Adoption of Resolution Adopting an Agreement for Participation in the Alameda County Operational Area Emergency Management Organization.  (Fire)
A5f and adoption resolution adopting an agreement for participation in the Alameda County Operational Area Emergency Management Organization. And we do have a speaker on this item. Okay. And this is Miss Gabby Dolphin. I met a mayor's council and city staff. It's a little sensitive. I just noticed. That there is. A bracket, the word fire after that statement. And I don't know if I just don't know enough to know. Anything about. The details of this, but I do feel that this might be an opportune time to mention Operation Urban Shield, the agreement to participate in the Alameda County Operational Area Emergency Management Organization. While recommended and understood undersigned by our County Board of Supervisors. Appears to be a thinly veiled. Hand-Off to the Alameda County Sheriff's Office to handle our emergency coordination program. I have absolutely no qualms with coordinated efforts in the face of natural disaster. And though there has been none to date in the Bay Area terrorist attack, however, it is incumbent upon all jurisdictions to look independently at what this association with ac0m means. Vis a vis the Alameda County. Sheriff's Office and his flagship program, Urban. Shield. Urban Shield is a wargame police training simulation. That used. To take place. Annually in Oakland, but was moved as. Of 2015 to. Pleasanton after growing public pressure. Against. Increasingly militarized police actions against that was shown nationwide and showed a disproportionate impact on the black community. Oakland is not the only city to decline participation in urban shield. The event was. Urban Shield was and is hosted by the Alameda County Sheriff's Office and is going to be held again in 2018. In addition to the simulation of disasters, there is a vendor show where companies market high tech weapons. And gear to. Police from around the world. The community is concerned with the lack of accountability and with a disregard for community community concerns. One of those one example is Urban Shield 2012. Sheriff Ahearn staff tested an unarmed aerial drone in front of television crew, setting off a. Heated debate. Over a then stalled plan to purchase two drones for the Alameda County Sheriff's Office. And that was 2012 and 2016. However, the headlines Red County Sheriff Quietly Expands Drone Fleet to six. This suggests to me a certain kind of arrogance and attitude. Now, mind you, I'm not against law enforcement. We need our elected officials from Board of Supervisors to City Council to provide checks and balances to the law enforcement arm of local government. We need the. Kind of oversight that ensures our sheriff's office shares the same values that we do as a community. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Remember Ashcraft as so as to not mislead the public about what this particular item is about. I wonder if we could ask either Fire Chief Edwin Rodriguez or Captain Sharon Oliver, whoever member I would like to actually go. I thought you had a question. I guess my question is, if we could ask one of them to clarify. Thank you. Let me go first to our city manager and let her respond or however you like to handle it. So Urban Shield is a program that our police department does training under, and this item is about a agreement with the county. That is pretty routine. We put it on the consent calendar because there's no funding allowed and it's updating it with. The fire department. Right. With the fire department. So our fire chief can elaborate. Sure. Thank you. Remember, as a council, I'm going to have our press officer, Captain Alter, answer that question for the public comment. Thank you very much. Captain Oliver. I mount a mayor, House members. So the agreement fits into the. Standardized emergency management system. That we work under in the state of. California. And it simply is. Saying that we agree to work in a chain. Of command up and down for. Communications. So the city communicates with the operational area, which is the Alameda County OS Office of Emergency Services, and that happens to live in the sheriff's office in Dublin. So it's just saying that we are going to work with them to get resources and share information in a disaster. Thank you. Do we have a motion? I'd like to make a motion. Second. All those in favor of my motion carries unanimously. Thank you very much. That completes our consent items. So now we are on six e. Introduction of ordinance approving a 15 year lease amendment with an option for a ten year extension between the City of Alameda and Greenway Golf Associates for premises located at Chuck Creek Golf Complex. The Senate requires four affirmative votes.