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From YouTube: May 3, 2021 Charter Commission Public Safety Work Group
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B
B
The
city
will
be
recording
and
posting
this
meeting
to
the
city's
website
and
youtube
channel
as
a
means
of
increasing
public
access
and
transparency.
This
meeting
is
public
and
subject
to
the
minnesota
open
meeting
law.
For
the
record,
my
name
is
andrea,
rubinstein
and,
along
with
commissioner
tony
newborn,
I
am
one
of
the
co-chairs
of
the
charter
commission's
public
safety
work
group.
I
will
now
call
this
meeting
to
order
and
ask
the
clerk
to
call
the
role
so
that
we
may
verify
the
presence
of
a
quorum.
D
E
B
B
E
D
B
B
I
want
to
begin
with
a
very
brief
recap,
starting
with
the
public
safety
amendment
proposed
by
the
city
council
about
a
year
ago
and
where
we
are
now,
as
you
know,
we
spent
a
good
deal
of
time
over
the
summer
of
2020
and
well
into
the
fall
with
interviews
and
study.
As
of
for
our
review
of
the
city
council's
proposed
amendment.
At
that
time
we
developed
standards
of
review
and
applied
them.
We
held
public
hearings
and
received
and
read
extensive
public
comment.
B
Our
decision
at
the
time
was
to
reject
the
proposal
and
to
hold
off
proposing
a
possible
substitute
amendment
because
of
various
pending
events
that
could
have
on
an
impact
on
an
agent
on
an
amendment.
The
basic
reason
for
our
rejection
at
the
time
was
that
the
amendment
did
not
meet
the
established
standards.
B
We
also
noted
that
a
number
of
contingencies
were
still
pending,
including
a
minnesota
department
of
human
rights
investigation,
a
staffing
efficiency
study
and
a
lawsuit.
We
thought
that
the
proposed
power
shift
from
the
mayor
to
the
city
council
required
further
study
and
the
government
structure
recommendation
came
out
of
that
concern.
B
As
we
consider
the
current
proposal
from
the
city
council.
We
should
first
consider
what
events
have
occurred
or
not
occurred
in
the
interim
from
the
last
one.
For
instance,
there's
no
evidence
at
least
known
to
me
of
any
year-long
extensive
public
engagement
regarding
the
proposed
department
of
public
safety,
and
that
was
a
pro
proposed
last
year
by
the
city
council.
B
B
There
have
been
some
new
developments.
Of
course,
the
one
we
all
know
about
the
most
is
the
choven
verdict,
but
for
us
the
most
noteworthy
development
is
the
recent
delivery
of
signed
petitions
to
amend
the
charter.
These
are
to
create
a
new
department
of
public
safety
and
eliminate
the
police
department,
and,
as
noted,
the
proposed
government
structure.
B
B
B
It
is
the
same
in
that
it
replaces
the
police
department,
as
a
charter
department,
with
the
department
of
public
safety,
headed
by
a
commissioner
and
places
oversight
in
the
hands
of
the
city
council
and
not
the
mayor.
The
only
specific
departmental
function
delineated
in
the
amendment
is
to
place
the
police
under
this
department.
B
B
B
B
E
B
B
G
C
B
The
motion
to
reject
the
city
council's
amendment
passes,
and
so
we
move
to
item
four
two
on
the
agenda,
which
is
a
potential
substitute
motion,
must
give
full
credit
to
chair
clegg
who
has
drafted
this
motion
and
I'll
ask
him
to
present
it.
I
wanted
to
say
before
I
turn
it
over
to
you
chair
clegg,
that
we
also
should
consider
timing,
and
we
can
talk
about
that
after
we
discuss
your
substitute
language,
so
I
turned
it
over
to
you
with
thanks.
G
B
E
E
So
essentially,
the
police
chief
would
have
oversight
of
all
all
public
safety
functions,
including
police,
911
and
emergency
management.
The
department
of
public
safety,
as
the
police
department
is
now
would
continue
to
have
the
mayor
and
overall
charge.
The
mayor
would
appoint
the
director
of
the
department
of
public
safety.
Subject:
confirmation
by
the
council.
B
D
D
G
F
B
F
H
Yes,
thank
you,
chair
rubenstein.
I
just
want
to
clarify
what
the
changes
are
under
7.2.
The
the
document
that
I
have
keeps
the
police
department,
but
adds
the
department
of
public
safety.
Are
we
going
to
basically
just
change
the
name
of
instead
of
saying
a
police
department?
It
will
say
a
department
of
public
safety
and
it
will
refer
back
to
7.3.
E
H
G
H
E
H
E
F
E
D
I
I
think,
my
ques,
so
I
there
kerlog,
I
think
you
answered
my
question
when
you
were
answering
another
question,
which
is
all
the
departments
that
would
fall
under
or
divisions
that
you
enumerated
are
in
there
as
well,
to
show
to
to
kind
of
like
to
kind
of
line
up
with
the
idea
that
we're
trying
to
have
something.
That's
in
the
spirit
of
the
government
structure
proposal.
E
Correct,
although
the
groups
that
I've
just
recited
as
being
included
in
the
public
safety
department
are
not
currently
charter
departments,
they
include
the
department
of
emergency
management,
violence,
prevention,
correspondent
programs,
etc.
Those
are
not
currently
charter
departments,
but
would
be
under
the
umbrella
of
the
public
safety
department.
E
B
B
Something
related
to
this
motion
should
be
discussed,
and
that
is
that
we
have
this
pending
petition
and
we
don't
know
yet
on
whether
that
is
going
to
be
placed
on
the
ballot,
because
there's
quite
a
process
that
the
clerk's
office
must
go
through.
First
and
of
course,
we
won't
receive
the
petition
until
wednesday,
so
it
seems
appropriate
to
have
some
discussion
about
the
timing
and
one
suggestion
that
I
had
was.
B
E
The
may
charter
commission
meeting
will
be
our
last
opportunity
to
either
accept,
reject
or
substitute.
So
I
would
suggest
that
we
propose
to
the
full
charter
commission
that
we
adopt
this
substitute
but
hold
it
in
advance
and
request
our
additional
time.
So
we
can
see
what
develops
in
terms
of
what's
going
to
be
on
the
ballot,
whether
it
will
be
the
petition
question
or
whether
it
will
be
the
council
question
or
both.