I'm going to go to the next meeting. All right. Are we ready? Just making sure. Good. Okay. All right. Then I would like to call to order the Tuesday, March 11th, 2025 special meeting of the Berkeley City Council. And I'd like to start with the role, please. Certainly. Councilmember you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. you I'm sorry. you you you you you you I'm sorry. you I'm sorry. You might have to adjust the mic down for you. It's so tall. Hi, Madam Mayor and everyone here. My name is Maria and I have a question first. I came when I saw on the agenda, it was about priorities for the city. Is that correct? Was it with regard to something in particular? Yes, but there's there are some details that might be helpful to know but go ahead. The reason why I came is that again, because I'm such an elder and I'm so disabled and because I happen to be a woman, I keep getting calls every day. and I'm starting to cry, I'm able to say to women, not able to walk hospitalized 12 times in the process of dying. So I make it a point to very lovingly say that I am so deeply committed to this entire city. Everyone here, there's no sides. And I don't like to see people suffer so unnecessarily. If I had a begin of home, I'd be taking people in. I've been doing that my entire life. And given that I dealt with the people on the street directly, I know that it's not just a single item. There's all sorts of components, which is why I'm on the Mental Health Commission. We have a holistic capacity to deal with the reality of what people are physically, mentally, emotionally, dramatically, and then the stress of safety. Please imagine what it would be like. If you were out on the street, in danger, it's going to rain. It's cold in your hungry, and you don't have a bathroom. This, we can do better. So I just constantly besiege the human beingness of all of us. Thank you. Thank you, Maria. Any other comments? I'm not sure if you're sure you're not sure you're not Thank you. Thank you, Maria. Any other comments here in person? Okay. We have several speakers on Zoom. The first of which is Haram James. Haram, you should be able to speak. Okay, thank you very much. I live in Palo Alto, went to school in Berkeley, have to- is, Aram James, Aram, you should be able to speak. OK, thank you very much. I live in Palo Alto, went to school in Berkeley, have ties in both places. Our city council is a group of committed Zionists. They would not allow a public discussion on the topic of a ceasefire, and certainly not a resolution that I hope this city will adopt to put on the agenda in the soon future. I'm sorry somebody else is also speaking so that makes it difficult to hear but many of it there isn't a problem. One of the this is supposed to be comment on the item that's on our agenda RV process. If you comment that's related to something else, you can bring it to the main city council meeting. Okay. I'll do that at six and I'll just stay on the line here. So maybe I'll be at the first of the queue there, but let's have an open discussion on the genocide and that's going on in Palestine and don't eviscerate our friends. The next speaker is Kelly Hammergan. Kelly, you should be able to speak. Okay, thank you. I thought about coming in tonight to speak in person, but I didn't think what I had to say would make any difference with this council. But I do wanna express my disappointment on two measures that are being removed from consideration. One is the dark skies ordinance. And I don't think there's an understanding in this council of what a dark skies ordinance is. When this was presented to council, the presentation was quite disappointing. But the first dark skies ordinance from the city was in 1958 of Flagstaff, Arizona. And that was to allow sighting of the universe. But dark sky's ordinance now is supports biodiversity. And what seems to get lost is that in order to support biodiversity, we actually need dark skies because of the insects and animals that are active at night and all the bright light that we have in the cities, disturbs the natural ego systems and biodiversity. It's also been found through research that birds, especially young birds on their first migration, are drawn to cities and land and cities where there's nothing for them to eat to refresh and make the rest of their migrating journey. And they will be attracted to the light in cities even when there are preserves nearby. And so this is this is very disturbing that this is being lost. And the other one that's being lost is pollinators and habitat when butterflies go away, will you ask what happened. I just don't think that any of you understand the importance of the urban setting. And so, Kelly, I'm sorry your time is up. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker is Cameron will. Cameron, you should be able to unmute. Okay, thank you very much, council and the mayor for a lot. I mean to speak. name is Cameron Wu. I'm on the Civic Arts Commission and I was recently voted to chair that commission. I speak to you tonight as a Berkeley resident and concerned community member and also as a Civic Arts Commissioner in support of the items that the commission has approved to send to the council in your referrals. I'm writing to your Chief to give you a high ranking to the referrals we've made to the affordable housing for its for artists. numbers dm and 0 0 0 4184, or the Affordable Housing for Artists in response to AB 812 implementation and cultural districts, and statutory standardization. Also, number 4101, which represents the development of Artists Affordable Housing Certificate Program. Also number 41-01, which represents the development of artists affordable housing certificate program. I think we all agree that the diversity of arts in the city found in Berkeley is a major contributor to our community and contributes greatly to the city culturally and economically. But because of the high price of living in Berkeley, artists are being forced out. This impacts our widespread and felt particularly by artists of color and culture bearers from Berkeley's diverse communities. So what do we do? We can all work towards affordable housing for artists. And these referrals just do just that. So please consider ranking them much higher than you have shown in the attachments. Without you support the effort to provide affordable housing for low income artists, in Berkeley will languish and not make it to the finish line. I'm sorry, but your time is up. Thank you for your comments. Our next speaker is Kelly DeWolf. Kelly, you should be able to speak. Hi, thank you, Mayor and members of council. I'm here as a Berkeley worker and I work in affordable housing. And I just wanted to urge council to reconsider removal of the community opportunity purchase act item. Not only has COPA been strongly advocated for from the community, but it is crucial for preserving affordable housing important and very important and very important and very important and very important and very important and very important and very important and very important and very important and very important and very next speaker is Kim Anow. Kim, you should be able to speak. Good evening, City Council. Thank you so much for the hard work that you do, especially in the dark times that we have. I'm speaking about artist affordable housing and the critical need for this kind of housing in Berkeley. It is still illegal to build artist affordable units on the ground floor. And I just want to read a quote by a developer, a mere messy. He says, quote, in particular, allowing ground floor live work units to satisfy the affordable housing requirements for new developments creates opportunities to activate the ground floor of buildings that might otherwise sit vacant for years. So what I'm saying is, artist affordable housing doesn't just benefit the desperate artists, but it also benefits developers. The time is now we need to act on this measure. We need to move the artist affordable housing effort up. And we've been working on it for 10 years in the civic arts commission of which now I'm a citizen and not a commissioner, but I just wanted to let you know that now is really critical that we preserve the arts and cultural people who are arts workers and artists in the city of Berkeley and I yield back by time. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Our next speaker is Sophia DeWitt.a, you should be able to speak. Good evening, Mayor and City Council. Please pardon, I've been fighting a cold. I'm here to speak against the removal of the Coba atopa item. And I just want to remind council that on page E29 in Appendix E of the City's approved housing element under the section that relates to affirmatively furthering fair housing, the City has listed COPA or TOPPA as a high priority action to deal with displacement, particularly of vulnerable communities, communities of color and others. And so because it is listed in that way in the housing element, even though it's not a full program, it's not as easy or as simple as just removing the item or deciding you don't want to prioritize it for referral. It's part of something in the document that you said to the state that you were going to work on. So in addition to the community advocacy for that item, I hope you will also remember that it's a key part of the housing element. Thank you so much. Thank you. Are there any other comments online? There are our next speaker is Jasmine Sasi. Jasmine, you should be able to speak. Thank you. Can you hear me? Yes, you're a little quiet, but we can't hear you. Is it a little louder now? Yes. Good evening, Mary. She and council members. My name is Jasmine Sozi and I'm the board president of the Bay Area Community Land Trust and the program manager of the Community Economic Justice Clinic at the East Bay Community Law Center. I come before you today to urge you to keep the tenant opportunity to purchase act as a priority for the city in 2025 and to also maintain a strong focus on the equity for Black Berkeley initiative. These policies are vital to ensuring that our residents are not left behind and they work together to support our community in the in the fight against displacement. Topa gives tenancy opportunity to collectively purchase their homes and preserve affordable housing in the face of an extractive and volatile market. With home values rising at an unsustainable rates that's 53 in the last eight years alone, TOPA offers a crucial mechanism to keep long time residents in their homes. These are not just policies, they're lifelines for those who are most vulnerable to being priced out in our neighborhoods and we must prioritize protecting those tenants, not removing those vital protections, especially in the climate of rising housing costs and increased gentrification. I want to affirm my support for the equity for Black Berkeley initiative as well and say that we cannot afford to backtrack now. These are policies that support our residents, protect our communities and give our neighbors a fighting chance in the face of displacement. We must bulk up on protections, not strip them away, and these policies work hand in hand to do just that. Please keep Toba and the equity for Black Berkeley initiative on the table and make them priorities for 2025. Thank you. Thank you. All right, our next speaker is Haley Harba. If you should be able to speak. Hello, can everyone hear me? Yes. Hi, I apologize if there's any background noise. I'm currently in transit to the meeting you're at right now. My name's Avery. I'm a board member of the East Bay Stonewall Democratic Club, the Wealthstone Democratic Renewal Club and the Berkeley Tenants Union and the head of the Berkeley Tenant Organizing Task Force. I'm here today to speak in favor of COPA-slash-TOPPA and against its removal from the list of important pieces of legislation that we can get about our resources too. Largely because it has a proven track record elsewhere of making housing more affordable and equitable for the residents of the cities with similar proposals implemented. In Berkeley, I want to bring your guys of the tension to success stories of tenant ownership of housing. The ninth street cooperatives which were founded by a tenants union who bought the property off of the landlord in 1978 and the Solano Avenue cooperatives, which was were able to more recently by housing from their landlords. I think now, especially with the success of measure BB and the ability for attendance to organize in a more effective way than they have in decades. We need to be looking into the opportunities that these kinds of programs offer to tenants who want permanent affordability and community management of their housing. I encourage you to support COPA slash Topha in a post-it's removal today and I thank you very much Mayor and Council members for your time. Good time is that thank you. Thanks for your comment. I just want to check how many more folks because I also see that we have another person here. Those are last speaker on Zoom. Okay. Yeah, you can come up to the podium. Thank you. Good evening, Berkeley Mayor and City Council. My name is Vanita Golem, an independent writer. My first response to removing Copa Tupa's study to film from and by the City Council was that it was a harsh move. And then I found my reaction characterized in this the up times opert from the weekend. The answer to a politics of scarcity is a politics of abundance, a politics that asks, what is it that people really need and then organizes government to make sure there is enough of it. The peace argues that sometimes the government has to get out of the way and sometimes it has to take a central role creating markets or organizing resources for risky technologies that do not yet exist. In the ongoing chaos unfolding in DC, the writer remarks that it is important to prove the superiority of our own political movement. If Liberals do not want Americans to turn to the false promise of strong men, they need to offer the fruits of effective government. I would add that an effective government in Berkeley should for one also question who the city they are building is ultimately serving. And I'm reminded yet again of the words of a friend, Should our systems only favor people who have capital whether they are part of the community or not. Please do not remove the Cobra Tupa referral from the process tonight. Thanks for your consideration. Thank you for your comments. Are there any other public comments? And here's that so that is our last speaker. Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much. Do we have a presentation from our city click? Yes, thank you, Mayor. My name is Mark Newmanville on the city clerk for the city of Berkeley. And we just have a very short presentation on this item. So this is part one of the reweighted range voting process that we use for prioritizing the referrals to the city manager from the city council. and today in the presentation, I'll just give a very brief overview of our RV. Like I said, it stands for re-weighted range voting. Then the council will have a chance to review the items that were marked or sort of nominated for removal from the referral list. And then then I'll describe the action that's requested from the council today. So re-weighted range voting, also known as RRB, is a system where each council member rates every referral on the list from 0 to 5, 0 being the lowest level of support and 5 being the highest level of support, using our service now online portal. There's no limit to the scores that a council member can give as far as repeat scores. You can get everything up five, everything is zero, any mix thereup. After this meeting, when we've decided on which referrals are going to be removed from the list, then the raw scores will all be tallied in the algorithm and there will be a top priority, the referral that received the highest score. Then for the remaining referrals, after the first one is identified as number one, for the remaining referrals, the scores are re-weighted based on how much influence each council member has used up in their voting to that point. And the process keeps repeating itself after the second priority is assigned, third part is signed fourth and all the way down the list. So that's a very short description of how the process actually works. The process from the legislative point of view, the council submits referrals to the agenda process. The council adopts the referral. The city manager has the authority to categorize the referral as long term, short term, or urgent. We add the long-term referrals to the list for this RRV prioritization process. In short-term referrals, those are started, work on those as started right away. Then Council has their annual process for scoring the long-term list using RRV. And then that gives the city manager a final ranked list of the council priorities for the referrals. And then when when staff completes a referral, it's reported back to the city council, either through an item on the city council agenda or perhaps through an off agenda memo. Which are also posted on the website. So in the agenda packet. Attachment one shows the raw scores for each referral that was assigned by each of the council members and the mayor. where no rating is assigned the default, the score defaults to zero. An attachment to those are the referrals that were nominated to be removed from the list, and then attachment three has some very brief summary data on the referrals that have been adopted and in various stages of the process to date. From 2014 to 2024, there were 557 city council referrals to the city manager. 299 of those are long term. 154 were short term and another 104 originated from commissions, but were referred to the city manager. In that time, city staff has completed 145 long term referrals and 134 short term referrals and 62 commission referrals. So that leaves a number still pending of 76 long-term referrals, 15 short-term referrals and 31 commission referrals. So there's been a lot in and a lot out over the past 10 years, and it's reflected there in that summery data. So, the action for this meeting is to review the list of referrals marked removal and to vote on which referrals the full council would actually like to remove from the list. Then to direct staff to run the RRV algorithm and then that will enable that will enable me to present the final ranked list back to you on March 25th for adoption. And that is the presentation. Thank you. Thank you. I have some questions, but I wanna open it up to the rest of council to see if anyone else has questions. Or comments? Okay, guests, council member Loonapara. Thank you. I have one question. How was each referral who was that was marked for removal? How was it decided whether or not it was marked for removal? So when the when each councilmember and the mayor went into the service now portal, any council number of the mayor could check the box to nominate any referral to be on the list to be removed. So that's how it got on the marked for removal list. So if anyone council member marked an item as removal, that means that it automatically is on the list for removal. Yes. Okay. Thank you. And follow up question to that. And then if that's okay, Councilmember Triggums, since it's connected, if we don't want an item to be removed, we can have that conversation here. Can you just tell us a little bit about what that process looks like, just to make sure we're on the same page. Sure. So it sort of depends on, sort of depends on the council and how much unanimity there is in what should be removed. It could be, you know, a motion could be to remove all of these except for A, B, and C or something like that. If there's certain referrals that have a lot of disagreement, you could have maybe an individual vote on each one of those as to whether or not to remove them. I would not recommend doing individual motions and votes on all 20 of them. Hopefully there's at least a group that the council agrees could be removed. So it might be easier to vote on some certain exceptions or outliers separately. Thank you. That's helpful. Council member Trayka. Yeah, thank you. This may be a question to ask later in the process. It is on a specific item. And I think this would be to the city manager. Is this the appropriate time or should I wait? Uh, city manager. That's one question. Yeah. I'm open for questions, but we'll see what it is. It may be there's a better talk for it. I don't know. Yeah, why don't you go ahead and ask your question. I won't have a better sense. Yeah, this is on item 3807, uh, polymators and habitat, which was one of the 20 items left for removal. And I wanted to say, I don't know if, um, Jordan is on the line, um, available, but just wanted to say, I don't know if Jordan is on the line available, but just wanted to see if stuff could provide an update on the extent to which the this item may have already been implemented through other mechanisms. Yeah, I would need to talk to staff about, to what extent this item might have been integrated into some work. I know that some of the adopt spot work has happened with pollinator gardens in different parts of the city. I don't know. Yeah. So what plan director might have? Some additional information about that. Yeah, and that's not something that's been in planning developments more planning. I don't think it was in parks. Yeah. I know it's been some previous work on like be friendly landscapes and and things like that, but it may not be specifically related to this to this referral. Thank you. And something else I just want to make sure it's clear to folks is that these are not all the items that the city is working on generally, that there are many, many more things that the city is working on. These are just things that have not been started yet. Is that correct? That's correct. Yes. So the referrals on this list, no work has been started on these specific referrals. When city staff starts working on a referral, it gets converted to a project in service now. And that's on a separate list that is not subject to the prioritization process because we've already started working on it. Great. Thank you. I just want to make sure that folks understand because this process generally can be confusing for some people. So thank you. Other comments or questions? I'm sorry, Councilmember Humber. I didn't see your hand there. Thank you. Very much, Madam Mayor. I'm still kind of wrestling with how to do this in an elegant way without voting on each one individually, which I think would be very cumbersome and in elegant. And I do sort of like the idea of someone bringing emotion to eliminate each of the items with certain exceptions. And if that's the case, if that's the way we want to do it, I have a motion that could be subject to friendly amendments, but I have a motion that I could make in that regard. I think that would be great actually Council Member Humbert because it'll give us an opportunity to have something to work off of. And then also I see that we've got a couple of other comments as well. And if I could just jump in for one quick second. So the attachment to that's the referrals marked for removal that in the agenda item that is sorted by meeting date from the most recent meeting date back to the farthest previous. So that might be the easiest way to refer to an item by the title and then by the meeting date that would probably be the easiest way to find it on the list. Right. As opposed to reading out the whole number. I think that's a good idea. Thank you. I go ahead councilmember humbler. Pardon I should have taken down my hand but what I can say is I have a list in front of me but it doesn't have the meeting date. So it would be hard for me to make a motion referencing the meeting name. Okay. Okay. Um, in that case perhaps maybe we should go through some of these other comments in case someone else has a motion they'd like to bring. Is that all right councilmember Humbert? Sure. Okay. Let's move on to councilmember Lino Parra then please. Thank you. I don't have an emotion, but I wanted to talk about the Public Bank Espoe viability study, which is from April 11, 2023. This is something that the friends of the public bank have been working on and will not be possible to implement until we have a new presidential administration. I don't know if there's any way that we could kind of put a pause on this items that it's not on any list, but it's not necessarily entirely removed until there's until it's even possible to get a public bank done. So so I think that my understanding the FDIC doesn't it won't let us start a public maker now. Sorry, can you say that? Sorry, yeah. The FDIC at the federal level won't let us start a public think right now under the current presidential administration. Okay, council member, if you have a comment, you can, you're welcome to press your button. I just want to make sure also it's clear that if an item is on there and it's even if it's ranked as a zero, it'll still stay on the list. Yes, so. Perhaps that addresses your concern. Yes, if it's removed, it's removed, could always be reintroduced at a future date. But if it stays on the list, it will come back on next year's list to be scored and ranked. Thank you. That's helpful. Does that answer your question too? Yeah, thank you. Okay, and Council Member Trayk, I've got a few comments on here, and I do would love to have a motion on it. I may have a motion subject to amendments. Although the dates part, I'm gonna do a global search. So where would I, or do this? Whatever works. I move that we keep and do not remove the following items. Item 4197, topa, topa, and bear with me for one moment while I search for the date. 930, 2020, 24 is the date. I have 4188. This is the city density bonus with foil from the planning commission from 20th 530 2017. Thank you. Amendments to BNC 23 C22 short term grantees. Dated July 9, 2024. Berkeley Green New Deal, Environmental Justice environmental justice and workforce dated 12 3 20 24 The hard hats referral dated May 2, 2023. Almost done. Barkley for the end of the end of the 7th, 2023. And. I think until we get a clear answer as to whether. That this referral has been completed. stated. it would be prudent to also keep as not flagged for removal pollinators and habitat dated 924, 2019 and then the motion would include removal of all other items including one of my items from a commission 11 years ago. Okay, so there're okay. So if I get your motion correctly, so you are would like to remove all the items, except for the ones that you listed. Is that correct? Yes. Okay. Thank you. And is there a second? A second from Council Member Bartlett. So the next person who's on our list here is Councilmember Oki. Oh good. It was saying one and then it was saying 32. So I'm glad I was actually in the queue. Thank you, Councilmember Treku for making that motion. It's good. I'm a good person to follow you. I want to just articulate my orientation towards this process, which is, so like none of these referrals are bad or evil. Like, there's not one of them that I think, like, oh my god, we have to get rid of that. It's terrible. These are all things that passed council. So I'm of the opinion that any one of these that are slated for a removal that somebody wants to speak up for, I'm fine with. If that makes sense. Like I just, I don't feel like I want to go against somebody who feels strongly if they want to keep it because they're all. You know, some of them can avoid me or whatever, but I think, you know, these, this is these were passed in a. And so I'm happy to support the motion, but that's one of their articulate that is one way I'm looking at it. Like somebody wants it. Let's keep it. It's fine. Okay. Thank you. I see that, I know that Council Member Humbert has his hand about it. I don't know when it came up, because Councilmember Kessar-Wani has also been waiting. So if we could take Councilmember Kessar-Wani and then Councilmember Bartlett and then Councilmember Humber, our little parliamentarian over here is not keeping track right now. So if we could take Councilmember Kester Wani and then Councilmember Bartlett and then Councilmember Humbert our little Parliamentarian over here is not keeping track right now. So It's up to me. Go ahead Councilmember Yes, thank you very much Madam Mayor and thank you mr. City clerk for the presentation and thank you to my colleagues for taking the time to indulge this someone arcane ranking process and I actually I just want to level set and say the reason that we have to do this process is because the city clerk, as he noted, what was it? Over 500 referrals. I mean, to have that many work requests of our city staff is untenable. And it's very concerning because it speaks to a lack of prioritization. And so what we are trying to do here is to have key priorities so that our planning department, our public works department, some of our most impacted departments, you know, think about public works. We had two people die on our streets recently. So I want to give these departments the clear direction they need to know what this council. And hence the city prioritizes. So I actually think it's important to remove as many of these items that were nominated for removal as possible. I'm also looking at how many points these items got. Respectfully, Council Member Trigger, I think some of the ones you're proposing to keep got very few points. So, I can't support that motion. So I'm gonna put forward a substitute motion to remove everything except three from the removal list. And I don't have it by dates or numbers. We can pull those out. So the three I proposed keep are the the up zoning associated with hard hats, the the no right turn on red and the prioritizing pedestrians at intersections. You'll notice those are about housing, creating more homes in our downtown where they should be and protecting pedestrians and bicyclists on our streets. And I think those are two really high priorities. And I just don't think it's practical or reasonable to keep some of these things here that are just honestly not going to happen. So that's my motion. Second. Thank you. Okay. Councilmember Bartlett. Thank you. My question is regarding the the farm proposal. So this was the only item referred to OED, tears in a row. And it seems as if it should be removed since it's the only one on their plate. And it addresses, you know, economic development and food resilience, a new vision for it, which we see happening more and more. It's tariffs. The images called forth in the language of the item, the car coming true. So I think it shouldn't be too much of a lift to just execute some of the calls in the item. Okay. Council member Humboldt, did you ever hand up earlier? I did, Madam Mayor. I was gonna make the motion that council member. Okay. Council member Humber, did you have your hand up earlier? I did, Madam Mayor. I was going to make the motion that council member. Because our money just made. That's why I seconded it. Smart minds think alike. Okay. Was that. Did you have anything? That's it. Thank you. Okay. I'm going to reserve my self a spot as well at the end of that. Thank you. I just have one process question. So for. Or an item that is a commissioner for all. If an item on this list is currently unscuddled at a commission. What would happen to that item where it to be flat firmable? Oh, well, I think we would inform the commission that the council has removed it from this list for prioritization. So yeah. Right, but that would not preclude one of us or several of us from reintroducing an item I would rate. Correct. Yeah, anything that's removed from this list could be reintroduced, revised, you know, down the line. Thank you very much. Okay. How's the member Traycub. Yeah, thank you. So this is my first time doing this process, but kind of my standard for removing something is one, if it has been overcome by events, two, if the substance of the work has already been done, three, if it is not able to be implemented as written, which, that commission item from 11 years ago, it has been probably ranked highly on all three of them, which is why I'm flagging my own item for removal from 11 years ago. I appreciate Council Member Kessar-Wani's point. I too very much care about pedestrian safety and safe infrastructure. I just want to note that I appreciate this process because the RV, like our prioritization will determine the rankings. And if something is not a high priority, then it will just not get done on this year's work plan. I would be very open however to amend my motion to include the two items that were not listed in my motion. I don't have the item numbers or dates but it was the the no right turn on the red and pedestrian on intersections if I understood correctly and I would be very open to that. Okay. I had reserved myself a spot but I do want to hear from Council Member Blackby. Also again, sorry our parliamentarian system is not working right now. So yeah, just try to give me a wave and I'll add you to our list. I'll be fast. Apologies to my colleagues. I clearly went to an institution of higher learning with rampant grade inflation because you'll notice that a lot of mine. I felt bad to rank anything as a zero. So anyway, but I generally support where customer Kessuani is on this. I think, I think is a little bit better. I think it also gives us more opportunity in the months ahead to establish the priorities and the referrals that we want based on what's currently, what are the issues that are currently facing the city and making sure that those get a priority. So again, I'm sympathetic to all the arguments and discussions here, but I do agree that I think leaner may be better. I support the items that Councillor McKessor-Wanney added. I also appreciated Councillor Barcliffe's argument on the farm item since OED. I think that might be the only item on the OED list that's marked for deletion. And similarly, if their queue is relatively small and not jammed up by a bunch of other items, including it back on the keep list, I'd be willing to support. So again. So I'll take that as a friendly amendment to my motion to accept, I believe it is Berkeley Food Utility and Access Resilience Measure. It's the 2023 June 27th. Yes, okay. So I have four now for keeping with that item. And I think Council Member Bartlett, you had wanted that one. I'm just noting that I'm adding the farm item to my four for keeping. Thank you. Okay. That was my comment, but I appreciate the discussion and thanks to colleagues. And I second that, Friend Lehmann. Okay, so I would like to just make a couple of comments. One is that one of the reasons why I had ranked the hard hats for removal was because after I'd spoken with staff, they had said that this was kind of made moot by the state level legislation. And so that's why I had had marked that one for removal, not because it's not important, but just because it would be accomplished by the state level. And then the other thing I was going to ask was for the Berkeley green new deal council member, sorry, Council Rittapplin. If you wouldn't mind just speaking briefly if there was anything you felt that needed to stay. And also that I do really feel that we should keep Topa and Copa on here as well. So go ahead Councilman. Thank you. I'm sorry folks. I know there's a lot of people out there but if you could just keep it down just a little bit because if you want to speak outside that's totally fine just we're trying to get through this this kind of meaty piece right here. Thank you. Yeah, so the green door for all is referral to the ECC to return recommendations to staff for to develop a workforce to propose a workforce development board as part of the adoption of our environmental justice element because that is ultimately a referral that would terminate in an action relative to the adoption of the EJ element. I would not have a problem making that recommendation a pined option of the element via supplemental once it comes back to Council. Okay, so you're okay with the items removal. I just wanted to confirm. Yes. Okay. Okay. Great. Thank you. So, you know, I'm wondering if Councilmember Kessner-Wani would be open to friendly amendment of including Topa Copa on there. And thenani would be open to a friendly amendment of including Topa Copa on there and then that would make five items to be removed from the removal list. No, I don't accept that one. Okay. Are there any other comments? Do you want to do want to speak more to any reasoning behind that? Yes, I can speak to that. You know, this has been a policy that has been under consideration for. and the council has had opportunity to consider it and has not taken it. The last time the council considered this, they, they, they chickened out and just did a referral. That's why it's back on here. I think we need to just be clear with the community that the support is not there for this idea. So that's why I can't accept the TOPA proposal. Thank you, Council Member Trigger. I appreciate the point, but I will just note that the TOPA COPA, or I guess now the COPA item ranked quite highly on the list. And so that's another reason I agree with the mayor about retaining that. And I would be willing to withdraw my motion to make a new substitute motion that includes the five items and I may just need some help from the mayor to make sure all of them are included. sure. So if I can, what I heard, and I'm so sorry, we don't have all of these items listed clearly, but it's the hard hats, the no right turn on red, pedestrians at intersections, food item, and then topa-copa. Yeah, I would be, that will be my new motion if there's a second. And can we need? I think that's fine. I think that's fine. I think that's fine. I think that's fine. I think that's fine. I think that's fine. I think that's fine. I think that's fine. I think that's fine. I think that's fine. I think that's fine. I think that's fine. I think that's fine. I think that's fine. I think that's fine. I think that's fine. That just those five items, then. Okay. Is there a second? Well, second. We have a main motion in a substitute. Sorry. Say again. We have a main motion in a substitute motion pending. He had also removed his mic with whom I mean. He withdrew his initial motion. And he substitutes. Well, if he withdraws the main motion, then the substitute motion that doesn't automatically become the main motion. It's just counts number of tri-groups item is now the new main motion. His new item is his new motion is the new motion is sorry. new motion is now the motion the main motion motion again. Okay. Could you repeat your. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, sorry. So the question is I think can you repeat what your new motion would be. And if you'd like help with that, I'm happy to help with that as well. Yes, let me see if I have it. Madam Mayor, no right turn on the red. Pedestrian on intersections, hard hats, Copa and the farm bill, the farm item. So. Okay, and Councilmember Luna Parra. Thank you. I want to do one friendly amendment for the telegraph density bonus referral. It's from meeting from the 2017 May 30th meeting.'s a city density bonus for the telegraph avenue commercial district to generate and loofies that could be used to build housing for homeless and extremely low income residents and also provided density bonus for new housing. And this is something that in our conversations with staff they they were excited to work on. Do you accept that, friends? Yes, I accept. Oh, second. Okay. So, oh, Council member, if you accept that, okay, well, I'm sorry. Yes. Yeah, I think we don't need a sorry for that one. Sorry about that. Council member, Oh, Cat, Tathlin, do you just remove your? Okay, go ahead, Council member Kester Wani. So, you know, obviously I have strong opinions about this, but I didn't realize Council member Trega, your new offer that has greatly reduced the number that you're keeping, even though it has topa, Copa and Madame Mayor. I know I rejected it from you, but I don't think it's worth fighting over this. We're very close. And so I'd like to withdraw my substitute motion. Okay. So then the motion on the table, it only is removing the hard hats, no right turn on red pedestrians at intersections, food item, copatopa and density bonus. We are moving from the removal list. Is that correct? Is everyone clear on that? That's one, two, three, four, five, six. Six items for reinclusion. Thank you. So taking them off that removal list. How are you feeling? OK. Shall we? Sorry, do you want to say something, Councilmember Tapplin? I just want to just say for everyone that just because these items are being removed from the list of items, for removal does not mean that they will be ultimately ranked highly. So I just want to set the expectation. Thank you. Yeah, I think that that's a really good point. And yeah, just generally anything on this list, I think folks need to have realistic expectations that we only can accomplish what we have the funding and the people and the resources for. So I think that that's a really good point. And I really just want to thank everyone for your willingness to be flexible here. I know it's kind of a chunky process and I'm really grateful for everyone's input here. Yes, Councilmember Kessler-Wani. Yes, just Mr. City Clerk, if you could just clarify. So we kept, we're keeping these six or so. So you'll just look at how they scored and put them into the ranking that you're going to do tomorrow. Is that how it will work? Yes, I mean, nothing has nothing has been removed yet in the service now portal. So the six that you're keeping will just stay in and the 14 that are being removed. Those those are off the list and do not factor in to the final ranked list. Right. Okay. Okay. So I think that's also important as well in terms of things we might be keeping that we didn't necessarily rank highly. That will show up and we'll do tomorrow. Okay, thank you so much. Thank you. Okay, I think that we are ready for a vote. Can we call roll please? Yes, and just to confirm, so this is approving the removal of the withdrawals as amended and also directing the city manager to run the ranking algorithm. Is that correct? Yes, I do think we should put them all together. Yes, I will incorporate that into the motion. Thank you. Okay. All right. So on the motion, council member, okay. I'm sorry, council member Kelserwani Apoljee. Yes. Yes. Chaplin? Yes. Bartlett? Yes. Trigup? Aye. Okay. Yes, Black Blackaby. Yes, Luna Parra. Yes, Humbert. Yes, Mary Eishi. Yes. Motion passes. Wonderful. Thank you all so much. Yes. Thank you. I think that's where I find the plots. All right. Thank you all. I really appreciate it. Very grateful that we are able to move forward with this process. And is there a motion wait? No, we need to keep it open because no, we do need a motion to adjourn. Thank you. So moved. Okay. If there's no opposition to that, then we are going to call the roll. That's right. We have Council Member Humbert online. Thank you. So sorry. Please take the roll. And we will be taking a 20 minute break because we need some time between meetings. And I will be coming out and speaking to folks in a minute. Okay. To adjourn. Council Member Kessor One. Yes. Chaplin. Yes. Barglet. Yes. Traygup. I. Hokey. Yes. Black and B. Yes. Munipplin. Yes. Parklet. Yes. Traygup. Aye. Okie. Yes. Blackaby. Yes. Munipara. Yes. Humber. Yes. And Mary Eashie. Yes. Meeting is adjourned. Thank you all. Recording stopped. But any of you like.