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Good evening.
We're about to start this evening's Berkley City Council meeting.
If people can please take their seats and Vice Mayor Wengraf, are you on Zoom? Yes, I am.
Great.
Good evening.
I'd like to call to order the regular meeting of the Berkley City Council for Tuesday, October 1st, 2024.
And the 1st order of business is roll call.
I'd like to ask the city clerk to please call the roll.
Council member Kesarwani? Here.
Taplin? Present.
Bartlett is absent.
Tregub? Present.
Hahn? Present.
Wengraf? Present.
Lunaparra? Here.
Humbert? Present.
And Mayor Arreguin? Present.
Okay.
Okay.
Quorum is present.
Thank you.
As we begin our meeting tonight, I'd like to read a few announcements.
First, the city council met in closed session yesterday, September 30th, 2024, and took the following actions regarding item 1, the city council met in closed session pursuant to government code section 54956.92 and provided direction to outside council and approved a stipulated settlement, a permanent disability with an award of lifetime future medical care, or in the alternative, by compromise and release with a release of 2 years.
With a release of future medical care as to the workers compensation numbers, 80J1939.
1581 and 80J15774.
154, the city council also met in closed session pursuant to government code section 54956.92 and provided direction outside council and approved a stipulated settlement, a permanent disability with an award of.
Lifetime future medical care as to a workers compensation matter case numbers, 80J11251943, 80J14359848 and 80J19087904.
Lastly, the city council met in closed session and provide direction outside council and approved a stipulated settlement, a permanent disability with an award of lifetime future medical care, or in the alternative by compromise release as to a workers compensation matter WCAB case numbers, 80J15258918 and 80J1525944.
Next, I want to welcome everyone tonight's meeting of the Berkeley city council to allow for full participation by all members of the community and to ensure that important city business is able to be conducted, we ask that all attendees conduct themselves in an orderly manner and respect the rights of others participating in the meeting.
Please be aware that the city council's rules of the quorum prohibit the disruption of the orderly conduct of the city council meeting.
A summary of these rules is available in the 1 page handout on the table in the rear of our boardroom disrupted behavior includes, but is not limited to shouting, making disruptive noises, creating, or participating in a physical disturbance.
Speaking out of turn or in violation of applicable rules, preventing or attempting to prevent others who have the floor from speaking, disrupting people who are speaking, preventing others from observing the meeting, entering into or remaining in an area of the meeting room that is not open to the public or approaching the council dais without consent.
We ask that you observe these rules.
So all members of the community can observe and fully participate in tonight's city council meeting.
Thank you.
And as we begin as well, if anyone would like to speak to an item, not on tonight's city council agenda, please fill out a speaker card.
Okay, so we'll now proceed to the next.
Order of business, which is ceremonial matters.
And do we have.
Oh, thank you before we do that, and it is appropriate that we do this before we go to ceremonial matters.
I'd like to read our land acknowledgement and several years ago, the city council passed a policy to read our land acknowledgement at the beginning of our city council meeting.
And so it's my pleasure to read this land acknowledgements, particularly given just in a few weeks.
We will be commemorating indigenous people's day in the city of Berkeley.
The city of Berkeley recognizes that the community that we live in was built on the territory of the ancestral unseated land of the speaking alone people, the ancestors and descendants of the sovereign Verona band of Alameda county this land was and continues to be a great importance to all of the alone tribes and descendants of the Verona band as we begin our meeting tonight, we acknowledge and honor the original inhabitants of the Verona band, and we are proud to be a part of this land acknowledgement.
We also acknowledge and honor the original inhabitants of Berkeley, the documented 5000 year history of a vibrant community at the West Berkeley shell mound and the alone people who continue to reside here in the East Bay.
We recognize that Berkeley's residents have and continue to benefit from the use and occupation of this unseated storm land since the city of Berkeley's incorporation in 1878.
It is not only vital that we recognize the history of this land, but we also recognize that the alone people and other indigenous people are present members of Berkeley and other East Bay communities still to this day.
The city of Berkeley will continue to build relationships with the Lejeune and other tribes and create meaningful actions to uphold the intention of this land acknowledgement.
So, we'll go back to ceremonial matters and we have 1 proclamation that we will be presenting tonight and that is in recognition and commemoration of indigenous people's day in the city of Berkeley.
And I know we have members of the indigenous people's day powwow committee here tonight and you can please join us up at the podium.
And I will be reading this proclamation and presenting it to you on behalf of the city of Berkeley.
I just say that this is the 32nd year that the city of Berkeley has recognized indigenous people's day.
We were the 1st city in the United States to recognize indigenous people's day and I think today's recognition is all the more significant.
Given the action we took just a few months ago to acquire and to rematriate the West Berkeley shell mound to the Lejeune tribe to ensure it's continued stewardship by the 1st people who still live in the East Bay community.
But we know that there are many tribes and many people of indigenous background.
I have indigenous roots myself and so we're really proud to be able to recognize indigenous people's day and to continue our efforts to recognize indigenous people's day.
And to continue our efforts to recognize and celebrate our rich indigenous culture and history here in the East Bay.
So, I'm proud to read this proclamation tonight.
The last time I'll read as mayor of Berkeley, whereas the year 2024 marks the 32nd anniversary of indigenous people's day in the city of Berkeley in commemoration of 532 years of resistance and renewal of native cultures in the face of political and cultural repression.
The last time I'll read as mayor of Berkeley is in 2024, whereas the indigenous people's day committee, a community group of local native people and supporters have once again organized the annual celebration with an indigenous people's day powwow and Indian market in Martin Luther King civic set apart on Saturday, October, 12th.
Based on cooperation among neighbors on respect for the land and for all the creatures living on it, and this indigenous culture was disrupted and destroyed here as in almost all parts of this hands here.
And yet it still survives and whereas the indigenous people's day powwow and Indian market has brought greater understanding to the people of Berkeley regarding native cultures and the enormous contributions they make and continue to make to world culture.
Now, therefore, be it resolved that I just yet again, the mayor of the city of Berkeley to hereby proclaim Monday, October 14th, 2024 as indigenous people's day in the city of Berkeley, we recognize and encourage all members of our community to attend the 32nd annual indigenous people's day powwow on Saturday, October 12th, starting at 10am and Martin Luther King jr.
civic center park and our city council extends its sincere gratitude to everyone who's organized this annual celebration and our sincere gratitude to the native people on behalf of the city of Berkeley and recognition of the indigenous care for this land in honor of indigenous culture and philosophy, which is needed now more than ever for our planet to survive.
So, thank you for being here.
I'm happy to present this proclamation, give you an opportunity to to say a few words and announce the events and thank you so much for your ongoing work and organizing this commemoration.
But, oh, Mr.
Mayor, that is a thank you in our language.
Um, do you know, Barrichello? Uh, it's just my name is Gino.
Remember the nation of Oklahoma, and I'm the coordinator for indigenous people's day here in Berkeley.
I've been the coordinator probably going on about 1516 years.
So, I've seen a lot of the faces here on the council and it's good to see new faces, see the mayor support us.
We want to say, thank you for your continued support.
Uh, we wanted to welcome everybody to come and be with be a part of our celebration this year on October the 12th Saturday.
It's a free event.
It's open to the public family friendly, no drugs, no alcohol.
So, we're out there to celebrate our continued survival and contributions to to here at the East Bay.
So I wanted to say, thank you for your continued support.
My cousin here has a ceremonial song.
She'd like to sing.
So, I'm going to welcome you up.
No problem.
Chianta to, um, you know, it's my cousin.
I'm.
Similar try the Florida and.
We are because cousin.
And you feel free to have a guess mention a bandistic.
A spiritual and really I have known.
It's a hand and I'll call a look.
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Lyrics the beginning is that we are all singing together.
So, at the stone grounds, or a church, when you call, you call into, we're all singing together.
The other versus we are calling the children.
We are calling the grandparents.
We are calling the animals, the wind, and all of our relatives.
So, thank you.
I hope to see you all there at our celebration October the 12 middle.
Yeah.
Thank you so much.
See you.
Yes.
Thank you.
Thank you.
So, that completes ceremonial matters, and I'll now turn over to the city manager, probably Negan asked if he has any comments for the council, the public this evening.
No comments tonight.
Mr.
Okay, thank you.
So, I'd like to ask you name is consent that we reorder the non agenda public comment to go 1st to public comment from employee unions, which we conduct the 1st meeting of each month.
Okay, so I've been informed by the city clerk that there is a representative from 10 to 1, who would like to address the council as part of the public comment for employee union comment time.
And so we'll go to Jocelyn to cynical Smith.
Now.
Hi, good evening.
Can you hear me? Yes, we can.
Thank you.
Mr.
Mayor.
Good evening.
Mr.
Mayor council and manager.
Welcome.
I am my name is Jocelyn goldsmith to center.
I am a city of Berkeley worker in public health and I'm an officer of the coordinator in 10 to 1 chapter.
So, I'm going to talk a little bit about what happened last night.
So, if you'll forgive me, I don't really have very prepared remarks because I've been working all day and I want to remark about something that happened last night.
Late last night, the peace and justice committee has passed a ceasefire resolution.
And so, I would like to recognize the position of my local SEIU 10 to one to urge public officials to pass similar resolutions in the spirit.
Our local represents six over 60,000 workers in northern California.
I sound like a broken record and you heard me say this every month for almost a year, or some of my siblings and similar thing, but it's since in December, our local past resolution for ceasefire humanitarian aid and occupation in Palestine.
And part of that resolution states that we will urge elected officials to do the same.
And so I am here tonight to uplift the passing of ceasefire resolution by the peace and justice commission last night.
And to urge the agenda committee to put this on the agenda at the next meeting.
I really sincerely hope that we do not see this get tied up in bureaucracy and needlessly delayed.
It's been almost a year of genocide, and our community is grieving, not only for all of this horrible loss of human life in Israel and Palestine and Lebanon and Syria, etc.
But also for the process that we're grieving for the process that we've been waiting for our elected officials to follow as all of pretty much all of the cities around us have managed to do.
So, this is an opportunity to listen to the commissioners that you yourselves have appointed and entrusted to do this hard work of going through a democratic process, which they have done.
And so please take this recommendation and place it on the agenda for the next city council meeting.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
And Mr.
Clark, were there any other.
Officially designated representative to city Berkeley employees that had requested to speak tonight.
None that I've been aware of.
I'll just do 1 last call there.
If there are any officially designated representatives of city of Berkeley employee unions who would like to address the council as part of our monthly public comment period for employee unions, please raise your virtual hand.
Or if you're in the room, come forward.
And I don't see anyone else.
Okay, so that completes that public comment period will now proceed to public comment on non agenda matters.
Persons will be selected to address matters not on the city council agenda.
The way we'll conduct this public comment peers is the clerk is randomly selected 5 speaker cards for in person speakers and then we'll go to 5 speakers on zoom.
So, I will now ask attendees on zoom if you would like to speak to an item that's not on tonight's city council agenda, please raise your virtual hand now.
And if there are.
Not 5 people on zoom will select more people for in person speakers.
So, once again, if you would like to speak to 9 on the agenda, please raise your virtual hand and so.
Depending on the number of speakers, if there are.
5 or more speakers, each speaker will be allotted 1 minute.
If there's 5 or less, there's 2 minutes.
And this is to address anything that's not on tonight's agenda.
If you're here to speak tonight, I'm on the consent calendar or the action calendar.
We look forward to your comments later on.
We get to the consent and action items.
So, Mr.
clerk, if you can please read the.
Names selected.
Okay.
So, we have.
We have Paul.
Andrea Henson.
Pastor Derek and.
In Cordova Morales.
Okay, any of those names were called please come forward in a particular order.
And whoever would like to start, thank you.
And please state your name for the record.
Yes, my name is Ian Cordova Morales.
I am the president and lead advocate of the organization.
Where do we go based here in Berkeley? Mr.
Ben Bartlett's district number 3.
I'm here to bring up an incident that happened today over at the protesting cabinet that was established on Saturday over at old city hall and the Miller building.
A member of the city manager's staff.
I'm here to bring up an incident that happened today over at the protesting cabinet that was established on Saturday over at old city hall and the Miller building.
A member of the city manager's staff.
Came into the encampment and began kicking tense opening up tense with the zippers and taking pictures of everybody's property inside.
I know that she did this because I was there.
I know that she did this because she did it to me.
The city council should and Mr.
I'm super happy to have here as a new city manager, I hope that you guys can reach out and talk to us instead of sending city employees to assault our tents and our property.
We are always happy to talk you know that because we come to weekly meetings with Peter radio and the rest of the city, discussing homelessness issues and how to best help people.
And I'm super happy to have here as a new city manager, I hope that you guys can reach out and talk to us instead of sending city employees to assault our tents and our property.
I know that what happened today was was completely irresponsible and I sincerely hope that it was not done with the permission of Paul put in a game for Peter radio.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
So you can e-mail me I would like to follow up on this thank you so much.
So Mister Clark there are 2 people who.
Raise their hand to speak on zoom before we go to miss Henson are there any other attendees on zoom wish to speak to I'm not on the agenda.
Please raise your hand now.
I'm not on the agenda.
Okay, but we'll go we'll take care of loss of it though.
But let's let's go to miss Henson you've been waiting.
Okay, I'm going to go ahead and unmute myself.
And I'm going to go ahead and unmute myself.
Okay, he's going to see his time to me that correct.
Okay.
Okay, I'm going to go ahead and unmute myself.
Okay, so as the video said, there is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part and you've got to put your bodies on the gears and upon the wheels Okay, I'm going to go ahead and unmute myself.
Okay, I'm going to go ahead and unmute myself.
Okay, I use law enforcement tactics as long as I've been doing this, I've never seen police go to tense and kick to see who was inside normally you would say hello is someone there.
Okay, so the next step is to allow the citizens to express their opinions to allow them freedom of speech, so that their things would not be taken what we found since we've been there are people from all over downtown are coming utilizing our tents.
They're eating, they're talking, this type of behavior chills free speech.
This is not what Berkeley stands for I sung that song and I said this is the end.
This is the beginning of the end and we must look at this.
Also, I'm doing investigations and if she did in fact kick that tent and people are inside.
That's a battery.
That's a misdemeanor.
And I plan to fully advise them to take advantage of all of their administrative and legal rights, because that is not what we stand for here in Berkeley, and I won't allow it.
Thank you.
Okay, and then pastor Derek.
And then my response sequence to speak.
Which microphone this 1, which 1.
This 1, okay, we could see all just before I came here.
I have the horrible news.
Horrible news 1000 rockets.
He wanted to get America to go on war with Iran.
That's the end of the word.
I have been fighting for the last 20 years.
I have been fighting for the last 20 years.
I have been fighting for the last 20 years.
Iran sent to Israel, and that is horrible news.
This is a whole trick that I want to do from the beginning.
He wanted to get America to go on war with Iran.
That's the end of the word.
I have been fighting for humanity.
I need to have peace in the Middle East.
This is everywhere.
Biden had been the most genocidal president this country has is actually Ukraine.
He could have wanted to create a NATO.
That's easy.
Now, as far as I've been working 59 years plus.
This is the hottest day I have seen, and we have a problem.
Well, human greed playing the biggest part of it.
We need to do something.
I don't think that I handed you.
I don't think our work today for us, but our kids or grandkids are going to have life beyond the end of this century.
Please work for peace.
Netanyahu said that whole thing to keep his ass from going to prison.
Both Hamas and Hezbollah were cohort with him.
How do you go fight a big country with a big army? They are cohort.
They let him do that.
Wake up.
Wake up.
I was in the March against Vietnam War with 60,000 beautiful American kids that killed over two million.
With the music killed, two million Iraq got killed.
We need to put our money in education.
That was about Newsom budget.
We need to put the money in education and health care.
Thank you.
Social security.
It's top war everywhere.
We're dealing with one security.
It's on in the country, which is, again, a matter of hand.
Let us start the business.
We're in business with our place in Grand Avenue as soon as we can.
We mean it.
We really mean it.
As I said, willing to pay five years in advance.
Don't get political division in the city.
Mr.
Move on the next speaker.
I second.
Let us get everybody act as good friends as we are.
For breakfast.
Anybody else? Thank you.
OK.
Good to see you again.
OK.
Our last speaker card is Pastor Derek.
And then we'll go to Miss Masevic.
Good evening.
I'm back again from the last meeting.
Where I ship.
City manager's hand and thank you for that handshake.
On the terms that you all would contact us.
To rectify, you know, not only the 25,000 dollars over the last 25 years that wasn't paid to the black repertory theater.
But just some type of camaraderie.
We want to kill corner.
Young people are killing one another and we have employable skills training and entrepreneur development.
We have all kinds of great things lined up with a bunch of professionals that I'm here with today.
And to no avail, you gave me your word and I still believe you're a man of honor.
And so I'm waiting on that handshake that you did publicly.
There's a contract for the money that's old and that hasn't been honored thus far.
And again, you gave your word and we had heard from you.
I'm looking forward to working in conjunction with this council.
So that we can do some, like I say, again, black lives matter.
Do they matter when it comes to funding? Because the last city council meeting before last.
Another organization Caucasian came up and got 100 plus thousands dollars and the black repertory hasn't received not one dime in this kind of disheartening.
So I'm still looking forward to your honor to handshake.
I'd be willing to even shake your hand again today.
If it means as much to you, if it means as much to me, it does to you or vice versa, however you say it.

Segment 2

Thank you for your time, and I'm looking forward to hearing from you guys ASAP, according to you being a week late.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Well, your, your card wasn't selected, but I'll give you.
Some time.
Thank you.
Yeah, thank you.
I'm going to say just real quick.
Good evening.
Council members.
My name's Daniel Cooper.
I serve a number of nonprofits across the Bay area, including real theater company in Marin.
Pastor Derek man, just raises issue to me about black repertoire theater, how important it is.
And I just want to ask you, what was the last time you heard the story of black life in its fullness in its complexity in its beauty.
Right? And I'm not talking about the Hollywood just glossed over Hollywood version of it.
I'm talking about a raw, authentic story, right? If we're black theater, it's not just a form of entertainment.
It's a lifeline to the past.
It's a voice for the present.
It's a vision for the future.
It allows stories of resilience, joy, struggle, triumph to be told in a way that resonates in a deeply human level.
It gives black actors, playwrights, directors, youth, adults, an opportunity to express and tell stories that will be lost culturally.
There's no way we cannot support black theater, black arts, black culture, especially in a place where we say black lives matter and Berkeley stands on diversity.
They stand on inclusion, right? It's a black repertory theater company.
It helps you, young people, creatives, playwrights, right? Costume design.
It's more, I mean, this is something we have to support.
I don't really understand how, you know, we're at this point where one white organization is being funded by a black theater company.
They're being funded hundreds of thousands of dollars, hundreds of thousands of dollars, but the black organization is getting nothing.
You know, we can put the black lives matter banner up there, but like, come on, we got to put a little, it can't just be teeth, you know? I mean, in lip service, we have to actually put money behind it.
And so black theater, it's important.
Thank you for your time today, y'all.
Thank you.
Thank you.
So we only take 10 from all that 1 more person from your group speak because we have another speaker and we have people on zoom and then I want to address this to let you all know what's what the status of this issue is.
I just like a couple of seconds.
I keep seeing the sign up that it says black lives matter.
The city council and the mayor do really black lives matter.
I'm a key refugee from the Ashanti tribe here in America, and I see you just celebrated a tribe, an Indian tribe.
I applaud that.
Why don't we go to the back of the line? I actually consider the black repertory theater.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you for coming today.
Ms.
Wassick, before you speak.
Um, can you wait 1? 2nd.
So, um, really want to thank you all for coming to and continuing to come to support the black repertory theater.
We are in real property negotiations with the black rep.
And so our staff are the ones who will and will be and have been communicating with Sean and the team at the black rep.
But I want to turn over the city manager to see if he has an update.
He wants to provide on this.
We met in closed session.
We obviously can't disclose what we talked about.
And it's a closed session, but we are committed to working to advance negotiations to keep the black rep thriving in Berkeley.
Mr.
city mayor.
Thank you.
Mr.
Mayor.
Thank you for your comments.
Appreciate it.
The city's attorney office has been in touch with the attorney's office, representing the black rep and the staff from public works with the city attorney's office is putting together a draft document for review of your team based on the authority that the city council has given us and that draft will be shared with you all this week.
Yes, all right.
Is it close? If I may, is it going to close? We're not having a back and forth here.
Okay.
Thank you for your comments.
We provide an update.
I appreciate you being here.
We need to move to the next speaker.
Thank you.
Fair enough.
Thank you all.
Yeah.
It's been over a year since city council approved the options encampment wellness team.
They're still not out and it's, it's waiting for the city to implement it.
This is through the mental health services act monies, but they're not the only body entrusted with going to the encampments to provide mental health services.
There's the full service homeless out ship full homeless services partnership to work with mental health that expressly set states and their 3 year plan that they do encampment work, working with people in the encampments, but it's not happening.
This is a plan that is approved by you is approved by the state where I live on the corner.
There's a man in a tent, and he's been there for several months.
I go by, give him food, talk to him and he's a Berkeley, Oakland born Berkeley raised.
He moved from elsewhere in South Berkeley because he was living in the alley.
He said, behind the Sacramento grocery, and it became too dangerous for him.
So we wanted to be on a corner where he felt safe.
Again, I regularly engage with him.
That's what people need.
And then this morning, when I was going to the bus stop, I noticed a man walk down the street and aggressively kick his tent.
And I want to conclude with saying the homeless commission passed or brought to you, which you unanimously passed to document hate incidents.
Against the unhoused persons, these are hate incidents, and I would hope that city staff is held to a higher standard.
Thank you.
Okay, we're going to take our 3 speakers on zoom now, and we'll go 1st to Kelly hammer Graham.
Thank you.
Can you hear me? Okay.
Yes, okay.
I don't have a long prepared statement.
I just want to thank everyone who came last night to the peace and justice commission.
You know, people were really well behaved and said, spoke from their hearts and I'm delighted that we were able to pass the resolution and I want to thank the 3 commissioners for doing that.
And I'll be writing about the others in my next act of this diary.
Thank you.
Okay, the next speaker is you Mitchell.
You Mitchell, you should now be able to speak.
Okay, can you hear me? We can yes.
Very good.
I'm speaking on behalf of the.
I'm really confused to the process that's going on and you're saying that you met behind closed doors and you're going to let us know tomorrow or sometimes this week.
Am I correct? I don't want to get into a back and forth.
I'm not going to do back and forth questions after your comments.
Okay, well, my comment is this, I don't understand why the wait is so long and everybody keeps talking about black lives matter.
The issue here is not.
It's about our history.
It's about things that we've worked for and and then people who are new to this area.
I've lived in this area for 72 years, and I don't understand why the wait is so long.
I'm a Berkeley born and raised person, and I just need to know when are we going to get our just dues? When are we going to know? I don't want to back and forth.
I want the black rep theater to be solid and to be established without any more fighting or confusion or anything or time wasted.
We need to have this funded now just to resolve it.
I just, I can't understand what the problem is.
That's all I want to know.
What is the issue? Why aren't we moving forward? Thank you.
Don't want to back and forth.
Thank you so much.
And I'm happy to address that again, which is this is a city property.
And so the black rep is leasing city property.
We need to, we are negotiating a lease with the black rep.
To ensure their long term use of that important facility.
We want to ensure that they can remain there.
We met in executive session because it involves real property.
We voted to give direction to our staff to negotiate a lease long term lease with the black rep.
Our staff will be in touch with Mr.
Mr.
Scott and their their attorneys to provide a proposal and we hope we can move forward and land this so we can resolve this issue.
And ensure their long term use and continue cultural programming at that location.
We'll go to Blair Beekman.
All right, thank you.
I figured this would be 1 of the last meetings.
So I figured I'd show up and say, hi, and thanks for the meeting today.
Thanks for the meeting today.
A real good luck in how Berkeley is addressing their on house issues with the government use in recent news and house laws going into effect.
I think we're all seeing that it's been kind of extreme what's taken place from that.
And I hope that we can make adjustments with that and learn how to practice a sense of care out of a difficult situation.
That's happening right now, and we can develop new practices of care and enforce laws, but with care.
I hope we learn how to do that.
It takes practice and skill to do that.
We've got to move fast.
We can do it.
Learn how we go and to talk about peace and not war for Ukraine and Israel.
We don't need to kill a bunch of more people to have in order to create a good dialogue for the future of Ukraine.
The same with Israel.
Let's work for peace and not war and how to solve our issue.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
That completes this round of public comment on non-agenda matters and happy to take comments on non-agenda matters at the conclusion of our agenda.
Thank you.
So now proceed to the consent calendar and.
I guess I'd like to ask, I really have 1 item on action, which is item 7, which is a recommendation for the peace and justice commission to consider naming a street after Daniel Ellsberg.
I would propose that we move that to consent, but to refer to the transportation and infrastructure commission, our policy regarding the naming of city streets and city buildings requires that we ask to go to a commission 1st for them to consider those requests.
So, I personally think we should just refer it to the commission to have them consider it along with, as we normally deal with these naming requests and then the commission will bring back their recommendation for council to consider at a future meeting.
So, I'd like to ask, is there any objection and moving item 7.
Resolution and name of Berkeley street after Daniel Ellsberg to the consent calendar.
To refer that to the transportation infrastructure commission.
Any objection here an objection over the action so that's on the consent calendar.
Now, if you want to speak on that, you can speak during the public comment period for consent and that consent calendar also includes item 6.
From counselor Han budget, referral, technical support for.
I know we have a number of board members and supporters here today.
It's great to see you.
I'm glad that we're going to be taking this action today.
And this is just step 1 step 2 will be in November when we take up the mid mid mid year budget.
We'll, we'll consider this request at that time.
But this, we're hopefully moving this forward today.
Any comments on the consent calendar from council members.
Press your button counselor Han.
Excuse me, I just wanted to thank the folks from opinion for coming.
I spent quite a bit of time speaking with the executive director and the board chair.
And I feel confident that the challenges that they're facing are.
Completely unique to this moment, they reflect the very bumpy landing for at least some of our arts organizations coming out of the pandemic and that includes people choosing to.
Only work remotely and or that doesn't work or and and also some wonderful things like some babies and maternity leaves and a number of other.
Uh, wonderful and challenging things that have created the perfect storm for this organization.
They are on the brink.
Of their 50th anniversary, they are a.
Revered important institution.
In Berkeley, and I'm very honored and appreciate council members, Humbert and Bartlett and joining me in this item and yes, and I, I just remembered that council member Luna par asked to join and I would very much like to have her during the item and so we're all really excited to support this and we really hope this allows you to get back on your feet and have another 50 years of service, music politicking advocacy and hopefulness in our community council member Humbert.
Thank you, your honor and again, I just did it and I intended not to it's I'm trained as a lawyer.
Yeah, I mean, sometimes I do see letters addressed to the honorable Jesse.
So, thank you, Mr.
Mayor and thank you council member Han for your comments and I would associate myself with them about item 6.
I'm really proud to be a cosponsor of this item for what is really an incredibly important and.
Long term cultural institution, which is now in my district, and I'm really proud of that.
I'm proud that it was her loin from from council member Bartlett's district and the most recent redistricting.
So he can't have you anymore.
I've got him, but I'm really it's it I've known about opinion for a long, long time.
Even when I lived in San Francisco for 20 years and it's it's really, really an important cultural institution thrilled to be part of this 1 and then on number 7, which is now part of the consent calendar, naming a street in the city of Berkeley in honor of Daniel Ellsberg.
And I'm really proud of that.
I'm really proud of that.
I, I, I did just have a few personal comments I wanted to make.
I do think it needs to go through the traditional and actually prescribed process of going getting neighborhood and and and resident buy in depending on where the street might be.
I also think it probably ought not to be a major street.
I think it would be really expensive to rename something like Shattuck or University or San Pablo, for example, which that would be outrageously expensive and I'm thinking of call the guy way, which I was part of when approving when I was on the public works commission the successor of which is now transportation and infrastructure so it needs to go through that that whole process.
I also want to say that Daniel Ellsberg is one of my personal heroes and he does have a connection to Berkeley.
I was an anti Vietnam war activists when I was in high school outside of Washington, D.
C.
and was tear gas as part of the sign the treaty now coalition as we protested at Nixon 2nd inauguration.
I think that's a great saying, and I think that's very, very important and I think that's why he took the time to do disclosing the Pentagon papers after he worked directly for Robert McNamara the secretary of defense took a lot of courage.
So, anyway, those are my comments, but I do support the notion that it, it needs to go through our traditional processes.
Thank you.
Councilmember, check up.
And Councilmember Han, thank you so much for taking on the work of authoring item six.
Uh, is an incredible institution, and I just had the opportunity to come back there again.
I can't actually remember the nature of the event, but it was full and it was full of wonderful people, wonderful company, good food celebration, and the opportunity to come together or another year.
So, I know this was a very popular item, so I missed the cut off to be in the wanted circle of four on this item, but just wanted to, from the dice express my utmost support as well as support as disclosed through the budget process for ensuring that.
Now, Edna gets this emergency funding to continue doing.
It's good for, thank you.
Now, Kotzel Barbara Thank you.
Thank you.
Mr.
Mayor.
And that's sorry then, so said to lose.
You are so, so close to my heart.
I love visiting you.
And I think you'll be in good hands with customer Humber.
He's a very warm council member.
I think you'll enjoy him.
I wanted to very quickly just give a wonderful shout out to the team.
The staff for helping the work to receive the grant.
From HUD for the African American list of resource center, a 1Million dollars.
For this project's taken, I want to save 14 years, 13 years to come to fruition.
A new vision of health care, contextual health care for the community.
Amazing this will handle pre construction loans.
And our city that we give our city property, we gave them will be converted and we will have a shining new edifice for the new realm of health care in the city of Berkeley.
Very happy.
Thank you.
And I just want to thank our Congresswoman Barbara Lee, who actually carried the earmark request for us and got this in the federal budget.
And this is part of the multiMillion dollar investment that we've made to help build out and create the African American list of resource center of the property on Alcatraz Avenue.
So, thank you.
Barbara Lee.
Any other questions or comments from members of the council before I take public comment.
Okay, not we will now take public comment on the consent calendar.
So that's everything on the published consent calendar, which includes item 6 in support of opinion and item 7.
The resolution to name a city, Berkeley, major street after Daniel Ellsberg.
If you'd like to speak to an item on the consent calendar.
Please line up on this side of the room and then after we go to the speakers who are here in person, we'll go to speakers on zoom.
Hi, how many people would like to speak.
Show of hands, we'll do 2 minutes.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Hello council members may advise me.
My name is consolidated at numbers.
I am the executive director of letting a control center.
I was born and raised in Chile and migrated to this country in 2019, searching for opportunities to develop my career as an artist as a worker and to make a positive impact in diasporic communities who come from all kinds of backgrounds and are trying to make a home here in Berkeley.
Just like me, I really didn't know if I was going to be able to stay in this country after the 19 lockdown, but I am so grateful that I did.
Let me is today what gives purpose to my life and it's the source of a deep sense of belonging that I have never really felt before.
Not even in Chile.
I'm speaking for myself right now, but I'm certain that I am not alone in this sentiment because has been a place of meaningful community gathering, collective learning and social transformation for 5 decades.
Now, every week at each and every 1 of our classes, workshops, special events, I can feel the fruits of years and years of insisting that true community building happens when we understand the history, the beauty and the power of our differences as much or even more than when we rest on the things that we have in common.
Every day, for that reason, I feel hope in this times of uncertainty and polarization, let me unite.
It brings different people together in the quest of making this world a better place.
Please know and trust that this is this crisis is actually temporary.
It's the aftermath of.
Uh, council member hand mentioned a perfect storm that hasn't allowed us to bounce back from a big investment in our building that we had to undertake last year.
But once we overcome this, let me ask future is really bright.
We have managed to maintain our historic audiences.
We're bringing new generations of artists, organizers and art lovers into our space.
And we have developed a multi year budget that focuses on the mission strategy and long term sustainability of the center.
So please approve this emergency fund for the opinion.
Give us the opportunity to continue to be that 2nd home.
That's how many of us need.
Thank you.
Hi, good evening.
Council and mayor.
My name is Anna Fox.
I'm the current board chair, the Latino cultural center.
I'm a district 8 resident and a Berkeley native.
As a new parent, I mentioned this to council member Han, but I'm hoping to raise my daughter in La Pena as I was raised in La Pena by my parents and grandparents.
It's a place where I know that she can connect with her Chilean roots and an intergenerational community of folks who share my family's values of social justice and solidarity values that I know are sort of key to the character of Berkeley, but aren't able to be expressed in so many places anymore.
For half a century, La Pena has been a pillar of creative expression, community organizing and cultural resistance for immigrant and BIPOC communities in Berkeley and beyond, and its importance is deeply personal to me and to so many folks here and folks who I know have been reaching out to you all.
We're asking the city's support during a time of significant financial need, but as has been mentioned, we kind of faced a confluence of a string of bad luck, a temporary string of bad luck.
But I do want to stress that this is not a crisis of community engagement or of relevance.
Demand for our programs is stronger than ever.
Earned revenue is growing and we're bringing in over 10,000 people, both our legacy community members, but also new generations of activists and artists and young people into the space through classes, through organizing events, through musical programs every year.
The Berkeley community really needs what La Pena has to offer.
So I'm confident the challenges we faced are temporary and that with support from the city, timely support from the city, we can pull through and reach a place of quickly of financial and programmatic sustainability and that we're well positioned to survive this crisis and thrive in years ahead.
So I thank you all for your consideration and I hope that La Pena can continue to be a place where future generations can find community, share culture, and build a more just world together.
Thank you.
I would like to thank you very much about Daniel Erzberg.
Daniel Erzberg was a great man.
He was attacked by Nixon, attacked by war mongers, and this is what we have today.
Daniel Erzberg also was a friend of mine.
He came to the business many times.
He invited me to dinner in his house in Kensington many times as well.
We need more people like that.
As far as I know, do any of you remember that MLK Street used to be called what? Grove Street.
And Grove was a general in the army who have killed many people.
Let's wake up.
We need to put our voice.
City of Peace, Berkeley.
City Council of Peace, Berkeley.
Let us go against the war mongers, Netanyahu, Hamas, whatever, Hezbollah, Biden.
Biden is going to end up being one of the worst genocidal presidents in the history of the U.S.
after Truman, who dropped the atom bomb in Nagasaki and Hoshima.
Remind you, Israel so far dropped at least 10 atom bombs in Gaza and they're doing it in Lebanon.
Lebanon is a beautiful country.
It was called France of the Middle East.
Beautiful people.
We're all equals.
We're all human beings.
We have no choice but to come.
We come to this world blind.
We have to care about the little children.
Over 40,000 children in Gaza traded, incinerated, blown up in pieces.
Two-thousand-pound bomb.
Does Biden have any children, grandchildren? He does.
How in the hell can he stand by and his worst effect of him is that guy, Blinken.
Blinken is the only Israeli American citizen, which is fine.
But more Jews in Cairo were a part of it than they had in Israel at one time.
But Blinken has totally brainwashed Biden.
I think Biden was brainwashed when he visited Israel on October 7th, and really, October 7th was a sad job.
Hamas did that for him.
Thank you very much.
Sure.
No, your time is up.
No, I said thank you very much.
Let me say that.
Okay.
Let's say that.
Thank you.
As I read item five on Southwest Berkeley bike boulevards and the headline, I'm hoping that we're on track as far in Southwest Berkeley repairing on Adeline, the bike lanes that, for some reason, were done with the bus stop on the sidewalk where persons with disabilities, seniors that cannot stand, sit, and then there's a bike lane, and then the bus stop is in the middle of the street, which if these bike lanes were frequently used, which they're not, would really result in accidents.
Regarding La Pena, very glad to hear about this.
Novices from the public sometimes don't know that referral to the budget process doesn't necessarily mean that something is going to be budgeted.
And so I will refer to the Commission on the Status of Women's recommendation regarding public safety for women, that one of the elements of that was the safety escorts, and it was hoped that that would be approved in the June budget process, at least for a pilot program to start that.
I mean, the DBA has come up with a proposal for a pilot program, but it was tier two, and it's not tier one.
So hopefully, as we go into November, this will be seen as important, safety escorts to protect vulnerable persons from crime, that there would be a team of two escorts with persons who believe that they need that protection, and that this will move to tier one.
I've been told by Kira Yaredondo that it looks like it's going to stay at tier two, and so it doesn't know if it's going to be funded.
I hope you prioritize it.
It's extremely important.
Thank you.
Hello, my name is Jan Dyer, and I'm pleased to be representing the La Pena Community Chorus speaking to the Council tonight.
Oh, you guys are coming too.
Okay.
Okay.
And I just want to thank everybody for supporting La Pena, my wife and.

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And I, Carol Pearson, moved here in 1984, joined the La Peña Community Chorus in 1985.
We're still going strong.
We're welcoming new members.
We believe in the importance of La Peña Cultural Center very strongly.
Do you guys want to say something? Okay, well, practically everything's been said much more eloquently than I can, but I'll just say, I'm obviously in the La Peña Community Chorus since 1983, plus 6 months in 81, so La Peña has definitely been a second home for me.
And I just want to say again, La Peña is, in my mind, very unique in the community because it's not just a venue for music and art, but so much more.
It's been a place for discussion, for people to meet and feel a sense of community ever since I've been coming, which is like a long time, but especially now, I feel like the staff at La Peña has been trying so hard to make it a safe space for everyone in the community from all cultures, all aspects of life.
And I just hope that the Council will find it in their hearts to make the funding that La Peña needs happen.
Thank you.
There's a bunch of us from the choir back there, and we're just going to say we're about to go there right now to rehearse.
We rehearse.
That's all.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Good evening, everyone.
My name is Grace, and I'm the chair of the peace and justice commission.
And I'm happy that you're moving it forward.
And to me, that movement, that decision signals your recognition of Daniel Ellsberg's lifelong contribution to peace and social justice.
I want to clarify something.
By major street, we meant a street that students and other people will see regularly.
And it doesn't have to be a long street.
Well, I live down.
It was no problem for me as a resident, and that was even before the Internet happened.
So, I know change can happen, but even a short street in downtown or someplace.
So, it's not a problem for me as a resident.
It was no problem for me as a resident, and that was even before the Internet happened.
So, I know change can happen, but even a short street in downtown or someplace.
So, thank you, and I know I have more time, but can you save it for Patricia Ellsberg who speak in a 2nd or 2 absolutely.
Thank you.
Happy to give her as much time as needed.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
On April, 11th of 2023, I had the honor to stand here before the Berkeley City Council with first all in our board president and grace who's also on our board to receive the proclamation declaring the week of April 24th, the 30th, 2023.
I'm going to read the proclamation from Mary may again on behalf of Dan who had recently disclosed his terminal cancer diagnosis for us to live with the proclamation to Daniel and Patricia Ellsberg at their house.
They were delighted to receive it.
I'm going to read the proclamation.
The proclamation states, and I'm going to read it again.
That Berkeley name a major city street in honor of Daniel Ellsberg is moral courage and as a legacy for peace.
Getting Ellsberg had more friends than anyone I've ever met.
And I was lucky enough to be among them.
Daniel Ellsberg was a member of the city council, protesting research and development of nuclear weapons, the most deadly and lethal of all weapons of mass destruction.
Dan was a world citizen and a global icon standing for nuclear disarmament, peace, truth and justice core Berkeley values.
We were very fortunate to have him as a neighbor in Kensington.
I'm going to read the proclamation.
The city of Berkeley rightly renamed a street after Martin Luther King jr.
For all the reasons stated in the resolution and many more.
There should be no question about Berkeley naming a street after Daniel Ellsberg.
And as the resolution specifies, it should be a major street.
This is very moving.
First city council meeting I've been to.
I'm Patricia Ellsberg.
I was married to Dan for 53 years.
He died a year ago, plus a couple of months without pain, thanks to hospice and surrounded by family and love.
And he died at peace, which was amazing because he was obsessed with the nuclear issue, obsessed with doing what he could with peace.
But when I asked him, do you want to keep living? He said, yes.
But he said, I'm dying at peace because I feel I've done everything I could to end wars, unjust wars of intervention.
And mainly his obsession was to prevent any use of nuclear weapons.
And I just was standing in Santa Barbara where I got the Daniel Ellsberg Lifetime Achievement Award.
And I quote, do I really deserve this? I mean, I completely was supportive of Dan.
And then I thought, 53 years of listening about doomsday, I deserve it.
And I'm very moved by some of the world comments I've heard here.
One of his favorite quotes was from Thoreau, cast your whole vote, not just a piece of paper, but your whole influence.
And he did that with life.
He was also a brilliant intellectual.
They had to make up a grade for part of his orals for his doctorate.
And they made up a grade summa plus at Harvard.
Not the whole thing, but just a part of his orals.
He wrote a couple of books on secrets, which was about Vietnam and the release of Pentagon papers.
And doomsday, which I've heard a lot about.
And that's a confession of a nuclear war planner.
So I really think it's appropriate.
We've lived in Berkeley for over 45 years.
We've loved it.
But as a city that hosts a major institution of education and so many other wonderful schools, that naming a place for him, whether it's a major street or wherever is appropriate, I think could inspire students and could inspire all of us to cast our whole vote.
To influence and create a peaceful and vibrant world.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much for coming tonight.
We're very honored by your presence.
Thank you so much.
I was so excited to be here.
I had the fortune of meeting Dan on several occasions and he's a brilliant man and definitely an inspiration.
And my opinion is, for all the reasons you stated, Berkeley should definitely name a street after him.
He was deeply connected to our community and it's important that other people know about what he stood for.
Good evening, council members.
My name is Christina as a hire, and I'm joined here this evening by my daughter, Emilia.
2 months old, so I will speak briefly and quietly as she's sleeping just coming in to say that I am part of this and she is part of this perfect storm that hit that over these last few months.
I've been with the organization as a volunteer since 2019 and professionally.
I joined as advancement manager in November of 2023, where my main role was to take on fundraising, grant management, et cetera.
And I've had to take a little pause from that this year.
But in my professional career, I am an academic and ethnomusicologist by training.
And I will just say that I hold a degree in ethnomusicology from UC Berkeley.
And one of the reasons I was so excited to accept a place in that program was precisely because of places like La Pena that I knew would make this be such a beautiful community to be a part of where there's thriving musical communities.
And I hope that, like Ana, as a new mother, that my daughter and my son, who's at home, will continue for many, many years to benefit from the programs that La Pena brings together and offers our community.
With that, I'll cede the rest of my time.
Thank you.
Good evening, city council members.
My name is Ben White.
I am here as a representative of Be Strong in Life, which is a nonprofit that uses rap music as therapy for youth that was founded in Berkeley High.
It's been around for almost 20 years, and I had the pleasure of having my first ever showcase as a participant back in 2008 at La Pena.
And now, almost 20 years later, I come here as a community events coordinator, and I can tell you there is no community partner that I would be fighting harder for than La Pena.
It is more than a venue.
It is a community of care.
When I was doing an event there recently, I talked to a musician who saw his grandson perform, and he told me that he had witnessed three generations of music being performed at La Pena, and I hope that another three generations is able to live and thrive at La Pena.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you all so much for being here today.
And before we go to speakers who are on Zoom, I'd like to ask if there's anyone else who's here in person who'd like to speak on the consent calendar.
Okay.
Thank you.
So we'll go to the speakers on Zoom.
If you are on Zoom and would like to speak, please raise your virtual hand at the bottom of the Zoom screen.
Blair Beekman.
Hi, I'm Blair Beekman.
I wanted to speak to consent calendar items 5, 6, and 2, and I think that's about it.
Yeah, 2, 5, and 6.
Yeah, good luck to conclude, you know, the efforts of war going on around the world at this time.
I feel are going to affect us here at the local level.
So it's important that we continue practices, I think, of openness and accountability.
If we practice those things really well, it's actually, it's fighting war.
It's asking for peace.
It's asking for open democracy.
It gives everyone best practices and how to build a sustainable future and not a future of killing each other.
So I think if we work towards those things, we'll be sending a really powerful, important message.
So with that said, you have items 2 and 5.
There's about the future of Bay Trail extension issues for bikes and walking safe routes and good things.
There's going to be some surveillance tech and data collection tech involved with that.
The city of Davis, California, Davis, California has invented some really good, important surveillance tech ordinance practices for wildlife trails.
Good policies that I suggest Berkeley look into that can really help yourselves in that process.
Because Berkeley does have a few problems in trying to be more open and clear about their ordinance issues.
You've done great in building your future of a business tech society in Berkeley.
Congratulations on that.
It doesn't have to be mutually exclusive with the future of building good tech accountability and good policies and good public participation.
That's part of the, you know, the future we're trying to build.
Thank you.
I hope we can continue.
And thanks for the meeting tonight.
Okay, we'll go next to Peter Gilder.
Followed by Cheryl.
Thank you.
Okay.
Hello.
Yes.
Hello.
Yes.
Hello.
Okay, actually, I'm not Peter deals where I'm using his computer.
This is Phyllis Olin.
Followed by Cheryl.
Peter Gilder should not be able to speak.
Okay.
Hello.
Yes.
Hello.
Okay.
Actually, I'm not Peter deals where I'm using his computer.
This is Phyllis Olin.
And I'm the president states legal legal foundation, and I had the honor of actually presenting the proclamation receiving the proclamation from the city and presenting it to Daniel.
So, I just wanted to say, you know, we're at a time.
Certainly in our history, which is more dissenters than any, any time that I remember and from what I hear from people older than I and there aren't a lot of them.
Even their memory.
It was interesting tonight that I was watching democracy now and Julian Assange was was speaking.
He was given 175 years in prison that if he did serve it on.
Fortunately, he has been released.
And, and his crime was wanting to make public atrocities that governments perpetrate.
This is something that certainly resonates with what Daniel Ellsberg stood for.
He believed in peace and justice and transparency and people really understanding what the governments were doing.
And I'll get it together.
I think I'm talking obviously about item seven and I thank you for putting it on the consent calendar.
I think it's very important that we in a time where we don't we have such a short historical memory that we have reminders that we can teach future generations about the heroes of our time and what they stood for so that they won't be forgotten.
And I think it's very important for that reason that we do name a street after Daniel Ellsberg, and I know that you agree, it seems to be a question of where, and I think that can be worked out but we need to keep the memory of this heroic wonderful man who was a very warm, wonderful man personally, as well as in the broader context.
So, thank you very much.
Thank you.
Our last speaker on zoom is Cheryl.
This is former council member Cheryl Davila.
I just wanted to say yes to the recognition of Daniel.
Yes.
What Kenya.
So Kenya has been a long standing institution in Berkeley, and should be continue for decades, as well as the black repertory theater group.
So you need to do what y'all need to do to make sure that they're all the art organizations theaters that are catered to the BIPOC black indigenous people of color communities get equal funding throughout the city, it's not fair because the pink organizations get way more money than black indigenous or people of color organizations, and you need to make them thrive to, you know, we're in some tumultuous times.
And we need to honor and respect the organizations that have made Berkeley what what Berkeley is today.
And honor that community, and the people that they, their reaches very far.
And we are in some tumultuous times, and we need to make sure that our elected officials are doing what the people of their city want them to do.
And that's what we need, we need organizations like the black rep and the Kenya to continue to be in Berkeley and thrive in Berkeley.
And we don't need any more Zionism in Berkeley, or Zionist elected officials and appointees to commissions and free Palestine.
Vote, vote jovanka beckles for state senate.
And thank you.
All right, thank you.
No comment on that.
Okay, that completes public comments.
Thank you all so very much for being here today.
It's great to see such an incredible community here.
Especially those in support of Kenya and council member Luna para before we vote on the consent column.
Thank you so much.
I just wanted to say that I'm very proud to be supporting this item and grateful for how many of you came out.
Thank you so much.
I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who came out tonight and emailed my office.
As we've been talking, a member of my staff was actually sending me photos of herself when she was in a children's Chilean folk band at La Peña 20 years ago.
I just wanted to say thank you.
Okay, I will move adoption the consent calendar.
Second.
And that will take care of our business for tonight.
So unless there's any further disc discussion.
Okay, council member.
Yes.
Yes, Bartlett.
Yes.
Hi.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
And Mary.
Yes.
Okay.
Okay.
Consent calendar is approved.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Okay.
Before we adjourn the meeting, is there any public comment on non agenda matters? Somebody who's not previously spoken.
Seeing none.
I'll move to adjourn.
Second.
If we can please call the roll.
That's my work.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Bartlett.
Yes.
Very good.
I on.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
And Mary.
Yes, thank you.
We're adjourned.