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I'm not, if you can make me a co-host, and panels should not be able to start video.

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And Mark, we have a quorum of the city council, so let me know we can start.

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Twenty, if you can play the COVID-19 meeting us reporting, as I don't have that readily available on this device.

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I'd like to call to order the regular meeting of the Berkeley City Council.

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For T state that you are 8th, 2022.

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And for we call the wall, I'd like to ask the city court to play the COVID-19 meeting.

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That's for court.

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Pursuing to government code section 54953E and the state declared emergency, this meeting will be conducted exclusively through teleconference and zoom video conference.

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Okay, thank you. The first item of our agenda is roll call.

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I'd like to ask a city quote please call.

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Councilmember Kester running here.

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Tap on.

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Councilmember Harrison is in the attendees list.

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Let's continue to make a meeting.

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Let's bring that.

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Let's see your way down.

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Councilmember Hawn.

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When, when, grab.

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Aubence in.

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Droughts D.

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Cormous Presence.

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Form of the City Council's President.

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And if you do see Vice Mayor Harrison,

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if you can move her over at that,

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be greatly appreciated.

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which is ceremonial matters.

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or from the Vice Mayor,

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former service to the City Council,

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and the City of Berkeley,

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over the past year,

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as the Council member will call.

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deserve an acquisition for the calendar year of 2021.

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to stepping in and helping facilitate.

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which we will be dropping off to you this week,

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the Berkeley City Council gives us

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deepest thanks to Council member Roy Droughts D.

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to send her 15,

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And I will be dropping this up to you this weekend.

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if you have any words,

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we learned this weekend of a census,

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shooting which occurred on the Interstate 80 Freeway,

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which took the life of a

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Berkeley native in somebody who has deepened

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and I want to recognize that council of a

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tabloom to see if you words.

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I wrote out a Mr. Ransom.

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He was a Berkeley native.

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helping coach the Berkeley high.

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Berkeley high basketball team.

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Thank you for for suggesting this recognition.

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Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor.

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I'll just add that Mr. Ransom was also a friend of my.

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I think we'll just go together and then

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and do one other for a long time.

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So, hi, ladies and gentlemen.

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Of being a strong event here in at Berkeley high grad.

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I call grad.

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So, my name is consent sadly.

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We will be adjourned at tonight's Berkeley City Council meeting.

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Welcome later.

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June Ransom.

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Council member captain for suggesting that we honor his life this evening. Okay, the fact

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I'd like to proceed to the next four of our business, which is City Manager comments,

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like that's City Manager. She has any council for this comments for the City Council

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and the policy. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and Council member comments this evening. Okay, thank you.

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So with that, we proceed to public comment on non-agenda matters. This is an opportunity for attendees

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to address anything that's not in our public city council agenda this evening. The way that

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we'll conduct this public comment period is we will select the first ten ways hands and you

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speak or have one minute to address the council and in addition to this initial non-agenda public

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comment period, we will also have another public comment period on non-agenda matters at the conclusion

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of our meeting this evening. So I will call the names like the City Clerk's Act activate the lines.

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We have way more hands that we can call on at this time. So we welcome your comments and if we're

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not able to get to you, we'd like to encourage you to submit your comments and writing to council at

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City of Berkeley. So once again, I'll call the speakers in the City Clerk's Act and I can

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go to the lines. The first ways hand is EACHS each and debate.

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You do. Hi, that's me. I'm Rebecca Milliken. Sorry about this name there. I'm I'm

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seating my time to my colleague, Marna Schwartz. Okay, so I'll make note of that with Marna's

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two minutes. Thank you. We'll go next to Quarka Flores.

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Hi, hello, Mayor and City Council members. I'm Laura Flores, Health Center Manager for Berkeley

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High School and Local One President. I'm here to urge the Council of Sports City of Berkeley employees

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with a Tepper Ram down. For fiscal year 2021-22, there was to be a 3% reduction following the

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adoption of the contract that workers fought hard for in July 2021. The first Ram down will not be

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seen until May 2022 and the second Ram down is that to occur in August September of this year.

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The City has declined to offer retroactive compensation equivalent to the exact amount of each

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and every prep or contribution reduction to all our employees in our bargaining units in order to

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make them hold for the economic losses. Local one members have reached out to me and shared their

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stories of how expensive rank and mortgage are, how much they have to pay to send their kids to school

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and how the city is failing to honor the contract of our all-pepper employees. I'm asking the council

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to please work with the City Management to make this right. Thank you. Thank you. Okay,

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now I'll go to Marna Schwartz and Marna has two minutes. Hi, we need this Marna Schwartz and I work

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in office and energy and sustainability and what about that. And I work on building notification and

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our climate equity fund and leading our solar post storage for increased resilience

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at our critical municipal facilities. And I remember at SEI, you've taken 21 CSU and have been with

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the City for 13 years. I love my work and my division colleagues and I love that we're at the

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Van Varde of the environmental movement. But within our city we're not going to pay the salaries and benefits

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that are clearly laid out in our contract. The most basic principle of employment is a worker works

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and an employer pays them for that work. But this is not happening. The city missed my step

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increase for 2.5 years due to an its own limited payroll computational error and was now refusing

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to pay me that many back. That's well over $7,000 in lost wages, which equals more than 13% of my last

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year salary or performance of my household child care costs on top of that they neglected to start

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the calculus ramp down from my petrocolates. I don't know why they're not paying us, but I do

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know how it feels. It's heartbreaking. It makes me cry. So much so that my failure of daughter brings me

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her biggest stuff to animals to comfort me. It's disheartening and demoralizing and truly misdemeying.

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As I drop language for a council report or speak to community organizations about their

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equitable electrification, I can currently think. How could the city treat me this way?

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How is it to anyone's benefit to not pay me and my colleagues for the work that we are doing? This

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contradicts the progressive values for which the Berkeley reports to stand. Now, care is leading Berkeley.

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Their property taxes pay for the good work I do for the city, but when I talk them and the other

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Berkeley friends and that our employees are not getting paid what's in our contract for a guest.

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And since the lack of moral and legal obligations the city for the city to pay for their employees,

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it was a fundamental basis of employment and the ultimate betrayal of trust. And they just

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don't know how we will ever repair the hurt that this has caused.

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Part of me really quickly. Manicity manager, I'd just like to refer this to your attention.

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Okay, let's proceed to the next speaker.

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Who is the name MX3, the Jazz Council, please hold your comments and show after the public comment group.

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Hello, my name is Axel. And Kida, I do not know why I show that to that. And I'm currently a high school student

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who's more and more expert in the city of Berkeley particularly in the planning department.

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She's been working there for five years and she helps the city create and meet its articles through

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community engagement. She loves her job and loves helping out the community.

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But my mom is also a pepper member and by her contract, which is ratified by this specific

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council which I'm speaking to, choose first to see a 3% reduction in her palpers retirement

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contribution, no leader than this past January. But the city has not yet implemented this reduction.

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So that means there's a 3% loss in her take home pay her current I see I union union has been talking

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to the city for months now about this issue. And then it even provided guidance and had a quickly

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implemented this after that.

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Reaction with Calpers, but this city has not been able to do so, and is dragging the heels and is not being able to meet with the union so that they can fix this issue.

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This is being incredibly difficult on my family, especially as my older brother, Toby is preparing to go to college, and it is incredibly important that the city will stratify this specific contract that requires for this Calpers reduction.

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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We're going to have a Sasha Green.

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Thank you. Can you hear me? Yes. Excellent. Good evening, city council members. Thank you for your time.

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And thank you for your service to this community and for hearing my concerns. I'm here to express concern about the pending GTE mobile net versus city of Berkeley lawsuit.

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I'm concerned because the city has not yet responded to Verizon's motion for summary judgment. There's still time, but it's February 15th.

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And so, just want to remind this council that back in July of 2020, this council agreed that to not allow Verizon to place a facility that contains a large amount of diesel fuel and a 50 foot electrified structure directly on an earthquake fault in a residential neighborhood and within 25 feet of women most heavily visited parks and Berkeley.

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It's a major half concerned. We know earthquakes aren't imminent risk of this community. A strong earthquake will cause critical infrastructure problems, including damaged water storage, which could put the generator and electrical supply that's proposed for this tower underwater.

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Earth quakes are not a question of it. It's a question of being prepared for when. So thank you for your consideration for your time.

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Okay. Thank you very much. We'll go to the next speaker.

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Who is so re-alpert.

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Good evening. Mayor and members of the city council. My name is Sally Albert. I'm a city worker in member of SIA U1021.

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And thank you council member for your initiative. But the conditions have been brought to the city manager's attention and that's exactly the problem.

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As a legislative assistant, I know those of us who work in policy sometimes isn't a thinking issue the abstract. And so I think it's important.

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But we're reminded of the fact that every item that appears in the council agenda, every direction, resolution and referral represents the time work and commitment of city workers.

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Those are workers at the desk requiring contracts, researching policies and alternatives and writing reports that come through agenda.

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Workers providing services to our community and every conceivable realm at a library behind service desks and out in encampments amongst almost vulnerable.

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Workers who are preparing for and building the infrastructure we rely on and they'll be using for decades to come.

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The city of the contract with those workers, the contract that took months to negotiate and was invoked on and ratified by those sides. That contract is being broken.

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The CSUP Charlie chapter alone has not one, not two, but three grievances that are already at or passed the final step before arbitration.

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When taking with the failure to address or even acknowledge many COVID workplace safety concerns, workers are left with no confidence that rising raising issues to management was often any productive outcome.

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That is why we are here tonight to raise these issues to counsel detention and ask that you work with us to honor the contract and try COVID safety workers in our community.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, sir.

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Okay, we'll go now to you.

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Charles Clark.

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Mayor and council, this is Charles Clark from District 6.

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At first, a word from our guest speaker.

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I think it is clear that we can't show the increase.

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Thank you.

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Empty words gain meaning when you put money behind them.

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By the end of the paving plan you approved last month, the general fund allocation for street repair will have been stuck at 1.95 million dollars for its 20th consecutive year.

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The public works department needs 15.1 million dollars every year just to keep streets in their current crummy condition.

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The finance department has told you nearly all the property transfer tax revenue the city collects from now until June 30th would be available for infrastructure needs under council city fiscal policy.

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So please put your money where your mouth is.

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Okay.

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Thank you.

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We'll go to the next speaker.

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Who is Thomas?

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Hello, Mr. Mayor.

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Don't see first of all paying staff who are working on the economy.

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Emergency is probably one of the most important expenditures you could make.

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We send updates on the severity of the emergency.

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In about three to five years, we'll cross the threshold that absolutely guarantees global heating exceeds 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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And we send the findings of earlier calculations show that that means alcohol will become extinct.

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And it will take about 25% of our marine life.

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And therefore the livelihoods of a half a billion people, which is to say 15% of the global workforce would be disrupted as well the food supply that they provide.

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That's one small place of how bad things are getting.

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Don't get worse until you treat it by an emergency and act like it's an emergency.

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Okay.

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Thank you.

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We're going to the next speaker.

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Who is see or where's going.

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See or where's go.

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You should be able to speak.

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Does it meet yourself?

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Can you hear me?

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No, we can.

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Thank you for.

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Thank you, Mayor.

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And see council members for listening.

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I'm calling about the ramp down.

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That has not happened for city employees.

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I want to echo one of.

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That see employee earlier, who had mentioned out of the environmental sustainability unit.

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How she was not paid.

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You know, retropaid for two years.

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For first step increase that was that did not happen.

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I too that that too happened to me as well.

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So I wasn't aware that this is.

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Not something that other people who are experiencing as well.

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So.

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I'm glad that she mentioned that.

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But I also want to say that.

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I was present in a lot of the negotiation meetings.

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Along with my colleagues.

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To speak.

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To to negotiate for the rent.

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Pepper ramp down.

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And it took a lot of our energy.

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A lot of our private personal time.

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You know, on our breaks during work.

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Or after work like right now speaking at the city council hours.

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And during that time.

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I heard a lot about.

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What other employees are experiencing this city of Berkeley.

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And there was staffing issues amongst the many of concerns.

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That was commonplace.

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And people sounded like they were burned out like they were overworked and underpaid.

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And right now with inflation at an all time high.

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With gas prices.

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Certainly.

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And there's another question we have.

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And I guess I'm not saying.

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I think we can really be a big decision.

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We can really be really worried about our territory and everything else,

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especially here in California.

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It's urgent.

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That we received the pay.

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That we're that we fought for that we fought so tirelessly for.

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Thank you.

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It's a great response to be appreciate.

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And that's it.

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Okay.

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Thank you.

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That was the ninth speaker.

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Okay, so this next speaker is the last speaker for this run,

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an original call of common.

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Allison?

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I have Tom Scepton, that's the top of the raised hand solic.

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I, John, I have Allison for some reason.

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Allison, Remer?

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Yes.

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Okay.

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Hi.

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This is Allison Remer.

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I'm a member of Bessia U21, FCU unit.

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I'm in the work in the planning department.

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And I'm caught on the phone talking with you today,

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because the city is not honoring our contract.

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I'm particularly concerned about the pepper ramp down.

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We've thought so hard to enact the long overdue.

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And equities, a pepper cost sharing.

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And but the city has been dragging our feet for months.

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And the changes they agreed to have not been put in place.

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According to how occurs, only thing needed is a letter from the city,

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stating the change of the percentages.

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Most new employees are pepper members.

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And a failure to address the pepper ramp down will have a negative impact on the city's authority

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to retain new and old employees.

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The city has been made by the way that the terms of the contract for months

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and has no intention of quickly cracking this issue.

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The column in the mail and counsel that fix this now.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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So that is our tense speaker.

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And so.

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What I think everyone for attending tonight and for your comments.

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And so once again, a lot of another non agenda public comment period of inclusion of tonight's city council meeting.

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And if you wish to speak, I don't want to consent calendar.

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Please raise your hand at this time.

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Welcome your comments before receiving a consent calendar.

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I just want to take an opportunity to just make some comments and I know the city manager would like to as well.

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First and foremost, I want to thank the many city employees who have attended tonight who've spoken.

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I share the concerns that you have expressed.

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And one way to my commitment to working with the city manager and the city council to make sure that we address these issues and we implement.

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The terms of the contract that we work hard to negotiate and good faith with you.

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That we value deeply your service to the city of Berkeley.

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And.

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I also want to emphasize my commitment to working to continue to improve.

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What place city particularly now.

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You know, as workers are coming back to work.

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You know, while we are still in the city of emergency.

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I think the.

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But the bargaining is raised a lot of the good good suggestions around ways in which we can't continue to work to grow workplace city.

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I also want to acknowledge the steps that we've already taken to respond to some of the some of the.

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The issues that SIA was brought to our attention.

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And so I just want to emphasize I take this issue very seriously.

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I think the entire city council take this issue seriously while we are well.

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This is not a close session so we can't really get into the details around what is the personal matter confidential matter.

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I just want to reiterate.

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The importance of working expedently to resolve these issues.

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And to ensure that we are implementing the the terms of these contracts and also that we are demonstrating our commitment to our workers and our appreciation of their service to our sake.

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So thank you.

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If it's okay.

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I'd like to go down to the city manager.

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I believe that some comments that I'll go to the other members of the council.

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I wish to address this issue.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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I certainly want to thank our employees for.

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And because we think that concerns as I've stated before.

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We did provide opportunity for employees to wait and that it's.

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You know always important that we are listening and trying to make sure that we can address their concerns.

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And that's very quickly as quickly as possible.

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And I want to turn the floor up to you.

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I believe you said the manager.

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The time to bellow.

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I need her to provide just an update on where we are.

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What we've done so far is some of the questions that we're presenting on this policy.

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And sometimes it's better to use visuals.

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So I want to make sure if she needs to use the floor to kind of put a visual up pretty well.

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But I think it's important for us to take the time to talk about what has happened.

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What has occurred.

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This is an important for our employees.

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We know that.

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And we believe that.

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And I think they are a little team.

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All of us have been working very hard to ensure that there's only contacts are zero.

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And if not, which then I can let you all end our employees that we will honor.

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The contact.

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The contact again instead of or us.

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So I want to turn this over to the kind of bellow to take us to.

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And just to update on where we are because these issues are very important.

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So I want to take some time here.

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Thank you.

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So I thank you so much.

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Madam City manager.

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Good afternoon.

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Mayor city council members of the public.

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My name is Latanya Balol.

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The interim deputy city manager for the city of Berkeley.

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And.

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Mr. City clerk do you have that document that we could share.

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Kind of the spreadsheet on on everything that we've done.

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I think that over to you.

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Don't know if you can share screen for me right now.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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Thank you so much.

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So I do want to.

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You know, thank you all for the time this evening.

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And providing us the opportunity to be responsive.

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To just a few of the things for our.

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The staff, the council.

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The city staff and.

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And the workers we certainly thank you.

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For your service, especially during this pandemic.

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And please do know that the human resources department have been working.

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Extremely hard to ensure that all of these.

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And more you provisions are acknowledged.

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What you will see here.

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Is a spreadsheet.

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That will go through very quickly.

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what is going to share with you Mayor Council and members of the public and I'm

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pleased. This was the first time for human resources that we had all eight contracts

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both seven including the unwrap that were due at the same time. And so we negotiated all of

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those contracts in July 2021 and finally got those resolved by the last one came over July 31st.

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Where it was adopted by Council and that certainly took us right into our winter some of

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great. But what you'll see here is out of these eight contracts.

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You'll just scroll down just a little bit, Mark, I would appreciate that. With each of these contracts, eight are eight of them. We had some anywhere between about 10 to maybe 13, 14 MOU provisions that needed to be implemented. The green will show you all of those contract provisions that have been implemented by the Human Resources Department.

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It's about 75 MOU provisions between all of the contract that needed to be implemented. Those things that are in yellow are those things are in progress.

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So, of the 75, we have nine that are in progress and still three that have not been completed, but in total, across all of the labor groups, we have implemented about 65 of the MOU provisions.

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And a lot of them do have to deal with wages and ad-pays and things of that nature of lump sums and you'll notice that all of these things of which council approve.

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And that is some of the work that the Human Resources Department has been going through over the last six months.

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Certainly, while all of this was in progress, we were implementing the mandatory vaccine that became effective November 15.

484
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:32,000
So in the middle of implementing all of these provisions within the MOU, we then turn our attention to continue making it through this pandemic.

485
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:59,000
And it was the decision of the organization to mandate vaccine by November 15 that required a meeting confer and so the same team that was implementing these 65 provisions here in these nine that are in progress is also the team that is now sending out letters to the labor groups to do the mandatory meeting confer over the decision.

486
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,000
But the impacts of the mandatory vaccine.

487
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:07,000
And so they started meeting with them in September having regular meetings.

488
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:11,000
We had about 20 meetings with just our CSU group alone.

489
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,000
S-E-I-U-C-S-U, S-E-I-U maintenance in clerical.

490
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:20,000
We had about three or four with police, 11 with I-B-I-B-E-W, but you get the point.

491
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:26,000
So we're implementing these, we're taking care of the COVID stuff for the organization.

492
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:39,000
And then we're dealing with the exemption requests, right? We've got a lot of religious and medical exemption requests that we're also managing through updating the COVID rules, going through all of that.

493
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,000
Still working through that.

494
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:52,000
But I wanted to share at least this spreadsheet with you so that council has an idea of the totality of the work that's being performed out of the human resources department.

495
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:58,000
Because I certainly hear and understand some of the concern around those things that are not implemented.

496
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:06,000
But I do want to also highlight the workload and the work of the human resources department for those things that have been completed.

497
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:10,000
Those are approximately 62-63 things that have been completed.

498
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,000
Those nine things that are in progress.

499
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:17,000
Now we fast forward to the cow purrs, which is the pepper ramp down.

500
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:29,000
That is a very complex thing that we have had to work through, working under the guise of cow purrs and all of the rules that go along with that.

501
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:37,000
So most of these, the language says in here and you can hold right there mark that would be great.

502
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:46,000
That is effective, has soon as it administratively possible follow the adoption of the successor contract by the city council.

503
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:59,000
And the administratively possible portion is to provide the space that the organization needs to work with purrs and do everything in compliance with the purrs law.

504
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:07,000
But please know, the employees that are working on this out of human resources, they will also benefit from this.

505
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:14,000
So they're working quite hard to make certain that this pepper contribution does occur.

506
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:22,000
And so we've been working with the labor groups in the labor management meeting and sharing the specific dates in terms of when we can expect.

507
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:32,000
We do on the emergency things as we need and there's something on tonight to be able to support the movement of that is quickly as possible.

508
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:42,000
We are in the middle of a pandemic and certainly perrs and everybody's been affected by this latest variant and what staffing issues, but it is by no means.

509
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:57,000
They lack of commitment by your executive staff, your city manager or myself, and certainly not by the staff and human resources, which in that employee relations staff right now, we're only talking two to three people.

510
00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:14,000
And I do want to just think of the leash applied and a money manning who have been working regularly daily, even though they're times they could tell a commute, they've been coming in to ensure all of these provisions within the MOU get addressed.

511
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:26,000
And again, as a relates to our COVID-19 hours that that were mentioned as well, our city manager approved for all of our employees who had COVID-19 hours still on the books.

512
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:42,000
At the end of December 31, 2021 that that could roll over and then here recently with the last two weeks council has approved an additional 40 hours of leave for our employees to have available to them.

513
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:57,000
So the city has certainly provided leave hours to our employees to ensure that they have the necessary sick leave hours specifically related to this pandemic, thereby not having to use their own leave hours.

514
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:13,000
So I just wanted to make certain that we communicated to you all and certainly to the public and to the labor groups, but more importantly to council, that there are a lot of provisions in here and a lot of them are tied to wages that absolutely happen implemented.

515
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:23,000
Only one that we're working with is purrs is because we are indeed internally in human resources, they're continually to walk with purrs under the purrs guidance.

516
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:34,000
That's why we say it as as administered as administratively possible, again all of this under the umbrella of this pandemic that we are facing.

517
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:44,000
So much Madam City manager for giving me the space to at least explain that to the council and to our employees and thank our employees for their service.

518
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:48,000
We certainly appreciate and I'll turn it back over to you Madam City manager. Thank you.

519
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:55,000
Thank you very much and thank you to the HR team and our employees on the pictures that they endured through this process.

520
00:36:55,000 --> 00:37:11,000
She should be commendable. I know it's hard for them and they are waiting and we can hard to implement all of the provisions of the contract but I want to add is that there are there isn't least one contract that has very different language.

521
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:21,000
The language that was presented to you on the slide we will honor that contract language for the provisions for everybody to see it we will honor that as a city.

522
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:25,000
We will honor all of the contracts with the explicit leadership that is provided for them.

523
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:32,000
So I the last thing I want to share I'm there in council is that as we have worked with our labor groups.

524
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:38,000
As I as our partners have worked with them as our HR team our leaders in this organization.

525
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:45,000
The one thing that we are certain that they have heard from you as a city manager is that we are to be fair.

526
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:51,000
In our approach and resolve and concerns especially the concerns that will share I'm on squat towards.

527
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:56,000
We have to be fair when we go back to looking for issues far and close.

528
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:59,000
That was just brought to my attention I would say in the last.

529
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:11,000
So absolutely we're going to figure out what is the best course of action to honor the contract language for collecting the space within our city we are certainly going to do that.

530
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:18,000
But their provisions are going to contract for the city and we have to adhere to those provisions so we will certainly work with.

531
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:26,000
And we are going to work with this labor representatives and this works to address those issues and as quickly as we possibly can't.

532
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,000
Our table time to battle for her work.

533
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,000
She's been champion moving forward all of these.

534
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:40,000
In review of the grievance with Don Ellison and that they tried to partner the entire team and this council for supporting us in doing this work.

535
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,000
And all of the work that's come with it.

536
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:50,000
We probably would have been a very better place today when it comes to responding and addressing these things and we would have been.

537
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:56,000
They probably faster with the exception of pepper ramp down as I stipend on things that are somewhat out of our control.

538
00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:01,000
But I want to share all of you that we are doing our absolute best and we will continue doing so.

539
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:09,000
Thank you for allowing us this time to present and to share what we are doing and how we are addressing the contract.

540
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:10,000
Thank you.

541
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:11,000
Thank you.

542
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,000
Good next to Vice Mayor Harrison.

543
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:14,000
Thank you Mr. Mayor.

544
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:18,000
Thank you to all of the employees who spoke into city management.

545
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:23,000
The I appreciate our work or sharing their concerns on listening very closely.

546
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:27,000
I'm concerned that certain provisions have in the up and implemented.

547
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:31,000
Even though we have administrative delays which are understandable.

548
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:38,000
I think the money is time and that we have employees that have been waiting a long time for this pepper ramp down to take place.

549
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:39,000
And we know time is money.

550
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:43,000
And we know that that's something that we spoke about for a long time.

551
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:48,000
You know, this has been not something we just adopted a new policy to do this ramp down.

552
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:53,000
So what I'm hopeful is that we not do just was exactly building the contract.

553
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:58,000
But what's in the spirit of the contract as long as it doesn't violate the contract.

554
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:01,000
So I'm looking for what I appreciate mentioning.

555
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:02,000
I'm not going to share the shorts.

556
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:03,000
Melon City manager.

557
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:07,000
That would be the kind of thing where you know you're under stress from COVID, so our employees.

558
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:12,000
They're not going to notice necessarily that they're not getting the correct pay.

559
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,000
Because I don't even get my pay checks anymore.

560
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:17,000
Frankly, they're in my box at city hall, but I'm not allowed to go to.

561
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:20,000
So I hope we take that into account only do this.

562
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:26,000
I also want to just invite you to ask the resources you need to get through this process.

563
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:27,000
I agree you're understaffed.

564
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:33,000
But I think there are ways that we can help with additional assistance, maybe with contractors or law firms, etc.

565
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:42,000
So that I think is when this kind of thing happens and you see something snowballing and it's hard to get to what we said we do in the contract.

566
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:47,000
I would hope that you come to us and say, this is what I need for more resource perspective.

567
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:51,000
And then the last thing I want to say is I also appreciate your outreach.

568
00:40:51,000 --> 00:41:01,000
I think a concern has been the meetings with the unit itself who are the representatives of our employees.

569
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:06,000
So in a represented environment, that's who you need to communicate with most.

570
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:14,000
And I'm looking forward to again you asking for resources if you need them so we can get these sessions back on on track.

571
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:17,000
And again, thank you to all the employees you came.

572
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:25,000
I'm committed to making sure that this happens as quickly as possible and our actual active payments are made well appropriate within the contracts.

573
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:26,000
Thank you.

574
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:27,000
Thank you.

575
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:28,000
Thank you.

576
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:31,000
Thank you.

577
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:33,000
I'm Vice Mayor Harrison. I do want to show you that we have already begun.

578
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:36,000
We've already begun a process for a foreign additional help.

579
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:38,000
We started that process back in November.

580
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:45,000
I was very much proactive in trying to approach our needs in HR from recruitment to employee relations.

581
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:52,000
And as well as to some of the CEO issues that we face and we've had a little process supporting us in this effort as well.

582
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:57,000
So I just want to share the way not saying thinking about we don't have an opportunity to update help.

583
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,000
I've already authorized that help.

584
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:00,000
I've already done so.

585
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:04,000
And so we'll continue to move those contracts soon to get people on board.

586
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:10,000
We've already secured two of them and we've been working through specific issues around this.

587
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:14,000
Around this contracts and around the world that is happening in HR.

588
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:17,000
So again, we're doing this as fast as we can.

589
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:22,000
We're still responding to a pandemic and there's a lot of work that we have.

590
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:26,000
So I can give you and I want you to know that we're already doing those things.

591
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,000
Thank you.

592
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:29,000
Thank you.

593
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:30,000
Okay.

594
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:38,000
Councilor Han and you know, I just want to caution the city council from discussing this extensively as it's not noticed on the agenda.

595
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:44,000
And you know, if there is a desire for additional discussion, it would be appropriate to.

596
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:49,000
To do that questions the city manager individually alternatively we can.

597
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:54,000
Genize this for a close session as this really relates to personal matters.

598
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:59,000
But so we're going to count to number on next.

599
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:03,000
I'll I'll second the comments of the mayor and vice mayor.

600
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:10,000
I wanted to say that as I was listening intently to the speakers during public comment.

601
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:15,000
It just reminded me of how much I'm missing our staff in person.

602
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:20,000
At the office in the field and also a council meetings.

603
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:30,000
And I really want to thank those who spoke for sharing their personal and their workplace stories and despite not being literally able to be face to face.

604
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:35,000
I think the emotion.

605
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:43,000
Really came through and I I just want to say I really received that deeply.

606
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:56,000
I do hear the distress and I you know, I am concerned that when we all don't have the opportunity to be a face to face there's more opportunity for.

607
00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:00,000
This understanding.

608
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:08,000
And and we just aren't as human to each other when we don't have the opportunity to see each other.

609
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:16,000
And I think that does where we are away and it can really negatively impact good will.

610
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:25,000
And so even though everybody is tired and everybody has been doing more than 10 extra miles.

611
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:30,000
And that includes our staff in HR.

612
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:41,000
But every staff member has I think it's still is incumbent on us to work extra hard to bridge the misunderstandings and to make sure that.

613
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:50,000
If there is a source spot or there is an area that is causing particular distress that we work extra hard to meet it.

614
00:44:50,000 --> 00:45:00,000
I think the pepper issue has been an area of particular concern for our staff for many years now long before to.

615
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:07,000
And I think it's unfortunate that that is ending up being one of the last things that we're able to fully implement.

616
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:17,000
I do appreciate the better and fuller understanding of all that's been done, but I also know that this is a one area of particular concern.

617
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:31,000
So I just want to thank everybody for all the work they're doing and encourage us to, as council member, as Vice Mayor Harris and said, to, you know, gather all the resources that we can.

618
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:39,000
To finish this implementation in particular to address the concerns that we're raised today by our speakers. Thank you very much.

619
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:51,000
Okay, thank you. Once again, would encourage members of council. If you have any additional questions or comments to direct them individually sitting manager and roll up, there's a more additional discussion.

620
00:45:51,000 --> 00:46:01,000
That could be provided in the form of everything in close session. So thank you. That completes public comment on non agenda matters.

621
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:07,000
We're seeing to the consent calendar and we received two urgent items there being submitted pursuant to government.

622
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:21,000
Consection five or nine five or point to the two, which is the provision of brown act that allows a low government agency to take action if an immediate action is needed and the need for action can be attention.

623
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:25,000
At the local agency, self-sequent to the agenda for this meeting being posted.

624
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:36,000
Firstly, we received an item under that particular provision of the brown act from council member tap on entitled Malcolm X elementary read a thought.

625
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:52,000
The link was shown in council office budget funds and my assumption is that this came to the attention of council member tap on after the published meeting agenda and the event as noted in the item is actually next week prior to our next city council meeting.

626
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:56,000
So council would entertain this meeting to take action.

627
00:46:56,000 --> 00:47:10,000
This statement. Secondly, we received an item of council member hon on behalf of the commission on status of women entitled grant application on behalf of the commission on status of women to support the commission city book.

628
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:18,000
Please, and this item provides authority for the city manager to submit a grant application on behalf of the commission.

629
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:22,000
There is an upcoming grant deadline.

630
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:37,000
And the words require that any grants being submitted on behalf of a commission must be must be authorized by the city council through council action.

631
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:42,000
The commission actually received an extension until February 24 to submit a grant application.

632
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:46,000
And as our next meeting is on February 22nd.

633
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:51,000
That would not afford sufficient time for the application to be submitted to me at the timeline.

634
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:54,000
And so.

635
00:47:54,000 --> 00:48:00,000
Council has a question of the advocacy agenda pursuit government code section by for nine five four point two.

636
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:03,000
These two as there's a need to take immediate action.

637
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:12,000
Sorry to move to add these items to the agenda pursuit to government conception five for nine five four point two need to.

638
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:14,000
And.

639
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:18,000
This is a two third vote in order to add these items to the agenda.

640
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:20,000
And this is a procedural motion.

641
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:23,000
So I'd ask the court to please call the roll on.

642
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:26,000
I'm excited to see the agenda second second in my home.

643
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:27,000
Thank you.

644
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:28,000
Okay. Council member.

645
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:29,000
Mr. wanting.

646
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:30,000
Yes.

647
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:31,000
Taplin.

648
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:32,000
Yes.

649
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:33,000
Martin.

650
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:34,000
Yes.

651
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:35,000
Harrison.

652
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:36,000
Yes.

653
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:37,000
On.

654
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:38,000
Yes.

655
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:39,000
When graph.

656
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:40,000
Yes.

657
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:41,000
Robinson.

658
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,000
Yes.

659
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:45,000
And.

660
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:46,000
And.

661
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:47,000
Miner.

662
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:48,000
Yes.

663
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:49,000
Okay.

664
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:50,000
Motion carries.

665
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:51,000
Okay.

666
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:52,000
Thank you very much.

667
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:53,000
Okay.

668
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:56,000
So those items have been accepted.

669
00:48:56,000 --> 00:49:01,000
And they are being submitted as consent items.

670
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:06,000
And so those items will be out of the consent calendar.

671
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:09,000
So on the consent calendar.

672
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:12,000
Any comments from members of the city council.

673
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:13,000
Council.

674
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:14,000
Council member.

675
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:16,000
Thank you.

676
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:17,000
I looked at.

677
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:18,000
Council member.

678
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:19,000
The motion.

679
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:20,000
Okay.

680
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:21,000
Thank you so much.

681
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:22,000
So noted.

682
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:24,000
Vice Mayor Harrison.

683
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:25,000
Yes.

684
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:28,000
I'm going to ask the out into the Malcolm X school item as well.

685
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:29,000
I could.

686
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:30,000
And.

687
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:31,000
Thank you.

688
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:32,000
Thank you.

689
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:33,000
Thank you.

690
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:34,000
I do want to say a couple things about items.

691
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,000
It's seen even though it's on consent.

692
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:38,000
This is a budget for all in a resolution.

693
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:47,000
A city process for working with East Bay community energy to site and develop public electric vehicle DC fast charging hubs.

694
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:51,000
I'm really glad is the appointed EBC that we are at this point.

695
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:55,000
With EBC for this significant new climate initiative.

696
00:49:55,000 --> 00:50:00,000
If a proposed public public partnership between EBC and the city.

697
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:07,000
To develop up to three electric vehicle charging hubs and areas of the city with high concentrations of multi family housing.

698
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:11,000
Many of our residents don't have dryways or garages.

699
00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:14,000
And you know what to do like access to fast charging.

700
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:23,000
My niece and leave takes at a 36 hours to charge on a regular plug and fast charge would allow that to take place within a mere 45 minutes.

701
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:30,000
Since about 50% of our emissions are from greenhouse gas emissions are from transportation.

702
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:34,000
We have to really focus on this sector infrastructure for transportation.

703
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:40,000
a lot in terms of biking, walking infrastructure, we're looking at some amendments and improvements

704
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:44,720
in transit. This is an area where we need to improve to allow people who have to have cars

705
00:50:44,720 --> 00:50:50,960
to commute to buy green vehicles. One of the biggest impediments to people acquiring a green

706
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:56,800
vehicle in addition to cost is that of managing anxiety. I can tell you one day coming back from my

707
00:50:56,800 --> 00:51:04,080
staff with my staffers from Sacramento, from the EMG Commission meeting, we nearly went out of power

708
00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:08,880
on the road, and I am in fact at one point I had to drop somebody off the side of the freeway,

709
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:14,480
who had offered a ride home to. So it's not an experience that our folks at Louisiana should be

710
00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:20,240
having to go through just to get to work. We're not improving the details of this initiative tonight.

711
00:51:20,240 --> 00:51:24,880
This is a non-biting term sheet outlining the proposed responsibilities for the city and the

712
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:30,560
EBCE and the staff will be working on a possible binding service agreement. So a lot of details

713
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:35,760
have been worked out where will these charging stations be, what will be their hours, and there's going to be

714
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:41,680
a lot of room for negotiation and change. We've been meeting meeting meetings in my office with EBCE,

715
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:47,200
the mayor, the city manager's office, OESD, and the city manager's office. Let's talk about some of these issues.

716
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:54,400
The item also includes a $600,000 budget referral for the June process and under this

717
00:51:54,560 --> 00:52:04,880
proposal, EBCE would own operating finance stations. But once we hit $100,000 per year, more than $100,000 per

718
00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:12,640
year per hub in revenues, we would share in the revenues. So the extent we have a high usage of these stations,

719
00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:19,840
we are going to actually benefit financially. We're also going to get more utility user tax out of using

720
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:25,280
these electric stations. We're just in the mail, we've already gotten by, I'm going to do 1% green energy.

721
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:32,480
Yeah, this is just one of those situations that I think is a triple win, I want to thank EBCE.

722
00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:37,680
I also want to thank my co-sponsors, council members, I think I'm sorry, mayor, out of game,

723
00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:41,840
council members, Bartlett, and Wendgraft. And I'm looking forward to further considering the

724
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:47,520
site of one of more defined term sheets before us. This draft term sheet proposed term sheet will allow

725
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:52,800
us staff to start on the one of the negotiations with EBCE. So thank you for your consideration.

726
00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:55,040
Awesome, remember Bartlett?

727
00:52:58,560 --> 00:53:08,160
You're muted. Thank you, Ms. Mayor. I just wanted to give $250 to the Malcolm X reading reading event

728
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:17,040
and also join myself to the comments made by council member, vice mayor.

729
00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:22,320
Sorry, vice mayor, Harrison, this is a really exciting program. Some of we've been talking about

730
00:53:22,320 --> 00:53:27,600
for years and it's exciting to see a potential framework moving forward. Thank you.

731
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:30,080
Thank you, council member, Dr. Austie.

732
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:42,320
Thank you. I actually have a few questions about number 16 that I'm not sure would fit in the consent

733
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:46,960
calendar or discussion. So I'd like to discuss that. I'm not sure if there are two other members.

734
00:53:48,240 --> 00:53:53,920
So I'll just put that out there. And thank you so much. I believe that's all I have.

735
00:53:54,720 --> 00:53:59,600
Are we going to do? Yes, we'll do expertly discussions later on.

736
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:03,920
That was good. Okay, I just want to make sure that we're doing that at the top. Thanks.

737
00:54:04,720 --> 00:54:05,920
Okay, councilor Hong.

738
00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:16,720
You're muted. Please unmute yourself. Sorry. When you do things, my I jump. I kept clicking on

739
00:54:16,720 --> 00:54:25,760
myself and then I wasn't there. Okay, thank you. So a couple of things. Item seven, which is

740
00:54:26,320 --> 00:54:34,720
formal virtual institutions. The only request proposal that is described in there is for resident

741
00:54:34,880 --> 00:54:41,040
canned food services. And it's about four and a half million dollars worth of food being purchased by the city.

742
00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:48,000
I'm guessing this is one of our largest food purchases that we make as an organization.

743
00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:56,560
And I just want to make sure that we are doing everything we can to integrate the good food purchasing policy

744
00:54:57,280 --> 00:55:03,920
and other sustainable food policies that have been passed by the city council that those are being

745
00:55:03,920 --> 00:55:12,480
reflected in the RFPs that we're putting out. I did not have a chance to ask to see the RFP,

746
00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:18,960
but I'm wondering if the city manager might just be able to comment briefly on that.

747
00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:25,040
I'm hoping that maybe this year is the year that we were able to bring that in.

748
00:55:25,840 --> 00:55:32,480
Thank you. And because we're behind, I'm happy to go to Dr. Lucifer, who's over the Department of Health

749
00:55:32,480 --> 00:55:38,640
and key services. Dr. Barton, are you available to speak to the decision this evening? Thank you.

750
00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:48,480
Actually, I can jump into this is all deputy signature. And I think actually that item is Scott Ferris,

751
00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:55,280
my apologies for that. I was thinking that was Lisa, Dr. Barton's, but it is Scott Ferris. And you know,

752
00:55:56,480 --> 00:56:01,840
definitely aware of those provisions that you mentioned, Council Member Han. And if it's okay with you,

753
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:06,720
we can, we haven't released that yet. So if we can, and it's for the next six years. So we can look at the

754
00:56:06,720 --> 00:56:12,080
little more closely and get back to you. That'd be helpful. That would be wonderful. Thank you so much. And

755
00:56:12,080 --> 00:56:18,640
I'm happy to discuss that. Can glad to know it hasn't gone out yet. Maybe we can find a way to integrate

756
00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:31,360
those policies into the RFP. So then item eight, which is the contract for public safety wellness programming

757
00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:39,040
for our fire and I believe the police as well. I just want to say that I did read the report.

758
00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:50,640
And it's pretty alarming when you understand the extra risk that our first responders take when they

759
00:56:50,640 --> 00:56:59,760
enter these professions, the substance use and stress that they are exposed to these situations that

760
00:56:59,760 --> 00:57:07,040
they're exposed to. And I really wholeheartedly endorse efforts to support all our employees. But in

761
00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:16,240
particular, these people who are on the front lines who see an experience trauma, who put themselves in

762
00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:27,280
harms way in ways that the rest of us probably would be too scared to. Or might not have the training.

763
00:57:27,280 --> 00:57:35,520
But I'm really excited about that and glad that that is moving forward. I also want to thank you for

764
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:44,880
item nine. We need to be working on our wildfire protection in every way possible and that moves it

765
00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:53,200
forward. And then last but not least, I just wanted to say that if folks have any questions about the

766
00:57:53,200 --> 00:58:00,240
urgent item, I'm happy to answer them. It is on consent and should be pretty self-explanatory.

767
00:58:01,040 --> 00:58:03,040
Thank you. Good next account. So I have a white wrap.

768
00:58:06,640 --> 00:58:17,520
Thank you. Yes, I want to just express how happy I am to see a moving forward with the wellness program

769
00:58:17,760 --> 00:58:24,320
for our first responders. I think it's really wonderful that we're doing this and I know the need is really

770
00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:33,120
great. And then the community wildfire protection plan is something that we've talked about needing to do for a long

771
00:58:33,120 --> 00:58:41,840
time. The contract is with two wonderful women who are really experts on wildfire management in the

772
00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:47,920
East Bay. They're very familiar with Berkeley and so I'm very excited to see that move forward.

773
00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:58,320
I just want to point out one I believe typo in item an item number nine where it says fiscal impacts.

774
00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:05,680
I think that there was an error made and it says funding for the employee wellness program is budgeted

775
00:59:05,680 --> 00:59:16,880
from measure FF. That is not true and I think it was a cut-and-paste mistake but it should be removed

776
00:59:16,880 --> 00:59:25,760
from this item number nine and maybe the city manager wants to speak to that. It was a typo graphical error

777
00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:35,440
for the record. Exactly. And I also want to thank the peace and justice commission for bringing

778
00:59:35,440 --> 00:59:45,760
forward their items, all of which are extremely important. That's item 12 which is supporting immigration

779
00:59:45,760 --> 00:59:54,560
reform, 13 supporting justice for Haitian refugees, 13 for normalizing diplomatic and economic

780
00:59:54,560 --> 01:00:00,320
regulations with Cuba which I feel is very important right now.

781
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:14,000
In terms of the conflict in Russia and the Ukraine and how that's going to act Cuba. And Japanese American day of remembrance. So thank you to peace and justice commission. That's it for me.

782
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:24,000
Thank you, Councillor Robinson. Good catch on the financial piece on item nine. I was just looking at that in the idea. Thank you.

783
01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:33,000
I just raised my hand off for $150 from my discretionary count for that read on an up next. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Kessa wanting.

784
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:45,000
Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor. Given that Councilmember Drossie is requested to pull item number 16. I also have some questions I'd like to ask. So I will also make that request.

785
01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:50,000
Okay. Councilor Tatlin.

786
01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:55,000
I would also like to discuss item 16.

787
01:00:55,000 --> 01:01:01,000
All right. So that's going to go to the action calendar. Councilmember Han.

788
01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:11,000
I'm sorry. I forgot to make a donation for Councilmember Taplin's item. I'd like to donate $200.

789
01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:20,000
Okay. Thank you. Councilmember Wangra. Yes. I also neglected to mention that I'd like to donate $200.

790
01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:23,000
Okay. Thank you. So noted.

791
01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:27,000
Any other council members on the consent calendar?

792
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:36,000
Okay. If not, I'd like to ask the city manager if she has any comments on the consent calendar.

793
01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:38,000
Thank you. Thank you.

794
01:01:38,000 --> 01:01:44,000
So I would like to pull item number 10.

795
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:51,000
I would like to pull it in definitely.

796
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:53,000
Okay.

797
01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:56,000
As this came from the city manager.

798
01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:59,000
The item is being removed by the offer. So noted.

799
01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:04,000
Okay. Thank you. So to summarize, change the consent calendar.

800
01:02:04,000 --> 01:02:08,000
The consent calendar includes the two or items that were added.

801
01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:11,000
Item 10 has been removed by the offer.

802
01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:14,000
And item 16 has been pulled.

803
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:15,000
We're soon for our rules.

804
01:02:15,000 --> 01:02:17,000
Three members can pull an item.

805
01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:19,000
And that will be moved to the action calendar.

806
01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:22,000
Otherwise, the consent calendar is as published.

807
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:27,000
So if any attendee would like to speak on the consent calendar, please raise your hand.

808
01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:29,000
And then we'll go to the first speaker.

809
01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:34,000
Jowel Salsa.

810
01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:39,000
Jowel, you should be able to speak. Please introduce yourself.

811
01:02:39,000 --> 01:02:44,000
You're Mayor and City Council.

812
01:02:44,000 --> 01:02:47,000
My name is Dora Salsa. I'm a city employee with the IT department.

813
01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:50,000
I appreciate your opportunity to speak here.

814
01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:53,000
And again, along with my colleagues.

815
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:58,000
I'm here to ask that the city owner, their contract was more so hard to negotiate last year.

816
01:02:58,000 --> 01:03:01,000
We appreciate the words from the city manager.

817
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:04,000
I understand that HR is working diligently.

818
01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:07,000
But again, here to remind that.

819
01:03:07,000 --> 01:03:10,000
This has had times work on this.

820
01:03:10,000 --> 01:03:13,000
You'll be nice to get at least a date.

821
01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:16,000
And when it's going to be done and get a contract that worked out.

822
01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:18,000
I appreciate the time to speak here.

823
01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:19,000
Thank you.

824
01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:20,000
Thank you.

825
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:23,000
As that is not on tonight's agenda.

826
01:03:23,000 --> 01:03:25,000
I'm assuming you're speaking about item 10.

827
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:30,000
So any comments related to any labor management issues.

828
01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:34,000
I will soon for purposes of the consent calendar public comment here.

829
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:36,000
You are dressing item 10.

830
01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:38,000
We'll go down to gladial.

831
01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:43,000
Hi there.

832
01:03:43,000 --> 01:03:45,000
Thank you for listening at my apologies.

833
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:48,000
I'm in the same boat as the last person.

834
01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:52,000
If there are any questions.

835
01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:54,000
I'm assuming you're addressing item 10.

836
01:03:54,000 --> 01:03:55,000
Good.

837
01:03:55,000 --> 01:03:56,000
Thank you.

838
01:03:59,000 --> 01:04:01,000
Why don't you difficult to hear me?

839
01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:03,000
Yes.

840
01:04:03,000 --> 01:04:04,000
Thank you.

841
01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:10,000
Did you wish to speak?

842
01:04:10,000 --> 01:04:12,000
We can't hear you for some reason.

843
01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:15,000
I'm gladial.

844
01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:16,000
I'm gladial.

845
01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:17,000
I'm sorry.

846
01:04:17,000 --> 01:04:18,000
We can't hear you.

847
01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:20,000
I'll come back to you.

848
01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:21,000
Check.

849
01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:27,000
Hello.

850
01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:28,000
I'm.

851
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:29,000
Check.

852
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:30,000
I would like to.

853
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:31,000
Seeing my time to.

854
01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:32,000
Sorry.

855
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:33,000
Elper.

856
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:37,000
Okay.

857
01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:41,000
We'll go next.

858
01:04:41,000 --> 01:04:43,000
We'll go next at Thomas Lord.

859
01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:52,000
Thomas Lord, if you wish to speak, please unmute yourself.

860
01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:56,000
Yeah, I took a second for the unmute dialect to pop up.

861
01:04:56,000 --> 01:05:02,000
So first of all, let me acknowledge that when.

862
01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:07,000
The full council was commenting on the issues that staff brought up today.

863
01:05:07,000 --> 01:05:09,000
I sensed in council.

864
01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:11,000
Um, strikingly.

865
01:05:11,000 --> 01:05:15,000
Uh, genuine distress and care for others.

866
01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:17,000
And also a certain level of exhaustion.

867
01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:19,000
Which I think is understandable.

868
01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:21,000
Uh, in present circumstances.

869
01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:25,000
Um, a great teacher once helped me.

870
01:05:25,000 --> 01:05:27,000
Uh, by saying.

871
01:05:27,000 --> 01:05:30,000
Keep in mind the distinction.

872
01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:31,000
Between.

873
01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:33,000
We.

874
01:05:33,000 --> 01:05:35,000
And work.

875
01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:38,000
Um, it's one thing to worry about big problems in other to.

876
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:40,000
To get going on them.

877
01:05:40,000 --> 01:05:44,000
Um, and get going on them is a great way to release stress.

878
01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:45,000
Ultimately.

879
01:05:45,000 --> 01:05:49,000
I want to speak to item five, which is a.

880
01:05:49,000 --> 01:05:50,000
Uh, procedure.

881
01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:52,000
When you are emergency declaration.

882
01:05:52,000 --> 01:05:54,000
Recovid.

883
01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:58,000
And it's striking to me because while this council has said.

884
01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:01,000
In the past that they believe there was a crime in emergency.

885
01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:06,000
They've never said that it's a local emergency as well as a global one.

886
01:06:06,000 --> 01:06:09,000
And they've never felt any need to.

887
01:06:09,000 --> 01:06:14,000
When you that declaration in order to exercise emergency powers.

888
01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:17,000
That means that when you said there was an emergency.

889
01:06:17,000 --> 01:06:19,000
You didn't really believe it.

890
01:06:19,000 --> 01:06:21,000
And that's not truth telling.

891
01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:24,000
And that you're not acting as if it is an emergency.

892
01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:27,000
You're not acting as if the truth is an emergency.

893
01:06:27,000 --> 01:06:29,000
So I don't five each time that comes out.

894
01:06:29,000 --> 01:06:31,000
You should think in the back of your mind.

895
01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:35,000
Why are we doing this with regard to.

896
01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:36,000
The.

897
01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:37,000
Bridget upon us.

898
01:06:37,000 --> 01:06:38,000
Kind of emergency.

899
01:06:38,000 --> 01:06:42,000
It's only going to be a worse gear over your record.

900
01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:44,000
Breaking year after record.

901
01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:48,000
Breaking year for the West of our lives right now.

902
01:06:48,000 --> 01:06:50,000
Okay.

903
01:06:50,000 --> 01:06:51,000
Thank you.

904
01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:52,000
We'll go next to Tara.

905
01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:56,000
Tara, you should be able to speak.

906
01:06:56,000 --> 01:06:58,000
Hi.

907
01:06:58,000 --> 01:06:59,000
This is.

908
01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:01,000
I'm Tara.

909
01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:02,000
I'm going to.

910
01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:04,000
I will come today.

911
01:07:04,000 --> 01:07:05,000
I'm going to come.

912
01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:06,000
Thank you.

913
01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:07,000
I'm.

914
01:07:07,000 --> 01:07:10,000
I'm a.

915
01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:11,000
I'm a young.

916
01:07:11,000 --> 01:07:12,000
I'm a young.

917
01:07:12,000 --> 01:07:13,000
Say.

918
01:07:13,000 --> 01:07:14,000
I'm.

919
01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:15,000
I'm.

920
01:07:15,000 --> 01:07:16,000
I'm a young.

921
01:07:16,000 --> 01:07:17,000
I'm.

922
01:07:17,000 --> 01:07:18,000
I'm.

923
01:07:18,000 --> 01:07:19,000
I'm.

924
01:07:19,000 --> 01:07:20,000
I'm.

925
01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:21,000
I'm.

926
01:07:21,000 --> 01:07:22,000
I'm.

927
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I'm.

928
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I'm.

929
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I'm.

930
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I'm.

931
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I'm.

932
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I'm.

933
01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:43,000
I'm.

934
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The.

935
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Been.

936
01:07:45,000 --> 01:07:47,000
management.

937
01:07:47,000 --> 01:07:48,000
Murder.

938
01:07:48,000 --> 01:07:49,000
abad.

939
01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:52,000
The.

940
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Foot.

941
01:07:53,000 --> 01:07:54,000
For.

942
01:07:54,000 --> 01:08:01,360
on my account has taught me about injustice and about community and over now individual can use

943
01:08:01,360 --> 01:08:07,840
no longer need to stand alone to survive we need to stand together and out together to get through

944
01:08:07,840 --> 01:08:13,360
the struggles and a couple of times and to heal and so I wanted to thank you all for your time

945
01:08:13,360 --> 01:08:20,480
frustration for this resolution. Thank you so very much. We'll go next to Chris Nassau.

946
01:08:24,720 --> 01:08:30,640
There are more in concert list of Christmas, so remember that's how you attend to one

947
01:08:30,640 --> 01:08:35,520
speaking in my unique capacity tonight and I'm speaking in item five. As you know, I was a

948
01:08:35,520 --> 01:08:40,560
member of the bargaining team for the very tense 2021 contract negotiations between the union

949
01:08:40,560 --> 01:08:45,280
and the city and this was also during the COVID-19 pandemic and I'm planning in tonight to

950
01:08:45,280 --> 01:08:49,840
bring attention to the fact that the cities and breach of contract across a number of key areas

951
01:08:49,840 --> 01:08:54,960
with respect to its workers will continue to keep this city running during the pandemic. I'm looking

952
01:08:54,960 --> 01:08:59,680
to city leadership to address these outstanding issues immediately by providing retroactive pay to

953
01:08:59,680 --> 01:09:04,560
the effective workers including interest. As you know, in an air of high inflation and the city's

954
01:09:04,560 --> 01:09:08,960
delay in paying its workers the money that they're owed is not only wrong but it has the effective

955
01:09:08,960 --> 01:09:14,000
and poverty in them. This includes the pepper rantown, the community benefits, the hazard pay assessment

956
01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:19,200
study and the failure to pay their stock increases among other things. I'm also very concerned that

957
01:09:19,200 --> 01:09:24,400
the city is not paid all of the eligible recreation workers they're here okay. These are some of

958
01:09:24,400 --> 01:09:30,080
the lowest paid and most precarious workers in the city. Federal the money was earmarked specifically

959
01:09:30,080 --> 01:09:34,160
for these workers and to make them whole. Thank you very much for your attention, these matters.

960
01:09:36,160 --> 01:09:39,120
Okay, thank you so much. Our next speaker is George Litman.

961
01:09:42,000 --> 01:09:47,600
Yes, thank you. I'm George Litman and the chair for these peace and justice commission.

962
01:09:47,600 --> 01:09:54,400
I want to thank you for your support for the four peace and justice items of 12 through 15 and

963
01:09:54,400 --> 01:10:00,080
particularly to council member Wendraff for her insightful comments. The theme of all of these items is the

964
01:10:00,080 --> 01:10:10,000
same Wirky Cares. Wirky Cares about immigrant rights. Wirky Cares about our Haitian neighbors. Wirky Cares

965
01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:18,400
about our Japanese American and Japanese Latino American neighbors and all ARAPI community members

966
01:10:19,760 --> 01:10:24,960
who are subject to the ongoing hate and oppression that goes back to the annexation of California

967
01:10:25,680 --> 01:10:32,000
and has never stopped. Wirky Cares about our Cuban neighbors regardless of their politics,

968
01:10:32,000 --> 01:10:38,720
whose relative suffer under Trump's renewed embargo that the current administration has not overturned.

969
01:10:40,320 --> 01:10:48,320
We and peace and justice are so happy that our job is to speak to the best of Wirky Cares social

970
01:10:48,320 --> 01:10:55,760
conscience. Thanks again for your support. Thank you, Mr. Litman. Okay, we're going to have a

971
01:10:55,760 --> 01:11:04,400
silly offer. He was seated two minutes. So, speaker has a maximum time of moments. Good evening again,

972
01:11:04,400 --> 01:11:08,720
mayor and member of the city council. I still say I've worked still a member of 1021 in a city worker.

973
01:11:09,760 --> 01:11:17,040
I had a whole thing written out to say to you, but I am so offended by what we heard from the city manager

974
01:11:17,040 --> 01:11:23,760
and deputy city manager. I just don't even know where to begin. First of all, I don't know if she simply

975
01:11:23,760 --> 01:11:28,160
forgot, but it did not true that the city manager did wasn't aware of the issue with Montenegro's pay

976
01:11:28,240 --> 01:11:33,360
until just now. She was seated on the grievance. So, I'm sorry. I'm sorry to interrupt.

977
01:11:33,360 --> 01:11:39,360
Quick pause. Could you just state which item you're speaking to? Sure. I'm happy to speak to any

978
01:11:39,360 --> 01:11:43,840
of the items on the agenda that were written by workers who are currently being underpaid. And I'm happy

979
01:11:43,840 --> 01:11:49,440
to speak to any item on the agenda about COVID safety impacting. I just want to say for the record,

980
01:11:49,440 --> 01:11:54,480
as you already spoke about some of this on non-gen events. I just want to establish that for the record.

981
01:11:54,480 --> 01:12:00,320
So, I'm sorry to appreciate that, Mr. Mayor. No problem. But apart from the email,

982
01:12:00,320 --> 01:12:04,960
there were two separate increase in meetings. We're not directly spoke to the city manager

983
01:12:04,960 --> 01:12:10,000
on her specific issue. And I remember very distinctly, one of them, because after Montenegro,

984
01:12:10,000 --> 01:12:14,640
I reminded the city manager that whether intentional or not initially, if you don't pay or work

985
01:12:14,640 --> 01:12:18,880
or their fair wages and then become aware of it, if you don't fix the problem, it is wage theft.

986
01:12:18,880 --> 01:12:22,640
And she replied by specifically denying that it was wage theft. So I want to read for you now,

987
01:12:23,280 --> 01:12:30,000
a part of California state law that reads the intentional theft of wages in an amount

988
01:12:30,000 --> 01:12:36,400
greater than $950 from any employee or $2,350 from an aggregate from two or more employees

989
01:12:36,400 --> 01:12:41,360
by an employer in a consecutive 12-month period being punished as grand theft. For the purpose of

990
01:12:41,360 --> 01:12:46,880
this exception, theft of wages is the intentional deprivation of wages as defined. We treat it as defined,

991
01:12:46,880 --> 01:12:50,720
benefits, or other compensation by unlawful means with the knowledge of the wages for two

992
01:12:50,720 --> 01:12:58,480
of these benefits or other compensation, it's due to the employee under the law. I appreciate that

993
01:12:58,480 --> 01:13:05,360
it is not easy to do the work that it takes to make all of these, but there we are under staff. We know that

994
01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:14,080
and we know this is not easy work. But why is it that we only get transparency from management when we come

995
01:13:14,080 --> 01:13:18,720
and talk about these things in public? We don't get presentations like what you just got when we're

996
01:13:18,720 --> 01:13:23,120
meeting and conferring when we're meeting behind closed doors. Our requests go like,

997
01:13:23,120 --> 01:13:28,800
nor our meetings are canceled. And finally, when we bring it to the public, when we bring it to the

998
01:13:28,800 --> 01:13:34,480
council, then these year are these things. First of all, and other people who will comment, well,

999
01:13:34,480 --> 01:13:37,760
we're luck on this. There were a number of inaccuracies in that chart. They went through it too quickly

1000
01:13:37,760 --> 01:13:40,880
for me to look through, but I know at least one of them, which they said that they were completed,

1001
01:13:40,880 --> 01:13:45,760
it has not been completed. But I want to understand why we're congratulating ourselves,

1002
01:13:45,760 --> 01:13:53,760
or most of the time, meeting our legal and contractual obligations. Most of the time,

1003
01:13:53,760 --> 01:14:01,120
following the law and following the contract, that is not sufficient. And it is also not sufficient.

1004
01:14:01,120 --> 01:14:10,560
I just understand, because it's just not acceptable. And if they knew that they were going to be missing,

1005
01:14:10,560 --> 01:14:14,960
you said, why? They're always to address that. If you know that you have an agreement with someone,

1006
01:14:15,040 --> 01:14:18,400
and you're going to feel to uphold the contract, you reach out to them affirmatively,

1007
01:14:19,360 --> 01:14:23,680
talk about how you're going to fix it, and come to a common understanding. That's what you could do when

1008
01:14:23,680 --> 01:14:27,600
you have a contract that you know that you're going to violate. That's what you do. That is not what it

1009
01:14:27,600 --> 01:14:33,600
happens in our case. On PEPA, not only did they not tell us in advance that we're going to miss the deadline,

1010
01:14:33,600 --> 01:14:37,760
we realized that and we had to bring it to their attention. We filed the grievance. It went to its third step,

1011
01:14:37,760 --> 01:14:41,680
and then they canceled the third step yearning. And they never tried to reschedule. It's now it's going to

1012
01:14:41,680 --> 01:14:48,160
go to our finding arbitration. So it's not just that the contract is not being followed,

1013
01:14:48,160 --> 01:14:52,960
but there is no transparency, no accountability, no follow-through, on addressing how they're going to fix it.

1014
01:14:54,400 --> 01:14:58,560
On Mars issue, it's not just one. It's a number of employees we haven't identified throughout the

1015
01:14:58,560 --> 01:15:00,560
city who have not been given this.

1016
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:18,000
We raise that to the city manager's attention, raise that to HR's attention, and response they are failing, refusing to provide more and not for a retroactive pay, which she's due, thousands of dollars, that's one instance by itself, announced to a grand theft wage theft claim.

1017
01:15:18,000 --> 01:15:25,000
But they're also refusing to show how they're going to systematically go through, and identify which workers have not been paid.

1018
01:15:25,000 --> 01:15:26,000
Okay, sorry.

1019
01:15:26,000 --> 01:15:28,000
And I've made that issue with the city manager.

1020
01:15:28,000 --> 01:15:32,000
When I told her that the only here time is up, they might have a bit of asmatic issue.

1021
01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:33,000
Thank you.

1022
01:15:33,000 --> 01:15:36,000
We'll go now to be beatman.

1023
01:15:36,000 --> 01:15:39,000
Hi, play, beatman here.

1024
01:15:39,000 --> 01:15:42,000
Thank you for the meeting tonight.

1025
01:15:42,000 --> 01:15:46,000
I guess to go over a few of the consent count items that are interested in myself.

1026
01:15:46,000 --> 01:15:52,000
Thank you for your many piece and justice items that are on tonight's agenda.

1027
01:15:52,000 --> 01:15:56,000
With the events that are going on in the Ukraine and with Russia.

1028
01:15:56,000 --> 01:16:04,000
I hope, you know, after 10 years of just battling Russia, this can be a time to really lay down the important,

1029
01:16:04,000 --> 01:16:12,000
negotiate of future peace plan and how Russian works on international level that's actually fairly impressive.

1030
01:16:12,000 --> 01:16:20,000
And I just hope we start taking that seriously now, and we don't have these backlight and media reports that are just going to loopy.

1031
01:16:20,000 --> 01:16:28,000
I want to talk about the issues that are important and necessary and they completely cloud the issue, but that's beside the point.

1032
01:16:28,000 --> 01:16:32,000
The measures today by the peace and justice.

1033
01:16:32,000 --> 01:16:40,000
You know, work the code pink is also involved with these are incredible good ideas towards peace and thank you for that.

1034
01:16:40,000 --> 01:16:44,000
There is an item of the.

1035
01:16:44,000 --> 01:16:52,000
Charging stations that was a very important that the future charging stations can be placed in low income neighborhoods.

1036
01:16:52,000 --> 01:16:56,000
I don't know how much that issue addresses that I hope it can.

1037
01:16:56,000 --> 01:17:01,000
And I hope it can address come as large ideas of single occupancy vehicle.

1038
01:17:01,000 --> 01:17:05,000
That is a very important issue down in sound as they want from.

1039
01:17:05,000 --> 01:17:11,000
You know, those sort of projects would come up and how to build the future housing with single occupancy vehicles.

1040
01:17:11,000 --> 01:17:16,000
They've been shot down, they've been ended and it's that same good spirit.

1041
01:17:16,000 --> 01:17:22,000
I hope that Berkeley can be addressing their vehicle issues and what we can do about that situation.

1042
01:17:22,000 --> 01:17:27,000
And to conclude about the COVID.

1043
01:17:27,000 --> 01:17:29,000
You know, issues.

1044
01:17:29,000 --> 01:17:34,000
You know, we developed a good science for the COVID vaccine process.

1045
01:17:34,000 --> 01:17:37,000
Can we learn to talk more about the nanotechnology involved?

1046
01:17:37,000 --> 01:17:39,000
Can that learn to become more open conversation?

1047
01:17:39,000 --> 01:17:40,000
Thank you.

1048
01:17:40,000 --> 01:17:42,000
We'll go next and meet them.

1049
01:17:44,000 --> 01:17:48,000
Good evening, and I should be having time seated by Kronzi.

1050
01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:49,000
Okay.

1051
01:17:49,000 --> 01:17:50,000
So note it.

1052
01:17:50,000 --> 01:17:54,000
And I'm speaking to items number four and number 10.

1053
01:17:54,000 --> 01:18:02,000
And I'll start by saying that, you know, even though this is my last week as the city of Berkeley's labor standards and enforcement administrator for the community.

1054
01:18:02,000 --> 01:18:08,000
I will always stand in solidarity with my brother and sisters in labor.

1055
01:18:08,000 --> 01:18:17,000
And it's so sad today that, you know, we have heard from so many about the problems going on with our contract and workers not being compensated as their dip.

1056
01:18:17,000 --> 01:18:21,000
But first to be to the vaccination and infrastructure improvements.

1057
01:18:21,000 --> 01:18:24,000
I'm really happy to see this agreement go forward.

1058
01:18:24,000 --> 01:18:31,000
The bike station and all the improvements being made to the roadways for biking safety or so crucial to our fight for climate justice.

1059
01:18:31,000 --> 01:18:37,000
And with that said, so all of the commute benefits that were made in our agreement.

1060
01:18:38,000 --> 01:18:49,000
And it's supposed to take place in August of 2021 that I see that it in terms of deputy city manager had as resolved in her spreadsheet, which I hope that spreadsheet becomes public record because we'd like to look at that.

1061
01:18:49,000 --> 01:18:51,000
But that it is not good bits.

1062
01:18:51,000 --> 01:18:53,000
Members are still not getting their commute benefits.

1063
01:18:53,000 --> 01:19:04,000
We want to be partners in taking alternative transportation and finding other means of transportation with gas prices mean so high, but when we don't get our due commute benefits, that makes it challenging.

1064
01:19:05,000 --> 01:19:20,000
Members like myself are living further further away from the city and having the city is not meet that obligation is really sad and it's also sad that not being honest about implementing these provisions or saying that they have been implemented.

1065
01:19:20,000 --> 01:19:25,000
In regards to number 10 and I see my times running down, but I think I have another two minutes you have another two minutes.

1066
01:19:25,000 --> 01:19:33,000
Okay, so in regards to number 10, yeah higher, higher more staff, higher as many staff as we need to meet the contract obligations.

1067
01:19:34,000 --> 01:19:49,000
Many of you are aware that we took a lot of time and effort as employees bargaining for I would say a mediocre contract that has pretty much already lost it's it's it's inflation rates.

1068
01:19:50,000 --> 01:20:05,000
In the near time since we we've agreed to it and yet the paper ramp down which by the way under the SCIU 10 to one MOU section 51.103 says that the 3% ramp down should be made.

1069
01:20:05,000 --> 01:20:14,000
Effective as soon as it administratively possible following adoption of the successor contract by the city council and in the accordance with calipers requirements or.

1070
01:20:14,000 --> 01:20:19,000
The first full pay period of the calendar year 2022 whichever comes first.

1071
01:20:19,000 --> 01:20:30,000
That period is coming up and the paper ramp down is not a current so it is not accurate to say that as soon as administratively possible is happening and in fact we're arguing.

1072
01:20:31,000 --> 01:20:44,000
Through the grievance process, which if this does go to arbitration is embarrassing for the city and embarrassing to take time for employees to have to fight for contract provisions to be implemented that we already fought for negotiations.

1073
01:20:44,000 --> 01:20:54,000
It's it's just it's just unbelievable that we were at this place and that the city is not being transparent honest about what has what has occurred.

1074
01:20:54,000 --> 01:21:07,000
And that we believe that the paper ramp down could have been and should have been implemented actually November would have been as soon as it's been a shape impossible because if the language from the contracts would have been shared and that process started.

1075
01:21:07,000 --> 01:21:17,000
And then the paper ramp down could have happened that and I'll remind the city council that we have a strategic plan and one of those strategic plan goals is to attract and retain a talented and diverse workforce.

1076
01:21:17,000 --> 01:21:24,000
Well, you're not attracting talent and you're certainly not retaining talent when you can't meet your contractual obligations with employees.

1077
01:21:24,000 --> 01:21:28,000
So in closing on to say, you know, I've worked with SCIU.

1078
01:21:28,000 --> 01:21:34,000
In official capacity I've been essay number my entire career and that ends this week.

1079
01:21:34,000 --> 01:21:49,000
But I'll always stand with members and I'll always stand with workers and I have to say that as city industry share for SCIU I've worked with a lot of other cities union city else arena rich man other cities with severe budget impacts and that don't have money.

1080
01:21:49,000 --> 01:21:58,000
And even in those places, they honor the contract. So we need to do better. We need to hire whoever need to hire to honor the contract to implement these provisions. Thank you.

1081
01:21:58,000 --> 01:22:03,000
Go next to Isaac Man Kita.

1082
01:22:03,000 --> 01:22:10,000
Yes, thank you. I'd like to actually see my time to my friend and drive a lucky. Okay.

1083
01:22:10,000 --> 01:22:16,000
We'll go next to Matthew Kojima.

1084
01:22:16,000 --> 01:22:27,000
Hi, my name is Matthew Kojima and I'm a student at UC Berkeley and I'm also the president of Berkeley in the case student union, which is a Japanese American cultural group on the UC Berkeley campus.

1085
01:22:27,000 --> 01:22:34,000
I'm speaking in support of the resolution to recognize Japanese American day of remembrance which I believe is item 15.

1086
01:22:35,000 --> 01:22:50,000
I hope that this resolution will pass on the state of anniversary of Japanese American internment because of honor the 120,000 Japanese Americans who are incarcerated in World War II, including my own grandmother who is interned in post and into the lake.

1087
01:22:50,000 --> 01:23:02,000
Furthermore, I hope that passing this resolution will raise awareness for the Japanese Latin Americans who are deployed from their home countries to be as impressive exchanges by the United States.

1088
01:23:02,000 --> 01:23:12,000
I also hope that passing this resolution will raise awareness for the rise in anti-Asian state crimes that have been occurring in communities across the United States.

1089
01:23:12,000 --> 01:23:22,000
As the survivors of this terrible tragedy, Dwindle is important, now I will never to ensure that the lessons from this dark period are not forgotten.

1090
01:23:23,000 --> 01:23:29,000
And finally, I'd like to add that David Emeritus more than just an event to honor Japanese Americans and Japanese Latin Americans.

1091
01:23:29,000 --> 01:23:43,000
This is also an opportunity to start dialogue with other marginalized groups across the country or community holds the performances, which raises awareness for things such as HR40, which will explore reparations for African Americans.

1092
01:23:43,000 --> 01:23:53,000
As well as as an opportunity for us to stand against as well as non-phobia and also against any main conditions at the United States, Mexico border.

1093
01:23:53,000 --> 01:23:56,000
With that I'd like to thank the Council for their time.

1094
01:23:56,000 --> 01:24:03,000
Thank you. We're going to still wander.

1095
01:24:03,000 --> 01:24:07,000
Wanda, you should be able to speak.

1096
01:24:07,000 --> 01:24:09,000
Yes, we can.

1097
01:24:09,000 --> 01:24:11,000
Good evening, cast members and mayors.

1098
01:24:11,000 --> 01:24:19,000
My name is Wanda. I am a CSU, P2RA number and part of the bargaining team when we have reached this place.

1099
01:24:19,000 --> 01:24:23,000
I'm speaking upon item number 5 and 10.

1100
01:24:23,000 --> 01:24:29,000
So I spoke a couple weeks ago upon the COVID safety for the city employees.

1101
01:24:29,000 --> 01:24:38,000
I believe I might have hurt some people's feelings in mind when I spoke them with not to hurt anyone's feelings, but merely to speak this truth.

1102
01:24:38,000 --> 01:24:41,000
And as we know, the truth will set you free.

1103
01:24:41,000 --> 01:24:50,000
We have the staff that has been required to be vaccinated. We are the staff that has been required to be in the office every day once the shelter in place was removed.

1104
01:24:50,000 --> 01:24:59,000
We are the staff that assisted the public that work in encampments. We are the front facing staff of the public, but no safety for us, no protection for us.

1105
01:24:59,000 --> 01:25:04,000
But we are required to have explanations, but they are not the public.

1106
01:25:04,000 --> 01:25:12,000
In our context, we negotiated for hazardous pay for our workers who have duty of learning to art in the encampments.

1107
01:25:12,000 --> 01:25:18,000
They still have not that down and have the meeting conferred with us, and our employees are still working using encampments.

1108
01:25:18,000 --> 01:25:28,000
Other union members receive hazardous pay, but they have received this compensation, but our employees are members for us.

1109
01:25:28,000 --> 01:25:41,000
This is not okay. Our line staff has worked tirelessly with all the recent challenges, but can't get staff to uphold the context, city staff to uphold the contract to agreement.

1110
01:25:41,000 --> 01:25:48,000
To the staff ourselves to uphold the context that we felt so hard for our members in good faith.

1111
01:25:48,000 --> 01:25:54,000
Please help us get a fair working condition for what we have negotiated. Thank you.

1112
01:25:54,000 --> 01:25:56,000
Good next to Charles Clark.

1113
01:26:00,000 --> 01:26:15,000
Mayor and Council concerning item 15, I speak in 100% support of the Japanese American Day of Remembrance, but only 50% in support of the peace and justice commission resolution you've been asked to adopt.

1114
01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:22,000
The resolution is all about person, the darkness, which is fine as far as it goes. Darkness should be cursed.

1115
01:26:22,000 --> 01:26:26,000
The points of light also deserve this council's notice and recognition.

1116
01:26:26,000 --> 01:26:41,000
The one I'll mention is Ronald Sugio Sukamoto, who would have been born in Berkeley if his parents hadn't been interned in the truly like internment camp near the California Argon border, where he was actually born.

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His family returned with him to Berkeley after World War II. He graduated from Berkeley High in 1960 and became the first Japanese American officer of the Berkeley Police Department in 1970.

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Sad to say, in his rookie year, he became the first BPD officer to be killed in the line of duty, which is why the public safety building bears his name.

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My point is the moral mistakes of this country, not just the incarceration of World War II, but also the current episodes of anti-Asian hate should not blind us to the good people who have persevered through those mistakes.

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I'm sure the late Tom Fujimoto who founded the Monterey Market or Diane and the late Glenn Yasuda, who founded Berkeley Bar, would have been equally good stories to relate.

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The one I told about Officer Tsukamoto was only one notable example, and I think he and many others should be lifted up in council resolution, such as in item 15.

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Seeing the light helps conquer the darkness.

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Thank you.

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We'll go next to Andrea, who had time yielded to her as well. Thank you.

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Mr. Man, council members.

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I want to say that you have a lot of good work on your agenda tonight, and I am moved to take away from the important work you're doing with the day of remembrance and so forth because it is really important.

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And it is not what I want to do to come here and complain to you about the systemic problem you have with an anti labor management team.

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But I'm afraid that's what this has come to.

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Because we came as a group on the 2015 meeting to talk about the way that we were being dismissed and undermined in our COVID meeting confer with the city manager.

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And what we got back from that expression of our concern was the cancellation of our meeting.

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A meeting which we have three times requested demanded be rescheduled and only today was it rescheduled for a joint meeting with a whole another meeting confer.

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They are as responses to all of the things that we have demanded.

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We are workers that as you've heard from others were on the front lines we're getting COVID in our workplaces there are outbreaks.

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We're doing this in an environment where the state is talking about rolling back masking mandates and making us less safe every day.

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And what the city has answered us with is silence and it's unacceptable.

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And it's a pattern that goes beyond simply what's happening on our day to day health and well being as workers and protecting the community because you've heard from others tonight about the recreation workers who have been denied their hero pay.

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So the hazard pay assessment that is not happening in the encampments.

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That's a dangerous job that got more dangerous with COVID.

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And the city has failed to even begin the assessment.

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In the six months, the paper ran down.

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Yes, this is an issue that is of a special.

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And so, this is my last concern and has been for many years. I appreciate you saying that council member hon, that is not the last thing to be implemented. We've got to list of five things from our contract that have yet to be implemented.

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And as others have told you, the city's response to that to our demand that they actually come and talk to us about their failures has been silence.

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meetings I have never, never in my time at the city of Berkeley. Had an issue come first to arbitration

1145
01:30:33,320 --> 01:30:41,000
because the city refused, flat out refused to engage at step one step two or step three. And that's

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01:30:41,000 --> 01:30:47,560
where we are today. That is the city management team you have. Yes, they're under staff. Guess what?

1147
01:30:47,560 --> 01:30:55,960
So am I. So it's the library. The whole city is struggling. But if I decided that I was too

1148
01:30:55,960 --> 01:31:02,760
overworked to actually do my job, there would be consequences. And there need to be consequences

1149
01:31:02,760 --> 01:31:08,120
for the disrespect. We're not talking about people while we're gagging around complaining about

1150
01:31:08,920 --> 01:31:14,280
non-sensical things. These are people who are not getting their wages. These are recreational workers

1151
01:31:14,280 --> 01:31:20,680
when not getting email addresses. These are recreational workers not getting their email pay. This is

1152
01:31:20,680 --> 01:31:27,960
this is not small stuff. And yes, we're fighting all of these fights because when we found them the

1153
01:31:27,960 --> 01:31:33,960
first time the city didn't do it. Do we want to have these meetings? No, we don't want to have these meetings.

1154
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We want to get back to serving the community. That's why we came to Berkeley. I want to be a librarian.

1155
01:31:38,760 --> 01:31:44,600
I don't want to have meeting confer after meeting confer. But we have to do these meetings because

1156
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the city is not holding up there under the bargain. So that's what I'm here to tell you. You're going to

1157
01:31:48,440 --> 01:31:53,880
get a lot of details about what's not happening, but that's the bottom line. The city management refuses

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01:31:53,880 --> 01:31:58,760
to engage with the workers, which is the responsibility of the obligation, and they're going to need to be

1159
01:31:58,760 --> 01:32:12,920
consequences. We'll go next to Kelly Hammepin. The common I plan to make sounds so small and

1160
01:32:12,920 --> 01:32:22,120
comparison to what's happening with the city employees. And of course, I wanted to do all those

1161
01:32:22,120 --> 01:32:28,600
raises that we gave to the director in the city manager, did those sales through with a kind of

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01:32:28,600 --> 01:32:37,880
smoothness that the employees haven't seen. But what I wanted to comment on was a number of seven

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01:32:37,880 --> 01:32:47,400
the formal bid solicitations. And I really appreciate what council member Hans said about following

1164
01:32:47,400 --> 01:32:54,600
the sustainability standards from the city. And I was hoping that when the formal bid solicitations

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went out, that when this contract is finally determined, that we are going to have a contract with

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01:33:04,120 --> 01:33:13,320
a minority owned business, a black owned business, or a Hispanic owned business, from here locally,

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and that we won't be sitting through another filming report about how minority businesses are

1168
01:33:27,640 --> 01:33:35,960
not receiving city contracts. Thank you. Thank you. We'll go back to ELOC plans.

1169
01:33:35,960 --> 01:33:48,520
Hey, council, this is Ken Chants. I am on my EOC computer here. City workers here from this council

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01:33:48,520 --> 01:33:53,000
and city management that it's hard for HR department and for other workers during this pandemic.

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And city workers also here from this council and the city management that they are essential workers

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and that their work is appreciated and critical to our community. These are great things to hear and

1173
01:34:04,440 --> 01:34:09,960
these are true things to hear. What workers have not heard is that their paychecks have been paid

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01:34:09,960 --> 01:34:15,720
in accordance with the city's contract with workers. And what workers have not heard is also that city has

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01:34:15,720 --> 01:34:21,960
not taken has taken seriously COVID safety in the workplace during this pandemic, which indeed

1176
01:34:21,960 --> 01:34:27,400
is all of our community. The interest of city workers being voice tonight is aligned with the

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interest of our community. Workers safety is community safety. When workers don't get notification of

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01:34:33,320 --> 01:34:38,040
positive COVID cases at a workplace in a timely manner for management, that means that they don't

1179
01:34:38,040 --> 01:34:43,960
know when to quarantine or isolate to not pass COVID to community members that we serve. The city is in

1180
01:34:43,960 --> 01:34:49,480
violation of their obligation to meet and conferring good faith for COVID safety. Workers negotiated in

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01:34:49,480 --> 01:34:56,120
our 2021 contract to allocate part of our pay to computer benefits. Workers are aligned with our community

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01:34:56,120 --> 01:35:02,520
goals and fighting climate change. The city is in violation of our contract to pay our

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01:35:02,520 --> 01:35:08,440
computer benefits since August 2021. And workers are serving our most vulnerable members in

1184
01:35:08,440 --> 01:35:14,520
homelessness and shelters. Workers are doing this very important work to our community, day in and

1185
01:35:14,520 --> 01:35:18,680
day out, all throughout the pandemic, getting assaulted, getting chased by angry dogs, working in

1186
01:35:18,680 --> 01:35:24,360
hazardous condition. The city is in violation of our contract in addressing hazardous work for workers

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on the front lines of this work. Our communities align with the interests of the city workers

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01:35:29,240 --> 01:35:33,480
who do to work that our community values. It's good to hear the words of support from this council and

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01:35:33,480 --> 01:35:39,240
city management for essential workers but it would be better to hear that our contract obligations

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01:35:39,240 --> 01:35:45,160
are being met and that workers are being paid what is owed and that COVID community safety is being taken

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seriously. Thank you. We're going out to Jen. Hi, can you hear me? Yes. Hi, good evening, Mr. Mayor and

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council. My name is Jen and I am a community services specialist and I am a member of SLAU 1021. I'm

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speaking on items 5 and 10. And I just want to add my voice to the course of other city workers who have

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01:36:09,720 --> 01:36:15,720
secured tonight about the failure to implement our contract, which we've rather than been

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good faith, which the city signed off on, which this council signed off on. I'm also a pepper member and

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I have to say that quite frankly I'm just exhausted by this whole thing at this point and I can't

1197
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help it wonder if that's maybe not the point of all of this dragging out delaying and I just want to

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emphasize, you know, what Nate does said he read from our contract and it says as soon as it

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administratively possible or the first pay period in January, whichever comes first. That is literally

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the language of our contract and the first pay period in January has come and gone. We've been told this

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01:36:55,160 --> 01:37:01,000
is probably not going to be implemented to the April. I would expect that a city management that

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01:37:01,000 --> 01:37:06,280
vows to honor a contract would be very upfront about if we're not going to meet that obligation.

1203
01:37:06,280 --> 01:37:12,840
That you will indeed get back paid as not what we're hearing. So I have really no idea what to

1204
01:37:12,840 --> 01:37:19,160
expect about all of this and it's really disheartening. You know, there's there's been a lot of issues that

1205
01:37:19,160 --> 01:37:25,560
have been ways tonight, including the issue around that's not getting their separate cases, COVID-19 safety,

1206
01:37:26,440 --> 01:37:31,480
our workers who are out in camps who have bargained for has it as pay study, which hasn't

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happened yet, our recorders who can't even get email addresses and I just want to just say for the record

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that, you know, I'm disappointed I support whatever the city does to hire more folks so that they can

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01:37:43,960 --> 01:37:50,120
get staffed up and get some of these things implemented. But as a as a separately booker, I'm

1210
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really feeling the strain of all of this. Thank you very much for listening.

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We're going to add a flat cap one.

1212
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Why are you there?

1213
01:38:08,200 --> 01:38:13,960
That flat cap one you are needed. How's it going now? Can we have it? You're great.

1214
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Okay awesome. I'm glad I'm an SCIU member how worked for the library. I was on the bargaining team

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01:38:20,680 --> 01:38:27,960
when we pushed for the proper acceleration. I listened to latanius presentation and I appreciate that

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01:38:27,960 --> 01:38:33,160
you guys to care of 65 of the provisions and I want to thank you for that work. I want to talk about

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the proper provision which I understand is a challenging one and I appreciate that much like the rest of

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01:38:39,160 --> 01:38:43,960
the divisions in the city and departments in the city that HRs are worked, that you're dealing with an

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01:38:43,960 --> 01:38:50,120
unusual amount of contracts and that pepper is challenging but nonetheless the city isn't

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01:38:50,120 --> 01:38:56,200
reach of our contracts and city workers are hurting as a result. As someone who bargained for the

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pepper ramp down I want to point out that our entire membership paid for the Pemper ramp down by sacrifice

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being a 1% cost of living adjustment. Other employees have been getting that additional cost of living

1223
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adjustment for the last six months and as you know COVID related supply chain issues are causing

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higher than normal inflation so our codes are particularly important right now. Workers have less

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01:39:18,200 --> 01:39:24,360
standing power than they've had in years and given the proper provision implementation delays

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given that we traded our call at a pay for them and given the relative ease with which the city seems to

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01:39:29,080 --> 01:39:35,880
be able to implement call as I would ask Council to authorize paying for a temporary 1% cost of living

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adjustment for our membership. From the date our contract was signed to the time that the pepper

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01:39:40,600 --> 01:39:46,840
ramp down is actually implemented but I'll help make our members whole the mayor repeatedly caution that

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Council members should direct their concern for city workers directly to the city manager or to

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agenda is it for future discussion or to take it to close session. I would ask that the city council

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keep in mind what I remember should give up and what they're going through when they go into these discussions.

1233
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Thank you. Thank you. We're going to exit district 7, COB. I think this in G-Chen.

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01:40:10,120 --> 01:40:14,600
Hi, I'm Anne Campbell. This is in G-Chen and I just want to echo the comments made by my fellow

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01:40:14,600 --> 01:40:19,480
city employees tonight. I'm a member of SCIU-21 and a pepper employee and I also striped on the

1236
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bargaining team that negotiated our current contract. As you know we had a very intense contract site that

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01:40:24,040 --> 01:40:28,440
took a lot of energy and time for my members. It was very stressful. There was also a lot of work on the part

1238
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of the city including this council and your close sessions. So after all that work went into this contract

1239
01:40:33,080 --> 01:40:37,480
it's an extremely frustrating as the city is in violation of multiple contract provisions, including the

1240
01:40:37,480 --> 01:40:42,040
purpose that down increase in community benefits. This is money that has taken out of the pocket of workers

1241
01:40:42,040 --> 01:40:46,120
during pandemic and the city needs to make this right. Members can be made close, need to be made

1242
01:40:46,120 --> 01:40:51,000
full with retroactive payments including interest that impacts the high inflation rate that we're

1243
01:40:51,000 --> 01:40:55,960
all struggling with. And I just also want to say that I've been very disappointed with the general state

1244
01:40:55,960 --> 01:41:00,360
of the relations of the city with multiple meetings with our union being cancelled and a full

1245
01:41:00,360 --> 01:41:05,320
lot of transparency and meeting conference. I understand that I understand that there are staffing issues

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01:41:05,320 --> 01:41:09,960
that affect, you know, contract implementation but I think this unknownness to meaningful in G-Chen

1247
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but then the bigger issue within the culture and the Department of Service will need to change. Thank you.

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01:41:16,120 --> 01:41:22,840
Thank you very much. I see we have one, two, three, four, five raised hands. I'd like to do one

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01:41:22,840 --> 01:41:29,080
mask call for public comment on consent items. Generalty spoke. Thank you for your comments.

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01:41:31,000 --> 01:41:36,200
Anyone who has not spoken on the consent calendar that wishes to speak, please raise your head at this time.

1251
01:41:37,080 --> 01:41:38,680
Okay, we're going to add a care of mastic.

1252
01:41:41,400 --> 01:41:49,480
I'm going in favor of the wireless resources for our first founders. Our first responders face trauma,

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01:41:49,480 --> 01:41:56,040
they're exposed to trauma on a regular basis of the daily basis and they're expected to not show

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their vulnerability. There is stigma attached to them needing, needing services and it's

1255
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really great to see that there are going to be resources available for these wireless purposes.

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It's also pleasant to hear commissions being praised and acknowledged for their work to

1257
01:42:24,120 --> 01:42:31,320
often the commissions are traded as if their parasitic nuisances sucking up staff resources

1258
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and instead of recognizing them for the citizens' consultants that they are,

1259
01:42:37,640 --> 01:42:44,360
citizen consultants that are working free of charge or for various small stipends.

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Thank you for allowing me to make these comments.

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I appreciate your service, Carol. You're my appointee and the homeless services panel experts.

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So, really appreciate you stepping up and providing your years of expertise and your commitment to

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that particular commission. Okay, we'll go to Tom Setton.

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01:43:04,440 --> 01:43:10,760
Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, City Council. I appreciate you giving us an opportunity to speak on this.

1265
01:43:10,760 --> 01:43:17,400
It's relevant to item 10 but also relevant to what you've been hearing all night. I'm a city

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Berkeley employee. We're for the IT department and a member of the CIU 1021 and was on the bargaining team

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01:43:23,880 --> 01:43:33,720
that went late into the night on time for myself at least many times to get to a good reasonable

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01:43:33,720 --> 01:43:40,120
contract and the city council did the right thing about six months ago when you wanted to approve

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the contract and as we've heard tonight, it is not unfortunately being honored.

1270
01:43:47,320 --> 01:43:56,920
There was to be 3% step down of that effective as soon as administratively possible

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or towards full day period of calendar 2022 which ever comes first. Well,

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January 2022 has come and gone and the city is currently in reach of contract.

1273
01:44:11,000 --> 01:44:15,720
When we anticipated this a couple of months ago, I asked the

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lawsuit manager if the city were to be unable to make this pepper ramp down happen at the time

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agreed with what she make staff hold by paying enough to make it even. The city managers

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01:44:40,440 --> 01:44:48,840
response to that and I quote was, we don't do retro. So I would ask the city management to

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reconsider that statement and consider doing retroactive payments to those staff members who have been

1278
01:44:58,040 --> 01:45:00,040
essentially cheated.

1279
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And in honoring the contract and the failure of the city to honor this contract. Thank you.

1280
01:45:06,000 --> 01:45:07,000
Thank you.

1281
01:45:07,000 --> 01:45:09,000
Good next to former Councillor DAVILO.

1282
01:45:18,000 --> 01:45:21,000
Thank you, my computer, my diany second.

1283
01:45:21,000 --> 01:45:27,000
So I just wanted to state that the marketing and advertising for BPD.

1284
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I hope it's not going to be like the militarized propaganda that I've seen in the past and moved to a new type of marketing approach.

1285
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Also, the 2.7 million for wellness.

1286
01:45:45,000 --> 01:45:58,000
It seems like it's excessive and why isn't that why can't the utilizing medical coverage to create that wellness.

1287
01:45:58,000 --> 01:46:02,000
And then the city managers recently got 86 million.

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The director has got 80s that got another $1,000 per month, 12,000 a year.

1289
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The city employees aren't happy, but everybody else in the upper management seems to be getting what they need.

1290
01:46:15,000 --> 01:46:25,000
Please, honor the first, you know, these essential workers first.

1291
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You know, honor their contracts, you know, give them the COVID notifications timely.

1292
01:46:33,000 --> 01:46:41,000
This is the second meeting where I've heard them complaining and it's really concerning.

1293
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And the paper was initially back when I was on the council.

1294
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I mean, that's kind of pathetic.

1295
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And recently at the farmers market, I was talking to a city employee.

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And he was stunned that in the last meeting, the city, he said, and I quote,

1297
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the city manager said, and I quote, a bold face lie.

1298
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She was just shocked because he was not in agreement with what she said about how to how to labor and the management we're getting along.

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So, you know, apparently, the 86,000 isn't doing enough for the city employees with the city managers raised.

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So, please, and take redistricting off the information calendar and needs to be talked about in the meeting.

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Thank you.

1302
01:47:36,000 --> 01:47:41,000
I had asked that anyone who wishes to speak, please raise their hand.

1303
01:47:41,000 --> 01:47:45,000
This is the last call for public comment on consent items.

1304
01:47:45,000 --> 01:47:48,000
We'll go next to Kelsey Oakerts.

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01:47:48,000 --> 01:47:50,000
Please forgive my pronunciation.

1306
01:47:50,000 --> 01:47:51,000
Oh, no.

1307
01:47:51,000 --> 01:47:52,000
Thank you.

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01:47:52,000 --> 01:47:53,000
You actually got it right.

1309
01:47:53,000 --> 01:47:54,000
All right.

1310
01:47:54,000 --> 01:47:55,000
So, hi there.

1311
01:47:55,000 --> 01:47:57,000
Thank you everyone for being part of the meeting.

1312
01:47:57,000 --> 01:48:01,000
And thank you for all that you're doing to move the MOU provisions forward.

1313
01:48:01,000 --> 01:48:07,000
Just to note, please make the S-E-I-U contract positions.

1314
01:48:07,000 --> 01:48:08,000
Applications happen.

1315
01:48:08,000 --> 01:48:11,000
The library is really understaffed.

1316
01:48:11,000 --> 01:48:17,000
And right now, we are trying to hire and retain 10 plus librarian positions.

1317
01:48:17,000 --> 01:48:20,000
People talk, and it hurts the city's reputation.

1318
01:48:20,000 --> 01:48:26,000
It folks think they cannot trust the city to pay them their full wages owed on time.

1319
01:48:26,000 --> 01:48:33,000
It seriously is really weird to have these conversations with friends, a friend's asking me what they've heard,

1320
01:48:33,000 --> 01:48:36,000
who are interested in applying for these jobs.

1321
01:48:36,000 --> 01:48:45,000
Also, please make sure, since it's being discussed on a statewide level, please make sure to keep the indoor mask mandate going in Berkeley.

1322
01:48:45,000 --> 01:48:51,000
Mask wearing is essential when health and library users, especially when they are using computers.

1323
01:48:51,000 --> 01:48:55,000
Masked health library users and staff feel comfortable in the library.

1324
01:48:55,000 --> 01:48:57,000
So, it's tax season.

1325
01:48:57,000 --> 01:49:06,000
People need to be able to go to the library for ARP tax appointments and use computers to access common related benefits and or respond to government inquiries.

1326
01:49:06,000 --> 01:49:09,000
It is a crucial time for the library right now.

1327
01:49:09,000 --> 01:49:14,000
Your support is so, so much appreciated by myself and many others in the community.

1328
01:49:14,000 --> 01:49:16,000
Thank you so much.

1329
01:49:16,000 --> 01:49:17,000
Thank you.

1330
01:49:17,000 --> 01:49:19,000
Are you going to stick a tree now?

1331
01:49:19,000 --> 01:49:22,000
Hi there.

1332
01:49:22,000 --> 01:49:23,000
Can you hear me?

1333
01:49:23,000 --> 01:49:24,000
Yes.

1334
01:49:24,000 --> 01:49:25,000
Hi.

1335
01:49:25,000 --> 01:49:26,000
Good evening council.

1336
01:49:26,000 --> 01:49:29,000
Thank you so much for taking all of our comments today.

1337
01:49:29,000 --> 01:49:32,000
And all the work that you do.

1338
01:49:32,000 --> 01:49:36,000
I'm glad to comment on consent items five and ten.

1339
01:49:36,000 --> 01:49:38,000
And so back on on myself.

1340
01:49:38,000 --> 01:49:40,000
I work in the planning department.

1341
01:49:40,000 --> 01:49:41,000
We're going to use the vision.

1342
01:49:41,000 --> 01:49:46,000
I work on all the annual reports for the highly elements.

1343
01:49:46,000 --> 01:49:51,000
I work on it is which will hopefully be the second rating tonight.

1344
01:49:51,000 --> 01:49:53,000
Could us to the team.

1345
01:49:53,000 --> 01:49:54,000
Yeah.

1346
01:49:54,000 --> 01:49:57,000
I've been here for the last two and a half years.

1347
01:49:57,000 --> 01:50:03,000
Plus in this issue regarding Peppa and honoring like our contract.

1348
01:50:03,000 --> 01:50:05,000
It's just so disheartening.

1349
01:50:05,000 --> 01:50:10,000
Like being here and having this battle throughout COVID times.

1350
01:50:10,000 --> 01:50:15,000
During these times when, you know, we really need to feel supported as workers.

1351
01:50:15,000 --> 01:50:18,000
It's just, it's a struggle.

1352
01:50:18,000 --> 01:50:23,000
Like I've had a lot of new staff in the land use division for reasons because, you know,

1353
01:50:23,000 --> 01:50:27,000
thing that because of Peppa or for other personal reasons.

1354
01:50:27,000 --> 01:50:33,000
But right now like I'm walking new staff through like their pay text and I'm like, yeah,

1355
01:50:33,000 --> 01:50:40,000
that's how much it's taken out a month because of this inequity that still exists.

1356
01:50:40,000 --> 01:50:45,000
For me it boils down to about $300,000 per paycheck.

1357
01:50:45,000 --> 01:50:50,000
And if you add that a lot, it's almost $7,000 a year.

1358
01:50:50,000 --> 01:50:54,000
And for me, like I have a ton of student loans.

1359
01:50:54,000 --> 01:51:02,000
And I'm so hoping that Biden's going to, you know, cancel that child out to him for that hopefully.

1360
01:51:02,000 --> 01:51:05,000
But it's, it's a lot.

1361
01:51:05,000 --> 01:51:07,000
And it's, it's really wild up.

1362
01:51:07,000 --> 01:51:10,000
I'm here again in front of you all.

1363
01:51:10,000 --> 01:51:15,000
And it's, I just, I'm just so frustrated.

1364
01:51:15,000 --> 01:51:21,000
And I want people, I want people to understand that frustration that we're experiencing as workers.

1365
01:51:21,000 --> 01:51:28,000
So please, please encourage management to enforce our contract.

1366
01:51:28,000 --> 01:51:29,000
Thank you.

1367
01:51:29,000 --> 01:51:30,000
Thank you.

1368
01:51:30,000 --> 01:51:34,000
Okay, we'll go to Felix.

1369
01:51:34,000 --> 01:51:36,000
Hey, I'm Felix Thompson.

1370
01:51:36,000 --> 01:51:39,000
I'm a public sector worker here in the East Bay.

1371
01:51:39,000 --> 01:51:48,000
And I just want to say when the city of Berkeley doesn't honor its contract obligations to the workers here in Berkeley.

1372
01:51:48,000 --> 01:51:53,000
You are setting a terrible precedent for other employers around the Bay Area.

1373
01:51:53,000 --> 01:51:59,000
Berkeley has a reputation as progressive, but when the city of Berkeley's government.

1374
01:51:59,000 --> 01:52:03,000
It doesn't follow based on contract obligations.

1375
01:52:03,000 --> 01:52:04,000
It's not progressive.

1376
01:52:04,000 --> 01:52:09,000
It's, it's harming your workers and it's setting a bad example for all the other municipalities around you.

1377
01:52:09,000 --> 01:52:16,000
So I hope you'll quickly follow the contract that you've already agreed to.

1378
01:52:16,000 --> 01:52:20,000
Okay, we'll go to the next speaker.

1379
01:52:20,000 --> 01:52:22,000
Nifer.

1380
01:52:22,000 --> 01:52:24,000
Hello.

1381
01:52:24,000 --> 01:52:25,000
Yes.

1382
01:52:25,000 --> 01:52:26,000
Oh, thank you.

1383
01:52:26,000 --> 01:52:31,000
I just want to thank the peace and justice commission.

1384
01:52:31,000 --> 01:52:38,000
And I would like to comment on item 14 to normalize the diplomatic and economic relations with Cuba.

1385
01:52:38,000 --> 01:52:43,000
Cuba Cubans and I have family there in France.

1386
01:52:43,000 --> 01:52:49,000
And they are experiencing the worst, the worst economic and humanitarian crisis.

1387
01:52:49,000 --> 01:52:55,000
This humanitarian crisis continues to grow with COVID pandemic.

1388
01:52:55,000 --> 01:53:05,000
So I think it's wonderful that we can put a little bit of work to be able to lead the normalization of US and Cuba relations.

1389
01:53:05,000 --> 01:53:06,000
Thank you.

1390
01:53:06,000 --> 01:53:07,000
Thank you.

1391
01:53:07,000 --> 01:53:09,000
We've got a Diane about.

1392
01:53:13,000 --> 01:53:14,000
I got it.

1393
01:53:14,000 --> 01:53:22,000
Hi, I just wanted to thank you for putting that for the for items for the peace and justice commission on consent.

1394
01:53:22,000 --> 01:53:26,000
And I'm I'm glad that other people are appreciating too.

1395
01:53:26,000 --> 01:53:29,000
I'm glad that we have the chance to do this work.

1396
01:53:29,000 --> 01:53:33,000
And I George Littman spoke quite eloquently about each item.

1397
01:53:33,000 --> 01:53:38,000
So I want to add any more just to appreciate having the opportunity to do these kind of resolutions.

1398
01:53:38,000 --> 01:53:39,000
Thank you.

1399
01:53:39,000 --> 01:53:40,000
Bye.

1400
01:53:40,000 --> 01:53:41,000
Thank you.

1401
01:53:41,000 --> 01:53:45,000
Thank you so much for all your service and the commission for bringing for these resolutions.

1402
01:53:45,000 --> 01:53:47,000
I see no further ways to answer.

1403
01:53:47,000 --> 01:53:48,000
Thank you.

1404
01:53:48,000 --> 01:53:50,000
I'm sending this evening in for your comments.

1405
01:53:50,000 --> 01:53:54,000
Bring it back to the city council and I'll make a motion to approve the consent.

1406
01:53:54,000 --> 01:53:55,000
Second.

1407
01:53:55,000 --> 01:53:56,000
Second.

1408
01:53:56,000 --> 01:53:57,000
Vice Mayor.

1409
01:53:57,000 --> 01:53:58,000
Thank you.

1410
01:53:58,000 --> 01:53:59,000
Any further discussion?

1411
01:53:59,000 --> 01:54:00,000
Signo.

1412
01:54:00,000 --> 01:54:03,000
Yes.

1413
01:54:03,000 --> 01:54:04,000
Yes.

1414
01:54:04,000 --> 01:54:05,000
Kaplan.

1415
01:54:05,000 --> 01:54:06,000
Yes.

1416
01:54:06,000 --> 01:54:07,000
Bartlett.

1417
01:54:07,000 --> 01:54:08,000
Yes.

1418
01:54:08,000 --> 01:54:09,000
Harrison.

1419
01:54:09,000 --> 01:54:11,000
Yes.

1420
01:54:11,000 --> 01:54:12,000
Yes.

1421
01:54:12,000 --> 01:54:13,000
On.

1422
01:54:13,000 --> 01:54:14,000
Yes.

1423
01:54:15,000 --> 01:54:15,500
Yes.

1424
01:54:15,500 --> 01:54:17,500
Good afternoon, Robert.

1425
01:54:17,500 --> 01:54:18,000
And yes.

1426
01:54:18,000 --> 01:54:19,000
Dr. Rosset.

1427
01:54:19,000 --> 01:54:20,000
You.

1428
01:54:20,000 --> 01:54:20,500
Yes.

1429
01:54:20,500 --> 01:54:21,000
And Mayor.

1430
01:54:21,000 --> 01:54:21,500
Yes.

1431
01:54:21,500 --> 01:54:22,500
Alarian.

1432
01:54:22,500 --> 01:54:23,500
Motion care.

1433
01:54:23,500 --> 01:54:24,000
Thank you.

1434
01:54:24,000 --> 01:54:30,000
So I like to suggest to reorder the agenda and move down to these advocate for 29.

1435
01:54:30,000 --> 01:54:31,000
56.

1436
01:54:31,000 --> 01:54:35,000
Kilias Avenue just to ensure the party's and not the way we take a private business.

1437
01:54:35,000 --> 01:54:37,000
And then we could proceed to.

1438
01:54:37,000 --> 01:54:41,000
Item 17 and then the item you just pulled in six.

1439
01:54:41,000 --> 01:54:42,000
So.

1440
01:54:42,000 --> 01:54:47,000
So, well, so I have a bucket by my recommend taking a real break.

1441
01:54:47,000 --> 01:54:48,000
Start with that appeal.

1442
01:54:48,000 --> 01:54:49,000
All right.

1443
01:54:49,000 --> 01:54:51,000
So we're going to take a ten minute recess.

1444
01:54:51,000 --> 01:54:54,000
As we are required to, as we have a look captioner.

1445
01:54:54,000 --> 01:55:00,000
And then we will be back actually upon further consideration.

1446
01:55:00,000 --> 01:55:06,000
Let's, when we come back, we'll take a pesabapiel then then 16 of then 17.

1447
01:55:06,000 --> 01:55:07,000
Okay.

1448
01:55:07,000 --> 01:55:08,000
We'll be back.

1449
01:55:08,000 --> 01:55:09,000
Thank you.

1450
01:55:09,000 --> 01:55:12,000
That's a seven or seven.

1451
01:55:16,000 --> 01:55:18,000
Recording stopped.

1452
01:55:39,000 --> 01:55:41,000
Thank you.

1453
01:56:09,000 --> 01:56:10,000
Thank you.

1454
01:56:39,000 --> 01:56:40,000
Thank you.

1455
01:57:09,000 --> 01:57:11,000
Thank you.

1456
01:57:39,000 --> 01:57:40,000
Thank you.

1457
01:58:09,000 --> 01:58:10,000
Thank you.

1458
01:58:39,000 --> 01:58:40,000
Thank you.

1459
01:59:09,000 --> 01:59:10,000
Thank you.

1460
01:59:39,000 --> 01:59:41,000
Thank you.

1461
02:04:30,000 --> 02:04:45,280
Aiga i ydraeth i pam y naed, ygrad eu ffachupcryd o'namation gyda-draeth ydacer porraud Cyndmeth.

1462
02:04:45,280 --> 02:04:49,240
o cactolio, deen ni'n cyflwy yr'n cynraith.

1463
02:05:00,240 --> 02:05:04,020
O'n cyflwydd ydyl'i gwneud o'n cyflwydd.

1464
02:05:04,020 --> 02:05:07,800
dyn.

1465
02:05:07,800 --> 02:05:28,240
Ok.

1466
02:05:28,240 --> 02:05:32,100
Ok, once again, I'm going to ask the council for these rejoins us, so we can reconbe.

1467
02:05:32,100 --> 02:05:36,580
од medyd.endsaufelau. Niuall o campad Intro nhw.

1468
02:05:36,580 --> 02:05:39,240
Dul x BRinaadrew a'id wedi ynaweín 12'32' Beginty from Teich Enlightral,

1469
02:05:39,240 --> 02:05:43,960
Idem 18ths antiprifydd a' priferwyn y Phaedia yn 2017-1858.

1470
02:05:44,280 --> 02:05:47,940
Swy con yn laos bod Whitedd un prif pedwch ar funfel am si Hίνes Mae'ch

1471
02:05:47,940 --> 02:05:54,860
Degol do'n Rw Iím Storef iron hebftenu o'nod borefledd

1472
02:05:54,860 --> 02:05:58,620
ynftos modellig Eud Tym syrup n Graham i'n Cymill O'n Mae'ncylmwyd

1473
02:05:58,620 --> 02:06:02,620
sc yn poblia o ca'n nhw'n y carem nhw, ydf�ingu.

1474
02:06:02,620 --> 02:06:05,380
y fenn, y nhw brood gwalwaind a gwidddo

1475
02:06:05,380 --> 02:06:06,060
eith Schw Tudoau y wd enchu.

1476
02:06:06,060 --> 02:06:07,820
I ff.

1477
02:06:07,820 --> 02:06:09,580
Ya ag austriwed y rgarionol, walau'i.

1478
02:06:09,580 --> 02:06:12,700
Ca'au ora decidu, y fadingiggoeddwdych washerWelcomeornyeth sw assimcyd mild fo'n

1479
02:06:12,700 --> 02:06:14,780
y Operation

1480
02:06:14,780 --> 02:06:17,180
Su-wosd.

1481
02:06:17,180 --> 02:06:20,620
I wdich dwi'n ei, dich Mae kmb yn o Masch i'n gaw家.

1482
02:06:20,620 --> 02:06:22,860
Eiffos doethau maeswchreadre summarig.

1483
02:06:22,860 --> 02:06:25,660
Bethau, eithosau i'w Ogyweril Scotland

1484
02:06:25,660 --> 02:06:27,180
au.

1485
02:06:27,180 --> 02:06:36,260
yn yna diolioしま.

1486
02:06:36,260 --> 02:06:39,240
yddMKdd сложio dda'u di'n ganesall yn dda'n anywhere.

1487
02:06:39,240 --> 02:06:56,480
economia yn datang, aides a'w o dde storio annoyio ni'neud

1488
02:06:56,480 --> 02:06:58,720
draws uodan â'n g hoe g pstwyds a'l beth.

1489
02:06:58,720 --> 02:07:02,200
â'r syr'dd wrth'imdd d�ol a'r llelr o'r ddaus freakosd,

1490
02:07:02,200 --> 02:07:05,700
o'r hyn y cyd orch Pfoyio â'r Iwn yn y dayt!

1491
02:07:05,700 --> 02:07:09,800
neu dys Habenixddio Bom Ben R asegda, whichios Ng'n fel Sangynaol aniraai deweithol roeth dewi Mae'n

1492
02:07:09,800 --> 02:07:12,960
empezach yn fel feggwne, pfeod lle ydim yn y mッiol deweithio E renewd hwns a'n

1493
02:07:12,960 --> 02:07:18,320
yn reis'n� neu llrweithu'n eddych'n eddy yr Hawdyl con fyst.

1494
02:07:18,320 --> 02:07:22,840
Robeber i yma, peоном, dî Can eisiau'nema.

1495
02:07:22,840 --> 02:07:27,940
neu ymchwagnau сwem a'n sredd o e gleich c מס i'n Einsονhire ard knows o rwybyddio

1496
02:07:27,940 --> 02:07:32,020
fwyddio andru arengithol Rach yn y dfwayddio fyddio mai hercynnyfgoedd 170,

1497
02:07:32,020 --> 02:07:33,620
eich i'r fi wna need, fel皆자 carbohydratech Fireyanlin.

1498
02:07:33,620 --> 02:07:38,500
yw ddyngym yn chylsa'n fynd yn ysa'n'n gwneud.

1499
02:07:38,500 --> 02:07:41,300
Pefyt cref ymdefyrdau gwneud.

1500
02:07:43,940 --> 02:07:49,900
Pencawnt ywyd ydynt o'r gaelw yn ydynt ywyd.

1501
02:07:49,900 --> 02:07:54,700
Seawng a'r gwell'n gwneud fyfyd.

1502
02:07:54,700 --> 02:07:58,780
LI SO amount un ni'n store model.

1503
02:07:58,780 --> 02:08:01,500
O'l eithechan.

1504
02:08:06,540 --> 02:08:09,240
Ang amgymau yn fwys i'n sy'n Autorewn estimation.

1505
02:08:09,240 --> 02:08:12,320
Mae'r tidd ychedwfyd Elyl?

1506
02:08:12,400 --> 02:08:13,640
La'nydur fel companion.

1507
02:08:13,640 --> 02:08:16,300
Mae'n todayd i'n amgymau yn doedig.

1508
02:08:18,300 --> 02:08:18,920
刘rewn din y n presum phifwanau

1509
02:08:18,920 --> 02:08:24,240
mae'n i yn yma hyn na'r am'r ma hyn ni'n acc ese o regdfinunueri.

1510
02:08:24,240 --> 02:08:28,900
Pys yma, 기au ymaini'n pa'n gwydw, mynnau, o'n maenw.

1511
02:08:29,100 --> 02:08:32,960
Ad lym un ar ymaid yn fel yrmat yna'n weixwfiaflu, ym Framewrza'l gwneud a'hu'n bladd eind i'n

1512
02:08:32,960 --> 02:08:36,500
fl yna'r i'r i fidd ynesd eind pwy o'n yna'r iedadw.

1513
02:08:36,500 --> 02:08:42,720
Yna'r iid yma, yna'r ymaid pwy o'r iedadw, yma.

1514
02:08:42,720 --> 02:08:46,960
A'r iedadw iind dda'r iedadw iid yna enfesu yna'r iedadw iedadw.

1515
02:08:46,960 --> 02:09:16,480
hynnyd yn ydym'n'nstart'n masf ard ei gyfrwyddliesu'n smwynyn'n

1516
02:09:16,480 --> 02:09:31,840
rhimmel dwerg deithau, highly edders i'n rhoi un dependenio deithau,

1517
02:09:31,840 --> 02:09:37,240
wdoch bilenia, mas cymhenau, dysd i feraeingloeth dysdająed yn aids Hiwau stod.

1518
02:09:37,240 --> 02:09:40,700
Daud y thecheron

1519
02:09:40,700 --> 02:10:04,340
1900 sa' iaid yn yp yn rwyffyddo fel

1520
02:10:10,700 --> 02:10:16,420
Tourn nhw'n yng Nghylw'n i'n yng Nghylw'n ac trech fwllagd o'n gwndael yw.

1521
02:10:16,420 --> 02:10:19,420
Dwarf o'r i'n ymthawog yr hafer o'n gyfer eithel.

1522
02:10:19,420 --> 02:10:21,220
Dwarf o'r Gwyff, a'ng Nghylw'n yn gweirfyllad ar eithel y rhan.

1523
02:10:21,220 --> 02:10:25,380
Dwarf o'r i aithel ar gwm yn yw'r ygychwl o'r gwrthagas orfgwyff,

1524
02:10:25,380 --> 02:10:28,380
Mae'r gwnaud fynd yn y deoprod yn peolwys'n gwnaud.

1525
02:10:28,380 --> 02:10:33,380
Mes'n o'r gwnaud yma'n i'r aios anw'n i'r yn fymf yn gwneud ar mewn o'r gymson.

1526
02:10:33,380 --> 02:10:38,880
Mae'n y nawn i met yn fymfwys'n i cyfymfwys'n i'r mawnyw cyfmethau,

1527
02:10:38,880 --> 02:10:41,380
mae'n gwnaud ar whiffnid yn y gyferr ywffys.

1528
02:10:41,380 --> 02:10:43,380
Mae'n ydn ywnaud ar wthys eu cyfymfwys'n i'n gwnaud ar y'n cyfymfwys'n i'ρ local.

1529
02:10:43,380 --> 02:10:47,660
dwi rewd o'r gweld a'r gwndeeth wsirstrawe, fel gbearoli nawneeth cy'rgodch yn mynd i'r gwnden fel i'r gwnden fel,

1530
02:10:47,760 --> 02:10:50,480
i'r gwnden fel ein cy'n mynded dwi rewd, y mae seetaiddol ei wnafan.

1531
02:10:50,540 --> 02:10:54,380
Mae mewn yn yw, oedd y tämä, yn y llhydrawench, yn y XY wedi, i'r gwnden fel wnafan.

1532
02:10:55,180 --> 02:10:56,820
Rwyd e'r gwnden fel yg yddaeth.

1533
02:10:57,000 --> 02:10:59,760
Dwe�� dweug ei dweugallad, yddaeth a'r gwnden fel gallu, ymvarichw.

1534
02:10:59,760 --> 02:10:59,840
Yddaeth, yw yda'r gwnden fel.

1535
02:10:59,840 --> 02:11:07,840
O'rfluid a f gynaed i ddweithun.

1536
02:11:07,840 --> 02:11:09,520
Y fi tune o'r i undadd, ddweithunitely tyhol 높 yda gwtyn ghtd evin ponsim ar mhthalddu

1537
02:11:09,520 --> 02:11:22,860
rhywun gan ar yn tefeur i wedi dr hetio yn gy

1538
02:11:22,860 --> 02:11:25,840
i ddweithun.

1539
02:11:25,840 --> 02:11:28,080
Onchflolyn i eniffelys fyd fyydemarth Fromμοol

1540
02:11:28,080 --> 02:11:33,160
i'r ddoith, mae'n lma yma yw'r C mae'n yn'r cymneud, o fydd, mae'n hyp ddodd, o fydd, mae'n hyp fydd.

1541
02:11:33,160 --> 02:11:36,380
Mae'n yr gyda'n hodd oedd yna fashion.

1542
02:11:36,380 --> 02:11:39,000
Mae'n gyda'n gyda'n fydd yn gallu Salaf.

1543
02:11:39,000 --> 02:11:44,260
Nysch yna'ni merging, atwlated o yna'n yna'n broodz i'n zirgol.

1544
02:11:44,260 --> 02:11:50,240
Fel gwondol, mae'n cychmneud yn gallu'n yna'n gwawn hyp sydd.

1545
02:11:50,240 --> 02:11:57,360
Lydyd ddodd dodd'd â'n frequentig sydd, a yn yna'n wwyd yna'n gwyd yn gwyd yn cael,

1546
02:11:57,360 --> 02:12:01,600
dysdyn yng Nghyl Cymru wedi gwy hi yn Pyshylher o'n mael ni'n fi'n iawn.

1547
02:12:05,760 --> 02:12:11,280
Un a'l fwyl y fwyl o'n gyju'n fi'n fwyl, y pyrigol, o'n i ddo ni'n ni'n fwyl y cymwyl rwy'n

1548
02:12:11,280 --> 02:12:13,160
yn gall i'n lleib ddwydwyd fwyl, y chael, fydd y llyddwyd na'i yn ni'n unol.

1549
02:12:14,520 --> 02:12:18,000
Fwylg bron, fwyl, mwyyr wthymd y cymi'n maelau a gyda, eu wedi'n fwyl y frif alais,

1550
02:12:18,000 --> 02:12:22,960
y wngddw ymgniaeth ddim, rauedd ymwaith yw time yn gael yw'rín ar i'r iawn ynw.

1551
02:12:23,960 --> 02:12:27,200
Dhebu i'rgood mae'n mynd mewn, baffynion i'r yw i'r gael eu'r ydr.

1552
02:12:27,200 --> 02:12:28,720
Dhebu i'r yw i'r gael yw i'r gael wedd, yw i'r gael uw i'r gael wedd i'r i'r gael w ydraegu'r yw i'r gael wedd.

1553
02:12:28,720 --> 02:12:52,860
i 2025' tri, i' veizw'r 2025'r's ddud a laus'rfestafau'r a glwy'n i' llunau am cydd yw'r

1554
02:12:52,860 --> 02:12:55,300
mewn i'w ddim'n amdw fel i'n amdw i'n hollod yn yma, awn a ddim ystyfr gadw ddwythu.

1555
02:12:55,300 --> 02:13:13,340
yn yw ddim o ddim deudol, a ddim ydych'n mae'n ddim ystyfr gadw ddim yn yma, a ddim yma, a ddim yma

1556
02:13:13,340 --> 02:13:15,220
au yddim yn yma, a ddim ymdddim yma.

1557
02:13:15,220 --> 02:13:21,700
syswichyddioolwr d psychiatrist i'rauo'r yr lafor mas thank-au'r i'n'r lle'n'l fel'r ďw.

1558
02:13:21,700 --> 02:13:35,060
Mbkam dynwatau, b mae am y Paul'm i'���ddioau, feonch ond,

1559
02:13:35,060 --> 02:13:43,860
Rhymsin gwneud ac mae'n ddequiaudau, o ddequiaudau a ddecste wit gynol Trifktu'n, y ffdr'n i'n llun.

1560
02:13:43,860 --> 02:13:48,100
E 67'n ych underwyrs, yn yr'n ddecste mae'n i'n styn, i'n ddecste mae'n ddecste,

1561
02:13:48,100 --> 02:13:52,420
y cych Tesla'n eddorāchu'n i'n ddecste byd mwlg pfer i'n ddecste.

1562
02:13:52,420 --> 02:13:55,980
That'sall a'r ddecste mae'n ddecste bwyffd o'n ddecste e'n ddecste,

1563
02:13:55,980 --> 02:13:58,780
ydy'n ddecste bwyd ddim yn ddecste bwyffud o'n ffdr'n ddecste bwydolau,

1564
02:13:58,780 --> 02:14:02,700
fan dysmaid yn llwmes ypping, si'r synfysig, und o sdyd mwythmi, dig ywme o miw cosolib yapıyorsun?

1565
02:14:02,700 --> 02:14:05,780
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1566
02:14:08,180 --> 02:14:12,820
ca' explicad.

1567
02:14:12,820 --> 02:14:16,500
G organizer i gs gwrin ar y rimelig syd ânt Puksi sydd.

1568
02:14:16,500 --> 02:14:23,260
Yth med� partially yn ysaod yn opthineeth, fydd gym ryaat fel gykoeddol

1569
02:14:23,260 --> 02:14:27,260
offen rell, gyfysig yn rhyks gyda, chi hun rhyps eich,

1570
02:14:27,260 --> 02:14:32,100
am o eithol messingyr sy'n teferedodd joyw yn'n acuriall mae'n botherfysb law proliferciwn

1571
02:14:32,100 --> 02:14:37,020
au twyllair ffyn oedd mourchmoedd sy'n gwneifio r eitholio sirdibeiau fullfried년

1572
02:14:37,020 --> 02:14:41,100
syint â cyda yn elwychwn sy'net a yn ddi fyfyrd CarmwarkB800.

1573
02:14:41,100 --> 02:14:43,100
Dw bydd argyllog dau at cribeithio r eitholio amdau hyn eu llu â'r ro site i

1574
02:14:43,100 --> 02:14:46,900
bwy�ад a fo frifboedd ei hewdaol yn Fraethawma Pydau.

1575
02:14:46,900 --> 02:14:49,820
Mae'n cynkwiil y Cresden Hysllybleth usingdd y Barthek y vaol eitholio

1576
02:14:49,820 --> 02:14:51,600
Deld bod ydio ddegu ddegu drwy'r dw fel sy'n i'n fyfys drwy'r warthiau.

1577
02:14:51,940 --> 02:14:56,060
Wrthornu, oedd ei fel gyda hefysad gyd y g Eiffeleth i'n un sy'n ddegu,

1578
02:14:56,060 --> 02:14:59,000
eiffeleth yn ddidod yn hyfer al ddegu dau yd offig oair,

1579
02:14:59,000 --> 02:15:01,340
yd g fel ddegu drwy'r warthiau ddegu ddegu.

1580
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:14,000
We're not, we're not a wits, and Tamiya Kajita, please forgive my recommendation. You'll have one block of time to use to present on your appeal.

1581
02:15:14,000 --> 02:15:20,000
So I see Barbara present. I'm going to promote Barbara to panelists.

1582
02:15:20,000 --> 02:15:25,000
And let's see, do I see the other power here?

1583
02:15:25,000 --> 02:15:31,000
Let's see, Kajita might be the other power.

1584
02:15:31,000 --> 02:15:39,000
I move down, I'm not well, so let's see.

1585
02:15:39,000 --> 02:15:41,000
Now, not quietly.

1586
02:15:41,000 --> 02:15:51,000
Then to panelists.

1587
02:15:51,000 --> 02:15:56,000
But Mr. Clerk, I'm having difficulty promoting sea, Kajita, to panelists.

1588
02:15:56,000 --> 02:15:59,000
Believe that's the second of power.

1589
02:15:59,000 --> 02:16:02,000
I'll give it a shot.

1590
02:16:11,000 --> 02:16:21,000
There's some technical wish.

1591
02:16:21,000 --> 02:16:23,000
What I'll be able to see, Kajita, talk.

1592
02:16:23,000 --> 02:16:32,000
And so Barbara can kick things off, and the other panel can also add if they wish during the five minute time.

1593
02:16:32,000 --> 02:16:38,000
If the person is joining by phone, then we wouldn't be able to.

1594
02:16:38,000 --> 02:16:44,000
I, I see, Kajita, I enable you to speak.

1595
02:16:44,000 --> 02:16:53,000
You're currently needed, but if you are part of the presentation on behalf of the panelists, you should be able to meet yourself and to participate.

1596
02:16:53,000 --> 02:16:55,000
Okay, thank you.

1597
02:16:55,000 --> 02:16:56,000
I'm using the phone.

1598
02:16:56,000 --> 02:16:57,000
No problem.

1599
02:16:57,000 --> 02:16:59,000
Okay, so we can.

1600
02:16:59,000 --> 02:17:01,000
We can, yes.

1601
02:17:01,000 --> 02:17:02,000
Great.

1602
02:17:02,000 --> 02:17:06,000
So one point out, turn over to the panelists and we'll have five minutes.

1603
02:17:06,000 --> 02:17:08,000
Okay.

1604
02:17:08,000 --> 02:17:09,000
Good evening.

1605
02:17:09,000 --> 02:17:11,000
Councilman.

1606
02:17:11,000 --> 02:17:12,000
Thank you.

1607
02:17:12,000 --> 02:17:14,000
Not to the opportunity to comment.

1608
02:17:14,000 --> 02:17:16,000
The purpose.

1609
02:17:20,000 --> 02:17:22,000
We, I don't know if it's just me.

1610
02:17:22,000 --> 02:17:25,000
I can see the way back of the.

1611
02:17:25,000 --> 02:17:28,000
I, I haven't been able to hear most of it.

1612
02:17:28,000 --> 02:17:29,000
What she said.

1613
02:17:30,000 --> 02:17:35,000
This, where monowets, we're having to hear you might want to turn off your camera.

1614
02:17:35,000 --> 02:17:37,000
That usually.

1615
02:17:37,000 --> 02:17:44,000
If you're having internet connectivity issues, it makes it easier for people to hear you.

1616
02:17:44,000 --> 02:17:45,000
I'm trying.

1617
02:17:45,000 --> 02:17:46,000
Okay.

1618
02:17:46,000 --> 02:17:47,000
We can hear you now.

1619
02:17:47,000 --> 02:17:48,000
Excellent.

1620
02:17:48,000 --> 02:17:49,000
Can you hear me now?

1621
02:17:49,000 --> 02:17:50,000
Can I start the leader then?

1622
02:17:50,000 --> 02:17:51,000
Yes, please.

1623
02:17:53,000 --> 02:17:54,000
Okay.

1624
02:17:54,000 --> 02:17:55,000
Okay.

1625
02:17:55,000 --> 02:17:56,000
So good evening.

1626
02:17:56,000 --> 02:17:58,000
Thank you for the opportunity to comment.

1627
02:17:58,000 --> 02:18:06,000
Please, I'm going to say first all the effects of three adjacent properties on the rear side of the house.

1628
02:18:06,000 --> 02:18:11,000
It doesn't affect anybody else that lives on the other side of filigas or beyond.

1629
02:18:11,000 --> 02:18:17,000
And that is an important point for people who want to support this project.

1630
02:18:17,000 --> 02:18:18,000
They are.

1631
02:18:18,000 --> 02:18:20,000
Can do it, but they're not affected.

1632
02:18:20,000 --> 02:18:22,000
It is a large balcony as we've heard.

1633
02:18:22,000 --> 02:18:26,000
It seems very high above our backyards because it's in a small narrow.

1634
02:18:26,000 --> 02:18:28,000
A lot with an oversized house on it.

1635
02:18:28,000 --> 02:18:36,000
It is a close to my home office and one of our bedrooms and also to a studio on the.

1636
02:18:36,000 --> 02:18:40,000
In the back on two five to five works.

1637
02:18:40,000 --> 02:18:43,000
In preparation for the balcony.

1638
02:18:43,000 --> 02:18:45,000
The applicants notified.

1639
02:18:45,000 --> 02:18:46,000
No.

1640
02:18:46,000 --> 02:18:51,000
The city depended on the move that was right under the back windows.

1641
02:18:51,000 --> 02:18:54,000
In order to.

1642
02:18:54,000 --> 02:18:55,000
For the.

1643
02:18:55,000 --> 02:18:57,000
Floor to ceiling sliding.

1644
02:18:57,000 --> 02:19:00,000
French doors that they installed.

1645
02:19:00,000 --> 02:19:02,000
Program is that was not.

1646
02:19:02,000 --> 02:19:06,000
In the construction plan that really members had been.

1647
02:19:06,000 --> 02:19:11,000
I asked to sign off in November 2019, which showed an unidentified.

1648
02:19:11,000 --> 02:19:13,000
And in the part of the house.

1649
02:19:13,000 --> 02:19:16,000
Modified since then, but to and.

1650
02:19:16,000 --> 02:19:17,000
Before.

1651
02:19:17,000 --> 02:19:19,000
Bones before filing for the bottom of the permit.

1652
02:19:19,000 --> 02:19:21,000
Here's the chronology.

1653
02:19:21,000 --> 02:19:23,000
July 13, 2020.

1654
02:19:23,000 --> 02:19:29,000
They put down a beautiful mature tree that was providing a shield of privacy.

1655
02:19:29,000 --> 02:19:31,000
To the neighboring properties.

1656
02:19:31,000 --> 02:19:32,000
The.

1657
02:19:32,000 --> 02:19:36,000
Plenty the view from the upstairs bedroom to the southwest side.

1658
02:19:36,000 --> 02:19:40,000
Then on February in 2021 installation of the French law and after cutting.

1659
02:19:40,000 --> 02:19:48,480
cutting the green roof and note that the bay windows package already delivered in July 2020.

1660
02:19:48,480 --> 02:19:54,880
So, wave of the application for the balcony was submitted in May 2021.

1661
02:19:54,880 --> 02:20:03,040
So, I view the project as described is, will result in privacy and noise nuisance for the three

1662
02:20:03,040 --> 02:20:09,360
affected adjacent properties in the back of 2056. There is only applicants expressed in tension

1663
02:20:09,360 --> 02:20:14,960
to use the large balcony for the creation, considerate a track recorder, and considerate

1664
02:20:14,960 --> 02:20:19,760
behavior throughout the prolonged construction and beyond. In addition to the impact of this project,

1665
02:20:19,760 --> 02:20:24,960
to a project specifically questionable taxes that have been used by the applicants,

1666
02:20:24,960 --> 02:20:30,080
does the city and Berkeley condense such factors? So, thank you, and I let my crew

1667
02:20:30,640 --> 02:20:39,280
speak now. Hello, thank you for allowing me to speak today. I'm just going to address three main

1668
02:20:39,280 --> 02:20:46,720
points, so we're just earlier. This is an uninclorious balcony. There are mill walls. The adjacent

1669
02:20:46,720 --> 02:20:57,600
property located at 25, 25 has a similar front porch, but it's an enclosed balcony. The two other

1670
02:20:57,600 --> 02:21:03,200
properties that were adjacent properties, they're further and deeper back on the property,

1671
02:21:04,400 --> 02:21:12,080
and do not have the sound impact. This balcony is 120, 170 square feet,

1672
02:21:12,080 --> 02:21:19,280
it's large enough for tables, chairs, and recreational use, including music, with close

1673
02:21:19,440 --> 02:21:26,720
neighboring properties that could be used at night that will increase the noise. The mentioned

1674
02:21:26,720 --> 02:21:35,440
mature tree was fully cut without the knowledge of the neighbors. It was provided a full canopy

1675
02:21:35,440 --> 02:21:43,200
and was healthy for over 20 years fast growing, had no treatisees and provided coverage and

1676
02:21:43,200 --> 02:21:55,600
enjoyment and privacy to adjacent properties. The proposed balcony is on the third floor

1677
02:21:55,600 --> 02:22:03,360
and provides direct view into neighboring properties without any type of screening. The neighbor has

1678
02:22:03,360 --> 02:22:11,680
not installed any new screening with coverage that would provide any type of privacy or noise and

1679
02:22:11,680 --> 02:22:20,080
buffer. This application is only beneficial for the applicant, as opposed to the adjacent neighbors,

1680
02:22:20,080 --> 02:22:27,280
that will lose privacy, screening, and having increased noise as a result. We, the applicant,

1681
02:22:27,280 --> 02:22:34,640
recommend, as a compromise and enclosed sun porch, similar to the existing enclosed sun porch,

1682
02:22:34,640 --> 02:22:42,640
located on the adjacent property located at that 25, 25, web surgery, in size and design

1683
02:22:42,640 --> 02:22:48,960
to address sound, privacy, and screening issues to adjacent neighbors. Thank you very much.

1684
02:22:51,920 --> 02:22:58,400
Thank you very much. So we're now going to get the applicant five minutes to present and we will

1685
02:22:58,400 --> 02:23:03,120
keep the appellate on at the panel side in case there are questions from members of the City Council

1686
02:23:03,120 --> 02:23:08,640
to ask if you please meet your ones, as we proceed with the hearing. And if there's a question from

1687
02:23:08,640 --> 02:23:16,160
the Council member, we'll go back to you. Okay. So Molly and Adam start the lead or the property owners,

1688
02:23:17,040 --> 02:23:25,760
and I move them over. I believe Edby Cannon is presenting for them tonight as well. Okay.

1689
02:23:25,760 --> 02:23:32,160
The architect. Yes. Edby Cannon, here we go. Thank you, Mayor.

1690
02:23:33,600 --> 02:23:40,800
Okay. They should all be on the other side. And so as, as summarized, the applicant will have five minutes to

1691
02:23:40,800 --> 02:23:48,160
present. And whoever would like to present on behalf of the applicant, you can proceed. Thank you. The

1692
02:23:48,160 --> 02:23:55,120
ash on my screen. You should be able to. Okay. Great. Let's see. I think it's this.

1693
02:23:56,160 --> 02:24:03,760
Okay. Great. Okay. Good. Thank you very much. And good evening, everybody. I'm Edward Buchan in the

1694
02:24:03,760 --> 02:24:11,920
architect for 2956 elegance for Molly and Adam Star, the homeowners there. Thank you for staying up so late.

1695
02:24:12,880 --> 02:24:18,080
This, as you know, is a project that was unanimously approved by the Zab in September.

1696
02:24:18,720 --> 02:24:24,320
It's been a difficult process for many involved, but especially for my clients who found themselves

1697
02:24:24,320 --> 02:24:30,640
in the middle of a construction project when the quarantine hit with children that couldn't go to school in

1698
02:24:30,640 --> 02:24:37,200
person. Everybody was cooped up in the house and there was nowhere to go practically to get outside and play

1699
02:24:37,200 --> 02:24:43,360
or get a moment of peace and quiet. And so this proposal, which came out of that experience, is to add

1700
02:24:43,360 --> 02:24:49,760
an upper floor roof deck of about 170 square feet. Again, off the master bedroom at the rear of the house.

1701
02:24:50,720 --> 02:24:54,640
The proposed deck will provide very much needed sunny outdoor space.

1702
02:24:56,320 --> 02:25:04,400
Useable outdoor space on a very small size lot of approximately 2750 square feet, which you may know is about

1703
02:25:04,400 --> 02:25:11,120
half the size of a standard lot. And on that very little usable outdoor space that they do have,

1704
02:25:11,680 --> 02:25:18,560
a portion of it is required in the backyard for an off-street parking space. So they're very, very limited in

1705
02:25:18,560 --> 02:25:24,560
where they can get outside on this property. And at the, located at the rear of the house, the deck is primary

1706
02:25:24,560 --> 02:25:30,320
directed to the west and is only accessed through the master bedroom, which simply means that this is a

1707
02:25:30,320 --> 02:25:35,840
place for the owners to quietly enjoy a cup of coffee or glass of wine or take a break from the kids,

1708
02:25:36,800 --> 02:25:43,200
but is not an intense use kind of space. There are no views to impact with this project,

1709
02:25:43,200 --> 02:25:48,560
it is an dense urban neighborhood. And because the deck will be built on top of an existing roof,

1710
02:25:48,560 --> 02:25:54,480
the only real addition is that of the guardrail and it's an open designed guardrail. So the

1711
02:25:54,480 --> 02:26:01,040
window impacts to neighbors access to air. Additionally, because of the distance between structures,

1712
02:26:01,040 --> 02:26:07,680
the only added shadows cast are from the open guardrail and privacy plantings, which were required in the

1713
02:26:07,680 --> 02:26:13,280
ZAB approval. And those shadows would be cast onto the driveway between the properties,

1714
02:26:13,280 --> 02:26:21,040
between the two side properties. Privacy, of course, is always, of concern and projects like this.

1715
02:26:21,040 --> 02:26:27,280
It's always a mutual desire to preserve it. And you can see in this era of view,

1716
02:26:30,240 --> 02:26:35,600
the pattern, the already existing neighborhood pattern of of the adjacent neighbors that have their

1717
02:26:36,320 --> 02:26:44,880
upper floor roof decks. This is the neighborhood to the north at 2954 Heligus. This is the neighborhood at 2523

1718
02:26:44,880 --> 02:26:51,200
Webster. They all have their existing decks. And that's simply the way of saying that this is a pattern

1719
02:26:51,200 --> 02:26:58,160
that has been a precedent in the neighborhood for this kind of privacy already. So in that regard,

1720
02:26:58,880 --> 02:27:05,120
upholding the ZAB approval of this deck would simply allow my clients to enjoy the very same rights

1721
02:27:05,120 --> 02:27:11,440
as their neighbors. The proposed deck, as I mentioned, is oriented to the west across other

1722
02:27:11,440 --> 02:27:20,720
backyards, out towards this parking lot, and away from the neighborhood to the north. So the

1723
02:27:20,720 --> 02:27:28,160
neighborhood to the north is approximately 17 feet from the proposed deck. It's separated by a driveway

1724
02:27:28,560 --> 02:27:36,880
and to ensure privacy, my clients have been required by the ZAB, hearing as a condition of approval

1725
02:27:36,880 --> 02:27:44,160
to provide planting planters with planted screening to provide that privacy between the properties,

1726
02:27:44,960 --> 02:27:51,520
which, by the way, they're more than happy to install. And in fact, with the screening on the

1727
02:27:51,520 --> 02:27:58,720
upper deck, there will actually be more privacy than there would have been or has been with either windows

1728
02:27:58,720 --> 02:28:06,880
or the existing sliding doors that simply overlook a roof. And so to conclude, I simply want to say

1729
02:28:06,880 --> 02:28:14,800
that just kind of a view of what the proposed design would would be to look like. This is a proposal

1730
02:28:14,800 --> 02:28:21,040
that is very reasonable in its minimal impact to surrounding neighbors. It offers my clients the same

1731
02:28:21,040 --> 02:28:27,040
opportunity that the appealing parties already have and provides much needed usable outdoor space

1732
02:28:27,680 --> 02:28:34,240
on a very small size lot. All improvements so far have been properly permitted gone through

1733
02:28:34,240 --> 02:28:41,840
proper per process and have been signed off. The project meets all relevant codes, requires no

1734
02:28:41,840 --> 02:28:49,600
variances, no special permission, no conditional use permits. It was thoroughly researched and fully

1735
02:28:49,600 --> 02:28:56,800
supported by planning staff and unanimously approved by the ZAB. And I want to say it again,

1736
02:28:56,800 --> 02:29:04,080
unanimously, which is a very rare vote of approvals. I'm sure you already know. This project enjoys

1737
02:29:04,080 --> 02:29:09,920
strong nativehood support overall with the only exception being the appealing neighbors that already

1738
02:29:09,920 --> 02:29:16,960
have similar upper floor roof decks. And that's all I have. Thank you so very much. Once again,

1739
02:29:16,960 --> 02:29:22,320
there may be questions, the conclusion of the public comment period. So thank you very much for

1740
02:29:22,320 --> 02:29:28,640
your presentation. Now I'd like to open the public comment period on the ZAB appeal. For 2956

1741
02:29:28,640 --> 02:29:35,600
hill of this avenue, if any attendee wishes to speak on the ZAB appeal for 2956 hill of this avenue, please raise

1742
02:29:35,600 --> 02:29:44,400
your hand at this time. And you'll be at work with us. So once again, is there any public testimony on the

1743
02:29:44,400 --> 02:29:58,960
ZAB appeal, or 2956 hill of this app? Okay. Andrea and Chris Carroll, you all patch minutes.

1744
02:30:00,000 --> 02:30:22,000
Thank you very much. This is Chris Kell. I'll keep my remarks brief. I want to re-highlight something that was said just a moment ago. This was a unanimous decision by the Zab for a reasonable and routine addition to the home across the street from us, which is a very challenging thing to do.

1745
02:30:22,000 --> 02:30:51,000
And I also want to state that I would like for it to be part of the record that although I am a neighbor across the street and not on a surrounding property line, I do take on-bridge to the comment from a previous appellant with regards to not being affected by the actions of our neighbors. In fact, the extreme amount of financial effort, time, and going through the process.

1746
02:30:52,000 --> 02:31:12,000
Of Berkeley's finest permit applications and approvals is leading to the beautification and improvement of an availiode and slightly dilapidated home, which is now an amazing increased value home that can only increase the value of the home, which I currently live.

1747
02:31:12,000 --> 02:31:20,000
I am benefiting significantly from the actions of my neighbors greatly appreciative of the work that they have done thus far.

1748
02:31:20,000 --> 02:31:30,000
And I'm in hopes that you will support and reaffirm the unanimous decision by the Zab to allow this to continue. Thank you very much.

1749
02:31:30,000 --> 02:31:38,000
Thank you. Okay, I like that. So there are any other attendees that we should speak on the Zab appeal for 29.56.

1750
02:31:38,000 --> 02:31:46,000
Hillicus Avenue. If so, please raise your hand if you're on the Zoom platform or press star nine if you are building in tour meat.

1751
02:31:46,000 --> 02:31:52,000
Last call for public testimony on the Zab appeal for 29.56. Hillicus Avenue.

1752
02:31:52,000 --> 02:32:15,000
Okay, can we have a good. Yes, I know we don't do a back and forth, but I thought I heard it said that what was approved by Zab was not deciding last doors and then those sliding glass doors went in and then after that came.

1753
02:32:15,000 --> 02:32:22,000
The application for the depth, so kind of seems like project by creep.

1754
02:32:22,000 --> 02:32:33,000
So that was it, and maybe in your question and answer of the Appellants and staff and the architects, you can get that straight out. Thank you.

1755
02:32:33,000 --> 02:32:36,000
That was it.

1756
02:32:36,000 --> 02:32:41,000
Thank you. Once again, are there any attendees that we should speak on the Zab appeal for 29.56.

1757
02:32:41,000 --> 02:32:45,000
So please raise your hand or press star.

1758
02:32:45,000 --> 02:32:51,000
Okay, I do not see any other raised hands, so I will right now to the city council and answer.

1759
02:32:51,000 --> 02:32:56,000
Are there any questions, any of the parties before we close the public hearing?

1760
02:32:56,000 --> 02:33:04,000
We can ask questions of staff and close the public hearing, but are there questions of the parties before we close the public hearing?

1761
02:33:04,000 --> 02:33:14,000
Okay, I would like to make a motion to close Councillor Robinson.

1762
02:33:14,000 --> 02:33:18,000
Yeah, just a question for the applicants.

1763
02:33:18,000 --> 02:33:21,000
Excuse me, and I think this may come up a little bit presentation.

1764
02:33:21,000 --> 02:33:33,000
Could describe the extent to which there may be balconies of similar size or proportion in the ass or ending neighborhood on other properties or residences.

1765
02:33:33,000 --> 02:33:37,000
Yes, can you hear me? Yeah, I can. Okay, good.

1766
02:33:37,000 --> 02:33:46,000
Yeah, I mean, one of those slides I showed had an aerial view that showed both the Appellants having relatively similar size.

1767
02:33:46,000 --> 02:33:50,000
I don't know the exact size, but just looking visually.

1768
02:33:50,000 --> 02:33:57,000
It seemed like the size of the deck at 29.54, the neighbor to the north.

1769
02:33:58,000 --> 02:34:05,000
I have a very similar size roof deck. I think the roof at 2523 Webster is slightly smaller.

1770
02:34:05,000 --> 02:34:09,000
Those are two very close. Obviously adjacent immediate neighbor.

1771
02:34:09,000 --> 02:34:13,000
The Appellants, the Appellants, yes. I thought I'd heard that correctly. Thank you.

1772
02:34:13,000 --> 02:34:14,000
Appreciate it.

1773
02:34:14,000 --> 02:34:16,000
Any questions to this?

1774
02:34:16,000 --> 02:34:19,000
No, man, the question wasn't directed to you.

1775
02:34:19,000 --> 02:34:23,000
Are there any other questions for members of the Council of the parties?

1776
02:34:23,000 --> 02:34:26,000
The Appellants are the applicant.

1777
02:34:26,000 --> 02:34:29,000
Councilor Han, I'd say you raise your hand.

1778
02:34:29,000 --> 02:34:32,000
And the second in your motion to close it up.

1779
02:34:32,000 --> 02:34:40,000
Oh, I didn't make a motion, but I just want to make sure before we close the public hearing that we were able to ask questions in the parties.

1780
02:34:40,000 --> 02:34:42,000
Council Member Whitegrape.

1781
02:34:42,000 --> 02:34:44,000
You're muted.

1782
02:34:44,000 --> 02:34:46,000
Thank you. Yes, Mr. McKinnon.

1783
02:34:46,000 --> 02:35:01,000
If you could could have spent the double doors on being installed prior to the resolution of this issue.

1784
02:35:01,000 --> 02:35:02,000
Sure.

1785
02:35:02,000 --> 02:35:14,000
The double doors were installed during the course of the previous scope of work, which were some foundation developing space underneath the house.

1786
02:35:14,000 --> 02:35:17,000
The kitchen remodel, some bathrooms remodel, things like that.

1787
02:35:17,000 --> 02:35:19,000
Also, some remodeling upstairs.

1788
02:35:19,000 --> 02:35:22,000
The doors were installed to increase the amount of light.

1789
02:35:22,000 --> 02:35:30,000
And went through the permitting process with a guardrail put across them for safety.

1790
02:35:30,000 --> 02:35:34,000
In sort of like a Juliet balcony, except it's a big one.

1791
02:35:34,000 --> 02:35:40,000
And it was basically the width of those doors was the width of the original windows that were there.

1792
02:35:40,000 --> 02:35:54,000
And then the idea was if if in approval was not going to be if if the Zab would not approve a roof deck, then they would still have a Juliet balcony, you know, with a lot of light coming in on the sunny side of the house.

1793
02:35:54,000 --> 02:36:04,000
And if Zab were to approve the roof deck, then they would have the opportunity to take that guardrail off and then extend it out to the actual edge of the deck.

1794
02:36:04,000 --> 02:36:06,000
Okay, thank you very much.

1795
02:36:07,000 --> 02:36:10,000
Okay, once again, any questions, the partners.

1796
02:36:10,000 --> 02:36:13,000
Not like to make a motion to close public care.

1797
02:36:13,000 --> 02:36:14,000
Second.

1798
02:36:14,000 --> 02:36:15,000
Seconded by Councilman.

1799
02:36:15,000 --> 02:36:16,000
The window.

1800
02:36:16,000 --> 02:36:19,000
I spoke to please call the roll.

1801
02:36:19,000 --> 02:36:20,000
Can't remember.

1802
02:36:20,000 --> 02:36:21,000
Yes.

1803
02:36:21,000 --> 02:36:22,000
Yes.

1804
02:36:22,000 --> 02:36:24,000
Yes.

1805
02:36:24,000 --> 02:36:25,000
Bartlett.

1806
02:36:25,000 --> 02:36:26,000
Yes.

1807
02:36:26,000 --> 02:36:27,000
Harrison.

1808
02:36:27,000 --> 02:36:28,000
Yes.

1809
02:36:28,000 --> 02:36:29,000
On.

1810
02:36:29,000 --> 02:36:30,000
Yes.

1811
02:36:30,000 --> 02:36:31,000
One graph.

1812
02:36:31,000 --> 02:36:32,000
Yes.

1813
02:36:32,000 --> 02:36:33,000
Robinson.

1814
02:36:33,000 --> 02:36:34,000
Trustee.

1815
02:36:34,000 --> 02:36:35,000
Yes.

1816
02:36:36,000 --> 02:36:37,000
And Mayor.

1817
02:36:37,000 --> 02:36:38,000
Yes.

1818
02:36:38,000 --> 02:36:39,000
Okay.

1819
02:36:39,000 --> 02:36:40,000
Motion.

1820
02:36:40,000 --> 02:36:41,000
Okay.

1821
02:36:41,000 --> 02:36:42,000
Thank you.

1822
02:36:42,000 --> 02:36:43,000
So thank you to the parties.

1823
02:36:43,000 --> 02:36:47,000
We're going to move you back to the attendee side as the healthcare is closed.

1824
02:36:47,000 --> 02:36:51,000
And it's now in order for the City Council to discuss the appeal.

1825
02:36:51,000 --> 02:36:56,000
And we would like to begin the discussion.

1826
02:36:56,000 --> 02:36:58,000
Council number one.

1827
02:36:58,000 --> 02:37:00,000
Thank you so much.

1828
02:37:01,000 --> 02:37:07,000
I understand that it's frustrating, especially when everyone is home during COVID and.

1829
02:37:07,000 --> 02:37:10,000
In our homes a lot.

1830
02:37:10,000 --> 02:37:18,000
If a project is going on and an element of it changes and maybe it takes you by surprise.

1831
02:37:18,000 --> 02:37:21,000
That that could be a little.

1832
02:37:21,000 --> 02:37:23,000
You know, a nerve.

1833
02:37:23,000 --> 02:37:24,000
But.

1834
02:37:24,000 --> 02:37:29,000
I don't think that that.

1835
02:37:30,000 --> 02:37:33,000
That doesn't.

1836
02:37:33,000 --> 02:37:38,000
Really shed a new light on the question of whether.

1837
02:37:38,000 --> 02:37:41,000
A project before us.

1838
02:37:41,000 --> 02:37:44,000
Has impacts that rise the level of detriment.

1839
02:37:44,000 --> 02:37:49,000
So I just wanted knowledge that I think it's you know unfortunate that.

1840
02:37:49,000 --> 02:37:55,000
That this maybe came as a surprise to the neighbors, but for me that is not.

1841
02:37:55,000 --> 02:38:05,000
I don't know if it's relevant to my evaluation of the impacts here.

1842
02:38:05,000 --> 02:38:11,000
I also understand that the changes are changes are and and.

1843
02:38:11,000 --> 02:38:15,000
I think sometimes people can over estimate.

1844
02:38:15,000 --> 02:38:17,000
The interest that.

1845
02:38:17,000 --> 02:38:19,000
We have any others lives.

1846
02:38:19,000 --> 02:38:24,000
I live in kind of a peaceful situation myself where a lot of.

1847
02:38:24,000 --> 02:38:32,000
We have a lot of neighbors can see into my home and on to the the terrace that we have.

1848
02:38:32,000 --> 02:38:36,000
And I have to say that when we catch each other's eye.

1849
02:38:36,000 --> 02:38:39,000
The few times that.

1850
02:38:39,000 --> 02:38:45,000
We are happened to be on our test and they happen to be looking out there window or vice versa.

1851
02:38:45,000 --> 02:38:51,000
Everyone is very polite and usually turns away quite quickly.

1852
02:38:51,000 --> 02:38:57,000
And I think neighbors are able to navigate these kinds of privacy impacts.

1853
02:38:57,000 --> 02:39:05,000
I will say that I think the least private place is going to be that that roof deck itself.

1854
02:39:05,000 --> 02:39:15,000
And I guess I just feel that the level of impacts here for this kind of neighborhood.

1855
02:39:15,000 --> 02:39:22,000
And I I come supportive of upholding.

1856
02:39:22,000 --> 02:39:24,000
Zab decision.

1857
02:39:24,000 --> 02:39:29,000
So I don't know if it's too early for motion.

1858
02:39:29,000 --> 02:39:36,000
Where are you ready for motions and would you prefer that we wait.

1859
02:39:36,000 --> 02:39:38,000
I think emotions in order.

1860
02:39:38,000 --> 02:39:39,000
Okay.

1861
02:39:39,000 --> 02:39:44,000
Well, I would like I move to uphold Zab's decision.

1862
02:39:44,000 --> 02:39:46,000
And I approve the permit.

1863
02:39:46,000 --> 02:39:47,000
Second.

1864
02:39:47,000 --> 02:39:48,000
Okay.

1865
02:39:48,000 --> 02:39:49,000
Thank you.

1866
02:39:49,000 --> 02:39:52,000
Council member.

1867
02:39:52,000 --> 02:39:53,000
Yes.

1868
02:39:53,000 --> 02:39:54,000
The first of all.

1869
02:39:54,000 --> 02:40:01,000
I wanted to thank staff for the work and I also want to thank the applicants and the parents for being here this evening.

1870
02:40:01,000 --> 02:40:08,000
I just have a few questions just a double triple check and confirm my understanding.

1871
02:40:08,000 --> 02:40:11,000
And since I think we've more or less gone over this.

1872
02:40:11,000 --> 02:40:14,000
Just the yes or no is totally fine.

1873
02:40:14,000 --> 02:40:16,000
So for staff.

1874
02:40:16,000 --> 02:40:24,000
In this case, my understanding is that one of the reasons this is before us is that the existing structure is non conforming.

1875
02:40:24,000 --> 02:40:29,000
But the proposed balcony would be entirely within the built envelope that zoning would allow.

1876
02:40:29,000 --> 02:40:38,000
In other words, the balcony itself will not create any new non conformities or exacerbate any existing non conformities.

1877
02:40:38,000 --> 02:40:39,000
Correct.

1878
02:40:39,000 --> 02:40:40,000
That's correct.

1879
02:40:40,000 --> 02:40:50,000
And the current says over a lot coverage, which is literally like how much building is on a lot relative to the lot size.

1880
02:40:50,000 --> 02:40:54,000
And so since the balcony is over an existing portion of the building.

1881
02:40:54,000 --> 02:41:00,000
It's already that area has already been included in the lot coverage.

1882
02:41:00,000 --> 02:41:07,000
So it is not creating additional non conformity and it's located outside of all of the required setbacks.

1883
02:41:07,000 --> 02:41:09,000
Okay, great.

1884
02:41:09,000 --> 02:41:10,000
Thank you.

1885
02:41:10,000 --> 02:41:21,000
Next, it's also my understanding that this balcony as I think was previously highlighted is substantially similar to one or more that already exists.

1886
02:41:21,000 --> 02:41:32,000
And at least one of the adjacent houses and that the applicant has agreed to some measures, including some vegetative screening and portions of the balcony to enhance privacy.

1887
02:41:32,000 --> 02:41:34,000
That's correct.

1888
02:41:35,000 --> 02:41:37,000
Okay.

1889
02:41:37,000 --> 02:41:39,000
So thank you so much for hearing me.

1890
02:41:39,000 --> 02:41:46,000
I just wanted to make sure it was in the record that I was leveling, typically checking these questions.

1891
02:41:46,000 --> 02:41:59,000
You know, I know we all tend to like our neighbor's houses the way we know them and I understand that whenever folks propose a change of concerns about how it might impact light or privacy or views.

1892
02:41:59,000 --> 02:42:12,000
I can totally understand why neighbors might be concerned that conversations that might previously have taken place inside or behind a fence will now maybe be outdoors and maybe easier to hear.

1893
02:42:12,000 --> 02:42:28,000
Maybe it's just because I'm originally from the Midwest, but I really believe that everyone involved will continue to be neighborly to one another and that the applicants will be consider it if any neighbors share any concerns about noise with them down the line.

1894
02:42:28,000 --> 02:42:39,000
So given my understanding, which is that the proposal meets all the applicable codes that's that is recommending approval and that's a basically.

1895
02:42:39,000 --> 02:42:41,000
Nancy voted in favor.

1896
02:42:41,000 --> 02:42:46,000
I plan to reaffirm this abs decision. So thank you so much.

1897
02:42:46,000 --> 02:42:47,000
Thank you. Council member.

1898
02:42:47,000 --> 02:42:56,000
Well, we're first to want to thank the neighbors and the applicant.

1899
02:42:56,000 --> 02:42:59,000
For coming tonight.

1900
02:42:59,000 --> 02:43:11,000
I have the house I move in has a very similar roof deck actually and my house is a similar vintage to this one and I think that.

1901
02:43:11,000 --> 02:43:18,000
Many of the houses that were designed at that tone and took advantage of the flat roof.

1902
02:43:18,000 --> 02:43:23,000
Over the first or second floor and did have a dexal.

1903
02:43:24,000 --> 02:43:29,000
This is particularly dense.

1904
02:43:29,000 --> 02:43:31,000
Era.

1905
02:43:31,000 --> 02:43:38,000
The loss of set size and the houses are very close together.

1906
02:43:38,000 --> 02:43:44,000
And I think adding this little bit of open space to this house.

1907
02:43:44,000 --> 02:43:50,000
You know, it would be a great amenity for the people who live there.

1908
02:43:50,000 --> 02:43:54,000
We feel about noise increase. We do have a noise ordinance.

1909
02:43:54,000 --> 02:43:58,000
And if the noise, you know, goes beyond a certain level.

1910
02:43:58,000 --> 02:44:06,000
We do do enforcement on on noise, but we live in a city and there's a lot of noise in the city.

1911
02:44:06,000 --> 02:44:16,000
And there's a lot of ambient noise and you can hear neighbors, you know, battling around and you hear your garbage cans getting picked up.

1912
02:44:16,000 --> 02:44:19,000
That's just the way it is living in a city.

1913
02:44:19,000 --> 02:44:27,000
So I'm on a compliment the architect, I think the design of the deck railing is very handsome.

1914
02:44:27,000 --> 02:44:38,000
And so I'm happy to second council member Hans motion to affirm this ab decision and dismiss the appeal.

1915
02:44:38,000 --> 02:44:41,000
Okay.

1916
02:44:41,000 --> 02:44:45,000
I will go to the remaining council members. You know, this is a pretty straightforward case.

1917
02:44:45,000 --> 02:44:47,000
Frankly, there is no detriment.

1918
02:44:47,000 --> 02:44:49,000
This is an outcome for me property.

1919
02:44:49,000 --> 02:44:52,000
I don't think we need to have an extensive debate as we have other business.

1920
02:44:52,000 --> 02:44:53,000
Council member Robinson.

1921
02:44:53,000 --> 02:44:56,000
You might as it is a very straightforward case.

1922
02:44:56,000 --> 02:44:57,000
I'll be brief.

1923
02:44:57,000 --> 02:45:00,000
But if you could entertain me. I'll also perhaps be a little bit.

1924
02:45:00,000 --> 02:45:20,000
I want to thank our staff and all the relevant parties for their presentations today. And Samantha, it's very good to meet you. I'm not sure we've had the chance to meet directly. Could you remind me when the application for this month's first one in?

1925
02:45:20,000 --> 02:45:33,000
So for the current projects for the balcony, the application was submitted May 4, 2021.

1926
02:45:34,000 --> 02:45:35,000
Yeah.

1927
02:45:35,000 --> 02:45:37,000
That's.

1928
02:45:38,000 --> 02:45:43,000
I'm glad you don't have the approval. So I need a few minutes, but that makes me deeply sad.

1929
02:45:43,000 --> 02:45:54,000
I, um, I think every once in a while, we get on a appeal that's to me feels a little fabulous and perhaps not like the best use of our incredible planning staff's very precious time.

1930
02:45:54,000 --> 02:46:08,000
I think this may be with with little question, perhaps the most ludicrous one I've seen on my short time on this city council, which is, which is challenging to me because I know how important the appeals process is.

1931
02:46:08,000 --> 02:46:18,000
It can make projects better. It can bring more affordable units to a property, protectable, honorable tenants address traffic and congestion issues make a project more beautiful.

1932
02:46:18,000 --> 02:46:28,000
But I think we're struggling with some challenges with use and abuse of this process. So that's that's the lesson I'm taking away from this note. I want to thank you for your work on it.

1933
02:46:28,000 --> 02:46:43,000
And hope that hopefully we can think about how to address some of these process issues and see if there's a wiggle room to maybe save a little your time. And one point later, perhaps the time of applicants just trying to make modest common sense improvements to our neighborhoods. Thank you.

1934
02:46:44,000 --> 02:46:48,000
Okay, thank you. Councilman here. Some of us might hear us and raise your hand.

1935
02:46:48,000 --> 02:47:03,000
I was going to say something similar with Councilman Robinson said, but only to add about the noise ordinance. First of all, amplify the music is not allowed in the city of Berkeley without a program and I live in a really dense area.

1936
02:47:03,000 --> 02:47:16,000
And the place do come environmental services do come when there's noise. So I just want to encourage neighbors to turn to know there are avenues reach out to your council person out with those are there's an issue.

1937
02:47:16,000 --> 02:47:28,000
But we have processes to deal with us. So I just want to reassure you that it, yeah, I can see overwhelming, but it will probably be okay. And so thank you all for your time.

1938
02:47:28,000 --> 02:47:35,000
Okay, thank you. I'll just say in closing. Any neighbor.

1939
02:47:35,000 --> 02:47:40,000
Or the applicant as a right to appeal a zoning decision that's a right through a quarter to two.

1940
02:47:40,000 --> 02:47:49,000
Now under city law that's state law on our job and staff job is to independently evaluate this appeals and present the backs and make a decision on the basis of law.

1941
02:47:49,000 --> 02:47:56,000
And clearly in this case, this use is allowed. It's not detrimental.

1942
02:47:56,000 --> 02:48:08,000
And we are required to have to prove it. But I just would like to really call on those neighbors who do to appeal this to the council.

1943
02:48:08,000 --> 02:48:18,000
To, you know, this is I think the end of this process, but you know, you will be living with your neighbors for years to come and I hope that the neighborhood can come together.

1944
02:48:18,000 --> 02:48:25,000
And move forward. And thank you for joining us tonight for your testimony with that.

1945
02:48:25,000 --> 02:48:32,000
I'd like to ask a quick please cover on the staff recommendation, which is to approve the resolution, affirming the decision.

1946
02:48:32,000 --> 02:48:35,000
The Zab and denying me.

1947
02:48:35,000 --> 02:48:39,000
Okay, council member. Yes.

1948
02:48:39,000 --> 02:48:40,000
Yes.

1949
02:48:40,000 --> 02:48:42,000
Bartlett. Yes.

1950
02:48:42,000 --> 02:48:43,000
Harrison.

1951
02:48:43,000 --> 02:48:44,000
Yes.

1952
02:48:44,000 --> 02:48:45,000
On.

1953
02:48:45,000 --> 02:48:46,000
Yes.

1954
02:48:46,000 --> 02:48:47,000
Langra.

1955
02:48:47,000 --> 02:48:48,000
Yes.

1956
02:48:48,000 --> 02:48:50,000
Robinson.

1957
02:48:50,000 --> 02:48:51,000
Yes.

1958
02:48:51,000 --> 02:48:52,000
Droughts.

1959
02:48:52,000 --> 02:48:53,000
Yes.

1960
02:48:53,000 --> 02:48:54,000
And Mayor Erie.

1961
02:48:54,000 --> 02:48:55,000
Yes.

1962
02:48:55,000 --> 02:48:56,000
Okay. Motion carries.

1963
02:48:56,000 --> 02:48:57,000
Okay. Once again.

1964
02:48:57,000 --> 02:49:01,000
Thank you everyone for coming tonight and for your presentation.

1965
02:49:01,000 --> 02:49:03,000
And that completes the sign.

1966
02:49:03,000 --> 02:49:06,000
So we'll now proceed to the items pulled out in 16.

1967
02:49:06,000 --> 02:49:11,000
Vudger reform resolution establishing a city process for the signing and developing.

1968
02:49:11,000 --> 02:49:14,000
Public electric vehicle DC best charging hubs.

1969
02:49:14,000 --> 02:49:16,000
I'd like to recognize Vice Mayor Harrison.

1970
02:49:16,000 --> 02:49:17,000
Vice Mayor Harrison.

1971
02:49:17,000 --> 02:49:18,000
We have some of you from BBC here.

1972
02:49:18,000 --> 02:49:19,000
Yes.

1973
02:49:19,000 --> 02:49:20,000
Yes.

1974
02:49:20,000 --> 02:49:21,000
We did.

1975
02:49:21,000 --> 02:49:23,000
J.P. Ross is here to address this.

1976
02:49:23,000 --> 02:49:24,000
J.P. over as a panelist.

1977
02:49:24,000 --> 02:49:25,000
As well as.

1978
02:49:25,000 --> 02:49:27,000
I'm playing right decline.

1979
02:49:27,000 --> 02:49:28,000
It's here.

1980
02:49:28,000 --> 02:49:29,000
Okay.

1981
02:49:29,000 --> 02:49:30,000
Great.

1982
02:49:31,000 --> 02:49:34,000
I'm going to take a few more minutes because I didn't speak it length.

1983
02:49:34,000 --> 02:49:36,000
I know some of these.

1984
02:49:36,000 --> 02:49:39,000
Consums can be quite dense for those not engaged in the length of discussions.

1985
02:49:39,000 --> 02:49:40,000
We have it.

1986
02:49:40,000 --> 02:49:42,000
Let me say first of all that.

1987
02:49:42,000 --> 02:49:44,000
This is really about equity.

1988
02:49:44,000 --> 02:49:48,000
We have over 50% of of people in Berkeley are tenants.

1989
02:49:48,000 --> 02:49:52,000
And they have very little chance to charge any vehicle.

1990
02:49:52,000 --> 02:49:56,000
I'm in favor of the housing that we're building without parking.

1991
02:49:56,000 --> 02:49:59,000
But that means that that person without parking doesn't have a place to charge their car.

1992
02:49:59,000 --> 02:50:03,000
And we can say, well, people in the cars, but people too.

1993
02:50:03,000 --> 02:50:05,000
In fact, sometimes need cars.

1994
02:50:05,000 --> 02:50:07,000
They need to be able to drive their kids places.

1995
02:50:07,000 --> 02:50:08,000
They need to get to work.

1996
02:50:08,000 --> 02:50:12,000
Not really lives and works within the range of birth.

1997
02:50:12,000 --> 02:50:17,000
And they need to be able to have access to their automobile for medical points and other things.

1998
02:50:17,000 --> 02:50:20,000
So if we accept that there are going to be cars.

1999
02:50:20,000 --> 02:50:24,000
I think we have to then think about how we're going to do the best we can.

2000
02:50:24,000 --> 02:50:27,000
To enhance equity in this program.

2001
02:50:27,000 --> 02:50:33,000
And we've heard this frequently from tenants that they don't have anywhere to charge their car.

2002
02:50:33,000 --> 02:50:38,000
They do not want to leave it in a slow charger blocks from home.

2003
02:50:38,000 --> 02:50:45,000
This will allow people to charge their car in under half an hour and depending on the car up to about 45 minutes.

2004
02:50:45,000 --> 02:50:51,000
The places will be in parking garages in business districts, which will enhance business.

2005
02:50:51,000 --> 02:50:55,000
People will get a chance to go out and get a cup of coffee, do some shopping.

2006
02:50:55,000 --> 02:51:02,000
I have to say that I actually choose where I go for dinner based on is there an electric charging station nearby.

2007
02:51:02,000 --> 02:51:10,000
So I think that this is actually going to bring business to our downtown or wherever else these parking garages are.

2008
02:51:10,000 --> 02:51:13,000
These stations are added to parking garages.

2009
02:51:13,000 --> 02:51:17,000
I think it's also really important to recognize what is this really about tonight.

2010
02:51:17,000 --> 02:51:19,000
It's a very straightforward thing.

2011
02:51:19,000 --> 02:51:26,000
Resolution not an ordinance that allows the city manager to begin to negotiate a service.

2012
02:51:26,000 --> 02:51:29,000
It doesn't establish the service agreement.

2013
02:51:29,000 --> 02:51:32,000
If she can go out and start talking about it.

2014
02:51:32,000 --> 02:51:39,000
She and EBC need that sure it will make sure it's worth the time for them to be in these negotiations.

2015
02:51:39,000 --> 02:51:45,000
The initial financial analysis shows that it will be if there's low usage of the station.

2016
02:51:45,000 --> 02:51:49,000
You will find that the city worker will actually start to make money on this deal.

2017
02:51:49,000 --> 02:51:55,000
And there's high utilization, which all signs are that EV adoption is growing by leaps and bales.

2018
02:51:55,000 --> 02:52:01,000
There's just an article on this in the New York Times yesterday that we will start to make money on this in your three.

2019
02:52:01,000 --> 02:52:06,000
This is an upfront expenditure proposed for the budget process.

2020
02:52:06,000 --> 02:52:09,000
Again, not defining not nailing that at this exact moment.

2021
02:52:09,000 --> 02:52:11,000
Seniors of budget process.

2022
02:52:11,000 --> 02:52:19,000
And it is an expenditure that will reap huge climate and financial benefits both for the city itself.

2023
02:52:19,000 --> 02:52:25,000
And for individuals who right now cannot be part of this revolution in electric vehicles.

2024
02:52:25,000 --> 02:52:35,000
I also just think that it's important to know that we typically send budget referrals onto the budget process, which is where this would go.

2025
02:52:35,000 --> 02:52:43,000
And I think it's also perhaps not not clear in here how the internal range will work.

2026
02:52:43,000 --> 02:52:51,000
So I just want to say one more about this and then we have JP Ross from EBC described this further based on questions from council members who pulled the item.

2027
02:52:51,000 --> 02:52:57,000
This is worth by us paying a hundred thousand dollars a year for each fast hug to EBC.

2028
02:52:57,000 --> 02:53:03,000
Until the point where they start to recruit their costs at which point we would share in the revenues.

2029
02:53:03,000 --> 02:53:11,000
Why have, this was my decision question, why have EBC E do this? Why don't we just do it? Why don't we pay the money and set up our own stations?

2030
02:53:11,000 --> 02:53:24,000
And there are few reasons technical capacity and once our staff or as you know, stretch very thin ability to sign up for the low carbon fuel standards, which is one of the major revenue sources for the charging stations.

2031
02:53:24,000 --> 02:53:27,000
EBC E has the technical expertise to do that.

2032
02:53:27,000 --> 02:53:31,000
And to start to recruit these important state funds.

2033
02:53:31,000 --> 02:53:37,000
The ability to get this done quickly as they have the expertise and the ability to take advantage of our already existing garages.

2034
02:53:37,000 --> 02:53:42,000
As you know, the Senate Billage is at best right now a third fall.

2035
02:53:42,000 --> 02:53:47,000
And as I said before, I make a decision that where I go based on other charging.

2036
02:53:47,000 --> 02:53:52,000
I want people to come down town. I want them to go to neighborhoods and west Berkeley where they're shopping.

2037
02:53:52,000 --> 02:53:58,000
And I want renters to be able to enjoy the same advantages that those at own homes and plugs enjoy it.

2038
02:53:58,000 --> 02:54:03,000
So those are my opening comments. I wanted to know if JPE wanted to make some introductory comments.

2039
02:54:03,000 --> 02:54:06,000
If I might Mr. Mayor, is that okay?

2040
02:54:06,000 --> 02:54:08,000
Sure, I have some comments too.

2041
02:54:08,000 --> 02:54:11,000
Oh, then when should go first and then we'll.

2042
02:54:11,000 --> 02:54:14,000
Well, I'm also happy to provide some context on this.

2043
02:54:14,000 --> 02:54:20,000
As I began to discuss this with Nick Chassett, CEO of East Bay Community Energy.

2044
02:54:20,000 --> 02:54:24,000
Think of the beginning of 2021 when I went off as the.

2045
02:54:24,000 --> 02:54:29,000
Product representative on the EBC board, which I served on from the beginning of the agency.

2046
02:54:29,000 --> 02:54:33,000
And I'm actually very excited by this.

2047
02:54:33,000 --> 02:54:40,000
This item and this opportunity to partner with EBC to expand our electric vehicle infrastructure.

2048
02:54:40,000 --> 02:54:45,000
I think this details with the item where we discussing actually right after this.

2049
02:54:45,000 --> 02:54:56,000
On our 2019 greenhouse gas emissions inventory, which you notice once again, that transportation emissions account for 60% of our greenhouse gas emissions and the city.

2050
02:54:56,000 --> 02:55:05,000
We're working to address it in a number of ways, not just through encouraging dense intel housing close to transit to reduce vehicle miles travel.

2051
02:55:05,000 --> 02:55:17,000
Looking at how we can expand access to transit, but he also to our ability to meet our climate action goals and to achieve our goal of becoming a fossil fuel free city.

2052
02:55:17,000 --> 02:55:27,000
Is to decarbonize our transportation sector and that includes passenger vehicles, transit vehicles and microability.

2053
02:55:27,000 --> 02:55:30,000
And one of the biggest concerns I hear from residents.

2054
02:55:31,000 --> 02:55:38,000
Who on what your vehicles is the lack of infrastructure in the public right away, particularly fast charging.

2055
02:55:38,000 --> 02:55:49,000
And if we, and this also, I think speaks to our electric mobility roadmap, which the city council adopted last fall, which is not only how we as a city government.

2056
02:55:49,000 --> 02:55:57,000
Contrinsition are like duty vehicles to electric, but also how we create the supportive infrastructure.

2057
02:55:57,000 --> 02:56:04,000
That we can encourage more residents in the city of Berkeley to adopt the electric vehicles to decarbonize our transportation sector.

2058
02:56:04,000 --> 02:56:10,000
This is really key just as critical as it is to go out gas into electric fire buildings.

2059
02:56:10,000 --> 02:56:21,000
And I acknowledge that our journey general wants to join many other journey generals just today signing an amicus brief in support of our appeal to the federal courts to defend our gas fam.

2060
02:56:21,000 --> 02:56:31,000
Just like we took courageous leadership to adopt our ban on natural gas, the first city in the country to do so, which set off a.

2061
02:56:31,000 --> 02:56:36,000
I think a movement of cities to account on United States to adopt similar legislation.

2062
02:56:36,000 --> 02:56:43,000
I think this is critical too for us to achieve our GSU reduction goals and to be a possible for city.

2063
02:56:43,000 --> 02:56:48,000
So I want emphasize that there are two actions that I've been requested of this item.

2064
02:56:48,000 --> 02:57:00,000
One is to authorize the city manager to begin discussions and negotiations with EEC on this and to express support for a non binding term.

2065
02:57:00,000 --> 02:57:03,000
The key words there are non binding.

2066
02:57:03,000 --> 02:57:11,000
And while there are some specific terms that have been articulated in that term sheet, many of these details can be worked on the subsequent negotiations with EEC.

2067
02:57:11,000 --> 02:57:18,000
Secondarily, this is a budget referral and we were for many budget referrals to the budget process.

2068
02:57:18,000 --> 02:57:20,000
Oftentimes without a whole lot of scrutiny.

2069
02:57:20,000 --> 02:57:25,000
And so I hope that certainly at the very least will work for the budget referral.

2070
02:57:25,000 --> 02:57:29,000
To the budget process for this to be considered that in the day as summarized in item.

2071
02:57:29,000 --> 02:57:31,000
You know, we are able to implement this.

2072
02:57:31,000 --> 02:57:36,000
We're going to make a button off of this, which will offset the ongoing investment in the city as to make to do this.

2073
02:57:36,000 --> 02:57:43,000
And so we are limited in considering our our city's resources to be able to install this type of infrastructure.

2074
02:57:43,000 --> 02:57:53,000
The ability to partner with our community choice aggregator to leverage private and grant funding to be able to fund this infrastructure.

2075
02:57:53,000 --> 02:57:56,000
I think is going to be critical and I think it's going to help our community.

2076
02:57:56,000 --> 02:58:12,000
Be able to transition our vehicles to electric and to help accelerate our efforts to get off of gas and to reduce the climate impacts that are being created by all these cars that are circulating on our streets.

2077
02:58:12,000 --> 02:58:20,000
So I think this is one part of a much broader strategy to be able to achieve our common action goals.

2078
02:58:20,000 --> 02:58:27,000
And at the end of the location, the sighting of these hubs, although there are suggested locations.

2079
02:58:27,000 --> 02:58:32,000
I think it's got to be evaluated on the basis of population density, particularly.

2080
02:58:32,000 --> 02:58:34,000
And we'll have them as impacts.

2081
02:58:34,000 --> 02:58:37,000
And I'm excited about this.

2082
02:58:37,000 --> 02:58:44,000
You know, just for example, I got a letter from Alice Waters who said, why doesn't Berkeley have more electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

2083
02:58:44,000 --> 02:58:49,000
And that's a good question. And I think it's going to be things like this public private partnerships.

2084
02:58:49,000 --> 02:59:03,000
Although EDC is a public agency, but public private partnerships that we can maximize the but leverage grants and private resources capital to be able to accelerate the implementation of this type of infrastructure in our public.

2085
02:59:03,000 --> 02:59:12,000
So I call on my colleagues and I certainly questions or warrant and report a discussion, but I think we should move this forward and begin the negotiations with EDC.

2086
02:59:12,000 --> 02:59:16,000
I very strongly support this. I watch this effort.

2087
02:59:16,000 --> 02:59:24,000
And I think this is something, this, this is something that we can be proud of when we do implement this and something we can highlight.

2088
02:59:24,000 --> 02:59:33,000
For example, are they partnership between a city and EDC to actually help use the money that we that we are providing and that they have.

2089
02:59:33,000 --> 02:59:39,000
Through public investment to be able to do more to accelerate our efforts to reduce fossil goods.

2090
02:59:39,000 --> 02:59:44,000
So thank you for indulging me and I'll go next to Council Member trust.

2091
02:59:44,000 --> 02:59:49,000
Thank you so much and I appreciate you allowing me to ask questions.

2092
02:59:49,000 --> 02:59:55,000
I have just some questions on the logistics and Council Member Harrison.

2093
02:59:55,000 --> 03:00:00,000
So it mentions the fights committee on the cover page.

2094
03:00:00,000 --> 03:00:27,000
I'm wondering, I was trying to figure out exactly what they'll be discussing on page 7. I think it mentions that the resolution requests a non-binding term sheet be, I think it's referred to the fights committee. So I was just trying to get clear is it that we're asking the city manager to work on the non-binding term sheet prior to the fights committee and prior to a budget allocation or after or

2095
03:00:28,000 --> 03:00:37,000
would fight to be working on that in conjunction. I was just curious about the logistics of how this would all go.

2096
03:00:37,000 --> 03:00:43,000
Let me just say when this first one to agenda, we have suggested that this go to the fights committee.

2097
03:00:43,000 --> 03:00:54,000
But the agenda committee decided to send it directly here for the budget. So that is from an old version of how we were going to move ahead.

2098
03:00:54,000 --> 03:01:05,000
The latest rule with the head is that our staff and the EBC staff will meet together and come back to this council with a binding term sheet if they find that's appropriate.

2099
03:01:05,000 --> 03:01:12,000
At which point the council would decide to send that to fights. So I'm sorry we left that reference in there. That was before the agenda committee.

2100
03:01:12,000 --> 03:01:17,000
Okay, thank you. That actually clears up a lot of my questions. Thank you.

2101
03:01:17,000 --> 03:01:33,000
And so the budget referral and I agree with the mayor we send budget referrals on all the time. I just want to make sure I'm clear. So this would be an annual commitment of 300,000, 300,000 dollars.

2102
03:01:34,000 --> 03:01:46,000
600,000 for the first two years and then the agreement would be over 10 years. So we'd have to come back and approve the 600 K a few more times in my understanding that correctly.

2103
03:01:46,000 --> 03:01:57,000
If in fact the revenue start to exceed that amount. So what we're looking at is the first couple is going to take a little bit of time to get people used this to use these stations.

2104
03:01:57,000 --> 03:02:07,000
We believe we're going to need this 600,000 if in fact the staff recommend three hubs. They may not. They may come and say we only have two locations. The 600,000 is the maximum.

2105
03:02:07,000 --> 03:02:16,000
And after the first few years of experience, EBC and will evaluate how the revenues are coming in and it might be we don't read.

2106
03:02:16,000 --> 03:02:28,000
We don't read the 1000 dollars for free hubs. Maybe we only we need less or none because as I mentioned if we have a high utilization this will start to pay us back in your three.

2107
03:02:28,000 --> 03:02:36,000
So we have to see how it goes and we need to put the money up front for these first two years and then understand what what is it looking like.

2108
03:02:36,000 --> 03:02:43,000
I'm pretty confident we really reasonably successful with all of the housing that we're building in these neighborhoods.

2109
03:02:43,000 --> 03:02:55,000
The item indicated the city could potentially net 51,000 to 851 dollars over 10 10 years of the program and I'm just wondering I didn't see documentation for that.

2110
03:02:55,000 --> 03:03:05,000
That's how I was curious how those populations were derived right and the assumption is that there's a 1% in the low utilization case.

2111
03:03:05,000 --> 03:03:11,000
That the social stations will be used 1% of their time of hours that they're open.

2112
03:03:11,000 --> 03:03:15,000
And that amount will grow by 1% per year.

2113
03:03:15,000 --> 03:03:24,000
The high utilization case assumes starting out at 5% of the time the stations being utilized with growth of 1% per year.

2114
03:03:24,000 --> 03:03:33,000
So it depends on how we do in year one, one is a less optimistic one is a more optimistic assumption about the initial take of the program.

2115
03:03:34,000 --> 03:03:44,000
Okay, but thank you and and I really do I these are really genuine questions I have a whole program and you're much more well versed in this I appreciate you taking the time.

2116
03:03:44,000 --> 03:04:02,000
So I guess I I don't know if this is a question for you council member has and you know I needed the utilization rate, but I'm still curious what the hourly rates would be to achieve that and how that's offset by energy costs and maintenance etc.

2117
03:04:02,000 --> 03:04:12,000
Yeah, I'm going to let GP address I just to say that their rates are lower than the race charge in the market for electric charging the JP might have more details on that.

2118
03:04:12,000 --> 03:04:13,000
Okay, thank you very much.

2119
03:04:13,000 --> 03:04:19,000
Yeah, happy to answer that question and just a couple of weeks in the option.

2120
03:04:19,000 --> 03:04:40,000
As I hope you are aware EBC is your electricity procurement JPA and we are out kind of extending and expanding the services that we are trying to offer to our public agency partners and providing publicly available competitive price.

2121
03:04:40,000 --> 03:04:54,000
I like the vehicle charging infrastructure is one area that we are expanding into we also are working on program with the city of local around critical facilities and providing solar and storage to those facilities.

2122
03:04:54,000 --> 03:05:01,000
We also are looking at helping provide charging infrastructure for municipal fleet vehicles so this is one of a.

2123
03:05:01,000 --> 03:05:15,000
I did a variety of types of programs that we're bringing to our city agencies and as council member Harrison you know and and then identified this is really an opportunity as a public public.

2124
03:05:15,000 --> 03:05:26,000
Partnership to develop public services there and public good so we are very much focused on providing charging infrastructure for renters and people who don't have easy access to charging.

2125
03:05:26,000 --> 03:05:38,000
And really sighting those in very convenient locations that can help accelerate workplace plans right now is about 4,000 electric vehicles registered in Berkeley and the climate action plan.

2126
03:05:38,000 --> 03:05:47,000
But though that his past is trying to get to 15% or 25% registered vehicle so that's 15,000 electric vehicles in Berkeley by 2025 that's a huge increase.

2127
03:05:47,000 --> 03:06:01,000
And really doing it to provide the charging infrastructure to enable residents whether renters or homeowners have gorges or access to home charging or not to really be able to transition to electric vehicles.

2128
03:06:01,000 --> 03:06:07,000
So there's a lot of us vicious goals with the city is is focused on and we want to be a partner with you to do that.

2129
03:06:07,000 --> 03:06:13,000
And as a public agency we have no profit making ability.

2130
03:06:13,000 --> 03:06:22,000
So anything we do goes back into local development program and and sorry that's an idea on the vice president of local development for East Bay community energy so.

2131
03:06:22,000 --> 03:06:39,000
Yeah, money that we make either gets put into local programs both to the city and our profit sharing proposed agreement or those to lower rates for your residents and businesses right so it's very public big kind of partnership here that we're we're promoting promoting.

2132
03:06:39,000 --> 03:06:51,000
And to answer questions specifically as as vice mayor Harrison identified we were looking at different scenarios of use of these stations and the growth rates associated with those and.

2133
03:06:51,000 --> 03:06:59,000
And taking very conservative approach and more than normal case, which is what you discussed the charging weights for.

2134
03:06:59,000 --> 03:07:12,000
That charging is about is based on a 10% discount to what the currently available public charging rates are for other charging stations that are available in the county so we want to provide discounted.

2135
03:07:12,000 --> 03:07:16,000
charging that is powered with 100% renewable energy.

2136
03:07:16,000 --> 03:07:32,000
Because low fuel costs will enable more people to drive electric vehicles in an affordable way and so that's how we've been kind of modeling our expected customer rates.

2137
03:07:32,000 --> 03:07:38,000
And there's a lot that goes into the revenue and costs assumptions that that we're working on, but.

2138
03:07:38,000 --> 03:07:48,000
The composer for us that we provide to the city, Berkeley city, Berkeley really just has that $100,000 per charging hub.

2139
03:07:48,000 --> 03:07:53,000
A green it which could be up to three hubs so that's how you get the $300,000 a year.

2140
03:07:53,000 --> 03:08:05,000
There's no other cost is associated with it all the cost by the electricity to maintain the stations to develop the stations finance own an operate that assets with East Bay community energy and so.

2141
03:08:05,000 --> 03:08:14,000
The, you know, that the development and operation of those facilities would be with us we would work with the city to.

2142
03:08:14,000 --> 03:08:27,000
Can market those stations to Berkeley and other residents to make sure we can drive the utilization the usage of those stations for electric vehicle drivers will be able to.

2143
03:08:27,000 --> 03:08:32,000
And those are trying to buy vehicles in the near term.

2144
03:08:32,000 --> 03:08:37,000
I think they're in much for your comments I appreciate it.

2145
03:08:37,000 --> 03:08:45,000
I'll I'll save sort of my my more substantial comments I guess for the the budget and finance just my back of the envelope.

2146
03:08:45,000 --> 03:08:59,000
When one for question to council member Harrison is the item says it was targeted at people who moving multi-family housing and don't have access to EV charging.

2147
03:08:59,000 --> 03:09:11,000
And I'm just wondering how this is envisioned to work is the idea that people who live in apartments would rent these out on the monthly basis and be entitled to park there.

2148
03:09:12,000 --> 03:09:23,000
I think they would use them in public parking lots and be able to go there frequently but they would not have special rights to the charging station.

2149
03:09:23,000 --> 03:09:29,000
And, you know, I just want to say one thing about that we tried and experiment of setting aside parking spaces on the street.

2150
03:09:29,000 --> 03:09:39,000
There's a pilot from the city staff and that was not very successful because people that were paying the permit costs across in front of their own the residences.

2151
03:09:39,000 --> 03:09:49,000
And so they were paying a lot of money at front and not getting a reserve spot in this case you're just paying through the charging like you would anywhere else you went.

2152
03:09:49,000 --> 03:09:57,000
And then the other business thing I wanted to mention I failed to mention for is that this has also been official to people who drive for a living.

2153
03:09:57,000 --> 03:10:08,000
We have a large number of people that are over and lift drivers delivery people at center and they need places to charge as well so it's also beneficial to that business community.

2154
03:10:08,000 --> 03:10:18,000
The idea of somebody lives in an apartment uses these is the idea that they would then have to come move a car after charging here and then go park it elsewhere or yes.

2155
03:10:20,000 --> 03:10:21,000
Thank you.

2156
03:10:21,000 --> 03:10:32,000
I think while there was a reference to people living in apartments it's really the map which was an attachment to the source agreement page 16 of report.

2157
03:10:32,000 --> 03:10:40,000
Just shows that looking at population density as a metric in terms of where the site these particular stations.

2158
03:10:40,000 --> 03:10:47,000
But that anyone who has an electric vehicle on a first come first or basis would be able to charge.

2159
03:10:47,000 --> 03:10:53,000
If it's available and they pay the appropriate amount so charged to the charging.

2160
03:10:53,000 --> 03:10:58,000
Okay thank you so much for entertaining my questions and I'm really curious about the.

2161
03:10:58,000 --> 03:11:04,000
The EV in parking habits of people in the downtown and I really appreciate you feeling these questions.

2162
03:11:04,000 --> 03:11:07,000
Given that this is.

2163
03:11:07,000 --> 03:11:12,000
You've spent a lot of time on this and thank you all.

2164
03:11:12,000 --> 03:11:27,000
I could just add the these are fast charging stations so this is very much like a gas station model so it's not plug it overnight and leave it there for five six hours it's 30 minutes 25 40 minutes depending on.

2165
03:11:27,000 --> 03:11:37,000
I mean for charging and the ability for the vehicle to accept so it looks more like a standard gas station and the reason to do high density is for to create throughput.

2166
03:11:37,000 --> 03:11:43,000
So it's not one charger where you line up and there's one person, how do you weigh an hour and a half.

2167
03:11:43,000 --> 03:11:56,000
It's 10 charges that can do 20 vehicles at a time each charger has two ports and that way there's throughput so that you're not waiting very long and you get a lot of charge in a shorter amount of time.

2168
03:11:57,000 --> 03:11:59,000
Thank you. Councilor Tappa.

2169
03:11:59,000 --> 03:12:01,000
Thank you.

2170
03:12:01,000 --> 03:12:03,000
I sort of five questions.

2171
03:12:03,000 --> 03:12:06,000
So please, there would be this the first for Mr. Ross.

2172
03:12:06,000 --> 03:12:12,000
What phases of product in how far away are we going to roll out and how soon do these go up.

2173
03:12:12,000 --> 03:12:25,000
So the phase is that we have been doing quite a lot of work on the kind of the financial analysis we are currently developing.

2174
03:12:25,000 --> 03:12:39,000
We're developing two fast charging hubs that are actually a little bigger than this in Oakland and Livermore and those are using EBC's capital as full project development capital so.

2175
03:12:39,000 --> 03:12:46,000
We're about to issue solicitations for those so we're in our first stages of development on our first EBC charging.

2176
03:12:47,000 --> 03:12:58,000
This is the first time that we are bringing a proposal to a city to do this public public partnership will work together to really scale the opportunity.

2177
03:12:58,000 --> 03:13:11,000
And based on the decision here then we'll accelerate the conversations for continuing the development work in the city of Berkeley on these charging stations.

2178
03:13:11,000 --> 03:13:21,000
Thank you. And are there data on how many kind of to hide its areas drive EB's versus those who like or write transit specifically.

2179
03:13:21,000 --> 03:13:37,000
So I have we have some of the data the data that we have a comes from the Department of Motor Vehicles so we know where are the electric vehicles and other vehicles 61,000 total vehicles that are registered in in Berkeley.

2180
03:13:37,000 --> 03:13:43,000
We also have mapped all of our multi family housing across the county across our service territory.

2181
03:13:43,000 --> 03:13:52,000
What we do know is that the overlap between electric vehicle registrations and multi family housing units is incredibly low.

2182
03:13:52,000 --> 03:14:03,000
Which proves the point that when tourism people who live in multi family housing are not adopting electric vehicles if the same rate is people who own single family residents.

2183
03:14:03,000 --> 03:14:07,000
So that's not entirely answering your question, which is.

2184
03:14:08,000 --> 03:14:15,000
So I apologize that's the data we have as we know that that you these are not being adopted by people who live in multi family housing.

2185
03:14:15,000 --> 03:14:17,000
Thank you for that.

2186
03:14:17,000 --> 03:14:23,000
And I will say I do think that programs like this will help increase those numbers.

2187
03:14:24,000 --> 03:14:30,000
And are there any preliminary maps or list of potential station locations.

2188
03:14:30,000 --> 03:14:38,000
For example, where in West Berkeley would one go and how close the shops across rocks would go.

2189
03:14:38,000 --> 03:14:39,000
So it would be.

2190
03:14:39,000 --> 03:14:52,000
Can I end up being here just for a second and say that this is something that Mr. Garland and Mr. Klein asked that we let them do the work to determine locations they've identified.

2191
03:14:52,000 --> 03:15:00,000
Some parking lots for example there's city parking lots but also a UC lot this near fifth street but they have to evaluate.

2192
03:15:00,000 --> 03:15:15,000
News case for each of these. So I don't know if they're prepared to tell us exactly where these would be. The idea is to take these concentric maps of multi-unit housing and overlay that with parking lodges and see where that matches up.

2193
03:15:15,000 --> 03:15:17,000
Awesome. Thank you.

2194
03:15:17,000 --> 03:15:30,000
Well, the stations accommodate bikes for just cars. And is there a commitment to ensure that the sighting of stations? Well, and key to our ability to add bike and pedestrian facilities?

2195
03:15:30,000 --> 03:15:39,000
Yeah, but the root of charging that we are currently planning is for cars like duty and like duty vehicles.

2196
03:15:39,000 --> 03:15:57,000
We're not planning. Those would just be using parking places that are currently at lots and garages and so shouldn't impede any ability to do other types of e-mobility in the workplace.

2197
03:15:57,000 --> 03:16:08,000
I think I'll hold the rest of my questions for later in the year. Thank you very much.

2198
03:16:08,000 --> 03:16:12,000
Have some of the leg wrap.

2199
03:16:12,000 --> 03:16:37,000
Well, thank you. Well, I've been an EV owner for nine years. I was an early doctor and I'm very excited to see this proposal and I've always thought that Berkeley was way behind other places in terms of the EV infrastructure and it's true because

2200
03:16:37,000 --> 03:16:49,000
when I drove from the LA to Berkeley and an EV and I had to figure out where I was going to stop to charge and give you the number of charges in every jurisdiction.

2201
03:16:49,000 --> 03:16:54,000
And places like San Ramon have 38 charges.

2202
03:16:54,000 --> 03:17:01,000
And with a more actually had many charges, you know, and Berkeley didn't have that many.

2203
03:17:01,000 --> 03:17:20,000
So I'm very excited about this couple of things I would urge you to look at to explore places where you do not have to pay for parking while you charge.

2204
03:17:20,000 --> 03:17:35,000
Currently, although I haven't been out in two years, but pre COVID, if you're going to charge your car in the city parking lot, you have to pay for parking while you charged and it was very, very expensive.

2205
03:17:35,000 --> 03:17:54,000
So I think, you know, even explore not having to pay for parking if you're charging or look for it, look for places for locations where you don't have to pay to park.

2206
03:17:54,000 --> 03:18:00,000
Because there'll be a minimum, and if you're going to charge for 40 minutes, you're going to end up paying.

2207
03:18:00,000 --> 03:18:03,000
More to park your car.

2208
03:18:03,000 --> 03:18:14,000
The other thing I would suggest is that you look for at least one location to place a closer to the freeway.

2209
03:18:14,000 --> 03:18:18,000
To accommodate travelers.

2210
03:18:18,000 --> 03:18:22,000
People who are driving from place to place.

2211
03:18:22,000 --> 03:18:26,000
They need to get off the freeway to charge.

2212
03:18:26,000 --> 03:18:29,000
And the closer it is to the freeway, the better.

2213
03:18:29,000 --> 03:18:35,000
And I could see maybe putting a hub in the Marina putting a hub at the animal shelter.

2214
03:18:35,000 --> 03:18:39,000
Maybe putting a hub at a quiet park.

2215
03:18:40,000 --> 03:18:47,000
You know, those areas which are close in closer the freeway, then.

2216
03:18:47,000 --> 03:18:57,000
Then where we may see very, very dense housing development and that and although, historically, there's plenty of dense development going on in West Berkeley.

2217
03:18:57,000 --> 03:19:03,000
So those are my suggestions, just based on my own personal experience.

2218
03:19:03,000 --> 03:19:06,000
And I look forward, I look forward to this.

2219
03:19:06,000 --> 03:19:07,000
Thank you.

2220
03:19:07,000 --> 03:19:14,000
Yeah, those that very much aligns with our existing planning and and our existing projects in Oakland and Livermore, which.

2221
03:19:14,000 --> 03:19:22,000
Do require for one hour of free parking for for charging and then any additional parking gets charged at the at the rate.

2222
03:19:22,000 --> 03:19:32,000
We see this as creating additional parking and additional people coming in as opposed to taking parking away because these are even drivers who wouldn't be parking in that lot for that period of time.

2223
03:19:32,000 --> 03:19:42,000
So as Westerners and mentioned, like we also see this as a business creation opportunity, where people are going to come travel vehicles use local businesses and potentially create that.

2224
03:19:42,000 --> 03:19:54,000
But yeah, parking revenue after that hours done and certainly take your point on locations certainly, you know, central Berkeley, but also locations that to store affairs.

2225
03:19:54,000 --> 03:20:00,000
Our areas we're looking looking at as as mentioned with that for street.

2226
03:20:01,000 --> 03:20:05,000
How a lot, but again, there's a collaboration there.

2227
03:20:05,000 --> 03:20:12,000
It's easier to potentially use city of Berkeley owned lots, but we're open to anywhere that will that will facilitate this.

2228
03:20:12,000 --> 03:20:15,000
This type of project from food for.

2229
03:20:15,000 --> 03:20:17,000
Thank you.

2230
03:20:17,000 --> 03:20:20,000
Now, so we're kiss or wine.

2231
03:20:20,000 --> 03:20:24,000
Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor, and thank you.

2232
03:20:24,000 --> 03:20:30,000
I'm very happy to be here for the person for the item and for giving us an opportunity to ask some questions.

2233
03:20:30,000 --> 03:20:37,000
I do want to say I actually heard from a tenant in my district just this past week who is asking about.

2234
03:20:37,000 --> 03:20:41,000
You know, this issue of being able to charge her electric vehicles.

2235
03:20:41,000 --> 03:20:43,000
So I know this is.

2236
03:20:43,000 --> 03:20:50,000
An issue that affects a lot of our residents, particularly residents of multi unit housing.

2237
03:20:50,000 --> 03:20:57,000
I had a couple of questions by main questions were just around the revenue sharing agreement.

2238
03:20:57,000 --> 03:21:01,000
And I don't know if this is better for Mr. Boss or vice mayor Harrison.

2239
03:21:01,000 --> 03:21:06,000
I will admit at the outset, I am not an expert on energy policy.

2240
03:21:06,000 --> 03:21:11,000
So I think I had a little bit of trouble following how this works.

2241
03:21:11,000 --> 03:21:15,000
So page five of the report talks about.

2242
03:21:15,000 --> 03:21:25,000
Site license fees that are expected to meet and then see the service agreement fees, which I understand is 100,000 per hub.

2243
03:21:25,000 --> 03:21:31,000
And that the city of Berlin will receive 40% of net proceeds from the projects.

2244
03:21:31,000 --> 03:21:35,000
And that the city will also receive additional utility users tax revenue.

2245
03:21:35,000 --> 03:21:40,000
And now we understand the references sales tax because I think you're talking about.

2246
03:21:40,000 --> 03:21:44,000
People, you know, charging a car for a period of time and then doing shopping.

2247
03:21:44,000 --> 03:21:47,000
But could you explain Mr. Boss.

2248
03:21:47,000 --> 03:21:54,000
How do you accrue greater utility user tax revenue by somebody charging at one of these spots.

2249
03:21:54,000 --> 03:21:55,000
Yeah.

2250
03:21:55,000 --> 03:21:59,000
So there's, there's two items.

2251
03:21:59,000 --> 03:22:02,000
The first I will speak to is utility users tax.

2252
03:22:02,000 --> 03:22:06,000
And that that tax burst of city of Berkeley.

2253
03:22:06,000 --> 03:22:12,000
And so as we sell electricity that is registered within the city of Berkeley.

2254
03:22:12,000 --> 03:22:17,000
We will, we, any city who will now be our own.

2255
03:22:17,000 --> 03:22:20,000
Customer buying electricity from us.

2256
03:22:20,000 --> 03:22:27,000
We will pay that utility users tax and it will go to the city of Berkeley based on any usage from these meters.

2257
03:22:27,000 --> 03:22:31,000
So and that's part of the standard utility users tax process.

2258
03:22:31,000 --> 03:22:36,000
That's a different revenue item than the site license agreement.

2259
03:22:36,000 --> 03:22:45,000
The site license agreement is specifically and limited to the revenues and the profits created by the project.

2260
03:22:45,000 --> 03:22:51,000
So the decent fast charging house will generate revenues by charging users.

2261
03:22:51,000 --> 03:22:56,000
People who are fueling their vehicles at the sites and we have.

2262
03:22:56,000 --> 03:23:00,000
So there's that's one source of revenue for the charging stations.

2263
03:23:00,000 --> 03:23:03,000
The others low carbon fuel standards credits.

2264
03:23:03,000 --> 03:23:07,000
So that's a state program to help incentivize electric vehicles.

2265
03:23:07,000 --> 03:23:17,000
So those are the two sources of revenue that we are fact doing for when those sources of revenue are larger than our cost of running the project.

2266
03:23:17,000 --> 03:23:23,000
So vying all the electricity paying for maintenance, paying to our project financing paths.

2267
03:23:23,000 --> 03:23:26,000
That creates net operating income.

2268
03:23:26,000 --> 03:23:30,000
And so essentially the profit think of it as the annual profit of the project.

2269
03:23:30,000 --> 03:23:41,000
Once that net annual once we have net annual profits from the project from each project, that's shared 40% to the city at Berkeley 60% to EDCE.

2270
03:23:41,000 --> 03:23:46,000
And so what we expect is that those.

2271
03:23:46,000 --> 03:23:52,000
Those net operating income will meet and then exceed the service be paid by the city.

2272
03:23:52,000 --> 03:24:05,000
So you would start paying the money and then once the site license fees are about that, then you don't pay that anymore because now you're the cities receiving money that it's paying in annual service.

2273
03:24:05,000 --> 03:24:08,000
Okay, okay, thank you for that.

2274
03:24:08,000 --> 03:24:12,000
And my next question was about.

2275
03:24:12,000 --> 03:24:16,000
I think on page eight, there's a discussion of.

2276
03:24:16,000 --> 03:24:24,000
existing city policies that that would yield an additional 400 to 600,000 tax proceeds.

2277
03:24:24,000 --> 03:24:26,000
Yeah, let me let me tackle that.

2278
03:24:26,000 --> 03:24:27,000
Yeah, thank you.

2279
03:24:27,000 --> 03:24:37,000
We have we know we're working to upgrade all of our customers to 100% clean energy in much for residential and in the fall for commercial.

2280
03:24:37,000 --> 03:24:47,000
That brings in rural revenue and it brings in more utility tax because the tax is based on a higher revenue stream.

2281
03:24:47,000 --> 03:24:51,000
So we're already seeing an increase is not.

2282
03:24:51,000 --> 03:24:54,000
We're connected to this, but we're only going to see an increase.

2283
03:24:54,000 --> 03:24:58,000
Or we have two periods between forward and 600,000 dollars a year estimated.

2284
03:24:58,000 --> 03:25:07,000
In utility users tax, what this is pointing out is if we have a reasonable utilization of the EV stations that amount will not be in extra.

2285
03:25:07,000 --> 03:25:10,000
Four to six hundred thousand dollars a year but as much as an extra.

2286
03:25:10,000 --> 03:25:12,000
$4 million a year.

2287
03:25:12,000 --> 03:25:19,000
So the possible gain in the to the he's your taxes seven hundred thousand dollars.

2288
03:25:19,000 --> 03:25:23,000
Okay, thank you vice mayor Harrison and I just wanted to.

2289
03:25:23,000 --> 03:25:25,160
I think this is probably just a detail,

2290
03:25:25,160 --> 03:25:26,800
but this is something I learned a lot about

2291
03:25:26,800 --> 03:25:29,720
when I was doing the parking benefits district item,

2292
03:25:29,720 --> 03:25:34,720
just the nature of our 2016 installment sale agreement,

2293
03:25:35,160 --> 03:25:37,360
related to the parking revenue bonds

2294
03:25:37,360 --> 03:25:39,320
for the Center Street Garage.

2295
03:25:40,160 --> 03:25:43,720
And I don't see our finance director on this call.

2296
03:25:43,720 --> 03:25:47,440
So I don't know if anyone on this call is prepared to talk

2297
03:25:47,440 --> 03:25:51,040
about whether we could do this at the Center Street Garage

2298
03:25:51,040 --> 03:25:54,840
given the bond obligations there.

2299
03:25:54,840 --> 03:25:56,680
And then maybe something that the policy committee

2300
03:25:56,680 --> 03:25:59,360
could talk about in greater detail,

2301
03:25:59,360 --> 03:26:01,040
if nobody is available.

2302
03:26:09,200 --> 03:26:10,760
I can't see anyone from there.

2303
03:26:10,760 --> 03:26:13,760
Go ahead, maybe we take the site conversation

2304
03:26:13,760 --> 03:26:17,720
and the details associated with that later as Vice Mayor Harris

2305
03:26:17,720 --> 03:26:18,560
and it had an engine,

2306
03:26:18,560 --> 03:26:20,760
because we don't have real no-witch sites.

2307
03:26:20,760 --> 03:26:22,240
So we don't know if that's worth.

2308
03:26:22,240 --> 03:26:24,560
Why is Vice Mayor Harris, maybe allocate the money,

2309
03:26:24,560 --> 03:26:26,240
so it's kind of premature.

2310
03:26:26,240 --> 03:26:27,840
We're assuming that we're implementing this

2311
03:26:27,840 --> 03:26:30,040
when the money hasn't even been approved.

2312
03:26:30,040 --> 03:26:33,280
Okay, well, I just thought I would just,

2313
03:26:34,280 --> 03:26:35,160
yeah, just know that.

2314
03:26:35,160 --> 03:26:36,960
I know we can consider other sites.

2315
03:26:36,960 --> 03:26:39,120
Well, and actually that leads to my other question,

2316
03:26:39,120 --> 03:26:42,520
if we do use private sites,

2317
03:26:42,520 --> 03:26:47,520
like a privately owned parking garage or parking lot,

2318
03:26:48,480 --> 03:26:53,080
does that have any impact in this revenue sharing

2319
03:26:53,080 --> 03:26:54,200
that's contemplated,

2320
03:26:54,200 --> 03:26:57,760
because it's a private entity that we're partnering with?

2321
03:26:57,760 --> 03:27:01,760
It would be an increased cost to EVCE to rent those spaces

2322
03:27:01,760 --> 03:27:04,200
and therefore it would increase their cost

2323
03:27:04,200 --> 03:27:06,640
and reduce the delta between revenues and costs.

2324
03:27:06,640 --> 03:27:08,080
And we would get less,

2325
03:27:08,080 --> 03:27:10,200
our 40% would be of less.

2326
03:27:10,200 --> 03:27:13,440
So yes, because we don't have to charge them

2327
03:27:13,440 --> 03:27:17,360
if we're using our lots, that is not a factor.

2328
03:27:19,040 --> 03:27:21,120
And potentially a public agency,

2329
03:27:21,120 --> 03:27:22,920
like you see would not do that either.

2330
03:27:22,920 --> 03:27:25,880
So that's some of the considerations.

2331
03:27:25,880 --> 03:27:28,360
But if the project works, the project works.

2332
03:27:28,360 --> 03:27:30,760
So I think, again, let's,

2333
03:27:31,960 --> 03:27:35,120
I think the early focus will be on city lots and garages

2334
03:27:35,120 --> 03:27:40,120
because those are the ones that are to agencies

2335
03:27:40,120 --> 03:27:42,320
have the most control over.

2336
03:27:42,320 --> 03:27:44,520
And to work towards.

2337
03:27:44,520 --> 03:27:46,560
OK, but I appreciate knowing that, obviously,

2338
03:27:46,560 --> 03:27:50,320
if you're going to this privately operated

2339
03:27:50,320 --> 03:27:54,800
or own lots, you have that financial implication there.

2340
03:27:54,800 --> 03:27:56,560
OK, I'm almost done.

2341
03:27:56,560 --> 03:27:59,120
I just wanted to ask EVCE, Mr. West,

2342
03:27:59,120 --> 03:28:00,840
how do you assess demand?

2343
03:28:00,840 --> 03:28:04,640
Because I know bystanders in this proposing three hubs,

2344
03:28:04,640 --> 03:28:11,840
do you have a mechanism to have an understanding of how many

2345
03:28:11,840 --> 03:28:14,560
charging stations should be provided?

2346
03:28:14,560 --> 03:28:16,360
And maybe I don't know if you can speak to how you

2347
03:28:16,360 --> 03:28:19,680
approach it in the other two cities that you mentioned.

2348
03:28:19,680 --> 03:28:25,480
So we are looking very closely at the electric vehicle sales

2349
03:28:25,480 --> 03:28:30,000
and growth rates, as well as the information

2350
03:28:30,000 --> 03:28:33,720
that we can go in from other charging infrastructure

2351
03:28:33,720 --> 03:28:38,280
that's available in the county and across the state.

2352
03:28:38,280 --> 03:28:41,240
And so we have an understanding of what

2353
03:28:41,240 --> 03:28:43,000
those utilization rates are, and that's

2354
03:28:43,000 --> 03:28:45,120
some of what we're basing our modeling on,

2355
03:28:45,120 --> 03:28:49,640
as well as the various from growth rate that

2356
03:28:49,640 --> 03:28:54,800
we're seeing across the county and across the state of electric vehicles.

2357
03:28:54,800 --> 03:28:58,360
So that's what we're basing our assumptions on.

2358
03:28:58,360 --> 03:29:00,320
OK, great to know.

2359
03:29:00,320 --> 03:29:03,280
And then finally, my final thought, I think

2360
03:29:03,280 --> 03:29:06,520
in somewhat in response to Council Member Wendorf's suggestion

2361
03:29:06,520 --> 03:29:11,560
about considering some stations close to the freeway,

2362
03:29:11,560 --> 03:29:14,840
I do want us to make sure we keep in mind the bipartisan

2363
03:29:14,840 --> 03:29:19,240
infrastructure, bill, funding, the EV network.

2364
03:29:19,240 --> 03:29:22,440
I don't know if you know where those will be.

2365
03:29:22,440 --> 03:29:26,320
But obviously, I don't want to duplicate where those might end up.

2366
03:29:26,320 --> 03:29:31,480
And so I'm sure you'll keep that in mind, as well, as part of this.

2367
03:29:31,480 --> 03:29:32,200
Very much so.

2368
03:29:32,200 --> 03:29:38,040
And we work with our city agencies to help identify sources

2369
03:29:38,040 --> 03:29:40,760
of funding that we can go after together.

2370
03:29:40,760 --> 03:29:45,160
The type of public partnership that we are envisioning

2371
03:29:45,160 --> 03:29:50,120
is a great opportunity to kind of go after state federal dollars.

2372
03:29:50,120 --> 03:29:54,000
That's something that we will evaluate as it comes.

2373
03:29:54,000 --> 03:29:58,280
And certainly we're keeping an eye on where EV infrastructure is going in.

2374
03:30:00,000 --> 03:30:05,000
And now we part of our calculus as well.

2375
03:30:05,000 --> 03:30:10,000
Okay, thank you very much. That's all I have.

2376
03:30:10,000 --> 03:30:15,000
Okay, we're going to have to count some of our Bartlett.

2377
03:30:15,000 --> 03:30:24,000
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. It's wonderful to see you again, JP. You know, a little context here might be helpful.

2378
03:30:24,000 --> 03:30:32,000
And Councilor Wingraff would tell you as well, back in the day, even before I was in council, we were working on this issue.

2379
03:30:32,000 --> 03:30:38,000
And we're a Councilor Wingraff spearheaded the this easement issue for the earnings basis.

2380
03:30:38,000 --> 03:30:43,000
Because I can tell you this all over my district, people running electric cords out of windows.

2381
03:30:43,000 --> 03:30:48,000
You're safe. I'm not going to say who you are.

2382
03:30:48,000 --> 03:31:00,000
And the evolution of this kind of corresponds with the EBC as well.

2383
03:31:00,000 --> 03:31:05,000
So these community choice irrigation networks, these localized,

2384
03:31:06,000 --> 03:31:09,000
sold renewable energy hubs that we're a part of.

2385
03:31:09,000 --> 03:31:15,000
They're kind of mushrooming and taking over the utility market in the country.

2386
03:31:15,000 --> 03:31:19,000
And the vision for them is to be energy centers.

2387
03:31:19,000 --> 03:31:27,000
So that includes onsite generation with panels over airport lots and connected the rooftops and neighborhoods.

2388
03:31:27,000 --> 03:31:34,000
Also plugged into cars, right? So the electricity is is a market moving among communities and includes cars.

2389
03:31:34,000 --> 03:31:43,000
And you know, we Volkswagen cheated the stage to the country by lying about its emissions and they paid a $2 billion fine.

2390
03:31:43,000 --> 03:31:54,000
And there was all this talk years ago when I still nice to be help more involved about marshalling these resources to blanket California in the country with charging stations ubiquitous charging.

2391
03:31:54,000 --> 03:31:57,000
And it just has not come to pass.

2392
03:31:57,000 --> 03:32:00,000
And it's really surprising and disappointing.

2393
03:32:00,000 --> 03:32:11,000
But meanwhile, the fleet is converting the global car fleet is converting to electric Lamborghini just announced it is done making gas cars.

2394
03:32:11,000 --> 03:32:22,000
So, you know, one by state by state country by country, the going electric and so are we and Berkeley was always one of the highest purchasers of hybrid vehicles.

2395
03:32:22,000 --> 03:32:24,000
And this is the next step.

2396
03:32:24,000 --> 03:32:39,000
So it's we want people to be able to have electric car of the living apartment because let's see it unless you are able to own a nice house with a garage or a driveway that's close to your house.

2397
03:32:39,000 --> 03:32:42,000
You know, you can't participate.

2398
03:32:42,000 --> 03:32:52,000
So you can imagine two cities where you have people driving Tesla's in brand new the new 4 GM models coming out.

2399
03:32:52,000 --> 03:32:57,000
And then people driving, you know, smokey gas.

2400
03:32:57,000 --> 03:33:02,000
And you'll know that they are not of the land of the lead.

2401
03:33:02,000 --> 03:33:10,000
So it's it's not a good in a social level to condemn this and it's also this is the movement that we're in.

2402
03:33:10,000 --> 03:33:15,000
And the next phase is well beyond these these group.

2403
03:33:15,000 --> 03:33:22,000
These group, high speed charging networks with near entertainment centers, we can do things there and then near stuff they drive economic benefit.

2404
03:33:22,000 --> 03:33:26,000
They're also going to be wiring them into street lights street poles.

2405
03:33:26,000 --> 03:33:35,000
So they'll be street pole near you when you can plug your car into and also now in the road chargers in the road itself.

2406
03:33:35,000 --> 03:33:37,000
The drive you car as you drive it.

2407
03:33:37,000 --> 03:33:42,000
So the transition is underway and this is just part of the transition.

2408
03:33:42,000 --> 03:33:43,000
Thank you.

2409
03:33:43,000 --> 03:33:44,000
Thank you.

2410
03:33:44,000 --> 03:33:46,000
Councilor Robinson.

2411
03:33:46,000 --> 03:33:48,000
Good evening.

2412
03:33:48,000 --> 03:33:53,000
I am something of a conscientious objector to debating budget referrals.

2413
03:33:53,000 --> 03:33:57,000
I imagine we'll have much more robust discussion on this program should be funded.

2414
03:33:57,000 --> 03:34:06,000
But this class I want to thank you for being here since we're here just wanted to reinforce one point on the site and conversation, which I know we'll get.

2415
03:34:06,000 --> 03:34:09,000
Real error later and ask one question.

2416
03:34:09,000 --> 03:34:16,000
I found the the chart of favorable locations from EDC on the last page of the report really interesting and helpful.

2417
03:34:16,000 --> 03:34:26,000
And the variables that we sort of lay onto that make a lot of sense to me at this point came up a little bit in the stress you alluded to it that I felt it wasn't presented as explicitly in the.

2418
03:34:26,000 --> 03:34:35,000
I just urge us is we consider the viability of different sites to consider very highly the commercial environment of the surrounding neighborhood.

2419
03:34:35,000 --> 03:34:40,000
For example, I can imagine citing a habit be a Channing telegraph garage.

2420
03:34:40,000 --> 03:34:49,000
Where EV drivers from across the city or the East Bay could spend 20 or 30 minutes walking that commercial district would make particular sense.

2421
03:34:49,000 --> 03:35:03,000
Now I think that's pretty organically that happens pretty organically just based off of the other favorable sites that we have wind up already between the downtown south side and not far from the other part street district that to me that would almost seem to be perhaps the most relevant detail.

2422
03:35:03,000 --> 03:35:09,000
And just one related question, you know, it's something that came up to is we're thinking about allocating.

2423
03:35:09,000 --> 03:35:22,000
You know, streets parking spaces to outdoor dining installations and curious if the analysis that's happened so far accounts for our lost revenue from existing parking spaces.

2424
03:35:22,000 --> 03:35:28,000
And how we would figure out sort of how much that changes, again, that's in delta we're talking about.

2425
03:35:28,000 --> 03:35:34,000
Yeah, so that came up with agenda setting committee, it's something that we could certainly.

2426
03:35:35,000 --> 03:35:36,000
Look at you that.

2427
03:35:38,000 --> 03:35:50,000
That kind of last revenue as soon as those EVs are going to park there today and that they're could not be then paying parking fees for that time at our.

2428
03:35:50,000 --> 03:36:00,000
Yeah, the alternative view of that is that we're actually driving new parking to these garages and lots for the express purpose of charging.

2429
03:36:00,000 --> 03:36:11,000
And that, you know, once they stay there for an hour and to your point commercial areas are one of the main things that we're looking at as well as multi camera and other attributes.

2430
03:36:11,000 --> 03:36:18,000
And that, you know, if you're wants to longer than an hour, then we're actually creating additional new parking revenue as opposed to cannibalizing revenue.

2431
03:36:18,000 --> 03:36:29,000
So it's I think it's something to discuss is this new parking is a cannibalizing parking is at a hybrid of the two and how do we get to the actual number I think, you know, we've.

2432
03:36:30,000 --> 03:36:43,000
That's own evidence from other lots and garages where there is the EV parking and we're talking to some of our peers in other parts of the state to try to kind of get to an answer on is this new or or is there lost revenue.

2433
03:36:43,000 --> 03:36:49,000
So that's something I'm sure we'll continue to talk through get staff and and you all as we bring this back.

2434
03:36:49,000 --> 03:36:58,000
That makes a lot of sense really appreciate that. Yeah, I can imagine that it'll be really interesting to compare sites on a very case by case faces just looking at the two lots.

2435
03:36:58,000 --> 03:37:16,000
I listed there that I feel like I know most well, you know, one of them is virtually always completely full and maybe cannibalizing parking will be the the equation there and the other, you know, it could be a real opportunity to have an additional use there when it's it's sold them for there, even sometimes it's a terrible.

2436
03:37:16,000 --> 03:37:23,000
I think it's a lot more is that I could have a new dedicated use, you know, interesting. Thank you for working on this.

2437
03:37:23,000 --> 03:37:30,000
Yeah, currently surgery is something that will be necessary for that.

2438
03:37:30,000 --> 03:37:33,000
Council member Han.

2439
03:37:33,000 --> 03:37:41,000
Well, thank you very much. This, this is so much different from how I expected.

2440
03:37:41,000 --> 03:37:55,000
I think it's great that decided was pulled because it seems that people are so enthusiastic about it that they're ready to debate the fine details and and understand it and you know.

2441
03:37:55,000 --> 03:37:59,000
Pitch for citing and get them.

2442
03:37:59,000 --> 03:38:07,000
So I'm really glad that the purpose of all this was to really express our enthusiasm.

2443
03:38:07,000 --> 03:38:11,000
I'm going to start by making a motion that I have wanted to other short comments.

2444
03:38:11,000 --> 03:38:18,000
I'd like to move approval of these yesterday approval adoption of item 16 as presented.

2445
03:38:18,000 --> 03:38:19,000
Second.

2446
03:38:19,000 --> 03:38:21,000
Okay, great.

2447
03:38:21,000 --> 03:38:24,000
So.

2448
03:38:24,000 --> 03:38:34,000
Thinking about this and listening to conversation, having looked at this item carefully before the meet what comes to my mind is equitable.

2449
03:38:34,000 --> 03:38:36,000
Climate action.

2450
03:38:36,000 --> 03:38:40,000
Terrific innovation and partnerships.

2451
03:38:40,000 --> 03:38:45,000
That's what we have here before us, but not the slogan.

2452
03:38:45,000 --> 03:38:51,000
We have the real detailed.

2453
03:38:51,000 --> 03:39:01,000
Fine grain hardwood and heavy lifts that go into making our aspirations into realities.

2454
03:39:01,000 --> 03:39:06,000
And, you know, it's it's technical, it's complicated.

2455
03:39:06,000 --> 03:39:14,000
It's got many facets and many elements, but this is actually what real policy looks like.

2456
03:39:14,000 --> 03:39:17,000
As opposed to.

2457
03:39:17,000 --> 03:39:24,000
Ideals and in every different and I just want to thank Vice Mayor Harrison.

2458
03:39:24,000 --> 03:39:27,000
For once again.

2459
03:39:27,000 --> 03:39:35,000
Bringing us the real work to make our aspirations into realities.

2460
03:39:35,000 --> 03:39:43,000
And I want to say that if if you've wrapped her over the time that she's been on the city council.

2461
03:39:43,000 --> 03:39:49,000
You see a pattern there is an arc to the work that she brings to us.

2462
03:39:49,000 --> 03:40:00,000
She brings a series of smart detailed policies real world policies and actually work.

2463
03:40:00,000 --> 03:40:07,000
She finds the resources and a partnership with EBE CE is a resource.

2464
03:40:07,000 --> 03:40:17,000
Because this allows us to achieve a goal we already have faster and for less money than it would if we were going this alone.

2465
03:40:17,000 --> 03:40:21,000
She then seeks to accelerate implementation.

2466
03:40:21,000 --> 03:40:28,000
And last but not least, and I don't think this is last for her, but this is endemic of the item she brings us.

2467
03:40:28,000 --> 03:40:32,000
She builds in equity.

2468
03:40:32,000 --> 03:40:40,000
So I'm this is yet another technical walking.

2469
03:40:40,000 --> 03:40:50,000
Both launched real world item that brings us equitable climate action through innovation and partnership.

2470
03:40:50,000 --> 03:40:55,000
And I am so proud to serve with Vice Mayor Harrison.

2471
03:40:55,000 --> 03:41:01,000
I am so grateful for her work across the board to help us go from slogans.

2472
03:41:02,000 --> 03:41:09,000
And you know campaign promises and an aspirational.

2473
03:41:09,000 --> 03:41:16,000
Thinking and talking to the real work that moves this community forward.

2474
03:41:16,000 --> 03:41:19,000
So thank you, thank you, Vice Mayor Harrison.

2475
03:41:19,000 --> 03:41:21,000
And I am.

2476
03:41:21,000 --> 03:41:22,000
Excuse me.

2477
03:41:22,000 --> 03:41:25,000
And there's the asked at least supporting this item.

2478
03:41:25,000 --> 03:41:37,000
And thank you to Mr. Ross from EBC for and to the EBC for your partnership and helping us make our dreams of climate action.

2479
03:41:37,000 --> 03:41:47,000
Okay, we'll go to public comment on the side of item 16 if you wish to comment please raise your hand.

2480
03:41:47,000 --> 03:41:51,000
I'll comment on this item, not on labor management issues.

2481
03:41:51,000 --> 03:41:56,000
So we'll go now to Andrea.

2482
03:41:56,000 --> 03:41:58,000
Good evening, are you able to hear me.

2483
03:41:58,000 --> 03:41:59,000
Yes.

2484
03:41:59,000 --> 03:42:00,000
Excellent.

2485
03:42:00,000 --> 03:42:01,000
My name is Andrea Mallarki.

2486
03:42:01,000 --> 03:42:04,000
I am an SAU 10 to one member.

2487
03:42:04,000 --> 03:42:14,000
And I am just thrilled as all of you all are to see this step being taken as you've heard me say in many meetings before.

2488
03:42:14,000 --> 03:42:22,000
The climate is a priority issue for SAU 10 to one and it's because it's an existential issue for workers.

2489
03:42:22,000 --> 03:42:27,000
It's one of the reasons we brought proposals to the bargaining table.

2490
03:42:27,000 --> 03:42:34,000
You know about trying to achieve net zero by 2030 and even though the city refused to bargain with us about that issue.

2491
03:42:34,000 --> 03:42:39,000
We do continue to have our focus on climate and delighted to see this going forward.

2492
03:42:39,000 --> 03:42:44,000
I want to see that this is the kind of thing that workers would be able to take advantage of.

2493
03:42:44,000 --> 03:42:47,000
I live enrichment very much.

2494
03:42:47,000 --> 03:42:49,000
Would like to have an electric vehicle.

2495
03:42:49,000 --> 03:42:55,000
I live in a development where there is not a good plan for that.

2496
03:42:55,000 --> 03:42:59,000
And where I live and having more access near work could make that real for me.

2497
03:42:59,000 --> 03:43:07,000
So looking forward to one day having these options as a worker in Berkeley maybe even using my community benefits for it.

2498
03:43:07,000 --> 03:43:13,000
One seconds implemented as well so delighted to see this move forward and thank you for your support.

2499
03:43:13,000 --> 03:43:15,000
Thank you.

2500
03:43:15,000 --> 03:43:17,000
Thomas.

2501
03:43:21,000 --> 03:43:23,000
Thank you Mr. Mayor.

2502
03:43:23,000 --> 03:43:36,000
I'll just say I would hope that you think twice about the wisdom of paying such money to sign the city up to be early alpha testers of a very interested program.

2503
03:43:36,000 --> 03:43:52,000
But more importantly, your discussions and I was promised on this idea that influencing the markets of the market forces will electrify the existing fleet.

2504
03:43:52,000 --> 03:43:55,000
Everything will once and three.

2505
03:43:55,000 --> 03:43:58,000
Which is out of the wish.

2506
03:43:59,000 --> 03:44:02,000
But let's remember some basic climate science.

2507
03:44:02,000 --> 03:44:11,000
We all know that fossil fuel use has to follow by much more than half by just a year from now.

2508
03:44:11,000 --> 03:44:22,000
And I think we probably all make our best guess that in that same short amount of time there's no way we need enough time to electrify the fleet.

2509
03:44:22,000 --> 03:44:26,000
Even if it was fully subsidized by government or whatever.

2510
03:44:26,000 --> 03:44:34,000
The production problem is too hard not to even say that it would be ecologically wise to do that.

2511
03:44:34,000 --> 03:44:53,000
So what we really hope for is a situation in which we have a big crisis and a big crisis is a tremendous loss of capacity for transit in transport due to a sudden shock supply shock of the energy supply to transport in transit.

2512
03:44:53,000 --> 03:45:00,000
That emergency is not just immediate it's upon us and that should be the fundamental.

2513
03:45:00,000 --> 03:45:05,040
Starting according to if you're analysis for anything like what you're discussing tonight, not which

2514
03:45:05,040 --> 03:45:13,000
neighbourhoods to serve these fancy extension courts. So, best of luck.

2515
03:45:13,000 --> 03:45:18,000
Kelly, have a good?

2516
03:45:18,000 --> 03:45:27,040
Yes, and thank you councilmember Han for saying all those wonderful things about my councilmember Kate

2517
03:45:27,040 --> 03:45:37,040
Harrison, there are all two and I second them. I'm really appreciated the discussion on this item tonight.

2518
03:45:37,040 --> 03:45:47,040
And I hope it's enthusiastic and this route to move this forward. It's really important that we move in this direction.

2519
03:45:47,040 --> 03:45:51,040
So, I would like to thank all of you for joining us.

2520
03:45:51,040 --> 03:45:53,040
Thank you.

2521
03:45:53,040 --> 03:45:55,040
Thank you.

2522
03:45:55,040 --> 03:45:57,040
Thank you.

2523
03:45:57,040 --> 03:45:59,040
Thank you.

2524
03:45:59,040 --> 03:46:01,040
Thank you.

2525
03:46:01,040 --> 03:46:03,040
Thank you.

2526
03:46:03,040 --> 03:46:09,040
On to install EV charging stations.

2527
03:46:09,040 --> 03:46:15,040
Kansas City, Missouri has 117 charging stations.

2528
03:46:15,040 --> 03:46:19,040
We need to get on board with this.

2529
03:46:19,040 --> 03:46:23,040
And I think, you know, the more we can do in the faster we can do it, the better. So, thank you.

2530
03:46:23,040 --> 03:46:25,040
Thank you very much.

2531
03:46:25,040 --> 03:46:27,040
Okay. Thank you.

2532
03:46:27,040 --> 03:46:31,040
We'll go to flat cap one.

2533
03:46:31,040 --> 03:46:33,040
Making hear me?

2534
03:46:33,040 --> 03:46:35,040
Yes.

2535
03:46:35,040 --> 03:46:43,040
So, I look for the library. I just came to talk about labor stuff initially, but whenever I stay, I find all this fascinating city council stuff.

2536
03:46:43,040 --> 03:46:49,040
So, I'll admit, I did not read the EV report, but I'm from what I heard.

2537
03:46:49,040 --> 03:46:57,040
I'll say that the West Branch Library, which is on University of Evans and Pablo, is a net zero building, which I guess means it shouldn't be using any electricity.

2538
03:46:57,040 --> 03:47:01,040
But actually, we found that it creates more electricity than it uses.

2539
03:47:01,040 --> 03:47:09,040
And as a result, we set up EV charging station adjacent to the library, which may be one of the four that

2540
03:47:09,040 --> 03:47:13,040
Councilman Harrison held up offenders for.

2541
03:47:13,040 --> 03:47:23,040
So, I wonder if we're setting up some kind of charging station if it wouldn't be worthwhile to put it in that parking lot that's adjacent to the West Branch Library,

2542
03:47:23,040 --> 03:47:31,040
which I think would be within what Councilman Wayne Grappler saying is like the in the corridor of the highway of the freeway,

2543
03:47:31,040 --> 03:47:39,040
because the 80s like maybe four blocks from there, and I don't know if we're making, you know, how much energy we're making, but we may be making more than one space is worth of energy.

2544
03:47:39,040 --> 03:47:47,040
I just I don't know the answer to that, but I think that there's an opportunity in that particular space to set something up.

2545
03:47:47,040 --> 03:47:51,040
I know there would be some additional cost probably because it's not a city on parking lot,

2546
03:47:51,040 --> 03:47:55,040
but I thought I wouldn't mention that. Thank you.

2547
03:47:57,040 --> 03:47:59,040
Go now to Daniel to Har.

2548
03:48:01,040 --> 03:48:03,040
Thank you, Mayor.

2549
03:48:03,040 --> 03:48:07,040
I am a member of the Energy Commission.

2550
03:48:07,040 --> 03:48:17,040
Now, I'm here today speaking in my capacity as a resident of District 8, as well as some of the works at Tesla on their charging products.

2551
03:48:17,040 --> 03:48:21,040
I am very, very, very enthusiastic about this item.

2552
03:48:21,040 --> 03:48:27,040
It seems like a win-win, especially if the city is going to be making money back.

2553
03:48:27,040 --> 03:48:31,040
Just kind of a few observations and notes.

2554
03:48:31,040 --> 03:48:37,040
I think it is absolutely true, and we've seen this with the Tesla's GoF DC fast charging sales cars.

2555
03:48:37,040 --> 03:48:39,040
Sales EVs.

2556
03:48:39,040 --> 03:48:41,040
Like that is.

2557
03:48:41,040 --> 03:48:47,040
Lansing's idea is one of the major barriers to buying EVs, knowing where you're going to charge is one of the major barriers to buying EVs.

2558
03:48:47,040 --> 03:48:55,040
And when you have a way in a local community where you can charge your car 200 miles of range in like 30 minutes.

2559
03:48:55,040 --> 03:48:59,040
That sort of breaks open a lot of barriers.

2560
03:48:59,040 --> 03:49:05,040
And as a rental, I've done the game of, you know, if I own the EV where the heck would I charge it.

2561
03:49:05,040 --> 03:49:11,040
And there are not many places that I could live in the city if I wanted to own an EV.

2562
03:49:11,040 --> 03:49:15,040
And so this would go a long way in doing that and make that possible.

2563
03:49:15,040 --> 03:49:23,040
When we're thinking about the revenue, I think the conservative estimate was 1% of the lockdown estimate was 5% utilization.

2564
03:49:23,040 --> 03:49:31,040
Just a bit of that in perspective, 5% utilization is about 1 hour of charge every 24 hours.

2565
03:49:31,040 --> 03:49:33,040
Which is really low.

2566
03:49:33,040 --> 03:49:37,040
1% is, you know, 1.5 hours a week.

2567
03:49:37,040 --> 03:49:44,040
So those, you know, and we see Tesla charging stations that are just way of the subscribe and have weights and things like that.

2568
03:49:44,040 --> 03:49:48,040
And so there's this fuel fill there again.

2569
03:49:48,040 --> 03:49:50,040
So yeah, I'm really excited about this.

2570
03:49:50,040 --> 03:49:51,040
I hope you didn't do this.

2571
03:49:51,040 --> 03:49:52,040
Yes, I couldn't move it forward.

2572
03:49:52,040 --> 03:49:53,040
I'm looking forward to more.

2573
03:49:53,040 --> 03:49:54,040
Thank you.

2574
03:49:54,040 --> 03:49:55,040
Thank you.

2575
03:49:55,040 --> 03:49:56,040
Could have been.

2576
03:49:56,040 --> 03:49:57,040
Pollows.

2577
03:49:57,040 --> 03:49:58,040
Hi.

2578
03:49:58,040 --> 03:50:02,040
Thank you Mr. Mayor.

2579
03:50:02,040 --> 03:50:03,040
I'm Ben Pollows.

2580
03:50:03,040 --> 03:50:06,040
I'm the air of the energy commission.

2581
03:50:06,040 --> 03:50:11,040
And I'm, I'm, it's great to hear some support for this.

2582
03:50:11,040 --> 03:50:19,040
Because I will say that the, the business model for charging is kind of a chicken the egg.

2583
03:50:19,040 --> 03:50:20,040
The chicken the egg problem.

2584
03:50:20,040 --> 03:50:24,040
We have a lot of cars still coming.

2585
03:50:24,040 --> 03:50:30,040
As car makers scale up and as policy gets more aggressive.

2586
03:50:30,040 --> 03:50:38,040
I will remind you that the governor would like to see no more fossil fuel cars, so as of 2035.

2587
03:50:38,040 --> 03:50:44,040
So the industry is definitely moving the direction.

2588
03:50:44,040 --> 03:50:47,040
But as I say, the cars are still coming.

2589
03:50:47,040 --> 03:50:53,040
And there are, as you've pointed out, very few chargers in Berkeley more neighboring communities.

2590
03:50:53,040 --> 03:51:02,040
I'd say that one business model that has proven to be successful is the Tesla fast charger model.

2591
03:51:02,040 --> 03:51:06,040
There are a couple in Richmond, as Rita Emeryville.

2592
03:51:06,040 --> 03:51:14,040
And as my fellow commissioner Daniel Tardis mentioned, that is has been very successful for Tesla to help some cell cars.

2593
03:51:14,040 --> 03:51:18,040
To know that the buyers can know where they can charge.

2594
03:51:18,040 --> 03:51:23,040
So I think that that that business model is a good place to start here in Berkeley.

2595
03:51:23,040 --> 03:51:31,040
I think it will kind of bridge the psychological gap for people who are used to going to a gas station to charge up.

2596
03:51:31,040 --> 03:51:33,040
I don't think it's going to be the only model.

2597
03:51:33,040 --> 03:51:36,040
I think they're going to be more emerging.

2598
03:51:36,040 --> 03:51:40,040
And frankly, most people now charge at home if they have a place to charge.

2599
03:51:40,040 --> 03:51:45,040
They'll be a nice compliment to what we have and where things are headed.

2600
03:51:45,040 --> 03:51:47,040
And also accommodate for a lot of growth.

2601
03:51:47,040 --> 03:51:50,040
So thank you so much for your support.

2602
03:51:50,040 --> 03:51:51,040
Thank you.

2603
03:51:51,040 --> 03:51:52,040
Okay.

2604
03:51:52,040 --> 03:51:54,040
I don't see any other attendees with their hands raised.

2605
03:51:54,040 --> 03:51:55,040
We have a motion.

2606
03:51:55,040 --> 03:51:58,040
We buy hot and seconded by myself to prove the item is proposed.

2607
03:51:58,040 --> 03:52:00,040
Say no further debate.

2608
03:52:00,040 --> 03:52:01,040
Oscar Coral.

2609
03:52:01,040 --> 03:52:02,040
Council member.

2610
03:52:02,040 --> 03:52:03,040
Yes.

2611
03:52:03,040 --> 03:52:04,040
Yes.

2612
03:52:04,040 --> 03:52:05,040
Tatlin.

2613
03:52:05,040 --> 03:52:06,040
Yes.

2614
03:52:06,040 --> 03:52:07,040
Bartlett.

2615
03:52:07,040 --> 03:52:08,040
Yes.

2616
03:52:09,040 --> 03:52:10,040
Harrison.

2617
03:52:10,040 --> 03:52:11,040
Yes.

2618
03:52:11,040 --> 03:52:12,040
On.

2619
03:52:12,040 --> 03:52:13,040
Yes.

2620
03:52:13,040 --> 03:52:14,040
One graph.

2621
03:52:14,040 --> 03:52:16,040
Yes.

2622
03:52:16,040 --> 03:52:17,040
Robinson.

2623
03:52:17,040 --> 03:52:18,040
Yes.

2624
03:52:18,040 --> 03:52:19,040
Drought.

2625
03:52:19,040 --> 03:52:20,040
Yes.

2626
03:52:20,040 --> 03:52:21,040
And there.

2627
03:52:21,040 --> 03:52:22,040
Yes.

2628
03:52:22,040 --> 03:52:23,040
All right.

2629
03:52:23,040 --> 03:52:24,040
Motion carries.

2630
03:52:24,040 --> 03:52:25,040
Thank you.

2631
03:52:25,040 --> 03:52:26,040
So.

2632
03:52:26,040 --> 03:52:27,040
So last item.

2633
03:52:27,040 --> 03:52:28,040
17.

2634
03:52:28,040 --> 03:52:30,040
Which is Berkeley's 2019 committee.

2635
03:52:30,040 --> 03:52:32,040
Why greenhouse gas emissions inventory.

2636
03:52:32,040 --> 03:52:35,040
This originally appeared on the information calendar for November 30.

2637
03:52:36,040 --> 03:52:40,040
And there was a request that we calendar this for presentation.

2638
03:52:40,040 --> 03:52:42,040
And so.

2639
03:52:42,040 --> 03:52:45,040
Mr. Klein.

2640
03:52:45,040 --> 03:52:48,040
We'll stop you getting a presentation on the side of.

2641
03:52:48,040 --> 03:52:49,040
We will.

2642
03:52:49,040 --> 03:52:50,040
Thank you.

2643
03:52:50,040 --> 03:52:51,040
Excellent.

2644
03:52:51,040 --> 03:52:52,040
Thank you.

2645
03:52:52,040 --> 03:52:53,040
Yeah.

2646
03:52:53,040 --> 03:52:54,040
We appreciate this opportunity.

2647
03:52:54,040 --> 03:52:55,040
Present.

2648
03:52:55,040 --> 03:52:56,040
I'm in 2019 greenhouse gas inventory.

2649
03:52:56,040 --> 03:52:58,040
Presenting for staff will be building remain.

2650
03:52:58,040 --> 03:53:01,040
The manager of the Office of Energy and Sustainable Development.

2651
03:53:01,040 --> 03:53:02,040
And.

2652
03:53:03,040 --> 03:53:04,040
And.

2653
03:53:04,040 --> 03:53:05,040
Thank you.

2654
03:53:05,040 --> 03:53:06,040
Thank you.

2655
03:53:06,040 --> 03:53:07,040
Thank you.

2656
03:53:07,040 --> 03:53:08,040
Thank you so much for the opportunity to present.

2657
03:53:08,040 --> 03:53:10,040
On a climate action progress.

2658
03:53:10,040 --> 03:53:12,040
And I'm joined tonight by my colleague.

2659
03:53:12,040 --> 03:53:14,040
And then Reagan.

2660
03:53:14,040 --> 03:53:17,040
And who sustainability program coordinator.

2661
03:53:17,040 --> 03:53:19,040
And he's going to present.

2662
03:53:19,040 --> 03:53:22,040
The 2021 climate action plan reports.

2663
03:53:22,040 --> 03:53:27,040
With the 2019 greenhouse gas emissions inventory.

2664
03:53:27,040 --> 03:53:29,040
So this is the most recent data.

2665
03:53:29,040 --> 03:53:30,040
Available.

2666
03:53:30,040 --> 03:53:31,040
So as far as.

2667
03:53:31,040 --> 03:53:33,040
In addition to managing.

2668
03:53:33,040 --> 03:53:36,040
The data is well managing with the commission.

2669
03:53:36,040 --> 03:53:39,040
State and ordinance and it spends a lot of his time.

2670
03:53:39,040 --> 03:53:42,040
Collecting and analyzing.

2671
03:53:42,040 --> 03:53:44,040
Validating and interpreting.

2672
03:53:44,040 --> 03:53:47,040
Data from a variety of sources to measure.

2673
03:53:47,040 --> 03:53:50,040
Work with emissions reductions.

2674
03:53:50,040 --> 03:53:52,040
This work is a team effort.

2675
03:53:52,040 --> 03:53:56,040
And I want to acknowledge the excellent staff and the office of energy.

2676
03:53:56,040 --> 03:54:07,040
Sustainable Development as well as the dedication and collaboration of our hardworking staff colleagues throughout the city.

2677
03:54:07,040 --> 03:54:11,040
Including those in building safety, ladies, cleaning transportation.

2678
03:54:11,040 --> 03:54:14,040
Zero waste housing and many others.

2679
03:54:14,040 --> 03:54:16,040
So now I want to turn it over to.

2680
03:54:16,040 --> 03:54:20,040
And then to report on our 2019 inventory.

2681
03:54:20,040 --> 03:54:25,040
And after that, I know it's late, but I'll share a little bit more about our climate action.

2682
03:54:25,040 --> 03:54:28,040
If there's interest.

2683
03:54:28,040 --> 03:54:29,040
Thank you, Amon.

2684
03:54:29,040 --> 03:54:32,040
I don't know how to turn my screen for the presentation.

2685
03:54:32,040 --> 03:54:41,040
One second.

2686
03:54:41,040 --> 03:54:43,040
Can we count on everyone to the screen?

2687
03:54:43,040 --> 03:54:44,040
Yes.

2688
03:54:44,040 --> 03:54:45,040
Okay.

2689
03:54:45,040 --> 03:54:47,040
I'm good evening.

2690
03:54:47,040 --> 03:54:48,040
May I count on?

2691
03:54:48,040 --> 03:54:49,040
May I count on?

2692
03:54:49,040 --> 03:54:50,040
May I count on?

2693
03:54:50,040 --> 03:54:52,040
May I count on?

2694
03:54:52,040 --> 03:54:53,040
May I count on?

2695
03:54:53,040 --> 03:54:55,040
May I count on?

2696
03:54:55,040 --> 03:54:56,040
I don't even know.

2697
03:54:56,040 --> 03:54:59,040
I need to count, I know.

2698
03:54:59,040 --> 03:55:01,040
I don't even know.

2699
03:55:07,040 --> 03:55:11,040
And then I'm going to measure our expense and that's going to be a result.

2700
03:55:11,040 --> 03:55:13,040
I don't say that.

2701
03:55:13,040 --> 03:55:16,040
I know that.

2702
03:55:16,040 --> 03:55:20,040
So, what you see on the screen here shows by the screen has gotten the emissions over time.

2703
03:55:20,040 --> 03:55:24,600
This resulted in a 23% decrease in a citywide electricity emissions.

2704
03:55:24,600 --> 03:55:27,800
This drop in electricity emissions is seen as a one-handed bet.

2705
03:55:27,800 --> 03:55:34,600
The transportation sector also saw reduction in emissions in 2019, increasing 5% for 2018 levels.

2706
03:55:34,600 --> 03:55:41,000
So, these trends talk part of the story with a quantitative lens, but we also need to address

2707
03:55:41,000 --> 03:55:45,240
the equity and qualitative impacts on our trends and in our metrics, we're working to give

2708
03:55:45,240 --> 03:55:50,840
this and we're more about this and the idea of having a equity fund pilot, I'll be discussed later.

2709
03:55:52,200 --> 03:55:57,720
So, this slide shows the breakdown of our 2019 greenhouse gas emissions with the total of

2710
03:55:57,720 --> 03:56:04,200
540,000, 569 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent.

2711
03:56:04,600 --> 03:56:07,800
The inventory does not include a national allowable or UC Berkeley.

2712
03:56:08,440 --> 03:56:13,480
In some of the similar to previous years, the transportation sector account for the bulk of our emissions

2713
03:56:13,480 --> 03:56:17,480
around 60% and buildings accounting for 36%.

2714
03:56:18,440 --> 03:56:23,720
We're building electricity only account for about 5% of our total citywide emissions.

2715
03:56:23,720 --> 03:56:27,080
National gas continues to be a majority of our building sector emissions.

2716
03:56:29,640 --> 03:56:35,160
One kind of new thing for 2019 inventories that we now have access to new data source to calculate

2717
03:56:35,160 --> 03:56:40,760
at a semi-wide transportation sector emissions. In 2019 is the first year we're able to use this data.

2718
03:56:41,640 --> 03:56:46,120
It's now able to obtain year-old miles travel, the estimated to attack

2719
03:56:46,120 --> 03:56:51,800
high-rooted and anonymized location history data for longness to track transportation emissions

2720
03:56:51,800 --> 03:56:57,400
at a significant level of detail, and it's also reactive to changes to annual community patterns,

2721
03:56:57,400 --> 03:57:03,240
for significant events like the COVID-19 pandemic. So, this data breaks down miles travel through

2722
03:57:04,280 --> 03:57:09,240
automotive and various sustainable modes of transportation such as cycling, walking,

2723
03:57:11,480 --> 03:57:14,920
and public transit, which we had difficulty at gaining consistent data in the past.

2724
03:57:15,800 --> 03:57:20,760
And so sustainable trips and we still said there's no ecological, but it's also what you can

2725
03:57:20,760 --> 03:57:27,080
expand that in the future. And in 2019, 16% of our total miles travel in Berkeley

2726
03:57:27,080 --> 03:57:32,760
worked through sustainable loads of transportation. And this was a, this is 2% higher than in 2018,

2727
03:57:32,760 --> 03:57:38,760
so we did increase our miles through sustainable loads. And then now we're trying to back over the

2728
03:57:39,400 --> 03:57:49,000
rest of the presentation. Thanks so much, Anna. And, you know, while we've been making

2729
03:57:49,000 --> 03:57:57,720
staying progress, we acknowledge that we need to do more. In general, we track our missions

2730
03:57:59,080 --> 03:58:04,440
and an annual basis, and that's one way to measure our progress, but it doesn't tell the whole story.

2731
03:58:05,000 --> 03:58:10,840
We're also looking to track progress on the actions that we're taking to make sure that they're

2732
03:58:10,840 --> 03:58:17,080
benefiting everyone and that they're being effective. And this is important because, you know,

2733
03:58:17,080 --> 03:58:23,080
that community has been most disadvantaged by inequitable and racist policies or those that are

2734
03:58:23,080 --> 03:58:31,320
now being impacted by the impacts, most of the impact of climate change. So, given transportation and

2735
03:58:31,320 --> 03:58:38,360
building are the largest sources of emissions, we've been working for the past few years on two plans,

2736
03:58:38,360 --> 03:58:42,760
but they'll be existing, the Berkeley existing, the organization's electrification strategy

2737
03:58:42,760 --> 03:58:49,880
that you adopted in November, this last November, and the electric mobility roadmap that you adopted

2738
03:58:49,880 --> 03:58:57,560
in July of 2020. These two plans provide strategies and actions for equitable emissions reductions

2739
03:58:57,560 --> 03:59:03,880
and developing climate resilience in the community. So, these were both the year planning efforts

2740
03:59:03,880 --> 03:59:11,320
that combined technical expertise as well as feedback from commissions and a lot of work with equity

2741
03:59:11,320 --> 03:59:17,240
partners in the community. So, the strategies they provide strategies, policies, and programs needed

2742
03:59:17,240 --> 03:59:27,880
to equitably transition, hopefully to a de-carbonized future in both buildings and transportation.

2743
03:59:27,880 --> 03:59:34,520
So, moving forward, we plan to track implementation of these plans by looking at performance measures.

2744
03:59:34,520 --> 03:59:41,080
So, in the next year, we want to start developing the best ways to track that progress. So,

2745
03:59:41,080 --> 03:59:47,240
for example, what measure of progress on electric mobility is the electric vehicle adoption rate.

2746
03:59:47,240 --> 03:59:54,120
So, next slide. So, this is data from D&D, and it provides annual vehicle registration in Berkeley based

2747
03:59:54,120 --> 03:59:59,240
on Zidco. So, it doesn't map exactly to Berkeley, but extends a little bit beyond the borders.

2748
04:00:00,000 --> 04:00:07,920
So what we can see is of 2020, 6.3% of vehicles registered in Berkeley, electric. And that's

2749
04:00:07,920 --> 04:00:17,800
about, that's all for twice the California average. And this data, combined with the 16% of sustainable

2750
04:00:17,800 --> 04:00:24,400
load presented by Yemen, tells us that what we need to do to continue to reduce transportation

2751
04:00:24,400 --> 04:00:29,240
emissions. So for building emissions, we can look at the next slide.

2752
04:00:30,000 --> 04:00:36,800
We don't need to increase energy efficiency, which is the level of improvements, and elective.

2753
04:00:36,800 --> 04:00:44,600
So change our existing gas appliances and heating systems for electric heat pumps.

2754
04:00:44,600 --> 04:00:52,000
So we can get data from the dairy, regional energy network, relay programs. That tells us

2755
04:00:52,000 --> 04:00:59,800
what kind of work is being done in Berkeley. And what we can see is over the past since 2019.

2756
04:00:59,800 --> 04:01:06,600
Over the past three years, we've had over 692 measures completed in Berkeley homes.

2757
04:01:06,600 --> 04:01:14,800
That have resulted in a quarter million dollars in rebate funds coming into the community and energy savings,

2758
04:01:14,800 --> 04:01:22,800
needing bill savings for the community and annual emissions savings of 90 metric tons, which is the equivalent

2759
04:01:22,800 --> 04:01:28,800
of the annual emissions from 20 gasoline powered cars on the road.

2760
04:01:28,800 --> 04:01:34,800
So if we want to look at multi-family buildings, they run also provide rebate to programs.

2761
04:01:34,800 --> 04:01:42,800
We can see steady increase in buildings receiving these energy retrofits, beginning in 2014,

2762
04:01:42,800 --> 04:01:48,800
and there was a really steep acceleration in the beginning of the program. And we're hoping to increase

2763
04:01:48,800 --> 04:01:52,800
participation in the program, especially that some of our climate equity funding.

2764
04:01:52,800 --> 04:02:01,800
But we've retrofitted over a thousand units and brought in three quarters of a million dollars in rebates

2765
04:02:01,800 --> 04:02:11,800
with associated energy, cost savings, and the emissions reduction equivalent to the annual emissions of 50 gasoline powered cars.

2766
04:02:12,800 --> 04:02:19,800
So these are two ways we can measure progress in the built environment.

2767
04:02:19,800 --> 04:02:29,800
And another part of the BADES report, the electrification strategy, involved recommendations around private programs,

2768
04:02:29,800 --> 04:02:46,800
and fortunately council established a $600,000 climate equity fund, which is providing decarbonization funds for the community.

2769
04:02:46,800 --> 04:02:56,800
And so this is going to be a great opportunity for us to develop metrics and case studies to really look at successful strategies for equitable decarbonization.

2770
04:02:56,800 --> 04:03:04,800
So really the goal of the equity fund is to provide climate and resilience benefits to low-income communities,

2771
04:03:04,800 --> 04:03:12,800
and understanding that they're the ones that don't necessarily contribute most of the greenhouse gases, gas emissions,

2772
04:03:12,800 --> 04:03:16,800
but they're hit first and worse by the impacts of climate change.

2773
04:03:16,800 --> 04:03:28,800
So we're in the process of evaluating proposals and hoping to bring a recommendation to council and spring.

2774
04:03:28,800 --> 04:03:31,800
So next slide.

2775
04:03:31,800 --> 04:03:41,800
So in terms of what actions are coming up, you know, the need priorities that we're going to be working on is merely administering this equity climate equity fund.

2776
04:03:41,800 --> 04:03:51,800
Just going to provide the opportunity to do pilot programs that will be very instructive for us and for other communities.

2777
04:03:51,800 --> 04:03:59,800
We've got upcoming actions will require resources in staffing and support for community partners.

2778
04:03:59,800 --> 04:04:04,800
He wanted to be able to co-create these solutions with our community partners.

2779
04:04:05,800 --> 04:04:15,800
So additional climate actions will be in the building electrification, the area that include developing building performance requirements for the building.

2780
04:04:15,800 --> 04:04:24,800
In addition, saving ordinance that requires double require some kind of upgrade at the time of sale and for large buildings.

2781
04:04:24,800 --> 04:04:29,800
And this is based on the most recent amendments to the base of ordinance.

2782
04:04:29,800 --> 04:04:41,800
I'll provide that provide council last year and increasing e-turning infrastructure and micro mobility opportunities on the transportation side.

2783
04:04:41,800 --> 04:04:42,800
Next slide.

2784
04:04:42,800 --> 04:04:52,800
So this is just a reminder of the equity guard rails that inform or work and these were developed.

2785
04:04:52,800 --> 04:05:02,800
Part of the electrification strategy that these reports and we've been using them to inform.

2786
04:05:02,800 --> 04:05:17,800
The artwork since then, including the climate equity pilot programs and the ideas to really maximize access to benefits from electrification.

2787
04:05:17,800 --> 04:05:19,800
It's mobility, health and safety.

2788
04:05:19,800 --> 04:05:35,800
Making sure that people that we get the economic benefits which means we want to bring funds into the community to support high road jobs and leverage all existing available financing and incentive funds.

2789
04:05:35,800 --> 04:05:42,800
We want to make sure that whatever programs we do are easy for all members of the community to participate in.

2790
04:05:42,800 --> 04:05:51,800
There have been a lot of studies showing how the traditional mandate programs really benefit affluent white homeowners because they're not easy to access.

2791
04:05:51,800 --> 04:06:04,800
And then we also want to make sure that whatever programs we do don't exacerbate displacement so we want to make sure that there are tenant protections and anti displacement policies.

2792
04:06:04,800 --> 04:06:18,800
So that's for work, you know, a little bit of what we've done, a little bit of where we're going and I really just want to take a moment to express our gratitude to the support and leadership of this council.

2793
04:06:18,800 --> 04:06:30,800
And to really thank you and the Berkeley community for the steadfast commitment to climate action and in the inspiration that you've provided both locally and abroad.

2794
04:06:30,800 --> 04:06:32,800
Thank you.

2795
04:06:32,800 --> 04:06:42,800
Thank you so very much for the excellent presentation and report and just want to open on this item and say that.

2796
04:06:42,800 --> 04:06:50,800
You know, while we are making progress, we have sets of ambitious goals, I think has noted in the staff report.

2797
04:06:51,800 --> 04:07:05,800
We actually adopted the the sort of race to zero policy to achieve zero emissions by 2045 and we said an interim goal.

2798
04:07:05,800 --> 04:07:21,800
We're using our version of 50% global emissions by the year 2030 and so you know while we are definitely making progress as evidence by the graphs and I'll just note that I think emissions will probably go down further since we did adopt.

2799
04:07:22,800 --> 04:07:24,800
We opted out all of our.

2800
04:07:25,800 --> 04:07:33,800
Our customers and Berkeley to renewable and hundred so when we will that out this year, we are going to see the more mission reductions.

2801
04:07:33,800 --> 04:07:44,800
And that was actually one of the specific recommendations on just from the energy commission but also something that's been noted in other previous inventories that we adopted that.

2802
04:07:45,800 --> 04:08:00,800
That goal of opting up over accounts we will see even more more mission reductions that on top of the electrification policy that that we've adopted in the work that we're going to be doing in terms of the electrification.

2803
04:08:00,800 --> 04:08:04,800
Existing building certain incentives that we've never talking about.

2804
04:08:04,800 --> 04:08:13,800
I think we'll make a big they get back and continue to reduce building emissions but once again, you know building emissions.

2805
04:08:13,800 --> 04:08:18,800
So we're 36% of the the green asset inventory.

2806
04:08:18,800 --> 04:08:28,800
Transportation is so counts for 60% which is why I think literally what we just talked about around how we how we expand electric vehicle infrastructure.

2807
04:08:28,800 --> 04:08:33,800
How we are transitioning people off of.

2808
04:08:34,800 --> 04:08:37,800
You know single combustion gas power vehicles.

2809
04:08:38,800 --> 04:08:46,800
Either through you know transitioning to electric micro mobility biking walking, you know expanding investments in public transportation.

2810
04:08:46,800 --> 04:08:51,800
And then reducing the Oklahoma's travel through more compact urban.

2811
04:08:51,800 --> 04:08:53,800
Footprint.

2812
04:08:53,800 --> 04:08:57,800
I think all that's going to make a difference and I think that's the underpinning of our climate action plan.

2813
04:08:58,800 --> 04:09:07,800
So I appreciate all the work that's been done and I particularly want to acknowledge the attachment one which highlights some of the.

2814
04:09:07,800 --> 04:09:12,800
Upgrades that we've made to public facilities, a lot of it through measure T one.

2815
04:09:12,800 --> 04:09:14,800
To.

2816
04:09:14,800 --> 04:09:19,800
Either transition all electric or reduce reduce emissions.

2817
04:09:19,800 --> 04:09:26,800
And I know that that's one sort of key some policy girl as we implement measure T one projects.

2818
04:09:26,800 --> 04:09:33,800
That we you know can change a look at how we can reduce the carbon footprint of our of our city facilities.

2819
04:09:33,800 --> 04:09:39,800
So I you know 26% decrease from.

2820
04:09:39,800 --> 04:09:41,800
From our 2000 baselines great.

2821
04:09:41,800 --> 04:09:50,800
We need to obviously still do even more if we're going to achieve our goals that we've set out climate action plan and also.

2822
04:09:50,800 --> 04:09:55,800
If we're going to address this emergency.

2823
04:09:56,800 --> 04:09:58,800
As you know.

2824
04:09:58,800 --> 04:10:02,800
Clive it is worsening we're seeing the catastrophic impacts of climate change.

2825
04:10:02,800 --> 04:10:05,800
It's impacting us through.

2826
04:10:05,800 --> 04:10:09,800
While our threats were sitting air quality sea level rise.

2827
04:10:09,800 --> 04:10:14,800
And so you know while the focus whether we have a focus on reducing emissions.

2828
04:10:14,800 --> 04:10:17,800
We also need to you know.

2829
04:10:17,800 --> 04:10:22,800
Focus on how we are adapting to the impacts of climate change.

2830
04:10:22,800 --> 04:10:30,800
And I know that that that's also focus of your division as well as fire department and many other departments in the city of Berkeley.

2831
04:10:30,800 --> 04:10:32,800
So thank you so much.

2832
04:10:32,800 --> 04:10:38,800
You know it's what acknowledge the work that's been done the very exciting initiatives with equity lens.

2833
04:10:38,800 --> 04:10:40,800
But just reiterate that we have.

2834
04:10:40,800 --> 04:10:45,800
There's a lot more that we have to do and we frankly we're going to have to be bolder.

2835
04:10:45,800 --> 04:10:47,800
And even more aggressive.

2836
04:10:47,800 --> 04:10:52,800
With our strategies if we're going to reach these these goals that we set.

2837
04:10:52,800 --> 04:10:55,800
And if we're actually if we're going to be able to help.

2838
04:10:55,800 --> 04:11:00,800
Medigate the very catastrophic impacts that we're already seeing from our climate emergency.

2839
04:11:00,800 --> 04:11:01,800
So thank you.

2840
04:11:01,800 --> 04:11:04,800
We'll go to Councilor Hong.

2841
04:11:04,800 --> 04:11:10,800
Thank you very much and I want to thank staff on the one who pulled us from information.

2842
04:11:10,800 --> 04:11:16,800
And I thought was really important for us to get this and report form.

2843
04:11:16,800 --> 04:11:23,800
Um, partly because I think we we do have positive trends and it's good to acknowledge that.

2844
04:11:23,800 --> 04:11:31,800
But also because I think these reports give us a really clear map of what we need to do going forward.

2845
04:11:31,800 --> 04:11:34,800
And I think it's important for us to be reminded of that.

2846
04:11:34,800 --> 04:11:46,800
Every time we have data in front of us and the opportunity to review our progress in meeting our climate action goals.

2847
04:11:46,800 --> 04:11:50,800
I just wanted to confirm the numbers that you're showing here in the trends.

2848
04:11:50,800 --> 04:11:54,800
These are absolute right they're not her capital.

2849
04:11:54,800 --> 04:12:02,800
So I want to remind everybody that we had a 10% increase in population in Berkeley.

2850
04:12:02,800 --> 04:12:12,800
Between 2010 and 2020 and for Berkeley that that's a lot that's about 11,000 more people living here.

2851
04:12:12,800 --> 04:12:23,800
So the reductions if they were done on a per capita basis would be actually more substantial than what we're seeing in this report.

2852
04:12:23,800 --> 04:12:27,800
Now that doesn't mean that I think we should become a place in any way.

2853
04:12:27,800 --> 04:12:39,800
But I do think it's important for us to acknowledge that we've achieved these results at the same time that the number of people in Berkeley has grown quite substantially.

2854
04:12:39,800 --> 04:12:53,800
And I think we should be proud of that extra success that is embedded in the numbers that we have before us.

2855
04:12:53,800 --> 04:13:15,800
I think there's also an interesting information for us to draw on a variety of topics but I think more than anything this just helps me re center on on the focus of the work before us.

2856
04:13:15,800 --> 04:13:27,800
EBCE which is something that I had worked on as an advocate before I was on council and was really excited to be part of the launch of that.

2857
04:13:27,800 --> 04:13:38,800
Once I was on council continue to be excited about about the opportunities that was one big move but we were able to kind of move a lever.

2858
04:13:38,800 --> 04:13:58,800
And once whole over and reduce GHG emissions took a lot of work to get there but kind of overnight and we're going to have another overnight event with EBCE when when everyone gets opted up to the greenest 100% renewable energy mix.

2859
04:13:58,800 --> 04:14:15,800
But I think it's been elusive for us to find that sort of one big thing that can make a huge impact on our our transportation related emissions and I challenge all of us.

2860
04:14:15,800 --> 04:14:28,800
It may be that this is an area where we have to do 20 or 30 things including things like bring in electric vehicle charging infrastructure there might not be that big moment.

2861
04:14:28,800 --> 04:14:42,800
But obviously that is where we need to take small and large strides if we're going to reach our goals and then on the electrification as well I really think that.

2862
04:14:42,800 --> 04:14:59,800
I'm interested in seeing how we can innovate really push and support the people of Berkeley educate them provide necessary economic support for people who need it and really try.

2863
04:15:00,000 --> 04:15:15,000
Incentivize people and encourage them to go all electric. So thank you very much for your work, your ongoing work, and I look forward to continuing to partner with you.

2864
04:15:15,000 --> 04:15:18,000
Thank you. Vice Mayor Wilson.

2865
04:15:18,000 --> 04:15:29,000
Yeah, thank you very much Mr. Mayor. I want to thank Directors for main and client and their whole team, including Sarah and then Rebecca and Marna and I'm sure I'm forgetting so I'm sorry if that's true.

2866
04:15:29,000 --> 04:15:34,000
I'm your work on climate issues in Berkeley and regionally, much more importantly than valuable.

2867
04:15:34,000 --> 04:15:40,000
I also I think council member Han and the agenda committee for elevating the visibility of this issue.

2868
04:15:40,000 --> 04:15:53,000
I think it's really critical that in a time when our public have identified climate as one of the top priorities that we continue to make available to the data about what we're doing and how we're doing.

2869
04:15:53,000 --> 04:15:56,000
So thank you, thank you for bringing this forward.

2870
04:15:56,000 --> 04:16:02,000
We also have all this work going on, municipal buildings, as I think the mayor mentioned.

2871
04:16:02,000 --> 04:16:13,000
And I think that's important for two reasons. It may not be a big share of what the jishis are that are being produced in Berkeley, but it's very important that we leave the way.

2872
04:16:13,000 --> 04:16:20,000
We can show that buildings can and must be carbonized. I think our leadership is just so critical here.

2873
04:16:20,000 --> 04:16:26,000
And we have to keep advertising how we're doing I get a lot of questions every single week really.

2874
04:16:26,000 --> 04:16:35,000
What are you done in your buildings and I'm able to use this report to say here are the things we're doing so I really complete really appreciate that.

2875
04:16:35,000 --> 04:16:47,000
And of course, with respect to our mission reductions, I'm pleased to see reductions of 4% since 2018, but I am half a Sam really concerned with our overall progress.

2876
04:16:47,000 --> 04:16:53,000
Given scientific realities, we designed our climate action plan.

2877
04:16:53,000 --> 04:17:00,000
We were more optimistic, I think, about the trajectory of global and local emissions than we can possibly be now.

2878
04:17:00,000 --> 04:17:09,000
And I think we were more optimistic about the willingness of international state and federal agencies and entities to act that I think we can be now.

2879
04:17:09,000 --> 04:17:13,000
So we have to be honest with ourselves, we don't live in that area anymore.

2880
04:17:14,000 --> 04:17:19,000
We can't also, we can't think on the add that of some technological fix.

2881
04:17:19,000 --> 04:17:31,000
I think there's a kind of a, and I'm not, this is not the staff report, but I think in the community there's sort of a wishful thinking that there will be a silver bullet that will find something that will solve this entire problem.

2882
04:17:31,000 --> 04:17:37,000
And we just, there's not going to be a sequestration technique that solves this problem for us.

2883
04:17:37,000 --> 04:17:40,000
We have to cut these emissions ourselves.

2884
04:17:40,000 --> 04:17:50,000
And I think our step is in a great job getting a limited resources and it's now incumbent on us, the council to do what we can to change course and seek more aggressive targets.

2885
04:17:50,000 --> 04:17:54,000
We've blown past all the targets as a species.

2886
04:17:54,000 --> 04:17:58,000
We've blown past 150 parts per million of GHC gases.

2887
04:17:58,000 --> 04:18:13,000
We've passed 400 and part per million in 2013, 418 last year and we're well on the path to 500 parts per million, which that alone will result in a two to five degree increase in temperatures.

2888
04:18:13,000 --> 04:18:23,000
So we have seen this much come back side in millions of years and you know I also think it's important to recognize that we are a wealthy part of the world.

2889
04:18:23,000 --> 04:18:26,000
I'm going to have to do even more than our share.

2890
04:18:26,000 --> 04:18:33,000
If we want to say below these numbers we need to really rethink our target.

2891
04:18:33,000 --> 04:18:45,000
I'm asking for two things really, one that we expand our existing climate staffing this year to continue investing in equitable climate mitigation measures.

2892
04:18:45,000 --> 04:18:56,000
And we also need to start exploring other areas of our emissions impact such as consumption and I've spoken a lot with director remain about this very hard to do these consumption studies.

2893
04:18:56,000 --> 04:19:13,000
But when we see that chart and we say, experts at are from buildings, the 60% transportation, the 60% that doesn't reflect the 162% higher amount of GHC production from the things we buy that we then throw out in blame on China.

2894
04:19:13,000 --> 04:19:24,000
We're consuming they're getting tagged with the emissions but we're causing this so I think we have to really start thinking more about because we import and what we eat and how we travel.

2895
04:19:24,000 --> 04:19:40,000
I do have a draft of the ordinance right now at fights that would embrace this sort of precautionary principle that we've already adopted the council set emergency greenhouse gas limits for more significant target reductions.

2896
04:19:40,000 --> 04:19:53,000
From the 2030 2000 sorry you're baseline and there would update the goals of the plan with legislative and budgetary timelines as appropriate.

2897
04:19:53,000 --> 04:20:08,000
I think we need to really say how are we going to get there and we have all these techniques happening and we're doing all these things but how do those translate into reductions each of these different approaches that we're taking.

2898
04:20:08,000 --> 04:20:24,000
And you know whether we continue on the path that we already adopted of 60% reduction from 2018 in 2030 or call for more dramatic and I think necessary decline, which I'd like to see as net zero and 2030.

2899
04:20:24,000 --> 04:20:32,000
We still have to tackle this idea of making sure we tie our budgetary and administrative resources to this goal.

2900
04:20:32,000 --> 04:20:37,000
We have to really think seriously what do we need to get this done.

2901
04:20:37,000 --> 04:20:49,000
I want to ask really a couple of questions on my notice that you're interested in transitioning the annual greenhouse gas inventory to the regional agency or a state agency.

2902
04:20:49,000 --> 04:21:02,000
Do you know if those regional or state agencies do anything with consumption indices or are they they're mainly sector based like transportation buildings.

2903
04:21:02,000 --> 04:21:09,000
Yeah, mainly they're looking at energy usage data and transportation data.

2904
04:21:09,000 --> 04:21:23,000
I think the difficulty with most of the work that's been done around consumption there was an inventory done in 2014 that we provided council a few years ago in the update.

2905
04:21:23,000 --> 04:21:40,000
And that essentially took income and translated that into consumption based on assumptions that were regional so we couldn't really measure changes in behavior by Berkeley residents because it just sort of takes gross.

2906
04:21:40,000 --> 04:21:52,000
Numbers and says, you know, of money spent on food X amount is on me or X amount of money is on air travel, but it doesn't really look at individual behaviors.

2907
04:21:52,000 --> 04:21:58,000
Yeah, it's an econometric model that assumes a certain household income is going to translate into a certain consumption.

2908
04:21:58,000 --> 04:22:07,000
So let's say we did a fantastic job and we ate less meat and we consume less junk and we bought less fewer things that came in boxes and plastic.

2909
04:22:07,000 --> 04:22:10,000
We wouldn't know that through the econometric model.

2910
04:22:10,000 --> 04:22:16,000
I know there's some other models where people are looking at things like what's in our waste stream.

2911
04:22:16,000 --> 04:22:24,000
What's in our sewage frankly and you know, what are some of the other, you know, ways we can measure that consumption.

2912
04:22:24,000 --> 04:22:34,000
But it's a really hard night. I get that. I'm just wondering if you've seen any other regional or state models that include that.

2913
04:22:34,000 --> 04:22:36,000
I haven't seen any models.

2914
04:22:36,000 --> 04:22:41,000
Yeah, I don't think a bottle can. I think it's sort of the nature of a model.

2915
04:22:41,000 --> 04:22:50,000
I think this is one where we have to really talk to the public about that 2014 inventory and talk about consumption as a prime problem.

2916
04:22:50,000 --> 04:22:52,000
We have to just be really honest with people.

2917
04:22:52,000 --> 04:22:57,000
You know, be great on an electric vehicle, but it'd be even better if you stopped.

2918
04:22:57,000 --> 04:23:00,000
I think that's a tough message for Americans.

2919
04:23:00,000 --> 04:23:03,000
You know, we're very addicted to shopping and consumption.

2920
04:23:03,000 --> 04:23:06,000
But that's, that's the truth of it really.

2921
04:23:06,000 --> 04:23:16,000
And my other question is about, and I'm really going to have to express this except to use transportation as an example where we're down 5% in emissions and transportation.

2922
04:23:16,000 --> 04:23:21,000
But we haven't really been able to disaggregate what did that.

2923
04:23:21,000 --> 04:23:28,000
You know, which of these techniques are having this impact? Is that right?

2924
04:23:28,000 --> 04:23:34,000
Yeah, we don't have a causal connection between X produces 5.

2925
04:23:34,000 --> 04:23:37,000
Is there any way to do more of that?

2926
04:23:37,000 --> 04:23:39,000
Either regionally or, you know what I'm saying.

2927
04:23:39,000 --> 04:23:42,000
We're going to put my name into a lot of different efforts.

2928
04:23:42,000 --> 04:23:46,000
How do we judge their relative value and registration?

2929
04:23:46,000 --> 04:23:50,000
And I think that's where the performance metrics come in.

2930
04:23:50,000 --> 04:24:03,000
And so, you know, like the data that we just presented today, percentage of sustainable trips or percentage of EV adoption.

2931
04:24:03,000 --> 04:24:06,000
Those are sort of proxies that we can look at.

2932
04:24:06,000 --> 04:24:16,000
That we can create performance targets and measure our progress towards those targets on things that we know are going to get us reductions in transportation.

2933
04:24:16,000 --> 04:24:20,000
And you translate those targets into GHGs.

2934
04:24:20,000 --> 04:24:26,000
I do have that great statistic about the number of vehicles, gas vehicles that we'll be driven with.

2935
04:24:26,000 --> 04:24:29,000
We've avoided driving by what we've been doing on buildings.

2936
04:24:29,000 --> 04:24:33,000
I feel like that's what it's kind of needed is to know for each of these techniques.

2937
04:24:33,000 --> 04:24:36,000
Kind of, yeah, we have this much more EV adoption.

2938
04:24:36,000 --> 04:24:39,000
This goes to what Councillor Tapham has asked me before.

2939
04:24:39,000 --> 04:24:42,000
How much is that getting us in GHG reductions?

2940
04:24:43,000 --> 04:24:52,000
I'm just going to, you don't have to answer this right now, but I'm hoping that when we do this, we are looking at outputs, not just inputs that we're going to have some kind of way of measuring.

2941
04:24:52,000 --> 04:24:58,000
We've done these things and we'll do a great job on these things, but what did it mean in the end.

2942
04:24:58,000 --> 04:25:03,000
And I hope it's not just huge sector, but by type of thing.

2943
04:25:03,000 --> 04:25:11,000
If that makes, I don't know if that question made sense, but, you know, that's what I'm interested in because we have to know where to put our resources and everything is equally valuable.

2944
04:25:11,000 --> 04:25:13,000
And things are going to have more effect than others.

2945
04:25:13,000 --> 04:25:16,000
So, thank you, thank you again so much.

2946
04:25:16,000 --> 04:25:20,000
I really appreciate all the work that you've done and this is an excellent presentation.

2947
04:25:20,000 --> 04:25:24,000
That'll be in the public record and really appreciate your ongoing.

2948
04:25:24,000 --> 04:25:25,000
Thank you.

2949
04:25:25,000 --> 04:25:27,000
Thank you, Councillor Tapham.

2950
04:25:27,000 --> 04:25:28,000
Thank you.

2951
04:25:28,000 --> 04:25:31,000
Thank you, Director Klein, and it's for me.

2952
04:25:31,000 --> 04:25:37,000
My unit cut out for the presentation, so I apologize if I, if I missed this.

2953
04:25:37,000 --> 04:25:47,000
Could you elaborate on on the subsequent taking to increase my probability.

2954
04:25:47,000 --> 04:25:58,000
Well, in addition to the Biden pedestrian improvements, some of the climate equity funding was dedicated towards improving my probability access.

2955
04:25:58,000 --> 04:26:06,000
So, you know, that's one of the things that's a little bit harder to measure and that we're hoping that we can measure that as we move with the climate.

2956
04:26:06,000 --> 04:26:16,000
With the climate equity pilot programs, we don't only want to see how those program works programs work, but we want to be able to come up with some equity metrics.

2957
04:26:16,000 --> 04:26:26,000
And things like my formability is something that is a measure that is equity based.

2958
04:26:26,000 --> 04:26:34,000
I think it's something that everybody can get access to is opposed to an electric vehicle, which some people might have barriers to getting.

2959
04:26:35,000 --> 04:26:36,000
Thank you very much.

2960
04:26:36,000 --> 04:26:41,000
You have related to that couple things and appreciate Councillor Tapham bringing this up.

2961
04:26:41,000 --> 04:26:46,000
You know, we, I think we authorized several months ago.

2962
04:26:46,000 --> 04:26:55,000
A program to issue permits for scooter and e-bike companies.

2963
04:26:55,000 --> 04:27:02,000
And I don't know if anyone's applied or because we're going to be coming to us at some point, but my hope is that there will be.

2964
04:27:02,000 --> 04:27:07,000
Or more companies that will be advancing.

2965
04:27:07,000 --> 04:27:10,000
Electric micro mobility in a public right way.

2966
04:27:10,000 --> 04:27:15,000
I think another issue is something I talked to MTC about, and also.

2967
04:27:15,000 --> 04:27:22,000
When I took a tour of the web, our bikes show them down some Pablo and encourage everyone to do that.

2968
04:27:22,000 --> 04:27:27,000
Apparently Oakland is is created a program where they have kind of a.

2969
04:27:27,000 --> 04:27:32,000
A lending library for electric bikes and other.

2970
04:27:32,000 --> 04:27:34,000
Micro mobility.

2971
04:27:34,000 --> 04:27:41,000
And that's something that I think the equity funds could be a good, a good investment partner with.

2972
04:27:41,000 --> 04:27:43,000
With the company.

2973
04:27:43,000 --> 04:27:50,000
That that provides electric vehicles, electric bikes to have.

2974
04:27:50,000 --> 04:27:52,000
Access through some city program.

2975
04:27:52,000 --> 04:27:57,000
For youth or for low-income residents to be able to get access to electric bikes.

2976
04:27:57,000 --> 04:28:04,000
And one thing is I've talked to you to be community energy about was we had this conversation around the.

2977
04:28:04,000 --> 04:28:10,000
The charging infrastructure, but with what pull out of having electric bikes in the East Bay.

2978
04:28:10,000 --> 04:28:16,000
I think there's an opportunity for the public sector to also create a program too.

2979
04:28:16,000 --> 04:28:17,000
So.

2980
04:28:18,000 --> 04:28:19,000
I think that's a name.

2981
04:28:19,000 --> 04:28:21,000
I mean, you know, the infrastructure is important.

2982
04:28:21,000 --> 04:28:24,000
But how we create access, equitable access.

2983
04:28:24,000 --> 04:28:28,000
To my electric micro mobility, I think is important.

2984
04:28:28,000 --> 04:28:34,000
And I'm particularly interested in the model that Oakland's looking at doing and whether we can invest some of those resources.

2985
04:28:34,000 --> 04:28:35,000
To doing that.

2986
04:28:35,000 --> 04:28:39,000
Then there are probably regional grants or state grants and we can leverage as well.

2987
04:28:39,000 --> 04:28:43,000
And then I think this feeds into the whole concept of mobility hubs that.

2988
04:28:43,000 --> 04:28:52,000
I think for reason here, but that NTC is is more than prioritizing some regional dollars for which is actually locating everything at one location.

2989
04:28:52,000 --> 04:28:53,000
So.

2990
04:28:53,000 --> 04:28:56,000
Car share transit.

2991
04:28:56,000 --> 04:29:02,000
Scooters and bikes everything so that all the first and last mile connectivity options.

2992
04:29:02,000 --> 04:29:05,000
Our co-located or concentrated one particular location.

2993
04:29:05,000 --> 04:29:09,000
I think that's the kind of model that we're going to have to advance.

2994
04:29:09,000 --> 04:29:19,000
And Berkeley's a great candidate and in a great position to be able to seek and leverage some of those regional and federal dollars to be able to be a mobility hub.

2995
04:29:19,000 --> 04:29:24,000
And to really make sure that we are have a variety of options for people.

2996
04:29:24,000 --> 04:29:28,000
To kid me whether it's first or last mile trips or other types of trips.

2997
04:29:28,000 --> 04:29:29,000
So.

2998
04:29:29,000 --> 04:29:38,000
I think that's that's an area is we're sort of moving the electric mobility road map for I think there could be some opportunities to partnership with.

2999
04:29:38,000 --> 04:29:43,000
Whether it's EVCE or whether it's trying to seek out you know regional state grants.

3000
04:29:43,000 --> 04:29:48,000
So I kind of I wanted council chaplain talk about something I've been thinking a lot about actually.

3001
04:29:48,000 --> 04:29:57,000
And I think I think is an area where I think we can demonstrate some leadership and have a particular equity focus about about those types of programs.

3002
04:29:57,000 --> 04:29:59,000
Okay.

3003
04:29:59,000 --> 04:30:00,000
Thank you for.

3004
04:30:00,000 --> 04:30:15,000
We'll go now to public comment on the side of it. Any member of public, would like to speak on the side of please raise your hand. Okay, Andrea.

3005
04:30:15,000 --> 04:30:27,000
Yes, Andrea, I'm a work ETA, you tend to one. I want to also echo your excitement for things like public shared e-biking programs.

3006
04:30:27,000 --> 04:30:47,000
I'm not a big fan of lift and Uber and their ilk and the labor consequences of their choices. And so looking at public options is fantastic and I'm delighted to hear it. Also wanted to double down on the pride of in the work that our members do.

3007
04:30:47,000 --> 04:30:59,000
It's I lots of members get to see me at my job because my job is super public but I don't often get to see I'm in doing his job. It is a delight and a pleasure to see that on display.

3008
04:30:59,000 --> 04:31:08,000
You know, SNU tend to one, we'll reiterate climate is a huge priority of ours and it is because this is the work we do we understand it.

3009
04:31:09,000 --> 04:31:17,000
Not just as people who live in the world and are facing an essential climate crisis, but as people who make their whole work their whole professional life about it.

3010
04:31:18,000 --> 04:31:31,000
There was a priority for us at the bargaining table to set greenhouse gas emissions to make really ambitious goals to be real partners with the with the city in doing this.

3011
04:31:31,000 --> 04:31:43,000
We were soundly ignored and denied and silenced and we hope that that will be a trend that does not continue because we intend to continue to bring these issues forward as they are deeply important to us as workers.

3012
04:31:43,000 --> 04:32:02,000
And the one piece that we did walk away from the table winning was increased commuter benefits and I just really wanted to uplift the effort that the city workers are trying to do to be partners in improving the greenhouse gas emissions in this crucial transit and transportation sector.

3013
04:32:02,000 --> 04:32:12,000
The city continues to botch that and to not implement it. In fact, I was taxed on benefits I didn't receive in my paycheck last last day period.

3014
04:32:12,000 --> 04:32:17,000
We are six months down the road not understanding why that's not happening yet.

3015
04:32:17,000 --> 04:32:32,000
Really just want to doubly triply quadruply underscore the importance that's for us as workers as a as a as a union of labor union and organization of workers who really do believe that we can be partners with you.

3016
04:32:32,000 --> 04:32:37,000
In making some of these like essential existential changes. So thank you.

3017
04:32:37,000 --> 04:32:38,000
Thank you.

3018
04:32:38,000 --> 04:32:45,000
Okay, the clock's back and forth a clock so we can just keep track of time.

3019
04:32:45,000 --> 04:32:51,000
Thanks. Okay, we're going to Tom's there.

3020
04:32:51,000 --> 04:32:55,000
Thank you. I want to express some.

3021
04:32:56,000 --> 04:33:01,000
Joining gratitude.

3022
04:33:01,000 --> 04:33:10,000
Staff tonight for showing us that so many of you are really engaged in this issue and care very deeply about it.

3023
04:33:10,000 --> 04:33:12,000
That's so encouraging.

3024
04:33:12,000 --> 04:33:17,000
Let's let's staff in the public keep trying to raise council on this issue.

3025
04:33:18,000 --> 04:33:19,000
Council.

3026
04:33:19,000 --> 04:33:22,000
Some critiques of this thing.

3027
04:33:22,000 --> 04:33:24,000
The biggest reduction in emissions.

3028
04:33:24,000 --> 04:33:25,000
But please have a claim.

3029
04:33:25,000 --> 04:33:27,000
Is this what you BCE.

3030
04:33:27,000 --> 04:33:29,000
I'll try not to dwell on it.

3031
04:33:29,000 --> 04:33:35,000
Basically we pay EBC that less that being somebody else paid PGening.

3032
04:33:35,000 --> 04:33:44,000
Or it's the same like tristening a matter who we buy from our shifting round whether we sign up for low cost or high cost programs.

3033
04:33:44,000 --> 04:33:53,000
Has no real tight connection whatsoever to the mix of generation between green energy generation and dirty energy generation.

3034
04:33:53,000 --> 04:33:58,000
It's a legislative fiction that that was an emissions reduction or really wasn't.

3035
04:33:58,000 --> 04:34:04,000
The 18 2018 to 2019 reduction in vehicle emissions.

3036
04:34:04,000 --> 04:34:07,000
You have a large change in methodology.

3037
04:34:07,000 --> 04:34:10,000
Very sort of things are all getting to.

3038
04:34:10,000 --> 04:34:14,000
Within easily within the realm of statistical noise.

3039
04:34:14,000 --> 04:34:18,000
It's not clear anything actually changed on the ground there.

3040
04:34:18,000 --> 04:34:23,000
If this is all right, that means the Berkeley has never done anything to reduce emissions and further discussion.

3041
04:34:23,000 --> 04:34:26,000
But they can't really do anything to reduce emissions.

3042
04:34:26,000 --> 04:34:29,000
It's not within its jurisdictional powers.

3043
04:34:29,000 --> 04:34:37,000
What it can do is act aggressively to prepare as if emissions were going to be reduced as quickly as needed.

3044
04:34:37,000 --> 04:34:51,000
And that conversely will make it easier for higher jurisdictions to compel the reduction of emissions because more of society would be prepared for the difficulties that causes very different approach from where we're up to.

3045
04:34:51,000 --> 04:34:54,000
Thank you for listening.

3046
04:34:54,000 --> 04:34:59,000
We'll go next to JP Ross.

3047
04:34:59,000 --> 04:35:02,000
Hi, thanks for thanks for this item.

3048
04:35:02,000 --> 04:35:12,000
I just wanted to briefly touch on a few other programs that EBC is offering in addition to the transportation electrification program that we just talked about earlier.

3049
04:35:12,000 --> 04:35:20,000
Really glad to see the city of Berkeley has used some of our kitchen induction electrification grant funds for some of your projects.

3050
04:35:20,000 --> 04:35:35,000
We are also just about to launch an induction lending program that will be distributed throughout EBC esteratory to slow allow residents to to borrow for free induction.

3051
04:35:35,000 --> 04:35:36,000
We have a lot of information.

3052
04:35:36,000 --> 04:35:41,000
Click tops if they can plug into a wall outlet along with a pan and some recipes.

3053
04:35:41,000 --> 04:35:57,000
We'll be doing that with a nonprofit partner who we're engaged with now and we'll probably come in to you and seeing if we can use some of your libraries or other folks for distribution centers because we want to make sure that those are widely available throughout the territory.

3054
04:35:57,000 --> 04:36:03,000
We're also you're really progressing quickly now on our municipal critical facility solar and storage program.

3055
04:36:03,000 --> 04:36:13,000
I've been working with your staff on that and they're excited to put solar and storage on your critical facilities to provide critical services during power outages.

3056
04:36:13,000 --> 04:36:20,000
Yes, yes, events, earthquakes, other things like that and those will also reduce the emissions of your buildings.

3057
04:36:20,000 --> 04:36:23,000
The building electrification work is tough.

3058
04:36:23,000 --> 04:36:32,000
We've been in the trenches trying to get folks to electrify kitchens and homes and businesses.

3059
04:36:33,000 --> 04:36:47,000
It's not easy. We do have a municipal electrification assistance program for helping our municipal partners work on electrification projects with both technical assistance and grants.

3060
04:36:47,000 --> 04:37:02,000
We're working with staff on that as well, but there's a there's a ton of work to do and we're your partner in trying to help you achieve your climate action plans and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

3061
04:37:02,000 --> 04:37:03,000
Thank you.

3062
04:37:03,000 --> 04:37:09,000
Okay, so Tom Setton.

3063
04:37:09,000 --> 04:37:22,000
Thank you, I just want to make this short comment that it was very good to see the new analysis done by city staff and the good that the.

3064
04:37:23,000 --> 04:37:35,000
So the council is taking climate change seriously and while it is difficult for a small city to have a large impact on a worldwide problem.

3065
04:37:35,000 --> 04:37:42,000
If every city around the world, small or large, we're to make a substantial effort.

3066
04:37:42,000 --> 04:37:58,000
We're working with indeed change the great problem that all of the world faces and I particularly want to recognize the outstanding work of am and Reagan who has done nothing but outstanding work in the short time he's been working for the city.

3067
04:37:58,000 --> 04:37:59,000
Thank you.

3068
04:37:59,000 --> 04:38:01,000
Thank you.

3069
04:38:01,000 --> 04:38:07,000
I will connect to Ben Powell's.

3070
04:38:07,000 --> 04:38:09,000
Hi, thank you.

3071
04:38:09,000 --> 04:38:21,000
Again, the chair of the energy commission and I'll say that I just wanted to point out that the great progress we've seen over the years has largely been due to the drop in power sector emissions.

3072
04:38:21,000 --> 04:38:32,000
I'd say the city of Berkeley's best idea in this area was to create EBC and so we can take advantage of the falling costs of solar and wind power and batteries.

3073
04:38:32,000 --> 04:38:40,000
And then using EEC as a vehicle to deliver these local programs that has all been going greatly according to plan.

3074
04:38:40,000 --> 04:38:47,000
But emissions and the other sectors are not falling gasoline and cars natural gas and buildings.

3075
04:38:47,000 --> 04:38:59,000
The increase in ED sales that we saw on that one chart is frankly due to the kind of people who live here in Berkeley is not due to anything that city has done.

3076
04:38:59,000 --> 04:39:09,000
The new data that we found on trips pound of this validated what we know what we see in front of us 84% of travel is in cars.

3077
04:39:09,000 --> 04:39:13,000
That's a big red flag and it shows where we should focus.

3078
04:39:13,000 --> 04:39:22,000
With transportation really two strategies you can use you can either get gasoline out of cars or you can get people out of cars.

3079
04:39:22,000 --> 04:39:30,000
That second world is entirely up to the city it depends on what we build we need to build a non car infrastructure.

3080
04:39:30,000 --> 04:39:36,000
Make it safe and easy for people to walk and bike convenient to take transit.

3081
04:39:36,000 --> 04:39:49,000
So I'm really hoping that the revenue bond that we're talking about for this fall is really direct serious money toward building that infrastructure not just fixing potholes but actually building the city of the future.

3082
04:39:50,000 --> 04:39:57,000
On buildings we spent some time reviewing the existing building electrification strategy.

3083
04:39:57,000 --> 04:40:05,000
And my biggest takeaway was that it costs too much to electrify buildings currently and we need to find ways to make it cheaper.

3084
04:40:05,000 --> 04:40:16,000
Whether that's through some coordinated procurement, some market transformations, some contractor training programs I'm not sure but we really need to explore that.

3085
04:40:16,000 --> 04:40:27,000
And finally, as Council member Harris pointed out, there are a lot of things we don't measure that we really should start paying attention to what what are called scope to emissions or indirect emissions.

3086
04:40:27,000 --> 04:40:33,000
I think it's interesting to talk to you see Berkeley researchers who have done quite a bit of research on this topic.

3087
04:40:33,000 --> 04:40:38,000
The sea of faking help us find some more accurate ways to measure it.

3088
04:40:38,000 --> 04:40:40,000
Thank you very much.

3089
04:40:41,000 --> 04:40:45,000
Thank you Mr. Mayor.

3090
04:40:45,000 --> 04:40:47,000
Thank you Council and thank you staff.

3091
04:40:47,000 --> 04:40:49,000
This is really great work.

3092
04:40:49,000 --> 04:40:55,000
I'm consistently impressed with what you're able to produce and how much you're able to punch about your own weight.

3093
04:40:55,000 --> 04:41:01,000
So the plants that you have laid out are really comprehensive and detailed.

3094
04:41:01,000 --> 04:41:08,000
And I think what's pretty clear is that's an opportunity to say the fact of the matter is the money for this completely gone.

3095
04:41:08,000 --> 04:41:13,000
So we really need to focus on using all which was of the added art disposal.

3096
04:41:13,000 --> 04:41:15,000
But that's regulation budget.

3097
04:41:15,000 --> 04:41:20,000
Our creativity to kind of drastically reduce emissions at the base that we need.

3098
04:41:20,000 --> 04:41:23,000
So kind of there's a sample of some of those things.

3099
04:41:23,000 --> 04:41:25,000
A bunch of staff, we're all praising staff.

3100
04:41:25,000 --> 04:41:26,000
And it should be praise.

3101
04:41:26,000 --> 04:41:28,000
We should hire more and give them great benefits.

3102
04:41:28,000 --> 04:41:33,000
We should fund the auction mobility for an acquisition that is called for.

3103
04:41:33,000 --> 04:41:43,000
We should extend funding for the Green Village program manager and we should extend expand funding for all facets of.

3104
04:41:43,000 --> 04:41:48,000
On the building side, I'm really excited about the idea of a time of sale execution requirement.

3105
04:41:48,000 --> 04:41:52,000
I think about 200 buildings transfer each year, which is over 2% of the building stock.

3106
04:41:52,000 --> 04:41:54,000
And that's that's huge.

3107
04:41:54,000 --> 04:41:56,000
And if we can capture this buildings.

3108
04:41:56,000 --> 04:41:58,000
The mayor reference incentives.

3109
04:41:58,000 --> 04:42:05,000
We should be supporting and lifting up our low income communities and our venture communities by helping them launch your client head of the curve.

3110
04:42:05,000 --> 04:42:09,000
And getting the benefits of all electric homes now, lower pollution and proof comfort and proof.

3111
04:42:09,000 --> 04:42:11,000
You've totally costs.

3112
04:42:11,000 --> 04:42:13,000
And if the city puts in money.

3113
04:42:13,000 --> 04:42:18,000
We can leverage up to $10,000 per home available to stay in the low incentives.

3114
04:42:18,000 --> 04:42:20,000
I mentioned money in regulation.

3115
04:42:20,000 --> 04:42:22,000
So what about creativity, the third element.

3116
04:42:22,000 --> 04:42:27,000
Council member Hanette said that we need to get aggressive and we need to do 40 different small things.

3117
04:42:27,000 --> 04:42:28,000
Particularly on transportation side.

3118
04:42:28,000 --> 04:42:30,000
We're going to curb those stubborn emissions.

3119
04:42:30,000 --> 04:42:32,000
And that means it's using climate.

3120
04:42:32,000 --> 04:42:34,000
Everything we do, even if it's something like a rotating bond.

3121
04:42:34,000 --> 04:42:36,000
And when we get that in repeat, our streets.

3122
04:42:36,000 --> 04:42:39,000
That could be an excellent opportunity to lay electric conduit.

3123
04:42:39,000 --> 04:42:42,000
They'll have to publicly level to charging infrastructure.

3124
04:42:42,000 --> 04:42:47,000
Particularly focused in the low income and rents or communities that are going to be a focus of our future.

3125
04:42:48,000 --> 04:42:53,000
And by the way, we're changing the physical shape of the roads from a walking biking and riding transit.

3126
04:42:53,000 --> 04:42:59,000
Because our roads are just as important in public spaces and parks and all the other spaces of being joined together.

3127
04:42:59,000 --> 04:43:01,000
So I just want to thank everyone.

3128
04:43:01,000 --> 04:43:04,000
And I'm really looking forward to what we can do.

3129
04:43:04,000 --> 04:43:06,000
I'm coming back to cycle on it.

3130
04:43:06,000 --> 04:43:09,000
Next is Vlad Kaplan.

3131
04:43:13,000 --> 04:43:14,000
Can you hear me?

3132
04:43:14,000 --> 04:43:15,000
Yes.

3133
04:43:16,000 --> 04:43:20,000
So I just wanted to respond to PJ was talking about some grant for induction ranges.

3134
04:43:20,000 --> 04:43:28,000
And we do have a culinary program with the tool in the library where we might be able to use that.

3135
04:43:28,000 --> 04:43:30,000
So please get in touch with us about that.

3136
04:43:30,000 --> 04:43:33,000
And then the other thing I just wanted to.

3137
04:43:33,000 --> 04:43:36,000
At some point probably not today.

3138
04:43:36,000 --> 04:43:41,000
Get an update on what's going on with that pilot program about the micro mobility stuff.

3139
04:43:41,000 --> 04:43:43,000
I feel like we haven't heard about that in a while.

3140
04:43:43,000 --> 04:43:45,000
And I would love to know about it.

3141
04:43:45,000 --> 04:43:46,000
Thank you.

3142
04:43:46,000 --> 04:43:47,000
Thank you.

3143
04:43:47,000 --> 04:43:49,000
Any other attendees which to speak on this item.

3144
04:43:49,000 --> 04:43:52,000
So please raise your hand.

3145
04:43:52,000 --> 04:43:53,000
Okay.

3146
04:43:53,000 --> 04:43:54,000
Signal additional resistance.

3147
04:43:54,000 --> 04:43:55,000
Thank you for your comments.

3148
04:43:55,000 --> 04:43:57,000
Bring back to the council.

3149
04:43:57,000 --> 04:44:01,000
Any additional questions or comments from city council members.

3150
04:44:01,000 --> 04:44:03,000
Okay.

3151
04:44:03,000 --> 04:44:04,000
Well, thank you.

3152
04:44:04,000 --> 04:44:08,000
Once again for the great presentation and our work and.

3153
04:44:08,000 --> 04:44:12,000
You know, I think Berkeley has consistently been kind of at the cutting edge.

3154
04:44:12,000 --> 04:44:16,000
It should of work around climate action.

3155
04:44:16,000 --> 04:44:20,000
Going back to Intimity Bros was the climate action coordinator.

3156
04:44:20,000 --> 04:44:23,000
We board our climate action plan.

3157
04:44:23,000 --> 04:44:26,000
And it's actually providing regional leadership.

3158
04:44:26,000 --> 04:44:29,000
And I know this because I'm present in May back.

3159
04:44:29,000 --> 04:44:31,000
We run our Bay Run program.

3160
04:44:31,000 --> 04:44:35,000
Walk a lot of regional conversations on climate adaptation and resiliency.

3161
04:44:35,000 --> 04:44:39,000
And I hear a lot of praise or Berkeley in the work that we're doing.

3162
04:44:39,000 --> 04:44:43,000
I do agree that we need to be bolder in our targets.

3163
04:44:43,000 --> 04:44:45,000
And more aggressive in our strategies.

3164
04:44:45,000 --> 04:44:47,000
And that's in many, many ways.

3165
04:44:47,000 --> 04:44:49,000
It's transportation and it's.

3166
04:44:49,000 --> 04:44:50,000
It's.

3167
04:44:50,000 --> 04:44:51,000
You know.

3168
04:44:51,000 --> 04:44:56,000
Transituated development and electrifying our build things.

3169
04:44:56,000 --> 04:44:57,000
It's.

3170
04:44:57,000 --> 04:45:00,000
You know, reducing waste and.

3171
04:45:00,000 --> 04:45:20,000
And then also how we're creating make our streets safer for bicycles and pedestrians and gridding transit options. So I think these are all outlined in our climate action plan. I think it's all responsibility is the council to align our budget with those priorities into make sure that we are, you know,

3172
04:45:20,000 --> 04:45:31,000
and our able to move ahead with the bold strategies that we are, that we've outlined and that we need to implement in order to reduce the catastrophic impacts of our climate emergency.

3173
04:45:31,000 --> 04:45:35,000
So thank you so much for all your work. It's deeply appreciated.

3174
04:45:35,000 --> 04:45:40,000
And unless there's any further questions or comments, that completes a side up.

3175
04:45:40,000 --> 04:45:53,000
So that completes our agenda for tonight. Is there any public comment from anyone who is not already spoken on non agenda matters.

3176
04:45:53,000 --> 04:45:57,000
Mr. Clerk did enjoy a Milwaukee speak during the first non agenda period.

3177
04:45:57,000 --> 04:46:04,000
This one is just don't check.

3178
04:46:04,000 --> 04:46:14,000
No, okay, great. So once again, this public comment on non agenda matters from anyone who is not already spoken, so we'll go first to Andrea.

3179
04:46:14,000 --> 04:46:18,000
Thank you. Oh, it's asking me to join us a panelists.

3180
04:46:18,000 --> 04:46:20,000
That was a mistake. I'm sorry.

3181
04:46:20,000 --> 04:46:23,000
Okay, you can hear me though, right?

3182
04:46:24,000 --> 04:46:31,000
Okay, pretty. Yes, I apologize. I did not speak during the first section. It was already full.

3183
04:46:31,000 --> 04:46:38,000
But I did want to speak to one particular item, which is not on your agenda, which is the pepper ramp down.

3184
04:46:38,000 --> 04:46:43,000
I saw that it was on the agenda committee today, which is good.

3185
04:46:43,000 --> 04:46:48,000
I would like to see that actually moving forward in a much greater pace.

3186
04:46:48,000 --> 04:46:55,000
Because the fact of the matter is, is that this is a completely was a completely foreseeable thing.

3187
04:46:55,000 --> 04:47:01,000
It was bargained after many years of trying to bargain it.

3188
04:47:01,000 --> 04:47:09,000
And we are now six months into people not seeing that three percent differential. That was a hard one.

3189
04:47:09,000 --> 04:47:14,000
Hard fought, hard negotiated, hard sacrificed win for us as workers.

3190
04:47:14,000 --> 04:47:21,000
And I just want to sort of like highlight a piece of this that maybe, you know, isn't super obvious, but it's really clear to me.

3191
04:47:21,000 --> 04:47:35,000
It's that as a city, you authorized and then spent half a million dollars to bargain a contract that you're not actually enforcing, which is pretty shocking to me because it was extensive to do.

3192
04:47:35,000 --> 04:47:42,000
And the idea that it was not administered with feasible to make workers whole.

3193
04:47:42,000 --> 04:47:50,000
We put in as soon as possible, or the first paper in January, because that was such a ludicrously long time out.

3194
04:47:50,000 --> 04:47:53,000
And here we are, we've blown past it.

3195
04:47:53,000 --> 04:47:56,000
And members are looking at months more before then.

3196
04:47:57,000 --> 04:48:00,000
So, you know, you got to get this fits.

3197
04:48:00,000 --> 04:48:14,000
We need a written commitment to back pay to making workers whole for this long time that they've been going without the hard fought benefit that they, you know.

3198
04:48:14,000 --> 04:48:22,000
Like, so Council member Hans said, this is something we've been working on for years, absolute years, and workers deserve to be made whole.

3199
04:48:22,000 --> 04:48:23,000
You've got the money.

3200
04:48:23,000 --> 04:48:24,000
So let's do it.

3201
04:48:27,000 --> 04:48:29,000
Okay.

3202
04:48:29,000 --> 04:48:31,000
We're going to our next speaker.

3203
04:48:37,000 --> 04:48:38,000
Hi.

3204
04:48:38,000 --> 04:48:39,000
Thank you so much.

3205
04:48:39,000 --> 04:48:40,000
My name is Sarah Moore.

3206
04:48:40,000 --> 04:48:47,000
I'm a resident of Berkeley, and I'm a member of the Planning Department's Awesome Office of Energy and Sustainable Development.

3207
04:48:47,000 --> 04:48:52,000
I suspect like me that you have many of the statements from staff during public comment today.

3208
04:48:52,000 --> 04:48:58,000
And I just also want to express how this happening, distracting and destructive.

3209
04:48:58,000 --> 04:49:06,000
It's been to work for an employer that isn't honoring it's little bit contracts, particularly about pet perceptions.

3210
04:49:06,000 --> 04:49:09,000
The steps are needed to attract and retain employees.

3211
04:49:09,000 --> 04:49:14,000
They are needed to create equal pay for equal work among staff.

3212
04:49:14,000 --> 04:49:19,000
And in accordance with the labor contracts, they should have already been in place for a couple of months.

3213
04:49:19,000 --> 04:49:25,000
We all understand and have felt the impacts of understanding and the extra tasks required by COVID response.

3214
04:49:25,000 --> 04:49:30,000
But the delays associated with implementing these contracts is inexcusable.

3215
04:49:30,000 --> 04:49:38,000
Particularly when it's been done in a way that's made staff feel disrespected, misled, and unsupported.

3216
04:49:38,000 --> 04:49:41,000
You got to hear a little from Amin Regan this evening.

3217
04:49:41,000 --> 04:49:43,000
He's fantastic.

3218
04:49:43,000 --> 04:49:46,000
I have a share of good luck and supervising him.

3219
04:49:46,000 --> 04:49:53,000
But everyone who knows with him, who works with him, is that he is helpful, knowledgeable, thoughtful and responsive.

3220
04:49:53,000 --> 04:49:57,000
And I want to do everything I can to retain him.

3221
04:49:57,000 --> 04:50:01,000
He's a pepper employee who's been with the city for two and a half years.

3222
04:50:01,000 --> 04:50:08,000
Based on his labor contract, he was understandably expecting an increase in his take on paid due to the prepress step down months ago.

3223
04:50:08,000 --> 04:50:10,000
I want him to have that.

3224
04:50:10,000 --> 04:50:20,000
And I'm speaking tonight to add my voice to the others to just ask you to do anything you can to hold those responsible and implementing it accountable for it.

3225
04:50:20,000 --> 04:50:29,000
Because there are a lot of amazing staff members like Amin and implementing and good faith and in a respectful, collaborative manner.

3226
04:50:29,000 --> 04:50:33,000
The labor contracts that we adopted over the summer is best.

3227
04:50:33,000 --> 04:50:34,000
Thank you.

3228
04:50:34,000 --> 04:50:35,000
Thank you.

3229
04:50:35,000 --> 04:50:39,000
We're going to execute event date.

3230
04:50:40,000 --> 04:50:42,000
Hi, Mayor Council.

3231
04:50:42,000 --> 04:50:43,000
Thank you for your timing.

3232
04:50:43,000 --> 04:50:47,000
Listening to the wonderful presentation.

3233
04:50:47,000 --> 04:50:52,000
Our staff as well as to all of the concerns staff who have been calling in.

3234
04:50:52,000 --> 04:50:54,000
My name is Katie Gonzalez.

3235
04:50:54,000 --> 04:51:02,000
I also work in the office of energy and sustainable development with as you saw this wonderful team dedicated to advancing climate action and equity and Berkeley.

3236
04:51:02,000 --> 04:51:04,000
And it's so proud of the work we do.

3237
04:51:04,000 --> 04:51:09,000
And we really appreciate council support and leadership and addressing climate change and resilience.

3238
04:51:09,000 --> 04:51:11,000
I'm also a local one pepper.

3239
04:51:11,000 --> 04:51:12,000
And I supervise.

3240
04:51:12,000 --> 04:51:18,000
I see I use 10, 21 members that I see in its solidarity with including Marna and Rebecca.

3241
04:51:18,000 --> 04:51:28,000
And when I took this job at the city, you know, I was really excited to be working for a city known throughout the world as the beacon of hope for its embracement of activism and diversity.

3242
04:51:28,000 --> 04:51:33,000
Equity, climate action and its inclusivity of all races, gender, sexuality and religious beliefs.

3243
04:51:33,000 --> 04:51:40,000
And in addition, I thought I could be proud to work for a city whose values were aligned with the ones that my parents and still didn't need to do the right thing.

3244
04:51:40,000 --> 04:51:46,000
Fight for the underserved and to treat others fairly with respect, honesty, compassion and humanity.

3245
04:51:46,000 --> 04:51:54,000
However, lately, I found it very challenging to work at an organization that I feel has not treated its employees with the same values of respect, dignity and compassion.

3246
04:51:54,000 --> 04:52:00,000
We're not being paid with the city a great to pay us for doing the work that we have been doing under challenging conditions.

3247
04:52:01,000 --> 04:52:07,000
And while it's understandable that mistakes around pay can be made, they are not being corrected, which is unacceptable.

3248
04:52:07,000 --> 04:52:13,000
The process for trying to resolve these issues has been very challenging as may of my fellow colleagues spoke to.

3249
04:52:13,000 --> 04:52:18,000
And all of this is impacting our daily lives and our families and it's taken a toll on our morale as you can hear.

3250
04:52:18,000 --> 04:52:26,000
I heard increasing voices from staff doing disheartening, disillusioned, demoralized and disappointed by city leadership's treatment towards staff and they share the sentiments.

3251
04:52:26,000 --> 04:52:29,000
We're not unreasonable people asking for unreasonable things.

3252
04:52:29,000 --> 04:52:33,000
We're working hard to serve the community and many are putting their principles at risk.

3253
04:52:33,000 --> 04:52:40,000
We're exhausted from fighting for what's been agreed upon is actually go to us and we're just asking to be treated fairly with respect and dignity.

3254
04:52:40,000 --> 04:52:47,000
So I'm asking you as as only others, but you please take action to resolve these issues immediately.

3255
04:52:47,000 --> 04:52:49,000
Thank you.

3256
04:52:49,000 --> 04:52:54,000
Coach, I'm in Reagan.

3257
04:52:54,000 --> 04:52:58,000
Yes, and I'm also getting time to see you by James Chang as well.

3258
04:52:58,000 --> 04:52:59,000
Okay.

3259
04:52:59,000 --> 04:53:01,000
That's one of the most important things in Reagan.

3260
04:53:01,000 --> 04:53:06,000
I just visited to you on the greenhouse gas emissions inventory for the city of Berkeley.

3261
04:53:06,000 --> 04:53:10,000
Speaking to you now as a CIA member and a Patre member.

3262
04:53:10,000 --> 04:53:15,000
And so as usually I have to go for this for the meeting.

3263
04:53:15,000 --> 04:53:26,000
But I think seeing the city manager kind of gave the overview of the items in the long list and then acknowledging that things like that,

3264
04:53:26,000 --> 04:53:32,000
which have been kind of inequities for the past five plus years still are the last on this list to be addressed.

3265
04:53:32,000 --> 04:53:38,000
Well, they should be one of the first because it does affect the majority of the city city workers.

3266
04:53:38,000 --> 04:53:48,000
And for the past few months, we've been trying to work with the city across all of these different items and we're met with various along the way.

3267
04:53:48,000 --> 04:53:51,000
You know, they cancelled multiple meetings.

3268
04:53:51,000 --> 04:53:57,000
And this is the first time that we did takes us coming to council, you know, for us to get kind of alert.

3269
04:53:57,000 --> 04:54:02,000
To two of the scene kind of behind the scenes of what's going on and why these are taking so long.

3270
04:54:02,000 --> 04:54:07,000
It would be great if we were to head along the way just to understand that every department is.

3271
04:54:07,000 --> 04:54:13,000
Understaffed and it takes you know, there's a lot of time that is to go on to implementing a lot of these changes.

3272
04:54:13,000 --> 04:54:18,000
But I think this communication would be helpful along the way.

3273
04:54:18,000 --> 04:54:21,000
And that's the committing to the back pay.

3274
04:54:21,000 --> 04:54:26,000
Like when the city costs it on our contracts, were they intending not to pay us until this April.

3275
04:54:26,000 --> 04:54:30,000
But they should budgeted this past six months of our pepper will act.

3276
04:54:30,000 --> 04:54:35,000
And so I've been now they're saying that they're not planning to get us any back pay for.

3277
04:54:35,000 --> 04:54:40,000
You know, for the last six months of, you know, how long it's taken.

3278
04:54:40,000 --> 04:54:48,000
I just want to note a few months ago when I broke count whenever there was an item that was sent to you about the peppers step down.

3279
04:54:48,000 --> 04:54:54,000
And it did include talking from CalPos that noted that in order to change a cost share agreement.

3280
04:54:54,000 --> 04:54:57,000
It does not, it does not require a contract amendment.

3281
04:54:57,000 --> 04:55:03,000
So note that the places on the CalPos website states that in order to make a change to an existing.

3282
04:55:03,000 --> 04:55:06,000
It really costs your agreement.

3283
04:55:06,000 --> 04:55:11,000
All it takes is a letter and the NAU that states kind of the new step down.

3284
04:55:11,000 --> 04:55:14,000
And 90 days after that is submitted.

3285
04:55:14,000 --> 04:55:17,000
The step down would be an effect your peppers.

3286
04:55:17,000 --> 04:55:23,000
And so effectively we we have a very long drawn out.

3287
04:55:23,000 --> 04:55:30,000
In the first time I was very active in participating in all of this.

3288
04:55:30,000 --> 04:55:35,600
and then seeing it take another six to eight months to implement what we found so out for

3289
04:55:35,600 --> 04:55:40,320
or now still fighting and I'm still speaking at council meetings, trying to get this fixed and

3290
04:55:40,320 --> 04:55:47,360
dressed whenever the city could have had it fixed in November and the soonest. And so I'm hoping that

3291
04:55:48,240 --> 04:55:53,600
all of you will kind of look at this case and see what can be done to give us kind of retroactive

3292
04:55:54,560 --> 04:56:02,560
every month you've missed six months waiting for this contract to be implemented and now with that

3293
04:56:02,560 --> 04:56:08,240
I'll end my comment. Thank you for the time. Thank you. Okay, we're good at kitchen.

3294
04:56:13,120 --> 04:56:18,000
Hey man, council. I can't really say things any better than all the workers that you've already

3295
04:56:18,000 --> 04:56:25,040
heard from. I just want to say that I hope you're hearing it because you know these are

3296
04:56:25,040 --> 04:56:29,360
these are the workers delivering to programs so the things that you're seeing and talking

3297
04:56:29,360 --> 04:56:35,520
about and praising and the community members recognizing that these are the the missions that we

3298
04:56:35,520 --> 04:56:42,080
put for our city, our community, these are the workers executing those programs and they're here

3299
04:56:42,080 --> 04:56:48,640
telling you that you know they're becoming disillusioned with what they believe, how they are

3300
04:56:48,640 --> 04:56:53,920
viewed by the city that is their employer and you know the community that we work for

3301
04:56:55,120 --> 04:57:01,840
if they feel that they are not being heard, not being valued and you know that's clearly demonstrated

3302
04:57:01,840 --> 04:57:09,200
by a lack of commitment from the city to execute these contracts in a timely manner the way that they

3303
04:57:09,200 --> 04:57:16,160
should be to make workers care for what they've bargained for in the contract. I hope you guys are

3304
04:57:16,160 --> 04:57:25,920
hearing that and that's all I really want to add. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Any other public comments

3305
04:57:25,920 --> 04:57:36,960
are not a gentleman? Anyone who is not very spoken? Okay, thank you. Appreciate all the public comments

3306
04:57:36,960 --> 04:57:43,200
today. I I have already expressed my interest to the city attorney and city

3307
04:57:44,960 --> 04:57:54,720
clerk that we calendar a discussion in close session. Because this is this is important which you know

3308
04:57:54,720 --> 04:58:00,720
why this is operational implementation of existing contracts that have been that have been approved

3309
04:58:00,720 --> 04:58:06,160
by the council but we want to make sure that we understand that the progress of this and that we can

3310
04:58:06,240 --> 04:58:12,880
you know continue to move this forward so I just wanted to announce that hopefully we'll be meeting

3311
04:58:12,880 --> 04:58:18,960
close session soon to get more information about this and to have a discussion with the city manager.

3312
04:58:19,760 --> 04:58:25,120
Okay, seeing no additional ways to hands that completes our agenda. I'll make a we are adjourned. We didn't

3313
04:58:25,120 --> 04:58:31,840
accept the meeting for the meeting. Okay, have any of you want to take care of.

3314
04:58:34,240 --> 04:58:37,840
Recording stopped.