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From YouTube: January 14, 2020 Ways & Means Committee
Description
Minneapolis Ways & Means Committee Meeting
https://lims.minneapolismn.gov
A
Good
afternoon,
everyone
I
call
to
order
the
regular
scheduled
Ways
and
Means
Committee
and
the
first
one
for
the
year
and
I
have
with
me
on
the
diet,
console
members,
Cunningham
Johnson
Fletcher
and
a
Palmisano
vice
president
Jenkins,
and
we
have
a
quorum
of
the
committee
and
therefore
can
dispense
with
our
business
today
and
I
will
start
with
the
consent
items.
We
have
around
46
consent
items
and
there
are
as
follows.
Item
number
1
is
a
litigation
matter
of
Keith
Daniel
versus
city
of
Minneapolis.
Item
number
2
is
a
legal
settlement.
A
Martin
versus
city
of
Minneapolis
at
our
item
number
3
is
a
legal
settlement.
Rochelle
Levine
versus
city
of
Minneapolis
item
number
4
is
a
legal
settlement.
Glenda
F
Johnson
versus
Jason,
wolf
item
number
5
is
a
legal
settlement.
Viet
&,
Company,
Inc
versus
city
of
Minneapolis
item
number
6
is
a
legal
settlement
workers
compensation
claim
of
Michael
gossamer
item
number
7
is
a
legal
settlement
workers.
Compensation
claim
of
william
dodge
and
item
number
8
is
a
contract
amendment
with
meet
minneapolis
for
sales
and
marketing
for
the
Minneapolis,
Convention,
Center
and
Convention
and
tourism
services.
A
Engineering
Inc
for
salting
services
for
the
public
service
building
project
item
number
15
is
a
contract
amendment
with
print
or
painting
ink
for
painting
work
for
public
service
building
project.
Id
number
16
is
a
contract
amendment
with
Empire
House
Inc,
the
interior
glazing
work
for
the
public
service
building
project.
A
I,
don't
know
the
21
is
a
contract
amendment
Kabat
companies
for
shoring
an
exterior
plant
is
for
public
service
building
project
I,
don't
number
22.
Is
a
contract
remember
with
ma
Mortensen
the
company
for
increased
carpentry
casework
for
the
public
service
building
project
item
number
23
is
a
contract
amendment
with
Lejeune
steel
company
for
structural
steel
supply
for
the
public
service
building
project
at
number.
24
is
a
contracts
with
dr.I
consulting
and
sks
consulting
for
management
assessments
and
related
services.
A
Item
number
25
is
a
contract
amendment
with
in
for
public
sector
Inc
for
license
maintenance
and
support
of
Enterprise
Land
Management
System
idle
number
26
is
a
contract
amendment
with
evolved
software
cooperation
for
project
Docs
upgrade
item
number
27
is
a
contract
amendment
with
Deloitte
Consulting
LLP
for
pension
business,
consulting
services,
I,
don't
number
28
is
a
contractor
manual
with
Minneapolis
telecommunications
network
for
community
public
access
television
item
number
29
is
a
bid
for
telecommunications
equipment.
Aisle
number
30
is
a
contract
with
employment
investigations,
Inc
and
J
selma
law
PA
for
neutral
workplace
investigations.
A
A
Item
number
33
is
a
Minnesota
Department
of
Human
Services
grants
for
targeted
opioid
treatment
prevention
and
recovery
services.
Our
number
34
is
a
Minnesota
Department
of
Health
Public
Health
Service
grant
I'm
number
35
as
a
contract
amendment
with
the
Minnesota
Bureau
of
Criminal
Apprehension
for
DNA
analysis
of
Police
Department
case
evidence.
I
remember:
36
is
a
contract
with
Hennepin
County
for
waste
disposal
services.
A
Ironmouth
39
is
a
contract
amendment
with
Mya
contracting
Inc
for
North
Loop
reconstruction
project
item
number
40
is
a
contract
amendment
with
Park
construction
company
for
the
Hennepin
Avenue
south
west
of
Lake
Street
36th,
Street,
West
Street
reconstruction
project
item
number
41
is
a
contract
amendment
with
Rice
Lake
construction
group
for
Fridley
water
plant
rehabilitation
project
item
number:
42
is
a
contract
amendment
with
tiller
corporation
for
bituminous
mixtures.
Item
number
43
is
an
agreement
with
Minnesota
Department
of
Transportation
for
Hennepin
Avenue
Street
reconstruction
project
item
number.
A
44
is
a
gift
acceptance
from
the
Minnesota
Department
of
Transportation
of
a
parklet
structure.
Item
number
45
is
a
bid
for
sidewalk,
curb
and
driveway
approaches,
project
and
the
final
item.
46
is
a
bid
for
hauling
and
disposal
of
dirt
and
snow
and
I
move
approval
of
all
46
consent
items.
Is
there
any
discussions
or
comments
from
my
colleagues?
B
A
C
You
separate
actions,
but
the
presentation
will
focus
on
the
variety
of
banking
services
for
consideration
of
the
council,
pursuant
to
a
request
for
proposals
that
was
authorized
by
the
council
or
earlier
in
the
2019
it's
been,
and
we
undertake
these
RFPs
anywhere
from
every
three
to
five
years,
so
it
has
been
five
years
since
we've
revisited
this.
If
you
remember
later
in
2019,
we
also
had
a
request
for
proposals
for
our
investment
services,
and
the
committee
separately
made
recommendations
in
the
council
ultimately
awarded
a
variety
of
contracts
related
to
investments.
C
These
banking
services
are
what
I
would
call
is
much
more
transactional
and
generally
the
lower
end
cost
of
our
banking
services.
So
I'm
gonna
walk
through
each
of
those
services,
just
remind
the
committee
which
which
are
for
consideration
today.
The
first
is
related
to
what
I
would
call
the
city's
checking
account
it's
taking
in
money
and
sending
money
out
for
either
paying
our
employees
or
paying
our
vendors
there's
very
little
money
that
sits
overnight
in
those
accounts.
So
these
are
not
a
combination
of
a
savings
account
and
a
checking
account
for
the
most
part.
C
It's
just
the
flow
of
money
and
flow,
the
money
out
for
cities
of
our
size
and
even
for
smaller
cities.
There
is
a
state
law
that
requires
anybody
that
we
do
business
with
to
provide
collateral
so
that
in
any
one
day
we
may
receive,
for
example,
a
hundred
million
dollar
property
tax
settlement
from
Hennepin
County,
and
so,
if
we
leave
that
in
the
account
overnight,
state
law
requires
us
to
get
lateral
from
that.
C
Bank,
meaning
that
if
that
Bank,
for
whatever
reason,
went
out
of
business
overnight,
that
our
money
would
be
safe
because
there's
only
Federal
Insurance,
you
know
up
to
a
much
lower
level
than
a
hundred
million
dollars
to
protect
our
money.
So
the
state
is
very
interested
in
protecting
large
cities
and
small
cities,
and
so
by
its
nature,
then
that
kind
of
transactional
work
requires
a
bank
that
has
easy
access
to
short-term
capital
and
security,
and
then
also
has
the
has
the
corporate
commitment
to
working
with
the
public
sector
because
of
those
state
law
requirements.
C
We
also
have
bank
lockbox,
which
is
basically
taking
in
our
checks,
primarily
and
processing
them.
For
us,
this
is
primarily
through
utility
billing,
but
a
variety
of
ways
that
we
receive
checks
and
we
still
get
an
awful
lot
of
checks
as
a
city.
Merchant
accounts
is
the
credit
card
processing
for
the
city,
remembering
that
within
the
last
year
and
a
half,
the
city
did
split
out
our
parking
fund,
credit
card
processing,
and
so
that
had
previously
been
a
part
of
this
RFP
is
now
separate
and
run
outside
of
this
RFP.
C
But
again,
credit
card
processing
has
federal
regulations
about
security,
about
people's
credit
card
data,
and
so
it
does
require
a
high
level
of
corporate
commit
commitment
to
security
custodial
services
is
the
people
who
the
entity
that
holds
our
investments
in
name
only.
So
we
know
that
people
don't,
for
example,
if
you
buy
a
corporate,
if
you
buy
a
municipal
bond
today,
you
don't
physically
get
that
bond
anymore.
You
hold
it
in
in
really
in
paper
only
and
the
title
holder
of
that
is
a
separate
company.
C
That's
true
if
you're,
a
private,
individual
or
a
public
entity,
so
this
custodial
services
is
administering.
You
know
are
anywhere
from
five
hundred
eight
hundred
million
dollars
of
publicly
traded
on
investments
and
then
the
last
service,
which
I
think
in
some
ways
is
one
of
the
most
important
and
biggest
changes
out
of
this
is
our
prepaid
cards.
C
This
is
our
ability
to
pay
people
who
work
for
us,
whether
they
be
an
election
judge
or
a
summer
intern,
without
having
to
issue
a
check
and
for
them
to
have
to
use
they
don't
have
a
bank
account
or
an
ID,
some
complicated,
less
than
efficient
means
of
cashing
that
check
in
order
to
receive
the
payment
from
the
city.
So
those
are
the
services
that
are
in
front
of
us.
We
did
intentionally
as
a
part
of
the
RFP
to
encourage
as
much
participation
from
a
variety
of
banks
as
possible.
C
C
C
For
consideration
of
the
evaluation
of
the
each
of
these,
we
had
separate
staff
committees
for
each
of
the
five
services,
and
these
were
cross
departmental.
In
some
cases,
the
park
board
participated
as
well,
because
we
do
handle
some
of
the
park
board
financial
transactions
and
each
of
those
subcommittees.
Total
35
individuals
were
for
over
20
departments.
Those
subcommittees
made
essentially
blind
recommendations
up
to
an
evaluation
committee
of
which
we
did
have
membership
of
the
mayor
staff.
C
Our
diverse
spend
and
building
capacity
of
those
businesses
who
work
with
us
as
the
city
to
be
able
that
access,
for
example,
insurance
and
short-term
loans
that
are
not
exorbitant
rates
and
kind
of
a
collective
understanding
of
what
the
not
just
banking,
but
also
nonprofit
services,
are
are
that
are
available
to
help
them
build
the
capacity
to
meet
our
requirements
as
a
city.
The
other
is
the
City
Council
has
been
moving
towards,
certainly
with
inclusionary
zoning
mixed
income
housing.
C
Third,
is
how
can
we,
as
a
city,
improve
our
lending
programs,
the
2%
lending
program
we
recently
approved
a
grant
with
living
cities
and
focusing
more
on
loans
within
north
Minneapolis
and
Wells
Fargo
has
voluntarily
committed
to
work
with
us
and
committed
a
number
of
meetings
and
hours
towards
each
of
those
endeavors.
They
have
also
committed
to
go
above
and
beyond.
C
What
is
our
responsible
banking
ordinance
reporting,
which
is
to
report
specifically
on
the
amount
of
corporate
giving
for
non
non
profits
and
reports
specifically
on
their
efforts
in
terms
of
their
own
workforce
and
diversity
within
their
workforce?
So
these
are
not
conditions,
they
are,
as
I
said,
voluntary
activities
that
we
think
when
I
think
back.
You
know
20
30
years
ago.
What
did
we
look
at
our
local
banks
to
help
us?
Do
it's
more
than
just
transact?
C
I
also
just
lastly,
want
to
highlight
that
was
in
the
RCA
for
those
people
that
are
watching
what
the
scale
of
compensation
is
for
these
services,
because
sometimes
I
think.
We
believe
that
these
are
very
high
compensation
amounts
and
again
it
would
depend
on
your
perspective,
but
from
a
contracting
standpoint.
These
are
kind
of
middle
to
lower
middle
sized
contracts,
so
specifically
for
the
banking
contract.
In
other
words,
our
checking
account
it's
a
hundred
and
thirty
five
thousand
dollars
annually,
with
Wells
Fargo
and
for
the
lockbox
services.
C
It's
a
hundred
and
thirty
thousand
dollars
annually
for
US
bank
elevon,
it's
thirty
five
thousand
dollars
annually
for
credit
card
processing
for
the
custodial
services.
It
is
twenty
nine
thousand
dollars
annually
and
then
for
the
prepaid
cards
that
it's
a
total
of
thirty
five
thousand
dollars
so
again,
significant
in
the
sense
of
the
amount
of
transactions
that
go
on,
but
relatively
small
in
the
sense
of
the
annual
city
budget
that
is
devoted
to
these
services.
C
So
if
that
certainly
would
recommend
the
council
that
move,
approval
and
I
would
also
say
that
we
will,
as
staff
for
each
of
our
partners,
not
just
focusing
on
Wells
Fargo
but
certainly
associated
the
principal
group.
Us
bank
continue
to
closely
monitor
the
progress
they
are
all
making
in
terms
of
a
commitment,
we're
asking
them
to
community
goals
and
if
we
don't
feel,
there's
good
progress
or
if
you
as
counsel,
don't
feel,
there's
good
progress.
C
E
E
B
C
Okay,
so
a
custodian
does
the
same
thing
for
us
just
multiply
it
times.
You
know
a
million
times
right
so
that
they
handle.
So
when
we
have
one
of
our
brokers,
then,
who
wants
to
buy
and
sell
that
transaction
is
all
done
electronically
through
a
custodial.
Continent
custodial
is
in
the
sense
that
they
are
on
our
behalf,
so
they're
our
custodian
of
our
funds,
but
it
is
done
universally
across
any
entity.
There's
nothing
unique
about
that
relationship
for
the
city
of
Minneapolis
versus
any
other
nonprofit
or
for-profit
business
or
own.
B
Thank
you
and
then
I'm
just
curious
I've
with
a
article
this
morning
about
Wells
Fargo,
bleeding
50%
of
their
fourth-quarter
earnings,
and
how
does
that
impact
their
ability
or
the
state's
concern
about
being
able
to
to
cover
these
amounts?
I'm
pretty
sure
they
have
that
insurance,
but
maybe,
if
someone
from
Wells
Fargo
can
speak
to
to
that
issue,.
B
F
Thank
you
very
much
for
the
question.
Councilmember
Jenkins.
We
are
very
strong
bank.
Those
there
were
other
incidences
that
impacted
our
earnings.
One
was
a
litigation
of
I,
think
one
point
four
billion
dollars
that
we
set
aside
for
settlements
that
will
be
having
going
forward,
but
otherwise
I
think
our
earnings
were
very
strong.
I
think
we're
very
positive,
we're
moving
in
a
positive
direction.
We
feel
like
we
are
going
to
be
getting
all
through
this
very
soon
and.
F
We
recently
hired
Charlie
sharp
to
be
our
new
CEO
and
he's
taken
the
bank
in
a
new
direction,
he's
looking
at
all
of
the
cost
that
Wells
Fargo
has
he's
looking
at
the
products
and
services.
Wells
Fargo
has
to
try
and
make
sure
that
we're
balanced
in
a
way
that
will
lead
to
profit
and
growth
going
forward.
Looking,
especially
at
our
of
the
costs
of
running
out
such
a
large
organization.
E
Thank
You
chair,
not
so
much
a
question
is
just
a
note
of
thanks.
I
think
the
process
of
splitting
this
up
into
chunks
that
people
can
apply
for
making
this
more
accessible
so
that
we
could
consider
more
players.
That's
obviously
something
that
we've
interested
in
making
sure
that
we're
being
fair
to
everybody.
You
know
I,
think
you've.
You've
made
some
good
choices
here
and
and
appreciate
that
that
we've
gone
as
far
as
we
can
given.
There
were
a
large
institution
with
a
lot
of
regulations.
E
So
not
everybody
can
serve
us
and
we
can't
just
necessarily
go
to
the
credit
union
down
the
street.
We
have
to
really
think
about
who's
got
the
capacity
to
do
this
work.
I
also
do
wanna
acknowledge
how
significant
it
is
that
that
Wells
is
offering
the
additions
that
they
offered
to
the
services
that
we
requested.
E
We
really
do
have
we
run
up
against
limits
as
a
city
on
the
ways
that
we
can
address
past
structural
inequities.
We
know
the
ways
that
the
city's
participated
in
that
we
know
that
there
are
things
that
we
need
to
do
to
make
right
inequity
that
we've
created
in
the
past,
and
we
know
that
when
we
often
run
up
to
the
barrier
of
the
ways
that
other
institutions
have
participated
in
that
and
and
kind
of
need
to
do
their
part.
And
certainly
we
just
got
a
presentation
on
the
2%
loans.
E
That
really
showed
us
that
one
of
the
limitations
of
our
economic
development
activity
is
our
ability
to
leverage
private
funding.
That
is
often
restricted
in
a
historically
racist
system
of
credit
and
lending.
And
so
the
opportunity
I
think
to
really
look
at
that
2%
loan
to
help
more
business
owners
of
color
access,
private
capital,
so
that
we
are
able
to
leverage
more
for
the
businesses
that
we're
trying
to
support
here.
Locally.
I.
Think
it's
very,
very
important
and
definitely
we've
heard
feedback
from
developers
who
said
we'd
love
to
build
this
mixed
income
housing.
E
But
we
can't
get
financing
for
it
and
so
I'm
making
sure
that
we're
finding
the
finance
tools
so
that
the
people
who
want
to
build
the
housing
that
we
want
to
see
built
in
our
city
are
able
to
get
the
money
behind.
It
is
very,
very
important,
so
I
appreciate
at
least
the
the
gesture
towards
addressing
those
issues
and
look
forward
to
working
with
everybody
on
that
in
the
future.
Thank
you.
A
Thank
you
very
much
councillor
any
other
questions
or
discussion
for
my
colleagues.
Seeing
none
I'll
move
approval
of
the
revised
our
CA,
which
has
been
distributed
to
all
committee
members
decreasing
the
dollar
amount
in
part
three
from
two
hundred
twenty
one
thousand
to
twenty
nine
thousand
and
deleting
the
word
annually
in
part
for
all
those
in
approval,
say:
aye,
those
against
I
have
it
and
that
item
has
been
approved.
Thank
you
very
much.
Now
we
have
a
walk
on
item
item
number
48.
A
This
is
a
small
and
underutilized
business
contracting
and
minority
and
female
workforce
participation
for
the
public
service
building.
We
will
receive
in
a
file
in
a
presentation
of
the
current
status
of
the
city
goals
for
small
and
underutilized
business
contracting
and
minority
and
female
workforce
participation
to
date
for
the
public
service
building,
and
we
have
Greg
goki
to
give
us
a
presentation.
Go
ahead,
quick.
D
Good
afternoon,
chairman
more
some
in
committee
members,
I'm
Greg
okie
with
finance
and
property
services.
My
goal
today
is
to
update
you
on
the
small
and
underutilized
business
participation,
as
well
as
the
minority
and
women's
workforce.
Participation
on
the
Public
Service
building
project
I'm
also
joined
by
Velma
Korbel
from
the
Civil
Rights
Department
staff
from
Mortensen
and
CPI
cpma
all
have
roles
ensuring
our
city
goals
are
met
on
this
project
today,
I'll
cover
these
topics
at
a
summary
level
and
answer
any
questions
you
may
have.
D
With
fast-track
design
and
nearly
40
prime
contractors
and
professional
service
contractors,
we
have
a
large
number
of
contract
amendments
compared
to
our
traditional
design
bid
and
build
process
for
new
facilities.
Many
of
the
contracts
amendments
are
the
result
of
design
completion
nation,
as
well
as
correction
and
multiple
contracts.
That
may
be
involved
on
a
single
change
in
scope
of
work.
D
The
summary
here
is
of
the
25
prime
construction
contracts
that
were
bid
and
contracted
over
the
last
18
months.
The
dollar
amounts
are
for
all
contract
amendments.
Today,
the
contract
amendments
that
you
approved
earlier
in
the
meeting
and
any
pending
pricing
or
future
amendments
that
may
be
coming
in
the
near
future.
D
So
we
have
a
total
contracted
estimate
right
now
of
a
construction
of
a
hundred
and
thirty
1
million
nine
hundred
and
forty
eight
thousand
four
hundred
dollars
early
in
the
project
working
with
Velma
and
her
staff,
we
did
establish
a
25%
combined
minority
in
women
workforce.
Excuse
me
business
participation
on
the
project
rather
than
just
having
that
as
an
overall
goal
for
every
scope
of
work
in
every
bit.
We
did
leverage
martinson's,
Mortensen's
market
expertise
on
these
large-scale
projects
to
create
goals
for
each
prime
contract.
D
Some
of
these
have
goals
as
high
as
35%
why
other
goals
are
significantly
below
25%.
As
these
market
segments
have
limited,
MN
UCP
contractors
to
subcontract
with
currently
have
a
combination
of
contractors,
not
meeting
goals,
meeting
goals,
but
not
exceeding
goals
and
some
that
are
exceeding
their
contract
requirements.
The
combination
is
currently
projected
to
meet
the
overall
goal
of
25%
of
the
projected
value
with
over
33
million
dollars
going
to
women
and
minority-owned
businesses.
D
D
D
Our
requirement
for
on-site
workforce
specifies
thirty-two
percent
minority
and
twenty
percent
women
participation.
Civil
rights
also
tracks
veteran
and
apprentice
labor
for
the
project.
As
indicated,
minority
labor
is
meeting
requirements,
while
male/female
participation
is
not.
Contractors
are
expected
to
continue
working
with
our
civil
rights
staff
to
recruit
an
employee,
qualified
female
construction
workers
for
the
project.
D
Over
the
course
of
2020,
we
will
be
procuring
installing
fiber
network
switches,
telephones
and
cabling
to
complete
RIT
AV
infrastructure
for
the
building,
a
major
component
that
we'll
be
issuing
a
request
for
proposals
for
the
cellular
distributed
antenna
system
that
will
ensure
adequate
cellular,
smartphone
coverage
for
staff
and
public
in
the
building.
We
will
also
be
contracting
for
ancillary
furniture
that
we
intend
to
provide
opportunities
through
the
city's
target
market
program.
With
that
I'll
answer
any
questions
you
may
have.
G
H
G
H
We
can
we
can't
take
a
look
at
that.
I,
don't
know
how
much
how
granular
we
can.
We
can
get,
especially
with
the
businesses,
because
I
think
we've
talked
about
this
in
the
past.
The
way
the
small
businesses
are
certified
in
the
city.
The
the
certification
methodology
that
we
use
is
certifying
women
as
a
group
and
we're
typically
talking
about
white
women
and
certifying
businesses
owned
by
people
of
color,
of
which
women
of
color
are
included
in
those
groups.
So
when
we
set
the
goals
on
projects,
we're
also
tracking
that
the
same
way.
H
So
when
we
start
to
try
to
parse
those
numbers,
it
becomes
a
little
bit
more
more
complicated
to
do
that.
The
other
thing
that
is
concerning
to
me
when
we
start
to
do
that
this
the
sample
size
of
women,
who
are
businesses
that
can
do
construction
work
or
women-owned
businesses
that
can
do
the
type
of
architectural
and
engineering
work
that
we
are
asking
for
on
a
project
like
this,
the
sample
size
or
the
group
size
becomes
so
small
that
it
also
degrades
our
ability
to
be
effective.
H
We
can
dig
a
little
bit
deeper
into
that,
because,
when
we're
talking
about
professional
services,
there
are
a
lot
more
women
of
color
who
are
involved
in
that
kind
of
work.
But
when
we
start
to
parse
it
that
way
for
construction
and
construction
services,
there
just
are
not
that
many
businesses
to
be
able
to
get
that
granular.
When
we
look
at
what
we
have
discretion
and
our
other
professional
services,
we
can
start
to
look
at
some
of
that.
A
little
bit
differently.
Great.