the the the time is 648. This is a special meeting of the Emoryville City Council. Madam Clerk, the roll. Councilmember privars. Councilmember Solomon. Councilmember Welch. Vice Mayor Carr. Present. Mayor Mora approval of the final agenda. Motion to approve final agenda. Seconded. Madam Clerk, we have a motion and a second. The roll. Council member Prifors. Aye. Council member Solomon. Aye. Council member Welch. Aye. Vice Mayor Carr. Aye. And Mayor Mora. Aye. Motion carries. Now is the time for public comment for items not on the agenda. Members of the public can come to the podium for public comment. You'll have two minutes. Hi, my name is Vicki Suule. I'm a longtime citizen in Emeryville. And I'm here to talk to you about eCAPS, a capital campaign. We're moving into our new building, September of this year, 2025, and we are all invited. I'll send you invitations. But the capital campaign is to help raise money for equipment for the building. things like freezers, refrigerators, forklifts, pallet jacks, and a cardboard compressor for boxes. We could use that and we could use some computers, phones and any kind of office equipment. So if you know someone who sells used office equipment, send them our way. So that's the first thing our capital campaign because we're moving in to our new building and we want to thank the housing community for all their help. The second thing is Mondays, every Monday of the week is the volunteer Monday. So if you come from 11 to 2, I'll be there to sign you up and help you walk through volunteering. I know you might not think you have a lot of power right now with our government, but you actually have the power to make someone's life a little bit better every day by making sure they have food. So you could come and volunteer. You'll make you feel a lot better. My last thing is last month, eCAP, provided food with the help of the Islamic Cultural Center and the Latter-day Saints of volunteers, we made a thousand sandwiches for the Alamedi County's job fair and services. At the Colosseum donated the space, and they were lovely, they were so helpful, and we had a 100 vendors there. They were nonprofits and businesses. So there was like Xfinity, AT&T, the iron workers of America, the port of Oakland, Dennis, Lifeline Hospital, hairdressers, LinkedIn. LinkedIn. Thank you, Vicki. And thank you for the wonderful work you do for the community. Thank you, Vicki. And thank you for the wonderful work you do for the community. With someone who's been here two minutes. Okay. Please go ahead. Please go ahead. Finish that LinkedIn helped them make the resumes. There was a photographer there for photographs, for the homeless to have there was dress for success. There was housing the office, I was in the office, I was in the office, I was in the office, I was in the office, I was in the office, I was in the office, I was in the office, I was in the office, I was in the office, I was in the office, I was in the office, I was in the office, I was in the office, I was in the office, I was in the office, I was in the second is give a second chance month from the national give a second chance. So the next job fair is for people are led out of prison. It will be April 24th at the Coliseum. Same thing vendors and people with jobs. And so let's just say you know someone runs a halfway house or has a place for people with addictions or has job training. I know that the City Council serves the community a lot, but if you know other people like that or companies that want to help send them to Roxanne, Baxter Green at Alameda County. She does the job services and she's putting on this event. So that's it. Thank you, Vicki. Mayor, I'm sorry, you skipped expert take communications. Ah, yes, any expert take communications. Member Solomon. I, in the last two weeks saw Brooks Jessup who's applying for the Emoryville Transportation Management Association. Socially, we didn't talk about the appointment, but just wanted to put that on record. Member Price Force. I received a communication from Celeste Barrow's advocating for one of the applicants. Same. I received the email as well. Are there any other members of the public? Moving on to our action items. We have two action items. One is for the appointment to the planning commission and the other one is for our advisory committee appointments. The city Council will now interview the Planning Commissioner applicant. There is one applicant for one vacant position. Please note that the interview will take approximately 10 to 15 minutes. The applicant has two minutes to answer each question. Any remaining time will be allocated for follow-up questions by the City Council. I'd like to invite the Planning Commission applicant to the podium. Welcome. As the mayor, I'll ask the first question. Why are you interested in serving on the city's Planning Commission? In your response, please include the summary of your relevant education, skills, experience, and include any past civic involvement. Hello, Council. I'm Sam Gould, two-year resident of the Park Avenue neighborhood and highly engaged citizen. I have a deep history of civic involvement having run a campaign for Emeryville City Council that was endorsed by firefighters, labor groups, and pro-housing groups. Last night I was elected as an assembly delegate in 80-18 for the Democratic Party as part of and pro-housing groups. Last night, I was elected as an assembly delegate in AD 18 for the Democratic Party as part of a pro-housing slate. I also volunteer both with the city at each cleanup and bike tour every day and involved in advocacy groups like Baik East Bay and East Bay for everyone. I also served on Emeryville's Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee, where I even contributed to the letter of support for that committee towards the grant we just received for Fortiest Street this past month, in addition to guiding development, using objectives, standards, and developing the city's wayfinding plan. I deeply love Emeryville and believe in the path that is set for itself going forward. I am committed to making sure we keep the promises we made in the general plan and the various planning documents it was amended with by tackling the housing crisis and reimagining how we use our streets to make them safer for everybody. My in-depth knowledge of the problems we face locally in regards to housing and transportation and experience working with advocacy groups to help tackle these problems drive me to help make Emoryville the best city can be. Right now serving our city on its planning commission is the best way I can help us achieve these goals. Thank you. The second question, what do you see as your role as a planning commissioner? So on paper, the role of a planning commissioner is to discuss and act on matters regarding to the growth and development of emeryville. What this means in practice is carrying out the will of the general plan and the various planning documents it's been amended with, such as the Housing Element and Active Transportation Plan. This can include making findings to grant permits and entitlements, initiating or conducting studies towards the development of Emeryville, or making recommendations to the council. In addition to this, I believe that Planning Commissioner has a duty to be an objective voice in carrying out their duties. As aesthetics are very subjective and small disagreements can lead to delays that could kill projects, especially affordable housing that can be dependent on getting grants on certain schedules. Uncertain outcomes can greatly impact potential projects. I also believe we have a duty to consider those that are not in the room with us, such as those that live in our city but might want to someday, or even those that just aren't as politically engaged are still impacted by what we do here. As these people might not be able to come make public comments for various reasons, but their voice still matters. Can you describe your knowledge of the city's general plan and any other major planning documents that have been adopted by the city council in the past two years? I have an in-depth knowledge of both the general plan and various other major planning documents that have been adopted in recent years. In fact, some of you may know that the active transportation plan was inspired my wife and I to move to Emoryville, as we knew the city would provide an increasingly safe pedestrian environment for a future family. I am also very up to date on the progress of the implementation of this plan, both on my time as a member of BPEC and to this date. I have been closely following our implementation of the general plan goals to including implementation of things like spending access to park space and underserved neighborhoods. Like we are doing with our 40th Street Project adding pocket parks along that corridor. I have read both the ATP and the housing element from end to end and strongly agree with the plans, conclusions, and vision contained within. As a planning commissioner, I will uphold the housing element goals of new housing development, preservation of existing housing stock, addressing low income housing needs and furthering fair housing, and addressing our current constraints on development. I am also aware we will soon be initiating a general plan update over the coming years, and I am excited for the chance to collaborate to help make Emoryville more accessible, livable, affordable, and equitable. And the last fixed question before we take follow up questions from the council, can you give one example of a recent economic development or housing project in Emoryville that exemplifies your point of view regarding design, community benefit, and or community process. Please explain why. So one housing project that exemplifies my point of view regarding planning is the approved affordable housing development at the Christie sites near the public market. Being nearly 370 units of affordable housing made available to those making less than 60% of the area median income located in the core of Emoryville is already impressive enough, but many features of this project show the leading role Emoryville has towards tackling the regional housing crisis. Using funds from the overwhelmingly approved measure C's affordable housing bond and streamlined with SB 35, the Christie site's projects is both the local and state-wide efforts towards addressing the impacts of our housing shortage including displacement and homelessness This project will also expand our pedestrian infrastructure with a pedestrian promenade and expansion to Christie Park Input was gathered for many committees including my committee V-PAC where I was serving my term and the developers were very receptive to feedback resulting in many positive positive adjustments to the open space on that site. The project is also located in the city core where it has exceptionally good transit access. So through our parking maximums, we are able to provide more units for people rather than cars. The future Christie Loop project will only bolster this existing network. However, this project also showed some of the negatives that were existing processes. One planning commissioner argued to change the design of the project due to shadows at a cost of only a few units. But the future tenants who may have lived in those units could not show up to argue in their favor. If appointed, I plan to focus on positive outcomes that focus on the real impacts of our decisions. Thank you, Sam. I will now take follow up questions from the rest of the council. Members, do you have any questions for Sam? Yes, I do. Member Carr. Thank you. Congratulations on your win on the 80-18. And I have a question for you, Sam. On, given that Sutter is going to make its flagship, is going to establish its flagship center here in Emeryville, what would do you see any changes happening with the Hollis Street, which had congestion already factored in when we were voting to make it pedestrian and transit for the mixed use street. That's a great question actually. I was just thinking about this at the BPAC meeting last night. So the Sutter Project will change our neighborhood. It's sort of inevitable. And this process is going to take years to develop new language for the approved project. Because this site is changing the land use from biotech to this new hospital type of land, that means that it has to start over the approval process for the entire construction for that site. The initially approved 200-foot building that was going to go at the corner of Horton in 53rd is most likely going to look nothing like it does right now. And one thing that will definitely change that I think some of the mitigation has already done a great job on is the parking garage on Horton, which is a bike boulevard, but now it has a parking garage with 1900 spaces that's going to see regular hospital traffic. So I would love to see us concentrate the traffic as much as possible using divers to prevent this hospital traffic from disrupting local streets, as well as keeping up our trend of raised bikeways to keep people out of the way of this increased car traffic. It is sort of inevitable that this will bring some noise and like do the ambulances and increase car traffic, but I also think there's a chance to capture this increased business use on the corridors like howis where we currently have vacant storefronts. Right now that corner of Hollis and Powell are vacant mostly because there's not a lot of foot traffic there, but given a new hospital, I think we have the opportunity to make it a great space for people gathering there, not just workers at the hospital, but also patients, people coming to see those patients. So with smart planning, I think that we can be very positive economically for our neighborhood. Thank you. Any other questions for Sam? I'd like to give the members member of Pminute meeting. Congratulations on the 18-minute meeting. Congratulations on the 18-minute meeting. Congratulations on the 18-minute meeting. Going back to the 18-minute meeting. In your Canada statement, you may the statement, my home city of Emoryville is the only city in the Bay area to increase itsdriven solutions to our housing crisis. Can you tell us a little bit more? Definitely. So, you might be aware that the percentage of demographics have changed. The percentage black population of Emeryville has decreased, but this has actually come with an increase in the actual number of black residents. Due to anti-displacement strategies, we've implemented such as concentrating new development in former industrial sites. Like we have done recently with the Christy size and the Sherwin-Williams development and focusing on eviction protections, like which already come through like SB 330 from the state level, things like right to return and things like that. But I think that Emoryville's been doing a great job of adding units across the income spectrum. I know of reports coming to you soon. It was already seen a planning commission earlier about the progress we've been making towards our housing goals. We've already met 20% of our low, very low income housing target, mostly due to the fact that we have this new site at the south of our city, providing permanent supportive housing and transitional housing for those experiencing homelessness. So things like this are what makes Emeryville so special. And I also believe that just increasing the supply gives renters more options, which lessen compete with their landlords to negotiate lower rents. Something we are actually seeing right now in Berkeley is they are seeing a supply shock as thousands of units have gone online, which has actually lowered rents even in rent-controlled units, which is basically unprecedented. And this is data that was collected in Berkeley through the public rental registry. This is data that anyone can access and plot against market rate housing development, which shows that the key driver is supply. Not that we shouldn't focus on affordable housing like we have, I talked at length about the E. Christie project and how important it is, but I think Emoryville is doing a lot of great work towards protecting residents of all types. Yep, I'm a pry force. So you mentioned Berkeley, you mentioned the state, but specifically in your candid statement, cause I wanna make sure you didn't use race as a prop in your canis statement, that you said data driven solutions. So can you identify what those data driven solutions in Emoryville were? And also in terms of the population by what percentage or number did the black population increase in Emryville? I'm sorry, I don't have the number off the top of my head, but the percentage of- 12 park. I really don't know. But the percentage did decrease, as I said, because it's all relative, but the absolute number did increase, which shows that we are not displacing people through our recent housing development. We're actually adding new people to our city, which is the data-driven solutions I'm talking about, because there's this process known as filtering where even, like, if you restrict the types of housing that are allowed to be built, it means that high income people are now competing for the same housing stock as everyone else, which drives up the prices for everybody. When vacancy rates reach 5% and above, that's when now renters are able to compete for or landlords have to compete for renters rather than renters competing for landlords, which gives them negotiating power against those landlords, which leads to lower rents. Number Car. Thank you, Mayor. Another question for you. Since we are talking about data-driven information to guide our decisions, one more question about the flagship offsetter, a flagship campus of setter going to be based in Emoryville. What if any changes would you consider for the 40th Street multimodal project in light of that moving to Emoryville? So for the 40th Street Project, I believe that we already account sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. so they are able to access anywhere. And we actually on Fortiest Street already built in a pad for these emergency services in front of the memory care unit at the corner of Horton and Fortiest Street. So I believe our project already does take into account all of these different uses. And I don't anticipate that we need to change that project, especially at this point where we've already secured funding and finalize the, or close to final. to make it a little bit more more. So I think we're going to take into account all of these different uses and I don't anticipate that we need to change that project, especially at this point where we've already secured funding and finalized the or close to finalizing the design. I would really recommend that project moves forward as is. Sam for closing remarks. Is there anything you'd like to add as closing remarks to assist the City Council in deliberation. Of course, well, thank you all for giving me the opportunity to speak here today. I believe that my experience serving the city, history of civic involvement, and in-depth knowledge of housing and transportation laws. In addition to familiarity with the local challenges we face as a city, it can uniquely qualify as a planning commissioner. I would love to be given the opportunity to help keep our city the shining example for the rest of the region, for how to build a people-centric city that is deeply committed to solving the problems that everyday citizens face. Thank you. Thank you, Sam. Now is the time for public comment, other members of the public who would like to comment on the appointment to the planning commission. Seeing no members of the public, I'll bring this back to the council for deliberation members. Member Welch. I just wanted to thank Sam for applying to the Planning Commission. I think it's very clearly, in my opinion, that he is very well educated on both our general plan. Obviously the housing element and has personal knowledge of both multiple projects, both housing, commercial and transportation. And I think he has shown a deep interest in making sure that Inriville is a place that is accessible and available for all people of all modalities, of all abilities. And I think he would be a great fit on our planning commission. And I would be happy to make a motion to appoint him for the, I believe it's the term commencing April 24th, 2025, and ending June 30th, 2026. All right, second the motion. I also wanted to add some comments. Sam, I do appreciate your thoughtfulness seeing your gears turning already on upcoming developments in the city is very exciting. I think you'll be an asset to the commission. And I still find it unbelievable that you read our active transportation plan in your free time. Very few people choose to do that. So thank you for your enthusiasm and your thoughtfulness that you bring to the city. So we have a motion and a second. Member member of pry force. Oh, yeah, I think it would be appropriate to have a deliberation before there are motions just out of courtesy. So I have a couple of questions and some comments. But before I do, I asked a member of my church like how to address this scenario. She's very familiar with this scenario, because she observed the events of the sensor and sanctioned meeting. And you know, she said, well, baby, you know, you got to pray. And so before I ask my question, oh, God, grant me the serenity. So accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. So I'll start my first question to Madam Clerk. In terms of, so we have one applicant for a vacant position. I read the tweets and postings on next door and LinkedIn. And this through all social media, what were the postings that turned the social media between now? And I think I went back as far as September of 2024. What was released to this vacant position? Thank you, Council Member Pryforce. This recruitment opened December 20th, 2024 and closed on February the 3rd, 2025. We post all of our recruitment, our posted on the city's three bulletin boards. The vacancies are on the city's website, the social media sites, which we have Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. The ETV cable channel 27 and then we made announcements at the city council meetings. Additionally, the committee secretaries are also encouraged to distribute the notice of vacancies that is posted to their committee members and members of the public. Thank you. So I didn't see. I can check. I didn't see any social media postings. I didn't check Facebook, so I can do that. But I didn't see any social media postings because I believe we had around maybe three or four applicants for planning commission vacancies. and now we just have won. And I want to be, I want to make sure that we are have one. And I want to make sure that we are amplifying these posts as much as possible. I believe we've had this issue before, and a recommendation was made for us to sort of step outside of our comfort zone, it comes to outreach. I would recommend we have the evil eye and we have the Enriville Tatler in terms of how most Enriville residents get news. And that's still a small portion of Enriville residents. But most Enriville residents are not getting news from the website or from the bulletin boards. And so to potentially increase our applicant pool, I would like to make this suggestion to staff that we start reaching out to some of these publications and increase the frequency of our posts because one thing that I was informed of by residents was that they just did not know that this was happening. and every time someone says, we'll check the city website. You know, things I can't control. If I could control this, I actually, because it's only one applicant, I don't think that's fair for the city, that we allow more time for for other applicants, at least one more person to apply for because the Compliant and Commissioning. allow more time for other applicants, at least one more person to apply for because the complainant commissioning, complainant commission is a very important role. And so, so I think it's important to, if we find out that we have only one person applying, then we need to, you know, perhaps put it on hold and do better outreach to in order to get someone else so that, you know, it's at least a little bit fair. We're right now to go from three to four applicants to just one applicant just seems like a mess on a city. And so so that is a recommendation I like to make to staff and to the city manager that we do better when it comes to our outreach and start implementing practices that is better than what we're doing now because we see the results, of course. And so, and thanks to all you applicants who are actually having to interview against other people, even if it's one other person, that's at least fair for the city. So thank you for that. The other is comments about SAMG old and I wanna take some time to read some comments from SAMG old, who I believe is a very problematic figure. The city decided not to, you liked him as a council member and for good reason. And so, you know, once again, there's nothing I can do, I think that Sam Gould is the best example of why we need an independent public ethics commission in Emeryville because this process is, needs, we need to do better by the city of Emeryville. So after posting about the loss of black home ownership in Emeryville, Sam Gould wrote Calema, and this is before, because I haven't gotten to when he was actually a committee member. This is before he became a committee member. I think it was actually maybe a week before he joined our committees. Actually, this is stupider than I thought. This is a graph of percentages over time. So obviously if new apartments get built, more people move in, which is like his argument, displacing no one and letting them keep their homes, but still decreasing the percentage of family houses. You know, I can't believe you posted this chart thinking it was a dunk, LOL, right? And so, in like a lot of comments that are negative, the best thing to do is to ignore those comments and just keep on doing the work, but not for Sam Goul. He then replied to his own comment. I can't stop thinking about how bad this graph is. So sorry, I keep spamming. Ha ha ha. Are you trying to tell me that 2019 had the highest black ownership of homes in the past 15 years? And then he goes on and on and on. So then what do you recommend someone like me do? What would you do in a professional capacity? You would ignore. then what do you recommend someone like me do? What would you do in a professional capacity? You would ignore and you keep on doing the work. Did that stop him? No. I'm dying laughing at this. 2021 literally the only group increasing as a percentage was Latinos. And as you can see, he couldn't even share what those percentages are, what those numbers are. And so here's a situation where, you know, you just ignore someone who is obviously engaging in behavior that, you know, you think is, okay, yeah, this is, it's not, I don't want to invest time in this but Sam Gould just kept going and this isn't the the last time I would hear from Sam Gould online and of course I just shared with the city manager as I shared with the Emoryville public in exchange of emails between the city manager and I, wherein I shared my concerns about Sam Gould's behavior. So there is this history of problematic behavior coming from Sam Gould. But while he was a committee member, Sam Gould decided to tweet, you know, absolutely pathetic and elected official is celebrating someone being a run out of office with death threats, posted on the front door of their house. Pride force has absolutely no shame. Yeah. And I don't know if anyone could see that, you know, he's kind of smiling and nodding. And I think that that is the reason why we need an independent public ethics commission. Because if it's being made public, your behavior and that your behavior is not something that best exemplifies what it is to hold some of these positions, that you just don't smile and nod because you know that the process and the system itself isn't going to do anything about it. And that is why we need to return the power back to the people through it independent public ethics commission. And I've shared other comments from Sam Gould. Once again, you know, I read that prayer for a reason because it's nothing I can't control. It tends to be one to four, but I don't believe that Sam Gould is someone who should be taking on any positions appointed, or even appointed, yeah, I don't believe that he should be taking on any of these positions, and those are my comments. comments Before calling the role are there any other member comments? Madam clerk the role Council member Priforce Nay Council member Solomon hi Council member Welch hi vice mayor Carr hi and. Hi. And Mayor Mora. Hi. Motion carries. Congratulations, Sam. Moving to item 6.2. These are the advisory body appointments. The overview is we have a bike pedestrian advisory committee with two vacancies and four applicants. We have a commission on aging with one vacancy and one applicant. Housing committee has two vacancies and five applicants and the Emoryville Transportation Management Association has two vacancies and two applicants. So we'll start with the Bike Pedestrian Advisory Committee and we'll be taking... Before the council deliberates, we'll hear from all the applicants, then we'll take public comment, and then the council will deliberate. So first, let's take the Bike Pedestrian Advisory Committee, will all the applicants for the Bike Pedestrian Committee, please come to the podium one at a time and introduce yourselves and make a short statement about your qualifications, your education, and your desire to serve on the committee. You will have two minutes each and then council members will have an opportunity to ask questions of the applicants. the Chair. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. Council members. My name is Julie Flynn. I'm a resident of Emoryville. I live on ocean avenue. I am excited to be considered today in a professional capacity. I've worked for the City of San Francisco, but by trade, I'm a proactive transportation urban, urban planner and designer. I'm a principal at a small firm that does this kind of work around the country. On a personal level, I moved to Emoryville in early 2023 and just being able to bike and walk my children to school nearby has been a huge asset for me living in the city. I feel, you know, for the city of its size, the progressive infrastructure that we have has been really impressive. And it's just a really wonderful part of my life and my family's life. So, yeah, I would be really excited to have the opportunity to kind of work as a volunteer, you know, to kind of support more of this in the city and make biking and walking more possible and more enjoyable and safer for diverse range of residents. So thank you. Thank you, Julie. Do we have any other, like, pedestrian committee applicants, hypercook, Lauren Morgan or Natalie Stitch. Okay, let's move on to the committee on aging. We have one applicant is Diane. We're going to be hearing from all the applicants as I said previously and then we'll be doing public comment before deliberation. Diane Woods. Welcome. Thank you. I have my name is Diane Rush Woods. My background is that I'm a social worker. I am the co-founder of the MSW program at Cal State East Bay, a professor, and I practice as a psychotherapist for an extended period of time also. In terms of aging, so 20 years as a professor and administrator at Cal State East Bay and an advocate, and I've lived in Emeryville since when 1972, you know, on and off. So, and really embrace the concept of aging in place and what that meant and what the structure had to be to allow people to do that. As I grow older, I understand more and more the commitment of aging, allowing people to age in place. I also participate in the senior center. I have been kind of outzumbed by somebody who was 85 years old, but that's okay, that's shaming, but I know that there are things that you can do to make people feel important, to make them feel like they are part of a community. It takes commitment, it takes some vision, and there are lots of holes that curve for people as they age. I understand dementia and Alzheimer's, unfortunately, because of friends around me, and I know that if we are going to keep people in the community, then there have to be resources available to them. And when I'm in the senior center, I see people who do need resources. You know, it may be food, it may be transportation, there are a variety of things that people need. They also need friendship and community. So I am interested in participating. I'll stop before my two minutes are up. Thank you, Diane. So we'll hear from all the applicants and then I'll ask the council if they have any questions from specific applicants at the end. For the housing committee, any members of the public or applicants for the housing committee can please come to the podium. Welcome. You'll have two minutes. Thank good evening. My name is Tyler Hill. I'm a proud UC Berkeley alumni.ville in 2022. I'm originally from Los Angeles and prior to that returning to the Bay Area, I resided in Arlington, Virginia. In 2018, Arlington County announced Amazon's decision to develop its second headquarters in Pentagon City, Virginia. And while I was living there in real time, I watched the city proactively, diligently, thought fully at times, think about what housing would look like for the up and coming residents who are coming to Arlington, but then also current residents, ensuring that they weren't going to be forgotten, amidst the evolution and expansion of the city at that time. And I'd argue this evening that in the midst of everything that's happening in Emoryville, that we are on the brink of the same evolution in expansion as the city. With recent announcements such as the Sutter Health expansion and Block Ventures purchase of the office property on Shell Ministry, it's critical that Emoryville gets housing correct. And while it's great that housing is built, it's just as important that it's accessible, affordable and safe. And so if selected to join this committee, I would support many of the efforts already in place to ensure that these three spheres are already satisfied and continued to be satisfied. Efforts that I've seen such as the Emeryville Accessible Living Initiative, the Special Needs Housing Initiative, BMR program, first time home buyer, down payment assistance program, and the foreclosure rescue scam assistance program just to name a few. And as a millennial in tech, I'd also prioritize finding ways to be more efficient and using technology to really innovate housing solutions. Ensuring that Emoryville is a place for people to reside for the long term. And so I thank you for consideration of my- Thank you for applying. Thank you. Other applicants for the Housing Committee? Good evening. I'm Tauvour's D Johnson with Dolores D Johnson real estate. I am at my own business real estate. I've always loved housing because that is one of the basic needs. Everybody needs besides shelter and me besides food and clothing. They definitely need shelter. So at age 22, I purchased my first house out on a hundred and four bath and been influencing other people to purchase their home. And also, I just believe that everybody needs shelter and I sit on the Alameda County Tax Assessment Board because I'm trying to give people to fight for those high tax bills that they have to pay because property taxes are too high. So when I know something is wrong I tried to be a part of the solution so being on the housing committee will also help me to educate people about Inreville's housing. I just got a buyer the other day who's utilizing the Inreville's $200,000 grant program. So she ran into her at the store. She said that she's not computer literate and the agent that she had is not helping her. So I said, well, I'll help you upload your documents. So her documents are due tomorrow at five o'clock. So I will be up all night. I'm sure trying to get those documents until the system. So again, just to help her, I like helping people and housing is so major in my heart until I just want everybody to have shelter or educate. I helped a couple of people who were on section 8 become homeowners because they didn't know that existed a few years ago. So again, I just advocate for how people get into homes. Thank you Dolores. Welcome, friend. Yes, hello. Nice to see you all. So I'm friend Quattell. I'm a long time memory-vill resident. I believe, first of all, committees are a great way to serve in our city. They're a great way for people to really come to know, I see Chad nodding, come to know the process of the city. I served on the Budget Advisory Committee for about eight years and was recently appointed to the Economic Development Committee. My signature lifetime achievement was a pro bono effort that helped amend the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill, restoring $270 million to 9,500 bank depositors pro bono. My claim to fame is that I do my homework. The reason I want to apply for the housing committee is that I support the super work of Valerie Bernardo and her excellent reporting and the things, the extraordinary things our city does to help people come and live here and stay here. My particular focus right now is a concern about the older properties we have in the city of Henryville, the older of Minions that have lost their conventional mortgage lending. That means that they don't have a Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac lending. And for many of these properties, insurance costs and repair costs are very high. And I want to make sure that people who live here, who own here, will be able to stay in their homes here. And this is one thing that I've been thinking about, and I think it's something to study. That is particularly why I'm applying to serve on this committee. Thank you for considering me. Thank you, Fran. Any other applicants? Hello again, council. I'm Sam Goldton. I know I already spoke at length about my qualifications during the planning commission interview, so I'll expand on my housing experience at this time. On the bicycle pedestrian advisory committee, I help develop objective standards that included low cost ways to increase the quality of housing that is approved within our city. On this committee, I also assisted below market rate housing projects with design feedback. Excuse me, to improve pedestrian flow and comfort. On the advocacy side, I work with East Bay for everyone to help up zone high resource areas like Rockridge making them more accessible to those who cannot forward to own a home We also supported various state bills like SB 35 and SB 423 which are already having effect in Emoryville streamlining affordable housing production in addition to bills like SB 330 which help implement right to return for tenants an eviction protection for renters We have also done a lot of work towards legalizing social housing projects by increasing the quality of housing, sorry. We have done a lot of work towards legalizing social housing projects and adjustments to condo defect liability laws to try to increase the ownership opportunities that residents have. I don't know if you're aware of this, but currently condos have a really hard to make ownership because of liability laws that essentially make it for 10 years, they are effectively uninsurable because you can sue the constructor for any defects in that property, which makes it really hard to build dense ownership housing, which is exactly what our city needs. So on this front, I believe that my experience allows me to effectively work towards more affordable and better quality housing in Emeryville as part of the housing committee. Thank you. Thank you, Sam. Is Holden Reyes here? Let's move on to the applicants for the Emoryville Transportation Management Association. Applicants, please come to the podium. Welcome, you have two minutes. Thank you. Good evening, Council Members. My name is Bobby Lee. I'm seeking your support for my reappointment to the ETA-MA board, where I've served for nine years, including as its current board chair for the last few years. The MRE Go around is a critical lifeline service for our community, providing reliable, fair free transportation. However, we're facing pressing challenges as we adapt to changing post-COVID ridership demands, fewer workers returning to the office and rising operational costs. During my time on the board, I have spearheaded key initiatives such as leading the development of a 10-year strategic plan to align resources and vision with our community's needs. Launching a fleet renewal program for modernizing our vehicles, focus on electric vehicles, alternate fuels and autonomous technologies. while simultaneously working on better onboard technologies to improve data analysis for better operational decision making and enhancing safety for riders at the MacArthur BART stop, in particular, including advocating for and helping BART directors and staff to exploit a new lighting project at the 40th Street Underpass that enhances safety for every go-around riders waiting for the next shuttle. I invite you to learn more about my other work on this board and my application. My year is a professional experience in transit technology development, marketing, business development, and public relations has prepared me to navigate these challenges. I live and breathe transit day in and day out both as a personal passion and my current role working in public relations for the SFMTA. As we approach the P-Bid Assessment Renewal and the opening of the SETER hospital, the E-TMA Board must be staffed with experienced hands to help guide it. If we end point it, I will prioritize our residents and residential ratepayers' interests pursuing innovative solutions for an improved rider experience. and seeking out cost efficiencies to ensure that the emery go-around continues to thrive for years to come. Thank you for your support. Thank you, Bobby. Welcome. Good evening, council members. My name is Brooks Jessup. Forgive me. I plan for three minutes. I might speak a little bit quickly. I want to start out by emphasizing that the E.T. May board is unlike any of the other committees you're making appointments to here tonight. It's not simply an advisory council. It is rather a board of directors with the executive authority over, as Bobby was just explaining, a critical component of our transportation system, the Emory Go-Round Shuttle Service. Also, the City Council only gets to a point two community members in total to the board, and the other eight members represent corporate interests and are not appointed by the City Council. So I urge you to take special care and consideration in making these two community member appointments. So first, I urge you to appoint members who are committed to showing up and participating in the monthly meetings. At a bare minimum, I understand that the ETA-MAY board has had attendance issues and was unable to achieve a quorum for its most recent meeting just a couple weeks ago. I take this issue very seriously and in fact one of the main reasons that I vacated my seat on a popular committee like BPAC last year was to help solve a similar attendance problem on the housing committee. And I'm encouraged by all the housing committee applicants here tonight. Second, I urge you to appoint members who are regular riders of the Emory Go-Round and can represent the interests of the rider community. For my part, I depend on the Emory Express to get me to and from BART on my commute every day to San Francisco. While I'm on the shuttle, I often interact with other riders and the drivers as well, learning about their experience and opinions on the service, about the service. So, for example, I recently met a writer from the nearby artist co-op who on a cold rainy morning made the excellent point that there's no bus shelter for residents of the neighborhood who don't live at the emery but still want to use this service on this line. Finally I urge you to appoint members who have professional expertise in transportation and transit. I will leave it there. Thank you for your application. Thank you. I believe that's all of the applicants for the committees. I'd like to ask the council if they have any specific questions. Yes Apologies. We received an email at 6.30 p.m. from applicant Lauren Morgan for the BPAC that she had a family or that they had a family emergency and wouldn't be able to attend. That was the only person that I heard from that is not present. Thank you, April. Thank you. Are there any specific questions that members have for any of the applicants? Member Price Force. Thank you, Mayor. I'm actually I'm going to need broke Jessup's help on this one. This is not particularly about your application. but Berksy could come to the podium. Yeah, when it comes to the housing committee. So based on the, because Valerie's not here, I would ask her and not put the pressure on you, but based on the, I believe the discussion was brought up about diversity and diversifying, I think all of our committees. And we talked about the range of diversity, right? Not just racial ethnic, but in terms of home ownership versus renters, age, and gender you know, accessibility. And so based upon the current makeup of the housing committees, what would be your recommendations in terms of applicants that we're considering? Okay, yes. I do remember that discussion at the last meeting. And I think what we need on the housing committee, first of all, we just need members, right? And that's been an issue. And I think that's, so I think we do need, as you said, some home ownership represented on the committee. I think we need racial diversity on the committee as well, based on just the last meeting, which was the first meeting we had that we came together in at least six maybe more months. And the make of the committee had changed quite a lot. But at the last committee meeting for those who were present, I think that we lacked racial diversity. And so I would recommend that. I think that we also, we need geographical diversity from across the different neighborhoods in Emoryville as well to be represented. We had a pretty good balance in terms of age representation I thought at the last meeting, but that also needs to be continued to be a component I think of the voices represented of the committee. I think we definitely need voices from those who are living in the below market rate housing because a lot of the issues that we're talking about that we've been addressing in the committee meetings do affect that component of our residents of our community. And so I think that that component also needs to be represented. Thank you. Thank you. Members, any other questions of any of the applicants? Member Price Force. So based upon what I've just heard,. For the applicants in terms of the housing committee, there's a quick question of, will you be able to make it often? Because I believe that the housing committee is being recommended to meet monthly. And so, so that's something is really important is that if you're able to make it monthly to the housing committee because there's so much that needs to be covered because as was just shared for about six months, it was pretty much inactive in terms of meeting. So that's a real quick. That's a yes or no, you can do it. Okay, great. The other is in terms of from, I believe that there's no one who's applying that is in that rare BMR renter category. And I mean rare, meaning in terms of showing up on the housing committee, I don't think we really had anyone from the BMR renter community. We had a BMR homeowner, but we didn't really have anyone BMR renter. And as it stands, BMR renters don't really have any tenant protections in Em know, the city is not going to be protecting the city. The city is not going to be protecting the city. The city is not going to be protecting the city. The city is not going to be protecting the city. The city is not going to be protecting the city. The city is not going to be protecting the city. The city is not going to be protecting the city. the quick question of, yes or no, can you do it? Can you make it? And any other is, what do you think are the steps, the steps that we can take to further protect our below market renters. And just removing the term BM Marks, that's just a convoluted corporate term, just low-income renters. the people who are, you know, check to check, just trying to pay rent and, you know, the rest of their income just trying to pay rent and, you know, the rest of their income, just trying to survive. What is it that we can do to better protect that you would bring to the housing committee? So that's the question I would have to all the applicants. So members of the housing committee, I remember, Priforce asked two, or sorry, applicants, Priforce asked two questions. I, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry Mr. Mayor but it's actually been recommended at that meeting that they become monthly. We haven't said yes yet yet but that's the recommendation. That's where things are going. So sorry to correct you. Thank you. And then renter protections was the second question. Yes. What recommendations would they make to for to better to better protect our BMR our BMR, our low income, a low income of renters in Emoryville, in terms of tenant protections? So I'll invite applicants for the housing committee to come respond to the questions at the podium. I honestly can't answer your second question yet. I'm a pretty good student and I have spent my life recruiting in the software industry and working on workforce issues. So that is something that I could add by looking at how people earn a living and do they have potential for working. In terms of the meetings, yes, I can make a monthly meeting. However, I want to say something that I know you'll do anyway. The members of the council will appoint, I feel, the best people to serve on the committee. And I thank you for that deliberation. However, it works. I feel my strength at the moment is looking at the thousands of units, I would say a couple of thousand owned units that are older units that are in a particular segment that isn't addressed yet by the housing committee. So that's something that I am thinking of very strongly. Either. So the first question, yes, I can attend a monthly meeting. Second question. So I am a homeowner, so I don't personally deal with the challenges that a BMR renter does face in the city. I am aware of multiple state-level laws that do protect renters. There are anti-rant gouging laws where rent cannot increase above inflation plus a certain percent. There are also things like SB 330. As I mentioned in my previous talk that guaranteed renters right to return if their property basis development challenges or eviction protections if they are unable to pay rent. I do think there is more as a city that we can be doing, such as providing legal services to renters, that some of our neighboring cities like Berkeley are very good at doing because landlords are very powerful and it's very hard for a renter to face some giant corporation by themselves. So I don't fully understand what our city offers in that respect, but I think that at least access to the resources should be improved because I've had many people come up to me as I was campaigning, asking how they can fight these corporate landlords and looking at the city's website. I even struggle, like I feel like I know everything about the city, but I can't find resources to help protect ranchers. So I think there is an information thing that can be improved as well as offering better services for people that can't afford them themselves. So if they're already struggling with rent, then they can't provide legal services as well on top of that. Thank you. Please ask when will the meetings be before I commit? Is it a Tuesday night, Wednesday night, Thursday night? I said there's a meeting tomorrow night. What time? Six o'clock. Oh, yeah, I'm able to make that. Okay, so the other question. Ben on the housing committee, would we have access to all those that are BMR rentals and maybe contact them on a monthly or by monthly or quarterly educate them on what their rights are as a BMR Renter and to educate them on how we can help them stay. I was saying as a housing committee member, would we have access to all the BMR renters? And it's also- Is that being able to answer that question? We, I'm sorry, this Chad Smolley Community Development Director, we do not maintain a contact list of every BMR tenant. Necessarily, we do receive information about them as a part of annual monitoring and we know which units have or are in the BMR program. It might require some exploration with the city attorney's office as to whether we can disclose that list of tenants. But it is the ability to communicate with the BMR tenant population is something that we have talked about as staff in past meetings. But the question is, is what would you do? What would you recommend? We would either send them out to their house, or either try to get them on a Facebook page or something about BMR renters, but to educate them on what their rights are. And you would send this out, like I said, it could be monthly, bi-monthly, or quarterly, but just keep them updated on what we discover. Are they rights? Educate them on their rights. Thank you, Dolores. Tyler? I'm available to attend the monthly meetings the first question. The second question, I plus one to all the previous comments about providing resources. I am an attorney by trade. I think that it's great to provide them with the information, but it also needs to be information that's digestible and not in the legalese and statutory language. So that be a more folks who can just comprehend it, even people who aren't regular people in the day to day can't always understand the language there. Some examples that I know I previously worked at the Alameda County Superior Court House, the East Bay Community Law Center used to have landlord and tenant rights workshops. So it wasn't just landlords getting access, it was also tenants. So something like that would be a great opportunity. and then also I'm not sure if it's still getting funded, but the self-help center in Alameda County used to also help tenants with evictions and things of that nature stays other types of resources. So I would also just plus one to those as opportunities and resources and resources coming to them as opposed to us expecting them to seek out those resources. Thank you. Any other member questions for any of the applicants? I actually had one for, sorry, member pry force. No, no, no, you go take turns. So for the applicants for the EmRevill transportation management association, At one of the recent meetings, the ETAMA approved a dismodification to their long-term plan to add electrification and autonomy with the objective of those changes were to basically kind of bring the emery go around into the future with electrification and take advantage of some of the advances that we've seen in autonomous vehicles lately and also looking at other nearby jurisdictions that are exploring this as a way to increase the number of shuttles serving cities without necessarily increasing cost and doing it in a clean way. So I'd like to hear what your thoughts are from both applicants on whether some of the next steps to bring this long-term strategy into reality. Yeah, happy to answer that question. The state of alternative fuel vehicles in this shuttle size, a 30 to 35 foot cut away shuttle size, there's very few manufacturers in this space. And what the issue that leads to is that there are, there's not a lot of choice for finding a vehicle to address the needs of the community and the ridership. But that means we have to look at a wider swath of vehicles that are out there. And I've been to many, many events to look at a lot of these vehicles. And some of the challenges that we face is with cost. Luckily, we're in a situation where subsidies, grants, and so on are out there. And it's a matter of finding the right combination of the right vehicle at the right price with the right technology, with the right amount of subsidy. Today, a vehicle, a diesel vehicle for the emery go around costs somewhere in the neighborhood of $150,000, $75,000 to purchase. The closest comparable vehicle that's all electric is about $750,000. It's many multiples more. It's completely out of our budget. We need the help of the state local regional agencies. So one of the things I've asked our executive director to take a look at and to engage with folks at the air quality district and CARB to look at custom grants, to look at vehicle buyback grants, to look at settlements, funds that are out there to help us pursue these vehicles. But it's not just the vehicles that we have to worry about, it's infrastructure as well. It's charging, if it is alternative fuel, if it's autonomous vehicles, how do we ensure that, if there's a special requirement for them, how do we ensure we can accommodate that and to ensure that we can accommodate it in the yard as well? There is another peculiarity to, no, sorry, okay, yep. Nope, please continue. Okay, there is another peculiarity to this situation as we've continued to investigate, is that where our bus yard is today under the MacArthur Mays there have been challenges from Cal trans to allow us to house vehicles of alternative fuels, particularly electric battery vehicles. You may be aware that in Southern California last year there was a very large fire underneath the I-10 that prompted the state transportation agency and Cal Trans to rethink insurance requirements and also vehicle storage rules. And that has affected many lease lessees, including us who are under a freeway. So we are working through a lot of these insurance requirements to figure out what can we bring on to the site to house. And if there is a vehicle that we can't house under there, then we're going to have to find another facility. So there's a lot of dependencies and challenges that we're looking at, but we're working through it. There are opportunities. We're trying to find the right combination to make it work. And I know I've been focusing a lot on actual propulsion, but a ton of vehicles as well. I mean, been out there and take a look at the Protera, you know, they have a, I believe they call it category four AV bus that can pull into and pull out of a stop on its own. These are all technologies that I've looked at personally and visited the manufacturers, and I'm encouraged to see. But we're sort of at that, we need to wait for the next half step of generation for us to really see that scale. And I'm wanting to put us in the position to take advantage of it when that happens and also to bring that sort of funding in place. Just to follow up to one of the points you made about the size of the vehicle and finding a suitable replacement, have you considered augmenting the fleet, the variety of vehicles where you could have smaller vehicles maybe better suited for certain times of the day when ridership might be lower? Absolutely, absolutely. And right now, the emery to go around runs from approximately 6 a.m. to approximately 10 p.m. We know that there are service industry employees that would like to take transit after 10 p.m. We know there are other use cases for that. We have discussed at length at the board ideas, like on demand, like right hail, subsidized, which has become popular in some areas. But yes, smaller vehicles as well. Those exist out there. We have engaged with folks, the companies that do create these new forms, you know, four-seaters, six-seaters, they think about how we can make it work. But we also have to be sensitive to the fact that we have a unionized operator workforce as well. So there are, again, complexities there. But I, my vision, and what I would love to see the Emery Go Round move to, was was a 24 hour bottle. But to do so in a way that is cost effective and smaller vehicles, you know, vehicles that are autonomous that are four seaters or could it be a smaller van, you know, we're very much open. I'm I'm taking a look at all of them. Thank you, Bobby. Thank you, Bobby. I very much welcome these questions. I think that the emery go round. Unfortunately, is that a point where, and I think Bobby has done a great job with this, with the new long-term strategic plan to sort of start to rethink and creative in innovative ways how to get Emory go around to recover the ridership, the shuttle service, which is at less than 50% that it was before the pandemic, which is way behind the recovery of other transit services in the Bay Area. Uni, for example, is at about 80%. So we need innovative thinking. So I think these are great questions. In terms of electrification, I do not know all the, not familiar with all of the economics that Bobbi was discussing with respect to the fleet, but I am aware that six of the 21 current vehicles are for renewal this year. It seems like an opportunity to look at some of these questions. I'm certainly all for electrifying vehicles to provide an example for sustainable transportation within the city. I think the city and the city's vehicles should provide that kind of leadership. With respect to AVs, I have served for the past two years on the autonomous vehicle policy team at the SFMTA, tracking the impact of autonomous vehicles on the transportation system in the city of San Francisco. That impact has not all been positive, and we have tracked the impact on first responders, on the safety of the system, on pedestrian, and other vulnerable road users. There's a lot to consider when it comes to autonomous vehicles. And particularly when it comes to autonomous shuttles as well, I think we would want to look at the lessons that came out of the Treasure Island Shuttle Pilot, autonomous shuttle pilot just last year and they were not terribly encouraging in some way. So I think that there's a lot to think about there. I think it's these are exciting topics, but I would caution that we would move cautiously and carefully, as was mentioned, looking at the way similar programs have, what kind of results they've had in these areas. Well, I also want to say smaller vehicles and thinking about vehicle size is a really great innovation that may not be so sexy in terms of technology. But I mentioned earlier, I read the Emory Express. That is a smaller vehicle. It was basically full on my way home, my way here from work today. It has been a real success as far as my experience, from what I've seen in terms of ridership on that vehicle. And it is a smaller vehicle and a different type of route. I think that it could unlock you know some of the types of lessons that could be extended to the rest of the service and some of the kind of innovative thinking that may not be you know so advanced in terms of technology but may help to advance the ridership and the performance of the shuttle service. Thank you. Thank you, Brooks. Other questions for applicants? I'd like to now open a public comment for the advisory bodies. Any members of the public who would like to comment on this item, please come to the podium.. And if that is not the focus of the housing committee or something that will come before it in the next term. is not the focus of the housing committee or something that will come before it in the next term, I certainly welcome not being considered. So please don't, please keep that in mind. That's... Thank you, friend. I can't speak a little bit about NACTO. That's the stands. That's an acronym stands for the National Association of City Transportation Officials. And it's a body that the city of Irmable signs on to. And that's how we know where to like put our stop signs and where to put our crosswalks like you know precise measurements. And it also informs us about our bicycle boulevard network and the active transportation plan that is the law of the City of Irmaville for in terms of bicycle boulevards tells us that we defer to NACTO visa V the amount of traffic on our bike boulevards. So what does NACTO say about the amount of traffic? It says no more than 1500 vehicle trips per day on a bike boulevard. I spoke to council member Solomon about this before he was on the council because he used to be on the planning commission. I'm sorry the B-pack the bicycle pedestrian to go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and sure that this doesn't get forgotten. I mean, I've brought this up countless times and this last time the City of Emermable conducted a traffic count on a bike boulevard was 2019. That's way too long. And so anybody that would be on the B-pack, I mean, I was kind of disappointed that Mr. Solomon, now Council Member Solomon, formally B-packed, Member Solomon was kind of disappointed that you didn't Take this to heart, but it's put bicycles and heart. Thank you for your comment traffic like that. And so that's my comment. Thank you for your comment Hi, Vicki Joe Sulegan. I'm a former member of the housing committee and One thing I wished we had done is follow up on that affordable housing. The developers are great and they promise us everything. But after they leave, they sign off on to management companies that are the lowest bidders. And unfortunately, the tenants at the affordable housing buildings are, I had a feel under service. I live next to the Ambassador Laundry rentals. And those, the people there when they have problems don't really have a very good management way to contact the management. I've come to the housing committee before and I, I realize the city doesn't really have any leverage over those the managers of the affordable housing afterwards but if in some way those people have rights the attendance and the affordable housing buildings have rights when they deal with the management it would be better like I'll just say what some of the problems that they had was people smoking in the non-smoking building, smoking pod in the building and that enforcement, the battery going out on that elevator for weeks. There's one elevator with no backup generator and people who need wheelchairs and stuff that are stranded in that building. There's so many things that happen there. Unlocks that are left unattended, broken with people can break into their places and people don't have lock repair. And if you go to the BASIDER, the management people are there two mornings a week. I can't even tell them now. The site of their building has been graffiti next to my house. I tried to go there to just get the name of the paint so I could paint it and I can't reach them. So I don't know how the tenants can reach them because I can go there anytime during the day to try to reach and I can't reach them. So if there's rights that the tenants have for that I'd love to see it. Thank you for your comment. Any other members of the public? Okay, I'll bring this back to the council for deliberation. Members, you have in front of you a attachment A, listing the applicants in the far left column and the roles that we're and the application and the application and the application and the application and the application and the application and the application and the application and the application and the application and the application and the application and the application for a community member and a business rep or community member for a community member for 2025 and then a business rep community member through 2026. Member Priforce. And while I would recommend Julie Flynn, really amazing background. It was very impressed by your portfolio. And Piper Cook was highly recommended by Celeste Burrows. And so I would recommend question. Any other comments? That emotion. Was that a motion member pry force? No. Member Solomon. I'm I will make a motion but yeah, thank you, Julie, for being here and putting you in an amen and I agree with Councilman Price for us, you know, press it background. And I think we met when I was door knocking and we took a very slow bike ride with your daughter down the street. So I can confirm that the entire family does bike. and to also second Councilman Price-Force, I would suggest that Julie Flynn be the community member with the term through 2026. And then given that we only have a few months left of the term through 2025, my suggestion would also be for Piper Cook. All of the applicants seemed interested and qualified, but I think one of the discussions that's been had on BPAC over the last few years is a focus on, you know, it's both bike and pedestrian, so I think having Piper indicated that she is primarily a pedestrian, I think having of Someone who can bring that perspective would be very valuable. So I will make a motion to a point Julie Flynn to the term through 2026 and paper cook for the community member through 2025 We have a motion in a second madam clerk the role. I'm sorry mayor. Is'm sorry mayor. I'm sorry mayor. I'm sorry mayor. I'm sorry mayor. I'm sorry mayor. I'm sorry mayor. I'm sorry mayor. I'm sorry mayor. I'm sorry mayor. I'm sorry mayor. I'm sorry mayor. I'm sorry mayor. I'm sorry mayor. I'm sorry mayor. I'm sorry mayor. I'm sorry mayor. I Mora. I motion carries. Next we have the commission on aging and we heard from Diane Woods and we're filling one position for the resident through 2026. Member Welch. I'd be happy to make a motion to appoint point, Diane Woods to the commission or commission of aging with term commencing March 4 2025 and ending June 30th, 2026. So I am not a fan of it just being one person, but that's not on you, that's on us. Yeah, so, but yeah, I would also second. Thank you for providing your time to us and your ideas were great. So thank you for sharing your experience. We have a motion in a second. Council member Pryphors. Aye. Council member Solomon. Council member Welch. Aye. Vice Mayor Carr. Aye. Mayor Mora. Aye. Motion carries. Next we have the housing committee. we had four members in attendance, Sam Gould, Tyler Hill, Dolores Johnson and Fran Quital. Umber Price Force. I would recommend Tyler Hill and Dolores D Johnson. The housing committee definitely some some diversity and diversity of experiences. But I do want to say this that in terms of the responses to the question on tenant protections, I would caution that applicants dig a little deeper into what is something actionable. It is a thing that happens a whole lot with minority populations, low-income populations. Any population that's marginalized, we're in we place the onus on them. Well the thing that's's that they're experiencing is because they don't know their rights. Well, no, the landlord knows their rights. Is that the landlord isn't following their rights. And so if they are a protected class in some way, then we should be doing better when it comes to how we can advocate for them and actually protect them. Because in some respects they are treated differently. I believe one of our affordable housing projects have had conversations with the city manager. I can almost guarantee you that around this time of night you would never want to be inside of one of our projects. Here in Emoryville, it's so problematic, it's like something out of New Jack City. It is, the playground is abysmal, that does it have an inside playground, and I won't share what the building is, just not just, I don't want to embarrass some of the tenants, but the tenants have shared with me consistently how horrible it is. It turns of, well, I will say is that those who do run the property is EH housing. And so, EH housing, you're all noticed with me especially since you you want to expand your number of properties and you do do well with Abelan and some other properties but that particular property is it's it's pretty abysmal. And so and that is just a little bit of the experiences that low income tenants have, where and there are consistently disenfranchised, they're in a constant state of fear because they don't have any protections to, and many of the protections that were quoted as being state do not apply to affordable housing tenants. They put, those protections are for non-affordable housing tenants, but remember the state does not provide those kind of protections. And so, so even like rent cap, right? No, does not apply to BMR. Does not apply, right? And so that is just one of the many protections that is lacking when it comes to below market renters. And I can't stress this enough because they are not here, they're not on the housing committee. And so someone has to speak for them, and I'm expecting you all to speak for them. And so reach out to them, connect with them, find out what's going on. If you need help to connect with them, I can definitely do that. Biggie can do that. So a lot of people can help you connect with these folks, and they will tell you lived experiences, what it is to be a BMR tenant, especially with our low income and low, low income home units, what their experiences is like in Emory Bill. And so I just want to stress what is actionable in terms of tenantor protections for them. But going back to my recommendation, Tyler Hill and Delores D. Johnson is my recommendation for in terms of how's the committee. That's my motion. No, I'm not making motion. I'll second whoever makes that motion. Okay, I just wanted to make one comment. Fran, I actually really did appreciate your perspective that you bring, especially on the question of the housing stock and how policies like insurance apply to those. I think that's very important. I think there's probably more under the purview of housing and maybe that question is probably better. It definitely has bearing on the price of housing. The price of insurance trickles down to renters the same way it does homeowners. And it's one of the biggest issues facing our city and the state and the question of housing in general. And it's probably better handled in a forum like the budget and governance committee. So I do appreciate your comment being open to express your, the strength of your thinking and joining the committee and stepping away if that's needed. Members. I'll move resolution of the city council of city of Imre Villa pointing. Tyler Hill and. Dolores D. Johnson as community members to serve on the housing committee for terms commencing March for 2025 and ending June 30th 2026 and amending the full year 2024 25 local roster of boards commissions and committees accordingly. Second We have a motion in a second. Madam clerk, the roll. Council member, pry force. Aye. Council member Solomon. Aye. Council member Welch. Aye. Vice Mayor Carr. Aye. And Mayor Moira. Aye. Motion carries. Next, the ETA-MA. Members, any comments or discussion or motions. I'll move resolution of the City Council of the City of Emeryville appointing Brooks, Jessup and Robert Lee as residents to serve on the Emeryville Transportation Management Association for Terms Commencing May 1, 2025 and ending April, 2028, and amending the 2025 city roster of county, regional, and state wide board bodies accordingly. I second council member Price Force at his hand. Raise Mr. Mayor. Member Price Force. I just want to say that I am not a fan of people joining multiple committees because we need to have some different folks to be able to fill those committees. But Brooks Jessup is this one, those people who I really do believe is this gonna shake things up and ask some real questions in terms of problem solving. And I always appreciate when any applicant comes forth and says, hey, everything real is great because most people just stop with, oh, everything's great. But I appreciate when someone says, everything's great, but this is what we can do better. And here's a problem that I've identified. And especially since you know, you know, you talked about the Emory and a bus shelter at the Emory is needed and I can see why that's particularly important to you. But I appreciate when people can bring their actual lived experiences to this body because we know that it's something that resonates with you. So I would like to second that motion. Was it already second? Oh no. Yeah, we have a motion and a second. Madam clerk, the roll. Council member Prifors. Aye. Council member Solomon. Aye. Council member Welch. Aye. Vice Mayor Carr. Aye. And Mayor Mora. I. Council member Welch. I. Vice Mayor Carr. I. Mayor Mora. I. Motion carries. The time is 825. This meeting is adjourned.