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And with that, we will now proceed to take roll.
Council member.
Gayo.
Present.
Thank you. Council member. Houston. Present.
Thank you, Councilmember Hwang.
Present. Thank you. And Chair Unger here.
We do have four members present.
And before we begin, Council Chair Unger.
Excuse me. Do you have any announcements?
Yeah, we've got a packed agenda today.
So, we're going to limit public speakers to one minute.
And, for all of us,
let's try to keep our comments and questions brief
so we can get through the whole agenda.
Thank you.
Thank you, Chair Unger. Once again, public comment will be limited
to one minute on all agenda items.
Moving to item one.
Approval of the draft
minutes from the committee meeting on June 23rd, 2026.
Second,
we do have a motion made by Councilmember Gallo.
Second, by a council member.
Want to accept the draft minutes when the committee
meet on June 23rd, 2026, as is on roll.
Council member Gallo I thank you, Council member Houston.
I thank you, Council Member Wang I thank you.
And to your honor,
I this motion does pass before eyes
to accept the draft minutes from the committee
meeting on June 23rd, 2026, as is moving to item
two determination of scheduled outstanding committee items.
This is also known
as your pending list, and you do have one speaker.
Council members, staff, administration.
Anything for the pending list?
Nothing from the administration.
Thank you.
Good morning, Committee members.
Megan, we're assistant director of okay at.
We do have an item on the pending list.
The safe Oakland streets annual report that we'd like
to request be scheduled to the September 22nd.
Public Works and Transportation Committee
said again.
Is there a file ID that you're asking?
I can I can follow up with the with the file.
And for me, I don't have it, but okay.
That's great. If you could follow up with that, we will get it done. Thank you. Thank you very much.
You said the city Hall streets.
Yeah.
The streets report
moving to our public speaker, Blair
Beekman.
If you're participating on
via zoom, please raise your hand.
And I don't see it.
I don't see Blair Beekman.
All right, let's move on.
We have I will make the motion to accept the pending list.
Second.
We do have a motion made by Councilmember
Dias, seconded by Chair Ungar to accept, as amended,
the determination of schedule, outstanding committee items.
The amendments is moving safe.
Oakland Street report file ID 26
0861 to the September 22nd
Public Works and Transportation Committee meeting.
Yes, please. Thank you.
On roll, Councilmember Gallo.
Councilmember Houston, I thank you.
Council Member Wang.
I to your honor, I
this motion does pass to allow for eyes to accept, as amended,
the determination schedule outstanding committee items,
which is also known as the pending list.
Moving to item three.
Adopt the resolution authorizing the City Administrator to execute
an internal governmental cooperation agreement with
the Alameda County AC transit for the Fruitvale Avenue Transit
Signal Priority Project, and adopt appropriate
Sequa findings. And you do have three speakers for this item.
Great. Thank you. Let's hear from our staff, please. Hello.
Good morning.
Members.
And Ocana here,
transportation planner with the Department
of Transportation to item before you is to request authorization
for the city administrator
to execute an intergovernmental cooperative agreement
with AC transit for the Fruitvale Transit
Signal Priority Project.
AC transit project will deliver transit improvements
that will increase transit reliability for East Oakland.
There's the Intergovernmental Cooperative Agreement
between the city and AC transit, outlining responsibilities
associated with design, construction,
support, and ongoing operation and maintenance.
Once the project is completed, ownership will be transferred
to the city of Oakland,
where fiscal impacts is expected to be minimal
with maintenance of traffic signals equipment
absorbed within existing operations.
Equipment associated with this project
will be maintained by AC transit.
Therefore, staff recommends that the City Council authorize
the City Administrator to execute an intergovernmental
cooperative agreement with AC transit
for the Fruitville Transit Signal Priority Project.
All right, Council members, questions.
Council Member Wang, I believe you are next in the queue.
I was just going to move the item.
Thank you for your work on this.
Council member Gayo.
I think you guys need to press the button. Yes.
I want to publicly thank you for your work.
It's long overdue, and certainly it's
going to make a big difference
in terms of the safety transportation
on the Fruitvale corridor,
serving our seniors and the rest of the community.
So with that, I make a motion to approve the item.
Thank you.
I'll second that. Any other questions from council members?
Oh, man. Okay, then let's, go to our speakers.
Public speakers. Thank you. Calling in our public speakers for item three.
This Asada Blair Beekman
and Kevin Dally, if you are participating via
zoom, please raise your hand so you're easily identified.
Thank you.
I'm going to ask you to pay attention to reports
that consistently have to use the language.
People of color.
You see, there is no such thing
biologically in science as a race.
It's an inventive social construct
with the purpose of allowing certain people
to have a position, a higher ranking.
We all human beings.
So what's the purpose of saying that we have a bus
transit service opportunity, and the majority of the people
are going to get it? People of color, what difference does it make
that social construct
to constantly put people into groups, and sometimes
to put people into groups where we all have in the same experience,
and we're not low income seniors?
It doesn't matter.
The bus service exists for anybody that wants to use it.
Then you say, the costs you don't.
Asada oh I'm sorry. No thank you.
Thank you so much.
Kevin Daley definitely.
You strongly support this work.
It'd be great to always mention synchronizing the pedestrian
crossing time as well on International Boulevard.
Frequently the pedestrians have to wait
for a very long time to cross in order to optimize
the bus rapid transit.
The temporal crossing, even though obviously
passengers on the tempo do
become pedestrians once they leave the tempo.
But definitely support it.
Thanks.
Thank you. Moving to our zoom speaker, Blair Beekman.
Okay, that concludes our public speakers for item through.
We do have a motion made by Councilmember one,
seconded by Councilmember Garcia,
to approve the recommendations of staff in the port.
This item to the July 23rd, 2026 City Council agenda on roll.
Councilmember Gallo.
Thank you, Councilmember Houston.
I thank you.
Councilmember one I and your honor, I
this motion does pass with four eyes
to approve the recommendations of staff
and for this item to July 22nd, 2026 city council agenda
and through the body would that be on considered on
consent, please. Thank you so much.
Moving to item four.
Adopt a resolution
authorizing the City administrator
to award a contract to Ron Number one, Rhonda Pratt,
for any amount not to exceed 1,400,000, to provide
collision repair and body shop services for light vehicles
for a three year term.
September 1st, 26 through September 1st, 29
and two one year options to renew in response to RFQ
4065352.
Quality body and fender,
an amount not to exceed $1,050,000 to provide
collision repair and body shop services
for light vehicles for a three year term.
September 1st 26 to September 1st 29,
and to one year options to renew and response to RFQ
4065353.
Falcon collision repair in amount not to exceed
$525,000 to provide collision repair and body
shop services for light vehicles for a three year term.
September 1st 26 to September 1st, 2019 A21 year options
to renew in response to RFQ for 06535
for Miller Brothers Body Shop, in an amount not to exceed
$525,000 to provide collision repair and body shop
services for light vehicles for a three year term.
September 1st 26 to September 1st, 29
and two one year options to renew in response
to our 24065355 bowler brothers body Shop in amount
not to exceed 1,750,000 to provide collision
repair and body shop services
for heavy vehicles in a three year term.
September 1st 26 to September 1st 29
and to one year options to renew in response to RFQ
for 065296 Falcon
collision repair in an amount not to exceed 1,750,000.
To provide collision repair and body shop services
for heavy vehicle for a three year term.
September 1st 26th to September 1st, 29
and to one year options to renew in response to RFQ 4065297.
Making findings under Oakland Municipal Code,
sections 204050 and 20451,
and waiving any further formal advertising and bidding requirements to extend necessary
and eight and adopt appropriate score findings.
And you do have two speakers for this item.
All right. For the record, I've been driving city vehicles for 30 years and I haven't crashed one yet, so this one's not on me.
Knock on wood. Let's hear from staff, please.
Thank you for that clarification.
Chair Unger.
Richard Battersby, assistant director of Oakland
Public Works,
Bureau of Maintenance and Internal Services,
the largest bureau and public works
encompassing facilities, fleet, sewers and storm drain.
I'm here to talk to you today
about a facilities contract regarding collision repair.
None of which, will support, Chair Ungar
because he doesn't have collisions.
And I also wanted to note, for the record,
this also represents public works
entry into the longest staff recommendation for 2026.
So thank you, City Clerk, for that
efficient and error free reading.
The city operates a fleet of approximately 1500 vehicles.
Unfortunately, during the course of operation, these vehicles become damaged
by collisions either with other vehicles or other objects.
And we have a history of about 50 collisions a year.
Previously, we've been performing the body repairs.
We have an internal body repair shop.
We don't do any painting, but we have three body repair FTEs.
Those three FTE have been vacant, for
at least the past year, a couple of them longer.
And we have recently filled one,
but we will be filling another.
This has resulted in us having to increase
the amount of repairs that we send to outsourced body vendors, collision repair vendors,
which is why I'm here with this contract today.
Previously, we only had a single collision
repair vendor that was Muller Brothers.
And due to the conditions or circumstances
that I just described,
we have exceeded that contract capacity
and we have not been able
to repair vehicles for the last month or so.
So this is a very important agenda item.
Currently we have 25 vehicles, accident
repair vehicles that are awaiting repair.
22 of those are Oakland Police Department vehicles.
So again, it's very critical that we get these contracts established.
The contracts for collision repair totaled $7 million.
And this is over a three year period with two optional
one year extensions.
The two optional one year extensions are,
give us the ability of the vendors, demonstrate
that they're performing acceptably
and they're delivering good value to the city.
We can offer them an extension on that contract without having
to come back to council.
We bid this opportunity, put it out RFP as the commitment
that I've made numerous times in committee and city council.
We are moving away from co-op contract
procurement process to bidding, and that's to ensure
we're getting best value, but also to allow Oakland vendors
an opportunity to bid of the $7 million, in contract capacity.
Before you. And keep in mind, that's just expenditure authority.
It's not committing. Budgeted funds.
This just gives us the ability, should we need it.
The amount is probably more than we need,
but that's us erring on the side of caution.
Of the 7 million half, 3.5 million is for light duty,
and the other half, 3.5 million is for heavy duty
on the light vehicle collision repair contracts.
We sent notices to.
And I should have counted them,
but it looks like there's at least ten.
And we received one, two, three for responsive bids,
one of which was an Oakland based vendor.
I understand another Oakland based vendor
is on the list as not submitting a response.
Apparently they feel that they weren't contacted.
So we are doing some information.
But as the time of this presentation,
I don't know if there was a disconnect,
but we did get four responsive bids
and we awarded those for vendors,
percentages based on a scoring criteria.
That scoring criteria includes
lowest cost, competitive pricing, location
and also awarding to multiple vendors gives us some operational flexibility,
and it gives us options where
we don't have all of our eggs in one basket.
Rhonda Ford was awarded approximately 40%
of the total, light duty repair contract.
And this is just an estimate.
For the purpose of this agenda report,
we're not sure what the actual
breakdown will come out to, because obviously,
we can't predict exactly how much accidents are going to cost to repair.
They, Rhonda Pratt ranked highest
because of the lowest overall cost
and then quality body and Fender, which is the Oakland
based vendor, they were awarded 30% of the contract.
And we acknowledge,
it is a very desirable to keep Oakland
city of Oakland dollars
within the city of Oakland and keep Oakland working.
And they're also closer to us, which gives us better
response times and more rapid turnaround.
The other two vendors, Falcon Collision and Moller Brothers,
were each rewarded 15%, awarded 15%.
And I will note that Moller Brothers
was the prior incumbent for light duty body repairs.
They're still going to get a piece of the body repair action,
for the heavy duty side, we only received two responsive bids.
None of which were Oakland based vendors.
So accordingly, we awarded 50% to each and those vendors are.
I'm on the wrong page here.
Oh, it's right on the front.
Molar brothers and Falcon also received the heavy duty body repair,
which is why I was looking in the agenda report for the two additional vendors,
but they were already noted in the light duty, so I apologize for that.
With that, I'm here to answer any questions.
Thanks for the report.
Councilmember Houston, please.
Good morning. Mr. batters me through the chair.
I'm looking at these these documents,
and, I see one
Oakland based in West Oakland.
And I just want to share with you in district six.
I mean, really, district five and district seven
have some of the most, body shops in Oakland.
Right? And so let's look at this real quick because.
So we have Falcon Collision and Concord.
They got two contracts and that one then we have
Muller brothers.
That's how you pronounce the two contracts there in San Leandro.
Then we have, Ron and Dixon.
Right. And then we do have quality body and fender in West Oakland.
I know that that that company very well.
And that's in district that's in,
Carroll five district.
But but what I don't like is that,
Pacific collision
is from district seven, and they do major work
for Caltrans, and they've been underserved for so long. Mr.
Battersby, when it was an encampment on their in their,
on their, street
and that's on Helgenberger loop that affected their business.
Just majorly Mr.
Battersby majorly. People didn't want to come.
Caltrans didn't want to drop their cars out there.
And, they said that they didn't receive this.
And that's why I came over to you,
because I just didn't want to just throw you off.
I wanted to find out what email,
because there I spoke to them this morning.
They did not receive that in their qualified, company.
I have a question for you, Mr. Battersby.
You said it's 25, automobiles in the queue, ready for bodywork.
Is that what you said through the chair?
That's correct. Okay, so. So this is not urgent
and this is not an emergency.
And and that's where I always say that,
being in this seat, they always have some emergency
and urgent that we got to get it done.
We've got to get it done. I've got to get it done.
And then we make decisions
that aren't in the best interest of the city.
And I'm gonna say this one more time
in the best interests of the city.
This what I see right here is not in the best interests of my city.
Because I see one company from West Oakland,
and we have many, many, many, many qualified in district
five and seven. Many because that's what they do.
That's their skill sets.
So I want to hold this here until I find out that,
why Pacific Collision qualify
qualified, that was underserved, that was,
that had,
lost so much business.
Mr. Battersby, when these homeless encampments was in their the area
and they said they weren't contacted.
So that's why I came over to and said, what email did you get?
Who did you speak to? Because,
this right here doesn't make me feel good
that in the best interests of the city of Oakland, especially if there's only 25,
this is not like it's an emergency.
I want to find out what's going on
and get more qualified individuals or companies in five
and seven that have those businesses
all along the corridor.
But through the chair.
I'd like to respond to Council Member Houston.
As far as the contact notices
that go out to the potential bidders,
that would be a question for purchasing.
Purchasing is under finance
department, not within public works.
Briefly before this meeting, I reached out to my staff
to try to get in touch with someone
from purchasing to see how their contact list work,
and I was glancing behind me to see if we had anyone.
I don't think we do.
But I'll definitely get an answer to you for that.
But but just to be clear, I don't want to rush anything
through council, but just understand
we can't perform any accident repairs currently.
We currently have no contract.
Out of those 25 vehicles, 22 are OPD.
We haven't been replacing OPD patrol vehicles regularly for three years,
and the last time we bought OPD patrol vehicles was in 2022,
when we had 37 OPD units hung up at the San
Leandro dealer because allegedly we couldn't pay for them.
So it's essentially
it is critical that we repair the vehicles
we have because it doesn't seem we have
scheduled regular ability to procure replacement vehicles.
So we got to make do with what we have.
So through the chair,
how many OPD vehicles?
Through the chair? 22.
So 1 or 2 of those may not be patrol vehicles.
Oh, so that means three.
So is anyone can speak from police department or police
if that's what they want.
Pardon me.
Do you chair anyone?
So that means it's only three that really are outside
of the police department. Is anyone here that can speak for the police department?
Please do the chair.
I need to speak to someone.
Because let me just share this with you.
This,
I was elected
to fight for the city of Oakland across the board.
And this is not a rush.
If the police department says
that they can deal with their having their 23, that's repaired
and it's not going to affect them,
I want to find out why passive collision wasn't.
That's that's that's where I stand.
And, through the chair.
Council member Houston, would you be comfortable
with a partial award, perhaps to quality the Oakland
based vendor that is on the same track list,
so we can at least move some vehicles
through the repair shop and get them back in service.
Yes, sir. I would I would accept that, Mr.
Battersby, is that going to give you enough capacity?
Because we're not going to be able
to get back to this until after the recess.
If yes, Chair Ungar that's
it would be $1 million or did it.
Yeah, 1,050,000.
That would be adequate to get us through the the break.
Okay. So, Council member Houston, are you proposing an alternate?
Yeah. Alternate that we,
quality body and fender.
We give them that.
Yes. That's that.
I'm satisfied with that.
Oakland bass sounds good to me.
Okay, so if we're going to do something different than what?
Stop. Staff recommended.
You're welcome to to make a motion.
I just want to make a motion to to clear.
I want to make a motion to award quality body and fender.
The amount of money that Mr.
Battersby said,
to get us through until we find out about these others
for clarity, what was the amount? Mr.
Battersby said, we need to be exact, yes.
The amount of $1,050,000 over a three year period,
with two optional one year extensions.
So you need you need a second.
I need a second.
Tonight I have a question.
Well, I'd like to if we if we can.
Is it about is it about this substitute motion
to the report not to this.
I'd like to get some.
Let's get some clarity
on the substitute motion first
before we move on to additional questions.
What is the amount?
1 million, million $50,000, chair Unger okay.
And did we have a second for that?
Just make some of my own comments.
So I share some of the concerns that council member
Houston has expressed.
I would also add that
there are a number of auto body shops in district two.
You know them,
on the east side, and they're all minority owned businesses.
And so one and I do want to acknowledge, by the way, before
I just get into my concerns, that thank you for doing,
procurement process
and the norm has been a cooperative agreement.
But one of the questions I just have
is who makes it on to this in invitation list.
So table one, it's noted as
these are the list of vendors that are invited to participate.
How are those determined and assessed since
the I
there's a number of auto body
shops that I know of in the city of Oakland
that are not on the invitation list.
Yes. Thank you for the question.
Through the chair,
for an activity like this, equipment, services,
public works,
knows of some vendors, which we would provide to purchasing.
But this, realistically, is a question for purchasing,
how they conduct the RFP process, where they advertise,
how they determine who they reach out to directly.
And I'm afraid I just can't answer that
question from the public works perspective on this contract.
Okay. And,
my other question is just beyond,
since this item is going to if we move this forward, per
Councilmember Houston's
motion, that then we would be returning into the fall
with this item, what I suppose would be a reasonable timeline,
since I think that'll just hold us over until the,
I don't think it's going to be enough capacity,
of course, for the next three years.
So what would be a reasonable time frame for an RFP yet?
And I know that we're going to continue this item in October,
it sounds like. But, I would love to just know that answer now.
Yeah. Through the chair.
That amount, I estimate, would be enough to get through October.
Considering the normal volume of accidents,
since we currently have 25 vehicles stacked up for accident
repairs, I'd have to do some analysis and see.
And we can definitely get that information back to you.
And we can definitely get the information on how
the outreach is conducted, in which vendors were and weren't,
contacted regarding this, but I would
I would suggest that if if we approved just
the $1,050,000 that buys enough time
to satisfy the questions that the committee has here,
hopefully,
I mean, I can't really predict the
the committee or council's response once
purchasing brings the information back.
So that's kind of my hesitation
in giving you a definitive answer,
because it's really like outside of our purview.
Okay.
That's helpful. And then final question is just around the
this Rhonda Pratt for they receive the,
most percentage of this, RFP funding.
And they are out in Dixon, California.
That's about an hour away.
Was the I just imagine it would add cost for transportation.
Did their response include that transportation cost?
I just I'm trying to imagine what that looks like
since that is significantly far away from Oakland.
Yeah. Through the chair.
I can't speak to that specifically.
I do know that some vehicles that are in an accident are still drivable.
Others, they could be transported by tow.
We currently use Rhonda Pratt Ford for Ford factory,
repair and maintenance, mechanical repair
and maintenance. So we've already got
an established relationship with them.
We just have to do an analysis on their hourly rate,
which I understand was significantly lower
than any other vendor. And then, compare that to what potential transportation costs
in, time, labor time, if it's our staff
or if we're actually paying for a tow truck,
I just don't have that information here now.
Okay,
that sounds good. And, yeah, I think when we continue
the item, the supplemental materials would be great.
I'll go ahead. In the second, Council member Houston's motion,
just to be clear, Mr.
Battersby and city. Mr. Lake, is this with this motion, will
this give us enough capacity to get through
to the end of the recess with the repairs that you need to do?
Is this going to severely hinder our operations?
Chair Ungar, I'm comfortable saying it'll get us through the break.
My trepidation is what happens after that
when we bring the information back.
Do we, with the
the additional contract,
do we end up in this process again, or will we make a decision at that point
so we can I'm confident we can get to October beyond that.
Okay.
Council member Gale.
Yes. Thank you.
I drive your vehicles every day.
All right. And it used to be in this city of Oakland
and this city of Oakland.
They're the council that understood,
talked a lot about illegal dumping, a clean neighborhood.
But I don't have the tools to do it.
I don't have the trucks to do it.
We go by there every weekend to rent, ride your vehicles
and during the week, and you don't have them.
They're broke. There's something happened.
I used to have ten mechanics, but I don't have three.
So those are internal decisions that this council
and city administrator you're accountable for.
You want a clean, safe city.
You got to have the tools to do that and the personnel
to get the work done.
And so the reality for me is
at one time we would buy, at least when I was around,
we would buy 50 to 100 brand new vehicles every year.
Part of our budget,
and we would have the mechanics to do the work
so I can pick up the trash.
I can have my street sweepers on the street doing their job.
They're supposed to be doing daily
and but I think that we need to be able
to provide the resources to get the work done.
Right now, we don't even bring about all the vehicles we rent.
How many you look at the police
vehicles, different matter price, rental.
You look at her rental.
Well, we rent our trucks from because we don't have them.
So the bottom line for me is
we have to replace and have the mechanics available
to do the work, to have the trucks
and the vehicles available so we can be on the street
delivering what the public paid us for.
And so I would,
you know, we can delayed and delayed and delayed it,
but we've been delaying this now for a number of years.
And the quality of service that I give Chinatown
and the others, I don't have the tools to do it with.
So the but the bottom line is for me is
get the vehicles repairs so we can
I don't want to show up on a Saturday or Sunday
or during the week because I come out on Wednesdays now
and you have well, the truck didn't work.
Well, we can do this. We can't do that because the vehicles are sitting there.
And then I go to your yard on the other side and I say 40.
I see the number of police cars wrecked sitting there
that haven't been service for a while.
So I guess for me, the bottom line is for for this
government, this council and this administrator,
and the director, administrator, Betsy Lake,
I urge
you know, thank you for coming out on Sunday and riding along and seeing what's on the street.
But you also get a chance to see the yard
where all the vehicles are sitting
there have been sitting there not operable.
And yet I got personnel that if they had an extra truck,
they would go out and keep my streets clean.
But the reality is we need more mechanics
and we need the vehicles to get the job done.
Thank you. And so, so for me and I, we can I know you want to cut me out,
but they can go off and off and off and talk,
you know, pie in the sky stuff.
But the bottom line is you have to be straightforward.
So we don't blame you and give reports about how
we're not cleaning our streets.
Thank you for that information.
And I and I support
your recommendation to get the job done.
Thank you, Councilmember Houston.
Let's focus.
Pie in the sky.
That's disrespectful.
And let me tell you why. Because for the vehicles that was damaged
was damaged by the your crew that picked them up.
So let's get focused okay.
So stop.
We're not talking about mechanics.
We're talking about body work.
So do the chair.
I set that on
that West Oakland body shop.
My revision
to this and let's move it
I got a first in a second to see if we got a third.
So I'd like to clearly restate the motion
and then go to our public speakers if possible.
What's that?
Can can we
can we clearly state the motion to make sure we have clarity
on what we're voting on
to the to the maker and the mover of the motion.
Council member. Houston, to be clear,
you are amending the second portion of the legislation
regarding equality body and Bender.
And your amendment is to
in the amount of $1,050,000 over a three year
period with two optional one year extensions.
Is that correct?
Thank you. And the remaining portions of this legislation will remain the same under your amendment.
Thank you. Okay, let's hear from our public speakers.
Please.
Moving to our public speakers,
Miss Asada and Blair Beekman.
I'm trying to follow this process.
The speakers said that on average,
you have 50 collisions per year.
At the same time, he's saying at this point,
we have 22 or 23 vehicles that need collision work.
So what you're saying is
we have 20 something
cars over what period of time?
What is the period of time for which a collision happens?
And the service needed for the repair of the car happens?
Is they a time frame already established?
Is it because of lack of funding?
We now have 22 cars that need repairs
or is it?
What is the reason?
But the other thing is,
when I looked up that dealership, it said Vacaville.
Is that the same as Dixon where you said it is same area?
Okay, so we got Vacaville, we got San Leandro,
Concord and then Oakland.
Thank you for your comment, Mr.
Asada.
Blair Beekman, if you're participating via zoom, please raise your hand.
Okay. That concludes your public speakers.
We do have a motion made by Councilmember Houston.
Second by Councilmember one to approved to
to approve, as amended, the recommendations of staff
and report decided to July 21st city Council agenda.
And once again, the amendments are to the second portion
of this legislation regarding the equality body and gender
portion of the legislation, with the amendments
of that portion to state.
Please go ahead.
Councilmember one,
just to confirm,
the rest of the contracts are going to come
before this body again in the fall.
Time for, for a vote, correct?
Okay. Good.
Thank you. I'll
go ahead. Councilmember Houston, apologies and to the chair.
And you're going to come back and find out why that company
was not or the condition of why that company wasn't,
reached out to our if they had the wrong email to right.
You'll get with me before that to the chair.
You're the chair. Absolutely, absolutely.
Okay. We've heard back from purchasing.
They didn't tell me how. And I'm assuming it's an email.
I've asked them to provide me the email,
and I just wanted to clarify. Also, if we go down to just the single Oakland based vendor
to perform repairs, that's better than not having any.
But as far as cycling vehicles through,
we planned on having an award to four, which would give us the capacity
to get the vehicles repaired more quickly, some of which
the police vehicles date as far back as October 2025.
So that's why the number is as high as it is.
It's about six months
worth of accident vehicles, which aligns with,
50 accidents per year, added Councilmember Guy.
On to your point. We have not been replacing vehicles regularly since 2023.
That's when fleet replacement was decentralized.
Prior to that, as you mentioned, we would replace 150 to 200
vehicles per each master lease municipal financing cycle.
We no longer have that capability.
So for the last three years,
we've essentially been replacing nothing.
So we absolutely got to make do with what we have.
Thank you for the accommodation, Council member Houston.
So we can get these vehicles back on the road okay.
Thank you. We've got a long agenda.
We need to move forward. Thank you.
To the parliamentarian.
Do you have a clarification?
Yeah, just a point of clarity as I hear
different council members having different understandings.
And I want to make sure that the record
and the vote is quite clear.
So, Council Member Houston, I understand
your motion for line item two.
Sorry, line item four to be that everything stays the same
except for part two quality body and fender.
You're just changing the duration
instead of two year weather with options to renew.
It's one year with
or with two one year optional renewals.
Is that correct? Okay. As a years.
That's my. Is that is that the motion you seek to make?
Council member Houston.
City. Mr.. Lake, is that I don't remember right.
I didn't recall a discussion over the term of the
the term of the agreements changing.
Did I miss something?
I understand that we were
only leaving the,
we were leaving the resolution as it pertained
to quality body and fender.
Only. But we were not changing the term.
That was my understanding of quality, body and fender.
So just for clarity,
it is removing everything but quality body and fender
and all the quality body and fender terms
would remain as proposed.
Okay. Council Member Wong, did you have an additional question?
You know.
All right. Are we all clear on what we're voting on?
At this point, what should we do?
You want to do that one more time?
You all right? So the city attorney has asked me to clarify
that the remaining contracts
in this resolution will not be moving forward today
or at the next council meeting,
that they will come after the break
with an updated supplemental report.
Yes. Thank you.
I threw a tear to the city attorney.
Please restate the motion regarding the quality
body offender.
So that's very clear on that specific portion of the legislation.
Thank you.
So the motion is to approve quality body and fender
in the amounts and the time frames proposed in the staff report.
And to remove the remaining proposed contracts to be brought
back in a supplemental report after the break.
Thank you.
Give me one second.
We do have a motion made by Councilmember Houston,
seconded by Council Member Wang,
to approve, as amended, the recommendations
and staff report this item to the July 21st,
2026 City Council agenda.
What the amendments stated on motion on record
by City Administrator Betsy Lake
to approve the quality and offender of the amounts
of the time frames proposed in the staff report,
and to remove the remaining proposed contracts to be brought
back in a supplemental report after the summer break.
Yeah, just a parliamentarian point of clarity
that they can come back
as a separate item, but not a supplemental.
Thank you for that clarity on roll.
Councilmember Gallo.
No, I'm supporting the original recommendation from staff.
We got to get the work done.
So that's a no to Councilmember Houston.
Yeah, because you crashed three of them. Yes.
Thank you. Councilmember one
I thank you.
And Chair Unger. All right.
This motion does pass with three eyes and no.
2 in 1. No council member Caio
to approve, as amended, recommendations of staff.
And for this item to July 21st, 2026.
City Council agenda and due to Council member Gayles. No.
It would be honored recommended for non consent.
Moving to item five.
Adopt a resolution
authorizing the City
Administrator to award and execute
a Professional Services agreement
with KW engineering
for energy assessment and consulting services
in an amount not to exceed $364,685
for the Municipal Facility Energy Assessment Project number
1008000 and adopting Sequa findings.
And you do have three speakers for this item.
All right. Let's hear from our staff. Please.
Good morning, chair and committee members.
I am Nick Cartagena, capital improvement program manager
with Oakland Public Works.
Happy to be here with you today
to discuss energy assessments on, 20 city facilities.
I'm here to request authorization
to award a professional services contract, or agreement
to KW Engineering and Oakland headquartered firm
with extensive experience working on city facilities.
The firm was selected through a competitive process
in which 12 firms were submitted for proposals
to conduct energy assessments at 20 city owned facilities
through a federal grant from the Department of Energy's Energy
Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant program.
These assessments will look at each building's
heating and cooling, lighting, electrical systems, and the roof, walls and windows.
Then tell tell us what's inefficient,
what it will cost to fix, and what we'll save.
That information sets it up for to go after capital
funding, utility rebates and future grant opportunities.
The selected facilities were identified
from the city's unfunded CIP project list using Council's
nine criteria scoring framework, which prioritizes equity.
Eight of the 20 facilities that serve underserved
communities, including senior centers, recreational centers
and emergency cooling centers.
The contract amount is not
to exceed $364,685.
This grant is funded through the Department of Energy.
All work must be completed by July 31st, 2027
to meet federal reporting requirements.
There is no general fund impact and no local match requirement.
In summary, staff request authorization
to award a Professional Services Agreement to K engineering
not to exceed $364,685,
fully funded by the Department of Energy grant,
with no general fund impact and no local match.
I'm happy to answer any questions you may have.
Thank you.
That's excellent. Thank you.
Council members questions.
All right. Seeing none. Let us go to our speakers, please. Thank you.
When I call your name, please approach the podium.
If you are participating via zoom, please
raise your hand so you're easily identified.
Miss Asada, Kevin Daly and Blair Beekman.
So, the report
identifies that the assessment of the 20 properties
are the properties that have the greatest need.
So I looked up the district of each one of these properties.
And only one is in district seven,
and only one is in district six.
So those are two
prop districts that have a lot of needs.
And that tends to be an agenda that you follow all the time.
District six and district seven are not being assessed,
but you make the statement
that these and you didn't put it in your report.
But district, I had to look it up.
So you're doing a report
where you're going to identify data identification,
but you don't know if you have the money to do corrective action.
And you're not looking at those data centers
that that use a lot of electricity.
Thank you. Miss this out of your comment.
Kevin Daley, thanks.
I appreciate this report.
There's a couple other items in the Equitable
Climate Action Plan that I like to examine.
Not only electrifying the buildings, but look at the time
shifting of the electrical use, electricity
in the middle of the night tends to have a higher carbon
content. The electricity produced during the day, during peak
solar periods.
So it'd be good to look at that to reduce not only local carbon
emissions, but global emissions as well.
Things.
Thank you all for your comments.
Moving to our zoom speakers.
And I do not see Blair being me.
So that concludes our public speakers for item three.
Okay. Let's, anything from, Council Member Gail? Yes.
I'll make a motion to approve the item.
Thank you. We do have a motion made by Councilmember Gallo.
Second by Council Member one
to approve the recommendations of staff and the report this item to the July 21st
City Council agenda on roll.
Councilmember Gallo I Councilmember Houston is out of his seat.
Excuse.
Council Councilmember Wang I
and your honor I.
This motion does pass with three eyes.
One excused.
Houston two
for the recommendations of staff and report deciding
to July 21st city Council agenda and through the body.
Would that be consent?
Yes, please.
Thank you. Moving to item six.
Adopt a resolution one.
Accepting and appropriating
a reimbursement grant from the Bay Area
Air Quality Management District transportation
Fund for the Clean Air Change Program in an amount
not to exceed $750,000 for elder cost eligible costs
associated with the installation of 15
two port direct current Pass
electric vehicle charging stations, for a total of 30
charging stations at the city's maintenance service centers.
7101 Edgewater Drive,
to authorize City Administrator to execute the grant agreement
and related documents, and three adopting Sequa findings.
And you do have three speakers for this item.
Excellent. Let's hear from Mr.
Matic. Please.
Thank you. Chair Unger. Richard batters the Oakland Public Works assistant director.
I'm here before you asking that, you grant approval
for us to accept the $750,000 grant from the Bay Area
Air Quality Management District?
This is but one of a ten grant project encompassing $16 million.
Excuse me.
We do need a quorum.
Thank you.
Please continue.
Thank you. Through the chair. I can have that effect on people sometimes.
The larger, overall fleet
electrification grant project, it's valued at 16 million.
9 million of that is through
grant funding, as I mentioned, through ten grant providers,
including federal EPA back Mid California Energy Commission,
the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Alameda
County Transportation Fund for Clean Air, etc..
The overall projects bringing 139 electric
vehicle charging stations at six city locations.
And it's adding 15 vehicles to the fleet that we
otherwise could not have provided.
However, they're somewhat specialized.
We'll be getting three battery electric Street sweepers,
one battery electric refuse truck and 11 battery
electric Silverado pickup trucks as part of that project.
I just wanted to note, and thank the staff that worked on this.
Tony Vargas is a temporary contract
service employee because we lack the
internal expertise and resources to pursue.
And then at once, the grants were awarded,
do the grant reporting and administer the project.
So Tony Vargas knocked the ball out of the park
and martini to Erica Vasquez and Equipment Services,
and particular Angela Fulton, who's the acting equipment
services manager,
if not for their efforts, we wouldn't have the $750,000
that was added on top of the already existing grant project.
So with that, I'm here for your questions.
Excellent. Colleagues questions
may as well
make a motion to approve staff.
Okay, I'll second that and let us hear from our public
speakers, please.
Thank you. Want to call your name?
Please approach your podium. If you are participating via zoom, please raise your hand.
It's Asada, Kevin Dally and Blair Beekman.
Kevin daly, thanks for presenting this.
This looks like great news,
especially with the street sweepers.
I'm hoping we can find some electric street sweepers
for the bike lanes, as well as for the full size, but.
But I know that may be a while off.
I'm also hoping that we can.
I know in many cases, employees
are encouraged to use electric bikes
that are charged by bell, that are supplied by the city.
Will they be able to charge at these locations as well?
That's probably pretty simple to add on.
If it isn't there already.
Thank you.
So we had to evacuate.
If I were had an electric car, I would have been in trouble because we had no electricity.
All of it was down in Louisiana.
It was. Majority of it was down in Mississippi.
The gas stations were open.
I could get gas.
So if there's an emergency
and you paint it, you're moving towards this electricity.
But electricity has problems.
Hi. Repair bills.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, not electric electrical vehicles have higher repair bills, battery limits.
And whether that is extreme batteries are used.
They use look them and cobalt.
These are things that are,
crucial threats to the environment.
It causes a great strain on charging
with the electrical comes. So we got problems, and y'all don't talk.
We push things and we don't look at everything involved in it.
If you have to evacuate
and you got all of these electric cars
and the electricity is down all through whatever areas
we found that.
Thank you for your comment, Mr. Asada.
That concludes your public speakers.
We do have a motion made by Councilmember Gallo, seconded by Chair Ungar,
to approve the recommendations of staff
and report this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on roll.
Councilmember Gallo,
Councilmember Houston is excused.
Council Member Wang I and Chair Unger.
All right, this motion does pass with three eyes.
One excused. Houston
to two,
for deciding to the July 21st City Council agenda.
And through the
and through the body. Would that be considered on?
Yes. Consent, please.
Thank you. Moving to item seven.
Adopt a resolution one.
Awarding a construction contract to Maguire and Hester for the Broadway
Streetscape Improvements Project number 1006953.
The lowest response have been sponsor will bidder and a accord
with the project plan specifications.
State requirements
and with contracts bid in the amount of $20,881,650
and into a adopting appropriate sequa findings.
And you do have three speakers for this item.
All right. Let's hear from Megan.
Wear please.
Thank you. Thanks so much.
Chair Ungar and committee members. I'm here.
Megan, we're assistant director
of department of transportation.
I'm pleased to be here today before you to request
that you consider the resolution awarding the construction
contract for the Broadway Streetscape Improvements Project to Maguire and Hester.
This project includes transportation, safety
and transit improvements on two segments of Broadway
through the heart of Oakland, from second to 11th Street
and from 20th to Grand Avenue, extending the current
transit lanes between 11th and 20th Street.
The project includes dedicated Red bus only lanes, new bus
shelters, seating
and trash cans, pedestrian lighting, street trees, upgraded
traffic signals and transit signal priority,
as well as pedestrian crossing improvements including curb
extensions, Ada compliant curb ramps and median islands.
More busses run on Broadway than in any other street
in Oakland, and its current design leads
to bus delays and unreliable travel times for bus riders.
Broadway is also part of the city's
High Injury network, meaning that it's just,
one of just 8% of our city's streets
where severe and fatal crashes are concentrated.
In upgrading Broadway, we're being responsive
to a number of historic plan documents.
The projects fully funded
by the federal, state and local grants,
because it's funded by a federal grant, the construction contract award
must abide by federal rules, including the suspension
of the disadvantaged business Enterprise program.
And we received three bids through a competitive bidding
process process. And McGuire and Hester submitted the lowest bid,
which was 16.6% below the city's engineer estimate.
Thanks so much for your consideration.
And I'm pleased to respond to any questions you might have.
That's great. This is an exciting project.
I'm looking forward to it. Colleagues, questions.
Councilmember Houston, please,
I like to do I like to move this.
All right.
Council member Wong,
thank you. Through the chair.
Thank you so much for your work on this, good segment of this,
is in district to,
is this project going to be coordinated
with the Oakland Alameda Access project?
Just given the overlap
I see in Councilmember one, we've been, the project
team has been working closely with the okay, Oakland,
project to ensure close coordination
as well as communications and so that there's no overlap
or extended, any additional delay, due to that coordination.
So it's happening on a weekly basis.
Great. Perfect. Thank you.
I'll second.
Okay. Speakers, please.
Public speakers. When I call your name, please approach the podium.
If you're participating via zoom, please raise your hand.
Is your easy identified Miss Asada,
Kevin Daly, and Blair Beekman,
Kevin Daly this Broadway
project is a great project, especially adding the bus lanes.
Looking forward to having more reliable bus service.
Bringing more passengers to the busses from cars might
do more to reduce carbon emissions
than some of our previous items.
The the ones aren't bad, but this one could do more.
Chris. We still need to worry about how to get money to AC transit so that it can
continue running reliable busses on those routes.
Which brings us back to the sales tax up.
Council can't do anything about it, but let's remember it.
Things.
There are districts that get a whole lot of attention.
The last item,
where they're doing assessments for air quality,
20 assessments,
only one being done in district seven, one in district six.
The rest of them were going to three, four and five.
I was looking for you to tell you that.
So this is district two, which get Chinatown
gets a lot of attention related to this.
But if you remember, AC transit is going to be doing some evaluation
based on lack of funding, and some of that is going to be,
not continue to have all stops in place.
So does this need to be coordinated
after we get a report from AC transit related to what services
will be provided, including potential elimination of stops?
Also, you you got to stop this bike lane thing.
Broadway is not suitable for any kind of riding of bikes.
Thank you for calling.
All right. Thank you for comments.
Moving to our zoom speaker.
And I do not see Blair Beekman.
We do have a motion made by Councilmember Houston,
seconded by Councilmember Wang, to approve
the recommendations of staff and report this item to the July
21st, 2026 City Council agenda on roll.
Councilmember Gallo is excused.
Councilmember Houston, I thank you, Council
Member Wang I and Chair Unger.
This motion does pass with three eyes.
One excused.
Io to approve the recommendations of staff
in the four days item to the July 21st, 2026
City Council agenda and through the body.
Would that be consent or not?
Consent, please. Thank you.
Moving to item eight.
Adopt a resolution
authorizing the City Administrator to finalize and execute a purchase agreement
with the Metropolitan Transportation Committee.
Commission as administrator of the Clipper
Regional Transit Fair
Payment Program in an amount not to exceed $400,000.
Using previously appropriate appropriated Regional Early
Action Planning 2.0 higher Impact Transfer
transformative grant funds to purchase a distribute
approximately 1000 prepaid prepaid Clipper cards
for the West Oakland Universal Basic Mobility Pilot
and making findings to waive the city's formal advertising,
competitive bidding, and request
for proposal and qualifications.
And you do have three speakers for this item.
All right. Let's hear from staff. Please.
Thank you. Good afternoon to the committee members and the public.
My name is Kirby Olson,
supervising transportation planner
in the Department of Transportation.
We do have a short presentation on this great program today
that will be given by, my team member, Colin Petty.
So come on up on.
Thanksgiving.
Hello, committee members.
So today we're giving you giving you more information about,
our request for council to approve staff
to authorize a new contract with MTC slash clipper to,
extend a second phase
of the universal basic mobility pilot in West Oakland.
And I'm sorry.
So universal basic mobility refers,
and I'm just giving you some background information.
It refers to a range of programs
that offer financial subsidies for selected participants
to spend on transportation services.
So we first started a UVM pilot in East Oakland,
that accompanied the launch of the tempo
bus rapid transit project.
And, and just from the jump, these are all fully
grant funded projects from outside funds
that did not require any matching funds.
So we wanted this first pilot in East Oakland.
So it was successful.
Then we got more grant funding from Alameda County Transportation Commission
to launch a pilot in West Oakland accompanying
a bus stop improvement
project called West Oakland Transit Improvements.
And then in 2023, city housing community development.
Yeah. Excuse me. Housing and Community Development Department received
$10 million from the Regional Early Action Planning Grant.
2.0 high impact transformative program.
To to implement the Mandela Station Development project
next to West Oakland Bart.
At the time, though,
they didn't pursue any action related to the portion of the funds included.
Which is why we're here now, today.
So in in evaluating,
the pilots that we've implemented
in East and West Oakland,
we saw that they've been successful in increasing transit ridership,
reducing traffic congestion and improving air quality.
We also found that these programs are especially helpful for very low income households.
So this grant, allocation would be used to implement
a second phase of the pilot in West Oakland.
And we plan to distribute Clipper cards with up to $400
for up to 1000 people living and working in West Oakland.
So to your right on the slide is the study area.
It's the same as in the first phase of the pilot.
And our eligibility requirements for participating are
that you must live or work in West Oakland,
that you must earn less than the area
median income, and must not be a city employee.
So while we were almost
nearly completed with the West Oakland pilot,
we want to give you some initial findings from,
East and West Oakland pilots.
The vast majority of participants
spend their funds on Clipper card or AC transit service.
And also the vast majority of participants
are very low income.
In West Oakland, nearly 80% of participants
earn less than $50,000 a year.
Participants also report change in the way they travel up
to, nearly half of participants did so in West Oakland.
And in both
pilots, we saw nearly the same amount of people,
driving less often.
So this is meeting all the program objectives.
So, in particular regarding Clipper card
and why we want to execute a contract with them
is because we saw that, you know,
as we mentioned in the slide earlier, folks,
majority of folks are using their funds on Clipper.
We had previously use prepaid debit cards, through of
ink so that folks could purchase shared mobility trips.
But now, given the program usage and also
some efficiencies, we're planning to switch to Clipper.
Clipper staff noted that
they're able to waive the physical cost of the cards,
and they're also able to provide customer
service support, which would free up, a lot of staff time.
And so there's some, some great efficiencies
that we want to take advantage of in this contract.
So by, by waiving formal advertising and competitive
bidding requirements, we would be able to execute
a purchasing agreement with Clipper and continue
this UPN pilot in West Oakland.
This the fiscal impacts of this action
would allocate know we excuse me, we've already allocated
$450,000 towards the UVM pilot.
We're planning to use 400,000 of those funds
on the Clipper subsidies, and then $50,000 towards
administration of the pilot.
And just,
read this formally, and,
this is the action we're requesting to finalize
and execute a contract purchasing agreement
with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission
slash Clipper in support of the West Oakland Universal Basic Mobility pilot
financial incentives in the form of 1000 prepaid
Clipper cards at a cost of $400,000,
providing the necessary
spending authority for the agreement
and waiving the advertising, bidding
and the request for qualifications.
Slash proposal.
Competitive selection requirements
and looking to the future.
Since these pilots have been successful,
we anticipate this next phase.
The West Oakland pilot will be just as as much successful.
We're looking towards implementing a citywide program,
so that all residents can take advantage of this benefit.
You know, we're seeing it's it's
been the program goals of reducing driving and,
providing economic benefit for very low income households.
So we'd like to extend that
to all Oakland residents, residents.
And as an additional benefit, we could potentially
use this program as a way to help mitigate
the impacts of new development by providing this program
as an option for developers to pay in lieu fees
so they can provide a transit pass
for the new residents or employees.
And with that, we'll take any questions you might have.
Thank you. All right. Very cool program.
Thank you for the presentation.
Council member Wong,
thank you so much for your work on this.
I fully support this.
One question I just have is,
it's been documented in some of the reporting around students
who are trying to access the youth, free bus program,
as well as the Clipper card program.
Do you anticipate the same challenges with enrollment here?
I don't really anticipate those challenges.
One issue we did come up against was attempted
email fraud on the program.
Just given our survey structure.
People use bots to try to take advantage of it.
So therefore we're we're planning
to have, cards distributed at, at,
AC Transit's Clippers office in downtown Oakland.
Okay, great. And what is the plan for outreach on this program?
So in the past, we've partnered with many local arts
Oakland institutions like Saint that, the Saint Mary's Center,
Abbott California Hotel,
Saint Monarch Saint Andrews all like the social service
and affordable housing providers there.
As well as working with the West Oakland
library, attending like the Juneteenth block party.
So we have a very long list
of community partners that we work with. Great.
Thank you so much. I'll move the item.
Thank you.
I'll second it and we'll go to Council Member
Houston for comment.
Thank you. Through the chair.
Thank you.
You said it was a pilot in East Oakland,
and that was the first pilot
in 2017 to 2021, which is four years.
Can you give me just, like, a little bit?
You said it was successful.
Just give me like a little because I wasn't around.
Only been in office 16 months.
Give me a little elevator pitch on how that was successful.
Of course. And through the chair.
So this,
the actual grant project was implemented from 2020
to 2021 to include those states just, you know,
so that we like this is the time it took to apply for and receive the grant.
So in East Oakland in particular, we saw,
transit ridership increased by 12% and driving decrease,
by about 6% for for folks who, were taking
either of those modes.
And in general, I would say that,
you know, anecdotally from from folks I've talked to,
they've stressed to me that, you know,
this allows them to see family members
they might not otherwise see,
you know, purchased Amtrak tickets to visit family
out of town and also just cover their basic needs.
A lot of these folks, as I mentioned earlier,
like earning less than $50,000 a year are on,
and, you know, urgently need these kind of benefits,
to help them live their daily lives and all that.
My supervisor, Kirby, speak to any other anecdotes?
Yeah. The only thing I'd add is that that grant program distributed
a total of $250,000 to residents that lived within half
mile of the AC transit temple line, in East Oakland.
How much was that again due to chair $250,000 in in transit
subsidies that they could use, to ride the bus essentially.
All right. Thank you.
Okay, let's hear from speakers.
Please move in to our public speakers. Mr.
Sada, Kevin Donnelly and Blair Beekman.
This don't make sense.
So the main purpose is to reduce people who are driving
to use the busses.
And then you say you were able to determine
that people were driving less.
How did you do that?
Because, you know, answer my questions.
So people are driving in any given area.
You don't know what they don't
necessarily live in West Oakland.
They can can be coming from any part of the city or even out of the city.
So how are you determining that
people drive in in an area and then you have Clipper cards
or these special Clipper cards that when they when they used
you have a specific identification of these 1000 Clipper cards or are they
the same Clipper cards, like all the rest of them?
How are you keeping up with these Clipper cards?
I just this doesn't make sense to me
how you get evidence data
to determine this as being successful.
You can license.
I know.
Kevin. Dally, this sounds like a great program.
And to me, it makes sense.
It it really sounds like it's another one
of today's agenda items that to reducing carbon
emissions by encouraging people to take rapid transit
or slow busses, apps.
Sorry. Standard busses as well.
Moving people out of cars into their busses should make it
safer for pedestrians and cyclists as well.
There will be fewer cars driving on Broadway
and more busses in the bus lane, which
of course we just heard about in the previous item.
I'm looking forward to the extension of this program
to all of Oakland and not
definitely. We're starting out slow and I'm hoping we move ahead.
There's problems with Clipper, but it's the best solution
to add to our transit.
Thank you for your comment. Listening to our zoom speaker, Blair Beekman, I do not see him.
That concludes your public speakers for item eight.
We do have a motion made by Councilmember Wang,
seconded by Chair Unger, to approve
the recommendations of staff and report this item to the July
21st, 2026 City Council agenda on roll.
Councilmember Gallo is excused.
Council member Houston
Council Member Wang.
And to your honor, I.
This motion does pass with three eyes.
One excused Dio to approve the recommendations of staff
and report this item to the July 21st City
Council agenda and through the body.
Would that be considered on.
Consent, please.
Thank you.
Moving to item nine.
Adopt the resolution authorizing the city
the Council President to submit a response
on behalf of the City Council to the 2025
through 2026 Alameda County Civil Grand Jury report.
And you do have three speakers for this item.
All right.
Good afternoon, chair, Committee members.
My name is William, the Oakland Public works director.
And on June 15th, the Alameda County Civil grand
jury released an annual report
that included essentially a chapter on illegal dumping.
And it made eight recommendations.
We, by law, are required to respond
to those recommendations within 90 days.
Those responses are drafted
and included at attachment B.
Because of that 90 day deadline falling within council's
recess, there is some urgency, to make sure that we do approve.
Those responses,
and what that approval will do was authorize
the council president to submit those responses to the Alameda
County Civil Grand jury,
on, in a timely fashion.
For some of you, this might feel a bit like deja vu,
and it should.
And the reason I say that
is we've been, having conversations over the past several months about,
illegal dumping, and we've made significant
progress in advancing both policy and implementation
of our illegal dumping strategy.
You might remember that, this committee and council approved,
significantly higher fines for illegal dumping.
This committee and council approved an illegal
dumping expenditure plan to fund, the three E's.
That's the city's strategy to abate illegal
dumping, education, enforcement and eradication.
The, we approved an adopted budget that includes
more funding for both eradication and enforcement.
The mayor secured a $9.25 million investment
from the Crank Start Foundation to, accelerate
implementation of that three E's strategy.
And we also, responded to our own
Oakland City Auditor's report on illegal dumping.
And it's 17 recommendations.
Most of what I just described either happened after or while
the Alameda County civil grand jury was finalizing its report.
So you don't see those actions represented in the report,
understandably, because they were filing,
likely, finalizing the report at the same time
as we sit here today, there is encouraging news.
The grand jury report is again showing alignment with what
the mayor, this committee, council,
the city auditor staff and also the community
are saying about our three E's approach
because we've discussed these items several times
in the past several months, I'm
not going to do thorough updates of all of the items,
but I do want to highlight three items that are updates
that this committee may not be aware of.
First, next week we are meeting
with the five Oakland Chambers,
to discuss proposed amendments to our mandatory
commercial garbage service ordinance.
That's a mouthful.
But this will make it easier for us to enforce and collect
against businesses that don't have sufficient garbage service,
because a business that does not have
a sufficient garbage service, some of that garbage,
is likely to end up on our streets and sidewalks.
We will return by September with those proposed amendments
to, this committee
and then ultimately for council approval, in late September.
Second, the Privacy Commission recently approved an amendment
to the city's automated license plate reader use policy
so that OPD can share illegal dumping
related video and data with Oakland Public Works.
That approval was,
from the Privacy Commission, and we expect that by September,
that approval will come, to the City council.
Third, bulky block parties are back.
You might have gotten the, press release, this morning,
but the first of four bulky block parties,
and remember, these bulky block parties were restored
after the, council adopted the illegal expenditure
action plan, to fund these block parties.
Our first one is taking place on July 25th
at 7101 Edgewater, from 9 a.m.
to 1 p.m.. Aucklanders, just need to bring, government issued,
photo ID, plus some mail showing that they.
Oh, sorry. Can I interrupt you for a second? We, have been joined by council President Jenkins,
so we need to, adjourn into a full council session.
I'll make that motion. I'll send.
Thank you. Have a motion by Chair Unger, seconded by Council member Wong
and the president's account.
Council president Jenkins
to adjourn the meeting of the Public Works and Transportation
Committee meeting and to convene into a special meeting
of full council.
The time is now 12:56 p.m.
on roll. Council member Gallo. Hi.
Thank you, Councilmember Houston.
I thank you.
Council member one I and to your honor, I sorry for the interruption.
Oh, problem for those, bulky block parties,
we need a, government issued ID plus some mail, ideally
from a utility showing, proof of residential address
in Oakland. With that, staff recommends that the committee approve
the proposed responses
and forward them to the city council for final approval,
after which the council president can then submit them on behalf of the City Council
within that statutory deadline.
Happy to answer any questions you may have.
I think this is great. And, you know, the, the grand jury captures a moment in time.
And unfortunately, they they got us right when we were in the process of,
implementing all of their recommendations.
So I think we are,
well ahead of of where they their report says we are.
So, anything from my colleagues,
Councilmember Houston.
Through the chair. This is great.
On page six, when it says illegal dumping
expenditures action plan, where is the EEOC in that
or were they included in this, enforcement officers,
they weren't specifically addressed to the Illegal dumping
Expenditure Action plan.
Other than that plan provides budget for us to implement
handheld technology
to make the work of the EEOC more efficient and easier.
More importantly for the EEOC,
the budget that council
adopted, froze one of those EEO positions.
And so the really
good news as we sit here today is we have three CEOs
who are scheduled to start in early August.
And so,
with that,
we should be, staffed up and our environmental enforcement officers,
in a much better way than we have the last couple of years
and through the chair.
So this is just information,
is very important in this conversation
that our eels are trained
for hazardous
and hazmat materials
because, as we all know, that
the city attorney can only do fines.
We need prosecution.
And the only way to prosecute is if the data is collected.
It has to be data driven.
Data driven that we can give the right information to
the Alameda County District attorney for what?
So they can proceed and prosecute
to the full extent of the law.
As we all know,
especially in my district, you took a ride with me
that there's no limit to what they will dump in my community.
And I'll say this. And, Madam President, he's out an ordinance.
Now, we always talk about this
is a crime against our community to what's happening on
E Street right now, right now between 105th and 98th and this.
Reverse that 98 to 100 and fifth,
where the children's path to travel
is horrible
and school is out. It's about to start. You know, you have everything there.
So I'll just say this and I'm just going to reiterate
that is very, very,
very important that we put have the right tools
so we can give the information to the district attorney
because she's willing to prosecute.
But we have to do it the right way,
because I'm gonna say this to you, you know, a share this.
And I'm into with this.
This is a crime against our community.
The things that they dump on these streets,
the waste management will not take.
And when you think about our our children have to walk through
this council member anger and then they track this
into their homes onto their floors.
Because they walk that street every day is horrendous.
You take a ride with me.
So it's very important for us to be armed up.
So that documentation that goes to the district
attorney can be used and not thrown out.
I've been there to with Nancy O'Malley,
so I know how important that is.
Councilmember one
thank you.
Through the chair.
Fantastic. Report.
And also really appreciate all the progress that,
the Public Works Department has been making on this under your leadership.
One thing I just have a question on is on finding 2618.
So this is around the grand jury's
recommendation around regulating private junk haulers.
And the response from the department is that
this should really be tackled at the regional and state level.
I was wondering if you could elaborate on that, why that is?
Since I, I do have an interest in looking
at the regulation of the city level, is
I really want to understand that rationale.
First, let me share what,
the city is currently doing around
junk haulers, which they are subject
to the same rules around illegal dumping.
And so the more we enforce, the more cameras we get
out there, the more videos we have doing investigations.
We'll see more enforcement actions against junk haulers
who improperly dispose of the materials they pick up.
The second is on the city's website.
We do have a list of, junk haulers,
who've got the appropriate, licensing to conduct the work.
And so I do encourage residents who,
are looking for some help to find that list.
You can do a quick, internet search for a city of Oakland,
junk haulers.
And you'll see that list come up 32.
More directly to your question, there could be, potential
legislative changes where we essentially,
end up with a registry of sorts for junk haulers
so that there is some pre checking of the junk hauler
to make sure they understood the rules, that they actually were bringing
the materials they collect and disposing of them properly.
Where we see on the staff side some struggles,
there is it's very, very, very, very likely that that's
going to cross city boundaries.
And so for that reason, a regional or a state approach is going
to be much more effective, we think, than, just doing it.
Within our city limits.
Okay. That's that's helpful.
And if let's say we did this at the county level,
what would be the regulatory body?
Who would handle that at the county level?
Okay, I think it would be the Board of Supervisors.
And that's something that I can do some,
digging to make sure that that's correct
and get that information back to you.
Okay. Great.
Thank you. I will move this item.
Okay. It looks like we've got a second from council member Houston
moving to our public speakers, Mrs.
Sara Blair Beekman and Kevin Donnelly
all miss Asada,
moving to our online zoom.
Blair Beekman
and I do not see Blair.
So we do have a motion made by Councilmember one second
by Councilmember Houston
to approve the recommendations of staff
and the port this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on roll.
Councilmember. All. Hi.
Thank you, Councilmember Houston.
Councilmember Allen,
I thank you and chair anchor I
the motion does pass with four eyes
to approve the recommendations of staff
and the for this item to the July 21st, 2026
city council agenda
and through the body, would that be on consent?
Yes please.
Thank you. Moving to item.
Unless there's some statutory reason why a grand jury response
can't be on consent to that, I think it can go on consent.
And if it can't, I'll double check.
Thank you.
Moving on to item S ten, which is supplemental ten.
This item does require a urgency vote as,
it was on the three day agenda as a title change.
We do need a motion. So moved.
Thank you. Would you have a motion by Chair Unger,
seconded by Councilmember Gallo to approve the urgency?
I would now read the item into record.
Adopt the resolution
authorizing the city administrator to amend
the professional services contract
with Alta Planning Plus Design, Inc, for the seventh Street
Connection project, for increasing the contract amount
by 747,288 for a total contract amount
not to exceed $3,955,404, extending the contract
expiration date to the December 31st, 2030.
Waiting to extent required further, further advertising,
competitive bidding
or competitive selection requirements under the Oakland
Municipal Code, section 204050
and 204051, and adopting Sequa findings.
You do have three speakers for this item as well.
All right, let's hear the staff report.
Good afternoon. My name is It's the one principal civil engineer with
Department of Transportation.
Some information regarding this project.
The seventh Street Connection project aims to create a safer
and more accessible
transit corridors for motorists, cyclists and pedestrians.
Using this major connection from West Oakland to downtown.
The project provides a protected class
for bikeway on seventh Street from Mandela Parkway to MLK way,
and on Gerry Adams Way, from Castro Street to MLK Junior
Way, closing a critical gap in the city's bikeway network.
The project will also reduce the number
of existing travel lanes, construct bus boarding islands
and transit shelters, improve pedestrian accessibility
and safety through widening sidewalks,
reconstructing curb ramps, expanding intersection corners,
and install pedestrian scale lighting, plant new trees
and upgrade the corridors.
Aging traffic signal equipment.
So in September 2022, the City Council
authorized the execution of a professional services agreement with Alta
to provide engineering services for this project.
Several several unforeseen circumstances encountered
during the design have necessitated additional design
and environmental support services
from the consultant, and an extension
of their contractual period of performance.
Adoption of the proposed resolution would authorize
the City Administrator to amend the existing contract
with Alta to continue providing design, services
and construction support needed for project completion.
The current
the contract amendment will be fully supported by available state grant funds
as the project advances to 100%.
Design plans and completion of the environmental process
are uniquely familiar with the project's design
and is best positioned to continue providing
professional services at the project
consultant. The proposed amendment increases the contract by around
750,000 to provide additional services
for a revised total not to exceed approximately,
around $4 million.
Therefore, staff recommends that this resolution be adopted
in the next City Council meeting to be held on July 2026.
And during that, I also want to share that
two documents were inadvertently left
out of the agenda package.
And these documents serve as background information.
Attachment A was project location map, and attachment
B was a copy of the consultants amendment request.
So the City Attorney's Office is
advised that if the committee wants them
included when the item goes to council, city council,
they can be provided through the appropriate process
before the City Council meeting.
Okay. Do we need to make an amendment to include this? Yes.
So if this body would like for attachments A and B
to go to council, the motion made by this body would need to include that.
Okay. I'd like to make the amendment,
that we move the item with the attachments included.
So. All right.
Council members questions.
Okay. Let's hear from our speakers from the public, please.
Thank you. When I call your name, please approach the podium, state your name for the record.
And if you're participating via zoom, please raise your hand.
Miss Asada, Kevin Daley and Blair,
Kevin Daley.
We'll keep it short.
Great project.
Seventh Street is not safe.
Pre project. Afterwards it should be a lot safer for pedestrians, cyclists
and for taking the bus which
which runs right by so forward to seeing it approved.
Thanks. Thank you.
If we have to use rule 28 for this item, why couldn't it been
brought in a timely manner through rules?
This item identifies that you'll be adding
better bus stops and lighting, adding
speed cameras to key areas for safety.
Now you have an item on public safety where you're
looking at all surveillance, surveillance technology,
whether to keep it or to eliminate it.
So any items that come up until you make that decision,
that has something to do with using cameras,
just like the last item, the recommendation from,
the grand jury was to share license plate information.
And that man didn't bring up the recommendations
from the grand jury,
which, including larger
trash bins, having,
what they call a garage saw.
The grand jury didn't ask you to come up with your own stuff.
It asks you to respond to their recommendations.
And I'd like to thank you so much for your comment,
Miss Asada.
Blair Beekman, I do not see Blair.
We do have a motion made by Councilmember Chair Unger,
seconded by Councilmember Gallo, to approve as amended,
the recommendations of staff
and for this item to July 21st, 2026.
City Council agenda
and the amendments is to add a supplemental attachments, A
and B, to be included in the agenda staff report on roll.
Councilmember Gallo.
All right. Thank you.
Councilmember Houston,
Council Councilmember Wang I and Chair unger I
this motion does pass with four eyes to approve,
as amended, the recommendations of staff
and the for this item through July 21st.
City Council agenda on consent, please.
Thank you.
Moving to open forum.
I still have a statutory reason.
Okay. By ministers discretion.
Just because it does say that the.
Council president can decide.
Okay. We don't have an obligation.
That's right.
Moving to open forum, miss Asada,
miss kin wa Parker Brightman.
And excuse me for mispronouncing your name.
Blair Beekman, Kevin Daly.
Julius Morel.
Shinobi. Howard.
Shinobi. Howard. DeShawn. Taylor.
Need to be.
Shauna will head senior.
And I have two cards for you.
And marks
and Timothy killings.
If I mispronounce your name, I do apologize.
Please state your name for the record.
If you are participating via zoom, please raise your hand.
And as practice, we will take in-person speakers before June.
Speakers, you may begin. Thank you.
My name is Anita B, and I've been a street
vendor in Oakland since I was 19 years old.
I'm 55 years old now.
When I started street vending, there were no laws that existed.
So what I was doing was not illegal.
Six years ago, the first set of laws that were created
that made what I do for a livelihood illegal.
I want you to know that street vending is not just about food, and commerce is about dignity
is about who gets to exist in public space.
It's about whether Oakland remains a city for working
class families, especially those from the flatlands
who can survive, build and thrive.
And for many families, mending has been
the difference between poverty and stability.
It has paid rent, fed children, sustain entire
economies and communities, and what the city has been doing
since May 1st, 2026, has been a total violation
of not just the Constitution, but several state laws
that were put in place to protect street vendors.
The city has used public Works Department staff and equipment
and trucks to destroy the property
of both permitted and unpermitted
vendors, without warning, without receipts,
without any notice of how to get their property back
despite the fact they have been destroyed.
Thank you for your comment, Miss Nita.
My name is Joyce.
I am one of many second and third generation street vendors in Oakland.
I set up at Lake Merritt.
Downtown North Oakland is Oakland.
I have helped my mom street vendor since I could walk.
My mother and I have been vending
since before your street vending permits, fees, rules
existed, vending paid for my education,
put food on my table, clothes on my back, and paid bills.
I worked a 9 to 5 but always stayed
loyal to my family business.
In fact, without having both a 9 to 5 and street vending,
we would not be able to survive in Oakland's cost
of living and impacted working class families like mine.
The word has spread across Oakland that the city of Oakland
and the mayor's office is cracking down on vendors.
Actions by the OPD, public works
and building and planning staff have done are not humane.
Civilized, are legal for rolling up to food vendors,
not giving them warning and throwing away their stuff is illegal.
I think it's interesting that the same equipment
you use to throw our stuff away is the same stuff that you use
to do your sweet encampments.
Thank you for your comment.
My name is Dejan Tolar.
I am a street vendor and I sell and make clothes,
for Lake Merritt.
On Friday, the city police seized my product and set up,
leading me to not knowing where my product is at.
And they never give me a receipt
for it, leading me to be unhoused.
Not to mention, a sergeant hopped in my car
and drove away without calling a towing company,
without doing proper procedures for it as well.
So following back to what they were saying,
the city is doing all types of illegal things to
stop street vending that helps provide families
and everything like that.
So that's all I have to say.
Good morning. My name is Quanah Parker Reitman.
I'm executive director of United Native Americans.
Come here today to stand with my brothers
and sisters in the community as far as the street vendors,
I am interested in wondering if the city council
has adopted SB 946
as far as decriminalizing street vending,
obviously what you're hearing from my brothers and sisters
here in the community
is you're not aware of that, or you haven't trained
the officers of OPD or the sheriff's department
that very much, you know, really needs to be rectified
as far as the treatment of people, especially our community.
Okay. That's one thing we'd really like to see done here
today is the treatment of all of our community
treated with respect.
Thank you very much.
Hello, I'm Shinobi Howard.
I'm also a street vendor, and,
they seem to have a lot of complaints
about the things that, go on at the lake.
So public works, we have eggs for larger garbage cans.
We ask for assistance with, with the
just a lot of things that are going with the lake.
So also, we cleaned up at the lake,
we pick up the trash when we when we
when we van and when we leave, the trash picks up.
We break up everything. We put everything in the garbage spaces.
We ask the city
just to give us
larger garbage bins so we could place more things up in there.
But at the end of the day, we just, we're all vendors
and we just take care of the whole things that we have to pick it.
Hello. My name is Timothy Killen.
I'm a street vendor, I Lake Merritt.
Also, I work at USD public schools
as a community schools manager.
I'm here because the city's approach
to vendor enforcement at Lake Merritt is unacceptable.
The vendors at Lake Merritt are not the problem.
They are part of the economic and cultural fabric of Oakland,
and many black, indigenous and working
class families trying to make an honest living.
Oakland has already displaced
much of the African-American community
through decades of policy decisions.
We should not continue that legacy by criminalizing
the very people who are still here,
creating culture and economic opportunity,
the militarized response to vending
and the repeated shutdowns of the lake.
Important cultural celebrations like Juneteenth send
a clear message about whose presence is welcome
and whose is not the people most affected by the decision.
The vendors themselves are too often excluded
from conversations that shape these policies.
Current vendor policies prioritize comfort of visitors
and outside interests over the livelihoods
of Oakland residents and the communities
that have built a culture of the city.
Understand, this department is not
solely responsible for decisions,
but every department involved responsibility to speak with us.
Yeah.
If I called your name and you would like to speak on the on open forum,
please state your name for the record.
Thank you.
Yeah. Good afternoon.
And marks, I am coming here just to introduce or reintroduce myself,
in my new role with Pji.
I think, a lot of, you know me,
I worked for the city of Oakland back in the 90s,
the early 2000 and, working,
here in the nonprofit community for a long time,
been a commissioner for the city.
And, you know, I live here.
My family's here. I love it here.
So I was happy to have the opportunity to,
be part of pg ni,
and use that as an opportunity to work with my city.
And so I look forward to doing that.
I just want to raise awareness about one thing, which is that, PGD,
used our resources and our time to lobby on behalf of SB 1218,
in Sacramento.
You know, the illegal dumping affects a lot of things,
but it really affects our ability to,
do work because often it's on top of our assets and,
keeps us from doing what we need to do.
And, I've heard
from enough of you to know that nobody likes it when it takes us
longer than it should to do our work, in, in our city.
So, thank you for your time.
And I look forward to working with you.
So, who's this?
The, the late
marriage vendors, majority of them African Americans.
For years, you have targeted them,
and you have you used the,
public works,
board
to target them with a pilot program.
You didn't have the courage to target them on your own.
You use your that group to target them
with fines, ticketing, no parking,
all kind of issues around
majority black vendors at Lake Merritt.
This has been going on for a couple of years,
but you have vending all over the city
that doesn't get the same attention.
Is it because this is a large number of African Americans
who are vending over there at Lake Merritt,
but you need to have a review of that pilot vending program
that was developed by a bunch of regular citizens
to target these vendors.
And you have one more thing.
I can't say it, but we have,
thank you so much for your comment, Miss Asada.
Move it.
Kevin Daley, your passing. Thank you.
Moving to our zoom speaker, Blair Beekman,
please unmute yourself and begin your one minute comment.
All right. Thank you. Blair Beekman.
I, been busy with the San Diego public meetings today.
I missed, talking about the future
redevelopment of the Broadway area.
Don't forget to think about all
the tech accountability policies and best practices
that you can add to the future of that area.
And when you do, it really helps with, it's an important draw
and in why people will come to Oakland
if they see good tech accountability and action,
they want to be around that, don't you think?
I really work on it, I hope,
I also hope that,
I, my previous public comments,
at the special counsel yesterday,
I didn't say well enough that just to really thank yourselves
for it seems like city administration
is taking the time, effort and care to consider the concept
of community participation at this time.
If they're not,
I get a sense they're trying to good luck
in their continued efforts to try to.
And thank you.
That concludes your speakers for open forum.
All right. Meeting is adjourned.
Don't go too far. We're getting the band back together in seven minutes.
Thank you.