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Minneapolis Public Health, Environment, Civil Rights, and Engagement Committee Meeting
A
Good
afternoon
I'm
going
to
call
to
order
this
regularly
scheduled
meeting
of
the
public
health
environment,
civil
rights
and
engagement
committee
on
Monday
April,
16
2018.
My
name
is
councilmember
Philippe,
Cunningham
and
I.
Am
the
chair
of
this
committee
at
the
dais
with
me?
Are
councilmembers
Fletcher,
Schrader,
Gordon
and
council
vice-president
Jenkins?
Please
let
the
record
reflect
that
we
have
a
quorum.
We
have
10
items
on
our
agenda
today,
including
a
public
public
hearing
on
the
reappointment
of
the
civil
rights
director.
We
will
begin
with
a
consent.
A
Item
agenda
then
move
to
the
public
hearing,
followed
by
the
discussion
items.
We
have
six
items
on
the
consent
agenda.
The
first
is
the
minneapolis
community
environmental
Advisory,
Commission
appointment.
We
are
approving
a
two-year
term
of
the
council
appointment
of
michelle
shah
seat,
one
ward,
one.
She
is
a
public
school
teacher
and
has
taught
about
environmental
justice
and
sponsored
an
award-winning
student-led
group.
A
She
is
active
in
the
State
Environmental
Quality
board
and
her
Neighborhood
Association
Michelle
wants
to
help
siak
work
on
composting
environmental
connection
with
our
aging
infrastructure
and
increasing
public
outreach
and
awareness
Thank,
You
Michelle
for
your
service.
We
as
decision-makers
are
lucky
to
have
your
perspective.
The
second
item
is
a
community
solar
garden,
increasing
subscription
agreements
with
IPS,
solar,
Rana,
solar
and
us
solar
authorizing
an
increase
in
the
total
amounts
of
solar
community
garden.
Community
solar
garden
subscriptions
held
by
the
city
from
12
million
kilowatt
hours
annually
to
20
million
kilowatts
annually.
A
Number
three
is
a
master
contract
amending
with
Tubman
Pillsbury,
United
communities,
north
health,
oxygen,
Northpoint,
health
and
wellness
center,
and
the
Family
Partnership
for
continued
Health
and
Human
Services
programs.
Number
four
is
an
agreement
with
Hennepin
County
to
engage
in
local
collaborative
time,
study,
revenue,
enhancement
activities.
Five
is
a
grant
from
the
US
Department
of
Housing
and
Urban
Development
for
Ledra
media
and
healthy
home
services.
A
So
they
are
asking
for
a
permit
on
May,
25th
and
26th
to
go
from
6:00
p.m.
to
6:00
a.m.
do
any
of
the
councilmembers.
Have
any
questions
all
right,
seeing
none
to
the
public
who
would
like
to
have
if
you
are
curious
about
any
of
those
consent
items
you're
able
to
go
to
limbs
li
ms
minneapolis
MN
gov
to
get
more
information
about
what
those
are
so
seeing.
No
questions,
I
move
approval
of
the
consent
agenda.
A
So
let
me
excuse
me
one
second.
So
do
we
have
these?
Oh
thank
you
all
right,
so
I
will
open
up
the
public
hearing.
I
have
a
sign-in
sheet
and
I'll
call
the
names
in
the
order
listed.
If
anyone
is
present,
who
would
like
to
speak
and
did
not
sign
in
yet,
please
see
the
so
first
person
we
have
signed
up
is
Dave
picking,
please
step
forward
state,
your
name
and
address
for
the
record.
Thank
you.
Mr.
Whitney,
hello,.
B
My
name
is
Dave
picking.
I
live
at
4200,
Cedar
Avenue
South
in
Minneapolis,
as
I
think
about
your
committees,
deliberations
on
the
reappointment
of
velma
Korbel
I,
wonder
how
much
information
do
you
have
I
have
heard
that
most
council
members
never
receive
the
performance
reviews
of
the
department
heads
that
they
are
voting
on?
Have
you
seen
director
corbels?
Have
you
even
asked
for
it
in
a
weak
mayor
system,
your
committee
directly
oversees
the
Civil
Rights
Department,
you
shouldn't
micromanage,
but
are
you
managing
at
all?
B
The
director
should
have
considerable
independence
and
authority,
but
this
committee,
like
the
Board
of
Directors
of
a
non-profit
or
business,
has
the
ultimate
authority
and
responsibility
I
sure
wouldn't
want
to
be
responsible
for
the
poor
management
and
the
poor
results
of
the
Minneapolis
Civil
Rights
Department.
The
most
important
power
you
have
in
your
position
is
the
power
to
hire
and
fire,
and
that
is
exactly
what
you
exercise
today.
Even
what
we
know
and
that
you
ought
to
know
it
is
time
to
use
your
power
to
fire
director
Korbel.
B
Are
you
going
to
ask
any
questions
of
director
Korbel
I
noted
that
City
Attorney
Susan
Siegel?
Never
stood
for
questions
at
any
stage
of
her
reappointment,
despite
being
present
in
the
room
as
members
of
the
public.
We
have
questions
that
can't
be
answered
any
other
way.
We
have
been
frustrated
by
a
stone
wall
of
silence.
We
submitted
a
data
practice
request
in
December
regarding
the
management
consulting
that
was
mandated
for
director
Korbel
back
in
2014.
Almost
four
months
later,
we
have
no
response
to
our
requests.
B
We
asked
for
information
on
complaints
filed
with
a
complaint,
Investigation
Division,
similar
to
complaints
we
receive
on
complaints.
Today,
some
of
the
information
we
receive
on
complaints
to
the
OPC
are
we
got
a
two-page
summary.
Instead,
a
week
ago,
I
sent
you
some
questions
about
the
results
or
reports
on
the
management
consultant
who
was
hired
to
coach
his
Korbel
in
2014.
At
that
time,
you
were
supposed
to
get
a
report
back
in
three
months
that
would
have
been
June
2014.
You
never
received
that
report
and
no,
whenever
asked
for
it.
B
B
Play
continued:
are
you
totally
isolated
from
the
information
and
consequences
of
your
inaction?
It
sometimes
appear.
You
live
in
a
bubble
in
City
Hall.
Do
you
hear
anything
about
the
civil
rights
department,
except
through
the
glowing
reports
of
its
own
management?
One
of
director
corbels,
clear
faults
is
our
redistricting.
B
Has
sued
the
Department
for
retaliation
and
discrimination,
you
have
approved
settlements
totaling
over
a
hundred
and
sixty
thousand
dollars.
When
you
manage
the
department
and
communicate
almost
entirely
with
this
director,
you
need
a
method
to
know
what
is
really
happening.
Whistleblowers
are
important.
I
think
you
need
to
know
more
before
making
your
decision
today.
You
should
postpone
a
vote
until
you
have
more
information,
and
until
you
yourselves
do
the
work
to
gather
that
information.
B
Equality
equity
is
the
big
buzzword
around
here,
but
the
equity
division
of
the
Civil
Rights
Department
has
had
no
new
information
on
their
website.
Since
2013.
You
could
look
it
up.
Have
you
should
you?
You
should
postpone
any
vote
until
you
have
quote
done
your
homework.
As
the
mayor
has
said
about
us,
some
of
you
on
this
committee
are
new
to
the
City
Council
and
the
history
of
uncaring
rubber-stamping
doesn't
apply
to
you.
B
A
C
Good
afternoon
my
name
is
Todd.
Schumann
I
live
at
5:04
8
Vincent
Avenue
South
in
Minneapolis.
The
civil
rights
director
oversees
the
office
of
police
conduct
review
an
institution
that,
since
its
inception,
has
failed
in
its
mission
to
provide
real
community
oversight
of
the
Minneapolis
Police
Department.
An
effective
civilian
oversight
board
should
serve
as
an
independent
check
on
police
power.
Just
like
how
the
Bureau
of
Criminal
Apprehension
has
utilized
an
independent
as
an
independent
investigator
of
police
involved.
Shootings
police
should
not
be
the
final
arbiters
of
whether
their
own
members
have
engaged
in
misconduct.
C
Unfortunately,
the
current
structure
of
the
OPC
are
brazenly
violates
this
principle.
At
virtually
every
step
in
the
OPC,
our
process,
sworn
officers
have
a
voice
in
how
a
complaint
is
adjudicated.
Even
when
a
serious
complaint
is
found
to
have
merit.
The
recommendation
is
passed
along
to
the
Internal
Affairs
Unit,
with
the
police
chief.
Having
final
say
in
whether
discipline
is
issued.
C
Given
such
a
structure,
how
can
community
members
have
faith
that
their
complaint
receives
an
unbiased
evaluation?
Many
people
are
understandably
anxious
and
fearful
about
essentially
filing
a
complaint
about
the
police
to
the
police
themselves,
especially
after
being
verbally
or
physically
traumatized
by
an
officer.
This
does
not
even
begin
to
address
the
Byzantine
nature
of
the
complaints
process
itself,
where
people
are
often
left
in
limbo
for
months,
not
knowing
the
status
of
their
case
or
whether
any
action
was
taken
in
the
wake
of
numerous
high-profile
police
tragedies
in
Minneapolis
and
across
the
nation.
C
The
public
is
more
aware
than
ever
of
the
potential
consequences
of
police
misconduct.
Quite
frankly,
we
as
the
city
and
the
citizens
deserve
better
than
what
the
OPC
are
offers,
and
it
must
be
dismantled
to
make
room
for
an
institution
that
provides
truly
independent.
Community
oversight
of
the
police.
Belma
core
will
establish
the
OPC
our
early
in
her
tenure
as
the
civil
rights
director
I
believe
we
need
a
new
civil
rights
director
to
craft
it
for
replacement.
Thank
you
for
your
time.
Thank.
D
I'm
new
and
I
resided
13:46
of
South
Avenue
Minneapolis
Minnesota
I
had
no
idea
what
I
would
say
when
I
got
up
here
and
know.
I
had
a
feeling
of
something
to
say
and
I
think
this
young
gentleman
for
saying
exactly
what
I
wanted
to
say
because
had
the
people
who
were
boss
over
these
people
did
their
homework.
They
would
never
had
had
someone
like
Velma
in
place,
who
is
not
doing
her
job
their
job
and
allowing
police
brutality
to
go.
D
Unsanctioned
I
mean
I
had
an
experience
the
other
day,
because
the
job
wasn't
done
and
it
fell
down
on
me.
I
went
into
a
grocery
store
and
well
the
convenience
store
across
the
street.
From
my
where
I
lived
and
the
police
officer
was
standing
by
the
ATM
as
I
was
trying
to
put
in
my
numbers,
I
was
very
uncomfortable
with
that
and
I
said
something
about
it
and
he
yelled
at
me.
He
cursed
me
out.
D
D
Without
breath
like
it
would
have
been
had
he
killed
me
and
then
I
went
home
alive
and
able
to
tell
my
story
to
the
civil
rights
people,
who
did
nothing
I
see
that
they
saw
they
had
a
1843
cases
and
only
10
came
up
to
make
the
police
accountable
for
their
actions
because
she's
not
even
accountable
for
her
act.
You
letting
her
go
ahead,
get
away
for
the
harm
people
I.
A
E
Chuck
derek
2112
portland
at
the
end
of
one
of
the
reappointment
hearings
for
city
attorney,
susan
siegel,
mayor
Frey,
strongly
suggested
that
we
based
our
our
arguments
on
facts,
not
just
on
feelings,
I
think.
That's
a
good
idea!
Fact
number
one
I
filed
the
complaint
with
facility
video
authority
alleging
multiple
ordinance
violations
of
them,
Police
Chief,
Jim,
Dolan
fact:
number
two:
the
complaint
was
accepted
as
a
valid
complaint
by
CIA
director,
Lee
Reed
fact:
number
three
civil
rights
director,
Velma
Korbel
decided
my
complaint
should
be
dismissed
and
I.
E
Be
then
that
I
be
referred
to
the
mayor's
office
or
the
City
Council.
How
do
I
know
that
she
sent
me
an
email
saying
that
very
thing
fact
number
four.
The
CRA
ordinance
said
that
the
Civil
Rights
director
quote,
shall
not
participate
in
the
decision-making
process
regarding
individual
CRA
complaint
files.
Conclusion
number
one
in
this
instance
miss
Korbel
violated
that
portion
of
the
ordinance
fact
number
five
I
have
raised
this
issue
with
council
members.
Before
fact:
number
six,
no
council
member
ever
publicly
asked
Miss
Korbel
about
this
ordinance
violation
predicted
fact.
E
No
council
member
asked
her
now
either
ceiling
number
one.
This
seems
like
a
small
issue.
It's
not
it's
an
example
of
how
elected
city
officials,
that
is
this
council
and
the
mayor,
passed
ordinances
and
then
ignore
the
later
violation
of
those
ordinances
when
people
they
appoint,
don't
follow
them.
This
isn't
about
director
Korbel.
This
is
about
you
fact,
number
seven
facts,
especially
when
they're
facts
we'd
like
to
annoy
ignore
ignore,
can
sometimes
be
troublesome.
Things
predicted
fact
number
two.
These
facts
will
have
no
effect
on
your
decision
regarding
the
reappointment
at
director.
A
F
This
was
fairly
hastily
done,
so
we
I
think
we
could
have
gotten
many
more
signatures
had
we
had
more
time
and
it
reads
as
follows:
we
oppose
the
reappointment
of
filmic
horrible
to
the
position
of
Director
of
the
civil
right
Minneapolis
civil
rights
department.
Her
administration
has
been
marked
by
failure
to
uphold
our
civil
rights,
failure
to
hold
police
accountable
and
poor
staff
management.
Her
record
is
indefensible.
F
The
civil
rights
department
is
important
and
we
demand
that
the
mayor
and
city
council
engage
in
a
search
for
a
candidate
who
will
more
effectively
advocate
for
the
rights
of
the
residents
of
Minneapolis
and
I
will
hand
this
off
to
the
clerk.
In
addition
to
that,
I
want
to
just
say
a
couple
of
other
things,
because
many
of
the
other
points
I
don't
want
to
reiterate
what
other
people
have
said
that
I
do
want
to
raise
this
I.
Was
there
I've
been
involved
with
police
accountability
in
this
town
for
over
25
years?
F
I
was
there
when
the
civilian
review
Authority
was
shut
down?
In
fact,
I
was
there
before
that,
because
I
was
actually
the
chair
of
the
reproductive.
The
excuse
me
the
the
redesign
working
group
of
the
civilian
review
Authority,
and
once
we
finished
our
work
in
the
city
ignored
it.
Then
they
allow
the
civil
rights,
the
civilian
review
Authority
to
kind
of
basically
devolve
for
through
lack
of
resources,
lack
of
investigators-
things
like
that,
so
they
allowed
it
to
be
a
problem,
but
the
people
that
were
the
volunteers.
F
Here's
the
real
community
members
work
hard
to
try
to
make
that
agency
work.
They
really
worked
hard
and
it
was
a
place
for
people
to
complain
to
outside
of
the
cities.
You
know
proper
structure,
if
you
will.
This
was
important
to
the
community.
This
was
something
the
community
dant
demanded
back
in
1990
right
in
the
immediate
aftermath
of
the
killing
of
Lloyd
Smalley
and
Lillian
Wiese.
So
this
was
something
we
demanded.
We
wanted
this
and
in
a
secret
process
behind
closed
doors,
the
civil
rights
director
don't
look
horrible
new
on
her
assignment
destroyed
it.
F
She
replaced
it
with
the
office
of
police
conduct
review.
You
have
the
statistics.
These
are
statistics
that
we
draw
directly
from
the
data
we
get
from
the
from
from
the
city.
Through
data
practice
requests
1843
complaints
from
the
member
from
members
of
the
community
10
have
been
sustained
and
disciplined
in
five
and
a
half
years.
That
is
an
an
indefensible
statistic.
That
means
we
have
a
roughly
0.55
percent
sustained
rates
where
the
national
average
is
seven
to
eight
percent.
This
is
just
where
the
the
low-end
laughingstock
of
the
country,
it's
outrageous.
F
Finally,
that
I
want
to
just
throw
in
one
more
thing,
and
that's
this.
This
was
a
pretty
tough
day
for
people
to
get
down
here.
I
talked
to
many
people
who
wanted
to
be
here
today
to
be
able
to
speak,
but,
as
you
know,
of
course,
we
had
a
major
catastrophe
over
the
weekend
and
the
city
is
still
under
a
snow
emergency
as
we
speak.
F
So
I
would
ask
that
you
continue
this
hearing
to
another
date,
because
there
were
many
people
that
called
me
this
morning
saying
they
wanted
to
be
here,
couldn't
get
their
cars
out,
couldn't
figure
out
how
they
were
gonna
get
here
otherwise,
and
so
it
would
be
greatly
appreciated
if
more
people's
voices
could
be
heard.
I
think
that's
really
key,
and
so
I
am
really
asking
for
that.
Again
many
people
spoke
to
me
that
said
that
they
wanted
to
speak,
but
just
couldn't
get
here
to
do
it.
So
thank
you
for
your
time.
Thank
you.
A
G
Reappointment
I
joined
the
council
in
2003
and
very
quickly
discovered
that
the
civil
rights
department
was
a
stepchild
of
the
city,
stepchild
department.
It
was
onerous
respected.
It
was
underfunded,
losing
funding
every
year
because
it
seemed
that
at
that
time
the
perception
was.
That
was
the
only
way
to
to
enforce
some
kind
of
consequences
for
the
problems
that
existed
in
the
department.
So
they
they,
the
the
department,
gradually
lost
even
more
prestige.
As
the
early
years
of
my
tenure
continued,
there
were
multiple
predecessors
for
Velma,
a
high
rate
of
turnover.
G
These
things
were
routinely
recited
and
regurgitate
it
and
it
seemed
like
the
city
could
not
find
the
right
person
who
had
the
reputation,
the
connection,
the
grit
and
the
general
capacity
to
deal
with
a
department
that
was
bit
basically
the
department
of
gripes
and
that's
just
what
it
is,
and
so
we
get
a
nice
person.
You'll
have
a
nice
person.
Just
wasn't
tough
enough
or
you
get
a
tough
person.
Just
wasn't
gentle
enough.
It's
it's
probably
the
most
difficult
position
to
fill
in
the
city.
G
Well,
that's
why
when
Velma
came
in,
she
was
not
the
only
one,
but
when
drama
came
in,
we
could
see
right
away
the
transformation
of
the
department,
the
peripheral
professionalization
of
the
department-
and
there
was
a
gradual
improvement
at
every
level
of
the
reputation
and
prestige
of
the
department.
The
peripheral
professionalization
of
department,
the
quality
of
staff,
improved
the
resiliency
and
cultural
competency
of
the
leadership
improved
and
I
I,
just
give
a
little
warning,
don't
even
think
about
replicating
the
quality
of
a
person
as
a
task
that
can
be
easily
done.
A
I
I
They
as
the
young
man's
mother,
saying
things
like
can't
anyone
smell
in
the
reference
to
the
body.
The
police
then
told
everyone
at
the
scene
to
please
exit
the
building
and
wait
outside
another
officer.
Then
exited
the
building.
With
my
son's
wallet
raised
in
the
air
and
said,
I
have
your
son's
wallet
and
there's
cash
in
it.
When
I
asked
the
officer
for
it,
he
simply
ignored
me
and
get
back
into
his
car
at
the
time
I
assumed.
Maybe
they
just
needed
it
as
evidence.
I
I
Everyone
I
have
tried
to
contact
in
regards
to
this
issue
as
either
referred
me
to
another
dead
end
or
simply
told
me
to
leave
it
alone.
However,
I
cannot
leave
it
alone,
as
Victor's
mother
I
feel
I'm
in
tight
of
titled
to
some
sort
of
justice.
Justice
I
have
not
received
I'm
reaching
out
to
you,
mr.
Cunningham,
with
the
hopes
that
as
a
Fourth,
Ward,
City,
Council
member,
you
can
help
me
or
at
a
minimum.
I
A
A
J
My
name
is
William
English.
My
address
is
12
850th
Avenue
North,
that's
in
Plymouth,
where
I
sleep
I
live
in
North
Minneapolis,
where
I
spend
my
money
well,
on
property,
I've
lived
in
Minneapolis
more
in
40
years
before
I
moved
to
put
on
it.
I
just
want
to
clarify
that
for
the
record.
First
of
all,
I'm
gonna
pay
my
respect
to
the
vice
president
and
the
council.
Vice
president
Jenkins,
congratulations.
K
J
J
When
I
came
here,
you
could
walk
around
downtown
three
times
and
not
find
another
person
of
color.
I
was
the
first
black
salesman
ever
hired
by
3m.
I
later
went
to
work
for
control
data
where
I
was
then
the
chief
diversity
officer
check
your
records
and
you
will
find
it.
Control
data
had
one
of
the
outstanding
places
to
work
for
people
of
color,
where
I
recruited
more
than
700
black
professionals
to
come
to
Minnesota
and
work
for
control
data.
J
I
served
32
years
there
17,
as
a
vice
president,
so
I
know
about
the
subject
for
which
I'm,
here
to
the
address
compliance
with
both
the
city,
state
and
federal
ordinances
on
civil
rights,
I'm
afraid
that
I
must
say
to
you.
As
the
last
speaker,
Don
salmon,
said
part
of
the
issue
with
the
perception
of
director.
Kobold
garble
his
Ben
and
in
adequate
resourcing
of
that
department
and
it
started
from
beginning
any
civil
rights
director
is
only
as
strong
as
the
people
supporting
her,
that
is,
the
council
and
the
press,
and
the
mayor
department.
J
J
So
what
direct
responsibility
does
the
director
the
civil
rights
Department
have
now
in
terms
of
the
complaint
process?
The
complaint
process
is
a
complicated
process.
It
requires
solid
investigations
and
then
a
finding,
if
you
don't
know
about
the
police
department
history
in
this
city
over
the
last
40
years
or
last,
the
years
of
her
tenure,
then
you've
not
been
awake.
The
department
resisted
anything
that
director
karma
brought
in
terms
of
finding
police
guilty.
In
fact,
the
teachers
union
thought
I
mean
this
police
union
fought
against
her.
J
J
A
L
And
how
ya
doing
my
name
is
Anna
green
Renfro
I
am
really
complaining
about
the
minute
necklace
police
department.
What
the
man
matrix,
I
came
and
I
found.
Complaints
from
my
husband
has
been
rings.
Uh-Huh
and
I
filed
complaints
about
my
husband
that
has
been
abused
and
misused
about
half
of
our
staff
members
I
gave
him
pictures.
I
gave
him
record.
I
gave
him
everything
he
needs
to
prove
that
case.
He
told
me
I
had
to
sit
back
and
wait.
L
It
had
gotten
worse
and
worse
and
worse,
I
like
to
know
what
do
I
fit
in
there.
The
way
he
fit
in
there
to
get
him
for
his
case.
If
you
got
started
telling
me
that
I
gotta
wait
because
I
sleep
outside
mm-hmm
I
went
to
the
Civil
Rights
and
they
told
me
to
go
downstairs
and
they
told
me
how
to
file
this
in
paper
here,
I'm
right
here,
police
conduct,
I
went
there
and
I
got
it
in
exactly
a
hundred
and
seventy-five
papers
against
y'all
staff.
Your
necklace
police
department,
I,
gave
them
pictures.
L
L
A
M
I'm
Holly
st.
Clair
I
live
at
51,
25
Portland,
Avenue,
South
I
want
to
start
by
recognizing
your
jobs.
This
comes
from
one
Jenkins.
You
actually
came
and
spoke
to
one
of
my
classes
when
I
was
a
freshman
and
it
stuck
with
me.
It
meant
a
lot
I
know
you
guys
putting
a
lot
of
work
into
everything
you
do
when
you're
here
and
also
at
home.
M
A
N
I
2
1
1,
2,
Portland,
Avenue
South,
the
cases
that
come
to
the
police
conduct
oversight
committee
for
review
all
after
going
before
the
office
of
police
conduct
review
are
somewhat
shocking.
Their
officers
are
so
disrespectful.
People
that
they
come
in
contact
with
should
be
of
great
concern
to
everyone.
N
Officers
ought
to
be
fired
for
using
this
inflammatory
and
escalating
language,
yet
they
are
virtually
never
found
guilty
of
this
or
any
other
breach
of
their
code
of
conduct.
I
hardly
believe
that
all
these
complainants
are
making
up
stories
about
the
police.
I'm,
sorry
and
I
say
this
because
I
know
as
many
in
the
community
do
also
that
police
retaliate
against
people
who
report
them
for
misconduct.
N
N
Complainant
states
that
when
the
bar
patron
struck
the
floor,
he
began
to
bleed
from
his
mouth
and
head
when
complainants
friend
a
registered
nurse
attempted
to
assist
the
bar
patron.
He
contends
that
Officer
one
told
her
to
get
her
hands
off
him
after
telling
the
officer
that
she
was
a
nurse
complainant
asserts
that
Officer
one
told
her
I
don't
give
a
actually
I
think
this
is
against
the
law.
N
N
A
O
P
P
P
P
P
O
P
P
P
Concejal
de
esta
ciudad
que
se
abre
investigation
trigger
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yo,
our
team,
a
restitution
law
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less
Tamara,
Varma
documented
de-identification,
porque,
soy
de
nada
americano,
yet
or
essentially
the
participle.
Yet
my
estimate
participar
concern
aside,
who
IDO
Mucha
Gracia
Pema
hospital
yosaku
do.
Are
you,
sir?
The
moment
karati
called
como
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una.
P
O
P
P
P
O
A
You
so
much
alright
I
will
ask
one
last
time:
is
there
or
I
guess
three
more
times?
Is
there
anyone
else?
Who
is
here
to
speak
on
this,
and
you
know
anyone
else,
anyone
seeing
no
one
else
wishing
to
speak.
I
officially
closed
this
public
hearing
before
I
I'm
gonna,
oh,
and
thank
you
mayor.
We
want
to
say
hello
to
mayor
Jay
frye.
Thank
you
for
joining
us
before
I
pass
it
over
to
the
mayor.
I
wanted
to
check
in
about
something
because
I
have
some
concerns
about
the
numbers
that
have
been
discussed.
A
Typically,
if
director
director
Korbel
was
here,
I
would
ask
her
directly,
but
I
believe
that
we
have
a
couple
of
folks
here
from
the
compliance
and
director
who
can
speak
to
this
or
deep.
Are
you
able
to
speak
to
this?
The
two
of
you
because
I'm
just
concerned
about
this
data,
so
I
just
would
like
to
get
some
clarification
and
context
for
it.
H
Good
afternoon,
chair,
Cunningham
council,
vice
president
Jenkins
council
members,
my
name
is
Imani
Jafar
and
the
mayor
as
well.
I
am
the
director
of
the
office
of
police
conduct
review,
so
I
can
address
the
numbers
for
you
specifically.
As
we
know,
the
office
of
police
conduct
review
was
created
in
2012
due
to
a
state
law
change
that
made
the
civilian
review
authority
unable
to
continue
functioning
in
its
form.
However,
my
understanding
of
the
history
is
that
is
that.
H
H
H
That's
actually
sent
back
to
the
joint
supervisors,
which
is
myself
in
the
commander
of
internal
affairs,
review
170
two
of
those
have
been
issued
and
my
office
did.
Recent
research
and
study
work
that
included
that
there,
recidivism
after
being
sent
to
coaching,
is
very
very
low.
So
that's
the
current
numbers
right
now.
Do
you
have
any
questions
or
other
information
you
want
for
me
about
the
office.
H
So
when
a
complaint
is
filed,
most
of
the
complaints
actually
come
to
our
office
from
online.
The
first
step
in
screening.
That
process
is
a
civilian
investigator
who
then
prepares
the
complaint,
along
with
any
of
the
initial
documents
to
be
reviewed
by
myself
and
the
commander
of
internal
affairs.
Then
from
that
point,
and
this
information
is
all
on
our
website,
you
can
actually
see
how
we
decision
make
the
numbers
are
there
and
available
to
the
public
along
with
fact
sheets
about
our
office
with
that
process.
H
So
there's
a
number
of
paths
that
can
go
if
the
case
continues
going
going
along
that
route,
cases
that
go
through
investigation
and
ultimately
hit
a
review
panel.
That's
a
mix
of
sworn
officers,
lieutenants
and
civilians
that
are
appointed
by
the
City
Council
and
the
mayor.
So
you
have
civilian
civilians
layered
throughout
the
process.
There's
also
the
police
conduct
oversight,
Commission
that
tackles
higher
level
policy
issues.
H
A
F
R
Cher
Cunningham,
thank
you
so
much
for
the
opportunity.
Members
of
the
committee
I
do
appreciate
the
ability
to
speak
here
in
support
of
our
civil
rights
director,
miss
Korbel.
You
know,
I
actually
had
the
experience
of
being
involved
with
cases
prior
to
Miss.
Corbels
involvement
and
I
can
say
that
the
backlog
was
significant.
R
There
was,
there
was
a
backlog
in
the
form
of
multiple
hundred
cases
and
what
that
backlog
led
to
was
the
inability
to
get
cases
resolved
in
a
timely
fashion
and
although
there
are
treble
damages,
in
other
words
three
times
the
amount
of
damages
that
you
can
get
through
our
Minneapolis
Civil
Rights
Department
as
a
plaintiff.
It
was
the
case
that
most
attorneys
would
not
take
cases
through
the
civil
rights
department,
because
it
would
quite
simply
take
too
long.
R
Individuals
needed
dant
needed
to
receive
the
necessary
damages
and
they
were
not
receiving
those
damages
because
of
the
backlog,
and
what
I
know
is
that
miss
Cora
Bell
has
dramatically
reduced
that
backlog,
thus
allowing
the
Civil
Rights
Department
to
function
properly.
That
is
no
small
feat.
I'll
also
note
that
miss
Korbel
has
essentially
not
only
essentially
eliminated
the
backlog,
but
has
also
spearheaded
the
enforcement
of
our
earned
sick
and
save
time
and
minimum
wage
ordinances.
Since
Minneapolis
is
first
in
the
state
paid
sick
leave
ordinance
took
effect
in
July
corbels
civil
rights.
R
R
Korbel
was
also
the
founders
of
the
founder
of
the
city's
urban
Scholars
Program.
An
internship
program
that
provides
students
from
diverse
cultural
backgrounds,
with
professional
experience,
experience
in
state
and
local
government
and
the
quality
of
the
body
of
her
work
I
think
reflects
the
high
caliber
of
her
leadership.
I
will
note
that
I
was
someone
who
did
not
vote
in
favor
of
Miss
Korbel
four
years
ago,
due
to
a
concern
about
interaction
with
employees.
R
However,
there
was
some
training
that
took
place
and
if
you
look
at
the
the
sheer
numbers,
whether
those
numbers
were
alleged
or
proven,
they
simply
dropped
dramatically
so
I
think
if
you
look
at
the
the
full
body
of
Miss
corbels
work,
it
is,
it
is
worth
reappointment
and
I
do
ask
for
your
support.
Thank
you.
A
S
Thank
you
I
appreciate
the
comments
that
we
heard
today.
I
also
note
that
miss
corporal
isn't
here
and
I
also
acknowledge
that
there
was
a
lot
of
snow
out
today
and
then
we
heard
comments
about
people
who
weren't
able
to
make
it
because
of
this.
I
sent
sensitive
to
that
and
I
would
be
open
to
the
idea
of
continuing
it
to
let
us
get
some
more
questions
answered.
S
Maybe
do
some
more
research
and
we
heard
some
kind
of
disturbing
allegations
and
and
give
an
opportunity
for
more
people
to
give
input
if
we
wanted
to
I'm
won't
make
the
most
in
there.
But
I
wanted
to
throw
it
out
to
the
committee
members
to
see
if
that
was
something
people
are
open
to
or
if
you
are
pressed
to
just
move
forward
and
get
this
done
and
if
you
want
I
could
put
it
into
motion
or,
if
you're
bored
on
a
tube
with
them
I
happy
to
start
some
discussion
on
it.
A
S
A
Q
Q
Q
A
All
right,
thank
you.
I
would
like
to
add
that
I
do
not
support
this
particular
motion,
because
there
are
lots
of
other
ways
to
be
able
to
give
comments.
Besides
showing
up,
there
are
lots
of
other
ways
you
can
contact,
sending
an
email
you
can
submit
it
through
the
website.
You
can
call
your
councilmembers.
T
Thank
You
mr.
chair,
while
I
agree
with
many
of
the
points
that
vice-president
Jenkins
said.
I
also
agree
with
you.
Mr.
chair
there's
other
ways
that
folks
can
give
input.
I
didn't
want
to
ask
the
clerk
if
what
would
have
now
revised
that
no
I
think
that
there's
been
a
lot
of
time
and
I
think
that
that's
I
like
to
see
this
go
forward.
R
You
mr.
chair
I
apologize
for
chiming
in
yet
again.
Mr.
chair,
I,
I
agree
with
your
sentiment.
Miss
Korbel
has
been
through
not
just
a
little
bit
of
public
testimony,
but
but
perhaps
more
public
testimony
than
I've
seen
any
appointee
go
through,
maybe
with
the
exception
of
our
city
attorney.
This
is
an
issue
that
has
played
itself
out
in
the
media
in
the
newspaper
for
several
months
now.
The
public
hearing
and
testimony
and
input
has
come
not
just
in
the
form
of
this
of
this
committee
meeting
today.
It's
it's
come
through
email.
R
It's
come
through
phone
calls.
It's
come
through
newspaper
articles,
I,
think
we've
been
as
transparent
as
possible
and
miss
miss
Amanda,
Jafar
I.
Think
articulately
stated
the
proposed.
You
know
exactly
where
the
statistics
are
at
so
I
mean
I
believe
that
the
public
has
been
substantially
involved
and
I
would
ask
that
we
not
put
miss
Korbel
through
any
more
undue
burden
and
that
we
moved
today.
A
All
right,
Thank
You
mr.
mayor,
seeing
no
further
comments
from
my
colleagues
all
those
in
favor
of
the
motion,
please
signify
by
saying
aye
those
opposed
say:
no,
no,
the
motion
does
not
carry
because
there
is
not
a
majority
so
now
moving
back.
Are
there
any
other
comments
on
the
reappointment,
as
is
right?
I
would
like
to
go
ahead
and
jump
in
here
as
a
councilmember
who
is
all
in
in
this
city.
Mr.
Turek,
this
is
not
the
time
for
you
to
come
back
up
here.
Sweetie,
no
sorry
I
met
four
council
members.
A
Okay,
all
right,
thank
you
very
much.
So
I
would
like
to
be
able
to
share
that
as
a
council
member
who
is
all-in
for
building
strong
civil
rights
in
our
city,
I
am
speaking
in
favor
of
this
reappointment
since
being
sworn
in
as
a
council,
member
I
have
been
working
very
closely
with
the
civil
rights
department
on
multiple
fronts:
I've
been
working
with
them
on
supplier
diversity
and
closing
disparities
in
city
procurement,
I've
been
working
with
them
on
labor
standards,
enforcement
of
sick
and
save
time
and
minimum
wage
ordinances
and
an
issue.
A
The
system
who
the
system
itself
is
for
account
of
police
accountability
is
fundamentally
flawed
and
requires
restructuring,
which
is
why
I
publicly
steps
into
this
word
I
have
done
my
due
diligence
to
dive
into
the
concerns
brought
up
by
residents,
including
someone
from
my
ward,
because
I
wanted
to
be
as
informed
as
possible
about
what
I
support
as
a
policymaker.
First,
the
process
of
major
systemic
change
doesn't
like
going
from
the
civilian
review
authority
to
the
pea.
A
S
A
A
Here
is
what
I
am
fighting
for
council
member,
in
addition
to
maintaining
an
effective
police
conduct
oversight,
Commission
is
a
more
either
a
more
aggressive
partner
in
the
City
Attorney's
Office
or
civil
rights,
Department
civil
rights
departments,
own
attorney,
because
it's
hard
for
the
city
to
sue
itself.
The
second
is
a
stronger,
stronger
action
by
the
police
chief
and
stronger
mayoral
supervision
of
the
police
chief.
The
third
is
taking
on
the
Union,
particularly
during
contract
negotiations,
and
the
fourth
is
less
bias
in
the
criminal
justice
system.
A
So
I
wanted
to
name
those
things,
because
it's
all
interconnected,
it's
not
a
single
person
and,
as
somebody
who's
passionate
about
this
particular
body
of
work,
I
hear
all
of
you.
What's
at
what
has
happened
with
the
police
is
not
okay,
it's
not
okay,
and
so
that's
a
piece
of
the
work
that
I
am
committed
to
and
I
believe
that
Velma
Korbel
is
the
right
person
to
continue
that
work
forward,
and
it's
I
look
to
the
mayor
to
also
hold
her
accountable
as
his
employee
is
an
appointee
as
well.
S
I
am
feel
hopeful
that
we
have
a
chair
who
seems
passionate
about
lifting
up
this
department,
advocating
for
it
getting
its
needs,
met
and
helping
to
hold
it
accountable.
So
that
actually
gives
me
some
some
hope
here
and
I'm
committed
to
rolling
up
my
sleeves
with
you,
even
though
I
may
see
different
reforms
that
might
need
to
happen
with
our
police
conduct
oversight
and
how
we
do
that
and
we'll
be
pushing
it
in
different
ways.
S
I
think
there's
opportunities
here,
too
open
up
ordinances
and
to
look
at
budgets
and
see
how
we
can't
help
this
department
perform
better
and
as
well
as
directing
the
director
of
zooming.
It's
going
to
be
miss
corporal
at
this
point
is
the
way
the
discussion
up
here
is
going
with
policymakers,
so
I.
Thank
you
for
giving
this
so
much
thought
and
so
much
interest
in
so
much
time.
It's
a
key
part
of
this
committees,
work
and
I
think
we
have
a
responsibility
and
should
be
held
accountable
in
the
future.
We
don't
make
more
progress,
Thank.
A
You
councilmember
Gordon
any
other
final
comments,
all
right,
seeing
no
comments
or
questions.
I
move
the
approval
of
the
reappointment
by
the
executive
committee
of
velma
Korbel
to
the
appointed
position
of
director
of
civil
rights
for
a
two-year
term,
beginning
January,
2nd
all
those
in
favor
of
the
motion.
Please
say:
aye
all
right,
aye,
those
opposed
say
no,
the
eyes
have
it
and
that
item
is
approved.
Our
first
discussion
item
is
receiving
and
filing
a
presentation
summarizing
the
discussion
and
feedback
by
the
Clean
Energy
Partnership.
A
Regarding
the
100%
renewable
electricity
resolution,
Luke
Holland
campuses
in
City
coordinators
office
of
sustainability,
along
with
Abby
Fitness
co-chair
of
the
energy
vision
advisory
committee,
will
begin
the
presentation.
This
will
be
followed
by
a
presentation
from
mater.
Excuse
me,
members
of
I
matter,
a
student-led
climate
change
collaborative
and
then
a
discussion
on
a
resolution
establishing
a
100
percent
renewable
electricity
goal
for
Minneapolis
mr.
Hollin
camp.
Mr.
K
A
U
And
council
members
I'll
try
to
keep
my
my
comments.
Pretty
brief
here.
I
know,
there's
a
few
more
but
still
to
talk
and
present
today,
I'm
here
to
talk
about
the
hundred
percent
renewable
electricity
resolution
being
proposed
today
and
focus
on
the
summary,
a
summary
of
the
Clean
Energy
Partnership
feedback.
U
The
resolution
was
introduced
to
Council
in
fall
of
2017
and
when
it
was
introduced.
After
being
heard,
staff
Direction
was
issued
to
our
office,
the
Division
of
sustainability,
to
prepare
present
formal
agenda
items
at
the
Clean
Energy
Partnership
board
and
evac
meetings,
and
we
have
three
board
members
here
with
us
today:
counselor
Guren,
customer
sure
and
councilmember
Fletcher.
U
Sometimes
there
can
be
competing
goals,
so
provide
some
determination
of
what
should
be
prioritized
a
determination
of
how
Xcel
Energy's
planned
portfolios
cancer
power
of
that
goal.
Essentially
how
much
or
should
excel
energies
percentage
of
renewable
energy.
That's
already
been
supplied.
The
customer
should
that
be
considered
part
of
the
whole
and
including
more
specific
metrics
related
to
the
impacts
of
the
resolution,
whether
they're
direct
impacts
or
indirect
impacts,
and
also
how
subsequent
planning
could
address.
U
Those
as
well
in
fact,
would
express
the
desire
to
see
that
the
resolution
online
with
the
climate
action
plan,
which
it
was
already
been
adopted
a
number
of
years
ago,
as
well
as
the
cease
energy
vision
and
any
other
related
plans
or
policies
that
the
City
Council
has
passed.
They
also
asked
that
there
be
a
that
there
be
consideration
of
removing
mentions
of
technologies
that
do
not
directly
impact
electricity
usage.
U
Obviously
they've
made
great
strides
in
increasing
renewable
energy
and
are
looking
forward
to
having
those
discussions
with
the
city
as
we
push
them
to
even
more
renewables
on
top
of
their
current
plants.
I
also
wanted
to
add
in
a
little
bit
of
extra
feedback
from
the
community
environmental
Advisory
Commission.
They
were
first
engaged
in
fall
of
2017
so
many
months
ago,
but
since
then
they
were
re-engaged
that
their
March
meeting
so
that
they
got
a
an
updated
presentation
on
the
current
state
of
the
resolution
and
they
were
able
to
provide
their
feedback
as
well.
U
On
the
current
draft,
they
wrote
a
letter
to
City
Council
members.
I
believe
you
all
have
received
last
week,
April
11th
in
support
of
the
resolution,
and
they
also
then
call
for
an
increase
in
resources
to
be
dedicated
specifically
towards
this
resolution
and
making
its
goals
possible
and
then
determining
the
pathway
to
get
to
those
goals
and
with
that
I
am
happy
to
take
any
of
your
questions.
And
if
there's
any
technical
questions,
I
also
have
some
supplemental.
Slides
I
can
refer
to
either
an
hour
during
any
better
presentations.
All
right.
A
Any
questions
thus
far
all
right.
So
then
thank
you,
mr.
Holland
Kim.
Thank
you.
So
now
we
have
will
move
on
to
our
presentation
from
the
IEEE
matter.
Group
welcome,
Ethan,
Feldman,
Jordan,
Kaplan,
Sophia
facts
and
Sophia
Manolis.
We
ask
everyone
who
speaks
to
please
state
your
name
and
I
apologize.
If
I
said
your
name
wrong.
Please
come
forward.
V
V
So
we've
worked
with
a
matter
which
is
a
national
organization
which
helps
connect
youth
like
us,
who
are
doing
advocacy
efforts
in
order
to
with
the
necessary
resources
and
with
these
resources
we
started
a
petition
that
received
1000
over
1,000
signatures
from
Southwest
and
south
students
alone.
We
consulted
with
experts
from
the
Great
Plains
Institute,
the
Institute
for
local
self-reliance,
IL
SR,
as
well
as
with
mr.
V
Holland
camp,
who
just
spoke
from
the
city
sustainability
office,
as
well
as
we've
met
with
organizations
like
the
Sierra
Club,
as
well
as
with
Mayor
Frye
and
council
members,
Cunningham
Johnson
trader,
Gordon,
Reich
and
Fletcher,
and
we've
received
endorsements
as
well
from
politicians
such
as
Paul,
Tyson,
Omar
and
Jeremiah
Ellison,
as
well
as
with
numerous
environmental
and
neighborhood
organizations
that
we've
gone
out
and
spoken
to
as
part
of
the
public
relations.
Part
of
this
effort
and
letting
people
know
in
the
city
about
the
current
developments
that
are
happening
with
regards
to
this
resolution.
V
And
so
our
presentation
that
follows
is
going
to
be
divided
in
three
parts,
for
the
three
goals
that
we
proposed
to
add
to
this
resolution,
as
well
as
what
we'll
continue
to
advocate
for
at
this
level.
So
the
first
is
to
have
a
hundred
percent
renewable
electricity
by
the
year
2025.
The
second
is
to
have
25
percent
of
this
electricity
or
a
quarter
generated
within
the
city's
boundaries,
and
the
third
is
to
have
to
voting
seats
for
youth
on
siak,
which
is
the
city's
environmental
Commission.
Thank
you
very
much.
W
Hello,
my
name
is
Britta
Pearson
I
am
a
junior
at
Henry
high
school
as
a
young
child.
My
family
frequently
went
camping
of
Minnesota's
great
outdoors.
We
spent
time
hiking
and
canoeing
as
a
family.
These
are
the
moments
where
I
made
some
of
my
fondest
memories
as
a
7th
grader
I
had
the
opportunity
to
go
on
a
school
field
trip
to
the
Boundary
Waters
look
not
only
was
seeing
such
a
great
expanse
of
unchanged
nature,
amazing,
but
seeing
how
awestruck
awestruck
first-time
campers
were.
W
This
was
their
first
time
being
exposed
to
Minnesota's
full
beauty
and
had
an
everlasting
effect
on
them.
These
natural
beauties
he
becoming
the
victim
to
her
actions
as
humans.
I
want
not
only
our
children
to
have
the
opportunity
to
explore
Minnesota's,
clean
outdoors,
but
also
every
young
person
and
future
generations.
If
we
don't
take
action,
while
we
still
can
our
children
and
their
children
won't
have
this,
and
it
will
be
because
we
didn't
take
the
necessary
steps
in
order
to
preserve
what
was
around
us.
W
This
is
why
I
hold
the
issue
of
climate
change
near
and
dear
to
my
heart
today,
I'm
speaking
about
a
request
to
create
two
floating
seats
on
ciock
that
would
be
reserved
for
qualified
minneapolis
high
schoolers.
Currently,
youth
have
very
little
formal
civic
power,
even
with
issues
that
concern
us
until
we
turn
18,
we
are
unable
to
vote.
We
have
no
official
voice
in
our
political
system,
particularly
with
the
issue
of
climate
change,
where
US
youth
will
have
to
deal
with
the
consequences
the
longest.
This
makes
a
little
sense.
W
We
deserve
to
have
a
role
in
deciding
how
many
appleÃs
will
take
action
and
combating
climate
change
and
having
two
seats
on
this
committee
can
help
give
us
a
platform
to
do
so.
Having
these
seats
would
give
us
the
foot
in
the
door
in
terms
of
influencing
minneapolis
--is
environmental
policy
instead
of
a
working
outside
the
system
which
we
found
to
be
difficult
at
times
and
often
leaves
us
out
of
the
loop,
we
be
involved
with
decisions
as
they're
made.
W
In
addition,
the
seats
can
help
get
used
evolved
in
the
Gulf
local
government
instead
of
feeling
voiceless
and
disconnected
youthful.
See
actual
change
brought
about
by
their
peers,
these
seats
can
serve
to
represent
youths
people,
young
people's
voices
on
the
issues
of
climate
change
and
serve
as
a
platform
for
introducing
ideas
about
how
to
better
protect
our
environment.
These
seats
are
not
only
benefiting
us
in
terms
of
getting
of
the
voice,
but
also
you
you
are
receiving
more
community
engagement,
for
we
have
already
received
endorsements
from
14.
W
Neighborhood
associations
is
essential
that
these
seats
are
voting
seats.
He
says
Oh
youth
deserve
more
than
just
a
token
role
in
the
committee
and
others
in
other
cities
do
already
have
a
formalized
role
in
municipal
climate
action
and
how
the
facts
of
young
in
Halifax
a
youth
advisory
council
was
created
that
gives
young
people
a
clear
way
to
be
involved
and
with
environmental
policy
will
given
closer
to
Minneapolis
Satanist
parks,
environment
sustainability.
Commission
has
too
young
to
voting
seats.
W
Reserved
for
youth
to
voting
seats
on
siak
is
not
too
much
to
ask
for
minneapolis
high
schoolers.
To
recap.
Our
specific
asses
create
two
voting
seats
on
siak,
which
would
expand
the
committee
from
19
to
21
members
that
will
be
reserved
in
minneapolis
residents
who
are
in
high
school,
meaning
they
don't
have
to
be
a
student
in
minneapolis
public
schools.
Just
a
Minneapolis
resident
qualified
means
that
they
would
have
to
go
through
an
application
process,
as
any
other
candidate
would
as
the
biggest
stakeholders
and
has
the
biggest
stakeholder
in
our
environments
future.
W
X
Hello,
my
name
is
Jacqueline
Jobin
and
I'm.
An
environmental
science
student
at
the
University
of
Minnesota
I
recently
got
involved
with
I
matter
and
have
been
collecting
signatures
from
students
and
different
groups
and
clubs
at
the
University
to
show
support
and
representation
from
the
University.
For
this
group,
one
of
our
main
proposals
is
for
the
city
to
set
a
goal
for
producing
25%
of
its
renewable
electricity
from
local
sources
by
2030.
We
understand
that
this
is
a
very
ambitious
goal
we
have
done.
X
Our
research
and
everything
we
found
has
suggested
that
the
25
benchmark
is
absolutely
possible
for
Minneapolis
we've
talked
to
energy
experts
who
have
been
optimistic
about
this
goal:
a
beefiness
of
the
Great
Plains
Institute
students
in
the
direction
of
a
solar
energy
calculator
that
was
used
by
the
Minneapolis
Metropolitan
Council.
We
look
through
their
data
and
found
our
number
of
25%
was
in
line
with
their
projections.
While
our
goal
is
challenging,
it
is
achievable.
The
rationale
for
this
goal
is
simple.
X
Much
of
Minneapolis
is
renewable
energy
comes
from
credits
purchased
from
Xcel,
meaning
that
Minneapolis
doesn't
actually
produce
much
of
our
own
renewable
electricity.
These
credits
don't
diminish,
don't
diminish
our
city's
carbon
footprint
and
lack
the
resilience
that
local
electricity
would
provide.
Additionally,
investing
in
local
sources
of
electricity
ensures
that
the
money
stays
within
the
city.
This
can
benefit
the
local
economy
and
be
a
way
for
the
city
to
get
a
part
of
the
fast-growing.
Renewable
energy
industry.
X
Equity
is
often
alluded
to
in
resolutions
concerned
with
the
environment,
but
often
with
little
emphasis
on
follow-through
by
keeping
resources
and
production
within
city
limits.
This
goal
would
allow
for
the
citizens
to
more
equitably,
generate
and
distribute
our
electricity
amongst
our
most
needy
citizens.
It
is
our
understanding
that
Minneapolis
has
been
sliding
a
bit
in
our
development
of
local
electricity
and
at
this
critical
juncture
we
must
reverse
the
momentum
by
adopting
this
feasible
and
aggressive
measure.
Thank
you.
Y
Hi,
my
name
is
Sofia
Fox
and
I'm,
a
senior
at
South,
High
School,
since
before
I
can
remember
I've
loved
animals,
so
I
would
put
every
dog
I
could
I
was
there's
pictures
of
me
sitting
on
my
cousin's
cows
and
the
first
time
I
got
to
ride
a
horse
that
was
so
excited.
I
could
hardly
say:
I
wanted
to
ride
the
horse
when
I
was
young.
I
was
bullied
pretty
badly,
but
animals
were
always
there
for
me.
Y
I
could
watch
the
birds
and
squirrels
at
home
and
with
my
grandma
and
at
my
grandma's
I
could
watch
the
foxes,
deer,
beavers,
otters
and
so
many
more
if
you've
never
watched
a
wild
animal
and
had
them
look
back
at
you
square
in
the
eye.
You
are
missing
out
because
it's
a
connection,
unlike
any
other.
So
when
you
love
animals
as
much
as
I,
do
you
also
love
nature?
Y
Because
that's
where
you
can
find
the
animals-
and
this
is
why
climate
change
matters
so
much
to
me
because,
unfortunately,
when
we
destroy
the
environment,
we
don't
just
hurt
ourselves.
We
heard
every
other
living
thing
on
the
planet.
Chief
Seattle
is
credited
with
saying
we
do
not
inherit
the
earth
from
our
ancestors,
but
we
borrow
it
from
our
children
and
I'd
like
to
add
to
that,
because
we're
not
just
borrowing
it
from
our
children,
we're
borrowing
it
from
all
of
the
children
of
all
of
the
estimated
8.7
million
species.
Y
We
share
this
planet
with,
and
we
were
here
to
say:
the
loan
is
due.
My
generation
isn't
the
only
one
that
cares
as
head
of
the
Outreach
Committee
I've
been
in
charge
of
reaching
out
to
businesses
and
organizations
and
neighborhood
associations,
I've
contacted
all
70
of
them,
and
right
now
we
have
15
endorsements
I'm.
Also.
We
are
also
in
contact
with
an
additional
14
and
working
on
getting
endorsements
from
them.
It's
been
an
extremely
broadening
experience.
Y
Being
able
to
see
and
be
involved
with
government
at
such
a
grassroots
level
is
the
support
from
so
many
of
them
has
been
so
well
flip,
uplifting
and
empowering.
Just
last
week,
I
was
able
to
speak
at
the
Whittier
Neighborhood
Association,
which
was
especially
amazing,
because
there
were
so
many
community
members
there
who
were
so
supportive
and
encouraging.
They
were
thrilled
to
hear
not
only
about
the
work,
we're
doing
and
further
enforce
what
I
already
knew.
This
is
an
issue
not
only
incredibly
important
to
me,
my
peers
in
my
generation,
but
older
generations
as
well.
Y
So
with
this
in
mind,
I'd
like
to
talk
about
our
final
goal,
but
Minneapolis
commit
community-wide
to
run
on
100%
renewable
electricity
by
the
year
2025
clean
electricity
is
the
foundation
of
a
carbon-free
society,
because
it's
the
first
step
that
allows
us
to
transition
our
transportation
heating
infrastructures
away
from
fossil
fuels.
It's
a
vital
step
towards
a
sustainable
future.
We've
done
research
consulted
with
experts
from
the
city,
the
Great
Plains
Institute,
and
the
Institute
for
self-reliance
as
well
as
others.
Y
The
net
of
that
is,
while
a
goal
is
challenging,
it
is
possible,
but
more
importantly,
aggressive
goals
and
then,
when
an
effective
implementation
are
necessary
to
avoid
the
consequences
of
climate
change
that
will
affect
us
the
most
well
we're
heartened
and
very
supportive
of
the
work
on
draft
1314,
which
calls
for
renewable
electricity
by
2030.
We
want
to
remain
involved
and
use
it
as
a
stepping
stone
for
further
action.
Minneapolis
cannot
just
be
a
participant
in
the
fight
against
climate
change.
Y
We
must
be
a
leader,
if
not
for
your
sake,
for
the
sake
of
your
children,
for
your
grandchildren,
for
my
generation
and
for
everyone.
We
share
this
planet
with
and
because
it
can
be
hard
to
visualize.
What
a
generation
looks
like
amelia
is
in
the
class
of
25
2025,
and
she
wants
to
speak
to
what
white
climate
change
is
important
to
her.
Z
I'm
Amelia
from
the
class
of
2025
Minneapolis
Committee
to
100%
renewable
electricity
is
important
to
me
because
it
helps
towards
stopping
global
climate
change,
which
is
something
that
should
be
stopped
in
order
to
protect
the
earth.
The
planet.
We
live
on
global
climate
changes
or
is
warming
polar
bears,
habitats
which,
if
it
gets
much
worse,
could
eventually
melt
their
habitat
and
the
polar
bears
would
go
extinct.
Animals
going
extinct
is
a
very
bad
thing
and
it
makes
me
feel
uneasy.
A
All
right,
thank
you
is
that
all
for
your
presentation,
all
right,
council
members,
do
you
have
any
questions
for
the
I
matter.
Group
well,
I
will
go
ahead
and
say
that
I
am
very,
very
excited
that
you
are
are
here
a
little
extra,
more
excited
for
the
Patrick
Henry,
but
I
know
I'm,
so
happy
that
you
all
are
here.
Thank
you
so
much
for
getting
involved.
We
don't
have
a
youth,
inclusive,
inclusive
democracy.
Much
like
you
said
you
have
to
be
18
to
vote,
and
so
I
really
appreciate
you
being
here.
A
Having
talked
to
so
many
council
members,
myself
included,
you've
done
a
lot
of
research,
you're
pushing
and
I'm
really
grateful
for
that.
So
I
hope
that
this
is
just
the
first
time
that
we'll
be
seeing
all
of
you
here
get
more
young
folks
involved,
because,
with
your
help
then
we'll
be
able
to
finally
get
that
push
to
make
the
change
happen.
So
thank
you
very
very
much
and
thank
you
for
that
presentation.
A
Q
S
That
would
be
wonderful
and
I.
Do
really
want
to
thank
the
other
people
who
put
effort
into
this
in
the
comments
from
I
matter.
We
take
very
seriously
I'm,
even
though
there
are
still
a
few
spots
where
we
don't
quite
hit
the
target
you're
trying
to
get
us
to
doesn't
mean
we
can't
get
there
anyway
or
get
there
later
so
I'll
read
the
believe
it
or
not.
This
is
the
shortened
version.
S
And
whereas
the
collaboration
between
Minneapolis
sustainability
staff
and
the
Siemens
city
performance
tool
shows
that
quote.
It
is
possible
for
Minneapolis
to
achieve
its
80
by
50
target.
If
the
city,
its
utilities
and
its
inhabitants
work
aggressively
to
clean
the
local
energy
supply
among
other
measures
and
whereas.
T
The
cost
of
wind
and
solar
energy
is
rapidly
falling
and
the
number
of
alternatives
approaches
a
like
there.
A
number
of
alternative
approaches,
like
community
solar,
are
making
renewable
energy
easier
to
excess,
whereas
the
purpose
of
the
this
resolution,
renewable
electricity,
includes
electricity
derived
from
wind,
solar,
geothermal
and
wave
technology
sources
and
may
include
low-impact
small
hydro
in
some
form
of
biomass.
T
And
whereas
this
energy
transition
is
an
opportunity,
build
equity
among
communities
of
color
and
indigenous
communities
that
have
been
underrepresented
in
the
energy
field
and
marketplace,
and
the
city
of
Minneapolis
is
committed
to
making
the
most
of
this
opportunity.
And
where
is
the
financial
environment?
T
And
whereas
on
April
28th
2017
Minneapolis
approved
the
establishment
of
two
green
zones
aimed
at
improving
health
and
supporting
economic
development
using
environmental
country,
environmentally
conscious
efforts
and
communities
that
face
the
cumulative
effects
of
environmental
pollution
as
well
as
social,
political
and
environmental,
economic,
but
vulnerability.
And
whereas.
AA
Other
renewables
resulting
from
a
strategy
of
increasing
the
use
of
wind
and
solar
power
and
offering
customers
additional
renewable
and
energy
saving
options,
and
whereas
the
city
of
Minneapolis
is
committed
to
meeting
its
renewable
electricity
goals
with
as
little
reliance
on
purchasing
renewable
energy
credits
on
the
open
market
as
possible
and
will
give
gold
preference
and
credit
for
resources
exhibiting
additional
additionality,
regardless
of
renewable
energy
credit
ownership,
such
as
community
solar,
Gardens
and
local
solar
installations,
and
whereas
Minneapolis
recently
agreed
to
acquire
seventeen
point.
Eight
million
kilowatt
hours
annually.
S
Whereas
Xcel
Energy's,
current
and
future
renewable
electricity
generation
mix
will
be
counted
towards
municipal
and
community-wide
goals,
with
support
from
the
city
in
its
efforts
to
transition
to
renewable
energy
throughout
its
service
territory
and
whereas
Minneapolis
and
Xcel
Energy
have
begun
work
on
the
concept
of
a
city-owned
renewable
energy
facility
which
could
serve
both
enterprise
and
community-wide
energy
needs.
Now,
therefore,
be
resolved
by
the
city
of
Minneapolis
through
its
City
Council,
the
Minneapolis
reaffirms,
informally
adopts
a
goal
of
reaching
100
percent
renewable
electricity
for
municipal
facilities
and
operations
by
2022,
finance
and
property
services.
S
Staff
are
directed
to
bring
forward
an
annual
report
on
the
city's
progress
towards
implementing
the
adopted
blueprint
for
powering
Minneapolis
municipal
operations
with
100%
renewable
electricity
by
2022,
be
it
FURTHER
RESOLVED
that
as
a
strategy
to
meet
its
aggressive,
adopted
carbon
emission
reduction
and
climate
change
goals
and
move
away
from
fossil
fuels
in
all
sectors
of
the
energy
economy.
Minneapolis
adopts
a
goal
of
getting
100%
of
community-wide
electricity
used
from
renewable
sources
by
2030
and
directs
the
city
coordinators
office
to
bring
forward
a
blueprint
by
the
first
quarter
of
2019.
S
For
reaching
this
goal,
the
blueprint
shall
identify
the
following.
The
impact
of
this
goal
on
already
adopted
climate
policy,
including
the
adopted
carbon
emission
reduction
goals
of
80
percent
by
2030
I'm,
sorry
by
2050,
and
the
strategies
identified
in
the
adopted
climate
action
plan,
including
the
goal
of
reaching
10%
local
renewable
generated
electricity
by
2025
energy
pathways,
study
and
city
performance
tool,
study
and
ways
in
which
this
blueprint
may
support.
And/Or
require
an
update
to
the
adapted
climate
action
plan.
T
For
reaching
this
goal,
the
community
outreach
and
engagement
necessary
to
reach
this
goal,
including
the
ongoing
inclusion
of
young
people
in
the
process
necessary
regulatory
reforms
that
the
Public
Utilities
Commission
and
in
the
state
in
Minnesota
statute,
energy
efficiency,
efficiency
strategies
that
could
help
meet
this
goal
by
reducing
the
overall
amount
of
electricity
being
consumed.
The
ways
that
that
implementing
this
goal
might
impact
the
necessary
transition
away
from
fossil
fossil
fuels
across
all
sectors
of
the
energy
economy,
including
building
heating
and
cooling
and
transportation,
which
may
increase
electric
electricity
usage.
AA
To
ensure
that
all
consumers,
especially
those
who
have
been
left
out
of
the
benefits
of
energy
programs
in
the
past,
communities
of
color,
low-income
communities,
renters
and
communities
that
have
borne
the
brunt
of
past
environmental
racism,
receive
equitable
benefit
from
this
transition
strategies
that
the
city
can
employ
to
facilitate
training
and
hiring
people
from
within
communities
of
color
and
women
who
have
traditionally
been
underrepresented
in
the
energy
economy
and
targets
for
labor
participation
from
these
demographic
groups.
The
ways
in
which
implementing
this
goal
can
improve
individual
and
community-wide
health
outcomes.
AA
The
ways
in
which
this
energy
transition
can
increase
the
resilience
of
our
communities
and
save
Minneapolis
residents
and
businesses
from
increasing
energy
costs.
Specific
strategies
to
be
implemented
in
the
adopted
green
zones.
The
role
of
the
clean
energy
partnership
in
reaching
this
goal,
be
it
further
resolved
that
the
city
opposes
the
rollback
of
climate
policy
at
the
federal
level
and
reaffirms
its
ongoing
commitment
to
the
goals
of
the
Paris
climate
agreement.
A
Q
The
resolution
I
agree
with
everything
that
is
stated
in
the
resolution.
I
do
want
to
just
acknowledge
and
thank
the
young
people
for
stepping
up
and
being
willing
to
be
a
part
of
this
process
and
be
engaged
in
committees
that
advise
the
city
on
on
energy
policies
and
hopefully
on
other
issues
as
well,
and
just
want
to
really
encourage
you
guys
to
think
deeply
and
intersectionally
about
how
do
we
engage
other
youth
young
people,
particularly
young
people
of
color.
Q
In
these
conversations
you
know
the
last
a
couple
of
where,
as
is
in
the
resolution,
talked
about
environmental
and
justices
and
environmental
racism
that
deeply
impacts
communities
of
color,
and
so
I
would
really
hope
that
you
know
we
can
depend
on
you
guys
to
help
us
engage
young
people
of
color
to
be
involved
in
these
issues
as
well.
Thank.
A
Q
A
We
know
that
certain
parts
of
the
city
have
been
disproportionately
harmed
historically
and
so
making
sure
that
we
are
engaging
young
folks
in
those
green
zones
in
particular,
as
well
as
some
of
North
Minneapolis,
isn't
in
that
as
well,
but
just
making
sure
geographically
that
we
have
those
sort
of
representations
as
well
is
really
important.
Well,
seeing
no
further
questions.
Oh
I'm,
sorry,
I
do
see
a
further
question.
Councilmember
Gordon!
Well,.
S
So
this
is
really
a
comment
and
I
would
like
to
move
the
resolution
and
speak
to
it
so
consider
it
moved
and
I
just
want
to
say
that
it's
refreshing
for
me
to
actually
have
somebody
come
back
and
say:
could
you
please
stretch
your
goals
for
renewable
energy?
Higher
I've
been
on
the
council
a
long
time,
and
a
lot
of
it
is
me
trying
to
pull
people
and
say
I
think
we
could
do
a
little
bit
better.
S
Maybe
I'm
we're
not
reaching
far
enough
fast
enough
to
get
there
quickly
with
that
said,
part
of
the
reason
why
we
want
to
get
renewable
electricity
is
to
address
the
pressure
on
the
climate
and
to
diminish
the
use
of
fossil
fuels,
and
so
I
know
we're
calling
for
renewable
electricity,
but
I
want
people
to
also
remember
when
we're
trying
to
change
climate,
we're
dealing
also
with
transportation
and
gasoline,
and
also
natural
gas
and
heating
our
homes.
And
it's
not
going
to
be
easy
to
reach
these
goals,
not
not
only
the
renewable
energy
goal.
S
S
Who
and
also
the
staff
other
council
members
who
co-author
this
I
know
that
was
actually
a
lot
of
work
since
you
guys
first
got
elected
and
then
also
a
little
tip
of
the
hat
to
the
mayor
for
initiating
this
when
he
was
on
the
city
council
running
for
mayor
last
year,
but
but
I
with
that
long
list
of
things
we
were
reading
that
should
go
into
that
that
blueprint
we
called
it
or
the
plan
for
actually
accomplishing.
S
This
is
really
important
that
we're
approving
those
two,
because
that's
going
to
tell
us
these
are
pieces
and
ingredients
we
need,
so
we
can
really
get
there,
but
we're
also
going
to
need
a
lot
of
community
pressure
and
a
lot
of
community
involvement
to
get
there
and
now
I
also
want
to
make
a
little
bit
of
an
excuse.
I
want
you
to
be
aware,
one
of
the
reasons
why
getting
to
such
a
high-percentage
might
be
complicated,
especially
if
things
are
moving
in
the
right
direction.
S
If
things
are
moving
in
the
right
direction,
we
won't
be
burning
so
much
gasoline
in
our
transportation
system
and
we
won't
be
burning
so
much
natural
gas
to
heat
our
buildings.
We
might
get
more
of
that
from
electricity.
So
what
that
means
is
the
demand
to
produce
more
electricity
is
going
to
be
going
up
and
that's
good,
but
that'll
mean
it'd,
be
harder
to
get
all
that
new
electricity
also
from
the
Renewable
and
to
get
people
to
make
that
change
and
to
think
they
can
afford
to
do
that.
S
So
this
is
going
to
be
a
complicated
journey.
We're
going
to
go
on
in
the
next
10
20
30
years
to
make
this
big
energy
transition
and
I'd
say.
If
we
come
back
and
look
at
this
again
in
in
a
few
years
and
realize
we're
making
such
dramatic
process,
we
can
adjust
our
goals
and
we
can
move
move
forward
and
get
there
sooner
and
even
adjust
some
of
our
goals
to
say,
let's
do
more
of
that.
S
Finding
our
renewable
energy
in
the
city
of
Minneapolis
I
think
that's
a
potential
challenge
too,
and
I
I
think
it's
really
important.
We're
not
necessarily
distracted
by
just
trying
to
do
that
where
it's
really
going
to
be
hard,
even
the
one
of
our
biggest
resources
that
we
have
is
our
water
plan,
which
guess
where
our
water
plant
is
located,
where
it's
got
a
lot
of
sun
exposure.
It's
got
a
lot
of
space
in
a
lot
of
room
and
we
own
it.
It's
inferred
ly.
S
So,
even
when
we
put
in
that
installation,
it's
not
going
to
help
us
get
to
our
10
percent
or
25
percent
of
what's
in
the
city
of
Minneapolis,
but
it's
on
city
of
Minneapolis
property.
Anyway,
that's
probably
more
than
you
wanted
to
hear
about
some
of
those
details,
but
it's
some
awareness
I
wanted
to
put
out
there
because
I
have
to
say
this.
Whole
process
has
given
us
an
opportunity
to
think
more
deeply
and
better.
AB
J
AA
You,
chair
I
just
also
wanted
to
acknowledge
everyone
from
I
matter
and
really
it
it
does
make
such
a
difference
to
have
people
asking
us
to
push
harder
and
in
the
moments
when
people
were
asking
us
on
the
other
side
to
not
go
so
fast
and
saying,
or
you
know,
are
you
crazy?
We
shouldn't
be
2040
having
you
guys
calling
for
2025
kept
us
where
we
had.
You
know
kind
of
set
our
sights
and
and
and
gave
us
a
little
courage
and
some
critical
moments
in
this
process.
AA
So
even
if
we
didn't
exactly
get
to
your
targets,
thank
you
so
much
for
your
activism
and
for
your
work
and
I
do
support
getting
your
leadership
onto
the
committee
to
make
sure
that
you're
continuing
to
push
us
and
to
make
sure
that
that,
as
as
you
build
more
power
to
shift
the
moment
and
to
shift
what
we
think
is
possible
in
the
political
moment,
maybe
we
can
hit
these
goals
quicker
as
we
as
we
move
along.
So
so,
thank
you.
AA
So
much
I
just
want
to
acknowledge
that,
in
addition
to
student
voices,
I
think
the
tomb
the
to
voice
is
missing.
On
on
siak
our
high
school
students
and
the
workers
who
are
going
to
build
all
this
solar
capacity,
I'm
very
interested
in
seeing
a
labor
seat
on
siak
as
well,
so
I
just
want
to
name
that
as
we're
thinking
about
who
should
be
at
the
table.
AA
The
other
thing
I
want
to
just
make
sure
to
do
is
recognize
the
work
of
the
Colin
camp
and
Laura
Doorly
and
karlie
linemen
and
Robyn
Garwood,
who
did
a
tremendous
amount
of
staff
work
to
get
all
of
this
done
to
work
with
the
various
community
organizations.
I
mattr
is
just
one
of
them,
but
the
sierra
club
is
in
the
house
and
now
there's
a
lot
of
people
here.
AA
Who've
put
a
lot
of
energy
into
this
mn
350
and
a
lot
of
other
groups
of
community
power
have
really
given
their
feedback
over
time
and
we've
really
appreciated
everybody
being
as
engaged
as
they
are,
and
it
really
does
make
a
big
difference
and
at
the
end
of
the
day,
we've
done
something
here
that
we've
actually
sat
down
with
city
city
staff
and
challenged
them
to
say.
Can
we
actually
get
this
done?
AA
We
want
to
pass
a
resolution
that
isn't
just
to
make
us
feel
good,
but
that
is
really
aspirational
and
challenging
and
we
have
a
plan
to
actually
do
it
if
we
can
really
most
of
the
resources
and
the
will
and
I
think
that
that's
a
big
deal
and
it's
something
that
a
lot
of
people
put
a
lot
of
work
into.
So
thank
you,
everybody
for
moving
this
forward
and
thanks
for
giving
me
the
time
to
acknowledge
that
work.
Thank.
A
S
S
So
I
would
also
like
to
move
to
request
that
ciick
consider
the
I
matter
recommendation
to
add
to
youth
seats
to
its
Commission
and
report
back
by
September
30th
to
this
committee,
with
a
recommendation
on
that
and
with
that.
That
also
acknowledges
that
they
can
I
think
look
at
how
they
might
want
to
restructure
the
group
in
general
and
provide
a
seat
for
labor
or
some
other
some
other
entity.
S
A
All
right,
so
we
have
a
motion
on
a
staff
direction
in
a
second
all,
those
in
favor
signify
by
saying
aye
aye.
Those
opposed
that
motion
carries
and
I
would
like
to
move
to
receive
and
file
both
presentations.
All
those
in
favor
of
the
motion,
please
say
aye,
those
opposed
say
no,
the
eyes
have
it
and
all
of
these
items
have
been
carried.
So
thank
you,
everyone
for
all
of
your
hard
work.
All
that
came
together.
So
thank
you
very
much,
and
can
we
do
another
all.
A
Good
work,
team,
all
rights
and
I
just
want
to.
Let
folks
know
that
we
are
going
to
be
postponing
the
number
10
item.
The
very
last
one
we
had
touched
base
with
the
civil
rights
department
to
talk
about
contract
compliance,
their
report
coming
up.
So
our
last
presentation
for
today
is
in
honor
of
an
upcoming
Arbor
Day.
We
have
the
Minneapolis
tree,
Advisory
Commission
annual
report,
we're
going
to
be
receiving
and
filing
their
annual
report
and
Peggy
booth.
The
chair
of
the
tree,
Advisory
Commission,
will
be
giving
the
presentation
miss
booth.
AC
Thank
you
very
much
chair
and
council
members.
It's
our
privilege
to
be
here
today
to
share
with
you
this
annual
report,
I'm
Peggy
booth
and
I'm
a
resident
and
a
citizen
member
of
the
Commission
and
the
proud
mother
of
three
Patrick
Henry
graduates.
So
our
report
topics
today
are
what
the
tree
Commission
is
and
does
the
value
of
our
urban
forest
citizen
involvement
with
public
trees,
emerald
ash
borer
impacts
and
then
finally,
our
recommendations.
So
first
we're
going
to
talk
about
what
the
tree
Commission
is
and
we
were
created
by
the
Park
Board
in
2004.
AC
A
number
of
us
have
been
involved
with
tree
matters
for
decades
for
the
city
and
our
goal
is
to
enhance
the
Minneapolis
urban
and
forests
and
to
improve
its
long
term
health.
Among
our
that's
excuse
me,
our
mission,
among
our
goals,
is
to
report
to
the
City
Council
and
to
the
park
board
on
issues
related
to
trees,
and
that's
part
of
why
we
are
here
today.
So
this
is
a
list
of
our
members
of
the
tree.
Advisory
Commission
I'd
like
to
acknowledge
those
people
that
are
here
today
that
are
part
of
it.
AC
Don
Willick
E
is
our
secretary
Robin
Garwood
is
our
city
council
representative.
We
appreciate
his
work
and
then
we
have
two
staff
with
the
Minneapolis
Park
Recreation
Board
Phillip
yandi,
who
is
the
sustainable
forestry
coordinator
and
Craig
Penkala
who's
the
acting
force
preservation
coordinator,
and
so
we
appreciate
very
much
the
work
that
all
the
members
do
that
represent
a
number
of
different
perspectives
in
the
city.
AC
So
I
wanted
to
give
you
a
quick
overview
of
some
of
the
things
we've
been
involved
with,
as
well
as
hint
that
some
of
the
issues
and
topics
that
are
important
in
trees
in
Minneapolis.
So
there
have
been
four
years
of
a
study.
Each
year
study
200
additional
MPR
be
planted,
trees
that
are
studied
for
five
years
to
see
what
their
survival
rate
is,
and
it's
largely
83
to
a
hundred
percent
in
that
first
year
and
for
those
trees
that
have
been
looked
at
for
multiple
years,
except
the
one
bad
year
and
I'll.
AC
Tell
you
more
about
that
in
a
moment.
It's
nearly
90
percent
over
many
years
that
the
trees
survive.
The
law
of
survival
is
when
the
weather
is
harsh
and
if
they
are
planted
in
the
fall
when
there's
a
dry
winter,
if
it's
bald
and
burlap,
and
in
commercial
and
multi-family
areas,
and
so
for
that
one
year
four
years
ago,
when
those
factors
happened,
there
was
only
75
percent
survival.
AC
AC
This
position
was
funded
by
the
park
board
in
2017,
but
it's
also
necessary
for
the
city
to
contribute
funding
towards
that
make
this
position
a
permanent
position,
not
just
an
acting
position
and
through
Craig's
work
and
and
the
work
of
this
position,
there's
a
lot
of
collaboration
that
happens
between
Public
Works
and
the
forest
preservation
coordinator
between
developers
and
builders
and
construction
projects.
So
it
really
is
helping
us
do
things
wiser
and
smarter
and
save
a
lot
of
trees.
So
our
we
really
think
that
it's
important
that
this
position
become
a
permanent
position.
AC
So
since
then,
the
city
directed
staff
to
confer
with
both
our
tree
Commission,
as
well
as
the
pedestrian
Advisory
Commission
on
policies,
and
so
the
city
is
implementing
already
a
number
of
practices
that
make
places
still
great
for
pedestrians,
but
also
improve
the
chances
that
our
big
trees,
which
are
important
for
many
reasons,
I'll
tell
you
about
later,
continue
to
thrive.
So
we
are
making
very
good
progress
in
this
regard.
AC
The
city's
urban
forest
policy
was
fully
updated
by
city
staff
in
2016,
and
the
tree
Commission
made
recommendations
on
this
and
the
park
board
and
the
public
works
collaborated
very
well.
Forestry
specifications
were
moved
to
the
standard
specifications
that
the
city
uses
so
that
contractors
and
builders
and
so
forth,
have
a
better
sense.
You
know
right
along
with
their
other
specifications
of
what
they
should
be
doing
and
it's
used
by
consultants,
contractors
and
state
staff,
and
we
really
think
this
makes
a
difference
and
appreciate
the
City
Council's
support
for
this
work
as
well.
AC
Also
the
Commission
has
advocated
for
the
park
boards
ash
canopy
replacement
plan.
Through
this
plan,
5000
ash
trees
per
year
are
being
replaced
with
a
diversity
of
tree
species.
I'll
speak
a
little
later
about
emerald
ash
borer,
which
is
the
reason
for
it.
But
I
think
it's
important
to
note
that
we
are
making
good
progress
in
diversifying
our
street
and
other
public
tree
species
in
2014.
AC
In
our
public
lands
and
honors
streets,
there
were
13
percent
ash,
whereas,
as
of
last
year,
was
only
5
percent
ash
and
just
to
give
you
an
example
of
how
this
is
being
done
this
spring,
the
park
board
is
planting
8,000
trees.
They
would
have
started
in
early
April.
There
are
right
now
6,000
trees,
sitting
waiting
for
the
snow
to
be
moved
or
be
melted,
but
it
really
makes
a
difference
when
tree
species
diversity
is
looked
at
both
by
the
public
sector
as
well
as
private
citizens.
AC
So
we
thank
the
Park
Board
for
thinking
ahead
on
this.
The
next
topic
I'll
get
at
is
the
value
of
our
urban
forest
and
with
trees.
Everybody
has
a
park
in
front
of
their
house
and
over
the
weekend,
Mother
Nature
provided
a
way
of
highlighting
that
by
putting
lots
of
snow
on
all
of
our
trees,
so
we
could
see
them
even
better
at
this
time
of
year,
but
we'd
rather
see
them
be
green,
because
it's
that
leaf
canopy.
AC
AC
It
starts
falling
apart,
but
trees
are
the
opposite
when
they
are
planted
each
year,
their
benefits
get
more
and
more,
and
so
they
really
appreciate
in
value,
particularly
if
we
take
care
of
them
well
and
they
are
really
multi-purpose
environmental
assets
that
are
as
much
a
part
of
the
infrastructure
as
our
streets
and
storm
sewers
and
walkways,
and
they
help
improve
the
environment,
human
health
and
well-being
and
community
quality,
as
well
as
our
property
values.
So
the
more
trees
there
are,
the
more
the
urban
heat
island
is
reduced.
AC
So
we
have
fewer
days
where
there's
heat
related
unhealthy
air
pollution.
It's
also
important
to
say
that
the
amount
of
energy
that
we
use
to
heat
our
homes
and
many
of
our
businesses
goes
down.
When
we
have
a
greater
tree
canopy
cover,
we
spend
less
on
air
conditioning
in
the
summer.
We
spend
less
on
heating
when
we
have
that
sheltering
effect
of
trees
in
the
winter,
so
it
very
much
dives
with
the
energy
concerns
of
this
committee
and
the
council.
Trees
have
also
been
shown
through
research
to
have
social
values.
AC
AC
So
each
year,
Minneapolis
Street
trees
provide
energy
savings,
reduce
stormwater,
runoff,
increased
property
value
in
improvements
to
air
quality
that
totals
over
19
million
dollars
of
value
or
another
way
of
thinking
of
it
is
for
every
dollar
that
the
city
and
the
park
board
invests
in
trees.
We
get
back
a
dollar
eighty
in
environmental
and
other
economic
benefits
to
the
city.
It's
important
to
realize
that
tree
values
are
determined
by
how
much
leaf
area
that
trees
have
so
we
can
think
of
the
amount
of
benefits
as
equaling
the
amount
of
tree
canopy
cover.
AC
So
this
is
a
map
based
on
satellite
imagery
in
2015,
and
the
green
areas
give
you
a
sense
of
what
the
tree
canopy
cover
is
now.
If
you
look
a
little
more
closely
at
Ward's
five
and
four
you
could
still
see-
and
this
is
like
three
or
four
years
after
the
tornado-
hit
the
path
of
the
tornado.
It
had
a
direct
impact
on
the
tree,
canopy
cover
in
those
areas
and
as
well
as
other
impacts
on
the
residents
and
as
a
result,
their
environmental
quality.
AC
Those
environmental
benefits
that
we
all
expect
from
our
tree,
canopy
are
are
diminished,
so
we
think
it's
very
important
to
do
whatever
we
can
to
keep
our
trees
healthy
and
to
be
able
to
respond
promptly
when
they
are
destroyed
both
on
public
property
and
private
property.
The
next
topic
is
about
citizen
involvement,
with
public
trees
and,
as
was
mentioned,
Minneapolis
has
a
wonderful
Arbor,
Day
tradition.
AC
Just
to
give
you
an
example,
in
2017,
over
250
trees
were
planted
owned
by
Lake
Hiawatha
of
68
different
types
of
trees,
so
we've
learned
not
to
all
just
plant
too
many
hours
or
Elmer
linden
over
1500
people
were
involved
in
a
whole
lot
of
different
activities,
tree
climbing
tree
planting
tree
related
games
and
activities
tree
adventures
and
education,
and
we
invite
you
all
to
come
to
the
2018
Arbor
Day
a
week
from
Friday
on
April
27th
from
4
to
8
p.m.
at
Reverend.
Doctor
luck,
Martin
Luther,
King,
Park
junior
in
south
Minneapolis.
AC
Another
way
we
have
citizen
involvement
is
the
volunteer
citizen,
pruner
program
and
volunteers
are
trained
to
trim,
suckers
and
small,
broken
branches
off
of
trees,
as
complements
or
supplements
what
city
staff
do
and
lets
them
take
care
of
the
things
that
need
better
bigger
equipment
and
more
expertise,
and
it's
something
that's
safe.
That
safely
can
be
done
and
I'm
one
of
these
volunteers
soon,
as
the
pruners
I
think
it's
a
very
good
volunteer
for
all
kinds
of
people
in
the
neighborhoods.
AC
So
our
primary
recommendation
this
year
to
the
park
board
is
to
find
a
forestry
outreach
coordinator.
This
is
essential
to
oversee
and
expand
the
citizen.
Pruners
I
and
other
citizen
pruners
would
be
doing
a
lot
more
volunteer
work,
but
there
isn't
the
staff
to
organize
that
volunteer
activity.
It
will
also
help
sustain
that
wonderful,
Arbor
Day
event.
In
addition,
we
feel
that
this
position
would
help
encourage
adoption
and
care
for
fruit
trees
on
park
lands.
AC
We
have
a
lot
of
opportunity
there
and
it
can
really
help
all
kinds
of
people
benefit
from
fruit
in
our
city
and
accessible
to
us.
Secondly,
we
think
that
the
forestry
outreach
coordinator
could
work
with
groups
to
promote
public
tree
watering
in
all
kinds
of
different
creative
ways,
with
different
groups
that
are
interested
in
helping
support
that
the
coordinator
could
also
work
with
groups
to
increase
trees
in
downtown
and
to
implement
boulevards
wael
gardens
that
help
with
water
quality.
AC
This
person
could
also
do
more
to
engage
with
youth
and
increase
involvement
in
underserved
and
low-income
communities
and
there's
more
things
too,
but
those
are
the
highlights
we
wanted
to
hit.
Excuse
me,
the
last
topic
I'll,
be
speaking
on
is
emerald
ash
borer
impacts
so
emerald
ash.
Borer.
Are
these
little
green
bugs
shown
here
on
the
penny,
to
give
you
a
sense
of
scale
that
came
from
Asia
and
unfortunately,
the
losses
are
now
affecting
most
parts
of
the
city
as
the
disease.
AC
You
could
start
seeing
accelerated
in
1617
and
already
in
2018,
we've
got
another
five
neighborhoods
that
have
confirmed
cases
of
emerald
ash
borer
greatly
impacting
their
trees,
so
the
park
board
is
doing
an
excellent
job
of
slowing
the
spread
by
detecting
and
removing
infested
trees.
But
if
you
look
at
information
from
cities
that
have
had
emerald
ash
borer
longer
you
see
that
there's
what
sometimes
referred
to
as
a
death
curve.
That
is
the
the
time,
goes
on.
AC
AC
Managing
the
ash
trees
on
public
lands
of
the
million
trees
in
Minneapolis
two
hundred
thousand
are
estimated
to
be
ash.
Forty
thousand
of
these
were
public
trees
on
boulevards
and
parks,
but
in
by
the
beginning
of
2018,
already
half
of
these
ashes
been
removed
and
replanted
on
the
public
land.
Therefore,
our
biggest
concern
right
now
is
that
most
ash
trees
are
in
private
yards
and
people,
don't
know
what
is
out
there
and
what's
going
to
be
happening,
but
there
are
a
lot
of
big
beautiful
ash
trees
on
many
people's
private
yards.
AC
All
ash
trees
and
I
should
clarify
mountain
ash,
aren't
trash
so
I'm
not
talking
about
them,
but
all
white
ash,
black
ash
and
green
ash
trees
are
susceptible
to
the
emerald.
Ash,
borer
and
removal
of
untreated
infested
trees
is
mandatory
by
the
city
and,
furthermore,
if
you
compare
ash
trees
to
Elms
or
oaks
ash
trees
just
fail,
they
start
falling
apart
as
get
big
and
old,
and
so
we're
very
concerned.
If
people
just
ignore
it,
we'll
get
to
a
point
where
it
will
damage
property
or
hopefully
not
people.
AC
It's
been
known
to
happen,
though,
so
we
think
it's
very
important
that
the
public
be
better
involved
in
how
to
take
care
of
ash
trees
on
their
own
yards.
So
our
first
recommendation
to
the
city
is
to
do
more:
to
communicate
the
property
owners
about
the
high
risks
of
emerald
ash
borer
and
what
actions
to
take
property
owners
should
know
if
they
have
an
ash
tree.
They
should
know
that
emerald
ash
borer
is
likely
to
kill
their
tree
and
soon
we're.
Speaking
of
you
know
a
handful
of
years
and
they
should
learn
their
options.
AC
Private
property
owners
can
treat
their
trees
with
insecticide,
but
they
have
to
recognize
that
there
are
risks
with
that
and
has
to
be
done
every
year,
and
once
you
stop
it's
as
if
you
had
never
done
it
or
they
can
wait,
but
the
problem
is,
is
if
people
wait,
it's
likely
to
take
the
control
out
of
their
hands
and
removing
a
big
tree
in
the
backyard
like
the
one
under
the
yellow.
Writing
here
can
be
thousands
of
dollars,
so
it's
not
an
incidental
decision
that
a
person
has
to
make
and
budget.
AC
The
second
recommendation
we
have
for
the
city
is
to
allow
proactive
removal
of
ash
trees
to
be
assessed
and
paid
overtime
right
now,
people
can
do
this
if
the
tree
is
condemned,
if
it
already
has
emerald
ash
borer,
but
we
think
that
that
is
a
tool
that
the
city
could
offer
homeowners
to
allow
them
to
more
carefully
plan
when
they
remove
the
tree
and
have
that
assessed
and
thereby
paid
for
over
a
longer
period
of
time.
So
to
finally,
to
recap
our
recommendations.
AC
We
recommend
to
the
park
board
that
they
fund
the
forestry
outreach
coordinator
to
help
improve
community
engagement,
awareness
and
out
and
for
the
city
we
heard.
We
asked
you
to
urge
property
owners
to
address
risky
ash
trees
and
we
asked
the
city
to
do
more,
to
communicate
the
property
owners
about
the
high
risks
of
emerald
ash
borer
and
what
actions
can
be
taken
and
then
again
we
asked
the
city
to
allow
proactive
removal
of
ash
trees
to
be
assessed
and
paid
overtime.
AC
S
AC
We
talked
about
this
at
our
committee
meetings.
Robin,
do
you
know
if
there's
been
any
further
conversations
on
that?
Oh
the
question
that
council
member
Gordon
asked
was
whether
we've
had
any
further
conversations
on
allowing
people
to
have
a
tree,
proactive
tree
removal,
put
assessed
and
put
on
their
taxes.
S
Good
the
you've
started
the
conversation
and
I,
don't
know
how
how
we
could
necessarily
help,
but
maybe
I'll
reach
out
to
you
or
two,
because
I
do
know
that
your
reg
services
there
are
some
housing
and
code
issues
that
can
be
addressed
in
this
I
think.
Typically,
we
can
actually
order
the
removal
of
a
tree
and
I
think
then
that
becomes
a
really
cumbersome
obstacle
for
somebody
who
doesn't
have
the
money
to
pay
for
it.
So.
S
Q
A
AC
Yeah
I'm
asking
philipot
yandi
with
the
park
board
to
talk
about
that
and,
while
Philips
coming
up
here,
one
other
program
that
should
be
aware
of
is
the
nonprofit
group
tree.
Trust
has
the
city,
trees,
program
and
I
know
that
they've
given
priority
to
residents
who
are
trying
to
replant
their
own
yards,
the
people
that
were
in
that
affected
area.
AB
Council
members,
yes
in
four,
so
Peggy
just
mentioned
tree
trust
thinking
a
private
property,
the
public
property
trees
after
the
after
the
North
Minneapolis
tornado,
have
been
all
the
street.
Trees
have
been
replanted.
In
fact,
I
really
encourage
folks
to
go
drive
those,
but
it's
some
of
the
best
establishing
trees
in
our
in
our
force
right
now,
they're
they're
really
coming
into
their
own
and
really
taking
on.
Since
that,
are
we
our
response?
S
S
AC
A
All
rights
well
seeing
no
further
questions.
Thank
you
so
much
for
taking
the
time
and
thank
you
all
of
you
for
your
work
with
us.
I
think
that
often
times
when
we
look
at
environmental
sustainability
and
environmental
issues,
something
like
an
urban
forest
really
can
be
overlooked,
considered
really
niche,
but
we
know
better
that
it's
so
deeply
intertwined
with
environmental
justice
overall.
So
thank
you
so
much
for
your
commitment
to
this
work.
All
the
volunteer
work
that
you
do
so.
A
Thank
you
very
much
and
I
would
like
to
make
the
motion
to
receive
and
file
this
item.
All
those
in
favor
of
this
motion,
please
say
aye,
those
opposed
say
no,
the
eyes
have
it,
and
that
item
is
received
and
filed,
seeing
no
further
business
before
actually
I
have
to
make
the
official
motion
so
give
me
one.
Second
here
I
would
like
to
make
a
motion
to
postpone
item
10,
the
contract,
compliance
division,
27th
2017,
fourth-quarter
reports
and
annual
summary
to
next
cycle.