Agenda Item
3.14 23-0871 Subject: OPD Forensic Logic Contract
From: Oakland Police Department
Recommendation: Adopt A Resolution: (1) Authorizing The City Administrator To Enter Into A Three Year Contract With Forensic Logic, LLC, For The Period Of July 1, 2023 Through June 30, 2026, For Two Hundred And Seventy-Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($272,500) For The First Year, And Two Hundred Sixty-Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($262,500) Per Year For Years Two And Three, For A Total Contract Of Seven Hundred Ninety-Seven Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($797,500), For Access To The Forensic Logic Search And Analytics System And Related Network, Licensing, Technical Support, And Consulting Services; And (2) Waiving The City's Advertising/ Bidding And Request For Proposal Requirements For The Proposed Purchase; On The November 14, 2023, Public Safety Committee Agenda
My name is George Spies, I'm a resident of Oakland, and I support CM Fife's proposal, and here's why:
Calm streets should be a priority around schools and other areas that children and seniors frequent. Traffic calming pilots are a great way to get the community involved, and creates a very tangible mechanism for community engagement, which the city government prizes very highly.
Traffic calming is important to me as someone who primarily walks, bikes, and rides transit. Our streets are too wide, too fast, and too dangerous, and don't scale to the human needs of people on them, outside of cars.
The current process of changing our streets considers the harms of action, but not the harms of inaction. We need a way to take action with temporary materials so the treatment can be adjusted if needed. Traffic calming doesn’t have to take years to be implemented if we allow for pilot projects before more permanent infrastructure changes.
Please make quick-builds for safe streets a priority for the City of Oakland