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From YouTube: August 10, 2016 Mayor Betsy Hodges’ 2017 Budget Address
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August 10, 2016 Mayor Betsy Hodges’ 2017 Budget Address
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on
the
agenda.
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adoption
of
the
agenda
so
moved
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moved
and
seconded
any
discussion,
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none
all
in
approval,
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aye
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opposed
that
carries
next
item,
then?
Is
the
2017
city
budget
address
so
it's
my
pleasure
to
introduce
mayor
Betsy
Hodges
for
the
2017
budget
address.
Madam
mayor?
C
Thank
you
much
very
much
council
president
here,
I
am
and
and
council
president
Johnson
two
council
members.
Thank
you
for
calling
this
meeting
and
allowing
me
to
speak
in
your
body
today
to
department
heads
to
city
staff,
guests
residents,
everybody
gathered.
Thank
you
very
much
for
being
here.
I
will
be
honest.
Writing
the
city
budget
is
my
favorite
part
of
the
job
Bar
None.
Some
people
spend
their
summers
at
a
lake
or
at
a
cabin.
C
Some
people
play
ultimate
or
midnight
basketball,
but
in
my
summer
there
is
very
little
that
I
look
forward
to
more
than
sitting
in
a
conference
room
poring
over
the
minutiae
of
spreadsheets
hashtag
budget,
nerd
hashtag
hashtag
green
eyeshade
I
totally
own
it
100%,
but,
as
you
can
easily
imagine
putting
together,
the
budget
is
often
a
long
sprawling
exercise
in
trade
off.
If
we
want
X,
should
we
cut
why
or
should
we
scale
Z?
How
should
we
balance
one-time
expenditures
with
ongoing
or
borrowing
with
cash?
C
If
revenues
are
up,
how
should
we
meet
years
of
backlog
needs
while
still
controlling
the
impact?
If
revenues
are
down,
how
should
we
balance
cuts
with
the
need
to
maintain
critical
services,
the
trade-offs
go
on
and
on?
At
the
same
time,
the
budget
is
not
always
the
exercise
and
trade-offs
that
people
think
it
is.
Do
we
have
to
choose
between
investing
in
the
basics
of
good
government
and
investing
and
managing
our
growth?
C
Some
of
the
trade-offs
I
have
gotten
to
make
are
good
ones
between
worthy
bodies
of
really
great
work.
Others
were
tougher
and
involves
some
difficult
choices,
including
cuts
in
this
budget.
I
propose
that
we
invest
in
good
government
accommodating
our
growth
and
public
safety.
We
cannot
have
everything
that
we
want.
At
the
same
time,
this
budget
shows
that
in
the
21st
century,
rising
to
the
imperatives
of
good
government,
growth
and
public
safety
serves
to
help
meet
our
deepest
challenges.
C
Well,
good
government
collecting
solid
waste
and
recycling
records
management,
street-sweeping,
accounting
and
forcing
building
codes
making
sure
the
street
lights
are
on.
These
are
some
of
the
fundamentals
of
city
government
and
a
significant
part
of
putting
together
the
budget
is
making
sure
that
we
do
them
and
continuously
prove
on
them,
transparently,
responsively
and
responsibly,
and
when
we
do,
they
can
transform
our
communities.
C
Here's
a
great
example
of
what
I
mean
right
now:
Animal,
Care
and
Control
has
an
animal
control
officer
working
at
the
front
desk
answering
the
phones.
That
means
one
officer
is
not
out
caring
for
missing
dogs
and
cats
and
protecting
the
community
from
dangerous
I
propose
hiring
one
administrative
staff
member
in
Animal,
Care
and
Control,
so
that
our
animal
control
officers
can
do
the
job
they
were
hired
for.
Many
thanks
to
the
Mack
staff
for
raising
this
issue.
I
did
hear
you.
C
Another
example
is
paying
attention
to
our
audits
in
2015,
an
internal
audit
of
our
information
governance
found
that
the
city
had
room
to
improve
I
proposed
a
new
record
specialist
to
work
in
the
City
Clerk's
office,
based
on
the
audits
recommendation.
In
addition,
we
are
directing
the
clerk's
office
to
use
existing
resources
to
implement
information
governance
training
across
the
city.
C
Enterprise
I
also
recommend
adding
another
auditor
in
the
city
auditor's
office
capably
led
by
will
Tetzel
I
appreciate,
council
member
lenay
pose
pom
Asano's
keen
interest
in
ensuring
that
we
play
close
attention
to
the
good
work
of
our
auditor's
office.
A
further
example
of
good
government
is
capitalizing
on
the
large
events
that
we
have
won
in
recent
years.
Super
Bowl
50
to
the
final
for
two
years
of
the
X
Games.
C
This
budget
invests
in
strategies
to
get
the
best
possible
return
on
these
events,
including
by
turning
first-time
visitors
into
repeat,
tourists,
conventioneers
and
residents,
and
to
ensure
our
investments
in
managing
these
spectacular
events
live
on.
After
the
events
have
concluded.
Councilmember
Jacob
Frye
has
been
an
enthusiastic
partner,
promoting
Minneapolis
as
a
great
place
to
visit
and
to
have
fun.
I
am
incredibly
proud
every
day
to
work
with
some
of
the
best
most
committed
employees.
C
A
city
could
ask
for
folks
who
could
choose
to
make
more
money
in
the
private
sector,
but
who
have
committed
themselves
to
the
public
good.
Thank
you.
One
of
the
smartest
investments
we
can
make
on
behalf
of
the
residents
of
Minneapolis
is
in
our
employees.
We
can
do
this
through
investments
in
training,
hiring
and
giving
them
better
tools
with
which
to
serve
our
residents.
For
example,
I
propose
that
employees
in
our
city
assessor's
office
get
the
required
training.
They
need
to
bring
fresh
skills
and
innovative
solutions
into
the
department.
C
We
are
implementing
an
improved
911
processing
system
next
year
to
improve
the
quality
and
consistency
of
our
911
response.
Accordingly,
I
proposed
funding
for
new
training
and
certification
for
our
9-1-1
officers,
table
operator's,
pardon
me
and
inspired
by
Chief,
drawn
Friedel,
successful
work
in
creating
pathways
for
careers
in
to
the
fire
department,
particularly
for
people
of
color
I,
propose
creating
similar
pathways
into
other
departments.
We
know
that
we
are
facing
a
wave
of
retirements
across
the
city
enterprise,
and
we
know
that
the
young
people
who
are
available
to
fill
these
openings
are
increasingly
diverse.
C
We
get
to
help
the
best
talent
our
city
has
to
offer.
We
get
to
develop
the
best
talent
our
city
has
to
offer
and
I
thank
Council.
Vice
president
Elizabeth
glutton
for
her
leadership
in
ensuring
that
we
set
ambitious
goals
for
hiring
retaining
and
promoting
women
in
people
of
color
at
the
city
of
Minneapolis
business
support.
C
Entrepreneurs
are
at
the
core
of
the
growth
of
our
city.
Our
many
small
and
mid-sized
businesses
add
vitality
and
create
employment
opportunities
in
our
neighborhood,
and
this
budget
will
invest
in
their
success.
When
I
became
mayor,
I
launched
the
business
made
simple
initiative
to
simplify
city
processes
and
make
it
easier
for
entrepreneurs,
particularly
immigrants,
women
and
people
of
color,
to
invest
in
their
businesses
and
in
our
city.
Since
2014
we
have
eliminated
unnecessary
licenses
and
modified
or
repealed
ordinances
that
were
barriers
to
that
investment.
C
We
are
also
doing
great
work
through
Business
made
simple
our
innovation
team
and
incy
ped
in
removing
unnecessary
barriers
to
business
development
and
investment
on
the
recommendation
of
the
workplace,
partnership
group
and
the
advocacy
of
councilmembers
Lisa
bender
and
Andrew
Johnson.
Thank
you
very
much.
I
propose
that
we
use
existing
resources
to
create
a
full
time
position
in
director,
Craig
Taylor
cpad,
one
person
with
one
email
and
one
phone
number
who
will
make
it
easier
for
smaller
businesses
and
entrepreneurs
to
navigate
city
systems
and
to
prosper.
C
I
also
recommend
renewing
funding
for
the
health
department's
green
business
cost-sharing
program
and
funding
a
new
contract
compliance
certification
specialists
in
the
civil
rights
department
to
accelerate
the
certification
of
new
women
and
minority-owned
businesses.
So
they
can
more
quickly
access
the
assess
the
assistance
that
they
qualify
for
earlier
this
year,
I
was
pleased
to
sign
the
groundbreaking
worker
protections
in
our
earn
sick
and
save
time
ordinance,
which
the
council
passed
unanimously.
I
first
proposed
it
in
2015
and
I
am
proud
of
it.
C
It
will
protect
public
health
by
ensuring
that
families
no
longer
need
to
choose
between
getting
paid
and
getting
well.
Making
sure
that
we
implement
the
ordinance
well
and
fairly
is
our
next
task.
I
am
investing
an
additional
fifty
thousand
dollars
in
the
Civil
Rights
Department
to
support
outreach
and
education
to
workers
into
businesses,
especially
small
businesses
and
I,
share
councilmember,
Abdul
or
Sammy's
concern
that
we
do
this
right,
but
government
also
means
doing
what
we
must
to
keep
our
residents
healthy
globally.
C
2015
was
the
hottest
year
on
record,
and
experts
have
told
us
that
Minneapolis
will
feel
the
effects
of
climate
change
more
intensely
than
most
other
cities.
This
makes
it
even
more
important
that
we
are
prepared
and
working
towards
solutions
in
May
Minneapolis
was
selected
to
join
the
global
100
resilient
cities,
Network
based
in
part
on
the
great
work
that
we
have
been
doing
together
for
years.
One
of
the
benefits
of
this
designation
is
funding
from
the
Rockefeller
Foundation
for
a
chief
resilience
officer.
C
Our
CRO
will
work
across
departments
and
with
the
community
and
our
city's
ability
to
survive
shocks
and
stresses
leave
a
climate
change.
Natural
disasters,
infrastructure
failures
or
disasters
like
inequality
and
a
lack
of
affordable
housing
I
build
into
this
budget.
The
acceptance
of
the
CRO
that
we
approved
this
past
spring,
our
first
of
its
kind,
clean
energy
partnership
with
Xcel,
Energy
and
CenterPoint
Energy,
has
been
a
success.
C
Through
our
first
year
we
have
seen
a
68
percent
increase
in
homeowners
receiving
a
home
energy
squad
visit
to
improve
energy
efficiency
that
has
meant
more
money
in
homeowner
pockets
and
fewer
pollutants
in
our
air.
I
propose
to
continue
funding
this
valuable
work.
I
also
recommend
funding
to
implement
long-standing
plans
to
reduce
commercial
building
energy
use
in
Minneapolis
an
aspect
of
our
climate
action
plan,
of
which
councilmember
kam
Gordon
has
been
a
longtime
consistent
champion
growth.
C
Okay
back
in
2009
and
2010,
our
economy
was
in
a
deep
recession.
We
were
slashing
our
city
budgets
yet
again
and
folks
were
extremely
worried
about
their
own
futures
and
the
future
of
our
cities.
If
we
got
in
a
Hot,
Tub
Time
Machine
today-
and
we
traveled
back
to
those
years
and
explain
to
people
that
in
2016,
some
of
the
challenges
were
most
vocal
about
now
are
the
traffic
delays
caused
by
so
much
construction
in
downtown
Minneapolis.
C
They
would
be
except
right
if
I
told
them
that
we
need
to
accelerate
the
pace
of
downtown
of
restaurant
inspections,
not
because
we
have
too
few
inspectors,
but
because
we're
experiencing
a
nationally-recognized
restaurant
and
hospitality
boom
they
would
be
thrilled.
We
have
worked
very
hard
for
the
problems
that
accompany
growth
in
our
city
and
we
should
take
them
as
signs
of
success.
Still
they
are
problems
and
we
get
to
solve
them.
One
of
the
basic
responsibilities
of
a
city
in
2016
and
2017
is
managing
our
growth
and
we
are
growing.
C
Our
population
grew
eight
percent
in
five
years
to
four
hundred
and
twelve
thousand
five
hundred
and
seventeen
people.
We
are
on
pace
for
our
fifth
consecutive
year
of
exceeding
1
billion
dollars
in
construction
permits.
We
have
more
people
using
our
parks
in
our
streets.
We
have
more
people
taking
advantage
of
all
that.
Minneapolis
has
to
offer
and
therefore
managing
the
growth
of
our
city
requires
more
resources.
C
Take,
for
example,
our
City
Assessor,
Patrick
Todd
and
his
team.
The
work
of
the
Assessor
is
the
front
line
of
our
growth.
They
are
responsible
for
appraising
all
of
Minneapolis
real
estate,
so
we
know
its
market
value,
which
enables
us
to
capture
fairly
the
financial
benefits
of
our
growing
city.
Our
growth
means
that
they
have
a
lot
more
work
to
do
so
today,
I
propose
a
new
lead,
appraiser
in
the
City
assessor's
office,
or
take
downtown
traffic
between
the
cranes
dotting,
the
skyline
and
our
countless
road
improvements.
C
You
may
have
noticed
that
this
can
be
an
especially
challenging
to
navigate
downtown
reminder.
We
worked
very
hard
for
this
problem,
but
it
is
a
problem
nonetheless,
so
I
propose
one
time:
funding
for
five,
more
traffic
control
agents
in
the
regulatory
services
department
that
NOAA
Schuckman
now
leads
so
well
to
help
us
ease
the
transition
to
modernize
downtown
streets
to
a
more
developed
downtown
and
the
big
events
that
we
have
reason
to
believe
Minneapolis
will
continue
to
attract
as
we
continue
to
grow.
C
Our
success
has
resulted
in
a
tightening
of
our
housing
market,
threatening
to
create
a
city
which
only
those
in
the
upper
incomes
can
afford
to
live.
The
Minneapolis
I
envision
includes
a
range
of
high
quality
housing
options,
affordable
to
people
at
all
incomes
in
every
neighborhood
in
our
city.
Over
the
past
several
decades
we
have
invested
millions
of
dollars
in
the
construction
of
new,
affordable
housing
units,
but
as
successful
as
those
investments
have
been,
we
are
losing
affordable
units
faster
than
we
can
build
them
across
our
region.
C
Existing
affordable
units
are
being
bought
by
investors
and
are
being
and
the
rents
are
being
raised.
Since
2000
Minneapolis
has
lost
10,000
units
affordable
to
the
households
with
incomes
below
forty
three
thousand
dollars
a
year
to
meet.
This
need.
I
propose
investing
more
than
14.5
million
dollars
in
affordable
housing
development
in
Minneapolis.
C
We
must
continue,
invest
in
the
construction
of
new
affordable
units,
but
if
we
choose
to
create
a
city
where
everyone
has
a
place
to
call
home,
we
have
to
preserve
the
affordability
that
we
have
it's
time
to
invest
in
the
preservation
of
naturally
occurring.
Affordable
housing
or
Noah,
as
its
called
leaders
in
the
housing
and
philanthropic
community
have
been
developing
innovative
ways
to
invest
in
the
acquisition
of
existing
affordable
market
rate
properties.
C
To
preserve
their
affordability,
I
propose
that
the
city
invest
1.5
million
dollars
in
a
Noah
strategy,
with
the
goal
of
leveraging
these
regional
opportunities
to
preserve
up
to
280,
affordable
units.
In
Minneapolis,
last
year,
I
invested
in
a
new
family
housing
initiative
focused
on
developing
affordable
units
for
large
families
at
the
lowest
income,
particularly
those
coming
out
of
shelters,
heading
home,
Hennepin
and
my
cradle
2k
cabinet
identified
this
as
one
of
the
most
urgent
needs
facing
low-income
families
in
Minneapolis.
C
C
Experiencing
homelessness
this
year,
I
propose
we
build
on
the
success
of
our
new
strategy
by
investing
in
additional
$1,000,000
in
the
family,
housing
initiative
and
councilmember
blonde
yang
has
been
working
to
find
a
solution
that
will
help
us
develop
housing
on
our
portfolio
of
vacant,
lots
with
an
eye
toward
rebuilding
the
wealth
and
communities
hit
hardest
by
the
foreclosure
crisis.
I
applaud
that
work
and
propose
investing
two
hundred
and
fifty
thousand
dollars
toward
the
eventual
recommendations
of
that
workgroup
I
also
recommend
adding
1.6
million
dollars
to
the
affordable
housing
trust
fund.
All
told.
C
Earlier
this
year,
other
local
leaders
and
I
partnered,
with
HUD
secretary
Julian
Castro,
to
launch
the
prosperity
playbook.
We
convened
regional
leaders
to
begin
aligning
housing
policies
and
investments
in
order
to
promote
housing
mobility
throughout
the
region.
The
investments
I
propose
that
we
make
in
housing
today
are
a
step
toward
fulfilling
Minneapolis
commitment
to
that
vision
and
the
Minneapolis
Fire
Department
is
also
deeply
affected
by
our
growth.
Even
as
fires
have
declined
nationally
and
locally,
our
firefighters
are
going
on
more
emergency.
Medical
and
rescue
calls
we
already
asked
much
of
our
firefighters.
C
They
do
a
difficult
and
dangerous
job.
I
know
personally
what
it
means
to
know.
Your
loved
ones
are
out
there
on
a
rake,
putting
themselves
in
harm's
way
to
make
sure
that
we
are
all
healthy
and
safe.
Our
firefighters
sign
up
to
rush
into
burning
buildings
and
put
their
lives
on
the
line.
They
do
amazing
work
and
I.
Thank
them
and
I.
Ask
you
to
join
me
in
thanking
the
firefighters
in
Minneapolis.
C
And
some
of
you
are
here
in
years
past
when
we
have
had
challenging
conversations
about
the
right
staffing
levels
for
a
fire
department
like
ours,
unlike
st.
Paul
and
other
cities
around
the
country
to
which
we
usually
compare
ourselves,
Minneapolis
doesn't
do
paramedic
runs,
we
structure
our
department
differently,
so
we've
had
a
leaner
team
than
others
and
still
been
hugely
successful
in
our
work.
But
now
we
have
hired
up
to
our
authorized
strength
of
406,
worn
firefighters,
and
still
we
are
spending
more
on
overtime
than
we
should
be.
C
C
We
cannot
say
often
enough
that
Public
Safety
is
the
most
basic
of
the
basic
services
that
a
city
provides,
but
while
it
is
basic,
it
is
also
a
dynamic
site
of
transformation.
The
transformation
of
Public
Safety
for
the
21st
century
is
not
new
work
for
the
city
of
Minneapolis.
We
have
been
at
it
for
some
years
now
we
have
a
progressive,
forward-looking
police
chief
engine,
a
heart
o
who
has
been
working
on
it
in
the
form
of
MPD
2.0
every
single
day
in
the
three
and
a
half
years
that
she
has
been
our
chief.
C
C
The
health
department
led
by
Gretchen
music
han't,
the
office
of
police
conduct,
review
and
police
conduct
oversight,
Commission
both
supported
by
the
Civil
Rights
Department,
that
is
led
by
the
horrible
and
the
office
of
emergency
management,
led
by
Barret
Lane
round
out
this
progressive
team
that
is
leading
the
country
in
delivering
21st
century
Public.
Safety
I
am
grateful
to
the
service
of
all
of
them.
Thank
you
for
your
leadership
in
this
budget.
I
invest
in
community
to
improve
public
safety
and
I,
invest
in
the
police
department
to
improve
public
trust.
C
Community
members
have
told
us
for
years
that
they
want
to
be
a
full
partner
in
the
work
of
Public
Safety,
and
it
is
a
fundamental
tenet
of
the
21st
century,
policing
that
community
capacity
to
do
collaborative
downstream
crime
prevention
must
be
strengthened.
This
budget
takes
up
the
community's
call
and
invests
in
a
number
of
community-based
strategies
to
enhance
our
Public
Safety.
To
start
I
propose
a
pilot
police,
mental
health,
CO
responder
model
based
in
the
police
department.
C
This
centralized
unit
of
officers
who
have
received
advanced
crisis
intervention
training
will
be
paired
with
two
full-time
mental
health
professionals
to
staff.
It
I
propose
three
new
police
officers
ongoing
in
this
budget.
This
pilot
is
designed
to
keep
people
who
are
experiencing
mental
health
crises
from
being
arrested
and
entering
the
criminal
justice
system.
Where
often
they
do
not
belong
and
to
provide
people
in
crisis,
with
greater
access
to
treatment
and
to
resources
when
they
are
met
by
officers
and
professionals
who
are
trained
to
respond
to
them
with
sensitivity,
understanding
and
compassion.
C
Potentially
dangerous
situations
can
be
defused,
safety
can
be
restored
and
lives
can
be
transformed
of
all
the
community-based
safety
initiatives
that
community
members
have
asked
for
the
mental
health
correspondent,
Elizabeth
Enrico.
It
is
also
a
recommendation
of
our
police
conduct.
Oversight,
Commission
and
I
am
great
I'm
excited
to
propose
it
today.
C
This
budget
also
proposes
one-time
and
ongoing
funding
for
a
group
violence,
intervention
strategy
in
the
health
department.
This
community-based
strategy
has
proven
in
other
cities
that
violence
can
be
significantly
reduced
when
a
partnership
of
community
members,
law
enforcement
and
social
service
providers
directly
engages
with
a
small
number
of
people
who
are
actively
and
deeply
involved
in
violence
and
says
to
them.
We
will
help
you
and
we
will
provide
resources
for
you
if
you
are
willing
to
change.
If
you
are
not,
we
will
hold
you
accountable.
C
I
am
eager
to
collaborate
with
community
to
pilot
this
in
Minneapolis
and
I
am
also
proposing
resources
so
that
people
in
areas
heavily
affected
by
violent
crime
can
decide
for
themselves
how
to
address
it
on
the
ground
and
not
rely
only
on
policing
in
the
city's
budget.
We
make
many
investments
in
upstream
strategies
that
help
improve
public
safety
in
the
medium
and
in
the
long
term,
workforce
development,
stable
housing,
support
for
education
and
training
and
a
number
of
others.
C
Here,
however,
I
propose
resources
for
community
members
to
choose
how
they
want
to
intervene
downstream
in
improving
Public
Safety
in
their
own
neighborhoods
and
to
implement
those
strategies.
These
resources
will
be
for
residents
and
business
owners
in
two
locations
in
our
city,
where
violent
crime
driven
by
youth
up
to
age,
24
is
high
West
Broadway,
especially
between
lyndale
and
Gerard,
and
in
little
earth
in
south
Minneapolis,
and
for
the
community-based
organizations
that
serve
them.
C
City
departments
and
outside
partners
will
make
the
resources
available
and
will
collaborate
with
community
members,
but
the
strategies
will
be
shaped
and
driven
by
residents,
business
owners
and
community-based
organizations
community
gets
to
decide
these
strategies
can
take
different
forms,
for
example,
in
the
Renier
Beach
neighborhood
of
Seattle
people
who
live
work
or
go
to
school
near
five
specific
locations
serve
on
a
community
task
force.
They
identify
the
conditions
that
contribute
to
youth
violence.
C
There
decide
what
innovation
interventions
they
want
to
make
to
stop
it
and
monitor
how
they
are
working
in
the
Watts
neighborhood
of
Los
Angeles
community
members,
including
mothers
and
grandmothers
collaborate
with
police
officers
on
the
community
safety
partnership
to
identify
threats
of
violence
and
prevent
it
before
it
starts.
This
work
has
led
to
significant
double
digit
declines
in
both
violent
crime
and
arrests.
C
These
sorts
of
community
based
and
place
paid
strategies
are
the
kinds
of
interventions
community
members
could
consider
in
the
initiative
that
I
am
proposing
today.
The
resources
available
are
both
technical
and
financial
I.
Remember
I.
Am
a
member
of
cities
United
a
coalition
of
Mayors
from
86
cities
who
focus
on
reducing
violence
in
their
cities.
Cities
United
is
eager
to
offer
technical
assistance
to
lead
community
members
through
the
process
of
developing
collaborative
downstream
strategies
at
these
two
locations
and
I
thank
cities,
United
and
Anthony
Smith,
who
leads
it
for
their
support.
C
I
also
proposed
five
hundred
thousand
dollars
one
time
in
the
2017
budget
to
implement
the
strategies
that
community
members
select
again.
These
resources
are
exclusively
for
residents
and
business
owners
of
the
two
locations
and
the
community-based
organizations
that
serve
them,
while
other
cities
are
experimenting
with
collaborative
public
safety
strategies,
I
know
of
nowhere
else
in
the
country
that
community
members
get
to
choose
how
to
deploy
the
resources
that
the
city
and
our
partners
make
available.
C
C
Enhancing
Public
Safety
for
everyone,
through
partnership
with
community,
is
one
set
of
public
safety
investments
that
I
propose
in
this
budget.
The
other
set
of
investments
I
propose
is
in
building
trust
between
community
members
and
police.
First,
this
budget
invests
significantly
in
community
policing
at
its
most
basic
community.
Policing
is
about
police
officers,
building
trust
through
building
relationships.
What
this
looks
like
is
officers
getting
out
of
cars
and
into
community
meetings,
businesses,
houses
of
worship,
barbershops
and
beauty
parlors.
C
It
looks
like
officers
spending
more
time
on
calls
really
getting
to
know
people
and
communities
and
building
real
relationships
of
familiarity,
friendship
and
trust.
The
measures
of
success
of
community
policing
are
not
officers,
making
more
arrests
or
writing
more
tickets.
Rather.
Measure
of
success
are
officers,
abilities
and
track
records
of
community
engagement,
including
the
number
of
positive
contacts
that
make
for
a
number
of
years.
A
broad
swath
of
community
members
have
asked
for
more
resources
for
community
policing.
C
Chief
harteau
has
been
reorienting
MPD
toward
community
policing
and
I
have
fully
supported
her
over
the
last
two
years
we
have
invested
in
it.
The
12
officers
that
we
have
added
to
our
authorized
strength
over
the
last
two
years
have
entirely
been
for
the
purpose
of
community
policing.
The
data
show
that
we
are
getting
results.
Positive
contacts
are
up
30
percent
over
this
time
last
year
and
92%
over
this
time.
C
C
Now
more
than
ever
before,
we
have
the
opportunity
to
transform
police
community
relations.
This
long-term
level
of
investment
in
community
policing,
when
coupled
with
community
driven
strategies
to
improve
public
safety,
will
accelerate
the
transformation
of
MPD
into
the
21st
century.
Police
Department
that
residents
business,
community
members
and
officers
all
want.
C
My
budget
also
provides
the
resources
needed
to
support
this
strength,
additional
training,
more
cadets
and
recruits,
and
yet
another
ongoing
class
for
community
service
officers.
As
I
said
two
years
ago,
when
I
funded
our
current
ongoing
CSO
class,
we
need
to
be
effective
ladders
for
people
of
color
into
our
Police
Department,
because
it
is
imperative
that
our
officers
reflect
the
communities
that
they
serve.
Cso
classes
provide
that
ladder
our
recent
classes
have
been
as
high
as
61%
people
of
color.
I
am
particularly
pleased
to
enhance
funding
for
this
critical
tool.
C
I
propose
other
investments
in
building
Community
Trust
as
well
in
the
police
department
for
the
third
year
in
a
row,
I
invest
resources
and
sir
worn
body
cameras.
Officers
have
been
wearing
body
cameras
for
more
than
a
month
and
by
mid-october
they
will
be
on
officers
in
every
precinct.
In
the
city
we
are
now
one
of
the
largest
cities
in
the
United
States
to
have
them
I.
Thank
council
members
for
your
support
over
the
last
two
years
in
our
landmark
investments
in
body
cameras
which
respond
to
years
of
community
requests.
I.
C
Also,
thank
everyone
who
participated
in
developing
our
body.
Camera
policy,
which
we
released
recently
after
much
community
consultation,
Community,
Trust
and
policing
is
also
built
when
complaints
against
police
officers
are
submitted
easily
investigated
thoroughly
and
resolved
fairly
and
in
a
timely
fashion
for
everybody.
This
budget
invests
in
an
additional
civilian
case
investigator
at
the
office
of
police
conduct
review
and
an
improvements
to
the
process
of
filing
a
complaint
about
police
misconduct,
all
told
as
budgets.
C
These
investments
build
on
those
of
the
past
several
years,
not
only
for
body
cameras
but
for
accelerated
procedural
justice
and
crisis
intervention,
training
for
all
office,
all
officers,
an
early
intervention
system,
implicit
bias,
training,
more
positions
for
community
policing,
more
pipelines
to
bring
people
of
color
into
public
safety
careers,
an
innovative
municipal,
criminal
justice
agenda
to
divert
low-level
and
first-time
offenders
when
possible.
Restorative
justice,
youth
part
without
youth,
violence,
prevention
and
more
I
know
that
there
are
those
who,
in
the
community
who,
rather
than
have
us,
invest
more
in
policing
even
for
community
policing.
C
Instead
want
us
to
disinvest
in
the
police
department.
We
need
a
police
department.
We
are
going
to
have
a
police
department.
What
we
get
to
have
is
a
21st
century,
Police
Department
that
is
rooted
in
21st
century
policing,
built
on
a
foundation
of
trust
and
dedicated
to
transforming
police
community
relations.
This
investment
in
more
officers
for
community
policing
goes
hand-in-hand
with
the
investments
that
I
pose
in
enhancing
public
safety
through
community
collaboration.
Indeed,
in
order
to
be
effective,
these
strategies
require
collaboration
and
true
partnership
with
law
enforcement.
C
I
also
acknowledge
that
we
in
Minneapolis
have
not
always
policed
in
accordance
with
these
principles.
I
acknowledge
that
our
policing
has
sometimes
done
harm
and
sown
mistrust,
particularly
in
communities
of
color,
to
acknowledge
this
is
not
to
single
out
individual
police
officers.
It
is
to
say
that,
for
too
long
we
allowed
a
culture
of
policing
to
persist
that
sometimes
caused
harm.
This
culture
hurt
everyone,
including
police
officers.
I
also
know
that
these
conversations
about
police,
community
relations,
race
and
trust
provoke
discomfort
more
specifically
provoked
discomfort
among
white
people.
C
Let
me
also
be
clear:
Minneapolis
is
leading
the
way
in
this
conversation.
I
have
talked
to
researchers,
mayor's
law
enforcement,
youth
and
community
members
from
around
the
country.
They
assure
me
that
no
other
city
in
America
is
putting
more
resources
on
the
line,
changing
more
policy
and
transforming
itself
more
fundamentally
than
we
are
in
Minneapolis
one
of
our
greatest
strengths
as
a
people
is
that
we
put
aside
our
differences
and
our
fears
to
come
together
for
the
common
good.
C
That
is
why
I
know
that
we
can
have
these
difficult
conversations,
feel
this
discomfort
and
come
through
together
to
find
it
all
come
through
it
all
together
to
find
solutions
that
benefit
all
of
us.
Yes,
change
is
hard
and
yes,
there
is
more
to
do,
but
we
are
sticking
with
it
for
the
good
and
the
humanity
of
all
of
us,
and
there
is
no
going
back
and
so
I
say
to
the
residents
of
all
neighborhoods
races,
religions,
backgrounds
genders
join
us
become
a
Minneapolis
police
officer
at
this
dynamic
moment
of
change
and
transformation.
C
Now,
more
than
ever,
we
encourage
people
who
are
from
and
dedicated
to
the
communities
we
serve
to
step
up
and
join
us
in
serving
to
be
part
of
this
transformation
in
partnership
with
community
on
the
ground
every
single
day,
and
a
final
word
to
our
current
police
officers,
I
believe
in
you
I
deeply
appreciate
the
work
that
you
do.
We
ask
you
to
respond
with
wisdom
and
courage
to
situations
where
lives
can
be
at
stake.
We
ask
you
to
respond
with
compassion
and
sensitivity
to
people
who
are
at
their
most
scared
and
vulnerable.
C
We
ask
you
to
respond
to
mainly
and
bravely
to
crises
whose
root
causes
are
far
bigger
than
any
of
us
here
in
this
room,
and
with
this
budget
I
am
investing
in
you.
I
am
investing
in
the
resources,
collaboration
and
support
that
you
need
to
do
your
jobs
effectively
more
safely
and
with
more
fulfillment.
Thank
you
for
your
service
and
for
all
that,
you
do
and
all
that
you
and
your
families
sacrifice
to
guard
our
city
and
to
keep
us
safe.
C
So
far,
you
have
heard
me
speak
of
investments
in
good
government
in
managing
our
growth
and
in
building
public
safety
and
public
trust.
You
have
not
heard
me
say
much
explicitly
about
equity,
I'm
sure
this
seems
very
odd.
In
a
speech
of
mine.
The
reason
is
simply
that
investments
in
equity
are
woven
through
this
entire
budget,
so,
for
example,
training
for
our
own
staff,
career
pathway
programs
to
diversify
our
workforce,
support
support
for
businesses
as
we
implement
the
earn,
stick
and
save
time
ordinance
our
pursuit
of
community-based
strategies
to
improve
public
safety.
C
All
of
these
are
investments
in
equity.
This
budget
builds
on
and
continues
a
strong
foundation
of
equity
investments
in
recent
years
that
are
transforming
the
work
of
the
enterprise,
the
office
of
equity
and
inclusion
in
our
city
coordinator,
Spencer
Kronk's
office,
techhire,
R
Bloomberg
supported
I
team
and
many
others
I.
Thank
you,
the
council,
for
making
these
investments.
We
are
building
equity
into
the
DNA
of
our
work
as
a
city
and,
of
course,
this
budget
does
make
some
fresh
investments
in
equity
as
well.
C
In
addition
to
what
I've
already
discussed
in
our
East
African
community
I
propose
investing
in
engaging
Somali
youth
and
creating
access
to
good
jobs
and
youth
programs
for
them
and
in
reaching
out
to
an
engaging
East,
African
folks
with
disabilities,
who
faced
multiple
challenges
and
participating
in
the
life
of
our
city
as
they
would
like,
and
I
will
pause
here
and
name
again
far
east
african
community
members,
particularly
for
people
who
are
muslim.
But
these
times
in
our
country
are
challenging
times.
C
For
you,
the
hateful
national
rhetoric
unfairly
blames
all
of
you
for
things
over
which
you
do
not
have
control
and
for
acts
committed
by
fringe
elements,
which
you
also
decry
and
deplore.
I
as
your
mayor,
and
we
as
your
cities,
stand
with
you.
I
know
that
it
is
our
charge
to
work
with
you
to
make
sure
your
community
thrives
in
the
city
of
minneapolis.
I
also
propose
funding
to
advance
the
work
of
my
brother's
keeper,
President
Obama's
initiative
to
lift
up
boys
and
men
of
color
as
core
assets
in
our
community.
C
Minneapolis
has
been
a
leading
MBK
challenge
City
for
two
years
now
and
among
our
occurred,
michaei
work
is
the
job
training,
an
anti-violence,
build
leaders,
program
with
sites
that
partner
organizations
in
North,
Minneapolis
and
in
little
earth.
Also,
we
know
that
disparities
among
children
start
early
and
widen
over
time.
Children
from
language
deprived
environments
hear
fewer
words
early
on
which
can
lead
to
significant
learning
gaps.
The
good
news
is
is
that
we
have
a
solution
and
we
can
make
our
children
not
only
smarter
but
healthier
by
talking,
reading
and
singing
to
them
from
day
one.
C
That
is
why
I
launched
the
talking
as
teaching
talk,
read
sing
campaign.
As
the
first
initiative
of
my
cradle
to
K
cabinet.
We
are
working
in
partnership
with
the
Clinton
Foundation's
to
small
to
fail
initiative
in
the
opportunity
Institute,
as
well
as
with
local
partners
that
include
the
reach
out
and
Read
program,
greater
Twin,
Cities,
United
Way
and
new
partners
like
Twin
Cities,
Public
Television
and,
of
course,
the
great
members
of
the
cradle
2k
cabinet
I
propose
resources
to
continue
this
important
work.
C
Finally,
I
do
not
want
to
give
a
major
speech
without
recognizing
the
challenges
our
chant
are
transgender
loved
ones
and
neighbors
are
facing.
So
much
has
moved
forward
in
the
LGBTQ
community
these
last
few
years,
and
we
celebrate
that,
and
yet
our
city's
transgender
issues
workgroup
rightfully
points
out
that
for
transgender
people
in
particular,
we
still
have
what
much
work
to
do
to
make
our
city
and
our
city
services
truly
welcoming
and
inclusive.
For
all.
Thank
you
to
all
the
members
of
that
group
for
your
work
and
for
your
recommendations.
C
C
It
is
a
gathering
that
has
broken
ground
in
bringing
together
the
transgender
community
and
allies
to
talk
about
how
we,
as
a
city,
can
remove
barriers
that
transgender
people
face
through
policy
and
other
changes
in
order
for
transgender
and
gender
non-conforming
residents
to
reach
their
full
Henschel
I
know
firsthand
that
this
event
can
change
lives.
One
of
my
very
own
policy
aid
began
his
journey
to
my
office
from
attending
the
first
trans
equity
summit.
C
I
have
also
made
sure
that
the
work
groups,
recommendations
about
providing
access
to
gender,
inclusive
bathrooms
and
city
buildings
have
been
moved
up
the
list
of
priorities
in
our
work,
so
it
can
be
completed
more
quickly.
It
does
not
require
new
funding,
but
it
does
require
willingness
and
action.
C
Ok,
so
now
you're
asking
Hodges,
that's
some
really
great
stuff.
How
are
we
gonna
pay
for
it?
First,
this
budget
is
built
upon
and
continues
to
follow
sound
responsible
principles
of
financial
management.
It
pays
for
ongoing
needs
like
personnel
costs,
with
ongoing
revenues
and
one-time
needs
with
one-time
dollars.
C
We
weathered
years
of
cuts
in
our
allotment
of
the
revenue
sharing
program
we
have
with
the
state
this
year,
were
it
not
for
an
error
in
the
state
legislatures
bipartisan
tax
bill.
The
city
would
have
seen
the
1.7
million
dollar
increase
in
local
government
aid
that
we
had
anticipated
in
our
2017
revenue
projections,
because
we
cannot
count
on
receiving
the
increase.
I
have
chosen
to
budget
without
the
increase
in
this.
C
In
these
considerations,
if
the
legislature
passes
a
corrected
tax
bill
that
governor
Mark
Dayton
can
sign
to
restore
next
year's
planned,
1.7
million
dollar
increase
I
recommend
that
we
apply
it
to
reducing
our
property
tax
levy.
I
would
also
like
to
take
this
opportunity
to
remind
us
all
about
the
enormous
impact
of
our
hard-fought
2011
reform
of
closed
pension
funds,
surprising
that
I
would
talk
about
reform
of
closed
pension
funds
because
we
one
reform
the
levy
I
will
propose
for
2017
is
nearly
50
million
dollars
lower
than
it
would
have
been
with
out
that
reform.
C
Since
then,
the
City
Council,
the
Park
Board
and
I
reached
a
landmark
agreement
to
fund
the
infrastructure
and
operations
of
our
neighborhood
parts
and
streets
for
the
next
20
years.
Transparently
and
equitably.
I
cannot
stress
enough
the
historic
nature
of
this
agreement.
For
many
years.
We
knew
that
the
tipping
point
was
coming
at
which
our
parks
and
streets
would
be
astronomically
more
expensive
to
repair,
if
not
beyond
repair.
We
responded
by
investing
in
our
streets
and
parks
so
that
future
generations
will
also
enjoy
our
city's
most
basic
infrastructure.
C
Under
the
leadership
of
new
Public
Works
Director
Robin
Hutchison
and
councilmember
Kevin
Wright.
We
get
to
make
sure
that
this
historic
investment
in
city
streets
is
not
only
about
rebuilding
what
we
have.
It
is
also
about
building
21st
century
infrastructure
for
all
users
I,
especially
thank
council
president
Barbara
Johnson,
council
member
John,
Quincy
and
councilmember
Lisa
Goodman
for
their
role
in
sealing
this
agreement,
as
well
as
former
park
board.
President
Liz
Wilensky
current
park
board
president
Donita
tab
and
park
superintendent
Jayne
Miller
for
their
partnership.
C
My
gratitude
also
goes
to
city
coordinator,
Spencer,
Kronk
and
chief
financial
officer
mark
ruff
for
moving
the
product.
The
process
steadily
forward
at
a
time
when
Congress
is
paralyzed
and
the
state
legislature
cannot
pass
the
most
fundamental
of
bills.
Together,
we
showed
once
again
that
in
Minneapolis
we
put
aside
whatever
differences
we
might
have
to
come
together
for
the
common
good.
C
That
historic
parks
and
streets
agreements
in
may
increase
the
baseline
levy
increase
for
2017
from
four
point.
Seven
thousand
sorry
from
three
point:
seven:
five
percent
to
four
point:
nine
percent
I've
made
the
case
to
you
today
for
the
investments
I
proposed
in
this
budget
in
good
government
in
managing
our
success
in
growing
Minneapolis
in
equity
and
in
public
safety.
As
I
said
earlier,
more
than
70
percent
of
the
new
ongoing
investments
that
I
propose
are
in
public
safety.
These
investments
are
needed
and
they
have
a
cost
to
pay
for
them.
C
First
I
have
made
significant
strategic
cuts
of
nearly
2.7
million
dollars
in
this
budget
in
order
to
fund
the
work
that
we
need
to
do.
Two
million
dollars
of
these
cuts
come
from
lower
than
anticipated
cost
for
providing
health
care
for
our
employees.
I've
also
made
an
additional
seven
hundred
thousand
dollars
in
targeted
cuts
to
five
departments
to
offset
the
cost
of
new
investments
in
those
departments.
This
2.7
million
dollars
in
cuts
represents
nearly
a
full
percent
point
on
our
property
tax
levy.
C
As
a
result,
today,
I
propose
a
five
point:
five
percent
levy
increase
for
2017.
The
point
six
percent
increment
over
the
anticipated
baseline
levy
increase
of
four
point:
nine
percent
pays
for
a
portion
of
the
public
safety
investments
that
I
propose
most,
if
not
all,
of
the
difference.
Between
the
five
point,
five
percent
levy
increase
that
I
proposed
and
the
baseline
four
point.
Nine
percent
increase
that
we
planned
on
could
be
covered
by
the
increase
in
local
government
aid
that
we
had
expected
for
next
year.
C
If
the
legislature
passes
a
corrected
tax
bill
that
Governor
Dayton
can
sign,
our
levy
increase
for
2017
could
return
close
to
our
at
the
baseline
four
point:
nine
percent.
Once
again,
if
the
LGA
increase
becomes
law,
I
recommend
we
apply
our
share
of
it
to
reducing
the
levy.
You
have
heard
me
speak
before
and
speak
often
I
think
the
whole
city
has
at
this
point
about
the
three
questions
on
my
whiteboard
that
I
asked
myself
every
day.
How
does
this
make
the
city
run?
C
C
This
budget
shows
that
more
and
more
all
three
of
them
can
be
answered
with
the
same
investments
in
good
government
in
growth
and
public
safety,
investments
that
all
work
together
to
move
the
dial
on
equity,
growing,
the
city
and
managing
its
growth
and
running
the
basics
of
it.
Well,
we
need
not
make
trade-offs
between
them.
Madam
president,
and
councilmembers
Minneapolis
is
leading
the
way
in
transforming
the
fundamentals
of
city
government
in
the
21st
century.
Today
we
get
to
take
those
next
steps
along
this
journey
together.
C
A
Thank
You
Man
Amir
motion
to
refer
the
mayor's
proposed
2017
budget,
the
Ways
and
Means
Subcommittee
is
in
order
so
moved
circuit,
consumer
Quincy,
councilman,
wouldn't
move
councilmember,
Quincy
seconded
and
councilmember
Quincy
will
be
announcing
I'm
sure
in
short
order.
The
budget
hearings
that
will
be
as
part
of
this
budget
process
and,
of
course,
people
are
encouraged
to
attend
and
departments
will
present
them
and
we'll
discuss
so
again.
Thank
you
very,
very
much
mayor
and
with
that,
the
motion
is
approved.