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      "rawSrt": "1\n00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:01,160\nGood morning.\n\n2\n00:01:02,987 --> 00:01:04,655\nThe. Rules committee we do\nneed a qorum want today is\n\n3\n00:01:16,834 --> 00:01:18,735\nthat we can begin. Good\nmorning and welcome to the\n\n4\n00:01:19,704 --> 00:01:21,704\nrules Legislative Sheen\n\n5\n00:01:22,173 --> 00:01:24,141\nCommittee media on this\nThursday MARCH. 26, the time\n\n6\n00:01:25,176 --> 00:01:27,176\nis 10. 31 in this meeting\n\n7\n00:01:29,980 --> 00:01:31,815\nshall come to order. The more.\nI call roll, like to give\n\n8\n00:01:32,717 --> 00:01:34,651\ninstructions on how to submit\nspeaker card on items listed\n\n9\n00:01:35,186 --> 00:01:37,186\non this agenda. If you are\n\n10\n00:01:39,900 --> 00:01:41,192\nhere. A member of the audience\nhere in chambers and would\n\n11\n00:01:41,192 --> 00:01:43,527\nlike to submit a speaker card.\nPlease fill out a speaker\ncard, an attorney to a clerk,\n\n12\n00:01:44,228 --> 00:01:46,620\nrepresentative. Either 2\nminutes after this meeting\n\n13\n00:01:46,331 --> 00:01:48,331\nbegan war before the eye.\n\n14\n00:01:50,401 --> 00:01:52,702\nCalled it a record.\nRegistration to speak via zoom\n\n15\n00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:55,400\nwas do 24 hours before this\n\n16\n00:01:55,239 --> 00:01:58,141\nmeeting began, noting that\nthere we will no longer take\nspeaker cards for online\n\n17\n00:02:00,444 --> 00:02:02,444\nregistration. Once again, the\n\n18\n00:02:03,381 --> 00:02:05,416\nmeeting began at 10. 31 and\nspeaker cards will no longer\n\n19\n00:02:05,416 --> 00:02:07,416\nbe accepted. 10 minutes after\n\n20\n00:02:07,418 --> 00:02:09,418\nthe meeting began, which is at\n\n21\n00:02:10,655 --> 00:02:13,457\nthat time will be 10. 41 with\nthat council. PRESIDENT\n\n22\n00:02:13,457 --> 00:02:15,457\nJenkins to do you have any\n\n23\n00:02:15,526 --> 00:02:17,526\nannouncements before began a\n\n24\n00:02:17,962 --> 00:02:19,663\nyes because of the potential\nissues. Speaker time will be\n\n25\n00:02:19,964 --> 00:02:21,964\nreduced to 90 seconds as\n\n26\n00:02:24,802 --> 00:02:26,703\nopposed to 2 minutes. With\nthat. Thank you so much. And\n\n27\n00:02:27,204 --> 00:02:28,838\nwe'll begin with roll on roll\nfor this meeting. We have\n\n28\n00:02:31,842 --> 00:02:33,842\ncouncil member Brown. True too\n\n29\n00:02:36,681 --> 00:02:38,681\npresent. Thank you. Council\n\n30\n00:02:42,954 --> 00:02:44,954\nmember Fyfe is excused.\n\n31\n00:02:45,689 --> 00:02:47,524\nCouncil member Ahmed Chandran.\nI and chair PRESIDENT Council\n\n32\n00:02:48,459 --> 00:02:50,293\nPRESIDENT Your Jenkins. I we\nhave 3 members present won\n\n33\n00:02:53,597 --> 00:02:55,765\nexcused. Now moving on to item\nnumber of the draft minutes\n\n34\n00:02:57,234 --> 00:02:59,234\nfor the committee meetings of\n\n35\n00:03:00,170 --> 00:03:02,170\nFEBRUARY. 26 2026 3/5/2026 in\n\n36\n00:03:09,213 --> 00:03:11,348\nMARCH 12 2026. Move approval.\nI have a motion by council\n\n37\n00:03:11,749 --> 00:03:14,317\nmember Brown second about\nCouncilmember Ramachandran to\napprove the minutes. All 3 of\n\n38\n00:03:19,524 --> 00:03:22,458\nthem as is. Council member\nBrown Eye Councilmember Fife\nis excuse council\n\n39\n00:03:23,794 --> 00:03:25,794\nRamachandran. I and council\n\n40\n00:03:28,599 --> 00:03:30,667\nPRESIDENT Jenkins. 3 one\nexcuse for item number 2\n\n41\n00:03:31,969 --> 00:03:33,969\napproval. A draft minutes now\n\n42\n00:03:36,274 --> 00:03:38,274\nmoving to new scheduling.\n\n43\n00:03:38,442 --> 00:03:40,977\nStarting with item 3.1\nreceiving information report\non the Oakland Children's\n\n44\n00:03:42,647 --> 00:03:45,548\nInitiative and its partners\norganizations, Oakland Promise\n\n45\n00:03:47,351 --> 00:03:49,850\nand first, 5 Alameda County\nand this item is being request\n\n46\n00:03:50,654 --> 00:03:53,490\nto be scheduled on the APRIL\n13 2026. Special Education\n\n47\n00:03:54,425 --> 00:03:56,425\nPartnership Committee agenda.\n\n48\n00:04:04,602 --> 00:04:07,170\nItem. 3 point. Thank you so\nmuch. MADAM Clerk. I'm just\n\n49\n00:04:09,507 --> 00:04:11,507\nwant to confirm the the slight\n\n50\n00:04:12,343 --> 00:04:14,343\nchange in the title. It should\n\n51\n00:04:16,414 --> 00:04:18,414\nbe Alameda County. First 5.\n\n52\n00:04:19,984 --> 00:04:21,984\nSenator, thank you for that.\n\n53\n00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:25,320\nMoving to item 3.2, it is an\n\n54\n00:04:26,123 --> 00:04:28,123\noral report from the director\n\n55\n00:04:28,125 --> 00:04:30,561\nof Public works Liam Garland\nregarding the illegal dumping\nmitigation. Your school\n\n56\n00:04:30,561 --> 00:04:32,561\ncampuses. And this is also\n\n57\n00:04:32,596 --> 00:04:35,432\nbeing request to be scheduled\nfor the APRIL 13th Special\nEducation Partnership\n\n58\n00:04:36,934 --> 00:04:39,402\nCommittee agenda. I believe we\ndon't have a quorum on the\n\n59\n00:04:55,953 --> 00:04:58,688\ndays. Council member Brown.\nThanks and thank you so much.\n\n60\n00:05:01,692 --> 00:05:04,360\nWell, as the question. We just\nneeded a quorum on the days to\nmove forward. Thank you for\n\n61\n00:05:08,265 --> 00:05:10,468\nthat. Moving to item 3.3\nreceive information report\n\n62\n00:05:10,468 --> 00:05:12,870\nfrom the Oakland Youth\nCommission. And this is being\n\n63\n00:05:12,870 --> 00:05:14,604\nrequested to be scheduled for\nAPRIL just Special Education\n\n64\n00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:17,720\nPartnership Committee agenda\n\n65\n00:05:18,843 --> 00:05:20,510\nitem. 3 point for is\ninformation report from the\n\n66\n00:05:21,345 --> 00:05:23,345\nOakland Unified School usd\n\n67\n00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:26,315\nregarding current school\nsafety protocols, funding\n\n68\n00:05:26,483 --> 00:05:28,751\nstructures and strategic\nsafety updates. This is also\nbeing requested to be\n\n69\n00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:31,654\nscheduled to the special.\nAPRIL 13th Education\n\n70\n00:05:34,910 --> 00:05:36,910\nPartnership Committee agenda.\n\n71\n00:05:38,620 --> 00:05:40,631\nItem 3.5 is from the auditors\nOffice and Information Report\nprofessional services\n\n72\n00:05:40,631 --> 00:05:42,631\ncontracts authorized by the\n\n73\n00:05:43,301 --> 00:05:45,301\ncity auditor doing fiscal\n\n74\n00:05:45,436 --> 00:05:48,204\nyear. 24 to 25 in. This is\nbeing requested to be\n\n75\n00:05:48,505 --> 00:05:50,173\nscheduled for the APRIL 14th\n2026. Special City Council\n\n76\n00:05:50,741 --> 00:05:52,741\nagenda on consent. I will now\n\n77\n00:05:54,779 --> 00:05:56,479\nread in the rule. 24. Nc\nstates that the city auditor\n\n78\n00:05:59,316 --> 00:06:01,316\nshall present to the city\n\n79\n00:06:01,318 --> 00:06:03,654\nCouncil on an annual basis and\nreport listing all\nprofessional service contracts\n\n80\n00:06:03,654 --> 00:06:05,654\nauthorized by the city auditor\n\n81\n00:06:07,591 --> 00:06:10,160\ndoing the prior year. Moving\nto item 3.6, which is also\n\n82\n00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:12,160\ninformation report from the\n\n83\n00:06:14,465 --> 00:06:17,366\ncity auditor. On the audit\nrecommendation. Follow-up\n\n84\n00:06:18,169 --> 00:06:19,869\nreport. As of DECEMBER 31st.\n2025 this is being request to\n\n85\n00:06:21,500 --> 00:06:23,600\nbe scheduled for APRIL 14th,\nSpecial City Council agenda on\n\n86\n00:06:26,277 --> 00:06:28,110\non consent. The real 24 for\nthis item is that the city\n\n87\n00:06:30,681 --> 00:06:32,717\ncharter states that is the\nresponsibility of the city\nauditor to submit a\n\n88\n00:06:32,717 --> 00:06:34,717\nsemi-annual report to the\n\n89\n00:06:35,619 --> 00:06:37,287\ncouncil in public on the\nextent of implementation of\n\n90\n00:06:38,555 --> 00:06:40,290\nrecommendations for the\ncorrective actions made in the\n\n91\n00:06:42,159 --> 00:06:44,159\ncity. Auditor's report. Moving\n\n92\n00:06:48,265 --> 00:06:50,265\nto item 3.7 resolution\n\n93\n00:06:50,668 --> 00:06:52,668\nreappoint Lisa Raszler as the\n\n94\n00:06:53,804 --> 00:06:55,638\ncity Oakland's trustee to the\nAlameda skews me Mosquito\n\n95\n00:06:57,508 --> 00:06:59,576\nAbatement District board. And\nthis is being requested to be\n\n96\n00:07:00,277 --> 00:07:01,944\nscheduled for APRIL 14th has\nspecial City Council agenda\n\n97\n00:07:02,846 --> 00:07:04,846\nconsent. And I apologize. Does\n\n98\n00:07:11,388 --> 00:07:13,388\nthis require able 24? Yes, any\n\n99\n00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:16,240\nitems that are bypassing\n\n100\n00:07:16,861 --> 00:07:18,761\ncommitting going street to\ncouncil require the body to\n\n101\n00:07:29,439 --> 00:07:31,741\nstate a reason for your rules.\nPlease items bypass committee\nand District Council on\n\n102\n00:07:33,444 --> 00:07:35,444\nconsent. Thank you for that.\n\n103\n00:07:37,214 --> 00:07:39,549\nMoving on to item 3.8 item,\n3.8 is an information report\n\n104\n00:07:39,984 --> 00:07:41,651\nfrom the city administrator on\nthe status of implementing\n\n105\n00:07:42,453 --> 00:07:44,453\npolicy directives past by the\n\n106\n00:07:46,190 --> 00:07:48,157\nCity Council on the APRIL 21st\nhim being request to be\n\n107\n00:07:49,393 --> 00:07:50,993\nscheduled. Excuse me on APRIL,\n21st 2026, Finance and\n\n108\n00:07:53,300 --> 00:07:55,300\nManagement Committee agenda.\n\n109\n00:07:59,169 --> 00:08:01,605\nHarden. I do see side. Through\nthe chair. The administration\n\n110\n00:08:01,605 --> 00:08:03,605\nwould like to request to move\n\n111\n00:08:05,743 --> 00:08:07,743\nthis to that MAY 2012 meeting\n\n112\n00:08:08,846 --> 00:08:11,614\nbecause the agenda is fairly\nimpacted and staff will make\n\n113\n00:08:13,217 --> 00:08:15,217\nthemselves available to do one\n\n114\n00:08:15,786 --> 00:08:18,755\non with the committee members\nensure the information is made\n\n115\n00:08:19,656 --> 00:08:21,357\npublic in advance of the\npublication deadline for the\n\n116\n00:08:25,196 --> 00:08:27,196\nMAY 12th meeting. Thank you\n\n117\n00:08:27,297 --> 00:08:30,330\nfor that. So item 3.8, the\nstatus of the implementation\nof the council policy\n\n118\n00:08:31,268 --> 00:08:34,360\ndirectives now be scheduled to\nMAY 12 Finance and Management\n\n119\n00:08:34,905 --> 00:08:36,905\nCommittee agenda. Thank you\n\n120\n00:08:38,575 --> 00:08:40,577\nfor that. Moving to item 3.9\nadopt an ordinance authorizing\n\n121\n00:08:40,577 --> 00:08:43,145\nthe city administrator\nnegotiate and execute an\n\n122\n00:08:43,547 --> 00:08:45,181\nagreement to purchase an\neasement for public right\n\n123\n00:08:47,518 --> 00:08:49,518\naway. To purchase in these\n\n124\n00:08:50,621 --> 00:08:52,755\nexcuse me to purchase an\neasement for public right away\n\n125\n00:08:53,457 --> 00:08:56,292\nstreets and utility purposes\nover a portion of the real\nproperty located at 2.60,\n\n126\n00:09:00,397 --> 00:09:02,398\nstreet. Case in family,\nlimited partnership in the\n\n127\n00:09:04,401 --> 00:09:06,401\namount not to exceed amount of\n\n128\n00:09:07,971 --> 00:09:10,139\n$255,000 in adopting.\nCalifornia. Environmental\n\n129\n00:09:10,874 --> 00:09:12,575\nQuality Act findings. This is\nbeing requested the schedule\n\n130\n00:09:13,510 --> 00:09:15,144\nfor the APRIL 21st Public\nWorks and Transportation\n\n131\n00:09:20,284 --> 00:09:22,510\nCommittee agenda. Item 3.10,\nis an ordinance appealing\n\n132\n00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:25,200\nordinance. Number 1, 2, 9, 6,\n\n133\n00:09:26,560 --> 00:09:28,560\n0, and replacing it with the\n\n134\n00:09:28,158 --> 00:09:30,158\naddition of mc Charter 15.80\n\n135\n00:09:31,528 --> 00:09:33,730\nin Re referenced flood hazard\nmaps authorize the city\n\n136\n00:09:35,465 --> 00:09:37,567\nadministrator to designate a\nflood plan administrator to\n\n137\n00:09:37,567 --> 00:09:39,567\nadminister and develop\n\n138\n00:09:40,804 --> 00:09:42,804\nregulations in support of the\n\n139\n00:09:44,175 --> 00:09:45,775\ncharter adopting appropriate,\nappropriate California\n\n140\n00:09:46,177 --> 00:09:48,177\nenvironmental Quality Act\n\n141\n00:09:48,379 --> 00:09:50,313\nfindings. And this is being\nrequest to be scheduled for\n\n142\n00:09:50,681 --> 00:09:53,549\nAPRIL. 21st 2026 Public Works\nand Transportation Committee\n\n143\n00:09:54,151 --> 00:09:56,151\nagenda. It is also noted to go\n\n144\n00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:00,880\nto the APRIL 28th Special City\n\n145\n00:10:00,257 --> 00:10:02,659\nCouncil agenda as a public\nhearing. But I believe staff\nhas to make a question. Thank\n\n146\n00:10:14,404 --> 00:10:16,872\nyou. My apologies. Can you\nspeak closer to the mike so we\ncan make sure that we can hear\n\n147\n00:10:24,114 --> 00:10:26,114\nyou capture you. Is the mic,\n\n148\n00:10:28,152 --> 00:10:30,486\nOkay. Thank you. Yes, through\nthe chair. If I MAY request\nthat we move the meeting to\n\n149\n00:10:35,826 --> 00:10:37,861\nthat MAY 5th. Public works and\nTransportation Committee has.\nThere's a special joint public\n\n150\n00:10:37,861 --> 00:10:39,861\nsafety meetings already\n\n151\n00:10:41,398 --> 00:10:43,366\nscheduled on the 28th. Some\nnoted think and outside or if\n\n152\n00:10:44,768 --> 00:10:46,768\nI could clarify the the item\n\n153\n00:10:48,305 --> 00:10:49,939\nwould go continue to go public\nworks and Transportation\n\n154\n00:10:50,441 --> 00:10:52,441\nCommittee meeting on APRIL.\n\n155\n00:10:52,642 --> 00:10:54,477\n21st. But the public hearing\nwould be on the regular MAY.\n\n156\n00:10:54,778 --> 00:10:56,778\n5th City Council meeting.\n\n157\n00:10:59,249 --> 00:11:00,950\nThat's correct. Thank you. So\nno thank you for that. Thank\n\n158\n00:11:06,490 --> 00:11:08,224\nyou. Moving on to item 3.11,\nthis is from the public public\n\n159\n00:11:11,940 --> 00:11:12,695\nworks. Mean, it is a\nresolution amending\n\n160\n00:11:15,165 --> 00:11:16,799\nresolution, 8, 8, 3, 7, 9, to\nincrease the professional\n\n161\n00:11:19,570 --> 00:11:21,637\nservices agreement far.\nArchitectural and engineering\n\n162\n00:11:24,441 --> 00:11:26,676\ndesign services with k 2, a\nMarais make graft associated\n\n163\n00:11:26,676 --> 00:11:28,676\nArchitects for the fire\n\n164\n00:11:29,780 --> 00:11:31,780\nstation. 29 project by an\n\n165\n00:11:31,982 --> 00:11:33,849\namount not to exceed $700,000\nbringing the total contract\n\n166\n00:11:38,922 --> 00:11:41,357\namount from. 1 million, 800\n$1000 to 2 million, waiving\n\n167\n00:11:44,127 --> 00:11:47,960\nthe request for proposal,\ncompetitive selection\nrequirements and adapting\n\n168\n00:11:47,197 --> 00:11:48,898\nsequel. Findings in this is\nbeing requested. The schedule\n\n169\n00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:51,500\nfor the MAY 21st Public Works\nand Transportation Committee\n\n170\n00:11:56,606 --> 00:11:58,606\nagenda. Item 3.12 Is a\n\n171\n00:11:59,276 --> 00:12:00,977\nresolution authorizing the\ncity administration negotiate\n\n172\n00:12:02,613 --> 00:12:05,481\nand execute. A new exclusive\nnegotiation agreement with the\nmuseum of Jazz and Art. But to\n\n173\n00:12:07,651 --> 00:12:10,486\nthe London Museum and Art\nfacility on the city-owned\n\n174\n00:12:11,254 --> 00:12:13,254\nproperty located at 3.10, Oaks\n\n175\n00:12:13,256 --> 00:12:15,256\nStreet for 8 months condition\n\n176\n00:12:19,290 --> 00:12:21,297\non payment 10, $10,500\nexclusive negotiating payment\n\n177\n00:12:22,165 --> 00:12:23,900\nwith one additional six-month\nadministrative extension\n\n178\n00:12:24,868 --> 00:12:26,868\nconditioned on payment of an\n\n179\n00:12:27,671 --> 00:12:29,671\nadditional $303,500 extension\n\n180\n00:12:30,908 --> 00:12:33,750\npayment in adopting.\nCalifornia. Environmental\n\n181\n00:12:33,443 --> 00:12:35,144\nQuality Act findings. This is\nbeing requested schedule for\n\n182\n00:12:36,746 --> 00:12:38,481\nthe APRIL 21st Community and\nEconomic Development Committee\n\n183\n00:12:44,655 --> 00:12:47,230\nagenda. Item 3.13, is coming\nfrom the Human Service\n\n184\n00:12:47,230 --> 00:12:48,624\nDepartment a resolution\naccepting the planning\n\n185\n00:12:51,328 --> 00:12:53,280\nOversight Committee.\nRecommendations to one award.\n\n186\n00:12:55,632 --> 00:12:58,434\n9 grants with the youth summer\njobs. Mayor summer youth\nemployment program, funding\n\n187\n00:13:00,737 --> 00:13:02,737\nstrategy, tolling and amount\n\n188\n00:13:03,974 --> 00:13:05,974\nnot to exceed 1 million,\n\n189\n00:13:07,677 --> 00:13:09,612\n480,250 dollars and $0.60 for\nto summer program service. Its\n\n190\n00:13:11,715 --> 00:13:13,715\nterm grant cycles, JUNE first\n\n191\n00:13:14,485 --> 00:13:16,485\n2026 to SEPTEMBER. 30th 2026\n\n192\n00:13:17,870 --> 00:13:18,654\nin JUNE. First, 27 through\nSEPTEMBER. 30th 2027\n\n193\n00:13:19,289 --> 00:13:20,823\ncontingent upon funding Bela\nBility and program\n\n194\n00:13:25,329 --> 00:13:27,430\nperformance. 2 or 12 grants\nacross for funding strategies.\n\n195\n00:13:31,680 --> 00:13:33,536\nTotally amount not to exceed\n1 million, 712,000 dollars,\n\n196\n00:13:37,707 --> 00:13:39,707\n$12,558. Summer. To the chair.\n\n197\n00:13:39,809 --> 00:13:41,809\nThank you. Can't is. I'm so\n\n198\n00:13:42,279 --> 00:13:43,946\nsorry. This is Rob 11th in\nChildren. Services Division\n\n199\n00:13:45,349 --> 00:13:46,982\nHuman Services Department.\nThrough that section, you\n\n200\n00:13:48,118 --> 00:13:49,953\nhaven't even got to the change\nyet. A very small change in\n\n201\n00:13:54,257 --> 00:13:56,393\nthe title every dot that\nsection are directed please.\nYeah, you would have to read\n\n202\n00:13:56,393 --> 00:13:58,393\nout the pope's so sorry. Thank\n\n203\n00:14:00,831 --> 00:14:03,266\nyou. Staff recommends that the\ncity council adopt a\n\n204\n00:14:03,266 --> 00:14:04,867\nresolution accepting the\nplanning and oversight\n\n205\n00:14:06,770 --> 00:14:08,737\ncommittee recommendation to\none award 9 grants within the\n\n206\n00:14:09,500 --> 00:14:10,873\nyouth summer jobs. Mayor\nSummer Youth employment\n\n207\n00:14:13,900 --> 00:14:15,900\nprogram, funding strategy out\n\n208\n00:14:16,380 --> 00:14:18,380\nnot to exceed 1 million,\n\n209\n00:14:20,250 --> 00:14:22,250\n80,200 $53.60 4, 2 summer\n\n210\n00:14:22,252 --> 00:14:25,154\nprogram service term Grant\ncycles JUNE first, 2026\n\n211\n00:14:26,556 --> 00:14:29,491\nthrough SEPTEMBER, 30th 20\n2026. In JUNE. First 2027\n\n212\n00:14:31,528 --> 00:14:33,295\nthrough SEPTEMBER. 30th 2027\ncontingent upon funding\n\n213\n00:14:34,531 --> 00:14:37,366\navailability and program\nperformance and to award 12\n\n214\n00:14:38,168 --> 00:14:39,868\ngrants across for funding\nStrategies Elementary school\n\n215\n00:14:40,203 --> 00:14:42,203\nbased expanded learning middle\n\n216\n00:14:42,606 --> 00:14:44,573\nschool based expanded learning\nyouth development leadership\n\n217\n00:14:45,542 --> 00:14:48,511\nand career access unemployment\ntotaling an amount not to\n\n218\n00:14:51,214 --> 00:14:53,214\nexceed 1 million, 712,558\n\n219\n00:14:55,652 --> 00:14:58,387\ndollars. 4, 2 summer program\nservice term Grant cycles JUNE\n\n220\n00:15:00,189 --> 00:15:02,189\nfirst 2026 through SEPTEMBER.\n\n221\n00:15:02,459 --> 00:15:04,459\n30th 2026. In JUNE. First 2027\n\n222\n00:15:05,929 --> 00:15:08,197\nthrough SEPTEMBER. 30th 2027\ncontinue to pump funding\navailability and program\n\n223\n00:15:09,366 --> 00:15:11,366\nperformance. The 1000 was in\n\n224\n00:15:11,534 --> 00:15:13,534\nthe place previously. Thank\n\n225\n00:15:13,536 --> 00:15:15,536\nyou. I'm so sorry. Thank you.\n\n226\n00:15:22,312 --> 00:15:25,114\nNo Thank you. Rep moving to\nitem 3.14 This is an\ninformation report from the\n\n227\n00:15:27,350 --> 00:15:30,319\ncity. Auditor on audits of the\nOakland police oversight\n\n228\n00:15:30,787 --> 00:15:32,421\nagencies. The Oakland Police\nCommission, the Community\n\n229\n00:15:34,925 --> 00:15:37,494\nPolice Review Agency in Office\nof Inspector General. This is\n\n230\n00:15:37,494 --> 00:15:39,128\nbeing requested the schedule\nfor the APRIL 21st Public\n\n231\n00:15:41,464 --> 00:15:43,198\nSafety Committee agenda item\n3.15, is an information report\n\n232\n00:15:43,533 --> 00:15:45,434\nfrom the Oakland Police\nDepartment. Federal Law\n\n233\n00:15:48,238 --> 00:15:50,573\nEnforcement Agency Task Force\nannual report. And this is\nalso being requested to be\n\n234\n00:15:51,474 --> 00:15:53,750\nscheduled for the APRIL 21st\nPublic Safety Committee\n\n235\n00:15:58,114 --> 00:16:01,500\nagenda. Item 3.16, is a\nresolution authorizing the\ncity minister to enter into\n\n236\n00:16:01,952 --> 00:16:03,952\nprofessional services\n\n237\n00:16:04,654 --> 00:16:06,654\nagreement with. So I 4\n\n238\n00:16:07,357 --> 00:16:09,725\nprovisions of universal\nforensic extraction devices\nand related services for the\n\n239\n00:16:11,161 --> 00:16:13,329\nOakland Police Department for\na contract amount not to\n\n240\n00:16:16,990 --> 00:16:18,990\nexceed $140,000 for the period\n\n241\n00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:23,500\nof JULY. First 2026 to JUNE\n30th 27 waiving the\ncompetitive multi step\n\n242\n00:16:23,390 --> 00:16:25,774\nsolicitation process and\nlocal, small local business\nenterprise program\n\n243\n00:16:26,910 --> 00:16:28,910\nrequirements and 3 accepting\n\n244\n00:16:29,212 --> 00:16:30,713\nthe 2024. So you buy annual\nreport and making\n\n245\n00:16:31,314 --> 00:16:33,314\ndeterminations regarding\n\n246\n00:16:33,349 --> 00:16:36,218\nwhether the city should\ncontinue using this\ntechnology. This is being\nrequested to be scheduled for\n\n247\n00:16:37,287 --> 00:16:39,287\nthe APRIL 21st Public Safety\n\n248\n00:16:42,759 --> 00:16:44,759\nCommittee agenda. Item 3.17,\n\n249\n00:16:45,695 --> 00:16:47,663\nis ordinance amending Omc 10.7\nfor authorizing the city\n\n250\n00:16:51,601 --> 00:16:53,601\nadministrator at city to\n\n251\n00:16:54,371 --> 00:16:56,638\nindustry to assess fines on\nsideshows, spectators,\npromoters and facilitators\n\n252\n00:16:58,308 --> 00:17:00,308\nIxpe. Exempting law\n\n253\n00:17:01,645 --> 00:17:03,545\nenforcement and members of the\nmedia engaged in their duties\n\n254\n00:17:05,682 --> 00:17:07,549\nand non participating members\nof public. And this is being\n\n255\n00:17:08,284 --> 00:17:10,284\nrequest to be scheduled for\n\n256\n00:17:11,388 --> 00:17:14,156\nAPRIL. 21st 2026 Public Safety\nCommittee agenda. I do see\nstaff. Are you approaching for\n\n257\n00:17:18,662 --> 00:17:20,362\nitem? 3.17? This ration. We\nwould like to move this item\n\n258\n00:17:23,299 --> 00:17:25,401\nending list. And will that be\nto the public Safety\n\n259\n00:17:26,236 --> 00:17:28,236\nCommittee? Penniless? Yes,\n\n260\n00:17:32,909 --> 00:17:35,277\nyes. So no date. And item\n3.17, is end Orel Information\nreport on the local police\n\n261\n00:17:37,714 --> 00:17:40,116\ndepartments. Automatic\nresource locator policy. And\n\n262\n00:17:40,116 --> 00:17:42,116\nthis is being requested to be\n\n263\n00:17:42,385 --> 00:17:43,986\nscheduled for APRIL. 21st\nPublic Safety Committee\n\n264\n00:17:48,358 --> 00:17:51,260\nagenda. The administration and\nalso requests that this item\n\n265\n00:17:51,561 --> 00:17:53,829\nthe move to pending the\npending less no date specific\nfor the Public Safety\n\n266\n00:18:00,370 --> 00:18:02,437\nCommittee. So noted that items\n3.17, the Oakland Sideshow\n\n267\n00:18:04,874 --> 00:18:07,509\nordinance in item 3.18, will\nthe information report on the\nlocal police departments out\n\n268\n00:18:10,246 --> 00:18:12,280\nof degree to store is located.\nPolicy is both being requested\n\n269\n00:18:12,882 --> 00:18:15,251\nto be scheduled to public\nsafety and the list. No date\n\n270\n00:18:15,251 --> 00:18:17,251\nspecific. Yes, please great.\n\n271\n00:18:21,758 --> 00:18:23,425\nThank you so much. 3.19, is a\nresolution authorizing the\n\n272\n00:18:24,661 --> 00:18:26,661\nsale of former Oakland fired\n\n273\n00:18:27,864 --> 00:18:29,864\nboat known as the Seawolf has\n\n274\n00:18:31,668 --> 00:18:33,668\na little group 4. 25 $25,000\n\n275\n00:18:34,971 --> 00:18:36,638\nin a finding the sale is the\nbest interest of the city.\n\n276\n00:18:38,375 --> 00:18:39,942\nPursuant scene. And this is\nbeing requested to be\n\n277\n00:18:41,878 --> 00:18:43,878\nscheduled for the MAY City\n\n278\n00:18:44,647 --> 00:18:46,849\nCouncil agenda on consent in\nthe rule. 24 for bypassing\n\n279\n00:18:46,849 --> 00:18:48,849\ncommittee is due to the\n\n280\n00:18:49,118 --> 00:18:51,118\nimpacted. APRIL 21st meeting\n\n281\n00:18:57,127 --> 00:18:59,127\nagenda Now moving to the\n\n282\n00:19:00,430 --> 00:19:02,531\ncommittees from MARCH 24th.\nStarting with the Finance and\n\n283\n00:19:03,299 --> 00:19:05,300\nManagement Committee item\n3.20, I'll be reading in the\n\n284\n00:19:07,303 --> 00:19:09,303\nshort titles is a man\n\n285\n00:19:09,338 --> 00:19:11,440\namendment to the ordinance.\nNumber 1, 2, 1, 8, 7, cms, the\n\n286\n00:19:13,610 --> 00:19:16,211\nsalary ordinance for various\nclassifications exemptions and\n\n287\n00:19:17,146 --> 00:19:19,146\nthe committee this consistent\n\n288\n00:19:20,450 --> 00:19:22,918\n4 pieces of legislation. The\nfirst piece of legislation,\nthe resolution was withdrawn\n\n289\n00:19:26,122 --> 00:19:28,122\nwith no new date items. 2, 3\n\n290\n00:19:29,759 --> 00:19:31,759\nof this legislation of the\n\n291\n00:19:31,861 --> 00:19:33,861\nresolutions. The committee\n\n292\n00:19:35,231 --> 00:19:36,898\napproved to move these 2 items\nalong with the 4th item to\n\n293\n00:19:40,360 --> 00:19:41,703\nAPRIL 14th Special City\nCouncil agenda at 3.30, on\n\n294\n00:19:44,173 --> 00:19:45,908\nconsent in the 4th of item\nagain scheduled for the APRIL\n\n295\n00:19:47,944 --> 00:19:50,112\nrequesting to be scheduled for\nthe APRIL 14th Special 3.30,\n\n296\n00:19:52,915 --> 00:19:55,117\ncouncil meeting on consent had\nan amendment in part for\n\n297\n00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:58,520\nupdating the title of the\n\n298\n00:19:58,421 --> 00:20:00,322\nordinance to strike that says\nat the full time\n\n299\n00:20:01,910 --> 00:20:03,393\nclassification of parking\nadministrator in the body of\n\n300\n00:20:03,393 --> 00:20:05,393\nthe ordinance on Page want to\n\n301\n00:20:05,495 --> 00:20:08,197\nstrike section 2 that says the\nfollowing classification is\n\n302\n00:20:09,866 --> 00:20:11,866\nadded ordinance. Number 1, 2,\n\n303\n00:20:14,300 --> 00:20:15,637\n1, 8, 7, in the unit, u k to\npay great able to read as\n\n304\n00:20:16,606 --> 00:20:18,606\nfollows classification title\n\n305\n00:20:20,109 --> 00:20:21,710\nclass members step salary\nparking administration.\n\n306\n00:20:22,412 --> 00:20:24,790\nDetails updating the related\nattachment a to remove the\n\n307\n00:20:24,914 --> 00:20:26,914\npark em in a straighter on\n\n308\n00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:32,254\nPage 8, 1, 18. Moving to item.\n3.0 21, the information report\n\n309\n00:20:34,590 --> 00:20:36,925\non the citywide staffing\nFEBRUARY 2026. The committee\n\n310\n00:20:36,926 --> 00:20:38,926\napproved that this item be\n\n311\n00:20:38,962 --> 00:20:41,763\nscheduled to the APRIL 14th\nSpecial City Council agenda at\n\n312\n00:20:44,534 --> 00:20:46,534\n3.30, as a public hearing.\n\n313\n00:20:47,336 --> 00:20:49,336\nItem 3.22 The salary survey\n\n314\n00:20:50,406 --> 00:20:53,342\nresults. This item was also\nRick because me was continue\n\n315\n00:20:53,810 --> 00:20:55,410\nto the APRIL 21st 2026.\nFinance and Management\n\n316\n00:20:57,346 --> 00:20:59,346\nCommittee agenda. Item. 3.0\n\n317\n00:21:03,353 --> 00:21:05,530\n23. Is the Oakland's Pete\nPeepers investment portfolio\n\n318\n00:21:06,589 --> 00:21:08,256\nin actuary valuation report.\nThis item was received and\n\n319\n00:21:13,663 --> 00:21:16,331\nfiled in committing. And item\n3.0 24 the fiscal year. 25 to\n\n320\n00:21:17,467 --> 00:21:19,902\n26 0nd quarter revenue and\nexpenditures report this item\n\n321\n00:21:19,902 --> 00:21:21,902\nwas also received and filed in\n\n322\n00:21:22,972 --> 00:21:24,873\nthe Finance and Management\nCommittee moving to\n\n323\n00:21:26,750 --> 00:21:28,276\nrecommendations from the MARCH\n24th Public Works and\nTransportation Committee\n\n324\n00:21:28,377 --> 00:21:30,377\nstarting with item 3.0 25 is\n\n325\n00:21:31,881 --> 00:21:33,881\nthe 2020 3, 2025 progress\n\n326\n00:21:35,885 --> 00:21:37,885\nimplementation. Implementing\n\n327\n00:21:39,756 --> 00:21:41,957\nthe 2030, equitable climate\naction plan and this was\nreceived and filed in\n\n328\n00:21:47,330 --> 00:21:49,697\ncommittee. Item. 3.0 26 to\n2025. Be packed. Annual\nreport. This was also received\n\n329\n00:21:52,735 --> 00:21:54,802\nand filed in committee. Item\n3.27, the resolution in\n\n330\n00:21:55,605 --> 00:21:57,605\nsupport of the California\n\n331\n00:21:57,807 --> 00:22:00,409\nSenate Bill. 1218, this item\nwas requested by committee to\n\n332\n00:22:02,110 --> 00:22:03,912\nbe 42 the APRIL. 26 special\nCity Council agenda at 3.30,\n\n333\n00:22:12,210 --> 00:22:14,210\non consent. Item. 3.0 28, this\n\n334\n00:22:14,190 --> 00:22:15,924\nwas the commemorative street\nrenaming in collaboration with\n\n335\n00:22:16,459 --> 00:22:19,610\nBeebe Memorial Cathedral\nChurch. This item was\n\n336\n00:22:19,610 --> 00:22:21,610\nrequested by committee to be\n\n337\n00:22:21,864 --> 00:22:23,565\n42. The APRIL 14th Special\nCity Council agenda at 3.30,\n\n338\n00:22:27,403 --> 00:22:29,938\non consent. Item. 3.0 29, the\nordinance to strengthen\nillegal dumping enforcement.\n\n339\n00:22:36,646 --> 00:22:38,914\nThe the committee approved as\namended the recommendations of\n\n340\n00:22:41,484 --> 00:22:44,520\nstaff to be 42. The APRIL 14\nspecial City Council agenda at\n\n341\n00:22:44,988 --> 00:22:47,589\n3.30, on consent with the\nfollowing amendments to page 7\n\n342\n00:22:50,893 --> 00:22:52,460\nof the ordinance Section 5, 4\ntime calculations for\n\n343\n00:22:53,629 --> 00:22:55,629\nassessment of penalties,\n\n344\n00:22:57,667 --> 00:22:59,401\nadding a new whereas the\ndumping constituents and\n\n345\n00:23:00,570 --> 00:23:02,570\ncommercial quality caught\n\n346\n00:23:03,739 --> 00:23:05,739\ncontains harmful waste matter\n\n347\n00:23:05,942 --> 00:23:08,543\nis a mattress upholstered\nfurniture, appliances,\n\n348\n00:23:11,848 --> 00:23:13,448\nfurniture or electronic waste,\nadditional daily civil\n\n349\n00:23:15,384 --> 00:23:17,384\npenalties of up to $1000 per\n\n350\n00:23:18,121 --> 00:23:20,121\nday, maybe assessed. Into the\n\n351\n00:23:22,425 --> 00:23:25,160\nnew section b, they have\nstrict in the administrative\n\n352\n00:23:28,230 --> 00:23:30,999\ncitation into the new section\nc they strict in the\nadministrative fines or\n\n353\n00:23:35,971 --> 00:23:37,971\npenalties. Moving to item 3.30\n\n354\n00:23:39,575 --> 00:23:41,310\nthe resolution to authorize\nArab its peak pilot program to\n\n355\n00:23:43,913 --> 00:23:46,848\nstrengthen illegal dumping.\nNations and remediation is my\n\n356\n00:23:46,916 --> 00:23:49,350\napologies. And this is being\nrequested to be scarred. The\ncommittee approved to schedule\n\n357\n00:23:51,754 --> 00:23:53,754\nthis item to the APRIL 14th\n\n358\n00:23:53,756 --> 00:23:55,756\nSpecial City Council agenda on\n\n359\n00:23:55,958 --> 00:23:57,926\nconsent at now moving to the\nrecommendations from the MARCH\n\n360\n00:24:01,970 --> 00:24:03,232\n24th Saeidi Committee. The\nitem 3.0 31 the lease\n\n361\n00:24:03,232 --> 00:24:05,734\nagreement with the Oakland\nParks and Recreation\n\n362\n00:24:06,168 --> 00:24:08,168\nFoundation from maintenance of\n\n363\n00:24:09,739 --> 00:24:12,700\nTyrone Kearney Park. The\ncommittee requested the item\n\n364\n00:24:12,708 --> 00:24:14,442\nbe scheduled for APRIL 14th,\nSpecial City Council agenda at\n\n365\n00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:21,149\n3.30, on consent. Item. 3.0\n32, which consists of 2 pieces\n\n366\n00:24:21,450 --> 00:24:23,151\nof legislation is amendment to\nthe Rent Adjustment Ordinance\n\n367\n00:24:27,723 --> 00:24:29,457\nand regulations. The committee\napproved a request to withdraw\n\n368\n00:24:32,261 --> 00:24:34,261\nthe scheduling of this item to\n\n369\n00:24:34,464 --> 00:24:36,998\nthe U.S. Economy and move to\nthe Saeidi committee pending\nlist. No date specific. Both\n\n370\n00:24:42,972 --> 00:24:45,440\npieces. Now moving to the\nrecommendations from the MARCH\n24th life enrichment Committee\n\n371\n00:24:50,813 --> 00:24:53,582\nagenda. Item. 3.0 33, the 2025\nLibrary Commission annual\n\n372\n00:24:53,683 --> 00:24:55,683\nreport this item was received\n\n373\n00:24:59,255 --> 00:25:01,255\nand filed in committee. Item\n\n374\n00:25:01,690 --> 00:25:04,360\n3.34 the citywide co-operative\nagreement. The committee\napproved as amended that the\n\n375\n00:25:04,360 --> 00:25:06,428\nrecommendations of staff into\nbefore did to the APRIL 14th\n\n376\n00:25:08,497 --> 00:25:10,497\nCity Council agenda at 3.30,\n\n377\n00:25:12,601 --> 00:25:14,502\non non consent. The amendments\nwere to the first resolve\n\n378\n00:25:16,138 --> 00:25:18,600\nclass of legislation adding as\nreference in the agenda report\n\n379\n00:25:19,808 --> 00:25:22,711\nand accompanying attachment.\nSo spoke with the chair on\nthis one. This one will go\n\n380\n00:25:25,315 --> 00:25:27,849\nstraight to consent. So noted.\nThank you for that. Chair\n\n381\n00:25:30,353 --> 00:25:32,521\nJenkins moving to item 3.0 35,\nthis is the purchase of real\n\n382\n00:25:32,521 --> 00:25:34,521\nproperty at 31. 0, 5, San\n\n383\n00:25:36,125 --> 00:25:38,960\nPablo Avenue for Hoover\nLibrary. And the committee\napproved the recommendations\n\n384\n00:25:39,395 --> 00:25:41,395\nof staff to be 42. The APRIL\n\n385\n00:25:41,430 --> 00:25:43,430\n14th, Special City Council\n\n386\n00:25:45,334 --> 00:25:48,269\nagenda at 3.30, on consent.\nNow moving to recommendations\nfrom the MARCH 24th Public\n\n387\n00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:52,640\nSafety Committee agenda item.\n3.0 36, this is the let's\n\n388\n00:25:56,278 --> 00:25:59,114\nthrow phone. Contracts and the\ncommittee approves staff\nrecommendations to before\n\n389\n00:25:59,782 --> 00:26:01,782\nAPRIL 14th, Special City\n\n390\n00:26:02,718 --> 00:26:04,718\nCouncil agenda at 3.30, on\n\n391\n00:26:06,856 --> 00:26:09,691\nconsent item. 3.0 37, the opd\nstaff report the committee\nreceived about this item in\n\n392\n00:26:13,195 --> 00:26:15,195\ncommittee. And item 3.0 38,\n\n393\n00:26:16,132 --> 00:26:19,670\nthe opd gps tracker policy.\nThe committee is proof staff's\nrecommendations to be 42. The\n\n394\n00:26:21,103 --> 00:26:24,500\nAPRIL 14th, Special City\nCouncil agenda at 3.30, on\n\n395\n00:26:24,673 --> 00:26:26,673\nconsent. And that concludes\n\n396\n00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:29,911\nyour item threes. And we have\n3 most skinny. We have 3\n\n397\n00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:32,880\nspeakers for the site. That\n\n398\n00:26:33,649 --> 00:26:35,649\nwas a lot. Thank you. Clark.\n\n399\n00:26:37,386 --> 00:26:39,386\nThat said the speakers. Thank\n\n400\n00:26:39,455 --> 00:26:41,455\nyou for that. And calling\n\n401\n00:26:41,724 --> 00:26:44,425\nthose speakers who are here in\nperson or online, if you are\nonline, please river. He and\n\n402\n00:26:46,429 --> 00:26:48,429\nso I can easily recognize you.\n\n403\n00:26:49,164 --> 00:26:51,534\nI have a regime and al Kevin\nDally in Blair be committed\n\n404\n00:26:51,534 --> 00:26:53,534\nany order and please state\n\n405\n00:26:55,437 --> 00:26:57,437\nyour name for the record. All\n\n406\n00:26:57,640 --> 00:26:59,341\nright. This is Kevin Dally.\nI've nit picky question on 3\n\n407\n00:27:01,844 --> 00:27:03,844\ndot 20 on the salary\n\n408\n00:27:05,548 --> 00:27:07,215\nordinances as you mentioned,\nsalary for was amended to\n\n409\n00:27:10,486 --> 00:27:12,287\nremove the part for the\nparking administrator the\n\n410\n00:27:14,423 --> 00:27:16,958\nintent of the committee, too.\nRemove it in place it on the\n\n411\n00:27:18,594 --> 00:27:20,996\npending list along with\nSection one or was it to\n\n412\n00:27:23,532 --> 00:27:25,199\nstrike completely? I know the\ncity administrator can add\n\n413\n00:27:27,169 --> 00:27:29,169\nback in at a later date. Might\n\n414\n00:27:32,107 --> 00:27:34,420\nmake sense to have a detach 2.\nPart one, which is the other\n\n415\n00:27:35,677 --> 00:27:38,460\npart the city administrator.\nThe item as amended, I guess\n\n416\n00:27:39,648 --> 00:27:41,316\ncertain. Typically don't\nrespond. But I can talk to\n\n417\n00:27:49,325 --> 00:27:51,325\nSure. Okay. Thanks. Russian\n\n418\n00:27:53,663 --> 00:27:55,664\nmodel district 4. I want to\nconnect 3 items on your agenda\n\n419\n00:27:55,664 --> 00:27:57,331\ntoday because they point to\nthe same underlying issue.\n\n420\n00:28:00,269 --> 00:28:01,969\nGovernance clarity. First 3.1\nfor the city auditor's report\n\n421\n00:28:03,973 --> 00:28:05,707\non police oversight. The\nimportant takeaway is not just\n\n422\n00:28:06,542 --> 00:28:08,542\nstaffing into structure. The\n\n423\n00:28:08,844 --> 00:28:11,679\nreport identifies overlapping\nroles, unclear authority and\n\n424\n00:28:12,614 --> 00:28:14,614\ngaps and accountability across\n\n425\n00:28:14,950 --> 00:28:16,751\noversight bodies before adding\nresources. I would urge\n\n426\n00:28:17,719 --> 00:28:19,954\ncouncil to consider a combined\nstructural and performance\nreview. So we are not\n\n427\n00:28:21,290 --> 00:28:22,857\nreinforcing a system that\nlacks clear lines of\n\n428\n00:28:25,594 --> 00:28:27,629\nresponsibility. Second item,\n3.1, 8, the opd automatic\n\n429\n00:28:30,366 --> 00:28:31,999\nresource locator policy. The\ncity auditor specifically\n\n430\n00:28:33,302 --> 00:28:35,537\nrecommended enabling gps\nlocation capability in patrol\n\n431\n00:28:35,538 --> 00:28:37,238\nvehicles. So dispatchers can\nidentify and send the closest\n\n432\n00:28:39,341 --> 00:28:41,944\navailable unit. That is a\npractical operational\nimprovement that can help\n\n433\n00:28:41,944 --> 00:28:43,944\nreduce response times without\n\n434\n00:28:45,180 --> 00:28:46,881\nadditional staffing. But we\nhave not seen movements into\n\n435\n00:28:47,249 --> 00:28:49,249\npack discussion in 2024. We're\n\n436\n00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:53,789\nalso seeing policy drift. This\ntechnology was introduced as a\ndispatch to all but\n\n437\n00:28:53,789 --> 00:28:55,456\ndiscussions have expanded into\nquestions of discipline and\n\n438\n00:28:57,760 --> 00:28:59,961\npersonnel monitoring. The\nOakland Fire Department\nappears to have already\n\n439\n00:28:59,995 --> 00:29:01,995\nimplemented a gps unable\n\n440\n00:29:02,264 --> 00:29:05,133\ndispatch pilot without council\napproval. Could staff explain\n\n441\n00:29:05,634 --> 00:29:07,302\nhow that program move forward\noperationally while the opd\n\n442\n00:29:09,905 --> 00:29:11,905\npolicy remains pending. 3.1, 5\n\n443\n00:29:12,741 --> 00:29:14,741\nfederal task force agreements\n\n444\n00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:16,844\nunder a one c 9.7, the Privacy\nAdvisory Commission must\n\n445\n00:29:19,381 --> 00:29:21,820\nreview and publicly discuss\nand we'll use pd and federal\n\n446\n00:29:22,151 --> 00:29:24,151\nagencies before they're\n\n447\n00:29:25,821 --> 00:29:27,489\nexecuted. That gives that body\nsignificant influence over\n\n448\n00:29:29,391 --> 00:29:31,859\ncomplex intergovernmental law\nenforcement agreements. But\npack is a privacy body. It is\n\n449\n00:29:33,228 --> 00:29:35,230\nnot a law enforcement body. It\ndoes not have operational\n\n450\n00:29:36,198 --> 00:29:38,466\npublic safety or investigative\nexpertise that creates a\n\n451\n00:29:38,467 --> 00:29:40,467\nmismatch. These agreements\n\n452\n00:29:40,870 --> 00:29:42,870\ninvolve violent crime,\n\n453\n00:29:43,405 --> 00:29:44,973\nfirearms trafficking in\nmulti-jurisdictional\n\n454\n00:29:45,507 --> 00:29:48,409\ninvestigations. Oversight is\nessential, but we should ask\n\n455\n00:29:49,444 --> 00:29:52,313\nfor the Oakland has given a\nprivacy commission, outsized\ngatekeeping authority over\n\n456\n00:29:52,881 --> 00:29:54,615\ncore public safety\npartnerships and in a way that\n\n457\n00:29:56,418 --> 00:29:58,418\nfew other cities have. Across\n\n458\n00:29:58,487 --> 00:30:00,487\nall 3 items. The issue is the\n\n459\n00:30:00,489 --> 00:30:02,123\nsame. We are assigned\nresponsibilities without\n\n460\n00:30:03,325 --> 00:30:05,861\nclearly defining scope or\naligning them with the\n\n461\n00:30:05,861 --> 00:30:08,430\nappropriate expertise.\nOversight is essential, but\n\n462\n00:30:08,430 --> 00:30:10,430\nover state has to be aligned\n\n463\n00:30:11,133 --> 00:30:13,968\nwith x, he's in scope right\nnow. Authority is unclear.\n\n464\n00:30:14,670 --> 00:30:16,670\nScope is expanding and\n\n465\n00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:20,608\ndecisions are stalling. If we\nwant accountability, we need\nto fix the structure. Thank\n\n466\n00:30:23,212 --> 00:30:24,912\nyou. Thank you for your\ncomments in our last speaker\n\n467\n00:30:27,616 --> 00:30:30,317\nwho signed up for item number\n3, is Blair be Continuara\nmuted, please. I'm Beatrice.\n\n468\n00:30:32,588 --> 00:30:34,588\nSomething you MAY begin. I\n\n469\n00:30:34,957 --> 00:30:37,158\nthank you. Blair first time\nbeen around for a while. Good\n\n470\n00:30:40,290 --> 00:30:42,290\nto see everyone. I wanted to\n\n471\n00:30:42,364 --> 00:30:44,364\nspeak out about 5 items I want\n\n472\n00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:47,400\nI can combine items. 2.1, 4\n\n473\n00:30:48,904 --> 00:30:50,904\n3.1, 5 and then combine items.\n\n474\n00:30:51,730 --> 00:30:53,730\n3.2, 6 to 3.30 and a few\n\n475\n00:30:55,577 --> 00:30:57,577\nmoments. I guess only the full\n\n476\n00:30:59,281 --> 00:31:01,281\n3 minutes. However, thank you\n\n477\n00:31:02,751 --> 00:31:04,751\nto speak to item 3.1, 4 3.1,\n\n478\n00:31:07,723 --> 00:31:09,723\nThank you for police\n\n479\n00:31:10,626 --> 00:31:13,227\ncommission items for 3.1, 4.\nI'm still hopeful there can be\n\n480\n00:31:15,931 --> 00:31:17,598\nsome ways to try to bring back\nformer police commissioners\n\n481\n00:31:20,169 --> 00:31:22,503\nwho retired, who I thought\nwere I'd incredible service.\n\n482\n00:31:25,107 --> 00:31:27,374\nImportant job. And I feel\nthat, you know, as we have\n\n483\n00:31:29,111 --> 00:31:30,778\nmade a shift in Oakland\ntowards a more conservative\n\n484\n00:31:35,551 --> 00:31:37,551\napproach to address City\n\n485\n00:31:37,586 --> 00:31:40,389\nissues. I you know, I I think\nthe previous commissioners,\n\n486\n00:31:40,389 --> 00:31:42,123\nthey operate a progressive\napproach that's needed for the\n\n487\n00:31:42,992 --> 00:31:45,126\nprocess and offered an\nimportant balance and what\n\n488\n00:31:45,861 --> 00:31:47,861\nwe're trying to work towards\n\n489\n00:31:48,297 --> 00:31:50,231\nus as find the middle ground\nof a conservative and\n\n490\n00:31:53,350 --> 00:31:54,669\nprogressive values are open.\nSo good luck that you can\n\n491\n00:31:55,103 --> 00:31:57,305\ncontinue the efforts to\nconsider the good work in the\n\n492\n00:31:57,940 --> 00:31:59,607\nprevious commissioners. Their\nthinking is truly needed in\n\n493\n00:32:00,476 --> 00:32:02,476\nhow move forward together.\n\n494\n00:32:03,178 --> 00:32:05,747\nGood luck in those efforts\nabout the federal task force\n\n495\n00:32:07,516 --> 00:32:10,385\nthings. It's important to me\nthat the pa see get an\n\n496\n00:32:11,253 --> 00:32:13,321\nincredibly important service\nof oversight that can't be 9.\n\n497\n00:32:13,922 --> 00:32:15,922\nI understand with the previous\n\n498\n00:32:17,626 --> 00:32:19,727\npublic comment said they\nprobably provide an incredibly\n\n499\n00:32:19,727 --> 00:32:21,462\nimportant job of oversight\nthat we have to certainly find\n\n500\n00:32:24,433 --> 00:32:26,100\nanother. City department to\nopt for that oversight. We\n\n501\n00:32:28,303 --> 00:32:30,638\ncan't just drop it and I hope\nthey can continue the good\nwork that the psc. They did\n\n502\n00:32:33,675 --> 00:32:35,675\nincredibly important work.\n\n503\n00:32:36,645 --> 00:32:39,130\nOversight for the federal task\nforce agencies. We have to\ncontinue. Those efforts could\n\n504\n00:32:39,681 --> 00:32:41,681\nlike how we find that and to\n\n505\n00:32:42,551 --> 00:32:45,419\ngo into the cleaning items.\nYou have a lot of new\n\n506\n00:32:47,556 --> 00:32:49,924\nordinances illegal dumping. I\nwas always from the point of\n\n507\n00:32:50,692 --> 00:32:52,360\nview, if you really good tech\naccountability for all the\n\n508\n00:32:54,763 --> 00:32:56,864\ntech around illegal dumping\nthat creates kind of a\n\n509\n00:32:57,299 --> 00:32:59,000\ncommunity effort towards\npositive that I hope can't be\n\n510\n00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:02,680\nforgetting forgotten such a\n\n511\n00:33:02,637 --> 00:33:04,372\ntime. And when you're be pack\nissues, 3.0, 2, 6, your yearly\n\n512\n00:33:07,943 --> 00:33:10,279\nreview. Important reminder\nthat tech accountability again\n\n513\n00:33:10,279 --> 00:33:12,279\nin the importance of what the\n\n514\n00:33:13,348 --> 00:33:15,490\npact tries to work towards. I\nhope they they understand the\n\n515\n00:33:15,584 --> 00:33:18,453\nimportance of working towards\ntech accountability as well\n\n516\n00:33:18,587 --> 00:33:21,489\nclues effort from everyone is\nhow are community futures\n\n517\n00:33:21,490 --> 00:33:23,191\nBill. And that's what they're\ngoing for to elect how we do\n\n518\n00:33:23,558 --> 00:33:25,558\nthat together. Thanks for your\n\n519\n00:33:27,596 --> 00:33:29,297\ntime. Thank you for that.\nConclusion. Speakers for item\n\n520\n00:33:33,602 --> 00:33:36,300\n3. Thank you to everybody who\ncame out to speak. Thank you\nto the court for reading all\n\n521\n00:33:37,906 --> 00:33:39,906\nthat. So noting 3.1 title\n\n522\n00:33:41,843 --> 00:33:43,843\nchanged. 3.7 24 3 point APRIL\n\n523\n00:33:46,615 --> 00:33:49,416\nto MAY 12 Finance and\nManagement Committee. 3 point\nand dates going to be changed\n\n524\n00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:53,320\nto a public hearing on MAY\n\n525\n00:33:54,156 --> 00:33:56,457\n5th. 3.13 noting the title\nchange 3.17 move to public\n\n526\n00:33:57,425 --> 00:33:59,126\nSafety Committee pending\nlists. No date specific 3.18\n\n527\n00:34:02,964 --> 00:34:05,167\nmove to public safety. Was\ndate specific and 3.3, 4 move\n\n528\n00:34:05,167 --> 00:34:07,167\nto consent entertain a motion\n\n529\n00:34:15,210 --> 00:34:17,311\nas amended. Move approval. And\nthat was a motion by council\n\n530\n00:34:18,914 --> 00:34:20,914\nmember Brown seconded by\n\n531\n00:34:21,490 --> 00:34:23,217\nCouncilmember Ramachandran to\napprove item 3 as amended,\n\n532\n00:34:26,488 --> 00:34:28,856\nincluding time as amended on\nrow for this is councilmember\n\n533\n00:34:33,328 --> 00:34:35,328\neye on and run. And shared. I\n\n534\n00:34:36,164 --> 00:34:39,133\nitem excuse Councilmember Fife\nis excuse item number 3\n\n535\n00:34:39,534 --> 00:34:41,534\napproved as amended with 3 I's\n\n536\n00:34:42,370 --> 00:34:44,400\none excuse Councilmember Fife.\nThat now takes us to item\n\n537\n00:34:48,644 --> 00:34:50,978\nnumber 4. Item. Number 4 is\nthe review of the draft agenda\n\n538\n00:34:53,415 --> 00:34:55,490\nis pending lists and the\ncouncil agenda means the\n\n539\n00:34:55,650 --> 00:34:57,650\ncouncil and committee\n\n540\n00:34:57,686 --> 00:34:59,420\nmeetings. As we know, we are\nabout to come up on a break.\n\n541\n00:35:00,622 --> 00:35:03,224\nSo at this time it's a short\nlist of the APRIL second rules\n\n542\n00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:08,950\nagenda, religion that and the\npending list for committees.\n\n543\n00:35:11,660 --> 00:35:13,660\nAnd I have 2 speakers.\n\n544\n00:35:14,770 --> 00:35:16,737\nCouncilmember gender. Thank\nyou. I'd like to request to\n\n545\n00:35:20,642 --> 00:35:22,310\nmake the APRIL 21st Finance\nCommittee meeting a special\n\n546\n00:35:24,313 --> 00:35:26,313\nmeeting, moving it 30 minutes\n\n547\n00:35:27,115 --> 00:35:28,849\nup to 09:00am instead of 9.30,\nas we have the impacted agenda\n\n548\n00:35:31,453 --> 00:35:34,355\ndon't want to set the entire\nday of meetings to delayed. I\n\n549\n00:35:35,390 --> 00:35:38,580\nbelieve we do have we have\nconfirmed with staff of other\ncouncil members that will have\n\n550\n00:35:38,590 --> 00:35:40,590\na quorum. Can you state the\n\n551\n00:35:40,862 --> 00:35:42,996\ndate of the meeting and the\ntime again, APRIL, 21st\n\n552\n00:35:44,666 --> 00:35:46,367\nFinance Committee currently at\nhope would like to started at\n\n553\n00:35:56,778 --> 00:35:59,213\n9 o'clock. Chair. Good\nmorning. Trinity Hall from the\noffice of the sort of like in\n\n554\n00:36:00,682 --> 00:36:03,484\nHouston District 7 Council\nmember. I am making requests\non behalf of the council\n\n555\n00:36:03,952 --> 00:36:05,619\nmember to schedule the\nencampment abatement policy\n\n556\n00:36:06,288 --> 00:36:08,288\nfor the special City Council\n\n557\n00:36:08,457 --> 00:36:10,457\nmeeting on APRIL 14th at\n\n558\n00:36:13,328 --> 00:36:15,830\n09:38am. On non consent. Thank\nbeing that. This is an\n\n559\n00:36:15,830 --> 00:36:17,833\nimportant item. My request\nwould be that you guys get\n\n560\n00:36:17,833 --> 00:36:19,833\nthat work with clerks items to\n\n561\n00:36:21,837 --> 00:36:24,206\nget the items posted as soon\nas possible so that the\ncouncil members have a chance\n\n562\n00:36:24,206 --> 00:36:26,206\nto digest the changes as well\n\n563\n00:36:28,443 --> 00:36:30,111\nas the public possible with\nthe clerk's office 10 days\n\n564\n00:36:33,114 --> 00:36:35,516\nbefore that be great. Thank\nyou for that. And if I can\njust really quickly, just for\n\n565\n00:36:37,252 --> 00:36:39,252\nthe public's knowledge, the\n\n566\n00:36:40,789 --> 00:36:43,157\nitem that just was stated to\nbe scheduled for this special,\n90 a meeting APRIL 14th.\n\n567\n00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:48,529\nThat's on the life enrichment\nCommittee Pin De Lis. No date\nspecific under item number to\n\n568\n00:36:52,967 --> 00:36:54,668\nsell for clarity. Thank you.\nThe administration also has a\n\n569\n00:36:56,171 --> 00:36:58,973\nfew changes to the pending\nlists for that. Now, special\n\n570\n00:36:59,808 --> 00:37:02,409\nFinance and Management\nCommittee. The item under\n\n571\n00:37:04,346 --> 00:37:06,480\nAPRIL. 21st item number 3,\nwe'd like to request and\n\n572\n00:37:06,748 --> 00:37:08,748\nthat's the information report\n\n573\n00:37:09,284 --> 00:37:11,720\nfir the city administrator in\nresponse to the city auditor's\n\n574\n00:37:11,720 --> 00:37:14,155\nrecommendations in\nsubstantiated whistleblower\n\n575\n00:37:14,155 --> 00:37:16,155\ninvestigation regarding the\n\n576\n00:37:17,125 --> 00:37:19,426\ncity of Oakland uses\nunauthorized formulas for\ncalculating overtime. That\n\n577\n00:37:21,896 --> 00:37:23,597\ndifferent from guidelines to\nmove that the MAY 12 Finance\n\n578\n00:37:24,199 --> 00:37:25,899\nand Management Committee\nmeeting. Just because it's so\n\n579\n00:37:28,469 --> 00:37:30,469\nimpacted. And then moving on\n\n580\n00:37:31,339 --> 00:37:33,339\nto the life enrichment pending\n\n581\n00:37:33,475 --> 00:37:35,475\nwest. We like to move item one\n\n582\n00:37:37,846 --> 00:37:39,846\nunder the APRIL. 21st pending\n\n583\n00:37:41,283 --> 00:37:43,751\nlist. The osc why 2024? 2025\nfinal year and independent and\nnot devalue Asian report to\n\n584\n00:37:48,857 --> 00:37:50,591\nthe MAY 12th. And then finally\nmoving on to the rules, ending\n\n585\n00:37:55,163 --> 00:37:57,163\nless. Item number 4 under the\n\n586\n00:37:59,534 --> 00:38:01,534\npending no date specific. We\n\n587\n00:38:01,636 --> 00:38:03,403\nare requesting to schedule the\nreorganizing of the parking\n\n588\n00:38:04,305 --> 00:38:05,907\ndivision recommendation from a\n5th at the City Council\n\n589\n00:38:10,211 --> 00:38:11,945\nmeeting. And noting that the\nparking administrator MAY come\n\n590\n00:38:17,686 --> 00:38:19,319\naround then or later. And if I\nmade use that MAY 5th on\n\n591\n00:38:19,821 --> 00:38:21,821\nconsent or on on consent.\n\n592\n00:38:26,995 --> 00:38:28,995\nThank you. Thank you. Seems\n\n593\n00:38:29,964 --> 00:38:31,964\nlike that's any public\n\n594\n00:38:32,734 --> 00:38:35,336\ncomment. Yes, I have Kevin\nDowling and barely or plan\ncome Please raise your hand if\n\n595\n00:38:37,872 --> 00:38:39,873\nyou are on zoom. And I will\ntake the in-person public\n\n596\n00:38:45,547 --> 00:38:47,314\ncommenter spares. MR. Dalli is\npassing on his speaker. So we\n\n597\n00:38:48,983 --> 00:38:50,718\ndo have big men in the queue.\nYou're on muted. Please unmute\n\n598\n00:38:57,250 --> 00:38:59,127\nyourself. And you MAY begin.\nBlair. Big Ben. I think I'll\nbe I'll do the same as Kevin\n\n599\n00:38:59,127 --> 00:39:01,127\nhas been a pass. Also, thank\n\n600\n00:39:01,529 --> 00:39:03,263\nyou. Thank you for that. We\nhave no more speakers for this\n\n601\n00:39:08,937 --> 00:39:10,937\nitem. Thank More speakers. So\n\n602\n00:39:15,576 --> 00:39:17,879\nmelting. For 21 finance and\nmanagement committee will be a\n\n603\n00:39:17,879 --> 00:39:19,879\nspecial meeting at 09:00am\n\n604\n00:39:23,885 --> 00:39:26,186\nitem for on the pending Lewis\nfor 21 Fmc item. Number to MAY\n\n605\n00:39:31,326 --> 00:39:33,326\n12. At least see item moved to\n\n606\n00:39:38,990 --> 00:39:40,990\nMAY 12. Rules number to MAY\n\n607\n00:39:45,273 --> 00:39:46,907\n5th City Council meeting.\nNoting Elysee item number\n\n608\n00:39:52,114 --> 00:39:53,781\nmoved to MAY 12. I will take a\nas amended. Take motion as\n\n609\n00:40:02,724 --> 00:40:04,791\namended. Move approval. And\nthat was a motion by\n\n610\n00:40:05,793 --> 00:40:08,462\nCouncilmember Ramachandran\nseconded by COUNCILMAN Around\nto approve item for as amended\n\n611\n00:40:09,597 --> 00:40:11,597\non role council member Brown.\n\n612\n00:40:11,599 --> 00:40:13,599\nCouncilmember Ramachandran. I\n\n613\n00:40:17,338 --> 00:40:19,390\nChair Jenkins. And\nCouncilmember Fife is That\n\n614\n00:40:19,574 --> 00:40:21,574\nmakes 3 has won excused as\n\n615\n00:40:22,444 --> 00:40:24,444\namended. Item number 4 is\n\n616\n00:40:26,247 --> 00:40:28,415\napproved. Thank you so much.\nThat now takes us to our\n\n617\n00:40:31,353 --> 00:40:33,320\ndiscussion item item number 5.\nIt is an information report\n\n618\n00:40:34,756 --> 00:40:36,756\nfrom the mayor, Charter Reform\n\n619\n00:40:37,392 --> 00:40:39,760\nworking group and I have\nseveral speakers for the 32, I\nbelieve speakers for this\n\n620\n00:40:40,395 --> 00:40:43,363\nitem. Thank you. Thank you.\nThank you for everybody that's\ncome out to participate. I\n\n621\n00:40:46,768 --> 00:40:49,636\nthink it's in. The public\ninterest that we discussed\nthis item when the mayor was\n\n622\n00:40:51,839 --> 00:40:53,839\nelected, she. Came on and\n\n623\n00:40:54,676 --> 00:40:57,277\nwanted to embark upon\nreviewing the charter and\nseeing what kind of charter\n\n624\n00:40:58,246 --> 00:41:00,246\nchanges the people of Oakland\n\n625\n00:41:01,115 --> 00:41:03,115\nwanted to see done. There's\n\n626\n00:41:04,886 --> 00:41:06,953\nbeen immense public interest\nin this and the charge or\n\n627\n00:41:08,222 --> 00:41:10,691\nhasn't been significantly\nchanged with a structural of\n\n628\n00:41:11,392 --> 00:41:13,392\nOakland's government for some\n\n629\n00:41:15,363 --> 00:41:17,397\ntime. And so children and I\nfound important to have this\n\n630\n00:41:19,670 --> 00:41:21,468\nmeeting today take country and\nthen I will give Spring League\nWomen voters 7 minutes to\n\n631\n00:41:28,710 --> 00:41:30,710\npresent. Thank you. Just\n\n632\n00:41:31,446 --> 00:41:33,780\nechoing council PRESIDENT\nJenkyns. I'm grateful to the\n\n633\n00:41:34,816 --> 00:41:36,550\nmayor's office for\nspearheading and starting this\n\n634\n00:41:38,686 --> 00:41:40,988\nprocess that a year ago,\nalmost a year ago. And I look\n\n635\n00:41:42,490 --> 00:41:44,158\nforward to discussing the\nrecommendations hearing the\n\n636\n00:41:47,929 --> 00:41:49,929\ninput of our residents. One of\n\n637\n00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:03,410\nthe voters.\nNot sure that's\n\n638\n00:42:07,348 --> 00:42:09,348\non. Good morning. Thank you\n\n639\n00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:14,187\nvery much. Council PRESIDENT\nCouncil members, staff and\n\n640\n00:42:14,856 --> 00:42:16,856\nmembers of the public.\n\n641\n00:42:17,658 --> 00:42:19,292\nPresentation time to that.\nYes, could we please have\n\n642\n00:42:23,131 --> 00:42:25,365\nrepresentation be to get up?\nThank you. My name is Gail\n\n643\n00:42:26,534 --> 00:42:28,468\nWallace. I'm here on behalf of\nthe legal voters. And I'm here\n\n644\n00:42:31,172 --> 00:42:33,373\nwith Nicole manage from We\nwere the co facilitators for\n\n645\n00:42:35,843 --> 00:42:37,544\nthe mayor's working group.\nNext slide. Please. Know this\n\n646\n00:42:39,147 --> 00:42:41,147\none's perfect. The mayor gave\n\n647\n00:42:43,884 --> 00:42:46,870\nus and it the working group a\nvery targeted assignment was\n\n648\n00:42:46,870 --> 00:42:47,954\nto look at charter changes\nthat could better define the\n\n649\n00:42:49,724 --> 00:42:51,625\nrole of elected officials that\nwould help address more\n\n650\n00:42:52,894 --> 00:42:55,290\nresponsible. Citi Financial\nplanning. And that would\n\n651\n00:42:55,290 --> 00:42:56,563\nimprove government\naccountability and\n\n652\n00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:01,101\ntransparency. Next slide.\nThere was a process from last\n\n653\n00:43:03,938 --> 00:43:06,273\nSEPTEMBER until this JANUARY.\nThat as well as the\n\n654\n00:43:06,273 --> 00:43:08,341\ndeliberations of the working\ngroup month after month. A\n\n655\n00:43:09,430 --> 00:43:11,430\ngreat deal of community out\n\n656\n00:43:12,246 --> 00:43:14,715\nreach that included in-person\nmeetings in every council\ndistrict. Thank you for those\n\n657\n00:43:17,180 --> 00:43:19,886\nof you who gave us some\nassistance on standing those\nup. There were also 60\n\n658\n00:43:21,889 --> 00:43:23,657\ninterviews with people\nextremely connected to city\n\n659\n00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:27,994\ngovernment past and present.\nThere was a survey put out and\n\n660\n00:43:31,866 --> 00:43:33,500\nall of that input not brought\ninto the working group's\n\n661\n00:43:38,606 --> 00:43:40,975\ndeliberations. Just a little\nbit of background context. And\nwe spoke with a number of\n\n662\n00:43:40,975 --> 00:43:42,975\npeople, as Bill mentioned, and\n\n663\n00:43:43,611 --> 00:43:45,579\nthey were kind of 4th key\nthemes that kept surfacing.\n\n664\n00:43:48,482 --> 00:43:50,250\nEverybody stated that\nOakland's charter can't really\n\n665\n00:43:51,850 --> 00:43:53,850\nbe changed without the broader\n\n666\n00:43:53,488 --> 00:43:56,256\ncity context. So that's where\nthe severe fiscal distress\n\n667\n00:43:56,457 --> 00:43:59,126\nOakland is under the deep\nracial wealth and geographic\n\n668\n00:44:00,428 --> 00:44:02,395\ninequities Oakland experiences\nacross neighborhoods, the lack\n\n669\n00:44:02,496 --> 00:44:04,496\nof sufficient authority to\n\n670\n00:44:06,133 --> 00:44:08,402\ndecisively over time and a\nhighly engaged and civic\n\n671\n00:44:08,403 --> 00:44:10,103\nculture and Oakland where\npeople want direct access to\n\n672\n00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:14,600\ntheir decision makers. If you\n\n673\n00:44:14,208 --> 00:44:16,977\nare the key findings,\nmisaligned authority is\ncreating a disconnect between\n\n674\n00:44:19,460 --> 00:44:21,460\npublic expectations and actual\n\n675\n00:44:21,682 --> 00:44:23,417\npowers week. Institutional\nalignment undermines long-term\n\n676\n00:44:24,785 --> 00:44:27,521\nplanning, fiscal discipline,\neffective oversight and\norganizational complexity\n\n677\n00:44:27,555 --> 00:44:29,155\nleads to operational\nefficiencies. That lack\n\n678\n00:44:29,590 --> 00:44:32,425\naccountability and\ntransparency. We heard from\n\n679\n00:44:32,894 --> 00:44:34,628\nmany people that we talked to\nthat everyone is in charge and\n\n680\n00:44:37,698 --> 00:44:39,698\ntherefore no one is in charge.\n\n681\n00:44:41,268 --> 00:44:42,936\nLuckily, there are 2 models\nthat most city governments\n\n682\n00:44:43,971 --> 00:44:46,574\nacross the country use. One is\ncouncil manager where the\n\n683\n00:44:46,574 --> 00:44:48,308\ncouncil acts as the unified\nlegislative body and the mayor\n\n684\n00:44:50,878 --> 00:44:53,713\nsits on the council council.\nThe council appoints a\n\n685\n00:44:53,747 --> 00:44:56,116\nprofessional manager to run\ncity government. And there are\na few examples of each of\n\n686\n00:44:58,653 --> 00:45:00,320\nthese these types of care\nstrong mayor government is\n\n687\n00:45:00,888 --> 00:45:02,789\nwhere mayor is the chief\nexecutive and runs the city\n\n688\n00:45:03,525 --> 00:45:05,191\ngovernment. This is a balance\nof power between the mayor\n\n689\n00:45:06,293 --> 00:45:09,290\nwhich is the executive branch\nand the council, which is the\n\n690\n00:45:09,263 --> 00:45:11,498\nlegislative branch, the\ncouncil serves a separate\n\n691\n00:45:12,233 --> 00:45:13,933\nlegislative branch of\ngovernment and is responsible\n\n692\n00:45:17,505 --> 00:45:19,906\nresponsible for oversight.\nJust a quick history. I'm\nwe've operated in both of\n\n693\n00:45:20,741 --> 00:45:22,742\nthese forms of government for\na very long time. We had a\n\n694\n00:45:23,611 --> 00:45:25,611\ncouncil manager from of\n\n695\n00:45:26,614 --> 00:45:28,614\ngovernment in the 80's. There\n\n696\n00:45:28,683 --> 00:45:31,285\nstarted to be some challenges\nwith that form of government\nand some intense to start to\n\n697\n00:45:31,285 --> 00:45:33,285\nmove towards a strong mayor\n\n698\n00:45:34,555 --> 00:45:36,456\nform of government. Jerry\nBrown successfully championed\n\n699\n00:45:39,294 --> 00:45:41,294\nmeasure acts 1998, which past\n\n700\n00:45:41,629 --> 00:45:44,230\nquite quite well. And that\ngave a trial strong mayor\nsystem that was set to sunset\n\n701\n00:45:45,967 --> 00:45:47,969\nafter 6 years. There is a\ncommission formed and they\nchose to move forward with the\n\n702\n00:45:47,969 --> 00:45:50,870\nmayor council from him\ngovernment where the mayor and\n\n703\n00:45:52,339 --> 00:45:54,339\nthe council were separate\n\n704\n00:45:54,675 --> 00:45:56,675\nbranches. However, they did\n\n705\n00:45:57,345 --> 00:45:59,712\nnot give the mayor veto powers\nand things like that. That\nwould be typical in a strong\n\n706\n00:46:00,414 --> 00:46:02,414\nmayor form of government. So\n\n707\n00:46:03,451 --> 00:46:05,552\nthis has created a blended\nmodel at that that has\n\n708\n00:46:06,220 --> 00:46:08,355\nelements of both of these\nmodels. But Lex, the benefits\n\n709\n00:46:10,580 --> 00:46:12,325\nof both of them. The mayor\ndoes not serve on the council\n\n710\n00:46:12,994 --> 00:46:14,727\nbut lacks the powers of the\nstrong mayors. They can't vote\n\n711\n00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:18,640\nfor Oviedo its decisions. The\n\n712\n00:46:19,133 --> 00:46:21,335\ncity administrator manages\nagencies and operations. I\napologize. You still have you\n\n713\n00:46:21,335 --> 00:46:23,690\nhave 3 minutes. So make sure\nthat you and to the rain going\n\n714\n00:46:23,637 --> 00:46:25,637\nto yes, go straight to the\n\n715\n00:46:29,343 --> 00:46:32,178\nrecommendations. First. And\nmost importantly, the working\n\n716\n00:46:32,546 --> 00:46:34,546\nGroup recommends that Oakland\n\n717\n00:46:34,882 --> 00:46:36,882\nchange its charter to fully\n\n718\n00:46:37,852 --> 00:46:40,153\nadopt one system or the other\nin an integrated and complete\n\n719\n00:46:42,123 --> 00:46:44,123\nfashion. Next slide. Please.\n\n720\n00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:47,894\nLuckily, there are there is\nresearch that tells you helped\n\n721\n00:46:50,764 --> 00:46:52,764\ntoo. Identify which of these 2\n\n722\n00:46:52,967 --> 00:46:55,335\nsystem actually is a match.\nBut the character and history\n\n723\n00:46:56,437 --> 00:46:58,437\nof your city. Next slide.\n\n724\n00:47:01,809 --> 00:47:03,809\nPlease. The recommendation as\n\n725\n00:47:04,779 --> 00:47:06,880\nto which system to adopt is to\nadopt the strong mayor system,\n\n726\n00:47:09,249 --> 00:47:10,984\nwhich nickel has already the\ndescribed in brief in which is\n\n727\n00:47:11,352 --> 00:47:12,952\nmuch more fully described in\nour report. Next slide.\n\n728\n00:47:15,622 --> 00:47:17,323\nPlease. I want to make it\nclear that that research and\n\n729\n00:47:20,528 --> 00:47:22,395\njust referenced talked about\nwhat is the character of the\n\n730\n00:47:22,663 --> 00:47:24,663\ncity that would be best served\n\n731\n00:47:25,900 --> 00:47:27,667\nby a strong mayor system. So\nthrough all outreach I talked\n\n732\n00:47:28,769 --> 00:47:30,769\nabout, we heard about fiscal\n\n733\n00:47:30,804 --> 00:47:33,473\nstress and that's where a\nstrong mayor system can help\n\n734\n00:47:34,709 --> 00:47:37,110\nbecause it creates complex\nintergovernmental challenges.\nWe heard about racial wealth\n\n735\n00:47:38,746 --> 00:47:40,746\nand geographic inequities this\n\n736\n00:47:42,550 --> 00:47:45,218\nalso is where strong mayors\nshines because it it serves\nbest where there are\n\n737\n00:47:46,187 --> 00:47:48,187\ndisparities across\n\n738\n00:47:48,356 --> 00:47:50,356\nneighborhoods. You know, we've\n\n739\n00:47:51,910 --> 00:47:53,793\ngot a highly engaged civic\nculture and strong mayor is\nappropriate voters expect that\n\n740\n00:47:56,130 --> 00:47:58,898\nvisible executive leadership.\nFinally can't really see my\nlast point there. But that's\n\n741\n00:48:03,804 --> 00:48:05,972\nall right. We need someone to\nlead decisively and the that\n\n742\n00:48:06,340 --> 00:48:08,340\nis what people were telling us\n\n743\n00:48:08,909 --> 00:48:10,944\nover and over again and\npolitical fragmentation makes\n\n744\n00:48:11,846 --> 00:48:14,280\nit difficult for collective\naccountability. Helps the\nfavoring of the strong mayor\n\n745\n00:48:17,418 --> 00:48:19,119\nsystem. So is the\nrecommendation is based both\n\n746\n00:48:21,155 --> 00:48:23,155\non feedback and on research.\n\n747\n00:48:24,358 --> 00:48:27,160\nWe also recommend it balancing\nstrengthening of the city\n\n748\n00:48:28,829 --> 00:48:31,397\ncouncil with creation of a\nlegislative budget. Analysts\n\n749\n00:48:32,900 --> 00:48:35,201\noffice return of the council\nnot number and clarifying\n\n750\n00:48:36,470 --> 00:48:38,438\ncertain things in the charter\nabout the city council's role.\n\n751\n00:48:40,374 --> 00:48:42,575\nI want that close by pointing\nout just one thing says\n\n752\n00:48:45,450 --> 00:48:47,450\nthere's reporting out saying\n\n753\n00:48:48,482 --> 00:48:51,251\nthat the repair report\nrecommends a salary raise for\n\n754\n00:48:51,986 --> 00:48:54,488\nthe council. Want to clarify\nthat because charter changes\n\n755\n00:48:54,488 --> 00:48:56,488\nabout structural things. It's\n\n756\n00:48:57,558 --> 00:49:00,360\nabout process. And so we noted\nthat all the other elect did\n\n757\n00:49:03,330 --> 00:49:06,320\nofficials auditor attorney\nmayor have salary setting\n\n758\n00:49:07,835 --> 00:49:09,904\nmechanism within in charter\nthat allows the entire package\n\n759\n00:49:09,904 --> 00:49:11,904\nto be review. That's not the\n\n760\n00:49:12,406 --> 00:49:14,641\ncase for the City Council. The\nprovisions only allow for cost\n\n761\n00:49:15,750 --> 00:49:17,750\nof living increases. So we\n\n762\n00:49:18,913 --> 00:49:21,147\nsimply recommended that that\nprocess be changed to be\n\n763\n00:49:23,250 --> 00:49:26,850\nconsistent across all of those\nelected offices and anything\n\n764\n00:49:26,887 --> 00:49:29,489\nelse would be a factual\nevidence rebased thing as to\n\n765\n00:49:30,357 --> 00:49:32,558\nwhat salaries any of the\nofficials in any of these\n\n766\n00:49:34,950 --> 00:49:36,950\nelected offices would receive.\n\n767\n00:49:38,165 --> 00:49:39,866\nAlright, just to close out and\nthere were a number of other\n\n768\n00:49:40,868 --> 00:49:43,569\nthings that came up during the\nresearch. There were questions\nabout the city attorney and\n\n769\n00:49:43,904 --> 00:49:45,605\nthe city auditor and whether\nor not this should be elected\n\n770\n00:49:46,474 --> 00:49:49,409\nor appointed positions around\noversight bodies, including\n\n771\n00:49:50,611 --> 00:49:53,513\ncommissions and and financial\ndecision-making. Whether or\nnot there should be some\n\n772\n00:49:54,615 --> 00:49:56,616\nlong-range planning\ncontroller's office, things\n\n773\n00:49:56,717 --> 00:49:58,717\nlike that. Those were all\n\n774\n00:49:59,686 --> 00:50:01,955\nthings that we we recommend\nfurther analysis but went\nbeyond the scope of this\n\n775\n00:50:05,226 --> 00:50:07,600\nreview. And so some next\nsteps, any charge, charter\n\n776\n00:50:08,620 --> 00:50:10,620\nchanges must be approved by\n\n777\n00:50:10,130 --> 00:50:11,965\nOakland voters and the mayor\nand the council are working\n\n778\n00:50:12,132 --> 00:50:14,132\ntogether to determine which\n\n779\n00:50:14,801 --> 00:50:17,136\nrecommendations to advance to\na ballot. And we have done\n\n780\n00:50:17,571 --> 00:50:19,571\nsome polling in which we we\n\n781\n00:50:20,174 --> 00:50:22,174\nshared with the council\n\n782\n00:50:22,176 --> 00:50:24,344\nmembers today that really\nshows strong support for the\n\n783\n00:50:25,312 --> 00:50:27,312\nworking group's\n\n784\n00:50:27,348 --> 00:50:29,482\nrecommendations any\nimplementation of this needs\n\n785\n00:50:29,716 --> 00:50:31,417\nto be there needs to be\nthoughtful transition periods\n\n786\n00:50:33,887 --> 00:50:36,756\nso that we don't. At not fully\nimplement all of the\n\n787\n00:50:37,825 --> 00:50:40,920\nrecommendations and this\nshould be a living document.\nThe charter should be\n\n788\n00:50:40,360 --> 00:50:42,610\nsomething that we come back to\nregularly and make sure that\n\n789\n00:50:42,663 --> 00:50:45,598\nit actually meeting the needs\nof oaklanders. Just a quick\n\n790\n00:50:45,866 --> 00:50:48,402\nnote, Turner from creates\nconditions for improvement but\n\n791\n00:50:48,402 --> 00:50:51,700\ndoesn't substitute for\neffective leadership and\nmanagement. There are a lot of\n\n792\n00:50:51,338 --> 00:50:53,908\nother things that need to be\ndone order to improve the way\n\n793\n00:50:53,908 --> 00:50:55,908\nOakland works. This is just\n\n794\n00:50:57,711 --> 00:51:00,113\nthe high level\nrecommendations. The real\nfloor report. We also\n\n795\n00:51:02,783 --> 00:51:05,451\ndeveloped a full very\nextensive faq based on a lot\nof the feedback that we've\n\n796\n00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:07,719\nbeen in questions that we've\n\n797\n00:51:07,988 --> 00:51:10,456\nbeen getting are all available\non the mayor's website. We\nencourage you to take a look\n\n798\n00:51:13,327 --> 00:51:15,270\nat the full report. Thank you.\nThank you so much. Thank you\n\n799\n00:51:16,897 --> 00:51:19,832\nfor your work as well. Council\nmembers to you guys have any\ncomments before we go to the\n\n800\n00:51:23,300 --> 00:51:25,471\npublic Council member Brown.\nThank I was gonna offer than 2\n\n801\n00:51:27,410 --> 00:51:29,976\nminutes of my time. Just in\ncase they would have because I\nfelt like they were rushing\nthrough kind of the\n\n802\n00:51:31,450 --> 00:51:33,513\npresentation. And so I just\nwanted to give you the\n\n803\n00:51:33,580 --> 00:51:35,314\nopportunity if there was any\nadditional input that you want\n\n804\n00:51:37,184 --> 00:51:39,452\nto make sure members of the\npublic weather here are\nwatching virtually like you\n\n805\n00:51:41,722 --> 00:51:43,722\nwant to make sure that the\n\n806\n00:51:44,324 --> 00:51:46,993\nmessage just the hard work of\nthe working group all of your\nefforts, there's anything else\n\n807\n00:51:52,266 --> 00:51:53,866\nyou wanted to to say. That's\nvery kind of you and I\n\n808\n00:51:58,472 --> 00:52:00,472\nappreciate To the second\n\n809\n00:52:00,474 --> 00:52:02,474\nrecommendation in the report.\n\n810\n00:52:03,844 --> 00:52:06,479\nThere are 2 choices that\nalmost all cities in the\nUnited States, all that we've\n\n811\n00:52:11,218 --> 00:52:13,486\nlooked at and so what the\ncommittee really wanted to get\n\n812\n00:52:14,388 --> 00:52:16,388\nacross was there is a problem\n\n813\n00:52:17,900 --> 00:52:18,924\nwith Oakland's structure that\nit's a mix match that is\n\n814\n00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:23,362\ndysfunctional. And therefore,\nthe first recommendation is do\n\n815\n00:52:28,100 --> 00:52:30,100\nsomething. Moved to an\n\n816\n00:52:30,370 --> 00:52:32,839\nintegrated and complete system\nthat is recognized as such and\n\n817\n00:52:34,408 --> 00:52:36,408\ntested by used in multiple\n\n818\n00:52:36,610 --> 00:52:39,110\nother cities. The second\nreport, the thing I want, the\nsecond recommendation is tied\n\n819\n00:52:42,950 --> 00:52:44,884\nto the 3rd. They are really\nrecommending the street. What\n\n820\n00:52:45,652 --> 00:52:47,753\nis called the strong mayor\nmodel, but it really is a\n\n821\n00:52:48,422 --> 00:52:50,422\nbalance of an executive and\n\n822\n00:52:50,724 --> 00:52:53,660\nthe legislative branch within\nthe government. And therefore,\n\n823\n00:52:53,827 --> 00:52:55,528\nthere are recommendations with\nrespect to each and the final\n\n824\n00:52:57,970 --> 00:52:59,465\npoint. I want to underscore is\nthis is connected with the\n\n825\n00:53:00,167 --> 00:53:02,167\ncharacter of the city of\n\n826\n00:53:02,369 --> 00:53:04,370\nOakland. Otherwise it will.\nYou could just toss a coin\n\n827\n00:53:04,838 --> 00:53:07,807\nbecause they're both formal\nsystems in deciding which one\n\n828\n00:53:08,208 --> 00:53:09,975\nto choose. You really have to\nask what's the history here\n\n829\n00:53:12,913 --> 00:53:14,647\nwhere we coming from? What is\nthe character of the city that\n\n830\n00:53:21,210 --> 00:53:22,655\nwe have? Thank Any other\ncomments from the council\n\n831\n00:53:25,659 --> 00:53:27,393\nmembers. Okay. So you want to\npublic comment? That's amazing\n\n832\n00:53:28,695 --> 00:53:30,695\nof it. All right. Let's go to\n\n833\n00:53:32,399 --> 00:53:34,567\npublic comment. As I call your\nname. Please approach the\n\n834\n00:53:34,835 --> 00:53:37,170\npodium in any order. If you\nare participating via zoom,\nplease raise your hand so I\n\n835\n00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:41,640\ncan recognize you and as\n\n836\n00:53:42,175 --> 00:53:44,510\nusual, I will call those who\nare present in chambers first.\nAnd then those who are\n\n837\n00:53:46,680 --> 00:53:48,714\nparticipating via zoom after\nstarting with Mark. So this\n\n838\n00:53:51,118 --> 00:53:53,118\nguy, Kevin Dally, Jonathan\n\n839\n00:53:54,855 --> 00:53:56,855\nCorn, Dina bill cough, Dory to\n\n840\n00:53:57,691 --> 00:53:59,691\nBiden. George Species, Orlando\n\n841\n00:54:00,961 --> 00:54:02,862\nPerez wild will whilst Taos\nSki. My apologies but\n\n842\n00:54:03,597 --> 00:54:05,597\nmispronounced that Blair, big\n\n843\n00:54:08,902 --> 00:54:10,902\nmen, Mike Boak. John Kerr s\n\n844\n00:54:12,172 --> 00:54:14,172\nRasheem and all Steve Coen.\n\n845\n00:54:16,910 --> 00:54:18,910\nNaomi shift, Keith Brown amid\n\n846\n00:54:20,247 --> 00:54:22,247\nAlibaba some zoo. Uber Charles\n\n847\n00:54:29,222 --> 00:54:31,222\nlong. Dan Marks. That's blue.\n\n848\n00:54:33,693 --> 00:54:36,462\nVeronica Garcia, Nancy folk,\nSteven Falk. David Vo, right,\n\n849\n00:54:36,830 --> 00:54:38,830\nElizabeth Silver, Ralph Kantz,\n\n850\n00:54:41,670 --> 00:54:43,670\nPamela Drake. Martell and\n\n851\n00:54:46,573 --> 00:54:48,573\nimage. Millie Cleveland,\n\n852\n00:54:49,376 --> 00:54:51,511\nRichard Fuentes in Libby\nshaft. Again, please approach\n\n853\n00:54:51,511 --> 00:54:53,511\nthe podium in any order.\n\n854\n00:54:54,800 --> 00:54:56,800\nPlease state your name before\n\n855\n00:54:56,316 --> 00:54:58,751\nyou begin the those who are\nparticipating via zoom, please\nraise your hand. We'll call\n\n856\n00:54:58,852 --> 00:55:00,520\nyou after we have those\nin-person purse. You think\n\n857\n00:55:08,428 --> 00:55:11,297\nyou. Greetings. I'm Falk,\nco-founder of the Oakland\n\n858\n00:55:12,232 --> 00:55:14,367\nCharter Reform Project and my\ncomments are limited to 3\n\n859\n00:55:17,671 --> 00:55:19,538\nquick and related points. My\nfirst point is that I urge you\n\n860\n00:55:21,241 --> 00:55:23,242\nnot to adopt the strong mayor\nrecommendation because there\n\n861\n00:55:24,770 --> 00:55:26,770\nis a better way for Oakland.\n\n862\n00:55:28,548 --> 00:55:30,984\nMy second point is that 97% of\nCalifornia cities have\n\n863\n00:55:30,984 --> 00:55:32,984\nrejected the strong mayor\n\n864\n00:55:34,288 --> 00:55:36,155\nsystem. With the exception of\nSan Francisco, which is both a\n\n865\n00:55:37,791 --> 00:55:39,791\ncity and county, every single\n\n866\n00:55:40,627 --> 00:55:43,462\ncity in the Bay Area, large\nand small has rejected the\n\n867\n00:55:46,566 --> 00:55:48,668\nstrong mayor model. Know\nCalifornia City has transition\n\n868\n00:55:48,668 --> 00:55:50,668\nto a strong mayor system in\n\n869\n00:55:53,340 --> 00:55:55,909\nthe last 20 years. Not one. So\nbasically do cities are doing\n\n870\n00:55:55,909 --> 00:55:58,877\nwhat the working group is\nasking you to do so you have\n\n871\n00:56:02,382 --> 00:56:04,160\nto ask why is that? It's\nbecause study after study\n\n872\n00:56:06,119 --> 00:56:07,887\nafter study has proven\nprofessionally managed cities\n\n873\n00:56:10,790 --> 00:56:12,658\nwith a powerful city council\nare more transparent, more\n\n874\n00:56:14,940 --> 00:56:15,761\nresponsive, more effective and\nmore efficient and far less\n\n875\n00:56:19,990 --> 00:56:21,968\ncorrupt. So my 3rd and final\npoint, a lot of the public\n\n876\n00:56:23,103 --> 00:56:25,137\nconversation around this issue\nin purse that you have only 2\n\n877\n00:56:27,140 --> 00:56:29,975\nchoices, either a strong mayor\nor council manage or form of\ngovernment. That is false.\n\n878\n00:56:31,478 --> 00:56:33,478\nThat is not true. That is\n\n879\n00:56:33,613 --> 00:56:35,613\nwhat's known as a false\n\n880\n00:56:35,715 --> 00:56:37,715\ndichotomy. In fact, cities\n\n881\n00:56:39,853 --> 00:56:41,853\ntoday rarely choose the pure.\n\n882\n00:56:46,693 --> 00:56:48,394\nI apologize. Your time ended.\nThe David Albright. Okay. You\n\n883\n00:56:52,165 --> 00:56:54,333\nhave one more minute, MR. That\nis what's known as a false\n\n884\n00:56:55,235 --> 00:56:58,204\ndichotomy. In fact, cities\ntoday rarely choose the pure\n\n885\n00:56:59,339 --> 00:57:01,339\nversion of either one of those\n\n886\n00:57:02,420 --> 00:57:04,977\nsystems. And instead craft a\nhybrid system best suited for\n\n887\n00:57:05,178 --> 00:57:07,880\ntheir city. And that's what\nwe're recommending with our\n\n888\n00:57:08,682 --> 00:57:10,315\n3rd option, which features\nleadership by a powerful\n\n889\n00:57:14,287 --> 00:57:16,287\nmayor. With a veto. Oversight\n\n890\n00:57:16,456 --> 00:57:18,456\nby a more powerful city\n\n891\n00:57:18,692 --> 00:57:21,227\ncouncil and the terrific\npublic services. The\nprofessional management can\n\n892\n00:57:21,227 --> 00:57:23,227\ndeliver. Thank you for your\n\n893\n00:57:23,330 --> 00:57:25,330\nattention. Thank you for your\n\n894\n00:57:29,369 --> 00:57:31,670\ncomments. Thanks for the\nopportunity to comment. My\n\n895\n00:57:33,740 --> 00:57:35,740\nname is Nancy Fall. My primary\n\n896\n00:57:37,410 --> 00:57:39,378\nmessage is that oaklanders\nneed not settle for the strong\n\n897\n00:57:39,813 --> 00:57:41,813\nmayor form as recommended.\n\n898\n00:57:43,984 --> 00:57:46,417\nThere's the better proven 3rd\noption that includes several\n\n899\n00:57:47,420 --> 00:57:49,823\nof the working group's\nrecommendations while better\n\n900\n00:57:49,823 --> 00:57:51,823\npositioning Oakland, given its\n\n901\n00:57:53,660 --> 00:57:55,727\nunique nature for the future.\nThis 3rd option has 3 key\n\n902\n00:57:58,665 --> 00:58:00,532\nelements. Number one, it\nembeds a more powerful mayor\n\n903\n00:58:01,534 --> 00:58:03,534\nwith the veto authority to\n\n904\n00:58:06,907 --> 00:58:08,507\nserve as chair. To more\npowerful full-time city\n\n905\n00:58:11,444 --> 00:58:13,513\nCouncil. That's supported by\nan independent budget and\n\n906\n00:58:13,513 --> 00:58:15,513\nlegislative analyst office has\n\n907\n00:58:17,650 --> 00:58:19,650\nrecommended. 3 who jointly.\n\n908\n00:58:21,788 --> 00:58:23,388\nMayor plus council oversee a\nprofessionally trained\n\n909\n00:58:25,192 --> 00:58:27,493\nexecutive. The city manager.\nThere's no need to settle for\n\n910\n00:58:28,895 --> 00:58:30,895\nthe strong mayor form because\n\n911\n00:58:30,897 --> 00:58:33,366\nit's not the proven best\nstructure for delivering high\n\n912\n00:58:33,366 --> 00:58:35,366\nquality efficient and\n\n913\n00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:38,737\neffective city services.\nCouncil manager of government\n\n914\n00:58:39,406 --> 00:58:41,406\nupon which this 3rd option is\n\n915\n00:58:41,908 --> 00:58:44,544\nbased is the proven best\napproach based on a lot of the\n\n916\n00:58:44,544 --> 00:58:46,111\nresearch that is in the\nworking group's great\n\n917\n00:58:50,217 --> 00:58:52,518\nappendix. This 3rd option is\n10%. And this Mayor Kemp\nCouncil manager formal\n\n918\n00:58:54,354 --> 00:58:56,354\ngovernment is more efficient.\n\n919\n00:58:56,590 --> 00:58:58,290\nThat strong mayor has stronger\nbudget solvency, then strong\n\n920\n00:58:59,559 --> 00:59:01,559\ntheir cities. And it's 57%\n\n921\n00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:03,929\nless likely to have corruption\nconvictions. Then strong\n\n922\n00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:09,501\nmayors, cities, so lets not\nsettle for the strong mayor\noption and instead adopt a\n\n923\n00:59:09,536 --> 00:59:11,536\nproven 3rd option for a\n\n924\n00:59:13,339 --> 00:59:15,339\nbetter. Thank you for your\n\n925\n00:59:21,914 --> 00:59:24,384\ncomment. Speaker. This been a\ncop, I apologize. Can you\nplease call go closer to the\n\n926\n00:59:24,384 --> 00:59:26,384\nmike so we can make sure we\n\n927\n00:59:37,964 --> 00:59:39,798\ncan. Accomplish? I live in\ndistrict 3 I'm I'm here just\n\n928\n00:59:42,468 --> 00:59:45,700\nto lend my support to the\ncouncil manager system, the\n\n929\n00:59:47,474 --> 00:59:49,474\nso-called 3rd option. And I'm\n\n930\n00:59:50,577 --> 00:59:53,312\nasking the council to put that\noption. On the ballot and let\n\n931\n00:59:53,479 --> 00:59:55,479\nlet the voters decide. Not the\n\n932\n00:59:57,830 --> 00:59:59,818\nstrong mayor model. I'm\nopposed to the strong mayor\nmodel for the reasons that\n\n933\n01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:04,156\nothers have expressed. But one\nis that with all due respect,\n\n934\n01:00:04,557 --> 01:00:07,292\nI think the strong mayor\nsystem is too dependent on the\n\n935\n01:00:07,660 --> 01:00:09,660\ngood faith of the person who\n\n936\n01:00:11,398 --> 01:00:14,266\noccupies the mayor's seat, the\nstructure of our government\nshould include checks and\n\n937\n01:00:17,337 --> 01:00:19,638\nbalances, continuity of\nprofessional management,\naccountability of the City\n\n938\n01:00:20,540 --> 01:00:22,541\nCouncil. In addition to the\nmayor and we should look to\n\n939\n01:00:23,710 --> 01:00:25,710\nwhat are other peer cities do\n\n940\n01:00:27,480 --> 01:00:29,348\nall of this points to a\ncouncil manager system with a\n\n941\n01:00:32,885 --> 01:00:35,120\nstrengthened mayoral rule. The\n3rd option. And and as others\n\n942\n01:00:36,156 --> 01:00:38,224\nhave said, this is the model\nthat is widely in use and we\n\n943\n01:00:38,224 --> 01:00:40,224\nshould not ignore that. Thank\n\n944\n01:00:49,350 --> 01:00:51,350\nyou. Thank you your comments.\n\n945\n01:00:52,639 --> 01:00:55,607\nCurrently Indy 4. I appreciate\nthe information report. I\n\n946\n01:00:56,743 --> 01:00:58,878\nthink the the working group\ndid a great job showing all\n\n947\n01:00:58,878 --> 01:01:00,878\nthe options. And while they\n\n948\n01:01:04,651 --> 01:01:06,651\nhave. Preferred choice. I\n\n949\n01:01:06,653 --> 01:01:08,653\nreally appreciate their point.\n\n950\n01:01:08,788 --> 01:01:10,788\nChange something, choose a new\n\n951\n01:01:11,858 --> 01:01:13,859\nsystem. I suggest the council\nquickly set up its own working\n\n952\n01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:16,600\ngroup so they can choose the\n\n953\n01:01:18,364 --> 01:01:20,364\nbest options. Mention a couple\n\n954\n01:01:21,601 --> 01:01:23,601\nof points. I disagree with. We\n\n955\n01:01:25,571 --> 01:01:27,571\nneed an at large seat. I live\n\n956\n01:01:30,110 --> 01:01:32,110\nin d for today. But I like\n\n957\n01:01:32,946 --> 01:01:34,946\nmost oaklanders frequently\n\n958\n01:01:34,947 --> 01:01:37,450\ntraveled throughout Oakland, 2\ndifferent districts. No 5\n\n959\n01:01:37,450 --> 01:01:39,450\ndistricts in the last 24 hours\n\n960\n01:01:40,453 --> 01:01:43,221\nfor me, I suspect. Other\npeople have done better than\n\n961\n01:01:44,230 --> 01:01:46,230\ntap. So we need someone who is\n\n962\n01:01:46,526 --> 01:01:48,526\nable to look at the entire\n\n963\n01:01:48,828 --> 01:01:51,129\nsystem and both Councilmember\nBrown and Council member\nKaplan have done a good job\n\n964\n01:01:53,199 --> 01:01:55,199\nwith that. I fear large\n\n965\n01:01:59,105 --> 01:02:01,873\nmayor's election. The last 4\ndistricts, they're sort of the\nlast 3 district forced Yemen's\n\n966\n01:02:04,610 --> 01:02:06,211\nall became mayor. We are not\ngetting to geographical\n\n967\n01:02:10,150 --> 01:02:12,117\nequity. By having large\nmayor's race. Only way we get\n\n968\n01:02:13,886 --> 01:02:16,722\na mayor from Deep East Oakland\nis to have the council\nPRESIDENT P from Deep East\n\n969\n01:02:18,991 --> 01:02:20,893\nOakland have recalled. We\ncan't depend upon as a way of\n\n970\n01:02:23,763 --> 01:02:25,464\ngetting a graphical equity\nThank you for your comments.\n\n971\n01:02:33,720 --> 01:02:35,720\nNext picture. Good morning. My\n\n972\n01:02:36,543 --> 01:02:38,343\nname is Steve Cohn. I'm a\nlong-term resident and\n\n973\n01:02:41,648 --> 01:02:43,582\nhomeowner in Oakland my\nunderstanding try follow this\n\n974\n01:02:46,652 --> 01:02:48,652\nhold process is that everyone\n\n975\n01:02:49,422 --> 01:02:51,491\nbelieves that the system is\ndysfunctional. The city\n\n976\n01:02:51,491 --> 01:02:53,859\ncouncil members have the power\nto develop policy, but no\n\n977\n01:02:56,729 --> 01:02:59,640\npower to implement it. The\nmayor has the power to\nimplement it but has no input\n\n978\n01:03:00,466 --> 01:03:02,466\nin developing policy. So to\n\n979\n01:03:03,269 --> 01:03:05,170\nme, if you just have a strong\nmayor, the city council still\n\n980\n01:03:08,441 --> 01:03:10,208\ndoesn't have any. To implement\nthe findings. By having a\n\n981\n01:03:14,580 --> 01:03:16,580\nstrong mayor who can the doh?\n\n982\n01:03:16,782 --> 01:03:19,618\nWork process work process of\nthe council. That's the\ncouncil in a weaker position.\n\n983\n01:03:21,587 --> 01:03:23,587\nMinutes in now in respect, it,\n\n984\n01:03:24,858 --> 01:03:26,625\npeople who've said that\nthere's a lot of interest in\n\n985\n01:03:30,630 --> 01:03:32,630\nhaving strong mayor. There was\n\n986\n01:03:34,267 --> 01:03:36,267\na survey done by party for the\n\n987\n01:03:36,303 --> 01:03:38,303\nworking group and the number\n\n988\n01:03:38,305 --> 01:03:40,710\nitem was strength in the city\nCouncil provide city council\n\n989\n01:03:41,607 --> 01:03:43,809\nwith more direct ways to hold\nadministration accountable.\n\n990\n01:03:44,844 --> 01:03:46,844\nAnd then put mayor back on the\n\n991\n01:03:48,481 --> 01:03:50,215\ndice with the second with 82 p\n82% support give mayor role on\n\n992\n01:03:51,350 --> 01:03:53,350\nthe city council helps a\n\n993\n01:03:53,619 --> 01:03:55,619\npolicy laws. So I hope you'll\n\n994\n01:03:55,688 --> 01:03:57,422\ntake what's called the 3rd\noption. Having a strong mayor,\n\n995\n01:03:59,459 --> 01:04:01,159\na strong city council and make\nOakland the city that really\n\n996\n01:04:01,794 --> 01:04:03,794\nwanted to Thank you very much.\n\n997\n01:04:07,566 --> 01:04:09,901\nThank you for your comments.\nThanks. Chair and council\n\n998\n01:04:12,805 --> 01:04:14,805\nmember council PRESIDENT Mark.\n\n999\n01:04:15,742 --> 01:04:17,709\nSo we residents of district\none. I've worked for local\n\n1000\n01:04:18,440 --> 01:04:20,440\ngovernments for 23 years,\n\n1001\n01:04:21,914 --> 01:04:24,416\nincluding almost 5 years as\nOakland's director of economic\ndevelopment. There's no\n\n1002\n01:04:25,718 --> 01:04:28,860\nquestion that we need charter\nreform. We have a\ndysfunctional system and I\n\n1003\n01:04:30,590 --> 01:04:33,392\nthink we all know that. But I\ndisagree with the working\ngroup's recommendation find\n\n1004\n01:04:33,826 --> 01:04:35,826\nthere support of their\n\n1005\n01:04:37,830 --> 01:04:39,931\nrecommendation to be very\nstrong. Their own website\n\n1006\n01:04:40,299 --> 01:04:41,933\nprovides a lot of material\nwhich if you haven't gone\n\n1007\n01:04:42,468 --> 01:04:44,468\nthrough it, you definitely\n\n1008\n01:04:44,871 --> 01:04:46,637\nshould. But I kasaan in\nparticular pages, 7 to 9 of\n\n1009\n01:04:48,774 --> 01:04:50,641\nthe working group's report.\nKey differences between the\n\n1010\n01:04:51,644 --> 01:04:54,613\ncouncil manager and strong\nmayor, the strong concentrates\n\n1011\n01:04:55,215 --> 01:04:57,115\npower in a single elected\nindividual. It heightens the\n\n1012\n01:04:58,884 --> 01:05:00,619\nrisk of put put it political\npoliticization. That's a tough\n\n1013\n01:05:02,210 --> 01:05:03,755\nword to say. Misuse of\nauthority decisions are driven\n\n1014\n01:05:05,658 --> 01:05:07,392\nby short-term electoral\nincentives and success depends\n\n1015\n01:05:08,594 --> 01:05:10,795\nheavily on the competence of\nthe individual council manager\n\n1016\n01:05:12,765 --> 01:05:14,765\nlays the foundation for\n\n1017\n01:05:14,934 --> 01:05:17,360\nprofessional management. It\ninsulates decisions short-term\npolitical pressures enables\n\n1018\n01:05:17,360 --> 01:05:19,360\nthe manager to make decisions\n\n1019\n01:05:20,720 --> 01:05:22,774\nthat are that are tough\npolitically. Long-serving\nprofessionals provide\n\n1020\n01:05:23,476 --> 01:05:25,176\ncontinuity, stability,\ninstitutional memory and\n\n1021\n01:05:26,790 --> 01:05:28,790\nconsistency across election\n\n1022\n01:05:28,381 --> 01:05:30,516\ncycles. Most importantly,\nthough, the council manager\n\n1023\n01:05:30,516 --> 01:05:33,451\nsystem will distribute\npolitical power across the\n\n1024\n01:05:34,487 --> 01:05:37,455\ncouncil and ensure that\ndistrict representatives have\nequal standing in shaping\n\n1025\n01:05:38,391 --> 01:05:40,458\npolicy in advocating for their\ncommunities. I urge you to\n\n1026\n01:05:47,990 --> 01:05:49,990\ntake charter reform. Thank you\n\n1027\n01:05:53,973 --> 01:05:56,741\nfor your comments. All right.\nI'm good Morning Council\nmembers. I'm Keith Brown,\n\n1028\n01:05:58,811 --> 01:06:00,512\nexecutive secretary treasurer\nof the Alameda Labor Council.\n\n1029\n01:06:01,130 --> 01:06:03,130\nI'm speaking to you this\n\n1030\n01:06:04,717 --> 01:06:06,351\nmorning as a lifelong open\nresident and resident of\n\n1031\n01:06:09,655 --> 01:06:11,856\ndistrict. And I want to first\nof all, thank the work of the\n\n1032\n01:06:16,620 --> 01:06:17,729\nworking group. I think one\nthing that almost all\n\n1033\n01:06:19,966 --> 01:06:22,667\noaklanders agree that the city\nis slow to provide basic\n\n1034\n01:06:24,303 --> 01:06:26,538\nservices. Another thing we all\nagree on is that the structure\n\n1035\n01:06:29,508 --> 01:06:32,770\nof our city is not working.\nCurrently, everyone is in\ncharge would mean which means\n\n1036\n01:06:34,714 --> 01:06:36,348\nno one is in charge. We must\nestablish clear lines of\n\n1037\n01:06:38,217 --> 01:06:40,217\nresponsibility. We must ensure\n\n1038\n01:06:40,319 --> 01:06:42,319\ndata structure of our\n\n1039\n01:06:42,455 --> 01:06:44,455\ngovernment can deliver for our\n\n1040\n01:06:44,557 --> 01:06:46,557\ncommunity and for better use\n\n1041\n01:06:47,626 --> 01:06:49,626\nof limited resources. The\n\n1042\n01:06:51,831 --> 01:06:53,898\nstrong mayor position. Offers\nclear direct accountability\n\n1043\n01:06:56,202 --> 01:06:58,703\nspeeds up decisions,\nstrengthens coordination and\n\n1044\n01:07:00,740 --> 01:07:02,740\ndelivers results on\n\n1045\n01:07:02,908 --> 01:07:04,709\nhomelessness. Public safety in\nfiscal responsibility with\n\n1046\n01:07:05,712 --> 01:07:08,213\ngreater oversight and\nlegislative capacity to better\n\n1047\n01:07:11,183 --> 01:07:12,851\nrepresent districts. So our\ncommunity has made it clear\n\n1048\n01:07:14,754 --> 01:07:16,588\nthat they want us of city\ngovernment to be decisive on\n\n1049\n01:07:20,920 --> 01:07:22,227\naction and results and a\nstrong mayor. System allows us\n\n1050\n01:07:23,395 --> 01:07:25,960\nto deliver for all open\nneighborhoods faster and more\n\n1051\n01:07:27,333 --> 01:07:29,333\nefficient. Thank you for your\n\n1052\n01:07:33,906 --> 01:07:35,975\ncomment. Hello, I'm Mike Polk.\nAnd John Currie says with me\n\n1053\n01:07:35,975 --> 01:07:37,975\nhere is ceding his 90 seconds\n\n1054\n01:07:42,648 --> 01:07:44,648\nto me. John and I have lived\n\n1055\n01:07:44,917 --> 01:07:46,917\nand worked in Oakland for over\n\n1056\n01:07:46,986 --> 01:07:49,487\n40 years. We're part of\nneighbors for progressive\naction and Oakland Group with\n\n1057\n01:07:52,358 --> 01:07:54,994\nover 500 members, we support\ncharter reform as Oakland's\n\n1058\n01:07:54,994 --> 01:07:56,994\ncurrent charter system. Surely\n\n1059\n01:07:57,396 --> 01:07:59,731\nclearly doesn't work. We do\nnot support the strong mayor\n\n1060\n01:08:00,500 --> 01:08:02,500\nmodel recommended by the\n\n1061\n01:08:03,302 --> 01:08:04,969\nworking group. Only large\ncities in California have a\n\n1062\n01:08:06,172 --> 01:08:08,172\nstrong mayor system in entire\n\n1063\n01:08:08,774 --> 01:08:10,441\nstate. 2 of those San\nFrancisco in la are special\n\n1064\n01:08:12,478 --> 01:08:15,214\nbeing also counties. There's a\nbetter alternative and\n\n1065\n01:08:15,214 --> 01:08:17,214\nempowered mayor embedded in a\n\n1066\n01:08:18,217 --> 01:08:19,851\ncouncil manager of government.\nThis approach features a\n\n1067\n01:08:21,754 --> 01:08:23,621\ncitywide elected mayor with\nsignificant leadership\n\n1068\n01:08:23,956 --> 01:08:26,291\nauthority, including veto\npowers as recommended by the\n\n1069\n01:08:28,661 --> 01:08:30,328\nworking group. But also\nfeatures are professionally\n\n1070\n01:08:32,765 --> 01:08:34,833\ntrained city manager overseen\nby the council in Manatee,\n\n1071\n01:08:37,503 --> 01:08:39,170\nMayor working together as\nrecommended by the national\n\n1072\n01:08:41,400 --> 01:08:43,400\nCivic model City. City\n\n1073\n01:08:43,142 --> 01:08:45,142\ncharter, some variation of\n\n1074\n01:08:46,110 --> 01:08:48,246\nthis charter is used by 96 or\n97% of the largest cities by\n\n1075\n01:08:50,182 --> 01:08:52,918\npopulation in our state,\nincluding 3 that are larger\nthan Oakland and they run the\n\n1076\n01:08:54,720 --> 01:08:56,720\nslide that we saw just a few\n\n1077\n01:09:00,590 --> 01:09:02,590\nminutes ago. And that's a long\n\n1078\n01:09:04,960 --> 01:09:06,397\nbeach, Sacramento. And a South\nSo this would this method\nwould give our city council\n\n1079\n01:09:08,134 --> 01:09:11,350\nthe leverage it needs to help\nget things done in Oakland\n\n1080\n01:09:12,710 --> 01:09:14,906\nthat something that 83% of the\npeople that the working group\n\n1081\n01:09:15,674 --> 01:09:18,443\nsurveyed said they they think\nis the most important, the\nhighest percentage of anything\n\n1082\n01:09:20,613 --> 01:09:23,470\non that survey was that they\nwant let the council to have\nthe leverage to get things\n\n1083\n01:09:24,750 --> 01:09:26,385\ndone in the city and you won't\nhave that leverage in the\n\n1084\n01:09:30,122 --> 01:09:32,122\nstrong mayor system. So one\n\n1085\n01:09:33,580 --> 01:09:35,590\nother thing that 82% of those\nsurveyed said is that they\n\n1086\n01:09:36,128 --> 01:09:38,664\nwant the mayor to attend\ncouncil meetings. Now, Barbara\n\n1087\n01:09:38,664 --> 01:09:40,664\nLee has said she doesn't have\n\n1088\n01:09:40,666 --> 01:09:42,467\nany problem with that ending\nmayors. But the strong mayor\n\n1089\n01:09:43,536 --> 01:09:46,504\ninitiative doesn't require\nthat. And a future MAY or MAY\n\n1090\n01:09:46,639 --> 01:09:48,639\nnot want to. That's in fact\n\n1091\n01:09:50,709 --> 01:09:52,844\nhow we got where we are partly\nlet's pay attention to what\n\n1092\n01:09:52,945 --> 01:09:54,945\nthe voters asked for in the in\n\n1093\n01:09:56,715 --> 01:09:58,783\nthe survey some of you MAY\nhave seen maybe chefs a letter\n\n1094\n01:10:01,587 --> 01:10:03,587\nto the editor with Council\n\n1095\n01:10:03,989 --> 01:10:06,792\nmanagers widely used because\nmost of that's mostly sauces,\n\n1096\n01:10:06,792 --> 01:10:08,792\nsmall cities. It's not it's\n\n1097\n01:10:09,261 --> 01:10:11,620\nthe opposite. As we just saw,\nthere's there's a lot of large\n\n1098\n01:10:12,531 --> 01:10:15,100\ncities that have that so\nmindful of the upcoming\n\n1099\n01:10:15,100 --> 01:10:17,100\nchantelle trial. It's unlikely\n\n1100\n01:10:28,848 --> 01:10:31,649\nthat voters will vote for.\nThank you. Your time is that.\n\n1101\n01:10:41,727 --> 01:10:43,428\nThank you for your time. Good\nMorning. Council members. My\n\n1102\n01:10:45,531 --> 01:10:47,432\nname is Pat Martell. I'm here\ntoday representing the\n\n1103\n01:10:49,168 --> 01:10:51,690\ninternational City County\nManagement Association, a\n\n1104\n01:10:52,805 --> 01:10:55,600\nprofessional organization that\nadvances transparent,\nresponsive, effective and\n\n1105\n01:10:55,741 --> 01:10:58,100\nefficient local government\nthrough good governance\n\n1106\n01:10:58,100 --> 01:11:00,100\nleadership management,\n\n1107\n01:11:00,613 --> 01:11:02,313\ninnovation and ethics. As the\nWest Coast regional director\n\n1108\n01:11:03,315 --> 01:11:05,149\nof I want to urge your\nconsideration of a viable 3rd\n\n1109\n01:11:09,121 --> 01:11:11,422\noption. To move more\neffectively to deliver the\nresults and vision by the\n\n1110\n01:11:13,392 --> 01:11:15,260\nmayor's working group\nrecommendations. A strong\n\n1111\n01:11:16,828 --> 01:11:18,828\nmayor with veto power actively\n\n1112\n01:11:19,698 --> 01:11:21,698\nparticipates in city council\n\n1113\n01:11:21,734 --> 01:11:24,402\nmeetings leading a fully\nengage city council city\n\n1114\n01:11:25,700 --> 01:11:26,671\nmanager structure. This option\ncreates clear lines of\n\n1115\n01:11:27,606 --> 01:11:29,606\nresponsibility and\n\n1116\n01:11:29,742 --> 01:11:31,409\naccountability. Elected\nofficials set policy and a\n\n1117\n01:11:32,378 --> 01:11:34,212\nprofessionally trained\nmanagers accountable to the\n\n1118\n01:11:35,247 --> 01:11:37,247\nmayor and city Council for\n\n1119\n01:11:37,382 --> 01:11:39,382\nexecution. Local governments\n\n1120\n01:11:41,153 --> 01:11:42,854\nhave become larger and more\ncomplex over time and benefit\n\n1121\n01:11:43,956 --> 01:11:46,257\nby having trained\nprofessionals manage\noperations that best serve the\n\n1122\n01:11:48,527 --> 01:11:50,261\nneeds of the community. This\nstructural model clarifies the\n\n1123\n01:11:51,730 --> 01:11:53,730\nrole of the mayor and city\n\n1124\n01:11:54,633 --> 01:11:57,368\ncouncil and eliminates\npoliticizing administrative\ndecisions while preserving\n\n1125\n01:11:59,405 --> 01:12:02,306\nstrong democratic control. It\nbalances strong political\n\n1126\n01:12:04,409 --> 01:12:06,770\nleadership with results-driven\nprofessional administration\n\n1127\n01:12:07,446 --> 01:12:09,446\nallowing the mayor and city\n\n1128\n01:12:10,483 --> 01:12:13,117\ncouncil to to focus on\ncommunity vision policy and\nthe priorities while leaving\n\n1129\n01:12:13,117 --> 01:12:15,117\noperational decisions to the\n\n1130\n01:12:16,822 --> 01:12:18,523\ncity manager. Thank you\ncomments. I apologize before\n\n1131\n01:12:20,359 --> 01:12:22,359\nthe next speaker goes. If I\n\n1132\n01:12:23,610 --> 01:12:25,610\ncan take one person threw the\n\n1133\n01:12:25,230 --> 01:12:27,698\nchair with his discretion to\ntake one of the members of the\n\n1134\n01:12:28,400 --> 01:12:31,136\npublic that are participating\nonline. I'm going give them\ntheir 2 minutes. Thank you so\n\n1135\n01:12:31,136 --> 01:12:33,136\nmuch for your patients for\n\n1136\n01:12:34,173 --> 01:12:36,173\nMonica. You are a muted. You\n\n1137\n01:12:39,445 --> 01:12:41,679\nMAY begin your 2 minutes. 90\nseconds. Thank you so much for\n\n1138\n01:12:42,810 --> 01:12:44,810\nthat changes for me. Yes, you\n\n1139\n01:12:47,419 --> 01:12:49,821\nMAY begin. Ok? Thank you. Good\nmorning. Council members free\n\n1140\n01:12:51,290 --> 01:12:53,324\nOakland in the room. I just\nwant to start by saying that I\n\n1141\n01:12:53,625 --> 01:12:55,625\nreally appreciate the work\n\n1142\n01:12:57,296 --> 01:12:59,300\nthat's gone into this and the\neffort to improve how the city\n\n1143\n01:13:01,267 --> 01:13:03,534\nof Oakland operates. I don't\nthink anyone with this agree\n\n1144\n01:13:04,436 --> 01:13:06,737\nthat Oakland, it's a faster\naction and more clarity around\n\n1145\n01:13:08,106 --> 01:13:10,106\nwho is responsible when things\n\n1146\n01:13:12,411 --> 01:13:14,411\naren't working. That's a I do\n\n1147\n01:13:16,448 --> 01:13:19,150\nhave some real concerns about\nthe recommendation to\neliminate the at-large council\n\n1148\n01:13:21,200 --> 01:13:23,200\nseat. If that happens, the\n\n1149\n01:13:25,490 --> 01:13:28,126\ncouncil would be made. Made up\nentirely of district 3% of and\n\n1150\n01:13:30,963 --> 01:13:33,197\nsystem aired Dustin Vote on\nlegislation. We would lose\n\n1151\n01:13:34,333 --> 01:13:37,235\nstate only citywide elected\nvoice and the legislative\n\n1152\n01:13:39,370 --> 01:13:42,600\nbranch and that matters\nbecause as we all know,\nOakland, U.S. And just deal\n\n1153\n01:13:44,176 --> 01:13:46,944\nwith district issues, we deal\nwith things that impact the\nentire city that need a\n\n1154\n01:13:49,480 --> 01:13:51,684\nbroader perspective. The\nat-large t helps connect\n\n1155\n01:13:51,684 --> 01:13:53,684\nneighborhoods. Bring attention\n\n1156\n01:13:54,253 --> 01:13:56,287\nto citywide needs and make\nsure no community gets\n\n1157\n01:13:58,957 --> 01:14:00,957\noverlook like Melrose, which\n\n1158\n01:14:01,259 --> 01:14:03,259\nsits in both district 5 and\n\n1159\n01:14:05,364 --> 01:14:07,364\ndistrict 6. From where I stand\n\n1160\n01:14:08,366 --> 01:14:10,670\nremoving that creates gaps at\nthe time when we really need\n\n1161\n01:14:10,636 --> 01:14:12,636\nto be more connected, connect\n\n1162\n01:14:13,505 --> 01:14:15,505\nthat asked the city. So I just\n\n1163\n01:14:17,576 --> 01:14:20,545\nwant to hurt you to move\nforward is that in prank you\nfor your comments? Your time\n\n1164\n01:14:23,150 --> 01:14:25,683\nis up. Thank you for your\npatients. Member of the\n\n1165\n01:14:26,185 --> 01:14:27,818\npublic. You MAY approach\nstate, your name for the\n\n1166\n01:14:30,210 --> 01:14:32,210\nrecord. Thank you so much.\n\n1167\n01:14:32,324 --> 01:14:35,194\nThank you. Good Morning.\nCouncil members. My name is\n\n1168\n01:14:35,194 --> 01:14:37,194\nAhmed Ali. Bob Muddy 6\n\n1169\n01:14:37,729 --> 01:14:40,598\nresident, a dad. And I've had\nthe chance to serve both\n\n1170\n01:14:43,100 --> 01:14:44,669\ninside the city and in the\nprivate sector working with\n\n1171\n01:14:47,306 --> 01:14:50,141\nOakland businesses. I was part\nof the mayor's working group\non charter reform and got to\n\n1172\n01:14:51,776 --> 01:14:53,411\nhear from hundreds Oakland\nresidents and the biggest\n\n1173\n01:14:55,470 --> 01:14:56,647\nthing I heard over and over\nwas the need for clear\n\n1174\n01:14:59,217 --> 01:15:00,885\naccountability. Residents\nexpects that when they vote\n\n1175\n01:15:01,320 --> 01:15:03,320\nfor a mayor, the buck stops\n\n1176\n01:15:05,591 --> 01:15:07,591\nthere. At my house, my home\n\n1177\n01:15:07,626 --> 01:15:09,360\nwhen accountability is\nunclear. My five-year-old just\n\n1178\n01:15:12,364 --> 01:15:14,500\nruns the whole house. Speaking\nfrom experience. That's not a\n\n1179\n01:15:14,500 --> 01:15:16,500\nmodel that we should replicate\n\n1180\n01:15:19,370 --> 01:15:21,720\nat City Hall. Right now, our\nsystem spreads responsibility\n\n1181\n01:15:21,339 --> 01:15:23,339\nacross too many places when\n\n1182\n01:15:23,441 --> 01:15:25,441\nsomething goes wrong. It's not\n\n1183\n01:15:26,440 --> 01:15:27,945\nalways clear who owns it. And\nthat makes it harder to\n\n1184\n01:15:28,647 --> 01:15:30,647\nactually solve problems on\n\n1185\n01:15:30,715 --> 01:15:32,715\nbehalf of our residents. This\n\n1186\n01:15:34,152 --> 01:15:36,152\nis about aligning authority\n\n1187\n01:15:36,154 --> 01:15:37,822\nwith responsibility. So when\ndecisions are made, there's\n\n1188\n01:15:38,891 --> 01:15:40,891\nclarity on who is accountable.\n\n1189\n01:15:41,326 --> 01:15:43,600\nAnd when outcomes fall short.\nIt's clear who needs to answer\n\n1190\n01:15:46,331 --> 01:15:48,650\nfor. At the same time, these\nrecommendations strengthen the\n\n1191\n01:15:50,903 --> 01:15:53,838\ncouncil's ability. To provide\nstronger legislative and\nfinancial oversight, which is\n\n1192\n01:15:55,774 --> 01:15:57,774\njust as important. I believe\n\n1193\n01:15:58,370 --> 01:16:00,370\nthis most Oakland in the right\n\n1194\n01:16:00,779 --> 01:16:02,446\ndirection. Thank you for your\ncomments and thank you for\n\n1195\n01:16:08,787 --> 01:16:10,787\nyour patience. Speaking. Hi,\n\n1196\n01:16:11,890 --> 01:16:14,158\nmy name is Charlie. Long 21\nyear, resident of city of\n\n1197\n01:16:17,162 --> 01:16:19,162\nOakland in District 4. And I\n\n1198\n01:16:19,598 --> 01:16:21,598\nhave city manager 4 times, but\n\n1199\n01:16:23,468 --> 01:16:25,236\nalso I've invested 100 million\ndollars into downtown Oakland\n\n1200\n01:16:27,539 --> 01:16:29,539\nwith 2 of her projects. I\n\n1201\n01:16:29,975 --> 01:16:31,975\nserved on the bill go,\n\n1202\n01:16:32,244 --> 01:16:34,579\ndevelopment advisory\nCommittee. And let me tell\n\n1203\n01:16:34,579 --> 01:16:36,579\nyou, my observation, based\n\n1204\n01:16:37,683 --> 01:16:39,683\nupon my awareness of how\n\n1205\n01:16:40,652 --> 01:16:42,652\norganizations work. And how\n\n1206\n01:16:45,230 --> 01:16:46,557\ndevelopment works. Oakland's\nor organ Oakland's\n\n1207\n01:16:48,493 --> 01:16:50,493\norganization is broken. There\n\n1208\n01:16:52,164 --> 01:16:53,831\nis no sense of common purpose.\nDepartments are silos. They\n\n1209\n01:16:55,834 --> 01:16:57,534\ndon't talk to each other. They\ndon't they don't have a sense\n\n1210\n01:17:01,406 --> 01:17:03,406\nof common purpose. I am here\n\n1211\n01:17:04,776 --> 01:17:06,776\nstrongly request. That you\n\n1212\n01:17:08,790 --> 01:17:10,790\nreject the strong mayor option\n\n1213\n01:17:10,248 --> 01:17:12,248\nbecause all it does is it\n\n1214\n01:17:12,618 --> 01:17:14,318\nsays, okay, we've got a broken\nsystem. Where do? We're\n\n1215\n01:17:16,254 --> 01:17:18,989\nbasically there are silos.\nLet's create another broken\n\n1216\n01:17:20,826 --> 01:17:22,726\nsystem where there are silos.\nWhere the mayor basically is\n\n1217\n01:17:24,696 --> 01:17:26,696\nnot a participant. The council\n\n1218\n01:17:30,100 --> 01:17:32,100\nmanager of government. Makes\n\n1219\n01:17:32,971 --> 01:17:34,971\nthe city manager accountable\n\n1220\n01:17:35,400 --> 01:17:37,400\nthe mayor to the council and\n\n1221\n01:17:37,709 --> 01:17:39,610\nthe mayor sits on the city\ncouncil. It has veto power and\n\n1222\n01:17:41,113 --> 01:17:43,881\nis an active participant.\nLet's create that kind of\n\n1223\n01:17:47,652 --> 01:17:49,253\nunified approach. 2. Thank you\nfor your comments next.\n\n1224\n01:17:56,695 --> 01:17:58,962\nSpeaker. Good Morning Council\nmembers. My name is Denmark's\n\n1225\n01:18:01,399 --> 01:18:04,101\nexcuse me. I can resident in\ndistrict 2 and of work in and\nfor local governments for more\n\n1226\n01:18:07,806 --> 01:18:10,740\nthan 40 years. I'm a employee\nin the city former to\ncommittee velvet director in\n\n1227\n01:18:12,177 --> 01:18:14,780\nthe city of Berkeley. And it\nworked as as a ploy in several\n\n1228\n01:18:14,813 --> 01:18:16,813\nBay Area cities. And for the\n\n1229\n01:18:18,500 --> 01:18:20,385\npast 15 years, I've been a\nmanagement consultant on local\n\n1230\n01:18:20,385 --> 01:18:22,520\ngovernment effectiveness all\naround the country. And in\n\n1231\n01:18:25,590 --> 01:18:27,591\nCalifornia. I want to thank\nthe mayor for putting forward\n\n1232\n01:18:28,827 --> 01:18:30,528\nthe the mayor's task force and\nbringing the issue of charter\n\n1233\n01:18:31,997 --> 01:18:34,932\nreform to the city's attention\nand carry it forward as issue\nthat we have to address in\n\n1234\n01:18:36,534 --> 01:18:38,534\nOakland. Clearly we need a\n\n1235\n01:18:38,703 --> 01:18:40,404\nmore effective government that\ncan deliver the services that\n\n1236\n01:18:42,541 --> 01:18:44,375\npeople have open want. And in\nmy opinion, did not received\n\n1237\n01:18:46,845 --> 01:18:48,847\nover the last many years. And\nI think most local residents\nwould agree with me that we\n\n1238\n01:18:48,847 --> 01:18:51,649\nneed a more effective\ngovernment. Not a political\n\n1239\n01:18:55,860 --> 01:18:57,288\none. City managers are trained\nin and spend their whole\ncareers making local\n\n1240\n01:18:58,189 --> 01:19:00,157\ngovernment more effective.\nMayors were elected for their\n\n1241\n01:19:03,729 --> 01:19:06,298\npolitical You meant not their\norganizational skills. It's\nfor this reason that almost\n\n1242\n01:19:06,298 --> 01:19:09,266\nall the cities in California\nhas been spoken earlier, adopt\n\n1243\n01:19:10,340 --> 01:19:12,870\na city manager form of\ngovernment and I along with\nmany of the other people have\n\n1244\n01:19:13,737 --> 01:19:15,906\nspoken here today based on our\nlong experience in local\n\n1245\n01:19:17,475 --> 01:19:19,176\ngovernment. Believe that the\n3rd option is the best option\n\n1246\n01:19:20,178 --> 01:19:21,812\nfor the city of Oakland and\nurge that you carry that\n\n1247\n01:19:23,581 --> 01:19:25,249\noption in some fashion forward\nto the citizens of Oakland.\n\n1248\n01:19:25,650 --> 01:19:27,650\nThank you so much. Thank you\n\n1249\n01:19:30,589 --> 01:19:32,590\nfor your comments. Rajon Rondo\nDistrict 4. I want to start by\n\n1250\n01:19:34,392 --> 01:19:36,600\nacknowledging the effort here.\nEasier to point out what's\n\n1251\n01:19:37,228 --> 01:19:38,929\nbroken that to try and fix And\nappreciate that this process\n\n1252\n01:19:40,499 --> 01:19:42,599\nis attempting to do that. What\nI hear from my community is\n\n1253\n01:19:43,568 --> 01:19:46,400\nvery consistent. People want\nbasic things to work like\nroads and public safety and\n\n1254\n01:19:46,400 --> 01:19:48,400\nmany residents don't feel we\n\n1255\n01:19:49,441 --> 01:19:51,910\nhave that. Charter reform is\npart of the solution along\nwith fiscal in broader\n\n1256\n01:19:51,910 --> 01:19:53,910\ngovernance reform. But my\n\n1257\n01:19:54,412 --> 01:19:57,281\nconcern simple. Who is\naccessible to the regular\n\n1258\n01:19:57,282 --> 01:19:59,984\nOakland resident. When\nsomething needs to get fixed\nand how do we ensure that it\n\n1259\n01:20:01,219 --> 01:20:02,853\nactually happens? It's already\ndifficult to get regular\n\n1260\n01:20:05,457 --> 01:20:08,425\nresidents. Voices heard. That\nmakes be cautious about\n\n1261\n01:20:08,560 --> 01:20:10,695\nconcentrating more power in a\nsingle office where access can\nfeel even more limited to\n\n1262\n01:20:10,695 --> 01:20:12,695\nthose without influence and\n\n1263\n01:20:15,433 --> 01:20:17,801\npower. We need a balance clear\nleadership with accountability\nand full representation,\n\n1264\n01:20:19,270 --> 01:20:21,672\nincluding the at-large seat.\nThat's why I'm leaning towards\n\n1265\n01:20:22,407 --> 01:20:24,409\na balanced approach. Like the\n3rd option. But I really urge\n\n1266\n01:20:24,409 --> 01:20:27,440\ncouncil choose a structure\nthat will truly deliver\n\n1267\n01:20:28,346 --> 01:20:30,548\nresults with accountability\nand transparency and\naccessibility to all\n\n1268\n01:20:31,490 --> 01:20:33,490\nOaklanders. Thank you. Thank\n\n1269\n01:20:37,922 --> 01:20:40,257\nyou for your comment. Thank\nyou. My name is Elizabeth\nSilver activated that the\n\n1270\n01:20:46,131 --> 01:20:48,131\nsilver. I I've lived here for\n\n1271\n01:20:49,167 --> 01:20:51,402\n48 years. Am a retired lawyer.\nI was city attorney of several\n\n1272\n01:20:55,740 --> 01:20:58,576\ncities for a total. Of 37\nyears. So I know what you\n\n1273\n01:21:02,580 --> 01:21:04,615\ndoing and I thank you for it.\nI'm in favor of the council\n\n1274\n01:21:05,450 --> 01:21:07,450\nmanager of government. The\n\n1275\n01:21:08,553 --> 01:21:10,220\nmost important thing that the\ncity council does, that the\n\n1276\n01:21:12,958 --> 01:21:15,560\nwhole city does is its budget.\nAnd the budget is the\n\n1277\n01:21:15,560 --> 01:21:17,560\nblueprint for what gets done\n\n1278\n01:21:24,569 --> 01:21:26,604\nin the city. Council. Then\nhouse to put a point somebody\n\n1279\n01:21:26,604 --> 01:21:28,339\nis going to implement the\nbudget. Just doesn't happen by\n\n1280\n01:21:31,543 --> 01:21:33,510\nitself. So the city\nadministrator or city manager,\n\n1281\n01:21:34,780 --> 01:21:36,460\nwhatever you want to call the\nposition is the person who\n\n1282\n01:21:38,750 --> 01:21:40,451\nimplements the budget. The\nbudget includes the council's\n\n1283\n01:21:41,252 --> 01:21:43,252\ngoals, how many will be spent\n\n1284\n01:21:44,289 --> 01:21:46,289\nbut programs will be adopted.\n\n1285\n01:21:46,558 --> 01:21:49,459\nIt cetera. And it's important\nto have a professional in the\n\n1286\n01:21:52,960 --> 01:21:53,797\nrole implementing budget. The\nmayor can be on the city\n\n1287\n01:21:58,836 --> 01:22:00,704\nCouncil. The city manager.\nReally works from council\n\n1288\n01:22:02,974 --> 01:22:04,974\nmeeting. Council meeting. So\n\n1289\n01:22:08,646 --> 01:22:10,581\nthe council has control. The\nimplementation of its\n\n1290\n01:22:14,719 --> 01:22:16,420\nobjectives because the council\npoints and can fire the city\n\n1291\n01:22:24,496 --> 01:22:26,496\nmanager. Thank drinking, does\n\n1292\n01:22:36,808 --> 01:22:38,442\nnot speak. My name is Millie\nCleveland. I also live in\n\n1293\n01:22:41,913 --> 01:22:44,815\ndistrict 4. And move one plot\n30 years ago, District 5.\n\n1294\n01:22:48,853 --> 01:22:51,522\nEnded up in 4. I want to throw\na little twist to the\n\n1295\n01:22:52,957 --> 01:22:54,957\ndiscussion about the\n\n1296\n01:22:56,227 --> 01:22:57,961\nunderlying assumptions about\nthe council developing policy\n\n1297\n01:22:58,930 --> 01:23:00,930\nbut not being able to enforce\n\n1298\n01:23:02,734 --> 01:23:04,734\nit. The mayor can't develop\n\n1299\n01:23:05,603 --> 01:23:07,604\npolicy, but it's responsible\nfor enforcement. My\n\n1300\n01:23:08,673 --> 01:23:10,673\nobservation coming to council\n\n1301\n01:23:12,143 --> 01:23:14,143\nmeetings is that our council\n\n1302\n01:23:15,146 --> 01:23:16,880\nrepresentatives have abdicated\ntheir responsibility,\n\n1303\n01:23:18,749 --> 01:23:20,651\nenforcing things that in\nmaking sure the city manager\n\n1304\n01:23:25,357 --> 01:23:27,357\nfollow through. The macro. A\n\n1305\n01:23:27,458 --> 01:23:29,458\nunit, the chief of the fire\n\n1306\n01:23:29,594 --> 01:23:31,828\ndepartment change the scope of\nwork and not one council\n\n1307\n01:23:36,334 --> 01:23:38,334\nperson race issue. We've had\n\n1308\n01:23:38,469 --> 01:23:40,570\ndecades of city auditors\nmaking recommendations on how\n\n1309\n01:23:43,740 --> 01:23:44,775\nto deal with opd over time,\nwhich have been dismissed by\n\n1310\n01:23:50,348 --> 01:23:52,150\nthe council. The council voted\nto civilian eyes almost 40\n\n1311\n01:23:53,585 --> 01:23:55,585\npositions in opd, putting 40\n\n1312\n01:23:56,955 --> 01:23:58,955\ncops back on the street. And\n\n1313\n01:24:00,992 --> 01:24:03,693\nthe council. He's done nothing\nto force a city administrator\nto speak on the work that he's\n\n1314\n01:24:05,797 --> 01:24:07,797\nbeen accomplish. So I am\n\n1315\n01:24:09,167 --> 01:24:11,167\nagainst Philly. My time is up.\n\n1316\n01:24:11,836 --> 01:24:13,836\nI'm against the strong. Thank\n\n1317\n01:24:19,177 --> 01:24:21,177\nyou, Emily. Naomi I'm only\n\n1318\n01:24:23,414 --> 01:24:25,148\nspeaking for myself. I support\nsomething like the 3rd option,\n\n1319\n01:24:26,551 --> 01:24:28,551\nan effective mayor and\n\n1320\n01:24:29,554 --> 01:24:31,255\nineffective counsel. I got to\nOakland when John reading was\n\n1321\n01:24:34,459 --> 01:24:37,327\nMayor. And before district\nelections. And I've attended\n\n1322\n01:24:38,290 --> 01:24:40,430\ncity Hall meeting since Lana\nWilson and his city manager\n\n1323\n01:24:43,835 --> 01:24:45,602\nHenry Gardner. I served on a\ncommission that vainly\n\n1324\n01:24:49,373 --> 01:24:50,974\nattempted to fix Jerry Brown's\nunworkable, incompetent\n\n1325\n01:24:54,245 --> 01:24:56,245\nmeasure acts. People want\n\n1326\n01:24:57,282 --> 01:24:58,882\neffective and accessible\ndistrict representation\n\n1327\n01:25:01,219 --> 01:25:02,920\npublicly accountable. Mayor.\nThe word strong shouldn't be\n\n1328\n01:25:04,923 --> 01:25:06,923\nused here. It's pejorative\n\n1329\n01:25:09,127 --> 01:25:10,794\nbecause it implies week. We've\nhad way too much talk about\n\n1330\n01:25:11,496 --> 01:25:13,496\nstrong stuff at the national\n\n1331\n01:25:15,767 --> 01:25:18,668\nlevel. Let's get rid of that.\nMost cities our size used\ncouncil manager system. And\n\n1332\n01:25:23,240 --> 01:25:25,240\nlastly. I support a point of\n\n1333\n01:25:25,443 --> 01:25:27,443\ncity attorney and auditor.\n\n1334\n01:25:28,646 --> 01:25:30,646\nBecause those posts are not\n\n1335\n01:25:32,850 --> 01:25:34,850\nfor anybody to run for. You\n\n1336\n01:25:35,553 --> 01:25:37,621\nneed somebody who has very\nspecific qualifications. It's\n\n1337\n01:25:37,855 --> 01:25:39,855\nnot the same as running for\n\n1338\n01:25:40,858 --> 01:25:42,526\nother political offices. I\nreally appreciate the work\n\n1339\n01:25:45,430 --> 01:25:47,431\nthat's been done. I vehemently\noppose the strong mayor\n\n1340\n01:25:50,340 --> 01:25:51,701\nconcept. Thank you. Thank you\nfor your comments called on\n\n1341\n01:25:59,510 --> 01:26:01,510\nnames. Ralph former chair of\n\n1342\n01:26:02,647 --> 01:26:04,314\nthe Public Commission.\nCommenting that this whole\n\n1343\n01:26:05,182 --> 01:26:07,182\nprocess is corrupt. That\n\n1344\n01:26:09,420 --> 01:26:11,321\nsection 601 requires 6 inches\nfrom 6 or the charter requires\n\n1345\n01:26:12,423 --> 01:26:14,570\nan advisory group. The created\nby resolution of the City\n\n1346\n01:26:14,726 --> 01:26:16,726\nCouncil. That didn't happen in\n\n1347\n01:26:16,894 --> 01:26:18,894\nthis case. In addition with\n\n1348\n01:26:19,764 --> 01:26:22,632\nthat doesn't meant there was\nno public meetings of this\n\n1349\n01:26:23,434 --> 01:26:25,102\nworking group for the public\nto observe the process and\n\n1350\n01:26:27,338 --> 01:26:29,338\nunderstand what took place.\n\n1351\n01:26:31,309 --> 01:26:33,420\nWell, minor detail there, but\nthe only way you can literally\n\n1352\n01:26:36,681 --> 01:26:39,482\ndo this is. Do what they did\n2003 and by City Council\nresolution create a working\n\n1353\n01:26:40,951 --> 01:26:42,619\ngroup that the public to\nparticipate and understand\n\n1354\n01:26:45,222 --> 01:26:47,858\nwhat's going on. I'm a public\nrecords request of the mayor's\noffice back DECEMBER. That yet\n\n1355\n01:26:49,994 --> 01:26:51,994\nto responded to evolving\n\n1356\n01:26:52,230 --> 01:26:54,631\nthings like were the agendas\nand minutes of the meetings of\n\n1357\n01:26:55,990 --> 01:26:57,990\nthe working group. I'm still\n\n1358\n01:27:00,505 --> 01:27:02,505\nway. I was reserve Quest is.\n\n1359\n01:27:02,673 --> 01:27:04,673\nWere shot. Do guards contract\n\n1360\n01:27:05,143 --> 01:27:07,143\nwho paid for all this? Who\n\n1361\n01:27:07,712 --> 01:27:09,712\nactually did the work? None of\n\n1362\n01:27:11,582 --> 01:27:13,249\nthat is public. It's all be in\nbed done by a private group\n\n1363\n01:27:13,751 --> 01:27:15,751\nwith private money and secret\n\n1364\n01:27:18,322 --> 01:27:21,158\nmeetings. There's been no\npublic process that the law\n\n1365\n01:27:21,225 --> 01:27:22,893\nrequires. This is a violation\nof the Constitution of the\n\n1366\n01:27:25,430 --> 01:27:27,130\nBrown Act. And a disgrace that\nit's been functioning. That's\n\n1367\n01:27:28,799 --> 01:27:30,799\nwhy. Thank you for your\n\n1368\n01:27:35,600 --> 01:27:36,706\ncomments. Was trying to get\nLevy chef to come up with me\n\n1369\n01:27:37,975 --> 01:27:39,975\nso we could any debate. Want\n\n1370\n01:27:41,512 --> 01:27:43,380\nto hear that right? First of\nall, I need an extra 10\n\n1371\n01:27:45,820 --> 01:27:47,285\nseconds before you start\ncounting time. I need to ask\n\n1372\n01:27:47,285 --> 01:27:49,886\nsomebody to translate to sign.\nDoesn't make sense to anybody\n\n1373\n01:27:50,922 --> 01:27:52,656\nso far. And I want to complain\nabout mobility issues for that\n\n1374\n01:27:53,591 --> 01:27:55,525\nfor this building. Please\ndon't take my time for that.\n\n1375\n01:28:00,498 --> 01:28:03,100\nPlease. Please stop the time.\nAnd we time actually in\n\n1376\n01:28:03,100 --> 01:28:05,100\nseconds. All right. When you\n\n1377\n01:28:06,170 --> 01:28:08,839\nget out of the day garage and\nyou're walking with a cane or\nat whatever pace to state your\n\n1378\n01:28:09,674 --> 01:28:11,274\nname for the red. Oh, sorry,\nPamela. Draped with the\n\n1379\n01:28:13,578 --> 01:28:16,413\nWellston Club. You have to go\nall the way around. Like about\nan extra blocker and a block\n\n1380\n01:28:17,982 --> 01:28:19,982\nand a half. Somebody should be\n\n1381\n01:28:21,652 --> 01:28:23,953\nat the door at the other side,\nthere's you have somebody\nsitting at desk there that\n\n1382\n01:28:24,922 --> 01:28:27,557\ncould come over and escort you\nover to the security. So you\ndidn't have to go all the way\n\n1383\n01:28:28,459 --> 01:28:30,459\naround. Hope this not\n\n1384\n01:28:31,662 --> 01:28:33,396\nviolation, but seems like one.\nAll right. Let me let me start\n\n1385\n01:28:35,320 --> 01:28:37,320\nmy name. How much time I going\n\n1386\n01:28:37,568 --> 01:28:39,568\nto get to talk. 10 seconds\n\n1387\n01:28:42,940 --> 01:28:45,142\nmore. 20 seconds. You know,\nI'm a post of the strong\n\n1388\n01:28:45,142 --> 01:28:47,142\nmayor. I'm not in favor of the\n\n1389\n01:28:49,130 --> 01:28:51,482\nwhole move movement towards\nauthoritarianism that this\ncountry's been involved in. I\n\n1390\n01:28:51,482 --> 01:28:53,482\nthink we're backing off of\n\n1391\n01:28:53,518 --> 01:28:55,218\nthat now on top of that,\nthere's really 2 issues that\n\n1392\n01:28:56,554 --> 01:28:58,554\nare the ones that are up for\n\n1393\n01:28:58,823 --> 01:29:00,958\nconcern. One is that when the\ncouncil members have a\ncomplaint from their\n\n1394\n01:29:00,958 --> 01:29:02,958\nconstituents, they don't have\n\n1395\n01:29:04,662 --> 01:29:07,530\nany place for it to go so\nhigher. Some assistant city\n\n1396\n01:29:07,665 --> 01:29:09,332\nadministrators who work\ndirectly with each council\n\n1397\n01:29:10,267 --> 01:29:12,235\nmember with each district MAY\nbe giving district 7 their own\n\n1398\n01:29:14,905 --> 01:29:17,807\nand the other districts to to\ncouncil districts for one\nadministrator to get your\n\n1399\n01:29:18,342 --> 01:29:20,342\nspecial. Want to say, Ken need\n\n1400\n01:29:23,481 --> 01:29:25,548\nspecial anyway, that would\nthat that person would then\n\n1401\n01:29:26,317 --> 01:29:28,318\nwork directly when they have a\ncomplaint say, ok, we'll see\n\n1402\n01:29:29,887 --> 01:29:32,210\nwhat we can do about your\ncomplaint and we'll work\n\n1403\n01:29:32,389 --> 01:29:34,230\ndirectly with you say you can\ntalk to your constituents\n\n1404\n01:29:35,326 --> 01:29:37,394\nabout what's being done. The\nother issue seems to be the\n\n1405\n01:29:38,128 --> 01:29:39,929\nmayor should be sitting on the\ncouncil. The mayor should be\n\n1406\n01:29:42,600 --> 01:29:44,868\navailable for people to see\nhow she thinks how she\norganizes her thoughts and\n\n1407\n01:29:45,136 --> 01:29:47,136\nmake sure decisions. Thank\n\n1408\n01:29:53,577 --> 01:29:55,577\nends. Thank you, MR. Inc. You\n\n1409\n01:29:55,813 --> 01:29:57,480\nwere given by the Chair 10\nextra seconds. So allow the\n\n1410\n01:30:05,990 --> 01:30:08,124\nmike to stay on long enough.\nThank you for your comments.\n\n1411\n01:30:09,159 --> 01:30:10,860\nNext. Speaker signed up.\nThat's PRESIDENT First. Thank\n\n1412\n01:30:16,434 --> 01:30:18,768\nyou. Windows. Yes, my name\nRichard Fuentes. I'm a leader\n\n1413\n01:30:19,603 --> 01:30:21,571\nin the union movement with\nasked me council 57\n\n1414\n01:30:25,442 --> 01:30:27,811\nrepresenting 26,000 workers.\nAlso small business owner here\nin downtown Oakland in a\n\n1415\n01:30:29,980 --> 01:30:32,949\ndowntown up and resident. I'm\nalso a member of the mayor's\n\n1416\n01:30:33,170 --> 01:30:35,985\nworking group for the charter\nreform. And I want to speak in\nsupport of our recommendations\n\n1417\n01:30:37,255 --> 01:30:39,255\nfor storm Mayor. We did a\n\n1418\n01:30:40,240 --> 01:30:42,792\ncommunity outreach. We heard\nthroughout Oakland from every\n\n1419\n01:30:44,940 --> 01:30:46,930\nsingle district from working\npeople that they wanted to\n\n1420\n01:30:47,640 --> 01:30:49,640\nhave strong mayor form of\n\n1421\n01:30:50,868 --> 01:30:52,969\ngovernment. We have serve ace.\nWe're brown and black\ncommunities got to\n\n1422\n01:30:54,380 --> 01:30:56,380\nparticipate. You're hearing\n\n1423\n01:30:57,174 --> 01:30:59,809\ntoday about a 3rd option, a\n3rd option that is not\nrecommended by the working\n\n1424\n01:31:01,278 --> 01:31:03,278\ngroup. A 3rd option that has\n\n1425\n01:31:03,314 --> 01:31:05,681\nno input from working people\nfrom black people from Brown\n\n1426\n01:31:07,184 --> 01:31:09,184\npeople lets be cleared. A 3rd\n\n1427\n01:31:11,880 --> 01:31:12,755\noption is a privilege option\nworking. People don't have\n\n1428\n01:31:15,192 --> 01:31:17,693\ntime to come today. At\n10:30am, in the morning to\nprovide their perspective.\n\n1429\n01:31:18,896 --> 01:31:21,631\nI've worked for 3\nmunicipalities. I work for a\nspecial district. I've served\n\n1430\n01:31:24,268 --> 01:31:26,669\non a e pension board federal\noversight committees where\n\n1431\n01:31:28,710 --> 01:31:30,406\nI've served. Let me tell you,\nOakland is diverse. And\nbecause of that, the diversity\n\n1432\n01:31:31,175 --> 01:31:33,175\nthat we have within our city,\n\n1433\n01:31:35,790 --> 01:31:36,679\na strong form former\ngovernment is really an\n\n1434\n01:31:37,748 --> 01:31:39,415\napproach that was served up\nlenders because Oaklanders\n\n1435\n01:31:41,452 --> 01:31:43,519\ndon't know who is responsible.\nOaklanders don't know who's in\n\n1436\n01:31:44,322 --> 01:31:46,689\ncharge. Oaklanders want to\nknow who is responsible for\nPhilly, their potholes. Thank\n\n1437\n01:31:46,891 --> 01:31:48,891\nyou. Thank you for your\n\n1438\n01:31:52,796 --> 01:31:54,430\ncomments next. Speaker. Well,\nhello, my name is Libby\n\n1439\n01:31:57,134 --> 01:31:59,869\nSchaff. I'm a lifetime.\nOakland or I am a 24 year\n\n1440\n01:32:01,739 --> 01:32:03,739\nveteran of city Hall and I\n\n1441\n01:32:05,420 --> 01:32:07,177\nspeak to you as a private\ncitizen today. I do. I am\n\n1442\n01:32:07,177 --> 01:32:09,177\nprobably the only person alive\n\n1443\n01:32:11,849 --> 01:32:14,717\nwho was and East Oakland\nCouncil staffer under Jerry\nBrown, strong mayor form of\n\n1444\n01:32:15,653 --> 01:32:17,653\ngovernment. I was a council\n\n1445\n01:32:18,589 --> 01:32:20,589\nmember of district 4 and I, of\n\n1446\n01:32:21,458 --> 01:32:23,527\ncourse, was the mayor for 8\nyears. So I do bring a unique\nperspective on how these\n\n1447\n01:32:23,527 --> 01:32:25,527\ndifferent systems actually\n\n1448\n01:32:26,263 --> 01:32:27,997\nhave worked in the asked and\nhappy to answer any questions.\n\n1449\n01:32:31,435 --> 01:32:33,503\nIf you have any. I want start\nby saying I was disappointed\n\n1450\n01:32:35,906 --> 01:32:38,841\nto hear citations of the\nsurvey and suggesting that\n\n1451\n01:32:41,110 --> 01:32:43,279\nthat represented voter\nsentiment, the survey that was\n\n1452\n01:32:45,490 --> 01:32:47,490\ndone by the working group was\n\n1453\n01:32:47,852 --> 01:32:50,354\nan opt-in survey and the\ndemographics of respondents\n\n1454\n01:32:50,354 --> 01:32:52,354\n16% of respondents didn't even\n\n1455\n01:32:53,591 --> 01:32:56,392\nlive in Oakland. And an\ninteresting 23% were city of\n\n1456\n01:32:58,280 --> 01:32:59,862\nOakland employees. So I just\nplease do not regard those\n\n1457\n01:33:00,297 --> 01:33:02,297\nsurvey results as voter\n\n1458\n01:33:04,568 --> 01:33:06,568\nsentiment. 3 polls now have\n\n1459\n01:33:07,400 --> 01:33:09,772\nbeen done about how do\noaklanders feel about this\n\n1460\n01:33:10,507 --> 01:33:12,507\nproposal? All 3 have turned\n\n1461\n01:33:15,450 --> 01:33:17,450\nback very clear mandates that\n\n1462\n01:33:18,215 --> 01:33:20,215\nOakland voters want a strong\n\n1463\n01:33:20,284 --> 01:33:22,351\nmayor. 61% in the polls. The\npolls of Pulse of Oakland pull\n\n1464\n01:33:27,491 --> 01:33:29,192\nin the fall. 60 4% in the East\nBay Polling institute results\n\n1465\n01:33:30,995 --> 01:33:32,995\nand then. Mayor or other\n\n1466\n01:33:33,664 --> 01:33:35,664\ninsights. You want to offer. I\n\n1467\n01:33:35,732 --> 01:33:37,732\nI do have questions about how\n\n1468\n01:33:40,538 --> 01:33:43,406\nthe system worked. Yes, okay.\nYou know, under Jerry Brant\n\n1469\n01:33:44,608 --> 01:33:47,410\nthis working group's proposal\nis essentially the same as we\n\n1470\n01:33:48,545 --> 01:33:50,413\nhad under Jerry Brown's strong\nmayor before the council took\n\n1471\n01:33:52,382 --> 01:33:54,850\naway the veto power. You might\nnot remember Jerry Brown had a\nview to power because he\n\n1472\n01:33:56,353 --> 01:33:58,455\nhardly ever used it. The one\ntime I remember was a piece\n\n1473\n01:33:58,455 --> 01:34:00,455\nlegislation. I actually wrote\n\n1474\n01:34:01,792 --> 01:34:03,493\nwhen I was the legislative\naide to Council member De La\n\n1475\n01:34:06,497 --> 01:34:08,497\nFuente district 5 the council\n\n1476\n01:34:09,990 --> 01:34:10,767\nhad a lot of power in my\nexperience. It is actually\n\n1477\n01:34:12,369 --> 01:34:14,369\nwhen the council and the mayor\n\n1478\n01:34:16,773 --> 01:34:18,574\nhad the best collaboration and\nthe council offices\n\n1479\n01:34:20,144 --> 01:34:22,478\nconstituent work, which was my\npassion. When I worked in the\n\n1480\n01:34:23,130 --> 01:34:25,130\ncouncil offices actually got\n\n1481\n01:34:25,382 --> 01:34:27,382\ndone. There was more\n\n1482\n01:34:28,552 --> 01:34:31,254\nresponsiveness from the\nadministration wall. It is not\n\n1483\n01:34:32,256 --> 01:34:34,825\nclear that this proposal\nrequires the 3, 1, 1, or\n\n1484\n01:34:34,825 --> 01:34:36,825\nconstituent response to be\n\n1485\n01:34:38,950 --> 01:34:40,290\nunder the mayor at that time.\nIt was the Oaklanders\n\n1486\n01:34:40,130 --> 01:34:42,198\nAssistance Center was actually\npart of the mayor's office and\n\n1487\n01:34:42,699 --> 01:34:44,699\nit was much more responsive\n\n1488\n01:34:47,304 --> 01:34:48,905\nthan our current system. The\ncouncil had a full-time\n\n1489\n01:34:49,606 --> 01:34:51,606\nlegislative in budget analyst\n\n1490\n01:34:53,543 --> 01:34:56,245\nthat allowed us to write good\nlegislation, proactive\nlegislation and to have our\n\n1491\n01:34:58,181 --> 01:35:00,181\nown independent budget analyst\n\n1492\n01:35:00,417 --> 01:35:02,986\nto actually be an independent\nvalidator of financial\n\n1493\n01:35:02,986 --> 01:35:05,722\ninformation that we were\ngetting from the\n\n1494\n01:35:06,890 --> 01:35:09,525\nadministration. So those were\nsome of the qualities I\nremember from the strong\n\n1495\n01:35:13,263 --> 01:35:15,298\nmayor. Finally. Everyone\nagrees that a hybrid system is\n\n1496\n01:35:16,333 --> 01:35:18,333\nfuzzy and does not serve\n\n1497\n01:35:19,636 --> 01:35:21,636\nanyone. Option. 3 is just\n\n1498\n01:35:22,873 --> 01:35:25,274\nanother hybrid proposal. I\nwould prefer to see Oakland go\n\n1499\n01:35:26,760 --> 01:35:28,770\nback to a council manager for\nof government rather than swap\n\n1500\n01:35:29,713 --> 01:35:31,713\none fuzzy hybrid for another.\n\n1501\n01:35:35,719 --> 01:35:37,954\nI know that. That that would\nbased on my experience in\n\n1502\n01:35:37,954 --> 01:35:39,954\nthese 24 years in these\n\n1503\n01:35:40,657 --> 01:35:43,270\nvarious roles. And if anyone\ndoesn't have any other\n\n1504\n01:35:43,270 --> 01:35:45,270\nquestions. I appreciate the\n\n1505\n01:35:46,597 --> 01:35:48,597\nopportunity. All right. Thank\n\n1506\n01:35:49,366 --> 01:35:51,868\nyou. Thank you for your\nSpeakers have been called if\n\n1507\n01:35:52,970 --> 01:35:54,970\nyou are participating here in\n\n1508\n01:35:55,720 --> 01:35:57,208\nchambers and signed up to\nspeak in her name was called\nplease approach the podium. If\n\n1509\n01:35:57,208 --> 01:35:59,208\nnot, we will move on to zoom\n\n1510\n01:36:00,544 --> 01:36:02,945\nspeakers. I see no one rising.\nSo we will go to those who\nsigned up to speak in zoom. If\n\n1511\n01:36:11,655 --> 01:36:13,322\nyou are. And America extra\ntime and ice speaking about\n\n1512\n01:36:14,725 --> 01:36:16,859\nlow mobility issues, not about\nthe strong mayor and I would\n\n1513\n01:36:17,127 --> 01:36:19,127\nlike 30 seconds to finish.\n\n1514\n01:36:21,898 --> 01:36:23,898\nChanging it. You're out of\n\n1515\n01:36:26,103 --> 01:36:27,770\norder. I signed up in time.\nYes, and I had to listen to\n\n1516\n01:36:31,842 --> 01:36:34,430\nall that stuff. If I give you\nextra time, I got to give\n\n1517\n01:36:34,278 --> 01:36:36,980\neverybody else know, if you're\ngiving people who've been\ninvolved in government, I\n\n1518\n01:36:36,980 --> 01:36:38,948\ndidn't give extra time because\nhe was involved in government.\n\n1519\n01:36:41,618 --> 01:36:44,119\nI didn't say All right. Well,\nI didn't get all my time\nbecause I'm having a problem\n\n1520\n01:36:45,822 --> 01:36:47,822\nwith the mobility issues and\n\n1521\n01:36:48,492 --> 01:36:50,226\nthe city hall. And that\ndoesn't seem okay. So because\n\n1522\n01:36:53,396 --> 01:36:56,299\nthis is an issue. I will allow\nyou that the extra seconds.\n\n1523\n01:36:59,302 --> 01:37:01,704\nThank you. Okay. So the strong\nmayor, the real issue, if you\nthink about strong Marin, you\n\n1524\n01:37:03,600 --> 01:37:04,707\nthink about a corporation, you\nknow that the idea person is\n\n1525\n01:37:07,440 --> 01:37:08,778\nnot the same as the detail\nperson. There's nobody who can\n\n1526\n01:37:10,881 --> 01:37:12,881\ndo both. Well. And it's really\n\n1527\n01:37:13,784 --> 01:37:16,752\na place that ends up it was\nchange because of all the\n\n1528\n01:37:16,786 --> 01:37:18,421\ncorruption. Now the current\nmayor is not going to be\n\n1529\n01:37:18,822 --> 01:37:20,822\ninvolved in corruption, but\n\n1530\n01:37:22,792 --> 01:37:25,494\nwhoever comes after her could\nuse this as a real power grab.\n\n1531\n01:37:26,960 --> 01:37:28,197\nThat's that's what it\nessentially is. But the other\n\n1532\n01:37:29,766 --> 01:37:31,766\nthing about the legislative\n\n1533\n01:37:31,868 --> 01:37:33,868\noffice, I don't want a plan\n\n1534\n01:37:34,170 --> 01:37:35,871\nfrom the administrators the\ncity council office. I think\n\n1535\n01:37:36,573 --> 01:37:38,573\nthat's a bad idea. Thank you.\n\n1536\n01:37:38,742 --> 01:37:40,876\nThank you for your comments.\nNow moving to the zoom\n\n1537\n01:37:41,945 --> 01:37:44,914\nspeakers. If signed up to\nspeak for this item and you\n\n1538\n01:37:46,717 --> 01:37:48,418\nwish to use your time. Please\nraise your hand in the queue\n\n1539\n01:37:49,519 --> 01:37:51,621\nso I can recognize uic Blair,\nman. You have been muted. You\n\n1540\n01:37:56,326 --> 01:37:58,326\nMAY begin. I blame Beekman.\n\n1541\n01:37:59,930 --> 01:38:01,964\nThank you a lot for this item.\nI'm living in San Diego. That\n\n1542\n01:38:02,966 --> 01:38:05,834\nalso has a strong mayor\nsystem. And that also is\nhaving a lot of questions\naround the strong mayor\n\n1543\n01:38:11,408 --> 01:38:13,408\nsystem. I was originally from\n\n1544\n01:38:14,411 --> 01:38:16,411\nSan and they had a quite\n\n1545\n01:38:17,447 --> 01:38:20,116\ncommunity process few years\nago to decide the future of\nstrong Mayor versus Council\n\n1546\n01:38:21,251 --> 01:38:23,251\nmandate. City manager, ways of\n\n1547\n01:38:24,487 --> 01:38:26,689\nworking and easily. The\ncommunity came out in\nsupporting the future of\n\n1548\n01:38:28,959 --> 01:38:31,727\ncouncil manager system and\ncreated a very clear case of\n\n1549\n01:38:33,300 --> 01:38:35,300\nits importance. The strong\n\n1550\n01:38:35,865 --> 01:38:37,566\nmayor simply is there to you\nknow, real estate interests.\n\n1551\n01:38:40,360 --> 01:38:42,805\nAnd those of the ridge. And I\nthink the majority of the\npeople are going to be for\n\n1552\n01:38:42,973 --> 01:38:44,740\nthis measure in Oakland are\ngoing to be either in real\n\n1553\n01:38:46,900 --> 01:38:48,900\nestate or rich people. And we\n\n1554\n01:38:49,879 --> 01:38:51,879\nhave to acknowledge that the\n\n1555\n01:38:51,948 --> 01:38:54,517\ntech accountability ideas that\nwould create that whole new\n\n1556\n01:38:54,517 --> 01:38:56,517\ncharter ideas were created for\n\n1557\n01:38:58,688 --> 01:39:00,688\nback in 2014 15. It was with\n\n1558\n01:39:00,957 --> 01:39:02,625\nthe intention to work towards\nthe future of community\n\n1559\n01:39:03,493 --> 01:39:06,462\nparticipation and open\ndemocracy as how to talk about\n\n1560\n01:39:07,798 --> 01:39:10,166\nour future of how we practice\ncommunity together. And I\nthink we have to be committed\n\n1561\n01:39:12,350 --> 01:39:13,669\nto those goals that the I've\nbeen learning. This is a\n\n1562\n01:39:15,839 --> 01:39:17,540\nlearning process for my so but\nthe you know, council manager\n\n1563\n01:39:19,576 --> 01:39:21,645\ncity manager, way of working\nworks towards open\n\n1564\n01:39:21,645 --> 01:39:24,460\nparticipatory democracy. The\nstrong mayor form does not. It\n\n1565\n01:39:27,584 --> 01:39:29,584\nserves the weekend. Thank you\n\n1566\n01:39:30,587 --> 01:39:32,288\nfor your comments of the next\nspeaker. In you have unit mud\n\n1567\n01:39:36,593 --> 01:39:38,427\nor I mean, don't eat about\ntime and I'm in district 6 in\n\n1568\n01:39:40,797 --> 01:39:42,565\nhave been here for many years.\nAnd why appreciate the work\n\n1569\n01:39:48,638 --> 01:39:50,638\nthat the working that I\n\n1570\n01:39:50,707 --> 01:39:52,707\nsupport council manager\n\n1571\n01:39:53,643 --> 01:39:55,911\nsystem. We had one before we\nstep mean and worked pretty\nwell before we start to\n\n1572\n01:39:59,850 --> 01:40:01,850\ntinker. Now we have a system\n\n1573\n01:40:02,850 --> 01:40:04,850\nwe all agree is not workable.\n\n1574\n01:40:05,822 --> 01:40:07,822\nBut with a council managers\n\n1575\n01:40:09,626 --> 01:40:11,460\nsystem where we have. With the\nmayor sitting on the council\n\n1576\n01:40:12,329 --> 01:40:14,329\nand leading the effort. We\n\n1577\n01:40:16,166 --> 01:40:18,166\nhave a strong career, strong\n\n1578\n01:40:18,168 --> 01:40:19,701\ncouncil and we have the\nprofessionals, city\n\n1579\n01:40:21,710 --> 01:40:23,710\nCOUNCILMAN. I mean, meant I'm\n\n1580\n01:40:24,841 --> 01:40:27,176\ncity manager who as\nprofessional and can last\n\n1581\n01:40:28,778 --> 01:40:30,778\nbeyond just one administration\n\n1582\n01:40:32,449 --> 01:40:34,316\ndon't know exactly what that\ndon't want to depend on the\n\n1583\n01:40:37,754 --> 01:40:39,488\ngoodness of And the mayor.\nDepending on who gets elected.\n\n1584\n01:40:40,824 --> 01:40:42,824\nSo I strongly support. Council\n\n1585\n01:40:43,493 --> 01:40:45,493\nmanager. With Strong Mayor\n\n1586\n01:40:46,863 --> 01:40:49,331\nSystem. Thank you. Thank you\nfor your comments. I show one\n\n1587\n01:40:49,599 --> 01:40:51,599\nlast hand raised in Zoom was\n\n1588\n01:40:53,269 --> 01:40:55,671\nlisted under iPhone. When you\nto please state the name that\nit's written on your speaker\n\n1589\n01:40:57,240 --> 01:40:59,240\ncard that you signed up for.\n\n1590\n01:41:01,377 --> 01:41:03,178\nNeeded iPhone. Hi, hello. My\nname is Fernando Perez. I did\n\n1591\n01:41:03,780 --> 01:41:05,780\nfind up yesterday. Great.\n\n1592\n01:41:11,870 --> 01:41:12,855\nThank you. You MAY be my the I\nwas raised no plan. I live\n\n1593\n01:41:13,890 --> 01:41:16,726\nthroughout the Bay area at\nLivermore. I lived in Hayward.\n\n1594\n01:41:17,694 --> 01:41:19,694\nI just bought a house 2 years\n\n1595\n01:41:22,999 --> 01:41:24,999\nago. Not back and I love open.\n\n1596\n01:41:26,936 --> 01:41:28,936\nI love you. I love it I'm kind\n\n1597\n01:41:31,775 --> 01:41:34,676\nof tired I'm kind of tired of\nalways kind of the unique\npolitically wise and all of\n\n1598\n01:41:34,944 --> 01:41:37,146\nthat and why can't we just do\nwhat our neighbors in the Bay\n\n1599\n01:41:39,783 --> 01:41:41,450\narea are doing and they're\ndoing great. They They're\n\n1600\n01:41:44,521 --> 01:41:46,588\nfollowing. The council manager\nsays do and I I've moved out\n\n1601\n01:41:49,250 --> 01:41:50,759\nof open for over 15 years. So\nI got I got an opportunity see\n\n1602\n01:41:53,496 --> 01:41:55,496\nwhat a good strong city does\n\n1603\n01:41:56,766 --> 01:41:58,766\nof basic track meet car\n\n1604\n01:41:59,202 --> 01:42:01,170\npickups are done a timely\nmanner. So why can't we just\n\n1605\n01:42:01,471 --> 01:42:03,471\ndo that? Why can't we just who\n\n1606\n01:42:05,208 --> 01:42:06,942\nis the system that has been\nworking for our neighbors here\n\n1607\n01:42:09,146 --> 01:42:10,846\nin the Bay area as well. So\nthose are my $0.02 to nothing\n\n1608\n01:42:13,717 --> 01:42:15,784\nfor your time. Thank you for\nyour comments. Again on the\n\n1609\n01:42:16,319 --> 01:42:18,319\nnames have to called. If you\n\n1610\n01:42:18,388 --> 01:42:21,290\nsigned up to speak for item 5,\nplease approach the podium or\nraise your hand in the queue.\n\n1611\n01:42:23,693 --> 01:42:25,327\nAt this time chair. No more\nThank you. Thank you. To\n\n1612\n01:42:27,697 --> 01:42:30,650\neveryone came out to talk\nabout or opinion on the way\nthat Oakland goes forward. I\n\n1613\n01:42:31,668 --> 01:42:33,668\nknow it's. That's because you\n\n1614\n01:42:34,838 --> 01:42:37,739\ncare about Oakland direction\nthat we go. And that's the\ncommonality that we have\n\n1615\n01:42:38,274 --> 01:42:40,274\nbetween us. So this won't be\n\n1616\n01:42:41,440 --> 01:42:43,445\nthe last meeting that we have\nto discuss. Potential charter\n\n1617\n01:42:45,515 --> 01:42:47,820\nchanges. Think it's important\nthat everybody has an\n\n1618\n01:42:47,517 --> 01:42:49,552\nopportunity to weigh in in the\npublic forum. And so I work\n\n1619\n01:42:49,552 --> 01:42:51,552\nwith the mayor's office and\n\n1620\n01:42:53,389 --> 01:42:56,225\nthe council members too\nschedule one other item at\nsome point in time so that\n\n1621\n01:42:56,326 --> 01:42:58,328\npeople have a chance to weigh\nin with that. I'll open it up\n\n1622\n01:42:58,328 --> 01:43:00,328\nto council members. If you\n\n1623\n01:43:03,320 --> 01:43:04,733\nguys have any comments.\nCouncil member Brown at-large\n\n1624\n01:43:07,870 --> 01:43:10,640\ncouncil member Brown.\nExcellent. Okay. Well, thank\nyou all so much. So I would\n\n1625\n01:43:10,640 --> 01:43:12,241\njust want to first start off\nby thanking the mayor's\n\n1626\n01:43:14,477 --> 01:43:16,477\nworking group. Everyone who\n\n1627\n01:43:17,800 --> 01:43:19,800\nwas involved. I know it's it's\n\n1628\n01:43:20,350 --> 01:43:22,350\nnot easy to, you know, put\n\n1629\n01:43:23,486 --> 01:43:26,321\ntogether the community\nengagement events and\ndisorganized. You know, all\neveryone's thoughts and\n\n1630\n01:43:27,724 --> 01:43:29,424\nopinions. And so just want to\noffer my gratitude and thanks\n\n1631\n01:43:31,961 --> 01:43:34,396\nfor for that. And then in\naddition, really grateful for\neveryone who showed up today\n\n1632\n01:43:37,167 --> 01:43:39,536\nto kind of speak and share\nabout whether it was their\n\n1633\n01:43:39,536 --> 01:43:41,136\npersonal experience.\nNavigating Oakland City\n\n1634\n01:43:43,172 --> 01:43:45,107\ngovernment and went in and how\nyou all think that we should\n\n1635\n01:43:46,509 --> 01:43:48,509\nwe begin to move forward. And\n\n1636\n01:43:49,379 --> 01:43:52,247\nso, of course, you know, my\ngoal in all of this is a chain\n\n1637\n01:43:53,216 --> 01:43:56,184\nthat we are moving forward\nwith a government governance\n\n1638\n01:43:57,754 --> 01:43:59,754\nstructure that is based in\n\n1639\n01:44:01,524 --> 01:44:03,524\naccountability. And we're also\n\n1640\n01:44:03,526 --> 01:44:05,526\nensuring that we are listening\n\n1641\n01:44:05,695 --> 01:44:07,763\nto the concerns of our\nconstituency. Right? And a lot\n\n1642\n01:44:07,763 --> 01:44:09,763\nof times, it's it's really\n\n1643\n01:44:11,634 --> 01:44:13,468\nbeen very consistent around.\nYou know, at the end of the\n\n1644\n01:44:13,837 --> 01:44:15,837\nday, community members want\n\n1645\n01:44:16,506 --> 01:44:19,308\ntheir concerns to be addressed\nnow we get into the weeds of\n\n1646\n01:44:21,878 --> 01:44:24,713\nhow that takes place. At the\nend the day, it boils down to\n\n1647\n01:44:25,782 --> 01:44:28,160\naccountability. And so that is\nwhat interested in. And so I\n\n1648\n01:44:30,687 --> 01:44:32,687\nlook forward to working with\n\n1649\n01:44:32,755 --> 01:44:34,456\nmy council colleagues. So\nCouncilmember Jenkins council\n\n1650\n01:44:34,824 --> 01:44:37,492\nmember entendre in to to\nensure that we move forward in\n\n1651\n01:44:39,763 --> 01:44:41,763\na path that is supportive of\n\n1652\n01:44:43,499 --> 01:44:45,499\nour entire city. Of course,\n\n1653\n01:44:47,103 --> 01:44:48,637\nthere is a larger conversation\naround just overall\n\n1654\n01:44:50,974 --> 01:44:53,109\nrepresentation. I just don't\nthink that in our day and our\n\n1655\n01:44:53,109 --> 01:44:55,109\nday and age and just in this\n\n1656\n01:44:55,144 --> 01:44:57,144\nmoment that we should be at\n\n1657\n01:44:57,914 --> 01:44:59,581\nany point overall\nrepresentation. One of the\n\n1658\n01:45:06,823 --> 01:45:08,523\npublic speakers talked about.\nAbout investment like and how\n\n1659\n01:45:09,625 --> 01:45:11,927\nwe are investing in our\ncommunities in it is the whole\n\n1660\n01:45:12,595 --> 01:45:14,595\nreason why I ran for the\n\n1661\n01:45:15,497 --> 01:45:17,497\nat-large seat had to do with\n\n1662\n01:45:17,533 --> 01:45:19,533\nthe the the blaring\n\n1663\n01:45:19,535 --> 01:45:21,535\nobservation of how communities\n\n1664\n01:45:22,471 --> 01:45:24,471\nboth in east and West Oakland\n\n1665\n01:45:25,808 --> 01:45:27,509\nhave underrepresented for\ndecades. And the truth of the\n\n1666\n01:45:29,479 --> 01:45:31,613\nmatter is, is that in this\nmoment that that is what we're\n\n1667\n01:45:32,582 --> 01:45:34,582\nliving through, right? And so\n\n1668\n01:45:37,386 --> 01:45:39,421\nI just I can't I cannot get\nbehind and a recommendation\n\n1669\n01:45:41,991 --> 01:45:43,991\nthat seeks to eliminate\n\n1670\n01:45:44,961 --> 01:45:47,762\nrepresentation for for the\ncommunity and I have not ran\n\n1671\n01:45:48,831 --> 01:45:50,831\ninto any community members\n\n1672\n01:45:51,867 --> 01:45:53,635\nthat say they don't\nunderstand, you the role of\n\n1673\n01:45:56,139 --> 01:45:57,873\nthe at large seat or there's\nconfusion between the mayor of\n\n1674\n01:46:00,543 --> 01:46:02,244\nour amazing city. And so I\njust wanted to make sure that\n\n1675\n01:46:04,614 --> 01:46:07,150\nI see that on the record that\nI just don't believe that that\n\n1676\n01:46:08,840 --> 01:46:10,840\nis the direction we should be\n\n1677\n01:46:10,887 --> 01:46:12,988\ngoing. The report also states\nI guess the talking point is\n\n1678\n01:46:16,159 --> 01:46:18,159\nthat moving the council back\n\n1679\n01:46:19,596 --> 01:46:22,431\ni've number of votes. I do\nthink that there's a simple\n\n1680\n01:46:23,990 --> 01:46:25,834\nfix as far as that, which we\ncan all move forward with,\n\n1681\n01:46:28,471 --> 01:46:30,471\nwhich is a simple as 5 votes\n\n1682\n01:46:31,274 --> 01:46:33,976\nand the legislation passes.\nAnd in the event that there is\n\n1683\n01:46:35,578 --> 01:46:37,578\na tie breaking vote, the\n\n1684\n01:46:37,613 --> 01:46:39,248\nmotion fails. And so in this\nmoment, I think more than\n\n1685\n01:46:40,183 --> 01:46:42,183\nanything we should be 100%\n\n1686\n01:46:43,653 --> 01:46:45,653\nfocused on solutions to\n\n1687\n01:46:47,560 --> 01:46:49,691\nimproving how our city cling\ngovernance works works. The\n\n1688\n01:46:52,361 --> 01:46:54,363\nbest for the people of Oakland\nand so that is something that\n\n1689\n01:46:57,534 --> 01:46:59,534\nI want to get behind. I'm\n\n1690\n01:47:00,202 --> 01:47:01,903\ngrateful for the the group\nthat presented their findings\n\n1691\n01:47:03,239 --> 01:47:05,239\naround this 3rd option. I do\n\n1692\n01:47:06,750 --> 01:47:07,942\nthink that is important for so\nmany of the important\n\n1693\n01:47:08,644 --> 01:47:10,644\ndecisions that we make as a\n\n1694\n01:47:10,947 --> 01:47:13,114\ncouncil. I do think that there\nis some value in ensuring that\n\n1695\n01:47:13,716 --> 01:47:15,716\nthe mayor can also weigh in on\n\n1696\n01:47:16,585 --> 01:47:18,320\nthose. And so I am supportive\nof that door to option. I just\n\n1697\n01:47:18,888 --> 01:47:20,888\nwant see that on the record.\n\n1698\n01:47:21,991 --> 01:47:23,991\nAnd as always, I'm always open\n\n1699\n01:47:24,160 --> 01:47:26,160\nto engage further with members\n\n1700\n01:47:26,596 --> 01:47:28,596\nof the working group. If they\n\n1701\n01:47:29,732 --> 01:47:31,732\nwould like as well. And that\n\n1702\n01:47:33,536 --> 01:47:35,570\nalso would know during the\nworking group's process and\n\n1703\n01:47:36,372 --> 01:47:38,372\nwhen they met with me, I\n\n1704\n01:47:38,474 --> 01:47:40,309\noffered multiple\nrecommendations of how I\n\n1705\n01:47:40,777 --> 01:47:42,777\nthought that we can employ\n\n1706\n01:47:43,379 --> 01:47:45,460\nimprove the city of Oakland's\ngovernment structure. And I\n\n1707\n01:47:46,649 --> 01:47:48,649\ndid not see a single one of my\n\n1708\n01:47:50,419 --> 01:47:52,120\nrecommendations make it to the\nrecommendations. And I think\n\n1709\n01:47:56,358 --> 01:47:59,160\nthat that is something that in\nmy something that has been\n\n1710\n01:48:00,263 --> 01:48:02,300\nmissed, right? Because I think\nall of us on the council we\n\n1711\n01:48:02,531 --> 01:48:04,531\nhave valuable insights that we\n\n1712\n01:48:05,468 --> 01:48:07,468\ncan share around how we can\n\n1713\n01:48:07,570 --> 01:48:10,173\nimprove city of Oakland,\ngovernance. So that's that's\n\n1714\n01:48:10,173 --> 01:48:12,407\nall in this moment.\nThank you. Thank you.\nCouncilmember Councilmember\n\n1715\n01:48:18,147 --> 01:48:19,848\nHouston. I'm not on the rules\ncommittee. So I like to pass\n\n1716\n01:48:22,510 --> 01:48:23,985\nthat to councilmember around\nthe child first before a\n\n1717\n01:48:24,954 --> 01:48:27,189\nstate, what I want to state.\nBut I do want to say\nsomething. No, I do want to\n\n1718\n01:48:31,930 --> 01:48:33,930\nsay something about the timely\n\n1719\n01:48:33,863 --> 01:48:35,863\nof scheduling item. 3.1, 3, 0,\n\n1720\n01:48:38,134 --> 01:48:39,467\n2, 3.3 3.4 h#\nsomething up so\n\n1721\n01:48:47,143 --> 01:48:49,712\neveryone can see real quick.\nAnd why health that up is that\n\n1722\n01:48:49,712 --> 01:48:52,581\nI need to schedule a council\nmember Brown and you're doing\n\n1723\n01:48:52,715 --> 01:48:55,450\nexcellent job. Everything you\ndo work with me to an\n\n1724\n01:48:56,819 --> 01:48:58,520\nexcellent job. But yesterday I\nsaid I need to schedule\n\n1725\n01:49:00,389 --> 01:49:02,389\nbecause yesterday sat with the\n\n1726\n01:49:03,359 --> 01:49:05,393\nPRESIDENT, the principal of\ncast much and I had 150\n\n1727\n01:49:05,661 --> 01:49:07,661\nstudents in Castle month\n\n1728\n01:49:10,199 --> 01:49:11,866\nhomeless. Are you guys talking\nabout the charter? We were\n\n1729\n01:49:13,269 --> 01:49:15,269\ntalking about the charter and\n\n1730\n01:49:15,938 --> 01:49:17,938\na charter we form because a\n\n1731\n01:49:18,173 --> 01:49:20,173\nshare this my district. 10\n\n1732\n01:49:20,276 --> 01:49:22,276\ntoes down for the mayor more\n\n1733\n01:49:22,411 --> 01:49:24,411\nthan any other district. My\n\n1734\n01:49:26,449 --> 01:49:29,184\ndistrict was for the recall.\nOf the mayor and of of of the\n\n1735\n01:49:29,685 --> 01:49:31,685\nd a more than any of the\n\n1736\n01:49:32,188 --> 01:49:34,222\ndistrict and everybody out\nhere knows I've been 10 toes\n\n1737\n01:49:34,824 --> 01:49:36,824\ndown for the mayor from day\n\n1738\n01:49:37,894 --> 01:49:39,894\none. Go back to my counsel to\n\n1739\n01:49:39,929 --> 01:49:42,897\nmy district because they're\nwaiting for what? How I feel\n\n1740\n01:49:44,366 --> 01:49:46,366\nabout this charter read by Tri\n\n1741\n01:49:46,469 --> 01:49:48,904\nReform. And I remember back if\nyou go back to rob or by how\n\n1742\n01:49:48,904 --> 01:49:50,904\ngood it was with proper Bob, I\n\n1743\n01:49:52,740 --> 01:49:54,740\nmean, with that strong\n\n1744\n01:49:55,110 --> 01:49:57,110\ncouncil, manager. So my\n\n1745\n01:49:57,413 --> 01:49:59,413\nconstituents in d 7. They wait\n\n1746\n01:50:02,585 --> 01:50:04,986\nnon. My opinion, but I want\ntheir opinion. But if they\n\n1747\n01:50:07,656 --> 01:50:10,260\nlive it to my opinion on the\ncharter reform, it would in\n\n1748\n01:50:10,260 --> 01:50:12,260\nline with council member Brown\n\n1749\n01:50:18,200 --> 01:50:19,868\nof the 3rd option because I'm\ntired going outside. I'm a\n\n1750\n01:50:21,337 --> 01:50:24,500\nscope of work in doing things\nthat shouldn't be doing\n\n1751\n01:50:24,540 --> 01:50:26,540\nbecause we're not able to do\n\n1752\n01:50:30,679 --> 01:50:33,281\nit. Be kuz. Council members\nonly legislation and policy.\nI'm tired of going to remove a\n\n1753\n01:50:34,160 --> 01:50:36,160\ncar myself. I'm tired of\n\n1754\n01:50:36,850 --> 01:50:38,386\nrelocate an encampment myself\nand that the city\n\n1755\n01:50:39,688 --> 01:50:41,556\nadministrator report it's to\nthe mayor but doesn't report\n\n1756\n01:50:43,559 --> 01:50:45,559\nto us as a council right? We\n\n1757\n01:50:47,330 --> 01:50:49,297\nshould have that same.\nAuthority that the city\n\n1758\n01:50:51,834 --> 01:50:54,236\nadministrator reports to us\nright? Unlike what Ryan, which\n\n1759\n01:50:54,236 --> 01:50:56,236\nyour son is I can just go on\n\n1760\n01:50:57,940 --> 01:51:00,643\nand on and But I said I was\ngoing pass it to you that you\n\n1761\n01:51:00,643 --> 01:51:03,411\nput to you. But I got a couple\nmore days to say so no use\n\n1762\n01:51:09,952 --> 01:51:11,952\nthat as my time PRESIDENT.\n\n1763\n01:51:11,987 --> 01:51:14,222\nThank you. I think today is\nthis meeting was very\nenlightening myself and\n\n1764\n01:51:16,692 --> 01:51:18,692\ncouncil PRESIDENT Jenkyns\n\n1765\n01:51:19,561 --> 01:51:21,262\nwanted to schedule this item\nspecifically to continue the\n\n1766\n01:51:23,966 --> 01:51:25,800\nprocess of gathering community\ninput. Today we heard plus or\n\n1767\n01:51:27,803 --> 01:51:29,803\n-20 comments that. We're\n\n1768\n01:51:29,872 --> 01:51:31,639\nopposed to the strong mayor\nsystem and open to some\n\n1769\n01:51:32,341 --> 01:51:34,341\nalternative. We heard about 4\n\n1770\n01:51:36,245 --> 01:51:38,245\nthat were for the system, but\n\n1771\n01:51:38,280 --> 01:51:40,516\napart from what we hear here,\nI can only speak for myself\nand I know many of my\n\n1772\n01:51:40,516 --> 01:51:42,516\ncolleagues who are out and\n\n1773\n01:51:44,854 --> 01:51:46,854\nabout the community. I have\n\n1774\n01:51:47,890 --> 01:51:50,226\nsaid at least 17 times in the\npast month when I'm in\npeople's living rooms in my\n\n1775\n01:51:50,226 --> 01:51:52,226\ndistrict, on their street\n\n1776\n01:51:52,895 --> 01:51:55,363\ncorners and the business\ndistricts that I am\n\n1777\n01:51:57,233 --> 01:52:00,135\ninformation gathering stage\nand this is very valuable\n\n1778\n01:52:01,470 --> 01:52:03,171\ninput. And I'm continuing the\nprocess of listening to our\n\n1779\n01:52:05,875 --> 01:52:07,909\nconstituents and hearing very\ndifferent perspectives for\n\n1780\n01:52:08,444 --> 01:52:11,120\nforgot to someone that\nmentioned you can't come at\n10:30am, that? That's correct.\n\n1781\n01:52:13,783 --> 01:52:16,718\nWhich is why after 05:00pm,\nout in our communities talking\nto people in meeting them\n\n1782\n01:52:17,553 --> 01:52:19,688\nwhere they're at. And I've\nheard very different\n\n1783\n01:52:19,688 --> 01:52:21,688\nperspectives. And I think this\n\n1784\n01:52:21,757 --> 01:52:23,757\nis important to us. I\n\n1785\n01:52:23,859 --> 01:52:26,628\nappreciate the mayor is\nworking group in scheduling a\n\n1786\n01:52:27,663 --> 01:52:29,364\nfirst round of community\noutreach late last year near\n\n1787\n01:52:32,368 --> 01:52:34,368\nthe holidays. And I think a\n\n1788\n01:52:34,803 --> 01:52:36,504\nlot of those sessions service\ninformation to show ask what\n\n1789\n01:52:38,907 --> 01:52:41,442\nis the charter? And now a\ncouple months into this\nprocess, people are starting\n\n1790\n01:52:43,478 --> 01:52:45,179\nto form an opinion one way or\nthe other. So I think this is\n\n1791\n01:52:47,583 --> 01:52:49,785\nvery helpful and I will take\nall of this into\n\n1792\n01:52:49,785 --> 01:52:52,220\nconsideration. Plus, all of\nthe conversations that I have\n\n1793\n01:52:52,554 --> 01:52:55,490\nand this is not the last time\nthis will be heard in council.\n\n1794\n01:52:56,580 --> 01:52:58,660\nWe will bring this to an\nevening meeting at the full\n\n1795\n01:53:00,396 --> 01:53:02,396\nCity council as this process\n\n1796\n01:53:02,865 --> 01:53:04,865\ncontinues. And I look forward\n\n1797\n01:53:05,670 --> 01:53:07,203\nto continuing hear what people\nhave to say from not just my\n\n1798\n01:53:07,203 --> 01:53:09,203\ndistrict but all over the\n\n1799\n01:53:11,807 --> 01:53:13,807\ncity. Thank you. Some of the I\n\n1800\n01:53:20,582 --> 01:53:23,510\ncan speak in closing, I want\nto say them have community\nmeetings from Sheffield\n\n1801\n01:53:24,486 --> 01:53:26,455\nVillage to the heels to the\nflat to my Latino brothers and\n\n1802\n01:53:27,990 --> 01:53:29,990\nsisters. This waiting for me\n\n1803\n01:53:29,992 --> 01:53:31,992\nto speak about spoke in front\n\n1804\n01:53:32,940 --> 01:53:34,940\nof 300 last week and I'm\n\n1805\n01:53:34,930 --> 01:53:37,650\nspeaking front 300 again this\nSunday. Getting pinion, get,\n\n1806\n01:53:39,340 --> 01:53:41,135\nyou know that what they want\nbecause I'm I want to purple.\n\n1807\n01:53:42,438 --> 01:53:44,380\nThey won a green. If they want\nto green us, want go no\n\n1808\n01:53:44,807 --> 01:53:46,942\nmatter. Even found one purple.\nTalk to my constituents. But\n\n1809\n01:53:46,942 --> 01:53:48,942\nI'm definitely gonna give my\n\n1810\n01:53:51,313 --> 01:53:54,282\nopinion my opinion, 4 with\ninfluence on how I feel and\n\n1811\n01:53:56,510 --> 01:53:58,620\nwhatever they decide to decide\nbe a community meetings for\nsure about this for sure.\n\n1812\n01:54:01,290 --> 01:54:02,957\nThank you. Thank you.\nCouncilmember Houston Kuzma\n\n1813\n01:54:04,159 --> 01:54:06,461\nBrandon. More comments can on\ntrack. So make sure that I\n\n1814\n01:54:06,461 --> 01:54:09,297\nwork with city attorneys\noffice to send out a timeline\n\n1815\n01:54:09,431 --> 01:54:11,431\nfor and which things need to\n\n1816\n01:54:11,934 --> 01:54:13,934\nget on the ballot. We need to\n\n1817\n01:54:14,103 --> 01:54:15,770\nhear them at 2 regularly\nscheduled meetings and that\n\n1818\n01:54:18,140 --> 01:54:20,208\ntimeline is tight. Encourage\npeople to continue doing the\n\n1819\n01:54:21,277 --> 01:54:23,978\nresearch and continue reaching\nout understand that's\n\n1820\n01:54:24,646 --> 01:54:26,646\napparently women voters will\n\n1821\n01:54:31,870 --> 01:54:33,322\nbe available for questions. As\nCouncilmember Robert Rinder\nand said we will hear this\n\n1822\n01:54:33,322 --> 01:54:35,322\nagain at a regularly scheduled\n\n1823\n01:54:36,425 --> 01:54:38,590\nmeeting. During council so\nthat more people have the\n\n1824\n01:54:39,828 --> 01:54:42,196\nopportunity to weigh in with\nthat, I'll entertain a motion\nto receive and how this in\n\n1825\n01:54:50,138 --> 01:54:52,974\ncommittee. Some of And that\nwas a motion by Councilmember\n\n1826\n01:54:53,108 --> 01:54:55,376\nRamachandran seconded by\ncouncilor at Brown to receive\n\n1827\n01:54:57,346 --> 01:55:00,148\nand file item number 5 on row\nfor that is councilmember\n\n1828\n01:55:01,317 --> 01:55:03,684\nbrown eye now to number 5 is\nexcuse Councilman\nRamachandran. I ensure\n\n1829\n01:55:05,654 --> 01:55:08,489\nJenkins. Item number 5 is\nreceived and filed with 3\n\n1830\n01:55:10,225 --> 01:55:12,225\nguys. One excuse Councilmember\n\n1831\n01:55:12,427 --> 01:55:14,427\nFife that now takes us to open\n\n1832\n01:55:15,130 --> 01:55:17,132\nI will read the speakers who\nsigned up for this item. If\nyou are participating via\n\n1833\n01:55:17,132 --> 01:55:19,467\nplease raise your hand. So\nyou'll be recognized. And for\n\n1834\n01:55:21,537 --> 01:55:23,204\nthose who are here and\nchambers in person, please\n\n1835\n01:55:23,572 --> 01:55:26,440\nline up behind the podium in\nany order. I have Blair\n\n1836\n01:55:29,311 --> 01:55:31,445\nBeekman Kellie Kevin Dally\nregime and Al David boat\n\n1837\n01:55:33,148 --> 01:55:35,148\nright? Ralph cans, Millie,\n\n1838\n01:55:38,120 --> 01:55:40,120\nCleveland deal. Comey low and\n\n1839\n01:55:48,397 --> 01:55:50,998\nany order. Thank you. David\nBoatright district I agree\nthat council member should be\n\n1840\n01:55:53,402 --> 01:55:55,402\npaid more. But only if the\n\n1841\n01:55:55,804 --> 01:55:58,639\ncouncil eliminates this city.\nGeneral purpose fund deficit.\n\n1842\n01:56:00,420 --> 01:56:02,420\nThey contributed to without\n\n1843\n01:56:04,246 --> 01:56:07,140\nadding more taxes. The council\nmembers dedicate their full to\n\n1844\n01:56:07,649 --> 01:56:09,649\nthat. Council members dedicate\n\n1845\n01:56:09,985 --> 01:56:11,987\ntheir full time to their\ncouncil member\nresponsibilities as they\n\n1846\n01:56:11,987 --> 01:56:13,987\nimplicitly agreed to when they\n\n1847\n01:56:16,325 --> 01:56:18,926\nran for office. The council\nmembers attend all city\n\n1848\n01:56:19,761 --> 01:56:21,761\ncouncil meetings and their\n\n1849\n01:56:21,830 --> 01:56:23,497\ncommittee meetings with rare\nexceptions for healthcare,\n\n1850\n01:56:26,340 --> 01:56:28,102\nserious, personal reasons.\nIt's amazing that the city\n\n1851\n01:56:28,103 --> 01:56:30,103\ncouncil won't allow seeding\n\n1852\n01:56:31,673 --> 01:56:33,341\npartial a new speaker time and\nthen allows only part of a\n\n1853\n01:56:36,612 --> 01:56:38,612\nspeaker's time to be seated.\n\n1854\n01:56:40,616 --> 01:56:43,484\nHow can multiple city\nresidents be given\npreferential treatment,\nespecially if they didn't sign\n\n1855\n01:56:44,486 --> 01:56:47,455\nup to speak by that deadline\nand others were not allowed to\n\n1856\n01:56:48,524 --> 01:56:50,759\nspeak. And if cancel member\nHouston wants to speak without\n\n1857\n01:56:50,759 --> 01:56:52,759\nsigning up to speak committees\n\n1858\n01:56:52,928 --> 01:56:54,928\nnot on. I don't understand the\n\n1859\n01:56:56,898 --> 01:56:58,898\nrules. Thank you for your\n\n1860\n01:57:01,603 --> 01:57:04,438\ncomments. Rushdie Mundell\nDistrict 4. I want to connect\n\n1861\n01:57:04,540 --> 01:57:06,908\ntoday's charter reform\ndiscussion to another area\nthat deserves the same level\n\n1862\n01:57:08,543 --> 01:57:11,345\nof scrutiny. Police oversight.\nRight now council is asking\n\n1863\n01:57:11,413 --> 01:57:14,315\nfundamental questions about\ngovernance rolls authority and\n\n1864\n01:57:14,950 --> 01:57:16,818\naccountability and those exact\nsame questions apply to our\n\n1865\n01:57:18,653 --> 01:57:20,756\npolice oversight system. The\nrecent city auditor report\n\n1866\n01:57:20,756 --> 01:57:22,756\nmakes it clear the issue is\n\n1867\n01:57:22,858 --> 01:57:24,592\nnot just resources in a\nstructure, including\n\n1868\n01:57:25,527 --> 01:57:27,294\noverlapping roles, unclear\nauthority and gaps and\n\n1869\n01:57:28,230 --> 01:57:31,650\naccountability across multiple\noversight bodies. And we're\nseeing the consequence of that\n\n1870\n01:57:33,302 --> 01:57:35,503\nstructure in practice\ndecision. Stall\nresponsibilities are diffuse.\n\n1871\n01:57:36,204 --> 01:57:38,839\nBecomes difficult to determine\nwho is ultimately accountable\n\n1872\n01:57:39,975 --> 01:57:42,376\nfor outcomes. But also like to\nnote that a significant number\nof the city attorney public\n\n1873\n01:57:42,578 --> 01:57:44,578\nopinions actually one in 4 in\n\n1874\n01:57:45,147 --> 01:57:47,147\nrecent years have focused\n\n1875\n01:57:47,415 --> 01:57:49,918\nexclusively on these oversight\nagencies that suggests ongoing\n\n1876\n01:57:49,918 --> 01:57:51,918\nuncertainty about scope and\n\n1877\n01:57:53,688 --> 01:57:56,570\nauthority, not just capacity.\nThe mayor is charter former\nKing Group provides a useful\n\n1878\n01:57:56,158 --> 01:57:58,192\nmodel here and brought\ntogether community members,\n\n1879\n01:57:58,827 --> 01:58:00,827\nexperts and stakeholders to\n\n1880\n01:58:01,290 --> 01:58:03,464\nevaluate governance and\ndevelop clear recommendations.\nEncourage council to consider\n\n1881\n01:58:03,932 --> 01:58:05,633\na similar approach for police\noversight. Thank you for your\n\n1882\n01:58:10,839 --> 01:58:12,506\ncomments next. Speaker.\nMillion Cleveland to street\n\n1883\n01:58:14,309 --> 01:58:16,309\nfor I would like you place on\n\n1884\n01:58:20,682 --> 01:58:22,682\nrules over time. Opd overtime\n\n1885\n01:58:25,286 --> 01:58:27,286\nfor public safety. This is\n\n1886\n01:58:27,522 --> 01:58:30,324\nsignificant effect on our\nbudget. I understand that it\n\n1887\n01:58:31,726 --> 01:58:33,726\nwas placed on the agenda for\n\n1888\n01:58:34,496 --> 01:58:36,496\nit. Finance, but it is not\n\n1889\n01:58:36,731 --> 01:58:38,731\njust a finance issue. It is an\n\n1890\n01:58:40,736 --> 01:58:42,736\noperational issue for decades.\n\n1891\n01:58:44,390 --> 01:58:45,740\nCity auditors have made very\nconcrete recommendations on\n\n1892\n01:58:48,544 --> 01:58:50,678\nhow to control opd over time\nthat the city administrator\n\n1893\n01:58:50,912 --> 01:58:52,912\nhas never implemented. And you\n\n1894\n01:58:55,284 --> 01:58:57,284\nguys ignored. I also think\n\n1895\n01:58:57,285 --> 01:59:00,221\nthat other issue that needs to\nbe placed on the agenda peel\n\n1896\n01:59:02,757 --> 01:59:04,757\nways m o u. It has a lot of\n\n1897\n01:59:06,428 --> 01:59:08,696\ntweaking that needs to be\ndiscussed out in the open.\n\n1898\n01:59:09,364 --> 01:59:12,333\nPeople are trying to be at the\nnegotiating table, but there\nis no law that would stop you\n\n1899\n01:59:14,903 --> 01:59:16,504\nfrom putting that. Thank you\nfor your comments next.\n\n1900\n01:59:22,711 --> 01:59:24,713\nSpeaker. Well, you. I'm hoping\nthat you'll follow up on the\n\n1901\n01:59:24,713 --> 01:59:26,713\nsuggestion from the member of\n\n1902\n01:59:27,349 --> 01:59:29,349\nthe public Ethics Commission\n\n1903\n01:59:30,452 --> 01:59:32,860\nto investigate whether you\nwhether the council it's\n\n1904\n01:59:33,989 --> 01:59:35,756\nlegally required to set up\npublic hearings on the charter\n\n1905\n01:59:37,559 --> 01:59:39,559\nreform or whether we can just.\n\n1906\n01:59:41,497 --> 01:59:43,130\nMove directly to a vote in in\ncounseling committee and\n\n1907\n01:59:45,400 --> 01:59:47,134\nhoping that we have public.\nPublic forums for more than 90\n\n1908\n01:59:50,472 --> 01:59:52,840\nseconds. Discussion out.\nLooking forward to the answer\nfrom the city attorney and\n\n1909\n01:59:53,575 --> 01:59:55,575\nthanks. Thank you for your\n\n1910\n01:59:59,514 --> 02:00:01,514\ncomments. Good morning. And\n\n1911\n02:00:02,584 --> 02:00:04,885\nyou'll low. I me I'm a brown\nguy. I'm a former resident.\n\n1912\n02:00:08,357 --> 02:00:10,240\nI'm a former employee home hr\ndirector here. Cardio city\n\n1913\n02:00:10,458 --> 02:00:12,458\nmanager and I've got 32 years\n\n1914\n02:00:12,527 --> 02:00:15,163\nin public sector governance.\nFor me, the kid political\n\n1915\n02:00:15,163 --> 02:00:17,163\nissue is how is the city going\n\n1916\n02:00:17,966 --> 02:00:19,966\nto be managed? I care about\n\n1917\n02:00:20,680 --> 02:00:22,237\nthe city I run here every\nweek. I come from an to run it\n\n1918\n02:00:22,237 --> 02:00:24,237\naround Lake Merritt every\n\n1919\n02:00:25,473 --> 02:00:27,141\nSaturday morning. My point is\nI really, really care about\n\n1920\n02:00:28,610 --> 02:00:31,445\nthis city. I can in my\nhometown cause have been home\nto for the last 40 since I got\n\n1921\n02:00:35,717 --> 02:00:37,717\noff 10:00am flight governor\n\n1922\n02:00:38,787 --> 02:00:40,787\nsays the key issue. And\n\n1923\n02:00:40,922 --> 02:00:42,523\nplease, please, please do not\ndouble down on a failed\n\n1924\n02:00:46,661 --> 02:00:49,296\nsystem. Strongman system is a\nfailed system. What does work\nconsistently around the\n\n1925\n02:00:51,499 --> 02:00:53,499\ncountry local city governance\n\n1926\n02:00:54,200 --> 02:00:56,638\nis council manager from a\ngovernment. I can tell you\nwith 32 years of service,\n\n1927\n02:00:56,638 --> 02:00:58,638\nincluding 3 years yet the city\n\n1928\n02:00:59,975 --> 02:01:02,877\nof open and Cardiff, City\nmanager, that system works.\n\n1929\n02:01:04,980 --> 02:01:06,647\nPlease go to option 3. Thank\nyou for your comments next.\n\n1930\n02:01:14,289 --> 02:01:16,691\nSpeaker. Afternoon, Ralph\nremembering the tension of\nhouse flippers. Your attention\n\n1931\n02:01:18,293 --> 02:01:20,862\nagain. He keep ignoring those\nthe mayor's office will\nrespond. I don't know what's\n\n1932\n02:01:20,862 --> 02:01:22,862\ngoing You're losing millions\n\n1933\n02:01:25,634 --> 02:01:28,350\nand millions of dollars.\nPermit fees are being\nenforced. The leads don't that\n\n1934\n02:01:28,903 --> 02:01:30,771\nplaced on the property.\nThere's no actual constructive\n\n1935\n02:01:32,807 --> 02:01:34,807\nnotice to a buyer. Therefore\n\n1936\n02:01:36,344 --> 02:01:38,612\nthe fuse never get paid. The\ncity is losing millions and\n\n1937\n02:01:41,583 --> 02:01:44,170\nmillions of dollars. It also\nadds to garbage being dumped\n\n1938\n02:01:46,721 --> 02:01:48,956\nbecause the rules are out.\nDisposal by under during\nconstruction are being\n\n1939\n02:01:54,195 --> 02:01:55,896\nfollowed. Why don't you want\ndo something when you have a\n\n1940\n02:01:56,197 --> 02:01:58,197\nmoney trouble? That's all\n\n1941\n02:01:58,299 --> 02:02:00,299\nabout money. You're being\n\n1942\n02:02:00,335 --> 02:02:03,103\nripped off like crazy. Almost\nnone of these people are even\nfrom Oakland. It's all money.\n\n1943\n02:02:04,972 --> 02:02:06,972\nLeaving the city that you\n\n1944\n02:02:07,508 --> 02:02:09,209\nshould be getting a cut of\nbecause of what the city does\n\n1945\n02:02:13,314 --> 02:02:15,490\nfor those people. And Jake, as\nyou're saying, oil, look at me\n\n1946\n02:02:16,500 --> 02:02:18,653\nagain. I mean, what is this?\nYou got there's a screen out\n\n1947\n02:02:18,653 --> 02:02:20,653\nhere. Thank you for your out.\n\n1948\n02:02:24,192 --> 02:02:25,859\nThere's a screen right here.\nThat's right. Thank you for\n\n1949\n02:02:26,928 --> 02:02:28,928\nyour comments. Brief said it\n\n1950\n02:02:30,298 --> 02:02:32,933\nnext. Speaker. I next. Next.\nMy next speaker is Blair\nBeekman. Please unmute\n\n1951\n02:02:35,937 --> 02:02:38,506\nyourself. You MAY begin. All\nright. Thank Really\n\n1952\n02:02:38,506 --> 02:02:40,540\ninteresting meeting today.\nThank you. Really good public\n\n1953\n02:02:42,110 --> 02:02:44,712\ncomment here in open form.\nThank you. Good luck in\n\n1954\n02:02:51,319 --> 02:02:53,319\naddressing the overtime pay\n\n1955\n02:02:53,488 --> 02:02:55,622\nthe MARCH committee meetings\noverall seemed like a really\n\n1956\n02:02:56,524 --> 02:02:58,524\ngood session. Good learning\n\n1957\n02:02:58,626 --> 02:03:01,528\nexperience for myself. Really\nhappy just to learn things\n\n1958\n02:03:01,629 --> 02:03:03,330\nfrom the MARCH 10 session and\novertime was a part of that.\n\n1959\n02:03:06,901 --> 02:03:08,901\nSo good luck. And that I think\n\n1960\n02:03:10,204 --> 02:03:12,306\nit's going to take much longer\n2028 carted changes can be can\n\n1961\n02:03:14,175 --> 02:03:16,511\ncome to a to a vote. Good luck\nthat we can have a community\n\n1962\n02:03:16,511 --> 02:03:18,511\ndiscussion. I'm encouraged by\n\n1963\n02:03:18,813 --> 02:03:20,813\nwhat people have said. Thank\n\n1964\n02:03:22,217 --> 02:03:24,785\nyou. And I wanted to comment\njust another. Thank you for\n\n1965\n02:03:26,120 --> 02:03:28,555\nthe work of the flock issues\nthat we've created a\ncompromise process. We can\n\n1966\n02:03:31,260 --> 02:03:33,394\ntalk about a new flock vendor.\nAnd that's an important\nconcept for all of us. We can\n\n1967\n02:03:33,394 --> 02:03:35,394\ndevelop a good future. It's\n\n1968\n02:03:37,310 --> 02:03:39,601\ngood example California. Thank\nyou for your comments. That\nwas the last open Speaker.\n\n1969\n02:03:39,601 --> 02:03:41,601\nThank you. This meeting is\n",
      "text": "Good morning.\nThe. Rules committee we do need a qorum want today is\nthat we can begin. Good morning and welcome to the\nrules Legislative Sheen\nCommittee media on this Thursday MARCH. 26, the time\nis 10. 31 in this meeting\nshall come to order. The more. I call roll, like to give\ninstructions on how to submit speaker card on items listed\non this agenda. If you are\nhere. A member of the audience here in chambers and would\nlike to submit a speaker card. Please fill out a speaker card, an attorney to a clerk,\nrepresentative. Either 2 minutes after this meeting\nbegan war before the eye.\nCalled it a record. Registration to speak via zoom\nwas do 24 hours before this\nmeeting began, noting that there we will no longer take speaker cards for online\nregistration. Once again, the\nmeeting began at 10. 31 and speaker cards will no longer\nbe accepted. 10 minutes after\nthe meeting began, which is at\nthat time will be 10. 41 with that council. PRESIDENT\nJenkins to do you have any\nannouncements before began a\nyes because of the potential issues. Speaker time will be\nreduced to 90 seconds as\nopposed to 2 minutes. With that. Thank you so much. And\nwe'll begin with roll on roll for this meeting. We have\ncouncil member Brown. True too\npresent. Thank you. Council\nmember Fyfe is excused.\nCouncil member Ahmed Chandran. I and chair PRESIDENT Council\nPRESIDENT Your Jenkins. I we have 3 members present won\nexcused. Now moving on to item number of the draft minutes\nfor the committee meetings of\nFEBRUARY. 26 2026 3/5/2026 in\nMARCH 12 2026. Move approval. I have a motion by council\nmember Brown second about Councilmember Ramachandran to approve the minutes. All 3 of\nthem as is. Council member Brown Eye Councilmember Fife is excuse council\nRamachandran. I and council\nPRESIDENT Jenkins. 3 one excuse for item number 2\napproval. A draft minutes now\nmoving to new scheduling.\nStarting with item 3.1 receiving information report on the Oakland Children's\nInitiative and its partners organizations, Oakland Promise\nand first, 5 Alameda County and this item is being request\nto be scheduled on the APRIL 13 2026. Special Education\nPartnership Committee agenda.\nItem. 3 point. Thank you so much. MADAM Clerk. I'm just\nwant to confirm the the slight\nchange in the title. It should\nbe Alameda County. First 5.\nSenator, thank you for that.\nMoving to item 3.2, it is an\noral report from the director\nof Public works Liam Garland regarding the illegal dumping mitigation. Your school\ncampuses. And this is also\nbeing request to be scheduled for the APRIL 13th Special Education Partnership\nCommittee agenda. I believe we don't have a quorum on the\ndays. Council member Brown. Thanks and thank you so much.\nWell, as the question. We just needed a quorum on the days to move forward. Thank you for\nthat. Moving to item 3.3 receive information report\nfrom the Oakland Youth Commission. And this is being\nrequested to be scheduled for APRIL just Special Education\nPartnership Committee agenda\nitem. 3 point for is information report from the\nOakland Unified School usd\nregarding current school safety protocols, funding\nstructures and strategic safety updates. This is also being requested to be\nscheduled to the special. APRIL 13th Education\nPartnership Committee agenda.\nItem 3.5 is from the auditors Office and Information Report professional services\ncontracts authorized by the\ncity auditor doing fiscal\nyear. 24 to 25 in. This is being requested to be\nscheduled for the APRIL 14th 2026. Special City Council\nagenda on consent. I will now\nread in the rule. 24. Nc states that the city auditor\nshall present to the city\nCouncil on an annual basis and report listing all professional service contracts\nauthorized by the city auditor\ndoing the prior year. Moving to item 3.6, which is also\ninformation report from the\ncity auditor. On the audit recommendation. Follow-up\nreport. As of DECEMBER 31st. 2025 this is being request to\nbe scheduled for APRIL 14th, Special City Council agenda on\non consent. The real 24 for this item is that the city\ncharter states that is the responsibility of the city auditor to submit a\nsemi-annual report to the\ncouncil in public on the extent of implementation of\nrecommendations for the corrective actions made in the\ncity. Auditor's report. Moving\nto item 3.7 resolution\nreappoint Lisa Raszler as the\ncity Oakland's trustee to the Alameda skews me Mosquito\nAbatement District board. And this is being requested to be\nscheduled for APRIL 14th has special City Council agenda\nconsent. And I apologize. Does\nthis require able 24? Yes, any\nitems that are bypassing\ncommitting going street to council require the body to\nstate a reason for your rules. Please items bypass committee and District Council on\nconsent. Thank you for that.\nMoving on to item 3.8 item, 3.8 is an information report\nfrom the city administrator on the status of implementing\npolicy directives past by the\nCity Council on the APRIL 21st him being request to be\nscheduled. Excuse me on APRIL, 21st 2026, Finance and\nManagement Committee agenda.\nHarden. I do see side. Through the chair. The administration\nwould like to request to move\nthis to that MAY 2012 meeting\nbecause the agenda is fairly impacted and staff will make\nthemselves available to do one\non with the committee members ensure the information is made\npublic in advance of the publication deadline for the\nMAY 12th meeting. Thank you\nfor that. So item 3.8, the status of the implementation of the council policy\ndirectives now be scheduled to MAY 12 Finance and Management\nCommittee agenda. Thank you\nfor that. Moving to item 3.9 adopt an ordinance authorizing\nthe city administrator negotiate and execute an\nagreement to purchase an easement for public right\naway. To purchase in these\nexcuse me to purchase an easement for public right away\nstreets and utility purposes over a portion of the real property located at 2.60,\nstreet. Case in family, limited partnership in the\namount not to exceed amount of\n$255,000 in adopting. California. Environmental\nQuality Act findings. This is being requested the schedule\nfor the APRIL 21st Public Works and Transportation\nCommittee agenda. Item 3.10, is an ordinance appealing\nordinance. Number 1, 2, 9, 6,\n0, and replacing it with the\naddition of mc Charter 15.80\nin Re referenced flood hazard maps authorize the city\nadministrator to designate a flood plan administrator to\nadminister and develop\nregulations in support of the\ncharter adopting appropriate, appropriate California\nenvironmental Quality Act\nfindings. And this is being request to be scheduled for\nAPRIL. 21st 2026 Public Works and Transportation Committee\nagenda. It is also noted to go\nto the APRIL 28th Special City\nCouncil agenda as a public hearing. But I believe staff has to make a question. Thank\nyou. My apologies. Can you speak closer to the mike so we can make sure that we can hear\nyou capture you. Is the mic,\nOkay. Thank you. Yes, through the chair. If I MAY request that we move the meeting to\nthat MAY 5th. Public works and Transportation Committee has. There's a special joint public\nsafety meetings already\nscheduled on the 28th. Some noted think and outside or if\nI could clarify the the item\nwould go continue to go public works and Transportation\nCommittee meeting on APRIL.\n21st. But the public hearing would be on the regular MAY.\n5th City Council meeting.\nThat's correct. Thank you. So no thank you for that. Thank\nyou. Moving on to item 3.11, this is from the public public\nworks. Mean, it is a resolution amending\nresolution, 8, 8, 3, 7, 9, to increase the professional\nservices agreement far. Architectural and engineering\ndesign services with k 2, a Marais make graft associated\nArchitects for the fire\nstation. 29 project by an\namount not to exceed $700,000 bringing the total contract\namount from. 1 million, 800 $1000 to 2 million, waiving\nthe request for proposal, competitive selection requirements and adapting\nsequel. Findings in this is being requested. The schedule\nfor the MAY 21st Public Works and Transportation Committee\nagenda. Item 3.12 Is a\nresolution authorizing the city administration negotiate\nand execute. A new exclusive negotiation agreement with the museum of Jazz and Art. But to\nthe London Museum and Art facility on the city-owned\nproperty located at 3.10, Oaks\nStreet for 8 months condition\non payment 10, $10,500 exclusive negotiating payment\nwith one additional six-month administrative extension\nconditioned on payment of an\nadditional $303,500 extension\npayment in adopting. California. Environmental\nQuality Act findings. This is being requested schedule for\nthe APRIL 21st Community and Economic Development Committee\nagenda. Item 3.13, is coming from the Human Service\nDepartment a resolution accepting the planning\nOversight Committee. Recommendations to one award.\n9 grants with the youth summer jobs. Mayor summer youth employment program, funding\nstrategy, tolling and amount\nnot to exceed 1 million,\n480,250 dollars and $0.60 for to summer program service. Its\nterm grant cycles, JUNE first\n2026 to SEPTEMBER. 30th 2026\nin JUNE. First, 27 through SEPTEMBER. 30th 2027\ncontingent upon funding Bela Bility and program\nperformance. 2 or 12 grants across for funding strategies.\nTotally amount not to exceed 1 million, 712,000 dollars,\n$12,558. Summer. To the chair.\nThank you. Can't is. I'm so\nsorry. This is Rob 11th in Children. Services Division\nHuman Services Department. Through that section, you\nhaven't even got to the change yet. A very small change in\nthe title every dot that section are directed please. Yeah, you would have to read\nout the pope's so sorry. Thank\nyou. Staff recommends that the city council adopt a\nresolution accepting the planning and oversight\ncommittee recommendation to one award 9 grants within the\nyouth summer jobs. Mayor Summer Youth employment\nprogram, funding strategy out\nnot to exceed 1 million,\n80,200 $53.60 4, 2 summer\nprogram service term Grant cycles JUNE first, 2026\nthrough SEPTEMBER, 30th 20 2026. In JUNE. First 2027\nthrough SEPTEMBER. 30th 2027 contingent upon funding\navailability and program performance and to award 12\ngrants across for funding Strategies Elementary school\nbased expanded learning middle\nschool based expanded learning youth development leadership\nand career access unemployment totaling an amount not to\nexceed 1 million, 712,558\ndollars. 4, 2 summer program service term Grant cycles JUNE\nfirst 2026 through SEPTEMBER.\n30th 2026. In JUNE. First 2027\nthrough SEPTEMBER. 30th 2027 continue to pump funding availability and program\nperformance. The 1000 was in\nthe place previously. Thank\nyou. I'm so sorry. Thank you.\nNo Thank you. Rep moving to item 3.14 This is an information report from the\ncity. Auditor on audits of the Oakland police oversight\nagencies. The Oakland Police Commission, the Community\nPolice Review Agency in Office of Inspector General. This is\nbeing requested the schedule for the APRIL 21st Public\nSafety Committee agenda item 3.15, is an information report\nfrom the Oakland Police Department. Federal Law\nEnforcement Agency Task Force annual report. And this is also being requested to be\nscheduled for the APRIL 21st Public Safety Committee\nagenda. Item 3.16, is a resolution authorizing the city minister to enter into\nprofessional services\nagreement with. So I 4\nprovisions of universal forensic extraction devices and related services for the\nOakland Police Department for a contract amount not to\nexceed $140,000 for the period\nof JULY. First 2026 to JUNE 30th 27 waiving the competitive multi step\nsolicitation process and local, small local business enterprise program\nrequirements and 3 accepting\nthe 2024. So you buy annual report and making\ndeterminations regarding\nwhether the city should continue using this technology. This is being requested to be scheduled for\nthe APRIL 21st Public Safety\nCommittee agenda. Item 3.17,\nis ordinance amending Omc 10.7 for authorizing the city\nadministrator at city to\nindustry to assess fines on sideshows, spectators, promoters and facilitators\nIxpe. Exempting law\nenforcement and members of the media engaged in their duties\nand non participating members of public. And this is being\nrequest to be scheduled for\nAPRIL. 21st 2026 Public Safety Committee agenda. I do see staff. Are you approaching for\nitem? 3.17? This ration. We would like to move this item\nending list. And will that be to the public Safety\nCommittee? Penniless? Yes,\nyes. So no date. And item 3.17, is end Orel Information report on the local police\ndepartments. Automatic resource locator policy. And\nthis is being requested to be\nscheduled for APRIL. 21st Public Safety Committee\nagenda. The administration and also requests that this item\nthe move to pending the pending less no date specific for the Public Safety\nCommittee. So noted that items 3.17, the Oakland Sideshow\nordinance in item 3.18, will the information report on the local police departments out\nof degree to store is located. Policy is both being requested\nto be scheduled to public safety and the list. No date\nspecific. Yes, please great.\nThank you so much. 3.19, is a resolution authorizing the\nsale of former Oakland fired\nboat known as the Seawolf has\na little group 4. 25 $25,000\nin a finding the sale is the best interest of the city.\nPursuant scene. And this is being requested to be\nscheduled for the MAY City\nCouncil agenda on consent in the rule. 24 for bypassing\ncommittee is due to the\nimpacted. APRIL 21st meeting\nagenda Now moving to the\ncommittees from MARCH 24th. Starting with the Finance and\nManagement Committee item 3.20, I'll be reading in the\nshort titles is a man\namendment to the ordinance. Number 1, 2, 1, 8, 7, cms, the\nsalary ordinance for various classifications exemptions and\nthe committee this consistent\n4 pieces of legislation. The first piece of legislation, the resolution was withdrawn\nwith no new date items. 2, 3\nof this legislation of the\nresolutions. The committee\napproved to move these 2 items along with the 4th item to\nAPRIL 14th Special City Council agenda at 3.30, on\nconsent in the 4th of item again scheduled for the APRIL\nrequesting to be scheduled for the APRIL 14th Special 3.30,\ncouncil meeting on consent had an amendment in part for\nupdating the title of the\nordinance to strike that says at the full time\nclassification of parking administrator in the body of\nthe ordinance on Page want to\nstrike section 2 that says the following classification is\nadded ordinance. Number 1, 2,\n1, 8, 7, in the unit, u k to pay great able to read as\nfollows classification title\nclass members step salary parking administration.\nDetails updating the related attachment a to remove the\npark em in a straighter on\nPage 8, 1, 18. Moving to item. 3.0 21, the information report\non the citywide staffing FEBRUARY 2026. The committee\napproved that this item be\nscheduled to the APRIL 14th Special City Council agenda at\n3.30, as a public hearing.\nItem 3.22 The salary survey\nresults. This item was also Rick because me was continue\nto the APRIL 21st 2026. Finance and Management\nCommittee agenda. Item. 3.0\n23. Is the Oakland's Pete Peepers investment portfolio\nin actuary valuation report. This item was received and\nfiled in committing. And item 3.0 24 the fiscal year. 25 to\n26 0nd quarter revenue and expenditures report this item\nwas also received and filed in\nthe Finance and Management Committee moving to\nrecommendations from the MARCH 24th Public Works and Transportation Committee\nstarting with item 3.0 25 is\nthe 2020 3, 2025 progress\nimplementation. Implementing\nthe 2030, equitable climate action plan and this was received and filed in\ncommittee. Item. 3.0 26 to 2025. Be packed. Annual report. This was also received\nand filed in committee. Item 3.27, the resolution in\nsupport of the California\nSenate Bill. 1218, this item was requested by committee to\nbe 42 the APRIL. 26 special City Council agenda at 3.30,\non consent. Item. 3.0 28, this\nwas the commemorative street renaming in collaboration with\nBeebe Memorial Cathedral Church. This item was\nrequested by committee to be\n42. The APRIL 14th Special City Council agenda at 3.30,\non consent. Item. 3.0 29, the ordinance to strengthen illegal dumping enforcement.\nThe the committee approved as amended the recommendations of\nstaff to be 42. The APRIL 14 special City Council agenda at\n3.30, on consent with the following amendments to page 7\nof the ordinance Section 5, 4 time calculations for\nassessment of penalties,\nadding a new whereas the dumping constituents and\ncommercial quality caught\ncontains harmful waste matter\nis a mattress upholstered furniture, appliances,\nfurniture or electronic waste, additional daily civil\npenalties of up to $1000 per\nday, maybe assessed. Into the\nnew section b, they have strict in the administrative\ncitation into the new section c they strict in the administrative fines or\npenalties. Moving to item 3.30\nthe resolution to authorize Arab its peak pilot program to\nstrengthen illegal dumping. Nations and remediation is my\napologies. And this is being requested to be scarred. The committee approved to schedule\nthis item to the APRIL 14th\nSpecial City Council agenda on\nconsent at now moving to the recommendations from the MARCH\n24th Saeidi Committee. The item 3.0 31 the lease\nagreement with the Oakland Parks and Recreation\nFoundation from maintenance of\nTyrone Kearney Park. The committee requested the item\nbe scheduled for APRIL 14th, Special City Council agenda at\n3.30, on consent. Item. 3.0 32, which consists of 2 pieces\nof legislation is amendment to the Rent Adjustment Ordinance\nand regulations. The committee approved a request to withdraw\nthe scheduling of this item to\nthe U.S. Economy and move to the Saeidi committee pending list. No date specific. Both\npieces. Now moving to the recommendations from the MARCH 24th life enrichment Committee\nagenda. Item. 3.0 33, the 2025 Library Commission annual\nreport this item was received\nand filed in committee. Item\n3.34 the citywide co-operative agreement. The committee approved as amended that the\nrecommendations of staff into before did to the APRIL 14th\nCity Council agenda at 3.30,\non non consent. The amendments were to the first resolve\nclass of legislation adding as reference in the agenda report\nand accompanying attachment. So spoke with the chair on this one. This one will go\nstraight to consent. So noted. Thank you for that. Chair\nJenkins moving to item 3.0 35, this is the purchase of real\nproperty at 31. 0, 5, San\nPablo Avenue for Hoover Library. And the committee approved the recommendations\nof staff to be 42. The APRIL\n14th, Special City Council\nagenda at 3.30, on consent. Now moving to recommendations from the MARCH 24th Public\nSafety Committee agenda item. 3.0 36, this is the let's\nthrow phone. Contracts and the committee approves staff recommendations to before\nAPRIL 14th, Special City\nCouncil agenda at 3.30, on\nconsent item. 3.0 37, the opd staff report the committee received about this item in\ncommittee. And item 3.0 38,\nthe opd gps tracker policy. The committee is proof staff's recommendations to be 42. The\nAPRIL 14th, Special City Council agenda at 3.30, on\nconsent. And that concludes\nyour item threes. And we have 3 most skinny. We have 3\nspeakers for the site. That\nwas a lot. Thank you. Clark.\nThat said the speakers. Thank\nyou for that. And calling\nthose speakers who are here in person or online, if you are online, please river. He and\nso I can easily recognize you.\nI have a regime and al Kevin Dally in Blair be committed\nany order and please state\nyour name for the record. All\nright. This is Kevin Dally. I've nit picky question on 3\ndot 20 on the salary\nordinances as you mentioned, salary for was amended to\nremove the part for the parking administrator the\nintent of the committee, too. Remove it in place it on the\npending list along with Section one or was it to\nstrike completely? I know the city administrator can add\nback in at a later date. Might\nmake sense to have a detach 2. Part one, which is the other\npart the city administrator. The item as amended, I guess\ncertain. Typically don't respond. But I can talk to\nSure. Okay. Thanks. Russian\nmodel district 4. I want to connect 3 items on your agenda\ntoday because they point to the same underlying issue.\nGovernance clarity. First 3.1 for the city auditor's report\non police oversight. The important takeaway is not just\nstaffing into structure. The\nreport identifies overlapping roles, unclear authority and\ngaps and accountability across\noversight bodies before adding resources. I would urge\ncouncil to consider a combined structural and performance review. So we are not\nreinforcing a system that lacks clear lines of\nresponsibility. Second item, 3.1, 8, the opd automatic\nresource locator policy. The city auditor specifically\nrecommended enabling gps location capability in patrol\nvehicles. So dispatchers can identify and send the closest\navailable unit. That is a practical operational improvement that can help\nreduce response times without\nadditional staffing. But we have not seen movements into\npack discussion in 2024. We're\nalso seeing policy drift. This technology was introduced as a dispatch to all but\ndiscussions have expanded into questions of discipline and\npersonnel monitoring. The Oakland Fire Department appears to have already\nimplemented a gps unable\ndispatch pilot without council approval. Could staff explain\nhow that program move forward operationally while the opd\npolicy remains pending. 3.1, 5\nfederal task force agreements\nunder a one c 9.7, the Privacy Advisory Commission must\nreview and publicly discuss and we'll use pd and federal\nagencies before they're\nexecuted. That gives that body significant influence over\ncomplex intergovernmental law enforcement agreements. But pack is a privacy body. It is\nnot a law enforcement body. It does not have operational\npublic safety or investigative expertise that creates a\nmismatch. These agreements\ninvolve violent crime,\nfirearms trafficking in multi-jurisdictional\ninvestigations. Oversight is essential, but we should ask\nfor the Oakland has given a privacy commission, outsized gatekeeping authority over\ncore public safety partnerships and in a way that\nfew other cities have. Across\nall 3 items. The issue is the\nsame. We are assigned responsibilities without\nclearly defining scope or aligning them with the\nappropriate expertise. Oversight is essential, but\nover state has to be aligned\nwith x, he's in scope right now. Authority is unclear.\nScope is expanding and\ndecisions are stalling. If we want accountability, we need to fix the structure. Thank\nyou. Thank you for your comments in our last speaker\nwho signed up for item number 3, is Blair be Continuara muted, please. I'm Beatrice.\nSomething you MAY begin. I\nthank you. Blair first time been around for a while. Good\nto see everyone. I wanted to\nspeak out about 5 items I want\nI can combine items. 2.1, 4\n3.1, 5 and then combine items.\n3.2, 6 to 3.30 and a few\nmoments. I guess only the full\n3 minutes. However, thank you\nto speak to item 3.1, 4 3.1,\nThank you for police\ncommission items for 3.1, 4. I'm still hopeful there can be\nsome ways to try to bring back former police commissioners\nwho retired, who I thought were I'd incredible service.\nImportant job. And I feel that, you know, as we have\nmade a shift in Oakland towards a more conservative\napproach to address City\nissues. I you know, I I think the previous commissioners,\nthey operate a progressive approach that's needed for the\nprocess and offered an important balance and what\nwe're trying to work towards\nus as find the middle ground of a conservative and\nprogressive values are open. So good luck that you can\ncontinue the efforts to consider the good work in the\nprevious commissioners. Their thinking is truly needed in\nhow move forward together.\nGood luck in those efforts about the federal task force\nthings. It's important to me that the pa see get an\nincredibly important service of oversight that can't be 9.\nI understand with the previous\npublic comment said they probably provide an incredibly\nimportant job of oversight that we have to certainly find\nanother. City department to opt for that oversight. We\ncan't just drop it and I hope they can continue the good work that the psc. They did\nincredibly important work.\nOversight for the federal task force agencies. We have to continue. Those efforts could\nlike how we find that and to\ngo into the cleaning items. You have a lot of new\nordinances illegal dumping. I was always from the point of\nview, if you really good tech accountability for all the\ntech around illegal dumping that creates kind of a\ncommunity effort towards positive that I hope can't be\nforgetting forgotten such a\ntime. And when you're be pack issues, 3.0, 2, 6, your yearly\nreview. Important reminder that tech accountability again\nin the importance of what the\npact tries to work towards. I hope they they understand the\nimportance of working towards tech accountability as well\nclues effort from everyone is how are community futures\nBill. And that's what they're going for to elect how we do\nthat together. Thanks for your\ntime. Thank you for that. Conclusion. Speakers for item\n3. Thank you to everybody who came out to speak. Thank you to the court for reading all\nthat. So noting 3.1 title\nchanged. 3.7 24 3 point APRIL\nto MAY 12 Finance and Management Committee. 3 point and dates going to be changed\nto a public hearing on MAY\n5th. 3.13 noting the title change 3.17 move to public\nSafety Committee pending lists. No date specific 3.18\nmove to public safety. Was date specific and 3.3, 4 move\nto consent entertain a motion\nas amended. Move approval. And that was a motion by council\nmember Brown seconded by\nCouncilmember Ramachandran to approve item 3 as amended,\nincluding time as amended on row for this is councilmember\neye on and run. And shared. I\nitem excuse Councilmember Fife is excuse item number 3\napproved as amended with 3 I's\none excuse Councilmember Fife. That now takes us to item\nnumber 4. Item. Number 4 is the review of the draft agenda\nis pending lists and the council agenda means the\ncouncil and committee\nmeetings. As we know, we are about to come up on a break.\nSo at this time it's a short list of the APRIL second rules\nagenda, religion that and the pending list for committees.\nAnd I have 2 speakers.\nCouncilmember gender. Thank you. I'd like to request to\nmake the APRIL 21st Finance Committee meeting a special\nmeeting, moving it 30 minutes\nup to 09:00am instead of 9.30, as we have the impacted agenda\ndon't want to set the entire day of meetings to delayed. I\nbelieve we do have we have confirmed with staff of other council members that will have\na quorum. Can you state the\ndate of the meeting and the time again, APRIL, 21st\nFinance Committee currently at hope would like to started at\n9 o'clock. Chair. Good morning. Trinity Hall from the office of the sort of like in\nHouston District 7 Council member. I am making requests on behalf of the council\nmember to schedule the encampment abatement policy\nfor the special City Council\nmeeting on APRIL 14th at\n09:38am. On non consent. Thank being that. This is an\nimportant item. My request would be that you guys get\nthat work with clerks items to\nget the items posted as soon as possible so that the council members have a chance\nto digest the changes as well\nas the public possible with the clerk's office 10 days\nbefore that be great. Thank you for that. And if I can just really quickly, just for\nthe public's knowledge, the\nitem that just was stated to be scheduled for this special, 90 a meeting APRIL 14th.\nThat's on the life enrichment Committee Pin De Lis. No date specific under item number to\nsell for clarity. Thank you. The administration also has a\nfew changes to the pending lists for that. Now, special\nFinance and Management Committee. The item under\nAPRIL. 21st item number 3, we'd like to request and\nthat's the information report\nfir the city administrator in response to the city auditor's\nrecommendations in substantiated whistleblower\ninvestigation regarding the\ncity of Oakland uses unauthorized formulas for calculating overtime. That\ndifferent from guidelines to move that the MAY 12 Finance\nand Management Committee meeting. Just because it's so\nimpacted. And then moving on\nto the life enrichment pending\nwest. We like to move item one\nunder the APRIL. 21st pending\nlist. The osc why 2024? 2025 final year and independent and not devalue Asian report to\nthe MAY 12th. And then finally moving on to the rules, ending\nless. Item number 4 under the\npending no date specific. We\nare requesting to schedule the reorganizing of the parking\ndivision recommendation from a 5th at the City Council\nmeeting. And noting that the parking administrator MAY come\naround then or later. And if I made use that MAY 5th on\nconsent or on on consent.\nThank you. Thank you. Seems\nlike that's any public\ncomment. Yes, I have Kevin Dowling and barely or plan come Please raise your hand if\nyou are on zoom. And I will take the in-person public\ncommenter spares. MR. Dalli is passing on his speaker. So we\ndo have big men in the queue. You're on muted. Please unmute\nyourself. And you MAY begin. Blair. Big Ben. I think I'll be I'll do the same as Kevin\nhas been a pass. Also, thank\nyou. Thank you for that. We have no more speakers for this\nitem. Thank More speakers. So\nmelting. For 21 finance and management committee will be a\nspecial meeting at 09:00am\nitem for on the pending Lewis for 21 Fmc item. Number to MAY\n12. At least see item moved to\nMAY 12. Rules number to MAY\n5th City Council meeting. Noting Elysee item number\nmoved to MAY 12. I will take a as amended. Take motion as\namended. Move approval. And that was a motion by\nCouncilmember Ramachandran seconded by COUNCILMAN Around to approve item for as amended\non role council member Brown.\nCouncilmember Ramachandran. I\nChair Jenkins. And Councilmember Fife is That\nmakes 3 has won excused as\namended. Item number 4 is\napproved. Thank you so much. That now takes us to our\ndiscussion item item number 5. It is an information report\nfrom the mayor, Charter Reform\nworking group and I have several speakers for the 32, I believe speakers for this\nitem. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for everybody that's come out to participate. I\nthink it's in. The public interest that we discussed this item when the mayor was\nelected, she. Came on and\nwanted to embark upon reviewing the charter and seeing what kind of charter\nchanges the people of Oakland\nwanted to see done. There's\nbeen immense public interest in this and the charge or\nhasn't been significantly changed with a structural of\nOakland's government for some\ntime. And so children and I found important to have this\nmeeting today take country and then I will give Spring League Women voters 7 minutes to\npresent. Thank you. Just\nechoing council PRESIDENT Jenkyns. I'm grateful to the\nmayor's office for spearheading and starting this\nprocess that a year ago, almost a year ago. And I look\nforward to discussing the recommendations hearing the\ninput of our residents. One of\nthe voters. Not sure that's\non. Good morning. Thank you\nvery much. Council PRESIDENT Council members, staff and\nmembers of the public.\nPresentation time to that. Yes, could we please have\nrepresentation be to get up? Thank you. My name is Gail\nWallace. I'm here on behalf of the legal voters. And I'm here\nwith Nicole manage from We were the co facilitators for\nthe mayor's working group. Next slide. Please. Know this\none's perfect. The mayor gave\nus and it the working group a very targeted assignment was\nto look at charter changes that could better define the\nrole of elected officials that would help address more\nresponsible. Citi Financial planning. And that would\nimprove government accountability and\ntransparency. Next slide. There was a process from last\nSEPTEMBER until this JANUARY. That as well as the\ndeliberations of the working group month after month. A\ngreat deal of community out\nreach that included in-person meetings in every council district. Thank you for those\nof you who gave us some assistance on standing those up. There were also 60\ninterviews with people extremely connected to city\ngovernment past and present. There was a survey put out and\nall of that input not brought into the working group's\ndeliberations. Just a little bit of background context. And we spoke with a number of\npeople, as Bill mentioned, and\nthey were kind of 4th key themes that kept surfacing.\nEverybody stated that Oakland's charter can't really\nbe changed without the broader\ncity context. So that's where the severe fiscal distress\nOakland is under the deep racial wealth and geographic\ninequities Oakland experiences across neighborhoods, the lack\nof sufficient authority to\ndecisively over time and a highly engaged and civic\nculture and Oakland where people want direct access to\ntheir decision makers. If you\nare the key findings, misaligned authority is creating a disconnect between\npublic expectations and actual\npowers week. Institutional alignment undermines long-term\nplanning, fiscal discipline, effective oversight and organizational complexity\nleads to operational efficiencies. That lack\naccountability and transparency. We heard from\nmany people that we talked to that everyone is in charge and\ntherefore no one is in charge.\nLuckily, there are 2 models that most city governments\nacross the country use. One is council manager where the\ncouncil acts as the unified legislative body and the mayor\nsits on the council council. The council appoints a\nprofessional manager to run city government. And there are a few examples of each of\nthese these types of care strong mayor government is\nwhere mayor is the chief executive and runs the city\ngovernment. This is a balance of power between the mayor\nwhich is the executive branch and the council, which is the\nlegislative branch, the council serves a separate\nlegislative branch of government and is responsible\nresponsible for oversight. Just a quick history. I'm we've operated in both of\nthese forms of government for a very long time. We had a\ncouncil manager from of\ngovernment in the 80's. There\nstarted to be some challenges with that form of government and some intense to start to\nmove towards a strong mayor\nform of government. Jerry Brown successfully championed\nmeasure acts 1998, which past\nquite quite well. And that gave a trial strong mayor system that was set to sunset\nafter 6 years. There is a commission formed and they chose to move forward with the\nmayor council from him government where the mayor and\nthe council were separate\nbranches. However, they did\nnot give the mayor veto powers and things like that. That would be typical in a strong\nmayor form of government. So\nthis has created a blended model at that that has\nelements of both of these models. But Lex, the benefits\nof both of them. The mayor does not serve on the council\nbut lacks the powers of the strong mayors. They can't vote\nfor Oviedo its decisions. The\ncity administrator manages agencies and operations. I apologize. You still have you\nhave 3 minutes. So make sure that you and to the rain going\nto yes, go straight to the\nrecommendations. First. And most importantly, the working\nGroup recommends that Oakland\nchange its charter to fully\nadopt one system or the other in an integrated and complete\nfashion. Next slide. Please.\nLuckily, there are there is research that tells you helped\ntoo. Identify which of these 2\nsystem actually is a match. But the character and history\nof your city. Next slide.\nPlease. The recommendation as\nto which system to adopt is to adopt the strong mayor system,\nwhich nickel has already the described in brief in which is\nmuch more fully described in our report. Next slide.\nPlease. I want to make it clear that that research and\njust referenced talked about what is the character of the\ncity that would be best served\nby a strong mayor system. So through all outreach I talked\nabout, we heard about fiscal\nstress and that's where a strong mayor system can help\nbecause it creates complex intergovernmental challenges. We heard about racial wealth\nand geographic inequities this\nalso is where strong mayors shines because it it serves best where there are\ndisparities across\nneighborhoods. You know, we've\ngot a highly engaged civic culture and strong mayor is appropriate voters expect that\nvisible executive leadership. Finally can't really see my last point there. But that's\nall right. We need someone to lead decisively and the that\nis what people were telling us\nover and over again and political fragmentation makes\nit difficult for collective accountability. Helps the favoring of the strong mayor\nsystem. So is the recommendation is based both\non feedback and on research.\nWe also recommend it balancing strengthening of the city\ncouncil with creation of a legislative budget. Analysts\noffice return of the council not number and clarifying\ncertain things in the charter about the city council's role.\nI want that close by pointing out just one thing says\nthere's reporting out saying\nthat the repair report recommends a salary raise for\nthe council. Want to clarify that because charter changes\nabout structural things. It's\nabout process. And so we noted that all the other elect did\nofficials auditor attorney mayor have salary setting\nmechanism within in charter that allows the entire package\nto be review. That's not the\ncase for the City Council. The provisions only allow for cost\nof living increases. So we\nsimply recommended that that process be changed to be\nconsistent across all of those elected offices and anything\nelse would be a factual evidence rebased thing as to\nwhat salaries any of the officials in any of these\nelected offices would receive.\nAlright, just to close out and there were a number of other\nthings that came up during the research. There were questions about the city attorney and\nthe city auditor and whether or not this should be elected\nor appointed positions around oversight bodies, including\ncommissions and and financial decision-making. Whether or not there should be some\nlong-range planning controller's office, things\nlike that. Those were all\nthings that we we recommend further analysis but went beyond the scope of this\nreview. And so some next steps, any charge, charter\nchanges must be approved by\nOakland voters and the mayor and the council are working\ntogether to determine which\nrecommendations to advance to a ballot. And we have done\nsome polling in which we we\nshared with the council\nmembers today that really shows strong support for the\nworking group's\nrecommendations any implementation of this needs\nto be there needs to be thoughtful transition periods\nso that we don't. At not fully implement all of the\nrecommendations and this should be a living document. The charter should be\nsomething that we come back to regularly and make sure that\nit actually meeting the needs of oaklanders. Just a quick\nnote, Turner from creates conditions for improvement but\ndoesn't substitute for effective leadership and management. There are a lot of\nother things that need to be done order to improve the way\nOakland works. This is just\nthe high level recommendations. The real floor report. We also\ndeveloped a full very extensive faq based on a lot of the feedback that we've\nbeen in questions that we've\nbeen getting are all available on the mayor's website. We encourage you to take a look\nat the full report. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you\nfor your work as well. Council members to you guys have any comments before we go to the\npublic Council member Brown. Thank I was gonna offer than 2\nminutes of my time. Just in case they would have because I felt like they were rushing through kind of the\npresentation. And so I just wanted to give you the\nopportunity if there was any additional input that you want\nto make sure members of the public weather here are watching virtually like you\nwant to make sure that the\nmessage just the hard work of the working group all of your efforts, there's anything else\nyou wanted to to say. That's very kind of you and I\nappreciate To the second\nrecommendation in the report.\nThere are 2 choices that almost all cities in the United States, all that we've\nlooked at and so what the committee really wanted to get\nacross was there is a problem\nwith Oakland's structure that it's a mix match that is\ndysfunctional. And therefore, the first recommendation is do\nsomething. Moved to an\nintegrated and complete system that is recognized as such and\ntested by used in multiple\nother cities. The second report, the thing I want, the second recommendation is tied\nto the 3rd. They are really recommending the street. What\nis called the strong mayor model, but it really is a\nbalance of an executive and\nthe legislative branch within the government. And therefore,\nthere are recommendations with respect to each and the final\npoint. I want to underscore is this is connected with the\ncharacter of the city of\nOakland. Otherwise it will. You could just toss a coin\nbecause they're both formal systems in deciding which one\nto choose. You really have to ask what's the history here\nwhere we coming from? What is the character of the city that\nwe have? Thank Any other comments from the council\nmembers. Okay. So you want to public comment? That's amazing\nof it. All right. Let's go to\npublic comment. As I call your name. Please approach the\npodium in any order. If you are participating via zoom, please raise your hand so I\ncan recognize you and as\nusual, I will call those who are present in chambers first. And then those who are\nparticipating via zoom after starting with Mark. So this\nguy, Kevin Dally, Jonathan\nCorn, Dina bill cough, Dory to\nBiden. George Species, Orlando\nPerez wild will whilst Taos Ski. My apologies but\nmispronounced that Blair, big\nmen, Mike Boak. John Kerr s\nRasheem and all Steve Coen.\nNaomi shift, Keith Brown amid\nAlibaba some zoo. Uber Charles\nlong. Dan Marks. That's blue.\nVeronica Garcia, Nancy folk, Steven Falk. David Vo, right,\nElizabeth Silver, Ralph Kantz,\nPamela Drake. Martell and\nimage. Millie Cleveland,\nRichard Fuentes in Libby shaft. Again, please approach\nthe podium in any order.\nPlease state your name before\nyou begin the those who are participating via zoom, please raise your hand. We'll call\nyou after we have those in-person purse. You think\nyou. Greetings. I'm Falk, co-founder of the Oakland\nCharter Reform Project and my comments are limited to 3\nquick and related points. My first point is that I urge you\nnot to adopt the strong mayor recommendation because there\nis a better way for Oakland.\nMy second point is that 97% of California cities have\nrejected the strong mayor\nsystem. With the exception of San Francisco, which is both a\ncity and county, every single\ncity in the Bay Area, large and small has rejected the\nstrong mayor model. Know California City has transition\nto a strong mayor system in\nthe last 20 years. Not one. So basically do cities are doing\nwhat the working group is asking you to do so you have\nto ask why is that? It's because study after study\nafter study has proven professionally managed cities\nwith a powerful city council are more transparent, more\nresponsive, more effective and more efficient and far less\ncorrupt. So my 3rd and final point, a lot of the public\nconversation around this issue in purse that you have only 2\nchoices, either a strong mayor or council manage or form of government. That is false.\nThat is not true. That is\nwhat's known as a false\ndichotomy. In fact, cities\ntoday rarely choose the pure.\nI apologize. Your time ended. The David Albright. Okay. You\nhave one more minute, MR. That is what's known as a false\ndichotomy. In fact, cities today rarely choose the pure\nversion of either one of those\nsystems. And instead craft a hybrid system best suited for\ntheir city. And that's what we're recommending with our\n3rd option, which features leadership by a powerful\nmayor. With a veto. Oversight\nby a more powerful city\ncouncil and the terrific public services. The professional management can\ndeliver. Thank you for your\nattention. Thank you for your\ncomments. Thanks for the opportunity to comment. My\nname is Nancy Fall. My primary\nmessage is that oaklanders need not settle for the strong\nmayor form as recommended.\nThere's the better proven 3rd option that includes several\nof the working group's recommendations while better\npositioning Oakland, given its\nunique nature for the future. This 3rd option has 3 key\nelements. Number one, it embeds a more powerful mayor\nwith the veto authority to\nserve as chair. To more powerful full-time city\nCouncil. That's supported by an independent budget and\nlegislative analyst office has\nrecommended. 3 who jointly.\nMayor plus council oversee a professionally trained\nexecutive. The city manager. There's no need to settle for\nthe strong mayor form because\nit's not the proven best structure for delivering high\nquality efficient and\neffective city services. Council manager of government\nupon which this 3rd option is\nbased is the proven best approach based on a lot of the\nresearch that is in the working group's great\nappendix. This 3rd option is 10%. And this Mayor Kemp Council manager formal\ngovernment is more efficient.\nThat strong mayor has stronger budget solvency, then strong\ntheir cities. And it's 57%\nless likely to have corruption convictions. Then strong\nmayors, cities, so lets not settle for the strong mayor option and instead adopt a\nproven 3rd option for a\nbetter. Thank you for your\ncomment. Speaker. This been a cop, I apologize. Can you please call go closer to the\nmike so we can make sure we\ncan. Accomplish? I live in district 3 I'm I'm here just\nto lend my support to the council manager system, the\nso-called 3rd option. And I'm\nasking the council to put that option. On the ballot and let\nlet the voters decide. Not the\nstrong mayor model. I'm opposed to the strong mayor model for the reasons that\nothers have expressed. But one is that with all due respect,\nI think the strong mayor system is too dependent on the\ngood faith of the person who\noccupies the mayor's seat, the structure of our government should include checks and\nbalances, continuity of professional management, accountability of the City\nCouncil. In addition to the mayor and we should look to\nwhat are other peer cities do\nall of this points to a council manager system with a\nstrengthened mayoral rule. The 3rd option. And and as others\nhave said, this is the model that is widely in use and we\nshould not ignore that. Thank\nyou. Thank you your comments.\nCurrently Indy 4. I appreciate the information report. I\nthink the the working group did a great job showing all\nthe options. And while they\nhave. Preferred choice. I\nreally appreciate their point.\nChange something, choose a new\nsystem. I suggest the council quickly set up its own working\ngroup so they can choose the\nbest options. Mention a couple\nof points. I disagree with. We\nneed an at large seat. I live\nin d for today. But I like\nmost oaklanders frequently\ntraveled throughout Oakland, 2 different districts. No 5\ndistricts in the last 24 hours\nfor me, I suspect. Other people have done better than\ntap. So we need someone who is\nable to look at the entire\nsystem and both Councilmember Brown and Council member Kaplan have done a good job\nwith that. I fear large\nmayor's election. The last 4 districts, they're sort of the last 3 district forced Yemen's\nall became mayor. We are not getting to geographical\nequity. By having large mayor's race. Only way we get\na mayor from Deep East Oakland is to have the council PRESIDENT P from Deep East\nOakland have recalled. We can't depend upon as a way of\ngetting a graphical equity Thank you for your comments.\nNext picture. Good morning. My\nname is Steve Cohn. I'm a long-term resident and\nhomeowner in Oakland my understanding try follow this\nhold process is that everyone\nbelieves that the system is dysfunctional. The city\ncouncil members have the power to develop policy, but no\npower to implement it. The mayor has the power to implement it but has no input\nin developing policy. So to\nme, if you just have a strong mayor, the city council still\ndoesn't have any. To implement the findings. By having a\nstrong mayor who can the doh?\nWork process work process of the council. That's the council in a weaker position.\nMinutes in now in respect, it,\npeople who've said that there's a lot of interest in\nhaving strong mayor. There was\na survey done by party for the\nworking group and the number\nitem was strength in the city Council provide city council\nwith more direct ways to hold administration accountable.\nAnd then put mayor back on the\ndice with the second with 82 p 82% support give mayor role on\nthe city council helps a\npolicy laws. So I hope you'll\ntake what's called the 3rd option. Having a strong mayor,\na strong city council and make Oakland the city that really\nwanted to Thank you very much.\nThank you for your comments. Thanks. Chair and council\nmember council PRESIDENT Mark.\nSo we residents of district one. I've worked for local\ngovernments for 23 years,\nincluding almost 5 years as Oakland's director of economic development. There's no\nquestion that we need charter reform. We have a dysfunctional system and I\nthink we all know that. But I disagree with the working group's recommendation find\nthere support of their\nrecommendation to be very strong. Their own website\nprovides a lot of material which if you haven't gone\nthrough it, you definitely\nshould. But I kasaan in particular pages, 7 to 9 of\nthe working group's report. Key differences between the\ncouncil manager and strong mayor, the strong concentrates\npower in a single elected individual. It heightens the\nrisk of put put it political politicization. That's a tough\nword to say. Misuse of authority decisions are driven\nby short-term electoral incentives and success depends\nheavily on the competence of the individual council manager\nlays the foundation for\nprofessional management. It insulates decisions short-term political pressures enables\nthe manager to make decisions\nthat are that are tough politically. Long-serving professionals provide\ncontinuity, stability, institutional memory and\nconsistency across election\ncycles. Most importantly, though, the council manager\nsystem will distribute political power across the\ncouncil and ensure that district representatives have equal standing in shaping\npolicy in advocating for their communities. I urge you to\ntake charter reform. Thank you\nfor your comments. All right. I'm good Morning Council members. I'm Keith Brown,\nexecutive secretary treasurer of the Alameda Labor Council.\nI'm speaking to you this\nmorning as a lifelong open resident and resident of\ndistrict. And I want to first of all, thank the work of the\nworking group. I think one thing that almost all\noaklanders agree that the city is slow to provide basic\nservices. Another thing we all agree on is that the structure\nof our city is not working. Currently, everyone is in charge would mean which means\nno one is in charge. We must establish clear lines of\nresponsibility. We must ensure\ndata structure of our\ngovernment can deliver for our\ncommunity and for better use\nof limited resources. The\nstrong mayor position. Offers clear direct accountability\nspeeds up decisions, strengthens coordination and\ndelivers results on\nhomelessness. Public safety in fiscal responsibility with\ngreater oversight and legislative capacity to better\nrepresent districts. So our community has made it clear\nthat they want us of city government to be decisive on\naction and results and a strong mayor. System allows us\nto deliver for all open neighborhoods faster and more\nefficient. Thank you for your\ncomment. Hello, I'm Mike Polk. And John Currie says with me\nhere is ceding his 90 seconds\nto me. John and I have lived\nand worked in Oakland for over\n40 years. We're part of neighbors for progressive action and Oakland Group with\nover 500 members, we support charter reform as Oakland's\ncurrent charter system. Surely\nclearly doesn't work. We do not support the strong mayor\nmodel recommended by the\nworking group. Only large cities in California have a\nstrong mayor system in entire\nstate. 2 of those San Francisco in la are special\nbeing also counties. There's a better alternative and\nempowered mayor embedded in a\ncouncil manager of government. This approach features a\ncitywide elected mayor with significant leadership\nauthority, including veto powers as recommended by the\nworking group. But also features are professionally\ntrained city manager overseen by the council in Manatee,\nMayor working together as recommended by the national\nCivic model City. City\ncharter, some variation of\nthis charter is used by 96 or 97% of the largest cities by\npopulation in our state, including 3 that are larger than Oakland and they run the\nslide that we saw just a few\nminutes ago. And that's a long\nbeach, Sacramento. And a South So this would this method would give our city council\nthe leverage it needs to help get things done in Oakland\nthat something that 83% of the people that the working group\nsurveyed said they they think is the most important, the highest percentage of anything\non that survey was that they want let the council to have the leverage to get things\ndone in the city and you won't have that leverage in the\nstrong mayor system. So one\nother thing that 82% of those surveyed said is that they\nwant the mayor to attend council meetings. Now, Barbara\nLee has said she doesn't have\nany problem with that ending mayors. But the strong mayor\ninitiative doesn't require that. And a future MAY or MAY\nnot want to. That's in fact\nhow we got where we are partly let's pay attention to what\nthe voters asked for in the in\nthe survey some of you MAY have seen maybe chefs a letter\nto the editor with Council\nmanagers widely used because most of that's mostly sauces,\nsmall cities. It's not it's\nthe opposite. As we just saw, there's there's a lot of large\ncities that have that so mindful of the upcoming\nchantelle trial. It's unlikely\nthat voters will vote for. Thank you. Your time is that.\nThank you for your time. Good Morning. Council members. My\nname is Pat Martell. I'm here today representing the\ninternational City County Management Association, a\nprofessional organization that advances transparent, responsive, effective and\nefficient local government through good governance\nleadership management,\ninnovation and ethics. As the West Coast regional director\nof I want to urge your consideration of a viable 3rd\noption. To move more effectively to deliver the results and vision by the\nmayor's working group recommendations. A strong\nmayor with veto power actively\nparticipates in city council\nmeetings leading a fully engage city council city\nmanager structure. This option creates clear lines of\nresponsibility and\naccountability. Elected officials set policy and a\nprofessionally trained managers accountable to the\nmayor and city Council for\nexecution. Local governments\nhave become larger and more complex over time and benefit\nby having trained professionals manage operations that best serve the\nneeds of the community. This structural model clarifies the\nrole of the mayor and city\ncouncil and eliminates politicizing administrative decisions while preserving\nstrong democratic control. It balances strong political\nleadership with results-driven professional administration\nallowing the mayor and city\ncouncil to to focus on community vision policy and the priorities while leaving\noperational decisions to the\ncity manager. Thank you comments. I apologize before\nthe next speaker goes. If I\ncan take one person threw the\nchair with his discretion to take one of the members of the\npublic that are participating online. I'm going give them their 2 minutes. Thank you so\nmuch for your patients for\nMonica. You are a muted. You\nMAY begin your 2 minutes. 90 seconds. Thank you so much for\nthat changes for me. Yes, you\nMAY begin. Ok? Thank you. Good morning. Council members free\nOakland in the room. I just want to start by saying that I\nreally appreciate the work\nthat's gone into this and the effort to improve how the city\nof Oakland operates. I don't think anyone with this agree\nthat Oakland, it's a faster action and more clarity around\nwho is responsible when things\naren't working. That's a I do\nhave some real concerns about the recommendation to eliminate the at-large council\nseat. If that happens, the\ncouncil would be made. Made up entirely of district 3% of and\nsystem aired Dustin Vote on legislation. We would lose\nstate only citywide elected voice and the legislative\nbranch and that matters because as we all know, Oakland, U.S. And just deal\nwith district issues, we deal with things that impact the entire city that need a\nbroader perspective. The at-large t helps connect\nneighborhoods. Bring attention\nto citywide needs and make sure no community gets\noverlook like Melrose, which\nsits in both district 5 and\ndistrict 6. From where I stand\nremoving that creates gaps at the time when we really need\nto be more connected, connect\nthat asked the city. So I just\nwant to hurt you to move forward is that in prank you for your comments? Your time\nis up. Thank you for your patients. Member of the\npublic. You MAY approach state, your name for the\nrecord. Thank you so much.\nThank you. Good Morning. Council members. My name is\nAhmed Ali. Bob Muddy 6\nresident, a dad. And I've had the chance to serve both\ninside the city and in the private sector working with\nOakland businesses. I was part of the mayor's working group on charter reform and got to\nhear from hundreds Oakland residents and the biggest\nthing I heard over and over was the need for clear\naccountability. Residents expects that when they vote\nfor a mayor, the buck stops\nthere. At my house, my home\nwhen accountability is unclear. My five-year-old just\nruns the whole house. Speaking from experience. That's not a\nmodel that we should replicate\nat City Hall. Right now, our system spreads responsibility\nacross too many places when\nsomething goes wrong. It's not\nalways clear who owns it. And that makes it harder to\nactually solve problems on\nbehalf of our residents. This\nis about aligning authority\nwith responsibility. So when decisions are made, there's\nclarity on who is accountable.\nAnd when outcomes fall short. It's clear who needs to answer\nfor. At the same time, these recommendations strengthen the\ncouncil's ability. To provide stronger legislative and financial oversight, which is\njust as important. I believe\nthis most Oakland in the right\ndirection. Thank you for your comments and thank you for\nyour patience. Speaking. Hi,\nmy name is Charlie. Long 21 year, resident of city of\nOakland in District 4. And I\nhave city manager 4 times, but\nalso I've invested 100 million dollars into downtown Oakland\nwith 2 of her projects. I\nserved on the bill go,\ndevelopment advisory Committee. And let me tell\nyou, my observation, based\nupon my awareness of how\norganizations work. And how\ndevelopment works. Oakland's or organ Oakland's\norganization is broken. There\nis no sense of common purpose. Departments are silos. They\ndon't talk to each other. They don't they don't have a sense\nof common purpose. I am here\nstrongly request. That you\nreject the strong mayor option\nbecause all it does is it\nsays, okay, we've got a broken system. Where do? We're\nbasically there are silos. Let's create another broken\nsystem where there are silos. Where the mayor basically is\nnot a participant. The council\nmanager of government. Makes\nthe city manager accountable\nthe mayor to the council and\nthe mayor sits on the city council. It has veto power and\nis an active participant. Let's create that kind of\nunified approach. 2. Thank you for your comments next.\nSpeaker. Good Morning Council members. My name is Denmark's\nexcuse me. I can resident in district 2 and of work in and for local governments for more\nthan 40 years. I'm a employee in the city former to committee velvet director in\nthe city of Berkeley. And it worked as as a ploy in several\nBay Area cities. And for the\npast 15 years, I've been a management consultant on local\ngovernment effectiveness all around the country. And in\nCalifornia. I want to thank the mayor for putting forward\nthe the mayor's task force and bringing the issue of charter\nreform to the city's attention and carry it forward as issue that we have to address in\nOakland. Clearly we need a\nmore effective government that can deliver the services that\npeople have open want. And in my opinion, did not received\nover the last many years. And I think most local residents would agree with me that we\nneed a more effective government. Not a political\none. City managers are trained in and spend their whole careers making local\ngovernment more effective. Mayors were elected for their\npolitical You meant not their organizational skills. It's for this reason that almost\nall the cities in California has been spoken earlier, adopt\na city manager form of government and I along with many of the other people have\nspoken here today based on our long experience in local\ngovernment. Believe that the 3rd option is the best option\nfor the city of Oakland and urge that you carry that\noption in some fashion forward to the citizens of Oakland.\nThank you so much. Thank you\nfor your comments. Rajon Rondo District 4. I want to start by\nacknowledging the effort here. Easier to point out what's\nbroken that to try and fix And appreciate that this process\nis attempting to do that. What I hear from my community is\nvery consistent. People want basic things to work like roads and public safety and\nmany residents don't feel we\nhave that. Charter reform is part of the solution along with fiscal in broader\ngovernance reform. But my\nconcern simple. Who is accessible to the regular\nOakland resident. When something needs to get fixed and how do we ensure that it\nactually happens? It's already difficult to get regular\nresidents. Voices heard. That makes be cautious about\nconcentrating more power in a single office where access can feel even more limited to\nthose without influence and\npower. We need a balance clear leadership with accountability and full representation,\nincluding the at-large seat. That's why I'm leaning towards\na balanced approach. Like the 3rd option. But I really urge\ncouncil choose a structure that will truly deliver\nresults with accountability and transparency and accessibility to all\nOaklanders. Thank you. Thank\nyou for your comment. Thank you. My name is Elizabeth Silver activated that the\nsilver. I I've lived here for\n48 years. Am a retired lawyer. I was city attorney of several\ncities for a total. Of 37 years. So I know what you\ndoing and I thank you for it. I'm in favor of the council\nmanager of government. The\nmost important thing that the city council does, that the\nwhole city does is its budget. And the budget is the\nblueprint for what gets done\nin the city. Council. Then house to put a point somebody\nis going to implement the budget. Just doesn't happen by\nitself. So the city administrator or city manager,\nwhatever you want to call the position is the person who\nimplements the budget. The budget includes the council's\ngoals, how many will be spent\nbut programs will be adopted.\nIt cetera. And it's important to have a professional in the\nrole implementing budget. The mayor can be on the city\nCouncil. The city manager. Really works from council\nmeeting. Council meeting. So\nthe council has control. The implementation of its\nobjectives because the council points and can fire the city\nmanager. Thank drinking, does\nnot speak. My name is Millie Cleveland. I also live in\ndistrict 4. And move one plot 30 years ago, District 5.\nEnded up in 4. I want to throw a little twist to the\ndiscussion about the\nunderlying assumptions about the council developing policy\nbut not being able to enforce\nit. The mayor can't develop\npolicy, but it's responsible for enforcement. My\nobservation coming to council\nmeetings is that our council\nrepresentatives have abdicated their responsibility,\nenforcing things that in making sure the city manager\nfollow through. The macro. A\nunit, the chief of the fire\ndepartment change the scope of work and not one council\nperson race issue. We've had\ndecades of city auditors making recommendations on how\nto deal with opd over time, which have been dismissed by\nthe council. The council voted to civilian eyes almost 40\npositions in opd, putting 40\ncops back on the street. And\nthe council. He's done nothing to force a city administrator to speak on the work that he's\nbeen accomplish. So I am\nagainst Philly. My time is up.\nI'm against the strong. Thank\nyou, Emily. Naomi I'm only\nspeaking for myself. I support something like the 3rd option,\nan effective mayor and\nineffective counsel. I got to Oakland when John reading was\nMayor. And before district elections. And I've attended\ncity Hall meeting since Lana Wilson and his city manager\nHenry Gardner. I served on a commission that vainly\nattempted to fix Jerry Brown's unworkable, incompetent\nmeasure acts. People want\neffective and accessible district representation\npublicly accountable. Mayor. The word strong shouldn't be\nused here. It's pejorative\nbecause it implies week. We've had way too much talk about\nstrong stuff at the national\nlevel. Let's get rid of that. Most cities our size used council manager system. And\nlastly. I support a point of\ncity attorney and auditor.\nBecause those posts are not\nfor anybody to run for. You\nneed somebody who has very specific qualifications. It's\nnot the same as running for\nother political offices. I really appreciate the work\nthat's been done. I vehemently oppose the strong mayor\nconcept. Thank you. Thank you for your comments called on\nnames. Ralph former chair of\nthe Public Commission. Commenting that this whole\nprocess is corrupt. That\nsection 601 requires 6 inches from 6 or the charter requires\nan advisory group. The created by resolution of the City\nCouncil. That didn't happen in\nthis case. In addition with\nthat doesn't meant there was no public meetings of this\nworking group for the public to observe the process and\nunderstand what took place.\nWell, minor detail there, but the only way you can literally\ndo this is. Do what they did 2003 and by City Council resolution create a working\ngroup that the public to participate and understand\nwhat's going on. I'm a public records request of the mayor's office back DECEMBER. That yet\nto responded to evolving\nthings like were the agendas and minutes of the meetings of\nthe working group. I'm still\nway. I was reserve Quest is.\nWere shot. Do guards contract\nwho paid for all this? Who\nactually did the work? None of\nthat is public. It's all be in bed done by a private group\nwith private money and secret\nmeetings. There's been no public process that the law\nrequires. This is a violation of the Constitution of the\nBrown Act. And a disgrace that it's been functioning. That's\nwhy. Thank you for your\ncomments. Was trying to get Levy chef to come up with me\nso we could any debate. Want\nto hear that right? First of all, I need an extra 10\nseconds before you start counting time. I need to ask\nsomebody to translate to sign. Doesn't make sense to anybody\nso far. And I want to complain about mobility issues for that\nfor this building. Please don't take my time for that.\nPlease. Please stop the time. And we time actually in\nseconds. All right. When you\nget out of the day garage and you're walking with a cane or at whatever pace to state your\nname for the red. Oh, sorry, Pamela. Draped with the\nWellston Club. You have to go all the way around. Like about an extra blocker and a block\nand a half. Somebody should be\nat the door at the other side, there's you have somebody sitting at desk there that\ncould come over and escort you over to the security. So you didn't have to go all the way\naround. Hope this not\nviolation, but seems like one. All right. Let me let me start\nmy name. How much time I going\nto get to talk. 10 seconds\nmore. 20 seconds. You know, I'm a post of the strong\nmayor. I'm not in favor of the\nwhole move movement towards authoritarianism that this country's been involved in. I\nthink we're backing off of\nthat now on top of that, there's really 2 issues that\nare the ones that are up for\nconcern. One is that when the council members have a complaint from their\nconstituents, they don't have\nany place for it to go so higher. Some assistant city\nadministrators who work directly with each council\nmember with each district MAY be giving district 7 their own\nand the other districts to to council districts for one administrator to get your\nspecial. Want to say, Ken need\nspecial anyway, that would that that person would then\nwork directly when they have a complaint say, ok, we'll see\nwhat we can do about your complaint and we'll work\ndirectly with you say you can talk to your constituents\nabout what's being done. The other issue seems to be the\nmayor should be sitting on the council. The mayor should be\navailable for people to see how she thinks how she organizes her thoughts and\nmake sure decisions. Thank\nends. Thank you, MR. Inc. You\nwere given by the Chair 10 extra seconds. So allow the\nmike to stay on long enough. Thank you for your comments.\nNext. Speaker signed up. That's PRESIDENT First. Thank\nyou. Windows. Yes, my name Richard Fuentes. I'm a leader\nin the union movement with asked me council 57\nrepresenting 26,000 workers. Also small business owner here in downtown Oakland in a\ndowntown up and resident. I'm also a member of the mayor's\nworking group for the charter reform. And I want to speak in support of our recommendations\nfor storm Mayor. We did a\ncommunity outreach. We heard throughout Oakland from every\nsingle district from working people that they wanted to\nhave strong mayor form of\ngovernment. We have serve ace. We're brown and black communities got to\nparticipate. You're hearing\ntoday about a 3rd option, a 3rd option that is not recommended by the working\ngroup. A 3rd option that has\nno input from working people from black people from Brown\npeople lets be cleared. A 3rd\noption is a privilege option working. People don't have\ntime to come today. At 10:30am, in the morning to provide their perspective.\nI've worked for 3 municipalities. I work for a special district. I've served\non a e pension board federal oversight committees where\nI've served. Let me tell you, Oakland is diverse. And because of that, the diversity\nthat we have within our city,\na strong form former government is really an\napproach that was served up lenders because Oaklanders\ndon't know who is responsible. Oaklanders don't know who's in\ncharge. Oaklanders want to know who is responsible for Philly, their potholes. Thank\nyou. Thank you for your\ncomments next. Speaker. Well, hello, my name is Libby\nSchaff. I'm a lifetime. Oakland or I am a 24 year\nveteran of city Hall and I\nspeak to you as a private citizen today. I do. I am\nprobably the only person alive\nwho was and East Oakland Council staffer under Jerry Brown, strong mayor form of\ngovernment. I was a council\nmember of district 4 and I, of\ncourse, was the mayor for 8 years. So I do bring a unique perspective on how these\ndifferent systems actually\nhave worked in the asked and happy to answer any questions.\nIf you have any. I want start by saying I was disappointed\nto hear citations of the survey and suggesting that\nthat represented voter sentiment, the survey that was\ndone by the working group was\nan opt-in survey and the demographics of respondents\n16% of respondents didn't even\nlive in Oakland. And an interesting 23% were city of\nOakland employees. So I just please do not regard those\nsurvey results as voter\nsentiment. 3 polls now have\nbeen done about how do oaklanders feel about this\nproposal? All 3 have turned\nback very clear mandates that\nOakland voters want a strong\nmayor. 61% in the polls. The polls of Pulse of Oakland pull\nin the fall. 60 4% in the East Bay Polling institute results\nand then. Mayor or other\ninsights. You want to offer. I\nI do have questions about how\nthe system worked. Yes, okay. You know, under Jerry Brant\nthis working group's proposal is essentially the same as we\nhad under Jerry Brown's strong mayor before the council took\naway the veto power. You might not remember Jerry Brown had a view to power because he\nhardly ever used it. The one time I remember was a piece\nlegislation. I actually wrote\nwhen I was the legislative aide to Council member De La\nFuente district 5 the council\nhad a lot of power in my experience. It is actually\nwhen the council and the mayor\nhad the best collaboration and the council offices\nconstituent work, which was my passion. When I worked in the\ncouncil offices actually got\ndone. There was more\nresponsiveness from the administration wall. It is not\nclear that this proposal requires the 3, 1, 1, or\nconstituent response to be\nunder the mayor at that time. It was the Oaklanders\nAssistance Center was actually part of the mayor's office and\nit was much more responsive\nthan our current system. The council had a full-time\nlegislative in budget analyst\nthat allowed us to write good legislation, proactive legislation and to have our\nown independent budget analyst\nto actually be an independent validator of financial\ninformation that we were getting from the\nadministration. So those were some of the qualities I remember from the strong\nmayor. Finally. Everyone agrees that a hybrid system is\nfuzzy and does not serve\nanyone. Option. 3 is just\nanother hybrid proposal. I would prefer to see Oakland go\nback to a council manager for of government rather than swap\none fuzzy hybrid for another.\nI know that. That that would based on my experience in\nthese 24 years in these\nvarious roles. And if anyone doesn't have any other\nquestions. I appreciate the\nopportunity. All right. Thank\nyou. Thank you for your Speakers have been called if\nyou are participating here in\nchambers and signed up to speak in her name was called please approach the podium. If\nnot, we will move on to zoom\nspeakers. I see no one rising. So we will go to those who signed up to speak in zoom. If\nyou are. And America extra time and ice speaking about\nlow mobility issues, not about the strong mayor and I would\nlike 30 seconds to finish.\nChanging it. You're out of\norder. I signed up in time. Yes, and I had to listen to\nall that stuff. If I give you extra time, I got to give\neverybody else know, if you're giving people who've been involved in government, I\ndidn't give extra time because he was involved in government.\nI didn't say All right. Well, I didn't get all my time because I'm having a problem\nwith the mobility issues and\nthe city hall. And that doesn't seem okay. So because\nthis is an issue. I will allow you that the extra seconds.\nThank you. Okay. So the strong mayor, the real issue, if you think about strong Marin, you\nthink about a corporation, you know that the idea person is\nnot the same as the detail person. There's nobody who can\ndo both. Well. And it's really\na place that ends up it was change because of all the\ncorruption. Now the current mayor is not going to be\ninvolved in corruption, but\nwhoever comes after her could use this as a real power grab.\nThat's that's what it essentially is. But the other\nthing about the legislative\noffice, I don't want a plan\nfrom the administrators the city council office. I think\nthat's a bad idea. Thank you.\nThank you for your comments. Now moving to the zoom\nspeakers. If signed up to speak for this item and you\nwish to use your time. Please raise your hand in the queue\nso I can recognize uic Blair, man. You have been muted. You\nMAY begin. I blame Beekman.\nThank you a lot for this item. I'm living in San Diego. That\nalso has a strong mayor system. And that also is having a lot of questions around the strong mayor\nsystem. I was originally from\nSan and they had a quite\ncommunity process few years ago to decide the future of strong Mayor versus Council\nmandate. City manager, ways of\nworking and easily. The community came out in supporting the future of\ncouncil manager system and created a very clear case of\nits importance. The strong\nmayor simply is there to you know, real estate interests.\nAnd those of the ridge. And I think the majority of the people are going to be for\nthis measure in Oakland are going to be either in real\nestate or rich people. And we\nhave to acknowledge that the\ntech accountability ideas that would create that whole new\ncharter ideas were created for\nback in 2014 15. It was with\nthe intention to work towards the future of community\nparticipation and open democracy as how to talk about\nour future of how we practice community together. And I think we have to be committed\nto those goals that the I've been learning. This is a\nlearning process for my so but the you know, council manager\ncity manager, way of working works towards open\nparticipatory democracy. The strong mayor form does not. It\nserves the weekend. Thank you\nfor your comments of the next speaker. In you have unit mud\nor I mean, don't eat about time and I'm in district 6 in\nhave been here for many years. And why appreciate the work\nthat the working that I\nsupport council manager\nsystem. We had one before we step mean and worked pretty well before we start to\ntinker. Now we have a system\nwe all agree is not workable.\nBut with a council managers\nsystem where we have. With the mayor sitting on the council\nand leading the effort. We\nhave a strong career, strong\ncouncil and we have the professionals, city\nCOUNCILMAN. I mean, meant I'm\ncity manager who as professional and can last\nbeyond just one administration\ndon't know exactly what that don't want to depend on the\ngoodness of And the mayor. Depending on who gets elected.\nSo I strongly support. Council\nmanager. With Strong Mayor\nSystem. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. I show one\nlast hand raised in Zoom was\nlisted under iPhone. When you to please state the name that it's written on your speaker\ncard that you signed up for.\nNeeded iPhone. Hi, hello. My name is Fernando Perez. I did\nfind up yesterday. Great.\nThank you. You MAY be my the I was raised no plan. I live\nthroughout the Bay area at Livermore. I lived in Hayward.\nI just bought a house 2 years\nago. Not back and I love open.\nI love you. I love it I'm kind\nof tired I'm kind of tired of always kind of the unique politically wise and all of\nthat and why can't we just do what our neighbors in the Bay\narea are doing and they're doing great. They They're\nfollowing. The council manager says do and I I've moved out\nof open for over 15 years. So I got I got an opportunity see\nwhat a good strong city does\nof basic track meet car\npickups are done a timely manner. So why can't we just\ndo that? Why can't we just who\nis the system that has been working for our neighbors here\nin the Bay area as well. So those are my $0.02 to nothing\nfor your time. Thank you for your comments. Again on the\nnames have to called. If you\nsigned up to speak for item 5, please approach the podium or raise your hand in the queue.\nAt this time chair. No more Thank you. Thank you. To\neveryone came out to talk about or opinion on the way that Oakland goes forward. I\nknow it's. That's because you\ncare about Oakland direction that we go. And that's the commonality that we have\nbetween us. So this won't be\nthe last meeting that we have to discuss. Potential charter\nchanges. Think it's important that everybody has an\nopportunity to weigh in in the public forum. And so I work\nwith the mayor's office and\nthe council members too schedule one other item at some point in time so that\npeople have a chance to weigh in with that. I'll open it up\nto council members. If you\nguys have any comments. Council member Brown at-large\ncouncil member Brown. Excellent. Okay. Well, thank you all so much. So I would\njust want to first start off by thanking the mayor's\nworking group. Everyone who\nwas involved. I know it's it's\nnot easy to, you know, put\ntogether the community engagement events and disorganized. You know, all everyone's thoughts and\nopinions. And so just want to offer my gratitude and thanks\nfor for that. And then in addition, really grateful for everyone who showed up today\nto kind of speak and share about whether it was their\npersonal experience. Navigating Oakland City\ngovernment and went in and how you all think that we should\nwe begin to move forward. And\nso, of course, you know, my goal in all of this is a chain\nthat we are moving forward with a government governance\nstructure that is based in\naccountability. And we're also\nensuring that we are listening\nto the concerns of our constituency. Right? And a lot\nof times, it's it's really\nbeen very consistent around. You know, at the end of the\nday, community members want\ntheir concerns to be addressed now we get into the weeds of\nhow that takes place. At the end the day, it boils down to\naccountability. And so that is what interested in. And so I\nlook forward to working with\nmy council colleagues. So Councilmember Jenkins council\nmember entendre in to to ensure that we move forward in\na path that is supportive of\nour entire city. Of course,\nthere is a larger conversation around just overall\nrepresentation. I just don't think that in our day and our\nday and age and just in this\nmoment that we should be at\nany point overall representation. One of the\npublic speakers talked about. About investment like and how\nwe are investing in our communities in it is the whole\nreason why I ran for the\nat-large seat had to do with\nthe the the blaring\nobservation of how communities\nboth in east and West Oakland\nhave underrepresented for decades. And the truth of the\nmatter is, is that in this moment that that is what we're\nliving through, right? And so\nI just I can't I cannot get behind and a recommendation\nthat seeks to eliminate\nrepresentation for for the community and I have not ran\ninto any community members\nthat say they don't understand, you the role of\nthe at large seat or there's confusion between the mayor of\nour amazing city. And so I just wanted to make sure that\nI see that on the record that I just don't believe that that\nis the direction we should be\ngoing. The report also states I guess the talking point is\nthat moving the council back\ni've number of votes. I do think that there's a simple\nfix as far as that, which we can all move forward with,\nwhich is a simple as 5 votes\nand the legislation passes. And in the event that there is\na tie breaking vote, the\nmotion fails. And so in this moment, I think more than\nanything we should be 100%\nfocused on solutions to\nimproving how our city cling governance works works. The\nbest for the people of Oakland and so that is something that\nI want to get behind. I'm\ngrateful for the the group that presented their findings\naround this 3rd option. I do\nthink that is important for so many of the important\ndecisions that we make as a\ncouncil. I do think that there is some value in ensuring that\nthe mayor can also weigh in on\nthose. And so I am supportive of that door to option. I just\nwant see that on the record.\nAnd as always, I'm always open\nto engage further with members\nof the working group. If they\nwould like as well. And that\nalso would know during the working group's process and\nwhen they met with me, I\noffered multiple recommendations of how I\nthought that we can employ\nimprove the city of Oakland's government structure. And I\ndid not see a single one of my\nrecommendations make it to the recommendations. And I think\nthat that is something that in my something that has been\nmissed, right? Because I think all of us on the council we\nhave valuable insights that we\ncan share around how we can\nimprove city of Oakland, governance. So that's that's\nall in this moment. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Councilmember\nHouston. I'm not on the rules committee. So I like to pass\nthat to councilmember around the child first before a\nstate, what I want to state. But I do want to say something. No, I do want to\nsay something about the timely\nof scheduling item. 3.1, 3, 0,\n2, 3.3 3.4 h# something up so\neveryone can see real quick. And why health that up is that\nI need to schedule a council member Brown and you're doing\nexcellent job. Everything you do work with me to an\nexcellent job. But yesterday I said I need to schedule\nbecause yesterday sat with the\nPRESIDENT, the principal of cast much and I had 150\nstudents in Castle month\nhomeless. Are you guys talking about the charter? We were\ntalking about the charter and\na charter we form because a\nshare this my district. 10\ntoes down for the mayor more\nthan any other district. My\ndistrict was for the recall. Of the mayor and of of of the\nd a more than any of the\ndistrict and everybody out here knows I've been 10 toes\ndown for the mayor from day\none. Go back to my counsel to\nmy district because they're waiting for what? How I feel\nabout this charter read by Tri\nReform. And I remember back if you go back to rob or by how\ngood it was with proper Bob, I\nmean, with that strong\ncouncil, manager. So my\nconstituents in d 7. They wait\nnon. My opinion, but I want their opinion. But if they\nlive it to my opinion on the charter reform, it would in\nline with council member Brown\nof the 3rd option because I'm tired going outside. I'm a\nscope of work in doing things that shouldn't be doing\nbecause we're not able to do\nit. Be kuz. Council members only legislation and policy. I'm tired of going to remove a\ncar myself. I'm tired of\nrelocate an encampment myself and that the city\nadministrator report it's to the mayor but doesn't report\nto us as a council right? We\nshould have that same. Authority that the city\nadministrator reports to us right? Unlike what Ryan, which\nyour son is I can just go on\nand on and But I said I was going pass it to you that you\nput to you. But I got a couple more days to say so no use\nthat as my time PRESIDENT.\nThank you. I think today is this meeting was very enlightening myself and\ncouncil PRESIDENT Jenkyns\nwanted to schedule this item specifically to continue the\nprocess of gathering community input. Today we heard plus or\n-20 comments that. We're\nopposed to the strong mayor system and open to some\nalternative. We heard about 4\nthat were for the system, but\napart from what we hear here, I can only speak for myself and I know many of my\ncolleagues who are out and\nabout the community. I have\nsaid at least 17 times in the past month when I'm in people's living rooms in my\ndistrict, on their street\ncorners and the business districts that I am\ninformation gathering stage and this is very valuable\ninput. And I'm continuing the process of listening to our\nconstituents and hearing very different perspectives for\nforgot to someone that mentioned you can't come at 10:30am, that? That's correct.\nWhich is why after 05:00pm, out in our communities talking to people in meeting them\nwhere they're at. And I've heard very different\nperspectives. And I think this\nis important to us. I\nappreciate the mayor is working group in scheduling a\nfirst round of community outreach late last year near\nthe holidays. And I think a\nlot of those sessions service information to show ask what\nis the charter? And now a couple months into this process, people are starting\nto form an opinion one way or the other. So I think this is\nvery helpful and I will take all of this into\nconsideration. Plus, all of the conversations that I have\nand this is not the last time this will be heard in council.\nWe will bring this to an evening meeting at the full\nCity council as this process\ncontinues. And I look forward\nto continuing hear what people have to say from not just my\ndistrict but all over the\ncity. Thank you. Some of the I\ncan speak in closing, I want to say them have community meetings from Sheffield\nVillage to the heels to the flat to my Latino brothers and\nsisters. This waiting for me\nto speak about spoke in front\nof 300 last week and I'm\nspeaking front 300 again this Sunday. Getting pinion, get,\nyou know that what they want because I'm I want to purple.\nThey won a green. If they want to green us, want go no\nmatter. Even found one purple. Talk to my constituents. But\nI'm definitely gonna give my\nopinion my opinion, 4 with influence on how I feel and\nwhatever they decide to decide be a community meetings for sure about this for sure.\nThank you. Thank you. Councilmember Houston Kuzma\nBrandon. More comments can on track. So make sure that I\nwork with city attorneys office to send out a timeline\nfor and which things need to\nget on the ballot. We need to\nhear them at 2 regularly scheduled meetings and that\ntimeline is tight. Encourage people to continue doing the\nresearch and continue reaching out understand that's\napparently women voters will\nbe available for questions. As Councilmember Robert Rinder and said we will hear this\nagain at a regularly scheduled\nmeeting. During council so that more people have the\nopportunity to weigh in with that, I'll entertain a motion to receive and how this in\ncommittee. Some of And that was a motion by Councilmember\nRamachandran seconded by councilor at Brown to receive\nand file item number 5 on row for that is councilmember\nbrown eye now to number 5 is excuse Councilman Ramachandran. I ensure\nJenkins. Item number 5 is received and filed with 3\nguys. One excuse Councilmember\nFife that now takes us to open\nI will read the speakers who signed up for this item. If you are participating via\nplease raise your hand. So you'll be recognized. And for\nthose who are here and chambers in person, please\nline up behind the podium in any order. I have Blair\nBeekman Kellie Kevin Dally regime and Al David boat\nright? Ralph cans, Millie,\nCleveland deal. Comey low and\nany order. Thank you. David Boatright district I agree that council member should be\npaid more. But only if the\ncouncil eliminates this city. General purpose fund deficit.\nThey contributed to without\nadding more taxes. The council members dedicate their full to\nthat. Council members dedicate\ntheir full time to their council member responsibilities as they\nimplicitly agreed to when they\nran for office. The council members attend all city\ncouncil meetings and their\ncommittee meetings with rare exceptions for healthcare,\nserious, personal reasons. It's amazing that the city\ncouncil won't allow seeding\npartial a new speaker time and then allows only part of a\nspeaker's time to be seated.\nHow can multiple city residents be given preferential treatment, especially if they didn't sign\nup to speak by that deadline and others were not allowed to\nspeak. And if cancel member Houston wants to speak without\nsigning up to speak committees\nnot on. I don't understand the\nrules. Thank you for your\ncomments. Rushdie Mundell District 4. I want to connect\ntoday's charter reform discussion to another area that deserves the same level\nof scrutiny. Police oversight. Right now council is asking\nfundamental questions about governance rolls authority and\naccountability and those exact same questions apply to our\npolice oversight system. The recent city auditor report\nmakes it clear the issue is\nnot just resources in a structure, including\noverlapping roles, unclear authority and gaps and\naccountability across multiple oversight bodies. And we're seeing the consequence of that\nstructure in practice decision. Stall responsibilities are diffuse.\nBecomes difficult to determine who is ultimately accountable\nfor outcomes. But also like to note that a significant number of the city attorney public\nopinions actually one in 4 in\nrecent years have focused\nexclusively on these oversight agencies that suggests ongoing\nuncertainty about scope and\nauthority, not just capacity. The mayor is charter former King Group provides a useful\nmodel here and brought together community members,\nexperts and stakeholders to\nevaluate governance and develop clear recommendations. Encourage council to consider\na similar approach for police oversight. Thank you for your\ncomments next. Speaker. Million Cleveland to street\nfor I would like you place on\nrules over time. Opd overtime\nfor public safety. This is\nsignificant effect on our budget. I understand that it\nwas placed on the agenda for\nit. Finance, but it is not\njust a finance issue. It is an\noperational issue for decades.\nCity auditors have made very concrete recommendations on\nhow to control opd over time that the city administrator\nhas never implemented. And you\nguys ignored. I also think\nthat other issue that needs to be placed on the agenda peel\nways m o u. It has a lot of\ntweaking that needs to be discussed out in the open.\nPeople are trying to be at the negotiating table, but there is no law that would stop you\nfrom putting that. Thank you for your comments next.\nSpeaker. Well, you. I'm hoping that you'll follow up on the\nsuggestion from the member of\nthe public Ethics Commission\nto investigate whether you whether the council it's\nlegally required to set up public hearings on the charter\nreform or whether we can just.\nMove directly to a vote in in counseling committee and\nhoping that we have public. Public forums for more than 90\nseconds. Discussion out. Looking forward to the answer from the city attorney and\nthanks. Thank you for your\ncomments. Good morning. And\nyou'll low. I me I'm a brown guy. I'm a former resident.\nI'm a former employee home hr director here. Cardio city\nmanager and I've got 32 years\nin public sector governance. For me, the kid political\nissue is how is the city going\nto be managed? I care about\nthe city I run here every week. I come from an to run it\naround Lake Merritt every\nSaturday morning. My point is I really, really care about\nthis city. I can in my hometown cause have been home to for the last 40 since I got\noff 10:00am flight governor\nsays the key issue. And\nplease, please, please do not double down on a failed\nsystem. Strongman system is a failed system. What does work consistently around the\ncountry local city governance\nis council manager from a government. I can tell you with 32 years of service,\nincluding 3 years yet the city\nof open and Cardiff, City manager, that system works.\nPlease go to option 3. Thank you for your comments next.\nSpeaker. Afternoon, Ralph remembering the tension of house flippers. Your attention\nagain. He keep ignoring those the mayor's office will respond. I don't know what's\ngoing You're losing millions\nand millions of dollars. Permit fees are being enforced. The leads don't that\nplaced on the property. There's no actual constructive\nnotice to a buyer. Therefore\nthe fuse never get paid. The city is losing millions and\nmillions of dollars. It also adds to garbage being dumped\nbecause the rules are out. Disposal by under during construction are being\nfollowed. Why don't you want do something when you have a\nmoney trouble? That's all\nabout money. You're being\nripped off like crazy. Almost none of these people are even from Oakland. It's all money.\nLeaving the city that you\nshould be getting a cut of because of what the city does\nfor those people. And Jake, as you're saying, oil, look at me\nagain. I mean, what is this? You got there's a screen out\nhere. Thank you for your out.\nThere's a screen right here. That's right. Thank you for\nyour comments. Brief said it\nnext. Speaker. I next. Next. My next speaker is Blair Beekman. Please unmute\nyourself. You MAY begin. All right. Thank Really\ninteresting meeting today. Thank you. Really good public\ncomment here in open form. Thank you. Good luck in\naddressing the overtime pay\nthe MARCH committee meetings overall seemed like a really\ngood session. Good learning\nexperience for myself. Really happy just to learn things\nfrom the MARCH 10 session and overtime was a part of that.\nSo good luck. And that I think\nit's going to take much longer 2028 carted changes can be can\ncome to a to a vote. Good luck that we can have a community\ndiscussion. I'm encouraged by\nwhat people have said. Thank\nyou. And I wanted to comment just another. Thank you for\nthe work of the flock issues that we've created a compromise process. We can\ntalk about a new flock vendor. And that's an important concept for all of us. We can\ndevelop a good future. It's\ngood example California. Thank you for your comments. That was the last open Speaker.\nThank you. This meeting is",
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          "index": 78,
          "text": "shall present to the city",
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          "index": 79,
          "text": "Council on an annual basis and report listing all professional service contracts",
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          "text": "authorized by the city auditor",
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          "text": "doing the prior year. Moving to item 3.6, which is also",
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          "index": 87,
          "text": "charter states that is the responsibility of the city auditor to submit a",
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          "text": "semi-annual report to the",
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          "index": 90,
          "text": "recommendations for the corrective actions made in the",
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          "text": "to item 3.7 resolution",
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          "index": 93,
          "text": "reappoint Lisa Raszler as the",
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          "index": 95,
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          "text": "consent. And I apologize. Does",
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          "index": 102,
          "text": "consent. Thank you for that.",
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          "text": "Moving on to item 3.8 item, 3.8 is an information report",
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          "text": "from the city administrator on the status of implementing",
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          "index": 107,
          "text": "scheduled. Excuse me on APRIL, 21st 2026, Finance and",
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          "text": "Management Committee agenda.",
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          "text": "Harden. I do see side. Through the chair. The administration",
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          "text": "for that. So item 3.8, the status of the implementation of the council policy",
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          "text": "for that. Moving to item 3.9 adopt an ordinance authorizing",
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          "index": 146,
          "text": "you. My apologies. Can you speak closer to the mike so we can make sure that we can hear",
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          "text": "Okay. Thank you. Yes, through the chair. If I MAY request that we move the meeting to",
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          "index": 157,
          "text": "That's correct. Thank you. So no thank you for that. Thank",
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          "text": "I have a regime and al Kevin Dally in Blair be committed",
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          "text": "today because they point to the same underlying issue.",
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          "text": "not a law enforcement body. It does not have operational",
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          "index": 465,
          "text": "decisions are stalling. If we want accountability, we need to fix the structure. Thank",
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          "index": 466,
          "text": "you. Thank you for your comments in our last speaker",
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          "index": 467,
          "text": "who signed up for item number 3, is Blair be Continuara muted, please. I'm Beatrice.",
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          "text": "to speak to item 3.1, 4 3.1,",
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          "text": "who retired, who I thought were I'd incredible service.",
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          "index": 490,
          "text": "progressive values are open. So good luck that you can",
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          "text": "continue the efforts to consider the good work in the",
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        {
          "index": 492,
          "text": "previous commissioners. Their thinking is truly needed in",
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        {
          "index": 493,
          "text": "how move forward together.",
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          "text": "Good luck in those efforts about the federal task force",
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          "text": "things. It's important to me that the pa see get an",
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          "text": "incredibly important service of oversight that can't be 9.",
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          "text": "another. City department to opt for that oversight. We",
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          "index": 501,
          "text": "can't just drop it and I hope they can continue the good work that the psc. They did",
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          "text": "incredibly important work.",
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          "text": "like how we find that and to",
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          "text": "ordinances illegal dumping. I was always from the point of",
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          "text": "time. And when you're be pack issues, 3.0, 2, 6, your yearly",
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          "text": "clues effort from everyone is how are community futures",
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          "text": "Bill. And that's what they're going for to elect how we do",
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          "text": "time. Thank you for that. Conclusion. Speakers for item",
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          "text": "3. Thank you to everybody who came out to speak. Thank you to the court for reading all",
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          "text": "that. So noting 3.1 title",
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          "text": "to MAY 12 Finance and Management Committee. 3 point and dates going to be changed",
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          "text": "5th. 3.13 noting the title change 3.17 move to public",
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          "text": "as amended. Move approval. And that was a motion by council",
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          "text": "member Brown seconded by",
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          "text": "Councilmember Ramachandran to approve item 3 as amended,",
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          "text": "including time as amended on row for this is councilmember",
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          "text": "item excuse Councilmember Fife is excuse item number 3",
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          "index": 536,
          "text": "one excuse Councilmember Fife. That now takes us to item",
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          "text": "agenda, religion that and the pending list for committees.",
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          "index": 543,
          "text": "And I have 2 speakers.",
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          "index": 544,
          "text": "Councilmember gender. Thank you. I'd like to request to",
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          "text": "make the APRIL 21st Finance Committee meeting a special",
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          "index": 547,
          "text": "up to 09:00am instead of 9.30, as we have the impacted agenda",
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          "index": 548,
          "text": "don't want to set the entire day of meetings to delayed. I",
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        {
          "index": 549,
          "text": "believe we do have we have confirmed with staff of other council members that will have",
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          "index": 550,
          "text": "a quorum. Can you state the",
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        {
          "index": 551,
          "text": "date of the meeting and the time again, APRIL, 21st",
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          "index": 552,
          "text": "Finance Committee currently at hope would like to started at",
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        {
          "index": 553,
          "text": "9 o'clock. Chair. Good morning. Trinity Hall from the office of the sort of like in",
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          "index": 554,
          "text": "Houston District 7 Council member. I am making requests on behalf of the council",
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          "index": 555,
          "text": "member to schedule the encampment abatement policy",
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          "text": "meeting on APRIL 14th at",
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          "index": 558,
          "text": "09:38am. On non consent. Thank being that. This is an",
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          "text": "important item. My request would be that you guys get",
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          "index": 561,
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          "index": 562,
          "text": "to digest the changes as well",
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          "text": "before that be great. Thank you for that. And if I can just really quickly, just for",
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          "index": 565,
          "text": "the public's knowledge, the",
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          "text": "item that just was stated to be scheduled for this special, 90 a meeting APRIL 14th.",
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          "index": 567,
          "text": "That's on the life enrichment Committee Pin De Lis. No date specific under item number to",
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          "index": 568,
          "text": "sell for clarity. Thank you. The administration also has a",
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        {
          "index": 569,
          "text": "few changes to the pending lists for that. Now, special",
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          "index": 570,
          "text": "Finance and Management Committee. The item under",
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          "index": 571,
          "text": "APRIL. 21st item number 3, we'd like to request and",
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          "text": "that's the information report",
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        {
          "index": 573,
          "text": "fir the city administrator in response to the city auditor's",
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        {
          "index": 574,
          "text": "recommendations in substantiated whistleblower",
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        {
          "index": 575,
          "text": "investigation regarding the",
          "startTime": "00:37:14,155",
          "endTime": "00:37:16,155"
        },
        {
          "index": 576,
          "text": "city of Oakland uses unauthorized formulas for calculating overtime. That",
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        {
          "index": 577,
          "text": "different from guidelines to move that the MAY 12 Finance",
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        {
          "index": 578,
          "text": "and Management Committee meeting. Just because it's so",
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          "index": 579,
          "text": "impacted. And then moving on",
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        {
          "index": 580,
          "text": "to the life enrichment pending",
          "startTime": "00:37:31,339",
          "endTime": "00:37:33,339"
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        {
          "index": 581,
          "text": "west. We like to move item one",
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          "endTime": "00:37:35,475"
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        {
          "index": 582,
          "text": "under the APRIL. 21st pending",
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        {
          "index": 583,
          "text": "list. The osc why 2024? 2025 final year and independent and not devalue Asian report to",
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        {
          "index": 584,
          "text": "the MAY 12th. And then finally moving on to the rules, ending",
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        {
          "index": 585,
          "text": "less. Item number 4 under the",
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        {
          "index": 586,
          "text": "pending no date specific. We",
          "startTime": "00:37:59,534",
          "endTime": "00:38:01,534"
        },
        {
          "index": 587,
          "text": "are requesting to schedule the reorganizing of the parking",
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          "endTime": "00:38:03,403"
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        {
          "index": 588,
          "text": "division recommendation from a 5th at the City Council",
          "startTime": "00:38:04,305",
          "endTime": "00:38:05,907"
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        {
          "index": 589,
          "text": "meeting. And noting that the parking administrator MAY come",
          "startTime": "00:38:10,211",
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        {
          "index": 590,
          "text": "around then or later. And if I made use that MAY 5th on",
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          "endTime": "00:38:19,319"
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        {
          "index": 591,
          "text": "consent or on on consent.",
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        {
          "index": 592,
          "text": "Thank you. Thank you. Seems",
          "startTime": "00:38:26,995",
          "endTime": "00:38:28,995"
        },
        {
          "index": 593,
          "text": "like that's any public",
          "startTime": "00:38:29,964",
          "endTime": "00:38:31,964"
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        {
          "index": 594,
          "text": "comment. Yes, I have Kevin Dowling and barely or plan come Please raise your hand if",
          "startTime": "00:38:32,734",
          "endTime": "00:38:35,336"
        },
        {
          "index": 595,
          "text": "you are on zoom. And I will take the in-person public",
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          "endTime": "00:38:39,873"
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        {
          "index": 596,
          "text": "commenter spares. MR. Dalli is passing on his speaker. So we",
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          "endTime": "00:38:47,314"
        },
        {
          "index": 597,
          "text": "do have big men in the queue. You're on muted. Please unmute",
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          "endTime": "00:38:50,718"
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          "index": 598,
          "text": "yourself. And you MAY begin. Blair. Big Ben. I think I'll be I'll do the same as Kevin",
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          "endTime": "00:38:59,127"
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          "index": 599,
          "text": "has been a pass. Also, thank",
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          "endTime": "00:39:01,127"
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        {
          "index": 600,
          "text": "you. Thank you for that. We have no more speakers for this",
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          "endTime": "00:39:03,263"
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        {
          "index": 601,
          "text": "item. Thank More speakers. So",
          "startTime": "00:39:08,937",
          "endTime": "00:39:10,937"
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        {
          "index": 602,
          "text": "melting. For 21 finance and management committee will be a",
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          "endTime": "00:39:17,879"
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        {
          "index": 603,
          "text": "special meeting at 09:00am",
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        {
          "index": 604,
          "text": "item for on the pending Lewis for 21 Fmc item. Number to MAY",
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          "index": 605,
          "text": "12. At least see item moved to",
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        {
          "index": 606,
          "text": "MAY 12. Rules number to MAY",
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          "index": 607,
          "text": "5th City Council meeting. Noting Elysee item number",
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          "text": "moved to MAY 12. I will take a as amended. Take motion as",
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          "index": 609,
          "text": "amended. Move approval. And that was a motion by",
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          "index": 610,
          "text": "Councilmember Ramachandran seconded by COUNCILMAN Around to approve item for as amended",
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        {
          "index": 611,
          "text": "on role council member Brown.",
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        {
          "index": 612,
          "text": "Councilmember Ramachandran. I",
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        {
          "index": 613,
          "text": "Chair Jenkins. And Councilmember Fife is That",
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          "index": 614,
          "text": "makes 3 has won excused as",
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          "text": "amended. Item number 4 is",
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          "index": 616,
          "text": "approved. Thank you so much. That now takes us to our",
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        {
          "index": 617,
          "text": "discussion item item number 5. It is an information report",
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          "endTime": "00:40:33,320"
        },
        {
          "index": 618,
          "text": "from the mayor, Charter Reform",
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          "endTime": "00:40:36,756"
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        {
          "index": 619,
          "text": "working group and I have several speakers for the 32, I believe speakers for this",
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          "endTime": "00:40:39,760"
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        {
          "index": 620,
          "text": "item. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for everybody that's come out to participate. I",
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          "endTime": "00:40:43,363"
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        {
          "index": 621,
          "text": "think it's in. The public interest that we discussed this item when the mayor was",
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        {
          "index": 622,
          "text": "elected, she. Came on and",
          "startTime": "00:40:51,839",
          "endTime": "00:40:53,839"
        },
        {
          "index": 623,
          "text": "wanted to embark upon reviewing the charter and seeing what kind of charter",
          "startTime": "00:40:54,676",
          "endTime": "00:40:57,277"
        },
        {
          "index": 624,
          "text": "changes the people of Oakland",
          "startTime": "00:40:58,246",
          "endTime": "00:41:00,246"
        },
        {
          "index": 625,
          "text": "wanted to see done. There's",
          "startTime": "00:41:01,115",
          "endTime": "00:41:03,115"
        },
        {
          "index": 626,
          "text": "been immense public interest in this and the charge or",
          "startTime": "00:41:04,886",
          "endTime": "00:41:06,953"
        },
        {
          "index": 627,
          "text": "hasn't been significantly changed with a structural of",
          "startTime": "00:41:08,222",
          "endTime": "00:41:10,691"
        },
        {
          "index": 628,
          "text": "Oakland's government for some",
          "startTime": "00:41:11,392",
          "endTime": "00:41:13,392"
        },
        {
          "index": 629,
          "text": "time. And so children and I found important to have this",
          "startTime": "00:41:15,363",
          "endTime": "00:41:17,397"
        },
        {
          "index": 630,
          "text": "meeting today take country and then I will give Spring League Women voters 7 minutes to",
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          "endTime": "00:41:21,468"
        },
        {
          "index": 631,
          "text": "present. Thank you. Just",
          "startTime": "00:41:28,710",
          "endTime": "00:41:30,710"
        },
        {
          "index": 632,
          "text": "echoing council PRESIDENT Jenkyns. I'm grateful to the",
          "startTime": "00:41:31,446",
          "endTime": "00:41:33,780"
        },
        {
          "index": 633,
          "text": "mayor's office for spearheading and starting this",
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          "endTime": "00:41:36,550"
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        {
          "index": 634,
          "text": "process that a year ago, almost a year ago. And I look",
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        {
          "index": 635,
          "text": "forward to discussing the recommendations hearing the",
          "startTime": "00:41:42,490",
          "endTime": "00:41:44,158"
        },
        {
          "index": 636,
          "text": "input of our residents. One of",
          "startTime": "00:41:47,929",
          "endTime": "00:41:49,929"
        },
        {
          "index": 637,
          "text": "the voters. Not sure that's",
          "startTime": "00:42:02,760",
          "endTime": "00:42:03,410"
        },
        {
          "index": 638,
          "text": "on. Good morning. Thank you",
          "startTime": "00:42:07,348",
          "endTime": "00:42:09,348"
        },
        {
          "index": 639,
          "text": "very much. Council PRESIDENT Council members, staff and",
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          "endTime": "00:42:14,187"
        },
        {
          "index": 640,
          "text": "members of the public.",
          "startTime": "00:42:14,856",
          "endTime": "00:42:16,856"
        },
        {
          "index": 641,
          "text": "Presentation time to that. Yes, could we please have",
          "startTime": "00:42:17,658",
          "endTime": "00:42:19,292"
        },
        {
          "index": 642,
          "text": "representation be to get up? Thank you. My name is Gail",
          "startTime": "00:42:23,131",
          "endTime": "00:42:25,365"
        },
        {
          "index": 643,
          "text": "Wallace. I'm here on behalf of the legal voters. And I'm here",
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          "endTime": "00:42:28,468"
        },
        {
          "index": 644,
          "text": "with Nicole manage from We were the co facilitators for",
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          "endTime": "00:42:33,373"
        },
        {
          "index": 645,
          "text": "the mayor's working group. Next slide. Please. Know this",
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          "endTime": "00:42:37,544"
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        {
          "index": 646,
          "text": "one's perfect. The mayor gave",
          "startTime": "00:42:39,147",
          "endTime": "00:42:41,147"
        },
        {
          "index": 647,
          "text": "us and it the working group a very targeted assignment was",
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        {
          "index": 648,
          "text": "to look at charter changes that could better define the",
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          "endTime": "00:42:47,954"
        },
        {
          "index": 649,
          "text": "role of elected officials that would help address more",
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          "endTime": "00:42:51,625"
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        {
          "index": 650,
          "text": "responsible. Citi Financial planning. And that would",
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          "endTime": "00:42:55,290"
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          "index": 651,
          "text": "improve government accountability and",
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          "endTime": "00:42:56,563"
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        {
          "index": 652,
          "text": "transparency. Next slide. There was a process from last",
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          "index": 653,
          "text": "SEPTEMBER until this JANUARY. That as well as the",
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          "index": 654,
          "text": "deliberations of the working group month after month. A",
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          "endTime": "00:43:08,341"
        },
        {
          "index": 655,
          "text": "great deal of community out",
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          "endTime": "00:43:11,430"
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        {
          "index": 656,
          "text": "reach that included in-person meetings in every council district. Thank you for those",
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          "endTime": "00:43:14,715"
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        {
          "index": 657,
          "text": "of you who gave us some assistance on standing those up. There were also 60",
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          "endTime": "00:43:19,886"
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          "index": 658,
          "text": "interviews with people extremely connected to city",
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          "endTime": "00:43:23,657"
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        {
          "index": 659,
          "text": "government past and present. There was a survey put out and",
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        {
          "index": 660,
          "text": "all of that input not brought into the working group's",
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          "index": 661,
          "text": "deliberations. Just a little bit of background context. And we spoke with a number of",
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          "index": 662,
          "text": "people, as Bill mentioned, and",
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        {
          "index": 663,
          "text": "they were kind of 4th key themes that kept surfacing.",
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        {
          "index": 664,
          "text": "Everybody stated that Oakland's charter can't really",
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          "index": 665,
          "text": "be changed without the broader",
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          "text": "city context. So that's where the severe fiscal distress",
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          "index": 667,
          "text": "Oakland is under the deep racial wealth and geographic",
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        {
          "index": 668,
          "text": "inequities Oakland experiences across neighborhoods, the lack",
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          "text": "of sufficient authority to",
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          "index": 670,
          "text": "decisively over time and a highly engaged and civic",
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        {
          "index": 671,
          "text": "culture and Oakland where people want direct access to",
          "startTime": "00:44:08,403",
          "endTime": "00:44:10,103"
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        {
          "index": 672,
          "text": "their decision makers. If you",
          "startTime": "00:44:12,600",
          "endTime": "00:44:14,600"
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        {
          "index": 673,
          "text": "are the key findings, misaligned authority is creating a disconnect between",
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          "endTime": "00:44:16,977"
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        {
          "index": 674,
          "text": "public expectations and actual",
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        {
          "index": 675,
          "text": "powers week. Institutional alignment undermines long-term",
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          "endTime": "00:44:23,417"
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        {
          "index": 676,
          "text": "planning, fiscal discipline, effective oversight and organizational complexity",
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        {
          "index": 677,
          "text": "leads to operational efficiencies. That lack",
          "startTime": "00:44:27,555",
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        {
          "index": 678,
          "text": "accountability and transparency. We heard from",
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        {
          "index": 679,
          "text": "many people that we talked to that everyone is in charge and",
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        {
          "index": 680,
          "text": "therefore no one is in charge.",
          "startTime": "00:44:37,698",
          "endTime": "00:44:39,698"
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        {
          "index": 681,
          "text": "Luckily, there are 2 models that most city governments",
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          "endTime": "00:44:42,936"
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          "index": 682,
          "text": "across the country use. One is council manager where the",
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          "endTime": "00:44:46,574"
        },
        {
          "index": 683,
          "text": "council acts as the unified legislative body and the mayor",
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          "endTime": "00:44:48,308"
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        {
          "index": 684,
          "text": "sits on the council council. The council appoints a",
          "startTime": "00:44:50,878",
          "endTime": "00:44:53,713"
        },
        {
          "index": 685,
          "text": "professional manager to run city government. And there are a few examples of each of",
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          "endTime": "00:44:56,116"
        },
        {
          "index": 686,
          "text": "these these types of care strong mayor government is",
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        {
          "index": 687,
          "text": "where mayor is the chief executive and runs the city",
          "startTime": "00:45:00,888",
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        {
          "index": 688,
          "text": "government. This is a balance of power between the mayor",
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          "endTime": "00:45:05,191"
        },
        {
          "index": 689,
          "text": "which is the executive branch and the council, which is the",
          "startTime": "00:45:06,293",
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          "index": 690,
          "text": "legislative branch, the council serves a separate",
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          "index": 691,
          "text": "legislative branch of government and is responsible",
          "startTime": "00:45:12,233",
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          "index": 692,
          "text": "responsible for oversight. Just a quick history. I'm we've operated in both of",
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        {
          "index": 693,
          "text": "these forms of government for a very long time. We had a",
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        },
        {
          "index": 694,
          "text": "council manager from of",
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        },
        {
          "index": 695,
          "text": "government in the 80's. There",
          "startTime": "00:45:26,614",
          "endTime": "00:45:28,614"
        },
        {
          "index": 696,
          "text": "started to be some challenges with that form of government and some intense to start to",
          "startTime": "00:45:28,683",
          "endTime": "00:45:31,285"
        },
        {
          "index": 697,
          "text": "move towards a strong mayor",
          "startTime": "00:45:31,285",
          "endTime": "00:45:33,285"
        },
        {
          "index": 698,
          "text": "form of government. Jerry Brown successfully championed",
          "startTime": "00:45:34,555",
          "endTime": "00:45:36,456"
        },
        {
          "index": 699,
          "text": "measure acts 1998, which past",
          "startTime": "00:45:39,294",
          "endTime": "00:45:41,294"
        },
        {
          "index": 700,
          "text": "quite quite well. And that gave a trial strong mayor system that was set to sunset",
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          "endTime": "00:45:44,230"
        },
        {
          "index": 701,
          "text": "after 6 years. There is a commission formed and they chose to move forward with the",
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          "endTime": "00:45:47,969"
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        {
          "index": 702,
          "text": "mayor council from him government where the mayor and",
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          "endTime": "00:45:50,870"
        },
        {
          "index": 703,
          "text": "the council were separate",
          "startTime": "00:45:52,339",
          "endTime": "00:45:54,339"
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        {
          "index": 704,
          "text": "branches. However, they did",
          "startTime": "00:45:54,675",
          "endTime": "00:45:56,675"
        },
        {
          "index": 705,
          "text": "not give the mayor veto powers and things like that. That would be typical in a strong",
          "startTime": "00:45:57,345",
          "endTime": "00:45:59,712"
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        {
          "index": 706,
          "text": "mayor form of government. So",
          "startTime": "00:46:00,414",
          "endTime": "00:46:02,414"
        },
        {
          "index": 707,
          "text": "this has created a blended model at that that has",
          "startTime": "00:46:03,451",
          "endTime": "00:46:05,552"
        },
        {
          "index": 708,
          "text": "elements of both of these models. But Lex, the benefits",
          "startTime": "00:46:06,220",
          "endTime": "00:46:08,355"
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        {
          "index": 709,
          "text": "of both of them. The mayor does not serve on the council",
          "startTime": "00:46:10,580",
          "endTime": "00:46:12,325"
        },
        {
          "index": 710,
          "text": "but lacks the powers of the strong mayors. They can't vote",
          "startTime": "00:46:12,994",
          "endTime": "00:46:14,727"
        },
        {
          "index": 711,
          "text": "for Oviedo its decisions. The",
          "startTime": "00:46:16,640",
          "endTime": "00:46:18,640"
        },
        {
          "index": 712,
          "text": "city administrator manages agencies and operations. I apologize. You still have you",
          "startTime": "00:46:19,133",
          "endTime": "00:46:21,335"
        },
        {
          "index": 713,
          "text": "have 3 minutes. So make sure that you and to the rain going",
          "startTime": "00:46:21,335",
          "endTime": "00:46:23,690"
        },
        {
          "index": 714,
          "text": "to yes, go straight to the",
          "startTime": "00:46:23,637",
          "endTime": "00:46:25,637"
        },
        {
          "index": 715,
          "text": "recommendations. First. And most importantly, the working",
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          "endTime": "00:46:32,178"
        },
        {
          "index": 716,
          "text": "Group recommends that Oakland",
          "startTime": "00:46:32,546",
          "endTime": "00:46:34,546"
        },
        {
          "index": 717,
          "text": "change its charter to fully",
          "startTime": "00:46:34,882",
          "endTime": "00:46:36,882"
        },
        {
          "index": 718,
          "text": "adopt one system or the other in an integrated and complete",
          "startTime": "00:46:37,852",
          "endTime": "00:46:40,153"
        },
        {
          "index": 719,
          "text": "fashion. Next slide. Please.",
          "startTime": "00:46:42,123",
          "endTime": "00:46:44,123"
        },
        {
          "index": 720,
          "text": "Luckily, there are there is research that tells you helped",
          "startTime": "00:46:46,160",
          "endTime": "00:46:47,894"
        },
        {
          "index": 721,
          "text": "too. Identify which of these 2",
          "startTime": "00:46:50,764",
          "endTime": "00:46:52,764"
        },
        {
          "index": 722,
          "text": "system actually is a match. But the character and history",
          "startTime": "00:46:52,967",
          "endTime": "00:46:55,335"
        },
        {
          "index": 723,
          "text": "of your city. Next slide.",
          "startTime": "00:46:56,437",
          "endTime": "00:46:58,437"
        },
        {
          "index": 724,
          "text": "Please. The recommendation as",
          "startTime": "00:47:01,809",
          "endTime": "00:47:03,809"
        },
        {
          "index": 725,
          "text": "to which system to adopt is to adopt the strong mayor system,",
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          "endTime": "00:47:06,880"
        },
        {
          "index": 726,
          "text": "which nickel has already the described in brief in which is",
          "startTime": "00:47:09,249",
          "endTime": "00:47:10,984"
        },
        {
          "index": 727,
          "text": "much more fully described in our report. Next slide.",
          "startTime": "00:47:11,352",
          "endTime": "00:47:12,952"
        },
        {
          "index": 728,
          "text": "Please. I want to make it clear that that research and",
          "startTime": "00:47:15,622",
          "endTime": "00:47:17,323"
        },
        {
          "index": 729,
          "text": "just referenced talked about what is the character of the",
          "startTime": "00:47:20,528",
          "endTime": "00:47:22,395"
        },
        {
          "index": 730,
          "text": "city that would be best served",
          "startTime": "00:47:22,663",
          "endTime": "00:47:24,663"
        },
        {
          "index": 731,
          "text": "by a strong mayor system. So through all outreach I talked",
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          "endTime": "00:47:27,667"
        },
        {
          "index": 732,
          "text": "about, we heard about fiscal",
          "startTime": "00:47:28,769",
          "endTime": "00:47:30,769"
        },
        {
          "index": 733,
          "text": "stress and that's where a strong mayor system can help",
          "startTime": "00:47:30,804",
          "endTime": "00:47:33,473"
        },
        {
          "index": 734,
          "text": "because it creates complex intergovernmental challenges. We heard about racial wealth",
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          "endTime": "00:47:37,110"
        },
        {
          "index": 735,
          "text": "and geographic inequities this",
          "startTime": "00:47:38,746",
          "endTime": "00:47:40,746"
        },
        {
          "index": 736,
          "text": "also is where strong mayors shines because it it serves best where there are",
          "startTime": "00:47:42,550",
          "endTime": "00:47:45,218"
        },
        {
          "index": 737,
          "text": "disparities across",
          "startTime": "00:47:46,187",
          "endTime": "00:47:48,187"
        },
        {
          "index": 738,
          "text": "neighborhoods. You know, we've",
          "startTime": "00:47:48,356",
          "endTime": "00:47:50,356"
        },
        {
          "index": 739,
          "text": "got a highly engaged civic culture and strong mayor is appropriate voters expect that",
          "startTime": "00:47:51,910",
          "endTime": "00:47:53,793"
        },
        {
          "index": 740,
          "text": "visible executive leadership. Finally can't really see my last point there. But that's",
          "startTime": "00:47:56,130",
          "endTime": "00:47:58,898"
        },
        {
          "index": 741,
          "text": "all right. We need someone to lead decisively and the that",
          "startTime": "00:48:03,804",
          "endTime": "00:48:05,972"
        },
        {
          "index": 742,
          "text": "is what people were telling us",
          "startTime": "00:48:06,340",
          "endTime": "00:48:08,340"
        },
        {
          "index": 743,
          "text": "over and over again and political fragmentation makes",
          "startTime": "00:48:08,909",
          "endTime": "00:48:10,944"
        },
        {
          "index": 744,
          "text": "it difficult for collective accountability. Helps the favoring of the strong mayor",
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          "endTime": "00:48:14,280"
        },
        {
          "index": 745,
          "text": "system. So is the recommendation is based both",
          "startTime": "00:48:17,418",
          "endTime": "00:48:19,119"
        },
        {
          "index": 746,
          "text": "on feedback and on research.",
          "startTime": "00:48:21,155",
          "endTime": "00:48:23,155"
        },
        {
          "index": 747,
          "text": "We also recommend it balancing strengthening of the city",
          "startTime": "00:48:24,358",
          "endTime": "00:48:27,160"
        },
        {
          "index": 748,
          "text": "council with creation of a legislative budget. Analysts",
          "startTime": "00:48:28,829",
          "endTime": "00:48:31,397"
        },
        {
          "index": 749,
          "text": "office return of the council not number and clarifying",
          "startTime": "00:48:32,900",
          "endTime": "00:48:35,201"
        },
        {
          "index": 750,
          "text": "certain things in the charter about the city council's role.",
          "startTime": "00:48:36,470",
          "endTime": "00:48:38,438"
        },
        {
          "index": 751,
          "text": "I want that close by pointing out just one thing says",
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          "endTime": "00:48:42,575"
        },
        {
          "index": 752,
          "text": "there's reporting out saying",
          "startTime": "00:48:45,450",
          "endTime": "00:48:47,450"
        },
        {
          "index": 753,
          "text": "that the repair report recommends a salary raise for",
          "startTime": "00:48:48,482",
          "endTime": "00:48:51,251"
        },
        {
          "index": 754,
          "text": "the council. Want to clarify that because charter changes",
          "startTime": "00:48:51,986",
          "endTime": "00:48:54,488"
        },
        {
          "index": 755,
          "text": "about structural things. It's",
          "startTime": "00:48:54,488",
          "endTime": "00:48:56,488"
        },
        {
          "index": 756,
          "text": "about process. And so we noted that all the other elect did",
          "startTime": "00:48:57,558",
          "endTime": "00:49:00,360"
        },
        {
          "index": 757,
          "text": "officials auditor attorney mayor have salary setting",
          "startTime": "00:49:03,330",
          "endTime": "00:49:06,320"
        },
        {
          "index": 758,
          "text": "mechanism within in charter that allows the entire package",
          "startTime": "00:49:07,835",
          "endTime": "00:49:09,904"
        },
        {
          "index": 759,
          "text": "to be review. That's not the",
          "startTime": "00:49:09,904",
          "endTime": "00:49:11,904"
        },
        {
          "index": 760,
          "text": "case for the City Council. The provisions only allow for cost",
          "startTime": "00:49:12,406",
          "endTime": "00:49:14,641"
        },
        {
          "index": 761,
          "text": "of living increases. So we",
          "startTime": "00:49:15,750",
          "endTime": "00:49:17,750"
        },
        {
          "index": 762,
          "text": "simply recommended that that process be changed to be",
          "startTime": "00:49:18,913",
          "endTime": "00:49:21,147"
        },
        {
          "index": 763,
          "text": "consistent across all of those elected offices and anything",
          "startTime": "00:49:23,250",
          "endTime": "00:49:26,850"
        },
        {
          "index": 764,
          "text": "else would be a factual evidence rebased thing as to",
          "startTime": "00:49:26,887",
          "endTime": "00:49:29,489"
        },
        {
          "index": 765,
          "text": "what salaries any of the officials in any of these",
          "startTime": "00:49:30,357",
          "endTime": "00:49:32,558"
        },
        {
          "index": 766,
          "text": "elected offices would receive.",
          "startTime": "00:49:34,950",
          "endTime": "00:49:36,950"
        },
        {
          "index": 767,
          "text": "Alright, just to close out and there were a number of other",
          "startTime": "00:49:38,165",
          "endTime": "00:49:39,866"
        },
        {
          "index": 768,
          "text": "things that came up during the research. There were questions about the city attorney and",
          "startTime": "00:49:40,868",
          "endTime": "00:49:43,569"
        },
        {
          "index": 769,
          "text": "the city auditor and whether or not this should be elected",
          "startTime": "00:49:43,904",
          "endTime": "00:49:45,605"
        },
        {
          "index": 770,
          "text": "or appointed positions around oversight bodies, including",
          "startTime": "00:49:46,474",
          "endTime": "00:49:49,409"
        },
        {
          "index": 771,
          "text": "commissions and and financial decision-making. Whether or not there should be some",
          "startTime": "00:49:50,611",
          "endTime": "00:49:53,513"
        },
        {
          "index": 772,
          "text": "long-range planning controller's office, things",
          "startTime": "00:49:54,615",
          "endTime": "00:49:56,616"
        },
        {
          "index": 773,
          "text": "like that. Those were all",
          "startTime": "00:49:56,717",
          "endTime": "00:49:58,717"
        },
        {
          "index": 774,
          "text": "things that we we recommend further analysis but went beyond the scope of this",
          "startTime": "00:49:59,686",
          "endTime": "00:50:01,955"
        },
        {
          "index": 775,
          "text": "review. And so some next steps, any charge, charter",
          "startTime": "00:50:05,226",
          "endTime": "00:50:07,600"
        },
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          "index": 776,
          "text": "changes must be approved by",
          "startTime": "00:50:08,620",
          "endTime": "00:50:10,620"
        },
        {
          "index": 777,
          "text": "Oakland voters and the mayor and the council are working",
          "startTime": "00:50:10,130",
          "endTime": "00:50:11,965"
        },
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          "index": 778,
          "text": "together to determine which",
          "startTime": "00:50:12,132",
          "endTime": "00:50:14,132"
        },
        {
          "index": 779,
          "text": "recommendations to advance to a ballot. And we have done",
          "startTime": "00:50:14,801",
          "endTime": "00:50:17,136"
        },
        {
          "index": 780,
          "text": "some polling in which we we",
          "startTime": "00:50:17,571",
          "endTime": "00:50:19,571"
        },
        {
          "index": 781,
          "text": "shared with the council",
          "startTime": "00:50:20,174",
          "endTime": "00:50:22,174"
        },
        {
          "index": 782,
          "text": "members today that really shows strong support for the",
          "startTime": "00:50:22,176",
          "endTime": "00:50:24,344"
        },
        {
          "index": 783,
          "text": "working group's",
          "startTime": "00:50:25,312",
          "endTime": "00:50:27,312"
        },
        {
          "index": 784,
          "text": "recommendations any implementation of this needs",
          "startTime": "00:50:27,348",
          "endTime": "00:50:29,482"
        },
        {
          "index": 785,
          "text": "to be there needs to be thoughtful transition periods",
          "startTime": "00:50:29,716",
          "endTime": "00:50:31,417"
        },
        {
          "index": 786,
          "text": "so that we don't. At not fully implement all of the",
          "startTime": "00:50:33,887",
          "endTime": "00:50:36,756"
        },
        {
          "index": 787,
          "text": "recommendations and this should be a living document. The charter should be",
          "startTime": "00:50:37,825",
          "endTime": "00:50:40,920"
        },
        {
          "index": 788,
          "text": "something that we come back to regularly and make sure that",
          "startTime": "00:50:40,360",
          "endTime": "00:50:42,610"
        },
        {
          "index": 789,
          "text": "it actually meeting the needs of oaklanders. Just a quick",
          "startTime": "00:50:42,663",
          "endTime": "00:50:45,598"
        },
        {
          "index": 790,
          "text": "note, Turner from creates conditions for improvement but",
          "startTime": "00:50:45,866",
          "endTime": "00:50:48,402"
        },
        {
          "index": 791,
          "text": "doesn't substitute for effective leadership and management. There are a lot of",
          "startTime": "00:50:48,402",
          "endTime": "00:50:51,700"
        },
        {
          "index": 792,
          "text": "other things that need to be done order to improve the way",
          "startTime": "00:50:51,338",
          "endTime": "00:50:53,908"
        },
        {
          "index": 793,
          "text": "Oakland works. This is just",
          "startTime": "00:50:53,908",
          "endTime": "00:50:55,908"
        },
        {
          "index": 794,
          "text": "the high level recommendations. The real floor report. We also",
          "startTime": "00:50:57,711",
          "endTime": "00:51:00,113"
        },
        {
          "index": 795,
          "text": "developed a full very extensive faq based on a lot of the feedback that we've",
          "startTime": "00:51:02,783",
          "endTime": "00:51:05,451"
        },
        {
          "index": 796,
          "text": "been in questions that we've",
          "startTime": "00:51:05,719",
          "endTime": "00:51:07,719"
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          "index": 797,
          "text": "been getting are all available on the mayor's website. We encourage you to take a look",
          "startTime": "00:51:07,988",
          "endTime": "00:51:10,456"
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        {
          "index": 798,
          "text": "at the full report. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you",
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          "endTime": "00:51:15,270"
        },
        {
          "index": 799,
          "text": "for your work as well. Council members to you guys have any comments before we go to the",
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          "endTime": "00:51:19,832"
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          "index": 800,
          "text": "public Council member Brown. Thank I was gonna offer than 2",
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          "index": 801,
          "text": "minutes of my time. Just in case they would have because I felt like they were rushing through kind of the",
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          "text": "presentation. And so I just wanted to give you the",
          "startTime": "00:51:31,450",
          "endTime": "00:51:33,513"
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        {
          "index": 803,
          "text": "opportunity if there was any additional input that you want",
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        {
          "index": 804,
          "text": "to make sure members of the public weather here are watching virtually like you",
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        {
          "index": 805,
          "text": "want to make sure that the",
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          "index": 806,
          "text": "message just the hard work of the working group all of your efforts, there's anything else",
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        {
          "index": 807,
          "text": "you wanted to to say. That's very kind of you and I",
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        {
          "index": 808,
          "text": "appreciate To the second",
          "startTime": "00:51:58,472",
          "endTime": "00:52:00,472"
        },
        {
          "index": 809,
          "text": "recommendation in the report.",
          "startTime": "00:52:00,474",
          "endTime": "00:52:02,474"
        },
        {
          "index": 810,
          "text": "There are 2 choices that almost all cities in the United States, all that we've",
          "startTime": "00:52:03,844",
          "endTime": "00:52:06,479"
        },
        {
          "index": 811,
          "text": "looked at and so what the committee really wanted to get",
          "startTime": "00:52:11,218",
          "endTime": "00:52:13,486"
        },
        {
          "index": 812,
          "text": "across was there is a problem",
          "startTime": "00:52:14,388",
          "endTime": "00:52:16,388"
        },
        {
          "index": 813,
          "text": "with Oakland's structure that it's a mix match that is",
          "startTime": "00:52:17,900",
          "endTime": "00:52:18,924"
        },
        {
          "index": 814,
          "text": "dysfunctional. And therefore, the first recommendation is do",
          "startTime": "00:52:20,560",
          "endTime": "00:52:23,362"
        },
        {
          "index": 815,
          "text": "something. Moved to an",
          "startTime": "00:52:28,100",
          "endTime": "00:52:30,100"
        },
        {
          "index": 816,
          "text": "integrated and complete system that is recognized as such and",
          "startTime": "00:52:30,370",
          "endTime": "00:52:32,839"
        },
        {
          "index": 817,
          "text": "tested by used in multiple",
          "startTime": "00:52:34,408",
          "endTime": "00:52:36,408"
        },
        {
          "index": 818,
          "text": "other cities. The second report, the thing I want, the second recommendation is tied",
          "startTime": "00:52:36,610",
          "endTime": "00:52:39,110"
        },
        {
          "index": 819,
          "text": "to the 3rd. They are really recommending the street. What",
          "startTime": "00:52:42,950",
          "endTime": "00:52:44,884"
        },
        {
          "index": 820,
          "text": "is called the strong mayor model, but it really is a",
          "startTime": "00:52:45,652",
          "endTime": "00:52:47,753"
        },
        {
          "index": 821,
          "text": "balance of an executive and",
          "startTime": "00:52:48,422",
          "endTime": "00:52:50,422"
        },
        {
          "index": 822,
          "text": "the legislative branch within the government. And therefore,",
          "startTime": "00:52:50,724",
          "endTime": "00:52:53,660"
        },
        {
          "index": 823,
          "text": "there are recommendations with respect to each and the final",
          "startTime": "00:52:53,827",
          "endTime": "00:52:55,528"
        },
        {
          "index": 824,
          "text": "point. I want to underscore is this is connected with the",
          "startTime": "00:52:57,970",
          "endTime": "00:52:59,465"
        },
        {
          "index": 825,
          "text": "character of the city of",
          "startTime": "00:53:00,167",
          "endTime": "00:53:02,167"
        },
        {
          "index": 826,
          "text": "Oakland. Otherwise it will. You could just toss a coin",
          "startTime": "00:53:02,369",
          "endTime": "00:53:04,370"
        },
        {
          "index": 827,
          "text": "because they're both formal systems in deciding which one",
          "startTime": "00:53:04,838",
          "endTime": "00:53:07,807"
        },
        {
          "index": 828,
          "text": "to choose. You really have to ask what's the history here",
          "startTime": "00:53:08,208",
          "endTime": "00:53:09,975"
        },
        {
          "index": 829,
          "text": "where we coming from? What is the character of the city that",
          "startTime": "00:53:12,913",
          "endTime": "00:53:14,647"
        },
        {
          "index": 830,
          "text": "we have? Thank Any other comments from the council",
          "startTime": "00:53:21,210",
          "endTime": "00:53:22,655"
        },
        {
          "index": 831,
          "text": "members. Okay. So you want to public comment? That's amazing",
          "startTime": "00:53:25,659",
          "endTime": "00:53:27,393"
        },
        {
          "index": 832,
          "text": "of it. All right. Let's go to",
          "startTime": "00:53:28,695",
          "endTime": "00:53:30,695"
        },
        {
          "index": 833,
          "text": "public comment. As I call your name. Please approach the",
          "startTime": "00:53:32,399",
          "endTime": "00:53:34,567"
        },
        {
          "index": 834,
          "text": "podium in any order. If you are participating via zoom, please raise your hand so I",
          "startTime": "00:53:34,835",
          "endTime": "00:53:37,170"
        },
        {
          "index": 835,
          "text": "can recognize you and as",
          "startTime": "00:53:39,640",
          "endTime": "00:53:41,640"
        },
        {
          "index": 836,
          "text": "usual, I will call those who are present in chambers first. And then those who are",
          "startTime": "00:53:42,175",
          "endTime": "00:53:44,510"
        },
        {
          "index": 837,
          "text": "participating via zoom after starting with Mark. So this",
          "startTime": "00:53:46,680",
          "endTime": "00:53:48,714"
        },
        {
          "index": 838,
          "text": "guy, Kevin Dally, Jonathan",
          "startTime": "00:53:51,118",
          "endTime": "00:53:53,118"
        },
        {
          "index": 839,
          "text": "Corn, Dina bill cough, Dory to",
          "startTime": "00:53:54,855",
          "endTime": "00:53:56,855"
        },
        {
          "index": 840,
          "text": "Biden. George Species, Orlando",
          "startTime": "00:53:57,691",
          "endTime": "00:53:59,691"
        },
        {
          "index": 841,
          "text": "Perez wild will whilst Taos Ski. My apologies but",
          "startTime": "00:54:00,961",
          "endTime": "00:54:02,862"
        },
        {
          "index": 842,
          "text": "mispronounced that Blair, big",
          "startTime": "00:54:03,597",
          "endTime": "00:54:05,597"
        },
        {
          "index": 843,
          "text": "men, Mike Boak. John Kerr s",
          "startTime": "00:54:08,902",
          "endTime": "00:54:10,902"
        },
        {
          "index": 844,
          "text": "Rasheem and all Steve Coen.",
          "startTime": "00:54:12,172",
          "endTime": "00:54:14,172"
        },
        {
          "index": 845,
          "text": "Naomi shift, Keith Brown amid",
          "startTime": "00:54:16,910",
          "endTime": "00:54:18,910"
        },
        {
          "index": 846,
          "text": "Alibaba some zoo. Uber Charles",
          "startTime": "00:54:20,247",
          "endTime": "00:54:22,247"
        },
        {
          "index": 847,
          "text": "long. Dan Marks. That's blue.",
          "startTime": "00:54:29,222",
          "endTime": "00:54:31,222"
        },
        {
          "index": 848,
          "text": "Veronica Garcia, Nancy folk, Steven Falk. David Vo, right,",
          "startTime": "00:54:33,693",
          "endTime": "00:54:36,462"
        },
        {
          "index": 849,
          "text": "Elizabeth Silver, Ralph Kantz,",
          "startTime": "00:54:36,830",
          "endTime": "00:54:38,830"
        },
        {
          "index": 850,
          "text": "Pamela Drake. Martell and",
          "startTime": "00:54:41,670",
          "endTime": "00:54:43,670"
        },
        {
          "index": 851,
          "text": "image. Millie Cleveland,",
          "startTime": "00:54:46,573",
          "endTime": "00:54:48,573"
        },
        {
          "index": 852,
          "text": "Richard Fuentes in Libby shaft. Again, please approach",
          "startTime": "00:54:49,376",
          "endTime": "00:54:51,511"
        },
        {
          "index": 853,
          "text": "the podium in any order.",
          "startTime": "00:54:51,511",
          "endTime": "00:54:53,511"
        },
        {
          "index": 854,
          "text": "Please state your name before",
          "startTime": "00:54:54,800",
          "endTime": "00:54:56,800"
        },
        {
          "index": 855,
          "text": "you begin the those who are participating via zoom, please raise your hand. We'll call",
          "startTime": "00:54:56,316",
          "endTime": "00:54:58,751"
        },
        {
          "index": 856,
          "text": "you after we have those in-person purse. You think",
          "startTime": "00:54:58,852",
          "endTime": "00:55:00,520"
        },
        {
          "index": 857,
          "text": "you. Greetings. I'm Falk, co-founder of the Oakland",
          "startTime": "00:55:08,428",
          "endTime": "00:55:11,297"
        },
        {
          "index": 858,
          "text": "Charter Reform Project and my comments are limited to 3",
          "startTime": "00:55:12,232",
          "endTime": "00:55:14,367"
        },
        {
          "index": 859,
          "text": "quick and related points. My first point is that I urge you",
          "startTime": "00:55:17,671",
          "endTime": "00:55:19,538"
        },
        {
          "index": 860,
          "text": "not to adopt the strong mayor recommendation because there",
          "startTime": "00:55:21,241",
          "endTime": "00:55:23,242"
        },
        {
          "index": 861,
          "text": "is a better way for Oakland.",
          "startTime": "00:55:24,770",
          "endTime": "00:55:26,770"
        },
        {
          "index": 862,
          "text": "My second point is that 97% of California cities have",
          "startTime": "00:55:28,548",
          "endTime": "00:55:30,984"
        },
        {
          "index": 863,
          "text": "rejected the strong mayor",
          "startTime": "00:55:30,984",
          "endTime": "00:55:32,984"
        },
        {
          "index": 864,
          "text": "system. With the exception of San Francisco, which is both a",
          "startTime": "00:55:34,288",
          "endTime": "00:55:36,155"
        },
        {
          "index": 865,
          "text": "city and county, every single",
          "startTime": "00:55:37,791",
          "endTime": "00:55:39,791"
        },
        {
          "index": 866,
          "text": "city in the Bay Area, large and small has rejected the",
          "startTime": "00:55:40,627",
          "endTime": "00:55:43,462"
        },
        {
          "index": 867,
          "text": "strong mayor model. Know California City has transition",
          "startTime": "00:55:46,566",
          "endTime": "00:55:48,668"
        },
        {
          "index": 868,
          "text": "to a strong mayor system in",
          "startTime": "00:55:48,668",
          "endTime": "00:55:50,668"
        },
        {
          "index": 869,
          "text": "the last 20 years. Not one. So basically do cities are doing",
          "startTime": "00:55:53,340",
          "endTime": "00:55:55,909"
        },
        {
          "index": 870,
          "text": "what the working group is asking you to do so you have",
          "startTime": "00:55:55,909",
          "endTime": "00:55:58,877"
        },
        {
          "index": 871,
          "text": "to ask why is that? It's because study after study",
          "startTime": "00:56:02,382",
          "endTime": "00:56:04,160"
        },
        {
          "index": 872,
          "text": "after study has proven professionally managed cities",
          "startTime": "00:56:06,119",
          "endTime": "00:56:07,887"
        },
        {
          "index": 873,
          "text": "with a powerful city council are more transparent, more",
          "startTime": "00:56:10,790",
          "endTime": "00:56:12,658"
        },
        {
          "index": 874,
          "text": "responsive, more effective and more efficient and far less",
          "startTime": "00:56:14,940",
          "endTime": "00:56:15,761"
        },
        {
          "index": 875,
          "text": "corrupt. So my 3rd and final point, a lot of the public",
          "startTime": "00:56:19,990",
          "endTime": "00:56:21,968"
        },
        {
          "index": 876,
          "text": "conversation around this issue in purse that you have only 2",
          "startTime": "00:56:23,103",
          "endTime": "00:56:25,137"
        },
        {
          "index": 877,
          "text": "choices, either a strong mayor or council manage or form of government. That is false.",
          "startTime": "00:56:27,140",
          "endTime": "00:56:29,975"
        },
        {
          "index": 878,
          "text": "That is not true. That is",
          "startTime": "00:56:31,478",
          "endTime": "00:56:33,478"
        },
        {
          "index": 879,
          "text": "what's known as a false",
          "startTime": "00:56:33,613",
          "endTime": "00:56:35,613"
        },
        {
          "index": 880,
          "text": "dichotomy. In fact, cities",
          "startTime": "00:56:35,715",
          "endTime": "00:56:37,715"
        },
        {
          "index": 881,
          "text": "today rarely choose the pure.",
          "startTime": "00:56:39,853",
          "endTime": "00:56:41,853"
        },
        {
          "index": 882,
          "text": "I apologize. Your time ended. The David Albright. Okay. You",
          "startTime": "00:56:46,693",
          "endTime": "00:56:48,394"
        },
        {
          "index": 883,
          "text": "have one more minute, MR. That is what's known as a false",
          "startTime": "00:56:52,165",
          "endTime": "00:56:54,333"
        },
        {
          "index": 884,
          "text": "dichotomy. In fact, cities today rarely choose the pure",
          "startTime": "00:56:55,235",
          "endTime": "00:56:58,204"
        },
        {
          "index": 885,
          "text": "version of either one of those",
          "startTime": "00:56:59,339",
          "endTime": "00:57:01,339"
        },
        {
          "index": 886,
          "text": "systems. And instead craft a hybrid system best suited for",
          "startTime": "00:57:02,420",
          "endTime": "00:57:04,977"
        },
        {
          "index": 887,
          "text": "their city. And that's what we're recommending with our",
          "startTime": "00:57:05,178",
          "endTime": "00:57:07,880"
        },
        {
          "index": 888,
          "text": "3rd option, which features leadership by a powerful",
          "startTime": "00:57:08,682",
          "endTime": "00:57:10,315"
        },
        {
          "index": 889,
          "text": "mayor. With a veto. Oversight",
          "startTime": "00:57:14,287",
          "endTime": "00:57:16,287"
        },
        {
          "index": 890,
          "text": "by a more powerful city",
          "startTime": "00:57:16,456",
          "endTime": "00:57:18,456"
        },
        {
          "index": 891,
          "text": "council and the terrific public services. The professional management can",
          "startTime": "00:57:18,692",
          "endTime": "00:57:21,227"
        },
        {
          "index": 892,
          "text": "deliver. Thank you for your",
          "startTime": "00:57:21,227",
          "endTime": "00:57:23,227"
        },
        {
          "index": 893,
          "text": "attention. Thank you for your",
          "startTime": "00:57:23,330",
          "endTime": "00:57:25,330"
        },
        {
          "index": 894,
          "text": "comments. Thanks for the opportunity to comment. My",
          "startTime": "00:57:29,369",
          "endTime": "00:57:31,670"
        },
        {
          "index": 895,
          "text": "name is Nancy Fall. My primary",
          "startTime": "00:57:33,740",
          "endTime": "00:57:35,740"
        },
        {
          "index": 896,
          "text": "message is that oaklanders need not settle for the strong",
          "startTime": "00:57:37,410",
          "endTime": "00:57:39,378"
        },
        {
          "index": 897,
          "text": "mayor form as recommended.",
          "startTime": "00:57:39,813",
          "endTime": "00:57:41,813"
        },
        {
          "index": 898,
          "text": "There's the better proven 3rd option that includes several",
          "startTime": "00:57:43,984",
          "endTime": "00:57:46,417"
        },
        {
          "index": 899,
          "text": "of the working group's recommendations while better",
          "startTime": "00:57:47,420",
          "endTime": "00:57:49,823"
        },
        {
          "index": 900,
          "text": "positioning Oakland, given its",
          "startTime": "00:57:49,823",
          "endTime": "00:57:51,823"
        },
        {
          "index": 901,
          "text": "unique nature for the future. This 3rd option has 3 key",
          "startTime": "00:57:53,660",
          "endTime": "00:57:55,727"
        },
        {
          "index": 902,
          "text": "elements. Number one, it embeds a more powerful mayor",
          "startTime": "00:57:58,665",
          "endTime": "00:58:00,532"
        },
        {
          "index": 903,
          "text": "with the veto authority to",
          "startTime": "00:58:01,534",
          "endTime": "00:58:03,534"
        },
        {
          "index": 904,
          "text": "serve as chair. To more powerful full-time city",
          "startTime": "00:58:06,907",
          "endTime": "00:58:08,507"
        },
        {
          "index": 905,
          "text": "Council. That's supported by an independent budget and",
          "startTime": "00:58:11,444",
          "endTime": "00:58:13,513"
        },
        {
          "index": 906,
          "text": "legislative analyst office has",
          "startTime": "00:58:13,513",
          "endTime": "00:58:15,513"
        },
        {
          "index": 907,
          "text": "recommended. 3 who jointly.",
          "startTime": "00:58:17,650",
          "endTime": "00:58:19,650"
        },
        {
          "index": 908,
          "text": "Mayor plus council oversee a professionally trained",
          "startTime": "00:58:21,788",
          "endTime": "00:58:23,388"
        },
        {
          "index": 909,
          "text": "executive. The city manager. There's no need to settle for",
          "startTime": "00:58:25,192",
          "endTime": "00:58:27,493"
        },
        {
          "index": 910,
          "text": "the strong mayor form because",
          "startTime": "00:58:28,895",
          "endTime": "00:58:30,895"
        },
        {
          "index": 911,
          "text": "it's not the proven best structure for delivering high",
          "startTime": "00:58:30,897",
          "endTime": "00:58:33,366"
        },
        {
          "index": 912,
          "text": "quality efficient and",
          "startTime": "00:58:33,366",
          "endTime": "00:58:35,366"
        },
        {
          "index": 913,
          "text": "effective city services. Council manager of government",
          "startTime": "00:58:37,360",
          "endTime": "00:58:38,737"
        },
        {
          "index": 914,
          "text": "upon which this 3rd option is",
          "startTime": "00:58:39,406",
          "endTime": "00:58:41,406"
        },
        {
          "index": 915,
          "text": "based is the proven best approach based on a lot of the",
          "startTime": "00:58:41,908",
          "endTime": "00:58:44,544"
        },
        {
          "index": 916,
          "text": "research that is in the working group's great",
          "startTime": "00:58:44,544",
          "endTime": "00:58:46,111"
        },
        {
          "index": 917,
          "text": "appendix. This 3rd option is 10%. And this Mayor Kemp Council manager formal",
          "startTime": "00:58:50,217",
          "endTime": "00:58:52,518"
        },
        {
          "index": 918,
          "text": "government is more efficient.",
          "startTime": "00:58:54,354",
          "endTime": "00:58:56,354"
        },
        {
          "index": 919,
          "text": "That strong mayor has stronger budget solvency, then strong",
          "startTime": "00:58:56,590",
          "endTime": "00:58:58,290"
        },
        {
          "index": 920,
          "text": "their cities. And it's 57%",
          "startTime": "00:58:59,559",
          "endTime": "00:59:01,559"
        },
        {
          "index": 921,
          "text": "less likely to have corruption convictions. Then strong",
          "startTime": "00:59:02,280",
          "endTime": "00:59:03,929"
        },
        {
          "index": 922,
          "text": "mayors, cities, so lets not settle for the strong mayor option and instead adopt a",
          "startTime": "00:59:07,000",
          "endTime": "00:59:09,501"
        },
        {
          "index": 923,
          "text": "proven 3rd option for a",
          "startTime": "00:59:09,536",
          "endTime": "00:59:11,536"
        },
        {
          "index": 924,
          "text": "better. Thank you for your",
          "startTime": "00:59:13,339",
          "endTime": "00:59:15,339"
        },
        {
          "index": 925,
          "text": "comment. Speaker. This been a cop, I apologize. Can you please call go closer to the",
          "startTime": "00:59:21,914",
          "endTime": "00:59:24,384"
        },
        {
          "index": 926,
          "text": "mike so we can make sure we",
          "startTime": "00:59:24,384",
          "endTime": "00:59:26,384"
        },
        {
          "index": 927,
          "text": "can. Accomplish? I live in district 3 I'm I'm here just",
          "startTime": "00:59:37,964",
          "endTime": "00:59:39,798"
        },
        {
          "index": 928,
          "text": "to lend my support to the council manager system, the",
          "startTime": "00:59:42,468",
          "endTime": "00:59:45,700"
        },
        {
          "index": 929,
          "text": "so-called 3rd option. And I'm",
          "startTime": "00:59:47,474",
          "endTime": "00:59:49,474"
        },
        {
          "index": 930,
          "text": "asking the council to put that option. On the ballot and let",
          "startTime": "00:59:50,577",
          "endTime": "00:59:53,312"
        },
        {
          "index": 931,
          "text": "let the voters decide. Not the",
          "startTime": "00:59:53,479",
          "endTime": "00:59:55,479"
        },
        {
          "index": 932,
          "text": "strong mayor model. I'm opposed to the strong mayor model for the reasons that",
          "startTime": "00:59:57,830",
          "endTime": "00:59:59,818"
        },
        {
          "index": 933,
          "text": "others have expressed. But one is that with all due respect,",
          "startTime": "01:00:02,880",
          "endTime": "01:00:04,156"
        },
        {
          "index": 934,
          "text": "I think the strong mayor system is too dependent on the",
          "startTime": "01:00:04,557",
          "endTime": "01:00:07,292"
        },
        {
          "index": 935,
          "text": "good faith of the person who",
          "startTime": "01:00:07,660",
          "endTime": "01:00:09,660"
        },
        {
          "index": 936,
          "text": "occupies the mayor's seat, the structure of our government should include checks and",
          "startTime": "01:00:11,398",
          "endTime": "01:00:14,266"
        },
        {
          "index": 937,
          "text": "balances, continuity of professional management, accountability of the City",
          "startTime": "01:00:17,337",
          "endTime": "01:00:19,638"
        },
        {
          "index": 938,
          "text": "Council. In addition to the mayor and we should look to",
          "startTime": "01:00:20,540",
          "endTime": "01:00:22,541"
        },
        {
          "index": 939,
          "text": "what are other peer cities do",
          "startTime": "01:00:23,710",
          "endTime": "01:00:25,710"
        },
        {
          "index": 940,
          "text": "all of this points to a council manager system with a",
          "startTime": "01:00:27,480",
          "endTime": "01:00:29,348"
        },
        {
          "index": 941,
          "text": "strengthened mayoral rule. The 3rd option. And and as others",
          "startTime": "01:00:32,885",
          "endTime": "01:00:35,120"
        },
        {
          "index": 942,
          "text": "have said, this is the model that is widely in use and we",
          "startTime": "01:00:36,156",
          "endTime": "01:00:38,224"
        },
        {
          "index": 943,
          "text": "should not ignore that. Thank",
          "startTime": "01:00:38,224",
          "endTime": "01:00:40,224"
        },
        {
          "index": 944,
          "text": "you. Thank you your comments.",
          "startTime": "01:00:49,350",
          "endTime": "01:00:51,350"
        },
        {
          "index": 945,
          "text": "Currently Indy 4. I appreciate the information report. I",
          "startTime": "01:00:52,639",
          "endTime": "01:00:55,607"
        },
        {
          "index": 946,
          "text": "think the the working group did a great job showing all",
          "startTime": "01:00:56,743",
          "endTime": "01:00:58,878"
        },
        {
          "index": 947,
          "text": "the options. And while they",
          "startTime": "01:00:58,878",
          "endTime": "01:01:00,878"
        },
        {
          "index": 948,
          "text": "have. Preferred choice. I",
          "startTime": "01:01:04,651",
          "endTime": "01:01:06,651"
        },
        {
          "index": 949,
          "text": "really appreciate their point.",
          "startTime": "01:01:06,653",
          "endTime": "01:01:08,653"
        },
        {
          "index": 950,
          "text": "Change something, choose a new",
          "startTime": "01:01:08,788",
          "endTime": "01:01:10,788"
        },
        {
          "index": 951,
          "text": "system. I suggest the council quickly set up its own working",
          "startTime": "01:01:11,858",
          "endTime": "01:01:13,859"
        },
        {
          "index": 952,
          "text": "group so they can choose the",
          "startTime": "01:01:14,600",
          "endTime": "01:01:16,600"
        },
        {
          "index": 953,
          "text": "best options. Mention a couple",
          "startTime": "01:01:18,364",
          "endTime": "01:01:20,364"
        },
        {
          "index": 954,
          "text": "of points. I disagree with. We",
          "startTime": "01:01:21,601",
          "endTime": "01:01:23,601"
        },
        {
          "index": 955,
          "text": "need an at large seat. I live",
          "startTime": "01:01:25,571",
          "endTime": "01:01:27,571"
        },
        {
          "index": 956,
          "text": "in d for today. But I like",
          "startTime": "01:01:30,110",
          "endTime": "01:01:32,110"
        },
        {
          "index": 957,
          "text": "most oaklanders frequently",
          "startTime": "01:01:32,946",
          "endTime": "01:01:34,946"
        },
        {
          "index": 958,
          "text": "traveled throughout Oakland, 2 different districts. No 5",
          "startTime": "01:01:34,947",
          "endTime": "01:01:37,450"
        },
        {
          "index": 959,
          "text": "districts in the last 24 hours",
          "startTime": "01:01:37,450",
          "endTime": "01:01:39,450"
        },
        {
          "index": 960,
          "text": "for me, I suspect. Other people have done better than",
          "startTime": "01:01:40,453",
          "endTime": "01:01:43,221"
        },
        {
          "index": 961,
          "text": "tap. So we need someone who is",
          "startTime": "01:01:44,230",
          "endTime": "01:01:46,230"
        },
        {
          "index": 962,
          "text": "able to look at the entire",
          "startTime": "01:01:46,526",
          "endTime": "01:01:48,526"
        },
        {
          "index": 963,
          "text": "system and both Councilmember Brown and Council member Kaplan have done a good job",
          "startTime": "01:01:48,828",
          "endTime": "01:01:51,129"
        },
        {
          "index": 964,
          "text": "with that. I fear large",
          "startTime": "01:01:53,199",
          "endTime": "01:01:55,199"
        },
        {
          "index": 965,
          "text": "mayor's election. The last 4 districts, they're sort of the last 3 district forced Yemen's",
          "startTime": "01:01:59,105",
          "endTime": "01:02:01,873"
        },
        {
          "index": 966,
          "text": "all became mayor. We are not getting to geographical",
          "startTime": "01:02:04,610",
          "endTime": "01:02:06,211"
        },
        {
          "index": 967,
          "text": "equity. By having large mayor's race. Only way we get",
          "startTime": "01:02:10,150",
          "endTime": "01:02:12,117"
        },
        {
          "index": 968,
          "text": "a mayor from Deep East Oakland is to have the council PRESIDENT P from Deep East",
          "startTime": "01:02:13,886",
          "endTime": "01:02:16,722"
        },
        {
          "index": 969,
          "text": "Oakland have recalled. We can't depend upon as a way of",
          "startTime": "01:02:18,991",
          "endTime": "01:02:20,893"
        },
        {
          "index": 970,
          "text": "getting a graphical equity Thank you for your comments.",
          "startTime": "01:02:23,763",
          "endTime": "01:02:25,464"
        },
        {
          "index": 971,
          "text": "Next picture. Good morning. My",
          "startTime": "01:02:33,720",
          "endTime": "01:02:35,720"
        },
        {
          "index": 972,
          "text": "name is Steve Cohn. I'm a long-term resident and",
          "startTime": "01:02:36,543",
          "endTime": "01:02:38,343"
        },
        {
          "index": 973,
          "text": "homeowner in Oakland my understanding try follow this",
          "startTime": "01:02:41,648",
          "endTime": "01:02:43,582"
        },
        {
          "index": 974,
          "text": "hold process is that everyone",
          "startTime": "01:02:46,652",
          "endTime": "01:02:48,652"
        },
        {
          "index": 975,
          "text": "believes that the system is dysfunctional. The city",
          "startTime": "01:02:49,422",
          "endTime": "01:02:51,491"
        },
        {
          "index": 976,
          "text": "council members have the power to develop policy, but no",
          "startTime": "01:02:51,491",
          "endTime": "01:02:53,859"
        },
        {
          "index": 977,
          "text": "power to implement it. The mayor has the power to implement it but has no input",
          "startTime": "01:02:56,729",
          "endTime": "01:02:59,640"
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          "index": 978,
          "text": "in developing policy. So to",
          "startTime": "01:03:00,466",
          "endTime": "01:03:02,466"
        },
        {
          "index": 979,
          "text": "me, if you just have a strong mayor, the city council still",
          "startTime": "01:03:03,269",
          "endTime": "01:03:05,170"
        },
        {
          "index": 980,
          "text": "doesn't have any. To implement the findings. By having a",
          "startTime": "01:03:08,441",
          "endTime": "01:03:10,208"
        },
        {
          "index": 981,
          "text": "strong mayor who can the doh?",
          "startTime": "01:03:14,580",
          "endTime": "01:03:16,580"
        },
        {
          "index": 982,
          "text": "Work process work process of the council. That's the council in a weaker position.",
          "startTime": "01:03:16,782",
          "endTime": "01:03:19,618"
        },
        {
          "index": 983,
          "text": "Minutes in now in respect, it,",
          "startTime": "01:03:21,587",
          "endTime": "01:03:23,587"
        },
        {
          "index": 984,
          "text": "people who've said that there's a lot of interest in",
          "startTime": "01:03:24,858",
          "endTime": "01:03:26,625"
        },
        {
          "index": 985,
          "text": "having strong mayor. There was",
          "startTime": "01:03:30,630",
          "endTime": "01:03:32,630"
        },
        {
          "index": 986,
          "text": "a survey done by party for the",
          "startTime": "01:03:34,267",
          "endTime": "01:03:36,267"
        },
        {
          "index": 987,
          "text": "working group and the number",
          "startTime": "01:03:36,303",
          "endTime": "01:03:38,303"
        },
        {
          "index": 988,
          "text": "item was strength in the city Council provide city council",
          "startTime": "01:03:38,305",
          "endTime": "01:03:40,710"
        },
        {
          "index": 989,
          "text": "with more direct ways to hold administration accountable.",
          "startTime": "01:03:41,607",
          "endTime": "01:03:43,809"
        },
        {
          "index": 990,
          "text": "And then put mayor back on the",
          "startTime": "01:03:44,844",
          "endTime": "01:03:46,844"
        },
        {
          "index": 991,
          "text": "dice with the second with 82 p 82% support give mayor role on",
          "startTime": "01:03:48,481",
          "endTime": "01:03:50,215"
        },
        {
          "index": 992,
          "text": "the city council helps a",
          "startTime": "01:03:51,350",
          "endTime": "01:03:53,350"
        },
        {
          "index": 993,
          "text": "policy laws. So I hope you'll",
          "startTime": "01:03:53,619",
          "endTime": "01:03:55,619"
        },
        {
          "index": 994,
          "text": "take what's called the 3rd option. Having a strong mayor,",
          "startTime": "01:03:55,688",
          "endTime": "01:03:57,422"
        },
        {
          "index": 995,
          "text": "a strong city council and make Oakland the city that really",
          "startTime": "01:03:59,459",
          "endTime": "01:04:01,159"
        },
        {
          "index": 996,
          "text": "wanted to Thank you very much.",
          "startTime": "01:04:01,794",
          "endTime": "01:04:03,794"
        },
        {
          "index": 997,
          "text": "Thank you for your comments. Thanks. Chair and council",
          "startTime": "01:04:07,566",
          "endTime": "01:04:09,901"
        },
        {
          "index": 998,
          "text": "member council PRESIDENT Mark.",
          "startTime": "01:04:12,805",
          "endTime": "01:04:14,805"
        },
        {
          "index": 999,
          "text": "So we residents of district one. I've worked for local",
          "startTime": "01:04:15,742",
          "endTime": "01:04:17,709"
        },
        {
          "index": 1000,
          "text": "governments for 23 years,",
          "startTime": "01:04:18,440",
          "endTime": "01:04:20,440"
        },
        {
          "index": 1001,
          "text": "including almost 5 years as Oakland's director of economic development. There's no",
          "startTime": "01:04:21,914",
          "endTime": "01:04:24,416"
        },
        {
          "index": 1002,
          "text": "question that we need charter reform. We have a dysfunctional system and I",
          "startTime": "01:04:25,718",
          "endTime": "01:04:28,860"
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        {
          "index": 1003,
          "text": "think we all know that. But I disagree with the working group's recommendation find",
          "startTime": "01:04:30,590",
          "endTime": "01:04:33,392"
        },
        {
          "index": 1004,
          "text": "there support of their",
          "startTime": "01:04:33,826",
          "endTime": "01:04:35,826"
        },
        {
          "index": 1005,
          "text": "recommendation to be very strong. Their own website",
          "startTime": "01:04:37,830",
          "endTime": "01:04:39,931"
        },
        {
          "index": 1006,
          "text": "provides a lot of material which if you haven't gone",
          "startTime": "01:04:40,299",
          "endTime": "01:04:41,933"
        },
        {
          "index": 1007,
          "text": "through it, you definitely",
          "startTime": "01:04:42,468",
          "endTime": "01:04:44,468"
        },
        {
          "index": 1008,
          "text": "should. But I kasaan in particular pages, 7 to 9 of",
          "startTime": "01:04:44,871",
          "endTime": "01:04:46,637"
        },
        {
          "index": 1009,
          "text": "the working group's report. Key differences between the",
          "startTime": "01:04:48,774",
          "endTime": "01:04:50,641"
        },
        {
          "index": 1010,
          "text": "council manager and strong mayor, the strong concentrates",
          "startTime": "01:04:51,644",
          "endTime": "01:04:54,613"
        },
        {
          "index": 1011,
          "text": "power in a single elected individual. It heightens the",
          "startTime": "01:04:55,215",
          "endTime": "01:04:57,115"
        },
        {
          "index": 1012,
          "text": "risk of put put it political politicization. That's a tough",
          "startTime": "01:04:58,884",
          "endTime": "01:05:00,619"
        },
        {
          "index": 1013,
          "text": "word to say. Misuse of authority decisions are driven",
          "startTime": "01:05:02,210",
          "endTime": "01:05:03,755"
        },
        {
          "index": 1014,
          "text": "by short-term electoral incentives and success depends",
          "startTime": "01:05:05,658",
          "endTime": "01:05:07,392"
        },
        {
          "index": 1015,
          "text": "heavily on the competence of the individual council manager",
          "startTime": "01:05:08,594",
          "endTime": "01:05:10,795"
        },
        {
          "index": 1016,
          "text": "lays the foundation for",
          "startTime": "01:05:12,765",
          "endTime": "01:05:14,765"
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        {
          "index": 1017,
          "text": "professional management. It insulates decisions short-term political pressures enables",
          "startTime": "01:05:14,934",
          "endTime": "01:05:17,360"
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        {
          "index": 1018,
          "text": "the manager to make decisions",
          "startTime": "01:05:17,360",
          "endTime": "01:05:19,360"
        },
        {
          "index": 1019,
          "text": "that are that are tough politically. Long-serving professionals provide",
          "startTime": "01:05:20,720",
          "endTime": "01:05:22,774"
        },
        {
          "index": 1020,
          "text": "continuity, stability, institutional memory and",
          "startTime": "01:05:23,476",
          "endTime": "01:05:25,176"
        },
        {
          "index": 1021,
          "text": "consistency across election",
          "startTime": "01:05:26,790",
          "endTime": "01:05:28,790"
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        {
          "index": 1022,
          "text": "cycles. Most importantly, though, the council manager",
          "startTime": "01:05:28,381",
          "endTime": "01:05:30,516"
        },
        {
          "index": 1023,
          "text": "system will distribute political power across the",
          "startTime": "01:05:30,516",
          "endTime": "01:05:33,451"
        },
        {
          "index": 1024,
          "text": "council and ensure that district representatives have equal standing in shaping",
          "startTime": "01:05:34,487",
          "endTime": "01:05:37,455"
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        {
          "index": 1025,
          "text": "policy in advocating for their communities. I urge you to",
          "startTime": "01:05:38,391",
          "endTime": "01:05:40,458"
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        {
          "index": 1026,
          "text": "take charter reform. Thank you",
          "startTime": "01:05:47,990",
          "endTime": "01:05:49,990"
        },
        {
          "index": 1027,
          "text": "for your comments. All right. I'm good Morning Council members. I'm Keith Brown,",
          "startTime": "01:05:53,973",
          "endTime": "01:05:56,741"
        },
        {
          "index": 1028,
          "text": "executive secretary treasurer of the Alameda Labor Council.",
          "startTime": "01:05:58,811",
          "endTime": "01:06:00,512"
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        {
          "index": 1029,
          "text": "I'm speaking to you this",
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          "endTime": "01:06:03,130"
        },
        {
          "index": 1030,
          "text": "morning as a lifelong open resident and resident of",
          "startTime": "01:06:04,717",
          "endTime": "01:06:06,351"
        },
        {
          "index": 1031,
          "text": "district. And I want to first of all, thank the work of the",
          "startTime": "01:06:09,655",
          "endTime": "01:06:11,856"
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        {
          "index": 1032,
          "text": "working group. I think one thing that almost all",
          "startTime": "01:06:16,620",
          "endTime": "01:06:17,729"
        },
        {
          "index": 1033,
          "text": "oaklanders agree that the city is slow to provide basic",
          "startTime": "01:06:19,966",
          "endTime": "01:06:22,667"
        },
        {
          "index": 1034,
          "text": "services. Another thing we all agree on is that the structure",
          "startTime": "01:06:24,303",
          "endTime": "01:06:26,538"
        },
        {
          "index": 1035,
          "text": "of our city is not working. Currently, everyone is in charge would mean which means",
          "startTime": "01:06:29,508",
          "endTime": "01:06:32,770"
        },
        {
          "index": 1036,
          "text": "no one is in charge. We must establish clear lines of",
          "startTime": "01:06:34,714",
          "endTime": "01:06:36,348"
        },
        {
          "index": 1037,
          "text": "responsibility. We must ensure",
          "startTime": "01:06:38,217",
          "endTime": "01:06:40,217"
        },
        {
          "index": 1038,
          "text": "data structure of our",
          "startTime": "01:06:40,319",
          "endTime": "01:06:42,319"
        },
        {
          "index": 1039,
          "text": "government can deliver for our",
          "startTime": "01:06:42,455",
          "endTime": "01:06:44,455"
        },
        {
          "index": 1040,
          "text": "community and for better use",
          "startTime": "01:06:44,557",
          "endTime": "01:06:46,557"
        },
        {
          "index": 1041,
          "text": "of limited resources. The",
          "startTime": "01:06:47,626",
          "endTime": "01:06:49,626"
        },
        {
          "index": 1042,
          "text": "strong mayor position. Offers clear direct accountability",
          "startTime": "01:06:51,831",
          "endTime": "01:06:53,898"
        },
        {
          "index": 1043,
          "text": "speeds up decisions, strengthens coordination and",
          "startTime": "01:06:56,202",
          "endTime": "01:06:58,703"
        },
        {
          "index": 1044,
          "text": "delivers results on",
          "startTime": "01:07:00,740",
          "endTime": "01:07:02,740"
        },
        {
          "index": 1045,
          "text": "homelessness. Public safety in fiscal responsibility with",
          "startTime": "01:07:02,908",
          "endTime": "01:07:04,709"
        },
        {
          "index": 1046,
          "text": "greater oversight and legislative capacity to better",
          "startTime": "01:07:05,712",
          "endTime": "01:07:08,213"
        },
        {
          "index": 1047,
          "text": "represent districts. So our community has made it clear",
          "startTime": "01:07:11,183",
          "endTime": "01:07:12,851"
        },
        {
          "index": 1048,
          "text": "that they want us of city government to be decisive on",
          "startTime": "01:07:14,754",
          "endTime": "01:07:16,588"
        },
        {
          "index": 1049,
          "text": "action and results and a strong mayor. System allows us",
          "startTime": "01:07:20,920",
          "endTime": "01:07:22,227"
        },
        {
          "index": 1050,
          "text": "to deliver for all open neighborhoods faster and more",
          "startTime": "01:07:23,395",
          "endTime": "01:07:25,960"
        },
        {
          "index": 1051,
          "text": "efficient. Thank you for your",
          "startTime": "01:07:27,333",
          "endTime": "01:07:29,333"
        },
        {
          "index": 1052,
          "text": "comment. Hello, I'm Mike Polk. And John Currie says with me",
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          "endTime": "01:07:35,975"
        },
        {
          "index": 1053,
          "text": "here is ceding his 90 seconds",
          "startTime": "01:07:35,975",
          "endTime": "01:07:37,975"
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        {
          "index": 1054,
          "text": "to me. John and I have lived",
          "startTime": "01:07:42,648",
          "endTime": "01:07:44,648"
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          "index": 1055,
          "text": "and worked in Oakland for over",
          "startTime": "01:07:44,917",
          "endTime": "01:07:46,917"
        },
        {
          "index": 1056,
          "text": "40 years. We're part of neighbors for progressive action and Oakland Group with",
          "startTime": "01:07:46,986",
          "endTime": "01:07:49,487"
        },
        {
          "index": 1057,
          "text": "over 500 members, we support charter reform as Oakland's",
          "startTime": "01:07:52,358",
          "endTime": "01:07:54,994"
        },
        {
          "index": 1058,
          "text": "current charter system. Surely",
          "startTime": "01:07:54,994",
          "endTime": "01:07:56,994"
        },
        {
          "index": 1059,
          "text": "clearly doesn't work. We do not support the strong mayor",
          "startTime": "01:07:57,396",
          "endTime": "01:07:59,731"
        },
        {
          "index": 1060,
          "text": "model recommended by the",
          "startTime": "01:08:00,500",
          "endTime": "01:08:02,500"
        },
        {
          "index": 1061,
          "text": "working group. Only large cities in California have a",
          "startTime": "01:08:03,302",
          "endTime": "01:08:04,969"
        },
        {
          "index": 1062,
          "text": "strong mayor system in entire",
          "startTime": "01:08:06,172",
          "endTime": "01:08:08,172"
        },
        {
          "index": 1063,
          "text": "state. 2 of those San Francisco in la are special",
          "startTime": "01:08:08,774",
          "endTime": "01:08:10,441"
        },
        {
          "index": 1064,
          "text": "being also counties. There's a better alternative and",
          "startTime": "01:08:12,478",
          "endTime": "01:08:15,214"
        },
        {
          "index": 1065,
          "text": "empowered mayor embedded in a",
          "startTime": "01:08:15,214",
          "endTime": "01:08:17,214"
        },
        {
          "index": 1066,
          "text": "council manager of government. This approach features a",
          "startTime": "01:08:18,217",
          "endTime": "01:08:19,851"
        },
        {
          "index": 1067,
          "text": "citywide elected mayor with significant leadership",
          "startTime": "01:08:21,754",
          "endTime": "01:08:23,621"
        },
        {
          "index": 1068,
          "text": "authority, including veto powers as recommended by the",
          "startTime": "01:08:23,956",
          "endTime": "01:08:26,291"
        },
        {
          "index": 1069,
          "text": "working group. But also features are professionally",
          "startTime": "01:08:28,661",
          "endTime": "01:08:30,328"
        },
        {
          "index": 1070,
          "text": "trained city manager overseen by the council in Manatee,",
          "startTime": "01:08:32,765",
          "endTime": "01:08:34,833"
        },
        {
          "index": 1071,
          "text": "Mayor working together as recommended by the national",
          "startTime": "01:08:37,503",
          "endTime": "01:08:39,170"
        },
        {
          "index": 1072,
          "text": "Civic model City. City",
          "startTime": "01:08:41,400",
          "endTime": "01:08:43,400"
        },
        {
          "index": 1073,
          "text": "charter, some variation of",
          "startTime": "01:08:43,142",
          "endTime": "01:08:45,142"
        },
        {
          "index": 1074,
          "text": "this charter is used by 96 or 97% of the largest cities by",
          "startTime": "01:08:46,110",
          "endTime": "01:08:48,246"
        },
        {
          "index": 1075,
          "text": "population in our state, including 3 that are larger than Oakland and they run the",
          "startTime": "01:08:50,182",
          "endTime": "01:08:52,918"
        },
        {
          "index": 1076,
          "text": "slide that we saw just a few",
          "startTime": "01:08:54,720",
          "endTime": "01:08:56,720"
        },
        {
          "index": 1077,
          "text": "minutes ago. And that's a long",
          "startTime": "01:09:00,590",
          "endTime": "01:09:02,590"
        },
        {
          "index": 1078,
          "text": "beach, Sacramento. And a South So this would this method would give our city council",
          "startTime": "01:09:04,960",
          "endTime": "01:09:06,397"
        },
        {
          "index": 1079,
          "text": "the leverage it needs to help get things done in Oakland",
          "startTime": "01:09:08,134",
          "endTime": "01:09:11,350"
        },
        {
          "index": 1080,
          "text": "that something that 83% of the people that the working group",
          "startTime": "01:09:12,710",
          "endTime": "01:09:14,906"
        },
        {
          "index": 1081,
          "text": "surveyed said they they think is the most important, the highest percentage of anything",
          "startTime": "01:09:15,674",
          "endTime": "01:09:18,443"
        },
        {
          "index": 1082,
          "text": "on that survey was that they want let the council to have the leverage to get things",
          "startTime": "01:09:20,613",
          "endTime": "01:09:23,470"
        },
        {
          "index": 1083,
          "text": "done in the city and you won't have that leverage in the",
          "startTime": "01:09:24,750",
          "endTime": "01:09:26,385"
        },
        {
          "index": 1084,
          "text": "strong mayor system. So one",
          "startTime": "01:09:30,122",
          "endTime": "01:09:32,122"
        },
        {
          "index": 1085,
          "text": "other thing that 82% of those surveyed said is that they",
          "startTime": "01:09:33,580",
          "endTime": "01:09:35,590"
        },
        {
          "index": 1086,
          "text": "want the mayor to attend council meetings. Now, Barbara",
          "startTime": "01:09:36,128",
          "endTime": "01:09:38,664"
        },
        {
          "index": 1087,
          "text": "Lee has said she doesn't have",
          "startTime": "01:09:38,664",
          "endTime": "01:09:40,664"
        },
        {
          "index": 1088,
          "text": "any problem with that ending mayors. But the strong mayor",
          "startTime": "01:09:40,666",
          "endTime": "01:09:42,467"
        },
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          "index": 1089,
          "text": "initiative doesn't require that. And a future MAY or MAY",
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          "endTime": "01:09:46,504"
        },
        {
          "index": 1090,
          "text": "not want to. That's in fact",
          "startTime": "01:09:46,639",
          "endTime": "01:09:48,639"
        },
        {
          "index": 1091,
          "text": "how we got where we are partly let's pay attention to what",
          "startTime": "01:09:50,709",
          "endTime": "01:09:52,844"
        },
        {
          "index": 1092,
          "text": "the voters asked for in the in",
          "startTime": "01:09:52,945",
          "endTime": "01:09:54,945"
        },
        {
          "index": 1093,
          "text": "the survey some of you MAY have seen maybe chefs a letter",
          "startTime": "01:09:56,715",
          "endTime": "01:09:58,783"
        },
        {
          "index": 1094,
          "text": "to the editor with Council",
          "startTime": "01:10:01,587",
          "endTime": "01:10:03,587"
        },
        {
          "index": 1095,
          "text": "managers widely used because most of that's mostly sauces,",
          "startTime": "01:10:03,989",
          "endTime": "01:10:06,792"
        },
        {
          "index": 1096,
          "text": "small cities. It's not it's",
          "startTime": "01:10:06,792",
          "endTime": "01:10:08,792"
        },
        {
          "index": 1097,
          "text": "the opposite. As we just saw, there's there's a lot of large",
          "startTime": "01:10:09,261",
          "endTime": "01:10:11,620"
        },
        {
          "index": 1098,
          "text": "cities that have that so mindful of the upcoming",
          "startTime": "01:10:12,531",
          "endTime": "01:10:15,100"
        },
        {
          "index": 1099,
          "text": "chantelle trial. It's unlikely",
          "startTime": "01:10:15,100",
          "endTime": "01:10:17,100"
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          "index": 1100,
          "text": "that voters will vote for. Thank you. Your time is that.",
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          "endTime": "01:10:31,649"
        },
        {
          "index": 1101,
          "text": "Thank you for your time. Good Morning. Council members. My",
          "startTime": "01:10:41,727",
          "endTime": "01:10:43,428"
        },
        {
          "index": 1102,
          "text": "name is Pat Martell. I'm here today representing the",
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          "endTime": "01:10:47,432"
        },
        {
          "index": 1103,
          "text": "international City County Management Association, a",
          "startTime": "01:10:49,168",
          "endTime": "01:10:51,690"
        },
        {
          "index": 1104,
          "text": "professional organization that advances transparent, responsive, effective and",
          "startTime": "01:10:52,805",
          "endTime": "01:10:55,600"
        },
        {
          "index": 1105,
          "text": "efficient local government through good governance",
          "startTime": "01:10:55,741",
          "endTime": "01:10:58,100"
        },
        {
          "index": 1106,
          "text": "leadership management,",
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          "endTime": "01:11:00,100"
        },
        {
          "index": 1107,
          "text": "innovation and ethics. As the West Coast regional director",
          "startTime": "01:11:00,613",
          "endTime": "01:11:02,313"
        },
        {
          "index": 1108,
          "text": "of I want to urge your consideration of a viable 3rd",
          "startTime": "01:11:03,315",
          "endTime": "01:11:05,149"
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        {
          "index": 1109,
          "text": "option. To move more effectively to deliver the results and vision by the",
          "startTime": "01:11:09,121",
          "endTime": "01:11:11,422"
        },
        {
          "index": 1110,
          "text": "mayor's working group recommendations. A strong",
          "startTime": "01:11:13,392",
          "endTime": "01:11:15,260"
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        {
          "index": 1111,
          "text": "mayor with veto power actively",
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          "endTime": "01:11:18,828"
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          "text": "participates in city council",
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          "endTime": "01:11:21,698"
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          "index": 1113,
          "text": "meetings leading a fully engage city council city",
          "startTime": "01:11:21,734",
          "endTime": "01:11:24,402"
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        {
          "index": 1114,
          "text": "manager structure. This option creates clear lines of",
          "startTime": "01:11:25,700",
          "endTime": "01:11:26,671"
        },
        {
          "index": 1115,
          "text": "responsibility and",
          "startTime": "01:11:27,606",
          "endTime": "01:11:29,606"
        },
        {
          "index": 1116,
          "text": "accountability. Elected officials set policy and a",
          "startTime": "01:11:29,742",
          "endTime": "01:11:31,409"
        },
        {
          "index": 1117,
          "text": "professionally trained managers accountable to the",
          "startTime": "01:11:32,378",
          "endTime": "01:11:34,212"
        },
        {
          "index": 1118,
          "text": "mayor and city Council for",
          "startTime": "01:11:35,247",
          "endTime": "01:11:37,247"
        },
        {
          "index": 1119,
          "text": "execution. Local governments",
          "startTime": "01:11:37,382",
          "endTime": "01:11:39,382"
        },
        {
          "index": 1120,
          "text": "have become larger and more complex over time and benefit",
          "startTime": "01:11:41,153",
          "endTime": "01:11:42,854"
        },
        {
          "index": 1121,
          "text": "by having trained professionals manage operations that best serve the",
          "startTime": "01:11:43,956",
          "endTime": "01:11:46,257"
        },
        {
          "index": 1122,
          "text": "needs of the community. This structural model clarifies the",
          "startTime": "01:11:48,527",
          "endTime": "01:11:50,261"
        },
        {
          "index": 1123,
          "text": "role of the mayor and city",
          "startTime": "01:11:51,730",
          "endTime": "01:11:53,730"
        },
        {
          "index": 1124,
          "text": "council and eliminates politicizing administrative decisions while preserving",
          "startTime": "01:11:54,633",
          "endTime": "01:11:57,368"
        },
        {
          "index": 1125,
          "text": "strong democratic control. It balances strong political",
          "startTime": "01:11:59,405",
          "endTime": "01:12:02,306"
        },
        {
          "index": 1126,
          "text": "leadership with results-driven professional administration",
          "startTime": "01:12:04,409",
          "endTime": "01:12:06,770"
        },
        {
          "index": 1127,
          "text": "allowing the mayor and city",
          "startTime": "01:12:07,446",
          "endTime": "01:12:09,446"
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        {
          "index": 1128,
          "text": "council to to focus on community vision policy and the priorities while leaving",
          "startTime": "01:12:10,483",
          "endTime": "01:12:13,117"
        },
        {
          "index": 1129,
          "text": "operational decisions to the",
          "startTime": "01:12:13,117",
          "endTime": "01:12:15,117"
        },
        {
          "index": 1130,
          "text": "city manager. Thank you comments. I apologize before",
          "startTime": "01:12:16,822",
          "endTime": "01:12:18,523"
        },
        {
          "index": 1131,
          "text": "the next speaker goes. If I",
          "startTime": "01:12:20,359",
          "endTime": "01:12:22,359"
        },
        {
          "index": 1132,
          "text": "can take one person threw the",
          "startTime": "01:12:23,610",
          "endTime": "01:12:25,610"
        },
        {
          "index": 1133,
          "text": "chair with his discretion to take one of the members of the",
          "startTime": "01:12:25,230",
          "endTime": "01:12:27,698"
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        {
          "index": 1134,
          "text": "public that are participating online. I'm going give them their 2 minutes. Thank you so",
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          "endTime": "01:12:31,136"
        },
        {
          "index": 1135,
          "text": "much for your patients for",
          "startTime": "01:12:31,136",
          "endTime": "01:12:33,136"
        },
        {
          "index": 1136,
          "text": "Monica. You are a muted. You",
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          "endTime": "01:12:36,173"
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        {
          "index": 1137,
          "text": "MAY begin your 2 minutes. 90 seconds. Thank you so much for",
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          "endTime": "01:12:41,679"
        },
        {
          "index": 1138,
          "text": "that changes for me. Yes, you",
          "startTime": "01:12:42,810",
          "endTime": "01:12:44,810"
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        {
          "index": 1139,
          "text": "MAY begin. Ok? Thank you. Good morning. Council members free",
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          "endTime": "01:12:49,821"
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        {
          "index": 1140,
          "text": "Oakland in the room. I just want to start by saying that I",
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          "endTime": "01:12:53,324"
        },
        {
          "index": 1141,
          "text": "really appreciate the work",
          "startTime": "01:12:53,625",
          "endTime": "01:12:55,625"
        },
        {
          "index": 1142,
          "text": "that's gone into this and the effort to improve how the city",
          "startTime": "01:12:57,296",
          "endTime": "01:12:59,300"
        },
        {
          "index": 1143,
          "text": "of Oakland operates. I don't think anyone with this agree",
          "startTime": "01:13:01,267",
          "endTime": "01:13:03,534"
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          "index": 1144,
          "text": "that Oakland, it's a faster action and more clarity around",
          "startTime": "01:13:04,436",
          "endTime": "01:13:06,737"
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          "index": 1145,
          "text": "who is responsible when things",
          "startTime": "01:13:08,106",
          "endTime": "01:13:10,106"
        },
        {
          "index": 1146,
          "text": "aren't working. That's a I do",
          "startTime": "01:13:12,411",
          "endTime": "01:13:14,411"
        },
        {
          "index": 1147,
          "text": "have some real concerns about the recommendation to eliminate the at-large council",
          "startTime": "01:13:16,448",
          "endTime": "01:13:19,150"
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        {
          "index": 1148,
          "text": "seat. If that happens, the",
          "startTime": "01:13:21,200",
          "endTime": "01:13:23,200"
        },
        {
          "index": 1149,
          "text": "council would be made. Made up entirely of district 3% of and",
          "startTime": "01:13:25,490",
          "endTime": "01:13:28,126"
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        {
          "index": 1150,
          "text": "system aired Dustin Vote on legislation. We would lose",
          "startTime": "01:13:30,963",
          "endTime": "01:13:33,197"
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        {
          "index": 1151,
          "text": "state only citywide elected voice and the legislative",
          "startTime": "01:13:34,333",
          "endTime": "01:13:37,235"
        },
        {
          "index": 1152,
          "text": "branch and that matters because as we all know, Oakland, U.S. And just deal",
          "startTime": "01:13:39,370",
          "endTime": "01:13:42,600"
        },
        {
          "index": 1153,
          "text": "with district issues, we deal with things that impact the entire city that need a",
          "startTime": "01:13:44,176",
          "endTime": "01:13:46,944"
        },
        {
          "index": 1154,
          "text": "broader perspective. The at-large t helps connect",
          "startTime": "01:13:49,480",
          "endTime": "01:13:51,684"
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        {
          "index": 1155,
          "text": "neighborhoods. Bring attention",
          "startTime": "01:13:51,684",
          "endTime": "01:13:53,684"
        },
        {
          "index": 1156,
          "text": "to citywide needs and make sure no community gets",
          "startTime": "01:13:54,253",
          "endTime": "01:13:56,287"
        },
        {
          "index": 1157,
          "text": "overlook like Melrose, which",
          "startTime": "01:13:58,957",
          "endTime": "01:14:00,957"
        },
        {
          "index": 1158,
          "text": "sits in both district 5 and",
          "startTime": "01:14:01,259",
          "endTime": "01:14:03,259"
        },
        {
          "index": 1159,
          "text": "district 6. From where I stand",
          "startTime": "01:14:05,364",
          "endTime": "01:14:07,364"
        },
        {
          "index": 1160,
          "text": "removing that creates gaps at the time when we really need",
          "startTime": "01:14:08,366",
          "endTime": "01:14:10,670"
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        {
          "index": 1161,
          "text": "to be more connected, connect",
          "startTime": "01:14:10,636",
          "endTime": "01:14:12,636"
        },
        {
          "index": 1162,
          "text": "that asked the city. So I just",
          "startTime": "01:14:13,505",
          "endTime": "01:14:15,505"
        },
        {
          "index": 1163,
          "text": "want to hurt you to move forward is that in prank you for your comments? Your time",
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          "endTime": "01:14:20,545"
        },
        {
          "index": 1164,
          "text": "is up. Thank you for your patients. Member of the",
          "startTime": "01:14:23,150",
          "endTime": "01:14:25,683"
        },
        {
          "index": 1165,
          "text": "public. You MAY approach state, your name for the",
          "startTime": "01:14:26,185",
          "endTime": "01:14:27,818"
        },
        {
          "index": 1166,
          "text": "record. Thank you so much.",
          "startTime": "01:14:30,210",
          "endTime": "01:14:32,210"
        },
        {
          "index": 1167,
          "text": "Thank you. Good Morning. Council members. My name is",
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          "endTime": "01:14:35,194"
        },
        {
          "index": 1168,
          "text": "Ahmed Ali. Bob Muddy 6",
          "startTime": "01:14:35,194",
          "endTime": "01:14:37,194"
        },
        {
          "index": 1169,
          "text": "resident, a dad. And I've had the chance to serve both",
          "startTime": "01:14:37,729",
          "endTime": "01:14:40,598"
        },
        {
          "index": 1170,
          "text": "inside the city and in the private sector working with",
          "startTime": "01:14:43,100",
          "endTime": "01:14:44,669"
        },
        {
          "index": 1171,
          "text": "Oakland businesses. I was part of the mayor's working group on charter reform and got to",
          "startTime": "01:14:47,306",
          "endTime": "01:14:50,141"
        },
        {
          "index": 1172,
          "text": "hear from hundreds Oakland residents and the biggest",
          "startTime": "01:14:51,776",
          "endTime": "01:14:53,411"
        },
        {
          "index": 1173,
          "text": "thing I heard over and over was the need for clear",
          "startTime": "01:14:55,470",
          "endTime": "01:14:56,647"
        },
        {
          "index": 1174,
          "text": "accountability. Residents expects that when they vote",
          "startTime": "01:14:59,217",
          "endTime": "01:15:00,885"
        },
        {
          "index": 1175,
          "text": "for a mayor, the buck stops",
          "startTime": "01:15:01,320",
          "endTime": "01:15:03,320"
        },
        {
          "index": 1176,
          "text": "there. At my house, my home",
          "startTime": "01:15:05,591",
          "endTime": "01:15:07,591"
        },
        {
          "index": 1177,
          "text": "when accountability is unclear. My five-year-old just",
          "startTime": "01:15:07,626",
          "endTime": "01:15:09,360"
        },
        {
          "index": 1178,
          "text": "runs the whole house. Speaking from experience. That's not a",
          "startTime": "01:15:12,364",
          "endTime": "01:15:14,500"
        },
        {
          "index": 1179,
          "text": "model that we should replicate",
          "startTime": "01:15:14,500",
          "endTime": "01:15:16,500"
        },
        {
          "index": 1180,
          "text": "at City Hall. Right now, our system spreads responsibility",
          "startTime": "01:15:19,370",
          "endTime": "01:15:21,720"
        },
        {
          "index": 1181,
          "text": "across too many places when",
          "startTime": "01:15:21,339",
          "endTime": "01:15:23,339"
        },
        {
          "index": 1182,
          "text": "something goes wrong. It's not",
          "startTime": "01:15:23,441",
          "endTime": "01:15:25,441"
        },
        {
          "index": 1183,
          "text": "always clear who owns it. And that makes it harder to",
          "startTime": "01:15:26,440",
          "endTime": "01:15:27,945"
        },
        {
          "index": 1184,
          "text": "actually solve problems on",
          "startTime": "01:15:28,647",
          "endTime": "01:15:30,647"
        },
        {
          "index": 1185,
          "text": "behalf of our residents. This",
          "startTime": "01:15:30,715",
          "endTime": "01:15:32,715"
        },
        {
          "index": 1186,
          "text": "is about aligning authority",
          "startTime": "01:15:34,152",
          "endTime": "01:15:36,152"
        },
        {
          "index": 1187,
          "text": "with responsibility. So when decisions are made, there's",
          "startTime": "01:15:36,154",
          "endTime": "01:15:37,822"
        },
        {
          "index": 1188,
          "text": "clarity on who is accountable.",
          "startTime": "01:15:38,891",
          "endTime": "01:15:40,891"
        },
        {
          "index": 1189,
          "text": "And when outcomes fall short. It's clear who needs to answer",
          "startTime": "01:15:41,326",
          "endTime": "01:15:43,600"
        },
        {
          "index": 1190,
          "text": "for. At the same time, these recommendations strengthen the",
          "startTime": "01:15:46,331",
          "endTime": "01:15:48,650"
        },
        {
          "index": 1191,
          "text": "council's ability. To provide stronger legislative and financial oversight, which is",
          "startTime": "01:15:50,903",
          "endTime": "01:15:53,838"
        },
        {
          "index": 1192,
          "text": "just as important. I believe",
          "startTime": "01:15:55,774",
          "endTime": "01:15:57,774"
        },
        {
          "index": 1193,
          "text": "this most Oakland in the right",
          "startTime": "01:15:58,370",
          "endTime": "01:16:00,370"
        },
        {
          "index": 1194,
          "text": "direction. Thank you for your comments and thank you for",
          "startTime": "01:16:00,779",
          "endTime": "01:16:02,446"
        },
        {
          "index": 1195,
          "text": "your patience. Speaking. Hi,",
          "startTime": "01:16:08,787",
          "endTime": "01:16:10,787"
        },
        {
          "index": 1196,
          "text": "my name is Charlie. Long 21 year, resident of city of",
          "startTime": "01:16:11,890",
          "endTime": "01:16:14,158"
        },
        {
          "index": 1197,
          "text": "Oakland in District 4. And I",
          "startTime": "01:16:17,162",
          "endTime": "01:16:19,162"
        },
        {
          "index": 1198,
          "text": "have city manager 4 times, but",
          "startTime": "01:16:19,598",
          "endTime": "01:16:21,598"
        },
        {
          "index": 1199,
          "text": "also I've invested 100 million dollars into downtown Oakland",
          "startTime": "01:16:23,468",
          "endTime": "01:16:25,236"
        },
        {
          "index": 1200,
          "text": "with 2 of her projects. I",
          "startTime": "01:16:27,539",
          "endTime": "01:16:29,539"
        },
        {
          "index": 1201,
          "text": "served on the bill go,",
          "startTime": "01:16:29,975",
          "endTime": "01:16:31,975"
        },
        {
          "index": 1202,
          "text": "development advisory Committee. And let me tell",
          "startTime": "01:16:32,244",
          "endTime": "01:16:34,579"
        },
        {
          "index": 1203,
          "text": "you, my observation, based",
          "startTime": "01:16:34,579",
          "endTime": "01:16:36,579"
        },
        {
          "index": 1204,
          "text": "upon my awareness of how",
          "startTime": "01:16:37,683",
          "endTime": "01:16:39,683"
        },
        {
          "index": 1205,
          "text": "organizations work. And how",
          "startTime": "01:16:40,652",
          "endTime": "01:16:42,652"
        },
        {
          "index": 1206,
          "text": "development works. Oakland's or organ Oakland's",
          "startTime": "01:16:45,230",
          "endTime": "01:16:46,557"
        },
        {
          "index": 1207,
          "text": "organization is broken. There",
          "startTime": "01:16:48,493",
          "endTime": "01:16:50,493"
        },
        {
          "index": 1208,
          "text": "is no sense of common purpose. Departments are silos. They",
          "startTime": "01:16:52,164",
          "endTime": "01:16:53,831"
        },
        {
          "index": 1209,
          "text": "don't talk to each other. They don't they don't have a sense",
          "startTime": "01:16:55,834",
          "endTime": "01:16:57,534"
        },
        {
          "index": 1210,
          "text": "of common purpose. I am here",
          "startTime": "01:17:01,406",
          "endTime": "01:17:03,406"
        },
        {
          "index": 1211,
          "text": "strongly request. That you",
          "startTime": "01:17:04,776",
          "endTime": "01:17:06,776"
        },
        {
          "index": 1212,
          "text": "reject the strong mayor option",
          "startTime": "01:17:08,790",
          "endTime": "01:17:10,790"
        },
        {
          "index": 1213,
          "text": "because all it does is it",
          "startTime": "01:17:10,248",
          "endTime": "01:17:12,248"
        },
        {
          "index": 1214,
          "text": "says, okay, we've got a broken system. Where do? We're",
          "startTime": "01:17:12,618",
          "endTime": "01:17:14,318"
        },
        {
          "index": 1215,
          "text": "basically there are silos. Let's create another broken",
          "startTime": "01:17:16,254",
          "endTime": "01:17:18,989"
        },
        {
          "index": 1216,
          "text": "system where there are silos. Where the mayor basically is",
          "startTime": "01:17:20,826",
          "endTime": "01:17:22,726"
        },
        {
          "index": 1217,
          "text": "not a participant. The council",
          "startTime": "01:17:24,696",
          "endTime": "01:17:26,696"
        },
        {
          "index": 1218,
          "text": "manager of government. Makes",
          "startTime": "01:17:30,100",
          "endTime": "01:17:32,100"
        },
        {
          "index": 1219,
          "text": "the city manager accountable",
          "startTime": "01:17:32,971",
          "endTime": "01:17:34,971"
        },
        {
          "index": 1220,
          "text": "the mayor to the council and",
          "startTime": "01:17:35,400",
          "endTime": "01:17:37,400"
        },
        {
          "index": 1221,
          "text": "the mayor sits on the city council. It has veto power and",
          "startTime": "01:17:37,709",
          "endTime": "01:17:39,610"
        },
        {
          "index": 1222,
          "text": "is an active participant. Let's create that kind of",
          "startTime": "01:17:41,113",
          "endTime": "01:17:43,881"
        },
        {
          "index": 1223,
          "text": "unified approach. 2. Thank you for your comments next.",
          "startTime": "01:17:47,652",
          "endTime": "01:17:49,253"
        },
        {
          "index": 1224,
          "text": "Speaker. Good Morning Council members. My name is Denmark's",
          "startTime": "01:17:56,695",
          "endTime": "01:17:58,962"
        },
        {
          "index": 1225,
          "text": "excuse me. I can resident in district 2 and of work in and for local governments for more",
          "startTime": "01:18:01,399",
          "endTime": "01:18:04,101"
        },
        {
          "index": 1226,
          "text": "than 40 years. I'm a employee in the city former to committee velvet director in",
          "startTime": "01:18:07,806",
          "endTime": "01:18:10,740"
        },
        {
          "index": 1227,
          "text": "the city of Berkeley. And it worked as as a ploy in several",
          "startTime": "01:18:12,177",
          "endTime": "01:18:14,780"
        },
        {
          "index": 1228,
          "text": "Bay Area cities. And for the",
          "startTime": "01:18:14,813",
          "endTime": "01:18:16,813"
        },
        {
          "index": 1229,
          "text": "past 15 years, I've been a management consultant on local",
          "startTime": "01:18:18,500",
          "endTime": "01:18:20,385"
        },
        {
          "index": 1230,
          "text": "government effectiveness all around the country. And in",
          "startTime": "01:18:20,385",
          "endTime": "01:18:22,520"
        },
        {
          "index": 1231,
          "text": "California. I want to thank the mayor for putting forward",
          "startTime": "01:18:25,590",
          "endTime": "01:18:27,591"
        },
        {
          "index": 1232,
          "text": "the the mayor's task force and bringing the issue of charter",
          "startTime": "01:18:28,827",
          "endTime": "01:18:30,528"
        },
        {
          "index": 1233,
          "text": "reform to the city's attention and carry it forward as issue that we have to address in",
          "startTime": "01:18:31,997",
          "endTime": "01:18:34,932"
        },
        {
          "index": 1234,
          "text": "Oakland. Clearly we need a",
          "startTime": "01:18:36,534",
          "endTime": "01:18:38,534"
        },
        {
          "index": 1235,
          "text": "more effective government that can deliver the services that",
          "startTime": "01:18:38,703",
          "endTime": "01:18:40,404"
        },
        {
          "index": 1236,
          "text": "people have open want. And in my opinion, did not received",
          "startTime": "01:18:42,541",
          "endTime": "01:18:44,375"
        },
        {
          "index": 1237,
          "text": "over the last many years. And I think most local residents would agree with me that we",
          "startTime": "01:18:46,845",
          "endTime": "01:18:48,847"
        },
        {
          "index": 1238,
          "text": "need a more effective government. Not a political",
          "startTime": "01:18:48,847",
          "endTime": "01:18:51,649"
        },
        {
          "index": 1239,
          "text": "one. City managers are trained in and spend their whole careers making local",
          "startTime": "01:18:55,860",
          "endTime": "01:18:57,288"
        },
        {
          "index": 1240,
          "text": "government more effective. Mayors were elected for their",
          "startTime": "01:18:58,189",
          "endTime": "01:19:00,157"
        },
        {
          "index": 1241,
          "text": "political You meant not their organizational skills. It's for this reason that almost",
          "startTime": "01:19:03,729",
          "endTime": "01:19:06,298"
        },
        {
          "index": 1242,
          "text": "all the cities in California has been spoken earlier, adopt",
          "startTime": "01:19:06,298",
          "endTime": "01:19:09,266"
        },
        {
          "index": 1243,
          "text": "a city manager form of government and I along with many of the other people have",
          "startTime": "01:19:10,340",
          "endTime": "01:19:12,870"
        },
        {
          "index": 1244,
          "text": "spoken here today based on our long experience in local",
          "startTime": "01:19:13,737",
          "endTime": "01:19:15,906"
        },
        {
          "index": 1245,
          "text": "government. Believe that the 3rd option is the best option",
          "startTime": "01:19:17,475",
          "endTime": "01:19:19,176"
        },
        {
          "index": 1246,
          "text": "for the city of Oakland and urge that you carry that",
          "startTime": "01:19:20,178",
          "endTime": "01:19:21,812"
        },
        {
          "index": 1247,
          "text": "option in some fashion forward to the citizens of Oakland.",
          "startTime": "01:19:23,581",
          "endTime": "01:19:25,249"
        },
        {
          "index": 1248,
          "text": "Thank you so much. Thank you",
          "startTime": "01:19:25,650",
          "endTime": "01:19:27,650"
        },
        {
          "index": 1249,
          "text": "for your comments. Rajon Rondo District 4. I want to start by",
          "startTime": "01:19:30,589",
          "endTime": "01:19:32,590"
        },
        {
          "index": 1250,
          "text": "acknowledging the effort here. Easier to point out what's",
          "startTime": "01:19:34,392",
          "endTime": "01:19:36,600"
        },
        {
          "index": 1251,
          "text": "broken that to try and fix And appreciate that this process",
          "startTime": "01:19:37,228",
          "endTime": "01:19:38,929"
        },
        {
          "index": 1252,
          "text": "is attempting to do that. What I hear from my community is",
          "startTime": "01:19:40,499",
          "endTime": "01:19:42,599"
        },
        {
          "index": 1253,
          "text": "very consistent. People want basic things to work like roads and public safety and",
          "startTime": "01:19:43,568",
          "endTime": "01:19:46,400"
        },
        {
          "index": 1254,
          "text": "many residents don't feel we",
          "startTime": "01:19:46,400",
          "endTime": "01:19:48,400"
        },
        {
          "index": 1255,
          "text": "have that. Charter reform is part of the solution along with fiscal in broader",
          "startTime": "01:19:49,441",
          "endTime": "01:19:51,910"
        },
        {
          "index": 1256,
          "text": "governance reform. But my",
          "startTime": "01:19:51,910",
          "endTime": "01:19:53,910"
        },
        {
          "index": 1257,
          "text": "concern simple. Who is accessible to the regular",
          "startTime": "01:19:54,412",
          "endTime": "01:19:57,281"
        },
        {
          "index": 1258,
          "text": "Oakland resident. When something needs to get fixed and how do we ensure that it",
          "startTime": "01:19:57,282",
          "endTime": "01:19:59,984"
        },
        {
          "index": 1259,
          "text": "actually happens? It's already difficult to get regular",
          "startTime": "01:20:01,219",
          "endTime": "01:20:02,853"
        },
        {
          "index": 1260,
          "text": "residents. Voices heard. That makes be cautious about",
          "startTime": "01:20:05,457",
          "endTime": "01:20:08,425"
        },
        {
          "index": 1261,
          "text": "concentrating more power in a single office where access can feel even more limited to",
          "startTime": "01:20:08,560",
          "endTime": "01:20:10,695"
        },
        {
          "index": 1262,
          "text": "those without influence and",
          "startTime": "01:20:10,695",
          "endTime": "01:20:12,695"
        },
        {
          "index": 1263,
          "text": "power. We need a balance clear leadership with accountability and full representation,",
          "startTime": "01:20:15,433",
          "endTime": "01:20:17,801"
        },
        {
          "index": 1264,
          "text": "including the at-large seat. That's why I'm leaning towards",
          "startTime": "01:20:19,270",
          "endTime": "01:20:21,672"
        },
        {
          "index": 1265,
          "text": "a balanced approach. Like the 3rd option. But I really urge",
          "startTime": "01:20:22,407",
          "endTime": "01:20:24,409"
        },
        {
          "index": 1266,
          "text": "council choose a structure that will truly deliver",
          "startTime": "01:20:24,409",
          "endTime": "01:20:27,440"
        },
        {
          "index": 1267,
          "text": "results with accountability and transparency and accessibility to all",
          "startTime": "01:20:28,346",
          "endTime": "01:20:30,548"
        },
        {
          "index": 1268,
          "text": "Oaklanders. Thank you. Thank",
          "startTime": "01:20:31,490",
          "endTime": "01:20:33,490"
        },
        {
          "index": 1269,
          "text": "you for your comment. Thank you. My name is Elizabeth Silver activated that the",
          "startTime": "01:20:37,922",
          "endTime": "01:20:40,257"
        },
        {
          "index": 1270,
          "text": "silver. I I've lived here for",
          "startTime": "01:20:46,131",
          "endTime": "01:20:48,131"
        },
        {
          "index": 1271,
          "text": "48 years. Am a retired lawyer. I was city attorney of several",
          "startTime": "01:20:49,167",
          "endTime": "01:20:51,402"
        },
        {
          "index": 1272,
          "text": "cities for a total. Of 37 years. So I know what you",
          "startTime": "01:20:55,740",
          "endTime": "01:20:58,576"
        },
        {
          "index": 1273,
          "text": "doing and I thank you for it. I'm in favor of the council",
          "startTime": "01:21:02,580",
          "endTime": "01:21:04,615"
        },
        {
          "index": 1274,
          "text": "manager of government. The",
          "startTime": "01:21:05,450",
          "endTime": "01:21:07,450"
        },
        {
          "index": 1275,
          "text": "most important thing that the city council does, that the",
          "startTime": "01:21:08,553",
          "endTime": "01:21:10,220"
        },
        {
          "index": 1276,
          "text": "whole city does is its budget. And the budget is the",
          "startTime": "01:21:12,958",
          "endTime": "01:21:15,560"
        },
        {
          "index": 1277,
          "text": "blueprint for what gets done",
          "startTime": "01:21:15,560",
          "endTime": "01:21:17,560"
        },
        {
          "index": 1278,
          "text": "in the city. Council. Then house to put a point somebody",
          "startTime": "01:21:24,569",
          "endTime": "01:21:26,604"
        },
        {
          "index": 1279,
          "text": "is going to implement the budget. Just doesn't happen by",
          "startTime": "01:21:26,604",
          "endTime": "01:21:28,339"
        },
        {
          "index": 1280,
          "text": "itself. So the city administrator or city manager,",
          "startTime": "01:21:31,543",
          "endTime": "01:21:33,510"
        },
        {
          "index": 1281,
          "text": "whatever you want to call the position is the person who",
          "startTime": "01:21:34,780",
          "endTime": "01:21:36,460"
        },
        {
          "index": 1282,
          "text": "implements the budget. The budget includes the council's",
          "startTime": "01:21:38,750",
          "endTime": "01:21:40,451"
        },
        {
          "index": 1283,
          "text": "goals, how many will be spent",
          "startTime": "01:21:41,252",
          "endTime": "01:21:43,252"
        },
        {
          "index": 1284,
          "text": "but programs will be adopted.",
          "startTime": "01:21:44,289",
          "endTime": "01:21:46,289"
        },
        {
          "index": 1285,
          "text": "It cetera. And it's important to have a professional in the",
          "startTime": "01:21:46,558",
          "endTime": "01:21:49,459"
        },
        {
          "index": 1286,
          "text": "role implementing budget. The mayor can be on the city",
          "startTime": "01:21:52,960",
          "endTime": "01:21:53,797"
        },
        {
          "index": 1287,
          "text": "Council. The city manager. Really works from council",
          "startTime": "01:21:58,836",
          "endTime": "01:22:00,704"
        },
        {
          "index": 1288,
          "text": "meeting. Council meeting. So",
          "startTime": "01:22:02,974",
          "endTime": "01:22:04,974"
        },
        {
          "index": 1289,
          "text": "the council has control. The implementation of its",
          "startTime": "01:22:08,646",
          "endTime": "01:22:10,581"
        },
        {
          "index": 1290,
          "text": "objectives because the council points and can fire the city",
          "startTime": "01:22:14,719",
          "endTime": "01:22:16,420"
        },
        {
          "index": 1291,
          "text": "manager. Thank drinking, does",
          "startTime": "01:22:24,496",
          "endTime": "01:22:26,496"
        },
        {
          "index": 1292,
          "text": "not speak. My name is Millie Cleveland. I also live in",
          "startTime": "01:22:36,808",
          "endTime": "01:22:38,442"
        },
        {
          "index": 1293,
          "text": "district 4. And move one plot 30 years ago, District 5.",
          "startTime": "01:22:41,913",
          "endTime": "01:22:44,815"
        },
        {
          "index": 1294,
          "text": "Ended up in 4. I want to throw a little twist to the",
          "startTime": "01:22:48,853",
          "endTime": "01:22:51,522"
        },
        {
          "index": 1295,
          "text": "discussion about the",
          "startTime": "01:22:52,957",
          "endTime": "01:22:54,957"
        },
        {
          "index": 1296,
          "text": "underlying assumptions about the council developing policy",
          "startTime": "01:22:56,227",
          "endTime": "01:22:57,961"
        },
        {
          "index": 1297,
          "text": "but not being able to enforce",
          "startTime": "01:22:58,930",
          "endTime": "01:23:00,930"
        },
        {
          "index": 1298,
          "text": "it. The mayor can't develop",
          "startTime": "01:23:02,734",
          "endTime": "01:23:04,734"
        },
        {
          "index": 1299,
          "text": "policy, but it's responsible for enforcement. My",
          "startTime": "01:23:05,603",
          "endTime": "01:23:07,604"
        },
        {
          "index": 1300,
          "text": "observation coming to council",
          "startTime": "01:23:08,673",
          "endTime": "01:23:10,673"
        },
        {
          "index": 1301,
          "text": "meetings is that our council",
          "startTime": "01:23:12,143",
          "endTime": "01:23:14,143"
        },
        {
          "index": 1302,
          "text": "representatives have abdicated their responsibility,",
          "startTime": "01:23:15,146",
          "endTime": "01:23:16,880"
        },
        {
          "index": 1303,
          "text": "enforcing things that in making sure the city manager",
          "startTime": "01:23:18,749",
          "endTime": "01:23:20,651"
        },
        {
          "index": 1304,
          "text": "follow through. The macro. A",
          "startTime": "01:23:25,357",
          "endTime": "01:23:27,357"
        },
        {
          "index": 1305,
          "text": "unit, the chief of the fire",
          "startTime": "01:23:27,458",
          "endTime": "01:23:29,458"
        },
        {
          "index": 1306,
          "text": "department change the scope of work and not one council",
          "startTime": "01:23:29,594",
          "endTime": "01:23:31,828"
        },
        {
          "index": 1307,
          "text": "person race issue. We've had",
          "startTime": "01:23:36,334",
          "endTime": "01:23:38,334"
        },
        {
          "index": 1308,
          "text": "decades of city auditors making recommendations on how",
          "startTime": "01:23:38,469",
          "endTime": "01:23:40,570"
        },
        {
          "index": 1309,
          "text": "to deal with opd over time, which have been dismissed by",
          "startTime": "01:23:43,740",
          "endTime": "01:23:44,775"
        },
        {
          "index": 1310,
          "text": "the council. The council voted to civilian eyes almost 40",
          "startTime": "01:23:50,348",
          "endTime": "01:23:52,150"
        },
        {
          "index": 1311,
          "text": "positions in opd, putting 40",
          "startTime": "01:23:53,585",
          "endTime": "01:23:55,585"
        },
        {
          "index": 1312,
          "text": "cops back on the street. And",
          "startTime": "01:23:56,955",
          "endTime": "01:23:58,955"
        },
        {
          "index": 1313,
          "text": "the council. He's done nothing to force a city administrator to speak on the work that he's",
          "startTime": "01:24:00,992",
          "endTime": "01:24:03,693"
        },
        {
          "index": 1314,
          "text": "been accomplish. So I am",
          "startTime": "01:24:05,797",
          "endTime": "01:24:07,797"
        },
        {
          "index": 1315,
          "text": "against Philly. My time is up.",
          "startTime": "01:24:09,167",
          "endTime": "01:24:11,167"
        },
        {
          "index": 1316,
          "text": "I'm against the strong. Thank",
          "startTime": "01:24:11,836",
          "endTime": "01:24:13,836"
        },
        {
          "index": 1317,
          "text": "you, Emily. Naomi I'm only",
          "startTime": "01:24:19,177",
          "endTime": "01:24:21,177"
        },
        {
          "index": 1318,
          "text": "speaking for myself. I support something like the 3rd option,",
          "startTime": "01:24:23,414",
          "endTime": "01:24:25,148"
        },
        {
          "index": 1319,
          "text": "an effective mayor and",
          "startTime": "01:24:26,551",
          "endTime": "01:24:28,551"
        },
        {
          "index": 1320,
          "text": "ineffective counsel. I got to Oakland when John reading was",
          "startTime": "01:24:29,554",
          "endTime": "01:24:31,255"
        },
        {
          "index": 1321,
          "text": "Mayor. And before district elections. And I've attended",
          "startTime": "01:24:34,459",
          "endTime": "01:24:37,327"
        },
        {
          "index": 1322,
          "text": "city Hall meeting since Lana Wilson and his city manager",
          "startTime": "01:24:38,290",
          "endTime": "01:24:40,430"
        },
        {
          "index": 1323,
          "text": "Henry Gardner. I served on a commission that vainly",
          "startTime": "01:24:43,835",
          "endTime": "01:24:45,602"
        },
        {
          "index": 1324,
          "text": "attempted to fix Jerry Brown's unworkable, incompetent",
          "startTime": "01:24:49,373",
          "endTime": "01:24:50,974"
        },
        {
          "index": 1325,
          "text": "measure acts. People want",
          "startTime": "01:24:54,245",
          "endTime": "01:24:56,245"
        },
        {
          "index": 1326,
          "text": "effective and accessible district representation",
          "startTime": "01:24:57,282",
          "endTime": "01:24:58,882"
        },
        {
          "index": 1327,
          "text": "publicly accountable. Mayor. The word strong shouldn't be",
          "startTime": "01:25:01,219",
          "endTime": "01:25:02,920"
        },
        {
          "index": 1328,
          "text": "used here. It's pejorative",
          "startTime": "01:25:04,923",
          "endTime": "01:25:06,923"
        },
        {
          "index": 1329,
          "text": "because it implies week. We've had way too much talk about",
          "startTime": "01:25:09,127",
          "endTime": "01:25:10,794"
        },
        {
          "index": 1330,
          "text": "strong stuff at the national",
          "startTime": "01:25:11,496",
          "endTime": "01:25:13,496"
        },
        {
          "index": 1331,
          "text": "level. Let's get rid of that. Most cities our size used council manager system. And",
          "startTime": "01:25:15,767",
          "endTime": "01:25:18,668"
        },
        {
          "index": 1332,
          "text": "lastly. I support a point of",
          "startTime": "01:25:23,240",
          "endTime": "01:25:25,240"
        },
        {
          "index": 1333,
          "text": "city attorney and auditor.",
          "startTime": "01:25:25,443",
          "endTime": "01:25:27,443"
        },
        {
          "index": 1334,
          "text": "Because those posts are not",
          "startTime": "01:25:28,646",
          "endTime": "01:25:30,646"
        },
        {
          "index": 1335,
          "text": "for anybody to run for. You",
          "startTime": "01:25:32,850",
          "endTime": "01:25:34,850"
        },
        {
          "index": 1336,
          "text": "need somebody who has very specific qualifications. It's",
          "startTime": "01:25:35,553",
          "endTime": "01:25:37,621"
        },
        {
          "index": 1337,
          "text": "not the same as running for",
          "startTime": "01:25:37,855",
          "endTime": "01:25:39,855"
        },
        {
          "index": 1338,
          "text": "other political offices. I really appreciate the work",
          "startTime": "01:25:40,858",
          "endTime": "01:25:42,526"
        },
        {
          "index": 1339,
          "text": "that's been done. I vehemently oppose the strong mayor",
          "startTime": "01:25:45,430",
          "endTime": "01:25:47,431"
        },
        {
          "index": 1340,
          "text": "concept. Thank you. Thank you for your comments called on",
          "startTime": "01:25:50,340",
          "endTime": "01:25:51,701"
        },
        {
          "index": 1341,
          "text": "names. Ralph former chair of",
          "startTime": "01:25:59,510",
          "endTime": "01:26:01,510"
        },
        {
          "index": 1342,
          "text": "the Public Commission. Commenting that this whole",
          "startTime": "01:26:02,647",
          "endTime": "01:26:04,314"
        },
        {
          "index": 1343,
          "text": "process is corrupt. That",
          "startTime": "01:26:05,182",
          "endTime": "01:26:07,182"
        },
        {
          "index": 1344,
          "text": "section 601 requires 6 inches from 6 or the charter requires",
          "startTime": "01:26:09,420",
          "endTime": "01:26:11,321"
        },
        {
          "index": 1345,
          "text": "an advisory group. The created by resolution of the City",
          "startTime": "01:26:12,423",
          "endTime": "01:26:14,570"
        },
        {
          "index": 1346,
          "text": "Council. That didn't happen in",
          "startTime": "01:26:14,726",
          "endTime": "01:26:16,726"
        },
        {
          "index": 1347,
          "text": "this case. In addition with",
          "startTime": "01:26:16,894",
          "endTime": "01:26:18,894"
        },
        {
          "index": 1348,
          "text": "that doesn't meant there was no public meetings of this",
          "startTime": "01:26:19,764",
          "endTime": "01:26:22,632"
        },
        {
          "index": 1349,
          "text": "working group for the public to observe the process and",
          "startTime": "01:26:23,434",
          "endTime": "01:26:25,102"
        },
        {
          "index": 1350,
          "text": "understand what took place.",
          "startTime": "01:26:27,338",
          "endTime": "01:26:29,338"
        },
        {
          "index": 1351,
          "text": "Well, minor detail there, but the only way you can literally",
          "startTime": "01:26:31,309",
          "endTime": "01:26:33,420"
        },
        {
          "index": 1352,
          "text": "do this is. Do what they did 2003 and by City Council resolution create a working",
          "startTime": "01:26:36,681",
          "endTime": "01:26:39,482"
        },
        {
          "index": 1353,
          "text": "group that the public to participate and understand",
          "startTime": "01:26:40,951",
          "endTime": "01:26:42,619"
        },
        {
          "index": 1354,
          "text": "what's going on. I'm a public records request of the mayor's office back DECEMBER. That yet",
          "startTime": "01:26:45,222",
          "endTime": "01:26:47,858"
        },
        {
          "index": 1355,
          "text": "to responded to evolving",
          "startTime": "01:26:49,994",
          "endTime": "01:26:51,994"
        },
        {
          "index": 1356,
          "text": "things like were the agendas and minutes of the meetings of",
          "startTime": "01:26:52,230",
          "endTime": "01:26:54,631"
        },
        {
          "index": 1357,
          "text": "the working group. I'm still",
          "startTime": "01:26:55,990",
          "endTime": "01:26:57,990"
        },
        {
          "index": 1358,
          "text": "way. I was reserve Quest is.",
          "startTime": "01:27:00,505",
          "endTime": "01:27:02,505"
        },
        {
          "index": 1359,
          "text": "Were shot. Do guards contract",
          "startTime": "01:27:02,673",
          "endTime": "01:27:04,673"
        },
        {
          "index": 1360,
          "text": "who paid for all this? Who",
          "startTime": "01:27:05,143",
          "endTime": "01:27:07,143"
        },
        {
          "index": 1361,
          "text": "actually did the work? None of",
          "startTime": "01:27:07,712",
          "endTime": "01:27:09,712"
        },
        {
          "index": 1362,
          "text": "that is public. It's all be in bed done by a private group",
          "startTime": "01:27:11,582",
          "endTime": "01:27:13,249"
        },
        {
          "index": 1363,
          "text": "with private money and secret",
          "startTime": "01:27:13,751",
          "endTime": "01:27:15,751"
        },
        {
          "index": 1364,
          "text": "meetings. There's been no public process that the law",
          "startTime": "01:27:18,322",
          "endTime": "01:27:21,158"
        },
        {
          "index": 1365,
          "text": "requires. This is a violation of the Constitution of the",
          "startTime": "01:27:21,225",
          "endTime": "01:27:22,893"
        },
        {
          "index": 1366,
          "text": "Brown Act. And a disgrace that it's been functioning. That's",
          "startTime": "01:27:25,430",
          "endTime": "01:27:27,130"
        },
        {
          "index": 1367,
          "text": "why. Thank you for your",
          "startTime": "01:27:28,799",
          "endTime": "01:27:30,799"
        },
        {
          "index": 1368,
          "text": "comments. Was trying to get Levy chef to come up with me",
          "startTime": "01:27:35,600",
          "endTime": "01:27:36,706"
        },
        {
          "index": 1369,
          "text": "so we could any debate. Want",
          "startTime": "01:27:37,975",
          "endTime": "01:27:39,975"
        },
        {
          "index": 1370,
          "text": "to hear that right? First of all, I need an extra 10",
          "startTime": "01:27:41,512",
          "endTime": "01:27:43,380"
        },
        {
          "index": 1371,
          "text": "seconds before you start counting time. I need to ask",
          "startTime": "01:27:45,820",
          "endTime": "01:27:47,285"
        },
        {
          "index": 1372,
          "text": "somebody to translate to sign. Doesn't make sense to anybody",
          "startTime": "01:27:47,285",
          "endTime": "01:27:49,886"
        },
        {
          "index": 1373,
          "text": "so far. And I want to complain about mobility issues for that",
          "startTime": "01:27:50,922",
          "endTime": "01:27:52,656"
        },
        {
          "index": 1374,
          "text": "for this building. Please don't take my time for that.",
          "startTime": "01:27:53,591",
          "endTime": "01:27:55,525"
        },
        {
          "index": 1375,
          "text": "Please. Please stop the time. And we time actually in",
          "startTime": "01:28:00,498",
          "endTime": "01:28:03,100"
        },
        {
          "index": 1376,
          "text": "seconds. All right. When you",
          "startTime": "01:28:03,100",
          "endTime": "01:28:05,100"
        },
        {
          "index": 1377,
          "text": "get out of the day garage and you're walking with a cane or at whatever pace to state your",
          "startTime": "01:28:06,170",
          "endTime": "01:28:08,839"
        },
        {
          "index": 1378,
          "text": "name for the red. Oh, sorry, Pamela. Draped with the",
          "startTime": "01:28:09,674",
          "endTime": "01:28:11,274"
        },
        {
          "index": 1379,
          "text": "Wellston Club. You have to go all the way around. Like about an extra blocker and a block",
          "startTime": "01:28:13,578",
          "endTime": "01:28:16,413"
        },
        {
          "index": 1380,
          "text": "and a half. Somebody should be",
          "startTime": "01:28:17,982",
          "endTime": "01:28:19,982"
        },
        {
          "index": 1381,
          "text": "at the door at the other side, there's you have somebody sitting at desk there that",
          "startTime": "01:28:21,652",
          "endTime": "01:28:23,953"
        },
        {
          "index": 1382,
          "text": "could come over and escort you over to the security. So you didn't have to go all the way",
          "startTime": "01:28:24,922",
          "endTime": "01:28:27,557"
        },
        {
          "index": 1383,
          "text": "around. Hope this not",
          "startTime": "01:28:28,459",
          "endTime": "01:28:30,459"
        },
        {
          "index": 1384,
          "text": "violation, but seems like one. All right. Let me let me start",
          "startTime": "01:28:31,662",
          "endTime": "01:28:33,396"
        },
        {
          "index": 1385,
          "text": "my name. How much time I going",
          "startTime": "01:28:35,320",
          "endTime": "01:28:37,320"
        },
        {
          "index": 1386,
          "text": "to get to talk. 10 seconds",
          "startTime": "01:28:37,568",
          "endTime": "01:28:39,568"
        },
        {
          "index": 1387,
          "text": "more. 20 seconds. You know, I'm a post of the strong",
          "startTime": "01:28:42,940",
          "endTime": "01:28:45,142"
        },
        {
          "index": 1388,
          "text": "mayor. I'm not in favor of the",
          "startTime": "01:28:45,142",
          "endTime": "01:28:47,142"
        },
        {
          "index": 1389,
          "text": "whole move movement towards authoritarianism that this country's been involved in. I",
          "startTime": "01:28:49,130",
          "endTime": "01:28:51,482"
        },
        {
          "index": 1390,
          "text": "think we're backing off of",
          "startTime": "01:28:51,482",
          "endTime": "01:28:53,482"
        },
        {
          "index": 1391,
          "text": "that now on top of that, there's really 2 issues that",
          "startTime": "01:28:53,518",
          "endTime": "01:28:55,218"
        },
        {
          "index": 1392,
          "text": "are the ones that are up for",
          "startTime": "01:28:56,554",
          "endTime": "01:28:58,554"
        },
        {
          "index": 1393,
          "text": "concern. One is that when the council members have a complaint from their",
          "startTime": "01:28:58,823",
          "endTime": "01:29:00,958"
        },
        {
          "index": 1394,
          "text": "constituents, they don't have",
          "startTime": "01:29:00,958",
          "endTime": "01:29:02,958"
        },
        {
          "index": 1395,
          "text": "any place for it to go so higher. Some assistant city",
          "startTime": "01:29:04,662",
          "endTime": "01:29:07,530"
        },
        {
          "index": 1396,
          "text": "administrators who work directly with each council",
          "startTime": "01:29:07,665",
          "endTime": "01:29:09,332"
        },
        {
          "index": 1397,
          "text": "member with each district MAY be giving district 7 their own",
          "startTime": "01:29:10,267",
          "endTime": "01:29:12,235"
        },
        {
          "index": 1398,
          "text": "and the other districts to to council districts for one administrator to get your",
          "startTime": "01:29:14,905",
          "endTime": "01:29:17,807"
        },
        {
          "index": 1399,
          "text": "special. Want to say, Ken need",
          "startTime": "01:29:18,342",
          "endTime": "01:29:20,342"
        },
        {
          "index": 1400,
          "text": "special anyway, that would that that person would then",
          "startTime": "01:29:23,481",
          "endTime": "01:29:25,548"
        },
        {
          "index": 1401,
          "text": "work directly when they have a complaint say, ok, we'll see",
          "startTime": "01:29:26,317",
          "endTime": "01:29:28,318"
        },
        {
          "index": 1402,
          "text": "what we can do about your complaint and we'll work",
          "startTime": "01:29:29,887",
          "endTime": "01:29:32,210"
        },
        {
          "index": 1403,
          "text": "directly with you say you can talk to your constituents",
          "startTime": "01:29:32,389",
          "endTime": "01:29:34,230"
        },
        {
          "index": 1404,
          "text": "about what's being done. The other issue seems to be the",
          "startTime": "01:29:35,326",
          "endTime": "01:29:37,394"
        },
        {
          "index": 1405,
          "text": "mayor should be sitting on the council. The mayor should be",
          "startTime": "01:29:38,128",
          "endTime": "01:29:39,929"
        },
        {
          "index": 1406,
          "text": "available for people to see how she thinks how she organizes her thoughts and",
          "startTime": "01:29:42,600",
          "endTime": "01:29:44,868"
        },
        {
          "index": 1407,
          "text": "make sure decisions. Thank",
          "startTime": "01:29:45,136",
          "endTime": "01:29:47,136"
        },
        {
          "index": 1408,
          "text": "ends. Thank you, MR. Inc. You",
          "startTime": "01:29:53,577",
          "endTime": "01:29:55,577"
        },
        {
          "index": 1409,
          "text": "were given by the Chair 10 extra seconds. So allow the",
          "startTime": "01:29:55,813",
          "endTime": "01:29:57,480"
        },
        {
          "index": 1410,
          "text": "mike to stay on long enough. Thank you for your comments.",
          "startTime": "01:30:05,990",
          "endTime": "01:30:08,124"
        },
        {
          "index": 1411,
          "text": "Next. Speaker signed up. That's PRESIDENT First. Thank",
          "startTime": "01:30:09,159",
          "endTime": "01:30:10,860"
        },
        {
          "index": 1412,
          "text": "you. Windows. Yes, my name Richard Fuentes. I'm a leader",
          "startTime": "01:30:16,434",
          "endTime": "01:30:18,768"
        },
        {
          "index": 1413,
          "text": "in the union movement with asked me council 57",
          "startTime": "01:30:19,603",
          "endTime": "01:30:21,571"
        },
        {
          "index": 1414,
          "text": "representing 26,000 workers. Also small business owner here in downtown Oakland in a",
          "startTime": "01:30:25,442",
          "endTime": "01:30:27,811"
        },
        {
          "index": 1415,
          "text": "downtown up and resident. I'm also a member of the mayor's",
          "startTime": "01:30:29,980",
          "endTime": "01:30:32,949"
        },
        {
          "index": 1416,
          "text": "working group for the charter reform. And I want to speak in support of our recommendations",
          "startTime": "01:30:33,170",
          "endTime": "01:30:35,985"
        },
        {
          "index": 1417,
          "text": "for storm Mayor. We did a",
          "startTime": "01:30:37,255",
          "endTime": "01:30:39,255"
        },
        {
          "index": 1418,
          "text": "community outreach. We heard throughout Oakland from every",
          "startTime": "01:30:40,240",
          "endTime": "01:30:42,792"
        },
        {
          "index": 1419,
          "text": "single district from working people that they wanted to",
          "startTime": "01:30:44,940",
          "endTime": "01:30:46,930"
        },
        {
          "index": 1420,
          "text": "have strong mayor form of",
          "startTime": "01:30:47,640",
          "endTime": "01:30:49,640"
        },
        {
          "index": 1421,
          "text": "government. We have serve ace. We're brown and black communities got to",
          "startTime": "01:30:50,868",
          "endTime": "01:30:52,969"
        },
        {
          "index": 1422,
          "text": "participate. You're hearing",
          "startTime": "01:30:54,380",
          "endTime": "01:30:56,380"
        },
        {
          "index": 1423,
          "text": "today about a 3rd option, a 3rd option that is not recommended by the working",
          "startTime": "01:30:57,174",
          "endTime": "01:30:59,809"
        },
        {
          "index": 1424,
          "text": "group. A 3rd option that has",
          "startTime": "01:31:01,278",
          "endTime": "01:31:03,278"
        },
        {
          "index": 1425,
          "text": "no input from working people from black people from Brown",
          "startTime": "01:31:03,314",
          "endTime": "01:31:05,681"
        },
        {
          "index": 1426,
          "text": "people lets be cleared. A 3rd",
          "startTime": "01:31:07,184",
          "endTime": "01:31:09,184"
        },
        {
          "index": 1427,
          "text": "option is a privilege option working. People don't have",
          "startTime": "01:31:11,880",
          "endTime": "01:31:12,755"
        },
        {
          "index": 1428,
          "text": "time to come today. At 10:30am, in the morning to provide their perspective.",
          "startTime": "01:31:15,192",
          "endTime": "01:31:17,693"
        },
        {
          "index": 1429,
          "text": "I've worked for 3 municipalities. I work for a special district. I've served",
          "startTime": "01:31:18,896",
          "endTime": "01:31:21,631"
        },
        {
          "index": 1430,
          "text": "on a e pension board federal oversight committees where",
          "startTime": "01:31:24,268",
          "endTime": "01:31:26,669"
        },
        {
          "index": 1431,
          "text": "I've served. Let me tell you, Oakland is diverse. And because of that, the diversity",
          "startTime": "01:31:28,710",
          "endTime": "01:31:30,406"
        },
        {
          "index": 1432,
          "text": "that we have within our city,",
          "startTime": "01:31:31,175",
          "endTime": "01:31:33,175"
        },
        {
          "index": 1433,
          "text": "a strong form former government is really an",
          "startTime": "01:31:35,790",
          "endTime": "01:31:36,679"
        },
        {
          "index": 1434,
          "text": "approach that was served up lenders because Oaklanders",
          "startTime": "01:31:37,748",
          "endTime": "01:31:39,415"
        },
        {
          "index": 1435,
          "text": "don't know who is responsible. Oaklanders don't know who's in",
          "startTime": "01:31:41,452",
          "endTime": "01:31:43,519"
        },
        {
          "index": 1436,
          "text": "charge. Oaklanders want to know who is responsible for Philly, their potholes. Thank",
          "startTime": "01:31:44,322",
          "endTime": "01:31:46,689"
        },
        {
          "index": 1437,
          "text": "you. Thank you for your",
          "startTime": "01:31:46,891",
          "endTime": "01:31:48,891"
        },
        {
          "index": 1438,
          "text": "comments next. Speaker. Well, hello, my name is Libby",
          "startTime": "01:31:52,796",
          "endTime": "01:31:54,430"
        },
        {
          "index": 1439,
          "text": "Schaff. I'm a lifetime. Oakland or I am a 24 year",
          "startTime": "01:31:57,134",
          "endTime": "01:31:59,869"
        },
        {
          "index": 1440,
          "text": "veteran of city Hall and I",
          "startTime": "01:32:01,739",
          "endTime": "01:32:03,739"
        },
        {
          "index": 1441,
          "text": "speak to you as a private citizen today. I do. I am",
          "startTime": "01:32:05,420",
          "endTime": "01:32:07,177"
        },
        {
          "index": 1442,
          "text": "probably the only person alive",
          "startTime": "01:32:07,177",
          "endTime": "01:32:09,177"
        },
        {
          "index": 1443,
          "text": "who was and East Oakland Council staffer under Jerry Brown, strong mayor form of",
          "startTime": "01:32:11,849",
          "endTime": "01:32:14,717"
        },
        {
          "index": 1444,
          "text": "government. I was a council",
          "startTime": "01:32:15,653",
          "endTime": "01:32:17,653"
        },
        {
          "index": 1445,
          "text": "member of district 4 and I, of",
          "startTime": "01:32:18,589",
          "endTime": "01:32:20,589"
        },
        {
          "index": 1446,
          "text": "course, was the mayor for 8 years. So I do bring a unique perspective on how these",
          "startTime": "01:32:21,458",
          "endTime": "01:32:23,527"
        },
        {
          "index": 1447,
          "text": "different systems actually",
          "startTime": "01:32:23,527",
          "endTime": "01:32:25,527"
        },
        {
          "index": 1448,
          "text": "have worked in the asked and happy to answer any questions.",
          "startTime": "01:32:26,263",
          "endTime": "01:32:27,997"
        },
        {
          "index": 1449,
          "text": "If you have any. I want start by saying I was disappointed",
          "startTime": "01:32:31,435",
          "endTime": "01:32:33,503"
        },
        {
          "index": 1450,
          "text": "to hear citations of the survey and suggesting that",
          "startTime": "01:32:35,906",
          "endTime": "01:32:38,841"
        },
        {
          "index": 1451,
          "text": "that represented voter sentiment, the survey that was",
          "startTime": "01:32:41,110",
          "endTime": "01:32:43,279"
        },
        {
          "index": 1452,
          "text": "done by the working group was",
          "startTime": "01:32:45,490",
          "endTime": "01:32:47,490"
        },
        {
          "index": 1453,
          "text": "an opt-in survey and the demographics of respondents",
          "startTime": "01:32:47,852",
          "endTime": "01:32:50,354"
        },
        {
          "index": 1454,
          "text": "16% of respondents didn't even",
          "startTime": "01:32:50,354",
          "endTime": "01:32:52,354"
        },
        {
          "index": 1455,
          "text": "live in Oakland. And an interesting 23% were city of",
          "startTime": "01:32:53,591",
          "endTime": "01:32:56,392"
        },
        {
          "index": 1456,
          "text": "Oakland employees. So I just please do not regard those",
          "startTime": "01:32:58,280",
          "endTime": "01:32:59,862"
        },
        {
          "index": 1457,
          "text": "survey results as voter",
          "startTime": "01:33:00,297",
          "endTime": "01:33:02,297"
        },
        {
          "index": 1458,
          "text": "sentiment. 3 polls now have",
          "startTime": "01:33:04,568",
          "endTime": "01:33:06,568"
        },
        {
          "index": 1459,
          "text": "been done about how do oaklanders feel about this",
          "startTime": "01:33:07,400",
          "endTime": "01:33:09,772"
        },
        {
          "index": 1460,
          "text": "proposal? All 3 have turned",
          "startTime": "01:33:10,507",
          "endTime": "01:33:12,507"
        },
        {
          "index": 1461,
          "text": "back very clear mandates that",
          "startTime": "01:33:15,450",
          "endTime": "01:33:17,450"
        },
        {
          "index": 1462,
          "text": "Oakland voters want a strong",
          "startTime": "01:33:18,215",
          "endTime": "01:33:20,215"
        },
        {
          "index": 1463,
          "text": "mayor. 61% in the polls. The polls of Pulse of Oakland pull",
          "startTime": "01:33:20,284",
          "endTime": "01:33:22,351"
        },
        {
          "index": 1464,
          "text": "in the fall. 60 4% in the East Bay Polling institute results",
          "startTime": "01:33:27,491",
          "endTime": "01:33:29,192"
        },
        {
          "index": 1465,
          "text": "and then. Mayor or other",
          "startTime": "01:33:30,995",
          "endTime": "01:33:32,995"
        },
        {
          "index": 1466,
          "text": "insights. You want to offer. I",
          "startTime": "01:33:33,664",
          "endTime": "01:33:35,664"
        },
        {
          "index": 1467,
          "text": "I do have questions about how",
          "startTime": "01:33:35,732",
          "endTime": "01:33:37,732"
        },
        {
          "index": 1468,
          "text": "the system worked. Yes, okay. You know, under Jerry Brant",
          "startTime": "01:33:40,538",
          "endTime": "01:33:43,406"
        },
        {
          "index": 1469,
          "text": "this working group's proposal is essentially the same as we",
          "startTime": "01:33:44,608",
          "endTime": "01:33:47,410"
        },
        {
          "index": 1470,
          "text": "had under Jerry Brown's strong mayor before the council took",
          "startTime": "01:33:48,545",
          "endTime": "01:33:50,413"
        },
        {
          "index": 1471,
          "text": "away the veto power. You might not remember Jerry Brown had a view to power because he",
          "startTime": "01:33:52,382",
          "endTime": "01:33:54,850"
        },
        {
          "index": 1472,
          "text": "hardly ever used it. The one time I remember was a piece",
          "startTime": "01:33:56,353",
          "endTime": "01:33:58,455"
        },
        {
          "index": 1473,
          "text": "legislation. I actually wrote",
          "startTime": "01:33:58,455",
          "endTime": "01:34:00,455"
        },
        {
          "index": 1474,
          "text": "when I was the legislative aide to Council member De La",
          "startTime": "01:34:01,792",
          "endTime": "01:34:03,493"
        },
        {
          "index": 1475,
          "text": "Fuente district 5 the council",
          "startTime": "01:34:06,497",
          "endTime": "01:34:08,497"
        },
        {
          "index": 1476,
          "text": "had a lot of power in my experience. It is actually",
          "startTime": "01:34:09,990",
          "endTime": "01:34:10,767"
        },
        {
          "index": 1477,
          "text": "when the council and the mayor",
          "startTime": "01:34:12,369",
          "endTime": "01:34:14,369"
        },
        {
          "index": 1478,
          "text": "had the best collaboration and the council offices",
          "startTime": "01:34:16,773",
          "endTime": "01:34:18,574"
        },
        {
          "index": 1479,
          "text": "constituent work, which was my passion. When I worked in the",
          "startTime": "01:34:20,144",
          "endTime": "01:34:22,478"
        },
        {
          "index": 1480,
          "text": "council offices actually got",
          "startTime": "01:34:23,130",
          "endTime": "01:34:25,130"
        },
        {
          "index": 1481,
          "text": "done. There was more",
          "startTime": "01:34:25,382",
          "endTime": "01:34:27,382"
        },
        {
          "index": 1482,
          "text": "responsiveness from the administration wall. It is not",
          "startTime": "01:34:28,552",
          "endTime": "01:34:31,254"
        },
        {
          "index": 1483,
          "text": "clear that this proposal requires the 3, 1, 1, or",
          "startTime": "01:34:32,256",
          "endTime": "01:34:34,825"
        },
        {
          "index": 1484,
          "text": "constituent response to be",
          "startTime": "01:34:34,825",
          "endTime": "01:34:36,825"
        },
        {
          "index": 1485,
          "text": "under the mayor at that time. It was the Oaklanders",
          "startTime": "01:34:38,950",
          "endTime": "01:34:40,290"
        },
        {
          "index": 1486,
          "text": "Assistance Center was actually part of the mayor's office and",
          "startTime": "01:34:40,130",
          "endTime": "01:34:42,198"
        },
        {
          "index": 1487,
          "text": "it was much more responsive",
          "startTime": "01:34:42,699",
          "endTime": "01:34:44,699"
        },
        {
          "index": 1488,
          "text": "than our current system. The council had a full-time",
          "startTime": "01:34:47,304",
          "endTime": "01:34:48,905"
        },
        {
          "index": 1489,
          "text": "legislative in budget analyst",
          "startTime": "01:34:49,606",
          "endTime": "01:34:51,606"
        },
        {
          "index": 1490,
          "text": "that allowed us to write good legislation, proactive legislation and to have our",
          "startTime": "01:34:53,543",
          "endTime": "01:34:56,245"
        },
        {
          "index": 1491,
          "text": "own independent budget analyst",
          "startTime": "01:34:58,181",
          "endTime": "01:35:00,181"
        },
        {
          "index": 1492,
          "text": "to actually be an independent validator of financial",
          "startTime": "01:35:00,417",
          "endTime": "01:35:02,986"
        },
        {
          "index": 1493,
          "text": "information that we were getting from the",
          "startTime": "01:35:02,986",
          "endTime": "01:35:05,722"
        },
        {
          "index": 1494,
          "text": "administration. So those were some of the qualities I remember from the strong",
          "startTime": "01:35:06,890",
          "endTime": "01:35:09,525"
        },
        {
          "index": 1495,
          "text": "mayor. Finally. Everyone agrees that a hybrid system is",
          "startTime": "01:35:13,263",
          "endTime": "01:35:15,298"
        },
        {
          "index": 1496,
          "text": "fuzzy and does not serve",
          "startTime": "01:35:16,333",
          "endTime": "01:35:18,333"
        },
        {
          "index": 1497,
          "text": "anyone. Option. 3 is just",
          "startTime": "01:35:19,636",
          "endTime": "01:35:21,636"
        },
        {
          "index": 1498,
          "text": "another hybrid proposal. I would prefer to see Oakland go",
          "startTime": "01:35:22,873",
          "endTime": "01:35:25,274"
        },
        {
          "index": 1499,
          "text": "back to a council manager for of government rather than swap",
          "startTime": "01:35:26,760",
          "endTime": "01:35:28,770"
        },
        {
          "index": 1500,
          "text": "one fuzzy hybrid for another.",
          "startTime": "01:35:29,713",
          "endTime": "01:35:31,713"
        },
        {
          "index": 1501,
          "text": "I know that. That that would based on my experience in",
          "startTime": "01:35:35,719",
          "endTime": "01:35:37,954"
        },
        {
          "index": 1502,
          "text": "these 24 years in these",
          "startTime": "01:35:37,954",
          "endTime": "01:35:39,954"
        },
        {
          "index": 1503,
          "text": "various roles. And if anyone doesn't have any other",
          "startTime": "01:35:40,657",
          "endTime": "01:35:43,270"
        },
        {
          "index": 1504,
          "text": "questions. I appreciate the",
          "startTime": "01:35:43,270",
          "endTime": "01:35:45,270"
        },
        {
          "index": 1505,
          "text": "opportunity. All right. Thank",
          "startTime": "01:35:46,597",
          "endTime": "01:35:48,597"
        },
        {
          "index": 1506,
          "text": "you. Thank you for your Speakers have been called if",
          "startTime": "01:35:49,366",
          "endTime": "01:35:51,868"
        },
        {
          "index": 1507,
          "text": "you are participating here in",
          "startTime": "01:35:52,970",
          "endTime": "01:35:54,970"
        },
        {
          "index": 1508,
          "text": "chambers and signed up to speak in her name was called please approach the podium. If",
          "startTime": "01:35:55,720",
          "endTime": "01:35:57,208"
        },
        {
          "index": 1509,
          "text": "not, we will move on to zoom",
          "startTime": "01:35:57,208",
          "endTime": "01:35:59,208"
        },
        {
          "index": 1510,
          "text": "speakers. I see no one rising. So we will go to those who signed up to speak in zoom. If",
          "startTime": "01:36:00,544",
          "endTime": "01:36:02,945"
        },
        {
          "index": 1511,
          "text": "you are. And America extra time and ice speaking about",
          "startTime": "01:36:11,655",
          "endTime": "01:36:13,322"
        },
        {
          "index": 1512,
          "text": "low mobility issues, not about the strong mayor and I would",
          "startTime": "01:36:14,725",
          "endTime": "01:36:16,859"
        },
        {
          "index": 1513,
          "text": "like 30 seconds to finish.",
          "startTime": "01:36:17,127",
          "endTime": "01:36:19,127"
        },
        {
          "index": 1514,
          "text": "Changing it. You're out of",
          "startTime": "01:36:21,898",
          "endTime": "01:36:23,898"
        },
        {
          "index": 1515,
          "text": "order. I signed up in time. Yes, and I had to listen to",
          "startTime": "01:36:26,103",
          "endTime": "01:36:27,770"
        },
        {
          "index": 1516,
          "text": "all that stuff. If I give you extra time, I got to give",
          "startTime": "01:36:31,842",
          "endTime": "01:36:34,430"
        },
        {
          "index": 1517,
          "text": "everybody else know, if you're giving people who've been involved in government, I",
          "startTime": "01:36:34,278",
          "endTime": "01:36:36,980"
        },
        {
          "index": 1518,
          "text": "didn't give extra time because he was involved in government.",
          "startTime": "01:36:36,980",
          "endTime": "01:36:38,948"
        },
        {
          "index": 1519,
          "text": "I didn't say All right. Well, I didn't get all my time because I'm having a problem",
          "startTime": "01:36:41,618",
          "endTime": "01:36:44,119"
        },
        {
          "index": 1520,
          "text": "with the mobility issues and",
          "startTime": "01:36:45,822",
          "endTime": "01:36:47,822"
        },
        {
          "index": 1521,
          "text": "the city hall. And that doesn't seem okay. So because",
          "startTime": "01:36:48,492",
          "endTime": "01:36:50,226"
        },
        {
          "index": 1522,
          "text": "this is an issue. I will allow you that the extra seconds.",
          "startTime": "01:36:53,396",
          "endTime": "01:36:56,299"
        },
        {
          "index": 1523,
          "text": "Thank you. Okay. So the strong mayor, the real issue, if you think about strong Marin, you",
          "startTime": "01:36:59,302",
          "endTime": "01:37:01,704"
        },
        {
          "index": 1524,
          "text": "think about a corporation, you know that the idea person is",
          "startTime": "01:37:03,600",
          "endTime": "01:37:04,707"
        },
        {
          "index": 1525,
          "text": "not the same as the detail person. There's nobody who can",
          "startTime": "01:37:07,440",
          "endTime": "01:37:08,778"
        },
        {
          "index": 1526,
          "text": "do both. Well. And it's really",
          "startTime": "01:37:10,881",
          "endTime": "01:37:12,881"
        },
        {
          "index": 1527,
          "text": "a place that ends up it was change because of all the",
          "startTime": "01:37:13,784",
          "endTime": "01:37:16,752"
        },
        {
          "index": 1528,
          "text": "corruption. Now the current mayor is not going to be",
          "startTime": "01:37:16,786",
          "endTime": "01:37:18,421"
        },
        {
          "index": 1529,
          "text": "involved in corruption, but",
          "startTime": "01:37:18,822",
          "endTime": "01:37:20,822"
        },
        {
          "index": 1530,
          "text": "whoever comes after her could use this as a real power grab.",
          "startTime": "01:37:22,792",
          "endTime": "01:37:25,494"
        },
        {
          "index": 1531,
          "text": "That's that's what it essentially is. But the other",
          "startTime": "01:37:26,960",
          "endTime": "01:37:28,197"
        },
        {
          "index": 1532,
          "text": "thing about the legislative",
          "startTime": "01:37:29,766",
          "endTime": "01:37:31,766"
        },
        {
          "index": 1533,
          "text": "office, I don't want a plan",
          "startTime": "01:37:31,868",
          "endTime": "01:37:33,868"
        },
        {
          "index": 1534,
          "text": "from the administrators the city council office. I think",
          "startTime": "01:37:34,170",
          "endTime": "01:37:35,871"
        },
        {
          "index": 1535,
          "text": "that's a bad idea. Thank you.",
          "startTime": "01:37:36,573",
          "endTime": "01:37:38,573"
        },
        {
          "index": 1536,
          "text": "Thank you for your comments. Now moving to the zoom",
          "startTime": "01:37:38,742",
          "endTime": "01:37:40,876"
        },
        {
          "index": 1537,
          "text": "speakers. If signed up to speak for this item and you",
          "startTime": "01:37:41,945",
          "endTime": "01:37:44,914"
        },
        {
          "index": 1538,
          "text": "wish to use your time. Please raise your hand in the queue",
          "startTime": "01:37:46,717",
          "endTime": "01:37:48,418"
        },
        {
          "index": 1539,
          "text": "so I can recognize uic Blair, man. You have been muted. You",
          "startTime": "01:37:49,519",
          "endTime": "01:37:51,621"
        },
        {
          "index": 1540,
          "text": "MAY begin. I blame Beekman.",
          "startTime": "01:37:56,326",
          "endTime": "01:37:58,326"
        },
        {
          "index": 1541,
          "text": "Thank you a lot for this item. I'm living in San Diego. That",
          "startTime": "01:37:59,930",
          "endTime": "01:38:01,964"
        },
        {
          "index": 1542,
          "text": "also has a strong mayor system. And that also is having a lot of questions around the strong mayor",
          "startTime": "01:38:02,966",
          "endTime": "01:38:05,834"
        },
        {
          "index": 1543,
          "text": "system. I was originally from",
          "startTime": "01:38:11,408",
          "endTime": "01:38:13,408"
        },
        {
          "index": 1544,
          "text": "San and they had a quite",
          "startTime": "01:38:14,411",
          "endTime": "01:38:16,411"
        },
        {
          "index": 1545,
          "text": "community process few years ago to decide the future of strong Mayor versus Council",
          "startTime": "01:38:17,447",
          "endTime": "01:38:20,116"
        },
        {
          "index": 1546,
          "text": "mandate. City manager, ways of",
          "startTime": "01:38:21,251",
          "endTime": "01:38:23,251"
        },
        {
          "index": 1547,
          "text": "working and easily. The community came out in supporting the future of",
          "startTime": "01:38:24,487",
          "endTime": "01:38:26,689"
        },
        {
          "index": 1548,
          "text": "council manager system and created a very clear case of",
          "startTime": "01:38:28,959",
          "endTime": "01:38:31,727"
        },
        {
          "index": 1549,
          "text": "its importance. The strong",
          "startTime": "01:38:33,300",
          "endTime": "01:38:35,300"
        },
        {
          "index": 1550,
          "text": "mayor simply is there to you know, real estate interests.",
          "startTime": "01:38:35,865",
          "endTime": "01:38:37,566"
        },
        {
          "index": 1551,
          "text": "And those of the ridge. And I think the majority of the people are going to be for",
          "startTime": "01:38:40,360",
          "endTime": "01:38:42,805"
        },
        {
          "index": 1552,
          "text": "this measure in Oakland are going to be either in real",
          "startTime": "01:38:42,973",
          "endTime": "01:38:44,740"
        },
        {
          "index": 1553,
          "text": "estate or rich people. And we",
          "startTime": "01:38:46,900",
          "endTime": "01:38:48,900"
        },
        {
          "index": 1554,
          "text": "have to acknowledge that the",
          "startTime": "01:38:49,879",
          "endTime": "01:38:51,879"
        },
        {
          "index": 1555,
          "text": "tech accountability ideas that would create that whole new",
          "startTime": "01:38:51,948",
          "endTime": "01:38:54,517"
        },
        {
          "index": 1556,
          "text": "charter ideas were created for",
          "startTime": "01:38:54,517",
          "endTime": "01:38:56,517"
        },
        {
          "index": 1557,
          "text": "back in 2014 15. It was with",
          "startTime": "01:38:58,688",
          "endTime": "01:39:00,688"
        },
        {
          "index": 1558,
          "text": "the intention to work towards the future of community",
          "startTime": "01:39:00,957",
          "endTime": "01:39:02,625"
        },
        {
          "index": 1559,
          "text": "participation and open democracy as how to talk about",
          "startTime": "01:39:03,493",
          "endTime": "01:39:06,462"
        },
        {
          "index": 1560,
          "text": "our future of how we practice community together. And I think we have to be committed",
          "startTime": "01:39:07,798",
          "endTime": "01:39:10,166"
        },
        {
          "index": 1561,
          "text": "to those goals that the I've been learning. This is a",
          "startTime": "01:39:12,350",
          "endTime": "01:39:13,669"
        },
        {
          "index": 1562,
          "text": "learning process for my so but the you know, council manager",
          "startTime": "01:39:15,839",
          "endTime": "01:39:17,540"
        },
        {
          "index": 1563,
          "text": "city manager, way of working works towards open",
          "startTime": "01:39:19,576",
          "endTime": "01:39:21,645"
        },
        {
          "index": 1564,
          "text": "participatory democracy. The strong mayor form does not. It",
          "startTime": "01:39:21,645",
          "endTime": "01:39:24,460"
        },
        {
          "index": 1565,
          "text": "serves the weekend. Thank you",
          "startTime": "01:39:27,584",
          "endTime": "01:39:29,584"
        },
        {
          "index": 1566,
          "text": "for your comments of the next speaker. In you have unit mud",
          "startTime": "01:39:30,587",
          "endTime": "01:39:32,288"
        },
        {
          "index": 1567,
          "text": "or I mean, don't eat about time and I'm in district 6 in",
          "startTime": "01:39:36,593",
          "endTime": "01:39:38,427"
        },
        {
          "index": 1568,
          "text": "have been here for many years. And why appreciate the work",
          "startTime": "01:39:40,797",
          "endTime": "01:39:42,565"
        },
        {
          "index": 1569,
          "text": "that the working that I",
          "startTime": "01:39:48,638",
          "endTime": "01:39:50,638"
        },
        {
          "index": 1570,
          "text": "support council manager",
          "startTime": "01:39:50,707",
          "endTime": "01:39:52,707"
        },
        {
          "index": 1571,
          "text": "system. We had one before we step mean and worked pretty well before we start to",
          "startTime": "01:39:53,643",
          "endTime": "01:39:55,911"
        },
        {
          "index": 1572,
          "text": "tinker. Now we have a system",
          "startTime": "01:39:59,850",
          "endTime": "01:40:01,850"
        },
        {
          "index": 1573,
          "text": "we all agree is not workable.",
          "startTime": "01:40:02,850",
          "endTime": "01:40:04,850"
        },
        {
          "index": 1574,
          "text": "But with a council managers",
          "startTime": "01:40:05,822",
          "endTime": "01:40:07,822"
        },
        {
          "index": 1575,
          "text": "system where we have. With the mayor sitting on the council",
          "startTime": "01:40:09,626",
          "endTime": "01:40:11,460"
        },
        {
          "index": 1576,
          "text": "and leading the effort. We",
          "startTime": "01:40:12,329",
          "endTime": "01:40:14,329"
        },
        {
          "index": 1577,
          "text": "have a strong career, strong",
          "startTime": "01:40:16,166",
          "endTime": "01:40:18,166"
        },
        {
          "index": 1578,
          "text": "council and we have the professionals, city",
          "startTime": "01:40:18,168",
          "endTime": "01:40:19,701"
        },
        {
          "index": 1579,
          "text": "COUNCILMAN. I mean, meant I'm",
          "startTime": "01:40:21,710",
          "endTime": "01:40:23,710"
        },
        {
          "index": 1580,
          "text": "city manager who as professional and can last",
          "startTime": "01:40:24,841",
          "endTime": "01:40:27,176"
        },
        {
          "index": 1581,
          "text": "beyond just one administration",
          "startTime": "01:40:28,778",
          "endTime": "01:40:30,778"
        },
        {
          "index": 1582,
          "text": "don't know exactly what that don't want to depend on the",
          "startTime": "01:40:32,449",
          "endTime": "01:40:34,316"
        },
        {
          "index": 1583,
          "text": "goodness of And the mayor. Depending on who gets elected.",
          "startTime": "01:40:37,754",
          "endTime": "01:40:39,488"
        },
        {
          "index": 1584,
          "text": "So I strongly support. Council",
          "startTime": "01:40:40,824",
          "endTime": "01:40:42,824"
        },
        {
          "index": 1585,
          "text": "manager. With Strong Mayor",
          "startTime": "01:40:43,493",
          "endTime": "01:40:45,493"
        },
        {
          "index": 1586,
          "text": "System. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. I show one",
          "startTime": "01:40:46,863",
          "endTime": "01:40:49,331"
        },
        {
          "index": 1587,
          "text": "last hand raised in Zoom was",
          "startTime": "01:40:49,599",
          "endTime": "01:40:51,599"
        },
        {
          "index": 1588,
          "text": "listed under iPhone. When you to please state the name that it's written on your speaker",
          "startTime": "01:40:53,269",
          "endTime": "01:40:55,671"
        },
        {
          "index": 1589,
          "text": "card that you signed up for.",
          "startTime": "01:40:57,240",
          "endTime": "01:40:59,240"
        },
        {
          "index": 1590,
          "text": "Needed iPhone. Hi, hello. My name is Fernando Perez. I did",
          "startTime": "01:41:01,377",
          "endTime": "01:41:03,178"
        },
        {
          "index": 1591,
          "text": "find up yesterday. Great.",
          "startTime": "01:41:03,780",
          "endTime": "01:41:05,780"
        },
        {
          "index": 1592,
          "text": "Thank you. You MAY be my the I was raised no plan. I live",
          "startTime": "01:41:11,870",
          "endTime": "01:41:12,855"
        },
        {
          "index": 1593,
          "text": "throughout the Bay area at Livermore. I lived in Hayward.",
          "startTime": "01:41:13,890",
          "endTime": "01:41:16,726"
        },
        {
          "index": 1594,
          "text": "I just bought a house 2 years",
          "startTime": "01:41:17,694",
          "endTime": "01:41:19,694"
        },
        {
          "index": 1595,
          "text": "ago. Not back and I love open.",
          "startTime": "01:41:22,999",
          "endTime": "01:41:24,999"
        },
        {
          "index": 1596,
          "text": "I love you. I love it I'm kind",
          "startTime": "01:41:26,936",
          "endTime": "01:41:28,936"
        },
        {
          "index": 1597,
          "text": "of tired I'm kind of tired of always kind of the unique politically wise and all of",
          "startTime": "01:41:31,775",
          "endTime": "01:41:34,676"
        },
        {
          "index": 1598,
          "text": "that and why can't we just do what our neighbors in the Bay",
          "startTime": "01:41:34,944",
          "endTime": "01:41:37,146"
        },
        {
          "index": 1599,
          "text": "area are doing and they're doing great. They They're",
          "startTime": "01:41:39,783",
          "endTime": "01:41:41,450"
        },
        {
          "index": 1600,
          "text": "following. The council manager says do and I I've moved out",
          "startTime": "01:41:44,521",
          "endTime": "01:41:46,588"
        },
        {
          "index": 1601,
          "text": "of open for over 15 years. So I got I got an opportunity see",
          "startTime": "01:41:49,250",
          "endTime": "01:41:50,759"
        },
        {
          "index": 1602,
          "text": "what a good strong city does",
          "startTime": "01:41:53,496",
          "endTime": "01:41:55,496"
        },
        {
          "index": 1603,
          "text": "of basic track meet car",
          "startTime": "01:41:56,766",
          "endTime": "01:41:58,766"
        },
        {
          "index": 1604,
          "text": "pickups are done a timely manner. So why can't we just",
          "startTime": "01:41:59,202",
          "endTime": "01:42:01,170"
        },
        {
          "index": 1605,
          "text": "do that? Why can't we just who",
          "startTime": "01:42:01,471",
          "endTime": "01:42:03,471"
        },
        {
          "index": 1606,
          "text": "is the system that has been working for our neighbors here",
          "startTime": "01:42:05,208",
          "endTime": "01:42:06,942"
        },
        {
          "index": 1607,
          "text": "in the Bay area as well. So those are my $0.02 to nothing",
          "startTime": "01:42:09,146",
          "endTime": "01:42:10,846"
        },
        {
          "index": 1608,
          "text": "for your time. Thank you for your comments. Again on the",
          "startTime": "01:42:13,717",
          "endTime": "01:42:15,784"
        },
        {
          "index": 1609,
          "text": "names have to called. If you",
          "startTime": "01:42:16,319",
          "endTime": "01:42:18,319"
        },
        {
          "index": 1610,
          "text": "signed up to speak for item 5, please approach the podium or raise your hand in the queue.",
          "startTime": "01:42:18,388",
          "endTime": "01:42:21,290"
        },
        {
          "index": 1611,
          "text": "At this time chair. No more Thank you. Thank you. To",
          "startTime": "01:42:23,693",
          "endTime": "01:42:25,327"
        },
        {
          "index": 1612,
          "text": "everyone came out to talk about or opinion on the way that Oakland goes forward. I",
          "startTime": "01:42:27,697",
          "endTime": "01:42:30,650"
        },
        {
          "index": 1613,
          "text": "know it's. That's because you",
          "startTime": "01:42:31,668",
          "endTime": "01:42:33,668"
        },
        {
          "index": 1614,
          "text": "care about Oakland direction that we go. And that's the commonality that we have",
          "startTime": "01:42:34,838",
          "endTime": "01:42:37,739"
        },
        {
          "index": 1615,
          "text": "between us. So this won't be",
          "startTime": "01:42:38,274",
          "endTime": "01:42:40,274"
        },
        {
          "index": 1616,
          "text": "the last meeting that we have to discuss. Potential charter",
          "startTime": "01:42:41,440",
          "endTime": "01:42:43,445"
        },
        {
          "index": 1617,
          "text": "changes. Think it's important that everybody has an",
          "startTime": "01:42:45,515",
          "endTime": "01:42:47,820"
        },
        {
          "index": 1618,
          "text": "opportunity to weigh in in the public forum. And so I work",
          "startTime": "01:42:47,517",
          "endTime": "01:42:49,552"
        },
        {
          "index": 1619,
          "text": "with the mayor's office and",
          "startTime": "01:42:49,552",
          "endTime": "01:42:51,552"
        },
        {
          "index": 1620,
          "text": "the council members too schedule one other item at some point in time so that",
          "startTime": "01:42:53,389",
          "endTime": "01:42:56,225"
        },
        {
          "index": 1621,
          "text": "people have a chance to weigh in with that. I'll open it up",
          "startTime": "01:42:56,326",
          "endTime": "01:42:58,328"
        },
        {
          "index": 1622,
          "text": "to council members. If you",
          "startTime": "01:42:58,328",
          "endTime": "01:43:00,328"
        },
        {
          "index": 1623,
          "text": "guys have any comments. Council member Brown at-large",
          "startTime": "01:43:03,320",
          "endTime": "01:43:04,733"
        },
        {
          "index": 1624,
          "text": "council member Brown. Excellent. Okay. Well, thank you all so much. So I would",
          "startTime": "01:43:07,870",
          "endTime": "01:43:10,640"
        },
        {
          "index": 1625,
          "text": "just want to first start off by thanking the mayor's",
          "startTime": "01:43:10,640",
          "endTime": "01:43:12,241"
        },
        {
          "index": 1626,
          "text": "working group. Everyone who",
          "startTime": "01:43:14,477",
          "endTime": "01:43:16,477"
        },
        {
          "index": 1627,
          "text": "was involved. I know it's it's",
          "startTime": "01:43:17,800",
          "endTime": "01:43:19,800"
        },
        {
          "index": 1628,
          "text": "not easy to, you know, put",
          "startTime": "01:43:20,350",
          "endTime": "01:43:22,350"
        },
        {
          "index": 1629,
          "text": "together the community engagement events and disorganized. You know, all everyone's thoughts and",
          "startTime": "01:43:23,486",
          "endTime": "01:43:26,321"
        },
        {
          "index": 1630,
          "text": "opinions. And so just want to offer my gratitude and thanks",
          "startTime": "01:43:27,724",
          "endTime": "01:43:29,424"
        },
        {
          "index": 1631,
          "text": "for for that. And then in addition, really grateful for everyone who showed up today",
          "startTime": "01:43:31,961",
          "endTime": "01:43:34,396"
        },
        {
          "index": 1632,
          "text": "to kind of speak and share about whether it was their",
          "startTime": "01:43:37,167",
          "endTime": "01:43:39,536"
        },
        {
          "index": 1633,
          "text": "personal experience. Navigating Oakland City",
          "startTime": "01:43:39,536",
          "endTime": "01:43:41,136"
        },
        {
          "index": 1634,
          "text": "government and went in and how you all think that we should",
          "startTime": "01:43:43,172",
          "endTime": "01:43:45,107"
        },
        {
          "index": 1635,
          "text": "we begin to move forward. And",
          "startTime": "01:43:46,509",
          "endTime": "01:43:48,509"
        },
        {
          "index": 1636,
          "text": "so, of course, you know, my goal in all of this is a chain",
          "startTime": "01:43:49,379",
          "endTime": "01:43:52,247"
        },
        {
          "index": 1637,
          "text": "that we are moving forward with a government governance",
          "startTime": "01:43:53,216",
          "endTime": "01:43:56,184"
        },
        {
          "index": 1638,
          "text": "structure that is based in",
          "startTime": "01:43:57,754",
          "endTime": "01:43:59,754"
        },
        {
          "index": 1639,
          "text": "accountability. And we're also",
          "startTime": "01:44:01,524",
          "endTime": "01:44:03,524"
        },
        {
          "index": 1640,
          "text": "ensuring that we are listening",
          "startTime": "01:44:03,526",
          "endTime": "01:44:05,526"
        },
        {
          "index": 1641,
          "text": "to the concerns of our constituency. Right? And a lot",
          "startTime": "01:44:05,695",
          "endTime": "01:44:07,763"
        },
        {
          "index": 1642,
          "text": "of times, it's it's really",
          "startTime": "01:44:07,763",
          "endTime": "01:44:09,763"
        },
        {
          "index": 1643,
          "text": "been very consistent around. You know, at the end of the",
          "startTime": "01:44:11,634",
          "endTime": "01:44:13,468"
        },
        {
          "index": 1644,
          "text": "day, community members want",
          "startTime": "01:44:13,837",
          "endTime": "01:44:15,837"
        },
        {
          "index": 1645,
          "text": "their concerns to be addressed now we get into the weeds of",
          "startTime": "01:44:16,506",
          "endTime": "01:44:19,308"
        },
        {
          "index": 1646,
          "text": "how that takes place. At the end the day, it boils down to",
          "startTime": "01:44:21,878",
          "endTime": "01:44:24,713"
        },
        {
          "index": 1647,
          "text": "accountability. And so that is what interested in. And so I",
          "startTime": "01:44:25,782",
          "endTime": "01:44:28,160"
        },
        {
          "index": 1648,
          "text": "look forward to working with",
          "startTime": "01:44:30,687",
          "endTime": "01:44:32,687"
        },
        {
          "index": 1649,
          "text": "my council colleagues. So Councilmember Jenkins council",
          "startTime": "01:44:32,755",
          "endTime": "01:44:34,456"
        },
        {
          "index": 1650,
          "text": "member entendre in to to ensure that we move forward in",
          "startTime": "01:44:34,824",
          "endTime": "01:44:37,492"
        },
        {
          "index": 1651,
          "text": "a path that is supportive of",
          "startTime": "01:44:39,763",
          "endTime": "01:44:41,763"
        },
        {
          "index": 1652,
          "text": "our entire city. Of course,",
          "startTime": "01:44:43,499",
          "endTime": "01:44:45,499"
        },
        {
          "index": 1653,
          "text": "there is a larger conversation around just overall",
          "startTime": "01:44:47,103",
          "endTime": "01:44:48,637"
        },
        {
          "index": 1654,
          "text": "representation. I just don't think that in our day and our",
          "startTime": "01:44:50,974",
          "endTime": "01:44:53,109"
        },
        {
          "index": 1655,
          "text": "day and age and just in this",
          "startTime": "01:44:53,109",
          "endTime": "01:44:55,109"
        },
        {
          "index": 1656,
          "text": "moment that we should be at",
          "startTime": "01:44:55,144",
          "endTime": "01:44:57,144"
        },
        {
          "index": 1657,
          "text": "any point overall representation. One of the",
          "startTime": "01:44:57,914",
          "endTime": "01:44:59,581"
        },
        {
          "index": 1658,
          "text": "public speakers talked about. About investment like and how",
          "startTime": "01:45:06,823",
          "endTime": "01:45:08,523"
        },
        {
          "index": 1659,
          "text": "we are investing in our communities in it is the whole",
          "startTime": "01:45:09,625",
          "endTime": "01:45:11,927"
        },
        {
          "index": 1660,
          "text": "reason why I ran for the",
          "startTime": "01:45:12,595",
          "endTime": "01:45:14,595"
        },
        {
          "index": 1661,
          "text": "at-large seat had to do with",
          "startTime": "01:45:15,497",
          "endTime": "01:45:17,497"
        },
        {
          "index": 1662,
          "text": "the the the blaring",
          "startTime": "01:45:17,533",
          "endTime": "01:45:19,533"
        },
        {
          "index": 1663,
          "text": "observation of how communities",
          "startTime": "01:45:19,535",
          "endTime": "01:45:21,535"
        },
        {
          "index": 1664,
          "text": "both in east and West Oakland",
          "startTime": "01:45:22,471",
          "endTime": "01:45:24,471"
        },
        {
          "index": 1665,
          "text": "have underrepresented for decades. And the truth of the",
          "startTime": "01:45:25,808",
          "endTime": "01:45:27,509"
        },
        {
          "index": 1666,
          "text": "matter is, is that in this moment that that is what we're",
          "startTime": "01:45:29,479",
          "endTime": "01:45:31,613"
        },
        {
          "index": 1667,
          "text": "living through, right? And so",
          "startTime": "01:45:32,582",
          "endTime": "01:45:34,582"
        },
        {
          "index": 1668,
          "text": "I just I can't I cannot get behind and a recommendation",
          "startTime": "01:45:37,386",
          "endTime": "01:45:39,421"
        },
        {
          "index": 1669,
          "text": "that seeks to eliminate",
          "startTime": "01:45:41,991",
          "endTime": "01:45:43,991"
        },
        {
          "index": 1670,
          "text": "representation for for the community and I have not ran",
          "startTime": "01:45:44,961",
          "endTime": "01:45:47,762"
        },
        {
          "index": 1671,
          "text": "into any community members",
          "startTime": "01:45:48,831",
          "endTime": "01:45:50,831"
        },
        {
          "index": 1672,
          "text": "that say they don't understand, you the role of",
          "startTime": "01:45:51,867",
          "endTime": "01:45:53,635"
        },
        {
          "index": 1673,
          "text": "the at large seat or there's confusion between the mayor of",
          "startTime": "01:45:56,139",
          "endTime": "01:45:57,873"
        },
        {
          "index": 1674,
          "text": "our amazing city. And so I just wanted to make sure that",
          "startTime": "01:46:00,543",
          "endTime": "01:46:02,244"
        },
        {
          "index": 1675,
          "text": "I see that on the record that I just don't believe that that",
          "startTime": "01:46:04,614",
          "endTime": "01:46:07,150"
        },
        {
          "index": 1676,
          "text": "is the direction we should be",
          "startTime": "01:46:08,840",
          "endTime": "01:46:10,840"
        },
        {
          "index": 1677,
          "text": "going. The report also states I guess the talking point is",
          "startTime": "01:46:10,887",
          "endTime": "01:46:12,988"
        },
        {
          "index": 1678,
          "text": "that moving the council back",
          "startTime": "01:46:16,159",
          "endTime": "01:46:18,159"
        },
        {
          "index": 1679,
          "text": "i've number of votes. I do think that there's a simple",
          "startTime": "01:46:19,596",
          "endTime": "01:46:22,431"
        },
        {
          "index": 1680,
          "text": "fix as far as that, which we can all move forward with,",
          "startTime": "01:46:23,990",
          "endTime": "01:46:25,834"
        },
        {
          "index": 1681,
          "text": "which is a simple as 5 votes",
          "startTime": "01:46:28,471",
          "endTime": "01:46:30,471"
        },
        {
          "index": 1682,
          "text": "and the legislation passes. And in the event that there is",
          "startTime": "01:46:31,274",
          "endTime": "01:46:33,976"
        },
        {
          "index": 1683,
          "text": "a tie breaking vote, the",
          "startTime": "01:46:35,578",
          "endTime": "01:46:37,578"
        },
        {
          "index": 1684,
          "text": "motion fails. And so in this moment, I think more than",
          "startTime": "01:46:37,613",
          "endTime": "01:46:39,248"
        },
        {
          "index": 1685,
          "text": "anything we should be 100%",
          "startTime": "01:46:40,183",
          "endTime": "01:46:42,183"
        },
        {
          "index": 1686,
          "text": "focused on solutions to",
          "startTime": "01:46:43,653",
          "endTime": "01:46:45,653"
        },
        {
          "index": 1687,
          "text": "improving how our city cling governance works works. The",
          "startTime": "01:46:47,560",
          "endTime": "01:46:49,691"
        },
        {
          "index": 1688,
          "text": "best for the people of Oakland and so that is something that",
          "startTime": "01:46:52,361",
          "endTime": "01:46:54,363"
        },
        {
          "index": 1689,
          "text": "I want to get behind. I'm",
          "startTime": "01:46:57,534",
          "endTime": "01:46:59,534"
        },
        {
          "index": 1690,
          "text": "grateful for the the group that presented their findings",
          "startTime": "01:47:00,202",
          "endTime": "01:47:01,903"
        },
        {
          "index": 1691,
          "text": "around this 3rd option. I do",
          "startTime": "01:47:03,239",
          "endTime": "01:47:05,239"
        },
        {
          "index": 1692,
          "text": "think that is important for so many of the important",
          "startTime": "01:47:06,750",
          "endTime": "01:47:07,942"
        },
        {
          "index": 1693,
          "text": "decisions that we make as a",
          "startTime": "01:47:08,644",
          "endTime": "01:47:10,644"
        },
        {
          "index": 1694,
          "text": "council. I do think that there is some value in ensuring that",
          "startTime": "01:47:10,947",
          "endTime": "01:47:13,114"
        },
        {
          "index": 1695,
          "text": "the mayor can also weigh in on",
          "startTime": "01:47:13,716",
          "endTime": "01:47:15,716"
        },
        {
          "index": 1696,
          "text": "those. And so I am supportive of that door to option. I just",
          "startTime": "01:47:16,585",
          "endTime": "01:47:18,320"
        },
        {
          "index": 1697,
          "text": "want see that on the record.",
          "startTime": "01:47:18,888",
          "endTime": "01:47:20,888"
        },
        {
          "index": 1698,
          "text": "And as always, I'm always open",
          "startTime": "01:47:21,991",
          "endTime": "01:47:23,991"
        },
        {
          "index": 1699,
          "text": "to engage further with members",
          "startTime": "01:47:24,160",
          "endTime": "01:47:26,160"
        },
        {
          "index": 1700,
          "text": "of the working group. If they",
          "startTime": "01:47:26,596",
          "endTime": "01:47:28,596"
        },
        {
          "index": 1701,
          "text": "would like as well. And that",
          "startTime": "01:47:29,732",
          "endTime": "01:47:31,732"
        },
        {
          "index": 1702,
          "text": "also would know during the working group's process and",
          "startTime": "01:47:33,536",
          "endTime": "01:47:35,570"
        },
        {
          "index": 1703,
          "text": "when they met with me, I",
          "startTime": "01:47:36,372",
          "endTime": "01:47:38,372"
        },
        {
          "index": 1704,
          "text": "offered multiple recommendations of how I",
          "startTime": "01:47:38,474",
          "endTime": "01:47:40,309"
        },
        {
          "index": 1705,
          "text": "thought that we can employ",
          "startTime": "01:47:40,777",
          "endTime": "01:47:42,777"
        },
        {
          "index": 1706,
          "text": "improve the city of Oakland's government structure. And I",
          "startTime": "01:47:43,379",
          "endTime": "01:47:45,460"
        },
        {
          "index": 1707,
          "text": "did not see a single one of my",
          "startTime": "01:47:46,649",
          "endTime": "01:47:48,649"
        },
        {
          "index": 1708,
          "text": "recommendations make it to the recommendations. And I think",
          "startTime": "01:47:50,419",
          "endTime": "01:47:52,120"
        },
        {
          "index": 1709,
          "text": "that that is something that in my something that has been",
          "startTime": "01:47:56,358",
          "endTime": "01:47:59,160"
        },
        {
          "index": 1710,
          "text": "missed, right? Because I think all of us on the council we",
          "startTime": "01:48:00,263",
          "endTime": "01:48:02,300"
        },
        {
          "index": 1711,
          "text": "have valuable insights that we",
          "startTime": "01:48:02,531",
          "endTime": "01:48:04,531"
        },
        {
          "index": 1712,
          "text": "can share around how we can",
          "startTime": "01:48:05,468",
          "endTime": "01:48:07,468"
        },
        {
          "index": 1713,
          "text": "improve city of Oakland, governance. So that's that's",
          "startTime": "01:48:07,570",
          "endTime": "01:48:10,173"
        },
        {
          "index": 1714,
          "text": "all in this moment. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Councilmember",
          "startTime": "01:48:10,173",
          "endTime": "01:48:12,407"
        },
        {
          "index": 1715,
          "text": "Houston. I'm not on the rules committee. So I like to pass",
          "startTime": "01:48:18,147",
          "endTime": "01:48:19,848"
        },
        {
          "index": 1716,
          "text": "that to councilmember around the child first before a",
          "startTime": "01:48:22,510",
          "endTime": "01:48:23,985"
        },
        {
          "index": 1717,
          "text": "state, what I want to state. But I do want to say something. No, I do want to",
          "startTime": "01:48:24,954",
          "endTime": "01:48:27,189"
        },
        {
          "index": 1718,
          "text": "say something about the timely",
          "startTime": "01:48:31,930",
          "endTime": "01:48:33,930"
        },
        {
          "index": 1719,
          "text": "of scheduling item. 3.1, 3, 0,",
          "startTime": "01:48:33,863",
          "endTime": "01:48:35,863"
        },
        {
          "index": 1720,
          "text": "2, 3.3 3.4 h# something up so",
          "startTime": "01:48:38,134",
          "endTime": "01:48:39,467"
        },
        {
          "index": 1721,
          "text": "everyone can see real quick. And why health that up is that",
          "startTime": "01:48:47,143",
          "endTime": "01:48:49,712"
        },
        {
          "index": 1722,
          "text": "I need to schedule a council member Brown and you're doing",
          "startTime": "01:48:49,712",
          "endTime": "01:48:52,581"
        },
        {
          "index": 1723,
          "text": "excellent job. Everything you do work with me to an",
          "startTime": "01:48:52,715",
          "endTime": "01:48:55,450"
        },
        {
          "index": 1724,
          "text": "excellent job. But yesterday I said I need to schedule",
          "startTime": "01:48:56,819",
          "endTime": "01:48:58,520"
        },
        {
          "index": 1725,
          "text": "because yesterday sat with the",
          "startTime": "01:49:00,389",
          "endTime": "01:49:02,389"
        },
        {
          "index": 1726,
          "text": "PRESIDENT, the principal of cast much and I had 150",
          "startTime": "01:49:03,359",
          "endTime": "01:49:05,393"
        },
        {
          "index": 1727,
          "text": "students in Castle month",
          "startTime": "01:49:05,661",
          "endTime": "01:49:07,661"
        },
        {
          "index": 1728,
          "text": "homeless. Are you guys talking about the charter? We were",
          "startTime": "01:49:10,199",
          "endTime": "01:49:11,866"
        },
        {
          "index": 1729,
          "text": "talking about the charter and",
          "startTime": "01:49:13,269",
          "endTime": "01:49:15,269"
        },
        {
          "index": 1730,
          "text": "a charter we form because a",
          "startTime": "01:49:15,938",
          "endTime": "01:49:17,938"
        },
        {
          "index": 1731,
          "text": "share this my district. 10",
          "startTime": "01:49:18,173",
          "endTime": "01:49:20,173"
        },
        {
          "index": 1732,
          "text": "toes down for the mayor more",
          "startTime": "01:49:20,276",
          "endTime": "01:49:22,276"
        },
        {
          "index": 1733,
          "text": "than any other district. My",
          "startTime": "01:49:22,411",
          "endTime": "01:49:24,411"
        },
        {
          "index": 1734,
          "text": "district was for the recall. Of the mayor and of of of the",
          "startTime": "01:49:26,449",
          "endTime": "01:49:29,184"
        },
        {
          "index": 1735,
          "text": "d a more than any of the",
          "startTime": "01:49:29,685",
          "endTime": "01:49:31,685"
        },
        {
          "index": 1736,
          "text": "district and everybody out here knows I've been 10 toes",
          "startTime": "01:49:32,188",
          "endTime": "01:49:34,222"
        },
        {
          "index": 1737,
          "text": "down for the mayor from day",
          "startTime": "01:49:34,824",
          "endTime": "01:49:36,824"
        },
        {
          "index": 1738,
          "text": "one. Go back to my counsel to",
          "startTime": "01:49:37,894",
          "endTime": "01:49:39,894"
        },
        {
          "index": 1739,
          "text": "my district because they're waiting for what? How I feel",
          "startTime": "01:49:39,929",
          "endTime": "01:49:42,897"
        },
        {
          "index": 1740,
          "text": "about this charter read by Tri",
          "startTime": "01:49:44,366",
          "endTime": "01:49:46,366"
        },
        {
          "index": 1741,
          "text": "Reform. And I remember back if you go back to rob or by how",
          "startTime": "01:49:46,469",
          "endTime": "01:49:48,904"
        },
        {
          "index": 1742,
          "text": "good it was with proper Bob, I",
          "startTime": "01:49:48,904",
          "endTime": "01:49:50,904"
        },
        {
          "index": 1743,
          "text": "mean, with that strong",
          "startTime": "01:49:52,740",
          "endTime": "01:49:54,740"
        },
        {
          "index": 1744,
          "text": "council, manager. So my",
          "startTime": "01:49:55,110",
          "endTime": "01:49:57,110"
        },
        {
          "index": 1745,
          "text": "constituents in d 7. They wait",
          "startTime": "01:49:57,413",
          "endTime": "01:49:59,413"
        },
        {
          "index": 1746,
          "text": "non. My opinion, but I want their opinion. But if they",
          "startTime": "01:50:02,585",
          "endTime": "01:50:04,986"
        },
        {
          "index": 1747,
          "text": "live it to my opinion on the charter reform, it would in",
          "startTime": "01:50:07,656",
          "endTime": "01:50:10,260"
        },
        {
          "index": 1748,
          "text": "line with council member Brown",
          "startTime": "01:50:10,260",
          "endTime": "01:50:12,260"
        },
        {
          "index": 1749,
          "text": "of the 3rd option because I'm tired going outside. I'm a",
          "startTime": "01:50:18,200",
          "endTime": "01:50:19,868"
        },
        {
          "index": 1750,
          "text": "scope of work in doing things that shouldn't be doing",
          "startTime": "01:50:21,337",
          "endTime": "01:50:24,500"
        },
        {
          "index": 1751,
          "text": "because we're not able to do",
          "startTime": "01:50:24,540",
          "endTime": "01:50:26,540"
        },
        {
          "index": 1752,
          "text": "it. Be kuz. Council members only legislation and policy. I'm tired of going to remove a",
          "startTime": "01:50:30,679",
          "endTime": "01:50:33,281"
        },
        {
          "index": 1753,
          "text": "car myself. I'm tired of",
          "startTime": "01:50:34,160",
          "endTime": "01:50:36,160"
        },
        {
          "index": 1754,
          "text": "relocate an encampment myself and that the city",
          "startTime": "01:50:36,850",
          "endTime": "01:50:38,386"
        },
        {
          "index": 1755,
          "text": "administrator report it's to the mayor but doesn't report",
          "startTime": "01:50:39,688",
          "endTime": "01:50:41,556"
        },
        {
          "index": 1756,
          "text": "to us as a council right? We",
          "startTime": "01:50:43,559",
          "endTime": "01:50:45,559"
        },
        {
          "index": 1757,
          "text": "should have that same. Authority that the city",
          "startTime": "01:50:47,330",
          "endTime": "01:50:49,297"
        },
        {
          "index": 1758,
          "text": "administrator reports to us right? Unlike what Ryan, which",
          "startTime": "01:50:51,834",
          "endTime": "01:50:54,236"
        },
        {
          "index": 1759,
          "text": "your son is I can just go on",
          "startTime": "01:50:54,236",
          "endTime": "01:50:56,236"
        },
        {
          "index": 1760,
          "text": "and on and But I said I was going pass it to you that you",
          "startTime": "01:50:57,940",
          "endTime": "01:51:00,643"
        },
        {
          "index": 1761,
          "text": "put to you. But I got a couple more days to say so no use",
          "startTime": "01:51:00,643",
          "endTime": "01:51:03,411"
        },
        {
          "index": 1762,
          "text": "that as my time PRESIDENT.",
          "startTime": "01:51:09,952",
          "endTime": "01:51:11,952"
        },
        {
          "index": 1763,
          "text": "Thank you. I think today is this meeting was very enlightening myself and",
          "startTime": "01:51:11,987",
          "endTime": "01:51:14,222"
        },
        {
          "index": 1764,
          "text": "council PRESIDENT Jenkyns",
          "startTime": "01:51:16,692",
          "endTime": "01:51:18,692"
        },
        {
          "index": 1765,
          "text": "wanted to schedule this item specifically to continue the",
          "startTime": "01:51:19,561",
          "endTime": "01:51:21,262"
        },
        {
          "index": 1766,
          "text": "process of gathering community input. Today we heard plus or",
          "startTime": "01:51:23,966",
          "endTime": "01:51:25,800"
        },
        {
          "index": 1767,
          "text": "-20 comments that. We're",
          "startTime": "01:51:27,803",
          "endTime": "01:51:29,803"
        },
        {
          "index": 1768,
          "text": "opposed to the strong mayor system and open to some",
          "startTime": "01:51:29,872",
          "endTime": "01:51:31,639"
        },
        {
          "index": 1769,
          "text": "alternative. We heard about 4",
          "startTime": "01:51:32,341",
          "endTime": "01:51:34,341"
        },
        {
          "index": 1770,
          "text": "that were for the system, but",
          "startTime": "01:51:36,245",
          "endTime": "01:51:38,245"
        },
        {
          "index": 1771,
          "text": "apart from what we hear here, I can only speak for myself and I know many of my",
          "startTime": "01:51:38,280",
          "endTime": "01:51:40,516"
        },
        {
          "index": 1772,
          "text": "colleagues who are out and",
          "startTime": "01:51:40,516",
          "endTime": "01:51:42,516"
        },
        {
          "index": 1773,
          "text": "about the community. I have",
          "startTime": "01:51:44,854",
          "endTime": "01:51:46,854"
        },
        {
          "index": 1774,
          "text": "said at least 17 times in the past month when I'm in people's living rooms in my",
          "startTime": "01:51:47,890",
          "endTime": "01:51:50,226"
        },
        {
          "index": 1775,
          "text": "district, on their street",
          "startTime": "01:51:50,226",
          "endTime": "01:51:52,226"
        },
        {
          "index": 1776,
          "text": "corners and the business districts that I am",
          "startTime": "01:51:52,895",
          "endTime": "01:51:55,363"
        },
        {
          "index": 1777,
          "text": "information gathering stage and this is very valuable",
          "startTime": "01:51:57,233",
          "endTime": "01:52:00,135"
        },
        {
          "index": 1778,
          "text": "input. And I'm continuing the process of listening to our",
          "startTime": "01:52:01,470",
          "endTime": "01:52:03,171"
        },
        {
          "index": 1779,
          "text": "constituents and hearing very different perspectives for",
          "startTime": "01:52:05,875",
          "endTime": "01:52:07,909"
        },
        {
          "index": 1780,
          "text": "forgot to someone that mentioned you can't come at 10:30am, that? That's correct.",
          "startTime": "01:52:08,444",
          "endTime": "01:52:11,120"
        },
        {
          "index": 1781,
          "text": "Which is why after 05:00pm, out in our communities talking to people in meeting them",
          "startTime": "01:52:13,783",
          "endTime": "01:52:16,718"
        },
        {
          "index": 1782,
          "text": "where they're at. And I've heard very different",
          "startTime": "01:52:17,553",
          "endTime": "01:52:19,688"
        },
        {
          "index": 1783,
          "text": "perspectives. And I think this",
          "startTime": "01:52:19,688",
          "endTime": "01:52:21,688"
        },
        {
          "index": 1784,
          "text": "is important to us. I",
          "startTime": "01:52:21,757",
          "endTime": "01:52:23,757"
        },
        {
          "index": 1785,
          "text": "appreciate the mayor is working group in scheduling a",
          "startTime": "01:52:23,859",
          "endTime": "01:52:26,628"
        },
        {
          "index": 1786,
          "text": "first round of community outreach late last year near",
          "startTime": "01:52:27,663",
          "endTime": "01:52:29,364"
        },
        {
          "index": 1787,
          "text": "the holidays. And I think a",
          "startTime": "01:52:32,368",
          "endTime": "01:52:34,368"
        },
        {
          "index": 1788,
          "text": "lot of those sessions service information to show ask what",
          "startTime": "01:52:34,803",
          "endTime": "01:52:36,504"
        },
        {
          "index": 1789,
          "text": "is the charter? And now a couple months into this process, people are starting",
          "startTime": "01:52:38,907",
          "endTime": "01:52:41,442"
        },
        {
          "index": 1790,
          "text": "to form an opinion one way or the other. So I think this is",
          "startTime": "01:52:43,478",
          "endTime": "01:52:45,179"
        },
        {
          "index": 1791,
          "text": "very helpful and I will take all of this into",
          "startTime": "01:52:47,583",
          "endTime": "01:52:49,785"
        },
        {
          "index": 1792,
          "text": "consideration. Plus, all of the conversations that I have",
          "startTime": "01:52:49,785",
          "endTime": "01:52:52,220"
        },
        {
          "index": 1793,
          "text": "and this is not the last time this will be heard in council.",
          "startTime": "01:52:52,554",
          "endTime": "01:52:55,490"
        },
        {
          "index": 1794,
          "text": "We will bring this to an evening meeting at the full",
          "startTime": "01:52:56,580",
          "endTime": "01:52:58,660"
        },
        {
          "index": 1795,
          "text": "City council as this process",
          "startTime": "01:53:00,396",
          "endTime": "01:53:02,396"
        },
        {
          "index": 1796,
          "text": "continues. And I look forward",
          "startTime": "01:53:02,865",
          "endTime": "01:53:04,865"
        },
        {
          "index": 1797,
          "text": "to continuing hear what people have to say from not just my",
          "startTime": "01:53:05,670",
          "endTime": "01:53:07,203"
        },
        {
          "index": 1798,
          "text": "district but all over the",
          "startTime": "01:53:07,203",
          "endTime": "01:53:09,203"
        },
        {
          "index": 1799,
          "text": "city. Thank you. Some of the I",
          "startTime": "01:53:11,807",
          "endTime": "01:53:13,807"
        },
        {
          "index": 1800,
          "text": "can speak in closing, I want to say them have community meetings from Sheffield",
          "startTime": "01:53:20,582",
          "endTime": "01:53:23,510"
        },
        {
          "index": 1801,
          "text": "Village to the heels to the flat to my Latino brothers and",
          "startTime": "01:53:24,486",
          "endTime": "01:53:26,455"
        },
        {
          "index": 1802,
          "text": "sisters. This waiting for me",
          "startTime": "01:53:27,990",
          "endTime": "01:53:29,990"
        },
        {
          "index": 1803,
          "text": "to speak about spoke in front",
          "startTime": "01:53:29,992",
          "endTime": "01:53:31,992"
        },
        {
          "index": 1804,
          "text": "of 300 last week and I'm",
          "startTime": "01:53:32,940",
          "endTime": "01:53:34,940"
        },
        {
          "index": 1805,
          "text": "speaking front 300 again this Sunday. Getting pinion, get,",
          "startTime": "01:53:34,930",
          "endTime": "01:53:37,650"
        },
        {
          "index": 1806,
          "text": "you know that what they want because I'm I want to purple.",
          "startTime": "01:53:39,340",
          "endTime": "01:53:41,135"
        },
        {
          "index": 1807,
          "text": "They won a green. If they want to green us, want go no",
          "startTime": "01:53:42,438",
          "endTime": "01:53:44,380"
        },
        {
          "index": 1808,
          "text": "matter. Even found one purple. Talk to my constituents. But",
          "startTime": "01:53:44,807",
          "endTime": "01:53:46,942"
        },
        {
          "index": 1809,
          "text": "I'm definitely gonna give my",
          "startTime": "01:53:46,942",
          "endTime": "01:53:48,942"
        },
        {
          "index": 1810,
          "text": "opinion my opinion, 4 with influence on how I feel and",
          "startTime": "01:53:51,313",
          "endTime": "01:53:54,282"
        },
        {
          "index": 1811,
          "text": "whatever they decide to decide be a community meetings for sure about this for sure.",
          "startTime": "01:53:56,510",
          "endTime": "01:53:58,620"
        },
        {
          "index": 1812,
          "text": "Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Houston Kuzma",
          "startTime": "01:54:01,290",
          "endTime": "01:54:02,957"
        },
        {
          "index": 1813,
          "text": "Brandon. More comments can on track. So make sure that I",
          "startTime": "01:54:04,159",
          "endTime": "01:54:06,461"
        },
        {
          "index": 1814,
          "text": "work with city attorneys office to send out a timeline",
          "startTime": "01:54:06,461",
          "endTime": "01:54:09,297"
        },
        {
          "index": 1815,
          "text": "for and which things need to",
          "startTime": "01:54:09,431",
          "endTime": "01:54:11,431"
        },
        {
          "index": 1816,
          "text": "get on the ballot. We need to",
          "startTime": "01:54:11,934",
          "endTime": "01:54:13,934"
        },
        {
          "index": 1817,
          "text": "hear them at 2 regularly scheduled meetings and that",
          "startTime": "01:54:14,103",
          "endTime": "01:54:15,770"
        },
        {
          "index": 1818,
          "text": "timeline is tight. Encourage people to continue doing the",
          "startTime": "01:54:18,140",
          "endTime": "01:54:20,208"
        },
        {
          "index": 1819,
          "text": "research and continue reaching out understand that's",
          "startTime": "01:54:21,277",
          "endTime": "01:54:23,978"
        },
        {
          "index": 1820,
          "text": "apparently women voters will",
          "startTime": "01:54:24,646",
          "endTime": "01:54:26,646"
        },
        {
          "index": 1821,
          "text": "be available for questions. As Councilmember Robert Rinder and said we will hear this",
          "startTime": "01:54:31,870",
          "endTime": "01:54:33,322"
        },
        {
          "index": 1822,
          "text": "again at a regularly scheduled",
          "startTime": "01:54:33,322",
          "endTime": "01:54:35,322"
        },
        {
          "index": 1823,
          "text": "meeting. During council so that more people have the",
          "startTime": "01:54:36,425",
          "endTime": "01:54:38,590"
        },
        {
          "index": 1824,
          "text": "opportunity to weigh in with that, I'll entertain a motion to receive and how this in",
          "startTime": "01:54:39,828",
          "endTime": "01:54:42,196"
        },
        {
          "index": 1825,
          "text": "committee. Some of And that was a motion by Councilmember",
          "startTime": "01:54:50,138",
          "endTime": "01:54:52,974"
        },
        {
          "index": 1826,
          "text": "Ramachandran seconded by councilor at Brown to receive",
          "startTime": "01:54:53,108",
          "endTime": "01:54:55,376"
        },
        {
          "index": 1827,
          "text": "and file item number 5 on row for that is councilmember",
          "startTime": "01:54:57,346",
          "endTime": "01:55:00,148"
        },
        {
          "index": 1828,
          "text": "brown eye now to number 5 is excuse Councilman Ramachandran. I ensure",
          "startTime": "01:55:01,317",
          "endTime": "01:55:03,684"
        },
        {
          "index": 1829,
          "text": "Jenkins. Item number 5 is received and filed with 3",
          "startTime": "01:55:05,654",
          "endTime": "01:55:08,489"
        },
        {
          "index": 1830,
          "text": "guys. One excuse Councilmember",
          "startTime": "01:55:10,225",
          "endTime": "01:55:12,225"
        },
        {
          "index": 1831,
          "text": "Fife that now takes us to open",
          "startTime": "01:55:12,427",
          "endTime": "01:55:14,427"
        },
        {
          "index": 1832,
          "text": "I will read the speakers who signed up for this item. If you are participating via",
          "startTime": "01:55:15,130",
          "endTime": "01:55:17,132"
        },
        {
          "index": 1833,
          "text": "please raise your hand. So you'll be recognized. And for",
          "startTime": "01:55:17,132",
          "endTime": "01:55:19,467"
        },
        {
          "index": 1834,
          "text": "those who are here and chambers in person, please",
          "startTime": "01:55:21,537",
          "endTime": "01:55:23,204"
        },
        {
          "index": 1835,
          "text": "line up behind the podium in any order. I have Blair",
          "startTime": "01:55:23,572",
          "endTime": "01:55:26,440"
        },
        {
          "index": 1836,
          "text": "Beekman Kellie Kevin Dally regime and Al David boat",
          "startTime": "01:55:29,311",
          "endTime": "01:55:31,445"
        },
        {
          "index": 1837,
          "text": "right? Ralph cans, Millie,",
          "startTime": "01:55:33,148",
          "endTime": "01:55:35,148"
        },
        {
          "index": 1838,
          "text": "Cleveland deal. Comey low and",
          "startTime": "01:55:38,120",
          "endTime": "01:55:40,120"
        },
        {
          "index": 1839,
          "text": "any order. Thank you. David Boatright district I agree that council member should be",
          "startTime": "01:55:48,397",
          "endTime": "01:55:50,998"
        },
        {
          "index": 1840,
          "text": "paid more. But only if the",
          "startTime": "01:55:53,402",
          "endTime": "01:55:55,402"
        },
        {
          "index": 1841,
          "text": "council eliminates this city. General purpose fund deficit.",
          "startTime": "01:55:55,804",
          "endTime": "01:55:58,639"
        },
        {
          "index": 1842,
          "text": "They contributed to without",
          "startTime": "01:56:00,420",
          "endTime": "01:56:02,420"
        },
        {
          "index": 1843,
          "text": "adding more taxes. The council members dedicate their full to",
          "startTime": "01:56:04,246",
          "endTime": "01:56:07,140"
        },
        {
          "index": 1844,
          "text": "that. Council members dedicate",
          "startTime": "01:56:07,649",
          "endTime": "01:56:09,649"
        },
        {
          "index": 1845,
          "text": "their full time to their council member responsibilities as they",
          "startTime": "01:56:09,985",
          "endTime": "01:56:11,987"
        },
        {
          "index": 1846,
          "text": "implicitly agreed to when they",
          "startTime": "01:56:11,987",
          "endTime": "01:56:13,987"
        },
        {
          "index": 1847,
          "text": "ran for office. The council members attend all city",
          "startTime": "01:56:16,325",
          "endTime": "01:56:18,926"
        },
        {
          "index": 1848,
          "text": "council meetings and their",
          "startTime": "01:56:19,761",
          "endTime": "01:56:21,761"
        },
        {
          "index": 1849,
          "text": "committee meetings with rare exceptions for healthcare,",
          "startTime": "01:56:21,830",
          "endTime": "01:56:23,497"
        },
        {
          "index": 1850,
          "text": "serious, personal reasons. It's amazing that the city",
          "startTime": "01:56:26,340",
          "endTime": "01:56:28,102"
        },
        {
          "index": 1851,
          "text": "council won't allow seeding",
          "startTime": "01:56:28,103",
          "endTime": "01:56:30,103"
        },
        {
          "index": 1852,
          "text": "partial a new speaker time and then allows only part of a",
          "startTime": "01:56:31,673",
          "endTime": "01:56:33,341"
        },
        {
          "index": 1853,
          "text": "speaker's time to be seated.",
          "startTime": "01:56:36,612",
          "endTime": "01:56:38,612"
        },
        {
          "index": 1854,
          "text": "How can multiple city residents be given preferential treatment, especially if they didn't sign",
          "startTime": "01:56:40,616",
          "endTime": "01:56:43,484"
        },
        {
          "index": 1855,
          "text": "up to speak by that deadline and others were not allowed to",
          "startTime": "01:56:44,486",
          "endTime": "01:56:47,455"
        },
        {
          "index": 1856,
          "text": "speak. And if cancel member Houston wants to speak without",
          "startTime": "01:56:48,524",
          "endTime": "01:56:50,759"
        },
        {
          "index": 1857,
          "text": "signing up to speak committees",
          "startTime": "01:56:50,759",
          "endTime": "01:56:52,759"
        },
        {
          "index": 1858,
          "text": "not on. I don't understand the",
          "startTime": "01:56:52,928",
          "endTime": "01:56:54,928"
        },
        {
          "index": 1859,
          "text": "rules. Thank you for your",
          "startTime": "01:56:56,898",
          "endTime": "01:56:58,898"
        },
        {
          "index": 1860,
          "text": "comments. Rushdie Mundell District 4. I want to connect",
          "startTime": "01:57:01,603",
          "endTime": "01:57:04,438"
        },
        {
          "index": 1861,
          "text": "today's charter reform discussion to another area that deserves the same level",
          "startTime": "01:57:04,540",
          "endTime": "01:57:06,908"
        },
        {
          "index": 1862,
          "text": "of scrutiny. Police oversight. Right now council is asking",
          "startTime": "01:57:08,543",
          "endTime": "01:57:11,345"
        },
        {
          "index": 1863,
          "text": "fundamental questions about governance rolls authority and",
          "startTime": "01:57:11,413",
          "endTime": "01:57:14,315"
        },
        {
          "index": 1864,
          "text": "accountability and those exact same questions apply to our",
          "startTime": "01:57:14,950",
          "endTime": "01:57:16,818"
        },
        {
          "index": 1865,
          "text": "police oversight system. The recent city auditor report",
          "startTime": "01:57:18,653",
          "endTime": "01:57:20,756"
        },
        {
          "index": 1866,
          "text": "makes it clear the issue is",
          "startTime": "01:57:20,756",
          "endTime": "01:57:22,756"
        },
        {
          "index": 1867,
          "text": "not just resources in a structure, including",
          "startTime": "01:57:22,858",
          "endTime": "01:57:24,592"
        },
        {
          "index": 1868,
          "text": "overlapping roles, unclear authority and gaps and",
          "startTime": "01:57:25,527",
          "endTime": "01:57:27,294"
        },
        {
          "index": 1869,
          "text": "accountability across multiple oversight bodies. And we're seeing the consequence of that",
          "startTime": "01:57:28,230",
          "endTime": "01:57:31,650"
        },
        {
          "index": 1870,
          "text": "structure in practice decision. Stall responsibilities are diffuse.",
          "startTime": "01:57:33,302",
          "endTime": "01:57:35,503"
        },
        {
          "index": 1871,
          "text": "Becomes difficult to determine who is ultimately accountable",
          "startTime": "01:57:36,204",
          "endTime": "01:57:38,839"
        },
        {
          "index": 1872,
          "text": "for outcomes. But also like to note that a significant number of the city attorney public",
          "startTime": "01:57:39,975",
          "endTime": "01:57:42,376"
        },
        {
          "index": 1873,
          "text": "opinions actually one in 4 in",
          "startTime": "01:57:42,578",
          "endTime": "01:57:44,578"
        },
        {
          "index": 1874,
          "text": "recent years have focused",
          "startTime": "01:57:45,147",
          "endTime": "01:57:47,147"
        },
        {
          "index": 1875,
          "text": "exclusively on these oversight agencies that suggests ongoing",
          "startTime": "01:57:47,415",
          "endTime": "01:57:49,918"
        },
        {
          "index": 1876,
          "text": "uncertainty about scope and",
          "startTime": "01:57:49,918",
          "endTime": "01:57:51,918"
        },
        {
          "index": 1877,
          "text": "authority, not just capacity. The mayor is charter former King Group provides a useful",
          "startTime": "01:57:53,688",
          "endTime": "01:57:56,570"
        },
        {
          "index": 1878,
          "text": "model here and brought together community members,",
          "startTime": "01:57:56,158",
          "endTime": "01:57:58,192"
        },
        {
          "index": 1879,
          "text": "experts and stakeholders to",
          "startTime": "01:57:58,827",
          "endTime": "01:58:00,827"
        },
        {
          "index": 1880,
          "text": "evaluate governance and develop clear recommendations. Encourage council to consider",
          "startTime": "01:58:01,290",
          "endTime": "01:58:03,464"
        },
        {
          "index": 1881,
          "text": "a similar approach for police oversight. Thank you for your",
          "startTime": "01:58:03,932",
          "endTime": "01:58:05,633"
        },
        {
          "index": 1882,
          "text": "comments next. Speaker. Million Cleveland to street",
          "startTime": "01:58:10,839",
          "endTime": "01:58:12,506"
        },
        {
          "index": 1883,
          "text": "for I would like you place on",
          "startTime": "01:58:14,309",
          "endTime": "01:58:16,309"
        },
        {
          "index": 1884,
          "text": "rules over time. Opd overtime",
          "startTime": "01:58:20,682",
          "endTime": "01:58:22,682"
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        {
          "index": 1885,
          "text": "for public safety. This is",
          "startTime": "01:58:25,286",
          "endTime": "01:58:27,286"
        },
        {
          "index": 1886,
          "text": "significant effect on our budget. I understand that it",
          "startTime": "01:58:27,522",
          "endTime": "01:58:30,324"
        },
        {
          "index": 1887,
          "text": "was placed on the agenda for",
          "startTime": "01:58:31,726",
          "endTime": "01:58:33,726"
        },
        {
          "index": 1888,
          "text": "it. Finance, but it is not",
          "startTime": "01:58:34,496",
          "endTime": "01:58:36,496"
        },
        {
          "index": 1889,
          "text": "just a finance issue. It is an",
          "startTime": "01:58:36,731",
          "endTime": "01:58:38,731"
        },
        {
          "index": 1890,
          "text": "operational issue for decades.",
          "startTime": "01:58:40,736",
          "endTime": "01:58:42,736"
        },
        {
          "index": 1891,
          "text": "City auditors have made very concrete recommendations on",
          "startTime": "01:58:44,390",
          "endTime": "01:58:45,740"
        },
        {
          "index": 1892,
          "text": "how to control opd over time that the city administrator",
          "startTime": "01:58:48,544",
          "endTime": "01:58:50,678"
        },
        {
          "index": 1893,
          "text": "has never implemented. And you",
          "startTime": "01:58:50,912",
          "endTime": "01:58:52,912"
        },
        {
          "index": 1894,
          "text": "guys ignored. I also think",
          "startTime": "01:58:55,284",
          "endTime": "01:58:57,284"
        },
        {
          "index": 1895,
          "text": "that other issue that needs to be placed on the agenda peel",
          "startTime": "01:58:57,285",
          "endTime": "01:59:00,221"
        },
        {
          "index": 1896,
          "text": "ways m o u. It has a lot of",
          "startTime": "01:59:02,757",
          "endTime": "01:59:04,757"
        },
        {
          "index": 1897,
          "text": "tweaking that needs to be discussed out in the open.",
          "startTime": "01:59:06,428",
          "endTime": "01:59:08,696"
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          "text": "Speaker. Well, you. I'm hoping that you'll follow up on the",
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          "text": "Move directly to a vote in in counseling committee and",
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          "text": "hoping that we have public. Public forums for more than 90",
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          "text": "seconds. Discussion out. Looking forward to the answer from the city attorney and",
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          "text": "thanks. Thank you for your",
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          "text": "comments. Good morning. And",
          "startTime": "01:59:59,514",
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          "index": 1911,
          "text": "you'll low. I me I'm a brown guy. I'm a former resident.",
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          "text": "I'm a former employee home hr director here. Cardio city",
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          "text": "manager and I've got 32 years",
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          "text": "in public sector governance. For me, the kid political",
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          "text": "issue is how is the city going",
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          "index": 1916,
          "text": "to be managed? I care about",
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          "index": 1917,
          "text": "the city I run here every week. I come from an to run it",
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          "endTime": "02:00:22,237"
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          "index": 1918,
          "text": "around Lake Merritt every",
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          "text": "Saturday morning. My point is I really, really care about",
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          "index": 1920,
          "text": "this city. I can in my hometown cause have been home to for the last 40 since I got",
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          "index": 1921,
          "text": "off 10:00am flight governor",
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          "index": 1922,
          "text": "says the key issue. And",
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          "index": 1923,
          "text": "please, please, please do not double down on a failed",
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          "index": 1924,
          "text": "system. Strongman system is a failed system. What does work consistently around the",
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          "index": 1925,
          "text": "country local city governance",
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          "endTime": "02:00:53,499"
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        {
          "index": 1926,
          "text": "is council manager from a government. I can tell you with 32 years of service,",
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          "index": 1927,
          "text": "including 3 years yet the city",
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          "index": 1928,
          "text": "of open and Cardiff, City manager, that system works.",
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          "index": 1929,
          "text": "Please go to option 3. Thank you for your comments next.",
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          "index": 1930,
          "text": "Speaker. Afternoon, Ralph remembering the tension of house flippers. Your attention",
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        {
          "index": 1931,
          "text": "again. He keep ignoring those the mayor's office will respond. I don't know what's",
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          "index": 1932,
          "text": "going You're losing millions",
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          "index": 1933,
          "text": "and millions of dollars. Permit fees are being enforced. The leads don't that",
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          "text": "placed on the property. There's no actual constructive",
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          "text": "notice to a buyer. Therefore",
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          "index": 1936,
          "text": "the fuse never get paid. The city is losing millions and",
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          "text": "millions of dollars. It also adds to garbage being dumped",
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          "index": 1938,
          "text": "because the rules are out. Disposal by under during construction are being",
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          "text": "followed. Why don't you want do something when you have a",
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          "text": "money trouble? That's all",
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          "index": 1941,
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          "index": 1942,
          "text": "ripped off like crazy. Almost none of these people are even from Oakland. It's all money.",
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          "index": 1943,
          "text": "Leaving the city that you",
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          "text": "should be getting a cut of because of what the city does",
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          "text": "for those people. And Jake, as you're saying, oil, look at me",
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          "text": "again. I mean, what is this? You got there's a screen out",
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          "text": "your comments. Brief said it",
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          "text": "next. Speaker. I next. Next. My next speaker is Blair Beekman. Please unmute",
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          "text": "yourself. You MAY begin. All right. Thank Really",
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          "text": "interesting meeting today. Thank you. Really good public",
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          "text": "addressing the overtime pay",
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          "text": "it's going to take much longer 2028 carted changes can be can",
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    "text": "Good morning.\nThe. Rules committee we do need a qorum want today is\nthat we can begin. Good morning and welcome to the\nrules Legislative Sheen\nCommittee media on this Thursday MARCH. 26, the time\nis 10. 31 in this meeting\nshall come to order. The more. I call roll, like to give\ninstructions on how to submit speaker card on items listed\non this agenda. If you are\nhere. A member of the audience here in chambers and would\nlike to submit a speaker card. Please fill out a speaker card, an attorney to a clerk,\nrepresentative. Either 2 minutes after this meeting\nbegan war before the eye.\nCalled it a record. Registration to speak via zoom\nwas do 24 hours before this\nmeeting began, noting that there we will no longer take speaker cards for online\nregistration. Once again, the\nmeeting began at 10. 31 and speaker cards will no longer\nbe accepted. 10 minutes after\nthe meeting began, which is at\nthat time will be 10. 41 with that council. PRESIDENT\nJenkins to do you have any\nannouncements before began a\nyes because of the potential issues. Speaker time will be\nreduced to 90 seconds as\nopposed to 2 minutes. With that. Thank you so much. And\nwe'll begin with roll on roll for this meeting. We have\ncouncil member Brown. True too\npresent. Thank you. Council\nmember Fyfe is excused.\nCouncil member Ahmed Chandran. I and chair PRESIDENT Council\nPRESIDENT Your Jenkins. I we have 3 members present won\nexcused. Now moving on to item number of the draft minutes\nfor the committee meetings of\nFEBRUARY. 26 2026 3/5/2026 in\nMARCH 12 2026. Move approval. I have a motion by council\nmember Brown second about Councilmember Ramachandran to approve the minutes. All 3 of\nthem as is. Council member Brown Eye Councilmember Fife is excuse council\nRamachandran. I and council\nPRESIDENT Jenkins. 3 one excuse for item number 2\napproval. A draft minutes now\nmoving to new scheduling.\nStarting with item 3.1 receiving information report on the Oakland Children's\nInitiative and its partners organizations, Oakland Promise\nand first, 5 Alameda County and this item is being request\nto be scheduled on the APRIL 13 2026. Special Education\nPartnership Committee agenda.\nItem. 3 point. Thank you so much. MADAM Clerk. I'm just\nwant to confirm the the slight\nchange in the title. It should\nbe Alameda County. First 5.\nSenator, thank you for that.\nMoving to item 3.2, it is an\noral report from the director\nof Public works Liam Garland regarding the illegal dumping mitigation. Your school\ncampuses. And this is also\nbeing request to be scheduled for the APRIL 13th Special Education Partnership\nCommittee agenda. I believe we don't have a quorum on the\ndays. Council member Brown. Thanks and thank you so much.\nWell, as the question. We just needed a quorum on the days to move forward. Thank you for\nthat. Moving to item 3.3 receive information report\nfrom the Oakland Youth Commission. And this is being\nrequested to be scheduled for APRIL just Special Education\nPartnership Committee agenda\nitem. 3 point for is information report from the\nOakland Unified School usd\nregarding current school safety protocols, funding\nstructures and strategic safety updates. This is also being requested to be\nscheduled to the special. APRIL 13th Education\nPartnership Committee agenda.\nItem 3.5 is from the auditors Office and Information Report professional services\ncontracts authorized by the\ncity auditor doing fiscal\nyear. 24 to 25 in. This is being requested to be\nscheduled for the APRIL 14th 2026. Special City Council\nagenda on consent. I will now\nread in the rule. 24. Nc states that the city auditor\nshall present to the city\nCouncil on an annual basis and report listing all professional service contracts\nauthorized by the city auditor\ndoing the prior year. Moving to item 3.6, which is also\ninformation report from the\ncity auditor. On the audit recommendation. Follow-up\nreport. As of DECEMBER 31st. 2025 this is being request to\nbe scheduled for APRIL 14th, Special City Council agenda on\non consent. The real 24 for this item is that the city\ncharter states that is the responsibility of the city auditor to submit a\nsemi-annual report to the\ncouncil in public on the extent of implementation of\nrecommendations for the corrective actions made in the\ncity. Auditor's report. Moving\nto item 3.7 resolution\nreappoint Lisa Raszler as the\ncity Oakland's trustee to the Alameda skews me Mosquito\nAbatement District board. And this is being requested to be\nscheduled for APRIL 14th has special City Council agenda\nconsent. And I apologize. Does\nthis require able 24? Yes, any\nitems that are bypassing\ncommitting going street to council require the body to\nstate a reason for your rules. Please items bypass committee and District Council on\nconsent. Thank you for that.\nMoving on to item 3.8 item, 3.8 is an information report\nfrom the city administrator on the status of implementing\npolicy directives past by the\nCity Council on the APRIL 21st him being request to be\nscheduled. Excuse me on APRIL, 21st 2026, Finance and\nManagement Committee agenda.\nHarden. I do see side. Through the chair. The administration\nwould like to request to move\nthis to that MAY 2012 meeting\nbecause the agenda is fairly impacted and staff will make\nthemselves available to do one\non with the committee members ensure the information is made\npublic in advance of the publication deadline for the\nMAY 12th meeting. Thank you\nfor that. So item 3.8, the status of the implementation of the council policy\ndirectives now be scheduled to MAY 12 Finance and Management\nCommittee agenda. Thank you\nfor that. Moving to item 3.9 adopt an ordinance authorizing\nthe city administrator negotiate and execute an\nagreement to purchase an easement for public right\naway. To purchase in these\nexcuse me to purchase an easement for public right away\nstreets and utility purposes over a portion of the real property located at 2.60,\nstreet. Case in family, limited partnership in the\namount not to exceed amount of\n$255,000 in adopting. California. Environmental\nQuality Act findings. This is being requested the schedule\nfor the APRIL 21st Public Works and Transportation\nCommittee agenda. Item 3.10, is an ordinance appealing\nordinance. Number 1, 2, 9, 6,\n0, and replacing it with the\naddition of mc Charter 15.80\nin Re referenced flood hazard maps authorize the city\nadministrator to designate a flood plan administrator to\nadminister and develop\nregulations in support of the\ncharter adopting appropriate, appropriate California\nenvironmental Quality Act\nfindings. And this is being request to be scheduled for\nAPRIL. 21st 2026 Public Works and Transportation Committee\nagenda. It is also noted to go\nto the APRIL 28th Special City\nCouncil agenda as a public hearing. But I believe staff has to make a question. Thank\nyou. My apologies. Can you speak closer to the mike so we can make sure that we can hear\nyou capture you. Is the mic,\nOkay. Thank you. Yes, through the chair. If I MAY request that we move the meeting to\nthat MAY 5th. Public works and Transportation Committee has. There's a special joint public\nsafety meetings already\nscheduled on the 28th. Some noted think and outside or if\nI could clarify the the item\nwould go continue to go public works and Transportation\nCommittee meeting on APRIL.\n21st. But the public hearing would be on the regular MAY.\n5th City Council meeting.\nThat's correct. Thank you. So no thank you for that. Thank\nyou. Moving on to item 3.11, this is from the public public\nworks. Mean, it is a resolution amending\nresolution, 8, 8, 3, 7, 9, to increase the professional\nservices agreement far. Architectural and engineering\ndesign services with k 2, a Marais make graft associated\nArchitects for the fire\nstation. 29 project by an\namount not to exceed $700,000 bringing the total contract\namount from. 1 million, 800 $1000 to 2 million, waiving\nthe request for proposal, competitive selection requirements and adapting\nsequel. Findings in this is being requested. The schedule\nfor the MAY 21st Public Works and Transportation Committee\nagenda. Item 3.12 Is a\nresolution authorizing the city administration negotiate\nand execute. A new exclusive negotiation agreement with the museum of Jazz and Art. But to\nthe London Museum and Art facility on the city-owned\nproperty located at 3.10, Oaks\nStreet for 8 months condition\non payment 10, $10,500 exclusive negotiating payment\nwith one additional six-month administrative extension\nconditioned on payment of an\nadditional $303,500 extension\npayment in adopting. California. Environmental\nQuality Act findings. This is being requested schedule for\nthe APRIL 21st Community and Economic Development Committee\nagenda. Item 3.13, is coming from the Human Service\nDepartment a resolution accepting the planning\nOversight Committee. Recommendations to one award.\n9 grants with the youth summer jobs. Mayor summer youth employment program, funding\nstrategy, tolling and amount\nnot to exceed 1 million,\n480,250 dollars and $0.60 for to summer program service. Its\nterm grant cycles, JUNE first\n2026 to SEPTEMBER. 30th 2026\nin JUNE. First, 27 through SEPTEMBER. 30th 2027\ncontingent upon funding Bela Bility and program\nperformance. 2 or 12 grants across for funding strategies.\nTotally amount not to exceed 1 million, 712,000 dollars,\n$12,558. Summer. To the chair.\nThank you. Can't is. I'm so\nsorry. This is Rob 11th in Children. Services Division\nHuman Services Department. Through that section, you\nhaven't even got to the change yet. A very small change in\nthe title every dot that section are directed please. Yeah, you would have to read\nout the pope's so sorry. Thank\nyou. Staff recommends that the city council adopt a\nresolution accepting the planning and oversight\ncommittee recommendation to one award 9 grants within the\nyouth summer jobs. Mayor Summer Youth employment\nprogram, funding strategy out\nnot to exceed 1 million,\n80,200 $53.60 4, 2 summer\nprogram service term Grant cycles JUNE first, 2026\nthrough SEPTEMBER, 30th 20 2026. In JUNE. First 2027\nthrough SEPTEMBER. 30th 2027 contingent upon funding\navailability and program performance and to award 12\ngrants across for funding Strategies Elementary school\nbased expanded learning middle\nschool based expanded learning youth development leadership\nand career access unemployment totaling an amount not to\nexceed 1 million, 712,558\ndollars. 4, 2 summer program service term Grant cycles JUNE\nfirst 2026 through SEPTEMBER.\n30th 2026. In JUNE. First 2027\nthrough SEPTEMBER. 30th 2027 continue to pump funding availability and program\nperformance. The 1000 was in\nthe place previously. Thank\nyou. I'm so sorry. Thank you.\nNo Thank you. Rep moving to item 3.14 This is an information report from the\ncity. Auditor on audits of the Oakland police oversight\nagencies. The Oakland Police Commission, the Community\nPolice Review Agency in Office of Inspector General. This is\nbeing requested the schedule for the APRIL 21st Public\nSafety Committee agenda item 3.15, is an information report\nfrom the Oakland Police Department. Federal Law\nEnforcement Agency Task Force annual report. And this is also being requested to be\nscheduled for the APRIL 21st Public Safety Committee\nagenda. Item 3.16, is a resolution authorizing the city minister to enter into\nprofessional services\nagreement with. So I 4\nprovisions of universal forensic extraction devices and related services for the\nOakland Police Department for a contract amount not to\nexceed $140,000 for the period\nof JULY. First 2026 to JUNE 30th 27 waiving the competitive multi step\nsolicitation process and local, small local business enterprise program\nrequirements and 3 accepting\nthe 2024. So you buy annual report and making\ndeterminations regarding\nwhether the city should continue using this technology. This is being requested to be scheduled for\nthe APRIL 21st Public Safety\nCommittee agenda. Item 3.17,\nis ordinance amending Omc 10.7 for authorizing the city\nadministrator at city to\nindustry to assess fines on sideshows, spectators, promoters and facilitators\nIxpe. Exempting law\nenforcement and members of the media engaged in their duties\nand non participating members of public. And this is being\nrequest to be scheduled for\nAPRIL. 21st 2026 Public Safety Committee agenda. I do see staff. Are you approaching for\nitem? 3.17? This ration. We would like to move this item\nending list. And will that be to the public Safety\nCommittee? Penniless? Yes,\nyes. So no date. And item 3.17, is end Orel Information report on the local police\ndepartments. Automatic resource locator policy. And\nthis is being requested to be\nscheduled for APRIL. 21st Public Safety Committee\nagenda. The administration and also requests that this item\nthe move to pending the pending less no date specific for the Public Safety\nCommittee. So noted that items 3.17, the Oakland Sideshow\nordinance in item 3.18, will the information report on the local police departments out\nof degree to store is located. Policy is both being requested\nto be scheduled to public safety and the list. No date\nspecific. Yes, please great.\nThank you so much. 3.19, is a resolution authorizing the\nsale of former Oakland fired\nboat known as the Seawolf has\na little group 4. 25 $25,000\nin a finding the sale is the best interest of the city.\nPursuant scene. And this is being requested to be\nscheduled for the MAY City\nCouncil agenda on consent in the rule. 24 for bypassing\ncommittee is due to the\nimpacted. APRIL 21st meeting\nagenda Now moving to the\ncommittees from MARCH 24th. Starting with the Finance and\nManagement Committee item 3.20, I'll be reading in the\nshort titles is a man\namendment to the ordinance. Number 1, 2, 1, 8, 7, cms, the\nsalary ordinance for various classifications exemptions and\nthe committee this consistent\n4 pieces of legislation. The first piece of legislation, the resolution was withdrawn\nwith no new date items. 2, 3\nof this legislation of the\nresolutions. The committee\napproved to move these 2 items along with the 4th item to\nAPRIL 14th Special City Council agenda at 3.30, on\nconsent in the 4th of item again scheduled for the APRIL\nrequesting to be scheduled for the APRIL 14th Special 3.30,\ncouncil meeting on consent had an amendment in part for\nupdating the title of the\nordinance to strike that says at the full time\nclassification of parking administrator in the body of\nthe ordinance on Page want to\nstrike section 2 that says the following classification is\nadded ordinance. Number 1, 2,\n1, 8, 7, in the unit, u k to pay great able to read as\nfollows classification title\nclass members step salary parking administration.\nDetails updating the related attachment a to remove the\npark em in a straighter on\nPage 8, 1, 18. Moving to item. 3.0 21, the information report\non the citywide staffing FEBRUARY 2026. The committee\napproved that this item be\nscheduled to the APRIL 14th Special City Council agenda at\n3.30, as a public hearing.\nItem 3.22 The salary survey\nresults. This item was also Rick because me was continue\nto the APRIL 21st 2026. Finance and Management\nCommittee agenda. Item. 3.0\n23. Is the Oakland's Pete Peepers investment portfolio\nin actuary valuation report. This item was received and\nfiled in committing. And item 3.0 24 the fiscal year. 25 to\n26 0nd quarter revenue and expenditures report this item\nwas also received and filed in\nthe Finance and Management Committee moving to\nrecommendations from the MARCH 24th Public Works and Transportation Committee\nstarting with item 3.0 25 is\nthe 2020 3, 2025 progress\nimplementation. Implementing\nthe 2030, equitable climate action plan and this was received and filed in\ncommittee. Item. 3.0 26 to 2025. Be packed. Annual report. This was also received\nand filed in committee. Item 3.27, the resolution in\nsupport of the California\nSenate Bill. 1218, this item was requested by committee to\nbe 42 the APRIL. 26 special City Council agenda at 3.30,\non consent. Item. 3.0 28, this\nwas the commemorative street renaming in collaboration with\nBeebe Memorial Cathedral Church. This item was\nrequested by committee to be\n42. The APRIL 14th Special City Council agenda at 3.30,\non consent. Item. 3.0 29, the ordinance to strengthen illegal dumping enforcement.\nThe the committee approved as amended the recommendations of\nstaff to be 42. The APRIL 14 special City Council agenda at\n3.30, on consent with the following amendments to page 7\nof the ordinance Section 5, 4 time calculations for\nassessment of penalties,\nadding a new whereas the dumping constituents and\ncommercial quality caught\ncontains harmful waste matter\nis a mattress upholstered furniture, appliances,\nfurniture or electronic waste, additional daily civil\npenalties of up to $1000 per\nday, maybe assessed. Into the\nnew section b, they have strict in the administrative\ncitation into the new section c they strict in the administrative fines or\npenalties. Moving to item 3.30\nthe resolution to authorize Arab its peak pilot program to\nstrengthen illegal dumping. Nations and remediation is my\napologies. And this is being requested to be scarred. The committee approved to schedule\nthis item to the APRIL 14th\nSpecial City Council agenda on\nconsent at now moving to the recommendations from the MARCH\n24th Saeidi Committee. The item 3.0 31 the lease\nagreement with the Oakland Parks and Recreation\nFoundation from maintenance of\nTyrone Kearney Park. The committee requested the item\nbe scheduled for APRIL 14th, Special City Council agenda at\n3.30, on consent. Item. 3.0 32, which consists of 2 pieces\nof legislation is amendment to the Rent Adjustment Ordinance\nand regulations. The committee approved a request to withdraw\nthe scheduling of this item to\nthe U.S. Economy and move to the Saeidi committee pending list. No date specific. Both\npieces. Now moving to the recommendations from the MARCH 24th life enrichment Committee\nagenda. Item. 3.0 33, the 2025 Library Commission annual\nreport this item was received\nand filed in committee. Item\n3.34 the citywide co-operative agreement. The committee approved as amended that the\nrecommendations of staff into before did to the APRIL 14th\nCity Council agenda at 3.30,\non non consent. The amendments were to the first resolve\nclass of legislation adding as reference in the agenda report\nand accompanying attachment. So spoke with the chair on this one. This one will go\nstraight to consent. So noted. Thank you for that. Chair\nJenkins moving to item 3.0 35, this is the purchase of real\nproperty at 31. 0, 5, San\nPablo Avenue for Hoover Library. And the committee approved the recommendations\nof staff to be 42. The APRIL\n14th, Special City Council\nagenda at 3.30, on consent. Now moving to recommendations from the MARCH 24th Public\nSafety Committee agenda item. 3.0 36, this is the let's\nthrow phone. Contracts and the committee approves staff recommendations to before\nAPRIL 14th, Special City\nCouncil agenda at 3.30, on\nconsent item. 3.0 37, the opd staff report the committee received about this item in\ncommittee. And item 3.0 38,\nthe opd gps tracker policy. The committee is proof staff's recommendations to be 42. The\nAPRIL 14th, Special City Council agenda at 3.30, on\nconsent. And that concludes\nyour item threes. And we have 3 most skinny. We have 3\nspeakers for the site. That\nwas a lot. Thank you. Clark.\nThat said the speakers. Thank\nyou for that. And calling\nthose speakers who are here in person or online, if you are online, please river. He and\nso I can easily recognize you.\nI have a regime and al Kevin Dally in Blair be committed\nany order and please state\nyour name for the record. All\nright. This is Kevin Dally. I've nit picky question on 3\ndot 20 on the salary\nordinances as you mentioned, salary for was amended to\nremove the part for the parking administrator the\nintent of the committee, too. Remove it in place it on the\npending list along with Section one or was it to\nstrike completely? I know the city administrator can add\nback in at a later date. Might\nmake sense to have a detach 2. Part one, which is the other\npart the city administrator. The item as amended, I guess\ncertain. Typically don't respond. But I can talk to\nSure. Okay. Thanks. Russian\nmodel district 4. I want to connect 3 items on your agenda\ntoday because they point to the same underlying issue.\nGovernance clarity. First 3.1 for the city auditor's report\non police oversight. The important takeaway is not just\nstaffing into structure. The\nreport identifies overlapping roles, unclear authority and\ngaps and accountability across\noversight bodies before adding resources. I would urge\ncouncil to consider a combined structural and performance review. So we are not\nreinforcing a system that lacks clear lines of\nresponsibility. Second item, 3.1, 8, the opd automatic\nresource locator policy. The city auditor specifically\nrecommended enabling gps location capability in patrol\nvehicles. So dispatchers can identify and send the closest\navailable unit. That is a practical operational improvement that can help\nreduce response times without\nadditional staffing. But we have not seen movements into\npack discussion in 2024. We're\nalso seeing policy drift. This technology was introduced as a dispatch to all but\ndiscussions have expanded into questions of discipline and\npersonnel monitoring. The Oakland Fire Department appears to have already\nimplemented a gps unable\ndispatch pilot without council approval. Could staff explain\nhow that program move forward operationally while the opd\npolicy remains pending. 3.1, 5\nfederal task force agreements\nunder a one c 9.7, the Privacy Advisory Commission must\nreview and publicly discuss and we'll use pd and federal\nagencies before they're\nexecuted. That gives that body significant influence over\ncomplex intergovernmental law enforcement agreements. But pack is a privacy body. It is\nnot a law enforcement body. It does not have operational\npublic safety or investigative expertise that creates a\nmismatch. These agreements\ninvolve violent crime,\nfirearms trafficking in multi-jurisdictional\ninvestigations. Oversight is essential, but we should ask\nfor the Oakland has given a privacy commission, outsized gatekeeping authority over\ncore public safety partnerships and in a way that\nfew other cities have. Across\nall 3 items. The issue is the\nsame. We are assigned responsibilities without\nclearly defining scope or aligning them with the\nappropriate expertise. Oversight is essential, but\nover state has to be aligned\nwith x, he's in scope right now. Authority is unclear.\nScope is expanding and\ndecisions are stalling. If we want accountability, we need to fix the structure. Thank\nyou. Thank you for your comments in our last speaker\nwho signed up for item number 3, is Blair be Continuara muted, please. I'm Beatrice.\nSomething you MAY begin. I\nthank you. Blair first time been around for a while. Good\nto see everyone. I wanted to\nspeak out about 5 items I want\nI can combine items. 2.1, 4\n3.1, 5 and then combine items.\n3.2, 6 to 3.30 and a few\nmoments. I guess only the full\n3 minutes. However, thank you\nto speak to item 3.1, 4 3.1,\nThank you for police\ncommission items for 3.1, 4. I'm still hopeful there can be\nsome ways to try to bring back former police commissioners\nwho retired, who I thought were I'd incredible service.\nImportant job. And I feel that, you know, as we have\nmade a shift in Oakland towards a more conservative\napproach to address City\nissues. I you know, I I think the previous commissioners,\nthey operate a progressive approach that's needed for the\nprocess and offered an important balance and what\nwe're trying to work towards\nus as find the middle ground of a conservative and\nprogressive values are open. So good luck that you can\ncontinue the efforts to consider the good work in the\nprevious commissioners. Their thinking is truly needed in\nhow move forward together.\nGood luck in those efforts about the federal task force\nthings. It's important to me that the pa see get an\nincredibly important service of oversight that can't be 9.\nI understand with the previous\npublic comment said they probably provide an incredibly\nimportant job of oversight that we have to certainly find\nanother. City department to opt for that oversight. We\ncan't just drop it and I hope they can continue the good work that the psc. They did\nincredibly important work.\nOversight for the federal task force agencies. We have to continue. Those efforts could\nlike how we find that and to\ngo into the cleaning items. You have a lot of new\nordinances illegal dumping. I was always from the point of\nview, if you really good tech accountability for all the\ntech around illegal dumping that creates kind of a\ncommunity effort towards positive that I hope can't be\nforgetting forgotten such a\ntime. And when you're be pack issues, 3.0, 2, 6, your yearly\nreview. Important reminder that tech accountability again\nin the importance of what the\npact tries to work towards. I hope they they understand the\nimportance of working towards tech accountability as well\nclues effort from everyone is how are community futures\nBill. And that's what they're going for to elect how we do\nthat together. Thanks for your\ntime. Thank you for that. Conclusion. Speakers for item\n3. Thank you to everybody who came out to speak. Thank you to the court for reading all\nthat. So noting 3.1 title\nchanged. 3.7 24 3 point APRIL\nto MAY 12 Finance and Management Committee. 3 point and dates going to be changed\nto a public hearing on MAY\n5th. 3.13 noting the title change 3.17 move to public\nSafety Committee pending lists. No date specific 3.18\nmove to public safety. Was date specific and 3.3, 4 move\nto consent entertain a motion\nas amended. Move approval. And that was a motion by council\nmember Brown seconded by\nCouncilmember Ramachandran to approve item 3 as amended,\nincluding time as amended on row for this is councilmember\neye on and run. And shared. I\nitem excuse Councilmember Fife is excuse item number 3\napproved as amended with 3 I's\none excuse Councilmember Fife. That now takes us to item\nnumber 4. Item. Number 4 is the review of the draft agenda\nis pending lists and the council agenda means the\ncouncil and committee\nmeetings. As we know, we are about to come up on a break.\nSo at this time it's a short list of the APRIL second rules\nagenda, religion that and the pending list for committees.\nAnd I have 2 speakers.\nCouncilmember gender. Thank you. I'd like to request to\nmake the APRIL 21st Finance Committee meeting a special\nmeeting, moving it 30 minutes\nup to 09:00am instead of 9.30, as we have the impacted agenda\ndon't want to set the entire day of meetings to delayed. I\nbelieve we do have we have confirmed with staff of other council members that will have\na quorum. Can you state the\ndate of the meeting and the time again, APRIL, 21st\nFinance Committee currently at hope would like to started at\n9 o'clock. Chair. Good morning. Trinity Hall from the office of the sort of like in\nHouston District 7 Council member. I am making requests on behalf of the council\nmember to schedule the encampment abatement policy\nfor the special City Council\nmeeting on APRIL 14th at\n09:38am. On non consent. Thank being that. This is an\nimportant item. My request would be that you guys get\nthat work with clerks items to\nget the items posted as soon as possible so that the council members have a chance\nto digest the changes as well\nas the public possible with the clerk's office 10 days\nbefore that be great. Thank you for that. And if I can just really quickly, just for\nthe public's knowledge, the\nitem that just was stated to be scheduled for this special, 90 a meeting APRIL 14th.\nThat's on the life enrichment Committee Pin De Lis. No date specific under item number to\nsell for clarity. Thank you. The administration also has a\nfew changes to the pending lists for that. Now, special\nFinance and Management Committee. The item under\nAPRIL. 21st item number 3, we'd like to request and\nthat's the information report\nfir the city administrator in response to the city auditor's\nrecommendations in substantiated whistleblower\ninvestigation regarding the\ncity of Oakland uses unauthorized formulas for calculating overtime. That\ndifferent from guidelines to move that the MAY 12 Finance\nand Management Committee meeting. Just because it's so\nimpacted. And then moving on\nto the life enrichment pending\nwest. We like to move item one\nunder the APRIL. 21st pending\nlist. The osc why 2024? 2025 final year and independent and not devalue Asian report to\nthe MAY 12th. And then finally moving on to the rules, ending\nless. Item number 4 under the\npending no date specific. We\nare requesting to schedule the reorganizing of the parking\ndivision recommendation from a 5th at the City Council\nmeeting. And noting that the parking administrator MAY come\naround then or later. And if I made use that MAY 5th on\nconsent or on on consent.\nThank you. Thank you. Seems\nlike that's any public\ncomment. Yes, I have Kevin Dowling and barely or plan come Please raise your hand if\nyou are on zoom. And I will take the in-person public\ncommenter spares. MR. Dalli is passing on his speaker. So we\ndo have big men in the queue. You're on muted. Please unmute\nyourself. And you MAY begin. Blair. Big Ben. I think I'll be I'll do the same as Kevin\nhas been a pass. Also, thank\nyou. Thank you for that. We have no more speakers for this\nitem. Thank More speakers. So\nmelting. For 21 finance and management committee will be a\nspecial meeting at 09:00am\nitem for on the pending Lewis for 21 Fmc item. Number to MAY\n12. At least see item moved to\nMAY 12. Rules number to MAY\n5th City Council meeting. Noting Elysee item number\nmoved to MAY 12. I will take a as amended. Take motion as\namended. Move approval. And that was a motion by\nCouncilmember Ramachandran seconded by COUNCILMAN Around to approve item for as amended\non role council member Brown.\nCouncilmember Ramachandran. I\nChair Jenkins. And Councilmember Fife is That\nmakes 3 has won excused as\namended. Item number 4 is\napproved. Thank you so much. That now takes us to our\ndiscussion item item number 5. It is an information report\nfrom the mayor, Charter Reform\nworking group and I have several speakers for the 32, I believe speakers for this\nitem. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for everybody that's come out to participate. I\nthink it's in. The public interest that we discussed this item when the mayor was\nelected, she. Came on and\nwanted to embark upon reviewing the charter and seeing what kind of charter\nchanges the people of Oakland\nwanted to see done. There's\nbeen immense public interest in this and the charge or\nhasn't been significantly changed with a structural of\nOakland's government for some\ntime. And so children and I found important to have this\nmeeting today take country and then I will give Spring League Women voters 7 minutes to\npresent. Thank you. Just\nechoing council PRESIDENT Jenkyns. I'm grateful to the\nmayor's office for spearheading and starting this\nprocess that a year ago, almost a year ago. And I look\nforward to discussing the recommendations hearing the\ninput of our residents. One of\nthe voters. Not sure that's\non. Good morning. Thank you\nvery much. Council PRESIDENT Council members, staff and\nmembers of the public.\nPresentation time to that. Yes, could we please have\nrepresentation be to get up? Thank you. My name is Gail\nWallace. I'm here on behalf of the legal voters. And I'm here\nwith Nicole manage from We were the co facilitators for\nthe mayor's working group. Next slide. Please. Know this\none's perfect. The mayor gave\nus and it the working group a very targeted assignment was\nto look at charter changes that could better define the\nrole of elected officials that would help address more\nresponsible. Citi Financial planning. And that would\nimprove government accountability and\ntransparency. Next slide. There was a process from last\nSEPTEMBER until this JANUARY. That as well as the\ndeliberations of the working group month after month. A\ngreat deal of community out\nreach that included in-person meetings in every council district. Thank you for those\nof you who gave us some assistance on standing those up. There were also 60\ninterviews with people extremely connected to city\ngovernment past and present. There was a survey put out and\nall of that input not brought into the working group's\ndeliberations. Just a little bit of background context. And we spoke with a number of\npeople, as Bill mentioned, and\nthey were kind of 4th key themes that kept surfacing.\nEverybody stated that Oakland's charter can't really\nbe changed without the broader\ncity context. So that's where the severe fiscal distress\nOakland is under the deep racial wealth and geographic\ninequities Oakland experiences across neighborhoods, the lack\nof sufficient authority to\ndecisively over time and a highly engaged and civic\nculture and Oakland where people want direct access to\ntheir decision makers. If you\nare the key findings, misaligned authority is creating a disconnect between\npublic expectations and actual\npowers week. Institutional alignment undermines long-term\nplanning, fiscal discipline, effective oversight and organizational complexity\nleads to operational efficiencies. That lack\naccountability and transparency. We heard from\nmany people that we talked to that everyone is in charge and\ntherefore no one is in charge.\nLuckily, there are 2 models that most city governments\nacross the country use. One is council manager where the\ncouncil acts as the unified legislative body and the mayor\nsits on the council council. The council appoints a\nprofessional manager to run city government. And there are a few examples of each of\nthese these types of care strong mayor government is\nwhere mayor is the chief executive and runs the city\ngovernment. This is a balance of power between the mayor\nwhich is the executive branch and the council, which is the\nlegislative branch, the council serves a separate\nlegislative branch of government and is responsible\nresponsible for oversight. Just a quick history. I'm we've operated in both of\nthese forms of government for a very long time. We had a\ncouncil manager from of\ngovernment in the 80's. There\nstarted to be some challenges with that form of government and some intense to start to\nmove towards a strong mayor\nform of government. Jerry Brown successfully championed\nmeasure acts 1998, which past\nquite quite well. And that gave a trial strong mayor system that was set to sunset\nafter 6 years. There is a commission formed and they chose to move forward with the\nmayor council from him government where the mayor and\nthe council were separate\nbranches. However, they did\nnot give the mayor veto powers and things like that. That would be typical in a strong\nmayor form of government. So\nthis has created a blended model at that that has\nelements of both of these models. But Lex, the benefits\nof both of them. The mayor does not serve on the council\nbut lacks the powers of the strong mayors. They can't vote\nfor Oviedo its decisions. The\ncity administrator manages agencies and operations. I apologize. You still have you\nhave 3 minutes. So make sure that you and to the rain going\nto yes, go straight to the\nrecommendations. First. And most importantly, the working\nGroup recommends that Oakland\nchange its charter to fully\nadopt one system or the other in an integrated and complete\nfashion. Next slide. Please.\nLuckily, there are there is research that tells you helped\ntoo. Identify which of these 2\nsystem actually is a match. But the character and history\nof your city. Next slide.\nPlease. The recommendation as\nto which system to adopt is to adopt the strong mayor system,\nwhich nickel has already the described in brief in which is\nmuch more fully described in our report. Next slide.\nPlease. I want to make it clear that that research and\njust referenced talked about what is the character of the\ncity that would be best served\nby a strong mayor system. So through all outreach I talked\nabout, we heard about fiscal\nstress and that's where a strong mayor system can help\nbecause it creates complex intergovernmental challenges. We heard about racial wealth\nand geographic inequities this\nalso is where strong mayors shines because it it serves best where there are\ndisparities across\nneighborhoods. You know, we've\ngot a highly engaged civic culture and strong mayor is appropriate voters expect that\nvisible executive leadership. Finally can't really see my last point there. But that's\nall right. We need someone to lead decisively and the that\nis what people were telling us\nover and over again and political fragmentation makes\nit difficult for collective accountability. Helps the favoring of the strong mayor\nsystem. So is the recommendation is based both\non feedback and on research.\nWe also recommend it balancing strengthening of the city\ncouncil with creation of a legislative budget. Analysts\noffice return of the council not number and clarifying\ncertain things in the charter about the city council's role.\nI want that close by pointing out just one thing says\nthere's reporting out saying\nthat the repair report recommends a salary raise for\nthe council. Want to clarify that because charter changes\nabout structural things. It's\nabout process. And so we noted that all the other elect did\nofficials auditor attorney mayor have salary setting\nmechanism within in charter that allows the entire package\nto be review. That's not the\ncase for the City Council. The provisions only allow for cost\nof living increases. So we\nsimply recommended that that process be changed to be\nconsistent across all of those elected offices and anything\nelse would be a factual evidence rebased thing as to\nwhat salaries any of the officials in any of these\nelected offices would receive.\nAlright, just to close out and there were a number of other\nthings that came up during the research. There were questions about the city attorney and\nthe city auditor and whether or not this should be elected\nor appointed positions around oversight bodies, including\ncommissions and and financial decision-making. Whether or not there should be some\nlong-range planning controller's office, things\nlike that. Those were all\nthings that we we recommend further analysis but went beyond the scope of this\nreview. And so some next steps, any charge, charter\nchanges must be approved by\nOakland voters and the mayor and the council are working\ntogether to determine which\nrecommendations to advance to a ballot. And we have done\nsome polling in which we we\nshared with the council\nmembers today that really shows strong support for the\nworking group's\nrecommendations any implementation of this needs\nto be there needs to be thoughtful transition periods\nso that we don't. At not fully implement all of the\nrecommendations and this should be a living document. The charter should be\nsomething that we come back to regularly and make sure that\nit actually meeting the needs of oaklanders. Just a quick\nnote, Turner from creates conditions for improvement but\ndoesn't substitute for effective leadership and management. There are a lot of\nother things that need to be done order to improve the way\nOakland works. This is just\nthe high level recommendations. The real floor report. We also\ndeveloped a full very extensive faq based on a lot of the feedback that we've\nbeen in questions that we've\nbeen getting are all available on the mayor's website. We encourage you to take a look\nat the full report. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you\nfor your work as well. Council members to you guys have any comments before we go to the\npublic Council member Brown. Thank I was gonna offer than 2\nminutes of my time. Just in case they would have because I felt like they were rushing through kind of the\npresentation. And so I just wanted to give you the\nopportunity if there was any additional input that you want\nto make sure members of the public weather here are watching virtually like you\nwant to make sure that the\nmessage just the hard work of the working group all of your efforts, there's anything else\nyou wanted to to say. That's very kind of you and I\nappreciate To the second\nrecommendation in the report.\nThere are 2 choices that almost all cities in the United States, all that we've\nlooked at and so what the committee really wanted to get\nacross was there is a problem\nwith Oakland's structure that it's a mix match that is\ndysfunctional. And therefore, the first recommendation is do\nsomething. Moved to an\nintegrated and complete system that is recognized as such and\ntested by used in multiple\nother cities. The second report, the thing I want, the second recommendation is tied\nto the 3rd. They are really recommending the street. What\nis called the strong mayor model, but it really is a\nbalance of an executive and\nthe legislative branch within the government. And therefore,\nthere are recommendations with respect to each and the final\npoint. I want to underscore is this is connected with the\ncharacter of the city of\nOakland. Otherwise it will. You could just toss a coin\nbecause they're both formal systems in deciding which one\nto choose. You really have to ask what's the history here\nwhere we coming from? What is the character of the city that\nwe have? Thank Any other comments from the council\nmembers. Okay. So you want to public comment? That's amazing\nof it. All right. Let's go to\npublic comment. As I call your name. Please approach the\npodium in any order. If you are participating via zoom, please raise your hand so I\ncan recognize you and as\nusual, I will call those who are present in chambers first. And then those who are\nparticipating via zoom after starting with Mark. So this\nguy, Kevin Dally, Jonathan\nCorn, Dina bill cough, Dory to\nBiden. George Species, Orlando\nPerez wild will whilst Taos Ski. My apologies but\nmispronounced that Blair, big\nmen, Mike Boak. John Kerr s\nRasheem and all Steve Coen.\nNaomi shift, Keith Brown amid\nAlibaba some zoo. Uber Charles\nlong. Dan Marks. That's blue.\nVeronica Garcia, Nancy folk, Steven Falk. David Vo, right,\nElizabeth Silver, Ralph Kantz,\nPamela Drake. Martell and\nimage. Millie Cleveland,\nRichard Fuentes in Libby shaft. Again, please approach\nthe podium in any order.\nPlease state your name before\nyou begin the those who are participating via zoom, please raise your hand. We'll call\nyou after we have those in-person purse. You think\nyou. Greetings. I'm Falk, co-founder of the Oakland\nCharter Reform Project and my comments are limited to 3\nquick and related points. My first point is that I urge you\nnot to adopt the strong mayor recommendation because there\nis a better way for Oakland.\nMy second point is that 97% of California cities have\nrejected the strong mayor\nsystem. With the exception of San Francisco, which is both a\ncity and county, every single\ncity in the Bay Area, large and small has rejected the\nstrong mayor model. Know California City has transition\nto a strong mayor system in\nthe last 20 years. Not one. So basically do cities are doing\nwhat the working group is asking you to do so you have\nto ask why is that? It's because study after study\nafter study has proven professionally managed cities\nwith a powerful city council are more transparent, more\nresponsive, more effective and more efficient and far less\ncorrupt. So my 3rd and final point, a lot of the public\nconversation around this issue in purse that you have only 2\nchoices, either a strong mayor or council manage or form of government. That is false.\nThat is not true. That is\nwhat's known as a false\ndichotomy. In fact, cities\ntoday rarely choose the pure.\nI apologize. Your time ended. The David Albright. Okay. You\nhave one more minute, MR. That is what's known as a false\ndichotomy. In fact, cities today rarely choose the pure\nversion of either one of those\nsystems. And instead craft a hybrid system best suited for\ntheir city. And that's what we're recommending with our\n3rd option, which features leadership by a powerful\nmayor. With a veto. Oversight\nby a more powerful city\ncouncil and the terrific public services. The professional management can\ndeliver. Thank you for your\nattention. Thank you for your\ncomments. Thanks for the opportunity to comment. My\nname is Nancy Fall. My primary\nmessage is that oaklanders need not settle for the strong\nmayor form as recommended.\nThere's the better proven 3rd option that includes several\nof the working group's recommendations while better\npositioning Oakland, given its\nunique nature for the future. This 3rd option has 3 key\nelements. Number one, it embeds a more powerful mayor\nwith the veto authority to\nserve as chair. To more powerful full-time city\nCouncil. That's supported by an independent budget and\nlegislative analyst office has\nrecommended. 3 who jointly.\nMayor plus council oversee a professionally trained\nexecutive. The city manager. There's no need to settle for\nthe strong mayor form because\nit's not the proven best structure for delivering high\nquality efficient and\neffective city services. Council manager of government\nupon which this 3rd option is\nbased is the proven best approach based on a lot of the\nresearch that is in the working group's great\nappendix. This 3rd option is 10%. And this Mayor Kemp Council manager formal\ngovernment is more efficient.\nThat strong mayor has stronger budget solvency, then strong\ntheir cities. And it's 57%\nless likely to have corruption convictions. Then strong\nmayors, cities, so lets not settle for the strong mayor option and instead adopt a\nproven 3rd option for a\nbetter. Thank you for your\ncomment. Speaker. This been a cop, I apologize. Can you please call go closer to the\nmike so we can make sure we\ncan. Accomplish? I live in district 3 I'm I'm here just\nto lend my support to the council manager system, the\nso-called 3rd option. And I'm\nasking the council to put that option. On the ballot and let\nlet the voters decide. Not the\nstrong mayor model. I'm opposed to the strong mayor model for the reasons that\nothers have expressed. But one is that with all due respect,\nI think the strong mayor system is too dependent on the\ngood faith of the person who\noccupies the mayor's seat, the structure of our government should include checks and\nbalances, continuity of professional management, accountability of the City\nCouncil. In addition to the mayor and we should look to\nwhat are other peer cities do\nall of this points to a council manager system with a\nstrengthened mayoral rule. The 3rd option. And and as others\nhave said, this is the model that is widely in use and we\nshould not ignore that. Thank\nyou. Thank you your comments.\nCurrently Indy 4. I appreciate the information report. I\nthink the the working group did a great job showing all\nthe options. And while they\nhave. Preferred choice. I\nreally appreciate their point.\nChange something, choose a new\nsystem. I suggest the council quickly set up its own working\ngroup so they can choose the\nbest options. Mention a couple\nof points. I disagree with. We\nneed an at large seat. I live\nin d for today. But I like\nmost oaklanders frequently\ntraveled throughout Oakland, 2 different districts. No 5\ndistricts in the last 24 hours\nfor me, I suspect. Other people have done better than\ntap. So we need someone who is\nable to look at the entire\nsystem and both Councilmember Brown and Council member Kaplan have done a good job\nwith that. I fear large\nmayor's election. The last 4 districts, they're sort of the last 3 district forced Yemen's\nall became mayor. We are not getting to geographical\nequity. By having large mayor's race. Only way we get\na mayor from Deep East Oakland is to have the council PRESIDENT P from Deep East\nOakland have recalled. We can't depend upon as a way of\ngetting a graphical equity Thank you for your comments.\nNext picture. Good morning. My\nname is Steve Cohn. I'm a long-term resident and\nhomeowner in Oakland my understanding try follow this\nhold process is that everyone\nbelieves that the system is dysfunctional. The city\ncouncil members have the power to develop policy, but no\npower to implement it. The mayor has the power to implement it but has no input\nin developing policy. So to\nme, if you just have a strong mayor, the city council still\ndoesn't have any. To implement the findings. By having a\nstrong mayor who can the doh?\nWork process work process of the council. That's the council in a weaker position.\nMinutes in now in respect, it,\npeople who've said that there's a lot of interest in\nhaving strong mayor. There was\na survey done by party for the\nworking group and the number\nitem was strength in the city Council provide city council\nwith more direct ways to hold administration accountable.\nAnd then put mayor back on the\ndice with the second with 82 p 82% support give mayor role on\nthe city council helps a\npolicy laws. So I hope you'll\ntake what's called the 3rd option. Having a strong mayor,\na strong city council and make Oakland the city that really\nwanted to Thank you very much.\nThank you for your comments. Thanks. Chair and council\nmember council PRESIDENT Mark.\nSo we residents of district one. I've worked for local\ngovernments for 23 years,\nincluding almost 5 years as Oakland's director of economic development. There's no\nquestion that we need charter reform. We have a dysfunctional system and I\nthink we all know that. But I disagree with the working group's recommendation find\nthere support of their\nrecommendation to be very strong. Their own website\nprovides a lot of material which if you haven't gone\nthrough it, you definitely\nshould. But I kasaan in particular pages, 7 to 9 of\nthe working group's report. Key differences between the\ncouncil manager and strong mayor, the strong concentrates\npower in a single elected individual. It heightens the\nrisk of put put it political politicization. That's a tough\nword to say. Misuse of authority decisions are driven\nby short-term electoral incentives and success depends\nheavily on the competence of the individual council manager\nlays the foundation for\nprofessional management. It insulates decisions short-term political pressures enables\nthe manager to make decisions\nthat are that are tough politically. Long-serving professionals provide\ncontinuity, stability, institutional memory and\nconsistency across election\ncycles. Most importantly, though, the council manager\nsystem will distribute political power across the\ncouncil and ensure that district representatives have equal standing in shaping\npolicy in advocating for their communities. I urge you to\ntake charter reform. Thank you\nfor your comments. All right. I'm good Morning Council members. I'm Keith Brown,\nexecutive secretary treasurer of the Alameda Labor Council.\nI'm speaking to you this\nmorning as a lifelong open resident and resident of\ndistrict. And I want to first of all, thank the work of the\nworking group. I think one thing that almost all\noaklanders agree that the city is slow to provide basic\nservices. Another thing we all agree on is that the structure\nof our city is not working. Currently, everyone is in charge would mean which means\nno one is in charge. We must establish clear lines of\nresponsibility. We must ensure\ndata structure of our\ngovernment can deliver for our\ncommunity and for better use\nof limited resources. The\nstrong mayor position. Offers clear direct accountability\nspeeds up decisions, strengthens coordination and\ndelivers results on\nhomelessness. Public safety in fiscal responsibility with\ngreater oversight and legislative capacity to better\nrepresent districts. So our community has made it clear\nthat they want us of city government to be decisive on\naction and results and a strong mayor. System allows us\nto deliver for all open neighborhoods faster and more\nefficient. Thank you for your\ncomment. Hello, I'm Mike Polk. And John Currie says with me\nhere is ceding his 90 seconds\nto me. John and I have lived\nand worked in Oakland for over\n40 years. We're part of neighbors for progressive action and Oakland Group with\nover 500 members, we support charter reform as Oakland's\ncurrent charter system. Surely\nclearly doesn't work. We do not support the strong mayor\nmodel recommended by the\nworking group. Only large cities in California have a\nstrong mayor system in entire\nstate. 2 of those San Francisco in la are special\nbeing also counties. There's a better alternative and\nempowered mayor embedded in a\ncouncil manager of government. This approach features a\ncitywide elected mayor with significant leadership\nauthority, including veto powers as recommended by the\nworking group. But also features are professionally\ntrained city manager overseen by the council in Manatee,\nMayor working together as recommended by the national\nCivic model City. City\ncharter, some variation of\nthis charter is used by 96 or 97% of the largest cities by\npopulation in our state, including 3 that are larger than Oakland and they run the\nslide that we saw just a few\nminutes ago. And that's a long\nbeach, Sacramento. And a South So this would this method would give our city council\nthe leverage it needs to help get things done in Oakland\nthat something that 83% of the people that the working group\nsurveyed said they they think is the most important, the highest percentage of anything\non that survey was that they want let the council to have the leverage to get things\ndone in the city and you won't have that leverage in the\nstrong mayor system. So one\nother thing that 82% of those surveyed said is that they\nwant the mayor to attend council meetings. Now, Barbara\nLee has said she doesn't have\nany problem with that ending mayors. But the strong mayor\ninitiative doesn't require that. And a future MAY or MAY\nnot want to. That's in fact\nhow we got where we are partly let's pay attention to what\nthe voters asked for in the in\nthe survey some of you MAY have seen maybe chefs a letter\nto the editor with Council\nmanagers widely used because most of that's mostly sauces,\nsmall cities. It's not it's\nthe opposite. As we just saw, there's there's a lot of large\ncities that have that so mindful of the upcoming\nchantelle trial. It's unlikely\nthat voters will vote for. Thank you. Your time is that.\nThank you for your time. Good Morning. Council members. My\nname is Pat Martell. I'm here today representing the\ninternational City County Management Association, a\nprofessional organization that advances transparent, responsive, effective and\nefficient local government through good governance\nleadership management,\ninnovation and ethics. As the West Coast regional director\nof I want to urge your consideration of a viable 3rd\noption. To move more effectively to deliver the results and vision by the\nmayor's working group recommendations. A strong\nmayor with veto power actively\nparticipates in city council\nmeetings leading a fully engage city council city\nmanager structure. This option creates clear lines of\nresponsibility and\naccountability. Elected officials set policy and a\nprofessionally trained managers accountable to the\nmayor and city Council for\nexecution. Local governments\nhave become larger and more complex over time and benefit\nby having trained professionals manage operations that best serve the\nneeds of the community. This structural model clarifies the\nrole of the mayor and city\ncouncil and eliminates politicizing administrative decisions while preserving\nstrong democratic control. It balances strong political\nleadership with results-driven professional administration\nallowing the mayor and city\ncouncil to to focus on community vision policy and the priorities while leaving\noperational decisions to the\ncity manager. Thank you comments. I apologize before\nthe next speaker goes. If I\ncan take one person threw the\nchair with his discretion to take one of the members of the\npublic that are participating online. I'm going give them their 2 minutes. Thank you so\nmuch for your patients for\nMonica. You are a muted. You\nMAY begin your 2 minutes. 90 seconds. Thank you so much for\nthat changes for me. Yes, you\nMAY begin. Ok? Thank you. Good morning. Council members free\nOakland in the room. I just want to start by saying that I\nreally appreciate the work\nthat's gone into this and the effort to improve how the city\nof Oakland operates. I don't think anyone with this agree\nthat Oakland, it's a faster action and more clarity around\nwho is responsible when things\naren't working. That's a I do\nhave some real concerns about the recommendation to eliminate the at-large council\nseat. If that happens, the\ncouncil would be made. Made up entirely of district 3% of and\nsystem aired Dustin Vote on legislation. We would lose\nstate only citywide elected voice and the legislative\nbranch and that matters because as we all know, Oakland, U.S. And just deal\nwith district issues, we deal with things that impact the entire city that need a\nbroader perspective. The at-large t helps connect\nneighborhoods. Bring attention\nto citywide needs and make sure no community gets\noverlook like Melrose, which\nsits in both district 5 and\ndistrict 6. From where I stand\nremoving that creates gaps at the time when we really need\nto be more connected, connect\nthat asked the city. So I just\nwant to hurt you to move forward is that in prank you for your comments? Your time\nis up. Thank you for your patients. Member of the\npublic. You MAY approach state, your name for the\nrecord. Thank you so much.\nThank you. Good Morning. Council members. My name is\nAhmed Ali. Bob Muddy 6\nresident, a dad. And I've had the chance to serve both\ninside the city and in the private sector working with\nOakland businesses. I was part of the mayor's working group on charter reform and got to\nhear from hundreds Oakland residents and the biggest\nthing I heard over and over was the need for clear\naccountability. Residents expects that when they vote\nfor a mayor, the buck stops\nthere. At my house, my home\nwhen accountability is unclear. My five-year-old just\nruns the whole house. Speaking from experience. That's not a\nmodel that we should replicate\nat City Hall. Right now, our system spreads responsibility\nacross too many places when\nsomething goes wrong. It's not\nalways clear who owns it. And that makes it harder to\nactually solve problems on\nbehalf of our residents. This\nis about aligning authority\nwith responsibility. So when decisions are made, there's\nclarity on who is accountable.\nAnd when outcomes fall short. It's clear who needs to answer\nfor. At the same time, these recommendations strengthen the\ncouncil's ability. To provide stronger legislative and financial oversight, which is\njust as important. I believe\nthis most Oakland in the right\ndirection. Thank you for your comments and thank you for\nyour patience. Speaking. Hi,\nmy name is Charlie. Long 21 year, resident of city of\nOakland in District 4. And I\nhave city manager 4 times, but\nalso I've invested 100 million dollars into downtown Oakland\nwith 2 of her projects. I\nserved on the bill go,\ndevelopment advisory Committee. And let me tell\nyou, my observation, based\nupon my awareness of how\norganizations work. And how\ndevelopment works. Oakland's or organ Oakland's\norganization is broken. There\nis no sense of common purpose. Departments are silos. They\ndon't talk to each other. They don't they don't have a sense\nof common purpose. I am here\nstrongly request. That you\nreject the strong mayor option\nbecause all it does is it\nsays, okay, we've got a broken system. Where do? We're\nbasically there are silos. Let's create another broken\nsystem where there are silos. Where the mayor basically is\nnot a participant. The council\nmanager of government. Makes\nthe city manager accountable\nthe mayor to the council and\nthe mayor sits on the city council. It has veto power and\nis an active participant. Let's create that kind of\nunified approach. 2. Thank you for your comments next.\nSpeaker. Good Morning Council members. My name is Denmark's\nexcuse me. I can resident in district 2 and of work in and for local governments for more\nthan 40 years. I'm a employee in the city former to committee velvet director in\nthe city of Berkeley. And it worked as as a ploy in several\nBay Area cities. And for the\npast 15 years, I've been a management consultant on local\ngovernment effectiveness all around the country. And in\nCalifornia. I want to thank the mayor for putting forward\nthe the mayor's task force and bringing the issue of charter\nreform to the city's attention and carry it forward as issue that we have to address in\nOakland. Clearly we need a\nmore effective government that can deliver the services that\npeople have open want. And in my opinion, did not received\nover the last many years. And I think most local residents would agree with me that we\nneed a more effective government. Not a political\none. City managers are trained in and spend their whole careers making local\ngovernment more effective. Mayors were elected for their\npolitical You meant not their organizational skills. It's for this reason that almost\nall the cities in California has been spoken earlier, adopt\na city manager form of government and I along with many of the other people have\nspoken here today based on our long experience in local\ngovernment. Believe that the 3rd option is the best option\nfor the city of Oakland and urge that you carry that\noption in some fashion forward to the citizens of Oakland.\nThank you so much. Thank you\nfor your comments. Rajon Rondo District 4. I want to start by\nacknowledging the effort here. Easier to point out what's\nbroken that to try and fix And appreciate that this process\nis attempting to do that. What I hear from my community is\nvery consistent. People want basic things to work like roads and public safety and\nmany residents don't feel we\nhave that. Charter reform is part of the solution along with fiscal in broader\ngovernance reform. But my\nconcern simple. Who is accessible to the regular\nOakland resident. When something needs to get fixed and how do we ensure that it\nactually happens? It's already difficult to get regular\nresidents. Voices heard. That makes be cautious about\nconcentrating more power in a single office where access can feel even more limited to\nthose without influence and\npower. We need a balance clear leadership with accountability and full representation,\nincluding the at-large seat. That's why I'm leaning towards\na balanced approach. Like the 3rd option. But I really urge\ncouncil choose a structure that will truly deliver\nresults with accountability and transparency and accessibility to all\nOaklanders. Thank you. Thank\nyou for your comment. Thank you. My name is Elizabeth Silver activated that the\nsilver. I I've lived here for\n48 years. Am a retired lawyer. I was city attorney of several\ncities for a total. Of 37 years. So I know what you\ndoing and I thank you for it. I'm in favor of the council\nmanager of government. The\nmost important thing that the city council does, that the\nwhole city does is its budget. And the budget is the\nblueprint for what gets done\nin the city. Council. Then house to put a point somebody\nis going to implement the budget. Just doesn't happen by\nitself. So the city administrator or city manager,\nwhatever you want to call the position is the person who\nimplements the budget. The budget includes the council's\ngoals, how many will be spent\nbut programs will be adopted.\nIt cetera. And it's important to have a professional in the\nrole implementing budget. The mayor can be on the city\nCouncil. The city manager. Really works from council\nmeeting. Council meeting. So\nthe council has control. The implementation of its\nobjectives because the council points and can fire the city\nmanager. Thank drinking, does\nnot speak. My name is Millie Cleveland. I also live in\ndistrict 4. And move one plot 30 years ago, District 5.\nEnded up in 4. I want to throw a little twist to the\ndiscussion about the\nunderlying assumptions about the council developing policy\nbut not being able to enforce\nit. The mayor can't develop\npolicy, but it's responsible for enforcement. My\nobservation coming to council\nmeetings is that our council\nrepresentatives have abdicated their responsibility,\nenforcing things that in making sure the city manager\nfollow through. The macro. A\nunit, the chief of the fire\ndepartment change the scope of work and not one council\nperson race issue. We've had\ndecades of city auditors making recommendations on how\nto deal with opd over time, which have been dismissed by\nthe council. The council voted to civilian eyes almost 40\npositions in opd, putting 40\ncops back on the street. And\nthe council. He's done nothing to force a city administrator to speak on the work that he's\nbeen accomplish. So I am\nagainst Philly. My time is up.\nI'm against the strong. Thank\nyou, Emily. Naomi I'm only\nspeaking for myself. I support something like the 3rd option,\nan effective mayor and\nineffective counsel. I got to Oakland when John reading was\nMayor. And before district elections. And I've attended\ncity Hall meeting since Lana Wilson and his city manager\nHenry Gardner. I served on a commission that vainly\nattempted to fix Jerry Brown's unworkable, incompetent\nmeasure acts. People want\neffective and accessible district representation\npublicly accountable. Mayor. The word strong shouldn't be\nused here. It's pejorative\nbecause it implies week. We've had way too much talk about\nstrong stuff at the national\nlevel. Let's get rid of that. Most cities our size used council manager system. And\nlastly. I support a point of\ncity attorney and auditor.\nBecause those posts are not\nfor anybody to run for. You\nneed somebody who has very specific qualifications. It's\nnot the same as running for\nother political offices. I really appreciate the work\nthat's been done. I vehemently oppose the strong mayor\nconcept. Thank you. Thank you for your comments called on\nnames. Ralph former chair of\nthe Public Commission. Commenting that this whole\nprocess is corrupt. That\nsection 601 requires 6 inches from 6 or the charter requires\nan advisory group. The created by resolution of the City\nCouncil. That didn't happen in\nthis case. In addition with\nthat doesn't meant there was no public meetings of this\nworking group for the public to observe the process and\nunderstand what took place.\nWell, minor detail there, but the only way you can literally\ndo this is. Do what they did 2003 and by City Council resolution create a working\ngroup that the public to participate and understand\nwhat's going on. I'm a public records request of the mayor's office back DECEMBER. That yet\nto responded to evolving\nthings like were the agendas and minutes of the meetings of\nthe working group. I'm still\nway. I was reserve Quest is.\nWere shot. Do guards contract\nwho paid for all this? Who\nactually did the work? None of\nthat is public. It's all be in bed done by a private group\nwith private money and secret\nmeetings. There's been no public process that the law\nrequires. This is a violation of the Constitution of the\nBrown Act. And a disgrace that it's been functioning. That's\nwhy. Thank you for your\ncomments. Was trying to get Levy chef to come up with me\nso we could any debate. Want\nto hear that right? First of all, I need an extra 10\nseconds before you start counting time. I need to ask\nsomebody to translate to sign. Doesn't make sense to anybody\nso far. And I want to complain about mobility issues for that\nfor this building. Please don't take my time for that.\nPlease. Please stop the time. And we time actually in\nseconds. All right. When you\nget out of the day garage and you're walking with a cane or at whatever pace to state your\nname for the red. Oh, sorry, Pamela. Draped with the\nWellston Club. You have to go all the way around. Like about an extra blocker and a block\nand a half. Somebody should be\nat the door at the other side, there's you have somebody sitting at desk there that\ncould come over and escort you over to the security. So you didn't have to go all the way\naround. Hope this not\nviolation, but seems like one. All right. Let me let me start\nmy name. How much time I going\nto get to talk. 10 seconds\nmore. 20 seconds. You know, I'm a post of the strong\nmayor. I'm not in favor of the\nwhole move movement towards authoritarianism that this country's been involved in. I\nthink we're backing off of\nthat now on top of that, there's really 2 issues that\nare the ones that are up for\nconcern. One is that when the council members have a complaint from their\nconstituents, they don't have\nany place for it to go so higher. Some assistant city\nadministrators who work directly with each council\nmember with each district MAY be giving district 7 their own\nand the other districts to to council districts for one administrator to get your\nspecial. Want to say, Ken need\nspecial anyway, that would that that person would then\nwork directly when they have a complaint say, ok, we'll see\nwhat we can do about your complaint and we'll work\ndirectly with you say you can talk to your constituents\nabout what's being done. The other issue seems to be the\nmayor should be sitting on the council. The mayor should be\navailable for people to see how she thinks how she organizes her thoughts and\nmake sure decisions. Thank\nends. Thank you, MR. Inc. You\nwere given by the Chair 10 extra seconds. So allow the\nmike to stay on long enough. Thank you for your comments.\nNext. Speaker signed up. That's PRESIDENT First. Thank\nyou. Windows. Yes, my name Richard Fuentes. I'm a leader\nin the union movement with asked me council 57\nrepresenting 26,000 workers. Also small business owner here in downtown Oakland in a\ndowntown up and resident. I'm also a member of the mayor's\nworking group for the charter reform. And I want to speak in support of our recommendations\nfor storm Mayor. We did a\ncommunity outreach. We heard throughout Oakland from every\nsingle district from working people that they wanted to\nhave strong mayor form of\ngovernment. We have serve ace. We're brown and black communities got to\nparticipate. You're hearing\ntoday about a 3rd option, a 3rd option that is not recommended by the working\ngroup. A 3rd option that has\nno input from working people from black people from Brown\npeople lets be cleared. A 3rd\noption is a privilege option working. People don't have\ntime to come today. At 10:30am, in the morning to provide their perspective.\nI've worked for 3 municipalities. I work for a special district. I've served\non a e pension board federal oversight committees where\nI've served. Let me tell you, Oakland is diverse. And because of that, the diversity\nthat we have within our city,\na strong form former government is really an\napproach that was served up lenders because Oaklanders\ndon't know who is responsible. Oaklanders don't know who's in\ncharge. Oaklanders want to know who is responsible for Philly, their potholes. Thank\nyou. Thank you for your\ncomments next. Speaker. Well, hello, my name is Libby\nSchaff. I'm a lifetime. Oakland or I am a 24 year\nveteran of city Hall and I\nspeak to you as a private citizen today. I do. I am\nprobably the only person alive\nwho was and East Oakland Council staffer under Jerry Brown, strong mayor form of\ngovernment. I was a council\nmember of district 4 and I, of\ncourse, was the mayor for 8 years. So I do bring a unique perspective on how these\ndifferent systems actually\nhave worked in the asked and happy to answer any questions.\nIf you have any. I want start by saying I was disappointed\nto hear citations of the survey and suggesting that\nthat represented voter sentiment, the survey that was\ndone by the working group was\nan opt-in survey and the demographics of respondents\n16% of respondents didn't even\nlive in Oakland. And an interesting 23% were city of\nOakland employees. So I just please do not regard those\nsurvey results as voter\nsentiment. 3 polls now have\nbeen done about how do oaklanders feel about this\nproposal? All 3 have turned\nback very clear mandates that\nOakland voters want a strong\nmayor. 61% in the polls. The polls of Pulse of Oakland pull\nin the fall. 60 4% in the East Bay Polling institute results\nand then. Mayor or other\ninsights. You want to offer. I\nI do have questions about how\nthe system worked. Yes, okay. You know, under Jerry Brant\nthis working group's proposal is essentially the same as we\nhad under Jerry Brown's strong mayor before the council took\naway the veto power. You might not remember Jerry Brown had a view to power because he\nhardly ever used it. The one time I remember was a piece\nlegislation. I actually wrote\nwhen I was the legislative aide to Council member De La\nFuente district 5 the council\nhad a lot of power in my experience. It is actually\nwhen the council and the mayor\nhad the best collaboration and the council offices\nconstituent work, which was my passion. When I worked in the\ncouncil offices actually got\ndone. There was more\nresponsiveness from the administration wall. It is not\nclear that this proposal requires the 3, 1, 1, or\nconstituent response to be\nunder the mayor at that time. It was the Oaklanders\nAssistance Center was actually part of the mayor's office and\nit was much more responsive\nthan our current system. The council had a full-time\nlegislative in budget analyst\nthat allowed us to write good legislation, proactive legislation and to have our\nown independent budget analyst\nto actually be an independent validator of financial\ninformation that we were getting from the\nadministration. So those were some of the qualities I remember from the strong\nmayor. Finally. Everyone agrees that a hybrid system is\nfuzzy and does not serve\nanyone. Option. 3 is just\nanother hybrid proposal. I would prefer to see Oakland go\nback to a council manager for of government rather than swap\none fuzzy hybrid for another.\nI know that. That that would based on my experience in\nthese 24 years in these\nvarious roles. And if anyone doesn't have any other\nquestions. I appreciate the\nopportunity. All right. Thank\nyou. Thank you for your Speakers have been called if\nyou are participating here in\nchambers and signed up to speak in her name was called please approach the podium. If\nnot, we will move on to zoom\nspeakers. I see no one rising. So we will go to those who signed up to speak in zoom. If\nyou are. And America extra time and ice speaking about\nlow mobility issues, not about the strong mayor and I would\nlike 30 seconds to finish.\nChanging it. You're out of\norder. I signed up in time. Yes, and I had to listen to\nall that stuff. If I give you extra time, I got to give\neverybody else know, if you're giving people who've been involved in government, I\ndidn't give extra time because he was involved in government.\nI didn't say All right. Well, I didn't get all my time because I'm having a problem\nwith the mobility issues and\nthe city hall. And that doesn't seem okay. So because\nthis is an issue. I will allow you that the extra seconds.\nThank you. Okay. So the strong mayor, the real issue, if you think about strong Marin, you\nthink about a corporation, you know that the idea person is\nnot the same as the detail person. There's nobody who can\ndo both. Well. And it's really\na place that ends up it was change because of all the\ncorruption. Now the current mayor is not going to be\ninvolved in corruption, but\nwhoever comes after her could use this as a real power grab.\nThat's that's what it essentially is. But the other\nthing about the legislative\noffice, I don't want a plan\nfrom the administrators the city council office. I think\nthat's a bad idea. Thank you.\nThank you for your comments. Now moving to the zoom\nspeakers. If signed up to speak for this item and you\nwish to use your time. Please raise your hand in the queue\nso I can recognize uic Blair, man. You have been muted. You\nMAY begin. I blame Beekman.\nThank you a lot for this item. I'm living in San Diego. That\nalso has a strong mayor system. And that also is having a lot of questions around the strong mayor\nsystem. I was originally from\nSan and they had a quite\ncommunity process few years ago to decide the future of strong Mayor versus Council\nmandate. City manager, ways of\nworking and easily. The community came out in supporting the future of\ncouncil manager system and created a very clear case of\nits importance. The strong\nmayor simply is there to you know, real estate interests.\nAnd those of the ridge. And I think the majority of the people are going to be for\nthis measure in Oakland are going to be either in real\nestate or rich people. And we\nhave to acknowledge that the\ntech accountability ideas that would create that whole new\ncharter ideas were created for\nback in 2014 15. It was with\nthe intention to work towards the future of community\nparticipation and open democracy as how to talk about\nour future of how we practice community together. And I think we have to be committed\nto those goals that the I've been learning. This is a\nlearning process for my so but the you know, council manager\ncity manager, way of working works towards open\nparticipatory democracy. The strong mayor form does not. It\nserves the weekend. Thank you\nfor your comments of the next speaker. In you have unit mud\nor I mean, don't eat about time and I'm in district 6 in\nhave been here for many years. And why appreciate the work\nthat the working that I\nsupport council manager\nsystem. We had one before we step mean and worked pretty well before we start to\ntinker. Now we have a system\nwe all agree is not workable.\nBut with a council managers\nsystem where we have. With the mayor sitting on the council\nand leading the effort. We\nhave a strong career, strong\ncouncil and we have the professionals, city\nCOUNCILMAN. I mean, meant I'm\ncity manager who as professional and can last\nbeyond just one administration\ndon't know exactly what that don't want to depend on the\ngoodness of And the mayor. Depending on who gets elected.\nSo I strongly support. Council\nmanager. With Strong Mayor\nSystem. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. I show one\nlast hand raised in Zoom was\nlisted under iPhone. When you to please state the name that it's written on your speaker\ncard that you signed up for.\nNeeded iPhone. Hi, hello. My name is Fernando Perez. I did\nfind up yesterday. Great.\nThank you. You MAY be my the I was raised no plan. I live\nthroughout the Bay area at Livermore. I lived in Hayward.\nI just bought a house 2 years\nago. Not back and I love open.\nI love you. I love it I'm kind\nof tired I'm kind of tired of always kind of the unique politically wise and all of\nthat and why can't we just do what our neighbors in the Bay\narea are doing and they're doing great. They They're\nfollowing. The council manager says do and I I've moved out\nof open for over 15 years. So I got I got an opportunity see\nwhat a good strong city does\nof basic track meet car\npickups are done a timely manner. So why can't we just\ndo that? Why can't we just who\nis the system that has been working for our neighbors here\nin the Bay area as well. So those are my $0.02 to nothing\nfor your time. Thank you for your comments. Again on the\nnames have to called. If you\nsigned up to speak for item 5, please approach the podium or raise your hand in the queue.\nAt this time chair. No more Thank you. Thank you. To\neveryone came out to talk about or opinion on the way that Oakland goes forward. I\nknow it's. That's because you\ncare about Oakland direction that we go. And that's the commonality that we have\nbetween us. So this won't be\nthe last meeting that we have to discuss. Potential charter\nchanges. Think it's important that everybody has an\nopportunity to weigh in in the public forum. And so I work\nwith the mayor's office and\nthe council members too schedule one other item at some point in time so that\npeople have a chance to weigh in with that. I'll open it up\nto council members. If you\nguys have any comments. Council member Brown at-large\ncouncil member Brown. Excellent. Okay. Well, thank you all so much. So I would\njust want to first start off by thanking the mayor's\nworking group. Everyone who\nwas involved. I know it's it's\nnot easy to, you know, put\ntogether the community engagement events and disorganized. You know, all everyone's thoughts and\nopinions. And so just want to offer my gratitude and thanks\nfor for that. And then in addition, really grateful for everyone who showed up today\nto kind of speak and share about whether it was their\npersonal experience. Navigating Oakland City\ngovernment and went in and how you all think that we should\nwe begin to move forward. And\nso, of course, you know, my goal in all of this is a chain\nthat we are moving forward with a government governance\nstructure that is based in\naccountability. And we're also\nensuring that we are listening\nto the concerns of our constituency. Right? And a lot\nof times, it's it's really\nbeen very consistent around. You know, at the end of the\nday, community members want\ntheir concerns to be addressed now we get into the weeds of\nhow that takes place. At the end the day, it boils down to\naccountability. And so that is what interested in. And so I\nlook forward to working with\nmy council colleagues. So Councilmember Jenkins council\nmember entendre in to to ensure that we move forward in\na path that is supportive of\nour entire city. Of course,\nthere is a larger conversation around just overall\nrepresentation. I just don't think that in our day and our\nday and age and just in this\nmoment that we should be at\nany point overall representation. One of the\npublic speakers talked about. About investment like and how\nwe are investing in our communities in it is the whole\nreason why I ran for the\nat-large seat had to do with\nthe the the blaring\nobservation of how communities\nboth in east and West Oakland\nhave underrepresented for decades. And the truth of the\nmatter is, is that in this moment that that is what we're\nliving through, right? And so\nI just I can't I cannot get behind and a recommendation\nthat seeks to eliminate\nrepresentation for for the community and I have not ran\ninto any community members\nthat say they don't understand, you the role of\nthe at large seat or there's confusion between the mayor of\nour amazing city. And so I just wanted to make sure that\nI see that on the record that I just don't believe that that\nis the direction we should be\ngoing. The report also states I guess the talking point is\nthat moving the council back\ni've number of votes. I do think that there's a simple\nfix as far as that, which we can all move forward with,\nwhich is a simple as 5 votes\nand the legislation passes. And in the event that there is\na tie breaking vote, the\nmotion fails. And so in this moment, I think more than\nanything we should be 100%\nfocused on solutions to\nimproving how our city cling governance works works. The\nbest for the people of Oakland and so that is something that\nI want to get behind. I'm\ngrateful for the the group that presented their findings\naround this 3rd option. I do\nthink that is important for so many of the important\ndecisions that we make as a\ncouncil. I do think that there is some value in ensuring that\nthe mayor can also weigh in on\nthose. And so I am supportive of that door to option. I just\nwant see that on the record.\nAnd as always, I'm always open\nto engage further with members\nof the working group. If they\nwould like as well. And that\nalso would know during the working group's process and\nwhen they met with me, I\noffered multiple recommendations of how I\nthought that we can employ\nimprove the city of Oakland's government structure. And I\ndid not see a single one of my\nrecommendations make it to the recommendations. And I think\nthat that is something that in my something that has been\nmissed, right? Because I think all of us on the council we\nhave valuable insights that we\ncan share around how we can\nimprove city of Oakland, governance. So that's that's\nall in this moment. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Councilmember\nHouston. I'm not on the rules committee. So I like to pass\nthat to councilmember around the child first before a\nstate, what I want to state. But I do want to say something. No, I do want to\nsay something about the timely\nof scheduling item. 3.1, 3, 0,\n2, 3.3 3.4 h# something up so\neveryone can see real quick. And why health that up is that\nI need to schedule a council member Brown and you're doing\nexcellent job. Everything you do work with me to an\nexcellent job. But yesterday I said I need to schedule\nbecause yesterday sat with the\nPRESIDENT, the principal of cast much and I had 150\nstudents in Castle month\nhomeless. Are you guys talking about the charter? We were\ntalking about the charter and\na charter we form because a\nshare this my district. 10\ntoes down for the mayor more\nthan any other district. My\ndistrict was for the recall. Of the mayor and of of of the\nd a more than any of the\ndistrict and everybody out here knows I've been 10 toes\ndown for the mayor from day\none. Go back to my counsel to\nmy district because they're waiting for what? How I feel\nabout this charter read by Tri\nReform. And I remember back if you go back to rob or by how\ngood it was with proper Bob, I\nmean, with that strong\ncouncil, manager. So my\nconstituents in d 7. They wait\nnon. My opinion, but I want their opinion. But if they\nlive it to my opinion on the charter reform, it would in\nline with council member Brown\nof the 3rd option because I'm tired going outside. I'm a\nscope of work in doing things that shouldn't be doing\nbecause we're not able to do\nit. Be kuz. Council members only legislation and policy. I'm tired of going to remove a\ncar myself. I'm tired of\nrelocate an encampment myself and that the city\nadministrator report it's to the mayor but doesn't report\nto us as a council right? We\nshould have that same. Authority that the city\nadministrator reports to us right? Unlike what Ryan, which\nyour son is I can just go on\nand on and But I said I was going pass it to you that you\nput to you. But I got a couple more days to say so no use\nthat as my time PRESIDENT.\nThank you. I think today is this meeting was very enlightening myself and\ncouncil PRESIDENT Jenkyns\nwanted to schedule this item specifically to continue the\nprocess of gathering community input. Today we heard plus or\n-20 comments that. We're\nopposed to the strong mayor system and open to some\nalternative. We heard about 4\nthat were for the system, but\napart from what we hear here, I can only speak for myself and I know many of my\ncolleagues who are out and\nabout the community. I have\nsaid at least 17 times in the past month when I'm in people's living rooms in my\ndistrict, on their street\ncorners and the business districts that I am\ninformation gathering stage and this is very valuable\ninput. And I'm continuing the process of listening to our\nconstituents and hearing very different perspectives for\nforgot to someone that mentioned you can't come at 10:30am, that? That's correct.\nWhich is why after 05:00pm, out in our communities talking to people in meeting them\nwhere they're at. And I've heard very different\nperspectives. And I think this\nis important to us. I\nappreciate the mayor is working group in scheduling a\nfirst round of community outreach late last year near\nthe holidays. And I think a\nlot of those sessions service information to show ask what\nis the charter? And now a couple months into this process, people are starting\nto form an opinion one way or the other. So I think this is\nvery helpful and I will take all of this into\nconsideration. Plus, all of the conversations that I have\nand this is not the last time this will be heard in council.\nWe will bring this to an evening meeting at the full\nCity council as this process\ncontinues. And I look forward\nto continuing hear what people have to say from not just my\ndistrict but all over the\ncity. Thank you. Some of the I\ncan speak in closing, I want to say them have community meetings from Sheffield\nVillage to the heels to the flat to my Latino brothers and\nsisters. This waiting for me\nto speak about spoke in front\nof 300 last week and I'm\nspeaking front 300 again this Sunday. Getting pinion, get,\nyou know that what they want because I'm I want to purple.\nThey won a green. If they want to green us, want go no\nmatter. Even found one purple. Talk to my constituents. But\nI'm definitely gonna give my\nopinion my opinion, 4 with influence on how I feel and\nwhatever they decide to decide be a community meetings for sure about this for sure.\nThank you. Thank you. Councilmember Houston Kuzma\nBrandon. More comments can on track. So make sure that I\nwork with city attorneys office to send out a timeline\nfor and which things need to\nget on the ballot. We need to\nhear them at 2 regularly scheduled meetings and that\ntimeline is tight. Encourage people to continue doing the\nresearch and continue reaching out understand that's\napparently women voters will\nbe available for questions. As Councilmember Robert Rinder and said we will hear this\nagain at a regularly scheduled\nmeeting. During council so that more people have the\nopportunity to weigh in with that, I'll entertain a motion to receive and how this in\ncommittee. Some of And that was a motion by Councilmember\nRamachandran seconded by councilor at Brown to receive\nand file item number 5 on row for that is councilmember\nbrown eye now to number 5 is excuse Councilman Ramachandran. I ensure\nJenkins. Item number 5 is received and filed with 3\nguys. One excuse Councilmember\nFife that now takes us to open\nI will read the speakers who signed up for this item. If you are participating via\nplease raise your hand. So you'll be recognized. And for\nthose who are here and chambers in person, please\nline up behind the podium in any order. I have Blair\nBeekman Kellie Kevin Dally regime and Al David boat\nright? Ralph cans, Millie,\nCleveland deal. Comey low and\nany order. Thank you. David Boatright district I agree that council member should be\npaid more. But only if the\ncouncil eliminates this city. General purpose fund deficit.\nThey contributed to without\nadding more taxes. The council members dedicate their full to\nthat. Council members dedicate\ntheir full time to their council member responsibilities as they\nimplicitly agreed to when they\nran for office. The council members attend all city\ncouncil meetings and their\ncommittee meetings with rare exceptions for healthcare,\nserious, personal reasons. It's amazing that the city\ncouncil won't allow seeding\npartial a new speaker time and then allows only part of a\nspeaker's time to be seated.\nHow can multiple city residents be given preferential treatment, especially if they didn't sign\nup to speak by that deadline and others were not allowed to\nspeak. And if cancel member Houston wants to speak without\nsigning up to speak committees\nnot on. I don't understand the\nrules. Thank you for your\ncomments. Rushdie Mundell District 4. I want to connect\ntoday's charter reform discussion to another area that deserves the same level\nof scrutiny. Police oversight. Right now council is asking\nfundamental questions about governance rolls authority and\naccountability and those exact same questions apply to our\npolice oversight system. The recent city auditor report\nmakes it clear the issue is\nnot just resources in a structure, including\noverlapping roles, unclear authority and gaps and\naccountability across multiple oversight bodies. And we're seeing the consequence of that\nstructure in practice decision. Stall responsibilities are diffuse.\nBecomes difficult to determine who is ultimately accountable\nfor outcomes. But also like to note that a significant number of the city attorney public\nopinions actually one in 4 in\nrecent years have focused\nexclusively on these oversight agencies that suggests ongoing\nuncertainty about scope and\nauthority, not just capacity. The mayor is charter former King Group provides a useful\nmodel here and brought together community members,\nexperts and stakeholders to\nevaluate governance and develop clear recommendations. Encourage council to consider\na similar approach for police oversight. Thank you for your\ncomments next. Speaker. Million Cleveland to street\nfor I would like you place on\nrules over time. Opd overtime\nfor public safety. This is\nsignificant effect on our budget. I understand that it\nwas placed on the agenda for\nit. Finance, but it is not\njust a finance issue. It is an\noperational issue for decades.\nCity auditors have made very concrete recommendations on\nhow to control opd over time that the city administrator\nhas never implemented. And you\nguys ignored. I also think\nthat other issue that needs to be placed on the agenda peel\nways m o u. It has a lot of\ntweaking that needs to be discussed out in the open.\nPeople are trying to be at the negotiating table, but there is no law that would stop you\nfrom putting that. Thank you for your comments next.\nSpeaker. Well, you. I'm hoping that you'll follow up on the\nsuggestion from the member of\nthe public Ethics Commission\nto investigate whether you whether the council it's\nlegally required to set up public hearings on the charter\nreform or whether we can just.\nMove directly to a vote in in counseling committee and\nhoping that we have public. Public forums for more than 90\nseconds. Discussion out. Looking forward to the answer from the city attorney and\nthanks. Thank you for your\ncomments. Good morning. And\nyou'll low. I me I'm a brown guy. I'm a former resident.\nI'm a former employee home hr director here. Cardio city\nmanager and I've got 32 years\nin public sector governance. For me, the kid political\nissue is how is the city going\nto be managed? I care about\nthe city I run here every week. I come from an to run it\naround Lake Merritt every\nSaturday morning. My point is I really, really care about\nthis city. I can in my hometown cause have been home to for the last 40 since I got\noff 10:00am flight governor\nsays the key issue. And\nplease, please, please do not double down on a failed\nsystem. Strongman system is a failed system. What does work consistently around the\ncountry local city governance\nis council manager from a government. I can tell you with 32 years of service,\nincluding 3 years yet the city\nof open and Cardiff, City manager, that system works.\nPlease go to option 3. Thank you for your comments next.\nSpeaker. Afternoon, Ralph remembering the tension of house flippers. Your attention\nagain. He keep ignoring those the mayor's office will respond. I don't know what's\ngoing You're losing millions\nand millions of dollars. Permit fees are being enforced. The leads don't that\nplaced on the property. There's no actual constructive\nnotice to a buyer. Therefore\nthe fuse never get paid. The city is losing millions and\nmillions of dollars. It also adds to garbage being dumped\nbecause the rules are out. Disposal by under during construction are being\nfollowed. Why don't you want do something when you have a\nmoney trouble? That's all\nabout money. You're being\nripped off like crazy. Almost none of these people are even from Oakland. It's all money.\nLeaving the city that you\nshould be getting a cut of because of what the city does\nfor those people. And Jake, as you're saying, oil, look at me\nagain. I mean, what is this? You got there's a screen out\nhere. Thank you for your out.\nThere's a screen right here. That's right. Thank you for\nyour comments. Brief said it\nnext. Speaker. I next. Next. My next speaker is Blair Beekman. Please unmute\nyourself. You MAY begin. All right. Thank Really\ninteresting meeting today. Thank you. Really good public\ncomment here in open form. Thank you. Good luck in\naddressing the overtime pay\nthe MARCH committee meetings overall seemed like a really\ngood session. Good learning\nexperience for myself. Really happy just to learn things\nfrom the MARCH 10 session and overtime was a part of that.\nSo good luck. And that I think\nit's going to take much longer 2028 carted changes can be can\ncome to a to a vote. Good luck that we can have a community\ndiscussion. I'm encouraged by\nwhat people have said. Thank\nyou. And I wanted to comment just another. Thank you for\nthe work of the flock issues that we've created a compromise process. We can\ntalk about a new flock vendor. And that's an important concept for all of us. We can\ndevelop a good future. It's\ngood example California. Thank you for your comments. That was the last open Speaker.\nThank you. This meeting is"
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