Oakland
From the meeting · Public Works and Transportation Committee, · 0:52
Why have sanctuary rules if the city keeps waiving them?
The committee is weighing a concrete purchase that waives the city's sanctuary and border wall contracting rules, and a member raises a broader question before public comment.
a councilmember and a speaker
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a councilmember I just had one more question, and I was just reading this earlier about why are we...
a councilmember And I know the answer, I want the public to know.
a councilmember Why are we creating policies and
a speaker laws
a councilmember of Sanctuary City and City of Refuge if we're waiving them all the time?
a councilmember I mean, what's the purpose of creating?
a councilmember I know...
a councilmember Talk to me.
a councilmember Yeah.
a councilmember Council Member Houston, I'm I'm working on a large contracting reform package that will address some of those questions.
a councilmember Okay, can I work on it with you?
a councilmember Can sit in?
a councilmember We're just
a councilmember about done,
a councilmember but yeah.
a councilmember Okay, I just want to sit in with you and get that knowledge you got because I got some questions on this one.
a councilmember So I guess we'll just pass on that and I'll let my council member Unger school me on this.
Where it's from
- Ready-mix concrete purchases, with sanctuary and border wall waivers Item 6: what happened
- The episode: Committee backs shorter parking contract extension; capital audit and housing bonds head to council
- The full recording from here