I'm going to move to the next slide. This is the time is 729. This is the regular meeting of the city council. I'd like to note that all members are still present. At this time, I'll accept a motion to approve the final agenda. Motion to approve the final agenda. Do we have a second? Second. We have a motion in a second. Madam clerk the roll. Council member Pry force. Aye. Council member Solomon. Aye. Council member Welch. Aye. Vice Mayor Car. Aye. And Mayor Mora. Aye. Motion carries. Special orders of the day. Administration of the oath of office to city manager Latonya Bello. Welcome. Hi Latonya. Hi you bro. Can you please raise your right hand and repeat after me? I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the state of California that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California, that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California against all enemies foreign and domestic, against all enemies foreign and domestic, that I bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States, that I bear true faith and allegiance 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 without any mental reservation or purpose of a vision that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of a vision. And that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I'm about to enter as the city manager for the city of Emoryville. That I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I'm about to enter as the city manager for the city of Emoryville. Thank you. Thank you. Next we have announcement of commission and committee vacancies. Madam clerk. Thank you mayor. I just wanted to remind the council that we have a current recruitment open for several vacant positions across different advisory bodies. and the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the other one is the Council members special announcements and reports on meeting attendants members anything to report Seeing none Next we have the city manager's report Thank you, Mr. Mayor and to the mayor council and members of the public I am excited to officially begin my journey as your city manager as of January 6th and I'm currently of course getting acclimated to the community meeting residents and learning more about the amazing work that is happening across our city. I would like to report out that in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, RTK through eight after school program at the ECCL engaged in a meaningful activity by creating a I have a dream collage. As part of that project, students listen to Dr. King's famous speech and reflect it on the important question, what is my dream for myself and my community? Their thoughtful answers inspire the creation of their vision collages, which showcase their hopes and aspirations for a brighter future. Thank you so much to our director, Rebecca, for inspiring our students' creativity, thoughtfulness, and optimism. Thank you. Thank you, and welcome officially to the city. Next we have the public comment for the consent agenda and items not on the agenda. Any members of the public wishing to make comment? Please come to the podium. You'll have two minutes. I'm going to go ahead and move on to the next slide. Okay. Okay. Okay. First of all, I wanted to say thank our welcome to our new city manager, Ms. Bello. And, uh, yeah. And I would suggest that you look into re-upping or re- bringing back to the four previous And yeah, and I would suggest that you look into re-upping, or bringing back to the for a previous program that was popular, it was called Coffee with the City Manager. It was a program whereby the ordinary citizens could come and speak with the most powerful person in Emergo, which is the city manager. We have a city manager's form of government, and so you're the most powerful person in our time But I like the idea and it's been done in the past where this average people can actually talk with you In you know in a regularly scheduled time and we had that for many years decades until it was stopped by the previous city manager And I I think you should look into and re re bringing that back up once a month perhaps maybe every two weeks You leave it up to you, but that would be like a long way towards, you know, encouraging citizen engagement and the public engaging with their local government. I hope you look into it. Thank you. So now I wanted to say, here's what the mayor signed on December 3rd, 2024. Whereas, despite his many public statements calling for a code of ethics, Council Member Price Force is the only member is not signed the ASTES, ASTES station that he will abide by the code of ethics, despite voting in favor of the code's adoption. And because of that, Mayor Murrah and council member Welch and council member, a car, censured and sanctioned him. So that was unethical what you did. And actually probably illegal because you censored and sanctioned your colleague for his vote. Every vote that the five of you take, it comes with three choices. You can vote yes, you can vote no, or you can vote abstain. Council member of the Pride Force abstain. Thank you for your comment. I'm punished for it. And council member, we'll also not. Thank you for your comment. And got actively listening right now. Any other members of the public wishing to comment on the consent agenda or items not on the agenda? Seeing none, we'll move to the consent items. Do we have a motion on the consent items or to remove any? Yes, Mayor. I'm sorry. I have an amendment to the consent calendar. Vice Mayor Carr on item 10.7 actually submitted a different order of her appointees for the standby officers. So I just wanted to read those out loud. The standby officers are staying the same. They're just going in a different order for her. So the first one is Julia Clayton. Second one is Scott Donahue. And the third is Diane Martinez. And I apologize for missing that by smear car. Thank you. Thank you. City clerk, I appreciate making the correction. And with that, I can move to approve the consent calendar. Second, we have a motion and a second. Madam clerk, the roll. Council member Price Force. Aye. Council member clerk the roll. Council member Price Force. Aye. Council member Solomon. Aye. Council member Welch. Aye. Vice Mayor Carr. Aye. And Mayor Mora. Aye. Motion carries. Item 11.1 is a public hearing. I'd like to the time is 737. I'd like to open the public hearing for the resolution of the City Council of Emoryville, granting an annual card room license to the Oaks card club for the calendar year 2025. Do we have a staff presentation? I do not think there's a presentation tonight for that item there. Do we have any questions from the council on the attached staff report which was sent out beforehand? I'd like to note that this is a relatively routine item. I see no questions Do we have any members of the public wishing to make public comment on the card room license? Fran Quattel, I serve on the Budget Advisory Committee. This is a wonderful contributor to our city in terms of sales hacks. And we love having the card room in Emoryville and I fully support renewing their license. Thank you. Thank you, friend. Any other members of the public? You have two minutes. OK, sorry. First of all, Ms. Welsh is not actively listening to me. The rest of Mr. Solomon, OK, he is now, that's good. It's only Ms. Welsh that never actively listens to certain speakers and constantly violating the code of ethics. Okay, I don't, I think gambling is a bad idea. And it's, it's, it sends a message. I mean, first of all, there's gambling addiction and which is a pernicious social ill, and it sends a message that, you know, the get rich quick kind of idea. And it's just sort of damaging to the society as a whole. And that's the guy that runs at Mr. Tibbets and is like pulling like millions of dollars a year out of our community. He can't bring himself, or even one of his representatives to come here tonight before us to ask for this. I think he got to say no. He can't even be bothered to come here. He disrespects us to such a extreme degree. He won't even come here before you to make this simple request. I think he got to call him up in front of all the whole community and have him explain why he wants this favor granted to him by the people. The fact that he's not here tonight, that should be alarming to the five of you. And that should not necessarily say no, but you should redo this for a future meeting and then tell him you expect him to show up. And then if he doesn't, then you could say no to him. But it's just very insulting to the people of Unrevelled that it can't be here tonight. It will not be bothered to even to come here tonight to ask for this. He just expects the five of you to just every time to rubber stamp and it's embarrassing, frankly, if not more in adjectives. But so I suggest you notify him Mr. Tippett to one of his representatives to actually show up at the meeting and then you can discuss it. Thank you for your comment. Any other members of the public? Seeing none, I'll move to council deliberation members. Number pry force. So I know that the card room is, it's routine that the license is renewed. There are several economic drivers in an Emoryville that could be considered adult. Namely, our gambling casino industry and our cannabis industry. And I believe that one of our only now still, a cannabis dispensary that there was a crime that occurred at that facility. And so the card room, the area around the card room also has, I believe the liquor store near there, there was a ramming, but I believe that was accidental. But it does tend to be a very hot spot for activity. And I don't want to place that on the the card room but I'm the reason why I'm mentioning this is because Jeff Jennings the chief of our of our police department he did review this with us and so anyone who is interested in learning more about the public safety issues around the card room they can look into the staff reports. And if they have any questions, they can talk to us and talk to Chief Jennings. But this was approved by a chief of police and that we believe that issuing this card license, I mean, this license would be, business license would be it's safe and it's not dangerous to our city. So I don't think anything related to these industries, even though they may be routine, it's always a good idea to just take a little look into what's going on, but it's safe. Thank you. Thank you, Member Price, for us other comments? Number Welch. The motion to approve the resolution. I think this is a public hearing. Or do we need to? Is this a... Yes, it is. All right. I will second approving the draft resolution to renew the license of Card Club. We have a motion in a second. Madam clerk, the role. Council member, Prifors. Hi, Council member Solomon. Hi, Council member Welch. Hi, Vice Mayor Carr. I and Mayor Mora. Councilmember Welch. Aye. Vice Mayor Carr. Aye. And Mayor Mora. Aye. Motion carries. This closes the public hearing. Next we have action items starting with 12.1. The fiscal year 2024, affordable housing expenditure plan and program annual report. Welcome, Valerie. Hi, good evening. My name is Valerie Bernardo. I'm the housing coordinator here at the city of Emeryville. And I'm here tonight to present to you our annual report for fiscal year 24. The annual report is actually three annual reports in one. It's going to be our affordable housing expenditure plan, our measure C housing bond, and also our affordable housing program that's a part of our planning regulations. Next slide. So as I mentioned, it is three reports in one. The Affordable Housing Expenditure Plan Annual Report details our funding allocation and our expenditures that we've had. There's an updated expenditure schedule within the report and there's also an overall update on our program statuses and our performance measures. The second report I'll go into is our measure C, housing bond annual report. We'll talk about those funding allocations and expenditures and also our social impact reporting. And then the third is our affordable housing program annual report that comes from our planning regulations. There we'll go into our BMR rental portfolio and our BMR home ownership portfolio. So I did just want to start off by saying that these are three annual reports that's going to be provided together. There are other housing annual reports that I will come back to you and provide. But these three reports specifically relate to the guidelines and the requirements that are in either a planning regulations that are part of the housing bond requirement or that are part of the expenditure plan. So this is not encompassing all of the housing work that the city of mravel does, but it does focus on the requirements that are outlined in each one of those three components. So next slide. So we're going to start with our affordable housing expenditure plan, which was adopted in February of 2021 under resolution 21-13. That plan provided for the implementation of how the city was going to move forward in expending approximately $64 million in housing financial resources. The primary source of those financial resources was our Measure See Housing Bond, which was 50 million. But there was also funding that was available from our affordable housing impact fees, our affordable housing fund, our low-mod income housing asset fund, as well as an allocation of A1 bonds that the city received from Alameda County. We also outlined how we're going to expend those funds. So there's an allocation of funding dedicated to a variety of programs and also a plan for how those funds would be expended. The primary purpose of that expenditure schedule was based off of the fact that we did have measure-see housing funds that were going to be provided. There is a requirement determining on how those bonds were going to be issued. There is a requirement determining on how those bonds were going to be issued as to whether or not those funds would be have a certain expenditure requirement. Originally, we went through the process thinking we were going to issue tax, I'm sorry, non-taxable bonds, which would have required us to have a three-year expenditure, three years to commit, sorry, three years to expend 85% of the funds, five years to expend 100% of the funds. So we developed a schedule as to how we would do, put the funds out over a seven year timeframe. That didn't happen and I'll go into a little bit more about that later, which is why there's a revised schedule. Again, we have our overview of our seven programs that follow either under a production of affordable housing or preservation of housing that we have our performance measurements. One of the things that we've done in this report is we've also added some additional funds that we've received, which was $575,000 that came to the city in 2023 through our Pro Housing Implementation Pilot Program. Those funds are being dedicated to do an in 2023. There were a pro housing implementation pilot program. Those funds are being dedicated to do a accessibility program. So we're also referencing that in this expenditure plan. Next slide. So when it comes to our housing plan, again, I mentioned there was originally 64 million with the additional 575, we're up to 65 million. We've expended 24% of those funds at the end of fiscal year 24, which was been June of 2024. So roughly about 1515.6 million. The largest bulk of those expenditures are coming under our rental production program, about $14 million. We've expended almost 100% of our bond issuance fees at $745,000. We don't anticipate any additional expenditures coming forward because we've already sold the bonds. So we have a little budget allocation that's available there that can be reallocated to another funding source. Under administration, we've only spent about $41,000 in administration funds. So we have quite a bit of those resources left. And then we've spent a little over almost half of the funding, $700,000 towards BMR acquisition program. That's where our expenditures have been for the last three years from when the point that the housing plan was adopted. Next slide. So I talked about we did an amended schedule on the, and you can't see it unfortunately right now, because it's a little bit too big, but there is a legend that identifies the difference between the green and the blue portions of the chart. The green is what was in our original plan. So what our schedule was for how we were gonna expand all our funds was in green. The blue is the revised. So you'll see there is a shortened timeline for a variety of programs. Again, our original plan was that the funding would be issued over two tranches, taking about seven to eight years because we are not having to do two tranches. The money is all available today. So we're able to move forward on some of our programs a little bit faster and potentially expend the money a little bit faster. This has also given us an ability to also kind of recalibrate based on our capacity, what programs we think we can get out quicker, where the need is, and what things we might want to push off a little until a little bit later. So you'll see the majority of the projects and programs look like they're going to have expenditures between 24 and 2026. Next slide. So under our preservation programs, there are five different programs. We've had implementation activities that have occurred on three. The first one is our BMR acquisition program. That program is identified to go up and acquire BMR ownership units that are at risk of being lost to the city. So no longer part of our portfolio. We've allocated $1.5 million to that program. We've expended 44% of it. We've done over the past two years. We've acquired two properties, both of those being at Emoryville Warehouse Loughs. Both of those properties were acquired from the owners and then a resold to income eligible homeowners. Our second program is our homeownership assistance program. And I believe it was May of 2024. The City Council adopted the revised guidelines for our homeownership assistance program, which is called First Home Inreville. There's $1.9 million allocated to that program. We did not expend any money in fiscal year 24, but the program was launched in fiscal year 25, and we had over 200 applicants to our lottery for the program, and we have already held our lottery. This is the information that'll show next report, but I just wanted to go ahead and provide it today. We've already held the lottery, and we are going through the batch of applicants we had there. And we've already approved several people who are currently in the process of looking for home in Emeryville. So we do think that the revised program guidelines will be successful and the funds will move very quickly. And then our new program through the Pro Housing Fund is our Accessibility Improvement Program. There's $575,000 allocated to that program. Those funds are going to be utilized to make accessibility improvements to individual units or to common areas and homeowners and condominium developments or in multifamily properties. We did not expend any money as of the end of fiscal year 24, but the guidelines were adopted and that program did launch in fiscal year 25. And we currently have six applicants that we're working on moving forward under this program. Next slide. Under our production program, this is our rental production program. We have funding that's been reserved for three specific projects. The first one was Nelly Henning Gateway. I had about a $16 million allocation. 84% of those funds have been expended. That project is currently under construction. You can see it going up right now. That project will produce 90 units. All of those units will be set aside to 20 to 60% of the area median income. And what we really like about this project is that 45. So half of the units are gonna be set aside for our special needs population. Primarily, that'll be our formerly homeless population. They'll have a location to live in. Our second project is 4,300 San Pablo Avenue. There's $2.5 million allocated to this project through the A1 bond that the city received through the Alameda County. A 0% of those funds have been expended that project is currently in pre-development. They're seeking additional financing in order to move that project forward. Once that project is developed, it will create 68 units of affordable housing, all for households between 20 and 50% of the area in the income, and all of those units are gonna be set aside for seniors and transitional age youth. So this will be one of the first intergenerational housing projects we have in the state. And then our third project is our Perennial Apartments. Look, previously the Christie Avenue sites is what it's been referred to in other presentations. We allocated $23.6 million to that project. We've expended zero. That project did execute its land, its lease disposition and development agreement with the city in 2024. So it's currently in the pre-development stage. We are waiting for the entitlements to be issued, which should be any day soon. That project will build three phases of development, so three separate buildings, totaling 362 units of affordable housing, and all of those units will be set aside for households between 20 and 60% of AMI. Next slide. So overall, we did in our plan identify certain performance measures. We have produced 14% of the units that have been produced, 14% have come from production. The remaining units to be produced are 85.3%. So we do have quite a bit of ways to go, but we are in the early stages. When it comes to the expenditure of our funding, we have expended all the low-mod income housing asset funds that were allocated in the plan. Over 60% of the affordable housing impact fee funds have been expended and over almost 90% of the affordable housing funds have been expended and over almost 90% of the affordable housing funds have been expended. We haven't spent any of the A1 bond funding. All of that is strictly allocated to 4,300 sandpavlo. And we have not spent any of the pro housing funding. When it comes to our targeting related to the units that will be produced through these financial resources, we've reached 16% of our goal for our very low income unit targeting, 25% of our goal for our 51 to 80% targeting, and 1% of our goal for our moderate income units. Next slide. So the next report will be on our Measure C housing bond. The purpose of the Measure C housing bond was very specific. Those funds can only be used to either enhance through the acquisition or physical improvement of real property. And that real property has to be used for the production of affordable housing. The funding also has very specific uses. We can do acquisition, rehabilitation. We can add additional affordability commitments to some of our mixed income projects. We can help our low and middle income households purchase homes. We can ensure that none of our homeowners are displaced. So it's a displacement prevention. We can also do permanent support of housing for those who are experiencing homelessness. Within the measure see bond, there are some requirements such as an accountability measures. The accountability measures are threefold. The first one is there is a bond oversight committee made up of the budget advisory committee. They actually did review the the measure see annual report and did provide recommendation on that to the City Council. Their role is to actually do financial oversight of the Measurcy Housing Bonds. The second accountability measure is our Housing Committee. That Housing Committee is responsible for approving or making a recommendation to our program guidelines, as well as making funding recommendations to specific projects. And then our third is the annual report, which is what we're doing today. The annual report is a requirement within the California government code. It's under section 53, 410 that requires the city to actually file an annual report related to the bonds. And that's what we're doing through this report. Next slide. So just a little background on the timeline for measure C housing bonds. It was originally authorized to be put on the ballot back in March of 2018. And then went to the voters for a vote in June of 2018 where over 66% of the voters did approve the issuance of this $50 million bond. The housing plan administration and expenditure plan was adopted by the council in March of 2021. In 2023, February, the city council did authorize the sale of that $50 million bond under one issuance. And then in May of 2023 the city sold those 50 million dollar bonds as federally taxable social bonds. Next slide. So as a part of our reporting for measure c, we have our specific budget just related to that 50 million dollar allocation. We have all the same programs, BMR acquisition, home buyer assistance, foreclosure assistance, rental preservation, special needs housing, rental production, development opportunities. And of course, there's funding that was allocated to the cost of issuance and admin. All of those, thank you. All of those are still within the budget within the program for fiscal year 23, because we actually did not present a annual report that year the city expended 745,000. That was all related to the cost of issuance because those bonds were sold in May. The fiscal year ended in June. That's the only activity that occurred there. For fiscal year 24, we expended $3.8 million. The largest allocation of that, those funds went to the rental production. So we have about $45 million remaining out of our measure. See. Next slide. I mentioned previously that when the city decided to sell the bonds, we actually sold them as taxable social bonds. With social bonds, there is an impact reporting that is required. As a part of that impact reporting, we have to identify how the proceeds from the bonds are going to be used, how the projects are being evaluated, how we're going to manage the proceeds and then specific reporting. And all of that is related to social bond principles. And there's a guideline for how the investor will actually do the report. So we're providing that information in this annual report that will also go back to the purchaser of the bonds. So for our expenditures for fiscal year 24, we had expenditures under two projects that was Nellie Hannon Gateway and our warehouse loft. That was our BMR acquisition program where we acquired and sold two units. That relates back to social development goal 11.1, which is affordable quality housing. Our income targeting for Nellie Hannon Gatway was 20 to 60% of AMI for a formerly homeless special needs population. For Emory Wellhouse Lofts, those units were targeted to households at 120%, and the special needs target. For Emory Wellhouse Lofts, those units were targeted to households at 120% and the special needs target is for underserved. Those who may have a challenge in finding affordable home ownership opportunities. A hundred percent of our allocation for the Emory Wellhouse Lofts went to, came from Measure C, to do that acquisition holding cost. 22% of the share of expenditures we've had for Nellyhannon Gateway come from our measure C. Nellyhannon Gateway will have a 99-year financial life that is the length of our loan and our affordable housing agreement. Again, it will produce 89 affordable units. It is estimated that we'll have a minimum of 178 people that will be served based on the mix of bedroom sizes and those 178 people Based on those 89 units will Receive a savings of approximately 912 dollars a month from what the market rate rent is to what they'll actually be paying for their affordable unit Under those two units that we sold for everywhere house lofts, only one of them was using measure C housing bond. That person who bought that one unit was a household of three, so three people were housed. And there was a $281,000 savings for the purchase of that unit based on what other units in that building would have gone for if they were on the open market. So that's the client savings premium. Next slide. My last report is on our affordable housing program. The affordable housing program was adopted on 2014 under ordinance 14-009. dash zero zero nine. It previously was called the Affordable Housing Set-aside Program and it was re-chapured and re-adapted in 2014. So it did exist prior to that under a different name and under a different part of our planning regulations. You can find it in our municipal code under Article 4, Chapter 5 Title 9. The purpose of the city when they adopted this was to lessen the shortage of affordable housing by ensuring that we had below market rate or BMR units and all of our residential developments of a certain size. And it also created our affordable housing impact fee. As a part of this chapter and this section, this article, there is a requirement for an annual report to do an evaluation of the program and identifies that we are to report on the number of units, the size, 10-year type location, the number of resales and our vacancy rate so that we can evaluate the program and ensure that it's meeting the required intent. Next slide. So within this part of the code, there are BMR portfolio and we have our ownership portfolio. Within our BMR portfolio for rental projects, we have created 653 rental units. are entitled. There's a total of 29 projects and I say project by meaning affordable housing regulatory agreements. If you take a project like Avalon at public market, which the layperson would assume is one project, we actually have two affordable housing agreements because there's two separate buildings. So we count that as two projects. The same thing would be true over at the emery, which the average person would consider as one project. We actually count as four because each building has its own regulatory agreement and requirement. In order for a unit to be a part of our BMR portfolio, it comes into our portfolio one of four ways. It's either a part of the affordable housing program. So under the planning regulations, it's either received part of the affordable housing program. So under the planning regulations, it's either received a city loan. It's had a community development bonus, or it has a state-den-city bonus. If it comes into the city one of those four ways, we consider a part of our below market rental program and all the projects are required to comply with some of the same requirements. When it comes to the project type and unit type, we created 700 family units, 257 special need units. We have 167 that should say studios. It is some mistyping there. 378 one bedrooms, 309 two bedroom, 102 three bedrooms. We have seven four bedroom units and we have three live work units within our rental portfolio. 603 of those units are reserved for very low income households, 197 are low income and 158 are moderate and that's encompassing all of the units that are complete under construction and entitled. Next slide. So where are the units located? So we actually have units located throughout the city and almost every single neighborhood outside of the water gate. You'll find some of our rental portfolio. And so this map kind of illustrates that. I would say we have the majority of our units in that SAM Pablo corridor area as well as the Powell Christie Corps. Next slide. When it comes to vacancy rates, we have an average of 10% vacancy rate for 2023, and we had a 13% vacancy rate for 2022. All of our below market rate rental units are required to do an annual report back to the city. So this is the information that was submitted in the 2024 annual report, such reporting on the previous year. We did have three properties that did open their wait list in order to address vacancy issues. One of them was ambassador family housing, Abelons in your apartments and Triangle. Hello housing is our BMR administrator. So they actually work with all of our rental project property manners to do training on the requirements and our affordable housing agreement, as well as to ensure that they're submitting the reports. I will say they've done a really good job in making sure everybody submits annual reports to us. When I came about five years ago, annual reports were being submitted very sparingly. So we've actually gotten to a point where every single person submits a report, not necessarily on time, not necessarily with all the correct information. But they have gotten us up to like a 90% rate where information is coming in. People are asking questions so that they're ensuring that everybody is complying with the program. Next slide. Under our BMR ownership projects, we have 18 home ownership developments within the city. It's created 239 ownership units. We currently only have 232 units remaining today. We've lost seven units. Those units that were lost are either to foreclosure or through an expiring regulatory agreement. All of our regulatory agreements either have between a 25 and 45 year resale agreement. Most projects today all have a 45 year resale restriction agreement, but in early years there were some projects today all have a 45 year resale restriction agreement but in early years there were some projects that did have the 25 and we have awesome units there. When it comes to unit size 5% of the portfolio is studios 33% is one bedroom 42% is two bedroom 3% is three bedroom and 16% are live work units. 61% of those units are for our moderate income households, 25 for low income and 14% for our very low. We do have very low income home ownership units, 14% of the portfolio is next slide. When it comes to where our home ownership units are located, they are also scattered throughout the city. Again, we don't have any below market rate units on the ownership side over at Watergate, but we do have projects scattered throughout the city, but primarily in the dual community. Next slide. We also do monitoring on our ownership portfolio. The purpose of doing that monitoring is to ensure that our homeowners are continuing to reside in those units as a principal place of residency. The information that we request for them in our annual monitoring does vary from year to year. All of our ownership units are monitored on an annual basis, except for the artist co-op. That's under a different agreement that did not require annual monitoring. 89% of our homeowners were in compliance for the fiscal year 2324 monitoring cycle, which we're proud to almost hit 90%. I think 90% is usually what you're trying to get at. We did have seven homeowners, which is about 4% of the portfolio submit, that didn't respond at all. So seven out of 232 that didn't respond at all is pretty good. But the other 16 homeowners, which is about 8%, they only submitted partial information. So they're not completely out of compliance, but they missed something and what needed to be submitted. I will say the number one thing that came as an issue this year and as a part of what was missing was HOA statements. This is a new request. We have not asked for that in previous years. As I said, we ask for different things every year so that homeowners who potentially want to defraud the system don't know what we're going to ask and don't set things up. But getting HOA statements was the biggest challenge that we found. A lot of homeowners have no communication with their HOAs and have no idea how to get that information. So we've been doing a lot of handholding, working with a lot of homeowners to reach back out to the HOA, give them the contact information. And that's something Hello Housing is working on is trying to do more outreach with the HOAs and provide more documentation back to the homeowners so they know how to do that communication since this has come up as a continuing issue. Hello Housing also manages the monitoring of our ownership portfolio. That is the end of my presentation. Of those three annual reports, I'd be happy to answer any questions that the council has. Thank you. Thank you, Valerie. And apologies if this breaks things up. I was just informed that I may have missed the X part A communications for this agenda. So I just wanna quickly jump back over to confirm with members, item eight. Does anybody have any exparte communications to report? Seeing none, let's proceed with our current item 12.1. Do we have any questions for Valerie? Vice Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. Valerie, thank you for the presentation. You always do a great job and explain everything with a lot of detail and it's very much appreciated. I would like to go back to the slide that says housing plan budget. I'm curious about one of the items on there. All that's, it's up at the front. I'll put page numbers next time. Thank you. There you go. Yes. I'm looking at accessibility improvements, which is the item that has an allocation of 575,000. It says funds expended zero from what I recall from earlier council meetings. certain deadline and I'm wondering how many applications are filed and why are the funds expanded zero? Is this program not popular? If you can provide some information, I would really appreciate that. Thanks. No, absolutely. So this report is as of fiscal year 24. So this is everything that occurred and expanded as of June of 2024. So there were no expenditures. The guidelines that were adopted by council happened, I believe, in June. The program didn't launch until July. So that's why it says zero. We did open applications under two cycles. The first cycle we received three applications. We received four applications. One application was denied. I'm sorry, five applications. One application was denied. I'm sorry, five applications. One application was denied. Those four have been brought back to City Council for recommendation and approval to move forward with it. We opened it up a cycle cycle and we received two additional applications. And so we're currently working with those. I was hoping to get more applicants than we received. So it's not as popular as I think I was hoping for, or as what the desire has said to be from the community, from the commission on aging. There has not been a lot of interest. I'm not quite sure why. But we are moving forward with those six applications. We have two HOAs that have come in for funding. We've had one affordable housing project, and we have three homeowners that will be moving forward with. And those funds will show up as expended in the next year's annual report. Can I ask you how much are they totaling two if 15,000 each for the four. The single family, the single individuals, the council actually authorized us to go up to 25,000. So all three homeowners got 25,000. And then four off the top of my head here. So it's it's varies. One project I think is getting 45,000, one of the HOAs. Another HOA is getting around 4,000 because that's all they asked for. And then the below market rate rental project is getting somewhere around 33,000 and that is what they asked for. So the total I'm adding it to be approximately 142,000 that has been estimated to be expended. Yeah we're really close to about 50%. I might be slightly off with the 45 on the one HOA and I'm going to look to chat to see if you can recall. But it might be a little, we're somewhere around 50% of the funds that have been committed to projects through applications. So approximately 250,000 has been expended or will be as reserved for applicants that have submitted applications. And when will we see that report as to how it has been allocated? Next year's annual report will show all the expenditures and how many people we've served. All of that will be a next year's annual report. I don't know that we have the other two applications based on the dollar figure we won't be coming to council for any authorization because the authority is actually within the city manager to execute those contracts. So right now we don't have another plan to come and do an update unless at some point the council wants another update. So somewhere in the presentation you said that the funds could be used for another purpose. Is that what's going to happen with the remaining 250,000? Because I think actually the program is popular, but some people don't know what it is going to do for them. So they haven't even done anything about it, especially the aged population. Is there anything we can do to do more outreach or how are we gonna expand those funds to people who need those, but don't know about that? So the pro housing funds that people who need those, but don't know about that. So the pro housing funds, it have an expenditure deadline. The program has to be completely closed down by June of 2025, right? So we're kind of under a time constraint in order to try to relaunch and get more applicants since we really didn't get a lot of feedback. I have reached out to the state for two purposes. One, to see if we can get an extension on the deadline, which is a statutory deadline. So there's not gonna be a lot of wiggle room, but I just wanna have that conversation. And then the second thing I've asked for them to do is to see whether or not the balance of funds could be reallocated. When we submitted the original application, we actually asked for funding to support two uses. Accessibility was one, but also to do pre-development or to do a reserve for some of our low income multi-family projects that need to do replacements. And so one of the things that I've asked them and I'm waiting to have the meeting with them is to discuss whether or not we can reallocate the balance to some of our low-income housing projects that are really struggling right now. They don't have sufficient resources to make improvements on their property that are beyond accessibility. So whether or not we could utilize those funds directly to support a replacement reserve. Can you specify more about the replacement reserve? What did it entails? Not at this point because it's just that's what I'm hoping. So I'm waiting to have the conversation and then there potentially might have to be a modification of that contract and we'll come up with what the guidelines are for that. But I don't have that at this point that I could give you more information. Traditionally replacement reserves are used to cover long-term maintenance of a property. So when things have a cycle of life, so like you need to replace, you know, your roof every 20 years and your appliances every so many years, a lot of our extremely low income projects are just really struggling. They don't have the reserves in order to make the necessary replacements that the project really needs to continue to be a quality affordable housing project. So potentially if we can get the money reallocated that, that would then help shore up some of those projects so that they can be sustainable. I have another question about the administration fees. Can you detail about, give us a little, itemization of what it includes because I think a lot of people, really, I was, I myself was thinking 2005, a two million 500,000 for just administration. So if you clarify what that entails, I think it just would help people who are watching and people who'd like to have this information. Sure. So the administration funds would cover potentially staff costs. It also will cover banking fees for administration of the bonds. It covers taxes, consulting costs. So we have not had a lot of administration fees. We don't have a lot of things that are currently hitting that line item, but we allocated enough money or an amount of money that we thought would be sufficient in order to cover expenses for several years. I think we're hoping to increase some of those costs potentially by bringing on some consultants to help with the administration. Because as you'll see, there are eight programs up there and that does take a lot of staff time. So we did have somebody come in temporarily and help us with a couple of things. But if we can bring somebody else in to kind of help move some of these programs along, those funds will be expended a little bit further. I also just identify that when we put the budget together, we allocated funding not just to support on the housing side but also potentially if the finance department could wanted to allocate a portion of their time for doing their financial transactions that was available as well. Legal costs when we have to have regulatory agreements drafted when we have to have loan agreements drafted those kind of funds could also be charged to the administration fund. And those funds can they may move around. Because right now I see only 41,822 expended on what from what date to what date that you said this is till the end of 2024, but it involves what's the beginning? We adopted the plan in 21. So there were no administrative expenditures that really occurred until 2023 until we sold the bonds. So these have been all expenses that have happened since 2023. And what is the timeline that you figured this $2,500, a $2,500,000 for 10 years, 20 years. No. The $2.5 million probably would take us till maybe 2028. That's probably what it would cover. Till the end of the housing plan. Yeah, from what we thought we would expend all the money correct. Thank you so much for your patient. Appreciate the presentation. Thank you Valerie. Any other questions? Since there's no additional questions we'll now proceed to public comment. Any members of the public who would like to comment on item 12.1 please come to the podium. Mayor, I'm sorry can I can I make an announcement please the last camera has gone out in the chamber. If I pull the power of my presentation down you're just going to see a black screen. That's what anybody on the YouTube channel would see they can still hear us and anyone watching through zoom is going to see anything that we're displaying. But I apologize, the fourth camera went out during Valerie's presentation. So other than what we're showing in presentations, people won't be able to see what's going on in the room. Thanks for letting us know. Yeah, hi, I'm Fran Quattel. I have a question as to whether in additional considerations for use of this money, if there were low income seniors who were, for example, facing assessments that they couldn't afford, could the money, this is a question to Valerie, could the money be, could they apply for funding? That's one question. And also, is there any, I can talk to you about the soft line. There are some community safety organizations, I think Nelly Hanon has a very active community safety organization that's run by the residents. And I'm wondering if there could be any funding for those kinds of things. Those are two additional expenditures that I think might be worthwhile. Thank you, Fran. Any other members of the public? You have two minutes Okay, so that was a brown act violation engaged By council member car you were supposed to have clarifying questions It's the only not substantive discussion and or debate and that's what that was So you have that after the public comments is when you have the debate and discussion. So what Ken's member car was doing was not clarifying questions, that was discussion and debate. So trying to run a better meeting in the future may or more up. So I wanted to talk quickly about the housing, hello housing and our housing policy and our housing department here at the city. All my daughter was getting close to 18 a few years ago and so she expressed interest in getting her own apartment in Emoryville. So my wife and I asked questions, tried to get questions in writing and verbally tried to get questions answered about getting our daughter a BMR unit and the city of Emeryville steadfastly refused to answer our questions. So I went to the CEO of Hello Housing and she told me that she had been directed not to answer our questions. It's probably because of who I am. I'm a muck-breaking journalist, as you know, may perhaps Mr. Solomon doesn't know. And Ms. Bello doesn't know. I'm a muck-breaking journalist. I do news stories about the city of Emeryville. And a lot of times it's not flattering. So it makes me not popular here. And so that expressed itself in the form of not answering our questions. I had to go to the state of California housing authority and threaten to sue. I went to them and I threatened to threaten to sue the city of Emoryville to answer my teenage daughter's questions about housing, getting a BMR housing unit in Emoryville and it took about a year to get our questions answered. And that's the kind of recalcitrant that you get in a little po-dunk city like Emoryville and you know what I expect is a higher level professionalism and moving forward. Thank you for your comment. Any other members of the public wishing to make public comment? Seeing none, I'll bring this back for deliberation, members, any discussion? Member Welch. Valerie, I had a question for you in regards to the public comment we heard from Ms. Quattel. Is for something of that nature to be implemented for as far as assessment since it would be a personal one, for something of that nature to be implemented for as far as assessment since it'd be a personal one, there's nothing like that. Is it more so that the HOA would have to be able to apply for funding if there was assistance needed for the resident or could they potentially be able to apply for it on their own? So let me answer a little differently than the way you asked if I could. So could we do a special assessment program? Potentially yes, we could do that with the affordable housing resources that we have. It's not currently a identified program in the plan. So we would have to take money from one of the other dedicated programs in order to fund an initiative like that or seek additional financing somewhere else. So it is something we could do. We don't have any money because it's not a part of the original program. So the council would have to direct us to reallocate the funds from something else that is in the plan. The city has done a special assessment program in the past. It is many years before I was here, so I don't know a lot about that program, but I have done some research. It is something that has been done before. So potentially we could put together a program like that again. What I do know was that those funds were used specifically for our BMR homeowners and not for every homeowner in an H away. So only the BMR homeowners were able to access, I believe those funds or those who had another, if they had a city first time home buyer loan, I think they may have also had access, but it was not open to the general public of residents within one of our homeownership developments. And it was the individual homeowners who were applying for the loans specifically themselves. Okay. And those loans did require repayment. Okay. Even for even, but they were for BMR homeowners, but even, okay. They did. Okay. As to how the program from what I've seen was ran previously Okay Thank you Ember pry force I raised my hand quick because I didn't want you to come back So I thank you Valerie for your presentation and And I didn't have to tease you this time about the graphics the graduates are great So And I didn't have to tease you this time about the graphics. The graphics are great. So, according to our housing plan budget, and I don't know if that's something that would be represented here, do we have any eviction prevention, any which would be, I guess, rental assistance, programming anywhere in terms of the city of Emory Bill. And how does that relate to my question to what we've done during the pandemic. And just in case there is another pandemic or anything like it. We're in interesting times now. In case there is an economic trouble, but do we have currently have a plan so that we can dip into some emergency funds or anything and bring something that is already existing administratively? So we don't currently in this plan have anything related to that. Because the bulk of the money is coming from the Measure C housing bond, the funding has to be put into physical property. So we actually would be prevented from actually utilizing the money to do like a rental assistance program. I have research. I wish we could because it would have been a great thing to build into this program. Unfortunately, it's not allowed. It has to be acquisition or some type of improvement to a physical property and not to an individual. So currently within the plan, we don't have that. We really have to look at each individual funding resource in order to determine what we could or could not use the funding for $50 million wouldn't be available. Potentially we could use maybe another source of funding to determine if we could fund an activity like that. It has not been the practice in the past and it's not something that we've looked really deep into. We've done some cursory reviews to determine what sources are available. When I look at other jurisdictions, it's primarily federal funds that's used to support rental assistance. And so that would be the need. We'd have to identify the funding source in order to do that. When we did do our tenant protection program and rental assistance during the pandemic. We actually received donated funds from a local business. And so that's what funded that opportunity. So we do currently have it set up that we're ready to act fast. If there is another pandemic, we have things that we've already put in place previously that we could reactivate if there was a need. But financial resources is the number one challenge. We would be reliant on funding coming down from the federal government or the state or through some type of philanthropic entity or local business willing to support that initiative again. But that's what we would need is a financial resource to support that type of activity. And I don't believe any of the resources we currently have make that allowance which is why we haven't done it so far. Yeah go ahead. So when we did the Mejrcy Housing Bond we did not place within its architecture anything around eviction prevention or rental assistance? It wouldn't be allowed under when you issue bonds. There's certain federal requirements. It's not an allowable activity. It has to be for real property investments. Gotcha. Which is why the tenant protections don't get funded when you see jurisdictions doing housing bonds. It's not funded under those type of resources. Gotcha. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? Allerie, are you looking for any direction or decision? No, I'm not. We're actually just filing the report and I just wanted to make sure that the council was aware of all the different activities, especially since we have a new council member I just wanted to do that presentation for you since this is our first time doing these annual reports. Thank you for the presentation and the wonderful work you do. Thank you. the council is going to take items 12.2, 12.2.1, 12.2.2 and 12.2.3 together as they all pertain to committee compositions. So first we have a quick overview or introduction by the City Clerk, April. Thank you, Mayor. Tonight we're looking at Council Committee reorganization and amendment to the Housing Committee membership. Staff recommends that Council adopt a resolution reducing the public safety and community services committee meetings to six times per year and allowing the committee members to set their own meeting schedule at their first regular meeting of the year. The second recommendation is to adopt an ordinance to combine the transportation and sustainability committees that's done ordinance to combine the transportation and sustainability committees that's done by ordinance because the transportation committee is created within the municipal code. Third recommendation is to adopt a resolution reducing the number of housing committee members from 9 to 7. A little background on the city council committees. So these provide a forum for more detailed study and discussion by the Council members. Two Council members sit on these bodies and they make recommendations to the full council. Those recommendations appear in the staff report as a recommendation from that Council committee. The Council committees currently meeting monthly or quarterly and they're staffed by the various departments that oversee their topic areas. There's currently five Council Committee's budget and governance, public safety, community services, transportation, and sustainability. We're not recommending any changes tonight to the Budget and Governance Committee. For Public Safety and Community Services, this is addressed in the first resolution in your packet. Both committees currently meet monthly. And the staff recommendation is to reduce the meetings to six times per year, meaning every other month beginning in January. In 2024, the Public Safety Committee only met six times, and in 2024, the Community Services Committee met only three times. We're making these recommendations for staff efficiencies and to reduce the number of meetings that city council members need to attend. We're also recommending that we allow the committee members to choose their own regular meeting schedule at the first meeting. They would have to choose a regular meeting schedule, a regular date and time, but it wouldn't be set by resolution at a council meeting so that give the members a little bit more flexibility. For the transportation and sustainability this is the ordinance. So the Transportation Committee was created in 1991. They meet monthly. The Sustainability Committee was created in 2015 by resolution. They meet quarterly. The purview of the Committee is similar in that there are similar items presented to both committees taking both staff and committee time for the similar or the same items and both are staffed by the committees. Again, the same reports are offered presented to each committee and there is significant staff overlap between public works and the community development department. Our recommendation is to rename it to the Transportation and Sustainability Committee and we also recommend a monthly meeting schedule again to be determined by the committee members instead of by resolution of the council. For the housing committee, this is an advisory body to the council. So this one is a little bit different. This is an council committee. We've had a really hard time between resignations, lack of applications, and just different situations. This is a nine member body, so we're recommending reducing it to a, from a nine member body to seven. The committee hasn't been able to meet since June because of lack of a quorum, and there are currently four vacancies on the housing committee. Reducing the number reduces their quorum to a four and the committee secretary believes that that is a more likely number to be able to reach a quorum. So again, here are the three staff recommendations for council, the resolution reducing the public safety and community service, committing meetings to six times per year and allowing the committee members to set their own meeting schedule. Second recommendation is to wait first reading and adopt by title only. The ordinance to combine the transportation and sustainability committees. So the amend section four, dash nine point one of the MRevealminous poll code. Then the third recommendation is to adopt a resolution reducing the number of housing committee numbers from 9 to 7. And that is the end of my presentation. Is it all right if I leave this slide up? So we don't have a black screen behind you. Yes, that's fine. Okay. Thank you. So I have some changes in amendments, but first I would like to know if there are any questions from the members. I have a question. Please proceed. Is there a reason or is there an ordinance or a resolution that indicates we can have only two council members on the five committees that are currently formed. That would create a quorum issue. So if you have more than two council members, you would have on a council committee, you would have a quorum of three, so you have three council members. You'd have a quorum of three. A majority of the body would be making decisions outside of the city council meeting. So yes, it can only be two. Thank you. Any other members? So I have a few changes in amendments I'd like to make for the items in question. The first one is to actually not appoint any members to the community service committee and we this within effect suspend the meetings as we figure out the best form for that committee in the future it could actually involve presentation to all the name of the sustainability committee to environmental and sustainability committee based on the council's consensus to make this change as part of council committee reorganization suggested language is where as the city council desires to change the name of sustainability committee to environmental and sustainability committee based on the council's consensus to make this change as part of Council Committee reorganization suggested language is where as the city council desires to change the name of sustainability committee to environmental and sustainability committee resolve that the city council changes the name of sustainability committee to the environmental and sustainability committee. This also means as the third point to not adopt the ordinance, combining the transportation and sustainability committee. Sustainability would remain as its own entity now as the environmental and sustainability committee. And the fourth item is to adopt the resolution decreasing the number of members on the housing committee. And that's unchanged from the recommendation. So with those changes in amendments, I'd like to now ask for public comment. Any members of the public who wish to comment on the items at hand, please come to the podium. That was a Brown Act violation, what you just the mayor just did. It's supposed to be staff presentation. One, two clarifying questions from the from the council. Three, public comment. Four, to debate and discuss. Five vote. You just skipped public. You just did debate and discuss before public comment that's a brown act violation Then I wanted to say that there was another brown act violation just happened momentarily ago When the public speaker came up here during the housing presentation asked a question and then council member Welch who's violating the Code of ethics right now by not actively listening to me. When she answered the public's question, you're only allowed to the brown act only provides you can give short little answer is to public questions you can't have answers that have or substantial and or long or lengthier substantial substantial according to the Brown Act, you just had her questions answered. That was a Brown Act violation. So look, I think it's fine if you guys answer the published questions, but now that you've done it for a member of the public, now the onus is on you to apply this new ethos that you've just forwarded. You have to apply it fairly and equitably. So that means if an unpopular person comes up here and asks a question, now you're going to have to answer the question like you just did to the popular person who's on a committee, otherwise you'd be violating the 14th amendment. So remember, fair and equal treatment under the law. So if this, that speaker got her questions answered so then can anybody get their questions answered moving forward see the problem You're not gonna like it, but you're gonna be you're required by the 14th amendment to treat everybody fairly and equal I know equally. No, you don't like it So I could ask a question right now and you would be the onus would be on you to have the question answered I'll see you be in violation of my of my rights. Thank you for your comment. Any other members of the public? Seeing none, I'll bring this back for council discussion. And I just wanted to start out by clarifying the intent of some of my changes and amendments. The idea is to have four committees. It would be public safety. It would be environmental and sustainability, transportation, and budget and governance. And we would be staffing those committees with four eligible members, each serving on two committees. And some of the background on that the Community Services Committee, it's not to diminish the importance of the Community Services Committee, but rather to think about how to make it more impactful in the future. And one of those possibilities includes a quarterly update to the entire council and also maybe bringing in members of the community who could possibly staff that committee. So those that will be a subject of discussion among staff later this year as we decide how to best proceed. And then the other amendment, I made about not adopting the combination of transportation and sustainability, and instead actually expanding sustainability to environmental and sustainability. The context for that is, we're currently in an environmental and sustainability crisis in the state of California. The fires in Los Angeles, I think, highlight the importance of a robust climate preparation and mitigation approach and having a city that operates in a sustainable way. So I think in the context of that, I think the importance of this committee is underscored and I would like to see it continue and expanded. With that explanation about my changes in amendments, I will let's open this up for further discussion. Vice Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. I have a question about the amendments that you just made. I do not, this is a question for the city attorney. Do they have to be approved by the council because it sounded to me like one of them and at one point you said that this is a council action. So don't we have to take a vote if what you're doing is a council action because I'm part of the council. Yes, so we would be voting on the amendments as well. So we are voting on the original items and the amendments or I'm just asking the city attorney to clarify. Thank you, council member Carr. My recommendation is you can handle a number of ways. You can have a motion to approve all of the amendments that Mayor Moira suggested or you can have separate motions for each of the items and ask the council to approve those amendments by motion. Thank you city attorney. I think I would like to go back to the original items and discuss those before I discuss the amendments. That's fine. Okay, so with regard to the first item, I actually like the fact that they are two council members on the Community Service Committee meeting six times per year. And then I like that we can adopt a resolution reducing the public safety and community services committee meetings to six times and allowing the committee members to set their own meeting schedule. It allows the council members to participate in both the public safety and community services committee. So I would actually be in favor of this resolution, provide that we can have the two council members serve on this committee. Regarding the second part, I have been, I have sat on both the transportation and sustainability committees. I said, currently I sit on both of those. I served there and I've witnessed that they have similar pervuse, same reports and recommendations. They're often presented to each committee individually. Therefore, for operational efficiencies and for optimizing our limited staff time, I support the the planning of the transportation committee and the sustainability committee. That and that they may meet every month instead of the sustainability committee meeting every quarter. I believe it meets every quarter and transportation meets every month. And that would actually promote operational efficiencies and a better use of staff time. I don't see that we're going to have any federal funds, at least in the next four years, for climate-related issues. So I think that it makes sense to combine transportation and sustainability committee. I sit on the Ava Board, which has a lot of transportation issues around EVs. So I think that it makes sense to combine those two committees. Also, a lot of sustainability issues are related to public works and transportation issues that I've worked on for the last two years as a council member on local and regional bodies. And it makes sense to combine the two committees. I would propose that the committee, oh well, since we kind of have three council members, we could have an alternate council member if that is possible. Maybe the city attorney can answer that. Thank you council member. Car, is your question whether there can be alternate members that serve on one committee in case one is not able to attend one of the monthly meetings. I don't think that that would be an issue with the Brown members in advance, an alternate member could serve in that capacity. Member Welch. I'm sorry, can I just flag something just as far as the brown, obviously they're not attending together, but then any information that was discussed at the meeting as far as the brown act obviously they're not attending together but then any information that was discussed at the meeting then wouldn't be provided to the main sitting council member right because the three parties couldn't discuss because that would be a brown act violation correct that would be a brown act violation but these meetings are public right so that third member who was not able to attend could watch the meeting right just that I'm not going to say that it's a very important consideration, but these meetings are public. So, that third member who was not able to attend could watch the meeting. There would be no internal discussion outside of that meeting regarding the agenda items. Okay. Is it, can't have a caucus because they sit on the committees. Correct. There couldn't be a quorum of the three, the two regular meetings and the alternate regarding committee business that takes place outside of the committee meeting. And if the alternate member is not attending that committee meeting, there shouldn't be any discussion with that alternate member regarding that committee meeting. Thank you. I just other than the fact that one council member cannot attend attendance issue. I appreciate that. And so just to continue on that line of thought, that alternate council member would have access to the earlier minutes for continuity. Certainly any public documents that had to do with the committee could be provided the minutes the agenda the staff reports anything that's published by the city in advance of the committee is certainly could be reviewed. Also one of the questions this is a logistical question. It's, it mentioned in the documents that we have are the presentation that it's too late to have a January meeting, sometimes especially in the election year, but it seems to me like what we've been doing in the past is where, where we have the committee membership decided for the one year term in December. It actually works better because we are almost at the end of January now and we haven't had the first committee meeting. There are only 10 days left, we won't be able to notice a first committee meeting. So would it make sense to have these calendar in February or would it be better to notice a first committee meeting. So would it make sense to have these calendar in February or would it be better to just go the original way of doing it where we have a December meeting decide the committees or unless we can have these before January 15th. So we have ample time to do the January meeting. Just a logistical question. Mayor is that all right if I answer? Yes. Thank you. So this would be the first year that we are making these assignments in January. Part of the reason is that the in election years it's certified so late now because the registrar takes the 30 days that the first meeting that a new council member is sitting at their ass to sit down and make make selections for their committees and their regional bodies. So part of our recommendation is to move these assignments to the first meeting in January. So the whoever is selected tonight would serve through January of next January. So whoever is selected tonight would serve through January of next year. So this year is a little bit off. We've lost the month of January, but going forward we wouldn't do that because the recommendation is that council make appointments in the meeting in January. Does that make sense? I'm trying to make sense of it. If I may, I'd like to ask a follow-up question. Oh, yes. Thank you. So for a year like this, maybe we could have the first meeting in February, rather than have the first meeting in March, or I'm just trying to make sure that we have the monthly meetings or the quarterly or the meetings every second month. So the only meetings that we're suggesting go to this, so the transportation and or sustainability or whatever way it comes out of this would meet monthly. And then we're only suggesting that public safety and community services go to every other month. I understand, but that still doesn't answer my question regarding whether we can start in February or because we would start in March. A special meeting could be called for February. Yes, that's not a problem once the membership is determined they could determine a date with staff and call a special meeting and then start their regular meeting schedule in March. Yes. Thank you. If I could just also follow up on the alternate member idea, I think there might be some just logistical issues that you might want to consider as well. So if one of the members of the regular committee is not able to attend, maybe a requirement that they provide the committee secretary a week notice that they're not going to be there so that it doesn't turn into a quorum issue and the alternate is informed well in advance that they will need to attend the meeting. Things like that I think would help with staff in terms of making sure that the meeting can go forward if a regular committee member cannot attend. Thank you, City Attorney. Any other comments? I would actually just like to make one comment on some of what was said about the sustainability committee. I also serve on the committee. I think there's numerous important issues that are discussed that would not logically fall into transportation, which is already combined from transportation and public works from a few years ago. I'd like to see those get there, get the proper attention. There was a comment about federal funds. I think with the spec, with the possibility of federal funds drying up, I think it's all the more important to be looking towards regional and state funds to plug that gap. And I think that's another way to help focus the committee. And in terms of the staffing efficiency, I think the staff time is minimal and I think it would be worthwhile keeping that committee. I think it's becoming clear that we should actually take these items separately. So I actually, since this is my amendment and change, I would like to make a motion to not adopt the ordinance combining transportation and sustainability and adding the whereas clauses previously mentioned that would rename sustainability to environmental and sustainability. So that's a motion is there a second? Yes, member Welch. So we are not moving forward with the combining transportation sustainability. It's our choice to decide to combine them or to keep them separate. So my motion is to not adopt the combination of them and also in conjunction with that to rename sustainability into environmental and sustainability. I see. Okay. Thank you. Is there a second to the motion? I ask a clarifying question of staff. Yes. So. Want to be mindful of staff's time and staff's ability to do the, get the input that they need to accomplish the goals of the Transparency Committee and the Sustainability Committee. Is it, and not duplicate your time, not duplicate our time and make sure that we can reach a quorum at every meeting? Is it staff's opinion or recommendation that the, if the meetings were combined, that they would be sufficient time to cover the needs of both the transportation, what is currently the transportation committee and what is currently the sustainability committee if they were in a single monthly meeting. Don't wanna make sure that so just may or more is point that, we're not giving anyone the short shrift. It is possible that the meetings, depending on the agenda, could become longer than the average transportation meeting, and it's possible that they could stay at our current average. It would vary depending on the agenda. Yeah. So again, my motion is to retain sustainability and call it sustainability environmental and sustainability and to not proceed with the combination of transportation and sustainability. and a second. Madam clerk the role. I would like to make a substitute motion before that. Yes, go ahead. I would like to move to combine the transportation and sustainability. In order to go ahead and promote operational efficiencies. I would like to make that motion. I'd like to second that. We have a motion and a second to combine the transportation and sustainability committees. Madam Clerk, the roll. On the substitute motion, Council member pry force. Aye. Council member Solomon. Aye. Council member Welch. Vice Mayor Carr. Aye. And Mayor Mora. Nay. Motion carries on the substitute motion. So with the substitute motion, we will now have a combined sustainability and transportation committee. I'd like to take one of the other items, the adopting the resolution to decrease the number of members on the housing committee from 9 to 7. I should make mayor. Member prior force go ahead. I'd like to make a motion to still move forward with renaming that committee that was passed during a substitute motion to transportation and environmental sustainability committee. Sure, that's fine. With anybody like to rename that committee, sounds like you're making an amendment. Yeah, yeah, I actually do like that name. I'll second the transportation and environmental sustainability name for the combined committee. We have a motion in a second. Adam clerked the role. I'm sorry. I need some clarification on what the what the motion is. So we're just amending it to the name, the name of the combined committees amended now to transportation and environmental sustainability. Is that correct? So we've already combined transportation and sustainability. So now it would be transportation and environmental. It's environmental sustainability. Environmental. What would because you were proposing a name change? What would you prefer transportation environmental and sustainability or transportation environmental sustainability? Well, I think now that it's. So I previously proposed having sustainability as environmental and sustainability. I think now that it's combined as transportation and sustainability, I think it would become unwieldy to make it transportation and environmental and sustainability. Okay. Then I wrote you on my motion. Okay. We'll draw my second. Okay. Thank you draw my second. Okay. Thank you for the clarification. So just to clarify, Mayor Mora, you will be adopting the ordinance then as proposed if the council's desire is to combine the transportation and sustainably committees into one committee. Oh, that's right. So the the adoption or my motion to not adopt the ordinance was that failed. So I think that brings leaves us with transportation and sustainability. So the next item to vote on is the resolution decreasing the number of members on the housing committee. I moved to I moved the resolution reducing the number of housing committee members from 9 to 7. Second. Madam clerk the roll. Council member Prifors. Aye. Council member Solomon. Aye. Council member Welch. Aye. Vice Mayor Carr. Aye. And Mayor Mora. Aye. Motion carries. Mayor Mora just one final point. I think the only other item on the list of amendments that you proposed was suspending the meetings the committee. Any other members? Mayor Mora just one final point. I think the only other item on the list of amendments that you proposed was suspending the meetings for the community services committee for one year and not appointing any members to that committee. Did you want to move forward with that amendment or is that now moved? Can I ask a clarifying question? Yes. Has there been vote on adopt a resolution regarding Yes. Can I ask a clarifying question? Yes. Has has there been vote on adopt a resolution regarding reducing the public safety community service meetings to six times per year? Has the I don't believe that item has yet been addressed? No, we haven't addressed that. But I think what the city attorney is asking is since the motivation for the action on the community services committee was partly motivated to have four members and four committees. I think I would withdraw my request to do that. In that case, I'll move to adopt a resolution reducing the public safety and community service meetings to six times per year and allowing the committee members to set their own meeting schedule. I'll second. Mr Mayor, Member Pride Force has his hand raised. Member Pride Force. So I'd like to make a deliberate on, I disagree about the Public Safety Committee particularly, meeting six times a year that you mentioned earlier about the fires in California. And so the Public Safety Committee encapsulates as well as a police but also fire, as well as, and I believe disaster, disaster hazards. And I believe in the previous council meeting we even talked about cyber threats that cyber threats actually don't aren't discussed by any of our committees but it could also exist within the public safety committee as a hazard or a disaster. And so I believe that with everything that's gone, everything that's happened in terms of will we experience the crime surge in the Bay Area, the Public Safety Committee meetings were very popular. And the community, I believe, felt safer, better about the public safety addressing some of the concerns that would come up in terms of our public safety. It was really important to report on the things that were happening in their communities. Even if there was a month delay, still it was very important. I believe it's vital to our public health as a city, since as you are aware, many of our fire services are used in a form of emergency medical. And so I believe that we would be remiss and it would place us in a difficult situation to explain to the public, should a disaster or crisis happen or even something happened as relates to another crime surge because as I have mentioned several times tonight, we are in very interesting times now, nationally. Then, and the last national leadership that we had, actually by the end of their presidency was the pandemic and that's when our crime began to surge surge crime rates. And so I believe that I am protesting the Public Safety Committee meeting six times a year because when you look at it, hours are important. We use hours to build wages, use hours to even determine our credits in academic institutions. And so when you think about the average hours of our meetings, which I believe would maybe let's say two hours, and you're cutting that by half in terms of how many hours are accumulated during a year than to say that six times two, that's 12 hours that we spent a year discussing and going over public safety, that is a lot. And also I believe that because of the public safety committee, the way that the meetings are run, when we go over the stats, it could potentially make the meeting a lot longer. And so if we are going to move it to six times a year, then the meetings would have to be longer. And as well as making room for, of course, public comments. In case something happens, and there are a lot of people who wanna know what's going on and they will tune into the Public Safety Committee. So I'm not in agreeing, I don't agree with Public Safety Committee meeting six times a year. I think we could potentially be opening ourselves to issues in the future. Vice Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. I need to ask a question, clarifying question, based on what a council member pry force has just stated. Has the Public Safety Committee been meeting every single month in the past year? They're scheduled to meet every month I believe except for August. I may be confusing that it's 11 or 12 times a year and they I'm going to go to the next slide. They're scheduled to meet every month. I believe except for August. I may be confusing that it's 11 or 12 times a year and they met six times last year. Now, I can't tell you the reasons, but they only met six times last year. Number Welch. So, this is just a number. Okay. Madam Clerk. If there's any type of issues, this is just the set regular schedule. There's nothing that goes against the committee deciding they need to call a special meeting. Correct. That is correct. So this is just these are the set meetings for you're only required, I guess, to meet then it would be six times. But if there's any type of prime surger issue, where in the middle of a pandemic that pops out of nowhere, we then could, the members on the committee can always just call a special meeting. Correct. Okay. I actually have a question about this one for the city manager. Did we have any input from Chief Jennings on the modified schedule? So is this a staff recommendation or Captain Dower, yes. Thank you. Oh, maybe as Chief West as well. Chief West is here. Oh, yes, Chief West. Thank you. So, and with the AC of the whenever it's presented we didn't have any oppositions that will. Thank you Chief West. the second. So I believe we have a motion and a second. Now then clerk the roll. Just a point of clarification. We're going to be voting individually on each of these items correct the resolution, the ordinance, and the second and the third, the second resolution because there is a request to read the ordinance by title only. So we need a motion. second and the third, the second resolution because there is a request to read the ordinance by title only. So we need a motion that the first reading of the ordinance would be by title only. Yes, so that's on 12.2.2. Right? The second one. Yes. Understood. Thank you, City Attorney. So we're voting on 12.2.1 now correct on the resolution for the public safety and this is on the schedule. Yes. Okay. Thank you. And we do have a council vice mayor car and mayor more or the first and second on that. Council member Price Force. May. Council member Solomon. Aye. Council member Welch. Aye. Vice Mayor Carr. Aye. And Mayor Mora. Aye. Motion carries. So next we have the to wave the first reading and adopt by title only in ordinance to combine the transportation and sustainably committees amending section four dash nine dot oh one of the emeryville municipal code motion to a wave first reading and adopt by title only second. We have a motion in a second madam clerk the role. Council member pride force I Councilmember Solomon I Council member Welch I vice mayor car. Hi and mayor Mora. Hi motion carries Mayor Mora I can now read by title only the ordinance. Thank you mr. Kennedy Thank you ordinance of the city council of the city of Emeryville, amending Emeryville Municipal Code section 4-9.01 to combine the Transportation Committee and the Sustainability Committee with expanded oversight, rename it the Transportation and Sustainability Committee and delete reference to city staff, sequel determination, not a project and exempt pursuant to sequel guidelines section 15378, subsection B, subsection five and 15061, subsection B, subsection three. Thank you. Motion to approve. Second. Madam clerk, the roll. Council member Prifors. Hi. Council member Solomon. Hi. Council member pry force. Hi. Council member Solomon. Hi. Council member Welch. Hi. Vice Mayor Carr. Hi. And Mayor Moira. Hi. Motion carries. I believe we've covered all the items that I missed one. I don't believe so mayor. I think you've covered it. Yes, I have motions and votes for all of them. Thank you Moving on to item 12.3 This is the resolution of the city council city of Emoryville appointing city council members two city council committees for one year terms and amending the fiscal year 2024 25 local roster of boards, commissions and committees accordingly. Is there a associated, there's no presentation, right? No mayor, there's no presentation. We did give you in front of you each council member you'll find the list of the committees weren't quite sure if you were going to combine transportation and sustainability. So they're listed individually on there but it's just a reference sheet. I can throw it up on the screen but it isn't editable but we just need two members for each of the four committees. Thank you. Thank you. So maybe a good way to go about this. We can go to each member and ask them for their top two picks. And then we'll just, we can see where we have two people. If we have more than two people, we can have some discussion. And then we can approve the committees that way. Maybe I'll start with member Solomon, whether you're top two picks. My top two are transportation, sustainability, and public safety. Number Welch. Budget and governance and community services. Vice mayor. My top two picks are transportation and sustainability, since I sit on those already I would like to continue on both of those. And then I mean, now it's combined to one. So I'd like to continue. And then the second one is budget and governance. Is that have a background as an attorney? And then I would like to continue on both of those. And then I mean, now it's combined to one. So I'd like to continue. And then the second one is budget and governance. Is that have a background as an attorney and budget and like governance? Those two are my top two. And my top two are also transportation and sustainability and budget and governance. So we have two committees, community services and public safety each with one person in their top two and then we have two committees with three people. So we need to get to two people on each committee. Yes. Yeah, we had earlier discussed the alternate option for transportation and sustainability, and I would like to continue that discussion if if I may so that everyone gets an opportunity to serve on those at least as an alternate. Since that is meeting every month, and I think budget and governance meets every quarter. Sorry, could you clarify which conversation? About having an alternate council member on transportation and sustainability, in case one of the other council members is absent and can give a notice to. Mr. City Attorney, what would be involved in that proposal? I would like to ask the transportation and sustainability committee chair if there's any problems, but I think the idea would be that there would be an alternate that there would be some type of time requirement where a regular member would be in the community. I would like to ask the transportation and sustainability committee chair if there's any problems, but I think the idea would be that there would be an alternate, that there would be some type of time requirement where a regular member would notify the committee secretary that they're not able to attend and then the alternate would serve in that capacity if that member were not able to attend a regular scheduled meeting of the committee. In terms of logistics or other issues that might be problematic, I would defer to Muhammad. to regularly schedule meeting of the committee. In terms of logistics or other issues that might be problematic, I would defer to Mohammed. I have no objections at this point to the idea. We would have to have, I'd probably have to go through it with the committee secretary and agree on timelines in terms of notice. I think that would be the most critical thing. And if provided there's sufficient notice, we probably can manage. I think to avoid complicating things as they are, I'd like to first try the result who the two members for each committee are before considering whether to introduce an alternate, which would be a rather new concept. Maybe to get started, I'd like to, let's first take a look, I think we should take the committees one at a time, the ones that have at least three people are looking to serve. Well, actually I'd like to open it to for any further discussion or any comments before I proceed. I can offer some comments with regard to the first committee where we have three people, transportation and sustainability committee. I have been sitting on the AC Transit Regional Body. I serve as an alternate on ACTC, Alameda County Transportation Commission. And I sit on Ava as the vice chair of the finance committee on the energy board. So I've been doing that as a council member representing Emeryville in the whole region. And I made some relationships there that are looking forward to working with me. These are people who had endorsed me when I ran for my re-election. These are people who are looking forward to continuing on with those conversations and I would like to go ahead and bring that as a contribution to a city as a to continue those positive relationships. Thank you vice mayor. So sticking to transportation and sustainability. I'll turn to a member Solomon for him to explain his interest and why he should serve on that committee. Thank you, Mayor. So professionally, I work at a climate change non-profit, so I'm very knowledgeable. I spent my day job thinking about sustainability topics and I've been serving on Emoryville's bicycle and pedestrian advisory committee for the past three years, including chairing that committee. So I think I would bring understanding of the topic matter and I'm revuls. Projects of this area, policies in this area. Thank you, members Solomon. And it's just explaining my interest in transportation and sustainability. This is something that's become very close to my heart. I think continuity is helpful on this committee, but I think there's more that must be taken into consideration for comprising overall fit for committee members to best serve the city. I think additional service in committees that interface with transportation is important. I previously served on the planning commission which involved interface with transportation similar to bike pedestrian. I also have experience with alternate transit which I think is an important perspective as the transportation committee considers additional programs. And I've sent a number of future agenda items to that committee, including a public works special study session to look at the C-Click Fix program and also some other bike and pedestrian safety measures that I have some unique insight to as somebody who bikes as their primary mode of transportation. So that's my, I think we've heard everyone's reasons. What I'd like to do is consider motions for the membership of transportation. And if we appoint two people, then I'd like to see the third person who does not get appointed, either select one of the committees with one person. So it would be community services or public safety. So I will, since I'd like to join this committee and I do think the qualifications that Member Solomon brings to the committee with his work experience and his familiarity with alternate transport, I'd like to make a motion to appoint myself and member Solomon to the Transportation Committee. Are you saying transportation and sustainability committee? Transportation and sustainability. I have a question before going forward, so does that mean that the people who are serving on the regional bodies like AC Transit and Ava and all those committees would, the corresponding regional bodies would go to those two members? No, those will be discussed separately. And I'd like to note that I think you've been doing a great job on Ava. I'd like to see you continue on Ava. And also, I'd like to also know, I think you'd be really good on budget and governance. And I would be, if you'd be open to serving and getting breadth of experience, I would appreciate that as well. Member Welch? I would just like to know, I would like, I would second that. I would enjoy your point of view and your experience on budget and governance and would appreciate if you'd consider joining that committee with me. committee, but at the same time, I do not wish to completely go off the transportation and sustainability. You do continuity and my own interest there, especially regarding the trees and the environmental issues like Council Member Mora has talked about. And please proceed. I definitely understand your concern. I think what's compelling with member Solomon is that the BPAC does inform the transportation and environmental, so what are we doing? That committee. I think having that background is really critical since that is very centralized to Emoryville. I think your work on the regional bodies is very prevalent and been very strong and I would definitely support you staying there. I think bringing in a our new council member who has that strong BPEG background, it would be that work. I feel like you would still be able to perform it at the level you have as well. I think it's about us finding a little bit of a balance. I, like I mentioned, definitely want to welcome you onto the Budget and Governance Committee. Madam Vice Mayor, if you would consider it, I think your voice on the public safety committee would be really critical with being a Watergate resident knowing that's one of the areas of concern in the city. I think that's a committee that really would need your voice and especially the voice of the Watergate community that kind of experiences some of our public safety issues that are really prevalent, car thefts, burglaries, mail theft. I think you serving there would be actually really, really important. If you would. Sounds so, remember, well, I really appreciate your vote of confidence for those two committees and trying to convince me to let go of the transportation and sustainability for my new council member colleague here, Matthew Solomon, who I have no doubt will do a good job on any one of these committees as any one of us would do. But just for the sake, I do not mind serving on public safety either, but just for the sake of continuity and the fact that just like Council Member Mora, I am also invested in the sustainability aspect of promoting energy and bringing in my relationships there. I would like to continue on it to your point about the Emoryville Watergate. I live there, I represent about 40% or 30% of the population that has concerns about the Marina and the Powell Street projects that I have been a part of for almost two years, more than two years now on transportation and sustainability. So I do not mind serving on public safety, but that's where my interest lies is the representation of that population of about watergate, Powell Street, and those places, especially because as you may read just the description of the transportation and sustainability says that one of the big parts is the development of the Marina. So that's my, that's my reason for serving there. I feel like I can contribute there the most and the most positively. Thank you, member Welch and vice mayor car. So we do have a motion and the second. Mayor Mara, you have not taken public comment. So I think before the vote. Thank you for clarifying. Before the vote, I'll take public comment. You have two minutes. Yeah, you should get a councilmember Welch off the budget. And governance committee. Would you ramfer it really? Thank you. Thank you for clarifying. Before the vote, I'll take public comment. Yeah, you should get Council Member Welch off the budget and governance committee. Would you rent for real election in November? She told the people of Emeryville that she was doing a great us that the city had a ginormous budget deficit, a $12 million budget deficit, the biggest budget deficit we've ever had. She's been on that committee wall, so she knew about that budget deficit and she didn't let anybody know about it. She lied in her campaign literature. So this is not the kind of person we should have on that committee ethics. You should get her off of that. We don't want, you know, that level of cynicism on our committees. You know, we're supposed to be about good government, good government. And, you know, there's at least three people here that if it's press interests and good governance, and that is not good governance. Additionally, actually I forgot my other point. So just get, may it, council member Welch off the budget and governance committee. She's just a still no terrible job on there, not transparent, not accountable, and we deserve better. Thank you for your comment. Any other members of the public wishing to make comment? I see no members of the public. So I'll bring it back to the discussion. So I made a motion to appoint myself and members Solomon to the transportation and sustainability. And I'd like to note that if this passes, I will withdraw my name from budget and governance and select a different committee. We have a second from a member Welch. Madam Clerk, the role. Council member Prifors. Nay, oh, I'm sorry, I'm staying. Council member Pryor's. Ney. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm staying. Council member Solomon. I. Council member Welch. I vice mayor Carr. Ney and mayor Mora. Aye. Motion carries. Vice mayor, I'm going to go ahead and move on to the next slide. Vice mayor, I'm open to serving on either public safety or community services. I'd like to know if you have a preference between those two and I'll take the other one. I will take public safety. I'm withdrawing my name from budget and governance. and adding it to public safe or sorry to community services. And we now have vice mayor car. We have two people on on each committee now. Public safety would be Solomon and Car, Community Services, Member Welch and myself, and Budget and Governance, Member Welch and Vice Mayor Car. So for the remaining three committees, Budget and Governance, Community Services and Public Safety, I'll entertain a motion to appoint the listed members that I mentioned previously. I will second. I'll make the motion then. Oh, two years second. Oh, okay. Madam Clerk, we have a motion and a second. For the appointment of all other committees, Council Member Price Force. I'm saying. Council Member Solomon. Aye. Council Member Welch. Aye. Vice Mayor Carr. Aye. And Mayor Mora. Aye. Motion carries. The final agenda item is the resolution of the City Council of the City of the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the unless otherwise noted. Everybody should have received a copy of the current membership for these bodies and I think maybe the best way to go through of thank you, Madam Clerk. I think we can start at the top of the list and go down and ask people for any changes. So starting with the AC Healthy Homes, it's currently TBD member Welch. I had an interest in serving on the Almy County Healthy Homes Commission. Oh, actually, I don't want to mispublet comment again. I'm not sure if you're sure you're not sure if you're sure you're not sure if you're sure you're not sure if you're sure you're not sure if you're sure you're not sure if you're sure you're not sure if you're sure you're not sure if you're sure you're not sure if you're sure you're not sure if you're sure you're not sure if you're sure you're not sure if you're going to get the right answer. Yeah, you need to set up a condition whereby we the public can be heard when you're not running a meeting properly. Like I could have yelled out from their brown act violation. And then there would have been a lot of anger and retribution, a lot of acrimony because of lack of order in the room. So I mean, last time, thankfully, the city clerk spoke up. I was gonna speak up of she luckily she did. But this time you caught it. I mean, so either the city clerk speaks up when there's not proper meeting is not being properly run, I would appreciate if she does that continues to do that every time or we I guess I'll start yelling from the from the peanut gallery brown act violation, I guess, Republic comment or whatever. I mean, I guess that's what I'm going to have to kind of self self police. Thanks. Thank you for your comment. Any other members of the public? I'll bring this back for our deliberation. So, member Welch, you were talking about the AC Healthy Homes. Yes, I had an interest in serving. Okay, I'll pencil your name in. For the mayor's. If we're interested, we just. Yeah, I'll pencil your name in. For the mayor's. If we're interested, we just. I think I also indicate interest in that. And out of the county health yams. Would you be okay as an alternate. Should we're going to decide on each one as we go. Is that your preference? I think we can just gauge interest right now. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. Unless we have something contested. I don't think we need to vote just yet. Mayor's conference. Help you'll take that over from me. Yes, I'll propose myself as the member and vice mayor as my alternate. Mayor, I had a question. Yes. Are there any conferences to attend or are those over on this AC mayor's conference? We just had one for January last week. So the next one will be February. So this is every month, this is a monthly rotation, yes. Thank you. AC source reduction and recycling board. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. So I would not mind at all serving on AC source reduction recycling because I am your alternate on stop waste. And I think that's part of the stop waste. Yes, it is. It goes hand in hand with the AC waste management authority, where you are the current alternate. So are you saying that you're interested in becoming the primary member? I'm a real alternate, either one is fine. Okay, I'll keep you as alternate for now, but we can also come back to that one. Association for Bay Area governments. I have a member Walter you've interested in continuing that. I am yes. And vice mayor you're the current alternate. I don't mind. It's fine. Ava, community energy. We have a member of vice mayor. You are the member. And I would a member Solomon, would you be amenable to being the alternate? I would be. You beat me to it. Did we purposefully skip some? No, I can I I have looked over the source reduction and waste management. So we have we do have now AC transit and AC transportation commission. I do think based on the Transportation Committee assignment, we should look to change the AC Transportation Commission. As far as the interagency liaison, I don't have any strong feelings on that. Member Solomon, would you be amenable to serving on AC transportation commission and vice mayor, a car would you be okay giving that up? I would like to serve on that since I've served on it for two years as an alternate. That was one of the reasons why I wanted to be on the transportation because I have made contacts there as well. So I would like to, I'd like RCD to benefit from those relationships. Seeing that you're currently serving on as the primary on Ava and you've expressed interest in the waste management authority and source reduction and recycling board. Would you be okay? Yeah, you know what? It actually makes sense for you or Matthew to have ACTC because of the, because you're going to be serving on the transportation committee. Perhaps you can go ahead and represent our city. It actually does make sense for somebody on the transportation committee to serve on both AC transit and ACTC. So I would be willing to give up both or be alternated to wherever I'm needed on those if I am needed. I would be willing to give up ACTC as an alternate because it makes better sense for you and Matthew to be on that committee and it makes better sense for you both to be part of AC transit to be AC transit liaison. Could I keep you as an alternate and have Matthew as the primary for AC transit and transportation commission? That is absolutely fine unless you would prefer to do that since you are on transportation committee. No, that's fine. I would be happy to have you serve there as an alternate. And then maybe I could be your alternate on the AC source reduction and stop waste management. If that's still your interest. It is definitely an interest and I really very much appreciate that if that's what we can do. So I'm moving myself to alternate and you would be primary. And just to confirm, I would be the primary on AC transportation commission and the AC transit and our agency liaison committee. Correct. Thank you. So now moving back down to A-Bag. We have Courtney and a member Welch and vice mayor as member and alternate. Ava would be vice mayor Carr and member Solomon East Bay sports field recreation JPA. I'm not sure if you're going to get to know the community. I'm not sure if you're going to get to know the community. I'm not sure if you're going to get to know the community. I'm not sure if you're going to get to know the community. I'm not sure if you're going to get to know the community. I'm not sure if you're going to get to know the community. I haven't, I think I attended only one where you were not available. So yeah, it's a very easy committee to be on. ECCL governance, that's all members. The current JPA, Emoryville Oakland JPA. This is, I'm actually not sure this, so the structure of this is four members, and then an alternate. Maybe, Madam Clerk, can you clarify the structure of the JPA? I'm not sure that I can. I remember that this is an odd one. Can you give us just a minute? Let me look at sure we can come back to that one. Thank you. Next we have the League of Cities, which is a my understanding is comprises a annual trip and then the annual conference and then there's the League of California cities East Bay division. I have been to both and I don't mind taking on both League of cities that annual conference I have I have been to and have been received very positively. So same with the League of East Bay Division, unless Member Welch, if you have a strong interest in these, I could be your alternate or either way around is fine with me. I'm fine with you being the lead and remaining the alternate on that. Many meetings are in Sacramento, whereas my family lives there, so we would be saving the city in Sacramento. Where's my family lives there? So we would be saving the city in expense. I don't mind being the lead. So you'll be the primary for both of those then. Sure. Okay. The next items. These are the two year terms. We have a non council member on AC transportation AC transportation commissions that's John Souter. We won't discuss that one. ETMA, we won't discuss that. And then AC Fire Advisory Commission. You're the current primary on that member car and. If someone feels passionately about it, that's another one that has met only once in the last year. So that's another one that's an easy committee to be on. It does meet in person. I don't mind being there because of the frequency it meets, especially once a quarter, but I think we end up meeting only once because of lack of quorum. Member Welch. Mr. Mayor, if I can make a suggestion, Madam Vice Mayor with you being on public safety, I think it does make sense for you to remain on the commission. Oh, I don't mind at all. In fact, it's very nice to be there. There. Great view. Maybe the alternate member Solomon, In fact, it's very nice to be there. There. Great. Maybe the alternate member Solomon, I can add that. I do there. Sounds good. And then the last one we're trying to fill is the housing authority of the county of Alameda. Current member member Welch. Are you okay continuing to serve? Yes, I am. I think you missed the AC Mosquito Abatement District. Yes, so those are four year terms. So former member of Bowlers is diligently protecting us from mosquitoes for the next few years. Bless us hard. Thank you, member of Bowlers. Okay. Thank you member of others. Okay so I think that covers it. I do want to know, so member of car you do have quite a few bodies. If you see any any concerns? I meet only once so I think I can handle it. If you want to be if you want to be the primary on any one of these, maybe you can go ahead and or appoint someone else to be primary. I'm fine with that. No, that's fine. I just want to make sure you're okay with the stop waste of work. So they that meeting. Would you prefer to be? If you prefer to be, that's fine with me. Because you're a part of sustainability committee. I don't have strong feelings. And good ideas for sustainability can come from anywhere. So. OK. Yeah, I don't mind being on those. But if you have it, or if Matthew has a strong preference, I don't even mind that you. I'm actually just noticing I'm only on the mayor's conference, so maybe I should retain the stop waste. Sure. Okay, so I'll switch my name back and if you're okay, being remaining my alternate, I'll keep you on their vice mayor. Sure. Or if you match your perverse that, that's fine too. Matthew, do you have strong feelings about stop waste being the alternate? I'm happy to be the alternate. If vice mayor doesn't have a strong opinion on this matter. I am already serving on so many math use. So if you prefer to be alternate because you are on transportation and sustainability to actually make sense for you rather than me to be there. That sounds good to me. Okay. So I think we covered everything. Do we only come back to the the JPA? Sure. I can read the so it what it was created in 1992. And it's the decision making legislative body for the East Bay Bridge project. The membership consists of Emoryville and Oakland Planning Commissioners and City council members. The city council member is a city council member that is a city council member that is a city council member that is a city council member that is a city council member that is a city council member that is a city council member that is a city council member that is a city council member that is a city council member that is a city council member that is a city council member that is an alternate. I see. So we should use the four eligible council members then as the primary. Okay. Okay. Mayor, can I also ask a question? If you're not gonna go back through these. So the... We can go back through them if you'd like. Were there two people, I just wanna make sure that there were two people assigned to the AC transit, ILC, because it's actually a, we need two council members. So council member, Bouters and Carr used to serve on that. I only got one, but maybe there were two that were assigned. So I have Solomon and Vice Mayor Carr. Perfect. Thank you so much. If you want to take that, David, that's completely fine with me because you are on the transportation committee. So it makes sense for you to be there. Okay, I can step in on that one. So the ILC, AC transit will be members Solomon and myself. Were there any other clarifying questions, Madam Clerk. I think I've got the rest of them. Thank you. There's a hand in the back. Lorraine. Lorraine. Why do we have a question? Apologies. I just wanted to double check with the source reduction and recycling board. They technically do not have an alternate. Yes, you're right. So it would be the alternate for the waste management authority. Okay, thank you. So are you on both of those, David? Sorry, Mayor Mora. Yes, so I'll remain on those with you as my alternate. Okay, only on the waste management. I'm just trying to write these down. So I am on AC waste management as your alternate. Yes, that's right. Can we read them one more time just so that we are clear about these? Yeah, so starting at the top, I have AC Healthy Homes member Welch with member Solomon as the committee. I have a request for the committee to request the committee to request the committee to request the committee to request the committee to request the committee to request the committee to request the committee to request the committee to request the committee to request the committee to request the committee to request the committee to request the committee to request the committee to request the committee to request the committee to request the committee to transit and Emoryville ILC interagency liaison committee. This would be the member, member Solomon as the primary and I would be the alternate. AC transportation commission. This would be member Solomon as the member? Oh yes. Oh yes go ahead. There's a question. Yes for the... Is he transit? I will see. It's actually two members they need. It's not an alternate. Sorry I misspoke. Yeah the alternate is not applicable so this would be a member Solomon and myself. AC transportation commission. This would be member Solomon and member car as the alternate. AC waste management authority I would remain as the member and vice mayor car as the alternate association of Bay Area governments member Welch and vice mayor as member and alternate. Ava community energy, JPA Board, Vice Mayor Carr as the member and the alternate members Solomon. East Bay Sports Field Recreation JPA, Member Welch as primary and alternate Vice Mayor Carr. ECCL, that's all council members. Emoryville Oakland JPA. That's all four council members. League of California cities. This would be a member car or vice mayor car and member welch as the alternate and same goes for thePEI division. The E-SPEI advisory commission, vice mayor car, primary and members Solomon as the alternate and housing authority for Alameda County member Welch. I think I covered everything. So I'll make a motion to approve the list that I just went through with all the committee assignments. Second. I thought we did public comment. the committee assignments. Second. On it. We did public comment. I thought we did public comment. Yeah. You take Mayor. Mayor you took public comment on the second. We have a motion and the second member Solomon. Madam clerk the roll. Council member pry force. I'm staying. Council member Solomon. Aye. Council member a motion. Councillor Pry force. I'm staying. Councillor Solomon. I. Councillor Wilts. I. Vice Mayor Carr. I. Mayor Mora. I. Thank you motion carries. Item 13 is department head reports. Just briefly. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Chad Smallley Community Development Director. I just wanted to point out that the Mr. Mayor Chad Smolley, community development director. I just wanted to point out that the planning commission meeting that had been scheduled for Thursday this Thursday the 23rd has been canceled due to the applicants withdrawal of the only substantive item we had agendized for that meeting. That was the Tesla Collision Center that was proposed at 1295 67th Street. That concludes my report. Thank you, Director Smalley. Item 14, future agenda item requests from council members. Number of price force. So I have mentioned imperious future agenda items which went to the city attorney. And I was asked to see what would happen with this, but this is around algorithmic software used to set rents. The city of San Francisco passed such a ban on algorithmic software, the city of San Francisco passed such a ban on algorithmic software, the city of Philadelphia passed. The ban New Jersey is becoming the first state to pass a ban and cities of San Diego and San Jose are also passing bans. And so I would like in Philadelphia, it was actually a 17 to zero on the city council. And so I'd like to bring that to this body for Emeryville to pass according to the Washington Post, 13 of the properties that were cited by the federal government as relates to the use of real page and agonithic software are in Emoryville, which means that the software is currently being used in 13 properties in Emoryville according to the Washington Post. And so I'd like to advance this discussion to this body. Is this... Sorry, just to clarify, Mr. City Attorney, was this previously discussed with you? My, Mayor Mora, my recollection of this was that there was a request for San Francisco's legislation regarding the software. I believe it was distributed to the Council with the idea that if this is something the council wanted to pursue legislation that it would be taken up by the council by motion to move forward with proposing an ordinance for the emrieville municipal code. One other clarifying question based on your understanding. It seems like the concern here is almost like a collusion type price setting, price fixing when it comes to rents. Would that not be covered under existing antitrust or other laws? I'm not aware that it is. Thank you. With a show of hands do we have a majority support for member, prior forces, future agenda item? The motion fails. Any other future agenda items? Number pry force if there's no future a gen items by I actually have one. There you go. So well, I actually have two. One is I would like to have city council endorsement for staff support for to provide staff support for the Emoryville transportation management authority that's the that oversees the Emery go around. They have a strategic plan for autonomous electric electrification of their emery go around shuttles. So this could include public work support for assessing EV charging infrastructure, city attorney support for legal concerns, development department for grants and partnership details. and the staff members of the staff members of the staff members of the staff members of the staff members of the staff members of the staff members of the staff members of the staff members of the staff members of the staff members of the staff members of the staff members of the staff members of the staff members of the staff members of the staff members of the staff members of the staff members of the staff members of the staff members of the staff members of the staff members of the staff members of the staff members of the to help them realize this through staff support. Sorry, fine question. Yes. Is this something that can be raised at transportation and then come to council with a little bit more detail about what this is entailing? Like a study session, because if we are authorizing staff time and staffing, like a study session, because if we are authorizing staff time and staff support, we need to know the parameters of what it entails. Yeah, so the first step, we could send it to transportation to be worked out exactly what are the parameters and where the support would be needed. So I would be agreeable to that. Yeah, I would even be agreeable to it being raised at transportation and brought to council. If that's something that can be done, it just streamlines the process a little bit better because we have that information. Either way is fine with me. Sure, that's fine. So do we have majority support? To send it to transportation? To send to transportation? Yeah. My second item is a previous item I sent to a council for a study session. And this is the look at the how the study session on the Seek Lake Fix Public Works Program. And I'd like to amend that so that it's sent out to send to transportation to get further details worked out before being brought to council. Sure, another one for transportation. Is this something another that can originate in transportation? Yes. Completely fine with getting more information from transportation after it's discussed there. OK, so this would be for moving the study session from council that was previously endorsed. This would be a study session now within transportation, just to clarify. I see majority show of hands. Okay. Do you have a future agenda item? You sure? Okay. Member Priforce, you have an additional one. I would like to bring back to his body a discussion around the pledge of allegiance returning to dischain crews, which I will demonstrate. Legilegians to the flag of the United States of America. To report on the United States of America, I would like to bring back to his body a discussion around the pledge of allegiance returning to dischain crews, which I'm sorry. Legislative allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. It's a republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Is there majority support for bringing back the pledge of allegiance? I don't see support of the motion fails. is there majority support for bringing back the pledge of allegiance? And let's see support of the motion fails. Any future agenda items? The time is 10.05, this meeting is adjourned.