City of Minneapolis, MN 2019 Minneapolis City Council and Committee Meetings, 15 Jan 2019

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Minneapolis Ways & Means Committee Meeting

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Everybody's ready right.

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Afternoon, everyone I will call this regular, scheduled meeting of the Ways and Means Committee to order I'm the chair of the committee. My name is Abdul Sami and we are joined by council members, johnson, cunningham, fletcher and council vice-president jenkins, and we have a quorum and therefore can conduct the committee's business. I will start we have one public hearing and 48 I consent items for consideration today. I will start by reading the consent. Items. First is an acceptance of a grant from the MacArthur Foundation for Kortright pilot project.

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Item number: three is amicus status in lawsuits, challenging federal administration, immigration related policies? Item number four is a legal settlement item number five is also a legal settlement. Item number six is also a legal settlement item number seven and eight and nine and ten are also legal settlements. I don't number eleven is a contract amendment with the Bergen kdv technologies and consulting Inc for convention center parking ramp item number. Twelve is a bid for the theatrical stage.

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Lighting I, don't number 13 is a rebid for the Minneapolis Convention Center lighting update item number 14 is a rebate for the Target Center housing reduction systems. Project I, don't know 15 as an annual property insurance premium for the Minneapolis Convention Center item number 16 is a technical amendment, 2019 five-year capital program and general appropriation resolution for the municipal building, Commission's elevator upgrades and modernization project item number 17 is a Capitol long-range, Improvement Committee appointments item number 18 is the community solar garden agreement.

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Item number 19 is a contractor medication, Xebec data for electronic collection and conversion of utility bills. Item number 20 is a contract amendment with fight Orion Inc for the enterprise resource planning programs. Finance reporting versus idle number 21 is a bid for the new public service building project for waterproofing Idol number 22 is a request for qualifications for workplace systems. Furniture for the public service building project Idol number 23 is an agreement with formation Studios for prototyping for public art for the new public service building.

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Item number 24 is an agreements with Randy Walker for public art for the Eastside storage and maintenance facility. Item number 25 is a contract amendment with cultures, broker's LLC for strategic and racial equity action plan. Item number 26 is a membership agreement with Northside Economic Opportunity Network workspace at one 0:07 West Broadway Avenue item number 27 is a contract amendment with centers for energy and environment for building, benchmark benchmarking and disclosure services. Item number 28 is a contract with paradigm complex care solutions for nurse case management and other workers.

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Compensation related services, I, don't number 29 is the family housing initiative funding for Penn Avenue Union item number 30 is the 2018 metropolitan council livable communities demonstration account number 31 is the Metropolitan Council livable communities, local housing incentive account ID number 32 is a grant from the Hennepin County for school-based clinics. I, remember: 33 is a contract with Hennepin Technical College for training of Minneapolis Police Department cadets item number 34 is a donation from Kitty fire safety, products of smoke, alarms and carbon monoxide detectors.

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Item number 35 is a donation of generators from the department of defense for fire fight, firefighter property program to the Minneapolis Fire Department for use in tactical operations. Item number 36 is a land sale portion of right-of-way adjacent to 177, Glenwood Avenue to Catholic Charities item number 37 is a contract with CNA consulting engineers for plans, specifications and services for the construction of the Central City stone tunnel.

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I, remember: 38 the contract amendment with power, construction, USA LLC for structural lining of water mains and number 39 as a contractor Midland with progressive rail Inc for 60 to 62. First Street West Street reconstruction project. Higher number 40 is a contract amendment with P Pete's water and sewer for Girard Avenue South sanitary sewer replacement project. Our number 41 is a contract amendment with v8 and Company Inc for uptown Upton Vincent and 51st Avenue North sanitary sewer replacement project. Our number 42 is a contract amendment with an AC mechanical for pump station number six boilers.

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Our number 43 is a contract amendment with PCI roads, LLC for gate valve, won't repair and replacement. I. Don't number 44 is a contract amendment with egan company for parking ramp, camera surveillance project. I. Remember: 45 is a contract amendment with uragan construction company funicula, more art restoration. A number 46 is a contract amendment with formation studios for Nikol and more art. I know number 47 is an acquisition of property for the st. Anthony Parkway bridge project. Ireland 48 is a temporary easement and all right of entry agreement for higher Heights neighborhood sanitary reconstruction project.

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Item number 49 is a bid for Minneapolis parking, integrated video management systems, and that is items to 249 which our consent item and any discussions. Yes, councilman Makani area, Thank.

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You mr. chair two quick things: I first want to take a moment to think City, Attorney Susan Siegel for her leadership with the court ride pilot project, taking it all the way back to number two on the agenda.

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Susan has been an amazing leader and finding where there are where there are needs and continues to be barriers and issues in the criminal justice system and she's done a really wonderful job, finding those gaps and then being able to then bring in resources and then prototype and grow. The work that she's doing so I just want to make sure we take a moment to pause, and this is a really big issue around folks being able to make it to court and to their meetings with their lawyers.

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So just want to say thank you to Susan and the City Attorney office and I also just want to give a quick shout out to my capital. Long range of proof meant committee appointees, Eric Wan, who is actually coming from the federal budget, doing federal budget in the at the federal level and then also Jeff's Tran. Who is a resident expert on all things? City and county, and is just a really great representative of the ward, so just wanted to give a shout out.

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We also have a couple of folks who are also mayoral appointees, so it's nice to see a very strong Northside representation with such great quality folks at the table. Some. Thank you. Any other comments.

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Or questions I'm an addict: okay, seeing none I move approval of item item. Let me first move approval item 17 with the addition of waiving the residency requirements for the ward 7 appointee. John Bernstein in any of my colleagues have any questions on that: okay, all those in favor say aye, those against and let's just do one more time. Let's move approval, all the consent, 48 items, all those an approval, say aye. It goes against. Thank you very much.

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Those items have been a food and then next I'll move to remaining, because how next I'll move to our public hearing, which is item number one, which is a land cell, 14 royal, still Avenue north to the Metropolitan Council and I we're gonna get a given overview by mr. Tom Norton mr. Lawton.

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Thank you go ahead. Mr.

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Chair more sami members, my name is Tim Norton and the director of property services here at the city and I'm standing in for Rebecca law. This afternoon she has presented for your consideration a resolution to sell to the Metropolitan Council for the Southwest light rail transit project, 14 Ralston, Avenue North.

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It's the purpose of that sale is initially to use it as a staging area for the the construction of the the light rail then, ultimately to use it as a space for their.

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Substation electrical substation and the transfer is suggested for $1 and with that I'll take any questions that you might have Hey.

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Any questions for mr. Lawton see none. Thank you very much. Okay, sorry I apologize council, vice-president drinking right, yeah.

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Thank you Terrace on me and mr. Norton and I. Don't understand we're selling it to them for $1. Isn't it that's.

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Correct a transfer- currently it's as I understand, I mean.

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Are we using this facility? Currently, that's.

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A piece of land and I can show you if somebody can help me with this overhead. You.

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Can put it over there, so it's not the actual, yeah and policin so.

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It's just a piece of a green space right here mm-hmm and for our reference. This is the Ralston maintenance facility over here is Mary's place and, let's see what else I think. That's if that helps yeah.

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No, it's not the facility, it's just yes,.

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It's just a basic item: there's a hill that leads up to this there's a fence, and so it's that piece of green space up at the top of that hill and currently it's under a long-term lease agreement with the Met Council.

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Helps a lot thank you so much yeah and.

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This is like this to follow up from council vice president's question: is this a standard procedure? Do we is this? The kind of does this happen regularly with the Met Council, but now.

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It does, and according to the document that Rebecca put together, one of the rationales is currently we still maintain it. This will take it off of our books and we won't have to provide any maintenance part anymore.

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Thank you very much a lot there. Any other questions for my colleagues. Okay, I will open this up to the public. Is there anyone here wishing to speak to this topic today in the public? Anyone?

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Okay, final chance, anyone okay, see no person wishing to speak I will close the public hearing and move this item for approval, small, the discussions, all those in favor say aye, those against, and this item has been approved and having concluded the business on our agenda today, we are adjourned. Thank you very much.