is going. Okay, good evening. We're about to start this evening's Berkeley City Council meeting of people. Please take their seats. And vice mayor Wanga, are you on Zoom? Yes, I am. Hey, great. Good evening. I'd like to call to order the regular meeting of the Berkeley City Council for Tuesday, October 1st, 2024. And the first order of businesses roll call. I'd like to ask the city clerk to please call the roll. Got some member Kessar Wani here. Adlin present. Bartlett is absent. Trigger. Pesent. Con. Pesent. Lengraff. Present. Luna Paura. Here. Humbert, present and Mayor Errigin. Present. Okay. Quorum is present. Thank you. and mayor Erdogan. Okay. Okay. Okay. Quarmer's present. Thank you. As we begin our meeting tonight, I'd like to read a few announcements. First, the city council met in closed session yesterday, September 30, 2024, and took the following actions. Regarding item one, the city council met in closed session, pursuant to government code section 549-56.92, and provided direction to outside council and approved a stipulated settlement, a permanent disability with an award of lifetime future medical care, or in the alternative by compromising release with a release of future medical care as to the workers compensation numbers, ADJ1939, 1581, and ADJ15774154. The City Council also meant closed session, pursuant to government code section 54956.92, and provided direction outside council and approved a stipulated settlement, a permanent disability within a ward of lifetime future medical care, as to a workers compensation matter case numbers, ADJ, 1-1-2-5-1-9-4-3, ADJ, 1-4-3-5-9-8-4-8, and ADJ, 1-9-0- 8, and 80J 19087904. Lastly, the City Council met in close session and provide direction outside council and approved a stipulated settlement of permanent disability with an award of lifetime future medical care or in the alternative by compromise release as to a workers compensation matter WCAB case numbers, ADJ 15258918 and ADJ 15259424. Next, welcome everyone to Knights Meeting of the Berkeley City Council to allow for full participation by all members of the community and to ensure that important city business is able to be conducted, we ask that all attendees conduct themselves the city council meeting. We are looking at the city council meeting. We are looking at the city council meeting. We are looking at the city council meeting. We are looking at the city council meeting. We are looking at the city council meeting. We are looking at the city council meeting. We are looking at the city council meeting. We are looking at the city council meeting. We are looking at the city council meeting. 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Oh, thank you. Before we do that, and it is appropriate that we do this before we go to ceremonial matters. I'd like to read our land acknowledgement. And several years ago, the City Council passed a policy to read our land acknowledgement at the beginning of our city council meeting. And so it's my pleasure to read this land acknowledgement, particularly given in just a few weeks we will be commemorating Indigenous people's day in the city of Berkeley. The city of Berkeley recognizes that the community that we live in was built on the territory of Huchun, the ancestral unceded land of the Chichenos speaking aloni people, the ancestors and descendants of the sovereign Verona Band of aloney people, the ancestors and descendants of the sovereign Verona band of Alameda County. This land was and continues to be of great importance to all of the Alonie tribes and descendants of the Verona band. As we begin our meeting tonight, we acknowledge and honor the original inhabitants of Berkeley, the documented 5,000 year history of a vibrant community at the West Berkeley Shell Mount, and the Alonie people who continue to reside here in the East Bay. We recognize that Berkeley's residents have and continue to benefit from the use and occupation of this unseated storm land since the City of Berkeley's incorporation in 1878. As stewards of the laws regulating the city of Berkeley, it is not only vital that we recognize the history of this land, but we also recognize that the Alonie people and other Indigenous people are present members of Berkeley and other East Bay communities still to this day. The city of Berkeley will continue to build relationships with the Lijon and other tribes and create meaningful actions to uphold the intention of this land acknowledgement. So we'll go back to ceremonial matters and we have one proclamation that we will be presenting tonight and that is in recognition and commemoration of Indigenous People's Day in the city of Berkeley. And I know we had members of the Indigenous People's Day P, Powell committee here tonight, and if you can please join us up about the podium. And I will be reading this proclamation and presenting it to you on behalf of the City of Berkeley. And just say that this is the 32nd year that the City of Berkeley has recognized Indigenous Peoples Day. We were the first city in the United States to recognize Indigenous people's day. And I think today's recognition is all the more significant given the action we took just a few months ago to acquire and to remitrate the West Berkeley Shell mound to the Lejon tribe, to ensure it's continued stewardship by the first people who still live in the East Bay community. But we know that there are many tribes and many people of a digits background. I have indigenous roots myself. And so we're really proud to be able to recognize Indigenous People's Day and to continue our efforts to recognize and celebrate our rich indigenous culture and history here in the East Bay. So I'm proud to read this proclamation tonight. The last time I'll read as Mayor Berkeley. Whereas the year 2024 marks the 32nd anniversary of Indigenous Peoples Day in the city of Berkeley, in commemoration of 532 years of resistance and renewal of native cultures in the face of political and cultural repression. And whereas the Indigenous People's Day Committee, a community group of local native people and supporters have once again organized the annual celebration with an Indigenous People's Day powwow in Indian market in Martin Luther King, Civic City Park on Saturday, October 12th. And whereas the indigenous culture, flourishing here since the time of the immemorial, was a sustainable, peaceful culture and based on cooperation among neighbors on respect for the land and for all the creatures living on it. And this indigenous culture was disrupted and destroyed here as in almost all parts of this headings here and yet it still survives. And whereas the Indigenous People's State Palau, an Indian market, has brought greater understanding to the people of Berkeley, regarding native cultures and the enormous contributions they make and continue to make to world culture. Now therefore be it resolved that I just yet again the mayor of the city of Berkeley to hereby proclaim Monday, October 14, 2024 as Indigenous People's Day in the city of Berkeley. We recognize and encourage all members of our community to attend the 32nd annual Indigenous People's Day powwow on Saturday, October 12, starting at 10 a.m. in Martin Luther King Junior Civic Center Park. and our City Council extends its sincere gratitude to everyone who's organized this annual celebration and our sincere gratitude to the native people on behalf of the City of Berkeley and recognition of the indigenous care for this lamb in an honor of indigenous culture and philosophy which is needed now more than ever for our planet to survive. So thank you for being here. I'm happy to present this proclamation, giving opportunity to say a few words and announce the event and and thank you so much for your ongoingo Baricello, Chajujoferoz, Estimus Cogueroz. It's just Walghe Malegeros. My name is Geno Baricello. I'm a member of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma. And I'm the coordinator for Indigenous People's Day here in Berkeley. I've been the coordinator probably going on about 15, 16 years. So I've seen a lot of the faces here on the council and good to see new faces. See the mayor support us. We want to say thank you for your continued support. We wanted to welcome everybody to come and be with, be a part of our celebration this year on October the 12th. Saturday, it's a free event. It's open to the public, familyfriendly, no drugs, no alcohol. So we're out there to celebrate our continued survival and contributions to, to hear with the East Bay. So I wanted to say thank you for your continued support. My cousin here has a ceremonial song she'd like to sing. So, Arlin, I'm going to welcome you up. Gian Tamu, Tia Chifiro. Arlin, you know, it's my cousin. I'm from the Civil War Tribal Florida. And we are cousins. This is my my English cousin. I'm guessing the Muscogee National Anthem really. I have no. It's a him no call. I mean, a little union. and Hello, young man. God, please, hello, hello, Looner. Make us a code, give me my book, please, hello, hello, Hallelujah, hallelujah, make us a cogimum, El El Mujadja, Hey, Kakrins, El El El Lujan, El El Lujan, Kakrins, El El Lujan, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell, Hell Echennachogime, my n'a bookies, Helle, Helle, So it meets him and there are more lyrics. The beginning is that we're all singing together. So at the stoneground grounds or at church, when you call, you call into, we are all singing together. The other verses are, we are calling the children, we are calling the grandparents, we are calling the animals, the wind, and all of our relatives. So, Muno, thank you, Shunabisha. Muno, hope to see you all there. Our celebration October the 12th. No. Get a picture of the virus. Yeah, I don't wear on the mirror. Thank you so much. It was already. You know, Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So that completes so monomatters and I'll now turn over the city manager Paul Bunegan asked if he has any comments for the council of the public this evening. No comments tonight Mr Mayor. Okay, thank you. So I'd like to ask, you name us consent that we reorder the non-agent of public comment to go first to public comment from employee unions, which we conduct the first meeting of each month. And Mr. Clerk with any? Yes, I'm John Smith, I go to Smith on the attendees. Okay, so I've been informed by the city clerk that there is a representative from SCIU-10-1 P-T-R-L-A CSU who would like to address the council as part of the public comment for employee union comment time. And so we'll go to Jocelyn Descente-Golt Smith now. Hi, good evening. Can you hear me? Yes, we can. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Good evening, Mr. Mayor Council and City Manager. Welcome. I am, my name is Jocelyn Goldsmith-Dessana. I am a City of Berkeley worker and public health. And I'm an officer of a co-ordinator in SEIU 1021 CSU-PTRLA chapter. If you'll forgive me, I don't really have very prepared remarks because I've been working all day and I don't want to remark about something that happens last night, late last night. The Peace and Justice Committee has passed a ceasefire resolution, which has been, you know, a long time in the making. And this is the position of my local SEIU-1021 to urge public officials to pass similar resolutions in this spirit. Our local represents over 60,000 workers in Northern California. And we, I know, I sound like a broken record. I know you all have heard me say this every month for almost a year. Or some, I siblings, same similar thing. But since in December, our local past resolution for ceasefire, humanitarian aid and to the occupation in Palestine. And part of that resolution states that we will urge elected officials to do the same. And so I am here tonight to uplift the passing of ceasefire resolution by the Peace and Justice Commission last night and to urge the agenda committee to put this on the agenda at the next meeting. I really sincerely hope that we do not see this get tied up in bureaucracy and needlessly delayed. It's been almost a year of genocide and our community is grieving not only for all of this horrible loss of human life in Israel and Palestine and Lebanon and Syria, etc. But also for the process that we're grieving for the process that we've been leading for our elected officials to follow as all of pretty much all of the cities around us have managed to do. So this is an and place it on the agenda for the next city council meeting. Thank you so much. Thank you. And Mr. Clark, were there any other. are officially designated representative of city of Berkeley employees that had requested to speak tonight. None that I've been aware of. I'll just do one last call. If there are any officially designated representatives of city of Berkeley employees, who'd like to address the council's part of our monthly public comment peer for employee unions, please raise your virtual hand, or if you're in the room come forward. And I don't see anyone else. Okay, so that completes that public comment period. We'll now proceed to public comment on non-agent matters. Persons will be selected to address matters not on the City Council agenda. The way we'll conduct this public comment period is the clerk is randomly selected five speaker cards for in-person speakers and then we'll go to five speakers on zoom. So I will now ask attendees on zoom if you would like to speak to an item that's not on tonight's city council agenda, please raise your virtual hand now. And if there are not five people on Zoom. We'll select more people for in person speakers. So once again, if you would like to speak to nine non the agenda, please raise your virtual hand. And so, depending on the number of speakers, if there are five or more speakers, each speaker will be a lot in one minute. If there's five or less, there's two minutes. And this is to address anything that's not on tonight's agenda. If you're here to speak tonight, I'm on the consent calendar or the action calendar, we look forward to your comments later on. We get to the consent and action items. So, Mr. Clerk, if you can please read the names selected. Okay. We have Paul, Kilo, Hublake, Andrea Henson, Eid, Pastor Derek, and Ian Cordoba Morales. Okay. Any of those names were called. Please come forward in a particular order. Looks like we have two on Zoom. And whoever would like to start. Thank you. And please state your name for the record. Hello, do you want to name? Yes. My name is Ian Court of Morales. I am the president and lead advocate of the organization. Where do we go based here in Berkeley Mr. Bartlett district number three. I'm here to bring up an incident that happened today over at the protest encampment that was established on Saturday over at old city hall and the Miller-Shirek building. A member of the city manager's staff, Miss Okea Van Dozer, Vance Dozer, came into the encampment and began kicking tents, opening up tents with the zippers and taking pictures of everybody's property inside. I know that she did this because I was there. I know that she did this because she did it to me. She took pictures of my property without my permission. She violated my privacy. And we have the whole thing on video. And I really think that the city council should and Mr. Paul Bootenhagen who I'm super happy to have here as a new city manager. I hope that you guys can reach out and talk to us instead of sending city employees to assault our tents and our property. We are always happy to talk. You know that because we come to weekly meetings with Peter Rado in the rest of the city, discussing homelessness issues and how to best help people. What happened today was completely irresponsible and I sincerely hope that it was not done with the permission of Paul Pudenhagen for Peter Radoom. Thank you. Thank you. So you you have the ledge that happened. I haven't seen the me, I would like to follow up on this. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. So Mr. Clerk, there are two people who raised their hand to speak on Zoom. Before we go to Ms. Henson, are there any other attendees on Zoom? We should speak to them. I am not on the agenda. Please raise your hand now. Okay. So Mr. Clerk, that's so can we select three other cards? That's all the cards. Those are all the cards. Okay. We have five. Okay, we'll take care of my awesome, though. So, let's go to Ms. Hansen and you've been waiting. Okay. Okay. All he will have like is going to see his time to me. Is that correct? Okay. So my name is Andrea Hanson. I'm a civil rights attorney in the area. And I did see the video. Mario Savio said there is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part and you've got to put your bodies on the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus and you've got to make it stop. I've seen the video, Okea used law enforcement tactics. As long as I've been doing this, I've never seen police go to tents and kick to see who was inside. Normally you would say hello as someone there. This particular protest encampment was formed to give people who are unhoused the ability to express their opinions, to allow them freedom of speech so that their things would not be taken. What we found since we've been there are people from all over downtown are coming, utilizing our tents, they're eating, they're talking. This type of behavior chills free speech. This is not what Berkeley stands for. I sung that song and I said, this is the end. If we're going to have employees of the city go through our encampments, especially when people are trying to have freedom of expression, especially when they're already being deshumanized, where you can zip open the fly and open it up and take pictures inside. This is the beginning of the end and we must look at this. Also I'm doing investigations and if she did in fact kick that tent and people are inside, that's a battery. That's a misdemeanor and I plan to fully advise them to take advantage of all of their administrative and legal rights because that is not what we stand for human Berkeley and I won't allow it. Thank you. Okay, I'm Eid and then Pastor Derek and then I miss roster, wants to speak. Which microphone? This one or this, this which one? This one? Okay. We're good to see you all. Just before we came here, I held the horrible news, horrible news. We're 1000 rockets around central Israel. And that is horrible news, over a thousand rockets, Iran sent to Israel. And that is horrible news. This is a whole trick that the Nihon want to do from the beginning. He wanted to get America to go and war with Iran. That's the end of the word. I have been fighting for humanity. I think we're the most Jewish who was Christian, who is to the whole free is the old Trinity of the mentioned Egypt. I need to have peace in the Middle East. This is everywhere. Biden had been the most genocide of the present in this country has. He could have wanted Ukraine to be a military NATO. That's easy. Now, as far, this has been in Berkeley 59 years, plus, this is the hottest way I have seen, and we have a problem. Well, human greed, playing the biggest part of it, we need to do something. I don't think that I handed you that into it. I don't think our, we are too late for us, but our kids, our grandkids are going, probably don't have life beyond the end of this century. Please work for peace. As a near-husband of the whole thing, to keep his ass from going to prison, both Hamas and hisbala were cohort was him. How do you go fight a big country was a big army? They are the whole. They let him do that work up work up. I met Maru Savio. I was in the marsh against Vietnam war was 60,000 beautiful American kids who are killed over 2 million. The music I killed 2 million Iraq got killed. We're the muslims are killed. 2 million Iraq are killed. We need to put our money in education. That's like about new some budget. We need to put the money in education in healthcare. Thank you. In social security, it's top war everywhere. We're dealing with one security at the country. Which is again, as far as our metal hand, we're starting the business. We're in business with our patient, we're not happening as soon as we can, we're in it, we're really in it. As I said, we're going to be five years in advance. Don't get political division in the city of Michigan, we need to move to the next speaker. Five seconds. Let us get everybody at as good friends as we are. I did well for breakfast. Anybody else? Thank you. Okay. I'll go to see you like that. Okay. Our last speaker card is Pastor Derek. And then we'll go to Miss Mosovic. Good evening. I'm back again from the last meeting where I shook city managers hand and thank you for that handshake on the last 25 years, there wasn't paid to the Black Reptory Theatre, but just some type of camaraderie. We're on a kill corner where we're young people are killing one another and we have implorable skills training and you know, entrepreneur development. We have all kind of great things lined up with a bunch of professionals that I'm here with today and to no avail. You gave me your word and I still believe you're a man of honor. And so I'm waiting on that handshake that you do publicly. There's a contract for the money that's owed and that hasn't been honored that far. And again, you gave your word and we had heard from you. I'm looking forward to working in conjunction with this council so that we can do some, like I said, again, Black Lives Matter, do they matter when it comes to funding? Because the last city council meeting before last, another organization Caucasian came up and got a hundred plus thousands dollars and the Black Repertory hasn't received not one dime in this kind of disharming. So I'm still looking for the honor to handshake. I'd be willing to even shake your hand again today if it means as much to you as it would mean as much to me as it does to you or vice versa. I'll be saying. Thank you for your time and I'm looking forward to hearing from you guys. ASAP, according to you being a weak late. Thank you for your time and I'm looking forward to hearing from you guys. ASAP according to you being a weak late. Thank you. Thank you. Well, your card wasn't selected, but I'll give you some time. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. You're going to say just real quick. Good evening, council members. My name is Daniel Cooper. I serve a number of nonprofits across the Bay Area including real theater company in Marin Pastor Derek man just raises issue to me about black repertoire theater how important it is and I just want to ask you What was the last time do you heard the story of black life in its fullness and its complexity in its beauty, right? And I'm not talking about like the Hollywood, just the lost over Hollywood version of it. I'm talking about a raw authentic story, right? If we're, but back then it's not just a form of entertainment. It's a lifeline to the past. It's a voice for the present. It's a vision for the future. It allows stories of resilience, joy, struggle, triumph to be told in a way that resonates in a deeply human level. It gives black actors, playwrights, directors, youth, adults, an opportunity to express and tell stories that will be lost culturally. There's no way we can not support black theater, black arts, black culture, especially in a place where we say black lives matter and Berkeley stands on diversity, they stand on inclusion, right? It's a Black repertoire theater company. It helps youth, young people, creatives, playwrights, right? Costume design. It's more, I mean, this is something we have to support. I don't really understand how, you know, at this point where one white organization is being funded hundreds of thousand dollars, hundreds of the hundred thousand dollars but the black organizations get nothing. You know, we can get the black lives matter banner up there but like, come on, we got to put a little bit, just be teeth, you know, I mean, in lip service, we have to actually put money behind it. And so black theater, it's important. Thank you for your time today, y'all. Thank you. Thank you for your time today. Thank you. Thank you. So we only take 10th and all that one more person from your group speak because we have another speaker and we have people on zoom. And then I want to address this to let you all know what's what the status of this issue is. I just like a couple of seconds. I keep saying the sign of it is black lives matter. To the city council and the Mayor, do really Black Lives Matter. I'm a Kenny Refique, a Shantay from the Shantay Tribe here in America. And I see you just celebrated a tribe, a Indian tribe. I applaud that. Why don't we go to the back of the line? I want you to consider the black repertoire together. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for coming today. Ms. Rossific for you speak. Ms. Rossific, you wait one second. So I really want to thank you all for coming to and continuing to come to support the Black Repertory Theater. We are in real property negotiations with the Black Web. And so our staff are the ones who will be and have been communicating with Sean and the team at the Black Web. But I want to turn over to City Manager to see if he has an update he wants to provide on this. We met in close session. We obviously can't disclose what we talked about in a close session. But we are committed to working to advance negotiations to keep the Black rep driving in Berkeley. Mr. City Mayor. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you for your comments, appreciate it. The city's attorney office has been in touch with the attorney's office representing the Black rep and the staff from public works with the City Attorney's Office is putting together a draft document for review of your team based on the authority that the City Council has given us and that draft will be shared with you all this week. Yes. If I may, is it going to pose? We're not having it back and forth here. Okay. Thank you for your comments. We provided an update. I appreciate you being here. We need to move to the next speaker. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all. Yeah. It's been over a year since City Council approved the options and Camping Wellness team. They're still not out and it's waiting for the City to implement it. This is through the Mental Health Services Act monies. But they're not the only body entrusted with going to the encampments to provide mental health services. There's the full service homeless out-chip, full homeless services partnership through Worklman Hall that expressly sets states in their three year plan that they do encampment work, working with people in the encampments. But it's not happening. This is a plan that is approved by you, is approved by the state. Where I live on the corner, there's a man in a tent and he's been there for several months. I go by and give him food, talk to him. And he's, Oakland boy and Berkeley raised. He moved from elsewhere in South Berkeley because he was living in the alley he said behind the Sacramento grocery, and it became too dangerous for him, so we wanted to be on a corner where he felt safe. Again, I regularly engage with him. That's what people need. And then this morning when I was going to the bus stop, I noticed a man walked down the street and aggressively kick his tent. And I want to conclude with saying the homeless commission passed or brought to you, which you unanimously passed to document hate incidents against the unhoused persons. These are hate incidents and I would hope that city staff is held to a higher standard. Thank you. Okay. We're going to take our three speakers on zoom now and we'll go first to Kelly Hammergren. Thank you. Can you hear me okay? Yes. Okay. I don't have a long prepared statement. I just want to thank everyone who came last night to the Peace and Justice Commission. You know, people were really well behaved and said, spoke from their hearts and I'm delighted that we were able to pass the resolution. And I want to thank the three council members whose commissioners voted for the resolution. And I'll be writing about the others in my next act of this diary. Thank you. Okay, the next speaker is you Mitchell. You Mitchell, we should now be able to speak. Okay, can you hear me? We can, yes. Very good. I'm speaking on behalf of the Black rep. I'm really confused to the process that's going on and you're saying that you met behind closed doors and you're going to let us know tomorrow or sometimes this week. Am I correct? I don't want to get into a back and forth. I'm not going to do back and forth. I do think that's your question. Is that your comments? Okay, well, my comment is this. I don't understand why the weight is so long. And everybody keeps talking about Black Lives Matter. The issue here is not, it's about our history, it's about things that we've worked for. And then people who are new to this area, I've lived in this area for 72 years. I'm a Berkeley born and raised person. And I just need to know when are we going to get our justos when are we going to know I don't want to back and forth I want the black rep theater to be solid and to be established without any more fighting or confusion or anything or time wasted we need to have this funded now just to resolve it. I just I can't understand what the problem is. That's all I want to know. What is the issue? Why aren't we moving forward? Thank you. Don't want to back and forward. Thank you so much. And I'm happy to address that again, which is this is a city property. And so the black rep is leasing city property. We need to we are negotiating a lease so the black rep is leasing city property we need to we are negotiating a lease with the black rep to ensure their long-term use of that important facility we want to ensure that they can remain there we met in executive session because it involved real property we voted to give direction to our staff to negotiate at least long term lease with the black rep. Our staff will be in touch with Mr. Scott and their attorneys to provide a proposal and we hope we can move forward and land this so we can resolve this issue and ensure their long term use and continue cultural programming at that location. We'll go to Blair Beakman. Hi, thank you, Blair Beakman. I think this would be one of the last meetings of Mayor Ergwin, so I figured I'd you up to say hi. And thanks to the meeting today. A real good luck in how Berkeley is addressing their unhoused issues, the cover news and recent recent new unhoused issues. The cover news and recent recent news, unhoused laws going into effect. I think we're all seeing that it's been kind of extreme what's taken place from that. And I hope that we can make adjustments with that and learn how to fact this sense of care, you know, out of a difficult situation that's happening right now. And we can develop new practices of care, you know, out of a difficult situation that's happening right now. And we can develop new practices of care and to enforce laws, but with care. I hope we learn how to do that. We take practice and skills to do that. We've got to move fast. We can do it. Learn how we go. And to talk about peace and not war for Ukraine and Israel, we don't need to kill a bunch of more people to have in order to create a good dialogue with the future of Ukraine. The same with Israel. That's worth for peace and not war and how to solve our issues. Thank you. Thank you very much. That completes this round of public comment on non-agent matters. And we're happy to take comments on non-agent matters at the conclusion of our agenda. Thank you. So now proceed to the consent calendar and I guess I'd like to ask I really have one item on action which is item seven which is a recommendation for the Peace and Justice Commission to consider naming a street after Daniel Ellsberg. I would propose that we move that to consent but to refer to the transportation and infrastructure commission. Our policy regarding the naming of city streets and city buildings requires that we ask to go to a commission first for them to consider those requests. So I personally think we should just refer it to the commission to have them consider it along with as we normally do with these naming requests. And then the commission will bring back their recommendation for council to consider it a future meeting. So I'd like to ask if there's any objection in moving item seven, the resolution and name of Berkeley Street after Daniel Ellsberg to the consent calendar to refer that to the Transportation Infrastructure Commission. Any objection? Here an objection, now, with the action. So that's on the consent calendar. Now, if you wanna speak on that, you can speak during the public comment here for consent. And that consent calendar also includes item six from Councilor Hahn, a budget referral and technical support for LaPenia. I know we have a number of LaPenia board members and supporters here today. It's great to see you. I'm glad that we're gonna be taking a section today. And this is just step one. Step two will be in November when we take up the mid-year budget. We'll all consider this request at that time, but we're hopefully moving this for today. Any comments on the consent calendar from council members? Press your button. Councilor Han. Excuse me. I just wanted to thank the folks from Repenia for coming. I spent quite a bit of time speaking with the executive director and the board chair. And I feel confident that the challenges that they're facing are completely unique to this moment. They reflect the very bumpy landing for at least some of our arts organizations coming out of the pandemic. And that includes people choosing to only work remotely and or that doesn't work or and also some wonderful things like some babies and maternity leaves and a number of other wonderful and challenging things that have created the perfect storm for this organization. They are on the brink of their 50th anniversary. They are a revered, important institution in Berkeley. I'm very honored and appreciate Council members, Humbert and Bartlett in joining me in this item. And yes, and I just remembered that council member Luna Parr asked to join and I would very much like to have her join the item. And so we're all really excited to support this. And we really hope this allows you to get back on your feet and have another 50 years of service, music, Thank you, Your Honor. Again, I just did it and I intended not to. It's trained as a lawyer. Yeah. I mean, sometimes I do see letters addressed to the honorable Jesse Erdogan. So thank you, Mr. Mayor. And thank you, Councilmember Han, for your comments, and I would associate myself with them about item six. I'm really proud to be a co-sponsor of this item for what is really and incredibly important and long-term cultural institution, which is now in my district, and I'm really proud of that. I'm proud that it was perloined from, from Councilmember Bartlett's district, and the most recent redistricting. So, you can't have you anymore. I've got you. But I'm really, it's, I've known about LaPenia for a long, long time, even when I lived in San Francisco for 20 years. And it's really, really an important cultural institution, thrilled to be part of this one. And then on number seven, which is now part of the consent calendar naming a street in the city of Berkeley. In honor of Daniel Ellsberg, I did just have a few personal comments. I wanted to make I do think it needs to go through the traditional and actually prescribed process of going. Getting neighborhood and and and. Resident buy in depending on where the street might be, I also think it probably ought not to be a major street, because that's really, really expensive, you know, to rename something like Shatic or University, or, you know, San Pablo, for example, which that would be outrageously expensive. And I'm thinking of Call of a Guy way, which I was part of when approving when I was on the Public Works Commission, the successor, which is now transportation and infrastructure. So it needs to go through that whole process. Ellsberg is one of my personal heroes, and he does have a connection to Berkeley. I was an anti-Vietnam War activist when I was in high school outside of Washington, D.C. And was tear gasped as part of the sign the treaty now coalition as we protested at Nixon's inauguration. Elzberg was an incredibly courageous mench, for publicly disclosing the Pentagon papers after he worked directly for Robert McNamere of the Secretary of Defense took a lot of courage. So anyway, those are my comments, but I do support the notion that it needs to go through our traditional processes. Thank you. Council Member Treggub. Thank you. I would like to associate my comments with those who have spoken. And. Council member Han, thank you so much for taking on the work of offering item six. LaPenia is an incredible institution and I just had the opportunity to come back there again. I can't actually remember the nature of the event, but it was full and it was full of wonderful people, wonderful company, good food, celebration, and the opportunity to come together another year. So I know this was a very popular item, so I missed wanted to, from the dies, express my utmost support as well as support as this goes through the budget process for ensuring that LaPenia gets this emergency funding to continue doing its good for. Thank you. Now Councillor Bartlett. Thank you, thank you, Mr. Mayor. And sorry, so sad to lose, LaPanja. You are so close to my heart. Revising you. And I think you'll be in good hands with Councillor Mahenberg. He's a pretty warm council member. Thank you, enjoy him. I wanted to very quickly just give a wonderful shout out to the team, the staff, for helping the work to receive the grant from HUB for the African-American Alyssa Resource Center, a million dollars for this project to take in. I want to save 14 years, 13 years to come to fruition, a new vision of health care, contextual health care for the community. Amazing. This will handle pre-construction loans and our city that we gave them, our city property, we'll be converted and we'll have a shining new edifice for the new realm of health care in the city of Berkeley. Very happy. Thank you. And I just want to thank our Congresswoman Barbara Lee, who actually carried the ear marker quest for us and got this in the federal budget. And this is part of the multi-million dollar investment that we've made to help build out and create the African-American Alyssa Resource Center of the property on Alcatraz Avenue. So thank you, Barbara Lee. Any other questions or comments from members of the council before we take public comment? Okay, not we will now take public comment on the consent calendar so that's everything on the published consent calendar which includes item six in support of LaPenya and item seven the resolution and the May City center and the public health center and the public health center and the public health center and the public health center and the public health center and the public health center and the public health center and the public health center and the public health center and the public health center and the public health center and the public health center and the public health center and the public health center I. Minutes. How many. How many people would like to speak. Sure of hands. All through two minutes. Thank you. Hello, councilmembers. May you guys may. My name is Consolato Buer Hernandez. I am the executive director of Labinico Tool Center. I was born and raised in Chile and migrated to this country in 2019, searching for opportunities to develop my career as an artist as a cultural worker and to make a positive impact in diasporic communities who come from all kinds of backgrounds and are trying to make a home here in Berkeley just like me. I really didn't know if I was going to be able to stay in this country after the COVID-19 lockdown, but I am so grateful that I did. La Peña is today what gives purpose to my life and it's the source of deep sense of belonging that I have never really felt before, not even in Chile. I'm speaking for myself right now, but I'm certain that I am not alone in this sentiment because La Peña has been a place of meaningful community gathering, collective learning and social transformation for five decades now. Every week, at each and every one of our classes, workshops, special events, I can feel the fruits of years and years of insisting that true community building happens when we understand the history, the beauty and the power of our differences as much or even more than when we rest on the things that we have in common. Every day, Alapena, for that reason, I feel hope in this time of uncertainty and polarization, Alapena unites. It brings different people together in the quest of making this world a better place. Please know and trust that this crisis is actually temporary. It's the aftermath of how Council Member Han mentioned a perfect storm that hasn't allowed us to bounce back from a big investment in our building that we had to undertake last year. But once we overcome this, Le Penh's future is really bright. We have managed to maintain our historic audiences. We're bringing new generations of artists, organizers, and art lovers into our space. And we have developed a multi-year budget that focuses on the mission, strategy, and long-term sustainability of the center. So please approve this emergency fund for La Pena. I give us the opportunity to continue to be that second home that so many of us need. Thank you. I'm going to go to the next slide. Hi, good evening, Councillor Mayer. My name is Anna Fox-Hodess. I'm the current board chair at the La Pena Cultural Center. I'm a district eight resident and a Berkeley native. As a new parent, I mentioned this to Councilmember Han, but I'm hoping to raise my daughter in La Pena as I was raised in La Pena, but my parents and grandparents. It's a place where I know that she can connect with her Chilean roots in an intergenerational community of folks who share my family's values of social justice and solidarity. Values that I know are sort of key to the character of Berkeley, but aren't able to be expressed in so many places anymore. For half a century, La Pena has been a pillar of creative expression, community organizing and cultural resistance for immigrant and by-block communities and Berkeley and beyond. And its importance is deeply personal to me and to some new folks here and folks I know have been reaching out to you all. We're asking the city's support during a time of significant financial need. But as has been mentioned, we kind of faced a conference of a string of bad luck, a temporary string of bad luck. But I do want to stress that this is not a crisis of community engagement or of relevance. Demand for our programs is stronger than ever. Earn revenue is growing and we're bringing in over 10,000 people, both our legacy community members, but also new generations of activists and artists and young people into the space through classes, through organizing events, through musical programs every year. I believe the Berkeley community really needs what LaPenia has to offer. So I'm confident the challenges we faced are temporary and that was support from the city, timely support from the city. We can pull through and reach a place of quickly, of financial and programmatic sustainability and that will help us in position to survive this crisis and thrive in years ahead. So I thank you all for your consideration. And I hope that LaPenini can continue to be a place for future generations, can find communities, share culture, and build a more just world together. Thank you. I would like to thank you very much about Daniel Erzberg. Daniel Erzberg was a great man. He was a taxed by Nixon, taxed by war mongers, and this worked to have today. Daniel Erzberg also was a friend of mine. He came to the business many times. He invited me dinner in his house in Kensington many times as well. We need more people like that. As far as any of you remember that MLK's to need to be called what? Grove Street. And Grove was a general in the army who have killed many people. Let's wake up. We need to put our voice, say to your peace, Berkeley. Say, come to your peace, Berkeley. Let us go again. It's the warm mongers, Netanyahu, Hamas, whatever Hezbollah, Biden Biden is going to end the one of the worst genocide that President the Hestia of US after Truman would drop the atom bomb in Nadesaki and Huchima. Remind you, is there a so far dropped at least? We've 10 atom bomb in Gaza and be doing it in Lebanon. Lebanon's real country was called France of the Middle East. Beautiful people. World equals, world human being. We have no choice but to become, we come to this third blind. We have to get about the little children, over 40,000 children in Gaza shredded, incinerated, brought up in pieces. Trisha and Pam Pam does Biden having a children, grandchering, he does. How in the hell can he stand by? And his worst effect of him is a guy at Blinken. Blinken is a religious American citizen. He was just fine. He was more Jews in Cairo, we're were part of it than the Israel at one time. But Blinken have totally brainwashed by him. I think Biden was brainwashed when he visited Israel in October 7th and really, except the 7th was inside job. I'm as de-zep for him. Thank you for that. True. No, your time is up. I said thank you for the time. Thank you very much. Let me say that. Okay. Let's see that. Thank you. As I read item five on Southwest Berkeley, bike boulevards and Adeline, I'm hoping that we're on track as far in Southwest Berkeley, repairing an add line, the bike lanes, that for some reason we're done with the bus stop on the sidewalk, where persons with disabilities, seniors that cannot stand, sit, and then there's a bike lane, and then the bus stop is in the middle of the street, which if these bike lanes were frequently used, which they're not, would really result in accidents. Regarding Le Penne, very glad to hear about this. Novises from the public sometime don't know that referral to the budget process doesn't necessarily mean that something is going to be budgeted. And so I will refer to the Commission on the Status of Women's Recommendation regarding public safety for women. That one of the elements of that was the safety escorts and it was hope that that would be approved in the June budget process, at least for a pilot program to start that. I mean, the DBA has come up with a proposal for a pilot program, but it was tier two and it's not tier one. So hopefully, as we go into November, this will be seen as important safety escorts to protect vulnerable persons from crying. That there would be two team of two escorts with persons who believe that they need that protection and that this will move to tier one. I've been told by Kira Yorodondo that it looks like it's going to stay at Tier 2 and so it doesn't know if it's going to be funded. I hope you pray to prioritize it. It's extremely important. Thank you. I'm going to be representing the LaPenia community chorus. Speaking to the council tonight. Oh, you guys are coming too. Okay. And I just want to thank everybody for supporting LaPenia. My wife and I, Carol Pearson, joined, moved here in 1984, joined the LaPenia community chorus in 1985. We're still going strong. We're welcoming new members. We're going to be able to and I Carol Pearson moved here in 1984, joined the LaPania Community course in 1985. We're still going strong, we're welcoming new members. We believe in the importance of LaPania cultural center very strongly that you guys want to see something. Here I hand you. Okay, well, practically everything's been said much more eloquently than I can, but I'll just say I'm obviously in the Leppany community course to since 1983 plus six months in 81. And I just want to say again, Lapeña is, in my mind, you know, very unique in the community because it's not just a venue for music and art, but so much more, it's been a place for discussion for people to meet and feel a sense of community ever since I've been coming, which is like a long time. And, but especially now I feel like the staff at La Bena has been trying so hard to make it a safe space for everyone in the community from all cultures, all aspects of life. And I just hope that the council will find it in their hearts too to make the funding that let them your needs happen. Thank you. And we're there's a bunch of us from there's a bunch of us from the choir back there. And we're just going to say we're about to go there right now to rehearse we rehearse. That's all. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. My name is Grace Marsale and I'm the chair of the Peace and Justice Commission. First of all, I want to thank you for moving the item to name a streak in the name of Daniel wonder. The Western States Legal Foundation approached us to help expedite this process. We knew that it was just the beginning and we wanted to, and I'm happy that you're moving it forward. And to me that movement, that decision signals your recognition of Daniel Alzberg's lifelong contribution to peace and social justice. I want to clarify something. By major street, we met a street that students and other people will see regularly. And it doesn't have to be a long street where I live down Grove Street when it became Martin Luther King. There was no problem for me as a resident And that was even before the internet happened So I know change can happen, but Even a short street in downtown or someplace So thank you, and I know I have more time, but can you save it for Patricia Ellsberg who speak in a second or two? Absolutely. Thank you. Happy to give her as much time as needed. I may ragging council members. My name is Jackie Cabasso. I'm the executive director of Western State's Legal Foundation. On April 11th of 2023, I had the honor to stand here before the Berkeley City Council with Philis Olin, our board president and Grace Moore-Zowell, who's also on our board, to receive the proclamation declaring the week of April 24th to 30th 2023, Daniel Ellsberg week. We received the proclamation from Mayor Aging on behalf of Dan, who had recently disclosed his terminal cancer diagnosis. Philist delivered the proclamation to Daniel and Patricia Ellsberg at their house. They were delighted to receive it. With his passing, it is only right that Berkeley named a major city street in honor of Daniel Ellsberg, his moral courage and as a legacy for peace. Daniel Ellsberg had more friends than anyone I've ever met. And I was lucky enough to be among them. I was arrested numerous times with Dan at the Nevada Test Site and the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab, protesting research and development of nuclear weapons, the most deadly and lethal of all weapons of mass destruction. Dan was a world citizen and a global icon standing for nuclear disarmament, peace, truth, and justice, core Berkeley values. We were very fortunate to have him as a neighbor in Kensington and as a member of our community. The city of Berkeley rightly renamed the street after Martin Luther King, Jr. For all the reasons stated in the resolution and many more, there should be no question about Berkeley naming a street after Daniel Ellsberg. And as the resolution specifies, it should be a major street. Thank you. This is very moving. I'm first city council meeting. I he died at peace, which was amazing, because he was obsessed with the nuclear issue, obsessed with doing what he could with peace. But when I asked him, do you want to keep living? He said, yes. But he said, I'm dying at peace because I feel I've done everything I could to end wars, unjust wars of intervention, and mainly his obsession was to prevent any use of nuclear weapons. And I just was standing in Santa Barbara where I got to Daniel Ellsburg Lifetime Achievement Award. And I thought, do I really deserve this? I mean, I completely was supportive of Dan. And then I thought, 53 years of listening about Tuesday, I deserve it. I'm very moved by some of the world comments I've heard here. One of his favorite quotes was from Thoreau, cast your whole vote, not just a piece of paper, but your whole influence. And he did that his life. He was also a brilliant intellectual. They had to make up a grade for part of his orals for his doctorate. They made up a grade summa plus at Harvard. Not the whole thing but just a part of his orals. I wrote a couple of books on the secrets, which was about Vietnam and the release of Pentagon papers and the Doomsday mission. I've heard a lot about it. And that's a confession of nuclear war planter. So I really think it's appropriate. We lived in Brooklyn for over 45 years. We loved it. But as a city that hosts a major institution of education and somebody other wonderful schools, that, and aiming to place for him, whether it's a major street or wherever is appropriate, I think could inspire students and could inspire all of us to cast our's an brilliant man and definitely an inspiration and my opinion is I for all the reasons you stated, Berkeley should definitely name a street after him. He was deeply connected to our community. And it's important that other people know about what he stood for. And that cause continues to this day. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor Adigin, Council members. My name is Christina Azahar and I'm joined here this evening by my daughter Emilia Fulgar. Two months old I will speak briefly and quietly as she's sleeping. Just coming in to say that I am part of this and she is part of this perfect storm that hit LaPenia over these last few months. I've been with the organization as a volunteer since 2019 and professionally I joined as advancement manager in November of 2023 where my main role was to take on fundraising, grant management, et cetera. And I've had to take a little pause from that this year. But in my professional career, I am an academic and ethnic musicologist by training. And I will just say that I hold a degree in ethnic musicology from UC Berkeley. And one of the reasons I was so excited to accept a place in that program was precisely because of places like Lapeña that I knew would make this be such a beautiful community to be a part of where there's thriving musical communities and I hope. I hope that like Anna, as a new mother, that my daughter and my son who's at home will continue for many, many years to benefit from the programs that LaPingia brings together and offers our community with that. I'll see you at the rest of my time. Thank you. We're going to get into city council members. My name has Ben White. I am here as a representative of Beasts Trams in Life, which is a nonprofit that uses rap music as therapy for youth that was founded in Berkeley High and has been around for almost 20 years. And I had the pleasure of having my first ever here as a community events coordinator and I can tell you there is no community partner that I would be fighting harder for than LaPenia. It is more than a venue. It is a community of care. When I was doing an event there recently, I talked to a musician who saw his grandson perform and he told me that he had witnessed three generations of music being performed at La Penia. And I hope that another three generations is able to live and thrive at La Penia. Thank you. Thank you all so much for being here today. before we go to speakers who are on zoom, I'd like to ask if there's anyone else who's here in person who'd like to speak on the consent calendar. Okay, thank you. So we'll go to the speakers on zoom. If you are on zoom and would like to speak, please raise your virtual hand at the bottom of the Zoom screen. Blair Beakman. Hi, I'm Blair Beakman. I wanted to speak to consent calendar items 5, 6, and 2. And you think it's about it? Yeah, 2, 5, and 6. Yeah, good luck to conclude,'s actually, it's fighting war. It's asking for peace. It's asking for open democracy. It gives everyone best practices in how to build a sustainable future and not a future of killing each other. So I think if we work towards those things, we'll be sending a really powerful, important message. So with that said, you have items two and five. Those are about the future of a trail extension issues for bikes and walking, safe routes and good things. There's gonna be some surveillance tech and data collection tech involved with that. The city of Davis California has invented some really good, important surveillance tech ordinance practices for wildlife trails. We could policies that I suggest Berkeley look into that can really help yourselves in that process because Berkeley does have a few problems in trying to be more open and clear about their ordinance issues. You've done great in building your future of a business tech society, and hopefully congratulations on that. It doesn't have to be mutually exclusive with the future of building good tech accountability and good policies and good public participation. That's part of the, you know, the future we're trying to build, hopefully that is really important. It's important to meld and bring all the things together. And just a good luck and hope, can you, what's really important part of my life in being around for, yeah, thank you. I hope you can continue and thanks for the meeting tonight. Okay, we'll go next to Peter Gilder, followed by Cheryl. Peter Gilder, you should not be able to speak. Okay. Hello? Yes, hello. Okay, actually, I'm not Peter Gilder. I'm using his computer. This is Phyllis Olin. And I'm the president of the Austin States Legal Foundation. And I had the honor of actually presenting the proclamation, receiving the proclamation from the city, and presenting it to Daniel. So I just wanted to say, you know, we're at a time, certainly in our history, which is more dissentious than any time that I remember and from what I hear from people older than I and there aren't a lot of them, even their memory. It was interesting tonight that I was watching democracy now and Julian Assange was speaking, he was given 175 years I was watching democracy now and Julian Assange was speaking. He was given a 75 years in prison that if he did serve it, unfortunately, he has been released. And his crime was wanting to make public atrocities that governments perpetrate. This is something that certainly resonates with what Daniel Ellsberg stood for. He believed in peace and justice and transparency and people really understanding what their governments were doing. And, wait a second, I'll get it together. I think I'm talking obviously about item seven I'll get it together. I think I'm talking obviously about item seven and I thank you for putting it on the consent calendar. I think it's very important that we in a time where we don't we have reminders that we can teach future generations about the heroes of our time and what they stood for so that they won't be forgotten. So I think it's very important for that reason that we do name a street after Daniel Ellsberg and I know that you agree. It seems to be a question of where, and I think that can be worked out, but we need to keep the memory of this heroic, wonderful man who was a very wonderful man personally, as well as in the broader context. So thank you very much. Thank you. Okay, our last speaker on Zoom is Cheryl. Hi, this is former council member Cheryl Davila. I just wanted to say yes to the recognition of Daniel Osberg's and yes to LaPenia. LaPenia has been a long standing institution in Berkeley and should be continue for decades as well as the Black Repertory Theater Group. So you need to do what you all need to do to make sure that they're all the art organizations, theaters that are catered to the BIPOC, Black Indigenous people of color communities get equal funding throughout the city. It's not fair because the pink organizations get way more money than the Black Indigenous or people of color organizations. And you need to make them thrive too. You know, we're in some tumultuous times and we need to honor and respect the organizations that have made Berkeley what Berkeley is today and honor that community and the people that they reach is very far. And we are in some tumultuous times and we need to make sure that our elected officials are doing what the people of their city want them to do and that's what we need. We need organizations like the Black Rap and LaPenia to continue to be in Berkeley and thrive in Berkeley. And we don't need any more Zionism in Berkeley or Zionist elected officials and appointees to commissions. And free Palestine, vote Jovanka Beckles for State Senate, and thank you. All right, thank you. No comment on that. Okay, that completes public comments. Thank you all so very much for being here today. It's great to see such an incredible community here. Especially those in support of La Pena. And council member Luna para before we vote on the consent column. Thank you so much. I just wanted to say that I'm very proud to be supporting this item and grateful for how many of you came out tonight and emailed my office. As we've been talking, a member of my staff was actually sending me photos of herself when she was in a children's Chilean folk band at La Peña 20 years ago. So much thank you for all what you do and I'm so proud to be able to vote for the security of the company, the resources that need to continue to serve our community for the next few years. Thank you very much. Okay, I will move adoption of the consent calendar. Second. And that will take care of all of our business for tonight. So must there's any further discussion? We can call the role of the consent calendar. Okay, Council Member Kessarwani. Yes. Adlin. Yes. Bartlett. Yes. Traygum. Hi. Yes. Lengrap. Yes. Tregum. Hi. On. Yes. Wanggrab. Yes. Bonapara. Yes. Umber, yes. And Mayor Erick. Yes. OK. OK. Consent calendar is approved. Thank you. OK. Before we adjourn the meeting, is there any public comment on non-agent amounts? Somebody who's not previously spoken? Seeing none, I'll move to adjourn. Second. If we can please call the roll. That's member Kisar Wani. Yes. Applin. Yes. Bartlett. Yes. Traygon. Aye. On. Yes. Wengrang. Yes. Luna Parra. Yes. Luna Parra. Yes. Umbert. Yes. And Mayor Erging. Yes. Thank you.