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From YouTube: September 20, 2021 Public Health & Safety Committee
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B
Good
afternoon,
everyone
and
welcome
to
the
regular
meeting
of
the
public
health
and
safety
committee
for
september,
2nd
2021.
My
name
is
philippe
cunningham
and
I
am
the
chair
of
this
committee.
As
we
begin,
I
will
note
for
the
record
that
this
meeting
has
remote
participation
by
members
of
the
city,
council
and
city
staff
as
authorized
under
minnesota
statute,
section
13d
021
due
to
the
local
declared
public
health
emergency.
B
The
city
will
be
reporting
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
minnesota
open
meeting
law.
At
this
time,
I
will
ask
the
clerk
to
call
the
role,
so
we
can
verify
a
quorum
for
this
meeting.
C
B
Thank
you
and
please
let
the
record
reflect
that
we
have
a
quorum
today
with
that
colleagues.
The
agenda
agenda
is
before
us.
Today
we
have
eight
items,
seven
of
which
are
our
consent.
So
we'll
begin
with
that
first
is
authorizing
a
contract
with
kajub
north
nonprofit
organization
in
the
amount
of
sixty
thousand
dollars
for
culturally
specific
programming
for
youth
engagement
and
leadership.
B
Development
item
number
two
is
authorizing
a
contract
with
the
lobbit
foundation
in
the
amount
of
thirty
thousand
dollars
for
running
and
cross-country
skiing
youth
programming
item
number
three
is
authorizing
a
revenue
contract
with
the
minnesota
timberwolves
and
the
amount
of
285
thousand
dollars
for
bomb
detection
security
services
at
target
center.
During
large
events.
Item
number
four
is
accepting
a
grant
from
dwi
court
state
of
minnesota.
Fourth
judicial
district
court,
the
amount
of
53
900
for
a
police
liaison
and
a
dwi
defendant
monitoring
services
for
a
one-year
period.
Beginning
october
2021.
B
C
C
C
B
Back
here
and
the
consent
agenda
is
approved,
but
that
colleagues
will
now
move
on
to
our
discussion
item
for
today,
which
is
receiving
and
filing
our
monthly
update
report
on
cobit
19..
Today
we
have
assistant
commissioner
noyah
woodridge
from
the
minneapolis
health
department
to
give
us
that
presentation.
Welcome
oh
yeah.
D
Good
afternoon,
chair
cunningham
and
other
committee
members,
I'm
gonna
apologize
in
advance.
I
am
sick
today,
so
I'm
gonna
try
real
hard
to
not
go
into
a
coughing
or
sneezing
fit.
But
if
I
do
that's
my
explanation,
I'm
here
today,
instead
of
gretchen,
who
is
taking
a
much
deserved
vacation-
and
I
will
be
giving
you
the
latest
information
about
cohen
19
in
the
city
of
minneapolis
next
slide.
Please.
D
D
There
were
663,
icu,
admissions
and
again
more
double
or
doubled
over
july
and
then
august
over
july,
81
of
those
that
were
admitted
to
icu
were
unvaccinated,
and
since
the
beginning
we
have
seen
460
deaths
as
a
result
of
it.
78
of
those
among
folks,
65
and
older.
The
death
rates
have
not
increased.
D
D
So
this
is
just
a
trend
line
since
the
beginning,
you
can
see
our
highest
point
was
last
fall
just
shy
of
a
year
ago,
then
rate
rates
dropped
significantly.
We
saw
a
little
bump
or
a
little
spike
in
april
of
this
year,
and
then
they
dropped
down
to
the
lowest
that
they
had
been
since
the
middle
of
march
2020,
and
you
can
again
see
that
the
trend
line
is
back
on
the
increase.
D
D
If
you
look
at
the
percentage,
it's
a
very
small
percentage
of
those
that
are
getting
breakthrough,
cases
are
ending
up
being
hospitalized
for
those.
So
again
that
just
really
speaks
to
the
message
that
vaccination
is
quite
important,
and
I
would
note
that
almost
all
of
the
cases,
all
of
the
new
cola
cases
that
we're
getting
right
now
are
breakthrough.
D
As
that
number
increases.
As
that
295
186
000
increases,
we
will
also
see
an
increase
in
the
number
of
breakthrough
cases,
but
that's
just
because
the
denominator
is
growing.
It's
not
any
indication
that
we're
getting
worse
again,
but
the
more
people
that
are
vaccinated,
the
more
people
that
are
getting
sick.
That
number
will
just
continue
to
increase
next
slide.
D
D
D
Can't
really
toggle
between
the
two
sides,
but
I
I've
got
them
open
up
on
my
computer
here.
So
I
will
do
that.
So
if
we
look
at
those
that
are
fully
vaccinated
in
the
cedar
river
side
area,
we're
looking
at
a
percentage
of
46.2
percent,
whereas
those
people
that
have
received
at
least
one
dose
is
52.
D
So
some
of
this
is
just
due
to
timing.
People
might
be
in
that
three
to
four
week
period
between
doses,
but
there's.
This
also
highlights
another
issue.
There
are
people
that
are
not
going
to
get
that
second
dose,
for
whatever
reason,
maybe
the
first
dose
physically
impacted
them
in
a
way
that
they
didn't.
You
know
want
to
go
subject
themselves
to
that
again.
Maybe
they
don't
have
the
time
to
go,
get
a
second
shot,
whatever
the
reason
might
be.
D
There
is
a
there
is
a
gap
between
first
and
second
ghosts
that
we
need
to
be
working
on
in
our
communities
as
well,
because
we
can
explain
some
of
that
away
by
the
fact
that
people
are
just
waiting
to
get
to
that
time
where
they
can
have
their
second
dose,
but
there's
also
those
people
that
are
choosing
not
to
get
a
second
dose.
So
we
really
are
going
to
be.
C
Thank
you,
joe
cunningham,
and
thank
you
to
everyone
in
the
public
health
department
and
noya
for
your
work
on
this
and
and
for
continuously
monitoring
and
working
to
get
people
vaccinated
and
keep
people
safe.
I
I
really
just
want
to
make
sure
that
we
any
time
that
we're
getting
these
updates
just
take
the
opportunity
to
give
the
most
current
guidance
and
advice.
C
Where
are
we
seeing
you
know
people
practic
practicing
safe
behaviors,
and
where
are
we
seeing
people?
Maybe
not
you
know
doing
as
as
much
of
that
as
we're
recommending.
So
it's
just
always
good.
I
think
to
reiterate,
given
that
we're
seeing
the
doubling
in
july
and
august
and
in
icus
to
just
sort
of
reiterate
our
current
advice
about
when
to
mask
what
kinds
of
group
activities
are:
okay
and
what
kind
of
group
activities
we
want
to
be
cautious
about.
C
So
I
wonder
if
you'd
be
willing
to
just
sort
of
share,
and
hopefully
it's
repetition
for
everybody.
Hopefully,
there's
no
new
information,
but
really
just
share
the
current
advice
about
about
how
to
think
about
masking
distancing
social
interactions
in
the
context
of
both
a
rising
vaccination
rate,
which
provides
us
some
protection
and
also
a
rising
infection
rate
with
the
current
delta
strain.
D
D
You
are
in
minneapolis
wearing
a
mask
now,
if
you
think
about
the
going
to
the
grocery
store
getting
on
public
transportation,
public
transportation
might
not
be
a
good
example
because
you're
supposed
to
be
mass
there,
but
you
know
when
you're
out
and
about
if
you
see
at
least
a
quarter
of
the
people
masked,
then
we
can
safely
assume
that
those
people
that
are
not
vaccinated
are
wearing
their
masks.
But
I
know
in
my
experience,
that's
not
the
case.
D
D
You
know
it's
very
dense
in
terms
of
the
number
of
people
in
a
particular
space
and
again
you
don't
we're
not
seeing
that
out
in
in
the
general
public,
and
so
our
message
continues
to
be.
Please
wear
your
mask
and
that's
what
we
should
all
be
doing.
I
mean
I
I
like
anyone,
don't
love
wearing
that
mask,
but
when
I'm
going
out
into
public,
I
try
to
try
to
wear
it
to
the
extent
possible.
Now
you
can
see
I've
got
I'm
dealing
with
a
cold
here.
D
So
obviously
I
haven't
been
wearing
my
mask
as
much
as
I
should
either.
But
these
are
the
types
of
things
you
that
you
see.
I
think
the
other
things
that
I
have
just
observed
is
in
particular
places
where
people
gather
to
eat.
There
are
not
as
many
precautions,
even
if
there's
still
masking
guidelines
or
masking
mandates.
Many
of
the
other
precautions
are
still
not
there.
So
there's
not
the
limited
seating
per
se.
There's
not
leaving
every
other
table
open
people
are
touching
anything
and
everything.
B
Great
thank
you.
You
know
I
try
to
wear
my
mask
as
often
as
possible
out
in
public,
hoping
to
maybe
take
a
little
bit
of
the
stigma
off
of
if
you're
wearing
a
mask,
then
you
must
not
be
vaccinated
so
that
folks,
who
aren't
vaccinated,
will
wear
it,
but
you
know
so.
My
question
would
be
and
then
we'll
wrap
up,
because
I
know
you're
not
feeling
well
is
the.
So
what
we're
seeing
is
in
cedar
riverside,
you
know
fairly
relatively
low
vaccination
rates.
B
What
kind
of
work
are
we
doing
to
do
culturally,
specific
outreach?
Because
you
know
I
know
in
north
minneapolis
we've
been
working
with
black
nurses
rock,
and
you
know
local
clinics
in
order
to
really
help
be
able
to
address
some
of
those
disparities.
So
what
is
work
looking
like
over
in
cedar
riverside.
B
B
B
Thank
you
with
that.
I
will
direct
the
clerk
to
file
that
report
saying
no
further
business
before
us.
I
will
just
close
with
saying
thank
you
to
all
of
the
city
staff
for
all
of
their
hard
work.
We
are
lucky
to
be
able
to
work
alongside
you
with
that.
We
will
consider
this
being
adjourned
thanks.
Everyone.