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From YouTube: December 5, 2018 Intergovernmental Relations Committee
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Minneapolis Intergovernmental Relations Committee Meeting
A
Good
afternoon,
everyone
I'm
gonna
call
to
order
this
regularly
scheduled
intergovernmental
relations
committee,
I'm,
Andrew
Johnson,
the
chair
of
the
committee
and
I'm
joined
today
by
a
quorum
of
our
committee
members
with
us
today,
our
council
members,
Schrader
bender
and
our
Vice
Chair
Jenkins.
We
have
two
items
on
our
agenda
and
we
also
have
a
walk-on
item
as
well.
So
I'll
include
that
business
with
us.
A
We
will
add
that
as
how
about
if
it's
okay
with
councilmember
bender
council
president
bender,
will
add
that
as
the
third
item
on
our
agenda
here,
and
so
we
do
have
one
consent
item,
it
is
the
youth,
Coordinating,
Board
joint
powers
agreement,
so
I'll
go
ahead
and
move
that
consent
item.
Is
there
any
discussion
on
that?
Not
seeing
any
all
those
in
favor,
please
say
aye
those
opposed
the
motion
carries.
We
will
now
move
on
to
our
discussion
items
and
our
first
discussion
item
is
the
2019
legislative
agenda
and
policy
positions.
B
You,
mr.
chair
and
committee
members,
my
name
is
Sasha
Bergman
with
the
IGR
department.
We
are
here
before
you
today
to
present
some
of
the
new
legislative
items
that
came
through
our
policy
development
process.
As
you
know,
our
departments
began
meeting
with
us
beginning
in
June,
and
we've
been
working
with
them
to
process
50
different
around
50
different
legislative
items
that
have
come
up
and
figuring
out
kind
of
what
the
next
steps
are
for
each
of
those.
B
What
we
have
before
you
today
are
I
think
11
different
policy
proposals
that
our
staff
are
here
to
briefly
present
to
you
about
just
a
word
about
some
of
the
other
items
that
have
come
forward.
Many
of
them
may
Ben
federal
in
nature.
Maybe
they
were
already
in
our
legislative
agenda
or
we're
not
quite
ready
for
moving
forward
and
needed
some
further
discussion
with
stakeholders
and
things
of
that
nature.
And
if
you
have
any
questions
about
those
items,
I'd
be
happy
to
provide
you
more
information.
B
There
aren't
any
questions
about
our
process
so
far.
Just
briefly
mentioned
that
the
the
different
items
that
we
have
before
you
are
also
incorporated,
their
their
language
is
incorporated
into
the
new
document
and
we
sent
to
the
clerk
and
I
think
they're
posted
online.
Two
versions
of
the
document.
One
is
the
you
know
the
draft
version
of
what
it
would
look
like
if
all
of
the
changes
are
adopted,
sort
of
a
clean
version
and
then
the
other
one
is
shows
all
of
the
amendments.
B
They
spend
a
tremendous
amount
of
time
going
through
different
conversations
within
their
departments
to
bring
ideas
forward,
to
talk
with
us
to
talk
with
outside
stakeholders
to
bring
these
ideas
before
you,
and
so
just
want
to
thank
all
of
them,
especially
the
staff
that
are
here
today
to
present
with
that.
I
will
turn
it
over
to
Chuck
Bernardi.
C
Good
afternoon,
chair
Johnson
members
of
the
IGR
subcommittee,
my
name
is
sasha
said
my
name
is
Chuck
Barnard
iam
from
the
city's
human
resources
department
and
I'm
here
today
to
present
information
and
gain
your
support
and
adding
this
phased
retirement
option
or
pro2.
The
city's
2019
legislative
agenda,
the
minnesota
public
employer
eat
is
in
public
Employee.
Retirement
Association,
also
known
as
para
program
provides,
gives
employers
the
option
to
allow
employees
to
transition
into
retirement
rather
than
fully
separate
from
employment.
C
In
other
words,
the
P
ro
is
an
excellent
tool
enabling
the
city
to
meet
their
workforce
needs,
while
certain
employees
moved
to
full
retirement.
The
P
ro
permits
an
active
member
of
the
para
General
Plan
was
at
least
62
years
of
age
to
begin
receiving
their
pair
of
pension
without
a
formal
termination
of
employment.
However,
employees
must
participating
in
the
program
must
substantially
reduce
their
work
hours
while
working
in
the
program
and
allowing
an
employee
to
participate
in
the
PR
OS
at
the
discretion
of
the
city.
C
The
law
enabling
the
city
enabling
the
PR
program
is
scheduled
to
sunset
on
June
30th
2019.
The
PRA
program
is
very
beneficial
to
the
city.
It
is
an
excellent
Workforce,
Planning
and
succession
planning
tool.
It
allows
an
effective
transfer
of
knowledge
from
the
employee
in
the
P
ro
to
existing
staff,
including
potential
successors,
with
an
unemployment
rate
of
2.1
percent
in
the
Minneapolis
st.
C
The
P
ro
first
became
available
to
para
members:
retiring
May,
23rd
2009
or
later
the
City
Council,
the
Minneapolis
City
Council
approved
this
for
city
employees.
Later
in
2009,
as
of
November
26,
there
are
currently
nine
city
employees
participating
in
citizens
inception
29,
a
total
of
29
employees
have
participated
in
the
program
on
October
11th.
The
Peres
Board
of
Trustees
voted
unanimously
to
adopt
recommendations
to
make
the
P
ro
a
permanent
option.
Extending
the
P
ro
is
also
supported
by
the
League
of
Minnesota
cities,
the
city
of
st.
C
A
D
D
Specifically,
our
presentation
regards
slides
four
and
five,
which
is
the
topic
of
city
paid,
continuation
of
health
insurance
for
police
officers
or
firefighters,
who
demonstrate
that
as
a
direct
result
of
an
injury
incurred
during
or
a
disease
arising
out
of
the
performance
of
inherently
dangerous
duties
that
are
specific
to
police
and
fire
protection,
they
are
eligible
for
duty,
disability,
retirement.
Now
this
benefit
is
pursuant
to
state
law.
D
For
purposes
of
today's
presentation,
there
exists
in
statute
three
types
of
retirement
for
para
participants,
so
those
being
regular
retirement,
disability,
retirement
or
duty
disability
retirement.
This
last
type
is
the
topic
of
our
presentation.
In
a
nutshell,
our
proposal
has
two
parts.
We
seek
this
committee
support
to
improve
the
process
mandated
currently
by
state
law
for
determining
eligibility
for
the
benefit
which
is
summarized
on
slide
number.
Four.
D
The
two
first
two
bullet
points
on
slide
number
four
state
funding
of
reimbursement
is
our
second
proposal
related
to
this,
and
that
is
outlined
for
you
in
the
third
bullet
point
the
reimbursement
sought.
Is
the
public
employers
cost
to
provide
continuation
of
health
insurance
for
eligible
employees
until
age
65?
D
So
let
me
get
into
a
little
bit
of
detail
here
with
respect
to
the
first
two
bullet
points,
so
the
first
one
we're
asking
to
support
a
legislative
change
to
require
para,
for
example,
to
provide
the
employer
with
a
copy
of
the
duty
disability
application
and
allow
the
public
employer
to
present
a
meaningful
response,
while
the
application
is
pending.
Currently,
the
police
on
fire
departments
do
not
even
know
an
individual
is
applying
to
depart
from
city
employment
with
the
benefit
of
duty,
disability
retirement.
D
So,
as
you
might
imagine,
that
could
affect
staffing
levels,
staffing
projections,
budget
projections,
a
whole
host
of
things,
not
knowing
if
an
employee
is
returning
to
work
or
not
so
another
hurdle
with
the
way
the
statute
is
currently
set
up,
is
that
the
city's
first
notice
is
typically
a
worksheet
that
it
gets
from
para.
That
includes
a
variety
of
presumptuous
questions.
What
work-related
injury
did
the
individual
have?
What
have
you
given
the
employee,
the
opportunity
to
have
work
within
their
restrictions?
D
D
With
respect
to
the
second
bullet
point
there
in
the
middle,
an
administrative
law
judge.
Actually,
two
of
them
now
have
recently
ruled
the
public
employers
lacked
standing
to
challenge
Parra's
determination
of
eligibility
for
duty
disability
retirement.
Yet
we
have
learned
that
in
part
through
these
hearings
that
Parra's
determination
of
duty
disability
typically
drives
Parra's
determination
of
eligibility
for
the
continuation
of
health
insurance
benefit,
which
is
what
the
city
has
been
paying
so
and
that's
one
of
the
bases
for
well.
D
Let
me
go
backwards
to
stating
that
Tom,
while
we
can
as
the
city
and
have
successfully
appealed
those
determinations
that
an
individual
is
eligible
for
continuation
of
health
insurance
benefits,
it's
a
long
process.
After
a
contested
case
hearing
and
one
of
these
successful
bases
on
which
the
city
through
the
City
Attorney's
Office,
appealed
an
applicants,
a
word
of
eligibility
was
that
the
city
was
not
given
a
meaningful
opportunity
to
explore
whether
the
disability
to
applicants
had
any
work
within
their
restrictions,
so
that
that
is
a
summary
of
side.
Four
for
side
five.
D
These
are
the
numbers
chair
and
committee
members.
We
want
to
thank
Human
Resources
for
compiling
this
data
on
financials,
with
respect
to
the
benefit
of
continuation
of
health
insurance.
What
the
data
on
slide
five
represents
is
the
cost
to
the
city
of
paying
medical
premiums.
The
spreadsheet
indicates,
as
you
can
see,
that
the
number
of
applicants
has
risen
steadily
over
time,
and
yet
the
spreadsheet
also
indicates
that
the
amount
of
reimbursement
paid
by
the
state
Commissioner
of
Public
Safety,
excuse
me
to
the
city
of
Minneapolis,
has
almost
steadily
decreased.
D
There's
only
one
exception
that
you'll
see
on
the
slide
where,
where
it
didn't
dip
one
year,
it
went
up
on
year,
but
then
after
that,
steadily
went
down
again.
That
concludes
the
presentation
of
Finance
Human
Resources
and
the
City
Attorney's
Office.
On
these
particular
two
slides
I
will
stand
for
questions
if
the
chair
requests.
Thank.
E
Mr.
chair
and
committee
members,
my
name
is
Katie
pink
I'm,
the
housing
policy
coordinator
at
C,
ped
and
I'm
here
to
talk
about
three
new
proposals
in
the
housing
section,
which
starts
on
page
13
in
your
packet
and
the
first
item.
I'm
going
to
talk
about
is
the
last
bullet
under
housing
policy,
and
this
relates
to
tax-exempt
bonds
and
I'm
going
to
try
to
explain
this
briefly
and
concisely
as
concisely
as
possible.
The
state
receives
an
allocation
of
tax-exempt
bonds
from
the
federal
government
each
year,
and
state
statute
determines
how
the
allocation
can
be
used.
E
A
significant
amount
of
the
state's
tax
exempt
bond
Authority
is
designated
for
affordable
housing
and
the
city
receives
its
own
entitlement
of
tax-exempt
bonding
authority.
We
pair
that
authority
with
low
income,
housing,
tax
credits
for
affordable
housing
development
and
then-
and
this
slide
is
a
flowchart
that
Minnesota
Housing
Finance
Agency
has
put
together
just
to
demonstrate
currently
how
this
Authority
kind
of
flows,
and
so
you
can
see
Minneapolis
as
entitlement
on
there.
E
Also
there's
a
housing
pool
on
there
and
currently
31%
of
that
housing
pool
is
set
aside
for
homeownership
in
the
state.
In
recent
years
there
have
been
changes
proposed
at
the
legislature
that
would
govern
how
the
state,
through
Minnesota,
Management
and
Budget,
allocates
tax
exempt
bonds
and
there,
when
the
proposal
initially
came
through,
there
was
not
consensus
among
stakeholders,
and
one
of
the
big
sticking
points
was
taking
away
that
set-aside
for
homeownership.
E
So,
following
the
2017
legislative
session,
a
group
of
housing
stakeholders
that
included
the
city
came
to
consensus
on
five
five
items
that
should
make
up
any
tax
exempt
bond
reform
package
and
although
the
proposed
changes
to
date
would
not
have
directly
affected
the
city's
entitlement,
the
city
supports
changes
that
have
broad
consensus
within
the
affordable
housing
community.
So
that's
what
this
policy
statement
really
says
is
that
policy
changes
to
the
allocation
of
federal,
tax-exempt
bonds
should
have
broad
stakeholder
agreement.
E
Increase
efficiency
and
maximization
of
the
resources
ensure
that
they
conserve
various
needs
across
the
housing
continuum.
And
then
one
final
note
on
this.
This
policy
is
that,
at
the
end
of
last
year's
a
legislative
session,
there
was
a
provision
added
to
the
bonding
bill
that
took
away
the
ability
of
Minnesota
Housing
to
consider
some
items
in
its
qualified
allocation
plan
for
projects
seeking
tax
exempt
awning
Authority.
E
So
our
policy
statement
also
just
states
that
are
the
proposed
policy
statement
states
that
the
city
does
not
support
proposals
that
would
weaken
the
authority
of
issuing
jurisdictions
to
employ
policies
that
maximize
the
use
of
the
public
investment
for
affordable
housing
such
as
cost
reasonableness
requirements.
So
move
on
to
the
next
one.
If
there
are
no
questions,
they're,
not.
E
The
next
new
housing
policy
is
anti.
This
is
the
second
bullet
under
Housing
Policy
on
page
13,
its
its
support
for
policies
and
funding
to
increase
housing
security
and
prevent
displacement
of
renters
and
homeowners
with
low
vacancy
rates,
the
strong
housing
market
and
rising
rents.
There
are
a
lot
of
parts
of
the
cities
where
current
residents
are
at
risk
of
being
priced
out
of
their
rental
housing
or
the
homes
that
they
own
and
the
city
has
been
working
on
a
number
of
strategies
to
prevent
displacement.
E
Affordability
for
tenants,
such
as
the
for
the
property
tax
classification,
which
the
city
is
currently
using
to
try
to
preserve,
naturally
occurring
affordable
housing
and
that's
a
lower
property
text
classification
allowed
under
state
law
for
affordable
housing.
The
statement
is
somewhat
broad
because
we
wanted
to
in
case
there
were
new
proposals
that
come
up
during
the
session,
be
able
to
incorporate
those
it's
possible,
but
the
overall
idea
is
to
have
different
strategies
that
can
prevent
displacement.
We.
F
E
E
G
G
B
F
A
E
But
we
also
need
significant
support
from
the
states
in
order
to
meet
the
city's
needs,
and
so
this
policy
position
is
is
supporting
new
and
significant
investments
in
affordable
housing
that
can
leverage
investments
made
by
the
city.
And
so
you
know
the
homes
for
all,
which
is
a
group
of
housing
advocates
is
supporting
a
large
bonding
request
and
then
some
of
the
other
items
that
will
be
likely
considered
in
the
next
legislative
session
include
a
a
state
match
for
contributions
to
local
housing.
H
Well,
I
just
want
to
thank
you
for
I'm
really
excited
that
we're
supporting
this
and
thank
you
for
the
work
on
that.
I
didn't
want
to
highlight
that
a
lot
of
the
I
believe
the
last
bit
of
legislation
for
his
magic
contribution
stole
the
cause
and
Trust
Fund.
It
required
a
dedicated
source
of
funding
for
that
and
so
I'd
be.
If
that
seems
to
be
the
way
I
would
love
to
heads
up.
So
we
can
be
working
on
that
on
the
city.
Mm-Hmm.
E
F
A
I
I
Minneapolis
has
experienced
a
300%
increase
in
opioid
deaths
between
2011
and
2017,
and
we
are
wanting
to
put
forward
some
new
language
to
strengthen
existing
language
and
support
a
proposal
that
came
up
during
the
last
legislative
session,
calling
for
dedicated
pharmaceutical
funding
industry
linked
funding
through
mechanisms
such
as
an
opioid
stewardship
fee,
and
the
funding
would
be
used
specifically
for
prevention,
treatment
and
other
efforts
to
really
deal
with
root
causes
of
this
issue.
So
that's
the
first
issue.
I
The
second
issue
deals
with
school-based
health
care.
Our
health
department
operates
seven
clinics
in
high
schools
around
the
city
and
we
provide
a
range
of
confidential
and
very
affordable
medical
care
and
also
mental
health
care
to
thousands
of
high
school
students
each
year
there
is
no
state
statute
defining
or
certifying
school-based
health
care,
and
defining
it
in
statute
would
be
a
step
towards
obtaining
some
very
needed
state
funding
for
our
school-based
clinic
health
system.
I
A
I
I
J
I
Next
issue
is
the
provider
tax
and
you
may
know
that
the
provider
tax
it's
a
2%
tax,
that
medical
and
other
health
related
providers
have
to
pay,
but
really
what
they
do
is
they
pass
it
on
to
consumers
for
a
range
of
health
services.
The
tax
supports
the
health
care
access
fund,
which
supports
a
variety
of
safety
net
programs,
and
it
also
supports
our
ship
program,
which
is
the
chronic
disease
prevention
work
that
we're
able
to
do
in
the
city
or
we
call
it
healthy,
living
work.
I
Then
the
last
issue
is
comprehensive:
state
sex
education,
so
current
state
statute
calls
for
a
focus
on
hiv/aids
education,
which
is
great,
but
it
should
also
support
more
than
that
and
should
support
comprehensive
sex
education,
which
includes
a
whole
range
of
factors
like
adolescent
development,
identity,
culture,
gender
and
sexual
orientation,
pregnancy
and
reproductive
health.
Contraceptive
healthy
relationships,
kind
of
the
list
goes
on
and
on
and
beyond,
just
preventing
sexually
transmitted
diseases
and
unintended
pregnancies
there's
a
lot
of
benefits.
It
helps
if
you've
got
kind
of
a
full
picture.
I
A
A
K
Good
afternoon,
chair
Johnson
committee
members,
I'm
Dave
Herbert,
also
I'm,
the
director
of
solid
waste
and
recycling
and
I'm
here
to
ask
for
committee
support
for
market
development
activities
and
recycling.
We've
got
three
bullets
up
here.
I'll
start
out
with
the
first
one
that
kind
of
emphasizes
the
beneficial
situation
that
we're
in
we
we
residents
of
the
city,
do
a
tremendous
job
at
recycling.
K
Once
again,
just
to
talk
about
a
little
bit
about
recycling
and
where
we're
at
our
contamination
rate
is
around
10
percent
or
less
in
comparison
to
other
cities
that
are
in
the
neighborhood
of
20
to
45
percent.
So
it's
it's
very
reflective
once
again
of
the
good
work
that
the
residents
do
a
little
bit
on
markets
and
how
they've
been
affected
over
the
past
five
years,
primarily
due
to
the
impact
of
China,
not
allowing
imports
of
recyclables
to
come
into
the
country.
K
They
started
this
back
in
2013
by
showing
their
I
guess,
unhappiness
for
recycling
coming
from
the
states
and
other
areas,
because
the
quality
of
the
recycling
wasn't
what
they
they
desired
and
then,
if
they
had
various
policies
over
the
past
five
years,
you
might
have
heard
of
them
being
the
green
fence
and
13
of
the
national
sword
in
2017
and
blue
sky.
In
this
year
of
818,
all
these
policies
from
the
Chinese
were
aimed
at
improving
the
quality
of
the
recyclables
coming
into
the
country,
and
this
last
one.
The
blue
sky
initiative
basically
been
banned.
K
All
shipment
of
recyclables,
primarily
mixed
paper
and
PLAs
from
entering
China.
So
the
impact
of
that
is
that
we've
got
a
lot
of
recyclables
surplus
here
in
the
United
States
we're
a
little
bit
buffered
from
the
FBN
in
the
Midwest.
Here,
there's
a
lot
of
difficulty
on
the
coasts
that
relied
on
sending
their
material
overseas.
K
So
the
third
point
that
I
hear
about
here
is
that
we
really
need
to
take
care
of
in
the
country
take
care
of
our
own
recyclables
here
within
the
country.
How
do
we
do
that?
We
do
that
from
developing
more
markets
for
the
material,
both
countrywide,
regionally
and
then
locally,
and
we
are
very
supportive
and
asked
for
support
from
the
city
for
more
local
market
development
being
that
we
have
these
three
major
recycling
facilities
with
a
lot
of
good
clean
product.
K
We
just
soon
have
that
product
sent
to
either
some
reprocessing
efforts
or
some
manufacturing
that
was
local
here
and
what
is
the
impact
of
that?
Well,
the
impact
of
of
having
local
recycling,
whether
it
be
processing
or
manufacturing,
is
number
one.
This
materials
looked
at
as
a
resource,
yet
compared
to
landfilling
and
trashing.
K
Solid,
solid
waste
generates
more
more
than
ten
times
as
many
jobs
with
recycling
processing
and
then,
when
you
go
beyond
that
into
more
more
processing
and
manufacturing,
an
additional
twenty
five
jobs,
so
very
impactful
to
keep
the
material
close
close
to
home
and
once
again
in
conclusion,
I
just
like
to
ask
for
the
committee's
support
and
I'll
be
here
to
field
any
questions.
You
might
have
great.
K
L
So
there
were
some
benefits
of
those
rural
changes.
A
huge
one
here
in
Minneapolis
is
that
it
created
a
tier,
4
small
site
composting,
which
is
what
the
majority
of
the
community
gardens
in
Minneapolis
own
operate
under
now,
and
it
did
create
the
source,
separated,
organics,
metate
source
separated
organic
material
composting
facility,
which
does
have
some
reduced
restrictions
from
an
MSW
composting
facility
or
municipal
solid
waste
facility.
L
Also
the
orange
dot
on
the
map.
There
is
the
one
transfer
station
that
we
have
or
the
transfer
station
that
we
use.
So
you
can
see
these
facilities
were
shipping
to
our
organics
and
yard
waste
too.
There
are
over
40
miles
away
from
us.
It's
a
far
distance
to
send
our
materials,
it
adds
costs
for
transportation
and
adds
greenhouse
gas
emissions
and,
most
recently
on
November
27th
Hennepin
County
passed
their
changes
to
their
solid
waste.
L
Ordinance
13,
which
is
going
to
require
large,
generating
organics
businesses
to
put
in
food
diversion
programs
by
2020,
and
that
ordinance
change
at
the
county
level
will
require
all
cities
in
the
county
to
implement
residential
collection
programs
by
2022.
So
the
two
facilities
in
existence
are
going
to
see
a
lot
more
material
that
need
to
be
going
to
them
and
the
lack
of
availability
and
the
lack
of
competition
among
facilities
would
likely
increase
the
price
that
we
have
to
pay
to
operate.
Our
organics
recycling
program
and/or
yard
waste
programs
in
the
future.
L
So
we
look
for
your
support
to
support
legislation
and
administrative
rule,
changes
that
facilitate
and
encouraging
composting
and
organics
collection
and
processing.
And
one
thing,
I
forgot
to
add:
apologies
that,
in
addition
to
the
ordinance
13
amendments,
the
county
made,
there
also
is
interest
at
the
county
level
of
looking
to
develop
an
anaerobic
digestion
facility,
which
is
something
that
could
be
done
a
lot
closer
in
different
siting
requirements
than
one
of
these
large
facility
compost,
large
composting
facilities.
L
M
A
B
Mr.
chair,
we
we
could
walk
just
briefly
through
what
the
changes
are
recommended
to
the
2019
legislative
agenda
from
last
year.
If
you
wish
and
in
if
not
that's,
okay,
too,
the
one
other
thing
I
would
mention,
is
there's
just
a
couple:
a
couple
of
more
substantive
changes
in
the
policy
positions
that
were
not
presented
there,
more
staff
recommended
changes
and
I
could
briefly
mention
those.
If
that
would
be
a
committee
interest,
I.
A
B
A
This
is
adding
to
our
legislative
agenda
the
city's
support
for
the
decriminalization
legalization
and
taxation
of
recreational
cannabis,
while
ensuring
the
health
and
safety
of
the
public,
including
children,
expungement
for
past
offences
and
considering
ways
to
ensure
equity
in
potential
benefits,
particularly
for
small
businesses.
I'll
just
speak
to
this
for
a
moment
now
we
all
know
our
current
legislative
criminalization
of
cannabis.
A
Marijuana
is
based
off
of
antiquated
ideas
that
were
primarily
resulting
from
racism
and
it's
been
codified
in
States
and
nationally
for
generations
and
I
think
people
are
waking
up
to
the
fact
that
it's
failed
policy.
It's
a
failed
prohibition.
It
criminalizes
people
of
color
disproportionately,
it
doesn't
do
a
good
job,
keeping
youth
from
accessing
it
compared
to
other
recreational
drugs,
such
as
alcohol.
A
In
fact,
it's
usually
easier
for
teens
to
get
access,
because
folks
that
are
willing
to
break
the
law
in
the
first
place,
don't
care
who
they're
selling
to
as
much
as
somebody
who
has
a
license
that
they
face
losing
if
they
sell
to
teenagers.
The
current
system
is
so
ineffective
that
cannabis
is
still
one
the
nation's
largest
cash
crops
and
so
I
think
we
can
look
to
the
leadership
we've
seen
in
other
states
around
this
nation.
A
On
this
issue
and
by
supporting
recreational
marijuana
and
the
legalization
of
recreational
marijuana
which
the
incoming
walls
and
Flanigan
administration
support,
we
have
a
real
opportunity
here
to
create
jobs
that
support
small
businesses
as
well,
and
the
promote
consumer
safety
that
saved
law
enforcement
resources
and
direct
them
to
where
they're
needed
and
the
generates
critical
revenue
for
important
issues
across
our
city
in
our
state.
And
so
we
sure
hope
that
this
is
something
I
think
is,
is
do
and
I
think
that,
hopefully,
the
Legislature
will
support
as
well.
F
F
The
very
last
statement
and
considering
ways
to
ensure
equity
and
potential
benefits,
particularly
for
small
businesses.
I,
would
like
to
amend
that
statement
to
include
and
considering
ways
to
ensure
equity
and
access
by
communities
of
color
to
potential
benefits,
particularly
for
small
businesses.
I
think.
A
A
F
A
You
any
additional
discussion
on
this.
All
those
in
favor
of
the
amendment,
please
say:
aye
I
supposed
that
motion
carries
and
then
we
have
before
us
the
amended
legislative
agenda
and
policy
positions
with
all
those
recommendations
by
staff.
Any
further
discussion
or
comments
not
seeing
any
all
those
and
approval,
please
say:
aye
aye
those
opposed
and
the
motion
carries.
Thank
you
again
for
your
work
on
this,
and
now
we
have.
G
You
mr.
chair
I'm
happy
to
move
it
I
don't
know
if
staff
wants
to
say
anything
briefly.
I
know
we're
short
on
time,
but
I
just
want
to
acknowledge
staff's
work
on
this
and
bring
it
to
our
attention,
and
you
know
I
will
say
this
too.
You
know
we're
closer
to
the
Canadian
border
than
to
the
Mexican
border
geographically,
but
our
communities
here
in
Minneapolis
are
diverse.
O
You
very
much
committee
chair,
Johnson
president
bender,
vice-president
Jenkins
and
other
committee
members.
My
name
is
Michelle
Rivera
I'm,
the
director
of
the
office
of
immigrant
and
refugee
affairs
of
the
city
of
Minneapolis
and
I
just
wanted
to
make
one
additional
note
that
December
10th
is
the
70th
anniversary
of
the
Universal
Declaration
of
Human
Rights,
so
I
think
it's
especially
significant
that
the
city
of
Minneapolis
supports
this
proposed
resolution.
I'm
very
grateful
to
this
committee
I'm
very
grateful
to
chair
bender
for
sponsoring
this
resolution.
So
thank
you
very
much.
Thank.