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Description
Minneapolis Public Health, Environment, Civil Rights, and Engagement Committee Meeting
A
Good
afternoon,
I'm
gonna
call
to
order
this
meeting
of
the
public
health
environment,
civil
rights
and
engagement
committee
I'm.
The
committee's
vice-chair
and
I'll
be
facilitating
our
meeting
today,
chair,
cunningham,
is
out
of
town
and
also
chair,
coño
I
mean
council,
member
Khanna
won't
be
with
us.
We
have
four
items
on
our
agenda.
The
first
is
a
public
hearing
on
the
nuisance.
Odors.
Ordinance,
second,
is
the
consent
item
on
the
agreements
with
Xcel
Energy
to
purchase
renewable
electricity
from
the
Renewable
connect
program.
Third
item
is
a
report.
A
From
the
Health
Department
on
family
in
early
childhood
worked-
and
the
fourth
item
is
our
report
from
our
Minneapolis
workplace
Advisory
Committee.
First
I
will
move
our
consent
item
and
see
if
there's
any
questions
anybody
has
on
that.
That
has
to
do
with
the
agreements
with
Xcel
to
purchase
renewable
electricity
from
the
Renewable
Connect.
Seeing
no
questions
all
those
in
favor,
please
say
aye
any
opposed.
That
motion
carries
and
then
we'll
move
on
to
our
public
hearing.
A
C
His
name
is
Jim
Doty,
I'm,
the
supervisor
environmental
services
for
the
Minneapolis
Health
Department,
and
we're
here
to
tell
you
to
talk
about
proposed
amendments
to
the
nuisance,
odor
law
and
what
I'm
going
to
do
is
have
a
short
presentation
about
it.
It's
fairly
straightforward,
fairly,
simple,
so
we'll
get
right
in
so
the
order.
It
orders
your.
C
A
very
complex
issue
for
regulation
orders
are
considered
a
local
issue:
they're
not
regulated
under
the
Clean
Air
Act
by
the
EPA
and
the
MPCA
previously
rarely
related
orden
order
from
1970
up
to
1976
when
the
law
was
overturned
and
under
an
unusual
thing,
the
judge
told
them
that
unless
you
have
a
reason
to
put
it
back
in
place,
we're
not
going
to
let
you
and
it's
going
to
be
a
local
issue.
So
it's
a
local
issue.
C
C
Current
state
Minnesota,
where
we're
at,
is
that
it
is
a
public
nuisance.
You
can,
as
you
can
read
here,
and
the
bottom
line
is
to
look
at.
That
is
that
we
have
a
reasonable
person
standard,
which
was
something
that
was
in
effect
for
across
the
country.
But
what
kind?
What
is
a
reasonable
person
I
think
I'm
reasonable.
C
And
that's
for
the
reasonable
enjoyment
of
the
property
as
a
standard
nuisance
law
people
react
differently
to
different
smells.
We
have
different
tolerances
and
it
can
be
a
very
subjective
issue.
What
you
like
is
not
necessarily
what
I
like
and
we
have
to
judge
orders
by
what
their
level
are,
not
whether
or
not
we
like
them
or
not,
they're
what
we
treat
them
all
the
same.
C
What
what
is
bad
currently
it's
about?
What
is
a
reasonable
standard,
a
reasonable
person?
What
we
currently
do
is
we
have
what's
here,
I'll
get
into
it
just
a
little
bit.
What's
called
the
nasal
Ranger
feel
the
whole
fact
ometer
and
we
basically
follow
or
use
an
SOP
that
establishes
what's
good
and
what's
bad,
then
it
that's.
What
we
used
is
to
define
what
the
reasonable
person
is,
try
to
make
it
objective.
Standing
as
I
mentioned.
C
This
is
the
nasal
Ranger
Scofield
affect
ometer,
it's
a
concept
that
is
originally
developed
by
the
Public
Health
Service
back
in
1958
through
1960.
They
came
up
a
thing
called
ascent
domitor
and
it
had
very
specific
ratios
of
clean
air
to
dirty
air
that
came
on
in
and
they
did
studies
and
at
that
they
came
up
with
that.
Seven
dilutions
of
clean
air
to
one
part
dirty
air
constitutes
a
nuisance
hazard
and
that's
what
you
see
consistently
in
laws
across
the
country
now,
and
that
is
said,
it's
delusions
to
threshold.
C
What
that
means
is
that
the
first
time
you
can
detect
in
order
so
at
seven
dilutions
you
can
just
with
it
doesn't
mean
you
can
identify
what
it
is.
That's
called
recognition
threshold
where
you
can
actually
see
or
smell
what
it
is,
and
one
of
the
other
things
with
this
is
that
may
seem
kind
of
strange,
but
you
and
I
smell
differently,
and
how
do
we
know
that
every
we're
being
consistent?
C
What
our
standard
is
that,
every
six
months,
our
staff
that
use
this
actually
have
to
get
their
noses
certified
and
it's
kind
of
awkward
having
a
blindfold
on
and
sniffing
pens.
But
we
are
trying
to
make
sure
that
whatever
our
people
are
standard
of
smelling
within
the
range,
that's
was
considered
normal.
C
C
C
So,
in
summary,
what
we're
trying
to
do
is
define
what
is
a
reasonable
person
using
the
field
olfactometer
to
update
our
standard,
to
be
consistent
with
other
municipalities
and
jurisdictions
across
the
country.
Change
the
point
of
human
habitation
to
point
a
humane
activity
to
be
more
consistent,
updates
our
ordinance
to
address
the
goals
of
the
city
and
changing
the
order;
duration,
what
constitutes
violation
from
30
minutes
down
to
15
minutes.
A
You
very
much
very
informative.
Any
committee
members
have
any
questions
seeing
none
then
I
will
open
the
public
hearing.
Is
there
anybody
here
who's
wanting
to
speak
on
this
issue
today?
Anybody
at
all
seeing
nobody
stepping
forward,
then
I'll
close
the
public
hearing
and
on
the
proposed
ordinance
amendment
council,
member
Johnson,.
E
C
C
Appreciate
that
bringing
it
up
the
council
member
Johnson
Jordan,
where
we're
at
the
health
risk
values
or
health
West's
limits
are
set
by
the
Minnesota
Department
of
Health,
and
these
are
actual
concentrations
in
the
air
that
are
there
being
trying
to
be
protective
of
human
health.
It's
kinda,
kinda
like
how
dirty
is
dirty
and
they're,
actually
putting
a
number
to
it
to
a
specific
compound.
C
There
are
some
very
fine
points
in
there
about
what
the
standards
are
acute,
chronic
and
sub
chronic,
and
so
we're
when
we're
talking
to
the
Minnesota
Department
Health
right
now
about
what
that
means,
what
would
constitute
violation
where
we
would
be
comfortable
in
the
through
our
attorney's
office
as
well,
where
we
would
be
comfortable
with
that
would
be
appropriate
for
us
to
incorporate
into
a
nuisance
standard.
That's
where
we're
at
right
now.
C
E
Okay
and
I
guess
mr.
Hanley
I
see
you
here
as
well.
I
know
we
didn't
get
a
chance
to
connect
right
before
committee
on
this,
but
I'm
wondering
if
there
is
an
openness
to
delaying
a
cycle
on
this
in
order
to
try
to
get
that
in
there
or
were
you
interested
in
completely
going
back
and
reopening
and
doing
another
another
round
of
it
because
I'd
love
to
get
that
in
there
I
think
it
would
be
excellent.
Chair.
D
D
We
would
prefer
because
we're
not
sure
how
long
this
review
is
going
to
take
from
talking
with
the
Minnesota
Department
of
Health,
the
Minnesota
Pollution
Control
Agency,
in
trying
to
come
up
with
what
those
standards
would
look
like,
I'm,
not
even
sure,
if
you
know
delaying
it
to
the
next
round.
If,
if
we're
gonna,
be
able
to
come
to
a
consensus
by
that
point,
this
is
you
know:
there's
not
a
lot
of
precedent
to
be
looking
at
other
jurisdictions
who
are
doing
that
kind
of
work.
D
So
I
would
love
to
say
that
we
can
come
back
and
have
a
decision
by
next
round,
but
I
don't
know
if
we're
gonna
get
there
with
the
two
agencies
that
we're
working
with
and
so
from
a
staff
perspective.
I
would
prefer
if
we
could
put
the
order,
ordinance
separate
and
then
try
to
move
forward
with
the
other
aspect
that
on
a
different
schedule,
all.
E
Right
I
appreciate
that
Thank
You
mr.
chair
I'll
go
ahead
and
move
okay
and
thank
staff
for
all
the
time
and
work
together
on
this.
I
really
appreciate
the
partnership,
and
you
know:
I
I'm
I,
look
forward
to
working
with
you
on
the
poorly
named
acronym
hurl,
making
sure
that
we
get
that
in
there.
So
Thanks.
C
A
A
F
You,
chair
Gordon
and
good
afternoon
committee
members,
so
I'm
going
to
be
talking
about
our
family
and
early
childhood
work
and
also
be
asking
you
to
think
about
how
you
might
support
this
work.
We
have
some
specific
ideas,
but
I
want
to
take
a
moment
and
just
introduce
a
couple
of
special
guests.
So
with
me
today
is
Alicia
stanza
and
Alicia
and
I.
Just
wave
Alicia
is
a
Healthy
Start
participant
and
a
little
bit
later
on
in
the
presentation
she's
going
to
share
her
perspective
on
intensive
home,
visiting
and
Healthy
Start.
F
Also
with
us
today
are
a
number
of
staff
from
the
Family
Partnership
and
the
Family
Partnership
is
a
longtime
community
contracted
partner.
So
we
have
Carolyn
hood,
Betsy,
Bartek
and
two
case.
Managers
Valencia
also
also
Emily,
and
then
I
also
wanted
to
introduce
our
family
and
early
childhood
staff.
See
we
have
quite
a
crew
here
and
so
Kristen
tharaldsen
is
the
Healthy
Start
coordinator
for
our
department
and
Stephanie
Graves
serves
as
the
senior
public
health
specialist
working
on
family
and
early
childhood
health.
Well,.
F
So
we
have
quite
a
vision
for
how
our
families
should
be
served
in
Minneapolis
and
here's
our
vision
here.
Infant
mortality
is
a
thing
of
the
past.
All
children
and
families
are
healthy
and
thriving
they're
in
safe,
affordable,
adequate
housing
there
and
they're
nurtured
in
a
non
toxic
environment.
There's
healthy
family
involvement
for
all
children
and
school
readiness
for
all
children.
So
that's
our
vision,
but
let's
look
at
the
reality.
F
We
also
know
that
infant
mortality
continues
to
be
a
problem
and
that
black
mothers,
the
rate
for
infant
mortality
for
black
mothers,
is
about
three
times
that
for
white
mothers
there
were
about
fourteen
hundred
homeless
children
in
Hennepin
County,
and
that
adverse
childhood
experiences
plagued
over
half
of
our
population
55%
of
adults
and
of
those
55
percent.
15
percent
of
adults
are
experiencing
five
or
more
adverse
childhood
experiences.
So
I
just
wanted
to
find
this
briefly.
F
Adverse
childhood
experiences
are
a
complex
set
of
experiences
that
are
shown
to
have
negative
or
adverse
health
or
social
implications,
and
examples
can
include
child
abuse
and
neglect,
whether
it's
emotional,
physical
or
sexual,
just
basic
neglect
and
growing
up
in
a
seriously
dysfunctional
household,
as
evidenced
by
witnessing
domestic
violence,
alcohol
or
other
substance
abuses,
mental
health
issues,
suicidal
family
members,
parental
marital
discord,
etc,
and
the
reason
that
they
matter
is
that
they
can
result
in
high-risk,
behaviors,
social
and
cognitive
implications.
F
So
what
is
our
Health
Department
doing
around
family
and
early
childhood
work?
We
spend
about
3.6
5
million
dollars
on
an
annual
basis,
and
you
can
see
the
pie
chart
here
of
our
investment
in
family
and
early
childhood
health.
A
good
portion
of
the
work
about
65%
is
dedicated
to
family
home
visiting,
but
I'm
gonna
cover
kind
of
four
buckets
of
work
in
that
our
health
department's
engaged
in
first
one
is:
is
driving
babies
or
improving
birth
outcomes.
The
second
is
culturally
based
programs.
F
F
Never
mind:
okay,
we
also
provide
WIC
services,
that's
nutrition,
education
and
supplements
to
about
3000
families
per
year,
and
then
lastly,
Healthy
Start
I
wanted
to
mention
Healthy
Start.
It's
a
federal
grant
that
we've
had
since
about
1999
and
the
whole
goal
is
to
reduce
infant
mortality
and
our
focus
is
African
American
births
I
mentioned
that
statistic
where
the
infant
mortality
rate
is
about
three
times
higher.
The
goal
of
healthy
start
is
to
really
provide
case
management
wraparound
services
for
women
who
are
at
risk
for
poor
birth
outcomes
through
home
visiting
programs.
F
Our
partners
are
Minnesota
visiting
nurse
agency
or
MBNA,
which
is
now
part
of
Hennepin
health,
the
Family
Partnership
they're
here
today,
Northpoint
health
and
wellness,
and
also
we
have
a
fourth
community
partner
that
provides
inpatient
mental
health
services
and
outpatient
mental
health
services,
Healthy
Start
population.
So
I
just
wanted
to
pause
my
presentation
and
ask
Alicia
to
come
up
and
just
tuck
briefly
about
her
experience
with
healthy
start.
G
My
name
is
Alicia
Stansel
I've
been
a
part
of
healthy
start.
Maybe
almost
eighteen
months
now,
I
started
with
them.
When
I
was
about
seven
months,
pregnant
I
was
just
moving
back
here.
I
was
going
through
it
all
to
a
free
clinic
in
North
Minneapolis
to
get
prenatal
care.
They
handed
me
a
tiny
slip
with
their
number
on
it
within
30
minutes.
I
was
speaking
with
someone
at
the
prenatal
plays
right.
There
face
to
face,
gave
me
a
basic
care
package
toiletries
and
things
to
that
nature.
G
I
received
a
good
job,
I
moved
into
a
place.
I
did
not
receive
maternity
leave
funds
from
my
job,
given
that
I
was
just
starting
once
I
had
my
baby
I
sang
I
got
with
healthy
started
a
family
partnership.
They
signed
me
up
with
the
grant
that
was
able
to
keep
me
home
with
my
baby,
for
the
series
that
I
needed
to
be
they
paid
rent.
They
help
with
food
diapers
right
bill
I
mean
anything
that
I
can
possibly
ask
for
at
that
particular
moment.
G
I
received
it
from
them,
so
I
could
be
able
to
stay
home
with
my
son
and
give
him
the
attention
that
he
needed
for
the
at
least
the
first
six
weeks.
I.
Think
of
this
place
as
a
lifesaver.
If
I
have
any
issues,
I'm
able
to
call
these
ladies
and
be
able
to
talk
to
them,
to
you
know,
be
able
to
get
support,
you'd
be
able
to
get
counsel,
I
see
them
help,
so
many
women
with
their
weekly
support
groups
that
they
have
for
other.
G
G
He'll
be
18
months
in
July.
I,
don't
really
know
how
that
works,
but
there
goes
he
was
born.
New
Year's,
Day,
2017
and
you
know
it
was
just
I-
was
just
moving
back
here
to
Minneapolis
when
I
got
with
these
with
this
crew
and
they
have
been
nothing
but
the
best
to
me,
anytime,
I
call
anything
I
could
possibly
ask
for
as
far
as
support
encouragement,
love,
I,
get
it
from
these
women
here.
G
A
B
G
G
G
Was
changing
policies
that
means
within
themselves?
So
as
when
a
few
years
ago,
they
was
giving
people
but
turned
to
leave
as
soon
as
they
got
there.
Now
you
needed
to
be
there
a
year
to
receive
the
benefits,
so
I
got
caught
in
the
change
of
policies
and
procedures,
but
from
the
blessings
and
from
this
place
here
they
was.
There
was
the
only
reason
why
I
wasn't
back
at
work
within
a
week
or
two.
F
Alicia,
thank
you
so
much
and
her
partner
Darryl
was
not
able
to
be
here,
but
he
also,
as
she
mentioned,
received
some
fatherhood
services
through
the
father
advocate
and
I'm,
going
to
talk
just
a
tiny
bit
about
that.
I
wanted
to
mention
too.
The
second
buck
of
work
are
these
culturally
based
programs
and
we
again
contract
with
community
partners
to
provide
these
services.
One
in
particular
I
think
is
very
timely.
It's
called
the
nin
D
project
and
nin
D
means
my
heart
and
a
Jib
way
and
that's
focused
it's
a
it's.
F
The
next
bucket
of
work
are
all
the
things
that
we
do
around
school
readiness.
Our
primary
partner
is
the
Minneapolis
Public
Schools,
and
our
goal
here
is
to
screen
all
kids
by
age
three,
so
the
the
primary
are.
The
the
prior
focus
was
to
screen
them
before
kindergarten,
but
you
probably
know
that
that's
too
late,
so
we
need
to
find
as
many
kids
as
we
can
screen
them
before
three
and
then
provides
the
services
that
they
need.
F
So
in
2017,
through
the
Minneapolis
Public
Schools,
we
were
able
to
screen
about
forty
six
hundred
children
and
about
seventeen
hundred
three
year
olds
and
we're
continuing
to
try
to
increase
that
percentage
every
year.
We
also
provide
outreach
around
school
readiness
through
partners
like
way
to
grow,
with
a
specific
emphasis
in
the
Phillips
Powderhorn
in
near
North
neighborhoods,
and
we
provide
dental
services
for
uninsured
children
about
1,500,
uninsured
kids
receive
dental
services
in
2017.
F
Our
last
bucket
is
teen
pregnancy
prevention
and
teen
parents
support.
So
you
know
that
we
have
a
school-based
clinic
program
which
I'm
not
going
to
talk
about
now,
but
hopefully
you've
had,
or
you
will
have
more
of
a
presentation
about
that
work.
But
our
school-based
clinic
program
provides
resources
to
combat
teen
pregnancy,
but
we
provide
services
for
teen
parents
to
try
to
reduce
or
prevent
a
second
pregnancy
and
also
to
support
the
teen
parent.
F
So
we've
got
a
special
home
visiting
program
funded
by
TANF
for
women
under
21
years
of
age,
a
teen
Hope
program
and
again
this
is
through
MVA
for
pregnant
and
parenting
teens,
who
are
choosing
the
educational
track.
We
work
with
the
Minneapolis
Public
Schools
and
provide
funding
for
a
sex,
IDI
curriculum
called
making
proud
choices,
and
then
also
our
youth
power
initiative
is
a
peer
education
program
for
13
to
21
year
old,
East,
African,
youth
in
Minneapolis.
A
So
just
a
question
on
that
is
the
teen
pregnancy
rate
going
down
or.
F
A
F
Depends
so
over
time
I
mean
I've
been
working
in
maternal
and
child
health
for
a
long
time,
and
certainly
infant
mortality
has
decreased
over
that
time,
but
for
certain
populations
it
seems
to
stay
rather
stable
and
I
would
say
so
for
the
african-american
population
we
initially
when
we
first
started
healthy
start,
which
again
it's
an
infant
mortality
initiative.
It
was
for
the
african-american
population
and
also
the
American
Indian
population,
and
so
we
have
a
very
small
American
Indian
population
in
Minneapolis,
but
we
were
seeing
infant
mortality
rates
fluctuating.
F
We
have
an
opportunity
to
apply
for
the
next
round
of
healthy
start,
it's
a
five-year
grant,
and
so
we're
gonna
be
looking
at
those
rates
to
kind
of
figure
out
who
we
should
focus
on
with
our
next
grant
proposal,
which
will
be
we'll
be
working
on
that
in
the
fall
we
have
seen
a
little
bit
of
an
increase
in
infant
mortality
rates
for
the
Hispanic
population,
but
I
can
follow
up
with
more
information.
The
committee
is
interested.
A
Now
the
division
says:
infant
mortality
is
a
thing
of
the
past
I'm
going
to
assume
that
0
deaths
annually
is
a
pretty
unlikely.
I
mean
given
some
of
the
it's
neonatal
issues
and
turns
and
prenatal,
and
that
yeah.
H
A
It
would
be
I
guess
to
get
to
that
vision
and
make
it
more
reality
would
take
the
drilling
down
to
figure
out.
What
is
that
is
exactly.
The
problem
is
exactly.
Why
do
we
have
and.
F
Chair
Gordon,
yes,
I,
yes
and
so
drilling
down,
as
is
the
right
way
to
look
at
things.
So
the
city
through
I
think
it
was
a
results.
Minneapolis
process
looked
at
infant
mortality
a
couple
of
years
ago,
and
especially
in
the
American
or
the
african-american
community
and
the
big
issue
there
is
prematurity
babies
born
too
soon
too
small
and
the
part
of
the
reason
for
that
is
all
the
stressors
that
family
feel
families
feel
around
the
social
determinants
of
health,
like
lack
of
housing,
mental
health
issues
etc.
F
F
We
have
I'm
going
to
talk
about
this
in
a
little
bit,
but
we
had
a
legislative
proposal
which
I
think
is
still
part
of
our
platform
to
look
at
an
infant
mortality
review
process
where
you
actually
study
infant
deaths,
individual
infant
deaths
and
try
to
you
know,
peel
back
the
onion
to
see
what
caused
those
infant
deaths
and
then
make
recommendations.
So
what
happened?
Is
that
the
state,
the
ability
to
do
that
on
a
local
level,
sunsetted
that
was
in
the
state
legislature
and
we're
trying
to
get
that
back
in
statute?
So
how.
F
F
A
Don't
we
have
the
resources
to
take
care
of
those
125
babies
or
whatever
it
is,
so
you
can
look
that
up
and
we
can
go
on
with
it.
Is
it
more
than
that?
H
F
I
welcome
any
questions,
something
that
we've
mentioned.
A
couple
of
times
is
a
focus
on
fathers,
and
so
in
this
picture
are
some
healthy
start
participants,
Mimi,
Thomas,
Davis
and
Dechaine
Cochran
and
their
baby.
What's
her
baby's
name,
Diana,
so
really
really
super
cute,
but
I
mentioned
them
because
some
of
her
healthy
start
participants
had
access
to
the
services
of
a
father
advocate
and
we
had
a
grant
through.
It's
a
federal
grant
and
it
just
ended
called
focus
on
fathers.
F
Some
lack
role
models
were
engaged
in
support
of
fatherhood
and
need
that
social
support
and
mentoring.
So
through
this
grant,
we
were
able
to
hire
a
full-time
father
advocate,
and
this
was
again
through
the
Family
Partnership
and
he
really
worked
with
a
small
set
of
subsets
of
dads
to
get
them
the
help
that
they
need
and
that
help
included
parenting
support.
F
It
included
referrals
for
housing,
food,
employment,
education,
kind
of
those
basic
services-
and
it
was
exciting-
is
that
when
dad's
got
the
help
they
needed
moms
did
better
and
we
found
out
that
mothers
were
significantly
more
likely
to
show
improvement
on
a
composite
scale
of
psychosocial
risk
and
not
to
put
one
of
my
colleagues
on
the
spot.
But
if
I
think
this
is
a
fascinating
body
of
work
and
might
be
good
to
have
a
council
presentation
on
that
at
some
point,
I
think
the
grant
is
has
ended
Oh.
F
We
also
work
through
many
partners,
and
so
here's
just
a
subset
of
some
of
our
partners.
These
are
primarily
contracted
partners.
I.
F
Think
the
other
piece
for
us
is
community
involvement
and
I
wanted
to
mention
a
Community
Action
Network.
That's
part
of
Healthy
Start,
it's
a
grant
requirement,
but
I'm
so
happy
to
have
that
requirement,
because
it
enables
a
group
to
come
together
and
Alicia
comes
to
these
meetings
as
a
healthy
start
participant,
as
do
other
healthy
start
participants
and
sits
down
with
providers.
Folks
from
health
plans,
public
health,
the
state
health
department
to
really
wrestle
with
issues
like
fatherhood,
involvement,
mental
health
for
pregnant
and
parenting,
families,
housing
and
stability.
F
Now
some
opportunities
for
council
leadership,
so,
as
I
mentioned
from
time
to
time,
we
try
to
put
some
public
policy
issues
on
our
legislative
agenda
and
hope
that
our
city
will
work
on
these.
So
something
that
we're
really
super
interested
in
is
what
can
we
do
around
public
policy
and
to
engage
more
fathers,
so
the
recognition
of
parentage
issues,
and
so
that
might
show
up
on
our
legislative
agenda,
or
this
I
mentioned
the
infant
mortality
review
that
is
now
sunsetted
and
we're
going
to
try
to
get
it
back
into
statute.
F
So
we'd
hope
that
you'd
be
supportive
of
those
sorts
of
public
policy
initiatives.
The
second
piece
is
really
helping
us
connect
the
dots.
So
you
know
we
don't
because
we're
the
Health
Department
we
don't
necessarily
get
grants
to
work
on
affordable
housing
or
jobs
for
for
dads
or
for
pregnant
and
parenting
families
or
transportation.
F
But
you
know
you
interact
with
all
these
city
departments,
where
you
know
hoping
that
you'll
kind
of
keep
us
in
mind
and
help
us
connect
the
dots
so
that
we
can
better
serve
families
and
then,
lastly,
resources.
A
lot
of
this
work
is
very
heavily
grant
funded
and
that
absent
flows,
and
so
we
would
look
to
you
to
help
us
continue
to
invest
in
this
work,
especially
when
grant
funding
is
lacking.
A
B
Thank
you
to
Gordon
and
I
would
just
emphasize
newer.
You
know
previous
statement
about
how
all
of
these
systems
work
together.
I
was
particularly
thinking
about
that
when
Miss
music
can't
talk
about,
you
know
low
birth
weights
and
infant
mortality
and
how
you
know,
issues
like
employment
and
housing,
early
access
to
health
care,
which
you
guys
do
home.
D
B
A
D
A
F
A
F
B
I
Thank
you,
Joe
I
think
I've
actually
stood
in
front
of
Minneapolis
City
conference
smoking
about
infant
mortality
before
I
wanted
to
get
back
to
the
sudden
infant
death
question
that
you
asked
there's
actually
some
efforts
amongst
medical
examiner's
to
get
away
with
that
as
an
official
diagnosis
for
death,
because
they
do
believe
that
there
is
an
explained
reason
for
each
infant
death.
I
However,
in
the
American
Union
community,
still,
50
percent
of
deaths
are
related
to
what
they're
not
calling
sleep
related
incidents,
so
it
could
still
qualify
as
an
unexplained
death,
but
by
and
large
it's
a
death
that
occurs
during
sleep,
but
it
can
be
explained
by
some
other
factor
that
took
place
during
the
baby
sleeping
period
usually
accepted,
breathing
either
caused
by
something
in
the
sleeping
area,
whether
it
be
another
human
or
be
a
blanket
or
a
teddy
bear,
or
something
like
that.
So
I
just
want
to
quickly
say
that
about
the
sleep
related
stuff.
H
Perinatal
periods
of
risk
kind
of
looking
at
what
were
the
causes
of
the
infant,
more
doubt,
mortality,
and
what
can
we
think
about
in
terms
of
strategies,
and
it
did
not
reveal
that
health
care
is
a
weakness
in
this
community.
What
it
did
show
was
that
women's
health
before
pregnancy
is
the
greatest
area
and
then
secondarily
asleep.
So
those
are
the
areas
that
we
need
to
focus
on,
and
so
it
is
those
social
conditions
that
women
are
living
in
and
that
are
present
in
our
community
and
not
evenly
distributed.
H
F
Babies
born
council
member
Gordon
and
about
3,000
are
on
medical
assistance
or
health
care
programs.
Okay,
we
did
find
Ken
found
the
number
of
infant
deaths
in
the
state
of
Minnesota,
which
I
think
is
357
and
I
was
quickly
trying
to
find.
We
have
it
on
our
website.
The
number
of
infant
deaths
in
Minneapolis,
but
I
just
couldn't
quickly
find
that
it's
well.
F
F
A
A
Thank
you
very
much,
and
now
we
have
one
last
exciting
report
that
we've
been
anticipating,
and
this
is
a
progress
report
from
our
Minneapolis
birthplace,
Advisory,
Committee
and
I,
think
I
think
maybe
I'm
all
just
gonna
or
as
Chelsea
are
you
gonna,
introduce
yourselves
whoever's
gonna,
make
the
presentation
and
so
glad
to
have
you
here.
Hopefully
you
found
that
first
part
of
the
meeting
entertaining
enough.
Yes,.
J
A
J
J
So
here
you
have
a
list
of
everyone
who's,
a
part
of
the
Minneapolis
workplace,
Advisory
Committee.
So
you
can
see
the
depth
and
breadth
of
the
organizations
that
are
represented
and
our
priority
is
to
work
with
workers
who
are
directly
in
acted
with
small
businesses,
with
large
businesses
with
folks
who
are
in
the
city,
enterprise
and
people
who
are
working
with
nonprofits
to
really
tackle
the
issues
of
what's
happening
in
our
workplaces.
J
And
so
this
seems
like
a
simple
one-sentence
vision,
but
I
assure
you.
It
took
our
committee,
probably
a
good
six
months
of
working
with
each
other
and
getting
to
know
each
other
and
our
importance
and
working
with
council
members
and
the
city
staff
to
come
up
with
what
our
vision
is,
and
that
is
to
create
strong
communities
where
both
workers
and
businesses
are
earning
and
thriving.
And
so
now
this
came
about.
While
we
were
working
on
minimum
wage.
But
this
is
sort
of
our
luck.
L
L
I
think
that's
part
of
our
beacon
beacon
and
our
vision
is
to
be
collaborative
to
try
to
take
as
best
we
can.
Some
of
the
politics
out
bring
some
really
good
analysis
and
some
collaboration
in
some
consideration
to
these
policies
and
try
to
make
it
work
very
well
for
all
of
us
and
putting
the
City
Council
in
a
better.
J
And
implementation
and
I
think
that
you
know
our
role
has
been
to
really
bring
together
diverse
stakeholders
even
beyond
who's
represented
on
our
committee,
because
when
you
look
at
the
list
of
potential
things
that
the
city
could
work
on
as
it
relates
to
workplace
what's
happening
in
workplaces,
that
list
is
long.
J
You
know
just
paid
family
leave
is
one
of
35
things
that
could
be
on
that
list,
that
that
we're
working
on
so
we're
trying
to
balance
the
expansiveness
and
also
focusing
on
the
things
that
we
can
have
the
most
impact
on
and
bring
the
most
directing
direction
to
you
as
council
members
on.
So
you
want
to
go
to
the
next
slide.
So
this
talks
about
our
enabling
resolution-
and
this
is
the
only
slide
that
I
think
we're
gonna
kind
of
look
at
more
closely.
J
The
rest
will
just
share
some
stories
of
what
we're
working
on,
and
one
in
two
are
somewhat
similar,
where
we
as
the
Commissioner
and
not
the
commissioners,
as
the
committee
members
who
are
connected
to
what's
happening
for
workers
and
businesses
are
bringing
our
expertise,
our
communities,
our
relationships
to
the
table
to
talk
about
what
kind
of
policies
are
important
to
our
constituencies.
What
does
work
and
then
also
what
kind
of
outreach
and
awareness
is
happening
out
there.
J
You
know
the
city
has
done
a
lot
of
outreach
and
awareness,
but
oftentimes
the
most
trusted
messengers
are
the
people
who
are
other
fellow
business
owners
or
fellow
workers
who
have
access
and
and
and
those
kind
of
things.
So
that's
items
one
and
two
number
three
is
monitoring
and
evaluating
the
programs
that
are
existing
and
future
programs.
J
Number
four
is
again
looking
at
that
implementation
and
future
programs
that
we
could
be
looking
at
and
then
five
is
creating
the
two-year
work
plan
which
we
are
finally
wrapping
up
with
the
help
of
the
city.
So
what
does
this
mean?
There's
actually,
four
bay
main
areas
that
we're
working
on
first
of
all
is
working
on
implementation
and
outreach.
This
is
going
to
be
ongoing
through
the
entirety
of
the
workplace.
J
Advisory
Committee
in
their
existence
to
is
this
is
where
we
find
that
we
actually
spend
a
lot
of
our
time
at
the
end
of
the
day.
Almost
all
of
this
comes
down
to
enforcement.
We
can
pass
the
best
policies.
We
can
have
the
best
things
on
the
books,
but
if
we
don't
have
a
way
to
enforce
or
for
workers
and
businesses
to
be
collaborating,
that's
not
going
to
happen.
So
we
see
ourselves
often
on
the
front
edge
of
fighting
for
those
resources.
J
Everything
comes
down
to
resources
and
interesting
enough,
like
we've
been
able
to
be
flexible
enough
to
adapt
to
things
that
are
happening
in
our
environment.
So
I
talked
about
that
long
list.
One
thing
that
didn't
make
that
list
was
major
events.
However,
when
the
Superbowl
started
to
roll
into
Minneapolis,
our
committee
was
started,
paying
a
lot
of
attention
to
the
business
connect
program.
It
was
weeks
after
the
first
minimum
wage
increase
came
into
play.
J
So
how
did
we
know
that
all
these
employers
were
gonna,
be
following
the
law
and
then,
of
course,
having
the
long
term
vision
of
what's
on
the
horizon?
What's
in
the
future,
so
those
are
basically
what
we've
been,
and
so
the
next
couple
of
slides
we're
just
gonna
provide
you
with
some
examples
of
that
work,
and
so
Veronica
you
were
gonna,
do
one
and
yes,.
M
So
a
lot
of
the
work
that
we've
been
able
to
do
is
to
do
intensive
outreach
and
education,
both
sital
really
focusing
on
workers
and
making
sure
that
the
you
know
there
are
workers
for,
for
whatever
reasons,
I
mean
many
different
obstacles
might
never
make
it
to
to
City
Hall,
to
be
able
to
file
a
complaint
they're
to
be
able
to
even
understand
about
their
rights,
and
so
we
have
a
natural
connection
and
that
were
in
communities
that
are
like
the
most
vulnerable
for
for
exploitation
and
able
to
really
do
outreach
to
make
sure
that
folks
know
their
rights
and
have
also
been
able
to
pull
together
some
conversations
with
some
folks
from
Seattle
Rutgers
University
National
Employment
Law
Project,
where
they
have
been
studying
a
lot
of
how
enforcement
has
worked
in
other
cities
and
how
it
could
work,
particularly
in
Seattle
and
together
we've
been
able
to
look
at
potential
models
and
and
draw
some
lessons
from
those
to
be
implemented
here.
J
Great
right
now
the
amount
of
small
businesses
that
even
know
about
this
ordinance
and
like
they're
not
complying
because
they
don't
want
to
comply.
The
amount
of
small
businesses
that
even
know
that
this
is
in
existence
is
qo
compared
to
the
amount
of
businesses
that
are
operating
in
the
city.
So
our
committee
is
working
really
hard
to
raise
that
as
a
issue
for
you
all
and
for
our
work
as
a
priority
going
into
this
year.
J
L
D
L
A
lot
into
the
details
with
them
about
all
the
fa
cues
that
support
trying
to
educate,
for
instance,
on
sick
and
safe
other
enforcement
strategies
that
they're
putting
together
other
educational
outreach.
They
the
web,
the
information
that
is
going
up
on
the
website
with
regard
to
these
workplace
policies
and
we're
able
to
give
a
lot
of
real-time
feedback
to
them,
not
just
through
the
members
of
the
committee,
but
we're
utilizing
our
connections
to
our
own
constituencies,
as
well
as
trying
to
bring
other
resources
to
the
tables
that
some
of
us
have.
L
You
know
we've
even
had
target.
You
know
employment
lawyers
and
compliance
people
coming
in
and
not
only
giving
some
feedback,
but
also
giving
experiences
from
as
we've
talked
about,
for
instance,
Seattle,
since
we're
an
employer
that
does
work
in
many
cities
throughout
the
country
and
have
had
experiences
with
very
similar
workplace
ordinances
at
the
local
level
in
deep
dives
and
discussions
around
these
issues.
L
Minimum
wage
obviously
more
recently
was
an
example
where
it
was
hard
for
us
at
the
beginning,
when
a
minimum
wage
was
moving
forward,
because
the
committee
was
very
new
and
we
were
still
trying
to
get
ourselves
organized.
But
once
we
did,
we
turned
our
attention
to
just
a
lot
of
the
nitty-gritty
details
and
trying
to
be
there,
quite
frankly,
not
just
as
a
sounding
board,
but
as
a
support
mechanism.
For
again
the
departments
in
the
work
that
they're
doing.
J
So
what
like
I
said,
resources
that
it
really
all
comes
down
to
resources,
so
we
advocate
and
fight
for
more
resources
to
do
this
enforcement,
whether
it's
hiring
investigators
getting
money
into
the
hands
of
workers
to
go
out
and
do
this
outreach
or
small
businesses,
I'm
kind
of
embarrassed
I
don't
have
the
number.
Was
it
eight.
D
J
So,
but
the
city
does
have
a
very
important
role
in
their
investigators
as
well,
which
there's
been
a
lot
of
discussion
about
at
what
point?
Does
it
make
sense
for
the
these
two
things
to
intersect?
So
we
do
have
people
who
spend
a
lot
of
time.
Thinking
about
that
and
have
good
advice
on
when
those
kind
of
things
should
be
handed
over
and
who
should
be
filming,
which
roles
and.
A
D
A
M
Stuff,
yes,
for
the
future,
the
future!
Well,
the
just
a
little
bit
on
the
work
that
we've
done
around
wage
stuff.
I
think
that
the
outreach
and
education
has
really
helped
us
to
be
able
to
prevent
some
wage
theft
and
also
be
able
to
help
folks
identify
it
where
it's
existed,
so
that
they
can
make
a
complaints.
We've
seen
the
the
the
Civil
Rights
Department
do
some
incredible
work
in
recovering
some
ferment
tremendous
on
our
back
wages.
There
was
a
case
that
was
in
the
in
the
Star
Tribune
and
of
a
worker
at
Metro.
M
Petro
I
think
it
was
eleven
thousand
dollars
in
back
wages
that
were
able
to
be
recovered
because
there
were
penalties,
because
this
employer
was
just
willfully
violating
the
law
retaliating
against
a
worker,
and
so
the
department
did
a
really
incredible
job
of
digging
deep
and
investigating
another
example
of
kind
of
what
our
resources
are
necessary
is
like
that
level
of
an
investigation
and
digging
was
really
important,
particularly
in
that
in
that
case,
so
that's
sort
of
looking
at
what
we've
done
and
we've
now
started
to
really
think
about
the
future.
So
what
do
we?
What's?
M
Next,
on
the
horizon
Chelsea
mentioned,
we
could
have
a
list
of
35
things.
We
do
have
a
list
of
35
things
that
we
could
work
on.
But
what
we're
really
thinking
about
right
now
is
is
wage
theft
as
we
we
know
it's
a
significant
problem.
It's
a
problem
here,
it's
a
significant
problem
across
the
country.
You
know
the
seminal
study
on
big
cities
done
by
the
National
Employment
Law
Project
from
that
of
all
of
the
workers
that
they
surveyed
low-wage
workers
that
they
surveyed.
M
66
percent
had
experienced
some
form
of
wage
theft
in
the
previous
week
to
being
to
filling
out
this
survey
and
doing
this
interview,
which
is
really
really
significant,
and
on
top
of
that
there
were
a
lot
of
high
numbers
around
retaliation
and
things
like
that.
So
Economic
Policy
Institute
actually
also
reported
that
more
money
is
stolen
each
year
in
wages
than
in
property
theft,
and
we
think
about
the
resources
that
we
spend
to
try
to
stop
property
theft
through
police
department
and
other
other
means.
M
But
but
we
need
to
be
thinking
about
how
are
we
funding
wage
theft
or
anti,
which
left
work
and
enforcement
of
those
laws,
and
so
that's
a
significant,
significant
piece
of
the
work
but
just
I
said
kept
coming
down
to
the
resources
around
it.
So
I
think
a
piece
of
this.
That's
that's
really
important
and
why
we
decided
wage
theft
needed
to
be
a
focus
too,
is
that
you
know
we've
recently
passed
the
minimum
wage
increase
in
the
city
of
Minneapolis
to
go
up
to
50.
M
We
all
know
that
it
was
a
lot
of
folks
in
the
community
that
really
made
their
voices
heard,
particularly
low
wage
workers,
black
and
brown
workers
that
that
came
in
the
City
Hall.
To
talk
to
you
all
about
why
this
was
so
important
for
their
lives
and,
unfortunately,
those
same
folks,
low
wage,
black
and
brown
folks
are
the
folks
that
are
most
likely
to
be
victims
of
wage
theft
and
that
are
most
vulnerable
to
wage
theft
by
their
employers.
M
We
think
it's
really
important
a
couple
of
next
steps
and
that
one
is
to
really
look
look
at
the
ordinance
as
it
exists,
and
we've
started
some
work
on
this
and
look
at
where
there
are
some
where
there
are
holes
where
there
are
gaps
and
how
enforce
it
and
how
enforcement
happens
as
per
the
ordinance.
So,
for
example,
right
now,
minimum
wage
is
$10.
If
somebody
were
making
$12
an
hour
and
they
had
they
worked
ten
hours
and
were
unpaid.
M
One
would
think
they
should
be
able
to
recover
one
hundred
and
twenty
thousand
dollars
or
sorry
thousand
one
hundred
twenty
dollars
plus
if
there
are
any
fines
or
penalties,
but
unfortunately
the
city
doesn't
actually
have
the
authority
to
do
that.
Legally
one
could
go
to
court
and
do
that.
But
the
city
can
only
enforce
up
to
the
$10
an
hour,
because
that's
the
minimum
wage,
so
so
the
city
could
could
get
somebody
$100
back,
even
though
they
are
owed
120.
Does
that
make
I'm
making
sense,
am
I
getting
tied
up
so.
K
M
Of
Minnesota
is
the
same:
it's
the
same
issue
they
can
only
enforce
965
federal
can
only
enforce
725,
so
we'd
like
to
think
about.
How
could
we?
How
could
we
shift
that?
How
could
we
change
that
such
that
people
are
actually
that
the
city
is
actually
able
to
investigate
and
recover
for
workers?
What
they're?
Actually
so,
that's
a
thing
that
we've
noticed
as
a
whole.
Another
hole
as
the
city
doesn't
actually
have
the
right
to
enforce
overtime,
and
so
how
do
so
if
people
are
not
getting
paid
overtime?
M
How
do
we
make
sure
that
the
city
has
at
least
the
amount
of
authority
that
the
state
on
the
state
level,
but
the
state
has
and
then,
in
addition
to
that,
making
sure
people
are
getting
paid,
what
they're
owed,
so
those
are
some
of
the
holes
are
talking
about.
There's
lots
of
other
little.
It's
other
examples,
but
those
are
the
kind
of
things
that
we're
thinking
about.
How
do
we
shift
that,
and
so
we,
you
know
some
of
our
next
steps
are
we'll
be
talking
to
different
folks
about
what?
J
J
K
Want
to
thank
you
all
for
your
work,
I'm,
really
looking
forward
to
your
suggestions
on
wage
theft.
You
know
I've
moved
here
from
Chicago.
Where
is
a
huge
problem,
especially
for
those
our
most
vulnerable
and
not
in
a
position
to
really
bring
it
up.
So
I'm
want
to
make
sure
that
we
can
set
a
very
high
bar
here
in
the
city
and
look
forward
to
y'all,
saying
thanks
again
for
your
work,
I.
A
D
D
M
A
A
couple
of
them,
one
of
the
things
that
I
noticed
in
the
presentation
is
the
highlighted
working
with
the
business
navigator
or
small
business
support
to
be
the
coordinators
office.
You
focused
on
how
you
trying
to
give
support
and
work
with
the
Civil
Rights
Department,
but
you
didn't
mention
our
Community
Planning
and
Economic
Development
Department,
which
handles
all
the
business
licensing.
All
the
economic
development
efforts
and
support,
and
so
I
think
you
could
there's
got
to
be
ways
where
we
can
help
build
some
connections
there
and
get
some
support
there.
I
actually
think
someday.
A
We
might
want
the
business
division
once
it's
up
and
running
and
it's
clear
what
they're
doing
it
go
there
and
there's
actually
a
lot
of
good
work.
That's
going
on
they're
supporting
small
businesses
and
and
micro
loans,
and,
and
there
might
be
a
way
that
I'm
to
amplify
kind
of
the
carrot
or
the
incentives
or
the
positives
over
there
to
be
a
companion
so
think
about
that
as
a
thing
to
tiptoe
into
or
or
look
at
for
resource
or
and
look
council,
it
could
help
you
maybe
make
some
connections
there.
A
I
also
noticed
you
didn't
talk
about
fair
scheduling
and
if
you
remember
our
agenda,
our
working
families
agenda,
we
had
four
big
things
on
it
and,
in
my
mind,
that's
one
that
was
left
undone
and,
of
course,
we
went
into
that
and
we
approached
it
before
we
had
our
wonderful
advisory
group
there
to
handle
these
kinds
of
things
for
us,
and
so
you
saw
how
that
went.
I
guess
for
the
council,
I
don't
know
if
you
remember
any
of
that,
but
there
are
some
dramatic
moments
in.
L
L
A
A
Some
people
have
to
leave
and
then
come
back
in
a
few
hours,
because
that's
her
next
shift
and
it's
there
are
what
most
people
would
think,
unreasonable
expectations
and
unfair
expectations
put
on
people's
schedules
and
usually
the
lowest
paid
workers
who
are
in
maybe
even
in
need
of
that
some
more
than
others.
So
that's
something
to
think
about
it.
J
A
I
can
can
move
it
out
there
and
then
it's
not
I
don't
have
to
provide
as
much
for
the
people
who
are
working
there
and
a
lot
of
that
was
a
really
big
burden
on
those
independent
contractors
to
take
care
of
a
lot
of
things
and
sometimes
I.
Don't
know
that
it's
fair
I'm,
not
sure
how
we
get
to
it.
That
problem
I
think.
J
And
to
that
point
to
you
both
for
each
theft,
so
one
of
the
big
things
that
we
also
look
at
with
wage
theft
is
the
city's
ability
to
enforce
independent
contractor
people
violating
the
independent
contractor
rules,
so
can't
where
we
can
align.
The
city's
enforcement
with
the
state's
enforcement,
including
independent
contractor,
is
something
that
is
on
this
list
of
policy
considerations
which
does
allude
to
that.
But
when
you
started
talking
about
the
on-time
on
demand
scheduling
the
thing
that
I
wrote
here
is
sort
of
that
next
layer.
You
know
this.
J
Wage
theft
really
supports
all
of
the
work
that
has
been
ongoing
and
on
the
ongoing
that
next
layer,
when
you
enter
into
the
discussion
about
you,
know
the
on-demand
scheduling
you're
automatically
also
entering
this
gig
economy.
Discussion.
So
I
think
that
is
very
topical,
a
very
top
of
mine
for
this
entire
committee-
and
you
know
at
the
end
of
the
day
when
we
talk
about
wage
theft
and
earn
sick
time
and
minimum
wage.
It
all
comes
back
to
what's
happening
in
both
the
account
like
the
gig
economy
and
your
scheduling.
J
So
everybody
is
aware
of
that.
It's
just
sort
of
like
how
do
we
take
the
next
steps
to
because,
when
you
take
that
on
you're,
taking
on
both
of
those
things
at
the
same
time,
which
is
very
daunting,
so
I
think
we
are
the
committee
that
can
do
this
work
with
the
support
of
the
council
and
our
departments.
But
you
know
we're
just
we're
working
through
that.
J
And
then
we
are
very
eager
to
work
with
other
groups,
including
the
neighborhood
groups.
Main
Street
Alliance
has
been
the
sort
of
main
gateway
for
us,
and
one
of
them
was
one
of
the
small
businesses
when
it
was
going
to
be
here
today
in
that,
so
they
could
speak
to
that
better.
But
there's
other
committees
too,
like
the
workforce
development
that
we
really
hope
to
have
a
relationship
with
as
a
committee.
So
we
really
appreciate
any
connections
with
those
and
I'm
really
excited
to
hear
this
energy
around
these
issues.
A
Would
be
really
good,
well,
I,
appreciate
that,
and
those
are
just
some
of
my
thoughts
that
I
thought
I'd
share.
I,
don't
think
I'm
ready
to
necessarily
give
you
any
direction
on
that.
I
do
think
that
it
makes
a
lot
of
sense
to
look
at
a
priority
and
tackling
wage
theft,
excellent
excellent
plan
and
I.
You
know
you're
not
asking
for
us
to
approve
of
it
or
anything,
but
now
we
appreciate
your
working
on
it
and
I
think
it
makes
a
lot
of
sense
do
feel
free
to
reach
out
I.
A
Think
to
any
of
us.
If
you
want
assistance
or
you
think
we
should
be
kept
abreast
in
more
detail
separately
of
the
work
that
you're
doing
or
issues
that
might
come
up,
I
don't
see
any
other
questions.
So
then
I
think
the
appropriate
thing
for
me
to
do
is
to
thank
you
very
much
for
this
wonderful
presentation
and
all
your
good
work
and
to
move
to
receive
and
file.
This
report
King.