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From YouTube: June 23, 2016 Intergovernmental Relations
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Minneapolis Intergovernmental Relations Committee Meeting
A
Good
afternoon
I'm
calling
to
order
a
regularly
scheduled
meeting
of
the
intergovernmental
relations
committee.
My
name
is
Elizabeth
glidden
and
the
chair
of
this
committee
and
I'm
joined
today
by
council
members
were
Sami
fry
and
Connor.
When
we
are
a
quorum
of
this
committee,
we
have
two
items
on
our
discussion
agenda
today.
The
first
is
a
city
clerk
presentation
on
petition
to
amend
the
city
charter,
police,
professional
liability
insurance.
The
second
is
our
regular
item,
which
is
verbal
reports
from
intergovernmental
relations
department,
on
federal
state
and
local
legislative
updates.
B
Afternoon,
vice
president
glib
members
of
the
committee,
my
name
is
casey
carlin
of
the
privilege
of
serving
a
city
clerk
for
the
city
of
minneapolis
and,
as
noted,
I
am
here
to
present
the
results
of
our
review
of
a
petition
to
amend
the
city
charter
pursuant
to
the
provisions
of
minnesota
statutes
section
for
10.1
to
subdivision
3
and
under
that
enabling
statute,
a
petition
to
amend
a
home
rule
charter
must
be
signed
by
a
number
of
registered
voters.
That's
equal
to
at
least
five
percent
of
the
total
votes
cast
in
the
last
general
state
election.
B
The
last
statewide
general
election
was
the
2014
gubernatorial
election,
in
which
a
total
of
one
hundred
thirty-seven
thousand
three
hundred
sixty
two
ballots
were
cast
in
Minneapolis.
Based
on
that
total,
any
such
petition
must
include
the
signatures
of
at
least
6869
registered
Minneapolis
voters
to
be
deemed
sufficient
under
the
statute.
This
particular
petition
was
submitted
by
the
committee
for
professional
policing
through
its
chair,
Dave
picking,
who
is
with
us
today.
The
Charter
Commission
formally
accepted
that
petition
at
a
special
meeting
held
on
monday
jun,
13
and
transmitted
the
petition
to
the
city
for
validation.
B
B
While
staff
is
distributing
copies
of
the
report,
I'd
like
to
take
a
moment
to
recognize
and
thank
the
team
that
worked
diligently
to
review
and
verify
this
petition,
the
petition
encompassed
14,600
two
signatures
spread
across
1529
individual
pages
and,
as
you
might
imagine,
reviewing
and
verifying
all
of
those
signatures
was
a
difficult
task.
The
processing
team
was
very
able,
led
by
assistant
city
clerk,
Christian
Rummel
Hoth,
with
the
assistance
of
James
covee
from
the
offices,
elections
and
voter
services
division.
B
The
processing
teams
included
the
following
members:
Eric
Jeffries
burns
Bruce
nørgaard
Samantha
Greg
Greg
Munson,
Julie
cell
Maddy
Norgard,
go
biomed,
John
Martin,
grant
johnson,
daniel
dawson
and
marina
campbell
vargas
over
the
course
of
the
past
10
days.
These
processing
teams
performed
multiple
checks
to
carefully
assess
each
signature,
included
in
the
petition
against
the
rules
of
registered
voters
provided
to
us
by
the
office
of
Secretary
of
State.
B
The
petition
encompasses
a
total
of
fourteen
thousand
six
hundred
two
signatures
and
of
these
staff
was
able
to
verify
a
total
of
six
thousand
three
hundred
sixty
that's
a
difference
of
509
valid
signatures
or
about
seven
percent
short
of
the
minimum
threshold
required
by
statute.
On
the
second
page
of
the
report
that's
been
provided
to.
You
is
a
summary
that
identifies
the
defects
that
we
discovered
in
our
review
of
the
petition
and
again,
the
original
petition
include
a
total
of
fourteen
thousand
six
hundred
two
signatures
of
those.
B
A
total
of
four
thousand
four
hundred
eighty-seven
signatures
could
not
be
matched
to
the
name
and
address
of
a
registered
voter
based
on
the
Minneapolis
registered
voter
list
that
was
provided
to
us
by
the
Secretary
of
State's
office.
A
total
of
3628
signatures
were
crossed
out
either
by
petitioners
or
by
the
signatories,
and
therefore
could
not
be
included
in
the
final
count.
B
There
were
87
signatures
that
were
invalidated
because
they
were
duplicates
and,
finally,
a
total
of
forty
signatures
were
on
pages
that
required
an
affidavit
that
was
not
signed
or
where
the
petition
page
was
not
notarized
that
left
a
total
of
six
thousand
360
signatures.
That
staff
was
able
to
validate
these
details
are
captured
in
the
summary
that's
provided
on
page
three
of
the
report,
and
I
should
note
here.
Madam
vice
president,
there
are
extra
copies
with
the
clerk
here.
B
We
just
literally
got
this
off
of
the
printing
press
this
morning,
so
not
everyone
in
the
audience
has
them.
We
will
be
posting.
The
report
to
the
website
after
this
meeting
is
adjourned,
but
there
are
extra
copies
there
for
those
who
are
in
the
chamber
who
would
like
one
I
would
like
to
be
very
clear.
The
city
was
lenient
and
its
evaluation
of
the
petition
when
the
teams
encountered
typos
or
transpositions
in
the
digits
of
street
addresses,
but
we
were
able
to
verify
the
identity
of
the
signatory
through
other
means.
B
We
validated
that
signature
and
this
additional
effort
helped
to
strengthen
the
petition.
For
example,
in
reviewing
the
original
petition,
there
were
87
separate
instances
which
prompted
questions
about
the
validity
of
a
signature.
However,
because
there
was
no
clear
means
to
disqualify
that
signature,
we
accepted
70
of
those
instances
as
valid
and
only
disqualified
17
of
the
original
87.
B
Following
our
completion
of
the
initial
review,
the
processing
teams
that
went
back
and
conducted
a
series
of
random
audits
to
verify
the
accuracy
of
our
assessment
of
the
entire
petition
out
of
160
separate
individual
signature
audits.
The
team
was
able
to
identify
only
one
single
error,
and
this
was
a
judgment
call
where
the
address
had
a
variance
in
its
number
from
the
roster
that
was
provided
by
the
Secretary
of
State.
B
So
if
we
extrapolate
those
audit
results
to
the
entire
population
of
this
petition,
we
found
significantly
less
than
a
one
percent
error
rate
and
are
therefore
confident
in
our
findings
that
they
are
conclusive.
I
will
also
note
that
the
report
includes
a
copy
of
mr.
Rummel
Hoffs
log
notes
as
the
supervisor
of
the
petition
processing
team.
These
log
notes
reflect
the
activities
of
the
processing
team
for
each
day
during
the
10-day
review
period,
including
all
major
incidents
and
issues
that
were
raised
and
addressed
as
part
of
the
assessment
of
that
petition.
B
The
supervisors
log
runs
from
page
4
through
page
9
of
the
report,
and
it's
followed
by
a
line
by
line
description
of
the
defects
discovered
in
the
petition,
which
runs
pages
10
through
134.
A
code
is
provided
in
the
footer
of
each
of
those
pages
that
shows
the
classification
of
each
of
the
identified
errors,
and
a
copy
of
the
full
report
again
will
be
linked
to
the
agenda
after
this
meeting
adjourned.
Madam
vice
president,
is
a
consequence
of
these
findings.
B
The
petition
in
its
present
condition,
cannot
be
certified
as
sufficient
and
cannot
proceed
at
this
time.
The
enabling
statute
does,
however,
provide
the
petitioners
with
the
option
of
amending
their
original
petition
to
address
these
defects
by
filing
a
supplemental
petition
with
enough
signatures
from
registered
Minneapolis
voters.
That
would
satisfy
the
minimum
number
of
required
signatures
in
order
to
validate
the
petition.
If
the
petitioners
choose
to
pursue
that
option,
the
Supplemental
petition
would
need
to
be
submitted
to
the
city
clerk
by
no
later
than
July.
B
B
Council
staff
has
prepared
both
an
electronic
and
a
printed
copy
of
this
report,
together
with
a
copy
of
the
original
petition,
with
each
signature
line,
annotated
to
show
whether
it
was
accepted
and
validated
or
whether
it
was
rejected,
and
why,
as
already
indicated,
that
statute
does
provide
an
opportunity
for
the
committee
to
cure
the
original
petition
and
I
fully
expect
that
the
committee
will
avail
themselves
of
option
and
we'll
be
back
reporting
to
you
on
the
results
of
the
Supplemental
petition
in
the
next
few
weeks.
I
have
the
entire
petition
here
with
me
and.
A
A
Thank
you.
I
know
that
at
least
one
council
member
has
questions,
I'm
sure
others
may
I
just
wanted
to
say.
I
have
not
been
on
the
council.
The
only
other
petition
process
was
one
that
didn't
fully
make
it
to
the
council
during
my
time,
which
was
my
choice.
Voting
and
so
I
have
actually
never
been
here
when
the
clerk's
office
was
part
of
this
procedure
to
verify
and
certify
the
results
and
I.
Just
this
is
a
highly
organized.
An
amazing
amount
of
work.
I
just
want
to
say
thank
you
very
much
to
a
large
team.
A
C
Thank
you,
madam
chair,
so
I
am
also
very
impressed
with
the
the
amount
of
work
and
an
organization
that
has
gone
into
this
just
flipping
through
this
book
quickly.
Here
so
I
appreciate
you.
Sharing
this
information
with
us.
I
have
a
question
about
the
it
in
what
I'm.
Looking
at
the
numbers
here
now,
I'm
looking
at
page
3,
where
we
talked
about
the
total
number
of
signatures
that
were
submitted
as
15,000
and
some
the
once-over
valid
were
66,000
and
some
with
509
short
signatures
to
meet
the
threshold.
That
is
needed.
C
B
Glidden
councilmember
Cano
under
the
statute,
each
page
of
the
petition
must
be
signed
by
a
member
of
the
committee.
That's
submitting
the
petition
and
that
signature,
not
the
signatures
of
the
people,
finding
that
the
signature
of
the
petition
carrier
has
to
be
notarized.
That's
part
of
the
affidavit,
that's
on
the
back
of
each
page,
and
so,
if
one
of
the
pages
did
not
carry.
D
C
I
see
and
the
largest
categories
here
of
signatures
that
were
disqualified
was
lying
crusts
off
on
paper
petition,
which
is
3,000
and
some
and
then
not
found
in
the
Minneapolis
registered
voter
list,
which
was
almost
three
thousand
two
thousand
nine
hundred
and
some
so
for
the
now
found
in
Minneapolis
registered
voter
list.
Is
that
mostly
based
on
you
typing
in
or
somebody
typing
in
somebody's
name
into
a
database
and
seeing
if
their
name
pops
up
and
what,
if
we
typed
in
the
name
wrong
or
what?
C
B
Vice
president,
the
details
of
this-
if
the
committee
wants
to
get
to
that
granular
level,
I
will
let
the
petitioner
supervising
team
speak
to
my
understanding
of
the
way
the
process
works
and
as
I
observed
it
during
the
10-day
period,
was
that
the
petition
processing
teams
were
working
with
the
database
provided
to
us
by
the
secretary
of
state
that
has
those
registered
voters
that
live
in
Minneapolis
as
of
the
date
that
that
database
was
provided
to
us.
The
database
changes
every
day
as
motors
are
added
as
registered
or
taken
out.
B
So
we
have
a
point
in
time
against
which
we
validate
the
petition.
The
petition
teams
would
enter
in
last
names.
First
names
addresses
and
search
to
find
anyone
that
matched
the
petition
signatory.
So
sometimes
people
might
use
an
initial
instead
of
writing
out.
For
example,
Casey
Joe
Carly
might
have
signed
it.
Cj
Carl
I
might
have
transposed
the
number
my
address,
but
if
we
had
a
way
of
going
through
that
petition
and
verifying
that
well,
CJ
Carl
living
at
this
address
is
probably
case
Carl.
B
We
would
allow
that
so
we
gave
great
leniency
in
towards
counting,
but
if,
for
example,
at
my
home
address,
they
had
someone
Joe
Smith
that
clearly
was
not
the
registered
voter
on
the
log,
and
so
we're
a
name
or
an
address
were
incorrect.
We
couldn't
count
that
where
it
was
missing
incorrect
or
illegible,
we
had
to
disqualify
that
if
they
weren't
found
in
the
registered
database,
that's
given
to
us
by
the
Secretary
of
State,
which
was
the
almost
3,000,
then
we
had
to
invalidate
those
as
well.
B
C
B
Madam
vice
president,
they
have
ten
days
under
the
statute
and
they
would
have
to
submit
an
amended
or
supplemental
filing
with
at
least
five
hundred
nine.
So
509
is
the
number
to
get
us
to
the
required
6869
signatures.
The
totals
five
percent,
so
very
close
I
think
I
mentioned
there
within
seven
percent
of
the
total
needed
to
validate
the
petition
to
move
forward.
Thank.
A
B
And
because
we
can't
certify,
there's
no
action
other
than
to
receive
it
at
this
point
and
then
my
understanding.
So
thank
you
for
the
chance.
This
is
a
good
chance
to
be
transparent
in
the
next
steps.
Assuming
that
the
committee
for
professional
policing,
the
petition
carrier
in
this
instance
does
wish
to
cure
the
petition
and
get
the
at
least
509
signatures
or
more
and
submit
those
by
july,
five,
the
city
once
that
submitted,
have
five
days
to
validate
those
additional
signatures.
B
B
A
D
A
D
State
level,
madam
sure,
we
have
nothing
definitive
to
report
we're
still
waiting
to
see
among
the
discussions
between
the
governor
and
legislative
leadership
and
next
week
the
governor
I
think
is
going
to
be
out
of
the
country
in
Croatia.
So
if
nothing
happens,
soon
is
probably
going
to
be
early
July
before
we
hear
anything
else.
Okay,.