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And welcome to the rules and legislation\nCommittee of APRIL. 2nd, before I side before Conroe, I\nwill go over guard\ninstructions. If you like to submit a speaker hard for any\nitem on decision day, you must fill out a speaker's card\nbefore the item is called for discussion. You can fill out a\nspeaker's card by getting a card at the front table where\nthe clerk represent is our city and turning the car\nbefore the item is called or\n10 minutes after the start of this meeting. This meeting was\ncalled order at 10. 33 so your last opportunity to turn\nspeaker's card will be at\n10:43am. If you're looking to turn in an online speaker card, those cards were do 24\nhours before the start of this\nmeeting. Going to Roll Council member Brown PRESIDENT\nCouncilmember Fine PRESIDENT Council member Ahmed charges excuse and Chair Jenkins will\nbe chairing this meeting. PRESIDENT Showing members present one excuse councilmember around the child\nrun. There are no minutes to approve at this meeting. Going\nto item 3. Which is. New\nscheduling. Item. 3.1 As a resolution affirming the\nmayor's appointment of engine. So the bicyclists possessed\npedestrian advisory board disaster goes with the APRIL 14th Special City Council\nagenda on consent. Road. 24 reason the bicycle and\npedestrian advisory commission currently has a special\nvacancy filling the seat now ensures the commission can\ncontinue its work without disruption, basically as a city advances, critical safety\nand infrastructure initiatives affecting cyclists and\npedestrians. Item 3.2 a resolution affirming the maze\nReappointments of Ingrid\nSeverson Cynthia Elliott and Jacqueline Long as members of\nthe community Policing advisory board, sas Acosta, the APRIL 14th, Special City\nCouncil agenda on consent. The\nrow. 24 reason the Oakland Committee Police Advisory\nBoard currently has multiple vacancies and MAY experience quorum issues filling the\nseats now is essential to ensure the board can continue\nhis work without disruption, particularly as it addresses\nthe critical matters related to police, oversight, accountability and community\ntrust. Item. 3.3 a resolution amending and restating the council rules of procedure in\ntheir entirety in order to add route. 33 regarding hybrid\nmeetings and technological disruptions on the APRIL 16th rules and legislation\ncommittee agenda. At a 3.4 a\nresolution approving the appointment of a new a team without a 180 day break in\nservice where the appointment\nis necessary to fill a need position before 180 days at\npass since the employees retirement in accordance with\ngovernment code sections 2, 2,\nto 4. And 75 to 2.5, 6. This is asked to go to the APRIL 21st Finance and Management\nCommittee agenda. Through that\nchair. Her council member on\nthe child runs request office requesting to move this item\nto the MAY 12 Finance and\nManagement Committee because the APRIL 21st meeting is so\nimpacted. So noted item 3.4 is requested to go to MAY\n12th Finance and Management Committee 3.5, a resolution\naccepting public public infrastructure improvements directing the filling Devon\nand conditional certificate of completion for the MacArthur\nTransit Village Phase One per\nthe subdivision improvement agreement for the for\nconstruction of public infrastructure improvements\nand making Siegel findings asked to go to the APRIL 21st Public Safety in\nTransportation Committee. And 3.6, a resolution authorizing the city administrator to\nexecute a grant agreement with all the Parks and Recreation\nFoundation as fiscal sponsor for the East Oakland\nneighborhood initiative in an\namount not to exceed $25,000 to disperse resilience have\ngrant funds previously awarded\nto the city of Oakland by pg e\non APRIL, 21st cd committee.\nItem 3.7 Resolution to declare for city-owned parcels located\nat 28 24 82nd Avenue in 83. 27\nthrough 83. 29 golf links road\nas sir surplus land pursuant to the Surplus Land Act authorize the issuance of\nnotice of availability and of\nthe Surplus Land Act pri prioritize offers that provide\naffordable housing consistent\nwith the Surplus Land Act. And\nmake related sequel. Findings on the APRIL 21st cd\nCommittee. And a 3.8 is a title change already the new\ntitle. Resolution authorizing\nthe city administration negotiate and execute a nuke\nslow exclusive negotiating agreement with the news emerge as an art for development of a\nmuseum in our facility on the property located at 13 Sand\nOak Street for an 18 month\nterm condition on payment of\n$10,500. The 8 exclusive negotiation payment with one\nadditional six-month administrative extension\ncondition on payment. On sees\nme as an additional $3,500 in adopting sequel. Findings on\nthe APRIL 21st cd Committee.\nItem 3.9 a resolution amending a professional services agreement which trustees of\nthe University of Pennsylvania for a term of JULY one 2025 to\nDECEMBER 31st. 2028. To add $200,000 for a total amount\nnot to exceed 639,000 $952 evaluate the city of Oakland\ncease-fire life. My strategy\nwave in the city of Oakland, local, small local business\nenterprise program requirements and bidding process in awarding a grant\nagreement to faith in Action East Bay for the time or JULY\none. 2026 to JUNE 30 2027 for services related open\ncease-fire life. My strategy\nfor total cost not to exceed\n$150,000 on the public safe. I'm sorry, able 21st public\nSafety Committee agenda and this this conclude all your\nitems for new scheduling. You\ndo have speakers on this item.\nLet's go to the speakers. As I call your name. Please approach the podium in any order, please raise your hand\non zoom so I can easily\nidentify you. Kevin Blair, be\nmen. And Brianna Horton in any order, please approach the\npodium or raise your hand so I\ncan identify you on Sunday. Again. If you're in chambers,\nplease step to the podium. Otherwise we will move on to\nspeakers. Is no one is at the\npodium. We will go citizens speakers. I see Billy a beak man. I have you with multiple\nitems. Please unmute yourself\nin the in your comments. I thank you where the front\nhappy APRIL. I wanted to comment on items. 3.0, 1, 2,\n0.2 3.3 About the appointment of a person to the bicycle\npedestrian advisory committee\nbe packed thanks again for\nthis committee. I think they do interesting work. I hope\nmain point to always ask.\nGroups like the pack and the pa, see connect and have good\nconnections and understandings together. I they can be they\nthey share similar thinking on a lot items. And yet in some\nways they can be very different. I hope it can be\nways to bring the 2 groups together and in the importance\nof the pack, building a safe, safe roads for their bicycle\nfuture for the bicycle\npicture. I hope they can want to be accountable with the\ntech involved learning that language and understanding\ntogether. Good look how we can\ndo that as a community process item. Distinctly appointments\nto community police advisory\nboard. Am I getting the sense\nthat these persons recommended are the people taking over from the previous people who\nhave dismissed. I'd said if\nthis is a case, it is the case\nthis is as happening, I hope they're the previous\nleadership that previous thinking can find a place in\nthe future of Oakland and that it can be a good voice and a\nrespected voice and an important voice and we can\ncontinue. The balance in what\nour future can be. Good luck. How we find a really good\nbalance and that all voices can be respected and have a\nplace in our community\nprocess. 3.3 is. Council rules\nand procedure of my gosh, call-up the state of\nCalifornia created Senate Bill\n707. All public meetings in California Underground Act\nrules have to follow Zoom in the future. So I think this is\nwhat this is addressing. Good.\nIt's it's a very nice thing to\ndo. Offers a lot more public accessibility that people can\ncall you. Zoom Republic\nmeetings now, I don't know how Oakland's going to use it. Good luck in in working with\ncommunity on that. And it does have to address, unfortunately, voices from\nmany different people. Good\nluck working out good. A legal\nconcepts and that we can all understand is a community\nprocess and that the is incredibly important trustworthy and good luck that\nwe develop that as a community. We all can do that\ntogether. And I'm yeah. So thanks. Thanks for the items\nhere today. Thank you. MISS A\nbeat going sit MR. Dalli Kevin, please unmute yourself\nand begin your comment. Hi,\nthis is Kevin de Le. Concerned\nor interested in tree dot for the exception to the 180 day waiting period for retired and\ndo it. Right now. I I don't\nyet see a description how the city administrator determined\nthat there a critically needed\nposition to allow an exception\nfor the state law that 180 day period. I'd like to see a\ndescription of that. I hope that has nothing to do with\nthe park. Administrator. The\nprevious speaker. Next item. I'm also interested seeing\nzoom installed yet. Meetings besides city council when I definitely appreciate it.\nToday, but looking forward to seeing it at the packed\nmeetings which are currently\nlisted only availability and hoping open table to ahead\nwith that. And looking forward\nto rides And The pack. Thank\nyou for your time. Thank you for your comments Masoud Ali.\nBrianna, Horton, are you in\nthe chamber on zoom set to the podium or raise your hand\notherwise at this time on\nnames have been called. Noting the change of item 3.4 being\nmoved to the MAY 12 Fmc. I'll\nentertain a motion. So moved.\nThe second. On the motion by Councilmember 5 second by\ncouncil member Brown. To\napprove item 3 as amended. Council member Brown. I House\nmember 5. Councilmember Ramachandran is excuse Chair\nJenkins. Hi motion. Passes\nwith a vote of 3 eyes. One excuse once item for review. A\ndraft agenda is pending. La City Council and committee\nmeetings. You do have speakers\non this item. Reminding the\npublic that APRIL 21st Finance\nand Management Committee will start at 09:00am. And I see representative from district\n2. On behalf of Councilmember\nlong time. There is a item on the as us for APRIL 21st and\nthe first item adopting a resolution authorizing the\ncity administrator to negotiate terms and enter into\nan advertising signs.\nResolution agreement with out front foster interstate she\nwould like to put that on pending this with no date\nspecific. If I MAY council PRESIDENT That works for as sheriff's e d that works for\nme. Thank you. Get Did the chair. Can you please clarify\nwhat the agenda item is on that list and under item for\non the agenda. It's APRIL 21st\nSaeidi. Agenda. So it's not\nstate. The pending this. Is it items. Number one item number\none on the pending\nAnything\nelse? Speakers? As a please\napproach pope. As a push the podium in any order. Please\nstate your name for the record\nbefore beginning. Kim and Ali.\nBlair beat Brianna Horton and\nrising Mundial. Rushdie mental\ndistrict. 4. I'm asking that\nitem 24, 0, 3, 3, 6, be placed back on a future council\nagenda. For months. We've heard the same concern.\nOakland's police oversight system has structural problems, overlapping roles,\nunclear authority and gaps and accountability. The city\nauditor was clear. This is not\njust about staffing. It's about governance. And when\ngovernance is unclear, the outcome is predictable and\nconsistent process on certain authority and decisions that\ndon't hold up to public\nscrutiny. Item 24, 0, 3, 3, 6, begins to address this by\nsimplifying appointments and restoring clear lines of\naccountability. But the bigger question remains, is this\nsystem actually working dies 24, 0, 3, 3, 6, gives council\nthe chance to answer in that openly and with the public\nbecause if we don't take this\nup now we are accepting a system where accountability is\noptional. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Move into\nthe zone. Speakers. Starting with MR. Beekman please unmute yourself and begin your\ncomments. Wear big I want to comment on the upcoming\nfinance Thanks for the previous words, the public\ncomment that could speak to\nconcepts of balance and then we practice valens well in a\npicture of appointment process, good luck. And those\nsort of efforts. I mean, just\nfinance things coming up that you are going to continue to tough. Talk about public\nsafety overtime for opd. I\nthought it was a really\ndiscussion finance on MARCH 10\nas all the meetings with her committee meetings that day,\nit was just a really\ninformative lesson to me. And\npublic comment. I did. You know, the police operate. I that I felt good factual\ninformation trying to be as honest as possible. And\ncommunity also offered really good public comment in return.\nAnd I think it was just a\ngreat session and I hope you continue those sort of effort\nlearning and understanding I'm interested finance They'll be\nhandling the future of the\ntraffic issues that count suppressing Gallo. Very\nnicely. Spoke to back in\nJANUARY, FEBRUARY the state of California can have an\nimportant part in the future cast collection and we don't\nhave to pay for the services. How is that going? The the\nrecent funding from JANUARY? It's going to end probably\naround late APRIL MAY. I would\nguess how is that going over And just a good luck in in\naddressing on the tech\naccountability issues needed\nin that not subject you know, littered check traffic issues\nin step by. If do that openly\nunaccountably, it invites better selves and best practices and that's how you\nbuild a city. Thank you. Thank you your comments. MISS To\nBeekman going to MISTER Dalli. Please unmute yourself and\nbegin your comments. But this Kevin Galley and to discuss\nthe pending list for the Finance Committee requesting\nthat replaced the items related to the position\nparking administrator that on\nthe pending list for finance\nand make sure that the item to appear on the Finance\ncommittee before the items\nmade to count full, hoping\nthat they are put on when the city administrator slated to\npresent Partin minister that pulled from the finance\ncommittee at a meeting in in\nthe back and forth. We never\nquite but the 2 positions back on the pending lists buying\nit. It's important or council that followed the normal\nprocedure and help finance committee consider the positions before they come to\nthe Polk Thank you. Thank you for your comments. All names\nhave been caught. So no ting\nitem one. Item one. See the sending that APRIL 20 for sending that to the pending\nless. Is that correct? No date\nspecific entertain a motion.\nAnd a reminder, APRIL 21st Finance Committee will start\nat 09:00am. Move approval of\nthe penniless. On the motion by Council member Brown sing My Councilmember 5 to approve\nthat pending Liz Council member Brown. I Councilmember\n5. I count. I'm sorry.\nCouncil. PRESIDENT Jenkins. Noting that Councilmember\nRamachandran is excuse motion\npasses with a vote of 3 eyes.\nThat was all of your scheduling in action items for\nthis meeting. Moving to open\nform. Kevin Valley, the men in this crash, is approach the\npodium. And region so I can\neasily identify 3 years\nresting on district. 4. The police commission just made a major decision off agenda and\nout of public view. Commissioner was elevated in\nclosed session, but that decision was not listed on the\nagenda. So the public had no notice and no opportunity to\ncomment. That alone undermines public trust. And that's\ninconsistent in MAY 2024, this was handled in open session with the public agenda and a\nvote. So the question is simple. Why was this handled\ndifferently this time? This individual is rejected twice by city Council, but now its\nposition to become a full commissioner anyway, if\ncouncil said know, how does this process respect that\ndecision? Council Oakland is still under federal oversight\nand the court has been clear\nprogress depends on alignment and collaboration. Actions\nlike this create confusion and conflict when the city needs\nto be working together at a time in Oakland is so close to\nexiting federal oversight that\ncarries real risk. Thank you. Speaker Blair Beekman. Please\nunmute yourself begin your\ncomments. I thank you. Sb 707, starts the beginning JULY. The\nzoom item for the public. Good luck. And what can do is\ncommunity together. Before\nthen. What else they want to\nmention the strong mayor issues us a real good luck I\nheard the words from public comment about governance and man, I thought that was such\nbeautiful tournament. So well\ndescribe that. However, we move forward. I hope it's\ntoward governance and I I being from San Diego, you\nknow, they've been the council committee process has been\ntrying to develop, you know, really good examples of\ngovernance, a better governance. A strong mayor keeps rejected it in San\nDiego. Is that what's going to happen? And Oakland, we can only accept examples if it's from the strong mayor\nposition. Governance is vitally important good luck and how we can do that. I\nthink it can come from. A\ncouncil city manager position. Thank you. MISS A big move for\nyour Names have been called. Thank you. 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