Community & Economic Development Committee

adjourned. 2 Kay top. Can we have the chamber and muted?
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Good afternoon and welcome to the community and
economic develop. Committee
meeting of Tuesday 3/24/2026, the time is now one. 44 pm in
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proceed with taking roll.
Council members by.
Councilmember Houston. We've
got special Larry.
Councilmember Unger. Founder
done present and Chair Brown PRESIDENT. Thank you. We have
4 members present. We need a motion to adjourn into a special meeting due to the presence of councilmember
Houston. So move. Thank you. That's a motion made by Chair
Brown seconded by
Councilmember fight. 2 can
adjourned the cdbg and reconvene into a special meeting due to the presence of
councilmember Houston at one.
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spy. I I'm a child run. I
chair Brown. I thank you. This meeting is now a can bring in
to a special meeting. Moving on to announcements chaired. You have any announcements at
this time. Yes. Thank you so
much. My first announcement is that in an effort to keep our
committee meetings on time, we
will move to have public comment be just one minute.
Thank you so much. Thank you. Reading in item one approval of the draft minutes from the
committee meeting held on 3/10/2026. There are no speakers on this item move
approval. Thank you. That's a motion made by Councilmember 5
seconded Councilmember Unger to accept the draft minutes from the committee meeting
held on 3/10/2026 on Row
Councilmember by I
ramachandran I Unger I and chair Brown. I think you item
number one passes with 4 eyes to accept the draft minutes
from 3/10/2026. Reading an item to determination of scattered about standing committee items and there are
no speakers on this item. Excellent. Thank you so much. Do we have any changes from
the administration? Colleagues? We just need a
motion on Penniless. Of
pending list. Second. Thank you. That was a motion made by councilmember under seconded
by 100 to accept the determination of scheduled a standing committee items as is
on row Councilmember spy, I promise and on eye and chair
Brown. I thank you, Adam.
Number 2 passes with or eyes to accept the pending list as
is reading in item number 3. Adopt an ordinance authorizing the city administrator to
negotiate and execute a lease agreement with the nonprofit
Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation. But the Tyrone
Kearney Park at 10. Sorry, 1,
0, 5, 0, 1, at drive Oakland for a license, be of $0 for a
term of 2 years with 5, 1, year options to extend for maintenance and workforce
training. 2 making findings that the below market license
be is in the best and is in
the city's best interest and 3 making California Environmental Quality Act
findings. And we have 2 speakers that signed up to
speak. Excellent. Thank you so much. We will hear from staff
on this item. After chair
Brown members of the
committee. My name is Shane Hirschfield gold in the city administrator's office and the
sustainability and resilience division one of the honors
that I have in that role is overseeing the final stages of implementation of the better
neighborhood say neighbors. Program, which is funded
through transformative climate communities. Grant from the
state of California. Total grant amount is 28.2 million
dollars. We received that
grant and 2020 and one of the
projects of the better neighborhood say neighbors
project is the revitalization of tire on Kearney Park, which
has probably most of, you know, has been shuttered for
over 2 decades. The community,
the community coalition that came together and developed a very grassroots plan for Deep
East Oakland and that led to
the better neighborhood say neighbors project led by the East Oakland neighborhoods
Initiative Highlighted the revitalization of Tyron
Kearney Park and not just
revitalization of the park, but the creation of a
community led stewardship program. They highlighted that
has a major community priority
and the Oakland Parks and Rec
Creation Foundation is one of recipients of the transformative climate
communities. Grant through better neighborhood say
neighbors. Oakland Parks, Recreation Foundation has been
working with Eoe knee as well as with the Sovereignty Park
resident Action Coalition or
Spur Ack. To develop a robust
community stewardship. Program that also includes workforce
training. At Tyrone Kearney
Park. And so we have here Mandaloun Coderre Redman who
is the executive director of the Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation and
she's going to speak a little bit to the work that they are
planning for the park. Good

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