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From YouTube: July 24, 2019 Elections & Rules Committee
Description
Minneapolis Elections & Rules Committee Meeting
https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/
A
Good
afternoon
my
name
is
Jeremiah
Ellison
and
I
am
the
chair
of
the
elections
and
Rules
Committee,
and
this
is
the
regular
meeting
of
that
committee.
Joining
me
here
at
the
dais
today
is
counsel
our
councilmembers
Gordon
Fletcher
Goodman,
Jenkins,
Cano,
Schrader
and
Palmisano.
We
are
a
quorum
of
the
committee,
and
so
we
will
get
started.
We
have
three
items
on
today's
agenda.
First
is
a
requested
contract
with
the
city
of
East,
Point
Michigan
for
consulting
services
for
our
elections
and
voter
Services
Division.
B
Good
afternoon
mr.
chair
members
of
the
committee,
as
indicated,
my
name
is
Casey
Carla
have
the
privilege
of
serving
as
City
Clerk.
This
first
item
is
a
request
to
authorize
a
contract
with
the
city
of
East
Point
Michigan,
to
enable
our
city's
elections
and
voter
Services
Division
to
provide
consulting
services
to
East
Point
about
the
implementation
and
administration
of
rank-choice
voting.
This
request
is
the
result
of
a
settlement
agreement
between
East
Point
and
the
US
Department
of
Justice,
following
a
complaint
that
was
originally
filed
in
2017.
B
That
complaint
alleged
that
a
pure
all
at-large
voting
system
that
was
in
place
in
East
Point,
wherein
the
mayor
and
all
members
of
their
City
Council
were
elected.
At-Large
had
negative
racial
impacts
on
both
candidates
and
voters.
The
Justice
Department
pointed
out
that
no
african-american
candidate
had
ever
been
elected
in
at-large
elections
for
City
Council's
school
board
or
for
a
legislative
district,
despite
the
fact
that
african-americans
constitute
about
a
third
of
the
electorate
of
the
city's
population.
B
As
a
consequence,
the
Justice
Department
alleged
that
the
all
at-large
election
method
was
racially
discriminatory
and
a
violation
of
the
Voting
Rights
Act.
The
consent
decree
reached
as
part
of
the
settlement
between
the
Justice,
Department
and
East
Point
requires
that
rank-choice
voting
be
implemented
for
the
election
of
the
City
Council,
starting
with
their
municipal
election.
This
year
in
2019,
eath
point
will
become
the
first
city
in
Michigan
to
use
rank-choice
voting
and,
as
the
city
is
under
extreme
time
constraints
to
make
this
change
to
a
new
system
of
voting.
B
Obviously
we're
excited
by
the
opportunity
to
engage
with
another
community
so
that
we
can
continue
to
learn
about
lessons
from
minneapolis.
We
see
it
as
an
opportunity
to
relook
at
our
processes
and
learn
from
a
hands-on
implementation
that
also
might
have
helped
us
to
refine
and
improve
our
work
in
administering
our
cv
in
minneapolis
for
the
next
election
in
2021.
A
B
Chair,
it's
a
good
question,
but
having
consulted
with
Miss
Walker
roads
on
her
team
I
think
will
be
sufficiently
resourced
to
continue
our
preparations
for
the
2020
presidential
election
cycle.
While
we
provide
some
consulting
services,
both
mostly
online
over
the
phone
web-based
things
like
that,
but
also
a
few
on-site
visits
to
help
with
their
planning
and
implementation
efforts.
But
we
this
should
not
have
a
negative
impact
on
our
ability
to
plan
for
next
year's
presidential
elections.
Great.
A
A
B
Thank
you.
Mr.
jereth,
you
mentioned
this
is
a
true
housekeeping
item.
The
rules
had
previously
required
that
public
hearings
be
required
on
the
appointment
of
individuals
to
the
city's
Bicycle
Advisory
Committee.
The
committee
recommended
that
this
be
eliminated.
I
should
say
that
the
Bicycle
Advisory
Committee
asked
that
this
requirement
for
a
public
hearing
on
their
members
be
eliminated.
That
request
came
through
the
council
and
was
supported
by
the
Transportation
and
Public
Works
Committee
in
the
last
cycle
and
ultimately
approved
by
the
City
Council.
B
Therefore,
this
is
merely
an
administrative
process
of
cleaning
up
the
rules,
specifically
rule
7,
section
4,
which
says
bicycle
appointment.
Committee
members
would
be
under
a
public
hearing.
This
read
acts
are
removed,
eliminates
that
provision.
So
it's
a
very
straightforward
housekeeping
issue,
no
other
changes
to
the
rules.
It
simply
removes
the
Bicycle
Advisory
Committee
from
the
list
of
those
subject
to
mandatory
public
hearings,
I'm
happy
to
respond
to
questions.
If
there
are
any
great.
A
Are
there
any
questions
for
my
colleagues
seeing
none?
Thank
you.
Mr.
Carl
and
I'll
move
to
adopt
the
resolution
to
incorporate
this
update
into
the
council
rules.
All
those
in
favor
say:
aye
aye,
all
those
opposed,
say,
nay,
all
right,
the
eyes
have
it
and
we
will
move
on
to
item
number
three.
Our
final
item
is
to
receive
and
file
the
2018
report
from
the
ethical
practices
board
and
here
to
present
that
report
is
Susan
Trammell.
Mr.
chairman,
please
take
it
away.
Thank.
C
You,
chair
Ellison
members
of
the
committee,
I
am
Susan
Trammell,
the
city's
ethics
officer.
The
ethical
practices
board
has
approved
their
2018
annual
report,
which
was
distributed
to
all
of
your
office's
on
Friday
and
has
been
distributed
to
all
department
heads
and
will
be
posted
online
at
ethical
practices
board
website.
Once
this
has
been
received
and
filed
by
Council.
There
are
a
few
highlights
that
I
want
to
pull
out
from
the
annual
report.
The
first
relates
to
the
education
of
employees
related
to
the
ethics
code.
C
Statistically,
things
have
not
changed
much
in
recent
years.
We're
hovering
in
the
vicinity
of
low
80%
compliance
with
the
ethics
code.
We
always
have
a
fair
number
of
employees
out
of
compliance
on
the
given
day
that
I
run
the
report.
We
run
this
through
comment,
which
means
the
numbers
that
I
use
could
be
changed
the
next
day.
C
Should
someone
take
their
training
or
someone
else
become
out
of
compliance,
so
as
of
a
snapshot
that
I
take
at
the
end
of
the
year,
each
year
we're
running
about
80%
of
employees
that
have
complied
so,
we
have
about
20%
out
of
compliance
and
an
additional
20%.
Usually
that
will
fall
out
of
compliance
the
next
year,
so
those
are
the
two
numbers
things
just
haven't
changed
much.
We
did
work
with
the
HR
department
in
implementing
a
new
refresher
training.
That's
available
online.
This
isn't
the
second
iteration
of
the
online
training.
C
We
have
already
begun
to
start
planning
for
the
next
iteration,
which
we'll
need
in
two
more
years
or
two
and
a
half
years.
The
other
thing
that
I'd
like
to
bring
up
relates
to
ethics
inquiries.
There
are
generally
four
top
categories
of
ethics
inquiry
and
in
any
given
year,
they
change
place
from
one
two
and
three,
when
I
report
on
the
top
three,
but
there's
generally
four
big
categories
of
inquiries
and
then
the
other
things
fall
in
at
much
lower
percentages.
C
Those
four
categories
are
gifts,
conflict
of
interests,
use
the
city,
resources
and
outside
employment.
The
board
has
seen
and
I
have
seen
as
well
an
increase
in
the
number
and
complexity
of
the
conflict
of
interest,
questions
that
are
coming
forward
and
the
board
has
been
actively
discussing
those
and
maybe
proposing
in
the
next
year
some
potential
changes
to
address
some
of
the
things
that
they've
seen
as
to
ethics
complaints.
C
The
complaints
volume-wise
are
running
about
the
same
as
in
prior
years,
the
numbers,
you
will
note.
We
had
46
new
complaints,
alleging
73
allegations
in
those
complaints.
Now,
if
you
look
at
the
report,
it
will
show
that
we
received
48
complaints
on
page
11
and
that's
because
sometimes
complaints
are
reported
in
multiple
ways.
Sometimes
we
have
multiple
reports
of
the
same
complaint
from
different
parties,
sometimes
they're
received
in
more
than
Manor.
C
C
The
topics
of
the
complaints
are
also
listed
in
the
report
and
the
portion
of
the
complaints
that
come
in
through
the
hotline
that
I'm
understaffed
direction
from
this
counsel
to
report
through
the
ethics
line,
and
it's
through
the
ethics
board
report.
Now
the
ethics
report
line
receives
more
than
just
ethics
complaints,
so
there
are
complaints
that
are
counted
that
are
not
purely
ethics
and,
as
you
can
see,
from
the
chart
that
begins
on
page
11
and
goes
through
page
12
of
the
46
complaints
that
came
through
actually
of
the
allegations.
C
So
this
is
now
we're
covering
the
seventy
three
allegations.
We
had
five
come
through
that
related
to
employee
relations
or
other
management
issues,
two
that
were
policy
violations
not
related
to
the
ethics
code,
six
that
related
to
compliance
with
other
laws
and
one
involving
ethical
aspirations
which,
by
the
nature
and
the
language
of
the
code,
are
not
actionable.
They
are
purely
aspirational
sections,
and
so
that
is
a
constant
as
well.
You
can
see
from
that
historical
chart
that
we
get
a
fair
number
of
those
each
time.
C
Okay
and
the
provision
in
the
code
is
because
the
policy
itself
doesn't
cover
board
and
Commission
members,
and
it
doesn't
cover
elected
officials,
but
the
ethics
code
does
so
we
have
that
do
education,
and
so,
when
complaints
come
in
to
me
via
either
the
hotline
or
directly,
they
are
then
referred
to
the
HR
department
for
handling
through
their
ADH
and
our
investigative
unit.
And
the
thing
that's
not
included
in
this
number
of
14
of
those
complaints
are
the
ones
that
the
HR
unit
receives
directly
okay,
so
they
last
year
received
43
unit.
C
It's
43
additional
complaints.
Those
numbers
aren't
reflected
in
mine,
so
the
top
complaint,
if
you
count
those
ADH
and
our
complaints
as
88n,
are
so
discrimination
or
harassment
is
the
number
one
complaint
that
we
would
receive
if
we
counted
those
from
HR
at
the
bottom
of
page.
12
is
a
discussion
a
chart
related
to
the
outcomes
of
the
various
cases
of
the
matters
that
close
there
are
13
that
remain
open.
C
C
The
last
report
that
I
or
last
chart
that
I
want
to
point
out
relates
to
the
degree
of
anonymous
calls.
That's
on
page
13
and
we
as
a
city
have
a
very
high
percentage
of
anonymous
callers,
much
higher
than
the
contracted
service
that
we
use
for
the
report
line
as
to
their
other
clients.
We
are
much
higher.
We
are
at
78%
and
their
clients.
C
The
most
recent
data
that
I
have
for
them
was
from
2017
at
56%,
so
we
have
a
much
higher
percentage
of
anonymous
callers
than
than
their
regular
client
pace
and
that's
a
concern,
because
that
is
evidence
that
the
reporters
fear
retaliation
by
reporting.
So
that
are
the
thing.
Those
are
the
things
that
I
wanted
to
highlight
for
this
council
and
I
can
stand
for
questions.
C
A
You
Miss
Tramell.
Are
there
any
questions
from
my
colleagues
all
right?
Thank
you
for
your
presentation,
seeing
no
for
the
question
before
we
get
to
that.
I
just
wanted
knowledge
that
we've
been
joined
by
councilmember
bender
and
with
that
I
will
move
to
receive
and
file
the
annual
report,
all
those
in
favor
say
aye,
all
those
opposed,
say,
nay
and
the
eyes
have
it,
and
that
concludes
our
items
of
business
for
today's
committee.
So
with
no
further
business
before
us
committee
is
adjourned.
Thank
you.