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From YouTube: April 22, 2021 Public Health & Safety Committee
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B
Hello,
everyone
and
welcome
to
the
regular
meeting
of
the
public
health
and
safety
committee
for
april
22
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:
thirteen
d
dot,
two
zero
zero,
two
one
due
to
the
declared
local
public
health
emergency.
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.
At
this
time,
I
will
ask
the
clerk
to
call
the
role,
so
we
can
verify
a
quorum
for
this
meeting.
C
D
E
B
B
B
Item
number
four
is
accepting
a
grant
from
the
minnesota
department
of
health
in
the
amount
of
two
million.
Forty
thousand
three
hundred
forty
four
dollars
for
copied
response
and
vaccination.
Implementation
item
number.
Five
is
accepting
a
grant
from
the
national
association
of
county
and
city
health
officials
in
the
amount
of
twenty
four
thousand
nine
hundred
eighty
seven
dollars
for
clovid
19
vaccination
support
item
number
six
and
item
number
six
is
receiving
and
filing
a
report
relating
to
the
minneapolis
police
department.
B
Less
lethal
policy
changes
comparison
report,
as
requested
by
the
public
health
and
safety
committee.
Is
there
any
discussion
on
these
items
or
are
there
any
items
that
anyone
would
like
to
pull
off
for
further
discussion.
C
Go
ahead,
I
just
want
to
say
that
I
was
actually
expecting
to
get
a
little
bit
more
of
a
report
from
this
and
even
to
have
somebody
in
person
from
the
department.
I
was
hoping
that
we
would.
I
have
had
a
chance
to
review
the
written
report
that
was
provided
too,
and
I
found
it
to
actually
be
kind
of
confusing
and
not
necessarily
connected.
C
I
think
that
it's
referencing
a
number
of
policy
changes
some
that
don't
necessarily
have
to
do
with
the
use
of
these
less
lethal
weapons,
but
then
that's
even
hard
to
find
them
when
you
try
to
dig
them
out
of
the
policy
manual.
So
I
don't
know
it's.
This
is
still
a
concern.
C
I'm
sorry,
we
didn't
we
weren't
able
to
get
anybody
from
the
departments
to
come
and
actually
give
us
a
report,
and
I'm
sorry
that
we
didn't
get
a
more
comprehensive
report.
That's
a
little
bit
easier
to
understand,
and
I
I'm
sorry
I
guess
for
myself,
but
mainly
I'm
also
sorry
for
the
public,
that
we
don't
have
a
better
way
of
kind
of
accounting
and
and
shedding
daylight.
C
On
this
I
mean
we're
not
even
getting
any
clear
information
about
chance
to
ask
people
questions
about
how
those
decisions
actually
get
made,
based
on
some
of
the
things
that
are
in
the
policies
and
then
the
report
doesn't
even
lift
up
the
actual
text
from
the
policies,
except
in
two
instances,
which
would
have
been
very
helpful
to
understand
more
about
what
relates
to
it
so
I'll,
just
kind
of
wanted
to
at
least
share
that
and
highlight
that
before
we
receive
and
file
it.
Thank
you.
B
Thank
you,
councilman
recorded
well
councilmember
fletcher,.
D
Thank
you,
chuck
cunningham,
and
thank
you
to
councilmember
gordon,
for
you
know,
moving
this
forward
and
at
least
prompting
this
level
of
discussion.
It
does
allow
us
to
see
what
has
and
hasn't
happened.
It
is
clear
that
the
answer
to
you
know
what
is
the
police
department
going
to
do
in
response
to
the
university
of
minnesota
study
showing
the
harm
of
crowd,
control
tactics?
D
That
the
answer
is
nothing
that
there's
nothing
in
this
report
that
is
responsive
to
that
or
to
the
concerns
raised
in
this
committee
previously
or
by
this
council.
D
B
Thank
you
vice
chair
fletcher.
I
do
want
to
pause
and
actually
ask
assistant
city
attorney
andrea
enough
to
be
able
to
give
a
little
bit
of
context
as
to
why
we're
having
some
challenges
here
around
being
able
to
have
this
discussion,
so
I
do
want
to
just
create
space
for
that
so
andrea.
Can
you
please
give
us
a
little
bit
of
background.
B
Thank
you
for
that
yeah.
I
just
wanted
to
be
able
to
clarify
that,
because
it
was
originally
listed
as
a
discussion
item.
However,
with
that
additional
information,
no
one
made
themselves
available
from
mpd
to
comments
and
speak
council
member
gordon.
I
see
you're
back
in
queue.
C
Sorry
yeah,
I
can
appreciate
the
attorney's
advice,
and
I
know
that
there's
litigation
about
this
matter
and
there
has
been
and
there's
probably
going
to
be
litigation
extending
in
way
into
the
future,
and
I
know
that
it
feels
like
sometimes
it's
better
risk
management
in
the
short
term.
If
we
don't
try
to
investigate
and
look
into
these
problems,
but
I
think
that's
just
going
to
lead
to
bigger
risks
in
the
future.
It's
tough
balancing
out
my
responsibilities
across
the
board
to
everybody
and
elected
officials
responsibilities.
C
Advice
we
want
to
be
our
constituents
and
we
also
want
to
look
over
the
long
term
of
what
is
going
to
be
the
best
in
terms
of
the
health
and
safety
and
the
well-being
of
everybody
there,
and
so
this,
I
guess,
puts
us
in
a
difficult
situation
and
I'm
probably
airing
on
the
side
of
wanting
to
share
more
and
talk
about
it
more.
C
I
would
hate
to
think
we're
going
to
be
silent
now
for
a
while
longer
on
this
and
we're
going
to
kind
of
be,
I
don't
know
codependent
in
terms
of
the
blue
wall
of
silence
on
this
and
end
up
having
more
people
blinded
by
the
use
of
rubber
bullets.
That's
what
I
think
I
want
to
try
to
prevent.
C
So
I'm
sure
we'll
continue
to
have
this
wrestling
match
and
I
don't
want
the
attorney's
office
to
stop
giving
good
sound
advice
to
us
at
all
times,
and
I
hope
you
can
understand
sometimes
that
you're
expecting
something.
That's
unrealistic.
C
If
you're
expecting
complete
and
total
silence
from
me
on
this
topic,
when
I'm
seeing
people
being
hurt
in
the
ways
that
I'm
seeing
them
being
hurt
and
not
I'll,
have
to
tell
you
that
I
was
out
in
the
community
last
weekend,
knocking
on
doors
and
somebody
called
me
over,
she
came
out
when
she
saw
me.
C
I
wasn't
knocking
on
her
door
at
the
time
and
said
I
have
to
show
you
something
and
she
raised
her
skirt
and
showed
me
an
enormous
bruise
on
her
thigh
and
she
said
she
was
hit
by
a
rubber
bullet
at
a
protest,
and
I
said
well,
what
were
you
doing?
Were
you
looting?
Were
you
going
somewhere
and
she
said
no.
C
I
was
kneeling
on
the
ground
and
this
is
like
the
size
of
a
soccer
ball
on
her
leg,
somebody
who
was
peacefully
expressing
their
constitutional
right,
and
so
it's
disturbing
and
it's
tough
and
it's
hard,
and
I
think
we
need
to
do
something
about
it
soon
and
I
wasn't
intending
to
go
this
far
outside
of
the
attorney's
advice
until
you
offered
it
because,
but
anyway,
I
just
want
to
share
that.
C
B
Much
appreciated
this
is
one
of
the
challenges
that
we
have
to
navigate
as
elected
officials
as
walking
that
tight
rope
of
representation,
as
well
as
the
chat
legal
challenges
that
we
face
as
well.
So
I
think
it's
good
for
us
to
be
able
to
have
this
conversation
out
in
the
public.
B
We
might
not
be
able
to
really
get
into
the
topic
that
we
were
hoping
to
be
able
to
dig
into
today,
but
I
think
being
able
to
shed
light
on
the
push
and
pull
that
we
experience
related
to
accountability,
daylighting
a
lot
of
the
issues
that
that
we
face
with
our
our
current
police
department
in
a
way
that
is
structured.
I
think
this
is
helpful
for
for
the
public
to
be
able
to
see
that
and
understand
that
as
well.
B
B
I
will
say
that
I
am
very
excited
and
grateful
to
the
minneapolis
health
department.
They
are
constantly
doing
amazing
work
bringing
in
dollars
to
help
supplement
what
they
are
funded
through
city
dollars,
for
example,
with
the
250
000
for
opioid
response
work
that
is
helping
to
train
many
people
across
the
city,
how
to
be
able
to
administer
narcan
to
be
able
to
help
folks
who
are
in
the
midst
of
experiencing
an
overdose,
fantastic
leadership
from
nuya
woodridge
related
to
that
work.
B
I'm
very
excited
for
us
to
be
able
to
see
the
2021
minneapolis
strategic
outreach
initiative,
get
rolled
out
crossing
our
fingers
for
the
250
thousand
dollars
annually
for
five
years
for
youth
violence,
prevention
related
work-
and
you
know
the
the
work
of
this
health
department
has
been
truly
phenomenal
with
thinking
about
all
of
the
different
aspects
of
public
health,
and
we
see
that
reflected
public
health
safety,
public
health
and
safety
committee
meeting
after
committee
meeting.
So
just
want
to
make
sure
to
say
thank
you
to
them.
For
that.
B
So
seeing
no
further
discussion,
I
will
move
approval
of
items
one
through
six
and
ask
ask
the
clerk
to
please
call
the
roll.
C
D
A
B
Those
items
carry
and
will
be
brought
before
the
entire
city
council
next
friday.
So
colleagues,
I
just
want
to
we're.
Moving
on
to
discussion.
Item
number
seven,
our
discussion
items,
seven,
eight
and
nine.
Unfortunately,
we
found
out
yesterday
afternoon
that
the
community
safety
update
from
the
minneapolis
police
department
is
not
going
to
be
happening
today.
Unfortunately,
no
one
from
mpd
made
themselves
available
for
the
presentation
today.
Unfortunately,
so
we
will
not
be
having
that.
I
think
is
unfortunate.
B
It's
now
important
for
us
to
be
having
a
conversation,
particularly
as
the
weather
starts,
to
warm
up
about
what
is
happening
on
the
ground,
with
community
based
violence,
property
crimes,
so
on
and
so
forth
domestic
violence.
So
I
am
hoping
that
we'll
be
able
to
get
that
back
on
track
next
month,
so
I
will
be
pulling
that
from
the
agenda
for
today.
B
So
moving
on
to
item
number
eight,
I
will
ask
we
will
be
receiving
and
filing
a
report
on
the
city's
opioid
response
efforts,
and
I
will
invite
noya
woodridge
to
please
kick
us
off
today.
Welcome
noya.
G
I
think
it's
important
to
note
that,
in
the
midst
of
everything
that's
been
going
on
over
the
last
15
months,
or
so
with
our
covered
response
and
then
our
response
to
the
murder
of
george
floyd
that
the
need
for
us
to
continue
our
work
in
the
opioid
area
continued
and
probably
got
elevated
in
some
ways,
because
it
was
so
tied
to
everything
else
going
on
in
the
city,
and
so
I'm
excited
to
share
with
you
today
that
we
have
been
able
to
accomplish
a
lot
over
the
last
year
and
I'm
going
to
be
walking
us
through
that
today,
so
that
you
can
hear
about
all.
G
G
G
For
46
percent
of
the
patients
that
come
to
the
emergency
room
that
have
been
health,
they
are
leaving
with
a
prescription
to
buprenorphine
or
suboxone
as
it's
more
commonly
known,
and
this
is
key,
because
this
was
one
of
our
main
goals.
And
getting
this
program
up
and
running
was
to
make
sure
that
people
were
leaving
the
emergency
room
with
something
to
help
them
on
their
journey
of
sobriety.
And
so
the
fact
that
we
are
getting
people
prescribed
to
suboxone
at
almost
a
50
percent
rate
is
good
to
see.
G
G
G
The
staff
at
the
hospital
are
continuing
their
follow-up
with
patients
for
an
average
of
34
days
after
hospital
discharge,
and
we
are
planning
to
continue
follow-up
for
follow-up
with
patients
for
up
to
six
months
post-discharge.
G
So
this
is
where
the
hospital-based
program
is
at
right
now
and
we
continue
to
work
with
them
on
staffing
the
program.
They
are
currently
staffing
the
program
with
ladc's
and
we
had
originally
hoped
for
them
to
use
some
peer
recovery
specialists.
So
they
are
working
with
our
support
with
two
recovery
organizations
so
that
they
can
hire
some
peer
recovery
specialist,
who,
we
believe
are
going
to
be
more
culturally
specific
and
culturally
relevant
individuals
to
those
that
are
coming
into
the
hospital
next
slide.
G
So
the
syringe
litter
issue
is
one
issue
that
really
in
in
2019
sidetracked
the
work
that
we
were
trying
to
do
in
terms
of
the
recommendations
that
came
out
of
the
multi-jurisdictional
task
force.
G
We
were
receiving
so
many
concerns
and
questions
and
complaints
about
syringe
litter
in
minneapolis
that
we
needed
to
set
aside
some
other
stuff
and
focus
on
this
for
a
bit.
So
we've
now
been
operating
the
syringe
boxes
and
our
syringe
litter
program.
Since
around
october
of
2019
2019
we
collected
768
syringes
in
2020
we
collected
9,
9,
366
and
so
far
in
2021
we
have
collected
628
syringes.
G
We
have
35,
the
syringe
boxes
were
in
35
different
locations
in
2020.
because
of
all
of
the
encampments.
Last
year
we
spent
a
fair
amount
of
time,
moving
syringe
boxes
around,
to
follow
the
crowd
and
follow
the
need
for
these
boxes.
G
There
are,
on
the
slide,
show
a
couple
slides
that
visually
show
you,
where
the
needles
are
showing
up
the
bottom
slide
or
the
bottom
table
are
the
five
boxes
that
we
have
kept
static.
That
means
that
these
boxes
got
placed
in
november
of
2019
and
they
have
stayed
there
since
then,
so
these
five
boxes
have
not
moved
and
you
will
see
that
the
one
located
on
bloomington
pretty
significantly
tends
to
get
the
highest
use.
G
We
have
currently
26
boxes
located
out
and
about
through
minneapolis.
Oh
next
slide,
please-
and
here
is
a
map
that
indicates
where
they
are.
You
can
see
the
by
the
blue
dots
that
most
of
them
are
in
south
minneapolis,
there's
a
couple
in
north
and
one
further
south.
G
G
G
I
will
also
note
here
that
jenna
venom,
who
is
a
member
of
our
locker
of
our
opioid
response
team,
has
been
trained,
and
so
we
have
a
person
in
our
department
in
our
division
that
has
been
trained
to
train
others
on
how
to
administer
naloxone.
So
we've
made
that
available
to
some
city
staff
so
far,
but
we'll
look
to
expand
that
and
make
that
available
to
others
in
2021.
Here
next
slide.
A
G
G
We
are
in
an
hiv
outbreak,
and
so
we
are
needing
to
pay
special
attention
to
hiv,
and
each
of
the
hiv
outbreak
is
very
or
highly
contributable
to
the
homeless,
unsheltered
homeless
population
and
the
unsheltered
homeless.
Population
also
represents
a
high
number
of
iv
drug
users,
and
so
we
are
paying
some
special
attention
to
that
kind
of
crossover
area.
Jason
schildmann
starts
it
started
just
a
week
ago
and
he
is
a
temporary
program
assistant
that
we
have
brought
on
to
provide
some
more
administrative
support
to
the
program
over
the
next
several
months.
G
Our
as
I
was
just
talking
about
the
crossover
between
our
fast
track
initiative
and
our
opioid
work
has
resulted
in
a
grant
that
we
received
from
the
minnesota
department
of
human
services,
and
we
have
subcontracted
that
to
the
aliveness
project
and
the
indigenous
people's
task
force.
G
They
are
specifically
providing
outreach
to
homeless
encampments,
to
encourage
testing
for
hiv
and
treatment
for
hiv
and
then
a
few
of
the
community-wide
groups
that
we
continue
and
maintain
our
involvement
in
including
the
metropolitan
urban,
indian
directors,
opioids
and
homelessness
response
subcommittee,
the
cedar
riverside
leadership
forum,
the
north
side,
livability
coalition,
including
the
opioid
subcommittee
and
ambassador
subcommittee,
and
then
the
hennepin
health
echo
cohort
and
our
nato
relationship,
which
is
the
opioid
crisis.
Cohort
next
slide.
G
The
survey
was
developed
by
support
provided
to
us
through
our
natural
relationship
and
dr
larry
yang,
who
is
a
phd
who
has
years
and
years
of
experience,
doing
stigma
related
work
both
in
the
opioid
field
and
the
hiv
field.
He
helped
us
create
the
survey
we
created
the
survey
in
conjunction
with
our
community
partners
so
that
everyone
had
an
opportunity
to
form
and
inform
the
questions
that
we
were
asking
next
slide.
Please.
G
Some
of
the
results
that
we
would
like
to
highlight
here
today
is
that
there
is,
as
we
guessed,
stigmatizing
attitudes
towards
those
who
use
opioids
by
those
who
do
not
use
opioids.
So
those
in
the
community
that
do
not
use
have
bad
or
poor
attitudes
about
those
that
are
using
healthy
lives.
G
G
Contact
with
people
who
use
or
have
used
opioids
was
associated
with
both
lower
social
distance
and
stereotyping
doors
and
then
the
recommendations-
and
I
think
this
is
key.
There
was
four
recommendations
that
came
out
as
a
result
of
the
survey
and
those
include
use
a
contact-based
approach
like
peer
programs
to
reduce
stigma,
increase
treatment,
willingness
and
increase
access
to
treatment,
increase,
availability
of
harm
reduction
services,
conduct
a
public
anti-stigma
campaign
and
address
cultural
and
community
contexts.
G
We
really
wanted
to
again
understand
the
impact
that
the
opioid
epidemic
is
having
in
north
minneapolis,
but
we
wanted
to
do
it
from
a
strengths-based
perspective,
and
so
we
really
worked
hard
on
framing
the
questions
in
a
way
that
elicited
the
good
things
that
are
happening
or
the
good
options
or
services
that
people
are
able
to
access
so
that
we
can
build
up
those
strengths
versus
continue
to
respond
to
the
deficits.
G
G
G
G
Some
of
the
top
resources
that
respondents
indicated
as
supports
that
they
believe
are
readily
available
in
their
community
are
the
clinics,
12-step
programs,
counseling
recovery,
housing,
detox
programs
and
community
outreach
and
resources
that
they
highlighted
or
indicated
that
would
help
with
their
opioid
misuse
and
overdose.
Community
education,
healthcare
provider,
education,
media
campaign
first
responders
to
carry
narcan
or
naloxone
and
then
increased
availability
of
naloxone.
G
So
again,
these
are
the
recommendations
that
we
will
be
moving
forward
with
for
both
surveys.
We
continue
to
work
with
all
of
those
community
groups
who
will
now
be
getting
the
results
of
these
surveys
back
out
to
community
so
that
we
are
making
sure
that
we're
sharing
the
results
back
and
then
engaging
people
and
determining
how
do
we
move
forward
with
next
steps?
B
No,
if
I
can
actually
jump
in
right,
quick
before
before
we
move
on
to
the
next
slide,
when
you
say
almost
50
percent
had
someone
affected
did
was
it?
B
G
G
All
right
next
slide,
so
there
are
several
things
in
development.
This
first
one
I
will
talk
about,
really
is
the
minneapolis
fire
department's
program,
but
because
the
health
department
houses
the
opioid
response,
we
wanted
to
make
sure
that
we
are
involved,
so
we're
really
just
involved
in
an
advisory
capacity
on
this
one.
G
They
will
they
intend
to
get
this
project
opened
this
summer,
and
they
are
also
working
with
the
university
of
minnesota
to
develop
an
evaluation
model
that
will
be
implemented
to
make
sure
that
as
the
program
is
implemented,
it
will
also
be
evaluated
right
from
the
beginning.
G
Another
project
that
we
are
in
the
planning
stages
of
is
community
safety
and
resource
hub.
Our
partners
for
this
planning
activity
include
the
native
american
community
clinic
south
side,
harm
reduction
services,
your
path,
health,
american
union,
community
development
corporation
and
the
university
of
minnesota
emergency
department.
G
G
It
would
be
a
physical
location
located
in
community
and
run
by
community
to
provide
services
and
supports
to
those
that
are
dealing
with
opioid
issues,
both
those
personally
dealing
with
an
opioid
addiction
and
those
family
members
or
neighbors
or
friends
around
them
that
want
to
be
able
to
support
their
their
friend
or
family
member
that
is
struggling.
We
are
in
the
very
beginning,
stages
of
planning
we've
had,
I
think,
four
meetings
for
planning
meetings,
and
so
we'll
continue
to
work
on
this
and
then
look
to
find
funding
to
support
this
new
program
next
slide.
G
G
It
is
we're
still
waiting
for
contract
materials
from
the
state
before
we
can
run
it
through
our
process,
but
it's
a
grant
of
about
four
hundred
and
sixty
thousand
dollars
that
is
oriented
towards
prevention
of
opioid
and
drug
use.
Amongst
our
youth.
This
was
one
of
the
recommendations
that
came
out
of
the
mayor's
multi-jurisdictional
task
force
that
has
been
sitting
top
of
mind
for
us
for
the
last
two
years
and
we
just
haven't
been
able
to
find
money
to
support
it.
G
We,
finally,
a
funding
opportunity
finally
became
available
and
we
applied
for
we
have
successfully
received
it
and
hopefully
we'll
be
able
to
get
the
contract
through
through
the
process
in
the
next
six
weeks
or
so
so
that
we
can
get
going.
In
writing
the
proposal.
G
We
specifically
wrote
metro
youth
diversion
sorry
for
the
typo
metro,
youth
diversion
into
the
proposal,
so
we
for
sure
will
be
subcontracting
with
them
to
do
prevention,
work
in
the
somali
community
and
then
there's
an
additional
150
to
175
000
in
the
grant
that
we
will
be
doing
an
rfp.
G
And
then
we
have
also
received
a
grant
from
the
minnesota
department
of
human
services
to
expand
our
naloxone
education.
So
earlier
in
the
present
presentation,
I've
talked
about
south
side.
Harm
reduction
services
and
native
american
community
clinic
have
been
on
contract
with
us
for
the
last
18
months.
To
do
this
work.
G
With
this
new
round
of
funding,
we
will
be
adding
human,
which
is
a
group
that
works
in
north
minneapolis,
primarily,
and
then
we
will
be
adding
metro,
youth
diversion,
which
is
a
group
that
works
mostly
in
the
cedar
riverside
area
in
the
somali
community.
So
we
will
be
expanding
our
avail,
availability
of
naloxone
and
the
education
associated
with
that
next
slide.
G
So,
what's
next,
we
will
continue
and
expand
our
planning
around
the
confluence
of
opioids
homelessness,
mental
health
and
hiv.
G
This
includes
some
very
specific
work
that
we
are
doing,
both
with
the
minnesota
department
of
health
and
the
minnesota
department
of
human
services,
and
this
also
includes
a
lot
of
partnership
with
our
friends
in
the
community
to
talk
about
and
determine
where
those
points
of
commonality
are
so
that
we
can
attack
all
of
these
issues.
With
some
concentrated
responses,
we
will
be
working
with
our
partners
to
disseminate
the
results
of
the
surveys
to
community
and
look
for
some
funding
to
support
some
of
the
implementation
of
the
recommendations.
G
G
We
will
continue
to
review
the
recommendations
from
the
task
force
and
determine
what
our
next
priorities
are,
and
in
this
last
piece
I
will
say
we
will
likely
come
back
to
you
at
some
point
and
ask
for
some
support
of
in
recommending
committee
members,
because
we
are
finally
going
to
form
the
stakeholder
advisory
committee
that
we
have
talked
about
in
the
past.
G
G
So
we
have
a
nice
robust
team
of
people
in
addition
to
myself,
there's
suzanne
and
jenna,
who
have
both
been
on
for
18
months
and
two
years
and
then,
as
I
mentioned,
jason
and
ashley
are
both
new.
Any
of
us
are
available
for
questions
and
there
is
our
contact
information.
B
Yes,
of
course,
thank
you
so
much
noyah.
This
is
a
really
great
presentation.
It's
been
long
overdue,
so
I'm
grateful
we
were
able
to
create
space
for
us
to
dig
into
it
today.
I
will
pause
to
see
if
there
are
any
questions
or
comments
from
my
colleagues
related
to
this
presentation.
D
Thank
you,
chuck
cunningham,
and
thank
you,
ms
woodridge,
for
this
presentation.
I
I
so
appreciate
the
work
and
I
just
want
to
take
a
minute
to
appreciate
all
of
the
work
that
happens.
That
is
not
always
as
high
profile,
where
we're
continuing
as
a
city
to
do
the
work
of
caring
for
people
of
trying
to
keep
people
healthy
of
of
reaching
out
to
people
that
doesn't
always
get
a
lot
of
press
or
attention
or
debate,
and
so
I
just
wouldn't
really
appreciate
the
consistent.
D
You
know.
Maintenance
and
growth
of
this
program
and
and
work
with
people,
I
think
is,
is
an
important
thing
that
you're
doing,
and
I
I
want
to
really
appreciate
it.
I
am
curious
as
we're
thinking
about
recovery
program,
what
impact
has
covid
had
on
the
trajectory
of
opioid
addiction.
D
D
So
I
wanted
to
see
what
data
we
have
or
what
our
understanding
is
of,
what's
happening
more
broadly
city-wide,
as
everybody
is
sort
of
operating
in
isolation,
are
we
seeing
particular
trends
in
who's
who
is
struggling
with
opioid
addiction
in
how
many
people
are
struggling
with
opioid
addiction
and
sort
of
you
know
where,
where
this
is
going
and
how
much
of
that
feels
attributable
to,
or
or
at
least
correlated
with
the
the
social
distance
of
covid,
and
should
be
thought
of?
D
As
as
a
target
for
recovery
funding,
you
know
as
we're
thinking
about
coming
out
of
copen.
G
Chair
cunningham
and
councilmember
fletcher.
Thank
you.
First
of
all
for
the
kind
words
I
don't
have
any
data
floating
around
in
my
head
at
the
moment,
but
would
be
glad
to
get
that
back
to
you.
I
I
can
say
this
after
two
years
of
seeing
a
reduction
in
the
number
of
overdoses,
both
fatal
and
non-fatal
2020
saw
a
significant
increase
again
and
we
continue
that
trend
so
far
in
2021.
G
It's
a
problem
that
I
would
say
has
been
exacer
exacerbated
by
coven.
Now,
the
specifics
of
how
covet
has
exacerbated
that.
I
don't
that
I
don't
know,
but
we
do
know
by
the
numbers
that
overdoses
are
back
on
the
rise
in
terms
of
who
this
problem
is
impacting.
That
has
remained
pretty
consistent.
G
G
That's
you
know
from
a
personal
perspective,
that's
that's
always
hard
to
to
see
my
community
experiencing
something
in
such
a
disparate
way
from
other
communities.
G
The
other
community
is
the
somali
community
and
that's
a
little
bit
harder
to
demonstrate
because
of
the
way
data
is
kept.
The
east
african
and
the
somali
community
get
wrapped
up
in
the
african-american
category
when
tracking
data
race
data.
G
So
that's
why
we
go
out
and
do
these
surveys
like
we
did
so
that
we
have
actual
numbers
and
data
that
we
can
talk
about
in
terms
of
the
somali
community.
It's
also
why
it's
important
that
we've
taken
the
time
to
develop
these
relationships
in
the
somali
community,
so
that
we
can
have
the
stories
and
the
experiences
of
people
to
talk
about,
and
then
I
would
say,
the
african-american
community
is
probably
the
third
community.
G
That's
most
disparately
experiencing
this
problem
and
again,
while
we
understood
the
opioid
problem
in
the
african
american
community
from
a
resources
and
services
perspective,
we
didn't
really
understand
like
what
how
people
were
experiencing
it.
So
that
survey
has
helped
us
understand
that
a
little
bit
better
and
we'll
be
able
to
respond
more
from
a
more
informed
perspective.
A
D
B
You
all
right,
thank
you.
Councilman
recorded.
C
Thank
you
very
much
appreciate
the
report
and
all
the
work
that
we're
doing
on
this.
I
was
curious
about
the
hospital-based
program
and
I
may
have
missed
this
when
you
talked
about
it
more,
but
it
said
we're
following
39,
I
think
cases
and
I'm
wondering,
are
we
tracking
how
many
people
show
up
in
the
emergency
room
with
overdoses
and
with
concerns
and
are
we
are?
If
we
had
more
resources,
could
we
be
maybe
bringing
this
and
connecting
it
with
more
people?
39
seems
like
we
a
low
number.
C
We
must
be
getting
more
people
coming
into
the
emergency
room
with
issues
and
with
problems.
Maybe
they
need
to
volunteer
and
opt
into
this,
so
I
would
understand
that
might
be
a
factor,
but
is
there
also
a
resource
issue
in
terms
of
how
many
people
we
could
help
through
this
hospital-based
program,
which
I
think
is
pretty
promising,
and
you
even
have
some
good
numbers
about
what
people
were
leaving
with
in
terms
of
treatment
and
that
we
even
got?
G
Cheer
cunningham
councilmember
gordon
we
are-
and
again
I
don't
have
this
number
right
in
my
head
with
me,
but
I
can
get
it
back
to
committee.
We
are
tracking
numbers
of
people
that
are
actually
showing
up
at
the
emergency
room
and
then
how
many
are
taking
us
up
on
this
offer
to
receive
supports
and
services.
Through
this
program,
I
would
say
for
the
program
based
at
hampton
health:
our
resource
flow
is
good
right
now
we
have
both
our
general
fund
money
and
we
have
a
grant
that
is
supporting
this
work
right
now.
G
We
would
like
to
look
to
expand
this
to
other
hospitals,
including
fairview,
riverside
and
north
memorial,
and
that
would
require
additional
money,
but
I
I
from
a
program,
management
and
planning
perspective.
I
would
like
probably
one
more
year
under
our
belts
at
hennepin
health,
before
we
look
to
expand
so
that
we
can
take
lessons
learned
and
implement
them
right
away
if,
with
any
expansion,.
C
Thank
you
very
much.
I
appreciate
that.
I
think
expanding.
It
would
be
great
too,
but
I
understand
we
want
to
do
it
when
we're
ready
so
and
and
if
you
do
have
numbers
about
how
many
people
are
going
into
emergency
rooms
because
of
overdoses
and
other
problems
with
with
opioids
that
might
be
nice
to
get
at
some
time,
there's
no
big
hurry
or
anything,
but
it
would
be
interesting
to
track
if
it's
going
up
and
down
and
those
kinds
of
things.
Thank
you.
B
Thank
you,
councilmember
gordon.
I
have
a
couple
of
questions
myself
well,
first
I'll
just
say
again,
fantastic
work.
I
think
it's
worth
noting
that
lendoya
herself
has
been
leading
a
lot
of
this
work
as
deputy
commissioner
of
the
health
department,
while
also
carrying
a
lot
of
other
work.
We
have
really
looked
to
her
to
carry
leadership
on
this
issue
and
she's
done
a
phenomenal
job,
so
noya.
I
just
want
to
say
thank
you
for
your
leadership
for
your
due
diligence
for
your
commitment.
B
It's
truly
a
a
treasure
to
not
only
the
city
of
minneapolis
as
an
enterprise,
but
the
city
overall.
So
thank
you.
I
am
curious
about
you
know.
If
we
have
a
hospital-based
program,
we
have
folks
on
the
ground
helping
with
administering
narcan,
I'm
curious
about
how
has
there
been
conversations
around
almost
like
connecting
the
two
to
be
able
to
have
a
response?
B
So
when
somebody
calls
9-1-1,
for
example,
that
you
know
we
can
have
one
of
the
harm
reduction
specialists
from
south
side
harm
reduction
to
be
able
to
respond,
I
guess
I'm
just
kind
of
curious
about
connecting
those
dots.
G
When
we
initially
looked
to
the
hospital-based
program,
we
we
recognized
that
there
are
a
lot
of
people
that
don't
go
to
the
hospital
and
so
having
a
really
robust
community-based
response
would
be
equally
as
important
as
having
a
hospital-based
response
and
our
contracts
with
native
american
community
clinic
and
suicide
harm
reduction
are
certainly
part
of
that.
I
think
the
fire
station
program
will
be
part
of
that.
G
I
think
the
planning
that
we
are
currently
doing
around
these
community
hubs
will
be
a
sick
will
play
a
significant
role
in
in
kind
of
bringing
all
the
pieces
together
to
create
a
whole
picture,
because
we
recognize
particularly
for
our
communities
of
color,
that
we
need
to
serve
them
where
they're
at
and
for
all
of
the
good
that
hennepin
health
does.
G
That's
also
why
we
have
worked
with
hennepin
health
to
have
these
mous
with
community-based
organizations
to
make
sure
that
the
the
transition
from
hospital
to
community
can
happen
and
why
we
are
encouraging
them
to
use
peer
recovery
specialists.
In
addition
to
their
ladc's,
because
peer
recovery
specialists
are
really
play,
I
believe
a
significant
role
in
helping
people
maintain
their
recovery
and
that
is
so
needed
in
our
in
all
of
our
communities
of
color.
B
B
You
know
when
chief
eridando
presented
to
the
city
council
how
much
time
minneapolis
police
officers
are
spending
on
overdose
calls.
I
think
it
was
something
like
34
continuous
days
worth
of
staff
time
in
responding
to
opioid
overdoses,
and
so
you
know,
I
guess
a
part
of
the
question
is
like:
how
are
we
reducing
that?
You
know
that
burden
on
the
police
department
to
have
to
respond
to
that?
B
B
They
know
it's
not
helping
and
they're
like.
I
don't
really
have
any
tools
to
be
able
to
actually
help
them,
and
so
I
guess
you
know
my.
My
question
is
also
connected
to
that
like
how.
How
are
we
being
able
to
remove
some
of
this
from
officers
having
to
respond
to
it
to
folks
who
are
trained
and
really
are
experts
in
in
this
particular
issue?.
G
I
think
that's
probably
the
big
question
when
it
comes
to
the
opioid
epidemic
and
maybe
not
necessarily
so
specific
to
just
the
police.
But
how
do
we
prevent
this?
That's
that's
really
a
big
question
and
I
I
don't
know
who
has
the
answer
to
that
question.
G
I
think
it's
important
that
we're
going
to
be
starting
this
youth
prevention
work
because,
as
with
any
behavior
the
earlier,
we
try
to
prevent
it
and
stop
it
the
better.
So
I
think
that
that
will
be
an
important
addition
to
our
body
of
work,
but
I
think-
and
this
is
I
will
also
note
where
we
really
see-
that
crossover
between
homelessness,
hiv,
hepatitis,
opioids
and
mental
health
is,
you
know
the
reason
that
we
we
have.
G
This
group
of
people
that
are
living
out
on
the
streets
is
because
housing
is
not
an
option
for
them,
because
they
they
don't
have
the
freedom
to
use
the
way
they
do
living
out
on
the
streets
and
so
in
also
dealing
with
the
homeless
encampments
and
the
homelessness
issue
continue
to
ask
that
question.
How
do
we
get
people
to
a
point
where
they
want
help
where
they
will
receive
and
accept
help
and
where
they
will
seek
help?
G
But
you
know,
I
think
the
answer
is
a
really
big,
a
really
big
one
and
it's
gonna
take
a
lot
of
people
from
a
lot
of
disciplines
to
come
together
and
and
get
that
one
figured
out,
and
I
and
that's
something
that
I
will
continue
to
push
for,
because
I
think
that
I
mean
we
can
continue
to
treat
and
band-aid
this
problem
until
we
get
out
on
the
front
end
of
it
and
try
to
prevent
it
from
happening
at
all.
You
know
we'll
just
continue
to
to
throw
money
at
the
band-aids.
B
Yes,
I
appreciate
that,
and,
and
that
perspective
you
know,
I
I
think,
that
long
term-
something
that
I'm
interested
in
as
a
council
member
is
thinking
about
alternative
responses.
So
when
somebody
calls
9-1-1
for
help,
what
are
the
you
know
for
an
overdose
like
what
are
the
other
options
that
are
available
besides
sending
an
armed
police
officer
with
narcan,
you
know
that's
something
that
I'm
I'm
interested
in
us
being
able
to
dig
into
long-term.
You
know
continuing
to
to
reimagine
public
safety.
B
This
is
a
public
safety
issue
as
well,
and
so
I'm
looking
forward
to
that
earlier
in
the
presentation,
you
had
a
breakdown
of
the
reason
why
people
come
into
the
hospital
related
to
substance.
Use
disorder.
Was
that
just
h,
menopause
health
data,
or
was
that
city-wide
data
or
hospital
serving?
I
guess
you
know
so.
I'm
curious
like
does
north
memorial
and
avid
northwestern,
for
example,
or
is
that
just
hennepin
health
data.
B
B
Okay,
no
worries,
I
just
was
wondering
you
know,
because
the
the
26
related
with
alcohol-
you
know
I'll
just
say
this
is
off
topic
awfully
obviously
from
opioids,
but
thinking
more
broadly
about
substance
use
disorders
like
I,
I
know
that
we
have
a
lot
of
struggles
in
north
minneapolis
related
to
alcohol
abuse
issues,
and
so
you
know
that's
something
as
well
that
you
know
seeing
that
number
you
know
26
percent
is.
B
Is
it
anything
to
sneeze
at
right,
like
that's,
of
course,
not
obviously
as
high
as
as
opioids,
but
it
it
still
demonstrates
an
issue,
and
you
know
I
would
be
interested
in
what
the
numbers
look
like
at
north
memorial,
which
is
you
know
what
serves
north
minneapolis,
not
asking
for
you
to
dig
into
that,
because
I
know
you're
very
busy,
but
just
you
know
thinking
long
term
about
how
are
we
addressing
substance
abuse
disorders?
B
I
think
that
sometimes
that
gets
overlooked
and
I'm
grateful
for
us
to
be
able
to
have
that
number
to
see
it
that
that
it
is
an
issue
all
right.
Thank
you
with
that
I'll
wait
to
see.
Are
there
any
other
questions
or
comments
from
my
colleagues.
B
All
right,
thank
you
so
much
for
this
presentation,
deputy
commissioner.
You
are
doing
fantastic
work
and
I
am
very
grateful.
So
thank
you.
Thank
you
very
much.
I
will
direct
the
clerk
to
file
that
report
and
colleagues.
Our
last
agenda
item
for
today
is
the
creation
of
an
unarmed
traffic
safety
division.
I
brought
forward
the
staff
direction
at
last
week's
council
meeting
to
refer
it
to
committees
so
that
we
can
actually
formally
begin
the
process
and
I
believe,
is
it
possible
for
us
to
post
the
staff
direction.
B
All
right
so
I'll
just
read
it
for
the
public
record
so
and
then
I
will
move
it
for
approval
and
open
up
for
any
questions
or
discussion.
B
So
the
staff
direction
reads:
staff
in
the
city,
coordinator's
office
of
performance
and
innovation
are
directed
to
collaborate
with
public
works,
regulatory
services,
the
city
attorney's
office
and
the
police
department
to
combine
various
ongoing
efforts
to
design
and
develop
recommendations
for
the
creation
of
an
unarmed
traffic
safety
division
to
be
housed
in
a
department
outside
of
the
police
department.
This
new
division
is
to
be
responsible
for
enforcement,
education
and
other
activities
that
increase
traffic
safety.
B
An
inclusive
design
process
should
be
used
to
inform
the
design
and
function
of
an
alternative
to
police
response
for
traffic
enforcement.
The
process
should
be
community
informed
and
center,
black
indigenous
and
people
of
color
voices
and
residents,
disproportionately
impacted
by
unsafe
driving,
behaviors
building
on
the
vision,
zero
action
plan
and
the
safety
for
all
budget
plan.
Community
engagement
should
be
used
to
identify
and
solve
the
root
causes
of
different
dangerous
driving
behaviors.
The
final
recommendations
related
to
developing
an
unarmed
traffic
safety
division
should
be
focused
on
problem
solving
traffic
safety
issues.
B
In
addition
to
creating
a
new
response
system,
the
staff,
this
staff
direct
the
staff
direction
related
to
traffic
enforcement
included
in
the
2020
budget
appropriation
resolution
should
also
be
resolved
in
this
process,
like
the
inclusive
design
process
for
creating
the
mobile
mental
health
teams.
B
With
that,
I
will
move
approval
at
this
time.
For
this
item
are:
is
there
any
discussion
on
the
staff
direction.
C
B
B
That
item
carries
and
will
be
referred
to
next
week's
city
council
meeting.
I
see
councilmember
palmisano
in
queue.
E
Thank
you,
mr
chair.
I
wanted
to
know
because
of
some
questions
that
have
come
up
from
the
community
and
I'm
sorry.
I
was
hesitating
to
get
in
queue
for
that
last
item,
but
it
is
about
the
last
item
and
what
your
intentions
were
for
it
in
thinking
about
some
questions
coming
from
community.
E
Would
this
staff
direction
also
cover
potential
like
traffic
control
contracts
and
requirements,
for
example
people
who
need
to
direct
traffic
on
the
streets
for
people?
You
know
in
this
case
the
question
specifically
came
for
a
a
large
church
in
my
area,
people
leaving
church
and
maybe
being
able
to
do
some
other
alternative
types
of
traffic
enforcement,
meaning
traffic
control,
or
would
that
be
out
of
scope.
B
Thank
you
for
that
question,
so
I
would
say
that
that
question
is
to
be
decided
tbd.
I
would
say
that's
a
part
of
the
question
that
we
would
ask
staff
to
come
back
with,
for
as
a
part
of
their
recommendations
are
as
like.
What
else
should
be
consolidated
now
when
we're
thinking
about
originally
like
traffic
enforcement,
just
like
as
that
body
of
work,
we're
thinking
particularly
of
moving
violations?
B
However,
things
like
traffic
control
could
be
something
that
is
consolidated
based
on
recommendations
that
come
from
staff.
So
that's.
I
would
look
to
staff
to
be
able
to
answer
that
question
as
they
go
through
this
process.
B
Of
course,
all
right
well,
thank
you
for
that.
Colleagues,
and
I
just
want
to
say
thank
you
again
to
all
of
the
hard-working
city
staff.
B
We
have
a
very
robust
committee
here
at
the
public
health
and
safety
committee,
and
we
have
a
lot
of
really
hard-working
amazing
staff
who
report
to
this
committee,
so
I
always
enjoy
the
opportunity
to
be
able
to
be
in
direct
conversation
with
them
and
to
raise
and
praise
the
work
that
they
they
do
on
behalf
of
the
residents
and
visitors
of
our
city,
with
that
there
is
no
further
business
before
our
committee,
and
so
we
are
adjourned.
Thank
you.