Port of Oakland

The board meeting agenda includes a closed session to discuss real property negotiations involving various entities and properties. Open session items include the approval of consent resolutions related to ground transportation services, license agreements with banking and aviation tenants, insurance policy renewals for pollution and airport liability, and the reading of ordinances concerning fee adjustments for general aviation and electrical utility easements. Major project discussions feature the design agreement for the Oakland Harbor Turning Basins Widening Project. Additional action items cover amendments to space and use permits for airport food and beverage concessionaires, license extensions, and professional services agreements for airport pavement engineering and project management.

The 2020 Sewer System Management Plan for the Port of Oakland outlines the approach to effectively manage, operate, and maintain its sanitary sewer collection system. This plan, which updates previous versions, is structured around eleven key elements covering goals, organizational structure, legal authority, operations and maintenance, design standards, emergency response for sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs), fats, oils, and grease (FOG) control, system evaluation and capacity assurance, monitoring, audits, and communication. Its primary objectives include ensuring adequate system capacity, implementing a robust capital improvement program, significantly reducing the frequency and minimizing the impacts of SSOs, preventing public health hazards, and maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements.

This 2015 Port of Oakland Sewer System Management Plan (SSMP) serves as an update to the 2010 SSMP, incorporating revisions due to changes in Port staff, reporting relationships, and State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) requirements. The plan's objective is to effectively manage, operate, and maintain the sanitary sewer system to prevent and mitigate Sanitary Sewer Overflows (SSOs). Strategic goals include providing adequate system capacity, performing routine preventive maintenance, minimizing SSO frequency and impacts, preventing public health hazards, managing Fats, Oils, and Grease (FOG) blockages, and developing capital improvement projects for infrastructure reliability and capacity. The update specifically addresses enhanced communications, updated organizational structure, revised monitoring and reporting plans, and an expanded overflow emergency response program.

The agenda focuses on closed session legal and facility security matters, as well as several action items. These include the prepayment of unfunded accrued liability for the City of Oakland miscellaneous plan, amendments to the Port Administrative Code regarding taxi provisions, and updates to Tariff Number 2-A concerning rate increases and vessel commissioning rules. Additionally, the Board reviewed unaudited financials, considered contract extensions for the Drayage Truck Registry and various airport space permits, and discussed construction management and procurement for servers and cloud services.

The board meeting agenda covers several key items, including closed session discussions on anticipated litigation and threats to public services. Consent items involve approving the prepayment of the Port's share of the FY 2027 unfunded accrued liability, modifications to taxi-related provisions in the Administrative Code, and various amendments to Port Tariff Number 2-A. Additional discussion topics include reviewing unaudited financials, executing agreements for airport space and hangar rentals, authorizing construction work for the Runway 10R-28L Pavement Rehabilitation Project, contracting for cloud services, extending drayage truck registry maintenance, and procuring servers.