Adoption of Resolutions Appointing Kristin Furuichi Fong, Samantha Green, Scott Means and Dianne Yamashiro-Omi as Members of the Social Service Human Relations Board.
Adoption of resolutions. Appointing Christian for you to function at the Green Scott means and Diane Yamashiro on the as members of the Social Service Human Relations Board. All right. We've had a motion by Vice Mayor Val and I see Councilmember Knox White has raised his hand to second. May we have a roll call vote, please. Councilmember de SAG. I followed her, Spencer. I will be allowed to speak on this item. You want to speak for 9 minutes? No. No. Yes. So we've had emotion. We've had a second. We will take discussion and then we'll have our vote while we keep our share of members waiting. A potential separate members waiting for. Yes. Councilmember member. Spencer, the floor is yours. I did want to say that I appreciate these nominees and I do plan to support them. And many of us may know them from the community and all of their efforts. So I support. Thank you. Thank you. Anything further? I agree. They are awesome and it was a really tough field. We've had amazing applications for our boards and commissions. All right, Madam Clerk, may we have that roll call vote now, please. Councilor. Oh, well, again, I. All right, then, sir. Only counts once. Not quite. All right. Vice Mayor Vella, I. Mayor, as the Ashcraft I. That carries by five. I thank you. And with that do we still have our nominees present? We're going to promote and look at that. Here is Ms. for Chief Fong. And I'm seeing and apologies, everyone. Sometimes the time gets away from us and that we see Scott means what with your names? We'd love to see them. There you are. Hi. Hi. I see. So good to see you. Diane Yamashiro Omi. I see your name. And then we're just waiting on Samantha Green here. And I for her. I have to tell you, these are all just superstars. It was a pleasure getting to know them. Well, some I knew from before. Pleasure getting to know them in the interviews. So thank you again for your commitment and welcome aboard. Not seeing Miss Green. Looks like Miss Green might not have the most current version of Zoom because we've tried to promote her and we're not able to, which is the problem we run into. But she is here. Okay, maybe. Raise your right. Hand. Yes. All right. With that, Madam Clerk, would you please administer the oath? Do you solemnly swear to support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the state of California, and that you faithfully discharge the duties upon which you are about to enter? And you can just all say, oh, you can unmute and say. I do. I do. I do. Yeah. And then, you know. Really quick answers here now, by the way. Yay! Hi, Ms.. Green. Right here. Yeah. You want to. Have you got your camera? If you want a picture? Yes. Yeah. Hi. Welcome. And you had your hand up. I just know so really quickly because you know, the hours late, but I'd love to have each one of you just go and I'm going to go in the order I see you on my screen. So Miss Fruity Fine, followed by Ms.. Yamashiro on me, followed by Mr. Meads and Miss Green. Just give us a little thumbnail about you, because you all have amazing skill sets that you bring to this important commission. It's for you to find. Good evening, Madam Mayor and City Council Members. Thank you so much for the kind nomination and the reappointment. I am currently an instructional coach for the Alameda Unified School District. I am based out of Ruby Bridges Elementary School, and so I'm a great big West proponent, a big fan of kids, big fan of teachers. And I'm just really feel very honored to be part of this community and to be able to contribute in any way that I can on behalf of our Social Service Human Relations Board. Thank you so much for this opportunity. Again. Thank you. The honor is ours to have you join this board. Ms.. Yamashiro OMI. Good evening, everybody. Thank you very much for the nomination. I'm very excited about serving my community and the city of Alameda. I've been a resident for over 35 years. I spent 30 years in the philanthropic field and also has served as a nonprofit administrator for 12 years. I'm retired, but volunteering and on a couple of national boards, including Community Change, just got off the race board, which is an anti-racism organization. And just. Willing to jump in and do what I can to. I think Alameda is great already, but make it even better. Thank you. Everybody. Thank you, Mr. Means. Thank you. My name, Scott Means. And in my work life, I'm the aging services manager for Human Services Department in Oakland. And I've been working a lot on age friendly cities in a very inclusive model where we build livable communities for people of all ages. And I'm really excited to be here in Alameda trying to do the same type of work here in this community that I live in. So I look forward to working with you all. Thank you. Likewise. In this green. Thank you, Samantha Green. And I thank you for the appointment. And I have spent the past decade of working in social research, primarily doing community needs assessments, working on homeless needs assessments, including the point in time counts for the county of Alameda. Largely working with young people 18 to 24 years old are transitioning to youth as well as those in older adults over 55. So I'm very excited to apply the work that I've been doing for the past decade to my own town. I'm a relatively new resident to the city of Alameda. I've just been here for two years but very excited to get involved in my own community and know that we planted roots here. So thank you for having me. Thank you. We're excited to have you. Anyway, we are all delighted to have you join Social Service Human Relations Board and thank you so much for your time and your perseverance tonight. Yeah. Welcome and good night. All right. Thank you so much. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so with that council. Mayor cliche, I totally blew it earlier. I apologize. The when you're calling do vote to call the question. It does require four votes. And I totally missed that. It was three two. And so that actually motion failed to call the question on item five. And so I apologize for procedurally messing that up so badly. And I just wanted to clarify that. Okay. Well, in any event, we're taking a break now. We will be back in we will be back at ten after ten. So ten. Ten. We'll be back. Thank you. Point of order. Well, we'll be circling back. We'll come back to that when we get back. My turn on. Never quite know. Okay. Already. Okay, everyone. We are. Are we all back? Tony, I see you. Sean, I just saw you. There you are. Malia. Trish. Okay, Madam Clerk, are you ready? Yes, we're ready. All right. Good evening, everyone. We are back from our break. I am going to turn things over to the city attorney, even Shen and the city clerk, Laura Weisinger. Mamma mia. Perhaps I'll start on a piece in light of the city clerk's advice earlier. My recommendation to the council would be that you take a vote to reopen the item to given that the motion did not pass, to give the time that's necessary for Councilmember Spencer to complete her comments. Okay. So that we take you said a motion to reconsider. Yes, that would be my recommendation, assuming the city clerk agrees. Yes, I agree with that. Thank you. All right. I think in my haste to move things along, I forgot that a call for review takes a 4/5 vote. And I probably talk so fast I was faster than the city clerk, but staff never hesitate to jump in and interrupt me. But anyway, going forward, Councilwoman Knox. What? I think I set your hand up. I move. We reopen the item for discussion. Do I have a second? Counselor. A desk. Second, any discussion on the item? CNN. May we have a roll call vote, please? Councilmember Chase. Yes. Herrera. Spencer. I'm not quite. I well. High mayor as he Ashcraft High that carries by five eyes. Thank you. All right. So what's next, Madam Clerk? So now we will return to item five, and we will put the 4 minutes back on the clock that Councilmember Herr Spencer had. And I believe everybody else hadn't really spoken much sooner. Just going to round up to five and then start again there. Sure. All right. Councilor Harry Spencer. Thank you, Mayor. First of all, I would like to thank the city clerk and the city attorney for correcting that error. I think it was extremely unfortunate. That being said, in regards to continuing my comments, I want to share with the community. When you look at the proposed resolution and when the city council started the state of emergency, the language in the resolution is conditions of extreme peril to the health, safety and welfare of persons have arisen in the city of Alameda. And that was back in March of 2020. And so I am not going to support continuing the state of emergency in our city. And when you look at the end of this resolution, it oc the DEC until the deficit, until the state's declaration of emergency related to COVID 19 is rescinded, or sooner shall it be appropriate to lift the local emergency declaration prior to the state action. And Mike, something I wanted to share with the public is that you may or may not know that currently that prior to COVID, the state was already under a state of emergency declaration for a wildfire that started in 2008, when the fire was in 2018 that killed 85 people and destroyed most of the town of Paradise. And while that fire is no longer worrying, the state is still cleaning up and rebuilding. And thus the state is under a state of emergency for that wildfire in 2018. There are things that will happen when the city decides to lift the state of emergency, and there are clocks that start from that point. And so that whenever the city decides that we are at that point where we can do that, then, you know, things will happen from that point. So I just wanted to go back and since. So currently the city we are at 85.1% people vaccinated that are eligible from the age of 12 and up that are partially vaccinated. That means they've received their first vaccine. We have 71.4% that are fully vaccinated. And so I think because of the cooperation from our community members and that sometimes that we know the vaccine, if you're getting it like a couple of weeks after. So these numbers should be jumping even higher. And so this when you already know the vote, I don't expect anyone, any councilmembers to change their vote. However, then it can come back in 60 days. And I think it's important for community members to be thinking, when is it appropriate time to list this? We, of course, know we will not get 100% vaccinated if that's the measure people are looking for. We do have space in the hospital, as I shared the numbers earlier, and I appreciate the opportunity to complete my comments. Thank you. Any further comments? Members, Councilmember de so great. Well, thank you very much. Prior to the meeting, I had asked the city attorney's office to put together bullet points on the way in which the public health emergency has implicated both renters and small mom and pop landlords. And it is a it is an important issue because so long as the state of emergency is in place, then small mom and pop landlords and renters are kind of court and certain policies that we've put into place here, particularly to protect renters. But the reality is, is that small mom and pop landlords, many of them are also affecting the suffering from the economic impacts of this. So I'm going to support this this public extending the public health emergency. But I do want to note, though, that that the that that there are impacts that that continue. And so I think the the bullet points that the city attorney's office put together was certainly welcome. It talked about what would happen if we did not extend the local emergency, what would happen with regard to the repayment of rental debt, with regard to eviction protections? So I think we should extend it. But but I will say, though, you know, small mom and pop landlords are also experiencing difficulties. So while I can't say what will happen in 60 days from now, when we're asked to extend or not extend, you know, it will certainly the concerns of renters and small on the pop landlords will certainly weigh heavily in that decision. But for now, I support this. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember de SAC. Other Council comments. Anyone wish to make a motion? Councilmember knocks white over purple. All right, then move by Councilmember Guisewite, seconded by Councilmember Gay said May we have a roll call vote? Councilmember Tasha Herrera Center. No knocks like Vela. May I say, Ashcroft? Hi. That carries 4 to 1. Thank you, Madam Clerk. All right. Are we now safe to close the st calendar? Yes. Thank you. And my apologies again. We're human already. I believe her on six. Is that correct? Correct. All right. Were you introduced at 18? Press, please, Madam Clerk.