[0:11] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Good morning everyone. My name is Elliott Payne. I'm the president of Minneapolis City Council and I'm going to call this regular meeting of city council for August 21st to order. The clerk will call the role. [0:11] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Osman is absent. Rainville is absent. Chavez? [0:25] **Council Member Jason Chavez**: Present. [0:27] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Vetaw? [0:28] **Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw**: Present. [0:29] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Ellison is absent. Ksky is absent. Wonsley is absent. Jenkins? [0:35] **Council Member Andrea Jenkins**: Present. [0:36] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Palmisano? [0:37] **Council Member Linea Palmisano**: Present. [0:38] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Chowdhury? [0:39] **Council Member Aurin Chowdhury**: Present. [0:40] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Cashman? [0:41] **Council Member Cashman**: Present. [0:41] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Vice President Chughtai is absent. President Payne? [0:42] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Present. [0:43] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: There are seven members present. [0:43] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Let the record reflect that we have a quorum. Before we begin the meeting, I want to offer a friendly reminder to all members and staff that this meeting is broadcast live to enable greater public participation. The broadcast includes real-time captioning as a further method to increase the accessibility of our proceedings to the community. Therefore, all speakers need to be mindful of the rate of their speech so that our captioners can fully capture and transcribe all comments for the broadcast. We ask all speakers to moderate the speed and clarity of their comments. I will also note that we've been joined by council member Wansley. [1:16] **Council President Elliott Payne**: With that, the agenda for today's meeting is before us. Are there any amendments to the agenda? Seeing none, may I have a motion to adopt the adjust agenda? [1:27] **Council Member**: Second. [1:29] **Council President Elliott Payne**: The clerk will call the role. [1:30] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chavez? [1:31] **Council Member Jason Chavez**: Aye. [1:32] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Vetaw? [1:33] **Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw**: Aye. [1:34] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Wonsley? [1:35] **Council Member Robin Wonsley**: Aye. [1:36] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Jenkins? [1:37] **Council Member Andrea Jenkins**: Aye. [1:38] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Palmisano? [1:39] **Council Member Linea Palmisano**: Aye. [1:40] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chowdhury? [1:41] **Council Member Aurin Chowdhury**: Aye. [1:42] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Cashman? [1:43] **Council Member Cashman**: Aye. [1:44] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: President Payne? [1:45] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Aye. [1:46] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: There are eight ayes. [1:50] **Council President Elliott Payne**: That carries and the agenda is adopted. The next item is acceptance of minutes from our regular meeting of August 7th. I would entertain a motion to accept those minutes. [1:58] **Council Member**: So moved. [1:59] **Council Member**: Second. [2:00] **Council President Elliott Payne**: The clerk will call the role. [2:01] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chavez. [2:02] **Council Member Jason Chavez**: Aye. [2:02] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Vetaw. [2:03] **Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw**: Aye. [2:03] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Wonsley. [2:04] **Council Member Robin Wonsley**: Aye. [2:04] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Jenkins. [2:05] **Council Member Andrea Jenkins**: Aye. [2:05] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Palmisano. [2:06] **Council Member Linea Palmisano**: Aye. [2:06] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chowdhury. [2:07] **Council Member Aurin Chowdhury**: Aye. [2:07] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Cashman. [2:08] **Council Member Cashman**: Aye. [2:08] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: President Payne. [2:09] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Aye. [2:10] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: There are eight ayes. [2:12] **Council President Elliott Payne**: That carries and the minutes have been accepted. Finally, we have the referral of petitions, communications, and reports to proper committees. May I have that motion, please? [2:21] **Council Member**: So moved. [2:22] **Council Member**: Second. [2:23] **Council President Elliott Payne**: The clerk will call the role. [2:24] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chavez, [2:25] **Council Member Jason Chavez**: Aye. [2:26] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Vetaw, [2:27] **Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw**: Aye. [2:28] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Wonsley, [2:29] **Council Member Robin Wonsley**: Aye. [2:30] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Jenkins, [2:31] **Council Member Andrea Jenkins**: Aye. [2:32] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Palmisano. [2:33] **Council Member Linea Palmisano**: Aye. [2:34] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chowdhury. [2:35] **Council Member Aurin Chowdhury**: Aye. [2:35] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Cashman. [2:36] **Council Member Cashman**: Aye. [2:36] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: President Payne. [2:36] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Aye. [2:37] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: There are eight ayes. [2:38] **Council President Elliott Payne**: That carries. And those matters have been referred. The next order of business is the presentations of reports from our standing committees. Those are taken in alphabetical order beginning with the report of our Administration and Enterprise Oversight Committee which will be presented by its chair, Council Member Wonsley. [2:53] **Council Member Robin Wonsley**: Thank you Mr. President. The Administration and Enterprise Oversight Committee is bringing forward 19 items. The first is a gift acceptance from the Big Cities Health Coalition of registration, lodging, incidentals, airfare, meals, and transportation of Deione Chaplain. Two is a gift acceptance from the Wisconsin Environmental Health Association of registration and lodging for Cindy Worworth. Three is a gift acceptance from Eden Hall Exhibitions for 911 Directors forum for travel, lodging, and meals for Joanie Hodney and Leticia Cardinez. Four is a gift acceptance from the Shared Use Mobility Center of registration, travel, meal, and lodging expenses for Max Gonzalez. Five is a MPFA grant for the Department of Public Works water distribution facility. Six is a bid for combined sewer overflows 001 and 117 storm sewer improvement project. Seven is contracts with various community partners for senior services and senior community navigator services. Eight is a contract amendment with Geographic Software Specialists Inc. for engineering, data integration, and automation services. Nine is a contract amendment with Vinko, Inc. for catch basin and maintenance hole repairs. 10 is a contract amendment with Axon Enterprise, Inc. for upgrading helmet cameras for the police department. 11 is a contract amendment with Grenic, Inc. for subscription-based document hosting services. 12 is a contract amendment with Meer Contracting, Inc. for the Second Street North Sanitary Sewer Improvements Project. 13 is a contract amendment with Michael's Trenchless, Inc. for the large diameter sewer cured in place pipelining 2024 project. 14 is contract amendments with multiple organizations for 2025 group violence intervention services. 15 is a contract or contract amendments with multiple organizations for the 2025 youth group violence intervention services. 16 is a lease agreement with Sabathani Community Center for environmental training space at 310 38th Street East. 17 is tort claims procedures updates. 18 is a legal settlement workers compensation claim of Beavenon Buert, and 19 are contracts with multiple law firms for workers compensation legal services for a total budgeted amount not to exceed $2.4 million. With that, I'll move approval for all items and stand for any questions. [5:35] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Council member Wonsley has moved approval of the committee's report. Is there any discussion? Council member Jenkins. [5:44] **Council Member Andrea Jenkins**: Thank you, Chair. I just wanted to just briefly comment on item I believe number 16, lease agreement with Sabathani Community Center for environmental training. Just mentioning that it is green jobs training in the area of George Floyd Square, which is one of the quote "24 demands." And so, we're training young people to be in the future for green jobs. [6:16] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Council member Chavez. [6:18] **Council Member Jason Chavez**: I'd like to move item number 18 for a separate vote. [6:25] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Council member Chavez has moved item 18 for a separate vote. We will take up the rest of the items and I am not seeing anyone else in queue. So, I will ask the clerk to call the role on all items except item number 18. [6:40] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Mr. President, a note: items one through five are acceptance of grants and under state law it requires a two-thirds affirmative vote of the body. We'd need nine votes. I suggest we separate items 1 through five and table those till later in the meeting. Take up votes on 6 through 17 and 19 and leave 18 pulled aside as council member Chavez requested. [6:59] **Council President Elliott Payne**: All right, we will do that. On that revision, I'll ask the clerk to call the role. So this would be a vote on items 6 through 17 and 19. [7:11] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Yep. Council member Chavez. [7:13] **Council Member Jason Chavez**: Aye. [7:14] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Vetaw. [7:15] **Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw**: Aye. [7:16] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Wanssley. [7:17] **Council Member Robin Wonsley**: Aye. [7:18] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Jenkins. [7:19] **Council Member Andrea Jenkins**: Aye. [7:20] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Palmisano. [7:21] **Council Member Linea Palmisano**: Aye. [7:22] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chowdhury. [7:23] **Council Member Aurin Chowdhury**: Aye. [7:24] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Cashman. [7:25] **Council Member Cashman**: Aye. [7:26] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: President Payne. [7:27] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Aye. [7:28] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: There are eight ayes. [7:29] **Council President Elliott Payne**: That carries. Next we'll take up item number 18. And seeing no one in queue, I will ask the clerk to call the role. [7:37] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chavez. [7:39] **Council Member Jason Chavez**: No. [7:40] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Vetaw. [7:41] **Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw**: Aye. [7:42] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Wanssley. [7:43] **Council Member Robin Wonsley**: Nay. [7:44] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Jenkins. [7:45] **Council Member Andrea Jenkins**: Aye. [7:46] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Palmisano. [7:47] **Council Member Linea Palmisano**: Aye. [7:48] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chowdhury. [7:49] **Council Member Aurin Chowdhury**: Aye. [7:50] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Cashman. [7:51] **Council Member Cashman**: Aye. [7:52] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: President Payne. [7:53] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Aye. [7:54] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: There are six ayes and two nays. [7:56] **Council President Elliott Payne**: That carries. Uh, and we will take up items one through five, likely under unfinished business. Next we will have a report from our Budget Committee given by Council Member Cashman. [8:11] **Council Member Cashman**: All right. Thank you, Mr. President. The Budget Committee is bringing forward one item: appointed position in the city clerk's office for the Director of Legislative Research and Oversight, and I'll move approval of this item. [8:25] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Council member Cashman has moved approval of the committee report. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, I will ask the clerk... Oh, Council Member Jenkins. [8:35] **Council Member Andrea Jenkins**: Thank you, Payne. I'm just curious, is this a new position? Is there a candidate already identified for this role or will it be an open search? [8:51] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Mr. Clerk, do you want to speak to that? [8:55] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Mr. President, to council member Jenkins: there is a person who's filling this position under a different title. This is basically retitling the position that was a combination of the previous Directors of Policy and Research and the Director of Oversight and Evaluation. Thank you. [9:18] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Uh, I'll note that we've been joined by Vice President Chughtai. Does that get us to our number nine count? [9:29] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Should we finish with our budget report and then come back to AEO? [9:34] **Council President Elliott Payne**: All right. On that item, I'll ask the clerk to call the role. [9:38] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: This is the vote on the Budget Committee report. Council member Chavez. [9:42] **Council Member Jason Chavez**: Aye. [9:43] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Vetaw. [9:44] **Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw**: Aye. [9:45] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Wanssley. [9:46] **Council Member Robin Wonsley**: Aye. [9:47] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Jenkins. [9:48] **Council Member Andrea Jenkins**: Aye. [9:49] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Palmisano. [9:50] **Council Member Linea Palmisano**: Aye. [9:51] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chowdhury. [9:52] **Council Member Aurin Chowdhury**: Aye. [9:53] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Cashman. [9:54] **Council Member Cashman**: Aye. [9:55] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Vice President Chughtai. [9:56] **Council Member Aisha Chughtai**: Aye. [9:57] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: President Payne. [9:58] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Aye. [9:59] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: There are nine ayes. [10:00] **Council President Elliott Payne**: That carries and the report is adopted. We will take up items 1 through five on the AEO report. And then before we do that, Vice President Chughtai, would you like to have your vote recognized on the remainder of the report? And just for your awareness, all items except for item 18 passed unanimously, and item 18 was pulled for a separate vote. [10:26] **Council Member Aisha Chughtai**: Yeah, I'd like to vote in the affirmative on all items except for number 18. [10:33] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Which is voting as a Nay. Okay. Clerk's got that. [10:37] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: We have that. [10:40] **Council President Elliott Payne**: All right. So we will now take up items one through five which required nine votes. And seeing no discussion, I will ask the clerk to call the role. [10:48] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chavez. [10:49] **Council Member Jason Chavez**: Aye. [10:50] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Vetaw. [10:51] **Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw**: Aye. [10:52] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Wanssley. [10:53] **Council Member Robin Wonsley**: Aye. [10:54] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Jenkins. [10:55] **Council Member Andrea Jenkins**: Aye. [10:56] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Palmisano. [10:57] **Council Member Linea Palmisano**: Aye. [10:58] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chowdhury. [10:59] **Council Member Aurin Chowdhury**: Aye. [11:00] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Cashman. [11:01] **Council Member Cashman**: Aye. [11:02] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Vice President Chughtai. [11:03] **Council Member Aisha Chughtai**: Aye. [11:04] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: President Payne. [11:05] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Aye. [11:06] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: There are nine ayes. [11:08] **Council President Elliott Payne**: That carries. And the full report is adopted. Next, we will take up our Business, Housing, and Zoning Committee report, which will be given by Council Member Chowdhury. [11:18] **Council Member Aurin Chowdhury**: Thank you, President Payne. The BIZ committee is bringing seven items forward. Item number one is approving bonds to the University Gateway Corporation. Item number two is denying an appeal submitted by Molly Reichart regarding the Seven Points residential development. Item number three is approving five liquor license renewals. Item number four is approving three gambling licenses. Item number five is accepting a grant from the Subaru Loves Pets program for pet adoption fees. Item number six is accepting a grant from the MN State Historic Preservation Office for costs related to the NAPC conference next July. And lastly, item number seven is approving a rezoning application to Quarry Developers for the property at 1501 Johnson Street Northeast. With that, I will move all items for approval and move item number two for denial. [12:16] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Council member Chowdhury has moved the report. Is there any discussion? Council member Chowdhury. [12:22] **Council Member Aurin Chowdhury**: Thank you, President Payne. I did want to just take a moment to share about a receive and file that we got at the Business, Housing, and Zoning Committee on August 12th. We received a presentation from the Director of Regulatory Services on the Encampment Reporting Ordinance Quarter 1 report which accounted for encampment removals from December 19th to March 18th actually I believe. Um, I feel like it's important to just share this out in the larger body because we have gotten two reports back to us and this is the first report of the year. I want to reiterate that the legislative intent of the encampment removal reporting ordinance was to bring transparency, accountability, and oversight to the processes involving the removal of encampments in Minneapolis. And also responding to the growing need for a data-driven approach to managing and understanding unsheltered homelessness in our city and the fact that good governance requires good data. And that's why I want to take some time to share about that report in a larger group and we also did not have a lot of time for questions to really dig deeper into it. I will share a little bit of my dismay that both times that the report was being brought to the body, the presentation of the report itself was what I felt dismissed. The item was set to be a simple receive and file without a presentation. Both times I myself had to act to change course. The first time was understandable. The second time I don't find acceptable. It flies in the face of the legislative intent. And the LIMS files alone cannot give anyone a full understanding of the state of unsheltered homelessness and encampments in our city. An issue that real people are impacted by, both housed and unhoused alike. And an issue especially lately in our city that many of our constituents have been reaching out to to understand what is our plan as local government to address, and an issue that so clearly shows the results of poverty, addiction, government action or inaction, negative action and so on. Additionally, there were many discrepancies within that report that I believe warrant a presentation and questions from council to staff to improve reports into the future. A couple of things that I will highlight is that the HRT visits are up, which I think is a good thing. I think it is us strengthening the capacity that we have as City of Minneapolis to do street outreach, and there's opportunities to connect better with Hennepin County and other jurisdictions to improve on that. Police aren't being used as the main tool to clear encampments, which is a difference from the last report. There needs to be significant work done between the city and county to improve data collection on housing outcomes and a clear idea of when people are seeking resources especially around addiction. There was not a clear delineation between acceptance of shelter but an acceptance of other housing types. There needs to be a correction issued in this report to include data that's required that shares when an encampment was within a one-mile radius of another encampment within a year. The report also indicated that service providers are not consistently notified of the day of an encampment closure and oftentimes not even there at all even as there are individuals present at the day of an encampment clearing, which is deeply concerning. Only six out of the 13 clearings had a notice of closure, oftentimes without advanced notice. And then something that I do find troubling that I think as a city we can address pretty rapidly if we have the will to, is that items are routinely discarded and currently there is no information on what items are discarded and recorded, and storage is not provided on the day of a removal when people are most likely to accept storage services. The last thing that I'll close on is I think there is a kind of an urge to paint the conditions from the first report to the second report as rosy and better. I was really dismayed to see that a press release was given on July 29th before we got a presentation by the administration that had shared that the cost had dropped by 81% and that things were so much better. I think any math teacher would say that you cannot compare five months of data to three months of data as a one-to-one, it's not proportional. And also as a city, comparing the summer season to a winter season given what we know about unsheltered homelessness is a choice I don't think gives the public an accurate representation on what's going on. Lastly, I'll just share from my perspective in tracking unsheltered homelessness this last year, we do have a new policy that's implemented where we aren't whack-a-moleing and breaking apart encampments, rather we're whack-a-moleing and telling people that they can't sleep in a certain area and that's a choice that has been made. I do see a result of that being people hiding in the shadows, being in areas that are less visible. I've heard from service providers and community members that are doing work in unsheltered homelessness that they are seeing a lot of the unsheltered people that they're communicating with in jail rosters—not just within the City of Minneapolis, but in suburbs and seeing an uptick of that. I think it's just really important that we hold ourselves accountable as an organization to be really eyes-wide-open on what's actually happening so we can address unsheltered homelessness in the city of Minneapolis with compassion and with a goal of actually reducing it. I don't think we're quite there yet. And I think our community can point out many places within our city where we're seeing disproportionately Indigenous and Black community members, especially young community members, struggling with the combination of unsheltered homelessness, addiction, and poverty. So, I just wanted to take some time to speak on it because this report is really important to me and I hope that there are improvements made in the next report and I will be doing work with staff and my other colleagues if they want to join me in ensuring that we can have a better report. I want it to be successful and I want it to help us get to the policy outcomes that we're trying to get at. Thank you. [19:29] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Council Member Vetaw. [19:30] **Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw**: Thank you, President Payne. My question is for Council Member Chowdhury. I guess I'm wondering, you had the report but you were saying you had to advocate to have the report, so it did happen in BIZ. So that would be with the chair of BIZ. That's not staff or anybody else. That would be like someone putting it on the agenda which is usually the chair. [20:10] **Council Member Aurin Chowdhury**: Yeah. So, I did express to the chair and the vice chair that this is something that needs to be a presentation moving forward. I don't know why they decided not to have it be a presentation. Even though I've indicated that in the past, I will say that in agenda setting, all staff was present to chime up and say, "Yeah, this needs to be a presentation or not." I think there's just accountability across the board that needs to be shared. It's not my goal to finger-point or blame one individual, one entity. I just think we need to do better. [20:31] **Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw**: No, I agree with like, you know, sometimes it's not one person, but I just needed some clarity on exactly. I mean, I just thought like a chair puts things on agenda setting and that's what staff does. If it gets placed in discussion, it's a discussion and not like staff can say we don't want to talk about that. So, it's really at the chair's discretion to have it as a discussion item or not. So, thank you for getting it on the discussion item. I just needed some clarity on that. [21:01] **Council Member Aurin Chowdhury**: Yeah, I appreciate the question. [21:03] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Council member Jenkins. [21:05] **Council Member Andrea Jenkins**: Thank you, Chair Payne. I guess I just add a little context as a member of the committee. You know, we have very, very long agendas and our meetings typically go until 4:30. And so I think the chair was just trying to manage the process and not necessarily disregarding the report. It's just my opinion, but the context is we typically have pretty contentious public hearings as well as very long agendas. [22:04] **Council Member Aurin Chowdhury**: Thank you, President Payne. I will say I meant to say this in my remarks. I think for the future, if there's not time in our BIZ agenda because it is long—I will say the day that we were supposed to have the presentation, we ended early, so there would have been ample time—we should either have it at the Committee of the Whole, which is a request to this body, or we should have it at the Administration and Enterprise Oversight Committee if there's more time. I think it's just worthwhile having a longer conversation and time to prep. We didn't get to a place where we could ask all the questions, especially I can speak for myself, I didn't get to ask all the questions I would have liked to. [22:47] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Council member Rainville. Oh, and I should say we've been joined by council member Rainville. [22:55] **Council Member Michael Rainville**: Thank you. And if I could please without objection be counted affirmative on the previous votes. [23:01] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Yeah, without objection. [23:03] **Council Member Michael Rainville**: Thank you. So Council Member Chowdhury, great idea about connecting with the county for more help with the homelessness and addiction crisis that we face. I'd love to—and I don't want to debate you today because it's a long conversation—but I'd love to work with you and just get your ideas. I have tried and struck out in working with the county, but perhaps you have a better approach. I'd like to hear. Thank you. [23:26] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Council Member Wonsley. [23:27] **Council Member Robin Wonsley**: Thank you, President Payne. I'm just conversing with my vice chair of AEO here, Palmisano, but would love to also connect with Chair Chavez if there's a space, as we've done with some of the violence prevention contracts, either to refer them to COW or as the agenda is getting shorter in AEO if that presentation could also be forwarded there. And then we can invite all committee members to join that committee for that presentation. So, just wanted to offer that up as an option as well. [23:59] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Council member Chavez. [24:01] **Council Member Jason Chavez**: Thanks, President Payne. Yeah, happy to be in conversations about this discussion about whether it's AEO or COW. But I will say that the Business, Housing, and Zoning committee that day was just 40 minutes long. It had enough time to have this presentation. I'm not sure why there wasn't this presentation, especially after when the first time we had this report, we had extensive conversations with staff about having these presentations in committee. So there just should have never been a reason for this not being in committee based on previous conversations that we've had. And I think moving forward, I just hope that we have these reports in front of the body more in a timely manner, not months later, and also with presentations and that we don't have to ask for that because it's just expected. [24:45] **Council President Elliott Payne**: With that, I will ask the clerk to call the role on the BIZ report. [24:50] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Rainville. [24:51] **Council Member Michael Rainville**: Aye. [24:51] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chavez. [24:52] **Council Member Jason Chavez**: Aye. [24:52] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Vetaw. [24:53] **Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw**: Aye. [24:54] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Wanssley. [24:55] **Council Member Robin Wonsley**: Aye. [24:55] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Jenkins. [24:56] **Council Member Andrea Jenkins**: Aye. [24:57] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Palmisano. [25:01] **Council Member Linea Palmisano**: Aye. [25:01] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chowdhury. [25:02] **Council Member Aurin Chowdhury**: Aye. [25:03] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Cashman. [25:04] **Council Member Cashman**: Aye. [25:05] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Vice President Chughtai. [25:06] **Council Member Aisha Chughtai**: Aye. [25:07] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: President Payne. [25:08] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Aye. [25:09] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: There are 10 ayes. [25:10] **Council President Elliott Payne**: That carries and the report is adopted. The next report is from our Climate and Infrastructure Committee which will be presented by that committee's chair, Council Member Cashman. [25:18] **Council Member Cashman**: Thank you, President Payne. Climate and Infrastructure Committee is bringing forward three items. Item one, passage of a resolution adopting and levying assessments for sidewalk repair and construction. Item two, approving the appointment of Nate Boon to the Pedestrian Advisory Committee. Item three, approving a legislative directive related to franchise fees and climate action. I'll move approval of all three items. [25:41] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Council member Cashman has moved approval of the committee's report. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, I'll ask the clerk to call the role. [25:50] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Rainville. [25:51] **Council Member Michael Rainville**: Aye. [25:51] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chavez. [25:52] **Council Member Jason Chavez**: Aye. [25:52] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Vetaw. [25:53] **Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw**: Aye. [25:53] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Wanssley. [25:54] **Council Member Robin Wonsley**: Aye. [25:56] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Jenkins. [25:57] **Council Member Andrea Jenkins**: Aye. [25:58] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Palmisano. [25:59] **Council Member Linea Palmisano**: Aye. [25:59] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chowdhury. [26:00] **Council Member Aurin Chowdhury**: Aye. [26:01] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Cashman. [26:02] **Council Member Cashman**: Aye. [26:03] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Vice President Chughtai. [26:04] **Council Member Aisha Chughtai**: Aye. [26:05] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: President Payne. [26:06] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Aye. [26:07] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: There are 10 ayes. [26:08] **Council President Elliott Payne**: That carries and the report is adopted. The next report is from the Committee of the Whole which will be presented by that committee's chair, council member Chavez. [26:14] **Council Member Jason Chavez**: Thank you, President Payne. The Committee of the Whole is bringing forward a variety of items. Item number one is approving the Police Oversight and Accountability ordinance. Item number two is approving nine and denying two community trauma response contracts. Item number three is approving a resolution that reallocates the two denied community trauma response contracts. These two contract funds are then to be distributed equitably to current contractors. With that, I'll move approval of all items except items 2.9 and 2.11, which I'll move for denial. Additionally, I will ask for a separate vote on items 2.2, 2.9, and 2.11. I do know that there are some amendments. [26:59] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Council member Chavez has moved approval of the committee's report. Is there any discussion? Okay. Um, that means we will be taking up everything except 2.2, 2.9, and 2.11. Is there any discussion on the remainder of those items? I'm not seeing anyone in queue. I'll just add myself just to make a few remarks about CCPO. This was almost two years in the making. I gave notice maybe within the first meeting of this term to open up the books on CCPO. We were able to take in feedback from community, from commissioners, from professional staff. We were also able to learn about some of the limitations about what we can do by way of ordinance. I'm actively working with the City Attorney on what the next remedies are to that, including maybe additional ordinances around reporting or all the way up to amendments to the charter. So, I'm really proud of this work as it stands, but I also recognize that there's still more work to be done here. So, I see council member Vetaw in queue. [28:30] **Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw**: I'd like to pull out item three for an amendment to the motion. A motion to amend the amendment. And it's before you. I think everyone's got it at their seat. [28:44] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Thank you for doing that. We will take up all items except 2.2, 2.9, 2.11, and item number three. And seeing no one in queue for those, I'll ask the clerk to call the role. [28:55] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Rainville. [28:56] **Council Member Michael Rainville**: Aye. [28:57] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chavez. [28:58] **Council Member Jason Chavez**: Aye. [28:59] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Vetaw. This is on 2.2? [29:00] **Council President Elliott Payne**: All items except 2.2, 2.9, 2.11, and item three. [29:02] **Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw**: So abstain on 2.2? Oh, we're not taking that up yet. Okay. Aye. [29:07] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Wanssley. [29:08] **Council Member Robin Wonsley**: Aye. [29:09] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Jenkins. [29:10] **Council Member Andrea Jenkins**: Aye. [29:11] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Palmisano. [29:12] **Council Member Linea Palmisano**: Aye. [29:13] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chowdhury. [29:14] **Council Member Aurin Chowdhury**: Aye. [29:15] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Cashman. [29:16] **Council Member Cashman**: Aye. [29:17] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Vice President Chughtai. [29:18] **Council Member Aisha Chughtai**: Aye. [29:19] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: President Payne. [29:20] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Aye. [29:21] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: There are 10 ayes. [29:23] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Those items carry. Now we will take up each of these remainders one at a time. Starting with item number 2.2. Is there any discussion on that? Seeing none, I will ask the clerk to call the role. [29:35] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Rainville. [29:36] **Council Member Michael Rainville**: Aye. [29:36] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chavez. [29:37] **Council Member Jason Chavez**: Aye. [29:38] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Vetaw. [29:39] **Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw**: Abstain. [29:40] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Wanssley. [29:41] **Council Member Robin Wonsley**: Aye. [29:42] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Jenkins. [29:43] **Council Member Andrea Jenkins**: Aye. [29:44] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Palmisano. [29:45] **Council Member Linea Palmisano**: Aye. [29:46] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chowdhury. [29:47] **Council Member Aurin Chowdhury**: Aye. [29:48] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Cashman. [29:49] **Council Member Cashman**: Aye. [29:50] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Vice President Chughtai. [29:51] **Council Member Aisha Chughtai**: Aye. [29:52] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: President Payne. [29:53] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Aye. [29:54] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: There are nine ayes and one abstention. [29:56] **Council President Elliott Payne**: That item carries. Next, we will take up item 2.9. Is there any discussion? [30:04] **Council Member Jason Chavez**: I just want to clarify the motion. [30:06] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Yes. [30:07] **Council Member Jason Chavez**: So we can clarify the motion. Sorry. It is to deny. [30:09] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Correct. So an affirmative would be to deny the contract. [30:20] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Rainville. [30:21] **Council Member Michael Rainville**: Aye. [30:23] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chavez. [30:24] **Council Member Jason Chavez**: Aye. [30:25] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Vetaw. [30:26] **Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw**: No. [30:27] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Wanssley. [30:28] **Council Member Robin Wonsley**: Aye. [30:29] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Jenkins. [30:30] **Council Member Andrea Jenkins**: Abstain. [30:31] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Palmisano. [30:40] **Council Member Linea Palmisano**: No. [30:42] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chowdhury. [30:43] **Council Member Aurin Chowdhury**: Aye. [30:44] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Cashman. [30:45] **Council Member Cashman**: Aye. [30:46] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Vice President Chughtai. [30:47] **Council Member Aisha Chughtai**: Aye. [30:48] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: President Payne. [30:49] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Aye. [30:50] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: There are seven ayes, two nays, and one abstention. [30:56] **Council President Elliott Payne**: That carries. Next, we will take up item 2.11. And again, in this instance, an affirmative vote would be to deny the contract. And I'll have the clerk call the role. [31:07] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Rainville. [31:08] **Council Member Michael Rainville**: No. [31:09] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chavez. [31:10] **Council Member Jason Chavez**: Aye. [31:11] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Vetaw. [31:12] **Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw**: No. [31:13] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Wanssley. [31:14] **Council Member Robin Wonsley**: Aye. [31:15] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Jenkins. [31:16] **Council Member Andrea Jenkins**: Abstain. [31:17] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Palmisano. [31:21] **Council Member Linea Palmisano**: No. [31:23] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chowdhury. [31:24] **Council Member Aurin Chowdhury**: Aye. [31:25] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Cashman. [31:26] **Council Member Cashman**: Aye. [31:27] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Vice President Chughtai. [31:28] **Council Member Aisha Chughtai**: Aye. [31:29] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: President Payne. [31:30] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Aye. [31:31] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: There are six ayes, three nays, and one abstention. [31:34] **Council President Elliott Payne**: That carries. And finally, we will take up item number three. And I will recognize council member Vetaw. [31:42] **Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw**: Thank you. I just thank you very much, council members Chowdhury and Chughtai for moving this resolution forward to make sure that the money goes back to North Minneapolis. I just added some language and it has been reviewed by the attorneys and the language is before you. Just wanted to add that so we can have clarity on this resolution because I think it's important that this money goes back to where this money was taken from in the previous contracts. And it just specifies that it's North Minneapolis and it's including direct outreach and areas most impacted by violence, conflict mediation, family and youth engagement, and trauma-informed care and connections to recovery and support resources—that's what's been added to the language. [32:15] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Council member Vetaw has moved to amend the resolution. Is there a second? [32:32] **Council Member**: Second. [32:33] **Council President Elliott Payne**: All right. Vice President Chughtai. [32:34] **Council Member Aisha Chughtai**: Yeah. Thank you, Mr. President. I wanted to thank council member Vetaw for bringing forward this amendment to help strengthen this resolution. Um, so I really appreciate that the intent here of the author is to make sure the resources are then redistributed to make sure there are no cuts to services in the communities that were going to be impacted by the contracts that were denied. I just remember from the staff presentation that these resources were coming both to North Minneapolis and then also to South Minneapolis in Wards 9 and 6. That was where those contracts were going to be. So Council Member Vetaw, would you be amenable to just including "North Minneapolis and South Minneapolis" or "North Minneapolis and other impacted communities" just to be inclusive of where those contracts actually got cut from? [33:17] **Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw**: So, I think that's fine, but what I learned from staff in talking about this is that these other groups that have been approved may not have the ability to do that, right? Like, this group had a specific area because they're this group. [33:50] **Council Member Aisha Chughtai**: Yeah, but this group's specific area also included Wards 6 and 9. [33:55] **Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw**: No, I understand what you're saying, but I'm saying when the funding gets redistributed... listen, just put it on there, it's fine. But that language came from staff. [34:07] **Council Member Aisha Chughtai**: Great. So, I think my amendment would be "with a focus on delivering critical restorative services in North Minneapolis and other impacted communities." [34:18] **Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw**: Whatever. Great. [34:26] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Mr. Clerk, procedurally, if there's no objection, I would like to take up both at the same time. [34:31] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Absolutely. If there's no objection to the amendment as amended, we can vote one time on the motion as it's been severally amended. [34:43] **Council President Elliott Payne**: All right. On that... Council Member Wonsley. [34:52] **Council Member Robin Wonsley**: Thank you, President Payne. I was just going to ask if we could just include the geographic areas that were listed in the presentation in the amendment because what you're saying is somewhat also... sorry, the newly proposed amendment before is kind of already emphasized here that says "including direct outreach in areas most impacted by violence." So that gets at the already impacted. So, if we just list the geographic locations, ward 6, 9, 5, and 4. I'm referencing the ones that were listed in the presentation. I think that's what Vice President Chughtai was... [35:29] **Council Member Aisha Chughtai**: So, in North Minneapolis and South Minneapolis. Can we just say that? [35:32] **Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw**: Yeah. Great. [35:45] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Okay. Vice President Chughtai is writing those notes down to hand over to you, Mr. Clerk. And we will take up, which sounds like without objection, we will take up this as one vote. And I will ask the clerk to call the role. [35:56] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Rainville. [35:57] **Council Member Michael Rainville**: Aye. [35:58] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chavez. [35:59] **Council Member Jason Chavez**: Aye. [36:01] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Vetaw. [36:02] **Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw**: Aye. [36:03] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Wanssley. [36:04] **Council Member Robin Wonsley**: Aye. [36:05] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Jenkins. [36:06] **Council Member Andrea Jenkins**: Aye. [36:07] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Palmisano. [36:08] **Council Member Linea Palmisano**: Aye. [36:09] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chowdhury. [36:10] **Council Member Aurin Chowdhury**: Aye. [36:11] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Cashman. [36:12] **Council Member Cashman**: Aye. [36:13] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Vice President Chughtai. [36:14] **Council Member Aisha Chughtai**: Aye. [36:15] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: President Payne. [36:16] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Aye. [36:17] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: There are 10 ayes. [36:18] **Council President Elliott Payne**: That carries and the full committee report is adopted. Finally we have the Public Health and Safety Committee which will be presented by that committee's chair, Council Member Chavez. [36:30] **Council Member Jason Chavez**: Thank you Mr. President. The Public Health and Safety Committee is bringing forward three items. Item number one is passage of an ordinance related to fees for the use of city-owned resources. Item number two is authorizing a grant acceptance from the Minnesota Department of Health for a public health emergency preparedness activity and appropriating funds to the health department. Item number three is authorizing a joint powers agreement with the state of Minnesota for hazardous material response and appropriating funds to the fire department. And with that, I'll move approval of these items. [36:57] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Council member Chavez has moved approval of the committee's report. Is there any discussion? Council member Rainville. [37:05] **Council Member Michael Rainville**: Thank you. I'd like to move item number one for a separate vote and discussion. [37:11] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Council member Rainville has pulled item one. Is there any discussion on the remainder of the items? Seeing none, I will ask the clerk to call the role on PHS items two and three. [37:25] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Rainville. [37:26] **Council Member Michael Rainville**: Aye. [37:27] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chavez. [37:28] **Council Member Jason Chavez**: Aye. [37:29] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Vetaw. [37:30] **Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw**: Aye. [37:31] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Wanssley. [37:32] **Council Member Robin Wonsley**: Aye. [37:33] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Jenkins. [37:34] **Council Member Andrea Jenkins**: Aye. [37:34] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Palmisano. [37:35] **Council Member Linea Palmisano**: Aye. [37:36] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chowdhury. [37:37] **Council Member Aurin Chowdhury**: Aye. [37:38] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Cashman. [37:39] **Council Member Cashman**: Aye. [37:40] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Vice President Chughtai. [37:41] **Council Member Aisha Chughtai**: Aye. [37:42] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: President Payne. [37:43] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Aye. [37:44] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: There are 10 ayes. [37:46] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Those items carry. Next we will take up item number one. And is there any discussion on this item? Seeing none... Oh, Council Member Rainville. [37:53] **Council Member Michael Rainville**: Thank you. I do have a question for the author. Has there been any discussion around or effort made to gather data on the effects of this? In particular, I'm thinking of these large events like the Gay Pride Parade, Twin City Marathon, pro sports, State of Minnesota. Those use a lot of police resources as well as Centerpoint Energy in their day-to-day operations replacing pipes—they do have police officers with that. And if not, could we consider that as we move forward? [38:29] **Council Member Robin Wonsley**: Thank you President Payne. Just to ground the body in what we're actually voting on today. Appendix J is enabling legislation for us to charge fees for city-owned resources used in programs like off-duty. So we're not approving a specific fee today. This is literally enabling legislation. So in regards to your question around research, there is a very thorough, comprehensive presentation and report that the Policy and Research division led on that was presented to the Administration and Enterprise Oversight Committee in June. I recommend you reading that. They talk about the overall impacts. Also MPD provided a recommended fee that we talked about that we're going to bring forward on September 11th. And I will recommend you starting there, but there has been research done on this for about two and a half years. [39:35] **Council Member Michael Rainville**: Uh, thank you. So, do you have a short answer? Yes or no? [39:41] **Council Member Robin Wonsley**: Read the report. [39:43] **Council Member Michael Rainville**: Read the report. Right. Thank you for the lecture. [39:48] **Council President Elliott Payne**: I'll ask the clerk to call the role. [39:50] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Rainville. [39:52] **Council Member Michael Rainville**: No. [39:53] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chavez. [39:54] **Council Member Jason Chavez**: Aye. [39:55] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Vetaw. [39:56] **Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw**: Aye. [39:57] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Wanssley. [39:58] **Council Member Robin Wonsley**: Aye. [39:59] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Jenkins. [40:00] **Council Member Andrea Jenkins**: Aye. [40:01] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Palmisano. [40:02] **Council Member Linea Palmisano**: Aye. [40:03] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chowdhury. [40:04] **Council Member Aurin Chowdhury**: Aye. [40:05] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Cashman. [40:06] **Council Member Cashman**: Aye. [40:07] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Vice President Chughtai. [40:08] **Council Member Aisha Chughtai**: Aye. [40:09] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: President Payne. [40:10] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Aye. [40:11] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: There are nine ayes and one nay. [40:13] **Council President Elliott Payne**: That carries. The report is adopted and that completes the reports of our standing committees. The next order of business is notice of ordinance introductions. We have two notices today, both from council member Palmisano. First, council member Palmisano gives notice of intent to introduce at our next regular meeting the subject matter of an ordinance amending Administration Code by repealing Chapter 36 in whole to allow for the creation of Arts Commission consistent with appointed boards and commission reform and adding Section 43.50 relating to funding for public art. Second, Council Member Palmisano gives notice of intent to introduce at our next regular meeting the subject matter of an ordinance amending the Administration Code by repealing Chapter 35 in whole to allow for the creation of a Capital Long-Range Improvement Committee consistent with appointed boards and commissions reform. Are there any questions on these notices? I'll recognize council member Palmisano. [41:08] **Council Member Linea Palmisano**: Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just a brief explanation of this work. The repeal of the Capital Long-Range Improvement Committee and the Minneapolis Arts Commission ordinances—they're not about these boards per se. It's about implementation of our new appointed boards and commissions reform ordinance. CLIC and the Arts are Tier 3 bodies in that and they were some of the few that were actually created by ordinance. Our new process calls for a repeal of that and to instead incorporate them by resolution. So, those resolutions will come forward for your consideration at the end of this legislative process for repeal. Um, I can be in touch with all of you about any changes to the format of those boards that have been suggested by staff and we can take it from there. But I understand that there's some concern over massive changes. I don't see these as massive changes. I mostly see this as a format change. They used to be an ordinance and now they're going to be a resolution just like the rest of our appointed boards and commissions. [42:11] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Seeing no one else in queue, those notices are hereby given and no further action is required at this time. The next order of business is the introduction and referral calendar. We have four items on the agenda today. First, pursuant to notice, council members Osman and Chowdhury move to introduce the subject matter of an ordinance amending the license and business regulations code for first reading and referral to the Business, Housing, and Zoning Committee, adding a new Chapter 325 entitled Cannabis Events to establish a process to provide local approval for and to regulate and permit events held by state-licensed cannabis event organizers. Second, pursuant to notice, I move to introduce the subject matter of an ordinance amending the Administration Code for first reading and referral to the Administration and Enterprise Oversight Committee, amending provisions related to city property and resources and use of official time. Third, pursuant to notice, council member Chavez moves to introduce the subject matter of two ordinances amending the Building and Heritage Preservation codes for first reading and referral to the Business, Housing, and Zoning Committee, adding and amending provisions related to requirements associated with the demolition and wrecking of structures. Finally, pursuant to notice, council members Osman and Wonsley move to introduce the subject matter of an ordinance amending the Housing Code for first reading and referral to the Business, Housing, and Zoning Committee amending provisions related to rental dwelling licenses. Mr. Clerk, it shows me moving ordinance associated with city property and resources. Is this the ethics code? [43:57] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Yes. [43:59] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Got it. Okay. Just didn't want to confuse that with the off-duty. May I have a motion to approve these introductions? [44:05] **Council Member**: So moved. [44:06] **Council Member**: Second. [44:07] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Is there any discussion? Council Member Cashman. [44:11] **Council Member Cashman**: Thank you so much, President Payne. I'm really energized by all of these ordinance introductions and referrals coming through and curious to learn more about the goals. And I just was wondering if Council Member Wonsley would give us a brief overview of what the rental license ordinance might include? I ask because there are some landlords in my ward who have been pretty negligent to the point where tenants unions are forming all over Loring Park right now. And there's a couple of owners in particular who I believe don't deserve to have rental licenses from the city given the conditions that they're putting the renters through. So I'm a little curious about what we could do through this ordinance to maybe increase some of the penalties that are being put on landlords who do have a series of inspections showing incomplete maintenance of the building. But if you could just give a brief sense of what you're intending to do with this ordinance, that would be great. [45:18] **Council Member Robin Wonsley**: Yeah, thank you council member Cashman for the question. So we're still very early in the development of this and just the notice. So more than happy to have further conversations offline, but the key intent—if you think of how we approve liquor licenses and where we can raise concerns about certain business practices or conditionally permit those type of opportunities—essentially it would be having a similar process for rental licenses. Because as you highlighted, we've talked about those repeat offender property owners in the individual or piecemeal sense, but to have a place in a committee where we do view them collectively when they're being asked for permission or approval. We would like to see that process move forward. So, again, very early stages, but I would say equate it to the approval and review process of our liquor licenses. [46:11] **Council Member Cashman**: Thank you. That's super helpful. Appreciate it. [46:17] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Seeing no one else in queue, I will ask the clerk to call the role. [46:21] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Rainville. [46:23] **Council Member Michael Rainville**: Aye. [46:24] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chavez. [46:25] **Council Member Jason Chavez**: Aye. [46:26] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Vetaw. [46:27] **Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw**: Aye. [46:28] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Wanssley. [46:29] **Council Member Robin Wonsley**: Aye. [46:30] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Jenkins. [46:31] **Council Member Andrea Jenkins**: Aye. [46:32] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Palmisano. [46:33] **Council Member Linea Palmisano**: Aye. [46:34] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chowdhury. [46:35] **Council Member Aurin Chowdhury**: Aye. [46:36] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Cashman. [46:37] **Council Member Cashman**: Aye. [46:38] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Vice President Chughtai. [46:39] **Council Member Aisha Chughtai**: Aye. [46:40] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: President Payne. [46:41] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Aye. [46:42] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: There are 10 ayes. [46:44] **Council President Elliott Payne**: That item carries. The next order of business is unfinished business. We have one item today which is the consideration of an Earned Sick and Safe Time updated ordinance. This item was referred to the council without recommendation by the Public Health and Safety Committee and then postponed at our last meeting. I will see if either the chair of Public Health and Safety or the author, council member Palmisano would like to speak to this item or make a motion. [47:07] **Council Member Linea Palmisano**: I believe Council Vice President Chughtai is in queue before me and I'm happy to yield to her. [47:14] **Council Member Aisha Chughtai**: Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Council Member Palmisano. So at our previous council meeting I remember sharing with the body that I had some amendments that I had been working on with the City Attorney's office. They were in the process of reviewing those. We had the opportunity to discuss that last week and have parsed out these amendments into things that are going to require a lot more work that kind of need to be separated. I know that's something council member Palmisano has brought up as well. So I think that's in line with her request about not continuing to delay this for months at a time while we work through things that are going to take a substantial amount of time. So with the remaining items that our attorneys can work through more quickly—they just need a little bit more time to get those finalized and make sure that those are parsed out so that we can get this ordinance adopted with the easier to work through amendments first, and then can return to the policy itself at a later date if that's the direction that we want to go in. So with that, I'll make a motion to continue this item by one more cycle. Just wanted to provide my colleagues with all the context. [48:52] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Vice President Chughtai has moved to continue this for another cycle. Is there a second to that? [48:57] **Council Member**: Second. [48:58] **Council Member Linea Palmisano**: Thank you, Mr. Chair. If there are small changes that we can provide in this next cycle from our City Attorney that are not part of the larger body of work that needs to be deeply analyzed, and they do feel pretty confident that they can be ready with those, I am agreeable to one more delay until our council meeting on September 11th. Council member Chughtai can maybe provide more insight into what those small changes are; she has not yet shared them with me. Though through conversation with the City Attorney, I understand they are small, albeit they are deviations from state ordinance. For example, no longer exempting farmers in our version of the ordinance as the state does. Now there are not many farmers in our city with employees, but to the extent that there are, I am reluctantly willing to wait one more cycle. Unfortunately it's a 3-week cycle and I will say yet again I do not want to hold up this initial work. It was about two years worth of staff work for possibly several months. So, I appreciate council member Chughtai's willingness to separate some of the deeper things here and bring that forward when it's ready. But to the extent we can accommodate some of these small changes, I will agree to this one more time. Thank you. [50:38] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Seeing no one else in queue, I'll ask the clerk to call the role on the continuation of this item for one more cycle. [50:44] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Rainville. [50:45] **Council Member Michael Rainville**: Aye. [50:46] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chavez. [50:47] **Council Member Jason Chavez**: Aye. [50:48] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Vetaw. [50:49] **Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw**: Aye. [50:50] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Wanssley. [50:51] **Council Member Robin Wonsley**: Aye. [50:52] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Jenkins. [50:53] **Council Member Andrea Jenkins**: Aye. [50:54] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Palmisano. [50:55] **Council Member Linea Palmisano**: Aye. [50:56] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Chowdhury. [50:57] **Council Member Aurin Chowdhury**: Aye. [50:58] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Council member Cashman. [50:59] **Council Member Cashman**: Aye. [51:00] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: Vice President Chughtai. [51:01] **Council Member Aisha Chughtai**: Aye. [51:02] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: President Payne. [51:03] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Aye. [51:04] **City Clerk Casey Carl**: There are 10 ayes. [51:05] **Council President Elliott Payne**: That carries. And that item will be continued. We will now move to new business. Today we have receipt of the mayor's 2026 recommended budget which was presented on August 13th. I will recognize the Budget Committee chair, Vice President Chughtai, for a motion on this item. [51:19] **Council Member Aisha Chughtai**: Thank you, Mr. President. I am so thrilled to move to refer the mayor's recommended 2026 budget to the Budget Committee for its review and consideration. [51:31] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Vice President Chughtai has moved to refer consideration of the 2026 budget to the Budget Committee. May I have a second to that motion? [51:38] **Council Member**: Second. [51:40] **Council President Elliott Payne**: That has been moved and seconded. Are there any questions or comments from council? Seeing none, all those in favor say Aye. [51:48] **Council Members**: Aye. [51:50] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Opposed say Nay. Any abstentions? That carries. And the mayor's 2026 recommended budget has been referred to the Budget Committee. Our next order of business is announcements. Are there any announcements from council members? [52:03] **Council Member Aurin Chowdhury**: I do. Well, we don't have our next meeting until September 11th. So, I'm just going to first say that the Monarch Festival, the 17th annual Monarch Festival is on Saturday, September 7th, just east of the Lake Nokomis Community Center. And it's going to be amazing. There's going to be food, music, dance, hands-on art, native plants, a lot of work to kind of talk about the cultural connection between the migration from Minnesota to Mexico of the monarch butterflies, and I'll be tabling there. So, please come on and stop by. And also, today is Council Member Robin Wonsley's birthday. You thought someone was going to mention that. It's literally today. So, happy birthday. I think we should sing. [53:01] **Council Members**: (Singing) Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday dear Robin. Happy birthday to you. [53:18] **Council Member Aurin Chowdhury**: Now in Spanish! [53:23] **Council Member Robin Wonsley**: Yeah, I know. A for effort. A for effort. Thank you. [53:37] **Council President Elliott Payne**: Y'all have many talents besides singing. But yes. With that, we've completed our business today with nothing further to come before the council. And without objection, this meeting is hereby adjourned.