Oakley City Council
September 22, 2026

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little fireworks, but it did just provide a great training opportunity and for us to really practice um with the code enforcement team. July 3rd, uh we
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decided to uh deploy the drone from the top of city hall. It was a really good location for us to get to different areas throughout the uh the central area
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of uh of Oakley. Uh but once again, very few fireworks. So commend our community for doing that. they're the following 1:34:06
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what we request that they do, but we did practice a lot more and still got ready for the leadup to July 4th. Then also on 1:34:14
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the on July 4th, uh we once again launched from city hall because uh it seemed like a really good central location and as you guys know, we did
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have a lot of fireworks throughout the city. It was an active night in our city and the surrounding cities um which we can observe from up top here. Uh but
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from the drone team in the ground units, uh we were effective. We we did take action throughout the night. Um so 1:34:37
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because the first two nights were quiet, no citations issued. But on July 4th, we did issue 21 citations. 12 of those 1:34:44
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citations came from our drone base uh teams and nine came from the officers um who were actively in the street. 1:34:53
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And just speak a little bit more on that. Um from the drones, all we had to do is capture video. We can jot down the address. We can uh use that as evidence.
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uh from the officers. Uh they did have a couple methods of deployment, but it's so difficult in the middle of a party environment for officers to drive down
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the street without being noticed or without being crowds on the road for us to isolate individuals to to a property. 1:35:18
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And just to expand on a little bit, we did have the 21 citations, 75 fireworks calls, which is increased from 71 of last year. Uh four reported fire uh
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calls. Uh no damage to major damage to any property, anything. Our officers did respond, but the fires were put out quickly. No injuries. And we did have
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one uh arrest for the operation. That was July 4th, the very beginning um of the operation where we had officers out 1:35:44
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being visible in the community and during a traffic stop, we made a an arrest for somebody for possessing a firearm. 1:35:54
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So, we get to personnel cost. Uh 160 total hours. um that included the managers, sergeants, officers, and non-sworn individuals that assisted us.
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106 of them were o overtime, but we did mitigate some of it because uh like a special services team were able to absorb some of it through their regular shifts and their regular regular hours.
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Um and then before I move on to my recommendations, I did want to provide you guys with um a visual of how effective these drones were for us.
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So, assistant manager or city manager is going to pull it up for me here. 275
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So, I just want to see you guys you guys see how effective it is. So, this is our our large drone. This is what we had up above city hall. Um, so this drone
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[snorts] has multiple lenses and it records from each one of those those cameras. So, this is just an overall camera. Um what we don't know is when we
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go to um some of the other videos, you'll see that in real time how well this drone can zoom in and assist us in 1:36:56
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u uh finding violators of fireworks.
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Here you're going to see a thermal imaging model. Uh so as it goes through, this is uh from the same time frame, 1:37:12
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just a different lens. Uh for us, uh in a few seconds, you can see we can tell when fireworks go up because they're 1:37:20
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they're a white hot. There are different um images that can be uh it could be changed to. So we could also see like a 1:37:28
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a hot red image for u when the fireworks go up, but we also utilize it if we're trying to locate somebody. 1:37:43
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So it just it just clear it stands out when we're sitting there watching it. 1:37:46
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And so they're from the same same feed as our next video. 1:37:56
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So this is same occurrence, same uh same court, same drone, but it gives us this capability with these different uh these 1:38:03
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different lenses to monitor and capture individuals that are uh setting off fireworks. 1:38:37
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So that was our main drone, the last few videos you saw, and it just shows the effectiveness because uh it from a from a good distance, we can zoom in and we
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can see that violation, then we can move on to the next without having to fly directly overhead. This flight time does uh take a little bit to to catch individuals setting off the fireworks.
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We'll go to the next video.
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So, this next thing just kind of rounds out some of our our capabilities with our smaller drones. This one was deployed from a patrol vehicle who is responding to the report of fireworks.
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These drones are really good in the field because officers can be driving around and immediately deploy them. They don't have the range. they don't have the the battery time or the flight time, 1:39:21
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but still for us when we're trying to issue citations and gather evidence, it's really nice for them to have uh access to them inside their vehicles.
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And if we go to the next video, please.
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In the final video here, I'm just going to show you this is a a deployment from the vehicle and how fast they can uh get over and try to find where the fireworks are being set off.
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Thank you, Daniel. So, I just wanted you guys to see that to see how effective uh these drones have been for us, especially when it comes to these type of operations. It's really benefited us.
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So, we don't have to try to get patrol officers directly in the area at first. 1:40:47
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We can try to capture evidence on video um and eliminate some of those confrontations that might happen in the field. 1:40:56
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So some of my recommendations after uh performing this operation would be to expand our our enforcement capabilities with a a drone, one of our more enhanced
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versions which has a extended battery, greater range and obviously the view the video is uh crucially important for us 1:41:12
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when we're doing this. Um I would like to recommend evaluating an escalating fine structure for repeat violations for the locations or the violators.
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Uh and then without question, I would ask that our code enforcement partnership uh continues because they really did streamline the process and
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made it much more efficient for us. And then as always, we should review the future staffing needs and and location based deployments. So with that, I thank you guys. Any questions?
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Any questions? Thank you very much. Great report. Thank you. 1:41:51
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We'll move to 7.2 city [snorts] council city council acting and successor agent um reports. 1:42:04
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Council member Shaw, since our last meeting, I attended a Cow City's East Bay Division board legislative day in Sacramento where we 1:42:13
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got to meet with um senators and assembly members to talk about local control and things that are affecting um 1:42:21
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the cities. And then I had a Josh Harter day. We did the staff appreciation lunch at Freedom hosted by Rotary, but always 1:42:29
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great to partner with all of the organizations that serve the same residents that we do. On the 19th, I went to hot August Nights at Studio 55. 1:42:39
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And later that afternoon, Oakley Optometry ribbon cutting. I have my new glasses on today. 1:42:44
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Um, and then on the 20th, the Cal City's East Bay board Zoom attended the special meeting for the Oakley City Council on 1:42:52
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the 20th. the 25th virtually attended the Contraosta Fire District meeting regarding fire stations out here in East 1:43:01
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County. So, I would advise all residents to pay attention to what's going on with that. The 26th Trielta Transit Board meeting, Council Member Williams will
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have some wonderful notes. Uh the 27th Delta Association of Realators elected reception and then ran over here to be a 1:43:16
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part of the Freedom Homecoming parade and rally. And let me tell you, if you guys missed it, it was huge and amazing. 1:43:22
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and I hope we can continue that partnership. On the 28th, the elected women's lunchon and then that night freedom homecoming game where we volunteered at the concession stand
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again with Rotary. On the 1st, the library subcommittee meeting. All things library are moving forward. So, uh very 1:43:39
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excited to finally get that going. And then on the fourth, the Favalora wine tasting room ribbon cutting. And this afternoon, a swearin for our newest
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officer. I did receive a call that I have been nominated to serve another year on the East Bay Division board for 1:43:55
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California League of Cities. And I also received a call last week from the California from the incoming president of California League of Cities. And I've
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been selected to serve as vice chair of this year's public safety policy committee. And that is all. 1:44:10
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Council member Williams.
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All right. Aaron wants me to take up some time. Um, I attended coffee with the principal at Freedom. He did provide 1:44:23
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really interesting data regarding fights on campus, um, GPA goals, enrollment numbers, state testing outcomes and 1:44:31
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goals, and he was also um, highlighting the partnership and, um, what a good partnership he has with the city. So, I 1:44:38
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I don't think he was just saying that because I was there, but maybe he was. I went to Studio 55 hot August Nights. Um the ribbon cutting for Oakley Optometry.
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All right. Tri Delta Transit. So we had a discussion of SB63 um as always and a review of the 1:44:55
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expenditure plan. Tri Delta uh will receive if that passes uh 34% of the 19% 1:45:03
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that are returned to source funds which will be distributed through CCTA. Um the funds will be spent 60% going towards 1:45:11
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fast reliable service, 40% going towards safer, easier and more convenient travel. Um so basically not just status 1:45:20
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quo. Um so that was interesting. We also talked about youth ride free um and the what what the outcome of that was. 1:45:29
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That's the program for youth ages 6 to 18. There was fair backbox tracking only to see how many people were using it. 1:45:36
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This past year or summer it was 31,614 rides which is up 61% from even the previous year. So obviously that's a 1:45:45
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very important pro program we run. Um Measure J renewal info. Uh 97% of the 1:45:51
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projects programs that were decided in 2004 when Measure J was approved have been completed. There will likely be a ballot measure for the renewal in 2028.
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Um, we did have a presentation on SB77 as it pertains to our board. Um, but not 1:46:10
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quite as um, lengthy as here. So, uh, I also attended a webinar for Prop 4 uh, parks funding to see how we could get a 1:46:18
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competitive grant. Um, I was originally intending it for the 55acre park. there is some opportunities for our second 1:46:27
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phase of the rec center. Um potentially the community center portion of the library. Um but new parks do get higher 1:46:34
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scoring. So that's something to keep in mind. Um and they also said that agencies can submit multiple parks for grants, but each grant application can
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only focus on one park. It did seem like a heavy lift, but still an interesting presentation. Um Freedom's homecoming parade, amazing. Um the participation
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and pure joy from the students and the community was amazing. I also attended the mayor's conference in Moraga as the chair. We had a presentation from St.
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Mary's College. Um enrollment is up 18% over last year. Um and international students are up three times what it has 1:47:10
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been. They did start a new nursing program. Um which is very important for California and particularly out here as we have a lot of students who would like
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to become nurses. And we currently have a nursing shortage of 40,000 nurses. Um St. Mary's does have internships and 1:47:26
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placements included. They just order uh added an entire swim program, water polo and swim to their athletics program. Um 1:47:34
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and he wanted to point out that the uh Stanford study noted that the new economic development corridor will be from the East Bay of Sacramento and St.
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Mary's would happily partner with all of our cities to create economic development opportunities. And that's it. 1:47:51
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Vice Mayor Meadows, I also attended the mayor's conference and that was a great presentation by uh 1:47:59
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no by by the president of the college I went to.
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Um I was at the lunch the Rotary lunch at Freedom for a while. I since the last 1:48:14
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meeting I've also attended the planning committee meeting uh CCTA had a transplant meeting had a MCE meeting I 1:48:23
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was at swearing in today for our newest officer at the ribbon cutting for Fablora wine 1:48:30
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tasting which uh looks great and Julie Delbarber did a great job of remodeling the women's club. 1:48:41
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I was uh I attended a CCTA uh TEP meeting uh discussing the future uh transportation expenditure plan. 1:48:51
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Today I had I met with uh Rashidi Barnes from Trid Delta Transit and Bill Churchill from County Connection 1:48:59
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really talking about transportation and and then starting to get into the expenditure plan that council member 1:49:07
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Williams mentioned potentially being on the 28 ballot.
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I attended Delta Association Realtors uh local government 1:49:21
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networking event, whatever, whatever we call it, and then attended the Freedom Homecoming Parade, which was a great event. 1:49:35
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And since our last meeting uh attended Iron House Sanitation District, Studio 55's Hot August Nights, Friday Night 1:49:43
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Bites, the homecoming parade, and like everybody said, that was a home run, and mayor's conference. 1:49:51
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We'll move to 7.2 B, request for future agenda items.
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Council Member Williams, in light of the fireworks presentation that we just got, I don't know if this needs to be a future agenda item, but 1:50:06
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can we discuss some of the recommendations from our police department? 1:50:15
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I think I need a second.
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Yeah. For what? Recommendations for fireworks or something else? 1:50:20
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Yeah, sorry. The recommendations um that Lieutenant Morris gave us for firework follow-up stuff. 1:50:26
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If we need to bring it back, I'll second it.
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With that, uh, item eight, uh, work sessions. We have none tonight. Item nine, close session. 1:50:40
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We have one close session item 9.1, conference with legal counsel, anticipated legal litigation, initiate 1:50:48
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litigation pursuant to paragraph 4, subsection D, section 54956.9, 1:50:56
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one potential case. uh we will uh adjourn the meeting and uh after close session.

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Oakley Meetings: Good evening, this is the regular joint meeting of the Oakley City Council, the Oakley City Council acting as the successor agency to the Oakley Redevelopment Agency, and the Oakley Public Finance.

This meeting is called to order at 6 30. Will the Clerk please call roll? 2 00:30:05.720 --> 00:30:14.889
Oakley Meetings: Councilmember Shaw? Here. Councilmember Williams? Here. Vice Mayor Meadows? Here.

Mayor Henderson? Here. And Councilmember Fuller is absent. 3 00:30:16.260 --> 00:30:18.740
Oakley Meetings: Item 1.2, Pledge of Allegiance.
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Oakley Meetings: Today we have the, honor of having Chandler, who's involved in the Mustang Manager's leadership.
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Oakley Meetings: And is in the gate greeting for Almond Grove School. Chandler is a very social person. He always has conversations with friends. When he's not together in person, he enjoys laughing over FaceTime.

In his free time, Chandler enjoys golf, bowling, and a league. 6 00:30:47.360 --> 00:30:52.769
Oakley Meetings: Playing basketball, baseball, reading, and of course, 7 00:30:52.880 --> 00:30:58.340
Oakley Meetings: Little Fortnite. He dreams… he dreams of becoming a pro golfer. 8 00:31:03.570 --> 00:31:04.780
Oakley Meetings: Please stand.
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Oakley Meetings: Hand over your heart, please.
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Oakley Meetings: Pledge.
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Oakley Meetings: I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 12 00:31:43.190 --> 00:31:53.910
Oakley Meetings: Item 1.3, Proclamation honoring Ashley Hopwood for earning her Girl Scout Golden Award.

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If Ashley can meet me up front at the podium, please?
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Oakley Meetings: Whereas the Girl Scout Gold Award is the highest and most prestigious achievement in Girl Scouts, earned exclusively by senior and Ambassador high school Girl Scouts who demonstrate extraordinary leadership, community impact, and dedication.
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Oakley Meetings: And whereas fewer than 1% of Girl Scouts possess the perseverance and vision required to complete the rigorous requirements needed for this award. 15 00:32:24.210 --> 00:32:32.229
Oakley Meetings: And whereas Ashley is a hardworking, dedicated, kind-hearted person who has been an active member of the Girl Scouts community since kindergarten. 16 00:32:32.230 --> 00:32:48.810
Oakley Meetings: And whereas Ashley is currently a senior at Freedom High School, maintaining membership in the National Honor Society and numerous other clubs, while simultaneously pursuing college coursework at Las Madanas College toward her goal of becoming a crime scene investigator. 17 00:32:48.880 --> 00:33:04.460
Oakley Meetings: And whereas for her Gold Award project, Ashley dedicated over 80 hours to designing, planning, and constructing one standing height and two wheelchair-accessible garden beds for the residents at Commons at Dallas Ranch Assisted Living.
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Oakley Meetings: And whereas Ashley hosted a special event at the facility, inviting attending seniors to participate in planting the new gardens.
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Oakley Meetings: And whereas the assisted living facility now has a garden club where residents meet regularly to take care of the gardens.
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Oakley Meetings: Now, therefore, be it resolved that Hugh Henderson, Mayor of the City of Oakley, along with the members of the Oakley City Council, do hereby recognize and honor Ashley Hopward for earning the Girl Scout Gold Award and commend her exceptional service and lasting contribution to the community. 21 00:33:36.450 --> 00:33:38.000
Oakley Meetings: Congratulations.
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Oakley Meetings: And all those hours into the community and what you've done, you should be very proud in the City Council, we're very proud to have you as a resident of Oakley. 23 00:34:31.170 --> 00:34:33.020
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Oakley Meetings: Item 1.4.
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Oakley Meetings: Oakley Library Update.
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Oakley Meetings: Hello there.
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Oakley Meetings: Good evening, my name is Lucia Flores. I am the Youth Services Librarian at the Oakley Library, and I'm joined by Gia Paolini, who's our Library Services Manager. Thank you, City Council, for giving us the platform to share that it is Library Card Sign-Up Month. 27 00:34:59.660 --> 00:35:08.969
Oakley Meetings: every September. So we are so excited to be here and share, what the Contra Costa County Library and what Oakley Library provides for the community free of charge. 28 00:35:09.180 --> 00:35:10.620
Oakley Meetings: Next slide, please.
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Oakley Meetings: Oh. Oh, I have it.
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Oakley Meetings: Let's see, this one right here? Perfect. So why get a library card? Library cards are free. If you are a California resident, you can get a library card in any public library in the state. 31 00:35:30.550 --> 00:35:43.090
Oakley Meetings: So in our county library, we have no overdue fines. You can check out up to 100 books at a time for up to 3 weeks. We don't recommend that, but just so you know, that's the limit. We do have books for all ages.
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Oakley Meetings: In our library, we have collections in English and Spanish, but we're also happy to order books in other languages as well, such as Hindi, Russian, Farsi, Mandarin, and more. 33 00:35:53.130 --> 00:36:08.380
Oakley Meetings: You can also find movies, audiobooks, music CDs, and magazines in our library, and we can also order things for you to check out, such as ukuleles, Wi-Fi hotspots, California State Parks passes, which are really popular in the summertime, and so much more. 34 00:36:08.590 --> 00:36:12.870
Oakley Meetings: You also get free access to our myriad of digital resources. 35 00:36:12.870 --> 00:36:31.750
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Oakley Meetings: There's way too many to name, but just to kind of summarize what you can do with them, you can check out ebooks, any audiobooks on your personal devices, you can stream music and movies, you can get free tutoring for your children, you can learn a new language, get free and discount passes to museums and attractions in the Bay Area, and so much more. 36 00:36:36.590 --> 00:36:48.870
Oakley Meetings: There we go. So in our… our Oakley library, we have roughly 8,819 patrons, last fiscal year, and about half of those are Oakley youth, ages 5 to 17. 37 00:36:48.870 --> 00:37:08.809
Oakley Meetings: So when you look at the total population of Oakley, that's roughly 19% of the population is a library user, and when you isolate the Oakley youth population, that's more than half, that are library cardholders, so 57.5%. We do a lot of outreach to Oakley schools, to, at community outreach events, so we're very,
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Oakley Meetings: very,
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Oakley Meetings: Yeah, that's an important thing for us to reach out to the youth, so that they're aware of what the library offers for them. And last fiscal year, we circulated 39,427 physical items in our library. 40 00:37:23.960 --> 00:37:24.830
Oakley Meetings: Let's see…
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Oakley Meetings: All right. And some may not be aware that all Contra Costa County libraries offer free programs for the community. In our library, we have literacy and reading programs, such as Storytime, which is happening right now, Tuesday evenings at 6.30. We also have Family Bilingual story times in English and Spanish, last Tuesdays of the month.
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Oakley Meetings: And around April or May, we host kindergarten countdown workshops geared towards incoming TK and kindergarteners to help them and their families model skills for them that they could use when they start school.
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Oakley Meetings: And we host a quarterly Rising Readers program with a literacy tutor that does games and activities with the kids to help engage them and get them excited about reading. 44 00:38:05.170 --> 00:38:24.589
Oakley Meetings: And of course, we have STEAM programs at the library, such as our weekly LEGO Club every Saturdays at 3 o'clock, and we partner with East Bay Regional Parks on occasion to host science workshops at the library, and we have art workshops as well. So last fiscal year, we had 241 programs, and we had 5,113 attendees.
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Oakley Meetings: Which is a huge accomplishment for us. 46 00:38:28.200 --> 00:38:29.670
Oakley Meetings: Oops.
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Oakley Meetings: Let me go back, there we go. So it's our goal every year to visit all second grade classes in Oakley, and we were successful in that endeavor last fiscal year. We visited all the second grade classes, some other grades, and some special education classes as well, for a total of 763 students, and we gave out 333 library cards.
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Oakley Meetings: It's probably the funnest part of my job. 49 00:38:53.350 --> 00:38:57.840
Oakley Meetings: And it's very important to us to nourish our community partnerships and, 50 00:38:58.140 --> 00:39:14.460
Oakley Meetings: you know, reach out to the community. So, we love going to Heart of Oakley. We had Science Day this year, that was so much fun. So please continue to invite the library to your events, and if we invite you and you're able to come, please do so. We have, on occasion, invited nonprofits such as I just del Campo.
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Oakley Meetings: East Bay Regional Parks Care Parent Network to come to our events and, and provide their information for the community as well.
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Oakley Meetings: And of course, thank you to the Friends of the Oakley Library who, help support our programs and getting us a new library.
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Oakley Meetings: All right, so just to summarize, library cards benefit everyone. I hope you come by the library sometime, and we can help you find what you're looking for. We can get you a library card for free, and that's pretty much all I have, so thank you.
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Oakley Meetings: Item 1.5, California Main Street Update. 57 285
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Oakley Meetings: Good evening Tonight, I'm pleased to introduce Ms. Brooke Foulkes, State Coordinator for California Main Street.
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Oakley Meetings: who's here to share more about the California Main Street program, and how the Main Street approach can support a community like Oakley. Today, Brooke and I, toured downtown Oakley and throughout the city.
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Oakley Meetings: and right before this meeting, and took a fresh look at the businesses and properties and public spaces and development opportunities along Main Street. It gave us an opportunity to re-evaluate areas' potential and discuss some challenges and consider how the Main Street approach 60 00:40:57.940 --> 00:41:02.169
Oakley Meetings: Could help guide continuing, revitalization. 61 00:41:02.170 --> 00:41:14.679
Oakley Meetings: The city has been a member of California Main Street since 2021, and over the past several years, the city has continued to make downtown Oakley and Main Street a key focus 62 00:41:14.680 --> 00:41:28.020
Oakley Meetings: on our economic development program and efforts. And while many significant investment has already been made in the area, as you know, the downtown revitalization is an ongoing process. 63 00:41:28.020 --> 00:41:38.349
Oakley Meetings: Ultimately, our goal is to continue transforming downtown Oakley to a vibrant destination and economic center for our community, the place
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Oakley Meetings: That supports local businesses, attracts new investment, and create memorable experiences.
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Oakley Meetings: and the businesses are proud to call their own. Our participation in California Main Street gave us an opportunity to learn from other communities, successful communities, and access technical expertise and proven best practice. With that said, it is my pleasure to welcome Brooke, who's been providing the overview of Main Street
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Oakley Meetings: Thank you so much. Good evening, Mayor, Council Members, City Manager. Thank you, Harumi, for your hospitality. What an amazing tour. It's long overdue. I live in Vacaville, so it's not too far, so, I'm sure I will be back.
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Oakley Meetings: And what I get… I got a great picture of some of the exciting developments, including, you know, the library and the train stop and some other exciting things. So, it's nice to see that things are consolidating into the downtown core, which is what we want to see. So, let me just give you… 71 00:42:52.220 --> 00:42:55.259
Oakley Meetings: some information here about California Main Street. 72 00:42:55.460 --> 00:43:04.599
Oakley Meetings: So… Let's see here… Great, so California Main Street was originally formed in 1986, 73 00:43:04.720 --> 00:43:23.379
Oakley Meetings: It's been around for 40 years now, and it was originally a statewide program, under the Trade and Commerce Agency for the state of California. Since 2002, it's been volunteer-run by… through the Main Street Alliance, California Main Street Alliance. So, our board of directors is comprised of Main Street directors from across the state.
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Oakley Meetings: We represent 31, designated Main Street communities, of which Oakley is one of them. 75 00:43:31.200 --> 00:43:49.499
Oakley Meetings: We are the state coordinating partner for Main Street America, which is the nationwide movement of over 1,300 communities nationwide that are designated Main Streets. And it is a… Main Street America is actually a subsidiary of the Trust,
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Oakley Meetings: Okay, so this is a look at our network. Like, as I mentioned, we have 31 communities, and 17 are accredited, 14 are affiliates, and I'll explain what that means in a few minutes. 78 00:44:07.990 --> 00:44:17.500
Oakley Meetings: But, this is a breakdown of, we work with cities large and small, from rural to very large, and all over the state.
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Oakley Meetings: Every year, we ask our communities to submit, reinvestment statistics that shows us, it gives us a look at our economic impact, across the state. 287
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Oakley Meetings: So it represents quite a bit of investment that these, programs have… 82 00:44:52.390 --> 00:44:57.159
Oakley Meetings: have given back into the state. And on the right side, you'll see, actually, visitor numbers. 83 00:44:57.190 --> 00:45:15.650
Oakley Meetings: So we use Placer AI data compared with, Main Street Historic Districts, and when we triangulate those, we can see how many folks visited not just the city of Oakley, but the downtown core of Oakley. So I'm excited to report, actually, that when I pulled the numbers, 84 00:45:15.720 --> 00:45:32.609
Oakley Meetings: In 2025, Oakley saw 10,852 more visitors than in 2024 to its downtown core. So almost 11,000 more people came. Those are visitors, so almost 11,000 more visitors came to your downtown. 85 00:45:32.610 --> 00:45:37.240
Oakley Meetings: In 2025, so that's a 3% increase, so… It's very exciting. 86 00:45:40.010 --> 00:46:02.709
Oakley Meetings: The Main Street America movement is built on the Main Street approach, which is a fourpoint approach, and this was formed back in 1980. You can think back to conditions in that time, what was happening, lots of malls being built, lots of downtowns emptying out, stores moving to the malls, the focus of commerce was shifting.
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Oakley Meetings: And buildings were sitting empty, often historic buildings were falling over, so the National Trust for Historic Preservation piloted a program
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Oakley Meetings: This is a look at the layers here. So, Oakley, you're there in the middle, in the center, as a local program, and then as the state coordinator, we're in the middle, the middle ring there, and then we back that up with national stats and resources from Main Street America. 90 00:46:45.690 --> 00:46:53.790
Oakley Meetings: Our members, receive training and resources, access to exclusive grant opportunities. 91 288
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Oakley Meetings: We hold an annual conference every year, and so, we… we get together every month virtually, and Harumi's been on many of those calls, and it's really an opportunity for our Main Street directors to connect and understand the very unique work that they do. 92 00:47:12.010 --> 00:47:20.230
Oakley Meetings: This is just a snapshot of the benefits that Oakley enjoys, in part by being a member of this network.
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Oakley Meetings: So some of the things that Harumi has engaged with, she's been on 94 00:47:24.050 --> 00:47:33.709
Oakley Meetings: She's been on those monthly member check-ins, she's been at our webinars, she and I connect quite a bit over specific technical assistance questions. She'll call and ask. 95 00:47:33.710 --> 00:47:44.879
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Oakley Meetings: So there are two types of designated Main Streets. There's an affiliate and an accredited level. In Oakley, you are an affiliate, which is, a designated Main Street, so it's recognized by Main Street America as a designated Main Street.
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Oakley Meetings: And so the how. How to become accredited? That's a conversation that we can have in terms of, like I said, setting goals. You'll see in this next slide here that there is a set of standards that Main Street America requires of accredited communities.
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Oakley Meetings: And then the other benchmark that we build the work around is something called a transformation strategy, and it's kind of a fancy name for an economic development main street plan, basically. And so the transformation strategies that we help our communities build 117
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Oakley Meetings: This is a feature of Main Street America and California Main Street. When our cities decide they would like to level up on the work that they're doing, or they'd like to bring in 123
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Oakley Meetings: Then, we are… we are available, and we can bring in folks to do things like walking audits, or, create a transformation strategy, or form a downtown association. Those are all things that are in our wheelhouse that we… that we do for other cities in California. 125
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Oakley Meetings: And, it's 3 days of learning and engagement and networking, and, this year it's gonna be right 2 blocks from the ocean, so…
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Oakley Meetings: So I want to include my presentation, and thank you for 5 years of membership. I think it's a great time for me to come and check in and learn more about your priorities as a city, and how I can assist Harumi with her goals, and with your goals, and move the needle for downtown Oakley. 131
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Oakley Meetings: You mentioned that, in order to become accredited, there has to be a full-time person dedicated to it. I know, like.
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Oakley Meetings: Downtown Brentwood Coalition, they started out as an all-volunteer force, so does that full-time person have to be a paid employee, or could it be a volunteer who's just focused on the Main Street portion of things? I believe it has to be full-time paid, but I can double-check for you. Yeah, Brentwood is one of our members as well, and so we actually… they're a great case study because we took them from affiliate to accredited.
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Oakley Meetings: And so, they… it would be a great resource to look at and see how they did that, because, yeah, again, it was…
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Oakley Meetings: Main Street works best when it involves the whole community, and everyone can buy in and get excited and rally around, and then you coalesce all of that good work and emerge with, 138
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Oakley Meetings: I currently do not have any, speaker cards. If you wish to speak, there are speaker cards in the library, the blue cards, you can fill one out there. 146
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Oakley Meetings: A reminder to the public that it's limited to 3 minutes. There's a timer in front of the… my seat. At 1 minute, it will beep, and the light will turn yellow, and as it turns red. 147
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Oakley Meetings: Councilmember Shaw? Yes. Councilmember Williams? Yes. Vice Mayor Meadows? Yes.

Mayor Henderson? Yes. The motion carries 4-0.
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Oakley Meetings: Item 6.1, adopt a resolution appointing one Planning Commission to fill a two-year vacancy expires
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Oakley Meetings: Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, members of the City Council. Thank you, I'm Ken Strilo, Community Development Director. Just going to give you a brief introduction to tonight… what's on tonight's agenda, which is for the City Council to hear interviews of 162
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Oakley Meetings: And then to determine on which of those three you'd like to appoint. So a little bit of background. Planning Commission is made up of two 2-year term seats, which expire February 28th of next year, and three four-year term seats expiring October 11th of 2029. Eventually, we'll get back on track so that
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Oakley Meetings: The process for the applications, they were made available to be submitted from July 13th through August 20th of this year, and the City Clerk received a total of 3 applications. One from Pierre Reyes, one from Louis Gentry, and one from Adam Sterud. 167
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Oakley Meetings: For the interview process, the interviews will be held in the order the applications were received, which is the same order of the names I just presented. 169
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Oakley Meetings: There's four questions to ask the applicants. Some of them are two-part questions, but we wanted to split them into four, so you can share them if you like, if you want to go down the line, or however the Council chooses. That works out fine.
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Oakley Meetings: And then there's 3 question sheets for each of the City Council members. There should be one sheet per applicant, so you can take down notes as you're asking the questions, and we just ask that you put their name or initials up top.
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Oakley Meetings: You also have a forced rankings summary sheet, and I believe most of you have used these in the past, but just for transparency's sake, they require the City Council to 175
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Oakley Meetings: And that concludes my short presentation. I would just ask, if the three applicants are in the audience, that they please raise their hands.
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Oakley Meetings: Evan, Mr. Gorman back there, and Pierre can stay in the room until he's called up. Thank you.
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Oakley Meetings: If you have any questions, let me know. Thank you. Vice Mayor Meadows? I was gonna ask, who's got 1, 2, 3, 4?
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Oakley Meetings: the changes in a positive direction, it would provide Oakley and its residents a better… a better life.
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Oakley Meetings: Thank you.
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Oakley Meetings: Alright, what is the most important skill or quality that a planning commissioner should bring to this role?
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Oakley Meetings: Well, for me, personally, having… having to be a… 210
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Oakley Meetings: an educator. I think that one of the important aspects of leadership is the ability to be able to listen and comprehend what is being
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Oakley Meetings: ask, or what's being, given to you. And by listening, you actively participate on not just, like, listening, but actually caring enough so that they can show your sincerity of what you want, or what they… what you want them to… to…
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Oakley Meetings: If appointed, how would you define your role and responsibility as a Planning Commissioner?
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Oakley Meetings: And do you have any scheduling conflicts that could affect your ability to regularly attend Planning Commission meetings, which are scheduled for the first and or third Tuesday of each month at 6 30 p.m? What was the first part of the question? Sorry. That was a long question. I got the second part down.

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Oakley Meetings: Well, first, I would…
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Oakley Meetings: More likely, be… be more objective, be more active in listening to the… the rest of the board, and if there's any… any… some sort of conflict or disagreement, willing to collaborate. 218
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Oakley Meetings: and be able to… to see what they're seeing that I'm not seeing in terms of… 219
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Oakley Meetings: of planning, or what they… what they see, or what they have learned previously. And it's a good opportunity for me to learn as well, in having, like, a much more group 220
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Oakley Meetings: In terms of conflict, I have no conflict with anything, with its scheduling. The best part of being a sub as an educator, you hold your time.
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Oakley Meetings: That includes our questions, so, thank you. You can either stay and listen to the other interviews, or,
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Oakley Meetings: Second candidate will be Lewis Gentry. 227
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Oakley Meetings: Hi. Good evening. Thanks for… thanks for your time. 228
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Oakley Meetings: What motivated you to apply?
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Oakley Meetings: To be a planning commissioner.
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Oakley Meetings: Yeah, that was… that was really easy. I think it's just the modern… the modern chaos of the modern times. Also, the fact that now that, I'm in Oakley, and during COVID, when my job went remote, I had more time at home, more time in the community,
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Oakley Meetings: as opposed to before, where I was mostly just in the rat race of go to work and just, you know.
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Oakley Meetings: earn your money, come home, take care of the family, and then there's no time to actually experience the community, see what environment I'm actually living in. So, since moving to Oakley, I've been part of the community, digesting it, seeing the community. 233
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Oakley Meetings: I fell in love with the beauty. I fell in love with the hospitality of the residents. It's hospitality I hadn't experienced since growing up in a military family. My dad was in the Army, and so on the military bases.
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Oakley Meetings: everything was really hospitable, but when I moved to California in 98, I mostly lived around Silicon Valley, Santa Clara, Fremont, Union City, and those are… 235
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Oakley Meetings: fine cities, but they lack hospitality. And, so when I came to Oakley, that was the first thing that stood out. Also, I see how the city
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Oakley Meetings: is clean and complete, is the way I summarize it. Complete in the sense that, 237
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Oakley Meetings: several miles almost every day, and I just enjoy it, and in the process, speaking to other residents, you know, and they're speaking back, and so you learn about their life, you learn about more about, you know, how the city operates.
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Oakley Meetings: And so I think this, you know, to answer your question, this is the community that I've always wanted to be around when I settled down. And so, 240
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Oakley Meetings: Finally, you know, being amongst that community, and then seeing all the threats outside, you know, technology threats, hate threats, all of those things. 241
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Oakley Meetings: I just felt like, you know, when the position got opened, I just needed to, you know, at least do what I can to try to help combat, you know, a lot of the negativity that's going on around, and try to protect the community and the city, to keep it pristine, at least, you know, keep this as a nice oasis. 242
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Oakley Meetings: For as long as we can, and spread, you know, spread the positive vibes at Oakley and the example that Oakley sets, to other surrounding areas, you know. So, hopefully that wasn't too long-winded. 243
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Oakley Meetings: How would you describe the city's current direction regarding development and growth? 244
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Oakley Meetings: And how do you envision Oakley developing over the next 5, 10, and 15 years? 245
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Oakley Meetings: I would describe the current
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Oakley Meetings: pathway to be very healthy. I've been, you know, started to come to the planning committee meetings for the last couple months.
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Oakley Meetings: Just to kind of see how things are operating, see what directions things are going. And I really like that, the community itself, the residents are very vocal. They come up, they have their complaints, and I like the way that the committees and the council hears them and responds to them. 248
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Oakley Meetings: Alright, what do you feel is the most important skill or quality that a planning commissioner should bring to this role?
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Oakley Meetings: I'll kind of wrap them into one, but they're kind of two words, two concepts, but objectivity and listening.
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Oakley Meetings: Often, too many people already have predisposed answers to problems, and they don't listen to the specific details of that person or that entity's unique problem. 254
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Oakley Meetings: So, you know, listening with full engagement, fully intent, and then full objectivity, you know, try to take as much bias out, and then also,
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Oakley Meetings: Really objectively thinking through the problem to try to come up with the best solution, not just for that.
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Oakley Meetings: one individual or entity, but thinking through the repercussions of the solution. How does it affect the community? How does it affect other entities? You know, basically try to follow the butterfly effect as wide and as far as it goes, and make sure that, you know, you've uncovered any potential hiccups or surprises so that you
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Oakley Meetings: There's always going to be some surprises, but you try to minimize the surprises as much as possible, so…
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Oakley Meetings: All right, mine is a two-part question, so bear with me. If appointed, how would you define your role and responsibilities as a Planning Commissioner, and do you have any scheduling conflicts that could affect your ability to regularly attend Planning Commission meetings, which are scheduled for the first and or third Tuesday of each month at 6 30 p.m?
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Oakley Meetings: No scheduling conflicts, because I… not only am I… 261
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Oakley Meetings: I guess working from home remotely, but I'm one of those software engineers whose careers are… have been eaten by AI, so I have a lot more time on my hands. So right now, I do have an LLC that I'm working with with my partners, but all of that is remote, and so I have a lot of time on my hands at home.
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Oakley Meetings: You know, so it'd be nice to break up that time with more than just golf and video games, but and then to answer your other question, honestly, I don't know, because this is, you know, I'm a software engineer, I don't know necessarily how, cities operate, so that's… that's what I'll be… 263
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Oakley Meetings: in to learn, you know, so I will… my… one of my biggest skills is, you know, learning. You know, I've always had to adjust to different industries, whether it be in software or whatnot. I guess I get a lot of that from growing up in a military family. I've watched my dad have to pivot, I had to… I watched him 264
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Oakley Meetings: learn and pivot when he retired and couldn't find work with his military skills, so he had to pivot to something completely different. So a lot of, you know, what he got… went through, I'm in the process of, and, you know, he got through that by
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Oakley Meetings: staying open-minded and learning, and not assuming that he knows the answers, or even knows all the questions. You know, so I would say that would be my biggest 266
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Oakley Meetings: skill, you know, I could be putty in the… putting people's hands, but not… not silly putty, you know? I, I can smell BS, and I'm not easily controlled, and I have no issues being the only one 267
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Oakley Meetings: going against the status quo. I am a stickler for facts. 268
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Oakley Meetings: Because I think without facts, without truth, you have nothing but chaos, and so if I'm the only one saying truthful things, then so be it. So I think I am, 269
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Oakley Meetings: Open-minded, objective, and willing to learn, so… Thank you. 270
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Oakley Meetings: Our last candidate for the evening will be Adam Sterud. 274
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Oakley Meetings: Good evening. Evening.
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Oakley Meetings: What motivated you to… applied for the appointment of a planning commissioner? 276
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Oakley Meetings: I was just motivated by being more involved with the community. My whole family grew up here. Grandparents raised their family here. Family still lives here. I've been here for 15 years and kind of seen the development, and then we are definitely going in a direction. 277
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Oakley Meetings: But I just kind of wanted to help guide that direction from, you know, a youthful standpoint, from a parenting standpoint, from somebody who's involved with the community, who does enjoy spending time in this community, and wants to see tax dollars spent in their community, or tax dollars earned in their community.
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Oakley Meetings: Just wanting to be more involved with whatever direction it is, because we are going somewhere, but just wanting to make sure that it steers in the right direction. 279
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Oakley Meetings: Thank you.
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Oakley Meetings: And how do you envision Oakley developing over the next 5, 10, and 15 years? 282
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Oakley Meetings: I think that we definitely don't have a problem developing, and there aren't people that are interested in developing here.
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Oakley Meetings: building residential faster than our infrastructure or spending, shopping can handle. Like, that Safeway on Laurel, for instance, was a much-needed community resource. You can tell from the day it's opened, it's all… it didn't take time to gain traction. And with us developing the, 285
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Oakley Meetings: East Cypress Corridor, not to mention there's so much, land on the Main Street, Empire, Laurel, Carpenter Corridor. We have so much more room for development, but how are we going to responsibly develop that in order to support the community as a whole? 286
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Oakley Meetings: In 5 years, I'd like to see more places for me to take my wife on dates, or for, you know, if I ask where to go get a T-bone or a couple of oysters right now, you guys probably aren't going to refer to me a restaurant in Oakley.
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Oakley Meetings: And if my kids want to pay competitive sports, they're probably not going to play in Oakley.
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Oakley Meetings: So how in the next 5 years are we going to build our infrastructure and our resources and our services to support the community that we've already built and are continuing to develop right now? As well as looking into the 5, 10, 15 year? Right now, we're right under 50,000, but we could be at 75,000 289
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Oakley Meetings: at least 60 by then. So what's the… how are we going to develop 290
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Oakley Meetings: At the same rate to support all of that growth. 291
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Oakley Meetings: Oh, sorry. What would you say is the most important skill or quality that a planning commissioner can bring to this role?
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Oakley Meetings: I would say malleability.
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Oakley Meetings: And because you have some things that are malleable, you can bend them with your hands, some things have to be heated up and hit with a hammer. And I'd like to think that I'm somewhere in the middle there, because you're gonna have more…
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Oakley Meetings: perspective, as well as resident of maybe 5 to 10 years, and somewhere in the middle, and you guys have to work cohesively as a group to be able to move in any direction. And so, malleability as it comes to cohesion as a group.
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Oakley Meetings: You can't just go in there and force your way. You do have to look at other perspectives, in accordance with the plan.
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Oakley Meetings: Okay, I have a two-part question.
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Oakley Meetings: If appointed, how would you define your role and responsibilities as a Planning Commissioner, and do you have any scheduling conflicts that could affect your ability to regularly attend Planning Commission meetings, which are scheduled for the first and or third Tuesday of each month at 6 30 p.m?
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Oakley Meetings: Can I answer… I'm gonna answer the second part first. No, I won't have any conflicts. You know, being a father of
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Oakley Meetings: four children now. I've always had meetings. I do have a very hectic schedule with sports, with other meetings for things that I attend to, and I will plan vacations out, which you need to do when you have a large family. I plan my vacations even a year in advance around meeting dates. 301
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Oakley Meetings: So, being that this is, you know, you can look through the end of 27 right now and schedule the rest of your committee meeting dates for
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Oakley Meetings: the next 18 months in advance, technically, and I'm not booking vacations 2 years ahead of time, so no Tuesdays, I am wide open in general.
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Oakley Meetings: make things that, contract, or conflict, I'm sorry, with those obligations as a planning commissioner. My most important role would probably be just 306
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Oakley Meetings: assuming the position of being the newly appointed member, and working with the group, seeing how the rest of the group flows, what I can do to help, what 307
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Oakley Meetings: perspective I can offer to the group without trying to, like I said kind of earlier, jumping in and pushing my own agenda or changing things right off the bat. Learning… learning first on how to… because you can't really affect change until you know how change happens. 308
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Oakley Meetings: Thank you.
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Oakley Meetings: Okay, we're gonna take about a 5-minute recess now. 310
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Oakley Meetings: Tally the sheets, and then we'll get this over to staff. 311
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Oakley Meetings: Thank you.
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Oakley Meetings: So we'll call the meeting back to order. 313
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Oakley Meetings: And then we're gonna get the tally from, City Clerk, please. 314
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Oakley Meetings: Thank you. Yes, after tallying the votes, the highest score received was to Adam Sterred. 315
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Oakley Meetings: So, at this point, I'll need a motion to, approve. I move that we appoint Adam Staird to, 316
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Oakley Meetings: Our Planning Commission. Second.
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Mayor Henderson? Yes. The motion carries 4-0.
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Oakley Meetings: Item 6.
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Oakley Meetings: Item 6.2, Appeal of the Planning Commission decision on 5279 Neroli Road. 322
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Oakley Meetings: And we'll receive our staff report from our associate planner. 323
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Oakley Meetings: Evan Gordon.
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Oakley Meetings: Thank you, Cal.
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Oakley Meetings: Thanks, Kelpful.
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Oakley Meetings: Tonight's presentation is just 3 slides plus this title, so don't blink. Thank you for the chance to present it.
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Oakley Meetings: This is 5279 Neroli Road, Appeal.
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Oakley Meetings: For some background.
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Oakley Meetings: For some background, this property is, 5279 Neroli Road. 330
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Oakley Meetings: is zoned Light Industrial.
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Oakley Meetings: And it has a single-family residence on it, built in 1944. 332
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Oakley Meetings: On June 8th, 2026, the zoning administrator determined the residence may continue. 333
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Oakley Meetings: The Oakley Municipal Code prohibits expansion or intensification. 334
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Oakley Meetings: An unpermitted addition and a proposed ADU both qualify as an expansion and cannot be legalized.
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Oakley Meetings: On August 18th, the Planning Commission held a de novo hearing. That's a fresh hearing where they are not beholden to the Zoning Administrator's determination. They can make their own. 336
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Oakley Meetings: And they voted 3-0 to deny the appeal and affirm the determination as modified. 337
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Oakley Meetings: Tonight is just procedural. The appellant submitted a timely appeal application following the Planning Commission determination.
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Oakley Meetings: The only action requested tonight, as required by the Oakley Municipal Code, is selection of a method of review of the appeal by a majority vote. 339
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Oakley Meetings: Here are the 5 options listed out for tonight. 340
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Oakley Meetings: The first option is a de novo public hearing. So, another hearing, this time in front of the City Council.
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Oakley Meetings: If you were to choose this, staff would schedule it within 30 days. 342
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Oakley Meetings: Testimony and evidence would be received at that meeting. This doesn't have a resolution, it just needs a majority vote.
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Oakley Meetings: The next one, in your agenda packet, you've been provided a comprehensive record of the, past decisions and their… and the public hearing on August 18th. 344
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Oakley Meetings: You could decide to affirm the Planning Commission's decision based on that record. You 309
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Oakley Meetings: vote not to uphold it, or you could affirm with conditions. This wouldn't require a hearing, just be based on the record in front of you.
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Oakley Meetings: This would be the final determination, and there's a draft resolution, for the affirming the Planning Commission's decision, should you choose that. 347
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Oakley Meetings: The third option is to refer it back to the Planning Commission. Staff would schedule another Planning Commission hearing. This decision just needs a majority vote. 348
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Oakley Meetings: Independent hearing officer. If you were to choose this, staff and the city attorney would work to appoint an independent officer. The officer then makes a recommendation. Council hears that at a later meeting and adopts or substitutes its own findings. 349
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Oakley Meetings: And finally, affirm without hearing a record review. Because we've provided you an extensive record, we don't recommend this one.
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Oakley Meetings: That covers your options. I'm happy to answer questions on the procedure, along with the help of the City Attorney, and I appreciate your time.
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Oakley Meetings: Thank you.
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Oakley Meetings: Questions for staff?
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Oakley Meetings: Okay, we'll move to public comment. I do have one, public comment card for this. 354
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Oakley Meetings: Henry… Calvin?
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Oakley Meetings: Good evening, Your Honor, Henry Catalan, for the owner's agent, and I just wanted to, state for the record, the, proposed resolution rests on a reappealed ordinance. 356
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Oakley Meetings: And that ordinance is 826, and it was, reappealed by the same council chamber. 310
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Oakley Meetings: And on the, and it's on the rationales raised for the first time in the staff report, which is the appellant has had no firm to answer.
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Oakley Meetings: I understand the, draft is,
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Oakley Meetings: And its object of his adoption is, procedural, but we object. It, it, just due because there's been, things that have not been heard of.
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Oakley Meetings: And we ask that this objection be reflected in the minutes. 361
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Oakley Meetings: Thank you.
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Oakley Meetings: Do we have any other public speakers for this item? 363
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Oakley Meetings: Do we have anybody online for speaking on this item? No, there's nobody online, Mayor. 364
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Oakley Meetings: And I'll bring it back to Council for deliberation or a motion. 365
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Oakley Meetings: Call, Vice Mayor Meadows.
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Oakley Meetings: I would prefer to move forward with
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Oakley Meetings: I am to review the record and decide.
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Oakley Meetings: Councilmember Williams.
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Oakley Meetings: Could I just ask a question? If we're reviewing the record and deciding, no new evidence can be introduced, right? It's just reviewing
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Oakley Meetings: Correct. So… Public comment is closed. 371
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Oakley Meetings: You would basically deliberate and… You can make a motion to affirm, deny. 372
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Oakley Meetings: modify, but that's pretty much all you could do at this point, and no, you would not consider anything beyond what's in the staff report. Okay, thank you, I just needed that clarity. 373
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Oakley Meetings: Do we need a motion, then, to, if it's the pleasure of the Council to proceed, as Councilmember Meadows suggests.
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Oakley Meetings: Then a motion can be made to affirm, or deny, or affirm with conditions, whatever the pleasure of the motion maker is.
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Oakley Meetings: Vice Mayor Meadows.
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Oakley Meetings: So that… It's okay, let me… Ask, when did… The general, plan. 377
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Oakley Meetings: Change this to light industrial.
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Oakley Meetings: It's okay to answer.
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Oakley Meetings: The general plan adopted in 2002
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Oakley Meetings: Designated this property as light industrial. 381
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Oakley Meetings: Okay.
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Oakley Meetings: Do we know when the property was purchased? No. 383
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Oakley Meetings: I'm assuming after 2002?
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Oakley Meetings: 22?
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Oakley Meetings: Okay, thank you.
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Oakley Meetings: Councilmember Williams.
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Oakley Meetings: I'm just having a hard time because I was leaning towards the second public hearing, and the reason for that is because, you know, I think we should take 388
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Oakley Meetings: Anything that has to do with people's property very seriously. 389
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Oakley Meetings: But that was a good question that you just brought up, because that does make a difference. The zoning was already light industrial, so… 390
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Oakley Meetings: I don't know if I can be the tiebreaker yet on this one, though. 391
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Oakley Meetings: Councilmember Shah.
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Oakley Meetings: Yeah, I… I'm…
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Oakley Meetings: I'm leaning towards number two as well. I have reviewed all the documents, as well as gone back and watched the video of the Planning Commission meeting, driven by the location, and I think I have…
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Oakley Meetings: Enough information to make that determination. 395
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Oakley Meetings: Vice Mayor Meadows.
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Oakley Meetings: So…
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Oakley Meetings: Man, I feel for you.
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Oakley Meetings: You… you assumed you were gonna be buying a house that you could live in and do whatever you want with?
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Oakley Meetings: But when you're… when you're buying…
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Oakley Meetings: When you buy a property, you gotta do investigations, and you've got to… 401
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Oakley Meetings: Find out, you know, what you're buying, what the zoning is, what you can do with it. 402
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Oakley Meetings: And it's unfortunate that That you didn't… 403
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Oakley Meetings: That's all we're hoping to get.
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Oakley Meetings: It's… Well, yeah, but I'm not… I'm not done expressing it. I mean, I'm… I feel for them. 405
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Oakley Meetings: But it's also zoned light industrial, and… 406
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Oakley Meetings: So that means, you know, you can't go and expand a house. 407
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Oakley Meetings: And you can't add ADUs, which I don't even know why we're talking about ADU on here, because that's not what was… there was no application for an ADU. 408
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Oakley Meetings: So, based on all that, I'm going to make a motion to… affirm the… 409
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Oakley Meetings: Planning Commission's… the Planning Commission's decision Absolutely. 410
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Oakley Meetings: I'm gonna second.
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Oakley Meetings: So we have a first and a second.
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Oakley Meetings: We'll go for a roll call vote.
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Oakley Meetings: Councilmember Shaw? Yes. Councilmember Williams? 414
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Oakley Meetings: Yes. Vice Mayor Meadows? Yes. Mayor Henderson? Yes. The motion carries 4-0. 415
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Oakley Meetings: We move to 6.3, adopt a resolution superseding Resolution 36… Dash 26, updating remote.
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Oakley Meetings: public participation guidelines and public comment time limits, and this will be a staff report from our city clerk.
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Oakley Meetings: Yes, good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Councilmembers. The proposed resolution amends Section 7 to include procedures for remote public comments, while also correcting some minor typographical errors throughout the document.
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Oakley Meetings: In addition, the item addresses Vice Mayor Meadows' request from the July 14th meeting regarding time limits for public comments. Staff reviewed Resolution 36-26 and determined 419
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Oakley Meetings: That the current guidelines allow for a 30-minute time limit on public comments at the start of the meeting, with any remaining comments being heard at the end of the meeting. 420
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Oakley Meetings: Staff's requesting Council direction on whether to maintain the 30-minute time limit or revise it to a longer or shorter duration. Any direction provided tonight will be incorporated into the final superseding resolution. Thank you.
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Oakley Meetings: Questions for staff?
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Oakley Meetings: Not seeing any questions for staff. I do not have any public comments. Does anybody wish to make public comments on this item?
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Oakley Meetings: Do we have anybody online?
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Oakley Meetings: There are no hands raised online, Mayor. 425
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Oakley Meetings: And I'll bring it back to the Council for deliberation. 426
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Oakley Meetings: I move approval of this resolution.
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Oakley Meetings: Second.
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Oakley Meetings: We have a first and a second. Roll call vote, please. 429
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Oakley Meetings: Councilmember Shaw? Yes. Councilmember Williams? Yes. Vice Mayor Meadows? Yes.

Mayor Henderson? Yes. The motion carries 4-0.
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Oakley Meetings: Item number 7, Reports, 7.1, City Manager's Report. 431
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Oakley Meetings: Good evening, Mr. Mayor, Mr. Vice Mayor, members of the City Council. The only item I want to make note of is we have our Heart of Oakley celebration coming up this September 19th from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m, downtown here at Civic Center Plaza.
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Oakley Meetings: We have our August business license list attached to the agenda for your review. 433
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Oakley Meetings: And I'm going to concede my time for the remainder of my report to both our Police Chief, Paul Beard.
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Oakley Meetings: And, Lieutenant Kevin Morris, Police Chief, is going to give us a police department update, and Lieutenant Morris is going to give us an update, or a recap of our firework suppression operation over the July 4th holiday.
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Oakley Meetings: Weekend. So, with that, I will invite Chief Beard up to give his presentation. 436
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Oakley Meetings: Good evening, Mr. Mayor, Mr. Vice Mayor, members of the Council. 437
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Oakley Meetings: This is the second time I've actually done a mid-year report, for all of you. I typically do an annual report, but last year we thought it best to do a kind of an update through the middle of the year, and we… I believe last year we thought that was a good idea, so we're just going to continue with that today. 438
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Oakley Meetings: Generally speaking, I'm… sorry, let me figure this thing out. 439
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Oakley Meetings: So, generally speaking, our staffing numbers are stable. 440
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Oakley Meetings: Most of our criminal stats are trending downward, and Oakley is remaining a safer neighborhood.
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Oakley Meetings: Neighborhood.
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Oakley Meetings: As the four of you know, I do track statistics in key areas to assess the overall safety and where to best apply police services throughout the year. 443
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Oakley Meetings: For those listening online, may not understand what those key statistics are, but that's going to be revealed in the next few slides.
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Oakley Meetings: And just so that I'm comparing apples to apples, I can't compare the first half of 2026 to the whole year of 2025.
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Oakley Meetings: So what I do is I compare the first half of 2026 to the first half of 2025, just to see how those first 6 months trended and compare with one another. 446
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Oakley Meetings: So, as you can see, everything is down on the first slide except for domestic violence. And domestic violence has been a stat that has steadily risen over the past 3 years, and I do realize that. 447
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Oakley Meetings: I do think there are some factors for why that is, and we will get into that. 317
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Oakley Meetings: If we're looking at our quality of life crimes, our theft reports are down. Our petty thefts are down 25%, our commercial burglars are down 50%.
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Oakley Meetings: Moving on to the second half of, stats. 450
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Oakley Meetings: Residential burglary, we've seen an increase of 25%, but we're looking at scale here. We only had 4 total in 2025, and so far in 2026, we've had 5, so that does constitute an actual raise in that stat. 451
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Oakley Meetings: But again, most of everything else is down. Our auto burglaries are down by 45%, our vehicle thefts are down 14%,
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Oakley Meetings: And as you may recall from my previous presentations, I equate a lot of what happens in the city to vehicle thefts. If vehicle thefts are down, generally speaking, all other property crimes are trending down as well, and that has worked out to be true this time as well. 453
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Oakley Meetings: Our, property damage traffic collisions are down by 7%. Our injury collisions are down by 42%.
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Oakley Meetings: And luckily, we have had no… we had no fatals in the first half of 2026. 455
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Oakley Meetings: I'm gonna start tracking two new stats for, moving forward, and that's gonna be our hit and run, both at the misdemeanor level and at the felony level. 456
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Oakley Meetings: A hit-and-run property damage only is considered a misdemeanor. A hit-and-run involving an injury is considered a felony.
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Oakley Meetings: In the first half of this year, we've had 39 misdemeanor hit and runs. 458
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Oakley Meetings: And, we had 28 versus 27 DUI arrests, between the two years. 15 of our 28 DUIs this year were the result of the intoxicated driver actually colliding or crashing into something. 459
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Oakley Meetings: So, about domestic violence.
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Oakley Meetings: Statistically, and this stat has been the same for many, many years now. 461
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Oakley Meetings: 33% of women and 27% of men will experience some form of domestic violence in their lifetime.
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Oakley Meetings: Domestic violence is a closed-door crime. We are adding more and more closed doors to our community. We're adding those closed doors in many different fashions. We're adding those closed doors in high-density settings, and we're adding those closed doors in single-family residents. 463
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Oakley Meetings: But the bottom line on that is the more closed doors that you add, the more this type of crime is going to occur.
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Oakley Meetings: wish we could change that, and there are tools that we can push out to the community to try to change that. But typically, at 2 o'clock in the morning, behind a closed door, the site of a police car on Main Street is not going to have too much influence on that. 465
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Oakley Meetings: We believe that the best tools against domestic violence are enforcement. Our officers do vigorously enforce the law when they do respond to a domestic violence incident. 466
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Oakley Meetings: And that'll… you'll see a slide on that, pretty quick. 467
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Oakley Meetings: We believe that collaboration between law enforcement, courts, and advocacy groups and victims is key.
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Oakley Meetings: We believe that good documentation of these cases is very important to best serve the victim in that current case, as well as cases moving forward. 469
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Oakley Meetings: And we believe in providing the victim and the community as a whole with education and empowerment.
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Oakley Meetings: So, of our 62 cases, we had 13 felonies, 471
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Oakley Meetings: A felony domestic violence case would be a situation where the victim received a greater injury, a significant injury. We had 49 misdemeanor cases. That could be equated to a injury that is not quite as great.
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Oakley Meetings: And of the 62 cases, we made arrests in 81% of all those cases. 473
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Oakley Meetings: Domestic violence can best be described as physical assault, emotional abuse. 474
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Oakley Meetings: Threats are stalking, economic control, sexual abuse. 475
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Oakley Meetings: or mental intimidation. I've highlighted physical assault in red because that is primarily what the Oakley Police Department responds to, of all those categories up there. The overwhelming majority of the reports that we take
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Oakley Meetings: As it relates to domestic violence, is because of physical assaults. 477
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Oakley Meetings: And this is the same information that I, showed you in the community last year, and if it would,
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Oakley Meetings: if you think it would serve the community best, we can push this out again on social media. These are resource, contacts for victims of domestic violence. We work closely with the Family Justice Center. We work closely with the Contra Costa County Victim Witness Assistance Program. 479
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Oakley Meetings: And we work with STAND and Community Violence Solutions. 480
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Oakley Meetings: Another theme that developed midway through this year is DUI enforcement. 481
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Oakley Meetings: And to answer some of that theme, we have engaged in several Office of Traffic Safety grants, and because of those grants, we have been able to engage in several, 482
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Oakley Meetings: DUI, operations, where we are, holding checkpoints, or we are on… we're on active patrol seeking out impaired drivers.
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Oakley Meetings: Statistically, DUI represents a huge threat to all of us. 33 people are killed each day in America.
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Oakley Meetings: On average, and 943 people are injured every day because of impaired drivers. Our community and our Bay Area, is no different than the rest of America. These impaired drivers are all over our roadways.
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Oakley Meetings: Last year, for 2025, Officer Freddie Williams was our DUI arrest leader. He had 26.

Because of that fact, he was awarded an award by the Mothers Against Drunk Driving. 486
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Oakley Meetings: So 2 months ago, myself and Lieutenant Collier, we accompanied, Officer Williams to the ceremony.
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Oakley Meetings: And, yeah, I'd never been to one before, so it was very impactful to me to see what all went on. Several officers received awards.
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Oakley Meetings: Of all the officers that received awards, it was a mind-boggling, number. Almost 10,000… those officers
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Oakley Meetings: represented almost 10,000 DUI arrests only in the Bay Area. 490
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Oakley Meetings: And a very small number of officers were getting awards, so it's a huge problem. 491
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Oakley Meetings: I remember on May 5th of 2024, hearing the news that Antoinette Fennell was, was killed by a drunk driver. I remember the case because she was a dispatcher for Alameda County, and I remember that she was going to work. She was working an overtime shift on that day. 492
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Oakley Meetings: I knew, just because of the fact pattern of the news broadcast, I knew that her own coworkers were dealing with her passing, her accident. The deputy sheriffs that she would dispatch to these types of calls were handling her fatal crash. I remember thinking how impactful that must have been on everybody.
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Oakley Meetings: What I didn't anticipate by going to the MAD award event this year was I didn't expect to come face-to-face with her mother. Her mother was the keynote speaker. 494
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Oakley Meetings: So, you know, you… for everybody in the audience, you got to hear how… how great of an impact the loss of this person means to her family and her community. 495
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Oakley Meetings: And it was more… it made it more impactful on Lieutenant Collier and I. On the way home from… on the way back to Oakley from that event, we discussed ways to motivate and educate and empower our officers to get more vigorous with… with DUI enforcement. And so that's going to be a theme as we move forward into the holiday months.
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Oakley Meetings: I want to talk about staffing?
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Oakley Meetings: Administration, we're fully staffed. We have all of our sergeants in place. Our investigations unit is fully staffed. Our special services officers are fully staffed with two. Our school resource officers are fully staffed at 2.
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Oakley Meetings: I have 2 out of 3 traffic officers staffed up. 499
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Oakley Meetings: And I have 15 out of 21 patrol officers currently staffed. 500
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Oakley Meetings: Now, we do have full patrol teams. We have a sergeant and 3 officers on each patrol team right now.
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Oakley Meetings: But this is a decision that we made several months ago, that we would make an effort to move our patrol teams to four across the board, so that created more openings in the patrol division. 502
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Oakley Meetings: So that's… that's why there's a little bit of a disparity there. 503
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Oakley Meetings: And, as of today, we now have two officers in field training. We just hired a new officer today.
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Oakley Meetings: And we have 37 of our allotted 42, slots filled today. 505
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Oakley Meetings: You know, we're always actively looking for lateral officers to hire. We have to kind of go by the scheduling of the basic police academy to determine when we can engage in the entry-level officers. 506
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Oakley Meetings: Most of our officers are lateral, officers, meaning they came to us from other agencies.

Only two of our officers are basic academy entry-level officers. But… 507
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Oakley Meetings: As of… well, as of tomorrow, we're interviewing more and more candidates. We interviewed two more candidates tomorrow at the lateral position. 508
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Oakley Meetings: So, in full transparency, one of our officers did leave us to go to a larger agency two months ago.
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Oakley Meetings: And we have another officer who is currently in backgrounds in a hiring process with another larger agency.
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Oakley Meetings: While not good news for us, it's common in the industry, and I just have to remind us all that
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Oakley Meetings: This is how we received the bulk of our officers, officers looking for homes. 512
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Oakley Meetings: There are reasons why the officer left two months ago, and it had nothing to do with us as an agency. He left for family reasons, and we respect that. However, if he did decide to reapply, I would gladly take him back. I do miss the guy.
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Oakley Meetings: So, counting the officer who did leave, and the officer we anticipate leaving, and two lateral officers we expect to receive fairly soon.
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Oakley Meetings: We will be at, 38,
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Oakley Meetings: Positions filled out of 42 allotted, which is to say a 90% staffing rate. 516
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Oakley Meetings: And one other, positive thing that happened for us in the first half of this year is we became a 10-year… we celebrated a decade of being a police department. 517
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Oakley Meetings: We opened our doors, with…
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Oakley Meetings: 32… I'm sorry, 28, total officers from chief down to the most junior person, yeah, on May 6th of 2016.
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Oakley Meetings: And now, because of all the efforts that we're making, we're talking about trying to fill a department of 42, so we have certainly grown.
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Oakley Meetings: And, with that, my presentation is complete, but I am open for any kind of questions or feedback.
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Oakley Meetings: Questions for the Chief?
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Oakley Meetings: Councilmember Williams.
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Oakley Meetings: It might not just be for the chief, it might be just a general, because I know you've been trying to make that domestic violence stat go down,
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Oakley Meetings: maybe we could invite one of those organizations to come down for, I mean, a presentation. I know, you know.
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Oakley Meetings: the audience isn't always packed with people, but hopefully, through all of our channels, we could get people to pay attention, so I don't know if we just have them come give a presentation to us at a council meeting, or maybe we can, you know, talk about doing something like what we did for the fentanyl awareness, but just something to get a little bit more information, 526
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Oakley Meetings: I think just from going to some of the stand events and things, a lot of times, it's hard to get the information out because people just don't think, oh, that doesn't happen here, and so they may not be getting the resources no matter what it is that we're doing, so I don't know if we can consider that. 527
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Oakley Meetings: I think any amount of awareness is good, so I would support that. And our detectives and, you know, we have good contacts at each of these advocacy groups, so that's a very good idea. 528
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Oakley Meetings: And you said something which made me think of something as you were talking. You know, we find that people, they don't really want to come. They don't really want to accept the help, or whatever might be going on. It's because domestic violence is closely tied to codependency with the people that are involved.
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Oakley Meetings: And unfortunately, so many of these things do occur behind these closed doors that I talk about, that even the next-door neighbors always… don't always know what's going on to actually kind of step in and help them out as well. So any amount of awareness would be… would be good. Thank you for that idea.
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Oakley Meetings: Vice for Meadows.
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Oakley Meetings: You kind of mentioned it in the presentation about it, but, I mean, pushing information out through…
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Oakley Meetings: Or social media.
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Oakley Meetings: Yeah, I know that he did that… they did a lot of that last year, because we were getting a lot of questions, too, about it. So, yeah, I mean, I think all the things we can do, for sure. Just like how you were saying, you're all going to step up, like, the DUI enforcement, right? I think when 534
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Oakley Meetings: When it's presented to people, maybe they'll… they can see and know that there's some options out there, so…
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Oakley Meetings: I would just ask, and I don't need an answer, but how many people felt 536
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Oakley Meetings: impacted by… by now knowing the fact that 33 people are killed every day on our roadways, and 943 people are injured on our roadways because of DUI. That… to me, that's impactful.

That… that makes me think about my…
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Oakley Meetings: personal travel routes, you know? So, to that point, if we did push out information on domestic violence, it may resonate with people that it wasn't resonating with before. 538
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Oakley Meetings: And, you know, you said we did last year, but I think it's something that… Just needs to be…
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Oakley Meetings: Rotational basis every so many months, and… 540
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Oakley Meetings: Not that I run the social media, but…
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Oakley Meetings: Thank you, Chief. Thank you.
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Oakley Meetings: We'll now hear from, Lieutenant Morris. 543
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Oakley Meetings: Mayor, Vice Mayor, City Council?
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Oakley Meetings: Tonight, I will be doing a recap, of our July fireworks operation. 545
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Oakley Meetings: Figured it out. Alright, so our July fireworks operation, we did have a 3-night operation. 546
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Oakley Meetings: We had it July 2nd through July 4th, and this year, July 4th fell on a Saturday. 547
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Oakley Meetings: So, to prepare for that, we did the two days leading up to it. 548
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Oakley Meetings: What we ended up doing, for this operation was we had a layer deployment of managers, sergeants, uniformed personnel, unmarked units, and our drone teams. 549
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Oakley Meetings: And this was spearheaded by our Special Services Sergeant, Sergeant Sorries, and his team as well.
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Oakley Meetings: Something I'll get into in just a little bit, but we did, embed code enforcement personnel with our drone teams, which had a significant impact.
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Oakley Meetings: So our goals this, this year were to deploy these drone teams, and then these uniformed and plainclothes personnel during a designated time period. Generally, it was later in the evening when fireworks are more prominent.
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Oakley Meetings: Their objective was to locate, observe, record, and document the illegal fireworks violations, and then, through recordings, preserve the evidence so we can issue administrative citations. 553
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Oakley Meetings: And then also, when we have, these number of officers, they need to maintain readiness to respond to any firework-related events, such as fires or large gatherings, that just inherently come with a holiday-type environment.
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Oakley Meetings: So, our enforcement strategy, which I kind of touched on a little bit, but it was to document the violations at the time that they were occurring, rather than going and making immediate contact and trying to issue a citation right there in the field. 555
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Oakley Meetings: Subsequently, we would issue an administrative citation after the fact, once we collected all the evidence and reports that were needed.
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Oakley Meetings: And for us, this really does limit the contact, with law enforcement personnel, with people that are in a holiday-type setting, and would limit the confrontations and potentially, dangerous interactions that can sometimes,
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Oakley Meetings: Present themselves in that type of environment. 558
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Oakley Meetings: So some of the pre-event mitigation efforts that we did was signage was posted throughout the city. Social media was utilized to educate the public about the dangers and our enforcement approach here in the city of Oakley.
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Oakley Meetings: We communicated with our partners throughout our area to include the Contra Costa Fire Protection District.
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Oakley Meetings: And then, we specifically had our drone team training for firework-related events prior to this operation.
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Oakley Meetings: And I would like to, a special thank you to Sergeant Foreman. Over the last few years, he's really spearheaded our drone team.
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Oakley Meetings: And then he will specifically look at what events are coming up, and then guide his training, to get his team ready for that type of specific environment, whether it's gonna be daytime, nighttime, or all the, special features that the drones might have, such as thermal imaging and stuff like that. So, he's done a really good job putting our team together. 563
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Oakley Meetings: So, a significant change this year is, we partnered with our, code enforcement team. 327
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Oakley Meetings: So, by bringing them in, they're able to provide us some guidance and feedback on administrative citations, which we commonly don't interact with. 565
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Oakley Meetings: And their experience with those administrative citations and the ordinance violations, it really just streamlined the process from when we observed a violation to how quickly we get a citation out, to the violators.
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Oakley Meetings: And then this obviously allowed our officers to stay active within the streets, focus on the calls for service, that were out there, and it really just made for a more clear, precise objectives for each one of the elements that we included in the operation.
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Oakley Meetings: So just a little, way to present that to you guys, is we essentially had two direct routes to issue a citation. One was our drone teams.
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Oakley Meetings: Which can observe a violation, through the drone, and the way that's set up is we had a drone operator and our code enforcement officer, and the drone operator was able to have a video… live video footage feed to a monitor in front of the code enforcement officer, so they can watch along to what they're observing.
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Oakley Meetings: So, when it was observed, code enforcement officer could, immediately find the location.

We could provide them the drone footage when we completed it, and then they can go and issue the citation immediately, to that violator.
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Oakley Meetings: Now, on the other side of things, we can have officers in the field, which we did. Those officers, trying to go to the locations, but they would have to observe the violation, they would then have to try to get a recording with their body camera footage.
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Oakley Meetings: After that, they'd have to go back, write a report, upload the video footage, and then we'd have to collectively get all that together, then provide it to the code enforcement officers to issue the citations. So it's just a little bit more cumbersome, and it wasn't as smooth or efficient. 572
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Oakley Meetings: So, and just speaking on top of that, I do want to say thank you to Ashley and Ralph, who really did help us with that. They educated me a lot through this, and hopefully, if we continue this partnership in the future, which I believe we will, it'll just make the operation even better next year. 573
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Oakley Meetings: So, as I said, our operation went from July 2nd through July 4th. I was here every night 328
with our teams.
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Oakley Meetings: July 2nd, we started off with, like, a little pilot program. It was a smaller staff team, but we went out to the Summer Lake community.
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Oakley Meetings: It gave us a real good opportunity to fly the drone, try it in different lighting settings, see how far it can go, how far we can observe a violator.
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Oakley Meetings: But in all honesty, the city remained very quiet that night, from our perspective. Very little fireworks, but it did just provide a great training opportunity, and for us to really practice, with the code enforcement team.
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Oakley Meetings: July 3rd, we decided to deploy the drone from the top of City Hall. 578
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Oakley Meetings: It was a really good location for us to get to different areas throughout the central area of Oakley. But once again, very few fireworks, so commend our community for doing that. They're following what we request that they do. But we did practice a lot more and still got ready for the lead-up to July 4th. 579
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Oakley Meetings: Then also, on the… on July 4th.
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Oakley Meetings: We once again launched from City Hall because it seemed like a really good central location, and as you guys know, we did have a lot of fireworks throughout the city. It was an active night in our city and the surrounding cities, which we can observe from up top here. 581
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Oakley Meetings: But from the drone team in the ground units, so we were effective. We did take action throughout the night.
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Oakley Meetings: So because the first two nights were quiet, no citations issued, but on July 4th, we did, issued 21 citations. 12 of those citations came from our drone base, teams, and 9 came from the officers, who were actively in the street.
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Oakley Meetings: And just to speak a little bit more on that, from the drones. 584
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Oakley Meetings: All we had to do was capture video, we can jot down the address, we can use that as evidence from the officers. They did have a couple methods of deployment, but it's so difficult in the middle 329
of a party environment for officers to drive down the street without being noticed, or without being crowds on the road, for us to isolate individuals to a property. 585
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Oakley Meetings: And just to expand on it a little bit, we did have 21 citations, 75 fireworks calls, which has increased from 71 of last year.
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Oakley Meetings: 4 reported fire, calls. No damage to… major damage to any property or anything. Our officers did respond, but the fires were put out quickly. No injuries. 587
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Oakley Meetings: And we did have one arrest for the operation. That was July 4th, the very beginning of the operation, where we had officers out being visible in the community, and during a traffic stop, we made an arrest for somebody for possessing a firearm.
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Oakley Meetings: So, we get the personnel cost, 160 total hours, that included the managers, sergeants, officers, and non-sworn individuals that assisted us. 106 of them were overtime, but we did mitigate some of it because, like a special services team, we were able to absorb some of it through their regular shifts and their regular, regular hours.
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Oakley Meetings: And then before I move on to my recommendations, I did want to provide you guys with, a visual of how effective these drones were for us.
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Oakley Meetings: Nope.
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Oakley Meetings: So… Assistant Manager or City Manager's gonna pull it up for me here. 592
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Oakley Meetings: So I just want to see you guys… you guys see how effective it is. So this is our… our large drone. This is what we had up above City Hall. So this drone has multiple lenses, and it records from each one of those… those cameras.
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Oakley Meetings: So this is just an overall camera. What we don't know is when we go to, some of the other videos, you'll see that in real time, how well this drone can zoom in and assist us in, 594
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Oakley Meetings: Finding violators of fireworks.
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Oakley Meetings: Here, you're gonna see a thermal imaging model. So as it goes through, this is from the 330
same time frame, just a different lens.
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Oakley Meetings: For us, a few seconds, you can see, we can tell when fireworks go up, because they're white-hot. There are different,
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Oakley Meetings: Images that can be…
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Oakley Meetings: It could be changed, too, so we could also see, like, a hot red image for… 599
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Oakley Meetings: When the fireworks go up, but we also utilize it if we're trying to locate somebody. 600
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Oakley Meetings: So, it just, it just clears, stands out when we're sitting there watching it. 601
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Oakley Meetings: And so, they're from the same feed as our next video. 602
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Oakley Meetings: So this is the same occurrence, same, same court, same drone, but it gives us this capability with these different, these different lenses. 603
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Oakley Meetings: To monitor and capture individuals that are, setting off fireworks. 604
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Oakley Meetings: So, that was our main drone, the last few videos you saw, and it just shows the effectiveness, because from a good distance, we can zoom in, and we can see that violation, then we can move on to the next without having to fly directly overhead. This flight time does take a little bit to catch individuals setting off the fireworks.
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Oakley Meetings: We'll go to the next video.
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Oakley Meetings: So this next thing just kind of rounds out some of our capabilities with our smaller drones.

This one was deployed from a patrol vehicle who was responding to the report of fireworks. 607
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Oakley Meetings: These drones are really good in the field, because officers can be driving around and immediately deploy them. They don't have the range, they don't have the battery time or flight time, but still, for us, when we're trying to issue citations and gather evidence, it's really nice for them to have access 331
to them inside their vehicles.
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Oakley Meetings: And if we go to the next video, please. 609
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Oakley Meetings: In the final video here, I'm just gonna show you… this is a deployment from the vehicle. 610
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Oakley Meetings: And how fast they can, get over and try to find where the fireworks are being set off. 611
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Oakley Meetings: Thank you, Danielle.
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Oakley Meetings: So I just wanted you guys to see that, to see how effective these drones have been for us, especially when it comes to these type of operations. It's really benefited us, so we don't have to try to get patrol officers directly in the area at first. We can try to capture evidence on video, and eliminate some of those confrontations that might happen in the field.
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Oakley Meetings: So, some of my recommendations after performing this operation would be to expand our enforcement capabilities with a drone, one of our more enhanced versions, which has an extended battery, greater range, and obviously the video is crucially important for us when we're doing this. 614
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Oakley Meetings: I would like to recommend evaluating an escalating fine structure for repeat violations for the locations or the violators.
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Oakley Meetings: And then, without question, I would ask that our code enforcement partnership continues, because they really did streamline the process and made it much more efficient for us. 616
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Oakley Meetings: And then, as always, we should review the future staffing needs and location-based deployments.
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Oakley Meetings: So, with that, thank you guys. Any questions? 618
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Oakley Meetings: Any questions?
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Oakley Meetings: Thank you very much. Great report. Thank you. 332
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Oakley Meetings: We'll move to 7.2.
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Oakley Meetings: City Council… Reverse City Council Acting and Successor Agent, reports. 622
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Oakley Meetings: Councilmember Shaw.
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Oakley Meetings: Since our last meeting, I attended a Cal City's East Bay Division Board Legislative Day in Sacramento, where we got to meet with senators and assembly members to talk about 624
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Oakley Meetings: local control and things that are affecting, the cities. And then I had a Josh Harder day. We did the Staff Appreciation Lunch at Freedom, hosted by Rotary, but always great to partner with all of 625
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Oakley Meetings: the organizations that serve the same residents that we do. On the 19th, I went to Hot August Nights at Studio 55.
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Oakley Meetings: And later that afternoon, Oakley Optometry ribbon cutting. I have my new glasses on today.
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Oakley Meetings: And then on the 20th, the Cal Cities East Bay Board Zoom. 628
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Oakley Meetings: attended the special meeting for the Oakley City Council on the 20th. 629
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Oakley Meetings: The 25th virtually attended the Contra Costa Fire District meeting regarding fire stations out here in East County, so I would advise all residents to pay attention to what's going on with that. The 26th, Tri-Delta Transit Board Meeting, Councilmember Williams will have some wonderful notes. 630
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Oakley Meetings: The 27th Delta Association of Realtors elected reception, and then ran over here to be a part of the Freedom Homecoming Parade and Rally. And let me tell you, if you guys missed it. 631
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Oakley Meetings: It was huge and amazing, and I hope we can continue that partnership. 632
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Oakley Meetings: On the 28th, the Elected Women's Luncheon. 633
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Oakley Meetings: And then that night, Freedom Homecoming game, where we volunteered at the concession stand, again with Rotary. On the 1st, the library subcommittee Meeting, all things library are moving forward, so, very excited to…
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Oakley Meetings: finally get that going. And then on the 4th, the Favilora Wine Tasting Room Ribbon cutting, and this afternoon, a swear-in for our newest officer. I did receive a call that I have been nominated to serve another year on the East Bay Division Board for California League of Cities, and I also received a call last week from the California… from the incoming president of California League of Cities. 635
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Oakley Meetings: And I've been selected to serve as Vice Chair of this year's Public Safety Policy Committee.

And that is all.
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Oakley Meetings: Councilmember Williams.
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Oakley Meetings: All right, Aaron wants me to take up some time. I attended Coffee with the principal of Freedom. He did provide really interesting data regarding fights on campus, GPA goals, enrollment numbers, state testing outcomes and goals, and he was also, highlighting the partnership and 638
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Oakley Meetings: what a good partnership he has with the city, so I don't think he was just saying that because I was there, but maybe he was.
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Oakley Meetings: I went to Studio 55 Hot August Nights, the ribbon cutting for Oakley Optometry. 640
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Oakley Meetings: All right, Tri-Delta Transit. So we had a discussion of SB63, as always, and a review of the expenditure plan. Tri-Delta, will receive, if that passes, 34% of the 19% that are returned to source funds. 641
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Oakley Meetings: which will be distributed through CCTA. The funds will be spent 60% going towards fast, reliable service, 40% going towards
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Oakley Meetings: safer, easier, and more convenient travel. So basically not just status quo. So that was interesting. We also talked about Youth Ride Free.
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Oakley Meetings: And the… what the outcome of that was, that's the program for youth ages 6 to 18. There was fair box tracking only to see how many people were using it. This past year, or summer, it was 31,614 rides, which is up 61% from even the previous year, so obviously that's a very important prop. 644
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Oakley Meetings: program we run. Measure J Renewal Info, 97% of the projects, programs that were decided in 2004 when Measure J was approved have been completed. There will likely be a ballot measure for the renewal in 2028.
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Oakley Meetings: We did have a presentation on SB707 as it pertains to our board, but not quite as lengthy as here, so… I also attended a webinar for Prop 4 parks funding to see how we could get a competitive grant. I was originally intending it for the 55-acre park. 646
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Oakley Meetings: There is some opportunities for our second phase of the rec center, potentially the community center portion of the library, but new parks do get higher scoring, so that's something to keep in mind. And they also said that agencies can submit multiple parks for grants, but each grant application can only focus on one park. It did seem like a heavy lift, but still an interesting presentation. 647
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Oakley Meetings: Freedom's Homecoming Parade, amazing. The participation and peer joy from the students and the community was amazing.
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Oakley Meetings: I also attended the mayor's Conference in Moraga as the chair. We had a presentation from St. Mary's College. Enrollment is up 18% over last year, and international students are up 3 times what it has been. They did start a new nursing program, which is very important for California, and particularly out here, as we have a lot of students who would like to become nurses. 649
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Oakley Meetings: And we currently have a nursing shortage of 40,000 nurses. St. Mary's does have internships and placements included. They just added an entire swim program, water polo and swim, to their athletics program. And he wanted to point out that the Stanford study noted that the new economic development corridor will be from the East Bay to Sacramento, and St. Mary's would happily partner 650
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Oakley Meetings: With all of our cities to create economic development opportunities. 651
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Oakley Meetings: And that's it.
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Oakley Meetings: Vice Mayor Meadows.
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Oakley Meetings: I also attended the Mayor's conference, and that was a great presentation by, 335
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Oakley Meetings: No, my, my, my, the president of… college I went to. 655
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Oakley Meetings: I was at the lunch, the Rotary Lunch at Freedom. 656
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Oakley Meetings: For a while. I… since the last meeting, I've also attended the planning committee meeting, CCTA, had a transplant meeting. I had a MCE meeting.
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Oakley Meetings: I was at swearing-in today for our newest officer. 658
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Oakley Meetings: Is it the ribbon cutting for Fablera wine tasting? Which, 659
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Oakley Meetings: looks great, and Julie Del Barber did a great job of remodeling the women's club. 660
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Oakley Meetings: I was, I attended a CCTA, TEP meeting. 661
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Oakley Meetings: Discussing the future, transportation expenditure plan. 662
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Oakley Meetings: Today, I had… I met with, Rashidi Barnes from Tri-Delta Transit and Bill Churchill from County Connection.
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Oakley Meetings: really talking about transportation, and… and then… 664
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Oakley Meetings: starting to get into the expenditure plan that Councilmember Williams Mentioned potentially being on that 28 ballot.
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Oakley Meetings: I attended Delta Association of Realtors, local government. 666
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Oakley Meetings: Networking event, whatever, whatever we call it. 667
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Oakley Meetings: And then attended the Freedom Homecoming Parade, which was a great event. 668
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Oakley Meetings: And since our, last meeting, attended. 669
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Oakley Meetings: Ironhouse Sanitation District, Studio 55's Hot August Nights, Friday Night Bites, the Homecoming Parade, like everybody said, that was a home run, and Mayor's Conference. 670
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Oakley Meetings: We'll move to 7.2.B, request for future agenda Items. 671
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Oakley Meetings: Councilmember Williams.
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Oakley Meetings: In light of the fireworks presentation that we just got, I don't know if this needs to be a future agenda item, but can we discuss some of the recommendations from our police department? 673
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Oakley Meetings: I think I need a second. Yeah, what? Recommendations for fireworks, or something else? Yeah, sorry, the recommendations, that Lieutenant Morris gave us for firework follow-up. 674
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Oakley Meetings: If we need to bring it back, I'll second it. 675
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Oakley Meetings: With that,
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Oakley Meetings: Item 8, work sessions, we have none tonight. Item 9, closed session. We have one closed session item, 9.1, conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation, initiate… 677
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Oakley Meetings: litigation pursuant to paragraph 4, subsection D, Section 54, 95, 56.9, one potential case.

We will, adjourn the meeting and, after closed session. So thank you, everybody, for coming. Good night. 337