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Can we have the chamber and muted?\nPlease?\nGood afternoon and welcome to the community and\neconomic develop. Committee\nmeeting of Tuesday 3/24/2026, the time is now one. 44 pm in\nthis meeting MAY come to order before taking rival provide\ninstructions on how to submit\nspeaker card items on this agenda. If you're here with us in chamber would like to\nsubmit a speaker card. Police\nnot intend, went into it. 2,\nmy support clerk, representative before the item\nis read into record or no No later than 10 minutes there at\nthe start of this meeting, this meeting came to order at one. 44 pm and speaker cards\nwill no longer be accepted\nafter one. 54 pm. Will now\nproceed with taking roll.\nCouncil members by.\nCouncilmember Houston. We've\ngot special Larry.\nCouncilmember Unger. Founder\ndone present and Chair Brown PRESIDENT. Thank you. We have\n4 members present. We need a motion to adjourn into a special meeting due to the presence of councilmember\nHouston. So move. Thank you. That's a motion made by Chair\nBrown seconded by\nCouncilmember fight. 2 can\nadjourned the cdbg and reconvene into a special meeting due to the presence of\ncouncilmember Houston at one.\n45? Pm on role Councilmembers\nspy. I I'm a child run. I\nchair Brown. I thank you. This meeting is now a can bring in\nto a special meeting. Moving on to announcements chaired. You have any announcements at\nthis time. Yes. Thank you so\nmuch. My first announcement is that in an effort to keep our\ncommittee meetings on time, we\nwill move to have public comment be just one minute.\nThank you so much. Thank you. Reading in item one approval of the draft minutes from the\ncommittee meeting held on 3/10/2026. There are no speakers on this item move\napproval. Thank you. That's a motion made by Councilmember 5\nseconded Councilmember Unger to accept the draft minutes from the committee meeting\nheld on 3/10/2026 on Row\nCouncilmember by I\nramachandran I Unger I and chair Brown. I think you item\nnumber one passes with 4 eyes to accept the draft minutes\nfrom 3/10/2026. Reading an item to determination of scattered about standing committee items and there are\nno speakers on this item. Excellent. Thank you so much. Do we have any changes from\nthe administration? Colleagues? We just need a\nmotion on Penniless. Of\npending list. Second. Thank you. That was a motion made by councilmember under seconded\nby 100 to accept the determination of scheduled a standing committee items as is\non row Councilmember spy, I promise and on eye and chair\nBrown. I thank you, Adam.\nNumber 2 passes with or eyes to accept the pending list as\nis reading in item number 3. Adopt an ordinance authorizing the city administrator to\nnegotiate and execute a lease agreement with the nonprofit\nOakland Parks and Recreation Foundation. But the Tyrone\nKearney Park at 10. Sorry, 1,\n0, 5, 0, 1, at drive Oakland for a license, be of $0 for a\nterm of 2 years with 5, 1, year options to extend for maintenance and workforce\ntraining. 2 making findings that the below market license\nbe is in the best and is in\nthe city's best interest and 3 making California Environmental Quality Act\nfindings. And we have 2 speakers that signed up to\nspeak. Excellent. Thank you so much. We will hear from staff\non this item. After chair\nBrown members of the\ncommittee. My name is Shane Hirschfield gold in the city administrator's office and the\nsustainability and resilience division one of the honors\nthat I have in that role is overseeing the final stages of implementation of the better\nneighborhood say neighbors. Program, which is funded\nthrough transformative climate communities. Grant from the\nstate of California. Total grant amount is 28.2 million\ndollars. We received that\ngrant and 2020 and one of the\nprojects of the better neighborhood say neighbors\nproject is the revitalization of tire on Kearney Park, which\nhas probably most of, you know, has been shuttered for\nover 2 decades. The community,\nthe community coalition that came together and developed a very grassroots plan for Deep\nEast Oakland and that led to\nthe better neighborhood say neighbors project led by the East Oakland neighborhoods\nInitiative Highlighted the revitalization of Tyron\nKearney Park and not just\nrevitalization of the park, but the creation of a\ncommunity led stewardship program. They highlighted that\nhas a major community priority\nand the Oakland Parks and Rec\nCreation Foundation is one of recipients of the transformative climate\ncommunities. Grant through better neighborhood say\nneighbors. Oakland Parks, Recreation Foundation has been\nworking with Eoe knee as well as with the Sovereignty Park\nresident Action Coalition or\nSpur Ack. To develop a robust\ncommunity stewardship. Program that also includes workforce\ntraining. At Tyrone Kearney\nPark. And so we have here Mandaloun Coderre Redman who\nis the executive director of the Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation and\nshe's going to speak a little bit to the work that they are\nplanning for the park. Good\nafternoon, though. Mandaloun Redmond executive director\nwith the Oakland Parks and Foundation members of the\ncouncil and the public. We are\nvery excited to implement stewardship program at Tire on\nKearney Park, specifically\nbecause of that. Longstanding of that park. This is coming\nfrom a lot of collaborative work with the community as\nwell as several different departments entities\nsurrounding the area. In turn, Ali at the city where working\nwith the real estate city administrators of Krista Oakland, Parks, Recreation\nNews Development Department\npublic works altogether to\nimplement this stewardship program. Often we are\npartnering with the city to\nbring in dollars for restoration projects around\nplayground equipment, park spaces, green spaces. We plant\ntrees. This agreement that's before you or at lease\nagreement allows us actually them implement programming once were complete with the\nproject. And that's this Very profound next step that allows\nus to activate that space beyond the building. So that\nis what is before you. We are\nin partnership every week with\nServices Department as well as our community members and\nmachine ahead mention Spratt\nKenny owning so that we can\nget our work plan really in order and engaged community,\nright where they are and continued to activate the space beyond that opening of\nthat. That's going it. Answer\nquestions. Excellent. Thank\nyou so much. In. You all have\nmore to present. Good afternoon Council committee\nmember some Quincy the capital, the premise Project\ncoordinator pr, Windy. I'm here today to highlight our\nrelationship pr f. And park\nstakeholders in general collaborated with a from a\nvariety of items as relates to\na Parrot id. I enjoyed working relationship. I have with\nthem. And this project will enhance our partnership. How\nyou might ask. Well, the maintenance of our parks and rec facilities is performed by\nPublic Works. Pw. This is an\nenormous undertaking pr to help other community groups\nwill perform maintenance tasks as well as open and close and\npersonal part park. This will allow for Pw focus its limited\nresources on other sites. Also puracal provide consistent\nstewardship of the space. Sure that any vandalism be\naddressed promptly. Renovate a park reopening soon windy City\nas a whole needs stakeholder\nsuch parent and others tracking center to school\nsafer to space, which will encourage communication. Thank\nyou. Excellent. Thank you so\nmuch for the report\ncolleagues, any questions or comments Councilmember Houston and I know that this is in\ndistrict 7 wanted to go ahead and give you the opportunity\nshare. Remarks are asking\nquestions. Thank chair. I just wanted to find out who in that\ndepartment is the executive\ndirector whos the board of\ndirectors and what neighborhood outreach did they reach out to? And I want to\nknow actually who that was its\nmeddling. Do you not mass\nwhoever's out here? Do they know What a park was shut\ndown. That is a complicated\nhistory. I don't if that's something we don't want answer\nthat you want me to yeah, answer it because I was the\nnumber one. It had shut down their greed because of the homicides and 11, 5 day. But I\nwant to know if you know, I\nknew now. Okay, okay. So my\nthing is this is what part of the neighborhood that we speak\nto cause this 2 worlds right. And the first time it was\nopened up in the last 23 years was when I just opened it up\non 11 5 this year. No homicides, no shootings. No\nstab is nothing showing that we can we we we connect up. We\nconnect right to. Right. So because I'm from from Stone\nCity, 11, spreading park, all\nthose areas probably never elect another person like me\non on this seat because from\nthere right? So I just want to know who reached out to me to\ntalk to me about this. I have\npersonally talked with your aydlett that I think pronouncing that correctly. We've been talking with the\nprevious council member before as we know it's been a long\ntime and a lot of engagement that's prak really was\ninstrumental providing\nengagement to bring that state dollars to restore the\nplayground. They They have\nvery detailed engagement around what the park wants to\ndo, what it has been doing in\nthe midst of it being gated, there's activation all around the space at the moment.\nThere's connectivity with them\nand But surrounding park and\nleft field over at Brookfield. There's been all kinds of connections. A lot of that\nwe've been building through, then transformative climate\ncommunities, grant in the\nbetter neighborhood. Same neighbors initiative. So it's\nbeen in many different iterations. This is almost the\nlast step that allows us to\nactivate. So it's been many\nyears. Yeah, I got understand chair step, the councilmember\nnow and I just am was happening and that from that\ncommunity right. And I want to know school is going to be a\nvery touchy situation. If it's not handled the right don't\nwant to be closed down another\n23 years right? So I never suspect never reached out to\nme. I'm just trying to figure\nout why nobody reached out to\ntalk to me about what I apologize. If there's a way\nthat I can reach strictly to\nyou, we can do walked 3 in Walks you can see some of the activities that we have them.\nI'm happy to do that with u n writes, I don't want to move\nthis until I have these meetings and speak to individuals that's gone.\nManage it. Speak to you and find out who in the community.\nNot just one side is 3 parts\nto that community. That need to be spoke to so we can be\nsuccessful. We want this to be successful. We wanted to be\njust like the 11 5 ended up,\nopened it up without\npermission did that. No shootings, no killings know martyrs. Happiness was states.\nTrade happen is like\ncouncilmember Senate's it\nHappiness Day. It was a happy\nday. So I don't want to move\nin until I to. I have had these meetings. Yes, want pass\nit to staff. Thank you.\nCouncilmember Houston, so in a recent meeting, we establish\nthe fact that with ribbon\ncutting ceremony, we have a planning process. It's odd to\nsee Your office will be involved in process to have\nweekly meetings in his weekly\nnews. One ball. Obviously, you\nmembers of only Spratt also foundation. City staff\nmembers. And so we encourage you to come to those meetings\nthis week meetings and provide who ever you see that. That needs to be a part of those\nmeetings. We Kirsten so. I'll have communication with you\nand with your office. Also man\nso. Thanks, excellent. And so I guess my question at this time to the staff. Can you\nbriefly walk us through the importance of, I guess, passing this item in this\nmoment and then I did hear the staff say that they they look\nforward to ongoing engagement\nwith the District 7 office, but just wanted to get a clear\nunderstanding of of the item we have before us today. Yes,\nabsolutely. Through the chair.\nAs as we mentioned, this is\none of a host of projects through the better neighborhood say neighbors\nproject. And that project\nserves several disputes specific neighborhoods in Deep\nEast. So sub running park, Brookfield Village don't hers\non her wrist. And the\ncommunity engagement process that went into establishing\nthe better neighborhood say\nneighbors plan that was led by\nthe East Oakland neighborhoods Initiative, a coalition that was made up of multiple\nnonprofits and community\nleaders. Identified this pot. This park and several other\nsites as neighborhood\npriorities. But where we are now, we received the 28.2\nmillion dollar grant from the\nstate in 2020 appropriated. It\nand began work. And the grant\ninitially and it was a shorter grant. We're the 3rd or so\nextension at this point. And establishment of the\nstewardship plan is one of the\ndeliverables of the grant. So\nthe license agreement is sort\nof the the innovative\nmechanism that through the state support the city are\nreal estate division are parks\nand youth development Department our community\npartners have come up with as\na way of establishing that\nkind of shared model. Of\nleadership. But again, we are\nkind of up against the grant deadlines are implementation\nis supposed to and in at at this plant are implementation\nsupposed to end at the end of APRIL. That doesn't mean that\nthe stewardship work with end. But it does mean that we\nshould have Rima it Pra and\nSpratt and uni to launch into the stewardship activities. At\nthat point. And we do as has\nbeen Quincy mental and I think mentioned we do have a number of safeguards built into the\nlicense agreement. So it's 2\nyear agreement with 5 one-year extensions and annual at\nminimum check partnering with certain, you know, having\nongoing communication with our economic workforce development\ndepartment around the\nworkforce, training partnering with Opr Weide around, you\nknow, programming partnering Pw maintenance. So we're we're\nbuilding in a lot of checks and balances. Excellent. Thank\nyou so much. So guess from\nwhat I'm hearing. Be given the\ncurrent deadline. I think I heard there was deadline of\nAPRIL end of APRIL in order to\nget U.S. Agreement rolling,\nespecially given that the project. I think the report\nsaid that the dollars were funded in 2019 and then the\nallocation in 2020. So it's actually taken us some time to\neven just get to this point. And so I you know, through to\nCouncilmember Houston kind of\nbased on what was articulate it. We would you be\ncomfortable with this body kind of moving this item, I\nbelieve, is going to go to the a special council meeting,\nwhich is after our recess. In so that then in the meantime,\nyou can connect with staff to get more of an understanding. And then if at that council\nmeeting, you still have concerns, then we can address\nit as a body. But I I would like this body to move the\nitem forward so that then we\ncan and sure that the we are\non track to meet that end of APRIL deadline. That is the ground to the chair. When is\nthe groundbreaking was up to\nlate JUNE. We're looking now\nJULY, JULY. So on the site is none of these organizations\nreached out to me on that and I'm not going going any you\nguys districts and tell you\nwhat to do. And it is organizations reached out to me about this because this is\na complicated location. Which which complicated when a complicated, you got 3\ndifferent worlds. You gotta do\nit over there. So I'm just saying it's a complicated situation and everybody has to\nbe embraced on that, everybody. So I'm saying no,\nbecause I didn't reach out to\nme that I'd ever heard from nobody, 3 organization not\nbeen in office for 13 months. I mean, I know I was there at\nthe ground me when they opened it up and did the groundbreaking. Reached out to\nmy office. And thank you. Councilmember his 10, so to\ncity staff, can we? How can we\nhow can we ensure that Councilmember Houston's offices engage with all of the\ngroup's? I know I know you weekly meeting. Is that\ncorrect? Yes, all personally\nfollow up with council member.\nHouston's office and ensure\nthat there's going to be consistent communication. So\nthat we can move this forward.\nAnd then prior to so that communication would be prior to arc of coming. I think that\nthat's date. APRIL 14th is our\nnext council meeting. And so in between that time and we\njust go ahead and move, move the item. And in the event\nthat you haven't received the proper updates that you're\ninterested in, then as a body, we could then just not move forward with the item. Does\nthat sound reasonable and then also want to open it up to my\ncolleagues for any questions as well. Want to hear what my\ncolleagues have to say about\nmy district councilmember. I resident resonate with that\nsentiment. Councilmember\nHouston. I have some very sensitive areas in my district\nas well. And I have to say one\nof the shootings that happened in downtown Oakland where 7 individuals were shot and 2\nlost their lives. When as a body set aside a million\ndollars to deal with entertainment zones, I think\nshould have been used to\nsecure safety in uptown\ndowntown area before adding additional services or\nprograms. And so I am\ndefinitely resonating with your position on what the\nsensitivity needs are for your personal district because you\nknow what's happening on the ground. I'm also concerned\nabout potentially losing. Losing time with a program\nthat. Has been in in progress. And I will say my first 2\nyears in office there, it was very rare that staff reached out to me about what was going\non in my district. And I've I've it's been 6 years and now\nmy relationship with Park's rec is amazing. And Quincy,\nyou've been great so I appreciate you over\ncommunicate and I love it. And I want Councilmember Houston\nhave that opportunity as well. I've worked with only when I\nwas a director in East Oakland. I do know that they\ndo good work, but I do think\nthere needs to be a special. I'm not sure what happened\nthat or what happened in terms\nof communication there. But he does need to be brought into\nthis conversation as someone who's on the ground and\nactually was a part of closing down the park where you 23\nyears ago. Yeah, it's it's it's tents in some\nneighborhoods. And so because\nwe are going to get blamed for\nany thing that goes wrong. And we have to deal with the\nrepercussions of what happens. I would like to see that\noccur. Councilmember under I'll defer to council member Houston in his district, but I\ndon't want to lose this money. Is there any way we could do a couple of weeks worth of\nengagement and bring it back\non the 14th? Don't know what that what what the risks using this money. But I do want to\nmake sure that Councilmember\nHouston's involved in in the\nprocess. Yeah. And it's my understanding what I through\nthe report. Is it $400,000 is\nbeing allocated yes, so that that therefore, that's why we have that the deadline as\nwell. Due to chase and\n$400,000 be lost. If if we\ndon't move just today, you\nwell, today specifically. I think when and where lost of our deadline is in APRIL. Is\nthat correct? Through the chair? Yes, that that is\ncorrect. And I. The fact that this is an ordinance and\ntherefore requires 2 readings gives us a little bit more\ntime to do extensive\ncoordination. Councilmember to. Can we do that, then? Can\nwe bring it back on the 14th so that Councilmember Houston\nhas a chance to consult with stakeholders. Does that work\nfor you? Connect check here a cast member. Wants to say and\nsome say, too. Councilmember\n100. I think Wisconsin and they just proposed hearing it\nat full Council on the 14th\nand then. There is a second reading before the end of APRIL. So that's 2 different\nopportunities. Before this. This body's forwarding it to\nthe full council. But we will\nalso have a vote on the 14th.\nGema take lead of it. When you\nsay it. Thank Lee. I okay. All right. And so I'll make a\nmotion to go ahead and move this item to this special city\ncouncil meeting on 18th to do\n14th at 3.30 need a second.\nAnd want I guys will make\nclear that I want I'm not going vote on this on the 14th until we are sure that you're\nsatisfied. Brown under. I am good. Thanks. I thank you so\nmuch. And then we can hear\nfrom the public speakers calling in the name that signed up to speak on item\nnumber 3, MISTER Derrick Barnes. If you hear in chamber, you can come up to\nthe podium or if you're on\nzoom, please raise your hand.\nNames have been called then we have a motion made by Chair\nBrown second by Councilmember Unger to approve the recommendations of staff to\nboard this item to the. 4/14/2026 Special City Council\nagenda at 03:30pm, Honorable\nCouncilmembers by. A shotgun.\nI I and chair Brown. Thank\nItem number 3 passes with 4\neyes to 40 side into the 4/14/2026 Special City Council\nagenda at 03:30pm, on consent. Okay. Now reading and item\nnumber 4. Adopt the following\npieces of legislation and\nordinance amending the Rent Adjustment Ordinance eliminate\ntenant to tenant petition\ndeadlines be require that and owner provide evidence of possession of a current\nbusiness tax pick it payment\nof or exemption from the rap. Service. The service of written notice to the Rent\nAdjustment program to tenants and registration with the Rent Adjustment Program in Order to\nfile an appeal or a response\nto attend appeal and see make various changes to the\nremedies. Remedies section, including increasing the\ndamages remedy in civil actions against residential\nrental property owners and making appropriate California\nEnvironmental Quality Act\nfindings and to a resolution ratifying amendments to the Rent Adjustment Program.\nRegulations to permit any\ncategory of member of member\nof the housing residential\nrent and relocation board to serve as a board officer. And\nwe have over 32 speakers that\nsigned up. Excellent. These\nthank you so much. I believe that there's an announcement from the administration on\nthis item. Yes, and threw the chair. We are requesting that\nthis item to be pulled at this time. We have additional information that we'd like\ntogether before it comes back\nto this council. Okay. Thank\nyou so much. So I guess to the parliamentarian what what are\nactions and next steps. According to council to council rules, the committee\nhas to vote to table item. You\nmade committee made. Take public comment for sort that\ncan, Kamau, first, because\nthis is only a special. This\nwould schedule boat. So the\ncommittee can can either take public comment first and then\nlow to rescheduled item or or book reschedule vitamin\nintake. Or the committee can also just to put to public\npublic comment or take action on item just like any other\nitem. Okay. Thank you so much. So we'll hear from the public\nspeakers. Calling the names that signed up to speak on\nitem number, Lauren, no particular order. You can come up to the podium state. Your\nname for the record and make your comment as standard\npractice. We will take in chamber speakers first and\nthen zoom speakers. If you're on zoom in here, your name,\nplease raise your hand to be easily identified again in no particular order. You can line\nup. Linda Saint Julia, Karen Shenoy, Stephen Addington\nJames Van, Stephanie Bond,\nAnthony of Bella, Elizabeth Delgado Marin, one condom.\nLeona. Chris stepped in\nMichelle Way. Jill Joleen Josh\nRupe. John Williams, Patrick\nBrady. Steve Williams, Deric\nMuhammad. Dennard, Ingram\nJames Bond. We have twice.\nChris Moore, Adrianna Dot has\nMark General. It's David Hall.\nNoel. Justin. How live Borton? Sorry if I'm pronouncing your\nname is wrong. Galan Yunnan. Kathleen, since Derrick Barnes\nand Emily, Willard, again, he come up to the podium state.\nYour name for the record and noting that the time is for\none minute to make a comment. Would probably lead to some\nmyself. I speak Commissioner Linda Saint Julien. I just\nleft the board about 3 weeks. 3 months ago, on the board\nfor. With disabilities and\nseniors, but I'm a landlord\nand what I'm here for is the condition that you guys put on\nlandlords is just ridiculous.\nWe have 10 U.S. Problem. Tenants that have problems and\nyou guys, can we expect for us you know, get rid of them and\npay $11,000 for them to\nrelocate. I've had 3 in a row.\n3 people that has ruined my\nplace. You guys say we can't get rid of them. You make. And\nright now I'm going to a tenant when $11,000 and she's\na hoarder. She has really, really messed up my place. So\nwhat I'm saying is you guys want to keep on part with fees\non us as landlords. They're\nnot going have a place to stay because you guys out beating\nus and making us pay all these different reason. I just\nridiculous and I'm fed up with\nit. So like I said, she has\npart of my place. I'm going through it right now. Just 8 or $11,000 to get her out. And\nnow I have to pay $20,000 to get it back in place to sit to\n13 it Thank you for your comments. Your one minute is\nup. Good afternoon chair and members of the committee. My name is Karen Shenoy and I'm\nhere on behalf of the Bridge\nAssociation of Realtors representing more than 2000\nmembers working in and around Oakland, many of whom are also\nproperty managers. Small housing providers and owner\noccupants. We appreciate that.\nThis item has been pulled. These amendments carry\nsignificant consequences and taking additional time for a\nreview is the right call here. Bree Jail are was not even\nreached out to be for this item. Came forward was in the\npast former counsel member Kal would reach out or should a\nFranklin minor would reach out and and ask us to weigh-in before this thing came even\ncame committee and perhaps there's a turnover. And we\nunderstand that. But hopefully\nthat can change moving forward. We also want to raise\na concern about public participation members repeatedly tried to register\nto comment by zoom within the required 24 hour type time\nframe and did not receive caught confirmation from the\nsystem. Public participation should not be further limited\nby these technology issues. Again, we appreciate that. This item has been pulled and\nwe ask that any next. Thank you for your comments. Your\none minute is up.\nCouncilmember Fife. Yes, I do want to state I'm I'm also\ndeeply concerned about\ncommunity input. My committee for life enrichment doesn't start until 4 in since this\nitem was pulled. And we're not\nhearing a presentation. I\nrespectfully request through the parliamentarian to make sure that this legal for people to have their full 2\nminutes to speak. Yeah. At the onset of the meeting, I stated\nthat it would only be one minute for the public comment.\nThank you. Speaking time has\nbeen consistent for all items.\nSo at this time, we're still moving forward minute. And if\nthere's any and I welcome any of the public speakers to\nengage with any of the council offices on this item city\nstaff as we continue per the\nadministration to work on this item. So at this time it is\none minute. Thank you. Good\nafternoon. I'm Steve bettering\nDid you know that 90% of the landlords in New York City for corporate landlords don't take\nmy word for it. Google it. New York Times Wall Street Journal\nwhen you pass crazy rules, the\nlittle guys leave the mom and pop and the corporate people\ntake over because they had taken under take on the risks.\nDon't do that. Oakland. It's best to have a small mom and\npop your landlord. They're the best landlords. Secondly, this\nordinance does an interesting thing. You have the city\ncreated illegal scheme. That's\nwhat they call it with the\nreport with this proposes to do is to bypass the report and\ngo straight to court. You're\ncreating lots of lawsuits. It's fine. If you want to help\nyour friends. Lawyer make their bmw payment, buy a bigger house. But you're\ncreating more litigation here and this is wrong. That city council to really think long\nand hard before they implement this because it just allows up\nby a pass over import\naltogether. Thank you. Good afternoon. Committee members. My name is Arden grew Miami\ncommissioner on the report. Arise by the board to present\nthese items. These recommendations to the\ncommittee. I first want to highlight that these\nrecommendations are not staff recommendations. These are recommendations that come from\nthe board. So I raise the\nquestion on whether or not administration can pull these\nitems. As I understand the rules, the item has been scheduled in belong to this\ncommittee. So it is up to this committee as understand it on whether or not to pull this\nitem. Secondly. If there are\nquestions about outreach.\nConcerns about the\nrecommendations, both myself and staff are here prepared to\npresent on these items. So that both the tenants and the\nproperty owners who are here with questions can get those\nanswers publicly here today.\nDo not pull this item. Because this item has been in the works. Many of these\nrecommendations for years.\nTonight. A lot taller than me.\nHi, my name is Emily. I'm a volunteer with Oakland tenants\nUnion. I'm here representing our members who are generally\nat work and not people to be here today. We are an all volunteer organization, no\npaid staff that we have been aware of this legislation for\nmonths, if not years due to the fantastic work of the\nreport and map staff. Who went above and beyond their due diligence and reaching out to\nall stakeholders and gathering feedbacks ppd back. I see many\nlandlords here today opposing this item and I'm sure they're\nall really great. Landlords never break the law and never harm their tenants. And that\nis why this ordinance would\nnot affect them at all. There's a lot of misinformation, a pain to go around today about this\nordinance. It has nothing to do with evictions or\nrelocation payments. It does not raise any fees on any\nlandlords. In fact, all it\ndoes is provide a slightly larger window of opportunity\nfor tenants to to file to protest illegal rent increase.\nLet me highlight that an illegal rent increase this\nrent increase would be a legal already. And right now the law\nwould allow it to intentially become legal if it meant know\ntheir rights and violent time. These are incredibly small changes that only impact\nlandlords breaking the law. Do not do anything live Syria.\nThank. You can go ahead and\nbegin. The timer will show up. I'm also a volunteer for tenants union. I want to\nsecond what please state your name. For the record. We luck.\nI want to second what time\nfrom just have to say. And\nalso I want to that like. From the perspective of just law,\ngenerally what the current\nregime allows current receive about filing about a legal\nrent increases allows is just totally abnormal of someone's picking your pocket for 6\nmonths. You take. Not a legal.\nYou can't do that. Can't say out life anew in for 6 months.\nSo. What's your problem? So\njust as a matter of like consistency with laws, generally, we oppose this.\nIt's a totally unreasonable in\nposition on tenants and as stated it doesn't affect\nanyone except landlords illegally increasing their\nrent. Again, I want to second everything I'm going to say.\nThanks. Good afternoon.\nCOUNCILMAN John Williams and currently, I think makes\npolicies that are equitable\nfor landlords mom and pop folks because this particular\nanother only policy that just\nweighs on. Small books like myself, put out a business\nknowing treats mom and pops\nlike we're a business. I currently have a real increase\nthat's been on hold on appeal with the written board year and a half. But the very first\nreal increase in 15 years. And\nlieutenant. I'm still litigation for 3 and a half\nback written like tenant and they continue to appeal the\nthem and prolonged. It's exhausting refunds. And\nputting out of business. So no more policies that are laying\nheavy on small landlords make the tenants more accountable.\nOur make policy with a report. It's more respectable and also\ncome with own policies. Good afternoon committee. My name is Chris speaking on behalf of\nthe East Bay Rental Housing Association, representing\nhousing providers across\nOakland, the broader East Bay. First, I just want to acknowledge the position\nyou're and I do understand you're being asked to make decisions on very complex\nhousing in issue. And we understand and we respect that\nresponsibility. I appreciate\nthat item has been polled that said the proposed amendments\nare not small and insignificant and they raise\nfundamental concerns. These policy changes are being considered without clear\ncomprehensive data to support these changes that they are\nnecessary or that they will produce the intended\nconsequence outcomes. Policy\nbe grounded in more than just anecdotal experiences. Allow\nthe process to be informed by\ndata a lot of time and engagement with stakeholders here from court judges who are\nactively trying to divert rental cases away from kortz\nencouraging resolutions rather than encouraging more\nlitigation. Eventually, this\nis actually happened. Value\nwas actually happening before. Thank you for your comments\nhere. One minute is up. Good afternoon committee members.\nMy name is Julie and ruined with housing provider Resource Center. I'm housing provider\nspecialist. I also work Price. They rental Housing Association is support\nspecialist growth and engagement throughout county and resource Center. We work\ndirectly with small housing providers. Many of them who\nare first-time or accidental prop providers receiving a\nproperty to pro great who are trying to comply with opens\ncomplex and evolving\nregulations. What we're seeing on the ground is not resistance to law. It is\nconfusion, intimidation and procedural errors process is\nthat they don't understand that they're being forced to\nmove through without the\nproper support when there is no limit to how far back a\nclaim can go or penalties can escalate even for small\nunintentional mistakes. Many small property owners feel\nlike they are in one era way from a situation that becomes\nfinancially overwhelming as\nthey spoke to here. More importantly, this kind of framework increases the\nlikelihood that issues. Escalate straight into\nlitigation at Alameda County housing provider Resource centers. That is what we're\nthere for to prove to provide\nsupport Thank you. My name's of them. A kind a small\nhousing provider. I'm requesting that you retain the\nexisting provisions for renters who never receive wrap\nnotices that protection that protections already in the\nordinance. And it works\neliminate and open-ended combined with trouble damages.\nThis creates. In indefinite uninsurable, the big Asian exposure for small owners\noperating in good faith, limit trouble damages to willful violations for owners who\nknowingly buy Litton Act. The reckless disregard for of the\nordinance consistent with San\nFrancisco. Ensure there is\nreal rim board parity and require proof a board member designation for proper balance\nand rental property expertise. At a guardrail to the chair\nand vice chair MAY not be both drawn from the same\nstakeholder category. And provide a 30 day cure period\nbefore damages are enacted for properties of 4 units are less\nworse. Mall owners. Good\nafternoon committee. My name\nis Patrick Brady. I am a\nmember of But more than that, I am a small property owner on\na duplex in West Oakland. I have been trying to remove\nsquatters from my house in\nAPRIL will be a full year. From violations and abuses\nthat they take advantage like\nones that are being proposed right now. I unequivocally\nobject to the state that would allow renters to challenge\nrich creases for property\nowners such as myself. My case\nhas been thrown out at least once because of these minor\nadministrative things that the Rat Board puts on property\nowners such as myself. And I\nfeel that tenants having more opportunities to delay\nevictions. Or small turn. Property owners like myself.\nIt's at. Thank you your\ncomments. My name is This is the first time come and speak\nto all you Council members\nhere. I mean, a long time.\nHousing provided. I have a lot\nof good tenants. But some bed\none day try to turn. Next. Do\nattendance? Causing trouble? And when do those tenant don't\nlike them donate trouble attendant? You have have a hot\ntime to deal with the But law\nyou guys created? And I don't\nthink fair. Follow mom and pop\nhousing provided. As you know, last the leading cause U.S.\nPublic crazy. Gobble each water utility. If up like\ncrazy n. You can only increase\nby less than one percent.\nThank you your comments. Good afternoon. My name is Derrick\nResident of West Oakland. In a small mom and pop property\nowner. Thank you for pulling\nthis item. I want to say that. The policy making process should always be guided by\naccurate data, accurate information. And it doesn't appear that that is the case\nhere. Questions. What is the\nbasis? Of this? Look back on\nrent petitions. What is the basis for the introduction of\ntrouble damages? What is the basis developing are creating\nmore causes of action? All of\nthese things serve the creating a hostile work\nenvironment for small\nbusinesses and they dis. They disincentivize investment and\nincentivize freeloading and a\nkind of give making that allows people to play games\nand milk the system. And I\nSmall housing providers are\nleaving about one-third say they plan to exit within the\nnext 2 years. Housing starts 15 year loan and units are\nsitting bake. And yet we continue to see these\nproposals that are driven by advocates who have never owned\nor managed housing. And they don't understand or have a\nfull understanding of real-world impact of the policies adopted really over\nthe last 6 years. Those\npolicies have not hit everyone\nequally. And you can see it right here. They've\ndisproportionately hurt\nUndercapitalized mom and pop housing providers. Many, many\nof whom are black homeowners.\nWho relied on this income to\nstay in Oakland and generational wealth. The\nproposal today makes that worse. No deadlines, unlimited\nretroactive liability. Trouble damages. It's not balance.\nIt's pushing the small owners out. So thank you for putting\nthis aside today, police spent time talking with owners talk\nwith Evra and make. My name. My name David Hall in with\ndirector of the housing team\nat Central a counselor this. This these policies were put\ntogether by the members, the commissioners of the rent for their subject matter experts.\nThis was unanimously passed by\nboth the landlord, tenant and unaffiliated representatives. Now today, your landlord\ncomments have been lot about. These amendments are very short and specificity of what\nthey don't like about these proposals and long on\ncomplaints about being a landlord. This has nothing to\ndo with evictions. This\naffects evictions in exactly 0. A there are 2 important\nthings that these these\nproposals do. The first is to\ngive tenants more time to to challenge in a legal rent\nincrease. That's a good thing. There's no complain about why that would be a bad thing. I'm\nsure all of these good landlords are trying to pass a\nlegal rent increases. So they're not going to be\naffected by this. The second thing this doesn't revolve\naround penalties disobeying the ordinance, the trouble\ndamages only is in effect is in effect for willful\nfraudulent malicious activity. Again, nothing that probably\nin. Thank you for your comments here. One minute is\nup. Good afternoon. Council members Mark General, it's a volunteer with the speed\nCommunity Law Center. Thank you very much for the\nopportunity. I just want to caution us about misinformation about what the ordinance with the proposals\ndo, what they don't do. These\nproposals are reasonable for the purpose of carrying out\nthe intent of the ordinance to\nprotect the renting population of the city. One of the one of\nthe speakers said we should\nhear from judges. Well, in 1989 in a case called Kelly\nversus judges address the attorneys fees provision and\nsaid the attorney speak to vision of these ordinances,\nsimilar ordinances are vital to the enforcement of these\nordinances because nobody else does it. Tenants can bring\nactions effective actions by\nthemselves. The city doesn't represent individuals. So it's\nleft to private attorneys to enforce your the city's\nordinance. And that's why the Court of Appeal said these\nattorneys fees provisions are\nvital. Now, of course, it doesn't affect anybody who's\nfollowing the law, pay your\ntaxes. What's wrong with that? You don't want to pay your taxes. Of course, everybody\nhas to bear the burden step.\nYou know that. Thank you for your comments. Your time is\nup. Good Morning Council members. My name is Janet\nHalliburton and I stand here is a real tear and a representative people who\nwould like to own we don't\nproperty in Oakland. Many of\nthose people are dissuaded\ndissuaded by the current laws. And really glad to hear that\nthe in-form data encouragement\nof resolutions are being\nlooked at. And I do encourage another look at this\nordinance. I like to bring\nsomething that nobody said yet as I was going down part the other day, I saw a sign that\nsay. Rental housing is a\nbusiness. And then I at the Oakland Post where there is a\nnew look at equity business. And I just like to city\nCouncil to look at. The fact\nthat it is that this is.\nDoesn't have the same. Respect\nin the city or with a loss as any other business. I urge you\nto look at with that land.\nMADAM Secretary, I think I've got I've got some see the time from Steve William and\nMichelle away. Either. They\nboth in here. Okay. Thank you. MR. Finds you'll have 3 minutes for one moment to\nChester Time. Thank you. Good afternoon. Chair Brown and\ncommittee members there are in small property owner and ceo\nof Rental Housing Association.\nAs you know, road represent small owners across Oakland, Alameda County. These are\nworking class oaklanders retirees, community members of color over 70% small owner\noperators. Provide the vast majority below market rate\nrent deeply affordable housing in Oakland, Oakland's\ncommunity and economic Development Committee focuses\non fostering a vibrant, equitable economy by attracting industries,\nsupporting local businesses and work workforce pathways, particularly underserved\ncommunities. And that is the\ncharter of this body. That is\nthe charter of this body. The\nrental housing ecosystem in\nOakland moves about 2.8 billion dollars to Oakland's\neconomy. That's not insignificant and it\ncontributes to huge share of the business license tax. At\nabout 125 million dollars. In addition to property taxes.\nAnd why this matter is that the policies this committee\npasses needs to support our\nlocal housing providers who are also small businesses as\nthe previous speaker said, provide opportunities for them\nto start operating grow. But right now we've created\nconditions that chase our local owners out of business,\nout of Oakland, out of\nhousing, the most vulnerable people in our community. That\nhas to stop a submitted a\nletter outlining my concerns and a set of recommended\nrecommended changes. But I want to be clear about where\nwe stand. We are not here oppose reasonable tenant\nprotections or compliance. Our business is educating our\nmembers and keeping units on the market. We have been\nactively partnering with the city and they see the and ways\nto help small owners who are\nnot members debt and remain compliant. Let me say this for\nthe record. This these amendments before you should\nnever have reached your desk without proper stakeholder\ndiscussion and input. Good policy development requires that. And thank you for taking\ntaking the steps to look at this and and take the ample\ntime to work out these. Is\nbody of updates because we\nneed to minimize the disparate impacts that small businesses\nlike ours up against and have been reported in other functions of the city. One\nsize does not fit all. As I\nsaid before. And housing, you all know that I'm here about\nsolving problems and one make that very clear to recommendations from moving\nforward. Operation allies, the\npractice of convening regular joint stakeholder meetings\nwith a 8 c, d and rap to ensure that the lived experience that everyone talks\nabout is included in these\ndiscussions. And we have to run new policies and\namendments to the Department of recent Equity for assessment and input because\nthis city operates in silos\nand that must change and then see the rent board with qualified individuals\ncurrently run rental housing. That helps because you have\nthe contacts at the thank you for your comments. MISTER\nBarnes, your Time is up. If your name is called and you're still here and chamber and\nwould still like to speak, please come up to the podium and allies will switch to zoom\nusers. One c please unmute yourself and begin your one\nminute comment. I'm quien\npeople resident member of contents union support. These\nincremental common changes that coming from a pow of\ntenants, landlords and\nhomeowners. I'm disappointed that you're putting items He's\nlike most who often don't live in Oakland, such as Chris Mall, who now lives in\nPiedmont, putting the interests of you've done is above those of your\nconstituents, especially one of the especially pot is\nextending the time tenants\nhave to file a complaint. It's ridiculous that if you find out you being defrauded for\ntoo long, you just have to\ncontinue accepting the fraught\nthese on come complex changes almost every is full of idiots\nwho familiar with what is being proposed for the\nexisting Law Council shouldn't pull items just because, you\nknow, Don is refused to read them. Also, it's ridiculous\nthat council meetings are in the middle of the day, making\nit hard for people with jobs to participate and easier for people reach out to working\nclass of Oakland, businesses, provide services averages by\nhomes and make more people Kathleen Sims, please unmute\nyour something big in your one\nminute comment. Good after or\nsenator from years. Kathleen,\nI see you are logged on to 2. Please mute one or and one.\nThere's co coming through.\nWanted be a year Please begin\nyour comment. I think they're\nher. And good it. Know, are a\nsorry, Kathleen, I will you You if you're on a phone and\nlaptop, you might have 2, 1,\nor the other. There's an echo coming through. So are now and\nwe will come back to you.\nOkay. No. Well as please unmute yourself begin your\ncomment. Hi, my name is Noel\nand the the tenant of color in\nOakland. I'm calling in the middle of a workday trying to\nmake time for for I am for the\nproposed. It's I am. I support the agenda item for landlords.\nOne air doesn't mean you lose\nyour housing landlords coming with the same talking points\nfor all tenant protections. Have to look at the\nincentives. We can't forget that the business people are\nreferring to is mine and other\ntenants, literal livelihoods\nat this only affect illegal rent increases and should be allowed to be addressed with\nmore time. And regulation like this helps address homelessness crisis so we\nshould take it seriously. Kathleen, you can unmute\nyourself and try again.\nKathleen Sims. If you can meet\nyour cell. You hear Yes, we can hear you without an echo.\nYou can begin your comment. Ok? My name is Kathleen sends\nI'm a small housing provider and I worked closely with many\nhousing providers throughout the city. I'm concerned about\nthe provision allowing tenant petitions to be filed at any\ntime during a tendency removing the current timelines\nMAY appear procedural, but in practice, it requires property\nowners to maintain extensive documentation for the entire\nduration of a tendency to defend against claims years\nlater. In many rent adjustment\nhearings and appeals tenants are represented by legal aid.\nAttorneys are advocates well,\nsmall housing providers often represent themselves due to\nthe legal costs that\nfrequently exceed $400 an hour. In addition, many\nmembers of the board are represented by the city\nattorney. As a result, housing providers find themself in in\na room full of attorneys. This\nis not equitable or balanced.\nPlease consider these issues. James van, you can unmute yourself and begin your\ncomment. Proposals, fact, come\nfrom tenant advocate. There\nwere no represent proposals from the tennis themselves. These were the by the board\nmembers in session because\ntrying to carry out their duty\nand the aims of the rental ordinance. So they saw these 2\npoles and propose this waste\nkill them. We are We're certainly for these unreasonable proposals and\nmost jurisdictions already have these empowering\nproposed. So we think they should be acted on. They would\nsend out least a month ago to\nall representative is widely representatives to consider and make comments that were no\ncomments received at that time. So we think that there\nare many have a chance to see\nthese to react to that. And to\npropose alternatives we think\nthey make sense. They're reasonable good proposal sent\nhigh thank you. Thank you for your comments chair at this\ntime. All names have been\ncalled. We just need a motion on Okay. Excellent. Thank you\nso much. So just want to thank\neveryone who showed up for\npublic comment on this item.\nAnd of you know, the advocates\nsupport tenants as well as you know, smaller landlords in the\ncity of Oakland. I guess it's\nmy understanding from the administration in the\ndepartment that there will be more community engagement on\nthis item. And so look forward\nto having it returned prior to you colleagues, any questions\nor comments? Council member\nfavor. Know that there's been one minute given to speak on these items. And I do want to\nget a little bit more clarity because I came here to\nactually hear a presentation\non this item and engage in active deliberation. I need to\nget a better understanding of\nwhy this item was pulled and\nAnd what is happening next. So I'm not sure who to direct\nthat. Question, too. But I just want I think its\nimportant to to state that for the record to the\nadministration. And through the chair. Thank you for that\nquestion. Councilmember Fife.\nStaff feels that we need to.\nProvide more outreach, get\nmore engagement to understand\nthis That's very nuanced and the basis for pulling it was\nto get more information so that we can understand all the\nfiscal impact. From the city.\nObviously for the landlord and\nthe tenants and do a deeper analysis. And that's\nessentially why we're pulling the item and we don't have a\ndate yet, but we will get back to the group with the date\nonce that analysis has been conducted and we've done more\nadditional outreach. Well, I\nam the queen of outreach. So I\nthink having conversations and and having a lot of Carter in\nthe chamber. It's helpful.\nYes, stop it. And and I think it's important to have have those kind of conversations I\njust wanted to if we're going to engage in a certain type of\nactivity, I want that consistency. We just had an item or councilmember Houston\nas the council member of his district was respected in a\nway that hasn't been done across the board. So what I'm\nasking for all of my\ncolleagues and for all city\nstaff is to if we're going to\ngauge principled activity, let it be consistent. Not not\nbecause of who's mayor, not\nbecause of who's chair, but because we seriously want to\nget to an outcome that benefits all people. Because\nthe way that I see this body moves, sometimes it's\ninequitable and I'm going to call it out when I see it.\nJust want to say that for the\nrecord. So we just need a\nmotion on item. I'd like to move this to the pending list.\nSecond. Thank you. To the maker of the motion to the\npending list. No date\nspecific, correct? Thank you. That's a motion made by Councilmember Unger, seconded\nby Councilmember Ramachandran to withdraw in place. Item number 4 on the pending list.\nNo date specific on row council members by know,\nRamachandran I. And Chair Brown. I thank Item number 4\npasses with 3 ayes one. No to\nplace. Item number 4 on the pending. Alright community Economic development pending\nlist. No date specific. Moving on to item number 4, right?\nMoving on open forum. Calling in the name that signed up to\nspeak. David Boat right? Much\ntime. Thank you. Bo Wright District 4 after such an\nexhaustive anti displacement plan now is an opportune time\nto to report on the Housing\nDepartment's efforts to increase housing in Oakland\nover the last 10 years. This report should show how many\nhousing units by single\nmultiple and family of 3 or more persons have been\ncompleted per year. And the\nnumber of persons house and\neach housing group per year\nstate, the cost per unit for\neach of the housing groups of item. One and final show. The\ndifferent types of housing and\ncost per unit for the housing\ngroups and of item one with types to find is\nrefurbishments and new construction with the latter.\nBroken down by conventional ground up modular small houses\nand other such as 3 d\nprinting. And with the average completion time start to\noccupancy. Ready for each of these types of housing. Thank\nyou. Thank you comments share at this time. All names have\nbeen called excellent. Thank you so much. 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