I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. you you you you Good evening. This is the regular joint meeting of the Oakley City Council. Oakley City Council acting as a successor agency to the Oakley redevelopment agency, Oakley Public Financing Authority. This meeting is called to order at 6.30 p.m. call. Councillor Member Fuller. Section 6, Section 6, Section 6, Section 6, Section 6, Section 6, Section 6, Section 6, Section 6, Section 6, Section 6, Section 6, Section 6, Section 6, Section 6, Section 6, Section 6, Section 6, Section 6, Section 6, Section 6, Section 6, Section 6, Section 6, Section 6, Section 6, Section 6, Section 6, Section 6, Section 6, Section 6, Section 6, Section 6, Section Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right, we are going to move on to proclamations. Tonight we have three. I'm going to start with building safety month. Conrad, can you meet me at the front? All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. and essential role of our homes, buildings and infrastructure play both in everyday life and when disaster strikes. And whereas our confidence and the resilience of these buildings that make up our community is achieved through the devotion of vigilant guardians, building safety and fire prevention officials, architects, engineers, builders, people, design professionals, laborers, plumbers, and others in the construction industry who work year round to ensure that safe construction of buildings. Whereas these guardians are dedicated members of the International Code Council, a nonprofit that brings together local, state, territorial, tribal, and federal officials who are experts in the built environment to create and implement the highest quality codes and standards to protect us in the buildings that we live, learn, work, and play. And whereas these modern building codes and standards include safeguards to protect the public from hazards such as hurricanes, snowstorms, tornadoes, wildfires, floods, and earthquakes. And whereas building safety month is sponsored by the International Code Council to remind the public about the critical role of our communities largely unknown protectors of public safety and our code officials. Who assure us of safe, sustainable and affordable buildings that are essential to our prosperity. And whereas game on the theme for Building Safety Month 2025 encourages us, encourages us all to get involved and raise awareness about building safety on a personal local and global scale. And whereas each year in observance of Building Safety Month, people all over the world are asked to consider the commitment to improve building safety, resilience and economic investments at home and in the community, and to acknowledge the essential services provided to all of us by local state tribal territorial and federal building safety and fire prevention departments in protecting lives and property. Now therefore it be it resolved that I Shannon Shaw mayor of the city of Oakley along with the members of the Oakley City Council do hereby proclaim the month of May 2025 as building safety month. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You can't use your hands. You should. You should. You should. You should. You should. You should. You should. You should. You should. You should. You should. You should. You should. You should. You should. You should. You should say all the things. I wrote a little. I'm going to keep it short. Madam Mayor and the city council members. Thank you for the opportunity to accept this in knowledge on behalf of the city of Oakley Building Safety Team. From processing permits and project review to construction inspections, the city of Oakley has a great team to ensure building and construction is safe within the city. And they take pride in what they do. Building safety within the city cannot occur without other divisions as well through the assistance of code enforcement and planning. The entire community development department works together to ensure building safety. Thank you again for this acknowledgement. We're going to go ahead and get a picture and then we're going to bring you guys up when we have all. Didn't like it. When we have all three done and we can get a group photo of all the staff. Unless you guys want to come up and come down three times, it's up to you. Well, you're the mayor's say. All right, well, then we will get a group photo of all the departments at the very end. All right, yeah. Yeah, we'll just do one photo. Since we'd like you guys also much. All right, the second one is a National Police Week. Chief and your crew. All right. Whereas in 1962, President Kennedy proclaimed May 15th as National Police Officer's Memorial Day and the calendar week in which May 15th falls as National Police Week. And whereas the dedicated men and women of the Oakley Police Department dedicate themselves to protecting the lives, property and rights of our residents upholding the law with courage, integrity, and professionalism. And whereas these officers serve as guardians of our community, responding to emergencies, fostering public safety and building trust through commitment to justice and compassion. And whereas it is important that all citizens know and understand the duties and responsibilities of their police department, and that members of our police department recognize their duties to serve the people by safeguarding life and property. Protecting them against violence and disorder and protecting the innocent against deception and the weak against oppression. And whereas our police department has grown to be a modern and well-respected law enforcement agency, which increasingly provides a vital public service. And now, therefore, be it resolved that I, Shannon Shaw, mayor of the City of Oakley, on behalf of the City Council, do hereby recognize the week of May 11th through 17th, 2025 as National Police Week in the City of Oakley, and further extend appreciation to all law enforcement for the vital services they perform and their exemplary dedication to the community they serve. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Conrad did it here that you guys have a saying that says game honor something like that. Well we also have a saying with a G and it's called get on the ground. So that's, it's been ours since 1850 or so or something like that. In all seriousness, this is very much appreciated. This is a national thing for police officers. A lot of activities going on this week in Washington, DC, to honor the police officers that have lost their lives and the memories of them. It's, I can think of me speaking as a 35-year veteran of this, I can't think of anything nobler than that of a police officer without the cops, nothing else in the society works. So thank you for this acknowledgement, but this is really about the police officers out there day in and day out. So thank you. All right, Kevin. National Public Works Week. whereas public works professionals focus on infrastructure, facilities and services that are vital importance to sustainable and resilient communities and the public health, high quality of life and well-being of the people of Oakley. And whereas these infrastructures, facilities and service could not be provided without the dedicated efforts of public works professionals who are engineers, managers and employees at all levels of government, who are responsible for rebuilding, improving and protecting our nation's transportation system, public buildings, park and other structures and facilities essential for our citizens. Whereas it is the public interest of the citizens, civic leaders, and children and Oakley to gain knowledge of and maintain an ongoing interest and understanding of the importance of public works and public works programs in their communities. And whereas the year 2025 marks the 65th annual National Public Works Week sponsored by the American Public Works Association. Now therefore it be it resolved that I, Shannon Shaw, mayor of the city of Oakley, along with the members of the Oakley City Council, do hereby proclaim the week of May 18th through the 24th, 2025, as National Public Works Week in the city of Oakley, and call upon all citizens and civic organizations to acquaint themselves with the issues involved in providing our public works and to recognize the substantial contributions which public works official make every day to protect our health, safety, comfort and quality of life. Mayor Shaw, members of the council on behalf of your entire public force team, we are very grateful for this proclamation as we continue to provide exemplar service for the community. These are very exciting times in Oakley Public Forks as we are undertaking the design and construction of some of the most highest profile and truly transformational projects that Oakley has ever undertaken and you will see it, you've seen it and you've seen it over the next few years. There's also some of our labour. All of the same formation. I encourage you in the city's new website on the public works. We have real time updates. That's already beneficial for the community to see the progress of the work we're doing. I think so. Again, thank you and we're very grateful for your support. Thank you. And can I get all three departments and staff come up as well as the City Council please? It's not often we get to recognize so many of our staff and while we have the heads of the department here I do want to just say that the city is in great hands and please extend this to your entire department. We do appreciate everything you guys do. Yeah. Yeah. You can see. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You have baby. Yes. You can see. Observe. Please take it up to here. The big family guy. I should shut down. I'm going to talk about it too. Good job. I said lose lose situation here. I didn't want to be in free photos. Thank you. I'm not sure if you have any of those. I don't know. You have the senior secretary. You're introducing the most important emergency equipment to a radio. Thank you. Who's Melissa? Start of Elle. You have the senior. Sorry. You're introducing Melissa. I'm Melissa. I'm Melissa. Let's see what you have then. Okay, thank you. All right. All right. All right. Thank you guys for your patience with that. We are going to move on to item 1.3 with the Oakley Union Elementary School District Update with Superintendent Jeff Pompwist. Well, thank you Mayor Shaw, members of the Council, staff and community. It's always a pleasure to come and present to you. I'm going to limit my report to one hour this evening so that way you can get on with other important city business. Obviously that's not true. You know last year I came I think I laid out several things we were excited about in the year ahead and the goals we've set. Tonight I'm going to tell you I'm going to remind you of some of those goals but then also be very proud about the report on a lot of those items in the road ahead. You may remember you probably do not but we set four goals through our LCAP process last year and every year in the state of California We have to undergo a public process to set the goals that will guide us for the three years ahead. And then every year we do an annual update. Those goals aligned with the acronym RISE. Resources for education, inclusive educational partnerships, safe school climate, and excellence in teaching and learning. So our RISE goals are the things that we align, not only our school goals to, but even my goals is a super-intended and really is the lens that we look at our work and our community. In resources and education, I think last year I reported that we had received, you know, a couple million dollars in grant money to set up residences and we had desired to staff somebody to do that and to build that program. We had a successful launch. We actually have five residents in our program right now. We'll be likely doubling that number, you know, or adding four to five more next year. We also wrote and received a counseling grant and we have 13 applicants for what will be three to five counseling residents. That's no small thing in in an era where there's teacher shortages and staff shortages really everywhere. We've committed to growing our own and those efforts are starting to bear some fruit. Really successful launch using our our teachers the good educators we already have as mentors really excited about how we're going to continue to build on that. But that program not only got off the ground, it's very strong, really excited about the work ahead. We are also in the way of resources for education. We started a facility master plan process. Again, and last time I reported to you that was something we were going to endeavor to do. We will get that report likely at the next board meeting or shortly thereafter. Again, public process to really tap into what are the what are the priorities and what are going to be the needs as we look to the future. We have a pretty good sense of what that's going to be. We believe when I get to that road ahead, that's likely going to be reaching out to our community to see if we have, can establish the case for the growth and development that's going to need to happen out in the East Cypress corridor. The growth and development, the modernization that's going to need to happen in the schools we already have. Really focused on replacing portables. We have some schools where you know 70% of the schools is a portable. So we're excited about those priorities. We're excited to meet those challenges and really grow for the future. But those are some of the highlights in the R goal for rise. In our inclusive educational partnerships, that's where you all come into play as do many others. We were really excited with the advisory councils that we set up this year, tapping into expanding those, and then deepening the ones we already had to really make sure that we were broadening the number of families we engaged. engaged started some very successful and really continued some other successful parent education nights. We had a cybersecurity night in partnership with not only local law enforcement but others that had I think we hit almost a hundred between you know half or in the room and then half tuned in online did Did some math parent nights where I think we had 50 total between some sessions there. Really good numbers for us. You know, sometimes we struggle. We'll put something that we think is maybe hitting a need and folks will tell us that it's not, by not showing up. But that has not been the case in the last year, year plus, our community is hungry for a lot of these opportunities, and we're really working hard to provide them. The other big piece of our partnerships is really broadening our relationships with our municipal partners. Assemblymember Wilson was here. We've not only had opportunities to engage with her in, you know, at her office. She's even visited here, read to our students. We did a tour, we talked about the future. She has been an excellent partner. So too, have our local municipal leaders. I mean, our relationship with the city is something that we are not only very proud of. It's something that really, I think our entire community should be proud of. I know I'm proud of to be a part of a community where there isn't a municipal leader in this area that I don't feel could pick up the phone and have just not only a positive conversation but really be solution minded. That goes to our city manager, to our chief of police, sanitation district, water district. Really, I feel so fortunate that there's a receptive environment. There isn't a problem, I can't imagine we can solve. And there isn't, I can't think of one leader that doesn't come with a collaborative attitude. That's something we're very excited about. Something that's helped us a lot, especially we talk about some of these other things that we've accomplished this year. You know, the park over at Vintage and what we're seeing happen near O'Hara is a perfect example that taps into that resources in the Argole, but it really is part of the Igole too. And that doesn't happen if we don't have a council and a school board and staff at all levels who are willing to come together to look at problems that maybe we haven't always come up with you know a solutions that would work and find those and so that's something we're really proud of that that relationship that we've continued with you all and there's physical evidence of it so that ribbon cutting you know it's symbolic in a lot of ways but to me it much more than a facility. It's a symbol of all the things that we can do as a community. And so, again, something we're very proud of, something we're eager just to continue doing. And it leads into that third goal, safe school climate. One of our major accomplishments is really just a collaboration with the city yet again, getting officer Wayne into our schools has been enormous. Not only see an exceptional person, exceptional professional, he's great with our students. They respect him, I personally, seeing him on both campuses. I like going at lunch and you will see officer Wayne connecting with kids and doing what we want, which is building relationships, positive relationships, and then also representing the safety that we know we need, especially in this day and age. We need more and more of it. We'll never be safe enough and we'll never stop trying to be safe, but I believe we're safer today than we were yesterday. And I know that tomorrow will be safer safer yet again because we're going to continue to focus on these issues. But Officer Wayne is a huge part of that, a substantial step forward for us. And his paying dividends just in a few months that he's already been there. So again, thank you, thank you, thank you for that. We look forward to that continued relationship, not only with him but with the city. I'm not assure I told you that we were in the middle of upgrading our security, like our safety systems, like our surveillance systems. We've gone from some sites with like four or five camera angles to 6070. That includes vape sensors in our middle schools. It includes just a lot of technology that helps us keep our campuses safer. And that has been fully rolled out. In addition, access points, you know, automated access points, another huge thing in our school safety, really reaching out to our students, conducting surveys, trying to find out what those social, emotional needs are and really continuing with the programs to help people feel not only physically safe, but emotionally safe. And that's the really one of the biggest parts in our schools is the physical safety is something we'll be vigilant on all the time. It's that emotional safety. You can have all the safe things in the world if you don't feel safe, you're not safe. And so we work on both edges of that. Finally, excellence in teaching and learning. You know, we saw gains in both math and English, second year in aold and math, and our internal numbers right now show that we're poised for gains again. So we're really proud of that, that we continue an upward trajectory, but we can do two things at once. We can be proud of that upward trajectory and realize we've got a lot of work to do and that we're we need to accelerate those efforts so We're happy that we're seeing things going the right direction, but you know, we obviously want to force multiply that and escalate that growth and we know that you know great schools make great communities and great communities Make great schools and so that relationship that reciprocal relationship and making sure our kids are achieving our number one priority is something that we stay very focused on. We piloted a couple of programs that have shown incredible gains, I ready, with something that we did for in particular our English learners. The data that we've had reports at board meeting that just been exceptional with those programs. We also piloted at two sites, sites program called UFLY, which is a literacy program that we will now scale because that pilot has been so successful. Our early literacy scores continue to go up, made a real investment in those earliest learners because we knew that especially coming out of the pandemic that we would, if we could focus there and catch people before they need intervention it will help us to not only get folks on track but state on track. We have selected a reading difficulty screener that is a state requirement. I did that with our teachers and so all of our you know youngsters will go through screening for reading difficulties. In addition our TK and our K teachers developed you know readiness screeners in house readiness screeners as well. One of the biggest things that we're excited about so everything I presented to you already was something that I said we were hoping to do in the year ahead. I'm really proud that we were able to do. One of the things that we are incredibly excited to launch is a dual language immersion program that will happen at Laurel Elementary. We will have not only transitional kindergarten but also kindergarten classes. Community has responded incredibly well to that so much so that we actually had to lottery and start with a wait list because there was enough interest in demand. One of the most impossible things to do is staff for a dual language immersion program. We are right now fully staffed for a dual language immersion program. So really excited about the potential that that holds. And we know that if we get that off the ground of the right way, it will pay dividends for years to come. But that is also, that's going to be a huge thing that I think we're going to be known for. I think last year I said if we could be known for being like a residency development center that we can grow our own that we're very proud, we will become that. We are in the process of that. Same thing with the language immersion. If we could be known far and wide as the people who can do this thing very, very well, We know that we'll continue to be proud. The road ahead for us, a lot of financial challenges. The- far and wide is the people who can do this thing very, very well. We know that we'll continue to be proud. The road ahead for us, a lot of financial challenges. The federal and state and local financial climate is difficult for schools. So we're going to be faced with not only difficult decisions in navigating that, but the road ahead is not going to be easy for us over the next few years. So we're pretty active in paying attention to that, making decisions along the way so that we can meet those challenges. We know that facilities growth and modernization is part of the road ahead for us. It is likely that we'll be making our case to the voters here somewhat soon that we need to grow and that we need to modernize. And we look forward to not only taking that facility master plan, but all the good work that's happening in this community and making that case, making a strong case that investing in those things is going to be worth it. That is part of the road ahead. We're going to continue to find programs to support our students and our staff, especially in the areas of social and emotional learning. You have a position posted right now and our student supports division to coordinate just those efforts. And we're going to continue to achieve, and we're going to continue an upward trajectory, but we're going to escalate that so that we can move that faster. And with that, again, I'm so appreciative for our relationship and the ways you support our schools and our kids and happy to be a partner with you on. Any questions or comments from council member Fuller? Yes, I'm hearing a rumor about a bond coming out of your district. Is there any truth to that? Well, the rumor, I just started it probably literally maybe 30 seconds ago by talking about the road ahead and it's on here. It is, I said likely, we haven't finished that facility master plan, but some of the preliminary data is telling us that we're going to, you know, we have demographic data that shows growth, but it is likely that we'll need not only other facilities to the east, we're also going to need to modernize our campuses. So it is likely that we will be making that case to the voters. Not, it's not confirmed, but it is likely. And so, of course, that won't be done in secret. That will be something that will be, you know, quite public and lots of surveys. And we all, you know, we've been through that process before, but yeah, it is likely. Well, I've been there and done that on. I'm sure you have. I'm sure you have. Percent vote, but good luck. Thank you. Not all of us agree. I know. And that's why I'm going to make that case as strongly as possible. And that we'll do that as a community. And we'll see what kind of support there is for those things. Councilor. I know and that's why I'm going to make that case as strongly as possible and that we'll do that as a community and we'll see what kind of support there is for those things. Council Member Williams. All right. I know you said that the master plan hasn't been released yet. I know one of the things that I was talking about when I went to the workshops were a reconsideration of the pickup and drop off lines. Do you know if that's being considered at all? I do. When the HKIT, the architecture firm who's conducting our facility master plan, came and gave some site proposals. And again, those were more hypothetical at the time. They looked at each site where there were some opportunities to do that, and somewhere there weren't many. I have a feeling one of the ones that you're thinking about may not have had as many opportunities as some of the others, but that's always a tricky thing. Most of our sites are going to need, again, like I said, portable replacement, which means new construction. And so where there may be opportunities for parking, there may be opportunities for ingress and egress. It varies by site but yes they did look at that and especially in some of the more difficult spots where we have you know challenges they've they've looked for creative solutions. I want to say there were at least three or four of our sites that it looked like they could do something. Awesome and And then I know there's at least two of us who are in support of bringing back some sort of busing system. So maybe there could be some more consideration of that at some point. I'm looking for grants for you guys I promise. It's not. I understand funding is a challenge. I got it. And then you also talk about, so one of the things that we obviously get every time we're up here when we're approving homes. The schools are two-fold. There's no room for that. So, you know, to do my due diligence, I know part of the facilities master plan includes potentially changing boundaries because I know not all of our schools are as heavily populated as some of the others. But at what point do you feel like you will need another school and if if this bond measure is not successful, what's the path then? Yeah, great question. Some of those are, you know, there'll be hypotheticals on top of hypotheticals. But we'll be looking, once we have a facility master plan, and once we, you know, take a look at what our bonding capacity will be, we're going to do that in tandem with a boundary study. We'll do the boundary study under two parameters. One, if we were to build something and another if we don't. Oftentimes, you know, school boundaries can be a tricky thing to bring forward, so you don't want to do that too many times. We're going to measure ten times and cut once. And so we'll begin that process here though in the very near future. One of the things that that dual language immersion program, there was some strategy in placing it where we did. Laurel's one of our lower enrolled schools, but now it will draw from throughout the district. And because we've had so much demand, I mean we'll be starting with probably at least 60 students of which, you know, maybe, I don't want to speculate, but, you know, most of them are not from Laurel, and so that means over time, as we add grade levels each year, we'll continue to grow that school more towards its capacity. So that was, that's one strategy to shift without changing our boundaries by letting people make decisions to bring them into our schools that are low and role. A lot of times folks believe that summer lake is busting at the seams. It is not. You know, we had to add portables there this year, but it didn't grow as much as we had anticipated. It's a large school, but it's still under 600. You know, so we have a few other schools, Garenjor still our largest school, but you know, Summer Lake is not far behind. We do have room in, you know, most of our schools have capacity. We look pretty carefully at the demographic studies in this year for the first time in probably four or five years. We've under-performed those demographic studies. So we've revised at every interim. We've revised our financial projections based on what is enrollment that has not come in. So we are not a declining enrollment district, but we did not hit the demographic studies either two years ago or the one we did this fall. Both of those projections have not panned out in the spring. So it does give us a little bit of a runway with some of the future planning to meet the demographic projections where they'll come. So, obviously we'll be creative as we possibly can, and we're gonna do much with whatever it is we're given and whatever it is we have. But, you know, do language immersion is one example of a program to help shift some of our enrollment. We could do that in other ways too, if we need to. Where we'll find challenges is likely middle school down the road and then anything towards the east. And so, yeah, I'll leave it at that. All right. Seeing other questions or comments, thank you so much. Thank you. Item 1.4, which was the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District update, has been rescheduled. So, we are going to move on to item 2, which is public comments. At this time, the public comments will be heard for items not on the agenda. I do have public speaker cards submitted. To submit a public speaker card, please complete the blue speaker card located in the lobby and submit it to the city clerk. The time limit to speak is three minutes. The time limit is monitored by the timer located in front of my seat. When one minute remains on the timer, it will be once as a reminder to complete your comments before time expires. Please refrain from any applause, cheering, booing, or other outbursts so that everyone may have an opportunity to be heard. Note that due to provisions of state law, the Council may not engage in dialogue regarding comments. Staff may be directed to respond to persons making public comments. And I am going to start with Roger Mammond. Mayor Shaw and City Council, thank you for allowing me to uh Thank you. Mayor Shaw and City Council, thank you for allowing me to speak. The first off, last time I was here, I talked about the March 24th hearing before the administrative hearing office to for Delta residents to express their Feelings about the Delta tunnels and what the Delta means to them that the hearing was canceled because of hacking and so the coming Monday May 19th the buddy shatic we all know and myself We'll be going up to Sacramento to testify in front of the administrative hearing officer. And interestingly enough, the coalition for the Delta which is made up of 32 California native tribes and environmental justice organizations, the Delta counties, water agencies and other Delta advocates filed a petition for reconsideration of the permits for the Delta tunnel because they rejected that petition, so it's been refiled. And the petition essentially stated that the Department of Water Resources not provided all the information on water use and what their plans were on how the Delta Tunnels may use and but they went ahead anyway and approved it so we've refiled to have it rejected. Interestingly enough today I I was just notified that the Delta Convince Project Legal Proceedings, the State Water Contractors who are finding insulating and operationally tied to the Delta Tunnel Project, filed a motion for a protective order seeking to withhold all the information that's needed to make the Delta tunnels. And then the public policy institute in California just released the guild saying that the Central Valley Project and the State Water Project should be confined as one entity. That could be good. It could be bad. And then the Delta Conservancy for Sacramento San Joaquin County has applied for role-making to get architectural and engineering firms for specialized projects, which is specialized expertise. Thank you. Thank you so much. Kathy McLaughlin? Good evening. My name is Kathy McLaughlin. I am a resident of the Oaks, a park and complex. And I also am a senior citizen and disabled. And I have several concerns. I'm sure many other people do, but I want to limit them to two, if I might. One is our elevators. Our elevators in Building 59 were out for two weeks. We were told that it was because the company that did the servicing had lost the part or ordered the wrong part. In fact, the servicing company actually told some of our residents that they had not been paid, and that was why they had not done the refit. The other part of the elevators is the fact that we're supposed to have a license in each one, I think that's a license. And there is not a license at least as of 530 today in the building 59 elevator. We only have one. And in fact, I actually saw a license in there a couple of weeks ago on the 28th of April on a Monday. It was there when I got on there at about 530 or 6 o'clock. And it said it was only good through June of 2023. and that disappeared and has never returned. So that's a very significant concern. The elevators are more than a little loud and more than a little scary. The other piece that's a significant thing for me is, in fact, I have been given a 60 day notice that I am being asked to leave. In fact, I've been evicted because my apartment is invested with roaches. It is. But it's not just my apartment. There are many other apartments as I think all of you know. I've watched several of your meetings and those roaches didn't come with me. In fact, I've never had them before. And I lived in Martinez for 10 years and did not bring them with me. I have been told I need to pay to have zone pack up my apartment and move all of the stuff out so that it can be sprayed properly. The proper preparation of my unit would cost about $4,000. That's about what the move cost me to move in and I don't believe that it should be my responsibility since unburned with me. So I believe that the management company when financial should in fact make that change. Thank you. And if the superintendent comes back I had some stuff for him. So I'll talk I'm a former school board member in Martinez at 20 years. So thank you so much. All right. Seeing no other public comments, we will move on to item three, which is council member comments. Please remember that council member council members also have three minutes to speak, which will be regulated by our timer. Any council members have comments? Council member Fuller. Yes, I just wanted to commend staff, our IT staff and those others that worked on it. That was looking at our website and the HD photographs with 3D was a nice enhancement. Greatly adds to it. Showed some care that went into it and I appreciate it. On our new website, address OakleyKate, California or CA.gov. And if you go to OakleyCA.gov, you can see the wonderful photographs and some of the other things done in OakleyCA.gov. And I say that OakleyCA.gov because I tried several times to get on ci.oakle.ca.us and had to find out the hard way that that's no longer operable. So again it's oakleyca.gov. Thank you. All right. I'm seeing no other council comments. We are going to move on to the consent calendar. you you I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. Chest, chest. All right. We are going to pick back up. I have not received any public comments on consent calendar. Are there any items that the council would like to pull? 4.1, 4.2, 4.8 and 4.14. I will go ahead and move the remainder. I have some too. 4.9, 4.10, 4.12 and 4.15. Okay, so just. Yes, Derek, go ahead. I was going to make a report out on 4.14, but since that's taken off, I'll handle that. I'll do the staff report on that. On 4.16, I just need to put into the record because of provision in the Brown Act that deals with any time we compensate upper level employees. We have to orally report that in a meeting and I want to advise that as part of item 4.16 there are seven positions that will receive that bonus. So all of you is council have looked at that item and you saw that it proposes to give a $1,500 bonus. And that will be paid to seven positions. So I just want to read into the record the positions. The administrative services director will receive that bonus as will the assistant city manager, as will the chief of police, as will the city clerk, as will the city manager, as will the community development director, and as will our public works director slash city engineer. So I just wanted to make sure the staff report outlines the bonus, but just to ensure we comply with the government code that does require that this be orally reported any time we change salary or benefits of our high level employees I wanted to make sure that's there. So if you move the consent items other than what was pulled by council members faller and Williams, you will be effectively ratifying those bonuses as part of your overall vote on consent. And then I just wanted to get clarification. Council Member Foller, you had 4.1, 4.2, 4.8, and 4.14. 4.14, thank you. And Council Member Williams, you had 9, 10, 12, and 15. All right. So I will entertain a motion for the remainder approval the remainder Second all right. I have a motion and a second to move the consent calendar minus 4.1 4.2 4.8 4.9 4.10 4.12 4.14 and 4.15 all those in favor. Hi They opposed all right passes unanimously 4.14 and 4.15. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right. Passes unanimously. 4.1 councilmember Fuller. Yes. I can hand them 4.1 and 4.2. Again, I still believe that we can be more explicit and more transparent in our minutes. And they are too brief, so I will vote no on both of those items. 4.2 and 4.3 I'll move as written Second, all right, so we have a motion and a second to approve 4.1 and 4.2 all those in favor. I Opposed no All right passes 4.1 and We are going to move on to 4.8, Councilmember Fuller. You said 4.8. Yes. Okay, Mr. Rouhani. I want to congratulate you. That was a great report. 226 pages on your assessment. I think that was very much there. I have a question. I'm noticing we have two districts that are citywide. 26 that were sub districts are all these districts paying an equitable amount of taxes for each item like in over in district one. I don't think there's many sub districts, so to speak. Are they not getting the same landscaping as maybe Emerson Park or is Emerson Park who cannot part of the landscaping in district one or how does that work? Well, these are for landscaping lighting districts. Not CFDs, which Emerson Ranch and Delaney Park are part of. That's a different structure. There's three components to the landscape and lighting assessment district. The zone one is the community park. The regional park, so that has a component to it. So there are no projects are no projects part of that at citywide Number two is associated with the lighting So that is citywide as well in terms of the the projects and the the revenue that can be used from that zone To pay for lighting and then zone three is is the the subdivisions that you mentioned and those each pay their own share. And let me understand, in 1972, it was said we could not collect a tax unless it was voter approved. So when was it in the 80s, we kinda went by it through the back door and said well we'd call them assessments. And is that correct? In other words, it's basically a tax to keep the items. So perhaps Council Member Fuller, I can jump in. These are landscape and lighting and districts. These are assessments, special assessments that are subject to Proposition 218, which is one of the successors to, I believe you're mentioning proposition 13. So, there is expressed statutory authority and there's a whole process. And so these are technically distinct from taxes. Taxes in a general sense, yes, as we all understand. When we pay a charge of some sort to the government, it can be called a tax, but legally speaking, it is an assessment and it is distinct from what is either a special tax or a general tax. Okay, well, I have a discussion if you want me. I can go ahead. I'm going to vote no. Oakley, we just, it's too much. We have special district for the special districts and then we pay in tax on the other district and that wasn't really an attack. It was an assessment and that's where it's going on in terms I believe in the community. So every time we turn around we have an assessment. We also have assessments in the other areas of the city, Ironhouse, sanitation district is coming up with an assessment. The obli water district, I don't know what to say. My water bill this last month in April was $3.78 in usage. And I paid over $23 for a service fee. So such a deal, I don't know where that goes. But it's getting out of hand. And every time we turn around, we're getting another assessment, another public hearing, and my experience in the 15 years I've been here, public hearing, you can go there and talk all day, but it's already been decided, it's been there as far as I'm concerned. So I'm going to vote no. I'll talk more on the agenda requests, but we need to stop in Oakley and figure out how we're handling all these special districts. I'm used to one big city with water and sewage and all the different landscaping and things that have been worked out. And I think we just need to start looking at that so I will vote no one this item I'm a approval 4.8 Second I have a motion and a second all those in favor Opposed no passes 4.1 Item 4. Member Williams. All right. First, I would like to just think the staff for this. I know it was a ton of work and the presentation is really good. Everything's spelled out really nicely, so I really, really appreciate that. So I wanted to take the time to say that. I did have a question on the very first item under the housing element implementation. It says action 1.1, provision of adequate sites to meet remaining arena need. So if you could talk us through this, I believe we need to provide more of the lower income. I think that's as I've pointed out, that's where Oakley lacks lacks in our arena numbers. So I think that's what that's addressing. And then the very next line says, the city must rezone adequate sites to accommodate 434 lower income units. So I think this is something that we talked about coming to us soon. So I just want to clarify that this wasn't generated by a city council member trying to get the city re-zoned. This was something that we put in our proposal to the state when we did our last housing element as I understood it. So if you could just clarify those two things. Sure, this is a requirement of our certified housing element. I'm not aware of any jurisdiction that's not going through the same process that we'll be going through. We've already started that process at a staff level. We plan to hold a work session with the City Council in June to discuss potential sites, but essentially as population projections are developed at the state level, Those are then trickled down to regional levels. Our regional level would be A-Bag, the Association of Bay Area Governments. Then they work with the methodology committee to establish a methodology on how those units are then distributed in that region, so the Bay Area being the nine counties. and then further down it's funneled to the county of Contra Costa which we are located and our number is 434 so we have to comply with that in order to keep our housing element in a certified and status in good standing with the state. Did I answer your questions? Yeah I think think you did. And I think anytime we have conversations of this, and I'm sure we'll talk about it with the work session. So currently we have properties that are zoned already for this, and we haven't had builds. So I know anytime we have these rezoned proposals, people panic a little bit. And so I'm sure when we do the work session we'll also talk more about it but just because it's zoned for that doesn't mean that it'll be built or be that it was a city council member initiated thing right this is a requirement. Correct and for cities for Oakley specifically we are not constructing any affordable housing The private market is doing that and We've been successful in providing affordable housing to the community through that process But we definitely have sites that are zone for it that have not been built on. Yeah. Thank you Councilmember Fuller. Yes, this matter of clarity. There will be no change to the general plan until there's a public hearing and the public has an opportunity to discuss it and then a public vote be taken on it. I'm not sure what you mean by a public vote, a vote by the City Council. Well, yes, the City Council and public will take a vote. Yes, yes. Just to be clear, Council Member Fuller, this is just a progress report that's required by law. There isn't a general plan of amendment pending at this time, so if that were to be initiated, that would be a pretty long process. And yes, it absolutely would involve public hearings and a full land use hearing before the council. But right now there isn't anything to where we're not pursuing that right now. Okay, thank you very much. I appreciate that. I was responding to side note on councilmember Williams comments All right no other comment entertain the motion I'll move second. I have a motion and a second all those in favor The opposed passes unanimously and we are going to move on to 4.10, Council Member Williams. Great. I think, you know, you guys know me. I tried to pull things to highlight the good work that's happening and how we're being fiscally conservative. So really quick, if you could just give people a quick overview about SB1 and what this funding can do for us and how it protects sort of our general fund revenue and all of that stuff. Sure. It's another funding stream. It's a federal, they're federal monies that were established in the late, I think the late 2017. And essentially it's RMRA funding which is road maintenance and rehabilitation account and we have to show the government that we are funding projects with those monies that meet their criteria. So we have to do this annually. This is something we have been taking to the council consistently since those monies have been available. And they help specifically roadway projects so that we can use other monies for other important projects. Great. Thank you so much. I'll move. I have a motion. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Passes unanimously. 4.12, Council Member Williams. Same thing, except this one I think is even a little bit more exciting for me because so this is also SB1 and it's Contra Costa Resilient Shoreline Plan. And so for me, I see that potentially this gets us a pathway to potentially opening up some funding streams for our 55-acre park or additional funding streams, not. Correct. I'd kind of, you know, compare this to the local hazard mitigation plan that we were part of at the county level and we completed our own Oakley annex. This is similar to that. So we have been asked as a community that has a adjacency to the Delta to participate and we are participating. and Oakley annexes is similar to that. So we have been asked as a community that has a adjacency to the Delta to participate. And we are participating in our staff cost will be reimbursed through this process. But at the end of the day, we will be eligible for funding that we otherwise wouldn't be eligible for if we haven't gone through this process with the county. Awesome, thank you. Now I'll move. Second. I have a motion in a second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Passes unanimously. 4.14. Council member Fuller. I will vote no one on this. One second. I need to give you the report on this. So this is a contract amendment for our city manager. And I just want to, again, we've done this before you vote on this. We are required to put on the record that there is an oral report of what is in your staff report. We have to identify the economics of what is being proposed. Anytime you are adjusting the salary or benefits of your executive or your upper level staff, that is something that is required. It's interesting I used to just say the city of Bell scandal and everyone used to know what that meant. That was a huge thing in 2009, 2010 and there was so you can you all you all will have to Google it if you're not aware of what I'm talking about but there were a lot of changes in our laws after that scandal and this was one that came in about 2015 or 2016 if I remember. So I just want to say that the fiscal impact for what is proposed, it is a 7% pay increase. So the fiscal impact is $25,375 annually. And that includes salary as well as the benefits. So that's the actual if you were to score what is being proposed and actually work it out with all the perns and everything that goes along with it. That's the actual amount, that's the difference between what the city manager would receive without a raise and would receive with the raise annualized over the course of a year. And that is in your budget. So I just want to make sure there is a clear record that that was put in front of you. And I'm happy to answer any questions on this. Otherwise, because this was pulled, you should go and see if there's any public comments because you're dealing with the executive salary but you are free to now deliberate and vote if there are not. Questions or deliberation? You have questions or deliberation? Yes, is there a longation of benefits and pay should Mr. McMurray or the city manager be released without cause. So your the city manager had initially, I believe, eight months in his original agreement of terminate severance without cause. And then last year you gave him up to three more months and he gets one month per year upon a successful evaluation. So last year he got a month so as of so in this current fiscal year he has nine months and then as of July one into the next fiscal year because he received a favorable evaluation pursuant to the agreement as it already exists he gets one more month. That's not being changed. It's just he had a favorable evaluation and so he gets that month automatically. In other words what you're saying is if Mr. McMurray has released without cause, he will see ten months salary and benefits with no further contribution to the city. Which is what every city manager in the state has something like that, but yes, that is correct. I will vote no. Do I have any public comments on this? Seeing none. All right. I move approval. Second. I have a motion and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? No. Passes 4-1. And item 4.15. Council Member Williams. Yes. I'm just not familiar with who this standby member is and so I was just curious I want to make sure that it meets our municipal code section 2.5018. Stim by members must have prior experience having served on the agency board commissioner council. Would you like to answer that? It is your appointee, so you are able to answer that. This is the first time that someone has been called up. It's interesting that it's Edward Flores. It's being called up. He is a resident of District 5. He resides in District 5. I did bring him in to the senior center opening. And I introduce him to several people there, several key executives within the city, Mr. Rouhani, Mr. Sturlow, Mr. Navarro. There were others that were there, so I've introduced them. I don't know what else is required, but this is the first time I've ever seen a stand by challenge in's interesting that it's Edward floors the scene challenge. So it's just in accordance with our municipal code. It says that they have must have prior experience having served on an agency board commission or council. So my question was just which agency board council or commission has you served on? Well I'm going to ask ask mr. Cole that's first time I've heard of it I've actually heard people that were Not members of the city being standby. I've seen approval of people that Have been residents and have not so I don't I've never heard that they have to serve on a commission or be a certain and specialty or VIP. He's an individual that's a member of the Painters Union, the District Council 16, very involved in the community. I believe he would be the first person of Latino heritage or any color to be even and informally involved on the Dias in the city of Oakley, formally or informally. The only other person has been closest, Claire Allura and she was not Latina. So I don't know quite where we're going on this but it's the first I've heard of, Mr. Cole, I'm kind of confused on that one. Your code specifies that any standby members have to have certain experience. The legislative intent, if you will, is to make sure that if there is an emergency and they must step in, that this is not their first rodeo spill to speak, because they're going to be stepping in in a situation where there is likely an emergency and there would need to be some minimal competence associated with running an organization, running a meeting and doing so under what could be challenging circumstances. So that has always been a requirement as far as I can remember that is in our code, if the issue did not come up before, that means it was not raised by any council members. That doesn't necessarily mean that previous council members didn't have the experience. It just means that no one raised it as an issue. I can't speak to why. And maybe that all of the other council members stand by on a standby basis have their requirements and that is why it did not come up. At the end of the day, staff doesn't get involved in this decision because these are your designies, but you as a council through your code have said this experience must exist. So it's not really my call and it's not staff's call, it's your call. But that code requirement does and it always has existed. Well, I understand, but it's interesting that a council member Williams, this is the first and 15 years that I've heard of it. Challenge in such a manner, I've heard it many other areas, His university is being challenged by, in regards to Mr. Edward, Edgar Flores in the manner in terms of legislative operations or committees or government. He is a business manager for the Payneers unions and affiliates district Council 16. He's also a member of the Consecusta construction and building trades council. He has been involved in the city. I believe he has the ability to sit up here and handle the situation in the emergency. He is close by, so I think he's closer by than many of the others. If he actually took him into account, should there be an emergency? So I will stand by him and if council member Williams just doesn't think that's enough, I don't know when it will be enough, but I think he's prepared to sit up here. That's just a question. I recognized the rest of the name, so it was just a question. Yeah, this is the first time this has been brought up since I've been elected and I read the policy handbook when I was asked to select a standby member and I read it as having to have that past experience and looked at previous agendas and in meetings and found the names of others that were used and they had local Council experience and Suhiggins is who might stand by member as having served on this city council for For many years. I know that at one point we had a former mayor moral craft out of Pittsburgh who has had experience. So when we do talk about this being a potential issue with, I think you had said the first person up here, I don't know if you said Hispanic or color, but we have had that in the past. So I don't think that that's what this is. I absolutely printed our code out, I meanbook out and underlined also having had the previous experience serving on an agency commission or council. And so if the question was raised, I think it's a valid question to ask if they are going to be sitting up here and serving the residents that we have all been elected to serve. Well, I've given my qualifications what I think you can sit up here quite well. And so I will go ahead and move Mr. Floors, be my standby member in an emergency for the Council chamber. I have a clarifying question. Did you answer whether he had served on an agency board commissioner council? I didn't hear, I know you were talking about you feeling like he was valid. I just didn't know if you had given that answer. I didn't quite understand. I was asking when the question was asked of what agency board commissioner council he had served on, I just wanted to clarify what your answer was to that. Well I don't know if he served on Oakley Council or what but like I said this is the first time I've heard it challenge and it's interesting Mr. Flores is being challenged. This you would be the first Latinx even and informally associated with the Council of Dias So it would be disappointing if he was rejected, but he served on District Council 16 of the Painters Union and which covers throughout into Nevada and other areas Santa Clara County. He works with legislatures many, many times, both at the local level and at the state level. He's also a member of the Contra Costa Construction and Building Trades Council, which is heavily involved in governmental operations, supplying negotiations and negotiation help and advocacy for labor in the area. So I don't know what you're quite saying. or if's only can be an ex-con council member but if that's the case then I'm going to ask that every council member that's a standby now be reviewed to see if they qualify for such a position. If you'd like I can respond to that. Every standby member on this council today is either as has an elected position has been in or is in a current elected position. Well then you don't mind me thinking looking. Not at all. Okay, I'm just trying to save the time. All right, council member Williams. Do we specify, so I know the code says what it says, but do we specify, I mean, a business representative is a paid, it's basically a lobbyist for the union, but do we specify or would that be good, good enough? Sorry, that's to you, it's sorry. So I'm going to go to the code section. So, the question again is. Does it need to be. Did we write this so that it needs to be somebody who's been elected or could it be a business representative is basically a paid representative but you know they still take minutes and do all of that stuff. So I guess my question is if our ordinance gets specific in that it needs to be an elected or... It says standby members must have prior experience having served on end. And this is the magic word agency board commission or council. So it all depends on what the word, what the meaning of agency is. I believe agency implies a public body. I don't think it implies a private body. Now if there's some quasi private public body and we do have a number of those in the state, we can make a reasonable interpretation. There are some tourism boards and other, for instance, not that that's what's at issue here, where they have to follow the Brown Act. And so I think you can make a reasonable interpretation that they would fit within. So I mean it's ultimately your call but as I read the word here it's as agency. So that's, I mean again to me there has to be some public experience. You know council member Fuller before you were on this council I believe you were a school board member. So that would be kind of a quintessential experience on an agency even though you had never served as a city council member. I think you would have qualified to serve as a standby member if you were not on the council as an elected official. Well, I think that we're now splitting hairs. I've been involved in labor aspects of since I was, I don't know, 20, 26, in meetings in terms of labor organizations and labor individuals going to it. I mean, I guess if somebody was coming up here and saying, well, I've only been a member of the Red Cross, we'd have to turn them back because that's not really a public agency. That is a private agency working in the public sector. Well, I would say they meet the qualifications. The reason that is put in there it says is so that they have the ability to sit up here and conduct business. I think this is the first time that I've seen a call. It's being called on Latinics. That's involved in organized labor. I'd be the first Latinics or any person of color to be involved formally or informally in an official capacity on the dius and I think it would be the service and rude and discriminatory not to allow him to sit up here. And again, moral craft was a former standby member So I just want to say that that is not factual. Merle Kraft, former mayor, I'm sorry did you say something wasn't factual? I said you said that he is Latinx and the only person of color to have served in here in that capacity. And Merle Kraft is a former mayor of Pittsburgh who is a person of color and she was a standby member for a former council member, so that is not a factual statement. Well, I will have to look at that because I have heard different. Okay, so it's going to be up to the council at this point. We have heard council member Fuller's response and we have our standby city council member notes here. So we have a first from council member Fuller. Do I have a second? All right, seeing none, the motion then dies. Okay. So then, that's it. That's it. You move. Yeah. The item. There's no action on the item that can be taken at this time, so you can move on. All right. We are going to move on to item 5.1, which is a public hearing and reporting on vacancies and recruitment and retention efforts in response to Assembly Bill 2561, Jerry DeHeedett, administrative services director. Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, members of the Council. I will make this a quick presentation. So AB 2571 is a new requirement for us to report out on vacancies, recruitment, and retention efforts of the city. This is meant more for those who are in a huge deficit when it comes to vacancies, anything over 20% would require a much more in-depth report. So ours will be fairly short tonight. So AB 2561 requires public agencies to present at a public hearing tonight, once per fiscal year. And that public hearing has to be held prior to the budget hearing. So we're bringing it to you tonight, since we'll have budget in front of you next meeting. We're required to report out on any vacancies, our recruitment efforts, as well as our retention efforts. So currently, we've broken out vacancies by employee group, department directors. We have seven in the budget, zero vacancies. Our OPOA, which is our Oakley Police Officers Association, it is our only recognized bargaining unit. It is our sworn police officers. We have 39 FTEs in the budget. We have 42 sworn officers. Only 39 of them are in the bargaining unit. We have one vacancy there. Keep in mind these numbers are as of May 1st. Just as an FYI, we have another vacancy that has recently happened. So we'll update you on that another time. But for tonight's report, we have one vacancy. And then our general staff, which is unrepresented, not recognized bargaining unit, we have 55.5 full-time equivalents, and we have one vacancy there. So overall vacancy is about 2%. So our recruitment efforts, we'll just walk you through the recruitment process. We start with a recruitment approval. Anytime we go to recruit a position, we ensure that their position has been approved as part of the budget. We post that recruitment. Our recruitment's typically stay open two to three weeks, depending on the position. Some positions, two weeks is probably too long. We get hundreds of applications and other positions we could leave open for months and we get very few applicants. We go through the application review, so it's reviewed first internally by human resources to ensure they meet all of the minimum requirements of the job, and then that is moved to a subject matter expert. For a second review, we do in-person interviews, we have an internal interview panel of experts of the position. We offer a contingent offer based off of background. We do, for most positions, live scan some positions. We require medical. And then of course PD requires a full background. And then we go to final offer and once those offers are accepted, we have an orientation for our new hires. And then retention, just some of the things we've done in the recent years to help promote retention is our five-year labor agreements that we currently have. We've implemented the step system that increases salary by 5% each year until the top step is reached which brought us in line with other cities. And we've reorganized city departments and created opportunities for future growth. We've implemented a longevity incentive for general funds, for general staff, and we encourage and prioritize work life balance for all of our staff. So with that, I am open to any questions. Any questions from the City Council? Councilor Mettos, you pushed your button and it went away. All way to deliberation. Thank you. Any questions? All right. I'm going to open the public hearing. At this time I do not have any public comments received for this item and I don't see anybody filling out any comments so I will close the public hearing and call for delirium Councilmember Meadows. Thank you for the report my comments are really directed to our State legislature. There's a complete waste of time with an unfunded mandate that they force on us and they wasted staff time our time everybody here I think but thank you for report I Clear find the motion There there was no there was no motion yet. It was just a few just deliberation that we received the report Okay. I also wanted to thank you for the report. And while it may not be the best use of our time, it is nice to see these numbers and that Oakley's looking really great compared to a lot of other cities. So it was nice to see it on paper whether it's a waste of time or not. I agree with that. All right. So Council Member Fuller, you were making a motion to accept the report. Yes? Council Member Fuller, was that a motion to accept the report? The accepted report, we see that. All right, I have a motion. Second. I have a motion and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Passes unanimously. All right. We are going to move on to our regular calendar item 6.1 which is a adopt a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute the first amendment to the lease agreement between the city of Oakley and the Oakley community garden. City manager Joshua McMurray. Thank you, Madame Mayor. Mr. Vice-Mayor, members of the City Council. This is an extension of the current lease that we have with the Oakley Community Garden. For those that don't know, the Community Garden is located at Creekside Park. We, about a little more than 10 years ago, the group retrofitted the old BMX track at that park and turned it into a community garden. There are 26 plots right now. There's an active group that gardens and uses 18 of them. Although three of those are not being actively used. So about 15 total are active right now at this point. They approached us earlier this year with a desire to extend the lease so we have structured a amendment to the lease agreement that would give them another 10 years and the remainder of the terms of the agreement that our valid would remain in place. So that with that staff does recommend approval of the extension and I am available for any questions. Thank you Any questions for staff? Seeing none public comment Seeing none Councilmember Williams I just want to thank you all for the work you've done here. I know Even before I had any involvement with the city Somebody that I worked for her mom was one of the founders of the community garden and I met her 15 years ago working at Peats and she every time she sees me, my garden still looks great, I appreciate you guys. So I know that that's a big boost to the community and I think people really look forward to it and I've met countless people who said they have had a plot or going to have a plot or still currently do so I really appreciate it and I think that the improvements that have been done over there are amazing so I just wanted you guys to hear that. Seeing no other comments I would entertain a motion. Okay fine, I'll move it. it. Second. A motion and a second to adopt the resolution. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right, passes unanimously. 6.2, adopt a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute a lease agreement between the city of Oakley and restore the delta for the use of 33330 Main Street Suite B, City Manager Joshua McMurray. Yes, thank you. This is another lease agreement. We have some space right across the street at 3,330 Main Street. This is the space that is next to Guanatos. It has been unused for years. Currently, we have been talking with the Chamber about having them open up shop and having a space available, and we have been reserving that space. But they're at a point right now where they're not able to use that space. So we have a vacant space and we were approached by restore the Delta and with the city's prior position to oppose the Delta Convance Project with asking Roger Mammon who represents the restore the Delta group to come to the city council and provide updates periodically. We thought this would be a good opportunity to bring awareness to the Delta with our adjacency. So they plan to use the space at least once a month with some office hours, hopefully more if it's popular. But they would provide information to our residents and people in the area about the efforts that restore the delta is making in addition to information related to the Delta conveyance project. So with that, the lease as drafted would run through the end of this year, and it would allow for administrative extensions for up to six months at a time. If we feel like the space still would remain vacant, there's a high likelihood that we'll continue leasing them the space until there is another user, and we've discussed that with Roger and they're comfortable with that. So with that, staff does recommend approval of the lease as presented and I'm available for any questions. Any questions of staff? Any public comment? Oh, Council Member Williams, you've jumped right in there. It's not a question. So, let me get public comment. All right. Seeing no public comment, deliberation? All right. Again, thank you so much for this. I mean, I think Roger has been a faithful participant here and we really appreciate having people who are so close. And I think I know I've gone to a couple different sessions that members from Restore the Delta have put on as just a resident trying to learn as much as I can. And I think the more access we give our residents to that group, I think it'll make it so that we can have more of a unified front on some of these things. We have some real challenges with water. So I think it's really important. So I just wanted to again, thank you. And I will move it. All right motion to have a second. Second all those in favor say aye aye any opposed passes unanimously and item 6.3 strategic plan 27 plus update one more time Joshua McMurray city manager. So this item is an update on our strategic plan. We try to bring this to you all twice a year. Our current plan was adopted in April of 22 and it runs through year 2027 plus so we're well halfway through that period of time. The staff here has done a tremendous job implementing that plan, making progress, starting items, finishing items. So we have provided a comprehensive update to the more than 180 objectives within this strategic plan. And if the council accepts this, that dashboard would then be posted on our website for everybody to view. So with that staff does ask that you accept the update as presented, thank you. Any questions of staff? Any public comment? All right, I will bring it back to the council. I move approval. I'll second. I have a motion and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Although I was supposed, passons unanimously. All right, Josh, one more time. You said that last time. Yeah, but I lied. Item 7.1 City Manager Report. I thought you were going to give me a pass on this. I wanted to update you on two things. First, we're in week two of Studio 55 being open and we feel like it's been a great success. There's been a couple things that we've learned along the way which has been helpful but overall from from standing that program up to being in week two we've had a lot of great things happen. So I just wanted to give a recap some numbers for the first week. This would be last week. We ended the week with 177 members, which is just phenomenal. We served lunch and remember we're only doing lunch one day a week until July one, and then we'll go to four days a week. That one day last week, last Wednesday, we served 35 members of the community food. The average class size ranged in between 12 and 18 members, and the most popular classes seem to be cooking, exercise, and ukulele. Not pickable? Not on my list. All right. Councilmember Meadows has a question for you. How many people signed up? I think it's pretty impressive and I think I think lunch scheduled for this week is over 40. So it's it's gaining steam. We're getting a lot of positive comments. I mean, I just even got a positive comment from one of the members of the public that are attending this meeting at our little break. They receive some positive comments from someone that lives near them. So overall, we just fill the program is off to a great start and it can only get better. So appreciate all the hard work staff is done to bring that forward. Any more questions? Okay. Second update. Just wanted to bring attention that this Saturday, the 17th, we are kicking off our movies on Main Street with the presentation of the Sandlot. The movie starts just as sun goes down, but an hour before sundown, there'll activities and games and food for the the kids and the families to enjoy so it's another great thing that we provide our our community in the in the spring and summer months and we'll be kicking it off this Saturday and then to complete my report we have attached the April business license list for you all to view so So thank you very much. That concludes everything I have to report on. All right. Thank you so much. We're going to move on to 7.2a which is reports from the City Council regarding boards and commissions that they serve on. We'll see who pushes their buttons first. Council Member Fuller. I did going to go to the next item. I'm going to go to the next item. I'm going to go to the next item. I'm going to go to the next item. I'm going to go to the next item. I'm going to go to the next item. I'm going to go to the next item. I'm going to go to the next item. I'm going to go to the next item. I'm going to go we're overcoming that and being more inclusive in our operations, especially in recreation. Vice Mayor Henderson. Since our last meeting, I attended the Grand Open and Senior Center again, great job by staff. And boy, that center came out looking really nice compared to what we did before we made that move. Also, diablo water. I'm going to send her came out looking really nice compared to what it did before we made that move also diablo water Friday night bites Freedom one day at a time so go to my house ceremony the special Olympics of freedom and local 12 30s Kick off for the MBA. Council member Meadows. Since our last meeting, I attended a transplant last week, got a presentation on Highway 4. And then also attended a virtual meeting that was hosted by MTC. We have two senators, Weiner and somebody else, Weiner, San Francisco, that is looking to have legislation place a ballot measure on the 26 ballot to bail out three or four transportation agencies to the tune of about $3.5, $3.6 billion. Barts, one of them, Muni and San Francisco, CalTrain, San Francisco and wherever, San Mateo, wherever. bailouts, I think around 1.4 billion is what they're looking for. It was just a presentation. Some questions. They're looking to try and push this, like I said, to the ballot. They're trying to determine how they determine who's paying what and right now they're talking about like AM boardings which AM boardings means us out here in Cauter Costa County getting on bark to go to San Francisco to the jobs. I don't agree with that. San Francisco might want to take a look at is population-based because we have 350,000 plus more people than they do so why should we pay? Why should we pay to go to their jobs? I mean I said for a long time bring the jobs out here then. But be looking for that it's coming. Councillor, Councillor, member Williams. Okay, it's been a while since we've been here. So I apologize in advance. Attended CalCities Leader Summit talking about some of the stuff that you're talking about right now. We advocated with our legislators regarding the state needing to listen to voters, fund what matters and protect our cities. So namely funding homelessness programs that actually address the problems. So right now eight in ten cities fund homelessness encampment resolutions from their general fund. A big portion of our conversation was about funding prop 36 since it overwhelmingly passed. need to fund the implementation no matter that there is currently no funding that's budgeted for it. Also talked about Prop 4, $10 billion funding bond for climate change with new dedicated funding to address the issues and protect innovation. Governor does want to use some of that funding for other projects so we were advocating for keeping it what the voters voted for. All right, we talked about Cobaldins SB 299 zoning ordinances and reasons matching general plan. Then we had a bunch of sessions. So we did one on bridging prosperity. That was a really interesting one. I've got cards for you guys. And it was leveraging affordable housing to spur economic development and community equity. So we had really interesting presentations. They were talking about some pocket parks and street vendors, office slash community space. And they set a great role model to look at was this San Diego Complete Community Program, because it leveraged a bunch of federal dollars with a bunch of city and county funds. Okay, let's see. Okay, let me skip all this stuff. We did a session on today's roadmap to economic development. So I was talking about climate action, zoning and housing, how industrial distribution delivery is critical for economy and how retail is not just retail anymore. So kind of the conversations we've been having this whole time we need more of the industrial distribution type roles here because retail is just not coming back. But they did say that the biggest boom in that sort of retail spaces spa medical and creative spaces. Also talks a lot about green economic development, which as you know was one of my key points for when I traveled to China was talking to green economic developers and grabbing public dollars, infrastructure, public transportation, roads, bridges, water infrastructure, clean energy, and using zoning as currency value. Okay, let's see. We also had a presentation on social trust, and they highlighted something that I don't think anybody would be surprised about. But in the US social connection has dropped significantly, which has a huge detriment on health, so that part's kind of confusing. Half of all US residents have three or fewer friends, and social trust has steadily declined since the 1970s. One interesting statistic that I pulled out is that there is a 67% increase of social media posts being reshared if they dehumanize or insult somebody. They get the most engagement, so I found that interesting. And as cities, they urge dust to bring people together instead of allowing people to isolate. It does require intervention on the cities part to move from a car centric to a more walkable environment in order to attract more mixed use developments. Okay, I also attended the Studio 55 ribbon cutting, amazing jobs, staffed an amazing job. I think that was the best, most well attended ribbon cutting. We've probably done. So kudos, I know it's paying off. We had lots of people who were interested. That's why I was surprised about the pickleball because I got a costed by pickleball participants. So I also attended a parade planning meeting. So we're going to have our second annual summer fest parade. Anybody who's interested come see me. I'll send you the link to sign up. We have confirmed with most of our partners. And I think I was pressuring the city team to put something cool on. So I also attended the mayor's conference. The bulk of it was an East Bay mud presentation. But one interesting thing I wanted to take from that was talking about especially in fires is evacuation planning and how does the city practice all of that. So that was a really interesting point that they touched on. SB 63, which is different from that one, but related, did make it through committee. More to come by end of July. I think I've talked about this often as it comes up in transit. It's not a bond. It would be dedicated funding potentially from a sales tax they haven't decided yet. But the one thing that we're advocating for is return to source funding because it will virtually eliminate all of the smaller agencies, like what we have out here to try to help the transit, what Livermore has, all of those because we don't have BART. So also wanted to let everybody know that there's going to be a port Chicago remembrance on July 17th. And we have a new cultural resource center coming to the county. And I think I'm done. Are you sure? I'm just kidding. All right. So, since the last meeting, the 23rd to the 25th, I was also at the City Leader Summit in Sacramento. We did meet with Assemblymember Lori Wilson and Senator Chris Kabaldon to discuss current and upcoming legislation and how it does impact Oakley. Highlight on a couple sessions because this was a City Leader Summit. Some of the sessions were a little bit different. And so a lot about building community trust. how to bridge the trust divide, aligning goal setting and performance evaluations to retain top executive talent. We may have the best of the best here, but we want to make sure that we have all the tools to retain them. Partner in local governance, strength, continuity and leadership in modern local government. Successful local government relies on strong partnership between elected officials and their professional staff. And building effective city council manager partnerships is really important. Also the unofficial guide to surviving and thriving in elected office. So a lot of information about managing crisis, growing a thick layer of skin, doing the right thing, learning to lead effectively while keeping your ego in check and your sanity intact and your relationships intentional. Another one was about earning public trust practical strategies and transparent effective leadership. Talking about the trust as a cornerstone of good governance and effective collaboration with communities. Clear transparent messaging, publicly addressing residents concerns and acknowledging mistakes, archie aspects to building trust from our elected officials, from transparency and decision making to council processes. And decorum standards is really important to have a good relationship with your fellow council members as well as your city staff. So it was a lot of leadership type training sessions and I got a lot from it. So I really appreciate the opportunity to go to that. We flew home on that Friday because Lori Wilson was here at City Hall for her district day. So I did spend the afternoon here. I actually ended up talking to a lot of residents that were waiting to talk to her, ended up being a really good afternoon. The following day, I had the Liberty Union High School Hall of Fame award ceremony at Liberty High School, and two of the inductees in this year's Hall of Fame are Freedom High School graduates, but we did hand out certificates to all the to all the inductees and it was a pretty, it was a pretty neat event to be at and just the history of the different levels of accomplishments that our sports and teams and individuals have gotten. Did the ribbon cutting, a Studio 55, on a CISRI lift? Thank you, staff, super fun, something I don't know if I would have ever experienced. Had you not suggested it? Staff did an amazing job not only with the location but the ribbon cutting event as well. I was probably one of my favorite events so far this year. So, and not because I was up high. But on the 29th, bright beginnings, the preschool came here to City Hall to meet the mayor. the mayor, C City Hall. I think they almost broke my gavill because I let each one of them sit in my seat and hit the gavill like we do when we start a meeting and some of them were pretty excited about it. And then the PD came and while they normally get to tour the police station, they didn't. So we had the dog come in here and had a little bite simulator happen, which was exciting. I actually stayed for the whole thing, which was great. So thank you for being a part of that with us, PD. Did the Contra Costa Mayor's conference and Council Member Williams talked about that, but it was at the Pleasant Hill Library, which is a beautiful location if you guys haven't been and you're looking for ideas for our library. I know Council Memorial Games took a lot of photos and different ideas, but the location was amazing. And I let Danielle hang out with her friends a little bit as long as she didn't leave me. So, no, it was great to see Danielle there with some of her former colleagues. And I got to meet a lot of great people, but the library is beautiful. And then we had our Delta 6 meeting here at in Oakley this time and we talked about youth activities, expansion of county resources, mental health, some of the other items that some of the other cities were wanting to talk about were the Bart surplus land and we did offer a letter of support to Brentwood for that and also talks of the urban limit line that is not affecting Oakland necessarily but more Brentwood and Antioch. That night I went to future build former mayor moral craft from the city of Pittsburgh. She runs that organization. It is a pre-apprenticeship program and this was the graduation for cohort cohort 27, and we had five graduates in this cohort, and I was able to go and present them with certificates. The opening ceremony on this last Saturday for the Special Olympics, 2025 Special Olympics East Bay Spring Games, and they asked me not only to speak, but also kick off the games, which was probably just something I never thought I would be able to do and I think I made a best friend for life. She's already message me on Facebook. And then later that evening I went to the beer aisle for the fill of boot for raising money for muscular dystrophy by firefighters, IAFF local 1, 2, 3, 0 and that had a great turnout. And that is all I have. Sorry, it's been an extra week between meetings. And 7.2B, request for future agenda items. Do I have any requests from council for future agenda items? Yes. Hold on one second, council member Williams. Okay, so I know we have talked about public art before. So I would like to have maybe a work session. I don't know exactly what I envision, but I would like to have something. And my suggestion is, because I don't wanna take away any of our budget, I know we already did a whole budget workshop, so don't yell at me for that. But what I would like us to see us do is come up with a plan or a program where we partner with nonprofits That would be responsible for either the funding or for securing grant funding On our part we would supply the oversight to make sure that the mural would meet our standards obviously or whatever the art the community yard is and a place for the public art to go. So again, I don't want any budget sent to this, except for the oversight of it. But I'm just trying to come up with a way to sort of beautify our city and if we can rely on some of our nonprofit partners to help with that, I think it's a win-win. I would be in support of that as long as a council, we get the plan, art plan, so we get final approval on what it is not necessarily telling an artist how to do art, but making sure it's appropriate for our city. So if that's the case, I would support it. Yeah, definitely. I've learned from our neighbors and brought what if you don't let the council away and it's a problem. So yes, I would support that part of it as well. All right. Council member Fuller. Yes, I have two. I want to commend Brentwood City Council. They have an announcement of Indigenous peoples in the lands of which they sit on. We'll be an announcement before each council meeting. I believe that would be good for us too. Yes, there was Edward Sequini here a while back, but then back way back in the day, there was the Bay Moonwalk, and I think it would be important to acknowledge their land that they lived on. In fact, they went to the Valley, San Mokim Valley, and were dispersed during the time Hastings Society wanted to pay about the Indians for their head, but to acknowledge that they lived in these lands that we are now sitting on. The other one I have would like to go on would be to address in a work session what we can do about the splintering sub maybe okay districts assessment on this one and that one maybe even see how we came about with the district with the water and with the Iron House sanitation. I personally do not know of a city myself. It probably is one, but for the water and the sewage and the city services are divided. I would like to see if we can do that to save our residents some money. If we can have support on that. Okay, so the first request was about, um, you do you looking for a work session or just an agenda item for an announcement regarding indigenous people? Did I get that correct? Well, if it take a council approval, but that's what we do. Right. I'm just making sure so we can, um, so, so because I need to get a second on these, I'm just wanting to make sure I'm clarifying it correctly. that one and that one's open but that that one I haven't heard a second on either one. Well, I know you had gone into the second one so quickly we didn't have a chance. So if we can just start with that one and then we can go on to the next one. Because I want to clarify the second one as well. So is there any second on that? All right. I would like me to some clarification if we're talking about, I know we have a policy for proclamations and stuff, so if we're like suggesting like land acknowledgments and things like that, I'd be open to a work session on that. As I heard it, it's the land acknowledgement announcement that you do at the beginning of a meeting or something. That's what I think Dr. Fuller is asking about. Yes, in academia and other municipalities and throughout where people have colonized lands, especially the, it's a mewak land that was in here in the San Francisco area. We happened to have the Bay we mewaks, but that at the beginning before colonization who had, who were on these lands and how, how that they, we acknowledge that they were here in this place, but that we are sitting on lands that were originally seen as theirs. It's a simple one, but one that honors those that have resided in the area in the past, in this case indigenous people. I guess I just want clarification if we're just asking for that or if we would craft a policy, I mean, there's more than just that land acknowledgement that sometimes comes up. So I would feel more comfortable if we had a policy that would make it so that it didn't need to be a future agenda item. We would have a streamlined policy or be like we would have a way to address all of them. So I guess I'm good with seconding if we have like a discussion not if it just comes on consent, I guess. Well, the only reason I'm bringing it up is general, the public should have the opportunity to participate. We should really acknowledge indigenous people in our planning. We can invite them to come and see what they think of the see what comes about. If you want to call out the policy however you want to do it, that's all right, but still I believe should be a public vote with public input Yeah, public vote on the council. May I suggest that we present a workshop and identify various items that you it sounds like there might be a specific policy that would be crafted but at this early stage I think what I'm hearing from the two of you is that you want options and I think that sounds like a workshop and I think if that's between the two of you what you're asking for I think we can present something to you and then you can give us direction Because I think we'd have to adopt a policy by resolution. I agree Perfect. Sorry. I'll second All right, and then the second one if you can just clarify what the actual future agenda item request is The workshop to discuss What has happened in the past in terms of assessment districts. We have two assessment districts that cover two different areas that are citywide. We have 26 sub districts that I don't know, even quite sure they cover all the different services that throughout the city and their area. And then we have a water district and a sewage district. And I would like to see a workshop on our thoughts of what we can do to do this. Mr. Rohanick coming in there and reading his report, which was very well done, he says we don't expect any assessment coming up when an assessment being a tax, but we don't know for sure. And if there is an assessment, we then have a public hearing which in Oakley doesn't amount to much. So I would like to see us if we can't get more on an equitable basis, we discuss it in the April 15th budget meeting, how are we going to bring about? I think we're getting a little bit too into the actual, the meat of what you're asking. So, Mr. McMurray, you had a comment as well. I saw your button. Yeah, we did discuss this at the budget retreat last month. And we are currently undergoing a study. You know, and that study won't be ready for some time. So I think from my perspective, it's a little premature to have a work session before we have the data. And we'd like to present data. And we talked about that at the budget retreat that we would be presenting the findings of a study and asking the city council for directions. And in my mind it's just a little bit premature and just to also state we have no jurisdiction over water or sewer in the city. There's separate districts and I wouldn't want to be speaking on their behalf. I understand what you're saying but I appreciate that. I don't know what the whole scope of it is but I would like if nothing else to come to an understanding how we can end up in this situation which is highly unusual for me. I would recommend you go to both districts websites where they have information about how both districts came about. But which I'm sorry say that again. The information you're asking for is available on both the water and sewer districts website. Okay, thank you. All right. So am I seeing any, I agree with Mr. Murray, I don't, I think a work session is premature until we have that data, but I'll leave it to you. No? All right. So seeing no second, we are going to move on to work sessions we have none. And a closed session, we have City Attorney Performance Evaluation Pursuit to Government Code Section 54957. And we will be adjourning after closed session. Thank you all for joining. And we will be back in two weeks.