. And in
general I would say that you know anecdotally from from folks I've talked
to they've stressed to me that you know this allows them to see family members
they might not otherwise see, purchase Amtrak tickets to visit family out of town, and also
just cover their basic needs.
A lot of these folks, as I mentioned earlier, earning less than $50,000 a year are on and
urgently need these kind of benefits to help them live their daily lives.
I'll let my supervisor Kirby speak to any other anecdotes.
The only thing I'd add is that that grant program distributed a total of $250,000 to
residents that live within a half mile of the AC Transit tempo line in East
Oakland how much was that again through the chair $250,000 in in transit
subsidies that they could use to ride the bus essentially all right thank you
okay let's hear from speakers please moving to our public speakers miss Asada
Kevin Dolly and Blair Beekman this don't make sense so the main purpose is to
reduce people who are driving to use the buses. And then you say you were able to determine
that people were driving less. How did you do that? Because you don't answer my questions.
So people are driving in any given area. You don't know what, they don't necessarily live
in West Oakland. They can be coming from any part of the city or even out of the city.
So how are you determining that people drive in an area, and then you have clipper cards?
Are these special clipper cards that when they're used, you have a specific identification
of these 1000 clipper cards, or are they the same clipper cards like all the rest of them?
How are you keeping up with these clipper cards?
This doesn't make sense to me how you get evidence data to determine this as being successful.
Kevin, this sounds like a great program and to me it makes sense.
It really sounds like it's another one of today's agenda items that are reducing carbon
emissions by encouraging people to take rapid transit, or slow buses, sorry
standard buses as well, moving people out of cars into their buses should make it
safer for pedestrians and cyclists as well. There'll be fewer cars driving on
Broadway and more buses in the bus lane which of course we just heard about in
previous item I'm looking forward to the extension of this program to all of
Oakland and not definitely worth starting out slow and I'm hoping we move
ahead there's problems with clipper but it's the best solution to to our transit
thank you for your comment with me to our zoom speaker blur big man I do not
see him that concludes your public speakers for item eight we do have a
motion may that councilmember Wong seconded by chair hunger to approve the
recommendations of staff and the for this item to the July 21st 2026 City
Council agenda on roll comes from regalia is excused councilmember Houston
customer Wong and chair hunger I this motion does pass with three eyes one
excused guy Oh to approve the recommendation as a staff the for this
island item to the July 21st City Council agenda and through the body would
that be considered on. Thank you. Moving to item nine. Adopt a resolution authorizing
the city the council president to submit a response on behalf of the city council to
the twenty twenty five through twenty twenty six Alameda County civil grand jury report.
And you do have three speakers for this item. Oakland's public works director and on June
2015 the Alameda County Civil Grand Jury released an annual report that included essentially a chapter on a legal dumping and it made eight
recommendations
We by law are required to respond to those recommendations within 90 days
Those responses are drafted and included at attachment B
Because of that 90-day deadline falling within council's recess, there is some urgency to make sure that we do approve
those responses.
And what that approval will do was authorize the council president to submit those responses to the Alameda County Civil Grand Jury
in a timely fashion.
For some of you, this might feel a bit like deja vu and it should. And the reason I say that is we've been
the city of central central
the city's strategy to abate illegal dumping, education enforcement and eradication.
We approved an adopted budget that includes more funding for
both eradication and enforcement.
The mayor secured a $9.25 million investment from the Crank Start Foundation
to accelerate implementation of that 3E strategy.
And we also responded to our own Oakland City Auditor's report on illegal dumping and its
17 recommendations.
Most of what I just described either happened after or while the Alameda County Civil Grand
Jury was finalizing its report.
So you don't see those actions represented in the report, understandably, because they
were filing, likely finalizing the report at the same time.
As we sit here today, there is encouraging news.
The grand jury report is again showing alignment with what the mayor, this committee, council,
the city auditor, staff, and also the community are saying about our three E's approach.
Because we've discussed these items several times in the past several months, I'm not
going to do thorough updates of all of the items, but I do want to highlight three items
that are updates that this committee may not be aware of.
First, next week we are meeting
with the five Oakland chambers
to discuss proposed amendments
to our mandatory commercial garbage service ordinance,
that's a mouthful, but this'll make it easier
for us to enforce and collect against businesses
that don't have sufficient garbage service,
because a business that does not have
a sufficient garbage service,
some of that garbage is likely to end up
on our streets and sidewalks.
We will return by September with those proposed amendments
to this committee, and then ultimately
for council approval in late September.
Second, the Privacy Commission recently
approved an amendment to the city's automated license plate
reader use policy so that OPD can share
a legal dumping related video and data with Oakland Public
Works.
That approval was from the Privacy Commission
and we expect that by September,
that approval will come to the city council.
Third, bulky block parties are back.
You might have gotten the press release this morning,
but the first of four bulky block parties,
and remember these bulky block parties were restored
after the council adopted the illegal expenditure
action plan to fund these black parties.
Our first one is taking place on July 25th at 7101 Edgewater from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Oaklanders just need to bring a government issued photo ID plus some mail showing that
they, oh sorry.
Can I just interrupt you for a sec?
We have been joined by Council President Jenkins so we need to adjourn into a full council
session.
I'll make that motion.
thank you have a motion be by chair under seconded by council member wong
and the president's account
council president jinkins
to join the
meeting of the public works and transportation committee meeting into
convening to a special meeting of full council the time is now twelve
fifty six p m on the road comes from a trial
thank you comes from a Houston
thank you comes from a long time and here under
sorry for the interruption
no problem
For those bulky black parties, we need a government issued ID plus some mail, ideally from a utility,
showing proof of residential address in Oakland.
With that, staff recommends that the committee approve the proposed responses and forward
them to the City Council for final approval after which the Council President can then
submit them on behalf of the City Council within that statutory deadline.
answer any questions you may have. I think this is great and you know the
the grand jury captures a moment in time and unfortunately they they got us
right when we were in the process of implementing all of their
recommendations. I think we are well ahead of where they their report says we
are so anything from my colleagues. Councilmember Houston. Through the chair
this is great. On page six when it says illegal dumping expenditures action plan
where is the EEOs in that? Were they included in this? Enforcement officers?
They weren't specifically addressed through the illegal dumping expenditure
action plan other than that plan provides budget for us to implement
handheld technology to make the work of the EEOs more efficient and easier.
more importantly for the EEOs, the budget that Council adopted unfroze one of those EEO positions.
And so the really good news as we sit here today is we have three EEOs who are scheduled to start in early August.
And so with that, we should be staffed up in our environmental enforcement officers in a much better way than we have the last couple years.
through the chair so this is just information it's very important in this
conversation that our EEOs are trained for hazardous and hazmat materials
because as we all know that the city attorney can only do fines we need
prosecution and the only way to prosecute is if the data is collected it
it has to be data-driven, data-driven,
that we can give the right information
to the Alameda County District Attorney for what?
So they can proceed and prosecute
to the full extent of the law.
As we all know, especially in my district,
you took a ride with me,
that there's no limit to what they will dump
in my community.
And I'll say this, and me and the President,
he's out in the audience, we always talk about this.
It's a crime against our community that was happening.
On East Street right now, right now,
between 105th and 98th, or let's reverse that,
98th to 105th, where the children's path of travel
is horrible, and school is out, it's about to start.
You know, you have everything there,
so I'm gonna say this, and I'm just gonna reiterate,
that it's very, very, very important
the right tools so we can give the information to the district attorney because she's willing to prosecute but we have to do it the right way.
Because I'm going to say this to you and I'm going to share this and I'm going to end it with this.
This is a crime against our community and the things that they dump on these streets the waste management will not take.
And when you think about it, our children have to walk through this, Council Member Unger.
And they track this into their homes, onto their floors, because they walk that street
every day.
It's horrendous.
Take a ride with me.
So it's very important for our EEOs to be armed up.
So that documentation that goes to the district attorney can be used and not thrown out.
I've been there too with Nancy O'Miley, so I know how important that is.
Councilmember Wong.
Thank you.
fantastic report and also really appreciate all the progress that the
Public Works Department has been making on this under your leadership. One thing
I just have a question on is on finding 2618. So this is around the grand juries
recommendation around regulating private junk haulers and the response from the
the department is that this should really be tackled
at the regional and state level.
I was wondering if you could elaborate on that.
Why that is.
Since I do have an interest in looking at the regulation
of the city level, I really want to understand
that rationale.
First, let me share what the city is currently doing
around junk haulers, which they are subject
to the same rules around illegal dumping.
And so the more we enforce, the more cameras we get out there,
the more EEOs we have doing investigations,
we'll see more enforcement actions
against junk haulers who improperly dispose
of the materials they pick up.
The second is, on the city's website,
we do have a list of junk haulers
who've got the appropriate licensing to conduct the work.
And so I'd encourage residents who are looking
for some help to find that list.
You can do a quick internet search
for a city of Oakland junk haulers,
and you'll see that list come up.
Third, more directly to your question,
there could be potential legislative changes
where we essentially end up with a registry
of sorts for junk haulers,
so that there is some pre-checking of the junk hauler
to make sure they understood the rules,
that they actually were bringing the materials
they collect and disposing of them properly.
Where we see on the staff side some struggles there
is it's very, very, very, very likely
that that's gonna cross city boundaries.
And so for that reason, a regional or a state approach
is gonna be much more effective, we think,
than just doing it within our city limits.
Okay, that's helpful.
And if, let's say we did this at the county level,
what would be the regulatory body who would handle that at the county level I
think it would be the board of supervisors and that's something that I
can do some digging to make sure that that's correct and get that information
back to you okay great thank you I will move this item okay looks like we've got
a second from councilmember Houston moving to our public speakers missus
Thank you very much.
Ms. Asada, Blair Beekman, and Kevin Dahle.
Ms. Asada, moving to our online Zoom, Blair Beekman.
And I do not see Blair.
So we do have a motion made by Councilmember Wong,
seconded by Councilmember Houston.
To approve the recommendations of staff
and to afford this item to the July 21st City Council agenda
on roll, Councilmember Gallo.
Aye.
Thank you.
Councilmember Houston.
Aye.
motion to approve the
recommendation of staff and the
for this item to the July 21st
twenty twenty six city council
agenda and through the body
would that be on consent.
Yes please thank you moving to
item.
Unless there's some statutory
reason why I was grand jury
response can't be on consent.
That I think it can go on
consent and if it can't I'll
double check thank you.
Moving to item number two.
move into item s ten which is supplemental ten this item does require a urgency vote as
It was on the three-day agenda as a title change. We do need a motion
So moved
Thank you. We do have a motion by chair unger
Seconded by councilmember Gallo to approve the urgency. I would now read the item into record
Adopt a resolution authorizing the city administrator to amend the professional services contract with Alta Planning plus Design Inc.
for the 7th Street Connection Project for increasing the contract amount by $747,288
for a total contract amount not to exceed $3,955,404
extending the contracts expiration date to the December 31st 2030 waving to
extent require further further advertising competitive bidding or
competitive selection requirements under the Oakland Municipal Code sections two
zero four zero five zero and two zero four zero five one and adopting CEQA
findings and you do have three speakers for this item as well.
All right, let's hear the staff report.
Good afternoon.
My name is Amit Silvan, Principal Civil Engineer
with Department of Transportation.
Some information regarding this project.
The 7th Street Connection Project
aims to create a safer and more accessible transit corridors
for motorists, cyclists, and pedestrians
using this major connection from West Oakland to downtown.
The project provides a protected class for bikeway
on 7th Street from Mandela Parkway to MLK Way and on Jerry Adams' Way from Castro Street
to MLK Way, Jr. Way, closing a critical gap in the city's bikeway network.
The project will also reduce the number of existing travel lanes, construct bus boarding
islands and transit shelters, improve pedestrian accessibility and safety through winding sidewalks,
reconstructing curb ramps, expanding intersection corners, and install pedestrian-scale lighting,
plant new trees, and upgrade the corridor's aging traffic signal equipment.
So in September 2022, the City Council authorized execution of a professional services agreement
with ALTA to provide engineering services for this project.
Several unforeseen circumstances encountered during the design have necessitated additional
design and environmental support services from the consultant and an extension of their
contractual period of performance.
Adoption of the proposed resolution with authorized the city administrator to amend the existing
contract with ALTA to continue providing design services and construction support needed for
project completion.
The contract amendment will be fully supported by available state grant funds.
As the project advances to 100% design plans and completion of the environmental process,
Arta is uniquely familiar with the project's design and his best position to continue providing
professional services as the project consultant.
The proposed amendment increases the contract by around 750,000 to provide additional services
for a revised total not to exceed approximately around $4 million.
Therefore, staff recommends that this resolution be adopted in the next City Council meeting
to be held on July, 2026, and Chair Angar, I also want to share that two documents were
inadvertently left out of the agenda packet. These documents serve as background information.
Attachment A was project location map, and Attachment B was a copy of the consultant's
amendment request. So the City Attorney Office has advised that if the committee wants them
included when the item goes to city council, they can be provided through the appropriate
process before the city council meeting.
Okay.
Do we need to make an amendment to include those?
Yes.
So if this body would like for attachments A and B to go to council, the motion made
by this body would need to include that.
Okay.
I'd like to make the amendment that we move the item with the attachments included.
All right.
Council members, questions?
Okay let's hear from our speakers from the public please. Thank you. When I call
your name please approach the podium. State your name for the record and if
you're participating via Zoom please raise your hand. Mrs. Asada, Kevin Dali
and Blair. Kevin Dali will keep it short. Great project. 7th Street is not safe
pre-project afterwards. It should be a lot safer for pedestrian cyclist and for
taking the bus which which runs right by so look forward to seeing it approved
thanks thank you we have to use rule 28 for this item why couldn't it been
brought in a timely manner through rules this item identifies that you'll be
adding better bus stops and lighting adding speed cameras to key areas for
safety. Now, you have an item on public safety where you're looking at all surveillance
technology, whether to keep it or to eliminate it. So any items that come up until you make
that decision that has something to do with using cameras, just like the last item, the
recommendation from the grand jury was to share license plate information and that man
and then bring up the recommendations from the grand jury,
which including larger trash bins,
having what they call a garage Zaw.
The grand jury didn't ask you to come up with your own stuff,
it asked you to respond to their recommendations.
And that led-
Thank you so much for your comment, Mrs. Asada.
Blair Beekman, I do not see Blair.
We do have a motion made by Council Member Chair Onger,
councilmember gio to approve as
amended the recommendations of
staff and the for this item to
July twenty first twenty twenty
six city council agenda. And the
amendments is to add a
supplemental attachments a and
be to be included in the agenda
staff report on roll comes
remember value. Hi thank you
that's what he said hi that's
what along I and chair under I
this motion does pass with four
eyes to approve as amended the
Recommendations of staff and the for this item to July 21st City Council agenda on consent. Thank you moving to
open forum
Moving to open forum. Mrs. Sada
Miss
Kinwell Parker Brightman and excuse me for mispronouncing your name Blair Beekman
Kevin Dolly
Julius Morrell
Shinoba Howard Shinobi Howard
Deshaun Taylor, Nita B, Shawna Willhead, Sr.,
and I have two cards for you, Ann Marks and Timothy Killings.
If I mispronounce your name, I do apologize.
Please state your name for the record.
If you are participating via Zoom, please raise your hand.
And as practice, we will take in-person speakers
before Zoom speakers.
You may begin.
Thank you.
My name is Nita B, and I've been a street vendor in Oakland
since I was 19 years old, I'm 55 years old now.
When I started street vending,
there were no laws that existed,
so what I was doing was not illegal.
Six years ago, the first set of laws that were created
that made what I do for a livelihood illegal.
I want you to know that street vending
is not just about food or commerce, it's about dignity.
It's about who gets to exist in public space.
It's about whether Oakland remains a city
for working class families,
especially those from the fat lands
who can survive, build, and thrive.
And for many families,
vending has been the difference
between poverty and stability.
It has paid rent, fed children, sustained entire economies and communities.
And what the city has been doing since May 1st,
2026 has been a total violation of not just the constitution, but
several state laws that were put in place to protect street vendors.
The city has used public works department staff, and equipment, and
trucks to destroy the property of both permitted and unpermitted vendors without warning,
the right to pay for his property
without receipts, without any notice
of how to get their property back,
despite the fact that had been destroyed.
Thank you for your comment, Ms. Nada.
My name is Joyous.
I am one of many second and third generation
street vendors in Oakland that's set up
at Lake Mary Downtown, North Oakland, and East Oakland.
I have helped my mom street vent since I could walk.
My mother and I have been vending since before
your street vending permit fees rules existed.
Vending paid for my education, put food on my table,
loyal to my family business.
In fact, without having both a nine-to-five and street
vending, we would not be able to survive
in Oakland's cost of living and impacted working class
families like mine.
The word has spread across Oakland
that the city of Oakland and the mayor's office
is cracking down on vendors.
Actions by the OPD public works and building and planning staff
have done are not humane.
Civilized are legal.
From rolling up to food vendors, not giving them
mourning and throwing away their stuff is illegal.
I think it's interesting that the same equipment you used to throw our stuff away is the same
stuff that you use to do your suite encampments.
Thank you for your comment.
My name is DeShawn Tolar.
I am a street vendor and I sell and make clothes for Lake Merde.
On Friday, the city police seized my product and set up, leading me to not knowing where
my product is at and they never gave me a receipt for it.
me to be unhoused, not to mention a sergeant hopped in my car and drove the
way without calling a towing company without doing proper seizures for it as
well. So following back to what they were saying, the city is doing all types of
illegal things to stop street vending that helps provide families and
everything like that. So that's all I have to say. Good morning, my name is
is Kwanau Parker Brightman, I'm Executive Director
of United Native Americans.
I've come here today to stand with my brothers and sisters
in the community as far as the street vendors.
I am interested in wondering if the city council
has adopted SB 946 as far as decriminalizing street vending.
Obviously what you're hearing from my brothers and sisters
in the community is you're not aware of that or you haven't trained the officers of OPD
or the sheriff's department.
That very much, you know, really needs to be rectified as far as the treatment of people,
especially our community, okay?
That's one thing we'd really like to see done here today, is the treatment of all of our
community treated with respect.
Thank you very much.
You know I'm so no we Howard I'm also a street vendor and uh they seem to have a lot of complaints about the things that go on at the lake so public works we have asked for larger garbage cans we asked for assistance with um but just a lot of things that are going with the lake so also we clean up at the lake we pick up the trash when we live when we then and when we leave the trash is picked up we rake up everything we put everything near the garbage spaces we have to see these just to give us.
to be able to take care of our
larger garbage bins so we could
place more things up in there.
At the end of the day, we just
we're all vendors and we just
take care of the old things
that we have to.
Thank you.
Hello, my name is Timothy
Killins.
I'm a street vendor at Lake
Merritt.
Also, I work at OUSD Public
Schools as a community schools
manager.
I'm here because the city's
approach to vendor
enforcement at Lake Merritt is
unacceptable.
The vendors at Lake Merritt are
not the problem.
They are part of the economic
and culture of Fabrica, Oakland,
and many black, indigenous, and
working class families trying to
make an honest living. Oakland has already displaced much of the African
American community through decades of policy decisions. We should not continue
that legacy by criminalizing the very people who are still here creating
culture and economic opportunity. The militarized response to vending and the
repeated shutdowns of the lake important cultural celebrations like Juneteenth
send a clear message about whose presence is welcomed and whose is not. The
people most affected by this decision the vendors themselves are too often
excluded from conversations that shape these policies. Current vendor policies
that have built the culture of
this city I understand this
department is not solely
responsible for decisions but
every department involved has
a responsibility.
If I called your name and you
would like to speak on the on
open forum.
Please state your name for the
record thank you.
Yeah good afternoon and marks
I am coming here just to
introduce a reintroduce myself
in my new role with P. J. and
E. I think.
and I was happy to introduce or
reintroduce myself in my new
role with PG and E.
I think a lot of you know me.
I worked for the city of Oakland
back in the 90s, the early 2000s,
and working here in the
nonprofit community for a long
time.
I've been a commissioner for the
city and, you know, I live here.
My family is here.
I love it here.
So I was happy to have the
opportunity to be part of PG and
E and use that as an opportunity
to work with my city, and so I
look forward to doing that.
one thing, which is that PG&E used our resources and our time to lobby on behalf of SB 1218
in Sacramento.
You know, the illegal dumping affects a lot of things, but it really affects our ability
to do work because often it's on top of our assets and keeps us from doing what we need
to do.
And I've heard from enough of you to know that nobody likes it when it takes us longer
than it should to do our work in our city.
So thank you for your time and I look forward to working with you.
So, uh-oh, what's this?
The late merit vendors, majority of them African Americans,
for years you have targeted them.
And you have, you use the Public Works Board to target them with a pilot program.
You didn't have the courage to target them on your own.
You use your, that group to target them.
with fines, ticketing, no parking,
all kind of issues around majority black vendors
at Lake Merritt.
This has been going on for a couple of years.
But you have vending all over this city
that doesn't get the same attention.
Is it because this is a large number of African Americans
who are vending over there at Lake Merritt?
But you need to have a review of that pilot vending program
That was developed by a bunch of regular citizens
to target these vendors.
And you have, one more thing, I can't say it.
But we have.
Thank you so much for your comment, Ms. Asada.
Kevin Dollar, you're passing, thank you.
Moving to our Zoom speaker, Blair Beekman.
Please unmute yourself and begin your one-minute comment.
Hi, thank you.
Blair Beekman, I've been visiting
with the San Diego Public Meetings today.
I missed talking about the future redevelopment
of the Broadway area.
Don't forget to think about all the tech accountability policies
and best practices that you can add
to the future of that area.
And when you do, it really helps with it's an important draw
in why people will come to Oakland.
If they see good tech accountability in action,
they want to be around that, don't you think?
I really work on it, I hope.
I also hope that my previous public comments
at the special council yesterday,
I didn't say well enough,
but just to really thank yourselves for,
it seems like city administration
is taking the time, effort and care
to consider the concepts of community participation
at this time.
If they're not, I get a sense they're trying to.
Good luck in those continued efforts to try to.
And thank you.
That concludes your speakers for open forum.
All right.
Meeting is adjourned.
Don't go too far.
We're getting the band back together in seven minutes.