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Okay, it is 7.07. I'm calling to order the Monday, July 20th, 2026 meeting of the City of San Land of City Council, apologies for our tardiness as our closed session ran just a little bit long.

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At this point in time, I will wait us in the pledge of allegiance. Please join me if you can.

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I pledge that we're just two of the flag,

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but how can I not see your height

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now?

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I need to do this at

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all.

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Madam Kirk, would you please take the roll to assess quorum?

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Council member Fred Simon is absent.

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Council member Victor Aguilar.

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Present.

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Council member James Aguilar.

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Council member Sioux-Ballon.

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Council member Dillon Bolt.

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Vice Mayor of the Verals Walton, President, and Mayor Gonzalez.

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President, the City of San later, conducts orderly meetings for filots mandate, discriminatory

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statements for conduct that would potentially violate the Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964,

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and the World of California Fair Employment and Housing Act, California Bill and Code

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sections four, three or four, fifteen, are per se destructive to a meeting and will not be tolerated.

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Please see the City Council handbook and City Council meeting rules of decorum for more information.

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Madam Clerk, you're not so pleased.

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If you would like to make a public comment during the meeting, you can do so in person or via Zoom.

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If you are present at the meeting, please complete a speaker card and submit it to the city clerk before the item is presented.

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Then wait for public comment on that item to be called.

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If you wish to participate in public comment via Zoom, you can use the Raise Your Hand tool when the item is called.

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During the public comment session,

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speakers will be invited to speak and we'll have us at time to share their comments.

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A countdown timer will appear for their convenience and when the time is up, the microphone will be muted.

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All raised hands outside of public comment will be lowered to avoid confusion.

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Once public comment is opened, has may be raised to speak.

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There will be a 30-minute window for public comments on items not on the agenda,

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which will take place under item 7 public comments as per the published agenda.

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After this time is up, the council will proceed with the rest of the meeting's agenda.

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If you have not had the opportunity to speak during the initial 30 minute period,

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there will be another chance to do so after Item 12 City Council reports.

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Thank you.

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So, couple of other announcements today, we do have Chris Kovatillo here as our acting city attorney.

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And for those that were not present.

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Present at our work session meeting on July 13th, 2026. I do want to let public know that we did adjourn that meeting in honor and memory of our former

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Alameda County supervisor Scott Haggerty. And we observed moment of silence.

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We did meet in close session. There was ample discussion deliberation, but there is no reportable action that was taken.

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We do not have recognitions on today's agenda, but we will move on to the consent calendar.

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And so what I'd like to see if there are any items on the consent calendar that council members would like to pull for additional discussion.

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Council member Bolt.

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Yes, I'd like to pull item 5e.

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Okay, so 5e is being pulled.

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Council member, and I'm assuming that's it. Correct? Okay, and then Vice Mayor, please.

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I'd like to pull item 5H, please.

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Was that alpha A or H?

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Nope, there it is. H is an hairy.

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Thank you. Council member Victor, I get out.

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Thank you Mayor. I'd like to move the consent calendar with the exception.

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of 5E and 5H.

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Okay, just as a matter of clarification,

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I will be pulling item 5G.

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What do you mind amending your motion accordingly?

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Okay, so we do have a motion by Councilor Ayurved

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to move the consent calendar

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with the exception of 5E, 5G, 5H.

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Do I have a second on that?

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But I, Councilor Ayurved.

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I will second it, but I think that Vice Mayor has a statement first before I have to second it.

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Perfect.

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Vice Mayor?

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Yeah, I apologize.

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I meant 5G, not 5H.

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There was, so I'm a green when you can mayor.

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No problem.

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So then I will go back to the motion maker.

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Councilmember Victor, I get out.

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So Councilmember Victor, I get out.

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Are you fine with the suggested update?

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namely, that we approve the consent calendar with items 5e and 5g removed

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just for the record

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again if yes. Yes. And then Council Member Bowen, just to clarify, is that the motion that

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you're seconding? Yes. Okay. Council Member Bowen, did you have something in addition to that?

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No, thank you very much. So we've got a motion from Council Member Victor Agilat with a second

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Council Marboen to move the entire consent calendar with the exception of five E and five G.

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At this point in time, we will take public comment on the consent calendar.

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Mayor, we have received one comment card for the consent calendar that doesn't pertain to the

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items that were just removed and there are current. I'm sorry that does or does not. Let me restate.

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We've received a number of comment cards for the consent calendar, however, the majority of them

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except for one pertain to the items that were just removed, so we only have one item that

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still pertains to the consent calendar. Okay. Our general process is to take all consent calendar

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comment at one point in time, so we will continue to follow that process. But let's start with the one

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that is not on an item that's been removed yet,

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then we'll move into the others.

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How many hands do we have raised on the one?

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And there are three hands raised on the one.

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Okay, we have a total of how many cards in your hand.

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Seven.

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Seven.

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Thank you.

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Let's proceed with our standard of two minutes.

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Our first in-person speakers are Jeff Kroth,

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followed by Anne, followed by April.

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Hello council. I'd like to comment on,

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I'd like to comment on the cross town corridor.

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I question the wisdom of spending six million dollars on planning and design

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when with the frequency of how often I hear that roads.

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Our failed and not getting the money that they need, that they're becoming more expensive by not getting the attention that they need.

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And here we are putting six million dollars towards two roads that are in good condition, with serviceable bike lanes, and to do what?

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to make designs for isolating bike lanes, had some fruit future date.

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I don't think that this is a wise use for the money at this time.

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It can be delayed, the work will be delayed, that's obvious.

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But here we are spending money on bikeways of major thoroughfares that are in good shape.

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already have bike lanes. Another place where that could be considered would be

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Estudelo Avenue where they're talking about a two-way cycle track. When there's

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bikeways that are just off of the main fair that are designated bike routes

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that are not getting intention. I can think there are quite a few designated

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bycruits that are red on our map of conditions of roads and they're not getting attention.

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The attention for the bicycle pedestrian safety thing is going to the most obvious throw fairs.

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The most expensive places that need at the least. I question the priorities that are being

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and followed by April followed by John Barsky.

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The Alameda County Transportation Commission has 200 million

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in available grants. Applications are due July 27. The city is not

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applying for any of it to fix Lake Chibbo Road, a vital fiery

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evacuation route for the Bay of Vista neighborhood. The city's own 2022

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Kittleson Report documented the fact that Benedict and Vista

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will be overcapacity in the event of a wildfire.

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Other major streets will be congested.

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The time evacuation study conducted by the Wigo startup

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associated with UC Berkeley recently concluded

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that in a best case scenario,

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it will take residents an hour or more to evacuate.

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Without Lake Shavo Road, 100 to 400 of our most vulnerable residents

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will be exposed to deadly fire and toxic smoke.

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If even one street is blocked, it will be much worse.

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The city has known of this dangerous public safety situation since 2023.

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Yes, there are funds to fix two of the four road issues, but the city does not plan

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to open the road once these are fixed, supposedly in 2027.

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As we have been told by Alameda County Public Works, without a geotechnical report, the city

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can't assess the actual damage to the other two locations and cannot obtain actual repair

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cost of fixed and reopen the road. Without the actual cost, the city cannot apply for funding,

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which it could have done from ACTC in 2024 and again in 2026. If the city can apply for grants

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for bike lanes, street lighting and emergency trail stabilization repairs, why will they not

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prioritize fixing a vital fire evacuation route? This is a capital project that is long over

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Thank you. Thank you. The next three speakers are April, John Barski, and Catwoman.

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Good evening. I'm here to talk about the Casa Paralta issue, and it's unfortunate that that is being, I guess, postponed for a later date.

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I moved here in 2000 and went to the cost of pearl to several times and, you know, primarily on the weekend and it was lovely to see people visiting the home and, you know, enjoying the garden in front of the, in front of the cost of.

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So, I was very dismayed and surprised when the Casa Paralta got into a state where it was closed as I understand in 2019.

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And it seems like the decision to fix it or what to do with it has just been postponed, postponed, postponed.

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and meanwhile there are parts of the house, which are falling.

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In to disrepair. And my understanding is that there is now a proposal to have a company come in and reevaluate what needs to be done. And there was an evaluation done in 2016. The current proposal for reevaluation.

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And we does some of the things that were on that 2016 proposal, and I think there's something

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like half a million dollars that they want to do it.

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What I want to suggest is that while you're trying to decide, the half a million dollars

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is just outlandish.

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But while you're trying to make a decision,

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could you please arrange to have the cost of Carlton?

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Thank you, your time at sea lapsed.

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Thank you, your time has sea lapsed.

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Please finish your sentence.

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Justin is, could you pick something like the windows?

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And at least have the money go to fix the windows to help save the house from further

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disrepair.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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So I do want to clarify one thing that you can be seated.

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The statement was made that we are postponing the site.

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I just want to be clear for any future speakers what we've done by saying that we're

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pulling it from the consent calendar.

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That means that instead of just approving it by a vote among 10 different items, 20 different items that it's going to come apart separately for discussion in just a few minutes.

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So, we'll hear you guys, we'll vote on the other items on the consent calendar, and then both items 5E and 5G will have their own periods for discussions.

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I don't want anyone to get up and walk away if that's why you're here.

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So, if we could proceed with our public comment, please.

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Thank you.

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The next three speakers are John Barsky, Cat Wellman, and Art Johnson.

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Thank you for the clarification on 5G.

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As someone who was a registered professional engineer in the state of California for over 30 years,

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excuse me, I have looked on the saga of Lake Shibou Road for the past two plus years,

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with sadness and amazement. Not only has virtually nothing been done to address the problem

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by the city, apparently nothing is planned to be done. First, it was argued that the loss

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of that road would have no impact on the citizens. Then a group of citizens spent their own

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money to conduct a study demonstrating the negative impact on the ability to evacuate during

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emergency. Still, no action on the part of the city and its staff. People have asked me to

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argue for the quick repair of Lake Shable Road. I'm not going to do that because when you

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fix something, you have to determine the cause and extent of the problem. That has to be assigned

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in this case to professional experts.

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I am arguing for that process to begin and the funds for

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process to be budgeted.

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Failure to begin the investigation is equivalent to putting your head

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in the sand. Thank you. Thank you. The next three speakers are cat-lomen, art, Johnson, and Donald

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Pollard. Good evening. The City Council has stated that at once,

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Lake Shibou Road to be repaired and reopened to two way traffic, but finding the funds to pay

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for the repairs has been the primary stumbling block.

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So why is the city not applying for some of ACTC's $200 million grant funding to fix

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Lake Shabo Road?

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Fixing and reopening Lake Shabo Road strongly aligns with ACTC's funding priorities

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of safety, transportation and mobility, and community benefit and resilience.

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First, safety.

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LeXibot Road is a critical emergency evacuation route for nearly 4,000 bail-vista residents living in San Leandro's only high-fire hazard severity zone.

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The independent week-old timed evacuation study demonstrated that reopening the road would significantly improve evacuation times and could save the lives of 100 to 400 of our most vulnerable residents during a fast-moving wildfire.

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Transportation and Mobility. Reopening Lake Shabou Road restores an important connection between

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Sally Andro and Castro Valley. Reduce his congestion currently running through steep residential

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streets in Beowista, improves access for emergency responders, and restores needed redundancy

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to our transportation network. Three, Community Benefit and Resilience. This project serves residents

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first responders, businesses, and everyone who depends on a safe and reliable transportation

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in both San Leandro and Castro Valley is strengthens our community's resilience to wildfires

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and other emergencies. This is exactly the type of regional project ACTC was created to support.

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We have spent more than three years discussing why Lake Shabo Road Matters. This is an opportunity

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to pursue outside funding and demonstrate that reopening this critical roadway is a priority.

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Please direct staff to submit an application for funding from ACTC before July 27.

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The next two speakers are Art Johnson and Donald Pard.

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Hi everybody.

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Good evening.

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My name is Art Johnson.

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Vice President of the San Landry of Historical Society.

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Speaking to not on behalf of the Historical Society myself.

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As a member of this community.

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And basically, we've started this campaign to save the Kasa back in 2024.

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There's a little bit of a timeline here, so I'll try to be brief as possible.

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So 2016, as you all probably are aware of, there was an assessment done by ARG.

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An extensive assessment, and we offered, as the historical site,

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to renew that assessment, knowing that it was 10 years old for about 20,000 dollars

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and get that to the city.

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It goes on from there, essentially 14 months plus we are where we are today with now a new assessment, brand new assessment for basically half a million dollars.

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And the unfortunate part that concern for me and the historical society is that zero dollars are actually being spent on repairs.

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And as anybody again knows, the longer a building goes and disappear, the worse it gets, the more expensive it gets.

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want to be specific about why that number is hard to accept. So we went through the 2016 report

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line by line and basically six of the nine major work items in the proposal, background research,

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code and accessibility analysis, structural evaluation and MEP review and landscape assessment

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are the main cost estimates and all of those were done in 2016. So really there's only three items here

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that are new, the geotechnical soil investigation,

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the hazardous materials testing, the exploratory demolition,

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which that line out of worries me, just a hair.

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But those are really the net new items.

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And I just asked that the council basically

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doesn't improve this contract as scope, direct staff,

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to narrow it to a net new investigation work,

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soil, has met, and exploratory testing.

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Send the concept for all to back to the facilities

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meeting to discuss ifting the property to non-profit.

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The

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last public speaker is Donald Pollard.

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My name is Donald Pollard,

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a Sanlanderl historical society board member,

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and a resident of Sanlanderl for more than 50 years.

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Saving the Cossack would be an asset to Sanlanderl,

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it's in the heart of the city.

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students could take field trips and really see a lot of history about Casa Peralta.

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Also, making a public historical museum would benefit the surrounding community.

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We need and should save the Casa.

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Thank you for your time and that was way under.

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Thank you.

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Mayor, there are no more common cards from in the room.

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Thank you. So let's close public contact in person. We'll move to public contact online.

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Our first online speaker is Christopher Bammar.

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Oh, my.

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Sorry.

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Can you hear me? Yes.

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Um, okay.

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Um, I would like to speak about item five F.

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So I'm a little concerned that all the council members, the mayor, the city manager, the city attorney,

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everybody wants to go ahead and just approve this consent calendar.

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Five F, is it for $5.7 million or is it for $575,000?

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That's a big difference.

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Five million dollar discrepancy, and it's just a typo, but everybody has looked at it and everybody has approved it, and now it's on the motion for a vote.

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So I want to pull five F and have some discussion about what the actual cost of this is, because now that we're talking about the cost of Perelta, it made me think about 2016.

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I was there on a field trip with my daughters for their school, and they were doing the inspection.

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And the entire house was open, the basement, all the floors, everything.

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So I walked around and instructed the house myself, like I was one of the inspectors.

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This house is not stable.

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This is going to be millions and millions and millions of dollars wasted, right?

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They had an account for this house.

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The city has an account, the cost up for wealth, whatever they call it.

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They used the money that was in that account a couple years ago to finish the new police station

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renovations. Probably to buy some high dollar furniture or something. I don't know. Let's do an

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audits. I want to know what kind of money we've taken from the cost of paraotats to spend on

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other things other than the cost of paraotats. And also I think we need to look at five F's and you

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guys need to review your documents a little bit better. I had some faith in this council, but with

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this five million dollar discrepancy, I want some answers and I want to talk about it. I want to pull

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five F and I want you guys to read your documents better and make better decisions.

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You should spend the money on the road that's damaged, not talking about fixing other roads

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for bike lanes. I'll be back later with more. Thank you, sir. Your time is the elapsed.

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Our next

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online speaker is Douglas Spalding.

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Good evening, Council members. And San Leando. What a

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and soon a weather pattern is happy El Nino.

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I spend more and more time reading the consent calendar

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because I find I learned a lot about our student governance here

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after all this is where the money is spent.

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They say, you know, you put your money where your mouth is.

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This is where priorities are determined.

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I am happy to see several things on here

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that are certainly worthwhile to $120,000 building futures.

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It was very important, almost a half a million for San Leandro Link's shuttle, great, even the

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nearly million dollars for the to rebuild the bridge to bankrupt, great, but you know, I find

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a lot of these consulting services really quite questionable, and in that I count among

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that five Fs.

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Of course, Famer, if I can clarify the 575,000 is on top of the 500 million, so it's not a

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It's just at the two numbers together, but that's just for design.

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There's not no construction goes on there.

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We're not really getting much bang for the book there.

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I have the same problem with the 5E, the cost of parole to 70,500,000,

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doesn't get us anything more than an assessment and an estimate.

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It's no repairs, it's no restoration.

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And I noticed, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

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I noticed that in five out, the Marina Community Center

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has snuck its way.

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And I thought cost problem, Marina, were a couple things.

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The citizens were concerned about it,

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so they put them in the parcel tax.

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But now that that's not going forward,

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maybe this is the end around.

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I'm not sure that these two things are priorities

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in the public works have priority list.

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And the final thing I wanted to say,

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I noticed there's another big ticket item.

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And let's cover by the MCC grant for 1.35 million.

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I just want to know how it drives with the plans that are planning.

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Thank you, sir.

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Your time has elapsed.

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The next online speaker is Imagine Gonzalez.

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Good evening, City Council members.

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Mr. Mayor and Stanley Androa friends.

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My name is Imagine Gonzalez.

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I am a former member of the Stanley Androa Historical Society.

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And I'm dialing in tonight on behalf of a building this city.

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There's now spent 10 years studying and no time repairing.

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A decade ago, in 2016, architectural resources group

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professionally assessed the Kassa Paralta property.

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Seven years later, the family under his Oracle Society

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and the caring members of this community

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launched the Save the Kassa Campaign

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in good faith and in partnership with city staff.

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The Historical Society offered to paint

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out of its own pocket to have that assessment brought up to date

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by the same firm and much of the same team.

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That offer was declined.

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It had to go out to bid.

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Fourteen months have passed between this council's direction

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in May of last year, and the contract before you tonight.

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Fourteen months, and the casse has no better off for it.

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What that process has produced, is a $566,000 in-boards.

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More than half of the $1 million this city is set aside for repairing the CASA, for a second opinion that will not lay a single brick at a single roof or save a single beam.

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So tonight I ask you three things. One, do not spend half of the CASA's money studying the CASA.

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Two, return this matter to the facilities committee to explore gifting or returning the property to a stored who will preserve it, and three, do preserve the building.

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It's history and this community's connection to it.

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Don't clear it for a park.

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Thank you for your time.

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Have a good evening.

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Thank you.

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The next online speaker is Angela.

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Angela, you can unmute yourself.

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Hi, can you hear me?

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Yes.

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I want to just keep a brief.

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Please don't waste over half a million dollars and half the funds set aside for the cost of

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for also on a meaningless assessment.

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It's been 15 months since the cost was a

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of facilities meeting in May 2025, where this council asked staff to get real cost estimates for the project,

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which has been no meaningful progress on restoring the house since then,

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despite the efforts of numerous concerned citizens, including our historical society, to get the

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council to prioritize the house. That money is much better spent toward any of the numerous projects

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that have already been identified in the 2016 assessment. This entire situation is emblematic of the

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deep divide between the citizens and the government of the city, and the deep distressed and

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of faith that the former has in the latter.

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Please send the cost back to be disgusted of facilities meeting to explore gifting the property

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back to the prior owner, or to a nonprofit that will actually prioritize preserving the property

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as was the original intent when it was given to the city, which the city has completely

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failed in accomplishing.

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We want the cost of preserved.

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We do not want it torn down to create a park as Brian Simon proposed in one of the previous

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meetings.

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Oakland's shameful failure to protect its historic homes, including the recent fires that

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Carlton House and June and the Cameron Sanford House

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and April should be a cautionary tale,

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not one that Stanley Andrew should seek to emulate.

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And the house is disabled.

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Please don't listen to people who are playing expert

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because they looked around during the field trip.

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Thank you.

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Did they repair in the more hands raised online?

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OK, thank you.

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Do you have just a question?

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Because right now, we do have a motion.

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But there was, I think, one question that was really focused

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on an item that was not pulled.

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So I'd like to get a little bit of elaboration.

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So I will ask on behalf of the public commenter

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to Director Mark Kiesus.

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It was a discussion about the approximately $6 million

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so we'll be spent on engineering and design

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related to the cross town corridors.

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And if you could perhaps explore two pieces of that.

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First, is this money that has already

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been granted to the city from ACTC federal agencies and the like to which we have made certain

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commitments. And then secondly, if you can elaborate, what on earth could cost $6 million to put

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a piece of paper underneath a pen and draw for you squiggles, right? That's the basic question

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that's being asked. So if you could begin to both of those, please. Thank you, Mayor. Good evening.

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council mayor members of the public. My name is Sheila Marquises, Public Works Director.

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The Cossam corridor project has been a long running project that's been

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in study starting in 2020 who received a planning grant to study protected by

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lanes along both being craft avenue from City Limits to the North Oakland and down to the

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the eligible divide all the way to Neptune.

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The project has undergone community outreach and with that outreach with the vision

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of the protected bike lanes along both corridors, we were able to submit grant applications

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for both the federal and alameda CTC.

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So I believe that combined about four million dollars, a total of four enough to get us through the design.

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So we have a combination of grant and local funding.

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And the five million dollars for the consultant includes the project management, stakeholder and utility

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coordinations for all the required abocornation for both of those corridors, so that includes

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utilities and also Union Pacific Railroad. And that's also the development of the planned

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backs and estimates together too would be

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We complete bid package. At that point, that also puts us in a very good position to request for additional grant funding for construction funds.

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And then the magnitude, if you can just number of linear feet or miles or whatever metric, because again, it might feel like, oh, well, that's just, you know, a hundred yards, but can you give us some sense of the scale?

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Yes, some what comes to mind is three miles, but I've been a look to our city engineer if I have that number

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That comes to mind about that is approximately right given the distances that are involved and again to be clear

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You have to relocate potentially

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Things ranging from sewer access electricity access lighting. It's not even as simple as let's just put up some curves to separate bikes

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correct

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Okay. Are there any other questions related to that item because that was a question was raised by the public and I just want to make sure that we had a little bit of information before we decide whether or not we want to also pull that item.

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Council Member Bellany. Yes, thank you Mayor. Can you clarify the first amount, the 5,0756,180 versus

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approval of amendments to the agreement up to a cumulative value of 575,000,618?

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I'm now paying that over to our city engineer. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor and members of the

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Council, Jason E. Mime City Engineer of Public Works Department.

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The 5,756,180 dollars is the contract amount for the design of the project.

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The 500 plus thousand is actually a contingency like we do with most design contracts or construction

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contracts.

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It will allow us to work more efficiently, should the scope change that has justified additional

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costs.

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we could increase the contract up to that additional amount without having come to come back to console.

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Thank you. And Dr. Ricky says you mentioned at the end of your comment that we received

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federal funding and ACTC funding to be able to do the design process, which sets us up to be

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able to go back to both federal funding opportunities as well as a CTC, give it a CTCs emphasis

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on pedestrian bicycle safety as a very high priority. Is that correct?

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Any further questions? Okay, seeing then let's proceed to a vote on the motion by Councilmember

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Victor Aguilar with a second from, was it Councilmember Boone? Yes, thank you.

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Both votes are in and the motion carries unanimously with six yes votes and council member Simon being absent.

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At this point, we will take up item 5e.

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This item was pulled by council member Bolt.

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Council member Bolt, I would ask for you to lead the first step of this discussion.

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We'll see where the discussion goes.

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Casa Proto.

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There you go.

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Thank you proceed.

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Yes.

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Thank you. I pulled 5V,

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I too want to express that that dollar amount feels extremely high.

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I was in the meeting that we actually had for facilities. It was a great day out there at Casa Peralta.

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There was a discussion about a community group given us some money to update

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an older scope for design and that amount was researched and thought about by them and that

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was, as mentioned, $20,000 and now we're at over half a million, $566,596.

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I feel like as the city manager has said before, you know, things change in the thought

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that the amount of money we're looking to cut and do things with in our city.

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For me, just to upgrade a 10-year-old study of the house can raise that much, I am not

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comfortable.

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With that,

451
00:55:03,460 --> 00:55:09,640
I cannot vote, yes, on that, so I pulled it. But the idea of it coming back to facilities

452
00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:18,420
in us reviewing some of the options that were there. And the thought that it goes into a park,

453
00:55:18,420 --> 00:55:26,720
I don't think anybody wants that. But it's an option, right? And we have to discuss it. I don't

454
00:55:26,720 --> 00:55:33,200
want that to happen. I'd like to see Cossopor out the saved, but I think we need to send it back

455
00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:40,880
to facilities to have a real meaningful discussion. It's been 14 months. We haven't preceded

456
00:55:42,060 --> 00:55:49,160
any of the upgrades to this point and I'm not comfortable with us saying yes to this so I pulled it

457
00:55:49,160 --> 00:55:56,560
And I would like to send it back to facilities for us to reevaluate where we're at as a city.

458
00:55:57,020 --> 00:55:59,700
What kind of funds we have?

459
00:56:00,820 --> 00:56:17,480
Because I'm afraid that even if we were to approve this, which I don't support, it gives an unrealistic expectation that somehow we're going to find some more money to actually do the things that this report asks us to do.

460
00:56:18,720 --> 00:56:24,740
If it's this number, I can only imagine what the actual repair costs are going to be.

461
00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:30,080
And I don't want to give an unrealistic expectation of our community that, okay, here we go.

462
00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:32,660
We're walking down this path. Now we're going to spend this money.

463
00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:36,260
And then the next thing we're going to do is fix it once we get, that's not the case.

464
00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:39,680
So again, I would like to see us bring it back.

465
00:56:39,760 --> 00:56:42,560
I don't know if that's motion needed or how you want to.

466
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:45,140
So why don't we do this before I take a motion?

467
00:56:45,220 --> 00:56:47,780
Let me just hear very quickly if there's any other concerns,

468
00:56:47,920 --> 00:56:50,520
because I'm taking what you say as a motion

469
00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:52,020
that you would like to be the motion maker.

470
00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:53,140
I'm fine with that.

471
00:56:53,220 --> 00:56:56,940
But if there's any other elaborations such as potentially,

472
00:56:56,980 --> 00:57:00,060
well, let's go to you by transparency where this takes us.

473
00:57:02,190 --> 00:57:02,770
Thank you.

474
00:57:02,850 --> 00:57:08,870
I also have a concern, particularly around what

475
00:57:08,870 --> 00:57:11,110
is the difference between the tenure report

476
00:57:11,110 --> 00:57:19,570
and what is the kind of added value and I would question that that actually, that Delta is actually

477
00:57:19,570 --> 00:57:22,550
worth 560 plus thousand.

478
00:57:24,870 --> 00:57:30,150
And so I am supportive of sending it back to facilities. I think

479
00:57:34,170 --> 00:57:41,770
this is a community asset that is consistently for those of us who are newer to San Leandro and

480
00:57:41,770 --> 00:57:48,290
were able to experience it for just a little tiny bit. It is a truly beautiful magical place.

481
00:57:49,750 --> 00:57:57,330
And I only had the privilege of walking and being in that space for the first couple of years

482
00:57:57,330 --> 00:58:04,490
that I was living in San Leandro and now it's not open to the public. So I would like to explore

483
00:58:04,490 --> 00:58:12,050
all the options to have a informed discussion about the trade-offs and what we're investing in

484
00:58:12,050 --> 00:58:15,030
and what we choose not to for it to be a transparent process.

485
00:58:17,230 --> 00:58:19,630
I would second that motion to send

486
00:58:19,630 --> 00:58:28,590
that back to facilities to have that committee of the council really vet through all of the

487
00:58:28,590 --> 00:58:30,810
which is an, and have that discussion,

488
00:58:31,510 --> 00:58:34,450
I don't feel comfortable with spending that amount of money

489
00:58:34,450 --> 00:58:38,570
on the updating a plan that is 10 years old.

490
00:58:40,090 --> 00:58:41,570
Okay, so just be really clear,

491
00:58:41,650 --> 00:58:43,050
we don't have a motion yet,

492
00:58:43,050 --> 00:58:44,630
but I hear you clarifying the scope

493
00:58:44,630 --> 00:58:46,690
of what that motion would look like,

494
00:58:46,990 --> 00:58:49,630
namely that we consider all options

495
00:58:50,230 --> 00:58:51,810
that it's not just limited to something

496
00:58:51,810 --> 00:58:53,210
about this, this it's at extended,

497
00:58:53,270 --> 00:58:54,870
but what are the options for passive problem

498
00:58:54,870 --> 00:58:56,270
coming to council more bone next?

499
00:58:58,290 --> 00:59:07,510
Thank you, Mayor. I would love to hear from our director to kind of give some clarity around

500
00:59:07,510 --> 00:59:14,510
what that's consulting service and that I'm on a 566 with that scope actually looks like to understand

501
00:59:14,510 --> 00:59:24,590
what is being done. If there's a gap between what was done 10 years ago versus now and just so that I understand better.

502
00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:33,700
certainly, Brian Simon's library director, good evening Mayor, council.

503
00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:45,720
So the scope of what's being proposed, we need to take a little bit of step back to that evening when we discussed it at the facilities committee.

504
00:59:46,560 --> 00:59:55,820
And one of the things that we were instructed to do is to investigate what it would cost,

505
00:59:55,820 --> 00:59:59,960
to get it up to date cost we had used industry.

506
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:06,820
Your standard inflationary escalators, but they're all, you know, giving a near-ish, we use

507
01:00:06,820 --> 01:00:13,040
three of them. We use, they got approximately a similar cost around 10 million for hard

508
01:00:13,040 --> 01:00:20,140
cost, and then it was also estimated to be about 5 more million on top of that to renovate

509
01:00:20,800 --> 01:00:27,000
for soft costs. But in that 10 years time, and this is why we were instructed to go that route

510
01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:31,220
is to look at something new, is in 10 years time,

511
01:00:31,560 --> 01:00:33,520
a lot more degradation had happened.

512
01:00:34,360 --> 01:00:38,080
Our chief building official had gone through it,

513
01:00:38,080 --> 01:00:43,320
and he noticed more rot, more sinking of the floors.

514
01:00:44,620 --> 01:00:48,320
So we were in a place where more damage has already

515
01:00:48,320 --> 01:00:49,280
happened to it.

516
01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:54,220
So to just use escalators, probably was not going to be accurate.

517
01:00:54,220 --> 01:01:04,260
So in order to get a real accurate price and the direction at the time was to not leave a stone unturned to make sure if we were to go down this path

518
01:01:04,260 --> 01:01:11,260
to know as best as best we could with whatever was available at our disposal to get an estimate for.

519
01:01:11,460 --> 01:01:21,840
To make sure we're not surprised later on as we get into the construction of it that let's say just hypothetically it was going to be 15 million and then we start

520
01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:27,560
Terrent things apart and rebuilding we discover something oh now there's another two million five million what have you

521
01:01:27,560 --> 01:01:34,400
We want it to do our best effort possible and do everything we could to not only redo what was done

522
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:41,960
But then add those three elements to dig as deep as we could to make sure we weren't surprised by a

523
01:01:41,960 --> 01:01:46,600
bid later on to then have to come back and say well, we know we said it was 15 million but now

524
01:01:46,600 --> 01:01:51,320
We're running into more problems and there's you know more millions we need to put into this

525
01:01:51,320 --> 01:01:54,420
So we're trying to, we're trying to stem that off at the beginning.

526
01:01:55,140 --> 01:01:55,480
I understand.

527
01:01:56,120 --> 01:02:01,020
And is the class, I'm, I'm pretty think back to our, our, our capital improvement plan

528
01:02:01,020 --> 01:02:03,860
of projects that we're committed to working on.

529
01:02:04,060 --> 01:02:10,220
The customer also is included in that correct, anybody that can answer that for me, chair.

530
01:02:10,820 --> 01:02:11,540
Thank you.

531
01:02:11,960 --> 01:02:12,180
Hi.

532
01:02:12,400 --> 01:02:12,860
Good evening.

533
01:02:13,320 --> 01:02:15,060
Council member Jason and my city engineer.

534
01:02:15,680 --> 01:02:20,280
The funds to fund this study are currently within the capital improvement project.

535
01:02:20,280 --> 01:02:25,500
plan. I'm sorry. Can you clarify, what do you mean, is it already included, as in it has already been

536
01:02:25,500 --> 01:02:31,420
allocated to that specifically? It was allocated to the Casa Paralta project in general. There was

537
01:02:31,420 --> 01:02:37,700
money still in that account, when this decision was made, so we earmarked a portion of that money to

538
01:02:37,700 --> 01:02:44,040
go to the city. Got it, so we had specifically earmarked son funds to go towards Casa Paralta,

539
01:02:44,560 --> 01:02:49,740
that does not necessarily mean that that is the only, those are the only funds that we could or would

540
01:02:49,740 --> 01:02:51,880
spend towards Casa Peralta.

541
01:02:51,880 --> 01:02:52,740
That's correct.

542
01:02:54,960 --> 01:03:02,380
And also the question of potentially giving Casa Peralta to you, a non-profit, is that what

543
01:03:02,380 --> 01:03:05,660
would that process actually look like?

544
01:03:07,160 --> 01:03:09,180
If anybody could just clarify that?

545
01:03:09,520 --> 01:03:11,540
I can clarify to some degree.

546
01:03:12,700 --> 01:03:17,860
What we know is, it's a little complicated because the gift grant deed, where when we got the property in

547
01:03:17,860 --> 01:03:26,660
in 71 is very specific and it has some specific requirements that the city is required to operate

548
01:03:26,660 --> 01:03:36,980
under. We have to keep it as a element of historic significance and can be used for art or

549
01:03:36,980 --> 01:03:39,800
and history. That's to be an element of history involved.

550
01:03:41,940 --> 01:03:46,080
What in order to move it onto another or even

551
01:03:46,080 --> 01:03:47,880
for us to do something else with it.

552
01:03:48,120 --> 01:03:51,620
The first thing we would have to do is offer it back

553
01:03:51,620 --> 01:03:52,800
to the donating family.

554
01:03:53,760 --> 01:03:56,560
And then they would have to either decide to take it back

555
01:03:56,560 --> 01:04:01,960
or they would have to decide that they didn't want that

556
01:04:01,960 --> 01:04:03,980
and it relinquish that offer back.

557
01:04:04,500 --> 01:04:05,700
And then that would open the door

558
01:04:05,700 --> 01:04:08,220
to potentially gifting it to someone else.

559
01:04:08,820 --> 01:04:10,360
But that would be the first step.

560
01:04:11,040 --> 01:04:14,580
So there would be some legal actions

561
01:04:14,580 --> 01:04:19,500
that would need to take place, but that's the, that's the just of it.

562
01:04:19,840 --> 01:04:26,300
I think I just take one more minute to add something, I appreciate that clarity.

563
01:04:26,700 --> 01:04:30,880
I recognize that there seems to be a desire to go back to facilities and if

564
01:04:30,880 --> 01:04:34,520
facilities is interested in doing that, I certainly welcome it.

565
01:04:34,560 --> 01:04:44,560
I also appreciate understanding that the amount that is, that is that we're

566
01:04:44,560 --> 01:04:51,280
and I do, I am really supportive of finding ways to be able to support the Casa Peralta.

567
01:04:51,680 --> 01:04:56,660
I've actually held an organized, easter egg hunt at the Casa Peralta for like hundreds of

568
01:04:56,660 --> 01:05:00,000
kids that was actually kind of overwhelming, but you know, and then also...

569
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:05,220
We've done amazing projects there on the environment, so I really do, I know that the community

570
01:05:05,220 --> 01:05:12,680
really does appreciate the space. I also recognize that hesitation to spend money when we may not

571
01:05:12,680 --> 01:05:17,400
go to find more money in the short term for it, but if we do have the funds already available,

572
01:05:17,840 --> 01:05:23,080
I would like us to be able to work towards getting class approach to a place where it is restored.

573
01:05:25,520 --> 01:05:28,260
Thank you, councilmember Victor, I get our.

574
01:05:30,160 --> 01:05:36,080
Thank you Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to move item five e to go back to.

575
01:05:37,100 --> 01:05:38,920
Facilities, committee for further discussion.

576
01:05:39,880 --> 01:05:45,560
And would this scope of that referral include analysis of all possible.

577
01:05:47,160 --> 01:05:51,420
Disposition, funding sources and the like the totality of the breadth of discussions.

578
01:05:51,420 --> 01:05:52,700
Yeah, okay.

579
01:05:52,700 --> 01:05:57,670
As a second on the Council Member, I think that's a motion, a council member, a council member,

580
01:05:57,910 --> 01:05:58,730
a vote.

581
01:05:59,410 --> 01:05:59,890
Second.

582
01:06:04,920 --> 01:06:11,800
Without going into a lot of detail, I think that there's this house has significance for many

583
01:06:11,800 --> 01:06:17,560
reasons in addition to its historical significance to the city.

584
01:06:18,300 --> 01:06:22,360
I don't want to get into those things right now, because we do have a motion that I support

585
01:06:22,360 --> 01:06:27,040
along with a second, but forward to a robust discussion in facilities.

586
01:06:27,940 --> 01:06:32,920
Sign up for the discussion. Please vote on a motion to move this to facilities.

587
01:06:33,640 --> 01:06:35,040
Yes, means take it to facilities.

588
01:06:42,050 --> 01:06:45,430
All votes are in and the motion carries unanimously

589
01:06:45,430 --> 01:06:50,110
with six yes votes and council member Simon being absent.

590
01:06:52,440 --> 01:06:54,060
Okay at this point time we will take up

591
01:06:55,120 --> 01:07:07,600
5G. I pulled it, but Vice Mayor would you like to leave the discussion on 5G, the ACTC proposed

592
01:07:07,600 --> 01:07:10,580
CIP. Vice Mayor.

593
01:07:12,720 --> 01:07:24,160
I think you, I would just like to start off with a little bit of exploration and some

594
01:07:24,160 --> 01:07:34,540
memory on the process by which we decide what to submit applications for please that's the question.

595
01:07:34,880 --> 01:07:41,360
Okay. So we will go to Director Marcusa Serior. If you could please proceed.

596
01:07:46,020 --> 01:07:53,060
evening she marks his public work director. So for projects like projects submitted to

597
01:07:55,060 --> 01:08:00,480
We have a staff look at the most competitive projects.

598
01:08:01,300 --> 01:08:06,160
After reviewing Elamita CTC's notice of funding opportunity,

599
01:08:07,040 --> 01:08:12,640
we review these various categories that they put for.

600
01:08:13,120 --> 01:08:17,180
And we look at our projects that are a highest priority.

601
01:08:17,180 --> 01:08:33,940
And when I refer to Pious Priority, I'm referring to our Master Plan until we have a bicycle to pedestrian master plan, local roadway safety plan, any other site specific plans.

602
01:08:34,660 --> 01:08:43,240
So when we look at those plans and projects that we already have supporting documents for, so the good example is the crossing on corridor.

603
01:08:43,240 --> 01:08:51,160
we already have a lot of momentum. So we look at the various projects and we make a staff analysis

604
01:08:51,160 --> 01:09:02,660
of which is going to be the most competitive. So for if my make it into the current ACTC funding

605
01:09:02,660 --> 01:09:11,300
opportunities, for example, they'll put forth eligible project categories. So for this year's

606
01:09:11,300 --> 01:09:23,300
opportunity they list six eligible categories. And so that's our first pass of which projects that we have in the pipeline that would be eligible for these projects.

607
01:09:23,960 --> 01:09:35,760
And to kind of fast forward, once staff has identified those projects, we come to Council with the request to support these projects.

608
01:09:35,760 --> 01:09:40,700
And then we're also working on the grant applications in the background.

609
01:09:41,400 --> 01:09:44,160
I'm going to look to our city engineer if there's anything else you want to.

610
01:09:47,630 --> 01:09:55,610
No, I should just add, so the release for the call for projects was at the end of May, May 28th,

611
01:09:55,710 --> 01:09:59,970
and actually the first workshop for the grant was in the beginning of.

612
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:06,600
June, and then applications were due at the end of this month in one week, so it was a very quick turn around.

613
01:10:07,080 --> 01:10:14,140
So staff had the charge of doing a very quick assessment to determine which projects best.

614
01:10:15,220 --> 01:10:21,960
We're most competitive based on the criteria set by the Alameda County Transportation Commission.

615
01:10:30,780 --> 01:10:33,240
Thank you. I inadvertently turned off my mic.

616
01:10:34,820 --> 01:10:52,620
So, just to be clear, the Council as a body, this is the first time we've seen the request to submit grant applications to the Transportation Commission, the County's Transportation Commission.

617
01:10:53,460 --> 01:10:56,440
So we are, and they're due at the end of this month.

618
01:10:57,940 --> 01:11:00,060
They're doing one week.

619
01:11:04,330 --> 01:11:07,230
So just, are we just doing questions?

620
01:11:07,250 --> 01:11:08,630
Are we rolling them both?

621
01:11:09,230 --> 01:11:09,870
Just perceived.

622
01:11:14,090 --> 01:11:19,810
So just in terms of the, what we submit application.

623
01:11:19,930 --> 01:11:23,650
And what is the total amount that we're, what are the projects?

624
01:11:23,970 --> 01:11:29,170
I didn't, I pulled up the CAP process, the CAP project, and I now I don't have the amounts.

625
01:11:29,170 --> 01:11:35,530
But what is the total, well, what would be the total grant amount should we be successful in getting all these applications?

626
01:11:38,180 --> 01:11:46,900
If I may just read that for each project, so we have about, we requested 3.7 million for the rescue project,

627
01:11:47,780 --> 01:11:52,860
$863,000 for the E-14th North area pedestrian lighting project,

628
01:11:53,320 --> 01:11:58,760
$1.394 million for the Fairway Drive traffic calming project,

629
01:11:59,060 --> 01:12:02,220
and $495,000 for the safe routes to school,

630
01:12:02,220 --> 01:12:04,520
pedestrian safety, enhancements project.

631
01:12:09,140 --> 01:12:16,540
I think just in terms of what are the types of projects that go forth

632
01:12:16,540 --> 01:12:26,680
for submittal just in terms of our role in the oversight and it would like

633
01:12:28,800 --> 01:12:31,900
to have at least have

634
01:12:31,900 --> 01:12:39,080
like the menu or the universe of projects that are up for analysis to just kind of understand

635
01:12:39,080 --> 01:12:45,520
what is the universe of projects that staff is thinking about submitting for the county commission

636
01:12:45,520 --> 01:12:54,280
for possible funding. I would say just in terms of timing, I'm just a, you know, we're

637
01:12:54,280 --> 01:13:01,620
a week out or 10 days out from the deadline. And I definitely don't want to kind of put

638
01:13:01,620 --> 01:13:10,960
the breaks on any of these very important projects throughout the city. But the process by which

639
01:13:10,960 --> 01:13:18,020
So the projects that are eligible, it seems a little unclear to me, but maybe it's, you

640
01:13:18,020 --> 01:13:20,920
know, I'm not in facilities, I'm not on ACTC.

641
01:13:22,280 --> 01:13:28,520
So as a member of this council, I just felt a little bit like, in the dark about what

642
01:13:28,520 --> 01:13:33,060
were the what, even what was even being considered for analysis and what projects didn't

643
01:13:33,060 --> 01:13:42,820
the cut because it is our anyway so I'll I'll just leave that there for I'll lead I'll I don't

644
01:13:42,820 --> 01:13:47,040
have any time to see back so those are all my comments. I don't know where he is coming to

645
01:13:47,040 --> 01:13:50,300
council more relevant. Thank you Mayor.

646
01:13:52,500 --> 01:13:56,900
A few questions so I'm looking at the different projects

647
01:13:56,900 --> 01:13:58,740
that we were submitting to and submitting.

648
01:14:00,340 --> 01:14:04,040
And for East 14th Street, North area, pedestrian lighting,

649
01:14:04,300 --> 01:14:06,980
fairway, drive traffic, calming, and safe routes

650
01:14:06,980 --> 01:14:09,200
to school pedestrian safety in Hessen's projects,

651
01:14:10,420 --> 01:14:13,720
that makes sense to me in terms of bike pad safety.

652
01:14:13,720 --> 01:14:16,640
Again, which I mentioned earlier is a priority for a CSTC.

653
01:14:17,020 --> 01:14:18,700
Can you share a little bit about the regional

654
01:14:18,700 --> 01:14:21,300
emergency stabilization for coastal utility egress?

655
01:14:21,820 --> 01:14:25,340
And why that is a competitive application.

656
01:14:26,920 --> 01:14:29,700
I can take that to Jason and my city engineer.

657
01:14:31,280 --> 01:14:38,820
So the Perth, the Elameda County country, the Commission guidelines, they have $200 million,

658
01:14:39,160 --> 01:14:44,560
but there are several different parts of money that make up that $200,000 specifically.

659
01:14:45,040 --> 01:14:47,960
There is a program category called three major trails.

660
01:14:48,540 --> 01:14:51,660
And one of those three major trails is the Bay Trail.

661
01:14:51,660 --> 01:14:59,400
So, $15 million of that $200 million is available specifically for the major trails program.

662
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:08,080
And we felt that that the rescue project would compete favorably and were actually pretty strongly for that money that's available.

663
01:15:08,760 --> 01:15:13,920
Thank you. And then the other clarifying question that I had.

664
01:15:14,600 --> 01:15:29,400
And I mean, I do sit on ACCC, ACTC force, provider Tam, and I also sit on the public policy committee, which actually approves this, there's the CIP plan that then goes to the full board.

665
01:15:29,400 --> 01:15:42,800
I do actually remember in May when we approved it to go out for bits, bringing it as public comment for the council as well, and I think encouraging staff to continue to work to fund these projects.

666
01:15:46,220 --> 01:15:55,580
And I wanted to take a little bit deeper with you direct remark, he says about that process for picking the projects.

667
01:15:57,200 --> 01:16:03,100
So we have our CI people and two, I get all my acronyms.

668
01:16:03,220 --> 01:16:05,840
So we have the plan that we say, these are our priority projects.

669
01:16:05,840 --> 01:16:12,140
Then we have our master plans like with local roadway safety, we had vision zero, for example.

670
01:16:13,020 --> 01:16:21,420
And then you have to overlay that on top of the eligible project categories, bicycle and or pedestrian capital projects and programs.

671
01:16:21,960 --> 01:16:26,520
So specifically for bike and pad, complete streets, capital and road improvement projects.

672
01:16:26,920 --> 01:16:30,180
So our cross down quarters project is a good example.

673
01:16:30,180 --> 01:16:41,360
I think Dr. Kesis, you've actually been pulled into ACTC meetings for all of us to give a presentation on it because people are so excited about that project, which is why they were so willing to fund that.

674
01:16:41,480 --> 01:16:47,540
Transit related capital projects, select the East Bay Greenway projects, so that we have, no, not that one.

675
01:16:48,040 --> 01:16:49,340
But that's got it.

676
01:16:50,000 --> 01:16:56,940
And then shuttle and other program operations and technology projects, so that specifically are the eligible project categories.

677
01:16:56,940 --> 01:17:01,020
and that's why these particular projects are on there. Did I miss anything?

678
01:17:01,500 --> 01:17:04,760
No, you've got that right correct. Okay, thank you.

679
01:17:07,230 --> 01:17:11,050
So I'm just going to clarify before going to councilmember regular. So we've got

680
01:17:11,810 --> 01:17:17,470
major trails at 15 million. Do you have the funding course for the other categories handy?

681
01:17:17,570 --> 01:17:24,510
Yes. If you could post proceed, please. For the bicycle and pedestrian program, there's 31 million

682
01:17:24,510 --> 01:17:34,910
Transit program 21 million community and transit oriented development 35 million technology

683
01:17:34,910 --> 01:17:43,710
program 20 million freight and economic 10 million three major trails was the 15 million

684
01:17:43,990 --> 01:17:52,170
the multiple program eligibility which includes toll revenues fund for clean air one fair

685
01:17:52,170 --> 01:17:58,130
grant program and community action and resource and empowerment and 68 million.

686
01:17:59,310 --> 01:18:04,050
Six, eight, six, eight. Thank you. Councilwoman Regalette, coming to you.

687
01:18:05,750 --> 01:18:09,470
Victor, I get that one. Thank you Mayor. I'd like to move item 5G.

688
01:18:16,210 --> 01:18:17,250
Since I have not made my

689
01:18:17,250 --> 01:18:21,610
comments yet, I'm going to I'm going to ask you this up to pause before accepting your motion.

690
01:18:25,020 --> 01:18:38,660
So, there have been a lot of discussions, I represent the City of San Leandro and ACTC, and there have been discussions with ACTC about ways to bring funding specifically to Lake Shabo Road.

691
01:18:38,660 --> 01:18:42,820
I was meeting with supervisors,

692
01:18:42,960 --> 01:18:47,240
kind of supervisors, folks from pay-of-this stuff,

693
01:18:48,020 --> 01:18:51,680
and others around methods to get funding,

694
01:18:51,900 --> 01:18:53,960
exploring that funding.

695
01:18:55,040 --> 01:18:56,260
I've had individual conversations

696
01:18:56,260 --> 01:18:57,780
with the executive director.

697
01:18:59,360 --> 01:19:01,920
And the reason that I'm struggling,

698
01:19:03,100 --> 01:19:05,640
because our vice mayor said that she

699
01:19:05,640 --> 01:19:08,360
doesn't want to stop this, but at the same time,

700
01:19:08,360 --> 01:19:16,820
I think there's a certain ink there, because if there were an opportunity to receive funding for

701
01:19:16,820 --> 01:19:28,940
a Lake Spore Road, it seems like our efforts to pursue that, there's no opportunity in this.

702
01:19:29,000 --> 01:19:36,500
As we continue to have those discussions at the political level on behalf of this city.

703
01:19:36,500 --> 01:19:59,820
And so what I'd like to see is an expansion of this list for, I don't have a better term than placeholder that if we were able to get some indications from ACTC with respect to the viability of a lakeshobo road investment.

704
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:28,520
At this time, with a full recognition that their priorities keep evolving and alike, it would be my preference that in addition to these four, that we add a fifth item that effectively says funding to support the stabilization of Lake Shabbou Road with a focus on slides two and three.

705
01:20:28,520 --> 01:20:32,340
I know that we've got historical design.

706
01:20:32,660 --> 01:20:36,380
My recollections, we do have a 100% design.

707
01:20:36,900 --> 01:20:39,000
There has been some additional slippage,

708
01:20:39,100 --> 01:20:41,680
and we might need to update that.

709
01:20:42,440 --> 01:20:44,980
So funding for updated design.

710
01:20:47,460 --> 01:20:51,640
I did work with staff on getting the best language,

711
01:20:51,840 --> 01:20:56,220
but all I'm looking for is council support

712
01:20:56,220 --> 01:20:59,680
to have a placeholder with the recognition

713
01:20:59,680 --> 01:21:06,880
that it might not work out, but that we at least have the option to explore.

714
01:21:07,200 --> 01:21:10,560
And if ACTC says, no, that's really not going to work. It's not viable.

715
01:21:12,440 --> 01:21:17,360
That's okay. We only have seven days. I think the data is seven days, not ten. That's correct, right?

716
01:21:19,580 --> 01:21:24,560
So with that in mind, I want to come back to Vice Mayor because I knew you had this

717
01:21:24,560 --> 01:21:29,500
thing in mind that you were trying to verbalize and I don't know if I have captured it or not.

718
01:21:29,680 --> 01:21:33,540
and then I will proceed with other council members and then we'll look for a motion.

719
01:21:35,240 --> 01:21:36,220
Yes, Vice Mayor.

720
01:21:38,880 --> 01:21:45,180
Yes, I don't want to pull a list of projects that we have these are all very

721
01:21:45,180 --> 01:21:50,520
worthy and important projects, but I'll leave that there and then I'll because you ask me

722
01:21:50,520 --> 01:21:56,600
specific question, a colleague clocked in before I did, so I'll log off and then get back on the queue.

723
01:21:56,600 --> 01:21:59,460
Okay, Council more about it.

724
01:22:04,400 --> 01:22:04,980
It's fine.

725
01:22:07,620 --> 01:22:10,700
I was trying to explore.

726
01:22:15,160 --> 01:22:16,500
Given the,

727
01:22:16,500 --> 01:22:19,020
I'm sorry, I got to pull this up.

728
01:22:19,420 --> 01:22:24,060
The categories and the priority areas and the criteria for the projects.

729
01:22:24,840 --> 01:22:29,300
The MacArthur roundabout is a very good example of a project that

730
01:22:31,100 --> 01:22:42,000
ACTC would fund, and it has been part of the conversation with actually, we as an ACTC has actually launched a program called Chris which is specifically focused on those sort of

731
01:22:42,960 --> 01:22:47,160
right away, or those areas around ramps to make sure that they can be safer.

732
01:22:47,440 --> 01:22:58,620
And so I was trying to figure out if we have had past funding in the past for aCTC, or if there would be a potential to get more funding from aCTC so that we could take those funds from

733
01:22:58,620 --> 01:23:04,260
the general fund that we have allocated for the MacArthur Roundup and then use it for other projects.

734
01:23:04,960 --> 01:23:12,260
I can do a quick answer. So MacArthur Boulevard roundabout was certainly considered for this round.

735
01:23:12,700 --> 01:23:19,940
However, the funding for this capital improvement program for ATTC is going to be available in 2028.

736
01:23:20,640 --> 01:23:27,360
And that is after we are hopeful that the construction of the roundabout is going to start.

737
01:23:27,360 --> 01:23:32,140
So the funding would be available to late for us to use.

738
01:23:32,340 --> 01:23:32,800
OK, great.

739
01:23:32,820 --> 01:23:33,540
Thank you so much.

740
01:23:33,700 --> 01:23:35,980
And I love that we've confirmed that we are going

741
01:23:35,980 --> 01:23:36,660
to get it done.

742
01:23:36,860 --> 01:23:39,320
Maybe even sooner, OK.

743
01:23:40,580 --> 01:23:41,800
Vice Mayor, please.

744
01:23:46,380 --> 01:23:49,000
I mean, certainly I, you know, this is just grant.

745
01:23:49,200 --> 01:23:50,820
These are not just grant applications.

746
01:23:50,960 --> 01:23:54,200
But these are grant applications that

747
01:23:54,200 --> 01:23:55,360
will be submitting.

748
01:23:55,760 --> 01:23:58,780
And I understand that adding a fifth one

749
01:23:58,780 --> 01:24:08,220
would add an additional application mayor. And I just wanted to clarify, are you proposing that

750
01:24:09,240 --> 01:24:13,900
we direct staff to have conversations with ACTC about the viability of that before we submit

751
01:24:13,900 --> 01:24:18,120
an application, I'm just worried about the timing. So the timing would consist of, you know,

752
01:24:18,340 --> 01:24:23,000
it is my personal intention to speak with ACTC executive director tomorrow. Okay.

753
01:24:23,000 --> 01:24:30,140
Because I do want to understand just what is it realistic? Is it aligned with what they're doing right now?

754
01:24:30,200 --> 01:24:36,240
Because if it's not aligned, I really don't want to submit something that's going to take the place on another project.

755
01:24:36,840 --> 01:24:43,560
It's very important to me that we not be pursue the wrong opportunity.

756
01:24:43,560 --> 01:24:52,620
And so that's something I want to be mindful of, but the problem is as written, there is no opportunity to explore.

757
01:24:54,400 --> 01:24:59,960
And so that's why I'm saying it would be nice if the motion left.

758
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:09,520
Open that possibility. I fully cognizant that there are seven days, and so the most that it could ever take is six to write the application.

759
01:25:10,560 --> 01:25:18,480
But first let's find out, and without that ability, without that opening, it obviates the need for a conversation.

760
01:25:19,240 --> 01:25:28,300
Thank you, and I appreciate, I think this is one of our, this to me shows two things.

761
01:25:28,660 --> 01:25:38,280
One, how we can support each other in terms of where the various committees that we sit on,

762
01:25:38,280 --> 01:26:07,520
And you know, bring that back to the council and I know council Marubo and mentioned it at the end of the council meeting where we provide reports, but I think one this provides a learning opportunity, I think for me to keep kind of a closer eye on these reports, because I think it might have just like slipped but second I appreciate mayor.

763
01:26:08,280 --> 01:26:21,220
using your position at ACTC representing Sally Andro and kind of utilizing that positionality to explore whether this is even a feasible thing.

764
01:26:21,380 --> 01:26:36,640
Even if it is a reach and I understand that it will put, you know, if there is even if the director's executive director expresses some sort of like it could be.

765
01:26:36,640 --> 01:26:45,660
I certainly don't want to put the other projects at risk that where we know that the analysis shows that we have a higher incidence of getting it approved.

766
01:26:47,860 --> 01:27:01,760
So what appreciate mayor for utilizing and that's the whole reason why you probably, you know, sit on that commission to represent us and advocate for that, but also just as a learning opportunity to make sure that.

767
01:27:01,760 --> 01:27:10,420
as these funding opportunities come up in the committees that we're all sitting in, that we

768
01:27:10,420 --> 01:27:16,820
elevated in a way that it kind of raises the consciousness. It's like, okay, grant applications

769
01:27:16,820 --> 01:27:24,300
are coming up for BCDC or MTC or, you know, and kind of understand,

770
01:27:27,380 --> 01:27:28,400
have a better understanding

771
01:27:28,400 --> 01:27:33,240
of the, all the, the intersection of all those committees that we sit in. Thank you.

772
01:27:35,060 --> 01:27:41,400
Okay, council member, you've had and then council member Boen and that order. Thank you, Mayor

773
01:27:41,400 --> 01:27:51,280
Gonzalez. I like to, again, move item 5G to include possibilities to figure out if we,

774
01:27:51,500 --> 01:27:58,340
if there's potential to build an application to fund Lake Shable Road and to have the conversation

775
01:27:58,340 --> 01:28:00,760
with Tony's of ours from ACTC.

776
01:28:03,850 --> 01:28:04,930
Let's my question.

777
01:28:08,150 --> 01:28:08,990
One moment, please.

778
01:28:17,600 --> 01:28:21,640
You think add into that motion,

779
01:28:21,940 --> 01:28:25,500
the recognition that we do not want to put the existing

780
01:28:25,500 --> 01:28:27,740
grant opportunities at risk?

781
01:28:28,600 --> 01:28:30,120
Okay. Thank you for that clarification.

782
01:28:31,160 --> 01:28:33,080
Councilmember Bowen, please.

783
01:28:34,340 --> 01:28:34,620
Thank you.

784
01:28:34,680 --> 01:28:37,980
I just had a follow-up question that I just remembered.

785
01:28:37,980 --> 01:28:46,480
I know that for each project submission, there are award minimum requests and maximum requests

786
01:28:46,480 --> 01:28:48,480
and then the minimum matches for them.

787
01:28:48,900 --> 01:28:55,660
I can't remember Mayor, if you might know or if Director Marquises for ACTC amongst the

788
01:28:55,660 --> 01:29:01,860
14 jurisdictions, is there a cap on how much we can be awarded per jurisdiction or they

789
01:29:01,860 --> 01:29:04,880
can just give to the under all of the money?

790
01:29:04,880 --> 01:29:10,620
There's no cap per jurisdiction. Okay. It is a cap of timeliness knowledge per project. Okay, thank you

791
01:29:13,320 --> 01:29:19,640
Then vice mayor you set you had been in there a little bit be your set. Okay, so if I will go ahead and second the motion made by council member

792
01:29:20,220 --> 01:29:22,000
Victor, I get out

793
01:29:22,000 --> 01:29:23,680
Seeing no further discussion please vote

794
01:29:23,680 --> 01:29:24,200
The

795
01:29:30,760 --> 01:29:37,800
votes are in and the motion carries unanimously with six yes votes and council member Simon being absent

796
01:29:39,100 --> 01:29:47,900
Okay, this one in time we do not have any city attorney or city manager reports, public comment.

797
01:29:48,060 --> 01:29:55,040
We will take public comment on items that are not listed on our agenda today, but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of this council.

798
01:29:56,120 --> 01:29:58,280
How many cards do we have? Madam Clerk?

799
01:30:02,960 --> 01:30:06,300
Mayor, we have not received any comment cards for this item.

800
01:30:06,960 --> 01:30:11,480
Okay, so we'll close public comment in person. Do we have any hands online?

801
01:30:12,200 --> 01:30:14,820
Yes, we have three hands raised online.

802
01:30:15,120 --> 01:30:17,920
Okay, please proceed. We open public comment online.

803
01:30:24,580 --> 01:30:30,460
Our first online speaker is named Silia Esposito Noye.

804
01:30:33,320 --> 01:30:38,540
Good evening, Mayor and City Council members. My name is Silia Esposito Noye.

805
01:30:38,540 --> 01:30:45,660
I am speaking on behalf of our family and home owners in the

806
01:30:45,660 --> 01:30:49,160
Fulton Avenue area next to a assumption church.

807
01:30:49,920 --> 01:30:54,620
As you may have heard, there is a vacant lot there that is owned by PG&E.

808
01:30:55,160 --> 01:31:00,160
It is unfenced and for quite some time now, there are homeless

809
01:31:00,160 --> 01:31:01,640
encampments there.

810
01:31:02,260 --> 01:31:05,480
Both the assumption church and neighbors along Fulton Avenue

811
01:31:05,480 --> 01:31:08,780
have been documenting the frequency in which the homeless

812
01:31:08,780 --> 01:31:14,320
encampment has been established there, threats to the neighborhood,

813
01:31:15,740 --> 01:31:18,020
possible break-ins to the church.

814
01:31:18,800 --> 01:31:21,960
And we certainly understand why this is not the city's responsibility.

815
01:31:22,860 --> 01:31:27,580
We are asking for assistance from the mayor of from staff,

816
01:31:27,580 --> 01:31:30,340
regarding connecting with PG&E.

817
01:31:30,340 --> 01:31:47,680
This property has been unfenced for well over 60 years, and the fact that there is plenty of room for fencing and access for those who have an easement agreement with PG&E, they have never fenced this property and it's become more and more dangerous.

818
01:31:48,220 --> 01:31:59,840
So I'm asking if staff could work with me and the other neighbors on Fulton Avenue to see if we can pressure PG&E to attend to this issue and at least fence off their property. Thank you.

819
01:32:01,120 --> 01:32:06,520
Thank you. The next online speaker is Douglas Spalding.

820
01:32:11,070 --> 01:32:12,490
Thank you very much.

821
01:32:13,930 --> 01:32:18,150
A little Pope free here for say I want to give a shout out to Brian Copeland.

822
01:32:18,370 --> 01:32:20,810
I think a lot of people are very happy.

823
01:32:21,070 --> 01:32:25,750
Thank you so much Brian for yet another incredible addition of comedy in the Plaza.

824
01:32:27,390 --> 01:32:32,650
You know, he looks remarkable, although I will say I did try to give him a chest bump

825
01:32:32,650 --> 01:32:40,370
for summers in the arena way. If I wasn't laughing, I'd be crying. I do not think there's

826
01:32:40,370 --> 01:32:51,750
enough time for the hazard mitigation plan, which is closing on this Friday. I don't know why

827
01:32:51,750 --> 01:32:55,930
you don't widen the window and also why you're not taking public comments on this. It seems like a

828
01:32:55,930 --> 01:33:01,310
very important issue. The touch is on many things from not just wildfires, but what about earthquakes

829
01:33:01,310 --> 01:33:06,370
and what we learned from the WeGo presentation is we don't even know where to go to if there's

830
01:33:06,370 --> 01:33:10,450
an evacuation. So it seems like there's a lot a lot of work to be done.

831
01:33:11,370 --> 01:33:16,350
Third up I want to say I want to thank the SLPD for releasing the video in the critical

832
01:33:16,350 --> 01:33:22,270
incident report from May 7th and thank you Mike Katzakob for pointing out it was way

833
01:33:23,150 --> 01:33:29,290
overdue. I did watch the video. It's difficult to watch but I want to send a compliment especially

834
01:33:29,290 --> 01:33:38,030
to Officer Q, in particular for his calm demeanor and de-escalation techniques, I thought the

835
01:33:38,030 --> 01:33:42,810
team as a whole worked together very well up to the moment of shooting, you know, and then

836
01:33:42,810 --> 01:33:49,090
we need more information. So, you know, when and where the gun appeared, was it appointed officers

837
01:33:49,090 --> 01:33:55,470
and, you know, our use of force, things, this is very analogous to the, the 2019 incident

838
01:33:55,470 --> 01:34:00,410
which involved Anthony Gomez, you know, in a suicide by

839
01:34:00,410 --> 01:34:04,370
cop kind of scenario. And finally, in 10 seconds, I want to say,

840
01:34:04,690 --> 01:34:09,190
hey, we, we say, Leo, we have a data center debate, make no doubts

841
01:34:09,190 --> 01:34:12,670
about it, currently the mayor and at least one of the city council

842
01:34:12,670 --> 01:34:16,770
persons are in favor. Thank you, sir. Your time as he loves. Our next

843
01:34:16,770 --> 01:34:20,630
online speaker is Christopher Bammer.

844
01:34:23,870 --> 01:34:25,810
Hello, can you hear me? Yes.

845
01:34:28,130 --> 01:34:36,390
I've been called a lot of things in my lifetime but not a professional anything and not claiming to be a professional.

846
01:34:37,050 --> 01:34:40,890
But I do know when you build something, you got to have a good foundation.

847
01:34:41,630 --> 01:34:43,950
And once it's built, you got to have a good roof.

848
01:34:44,530 --> 01:34:50,130
Two things that the Casa Perelta needs very badly, foundation and a roof.

849
01:34:50,870 --> 01:34:54,550
So just those two costs alone are going to be probably over ten million dollars.

850
01:34:54,550 --> 01:34:59,990
You guys are worried about the windows and this that another thing. Why don't we use this property to make

851
01:35:00,740 --> 01:35:11,560
Why don't we do a long-term lease and have a restaurant by it? And they can use some of the special tiles and some of the special features and things from the house in the design of a new restaurant.

852
01:35:12,300 --> 01:35:17,720
And then you can make the waiting area and all throughout the restaurant history of the Casa Perelta.

853
01:35:18,140 --> 01:35:20,880
And we can get some tax revenue and we can have a long-term lease.

854
01:35:21,300 --> 01:35:28,080
And maybe that will help out somebody that's possibly down in the arena, which is falling apart and it looks like a dump site.

855
01:35:29,060 --> 01:35:39,420
just some thoughts. I would like to see a complete and thorough reconciliation of the bank account for the cost of Perelta.

856
01:35:40,120 --> 01:35:47,980
Let's just say from 2016 to now. I'd like to see the ends and outs of the money where it went, why it went, things like that.

857
01:35:48,980 --> 01:35:54,000
The bus stops around the greenhouse. I mean I've spoke about the greenhouse for years.

858
01:35:54,000 --> 01:36:01,300
Um, now that we've got this brand new navigation center that we spent way too much money for and we're helping, you know, a couple dozen people.

859
01:36:01,900 --> 01:36:03,600
There's a lot of loitering going on.

860
01:36:04,460 --> 01:36:08,420
The bus stop in front of food max, the bus stop in front of the old good will.

861
01:36:08,440 --> 01:36:12,220
The old good will building. I mean, that's been a discussion for years, too. And it looks great.

862
01:36:13,040 --> 01:36:20,320
They just took the bus stop out in front of McDonald's on my Friday. I drove by this morning and now the new bench is already knocked over.

863
01:36:20,660 --> 01:36:22,940
My daughter's going to use that bus stop to get to school.

864
01:36:22,940 --> 01:36:27,900
And it's not a very safe area right there. Can we do something about the greenhouse, maybe?

865
01:36:29,220 --> 01:36:32,640
Thank you. Mayor, there are no more hands raised online.

866
01:36:33,380 --> 01:36:34,700
Thank you.

867
01:36:35,120 --> 01:36:38,500
So it's point we'll close online public comment.

868
01:36:39,860 --> 01:36:41,240
Please give me one minute.

869
01:36:53,600 --> 01:37:01,580
Okay, at this point in time, we will move on to our next item on the agenda.

870
01:37:01,580 --> 01:37:07,180
We do have a public hearing regarding some 20, 26

871
01:37:07,180 --> 01:37:11,020
leans for non-payment for various charges.

872
01:37:11,500 --> 01:37:14,860
And I think we do have our assistant finance director

873
01:37:14,860 --> 01:37:16,640
of Iron Monroe Crackley.

874
01:37:17,500 --> 01:37:20,480
Felicia Silva here to present this item.

875
01:37:20,880 --> 01:37:22,460
Thank you for joining us.

876
01:37:35,370 --> 01:37:35,630
Thank you.

877
01:37:36,950 --> 01:37:39,730
Felicia Silva Assistant Finance Director.

878
01:37:40,850 --> 01:37:48,970
Mayor Gonzalez and Vice Mayor of Averals Walton here to present the city of San Leandro annual

879
01:37:48,970 --> 01:37:53,050
leans for 2627.

880
01:37:56,900 --> 01:38:01,160
So the San Leandro municipal code allows us to collect certain

881
01:38:01,160 --> 01:38:07,960
the link with fees through an assessment lien on a property tax bill. These are primarily

882
01:38:07,960 --> 01:38:14,780
related to public health and safety and allows the city to ensure fiscal sustainability.

883
01:38:16,460 --> 01:38:23,740
Charges subject to assessment, lean include sidewalk and driveway repair,

884
01:38:24,580 --> 01:38:32,480
code enforcement and compliance, solid waste through ACI or Alameda County Industries,

885
01:38:32,480 --> 01:38:43,240
fire inspections Koopa, which is our certified unified program agency and wastewater charges

886
01:38:43,240 --> 01:38:44,620
for commercial users.

887
01:38:48,260 --> 01:38:58,020
The typical process that the lean will follow is we start with an initial billing for

888
01:38:58,020 --> 01:39:07,880
services that the departments work with the customers and it will be through either issuing

889
01:39:07,880 --> 01:39:15,640
a citation or through a service provided and invoice is sent by finance and then both

890
01:39:16,400 --> 01:39:23,120
program staff as well as finance with customers to answer any questions on the billing as well

891
01:39:23,120 --> 01:39:25,880
as to provide potential payment options.

892
01:39:26,780 --> 01:39:31,300
We do everything in our power to work with our customers

893
01:39:31,300 --> 01:39:35,760
to make sure that they have every opportunity to pay

894
01:39:35,760 --> 01:39:38,380
before we start the lean process.

895
01:39:39,100 --> 01:39:41,680
Following that, we do have monthly statements,

896
01:39:41,920 --> 01:39:43,060
statements are sent monthly.

897
01:39:44,360 --> 01:39:46,760
And again, working with the departments

898
01:39:47,500 --> 01:39:51,380
to make sure that they're given every opportunity to pay.

899
01:39:51,380 --> 01:39:59,960
We have some legal notice requirements, it is required that we publish in our local paper and we did that.

900
01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:29,780
That on July 3, July 10th, we also in order to reach more potentially affected. We did an additional in on July 17th. So in addition to those published legal notices, we also do send three notices of intent, starting in May, June and July and in July, they also did information regarding the public hearing details.

901
01:40:31,040 --> 01:40:37,920
After the legal noticing, we have our public hearing and of course that's where we are today.

902
01:40:39,360 --> 01:40:48,500
And after we have our public hearing today, then we will go through the collection process again,

903
01:40:48,620 --> 01:40:58,820
giving all of our customers every opportunity to pay anything that is outstanding at the end of July right before we need to submit

904
01:40:58,820 --> 01:41:06,880
to the county in August, any of those potential property owners will be taken off the lean list.

905
01:41:10,740 --> 01:41:13,880
With that, I want to point you to a three year lean summary.

906
01:41:14,520 --> 01:41:16,760
We have three years of history.

907
01:41:16,840 --> 01:41:20,200
I want to call it your attention to twist 2627.

908
01:41:20,680 --> 01:41:25,540
We have a count of 257 accounts that will be assessed.

909
01:41:25,540 --> 01:41:33,800
And then at $753,000, again, an important note at the bottom that these amounts reflect balances

910
01:41:33,800 --> 01:41:43,040
as of July 9th, 2026, again, those ongoing efforts to collect before any account is sent

911
01:41:43,040 --> 01:41:48,880
to the county for a lenient assessment, and we have been continuing to do that.

912
01:41:49,060 --> 01:41:53,320
We'll continue to do that all the way through that August submission to the county.

913
01:41:56,200 --> 01:42:02,220
Our recommendation today is for City Council to take the following actions close the public hearing,

914
01:42:02,640 --> 01:42:08,660
adopt resolution to impose leans for non-payment and adopt resolution to overall protests

915
01:42:11,090 --> 01:42:13,170
and happy to answer any questions.

916
01:42:13,950 --> 01:42:17,010
Okay, so prior to opening up the public hearing,

917
01:42:17,710 --> 01:42:20,510
I will see if there are any questions from council members.

918
01:42:21,920 --> 01:42:28,980
Okay, seeing none, the time is 832, 832, and I am opening the public hearing.

919
01:42:30,140 --> 01:42:34,240
We have members from the public who are commenting at this hearing.

920
01:42:35,200 --> 01:42:40,060
Mayor, we've not received any comment cards from here in the room, but we do have one hand raised online.

921
01:42:41,160 --> 01:42:43,020
Okay, please proceed online.

922
01:42:44,720 --> 01:42:48,620
The first online speaker is Douglas Spalding.

923
01:42:51,420 --> 01:42:55,120
Thank you very much. I just would like to clarify. I didn't hear it in your presentation.

924
01:42:55,480 --> 01:43:00,320
So I hope it's not true, but you know, if someone has overdue parking tickets,

925
01:43:00,440 --> 01:43:03,160
is that something that the city might place a lean on?

926
01:43:03,240 --> 01:43:06,860
I tried calling the citation processing center, but you can't get a hold of anyone.

927
01:43:06,980 --> 01:43:10,860
So I would have asked a question there. I kind of need to clear my tickets.

928
01:43:11,020 --> 01:43:13,800
I need an abstract, so I can take it to the DMV, so I can register my car,

929
01:43:14,400 --> 01:43:18,880
but there's no way to do that either. So, you know, here's another CSA, I guess.

930
01:43:18,880 --> 01:43:26,460
We hired somebody to do our parking for us way down in the Southland, and if you don't pay, well, you're out of luck.

931
01:43:27,360 --> 01:43:30,480
That's what that's what stands for due to process mistakes. Thanks.

932
01:43:32,720 --> 01:43:35,920
Thank you. Mayor, there are no more hands raised online.

933
01:43:37,940 --> 01:43:45,780
Okay, the time is 834. I'm closing the public hearing. I do have a question to follow up on our public commenter.

934
01:43:45,780 --> 01:43:50,280
are parking tickets part of this lean process.

935
01:43:53,340 --> 01:43:54,340
No, they are not.

936
01:43:54,580 --> 01:43:55,900
Okay, thank you for the clarification.

937
01:43:56,880 --> 01:43:59,660
Is there any further discussion from council members?

938
01:44:00,520 --> 01:44:04,720
If not, I will entertain two adopt staffs, three recommendations.

939
01:44:05,480 --> 01:44:06,920
Council member Victor Agilat.

940
01:44:07,540 --> 01:44:09,880
I'd like to make the motion to adopt staffs recommendation.

941
01:44:10,660 --> 01:44:11,560
Vice Mayor?

942
01:44:13,280 --> 01:44:13,700
I second.

943
01:44:14,020 --> 01:44:15,820
Okay, so we have a motion council member Victor Agilat.

944
01:44:15,820 --> 01:44:17,460
to adopt staff's three recommendations,

945
01:44:18,040 --> 01:44:20,580
with this thing from our vice mayor.

946
01:44:21,180 --> 01:44:22,800
Seeing enough for the discussion, please vote.

947
01:44:27,130 --> 01:44:30,110
Oh, so are in and the motion carries unanimously

948
01:44:30,730 --> 01:44:34,330
with 60 S votes and council members, I'm in being absent.

949
01:44:37,220 --> 01:44:39,320
Okay, at this point, time we do not have a presentation.

950
01:44:39,660 --> 01:44:42,460
Item number nine, item number 10,

951
01:44:43,120 --> 01:44:45,600
is the motion to appoint David Jackson, 10A

952
01:44:45,600 --> 01:44:47,420
to be precise, the motion to appoint David Jackson,

953
01:44:47,580 --> 01:44:49,580
the committee police review board.

954
01:44:51,200 --> 01:44:58,620
Do we, I don't know that we really need a presentation, so to speak, okay, so are there any questions about this item?

955
01:45:00,820 --> 01:45:10,420
On this item, because we already had public hearing on the nomination, do we need to, do we need to, public comment on this item,

956
01:45:13,010 --> 01:45:15,630
typically we handle a certain minute order that we don't.

957
01:45:16,070 --> 01:45:19,330
We normally do not, okay, because people have spoken at the nomination period.

958
01:45:20,050 --> 01:45:27,310
Okay, so with that being said, I would move, because he is my pointy, I will move the appointment of David Jackson to the CPRB.

959
01:45:27,470 --> 01:45:28,250
Vice Mayor.

960
01:45:30,960 --> 01:45:31,200
Second.

961
01:45:31,200 --> 01:45:31,960
Okay.

962
01:45:32,640 --> 01:45:36,740
Having a motion and a second for the appointment of David Jackson,

963
01:45:36,860 --> 01:45:40,100
I'm going to put this review board and know for the discussion, please vote.

964
01:45:45,570 --> 01:45:51,990
The motion carries unanimously with all members voting, yes, and Council Member Simon being absent.

965
01:45:54,830 --> 01:45:55,170
Thank you.

966
01:45:55,210 --> 01:45:57,350
At this point, we'll get item 10B.

967
01:45:58,990 --> 01:46:01,830
10B is a second reading of the ordinance.

968
01:46:02,990 --> 01:46:08,130
As you will may recall last time, I voted no because I want a little bit further discussion on this item specifically.

969
01:46:08,130 --> 01:46:13,830
So if we can proceed with your presentation, planning manager, Lee.

970
01:46:15,170 --> 01:46:17,110
Eight evening Americans all as members of the city council,

971
01:46:17,370 --> 01:46:19,170
right as William Lee playing manager for the city.

972
01:46:21,480 --> 01:46:25,040
The item before you is the second reading and adoption of an ordinance

973
01:46:25,040 --> 01:46:28,660
demanding the city's off street parking regulations and establishing new

974
01:46:29,240 --> 01:46:33,220
transportation demand management or TDM requirements on new development.

975
01:46:33,920 --> 01:46:38,780
The council introduces ordinance on July 6th by vote of 4 to 1 with two council members absent.

976
01:46:42,850 --> 01:46:48,350
what does your ordinance do? The ordinance has two primary components. First, it repeals

977
01:46:48,350 --> 01:46:52,990
and places a zoning co-chapter 4.08, which is the chapter of the zoning ordinance,

978
01:46:53,330 --> 01:46:59,250
which regulates off-street parking requirements for new development. The amendments serve to

979
01:46:59,250 --> 01:47:04,450
simplify our existing parking requirements. They update minimum parking standards to better match

980
01:47:04,450 --> 01:47:11,250
actual demand. They modernize bicycle parking standards and it requires unbundling a parking

981
01:47:11,250 --> 01:47:13,710
for housing projects, five or more units.

982
01:47:14,550 --> 01:47:16,590
For clarification, it does not change parking standards

983
01:47:16,590 --> 01:47:18,010
for single-family homes.

984
01:47:19,610 --> 01:47:22,030
Second, the ordinance adopts a new zoning code chapter

985
01:47:22,030 --> 01:47:23,530
to add transportation demand,

986
01:47:24,030 --> 01:47:26,370
transportation demand, management requirements,

987
01:47:26,870 --> 01:47:27,410
on-new development.

988
01:47:27,990 --> 01:47:30,070
And this complements the parking updates

989
01:47:30,070 --> 01:47:33,230
by encouraging a reduction in vehicle trips

990
01:47:33,230 --> 01:47:34,910
and the demand for parking in generated

991
01:47:34,910 --> 01:47:35,770
by new developments.

992
01:47:41,570 --> 01:47:44,830
This slide summarizes the reasons why we're carrying,

993
01:47:44,830 --> 01:47:46,590
where we're proposing this ordinance today.

994
01:47:46,870 --> 01:47:49,010
First, it supports the city's climate action plan

995
01:47:49,010 --> 01:47:50,830
by reducing and decolabile traveled

996
01:47:51,390 --> 01:47:55,430
and greenhouse gas emissions through the new TDM program.

997
01:47:56,490 --> 01:47:58,810
Second, the city's housing element identified minimum

998
01:47:58,810 --> 01:48:02,250
park requirements as a constraint to,

999
01:48:02,250 --> 01:48:04,370
as constraint to new housing production,

1000
01:48:05,330 --> 01:48:08,250
and to identify that applications for parking reductions

1001
01:48:08,830 --> 01:48:12,250
at time cost and uncertainty to development review.

1002
01:48:13,750 --> 01:48:16,590
This ordinance removes those barriers to housing production.

1003
01:48:17,990 --> 01:48:22,630
And third, new state law now dictates where and how cities may impose parking requirements.

1004
01:48:23,210 --> 01:48:26,810
And this ordinance brings San Leandro into alignment with those state laws.

1005
01:48:31,530 --> 01:48:34,590
Just real quickly, the ordinance bills on several years of work,

1006
01:48:34,590 --> 01:48:36,670
beginning with the 2021 climate action plan,

1007
01:48:37,170 --> 01:48:38,690
2020 through housing element.

1008
01:48:39,110 --> 01:48:43,050
It went through community workshops and stakeholder engagements in 2020-25.

1009
01:48:43,050 --> 01:48:51,150
and was in the first meeting for the council heard on July 6th.

1010
01:48:54,320 --> 01:48:56,900
Inclusion staff recommends the council hold the second reading at a

1011
01:48:56,900 --> 01:49:01,560
adopt ordinance 2026-009. If the council adopts ordinance,

1012
01:49:01,740 --> 01:49:05,160
even it will take effects within 30 days. This concludes my presentation.

1013
01:49:05,480 --> 01:49:09,100
I'll be able to take questions that the council may have.

1014
01:49:09,540 --> 01:49:10,620
And do we have any questions?

1015
01:49:10,620 --> 01:49:11,540
So

1016
01:49:15,980 --> 01:49:22,560
I will begin chapter 4-10, the Transpiration to ban management plan.

1017
01:49:23,180 --> 01:49:33,180
There's a mandatory provision for all projects to have bicycle repair stations.

1018
01:49:33,980 --> 01:49:38,720
Tell me a little bit more about how that would work as a practical matter.

1019
01:49:39,540 --> 01:49:43,820
for, let's say, I redo the strip mall,

1020
01:49:44,880 --> 01:49:46,720
turn down, rebuild it on East 14th.

1021
01:49:47,840 --> 01:49:49,480
But how does that work?

1022
01:49:49,480 --> 01:49:50,860
Who gets that station?

1023
01:49:51,140 --> 01:49:54,840
It's a separate day in the strip mall.

1024
01:49:56,560 --> 01:49:57,780
That's a, that's a, that's a good question.

1025
01:49:57,820 --> 01:50:00,000
Actually, the, and to summarize.

1026
01:50:00,000 --> 01:50:20,340
There's a transportation demand management. Regulations have some mandatory components, and some optional components. Originally, when they brought the item forth of the client commission, the bicycle perisation was an optional element, and in discussion, the planning commission, they felt that it was such a low hanging fruit that it required so little.

1027
01:50:21,460 --> 01:50:31,520
So little capital costs and operating expenses that it should really just be a mandatory measure that all new commercial and residential development.

1028
01:50:33,520 --> 01:50:47,860
Undertake so wouldn't be it would in practice wouldn't be a large like physical commitment in terms of space towards the station but be it be the we just have some basic equipment to conduct the repairs.

1029
01:50:48,800 --> 01:50:53,360
So, every new building built in the city of San Leandro will have a bicycle repair station.

1030
01:50:54,220 --> 01:50:59,660
Every new building that meets the minimum thresholds for triggering TDM requirements,

1031
01:51:01,920 --> 01:51:05,760
which I forgot the square footage for commercial development, but I can turn that to you.

1032
01:51:06,020 --> 01:51:06,560
Just a moment.

1033
01:51:07,380 --> 01:51:10,560
But it's going to be anything that's a material.

1034
01:51:11,220 --> 01:51:11,580
Right.

1035
01:51:11,680 --> 01:51:12,300
Most of the squares.

1036
01:51:13,340 --> 01:51:17,100
The reason one of the things that really troubles me about this

1037
01:51:17,100 --> 01:51:19,280
is that if we think about

1038
01:51:21,360 --> 01:51:28,180
what we're trying to do with parking is have joint use of parking,

1039
01:51:29,180 --> 01:51:39,620
we're saying we need to have shared facilities and much in the same spirit it strikes me

1040
01:51:39,620 --> 01:51:50,620
that we shouldn't have every single new building within the parameters needs to have a bicycle repair station.

1041
01:51:51,160 --> 01:52:01,960
Seems like there are some economies of scale and that I just don't understand how that cost in position on every building is a good thing.

1042
01:52:01,960 --> 01:52:13,560
Particularly commercial buildings, we can argue about residential buildings, should every residential building have a car repair location, or a bicycle repair location, or any of a variety of transportation repair locations.

1043
01:52:14,780 --> 01:52:18,480
Because people live there, that's where they're going to have their vehicles, their bikes, et cetera.

1044
01:52:19,600 --> 01:52:29,040
But to say every new building of any real size needs to have one I'm really struggling with.

1045
01:52:29,040 --> 01:52:39,180
Can you explain the motivation other than, oh, well, it's why not have it as opposed to there's a logic why every new building should have it.

1046
01:52:39,360 --> 01:52:50,880
Right, we'll say there are our TDM consultant for the project evaluate the menu of different options for mandatory and optional TDM elements.

1047
01:52:50,880 --> 01:53:02,760
And they were selected because they actually moved the needle in terms of reducing the, reducing the, reducing the, reducing the, the demand for demand for parking overall.

1048
01:53:03,720 --> 01:53:16,140
And it was, and through the public process, it was important for was conveyed through the stakeholder sessions, it was important to have to not be an impediment to to development.

1049
01:53:16,140 --> 01:53:25,530
So, the, the, the, the mandatory measures that were recommended or ones that

1050
01:53:27,700 --> 01:53:33,880
staff evaluated and are consulted evaluated for kind of the reason of ability and imposing

1051
01:53:34,660 --> 01:53:46,120
on a new development without being, without being a barrier to the development of, in this

1052
01:53:46,120 --> 01:53:51,620
There is a good faith effort clause so that if in the determination of the zoning enforcement

1053
01:53:51,620 --> 01:53:55,560
official, a applicant is made a good faith effort to comply, and it doesn't make sense

1054
01:53:55,560 --> 01:54:02,460
given there certain parameters, the zoning enforcement official can wave something if it's

1055
01:54:02,460 --> 01:54:03,120
infisible.

1056
01:54:04,100 --> 01:54:09,060
Just to provide, we do like to provide a bit of discretion because not every situation is

1057
01:54:09,060 --> 01:54:09,480
like.

1058
01:54:10,020 --> 01:54:14,000
And then they think the threshold you were looking for was the 50,000 square foot buildings?

1059
01:54:14,520 --> 01:54:15,000
Yeah.

1060
01:54:15,520 --> 01:54:16,520
The larger projects.

1061
01:54:16,820 --> 01:54:17,640
Thank you.

1062
01:54:18,140 --> 01:54:24,320
So, for example, could someone meet the requirement by having a parking station, repair station,

1063
01:54:24,700 --> 01:54:27,460
just in the back, the loading area?

1064
01:54:28,280 --> 01:54:28,300
Absolutely.

1065
01:54:28,760 --> 01:54:30,360
We want to have to take up a large space.

1066
01:54:30,480 --> 01:54:32,700
It definitely wouldn't take up a reasonable tenant space.

1067
01:54:33,300 --> 01:54:37,900
And I think our ordinance is meant to be like an introductory ordinance.

1068
01:54:37,920 --> 01:54:39,800
Some cities take TDM very seriously.

1069
01:54:39,980 --> 01:54:43,440
They're very stringent requirements that are monitored and they're quite a cost.

1070
01:54:43,440 --> 01:54:47,740
This is an introductory level where people make their best effort.

1071
01:54:48,040 --> 01:54:52,880
There are some mandatory and some optional items that it's meant to still facilitate development,

1072
01:54:53,280 --> 01:54:54,900
which is a primary goal here.

1073
01:54:55,140 --> 01:54:55,800
Thank you.

1074
01:54:55,980 --> 01:54:58,200
How good of a customer or a phone, please?

1075
01:54:59,420 --> 01:54:59,960
Thank you, Mayor.

1076
01:55:01,560 --> 01:55:29,980
Your questions brought up some things for me and then I had an additional question. I remember asking about some of the options that developers could have, and I remember the contents and saying that they were like low cost, education, et cetera, for like a bike repair, like could it be something as simple as like having like a pump available or, you know, so that if you get a flat tire, you can fix it, but it's not like a full like you can come here. It's a one stop shop to fix your bike.

1077
01:55:30,520 --> 01:55:36,440
I think the way you express this, it's, it's, the intention is to, to have that, that those

1078
01:55:36,440 --> 01:55:44,180
base, that basic equipment allow residents or employees to repair their bicycles so that

1079
01:55:44,180 --> 01:55:49,140
they can get, get to work, get to home, get to where they need to go. Okay, great. And then if we

1080
01:55:49,140 --> 01:55:58,140
just go to slide three around the policy direction and why we're doing this.

1081
01:55:59,060 --> 01:56:01,220
So, yes, that one.

1082
01:56:01,660 --> 01:56:05,100
I really, really appreciate this, especially as we're talking to the work plan.

1083
01:56:05,260 --> 01:56:06,560
Like how do these things scaffold up?

1084
01:56:06,560 --> 01:56:08,100
Like, this is directly it.

1085
01:56:08,980 --> 01:56:11,540
Is our vision zero plan?

1086
01:56:11,860 --> 01:56:12,880
Is that built?

1087
01:56:12,940 --> 01:56:15,620
Is that part of our 2021 climate action plan?

1088
01:56:15,640 --> 01:56:17,980
Or is that something separate that we get also?

1089
01:56:17,980 --> 01:56:22,240
I think a call out as policy direction.

1090
01:56:25,480 --> 01:56:30,920
I'm not to speak for other departments, but I think vision zero's more about safety.

1091
01:56:31,500 --> 01:56:39,200
And there is some overlap, the bicycle and pedestrian planning looks both at vision zero and climate goals.

1092
01:56:39,300 --> 01:56:42,900
And so that's the merging of the climate and the safety piece.

1093
01:56:42,900 --> 01:56:50,140
the pedestrian bicycle master plan. But for this particular item, I wouldn't say that it is rooted

1094
01:56:50,140 --> 01:56:55,140
in vision zero policy. Okay. I was just thinking about the fact that we're trying to enable

1095
01:56:55,140 --> 01:57:01,200
more people to use their bikes. Yes. And so I just part of, like, how do we, I guess it could

1096
01:57:01,200 --> 01:57:09,060
because I guess visitors are focused on safety for bicyclists. Yes. Got it. Okay. Okay. That's

1097
01:57:10,120 --> 01:57:10,800
So

1098
01:57:13,750 --> 01:57:22,490
you have one other question, we know that the parking minimums, there's part of the work that

1099
01:57:22,490 --> 01:57:26,450
results, whether it's been driven by compliance with state law.

1100
01:57:27,510 --> 01:57:36,410
And then there's a separate part, which is just our desire that's introduced, but it's not necessary for compliance with state law.

1101
01:57:36,410 --> 01:57:42,710
The concern that it expressed at the other meeting specifically focused on construction

1102
01:57:43,410 --> 01:57:51,750
in parts of the city, where street parking at night, is already quite challenging.

1103
01:57:53,910 --> 01:58:00,870
And to say that we aren't introducing parking minimums, it's some of those parking locations are residential.

1104
01:58:02,410 --> 01:58:10,630
My concern was that residential neighborhoods could well be impacted in locations that already

1105
01:58:10,630 --> 01:58:19,050
don't have enough parking through the introduction of construction that doesn't have parking

1106
01:58:20,610 --> 01:58:21,450
minimums.

1107
01:58:21,890 --> 01:58:27,930
And specifically said, well, can we impose an assurance that the people that don't have parking

1108
01:58:27,930 --> 01:58:34,390
basis will also not have cars. So the question is two parts. First,

1109
01:58:36,750 --> 01:58:38,190
when it comes to the

1110
01:58:38,190 --> 01:58:45,570
residential impacts of the construction of those facilities that don't have parking

1111
01:58:45,570 --> 01:58:51,630
minimums or how we do parking minimums, how are we taking the, the, the, the

1112
01:58:51,630 --> 01:58:55,390
the impact on those neighbors.

1113
01:58:55,610 --> 01:58:57,710
How are we taking that into account?

1114
01:58:58,270 --> 01:59:00,190
Because it's to the benefit of the builder

1115
01:59:00,190 --> 01:59:03,870
that's to the detriment of the existing property owners.

1116
01:59:04,450 --> 01:59:05,750
So I'll just start with that one.

1117
01:59:06,250 --> 01:59:07,510
How do we take that into account?

1118
01:59:08,370 --> 01:59:08,810
Thank you, Mary.

1119
01:59:09,890 --> 01:59:12,830
And recognizing that there are residential neighborhoods in the city

1120
01:59:13,690 --> 01:59:16,470
that were there existing parking problems.

1121
01:59:16,470 --> 01:59:24,950
I think the updated parking standards, the attempt to write size and calibrate the parking

1122
01:59:26,410 --> 01:59:34,870
minimums to the actual demand that's established based on the use and that's based

1123
01:59:34,870 --> 01:59:35,590
on peak demand.

1124
01:59:35,790 --> 01:59:42,450
So I think the intention of the order is not to create standards that would, in of themselves,

1125
01:59:42,450 --> 01:59:55,210
push the impact on to residual streets, but the calibrated to what the actual anticipates

1126
01:59:55,210 --> 01:59:58,210
and man of those uses are.

1127
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:05,420
It was never, but it's awesome playing out that in largely single family neighborhoods.

1128
02:00:07,620 --> 02:00:07,920
The ordinance

1129
02:00:07,920 --> 02:00:14,920
doesn't, the ordinance that the revised parking requirements don't affect single family homes so that

1130
02:00:14,920 --> 02:00:20,820
so those standards would not change. And the ordinance also applies prospectively to new developments,

1131
02:00:21,080 --> 02:00:29,180
so there'd be no obligation for there'd be no, there'd be a little effect on those existing

1132
02:00:29,180 --> 02:00:32,540
existing streets that cover your question.

1133
02:00:33,100 --> 02:00:40,640
If I build an apartment complex that has very little parking, and it's not near public transit.

1134
02:00:41,680 --> 02:00:48,980
I'm assuming that we recognize that people will then end up parking in the neighborhood streets near the building.

1135
02:00:50,480 --> 02:00:52,760
May I add to that we, Lynn?

1136
02:00:53,180 --> 02:00:53,260
Yes.

1137
02:00:54,200 --> 02:01:02,340
I think one thing to be mindful of is that the standards are scaled based on the number of

1138
02:01:02,340 --> 02:01:03,380
bedrooms in each unit.

1139
02:01:03,560 --> 02:01:06,540
So there's not a one-size-fits-all parking standard.

1140
02:01:07,680 --> 02:01:12,460
Larger units are required to provide end of the ordinance more parking spaces.

1141
02:01:14,180 --> 02:01:20,380
But the feedback we received throughout many professional analyses of our code was that

1142
02:01:20,380 --> 02:01:26,860
We had very, I was a suburban, more old-fashioned parking requirements that hadn't kept up

1143
02:01:26,860 --> 02:01:27,480
with the times.

1144
02:01:27,800 --> 02:01:32,960
And so the two spaces per unit for the three bedrooms, and the one space per unit for

1145
02:01:32,960 --> 02:01:38,400
the studio and one bedrooms, is meant to right-size the parking requirement, not overpark.

1146
02:01:38,760 --> 02:01:41,020
And so I think you're absolutely correct.

1147
02:01:41,200 --> 02:01:46,940
We cannot cap how many cars people have, trends change with vehicle ownership, and general

1148
02:01:46,940 --> 02:01:51,820
getting more expensive to own a vehicle and there are more options like rideshare and other things

1149
02:01:51,820 --> 02:01:58,200
that make it easier and even with autonomous vehicles. I think there's a prediction that in

1150
02:01:58,200 --> 02:02:03,980
the future there will be less vehicle ownership but we're not designing this code to that future.

1151
02:02:04,200 --> 02:02:08,600
We're designing it to what we understand the demand to be today from the professionals we hired

1152
02:02:09,180 --> 02:02:14,480
but I do just want to highlight that scaling because it is critical. If you have a three-bedroom unit,

1153
02:02:14,480 --> 02:02:19,000
one car is not likely to be enough, right?

1154
02:02:19,760 --> 02:02:22,520
So I'll end with one last question, and that's

1155
02:02:22,520 --> 02:02:26,580
what I think about the central cabin, I think

1156
02:02:26,580 --> 02:02:29,100
about the fact that they are looking for additional parking.

1157
02:02:31,660 --> 02:02:36,220
When I think of 1388 bankrupt, it was going to be

1158
02:02:36,220 --> 02:02:39,340
sufficient parking because the parking was going to be

1159
02:02:39,340 --> 02:02:39,980
on the street.

1160
02:02:41,040 --> 02:02:49,840
And so I'm struggling a bit outside of our high density network.

1161
02:02:50,160 --> 02:02:54,580
And I think the old map, I can't remember, was the green zone down east 14th, that was a blue.

1162
02:02:55,020 --> 02:02:57,280
Those one was one color and the other one was the other color.

1163
02:02:57,980 --> 02:03:04,400
I really don't have a problem with our high density focus east 14th.

1164
02:03:04,580 --> 02:03:08,580
But I'm still struggling with outside of that.

1165
02:03:08,580 --> 02:03:13,580
legally we have to do is 14th outside of that we're choosing to do it and I just

1166
02:03:13,580 --> 02:03:16,900
mean I don't feel comfortable yet but you probably have the votes.

1167
02:03:18,640 --> 02:03:20,840
We're going to go to public comment on this item.

1168
02:03:23,550 --> 02:03:28,230
Mayor, we've not received any comment cards on this item and there are no hands raised online.

1169
02:03:28,630 --> 02:03:33,430
Okay, so we'll close public comment. Any other thoughts, questions, comments?

1170
02:03:33,430 --> 02:03:43,110
comfortable. Yes, thank you. I would like to thank Councilmember Bowen because those were my exact

1171
02:03:43,110 --> 02:03:49,390
questions when you asked the beginning of yours. The only other part of that was I know there's a

1172
02:03:49,390 --> 02:03:55,170
menu that the planning commission looks at and says okay this is less so there were some other

1173
02:03:55,170 --> 02:04:04,250
things or a little more, I'll just say maybe extrusion or cost prohibitive that they chose

1174
02:04:04,250 --> 02:04:14,070
this one to be a part of the program. So I think it is the right approach. I was going

1175
02:04:14,070 --> 02:04:22,230
to ask, what does a typical bike shop look like in this scenario and oftentimes it's just

1176
02:04:22,230 --> 02:04:30,110
room with like a bike stand and their ability to change a tire, fix the chain. It's not meant

1177
02:04:30,110 --> 02:04:38,710
to overhaul a bike for a long period. So it's a smaller space and that was captured in the

1178
02:04:38,710 --> 02:04:45,830
comment. So it's just reiterating that anything my comments or anything we can do in the process

1179
02:04:45,830 --> 02:04:49,250
to help us, you know,

1180
02:04:49,570 --> 02:04:52,570
gardener more housing and development in our city

1181
02:04:53,230 --> 02:04:56,590
is what we need to be looking at.

1182
02:04:56,990 --> 02:04:59,990
And obviously bringing this up to the state codes.

1183
02:05:00,000 --> 02:05:09,940
It's very important to us. So, I will be in favor of this and I appreciate all the hard work you guys have done for this process.

1184
02:05:10,820 --> 02:05:12,440
Thank you, council Marbo, please.

1185
02:05:13,100 --> 02:05:19,220
Yes, I just wanted to move the item and I love that policy direction is still up there because that's why.

1186
02:05:21,280 --> 02:05:31,080
Okay, so then I'll offer my comments, so I have a motion from council Marbo and my quick comments, focusing on two things. First, I'm not convinced that the evidence

1187
02:05:31,080 --> 02:05:38,680
points to the housing minimums causing the lack of development or the parking minimums causing

1188
02:05:38,680 --> 02:05:40,880
the lack of development in San Leandro in particular.

1189
02:05:42,040 --> 02:05:45,560
I think there's lots of other reasons why housing is not being built in San Leandro and this

1190
02:05:45,560 --> 02:05:47,040
is not one of them.

1191
02:05:47,340 --> 02:05:53,320
I am also very concerned about the result on neighborhoods, there are places where we have

1192
02:05:53,320 --> 02:05:55,600
to make the change totally fine with that, right?

1193
02:05:55,600 --> 02:05:58,900
We need to be compliant with state law and that's good and that's appropriate.

1194
02:05:58,900 --> 02:06:10,960
We have talked about driving development into the East 14th corridor in this achieves that goal to the extent that parking minimums are keeping housing from being built.

1195
02:06:13,000 --> 02:06:23,240
I look at central calendar looking for more parking, that's just an indication that no, they need more parking than what we let them build parking with and I think that's the same thing will happen at 1388.

1196
02:06:24,320 --> 02:06:32,960
So my approach and is very much focused on let's do what we have to do to be compliant and

1197
02:06:32,960 --> 02:06:38,660
let's focus on the other areas to make sure we understand the impacts to neighbors and

1198
02:06:38,660 --> 02:06:45,680
to neighborhoods because I do not currently believe that that's the impediment to housing being

1199
02:06:45,680 --> 02:06:51,460
built in the city of Sanland, so I will not be supporting but it's that piece.

1200
02:06:51,460 --> 02:06:54,140
I do support the densification along these 14 points.

1201
02:06:54,180 --> 02:06:55,760
I said that since I started on the council,

1202
02:06:56,360 --> 02:06:58,300
I do support the development of downtown

1203
02:06:58,300 --> 02:07:01,260
and be fair, more housing, more housing, more housing.

1204
02:07:02,780 --> 02:07:04,160
But the way that we're approaching this

1205
02:07:04,160 --> 02:07:06,380
as a bundle, I do not agree with.

1206
02:07:07,660 --> 02:07:10,160
I'll come back to someone for a second, please.

1207
02:07:10,900 --> 02:07:11,520
Count Merbult.

1208
02:07:13,740 --> 02:07:15,420
Any further discussion on this item?

1209
02:07:16,720 --> 02:07:17,520
Singed in, please vote.

1210
02:07:17,520 --> 02:07:18,140
Well,

1211
02:07:23,520 --> 02:07:30,540
votes are in and the motion carries with five yes votes, one no vote from Americans

1212
02:07:30,540 --> 02:07:35,000
all as and one council member being absent council member Simon.

1213
02:07:37,850 --> 02:07:37,950
Okay.

1214
02:07:38,090 --> 02:07:42,470
This point in time will move to our next item, which is item 11.

1215
02:07:43,230 --> 02:07:46,790
We do not have any council requests to schedule agenda items.

1216
02:07:47,410 --> 02:07:50,170
And then we've got item 12 hour reports.

1217
02:07:50,370 --> 02:07:51,070
Please proceed.

1218
02:07:51,090 --> 02:07:52,190
Council Member Bowen.

1219
02:07:52,790 --> 02:07:53,770
Thank you, Mayor.

1220
02:07:53,770 --> 02:08:01,470
I just want to share something that we had an extensive presentation at our last stop waste

1221
02:08:01,470 --> 02:08:08,670
meeting focused on stop waste, it was the stop waste campaign date, a label update and this

1222
02:08:08,670 --> 02:08:13,870
is important and something that I have to get used to, you know, other consumers to be aware of

1223
02:08:13,870 --> 02:08:19,710
as well. But the issue with date labels is there's a confusion over expiration dates of

1224
02:08:19,710 --> 02:08:23,450
over by a few, it's like cell-by-date, best-by-date, used-by-date.

1225
02:08:24,170 --> 02:08:27,070
And what's happening because of that is over 20% of the food

1226
02:08:27,070 --> 02:08:30,350
that we buy goes to waste and we look at food waste

1227
02:08:30,350 --> 02:08:34,850
and how much of detrimental harm that causes to the environment.

1228
02:08:35,110 --> 02:08:39,910
It's one of the one of the core focus areas of stop waste.

1229
02:08:40,370 --> 02:08:44,350
And so California AB660, which was signed into law in 2024,

1230
02:08:45,230 --> 02:08:51,530
became effective July 1st, 2026, and what AB 660 did was to standardize food

1231
02:08:51,530 --> 02:08:58,870
date labeling by requiring the use of best if used by for quality and use by for safety.

1232
02:08:59,310 --> 02:09:03,510
So there's no longer a cell by label and that was purposely that that was actually

1233
02:09:03,510 --> 02:09:06,790
something between like the distributor and then like the grocery stores.

1234
02:09:07,030 --> 02:09:08,570
So that wasn't actually meant for consumers.

1235
02:09:09,050 --> 02:09:12,970
So that's something for us just to be more aware of for food safety and another

1236
02:09:12,970 --> 02:09:21,790
busy talking about the environment. The other thing that I wanted to highlight is that I had the

1237
02:09:21,790 --> 02:09:30,590
opportunity to have a very busy travel week, but I went to the local progress conference last

1238
02:09:30,590 --> 02:09:38,430
week. And I just wanted to share a few things that were really highlighted as critical focus areas

1239
02:09:38,430 --> 02:09:42,950
for elected across the country, but the conversation that we had which we've talked about was

1240
02:09:42,950 --> 02:09:48,110
really focused on affordability and how these cities work together, especially with

1241
02:09:48,110 --> 02:09:53,270
stakeholders in the community and partnership with the council and staff to figure out

1242
02:09:53,270 --> 02:09:59,970
ways to identify what the causes of people in terms of affordability and what we can do to

1243
02:10:00,000 --> 02:10:25,780
To move that along. Immigration we talked about, and then also mitigations around, like data centers, and the questions around AI. I also was was a big focus area. And then the one thing that I would have to say that the facility facilitators of a workshop that was one of the most popular, said, you know, five years ago we never had to have this sort of workshop, but it was really around safety for elected officials, whether that was to do it.

1244
02:10:26,740 --> 02:10:32,100
just the state of political discourse and political violence and so harassment, the rights

1245
02:10:32,100 --> 02:10:36,400
that things of that nature, and so that was a really interesting thing that I really

1246
02:10:36,400 --> 02:10:37,000
appreciated.

1247
02:10:38,260 --> 02:10:44,560
And then at API lead, which is the only nationalization for local, up to federal appointed

1248
02:10:44,560 --> 02:10:50,460
elected officials was this weekend and the focus was on public private partnerships, something

1249
02:10:50,460 --> 02:10:52,440
that we've been talking about at this console,

1250
02:10:52,880 --> 02:10:57,200
combat anti-eation hate, civic innovation in AI,

1251
02:10:57,420 --> 02:11:00,700
and then also being able to hear from our highest

1252
02:11:00,700 --> 02:11:04,040
ranking API elected ever, which was VP Kamala Harris,

1253
02:11:04,060 --> 02:11:05,260
which was really wonderful.

1254
02:11:06,820 --> 02:11:07,620
And inspiring.

1255
02:11:07,920 --> 02:11:09,280
And then the last thing that I want to spotlight

1256
02:11:09,280 --> 02:11:13,980
and take a direction from council member, James Aguilar,

1257
02:11:14,140 --> 02:11:15,760
what he did, the staff highlight.

1258
02:11:15,860 --> 02:11:18,420
I want to say that I had a constituent

1259
02:11:18,420 --> 02:11:23,580
child and talked to me that there was like a stop sign that you know was faded and could

1260
02:11:23,580 --> 02:11:28,140
staff do anything about it and it was one of those situations where staff could and we

1261
02:11:28,140 --> 02:11:32,200
happened to have a stop sign and it was taken care of and so I really appreciate that propness

1262
02:11:32,200 --> 02:11:38,060
and then the work that we had talked about at the last work plan around the really collaborative

1263
02:11:38,060 --> 02:11:45,920
effort that the departments have focused on helping our unhoused and also public safety for our

1264
02:11:45,920 --> 02:11:52,920
as it is. I had a situation that where I we learned of a potential public safety, a real public

1265
02:11:52,920 --> 02:11:57,780
safety issue and and staff were able to go out there with all of the different departments

1266
02:11:57,780 --> 02:12:01,820
and find out that you know here's how we can address how fine starting to figure out address

1267
02:12:01,820 --> 02:12:05,760
it and that many of the folks were actually on the list to go to the Navigation Center.

1268
02:12:06,220 --> 02:12:10,260
So it means that there is this pipeline and obviously we need more housing but shout out to staff

1269
02:12:10,260 --> 02:12:15,300
for being able to be really responsive and the best way to figure out a solution and move us forward.

1270
02:12:18,190 --> 02:12:19,650
Wait, spare please.

1271
02:12:25,020 --> 02:12:35,100
Two announcement or one announcement and one event that I attended that I wanted to encourage my colleagues to explore a little bit.

1272
02:12:35,100 --> 02:12:47,180
One wanted to alert the community and the council that Slia is looking for an executive

1273
02:12:47,180 --> 02:12:53,960
director, so they're currently recruiting, and so if you have any candidates that you think

1274
02:12:53,960 --> 02:13:04,040
might be a good fit, all the information is on Slia's website, and then the other event that

1275
02:13:04,040 --> 02:13:33,900
Tendid was on Saturday June 27th at the Sallander Library. The Bay of VISTA homeowners association, along with the mayor and supervisor Tam Cole hosted a presentation on study that the community funded through a UC Berkeley start up an accelerator that specializes in

1276
02:13:33,900 --> 02:13:42,560
creating models of evacuation and it was a really powerful presentation, and what I just

1277
02:13:42,560 --> 02:13:51,200
want to elevate for us to think about was this is something that the community had voiced

1278
02:13:51,200 --> 02:14:00,100
in terms of concern and the data and the various scenarios actually reflected that reality.

1279
02:14:00,900 --> 02:14:04,480
And it was a really powerful presentation.

1280
02:14:05,460 --> 02:14:09,680
And I know that the Bay of Insta neighborhood association,

1281
02:14:10,740 --> 02:14:14,200
homeowner's association has been reaching out to my colleagues

1282
02:14:14,200 --> 02:14:17,040
to do like a mini version of that presentation.

1283
02:14:18,820 --> 02:14:22,560
I would really, I would really want to ask you to consider that.

1284
02:14:23,760 --> 02:14:27,740
It is done by folks who are experts in this.

1285
02:14:27,740 --> 02:14:31,620
And it is a really compelling and actually quite scary

1286
02:14:31,620 --> 02:14:33,120
as a person who lives in that neighborhood,

1287
02:14:33,220 --> 02:14:38,840
thinking about just how much it matters

1288
02:14:38,840 --> 02:14:42,520
if you evacuate between one minute to five minutes

1289
02:14:42,520 --> 02:14:44,340
to 10 minutes and how long you wait

1290
02:14:44,340 --> 02:14:48,120
and what that could mean for those folks.

1291
02:14:48,680 --> 02:14:50,940
So I just wanted to elevate that presentation

1292
02:14:50,940 --> 02:14:54,500
and also my gratitude for those who organized it.

1293
02:14:54,500 --> 02:14:56,380
It was a really well-attended event.

1294
02:14:56,380 --> 02:14:59,960
And it was just...

1295
02:15:00,720 --> 02:15:05,640
And lightning, but also informative and also a little scary.

1296
02:15:08,360 --> 02:15:15,480
I also, since I was not here at the previous meeting, I just wanted to elevate my gratitude

1297
02:15:15,480 --> 02:15:21,620
to the Sally Andrew team for a fantastic 4th of July celebration. I wasn't here for the last meeting where

1298
02:15:21,620 --> 02:15:26,820
y'all probably gave those kudos and those appreciations, but I did want to elevate that.

1299
02:15:27,820 --> 02:15:30,640
And those are all my comments. Thank you.

1300
02:15:32,500 --> 02:15:34,560
Okay, so I'll wrap this up.

1301
02:15:34,860 --> 02:15:38,960
I also, I think one of our commenters mentioned the Brian Copeland comedy in the

1302
02:15:38,960 --> 02:15:41,620
Laza event. Very well attended.

1303
02:15:43,120 --> 02:15:46,860
Just a really good wholesome lots of laughter, lots of smiles.

1304
02:15:47,800 --> 02:15:52,160
So thank you to Mr. Copeland and he had a number of donors who donated in

1305
02:15:52,160 --> 02:15:56,980
Kind and they raised enough money to provide 150 backpacks and you

1306
02:15:56,980 --> 02:16:05,840
to San Leandro or to folks that work in collaboration with Davis Street.

1307
02:16:07,240 --> 02:16:14,540
At the opportunity after that event to join the all-star game of the women's familiar basketball association,

1308
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which is a developmental league.

1309
02:16:18,040 --> 02:16:21,380
There's hosting games here at the San Leandro High School gym.

1310
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It is apparently the only league of its type, working with professional players who are looking

1311
02:16:27,880 --> 02:16:33,440
to get into the WNBA, who have come off at times out of college, many of whom get placed

1312
02:16:33,440 --> 02:16:36,100
on international teams as they're not placed in the WNBA.

1313
02:16:36,680 --> 02:16:41,380
And so there's a lot of encouragement to just spread the word, because I'll be playing here

1314
02:16:41,380 --> 02:16:44,880
at the SoundLater High School gym over the next four weeks.

1315
02:16:45,100 --> 02:16:51,060
And spend some time with their founder today to explore ways in which we might promote this

1316
02:16:51,060 --> 02:16:56,340
activity here. I can tell you that from watching the game, extremely fast-paced. I mean,

1317
02:16:56,860 --> 02:17:00,920
it's professional quality basketball. These are D1 players that are looking to make it into

1318
02:17:00,920 --> 02:17:10,960
the pros. So there's no, there's no lack of activity energy on the court. Join the California

1319
02:17:10,960 --> 02:17:18,060
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce gathering in Oakland. And it's always good to to represent

1320
02:17:18,060 --> 02:17:23,060
city of San Leandro, by being present, meet with a number of business owners who are

1321
02:17:23,060 --> 02:17:27,220
thinking about where are they operate their businesses and so sometimes being present

1322
02:17:27,220 --> 02:17:29,840
is a good thing and I'll leave it at that.

1323
02:17:30,060 --> 02:17:35,200
And Friday also involved is it to the Lawrence Burkley Science Hall or Lawrence Burkley

1324
02:17:35,200 --> 02:17:36,680
Latin National Labs.

1325
02:17:37,880 --> 02:17:46,660
The Bay Area Council is very focused on making sure that elected understand the cutting edge

1326
02:17:46,660 --> 02:17:52,580
of technology that it's being developed with its labs, finding ways to work with activate,

1327
02:17:53,340 --> 02:17:59,520
which is their, I'll call it their accelerator to make sure that businesses find a home.

1328
02:18:00,420 --> 02:18:06,000
So I continue to encourage folks to make those connections with those startup companies

1329
02:18:06,400 --> 02:18:10,020
as we look to expand business into Sally Andro.

1330
02:18:10,020 --> 02:18:16,280
grateful for Walmart for their kind of grand reopening after their remodel so much joy.

1331
02:18:16,940 --> 02:18:27,900
I was great to see so many employees that was astounded by the number of employees that received certificates for decades of service at this Walmart location.

1332
02:18:28,740 --> 02:18:35,380
So that's pretty cool when you see that kind of commitment to an organization in the organization reciprocates.

1333
02:18:35,380 --> 02:18:45,600
There is an ask from the senior commission specifically, but I have heard this from other commissions, and that it's good for us to visit them from time to time.

1334
02:18:46,320 --> 02:18:52,440
Just drop in and see the work that they're doing, because sometimes I think they feel a little bit forgotten.

1335
02:18:53,400 --> 02:19:00,540
And even though what they do percolates up to us to watch them in action, I think can provide them some satisfaction.

1336
02:19:00,540 --> 02:19:06,740
So that's, it was a specific request to my council that I promised to bring back to join

1337
02:19:07,860 --> 02:19:12,480
meetings, but I'm extending it to all the commissions because I know the commissioners do work hard.

1338
02:19:15,160 --> 02:19:19,800
From ACTC projects committee, one of the things I just want to highlight is that the East

1339
02:19:19,800 --> 02:19:29,940
great greenway has gone from idea to concept in in motion to design, it's now going to

1340
02:19:29,940 --> 02:19:30,700
be built.

1341
02:19:31,300 --> 02:19:37,080
And so the contractor have been led for contracts approved for the the Sanlander of

1342
02:19:37,080 --> 02:19:39,800
Boulevard portion of that.

1343
02:19:40,260 --> 02:19:45,760
And the next step of the the next construction contract letting will be for the

1344
02:19:45,760 --> 02:19:48,600
East 14th portion of that.

1345
02:19:48,600 --> 02:20:00,000
So over the next three-ish years, maybe four-ish years, we should expect the East Bay Greenway to be weak.

1346
02:20:00,000 --> 02:20:10,040
I know that the original dream had been to put along the railroad tracks. That's not a decommissioned track line, but it's an inactive track line.

1347
02:20:10,500 --> 02:20:19,940
But as a practical matter, that could not become a reality, and so there was a pivot, and we should see lots of activity here in San Leandro construction activity.

1348
02:20:19,940 --> 02:20:26,000
I do want to thank Senator Grayson for coming out to San Leandro and spending time in Lina

1349
02:20:26,000 --> 02:20:34,260
Tams office and in particular just fielding questions, cold questions, whatever they were,

1350
02:20:34,900 --> 02:20:38,880
and addressing them head-on and meeting with constituents about their concerns.

1351
02:20:39,760 --> 02:20:40,840
So I'll pause and come back to the council.

1352
02:20:41,660 --> 02:20:43,000
I don't do that on purpose.

1353
02:20:43,140 --> 02:20:45,140
I just remember something when you started talking here.

1354
02:20:45,140 --> 02:20:53,080
I did want to acknowledge and I know that we can't do recommendations for everything and there are many things we want to recognize.

1355
02:20:53,740 --> 02:20:58,500
But July is also a disability pride month and one in four adults have a disability.

1356
02:20:59,760 --> 02:21:07,960
And as somebody who has spent a lifetime trying to acknowledge and fight off shame around a disability, I just wanted to acknowledge that for folks.

1357
02:21:07,960 --> 02:21:16,900
And appreciate that, maybe at some point we can, you know, have it be a resolution part of our annual plan.

1358
02:21:17,220 --> 02:21:17,960
Thank you.

1359
02:21:18,820 --> 02:21:19,900
Thank you.

1360
02:21:20,500 --> 02:21:34,880
The last thing that I will end with is that I do want the residents to understand that this council is very focused on efficiency and keeping track of projects.

1361
02:21:34,880 --> 02:21:41,640
a lot, just more focused on projects, finishing on time and on budget.

1362
02:21:42,840 --> 02:21:51,900
I do want to specifically highlight the very large scale of project elevate, which has reached

1363
02:21:51,900 --> 02:22:02,800
its first milestone, namely the payment of employees as part of the first bridge cycle.

1364
02:22:02,800 --> 02:22:08,700
We'll kind of keep working through monitoring, making sure that all payments are processed correctly.

1365
02:22:10,100 --> 02:22:19,040
But by all accounts, we're off to a great start for a project that was delivered on time and on budget.

1366
02:22:19,840 --> 02:22:25,540
And I know there was an approval today and consent to just continue some more on it.

1367
02:22:25,980 --> 02:22:27,600
That's all been budgeted for.

1368
02:22:27,600 --> 02:22:43,560
And that's on the timeline that was expected, so I want the community to understand that we are committed to on time on budget, if not ahead of schedule delivery on our projects and it's something that your council is paying a lot of attention to.

1369
02:22:43,860 --> 02:22:49,820
So that being said, the time is now 9.13 in we are adjourned.