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From YouTube: April 29, 2020 Policy & Government Oversight Committee
Description
Minneapolis Policy & Government Oversight Committee Meeting
https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/
B
Thank
you
good
afternoon.
My
name
is
Lisa
bender
I'm,
the
chair
of
the
policy
and
Government
Oversight,
Committee
and
I'm,
going
to
call
to
order
our
regular
meeting
for
today.
As
we
begin
I'll
note
for
the
record
that
this
meeting
has
remote
participation
by
council
members
and
city
staff
as
authorized
under
the
Minnesota
Open
Meeting
Law
Section
13
D
point
0
to
1
due
to
the
declared
state
of
local
public
health
emergency.
At
this
time,
I'll
ask
the
clerk
to
call
the
roll
to
verify
the
presence
of
a
quorum
council.
C
E
C
A
C
B
Record
reflect
that
we
have
a
quorum
before
we
take
up
the
printed
agenda.
I
wanted
to
note
that
we
have
one
item
to
take
up
today.
That
was
continued
from
last
week's
meeting,
but
didn't
get
added
to
the
agenda
and
that
item
is
the
proposed.
Hiring
freeze,
I'll
recognize
the
city
clerk
to
give
a
short
explanation
of
that
item.
Thank.
F
You,
madam
president,
as
you
know,
last
week
the
hiring
freeze
proposal
was
packaged
together
with
the
wage
freeze.
Those
items
were
separated
by
the
council
and
this
proposal.
The
issue
of
the
hiring
freeze
was
postponed
to
today's
meeting
of
the
policy
and
Government
Oversight
Committee
and
notice
was
given
at
that
time.
F
So
the
paperwork
was
not
prepared
in
time
to
get
it
on
the
agenda
and
postponed
to
today,
my
fault,
and
so,
given
that
the
council
directed
it,
be
added
to
today's
agenda,
it
would
be
appropriate
for
the
council
to
then
add
it
to
this
agenda
so
that
we
follow
through
on
that
notice
and
act
on
that
proposal
today.
Thank
you.
B
Thank
You
mr.
Carlin,
with
that
I
will
add
that
item
as
number
30
on
our
agenda
following
the
equity
subcommittee
presentation,
but
that
will
move
to
our
first
order
of
business,
which
is
public
hearings,
and
we
have
two
public
hearings
on
today's
agenda.
The
first
hearing
is
on
the
proposed
charter
amendment,
which
was
submitted
to
us
by
the
Charter
Commission
I'll,
ask
the
city
clerk
to
provide
a
summary
of
the
proposal
and
then
we'll
open
the
public
hearing.
Mr.
Karle
thank.
F
You,
madam
chair,
this
proposed
amendment,
as
you
noted,
was
submitted
by
the
Charter
Commission
on
April,
2nd
to
be
enacted
by
ordinance
pursuant
to
Minnesota
Statutes,
section
4,
10.12,
subdivision
7.
That
is
the
statutory
provision
which
authorizes
charter
amendments
by
ordinance
as
an
alternative
method
to
referring
such
proposals
to
the
electorate.
F
The
need
for
this
change
arises
due
to
a
conflict
with
state
election
law
that
prescribes
uniform
dates
for
special
municipal
elections,
that
state
law
was
enacted
in
2017,
it's
codified
under
Minnesota
statutes,
section
2,
0,
5.10,
subdivision
3a
and
under
that
law,
special
elections
may
only
be
conducted
on
the
second
Tuesday
in
the
months
of
February,
April
or
May,
or
in
conjunction
with
the
dates
for
the
regular
statewide
primary
in
August
or
the
general
election
in
November.
A
charter
may
not
override
those
restrictions.
F
These
uniform
election
dates
conflict
with
the
City
charters
provisions
for
special
elections
for
the
offices
of
mayor
and
council
member
under
the
city
charter.
If
an
early
vacancy
is
declared
in
any
of
those
offices,
then
a
special
election
must
be
called
by
order
of
the
City
Council
and
completed
within
90
days.
Accordingly,
and
as
a
result
of
the
recent
vacancy
in
the
Ward
six
office
staff
requested
the
Charter
Commission
to
consider
this
in
them
and
in
order
to
remove
the
conflict
with
the
new
state
law.
F
As
this
body
is
aware,
the
Charter
Commission
was
already
in
the
process
of
considering
a
separate
charter,
amendment
related
to
elections,
and
that
was
about
the
impact
of
redistricting
for
our
regular
election
cycle.
The
Charter
Commission
has
decided
to
submit
that
amendment
to
the
voters
as
a
ballot
question
member,
the
Charter
Commission
determined
that
this
proposal,
which
is
related
to
the
timing
of
special
elections,
could
be
addressed
by
ordinance
and
so
transmitted.
It's
favorable
recommendation
to
the
City
Council
for
action.
F
However,
amending
the
Charter
by
ordinance
requires
the
unanimous
affirmative
vote
of
the
entire
fixed
membership
of
the
council.
That
is,
it
requires
13,
affirmative
votes
for
passage
and
the
approval
of
the
mayor.
So
with
the
vacancy
in
Ward
6,
it
will
be
impossible
to
achieve
the
voting
threshold
and
that's
the
highest
threshold
required
for
any
action
of
City
Council.
F
It
reflects
the
fact
that
any
proposal
to
amend
what
is
the
city's
Constitution
by
ordinance
and
thereby
bypassing
the
voters,
should
only
be
done
with
the
highest
voting
threshold
and
even
then,
any
ordinance
which
amends
the
city
charter
is
subject
to
a
60-day
protest
petition,
during
which
time
a
petition
can
be
filed,
mandating
that
the
matter
be
referred
to
voters
to
decide.
Still.
The
statutory
process
requires
that
this
action
on
these
proposals
be
completed
in
a
definite
timeline.
Therefore,
staff
proposes
that
the
City
Council
complete
its
formal
action
on
this
proposed
ordinance.
F
So
we
can
close
out
the
file
on
this
particular
issue.
The
City
Council
may
wish
to
refer
this
item
back
to
the
Charter
Commission
to
have
this
proposed
and
then
that
combined
with
the
other
election
related
amendment,
so
that
all
of
that
could
be
packaged
and
submitted
to
voters
in
November.
And
that
completes
my
presentation,
madam
chair,
and
happy
to
respond
to
questions
the
committee
might
have
thank.
B
B
You
and
so
mr.
Karle,
just
to
sort
of
summarize
the
actions
before
us
today.
We
can
go
ahead
and
move
this
item
and
we're
it
to
pass
unanimously.
We
still
do
not
have
the
full
contingent
of
the
counsel
necessary
to
enact
this
change,
so
in
that
case
we
would
likely
want
to
consider
referring
this
back
to
the
Charter
Commission
as
you
described,
because
we
would
have
exhausted
our.
You
know
our
authority
with
only
12
council
members
to
really
take
that
final
action.
Correct.
F
And
madam
chair,
to
add
to
what
you're
saying
I'd
briefly
referenced,
there
is
a
statutory
timeline
prescribed
for
action.
I
did
look
into
whether
or
not
we
could
continue
the
public
hearing
long
enough,
and
so
after
the
special
election
is
concluded
and
we
had
a
full
complement
of
all
council
members.
All
the
seats
filled.
That
won't
happen
until
the
end
of
August
and
the
statutory
timeline
will
not
stretch
that
far.
B
Great,
thank
you
so
we'll
go
ahead
and
close
the
public
hearing.
Officially
I
opened
it
and
we
didn't
have
any
speakers.
I
will
move
to
Ford,
that's
the
full
council
and
it
also
be
happy
to
recognize
councillor
Ellison
who's.
Our
elections
chair
under
normal
circumstances,
to
see,
if
there's
anything
you
want
to
add
councilmember
ahead
of
Friday.
G
Thank
you,
madam
president,
I
just
like
to
share
my
colleagues
that
I'll
be
offering
this
motion
at
our
meeting
on
Friday
to
refer
this
proposal
back
to
the
Charter
Commission,
with
the
request
that
it
be
combined
with
the
other
election
related
amendment
that
will
be
submitted
to
voters
as
a
question
on
the
November
3rd
general
election
ballot.
So
we
can't
take
action
in
today
and
and
we
need
to
let
this
statutory
process
play
out
but
wanted
to
give
a
heads-up
to
everyone
that
our
plan
to
bring
this
motion
forward
Friday.
So
thank
you.
B
A
B
Carry
that
carries
and
that
will
be
forwarded
to
the
City
Council
on
Friday
for
the
body's
recommendation
there.
The
second
hearing
is
for
the
sale
of
property
located
at
2406,
McNair
Avenue
north
to
magnolia,
magnolia,
Holmes,
LLC,
subject
to
conditions
and
here
to
get
the
staff
presentation
on
this
issue
is
Kevin
kinase
from
the
community
planning
and
economic
development
department.
Mr.
kinase.
I
Good
afternoon
president
bender
and
council
members
I
come
before
tea
today
with
a
proposal
to
sell
24:06
mcnair
to
make
knowing
homes
LLC
for
twenty
two
thousand
three
hundred
dollars.
The
lot
is
a
replacement
parcel
for
a
land
sale
that
previously
was
awarded
by
City
Council
on
a
February
15
2019
at
917,
31st
Avenue
north
through
the
Minneapolis
Homes
Program.
It
was
determined
that
a
lot
being
replaced
was
not
feasible
to
be
developed
as
a
twin
of
home
and,
as
a
result,
would
require
the
loss
of
an
affordable
homeownership
unit.
I
As
a
result,
the
developer
and
secret
staff
worked
to
identify
a
replacement,
parcel
and
identified
2406
mayor
of
new
north
as
a
replacement
parcel
to
develop
a
twin
home,
thus
ensuring
that
two
affordable
homeownership
units
are
able
to
be
created
instead
of
just
one.
The
developer
has
met
the
program
requirements
and
is
proposed
to
or
as
prepared
to
complete
due
diligence
and
acquire
the
law
and
start
construction
notification.
I
What
is
provided
to
the
Northside
residence
redevelopment
console
Newark
did
express
some
concerns
with
there
only
being
two
owners
that
the
shared
responsibility
of
common
maintenance
could
be
challenging
and
could
negatively
impact
the
neighborhood.
The
developer
was
not
able
to
attend
today,
but
didn't
want
me
to
pass
along
some
comments
and
the
comments
are
Magnolia.
Homes
is
looking
forward
to
expanding
its
partnership
with
the
Minneapolis
Homes
Program
in
the
twin
home
market.
I
B
B
B
C
Right,
Gordon,
aye.
D
B
Are
12
eyes
that
carries
and
the
sale
of
that
property
is
recommended
for
approval
at
the
full
council
meeting
on
Friday
that
completes
the
two
public
hearings
on
the
agenda
today
and
brings
us
to
the
next
order
of
business,
which
is
the
consent
agenda.
The
consent,
consent
agenda
includes
items
that
we
did
not
identify
for
an
eating
separate
discussion
but
feel
free.
B
Any
of
my
colleagues
to
note
if
you'd
like
to
pull
any
of
the
items
off
for
discussion,
comments
or
questions,
there
are
26
items
on
today's
consent
agenda,
which
I
will
read
for
the
record
item.
3
is
approving
the
settlement
in
the
litigation
matter
of
Walter
Lewis
Franklin,
a
second
Fergus
versus
Lucas
Peterson
at
AU,
and
authorizing
the
city
attorney's
office
to
execute
any
necessary
documents.
This
is
a
slight
amendment
procedurally
to
a
prior
action
that
was
approved
by
the
City
Council
item.
B
4
is
authorizing
a
contract
in
the
amount
not
to
exceed
$300,000,
with
Cornerstone
advocacy
service
to
operate
a
48-hour
domestic
violence
crisis
hotline
item
5
is
authorizing
a
pro
bono
contract
with
the
Federal
Reserve
Bank
of
Minneapolis
for
the
city's
2040
comprehensive
plan,
specifically
tied
to
performance
against,
identified
housing
goals.
Item
6
is
approving
the
2020
low
barrier,
housing
initiative,
program,
guidelines
and
procedures
and
authorizing
the
notice
of
funding
availability
item.
7
is
approving
the
2020,
affordable
housing,
trust
fund
program
policies
and
procedures
and
authorizing
the
notice
of
funding
availability
item.
B
Four
million
dollars
item
17
authorizes
a
contract
amendment
with
Aris,
a
consulting
group
for
a
solid
waste
information
system
and
extending
that
contract
term
through
December
31st
2020
items.
Eighteen
through
twenty
three
are
all
contract
amendments
for
work
tied
to
the
new
public
service
building
projects
which
are
reflected
in
detail
on
the
agenda
item.
B
Item
27
is
passage
of
a
resolution
to
designate
the
2020
alley
renovation
project
for
the
improvement
of
nine
alleys
and
setting
up
a
public
hearing
on
June,
10th,
2020
and
item
28
is
accepting
the
low
bid
from
Rainbow
Inc
in
the
amount
of
269
thousand.
Four
hundred
dollars
for
the
11th
Avenue
Bridge
painting
projects
in
accordance
with
city
specifications.
Would
anyone
like
to
pull
any
of
those
items
off
or
comment
on
any
of
those
items.
K
A
little
bit
and
kind
of
start
cutting
from
the
top
I
spoke
with
the
mayor's
office
about
it
to
see
sort
of
what
the
need
was
around
emergency
supplies
and
they
have
identified
touchless
thermometers
cloth
masks
which
the
CDC
is
now
recommending
in
which
we've
heard
from
many,
especially
people
living
in
low-income
multifamily
buildings
that
there's
a
real
need
for
masks
to
be
distributed
and
hand
sanitizer
and
the
mayor
offered.
If
we
were
to
roll
over
the.
K
If,
if
we
were
to
not
roll
over
the
money,
which
is
what
we're
doing
to
also
match
that
with
$10,000
from
the
mayor's
operating
budget,
which
he's
paying
for
with
a
staff
position
that
went
unfilled
for
a
little
while
and
so
together,
the
mayor's
office
in
the
council
office
are
contributing
sixty
three
thousand
dollars
through
this
action.
That's
going
to
Public
Health
that
they're,
using
to
acquire
fifteen
thousand
cloth
masks
and
two
thousand
bottles
of
hand.
K
Sanitizer
that
they're
going
to
be
able
to
distribute
three
thousand
of
those
masks
will
go
to
mPHA
residents
and
they're
being
prioritized
to
low-income
multifamily
buildings
for
the
rest
of
the
distribution.
So
I
appreciate
everybody
being
willing
to
look
at
their
own
ward
budgets
and
sort
of
figure
out
how
to
make
this
work
and
know.
This
is
going
to
an
excellent
purpose.
B
L
Thank
you,
madam
president,
and
thank
you
councilmember
Fletcher,
for
bringing
this
proposal
forward
and
demonstrating
our
commitment
to
fairness
in
the
process
that
we
go
down
as
we're
tightening
the
belt
of
the
entire
city.
I'm
just
curious.
You
know
if
this
is
coming
out
of
our
Ward
budgets,
is
there
a
way
that
we
can
brand.
I
B
G
B
K
We
do
want
everybody
to
know
that
we're
doing
our
best
to
get
masks
out
we're,
certainly
not
the
only
ones
doing
it
either
and
and
there's
going
to
be
a
lot
circulating
there.
But
I
know
time
is
of
the
essence
here
right
we're
trying
to
prevent
the
spread
and
I
I.
Think
the
at
least
one
of
the
manufacturers
that
I
spoke
with
and
we're
trying
to
source
this
had,
you
know,
is
using
existing
materials
that
they
had
in
their
in
their
facility,
so
they're
not
going
to
be
consistently
branded
or
consistently
using
the
same
materials.
L
A
D
Thank
you,
madam
president,
and
thanks
goes
to
the
customer
Fletcher
and
the
finance
team,
finding
a
very,
very
direct
source
for
a
very
direct
need.
I,
couldn't
think
of
a
better
application
of
a
limited
resource
for
a
very,
very
important
local
need
that
no
one
else's
seems
to
be
filling
so
I'm
just
really
really
appreciate
the
target
of
the
dollars,
let
alone
the
work
that
went
to
locate
them.
So
thank
you.
A
C
M
C
D
B
L
You
around
chair,
the
equity
subcommittee,
is
pleased
to
welcome
the
team
from
her
race,
equity
division
and
the
city
coordinators
office
to
provide
us
with
a
report
on
their
work
in
response
to
the
total
of
19
local
health.
Emergency
and
I
will
just
say
that
it
has
been
really
rewarding
to
see
how
the
division
of
race
inequity
is
reaching
out
to
various
communities
and
providing
resources
providing
support
during
this
pandemic.
So
here
to
present
the
report
is
our
race
and
equity
division.
Director
MS
joy,
marsh
Stevens.
N
Good
afternoon,
just
a
quick
question
about
this.
Thank
you
there's
no
question
about
this
light
afternoon.
Thank
you
so
much
for
the
introduction.
Vice
president
Jenkins,
as
you
mentioned,
the
purpose
of
our
presentation
is
to
highlight
some
of
the
efforts
that
are
underway
in
the
division
of
race
and
equity
and
response
both
to
the
immediate
needs
that
are
thing
in
the
pandemic,
as
well
as
looking
forward
into
the
horizon,
ensuring
that
the
decisions
that
we're
making
today
don't
further
exacerbate
the
inequities
that
we
are
experiencing
within
our
black
indigenous
and
people
of
color
communities.
N
More
than
100
million
people
nationwide,
most
of
whom
are
from
by
pop
community
struggled
to
make
ends
meet
prior
to
the
pandemic,
and
the
emergency
that's
being
triggered
by
koban.
18
is
really
laying
to
bear
some
of
the
structural
failures
of
this
economy,
and,
while
we
don't,
as
the
city
of
Minneapolis,
have
the
capacity
as
an
institution
to
heal
all
that
is
broken.
N
We
certainly
can
ensure
that
the
decisions
that
we
make
today
in
response
to
those
immediate
needs
keep
the
future
in
mind
so
that
we're
not
reduced
so
we're
reducing
human
suffering
and
lessening
some
of
the
inequities
I'm.
So,
in
order
to
accomplish
this
goal,
we
all
have
to
work
together
to
be
committed
unequivocally
to
meeting
the
expressed
needs
and
priorities
of
our
communities
that
are
in
greatest
need.
N
The
presentation
today
is
structured
around
policy
links,
Street
smart
recovery
principles.
These
are
the
five
principles
that
are
on
the
screen
right
now.
They
reminding
us
to
Center
racial
equity,
to
put
people
first,
to
invest
in
the
cotton
into
the
community
infrastructure,
building
an
equitable
economy
and
protecting
an
expanding
community
voice
in
power.
N
The
next
slide,
please
so
I'm,
looking
at
centering
racial
equity
for
us,
I'm,
gonna
compartmentalize
this
into
four
key
areas
that
are
pretty
much
work
that
is
driven
and
specifically
from
our
office,
some
of
it
in
relationship
with
others,
the
first
being
the
coded
19
racial
equity
impact
analysis.
As
many
of
you
are
aware,
we
were
just
at
the
at
the
precipice
of
really
institutionalizing
the
racial
equity
impact
analysis.
N
Our
standard
racial
equity
impact
analysis
at
the
time
in
which
stay-at-home
order
came
up
from
the
governor
and
and
people
really
began
to
focus
much
more
heavily
on
covin
19.
So
one
of
the
primary
efforts
that
we
took
as
a
division
was
restructuring
that
racial
equity
effect
analysis
and
making
it
more
streamlined.
N
So
elevating
some
of
the
questioning
to
three
core
questions
inside
of
the
kovat
19
racial
equity
impact
analysis,
with
the
intention
that
staff
across
the
city
would
use
that
tool
as
a
way
to
help
them
in
a
much
more
and
a
much
quicker
decision-making
process
still
make
sure
that
they're
centering
racial
equity
by
asking
three
core
questions
who
is
going
to
benefit?
Who
is
going
to
be
harmed?
Really?
What
is
a
goal
that
we're
trying
to
accomplish,
and
essentially
wanting
to
make
sure
that
again
we're
taking
the
time
to
ask
those
questions?
N
So
this
tool,
along
with
other,
supports
that
my
division
has
created
our
part
of
a
SharePoint
site
that
we've
also
communicated
to
staff
and
have
been
working
with
the
clerk's
office
to
make
sure
that
that
resource
is
embedded
and
available
in
the
legislative
information
management
system,
so
that
it's
readily
available
to
staff.
As
a
complement
to
that
is
the
standard.
Racial
equity
impact
analysis
tool
that
we
began
talking
about
back
in
January,
we
had
our
last
update
on
the
strategic
and
race
up
in
the
action
plan.
That
tool
is
also
available
in
lims.
N
We
have
built
out
a
series
of
training
and
other
sorts
of
supports
to
help
staff
understand
how
to
use
the
tool
and
how
to
follow
the
process
in
their
work.
That
process
is
the
one
that
is
built
specifically
into
the
legislative
process
as
part
of
the
sweep
adoption
by
council
back
in
and
actually
technically
in
this
number
of
2018,
but
formally
ratified
in
June
and
July
of
2019
the
street
or
the
racial
equity
impact
analysis
process
is
standardized.
It's
inside
the
legislative
information
management
system
and
it's
available
to
staff
to
begin
using
right
away.
N
The
third
piece
of
it
is
the
work
that
we've
been
doing
with
our
strategic
and
racial
equity
action
plan.
We
had
intended
today
actually
to
present
our
update
for
q1
on
status
for
the
sweep,
but
because
all
of
our
efforts
have
been
so
heavily
focused
on
the
covin
responds
as
a
city.
We
decided
to
push
that
update
out
to
July
of
this
year
until
combining
a
q1
and
q2
update
in
July
according
to
the
standard
schedule
that
we
had
set
earlier
this
year.
N
The
last
piece
I'll
mention
on
that
it
already
kind
of
spoke
to
a
little
bit
was
the
technical
assistance
and
training
we've
developed.
Three
online
training,
cr3
online
training
courses
for
staff
on
the
racial
equity
impact
analysis
process.
We
also
have
ongoing
monthly
sessions
available
to
staff
to
help
them
understand
how
the
process
works
and
to
provide
supports
to
them.
N
I
referenced
the
SharePoint
site
earlier
that
we
continue
to
build
out
that
site
with
other
resources
and
supports
for
staff
to
be
able
to
both
understand
how
to
follow
the
process
as
well
as
knowing
who
to
contact
in
the
division
of
race
and
equity
if
they
have
any
questions
putting
people
first.
So
in
this
work
it
really
is
about.
How
are
we
making
sure
that
we
are
addressing
the
inputting
the
faces
on
on
the
köppen
19
crisis
in
the
pandemic?
N
N
So
through
three
rounds
of
funding,
we
were
able
to
score
eighty
nine
proposals,
fun
229
of
those
proposals
and
working
with
organizations
to
get
to
work
pretty
quickly
with
the
idea
that
they're
able
to
turn
their
projects
around
ramped
up
within
a
week
of
being
funded
and
complete
their
projects
within
90
days.
At
this
point,
all
of
the
kind
of
the
organizations
I
believe
have
been
contract
have
been
formally
contracted
through
a
procurement
process
and
are
actively
working.
N
In
addition
to
that,
recognizing
that
there
are
populations
in
our
community
who
are
not
currently
eligible
to
receive
funding
through
the
federal
government's
stimulus
package,
we're
also
been
working,
we're
invited
in
to
collaborate
with
our
human
trafficking
fellow
in
the
coordinators
office,
and
help
to
develop
a
a
fund
that
allows
for
more
direct
needs
to
be
provided
to
individuals
who
fall
into
these
categories,
who
are
again
not
eligible
to
receive
some
of
the
federal
funding.
So
we're
just
collaborating
on
that
effort
and
providing
some
technical
assistance.
N
They
are
largely
based
on
our
own
experience,
doing
funds
like
our
emergency
mental
help
fund
and
some
of
the
contracting
around
grant
funding
so
excited
to
see
that
work
move
forward
that
will
likely
be
working
through
an
outside
community-based
organization
to
actually
deliver
those
funds
directly
to
those
residents
who
qualify
the
third
piece
of
it.
From
a
communications
perspective,
we've
already
been
in
the
habit
of
providing
a
biweekly
newsletter
out
of
our
division.
N
We
added
an
additional
newsletter,
so
on
alternate
newsletter
weeks,
we
provide
a
specific
newsletter
that
provides
resources
to
community
members
on
Kovach
19
resources,
oftentimes
we're
amplifying
other
work.
That's
happening
inside
of
the
city
as
well
as
adding
other
resources
that
we're
finding
through
our
own,
both
local
and
national
networks.
The
last
piece
here
about
putting
people
first
is
the
collaboration
that
we've
been
doing
from
largely
the
very
beginning.
N
The
last
piece
around
investing
in
community
infrastructure
really
speaks
to
that.
The
recognition
that
our
nonprofit
and
our
community-based
organizations
really
are
the
ones
who
are
on
like
many
aspects
of
us
in
the
city
are
really
on
the
front
lines,
often
doing
less
with
needing
to
do
more
with
less
and
less
resources
in
this
time.
So
this
principle
from
policy
link,
it's
it's
reminding
us
within
jurisdictions
to
be
thinking
about
how
we're
growing
the
capacity
of
our
community-based
organizations
to
do
work.
N
So
I
just
offer
here
an
example
that
the
health
department,
the
health
department's
work
around
collecting,
for
example,
personal
protective
equipment
and
making
those
resources
available.
Certainly
the
piece
that
we
just
talked
that
council
just
talked
through
on
the
consent
agenda,
around
pulling
pooling
your
own
resources
and
making
masks
available
to
mPHA
properties
like
that's
another
example
of
the
types
of
investments
that
we
as
jurisdictions
should
be
making
in
order
to
help
strengthen
our
community
infrastructure.
N
N
Since,
in
our
pie,
pop
communities,
we
were
going
to
be
feeling
Kogut
19
and
the
impact
of
covin
19
for
many
many
years
after
the
public
health
crisis
ends.
So
one
of
the
key
areas
to
be
thinking
about
in
that
regard
is
equitable.
Recovery
planning
I
am
aware
that
there's
recovery
planning
happening
in
different
pockets
of
the
city.
Our
urge
our
encouragement
from
the
division
of
race
and
equity
is
really
making
sure
that
we're
taking
practical
steps
to
be
thoughtfully.
N
Thinking
about
racial
equity
and
the
impact
of
racial
equity,
on
our
opportunities
to
rebuild
an
economy
in
the
city
of
Minneapolis
that
does
not
put
back
in
pieces
that
were
causing
harm
in
the
past
I'm.
Certainly,
we
know
that
the
disparities
exist
inside
of
the
city
of
Minneapolis
and
have
for
a
long
time,
which
is
why,
in
the
city,
we
have
a
definition
of
racial
equity
that
was
adopted
back
in
2014
in
an
establishment
of
a
division
of
race
inequity
in
2017,
followed
by
the
adoption
of
a
sweep
in
20
and
2019.
E
Thank
you,
madam
chair,
and
thank
you,
miss
Marsha
Stevens
for
this
update.
I
I
really
appreciate
this
policy
link
framework.
It
really
helps
to
Center
the
the
conversation
in
a
very
common-sense
kind
of
way
and
so
around
creating
an
equitable
recovery
plan.
You
said
that
you're
aware
of
various
pockets
happening
throughout
the
city
as
the
director
of
this
division.
Do
you
have
a
recommendation
around
there
being
a
centralized
planning
process
rather
and
having
it
decentralized
so
that
there
is
more
cohesion
around
the
implementation
of
racial
equity.
L
Yeah
thanks
for
that
great
question
Cunningham,
and
that
is
something
that
we
can
definitely
look
into
and
in
developing
as
these
recovery
plans
continue.
In
my
awareness,
there
have
been
just
some
very
preliminary
discussions
up
to
this
point
and
so
there's
still
opportunity
for
us
to
to
try
and
centralize
that
you
can
continue
to
report
miss
March
Stevens.
Thank.
N
You
Church
Incans,
the
other
piece
I
will
offer,
as
relates
to
recovery
planning,
as
we
Center
racial
equity
and
as
much
as
we
are
able
to
making
sure
that
we
are
including
the
voices
of
those
who
are
most
impacted
by
whatever
policy
decisions
were
making,
even
as
we
think
about
recovery.
N
To
begin
organize
and
thinking
about
how
we're
recovering
like
these
are
the
these
sorts
of
opportunities
that
we
should
be
as
a
city
really
amplifying
and
encouraging
those
sorts
of
tables
that
have
the
people
most
impacted
at
them
and
helping
us
and
helping
provide
us
with
that
critical
thought,
partnership
and
moving
a
more
equitable
plan
forward.
The
other
piece
I'll
offer
here,
which
is
work
that
we've
begun
doing
with
the
Office
of
Emergency
Management,
it's
very
much
in
early
days.
N
A
lot
of
the
focus
is
on
the
immediate
crisis,
but
the
office
of
emergency
management
is
needed
to
update
their
emergency
operations
plan
in
2020
and
has
invited
us
in
to
help
make
sure
that
the
language
inside
of
that
plan
does
Center
more
closely
racial
equity
and
opportunities
to
support
the
needs
of
vulnerable
populations.
So
in
anticipation
of
that
work,
we've
begun
doing
some
research
with
some
of
our
national
partners
within
government
Alliance
and
race
and
equity
network,
to
find
where
there
are
examples
of
operations
plans
that
actually
do
Center
racial
equity.
L
B
Thank
you,
madam
chair
I,
put
myself
in
queue
a
little
earlier,
but
I
just
wanted
to
echo
that
I
think
as
you
and
as
much
Stevens
mentioned
I.
Think
right
now.
The
recovery
response
is
sort
of
part
of
a
continuum
of
conversations
that
are
happening
that
are
also
including
the
crisis
response
and
I.
I
agree
that
starting
to
like
pull
those
apart
a
little
bit
and
to
create
some
spaces
that
are
specifically
focused
on
recovery
planning
is
a
great
idea
and
I.
B
You
know
those
conversations
are
happening
in
lots
of
different
ways,
but
creating
a
more
intentional
I
think
approach
to
that,
even
medium
or
even
short.
You
know
in
medium
term
recovery
planning.
That
said,
it's
separate
from
the
crisis
response
I
think
will
help
us.
You
know
really
continue
to
highlight
these
core
commitments
to
race
equity.
So,
thanks
to
both
of
you
for
really
highlighting
about
in
the
nuance
of
that
piece,.
L
N
You
church
Incans
of
the
last
people
always
on
this
page,
is
around
the
cross
jurisdictional
collaboration.
I
mentioned
some
of
that.
I
spoke
to
a
little
bit
of
that
around
the
emergency
operations
plan,
as
have
reference,
our
relationship
with
the
government's
alliance
and
race
inequity,
or
with
the
Gera
Network
and
the
very
beginning
of
covin
19,
really
impact
here
for
us
locally.
N
N
L
Thank
you
so
much
miss
Marsh
Stevens
and
thanks
to
the
entire
team,
for
this
really
incredible
work
that
you
are
helping
to
lead,
as
our
community
continues
to
respond
to
this
pandemic.
I
do
want
to
just
note
that
you
know
we
are
very
fortunate
here
in
Minneapolis
to
have
miss
joy,
Mar
Stevens,
who
is
a
leader
nationally
in
race
and
equity
work
and
has
been
recognized.
She
was
part
of
a
fellowship
that
she
referenced
earlier
of
ten
cities
with
ten
directors
that
meet
on
a
weekly
or
monthly
basis.
L
We
were
scheduled
to
be
attended
the
the
gear
gathering
this
month,
but
you
know
with
the
travel
restriction
and
we
had
to
cancel
the
we
were
gonna
we
were
going
to.
We
had
been
selected
to
present
at
that
conference,
and
you
know
and
I
suspect
that
when
we
do
get
back
to
some
level
of
normal
normalcy
that
we
will
be
in
good
position
to
to
have
continued
to
have
a
national
impact
as
well.
Are
there
any
questions
from
councilmembers
additional
questions?
I
see
councilmember
Cunningham
in
queue.
E
Protecting
and
expanding
community
voice
and
power
frame
I
know
that
there's
been
work,
that's
happening.
That
was
already
happening.
My
question
is:
how
are
we
thinking
about
expanding
engagement
virtually
and
because
not
everybody
has
access
or
folks
access,
different
platforms?
So,
while
we
have
shelter
in
place
and
physical
distancing,
how
are
we
thinking
about
adapting
our
community
engagement
within
these
parameters
in
a
way
that
still
is
culturally
responsive
and
centering
racial
equity.
N
Church
Incans
councilman
Cunningham
I'm,
not
sure
if
that
question
is
related
to
me
specifically
for
what
what
it
is
that
I
am
doing
within
our
division.
I
know
that
our
city,
or
that
our
neighborhood
community
relations
department
has
done
a
really
great
job
of
working
across
the
city
Enterprise,
to
put
together
a
virtual
engagement
guidance
document
for
us
and
providing
some
best
practices
for
city
staff
and
helping
us
to
understand
how
best
to
engage
with
community
members
in
a
virtual
format.
N
We
provided
some
insight
to
help
to
shape
some
of
that
and
are
really
grateful
to
be
part
of
that
group.
Think
and
we're
also
being
very
thoughtful
within
our
work
of
how
to
make
sure
that
our
engagement
efforts
are
as
collaborative
and
as
open
as
they
can
be.
For
example,
even
with
our
coded
19
mental
health,
emergency
urban
emergency
mental
health
fund.
We
recognize
that
what
we
wanted
to
make
services
available
broadly
to
community
members
for
many
they
were
experiencing
the
challenge
of
a
digital
divide.
N
They
didn't
have
access
to
the
sort
of
technology
that
enabled
them
to
even
participate
in
this
services
that
we
know
that
people
wanted.
So
this
is
a
very
real
challenge
for
us
to
be
thinking
about
for
the
communities
that
we
serve,
recognizing
that
we
want
to
expand
access
and
the
need
to
be
very
creative
and
help
us
to
do
that,
because
there
are
those,
sometimes
technical
and
financial
constraints
being
placed
on
the
very
communities
that
we
want
to
make
sure
that
we're
engaging.
L
Know
I
would
I
would
add
to
that
I've
been
working
with
the
Department
of
Health
and
II.
They
created
a
shared
power.
Advisory
Committee,
that's
made
up
primarily
of
community
members
from
multiple
ethnic
communities
to
really
think
about
and
advise
the
Health
Department
on
issues
that
are
going
on
in
those
respective
communities.
The
asian-american
community,
the
LGBT
community
is
represented,
as
well
as
other
communities
of
color,
Latin
X
and
African
American,
East
African,
and
so
that
is,
you
know,
making
use
of
the
technology
that
we
have
all
been
using,
but
also
making
those.
L
Conversations
available
for
folks,
if
they
don't
have
Skype
or
zoom
or
whatever
the
application
is
that
we're
using
people
can
generally
call
into
those
meetings
and
and
have
involvement
and
participation
that
way.
So
it's
an
ongoing
process
to
really
figure
out
how
best
to
do
the
community
engagement
but
I
will,
as
Miss
Marsh
Steven
said,
give
a
shout
out
to
them
in
CR
and
neighborhood
community
relations
that
they've
been
doing
a
really
great
job
at
trying
to
create
access
and
community
engagement
in
this
during
this
crisis.
L
B
Thank
you
so
much
to
you
vice
president
Dickens
and
was
dream
of
Stephens
for
that
presentation.
That
brings
us
to
our
last
item
on
the
agenda
which
we
added
at
the
beginning
of
the
meeting.
This
is
item
number
30
and
it's
related
to
the
proposed
hiring
freeze-
and
this
was
already
before
originally
before
us
last
week,
brought
together
with
the
wage
freeze
resolution
and
we
split
it
from
that
item
and
postponed
it
Tate
to
today's
meeting.
So
I
will
recognize
a
city
coordinator
to
give
us
a
brief
description
of
this.
Mr.
ruff.
O
In
our
proposal
back
to
the
mayor
and
the
council,
staff
is
to
have
the
mayor
proposed
and
Council
adopt
a
new
budget
for
2020
would
essentially
be
an
amended
budget
that
would
that
would
be
considered
by
council
in
June.
That
amended
budget
then
would
set
new
parameters
for
expenditures
by
Department
for
the
remainder
of
the
year.
At
that
time
we
would
expect
then
some
predictability,
then
on
expenditures,
and
we
would
go
back
to.
O
We
would
remove
the
hiring
freeze
and
go
back
to
the
situation
that
we
have
every
January
1
when
we
have
said
to
department
leaders.
This
is
your
new
expenditure
limitation,
provide
the
services
that
are
expected
of
you
as
a
staff
to
our
residents
and
report
back
really
to
Council
on
that
performance,
and
so
that
would
be
a
short-term
hiring
freeze.
Then,
essentially,
until
that
budget
is
adopted
in
June
of
2020.
O
Meanwhile,
we
will
be
working
obviously
with
the
mayor
and
the
council
during
the
remainder
of
2020
for
the
2021
budget
and
there's
no
promise
that
expenditures
will
be
less
restrictive
in
2021
than
they
are
in
2020.
None
of
us
knows
what
the
tails
of
this
pandemic
mean
for
expenditures
and
the
economy
as
a
whole,
so
I
I
think
the
natural
at
me
as
a
department
head
I
can
speak
only
for
myself,
but
think
it
would
be
more
Universal
is
that
the
natural
inclination
is
I.
O
I
will
impose
my
own
hiring
restrictions
within
a
department
just
over
the
concerns
about
2021
budget.
Being
more
restrictive
and
wouldn't
really
want
a
higher
a
number
of
people
and
then
immediately
have
to
reduce
that
workforce
because
of
restrictions
in
2021,
so
I
think
there
is
a
natural
disincentive
for
significantly
increasing
employment
between
now
and
the
end
of
2020.
O
So
that
is
the
that
is.
The
nature
of
the
hiring
freeze
is
the
transparency.
Is
the
budget
process
and
the
fact
that
we
then
don't
have
to
live
perpetually
and
uncertainty
as
department
leaders
every
week
or
month
for
the
remainder
of
2020,
but
that
we
set
clearly
the
expectations
for
departments
and
that
those
expectations
are
are
set
by
you,
as
the
elected
officials
between
now
and
when
that
budget
would
take
effect.
O
As
we've
moved
out
of
some
of
the
crisis
mode,
where
the
mayor's
has
made
these
emergency
regulations,
we
would
propose,
then,
that
the
staff
committee
recommendations
continue
as
or
set
up
in
the
RCA
and
that
those
recommendations
would
be
reviewed
by
both
the
mayor
end
of
the
council
president
and
then
the
council
president.
The
mayor
would
report
out
those
to
the
whole
council
through
the
executive
committee,
and
so
that
structure
then
would
be
a
voice
from
the
council
and
from
the
mayor
that
would
be
able
to
give
clear
direction
to
the
staff
committee.
O
B
You
mr.
Roth
I,
have
a
couple
of
colleagues
in
queue,
but
first
I
wanted
to
just
note
for
my
colleagues
that
mr.
Carl
sent
a
resolution
to
everyone
both
yesterday
and
then
again
today,
via
email,
which
has
a
resolution
that
captures
the
proposal
from
staff
that
mr.
ruff
just
described
and
I
will
describe
that
a
little
bit
more
in
detail
for
the
benefit
of
the
public,
because
it
wasn't
included
in
our
agenda
and
then
I.
Just
also
wanted
to
ask
a
quick
follow-up
question
to
you,
mr.
Roth
or
staff.
B
Could
you
give
a
sense
to
my
colleagues
and
for
the
public
of
what
the
scale
or
scope
of
that
inter
period
looks
like
in
terms
of
the
number
of
requests
that
have
been
received
and
that
kind
of
volume
of
requests
for
exemptions
to
the
hiring
freeze?
And
it's
or
any
detail
you
can
give
to
give
us
a
sense
of
what
kinds
of
decisions
would
be
made
in.
O
O
J
Thank
you,
madam
chair
and
members
of
the
poco
committee
I'm,
going
to
defer
to
bill
Champa
who's
director
of
business,
page
our
business
partner
solutions
to
give
a
brief
overview
of
the
guidelines
you
can
also
share.
He
or
I
could
also
share
what
the
statuses
of
the
requests
which
we
have
so
far
so
I
will
turn
it
over
to
go.
Champ.
M
Currently,
there
is
a
initial
review
team
that
is,
accepting
requests
from
staff
and
Department
had
requests
for
any
hiring
freeze
waiver,
and
that
is
a
comes
through
my
office
through
Deb
Kruger,
a
manager
in
my
office
who
accepts
that,
and
we
review
that
and
have
an
initial
review
committee
with
the
budget
office
and
with
the
member
from
the
coordinators
office.
That
information
then
passed
on
to
the
decision
making
team,
which
is
city
coordinator,
mark
rough
CHR,
Oh,
patience,
Ferguson
and
interim
CFO
Laurie
Johnson,
and
then
all
decisions
currently
filter
up
to
the
mayor.
M
We're
applying
criteria
in
our
process
in
our
procedures,
guidelines
that
really
look
at
I
would
call
I
would
identify
four
big
buckets
and
the
criteria
which
we
think
is
very
rigorous
and
much
more
rigorous
than
I.
Think
we've
had
in
the
past.
We're
looking
at
the
essential
need
to
fill
a
vacancy,
so
we're
looking
at
you
know
is
the
position
of
first
responder.
Is
it
an
emergency
worker?
Is
it
a
physician?
That's
providing
a
critical
city
service,
specifically
we're
looking
to
the
Department
of
Homeland.
M
M
Can
we
backfill
it
in
another
way?
What
the
department's
plan
to
realize
personnel
costs
so
we're
reaching
back
out
to
departments
and
asking
for
a
lot
more
additional
information,
we're
also
looking
at.
Can
we
is
that?
Are
there
alternative
internal
ways
to
provide
that
service
through
other
personnel
through
other
creative
ways,
we're
exploring
that
and
then
finally,
we're
looking
at
risk
and
liability
to
the
city
and
leaving
a
position
vacant?
M
M
B
You
mr.
Ciampa
and
I'll
just
note
for
my
colleagues,
not
by
way
of
complaint
just
by
way
of
transparency
that
I
have
not
been
involved.
Nor
has
the
council
been
involved
so
far
in
that
process,
but
part
of
this
resolution
today
would
be
to
change
that
to
include
representation
from
the
city
council,
councilmember
Cano,.
P
Thank
you.
Madam
president,
my
my
comment
or
request
is
not
to
the
specifics
of
the
information
today,
but
more
on
the
theme
or
the
topic
and
I
was
having
a
cumbers
a
conversation
yesterday
with
one
of
our
community
partners,
and
they
raised
a
very
good
question
about
what
sort
of
learning
are
we,
as
the
current
governing
body,
doing
on
the
last
recession
that
the
city
of
Minneapolis
had
to
go
through
and
sort
of
learning
about
the
types
of
decisions
that
the
city
made
at
that
time?
P
You
know:
Ken
city
staff
prepare
for
us
some
sort
of
presentation
where
we
can
walk
through
some
of
that
information.
Some
of
those
I
don't
I,
don't
want
to
call
them
best
practices,
but
just
like
the
the
knowledge,
the
institutional
knowledge
that
we
as
a
city
have
for
how
we
get
have
gotten
through
moments
like
this
and
then
probably
have
an
opportunity
to
talk
about
the
differences
in
in
the
two
recessions
and
then
also
introduce
the
tool
of
of
racial
equity
decision-making.
P
2007
2008,
2009,
that
kind
of
timeframe
to
get
information
from
staff
and
and
other
leaders,
other
city
leaders
who
have
that
who
have
access
to
that
time
frame
so
that
we
can
learn
from
that
and
think
about
the
differences,
the
similarities,
the
impact
of
some
of
those
decisions,
long
term
short
term
and
and
just
give
us
a
little
bit
more
depth.
As
we
enter
a
decision
making
stage
of
a
June
budget.
P
You
know
an
amended
budget,
so
I
know
that
I
would
really
appreciate
that
and
I'm
not
quite
sure
how
we
package
it,
but
I
did
want
to
share
that.
I
felt
like
that
was
a
really
good
recommendation
that
one
of
the
community
partners
I,
was
speaking
to
yesterday,
recommended,
as
we
were
doing
a
general
check
in
on
how
things
were
going
so
I
just
I'll
just
leave
that
on
the
table
and
hope
that
we
can
work
on
this
offline.
But
thank
you
all
for
for
the
information
so
far.
Thank.
B
H
Thank
you
very
much,
president
bender
I
just
wanted
to
I'm
Way
in
a
little
bit,
because
I
brought
this
up
last
meeting
I
had
an
opportunity
to
talk
to
mr.
ruff
about
this
and
I
think
in
a
creative
and
useful
solution
that
they've
come
up
with
in
terms
of
actually
redoing
the
budget
and
said
some
kind
of
extended.
H
Hiring,
freeze
and
I
find
the
conclusion
of
a
council
president
and
the
mirror
to
be
together
in
kind
of
an
advisory
capacity,
and
then
the
executive
committee
touching
every
touching
these
things
as
they
all
go
forward
and
getting
a
report
that
will
be
open
to
the
public
and
everybody
can
see
it.
I
am
to
address
my
concerns
and
I'm
comfortable
moving
forward.
I
do
think
it's
going
to
be
challenging
for
us
to
do
all
our
budget
amendments
in
June,
but
I
think
we're
up
to
the
test.
H
B
B
So
I
think
you
know,
like
I,
said:
it'll
be
difficult
decisions,
but
I
think
that
is
the
right
role
for
us
to
play
as
policymakers
and
setting
that
policy
level
direction
for
the
budget.
So
really
appreciate
the
staff
being
willing
to
do
all
of
the
work
that
will
go
into
that
budget,
amendment
process
and
a
truncated
timeline
and
all
of
our
commitment
to
make
sure
that
that's
transparent
and
that
we
are
able
to
collect
and
invite
the
input
that
we
will
need
from
our
community
to
make
those
decisions.
So
with
that,
mr.