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From YouTube: August 15, 2019 Mayor's Budget Address
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need
to
make
the
general
advisory
I
will
announce
that
the
rules
of
the
City
Council
do
not
allow
for
public
comments
at
meetings
of
the
full
council.
Members
of
the
public
have
the
opportunity
to
comment
on
city
business
at
the
committee
level.
The
purpose
of
the
council
meeting
is
to
conduct
the
business
of
the
city
consistent
with
our
rules,
those
who
disturb
these
proceedings
and
interfere
with
the
ability
of
the
City
Council
to
conduct
the.
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Thank
you,
council.
Vice
president
Andrea
Jenkins,
your
friendship,
your
commitment
and
your
collaboration
has
meant
a
great
deal
to
me
and
to
this
city.
Thank
you
to
our
City
Council
members
for
your
input.
Having
met
with
each
of
you
individually,
your
feedback
was
informative
and
constructive
and
has
helped
me
shape
this
budget.
It's
good
to
be
joined
by
leaders
from
across
our
city
and
across
our
region,
including
a
City
Hall,
alum,
congresswoman,
Ilhan
Omar.
Thank
you
for
being
I.
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Want
to
thank
the
other
elected
officials
that
have
joined
us.
I
want
to
thank
leaders
from
across
our
departments,
our
finance
team
and
my
staff
for
the
long
nights
and
major
sweat
equity
invested
it
in
making
this
budget
happen.
Your
patience
and
your
persistence
have
been
invaluable
in
building
an
exceptional
budget
for
2020
and
developing
important
groundwork
for
years
ahead.
H
We
also
received
important
input
from
community
members
earlier
this
year
your
voices
were
heard
and
they
are
reflected
in
this
project,
and
now
it
is
my
great
honor
to
present
to
you,
the
city
of
Minneapolis,
2020,
recommended
budget
and
then,
as
a
matter
of
house,
key
team
keeping.
Here's
the
same
brief
disclaimer
I
offer
it
earlier
last
year.
H
This
is
a
lot
to
unpack
and
several
exciting
items
didn't
make
it
into
these
remarks
because
of
time
constraints
I'll
be
more
than
happy
to
further
discuss
any
item
in
the
2020
budget
with
you
and
my
door
is
always
open.
Last
year
we
promised
you
a
strong
foundation
for
a
stronger
future
in
Minneapolis.
We've
made
good
on
that
commitment,
but
we
must
now
put
our
city
on
the
right
course
for
the
future,
a
course
that
accounts
for
a
cyclical
economy,
political
instability,
a
warming
climate
and
our
shared
values
that
drive
each
and
every
decision.
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Throughout
the
world,
succumb
to
external
pressures
and
residents
and
neighborhoods
rise
and
fall
with
the
tide,
Minneapolis
can
and
should
be
different.
We
set
a
vision,
we
make
tough
decisions
and
we
don't
bend
to
pressures.
We
can
predict
we
plan
for
them.
In
this
budget,
we
plan
we've
made
decisions
resulting
in
a
higher
levy
today
that
will
help
shield
us
from
volatility
tomorrow.
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As
I've
said
before,
cities
are
the
laboratories
of
democracy,
experimenting
with
innovation
and
groundbreaking
policy
when
run
properly,
they're
also
reliable,
we're
the
government
that
doesn't
shut
down,
and
we
should
plan
so
that
we
keep
running
no
matter
what
there
are
several
deliberate
decisions
we've
made
in
this
vein,
the
projections
we've
made
for
revenue
from
construction
permits
are
intentionally
conservative.
Last
year
we
saw
a
development
in
the
city
surpassed
1.8
billion
dollars.
We
have
already
hit
a
billion
dollars
this
year,
which
staffs
tells
me
is
the
earliest
we've
reached
that
milestone.
H
In
other
words,
it
looks
like
2020
is
shaping
up
to
be
another
banner
year,
but
the
cyclical
nature
of
our
economy
says
that
those
trends
won't
hold
forever.
An
overly
ambitious
outlook
could
mean
that
beneficial
programs
get
cut
just
when
people
need
them
most,
rather
than
take
a
political
win.
Now,
with
a
lower
levy,
we've
been
more
conservative
with
our
projections
more
strategic
with
our
allocations
and
therefore
can
be
more
confident
in
our
city's
future.
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Second-
and
many
of
you
know
this,
our
city
has
a
contingency
fund
that
serves
as
a
back-up
plan
in
the
most
difficult
and
unexpected
moments
and
insurance
against
hard
times.
A
city
committed
to
enduring
prosperity
knows
how
to
weather
a
storm
and
understands
that
you
don't
wait
for
the
rain
to
fall
before
you
fix
the
roof.
You
plan
ahead.
For
years,
our
contingency
fund
has
been
replenished
on
a
one-time
basis,
which
meant
it
was
always
competing
against
other
sexier
options.
H
Mayor
hodges
began
and
we've
expedited
and
finished
the
process
of
moving
it
into
ongoing
funding
and
we're,
starting
with
an
accelerated
investment
of
1.6
million
dollars
in
2020.
Third,
the
state
created
consolidated
tax
increment
finance
district,
which
has
funded
neighborhood
associations
NNC.
Our
four
years
is
expiring.
H
This
leaves
a
hole
in
the
city's
budget,
a
big
one
of
over
seven
million
dollars
in
2021.
It
would
have
been
easy
to
kick
the
can
down
the
road,
but
I
felt
strongly
that
we
could
not
leave
our
neighborhoods
and
an
entire
city
department
in
limbo.
Instead,
we
have
laid
out
a
plan
to
provide
funding
for
this
work
and
an
opportunity
for
council
members
to
make
the
best
decisions
for
the
future
freed
from
the
looming
question
of
whether
any
funding
is
available.
H
Finally,
the
funding
that
supports
our
housing
inspectors
previously
filled
by
fees
from
vacant
and
boarded
properties
has
dwindled.
That's
because
the
number
of
vacant
and
boarded
properties
has
dwindled
the
upside
is
we
have
fewer
vacant
and
boarded
properties.
The
downside
is,
we
can
no
longer
pay
our
employees
from
that
fund
regulatory
services.
Directors
have
been
raising
the
alarm
about
this
issue
for
years
and
last
year,
I
took
steps
to
bridge
a
gap,
while
our
staff
sought
a
permanent
solution.
H
H
Council
member
lenay
Palmisano
has
consistently
put
this
philosophy
into
action
most
recently
in
advocating
for
a
two-year
budget
cycle,
but
a
prosperous
future
also
depend
on
inclusive
policy
and
policymaking.
End
program
development.
Now
we've
begun
setting
the
stage
based
on
budget
recommendations.
Last
year,
stable
homes,
stable
schools
is
already
helping.
H
So
that's
a
total
of
125
families
and
396
children
in
just
a
few
short
months
with
numbers
poised
to
grow
substantially
as
students
return
to
school
in
the
next
few
weeks.
Those
are
a
lot
of
great
numbers,
but
this
program
isn't
just
about
numbers.
It's
about
kids!
It's
about
their
families
before
the
social
worker
at
Pillsbury
community
referred
Desiree
and
her
family
to
stable
home,
stable
schools.
H
They
had
been
homeless
for
six
months,
moving
constantly
from
hotel
to
hotel
at
one
point,
Desiree
and
her
husband
were
forced
to
make
the
heart-wrenching
decision
to
split
up
their
family,
their
two
girls
with
Desiree
and
their
two
boys
with
Jorge
to
find
temporary
places
to
stay
now
through
stable
home,
stable
schools.
They
are
starting
the
school
year
in
a
stable
home
together,
we
expected
success,
but
we
could
not
have
anticipated
this
level
of
progress.
This
quickly,
we're
housing,
families
and
based
on
the
clear
data.
This
program
is
working
and
it
is
working
well.
H
Thank
you,
councilman
Philippe
Cunningham,
our
in-house
youth
development
expert
for
backing
stable
home,
stable
schools,
every
step
of
the
way
this
program
is
growing
by
leaps
and
bounds
and
will
hit
full
stride
later
this
year.
Thank
you,
Minneapolis
Public
Schools,
the
Minneapolis
Public
Housing,
Authority,
Hennepin
County,
the
pohlad
foundation,
the
YMCA,
the
Minnesota
multi
Housing
Association,
our
entire
City
Council,
and
every
one
of
our
partners
who
are
collaborating
in
a
profound
way
to
make
stable
homes
stable
schools,
a
success.
Please
give
them
a
round
of
applause
for
their
extraordinary
work.
H
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I
want
you
to
invite
I'm
on
it.
Invite
you
all
to
say
this
with
me.
Economic
inclusion
and
I
support
your
First
Amendment
right
to
express
your
voice.
I
support
that
right
to
express
your
voice
under
our
city
charter.
I
am
also
obligated
to
deliver
a
budget
address,
and
the
residents
of
Minneapolis
do
have
the
right
to
hear
what
is
in
that
address.
D
H
A
H
Chinatown
in
New,
York,
City,
Hyde
Park
in
Chicago
Miami's
little
black
Wall
Street
in
Tulsa,
and
soon
due
to
councilmember
Abdul
Waris
Ami's
hard
work,
African
village
will
be
right
here
in
Minneapolis.
These
are
readily
recognizable
destinations,
they're
landmarks,
central
to
how
we
tell
the
story
of
our
nation
in
Minneapolis.
We
have
an
opportunity
to
lead
and
through
our
cultural
districts
initiative,
we
will
now
we're
moving
forward
with
the
promise
to
plan
and
plans
require
specificity.
H
So,
let's
be
specific,
when
I
talk
about
a
remarkable
community,
here's
what
I
believe
that
rests
on
it
rests
on
people
with
the
Economic
Security
to
forge
their
own
paths.
Entrepreneurs
with
the
fiscal
stability
to
take
a
great
idea
and
scale
it
a
system
that
helps
ensure
people
who
have
already
made
these
communities
great
will
benefit
from
their
work.
H
When
I
talk
about
a
remarkable
community,
I'm
talking
about
a
phenomenon,
a
tangible
feeling,
a
sense
of
place,
the
literal
experience
of
knowing
you're
part
of
something
bigger
than
you
I,
remember
visiting
my
grandparents
in
Queens
New,
York
City,
and
they
take
me
to
bagel
oasis
to
purchase
you
guessed
it
everything
bagels,
it
wasn't
just
a
transaction.
It
was
an
experience,
an
experience
that
was
made
rich
by
cultural
heritage,
not
just
my
Ashkenazi
Jew
heritage.
H
In
the
same
era,
you
found
culture
from
Puerto
Rican
to
Italian
Jamaican,
to
Ethiopian
to
Chinese
bursting
from
the
sidewalk,
but
this
wasn't
just
about
having
a
new
experience.
This
place
was
made
special
because
a
plethora
of
different
communities
head
for
generations
created
an
ecosystem
that
both
gave
to
neighborhood
and
was
duly
supported
by
cultural
districts,
are
intentionally
designed
to
bolster
the
vision
of
black
indigenous
and
immigrant
communities.
H
Here's
how
we're
gonna
do
it
in
collaboration
with
councilmembers,
Alondra,
Cano,
andrea
jenkins,
jeremiah
ellison,
Abdi
Warsaw
me
and
Kevin
Reich,
more
than
30
community
groups,
dozens
of
subject
matter,
experts
and
staff.
We
have
identified
several
cultural
districts
from
West
Broadway
to
Central,
from
Cedar
Riverside
to
East
Lake,
to
our
oldest
cultural
districts
along
Franklin
and
38th
Street.
H
Our
350
thousand
dollar
investment
in
meat
Minneapolis,
focusing
on
cultural
districts,
helps
to
shine
a
light
on
the
cultural
assets
of
the
districts
and
drive
customers
to
support
the
commercial
vitality
of
each.
On
top
of
that,
we're
designating
an
additional
two
hundred
thousand
dollars
for
the
great
streets,
facade
improvement
program.
The
focus
will
be
on
expanding
the
program
to
include
interior
improvements
and
address
deferred
maintenance
in
cultural
districts.
Now
it's
hard
to
talk
about
culture
without
talking
about
art
and
our
$200,000
cultural
districts,
arts
investment
will
support
both
emerging
artists
and
their
destinations.
H
Finally,
in
cultivating
our
cultural
districts,
we
will
work
to
ensure
that
those
with
deep
groups
stay
firmly
planted
in
community.
It
used
to
be
the
case
that,
if
you
wanted
to
own
a
hardware
store,
you
bought
a
hardware
store
you
own,
the
real
estate,
you
own,
the
building,
you
own,
the
hammers,
the
nails
and
all
of
the
other
things
that
you
might
find
in
a
hardware
store
stores
were
passed
from
generation
to
generation
because
the
family
owned
them.
H
Those
barriers
often
lead
those
barriers,
often
leave
even
the
hardest-working
entrepreneurs,
with
a
small
but
formidable
gap
between
a
great
idea
and
turning
the
key
to
the
building
they
own.
So
that's
why
I'm
working
with
council
member
Jeremiah
Ellison
to
create
the
Minneapolis
commercial
property
development
fund.
C
E
H
Seated,
with
2.5
million
dollars,
this
revolving
fund
establishes
a
no
interest
loan
that
does
not
get
repaid
until
the
property
is
sold
and
helps
move
more
people
of
color
closer
to
truly
owning
their
own
businesses
and,
by
extension,
realizing
their
dream.
This
is
a
plan
and
it's
a
plan
that
can
work.
H
We're
certainly
not
afraid
to
try
new
things
in
Minneapolis,
our
city
attorney
pushed
the
state
legislature
to
eliminate
cash
bail
and
though
the
legislature
didn't
get
it
done
this
session.
That's
not
where
our
efforts
stopped.
Thanks
to
our
new
Hennepin
County
Sheriff,
she
had
a
partner
to
act
with
locally
and
we're
investing
75
thousand
dollars
in
an
alternative
to
cash,
bail
and
archaic
and
fundamentally
unjust
practice.
H
This
is
just
the
first
step,
but
it's
one
that
will
be
important
in
creating
a
more
equitable
Minneapolis
and
just
as
the
cycle
of
poverty,
ravages
communities.
So
does
the
cycle
of
addiction.
The
opioid
epidemic
has
left
no
corner
of
our
city
untouched.
Our
first
responders
from
firefighters
to
police,
to
EMS
to
our
community
partners
are
increasingly
strained,
as
that
first
line
of
defense
and
the
impact
has
been
felt
acutely
by
our
Native
community
in
the
NPD's
third
Precinct
home
to
little
earth.
H
There
were
80
overdoses
in
2015
fast
forward
to
2018,
and
that
number
has
skyrocketed
to
359
a
348
percent
increase
in
just
three
years.
Our
communities
deserve
a
strong
response
and
may
deserve
a
local
government
committed
to
breaking
the
cycle
of
addiction.
That
is
precisely
what
our
multi
generous
diction
'el
task
force
recommended
earlier
this
year,
and
it
is
precisely
why
we
are
investing
an
additional
four
hundred
thousand
dollars
in
our
city's
response
to
the
opioid
crisis,
including
a
new
hospital
based
intervention
initiative.
H
Through
this
initiative,
people
suffering
from
addiction
are
supported.
They
are
met
by
a
social
service
provider
at
their
most
vulnerable
place
and
time
at
their
hospital
bed
following
an
overdose.
They
are
connected
to
resources,
support
systems
and
addiction
treatment.
They
are
not
treated
as
outcasts
society,
but
as
loved
members
of
our
community
that
deserve
help.
We
can't
arrest
our
way
out
of
this
crisis.
We
need
public
health
based
and
culturally
specific
solutions.
H
Public
health
and
public
safety
measures
in
this
budget
aren't
limited
to
tackling
the
opioid
crisis.
We
are
allocating
additional
funding
for
our
group
violence,
intervention
initiative,
our
mental
health
Co
responder
program,
the
City,
Attorney's
trauma-informed,
domestic
violence
and
alternative
to
cash
bail
initiatives
are
homeless
and
vulnerable
population
outreach
efforts,
additional
staff
and
gear
for
our
fire
department,
investigative
staff
for
both
domestic
and
sexual
assault
crimes
and
yes,
major
funding
for
affordable
housing
and
economic
inclusion.
H
For
those
of
you
who
say,
we
need
public
safety
measures
beyond
policing,
we
agree
wholeheartedly
and
we
are
putting
our
money
where
our
mouth
is.
Our
public
safety,
chair,
councilmember,
Alondra
Cano,
knows
how
important
it
is
that
we
develop
a
holistic
safety
agenda
for
our
whole
city
and
she
has
been
instrumental
in
helping
us
develop
one.
H
H
In
this
past
decade,
they
have
been
responsible
for
doing
more
with
less.
Our
city
has
grown
from
382
thousand
people
in
2010
to
about
four
hundred
and
thirty
thousand.
Today,
while
our
number
of
sworn
officers
has
remained
stagnant,
again
population
up
sworn
officers
stagnant,
that's
not
a
sustainable
metric.
H
H
The
fall
of
1992
is
etched
into
the
memory
of
Minneapolis
residents.
To
this
day
an
officer
had
just
been
shot
and
killed,
and
the
city
was
still
reeling
from
an
officer-involved
shooting
just
two
years
prior
in
North
Minneapolis
that
resulted
in
the
death
of
a
black
teenager.
At
the
time
our
city
turned
to
a
25
year
old
rookie,
with
a
memorable
name
to
serve
as
a
bridge
as
a
purveyor
of
hope
between
community
and
the
department.
H
When
chief
arredondo
made
that
request
to
add
neighborhood
outreach
officers,
he
told
me
about
his
own
experience
about
how
he
began
his
career
with
the
MPD
walking
golden
Valley
Road
on
the
north
side
and
how
he's
under
stand
community
policing.
He
considered
it
an
abject
failure.
If
a
squad
car
responded
to
kids
beats
his
community,
it
was
his
responsibility
to
prevent
the
need
for
squads
to
come
out
by
bringing
community
in
and
today,
flashing
lights
are
the
only
police
response.
Much
of
the
city
knows
because
of
diminished
numbers.
H
H
My
2020
budget
includes
a
recommendation
for
a
neighborhood
outreach
officers,
so
more
of
our
new
cops
come
to
understand.
Community
Police,
as
chief
arredondo,
does
we've
added
traffic
enforcement,
a
good
idea
champion
by
councilmember
Andrew
Johnson,
in
keeping
with
our
vision,
zero
initiative.
Finally,
we're
adding
investigators
to
sex
crimes
and
domestic
violence
units
so
that
our
department
can
be
more
responsive
to
the
needs
of
survivors.
H
Matthew
desmond
in
his
landmark
work
evicted
rightly
identifies
safe,
secure
housing
at
the
at
the
heart
of
keeping
that
public
peace.
Last
year
we
invested
a
record
forty
million
dollars
in
city
funding
alone
and
that
support
has
seeded
good
work.
In
the
twenty
nineteen
funding
round,
we
received
an
all-time
high
in
strong
applications
to
the
affordable
housing
trust
fund
for
new,
affordable
housing
development,
and,
thanks
to
last
year's
record
amount
of
funding,
this
fall.
We
will
be
meeting
a
record
amount
of
that
demand
with
new
units.
H
Supported
strongly
by
council
president
lisa
bender,
we
invested
heavily
in
the
acquisition
of
naturally
occurring,
affordable
housing
last
year
and
recently
that
investment
paid
off
a
on
an
affordable
housing
nonprofit
was
able
to
secure
209
units
in
Whittier,
lyndale
and
Logan
Park.
Those
units
will
now
remain
affordable,
long
term
helping
to
prevent
resident
displacement.
We
also
invested
in
Minneapolis
Holmes
leveraging
city-owned
Lots,
especially
on
the
north
side,
as
key
resources
in
our
push
to
create
more
affordable
home
ownership.
H
The
large
investment
in
the
Minneapolis
Homes
program
has
meant
that
the
total
number
of
units
produced
and
financed
or
on
track
to
double
in
2019,
with
90
units
approved
compared
to
40
in
the
previous
years,
and
the
Minneapolis
Homes
rate
of
service
to
households
of
color
is
over
70
percent.
This
year.
We
are
also
injecting
another
31
million
dollars
of
city
money
into
our
affordable
housing
budget.
H
And
we
are
maintaining
our
commitment
to
capture
and
dedicate
as
many
state
and
federal
resources
for
affordable
housing
as
possible
and
we've
been
successful,
taking
into
account
our
allocation
of
affordable
housing
resources
beyond
our
general
fund.
We
are
on
track
for
an
annual
investment
of
over
a
hundred
and
thirty
million
dollars
in
affordable
housing
in
Minneapolis.
H
Dollar-For-Dollar
no
administration
in
any
Minnesota
municipality
has
demonstrated
a
deeper
commitment
to
affordable
housing.
We've
heard
loud
and
clear:
the
need
for
sustainable
source
of
funding
for
affordable
housing,
while
we'll
continue
to
call
for
support
from
other
jurisdictions,
I'm
proud
to
announce
Minneapolis
will
be
taking
the
lead
in
starting
that
sustainable
source.
We're
moving
forward
with
a
new
eight-year
framework
with
a
fifty-two
million
dollar
base
lined
and
increasing
the
level
of
ongoing
funding.
This
plan
not
only
ensures
the
continued
production
of
affordable
housing
that
we
so
desperately
need,
especially
at
deeply
affordable
levels.
H
It
provides
certainty
for
our
development
and
nonprofit
partners
and
sends
a
clear
message.
We
are
in
this
for
the
long
haul.
So
I
don't
want
this
point
to
be
lost
that
eight-year
framework
and
increase
in
ongoing
funding.
Funding
are
only
the
floor.
We
can
and
will
go
beyond
this
initial
plan,
as
we
continue
prioritizing
additional
one-time
resources.
H
Speaking
of
floors,
we're
investing
in
ten
of
them,
along
with
the
future
of
our
enterprise
through
the
new
public
service
center,
the
city
of
Minneapolis
is
home
to
approximately
4,000
exceptional
city
employees.
In
many
cases
they
could
make
more
money
working
in
the
private
sector,
but
they
enter
work
every
day
with
a
hop
in
their
step
because
they
care
deeply
about
Minneapolis
and
they
want
to
make
it
a
better
place.
They
won't
stick
around
if
their
work
and
working
conditions
are
poor
and
if
we
can't
retain
them,
the
whole
city
will
suffer.
H
H
This
building
will
help
consolidate
employees
that
were
previously
spread
throughout
downtown
and
enhance
and
interdepartmental
collaboration
and
importantly,
the
new
public
service
center
will
be
customer
oriented,
making
it
easier
to
navigate
our
systems
and
services
with
a
one-stop
shop
front
desk,
not
to
mention
the
long
term
cost
is
cheaper
than
continuously
renting
buildings.
We
presently
occupy
as
its
chamber
of
commerce.
President
Jonathan
Hawaiian
Hagen
told
me.
Businesses
make
long-term
investments
to
attain
and
recruit
exceptional
employees
all
the
time
the
city
of
Minneapolis
shouldn't
be
any
different.
The
public
service
center
will
be
opening
next
year.
H
C
H
H
Thank
you
to
our
City
Council
for
your
work
from
development
to
hiring
the
companies
that
call
Minneapolis
home
are
critical
to
our
success
and
one
industry
in
the
private
sector
that
we're
targeting
in
a
big
way
his
technology.
Since
2015,
the
city
of
Minneapolis,
has
invested
more
than
two
million
dollars
in
scholarships
to
support
low-income
Minneapolis
residents
who
want
to
enter
tech
careers
through
MIT
MSP,
Tech
hire
our
partners
and
employers
from
across
Minneapolis
are
increasing
the
talent
pool
for
our
businesses.
H
More
than
1300
people
who
participated
in
accelerated
tech
hire
training
are
now
working
with
over
500
tech
employers.
On
average,
these
they've
seen
a
wage
increase
of
sixteen
thousand
dollars
annually
in
a
tech
industry
that
is
woefully
unrepresentative
of
our
communities.
Nationally,
tech
hire
graduates
are
30
percent
people
of
color
and
40
percent
women
in
2020.
We
are
investing
an
additional
two
hundred
and
fifty
thousand
dollars
in
MSP
tech
hire
to
build
on
that
progress
and,
if
we're
concerned
about
our
economic
future,
we'd
better
be
concerned
with
the
future
of
our
planet.
H
Local
governments
across
the
country
are
wrestling
with
the
EM
unfolding
impacts
of
climate
change
and
moving
with
a
renewed
sense
of
urgency
to
step
up
and
address
the
climate
crisis,
a
defining
social
justice
issue
of
our
generation.
Some
are
content
with
being
on
the
cutting
edge
of
the
fight
to
curb
climate
change.
In
Minneapolis
we
are
working
to
set
the
curve.
We
are
continuing
to
invest
in
our
climate
work
with
another
two
hundred
sixty
thousand
dollars
in
ongoing
funding
added
this
year,
bringing
our
ongoing
investments
in
sustainability
to
over
three
million
dollars.
H
We'll
do
right
by
the
environment
while
making
it
more
convenient
for
our
residents
to
get
around
we're
looking
out
for
pedestrians
to
navigating
the
sidewalks
during
snowy
months
in
Minneapolis
can
be
difficult,
especially
for
those
with
disabilities
and
for
our
seniors
intersections
often
form
the
point
of
most
significant
hardship
and
so
with
support
from
councilmember
Steve
Fletcher.
We
are
accelerating
Corner
clearance
and
providing
greater
mobility
year-round
for
everyone.
H
H
H
They've
signed
up
over
nineteen
hundred
names
for
deposit
and
established
themselves
as
a
budding
Community
Oriented
financial
option,
with
over
five
million
dollars
pledged.
Let's
keep
that
momentum
going
so
I'm
honored
to
announce
that
we
will
be
investing
half
a
million
dollars
in
the
continued
development
of
its
transformational
entity.
H
And
we
hope
that
others
match
and
exceed
our
commitment.
This
model
can
and
should
be
replicated
just
asked
council
member
Reich
our
foremost
leader
in
cooperatives,
he's
called
for
the
implementation
of
cooperatives
ideals
and
we
are
delivering
through
our
new
cultural
districts,
coop
and
employee
owner
Opportunity
Fund.
We
start
we
want
to
start
and
grow
a
cooperative,
but
you
don't
know
how
no
problem.
We
will
now
guide
you
through
the
process
and
in
cultural
districts.
We'll
provide
matching
funds
to
see
the
co-operative
through
to
fruition.
H
We
can
provide
even
more
people
in
Minneapolis
with
an
opportunity
to
cast
their
ballot,
we're
setting
out
to
establish
three
seven
day
early
voting
centers
in
north
and
in
south
and
at
the
University
of
Minnesota,
along
with
the
staff
needed
to
support
those
locations.
Next
year's
vote
will
be
at
historic
one
and
again
we
are
working
to
maximize
turnout
in
our
city.
H
Some
institutions
tell
our
city's
story
better
than
any
individual
Ken.
Our
world-class
Park
System
is
one
such
institution.
The
independent
nature
of
our
park
board
has
paid
dividends
and
the
investments
we've
made
have
stood
the
test
of
time.
In
fact,
my
favorite
park
bench
in
the
city
located
in
chute
Square,
is
a
really
old
one.
It
bears
the
insignia
WPA
for
the
Works
Progress
Administration
from
the
Roosevelt
era
today.
That
bench
is
where
Sarah
and
I
eat
our
lunch
on
the
weekend.
C
H
Parks
elicits
more
than
just
simple
pleasures:
they've
supported
the
health,
equity
and
vitality
of
our
city.
They
support
youth
development
and
they
are
certainly
deserving
of
our
ongoing
support.
And,
yes,
we
made
that
commitment
as
part
of
our
20-year
parks
and
streets
funding
plan
by
committing
an
additional
11
million
dollars
on
an
annual
basis.
We've
helped
ensure
our
parks
can
fund
necessary,
upkeep
and
capital
needs.
H
Keeping
our
crown
jewel
also
requires
that
we
go
even
further
and
we
are
on
top
of
last
year's
nine
hundred
fifty
thousand
dollar
increase
this
year.
We
are
increasing
the
park
board
budget
even
more
to
the
tune
of
one
point.
Two:
three
million
dollars
strong
commitments
in
our
city's
earliest
days
and
throughout
the
20th
century
have
helped
make
Minneapolis
what
it
is
today
by
keeping
that
tradition
alive,
more
couples
and
families
will
enjoy
clean,
safe
parks
and
park
benches
for
decades
to
come.
H
So
after
months
of
running
and
rerunning
numbers
meeting
with
department,
leadership,
council
members,
stakeholders
and
community
members
after
building
out
innovative
funding
plans
for
fueling,
inclusive
economic
growth,
expanding
access
to
affordable
housing
and
improving
police
community
relations,
it
seems
a
shame
to
boil
it
all
down
to
a
single
number.
But
the
levy
has
real
impacts
on
the
people
of
Minneapolis
and
we
have
an
obligation
to
residents
fiduciary
duty
to
spend
their
tax
dollars
wisely
and
efficiently.
H
We
started
the
year
with
a
projected
levy,
increase
of
seven
point:
zero,
two
percent
that
was
just
to
honor
ongoing
commitments
and
maintain
current
service
levels
through
hard
work
and
harder
decisions.
We
are
now
at
a
six
point:
nine
five
percent
levy
and
as
I
mentioned
in
the
opening,
this
is
a
levy
that
sets
the
stage
for
what's
next
and
doesn't
shy
away
from
doing
the
right
thing.
Even
when
it's
tough.
H
We
can
and
must
be
united.
We
are
bound
by
a
shared
duty
to
our
city
to
one
another
to
advancing
progress
here,
no
matter
what
the
mayor
twirled
may
throw
our
way:
Robert
Kennedy,
who,
decades
ago,
boldly
confronted
many
of
the
challenges
we
still
face
today.
Eloquently
summed
up
an
attitude
built
right
into
how
Minneapolis
does
business.
Let
no
one
be
discouraged
by
the
belief
there
is
nothing
one
person
can
do
against
the
enormous
array
of
the
world's
misery,
ignorance
and
violence.
C
H
Will
have
the
greatness
to
bend
history,
but
each
of
us
can
work
to
change
a
small
portion
of
events
and,
in
the
total
of
all
those
acts
will
be
written
the
history
of
a
generation.
Let
the
totality
of
our
acts
of
the
events
that
we
change
not
just
talking
about
it,
but
doing
it
be
the
making
of
a
truly
inclusive
Minneapolis.
H
B
E
B
B
F
You,
madam
vice
president,
the
Budget
Committee
will
take
up
consideration
of
the
mayor's
recommended
budget
on
September
9th
starting
at
1:30,
at
which
time
our
finance
team
will
begin
by
providing
a
high-level
overview
of
the
proposed
budget.
We
anticipate
starting
departmental
hearings.
The
following
Thursday
September
12th
at
9:30
a.m.
Department
hearings
and
budget
presentations
will
continue
through
the
end
of
October
and
following
the
success
of
last
year's
process,
we
have
planned
a
total
of
three
public
hearings
on
the
budget.
F
The
first,
which
will
be
conducted
by
the
committee,
is
tentatively
set
for
Thursday
November
7th
at
9:30.
Following
that,
we
to
conduct
the
second
hearing,
which
is
the
statutory
requirement
acts
ation
hearing
on
one
stage,
is
December
4th.
At
6:05
p.m.
we
anticipate
a
budget
markup
on
Friday
December
6th,
followed
by
the
third
and
final
public
hearing
on
Wednesday
December
11th
at
6:05
p.m.
B
Thank
You,
councilmember,
Palmisano
and
again
I
just
want
to
thank
the
mayor
and
all
of
the
community
members
who
showed
up
to
express
their
concerns,
discuss
and
all
of
the
issues
that
have
been
expressed
this
morning.
I
know
that
I
speak
for
my
colleagues
when
I
say
that
we
appreciate
your
leadership
and
we
look
forward
to
getting
into
the
details
of
this
proposed
budget.