[5:30] Good morning.
[5:32] Oh. Excuse me. Good morning, and welcome to the Public Works
[5:34] of Insurance Protection Committee meeting for today.
[5:37] Today's you're like, 14 to time is now 11:35 a.m..
[5:42] And this meeting has come to order.
[5:45] Before taking roll, I will provide instructions on
[5:47] how to submit a speaker's cart for items on this agenda.
[5:51] If you are here with us in chambers
[5:53] and you would like to submit a speaker's cart.
[5:55] Please fill one out
[5:57] and turn it to a clerk representative to my left.
[5:59] Your right.
[6:01] Before the item is ready to record, online speaker
[6:04] requests were due 24 hours prior to this meeting.
[6:07] This meeting came to order at 11:35 a.m.
[6:11] speaker cards were no longer be accepted.
[6:14] Ten minutes after the meeting has began.
[6:17] Or like stated before,
[6:19] or if I read item into record making that time.
[6:22] 11:45 a.m..
[6:24] And with that, we will now proceed to take roll.
[6:28] Council member.
[6:32] Gayo.
[6:33] Present.
[6:35] Thank you. Council member. Houston. Present.
[6:37] Thank you, Councilmember Hwang.
[6:40] Present. Thank you. And Chair Unger here.
[6:43] We do have four members present.
[6:45] And before we begin, Council Chair Unger.
[6:48] Excuse me. Do you have any announcements?
[6:50] Yeah, we've got a packed agenda today.
[6:51] So, we're going to limit public speakers to one minute.
[6:54] And, for all of us,
[6:56] let's try to keep our comments and questions brief
[6:58] so we can get through the whole agenda.
[6:59] Thank you.
[7:02] Thank you, Chair Unger. Once again, public comment will be limited
[7:05] to one minute on all agenda items.
[7:08] Moving to item one.
[7:10] Approval of the draft
[7:11] minutes from the committee meeting on June 23rd, 2026.
[7:19] Second,
[7:20] we do have a motion made by Councilmember Gallo.
[7:24] Second, by a council member.
[7:25] Want to accept the draft minutes when the committee
[7:28] meet on June 23rd, 2026, as is on roll.
[7:32] Council member Gallo I thank you, Council member Houston.
[7:35] I thank you, Council Member Wang I thank you.
[7:38] And to your honor,
[7:40] I this motion does pass before eyes
[7:42] to accept the draft minutes from the committee
[7:44] meeting on June 23rd, 2026, as is moving to item
[7:48] two determination of scheduled outstanding committee items.
[7:51] This is also known
[7:52] as your pending list, and you do have one speaker.
[7:56] Council members, staff, administration.
[8:00] Anything for the pending list?
[8:02] Nothing from the administration.
[8:04] Thank you.
[8:09] Good morning, Committee members.
[8:10] Megan, we're assistant director of okay at.
[8:13] We do have an item on the pending list.
[8:15] The safe Oakland streets annual report that we'd like
[8:18] to request be scheduled to the September 22nd.
[8:21] Public Works and Transportation Committee
[8:25] said again.
[8:28] Is there a file ID that you're asking?
[8:31] I can I can follow up with the with the file.
[8:33] And for me, I don't have it, but okay.
[8:37] That's great. If you could follow up with that, we will get it done. Thank you. Thank you very much.
[8:39] You said the city Hall streets.
[8:40] Yeah.
[8:43] The streets report
[8:45] moving to our public speaker, Blair
[8:47] Beekman.
[8:52] If you're participating on
[8:53] via zoom, please raise your hand.
[8:59] And I don't see it.
[9:02] I don't see Blair Beekman.
[9:06] All right, let's move on.
[9:09] We have I will make the motion to accept the pending list.
[9:14] Second.
[9:19] We do have a motion made by Councilmember
[9:22] Dias, seconded by Chair Ungar to accept, as amended,
[9:27] the determination of schedule, outstanding committee items.
[9:29] The amendments is moving safe.
[9:32] Oakland Street report file ID 26
[9:34] 0861 to the September 22nd
[9:38] Public Works and Transportation Committee meeting.
[9:40] Yes, please. Thank you.
[9:42] On roll, Councilmember Gallo.
[9:45] Councilmember Houston, I thank you.
[9:48] Council Member Wang.
[9:49] I to your honor, I
[9:52] this motion does pass to allow for eyes to accept, as amended,
[9:55] the determination schedule outstanding committee items,
[9:57] which is also known as the pending list.
[10:01] Moving to item three.
[10:11] Adopt the resolution authorizing the City Administrator to execute
[10:13] an internal governmental cooperation agreement with
[10:15] the Alameda County AC transit for the Fruitvale Avenue Transit
[10:19] Signal Priority Project, and adopt appropriate
[10:24] Sequa findings. And you do have three speakers for this item.
[10:28] Great. Thank you. Let's hear from our staff, please. Hello.
[10:30] Good morning.
[10:30] Members.
[10:31] And Ocana here,
[10:32] transportation planner with the Department
[10:35] of Transportation to item before you is to request authorization
[10:38] for the city administrator
[10:39] to execute an intergovernmental cooperative agreement
[10:42] with AC transit for the Fruitvale Transit
[10:46] Signal Priority Project.
[10:48] AC transit project will deliver transit improvements
[10:50] that will increase transit reliability for East Oakland.
[10:52] There's the Intergovernmental Cooperative Agreement
[10:55] between the city and AC transit, outlining responsibilities
[10:59] associated with design, construction,
[11:01] support, and ongoing operation and maintenance.
[11:04] Once the project is completed, ownership will be transferred
[11:07] to the city of Oakland,
[11:08] where fiscal impacts is expected to be minimal
[11:11] with maintenance of traffic signals equipment
[11:14] absorbed within existing operations.
[11:16] Equipment associated with this project
[11:18] will be maintained by AC transit.
[11:20] Therefore, staff recommends that the City Council authorize
[11:23] the City Administrator to execute an intergovernmental
[11:26] cooperative agreement with AC transit
[11:28] for the Fruitville Transit Signal Priority Project.
[11:34] All right, Council members, questions.
[11:37] Council Member Wang, I believe you are next in the queue.
[11:42] I was just going to move the item.
[11:43] Thank you for your work on this.
[11:47] Council member Gayo.
[11:48] I think you guys need to press the button. Yes.
[11:50] I want to publicly thank you for your work.
[11:53] It's long overdue, and certainly it's
[11:55] going to make a big difference
[11:56] in terms of the safety transportation
[11:58] on the Fruitvale corridor,
[12:00] serving our seniors and the rest of the community.
[12:04] So with that, I make a motion to approve the item.
[12:06] Thank you.
[12:11] I'll second that. Any other questions from council members?
[12:15] Oh, man. Okay, then let's, go to our speakers.
[12:19] Public speakers. Thank you. Calling in our public speakers for item three.
[12:21] This Asada Blair Beekman
[12:25] and Kevin Dally, if you are participating via
[12:27] zoom, please raise your hand so you're easily identified.
[12:30] Thank you.
[12:31] I'm going to ask you to pay attention to reports
[12:34] that consistently have to use the language.
[12:37] People of color.
[12:39] You see, there is no such thing
[12:42] biologically in science as a race.
[12:46] It's an inventive social construct
[12:49] with the purpose of allowing certain people
[12:53] to have a position, a higher ranking.
[12:56] We all human beings.
[12:59] So what's the purpose of saying that we have a bus
[13:03] transit service opportunity, and the majority of the people
[13:08] are going to get it? People of color, what difference does it make
[13:12] that social construct
[13:14] to constantly put people into groups, and sometimes
[13:19] to put people into groups where we all have in the same experience,
[13:21] and we're not low income seniors?
[13:25] It doesn't matter.
[13:27] The bus service exists for anybody that wants to use it.
[13:32] Then you say, the costs you don't.
[13:36] Asada oh I'm sorry. No thank you.
[13:38] Thank you so much.
[13:44] Kevin Daley definitely.
[13:46] You strongly support this work.
[13:49] It'd be great to always mention synchronizing the pedestrian
[13:53] crossing time as well on International Boulevard.
[13:57] Frequently the pedestrians have to wait
[13:59] for a very long time to cross in order to optimize
[14:03] the bus rapid transit.
[14:05] The temporal crossing, even though obviously
[14:08] passengers on the tempo do
[14:11] become pedestrians once they leave the tempo.
[14:15] But definitely support it.
[14:16] Thanks.
[14:20] Thank you. Moving to our zoom speaker, Blair Beekman.
[14:24] Okay, that concludes our public speakers for item through.
[14:26] We do have a motion made by Councilmember one,
[14:29] seconded by Councilmember Garcia,
[14:30] to approve the recommendations of staff in the port.
[14:33] This item to the July 23rd, 2026 City Council agenda on roll.
[14:38] Councilmember Gallo.
[14:39] Thank you, Councilmember Houston.
[14:42] I thank you.
[14:43] Councilmember one I and your honor, I
[14:47] this motion does pass with four eyes
[14:49] to approve the recommendations of staff
[14:51] and for this item to July 22nd, 2026 city council agenda
[14:56] and through the body would that be on considered on
[14:59] consent, please. Thank you so much.
[15:01] Moving to item four.
[15:07] Adopt a resolution
[15:09] authorizing the City administrator
[15:10] to award a contract to Ron Number one, Rhonda Pratt,
[15:14] for any amount not to exceed 1,400,000, to provide
[15:18] collision repair and body shop services for light vehicles
[15:22] for a three year term.
[15:23] September 1st, 26 through September 1st, 29
[15:27] and two one year options to renew in response to RFQ
[15:31] 4065352.
[15:35] Quality body and fender,
[15:36] an amount not to exceed $1,050,000 to provide
[15:40] collision repair and body shop services
[15:42] for light vehicles for a three year term.
[15:44] September 1st 26 to September 1st 29,
[15:48] and to one year options to renew and response to RFQ
[15:51] 4065353.
[15:56] Falcon collision repair in amount not to exceed
[15:59] $525,000 to provide collision repair and body
[16:02] shop services for light vehicles for a three year term.
[16:06] September 1st 26 to September 1st, 2019 A21 year options
[16:11] to renew in response to RFQ for 06535
[16:16] for Miller Brothers Body Shop, in an amount not to exceed
[16:19] $525,000 to provide collision repair and body shop
[16:23] services for light vehicles for a three year term.
[16:26] September 1st 26 to September 1st, 29
[16:30] and two one year options to renew in response
[16:34] to our 24065355 bowler brothers body Shop in amount
[16:40] not to exceed 1,750,000 to provide collision
[16:44] repair and body shop services
[16:47] for heavy vehicles in a three year term.
[16:49] September 1st 26 to September 1st 29
[16:53] and to one year options to renew in response to RFQ
[16:56] for 065296 Falcon
[17:00] collision repair in an amount not to exceed 1,750,000.
[17:04] To provide collision repair and body shop services
[17:07] for heavy vehicle for a three year term.
[17:10] September 1st 26th to September 1st, 29
[17:13] and to one year options to renew in response to RFQ 4065297.
[17:19] Making findings under Oakland Municipal Code,
[17:21] sections 204050 and 20451,
[17:27] and waiving any further formal advertising and bidding requirements to extend necessary
[17:30] and eight and adopt appropriate score findings.
[17:33] And you do have two speakers for this item.
[17:39] 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.
[17:41] Knock on wood. Let's hear from staff, please.
[17:44] Thank you for that clarification.
[17:45] Chair Unger.
[17:47] Richard Battersby, assistant director of Oakland
[17:49] Public Works,
[17:50] Bureau of Maintenance and Internal Services,
[17:53] the largest bureau and public works
[17:55] encompassing facilities, fleet, sewers and storm drain.
[17:59] I'm here to talk to you today
[18:00] about a facilities contract regarding collision repair.
[18:04] None of which, will support, Chair Ungar
[18:07] because he doesn't have collisions.
[18:09] And I also wanted to note, for the record,
[18:11] this also represents public works
[18:13] entry into the longest staff recommendation for 2026.
[18:17] So thank you, City Clerk, for that
[18:19] efficient and error free reading.
[18:23] The city operates a fleet of approximately 1500 vehicles.
[18:27] Unfortunately, during the course of operation, these vehicles become damaged
[18:30] by collisions either with other vehicles or other objects.
[18:34] And we have a history of about 50 collisions a year.
[18:38] Previously, we've been performing the body repairs.
[18:41] We have an internal body repair shop.
[18:43] We don't do any painting, but we have three body repair FTEs.
[18:48] Those three FTE have been vacant, for
[18:50] at least the past year, a couple of them longer.
[18:54] And we have recently filled one,
[18:55] but we will be filling another.
[18:57] This has resulted in us having to increase
[19:01] the amount of repairs that we send to outsourced body vendors, collision repair vendors,
[19:05] which is why I'm here with this contract today.
[19:09] Previously, we only had a single collision
[19:11] repair vendor that was Muller Brothers.
[19:14] And due to the conditions or circumstances
[19:17] that I just described,
[19:18] we have exceeded that contract capacity
[19:21] and we have not been able
[19:22] to repair vehicles for the last month or so.
[19:24] So this is a very important agenda item.
[19:27] Currently we have 25 vehicles, accident
[19:31] repair vehicles that are awaiting repair.
[19:33] 22 of those are Oakland Police Department vehicles.
[19:38] So again, it's very critical that we get these contracts established.
[19:41] The contracts for collision repair totaled $7 million.
[19:45] And this is over a three year period with two optional
[19:49] one year extensions.
[19:51] The two optional one year extensions are,
[19:54] give us the ability of the vendors, demonstrate
[19:57] that they're performing acceptably
[19:59] and they're delivering good value to the city.
[20:02] We can offer them an extension on that contract without having
[20:05] to come back to council.
[20:10] We bid this opportunity, put it out RFP as the commitment
[20:12] that I've made numerous times in committee and city council.
[20:16] We are moving away from co-op contract
[20:19] procurement process to bidding, and that's to ensure
[20:23] we're getting best value, but also to allow Oakland vendors
[20:26] an opportunity to bid of the $7 million, in contract capacity.
[20:33] Before you. And keep in mind, that's just expenditure authority.
[20:36] It's not committing. Budgeted funds.
[20:38] This just gives us the ability, should we need it.
[20:42] The amount is probably more than we need,
[20:44] but that's us erring on the side of caution.
[20:47] Of the 7 million half, 3.5 million is for light duty,
[20:51] and the other half, 3.5 million is for heavy duty
[20:55] on the light vehicle collision repair contracts.
[20:59] We sent notices to.
[21:01] And I should have counted them,
[21:02] but it looks like there's at least ten.
[21:05] And we received one, two, three for responsive bids,
[21:09] one of which was an Oakland based vendor.
[21:12] I understand another Oakland based vendor
[21:14] is on the list as not submitting a response.
[21:19] Apparently they feel that they weren't contacted.
[21:21] So we are doing some information.
[21:23] But as the time of this presentation,
[21:25] I don't know if there was a disconnect,
[21:28] but we did get four responsive bids
[21:31] and we awarded those for vendors,
[21:34] percentages based on a scoring criteria.
[21:38] That scoring criteria includes
[21:40] lowest cost, competitive pricing, location
[21:46] and also awarding to multiple vendors gives us some operational flexibility,
[21:49] and it gives us options where
[21:51] we don't have all of our eggs in one basket.
[21:54] Rhonda Ford was awarded approximately 40%
[21:58] of the total, light duty repair contract.
[22:02] And this is just an estimate.
[22:04] For the purpose of this agenda report,
[22:06] we're not sure what the actual
[22:07] breakdown will come out to, because obviously,
[22:10] we can't predict exactly how much accidents are going to cost to repair.
[22:13] They, Rhonda Pratt ranked highest
[22:15] because of the lowest overall cost
[22:18] and then quality body and Fender, which is the Oakland
[22:20] based vendor, they were awarded 30% of the contract.
[22:24] And we acknowledge,
[22:26] it is a very desirable to keep Oakland
[22:29] city of Oakland dollars
[22:31] within the city of Oakland and keep Oakland working.
[22:34] And they're also closer to us, which gives us better
[22:36] response times and more rapid turnaround.
[22:40] The other two vendors, Falcon Collision and Moller Brothers,
[22:43] were each rewarded 15%, awarded 15%.
[22:48] And I will note that Moller Brothers
[22:49] was the prior incumbent for light duty body repairs.
[22:53] They're still going to get a piece of the body repair action,
[22:57] for the heavy duty side, we only received two responsive bids.
[23:01] None of which were Oakland based vendors.
[23:04] So accordingly, we awarded 50% to each and those vendors are.
[23:14] I'm on the wrong page here.
[23:22] Oh, it's right on the front.
[23:27] Molar brothers and Falcon also received the heavy duty body repair,
[23:32] which is why I was looking in the agenda report for the two additional vendors,
[23:36] but they were already noted in the light duty, so I apologize for that.
[23:39] With that, I'm here to answer any questions.
[23:43] Thanks for the report.
[23:44] Councilmember Houston, please.
[23:47] Good morning. Mr. batters me through the chair.
[23:50] I'm looking at these these documents,
[23:53] and, I see one
[23:56] Oakland based in West Oakland.
[23:58] And I just want to share with you in district six.
[24:01] I mean, really, district five and district seven
[24:04] have some of the most, body shops in Oakland.
[24:08] Right? And so let's look at this real quick because.
[24:11] So we have Falcon Collision and Concord.
[24:14] They got two contracts and that one then we have
[24:19] Muller brothers.
[24:21] That's how you pronounce the two contracts there in San Leandro.
[24:23] Then we have, Ron and Dixon.
[24:29] Right. And then we do have quality body and fender in West Oakland.
[24:32] I know that that that company very well.
[24:34] And that's in district that's in,
[24:37] Carroll five district.
[24:38] But but what I don't like is that,
[24:41] Pacific collision
[24:44] is from district seven, and they do major work
[24:47] for Caltrans, and they've been underserved for so long. Mr.
[24:51] Battersby, when it was an encampment on their in their,
[24:56] on their, street
[24:59] and that's on Helgenberger loop that affected their business.
[25:02] Just majorly Mr.
[25:04] Battersby majorly. People didn't want to come.
[25:07] Caltrans didn't want to drop their cars out there.
[25:09] And, they said that they didn't receive this.
[25:12] And that's why I came over to you,
[25:13] because I just didn't want to just throw you off.
[25:16] I wanted to find out what email,
[25:17] because there I spoke to them this morning.
[25:19] They did not receive that in their qualified, company.
[25:23] I have a question for you, Mr. Battersby.
[25:25] You said it's 25, automobiles in the queue, ready for bodywork.
[25:29] Is that what you said through the chair?
[25:31] That's correct. Okay, so. So this is not urgent
[25:35] and this is not an emergency.
[25:36] And and that's where I always say that,
[25:40] being in this seat, they always have some emergency
[25:43] and urgent that we got to get it done.
[25:44] We've got to get it done. I've got to get it done.
[25:45] And then we make decisions
[25:47] that aren't in the best interest of the city.
[25:50] And I'm gonna say this one more time
[25:52] in the best interests of the city.
[25:55] This what I see right here is not in the best interests of my city.
[25:58] Because I see one company from West Oakland,
[26:00] and we have many, many, many, many qualified in district
[26:04] five and seven. Many because that's what they do.
[26:07] That's their skill sets.
[26:10] So I want to hold this here until I find out that,
[26:14] why Pacific Collision qualify
[26:19] qualified, that was underserved, that was,
[26:22] that had,
[26:24] lost so much business.
[26:27] Mr. Battersby, when these homeless encampments was in their the area
[26:30] and they said they weren't contacted.
[26:33] So that's why I came over to and said, what email did you get?
[26:37] Who did you speak to? Because,
[26:39] this right here doesn't make me feel good
[26:45] that in the best interests of the city of Oakland, especially if there's only 25,
[26:48] this is not like it's an emergency.
[26:50] I want to find out what's going on
[26:51] and get more qualified individuals or companies in five
[26:55] and seven that have those businesses
[26:57] all along the corridor.
[27:00] But through the chair.
[27:02] I'd like to respond to Council Member Houston.
[27:06] As far as the contact notices
[27:08] that go out to the potential bidders,
[27:10] that would be a question for purchasing.
[27:12] Purchasing is under finance
[27:14] department, not within public works.
[27:16] Briefly before this meeting, I reached out to my staff
[27:19] to try to get in touch with someone
[27:20] from purchasing to see how their contact list work,
[27:23] and I was glancing behind me to see if we had anyone.
[27:26] I don't think we do.
[27:28] But I'll definitely get an answer to you for that.
[27:30] But but just to be clear, I don't want to rush anything
[27:34] through council, but just understand
[27:36] we can't perform any accident repairs currently.
[27:38] We currently have no contract.
[27:41] Out of those 25 vehicles, 22 are OPD.
[27:45] We haven't been replacing OPD patrol vehicles regularly for three years,
[27:48] and the last time we bought OPD patrol vehicles was in 2022,
[27:53] when we had 37 OPD units hung up at the San
[27:56] Leandro dealer because allegedly we couldn't pay for them.
[28:00] So it's essentially
[28:02] it is critical that we repair the vehicles
[28:04] we have because it doesn't seem we have
[28:08] scheduled regular ability to procure replacement vehicles.
[28:11] So we got to make do with what we have.
[28:13] So through the chair,
[28:15] how many OPD vehicles?
[28:18] Through the chair? 22.
[28:20] So 1 or 2 of those may not be patrol vehicles.
[28:23] Oh, so that means three.
[28:25] So is anyone can speak from police department or police
[28:28] if that's what they want.
[28:30] Pardon me.
[28:31] Do you chair anyone?
[28:33] So that means it's only three that really are outside
[28:38] of the police department. Is anyone here that can speak for the police department?
[28:39] Please do the chair.
[28:41] I need to speak to someone.
[28:44] Because let me just share this with you.
[28:46] This,
[28:48] I was elected
[28:49] to fight for the city of Oakland across the board.
[28:52] And this is not a rush.
[28:53] If the police department says
[28:55] that they can deal with their having their 23, that's repaired
[28:59] and it's not going to affect them,
[29:00] I want to find out why passive collision wasn't.
[29:05] That's that's that's where I stand.
[29:07] And, through the chair.
[29:09] Council member Houston, would you be comfortable
[29:11] with a partial award, perhaps to quality the Oakland
[29:15] based vendor that is on the same track list,
[29:18] so we can at least move some vehicles
[29:20] through the repair shop and get them back in service.
[29:23] Yes, sir. I would I would accept that, Mr.
[29:25] Battersby, is that going to give you enough capacity?
[29:28] Because we're not going to be able
[29:29] to get back to this until after the recess.
[29:31] If yes, Chair Ungar that's
[29:34] it would be $1 million or did it.
[29:38] Yeah, 1,050,000.
[29:40] That would be adequate to get us through the the break.
[29:45] Okay. So, Council member Houston, are you proposing an alternate?
[29:48] Yeah. Alternate that we,
[29:51] quality body and fender.
[29:53] We give them that.
[29:55] Yes. That's that.
[29:56] I'm satisfied with that.
[29:57] Oakland bass sounds good to me.
[30:00] Okay, so if we're going to do something different than what?
[30:02] Stop. Staff recommended.
[30:03] You're welcome to to make a motion.
[30:05] I just want to make a motion to to clear.
[30:08] I want to make a motion to award quality body and fender.
[30:13] The amount of money that Mr.
[30:14] Battersby said,
[30:16] to get us through until we find out about these others
[30:20] for clarity, what was the amount? Mr.
[30:21] Battersby said, we need to be exact, yes.
[30:24] The amount of $1,050,000 over a three year period,
[30:28] with two optional one year extensions.
[30:33] So you need you need a second.
[30:34] I need a second.
[30:36] Tonight I have a question.
[30:38] Well, I'd like to if we if we can.
[30:41] Is it about is it about this substitute motion
[30:44] to the report not to this.
[30:47] I'd like to get some.
[30:48] Let's get some clarity
[30:49] on the substitute motion first
[30:51] before we move on to additional questions.
[30:53] What is the amount?
[30:56] 1 million, million $50,000, chair Unger okay.
[30:59] And did we have a second for that?
[31:04] Just make some of my own comments.
[31:08] So I share some of the concerns that council member
[31:11] Houston has expressed.
[31:13] I would also add that
[31:14] there are a number of auto body shops in district two.
[31:17] You know them,
[31:19] on the east side, and they're all minority owned businesses.
[31:22] And so one and I do want to acknowledge, by the way, before
[31:26] I just get into my concerns, that thank you for doing,
[31:30] procurement process
[31:31] and the norm has been a cooperative agreement.
[31:35] But one of the questions I just have
[31:37] is who makes it on to this in invitation list.
[31:40] So table one, it's noted as
[31:42] these are the list of vendors that are invited to participate.
[31:45] How are those determined and assessed since
[31:49] the I
[31:50] there's a number of auto body
[31:51] shops that I know of in the city of Oakland
[31:53] that are not on the invitation list.
[31:56] Yes. Thank you for the question.
[31:57] Through the chair,
[31:59] for an activity like this, equipment, services,
[32:02] public works,
[32:03] knows of some vendors, which we would provide to purchasing.
[32:07] But this, realistically, is a question for purchasing,
[32:11] how they conduct the RFP process, where they advertise,
[32:14] how they determine who they reach out to directly.
[32:17] And I'm afraid I just can't answer that
[32:19] question from the public works perspective on this contract.
[32:23] Okay. And,
[32:26] my other question is just beyond,
[32:28] since this item is going to if we move this forward, per
[32:32] Councilmember Houston's
[32:34] motion, that then we would be returning into the fall
[32:37] with this item, what I suppose would be a reasonable timeline,
[32:43] since I think that'll just hold us over until the,
[32:48] I don't think it's going to be enough capacity,
[32:50] of course, for the next three years.
[32:51] So what would be a reasonable time frame for an RFP yet?
[32:57] And I know that we're going to continue this item in October,
[33:01] it sounds like. But, I would love to just know that answer now.
[33:03] Yeah. Through the chair.
[33:07] That amount, I estimate, would be enough to get through October.
[33:10] Considering the normal volume of accidents,
[33:13] since we currently have 25 vehicles stacked up for accident
[33:16] repairs, I'd have to do some analysis and see.
[33:20] And we can definitely get that information back to you.
[33:22] And we can definitely get the information on how
[33:25] the outreach is conducted, in which vendors were and weren't,
[33:29] contacted regarding this, but I would
[33:33] I would suggest that if if we approved just
[33:37] the $1,050,000 that buys enough time
[33:40] to satisfy the questions that the committee has here,
[33:45] hopefully,
[33:46] I mean, I can't really predict the
[33:49] the committee or council's response once
[33:51] purchasing brings the information back.
[33:53] So that's kind of my hesitation
[33:55] in giving you a definitive answer,
[33:56] because it's really like outside of our purview.
[34:00] Okay.
[34:02] That's helpful. And then final question is just around the
[34:04] this Rhonda Pratt for they receive the,
[34:08] most percentage of this, RFP funding.
[34:12] And they are out in Dixon, California.
[34:15] That's about an hour away.
[34:17] Was the I just imagine it would add cost for transportation.
[34:22] Did their response include that transportation cost?
[34:26] I just I'm trying to imagine what that looks like
[34:28] since that is significantly far away from Oakland.
[34:31] Yeah. Through the chair.
[34:34] I can't speak to that specifically.
[34:37] I do know that some vehicles that are in an accident are still drivable.
[34:40] Others, they could be transported by tow.
[34:43] We currently use Rhonda Pratt Ford for Ford factory,
[34:47] repair and maintenance, mechanical repair
[34:49] and maintenance. So we've already got
[34:50] an established relationship with them.
[34:53] We just have to do an analysis on their hourly rate,
[34:56] which I understand was significantly lower
[34:59] than any other vendor. And then, compare that to what potential transportation costs
[35:03] in, time, labor time, if it's our staff
[35:07] or if we're actually paying for a tow truck,
[35:09] I just don't have that information here now.
[35:11] Okay,
[35:14] that sounds good. And, yeah, I think when we continue
[35:16] the item, the supplemental materials would be great.
[35:19] I'll go ahead. In the second, Council member Houston's motion,
[35:22] just to be clear, Mr.
[35:25] Battersby and city. Mr. Lake, is this with this motion, will
[35:27] this give us enough capacity to get through
[35:31] to the end of the recess with the repairs that you need to do?
[35:35] Is this going to severely hinder our operations?
[35:40] Chair Ungar, I'm comfortable saying it'll get us through the break.
[35:42] My trepidation is what happens after that
[35:45] when we bring the information back.
[35:46] Do we, with the
[35:48] the additional contract,
[35:50] do we end up in this process again, or will we make a decision at that point
[35:54] so we can I'm confident we can get to October beyond that.
[35:57] Okay.
[36:00] Council member Gale.
[36:01] Yes. Thank you.
[36:03] I drive your vehicles every day.
[36:07] All right. And it used to be in this city of Oakland
[36:09] and this city of Oakland.
[36:10] They're the council that understood,
[36:12] talked a lot about illegal dumping, a clean neighborhood.
[36:15] But I don't have the tools to do it.
[36:18] I don't have the trucks to do it.
[36:20] We go by there every weekend to rent, ride your vehicles
[36:25] and during the week, and you don't have them.
[36:28] They're broke. There's something happened.
[36:30] I used to have ten mechanics, but I don't have three.
[36:33] So those are internal decisions that this council
[36:36] and city administrator you're accountable for.
[36:40] You want a clean, safe city.
[36:42] You got to have the tools to do that and the personnel
[36:45] to get the work done.
[36:47] And so the reality for me is
[36:50] at one time we would buy, at least when I was around,
[36:53] we would buy 50 to 100 brand new vehicles every year.
[36:57] Part of our budget,
[36:59] and we would have the mechanics to do the work
[37:03] so I can pick up the trash.
[37:05] I can have my street sweepers on the street doing their job.
[37:09] They're supposed to be doing daily
[37:12] and but I think that we need to be able
[37:14] to provide the resources to get the work done.
[37:18] Right now, we don't even bring about all the vehicles we rent.
[37:23] How many you look at the police
[37:24] vehicles, different matter price, rental.
[37:28] You look at her rental.
[37:30] Well, we rent our trucks from because we don't have them.
[37:34] So the bottom line for me is
[37:36] we have to replace and have the mechanics available
[37:40] to do the work, to have the trucks
[37:43] and the vehicles available so we can be on the street
[37:47] delivering what the public paid us for.
[37:51] And so I would,
[37:54] you know, we can delayed and delayed and delayed it,
[37:57] but we've been delaying this now for a number of years.
[38:00] And the quality of service that I give Chinatown
[38:03] and the others, I don't have the tools to do it with.
[38:07] So the but the bottom line is for me is
[38:10] get the vehicles repairs so we can
[38:14] I don't want to show up on a Saturday or Sunday
[38:16] or during the week because I come out on Wednesdays now
[38:20] and you have well, the truck didn't work.
[38:24] Well, we can do this. We can't do that because the vehicles are sitting there.
[38:27] And then I go to your yard on the other side and I say 40.
[38:32] I see the number of police cars wrecked sitting there
[38:36] that haven't been service for a while.
[38:38] So I guess for me, the bottom line is for for this
[38:41] government, this council and this administrator,
[38:45] and the director, administrator, Betsy Lake,
[38:49] I urge
[38:52] you know, thank you for coming out on Sunday and riding along and seeing what's on the street.
[38:54] But you also get a chance to see the yard
[38:57] where all the vehicles are sitting
[38:59] there have been sitting there not operable.
[39:02] And yet I got personnel that if they had an extra truck,
[39:07] they would go out and keep my streets clean.
[39:09] But the reality is we need more mechanics
[39:14] and we need the vehicles to get the job done.
[39:19] Thank you. And so, so for me and I, we can I know you want to cut me out,
[39:22] but they can go off and off and off and talk,
[39:25] you know, pie in the sky stuff.
[39:27] But the bottom line is you have to be straightforward.
[39:31] So we don't blame you and give reports about how
[39:34] we're not cleaning our streets.
[39:35] Thank you for that information.
[39:37] And I and I support
[39:38] your recommendation to get the job done.
[39:41] Thank you, Councilmember Houston.
[39:43] Let's focus.
[39:45] Pie in the sky.
[39:47] That's disrespectful.
[39:50] And let me tell you why. Because for the vehicles that was damaged
[39:51] was damaged by the your crew that picked them up.
[39:54] So let's get focused okay.
[39:56] So stop.
[39:58] We're not talking about mechanics.
[40:00] We're talking about body work.
[40:01] So do the chair.
[40:03] I set that on
[40:07] that West Oakland body shop.
[40:11] My revision
[40:13] to this and let's move it
[40:16] I got a first in a second to see if we got a third.
[40:19] So I'd like to clearly restate the motion
[40:21] and then go to our public speakers if possible.
[40:24] What's that?
[40:27] Can can we
[40:28] can we clearly state the motion to make sure we have clarity
[40:31] on what we're voting on
[40:33] to the to the maker and the mover of the motion.
[40:37] Council member. Houston, to be clear,
[40:38] you are amending the second portion of the legislation
[40:42] regarding equality body and Bender.
[40:44] And your amendment is to
[40:47] in the amount of $1,050,000 over a three year
[40:50] period with two optional one year extensions.
[40:53] Is that correct?
[40:56] Thank you. And the remaining portions of this legislation will remain the same under your amendment.
[41:01] Thank you. Okay, let's hear from our public speakers.
[41:02] Please.
[41:05] Moving to our public speakers,
[41:06] Miss Asada and Blair Beekman.
[41:14] I'm trying to follow this process.
[41:17] The speakers said that on average,
[41:19] you have 50 collisions per year.
[41:24] At the same time, he's saying at this point,
[41:27] we have 22 or 23 vehicles that need collision work.
[41:33] So what you're saying is
[41:36] we have 20 something
[41:38] cars over what period of time?
[41:41] What is the period of time for which a collision happens?
[41:45] And the service needed for the repair of the car happens?
[41:49] Is they a time frame already established?
[41:53] Is it because of lack of funding?
[41:55] We now have 22 cars that need repairs
[41:59] or is it?
[42:00] What is the reason?
[42:03] But the other thing is,
[42:05] when I looked up that dealership, it said Vacaville.
[42:09] Is that the same as Dixon where you said it is same area?
[42:13] Okay, so we got Vacaville, we got San Leandro,
[42:18] Concord and then Oakland.
[42:21] Thank you for your comment, Mr.
[42:22] Asada.
[42:26] Blair Beekman, if you're participating via zoom, please raise your hand.
[42:29] Okay. That concludes your public speakers.
[42:31] We do have a motion made by Councilmember Houston.
[42:34] Second by Councilmember one to approved to
[42:37] to approve, as amended, the recommendations of staff
[42:39] and report decided to July 21st city Council agenda.
[42:43] And once again, the amendments are to the second portion
[42:47] of this legislation regarding the equality body and gender
[42:51] portion of the legislation, with the amendments
[42:54] of that portion to state.
[43:02] Please go ahead.
[43:03] Councilmember one,
[43:04] just to confirm,
[43:06] the rest of the contracts are going to come
[43:09] before this body again in the fall.
[43:11] Time for, for a vote, correct?
[43:14] Okay. Good.
[43:16] Thank you. I'll
[43:19] go ahead. Councilmember Houston, apologies and to the chair.
[43:21] And you're going to come back and find out why that company
[43:24] was not or the condition of why that company wasn't,
[43:27] reached out to our if they had the wrong email to right.
[43:31] You'll get with me before that to the chair.
[43:34] You're the chair. Absolutely, absolutely.
[43:36] Okay. We've heard back from purchasing.
[43:38] They didn't tell me how. And I'm assuming it's an email.
[43:41] I've asked them to provide me the email,
[43:46] and I just wanted to clarify. Also, if we go down to just the single Oakland based vendor
[43:50] to perform repairs, that's better than not having any.
[43:53] But as far as cycling vehicles through,
[43:57] we planned on having an award to four, which would give us the capacity
[43:59] to get the vehicles repaired more quickly, some of which
[44:03] the police vehicles date as far back as October 2025.
[44:07] So that's why the number is as high as it is.
[44:09] It's about six months
[44:11] worth of accident vehicles, which aligns with,
[44:14] 50 accidents per year, added Councilmember Guy.
[44:19] On to your point. We have not been replacing vehicles regularly since 2023.
[44:23] That's when fleet replacement was decentralized.
[44:26] Prior to that, as you mentioned, we would replace 150 to 200
[44:30] vehicles per each master lease municipal financing cycle.
[44:35] We no longer have that capability.
[44:37] So for the last three years,
[44:38] we've essentially been replacing nothing.
[44:40] So we absolutely got to make do with what we have.
[44:43] Thank you for the accommodation, Council member Houston.
[44:47] So we can get these vehicles back on the road okay.
[44:49] Thank you. We've got a long agenda.
[44:51] We need to move forward. Thank you.
[44:58] To the parliamentarian.
[44:59] Do you have a clarification?
[45:00] Yeah, just a point of clarity as I hear
[45:02] different council members having different understandings.
[45:04] And I want to make sure that the record
[45:06] and the vote is quite clear.
[45:07] So, Council Member Houston, I understand
[45:08] your motion for line item two.
[45:13] Sorry, line item four to be that everything stays the same
[45:16] except for part two quality body and fender.
[45:19] You're just changing the duration
[45:21] instead of two year weather with options to renew.
[45:25] It's one year with
[45:27] or with two one year optional renewals.
[45:30] Is that correct? Okay. As a years.
[45:34] That's my. Is that is that the motion you seek to make?
[45:36] Council member Houston.
[45:42] City. Mr.. Lake, is that I don't remember right.
[45:44] I didn't recall a discussion over the term of the
[45:49] the term of the agreements changing.
[45:51] Did I miss something?
[45:53] I understand that we were
[45:54] only leaving the,
[45:57] we were leaving the resolution as it pertained
[46:00] to quality body and fender.
[46:05] Only. But we were not changing the term.
[46:07] That was my understanding of quality, body and fender.
[46:09] So just for clarity,
[46:12] it is removing everything but quality body and fender
[46:16] and all the quality body and fender terms
[46:18] would remain as proposed.
[46:29] Okay. Council Member Wong, did you have an additional question?
[46:31] You know.
[46:35] All right. Are we all clear on what we're voting on?
[46:40] At this point, what should we do?
[46:41] You want to do that one more time?
[46:44] You all right? So the city attorney has asked me to clarify
[46:45] that the remaining contracts
[46:47] in this resolution will not be moving forward today
[46:51] or at the next council meeting,
[46:53] that they will come after the break
[46:57] with an updated supplemental report.
[47:00] Yes. Thank you.
[47:08] I threw a tear to the city attorney.
[47:11] Please restate the motion regarding the quality
[47:14] body offender.
[47:16] So that's very clear on that specific portion of the legislation.
[47:19] Thank you.
[47:22] So the motion is to approve quality body and fender
[47:27] in the amounts and the time frames proposed in the staff report.
[47:31] And to remove the remaining proposed contracts to be brought
[47:35] back in a supplemental report after the break.
[47:39] Thank you.
[47:45] Give me one second.
[47:50] We do have a motion made by Councilmember Houston,
[47:53] seconded by Council Member Wang,
[47:55] to approve, as amended, the recommendations
[47:57] and staff report this item to the July 21st,
[48:00] 2026 City Council agenda.
[48:03] What the amendments stated on motion on record
[48:07] by City Administrator Betsy Lake
[48:10] to approve the quality and offender of the amounts
[48:12] of the time frames proposed in the staff report,
[48:15] and to remove the remaining proposed contracts to be brought
[48:18] back in a supplemental report after the summer break.
[48:23] Yeah, just a parliamentarian point of clarity
[48:24] that they can come back
[48:25] as a separate item, but not a supplemental.
[48:28] Thank you for that clarity on roll.
[48:30] Councilmember Gallo.
[48:32] No, I'm supporting the original recommendation from staff.
[48:35] We got to get the work done.
[48:37] So that's a no to Councilmember Houston.
[48:39] Yeah, because you crashed three of them. Yes.
[48:41] Thank you. Councilmember one
[48:44] I thank you.
[48:45] And Chair Unger. All right.
[48:47] This motion does pass with three eyes and no.
[48:50] 2 in 1. No council member Caio
[48:54] to approve, as amended, recommendations of staff.
[48:56] And for this item to July 21st, 2026.
[48:59] City Council agenda and due to Council member Gayles. No.
[49:02] It would be honored recommended for non consent.
[49:05] Moving to item five.
[49:12] Adopt a resolution
[49:13] authorizing the City
[49:14] Administrator to award and execute
[49:15] a Professional Services agreement
[49:17] with KW engineering
[49:18] for energy assessment and consulting services
[49:21] in an amount not to exceed $364,685
[49:27] for the Municipal Facility Energy Assessment Project number
[49:30] 1008000 and adopting Sequa findings.
[49:35] And you do have three speakers for this item.
[49:39] All right. Let's hear from our staff. Please.
[49:42] Good morning, chair and committee members.
[49:44] I am Nick Cartagena, capital improvement program manager
[49:47] with Oakland Public Works.
[49:48] Happy to be here with you today
[49:50] to discuss energy assessments on, 20 city facilities.
[49:55] I'm here to request authorization
[49:56] to award a professional services contract, or agreement
[49:59] to KW Engineering and Oakland headquartered firm
[50:03] with extensive experience working on city facilities.
[50:06] The firm was selected through a competitive process
[50:09] in which 12 firms were submitted for proposals
[50:12] to conduct energy assessments at 20 city owned facilities
[50:16] through a federal grant from the Department of Energy's Energy
[50:20] Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant program.
[50:23] These assessments will look at each building's
[50:26] heating and cooling, lighting, electrical systems, and the roof, walls and windows.
[50:30] Then tell tell us what's inefficient,
[50:33] what it will cost to fix, and what we'll save.
[50:36] That information sets it up for to go after capital
[50:40] funding, utility rebates and future grant opportunities.
[50:44] The selected facilities were identified
[50:45] from the city's unfunded CIP project list using Council's
[50:50] nine criteria scoring framework, which prioritizes equity.
[50:55] Eight of the 20 facilities that serve underserved
[50:57] communities, including senior centers, recreational centers
[51:01] and emergency cooling centers.
[51:05] The contract amount is not
[51:06] to exceed $364,685.
[51:10] This grant is funded through the Department of Energy.
[51:13] All work must be completed by July 31st, 2027
[51:17] to meet federal reporting requirements.
[51:20] There is no general fund impact and no local match requirement.
[51:24] In summary, staff request authorization
[51:27] to award a Professional Services Agreement to K engineering
[51:32] not to exceed $364,685,
[51:36] fully funded by the Department of Energy grant,
[51:39] with no general fund impact and no local match.
[51:42] I'm happy to answer any questions you may have.
[51:44] Thank you.
[51:46] That's excellent. Thank you.
[51:47] Council members questions.
[51:51] All right. Seeing none. Let us go to our speakers, please. Thank you.
[51:53] When I call your name, please approach the podium.
[51:55] If you are participating via zoom, please
[51:57] raise your hand so you're easily identified.
[51:59] Miss Asada, Kevin Daly and Blair Beekman.
[52:08] So, the report
[52:12] identifies that the assessment of the 20 properties
[52:16] are the properties that have the greatest need.
[52:19] So I looked up the district of each one of these properties.
[52:24] And only one is in district seven,
[52:29] and only one is in district six.
[52:33] So those are two
[52:37] prop districts that have a lot of needs.
[52:39] And that tends to be an agenda that you follow all the time.
[52:43] District six and district seven are not being assessed,
[52:47] but you make the statement
[52:49] that these and you didn't put it in your report.
[52:52] But district, I had to look it up.
[52:57] So you're doing a report
[52:59] where you're going to identify data identification,
[53:03] but you don't know if you have the money to do corrective action.
[53:06] And you're not looking at those data centers
[53:09] that that use a lot of electricity.
[53:12] Thank you. Miss this out of your comment.
[53:19] Kevin Daley, thanks.
[53:21] I appreciate this report.
[53:24] There's a couple other items in the Equitable
[53:27] Climate Action Plan that I like to examine.
[53:33] Not only electrifying the buildings, but look at the time
[53:37] shifting of the electrical use, electricity
[53:41] in the middle of the night tends to have a higher carbon
[53:45] content. The electricity produced during the day, during peak
[53:48] solar periods.
[53:50] So it'd be good to look at that to reduce not only local carbon
[53:54] emissions, but global emissions as well.
[53:59] Things.
[54:02] Thank you all for your comments.
[54:03] Moving to our zoom speakers.
[54:05] And I do not see Blair being me.
[54:07] So that concludes our public speakers for item three.
[54:11] Okay. Let's, anything from, Council Member Gail? Yes.
[54:14] I'll make a motion to approve the item.
[54:20] Thank you. We do have a motion made by Councilmember Gallo.
[54:22] Second by Council Member one
[54:25] to approve the recommendations of staff and the report this item to the July 21st
[54:28] City Council agenda on roll.
[54:31] Councilmember Gallo I Councilmember Houston is out of his seat.
[54:34] Excuse.
[54:35] Council Councilmember Wang I
[54:38] and your honor I.
[54:40] This motion does pass with three eyes.
[54:42] One excused.
[54:43] Houston two
[54:44] for the recommendations of staff and report deciding
[54:46] to July 21st city Council agenda and through the body.
[54:50] Would that be consent?
[54:52] Yes, please.
[54:54] Thank you. Moving to item six.
[55:02] Adopt a resolution one.
[55:04] Accepting and appropriating
[55:05] a reimbursement grant from the Bay Area
[55:08] Air Quality Management District transportation
[55:11] Fund for the Clean Air Change Program in an amount
[55:14] not to exceed $750,000 for elder cost eligible costs
[55:19] associated with the installation of 15
[55:21] two port direct current Pass
[55:23] electric vehicle charging stations, for a total of 30
[55:27] charging stations at the city's maintenance service centers.
[55:30] 7101 Edgewater Drive,
[55:33] to authorize City Administrator to execute the grant agreement
[55:36] and related documents, and three adopting Sequa findings.
[55:40] And you do have three speakers for this item.
[55:43] Excellent. Let's hear from Mr.
[55:44] Matic. Please.
[55:47] Thank you. Chair Unger. Richard batters the Oakland Public Works assistant director.
[55:51] I'm here before you asking that, you grant approval
[55:55] for us to accept the $750,000 grant from the Bay Area
[55:59] Air Quality Management District?
[56:03] This is but one of a ten grant project encompassing $16 million.
[56:07] Excuse me.
[56:09] We do need a quorum.
[56:12] Thank you.
[56:13] Please continue.
[56:16] Thank you. Through the chair. I can have that effect on people sometimes.
[56:20] The larger, overall fleet
[56:22] electrification grant project, it's valued at 16 million.
[56:26] 9 million of that is through
[56:27] grant funding, as I mentioned, through ten grant providers,
[56:30] including federal EPA back Mid California Energy Commission,
[56:35] the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Alameda
[56:38] County Transportation Fund for Clean Air, etc..
[56:42] The overall projects bringing 139 electric
[56:45] vehicle charging stations at six city locations.
[56:49] And it's adding 15 vehicles to the fleet that we
[56:52] otherwise could not have provided.
[56:55] However, they're somewhat specialized.
[56:57] We'll be getting three battery electric Street sweepers,
[57:00] one battery electric refuse truck and 11 battery
[57:04] electric Silverado pickup trucks as part of that project.
[57:08] I just wanted to note, and thank the staff that worked on this.
[57:12] Tony Vargas is a temporary contract
[57:14] service employee because we lack the
[57:16] internal expertise and resources to pursue.
[57:19] And then at once, the grants were awarded,
[57:22] do the grant reporting and administer the project.
[57:25] So Tony Vargas knocked the ball out of the park
[57:28] and martini to Erica Vasquez and Equipment Services,
[57:32] and particular Angela Fulton, who's the acting equipment
[57:34] services manager,
[57:36] if not for their efforts, we wouldn't have the $750,000
[57:40] that was added on top of the already existing grant project.
[57:43] So with that, I'm here for your questions.
[57:46] Excellent. Colleagues questions
[57:49] may as well
[57:52] make a motion to approve staff.
[57:54] Okay, I'll second that and let us hear from our public
[57:56] speakers, please.
[57:57] Thank you. Want to call your name?
[58:00] Please approach your podium. If you are participating via zoom, please raise your hand.
[58:03] It's Asada, Kevin Dally and Blair Beekman.
[58:15] Kevin daly, thanks for presenting this.
[58:18] This looks like great news,
[58:21] especially with the street sweepers.
[58:23] I'm hoping we can find some electric street sweepers
[58:27] for the bike lanes, as well as for the full size, but.
[58:31] But I know that may be a while off.
[58:33] I'm also hoping that we can.
[58:35] I know in many cases, employees
[58:38] are encouraged to use electric bikes
[58:41] that are charged by bell, that are supplied by the city.
[58:46] Will they be able to charge at these locations as well?
[58:50] That's probably pretty simple to add on.
[58:53] If it isn't there already.
[58:56] Thank you.
[59:02] So we had to evacuate.
[59:07] If I were had an electric car, I would have been in trouble because we had no electricity.
[59:10] All of it was down in Louisiana.
[59:13] It was. Majority of it was down in Mississippi.
[59:15] The gas stations were open.
[59:16] I could get gas.
[59:18] So if there's an emergency
[59:23] and you paint it, you're moving towards this electricity.
[59:26] But electricity has problems.
[59:28] Hi. Repair bills.
[59:30] I'm sorry, I'm sorry, not electric electrical vehicles have higher repair bills, battery limits.
[59:35] And whether that is extreme batteries are used.
[59:39] They use look them and cobalt.
[59:42] These are things that are,
[59:44] crucial threats to the environment.
[59:47] It causes a great strain on charging
[59:51] with the electrical comes. So we got problems, and y'all don't talk.
[59:52] We push things and we don't look at everything involved in it.
[59:56] If you have to evacuate
[59:58] and you got all of these electric cars
[1:00:00] and the electricity is down all through whatever areas
[1:00:05] we found that.
[1:00:06] Thank you for your comment, Mr. Asada.
[1:00:09] That concludes your public speakers.
[1:00:11] We do have a motion made by Councilmember Gallo, seconded by Chair Ungar,
[1:00:14] to approve the recommendations of staff
[1:00:17] and report this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on roll.
[1:00:19] Councilmember Gallo,
[1:00:21] Councilmember Houston is excused.
[1:00:24] Council Member Wang I and Chair Unger.
[1:00:27] All right, this motion does pass with three eyes.
[1:00:29] One excused. Houston
[1:00:32] to two,
[1:00:34] for deciding to the July 21st City Council agenda.
[1:00:37] And through the
[1:00:41] and through the body. Would that be considered on?
[1:00:43] Yes. Consent, please.
[1:00:44] Thank you. Moving to item seven.
[1:00:52] Adopt a resolution one.
[1:00:54] Awarding a construction contract to Maguire and Hester for the Broadway
[1:00:57] Streetscape Improvements Project number 1006953.
[1:01:02] The lowest response have been sponsor will bidder and a accord
[1:01:06] with the project plan specifications.
[1:01:08] State requirements
[1:01:09] and with contracts bid in the amount of $20,881,650
[1:01:15] and into a adopting appropriate sequa findings.
[1:01:19] And you do have three speakers for this item.
[1:01:22] All right. Let's hear from Megan.
[1:01:24] Wear please.
[1:01:25] Thank you. Thanks so much.
[1:01:27] Chair Ungar and committee members. I'm here.
[1:01:29] Megan, we're assistant director
[1:01:31] of department of transportation.
[1:01:33] I'm pleased to be here today before you to request
[1:01:36] that you consider the resolution awarding the construction
[1:01:40] contract for the Broadway Streetscape Improvements Project to Maguire and Hester.
[1:01:44] This project includes transportation, safety
[1:01:46] and transit improvements on two segments of Broadway
[1:01:50] through the heart of Oakland, from second to 11th Street
[1:01:54] and from 20th to Grand Avenue, extending the current
[1:01:57] transit lanes between 11th and 20th Street.
[1:02:01] The project includes dedicated Red bus only lanes, new bus
[1:02:04] shelters, seating
[1:02:06] and trash cans, pedestrian lighting, street trees, upgraded
[1:02:10] traffic signals and transit signal priority,
[1:02:13] as well as pedestrian crossing improvements including curb
[1:02:15] extensions, Ada compliant curb ramps and median islands.
[1:02:20] More busses run on Broadway than in any other street
[1:02:22] in Oakland, and its current design leads
[1:02:25] to bus delays and unreliable travel times for bus riders.
[1:02:28] Broadway is also part of the city's
[1:02:30] High Injury network, meaning that it's just,
[1:02:32] one of just 8% of our city's streets
[1:02:34] where severe and fatal crashes are concentrated.
[1:02:37] In upgrading Broadway, we're being responsive
[1:02:40] to a number of historic plan documents.
[1:02:42] The projects fully funded
[1:02:43] by the federal, state and local grants,
[1:02:48] because it's funded by a federal grant, the construction contract award
[1:02:50] must abide by federal rules, including the suspension
[1:02:54] of the disadvantaged business Enterprise program.
[1:02:59] And we received three bids through a competitive bidding
[1:03:02] process process. And McGuire and Hester submitted the lowest bid,
[1:03:04] which was 16.6% below the city's engineer estimate.
[1:03:09] Thanks so much for your consideration.
[1:03:12] And I'm pleased to respond to any questions you might have.
[1:03:16] That's great. This is an exciting project.
[1:03:17] I'm looking forward to it. Colleagues, questions.
[1:03:20] Councilmember Houston, please,
[1:03:22] I like to do I like to move this.
[1:03:26] All right.
[1:03:26] Council member Wong,
[1:03:29] thank you. Through the chair.
[1:03:30] Thank you so much for your work on this, good segment of this,
[1:03:34] is in district to,
[1:03:36] is this project going to be coordinated
[1:03:38] with the Oakland Alameda Access project?
[1:03:40] Just given the overlap
[1:03:42] I see in Councilmember one, we've been, the project
[1:03:45] team has been working closely with the okay, Oakland,
[1:03:48] project to ensure close coordination
[1:03:51] as well as communications and so that there's no overlap
[1:03:55] or extended, any additional delay, due to that coordination.
[1:03:59] So it's happening on a weekly basis.
[1:04:01] Great. Perfect. Thank you.
[1:04:02] I'll second.
[1:04:04] Okay. Speakers, please.
[1:04:07] Public speakers. When I call your name, please approach the podium.
[1:04:09] If you're participating via zoom, please raise your hand.
[1:04:12] Is your easy identified Miss Asada,
[1:04:16] Kevin Daly, and Blair Beekman,
[1:04:19] Kevin Daly this Broadway
[1:04:22] project is a great project, especially adding the bus lanes.
[1:04:27] Looking forward to having more reliable bus service.
[1:04:31] Bringing more passengers to the busses from cars might
[1:04:34] do more to reduce carbon emissions
[1:04:37] than some of our previous items.
[1:04:40] The the ones aren't bad, but this one could do more.
[1:04:45] Chris. We still need to worry about how to get money to AC transit so that it can
[1:04:49] continue running reliable busses on those routes.
[1:04:54] Which brings us back to the sales tax up.
[1:04:59] Council can't do anything about it, but let's remember it.
[1:05:02] Things.
[1:05:10] There are districts that get a whole lot of attention.
[1:05:14] The last item,
[1:05:15] where they're doing assessments for air quality,
[1:05:18] 20 assessments,
[1:05:19] only one being done in district seven, one in district six.
[1:05:23] The rest of them were going to three, four and five.
[1:05:26] I was looking for you to tell you that.
[1:05:29] So this is district two, which get Chinatown
[1:05:32] gets a lot of attention related to this.
[1:05:36] But if you remember, AC transit is going to be doing some evaluation
[1:05:40] based on lack of funding, and some of that is going to be,
[1:05:44] not continue to have all stops in place.
[1:05:48] So does this need to be coordinated
[1:05:50] after we get a report from AC transit related to what services
[1:05:56] will be provided, including potential elimination of stops?
[1:06:02] Also, you you got to stop this bike lane thing.
[1:06:07] Broadway is not suitable for any kind of riding of bikes.
[1:06:19] Thank you for calling.
[1:06:20] All right. Thank you for comments.
[1:06:23] Moving to our zoom speaker.
[1:06:25] And I do not see Blair Beekman.
[1:06:27] We do have a motion made by Councilmember Houston,
[1:06:29] seconded by Councilmember Wang, to approve
[1:06:31] the recommendations of staff and report this item to the July
[1:06:35] 21st, 2026 City Council agenda on roll.
[1:06:38] Councilmember Gallo is excused.
[1:06:40] Councilmember Houston, I thank you, Council
[1:06:43] Member Wang I and Chair Unger.
[1:06:46] This motion does pass with three eyes.
[1:06:48] One excused.
[1:06:50] Io to approve the recommendations of staff
[1:06:52] in the four days item to the July 21st, 2026
[1:06:55] City Council agenda and through the body.
[1:06:58] Would that be consent or not?
[1:07:00] Consent, please. Thank you.
[1:07:01] Moving to item eight.
[1:07:07] Adopt a resolution
[1:07:09] authorizing the City Administrator to finalize and execute a purchase agreement
[1:07:11] with the Metropolitan Transportation Committee.
[1:07:14] Commission as administrator of the Clipper
[1:07:16] Regional Transit Fair
[1:07:18] Payment Program in an amount not to exceed $400,000.
[1:07:22] Using previously appropriate appropriated Regional Early
[1:07:26] Action Planning 2.0 higher Impact Transfer
[1:07:29] transformative grant funds to purchase a distribute
[1:07:33] approximately 1000 prepaid prepaid Clipper cards
[1:07:37] for the West Oakland Universal Basic Mobility Pilot
[1:07:41] and making findings to waive the city's formal advertising,
[1:07:44] competitive bidding, and request
[1:07:46] for proposal and qualifications.
[1:07:48] And you do have three speakers for this item.
[1:07:52] All right. Let's hear from staff. Please.
[1:07:55] Thank you. Good afternoon to the committee members and the public.
[1:07:57] My name is Kirby Olson,
[1:07:58] supervising transportation planner
[1:08:00] in the Department of Transportation.
[1:08:02] We do have a short presentation on this great program today
[1:08:05] that will be given by, my team member, Colin Petty.
[1:08:08] So come on up on.
[1:08:12] Thanksgiving.
[1:08:13] Hello, committee members.
[1:08:15] So today we're giving you giving you more information about,
[1:08:20] our request for council to approve staff
[1:08:23] to authorize a new contract with MTC slash clipper to,
[1:08:28] extend a second phase
[1:08:30] of the universal basic mobility pilot in West Oakland.
[1:08:33] And I'm sorry.
[1:08:37] So universal basic mobility refers,
[1:08:39] and I'm just giving you some background information.
[1:08:41] It refers to a range of programs
[1:08:43] that offer financial subsidies for selected participants
[1:08:46] to spend on transportation services.
[1:08:49] So we first started a UVM pilot in East Oakland,
[1:08:53] that accompanied the launch of the tempo
[1:08:54] bus rapid transit project.
[1:08:56] And, and just from the jump, these are all fully
[1:09:00] grant funded projects from outside funds
[1:09:02] that did not require any matching funds.
[1:09:06] So we wanted this first pilot in East Oakland.
[1:09:08] So it was successful.
[1:09:11] Then we got more grant funding from Alameda County Transportation Commission
[1:09:13] to launch a pilot in West Oakland accompanying
[1:09:16] a bus stop improvement
[1:09:17] project called West Oakland Transit Improvements.
[1:09:22] And then in 2023, city housing community development.
[1:09:27] Yeah. Excuse me. Housing and Community Development Department received
[1:09:29] $10 million from the Regional Early Action Planning Grant.
[1:09:33] 2.0 high impact transformative program.
[1:09:36] To to implement the Mandela Station Development project
[1:09:39] next to West Oakland Bart.
[1:09:41] At the time, though,
[1:09:43] they didn't pursue any action related to the portion of the funds included.
[1:09:46] Which is why we're here now, today.
[1:09:50] So in in evaluating,
[1:09:53] the pilots that we've implemented
[1:09:55] in East and West Oakland,
[1:09:57] we saw that they've been successful in increasing transit ridership,
[1:10:00] reducing traffic congestion and improving air quality.
[1:10:05] We also found that these programs are especially helpful for very low income households.
[1:10:09] So this grant, allocation would be used to implement
[1:10:12] a second phase of the pilot in West Oakland.
[1:10:16] And we plan to distribute Clipper cards with up to $400
[1:10:20] for up to 1000 people living and working in West Oakland.
[1:10:24] So to your right on the slide is the study area.
[1:10:27] It's the same as in the first phase of the pilot.
[1:10:30] And our eligibility requirements for participating are
[1:10:34] that you must live or work in West Oakland,
[1:10:37] that you must earn less than the area
[1:10:39] median income, and must not be a city employee.
[1:10:43] So while we were almost
[1:10:45] nearly completed with the West Oakland pilot,
[1:10:47] we want to give you some initial findings from,
[1:10:50] East and West Oakland pilots.
[1:10:53] The vast majority of participants
[1:10:54] spend their funds on Clipper card or AC transit service.
[1:10:58] And also the vast majority of participants
[1:11:01] are very low income.
[1:11:02] In West Oakland, nearly 80% of participants
[1:11:05] earn less than $50,000 a year.
[1:11:09] Participants also report change in the way they travel up
[1:11:12] to, nearly half of participants did so in West Oakland.
[1:11:16] And in both
[1:11:18] pilots, we saw nearly the same amount of people,
[1:11:20] driving less often.
[1:11:22] So this is meeting all the program objectives.
[1:11:27] So, in particular regarding Clipper card
[1:11:29] and why we want to execute a contract with them
[1:11:32] is because we saw that, you know,
[1:11:34] as we mentioned in the slide earlier, folks,
[1:11:36] majority of folks are using their funds on Clipper.
[1:11:40] We had previously use prepaid debit cards, through of
[1:11:43] ink so that folks could purchase shared mobility trips.
[1:11:47] But now, given the program usage and also
[1:11:49] some efficiencies, we're planning to switch to Clipper.
[1:11:52] Clipper staff noted that
[1:11:53] they're able to waive the physical cost of the cards,
[1:11:56] and they're also able to provide customer
[1:11:58] service support, which would free up, a lot of staff time.
[1:12:02] And so there's some, some great efficiencies
[1:12:04] that we want to take advantage of in this contract.
[1:12:07] So by, by waiving formal advertising and competitive
[1:12:10] bidding requirements, we would be able to execute
[1:12:13] a purchasing agreement with Clipper and continue
[1:12:16] this UPN pilot in West Oakland.
[1:12:20] This the fiscal impacts of this action
[1:12:23] would allocate know we excuse me, we've already allocated
[1:12:27] $450,000 towards the UVM pilot.
[1:12:31] We're planning to use 400,000 of those funds
[1:12:34] on the Clipper subsidies, and then $50,000 towards
[1:12:38] administration of the pilot.
[1:12:42] And just,
[1:12:44] read this formally, and,
[1:12:46] this is the action we're requesting to finalize
[1:12:49] and execute a contract purchasing agreement
[1:12:51] with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission
[1:12:55] slash Clipper in support of the West Oakland Universal Basic Mobility pilot
[1:12:58] financial incentives in the form of 1000 prepaid
[1:13:00] Clipper cards at a cost of $400,000,
[1:13:03] providing the necessary
[1:13:05] spending authority for the agreement
[1:13:06] and waiving the advertising, bidding
[1:13:08] and the request for qualifications.
[1:13:11] Slash proposal.
[1:13:12] Competitive selection requirements
[1:13:15] and looking to the future.
[1:13:17] Since these pilots have been successful,
[1:13:19] we anticipate this next phase.
[1:13:20] The West Oakland pilot will be just as as much successful.
[1:13:25] We're looking towards implementing a citywide program,
[1:13:28] so that all residents can take advantage of this benefit.
[1:13:32] You know, we're seeing it's it's
[1:13:34] been the program goals of reducing driving and,
[1:13:38] providing economic benefit for very low income households.
[1:13:41] So we'd like to extend that
[1:13:42] to all Oakland residents, residents.
[1:13:45] And as an additional benefit, we could potentially
[1:13:47] use this program as a way to help mitigate
[1:13:50] the impacts of new development by providing this program
[1:13:53] as an option for developers to pay in lieu fees
[1:13:56] so they can provide a transit pass
[1:13:58] for the new residents or employees.
[1:14:01] And with that, we'll take any questions you might have.
[1:14:04] Thank you. All right. Very cool program.
[1:14:06] Thank you for the presentation.
[1:14:08] Council member Wong,
[1:14:10] thank you so much for your work on this.
[1:14:12] I fully support this.
[1:14:14] One question I just have is,
[1:14:15] it's been documented in some of the reporting around students
[1:14:19] who are trying to access the youth, free bus program,
[1:14:23] as well as the Clipper card program.
[1:14:25] Do you anticipate the same challenges with enrollment here?
[1:14:30] I don't really anticipate those challenges.
[1:14:34] One issue we did come up against was attempted
[1:14:36] email fraud on the program.
[1:14:38] Just given our survey structure.
[1:14:41] People use bots to try to take advantage of it.
[1:14:44] So therefore we're we're planning
[1:14:45] to have, cards distributed at, at,
[1:14:49] AC Transit's Clippers office in downtown Oakland.
[1:14:54] Okay, great. And what is the plan for outreach on this program?
[1:14:57] So in the past, we've partnered with many local arts
[1:15:00] Oakland institutions like Saint that, the Saint Mary's Center,
[1:15:04] Abbott California Hotel,
[1:15:07] Saint Monarch Saint Andrews all like the social service
[1:15:10] and affordable housing providers there.
[1:15:13] As well as working with the West Oakland
[1:15:15] library, attending like the Juneteenth block party.
[1:15:18] So we have a very long list
[1:15:19] of community partners that we work with. Great.
[1:15:21] Thank you so much. I'll move the item.
[1:15:23] Thank you.
[1:15:25] I'll second it and we'll go to Council Member
[1:15:27] Houston for comment.
[1:15:30] Thank you. Through the chair.
[1:15:31] Thank you.
[1:15:33] You said it was a pilot in East Oakland,
[1:15:35] and that was the first pilot
[1:15:36] in 2017 to 2021, which is four years.
[1:15:40] Can you give me just, like, a little bit?
[1:15:41] You said it was successful.
[1:15:42] Just give me like a little because I wasn't around.
[1:15:44] Only been in office 16 months.
[1:15:47] Give me a little elevator pitch on how that was successful.
[1:15:50] Of course. And through the chair.
[1:15:51] So this,
[1:15:53] the actual grant project was implemented from 2020
[1:15:56] to 2021 to include those states just, you know,
[1:16:00] so that we like this is the time it took to apply for and receive the grant.
[1:16:03] So in East Oakland in particular, we saw,
[1:16:07] transit ridership increased by 12% and driving decrease,
[1:16:12] by about 6% for for folks who, were taking
[1:16:15] either of those modes.
[1:16:17] And in general, I would say that,
[1:16:21] you know, anecdotally from from folks I've talked to,
[1:16:25] they've stressed to me that, you know,
[1:16:27] this allows them to see family members
[1:16:28] they might not otherwise see,
[1:16:30] you know, purchased Amtrak tickets to visit family
[1:16:33] out of town and also just cover their basic needs.
[1:16:36] A lot of these folks, as I mentioned earlier,
[1:16:38] like earning less than $50,000 a year are on,
[1:16:43] and, you know, urgently need these kind of benefits,
[1:16:46] to help them live their daily lives and all that.
[1:16:48] My supervisor, Kirby, speak to any other anecdotes?
[1:16:54] Yeah. The only thing I'd add is that that grant program distributed
[1:16:56] a total of $250,000 to residents that lived within half
[1:17:00] mile of the AC transit temple line, in East Oakland.
[1:17:04] How much was that again due to chair $250,000 in in transit
[1:17:08] subsidies that they could use, to ride the bus essentially.
[1:17:12] All right. Thank you.
[1:17:17] Okay, let's hear from speakers.
[1:17:19] Please move in to our public speakers. Mr.
[1:17:21] Sada, Kevin Donnelly and Blair Beekman.
[1:17:27] This don't make sense.
[1:17:29] So the main purpose is to reduce people who are driving
[1:17:34] to use the busses.
[1:17:37] And then you say you were able to determine
[1:17:40] that people were driving less.
[1:17:42] How did you do that?
[1:17:43] Because, you know, answer my questions.
[1:17:47] So people are driving in any given area.
[1:17:51] You don't know what they don't
[1:17:52] necessarily live in West Oakland.
[1:17:56] They can can be coming from any part of the city or even out of the city.
[1:17:58] So how are you determining that
[1:18:01] people drive in in an area and then you have Clipper cards
[1:18:05] or these special Clipper cards that when they when they used
[1:18:10] you have a specific identification of these 1000 Clipper cards or are they
[1:18:15] the same Clipper cards, like all the rest of them?
[1:18:18] How are you keeping up with these Clipper cards?
[1:18:21] I just this doesn't make sense to me
[1:18:24] how you get evidence data
[1:18:27] to determine this as being successful.
[1:18:32] You can license.
[1:18:34] I know.
[1:18:43] Kevin. Dally, this sounds like a great program.
[1:18:45] And to me, it makes sense.
[1:18:49] It it really sounds like it's another one
[1:18:52] of today's agenda items that to reducing carbon
[1:18:55] emissions by encouraging people to take rapid transit
[1:19:00] or slow busses, apps.
[1:19:02] Sorry. Standard busses as well.
[1:19:05] Moving people out of cars into their busses should make it
[1:19:10] safer for pedestrians and cyclists as well.
[1:19:13] There will be fewer cars driving on Broadway
[1:19:16] and more busses in the bus lane, which
[1:19:21] of course we just heard about in the previous item.
[1:19:25] I'm looking forward to the extension of this program
[1:19:28] to all of Oakland and not
[1:19:32] definitely. We're starting out slow and I'm hoping we move ahead.
[1:19:36] There's problems with Clipper, but it's the best solution
[1:19:38] to add to our transit.
[1:19:43] Thank you for your comment. Listening to our zoom speaker, Blair Beekman, I do not see him.
[1:19:47] That concludes your public speakers for item eight.
[1:19:50] We do have a motion made by Councilmember Wang,
[1:19:52] seconded by Chair Unger, to approve
[1:19:55] the recommendations of staff and report this item to the July
[1:19:58] 21st, 2026 City Council agenda on roll.
[1:20:02] Councilmember Gallo is excused.
[1:20:05] Council member Houston
[1:20:07] Council Member Wang.
[1:20:08] And to your honor, I.
[1:20:10] This motion does pass with three eyes.
[1:20:11] One excused Dio to approve the recommendations of staff
[1:20:15] and report this item to the July 21st City
[1:20:18] Council agenda and through the body.
[1:20:20] Would that be considered on.
[1:20:23] Consent, please.
[1:20:24] Thank you.
[1:20:24] Moving to item nine.
[1:20:28] Adopt the resolution authorizing the city
[1:20:31] the Council President to submit a response
[1:20:34] on behalf of the City Council to the 2025
[1:20:38] through 2026 Alameda County Civil Grand Jury report.
[1:20:42] And you do have three speakers for this item.
[1:20:47] All right.
[1:20:48] Good afternoon, chair, Committee members.
[1:20:50] My name is William, the Oakland Public works director.
[1:20:54] And on June 15th, the Alameda County Civil grand
[1:20:58] jury released an annual report
[1:21:00] that included essentially a chapter on illegal dumping.
[1:21:03] And it made eight recommendations.
[1:21:06] We, by law, are required to respond
[1:21:09] to those recommendations within 90 days.
[1:21:13] Those responses are drafted
[1:21:16] and included at attachment B.
[1:21:19] Because of that 90 day deadline falling within council's
[1:21:22] recess, there is some urgency, to make sure that we do approve.
[1:21:28] Those responses,
[1:21:30] and what that approval will do was authorize
[1:21:33] the council president to submit those responses to the Alameda
[1:21:37] County Civil Grand jury,
[1:21:40] on, in a timely fashion.
[1:21:42] For some of you, this might feel a bit like deja vu,
[1:21:46] and it should.
[1:21:46] And the reason I say that
[1:21:49] is we've been, having conversations over the past several months about,
[1:21:52] illegal dumping, and we've made significant
[1:21:56] progress in advancing both policy and implementation
[1:22:00] of our illegal dumping strategy.
[1:22:02] You might remember that, this committee and council approved,
[1:22:06] significantly higher fines for illegal dumping.
[1:22:11] This committee and council approved an illegal
[1:22:13] dumping expenditure plan to fund, the three E's.
[1:22:18] That's the city's strategy to abate illegal
[1:22:20] dumping, education, enforcement and eradication.
[1:22:24] The, we approved an adopted budget that includes
[1:22:29] more funding for both eradication and enforcement.
[1:22:33] The mayor secured a $9.25 million investment
[1:22:37] from the Crank Start Foundation to, accelerate
[1:22:40] implementation of that three E's strategy.
[1:22:43] And we also, responded to our own
[1:22:47] Oakland City Auditor's report on illegal dumping.
[1:22:50] And it's 17 recommendations.
[1:22:53] Most of what I just described either happened after or while
[1:22:58] the Alameda County civil grand jury was finalizing its report.
[1:23:02] So you don't see those actions represented in the report,
[1:23:06] understandably, because they were filing,
[1:23:08] likely, finalizing the report at the same time
[1:23:12] as we sit here today, there is encouraging news.
[1:23:15] The grand jury report is again showing alignment with what
[1:23:19] the mayor, this committee, council,
[1:23:23] the city auditor staff and also the community
[1:23:26] are saying about our three E's approach
[1:23:30] because we've discussed these items several times
[1:23:32] in the past several months, I'm
[1:23:34] not going to do thorough updates of all of the items,
[1:23:37] but I do want to highlight three items that are updates
[1:23:42] that this committee may not be aware of.
[1:23:45] First, next week we are meeting
[1:23:48] with the five Oakland Chambers,
[1:23:52] to discuss proposed amendments to our mandatory
[1:23:55] commercial garbage service ordinance.
[1:23:56] That's a mouthful.
[1:23:58] But this will make it easier for us to enforce and collect
[1:24:02] against businesses that don't have sufficient garbage service,
[1:24:04] because a business that does not have
[1:24:06] a sufficient garbage service, some of that garbage,
[1:24:09] is likely to end up on our streets and sidewalks.
[1:24:12] We will return by September with those proposed amendments
[1:24:16] to, this committee
[1:24:17] and then ultimately for council approval, in late September.
[1:24:21] Second, the Privacy Commission recently approved an amendment
[1:24:25] to the city's automated license plate reader use policy
[1:24:29] so that OPD can share illegal dumping
[1:24:32] related video and data with Oakland Public Works.
[1:24:36] That approval was,
[1:24:40] from the Privacy Commission, and we expect that by September,
[1:24:44] that approval will come, to the City council.
[1:24:48] Third, bulky block parties are back.
[1:24:51] You might have gotten the, press release, this morning,
[1:24:54] but the first of four bulky block parties,
[1:24:58] and remember, these bulky block parties were restored
[1:25:01] after the, council adopted the illegal expenditure
[1:25:05] action plan, to fund these block parties.
[1:25:08] Our first one is taking place on July 25th
[1:25:11] at 7101 Edgewater, from 9 a.m.
[1:25:15] to 1 p.m.. Aucklanders, just need to bring, government issued,
[1:25:19] photo ID, plus some mail showing that they.
[1:25:25] Oh, sorry. Can I interrupt you for a second? We, have been joined by council President Jenkins,
[1:25:27] so we need to, adjourn into a full council session.
[1:25:31] I'll make that motion. I'll send.
[1:25:36] Thank you. Have a motion by Chair Unger, seconded by Council member Wong
[1:25:40] and the president's account.
[1:25:41] Council president Jenkins
[1:25:44] to adjourn the meeting of the Public Works and Transportation
[1:25:46] Committee meeting and to convene into a special meeting
[1:25:48] of full council.
[1:25:49] The time is now 12:56 p.m.
[1:25:52] on roll. Council member Gallo. Hi.
[1:25:55] Thank you, Councilmember Houston.
[1:25:56] I thank you.
[1:25:58] Council member one I and to your honor, I sorry for the interruption.
[1:26:02] Oh, problem for those, bulky block parties,
[1:26:05] we need a, government issued ID plus some mail, ideally
[1:26:09] from a utility showing, proof of residential address
[1:26:14] in Oakland. With that, staff recommends that the committee approve
[1:26:18] the proposed responses
[1:26:20] and forward them to the city council for final approval,
[1:26:25] after which the council president can then submit them on behalf of the City Council
[1:26:28] within that statutory deadline.
[1:26:30] Happy to answer any questions you may have.
[1:26:35] I think this is great. And, you know, the, the grand jury captures a moment in time.
[1:26:39] And unfortunately, they they got us right when we were in the process of,
[1:26:42] implementing all of their recommendations.
[1:26:44] So I think we are,
[1:26:45] well ahead of of where they their report says we are.
[1:26:49] So, anything from my colleagues,
[1:26:53] Councilmember Houston.
[1:26:58] Through the chair. This is great.
[1:26:59] On page six, when it says illegal dumping
[1:27:01] expenditures action plan, where is the EEOC in that
[1:27:06] or were they included in this, enforcement officers,
[1:27:09] they weren't specifically addressed to the Illegal dumping
[1:27:13] Expenditure Action plan.
[1:27:14] Other than that plan provides budget for us to implement
[1:27:20] handheld technology
[1:27:21] to make the work of the EEOC more efficient and easier.
[1:27:26] More importantly for the EEOC,
[1:27:29] the budget that council
[1:27:31] adopted, froze one of those EEO positions.
[1:27:35] And so the really
[1:27:36] good news as we sit here today is we have three CEOs
[1:27:40] who are scheduled to start in early August.
[1:27:43] And so,
[1:27:44] with that,
[1:27:46] we should be, staffed up and our environmental enforcement officers,
[1:27:49] in a much better way than we have the last couple of years
[1:27:52] and through the chair.
[1:27:52] So this is just information,
[1:27:55] is very important in this conversation
[1:27:58] that our eels are trained
[1:28:02] for hazardous
[1:28:04] and hazmat materials
[1:28:07] because, as we all know, that
[1:28:10] the city attorney can only do fines.
[1:28:16] We need prosecution.
[1:28:18] And the only way to prosecute is if the data is collected.
[1:28:21] It has to be data driven.
[1:28:23] Data driven that we can give the right information to
[1:28:28] the Alameda County District attorney for what?
[1:28:31] So they can proceed and prosecute
[1:28:34] to the full extent of the law.
[1:28:36] As we all know,
[1:28:38] especially in my district, you took a ride with me
[1:28:42] that there's no limit to what they will dump in my community.
[1:28:47] And I'll say this. And, Madam President, he's out an ordinance.
[1:28:49] Now, we always talk about this
[1:28:50] is a crime against our community to what's happening on
[1:28:55] E Street right now, right now between 105th and 98th and this.
[1:29:00] Reverse that 98 to 100 and fifth,
[1:29:04] where the children's path to travel
[1:29:08] is horrible
[1:29:12] and school is out. It's about to start. You know, you have everything there.
[1:29:14] So I'll just say this and I'm just going to reiterate
[1:29:17] that is very, very,
[1:29:18] very important that we put have the right tools
[1:29:21] so we can give the information to the district attorney
[1:29:25] because she's willing to prosecute.
[1:29:26] But we have to do it the right way,
[1:29:29] because I'm gonna say this to you, you know, a share this.
[1:29:31] And I'm into with this.
[1:29:33] This is a crime against our community.
[1:29:35] The things that they dump on these streets,
[1:29:36] the waste management will not take.
[1:29:41] And when you think about our our children have to walk through
[1:29:42] this council member anger and then they track this
[1:29:47] into their homes onto their floors.
[1:29:50] Because they walk that street every day is horrendous.
[1:29:53] You take a ride with me.
[1:29:55] So it's very important for us to be armed up.
[1:30:00] So that documentation that goes to the district
[1:30:03] attorney can be used and not thrown out.
[1:30:05] I've been there to with Nancy O'Malley,
[1:30:07] so I know how important that is.
[1:30:12] Councilmember one
[1:30:14] thank you.
[1:30:15] Through the chair.
[1:30:17] Fantastic. Report.
[1:30:19] And also really appreciate all the progress that,
[1:30:24] the Public Works Department has been making on this under your leadership.
[1:30:27] One thing I just have a question on is on finding 2618.
[1:30:31] So this is around the grand jury's
[1:30:34] recommendation around regulating private junk haulers.
[1:30:38] And the response from the department is that
[1:30:42] this should really be tackled at the regional and state level.
[1:30:46] I was wondering if you could elaborate on that, why that is?
[1:30:50] Since I, I do have an interest in looking
[1:30:52] at the regulation of the city level, is
[1:30:54] I really want to understand that rationale.
[1:30:58] First, let me share what,
[1:31:00] the city is currently doing around
[1:31:02] junk haulers, which they are subject
[1:31:03] to the same rules around illegal dumping.
[1:31:07] And so the more we enforce, the more cameras we get
[1:31:11] out there, the more videos we have doing investigations.
[1:31:14] We'll see more enforcement actions against junk haulers
[1:31:18] who improperly dispose of the materials they pick up.
[1:31:23] The second is on the city's website.
[1:31:25] We do have a list of, junk haulers,
[1:31:29] who've got the appropriate, licensing to conduct the work.
[1:31:34] And so I do encourage residents who,
[1:31:37] are looking for some help to find that list.
[1:31:39] You can do a quick, internet search for a city of Oakland,
[1:31:44] junk haulers.
[1:31:45] And you'll see that list come up 32.
[1:31:49] More directly to your question, there could be, potential
[1:31:53] legislative changes where we essentially,
[1:31:56] end up with a registry of sorts for junk haulers
[1:31:58] so that there is some pre checking of the junk hauler
[1:32:03] to make sure they understood the rules, that they actually were bringing
[1:32:05] the materials they collect and disposing of them properly.
[1:32:09] Where we see on the staff side some struggles,
[1:32:11] there is it's very, very, very, very likely that that's
[1:32:14] going to cross city boundaries.
[1:32:17] And so for that reason, a regional or a state approach is going
[1:32:20] to be much more effective, we think, than, just doing it.
[1:32:25] Within our city limits.
[1:32:27] Okay. That's that's helpful.
[1:32:29] And if let's say we did this at the county level,
[1:32:32] what would be the regulatory body?
[1:32:34] Who would handle that at the county level?
[1:32:39] Okay, I think it would be the Board of Supervisors.
[1:32:43] And that's something that I can do some,
[1:32:45] digging to make sure that that's correct
[1:32:47] and get that information back to you.
[1:32:48] Okay. Great.
[1:32:50] Thank you. I will move this item.
[1:32:55] Okay. It looks like we've got a second from council member Houston
[1:32:58] moving to our public speakers, Mrs.
[1:32:59] Sara Blair Beekman and Kevin Donnelly
[1:33:04] all miss Asada,
[1:33:08] moving to our online zoom.
[1:33:10] Blair Beekman
[1:33:11] and I do not see Blair.
[1:33:13] So we do have a motion made by Councilmember one second
[1:33:16] by Councilmember Houston
[1:33:18] to approve the recommendations of staff
[1:33:21] and the port this item to the July 21st City Council agenda on roll.
[1:33:25] Councilmember. All. Hi.
[1:33:26] Thank you, Councilmember Houston.
[1:33:29] Councilmember Allen,
[1:33:31] I thank you and chair anchor I
[1:33:35] the motion does pass with four eyes
[1:33:38] to approve the recommendations of staff
[1:33:40] and the for this item to the July 21st, 2026
[1:33:44] city council agenda
[1:33:46] and through the body, would that be on consent?
[1:33:50] Yes please.
[1:33:51] Thank you. Moving to item.
[1:33:53] Unless there's some statutory reason why a grand jury response
[1:33:57] can't be on consent to that, I think it can go on consent.
[1:34:01] And if it can't, I'll double check.
[1:34:02] Thank you.
[1:34:07] Moving on to item S ten, which is supplemental ten.
[1:34:10] This item does require a urgency vote as,
[1:34:14] it was on the three day agenda as a title change.
[1:34:18] We do need a motion. So moved.
[1:34:23] Thank you. Would you have a motion by Chair Unger,
[1:34:25] seconded by Councilmember Gallo to approve the urgency?
[1:34:28] I would now read the item into record.
[1:34:35] Adopt the resolution
[1:34:36] authorizing the city administrator to amend
[1:34:39] the professional services contract
[1:34:41] with Alta Planning Plus Design, Inc, for the seventh Street
[1:34:44] Connection project, for increasing the contract amount
[1:34:48] by 747,288 for a total contract amount
[1:34:53] not to exceed $3,955,404, extending the contract
[1:35:00] expiration date to the December 31st, 2030.
[1:35:04] Waiting to extent required further, further advertising,
[1:35:09] competitive bidding
[1:35:10] or competitive selection requirements under the Oakland
[1:35:13] Municipal Code, section 204050
[1:35:18] and 204051, and adopting Sequa findings.
[1:35:23] You do have three speakers for this item as well.
[1:35:25] All right, let's hear the staff report.
[1:35:31] Good afternoon. My name is It's the one principal civil engineer with
[1:35:33] Department of Transportation.
[1:35:35] Some information regarding this project.
[1:35:38] The seventh Street Connection project aims to create a safer
[1:35:41] and more accessible
[1:35:43] transit corridors for motorists, cyclists and pedestrians.
[1:35:47] Using this major connection from West Oakland to downtown.
[1:35:51] The project provides a protected class
[1:35:54] for bikeway on seventh Street from Mandela Parkway to MLK way,
[1:35:58] and on Gerry Adams Way, from Castro Street to MLK Junior
[1:36:03] Way, closing a critical gap in the city's bikeway network.
[1:36:08] The project will also reduce the number
[1:36:10] of existing travel lanes, construct bus boarding islands
[1:36:14] and transit shelters, improve pedestrian accessibility
[1:36:17] and safety through widening sidewalks,
[1:36:21] reconstructing curb ramps, expanding intersection corners,
[1:36:25] and install pedestrian scale lighting, plant new trees
[1:36:29] and upgrade the corridors.
[1:36:30] Aging traffic signal equipment.
[1:36:33] So in September 2022, the City Council
[1:36:37] authorized the execution of a professional services agreement with Alta
[1:36:40] to provide engineering services for this project.
[1:36:44] Several several unforeseen circumstances encountered
[1:36:48] during the design have necessitated additional design
[1:36:50] and environmental support services
[1:36:52] from the consultant, and an extension
[1:36:54] of their contractual period of performance.
[1:36:56] Adoption of the proposed resolution would authorize
[1:36:58] the City Administrator to amend the existing contract
[1:37:01] with Alta to continue providing design, services
[1:37:04] and construction support needed for project completion.
[1:37:07] The current
[1:37:09] the contract amendment will be fully supported by available state grant funds
[1:37:13] as the project advances to 100%.
[1:37:15] Design plans and completion of the environmental process
[1:37:18] are uniquely familiar with the project's design
[1:37:21] and is best positioned to continue providing
[1:37:23] professional services at the project
[1:37:28] consultant. The proposed amendment increases the contract by around
[1:37:31] 750,000 to provide additional services
[1:37:34] for a revised total not to exceed approximately,
[1:37:38] around $4 million.
[1:37:41] Therefore, staff recommends that this resolution be adopted
[1:37:44] in the next City Council meeting to be held on July 2026.
[1:37:50] And during that, I also want to share that
[1:37:53] two documents were inadvertently left
[1:37:56] out of the agenda package.
[1:37:58] And these documents serve as background information.
[1:38:01] Attachment A was project location map, and attachment
[1:38:05] B was a copy of the consultants amendment request.
[1:38:09] So the City Attorney's Office is
[1:38:10] advised that if the committee wants them
[1:38:12] included when the item goes to council, city council,
[1:38:16] they can be provided through the appropriate process
[1:38:18] before the City Council meeting.
[1:38:23] Okay. Do we need to make an amendment to include this? Yes.
[1:38:24] So if this body would like for attachments A and B
[1:38:29] to go to council, the motion made by this body would need to include that.
[1:38:31] Okay. I'd like to make the amendment,
[1:38:34] that we move the item with the attachments included.
[1:38:40] So. All right.
[1:38:41] Council members questions.
[1:38:45] Okay. Let's hear from our speakers from the public, please.
[1:38:50] Thank you. When I call your name, please approach the podium, state your name for the record.
[1:38:52] And if you're participating via zoom, please raise your hand.
[1:38:55] Miss Asada, Kevin Daley and Blair,
[1:38:58] Kevin Daley.
[1:38:59] We'll keep it short.
[1:39:01] Great project.
[1:39:02] Seventh Street is not safe.
[1:39:06] Pre project. Afterwards it should be a lot safer for pedestrians, cyclists
[1:39:10] and for taking the bus which
[1:39:13] which runs right by so forward to seeing it approved.
[1:39:17] Thanks. Thank you.
[1:39:26] If we have to use rule 28 for this item, why couldn't it been
[1:39:29] brought in a timely manner through rules?
[1:39:33] This item identifies that you'll be adding
[1:39:35] better bus stops and lighting, adding
[1:39:38] speed cameras to key areas for safety.
[1:39:42] Now you have an item on public safety where you're
[1:39:46] looking at all surveillance, surveillance technology,
[1:39:49] whether to keep it or to eliminate it.
[1:39:52] So any items that come up until you make that decision,
[1:39:56] that has something to do with using cameras,
[1:39:59] just like the last item, the recommendation from,
[1:40:03] the grand jury was to share license plate information.
[1:40:08] And that man didn't bring up the recommendations
[1:40:11] from the grand jury,
[1:40:14] which, including larger
[1:40:16] trash bins, having,
[1:40:20] what they call a garage saw.
[1:40:23] The grand jury didn't ask you to come up with your own stuff.
[1:40:25] It asks you to respond to their recommendations.
[1:40:28] And I'd like to thank you so much for your comment,
[1:40:31] Miss Asada.
[1:40:32] Blair Beekman, I do not see Blair.
[1:40:35] We do have a motion made by Councilmember Chair Unger,
[1:40:38] seconded by Councilmember Gallo, to approve as amended,
[1:40:41] the recommendations of staff
[1:40:43] and for this item to July 21st, 2026.
[1:40:46] City Council agenda
[1:40:50] and the amendments is to add a supplemental attachments, A
[1:40:52] and B, to be included in the agenda staff report on roll.
[1:40:57] Councilmember Gallo.
[1:41:01] All right. Thank you.
[1:41:01] Councilmember Houston,
[1:41:03] Council Councilmember Wang I and Chair unger I
[1:41:07] this motion does pass with four eyes to approve,
[1:41:09] as amended, the recommendations of staff
[1:41:12] and the for this item through July 21st.
[1:41:14] City Council agenda on consent, please.
[1:41:17] Thank you.
[1:41:17] Moving to open forum.
[1:41:26] I still have a statutory reason.
[1:41:28] Okay. By ministers discretion.
[1:41:31] Just because it does say that the.
[1:41:36] Council president can decide.
[1:41:37] Okay. We don't have an obligation.
[1:41:39] That's right.
[1:41:41] Moving to open forum, miss Asada,
[1:41:45] miss kin wa Parker Brightman.
[1:41:48] And excuse me for mispronouncing your name.
[1:41:50] Blair Beekman, Kevin Daly.
[1:41:55] Julius Morel.
[1:41:58] Shinobi. Howard.
[1:42:00] Shinobi. Howard. DeShawn. Taylor.
[1:42:04] Need to be.
[1:42:08] Shauna will head senior.
[1:42:14] And I have two cards for you.
[1:42:18] And marks
[1:42:20] and Timothy killings.
[1:42:21] If I mispronounce your name, I do apologize.
[1:42:24] Please state your name for the record.
[1:42:26] If you are participating via zoom, please raise your hand.
[1:42:29] And as practice, we will take in-person speakers before June.
[1:42:32] Speakers, you may begin. Thank you.
[1:42:35] My name is Anita B, and I've been a street
[1:42:37] vendor in Oakland since I was 19 years old.
[1:42:39] I'm 55 years old now.
[1:42:40] When I started street vending, there were no laws that existed.
[1:42:43] So what I was doing was not illegal.
[1:42:46] Six years ago, the first set of laws that were created
[1:42:47] that made what I do for a livelihood illegal.
[1:42:51] I want you to know that street vending is not just about food, and commerce is about dignity
[1:42:53] is about who gets to exist in public space.
[1:42:55] It's about whether Oakland remains a city for working
[1:42:58] class families, especially those from the flatlands
[1:42:59] who can survive, build and thrive.
[1:43:01] And for many families, mending has been
[1:43:02] the difference between poverty and stability.
[1:43:05] It has paid rent, fed children, sustain entire
[1:43:08] economies and communities, and what the city has been doing
[1:43:10] since May 1st, 2026, has been a total violation
[1:43:15] of not just the Constitution, but several state laws
[1:43:19] that were put in place to protect street vendors.
[1:43:22] The city has used public Works Department staff and equipment
[1:43:26] and trucks to destroy the property
[1:43:28] of both permitted and unpermitted
[1:43:31] vendors, without warning, without receipts,
[1:43:34] without any notice of how to get their property back
[1:43:36] despite the fact they have been destroyed.
[1:43:38] Thank you for your comment, Miss Nita.
[1:43:46] My name is Joyce.
[1:43:48] I am one of many second and third generation street vendors in Oakland.
[1:43:50] I set up at Lake Merritt.
[1:43:52] Downtown North Oakland is Oakland.
[1:43:54] I have helped my mom street vendor since I could walk.
[1:43:56] My mother and I have been vending
[1:43:58] since before your street vending permits, fees, rules
[1:44:01] existed, vending paid for my education,
[1:44:03] put food on my table, clothes on my back, and paid bills.
[1:44:06] I worked a 9 to 5 but always stayed
[1:44:08] loyal to my family business.
[1:44:10] In fact, without having both a 9 to 5 and street vending,
[1:44:13] we would not be able to survive in Oakland's cost
[1:44:15] of living and impacted working class families like mine.
[1:44:19] The word has spread across Oakland that the city of Oakland
[1:44:22] and the mayor's office is cracking down on vendors.
[1:44:25] Actions by the OPD, public works
[1:44:27] and building and planning staff have done are not humane.
[1:44:30] Civilized, are legal for rolling up to food vendors,
[1:44:35] not giving them warning and throwing away their stuff is illegal.
[1:44:37] I think it's interesting that the same equipment
[1:44:39] you use to throw our stuff away is the same stuff that you use
[1:44:43] to do your sweet encampments.
[1:44:46] Thank you for your comment.
[1:44:53] My name is Dejan Tolar.
[1:44:55] I am a street vendor and I sell and make clothes,
[1:44:59] for Lake Merritt.
[1:45:01] On Friday, the city police seized my product and set up,
[1:45:04] leading me to not knowing where my product is at.
[1:45:07] And they never give me a receipt
[1:45:09] for it, leading me to be unhoused.
[1:45:12] Not to mention, a sergeant hopped in my car
[1:45:15] and drove away without calling a towing company,
[1:45:19] without doing proper procedures for it as well.
[1:45:21] So following back to what they were saying,
[1:45:24] the city is doing all types of illegal things to
[1:45:28] stop street vending that helps provide families
[1:45:32] and everything like that.
[1:45:33] So that's all I have to say.
[1:45:45] Good morning. My name is Quanah Parker Reitman.
[1:45:46] I'm executive director of United Native Americans.
[1:45:50] Come here today to stand with my brothers
[1:45:53] and sisters in the community as far as the street vendors,
[1:45:58] I am interested in wondering if the city council
[1:46:02] has adopted SB 946
[1:46:07] as far as decriminalizing street vending,
[1:46:11] obviously what you're hearing from my brothers and sisters
[1:46:14] here in the community
[1:46:15] is you're not aware of that, or you haven't trained
[1:46:20] the officers of OPD or the sheriff's department
[1:46:25] that very much, you know, really needs to be rectified
[1:46:30] as far as the treatment of people, especially our community.
[1:46:35] Okay. That's one thing we'd really like to see done here
[1:46:37] today is the treatment of all of our community
[1:46:40] treated with respect.
[1:46:42] Thank you very much.
[1:46:48] Hello, I'm Shinobi Howard.
[1:46:49] I'm also a street vendor, and,
[1:46:52] they seem to have a lot of complaints
[1:46:53] about the things that, go on at the lake.
[1:46:55] So public works, we have eggs for larger garbage cans.
[1:47:00] We ask for assistance with, with the
[1:47:02] just a lot of things that are going with the lake.
[1:47:04] So also, we cleaned up at the lake,
[1:47:05] we pick up the trash when we when we
[1:47:07] when we van and when we leave, the trash picks up.
[1:47:11] We break up everything. We put everything in the garbage spaces.
[1:47:12] We ask the city
[1:47:13] just to give us
[1:47:15] larger garbage bins so we could place more things up in there.
[1:47:17] But at the end of the day, we just, we're all vendors
[1:47:21] and we just take care of the whole things that we have to pick it.
[1:47:29] Hello. My name is Timothy Killen.
[1:47:30] I'm a street vendor, I Lake Merritt.
[1:47:32] Also, I work at USD public schools
[1:47:34] as a community schools manager.
[1:47:36] I'm here because the city's approach
[1:47:38] to vendor enforcement at Lake Merritt is unacceptable.
[1:47:41] The vendors at Lake Merritt are not the problem.
[1:47:43] They are part of the economic and cultural fabric of Oakland,
[1:47:45] and many black, indigenous and working
[1:47:47] class families trying to make an honest living.
[1:47:50] Oakland has already displaced
[1:47:51] much of the African-American community
[1:47:53] through decades of policy decisions.
[1:47:55] We should not continue that legacy by criminalizing
[1:47:57] the very people who are still here,
[1:47:59] creating culture and economic opportunity,
[1:48:01] the militarized response to vending
[1:48:03] and the repeated shutdowns of the lake.
[1:48:05] Important cultural celebrations like Juneteenth send
[1:48:07] a clear message about whose presence is welcome
[1:48:09] and whose is not the people most affected by the decision.
[1:48:12] The vendors themselves are too often excluded
[1:48:14] from conversations that shape these policies.
[1:48:16] Current vendor policies prioritize comfort of visitors
[1:48:19] and outside interests over the livelihoods
[1:48:21] of Oakland residents and the communities
[1:48:23] that have built a culture of the city.
[1:48:25] Understand, this department is not
[1:48:27] solely responsible for decisions,
[1:48:29] but every department involved responsibility to speak with us.
[1:48:35] Yeah.
[1:48:41] If I called your name and you would like to speak on the on open forum,
[1:48:44] please state your name for the record.
[1:48:45] Thank you.
[1:48:48] Yeah. Good afternoon.
[1:48:50] And marks, I am coming here just to introduce or reintroduce myself,
[1:48:54] in my new role with Pji.
[1:48:55] I think, a lot of, you know me,
[1:48:57] I worked for the city of Oakland back in the 90s,
[1:49:01] the early 2000 and, working,
[1:49:04] here in the nonprofit community for a long time,
[1:49:08] been a commissioner for the city.
[1:49:09] And, you know, I live here.
[1:49:10] My family's here. I love it here.
[1:49:12] So I was happy to have the opportunity to,
[1:49:15] be part of pg ni,
[1:49:17] and use that as an opportunity to work with my city.
[1:49:19] And so I look forward to doing that.
[1:49:22] I just want to raise awareness about one thing, which is that, PGD,
[1:49:25] used our resources and our time to lobby on behalf of SB 1218,
[1:49:29] in Sacramento.
[1:49:31] You know, the illegal dumping affects a lot of things,
[1:49:33] but it really affects our ability to,
[1:49:36] do work because often it's on top of our assets and,
[1:49:38] keeps us from doing what we need to do.
[1:49:40] And, I've heard
[1:49:42] from enough of you to know that nobody likes it when it takes us
[1:49:43] longer than it should to do our work, in, in our city.
[1:49:47] So, thank you for your time.
[1:49:49] And I look forward to working with you.
[1:49:57] So, who's this?
[1:50:00] The, the late
[1:50:03] marriage vendors, majority of them African Americans.
[1:50:06] For years, you have targeted them,
[1:50:09] and you have you used the,
[1:50:12] public works,
[1:50:14] board
[1:50:16] to target them with a pilot program.
[1:50:19] You didn't have the courage to target them on your own.
[1:50:22] You use your that group to target them
[1:50:25] with fines, ticketing, no parking,
[1:50:30] all kind of issues around
[1:50:32] majority black vendors at Lake Merritt.
[1:50:34] This has been going on for a couple of years,
[1:50:36] but you have vending all over the city
[1:50:39] that doesn't get the same attention.
[1:50:44] Is it because this is a large number of African Americans
[1:50:46] who are vending over there at Lake Merritt,
[1:50:50] but you need to have a review of that pilot vending program
[1:50:55] that was developed by a bunch of regular citizens
[1:50:58] to target these vendors.
[1:51:01] And you have one more thing.
[1:51:03] I can't say it, but we have,
[1:51:05] thank you so much for your comment, Miss Asada.
[1:51:10] Move it.
[1:51:11] Kevin Daley, your passing. Thank you.
[1:51:13] Moving to our zoom speaker, Blair Beekman,
[1:51:16] please unmute yourself and begin your one minute comment.
[1:51:20] All right. Thank you. Blair Beekman.
[1:51:22] I, been busy with the San Diego public meetings today.
[1:51:26] I missed, talking about the future
[1:51:29] redevelopment of the Broadway area.
[1:51:31] Don't forget to think about all
[1:51:33] the tech accountability policies and best practices
[1:51:36] that you can add to the future of that area.
[1:51:38] And when you do, it really helps with, it's an important draw
[1:51:43] and in why people will come to Oakland
[1:51:45] if they see good tech accountability and action,
[1:51:48] they want to be around that, don't you think?
[1:51:50] I really work on it, I hope,
[1:51:53] I also hope that,
[1:51:56] I, my previous public comments,
[1:51:59] at the special counsel yesterday,
[1:52:02] I didn't say well enough that just to really thank yourselves
[1:52:06] for it seems like city administration
[1:52:08] is taking the time, effort and care to consider the concept
[1:52:11] of community participation at this time.
[1:52:14] If they're not,
[1:52:15] I get a sense they're trying to good luck
[1:52:17] in their continued efforts to try to.
[1:52:19] And thank you.
[1:52:21] That concludes your speakers for open forum.
[1:52:25] All right. Meeting is adjourned.
[1:52:28] Don't go too far. We're getting the band back together in seven minutes.
[1:52:34] Thank you.
[1:52:36] Thank you.