Meeting Minutes
City of Oakland
Oakland, California 94612 |
LaTonda Simmons, City Clerk |
*Rules & Legislation Committee
Oakland City Hall, 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, California, 94612 |
City of Oakland Website: http://www.oaklandnet.com |
Thursday, May 26, 2005
10:30 AM
City Council Chambers - 3rd Floor
The Oakland City Council Rules and Legislation Committee convened at 11:05 |
A.M., with Council President De La Fuente presiding as Chairperson. |
Roll Call / Call to Order
Present: Member Chang, Member Reid, Member Brunner and Chair De La |
Fuente |
COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP:
1
Closed Session
A motion was made by Member Chang, seconded by Member Reid, to |
*Approve as Submitted. The motion carried by the following vote: |
Aye; 3 - Member Chang, Member Reid and Chair De La Fuente |
June 7, 2005 Closed Session scheduled for Noon to 4:00 P.M.
2
Approval of the Draft Minutes from the Committee meeting of May 19, 2005
A motion was made by Member Reid, seconded by Member Chang, to |
*Approve the Minutes. The motion carried by the following vote: |
Aye; 4 - Member Chang, Member Reid, Member Brunner and Chair De La |
Fuente |
3
Determination of Schedule of Outstanding Committee Items
A motion was made by Member Reid, seconded by Member Brunner, to |
*Approve as Submitted. The motion carried by the following vote: |
Aye; 4 - Member Chang, Member Reid, Member Brunner and Chair De La |
Fuente |
4
Scheduling of Agenda Items and revisions to the agenda(s) for the ORA/City Council |
meeting of June 7, 2005 or future dates |
A motion was made by Member Chang, seconded by Member Brunner, to |
*Approve as Submitted. The motion carried by the following vote: |
Aye; 4 - Member Chang, Member Reid, Member Brunner and Chair De La |
Fuente |
The following individual(s) spoke and did not indicate a position on this item: |
4-1
Subject: Oakland Firefighters Random Acts |
From: Oakland Fire Department |
Recommendation: Adopt A Resolution Authorizing the Oakland Firefighters |
Random Acts To Continue Its Services To The City Of Oakland, The Community |
And Honoring Awards To Recipients (05-0383) |
Scheduled to Concurrent Meeting of the Oakland Redevelopment Agency / |
City Council on 6/7/2005 |
4-2
Subject: Firefighter/ EMT Evaluation and Testing |
From: Oakland Fire Department |
Recommendation: Adopt A Resolution Authorizing The City Administrator To |
Enter Into A Professional Services Contract With Sandra H. Smith, PhD. For |
Performance Trait Assessment Evaluation Testing Of Firefighter/EMT And |
Firefighter/Paramedic Applicants In An Amount Not To Exceed Seventy Two |
Thousand Nine Hundred Seventy Five Dollars ($72,975.00) For The Period June |
27, 2005 To June 26, 2008, And Authorizing The City Administrator To Extend |
Said Contract, One Year At A Time Until June 26, 2010 For A Total Annual |
Expenditure In Each Year Thereafter Of Twenty Four Thousand Three Hundred |
Twenty Five Dollars ($24,325.00) (05-0392) |
Scheduled to *Public Safety Committee on 6/14/2005
4-3
Subject: DR Associates International |
From: Oakland Fire Department |
Recommendation: Adopt A Resolution Authorizing The City Administrator To |
Waive The Competitive RFP/RFQ Requirements And Enter Into A Contract With |
Dr Associates International For Background And Confidential Investigations Of |
Firefighter/EMT And Firefighter/Paramedic Applicants In An Amount Not To |
Exceed Eighty Four Thousand Twenty One Dollars ($84,021.00) For The Period |
June 27, 2005 Through June 26, 2008, And Authorizing The City Administrator To |
Extend Said Contract, One Year At A Time Until June 26, 2010, For A Total |
Annual Expenditure In Each Year Thereafter Of Twenty Eight Thousand Seven |
Dollars ($28,007.00) (05-0424) |
Scheduled to *Public Safety Committee on 6/14/2005
4-4
Subject: Oakland Fire Department Metropolitan Medical Response System |
From: Oakland Fire Department |
Recommendation: Adopt A Resolution Authorizing The City Administrator To |
Accept And Appropriate A Grant Of Two Hundred And Twenty Thousand, Seven |
Hundred And Sixty Four Dollars ($220,764.00) As Part Of The Fiscal Year 2005 |
Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP) From The U.S. Department Of |
Homeland Security Office For Domestic Preparedness (ODP) - Metropolitan |
Medical Response System (MMRS) To Fund The Oakland Fire Department |
MMRS Program And Enhance Integrated, Systematic Mass Casualty Preparedness, |
With Primary Focus On Terrorist Events Involving Radiological, Nuclear, |
Chemical Biological, Or Explosive Agents (05-0426) |
Scheduled to *Public Safety Committee on 6/14/2005
4-5
Subject: Comcast Cable Franchise |
From: Office of the City Administrator and Office of the City Clerk |
Recommendation: Adopt The Following Pieces Of Legislation: |
1) An Ordinance Of The City Of Oakland Amending Chapter 5.16 Of Title 5 Of |
The Oakland Municipal Code To Regulate The Occupancy And Use Of Public |
Rights-Of-Way By Cable Systems And Open Video Systems, To Provide For |
Establishment Of Customer Service Standards; Establishing Franchise And |
Licensing Requirements For Operators Of Such Systems And To Prescribe |
Minimum Charges, Terms, And Conditions For And Upon The Construction, |
Maintenance, And Repair Of Such Systems; And (05-0422) |
Scheduled to *Finance & Management Committee on 6/14/2005
The following individual(s) spoke and did not indicate a position on this item: |
2) An Ordinance Granting A Cable Franchise To Comcast Of California/Colorado, LLC To |
Construct And Operate A Cable System To Provide Cable Service Within A Franchise Area |
Within The City Of Oakland; Establishing The Terms And Conditions Of The Franchise Grant; |
And Establishing Certain Remedies For The Violation Of The Franchise; and place on the |
pending list (05-0422-1) |
Scheduled to *Finance & Management Committee on 6/14/2005
3) An Ordinance Granting A Cable Franchise To Comcast Of California/Colorado, LLC To |
Construct And Operate A Cable System To Provide Cable Service Within A Franchise Area |
Within The City Of Oakland; Establishing The Terms And Conditions Of The Franchise Grant; |
And Establishing Certain Remedies For The Violation Of The Franchise (05-0422-2) |
Scheduled to *Finance & Management Committee on 6/14/2005
4-6
Subject: Approval of the Special Budget Meeting Agenda for May 31, 2005 |
From: Office of the City Clerk |
Recommendation: A Request to Review and Approve the Agenda for the Special |
Budget Meeting scheduled for May 31, 2005 (05-0449) |
Accepted
4-7
Subject: Approval of the Agenda for the Special Education Partnership |
Committee |
From: Office of the City Clerk |
Recommendation: A Request to Review and Approve the Agenda for the Special |
Education Partnership Meeting Scheduled for May 31, 2005 (05-0450) |
Accepted
The following individual(s) spoke and did not indicate a position on this item: |
4-8
Subject: California Health Care Coalition |
From: Council President De La Fuente |
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution Supporting The California Health Care |
Coalition's Efforts To Encourage Greater Accountability And Transparency From |
The Health Care Industry (05-0418) |
Scheduled to Concurrent Meeting of the Oakland Redevelopment Agency / |
City Council on 6/7/2005 |
4-9
Subject: Patricia Kernighan Appointment/Composition of Education Partnership |
Committee |
From: Council President De La Fuente |
Recommendation: A Motion To Confirm The City Council President's |
Appointment Of Councilmember Patricia Kernighan To Various City Council |
Committees And To Confirm The Composition Of The Education Partnership |
Committee (05-0419) |
Scheduled to Concurrent Meeting of the Oakland Redevelopment Agency / |
City Council |
The following individual(s) spoke and did not indicate a position on this item: |
4-10
Subject: Mayor And City Attorney's Salary |
Recommendation: Action On A Report And Recommendation On The Mayor And |
City Attorney's Salary (05-0435) |
Scheduled to *Finance & Management Committee on 6/14/2005
4-11
Subject: Oakland Economic Development Corporation - Agreement |
From: Community and Economic Development Agency |
Recommendation: Adopt A Resolution Authorizing The Agency Administrator To |
Negotiate And Execute An Exclusive Negotiating Agreement With The Oakland |
Economic Development Corporation, A California Not For Profit Development |
Corporation, To Pursue The Development Of A Transit Village At The Coliseum |
BART Station And To Contribute Up To $25,000 To Fund Oakland Economic |
Development Corporation's Exclusive Negotiating Fee With The San Francisco |
Bay Area Rapid Transit District (TITLE CHANGE) (05-0251) |
Scheduled to *Community & Economic Development Committee on |
6/14/2005 |
4-12
Subject: Fulton Project Development Group |
From: Community and Economic Development Agency |
Recommendation: Adopt An Agency Resolution Approving An Exclusive |
Negotiation Agreement With Fulton Project Development Group Regarding The |
Sale And Development Of A Portion Of The Oakland Army Base For Use As A |
Mixed-Use Entertainment, Retail, Housing, And Film/Television Production |
Studio (05-0425) |
Scheduled to *Community & Economic Development Committee on |
6/14/2005 |
4-13
Subject: Planned Unit Development on Kenilworth Road |
From: Community and Economic Development Agency |
Recommendation: Conduct a Public Hearing And Upon Conclusion Adopt A |
Resolution Denying The Appeal And Sustaining The Decision Of The City |
Planning Commission Approving The Application For A Planned Unit |
Development For Seven Single-Family Residential Lots on Kenilworth Road (Off |
Strathmoor Drive, In The General Area Between Drury Road and Norfolk |
Road)(TITLE CHANGE) (05-0434) |
*Rescheduled to *Rules & Legislation Committee
for scheduling
4-14
Subject: Youth Employment Partnership, Inc. |
From: Public Works Agency |
Recommendation: A Request To Withdraw A Report And Recommendation On A |
Resolution Authorizing A Two-Year Agreement With The Youth Employment |
Partnership, Inc. To Implement The Team Oakland Program, In An Amount Not |
To Exceed $249,000; To Be Withdrawn With No New Date (05-0388-1) |
Accepted
This item was previously adopted.
4-15
Subject: Brookpark Tree Removal |
From: Public Works Agency |
Recommendation: A Request To Withdraw From the June 7, 2005 City Council |
Agenda And Reschedule The Adoption Of A Resolution Denying The Appeal |
Filed By Robert Bobb Against The Decision Of The Public Works Agency |
Approving The Issuance Of Tree Removal Permit DR02-123 For Brookpark Road, |
An Undeveloped Lot, APN 085-0105-040-00, In Order To Build A New Home; on |
the June 21, 2005 City Council agenda (05-0420) |
Scheduled to Concurrent Meeting of the Oakland Redevelopment Agency / |
City Council on 6/21/2005 |
4-16
Subject: Local Street Rehabilitation And Traffic Safety |
From: Public Works Agency |
Recommendation: Adopt A Resolution Authorizing The City Administrator To |
Apply For, Accept, And Appropriate 1) $824,000 Of Federal Surface |
Transportation Program Funds For Street Rehabilitation; And 2) $901,788 Of |
Congestion Management Agency Transportation Improvement Program Funds For |
Local Street Rehabilitation And Traffic Safety (05-0431) |
Scheduled to *Public Works Committee on 6/14/2005
4-17
Subject: Debt Management Policy and Swap Policy |
From: Finance and Management Agency |
Recommendation: Adopt the following pieces of legislation: |
1) A Resolution Adopting The City Of Oakland's Debt Management Policy and |
Swap Policy For Fiscal Year 2005-2006 (05-0421) |
Scheduled to *Finance & Management Committee on 6/14/2005
2) A Resolution Adopting The Oakland Redevelopment Agency's Debt Management Policy |
and Swap Policy For Fiscal Year 2005-2006 (05-0421-1) |
Scheduled to *Finance & Management Committee on 6/14/2005
4-18
Subject: Medtronic Physio-Control |
From: Finance and Management Agency |
Recommendation: Adopt A Resolution Awarding A Contract To Medtronic-Physio |
Control For Furnishing Replacement Defibrillator Monitors And Accessory |
Equipment In An Amount Not To Exceed $856,670.76 In Accordance With |
Specification No. 03-465-14-1 (05-0423) |
Scheduled to *Finance & Management Committee on 6/14/2005
4-19
Subject: Investment Policy for Fiscal Year 2005-2006 |
From: Finance and Management Agency |
Recommendation: Adopt The Following Pieces of Legislation: |
1) A Resolutions Adopting The City Of Oakland Investment Policy For Fiscal Year |
2005-2006 (05-0427) |
Scheduled to *Finance & Management Committee on 6/14/2005
2) An Agency Resolutions Adopting The Oakland Redevelopment Agency's Investment Policy |
For Fiscal Year 2005-2006 (05-0427-1) |
Scheduled to *Finance & Management Committee on 6/14/2005
4-20
From: Finance and Management Agency |
Recommendation: Adopt A Resolution Reallocating $2,000,000 Of Measure G |
Series 2002A Funds, Previously Allocated For Projects At The Oakland Museum |
Of California, To Projects At The Oakland Zoo (05-0428) |
Scheduled to *Finance & Management Committee on 6/14/2005
4-21
Subject: Vehicle License Fee |
From: Finance and Management Agency |
Recommendation: Adopt A Resolution Approving The Form Of And Authorizing |
The Execution And Delivery Of A Purchase And Sale Agreement And Related |
Documents With Respect To The Sale Of The Seller's Vehicle License Fee |
Receivable From The State; And Directing And Authorizing Certain Other Actions |
In Connection Therewith (05-0432) |
Scheduled to *Finance & Management Committee on 6/14/2005
4-22
Subject: Sideshow Activities |
From: Office of the Mayor |
Recommendation: Action on A Report and Recommendations Regarding Two |
Alternatives To Address Sideshow Activities: Alternative No. 1 - An Ordinance |
Amending Title 9 Of The Oakland Municipal Code To Add Chapter 9.60 (a) |
Declaring Vehicle Sideshows A Public Nuisance And (b) Prohibiting The |
Gathering Of Spectators At Such Public Nuisance Events; And Alternative No. 2 - |
An Ordinance That Includes The Foregoing Provisions And Also Provides For The |
Forfeiture Of Vehicles Involved In Sideshow Events (05-0429) |
Scheduled to Concurrent Meeting of the Oakland Redevelopment Agency / |
City Council on 6/7/2005 |
The following individual(s) spoke and did not indicate a position on this item: |
4-23
Subject: Seizure And Forfeiture Of Vehicles Used To Solicit Prostitution |
From: Office of the Mayor |
Recommendation: Approve the Introduction (First Reading) of An Ordinance |
Amending Chapter 9.56 Of The Oakland Municipal Code Authorizing Seizure And |
Forfeiture Of Vehicles Used To Solicit Prostitution Or Acquire A Controlled |
Substance, To Include As Additional Grounds For Seizure And Forfeiture The |
Crimes Of Pandering And Pimping, And To Require A Prompt Post-Seizure |
Hearing (05-0430) |
Scheduled to Concurrent Meeting of the Oakland Redevelopment Agency / |
City Council on 6/7/2005 |
The following individual(s) spoke and did not indicate a position on this item: |
FROM THE JUNE 14, 2005 FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE AGENDA
Subject: Community Meeting and Police Station - 530 Lake Park Avenue |
From: Community and Economic Development Agency |
Recommendation: Adopt A Resolution Authorizing The City Administrator To Enter Into A |
Two-Year Lease With Peter And Helen Shiu For Real Property Located At 530 Lake Park |
Avenue, For Use As A Community Meeting Facility And Community Police Station In The |
Annual Amount Of $30,000, Plus Telephone And Utility Costs And One Time Tenant |
Improvement Cost Of $2,000 For A Total Amount Not To Exceed $40,000 Annually (05-0222) |
*Rescheduled to *Finance & Management Committee on 6/28/2005
Subject: Purchase Agreement with William T. Neill |
From: Community Economic and Development Agency |
Recommendation: Adopt An Ordinance Authorizing The City Administrator To Enter Into A |
Purchase And Sale Agreement With William T. Neill, The Adjoining Property Owner, To |
Purchase Approximately 4,500 Square Feet Of City Owned Surplus Real Property Located At |
51st Street Between Manila And Coronado Avenue For The Fair Market Value Of $4,500 |
(05-0333) |
*Rescheduled to *Finance & Management Committee on 6/21/2005
Subject: Grizzly Peak Boulevard |
From: Community and Economic Development Agency |
Recommendation: Adopt A City Ordinance Authorizing The City Administrator To Enter Into |
A Purchase And Sales Agreement To Sell To Brennan Mulligan And Yeung Tsui, The |
Adjoining Property Owners, Approximately 1,360 Square Feet Of City Owned Surplus Real |
Property Located At Grizzly Peak Boulevard (APN# 048H-7510-002-00) For The Fair Market |
Value Of $1,360.00 (05-0363) |
*Rescheduled to *Finance & Management Committee on 6/28/2005
Subject: 5th Avenue Seismic Retrofit |
From: Community and Economic Development Agency |
Recommendation: Adopt an Ordinance Authorizing The City Administrator To Enter Into A |
Sales Agreement With The California Department Of Transportation (Caltrans) To Sell City |
Owned Property Located Near Interstate 880 And 5th Ave (Assessor Parcel Number |
000O-0455-010 (Portion)) And Granting Of Temporary Construction Easements With An |
Expiration Date Of 1/31/2011 For City Owned Properties (Assessor Parcel Numbers |
000O-0455-090 And 000O-0455-010) For A Fair Market Value To Be Determined But Not |
Less Than $195,100 (05-0398) |
*Rescheduled to Concurrent Meeting of the Oakland Redevelopment |
Agency / City Council on 6/21/2005 |
FROM THE JUNE 14, 2005 COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT |
COMMITTEE AGENDA |
From: Community and Economic Development Agency |
Recommendation: Receive an Informational Report on Conversions of Industrial Land to |
Other Uses (05-0278) |
*Rescheduled to *Community & Economic Development Committee on |
7/12/2005 |
Subject: Rent Adjustment Program |
From: Community and Economic Development Agency |
Recommendation: Adopt A Resolution Amending Rent Adjustment Program Regulations To |
Remove The Requirement That One Of Each Of The Three Classes Of Members (Neutral, |
Landlord, And Tenant) Be Present For Voting Quorum Of The Housing, Residential Rent, And |
Relocation Board And Provide That A Quorum Is A Simple Majority Of The Members |
(05-0382) |
*Rescheduled to *Community & Economic Development Committee on |
7/12/2005 |
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A review of the Council Committees' actions from May 24, 2005 and determination of |
scheduling to the ORA/City Council meeting of June 7, 2005 or future dates |
Approve as Amended
The following individual(s) spoke and did not indicate a position on this item: |
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A review of the Agenda for the ORA/City Council for the meeting of June 7, 2005
A motion was made by Member Brunner, seconded by Member Chang, to |
*Approve as Submitted. The motion carried by the following vote: |
Aye; 4 - Member Chang, Member Reid, Member Brunner and Chair De La |
Fuente |
The following individual(s) spoke and did not indicate a position on this item: |
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Subject: Self-Anchored Suspension For the Bay Bridge |
From: Councilmember Larry Reid |
Recommendation: Adopt A Resolution Urging The California Legislature To Retain In State |
Law The Self-Anchored Suspension Design Of The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge; To |
Urge The Governor And Caltrans To Advertise That Design For Construction Bids As Soon As |
Possible; And To Urge The California Legislature And Governor To Promptly Commence |
Negotiations To Achieve A Fair And Equitable Cost-Sharing Agreement For The Latest Cost |
Overruns For The Toll Bridge Seismic Retrofit Program (05-0360) |
A motion was made by Member Brunner, seconded by Member Chang, |
that this matter be *Approve the Recommendation of Staff, and Forward |
to the Concurrent Meeting of the Oakland Redevelopment Agency / City |
Council, due back on June 7, 2005. The motion carried by the following |
vote: |
Absent; 1 - Chair De La Fuente |
Aye; 3 - Member Chang, Member Reid and Member Brunner |
COUNCIL PRESIDENT DE LA FUENTE WAS NOTED ABSENT AT 11:57 |
A.M. |
The following individual(s) spoke and did not indicate a position on this item: |
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From: Public Works Agency |
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution Declaring The City Of Oakland's Support For Senate |
Bill 523 (Torlakson/Maldonado) For Maintaining Bicycle Transportation Account Funding |
(05-0364) |
A motion was made by Member Chang, seconded by Member Brunner, |
that this matter be *Approve the Recommendation of Staff, and Forward |
to the Concurrent Meeting of the Oakland Redevelopment Agency / City |
Council, due back on June 7, 2005. The motion carried by the following |
vote: |
Absent; 1 - Chair De La Fuente |
Aye; 3 - Member Chang, Member Reid and Member Brunner |
The Committee moved seconded and carried a motion to approve staff |
recommendations as amended to include the following changes: 1) Deletion of |
the following language" and equitable cost sharing agreement" and 2) the |
addition of the following language: "Resolved: that the State immediately |
continue the construction of the self anchored suspension design" |
The following individual(s) spoke and did not indicate a position on this item: |
OPEN FORUM (TOTAL TIME AVAILABLE: 15 MINUTES)
The following individual(s) spoke and did not indicate a position on this item: |
Adjournment
There being no further business, and upon the motion duly made, the Oakland |
City Council Rules and Legislation Committee adjourned at 12:05 P.M. |
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