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Description
Minneapolis Public Health, Environment, Civil Rights, and Engagement Committee Meeting
A
Good
afternoon,
I
am
going
to
call
to
order
this
meeting
of
the
public
health
environment,
civil
rights
and
engagement
committee
for
Monday
August,
6
2018.
My
name
is
Philippe
Cunningham
and
I
am
the
chair
of
this
committee
with
me
at
the
Dyess,
our
council,
members,
trainer,
Gordon,
Johnson
and
council
vice-president
Jenkins,
please
let
the
record
reflect.
We
have
a
quorum,
also
want
to
say
thank
you
to
our
Clerk
Peggy
and
our
assistant
city
attorney
Andrea.
So
thank
you
for
being
here
and
for
all
your
hard
work.
A
So
today,
on
our
consent
agenda
agenda,
we
have
two
items.
The
first
is
authorizing
the
submit
all
of
an
application
to
Bloomberg
philanthropies
American
cities,
climate
challenge,
selected
cities
will
be
accepted
into
a
two-year
acceleration
program
to
support
meaning
near-term
carbon
reduction
goals,
and
the
second
is
accepting
a
grant
from
the
Minnesota
justice
foundation
in
the
amount
of
$4,500
for
participation
in
Minnesota
justice
Foundation's
summer
law
clerk
program
due
committee
members
have
any
questions
all
right.
Seeing
none
I
move
approval
of
the
consent
agenda.
A
All
those
in
favor
of
the
motion
please
signify
by
saying
aye
aye,
those
opposed
say.
No,
the
eyes
have
it
and
that
item
is
approved.
Our
first
discussion
item
we
have,
let's
see
we
to
discussion
items
today.
The
first
that
we
have
is
the
mini
city
of
Minneapolis,
City
Academy
for
youth
presentation,
Katie,
it
won't
warming.
Her
urban
scholar
in
the
neighborhood
and
Community
Relations
Department
will
be
giving
today's
presentation
come
on
up
to
the
podium
and
say
your
new
record.
Please.
B
Good
afternoon
my
name
is
Katie
woman
and
I
am
an
urban
scholar
working
for
the
neighborhood
and
community
relations
department.
Today,
I
will
be
giving
a
presentation
on
the
City
Academy
for
youth
to
be
received
and
filed
for
discussing
the
city
academy
for
youth
I
want
to
give
everyone
a
brief
overview
of
the
City
Academy
in
2012.
The
City
Academy
was
created
by
neighborhood
and
community
relations
for
Minneapolis
residents,
who
were
who
were
18
years
or
older.
B
Three
main
purposes
for
this
Academy
were
to
educate
residents
and
city
government,
develop
future
leadership
and
allows
staff
to
hear
resident
opinions.
The
City
Academy
is
five
sessions,
long
with
one
session
being
held
each
week
to
engage
residents
in
this
Academy
that
had
presentations
and
tours
from
various
departments
with
topics
ranging
from
how
your
house
is
assessed
to
three
room
3-1-1
along
with
that
participants
got
a
tour
of
the
water
plant
and
fires
fire
services.
Now
the
City
Academy
is
held
each
fall
along
with
the
City
Academy
NCR
is
piloting.
B
Ages
18
to
24,
according
to
the
graph
in
2016,
about
14%
of
residents
in
Minneapolis,
were
ages
18
to
24,
while
only
2%
of
his
age
pool
were
found
on
these
boards.
Therefore,
by
designing
this
Academy
specifically
for
youth,
we
hope
that
it
serves
out
an
entry
as
an
entry
point
to
those
who
want
to
get
further
involved
with
their
government.
B
Moving
forward
for
the
City
Academy
will
be
held
over
one
week,
August
20th
to
the
24th.
The
cost
of
this
program
is
free,
as
well
as
transportation.
By
providing
bus
tokens
to,
they
will
be
able
to
take
the
public
transportation
to
and
from
at
City
Hall,
and
this
isn't
hope
to
eliminate
transportation
as
a
barrier
to
attend.
The
Academy
each
session
will
last
two
and
a
half
hours
long
starting
at
noon.
In
ending
at
2:30.
This,
the
sessions
will
begin
with
the
lunch
and
then
presentations
will
follow.
B
However,
I
want
to
note
these
presentations
will
not
be
ordinary
presentations
where
one
person
is
speaking
and
the
audience
is
listening
before
the
Academy
begins.
I
will
have
met
with
every
presenter
to
ensure
their
presentations
are
engaging
in
and
have
questions
opening
for
youth
to
create
it
more
like
a
conversation
for
them.
Moving
forward,
I
will
briefly
discuss
the
outline
for
the
City
Academy
for
youth,
as
I
stated
before,
there
will
be
five
sessions
each
with
their
own
topics.
B
The
first
session
will
include
general
government
and
presentations,
we'll
have
the
City
Attorney's
Office
finance,
Minneapolis
parks
and
recreation
in
public
works.
The
second
session
will
include
presentations
from
CPD
civil
rights
and
step-up,
and
their
topics
will
include
affordable
housing
and
employment
opportunities
for
youth.
The
third
session
will
entail
9-1-1
and
police.
A
portion
of
this
presentation
will
include
an
open
forum
for
youth
to
have
the
ability
to
ask
questions.
They
typically
won't
get
answered.
The
fourth
session
will
include
the
health
department.
B
B
Moving
forward.
I
will
give
you
a
brief
overview
of
the
steps
I
took
in
designing
and
organizing
the
City
Academy
for
youth
to
begin
my
process,
I
reviewed
the
city
can
me,
after
reviewing
the
City
Academy
I
noticed,
there's
three
main
items
I
needed
to
address
and
tailor
it
to
make
it
better
for
youth.
First
were
some
of
the
presentations.
Although
the
presentations
were
great,
how
is
guinere
learning
about
how
your
house
is
assessed
and
learning
more
about
three
MO?
B
One
is
not
exactly
fit
for
you,
so
instead,
that's
when
I
chose
to
replace
with
the
health
department.
Second
was
retention.
After
reviewing
the
sign,
she's
I
saw
that
retention
decline.
Incredibly,
it
was
clear
that
the
participants
could
not
fully
commit
to
five
sessions
over
five
weeks
with
that
I
decided
to
create
the
seed
Academy
for
youth
over
one
week
and
with
the
city
officials
the
meet
and
greet
hoping
that
will
incentivize
participation
and
then
third
was
transportation.
B
Following
that,
I
was
able
to
meet
with
various
departments
I
and
discuss
information
that
they
thought
would
be
valuable
to
teach
youth.
After
discussing
with
those
departments,
I
was
able
to
create
an
outline
for
the
city.
Tag
me
for
youth.
Once
that
outline
was
created,
I
was
ready
to
receive
feedback
from
youth
first
I
presented
at
the
Minneapolis
using
Coordinating
Board.
There
I
was
able
to
gain
valuable
feedback
from
topics
and
departments.
They
thought
were
going
to
be
interested.
B
Some
topics
they
brought
up
were
mental
health,
affordable
housing
and
what
to
look
for
when
you're,
first
trying
to
own
or
rent
after
having
their
feedback
I
was
able
to
reconstruct
this
or
reconstruct
the
outline
and
create
it
to
a
certainly,
then
I
was
ready
to
begin.
My
youth
focus
groups.
Majority
of
the
participants
from
these
youth
focus
groups
were
teen
teamworks,
a
program,
an
employment
and
education
program
for
youth,
ages,
14
and
18,
sponsored
by
Minneapolis,
Parks
and
Recreation.
B
These
focus
groups
played
a
very
crucial
role
in
the
development
of
the
City
Academy
for
youth.
By
talking
with
youth,
I
was
not
only
able
just
to
see
what
they
were
interested
in,
but
I
was
also
able
to
hear
and
learn
more
of
the
questions
that
they
were
interested
in.
With
that
information,
I
was
able
to
relay
back
to
our
presenters
to
help
them
really
structure
their
presentation
and
understand
the
perspective
of
where
these
youth
are
coming
from.
B
Moving
along
I
will
we
discuss
the
youth
survey.
I
took
the
survey
this.
The
survey
given
to
youth
entailed
six
departments
and
had
about
20
different
topics.
Overall,
from
that,
you
will
see
the
top
five
topics
from
the
survey
and
they
were
financials
of
Minneapolis
Parks
and
Recreation
US
bank
and
Target
Center
Minneapolis
is
youth
employment
opportunities,
youth
violence,
prevention
and
procedures
and
protocols
for
please
these
results
for
the
survey
help
me
indicate
which
topics
were
the
most
important
and
interesting
to
youth.
B
Another
element
that
I
was
able
to
grasp
from
at
the
survey
was
understanding
the
way
youth
communicate
and
learn
about
events,
one
major
communication
that
they
have
a
snapchat,
a
social
media
platform
that
the
city
currently
does
not
use.
After
speaking
with
the
communication
department,
I
was
informed
that
snapchat
is
just
not
reliable
due
to
data
to
to
data
retention
issues.
However,
in
order
to
still
catch
youth,
the
youth
attention
with
snapchat
I
was
able
to
put
a
QR
code
at
the
bottom
right
hand
corner
of
the
flyer.
B
As
of
August
1st,
the
City
Academy
for
youth
has
been
open
for
registration.
Our
communication
began
small
by
opening
up
to
NCR
staff
and
other
programs,
such
as
one
Minneapolis
fund
and
the
safety
strategy
and
collaborative
safety
strategies
strategies
about
20
organizations.
This
was
intended
to
allow
youth
who
are
underrepresented
in
other
established
programs
to
register.
Then
on
Friday,
the
communication
went
through
the
normal
channels.
The
city
uses
along
with
teen
team,
works,
step
up
and
the
Minneapolis
youth
Coordinating
Board.
A
C
D
Thank
you
very
much
for
all
your
work
and
initiative
on
this
and
getting
it
going.
I
think
this
is
significant.
I
really
appreciated
the
problems
you
outlined
at
the
beginning,
Oh
difficult.
It
is
for
us
to
get
youth
on
our
boards
and
commissions
and
I.
Think
that's
a
key
age
group.
It's
often
missing
I.
C
D
Actually,
it
might
be
something
for
us
to
consider
at
some
point
is
just
holding
a
seat
for
people
who
are
24
and
under
on
all
our
boards
and
commissions.
That
does
create
people
wonder
about
to
be
holding
seats
for
other
groups
and
I
know
that
I
haven't
got
a
whole
lot
of
traction
on
that,
but
the
more
we
keep
getting
our
information
about
who's
already
on
the
boards.
I
think
people
will
realize
that
I
believe.
E
D
Are
actually
a
couple
boards
and
commissions
the
way
they're
set
up?
They
do
preserve
seeds
for
youth
and
I.
Think
that's
something
to
think
about
too.
Maybe
it's
even
more
important
on
some
boards
and
others,
but
what
good
will
that
do
it
for
preserving
seats
nobody's
even
applying
I'm
wanting
to
and
understanding
it,
so
this
kind
of
thing
is
so
fantastic
because
it
will
get
them
involved
and
in
fact
now
at
this
point,
I
think
I
want
to
see
how
amazingly
successful
this
Academy
is
because
maybe
we'll
have
so
many
people
applying.
E
D
B
D
B
F
A
So
thank
you
for
the
time
that
you
clearly
put
into
not
only
thinking
about
all
of
the
details
of
what
this
looks
like
and
making
sure
that
youth
voice
is
centered
in
shaping
the
content,
but
then
also
the
way
that
you
translated
that
to
us
here,
topknot
so
great
work,
so
I'm
curious.
What
is
the
maximum
amount
of
students
that
can
register
currently.
B
A
A
Thank
you.
I
also
just
want
to
say
to
my
colleagues
as
well
as
to
city
staff,
as
we
are
talking
about
being
more
inclusive
of
young
folks,
particularly
18,
to
24
that
you
know
we
we
want
to
save,
potentially
save
seats
for
them,
but
we
want
to
make
sure
that
we're
not
bringing
you
voices
into
tokenize
or
to
be
decoration
like
look.
A
We
have
now
a
higher
level
of
representation,
but
yet
young
folks
actually
do
not
have
influence
or
are
empowered
in
that
space,
and
so
we
have
to
make
sure
that
we're
thinking
and
really
pushing
our
boards
and
commissions
to
actually
be
more
youth
inclusive
and
be
able
to
see
that
young
people
bring
a
very
valuable
analysis
to
the
table
that
we
don't
have
currently.
So.
A
Thank
you
so
much
for
helping
us
think
through
how
to
bridge
that
gap
in
terms
of
bringing
folks
in
and
I
hope
that
the
more
folks
we
bring
in
the
more
the
culture
will
shift,
and
so
it's
folks
like
you
who
help
get
that
ball
rolling.
So
thank
you
so
much
for
your
presentation
and
seeing
no
further
questions
for
my
colleagues.
I
move
to
receive
and
file
this
presentation,
all
those
in
favor,
please
signify
by
saying
aye
aye,
those
opposed
say
no,
the
eyes
have
it,
and
that
item
is
approved.
A
Thank
you
so
much
for
that.
Next,
we
have
next
week.
I
think
I
may
have
said
that
there
were
two
discussion
items
before,
but
there
were
actually
three.
So
our
second
discussion
items
is
the
healthy
living
initiative,
presentation,
patty,
bowler,
director
of
policy
and
community
programs
and
Laura
Pratt.
The
healthy
living
manager,
both
in
our
health
department
here,
will
be
giving
the
presentation
I
want
to
add
that
this
is
a
part
of
the
presentation
schedule
that
we
have
as
a
committee.
A
That
is
intentional
about
bringing
forward
all
of
the
various
things
that
are
happening
throughout
the
departments
that
report
to
this
committee.
We
have
the
health
department,
we
have
sustainability,
we
have
civil
rights
as
well
as
neighborhood
and
community
relations,
and
so
you
want
to
make
sure
that
folks,
both
my
colleagues
as
well
as
the
community,
are
well
informed
about
all
the
various
bodies
of
work
that
are
happening
and
how
passionate
we
have.
How
passionate
our
city
staff
are
that
work
here,
so
so
I
will
now
be
turning
over
to
miss
bowler.
E
Chair
Cunningham
and
members
of
the
committee,
thank
you
for
that.
Wonderful
introduction
really
appreciate
it.
Laura
and
I
are
going
to
about
our
healthy
living
initiative
and
before
I,
get
started
on
the
PowerPoint
I'd
wanted
to
draw
your
attention
to
this
piece.
Hopefully
you
have
a
copy
of
it,
and
this
I
believe
will
also
go
on
our
website
as
well
for
public
consumption
and
it's
a
really
good
overview
of
our
healthy
living
work.
E
In
order
to
understand
the
healthy
living
work.
We
need
to
look
at
the
disparities
in
chronic
disease
in
Minneapolis,
and
so
this
graph
here
shows
Minneapolis
deaths
from
chronic
disease
per
population
group
over
a
five-year
period,
and
it
shows
all
chronic
disease
and
also
premature
deaths
before
age
65
for
the
population
groups
and
as
you
can
see,
there
are
big
differences
between
the
white
population
and
populations
of
color
and
the
American
Indian
groups.
E
A
If
I
can
jump
in
really
quick
within
this
definition
of
chronic
disease
is
Addiction
included.
I.
E
Should
well
within
what
we
work
on
not
so
much
most
likely
chronic
disease
is
our
addiction
is
included
in
the
big
umbrella
of
chronic
disease,
but
I'm
gonna
talk
specifically
about
what
we're
focused
on
not.
E
E
You,
council
member,
the
drivers
of
chronic
disease
are
largely
preventable.
Health
behaviors,
including
poor
nutrition,
physical
activity,
inactivity
tobacco
use
and
exposure,
as
well
as
the
underlying
social
conditions
of
health,
and
so
to
your
point,
we
focus
mainly
on
the
chronic
conditions
on
the
slide.
E
E
Our
approach
is
mainly
through
changing
policy
systems
and
the
broader
environment,
but
we
also
focus
on
working
through
our
partners
with
individuals
to
help
them
adopt
and
maintain
healthier
behaviors.
We
work
in
a
variety
of
settings
such
as
schools,
work
sites,
health
care,
clinics
and
neighborhoods,
and
we
have
many
many
partners
and
it's
really
through
partners
that
we
get
this
work
done.
So
we
have
contractual
partners
and
also
informal
partnerships
throughout
the
city,
and
we
really
need
to
rely
on
their
expertise,
their
cultural
know
how
their
relationships
to
do
the
healthy
living
projects.
E
We
play
a
variety
of
roles
at
the
health
department.
Sometimes
we're
funders
for
convenors
or
supporters,
we're
drivers
of
projects,
and
we
work
closely
with
other
city
departments
such
as
Public,
Works
and
cpad,
to
get
the
work
done
as
well
to
achieve
shared
goals.
But
I
wanted
to
say
that,
because
our
work
is
focused
on
policy
change,
we
really
see
the
City
Council
as
a
key
partner.
E
So
I
wanted
to
let
you
know
that
this
work
is
all
grant
funded
and
it's
really
been
that
way.
Since
the
beginning,
we
currently
have
about
an
investment
of
1.5
million
dollars
per
year
to
do
this,
work,
we're
really
fortunate
and
that
we've
had
state
health
improvement,
partnership
or
shift
dollars
since
2009,
and
we've
also
received
three
federal
grants
since
about
2012
were
just
wrapping
up
a
federal
grant
called
the
community
hell.
E
A
E
Was
the
grant
the
grants
a
federal
grant,
it
will
end
in
September
of
2019
and
that
represent
II,
18
I'm,
sorry,
and
that
represents
the
67%
cut
to
our
overall
budget.
We
knew
about
that.
It's
not
you
know.
The
grant
is
not
being
pulled
early,
it's
just
ending
but
and
we're
gonna
circle
back
to
that,
a
little
bit
later
on
in
the
presentation.
Okay,.
G
Committee,
chair
Cunningham
and
council
members,
I
am
Larry,
Pratt
and
I
have
had
the
honor
of
managing
the
healthy
living
initiative
for
the
last
twelve
years.
I
so
I'm,
going
to
tell
you
about
our
projects
and
I
would
love
to
describe
every
single
one
of
them
outlined
in
this
brochure,
but
it
would
take
me
too
long,
so
I'm
just
gonna
focus
on
a
handful
that
really
illustrate
some
of
our
partnerships
and
approaches.
G
So
when
possible,
we've
tried
to
layer
our
focus
areas,
physical
activity,
healthy
eating,
tobacco
control
and
quality
health
care
in
one
place,
and
we
do
this
because
there
is
no
magic
bullet
for
chronic
disease.
We
need
to
address
all
of
its
drivers
to
make
a
difference.
So
schools
are
a
great
example
where
we
do
this.
We
have
a
long
time
funding
partnership
with
Minneapolis
Public
Schools.
Together
we
have
launched
weekly
bus,
stop
and
walk
initiatives
at
sixteen
schools
reaching
an
average
of
four
thousand
students.
G
Also
going
to
talk
about
our
public
housing
work
since
2013,
we
have
partnered
with
the
Minneapolis
public
housing
authority
and
the
Minneapolis
high-rise
representatives
Council
to
improve
opportunities
for
healthy
eating,
physical
activity
and
chronic
disease,
self-management
and
12
high-rise
buildings,
and
this
is
affecting
1,700
residents.
We
have
conducted
walking
audits
to
identify
opportunities
to
improve
pedestrian
safety
around
the
buildings
and
shepherded
some
recommendations
through
Public
Works
and
some
other
City
committees
to
make
some
changes.
G
We've
started
over
10
community
gardens
partnered
with
the
Twin
Cities
mobile
market
to
bring
affordable,
groceries
directly
to
residents
we're
working
on
Healthy
Vending
in
the
buildings,
because,
surprisingly,
and
sadly,
vending
machines
are
a
key
source
of
meals
for
many
residents
and
collectively
these
activities
have
increased
access
to
healthy
amenities
in
the
building.
And
while
access
is
a
necessary
component
to
health,
it
is
not
sufficient,
as
some
residents
really
struggle
to
and
manage
hypertension
and
diabetes,
and
so
to
help
the
individuals.
G
We
have
helped
Volunteers
of
America
set
itself
up
to
build
for
Medicaid
bill
Medicaid
for
those
services
and
I
share
this
example,
because
it
illustrates
how
our
partnership
with
mPHA
and
the
high-rise
representative
council
really
leverage
the
best
of
what
we
each
have
to
offer.
The
health
department
brings
its
public
health,
expertise
and
connections
to
other
city
departments
and
other
entities
in
the
community,
and
they
bring
their
strong
trusted
relationships
with
residents
and
their
insider
knowledge
of
how
to
get
things
done.
G
It
also
shows
our
value
of
community
and
resident
engagement
residents
serve
on
an
active
living
advisory
committee
that
we
Co
can
gain
with
the
high-rise.
Rep
reduce
representatives
council
and
these
residents
are
really
guiding
and
deciding
what
is
happening
in
their
buildings
and
across
the
system.
G
So
the
impact
of
this
is
really
exciting
and
big,
because
we're
really
addressing
the
issues
that
people
have
in
terms
of
having
a
healthy
place
to
live,
but
also
some
of
the
health
issues
that
they
face
by
themselves
and
I'm.
Just
gonna
read
a
quote.
That
sort
of
I
think
illustrates
the
example
and
the
impact
of
this
work,
and
it's
in
yer
fire
here.
This
is
from
a
77
year
old
who
lives
in
the
Cedar
Riverside
community.
He
says,
I
see
a
lot
of
Americans
riding
bikes
and
they're.
G
Happy
I
took
the
risk
of
riding
a
bike
in
my
old
age,
and
it
was
a
big
initiative
for
me
now.
I'm
feeling
stronger
and
healthier
before
I
would
sit
at
home
and
get
stressed
when
I
was
alone.
Biking
has
helped
connect
me
and
reduce
emotional
difficulties,
I'm
also
finding
that
writing
is
as
important
as
taking
medicine
for
some
of
the
chronic
conditions
that
I
have
so
before.
I
turn
it
back
over
to
Patti.
I
just
want
to
recognize
the
amazing
staff
that
makes
all
of
this
work
happen,
and
many
of
them
are
here.
E
Thank
You
Laura,
so
I
mentioned
that
one
of
our
challenges
is
funding
and
we
have
this
federal
funding.
That's
going
to
be
ending.
We
also
are
a
little
worried
about
our
ship
dollars
or
our
state
health
improvement
partnership
dollars.
Those
are
state
funds
and
controlled
by
the
legislature
and
the
governor
they're,
based
on
the
Health
Care
Access
Fund,
and
the
Health
Care
Access
Fund
is
set
to
sunset
in
2020.
E
However,
that's
never
you
know
daunted
us
we're
used
to
funding
irregularities.
We
did
just
in
terms
of
the
opportunities
column.
We
did
just
complete
a
reach
grant
it's
a
four
point:
five
million
dollar
grant
to
the
CDC
over
five
years,
and
it's
really
focused
on
the
African
American
and
East
African
community
in
housing
settings
and
also
the
American
Indian
population
working
through
organizations
that
serve
them.
So
you
know
to
knock
on
wood
cross
fingers,
but
that
that
grant
comes
through.
E
We
also
think
we
have
a
good
shot
at
a
CDC
prevention,
specialist
and
we've
had
a
number
of
prevention
specialists
come
through.
Our
department.
You've
met
many
of
them.
They
provide
two
years
worth
of
really
quality
work
and
the
CDC
pays
their
salary,
and
we
think
we
have
another
one
coming
in
September
October
and
then,
lastly-
and
this
will,
let's
see
warm
the
cockles
of
councilmember
Gordon's
heart-
we
think
we're
doing
better
in
terms
of
chronic
disease
surveillance.
E
Our
research
and
evaluation
division
is
making
lots
of
progress
in
helping
us
get
better
measures
around
chronic
disease.
So
we've
always
struggled
with
surveillance,
Dale
abit
data,
because
it's
never
really
been
representative
of
our
population,
and
this
is
data
like
obesity
rates,
you
know,
cardiovascular
disease,
etc.
Our
Health
Department
is
starting
to
mine
hospital
and
clinic
data
to
better
understand
obesity
rates,
hypertension,
diabetes,
tobacco
use.
E
In
terms
of
council
involvement,
again,
we've
always
really
looked
to
the
council
to
partner
with
us
on
this
work.
I
know
that
or
we
know
that
council
member
Gordon
is
going
to
be
tweaking
the
staple
foods
ordinance
or
well.
It
has
a
proposal
in
place.
This
fall
I
believe
and
the
Wellness
Committee
of
the
city
is
going
to
bring
forward
a
revised,
City
healthy
food
and
beverage.
E
E
A
D
You
I
appreciate
that
and
I
appreciate
having
my
heart
warmed
by
the
idea
that
we'll
get
more
data
and
surveillance
coming
in
I
think
you
could
see
what
kind
of
questions
that
I
was
gonna,
be
asking
and
curious
about,
and
I
think
it's
critical
to
track
that.
In
fact,
one
of
my
questions
did
have
to
do
with
the
first
slide,
because
we
look
at
those
disparities
year
over
year
over
year
and
I'm
just
wondering
if
we
have
any
idea
of
making
any
progress
at
closing
any
of
those
disparities
or
not.
E
E
D
D
E
Kind
of
two
responses
for
that,
so
council
member
or
chair
Cunningham
and
council
member
Gordon
the
work
that
we've
done.
This
is
what
Lara
calls
surround
sound.
You
know
where
we're
kind
of
working
on
changing
the
environment.
So
that's
more
supportive
for
these
healthy
behaviors
to
occur
and
I.
G
We
have
just
started
in
our
first
year
of
a
five-year
Merck
Foundation
grant
to
address
diabetes
outcomes
or
improve
diabetes
outcomes
and
through
those
through
that
project.
We'll
have
data
on
two
from
two
clinics
from
patients
from
two
clinics.
So
right
now
we
only
have
sort
of
snippets
here
and
there
I've
actually
outcome
data.
But
as
patty
mentioned,
we
will
have
more
surveillance
data
really
within
the
next
six
months.
D
Excellent
well
I
appreciate
that
and
I
also
wanted
to
comment
a
little
bit
on
the
staple
foods
ordinance
amendment
nor
tweaks
that
are
coming
up.
We've
actually
got
a
couple
pieces
of
research
that
are
coming.
One
is
a
survey
that
we
did,
the
Health
Department
staff
did
of
the
stores,
and
then
we
also
when
we
passed
that
ordinance
with
the
University
of
Minnesota
agreed
to
do
some
studies.
So
what
I'm
lining
up
to
do
is
make
some
improvement
based
on
the
information
that
we
get
back,
I
haven't
necessarily
drafted.
D
What
I
expect
to
be
coming
I'm
expecting
to
do
a
subject,
introduction
in
August
sometime
and
then
maybe
in
September.
This
fall
we'll
be
looking
at
the
amendments
and
I
believe
we'll
probably
be
getting
a
report
in
first
from
both
the
health
department's
research
and
hopefully
at
the
same
time
even
and
the
university's
research.
So
we
can
kind
of
see
that,
while
we're
crafting
the
improvements
to
the
ordinance,
thank
you
because
the.
E
E
So
cher
Cunningham
and
councilmember
Jenkins
we
make
a
pretty
large
investment
in
improving
maternal
and
child
health.
However,
the
dollars
only
reach
a
smaller
percentage
of
our
population.
We
did
just
do
a
presentation,
I
think
in
June,
with
this
committee
on
our
on
our
maternal
and
child
health
work.
So
I
think
it's
been
a
cornerstone
of
our
two
part,
but
just
in
a
nutshell,
I
think
all
of
us
could
do
better
in
terms
of
our
outcomes.
We've
seen
infant
mortality
fall.
E
However,
with
certain
groups
African,
American
population,
it's
it
stays
steady
and
we've
got
a
special
grant
program
called
healthy
start
where
we're
trying
to
work
on
infant
mortality
reduction,
but
I
think
I
would
just
be
delighted
to
come
and
visit
with
you
at
some
point
about
what
we're
doing.
If
that
works,.
A
Great
I
wanted
to
check
our
schedule
and
I
think
that
we
had
that
presentation
on
June
4th.
So
if
folks
would
like
to
refer
back
to
that
presentation,
so
I
would
like
to
jump
in
here
as
well.
Thank
you
for
all
of
the
hard
work
that
you
do.
I
wanted
some
clarification
around
the
CDC
prevention
specialist.
What
would
that
topic
area
be
that
person
would
be
working
on
for
the
two
years
we.
A
You
I
wanted
to
also
while
this
isn't.
This
wasn't
frequently
a
brought
up.
It
is
in
the
description
of
the
work
I
want
to
once
for
us
to
be
careful
about
how
we
talk
about
obesity
and
I
know
that
can
be
a
little
bit
controversial
because
folks,
you
know,
but
I
just
want
to
say:
I
want
to
be
careful
about
us
talking
shredding
into
fatphobia
or
body,
shaming
and
so
I
see
here
of
us
talking
a
lot
about
the
contributing
factors,
and
so
not
really
necessarily
focusing
on
on
that.
A
But
I
just
wanted
us
to
be
careful
with
our
language
and
how
we're
framing
health
and
and
and
what
that
could
look
like
so
I
just
wanted
to
name
that
as
well.
So
are
there
any
other
questions
or
comments
from
my
colleagues
all
right,
seeing
none
I
will
move
to
receive
and
file
this
presentation,
all
those
in
favor
signify
by
saying
aye,
those
opposed
say
no,
the
eyes
have
it
and
that
item
is
received
and
filed.
Thank
you
so
much
to
Patty
Amara,
our
third
discussion.
A
H
Chair
cutting
council
members,
my
name
is
Patrick
Hanlon
I'm,
the
director
of
environmental
programs.
Thank
you
so
much
for
allowing
us
to
come
up
here
today
and
talk
about
the
environmental
services
work.
It's
a
very
operationally
focused
group,
and
so
in
being
operational,
we
don't
often
get
a
chance
to
come
before
council
and
present
some
of
that
work.
So
I'm
gonna
do
my
best
to
cover
all
of
the
areas.
H
When
you
talk
about
pollution
in
the
city
like
Minneapolis,
it's
a
wide
net
of
issues
so
bear
with
me
and
just
gonna
walk
through
some
of
the
work
of
the
Environmental
Services
Unit
so
and
just
to
eliminate
any
confusion.
There
are
two
divisions
with
the
term
environmental
in
their
title.
One
is
environmental
health
and
the
others,
environmental
programs,
normal
programs
overseas
and
lead
and
Healthy
Homes,
and
then
the
Environmental
Services
Unit.
The
work
that
we're
going
to
talk
about
today
is
within
the
Environmental
Services
Unit
and
there's
as
before.
We
go
forward.
H
I
didn't
get
their
names
as
much
in
this
presentation,
but
could
Zak
Sydney
Jun
away
and
Sarah
stand
up
here.
These
are
seasonal
texts
and
Connor
Kessler.
Sorry,
I
didn't
include
you
I'm.
Sorry,
if
you
could
stand
up
it's
our
urban
scholar,
their
capacity
being
here.
There
are
seasonal
technicians
and
brought
to
us
with
funding
from
the
Miss
city,
watershed
management
organization
and
Public
Works
Department
funding
that
you
guys
have
authorized
here
their
capacity,
their
ability
to
increase
our
capacity
to
do
the
work
that
we
do
during
the
summer
is.
H
The
interminable
Services
Unit
protects
public
health
and
the
environment
from
pollution
in
through
three
areas.
One
is
through
permitting
and
regulatory
response.
One
is
through
monitoring
and
screening,
and
the
third
is
through
initiatives
in
areas
that
display
leadership
in
the
environmental
field
and
I'm
going
to
cover
all
three
of
these
areas.
H
So
our
base
work
and
our
cutting-edge
work
is
the
summary
of
it
is.
We
have
around
8,000
inspections,
1,200
permits
on
a
low
year,
I
think
we
were
close
more
closer
to
around
2000
and
2017
5300
Pollution
Control
registrations
bringing
in
two
million
three
hundred
eleven
thousand
dollars
in
2018
revenue,
and
this
is
a
that
that
funding
is
really
a
justification
for
the
service
that
we
provide
here
in
Minneapolis
that
few
cities
can
provide.
So
a
lot
of
times.
H
So
one
of
the
areas
that
doesn't
get
talked
about
a
lot
is
our
storage
tanks.
When
we
talk
about
permits
and
regulatory
response,
we
had
121
tanks
removed
in
2017.
There
are
likely
hundreds
of
tanks
still
underground
across
the
city
undiscovered.
This
is
part
of
our
legacy
pollution,
so
they
can
be
full
of
fuel
oil
or
other
chemicals
that
remain
underground.
C
H
So
chair,
Cunningham,
council,
member
Jenkins,
so
a
lot
of
these
tanks
was
the
results
of
using
fuel
oil
as
the
main
source
of
heat.
You
know
in
a
lot
of
the
buildings
that
were
used
or
in
the
fuel
that
we
use
to
heat
heat
buildings.
You
know
there
are
still
we.
We
also
permit
sites
on
above-ground
storage,
tanks
in
gas
stations,
and
it's
not
to
say
that
when
I
say.
H
Pollution,
it's
not
to
say
that
there
isn't
still
pollution
in
areas
of
concern
like
perc
in
other
cities,
besides
Minneapolis
or
in
our
auto
body
shops
and
some
of
the
chemicals
that
are
used
so
there's
still
concerns
with
pollution.
That's
being
the
way
that
we're
using
chemicals
today
and
the
pollution
that
can
come
from
that.
H
So
one
of
the
other
future
is
that
we're
looking
at
is
a
legacy
cost
the
possibility
of
a
legacy
cost
share
as
to
helping
folks
ever
overcome
some
of
the
financial
barriers
that
allow
them
to
take
care
of
some
of
these
issues.
So
another
legacy
pollution
area
is.
We
had
172
well
permits
in
2017,
we
have
two
delegated
well
programs
through
the
Minnesota
Department
of
Health.
H
Well,
those
can
be
conduits
from
pollution
into
our
underground
water
table,
and
so
we
want
to
make
sure
those
are
sealed
properly
again
in
permits
and
regulatory
response
erosion
control.
We
have
a
federal
EPA
requirement:
the
National
pollution
discharge,
elimination
system,
it's
protecting
local
rivers
and
lakes
and
streams
from
erosion.
We
have
between
300
and
400
active
construction
sites
going
on
in
Minneapolis,
and
if
we
are
not
taking
care
of
the
sediment
coming
from
those
sites,
it
can
wreak
havoc
on
our
local
waterways,
and
you
know
that
can
that
can
ruin
aquatic
habitats.
H
We're
looking
at
an
ordinance
revision
in
2019
and
conducting
an
internal
audit
to
make
sure
that
we're
doing
running
our
practices
internally,
following
EPA
standards
and
Minnesota
Pollution
Control
Agency
standards
with
permits
of
regulatory
response
and
noise.
We
have,
we
spent
a
lot
of
time
on
noise
issues
and
the
inspectors
are
see
that
view
on
the
right-hand
side
of
the
data
logger
the
month.
The
noise
monitor
a
lot
during
the
summer
and
year-round
really.
H
We
permit
amplified
sound
permits
from
block
events
to
the
Basilica
block
party,
889,
after-hours
construction
permits
in
2017,
and
we
try
to
balance
that
between
being
able
to
finish
a
project
it
may
require.
You
know
people
coming
in,
so
that
they're
not
blacking
blocking
traffic
during
the
night
and
then
also
residents
right
to
peace
and
quiet
in
their
neighborhoods.
So
we
try
to
balance
those
and
were
issuing
those
after-hours
construction
and
I
should
mention
up
above
I
also
linked
to
in
this
presentation
to
the
different
areas
that
people
want
to
link
to
get
more
information.
H
On
some
of
these
things,
we
had
716
complaints
in
2017,
and
that
was
a
lot
of
late
night
monitoring.
So
there's
a
lot
of
late
night
work,
that's
done
by
the
inspectors
and
going
out
and
doing
noise
monitoring
on
these
sites
in
the
future,
we'd
like
to
examine
more
proactive
approaches
and
solutions
in
working
on
noise
issues
and
how
we
can
not
be
just
responding
to
issues
but
getting
ahead
of
some
of
these
issues.
H
So
we
work
with
our
business
licensing
group
in
working
through
noise
management
plans
with
new
businesses
that
come
in
other
ways
that
we
can
get
ahead
of.
Some
of
these
issues
permits
a
regulatory
response
to
just
want
to
give
this
as
examples.
These
are
things
that
our
inspectors
saw
during
just
this
summer
on
the
upper
left-hand
corner
is
55-gallon
drums
that
were
illegally
dumped
on
a
property.
On
the
upper
hand,
right
is
a
cooking
oil
that
wasn't
well
maintained.
H
In
our
permanent
regulatory
response,
our
energy
benchmarking
program,
there
was
just
a
presentation
on
this
I'm
not
going
to
go
into
a
lot
of
detail
on
it,
but
it's
an
energy
rating
system
for
buildings
over
50,000
square
feet.
Half
of
the
the
half
of
the
greenhouse
gas
emissions
in
the
commercial
sector
is
within
this
group
of
buildings.
It's
making
sure
that
energy
use
is
a
greater
part
of
decision
making
as
part
of
the
market
decisions
that
are
being
made
out
there.
And
how
can
we
better
do
that?
H
So
we
work
in
collaboration
with
the
sustainability
division
in
working
on
how
we
can
do
that
better.
In
2017
we
had
an
87
percent
compliance
rate,
that's
one
of
the
highest
compliance
rates
of
folks
that
are
running
these
programs
across
the
country.
And
this
and
a
lot
of
thanks
to
nadia
khan.
For
running
that
program.
H
This
is
the
last
part
of
our
permits
and
regulatory
response.
The
not
typically
the
most
entertaining
part
of
conversations
that
I
have
with
books,
but
I
just
want
to
pay
special
note
to
the
number
of
inspections
that
have
been
done
over
the
last
decade
in
the
amount
of
the
the
output
that
the
inspectors
are
are
doing.
The
number
of
inspections
that
they
have
and
I
want
to
pay
special
note
to
2012
and
2013
in
the
increases
that
happen
there,
because
that's
the
next
part
of
this
story
is
that's.
H
When
we
started
our
20%
staff
driven
model
staff
are
allowed
to
press
pand
up
to
20%
of
their
time
on
issues
once
they've
completed
their
base,
work
that
meet
our
health
department
mission.
Our
mission
focused
and
staff
work
on
projects,
they're
they're
trained
professionals,
they're
closest
to
the
work,
and
it's
been
amazing.
The
amount
of
work
that's
come
out
of
out
of
this
philosophy
and
that
bottleneck
right.
H
There
is
me
they
traditionally
would
be
someone
in
my
position
and
so
trying
to
eliminate
that
bottleneck
that
happens
with
productivity,
and
so
the
next
part
of
this
presentation
is
the
work.
That's
done
that
that's
come
out
of
that
approach,
so,
environment,
monitoring
or
environmental
monitoring
is
health
based.
It's
not
regulatory
based.
It's
a
health
based
approach
to
you,
air
quality,
water
quality
and
soil
testing.
We
look
at
what
is
the
potential
human
impact
and
being
as
protective
of
that
as
we
can
be
at
a
local
level.
H
One
example
of
that
is
our
air
quality
study
that
was
done
for
volatile
organic
compounds.
We
looked
at
64
different
chemicals
at
hundred
different
locations
around
the
city.
In
that
study
we
found
unexpected
amounts
of
TCE
and
PCE,
which
are
degreasers.
Pce
is
tetrachloroethylene,
which
is
perf
using
the
dry
cleaning
process.
Tce
is
another
industrial
degreaser,
that's
being
used,
and
that's
the
next
phase
of
some
of
the
work
that
we're
doing
is
how
do
we
get
data
out
of
our
air
here
in
Minneapolis?
H
H
In
environmental
monitoring
we're
also
looking
at
fine
particulates,
this
is
one
of
the
most
unhealthy
pollutants
out
there
to
breathe
in
we're
restarting
a
program
that
we
had
in
2016
we're
using
new
monitors
and
a
new
approach,
and
this
is
an
example.
The
right
hand
corner
is
example
of
it.
It's
a
using
an
air
beam,
it
automatically
data
logs
the
information,
and
so
we're
going
to
be
looking
at
getting
together,
volunteers,
badges
and
and
laying
out
that
study.
This
fall
environmental
monitoring.
H
We
also
do
testing
at
our
garden
sites,
so
at
at
the
cpad
lots
the
community
gardens
there's
over
a
hundred
garden
sites
that
we've
tested
for
pollutants,
most
of
them
are
clean.
We
did
find
eight
sites
that
we
had
concern
again.
We
use
a
health
standard,
so
we
had
a
concern
and
we
recommended
that
they
use
raised
beds
on
those
sites
and
bringing
in
fresh
compost
and
fresh
dirt
in
the
future.
H
We're
also
doing
work
with
the
University
of
Minnesota
around
carbon
carbon
storage
in
our
soils,
Carbon
story,
storage
in
soils
is
an
internationally
recognized
way
to
address
climate
change.
It's
one
of
the
strategies
for
addressing
climate
change,
so
we're
evaluating
how
we
can
use
our
soils
as
carbon
sinks
as
a
climate
strain
climate
change
strategy.
H
I
mentioned
our
well
program.
We
also
went
above
and
beyond
we're
only
required
to
test
for
coliform
and
nitrates
in
our
in
our
wells
or
local
wells.
We
decided
to
do
a
full
gamut
of
EPA
drinking
water
standards
on
those
wells
again,
99%
of
those
tests
came
back
with
non-detect,
so
the
water
that's
out.
There
is
mostly
clean
and
healthy
and
good
for
you.
H
We
did
find
lead
and
arsenic
and
one
to
DCE,
which
is
a
pollutant
of
BOC
in
the
in
a
couple
of
the
wells,
a
few
of
the
wells
and
we
immediately
removed
those
handles
from
those
wells
and
we've
been
working
with
the
park
board
to
remediate
that
situation.
A
good
rule
of
thumb
is,
if
there's
a
handle
on
it,
we've
tested
it
and
it's
it's
okay
to
drink.
You
know
we
look
at
the.
We
use
the
litmus
test.
H
If,
if
I
would
drink
it,
if
our
staff
would
drink
it
or
have
their
family
drink
it,
and
then
we
we
keep
that
that
handle
on
there.
This
might
be
a
presentation
that
might
be
good
to
bring
back
to
the
to
the
council
and
talk
about
it
in
a
little
bit
more
depth.
We
are
trying
to
go
out
and
present
this
work
with
the
Minnesota
Department
of
Health
and
raise
awareness
about
the
possibility
of
lead
in
other
public
water
supplies,
and
we
are
assisting
the
park
board
with
efforts
to
seal
some
of
their
wells.
H
The
third
part
of
the
work
that
we
do
here
in
Environmental
Services
is
the
initiatives
work.
The
green
business
cost
share
program,
the
conservation
of
Minneapolis
bees,
our
biochar
program
tree
planting
program,
residential
commercial
and
also
looking
at
ways
to
identify
emerald
ash
borer
as
it
comes
through
Minneapolis
and
then
our
stem
and
pathways
work.
H
So
the
green
business
cost
year
program
is
built
on
the
philosophy
of
a
public-private
partnership.
We've
worked
with
over
150
businesses.
We
of
course,
are
the
first
city
to
have
reduced
perc
from
the
dry
cleaning
process,
where
the
first
perc
free
city
in
the
United
States
we've
reduced
over
70
thousand
pounds
in
criteria,
pollutants
annually,
that's
equal
to
about
1,500
cars
off
the
road
in
terms
of
pollution
and
we've
removed
twenty
million
pounds
of
greenhouse
gas
emissions
equivalent
and
that's
equivalent
to
about
two
thousand
cars
off
the
road
in
greenhouse
gas
emissions.
H
H
2018,
it
was
the
first
in
the
green
collar
program
was
the
first
year
for
using
multifamily
in
energy
efficiency,
looking
at
ways
that
we
can
address
affordability,
we're
also
supporting
the
four
D
program
and
having
increased
incentives
for
folks
that
participate
in
that.
So
it's
a
way
of
addressing
affordability
through
energy
efficiency
and
then
also
addressing
affordability
through
getting
more
folks
to
sign
on
to
longer
term
agreements
to
affordability
in
their
multifamily
units.
H
This
is
the
first
year
of
doing
one
to
four
family
homes
and
energy
efficiency.
With
the
LED
and
Healthy
Homes
program
in
past
grants,
we've
had
167
identified
cold
hazard.
None
of
those
projects
went
through
with
weather
weatherization
work.
The
folks
that
we
work
with
in
that
program
are
74%
are
low-income,
qualified
and
usually
people
do
not
have
the
money
to
put
into
weatherization
projects.
H
H
Is
this
you
know
asking
if
their
if
their
project
was
in
the
green
zone
and
if
it
qualified,
so
that
was
an
uplifting
thing
to
see
the
concept
of
the
boundary
of
the
green
zones,
people
taking
that
up
in
in
implementing
projects
based
on
it.
In
the
future,
I
mentioned
the
nail
salon,
work
we're
also
looking
at
auto
body
shops,
perhaps
being
the
first
city
to
be
on
all
waterborne
paint.
Water
shops,
auto
body
shops
use
its
this.
H
The
green
cashier
program
can
be
used
as
a
tool
for
other
incentive
programs
like
electric
vehicles,
looking
at
residential,
solar
adoption,
low-income
solar
and
then
scaling
up
the
green
cost
share
program.
The
solar
cost
share
program
and
in
2018,
like
I,
said
we
have
a
large
success,
huge
success
with
our
solar
program.
Those
are
the
kilowatt
hour.
That's
a
kilowatt
hour
capacity
installed
across
the
city,
so
in
2016,
2017
and
I.
H
Don't
even
need
to
go
into
the
numbers
to
show
you
what
a
huge
increase
that
was
just
based
on
having
additional
incentives
again
through
the
Clean
Energy
Partnership.
The
franchise
fee
made
that
all
possible
and
here's
some
of
the
sites
that
have
gone
up,
we're
just
starting
to
inspect
on
these
solar
sites.
H
Don't
know
why
this
one
has
animation,
but
we're
gonna
go
through
it,
okay,
so
another
one
of
our
initiative.
Programs
is
the
conservation
of
Minneapolis
bees.
It
was
created
in
response
to
the
2015
pollinated
resolution
brought
forward
by
a
councilmember
Gordon
and
councilmember
Palmisano
Palmisano.
It's
looking
at
an
internal
source
for
pollinator
and
pollinator
friendly
practice,
information
for
our
internal
departments,
but
then
we
also
secured
a
ninety
eighty
thousand
dollar
fish
and
wildlife
conservation
community
grant.
H
Another
initiative
that
we
have
is
in
the
biochar
program.
It's
a
soil
amendment
that
increases
soil
productivity
by
about
fifteen
percent.
Depending
on
what's
planted,
it
binds
harmful
pollutants,
increases
plant
resiliency,
it's
one
of
the
side.
Byproducts
of
it
is
that
it's
sequester's
carbon
for
two
thousand
years.
It's
internal
it's
internationally
recognized
as
a
climate
change
strategy,
and
we've
done
12
demonstration
sites.
Here
in
Minneapolis,
we've
planted
over
400
trees
with
it
we've
done
200
pollinator
patches
using
biochar
we're
looking
at,
or
we
were
planting
two
fire
station
projects
right
now.
H
We've
used
it
in
our
LED
lead
safe
home
project
in
looking
at
ways
to
talk
about
increasing
child
nutrition
in
using
that
as
a
way
to
a
preventative
measure
with
lead
poisoning
and
then
we're
working
with
public
works
on
composting,
giveaway
mixes
and
scaling
up
on
larger
projects
with
other
partners,
so
that
we
can
again
turn
our
city's
soils
into
carbon
sinks.
As
we
move
forward
in
reducing
emissions,
I
have.
D
Made
me
curious.
Thank
you
mr.
chair.
What
are
we
planning
at
the
fire
stations?
Is
this
going
to
be
some
food
or
a
tree,
sir?.
H
H
The
last
initiative
that
I'm
going
to
go
over
is
the
stem
and
pathways
program.
This
is
a
generational
approach
to
our
environmental
work
is
working
with
young
folks
in
in
talking
about
environmental
work
here
in
Minneapolis,
science,
technology,
engineering
and
math
stem
are
the
jobs
of
the
future.
Are
the
recognized
jobs
of
the
future
Minneapolis
schools
are
woefully
behind
in
math
and
science
and
our
schools
and
we
are
losing
funding.
At
the
same
time,
we
have
some
of
the
most
amazing
science
related
work
in
science.
H
Professionals
in
Minneapolis
is
I
hope
that
I've
covered
a
little
bit
here
and
and
with
some
of
the
work
that
we
do
in
other
departments
and
so
through.
Our
Minneapolis
environmental
education
program
we're
looking
to
connect
kids,
the
guys
in
Jemez
program
with
the
Minneapolis
Public
Schools,
and
this
year
we're
able
to
start
a
pilot
program
at
stem
pathways
program.
We
established
three
camps
with
our
Minneapolis
Public
Schools,
guys
and
gems
program
worked
with
a
hundred
and
fifty
kids,
we
created
marquita
keys,
I
should
say
created
a
solar
camp.
H
It's
the
same
camp,
that's
offered
at
a
local
private
school
and
we've
done
soil
science
camp
looking
at
lead
testing
tree
identification
camp
talking
about
some
of
those
emerald
ash
borer
issues
with
kids
did
a
visit
to
the
water
treatment
plant
and
the
North
Mississippi
Regional
Park
connecting
kids
to
nature,
and
so
you
know
in
the
future.
Looking
at
this
program,
I
think
there's
a
tremendous
capacity
to
build
up.
What
were
the
relationships
that
we're
building
with
the
Minneapolis
Public
Schools
and
they're
excited
about
it
too.
G
H
They
can
see
all
these
projects
happening
in
their
community,
so
you
know
in
the
future
I
understand
this
is
not
a
budget.
Ask
we're
looking
at
a
position
to
coordinate
a
stem
pathways
work
through
the
environmental
programs
again
across
the
city
of
Minneapolis
was
business
community
partners
to
coordinate
that
work
and
we
we
can
serve
a
much
larger
population
of
students
and
we
can
do
it
in
our
environmental
justice
areas
in
North,
Minneapolis
and
South
Minneapolis,
and
none
of
this
work
you
know
I
tell
staff
this
all
the
time
alone.
H
D
Already
had
my
question
answered,
but
I
really
appreciate
all
the
work
that
you're
doing
and
the
report
it's
great
to
get
this
overview
and
it
seems
like
there's
some
fantastic
initiatives.
I
am
impressed
with
how
that
20%
initiative
project
is
going
and
I
was
turning
out
and
I
think
that
it's
been
a
real
kind
of
eye-opener
or
something
maybe
to
think
about.
D
How
can
we
help
rely
on
kind
of
the
self
motivation
and
passions
of
each
of
us
I
know
that
a
lot
of
people
decide
they
want
to
work
for
the
city
because
they
really
care
about
what
their
work
is
and
what
they're
doing,
and
sometimes,
if
we
just
open
the
doorway
a
little
bit,
you
can
get
a
lot
more
accomplished.
So
I
appreciate
that
and
I
appreciate
you
sharing,
sharing
how
it's
been
going.
A
H
That's
with
our
erosion
control
ordinance,
so
we'll
have
to
do
some
collaboration
with
Coe
construction
services
and
with
Public
Works
they're
also
realigning
some
of
their
work
right
now,
and
so
we
want
to
get
in
conversation
with
them
and
see
how
we
can
align
some
of
the
work
there.
As
you
know,
staff
have
pointed
out.
You
know
we
recognize,
there's
some
needed
updates
to
the
erosion
control
portion
of
the
ordinance
and
so
yeah
we'll
be
starting
conversations
about
that.
This
fall
and
hopefully
have
something
in
2019,
and
so,
if
there's
anyone
interested
in
great.
A
A
Give
a
shout
out
well
done
because
that's
really
high
compliance
rate
there
you
go
I
mean
that's
a
really
high
compliance
rate.
Thank
you
to
everybody
on
the
team.
We
wanted
to
make
sure
we
give
gave
you
a
shout
out,
and
so
can
you
clarify
just
to
make
sure
that
nobody
missed
it?
Can
you
clarify
which
of
the
initiatives
that
you
discussed
were
staff
initiated
and
driven
I
mean.
A
H
Only
the
initiatives,
but
some
of
our
monitoring
work
too
I
mean
they're
I'm
overwhelmed,
sometimes
with
the
ideas
that
come
forward
from
with
their
staff
and
and
they're
very
mission
focused,
and
what
can
they
do
to
protect
public
health?
And
so
anything
from
to
on
in
this
presentation
was
all
driven
by
staff
and
I'm
trying
to
react
to
it
and
get
them
the
resources
to
be
able
to
make
those
things
possible.
H
A
I
really
appreciate
your
leadership
style
because
there's
so
much
space
for
I
mentioned
earlier
city
staff,
having
so
much
passion,
I
think
is
underappreciated
sometimes,
and
so.
I
really
appreciate
your
leadership
style
to
give
space
for
folks
who
know
the
work
and
are
really
good
at
the
work
and
passionate
about
it.
To
really
be
able
to
say
what
about
this,
or
what
about
that
and
and
and
be
heard
I'm
interested?
How
do
we
scale
the
biochar
work
more.
H
We're
looking
at
you
know,
are
there
ways
to
do
small-scale,
biochar
production,
and
so
we're
also
looking
at
that
at
the
same
time,
and
what
that
might
cost
and
what
kind
of
partnerships
we
could
develop
to
have
have
local
biochar
production
and
use
some
of
the
wastes.
As
you
know,
some
of
these
trees
come
down
with
emerald
ash,
or
how
do
we
use
some
of
that
waste
to
produce
biochar
and
increase
our
ability
for
urban
farming
and
urban
gardening
and.
H
Try
to
do
the
short
version
yeah,
so
biochar
is
a
biomass,
usually
a
wood
product.
It's
heated
up
to
700
degrees,
Celsius
and
when
you
do
that
it
creates
thousands
of
little
micro
features
in
in
the
material
and
that
provides
a
beneficial
habitat
for
microorganisms.
It
provides
a
way
to
store,
moisture
store
water
store
water
for
the
plants
I'll
take
at
all
different
times
to
be
resilient
and
then
also
for
storing
nutrients.
So
that's
why
we
have
the
partnership
with
a
metal
walkin
in
Sioux
community.
H
As
we
take
the
biochar
to
the
metal
walk
in
a
Sioux
community.
They
have
it
sit
with
the
compost
and
that
loads
up
that
biochar
with
nutrients,
and
so
then
we
bring
it
out
to
the
sites
that
nutrient
doesn't
leach
into
the
soil,
it's
readily
available
for
the
plants
and
that's
one
of
the
ways
that
it
helps
the
plants
grow.
So
it's
not.
It's
not
magic.
In
fact,
it's
a
technology
that's
been
used
in
some
ways
by
a
lot
of
indigenous
groups
around
the
world
for
centuries,
and
it's
just
doing
that.
A
Great,
thank
you
so
much
seeing
no
further
questions
from
my
colleagues.
I
just
want
to
say
thank
you
again
for,
for
your
time,
your
energy,
your
passion,
thank
you
to
the
health
department
and
so
I,
wouldn't
I,
moved
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