[0:32] Elliott Payne: GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE. MY NAME IS ELLIOTT PAYNE I'M THE PRESIDENT OF MINNESOTA CITY COUNCIL. WE ARE PLEASED TO WELCOME GUESTS TO THIS SPACE TO SHARE THESE PRESENTATION BEFORE TAKING UP OUR AGENDA. I WILL INVITE COUNCIL MEMBER KOSKI TO GIVE THE FIRST PRESENTATION HONORING [1:20] KATHY. [3:00] Emily Koski: (PAUSE.) ALL RIGHT. WELL, GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE. WE ARE HERE THIS MORNING TO HONOR KATHY WAIT AND HONESTLY I'M JUST -- I'M, LIKE, EMOTIONAL AS WE SAW SO MANY PEOPLE CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH THIS SPACE ALL HERE TO HONOR YOU TODAY. [3:22] AND SO I LEARNED LAST-MINUTE AND I GASPED AND SHOULD BE SURPRISED BECAUSE YOU SPENT 30 YEARS SUPPORTING OUR CITY BUT I KNEW WE COULDN'T WAIT TO MAKE SURE WE HONORED YOU AND THE WORK YOU'VE DONE TO SUPPORT WOMEN IN THIS FIELD IS UNLIKE ANYBODY I KNOW. AND WE'RE GOING TO HEAR ABOUT A LOT OF OTHER THINGS AS WELL. [3:50] SO I APPRECIATE THE EVERYONE THAT'S HERE. I KNOW YOUR FAMILY IS HERE, TOO AND SO MANY OTHERS BUT I'M GOING TO GET STARTED. SO HONORING KATHY WAIT FOR HER SERVICE AND DEDICATION TO THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS WHEREAS, KATHY WAITE ECONOMIC ACHIEVEMENTS INCLUDE A BACHELOR OF ARTS IN SOCIOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGICALLY, AND A MASTER OF ARTS IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION. [4:10] BOTH EARNED FROM HAMLIN UNIVERSITY IN ST. PAUL UNDERSCORING HER DEDICATION TO PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND HER ROLE AS A WELL-ROUNDED LEADER IN THE FIELD PUBLIC SAFETY. [4:20] Council Member: AND WHEREAS AT THE BEGINNING OF HER DISTINGUISHED CAREER WITH THE MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT, WAIT SOLEMNLY SWORE TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA AND THE CHARTER AND ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. SHE PLEDGED TO SAFEGUARD LIFE, PROTECT THE COMMUNITY AND UPHOLD INDIVIDUAL RIGHT AND -- [4:35] Council Member: WHEREAS, THROUGHOUT HER CAREER, WAIT SERVED WITH DIGNITY, RESPECT AND A DEEP LOVE FOR OUR COMMUNITY. EXEMPLIFYING THE -- EXEMPLIFYING THE HIGHEST INTEGRITY AND DEDICATION TO HER [4:56] OATH OF OFFICE AND -- [4:58] Council Member: WHEREAS,, WAIT DEDICATED 30 YEARS OF UNWAVERING AND EXEMPLARY SERVICE TO THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS, A REMARKABLE TESTAMENT TO HER STEADFAST COMMITMENT TO AND LOVE FOR THE COMMUNITY AND WHEREAS THROUGHOUT HER CAREER, WAIT HAS ASSENTED THROUGH THE RANKS SERVING AS AN OFFICE LIEUTENANT INSPECTOR DEPUTY CHIEF AND COMMANDER REFLECTING THE EXCEPTIONAL LEADERSHIP AND DEDICATION AND -- [5:20] Council Member: WHEREAS, WAITE EARLY SERVICE -- SERVICE INCLUDE A PIVOTAL ROLES IN THE FOURTH PRECINCT NARCOTICS UNIT THE SAFE [5:45] UNIT ALONG WITH HER WORK AS AN INVESTIGATOR IN BOTH THE JUVENILE UNIT AND INTERNAL FARED UNIT AND HER DEDICATION TO VARIOUS CRIMINAL ASPECTS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AND AS A LIEUTENANT WHEREAS, AS LIEUTENANT WAIT SERVED WITH DISTINCTION IN BOTH THE FIRST AND SECOND PRECINCTS AS WELL AS THE SPECIAL OPERATIONS DIVISION SEVERE WEATHER OVERSAW THE K9 AND TRAFFIC UNITS -- WHERE SHE OVERSAW THE K9 AND TRAFFIC UNITS AND OVERSAW THE S.W.A.T. CRISIS NEGOTIATING TEAM AND ULTIMATELY LEADING THE TEAM AND DEMONSTRATING HER LEADERSHIP AND EXPERTISE IN HIGH STAKES SITUATIONS. [6:22] Council Member: AND WHEREAS, AS AN INSPECTOR WAIT SERVED BOTH THE SECOND AND 6TH PRECINCTS FURTHER ENHANCING HER LEADERSHIP CAPABILITIES AND WHEREAS, AS THE FIFTH PRECINCT INSPECTOR WAIT WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MPD CORESPONDIR UNIT WHICH PAIRS A UNIFORMED OFFICER WITH A UNANIMOUS CONSENT PROFESSIONAL AND THROUGH HER LEADERSHIP IN THIS INITIATIVE AND HER ACTIVE INVOLVEMENT IN MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMS, WAIT HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED FOR HER SIGNIFICANT EFFORTS TO IMPROVE MENTAL HEALTH RESPONSES WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT ENSURING BETTER OUTCOMES FOR THE COMMUNITY AND THE OFFICERS ALIKE. [7:01] Council Member: AND WHEREAS, AS A LEADER IN THE DEPARTMENT, WAIT WAS A STRONG PROPONENT OF OFFICER WELLNESS RECOGNIZING THE IMPORTANCE OF MENTAL AND PHYSICAL WELL-BEING FOR THOSE WHO SERVE IN LAW ENFORCEMENT. HER COMMITMENT TO THIS CAUSE IS EXEMPLIFIED BY HER EFFORT IN FACILITATING CLASSES FOR OFFICERS OF THE FIFTH PRECINCT, PROVIDING THEM WITH VALUABLE TOOLS TO MANAGE STRESS AND MAINTAIN OVERALL HEALTH. [7:23] AND WHEREAS WAITE EXCEPTIONAL LEADERSHIP AND EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE LED TO HER PROMOTION TO DEPUTY CHIEF OF PATROL WHERE SHE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR OVERSEEING PATROL OPERATIONS ACROSS THE CITY'S 5 POLICE PRECINCTS IN MANAGING HUNDREDS OF OFFICERS. AND -- [7:44] Council Member: WHEREAS, WAIT HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED FOR HER SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROMOTING MORE WOMEN INTO LEADERSHIP POSITIONS WITHIN THE MPD, FURTHER ADVANCING DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT AND WHEREAS WAIT SERVED AS THE COMMUNITY SERVICE OUTREACH COMMANDER A ROLE IN WHICH SHE LED IN STRENGTHENING COMMUNITY RELATIONS AND ENHANCING PUBLIC SAFETY THROUGH OUTREACH PROGRAMS AND COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS WITH COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS AND -- [8:10] Emily Koski: WHEREAS, KATHY WAIT WAS A TRAIL BLAZING, IMPACTFUL INNOVATIVE LEADER IN THE MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT WHOSE SERVICE MADE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON PUBLIC SAFETY AND THE COMMUNITY. NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE MAYOR AND THE CITY COUNCIL DO HEREBY COMMEND COMMANDER KATHY WAIT FOR HER EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE AND STEADFAST DEDICATION TO THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. WE EXPRESS OUR PROFOUND GRATITUDE AND ADMIRATION FOR HER MANY ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON THE MINNESOTA POLICE DEPARTMENT THE CITY WISHES BEST WISHES AND CONTINUED SUCCESS IN ALL HER FUTURE ENDEAVORS. [8:54] (APPLAUSE.) WELL, IT'S HARD TO PUT 30 YEARS HERE. SO WE WOULD LOVE TO HERE FROM OTHERS IF THEY WOULD LIKE TO SAY A FEW WORDS AND THEN ALSO FROM YOU, KATHY, TOO. [9:13] Kathy Wait's Brother: I AM KATHY'S BROTHER. SO FAR SO GOOD. (LAUGH.) [9:13] IT DOESN'T GET MUCH BETTER FOR ME. IT'S A TITLE THAT I WEAR TODAY IN MY WHOLE LIFE WITH SUCH HONOR FOR THE PERSON WHO SHE IS, THE CAREER SHE'S HAD AND THE IMPACT SHE'S HAD ON ALL OF OUR LIVES INCLUDING MYSELF. I'VE NEVER BEEN PROUDER OF ANYONE IN MY LIFE, NOT JUST FOR HER BEING MY SISTER BUT MY PARENTS HAVE PASSED -- OUR PARENTS, AND MY MOM'S BIRTHDAY WOULD HAVE BEEN 72 YEARS TODAY. [9:39] AND THIS IS SUCH A WONDERFUL WAY TO HONOR KATHY AND THEM AND I DON'T HAVE ADEQUATE WORDS TO SHARE WHAT THEY WOULD BE FEELING RIGHT NOW OTHER THAN THEIR HEARTS WOULD HAVE BEEN FULL. THANK YOU. (APPLAUSE.) [9:56] Emily Koski: ANYBODY ELSE WANT TO SHARE A FEW WORDS? CHIEF? [10:00] Brian O'Hara: THANK YOU, KATHY. OBVIOUSLY ANYONE WHO GIVES 3 DECADES OF THEIR LIVES, YOU KNOW, SO RELENTLESSLY DEDICATED TO THE CITY DENVER THIS HONOR AND THERE'S NO QUESTION THAT YOU DO. [10:18] HE JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FROM ME COMING HERE 2 YEARS' AGO, YOU WERE ABSOLUTELY 100% LOYAL TO YOUR OATH THE ENTIRE TIME AND I THINK PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW HARD YOU WORKED EVERY SINGLE DAY, 24 HOURS A DAY, LITERALLY. AND JUST INCREDIBLY DEDICATED TO WHAT WE DO, SO FROM ME, FROM ALL THE HELP THAT YOU HAVE ALWAYS GIVEN ME, EVEN NOW AFTER YOU'RE RETIRED, STILL SHOWING UP, AT EVENTS WITH US, WE APPRECIATE YOU, WE LOVE YOU AND CONGRATULATIONS AND ENJOY THE NEXT CHAPTER. THANK YOU. (APPLAUSE.) [10:59] Michael Rainville: KATHY, WE FIRST MET 14 YEARS AGO WHEN YOU WERE A LIEUTENANT AT THE SECOND PRECINCT AND YOU'RE ALWAYS SO SUPPORTIVE OF COMMUNITY POLICING. COPS ON BIKES, BEAT COPS -- WELL, I WASN'T INVOLVED SO I COULD SPEAK TO THAT. (LAUGH.) [11:19] Michael Rainville: THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER VETAW. I APPRECIATE THE ALL THE HELP YOU GIVE ME. [11:22] LaTrisha Vetaw: ANY TIME. [11:24] Michael Rainville: ALL THE TIME, YES ALL THE TIME. BUT I HAVE TO TELL A CUTE LITTLE STORY. THERE WAS A BUSINESS ASSOCIATION MEETING AT EAST HENNEPIN AND WE WERE WAITING FOR YOU TO COME, WAITING, WAITING AND WHERE IS THE HECK IS INSPECTOR WAIT AND KATHY SHOWS YOU AND APOLOGIZED BEING LATE WHEREAS, SOMEONE SPED BY IN THE OPPOSITE LANE AND YOU THOUGHT YOU CAN'T DO THAT IN MY PRECINCT AND YOU FOLLOWED THEM AND GAVE THEM A TICKET. THAT'S GREAT. THAT'S WHO YOU WERE. [11:56] YOU DID EVERYTHING AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SERVICE OF 30 YEARS. (APPLAUSE.) [11:58] Linea Palmisano: IT'LL BE HARD TO START CALLING YOU KATHY. INSPECTOR WAIT, COMMANDER WAIT, DEPUTY CHIEF WAIT, I'LL JUST CALL YOU CHIEF IN AN HONORIARIUM TYPE OF RESPECT. I THINK -- I REMEMBER SOME OF THE SOME OF THE FIRST THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT YOU WHEN WE FIRST MET AND IT WAS AN INTRODUCTION TO PEOPLE IN THE FIFTH PRECINCT. IT WAS A WARD FORUM SPONSORING KATHY WAIT AND HER LIFE, COME LEARN, YOU KNOW, SOME KIND OF -- ABOUT HER, HER PHILOSOPHY, THAT KIND OF THING. [12:38] AS SHE STARTED HER ROLE AT THE TIME AS INSPECTOR OF THE FIFTH PRECINCT. AND SHE WAS SO WARM AND PERSONABLE AND I DON'T THINK PEOPLE QUITE BELIEVED SHE WAS ABOUT IS TAKE THIS ROLE IN LEADERSHIP AND SHE WAS SO VERY CAPABLE IN IT AND SHE TALKED ABOUT HER BACKGROUND IN EDUCATION AND HER SOCIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY AND SOME OF THE ROLES SHE HAD IN POLICING OVER THE YEARS AND REALLY WOWED THIS CROWD IN A WINTER-BASED CHURCH BASEMENT WHERE A LOT OF PEOPLE HAD SHOWN UP TO LEARN FROM AND HEAR ABOUT THEN INSPECTOR WAIT. [13:12] I HAVE SEEN THAT IN SPADES. I MEAN, I THINK SOME OF THE REASONS WHY WE DON'T ALL FULLY UNDERSTAND AND APPRECIATE ALL THE THINGS THAT YOU'VE DONE HERE IS BECAUSE YOU'RE ALWAYS DOING IT WITH KIND OF A SMILE AND A WINK AND KIND OF HERE WE GO. IT'S OKAY. YOU'VE MADE ME MORE CONFIDENT AS A LEADER AND I THINK YOU'VE DONE THAT TO SO MANY OTHER WOMEN AROUND HERE. [13:34] AND YOU'VE DONE SO WITH PERSONAL STORIES. I WON'T SHARE SOME OF THE STORIES THAT YOU SHARED WITH ME DURING MY PREGNANCY ABOUT YOUR PREGNANCY AND WORKING DURING THAT TIME. (LAUGH.) BUT AND MY KID ARE WAY YOUNGER THAN YOURS BUT THEY ARE HUMOROUS -- YOU PACK THEM WITH HUMOR AND THEY WERE ALL REALLY TOUGH. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR TAKING SO GOOD CARE OF EVERYBODY IN OUR CITY AND ALSO ALL OF THE PEOPLE THAT YOU CAN WITH. IT MEANS A LOT TO ALL OF US. (APPLAUSE.) [14:14] Elliott Payne: MY FIRST OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH YOU WAS ON THE 911 MPD WORKGROUP AND I THINK THAT STARTED, I THINK, BACK IN 2019 AND THAT GREW INTO WHAT WE NOW KNOW AS THE BEHAVIORAL CRISIS RESPONSE AND IT WAS A MAJOR, MAJOR, MAJOR OPERATIONAL LIFT FOR THE CITY AND FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND FOR OUR ABILITY TO SHOW UP FOR OUR COMMUNITY AND I KNOW WE COULD NOT DO THAT WITHOUT YOUR DEDICATION AND EXPERTISE AND WE'RE GRATEFUL AS A RESULT OF YOUR GREAT WORK SO THANK YOU. (APPLAUSE.) [14:52] LaTrisha Vetaw: THANK YOU, I'LL BE QUIT. THANK YOU SO MUCH COMMANDER WAIT, FOR YOUR EXPERTISE FOR YOUR HUMILITY YOU ARE ONE OF THE MOST HUMBLE PEOPLE I'VE EVER MET IN MY LIFE. WHEN I GOT DOWN IN CITY HALL AND WAS CONFUSED ABOUT SOME THINGS. A LOT OF PEOPLE -- A LOT OF PEOPLE FROM NORTH MINNEAPOLIS SAID YOU SHOULD TALK TO KATHY WAIT AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I DID AND YOU DID A FANTASTIC JOB OF HELPING THE WARD FOR YOUR TEAM NAVIGATE THROUGH SOME SITUATIONS SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. I'M FOREVER APPRECIATIVE OF YOUR SERVICE AND MORE THAN ANYTHING YOUR FRIENDSHIP, YOU KNOW, YOU ARE SUCH A SWEETHEART. YOU REALLY ARE. I'VE NEVER SEEN YOU OUTSIDE IN THIS DRESS STUFF. [15:36] IT'S ACUTE. I LOVE IT. IT'S SUPER CUTE. I'M ALL ABOUT THE OUTFIT. YOU'RE ROCKING IT COMMANDER, I LOVE IT. IT'S NICE TO SEE THAT. IT'S REALLY COOL TO SEE YOU JUST LIKE THIS. THANK YOU. AND THANK YOU TO COMMANDER WAITE FAMILY FOR ALLOWING HER TO SERVE -- TO SERVE US IN THIS WAY. I THINK PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW HARD THE ON FAMILIES TO GIVE OF YOUR FAMILY IN THIS WAY. I'M JUST GOING TO END WITH I HOPE MY BROTHER SPEAKS OF ME LIKE THAT ONE DAY. BECAUSE I HAVE A BROTHER AND THAT WAS SO COOL. [16:14] THANK YOU, THANK YOU. (APPLAUSE.) [16:16] Emily Koski: I THINK YOU'RE UP, KATHY. [16:22] Kathy Wait: I MEAN, WOULD LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU TO EVERYONE. IT'S BEEN MY HONOR TO SERVE THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS AND ITS RESIDENTS AND BUSINESS PEOPLE. [16:35] IT'S BEEN AN ADVENTURE FOR THE LAST 30-PLUS YEARS AND I COULDN'T HAVE DONE IT SO SUCCESSFULLY WITHOUT CERTAINLY MY FAMILY, MY HUSBAND WHO'S STILL ON THE JOB HERE SERVING THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. MY GIRLS WHO TOLERATED ALL THE PHONE CALLED AND -- PHONE CALLS AND HERE, YOU TEXT WHILE I'M DRIVING. (LAUGH.) [16:57] AND THEY HAVE JUST BEEN A GREAT LEVEL OF SUPPORT AS WELL. ALL MY FAMILY MEMBERS AND DEAR FRIENDS, THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING TODAY AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO, YOU KNOW, ALL THE COMMUNITY THAT CONTINUES TO SUPPORT ALL OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT BOTH SWORN AND CIVILIAN. IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE CONTINUE TO INVEST IN OUR PEOPLE, OUR CIVILIANS, ARE REALLY THE BACKBONE OF SO MUCH WHAT WE DO WHO DON'T GET NEARLY THE CREDIT THEY DESERVE AND THE SACRIFICES THEY ARE SWORN STAFF MAKE HAVE BEEN MONUMENTAL AND AT TIMES VERY HARD FOR US FOR OVERCOME. [17:36] WE WILL CONTINUE TO WORK TOGETHER AND WE'LL BECOME BETTER EACH DAY SO I THANK YOU ALL AND THANK YOU FOR THIS HONOR. (APPLAUSE.) [21:02] Aurin Chowdhury: SO NEXT WITH HER GOING TO -- ALL RIGHT. LET'S GET IN FORMATION ALL RIGHT. (LAUGH.) OKAY. ALL RIGHT. SO THIS MORNING COUNCIL MEMBER CHAVEZ AND I AS THE LEADERSHIP OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY COMMITTEE HAVE THE DISTINCT HONOR OF HONORING ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE MINNEAPOLIS FIRE DEPARTMENT FOR THEIR COURAGE AND SERVICE AND REMEMBERING THE MINNESOTA FIREFIGHTERS WHO HAVE DIED IN THE LINE OF DUTY. SO I'LL START OFF WITH THE RESOLUTION LANGUAGE. SO WHEREAS, THE MINNEAPOLIS FIRE DEPARTMENT WAS ESTLISHED IN. [21:39] 1879 AND WHEREAS THE MINNEAPOLIS FIRE DEPARTMENT 434 ACTIVE DUTY FIREFIGHTERS AND WHEREAS THE MINNEAPOLIS FIRE DEPARTMENT RESPONDED TO 58,139 CALLS IN 2023 WITH RESCUE AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE, CALLED MAKING UP 56.7% OF THE CALLS IN 2023 AND WHEREAS FIREFIGHTERS DEMONSTRATE UNWAVERING COURAGE, SELFLESSNESS AND RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF DANGER EXEMPLIFYING THE HIGHEST IDEALS OF SURFACE TO OTHERS AND COMMITMENT TO PUBLIC SAFETY AND WHEREAS THE MINNEAPOLIS FIRE DEPARTMENT PLAYS A VITAL ROLE IN SAFEGUARDING THE RESIDENTS, VISITORS AND PROPERTIES OF [22:24] MINNEAPOLIS, RESPONDING TO EMERGENCIES WITH PROFESSIONALISM, SKILL AND CAPACITY AND WHEREAS -- [22:31] Jason Chavez: THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE MINNEAPOLIS FIRE DEPARTMENT CONTINUALLY DEMONSTRATE THEIR READINESS TO CONFRONT OF CHALLENGES INCLUDING FIRES, MEDICAL EMERGENCIES, NATURAL DISASTERS AND HAZARD INCIDENTS WITH DEDICATION, EXPERTISE AND VALOR. AND WHEREAS DESPITE BEING ON THE FRONTLINES OF HIGHLY DANGEROUS SITUATIONS THANKFULLY THE MINNEAPOLIS FIRE DEPARTMENT HAS HAD EXPIRE DEATHS OF FIREFIGHTERS IN THE LINE OF DUTY IN 2023 OR 2024 AND WHEREAS WE REMEMBER THAT SINCE 1881, 243 MINNESOTFIREFIGHTERS HAVE DIED IN THE LINE OF DUTY FURTHER IN THE 2024 NATIONALLY 23 [23:10] FIREFIGHTERS HAVE -- 32 FIREFIGHTER HAVE DIED NATIONALLY IN 2024 A BURNSVILLE MINNESOTA FIREFIGHTER AND WHEREAS EVER SINCE 2011 HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE HAVE GATHERED ON THE GROUNDS OF THE STATE CAPITAL ON THE LAST SUNDAY IN SEPTEMBER FOR A SOLEMN CEREMONY TO REMEMBER THE MINNESOTA FIREFIGHTERS WHO HAVE DIED IN THE LINE OF DUTY AND WHEREAS THE BRAVE FIREFIGHTERS OF THE MINNEAPOLIS FIRE DEPARTMENT EMBODY SERVICE SACRIFICES AND GUARDIANS OF BEACONS AND INTENSE NEED AND BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL DO HEREBY HONOR AND RECOGNIZE SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29T FIREFIGHTER MEMORIAL SERVICE DAY AND HONOR ALL FIREFIGHTERS FOR THEIR COURAGE AND SERVICE. (APPLAUSE.) [24:04] Aurin Chowdhury: I WANT TO THANK OUR INCREDIBLE FIRST RESPONDERS AND WORK AND COURAGE AND I WANT TO THANK CHIEF TYNER DOOR LEADING THIS DEPARTMENT AND MAKE SURE WE ARE ADDRESSING THOSE SAFETY CONCERNS WE'RE FACING AND THOSE WHO ARE HELPING WITH THE RESOLUTION AS WELL OTHER STAFF IT I'LL FIRST PASS IT TO THE CHIEF. [24:27] Melanie Rucker: FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO THANK YOU AND THE COUNCIL FOR RECOGNIZING US FOR THE WORK THAT WE DO ALL DAY EVERY DAY FOR THE CITIZENS OF MINNEAPOLIS. IT'S NOT EASY AT TIMES BUT THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE MINNEAPOLIS FIRE DEPARTMENT ARE RESILIENT, THEY PERSEVERE AND THEY'RE OUT DOING THE WORK. [24:47] SECONDLY, I'D LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR RECOGNIZING THOSE WHO HAVE MADE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE IN DOING THIS WORK AND HAVE GONE ON BEFORE US. WE WILL BE HONORING THEM ON THE 29TH AS YOU MENTIONED AND SO I ALSO WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THAT. AND LASTLY I WANT TO THANK THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE MINNEAPOLIS FIRE DEPARTMENT HAD WHO ARE DOING THIS WORK EVERY DAY WHO ARE OUT THERE TAKING CARE OF THE CITIES OF MINNEAPOLIS PUTTING OUT THE FIRES, HANDLING THE HAZARDOUS MATERIALS INCIDENTS AND ALL THOSE OTHER THINGS. [25:18] I REALLY DO APPRECIATE THE WORK THAT YOU DO EACH AND EVERY DAY SO THANK YOU. (APPLAUSE.) [25:18] Aurin Chowdhury: THANK YOU, CHIEF. WE'RE GOOD? ANYBODY ELSE? (LAUGH.) [25:27] Fire Dept Representative: BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? I'M NOT EMBARRASSED TO SAY IT. I'LL NEVER TURN DOWN AN OPPORTUNITY TO PRAISE OUR MINNEAPOLIS FIREFIGHTERS, THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE MINNEAPOLIS FIREFIGHTERS THE 102. I DON'T WANT TO PASS UP THAT OPPORTUNITY. [25:49] I JUST WANT TO BUILD UP WHAT THE CHIEF SAID. ONE THING I DO KNOW FOR SURE I'M IN MY 23 QDR GOING INTO THE 24TH THEY DON'T NEED TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED BUT THEY DO WANT TO BE APPRECIATED. WE DON'T ASK FOR THANKS WE MAKE A NICE LIVING AND WE CAN TAKE CARE OF OUR FAMILIES BUT THE ACKNOWLEDGE JUST A MOMENT AND I REALLY APPRECIATE WHAT YOU ARE DOING TODAY. AND THE OTHER PIECE IS NOT TOO LONG AGO, I'LL JUST USE A SCENARIO -- I MEAN, WE LOST A FEW PEOPLE DROPPED OUT OF ROOKIE CLASSES STUFF WE NEVER SAW AND ONE, FOR EXAMPLE, WAS THE WEAR-AND-TEAR AND THE WORRY OF THEIR FAMILY, THE RISKS, THE CANNER RISKS, THE RISK OF FIRE. [26:29] EVENS -- EVEN ACKNOWLEDGING THAT NOT COMFORTABLE OR NOT SURE OF PUTTING THEMSELVES BEFORE OTHERS FOR PEOPLE THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW. WHILE THE FLIP SIDE OUR PEOPLE THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE MINNEAPOLIS FIRE DEPARTMENT DO IT EVERY SINGLE DAY IT MIGHT SEEM NONCHALANT BECAUSE THE RIGS ARE ROLLED OUT AND PEOPLE DON'T KNOW BUT IT'S A SERIOUS, SERIOUS ISSUE WE'VE BEEN INFANT ON THE DEATHS THE INJURIES ARE THERE, THE EXPLOSIONS ARE THERE AND THE CANNERS ARE THERE AND I WILL PASS THIS OFF TO OTHER MEMBERS AND FROM MYSELF AND THEM, I APPRECIATE THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT BY EVERYBODY AND IT DOES MEAN A LOT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. (APPLAUSE.) [27:07] Aurin Chowdhury: ALL RIGHT. SO FORMATION AGAIN FOR THE PICTURE. (LAUGH.) (PAUSE.) [29:16] Jason Chavez: FINALLY, WE WILL WELCOME UP GUESTS TO RECOGNIZE 2024 LATINO HERITAGE MONTH. YEAH, WE HAVE THE TWO LATINO KIDS RIGHT HERE SO WE'RE CELEBRATING LATINO HERITAGE MONTH FOR MINNEAPOLIS. IT'S A REALLY IMPORTANT MONTH FOR OUR COMMUNITY AND BEFORE I BEGIN I'LL PASS TO COUNCIL MEMBER ELLISON AND MAKE SURE ALL OUR STAFF HERE AND INCREDIBLE PARTNERS GET TO READ THE RESOLUTION TOO. [29:34] Jeremiah Ellison: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YOU KNOW, IN THE NARROW WAYS THAT WE SORT OF DEFINE IDENTITY AND RACE AND ALL THAT STUFF YOU'RE KIND OF ONE THING OR ANOTHER AND A LOT OF FOLKS DON'T KNOW MY FAMILY IS LATINO AS WELL AS BEING AFRICAN-AMERICAN AS WELL AS BEING BLACK, YOU KNOW, IT'S DIVERSE COMMUNITY AS EVIDENCED BY THE FOLKS UP HERE AND AS EVIDENCED BY US AND I'M EXCITED TO HONOR TO BE UP HERE AND HONOR THIS WITH YOU ALL. [30:05] Jason Chavez: ALL RIGHT. WHEREAS, THE HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH IS CELEBRATED IN THE UNITED STATES FROM SEPTEMBER 15 TO OCTOBER 15TH AND THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS CELEBRATES IT AS LATINO HERITAGE MONTH WHEREAS, THE TEAM LATINO, LATINO, LATINX, LATTAN -- ARE INCLUSIVE NAMES FOR THE DIVERSE ACTIVE GROUP RECOGNIZED DURING LATINO HERITAGE MONTH AND -- [30:30] Jeremiah Ellison: WHEREAS, DURING LATINO HERITAGE MONTH CELEBRATION WE RECOGNIZE THE ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE FOR SEVERAL LATINO COUNTRIES INCLUDING SEPTEMBER 15TH FOR COSTA RICA, EL SALVADOR, GUATEMALA, HONDURAS AND NICARAGUA SEPTEMBER 16TH FOR MEXICO AND SEPTEMBER 18TH FOR [30:52] CHILE. [30:55] Council Member: AND WHEREAS ACCORDING TO THE 2020 CENSUS, THERE ARE 16,000 LATIN A LIVING IN MINNEAPOLIS. ALMOST 9% OF THE CITY'S POPULATION. STATEWIDE 345,600 PEOPLE IDENTIFIED AS HECHE AND LATINO AND WERE MEANS 16% OF THE STATE'S POPULATION. NATIONWIDE THERE ARE 62 MILLION LATIN A IN THE USA OR ALMOST 19% OF-IT POPULATION AND -- [31:18] Council Member: WHEREAS, MANY LATINOS AND LATINAS HAVE MADE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE WORLD INCLUDING TO THE USA. [31:32] HIGHLIGHTING THOSE WHO HAVE DONE SO AND FOR THE FIRST TIME CAN BE PARTICULARLY INSPIRING. AND -- [31:40] Council Member: AND WHEREAS WE CELEBRATE MEXICAN-AMERICAN THE FIRST LATINA ASTA NAUT TO TRAVEL TO SPACE HER ACHIEVEMENT HAVE BEEN A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION IN STEM FIELDS AND UNDERREPRESENTED COMMUNITIES. [31:55] Council Member: AND THE FIRST UNICEF GOOD WILL AMBASSADOR FROM GUATEMALA IN THE SONG TO WAKING LIGHT SHE SINGS IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH FROM THE GRANTEE MAKING THE UNPREDICTABLE JOURNEY FROM CENTRAL AMERICA TO THE U.S. AND WHEREAS AMERICA PERERA FIRST HONDURAN AMERICAN TO WIN THE EMMY GOLDEN GLOBE AND SHE'S KNOWN AS CHAMPIONING IMPORTANT CAUSES SUCH AS MAKING SURE LATINX REGISTER TO VOTE AND FIGHTING SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE WORKPLACE. [32:35] Council Member: WHEREAS, GEORGE MELENDAS WRIGHT THE FIRST LATINO IN A PROFESSIONAL ROLE IN THE NATIONAL PARKS SERVICE DEEPLY PASSIONATE ABOUT NATURE AND WILDLIFE HE LED EFFORT AT YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK CONDUCTING MULTIPLE STUDIES AND -- WHEREAS, BIG TORRES HE IS TRAAS FIRST DOMINICAN TO WIN THE U.S. OPEN AND JUAN MAR CHAN A SUPREME COURT JUDGE FROM COLOMBIA WHO GAINED NATIONAL ATTENTION WHEN HE PRESIDED OVER THE CASE INVOLVING A FORMER USA PRESIDENT AND -- [33:10] Council Member: WHEREAS, SONIA SOTE MYIA BORN FROM PUERTO RICAN PARENT FIRST [33:24] LATINA COURT JUSTICE IN THE U.S. HISTORY AND LIM MIRANDA FOR HIS GROUNDWORK IN THEATER PARTICULARLY FOR CREATIN AND STARRING IN THE HIT MUSICAL HAMILTON AND WHEREAS HIGHLIGHTING THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY IN THE UNITED STATES INSPIRES US TO TREASURE, HONOR, EMBRACE AND WELCOME THE LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY IN THE UNITED STATES AND RECOGNIZING THE HUMAN POTENTIAL THAT IS WITHIN ALL OF US. [33:54] Jason Chavez: NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL DO eBAY COMMEMORATE LATINO HERITAGE MONTH TO PROTECT VISIONS AND I GUESS COUNTERS BROUGHT FORWARD BY LATINOS THROUGHOUT MINNEAPOLIS AND THE UNITED STATES AND THE WORLD. THANK YOU. (APPLAUSE.) [34:10] AND I KNOW WE HAVE STAFF THAT WROTE THIS RESOLUTION AND DOES IT EVERY YEAR ACKNOWLEDGING THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS SO I DO WANT TO GIVE A BIG SHOUT-OUT FOR THE INCOME CITY STAFF FOR THEIR DEDICATION IN THE CITY AND WE KNOW AS WE LOCK TOWARDS THE COMING YEARS AND MONTHS, THE WORK WE DO GOES BEYOND THIS RESOLUTION AND IMPACTING THE POLICIES OF THE LIVES OF ALL LATINO, LATINA FOLKS IN OUR CITY AND MAKING SURE WE AS A BODY CELEBRATE THOSE EFFORTS AND I DO WANT TO MAKE SURE THE STAFF HAS [34:40] THE OPPORTUNITY TO SAY A FEW WORDS INSTEAD OF JUST READING THE RESOLUTION? OH, NO ONE? YES, THERE WE GO. COOL. OKAY. LET'S SET UP A PHOTO AND WE'D GO FROM THERE AND THEN AS WE MOVE FORWARD WE'LL HAVE -- MY OFFICE IS WORKING ON MAYBE SOME CELEBRATION STUFF NEXT MONTH SO YEAH, COOL. [36:08] Elliott Payne: THANK YOU, EVERYONE, FOR THOSE PRESENTATIONS. AT THIS TIME I'M GOING TO CALL THIS REGULAR MEETING OF CITY COUNCIL FOR SEPTEMBER 19TH TO ORDER. THE CLERK BE WILL CALL THE ROLL. (ROLL CALL.) [36:40] THERE ARE 13 MEMBERS PRESENT. [36:44] LET THE RECORD REFLECT 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 REALTIME CAPTIONING AS A FURTHER METHOD TO INCREASE THE ACCESSIBILITY OF OUR PROCEEDINGS. AND 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 COMMENT. [37:15] WITH THAT, THE AGENDA FOR TODAY'S MEETING IS BEFORE US. ARE THERE ANY AMENDMENTS TO THE AGENDA? I'M NOT SEEING ANY. MAY I HAVE A MOTION TO ADOPT THE AGENDA? [37:30] Council Member: SO MOVED. [37:32] Council Member: SECOND. [37:34] Elliott Payne: THE CLERK WILL CALL THE ROLL. (ROLL CALL.) THERE ARE 13 AYES. [37:49] THAT CARRIES AND THE ITEM IS ADOPTED AND THE NEXT IS I'D ENTER A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE MINUTES FROM LAST MONTH. [37:58] Council Member: SO MOVED. [38:00] Council Member: SECOND. [38:02] Elliott Payne: (ROLL CALL.) THERE'S 13 AYES. [38:25] WE HAVE THE COMMUNICATIONS AND REPORTS TO PROPER COMMUNITIES MAY I HAVE THAT MOTION PLEASED. [38:35] Council Member: SO MOVED. [38:37] Council Member: SECOND. [38:39] Elliott Payne: THE CLERK WILL CALL THE ROLL. (ROLL CALL.) THERE ARE 13 AYES. [38:50] THAT CARRIES AND THE MATTER HAS BEEN REFERRED. THE NEXT ORDER OF BUSINESS IS PRESENTATION OF REPORTS AND THOSE ARE TAKEN IN ALPHABET CALL ORDER GIVING WITH THE ENTERPRISE AND OVERSIGHT SITE WHICH WILL BE PRESENTED BY ITS CHAIR, COUNCIL MEMBER WONSLEY. [39:09] Robin Wonsley: THANK YOU, ENTERPRISE OVERSIGHT COMING IS BRINGING 34 ITEMS FOR APPROVAL. THE FIRST IS AN APPOINTMENT OF CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONERS. 2 IS A PASSAGE OF RESOLUTION FOR ELECTION JUDGES DEPUTY CITY CLERK FOR THE 2024 ELECTION. [39:26] 3 IS A PASSAGE OF RESOLUTION FOR GIFT ACCEPTANCE FROM ITALIAN POLICE DEPARTMENT OF TRAVEL EXPENSES. FOUR IS A PASSAGE OF RESOLUTION FOR GIFT ACCEPTANCE FROM THE NORTH AMERICAN BIOCHAR COUNCIL OF TRAVEL AND LODGING EXPENSES. [39:41] 5 IS A PASSAGE OF RESOLUTION FOR GIFT ACCEPTANCE FROM INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION MUCH CRIME ANALYSTS OF TRAVEL -- OF CRIME ANALYSTS OF TRAVEL EXPENSES. 5 IS GIFT ACCEPTANCE FROM THE HUNT INSTITUTE EARLY CHILDHOOD POLICY FELLOWSHIP OF TRAVEL AND LODGING EXPENSES. [39:59] 7 IS DATA REQUESTS PROCESS STAFF DIRECTION. 8 IS A NEIGHBORHOOD SAFETY DEPARTMENT MANAGEMENT UPDATES LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE. NO. 9 IS PROCUREMENT PRACTICES FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION CONTRACTS LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE. 10 IS BID FOR FIRST AVENUE SOUTH RECONSTRUCTION GREEN STORM WATER INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT. NO. 11 IS BID FOR MINNEAPOLIS CONVENTION CENTER BALLROOM CARPET REPLACEMENT PROJECT. [40:23] 12 IS BID FOR HILTON RAMP WATERPROOFING PROJECT. 13 IS BID FOR LARGE DIAMETER SEWER CURED IN PLACE PIPE LINING 2024 PROJECT. 14 IS BID FOR MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC WORKS, TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES. 15 IS COUNCIL ACTION AMENDMENTS RELATED TO A BID FOR LEAD SERVICE LINES REPLACEMENT. [40:46] 16 IS COUNCIL ACTION AMENDMENT RELATED TO A CONTRACT FOR PARTNERSHIP ENGAGEMENT FUND PROJECT. 17 IS MASTER CONTRACTS FOR 2025-THROUGH 2027 CONVENTION CENTER AND TARGET CENTER CONSULTING POOL. 18 IS CONTRACT WITH VARIOUS VENDORS FOR SECURITY SERVICES FOR FINANCE AND PROPERTY SERVICES. [41:10] NO. 19 IS CONTRACT WITH DELTA DENTAL OF MINNESOTA FOR DENTAL INSURANCE SERVICES. 20 IS CONTRACT WITH BRIDGE HEALTHCARE PARTNERS FOR SCHOOL-BASED CLINIC REVENUE CYCLE MANAGEMENT SERVICES. 21 IS CONTRACT WITH WORKDAY, INC., FOR ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING SYSTEM. [41:26] 22 IS A CONTRACT WITH CURE VIOLENCE GLOBAL FOR MINNEAPOLIS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. *- INITIATIVE 23 IS RICE LAKE CONSTRUCTION GROUP FOR FILTER PLANT REHABILITATION PROJECT. [41:42] 24 IS CDM SMITH FOR FRIDLEY FILTER PLANT REHABILITATION PROJECT. 25 IS CONTRACT AMENDMENT FOR DEB GARVEY COMMUNICATIONS LLC FOR WEBSITE SERVICE CONTRACTING. 26 IS CONTRACT AMENDMENTS WITH VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS TO FINISH COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAMS IN RESPONSE TO ILLICIT OPIOID ABUSE. [42:03] 27 IS CONTRACT AMENDMENT WITH DATA NET SYSTEMS CORPORATION FOR A SPEAKER MANAGEMENT MODULE. 28 IS A CONTRACT AMENDMENT WITH MESINGER CONSTRUCTION CO, INC., FOR THE CONVENTION CENTER EXHIBIT HALL DOOR EXHIBIT. 29 IS CONTRACT AMENDMENT WITH SHAW LUNDQUIST ASSOCIATES FOR CITY HALL RESTACK PHASE 3C. [42:25] NO. 30 IS CONTRACT AMENDMENT FOR N HARRIS COMPUTER CORPORATION FOR UPGRADES FOR THE UTILITY BILLING SYSTEM. 31 CONTRACT AMENDMENTS FOR VARIOUS VENDORS FOR ADDITIONAL MATERIALS, LABOR, EQUIPMENT NECESSARY. 32 IS CONTRACT AMENDMENT WITH MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY FOR COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT AT 3121 PILLSBURY AVENUE. AT 315 LOWRY AVENUE NORTH. [42:50] 33 IS A CONTRACT AMENDMENT WITH SOUNDTHINKING NO, I THINK FOR GUNSHOT LOCATION SYSTEM AND THEN 34 IS GIFT ACCEPTANCE FROM ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY OF TRAVEL AND LODGING EXPENSES. I WILL MOVE ALL ITEMS FOR APPROVAL WITH PULLING NO. 33 FOR SEPARATE VOTE AND DISCUSSION. [43:11] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER WONSLEY HAVE MOVED APPROVAL OF THE REPORT MINUS ITEM NO. 33. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION ON THE REMAINDER OF THE ITEMS? COUNCIL MEMBER PALMISANO PAM? [43:30] Linea Palmisano: MR. CHAIR, QUICK ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE ON ITEM NO. 34. THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS WALKED ON TO EEO COMMUNITY TO CONSIDER BEFORE THE TRIP ACTUALLY HAPPENED AND I NOTICED WITH COUNCIL VICE PRESIDENT CHUGHTAI'S ASSISTANCE THAT ED'S NAME IS MISSPELLED IN NO. 34 IT'S HIS FIVE NASTY, EIFFLERAIRAMEO IS CORRECT AND MAKE THAT SMALL CLERICAL CHANGE I WOULD APPRECIATE IT. [43:56] Elliott Payne: CAN I GET CONFIRMATION FROM THE CLERKS? MR. CLERK? [44:00] Casey Carl: YES, WE'RE GOOD. [44:02] Elliott Payne: OKAY, VICE PRESIDENT CHUGHTAI? [44:04] Aisha Chughtai: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. I JUST WANTED TO BRIEFLY SPEAK ON A COUPLE OF ITEMS. THE FIRST ONE BEING ITEM NO. 15 WHICH IS A BID FOR LEAD SERVICE LINE REPLACEMENTS. AND I WANTED TO JUST TAKE A MOMENT TO THANK ONE OF MY CONSTITUENTS ABIGAIL HORNBERGER WHO WORKED INCREDIBLY HARD AT THE LEGISLATURE BACK IN 2023 TO INCREASE INVESTMENTS IN REPLACING LEAD SERVICE LINES AND I WANTED TO THANK THEM FOR THEIR WORK. [44:44] Elliott Payne: SEEING NO one ELSE IN QUEUE, I WILL ASK THE CLERK TO CALL THE ROLL ON ALL ITEMS EXCEPT ITEM NO. 33. (ROLL CALL.) [45:10] THERE ARE 13 AYES. [45:13] THAT CARRIES AND THOSE ITEMS ARE ADOPTED. NEXT WE WILL TAKE UP ITEM NO. 33 AND I WILL CALL ON COUNCIL MEMBER WONSLEY. [45:18] Robin Wonsley: THANK YOU, PRESIDENT PAYNE. SO FOR THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS THERE'S BEEN ONGOING CONVERSATION IN THE AEO COMMITTEE FOR A NEED FOR MORE DATA TO UTILIZE THE SHOT SPOTTER PROGRAM AND THIS LED JUST EVEN US LAST CYCLE TO PASS STAFF TO CARRY OUT AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION AND TO DO FURTHER INTERNAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE PROGRAM AND I THINK THAT'S A RECOGNITION OF US NEEDING MORE, YOU KNOW -- NEEDING TO MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS AS WE'RE MAKING [45:58] INVESTMENTS AROUND TOOLS AROUND OUR PUBLIC SAFETY SYSTEM. WITH THAT SAID I'M GRATEFUL FOR MY COLLEAGUES PARTICULARLY COUNCIL MEMBER ELLISON AS WELL AS THE STAFF AND POLICY RESEARCH AND IN THE MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT WHO MET AND ENGAGED WITH OUR OFFICES FOR THE PAST SEVERAL WEEKS TO TALK ABOUT BOTH THIS NEED FOR INDEPENDENT EVALUATION AS WELL AS FOR WORKING WITH US AND SOUNDTHINKING TO COME UP WITH A MODIFIED CONTRACT PROPOSAL WE'RE CONSIDERING TODAY THAT GIVE US AN OPTION TO EXTEND OUR SHOT SPOTTER PROGRAM FOR ABOUT 18 MONTHS. WHILE WE CONDUCT THAT THOROUGH ANALYSIS SO THAT WHEN WE DO REVISIT THIS PROGRAM AT THE END OF ITS EXPIRATION IN MARCH OF 2026, WE WILL HAVE MORE [46:45] SOUND INCREDIBLE AND OBJECTIVE DATA AROUND ITS CREATION. I WANT TO JUST SAY THANK YOU TO THE STAFF AS WELL AS MY MY COLLEAGUES ESPECIALLY COUNCIL MEMBER ELLISON FOR GETTING US TO THIS POINT HERE TODAY. [46:45] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER CASHMAN? [46:47] Katie Cashman: THANK YOU, PREDS PAYNE. I WANT TO THANK CHAIR WONSLEY AND VICE-CHAIR PALMISANO. FOR BRINGING BOTH THE STAFF DIRECTIVE AND THE LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE TO STUDY THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THIS TECHNOLOGY AND I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE OFFICE OF COMMUNITY SAFETY FOR ANSWERING MANY QUESTIONS FROM ME ABOUT HOW FALSE ACVATIONS WOULD BE IN THE LORING PARK NEIGHBORHOOD AND WE HAVE A LOT OF HIGH RIDESES AND WE HAVE A HIGHWAY AND SO I WAS WARY OF THAT EFFECT WITH THE EXPANSION OF A SHOT SPOTTER COMING INTO MY [47:31] NEIGHBORHOOD INTO WARD 7 FOR THE FIRST TIME. I'LL BE SUPPORTING THE EXPANSION AND EXTENSION OF SHOT SPOTTER TODAY UNTIL MARCH 2026. I THINK IT'S APPROPRIATE FOR US TO REVISIT THE CONTRACT AT THAT ONCE WE HAVE THE DATA COMING BACK TO US. [47:49] AND I ALSO, YOU KNOW, ADVOCATE FOR THIS EXPANSION INTO MY NEIGHBORHOOD AS IT'S SUCH A HOT SPOT OF GUN VIOLENCE SHOWING THE DATA THAT THE DEPARTMENT BROUGHT FORWARD WITH THEIR REQUESTS. SO WITH THAT, I'LL JUST MOTION TO APPROVE THIS ITEM. [48:08] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER PALMISANO? [48:10] Linea Palmisano: THANK YOU, COLLEAGUES. THIS PROCESS FOR SHOT SPOTTERS EXTENSION AND EXPANSION HAS TAKEN SEVERAL MONTHS AND I NEED TO SAY OUT LOUD THAT IT'S FELT LIKE IT WAS BEING PURPOSELY SLOWED DOWN THE ENTIRE WAY THROUGH THE PROCESS. SOME OF THAT IS ABOUT CONSIDERATION AND FULL VETTING. BUT CERTAINLY NOT ALL OF IT. [48:37] I LOOK FORWARD TO THE RESULTS OF BOTH THE LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE AND THE STAFF REPORT ON THE USE AND EFFECTIVENESS OF SHOT SPOTTER AND TECHNOLOGY. * OF SOUNDTHINKING TECHNOLOGY. I SUPPORTED THE REVIEW BY COUNCIL MEMBER WONSLEY AND I AUTHORED AN INTERNAL REVIEW TO BE ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN THAT WE WERE USING THIS DIFFERENTLY THAN OTHER COMMUNITIES HAVE USED IN THE PAST AND CONCERNS HAVE BEEN VOICED IN COMMITTEE AND IN THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAYS. [49:04] TO THAT END, STUDIES TAKE TIME. AND I DON'T SUPPORT THIS SHORTENING OF THE CONTRACT. WE TALK ALL THE TIME ABOUT ASKING FOR MORE DATA. LISTENING TO THE NUMBERS AND MAKING DATA-DRIVEN DECISIONS. THAT WAS OPTION 1. THAT WAS THE FULL EXPANSION AND THE FULL AMOUNT OF THE TWO YEARS OF TIME. [49:27] CARVE-OUTS FOR PARTICULAR AREAS IS NOT HOW WE SHOULD BE ACTING AS A BODY WHO'VE COMMITTED TO REPRESENTING THE BEST INTERESTS OF OUR ENTIRE CITY AND IT IMPACTS THE ENTIRE CITY. WE ARE HERE NOT TO MAKE DECISIONS LIKE WE OWN FIEFDOMS. IT IS ABOUT HOW WE MAKE DECISIONS FOR THE BEST OF THE WHOLE CITY. [49:45] I WILL END UP SUPPORTING THIS TODAY BUT I WANT TO BE ON THE RECORD THAT I STILL GREAT PREFER THE FULL EXPANSION AND THE FULL TIME ON THIS CONTRACT. UNFORTUNATELY,, THAT OPTION DIDN'T EVEN ADVANCE OUT OF COMMITTEE. I WANTED WANTED TO ADVANCE IT WITHOUT RECOMMENDATION SO WE COULD ALL ON THIS ENJOYED MAKE THAT DECISION TOGETHER AND THAT DIDN'T MOVE FORWARD SO SOMETHING IS BETTER THAN NOTHING HERE. [50:10] BUT I DO WANT TO POINT OUT MY DISAPPOINTMENT ON HOW THIS THIS TRANSPIRED. [50:10] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER OSMAN? [50:12] Jamal Osman: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT. I WANT TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE PUBLIC THAT WE ARE EXPANDING AND EXTENDING THE CONTRACT OF SHOT SPOTTER. I SPOKE TO THE CHIEF AND HE TOLD ME IT'S AVAILABLE TO HAVE THIS TECHNOLOGY TO MAKE SURE WE ARE SAVING LIVES AND, YOU KNOW, AND IT PROVIDES A CRITICAL DATA FOR THE MPD TO DO THEIR WORK. [50:49] AS MY WARD HAD SHOT SPOTTERS SO WE'RE NOT TAKING THAT AWAY. I'VE BEEN GETTING SOME EMAILS SOMEHOW COUNCIL IS TAKING AWAY SHOT SPOTTER TECHNOLOGY. SHOT SPOTTER TECHNOLOGY IS HERE TO STAY AND WE ACTUALLY EXPANDED SOME OF THE HOTSPOTS IN MY DISTRICT SO I PHILLY SUPPORT THIS. AND -- FULLY SUPPORT THIS AND WE NEED TO EXTEND THE CONTRACT WHICH WE DID. FULLY SUPPORT THIS. AND - FULLY SUPPORT THIS AND WE NEED TO EXTEND THE CONTRACT WHICH WE DID. BUT I JUST WANTED TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE PUBLIC THAT SHOT SPOTTER HAS BEEN EXTENDED AND EXPANDED ON THIS ITEM. THANK YOU. [51:25] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER ELLISON? [51:27] Jeremiah Ellison: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU -- WHEN YOU HAVE A TECHNOLOGY LIKE THIS AND BEFORE YOU HEALTHY SKEPTICISM BOTH IN THE COMMUNITY AND ON THE DIAS. I THINK IF YOU'RE GOING TO CONTINUE WITH THE SERVICE IT'S GOOD TO GET SOME ANSWERS. I THINK WE BUILT A PROCESS WHERE WE CAN GET SOME ANSWERS ABOUT WHAT THIS TECHNOLOGY DOES AND DOES NOT DO AND, YOU KNOW, I'M SOMEBODY WHO WALKED INTO THIS PROCESS AS A HEAVY SKEPTIC OF THIS TECHNOLOGY, BUT, YOU KNOW, WE ALL KNOW WE DON'T REPRESENT OURSELVES UP HERE WE REPRESENT OUR COMMUNITIES AND IN NORTH MINNEAPOLIS AND I HEARD FROM MY CONSTITUENTS THEY WANT TO HEAR THIS TECHNOLOGY INTACT AND THEY WANT TO UNDERSTAND BETTER HOW THIS TECHNOLOGY WORKS AND SO, YOU KNOW -- AND SO HOW -- I KIND [52:10] OF HAD TO WRESTLE WITH HOW DO I MEET IN THE MIDDLE HERE? A LONG EXTENSION OF THE CONTRACT, A MASSIVE EXPANSION THAT DOESN'T REALLY CALL INTO QUESTION THAT JUST ASSUMES THAT THIS WORKS THE WAY WE WANT IT TO AND DOESN'T VET WHETHER OR NOT IT DOES, I FELT LIKE WASN'T GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT I WAS COMFORTABLE WITH BUT VOTING JUST PURELY NO ON THE EXPANSION -- VOTING NO, FLATLY NO DIDN'T SEEM IT WOULD BE IN SERVICE OF THE COMMUNITY THAT WE MET. I FEEL LIKE I APPRECIATE STAFF HAVING CONVERSATIONS WITH COUNCIL MEMBERS AND FIGURING OUT HOW DO WE MAKE SURE THAT WE GET THE ANSWERS WE NEED TO GET IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS TECHNOLOGY DOES AND DOESN'T DO. [52:47] AND THE WAYS IT'S EFFECTIVE AND NOT EFFECTIVE. AND THE SERVICE IS STILL GROWING. IT'S JUST GROWING MORE MODERATELY. THE CONTRACT IS STILL EXTENDED. IT'S JUST EXTENDED MORE MODERATELY AND SO I THINK THIS IS -- I THINK THIS SHOULD BE A WAY FOR US TO MEET EACH OTHER HALFWAY AS A COUNCIL, MEET EACH OTHER HALFWAY AS STAFF AND COUNCIL AND GET OUT OF THIS BINARY OF, LIKE, YES TO THIS TECHNOLOGY, NO TO THIS TECHNOLOGY BUT WHAT DOES THIS DO? AND HOW CAN WE PROCEED IN A WAY THAT IS DILIGENT AND INFORMATION-DRIVEN AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT THIS PROPOSAL DOES. [53:22] SO I'LL BE SUPPORTING COUNCIL MEMBER CASHMAN'S MOTION AND I ABSOLUTELY WANT TO THANK THE CHAIR OF AO, COUNCIL MEMBER WONSLEY AND SORT OF USHERING THIS PROCESS ALONG. [53:22] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER CHAVEZ? [53:24] Jason Chavez: THANK YOU, PRESIDENT PAYNE. [53:38] THIS IS STILL EXPANDING SHOT SPOTTER INTO MINNEAPOLIS. THIS IS STILL PRESERVING SHOT SPOTTER IN THE CURRENT LOCATIONS. I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE SHIFTING OF GOALPOSTS HERE. AND DESPITE OF SHIFTING OF GOALPOSTS I WANT TO BE CLEAR THIS DOES LEAD TO THE OVERPOLICING OF NEIGHBORHOODS OF COLOR. [54:00] I'LL BE SUPPORTING THIS TODAY DESPITE THE CONCERNS OF OVERPOLICING PEOPLE OF COLOR IN THESE NEIGHBORHOODS. BUT I WANT TO BE CLEAR, THIS IS STILL EXPANDING. THIS IS STILL KEEPING THE CURRENT CONTRACT IN PLACE. BUT IT IS GOING TO BE AN EFFORT TO POLICE PEOPLE OF COLOR. [54:18] THE OTHER THING I WANT TO SAY HERE IF WE WANT TO REDUCE GUN VIOLENCE IN OUR CITY WHICH I BELIEVE WE SHOULD AND WE BE FIGHTING GUN VIOLENCE AT EVERY TURN WE SHOULD BE IMPLEMENTING THE PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE SET TO REDUCE GUN VIOLENCE IN OUR CITY. [54:34] I WORKED ON A BUDGET AMENDMENT TO REDUCE GUN VIOLENCE AND TWO NEIGHBORHOODS IN NORTH MINNEAPOLIS THAT PASSED IN NOVEMBER. WE'RE STILL THERE THAT PROGRAM STILL HAS NOT BEEN IMPLEMENTED. LET'S TALK ABOUT REDUCING GUN VIOLENCE AND ALSO LET'S BE REAL ABOUT THE SITUATION HERE. [54:50] I HAVE SHOT SPOTTER IN MY NEIGHBORHOODS AND PEOPLE ARE STILL GETTING SHOT WHERE SHOT SPOTTERS IS AT. IT'S NOT GOING TO STOP PEOPLE FROM BEING SHOT AND KILLED, INTERVENTION, HEALING, REDUCING AND GETTING THESE GUNS OFF THE STREET IS WHAT'S ACTUALLY GOING TO REDUCE GUN VIOLENCE BUT SHOT SPOTTER IS NOT GOING TO DO THAT AND I'M NOT GOING TO PRETEND AND LIE TO MY RESIDENTS AND I HAVE SHOT SPOTTER IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD AND PEOPLE ARE STILL DROPPING LIKE FLIES. I'LL BE SUPPORTING IT DESPITE MY CONCERNS OVERPOLICING PEOPLE OF COLOR AND IMMIGRANTS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND THE LACK OF DATA THAT IT SHOWS THAT IT WORKS. THANK YOU. [55:26] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER CHOWDHURY? [55:28] Aurin Chowdhury: THANK YOU, PRESIDENT PAYNE. I'LL KEEP MY REMARKS BRIEF. I JUST WANTED TO SAY I REALLY APPRECIATED THE WORK OF THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS ON THIS ONE OVER THE PAST FEW WEEKS. PERSONALLY I THINK YOU SPENT A VERY ADEQUATE AMOUNT OF TIME TO DO YOUR DUE DILIGENCE ON THIS. [55:43] I'M REALLY GRATEFUL TO THE LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE THAT WE WERE ABLE TO PASS LAST COUNCIL CYCLE TO HAVE AN INDEPENDENT ANALYSIS ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SHOT SPOTTER. FRANKLY, I WAS SO SURPRISED THAT WE WEREN'T ALREADY DOING THIS TYPE OF EVALUATION TO UNDERSTAND IF THIS WAS HELPING POLICE INVESTIGATIONS. IF THIS WAS IMPACTING RESPONSE TIMES. IF THIS WAS REDUCING GUN VIOLENCE IN BLACK AND BROWN, INDIGENOUS NEIGHBORHOODS. IT IS SHOCKING TO ME THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE THIS OVERSIGHT TOOL OVER A CONTRACT WE POUR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS INTO. GOOD GOVERNANCE REQUIRES GOOD DATA. AND I SEE THIS APPROACH TODAY AS US STEPPING FORWARD AND SAYING: WE'RE GOING [56:29] TO DO GOOD GOVERNANCE. AND I WAS VERY SKEPTICAL ABOUT THE EXPANSION OF THE SHOT SPOTTER PROGRAM ESPECIALLY LOOKING AT OUR CITY ACROSS THE RIVER WHO DECIDEDLY SO DID NOT DO SHOT SPOTTER. I HEARD FROM MY RESIDENTS THERE IS DEFINITELY DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEWS THERE BUT ONE THING THAT WAS REALLY CLEAR WAS: WE WANT YOU TO LOOK INTO THIS. [56:53] WE WANT YOU TO BE ABLE TO GIVE US AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT'S WORKING HERE AND THEN ALSO GO FURTHER AND FIGURE OUT HOW DO WE REDUCE GUN VIOLENCE IN OUR CITIES BECAUSE A TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM ISN'T GOING TO BE THE THING THAT'S GOING TO GET GUNS OFFER OF THE STREETS AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE HERE. AND I THINK COUNCIL MEMBER CHAVEZ VERY WELL ARTICULATED HOW -- HOW THAT WORKS. [57:16] I APPRECIATE THIS MODERATE MODERATE APPROACH TODAY. I'M HAVING SOME TROUBLE MYSELF IN IT EVEN VOTING FOR THAT BUT I -- I SEE ALL THE WORK THAT WENT TOWARDS THIS AND I WILL BE VOTING IN SUPPORT OF THIS AND I LOOK FORWARD TO GETTING THE DATA AND INFORMATION BACK ON THE EFFICACY OF SHOT SPOTTER IN THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. [57:39] Elliott Payne: I ADDED MYSELF TO QUEUE JUST BECAUSE I WANTED TO THANK COUNCIL MEMBER WONSLEY AND ELLISON FOR YOUR WISDOM ON THE APPROACH HERE. I ALSO WANT TO THANK COUNCIL MEMBER PALMISANO FOR INITIATING LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE TO LOOK INTERNALLY AND TO EVALUATE THIS TECHNOLOGY. I'M A BIG SKEPTIC OF THIS TECHNOLOGY. [57:59] I'M A BELIEVER OF CIVIL LIBERTIES. I WORRY ABOUT THE POTENTIAL FOR GOVERNMENT TO HAVE LISTENING DEVICES INSTALLED ACROSS A CITY. I KNOW WHAT IT'S SUPPOSED TO DO. IT'S SUPPOSED TO DETECT GUNSHOTS IN TRIANGRY LATIONS AND MY DEMO OF MY FIRST TOUR OF 911 IN FOR MY FIRST TERM, STAFF IS REALLY EXCITED TO SHOW THE TECHNOLOGY. THE VERY FIRST CLIP THEY SHOWED WAS THE SOUND OF RAINDROPS HITTING THE MICROPHONE TRIGGERING AN ACTIVATION OF THE DEVICE. [58:37] I REPRESENT A COMMUNITY THAT HAS THE LOWEST CALLS FOR SERVICED. -- FOR SERVICE. IF WE HAD THESE MICROPHONES PEPPERED THROUGHOUT MY WARD, I WOULD GUARANTEE YOU WE WOULD HAVE MUCH MORE ACVATIONS AND MUCH MORE POLICE PRESENCE AS A RESULT OF ONE OF THE LARGER INTERMODAL TRAIN YARDS IN THE MIDWEST. THEY'RE COUPLING TREES ALL THE TIME AND THERE'S LOTS OF BANGING NOISES THAT I'M PRETTY SURE WOULD TRIGGER A SHOT SPOTTER INCIDENT. [59:05] I DO WONDER ABOUT THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THIS TECHNOLOGY AND I THINK THAT THIS APPROACH WILL GIVE US THE ANSWER TO THOSE QUESTIONS. WE DON'T HAVE TO GO OR THESE KIND OF ANECDOTAL STORIES OF A COUNCIL MEMBER SEEING RAINDROPS ACTIVATING SHOT SPOTTER. WE CAN ACTUALLY GET SO COMPREHENSIVE DATA TO ACTUALLY RECOGNIZE THE EFFICACY. [59:27] AND AS COUNCIL MEMBER CHAVEZ SHARED, THIS IS NOT ABOUT DETECTING GUNSHOTS. THIS IS ABOUT REDUCING GUN VIOLENCE. THAT'S THE GOAL THAT WE NEED TO HAVE. IF THIS TECHNOLOGY HELPS US GET THERE, I'M ALL -- I'M ALL EARS TO THAT BUT OUR GOAL SHOULD BE TO REDUCE GUN VIOLENCE AND WE NEED TO CONNECT THOSE DOTS. [59:46] THOSE DOTS ARE NOT CONNECTED RIGHT NOW. VICE PRESIDENT CHUGHTAI? [59:48] Aisha Chughtai: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. YOU KNOW, I JUST WANTED TO SHARE ON THIS -- ON THIS AMENDMENT THAT WE KNOW IN MINNEAPOLIS, LIKE ALL MAJOR CITIES IN OUR COUNTRY, WE'RE FACING AN EPIDEMIC OF GUN VIOLENCE AND IT HAS A DISPROPORTIONATE HARM ON OUR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR AND OUR DISINVESTED COMMUNITIES. AND WE ALSO KNOW THAT -- THAT REPORTS ON THE EFFECTIVENESS AND THE ACCURACY OF SHOT SPOTTER VARIES FROM CITY TO CITY AND MINNEAPOLIS IS NO DIFFERENT. [1:00:28] I AM SUPPORTING THIS CONTRACT AMENDMENT TODAY. WHICH HAS, YOU KNOW, TO BE CLEAR BEEN BROUGHT FORWARD BY CITY STAFF AFTER EXTENSIVE COLLABORATION BETWEEN COMMISSIONER BARNETT AND COUNCIL MEMBER WONSLEY SO THAT WE CAN HAVE A REAL EVALUATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SHOT SPOTTER WHILE NOT REMOVING WHAT IS A SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT IN THAT THE CITY IS MAKING TO AT LEAST TRACK GUN VIOLENCE IN OUR CITY. [1:00:59] I AM INCREDIBLY GRATEFUL FOR COUNCIL MEMBER WONSLEY'S LEADERSHIP AS THE CHAIR OF OUR ADMINISTRATION AND ENTERPRISE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE AS WELL AS COUNCIL MEMBER ELLISON'S. YOUR DUE DILIGENCE AND YOUR COLLABORATION WITH THE OFFICE OF COMMUNITY SAFETY AND WITH COMMISSIONER BARNETT HELPED US GET TO THIS PLACE AND HELPED US TO BE ABLE TO MOVE IN A THOUGHTFUL AND DATA-DRIVEN MANNER. [1:01:26] ADDITIONALLY, THOUGH, I JUST WANT TO NAME AS WE'RE HAVING THIS DISCUSSION AND AS WE HAD DISCUSSION ON THIS ITEM IN COMMITTEE, THAT THE WORDS WE CHOOSE MATTER. AND THE IMPLICATION THAT THERE WAS SOME SORT OF INTENTIONAL HOLDUP BY THIS BODY OR MEMBERS OF THIS BODY ON THIS CONTRACT ARE -- ARE FALSE. THE FACT IS THIS CONTRACT WITH SOUNDTHINKING, INC.,, WITH SHOT SPOTTER EXPIRED IN MARCH THIS YEAR AND IT TOOK THE ADMINISTRATION 5 MONTHS TO BRING FORWARD THEIR INITIAL [1:02:11] CONTRACT EXTENSION HE PROPOSAL WHICH, YOU KNOW, WE DELAYED A CYCLE AND HAD EXTENSIVE DISCUSSION ON; RIGHT? BUT 5 MONTHS TO 2 WEEKS AND THEN WHICH WE WHEN THAT GOT TO THE FOLLOWING CYCLE IT WAS THE ADMINISTRATION THAT ASKED FOR AN ADDITIONAL DELAY BY THE CYCLE SO THEY COULD GET THE FINAL DETAILS OF THE CONTRACT. -- IRONED OUT. [1:02:33] SO, YOU KNOW, I JUST WANT TO SAY IT'S JUST DISINGENUOUS TO CAST DOUBT ON MEMBERS OF THIS BODY AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE SPREAD OF MISINFORMATION THAT THESE ARE JUST THE FACTS ON HOW -- HOW THE TIMING WORKED ON THIS CONTRACT. THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. [1:02:49] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER VETAW? [1:02:51] LaTrisha Vetaw: THANK YOU. I JUST WANT TO -- THIS HAS BEEN A FRUSTRATING CONVERSATION WITH ME THIS YEAR BECAUSE I THINK THERE'S SOME FALSE INFORMATION WHY AND HOW WE USE SHOT SPOTTER. SO ONE OF THE THINGS I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I SAY I DON'T THINK I'VE EVER HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH PEOPLE IN MY WARD WHERE THEY THINK SHOT SPOTTER STOPS GUN VIOLENCE BUT WHAT THEY DO BELIEVE SHOT SPOTTER TRACKS GUN VIOLENCE. IT JEN WAITS REPORTS FOR US TO FIGURE OUT WHERE HOTSPOTS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS IS AND IT JEN WAITS OPPORTUNITIES TO FIND OUT WHAT KINDS OF WEAPONS ARE BEING [1:03:34] USED IN THESE INCIDENTS OF GUN VIOLENCE. YOU KNOW, I'VE HAD SO MANY CONVERSATIONS IN MY WARD WITH MY PRECINCT OFFICERS AROUND, YOU KNOW, NOT GETTING ONE 911 CALL FOR AN INCIDENT WHEN SOMEBODY HAS BEEN SHOT BUT SHOT SPOTTERS WENT OFF AND THEY'VE BEEN ABLE TO GO AND SAFE SOMEONE'S LIFE. SO IF ONE PERSON'S LIFE IS BEING SAVED, I THINK IT'S WORTH IT. YOU KNOW, THERE'S JUST A RECENT INCIDENT THIS SUMMER WHERE A FATHER WAS SHOT IN NORTH MINNEAPOLIS WITH HIS TWO CHILDREN IN THE CAR. [1:04:06] NOT ONE CALL CAME IN BUT SHOT SPOTTER WENT OFF AND THEY WERE ABLE TO GO FIND HIM AND GO GET HIS KIDS INTO A SAFE SITUATION. I'M PROUD OF THAT. I'M PROUD TO SAY I SUPPORT SHOT SPOTTER IF THAT HAPPENS. I MEAN, IF YOU LOOK AT THE HISTORY OF SHOT SPOTTER, IT HAPPENED BECAUSE A YOUNG MAN WAS SHOT -- A REALLY YOUNG CHILD WAS SHOT IN MINNEAPOLIS OVER 20 YEARS AGO AND WAS HIDING IN SOME BUSHES AND NO ONE KNEW IT AND THE COMMUNITY RALLIED AROUND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO GET THIS TECHNOLOGY. SO IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE DON'T SIGHT OF WHAT WE'RE ACTUALLY LOOKING FOR HERE. [1:04:43] I WOULD NEVER SAY THAT THIS STOPS GUN VIOLENCE. PEOPLE STOP GUN VIOLENCE. YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE A GUN AND WE WILL NOT DEAL WITH GUN VIOLENCE BUT WHAT SHOT SPOTTER DOES IS TELLS US WHAT THAT IN OUR WARDS AND WHAT. I WANT THAT -- I WANTED THAT FOR MY WARD. I HAVE VERY DIFFERENT CONVERSATIONS IN WARD 4 WITH FOLKS ABOUT SHOT SPOTTER. MY CONVERSATIONS ARE CAN WE HAVE THEM IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD? [1:05:08] COUNCIL MEMBER VETAW, THEY DON'T WANT THEM IN CERTAIN PARTS OF THE CITY, IS IT POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO GET IT OVER HERE? IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD HERE MORE. THE DATA DIDN'T SHOW WE NEEDED MORE SHOT SPOTTERS IN MINNEAPOLIS BUT IF IT HAD I WOULD HAVE DEFINITELY SUPPORT IT BECAUSE IT MAKES -- REGARDLESS OF HOW WE FEEL AS INDIVIDUALS IT MAKES PEOPLE FEEL SAFE. IT MAKES PEOPLE FEEL -- THE TECHNOLOGY MAKES PEOPLE FEEL LIKE THEY HAVE A TOOL THAT IS HELPFUL ESPECIALLY KNOWING THE NUMBERS OF POLICE OFFICERS WE HAVE ON THE STREETS RIGHT NOW. [1:05:43] TECHNOLOGY JUST GOING TO BE OUR FRIEND. WE HAVE TO USE IT IN THE BEST WAYS POSSIBLE WITH LITTLE FLUB. -- THE NUMBERS. I JUST WANT TO SAY I'VE NEVER HAD a CONVERSATION WITH ANYONE WHO SAID THAT SHOT SPOTTER IS GOING TO STOP GUN VIOLENCE BUT IT DOES IDENTIFY WHERE THINGS ARE HAPPENING. THANK YOU. [1:06:01] Elliott Payne: SEEING NO FURTHER DISCUSSION, I'LL ASK THE CLERK TO CALL THE ROLL. (ROLL CALL.) [1:06:29] THERE ARE 13 AYES. [1:06:32] THAT CARRIES AND THE FULL REPORT IS ADOPTED. NEXT WE'LL HAVE THE REPORT FROM OUR BUDGET COMMITTEE WHICH WILL BE GIVEN BY THAT COMMITTEE'S CHAIR COUNCIL MEMBER CHUGHTAI. [1:06:44] Aisha Chughtai: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. THE COMMITTEE IS BRINGING TWO ITEMS FOR APPROVAL BEFORE I DETAIL THOSE ITEMS AND MOVE APPROVAL OF THEM, I WILL SHARE FOR THE RECORD THAT THE BUDGET COMMITTEE HAS BEEN INCREDIBLY BUSY THIS CYCLE RECEIVING OUR FIRST DEPARTMENTAL PRESENTATIONS DIGGING INTO MAYOR FREY'S 2025-2026 RECOMMENDED CITY BUDGET WILL. [1:07:06] SO FAR IN THE BUDGET OVERVIEW WE'VE RECEIVED PRESENTATIONS IN RAIN SHOWERS ASSESSING CIVIL RIGHTS, COMMUNICATIONS 311 SERVICE CENTER, INFORMATION -- AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENTS ALONG WITH THE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY IMPROVEMENT PLAN BUDGETS WHICH TOTAL NEARLY $157 MILLION OUT OF OUR OVERALL 1.9 BILLION DOLLAR RECOMMENDED BUDGET. [1:07:34] WE HAVE 3 PUBLIC HEARINGS THAT ARE SCHEDULED ON THE RECOMMENDED BUDGET AND THE FIRST OF THOSE IS COMING UP THIS UPCOMING MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23RD AT 6:05 PM IN THESE CHAMBERS. WE HAVE STARTED OUR PUBLIC HEARING CALENDAR A LOT SOONER THIS YEAR THAN WE HAVE HISTORICALLY SO THAT WE ARE BEST ABLE TO INCORPORATE THE FEEDBACK WE ARE HEARING FROM MINNEAPOLIS RESIDENTS. [1:07:58] IN ADDITION TO THAT, SECOND PUBLIC HEARING WILL TAKE PLACE ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12TH AT 10:00 AM IN THESE CHAMBERS AND THE FINAL ONE WILL TAKE PLACE ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10TH AT 6:05 PM AFTER WHICH WE WILL ADOPT THE CITY BUDGET FOR 2025. [1:08:16] THE TWO ITEMS THE COMMITTEE IS BRINGING FORWARD ARE 1, THE PASSAGE OF A RESOLUTION AMENDING THE APPROPRIATION RESOLUTION AND DESIGNATING FUNDS WITHIN THE NEIGHBORHOOD SAFETY DEPARTMENT'S BUDGET TO REDUCE VIOLENCE WHERE HOMICIDES OR SECOND DEGREE ASSAULTS HAVE OCCURRED IN THE LAKE STREET CULTURAL DISTRICT AND THE SECTION OF LAKE STREET FROM CEDAR AVENUE TO HIAWATHA AVENUE. [1:08:40] AND ITEM NO. 2 IS PASSAGE OF RESOLUTION TRANSFERRING $1.5 MILLION FROM THE CONTINUING SI ACCOUNT TO THE COMMUNITY PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT TO PROVIDE A GRANT TO AGAT HOUSING AND SERVICES FOR THE REHABILITATION OF AGATE'S BOARD AND LODGE TRANSITIONAL HOUSING SHELTER FACILITY AT 510 SOUTH 8TH STREET. I WILL MOVE APPROVAL OF THESE ITEMS. I UNDERSTAND THERE IS A SUBSTITUTE TO ITEM NO. 2 THAT'S BEING BROUGHT FORWARD BY THE AUTHORS IN ADDITION AS WELL AS ANOTHER LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE BY COUNCIL MEMBERS RAINVILLEVILLE, PALMISANO AND VETAW AND THERE IS [1:09:26] SO WITH THAT IN MIND, MR. PRESIDENT, I'LL ASK THAT WE TAKE THESE ITEMS UP ONE AT A TIME AND TAKE UP DISCUSSION. [1:09:26] Elliott Payne: VICE PRESIDENT CHUGHTAI HAS MOVED TO TAKE UP BUDGET ITEMS IN TURN AND WE WILL START WITH BUDGET ITEM NO. 1. I HAVE FOLKS IN QUEUE FOR THE FULL REPORT. DO WE WANT TO RESET OUR CUE OR COUNCIL MEMBER CHAVEZ DO YOU WANT TO SPEAK OF ITEM NO. 1? [1:09:48] Jason Chavez: I ALSO WANT TO TALK ABOUT BOTH ITEMS BUT I KNOW COUNCIL MEMBER CHUGHTAI HAS AN AMENDMENT TO ITEM NO. 1. I'LL LET HER TALKING ABOUT THAT AMENDMENT AND THEN ON THE PROPOSAL. [1:10:10] Elliott Payne: I'LL ASK COUNCIL MEMBER CHUGHTAI SPEAK TO THE AMENDMENT OF ITEM NO. 1. [1:10:15] Aisha Chughtai: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL MEMBER CHAVEZ. I -- THIS AMENDMENT WHICH IS NONE OF IT OF YOU AT THE DIAS TODAY TO THE LAKE STREET CULTURAL SERVICES AMENDMENT -- IT ADDS A SECTION OF LAKE STREET FROM PILLSBURY AVENUE TO LYNDALE AVENUE SOUTH SO THE LAKE STREET CULTURAL DISTRICT ENDS AT PILLSBURY AVENUE ON WESTLAKE STREET SO IT COVERS ABOUT HALF OF THE CARMEL MALL AREA. AND THEN -- SO THIS IS AN EXPANSION TO LYNDALE AVENUE TO ADDITIONALLY -- TO ADDITIONALLY COVER ALL OF CARMEL MALL AND THE CULTURAL CENTER. [1:10:55] I JUST WANT TO EXPLAIN A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHERE THIS IS COMING FROM. THERE IS AN URGENT NEED FOR CRITICAL EMERGENCY SERVICES IN THESE BLOCKS THAT ARE OUTLINED IN THIS AMENDMENT. [1:11:11] MY OFFICE AND MY COMMUNITY IS REALLY THE STRUGGLING RIGHT NOW WITH AN UPTICK IN GUN VIOLENCE IN THIS SPECIFIC AREA AND, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE ABOUT 4 SPECIFIC INCIDENTS THAT HAVE HAPPENED IN THE SPAN OF JUST A COUPLE WEEKS IN THAT AREA THAT HAVE RESULTED IN THE LOSS OF LIFE AND GUN VIOLENCE IN THIS COMMUNITY. AND TO ME THIS IS PATCHY -- THIS IS PARTICULARLY ALARMING BECAUSE OF THE DENSITY OF YOUTH AND CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 18 THAT LIVE IN THAT AREA ALONG WITH A LARGE DENSITY OF ELDERS THAT LIVE IN THE AREA, OUR [1:11:57] IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY, OUR MUSLIM COMMUNITY THAT HAVE BEEN AFFECTED SO SIGNIFICANTLY BY THIS UPTICK IN VIOLENCE AND THERE AREN'T A LOT OF RESOURCES THAT ARE BEING DIRECTED TO THIS AREA. I KNOW THAT -- THAT COMMUNITY MEMBERS COMMUNITY LEADERS, MY OFFICE HAS BEEN IN IT TOUCH WITH THE MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT ABOUT HOW WE ADDRESS ADDITIONAL RESOURCES INTO THIS COMMUNITY BUT UNDERSTANDING THOSE STAFFING SHORTAGES AND WANTING TO BE A LOT MORE PROACTIVE IN ADDRESSING THESE ISSUES I WANTED TO INCLUDE THOSE FOUR BLOCKS SINCE WE'RE ALREADY ADDING SOME ADDITIONAL RESOCES INTO THAT AREA. [1:12:37] I'VE HAD A CHANCE TO TALK TO COUNCIL MEMBER CHAVEZ ABOUT THIS YESTERDAY AND I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS WOULD WORK IN THE VISION THAT HE HAS AND THE UNIQUE WAYS TO ADDRESS IN WARD 9 AND WARD 8 AND THE ENTIRE LAKE STREET CORNERED. [1:12:56] SO WITH THAT I WILL MOVE THIS AMENDMENT AND ASK FOR A SECOND. [1:13:08] Council Member: SECOND. [1:13:10] Elliott Payne: VICE PRESIDENT CHUGHTAI HAS MOVED TO AMEND ITEM NO. 1. IT'S BEEN SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER CHAVEZ. I WILL CALL ON COUNCIL MEMBER CHAVEZ. [1:13:12] Jason Chavez: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT PAYNE. AS WE TALKED ABOUT THIS IN DISCUSSION ON MONDAY BUT JUST I THANK YOU ALL FOR SUPPORTING THIS BUDGET PROPOSAL TO BRING MORE SAFETY SERVICES DOWN THE LAKE STREET CORRIDOR AND THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOODS. THIS IS SOMETHING MY RESIDENTS HAVE BEEN ASKING FOR AND WAYS TO DO INTERVENTION PREVENTION HEALING SERVICES AND GIVING DIRECTION FOR THE OFFICE OF COMMUNITY SAFETY AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD SAFETY DEPARTMENT TO DECID WHAT IS BEST USED IN THAT AREA. IF IT'S FILES INTERRUPTERS THAT IS MY SUGGESTION AND THANK YOU. [1:13:46] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER JENKINS. [1:13:48] Andrea Jenkins: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND I DO WANT TO JUST THANK MY COLLEAGUES FOR BEING ABLE TO IDENTIFY DIFFERENT FUNDS. DIFFERENT SOURCES TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE I DO CONCUR WITH COUNCIL MEMBER VETAW THAT THIS IS NOT AN EMERGENCY. THAT THIS WILL NOT END ENCAMPMENTS. THAT THIS WILL NOT END HOMELESSNESS IN THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. IT WILL MAINTAIN THE HOUSING POTENTIALLY IF THEY CAN COME UP WITH ANOTHER $1.5 MILLION TO HOUSE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE ALREADY THERE. SO I WILL BE SUPPORTING THIS. AND I WOULD ASK MY COLLEAGUES IF I COULD BE AN AUTHOR OF THIS IF I [1:15:31] CAN BE ADDED AS AN AUTHOR AS AN AMENDMENT ON THIS. I ALSO WANT TO STATE I REALLY WANT TO IDENTIFY A SELF-IDENTIFIED CHRISTIAN FOLLOWING UP THEIR COMMENTS WITH VIT REOLLIC HATEFUL SPEECH. I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND IT. THANK YOU COUNCIL PRESIDENT PAYNE. [1:14:52] Aisha Chughtai: MR. PRESIDENT, IF I MAY. [1:14:54] COUNCIL MEMBER -- MR. PRESIDENT, COUNCIL MEMBER JENKINS. I JUST WANTED TO ADDRESS YOUR QUESTION DIRECTLY. THIS IS GOING TO INCLUDE THE LAKE STREET CULTURAL DISTRICT SO THAT ENTIRE MIDDLE SECTION AND THEN ADDING IN PARTS OF LAKE STREET ON EITHER END. [1:15:16] Jason Chavez: I CAN CLARIFY THAT. [1:15:18] THANK YOU. SO WHAT THIS IS INCLUDING THREE PARTS ON LAKE STREET. THE LAKE STREET CULTURAL DISTRICT WHICH IS PILLSBURY AND LAKE SOUTH TWO BLOCKS NORTHLAKE AND CE CEDAR TWO BLOCKS LATER. IT'S SPECIFICALLY DIRECTLY LAKE AND CEDAR TO INCLUDE THE LIGHT RAIL STATION WHERE WE'RE SEEING A LOT OF CHALLENGES. [1:15:50] ADDITIONALLY, THE AMENDMENT THAT COUNCIL VICE PRESIDENT CHUGHTAI IS MOVING FORWARD IS TO INCLUDE LAKE AND PILLSBURY ALL THE WAY DOWN TO LAKE AND LYNN DAME AVENUE SOUTH -- LYNDALE AVENUE SOUTH SO THIS WILL NOW INCLUDE WARD 6, WARD 8, WARD 9 AND MORE ADDITIONAL SUPPORT I BELIEVE IN WARD 8 AND 10. SO THIS IS MEANT TO GET MORE SUPPORT, NOT LESS. WARD 8 IS INCLUDED, IN FACT, I THINK MORE CAPACITY IS BEING BUILT NOW. [1:16:14] Andrea Jenkins: THANK YOU. I NEEDED THAT CLARITY BECAUSE THESE TWO SPECIFICS -- SPECIFIC AREAS MADE IT TEAM LIKE THAT MIDDLE PORTION WAS BEING LEFT OUT. THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE IT. [1:16:32] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER RAINVILLE? [1:16:34] Michael Rainville: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. I JUST WANT TO APPLAUD THE AUTHORS FOR THIS -- FOR BOTH THE AMENDMENT AND THE ORIGINAL AS WE TALKED ABOUT. YOUR QUICK RECOGNITION TO THE VIOLATION AND TO -- VIVEINS AND THERE'S PROBABLY MORE COMING OUT FROM THE NORTH SIDE AS WELL SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH, AGAIN, FOR RESPONDING QUICKLY TO THIS CRISIS OF VIOLENCE. [1:17:01] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER CHAVEZ. [1:17:02] Jason Chavez: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT PAYNE. AND WELL NOTED COUNCIL MEMBER RAINVILLE. COUNCIL MEMBER VETAW AND I ACTUALLY TALKED BEFORE THIS COUNCIL MEETING BEGAN AND SHE TOLD ME SHE'S WORKING ON THAT AND I COMMITTED TO SUPPORTING THAT ON MONDAY AND I'M COMMITTING TO THAT AS WELL OUT LOUD. [1:17:16] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER OSMAN? [1:17:18] Jamal Osman: YEP, THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT. I JUST WANT TO HIGHLIGHT WE ARE BRINGING THE RESOURCES TO THE COMMUNITY SOMEHOW IT'S NOT GETTING THERE. BECAUSE OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD, COMMUNITY SAFETY DEPARTMENTS LET ME JUST SAY THIS IS PROBABLY THE THIRD TIME I'M GOING TO CONTINUE TO SAY IT. LAST YEAR WE SAW WE AMENDED THE BUDGET. WE PAST PLENTY OF DIRECTIONS OF AMENDMENTS, MONEY THAT CAN GET TO THE COMMUNITY. IT HASN'T GOTTEN TO MY COMMUNITY YET BECAUSE OF -- I DON'T KNOW. [1:17:52] THEY DON'T HAVE THE CAPACITY TO DO AN RFP. SO I'M CALLING OUT THE ADMINISTRATION TO GET TO WORK AND GET THE RFP OUT FOR ELLIOTT PARK. THANK YOU. [1:18:14] Elliott Payne: SEEING NO FURTHER DISCUSSION, I'M GOING TO ASK THE CLERK TO CALL THE ROLL ON ITEM NO. 1 AS AMENDED BY VICE PRESIDENT CHUGHTAI. [1:18:22] MR. PRESIDENT, SO I'M CLEAR, THAT WE'RE GOING TO TAKE ONE VOTE ON THE ORIGINAL MOTION -- [1:18:28] CORRECT. [1:18:30] OKAY, THANK YOU. (ROLL CALL.) THERE ARE 13 AYES. [1:18:42] THAT ITEM PASSES AS AMENDED. NEXT WE'LL TAKE UP BUDGET ITEM 2 AND I WILL CALL ON COUNCIL MEMBER CHAVEZ TO SPEAK TO THAT ITEM. [1:18:42] Jason Chavez: THANK YOU, PRESIDENT PAYNE. AS YOU MAY RECALL, ON MONDAY MY OFFICE COUNCIL MEMBER KOSKI, COUNCIL MEMBER OSMAN, YOU, MR. PRESIDENT, AND COUNCIL VICE PRESIDENT CHUGHTAI MOVED FORWARD WITH THE AGATE SERVICES AND HOUSING REHABILITATION PROJECT. THIS WAS AN EFFORT TO ADDRESS UNSHELTERED HOMELESSNESS IN THE CITY AND TO HELP PREVENT THE PERMANENT LOSS OF NEEDED SERVICES IN MINNEAPOLIS. [1:19:13] WE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT HOMELESSNESS POSES A SIGNIFICANT PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS EXACERBATING THE VULNERABILITIES AND EXPOSING UNHOUSED RESIDENTS TO SEVERE HEALTH RISKING. THE 510 SHELTER AND THE 510 BOARD AND LODGE PROVIDED CRITICAL SHELTER CAPACITY TO SUPPORT INDIVIDUALS EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS. [1:19:32] WITH THEIR CLOSURE THERE'S AN IMMEDIATE REDUCTION IN THE AVAILABLE SHELTER SPACE AND NEEDED TRANSITIONAL HOUSING IN OUR CITY. THIS FURTHER STRAINED THE CITY'S CAPACITY TO MEET THE URGENT NEEDS FOR SAFE, SECURE AND ACCESSIBLE SHELTER. RE-OPENING THIS FACILITY AFTER THE RENOVATION DIRECTLY ADDRESSES THIS GAP IMMEDIATELY CONTRIBUTING TO THE ALLEVIATION HEALTH FOR PUBLIC EMERGENCIES. [1:19:56] IN THAT MEETING WE HEARD SOME HESITANCY FOR CONGRESS SI FUNDING AND WE LISTENED TO OUR COLLEAGUES AND WANTED TO GET TO A PLACE WHERE WE COULD ALL MOVE FORWARD TOGETHER. NOW, COUNCIL MEMBER KOSKI AND I WILL MOVE TO APPROVE A RESOLUTION AMEND SI BY TRANSFERRING $1.5 MILLION TO CPED TO PROVIDE A GRANT TO AGATE HOUSING AND SERVICES FOR REHABILITATION OF AGATE'S BOARD AND LODGE TRANSITIONAL HOUSING AND SHELTER FACILITY AT THE 510 8TH STREET SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS: I WANT TO BE CLEAR. [1:20:28] THIS IS CONTINGENT BEEN AGATE'S ABILITY TO MATCH OUR $1.5 MILLION AND A FUTURE TERM SHEET APPROVED BY THIS BODY. THE AMENDED RESOLUTION REALLOCATES FROM CITY DEPARTMENTS THAT ARE PROJECTED TO HAVE A SURPLUS IN THE 2024 BUDGET SPECIFICALLY A REALLOCATES FUNDING FROM DEPARTMENTS THAT HAVE MAINTAINED A SURPLUS FOR THE PAST 5 YEARS. [1:20:50] OR SINCE THEIR ESTABLISHMENT UNDER THE GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE ON HIM BUS ORDINANCE. THE 2024 SECOND QUARTER FINANCIAL STATUS REPORT WE RECEIVED LAST WEEK -- THIS WEEK INCLUDE ALL DEPARTMENTS CURRENT BUDGETS. YEAR TO DATE ACTUALS AND PROJECTS AND YEAR-END SURPLUSES OR DEFICITS FROM DEPARTMENTS IDENTIFIED AND FROM DEPARTMENT IDENTIFIED WE ARE TAKING OF THEIR PROJECTED SURPLUS WHICH WILL BE REALLOCATED. IF AT THE END OF THE 2024 OR AT THE END OF ACCOUNTING CLOSE, THE CITY DEPARTMENTS THAT WE ARE TAKING FUNDING FROM OF THEIR BOTH YEAR-END PROJECTIONS THEIR REMAINED SURPLUS AFTER THIS ACTION WE WILL BE ABLE TO USE THE DEPARTMENT'S OTHER PROJECTED SURPLUS OR CONTINGENCY FUNDS TO [1:21:35] COVER THIS DEFICIT. STAFF HAVE MADE IT CLEAR USING SURPLUS TO COVER THE DEFICITS IS THE PATH -- I WANT TO IT WOULD COST UPWARD TO $30 MILLION IF WE WERE TO TRY TO BUILD NEW UNIT IN THE CITY WHICH IS WHY THIS ACTION IS EVEN MORE IMPORTANT NOW AND TODAY. PREVENTING THE PERMANENT CLOSURE OF THIS SIDE IS IMPRACTICAL AND COST-SAVING MOVE BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY IT'S THE MORAL THING TO DO. [1:22:08] MR. PRESIDENT I MOVE APPROVAL OF THIS AND IF I COULD GET A SECOND BUT I BELIEVE THAT'S ALREADY NOTED BECAUSE COUNCIL MEMBER KOSKI IS ALSO SIGNED OFF ON THE MOTION. [1:22:26] Elliott Payne: THAT IS CORRECT. IT IS ASSUMED TO BE SECONDED BECAUSE YOU HAVE A CO-AUTHOR. COUNCIL MEMBER CHAVEZ HAS MOVED ITEM NO. 2 AS AMENDED. I WILL CALL ON COUNCIL MEMBER KOSKI. [1:22:28] Emily Koski: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT PAYNE. -- RIGHT NOW WE NEED TO FOCUS ON THE PLAN. WE'RE STILL FALLING SHORT. THIS IS THIS ISN'T JUST A PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY IT'S A RESPONSIBILITY WE CAN'T IGNORE. IT'S A MATTER OF DOING WHAT'S RIGHT. WE ARE WORKING TIRELESSLY TO PROVIDE SHELTER AND HOUSING SERVICES TO ALL UNHOUSED INDIVIDUALS BUT WE ARE STRUGGLING. WE DON'T OF HAVE ENOUGH RESOURCES TO MEET THE OVERWHELMING DEMAND. AS A RESULT, TOO MANY OF OUR NEIGHBORS ARE FORCED TO LIVE IN UNSAFE CONDITIONS ON THE STREETS AND IN ENCAMPMENTS WITHIN OUR COMMUNITIES. THIS SHOULD NOT BE ACCEPTABLE IN A CITY THAT PRIDES [1:23:12] ITSELF ON COMPASSION AND CARE. WHEN WE DISCUSSED THIS ISSUE WE'RE NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT THE DEVASTATING POTENTIAL LOSS OF AGATE'S BOARD AND LODGE HOUSING AND SHELTER FACILITY. AND OVER THE 100 BEDS IT PROVIDES. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE BROADER REALITY. WE'RE LOSING CRUCIAL SHELTER AND HOUSING CAPACITY WHEN WE'RE ALREADY STRUGGLING TO KEEP PACE WITH THE NEED. EVERY BED WE LOSE IS ANOTHER PERSON LEFT WITHOUT SAFETY, STABILITY AND DIGNITY. IT'S UNACCEPTABLE. WE CANNOT AFFORD TO SIT BACK AND SIMPLY TALK ABOUT THE PROBLEM. [1:23:44] WE MUST ACT AND FOR ME THAT MEANS BEING PART OF THE SOLUTION. ACTION IS NOT OPTIONAL. IT'S ESSENTIAL. OUR BUDGET PRIORITIES MUST ALIGN WITH OUR MORE PROGRAMS AND PRIORITY. IF WE TRULY CARE ABOUT ADDRESSING HOMELESSNESS OUR SPENDING MUST REFLECT THAT. ONCE WE ADDRESS THE IMMEDIATE NEEDS IT'S TIME TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT DEVELOPING A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO PREVENT AND ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS. THIS PLAN MUST FOCUS ON COORDINATION ON NONPROFITS, PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS, ADVOCACY ORGANIZATIONS AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES. IT NEEDS TO EXPAND OUR SHELTER CAPACITY, BUILD OUT OUR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING SERVICES, SECURE SUSTAINABLE FUNDING AND PUSH FOR LEGISLATIVE REFORMS THAT HELP US TACKLE HOMELESSNESS MORE EFFECTIVELY. [1:24:23] WE ALSO NEED TO ENSURE DATA-SHARING AND ACCOUNTABILITY SO THAT WE TRACK PROGRESS AND MEASURE SUCCESS AND PRIORITIZE OUTREACH AND EDUCATION TO GET THE WHOLE COMMUNITY ENGAGED. BUT RIGHT NOW, IN THE AT THOSE A FORMAL PLAN OR PROCESS, WE MUST DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE WITH THE RESOURCES WE HAVE. THE TIME FOR ACTION IS NOW. [1:24:48] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER OSMAN. [1:24:50] Jamal Osman: THANK YOU COUNCIL PRESIDENT. THIS AGATE ALLOWING SHELTER IS LOCATED IN WARD 6 AND I DO WANT TO THANK COUNCIL MEMBER CHAVEZ AND COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL MEMBER KOSKI FOR THEIR WORK. WE HAVE CRISIS, WE HAVE HOUSING CRISES AS YOU KNOW. WE HAVE ENCAMPMENTS THAT HAVE CREATED PROBLEMS FOR THE NEIGHBORS AND THE FOLKS THAT LIVE THERE ARE ALSO DYING BECAUSE OF ENCAMPMENTS. AND THIS IS A BROADER ISSUE OF THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS AND TO LEARN THERE'S A SHELTER THAT'S GOING AWAY THAT'S NOT A GOOD LOOK AT ALL. FOR AS LEADERS OF THE [1:25:33] CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS WE NEED TO BE THERE FIRST TO STEP UP TO TELL THE COUNTY AND THE STATE HEY, WE'RE COMMITTING $1.5 MILLION TO SAVE THE SHELTER AND WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO COME JOIN. THAT'S A NO-BRAINER. THAT'S JUST THE RIGHT THING TO DO TO SAVE THIS. [1:25:53] WE ARE HERE AND WE EXPLAIN THAT EFFECT OF ENCAMPMENTS THAT OUR COMMUNITIES HAVE, I DO MOST OF THE TIME, YOU KNOW, ENCAMPMENTS ARE NOT FIT TO LIVE CREATES A HUGE ISSUE IN MY EALLY DISTRICT, MAINLY IN MY DISTRICT. [1:26:16] SOME NEIGHBORS IN MINNEAPOLIS DON'T OF THAT ISSUE OR SOME DISTRICTS IN MINNEAPOLIS. BUT I DO. AND IF I CAN HOUSE FOLKS -- IF WE CAN HAVE ENOUGH SHELTERS FOR THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS, I FEEL LIKE THIS PROBLEM COULD GO AWAY, OF COURSE, OTHER SERVICES MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION TREATMENTS AND SO ON. [1:26:36] BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW WE GOT HERE. I DON'T KNOW HOW WE LET THIS SLIP THAT AGATE HOUSING IS CLOSING BECAUSE OF LACK OF FUNDING. THAT IS JUST UNACCEPTABLE AND I FULLY SUPPORT THIS AND I ENCOURAGE -- I WAS OKAY WITH THE ORIGINAL RESOURCE THAT WAS COMING. IT IS AN EMERGENCY. IT'S CRITICAL BUT FOR COUNCIL MEMBER CHAVEZ AND KOSKI FOR BEING CREATIVE AND FINDING A SOURCE TO HELP THIS FUNDING, I'D ENCOURAGE ALL MY COLLEAGUES TO SUPPORT THIS ITEM BECAUSE IT IS JUST CRITICAL NOT JUST WARD 6 PRESIDENTS AND UNHOUSED FOLKS BUT ALSO THE [1:27:22] ENTIRE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. THANK YOU. [1:27:37] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER WONSLEY? [1:27:39] Robin Wonsley: THANK YOU, PRESIDENT PAYNE. AS I PREPARE TO COME IN TO THIS MORNING I KNEW WE WERE GOING TO TAKE UP THIS ITEM AND WAS REALLY HURT BY THE FACT THAT I KNEW LIKELY THERE WOULD BE DIVIDED, YOU KNOW, DEBATE AROUND THIS. AND AND I WAS GROUNDED BY THE SCRIPTURE TODAY OF PROVERBS 19:17 THAT SAID: IF YOU HELP THE POOR YOU ARE LENDING TO THE LORD AND HE WILL REPAY YOU. [1:27:57] AND AS A CHRISTIAN, THAT REALLY HELPED TO SOLIDIFY WHY I STEPPED INTO THIS POSITION AND I KNOW FOR A NUMBER OF MY COLLEAGUES -- AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE CO-AUTHORS OF THIS FOR BRINGING THIS ITEM FORWARD AND GIVING THIS BODY TO DO EXACTLY WHAT THAT SCRIPTURE OUTLINES AND THAT'S TO HELP OUR CITY'S MOST POOREST AND VULNERABLE RESIDENTS AND ACTIONS LIKE THESE -- IT'S ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY WHEN WE HAVE THE FREY ADMINISTRATION WHO'S CONTINUING ITS FAILED WHAC-A-MOLE APPROACH TOWARDS ENCAMPMENTS AND IT'S SHOWN NOT TO BE INEFFECTIVE BUT IT'S ONE THAT TREATS THOSE MOST POOREST AND VULNERABLE RESIDENTS AS THE MOST UTMOST CRUEL AND [1:28:44] DISDAINFUL WAY TO ENCOURAGE OTHER RESIDENTS TO DO THE SAME AS WHAT'S INDICATED ON THE ATTACK ON THE SHELTER THAT WE JUST SAW LAST WEEK. SO I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU AND WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE THAT DIFFERENT DIRECTION OF TREATING OUR UNHOUSED RESIDENTS IN a WAY THAT ACKNOWLEDGES THEIR HUMANITY EVEN AS WE TAKE UP THE ENCAMPMENT REMOVAL ORDINANCE POLICY AFTER THIS. BUT I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR CONSTANTLY CHAMPIONING THIS AND NOT TAKING THE DIFFERENT NODES AND OBSTRUCTIONS THAT THE ADMINISTRATION HAS PUT IN YOUR WAY. YOU HAVE NOT TAKEN THAT LYING DOWN. YOU HAVE FOUND WAYS FOR US TO BE CREATIVE THROUGH FINDING ALTERNATIVE FUNDING SOURCES LIKE I DID TODAY AS I ECHOED THE SAME SENTIMENTS AS [1:29:30] COUNCIL MEMBER OSMAN. IT WAS FINE 1K3I69Z IS IT A REQUEST FOR -- AND I SAW THAT A REQUEST OF REMOVING OF GOALPOSTS. IF IT WASN'T a FUNDING SOURCE FOLKS WOULDN'T HAVE FOUND WAYS TO POKE HOLES. AND THANK YOU FOR ACKNOWLEDGING THAT AND COMING UP AS AN ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION. AS COUNCIL MEMBER KOSKI NOTED IT IS SO EASY FOR US TO PAY LIP SERVICE ON THIS DIAS AND SAY THAT WE WANT TO INVEST IN THE SERVICES THAT SUPPORT PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOUSING INSTABILITY BUT IN SITUATIONS LIKE THIS WHERE WE ACTUALLY HAVE CONCRETE ACTIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES TO CONSIDER TO DO JUST THAT, I'M GLAD TO SEE WHO ACTUALLY WILL SHOW THEMSELVES READY TO DEMONSTRATE COMMITMENT USING OUR BUDGETARY RESOURCES AND OUR [1:30:17] POLICY OPTIONS TO ACTUALLY SHOW WE CAN ADVANCE CONCRETE SOLUTIONS TO THIS ISSUE THAT IS PLAGUING MANY OF OUR COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE CITY. THIS IS JUST SUCH A CAREER AND STRAIGHTFORWARD WAY TO MAKE GOOD ON THE VALUES WE CLAIM TO UPHOLD IN THIS CITY SO I WILL ABSOLUTELY BE SUPPORTING THIS. [1:30:36] I'M ALSO JUST GOING TO NOTE ON THE RECORD -- I KNOW THERE'S A SUBSTITUTE LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE THAT'S COMING DOWNWARD. -- COMING FORWARD. I WON'T BE SUPPORTING THAT. THAT DOES SEEM LIKE INFORMATION THAT COULD BE PROVIDED THROUGH -- WELL, INFORMAL INQUIRY PROCESS THAT'S LAID OUT IN OUR LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE POLICY SO SO I HOPE COLLEAGUES, YOU KNOW, WILL BE ABLE TO EMAIL CPED OR OTHER DIRECTORS TO GET REPORTING INFORMATION ON HOW YOU CAN GET CONNECTED TO PROGRAMS THAT WILL SUPPORT RENOVATIONS OF SHELTERS BUT THIS IS SUCH AN EASY THING TO TAKE ON AND PASS TODAY SO THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES WHO HAD THE HEART, THE COURAGE AND THE COMMITMENT TO DO THEIR JOBS IN A WAY THAT TAKES THE HUMANITY OF OUR ENCAMPMENT OR OUR [1:31:23] UNHOUSED NEIGHBORS INTO CONSIDERATION. SO THANK YOU. [1:30:36] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER VETAW? [1:30:38] LaTrisha Vetaw: THANK YOU. O I'M BRINGING THE LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE FORWARD AND I'M BRINGING THE LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE FORWARD FOR A COUPLE OF REASONS. FIRST IS WHEN COLLEAGUES BRING FORWARD LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVES I USUALLY SUPPORT THEM BECAUSE THAT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO, THE PROCESS IT'S NOT NECESSARILY THAT I SUPPORT THE LANES DETAILS OF THE LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE BUT I BELIEVE THAT, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU NEED MUCH PROCESS TO GET CLARITY AND TO GET THE INFORMATION THAT YOU NEED. SO I WANT TO FOLLOW THAT AND I'VE SUPPORTED OTHERS IN FOLLOWING THAT SO I HOPE THAT MY COLLEAGUES SUPPORT ME IN THIS TODAY. [1:32:04] I ALSO WANT TO SAY I APPRECIATE THE WORK THAT COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE DONE AND COME UP WITH, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT BUDGET ITEMS AND BUDGET AMOUNTS FOR FINDING THE DOLLARS. AS I SAID EARLIER THIS WEEK I'M NOT AGAINST US HELPING OUT. I THINK IT'S OKAY FOR US TO DO THAT. [1:32:24] BUT, YOU KNOW, AT FIRST GLANCE I HAD A CONVERSATION WITH COUNCIL MEMBER KOSKI YESTERDAY AND AT FIRST GLANCE I JUST NOTICED THESE ARE A LOT OF DEPARTMENTS THAT ARE RAN BY PEOPLE OF COLOR A LOT OF NEW DEPARTMENTS I CAN'T ALIGN WITH THAT. I DON'T THINK IT'S THOUGHT OUT WELL ENOUGH FOR ME, NOT FOR ME TO JUST MAKE A DECISION TODAY WHEN I JUST GET A LIST OF, YOU KNOW, DEPARTMENTS WHERE MONEY WILL BE TAKEN FROM AND I HEAR US ON THE DIAS CONSTANTLY CHALLENGING THESE DEPARTMENTS AND THE WORK THEY'RE DOING IN PARTICULAR HUMAN RESOURCES. ALL THE WORK THAT WE'VE ASKED THAT DEPARTMENT TO DO AND THEN TO HAVE A LINE ITEM, YOU KNOW, TAKING MONEY FROM THEM AT THIS TIME OF YEAR AND NOT REALLY KNOWING WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. [1:33:06] YOU KNOW, I DON'T LIKE THAT. AGAIN, LIKE I SAID, I WANT TO HELP. I WANT TO BE ABLE SUPPORT THIS PARTICULAR ACTION. I THINK THERE'S a WAY THAT WE CAN DO THAT AS a BODY. I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, IF WE GET THIS LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE PASSED TODAY AND WE FIGURE OUT WHERE THE MONEY IS, WE DON'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH AND, YOU KNOW, CREATE 15, 16 LINE ITEMS TO CHOP UP DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS MAJORITY OF PEOPLE OF COLOR-LED NEWER DEPARTMENTS. I REALLY DON'T THINK THAT'S NECESSARY. I THINK THERE MAY BE SOMETHING IN PLACE ALREADY THAT WE'RE OVERLOOKING BECAUSE THIS DECISION WAS MADE SWIFTLY. [1:33:46] I ALSO DON'T SEE THIS AS AN EMERGENCY. I THINK WE HAVE TIME. THIS IS A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT. SO WE HAVE TIME -- -- WE DEFINITELY HAVE ANOTHER COUNCIL CYCLE TO FIGURE THIS OUT ALONG WITH STAFF. SO I'M REALLY LOOKING FOR SOME SUPPORT ON THIS LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE TODAY. THANK YOU. [1:34:26] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER JENKINS. [1:34:28] Andrea Jenkins: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND I DO WANT TO JUST THANK MY COLLEAGUES FOR BEING ABLE TO IDENTIFY DIFFERENT FUNDS. DIFFERENT SOURCES TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE I DO CONCUR WITH COUNCIL MEMBER VETAW THAT THIS IS NOT AN EMERGENCY. THAT THIS WILL NOT END ENCAMPMENTS. THAT THIS WILL NOT END HOMELESSNESS IN THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. IT WILL MAINTAIN THE HOUSING POTENTIALLY IF THEY CAN COME UP WITH ANOTHER $1.5 MILLION TO HOUSE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE ALREADY THERE. SO I WILL BE SUPPORTING THIS. AND I WOULD ASK MY COLLEAGUES IF I COULD BE AN AUTHOR OF THIS IF I [1:35:31] CAN BE ADDED AS AN AUTHOR AS AN AMENDMENT ON THIS. I ALSO WANT TO STATE I REALLY WANT TO IDENTIFY a SELF-IDENTIFIED CHRISTIAN FOLLOWING UP THEIR COMMENTS WITH VIT REOLLIC HATEFUL SPEECH. I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND IT. THANK YOU COUNCIL PRESIDENT PAYNE. [1:36:01] Elliott Payne: CAN I GET A CLARIFICATION. YOU WANT TO BE A CO-AUTHOR ON THE CHAVEZ-KOSKII MOTION. * [1:36:10] Andrea Jenkins: I DO. ARE WE DISCUSSING THE LEGISLATIVE MOTION TOO? [1:36:21] Elliott Payne: WE ARE NOT. COUNCIL MEMBER PALMISANO. [1:36:23] Linea Palmisano: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. FIRST TO CLEAR UP SOME CONFUSION. I HEARD COUNCIL MEMBER VETAW INTRODUCE THAT LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE AS PART OF THIS TOPIC IN GENERAL. IS IT UNDERSTOOD THAT WE WILL TAKE UP A SEPARATE VOTE ON THAT LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE AFTER THIS VOTE? [1:36:36] Elliott Payne: CORRECT. [1:36:37] Linea Palmisano: THANK YOU. A COUPLE OF COMMENTS. I GUESS FIRST I'D LIKE TO CONGRATULATE MY COLLEAGUES FOR SEEING THE FOLLY OF USE OF CONSINGITY MONEY WOULD HAVE IN OUR ROLE IN OUR BUDGETING AND IN OUR OVERSIGHT. [1:36:54] IT'S POSSIBLE MY WORDS AND THE INPUTS OF OTHERS HAVE PERSUADED YOU BUT IT'S MAYBE THE VOTE IN REALIZING THAT WE WOULDN'T HAVE 10 VOTES TODAY FOR USE OF CONTINGENCY DOLLARS TO GIVE AGATE MONEY WITHOUT PROCESS. [1:37:10] FOUR OF US ON THIS DIAS HAVE CALLED FOUL. CHANGING THE SOURCE MAKES THE THRESHOLD OF PASSAGE FOR ONLY 7 VOTES WHICH IS DIFFERENT THAN ON THE AGENDA HERE. REGARDLESS OF WHAT MADE YOU CHANGE COURSE, YOU DID AND, UNFORTUNATELY, IT HAS THE SAME FLAWS OF DESTABILIZING OUR BUDGET. [1:37:30] UNSPENT FUNDS FROM DEPARTMENTS OR CONTINGENCY GOES TO CASH BALANCE AND RESERVE CREATING STABILITY IN OUR FUTURE BUDGETS. IN A QUICK LOOK THROUGH LIMS PEOPLE COULD SEE THAT WE HAVE GIVEN AGATE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OVER THE PAST YEAR THROUGH OUR AFFORDABLE HOUSING TRUST FUND JUST BRIEFLY AND IF I'M NOT DOUBLE-COUNTING IT TOTALS OVER $3 MILLION. BUT I BELIEVE THIS IS FOR THEIR NEW FACILITY THIS OLDER FACILITY WAS PLANNED TO CLOSE. [1:38:04] TO AGAIN POINT OUT SOME DISCREPANCIES FROM WHAT MY COLLEAGUES HAVE JUST SAID, AGATE IS CLOSING ON OCTOBER 9TH NO MATTER WHAT. AND THIS TYPE OF HOUSING AT 510 IS NOT GOING TO HOUSE PEOPLE COMING FROM ENCAMPMENTS AND THAT IS NOT THE TYPE OF SHELTER LITTLE. IT DOES NOT HAVE ANY COORDINATED ENTRY INTO IT. MEANING FROM THE COUNTY, THE COUNTY'S COORDINATED ENTRY PROGRAM SO THAT ARGUMENT IS COMPLETELY DISINGENUOUS. I SAID QUITE A BIT OF AGATE AND THE CONTINUITY AND THE COUNTY'S PERSPECTIVE OF IT EARLIER THIS WEEK. LET ME STILL POINT THIS OUT, THIS TAKES THE LEGITIMACY OUT OF ANY AND EVERY PROCESS WE HAVE IF TO ALLOCATE MONEY THIS WAY. [1:38:49] A FEW MONTHS AGO WE HEARD FROM AVIVO FROM COMMITTEE. THEY ARE OUT OF FUNDING BY THE END OF 2025 DUE TO EXPIRING ARPA DOLLARS AND WILL FALL SHORT $5 MILLION AT THE POINT THEY PRESENTED TO US OF THEIR NEEDED AMOUNT OF MONEY PER YEAR TO CONTINUE PROVIDING SERVICES. IT MEANS AVIVO IS DONE SHORT OF $5 MILLION. IS THIS $1.5 MILLION BETTER SPENT AT AGATE OR AVIVO? [1:39:18] WE WILL NEVER KNOW WITH THIS ACTION. THIS AMENDED RESOLUTION AND REAPPROPRIATION OF THE GENERAL FUND INSTEAD OF CONTINGENCY FUND DOES NOT CHANGE MY POSITION ON THE APPROPRIATENESS IN OF THIS REQUEST. WHERE EACH OF THESE DEPARTMENTS CONSULTED AS TO THE IMPACT OF THEIR PROGRAMMING? [1:39:40] EVEN BETTER, DID YOU SUGGEST THAT THEY JUST OVERSPEND THEIR BUDGETS IF NEEDED? DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS NEED TO MAKE HARD CHOICES WITH THEIR BUDGETS JUST LIKE WE DO ON THE ALLOCATION SIDE. IT LOOKS AS THOUGH AND YOU CAN DISPUTE THIS -- YOU CAN TELL ME YOU SPOKE WITH EVERY DIRECTOR AND SAID HOW YOU COULD HELP THEM FALL WITHIN THEIR BUDGET FOR THE YEAR BUT IT LOOKS LIKE YOU TOOK THE SECOND QUARTER FINANCIAL REPORT AND THAT LACKS A LOT OF THE NUANCE. HIRING, MAJOR SPENDING INVOICES NOT YET PAID. WE DON'T UNDERSTAND YET WHAT THE IMPACTS OF THIS WILL BE. THIS IS A BAD APPROACH. [1:40:17] OF COURSE, I SUPPORT INVESTMENT IN EMERGENCY OR TRANSITIONAL HOUSING AND REHABILITATING OLDER BUILDINGS AS IT'S LIKELY TO BE MORE COST-EFFECTIVE THAN SUPPORTING NEW CONSTRUCTION. WE NEED a MIX OF THAT. THESE ARE KNOWN REPAIRS THAT AGATE CHOSE NOT TO REQUEST MONEY 2 YEARS' AGO. I WOULD RATHER SEE a CAPITAL NEEDS ASSESSMENT OF THE ENTIRE PORTFOLIO EMERGENCY HOUSING OPTIONS AND DETERMINE WHERE OUR MONEY IS BEST SPENT. [1:40:48] BY ALLOWING AGATE TO JUMP THE LINE AND BYPASS ANY SORT OF PROCESS, ANY SORT OF APPLICATION OR SELECTION PROCESS IT DELEGITIMATIZES ALL OTHER FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND PROCESSES THAT OUR CITY STAFF HAVE WORKED TO CREATE. WE ARE LACKING OVERSIGHT OF THESE FUNDS AND WE WON'T EVEN KNOW IF OUR PERFORMANCE METRICS ARE BEING MET. THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. [1:41:13] Michael Rainville: THANK YOU FOR YOUR VERY THOROUGH REMARKS, COUNCIL MEMBER PALMISANO. I WILL NOT -- I WANT TO HELP. I WANT TO HELP AND YOU'RE ALL GOING IN THE RIGHT D COUNCIL MEMBER PALMISANO SAID IS NOT GOOD GOVERNANCE. EARLIER TODAY SOMEONE SAID GOOD GOVERNA DON'T HAVE THE DATA ON ALL THE OTHER HOUSING NEEDS ARE FOR THIS. [1:41:40] GOOD GOVERNANCE IS ALSO NOT WHERE YOU SHOULD. RUSHED. THIS IS a VERY RUSHED PROCESS. AND I SAY THAT BECAUSE THE BUDGET TEAM HAS NOT HAD A CHANCE TO RESPOND ON THE IMPACT ON TAKING MONEY FROM THESE BUDGETS. IF THIS IS a GOOD IDEA TODAY WHICH IT IS. IT WILL ALSO BE a GOOD IDEA WHEN WE GET MORE DATA AND UNDERSTAND HOW TO DO THIS APPROPRIATELY AND NOT FARE ONE HOUSING INSTITUTION OVER THE OTHERS. WE CAN'T PICK AND CHOOSE. WE HAVE TO BE FAIR TO EVERYBODY. THAT IS OUR CHARGE. [1:42:10] AND EARLIER COUNCIL MEMBER OSMAN WONDERED HOW DID IT GET THIS WAY? HOW DID THIS ALL FALL APART? I FEEL PART OF THAT IS BECAUSE THERE WAS NOT A BONDING BILL THIS YEAR. THERE WAS NOT A BONDING BILL TO GIVE THEM THE ALLOCATION THAT THEY ASKED FOR. WE DID NOT GET THE $65 MILLION A BONDING BILL GOT HELD UP THIS YEAR BECAUSE OF THE ACTIONS WE HAD ON THE UBER AND LYFT. THIS IS KIND OF a FALLING DOWN PART OF THAT. [1:42:35] LET'S KEEP WORKING METHODICALLY AND FIGURE THIS OUT TOGETHER. [1:42:35] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER CHOWDHURY? [1:42:37] Aurin Chowdhury: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. I JUST WANT TO UPLIFT HOW IMPORTANT THIS ACTION IS TODAY. [1:42:55] WHILE AGATE MIGHT BE CLOSING ANYWAYS, THIS IS ENSURING THAT THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO OPEN BACK UP. THAT'S WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT RIGHT HERE. AND WHILE PEOPLE FROM ENCAMPMENTS MIGHT NOT BE GOING DIRECTLY INTO THIS SHELTER IN SPECIFIC, I THINK ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT ARE SUPPORTED BY THIS SHELTER, INDIVIDUALS LIVING IN LOW BARRIER HOUSING, SOME TAKING SHELTER -- I BELIEVE IT WAS 42 SHELTER BEDS AND THEN 53 INDIVIDUALS LIVING IN THAT LOW BARRIER HOUSING SHELTER. THIS IS PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM GOING INTO ENCAMPMENTS AND MORE PEOPLE SLEEPING OUTSIDE. [1:43:35] I COMMEND THE SERVICE PROVIDERS WHO WORK SO HARD TO PUT TOGETHER A BY-NAME LIST AND ARE WORKED WITH VARIOUS RESOURCES IN TIME TO MAKE SURE THE FOLKS THAT WERE IN THIS BUILDING TO BE IN AN ADEQUATE PLACE TO BE OR WORK THROUGH THAT PROCESS. THAT IS GREAT. I WISH YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO DO THAT WORK AND IT ALSO SHOWS HOW MUCH OF AN EMERGENCY THIS IS. I WANT TO BE A PART OF TAKING AN ACTION TO ENSURE THAT WE HAVE SHELTER LIKE THIS BACK ONLINE SO WE CAN CONTINUE TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE SLEEPING OUTSIDE OR I GUESS IN THIS CASE, PREVENT THAT FROM GROWING. I'M REALLY, REALLY PROUD OF HAD OUR COLLEAGUES UP HERE TODAY IN COMING TOGETHER AND FIGURING OUT A SOLUTION. I KNOW THAT THERE [1:44:23] IS A LOT OF TIME SPENT IN THINKING ABOUT THE BUDGET CONSIDERATIONS AND MY UNDERSTANDING, AND I'M SURE COUNCIL VICE PRESIDENT WILL SHARE MORE ABOUT THE DETAILS IS WHILE -- WHILE WE'RE TAKING FROM A PROJECTED SURPLUS, THIS ISN'T ELIMINATING THE ENTIRE SURPLUS. [1:44:42] THERE'S STILL PROJECTED SURPLUS WITHIN THESE DEPARTMENTS FOR THEM TO WORK THROUGH. AND I APPRECIATE THAT INTENTIONALITY AND THE CARE TOWARDS OUR ENTERPRISE AND THINKING ABOUT THIS AND WEIGHING OUT THE EMERGENCY THAT WE'RE IN. AND I 100% THINK THAT THIS IS AN EMERGENCY. I SAID IN MY COMMENTS IN COMMITTEE WHEN YOU HAVE A FIRE IN A HOUSE, YOU DON'T START TURNING OFF FIREHOUSES -- FIRE HOSES. YOU START THINKING ABOUT MORE RESOURCES. I LOOK FORWARD IN SUPPORTING THIS I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING THIS PASS AND HOPEFULLY, WE CAN SEE A UNANIMOUS VOTE AFTER WE CONCLUDE OUR DISCUSSION. [1:45:19] Elliott Payne: VICE PRESIDENT CHUGHTAI? [1:45:21] Aisha Chughtai: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. A FEW COMMENTS AND REACTIONS JUST AS DISCUSS HAS UNFOLDED HERE TODAY AND AT THE BUDGET COMMITTEE EARLIER THIS WEEK. I'LL START BY SAYING THAT I THINK LOSING 130 BEDS OF EMERGENCY HOUSING, WHETHER THAT'S SHELTER OR TRANSITIONAL HOUSING IN ONE OF THE MOST LOW BARRIER FACILITIES THAT EXISTS IN OUR CITY, THAT THAT CLASSIFIES AS AN EMERGENCY TO ME AND I THINK IT CLASSIFIES AS AN EMERGENCY TO MINNEAPOLIS RESIDENTS. [1:46:02] I WILL ADD ADDITIONALLY THAT AT THIS TIME, WHEN WE ARE FACING a CRISIS OF HOMELESSNESS AND WHEN WE ARE SEEING THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF HOMELESSNESS IN MINNEAPOLIS AND IN OUR SURROUNDING SUBURBS INCREASE FROM LAST YEAR TO THIS YEAR BY APPROXIMATELY 17%, WE NEED MORE RESOURCES AND MORE SUPPORTIVE SERVICES, MORE SHELTER BEDS, MORE TRANSITIONAL HOUSING, MORE OF ALL OF THESE THINGS, NOT LESS. [1:46:35] IT IS REPORTED EARLIER THIS WEEK OR PERHAPS LAST WEEK THAT TO REBUILD a FACILITY LIKE THIS AT THIS SCALE WOULD COST $40 MILLION AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT US INVESTING a MILLION AND a HALF DOLLARS AND LEVERAGING THAT CONTINGENT ON SOMEONE -- SOMEONE MATCHING OUR OUR CONTRIBUTION TO REHABILITATE THIS FACILITY AND TO HAVE IT OPEN NEXT YEAR. THAT'S a REALLY BIG DEAL. [1:47:06] I WANT TO ALSO ADDRESS THE -- WHETHER PEOPLE IN THIS FACILITY COME FROM ENCAMPMENTS OR NOT; RIGHT? AGAIN, THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST LOW BARRIER FACILITIES THAT EXISTS IN OUR CITY AND IT WAS MENTIONED EARLIER I BELIEVE BY COUNCIL MEMBER PALMISANO, MR. CHAIR, THAT -- THAT THIS FACILITY ISN'T a PART OF COORDINATED ENTRY AND AS SUCH DOES NOT SERVICE PEOPLE WHO ARE COMING RIGHT OUT OF ENCAMPMENTS AND I REALLY WANT TO TALK ABOUT HOW THAT'S NOT TRUE; RIGHT? [1:47:39] THERE ARE -- LIKE AS AN EXAMPLE ONE OF THE BIGGEST SUCCESS STORIES THAT WE CAN ALL AGREE ON AND WE LIFT UP AS a COMMUNITY IS THAT AVIVO VILLAGES IS AN INCREDIBLY SUCCESSFUL MODEL THAT'S BEEN -- THAT HAS BEEN EFFECTIVE AT MOVING PEOPLE INTO PERMANENT HOUSING. THAT'S NOT a PART OF COORDINATED ENTRY EITHER AND I -- SO I JUST WANT TO, LIKE, DISPEL THIS IDEA THAT THERE AREN'T PEOPLE THAT ARE EXPERIENCING UNSHELTERED HOMELESSNESS OR ANY UNHOMELESSNESS ON THAT SPECTER THAT RECEIVE SERVICES AND SUPPORT THROUGH THIS FACILITY. [1:48:18] AND THEN I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE SOURCING FOR THIS AMENDMENT. FIRST I WILL SAY I'M AN AUTHOR ON THIS. I'VE SPOKEN EXTENSIVELY WITH -- WITH COUNCIL MEMBER KOSKI AND WITH COUNCIL MEMBER CHAVEZ THAT IT WAS -- IT WAS ALL OF THE AUTHORS' PREFERENCE THAT WE USED CONTINGENCY THAT WE MAKE THIS INVESTMENT AND WE DIDN'T SEE THE SUPPORT THAT WE NEEDED TO AUTHORIZE a CONTINGENCY USE AT THE BUDGET COMMITTEE EARLIER THIS WEEK. AND THE NO. 1 PIECE OF FEEDBACK THAT I HEARD AND HAS BEEN REITERATED HERE TODAY WAS, YOU KNOW, I'M WITH YOU. I SUPPORT THIS. I THINK THIS IS a GOOD THING BUT I DON'T LIKE THE SOURCE. AND SO OVER a COUPLE OF [1:49:08] DAYS, RIGHT, THE AUTHORS OF THIS AMENDMENT AND SPECIFICALLY COUNCIL MEMBER KOSKI AND COUNCIL MEMBER CHAVEZ HUSTLED TO FIND a DIFFERENT SOURCE. I ALSO WANT TO BE CLEAR THIS IS a DATA-DRIVEN AND FACT-BASED SOURCE THAT WE'RE USING HERE RIGHT? THERE ISN'T a PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT THAT'S HAPPENING. NOT ONLY ARE THESE DEPARTMENTS THAT ARE LISTED HERE AND THE AMOUNTS THAT ARE LISTED HERE -- NOT ONLY ARE THESE DEPARTMENTS PROJECTED TO END THE YEAR BELOW THEIR BUDGETED -- THEIR BUDGETED DEPARTMENT BUDGETS RIGHT, THEY HAVE HISTORICALLY DONE SO. [1:49:52] WE LOOKED AT COUNCIL MEMBERS -- COUNCIL MEMBERS CHAVEZ AND KOSKI LOOKED AT THE DATA AS WE ARE LOOKING AT THE BUDGET CYCLE I'VE BEEN LOOKING AT THE LAST 7 YEARS OF DATA. THESE ARE DEPARTMENTS THAT YEAR AFTER YEAR UNDERSPEND THEIR BUDGETS AND WE ARE TAKING a PORTION OF WHAT THEY UNDERSPEND AND USING IT IN THIS WAY. I WOULD -- I WOULD ADD THAT, LIKE, WE -- WE -- WE ARE -- YEAH, WE'RE TAKING a CHUNK OF MONEY THAT DEPARTMENTS ARE NOT PROJECTED TO USE AND SEVERAL OF THESE DEPARTMENTS HAVE ACTUALLY COME AND PRESENTED IN FRONT OF THIS BODY IN THE BUDGET [1:50:37] COMMITTEE AND HAVE TOLD US THAT THEY HAVE a SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF VACANCIES AND HAVE TOLD US THAT THEY BELIEVE THEY WILL COME IN UNDERBUDGET AND THEY DON'T HAVE PLANS TO REUSE -- TO REAPPROPRIATE OR MOVE AROUND THEIR VACANCY SAVINGS FOR a DIFFERENT PURPOSE. THEIR INTENTION IS FOR THOSE SAVINGS TO FALL TO THE BOTTOM LINE. SO WE'RE NOT CUTTING ANYONE'S BUDGETS OR SERVICES THEY'RE -- THEY'RE DELIVERING FOR MINNEAPOLIS RESIDENTS. THIS ISN'T TARGETING ANY SPECIFIC DEPARTMENTS. IT'S EVIDENCED-BASED. [1:51:13] AND THEN THE LAST PIECE I JUST WANT TO ADDRESS AROUND THE PICKING AND CHOOSING WHICH FACILITIES, YOU KNOW, LAST DECEMBER, THIS BODY COLLECTIVELY UNANIMOUSLY VOTED FOR AN AMENDMENT OR a PROPOSAL TO TRANSFER a SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF RESOURCES TO HELIX AND THERE WASN'T a PROCESS AROUND THAT. [1:51:39] AND I DON'T REMEMBER US TALKING ABOUT PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT BACK THEN AND I DON'T SEE a REASON WHY WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THAT NOW. THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. [1:51:13] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER VETAW? [1:51:15] LaTrisha Vetaw: I JUST WANT TO SAY I SPENT A LOT OF TIME ABOUT BUDGET CONSIDERATIONS, MORE LIKE 12 HOURS TO THINK ABOUT BUDGET CONSIDERATIONS. [1:51:59] THE IRONY OF THIS CONVERSATION WHEN WE JUST HAD COMMENTS AROUND A 6-MONTH CONVERSATION AROUND SHOT SPOTTER WAS NECESSARY BUT THIS WE CAN JUST DO THIS IN 12 HOURS OR WHATEVER TIME MAJORITY OF THE COUNCIL BELIEVES THEY NEED MAKE THIS IS REALLY IRONIC. AND IT'S ACTUALLY LAUGHABLE THAT THOSE VERY TWO SUBJECTS THAT CAME UP TODAY -- 6 MONTHS IS OKAY FOR ONE BUT 12 HOURS IS OKAY WHEN, YOU KNOW, COUNCIL MEMBERS KNOW THEY HAVE THE VOTES. [1:52:34] Elliott Payne: SEEING NO FURTHER DISCUSSION, I'LL ASK THE CLERK TO CALL THE ROLL ON ITEM NO. 2 AS AMENDED BY COUNCIL MEMBERS CHAVEZ AND KOSKI. [1:52:54] MR. PRESIDENT, SO I'M CLEAR, THAT WE'RE GOING TO TAKE ONE VOTE ON THE ORIGINAL MOTION -- [1:52:54] CORRECT. (ROLL CALL.) [1:53:15] THERE ARE 9 AYES AND 4 NAYS. [1:53:35] THEY ITEM CARRIES AND THE WHOLE BUDGET REPORT IS THE ADOPTED. [1:53:40] LaTrisha Vetaw: I'M SORRY, MR. CHAIRMAN. THE LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE. [1:53:42] Elliott Payne: OH, I APOLOGIZE. IS SOMEBODY IN QUEUE TO INTRODUCE THAT? COUNCIL MEMBER PALMISANO, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO THAT? [1:53:56] Linea Palmisano: SURE. ACTUALLY, I'LL OFFER THE, FIRST, TO MY COLLEAGUES. COUNCIL MEMBER VETAW, IF YOU WANTED TO -- [1:54:02] LaTrisha Vetaw: THANK YOU. SO EARLIER THIS WEEK, I TALKED ABOUT BRINGING THIS LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE FORWARD. SO WE COULD WORK WITH THE MAYOR AND THE MAYOR'S ADMINISTRATION TO FIGURE OUT SOME PATHWAYS TO FINDING THIS MONEY AND CREATING A PROCESS SO THAT WHEN WE DO HAVE OTHERS COME UP AND ASK, HOW DID THIS GET BUMPED TO THEIST, AND, YOU KNOW, HOW CAN WE DO THE SAME FOR OTHERS? THERE'S, AT LEAST, A PROCESS IN PLACE OR SOME TYPE OF FUNDING STREAM WE HAVE, IF WE NEEDED TO CREATE WAIVERS YOU KNOW, IF WE DON'T HAVE ACTUAL POLICY IN PLACE NOW THAT [1:54:42] SUPPORTS THIS $1.5 MILLION ALLOCATION, WE CAN DO SO. I BROUGHT THIS FORWARD WITH COUNCIL MEMBER RAINVILLE AND PALMISANO IN HOPES THAT WE COULD FIGURE OUT WHERE TO PULL THIS MONEY FROM FOR THIS PROJECT TO BE FUNDED. [1:54:59] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER JENKINS? [1:55:19] Andrea Jenkins: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT. AND I APPRECIATE MY COLLEAGUES FOR BRINGING THIS LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE FORWARD, AND I WOULD ASK THEM IF I COULD BE A COAUTHOR ON THIS LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE. THANK YOU. [1:55:19] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER PALMISANO. [1:55:21] Linea Palmisano: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO GET a PRESENTATION ON HOW WE LEGITIMATELY CONSIDER SEVERAL ASKS, THAT THERE WILL NEVER BE ENOUGH MONEY FOR -- I MENTIONED IN MY PREVIOUS COMMENTS, AH AVEO NEEDING TO CLOSE AS PRESENTED AT COMMITTEE. THERE ARE OTHERS EARLIER THIS WEEK I MENTIONED COMMON BOND, SAINT ANNE'S ALL OF THESE ARE -- HAVE HAD THEIR COST OF INSURANCE GO UP, HAD THEIR COST OF STAFFING GO UP, STRUGGLED, AND WE NEED TO BE VERY CLEAR ABOUT HOW WE MIGHT [1:56:04] MOVE FORWARD a PROCESS THAT WOULD HELP TO BRING THE GREATEST PUBLIC GOOD INTO OUR CITY THROUGH PROCESS, AND a COMPETITIVE ONE, AT THAT. SO THAT IS WHY I AM SUPERPLEASED THAT MY COLLEAGUES SUGGESTED THIS AS ONE RESPONSE TO THE CURRENT VOTE. ON AGATE. THANK YOU FOR EVERYBODY'S WORK ON THAT. [1:56:30] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER CHAVEZ. [1:56:32] Jason Chavez: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT PAYNE. I'M GOING TO BE VOTING NO ON THIS. WE JUSTIFYING YOURED OU -- JUSTIFY JUST FIGURE SPENDING STREAM. I RECOMMEND IT GOES THROUGH THE COMMITTEE PROCESS AND WE CAN DECIDE TO DO AMENDS THROUGH THE PROCESS. I RECOMMEND WE DO NOT ADOPT THIS TODAY. I'LL BE VOTING NO. [1:56:53] Elliott Payne: VICE PRESIDENT CHUGHTAI. [1:56:55] Aisha Chughtai: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. AND JUST A QUESTION OR CLARIFICATION FOR YOU OR PERHAPS CLERK KARL. I SEE THIS ITEM AS BEING AN ADDITION TO THE AGATE HOUSING AND SERVICES REHABILITATION PROJECT, BUT THE SUBSTANCE OF THIS LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE IS NOT SPECIFIC TO AGATE HOUSING AND IT TALKS ABOUT BROADLY SERVICE PROVIDERS REQUESTING FUNDING FOR REPAIRS, FOR FACILITIES. IS THIS -- I WONDER IF THIS IS OUTSIDE OF THE NARROW SCOPE OF THE GENERAL [1:57:40] APPROPRIATIONS RESOLUTION, AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN A SEPARATE ITEM ALL TOGETHER. [1:57:42] Elliott Payne: MR. CLERK? [1:57:44] Casey Carl: MR. PRESIDENT, TO THE VICE PRESIDENT'S POINT, I DON'T THINK THIS WAS NECESSARILY RELATED TO THE ACTION TAKEN. I DON'T SEE THEM RELATED. IT'S GENERALLY PERTAINING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER RAISED BY THE ISSUE OF FUNDING AGAGATE. I THINK IT'S a SEPARAE ACTION THAT -- IF THE COUNCIL WISHES TO MOVE IT FORWARD TODAY, IT CAN. I THINK COUNCIL MEMBER CHAVEZ SAID IT COULD BE BROUGHT FORWARD THROUGH THE COMMITTEE PROCESS. I THINK THE COUNCIL HAS THE ABILITY TO APPROVE IT TODAY OR TAKE NO ACTION AND LET THE AUTHORS BRING IT FORWARD TO THE COMMITTEE PROCESS. [1:58:25] Aisha Chughtai: THANK YOU FOR THAT CLARIFICATION, MR. CLERK. [1:58:27] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER KOSKI. [1:58:29] Emily Koski: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT PAYNE. I APPRECIATE AND SHARE MY COLLEAGUE'S -- FOR SOME SORT OF STRATEGY PLAN OR PROCESS. [1:58:40] THE REALITY IS, WE DON'T HAVE ONE. IF WE HAD ONE, WE WOULDN'T BE HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE. THIS LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE ASKS FOR ADMINISTRATION TO SHARE SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T EXISTS. FOR THAT REASON, I CAN'T SUPPORT IT. BUT I WOULD BE HAPPY TO WORK WITH MY COLLEAGUES TO WRITE a LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE. GO THROUGH THE COMMITTEE PROCESS THAT WILL PROMPT US TO WORK TOGETHER TO CREATE a COMPREHENSIVE PLAN THAT INCLUDES a PROCESS FOR THIS. I'VE ALREADY STARTED ON THIS, SO COLLEAGUES KEEP AN EYE ON YOUR IN-BOXES FOR THAT COMING TO YOU SOON. [1:59:09] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER ELLISON. [1:59:11] Jeremiah Ellison: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. OUR COLLEAGUES HAVE WRITTEN THIS TODAY AND HAVE SET THIS INTENTION FORWARD. I'M WONDERING IF WE COULDN'T JUST -- IF IT'S CONSIDERED a FRIENDLY AMENDMENT OR IF IT IS, I DON'T WANT TO BE OUT OF BOUNDS HERE. [1:59:27] IF WE COULD JUST FORWARD THIS TO THE BIZ COMMITTEE FOR CONSIDERATION AS OPPOSED TO PASSING IT HERE FOR FULL COUNCIL. I THINK WE COULD JUST TAKE THAT ACTION. I WOULD HOPE IT COULD BE UNANIMOUS, IF WE TAKE THAT ACTION, BUT INSTEAD OF FORWARDING IT HERE, LET'S, YOU KNOW, IF IT'S CONSIDERED FRIENDLY BY THE AUTHORS, INSTEAD OF FORWARDING IT TO, YOU KNOW, PASSING IT TODAY, FORWARD IT TO BIZ HERE. [1:59:48] LaTrisha Vetaw: THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER ELLISON. OF COURSE. I MEAN, -- IT PASSED BEFORE THIS. SO THIS IS INTENDED, YOU KNOW, TO BEGIN THE WORK. AND, YOU KNOW, TO WHAT COUNCIL MEMBER KOSKI SAID. THERE DEFINITELY IS a PROCESS, AND THIS WILL HELP US GET THERE! WE'LL GET THE SPECIFIC DETAILS ON WHAT CURRENTLY EXISTS RIGHT NOW. SO GOING TO COMMITTEE IS ABSOLUTELY FINE, AND WE CAN WORK IT FROM THERE. THANK YOU. [2:00:19] Jason Chavez: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT PAYNE. I WAS AN AGENDA SETTING FOR BIZ YESTERDAY AND THE AGENDA IS PACKED. THERE WAS POTENTIAL PRESENTATIONS BEING DELAYED, POTENTIALLY MOVING. THERE IS LITTLE TO NO TIME ON THE AGENDA I'M NOT OPPOSED TO SOMETHING. [2:00:38] IF IT GETS DELAYED IN COMMITTEE FOR FURTHER CONVERSATION. THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY THERE, TOO. ONE OF MY ITEMS, ALONG WITH COUNCIL MEMBER CHOWDHURY, COUNCIL VICE PRESIDENT CHUGHTAI MIGHT GET DELAYED THAT DAY, TOO IT'S SO PACKED! I PREFER IT GOING THROUGH THE REGULAR PROCESS BEING THE RCA, BUT IF WE'RE GOING TO SEND IT TO COMMITTEE, IT MIGHT GET DELAYED. [2:01:00] LaTrisha Vetaw: CAN I SAY THAT THE VICE CHAIR SAID IT'S OKAY? I MEAN OF THAT COMMITTEE. SO I THINK IT'S FINE. [2:01:02] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER RAINVILLE. [2:01:04] Michael Rainville: THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER ELLISON. I AGREE WITH YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER VETAW LET'S MOVE THIS FORWARD. LET'S VOTE ON IT TODAY, AND TO YOUR POINT, COUNCIL MEMBER CHAVEZ, SITTING ON THE BUSINESS COMMITTEE, I AM SENSITIVE TO HOW PACKED THE AGENDAS ARE. SO PERHAPS THIS WOULD TAKE a LOT OF CONVERSATION. AND I WOULD LEAVE IT UP TO THE CHAIR, THE CHAIR OR THE VICE CHAIR TO UNDERSTAND THE FULL OF ALL OF THIS. SO LET'S MOVE FORWARD. LET'S START THIS DISCUSSION ABOUT HOW TO HAVE a PROCESS BECAUSE 80% OF ALL THE [2:01:47] NONPROFITS IN MINNESOTA ARE UNDERFUNDED. SO THE REQUESTS FOR HOUSING IS JUST GOING TO COME AND COME AND COME. AND LET'S BE PREPARED SO WE'RE NOT SHOWING THAT THE LOUDEST VOICES GET HEARD FIRST. [2:02:04] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER OSMAN. [2:02:06] Jamal Osman: THANK YOU. AS A CHAIR OF BIZ, WE'RE HAPPY TO TAKE THE ITEM. WE'LL FIGURE OUT THE TIMELINE COMING THROUGH. THERE'S a LOT OF GOOD PRESENTATIONS THAT COME THROUGH ABOUT HOUSING AND BIZ, SO THIS WILL BE ONE OF THEM. THANK YOU. [2:02:19] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER PALMISANO. [2:02:21] Linea Palmisano: THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER OSMAN. AS CHAIR OF THAT COMMITTEE. ALL THIS IS ASKING FOR IS PRESENTATION OF OUR EXISTING PROCESSES. NOT TO INVENT a NEW PROCESS. THERE ARE SEVERAL CONSIDERATION PROCESSES TO FUND HOUSING, AS WE'VE BEEN DOING THROUGH THE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, AND WE'RE SIMPLY ASKING IN TODAY'S CURRENT ENVIRONMENT, WITH THE QUESTIONS WE'RE ALL GETTING FROM CATHOLIC CHARITIES, COMMON BOND, SO MANY OF THE NONPROFIT AND SOME FOR-PROFIT HOUSING PROVIDERS. [2:02:53] CAN WE LEVEL SET WITH THE PROCESSES THAT WE HAVE, AND ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT. IT'S ASKING US TO DO SO BY THE END OF NOVEMBER. IT IS NOTHING THAT NEEDS TO BE LARGELY TALKED ABOUT AT COMMITTEE. AGAIN, WE HAVE SEVERAL CONSIDERATION PROCESSES IN PLACE. I LOOK FORWARD TO IT I THINK IT'S a POSITIVE STORY TO TELL ABOUT WHERE WE'VE PUT OUR MONEY IN THE PAST. THE KIND OF GOOD THAT HAS COME FROM IT IN THE PAST, AND HOW WE SHOULD BE LOOKING AT THIS -- THESE AFFORDABLE HOUSING TRUST FUND AND OTHER BUCKETS WITH FRESH EYES. WITH THE EYES OF WHAT OUR CURRENT NEEDS ARE AS a CITY. THANK YOU. [2:03:30] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER CHOWDHURY. [2:03:32] Aurin Chowdhury: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. I JUST WANT TO UPLIFT HOW IMPORTANT THIS ACTION IS TODAY. WHILE AGATE MIGHT BE CLOSING ANYWAYS, THIS IS ENSURING THAT THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO OPEN BACK UP. THAT'S WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT RIGHT HERE. AND WHILE PEOPLE FROM ENCAMPMENTS MIGHT NOT BE GOING DIRECTLY INTO THIS SHELTER IN SPECIFIC, I THINK ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT ARE SUPPORTED BY THIS SHELTER, INDIVIDUALS LIVING IN LOW BARRIER HOUSING, SOME TAKING SHELTER -- I BELIEVE IT WAS 42 SHELTER BEDS AND THEN 53 INDIVIDUALS LIVING IN THAT LOW BARRIER HOUSING SHELTER. THIS IS PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM GOING INTO ENCAMPMENTS AND MORE PEOPLE SLEEPING OUTSIDE. I COMMEND THE SERVICE PROVIDERS WHO WORK SO HARD TO PUT TOGETHER a BY-NAME LIST AND ARE WORKED WITH VARIOUS RESOURCES IN TIME TO MAKE SURE THE FOLKS THAT WERE IN THIS BUILDING TO BE IN AN ADEQUATE PLACE TO BE OR WORK THROUGH THAT PROCESS. THAT IS GREAT. I WISH YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO DO THAT WORK AND IT ALSO SHOWS HOW MUCH OF AN EMERGENCY THIS IS. I WANT TO BE a PART OF TAKING AN ACTION TO ENSURE THAT WE HAVE SHELTER LIKE THIS BACK ONLINE SO WE CAN CONTINUE TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE SLEEPING OUTSIDE OR I GUESS IN THIS CASE, PREVENT THAT FROM GROWING. I'M REALLY, REALLY PROUD OF HAD OUR COLLEAGUES UP HERE TODAY IN COMING TOGETHER AND FIGURING OUT a SOLUTION. I KNOW THAT THERE [2:04:19] IS a LOT OF TIME SPENT IN THINKING ABOUT THE BUDGET CONSIDERATIONS AND MY UNDERSTANDING, AND I'M SURE COUNCIL VICE PRESIDENT WILL SHARE MORE ABOUT THE DETAILS IS WHILE -- WHILE WE'RE TAKING FROM a PROJECTED SURPLUS, THIS ISN'T ELIMINATING THE ENTIRE SURPLUS. THERE'S STILL PROJECTED SURPLUS WITHIN THESE DEPARTMENTS FOR THEM TO WORK THROUGH. AND I APPRECIATE THAT INTENTIONALITY AND THE CARE TOWARDS OUR ENTERPRISE AND THINKING ABOUT THIS AND WEIGHING OUT THE EMERGENCY THAT WE'RE IN. AND I 100% THINK THAT THIS IS AN EMERGENCY. I SAID IN MY COMMENTS IN COMMITTEE WHEN YOU HAVE a FIRE IN a HOUSE, YOU DON'T START TURNING OFF FIREHOUSES -- FIRE HOSES. YOU START THINKING ABOUT MORE RESOURCES. I LOOK FORWARD IN SUPPORTING THIS I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING THIS PASS AND HOPEFULLY, WE CAN SEE a UNANIMOUS VOTE AFTER WE CONCLUDE OUR DISCUSSION. [2:04:19] Elliott Payne: I ADDED MYSELF TO QUEUE, BECAUSE I WANTED TO SPEAK TO, YOU KNOW, I SPOKE WITH THE CLERKS BEFORE THIS TRYING TO IDENTIFY WAS THIS AN ITEM THAT WAS NEEDED THE AGENDA TO BE AMENDED OR IF IT WAS a SUBSTITUTE THAT WASN'T PARTICULARLY CLEAR TO ANY OF US [2:04:19] UPON REFLECTION, THIS IS TECHNICALLY OUT OF ORDER. RIGHT. JUST FUNCTIONALLY FROM a PROCEDURE PERSPECTIVE. AND THEN WHEN WE THINK ABOUT THE EXTENT OF THE PROBLEM THAT WE'RE TRYING TO SOLVE, THIS ISN'T ABOUT -- WE ACTUALLY HAVE AN EMERGENCY THAT IS STRUCTURAL IN NATURE THAT NEEDS US TO WORK TOGETHER WITH OUR PARTNERS AT THE COUNTY, OUR PARTNERS AT THE STATE, OUR PARTNERS AT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. THE SCOPE OF THIS IS VAST AND LARGER THAN ANY ONE BUDGET. I AGREE WITH COUNCIL MEMBER PALMISANO. THERE SHOULD BE a PROCESS. THE TIME TO START THAT PROCESS WAS ABOUT 2021, WHEN WE APPROPRIATED OUR FIRST ARPA DISTRIBUTIONS TO ORGANIZATIONS WITH THE FULL KNOWLEDGE THERE WAS GOING TO BE a FISCAL CLIFF TODAY. AND IT IS [2:05:06] ACTUALLY VERY DISAPPOINTING THAT THE ADMINISTRATION DIDN'T DEVELOP THAT PROCESS, AND I THINK THE COUNCIL MEMBER KOSKI'S POINT, IF THIS IS JUST a PRESENTATION OF WHAT THE PROCESS ALREADY IS, WELL, CLEARLY THAT PROCESS IS NOT FUNCTIONING BECAUSE WE'VE ARRIVED AT THIS MOMENT WHERE WE ARE SEEING ALL OF OUR SERVICE PROVIDERS ON THE BRINK OF COLLAPSE. IF NOT COLLAPSING. SO THIS LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE IS VERY INCOMPLETE. [2:05:36] IT DOESN'T ADDRESS THE SCOPE OF THE CHALLENGE. BUT I APPRECIATE THE GRACE THAT COUNCIL MEMBER ELLISON HAS BROUGHT TO SUGGEST THAT LET'S BUILD ON THIS, THEN. [2:05:51] DEFINITELY THIS IS NOT SOMETHING WE SHOULD BE PASSING TODAY. I THINK IT NEEDS TO BE MUCH MORE COMPREHENSIVE, AND THAT'S THE WORK OF COMMITTEE. THAT'S NOT THE WORK WE DO HERE IN FULL COUNCIL. SO I HAVE NOT HEARD A FORMAL MOTION TO REFER THIS TO COMMITTEE OR A SECOND. [2:06:05] Jeremiah Ellison: SO MOVED. [2:06:07] Michael Rainville: SECOND. [2:06:07] Elliott Payne: I'M MAKING THE FORMAL MOTION TO REFER IT TO COMMITTEE, PLEASE. [2:06:08] LaTrisha Vetaw: SO COUNCIL MEMBER VETAW HAS MOVED AND THE REFERRAL TO THIS -- LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE TO THE BIZ COMMITTEE. IT HAS BEEN PROPERLY SECONDED. COUNCIL MEMBER RAINVILLE, I SEE YOU IN QUEUE. [2:06:28] Michael Rainville: I WAS IN QUEUE TO SECOND THE MOTION. THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER VETAW, FOR MAKING THAT MOTION. LET'S MOVE FORWARD AND LET'S NOT BLAME ANYBODY. ANY ADMINISTRATION. LET'S FIX THE PROBLEM. [2:06:28] Elliott Payne: I WILL ASK THE CLERK TO CALL THE ROLL ON REFERRAL TO BIZ. (ROLL CALL.) THERE ARE 12 AYES AND ONE NAY. [2:07:01] THAT CARRIES AND THAT ITEM WILL BE FORWARDED TO THE BIZ COMMITTEE FOR A DATE TO BE DETERMINED. NOW WE'LL HAVE THE REPORT FROM OUR BUSINESS, HOUSING, AND ZONING COMMITTEE, WHICH WILL BE GIVEN BY COUNCIL MEMBER OSMAN. [2:07:25] Jamal Osman: THANK YOU. THE BUSINESS HOUSING AND ZONING COMMITTEE IS BRINGING FORWARD 21 ITEMS FOR APPROVAL. APPROVING AN APPLICATION FOR DARLING FOR ON SALE LIQUOR SUNDAY SALES, LIMITED ENTERTAINMENT LICENSE. ITEM 2 IS APPROVING AN APPLICATION FOR AKI'S BREADHAUS, I THINK, FOR ON SALE WINE WITH STRONG BEER, LIMITED ENTERTAINMENT. ITEM 3 IS APPROVING APPLICATION FOR LA MADRE ON SALE LIQUOR AND SUNDAY SALES, NO LIVE ENTERTAINMENT. ITEM 4 IS APPROVING APPLICATION FOR MINTAHOE CATERING AND EVENTS FOR ON SALE LIQUOR WITH SUNDAY SALES, GENERAL ENTERTAINMENT LICENSE. ITEM 5 IS AN APPROVING AN APPLICATION FOR FOULING [2:08:11] WAREHOUSE MINNEAPOLIS FOR ON SALE LIQUOR WITH SUNDAY SALES, NO LIVE ENTERTAINMENT LICENSE. ITEM 6 IS APPROVING A PASSAGE OF RENTAL PREEVICTION INFORMATION TO ORDINANCES. ITEM 7 IS A APPROVING A LAND SALE FOR VARIOUS OTHER ACTIONS FOR 2114 23rd AVENUE. AND PORTION OF 2103 WEST BROADWAY. 8 IS APPROVING MODIFICATION OF THREE TAX INCREMENT FINANCING TIF PLANS TO INCREASE TIF BUDGET FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING. ITEM 9 IS THREE LIQUOR LICENSE APPROVALS. [2:08:50] 10 IS LIKE CORP. LICENSE RENEWALS. 11 IS GAMBLING APPROVAL. 12 GAMBLING LICENSE RENEWAL. ITEM 13 IS AUTHORIZING A CONTRACT WITH SMG FOR FIS FIREWATCH SERVICES. 14 IS APPROVING COMMEMORATIVE STREET NAME ADDITION OF DESHAWN HILL. [2:09:16] 15 IS a ACCEPTING a SCHOLARSHIP AGREEMENT FOR HERITAGE PRESERVATION COMMISSIONERS AND CPED STAFF TO ATTEND THE PRESERVEMN2024. ITEM 16 IS CONSENTING TO a SMALL AND MEDIUM MULTIFAMILY LOANS. ASSUMPTION AD AMENDMENT FOR 3123 23rd AVENUE SOUTH. 17 IS THE W ADAAG COMMONS AFFORDABLE HOUSING TRUST FUND PROJECT. 18 IS PORTLAND VILLAGE FINANCING. 19 IS COMP PLAN AMENDMENT OF RIGHT-OF-WAY VACATION a PORTION OF 1027 ESSEX [2:10:03] STREET SOUTHEAST. 20 IS APPROVING THE OFFICE TO RESIDENTIAL CONSIDERATION PROCESSES VERSIONS ORDINANCES. 21 IS APPROVING BOND POLICY AMENDMENT. I'M REFERRING TO THE MATTER TO THE MCDA BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS WHO WILL BE MEETING AFTER THIS COUNCIL MEETING. I'LL APPROVE ALL ITEMS. THANK YOU. [2:10:27] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER OSMAN HAS MOVED APPROVAL OF THE REPORT. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION. COUNCIL MEMBER CHAVEZ? [2:10:30] Jason Chavez: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. I WANT TO SPEAK ON ITEM 6. I'M NOT SURE IF MY COLLEAGUES TO GOING TO PULL IT OUT. I WANT TO MAKE a COMMENT ON THAT. [2:10:43] Elliott Payne: GO AHEAD AND SPEAK TO IT. [2:10:43] Jason Chavez: COOL. I'M EXCITED TO BRING THIS RENTAL PREEVICTION FORWARD THIS ORDINANCES MOVES TO THE 30-DAY NOTICE THE ADDITIONAL MEANS WE CAN WORK WITH HENNEPIN COUNTY SO THE RENTALS ARE BETTER TO SEEK LEGAL SUPPORT, HAVE TIME FOR CHECK OR PAYMENT TO COME IN THIS IS a HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION TOOL. I'M GLAD WE'RE MOVING FORWARD WITH IT TODAY. I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE WORK THAT COUNCIL MEMBER ELLISON AND COUNCIL MEMBER OSMAN DID WITH THE CITY COUNCIL IN 2021 WHERE THEY ADOPTED THE 14-DAY NOTICE, AND GLAD THAT BECAUSE OF THEIR WORK, WE'RE NOW ABLE TO EXPAND THIS RESOURCE FOR MINNEAPOLIS RESIDENTS. [2:11:25] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER CASHMAN. [2:11:25] Katie Cashman: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. I WANT TO SPEAK TO ITEM NUMBER 20 THE OFFICE TO RESIDENTIAL CONVERSIONS ORDINANCES. FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO THANK CPED, PLANNING DIRECTOR MEG McMAHON AND ZONING MANAGER FOR ALL THE WORK THEY'VE PUT INTO THIS ORDINANCES. BUT I WANT TO SPEAK TO WHY THIS IS SO IMPORTANT FOR WARD 7 AND DOWNTOWN. OUR GOAL IS ACTUALLY TO DOUBLE THE DOWNTOWN POPULATION BY 2035, AND IN ORDER TO DO THAT, WE NEED TO BUILD a LOT MORE HOUSING DOWNTOWN. THE GOOD NEWS IS, WE HAVE a LOT OF VACANT BUILDINGS TO DO THAT WITH. AND OFFICE TO HOUSING CONVERGENCE ARE GAINING STEAM. MORE DEVELOPERS ARE [2:12:10] FINDING WAYS TO FINANCE AND ADAPT COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS TO NEW USES. TWO RECENT EXAMPLES IN WARD 7 INCLUDE THE NORTH STAR CENTER ON 2nd STREET -- 2nd AVENUE, AND THE SUPPORTIVE HOUSING LEAD BY BEACON ON NORTH 4th STREET. SO WHILE I'LL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT STATEWIDE BUILDING CONVERSION TAX CREDIT AT THE STATE LEGISLATURE I HOPE WILL PASS THIS SESSION, THESE ZONE AMENDMENTS BEFORE US REPRESENT a FEW THINGS WE CAN DO AT THE CITY LEVEL TO STREAMLINE AND SUPPORT BUILDING CONVERSION EFFORTS. SO NUMBER ONE IN THE ZONING CODE CHANGE IS ELIMINATING THE PUBLIC HEARING REQUIREMENT TO REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF PROCESS TIME BY TWO TO THREE [2:12:56] MONTHS FOR PLANNING AN ADAPTIVE REUSE PROJECT. THE SECOND ELIMINATES THE INCLUSION THEIR ZONING REQUIREMENT TO MAKE THE PROJECTS MORE FINANCIALLY VIABLE. AND, THIRD, ELIMINATES THE NEED FOR a TRAVEL DEMAND PLAN. THIRD PARTY RE CONSULTANS ARE REQUIRED TO COMPLETE THAT WORK. IT'S NOT a CRITICAL PART OF THE PROCESS. SO, FINALLY, ANOTHER GREAT REASON TO SUPPORT THIS IS THAT ADAPTIVE REUSE HOUSING ACTUALLY HAS 75% OF THE COSTS GOING INTO LABOR AND 25% OF THE COSTS GOING INTO MATERIALS. WHEREAS, WITH a NEW BUILDING, IT WOULD BE THE OPPOSITE. WHERE 75% OF THE FUNDING GOES INTO MATERIALS AND [2:13:43] 25% OF THE COSTS GO INTO LABOR. SO FOR SUSTAINABILITY REASONS, AND ALSO FOR JOB CREATION, I'M SUPPORTING THIS NEW TYPE OF HOUSING IN OUR CITY. IT HAS a GREAT IMPACT. THANK YOU FOR THE CPED STAFF WHO PUT a LOT OF WORK INTO THIS. THANK TO THE COAUTHOR OF THE AMENDMENTS, COUNCIL MEMBER RAINVILLE, IT'S BEEN GREAT TO WORK TOGETHER ON THIS. I'M EXCITED TO SEE IT MOVING FORWARD FOR APPROVAL TODAY. [2:14:09] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER ELLISON. [2:14:11] Jeremiah Ellison: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. JUST WANTED TO PUT IN a QUICK WORD FOR THIS BROADWAY TO NEON, YOU KNOW, JUST ONE FOR THE WARD THAT IS GOING TO BRING, I THINK a LOT OF JOBS, a LOT OF ENTREPRENEURIAL OPPORTUNITY THERE. AND SO I WANT TO THANK CITY STAFF FOR MAKING THAT PROJECT WORK AND GETTING IT CLOSER TO REALITY. BUT I MAINLY WANTED TO PULL ITEM NUMBER 8, THIS TIF FINANCING FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING. THIS BUDGET ITEM HERE. BECAUSE -- OUR MEETINGS GO SO LONG, WE GOT a PRESENTATION ON IT. WE GOT a SHORT PRESENTATION ON IT. I DON'T THINK WE WERE ABLE TO [2:14:54] HONOR SORT OF THE FULL SCOPE OF WHAT THIS MEANS. THIS IS, ESSENTIALLY STAFF -- OUR TREMENDOUS STAFF TAKING ACTION TO FREE UP AROUND $9 MILLION THAT'LL GO TOWARD THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING TRUST FUND THAT'LL GO TOWARD US BEING ABLE TO SUPPORT HUNDREDS OF PROJECTS THAT WE WOULDN'T OTHERWISE BE ABLE TO SUPPORT. IF YOU GUYS ARE HAVING SOME OF THE CONVERSATIONS THAT I'M HAVING, YOU'RE HEARING THAT NATIONWIDE MARKET RATE HOUSING, NEW BUILD IS SLOWING TO a HALT. [2:15:25] THAT ANY OF THE HOUSING THAT IS BEING BUILT IS BEING BUILT WITH a LOT OF SUBSIDY AND YET WE'RE SEEING, YOU KNOW, FOLKS RUNNING OUT OF SUBSIDY. INCLUDING US. GOVERNMENTS ARE FACING BUDGET SHORTFALLS. SO, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ON a COLLISION COURSE WITH NOT SEEING a WHOLE LOT OF NEW HOUSING BEING BUILT ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. THIS PUTS US IN a POSITION TO KEEP THAT DRUM BEAT GOING. TO HAVE NEW UNITS ONLINE. TO HAVE OLD UNITS BE RENOVATED, AND THIS IS NOT SORT OF ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT IS a GIVEN. THIS IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT WAS WORKED ON DILIGENTLY BY ANGIE AND HER TEAM. I WANT TO THANK ANGIE AND THANK YOU MATTHEW HENDRICKS AND BECKA. JUST FOR THEIR TREMENDOUS WORK IN BEING ABLE TO [2:16:11] FIND THIS MONEY SO WE CAN PUT IT TOWARDS CONTINUING TO EXECUTE OUR AFFORDABLE HOUSING GOALS. AND THE LAST THING I'LL SAY, JUST TO, YOU KNOW, TO SORT OF PILE ON SOME OF THE THANKS FOR STAFF, IS THAT OFTEN, YOU KNOW, WE GET LOCKED IN ON THESE CONVERSATIONS WHEN THEY'RE CONTENTIOUS. SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO DISAGREEMENTS WITH ONE ANOTHER. IT'S EASY TO LEAN INTO THAT. AND FOCUS ON THE DISAGREEMENTS. WE SHOULD. WE SHOULD HAVE THE DEBATES, BUT I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT SOMETIMES GETS LOST IS WE LOSE a LITTLE BIT OF TIME TO CELEBRATE HOW TREMENDOUS AND BRILLIANT OUR STAFF ARE, AND AT THE RISK OF PLAYING FAVORITES, I WOULD SAY ANGIE COUNTS AMONG SOME OF OUR MOST BRILLIANT STAFF I WANT TO HONOR HER WORK AND THANK STAFF AND HER TEAM FOR FINDING [2:16:57] $9 MILLION, AGAIN, IT'S a HUGE DEAL FOR US TO HAVE THAT MONEY AND PUT IT TOWARD THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING TRUST FUND. [2:17:10] Elliott Payne: JUST TO CLARIFY, COUNCIL MEMBER ELLISON, APOLOGIES FOR STEPPING UP. WERE YOU PULLING ITEM 8? [2:17:14] Jeremiah Ellison: JUST THANKING STAFF. [2:17:15] Elliott Payne: GOT IT. OKAY. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER CHOWDHURY. [2:17:15] Aurin Chowdhury: THANK YOU, PRESIDENT PAYNE. I WANT TO SAY, AS YOU CAN TELL, WE'RE BUSY IN THE BIZ COMMITTEE WE HAVE PACKED AGENDAS AND WE'RE LOOKING AT ANOTHER PACKED AGENDA. I WANT TO UPLIFT THE POSITIVE AROUND THAT. OUR CITY STAFF WORKS TREMENDOUSLY HARD. [2:17:38] SO a BIG THANK YOU TO CPED, REGULATORY SERVICES, AND ALL OTHER STAFF THAT ARE PRESENT FOR THE ENTIRETY OF THOSE MEETINGS AND, ALSO, JUST THANK YOU TO OUR CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR FOR THEIR DUE DILIGENCE IN GETTING US THROUGH COMMITTEE. I THINK THIS CYCLE WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED a LOT TOGETHER. THERE'S a LOT TO CELEBRATE. I PASS ON MY THANKS TO COUNCIL MEMBER CASHMAN AND COUNCIL MEMBER RAINVILLE FOR THE WORK ON THEIR ORDINANCES. I'M SUPER EXCITED TO SUPPORT IT! I THINK IT'S a POSITIVE THING FOR US TO DO IN OUR CITY. TO BRING BACK DOWNTOWN, TO CREATE MORE HOUSING, TO REVITALIZE OUR TAX BASE IN AEW WAY. SO THANK YOU FOR CARRYING THAT OUT. I AM REALLY, REALLY PROUD TO BE [2:18:23] STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF COUNCIL MEMBER ELLISON AND COUNCIL MEMBER OSMAN ON COAUTHORING THE RENTAL PREEVICTION INFORMATION TO. I'P FORWARD AND PREVENTING AND REDUCING EVICTIONS, CREATING THE TIME TO LINE UP SYSTEMS. RIGHT AND WE'RE VERY FORTUNATE IN HENNEPIN COUNTY WE HAVE EMERGENCY RENTAL ASSISTANCE. [2:18:53] WHAT WE LEARNEDDEED IS a 14-DAYE LINE DOESN'T UP. IT'S MAKING SURE SYSTEMS ARE ALIGNED. WE'RE HELPING SUPPORT SOME OF THE MOST-IN-NEED RENTERS, RIGHT, TO RECEIVE AN EVICTION INFORMATION NOTIFICATIONON YOUR DOOR IS ALA ESPECIALLY IF THE REASON YOU'RE NOT ABLE TO MAKE RENT IS LIFE HAPPENS. YOU'RE TAKING CARE OF OTHERS, MAYBE THERE IS a MEDICAL EMERGENCY MAYBE JUST IN THIS ECONOMIC CLIMATE YOU'RE STRUGGLING. TO OFFER UP MORE TIME TO WORK WITH SERVICES, TO WORK WITH LEGAL COUNSEL, I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT. AND, ALSO, CAN CREATE a BETTER RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE RENTER AND THE PROPERTY OWNER, AND I'LL [2:19:39] JUST SAY I'M EXCITED TO BE a LEADER IN THE STATE. AND IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ST. LOUIS PARK WHO IS THINKING ABOUT MOVING THIS SIMILAR LEGISLATION FORWARD. I DON'T WANT TO THE GET IT WRONG HAS ALREADY MOVED FORWARD, ONE OF THE BROOKLYNS, THIS LEGISLATIVE ACTION. AND I'M JUST LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING THIS IN OUR CITY CODE. [2:20:02] I THANK ALL OF THE CITY STAFF THAT HELPED US GET THIS TOGETHER. [2:20:02] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER RAINVILLE. [2:20:04] Michael Rainville: THANK YOU. I WANT TO SPEAK TO SEVERAL ITEMS. ITEM 3, IF YOU'LL NOTICE, THAT'S LA MADREA, a NEW MEXICAN RESTAURANT OPENING IN DOWNTOWN. I HAD a CHANCE TO MEET THE CHEF. HE HAS a LOT OF HIS MOTHER'S RECIPES. I FIND GREAT IRONY AS WE CELEBRATE LATINO HERITAGE, WE HAVE a LATINO RESTAURANT OPENING UP IN MINNEAPOLIS. I'LL SPEAK a LITTLE BIT TO ITEM NUMBER 6. [2:20:41] THE -- I'M GOING TO VOTE FOR THIS. I THOUGHT THIS THROUGH. BUT I DO WANT TO JUST ANNOUNCE THERE'S -- THERE'S TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY. RIGHT. SO THE LANDLORDS THAT HAVE CONTACTED ME, YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE ADVISED THAT PERHAPS, YOU KNOW, IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN, BUT PERHAPS THIS IS GOING TO SLOW DOWN MORE CONSTRUCTION THAT IS GOING TO INCREASE COSTS BECAUSE OF THE POTENTIAL LOSS OF RENT THAT IS GOING TO BE SPREAD ACROSS CURRENT RENTERS AND, OF COURSE, THERE'S ALWAYS THE SMALLER LANDLORDS WHO ARE CONCERNED THAT BY WAITING 30 DAYS -- AND YOU SPOKE WELL TO THIS IN COMMUNITY, COUNCIL MEMBER, JENKINS, WHICH IMPACTED ME ABOUT HOW YOUR MOTHER RELIES ON THAT RENT. AND MY FEAR THAT THE SMALLER [2:21:27] LANDLORDS CAN'T ABSORB NOT GETTING THEIR RENT ON TIME AND THAT'S GOING TO CAUSE a FINANCIAL HARDSHIP. WHICH, IN TURN, PERHAPS WOULD LEAD THEM TO SELL. AND WHO IS GOING TO BUY? THE BIG NATIONAL CORPORATIONS. AND AS MANY PROBLEMS AS WE HAVE NOW WITH SUCH HIGH LOCAL OWNERSHIP, OUR PROBLEMS ARE GOING TO BE EVEN GREATER IF OUR HOUSING STOCK STARTS TURNING INTO NATIONAL. SO THAT'S -- EVERYBODY LIKES TO LOOK DOWN THE ROAD AND LOOK AT THE CRYSTAL BALL, THAT'S MY ATTEMPT TO DO THAT. WE SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON THAT AS WE GET DATA ON THAT. [2:22:03] I'LL BE VOTING FOR THAT TODAY. AND, LAST, ON ITEM NUMBER 20, COUNCIL MEMBER CASHMAN, YOU SPOKE VERY WELL. THANK YOU FOR EXPLAINING IN DETAIL WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO. BUT THIS IS OUR ATTEMPT TO PRIME THE PUMP IN DOWNTOWN. WE HAVE ALL THE EMPTY OFFICE BUILDINGS, OLD, BEAUTIFUL, BRICK BUILDINGS FROM THE TURN OF THE CENTURY. WE CAN TURN THOSE INTO HOUSING VERY QUICKLY. IF WE GET THE HELP FROM THE STATE. AND I KNOW COUNCIL MEMBER CHOWDHURY, YOU'RE THE EXPERT AT STATE GOVERNMENT. [2:22:31] SO I THANK YOU FOR ACCEPTING THE TASK TO GET THE STATE TO APPROVE THE TAX CREDITS. I'LL BE THE FIRST TO BRING THAT BOTTLE OF CHAMPAGNE IN. [2:22:31] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER JENKINS. [2:22:33] Andrea Jenkins: YEAH. I ONLY SPEAK TO ITEM NUMBER 6, AND I, TOO, HAVE HAD EXTENSIVE CONVERSATIONS. I'VE HAD EXTENSIVE OUTREACH FROM MY CONSTITUENTS. I SPOKE WITH SMALL LANDLORDS, INCLUDING MY MOTHER, AND, YOU KNOW, I AM GOING TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT THIS ITEM TODAY. AS I DID IN 2021 [2:23:18] WITH THE 14-DAY EXTENSION. AND SO -- BUT TO COUNCIL MEMBER RAINVILLE'S POINT YOU KNOW, I ABSTAINED FROM THE FIRST TWO VOTES IN COMMITTEE TO BE ABLE TO BRING AWARENESS AND ATTENTION TO THE FACT THAT THIS POTENTIALLY COULD HAVE IMPACTS ON VERY SMALL LANDLORDS WHO RELY ON THAT RENT WE ARE EXTENDING THIS OUT TO THREE MONTHS. THE REASON WHY YOU FILE AN EVICTION NOTICE IS BECAUSE YOU ALREADY LOST RENT. [2:24:03] SO NOW YOU'RE GOING TO WAIT ANOTHER 30 DAYS BEFORE YOU CAN EVEN NOTIFY THE PERSON THAT YOU'RE GOING TO EVICT THEM. AD THEN THEY HAVE ANOTHER TWO MONTHS BEFORE THEY'RE OUT. SO I JUST WANT US TO BE AWARE OF THE POTENTIAL IMPACTS THAT THIS CAN HAVE ON VERY SMALL LANDLORDS, AND BE READY TO STEP IN TO PREVENT HOMELESSNESS IN THAT INSTANCE, AS WELL. THANK YOU. [2:24:34] Elliott Payne: VICE PRESIDENT CHUGHTAI. [2:24:34] Aisha Chughtai: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. I WANTED TO SPEAK ON a COUPLE OF ITEMS THAT OTHER MEMBERS HAVE -- THAT OTHER MEMBERS HAVE OFFERED T BEING ITEM NUMBER 20, THE RESIDENTIAL CONVERSIONS ORDINANCES BY C COUNCIL MEMBER CASHMAN AN RAINVILLE. THIS IS EXCELLENT WORK. I KNOW THAT THE GROWING THE DOWNTOWN ECONOMY AND THE CONTINUED REVITALIZATION EFFORTS OF DOWNTOWN ARE IMPORTANT TO YOU, AS THE COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT REPRESENT OUR DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY. I SEE THE TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF WORK THAT YOU ARE BOTH DOING IN [2:25:20] PARTNERSHIP WITH ONE ANOTHER TO ADVANCE POLICIES AND ACTIONS THAT HELP MAKE THAT a REALITY. AND I'LL NOTE, YOU KNOW, a SPECIAL THANK YOU AND APPRECIATION FOR COUNCIL MEMBER CASHMAN. I REMEMBER IN MY FIRST TERM, IT WASN'T UNTIL THE START OF MY SECOND YEAR ON THE COUNCIL THAT I GOT TO, YOU KNOW, PASS AN ORDINANCES THAT I HAD AUTHORED AND SPENT a LOT OF TIME AND ENERGY WORKING ON. AND, YOU KNOW, FOR NINE MONTHS IN, AND THIS IS YOUR SECOND ONE THAT YOU'VE GOTTEN ACROSS THE FINISH LINE. THAT'S a BIG DEAL! [2:26:05] CONGRATULATIONS. AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK. AND THEN, SECONDLY, I WANTED TO ALSO OFFER SOME COMMENTS ON ITEM NUMBER 6. THE RENTAL PREEVICTION NOTIFICATION ORDINANCES WHICH IS a BIG DEAL FOR RENTERS ACROSS DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES, BUT IN PARTICULAR, FOR LOW WEALTH AND LOW-INCOME RENTERS IN OUR COMMUNITIES. I REPRESENT a MAJORITY OF RENTERS COMMUNITY. [2:26:37] I LIVE IN a 90% RENTER NEIGHBORHOOD THAT ALSO ISN'T a VERY WEALTHY ONE. AND I SEE THE IMPACT THAT THE LOSS OF STABLE HOUSING CAN HAVE ON a PERSON'S LIFE. AND, YOU KNOW, AS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WHAT ARE THE IMPACTS OF THIS -- AT THE EXTINCTION OF THE PREEVICTION NOTIFICATION PERIOD ON THE BROADER MARKET, AND THE -- OUR LOCAL AND SMALL HOUSING PROVIDERS, SMALL LANDLORDS HERE IN MINNEAPOLIS. I ALSO WANT US TO THINK ABOUT THE IMPACT THIS IS GOING TO HAVE ON RENTERS. [2:27:17] AND EVICTION IS a TRAUMATIC EVENT. IT IS a LIFE-CHANGING EVENT THAT HAPPENS IN a PERSON'S LIFE. AS AN EXAMPLE, a FRIEND OF MINE EXPERIENCED AN EVICTION IN 2017, AND THE REASON THAT HAPPENED WAS THEY HAD a MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS AND ENDED UP IN THE HOSPITAL FOR ABOUT THREE MONTHS, AND HAD PARENTS THAT H HAD -- THAT DIDN'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO, LIKE, PAY THEIR REMEMBER THRENTWHILE THEY WERE AS a RESULT THEY WERE E VECTED FROM THEIR HOME. IT'S SEVEN YEARS LATER NOW AND THEY CAN FINALLY RENT AGAIN. AND IN THAT [2:28:03] INTERIM, HAVE HAD TO FIGURE OUT HOUSING SITUATIONS LIKE STAYING WITH FRIENDS FOR SHORT PERIODS OF TIME, OR, YOU KNOW, STAYING IN SOMEONE'S GUEST ROOM OR ON THEIR COUCH. AND THAT TYPE OF -- THAT LACK OF STABILITY AND THE WAY THAT AN EVICTION CHANGES a PERSON AND a FAMILY'S LIFE IS -- IT CANNOT BE UNDERSCORED ENOUGH. SO I JUST WANT US TO ALSO BE THINKING ABOUT THE TENANTS THAT WE -- THE RENTERS IN OUR CITY, OUR CONSTITUENTS, OUR RESIDENTS WHO WE'RE ALSO SUPPORTING BY ADVANCING THIS POLICY AND MAKING IT EASIER FOR RESIDENTS TO BE ABLE TO ACCESS SOME OF THE SUPPORTIVE SERVICES AND AID AND BE ABLE TO STAY IN [2:28:49] THEIR HOMES. AND JUST ALSO WANT TO THANK THE AUTHORS OF THIS ORDINANCES, COUNCIL MEMBERS CHOWDHURY, CHAVEZ, AND COUNCIL PRESIDENT PAYNE FOR YOUR WORK ON THIS. [2:29:04] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER OSMAN. [2:29:04] Jamal Osman: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT JUST WANTED TO TALK ABOUT THE PREEVICTION. IT'S ANOTHER GREAT TOOL TO USE TO LIMIT THE CRISIS WE HAVE. SO WE DON'T HAVE MORE HOMELESS ISSUE. AS a LARGE RESIDENCE, RENTERS IN MY DISTRICT, IT'S a GOOD TOOL FOR THEM TO GIVE THEM ENOUGH TIME TO COME UP WITH THE PAYMENT. IT TAKES ABOUT 30 DAYS TO PROCESS. [2:29:40] IT WILL GIVE THE INDIVIDUAL TO AT LEAST COME UP WITH THE MONEY AND THIS IS REALLY a GOOD TOOL FOR RESIDENTS, AND ALSO SOMEONE WHO HAS WORKED IN a LARGE PROPERTY APARTMENT IN THE PAST, ACTUALLY IT SAVES MONEY FOR PREVENTING EVICTIONS SAVES MONEY FOR LANDLORDS. SMALL AND LARGE BECAUSE IMAGINE GOING THROUGH EVICTION. THE COURT PAYMENT. [2:30:12] NOW THEY GOT TO DO THE CLEAN UP THEY HAVE TO DO THE RELISTING. THEY HAVE TO LOOK AT THE TIME OF VACANT TRYING TO FIND THE NEXT TENANT. SO THE LANDLORDS DO LOSE MONEY WHEN EVICTIONS HAPPEN. AND, ALSO, AS COUNCIL VICE PRESIDENT TALKED ABOUT, DEVASTATING EFFECT ON THE RESIDENTS THEMSELVES. SO IT'S a WIN-WIN SITUATION GIVING TIME TO COME UP WITH THE MONEYS TO PAY THAT. IT ONLY AFFECTS THE PAYMENT SIDE OF IT. LET'S BE CLEAR THIS PREEVICTION ORDER ONLYAFFECTS THE PAYMENT SIDE OF IF THERE ARE OTHER INFRACTIONS, THE PROCESS DOES NOT AFFECT. SO WORKING WITH THE LANDLORDS AND [2:30:59] THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY AND THE RESIDENT. I THINK THIS ORDINANCES WORKS PERFECT. 30 DAYS. IT'S ENOUGH. THANK YOU. [2:30:59] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER PALMISANO. [2:31:19] Linea Palmisano: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. I DIDN'T HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SIT IN THE COMMITTEE MEETING. I'M NOT ON THIS COMMITTEE. BUT I DID WATCH SOME OF IT AND LISTEN TO SOME OF IT. THE 30 DAYS WOULD BE IN COMPLIANCE WITH STATE LAW. THAT'S NOT ACCURATE THE STATE LAW SAYS 14 DAYS, BUT IT IS ALLOWABLE FOR OUR CITY TO GO FURTHER. I THINK ST. LOUIS PARK AND BROOKLYN CENTER MAY HAVE GONE TO 30 DAYS. BUT I WANT TO POINT OUT THAT SOMEBODY TESTIFIED -- I DON'T KNOW WHO -- THAT THEY WOULD THEN NEED TO START EVICTION PROCEEDINGS AS SOON AS THE RENT IS DUE. AND NOT OFFER GRACE PERIODS OR ANYTHING. AND SOME OF THAT MIGHT BE DUE TO THE FINANCIAL [2:32:07] CONSTRAINTS OF THE PEOPLE WHO OWN THESE PROPERTIES. YOU KNOW, THE TWIN CITIES HOUSING ALLIANCE SAID a LOT ABOUT THIS. THEY HAVE a LOT OF CONCERNS. THEY THINK -- AND I'M -- I DON'T KNOW THIS IS THE CASE, THAT IT WILL BE MORE DIFFICULT AND COSTLY TO REMOVE RESIDENTS WHO ARE CREATING UNSAFE LIVING CONDITIONS FOR OTHERS . [2:32:32] PARTICULARLY WHERE IT'S DIFFICULT TO PROVE a VIOLENCE. IT WILL NEGATIVELY IMPACT MANY RENTERS WHO WANT TO LIVE IN a SAFE AND PEACEFUL HOME ENVIRONMENT. I'VE HAD SOME OF THESE ISSUES THIS YEAR IN MY WARD WHERE IT WAS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO REMOVE SOMEONE THAT WAS PLACED THERE THAT WAS WRECKING ABSOLUTE HAVOC AND TERROR ON TO ORE MEMBERS OF OTF THE SMALL APARTMENT BUILDING. I WORRY IT SENDS a MESSAGE TO THE HOUSING INDUSTRY AS a WHOLE THEY'RE a PROBLEM. THEY'RE NOT WE WANT TO WORK TOGETHER WITH THEM TO SOLVE THE HOUSING CRISIS. BUT THEY FEEL IT ADDS BARRIERS TO NEW PRODUCTION. IT INCREASES COSTS IN ALREADY [2:33:18] CRUMBLING HOUSING MARKETS AND ADDS TO THE LIST OF OTHER COSTS WHERE DEVELOPERS WILL LOOK ELSEWHERE IN OUR REGION. I DON'T WANT TO THE CREATE MORE REGULATIONS AND MAKE IT HARDER TO DEVELOP AND OWN HOUSING IN THE CITY. MANY PROPERTY MANAGERS SAY NO, AND WITH EXAMPLES OF WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON IN THE WORLD ABOUT IT. SMALL AND EXTRA SMALL PORTFOLIO OWNERS, PEOPLE WHO MAYBE JUST OWN a TRIFLEX IT IMPACTS THEM GREATLY. I HEARD FROM THEM SAYING THEY WOULD HAVE TO START EVICTION PROCEEDINGS EARLIER INSTEAD OF ALLOWING THEIR RENTERS GRACE AND a COUPLE OF DAYS OR a COUPLE OF WEEKS AND GIVE EVERYONE THAT GOOD WILL. I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE WANT TO FOSTER HERE. NO ONE WANTS AN [2:34:04] EVICTION ON THEIR RECORD. AS IT WAS MENTIONED, IT'S HORRIBLE TO HAVE AN EVICTION ON YOUR RECORD IN TERMS OF TRYING TO REBUILD THAT AS YOU MOVE FORWARD. SO I WANTED TO RAISE THOSE FLAGS OF CONCERNS THAT THERE ARE BOTH PROS AND CONS HERE. AND THAT MAKES THIS DIFFICULT TO DO. THE MORE LIKELY PROPERTIES, FOR NATURAL OCCURRING AFFORDABLE HOUSING ARE OFFERED AT 60, 50, MAYBE 30% OF AMI. THEY NEED OUR PROTECTION FROM FORECLOSURE, IF THEY'RE UNABLE TO PAY THEIR MORTGAGES. THIS COULD FORCE PROPERTY OWNERS OF ALL SIZES, NATURALLY OCCURRING AFFORDABLE HOUSING TO MARKET RATE [2:34:50] IMMEDIATELY BEGIN EVICTION PROCESSES ON DAY ONE OF NONPAYMENT. THAT'S a VERY DIFFICULT CONSEQUENCE. THANK YOU. [2:34:50] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER CHAVEZ. [2:35:10] Jason Chavez: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT PAYNE. I WANT TO MAKE SOME QUICK CLARIFICATIONS. THIS IS NOT ABOUT SAFETY. THERE'S AN ORDINANCES THAT PASSED IN 2021 THAT HAS ISSUES WITH SAFETY ADDRESSED. THIS IS ABOUT LACK OF PAYMENT. THIS IS NOT ABOUT SAFETY. THIS IS MOVING THE TIMELINE FROM 14 DAYS TO 30 DAYS. THERE WAS a PRESENTATION THAT I HOPE EVERYBODY LISTENED TO IN THE BUSINESS, HOUSING, AND ZONING COMMITTEE THAT TALKED ABOUT THIS. 14 DAYS TO 30 DAYS THE SAFETY COMPONENT WAS [2:35:36] ADDRESSED IN 2021. THIS IS FROM a LACK OF PAYMENT. THAT'S IT. I ALSO WANT TO TALK ABOUT a FEW THINGS. THIS IS ALLOWED UNDER STATE LAW. WE'RE ALLOWED TO DO THIS. 90% OF EVICTIONS ARE DUE TO UNPAID RENT. AND a LOT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE EVICTED BECAUSE OF UNPAID RENT END UP IN SHELTERS. DO WE WANT TO REDUCE CAPACITY? DO WE WANT TO HAVE MORE SHELTER SPACE IF WE'RE GOING TO ADDRESS THE HOUSING CRISIS? I BELIEVE WE DO. AN ADDITIONAL 16 DAYS N DAYS. ONEN WAITING FOR THE PAYCHECK CAN POTENTIALLY GET THE CHECK AND SAY TODAY I'M NOT GOING TO BE E [2:36:23] EVICTED BECAUSE I CAN PAY MY RENT. THERE'S a HUMAN ELEMENT TO THIS. IF WE CAN PREVENT SOMEONE FROM BEING HOMELESS, IF WE CAN BELIEVE IN a DIGNITY OF PEOPLE THEY CAN HAVE AN EXTRA 16 DAYS TO STAY IN THEIR APARTMENT, LET'S DO IT. LET'S VOTE FOR THIS. [2:36:40] Elliott Payne: VICE PRESIDENT CHUGHTAI. [2:36:42] Aisha Chughtai: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. JUST a COUPLE OF ADDITIONAL COMMENTS RELATED TO ITEM NUMBER 6. THE FIRST THING I WANTED TO MENTION WAS THIS IS a FORM OF AN UPSTREAM SOLUTION. I KNOW THAT'S SOMETHING WE HEAR OUR ADMINISTRATION STAFF AND DEPARTMENT HEADS OFTEN TALK ABOUT. THAT, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE -- AS WE LOOK TO ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS IN OUR COMMUNITY BROADLY, BUT EVEN THE SPECIFICALLY THE CRISIS OF UNSHELTERED HOMELESSNESS, THE THING WE NEED TO INVEST IS IN UPSTREAM SOLUTIONS. THIS IS AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF ONE. IT'S a PART OF MEANINGFULLY ADDRESSING THIS CRISIS. AND IT'S NOT LOST IN ME THIS IS THE SECOND OF THREE ACTIONS THAT THE [2:37:28] BODY IS GOING TO CONSIDER TODAY THAT ADVANCE HOUSING FIRST APPROACH AND EACH LOOK AT ADDRESSING HOMELESSNESS AND OUR HOUSING CRISIS IN DIFFERENT AND UNIQUE WAYS. AND THAT'S a REALLY BIG DEAL. THE SECOND THING I WANTED TO MENTION WAS I REALLY HEARD THE COMMENTS ABOUT, YOU KNOW LIKE, MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS OR LARGE CORPORATIONS COMING IN AND BUYING UP PROPERTY WHEN THERE'S THE POTENTIAL FOR THE EXAMPLE COUNCIL MEMBER RAINVILLE BROUGHT UP EARLIER, MR. CHAIRMAN. AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT GENERALLY SPEAKING THE -- THERE'S a SHARED [2:38:15] CONCERN AMONG POLICY MAKERS HERE ABOUT WANTING MORE LOCAL OWNERSHIP, WANTING MORE AFFORDABILITY IN OUR CITY, AND THE PRESERVATION OF THE STOCK THAT IS OWNED BY THE SMALL AND LOCAL LANDLORDS. AND TO THAT, I'LL JUST NAME AS a PREVIEW FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS, COUNCIL MEMBER ELLISON AND I ARE BRINGING FORWARD AN ORDINANCES TO ADDRESS THIS EXACT SORT OF THING. IT'S COMING UP AROUND ADDRESSING PRESERVATION OF THE [2:39:03] AFFORDABLE HOUSING STOCK AND BETTER HELP MAINTAIN LOCAL OWNERSHIP. SO THAT'S SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO. I HOPE THAT'S SOMETHING YOU'LL BE EXCITED TO SUPPORT. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, I'LL JUST END WITH, YOU KNOW, LIKE, I REMEMBER AS a MINNEAPOLIS RESIDENT BACK IN 2017 AND 2018 WHEN -- WHEN THE PREVIOUS COUNCIL AT THAT TIME WAS CONSIDERING, YOU KNOW LIKE, INCLUSIONARY ZONING POLICY AND THERE WAS THIS IMMENSE AMOUNT OF PANIC AND FEAR AND HYSTERIA, MAYBE, EVEN, ABOUT HOW IT WOULD [2:39:50] DECIMATE NEW CONSTRUCTION AND THE YEARS THAT CAME AFTER WE SAW IT HAD NO IMPACT. TAKING THOSE CONCERNS WITH a GRAIN OF SALT AND LOOKING TO HISTORY TO SEE HOW POLICIES THAT SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT ARE STRUGGLING GENERALLY TEND TO HAVE a POSITIVE IMPACT ON OUR COMMUNITY. [2:40:15] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER ELLISON. [2:40:17] Jeremiah Ellison: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. I WANTED TO TALK a LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHY a POLICY LIKE THIS IS IMPORTANT, AND STRIP AWAY WHAT -- AND I DON'T MEAN TO BE DISRESPECTFUL HERE, SOME OF WHAT FEELS LIKE DOOMSDAY FANTASY AND TALK ABOUT HOW THE POLICIES INTERACT WITH PEOPLE IN REAL LIFE. HOW THEY PROTECT PEOPLE IN REAL LIFE. AND WHAT THEY DO AND DON'T IMPACT. THIS KIND OF POLICY AFFECTS NONPAYMENT OF RENT ONLY. RIGHT. MEANING THAT IF -- THAT IT AFFECTS NONPAYMENT OF RENT ONLY. I'LL START THERE IF YOU HAVE a UNIT THAT IS DEALING WITH CRIME ISSUES, [2:41:00] SAFETY ISSUES, THAT IS DEALING WITH OTHER TYPES OF LEASE VIOLATIONS. THIS ORDINANCE SIMPLY DOES NOT INTERACT WITH THOSE INSTANCES. NOW WHY IS IT IMPORTANT FOR US TO CREATE SOME DISRUPTION HERE? WELL, FOR a COUPLE OF REASONS, IN MY OPINIONN FILING. MEANING THAT AFTER THOSE 30 DAYS ARE UP, YOU CAN HAVE AN EVICTION FILED. NOW WHEN SOMEBODY HAS AN EVICTION FILED. IT STAYS ON THEIR RECORD. EVEN IF THE EVICTION ITSELF DOES NOT OCCUR. IT MAKES IT HARD FOR THEM TO FIND NEW HOUSING. IT MAKES IT UNTENABLE TO REENTER THE HOUSING MARKET IN ANY WAY. THIS IS a PREEVICTION FILING. a COLLOQUIAL NAME IS CALLED a "PAY OR QUIT NOTICE" [2:41:47] IT MEANS PAY ME FOR LIVING IN MY UNIT OR GET OUT OF MY UNIT. RIGHT. SO IF THAT TENANT, AND I THINK IN REAL WORLD PRACTICE, NO TENANT WANTS THE EVICTION ON THEIR RECORD. THE TENANT WILL DO ONE OF TWO THINGS. THEY'LL EITHER TO PAY YOU THE RENT THAT YOU'RE OWED OR GOING TO GET OUT OF YOUR UNIT. SO THIS THREE-MONTH TIMELINE IS a FANTASY. IT'S a DOOMSDAY FANTASY. IT DOESN'T EXIST IN PRACTICE. IT MIGHT BE ABLE TO EXIST IN THEORY BUT NOT PRACTICE. GIVE ME SOMETHING REAL IF WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT CRITICISMS OF a POLICY LIKE THIS. GIVE ME SOMETHING REAL. RIGHT. AND SO I THINK THAT -- AND NO ONE IN COMMITTEE SAID THIS POLICY MATCHES STATE LAW. SAID THE OPPOSITE, [2:42:33] ACTUALLY. THE PREVIOUS POLICY WAS THEN ADOPTED BY THE STATE AS STATE LAW. AND SO WHEREAS WE DID NOT NECESSARILY HAVE THE STANDING TO MAYBE HAVE a 30-DAY NOTICE BEFORE THE STATE TOOK ACTION, WE FELT LIKE WE COULD PUSH IT OUT TO 40 DAYS. THAT WAS THE LOGIC THEN IN 2020 AND 2021 WHEN THE FIRST POLICY WAS ADOPTED. NOW THAT THE STATE HAS CREATED THEIR TIMELINE, BASICALLY MATCHING OUR PREVIOUS POLICY, THAT WE NOW HAVE a LITTLE BIT OF WIGGLE ROOM TO EXTEND OUR TIMELINE. AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO EXTEND OUR TIMELINE? NOT JUST FOR THE HECK OF IT. NOT FOR THE SAKE OF IT. [2:43:11] BUT THE COUNTY HAS RENTAL ASSISTANCE FOR THIS EXACT TYPE OF SITUATION. BUT GUESS WHAT. IT TAKES ABOUT 28 DAYS TO GET IT OUT THE DOOR. RIGHT. AND SO EVEN THOUGH WE HAD a 14-DAY PREEVICTION FILING ON THE RECORD, BECAUSE WE FELT IT WAS LEGALLY DEFENSIBLE. WE KNEW IT WASN'T ENOUGH. IT WAS a LITTLE BIT OF CUSHION. WE KNEW IT WASN'T ENOUGH. IF a LANDLORD WANTS TO ISSUE THE PREEVICTION FILING TO THEIR TENANT ON DAY ONE, THAT'S FINE. THEY'VE GOT -- THEY ARE NOW GIVING THEIR TENANT a COUPLE OF TOOLS TO WORK WITH. ONE, THEY'RE GIVING TENANTS SOME NOTICE TO EITHER PAY OR GET OUT OF THE UNIT. THE SECOND IS THE COUNTY OFTEN WANTS [2:43:57] PROOF THAT YOU CAN'T PAY. WANTS PROOF YOU ARE ABOUT TO BE DISPLACED. AND a PREEVICTION FILING CAN OFTEN QUALIFY AS SAID PROOF. SO NOW YOU GO THE COUNTY WITH THE PREEVICTION FILING TO SAY, YOU KNOW, I CAN PROVE I'M GETTING DISPLACED. HERE IS THE PREEVICTION FILING. AND NOW YOU'RE BETTER EQUIPPED TO RECEIVE COUNTY RESOURCES, WHICH I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT STANDS TODAY, I KNOW IN 2021, IT WAS SO HARD TO GET THE KIND OF SERVICE THAT THE MONEY WAS ANNUALLY UNDERSPENT. OVERWHELMINGLY UNDERSPENT. I HOPE IT'S STILL NOT THE CASE TODAY. THAT IS WHY THIS POLICY IS IMPORTANT. THAT IS WHY THE TIMELINE, THE CHANGE IN TIMELINE IS IMPORTANT. AND I [2:44:42] HOPE THERE'S a LITTLE BIT MORE CLARITY ABOUT WHAT THE POLICY DOES AND DOES NOT DO. LET'S NOT DISSOLVE INTO FEAR TACTICS AROUND HOW THIS IS GOING TO DESTROY THE SMALL LANDLORD OR CREATE a THREE-MONTH TIMELINE WHEN WE'VE NEVER SEEN ANY EVIDENCE OF THAT. SHOW ME THAT DON'T FANTASIZE ABOUT IT. SHOW ME THE EXAMPLE YOU'RE REFERENCING. AND SO I GET a LITTLE BIT FRUSTRATED BECAUSE WHEN WE -- OFTEN WHEN WE'RE UP HERE DISAGREEING ABOUT POLICY, WE'RE FOCUSED ON DISAGREEMENTS. [2:45:13] WE DISAGREE ON THE TACTIC. BUT FOR SOME REASON, WHEN IT COMES TO TENANTS' PROTECTIONS, WE HAVE TO CONTEND CAN LIES. [2:45:30] Elliott Payne: YOUR TIME IS UP. [2:45:31] Jeremiah Ellison: I'M ALL DONE. [2:45:32] Andrea Jenkins: YEAH. I JUST GOT TO REBUT. IF PEOPLE WOULD EITHER PAY THEIR RENT OR MOVE OUT. THERE WOULD BE NO NEED FOR EVICTIONS. AND WE HAVE MANY, MANY EVICTIONS IN OUR SOCIETY, IN OUR CITY, AND SO THAT WHOLE STATEMENT IT'S KIND OF RIDICULOUS. THERE'S NO NEED FOR EVICTIONS IF PEOPLE WOULD JUST MOVE OUT. THEY DON'T DO THAT. THEY STAY UNTIL THEY ARE REMOVED. [2:46:10] Elliott Payne: SEEING NO FURTHER DISCUSSION I'LL ASK THE CLERK TO CALL THE ROLL ON THE BHZ REPORT. (ROLL CALL.) THERE ARE 13 AYES. [2:46:44] THAT CARRIES AND THE REPORT IS ADOPTED. THE NEXT REPORT IS FROM OUR CLIMATE AND INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE, WHICH WILL BE PRESENTED BY THE COMMITTEE'S CHAIR, COUNCIL MEMBER CASHMAN. [2:46:51] Katie Cashman: THANK YOU. WE HAVE 10 ITEMS TODAY. ITEMS 1 THROUGH 3 ARE APPROVING THE 2025 OPERATING PLANS AND SERVICE CHARGES FOR THE DOWNTOWN BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT SPECIAL SERVICE DISTRICT WEST BROADWAY IMPROVEMENT SPECIAL SERVICE WEB AND THE 428A. 4 IS APPROVING THE CONCEPT LAYOUT FOR THE 10th AVENUE SOUTH BRIDGE OVER THE MIDTOWN GREENWAY. 5 IS APPROVING THE CONCEPT LAYOUT FOR THE 26th STREET EAST AND HIAWATHA AVENUE SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT. 6 IS APPROVING THE CONCEPT LAYOUT FOR HENNEPIN COUNTY CEDAR AVENUE RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT ALONG CEDAR AVENUE. 7 IS APPROVING THE LAYOUT FOR HENNEPIN'S LOWRY AVENUE NORTHEAST RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT. 8 IS AUTHORIZING a COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT WITH THE [2:47:37] PARK BOARD FOR THE EAST BANK TRAIL CONNECTION PROJECT. 9 IS SUBMITTING COMMENTS ON THE MET COUNCIL'S DRAFT IMAGINE 2050 TRANSPORTATION POLICY PLAN. AND PASSAGE OF a RESOLUTION SUPPORTING BRT. 10 IS PASSAGE OF a RESOLUTION EXPRESSING THE CITY'S PRIORITIES FOR MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION'S RETHINKING I-94 PROJECT. I'LL MOVE APPROVAL OF ALL OF THESE ITEMS. AND WOULD LIKE TO PULL ITEM NUMBER 10, AS I HAVE AN AMENDMENT ON THAT RESOLUTION. [2:48:15] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER CASHMAN HAS MOVED APPROVAL OF THE REPORT, MINUS 10. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION ON THE REMAIN OF THEF THE REPORT. COUNCIL MEMBER CHAVEZ. [2:48:20] Jason Chavez: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. I DIDN'T WANT TO PULL THE ITEMS OUT BUT TALK ABOUT a FEW. THANK THE PUBLIC WORKS STAFF FOR WORKING HARD. AND THE 4 IS 10th AVENUE BRIDGE CONCEPT. [2:48:40] IT'S a BRIDGE WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON WITH STAFF FOR THE PAST FEW YEARS. IT'S a PLACE WHERE WE HAVE THE HOSPITAL NEXT DOOR TO IT, AND WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT EMERGENCY VEHICLES CAN GET THROUGH. I LOOK FORWARD TO WORWORKING WITH OUR STAFF TO MAE IT ASSESSABLE FOR FOLKS WALKING AND BIKING. AND THANK STAFF FOR 5, SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT. [2:49:01] IT'S ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS INTERSECTIONS IN THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. IT'S a HIGHWAY BETWEEN WARD 9 AND WARD 2. MANY RESIDENTS UNFORTUNATELY DIE FROM TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS. AND WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE MAKE THIS PLACE AS SAFE AS POSSIBLE. [2:49:17] SO I LOOK FORWARD AS IT CONTINUES TO MOVE ALONG, AND I WANT TO THANK OUR STAFF FOR TRYING THEIR BEST IN THIS AREA. AND, LASTLY, I WANT TO THANK OUR STAFF REGARDING ITEM NUMBER 6, CEDAR AVENUE RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT CONCEPT LAYOUT. CEDAR AVENUE IS IN THE PHILIPS NEIGHBORHOOD. IT IS a PLACE WHERE IT'S HARD TO CROSS THE STREET. IT BECOMES UNSAFE FOR MANY RESIDENTS TO SIMPLY GET FROO THE OTHER. WHEN I VISIT MY RESIDENTS THERE AND TRY TO PARK, IT'S DIFFICULT TO EVEN MAKE SURE THAT I CAN BE SAFE MYSELF. [2:49:49] RIGHT. SO I'M HAPPY THIS IS MOVING ALONG. AND I WANT TO THANK OUR STAFF FOR THEIR WORK ON THIS, TOO. THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. [2:50:00] Elliott Payne: I WANT TO SPEAK ON ITEM 7. THE LOWRY AVENUE PHASE 2. I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE WE HAVE a REPRESENTATIVE FROM RECOVERY BIKE SHOP. THEY HOSTED a MORNING COMMUTE WITH ME THIS MORNING ON MONDAY THIS WEEK. IT WAS FUN! IT'S ALSO VERY HAIRY. [2:50:15] THEY'RE RIGHT ON LOWRY AND CENTRAL. AND THE FIRST THING WE HAD TO DO WAS GET OFF OF LOWRY AND CENTRAL AS FAST AS WE COULD FOR THE GROUP RIDE. IT'S KIND OF NOT THE BEST INTERSECTION. BUT WITH THE LOWRY RECONSTRUCTION, WE'RE GETTING SOME MEANINGFUL INVOLVEMENTS TO THE LOWRY AVENUE CORRIDOR. [2:50:32] PHASE 1 GOT SPLIT INTO TWO PARTS. SO IT STOPS RIGHT AT CENTRAL AVENUE. IT'S FROM WASHINGTON TO CENTRAL. PHASE 1.2 IS CENTRAL TO JOHNSON. WHAT WE'RE APPROVING TODAY IS PHASE 2, WHICH IS FROM WASHINGTON TO MARSHALL AND THEN WE'LL HAVE KIND OF THAT COMPLETE RECONSTRUCTION THAT ACTUALLY STARTED, I THINK, AS FAR BACK AS THE EARLY 2000S MAYBE INTO THE '90s. THIS IS AN EXCITING TIME! IT'S BEEN a LOT OF PAIN. [2:51:07] I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THERE'S BEEN CONSTRUCTION. I THINK WE'RE FEELING THE CONSTRUCTION PAIN IN ALL OF OUR WARDS WITH a LOT OF RECONSTRUCTION, BUT THIS IS, YOU KNOW, GOING TO BE a ROAD THAT IS GOING TO LAST US 50 YEARS AND I'M EXCITED ABOUT BEING ABLE TO HOST OUR NEXT COMMUTE BIKE RIDE! AND KICK IT OFF ON a SHARED USE TRAIL ON LOWRY AVENUE. AND SEEING NO FURTHER DISCUSSION, I'LL ASK THE CLERK TO CALL THE ROLL ON ITEMS 1 THROUGH 9. (ROLL CALL.) THERE ARE 13 AYES. [2:51:50] THOSE ITEMS CARRY. NEXT WE'LL TAKE UP ITEM NUMBER 10. I'LL CALL ON COUNCIL MEMBER CASHMAN. [2:52:10] Katie Cashman: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. SO I WANT TO SPEAK TO THE UNDERLYING RESOLUTION, FIRST, AUTHORED BY COUNCIL MEMBER OSMAN, COUNCIL MEMBER WONSLEY, AND MYSELF. AND THEN I'LL INTRODUCE THE AMENDMENT. THE PROCESS OF RETHINKING I-94, HIGHLIGHTS HOW INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING DOES IMPACT ALL OF OUR LIVES. OUR ABILITY TO MOVE AROUND, AND HOW WE GENERATE WEALTH IN OUR COMMUNITIES. FOR GENERATIONS. SO THAT HIGHWAY THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO CONNECT US RESULTED IN COMMUNITIES BEING DISPLACED AND DISCONNECTED. AND [2:52:37] I DO NOT ACCEPT THAT TRADE-OFF. I ACTUALLY LIVE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT WAS SPLIT WAS SPLIT OFF WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF 94. I DO UNDERSTAND THAT THE RETHINKING I94 PROJECT THAT THE MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION IS UNDERTAKING IS ONLY STUDYING THE PORTION OF 94 BETWEEN DOWNTOWN MINNEAPOLIS AND DOWNTOWN SAINT PAUL. IN THAT RESPECT, I'M SUPPORTIVE OF COUNCIL MEMBER'S OSMAN AND WONSLEY AND THEIR ADVOCACY FOR THEIR COMMUNITIES THAT WERE IMPACTED BY THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE HIGHWAY. SO THIS RETHINKING I-94 PROJECT IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO BE BOLD AND ADDRESSING THE CLIMATE CRISIS, AS WELL AS ADDRESSING THE HARMS THAT WERE [2:53:24] CAUSED BY THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE HIGHWAY. THIS RESOLUTION EXPRESSES OUR POSITION ON WHAT WE WANT THE MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO STUDY AND DO WORK ON AND COLLABORATE WITH THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS ON AS THEY RETHINK I-94 IN COMING YEARS. AND I'LL NOTE THAT HIGHWAY REMOVAL WAS IDENTIFIED AS a PRIORITY FOR THE CLIMATE INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE AND OUR WORK PLAN PROCESS. AS CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE, I'M COMMITTED TO CONTINUING TO WORK ON THAT WITH COUNCIL MEMBERS, WITH PUBLIC WORKS, AND COMMUNITY GROUPS LIKE OUR STREETS WHO ARE ADVOCATING AND DOING a LOT OF GREAT WORK ON NOT ONLY I-94 BUT HIGHWAY 55. I KNOW COUNCIL MEMBER KOSKI IS INTERESTED IN ON WORKING ON HIGHWAY 121, AND COUNCIL MEMBER [2:54:10] PALMISANO, AS WELL. WITH THAT, I'LL OFFER AN AMENDMENT ON THE RESOLUTION, WHICH ADDS PUBLIC TRANSIT SO THAT THE AMENDMENT IS BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THE CITY COUNCIL OF MINNEAPOLIS -- REPROPOSE THE I-94 TRENCH FOR HIGH SPEED PUBLIC TRANSIT CONNECTIONS BETWEEN DOWNTOWN MINNEAPOLIS TO DOWNTOWN SAINT PAUL AND THE BROADER REGION. [2:54:33] AND I'LL MOVE APPROVAL OF THAT AMENDMENT. [2:54:40] Council Member: SECOND. [2:54:42] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER CASHMAN HAS MOVED TO AMEND ITEM 10. IT WAS PROPERLY SECONDED. ANY DISCUSSION ON THE AMENDMENT? I'LL WORK OFF OF THE UNDERLYING QUEUE AND CALL ON COUNCIL MEMBER WONSLEY. [2:54:49] Robin Wonsley: THANK YOU, PRESIDENT PAYNE. FIRST, THANK YOU TO MY FELLOW COAUTHORS, COUNCIL MEMBER OSMAN AND COUNCIL MEMBER CASHMAN. THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS HASHIS CHANCE TO RETHINK I-94, AND MY RESIDENTS HAVE TOLD ME THROUGHOUT MY TIME IN OFFICE THUS FAR THAT THEY DO WANT TO LIVE IN a CITY THAT REPAIRS THE HARMS THAT THIS HIGHWAY HAS CAUSED. AND THEY WANT a FUTURE THAT HONORS THE CITIES OR OUR CITY'S COMMITMENT TO BOTH TRANSPORTATION, RACIAL EQUITY, PUBLIC HEALTH, EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT, AND SUSTAINABILITY THEY WANT TO TRAVEL ON a MULTIMODAL BOULEVARD. NOT [2:55:35] FREEWAY TRENCHES. AND THEY ALSO WANT TO EXPAND LAND AND REAL ESTATE AVAILABLE FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECTS, PARKS, AND SMALL BUSINESSES. AND NOT SACRIFICE SO MUCH OF THEIR LAND RIGHT NOW TO JUST CONCRETE. SO, YOU KNOW, I FIND IT -- FIND IT TO BE a ONCE IN THE LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO BE RECONSIDERING WHAT THE HIGHWAY CAN LOOK LIKE. SPECIFICALLY THE I-94 HIGHWAY. I'M PROUD TO HAVE WORKED WITH MY COLLEAGUES WHO ALSO REPRESENT THE I-94 CORRIDOR TO ESTABLISH OFFICIAL CITY POLICY WHICH STATES THAT KEY DECISION MAKING FACTORS IN THIS RECONSTRUCTION SHOULD BE THE IMPACTS ON ADJACENT NEIGHBORHOODS, PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT EQUITY MULTIMODAL [2:56:22] MOBILITY, a SENSE OF PLACE AND CONNECTIVITY, AND HIGHWAY REMOVAL, AND TO -- IT'S JUST a PATH THAT BEST ALIGNS WITH THE CI'S GOALS AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT I'M EXCITED TO, ONCE AGAIN, AFFIRM TODAY AS WE DID IN MY LAST TERM WHEN WE ALSO PASSED OFFICIAL POSITION SUPPORTING THE CONVERSION OF THE AUSTIN MEMORIAL HIGHWAY. I'M GLAD WE'RE BUILDING UPON THAT. AND, YEAH, LOOK FORWARD TO GETTING MY COLLEAGUES' SUPPORT. [2:56:53] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER OSMAN. [2:56:55] Jamal Osman: THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP. WE KNOW HISTORICALLY THAT THE HIGHWAY BYPASS HAS BEEN -- HAS HIT MANY PEOPLE. ESPECIALLY PEOPLE OF COLOR HISTORICALLY. RETHINKING THE 94 PROJECT RUNS THROUGH a LARGE POPULATION OF PEOPLE OF COLOR, AND MAINLY IT'S RIVER SIDE AREA PARK AND PROSPER PARK, WHICH IS WARD 6 AND WARD 2. WE HAVE a SAY. WE HAVE a SAY OF WHAT COMES TO OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND WE'RE TALKING TO THE MNDOT. [2:57:39] WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THEY RESPECT PEOPLES' VOICES. WE'RE THINKING ABOUT NOT JUST ENVIRONMENT BUT ALSO PEOPLE LIVE THERE. THIS IS THEIR HOME. AND, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS IN FOR US. YOU KNOW, WHAT KIND OF -- WHAT IS FOR THE COMMUNITY THAT LIVE HERE. WHO HAVE HISTORICALLY BEEN MARGINALIZED. [2:58:05] AS YOU GO EVEN FARTHER WE KNOW IN SAINT PAUL HISTORICALLY WHAT HAPPENED. I FULLY SUPPORT THIS AND WANT TO THANK THE STAFF AND THE VOLUNTEERS WHO HAVE BEEN PUSHING THIS AND MAKING THIS a PRIORITY. THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS STANDS BEHIND YOU. [2:58:23] WE'RE MAKING OUR VOICE LOUD AND CLEAR TO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND STATE OF MINNESOTA THAT THIS PROJECT NEEDS a LOT OF THINKING AND THE COMMUNITY COMMENTS AND THEIR STANCE MUST BE RESPECTED. THANK YOU. [2:58:35] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER VETAW. [2:58:39] LaTrisha Vetaw: I JUST HAVE a CLARIFYING QUESTION. SO THIS IS THE PORTION OF I-94 FROM, I THINK, COUNCIL MEMBER CASHMAN SAID IT, FROM DOWNTOWN SO SAINT PAUL. IT DOESN'T INCLUDE 94 IN NORTH MINNEAPOLIS. [2:58:54] Katie Cashman: THAT'S CORRECT. [2:58:55] LaTrisha Vetaw: OKAY. THANK YOU. [2:58:57] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER JENKINS. [2:58:59] Andrea Jenkins: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT I SUPPORT THIS RETHINKING. IT SHOULD INCLUDE NORTH MINNEAPOLIS BECAUSE THAT IS a VERY CHALLENGING DISRUPTION, BUT I WANTED IT NOTE, AS WELL, 35W CUT THROUGH COMMUNITIES OF COLOR AND DISPLACED THOUSANDS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN FAMILIES, CLOSED SCHOOLS, CREATED BUSINESS DISRUPTIONS, ET. CETERA, ET. [2:59:34] CETERA. SO I JUST WANT TO STATE THAT FOR THE RECORD THAT, YOU KNOW, MANY OF THESE FREEWAYS, WHICH, YOU KNOW, I THINK YOU STATED IN YOUR OPENING STATEMENTS, WERE INTENDED TO CONNECT US ACTUALLY DISCONNECTED MANY, MANY COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT MINNEAPOLIS AND THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, AS WELL SO WE DO NEED TO RETHINK THESE FREEWAYS AND TRY TO CREATE WAYS THAT PEOPLE CAN TRULY BE CONNECTED. SO THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD. [3:00:14] Elliott Payne: SEEING NO FURTHER DISCUSSION. I'LL ASK THE CLERK TO CALL THE ROLL ON ITEM NUMBER 10 AS AMENDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER CASHMAN. (ROLL CALL.) THERE ARE 13 AYES. [3:00:45] THAT CARRIES AND THE FULL REPORT IS ADOPTED. THE NEXT REPORT FROM THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE, WHICH WILL BE PRESENTED BY THE COMMITTEE'S CHAIR, COUNCIL MEMBER CHAVEZ. [3:00:54] Jason Chavez: THANK YOU. BRING FORWARD ONE ITEM. a CONTRACT AMENDMENT WITH STORM TRAINING GROUP FOR SERVICES RELATED TO TRAINING POLICE DEPARTMENT ACADEMY RECRUITS IN USE OF FORCE AND DEESCALATION TECHNIQUES IN IMPLEMENTING COURT ENFORCEABLE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT. I MOVE APPROVAL. [3:01:12] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER CHAVEZ MOVED APPROVAL OF THE REPORT. ANY DISCUSSION? SEEING NONE. I'LL ASK THE CLERK TO CALL THE ROLL. (ROLL CALL.) THERE ARE 13 AYES. [3:01:35] THAT CARRIES. AND THE FINAL REPORT FROM OUR PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY COMMITTEE, WHICH WILL BE PRESENTED BY THE COMMITTEE'S CHAIR, COUNCIL MEMBER CHAVEZ. [3:01:49] Jason Chavez: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY COMMITTEE IS BRINGING FORWARD THREE ITEMS. 1 IS APPROVING MAYOR'S MOM RATION FOR RACHEL SAYRE FOR APPOINTED POSITION FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR TERM ENDING JANUARY 2026. 2 IS HOUSING CODE TO MANDATE RELATING TO ENCAMPMENT REMOVALS. AND 3 IS AUTHORIZING REVENUE CONTRACT WITH THE MINNESOTA TIMBER WOLVES IN THE AMOUNT OF $236,000 FOR BOMB DETEXT SECURITY SERVICES AT TARGET CENTER DURING LARGE EVENTS I'LL MOVE APPROVAL OF 1 AND 3 AND 2 FOR SEPARATE DISCUSSION AND VOTE. [3:02:29] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER CHAVEZ HAS MOVED ITEMS 1 AND 3 ON THE COMMITTEE'S REPORT. ANY DISCUSSION ON THE ITEMS? [3:02:45] Jason Chavez: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. I'M EX EXCITE FOR THE MAYOR'S MOM RATION. I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH RACHEL SAYRE. MAKING SURE THAT RESIDENTIAL CONVERSIONS DENTS RESIDENTS ARE BEING SERVED. THANK YOU. [3:03:03] Elliott Payne: THANK YOU. SEEING NO FURTHER DISCUSSION. I'LL ASK THE CLERK TO CALL THE ROLL ON ITEMS 1 AND 3. (ROLL CALL.) 13 AYES. [3:03:30] THAT CARRIES AND THOSE ITEMS ARE ADOPTED. NEXT TAKE ON ITEM 2 AND I'LL CALL ON COUNCIL MEMBER CHAVEZ TO SPEAK TO THAT ITEM. [3:03:38] Jason Chavez: ITEM 2 WE'LL PASS IT ON TO COUNCIL MEMBER CHOWDHURY TO INTRODUCE THAT ITEM, ACTUALLY. [3:03:40] Aurin Chowdhury: THANK YOU SO MUCH, MR. PRESIDENT. I AM ACTUALLY HOPING TO START BY SPEAKING TO THE AMENDMENT THAT IS BEFORE THE BODY. I'LL SAVE MY LARGER COMMENTS AFTER SHARING WHAT THIS AMENDMENT ENTAILS BY ME AND COUNCIL VICE PRESIDENT CHUGHTAI JUST QUICK, LET'S GO OVER WHAT THE ENCAMPMENT REMOVAL ORDINANCE DOES. AIMS TO BRING TRANSPARENT, PROCESSES INVOLVING THE REMOVAL OF ENCAMPMENTS IN MINNEAPOLIS. IT RESPONDS TO a GROWING NEED FOR DATA-DRIVEN [3:04:24] APPROACH TO MANAGING AND UNDERSTANDING UNSHELTERED HOMELESSNESS IN OUR CITY. YOU'LL HEAR FROM US GOOD GOVERNANCE REQUIRES GOOD DATA WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE ORDINANCE. JUST a HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW FISCAL DECISIONS AND EXPENDITURES. WILL BE REPORTED OUT IN THE ORDINANCE. HOW SERVICE PROVISION IS CONDUCTED IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SAFETY DATA, OUTCOMES AND IMPACTS ON AFFECTED INDIVIDUALS, WHO LIVED WITH ENCAMPMENTS AND OVERALL TRANSPARENCY. AND THIS ORDINANCE WILL REQUIRE TWO INDIVIDUAL QUARTERLY REPORTS FROM OUR CITY'S ADMINISTRATION. [3:05:03] NOW TAKING a LOOK AT THE AMENDMENTS BEFORE YOU, THERE ARE SOME MINOR TECHNICAL ONES. ONE THAT I'LL POINT OUT IN THE BEGINNING IS CHANGE FROM STRIKING OUT TRANSITIONAL HOUSING TO NONSHELTERED HOUSING OPTIONS IN CONSULTATION WITH HENNEPIN COUNTY. WE FELT THIS WAS MORE APPROPRIATE DEFINITION TO REALLY CAPTURE a WIDER SWATH OF NONSHELTERED HOUSING OPTIONS THAT PEOPLE MAY MOVE TO, IF THEY SO CHOOSE. TRANSITIONAL HOUSING HAS a TECHNICAL DEFINITION AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL. I WILL SKIP OVER THE VERY MINOR TECHNICAL WORD CHANGE ASPECTS OF OUR AMENDMENT, AND GO TO THE LAST COUPLE OF PAGES. I REALLY WANT [3:05:50] TO START OFF BY SAYING I APPRECIATE THE COLLABORATION WITH OUR CITY STAFF IN DISCUSSING THIS ORDINANCE AND THE AMENDMENT CHANGES THAT WERE BOTH BROUGHT FORWARD IN THE PUBLIC SAFETY AND HEALTH COMMITTEE, AND IN TODAY'S AMENDMENT, AS WELL. THERE WAS a LITTLE BIT OF MISINFORMATION THAT WE WERE NOT COLLABORATING WITH CITY STAFF, AND I AM JUST HERE TO PUT IN THE RECORD THAT WE HAVE BEEN COLLABORATING WITH THEM. WE ALSO CONSULTED WITH HENNEPIN COUNTY'S HOUSING STABILITY TEAM AS a FOLLOW UP MEETING. SPECIFICALLY LOOKING AT HOW IMPACTED OR AFFECTED INDIVIDUALS RECEIVE SERVICES. [3:06:29] AND SO YOU'LL SEE THERE'S -- WE STRUCK OUT THE LANGUAGE AROUND HOUSING VOUCHERS AND INCLUDED LANGUAGE THAT ASKS FOR THE NUMBER OF AFFECTED INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE ASSESSED FOR HOUSING THROUGHOUT THE DURATION OF ENCAMPMENT, THE NUMBER OF AFFECTED INDIVIDUALS IN PROCESS OF RECEIVING HOUSING PLACEMENT THROUGHOUT THE DURATION OF THE ENCAMPMENT. THESE ARE BOTH PIECES OF INFORMATION THAT JURISDICTIONAL PARTNERS AT HENNEPIN COUNTY ARE ABLE TO SHARE WITH THEIR CITY STAFF WHILE IN COMPLIANCE WITH MINNESOTA GOVERNMENT DATA PRACTICES ACT. AND ENSURING THAT THE IDENTITY OF THOSE AFFECTED INDIVIDUALS REMAIN ANONYMOUS. I WILL ALSO POINT OUT ANOTHER ADDITION THAT I THINK IS REALLY IMPORTANT AND [3:07:15] STRENGTHENS THIS ORDINANCE, AND IT IS INCLUSION OF REPORTING ON THE NUMBER OF AFFECTED INDIVIDUALSHO ENTER TREATMENT AND/OR DETOX THROUGHOUT THE DURATION OF THE ENCAMPMENT. THIS WAS AN ADDITION SUGGESTED BY a MEMBER OF HENNEPIN'S COUNTY STREETS TO HOUSING TEAM. THEY MENTIONED TO US THAT OFTEN TIMES WHEN THEY'RE OUT PROVIDING SERVICES, REMOVAL CAN OFTEN BE THE POINT WHERE SOMEONE DECIDES THAT THIS IS WHEN I'M GOING TO SEEK TREATMENT IN IS WHERE I WANT TO MAKE a CHANGE IN MY LIFE, AND THROUGH HENNEPIN COUNTY'S PROGRAMMING AROUND ADDRESSING THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC, THEY HAVE STREET OUTREACH WORKERS AND FOLKS [3:08:01] TRACKING THE NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS ENTERING TREATMENTS IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE WORK THAT STREET OUTREACH IS DOING IN ENCAMPMENTS IN OUR CITY AND COUNTY. WITH THAT, I'M HAPPY TO STAND FOR ANY QUESTIONS AND I WOULD LOVE TO MOVE THE MOTION FORWARD. [3:08:19] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER CHOWDHURY HAS MOVED APPROVAL OF THE AMENDED ORDINANCE THAT IS BEFORE YOU. I BELIEVE SHE DESCRIBED THOSE AMENDMENTS IN DETAIL. AND SO WE WILL BE TAKING THIS ITEM UP AS AMENDED, IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION ON THE ORDINANCE AS AMENDED. COUNCIL MEMBER PALMISANO. [3:08:37] Linea Palmisano: I THOUGHT THERE WAS SOMEONE AHEAD OF ME. THANK YOU, MR. MR. CHAIR. I NOTE THAT SEVERAL OF THE CAUSES THAT I OBJECTED TO LAST WEEKND TRIED AND FAILED TO AMEND YOU HAVE NOW REMOVED IN THIS AMENDMENT BEFORE US. SO THANK YOU FOR FURTHER CONSIDERING MY OBJECTIONS. I ALSO VOICED MY CONCERN ABOUT NOT WORKING WITH STAFF, AND THEN I FORWARDED YOU a NOTE FROM THE COUNTY. IT SEEMS YOU HAD ADDITIONAL CONVERSATIONS WITH THE COUNTY ABOUT THIS COLLABORATION. SO I'M CURIOUS IF THE AUTHOR COULD SAY a LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT COLLABORATION. I THINK IT WENT PROBABLY VERY WELL. [3:09:20] Aurin Chowdhury: YEAH. THANK YOU. I'LL JUST SAY WE JUST WANT TO -- SPEAKING TO THE INTENT OF THE CHANGES, THE INTENT AROUND HOUSING VOUCHERS WAS ALWAYS AROUND GETTING INFORMATION ABOUT HOW -- WHAT PEOPLES' OUTCOMES WOULD LOOK LIKE WHEN IT CAME TO THEIR OPPORTUNITIES TO TRANSITIONS TO SOME STAIFER FORM OF SHELTER. [3:09:43] THAT WAS THE HEART OF US KIND OF DIGGING IN ON HOW WE CAN GET THAT INFORMATION. SO WITH HENNEPIN COUNTY, EARLIER THIS YEAR, WE HAD AN INITIAL MEETING DISCUSSING UNHOUSED HOMELESSNESS IN OUR CITY. WITH THE DIRECTOR OF HOUSING STABILITY, AND, I BELIEVE, THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR, AS WELL. AND SO THIS WAS a FOLLOW UP CONVERSATION WITH THEM. JUST LOOKING AT THE HARD LANGUAGE AND MAKING SURE THAT WHAT WE INTEND TO SEE IN REPORTING IS POSSIBLE AND THEN, ALSO, ASKING SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT WOULD IT TAKE FOR CITY STAFF AND OUR ADMINISTRATION TO RECEIVE THIS TYPE OF INFORMATION FROM THE COUNTY. AND ENSURE THOSE SYSTEMS WERE IN PLACE, AND WE WERE ABLE TO CONFIRM THAT. AND, [3:10:31] ALSO, GARNER AN ADDITIONAL ITEM THAT WE CAN GET DATA AROUND SPECIFICALLY AROUND PEOPLES' ABILITY TO ENTER INTO TREATMENT AND RECOVERY. [3:10:50] Linea Palmisano: THANK YOU FOR THAT. THANK YOU FOR THE COLLABORATION. AS I SAID LAST WEEK, AND WILL SAY AGAIN TODAY, I THINK THE INTENT BEHIND THIS ORDINANCE IS GOOD AND WELL MEANING. WE NEED TO HAVE a FULL UNDERSTANDING OF THE MONETARY AND HUMAN COSTS RELATED TO ENCAMPMENT CLOSURES. I CAN CONTINUE TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT THE ADDITIONAL STRESS WE HAVE PUT ON OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS TO MEET REQUIREMENTS AND, YES, WE CAN WORK ON CREATING a RELATIONSHIP BUT PUTTING IT INTO ORDINANCE DOESN'T FEEL THE PLACE TO DO THAT. I WOULD LIKE FOR US TO ALSO CONSIDER THE INCREDIBLE COST TO NEARBY RESIDENTS, NEARBY [3:11:19] HOMES AND BUSINESSES, AS WELL AS THE COST OF THE CITY TO SUPPORT ENCAMPMENTS. PORTABLE TOILETS, NEEDLE PICK UP, ET. CETERA. OUR DEPUTY CITY OPERATIONS OFFICER QUESTIONS STAFF' CAPACITY TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS. AND STATED THAT THE HOMELESS RESPONSE TEAM WOULD HAVE TO BE PULLED OUT OF THE FIELD TO COMPLETE THE REQUIRED REPORTS. [3:11:42] I APPRECIATE THIS AMENDMENT REMOVES THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE HOMELESS RESPONSE TEAM TO DO THE REPORTING AND CHANGED IT TO SAY CITY STAFF, BUT I WOULD LIKE US TO THINK ABOUT HOW THIS EXTRA WORK WILL TAKE AWAY DIRECT SERVICES FROM RESIDENTS FOR THE PURPOSES OF REPORTING. I BELIEVE IT WILL ALSO INCREASE THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF TIME IT WOULD TAKE TO CLOSE AN ENCAMPMENT. THANK YOU. [3:12:04] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER OSMAN. [3:12:06] Jamal Osman: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT LET ME JUST BE CLEAR THAT ENCAMPMENTS -- THEY ARE a DANGER TO THOSE THAT LIVE IN THE ENCAMPMENTS, AND ALSO THOSE SURROUNDING. I HAVE EXPERIENCED THE LAST FOUR YEARS I HAVE BEEN HERE, MOST OF MY JOB HAS BEEN DEALING WITH ENCAMPMENTS THAT ARE EITHER UNDER THE BRIDGE OR NEXT TO THE BUSINESS OR IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS. [3:12:42] THAT THE KIDS CANNOT CATCH THE BUS BECAUSE THE VULNERABLE PEOPLE THAT LIVE THERE HAVE BARRIERS, HAVE ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH, SOME OF THEM. AND THERE ARE DRUG DEALERS THAT COME AND SELL DRUGS IN THE AREA AND WE KNOW THAT -- WE KNOW EVEN THIS WEEK THERE HAS BEEN SHOOTINGS. IT'S NOT SAFE. THE FOLKS THAT LIVE THERE. I KNOW MANY ENCAMPMENTS IN MY WARD THAT TRAGEDY HAS BEEN PEOPLE LOST THEIR LIVES. THERE WILL BE OVERDOSES. THERE'S BEEN FROSTBITES DURING THE WINTER TIME. THERE'S BEEN SHOOTINGS. [3:13:20] IT'S NOT JUST CITY ISSUE, BUT IT'S a COUNTY AND STATE ISSUE. ENCAMPMENTS ARE POPPING UP EVERYWHERE. MAINLY IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD. SO MY NEIGHBORS SAY NO TO ENCAMPMENTS. WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO HELP THE FOLKS OUT THERE. WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO HAVE MORE HOUSING AND SHELTERS AND SERVICES AND TREATMENTS. [3:13:43] BUT WE HAVE a POLICY. WE HAVE a LAW RIGHT NOW IN THE BOOKS THAT SAY ENCAMPMENTS ARE ILLEGAL BUT THEY'RE STILL POPPING UP. SO THE ENFORCEMENTS HAS TO -- AND I HAVE ASKED THE MAYOR AND HIS ADMINISTRATION, WHO IS RESPONSIBLE OF REMOVING THAT? [3:14:04] COUNCIL IS NOT RESPONSIBLE. WE'RE HERE TO ENFORCE. EVERY ENCAMPMENT THAT POPS UP IN MY WARD, I USUALLY SEND OUT AN E-MAIL TO THE MAYOR'S OFFICE ASKING a REQUEST OF REMOVAL. I KNOW THE STAFF WORK HARD. THE DIRECTOR IN ENRIQUE AND THEIR DEPARTMENT IS WONDERFUL. [3:14:25] THEY'RE OUT THERE DOING WHAT IT TAKES TO DO. IT TAKES a PROCESS BUT SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, THE ANSWER IS NOT, LIKE, IT'S COUNTY ROAD. IT'S a STATE ROAD. IT'S NOT THE CITY'S RESPONSIBILITY. RESIDENTS DON'T CARE ABOUT THAT THEY WANT TO BE SAFE. IT'S SAD TO SEE MANY RESIDENTS WHO ARE -- HAVE CLEAN UP. THAT HAVE GOT THE HELP THEY NEED AND FINALLY BEEN HOUSED. AND NOW THERE'S AN ENCAMPMENT OR DRUG DEALER IN FRONT OF THEIR BUILDING. THEY RELAPSE. AND THE FOLKS THAT ARE REALLY SEEING WHAT THEY LEFT BEHIND. THEY ARE GOING BACK. [3:15:07] IT'S SAD. IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. COMING BACK ON THIS ORDINANCE, I THINK THERE'S a LOT OF GOOD POINTS. WE NEED TO KNOW HOW MUCH IT COSTS. WHAT IS THE PROCESS, HOW CAN WE MAKE SURE THAT THE REMOVAL IS AS SMOOTH, RESPECTFUL HUMAN WAY. AND QUICK, IN MY OPINION, BUT THERE'S OTHER POINTS, I THINK, ARE UNNECESSARY. TO ASK DEPARTMENTS, I DON'T, FOR ME YOU KNOW, I DON'T REALLY WANT TO KNOW, YOU KNOW, OTHER THAN WHAT THE COST IS. BECAUSE THE CITY HAS TO BE RESPONSIBLE AND CREATE a DATA-DRIVEN POLICY TO DEAL [3:15:54] WITH ENCAMPMENTS RIGHT NOW. SO I AM CHAL CHALLENGED TO SUPPORTS RIGHT NOW. I FEEL LIKE THIS CAN CREATE THE SMALL HOMELESS OUTREACH TEAM WE HAVE, WE EXPECT THEM TO DEAL WITH EVERY COMPANY ENCAMPMENT, TO TELL THEM TO GO TO THE DESK AND GET IT LISTED. [3:16:22] I THINK THAT CAN CREATE a PROBLEM FOR SOME OF THE STAFF THAT ARE DOING THE GOOD WORK. AND I WANT TO BE ABLE TO HELP THEM, AS I HAVE, IN THE PAST, TO GET THEM a VAN TO GET MORE STAFF TO DO THE HOMELESS OUTREACH TEAM. TO MAKE SURE THAT THE CITY ADMINISTRATION AND THE COUNCIL IS CREATING a TASK FORCE THAT DEALS WITH HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS. NOT JUST CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS NOT ABLE TO REALLY TAKE THIS BY THEMSELVES. BUT THE STATE AND THE COUNTY. SO THAT LEADERSHIP HAS TO COME FROM WITHIN THE ADMINISTRATION, CITY COUNCIL LEADERSHIP TO REALLY HAVE THIS SMOOTH. SAY WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS. WHO IS [3:17:08] SUPPOSED TO TAKE ACTION. IT SHOULDN'T TAKE, YOU KNOW, FOR ME TO REACH OUT TO MNDOT AND SAY -- HEY. WHOSE ROAD IS THIS. THAT'S WHERE WE ARE NOW. AND I WOULD HOPE THAT THE AUTHORS CAN THINK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HAVING ONE CYCLE. DELAYING ONE CYCLE AND COMING BACK AND MAKING SURE WHAT IS REALLY NECESSARY FOR US TO MAKE BETTER POLICIES IN THE FUTURE FOR ENCAMPMENT REMOVALS YOU KNOW, WHILE NOT THROWING SO MANY THINGS AT THE STAFF. [3:17:48] ESPECIALLY THE POLICE SECTION OF IT. I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT DATA WILL HELP. SOMETIMES ALL THOSE DEPARTMENTS THAT COME TOGETHER HAVE TO BE -- IF YOU PART OF THE PLANNING DEPARTMENTS TO REMOVING ENCAMPMENTS, IT TAKES a LOT OF WORK. AND MAKE SURE ALL THOSE DEPARTMENTS COME TOGETHER. IT'S a VERY -- SOME OF THE ASK IS -- TO REMOVE ENCAMPMENTS IN OUR CITY. THANK YOU. [3:18:38] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER CHAVEZ. [3:18:40] Jason Chavez: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT I'M EXCITED TO BE AN AUTHOR OF THIS ORDINANCE WITH COUNCIL MEMBER CHOWDHURY AND COUNCIL VICE PRESIDENT CHUGHTAI. THIS WILL INCREASE TRANSPARENCY IN THE ENCAMPMENT REMOVAL PROCESS AND THE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH IT. THE CITY RESOURCES ARE CURRENTLY BEING USED TO DUMP RUBBLE AND FILL UPS. AND SADLY CITY FUNDING THAT IS MEANT TO SUPPORT THE PROVISION OF AND SERVICING OF HYGIENE STATIONS TO FUND COMMUNITY OUTREACH PARTNERS, FUNDING THAT IS MEANT TO PROVIDE HEALTH RELATED TO HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS WITH THE PARTICULAR FOCUS ON ENCAMPMENTS IS INSTEAD, MOSTLY BEING USED TO FUND FENCING AND SECURITY IN THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. IT'S DISHEARTENING. AND THE PUBLIC DESERVES TO KNOW HOW OUR DOLLARS [3:19:24] ARE USED. WE NEED TRANSPARENCY AND WE NEED TO ENSURE THAT CITY RESOURCES ARE USED EFFECTIVELY AND PROPERLY IN CASE THEY AREN'T. THIS WILL ALSO REPORT ABOUT THE NUMBER OF AFFECTED INDIVIDUALS WHO ENTER TREATMENT AND/OR DETOX THROUGH THE DURATION OF THE ENCAMPMENT. [3:19:42] IT'S DATA WE NEED TO MAKE SURE TO ENSURE WE ARE APPROPRIATELY FUNDING THIS OPIOID CRISIS. I WANT TO ALSO BE CLEAR, THIS ORDINANCE WILL REPORT ON INCIDENT-REPORTED INCLUDED BUT NOT LIMITED TO GUN VIOLENCE, HOMICIDE, ASSAULT, AND OTHER RELEVANT CATEGORIES THAT UNHOUSED AND HOUSED NEIGHBORS FACE. I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE CONCERNS THAT PEOPLE ARE BRINGING UP. ESPECIALLY THERE'S NO AMENDMENT BROUGHT TO THE FULL COUNCIL. IF YOU HAVE CONCERNS, EVERY MEMBER HAS a ABILITY TO BRING AMENDMENTS. THIS ORDINANCE WILL NOT STOP EVICTIONS. EVERYONE KNOWS OR SHOULD KNOW, AND I'LL SAY IT AGAIN OUT LOUD AND KEEP ON SAYING IT. THE MAYOR FRY IS THO CAN ENVICT ENCAMPMENTS. IF THE [3:20:27] MAYOR'S ADMINIST ADMINISTRATIONO CHANGE THE APPROACH, I WELCOME IT. I ASK FOR IT. LET'S SUPPORT RESIDENTS WHO ARE BEING TREATED UNFAIRLY. MEMBERS, TODAY WE PASSED a 30-DAY PREEVICTION NOTICE. WE ARE MAKING SURE THAT -- BEING CLOSED AND NOW WE SHOULD BE PASSING THIS, AS WELL. WE'RE DOING a COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH. WE SHOULD BE PROUD AS a MINNEAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL THAT WE ARE DOING WHAT IS RIGHT AND WHEN THERE'S a LACK OF DIRECTION AND a LACK OF LEADERSHIP, WE ARE DOING OUR BEST TO ADDRESS IT. [3:21:08] Elliott Payne: VICE PRESIDENT CHUGHTAI. [3:21:10] Aisha Chughtai: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. UMM, I -- I -- I BELIEVE COUNCIL MEMBER CHOWDHURY, UMM, COVERED SOME OF THIS IN HER INTRODUCTION OF THE UPDATED ITEM. BUT I WANTED TO JUST SHARE SOME CONTEXT AND SHED SOME LIGHT INTO WHAT WE WERE ABLE TO DO BETWEEN LAST WEDNESDAY AND WHAT YOU'RE SEEING IN FRONT OF YOU TODAY. [3:21:36] YOU KNOW, HAVING ANOTHER ROUND OF CONVERSATIONS WITH HNEPIN COUNTY, BOTH, YOU KNOW, DIRECTLY BETWEEN COUNCIL MEMBER CHOWDHURY AND COMMISSIONER CONNELLY CONNECTING WITH ONE ANOTHER, ALONG WITH HENNEPIN COUNTY STAFF, AND BEING ABLE TO REVIEW THE LANGUAGE LINE BY LINE AND UNDERSTANDING SOME ADDITIONAL CONTEXT AND BEING ABLE TO MAKE SOME CHANGES THAT BETTER CAPTURE THE ESSENCE OF WHERE WE WERE TRYING TO GO. IN FACT YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU'LL SEE REMOVED HERE, YOU KNOW, ON THE SECOND TO LAST PAGE ON THE NUMBER OF AFFECTED INDIVIDUALS AND THE THREE ITEMS UNDERNEATH [3:22:21] ITEM F. THAT WAS a PART OF AN AMENDMENT THAT COUNCIL MEMBER PALMISANO BROUGHT TO COMMITTEE AND YOU'LL SEE THAT'S -- THAT'S REFLECTED AND THERE'S a BETTER ESSENCE OF WHAT WE WERE TRYING TO CAPTURE INCLUDED ELSEWHERE. AND THAT, YOU KNOW, W MET AGAIN WITH CITY STAFF YESTERDAY WITH LEADERS WITHIN THE OFFICE OF PUBLIC SERVICE, ALONGSIDE -- ALONGSIDE THE REGULATORY SERVICES AND COMMUNITY PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS, AND WE WERE ABLE TO GO OVER THE ADDITIONAL CHANGES, AND THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS WAS a DIRECTION THAT BETTER REFLECTED WHERE THEY WANTED TO GO, AS WELL. SO I [3:23:07] JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR THAT a LOT OF THE FEEDBACK THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED ON NOT WANTING -- I'M TRYING TO FIND a BALANCE BETWEEN WHAT IS THE AMOUNT OF INFORMATION THAT WE NEED IN ORDER TO INFORM DECISION MAKING WITH, YOU KNOW, HOW ARE WE ASKING FOR AND HOW DOES THAT INFORMATION EXIST, IN THE FIRST PLACE. AND NOT WANTING TO BE OVERLY BURDENSOME OR CUMBERSOME ON STAFF. AND I THINK THIS STRIKES THAT BALANCE IN a WAY THAT MEETS THE COUNCIL AND THE PUBLICS' NEED FOR UNDERSTANDING HOW CITY RESOURCES ARE BEING USED, AND WHAT IMPACT THOSE CITY [3:23:54] RESOURCES HAVE ON ADDRESSING UNSHELTERED HOMELESSNESS AND ENCAMPMENTS IN OUR CITY IN THE FIRST PLACE. AND BEING -- MAKING SURE THAT THE INFORMATION WE'RE RECEIVING IS AT a HIGHER LEVEL, IS LOOKING AT PATTERNS OVER TIME. SO I WANT TO SPEAK ON a COUPLE OF JUST PIECES OF INFORMATION THAT HAVE BEEN BROUGHT UP DURING DISCUSSION HERE THAT I AM CONCERNED ABOUT OR JUST, LIKE, DON'T UNDERSTAND WHERE THEY'RE COMING FROM, NECESSARILY. THERE WAS a COMMENT MADE ABOUT HOW, YOU KNOW, THE CITY PROVIDES PORTABLE TOILETS AND NEEDLE CLEAN UP AND PICK UP AT ENCAMPMENTS. AND [3:24:40] WHILE THAT HAS BEEN THE CASE AT, AH, SOME ENCAMPMENTS, UMM, BUT THAT IS NOT a THING THE CITY DOES CONSISTENTLY. LIKE, THAT IS -- PORTABLE TOILETS, ACTUALLY, WERE THE SOURCE OF, LIKE, MAJOR TENSION BETWEEN -- BETWEEN, BETWEEN COUNCIL OFFICES AND THE ADMINISTRATION AS WE WERE DEALING WITH LARGE-SCALE ENCAMPMENTS IN THE LAST YEAR. [3:25:06] BECAUSE THERE WAS a VERY FIRM "NO" ON PROVIDING PORTABLE TOILETS. IT'S HAPPENED a COUPLE OF TIMES. IT'S NOT a CONSISTENT POLICY OR PRACTICE. JUST TO BE CLEAR. AND THEN I WANT TO ADDRESS HOW THE THEME AROUND THE CAPACITY TO PRODUCE THE REPORTS AND THE AMOUNT OF WORK IT WOULD BE AND HOW THAT COULD POTENTIALLY, YOU KNOW, -- REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF DIRECT SERVICES THAT RESIDENTS LIVING IN ENCAMPMENTS ARE RECEIVING. SO a [3:25:52] COUPLE OF THINGS THAT ARE REALLY IMPORTANT TO KNOW HERE. ONE, THE CITY IS NOT a PROVIDER OF SOCIAL SERVICES. WHEN THE CITY'S HOMELESSNESS RESPONSE TEAMS GOES INTO ENCAMPMENTS. LIKE, THEY THEMSELVES ARE NOT OFFERING ACCESS TO DIRECT SERVICES. WE DON'T DO THAT AT THE CITY. THAT IS a COUNTY FUNCTION. WE -- ON THE CAPACITY TO, LIKE, PRODUCE THE REPORTS AND THE AMOUNT OF WORK THAT THEY COULD BE. I JUST, YOU KNOW, WANT TO ALWAYS REMIND US THAT THERE ARE 4,000 EMPLOYEES THAT WORK FOR THE CITY OF [3:26:38] MINNEAPOLIS, AND NEARLY ALL OF THEM WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT, REPORT TO THE MAYOR. AND REGULATORY SERVICES WHERE OUR HOMELESSNESS WORK LIVES HAS NEARLY 200FTES WITHIN THEIR DEPARTMENT, ABOUT 44 ARE ALLOCATED TO THE DIVISION THAT IS TASKED WITH HOMELESS OUTREACH, IN ADDITION, IN -- UNDER THE NEW GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE OVER THE LAST TERM, THE COUNCIL HAS INVESTED SIGNIFICANTLY IN CREATING AND FUNDING THE OFFICE OF PUBLIC SERVICE, THE OFFICE OF COMMUNITY SAFETY. SO THESE HIGH-LEVEL OFFICES AND POSITIONS THAT ARE MEANT TO SUPPORT ALL THE DEPARTMENTS THAT EXIST [3:27:24] UNDERNEATH, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT MULTIPLE DEPUTY COOS, THERE IS THE CAPACITY TO BE ABLE TO GET THE INFORMATION TO US. JUST FROM LOOKING AT THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THAT WORK WITHIN THESE DEPARTMENTS AND DIVISIONS. SO I JUST DON'T WANT TO LOSE SITE OF OF -- SIGHT OF THAT. AGAIN, THIS IS ABOUT UNDERSTANDING HOW TAXPAYER RESOURCES ARE BEING USED, AND TO WHAT END. WHAT IS GETTING US? IS IT REDUCING HOMELESSNESS? IS IT REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF ENCAMPMENTS THAT EXIST? IS IT EFFECTIVE? AND THAT'S THE QUESTION WE'RE TRYING TO ANSWER. THANK YOU, MR. [3:28:06] PRESIDENT. [3:28:08] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER KOSKI. [3:28:10] Emily Koski: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT PAYNE. I AM SUPPORTING THE ENCAMPMENT REMOVAL REPORTING ORDINANCE TODAY. I BELIEVE WE NEED NEW DATA TO INFORM OUR POLICIES SO WE ALL BECOME MORE EFFECTIVE IN ADDRESSING THE NEEDS OF OUR UNHOUSED. [3:28:25] DOCUMENTATION IS a POWERFUL AND PERSUASIVE TOOL THAT CAN BE USED TO JUSTIFY THE NEED FOR MORE OR DIFFERENT RESOURCES. IN ADDITION, THIS ORDINANCE PROMOTES TRANSPARENCY, INCLUDING MAKING THE DATA ASSESSABLE TO THE PUBLIC. SO WE CAN BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE DECISIONS MADE ABOUT ENCAMPMENTS WE'RE NOT SEEKING THIS REPORTING ORDINANCE IN PLACE OF CONTINUING TO EXPLORE ALL SOLUTIONS TO SUPPORT OUR UNHOUSED COMMUNITY MEMBERS. AND NO WAY WILL THE ORDINANCE DELAY OR HALT ANY CURRENT LEGISLATIVE PROPROPOSALS OR FUTURE ONES TO ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS IN OUR CITY. THESE THINGS ARE NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE. THE UNPRECEDENTED LEVEL OF UNSHELTERED HOMELESSNESS IS a CRISIS FOR MINNEAPOLIS, AS WE HAVE ALREADY DISCUSSED IN FULL TODAY. AND I BELIEVE WE MUST CONTINUE TO EVOLVE OUR RESPONSE TO MAKE PROGRESS. THANK YOU. . [3:29:09] Elliott Payne: COUNCIL MEMBER CHOWDHURY. [3:29:11] Aurin Chowdhury: THANK YOU SO MUCH, PRESIDENT PAYNE. JUST QUICK BEFORE I MAKE MY REMARKS, I WANTED TO JUST NOTE IN OUR CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR DEPARTMENT-LEVEL STAFF, WE DID ASK THE QUESTIONS "WHAT WOULD BE THE IMPACT TO OUR HOMELESS RESPONSE TEAM?" AND "WHAT CAN WE DO TO HELP SUPPORT EFFICIENCIES THERE." AND DEPARTMENT STAFF WAS REALLY GRACIOUS AND SAYING THAT THEY WANT TO CONTINUE TO COLLABORATE WITH US AS THEY BUILD OUT THE NEW SYSTEM, ANY NEW SYSTEM, IT TAKES TIME TO BUILD THE MUSCLE. [3:29:47] WE CREATED OUR REGULATORY SERVICES DEPARTMENT CREATED a DASH BOARD THAT TRACKS THE VISITS TO THE HRT TEAM THAT TOOK TIME TO HAPPEN. WE ALSO HAD a GOOD DISCUSSION ABOUT GIVING THEM GRACE IN THIS FIRST REPORT RIGHT. THIS FIRST REPORT THAT WE GET OUT ISN'T THE END ALL BE ALL. WE WANT IT TO BE SOMETHING THAT CONTINUES OVER THE YEARS. [3:30:08] AS WE'RE ADDRESSING UNSHELTERED HOMELESSNESS. AND WE UNDERSTAND IT'S GOING TO TAKE THEM TIME TO PUT TOGETHER HOW THEY'RE GOING TO BUILD OUT THE REPORT. AND I ALSO WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THAT THE LION'S SHARE OF SERVICE PROVISION AND OUTREACH WORK THAT IS EFFECTIVE IN TERMS OF DOING a HOUSING ASSESSMENT AND GETTING PEOPLE SERVICES IS NOT DONE BY OUR HRT TEAM. OFTENTIMES OUR HRT TEAM IS REFERRING TO SERVICE PROVIDERS THAT ARE ALREADY GOING OUT TO ENCAMPMENTS. PRIMARILY HENNEPIN COUNTY STREETS TO HOUSING TEAM. AND THIS ORDINANCE WILL NOT IMPACT THEIR ABILITY TO DO THEIR JOB AT THE LEVEL THEY HAVE BEEN DOING IT. [3:30:47] I ALSO ASK THE QUESTION, BECAUSE IT WAS BROUGHT UP IN THE PHS COMMITTEE WOULD IT SLOW DOWN MAYOR FREY'S ENCAMPMENT REMOVALS? AND THE ANSWER WAS POINT-BLANK "NO" IT WOULD NOT IMPACT THE TIMELINE ON ENCAMPMENT REMOVALS. I WANTED TO NOTE FOR THE REPORT BECAUSE THAT WAS ANOTHER PIECE OF MISINFORMATION THAT OCCURRED AND WANTED TO GET CLARITY FROM OUR CITY STAFF. SO I'LL JUST SAY, I THINK EVERYONE UP HERE HAS DONE a GOOD JOB OF COVERING WHY WE HAVE a NEED FOR THIS ORDINANCE. I BELIEVE WE SORELY NEED IT AS a GOOD GOVERNANCE TOOL. ENCAMPMENT EVICTIONS IS [3:31:33] ONE OF THE MOST INTENSE, TRAM TRAUMATIZING, AND HARSH THAT WE CONDUCT. IT REQUIRES SIGNIFICANT RESOURCES. THERE SHOULD BE SO MUCH MORE OVERSIGHT AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE IMPACT OF THIS WORK AT OUR CITY BECAUSE OF THAT. HOWEVER, THERE IS PRESENTLY NO OVERSIGHT OR DATA COLLECTION TOOL THAT IS CONSISTENT TO HELP US UNDERSTAND THE FULL PICTURE OF THE COSTS FINANCIALLY AND THE HUMAN OUTCOMES OF THESE EVICTIONS. [3:32:02] OVERSIGHT TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY ARE NECESSARY FOR US TO MAKE SYSTEMIC CHANGE. THERE'S NOT GOING TO BE a SILVER BULLET SOLUTION TO RESOLVING UNSHELTERED HOMELESSNESS. THIS IS WHY WE'RE PROPOSING BRINGING THIS FORWARD TODAY. TO GET a CLEAR AND ACCURATE PICTURE OF WHAT IS HAPPENING ON THE GROUND SO WE CAN MAKE GOOD DATA-BASED SOLUTIONS. OVER THE YEARS, COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE REPEATEDLY ASKED "HOW MUCH IS THIS COSTING THE TAXPAYER OVERTIME?" WHAT ARE SAFETY ISSUES IN AND AROUND ENCAMPMENTS? WERE PEOPLE NOTIFIED? WERE SERVICE PROVIDERS CONNECTED WITH PEOPLE DID PEOPLE ACCEPT SERVICES? DID PEOPLE HAVE THE ABILITY TO STORE THEIR VERY FEW BELONGINGS? DID AN UNSHELTERED PERSON IN QUEUE TO RECEIVE HOUSING OR BE ENTERED [3:32:49] INTO TREATMENT LOSE CONNECTION TO THAT SERVICE PROVIDER THAT WERE RELYING ON? AND ARE THEY ABLE TO MOVE THROUGH THE CONTINUUM OF CASE? THESE ARE ANSWERS -- THESE ARE QUESTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN LEFT UNANSWERED SO MANY TIMES. ENCAMPMENT EVICTION AFTER ENCAMPMENT EVICTION. IT'S TIME WE GET a REPORT THAT GETS US THE ANSWERS THAT WE DESERVE AND OUR RESIDENTS DESERVE. I'LL JUST SAY -- I'LL CLOSE BY SAYING THIS, WE HAVE TO ADMIT THAT THE ENCAMPMENT EVICTION SYSTEM OF EVICTING AN ENCAMPMENT AND THEN MOVING ANOTHER -- MOVING INTO ANOTHER BLOCK IS NOT GOING TO MAGICALLY SOLVE THE PROBLEM. [3:33:29] THE DEFINITION OF INSANITY IS DOING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND EXPECTING a DIFFERENT RESULT. WE ABSOLUTELY NEED a COMPREHENSIVE, COORDINATED PLAN IN COORDINATION WITH OTHER JURISDICTIONS TO CREATE LONG-TERM, MIDTERM, AND SHORT TERM SOLUTIONS TO ADDRESS AND REDUCE HOMELESSNESS. AND, UNFORTUNATELY, TODAY PRESENTLY, I HAVE NOT SEEN a PLAN FROM THE MAYOR'S OFFICE TO DO THAT. I WELCOME a PLAN. I WANT TO SEE a PLAN. I WANT TO BE a PART OF a PLAN. BUT IT HASN'T BEEN BROUGHT BEFORE US TO COLLABORATE. WE NEED a PLAN TO RAPIDLY REHOUSE AND INVEST IN PROGRAMS THAT REALLY WORK, LIKE AVEVO VILLAGE. WE NEED TO ADDRESS THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC, THE SCOURGE OF FENTANYLS IN OUR COMMUNITIES AND THINK ABOUT HOW WE SUSTAIN BRINGING PEOPLE WHO ARE STRUGGLING WITH DIFFICULT [3:34:16] ADDICTION FROM TREATMENT -- [3:34:25] Elliott Payne: TIME. [3:34:27] Aurin Chowdhury: OKAY. THANK YOU. [3:34:30] Michael Rainville: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT -- MICROPHONE. THERE WE GO. THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. I HAVE a QUESTION FOR ATTORNEY. WOULD THIS ORDINANCE SLOW DOWN THE ABILITY FOR THE MAYOR TO CLOSE AN ENCAMPMENT? [3:34:40] Kristyn Anderson: COUNCIL PRESIDENT, COUNCIL MEMBERS, I DON'T SEE TT AS a LEGAL QUESTION. THAT'S a FACTUAL QUESTION THAT I REALLY AM NOT IN a POSITION TO ANSWER. [3:34:58] Michael Rainville: OH, OKAY. WHO CAN GIVE ME a FACTUAL ANSWER? ONE OF THE AUTHORS? [3:35:10] Aurin Chowdhury: THROUGH MR. PRESIDENT. COUNCIL MEMBER RAINVILLE, WE -- I ASKED DCCO POINT-BLANK WOULD THIS IMPACT THE TIMING OF ENCAMPMENT REMOVALS BY THE MAYOR'S OFFICE. HE SAID IT WOULD NOT. THE IMPACT WOULD MAINLY BE ON THE HRT TEAM, WHICH THEY ARE WORKING ON FINDING WAYS TO MINIMIZE. [3:35:22] Michael Rainville: THANK YOU. AND WHAT WOULD THAT IMPACT THE TEAM -- WORKLOAD? [3:35:30] Aurin Chowdhury: THE IMPACT THAT HE SHARED WAS FIGURING OUT HOW TO REPORT AND COLLECT INFORMATION AND BUILDING OUT a SYSTEM. RIGHT. [3:35:39] THERE'S PRE PRESENTLY TWO PEOPLT HE ASSURED ME AND OTHER STAFF ASSURED ME THEY WERE GOING TO WORK TO MINIMIZE THE IMPACT AND FIND EFFICIENCIES TO DRIVE FORWARD THE REPORT. AND, AGAIN, THAT'S WHY WE REALLY SAID WE WANT TO GIVE YOU GRACE IN THE FIRST FEW REPORTS. [3:35:57] Michael Rainville: THANK YOU. [3:36:00] Aisha Chughtai: THANK YOU. I WANT TO CHIME IN TO HELP ANSWER COUNCIL MEMBER RAINVILLE'S QUESTION. UMM, UMM, AT THE WAY IT HAS BEEN EXPLAINED TO THIS BODY IN PREVIOUS PRESENTATIONS, TO THE COUNCIL, AND SORT OF a LITTLE BIT OF WHAT IS STATED ADDITIONALLY ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE ON, UMM, HOW ENCAMPMENT CLOSURES HAPPEN. IT IS, LIKE, ACROSS DEPARTMENTAL -- IT'S ACROSS DEPARTMENTAL COLLABORATION. THERE'S a LOT OF DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE [3:36:43] ENTERPRISE THAT ARE INVOLVED EVERY -- THE WAY IT'S BEEN EXPLAINED, IT'S LIKE EVERYTHING FROM REGULATORY SERVICES TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO 311/911 AND OFTEN, I BELIEVE SOMETIMES THE ATTORNEYS ARE INVOLVED, EMERGENCY MANAGER IS INVOLVED. [3:36:59] AND SO THERE ARE SO MANY DIFFERENT FUNCTIONS THAT GO INTO HOW AN ENCAMPMENT IS ULTIMATELY -- IS EVICTED OR CLOSED DOWN. AND, YOU KNOW, a THING TO KEEP IN MIND RIGHT NOW, AS AN EXAMPLE, IS, LIKE, THE AMOUNT OF POLICE STAFFING, MPD STAFFING THAT GOES INTO a CLOSURE IS PRETTY SIGNIFICANT. [3:37:23] SO SCHEDULING THAT STAFFING OUT THAT HAPPENS IN CHUNKS OF SEVERAL WEEKS AT a TIME. RIGHT SO THAT'S a PART OF ONE OF THE -- ONE OF THE SLOWDOWNS. THE WAY WE UNDERSTAND THEM, OBVIOUSLY, THESE ARE NOT a LOT OF OPERATIONAL DECISIONS THAT WE HAVE a LOT OF INSIGHT INTO. AND AT THE END OF THE DAY, THE DIRECTION OF OPERATIONS IN THIS CITY UNDER OUR NEW GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE COMES SOLELY FROM THE MAYOR.THAT'S HOW DECISIONS ON WHAT HAPPENS AND THE DIRECTION WE GO IN AS a CITY ARE MADE. [3:38:01] CERTAINLY THERE ARE PLENTY OF CONTRIBUTING FACTORS TO THAT. TO ADDRESS SPECIFICALLY THE QUESTION YOU HAD AROUND THE HOMELESSNESS RESPONSE TEAM. IT'S IMPORTANT TO KEEP IN MIND THAT THE HOMELESSNESS RESPONSE TEAM HAS EXPERIENCED SOME SIGNIFICANT TURNOVER OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS. THAT, AT LEAST WE'VE BEEN HERE. YOU AND I, COUNCIL MEMR. AND THE TEAM RIGHT NOW IS TWO PEOPLE. THERE IS ADDITIONAL STAFFING FOR THAT FUNCTION. I HOPE THAT ANSWERS YOUR QUESTION. [3:38:32] Michael Rainville: YES, THANK YOU. AND I HAVE ONE ADDITIONAL QUESTION, IF I MAY, FOR ANY OF THE AUTHORS. ARE YOU COMFORTABLE IN THIS REPORTING IT'S GOING TO REFLECT THE COST ASSOCIATED WITH THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE BY THE ENCAMPMENTS AND THE BUSINESSES THAT, YOU KNOW, RIGHT AWAY I THINK OF -- BLOOMINGTON. ARE YOU COMFORTABLE THAT WHEN WE LOOK -- WE HAVE THE STATUS. WE MAKE DECISIONS, WE'RE MAKING a DECISION THAT HAS ALL THE INFORMATION. [3:39:02] Aisha Chughtai: IF I MAY, MR. PRESIDENT. THANK YOU FOR THAT QUESTION. AND THROUGH THE CHAIR, THE -- THE BALANCE WE'RE TRYING TO ACHIEVE HERE, RIGHT, IS HOW DO WE ASK FOR INFORMATION AND DATA SETS THAT EXIST ALREADY. JUST IN DIFFERENT PLACES. RIGHT. [3:39:22] SO, FOR EXAMPLE, ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE ASKING FOR IS HOW MANY SHELTER BEDS WERE AVAILABLE ON THE DAY AN ENCAMPMENT CLOSURE HAPPENS? THAT'S INFORMATION THAT EXISTS. THAT'S DATA THAT IS COLLECTED THROUGH ADULT SHELTER CONNECT AND COORDINATED ENTRY AND HENNEPIN COUNTY. SO THE BALANCE TO ACHIEVE HERE IS ASKING FOR DATA SETS THAT EXIST THAT JUST NEED TO BE COMPILED IN ONE PLACE TO TELL US a BIGGER STORY. WHEN WE THINK ABOUT THE IMPACT ON THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY, AND WHERE I AGREE WITH YOU, IS THAT THERE IS a SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY AS a RESULT OF ENCAMPMENTS EXISTING. [3:40:02] THERE'S NO DENYING THAT. WHETHER IT'S IN a RESIDENTIAL AREA, IN a COMMERCIAL AREA. THOSE IMPACTS LOOK DIFFERENT, BUT THEY ARE SIGNIFICANT. THE WAY YOU CAPTURE AND MEASURE THAT WHERE THE DATA SETS THAT EXIST AROUND IT, THAT'S WHAT WE WERE LOOKING AT. RIGHT. SO IF WE WANTED TO KNOW HOW MUCH OUR INDIVIDUAL BUSINESSES ARE SPENDING WHEN THERE'S AN ENCAMPMENT IN a COMMERCIAL CORRIDOR. THE WAY WE WOULD CAPTURE THAT, SOMEONE WOULD HAVE TO ASK INDIVIDUAL BUSINESSES. [3:40:29] "WHAT WAS THE IMPACT? DO YOU HAVE RECEIPTS? HOW MUCH DID IT COST?" WHEREAS WHEN WE ASK FOR INFORMATION ABOUT 9-1-1 AND 311 CALLS AND REPORTING, WE ARE ABLE TO CAPTURE THAT IMPACT ON THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY IN THAT 1-MILE RADIUS AROUND AN ENCAMPMENT BECAUSE THAT INFORMATION ALREADY EXISTS IN ONE PLACE. SO THAT WAS -- THAT'S THE BALANCE. RIGHT. YOU DON'T WANT TO ASK FOR INFORMATION THAT DOESN'T EXIST, THAT WILL HAVE TO BE a BRAND NEW SYSTEM TO EVEN CAPTURE, IN THE FIRST PLACE. THAT CLEARLY -- ONE OF THE MAJOR PIECES OF CON CONSENSUS WE HEAR HERE IS WE DON'T WANT TO BE TOO BURDENSOME. [3:41:16] IF THAT ANSWERS YOUR QUESTION. [3:41:26] Michael Rainville: TO THAT'S a LONG ANSWER. YOU'RE TELLING ME BY CAPTURING THE 3-1-1 AND 9-1-1 CALLS IT WOULD BE ADEQUATE BALANCE TO UNDERSTAND THE IMPACT ON THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY. [3:41:31] Aisha Chughtai: MR. CHAIRMAN, AND COUNCIL MEMBER RAINVILLE, WHAT I'M TELLING YOU IS ONE OF THE MOST READILY AVAILABLE DATA SETS THAT HELPS US UNDERSTAND WHEN RESIDENTS ARE CALLING FOR HELP RELATED TO SOMETHING THAT IS a CRISIS OR AN EMERGENCY OR a NONEMERGENT BUT URGENT NEED. [3:42:00] Michael Rainville: THANK YOU. [3:42:02] Robin Wonsley: THANK YOU, PRESIDENT PAYNE. SO I JUST WANTED TO RESPOND TO a COUPLE OF CONCERNS THAT WERE RAISRAISE.E. COUNCIL MEMBER OS, WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT SOME, GETTING THE COMPLAINTS YOU'VE MADE TO THE ADMINISTRATION EXECUTED AS IT PERTAINS TO ENCAMPMENTS IN YOUR WARD. WHAT I'M HEARING AT CORE OF YOUR CONCERN IS WANTING ACCESS TO THE ADMINISTRATION'S STANDARDIZED ENTERPRISE POLICY AROUND, YOU KNOW, HOW DO YOU STREAMLINE THAT EXECUTION WHEN a COUNCIL MEMBER PROVIDES THAT REQUEST. AND THAT INFORMATION IS PROVIDED IN MAYOR FREY'S OPERATIONAL GUIDE THAT HIS ADMINISTRATION CREATED BACK [3:42:35] IN DECEMBER OF 2022. I'M MORE THAN HAPPY TO E-MAIL IT TO YOU. I THINK WHAT YOU'RE CONCERNED IN THE LARGER CONVERSATION IS SHOWING, IN TERMS OF WHY WE NEED THE TYPE OF O ORDINANCE, IS THE MAYOR FREY'S ADMINISTRATION FOLLOWING THEIR OWN OPERATIONAL GUIDE? AND WE CAN'T DO THAT TYPE OF OVERSIGHT. IF WE DON'T HAVE THE INFORMATION TO BE ABLE TO PURSUE THAT PIECE. SO THIS ORDINANCE WILL ACTUALLY GIVE US THE TOOL TO SAY, IS THIS REALLY a STANDARDIZED PROCESS? ARE WE FOLLOWING IT ARBITRARILY? ARE WE IN LINE WITH SAINT PAUL WHERE IT'S CLEAR. IF YOU MAKE a REQUEST YOU CAN TRACE OVER THREE WEEKS XYZ WILL HAPPEN. IT'S NOT THE CASE AS IT PERTAINS TO MAYOR [3:43:23] FREY'S CURRENT GUIDE. I WANT TO ADDRESS THE CONTINUOUS CONCERN AROUND CAPACITY ON THE ADMINISTRATIVE LEVEL IN THE MAYOR FREY'S ADMINISTRATION. WE LITERALLY FUND EVERY SINGLE DEPARTMENT WITH a -- WE PROVIDE THEM a CONTRACTUAL SERVICE BUDGET. SO THAT MEANS ANY DEPARTMENT THAT NEEDS ADDITIONAL SUPPORT, BE IT THROUGH STAFF, TO COLLECT INFORMATION, LIKE, WHAT WE'RE REQUESTING, T OR TO HELP WITH PROVIDING SERVICES OR HIRING CONTRACTS. THEY HAVE PRETTY SUBSTANTIAL BUDGETS TO BE ABLE TO BE AT THAT CAPACITY READILY. THESE DEPARTMENTS HAVE THE RESOURCES AT THEIR DISPOSAL TO BEEF UP ADMINISTRATION OF SERVICES. NOW IF THEY CHOOSE NOT TO, THAT'S THEIR OWN [3:44:09] DECISION. THAT'S a MAYOR FREY'S MANAGEMENT PROBLEM. THAT'S NOT a COUNCIL PROBLEM. I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THERE'S a CONTRACTUAL SERVICE BUDGET MEANT TO DEAL WITH THE DYNAMICS THAT COUNCIL FULFILLS OUR AUTHORITY IN FUNDING, THAT IF THE DEPARTMENTS DID DECIDE, YOU KNOW, THEY NEEDED ADDITIONAL HELP IN COLLECTING THIS DATA AND GATHERING RESEARCH, THEY HAVE THE RESOURCES AT THEIR DISPOSAL SO I WANTED TO IDENTIFY THAT AS ANOTHER TOOL SO THAT W WE DON'T CONTINUE TO ALLOW ADMINISTRATIVE CAPACITY, WHICH I OFTEN HEAR, TO BE ESSENTIALLY ACTUAL NONREAL BARRIER TO US JUST GETTING MORE OBJECTIVE DATA. [3:44:55] Linea Palmisano: JUST IN CASE THIS ISN'T CLEAR. a COUPLE OF IMPORTANT POINTS. FIRST, UP HERE THERE'S a NARRATIVE BEING SPUN THAT THE MAYOR IS THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN CLOSE AN ENCAMPMENT, AS THOUGH HE DEVINES IT AND IT IS SO. [3:45:15] THAT'S NOT TRUE. WE KNOW THAT. WE ALL KNOW HOW MANY DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS IT TAKES TO MANAGE THESE DIFFICULT AND CHALLENGING SPACES. SECOND, WE HAVE FOUR PEOPLE ON OUR HOMELESS RESPONSE TEAM. THAT'S HRT BEING MENTIONED EARLIER. WE HAVE FOUR PEOPLE. ABOUT 32 ENCAMPMENTS EXIST ILLEGALLY IN OUR CITY. [3:45:37] TWO OF THOSE NEEDED TO BE CLOSED DUE TO PUBLIC SAFETY IN THE PAST DAY, BUT LET'S ACKNOWLEDGE NONE OF THEM ARE SAFE PLACES. WE HAVE FOUR PEOPLE ON THIS TEAM. NOT 44. IN REALITY, WE ACTUALLY HAVE TWO. WE HAVE TWO HUMANS AND TWO VACANCIES THAT DO THIS WORK. AND I KNOW, AS DO YOU, THE TWO STAFF WILL WORK THEIR HARDEST TO HAVE THIS TIME SPENT NOT IN THE FIELD, NOT DECREASE THEIR TIME IN PROVIDING SERVICE IN OUR CITY, OF COURSE THEY WILL. BUT DIRECTOR DEPUTY COO SAID IN COMMITTEE THIS WOULD TAKE LONGER. SO JUST LIKE COUNCIL MEMBER OSMAN SAID PREVIOUSLY I TOO AM [3:46:24] CHALLENGED TO SUPPORT THIS ORDINANCE TODAY. [3:46:26] Jamal Osman: THANK YOU. I WANT TO JUST MENTION a COUPLE OF THINGS. MAYOR IS RESPONSIBLE OF REMOVING ENCAMPMENTS BECAUSE THOSE DEPARTMENTS, HE'S THE BOSS OF THOSE DEPARTMENTS. THEY AWAIT HIS ORDER TO GIVE THE GO AHEAD. [3:46:51] EVERY ENCAMPMENT THAT POPS UP IN MY COMMUNITY CREATES PROBLEM. MOST LIKELY SOMEONE DIES. THEY LOSE THEIR LIVES. I'M TRYING TO PREVENT THAT. FOR ME TO PREVENT THAT, I GOT TO GO SEND OFFICIAL LETTER TO THE MAYOR'S OFFICE AND HIS ADMINISTRATION TO REMOVE THEM. THE ENCAMPMENT WE WITNESSED, 200 PEOPLE OR 150 PEOPLE ARE LIVING THERE. [3:47:14] THERE'S ONLY FEW TENTS. MAYBE LESS THAN 10 TENTS. I SENT AN E-MAIL SAYING, HEY. I KNOW THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOOD, NEIGHBORS, NATIVE AMERICAN ORGANIZATIONS LOW-INCOME RESIDENTS WERE LIVING RIGHT THERE. I REQUESTED. I WAS IGNORED. AND NOW WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. THERE'S ENCAMPMENTS RIGHT NOW ON 17 AND FRANKLIN. [3:47:42] SMALL CHILD WAS EXPOSED TO FENTANYL. 10 MONTH OLD. DIED. SENT a LETTER ON AUGUST 14, 15 TO THE MAYOR'S OFFICE ASKING a REQUEST. THESE DEPARTMENTS DO a PHENOMENAL JOB. I'M NOT TAKING -- I'M NOT REALLY -- BECAUSE I WORK WITH THE LEADERS I WORK WITH THE DIRECTORS CLOSELY. I WORK -- I KNOW THE STAFF THAT GO OUT THERE. THEY DO a PHENOMENAL JOB. THE REASON WE HAVE ENCAMPMENTS -- THE REASON ENCAMPMENTS ARE NOT MOVING QUICKLY IS MAYOR'S RESPONSIBILITY. WE HAVE GIVEN YOU THE TOOLS. WE HAVE GIVEN YOU THE RESOURCES TO MOVE THE [3:48:30] ENCAMPMENTS. ENCAMPMENTS HAVE a HUGE IMPACT OF LOW-INCOME FAMILIES. THERE ARE ORGANIZATIONS, NATIVE AMERICAN ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE DOING GOOD THINGS IN THE COMMUNITY. THEY DO a CAREER TRAINING. [3:48:45] THERE ARE SCHOOLS CLOSING BECAUSE OF THE SAFETY ENCAMPMENTS HAVE CREATED. WE KNOW THE EFFECT OF ENCAMPMENTS. ON THIS ORDINANCE, I AGREE MOST WHAT IS ON IT. I AGREE WE SHOULD BE TRANSPARENT, WE SHOULD KNOW WHAT THE COST IS, AND, ALSO, TO KNOW DATA -- MAKE DATA-DRIVEN DECISIONS. BUT IF THIS WILL MAKE IT DIFFICULT, AS I HEARD COUNCIL MEMBER PALMISANO MENTION, THE COO, I HEAR THAT. [3:49:15] IF I HEAR IT CREATES -- IT MAKES MORE EVEN SLOWER THAN IT IS NOW, THEN IT'S HARD FOR ME TO SUPPORT IT. AND I THINK SOME OF THE ASKS IN THERE ARE VERY IMPORTANT. THERE ARE SOME OF THEM WE CAN SCRATCH IT OFF. THAT'S WHY I'M OFFERING a DELAY TO COME BACK TO WORK WITH THE STAFF, HOMELESS OUTREACH TEAM, REGULATORY SERVICES TO REALLY SAY, HEY, WHAT MAKES SENSE? I DON'T WANT TO TAKE STAFF THAT ARE ON THE STREETS PROVIDING SERVICES CONNECTING HAVING THAT ENGAGEMENT WITH THE RESIDENTS, VULNERABLE RESIDENTS THAT LIVE IN THE COMMUNITIES, PUT THEM AT a DESK AND SAY "GIVE ME THIS REPORT." THIS REPORT IS IMPORTANT, BUT WE HAVE CRISIS. [3:49:55] WE HAVE CRISIS OF ENCAMPMENTS POPPING UP EVERYWHERE. AND THOSE ENCAMPMENTS PEOPLE LOSE THEIR LIVES. CHECK OUT THE NEWS YESTERDAY. SO MAYOR'S RESPONSIBILITY TO M REMOVE THE ENCAMPMENTS. IT'S COUNCIL'S RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE THE POLICIES TO MAKE SAFER. THANK YOU. [3:50:15] Elliott Payne: SEEING NO ONE ELSE IN THE QUEUE, I'LL ASK THE CLERK TO CALL THE ROLL ON THE ORDINANCE AS AMENDED BY COUNCIL MEMBERS CHOWDHURY AND VICE PRESIDENT CHUGHTAI. (ROLL CALL.) NINE AYES AND FOUR NAYS. [3:50:54] THAT CARRY AND THE FULL REPORT IS ADOPTED. THAT COMPLETES THE REPORT OF THE STANDING COMMITTEES. BEFORE I MOVE ON TO THE INTRODUCTION AND REFERRAL CALENDAR, I WANT TO ADDRESS A FEW THINGS. AND I APOLOGIZE FOR NOT DOING IT IN THE MOMENT. [3:51:09] THERE ARE A FEW TIMES TODAY THAT WE REALLY LOST DECORUM. I HEARD QUESTIONING MOTIVATIONS, I HEARD QUESTIONING PEOPLE'S FAITH. WE NEED TO REMIND OURSELVES TO SPEAK TO THE CHAIR, WAIT OUR TURN, WATCH OUR TIME. IT'S A PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY THAT EVERY ONE OF US OF THIS BODY HAS TO UPHOLD, AND I REALLY WANT TO ENCOURAGE US TO DO BETTER AS WE GO FORWARD. TODAY WAS A VERY, VERY PACKED AGENDA WITH REALLY UNDERSTANDABLE THAT EMOTIONS ARE HIGH, BUT IT'S EXTREMELY IMPORTANT THAT WE MAINTAIN THAT DECORUM. AND SO WITH THAT, WE ARE ON OUR NEXT ORDER OF BUSINESS, WHICH IS THE INTRODUCTION AND REFERRAL CALENDAR. WE HAVE FOUR [3:51:54] ORDINANCE INTRODUCTIONS TODAY, WHICH WERE ALL NOTICED AT THE LAST REGULAR MEETING. FIRST, COUNCIL MEMBER VETAW MOVES TO INTRODUCE AND GIVE FIRST READING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL CODE REVISING LANGUAGE REGARDING CLEAN UP OF FECES FROM SERVICE ANIMALS TO BE REFERRED TO THE BUSINESS, HOUSING, AND ZONING COMMITTEE. [3:52:15] SECOND, COUNCIL MEMBER VETAW MOVES TO IN INTRODUCE AND GIVERE FIRST READING FENCE HEIGHT REGULATIONS TO BE REFERRED. THE THIRD NOTICE IS FROM COUNCIL MEMBER RAINVILLE WHO MOVES TO INTRODUCE AND GIVE FIRST READING TO AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE HEALTH AND SANITATION CODE UPDATING SWIMMING POOL PROVISIONS TO ALIGN WITH STATE LAWS. IT'S BEING REFERRED TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY COMMITTEE. FINALLY, COUNCIL MEMBER OSMAN MOVES TO INTRODUCE AND GIVE FIRST READING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE HERITAGE PRESERVATION CODE UPDATING AND MODERNIZING REGULATIONS, INCLUDING APPLICATION TYPES, REVIEWS, AND STANDARDS FOR [3:53:00] NOMINATING AND DESIGNATING LANDMARKS IN HISTORIC ARE DISTRICTS TO BE REFERRED TO THE BUSINESS, HOUSING, AND ZONING COMMITTEE. ANY DISCUSSION ON THESE INTRODUCTIONS? SEEING NONE. I'LL HAVE THE CLERK TO CALL THE ROLL. (ROLL CALL.) THERE ARE 12 AYES. [3:53:40] THAT CARRIES AND THOSE MATTERS ARE REFERRED AS LISTED ON THE AGENDA. THE NEXT ORDER OF BUSINESS IS RESOLUTIONS AS SHOWN ON THE AGENDA. WE HAVE THREE HONORARY RESOLUTIONS TODAY. ALL OF WHICH HAVE PRESENTATIONS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MEETING. ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS ON THE RESOLUTIONS? SEEING NONE. I'LL ASK TO HAVE A -- OH I'M SORRY. VICE PRESIDENT CHUGHTAI. [3:54:02] Aisha Chughtai: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. I JUST WANTED TO THANK COUNCIL MEMBERS WONSLEY AND CHAVEZ, AS THE VICE CHAIR AND CHAIR OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY COMMITTEE BRINGING FORWARD THE FIREFIGHTER REMEMBRANCE RON RARY RESOLUTION. ON THE COURAGE AND THE SERVICE AND THE AMOUNT OF BARRIERS AND, LIKE, REAL DANGERS TO HEALTH AND SAFETY THAT EXIST IN THE LINE OF PROTECTION. I'LL JUST SAY, CONSTITUENT OF MINE AND, YOU KNOW, SOMEONE WHO IS -- WAS a LEADER IN THE WARD 10 [3:54:47] COMMUNITY, CHRIS PARSONS, WE ACTUALLY RAN AGAINST EACH OTHER IN MY FIRST ELECTION IN 2021. HE WAS, YOU KNOW, INCREDIBLY YOUNG AND a FIREFIGHTER WHO HAD DONE SO MUCH WORK AT THE CAPITOE REGULATIONS AROUND SAFETY FOR THE INDUSTRY AND FOR THE PROFESSION, AND HE DIED REALLY TRAGICALLY AND SUDDENLY AT a YOUNG AGE IN JUST LAST YEAR, LAST SUMMER. AND IT WEIGHS ON OUR COMMUNITY IN WARD 10 IN THE UPTOWN AREA JUST HOW THIS IS FOR US. THANK YOU. [3:55:34] Elliott Payne: THANK YOU FOR THE COMMENTS. MAY IAVE A MOTION TO ADOPT THE RESOLUTIONS? [3:55:36] Council Member: SO MOVED. [3:55:38] Council Member: SECONDED. [3:55:40] Elliott Payne: THE CLERK WILL CALL THE ROLL. (ROLL CALL.) THERE ARE 12 AYES. [3:56:05] THAT CARRIES AND THOSE RESOLUTIONS ARE ADOPTED. WE HAVE A REQUEST FOR A CLOSED SESSION TODAY. SO BEFORE WE RECESS FOR THAT CLOSED SESSION I'LL ASK IF THERE ARE ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM COUNCILMEMBERS. COUNCILMEMBER WONSLEY. [3:56:15] Robin Wonsley: OKAY. YEAH. I SEE THE FACE OF TERROR IN YOUR EYES, COUNCILMEMBER CASHMAN. YEAH, LET'S GET THIS DONE. IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. SORRY FOR IT. IT'S COUNCILMEMBER CASHMAN'S BIRTHDAY WAS ON MONDAY. [3:56:30] Katie Cashman: SUNDAY. [3:56:32] Robin Wonsley: SUNDAY. ALL RIGHT. SO LET'S JUST GO AHEAD AND GET IT. [SINGING] HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY. SHE WAS ACTUALLY GONE AT THAT MEETING SO WE HAVE TO INCLUDE BOTH OF THEM. [3:56:45] Linea Palmisano: THAT'S RIGHT. [3:56:47] Jeremiah Ellison: HAPPY BIRTH TODAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU ♪ [3:57:04] Elliott Payne: ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT. THERE WE GO. COUNCILMEMBER CHOWDHURY. [3:57:08] Aurin Chowdhury: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. I JUST WANTED TO SHERIFF LEARNED FROM CLERK CARL TODAY THAT IT HAD RECENTLY BEEN THE TEN-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF GRANT JOHNSON BEING A PART OF OUR CLERKS LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT. SO I JUST WANTED TO CONGRATULATE HIM FOR TEN YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR DEPARTMENT A AND CITY COUNCILS PAST AND PRESENT. HE HAS SERVED THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS FOR a NUMBER OF YEARS PRIOR BEFORE CLERK CARL MADE THE VERY SMART DECISION TO POACH HIM TO OUR [3:57:50] DEPARTMENT. [3:57:51] Elliott Payne: AND WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR THAT. VICE PRESIDENT CHUGHTAI. [3:57:54] Aisha Chughtai: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. I JUST MISSED THIS WHEN WE WERE PRESENTING -- WHEN WE WERE GOING OVER THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY COMMITTEE'S REPORT. BUT WANTED TO CONGRATULATE RACHEL ON HER APPOINTMENT AS THE NEW EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR AND WELCOME HER TO THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS AND OFFER PARTNERSHIP AND COLLABORATION IN HER HOPEFULLY VERY LONG TENURE HERE. [3:58:24] Elliott Payne: COUNCILMEMBER PALMISANO. [3:58:26] Linea Palmisano: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. TWO ANNOUNCEMENTS. FIRST I WANTED TO POINT OUT a COLLABORATION THAT a LOT OF PEOPLE I DON'T THINK KNOW HAPPENS AROUND HERE. [3:58:41] I SERVE AS DOES COUNCILMEMBER JENKINS ON THE PUBLIC HOUSING PRESERVATION AND EXPANSION GROUP. AND I THINK THAT SOME OF THE CONVERSATION UP HERE TODAY MIGHT LEAD PEOPLE TO DOUBT THAT THERE IS a LOT OF COLLABORATION GOING ON. THIS WEEK'S CONVERSATION WAS ABOUT THE FAIR CLAUSE TO RAD HOUSING CHANGES THAT MPHA IS PURSUING WITH a LOT OF DIFFERENT PARTNERS. BUT THE PEOPLE AROUND THAT TABLE INCLUDE, WELL, IT'S CONVENED BY THE MAYOR, BUT IT INCLUDES OUR MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY LEADERS, IT INCLUDES OUR COUNTY, IT INCLUDES STATE LEGISLATURES REPRESENTATIVE AND SENATOR MOHAMED WERE BOTH THERE THIS WEEK. AND OUR SCHOOLS IF I [3:59:27] DIDN'T SAY THAT ARE REALLY IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN THIS CONVERSATION. AND SO I JUST WANTED TO MENTION THAT THAT EXISTS, AND IT'S REALLY WORTHY OF OUR TIME AND ATTENTION. THE SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT IS ABOUT a DECISION THAT WAS MADE TODAY. [3:59:42] IT WAS ABOUT T THE AGATE FUNDING PROPOSAL. I WOULD ASK YOU WORK WITH STAFF ON WHEN THOSE DOLLARS WILL COME OUT OF EACH OF THEIR BUDGETS, WHEN IT WILL ACTUALLY TRANSACT. HOPEFULLY NOT UNTIL THE END OF THIS YEAR, BECAUSE I WOULDN'T WANT TO HAVE TO ME ADVERSE CONSEQUENCES ABOUT THINGS THAT THEY HAVE PLANNED TO DO AT THEIR BUDGET. THERE WILL BE TWO BUDGET CYCLES BASED ON THE WAY THAT IT'S WRITTEN UNTIL THE AVAILABILITY OF THAT FUNDING WOULD END. [4:00:13] SO HOPEFULLY THERE COULD BE SOME FLEXIBILITY. AND I WOULD ASK THE AUTHORS TO WORK WITH STAFF ON THAT. THANK YOU. [4:00:20] Casey Carl: THANK YOU. AND RECOGNIZING I'M STANDING BETWEEN EVERYONE AND THEIR LUNCH I'LL TRY AND BE QUICK BUT EARLY VOTING FOR THIS YEAR'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION START AT 8:00 A.M. TOMORROW MORNING ON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20TH. EARLY VOTING WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 5:00 P.M. [4:00:35] ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4. ELECTION DAY IS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5 WHEN ALL THE POLLS IN OUR REPRECINCTS ACROSS THE CITY WILL BE OPEN AT 7:00 A.M. AND REMAIN OPEN UNTIL 8:00 P.M. AND UNTIL ALL VOTERS IN LINE AT THAT TIME HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO CAST THEIR BALLOTS. ALL ELIGIBILITY VOTERS MAY CHOOSE TO VOTE EARLY BY MAIL OR IN PERSON AND THOSE WISHING TO VOTE EARLY BY MAIL CAN SUBMIT AN APPLICATION TO REQUEST THEIR MAIL BALLOT. THEY CAN DO THAT FROM OUR WEBSITE VOTE.MINNEAPOLIS MN GOV. [4:01:08] MINNEAPOLIS VOTERS CAN CHOOSE TO VOTE EARLY IN PERSON AT OUR ELECTIONS HEADQUARTERS AS USUAL EVER YEAR AT 980 HENNEPIN AVENUE EAST. THAT SITE IS ACCESSIBLE VIA PUBLIC TRANSIT USING THE 4, 25 AND 61 BUS ROUTES. THERE'S FREE PARKING AVAILABLE AT THE LOT IN FRONT WITH PLENTY OF BICYCLE RACKS. [4:01:28] IN ADDITION TO EARLY IN PERSON VOTING MINNEAPOLIS VOTERS CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF DROP OFF BALLOT DELIVERY AT OUR HEADQUARTERS AND RECEIVE ADDITIONAL IN PERSON ACCOMMODATIONS FOR VOTERS THAT MAY NEED THAT KIND OF SUPPORT. THAT INCLUDES ACCESS TO BALLOT MARKING DEVICES, CURB SIDE VOTING ASSISTANCE AND INTERPRETATION AND TRANSLATION SERVICES. WE ALSO WILL BE HOSTING ADDITIONAL EARLY VOTING CENTERS THIS YEAR SO WE CAN TAKE THE BALLOT OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY TO MEET VOTERS WHERE THEY ARE, BEGINNING ON OCTOBER 22ND. THE ADDITIONAL VOTING CENTERS WILL BE LOCATED AT THE URBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES AT 2100 PLYMOUTH AVENUE NORTH AND BETHEL LUTHERAN CHURCH AT 4120 AVENUE SOUTH. THOSE EARLY VOTE CENTERS WILL BE OPEN TO SERVE VOTERS STARTING ON [4:02:13] OCTOBER 22 AND IN ADDITION TO THOSE TWO ADDITIONAL EARLY VOTING CENTERS WITH COUNCIL'S STRONG SUPPORT THIS YEAR I'M PLEASED TO SAY WE WILL BE HOSTING NEW POP-UP VOTING SITES. THESE WILL BE LOCATED AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY BETWEEN OCTOBER 22 AND NOVEMBER 1. AND THOSE SITES AND LOCATIONS AND DAYS ARE ALL LISTED ON OUR ELECTIONS WEBSITE RIGHT NOW. [4:02:35] THE WEBSITE ALSO INCLUDES IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR ALL VOTERS, INCLUDING HOW TO VOTE, WHAT IS ON THIS YEAR'S BALLOT, ADDITIONAL VOTER SERVICE ASSISTANCES THAT ARE AVAILABLE AND HOW THE CITY PROCESSES AND TABULATES BALLOTS SO WE CAN PROVIDE a CLEAR AND TRANSPARENT PROCESS TO EVERYONE HOW THE BALLOTS ARE COUNTED AND HOW UNOFFICIAL RESULTS ARE POSTED ON ELECTION NIGHT. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT OPPORTUNITY. [4:03:00] Jeremiah Ellison: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. THIS SATURDAY FROM 11 TO 5:00 P.M. THE WEST BROADWAY BUSINESS AND AREA COALITION IS HOSTING OPEN STREETS ALONG WEST BROADWAY. SO JUST WANTED TO LET FOLKS KNOW, LET THE COMMUNITY KNOW AND HOPE TO SEE EVERYBODY COME THROUGH. [4:03:15] Jamal Osman: TODAY AT 4:00 P.M., 7:30 P.M. THERE'S a MULTI CULTURAL DINNER ANNUAL ON RIVERSIDE BRIAN CODY PARK. EVERYONE IS INVITED, MY COLLEAGUES AND THE CITY DEPARTMENT LEADS. THIS ANNUAL IT'S WHERE PEOPLE GATHER AND SHARE MEALS, CELEBRATE DIVERSITY AND BUILD COMMUNITY. TYPICALLY IT'S a LARGE GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT COME WITH DIFFERENT DANCES AND SO ON. SO IT'S BEAUTIFUL OUTSIDE TODAY. SO COME JOIN US 4 TO 7:30 AT BRIAN KILOCENTER. [4:04:00] Elliott Payne: WITH THAT, WE'VE COMPLETED ALL OF THE ITEMS ON OUR AGENDA AND WILL NOW CONSIDER THE REQUEST FOR A CLOSED SESSION, WHICH IS TO RECEIVE A BRIEFING ON THE LITIGATION MATTER OF PRO-LIFE ACTION MINISTRIES VERSUS CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. BEFORE I RECOGNIZE THE CITY ATTORNEY I WILL NOTE THE COUNCIL, ATTORNEY WE WILL WANT TO GO IN THIS WITH a FULL STOMACH. AND SO WE HAVE AN UNUSUAL AGENDA TODAY, BECAUSE WE ALSO ARE GOING TO BE CALLING TO ORDER THE MCDA. SO ONCE WE GET THROUGH ALL OF THOSE ITEMS, WE'LL LOOK AT WHAT TIME IT IS, AND WE'LL END UP CALLING a RECESS BEFORE CLOSED SESSION. [4:04:36] BUT WITH THAT, I WILL RECOGNIZE THE CITY ATTORNEY TO PROVIDE THE LEGAL BASIS FOR THE REQUEST TO CLOSE SESSION. [4:04:45] Kristyn Anderson: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT, COUNCILMEMBERS, THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS THE CASE OF PRO-LIFE ACTION MINISTRIES VERSUS CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS 23-CV-853. YOUR LAWYERS WISH TO PROVIDE THE COUNCIL a BRIEFING ON THIS CASE, WHICH IS AN ACTIVE LITIGATION IN FEDERAL COURT. [4:05:00] ACCORDINGLY UNDER THE MINNESOTA OPEN MEETING LAW MINNESOTA STATUTE SECTION 13D.05 SUBDIVISION 3B THE COUNCIL MAY UPON PROPER MOTION CLOSE THE MEETING FOR THE PURPOSES OF ATTORNEY-CLIENT COMMUNICATION AS PERMITTED BY THE ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE. IN CONSIDERING THE MOTION THE COUNCIL SHOULD WEIGH THE RIGHT OF THE PUBLIC TO KNOW WHAT ITS GOVERNMENT THE DOING AGAINST THE NEED OF THE CITY TO PRESERVE THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF ITS DISCUSSIONS WITH ITS ATTORNEYS. [4:05:24] Elliott Payne: THANK YOU, MADAM CITY ATTORNEY. I MOVE TO CLOSE OUR PUBLIC MEETING AS AUTHORIZED UNDER THE OPEN MEETING LAW, SPECIFICALLY MINNESOTA STATUTES SECTION 13D.05 FOR THE PURPOSE OF RECEIVING a BRIEFING ON THE LITIGATION MATTER OF PRO-LIFE ACTION MINISTRIES V. CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. MAY I HAVE a SECOND TO THAT MOTION? [4:05:40] Council Member: SECOND. [4:05:42] Elliott Payne: THE CLERK WILL CALL THE ROLL. (ROLL CALL.) THERE ARE 12 AYES. [4:06:05] THAT CARRIES. BEFORE WE RECESS AND PROCEED TO OUR CLOSED SESSION THEREAFTER, WE WILL ADJOURN THIS MEETING AND CONVENE OUR MEETING OF THE MINNEAPOLIS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY, WE HAVE ONE ITEM OF BUSINESS TO TRANSACT THAT WON'T TAKE LONG AFTER THAT MEETING IS ADJOURNED WE WILL THEN RECESS AND CONVENE OUR CLOSED SESSION. FOR THE VIEWING PUBLIC, I WILL NOTE THAT ONCE WE'VE ADJOURNED THE MCDA MEETING THE BROADCAST OF THIS MEETING WILL CONTINUE AND THE CITY COUNCIL WILL RECONVENE IN PUBLIC AFTER WE'VE CONCLUDED THE CLOSED SESSION. WITH THAT I'LL [4:06:46] RECOGNIZE VICE CHAIR ELLISON TO CONVENE THE MCDA ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING. [4:06:50] Jeremiah Ellison: WELCOME TO THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE MINNEAPOLIS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR SEPTEMBER 19TH, 2024. I'M JEREMIAH ELLISON, THE VICE-CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE AND I'LL BE CONVENING US HERE AT THIS TIME I'LL ASK THE CLERKS TO CALL THE ROLL TO VERIFY THE PRESENCE OF A QUORUM. (ROLL CALL.) [4:07:30] THERE ARE 12 MEMBERS OF THE MCDA PRESENT. LET THE RECORD REFLECT THAT WE HAVE A QUORUM. THE AGENDA TODAY'S MEETING IS BEFORE US, AND I'LL MOVE TO ADOPT THE AGENDA AND ASK THE CLERK TO CALL THE ROLL. (ROLL CALL.) [4:08:00] THERE ARE 12 AYES. I'LL MOVE TO ACCEPT THE MINUTES OF THE JUNE 27, 2024 MEETING AND ASK THE CLERK TO CALL THE ROLL ON THAT. (ROLL CALL.) [4:08:30] THERE ARE 12 AYES. THE ONLY ITEM ON OUR AGENDA IS a CONSENT ITEM REFERRED BY THE MCDA OPERATING COMMITTEE FROM THE MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 THAT IS GIVING APPROVAL TO AMENDMENTS TO THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS CONDUIT BONDS POLICY. DO MY COLLEAGUES HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS ITEM? SEEING NONE. I'LL ASK THE CLERK TO CALL THE ROLL. (ROLL CALL.) [4:09:10] THERE ARE 12 AYES. THIS ITEM IS APPROVED AND SEEING NO FURTHER BUSINESS. [5:14:02] Elliott Payne: THE TIME IS NOW 3:46 AND THE CITY COUNCIL HAS RECONVENED IN OPEN SESSION FOLLOWS OUR CLOSED SESSION. I'LL ASK THE CLERK TO CALL THE ROLL TO VERIFY THE PRESENCE OF A QUORUM. (ROLL CALL.) [5:14:40] THERE ARE NINE MEMBE PRESENT. LET THE RECORD REFLECT WE HAVE a QUORUM. WITH NO FURTHER BUSINESS BEFORE US AND WITHOUT OBJECTION, I WILL DECLARE THIS MEETING ADJOURNED.