Hello Good evening everyone I'd like to welcome you all to the December 10th meeting of the Berkeley City Council and Call this meeting to order can we start with the roll call please? Okay? Thank you Councilmember Kessar-Wani here here Patwin presents Bartlett here Trago present Okay here black a bee here Luna para here Humber present and Mayor is she Here, okay, Cora miss present. Thank you So typically we would read the land acknowledgement statement at the beginning of each monthly meeting, but since this is my first meeting I'd like to ask that we do a land acknowledgement statement again and from now on we're gonna be switching off and have different council members do the land acknowledgement and we're gonna start with councilmember Kessarani. Thank you very much mayor Ishi. The city of Berkeley recognizes that the community we live in was built on the territory of Huchun, the ancestral and unceded land of the Chocheno speaking Alone 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 Alone 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 mound, and the Alonie people who continue to reside in the East Bay. We recognize that Berkeley's residents have and continue to benefit from the use and occupation of this unceded stolen 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, excuse me, but also recognize that the aloning people are present members of Berkeley and other East Bay communities today. The City of Berkeley will continue to build relationships with the Luhan tribe and to create meaningful actions that uphold the intention of this land acknowledgement. Thank you so much, Council Member. I'd like to move us on to ceremonial matters and I'm going to pass it off to Mark, our city clerk. Okay, thank you, Mayor. So at this time, we will administer the oath of office for newly elected and re-elected members of the city council and mayor. Okay. So at this time, I'll have you stand. And if you turn on your microphone and point it up, it'll pick up some better audio. And raise your right hand and repeat after me. I state your name. I am a state of the key. Do solemnly swear or affirm? Do solemnly swear or affirm that I will support and defend. That I will support and defend. The Constitution of the United States. The Constitution of the United States. And the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the State of California, and the Constitution of the State of California, against all enemies, against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith in allegiance, that I will bear true faith in the legions, to the Constitution of the United States, to the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the State of California, and the Constitution of the State of California. That I take this obligation freely, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation, without any mental reservation, or purpose of evasion, or purpose of evasion. And then I will well and faithfully discharge, and then I will well be fairly discharge. The duties upon which I'm about to enter. The duties upon which I'm about to enter. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you so much. And thank you to those who are here to witness the swearing in. I want to give our new council members and also reelect new council members and also reelected council members. Time to say a few words if you'd like. Council member Bacchemy? Sure, I'll be brief and we said a little bit of this Friday night but I just want to let everyone know here I'm so honored to be joining this body to be joining the City Council with this wonderful group of colleagues who all want to serve our community and make Berkeley even better. At a time that we're entering some rocky waters nationally, I do believe that what we do here locally really matters because government can be a force for good, empowering us to join together as a community to solve problems that we can't solve individually and to extend a helping hand to friends and neighbors that need our support. The people of Berkeley deserve a world-class local government that delivers top-match public safety, affordable housing, vibrant public spaces and safe transportation for everyone that uses our streets and sidewalks. They deserve a government that is data-driven, accountable and transparent, and local leadership that stands up to defend our progressive values. And I'm looking forward to doing all that work together. In particular, I just want to thank the voters in District 6 who place their trust in me to be their voice on the City Council. It's an honor and a privilege that I don't take for granted. One thing just to think about the people of District 6 have had only two council members over the past 32 years, just two 32 years. Susan Wengrap for the previous 16 and Betty Olds for the 16 years before that. These are two trailblazing, outspoken, courageous women who were passionate advocates for our district and dedicated to constituent service. They've set a super high bar and I will work every day to live up to their examples. So again, I'm looking forward to joining our new mayor, all of my council colleagues, our city manager, Paul Boonehagen and our terrific city staff to tackle the challenges ahead and help Berkeley live up to its fullest potential for everyone who lives and works here now and in the future. Thanks again for the privilege of serving. Thank you so much, Council Member Blackby. Would anyone else like to say a few words? Who would you like to say? Go ahead, Council Member Humper. I want to personally say a quick but hearted congratulations to our new Council members and those who've been receded. And to say a hearty welcome, once again, I've welcomed them several times to our new council members. And I want to thank the city clerk and the staff for all the work on this election. Berkeley really puts our staff through trials with our many measures and that includes council making a lot of demands when it comes to crafting the ones we place on the ballot. I'm not going to address our ballot measures, but finally I want to say a special congratulations and welcome to Mayor Ishi. Hearding council cats and other creatures isn't always easy, but I'm excited for your leadership and really looking forward to working with you. Of Ramanos. Thank you. I also would like to join my colleague in welcoming our new colleagues. It's nice to have a full house once again. It's been a long time. And all of you, I've known you all many years, all of you. It's really amazing to see this. It's like one family, all coming home to roost. And I welcome you. I'm gonna help you support you. I'll be there for you and just welcome aboard and I'm so proud of you all for doing it and my mayor Madam Mayor Wonderful work. You you're a trailblazer and so proud of the work you've done already and we're forward to helping you succeed and Help us all seem together. Thank you so much Thank you the very. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks again for your support. I'm the with you. Reach out any time. Thank you so much. Yes. Councilmember Oki. Just briefly, I want to say I'm a child of Berkeley. I was born and a child of Berkeley. I was born at a hospital. I've lived here almost my entire life. And frankly, I plan to die here. This is my home in a very serious way. And I love this community and I love this city so much. And I just want to say this is the honor of a lifetime to be able to serve in this way. And I want to say thank you to the voters of District five. And thank you all my colleagues for welcoming me and I'm really looking forward to working with you all. And I hope to do you proud, Berkeley. Thank you. Councilmember Taplan. Thank you. Thank you to the voters. Welcome to the members. Welcome to the new mayor. Mayor Ishi. And let's work. I also just want to thank folks again for being here this evening. And to say that even if you didn't vote for me, my job is to earn your trust. And I look forward to being in touch with the people of Berkeley and hearing from you. I'm very much looking forward to doing this job. It's been an absolute honor and everyone has been incredibly welcoming and supportive. I look forward to moving forward as a council together. So thank you so much. I thank you. I also want to acknowledge that this is the last meeting for Deputy City Council managers, the Tanya Bellows and also Anne Cardwell. So I wanted to give, I believe Council Member Taplan, first an opportunity to speak and to make some comments since I'm new and didn't get a chance to work with you. Much. Thank you so much and good evening, everybody. On behalf of the Council, Madam WC Manager Bello and Madam WC Manager, I encourage well. Thank you so much for your years of service to the community, city and people of Berkeley. We have benefited so much from your unflinching responsiveness and your executive approach to the city administration. And although it is with the heavy heart that we must say goodbye for now, we are so excited for you and your journey and we will not too far away. So hopefully you have gone too long. But, but honestly thank you so much and I've loved working with you, we've all loved working with you and we wish you the best. Thank you. Thank you so much and I'm not actually sure if Anne's here but I'm going to pass it over to our city manager to say a few words as well. Thank you Mary Sheet. I want to say a few words about our retiring deputy city manager and Cardwell as well as our moving to be every real city manager deputy city manager bellow. So to both of you, my profile and thanks for your hard work, for your leadership, for your compassion, for your passion, and for all of the many things that you've done to make Berkeley a better place for everybody who lives here. I know you're going to do the same in Emreville. I know that we will stay connected as two cities working together. So I thank you for all of that. And also thank Deputy City Manager Anne Cardwell for her years of service here to the City of Berkeley. She had the internal service department so she wasn't quite as visible but that was really the backbone of what made the city work also. So my since here thanks to you also and Deputy City Manager Cardwell. the mayor's office. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor Cartwell. Thank you so much for those comments. And actually, I'm going to send it to. We are going to send it back to you for city manager comments, actually. Thank you, Mary. I don't really have any comments other than I do want to pull item number nine from the consent calendar other than that that's it. Thank you so much. And at this time we're going to take public comment on non- oh sorry my apologies. Our city auditor also has some comments. All right, good evening and I wanted to congratulate our newly elected mayor and our newly elected City Council members and our re-elected City Council members. and I also wanted to just send best wishes to Deputy City Manager Watanabello and Cardwell as well. Thank you for your service to our city. And to this council and to our city manager, our city attorney, and other folks on the city staff, I also wanted to just send you all to ensure Berkeley services are run efficiently effectively and equitably. So, you know, some of the audit recommendations updates, that's on the agenda. It keeps part of our work together, is ensuring that departments implement these recommendations outlined in our audits. And I just wanted to share some of the progress with you, you know, with the departments and to the public. I wanted to share that for the the departments have provided updates as information items on today's council agenda, including the first update on restaurant inspections, on the restaurant inspections audit that was released in July. The public can provide comments during the consent calendar on all of these items. So I'm gonna just share a little bit about each item. Item number 22 is the restaurant inspections audit where the department has been understaffed and the program did not meet targets at the time of the audit release. When this report was released, City Council requested that the Environmental Health Division provide an update to our recommendations in December given the serious public health risks identified in the report. To fulfill that request, the division shared an information item and to demonstrate that they've started or partly implemented seven out of the eight recommendations proposed in the audit. Our report found that longstanding staff vacancies impacted program operations and left too many restaurants and other food facilities unexpected in 2023. According to the department's response, the division should have finished inspecting all high risk food facilities by November 2024. Their target is to now complete the inspections by the end of this calendar year for all low and medium risk facilities. We're pleased to share the environmental health division is also staffing up. The division has filled one inspector position and is in the process of selecting a supervisor to hire. In the short term, they've entered into a contract with California Association of Environmental Health Administrators for temporary food inspection support. And additionally, the division reported that they are planning to upgrade its current database to enable public access to food facility inspection results. Next, I wanted to share item 24. This is the report, Rocky Road, Berkeley Streets at risk and significantly underfunded, and Fleet Replacement, Fund is short millions. Public Works Department has shared updates on two outstanding audits, one related to street maintenance and the other regarding the Fleet Replacement Fund. For the streets audit, the department plans to engage a consultant to conduct an annual inventory of deferred street maintenance needs and estimated associated costs. The funds from Measure FF, which was just approved by voters, will further support the goals of the Paving Program. And for the fleet audit, Public Works progress since the last update includes launching a new fleet management system in spring of 2024, and the department's updating replacement costs in the new system to account for all associated expenses such as personnel and customization, which was not included before. Public works also completed an assessment of the charging infrastructure, vehicle transitions and costs needed to transition electric fleet by 2030. The third item, item 23 is a audit titled Domestic Violence Response, Berkeley needs a comprehensive policy to support city employees. And in their update, HR shares that they will continue to make progress on recommendations. Since the last update, they have made additional revisions to the city's domestic violence policy, including revisions to the title, scope, and definitions. And this update of policy will soon be submitted to the city attorney's office for legal review. HR is also planning to incorporate staff training for compliance with the update of policy into a redesigned supervisor training curriculum. And finally, item 21 is fire prevention inspections insufficient resources strain code compliance. It's our office's policy to drop recommendations that are more than five years old, which this year includes this particular audit. And fortunately, since the last update, the department has not implemented any of the open audit recommendations aimed to improve coordination prioritization and enforcement of fire prevention inspections. According to the policy, the fire department shared that they did not implement these recommendations, but they've also shared that although these recommendations are dropped, the department is working on a number of them and they've stated that the staffing challenges and competing priorities, especially during the pandemic, impacted the department's ability to implement these audit recommendations. So in closing, I hope you'll take the time to review these really important reports to learn more about the important steps departments have taken and really kudos to the departments who have taken steps to address these and where there's still more work to do. And again, I look forward to working with this new City Council with the new mayor and for the people of Berkeley. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. I'd now like to move on to public comments on non agenda matters. Hi, I'm Margaret Fine. And I'm here to pick a ball. Miss, we, this is, that's not the process. Would we draw the names out of here? Oh, I don't know. I'm, can you give us the rules? Yes Zoom are the other five speakers. So I'll draw the names for the in person. It's stated on the agenda. So the five names for the in-person speakers are Dan, Kualatus, Mark Rhodes, Aiden Hill, Promise, Marks, and Nguyen Mossad. So you can come up in any order along Mark left. Okay, well, I'll pick another one. Hello, I'm Dan. I'm speaking first on item 11 on the consent calendar. Seemonds industry. So this is non agenda public comments. Do we get to comment on consent calendar items? Usually we only get to comment on action calendar stuff. No, they'll be full comment period on consent coming up. And there's no limit to the speakers on consent. Well, in that case, I yield my time to McGee. Okay. Oh, yes, a caprotto is actually the fifth card that I just picked. So you could yield your time to anybody now. Okay, then I yield my time to the pickleball lady. Okay, there you go. Thank you. I like that. I did serious stuff like the mental health commission that we're imagining and SCU, but now I am playing pick-a-ball. And Berkeley doesn't have enough pick-a-ball points, which is very equitable. Could you move to the mic so people can hear you on the screen? Berkeley does not have sufficient pick-a-ball course. And pick-a-ball is something everybody can tell you, because it's affordable, $2 to three dollars for open play, ten bucks for clinic. Bushrod is the hub. It's wonderful. You play with everybody. And I've lost like 40 pounds. The cholesterol went from 224 to 188. The glucose went from 111 to 77. The heart rate 104 over 68. And mental wellbeing, let me tell you. You focus on that ball. I played varsity tennis doubles for Berkeley High, we were the Northern California champions. And I don't wanna play tennis, I'm lugging around that tennis court. But the pick of all is hand fast. If you play ping pong, softball, whatever, it's great. But you only have Cedar Rose with one core open play and McKinney. So you need to start looking into putting more pickable on the tennis courts, because everybody's playing. It's exploding. OK. OK. You. You. OK. Next speaker. Any order? All right. How's everybody doing this evening? I want to congratulate you, Mayor, and also all of the folks that have been re-elected, been Terry, and I even got myelected, been Terry, and I even got my little, I even pulled it up, so I'm gonna thank everybody, because I'm gonna be working with you, you're gonna see me a little bit more, okay? District one, council member Kessowani, okay? District five, Shoshana O'Keefe, okay. District two, Terry, okay. District two, Brent, Blackaby, is that correct? Okay. Of course, district three, all right. District seven, Cecilia, okay. And district eight, Mark, okay. And district four, of course, Igar. Okay, is it Igar Egor? Egor. Okay, sorry, they don't tell you all that, but I'm here to actually say thank you to all of those that have worked to be able to help keep Black Repetora Group Theater in order. And I say this, thank you, thank you. I say this with a contrite heart, but also jubilant because we're going to miss out on that beautiful woman over there. She's the best, isn't she? And she's done a great job working together with Paul and working together with Ben and Terry and all of you to be able to keep things going and so give him a jingle. And was that promise marks? Yes. That's you. Okay. So you've exceeded your time by 46 seconds. Okay. We'll make it quick. She loaded up the Chris Richie. She moved it in reveal. I didn't know wrong because I was rushing. She loaded up the truck and she moved to Emory. Feel that is. No swimming pools or no stars. But like Terry Taplin said, you can come on back. We just want to give it some flowers and we want to thank you for all you've much. Hi, good evening everyone. My name is Jessica Brado and I'm here as a representative of the Berkeley homeless union. I want to extend my congratulations to the new members of the council and the mayor and take this opportunity to introduce our organization to you which represents the collective voices of I thank you for your time. I thank you for your time. I thank you for your time. I thank you for your time. I thank you for your time. I thank you for your time. I thank you for your time. I thank you for your time. I thank you for your time. I thank you for your time. I thank you for your time. I thank you for your time. I thank you for your time. I thank you for your time. at the table, a voice in shaping policies and a network of support to advocate for the dignity and rights. Most recently we have been active at the Second Street in Campman where the threat of displacement looms heavily over dozens of residents. Our union has been working tirelessly to bargain for a fair and just closure of this in Campman, where no one is left behind. We have advocated for clear timelines equitable shelter offers and ADA accommodations for residents with disabilities. Our goal is to ensure that it is handled in a way that prioritized safety, health and humanity of those affected. But despite these efforts we've been met with silence, we have been repeatedly requested to meet with city officials to discuss needs of our house communities and collaborate on solutions. So Berkeley has a long and proud history of championing equity justice and collaboration. It is our hope that this council will continue that legacy by engaging with us directly. We are not here to obstruct but to offer solutions. We believe that when on house residents are included in the decision making process, the outcomes are more compassionate, effective, and sustainable. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Megan Mossad, I want to congratulate you, Mary Shee, and May this be a new beginning with collaboration in the city and hearing our voices. I'd like to yield the rest of my time to Gordon. Hi, my name is Gordon Gilmore. I'm a representative for the Berkeley Homeless Union and I too want to send my congratulations to you and to the newly be talking about the community. I'm not going to be talking about the community. I'm not going to be talking about the community. I'm not going to be talking about the community. I'm not going to be talking about the community. I'm not going to be talking about the community. I'm not going to be talking about the community. of representation to advocate for the respect of their individual rights. These are often overlooked in city interactions with the un-house community, the right of association being one such. But more importantly, the right to be free from needing to live in a state of hypervigilance for a fear of state-acted harm. The 4 AM sweep of Old City Hall this morning represents once that cause of fear created by mechanisms of the state and numerous members have spoken to how this fear will prevent them from enjoying the upcoming holidays. Please enter into dialogue with us so we can end this reign of fear. Thank you. I'm going to go to the committee. Good evening. A steam council members and community members. Tonight I want to speak about displacement. Specifically in the context of people's park. The decisions made here about its future are not abstract. They're deeply personal and profoundly consequential for many. First, understand that People's Park is more than just a physical space. It's a national landmark, a refuge, and a living piece of Berkeley's identity. It shaped the experience of countless people serving as a sanctuary for those in need and a symbol of resilience for our community. Second, consider the human impact of your choices. The redevelopment of people's park, the displacement of unhoused folks at Old City Hall. These are real people's lives, and they should be treated with respect. How are you going to make sure that people are housed? Or how are you going to make sure that people at the roadway in where UC Berkeley sent unhoused people are going to be formally housed. I give it to you to answer these questions and I thank you for your service. I really hope that we can work together as a community and you listen to the people entirely. Thank you all so much for your comments. I just want to say I spoke with some of the activists outside earlier and offered that my office be willing to meet with you all. And so I know we'll be in touch and thank you very much all for your comments and for being here this evening. I really appreciate you being here. Okay, and we'll go to the public commenters five on Zoom. Yes, for non-agenda. Okay, Ben Gerhardstein, you should be able to unmute and speak. Good evening. Thanks for taking my comment. I'm Ben Gerhardstein. I'm with Walkbike Berkeley. We believe in making Berkeley a wonderful place for walking and biking. And I want to welcome this new council, both newly elected members and returning members. And I just want to say that I'm very excited to work with you and that we can be bold and we can deliver on what council from a Robloxa B. said of making Berkeley a city that has a government that is world class in delivering the services that we all need and deserve including making our streets as safe as possible. So welcome. Thank you for your service and let's get to work. Okay, thank you. Next speaker is K, K-A-Y-E. Hello, thank you all for hearing my comment. My name is Kaye. I'm a resident of the city of Berkeley and a health educator. Well, I can't speak as eloquently as other folks who have spoken earlier. I just wanted to express my deepest pleasure with the removal of the encampment on Second Street today. These folks are my neighbors. They are community members and they've been treated like they're discardable. So please, as you move forward and make decisions as a new council, as a new mayor, please put people first. First. Okay, thank you. Next is Lisa Teague. Good evening, council. And I'd like to speak as a member of the Berkeley Outreach Coalition. We want to welcome new Council members and returning Council members and congratulate our new mayor. And we do hope that we can work together in the coming months. I was going to ask the mayor to engage with the Berkeley Homeless Union better to peers that that is going to happen. I would also like to take the time to condemn the 4 AM sweep at old City Hall. It that's never the way y'all, especially when promises had been made to house those people who were leaving voluntarily that day. Thank you again for hearing my comments and welcome. Okay. I'm not sure if you're hearing my comments. I'm welcome. Okay. Next is Betsy Morris. There we go. Thank you very much. I just needed to unmute. Betsy Morris. I live in district two and I'm the co- convener for the East Bay Gray Panthers. I also want to second what several speakers have said. These sweeps are cruel and unusual punishment. I know the Supreme Court and the governor have encouraged you to take this kind of action. And I continue to hope and work that we will find the way to remember for the citizens, for the people who do live in Berkeley who consider themselves residents of Berkeley. These are our neighbors, these are our elders, these are the vulnerable marginalized people, and also people who are just trying to work and by living in vehicles, by camping, a number of people in West Berkeley are displaced workers and yet we don't really know those things. And I really encourage us all to get to know our unhoused neighbors and begin to understand that we cannot be a good, we cannot be a virtuous city until we can include our own and make peace with that. With that in mind, I really want to encourage everyone to look into the national vehicle residence. Please conclude your luck. That's it. And I'll finish that and just say there are resources for us to learn to get to know who it is that doesn't have a home. Doesn't have a house. Thank you. Thank you. I'm going to have to go to the office to get the office to get the office to get the office to get the office to get the office to get the office to get the office to get the office to get the office to get the office to get the office to get the office to get the office to get the office to get the office to get the office to get the office to get the office to get the office to get the office to get the office to get the office to get the office just bring on to the city. First thing, that fire alarm issue, not okay. It is the fire department's responsibility to keep citizens safe. My building has expired fire alarms and carbon monoxide detectors that I have back and forth emails with my landlords gaslighting me telling that it's perfectly acceptable to have expired fire alarms. It's not cool. And the self audit is frankly unacceptable as well because other than themselves are not turning it in. Part two and why I'm really here, I would like to have a motion to remove the Hawkins Cross to Act for the City of Berkeley. Those of you that do not know about the Hawking Cross since Act, it was 1995, it was two male landlords who were also legislators. For this date in California, over 25% of our legislative body are landlords and we do have a of the city of Berkeley because the big issue is the rent control stays with the unit. If we remove the Hawkins cost to act, we can have rent control stays with the unit. If we remove the Hawkins cost to act, we can have rent control stays with the unit. If we remove the Hawkins cost to act, we can have rent control stays with the unit. If we remove the Hawkins cost to act, we can have rent control stays with the unit. If we remove the hawkins cost to act, we can have rent control that stays with the unit. So if I move out and it's $2,000 and you want to move in, that stays at $2,000 or $2,000, $2,000, $50 because the rent control would be there instead of person to person. And that is invaluable to a community of people who are struggling to pay rent or get in furthermore, they're within that act because this is a just- Okay, that's all not agenda speakers. Thank you. Thank you all so much for your comments. I'm looking forward to offering more opportunities to speak with my office directly. So I hope that you all don't feel that you need to be here for that specific reason that you have more opportunities to come speak with me and folks in my office. And I also believe that I left out a speaker earlier, so I apologize. We have the East Bay Regional Parks Director, Elizabeth Eccles. I just want to make sure City Clerk that it's okay if I recognize her to speak. Thank you. Hello. Good evening, Council members. Mayor Ishi, staff and community members. My name is Elizabeth Eccles, president of the East Bay Regional Park District Board, which represents about 3 million people in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. And as someone who has called Berkeley home since childhood, I'm pleased to be here this evening to congratulate our new mayor, Adina Ishi, along with all of the new and re-elected CD Council members, Councilman, Ms. Blackaby, Bartlett O'Keefe and Tapplin on your successful elections. Mayor Ishi, I'm excited to see the new energy, perspective and leadership that you bring to your role as Mayor. You and the City Council have tough road ahead as others have noted. And yet I am confident that together you'll succeed in making Berkeley a shining example of what a city can be. I look forward to working with you on goals that the City of Berkeley and the park district share, including addressing the impacts of climate change, equitable access to parks and recreational programs, safe transportation and protecting public open space for everyone to enjoy for generations to come. Thank you for your service and thank you for the opportunity to be here tonight. Thank you for your service and thank you for the opportunity to be here tonight. Thank you. Thank you, Director Beckle. Excuse me. I now would like to move on to the consent calendar. Council members, are there any comments? Okay, thank you very much Mayor Ishi. I wanted to actually I didn't get a chance to say just congratulations to you Mayor our first Asian-American woman mayor in the city of Berkeley's history. I want to acknowledge that as a as an Asian-American woman also, and I wanna congratulate Councilmember O'Keefe and Councilmember Blackaby looking forward to working with you and so happy that you're here on the council and congratulations to our reelected, all our old hands. No, no, no. I'm not dead. I'm not dead. I'm not dead. Young at heart hands. And just look forward to working with this new body I don't have any comments on consent items. I did want to thank the city auditor for her comments on the information reports. I would like to request that we move the restaurant inspection audit status report to action. And I'll see if two other colleagues would like to do that. So we can get an update from the director of the department on how things are going with the restaurant inspections. Thank you. Are there other council members who will join? Okay. Okay, council member Trayga and Bartlett will join in moving that to action. Are there? Second. Okay. Other comments? Thank you. I also want to congratulate our new and returning Council members and Mayor and I'm looking forward to working together. I also want to address the 4 AM sweep of the encampment at Old City Hall. I said this at the September 10th meeting and I will say it again. Sweeping is not an effective solution to homelessness and shuffling people around who are already traumatized. It's not only ineffective but it's also antithetical to our city's commitment to a supportive and compassionate response to homelessness. If our goal is indeed to support people and get them housed, which I do believe is our collective goal, then we have to find better ways to meet the unique needs of our diverse community. They were 20 police officers at the sweep this morning and zero social workers are mental health professionals. I want to urge my colleagues to please meet with our constituents for suffering as a result of systemic inequity and our policy choices that direct our future decisions. Thank you. Thank you. I also would like to be recorded voting no on item 14 and would like to ask for unanimous consent to move item E, bicycle and pedestrian access to on the Richmond side of Murphile Bridge from the action calendar to consent. Thank you. I have a few comments but I think Councillor Romani was asking you if you've asked for whether there are any objections to Councilmember Luna Paras request to move the bike letter item to consent. Yes, are there any objections? Okay, thank you. Good. Yes, Mayor. I have just a few comments. And one is with respect to item 18 on the consent calendar. And it has to do with the new schedule of fines and late payment penalties for parking violations. And it's adding some penalties and fines for parking within 20 feet of a crosswalk or an intersection. You know, ahead of our red curbing all of those areas. And I think we should go ahead and pass this tonight that I had a question for staff and I don't know if staff is available to answer it. Looking over this item I noticed we have something like 35 different dollar amount levels just for base fines. For example, between the values of $40 and $60. There are 12 different fine levels. Is this something we could do an item the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I don't know if there's any staff member from Public Works who could answer that question available. Our Public Works Director, Terrence Davis is on the call remotely. He's unmuted, so he can respond to your question. Yes, good evening, Mayor Council and community, Terrence Davis Public Works Director. and the meeting of the community. So, so to the question, I did confer. As we were putting this item together, very closely with our police department in chief Lewis. And we certainly can take a look at. The series of finds and fees that have been put before you and that schedule that are tied to the municipal code to take a look to see if there's options to either consolidate or look at other options to ensure that we're following best practices that other municipalities are as well. So that's certainly something we can take a look at. Some of this work started early as the re-imagining public safety effort. So we have a framework to kind of take a look at these. So we can certainly look at them and bring them back. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. And I want to join with Councilmember Kessar Wani if there aren't already three votes to move the restaurant's item from consent to to action. We have three votes. We have three votes. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. And now since the bike item is on consent, I just have a couple comments I like to make about that. I like to thank Councilmember Luna Parra for bringing this forward. If our region is going to meet its climate goals, live up to its principles, and be an example for the rest of the country, we need to take bold steps to make it easier and safer to use non-automotive forms of transportation. This particular project is beyond Berkeley's voters, but since this bridge is a regional transportation link, it still affects us in our residents directly. We just received a letter today from the Bay Area Council that I find problematic Bay Area Council's purporting to speak on behalf of the minority and working class population of Richmond. But the city of Richmond's government is already weighed in on this, requesting that the bike lane stay open on weekdays. I don't want to move backwards to accommodate auto drivers. We need to be serious about mode shift. The climate demands it. And there is no opportunity here for safely mixing bikes with cars on that bridge. Even the most avid cyclists is not going to ride the bridge without the safety of a protected bike lane. I'm hoping that working with our new council members we can bring forward some items for Berkeley that have the same energy as this one. There's no reason Berkeley can't be the Paris of the U.S. with a high quality network of safe bicycle infrastructure. And Mayor Ishi following in and Paris mayor and Hidalgo steps. And I'm hoping this resolution revs, resents just a small initial movement in that direction. Thank you, that's all I have. Thank you, Councilmember. Other additional comments? I think our machines are now working. I see actually, Councilmember Blackbeath. Great. I'll be brief. Yeah. First, on the consent calendar, it's just I'm glad to see several items to promote the arts here in Berkeley, art and public spaces, as well as to study the economic impact of the arts in Berkeley and pandemic recovery. So I'm looking forward to that report and seeing the results of the report. Also appreciate the Otters comments earlier and in particular, the Fire Department audit. I know we're at the end of the five year follow-up period and so not necessarily obligated to report back again on the audit, but I know there are a lot of those recommendations that are in process. So I just wanted to confirm with the city manager that we could get maybe a six month off agenda memo with an update Even though again, we're past the five-year window But I think there are a lot of those recommendations that were eager to see progress on and would love an update in about six months It's sure that's no problem. Councillor Boer. Okay. Thank you Councilmember Traca Thank you so much Madam Mayor First I wanted to just join in the chorus of the congratulate the congratulatory chorus to say congratulations and it is exciting and inspiring to be part of a council where first story is being made today. Congratulations on your inspiring to be part of the council. Our first story is being made today. And congratulations on your momentous victory. And thank you for being willing to sort of and congratulations to all of the new and re-elected members of the council. Some of you have already worked on in this space before. And I look forward to doing so again. I wanted to, on item 18, just follow up on the question from my colleague with another question. We did receive a communication in today in support of this item. And asking about what kind of educational opportunities there might be before we get into punitive measures that was always compliance, but if staff can provide a brief answer about what kind of the most dangerous intersections in the city that will be the ones that we start with the red painting. So we will overlay crash data with all of the intersections that the city has. I'll show that out to you. I'll show that out with some, I know there's some other interested folks. And if they have additional information that they want to share that would be welcomed. To your question, we will be the plan is to put out information over our social media through the city's websites, which we'll share also with council members, and you can amplify those voices, it would be helpful. And to start off with a two to three month period where the goal is not to start with citations, but with education and warnings. And then after that period of time, move into citations after that. So, but there would be a two to three month period of informing and educating the public about this whole process and the state law. Thank you so much. And then, it was a reference to item E, which is now on the consent calendar. I just wanted to thank the engagement that we have received from many members of the public, whether you were for or against this resolution. I read your comments and letters closely. And I don't dismiss the legitimacy of the opposition to this item. I will be voting in support of the consent calendar, which includes this item. I had an opportunity to write my bike across that bridge a couple of years ago as part of a 350 bay area bike right along across all three bridges. We did I think we tried to do half of the bay bridge because only half is open right now. I understand that, well, ultimately, this is going to be the decision of a regional body and which represents numerous stakeholders across all nine counties in the Bay Area. And we are just one city. But I wanted to lend my voice as part of the nine member city council in support of this item. Because I agree with the contents of this item, we are in a climate emergency. Any mode shifts that can be done to move people to more climate-friendly modes and away from privately owned vehicles is helpful. To the extent, and I did read the comments to the contrary to the extent that some believe that this pilot has failed. I believe that it is our collective responsibility to ensure success. And I am just one council member in one district. But I think I share this desire with all of my colleagues to do whatever we can to support making it safer, easier and more accessible to shift into that mode of being able to use a bike and transit to not just within Berkeley, but outside of Berkeley using those much more climate-friendly forms of transportation. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Traygob. I see that Council Member Epif would also like to speak. Yeah, thank you, and I'm happy to follow Council Member Traygub's comment, because I would like to add my support to the byclaim item. And in addition to the important climate goals that it serves, I want to also call out that it's very, very important to have bike access from the East Bay to Marin due to equity reasons. I think the fact that Bart does not go to Marin and there's very limited other public transportation access. It's really, really important as the government body that we make sure that there's good equity and transportation throughout our region. So another reason to support it. Thank you, Council Member Oakheath. I'd now like to move on to public comment on consent calendar and information items only. And I will have the clerk as those comments. So there you go. Please line up against the wall over here. You can get a sense of. Hi, I'm Margaret fine again, and I'm here tonight for Monica Jones, who unfortunately couldn't, Ben, did an emergency legislation like the S.U. And is ahead of the curve and ensuring bike equity by providing opportunities for children who may not have a bike by giving them away. And he has put together a resolution to authorize the expenditure of surplus funds from the office, expense accounts of Marin City Council for donation to rights of tomorrow, which is the nonprofit that Monica runs at Malcolm X School with twice a week, twice a month for boys, twice a month for girls in order to bring role models. So these children can have opportunities because they know they can do these things. She's brought fire department people, she's held cleanups down by the bay. I mean, this is a woman who has like created a village in order to make this a much more equitable city. And I hope that every council member can give as much as they can so that these children can have bikes for Christmas or whatever holiday they celebrate. Thank you. I just was going to comment that that's an emergency item. So just so you All right. Thank you. I just was going to comment that that's an emergency item. So just so you know it will technically be on our agenda. So go ahead. I have to vote to it. We will. Yes. Yes. I just said it. Good evening and welcome Madam Mayor. So wonderful to see you up there and all the new council members. Welcome, my name is Elana Auerbach. And I am wondering who was it? This is with regard to item number 14. Thank you, council member Luna Paro for not supporting $400,000 more to the Berkeley Police Department. There were dozens of police officers there at 4am this morning. And so I know Madam Mayor, you were running on bringing transparency and accountability to our city council. So who approved that? I went over to City Hall this afternoon, spoke with Andrea Henson of where do we go? Who's an attorney there? And she was speaking with Peter Radoo and other people in the city. There was a plan. These were elders. These were people who had disabilities. These were people who had mental health challenges. And 40am, can you imagine coming? And they were traumatized. And so we need to understand who okayed that? Because that wasn't what they were talking about with our unhoused neighbors, with the homeless union, and also with the advocates for our unhoused neighbors. So that's transparency and accountability, and we need to get to the bottom of that, so this kind of thing doesn't happen again. Thank you. Hello. Congratulations, Mayor Ishi. So I'm speaking on item 11, rather than giving more money to Siemens industry. I think we should be ending the contract with them. Siemens was awarded the contract for building the Euro Asia Interconnector, a sub-CE cable that will link Israel's electricity grids with Europe's, allowing its settlements on stolen Palestinian and Syrian land to benefit from Israel EU trade of electricity produced from also stolen fossil gas. self-explanatory one against further business with that company. Further on item 14, instead of giving BPD more toys, we should be spending money on actually solving the homelessness issues by actually working on housing people. That is the only way to solve the issue of people being unhoused, not pushing them around at entomatizing 4 a.m. sweeps. Thank you. Thank you. Hello. My name is Lauren Good. I'm a lifelong Richmond resident. I'm commenting on agenda item E, as well as a policy associate at the Bay Area Council for Homelessness and Transportation Policy. Firstly, I want to say that I find the extremely close-minded to disregard any piece of information because it's coming from the Bay Area Council. I'm a lifelong Richmond resident in the Richmond Bridge issues have affected me and my community personally. Firstly, I'd like to say that if you are voting in favor of the resolution, the permit amendment is supported by the Richmond NAACP, Bata, MTC, the Marin County Board of Supervisors, the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors, excluding Supervisor John Joy, who hasn't taken a position due to its position as a BCD commissioner. The Northern California Carbender's Union and the Marin Association of Public Employees. And over 17,000 Bay Area residents who signed a petition in favor of the bridge permit amendment. Public policy has to be based on the facts which demonstrates the following. Biker usage of the bridge is slim and 80,000 cars go across the bridge daily. This is directly impacting minority communities who do not have access to bikes and cannot bike on the bridge due to how long the commute is. I myself have driven or bike and rode on the bridge specifically and it's a hard ride, but I do support biking. This amendment isn't against biking. The bike lane will remain open on Friday through Sunday. This is directly impacting a minority community and is supported by the minority community of Richmond and many other organizations. Thank you for your time. Good evening and welcome you Mayor, beautiful CEO, beautiful CEO. Of course I was disappointed Mayor Ergine and this is the council beable, the horrible, the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of Our company did over 15 million dollars a year. I'm sorry, can you just tell me which item you're speaking of? Partim C. Partim C. Durant mall applied there four years ago. Our application approved by both consent partim C. The sharing grant more. Telegraph. You have it? Yes. Okay. So four years ago, Mayor Arigain, with the Demonsh Art Building on telegraph, Mayor Arigain promised a place, so he will have to have you. Next day, Mr. Garland, I guess, I have to have more time for the fact that we have with it. And an employee probably corrupt, I know why she is corrupt, but obligation on hold for four years. We have said we'll pay five years in advance, we need everything. What I'd like to say, I opened the business in 73 by 78, over 100 world paid Americans paid millions of taxes, including many millions in the Berkeley City of Berkeley taxes. The way, I'm sorry, the cover page, as you see it, is very tough. It is because we've been waiting for years, eventually to give us some unknown company that manufactured jewelry, which is obscene. And our friend Bartlett knows he brought them in. Now what I like to say for sure is that if you look at the first page, just cover this one. Please include your comment. I will, I will. Mark. Your minute or two. Okay. Okay. Second page, what about the file, a claim against the city. Legal claim against the city for multimillion dollars because of the terrible action what Erdogan did and the city council did really was a crime against our company. I guess people are very, sorry. You're over your time. Okay. I want to make sure we have time for the other comments. Yeah, just please be attention to the three pages I gave you. Thank you. What's your promise there? Thank you so much. I have them right here. Thank you. Thank you so much. And so it's pretty tough. But if you have lost probably a couple of million dollars in the last three years, we'll need to go forward. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Go ahead. Thank you. Thank you. There's nothing. There's nothing. You're all the taxes. Yeah. Hi again. My name is Aiden Hill. I'm a resident of District 7. I wanted to speak briefly about consent calendar items the least agreement with Dorothy Dayhouse. District 7 residents deserve spaces where we can dance and play pickleball in large open fields. Spaces that bring joy, foster connection and address our community's climate goals. Parks and open spaces are not just about recreation. They're also essential infrastructure for resilience. That's where Dorothy Day comes in. Dorothy Dayhouse has been tremendous in at least my work with food not bombs, which is a loosely international organization that's like people like you and me who believe ending hunger is necessary that food is a human right. And Dorothy Day House has been at the forefront of that in Berkeley. We've had so many connections with them and in my personal work as a case manager, I see how especially on-house people need those services now more than ever. And it's nonprofits like Dorothy Dayhouse who are picking up the slack and making sure that people are fed. So I really do hope you approve this and I want to commend Dorothy Dayhouse for all the work they've done in Berkeley. Thank you. Good evening. So item C, I'll do that with the previous speaker said, but I also want to comment on the sweeps because you really are traumatizing folks, people are unhoused and then they have to wake up at 4 a.m. whatever time you decide with police presence, no mental health services and no compassion or empathy. How would you like it if you so-and-came knocking on your door at 4 a.m. to manage you to move all your stuff and get the hell out. That's what they do in Israel, you know, it's not real I mean. And it seems like you're taking on the same kind of tactics. And that's not okay. I also understand that the walk buzzer in front of Old City Hall, when we crossed the street at 3 a.m. was going on, but buzz was going on from 3 a.m. until dawn. And that's another tactic of the IDF to have drone sounds, which is equivalent to the sound of the walk, the beep from the walk signs. And that's not okay, that's torture and unusual punishment. So be kind to our unhoused neighbors and stop the Thank you. Welcome Madam Mayor. From Mid-Atchandria. Thank you. Thank you. And welcome to the new council members. My name is Andrea Pritchett. I work with Berkeley Copwatch. And I work with a lot of organizations. I'm a teacher here in Berkeley. But one of the, I've been, I'm tracking item number 14. I see that we're spending the proposal is to spend money on hybrid police patrol vehicle supplies. What I'm here to address is this idea of money for the police function. Because part of the re-imagining public safety process that the city went through a couple years ago, was talking about what is public safety. Public safety isn't danger when a rain comes, and all the unhoused people get wet, and their blankets are wet. And they risk dying of exposure as somebody did in Ruler Park in late November. And that's what I know of. I know I imagine there's others or there may be others. And when there's a rain, when there's an atmospheric river that comes, it's like an earthquake, it's like any other disaster, we have to be prepared for it. Why do the poor people in our city not qualify for an emergency response? Because we have the most fragile population, unfortunately, lives as you saw in those tents in front of Old City Hall. The special care unit I've come to you before talking about its deficiencies. Dr. Carlos Flores is the head of it now because he's with Bonita House. He has directed, and I know these because I was there for about six o'clock in the morning, when a psychotic woman who is in continent, who is disabled, who walks with a walker, who was hollowed in her tent. Who do I call in this town? Who do I call for help? I did everything I could. I took her to my house. I beat her. I gave her new clothes, but I can't. I can't. I don't have the resources to help her the way she needs to be helped. And I call this special care unit this morning when there was a bulldozer going back and forth two feet from her tent. With no regard, and I'm sorry, but I have the memory of Rachel Corey actually is on my shoulder. And I'm thinking, what if this guy makes one wrong law? This woman in this debt? She's got that commitment. She already had it. I yield by top. OK. Well, she's got 12 seconds because she's already 48 seconds over. OK. You got OK. You got we'll run it. Let it run for 15 more seconds. The Lord has told me that he I'm sorry When I called Dr. Flores after the rain came he told me do you realize you're calling me on my day off? When I called this morning I got for the SCU. This is our emergency response. At first I was told we can't come there. Who exactly? We're not allowed to come to Old City Hall. Eventually they told me that Dr. Flores had said we are specifically directed not to go to encampments without police, which completely undermines this five million dollar project that we've all been so many of you campaigned on. Your desire for a 24-7 emergency response. They want to call it back. And I tried, well, I said, look, this woman right here needs help, please come. They said, we're in a training from 8 to 12. Would you expect, if you call the police, if you got that kind of an, I don't know, it's funny, but right on. That's the four minutes, thank you. So I've come in so many times asking for your help. Thank you so much for your comment. Today is my first meeting, and I promise you that I will make time to speak with all of you about this issue. I really appreciate you bringing this and it's absolutely heart-breaking. Breaking, of course, if someone came and woke me up at 4 a.m. in the morning, I wouldn't be happy about it either. So I understand that and I want to say that there needs to be more communication and coordination and that those conversations will be had with my administration. So thank you so much for your comments. That's Miss Pritchard, ladies and gentlemen, she's been fighting this community for a long, long time, long, long time. Thank you. Thank you. Wow. Um, folks, my name is Nathan Meisel. A few of you may recognize me from the long ago errors of 2020 and 2021 when we were doing re-imesting public safety. I'm probably getting into any of that. I want to congratulate you, Mary Ishi, on your election, your victory. I think it truly represents the Minibirklians new hope. And there are many people I trust truly that say to me, they believe you are that person that can put the city back on track. So I look forward to supporting you in your work. Can there be a council member, but Black could be. Council member O'K the key, of course, re-election of the council member, is the council member of Bartley, you're the old statesman now. I got her as well as well. Not too old, okay. Sorry, was there a, I know. Oh yeah, so I'll go to was item 18, is that the police item, or is that the, oh, I'm already out of time. It will get far more than a minute. I very much appreciate it. Thank you. So yeah, obviously, oh no, let's talk about, no, no, no, folks, I'm sorry. There's a different idea agenda. Let's talk about fines and fees. Yes, fines and fees. I appreciate council's concern. I heard it from Councillor Humbert, other Councillor Humbert, or Trek of as well. That was what I think we worked on in reimagining. And I believe currently the proposal to hire additional folks to look over claims and to really just remodel and completely change our fines of heat structure. I believe it is a deferred budget proposal waiting for you perhaps next year. So I think like a lot of different ideas and reimagining, we're still hoping to see that work forward. But I also want to be clear for myself, obviously, safety for renters, their protections, police carbility, these are my big issues, as you folks know, I will continue to advocate for them. And I think the good news is there's a lot of room for us to work together. I know it seems like a lot in the last year, maybe that hasn't been true. That's still true to me. That's why I worked with a task work for a year and a half to get ideas, all of y'all, and I want to continue in that work. And just so you know, I've say UC.sf, form the hastics, don't get me out of me. So I'm working on that, and that's why I've been here as often. But I'm still in this work. I still care, and I'd love just, you know, I'll be speaking with all of you as we go into the new year and the work we can do together. Thank you. Hi, I just wanted to talk really quickly about item number C. I'm not here to oppose the lease of the authority day house, but I do want to raise some serious issues about the services in Berkeley. My day job is to be as a journalist and I actually requested through a public records request that grievances that people have filed about the authority day house in their shelters. And I was not able to get these records because the city does not even collect this information. Like you don't even know what grievances are happening in your shelters because the city does not request this information. So I just want you to know that, you know, that is a priority. That you should know what is happening in the places that you're funding. Dority Day House is a long long standing homeless service provider, but they also need checks and balances, which they don't have at this moment. We just keep funding everything that they do, but we need checks and balances. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, sorry. Ah, Arnie. Okay. Have a guest. I'm going to talk about item 14 and spending many on the police, like up to 400,000 or something. I want to talk about honor because the police are supposed to be honorable. And I entered into an agreement with the city of Berkeley, why was told that 40 people accepted shelter because of outreach, and that they wanted to partner with us, and that no sweep would happen at Old City Hall, until everyone took shelter. Now that doesn't mean they had to accept it, but that they could use their own autonomy and agency to go inside. You could understand that I was very disheartened this morning at 4 AM when the city showed up with like 25 police officers and 25 public works folks to remove people after I shook Peter Redo's hand. That's old school. I said, let's partner. That's old school. I said, let's partner, let's help people. Can I have an extra minute, Paul? Thank you. I said, let's work together. Let's get people inside, it's winter time. And then I've said numerous times, including to Paul Bootenhagen that where do we go would pay for the cleanup of Harrison Street? To help folks there, We said that numerous times. Let's help people this winter. But what happened this morning is our most disabled were left out. SCU refused to come. We were out there in the morning. I stood in front of someone's tent they were going to take everything she had and she's severely mentally disabled African American. I had been telling the city about her for weeks. There's too much to get into. What I think needs to happen is we need to have an investigation because this is affecting my reputation with the folks on the street. I went out there and we talked about people going inside and getting the trust from the city of Berkeley and giving that because to get trust you have to get it to get people inside their hats. Can I have another minute? Thank you. Honor, bravery to stand up when everyone is against you when they don't like seeing people to I'm going to start again. And on our mirrors first day. I bet I'm correct that no one told you they were going to come out at 4 a.m. Because you were at our dinner and you've been out at our camp. And I'm going to start again. And I'm going to start again. And on our mirrors first day. I bet I'm correct that no one told you they were going to come out at 4 a.m. because you were at our dinner and you've been out at our camp and our goal is to get people house. That's what everyone says. I was told that the city of Berkeley was in taking five people a day. That's what I told people out there and this morning people were screaming. Everyone in the shelter woke up because the police were outside, lights were outside. I was being told to move people's things in the pitch dark. I had a 76 year old woman who just got discharged from the hospital. This isn't over. There's also, and I'm not threatening to be frivolous about it. When I shake someone's hand, I believe in honor. You all know me. I don't come up in front of you just to wave my arms around. Not that people do that, but I'm saying I'm just speaking for me. I was given a promise that everyone there would be housed or have an offered shelter before this camp was cleared and they showed up this morning. I honestly didn't think it was going to happen because I believe in handshakes. I believe in honor and integrity. Your word means something and I put everything in it. I worked every single day. Everyone in our organization, the Berkeley homeless union and others worked every single day to get these folks housed. And now they're traumatized. They're still two women who are so severely disabled that they are laying on the grass in psychosis, not because they should be arrested for 5150, I'll end it. But because they need help. Thank you. Thank you. Before you speak, I just want to say I was not aware, but I don't think that that's an excuse I should have been aware and so I do want to just say that I as your mayor feel that it's my responsibility to know about these things and to be able to continue to build trust between the city and the people. So I thank you for your comments. I start now. Okay. Okay. So, on C, Dorothy Day House always support the good work of Dorothy Day House, but job development for the unhoused should go beyond selling thrift clothes, which is not a sustainable way to survive or become self-sufficient. So we really need better job development and Berkeley. In terms of number 12, I'm glad to see the city addressing Sacramento cars just race through those LED lights. There's been many accidents. It needs to be looked at very carefully. And as far as the SAU, it needs to be, it is a failure on so many fronts. I can't possibly begin to go into it here and it just needs to be redesigned. We need to acknowledge that the intent was good, but it needs to be completely reworked. But there's more than the SU. There's the City of Berkeley has a mental health full service homeless partnership team that the MHSA funding plan came to council. I will wrap up, but it came to council for approval and was approved by the state. And it talks about physically going to the encampments to provide mental health services. But they're never at the encampments. Okay, so we need to also look at the mental health homeless full service partnership team. So that's it. I start providing services. Hello everyone, my name is David Green. I want to speak on number 14 and where we spend money and where we don't. For the last month or so, I've been going around to my on number 14 and where we spend money and where we don't. For the last month or so, I've been going around on my own pickup truck and helping out at some of the homeless encampments where they will have garbage bags ready for me to pick up and haul off so that their place can look decent and they can feel good about where they're staying. I also happen to be a practicing psychotherapist, so just as my personality and a matter of what I do, I end up talking to people and I can pick you back or vouch for what everybody else is saying. There is nothing. Well, I shouldn't say nothing. There's something dangerous about all of us. We can all have problems and be a little grumpy sometimes. But these people want to be talked to, they want to be cared for, they want to be listened to. There's nothing scary about going into these encampments and talking with folks. One woman I was talking to this morning at 6am after a lot of the encampment had been cleared, was that she believed in her heart of hearts that Berkeley PD was really she believed in her heart of hearts that Berkeley PD was really the people protecting her. And she was sure that these sweeps were going on because of Trump. Trump was sending people in to do these sweeps. Berkeley and Berkeley PD had her back. Please conclude. Right comments. So this is a real moment like somebody mentioned earlier where there's going to be trouble nationally and we need to decide which side we're on. Thank you. Hello everyone. My name is Jacob. I didn't know that I was going to up here, but my witness compels me to come and speak, both my witness of being a new resident of apparently district two. I just learned that today. So, Council member Taplin, hey. I have only lived out here for two months now. And in those two months, I have spent about equal time, both sleeping in my nice overpriced apartment and then also going around and either helping out or sleeping in tents. I've been doing this because I recognize that apparently the city of Berkeley, which I had esteemed previously because I believed it to be representative of the values that we have on these flags here, the board did to be representative of the values and the history of radicalism and equity and change, has decided that it needs to criminalize its own neighbors, its own people. And I find that unconscionable. And I find that unconscionable that we would spend $400,000 on giving more money to the police when we have people who need housing, when we have people who need help. Thank you. I am Todd Jersey. I am a local architect, a business owner, down in an eight street in Gilman. I own my wife and I own an office condo there. I want first congratulations mayor and council to thank Rashi for her work in dealing with the thing camp and down there. Because it's sad to hear the 4 AM thing that's just completely out. Sorry, just are you speaking on an item? I was speaking on 14. 14. And so, like everybody else. But I did want to just put in, there's an overwhelming presence for homeless care here and that's important. It's also really important to hear how much the businesses are struggling down at Harrison and be pointed to come forth and speak about that. Are we reaching out to you Mayor to talk about it? Thanks. Thank you. Is that the end of our comments? In person. Any other in person speakers? Okay. We can move to the speakers on. Zoom, the first speaker has a phone number ending in 937. seven. You can press star six to unmute. Okay, maybe idea. Come back to them. Chelsea. You should be able to unmute. Hi, yes. To go with all the topics that are going on. My background is at ICU nurse and a nurse that works in the community. What's happening with the homeless people, it's not right. I do want to know from a show of hands from the City Council, how many of you are familiar with the Hawkins Cost to Act? Sorry, can you tell us which item you're speaking on? It relates to the homelessness issue in the situation because as a city do we only care about people if they're unhoused in homeless or if is there property on this? There's no item on the consent calendar. That's quite fine. I'm still going to bring it up because it is a topic that needs to be brought up and nobody sitting here has told me that they're going to be looking at this seriously and understanding what's going on with this act. Excuse me, I'm going to interrupt and say that earlier I made comments that I will be meeting with folks here. I've already spoken to folks before this meeting. And we'll be meeting with them. And so this is something we are taking seriously. And also this is time for comments on the consent agenda as well as information items only. Thank you for the early speak. Thank you. Okay, and we have next we have Robert Prince. By Keith Bay. Thank you and hello Berkeley council members. Welcome to Mayor Ishi and council members Black, you know, Keith. This comment is about the Richmond Center fell bridge path resolution. Special thanks to council member Luna Parara for authorizing the item and to Council members, my name is Robert Prince, I'm a advocacy director with Bikey Spay. You don't know we're in over 50 world grassroots nonprofit organizations serving country cost down the counties. We mobilize by bike to build thriving communities that are joyful, safe and inclusive. We also coordinate locally with Berkeley with many partners including our friends at Walk Bike Berkeley, we're very happy to come and successfully measure FF. I appreciate your support on this resolution. Look forward to taking it to the Bay Conservation Development Commission in 2025, helping form their decision on the matter along with existing support from Richmond City Council, Albany City Council, West Country Caster Transportation Commission, more than 70 community organizations including the Sierra Club, Save the Bay, the Trust for Public Land, more than a dozen communities serving Richmond groups and too many more mentioned. Unfortunately, there's still infrastructure gaps on the marine side, that have been biking and walking on the seas and pathway and extremely insufficient public transit connections. Ultimately, the bridge congestion is a one of the most common. I'm just going to for a building issue with lack of workforce housing construction in Marin County leading to people suffering through mega Thank you. I'm going to pass it over to Councilmember Bartlett, who has an emergency item. I'm going to pass it over to Councilmember Bartlett, who has an emergency item. I'm going to pass it over to Councilmember Bartlett, who has an emergency item. I'm going to pass it over to Council Member Bartlett, who has an emergency item. Thank you, Madam Mayor. First off, Monica, listening in the hospital. Please get well, press or with you, and the work you do is so important. So Monica's group is called Lights of Tomorrow and they're giving bikes to kids. And it's coming up on 18th and this is our last meeting. We learned about this the other day. So this is our one chance to, for me to donate my name from my office to help them get bikes to kids and the opportunity for all of you, should you care to contribute as well if you accept it Okay, so I'd like to move to accept this measure for a second second from councilmember Trayvab Okay to add the item to the agenda Councilmember Kisarwani. Yes. Tapplin. Yes. Bartlett. Yes. Tregum. Aye. O'Keefe. Yes. Blackaby. Yes. Moonapara. Yes. Humber. Yes. And Mayor Ishi. Yes. Okay, the motion carries. The item is added to the agenda on the consent calendar and will be adopted with the consent calendar vote. I'm going to recognize council member Tapplin. Thank you. I would like to contribute $500. Councillor Member. Trigger. Thank you, Madam Mayor. I'd like to contribute $100 for my discretionary account. Councillor Member Humpert. Yes, thank you, Madam Mayor. I'd like to contribute $300 for my discretionary account on this item. Council Member Luna-Para. Thank you. I would also like to contribute $300. Thanks. Council Member Bartlett. You're next on the queue, although. Thank you. You're welcome to let. Oh, thank you. It's great. I'd like to contribute $100 to the item. Thank you. You're welcome to let. Oh, it's just. It's good. I'd like to contribute $100 to the item. Thank you very much. Council Member Blackby. I'd like to contribute $250 from our office budget. Okay. And I thank you, Madam Mayor and thank my colleagues here. Oh, yes. Yeah, me too. Same as Brett. Do you want to say how much that was? 250. Thank you. And I'd like to give 500. It's written here, but I have to state it as well. And so also thank you all for contributing these bikes. Go a long way to a lot of kids are not going to have big chrysmses. And in live we're heard tonight that the sad stories you've heard about people having rough circumstances right now in our midst, some of them are children. So let's, you know, feel good about one thing tonight. Thank you. Thank you so much. I'd now like to have the clerk take role for the consent calendar item, please. We need to move approval of the consent calendar. Second. Okay. To approve the consent calendar, Council Member Kisarwani. Yes. The Taplin. Yes. Bartlett. Yes. Tragab. Aye. O'Keefe. Yes. Blacklett. Yes, Trega, aye. O'Keefe. Yes. Blackaby. Yes, Lennopara. Yes. Humberd, aye. And Mary Eashie. Yes. Okay, motion carries. Thank you. All right, we have one action item as well, which is because we moved number 22 from information reports to action, which was done successfully. So I'd now like to go to action calendar and take public comment on the action item. So any public comment? This is item 22 regarding restaurant inspection audit status report. Is there any public comment from in person attendees? there's a lot of comments from the person attendees. No, okay, don't see any raised hands on zoom so there are no public commenters for this item. Thank you. Thank you for your suggestion. Were there comments? Yeah, Council comments. Thank you very much, Madam Mayor. I want to thank the auditor again for the report on this and Director Gilman. I see your on Zoom for us. I want to thank you for your divisions work in addressing the audit recommendations. And I wanted to have this discussion because I had done a referral suggesting that we look at the possibility of doing some kind of independent analysis of whether the city of Berkeley should continue to exercise this function of conducting the healthcare facility inspections and potentially look to alternatives. And so I understand director Gilman, you have now had a chance to speak to the Alameda County Health Department director. And so I was hoping you could share a bit about what you've learned from that. And then I do want to ask you some questions about the audit recommendations. Yes, thank you. Thank you for the opportunity. Councilmember Ann Mayer, through the city manager, we did, we did meet with the county or having regular meetings with the county as we move forward with the audit. Regarding simply giving it back to them, we've determined with the county that decision, it would be a contract. They aren't necessarily jumping up and down at that idea. But are willing to discuss it. And in fact, one of the things that we're doing, while we go through this process is talking to them about, about implementing a contract with them for backup service. And so, if we're going to be able to, if we're going to be able to, if we're going, well, we go through this process is talking to them about implementing a contract with them for backup services. So if we do run into a situation where we fall behind, we have a very small staff. So it doesn't take very many vacancies for us to get to get behind. And that's part of what happened, you know, to begin with. So the short answer is yes, we're in communication as we rebuild. We want to have our standards, our policies, our procedures very similar there. And we have talked about whether it would be viable or not. Okay, thank you very much, Director Gilman. And can you tell us more about the status of catching up on the 2023 inspections that we weren't able to do? I know the the document on page four notes that we still have 124 to complete by December 31st. Are we able to do those? Yeah we'll complete the overdue inspections for 2023, you know, as we promised. I think the thing I want to be transparent about though is as we've gone through this, you know, we've done a really deep dive into the department. We found a few things, for example, if the study hadn't been done in quite a while, if the study's almost complete, one of the things that the fee study has shown us very clearly, and it's just simple math, is that we're not staffed appropriately to do the work in the department. So we're going to have to come back to you and we'll have to figure out from a staffing and a finance standpoint and a policy standpoint. There's a lot of discussions and questions that we'll have to answer. But it's really just a phenomena that we've learned happens across the state, other environmental health directors call it the while you're out there syndrome, where we have staff that's out in the field and while you're out there, for example, you can just do tobacco, you can just do noise, you can do these other functions, and we've done that, but we're clearly mathematically not able to meet the level of quality that we want to. And so we're in the early stages of analyzing the fee study. That'll be the vehicle that we'll use to have discussions about that. And when I say quality discussions versus cost discussions for the city, just the best way to think about that is best practice as we do for inspections a year for high risk facilities like nursing homes. If we're gonna, and that's a city policy decision, you can decide as a council that you wanna do it six times, you can that you want to do it one time, but there's a cost to it. So we're going to have to weigh that that cost of maintaining that level of quality with, you know, with the current resources that we have. Okay, thank you very much, Director Gilman. I wanted to touch on the staffing issues. I see, and I think our auditor had mentioned that you filled the vacant registered environmental health specialist position recently in October 2024. And we're in the process of hiring for the supervisor position. But in the interim, we are able to contract with the California Association of Environmental Health Administrators to use temporary registered environmental health specialists. It says in the short term. I'm wondering is is that an option that could also be available in the longer term just given our staffing challenges because if we have turnover, I just want to make sure we have a backup plan. It sounds like we could explore the county as a backup and what about this other option here with the California Association of Environmental Health Administrators? Yeah, we're exploring both of those options right now. What we have to be careful with the association is it's retired in Newarkins and they can only work, you know, unspecified projects. And we were very fortunate. We had a registered staff person that was familiar with our community very seasoned and was able to walk in and really just start working right away. But to answer your questions specifically, yes, we're exploring both of those options. Okay, yes, I just want to encourage that. I want to make sure that we have a backup plan so that we don't have a situation where the very high risk facilities are not getting the attention and the inspections that they need. And then finally on the IT piece and the database. Can you just give us an update on where we are with that. Yeah, we have been working with IT. We're scheduled to implement our new system, the first quarter of 2026. There's a lot of groundwork that has to be done between now and then, including bringing in a consultant to help us map the current system. And once that's done, then we can look at the last item on the auditor's recommendation was some sort of placard system that we could implement. But again, if we do move in that direction, that would be an additional function, an additional cost that we'll have to consider when we get to that, when we get to that point. Okay, yes, I wanna express my support for the placard system. I think we've all traveled to other places where we see the letter grade for the restaurant and it gives the customer confidence that yes, the restaurant has been inspected and it has passed. So I hope we can get to that point that I know we have a lot of work to do before we can build on what we have. And in closing, I just want to note that this type of function often gets overlooked. This is a core basic service that our residents are expecting, that our health care facilities, health facilities, food facilities, restaurants, food trucks, that the foods that they consume at these places, that they are safe to consume. And I want to just say that we need to focus on our core services and make sure that they are being delivered well. And so, I just want to say, Dr. Gilman, I appreciate the work that's been done. And I hope that you will come to me or the full council if there are resources that you need or further support so that we can ensure that the public has confidence that this basic public health function is being done, and it's being done to the standard that it should be done. Thank you. Thank you, absolutely. Thank you. Council Member Humbert. Yes, thank you, Madam Mayor. And I want to join in all of the comments that Council Member Kessar-Wani just made. It is a core function to provide assurances, to do the work to be able to provide assurances to our residents and to visitors that restaurants, healthcare facilities, that they're patronizing or patients in, for example, are safe and I think it's really just critical. There's another sort of sub-issue and I don't think, well, first of all, I want to mention that I think I'd really love to see the work speeded up. The first quarter of 2026 is a long way away. And in the meantime, we really need to really be able to deliver these services and assurances. But one sub-issue has to do with the ability to find out restaurant's health score, for example. And right now, as I understand it, you have to log in to get it. And I don't think people who are going out to a restaurant are going to take the time necessarily to log in to find out what a particular restaurant's health score is. So I'm wondering if there's some way in the interim, immediately as soon as possible, to open the data portal so that people can simply look at the look at the website and find out very quickly what the health score of a particular restaurant is. Is that something we can do more quickly? Director Gilman. We can certainly explore it with with our IT department. It's really, you know, like all of this, it's a matter of resources and priorities. So my boss is sitting in the room and we will definitely explore it and report back. Thank you, I appreciate that. Thank you, moving on to Council Member Trayke. Thank you so much, Director Gilman, for just being so transparent about what has happened and what hasn't happened yet in the wake of this report. And of course, your very hard work to expeditiously try to address all of these audit findings. I co-sponsored Council Member Kesavani's item, and I'm very appreciative of the line of questioning that my colleagues have provided. I wanted to just sign on to or associate myself with several of the comments on the dice that have already been made. I believe that I too believe that this is footed inspections and during them well, that is a critical function of city government. And so I'm fully invested in the success of this program and anything that we can do as a council to ensure that you have the appropriate resources to complete this task. I would certainly support with that, I wanted to really encourage you to look at what data may be made available to the public right now. I agree that placards with letter grades is, I think, the most accessible methodology that I know of in its very transparent. It's right in front of you, you see it. As a consumer, and you can make the decision you're going to make. So any opportunity to do that, I recognize that there are limited resources, of course, but at the end of the day, this is something that other jurisdictions do and we should at least be doing that. I did want to ask if you could comment on what other technologies could be employed, such as the use of AI, not to displace anyone from doing this important work, but rather to help them make sure that these overdue inspections that the backlog is cleared. Well, our AI's name is Kelly. And she's developed a spreadsheet for us. We've actually gone backwards and had to go back to plain old fashioned Excel spreadsheets just to track everything. Well, we get the database up and fixed. So we haven't explored AI solutions for that at this point. But I know that City is actually considering an AI policy and looking at that and would definitely be open to considering that, you know, as we move forward. Thank you. And my other question is, and you started with this Director Gilman, if I understood correctly, you talked about how it's often the case that we get focused on a particular issue and resolving it. And other things come up that just cannot be focused on because of a scarcity of resources. To what an extent are there opportunities? Can you touch a little bit further on opportunities to be able to address multiple things that may be in need of inspections. You mentioned noise, for instance, at the same time that perhaps food inspections may also be needed. To what extent can there be alignment on inspections and other opportunities for multi-craft specialists to work together so that it's also more predictable for the business themselves. Inspectors are coming to them once a year or whatever is appropriate, not multiple times a year for multiple things. Yeah, I don't think we're far away from that sort of schedule, so the businesses know what to expect. As you said, we are staffing up. We are the last position that we're trying to fill into the department is the supervisor we're working on it, actually an offer on that right now. And we've also done some restructuring in the department so that in order to do a restaurant inspection the staff are required to have registered an environmental health specialist or RHS. And we're currently working with our state association on some legislation to sort of make the trainee program and the testing process a little bit more user friendly. This is a statewide problem. And so Chiak is our California Association of Healthcare Executives. We have legislation right now that will work on trying to streamline that. Make a little bit easier and extend the time so that we can have a larger candidate pool. But to your questions specifically, we are looking at a training program so that we could have inspectors that were training that would want to stay with the city, but they could also do things that wouldn't require them to have the inspection. So for example, we have vector programs. We have other things that don't require that high level license. So we're trying to shift work away from the restaurant inspectors to other different positions and also trying to build sort of a pathway, a career path for folks to come to Berkeley and then stay with us. So yeah, reorganization, predictability in 2025, and then having, I call this across how having people work at the top of their license. So using the license to do the work that we need them to do, and if we can have a technician or somebody else or a trainee do the other sorts of work, then we're gonna work in that direction. Thank you so much much Director Gilman. I again just want to reiterate my appreciation to you and your team for turning around something that you know I actually had my doubts when this item first came to us back in the summer, but I also knew that if anyone could do it, it would be you and your team. So thank you so much and keep up the great work and look forward to the next update. Thank you. Councilmember Bartlett. Thank you Madam Mayor. And Director Gailman, my council be brief. But there will be some brief, I guess, involved. I would only add to my colleagues, I agree with everything that said, the letter is make sense, but it will add the sense of urgency if you permit me. The aircrafts that have fell down the last couple of years, there were so many accidents, they were a direct result of the Trump administration curtailing enforcement and inspection of the aviation industry. They pushed for efficiencies and self-enforcement and often no enforcement. So now we know that the DOGE agency is coming on to do this at scale so we can anticipate on the food air culture industry having many more issues that we need to be on top of to protect our residents. Thank you. Thank you. Any other comments? Thank you so much, Director Gilman, for answering all of our questions and for being here this evening. Do I have a motion? Do we have public comment? Well, we opened public comment already, actually. So. Sorry, City Clerk, could you clarify for us what happened since it was an information item and there isn't particularly action to be taken? Right, there's no action listed with the item for the Council to take if the Council has completed its consideration tonight then that concludes item 22 and we can move to the next thing on the agenda. Great. Public comment. Yeah. Okay. There is an additional public comment period so I'd like to open public comment again. For non agenda back. For non agenda matters. Thank you. Yes. again. For non agenda matters. Thank you. Go ahead. Well, I guess that's sort of not an agenda if it's information. Right. So I just wanted to say logins only work out line if people actually know that there's something online so we need to have work on line if people actually know that there's something online, so we need to have better education to the community to know that this health score information exists. And it certainly would help even all the council members and the mayor place in their newsletter about these health scores being available online. Secondly, in terms of prioritizing, it's question, how something is prioritized? Is it prioritized based on complaint triggering? Because some restaurants are going to get complaints, some people complain and other people don't complain. There's always an issue when there's prioritizing. And third, I want a state and coordination between different departments. Councilmember Tregg, I did touch on this slightly. So I have questions if you have, that if you're going to be doing restaurant inspections, there should also be this cross referencing to Berkeley Fire Department calls. We know if there's been a calls to a restaurant, for example, that there's smoke coming through the walls or something. Secondly, I was thinking of fire department. I was thinking of vector control. If vector control has been to a particular site. And so I would want to see that coordination between departments. Thank you. Hi everybody, Russell Bates here. I just wanted to mention something I got before I came in here tonight with this from Bad Bay Area that divest. A BDS victory is $32 million. Elementally county divest from Calderpillar, Tree Palace Stein. $32 million, element of county dibex from Keller, pillar, tree palace sign. One of the things that this council needs to do, speaking of the courage that somebody mentioned earlier, and that is there needs to be some kind of resolution talked about, voted about dibex in the scientist's density, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. voted about the best designist entity, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Designist entity is from attacking Syria 300 times since the start, got out. The arrest is attacking in Syria. So I give everybody's taken out on Syria right now. But those important thing is that there is something called the greater Israel, the design and the sense of the Israel and trying to get to for years, taking over territory there, expanding it. Now, from the river to the sea is an expression that shows amongst Palestine supporters to recognize the Jordan River to the C is part of Palestine, it is Palestine, and it needs to be recognized as such. So there needs to be a ceasefire resolution brought forth past at some point by this city council. Everybody else is doing it. I mean, I'd always like to go wrong with the crowd going wrong with the crowd. So it's not going wrong with the crowd. But it needs to be done. Please find it within your your heart within your minds and repost. Thank you very much. Okay, and it looks like we have three folks on zoom for non agenda. The first one is Shauise. Sorry, Chelsea. Oh, that's all right. And thank you for being patient. I know that I was speaking on non-agenda items earlier. I have some people from a nonprofit. It's the first time going to city council meetings, and I just want them to realize you can say things. And it's all right. As far as the food situation, please don't let bureaucracy tie that up or throw it online. Just have a care of us code next to the placker, get some college students and they're getting benefits and then we're also working with them as part of community and make it easy. And then now that I can talk about the non agenda items, I would like to see a show of hands. How many of you know what the Hawkins cost to act is. It's the cost of Hawkins act. Yeah, put it around. You know what I'm saying. Thank you so much. But yes, the cost of Hawkins. All right, so this is something to really look into because there's a lot of these Bluefold that the landlords had made and the big thing again This is about the rent control staying with the physical unit and this is why we have a housing Because anytime someone moves out the landlords are creeping that up by $500 by a thousand dollars And there's no real necessary, there's not really a limit on it. And that would help people in our community be able to move if they want to move and not feel tied into some crazy old, big, preppy building or a unit that hasn't been repaired and they're too afraid to move because of rent control. We need rent control that is transparent that moves with that doesn't move. It stays with the unit. Also, if your landlords are pretending like they're trying to sell them as condos and you are renting, you lose rent control. If you are in a single family house, you don't have rent control with this act. This was a huge, huge loophole that legislators who were landlords created. And there's one more that you can do. Oh, and then if you live in a building in your landlord decides to move in, you 100% lose all your rent control. So please take some time to inform yourself more about this and put this on the agenda as soon as humanly possible. This is a very big deal for people in our community and honestly across California. Thank you for the time. Okay, next is a full number ending in 937. Hi, can you hear me? Yes. Okay, I'm going to start crying now because you know what? That's what I've been doing all day. So I figured that you guys either should share it here because everybody else just stare at your audience there. They've all had to listen to me all day crying. Who? What are you guys going to do? What are you people going to do about Peter Radu? I want to know what you're going to do about him. I mean, what is he has got? You're right there. What are you going to do about Peter Radu? Mr. Duman, you know, Mr. Duman, what are you going to do? The auto-wave, what are you going to do? What are you people going to do about? He's out of control. I mean, I'm in fear. I am in so much fear. And I have scads, spontaneous coronary artery dissection. I'm in under strict orders from my doctors, seven different specialists, to not be under extremumusual stress. How in the health can I not be under extreme emotional stress? They've been left out here for three years, three years, I'm 60 years old, and nobody's doing anything about anything. Somebody needs to do something about him. And I'm not kidding you. They need to do something about him. Before, I mean, people are killing themselves because they don't man. He is a monster that hides behind a mask and I'm telling you right now that mask that you guys see him wearing is not the means that he's real see him wearing. You need to be real with this because that is unacceptable for him 67-year-old woman giving him a break 76-year-old woman'm 60. Okay, it doesn't even matter. What matters is that he's wrong. He should be forced to wear a body cam if you're going to let him continue to work in that position. Just like he should, so he can be held accountable. What he does to people is wrong and it's cruel and it's evil. Peer evil. And so many needs to do something about him. Please conclude your comments. Thank you. All right, God. Guess what? My minutes have gone. Thank you. Okay. Next is a phone number ending in 2- 1, 1. Collar with the phone. Hi. Are they here? Yes, hi. Thank you again. And again, welcome to our new member, Ishi. What are again, did, and to the council, did in the last four years, the crime. Not the crime, again, is our company. Again, is the people of Berkeley, thousand, even people in the area, the whole beer. Nobody left that does kind of business. We do. That much as 200 million dollars a year. One second. Let me finish. Let me finish. Let me finish. We need a happy stop and manager, whatever your name is, you you always promise to recall. You never called. You make a lot of money, at least just to find the money you make. Just why block that item. See in your consent agenda and save the city from multi million of suit. And many people in Berkeley are going to join our suit. New mayor behave differently. A regain was a loser. We need a winner from this city. Thank you. Okay, mayor, that completes the non-agenda public comment. Thank you. And I just wanted to make a comment to Chelsea who spoke earlier about cost of Hawkins. I want to let you know that that's not something that we can change on the local level. So I do encourage you to reach out to your state representatives to be heard on that matter. Just want to make sure you're going to the correct person. So now that we're done with public comment, I'd like to entertain a motion for adjourn. So motion for adjourn. Oh, second. Okay. Yes, seeing the objection, I'd like to adjourn our meeting. Yes, everybody recorded as I, and we are adjourned. Thank you all, thank you so much. Thank you. Recording stopped.