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From YouTube: November 18, 2021 Committee of the Whole
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A
Good
morning
my
name
is
jeremiah
ellison,
I'm
the
chair
of
the
committee
of
the
whole
and
I'm
going
to
call
to
order
our
regular
committee
meeting
for
thursday
november
18th.
I'd
like
to
note
for
the
record.
This
meeting
has
remote
participation
by
council
members
and
city
staff
as
authorized
under
the
minnesota
open
meeting
law,
section
13d
.021
due
to
the
declared
state
of
local
public
health
emergency.
I
will
also
note
that
the
city
will
be
recording
and
posting
this
meeting
to
the
city's
website
and
youtube
channel.
A
C
C
E
D
D
B
D
C
C
C
D
And
thank
you
and
I'm
just
going
to
double
check.
Councilmember
cunningham,
councilmember
osman,
councilmember
cano,
chair
ellison,.
A
Thank
you
and
let
the
record
reflect
that
we
have
a
quorum.
We
have
four
items
on
the
agenda
today.
In
addition
to
our,
we
have
four
items
in
our
agenda
today,
in
addition
to
our
reports
of
committee
that
have
met
this
cycle.
The
I
will
note
that
council
members,
goodman
and
trader
may
have
to
leave
at
11
if
the
if
this
agenda
runs
long.
A
So
I
want
to
note
that
for
the
public
and
thank
you
for
councilmember
goodman
for
for
noting
that
the
first
agenda
item
is
a
report
on
the
contract
awards
or
amendments
that
have
been
approved
over
the
last
couple
of
weeks
by
the
ad
hoc
work
group
established.
Four
american
rescue
plan
act,
related
expenditures.
A
Staff
does
not
have
a
presentation
for
this
item
today,
but
it
is
on
hand.
If
my
colleagues
have
any
questions.
Are
there
any
questions
from
my
colleagues.
A
Our
next
agenda
item
is
the
minimum
wage
economic
impact
study
and
I
believe
that
report
will
be
introduced
by
renee
young's
city
coordinators,
from
the
city
coordinator's
office,
and
before
we
jump
into
that
presentation,
I
will
allow
council
member
cunningham
to
know
himself
for
the
record
councilman.
A
I
am
here
all
right
sounds
good,
mr
young.
Please
take
it
away.
F
Thank
you,
chair
ellison
and
members
of
the
committee
good
morning.
Yes,
my
name
is
rena
youngs,
I'm
a
policy
and
research
management
analyst
in
the
city
coordinator's
office,
and
I
have
the
good
fortune
to
be
the
contract
manager.
For
this
study.
F
I'm
joined
today
by
researchers
from
the
federal
reserve
bank
of
minneapolis,
as
well
as
additional
senior
management
from
the
fed,
will
be
available
for
any
questions
you
may
have
after
the
presentation.
They
will
introduce
themselves
in
turn.
I
believe,
but
the
authors
of
the
study
who
are
here
with
us
today
are
doctors,
lucas,
cara,
barbunus,
dr
jeremy
lies.
F
F
Should
be
oh,
it's
not
yet
in
limbs,
one
that
was
sent
to
the
clerk
yesterday
afternoon.
D
Oh
all,
right,
yeah.
Yes,
I
believe
I
sent
all
those
presentations
over
early
this
or
about
an
hour
before
the
meeting.
It
should
be
marked
as
agenda
item
two,
but
it
is
definitely
a
pdf
and
not
a
work
document
and
I'm
working
on
putting
it
sending
it
to
you
a
second
time
just
so
that
you
have
it.
Thank
you
perfect.
Thank
you.
F
A
G
A
About
that,
but
real
quick
can
I
I
want
to
allow
councilmember
osman
to
note
himself
for
the
record
council
rover
osmond.
H
Yes,
osman
is
here.
Thank
you.
F
Thank
you
again,
chair,
listen
I'll!
Ask
the
to
move
to
the
second
slide.
Please
and
we'll
continue
with
some
background
about
the
ordinance
itself
and
about
this
study.
You
will
all
no
doubt
recall
the
city
passed
a
municipal
minimum
wage
ordinance
in
2017
that
took
effect
in
2018.
F
It
has
gradually
raised
the
minimum
wage
for
workers
in
the
city.
Workers
at
large
firms,
those
with
100
or
more
employees,
will
see
a
minimum
wage
of
15
by
july
of
2022
small
firms.
Employees
will
see
a
minimum
wage
of
15
by
july
of
2024,
then
the
minimum
wage
will
increase
tied
to
inflation
and
in
line
with
statewide
increases
in
future
years.
The
current
wage
rates
in
the
city
are
1425
for
large
firms
and
1250
for
small
firms
in
2017.
F
F
F
F
The
complexity
of
economic
conditions
in
2020,
as
you're,
perhaps
unsurprised
to
know
and
persistent
challenges.
Accessing
data
from
two
state
agencies
have
limited
the
research
questions
that
can
be
addressed
in
this
initial
report.
Nevertheless,
the
federal
reserve
bank
has
delivered
a
report
in
fulfillment
of
their
contractual
obligation
to
the
city
to
provide
manual
updates
as
you'll
hear
today.
Neither
the
research
team
nor
city
staff
would
suggest
that
these
results
are
final
or
actionable
they're
merely
the
first
chapter
in
a
much
longer
investigation.
F
The
initial
report
for
this
project
in
2018
summarized
pre-ordinance
conditions
for
workers
and
businesses,
and
today's
report
presents
an
analysis
of
aggregate
data
on
outcomes
for
workers
within
low-wage
sectors.
The
main
analysis
covers,
I
believe,
through
the
first
quarter
of
2020
and
briefly
discusses
a
preliminary
analysis
of
2020
data
for
the
remaining
three
quarters
of
the
year.
I
I
I
Given
the
wider
range
of
opinions
about
minimum
wage
policy,
we
know
that,
no
matter
what
we
find
there
will
likely
be
someone
who
is
disappointed
or
who
disagrees
with
our
findings.
Second,
our
findings
do
not
speak
at
all
to
the
desirability
or
efficacy
of
the
policy
in
all
policy
decisions.
There
are
trade-offs
and
our
research
will
attempt
to
further
quantify
and
illuminate
those
trade-offs
over
time.
I
I
G
G
As
you
all
know,
in
2017
minneapolis
city
council
adopted
an
ordinance
that
incrementally
increases
minimum
wage
for
all
city
businesses
to
15
dollars
by
july
2024,
as
renee
mentioned,
the
city
contracted
with
the
federal
reserve
bank
of
minneapolis
to
analyze
the
impact
of
the
minimum
wage
increases,
and
we
will
leverage
a
very
rich
set
of
state
administrative
data
to
provide
this
analysis
to
you
through
2028,
and
this
is
the
first
in
series
of
those
reports
next
slide.
Please.
G
In
terms
of
the
scope
of
the
2021
report,
what
we
do
is
we
analyze
aggregate
labor
market
effects
across
four
key
indicators,
and
by
aggregate
I
mean
what
is
happening
at
the
city
level,
which
is
the
local
economic
unit
of
observation
and
the
key
indicators
are
average
hourly
wages,
the
total
number
of
jobs,
total
hours
worth
and
total
worker
earnings.
G
In
our
report,
we
also
include
very
preliminary
results
from
2020,
which
includes
data
up
to
2020
quarter.
Four.
However,
we
note
that
these
results
should
be
interpreted
with
caution
due
to
additional
uncertainty.
That
was
there
in
this
period
due
to
the
unprecedented
pandemic
and
widespread
protests.
Next
slide,
please.
G
First,
this
administrative
data
records
total
hours
worked
for
every
worker
quarterly,
and
so
we're
able
to
provide
estimates
for
total
hours
worked.
In
other
studies,
which
use
survey
data,
there
are
some
measures
that
use
them.
Mostly,
they
have
to
be
imputed
and
in
most
administrative
data
they
don't
exist.
G
Minnesota
is
unique
in
addition
to
providing
workers
hours
work
in
the
sense
that
they
not
only
provide
these
measures,
but
they
record
it
by
the
establishment
within
which
the
workers
working
so
not
only
they
provide
hours
but
worker
earnings
at
this
granular
level,
and
why
is
this
important
and
why
what?
Why
does?
Why
does
what
does
it
mean
that
it's
unique?
G
Now,
if
we
only
know
the
workers
about
earnings
and
hours
at
the
firm
level,
we
cannot
distinguish
any
details
about
workers
from
within
minneapolis
from
the
workers
which
work
in
red
car
outside
of
media
and
to
assess
their
effect
of
the
minimum
wage.
We,
it
is
essential
that
we
are
able
to
distinguish
this
so
hence
use
we're
able
to
use
multiple
establishments
in
our
study,
which
other
studies
like
seattle
were
not
able
to
do.
G
The
third
reason
why
this
improves
measurement
relative
to
other
studies
is
that
we
have
detailed
location
data
at
the
zip
code
level
and
looking
at
variation
of
at
the
zip
code
level
within
cities
and
then
comparing
it
to
cities
of
zip
codes
outside
we're
able
to
have
better
precision
of
our
estimates
and
I'll
talk
a
little
bit
more
about
this.
When
I
come
back
next
slide,
please.
G
So,
given
this
rich
set
of
data,
the
question
that
we
are
addressing
is
what
is
the
effect
of
the
minimum
wage
on
the
outcomes
we
discussed
now.
Let
me
give
a
hypothetical
example
to
explain
the
methodology
we
use
in
order
to
address
this
question
and
let
me
lose
the
example
of
an
outcome,
suppose
jobs.
G
So
in
this
table
suppose
we
have
this
data.
Okay,
so
suppose
we
had
the
number
of
jobs
in
minneapolis
before
2018
and
number
of
jobs
in
minneapolis
after
2018..
In
this
table,
we
see
that
there
were
100
jobs
before
2018
and
after
2018
there
were
70
jobs.
So
the
change
before
and
after
2018,
which
is
the
change
in
policy,
is
30..
G
So
a
naive
method
which
just
looks
at
change
before
and
after
would
conclude
incorrectly,
that
the
effect
of
the
minimum
wage
is
30
jobs
decline.
Why
is
this
incorrect?
This
is
incorrect
because
there
could
be
other
economic
conditions
that
could
be
changing
after
2018
that
could
lead
to
reduction
in
jobs.
G
So
what
we
want
to
do
is
to
be
able
to
say
how
much
of
this
decline
of
30
jobs
is
attributable
to
the
minimum
wage
change
in
order
to
do
so,
what
we
would
want,
and
in
order
is
to
be
able
to
have
a
credible
comparison
now,
the
key
to
evaluating
this
policy
would
be
to
know
what
would
have
happened
in
the
absence
of
the
minimum
wage
and
then
comparing
the
change
after
the
policy
and
comparing
the
change
difference.
G
What
would
have
happened
if
the
policy
had
not
changed
would
give
us
the
estimate
of
what
the
impact
of
minimum
wage
is
now
the
challenge
to
this
is
we
don't
really
observe
what
would
have
happened
in
minneapolis
if
the
policy
had
not
changed
or
minimum
wage
had
not
increased,
so
what
we
do
instead
is
to
construct
a
comparison
group
in
a
credible
manner,
and
we
use
the
method
of
synthetic
control
methods
in
order
to
do
so.
So
now,
let
me
explain
how
this
synthetic
control
method
constructs
a
credible
comparison
next
slide.
Please.
G
So
let
me
give
a
hypothetical
example
of
what
a
data
would
look
like
and
how
we
would
think
about
constructing
such
a
comparison
group.
So
in
the
graph
on
the
left
side
of
the
slide,
we
see
we
plot
log
jobs.
So
this
is
change
in
job,
so
this
is
giving
you
the
trend
in
jobs
over
time
in
minneapolis,
in
the
black
bold
line
and
in
minnesota
as
an
on
an
average
outside
of
the
twin
cities
in
the
dashed
blue
line.
G
G
So
if
we
use
these
comparison
group,
if
you
use
just
all
cities
in
and
the
average
of
all
city
outcomes
in
our
cities
outside
of
these
twin
cities,
then
after
the
policy
change,
the
change
could
partly
be
driven
by
the
fact
that
they're
already
difference
in
trends.
So
if
we
see
that
the
jobs
are
declining,
it
could
be
partly
because
of
the
fact
that
jobs
are
increasing
at
a
higher
rate
in
the
other
cities.
G
So
this
is
not
a
valid
counter
comparison
group
to
which,
with
which
we
can
assess
the
impact
of
the
minimum
wage
policy
next
slide.
Please.
G
So,
instead
of
using
the
average
of
other
cities
in
minnesota,
we
use
the
synthetic
control
method,
which
provides
a
weighted
average
of
outcomes
in
minnesota
cities
outside
minneapolis
and
st
paul.
Now,
what
is
this
weight?
What
are
these
weights,
so
the
statistical
tool
chooses
weights
such
that
the
outcomes
in
the
synthetic
control
track
very
closely
the
outcomes
in
minneapolis
before
the
policy
change
and
in
this
graph
you
can
see
the
short
dashed
line
which
is
orange
is
the
synthetic
control
and
you
can
see
the
ab
the
outcomes
track
very
closely:
the
outcomes
in
minneapolis.
G
So
when
you
reach
the
vertical
line,
which
is
the
2018
when
the
policy
was
adopted
at
that
time,
they
look
very
similar
and
the
trends
are
also
very
similar.
So
in
the
after
the
policy
in
the
period
after
the
policy,
the
only
difference
between
these
two
groups
would
be
that
minneapolis
would
have
a
policy
change
in
minimum
wage
and
the
synthetic
control
group
would
not
and
then
the
changes
that
we
observe
can
then
be
attributed
to
the
minimum
wage
increases
next
slide.
Please.
G
This
is
exactly
the
methodology
we
will
be
using
and
when
I
talk
about
estimates
and
changes
in
percentage,
it
would
be
change
in
minneapolis
compared
to
what
would
have
been
in
the
absence
of
policy
as
measured
by
our
synthetic
control
comparison
group.
So
that
is
the
interpretation
of
the
estimates.
I
will
be
presenting
next
slide.
Please.
G
G
So
in
the
report
we
present
results
between
first
quarter,
2018
and
first
quarter
of
2020,
and
what
we
find
is
that,
within
low-wage
sectors,
most
of
the
sectors
saw
an
hourly
wage
increase
of
about
six
to
seven
percent
in
restaurant
industries.
We
also
see
wages
increase
but
they're,
accompanied
by
jobs
decline
on
an
average
across
low
rate
sectors.
So
when
you
average
them
across
all
the
sectors,
we
do
not
see
any
impact
on
wages,
jobs,
hours
or
earnings.
G
So
this
is
when
we
look
at
first
quarter,
2018
to
first
quarter
2020.
in
the
appendix
of
the
report.
We
also
show
we
have
the
results
for
when
what
would
happen
if
you
stop
at
2019
and
what
we
find
is
that
their
results
are
very
similar
when
we
look
at
only
the
period
between
first
quarter,
2018
and
fourth
quarter
2019
and
I
will
be
presenting
those
results
here.
Today's
next
slide,
please.
A
So
real
quick
we've
got
one
question
from
council
president
bender.
D
D
How
were
they
selected
and
some
of
those
details,
I
think,
would
be
helpful
as
we
hear
the
the
next
pieces
of
this.
Thank
you
so
much.
G
Sure
so
maybe
we
can
go
back
to
the
previous
slide.
While
I
will
explain
this
so
thank
you,
council,
member
bender,
so
our
synthetic
control
method
is
looking
for
a
the
comparison
group
is
determined
on
the
basis
of
all
other
cities
and
zip
codes
outside
of
minneapolis.
G
G
So
the
comparison
groups
are
zip
codes
outside
of
minneapolis
and
saint
paul,
and
that
is
going
to
be
the
comparison
group
in
in
during
the
talk
today
in
terms
of
how
the
statistical
tool
chooses
the
weights,
the
statistical
tool
chooses
weights
such
that
in
every
zip
code.
The
changes
in
the
outcomes
in
the
comparison
group
should
track
and
be
very
close
to
in
terms
of
the
entire
time
series
before
the
policy
to
the
zip
code
within
minneapolis.
G
So
it
is
a
statistical
choice
that
chooses
those
weights
in
order
to
equate
what's
happening
in
in
the
pre-policy
period,
and
the
objective
is
to
to
remove
effects
of
other
general
economic
conditions
and
have
the
synthetic
control
track.
The
minneapolis
outcomes
we
are
working
in
creating.
As
I
mentioned,
this
is
zip
code
by
zip
code
weights.
G
So
there
are
several
weights
and
what
we're
doing
right
now
is
coming
up
with
the
way
in
which
we
can
present
to
you
these
weights,
a
list
of
all
the
weights
that
satisfies
the
confidentiality
requirements
of
the
minnesota
department
of
employment
and
economic
development,
and
once
that
process
is
completed,
and
once
we
have
a
way
in
which
we
can
present
those
weights.
We
will
be
submitting
that
and
we
will
be
presenting
that
to
the.
D
G
So,
given
the
key
findings,
let
me
go
into
details
of
what
these
key
findings
are
and
explain
in
details.
What
we
see
within
the
low
wage
sectors
and
restaurants
next
slide.
G
So
this
first
table
we're
presenting
our
estimates
from
quarter
1
2018
to
quarter
1,
20
20
and
the
numbers
in
this
table
are
going
to
be
percentage
changes
in
the
rows.
We
are
showing
you
the
different
low
weight
sectors
that
we
are
looking
at
and,
as
I
mentioned
in
the
beginning,
these
are
the
sectors
in
which
at
least
30
percent
or
more
workers
were
earning
below
15
in
2017
and
as
requested
by
the
city,
we
will
provide
estimates
for
the
restaurant
industries
as
well.
G
The
estimates
that
are
bold
in
black
and
colored,
highlighted
in
yellow
are
the
estimates
that
are
statistically
significant
from
zero
and
the
ones
that
are
not
highlighted,
including
the
all
the
average
are
ones
which
we
cannot
statistically
distinguish
from
zero.
G
So
if
when
we
look
at
hourly
wages,
we
find
that
most
of
the
low-wage
sectors
saw
an
increase
in
hourly
wages
in
this
period,
but
we
do
not
see
any
impact
on
total
jobs
or
total
hours.
We
also
don't
see
any
impact
on
worker
earnings.
Now,
worker
earnings
are
a
function
of
hours
and
jobs
in
our
and
wages.
So
if
wages
are
going
up,
worker
earnings
could
be
offset
by
some
of
the
changes
that
could
be
happening
in
jobs
and
hours,
but
none
of
these
are
estimated
are
statistically
significant
from
zero.
G
The
row
which
is
highlighted
in
blue
is
a
weighted
average
of
these
estimates,
which
means
we
take
these
estimates
and
we
multiply
them
with
the
employment
share
and
then
we
take
and
we
calculate
the
average
so
taking
these
average.
We
see
that
on
an
even
though
some
sectors
saw
an
increase
in
hourly
wages.
G
G
In
this
table
we
add
the
results
from
the
restaurant
industries.
We
also
find
that
there
were
significant
increases
in
wages
in
the
restaurant
industries,
but
they
were
also
accompanied
by
fall
in
jobs,
so
in
full
service
and
limited
service.
Both
we
see
increase
in
wages
as
well
as
profit,
but
we
do
not
see
any
statistical,
significant
impact
on
hours
or
work
earnings
in
advocate
next
slide.
Please.
G
So
this
tip
that
I
showed
you
before
was
when
we
have
the
sample
go
from
quarter
one
2018
to
quarter
one
twenty
twenty
in
this
table.
We
stop
at
quarter
four
twenty
nineteen
okay.
So
this
is
over
eight
quarters
and
we
see
from
this
table
that
the
results
are
by
and
large,
very
similar
to
what
we
find.
If
we
include
quarter
one
of
22
again
to
repeat
in
this
table,
we
see
that
most
of
the
low
wage
sector
saw
an
hourly
wage
increase.
We
see
wages
increased
in
in
restaurant
industries
as
well.
G
We
do
not
see
any
impact
on
jobs
in
any
of
the
low
wage
industries.
We
see
similar
job
declines
to
what
we
saw
in
the
when
we
go
all
the
way
up
to
quarter.
1
2020
magnitudes
are
very
similar
as
well,
and
we
see
worker
earnings
went
up
in
other
sectors.
The
only
true
difference
here
is
that
now
the
food
and
accommodation,
the
magnitude
remains
exactly
the
same,
but
it's
more
precisely
estimated
during
this
period,
but
we
also
see
total
hours
go
down
in
a
statistically
significant
manner
in
administration
and
support.
G
So
what
do
the
results
tell
us
that
we
just
saw
about
restaurant
jobs,
so
what
the
results
show
us
is
that
there
was
a
decline
in
total
restaurant
jobs
in
minneapolis.
G
What
the
results
don't
tell
us
is:
where
do
workers
go
after
a
job
loss?
Do
they
remain
unemployed?
Do
they
move
to
a
restaurant
job
outside
of
minneapolis?
Do
they
move
to
a
new
job
in
another
sector,
or
do
they
move
to
a
contract
job
like
online
food
delivery
service?
So
these
are
the
questions
that
we
will
be
addressing
in
the
future
work
where
we
are
able
to
follow
workers
over
time
and
we
shed
more
light
on
what
next
slide.
Please.
G
So
far,
we've
been
talking
about
the
pre-pandemic
results,
both
what
may
include
2020
quarter
one
and
when
we
exclude
20
20
41.
in
the
report.
We
also
present
preliminary
results
from
our,
including
2020
data,
all
the
way
up
to
quarter
4
2020..
G
We
do
so
because
we're
contractually
required
to
provide
results
for
2020
as
well
and
in.
In
doing
this
analysis,
we
had
committed
to
using
the
same
methodology
as
a
pre-pandemic
period,
so
using
the
same
methodology.
What
we
found
was
that
there
were
further
wages,
increases
and
total
jobs
will
be
declined,
but
we
want
to
note
here
that
this
analysis,
which
is
preliminary,
should
be
interpreted
with
caution
due
to
the
unprecedented
nature
of
the
pandemic,
as
well
as
the
widespread
protests
that
took
place
in
minneapolis
through
20
throughout
2020.
G
In
the
future
reports,
we
will
be
further
examining
this
period
and
we'll
be
able
to
use
additional
data
as
well
as
additional
sources
of
variation.
In
order
to
be,
you
know,
to
have
the
goal
of
disentangling
the
pandemic
and
civil
unrest
effects
from
the
effects
of
minimum
wage
increase.
G
In
addition
to
further
looking
at
the
2020
data
in
the
future
reports,
we
will
be
using
addressing
additional
research
questions
using
the
rich
administrative
data,
part
of
which
we
already
talked
about,
and
the
type
of
questions
we'll
be
looking
at
would
include
worker
economic
assistance
and
benefits.
For
example,
what
happens
to
workers
who
remain
employed?
What
happens
to
their
benefits
like
food
stamps,
other
economic
assistance,
if
they
lose
jobs,
are
unemployed?
G
Additional
data
and
additional
research
we'll
be
looking
at
firm
level
analysis,
for
example,
what
happens
to
firm
sales,
what
happens
to
their
profit
margins
and
also
what
happens
to
firms
decisions
such
as
capital,
labor,
substitution
and
employee
contractor
substitution,
and
these
type
of
you
know,
for
example,
compliant
contractor
substitution
could
be
examined
by
merging
the
department
of
d
data
which
we've
been
looking
at
with
department
of
revenue
data
we'll
be
getting
in
the
future.
G
So
all
this
analysis
and
in
it-
and
this
is
not
the
exhaustive
list-
but
these
are
the
type
of
analysis
we'll
be
doing-
would
be
made
possible
through
the
data
sharing
agreement.
The
federal
reserve
bank
of
the
office
has
with
minnesota
departments
of
employment,
economic
development,
human
services
of
us
department,
revenue,
and
that
concludes
my
presentation
today
and
I
would
like
to
hand
the
mic
back
to
renee.
F
What
we're
learning
so
far,
we
learned
in
2018
from
the
baseline
report
a
little
bit
about
pre-ordinance
conditions
and
about
what
groups
of
people
were
more
or
less
likely
to
be
low-wage
workers
affected
by
the
ordinance,
and
today
we've
learned
about
some
aggregate
effects
on
several
outcomes
for
workers
in
low-wage
industries.
F
F
As
dr
nath
was
just
saying,
I
think
it's
notable
that
this
research
team
will
continue
working
with
2020
data
to
do
that,
disentangling,
work
to
try
and
understand
what
which
events
and
which
effects
were
at
play
and
how
they
interacted
with
one
another
to
affect
the
labor
economy,
and
dr
nast
also
described
the
future
reports
tackling
a
lot
of
other
research
questions,
focusing
on
the
effects
on
businesses
and
a
greater
level
of
disaggregation
for
effects
on
workers.
F
The
most
salient
example
for
me
is
exactly
the
one
that
dr
neff
pointed
out
by
raising
a
serious
quest
series
of
questions
right,
what
happens
to
that
restaurant
worker,
who
perhaps
lost
a
job
in
one
sector,
but
gained
another
in
a
different
sector?
We
don't
yet
know
that
from
this
report,
but
we
aim
to
find
out
with
this
research
team's
help,
as
well
as
the
extent
to
which
low-wage
workers
do
or
do
not
access
public
benefits
because
of
their
individual
economic
conditions.
That
is
all
still
to
come
next
slide.
Please.
F
Our
knowledge
about
the
effects
of
this
ordinance
is
going
to
grow
both
broader
by
tackling
those
new
research
questions
and
deeper
by
digging
further
into
data
about
2020,
for
instance,
and
by
repeating
these
analyses
annually
over
time.
So
any
policy
actions
taken
in
the
short
term
wouldn't
benefit
from
that
learning
that
lies
ahead.
F
That's
that
is
the
summary
takeaway
for
me,
individually
as
city
staff
from
this
project.
At
this
point
in
time
next
slide,
please.
I
am
available
now
to
stand
for
questions
along
with
doctors,
nath
kara.
A
Thank
you
so
much
for
this
presentation
and
I
will
see
if
my
colleagues
have
any
questions
and
first
we
have
a
question
from
council
president
bender.
D
Thanks
mr
chair
and
thanks
to
the
team
for
presenting
today,
I
wondered
so
I
asked
the
clarifying
question
earlier
and
it
was
helpful
to
understand
that
the
economic
model
was
using
city
zip
codes
in
minnesota.
D
Again,
I
understand
that
you're
using
an
economic
model,
but
just
logically,
we
know
that
we
had
an
enormous
drop
in
commuting
during
the
pandemic,
and
we
know
from
the
studies
that
happened
before
we
considered
a
minimum
wage
increase
in
minneapolis
that
we
have
a
very
sprawling
region
where
there's
a
high
percentage
of
workers
that
live
in
a
different
city
than
where
they
work.
And
so
during
the
pandemic,
we
would
have
experienced
a
significant
drop
in
office
workers
coming
into
downtown
students
attending
the
university,
which
has
60
000
students,
who
are
all
learning
remotely.
D
G
Thank
you,
president
bender.
So
I
think
there
are
two
parts
to
that
question.
The
first
is
about
you
know
the
fact
that
there
are
commuters
who
live
elsewhere
and
could
be
working
in
minneapolis.
G
So
when
we
look
at
zip
code
by
zip
code
that
and
what
we're
also
doing
is
zip
code
by
zip
code,
we're
constructing
controls
by
industry
as
well,
so
even
in
other
zip
codes,
for
example,
within
edina,
there
would
be
work
workers
who
live
in
the
china,
but
could
be
working
in
eden,
prairie
or
could
be
working
in
shakopee
or
bloomington.
G
G
Would
it
be
better
to
use
this
the
comparison
of
cities
outside
of
minneapolis
and
that's
a
great
question,
and
we
are
using
that
analysis.
So
we
have
a
technical
report
which
accompanies
the
report
we
presented
to
the
city
of
minneapolis
and
in
that
technical
paper
we
are
comparing
minneapolis
with
cities
outside
of
minnesota
as
well.
G
So,
across
the
united
states
we
were
looking
at
cities
which,
by
employment,
size
which
look
very
similar
to
minneapolis
and
we're
also
considering
other
sub-samples
to
be
able
to
construct
a
credible
comparison
group
from
the
other
cities
within
the
united
states.
So,
yes,
that
is
something
we
are
doing,
and
we
will
be
including
that
in
the
technical
report,
as
well
as
providing
results
for
that
in
our
future
reports
to
the
city.
E
Thank
you
geraldson.
You
know
I,
I
feel
a
little
badly
about
the
the
position
that
you
all
were
put
in
at
the
federal
reserve,
because
I
think
you
know,
as
you
noted,
you
were
contractually
required
to
provide
20,
20
results
and-
and
I
I
think
it's
evident
in
your
presentation
of
that-
that
you
probably
weren't
entirely
comfortable
with
it.
I
wasn't
entirely
comfortable
with
it
in
terms
of
you
know
what
what
do
we
know
and
and
what
conclusions
are
we
able
to?
E
You
know,
discuss
in
a
responsible
way
from
really
unprecedented
times,
and
it's
it's
sort
of
put
you
in
a
position
of
presenting
data
that,
frankly,
doesn't
really
make
sense
to
even
common
sense.
Knowing
that
employers
today
are.
You
know,
you're
being
asked
to
comment
on
the
impact
of
the
minimum
wage
in
an
environment
where
employers
are
by
and
large
having
to
pay
significantly
more
than
minimum
wage
to
attract
workers
in
the
current
moment,
and
so
the
the
level
of
shift
that
has
occurred,
and
I
do
think
finding
comparisons.
E
I
don't
think
you
would
find
a
single
restaurant
owner
who
thinks
that
their
experience
was
similar
to
eden,
prairie
to
an
eden,
prairie,
restaurant
or
separable,
where
you,
where
you
could
distill
the
experience
down
to
wages
as
as
the
differentiator,
and
so
I
just
you
know,
I
I
think
that
we
went
through
some
very
challenging
times
that
I
don't
think
you
can
actually
disaggregate.
I
don't
actually
think
that
the
methodology
here
does
that
or
even
purports
to
do
that
right.
E
I
think
that
you
provided
a
lot
of
caveats
and
a
lot
of
caution
about
what
conclusions
to
draw
from
this.
So
you
know
we'll
just
kind
of
acknowledge
that
this
was
a
step
in
the
process.
It
is
not
especially
useful
to
policy
makers,
but
I
I
you're
also
not
claiming
that
it
is
right.
E
I
I
think
that
it's
important
for
us
to
you
know
just
just
acknowledge
that
right
now
the
the
data
is
so
noisy,
and
I
and
I
I
really
do
think
that
there
are
significant
challenges
in
figuring
out
how
to
compare
anything
to
minneapolis
in
2020
and
draw
any
meaningful
conclusions,
and
you
know
I
I.
E
Will
encourage
my
colleagues
who
will
be
making
policy
decisions
about
labor
issue
next
next
term
and
beyond
to
take
this
data
in
you
know,
with
a
with
a
great
deal
of
caution
and
scrutiny,.
C
Thank
you,
chair
ellison,
and
thank
you
to
the
team
at
the
federal
reserve
for
this
presentation.
I'm
curious
is
the
data,
or
will
the
data
be
disaggregated
around
gender
and
race.
D
G
Yes,
it
will
be,
it
will
be
from
the
minnesota
department
of
employment
and
economic
development
data
that
we've
used
for
this
analysis
does
not
include
any
information
on
any
demographics,
whether
it's
gender
race,
age
or
education
status.
We
will
be
able
to
merge
this
data
in
future
reports
with
data
from
department
of
human
services,
which,
which
includes
all
of
these
details
for
a
majority
of
the
low-wage
workers
and
hence
we'll
be
able
to
provide
that
disaggregated
analysis
by
age
and
gender.
As
you
know,.
A
All
right
and
seeing
no
further
questions.
I
first
want
to
thank
renee
youngs.
I
want
to
thank
dr
wright
and
dr
nath
and
dr
cara
bara
bonus.
Did
I
say
that
correctly?
I
no
okay
do
my
best.
I
want
to
thank
you
all
for
this
presentation
and
for
the
information
and
for
the
context
that
you
provided
around
this
information.
A
We're
going
to
be
looking
at
this
over
the
course
of
10
years,
and
you
know,
unfortunately,
I
think
we
have
felt
the
effects
of
some
folks
trying
to
run
with
two
years
worth
of
data,
but
I
know
that
you
guys
are
are
here
to
present
this,
as
dr
wright
said
objectively,
and
so
I
appreciate
the
presentation-
and
I
look
forward
to
seeing
this
this
come
forward
as
as
the
work
continues.
So
thank
you
so
much
all
right.
A
So
our
next
agenda
item
is
a
presentation
from
the
economic
policy
institute
on
the
minimum
wage
impact
study
as
well.
I've
invited
dr
ben
zipper
from
the
economic
policy
institute
to
give
a
presentation
on
this
item,
and-
and
I
saw
I
will
I
will
hand
the
floor
over
to
dr
ben
zipper.
H
Hi,
thank
you
very
much.
I
don't
know
if
you
can
hear
me,
I'm
joining
by
phone.
H
Okay,
excellent
and
I
apologize
for
joining
by
phone.
I
was
having
some
technical
difficulties,
but
if
someone
would
help
me
advance
the
slides,
I
prepared
I'd
appreciate
that.
So,
if
you
can.
A
H
H
The
results
presented
in
the
reports
themselves
do
not
support
any
conclusions
about
job
losses
due
to
the
minimum
wage
and
to
explain
this.
First,
I'm
going
to
explain
that
the
studies
fail
two
important
credibility
tests.
These
failures
mean
that
the
researchers
methodology,
while
a
reasonable
starting
point,
was
ultimately
unsuccessful
and
that
the
studies
are
not
reliable
guides
to
the
effects
of
the
minimum
wage
policies
in
the
twin
cities.
H
H
Now
these
other
minnesota
cities
form
a
comparison
or
a
control
group
of
what
wages
and
employment
in
minneapolis
and
st
paul
would
have
looked
like
in
the
absence
of
their
minimum
wage
increases.
In
my
view,
this
methodology
is
indeed
a
very
reasonable
place
to
start
when
conducting
studies
of
this
kind.
However,
there
is
no
automatic
guarantee
that
the
methodology
will
work
or
that
it
will
produce
sensible
results
and,
unfortunately,
the
studies
exhibit
signs
that
the
methodology
is
not
up
to
the
task
of
identifying
the
effects
of
the
minimum
wage
increase.
H
H
H
In
fact,
the
studies
found
that
the
2018
minneapolis
minimum
wage
increase
and
the
2020
saint
paul
increases
caused
large
employment
changes
in
2014
and
2015
at
least
three
to
four
years
before
there
was
actually
a
minimum
wage
increase,
and
I
think
we
can
all
agree
that
it
is
not
logically
possible
that
the
2018
minneapolis
minimum
wage
affected
employment
years
before
it
was
passed
or
even
seriously
discussed
by
policy
makers.
But
that
is
actually
what
these
studies
found.
H
They
found
that
the
2018
minneapolis
minimum
wage
increase
caused
statistically
significant
employment
changes
in
2014
and
2015
in
retail,
trade
and
accommodation
and
food
services.
The
2018
minimum
wage,
according
to
the
methodology
of
the
studies,
also
apparently
caused
limited
service.
Restaurant
employment
like
fast
food
restaurants,
to
rise
by
over
60
percent
in
2014
and
2015..
H
Now,
of
course,
there's
no,
you
know
time
travel
going
on
and
in
fact
all
of
these
findings
are
just
spurious.
What
they
indicate
is
that
the
methodology
and
the
data
used
by
the
studies
is
not
up
to
the
task
of
teasing
out
or
identifying
the
actual
effects
of
the
minneapolis
and
st
paul
minimum
wage
increases.
H
So
that
is
the
first
basic
credibility
test.
Do
the
studies
predict
minimum
wage
increases
several
years
before
there
was
an
actual
minimum
wage
increase?
Unfortunately,
the
studies
very
clearly
fail
this
test.
If
you
could
advance
to
the
next
slide,
called
the
study's
fail
credibility
test
number
two.
H
The
second
basic
credibility
test
is:
do
the
studies
predict
effects
of
the
minimum
wage
in
sectors
or
industries
where
there
are
very
few
low-wage
workers?
The
usual
economic
logic
about
minimum
wages
is
well
if
you
raise
the
minimum
wage,
that
raises
the
wages
of
low-wage
workers
and
it
makes
it
more
expensive
to
pay
them
for
their
work.
So
perhaps
that
affects
the
hiring
decisions
of
a
low-wage
employer
like
a
restaurant.
H
However,
in
higher
wage
industries,
where
there
are
very
few
low-wage
employers
or
very
few
low-wage
workers,
generally
speaking,
economists
would
not
expect
the
minimum
wage
to
have
much
of
an
effect.
One
such
higher
wage
industry
is
the
finance
and
insurance
sector
of
the
minneapolis
economy
in
finance.
In
minneapolis.
There
are
very
few
workers
earning
near
the
minneapolis
minimum
wage
as
opposed
to
restaurants.
Where
you
know
more
than
half
of
the
workforce
is
plausibly
affected
by
the
minimum
wage
increase.
H
H
The
final
point
that
I
want
to
make
is
that
the
study's
job
loss
findings
are
implausibly,
large
and
well
outside
the
range
of
existing
research
on
the
minimum
wage.
In
particular,
the
study
found
that
the
minneapolis
minimum
wage
caused
full
service
employment
for
full-service
restaurant
wages
to
rise
by
four
percent,
but
this
was
accompanied
by
you
know.
H
According
to
the
study
at
12
fall
and
the
number
of
full-service
restaurant
jobs,
these
are
wage
and
employment
changes
from
2018
through
the
beginning
of
2020,
and
when
the
studies
you
know
as
they
were
contractually,
I
think
contractually
observated
to
do-
is
my
understanding
extended
those
results
through
all
of
20
20.
They
find
even
more
than
a
40
fall
in
full-service
restaurant
employment.
H
H
Alternatively,
we
could
you
know,
look
to
the
broader
set
of
research
findings
on
minimum
wages.
If
we
were
to
look
at
the
typical
or
median
estimate
from
a
review
of
literature
published
by
professor
aaron
dube
at
the
university
of
massachusetts,
who's
widely
acknowledged,
acknowledged
as
one
of
the
world's
leading
experts
on
minimum
wages,
a
four
percent
wage
increase
would
cause
full
service
restaurant
employment
to
decline
by
less
than
one
percent.
H
H
The
study's
methodologies
incorrectly
attribute
to
the
minimum
wage,
some
large
employment
changes
in
2018
and
29
2019,
and
then
these
large
spurious
changes
were
additionally
supersized
by
the
pandemic
period.
That
was
included
in
the
study,
while
the
study's
methodology
wasn't
in
principle,
a
good
thing
to
try,
it
clearly
failed
to
work.
In
fact,
the
study
failed
both
of
its
own
credibility
tests
and
predicted
employment
changes
where
there
should
be
none.
H
It
appears
from
my
point
of
view
that
the
estimates
are
mostly
artifacts
of
a
methodology
that
was
unable
to
distinguish
noise
in
the
data
from
actual
underlying
economic
trends
and
real-world
consequences
of
the
minimum
wage
increase.
Thank
you.
That's
the
end
of
my
presentation
and
I
appreciate
the
opportunity
to
comment.
I'm
happy
to
take
any
questions.
A
I
will
I
will
pause
to
see
if
my
colleagues
have
any
questions.
A
Currently
not
seeing
any
questions,
I
will
just
say
I
want
to
thank
dr
zipper
and
I
want
to
thank
our
previous
presenters
as
well.
I
think
this
is
an
important
conversation
to
have,
as
we
figure
out
what
are
the
impacts
of
this
of
this
policy.
I
think
that
I
wanted
to
provide
some
full
context
and
again
we're
seeing
we're
seeing
this
data
already
be,
I
think,
politicized,
which
is
not
the
intention
of
the
previous
presenters
and
certainly
not
our
intention.
A
Our
intention
is
to
get
good
information,
and
so
I
just
wanted
us
to
have
enough
information
to
to
contextualize
that
I
do
see
councilmember
palmisano.
Thank
you.
J
Thank
you,
mr
chair,
and
thank
you
especially
for
for
asserting
that
we
really
shouldn't
be
politicizing
this
report
or
this
data
from
the
fed.
I
do
have
a
question
for
mr
zipper
or
dr
zipper.
J
H
Thank
you
for
the
question
I
want
to
emphasize
that
I
did
not
conduct
my
own
analysis
of
the
minneapolis
minimum
wage
increase
in
or
saint
paul
minimum
wage
increase.
I
am
merely
you
know,
commenting
on
the
study
that
was
published,
those
two
studies
that
were
published
by
the
federal
reserve
system.
They.
K
H
Ones
with
the
data-
and
I
think
if
there
is
some
kind
of
disagreement
about
the
interpretation
of
the
results
of
the
analysis,
it's
you
know.
It's
mainly
that
a
disagreement
about
the
interpretation
of
the
results.
I
find
that
the
federal
reserve
studies
exhibit
signs
that
what
they
tried,
while
what
they
tried
was
reasonable
and
they
have
access
to
good
data.
A
And
the
previous
presenters
are
still
on
the
call
as
well,
if
just
for
my
colleagues
to
know
if
they
have
questions.
J
Mr
chair,
I
I
do
have
another
question.
If
that's
all
right,
you
know
for
dr
zipper.
I
take
the
headlines
that
are
here
on
these
pages
to
really
be
your
own
opinions.
Then
I
hear
you
when
you
say
you
don't
believe
these
outcomes
are
plausible,
but
you
know,
could
you
speak
to
how
you
think
we
should
address
the
impacts
of
2020
on
this
research?
J
I
know
that
our
federal
reserve
partners
were
very
transparent
in
describing
how
the
global
pandemic
and
subsequent
economic
fallout
impacted
their
research,
and
they
also
acknowledge
that
this
is
simply
one
report
out
of
many.
So
can
you
help
us
understand
how
you
account
for
these
same
kinds
of
fluctuations.
H
All
right
sure,
thank
you
for
your
your
question.
Council
member.
I
do
agree
with
you
completely
that
the
federal
reserve
studies
are
transparent.
They
were
easy
for
me
to
read
and
for
to
evaluate,
and
I'm
very
happy
that
they
were
clearly
written
and
used,
in
my
view,
very
high
quality
data.
H
I
think,
as
I
tried
to
indicate
in
the
study,
sorry
in
my
presentation
that
the
problems
with
the
federal
reserve
studies
are
actually
deeper
than
that
and
in
fact,
the
studies,
the
results
of
their
analysis
show,
in
my
view,
kind
of
implausible
results
that
that
the
minimum
wage
apparently
increased
employment
or
had
big
cause,
big
employment
changes
several
years
prior
to
the
actual
minimum
wage
increase.
I
don't
think
most
economists
would
find
that
kind
of
result
plausible
and
I
don't
find
that
result
plausible
either.
J
Thank
you,
but
so
again
this
is
not
your
own
study,
but
your
opinion.
So,
with
all
due
respect,
it
seems
that
the
trade-offs
are
real.
The
fed
is
not
commenting
on
the
efficacy
of
our
policy
here,
they're
studying
the
impacts-
and
I
am
not
an
economist
like
you,
but
a
pretty
basic
tenant
of
economics-
is
that
if
you
increase
the
cost
of
something,
rational
individuals
will
choose
to
use
less
in
this
case
labor.
So
do
you
not
agree
that
the
findings
of
the
federal
reserve
study
seem
to
follow
that
tenant.
H
I
agree
that
some
of
the
findings
are
actually
consistent
with
that
tenant,
but
some
of
the
findings
are
not,
for
example,
as
I
tried
to
indicate.
The
study
also
found
that
the
minimum
wage
increase
in
2018
in
minneapolis
caused
employment
changes
for
three
to
four
years
prior
to
the
minimum
wage
increase.
H
I
don't
know
of
any
economic
theory
or
other
empirical
investigation
that
actually
supports
that
in
terms
of
the
general
rule,
if
you
raise
people's
wages,
does
that
mean
that
employers
are
going
to
hire
fewer
of
them
and
then
fewer
low-wage
workers
will
have
jobs
and
so
you're,
ultimately
there's
some
kind
of
ultimate
trade-off?
I
think
that
that's
an
empirical
question
and
there's
a
wide
variety
and
I
would
argue
most
a
contemporary
minimum
wage
studies
that
have
looked
at
this
find
that
the
employment
effects
of
minimum
wage
increases
are
very
small.
H
One
of
the
major
reasons
why
that's
the
case
is
that,
while
it
is
true
when
you
raise
the
minimum
wage,
you
do
make
it
more
expensive
for
employers
to
hire
low-wage
workers.
At
the
same
time,
fewer
low-wage
workers
are
going
to
leave
their
jobs
because
they
are
being
paid
more.
So
there
is
a
kind
of
a
trade-off,
there's
lower
hiring
after
a
minimum
wage
increase,
but
there's
low,
there's
fewer
people
leaving
their
jobs
in
the
u.s.
It
turns
out
that
those
kind
of
factors
tend
to
balance
each
other
out.
J
Thank
you.
I
just
want
to
make
it
clear
that,
while
the
economic
impacts
of
our
of
the
pandemic
are
absolutely
an
outlier,
as
my
colleague
member
fletcher
mentioned
as
well,
that's
an
outlier
that
has
real
impacts
on
everyone
in
our
city,
real
impacts
on
residents
and
on
businesses,
and
I
think
we
need
to
acknowledge
that
impact.
Regardless
of
of
how
unusual
it
is
and
understand
how
our
policies
interact
with
significant
shifts
and
other
kinds
of
disruptions.
Thank
you
and
thank
you
for
answering
these
questions.
D
Thanks,
mr
chair,
my
question
is
to
city
staff
and
I
would
like
them
to
answer
this
question
I
I
agree.
I
don't
want
to
get
into
a
sort
of
debate
as
much
as
that
might
be
interesting
to
those
of
us
who
like
to
get
into
those
policy
details
to
our
staff.
I
understand
that
there
was
also
a
review
contracted
as
part
of
this
study
by
an
economist,
dr
michael
reich.
Is
that
publicly
available
that
report
that
was
done.
F
Council
president,
this
is
renee
youngs
again.
My
understanding
is
that
the
federal
reserve
themselves
commissioned
a
number
of
independent
reviewers
of
the
drafts
of
their
work.
That
work
happened
concurrently
with
briefings
and
review
of
a
draft
for
city
policy
makers
and
city
staff
with
subject
matter,
expertise.
F
D
That
is
helpful
and
I
think
that's
that's
sufficient
to
answer
my
question.
You
know
I
think,
as
we
sort
of
wrap
up
here.
Mr
chair,
I
think
it's
important
to
sort
of
echo
some
of
the
things.
Maybe
you
want
to
do
this
as
well,
but
you
know
we
have
a
very
preliminary
report
from
the
federal
reserve
bank.
There
are
a
number
of
significant
questions
remaining,
including
overall
impacts
on
our
whole
economy,
as
we
see
shifts
in
different
sectors
where
there
did,
we
have
overall
job
growth
or
loss
were
there
shifts
among
industries.
A
Yeah,
no,
I
thank
you
for
that
and
I
I
agree
and
then
we
have
sorry
we
have
councilmember
gordon.
Are
you
I'm
not
seeing
your
name
in
queue,
but
I
see
you
putting
yourself
in
queue,
so
please
go
ahead.
L
Yes,
for
some
reason,
I'm
being
told
I'm
having
trouble
getting
my
chat
function
operating.
So
I
thanks
for
calling
on
me.
I
just
wanted
to
thank
the
federal
reserve
for
all
this
work.
I
think
I
really
appreciate
it.
It's
very
public
and
accessible
to
everybody
out
there,
so
I
think
we'll
have
an
opportunity
for
others
who
may
have
opinions
and
ideas
of
of
what
kind
of
ammunition
they
want
for
their
positions.
They
can
all
be
reviewing
it
and
they
can
be
sharing
their
thoughts
and
their
opinions
on
it.
L
Confess
that
I
think
it's
so
nuanced
and
there's
so
many
variables
involved
that
it's
really
a
challenge
to
figure
out
what
is
actually
having
all
of
these
effects.
So
I
can
appreciate
people
will
find
things,
I'm
sure
that
they
want
to
find
and-
and
otherwise
I
think
it's
my
hope
is
that
we
have
we've
passed
this
ordinance.
We've
raised
the
minimum
wage
we're
on
track
to
be
benefiting
workers
in
minneapolis
for
a
long
time
to
come.
L
Hopefully
the
state
will
catch
up
eventually,
maybe
the
federal
government
will
catch
up
eventually,
but
I
even
think
these
preliminary
results
are
quite
positive
and
quite
hopeful,
and
I
sincerely
hope
that
no
future
council
tries
to
peel
back
any
of
the
provisions
that
we
put
into
this.
The
fact
that
we
have
our
cost
of
living
increase
built
into
this
is
fantastic,
and
I
think
this
puts
minneapolis
on
a
great
trajectory
if
there
are
effects
that
we
have
to
mitigate.
We
can
do
that.
A
Thank
you,
councilmember,
gordon
and
and
yes,
I
want
to
thank
our
staff
renee
youngs.
I
want
to
thank
our
presenters.
I
want
to
thank
dr
wright,
dr
nath,
dr
kara
barabonis
and
dr
zipper.
You
know
it
it
it.
You
know
we
usually
don't
get
a
real-time
critique,
but
I
thought
this
was
we're.
A
Looking
at
you
know
we're
looking
at
data
that
I
think
that
in
large
part
your
average
person
us
included
on
this
council
might
not
understand
we
might
come
to
conclusions
based
on
incomplete
data
or
data
that
we
don't
understand,
and
it's
important
for
us
to
get
experts
in
in
front
of
us
both
from
the
federal
reserve,
both
from
the
economic
policy
institute.
Who
can
help
us
better
understand
exactly
what
we're
looking
at
and
and
so
yeah.
So
I
appreciate
the
discussion.
A
I
appreciate
my
colleagues
and
I
appreciate
all
of
our
presenters
on
this
topic
and
so
seeing
no
further
discussion.
I
will
direct
the
clerk
to
file
that
report.
A
M
Good
morning,
mr
chair
and
may
it
please
the
committee,
as
you
noted,
I'm
here,
to
present
an
initial
report
on
the
implementation
of
the
executive
mayor
legislative
council
structure
of
government,
which
is
approved
by
voters
in
the
form
of
charter
amendment
number
184,
which
was
passed
at
the
municipal
general
election
november.
2Nd.
Today's
presentation
will
repeat
some
information.
M
To
begin
with,
it's
worth
noting
that
the
city
charter
functions
as
the
city's
constitution.
I
know
the
council
is
well
aware
of
that,
but
in
terms
of
level
set
with
the
public,
the
charter
is
the
primary
governing
authority
under
which
the
city
of
minneapolis
exists
and
operates
legally.
The
charter
is
a
delegation
by
the
state
of
a
portion
of
its
sovereign
authority,
that's
to
be
exercised
at
the
local
level
for
the
benefit
of
the
people
of
the
community
under
both
federal
and
state
constitutions.
M
Cities
in
and
of
themselves
have
no
inherent
power.
Cities
have
only
those
powers
that
are
delegated
to
them
by
their
respective
states
and
such
incidental
powers
as
are
necessary
to
exercise
those
expressly
delegated
powers.
So,
as
our
constitution,
the
homeworld
charter
does
many
things
but
foremost
among
those
things
are
the
items
that
are
shown
on
this
slide.
So
first,
it
defines
the
powers
and
the
authority
of
the
city
government
which
are
granted
to
it
by
the
people
to
be
exercised
for
their
benefit.
M
These
powers
broadly
relate
to
the
health,
safety
and
general
welfare
of
the
public.
Second,
the
charter
prescribes
the
city's
operating
structure.
In
other
words,
it
creates
and
it
defines
the
duties
of
its
elected
and
its
appointed
officers,
its
key
operating
departments
and
similar
organizational
matters,
and
then
third,
it
specifies
the
processes
by
which
the
city
makes
decisions
and
takes
action,
how
those
decisions
and
actions
are
implemented
and
how
they
are
enforced.
M
In
the
state
of
minnesota
next
slide,
minnesota
was
the
fourth
state
in
the
nation
to
provide
for
home
rule
authority
that
was
in
1896
minnesota
established
home
rule
authority
through
an
amendment
to
its
constitution,
which
is
different
than
how
other
states
have
done
that,
and
that
constitutional
amendment
means
that
the
level
of
home
rule
authority
in
the
state
of
minnesota
has
a
little
bit
more
independence
for
those
jurisdictions
that
actually
do
operate
under
a
home
rule
charter
in
comparison
to
states
where
home
rule
authority
is
established
by
statute.
M
That
charter,
however,
was
not
a
well-designed
governing
document;
rather
it
merely
codified
all
of
the
laws
that
existed
at
that
time
for
all
cities
in
minnesota,
for
all
first-class
cities
in
the
state
of
minnesota,
and
then
a
myriad
of
special
laws
that
were
applicable
just
to
the
city
of
minneapolis.
So
it
was
a
very
unorthodox
approach
to
creating
a
charter.
M
Since
its
first
adoption,
the
city
charter
has
been
amended
a
total
of
192
times.
As
shown
on
this
slide,
the
majority
of
those
amendments
between
adoption
in
1920
and
2014
were
done
by
ordinance,
which
bypasses
voters
and
makes
changes
simply
based
on
the
unanimous
agreement
of
the
council
and
the
mayor.
Then,
after
almost
15
years
of
work,
the
charter
commission
proposed
a
complete
rewrite
of
the
city
charter
in
the
form
of
a
plain
language
revision
that
was
submitted
to
the
voters
in
2013..
M
That
revision
was
then
adopted
and
it
became
effective
in
2015..
Since
that
time,
a
total
of
15
amendments
to
the
charter
have
been
approved.
The
majority
of
these
have
been
done
by
referral
to
voters.
That
includes
the
last
two
amendments
that
were
approved
this
year.
The
government
structure
amendment
and
an
amendment
authorizing
the
council
to
enact
rent
stabilization
policy
next
slide.
M
The
major
elements
of
the
government
structure-
amendment
which
are
shown
on
this
slide
have
been
presented
before.
As
a
reminder,
this
amendment
changes
the
foundational
form
of
government
to
an
executive
mayor
legislative
council
structure.
This
structure
is
patterned
on
the
separation
of
power's
model,
that's
found
at
federal
and
state
levels
of
government,
and
it
provides
a
system
of
checks
and
balances
between
an
elected
executive
and
an
elected
legislative
body.
Here
the
council
is
the
elected
legislative
body
of
the
city
and
it
retains
full
legislative
and
policy-making
authority.
M
By
contrast,
the
mayor
is
the
chief
executive
officer
and
is
responsible
for
implementing
and
enforcing
policies
that
are
adopted
by
council
for
appointing
department,
heads
and
other
administrative
officials
with
the
consent
of
the
council
and
for
directing
the
city's
administration,
also
for
being
accountable
for
the
city's
performance
and
for
the
delivery
of
services
and
programs.
The
mayor
continues
to
have
the
power
to
develop
and
recommend
a
financing
plan
for
consideration
by
council
and
has
the
power
to
approve
or
veto
the
acts
of
council.
M
The
amendment
which
was
just
approved
eliminated
the
executive
committee,
which
was
created
by
voter
referendum
in
1984
and
which
had
its
final
meeting
this
past
tuesday
november
16th.
The
functions
of
the
executive
committee
largely
will
be
absorbed
by
the
full
council
in
terms
of
its
powers
to
approve
or
disapprove
of,
the
mayor's
appointment
of
charter
department,
heads
and
other
administrative
officials
and
for
handling
the
negotiations
for
labor
contracts.
M
This
chart
shows
the
new
governance
structure
in
chart
form
which
becomes
effective
on
friday
december
3rd.
This
chart
visually
depicts
the
most
significant
change
under
the
new
amendment
and
specifically
that
pertains
to
the
appointment
and
supervision
of
the
10
charter
departments,
which
are
shown
inside
the
dotted
square
in
the
middle
of
the
chart.
Starting
on
december
3rd.
Those
10
department
heads
will
report
directly
to
the
mayor.
M
The
10
management
departments
or
coordinator
departments,
as
they're
also
called
shown
at
the
bottom
of
this
slide,
will
continue
as
they
have
since
the
beginning
reporting
to
the
city
coordinator.
They
will
not
report
to
the
mayor
the
current
terms
of
the
existing
10
charter
department
heads
will
expire
at
the
end
of
the
current
term,
which
is
january
2nd,
and
that
means
that
new
appointments
will
be
necessary
in
the
next
term,
which
begins
january
20
2022.
M
At
that
time,
the
mayor
will
be
empowered
to
nominate
individuals
to
fill
each
of
those
10
charter
department,
head
positions,
and
those
nominations
will
be
submitted
to
the
full
council
for
its
consideration.
The
council
can
structure
its
own
process
for
how
it
will
consider
and
act
on
those
nominations.
M
However,
the
full
council
ultimately
must
either
consent
to
the
mayor's
appointment
or
withhold
its
consent
of
the
mayor's
appointment
without
the
council's
consent.
An
appointment
is
not
made
to
those
positions
and
the
appointment
process
continues
as
prescribed
by
the
charter.
Until
appointment
is
confirmed
under
the
new
amendment.
The
terms
of
these
charter
department
heads
will
be
realigned
to
match
with
the
elected
term
of
the
mayor.
So
currently,
nine
of
the
ten
charter
departments
are
appointed
to
two-year
terms.
M
The
police
chief
is
appointed
to
a
three-year
term
effective
december
3rd
and,
with
the
new
appointments
made
in
january
2022,
the
terms
of
those
10
charter
department
heads
will
be
for
four-year
terms,
aligned
with
the
elective
term
of
mayor
next
slide.
M
On
this
slide,
you
can
see
a
visual
summary
of
the
official
roles
and
responsibilities
of
the
mayor
and
the
primary
functions
of
council.
So
on
the
left
here
you
see
that
the
roles
and
responsibilities
of
the
mayor
largely
fall
into
three
big
buckets
policy,
leader
executive
leader
and
community
representative.
M
M
M
First,
as
the
city's
chief
policy-making
body,
the
council
is
expected
to
enact
local
laws
and
public
policies
that
are
responsive
to
and
which
meet
the
needs
and
priorities
of
the
entire
community
in
overseeing
the
executive
branch.
The
council
is
expected
to
provide
a
proactive
and
a
healthy
check
on
the
performance
of
the
city's
administration
through
regular
performance
audits,
investigations,
hearings
and
the
like.
M
A
L
Please
that's
important.
Sorry,
I'm
still
unable
to
get
into
the
chat
function.
I
have
a
couple
questions
one
and
back
to
maybe
two
slides
ago.
So
it's
interesting
that
all
these
appointments
will
be
for
four
years
and
a
new
council
will
only
get
to
serve
for
two.
So
that's
something
to
note
it's
unfortunate.
Then
let's
say
the
council
is
concerned
about
well.
How
would
a
department
head
whose
performance
well
doesn't
please
the
mayor?
M
L
Could
the
council,
as
a
legislative
body
in
charge
of
executive
oversight,
put
in
ordinance
a
requirement
for
a
public
hearing
and
a
vote
on
the
removal,
or
will
the
charter
just
trump
them
so
that
the
mayor
at
their
whim
can
remove
any
department
head
who
doesn't
comply
with
what
they
want.
M
Through
the
chair,
I
would
say
it's
an
interesting
question
and
certainly
one
we
should
note
as
we
work
with
our
attorneys
and
others
in
terms
of
implementation,
on
the
face
of
it.
The
charter
itself
doesn't
provide
for
that
type
of
a
process,
but
that
doesn't
mean
that
the
council
and
the
mayor,
working
together,
could
not
put
together
through
ordinance
a
process
whereby
those
types
of
actions
could
be
considered
and
implemented
through
a
policy
process
that
was
agreeable
to
both
branches
of
the
government.
L
Well,
not
so
you're
saying
that
it
would
have
to
have
the
mayor's
consent,
even
if
it
had
10
or
13
votes
from
the
council.
L
M
Heads
and
the
current
provision
around
removal
in
the
charter
says
that
the
mayor
may
discipline
and
may,
with
or
without
cause
discharge,
an
officer
appointed
under
this
section,
8.4
b,
but
that
doesn't
apply
to
a
civil
service
commissioner,
except
for
cause.
So
again,
the
charter
is
very
broad
in
saying
that
the
mayor
has
that
authority,
the
mayor
and
the
council
agreeing.
M
Could
I
assume
and
would
look
to
city
attorneys,
to
confirm
this
work
through
a
policy
process
and
ordinance
that
would
establish
an
alternative
as
long
as
it's
not
in
conflict
with
or
contrary
to
the
intention
of
the
city
charter.
Yeah.
L
So
probably
the
charter
would
override
any
efforts
to
to
change
that.
I
appreciate
that.
I
also
on
the
other
side.
You
talked
about
executive
oversight
and
you
made
it
sound
like
it
was
pretty
broad
and
the
council
would
have
a
lot
of
opportunity
to
have
oversight.
So
would
the
council
be
able
to
require
a
department
head
to
come
in
and
answer
questions
before
a
committee
in
public
if
they
had
concerns
about
that?
Would
that
still
be
the
authority
that
the
council
would
have,
or
does
this
new
charter
proposal
remove
that.
M
Mr
chair
to
the
council
member's
question,
the
charter,
to
my
way
of
understanding
and
on
a
surface
read,
does
not
remove
from
the
council
the
ability
to
conduct
investigations,
hearings,
audits
and
the
like
of
those
departments.
In
fact,
one
of
the
pieces
that
was
given
to
the
council
was
oversight
of
a
reconstituted
office
of
city
auditor
to
help
buffer
its
executive
oversight,
powers
and
functions.
M
So
it
would
be
my
estimation
that,
just
as
in
today's
environment,
where
the
auditor
conducts
an
audit
or
an
investigation
departments
are
asked
to
respond
to
the
findings
of
those
audits,
those
are
communicated
to
the
audit
committee.
Those
would
be
communicated
to
the
audit
committee
and
or
the
council
in
the
new
structure
under
the
charter,
and
I
assume
that
departments
would
wish
to
appear
before
the
council
to
respond
to
the
findings
of
any
investigation.
M
L
L
M
I
think
if
that
was
a,
I
think
it
was
a
statement,
but
I
would
just
say
yes,
I
concur
in
general
with
the
comments,
and
that
would
be
that,
yes,
the
council
may
request,
and
certainly
there
would
be,
I
think,
interest
on
departments
to
appear
and
respond
and
to
work
collaboratively
and
cooperatively
with
the
council.
M
The
council
still
has
final
policy
making
powers
over
the
city,
including
the
policies
that
dictate
how
departments
operate,
and
they
have
final
power
of
the
purse,
which
is
the
budgets
that
departments
get
so
they
are
certainly
well
incentivized
to
collaborate
and
cooperate
with
the
council,
no
matter
the
the
sort
of
structural
barriers
that
might
be
in
place
and
to
that
point,
of
course,
that
level
of
collaboration
and
cooperation
elevates
to
the
highest
level,
which
is
between
the
mayor
and
the
council,
and
the
mayor
in
in
terms
of
directing
the
organization
would
certainly
be,
I
think,
incentivized
to
work
collaboratively
with
the
council
if
he
or
she
were
ever
wishing
to
accomplish
their
policy
agenda
or
to
pass
a
budget,
both
of
which
would
require
the
council's
input
and
ultimately
approval.
M
M
This
slide
lists
some
of
those
large
cities
in
the
united
states
that
do
operate
under
a
mayor
council
structure,
similar
to
what
minneapolis
voters
approved
as
part
of
the
executive
mayor
legislative
council
form
of
government.
So
this
list
includes
several
that
I've
personally
used
as
benchmark
in
terms
of
considering
a
possible
operating
structure
for
a
legislative
department
that
would
encompass
the
city
council,
as
well
as
the
offices
of
clerk
and
auditor.
M
M
I
would
highlight
that
two
of
the
cities
on
this
list
are
two
of
the
other
first
class
cities
here
in
minnesota,
saint
paul
and
duluth.
I
think,
as
council
knows,
an
internal
working
group
of
department
heads
have
been
meeting
for
a
few
months.
Now,
with
help
from
the
league
of
minnesota
cities,
we've
been
looking
to
explore
the
implications
of
this
amendment
if
adopted,
and
we
gave
extra
attention
to
the
city
of
duluth,
because
it
is
structured
with
an
interesting
hybrid
model
in
which
there
is
a
strong
executive
mayor,
a
council
and
a
chief
administrative
officer.
M
In
fact,
as
I
think
many
of
you
know,
that
chief
administrative
officer
is
the
city's
former
regulatory
services
director
here
in
minneapolis
noah
shukman,
and
we
were
very
fortunate
to
be
able
to
interview
mr
shukman
to
get
his
input
and
ideas
both
based
on
his
service
here
in
minneapolis,
but
also
his
service
in
this
new
capacity.
As
the
chief
administrative
officer
in
the
city
of
duluth
and
a
copy
of
the
notes
from
that
interview
were
also
included
in
your
briefing
materials
for
reference.
I'll
move
to
the
next
slide.
M
M
So
based
on
all
of
those
values,
you
can
see
on
the
right
of
this
slide.
The
cities
that
I've
identified,
that
includes
seattle,
columbus,
atlanta,
denver,
washington,
dc,
milwaukee,
new
orleans
and
honolulu.
These
are
cities
that
are
all
structured
into
a
mayor
council
form
of
government
that
divides
executive
and
legislative
authority
between
a
full-time
council
and
an
elected
mayor
where
the
council
has
a
full
legislative
and
policy-making
authority
where
they
exercise
executive
oversight
over
the
administration
and
where
they
operate.
M
So
in
seattle,
voters
elect
a
mayor
and
a
city
attorney
at
large,
and
then
they
elect
a
city
council
which
is
composed
of
nine
members,
seven
of
whom
are
elected
from
districts
and
two
who
are
elected
at
large.
The
city
council
is
a
full-time
local
legislative
body
that
has
official
functions
similar
to
those
that
the
city
of
minneapolis
council
will
have.
That
includes
the
power
to
make
local
laws
and
public
policies
full
power
of
the
purse
over
city
finances
and
revenues
and
executive
oversight
duties.
M
Each
council,
member
in
seattle
has
a
small
team
of
aides
and
assistants
to
support
their
representational
functions
and
to
provide
constituent
services.
The
full
council
receives
support
from
two
divisions
within
the
legislative
department
that
includes
the
office
of
city
clerk
and
the
council's
city
or
central
staff.
The
city
clerk
is
the
chief
administrative
officer
of
the
legislative
branch
and
is
responsible
for
its
management
functions.
M
So,
as
you
can
see
by
looking
at
seattle,
there
are
some
good
parallels
that
can
be
drawn
to
our
own
minneapolis.
Council.
Minneapolis
is
served
by
a
full-time
13-member
legislative
body.
Council
members
already
are
supported
in
their
work
by
a
small
team
of
aides,
who
primarily
assist
with
representational
and
constituent
service
functions
under
the
charter
amendment,
the
offices
of
clerk
and
auditor
will
be
merged
into
the
city's
new
legislative
department
under
the
council.
M
The
intended
outcome
of
that
restructuring,
as
I
mentioned,
is
to
ensure
that
council
has
the
professional,
permanent
staff
and
resources
to
support
its
official
functions
with
respect
to
legislation,
policy
making
and
oversight.
So
I
do
believe
there
are
lessons
to
be
learned
and
best
practices
to
be
gained
both
by
looking
at
seattle,
as
well
as
some
of
these
other
cities
on
the
list,
and
certainly
at
the
bottom
of
this
slide.
I've
put
others.
M
I
know
that
many
council
members
are
engaged
with
colleagues
in
other
jurisdictions
and
they
may
have
ideas
to
add
to
the
list
as
well.
This
is
just
a
starting
point
in
terms
of
how
we
prepare,
I
think,
to
set
up
the
city
council
for
success
moving
forward,
both
in
the
next
term
and
in
the
future
years.
Under
this
new
government
structure.
C
Thank
you,
chair
ellison.
I
think
maybe
you
can
include
austin
texas
in
that
list.
I
believe,
but
I'm
just
curious
as
I
I
do
know
that
many
of
the
cities
that
you
have
I
identified.
C
They
seem
to
have,
I
mean
what
what
are
you
determining
a
small
staff?
I
mean,
I
know
some
of
these
communities.
You
know
five
staff
people,
including.
C
Sort
of
policy
legislative
team,
so
I'm
I'm
just
curious.
How
are
you
defining
small
staff.
M
The
small
staff
in
seattle
I
referenced
is
each
council
member
has,
I
believe,
between
three
and
four
aides
that
work
directly
for
them.
The
system
in
seattle
is
interesting,
and
it's
one
that
I've
already
highlighted
to
our
human
resources
department
is
something
I'd
like
to
pursue.
M
I'm
sorry
to
share
this
with
council
in
this
public
forum,
and
not
previously,
but
in
my
own
research,
the
city
of
seattle
and
the
city
of
toronto.
Another
good
example
are
comparative:
do
not
limit
their
council
members
to
two
separate
positions
which
are
primarily
based
in
the
city's
classified
system,
so
the
the
the
short
answer
is
that
there's
a
long
history
behind
the
two
aids
that
exist
today
for
council
members?
M
They
were
created
in
very
different
ways
and
evolved
over
time,
but
they
are
reflective
of
the
city's
classified
system,
even
though
they
exist
outside
the
classified
system
in
the
politically
appointed
non-classified
service
of
the
city
in
toronto
and
seattle.
What
they
do
is,
instead
of
providing
two
ftes
that
are
defined
very
strictly.
M
M
I
might
need
a
chief
of
staff,
a
constituent
services,
project
manager
and
an
administrative
assistant,
and
so
it
gives
a
lot
more
flexibility
for
the
13
council
members
who
represent
13
very
different
wards
to
make
decisions
about
the
kinds
of
personal
assistance
that
they
need
to
be
effective
in
their
roles,
and
I
have
reached
out
at
a
very,
very
initial
preliminary
stage
with
our
own
human
resources
department
to
suggest
this
is
a
model
that
we
should
research
and,
in
the
next
term,
bring
forward
recommendations
if
we
think
that's
appropriate
to
be
considered
by
the
council.
M
I
hope
I
answered
that
question
council
vice
president.
C
No
that's
great,
and
that
and
I
mean
some
of
that
information
I
am
familiar
with
as
well
as
I
would.
I
would
offer
that
detroit,
which
I
know
you
have
listed
on.
Your
list-
has
a
very
similar
employee,
allotment
or
personnel
allotment
sort
of
scenario.
C
Where
you
know
the
the
council
office,
depending
on
the
war,
they
can
determine
what
what
are
the
most
important
roles,
assets,
etc
for
that
particular
award.
Thank
you.
M
Mr
chair,
if
there's
some
more
questions
I'll
continue
on
with
the
slide
we
have
in
front
of
us,
and
so
here
you
can
see
what
I've
tried
to
do,
knowing
that
this
is
the
first
public
presentation
about
implementation
to
to
very
straightforwardly
say
what
do
we
know,
and
so
this
slide
captures
what
we
know
and
first
what
we
know
is
that,
without
further
action,
the
amendment
approved
by
voters
will
become
legally
effective
on
friday
december
3rd.
M
On
that
date,
the
city's
10
charter
departments,
as
I
already
had
mentioned,
will
begin
to
report
directly
to
the
mayor,
and
that
includes
the
city
coordinator.
The
coordinator,
of
course,
will
continue
to
directly
oversee
the
10
coordinator
departments
and
those
departments
will
report
to
the
coordinator.
M
Second,
the
executive
committee
has
already
noted
will
formally
cease
to
exist,
and
finally,
we
know
that
the
next
elective
term
for
mayor
and
council
is
set
to
begin
in
just
45
days.
On
monday
january,
3rd
2022
we'll
be
swearing
in
the
new
elected
officials
that
morning
other
than
these
certainties.
There
are
many
unknown
factors,
issues
and
considerations
that
need
to
be
addressed,
some
of
which
we've
already
touched
on.
M
Ultimately,
of
course,
it
will
be
up
to
the
14
elected
officials
who
occupy
the
mayor
and
council
seats
to
make
those
decisions
and
to
provide
the
direction
to
implement
this
new
governance
structure
that
was
approved
by
voters.
Staff
have
begun
the
task
of
preparing
a
very
long
and
growing
list
of
issues
and
questions
that
we
anticipate
will
need
to
be
considered
as
part
of
the
transformation
as
we
implement
this
new
government
structure,
I
did
include
in
the
lims
file
as
part
of
your
briefing
materials,
the
final
report
of
the
staff
working
group.
M
It
doesn't
provide
answers,
it
simply
raises
questions
and
identifies
topical
areas
or
makes
broad
recommendations
for
further
consideration
and
those
issues,
and
many
many
more
will
need
to
be
considered
and
addressed
by
the
mayor
and
the
council.
The
new
term,
I'm
positive
that
that
list
will
continue
to
grow
and
expand
in
the
days
ahead.
One
of
the
things
I
would
call
out
is
that,
in
our
discussions
with
other
cities
that
have
undergone
significant
changes
to
governance
structure,
the
one
piece
of
advice
or
feedback
we've
received
is
be
patient.
These
types
of
changes
don't
happen
overnight.
M
They
don't
happen
quickly.
It
will
take
many
years
to
finally
implement
the
ultimate
new
structure,
as
some
things
are
periodic
on
a
long-term
basis,
only
done
every
once
every
term,
every
four
years
or
like
redistricting
once
every
decade,
and
so
you
will
continue
to
address
these
types
of
implementation,
issues
and
separation
of
powers,
issues
for
many
years,
and
so
a
long-term
perspective
and
patience
will
be
critical
for
us
next
slide.
Please
speaking
of
timeline,
though
I
wanted
to
make
sure
I
put
this
in
here.
M
This
slide
provides
a
high
level
timeline
for
some
of
the
more
immediate
issues
that
will
need
to
be
considered.
As
you
can
see,
we
do
anticipate
welcoming
new
elected
council
members
and
providing
an
orientation
program
for
them,
as
in
prior
transitions,
to
help
assure
a
seamless
and
effective
onboarding
process
for
them
and
their
teams.
We
expect
to
begin
that
orientation
process
on
november
29th
and
it
will
carry
forward
through
december
31st,
so
through
the
last
part
of
this
year.
M
We
also
know
that
the
final
meeting
of
this
council
is
likely
to
be
on
friday
december
10th
unless
there
are
time-sensitive
year-end
items
that
cannot
be
resolved
by
that
point,
in
which
case
we
would
add
one
tentative
final
meeting
reserved
on
friday
december
17th.
As
I've
already
noted,
we
will
swear
in
the
mayor
and
council
members
for
the
new
term
on
january
3rd.
We
anticipate
that
the
formal
public
inauguration
ceremony
will
be
the
following
week.
M
On
monday
may
january,
10th
followed
by
strategic
planning
and
goal
setting
as
the
first
priority
in
that
new
term,
and
then
we
would
expect
the
first
full
cycle
of
committee
meetings
to
begin
the
following
week
january
17th.
D
Thanks,
mr
chair
and
thanks,
mr
carl,
I
wanted
to
know
from
my
colleagues
just
to
make
sure
everyone
saw
that
I
emailed
around
a
staff
direction
related
to
this
item
this
morning
from
myself,
council
vice
president
jenkins
and
chair
ellison.
So
there
is
quite
a
long
description
in
the
email,
but
just
wanted
to
note
that
so
everyone
saw
it.
No
one
would
be
surprised
and,
of
course,
welcome
questions
during
this
meeting
about
that.
D
I
did
have
a
couple
of
questions
and
I
know
we're
at
an
early
stage
of
implementation.
You
know,
I
think
I
had
some
concerns
about
this
charter
amendment
and
especially
how
it
affects
transparency
at
its
best.
Hopefully,
this
amendment
will
clarify
accountability.
D
I
could
say
from
my
experience
that
may
be
very
beneficial
to
future
council
presidents,
as
I
have
experienced
quite
a
lot
of
issues
related
to
confusion
about
how
decisions
are
getting
made
and
who's
in
charge.
So
one
of
my
biggest
concerns
has
been
this.
This
question.
This
proposal
has
been
talked
about
in
such
vague
terms
that
I
think
it's
really
hard
for
our
constituents
to
understand
how
the
system
works
now
and
how
it
may
work
in
the
future.
So
I
have
some
specific
questions
just
so
that
people
you
know
these.
D
These
are
particular
to
ward
10,
which
I
represent,
but
as
examples
of
some
questions
I've
been
getting
about
how
this
will
affect
important
decisions
in
this
interim
period
of
months
to
years,
while
question
one
is
being
implemented,
so
my
first
question
is
and
if,
if
they
you
know,
if
you
or
the
attorney
doesn't
have
an
answer
and
that's
fine,
I
just
want
to
be
able
to
ask
them.
You
know
on
the
record,
so
folks
know
where
we're
at
so.
D
D
M
Mr
chair
to
council
president
bender's
question
about
organizational
structure.
No,
the
mayor
cannot
make
organizational
structure
changes
absent
the
city
council.
The
charter
very
clearly
retains
to
the
council
the
right
to
actually
organize
the
executive
branch.
So,
although
the
mayor
is
responsible,
for
you
know
managing
that
that
division
or
that
department,
the
executive
branch,
if
you
will
the
actual
organization,
the
creation
of
departments
and
things
like
of
similar
nature-
are
the
responsibility
of
the
council
by
ordinance
and
so
by
ordinance.
M
The
council
may
create
departments,
merge
departments,
abolish
departments
and
do
that
type
of
organizational
framing,
of
course,
as
an
official
act
of
the
council,
that
ordinance
would
be
subject
to
the
approval
or
disapproval
of
the
mayor
and
then
further
subject
to
an
override
by
the
council.
But
the
ultimate
authority
for
the
structure
of
government
rests
with
the
council.
D
Okay,
that's
helpful.
Thank
you
and
I
mean
I
think
it's
probably
worth
noting
that
the
mayor
just
today
announced
an
advisory
group
that
will
be
advising
him
on
the
implementation
of
this.
Certainly,
the
mayor
may
be
making
proposals,
but
it
sounds
like
some
of
those
organizational
things,
including
the
reporting
structure
for
department
heads
would
be
expected
to
come
to
council.
D
So
there
are
some
decisions
now
that
come
to
council
and
I
think
it'd
be
helpful
to
understand
how
that
will
be
treated.
You
know
with
say:
first
quarter
of
2022
right
now
the
city
council
approves
layouts
for
street
reconstruction
projects,
there's
a
very
high
profile,
one
in
my
ward,
with
significant
impacts.
D
M
M
I
see
the
head
nodding,
so
I'm
going
to
assume
that
I
captured
that
correctly.
Those
are
legislative
decisions
and
would
remain
the
policy
purview
of
the
council,
but
as
official
actions
of
council
are
subject,
of
course,
to
the
mayor's
approval
or
disapproval
and
an
override
by
a
super
majority
of
the
council.
D
D
M
I
don't
have
a
definitive
answer
to
that.
Council
president.
It's
something
we
should
add
to
our
list
and
consider
addressing
my
gut
would
tell
me
that
that
still
remains
a
council
priority
in
terms
of
its
perhaps
not
strictly
legislated
but
I'll,
say
policy
making
authority
at
a
broad
view
on
behalf
of
the
community.
So
I
would
assume
that
that
stays
within
the
province
of
the
council,
but
we
should
add
it
to
the
list
and
make
sure
it's
defined.
D
I
just
have
like
two
more
questions
so
right
now
and
I've
asked
this
in
the
past
and
I
realized
that
there's
some
ambiguity
in
the
division
between
operations
and
policy.
The
interim
city
coordinator-
and
I
were
just
talking
about
this
as
it
relates
to
covet
and
hr
related
policy
decisions
or
operational
decisions.
D
So
we
have
adopted
a
renter's
first
policy
again
a
high
priority
in
ward
10.
Why
I
use
it
as
an
example.
D
How
so,
let's
just
say,
I'm
not
saying
this
mayor
would,
but
let's
just
say,
the
city
council
has
passed
our
venture's
first
policy.
It
directs
departments
to
do
things
like
tras.
What
happens
if
the
mayor
tells
the
city
attorney's
office
or
regulatory
services?
You
report
to
me
now
I
don't
support
using
city
resources
in
this
way,
I'm
getting
complaints
from
landlords.
D
M
Mr
chair
and
the
council
president's
example,
I
would
say
I
I
don't
know
that
I
can
give
you
a
concrete,
firm
response
to
the
specifics
of
your
example,
but
I
would
say
at
large
policy
making
legislative
authority
remains
the
province
of
the
council,
and
so
broadly
stated.
Policy
could
be
understood
in
terms
of
defining
what
outcomes
for
whom
at
what
cost.
That's
the
council's
province.
M
The
administration,
then
within
those
policy
frameworks,
are
about
how,
when,
by
which
department,
prioritizing
different
timings
and
and
where
locations
things
like
that,
the
implementation,
the
mayor
is
given
the
responsibility
to
implement
and
enforce
the
policies
adopted
by
council.
M
The
mayor
has
the
opportunity,
within
the
legislative
realm,
to
approve
or
veto
those
policies,
but
once
they
are
approved
either
with
the
consent
of
the
mayor
or
overridden
a
veto
and
approved
by
council,
those
become
the
policies
of
the
city,
and
so
those
are
the
expectations
that
the
mayor
and
the
administration
will
carry
forward
and
implement
and
enforce
the
council's
policies.
That
is
the
statement
in
the
charter.
That's
the
expectation.
The
council's
follow-up
power
on
that
is,
as
I
briefly
was,
stating
through
executive
oversight.
M
Conducting
research
through
the
auditor
on
program,
administration,
performance,
delivery
of
renter,
first
policy,
specific
outcomes,
the
achievement
of
stated
goals,
the
compliance
with
expressed
legislative
intent,
all
of
which
would
be
reported
back
to
council.
And
then
council,
can
you
know,
call
on
those
departments
and
or
the
mayor
to
explain
how
there
is
or
isn't
deviation
between
its
expressed
policy,
which
was
approved
and
the
delivery
of
the
services
and
programs
within
the
policy
parameters
that
were
approved
and
are
adopted
as
council
policy.
D
Okay,
that's
helpful.
The
last
question
is
about
policy
making
and
the
process
of
legislation
coming
to
council.
So
right
now
we
talked
about
this
at
length.
The
city
council
relies
primarily
on
staff
in
city
departments
to
research
and
propose
legislation
that
comes
before
the
city,
council
and
right
now,
it's
one
of
the
areas
of
ambiguity
with
the
departments,
basically
reporting
to
the
mayor
and
council.
It's
been
hard
to
track
why
it
often
takes
so
long
for
legislation
to
come
before
the
council.
D
So
hopefully
again,
this
will
be
a
benefit
of
transparency
and
accountability
in
the
new
system.
But
in
the
interim
you
know
everyone
is
used
to
the
city
staff
playing
this
role.
They
will
now
report
to
the
mayor
exclusively.
D
So
as
for
an
example
with
this
one
question:
three
just
passed
a
charter
amendment
that
allows
the
city
to
consider
a
rent
control
policy.
How
does
the
city
council
get
a
rent
control
policy
in
front
of
the
body
if
the
mayor
doesn't
support
the
work?
So
can
the
mayor
just
direct
cped
and
the
city
attorney's
office
not
to
work
on
a
rent
control
policy?
M
Mr
chair
to
the
council
president's
point
about
its
own
resources.
I
think
that
is
the
thrust
of
many
of
my
comments
about
comparable
jurisdictions.
I
believe
that's
the
thrust
of
the
staff
direction
that
she
mentioned
earlier
and
that
is
council
will
need
to
have
its
own
independent,
separate
resources
to
help
support
its
work.
The
check
and
balance
there
is
that
the
council
needs
the
freedom
and
ability
in
order
to
do
its
legislative
policy
making
and
oversight
work
to
do
that
work.
It
needs
resources.
M
The
charter
provides
that
the
council
must
provide
for
its
own
resources,
so
there
is
an
impetus
to
provide
those
resources
to
support
that
work.
We
don't
have
those
things
in
place
today,
as
you
noted
council
president,
so
this
is
one
of
those
very
early
conversations.
I
would
hope
that
the
new
council
could
take
up
and
we
could
talk
about
what
that
legislative
department,
staffing
and
structured
resources
might
look
like,
for
example,
in
comparison
to
those
other
benchmark
communities.
M
So
all
of
that
work
has
to
be
then
funneled
through
the
office
of
the
city,
attorney
for
a
legal
review
and
analysis
for
sign
off
in
terms
of
sufficiency
of
form
and
content,
and
then
it
would
come
back
before
the
council
for
final
action
and
then,
as
required
under
the
charter,
be
delivered
to
the
mayor
for
the
mayor's
consideration.
If
approved,
it
would
be
published
and
would
become
policy.
If
not,
it
would
come
back
to
the
council
for
reconsideration
possible
override,
at
which
point
it
would
become
policy.
D
My
understanding
is
that
the
audit
committee
itself
will
need
to
be
restructured
and
the
audit
function
of
the
city
will
need
to
be
clarified
that
now
it
would
be
the
check
and
balance
the
tool
for
the
city
council
to
provide
a
check
on
the
mayor's
executive
power.
Can
you
talk
about
the
status
of
that?
What
actions
would
be
needed
to
change
the
audit
committee?
What
and
what
the
timeline?
What
might
look
like
for
that
work?.
M
Yes,
mr
chair
and
madam
president,
so
the
audit
committee
today
is
created
under
ordinances.
The
reconstituted
office
of
city
auditor,
slightly
elevated,
is
going
to
be
under
an
audit
committee
that
is
reconstituted
as
well,
so
we
currently
have
an
audit
committee.
The
charter
envisions
a
new
audit
committee
that
is
differently
structured.
We
will
have
to
bring
forward
new
ordinances
in
order
to
bring
alignment
between
the
charter
and
those
ordinances
that
prescribe
the
function,
duties
and
structure,
including
the
membership
of
the
audit
committee.
M
The
audit
committee
is
I'm
looking
at
the
charter
now
must
include
a
majority
who
have
never
served
on
council,
and
so
that's
not
today
the
makeup
of
the
of
the
audit
committee,
and
that
was
one
of
the
pieces
to
preserve
its
independence
and
neutrality.
So
those
types
of
issues
to
implement
the
new
audit
committee
and
then
the
city
auditor
structure
will
need
to
be
addressed
very
early
on.
M
I
believe
I
mentioned
I
have
already
reached
out
to
our
city
or
our
internal
auditor
ryan,
patrick,
to
talk
about
his
thoughts
and
ideas
on
how
he
achieved
this,
and
I
have
encouraged
him
also
to
think
about
other
jurisdictions.
With
this
type
of
a
service
arrangement,
where
we
have
a
strong
auditor
providing
support
to
council
many
of
the
cities
I
identified
in
my
list
are
also
on
his
list,
and
so
I
think,
working
together
to
bring
forward
recommendations,
insights,
best
practices
about
how
we
could
learn
from
those
other
jurisdictions
and
put
together.
D
Just
a
quick
follow-up
question:
the
council
president,
usually
at
the
beginning
of
the
term
at
the
organizational
meeting,
brings
a
proposal
to
the
body
for
the
population
of
the
different
committees,
including
the
audit
committee.
How
will
that
work?
Given
the
ambiguity
around
membership
of
the
new
audit
committee.
M
Charter
provision
itself
doesn't
say
how
the
council
is
to
establish,
so
it
would
fall
back
to
council's
rules.
My
assumption
being
that,
therefore,
there
be
not
a
change
in
how
council
organizes
its
own,
its
own
body
for
business
in
terms
of
its
committees
and
that
unless
there
was
a
need
to
change
and
that
the
body
itself
defined
in
the
new
ordinances,
the
membership
of
the
audit
committee
that
that
provision
for
allowing
the
president
to
make
those
recommendations
could
continue.
M
Correct
there
will
still
be
the
audit
committee
that
exists
now.
The
charter
didn't
get
rid
of
that
committee,
so
it
provides
the
council
to
provide
that
it's
that,
in
fact
it
says
the
council
must
establish
that
by
ordinance,
and
so
until
we
get
that
ordinance
adopted.
The
existing
audit
committee
will
continue
to
provide
that
I'll,
say
continuity
until
we're
ready
to
put
the
new
audit
committee
in
place.
D
And
right
now
the
audit
committee
includes
council
members
an
appointment
by
the
mayor's
office
and
then
some
other
park
board,
and
you
would
expect
that
that
membership
to
stay
the
same
until
the
city
council
amends
the
membership
of
the
audit
committee
via
ordinance
next
year.
Correct,
okay,
okay,
thank
you.
E
I
wonder
in
thinking
about
sort
of
I
have
sort
of
a
practical
question
in
the
spirit
of
cleaning
up
old
business
before
the
new
council
comes
in,
and
talking
this
through
out
loud
might
actually
help
illustrate
the
change
that
this
represents
we're
currently
in
a
prolonged
state
of
declared
public
health
emergency
and
the
analysis
around
declaring
that
state
of
public
health
emergency
was
at
least
partially
about
wanting
the
mayor
to
be
able
to
direct
staff
and
resources
around
you
know,
policies
to
respond
to
the
changing
conditions
of
the
pandemic
in
a
way
that
was
more
efficient
than
policy-making
body
can
do.
E
M
Mr
chair
councilmember
fletcher,
I'm
not
sure
I
captured
all
of
the
the
question,
but
I'm
going
to
make
an
effort
and
a
response,
and
if
I'm
off
please
correct
me
the
declared
state
of
emergency
which
is
provided
for
under
state
statute.
Our
charter
simply
reflects
state
statute,
prescribes
it
within
those
defined
periods
of
time.
The
mayor
takes
on
extra
authority.
It
is
true
that
the
new
government
structure
more
closely
matches
that
sort
of
executive
authority
on
a
permanent
ongoing
basis.
M
However,
you'll
recall
that
even
during
this
prolonged
emergency
period,
there
have
been
times
and
instances
where,
where
we
have
required
things
to
come
to
the
council,
because
those
are
policies
and
legislative
matters
that
clearly
do
not
pertain
directly
to
that
state
of
emergency
and
therefore
should
not.
It
would
be
inappropriate
for
the
mayor
to
take
action
on
those
things,
because
they
do
not
tie
to
the
reasoning
and
the
justification
for
the
emergency
as
a
parallel
construction.
M
Then
I
would
say
that
going
forward
where
the
mayor
has
clear,
executive
or
administrative
authority
which
again
there's
not
a
sharp
there's,
not
a
sharp,
clear
divide
between
what
is
legislative
policy
and
what
is
implementation
enforcement,
but
in
general,
where
we
are
defining
what
the
outcomes
are
to
be
for
whom
and
at
what
cost.
That's
going
to
principally
be
a
legislative
sphere.
It's
going
to
be
about
policy
making
and
that's
going
to
tip
towards
the
council
where
it
comes
towards
implementing
those
decisions.
How
when?
Where?
By
whom?
M
For
whom
and
at
what
cost
and
what
timelines
and
what
resources
are
required
to
deliver
those
services
or
to
achieve
those
outcomes
that
have
been
expressed
through
legislation
or
policy
that
tips
towards
executive
and
administration.
So
it's
more
a
dance
between
the
two
branches
than
it
is
clear-cut
division
and
it.
And
I
think
that
when
there
is
a
lack
of
clarity,
a
we
can
always
call
on
our
city
attorney's
office
to
help
us
walk
through
that
there
are
clear
guidelines
and
legal
precedents
and
case
histories
that
that
also
can
be
called
upon.
M
Where
there's
a
lack
of
clarity,
it's
always
usually
a
better
practice
to
go
back
and
default.
If
there
isn't
clear
delegation
of
authority
go
get
it,
and
so
I
think
that's
a
question
we'll
have
to
monitor
as
well
is.
Is
there
a
delegation
of
authority
for
that
action
within
the
administration?
If
not,
we
should
get
it.
If
there
is,
then
the
executive
branch
is
operating
within
its
po,
its
fear,
as
defined
by
the
council,
through
legislation
through
organizational
structure
through
policies.
E
I
think
so
I
know
I
put
you
on
the
spot
a
little
bit
with
a
very
kind
of
specific
question
yeah.
I
do
think
some
clearer
understanding
of
of
the
more
practical
question
of
should
we
end
the
declared
state
of
public
health
emergency
once
the
new
government
structure
kicks
in
in
december
is,
is
something
that
it
would
be
good
for
us
to
get
some
clarity
on.
E
I
know
that
there's
at
least
like
some
some
need
to
have
it
so
that
we
can
continue
having
remote
meetings
etc,
but
there's
just
like
some
practical
questions,
but
but
I
think
it
would
be
helpful
to
understand
whether
there's
still
a
value
in
having
a
declared
state
of
emergency
if
we
have
an
executive
who's,
broadly
more
empowered
to
make
day-to-day
decisions
absolutely.
M
I
just
wanted
to,
I
think,
there's
a
at
least
a
couple
more
slides,
mr
chair.
Thank
you
for
that.
I
want
and
I'm
glad
for
this
grant
johnson
and
charlie
ito
in
my
office,
our
it
experts,
as
well
as
working
with
our
partners
in
communications
and
our
it
departments,
have
developed
a
new
city
website
where
the
city
is
posting.
Current,
accurate
information
about
the
implementation
and
transition
of
this
new
government
structure
that
website
is
captured.
M
Here
you
can
see
that
the
address
is
minneapolis
mn.gov
forward,
slash,
restructure,
so
a
very
straightforward
website,
where
we
encourage
people
to
check.
Often
we
anticipate
content
will
grow
and
change
and
evolve
over
time
as
more
details
are
confirmed.
So
we
want
to
encourage
policy
makers,
departments,
employees,
our
residents,
community
members,
partners
and
stakeholders
to
check
the
site
regularly
for
updates.
M
They
can
also
sign
up
on
this
page
to
receive
email
updates,
specifically
about
the
implementation
of
the
new
government
structure
and
with
that
move
to
the
next
slide,
which
is
simply
closing
to
say.
Thank
you,
mr
chair
to
members
of
the
council
concludes
my
presentation.
I
know
it's
the
first
of
many
to
come
and
I'm
happy
to
stand
for
any
further
questions
that
they
there
might
be
at
this
time.
M
Oh
and
I
do
I
should
call
out
there
is
a
staff
direction.
I
don't
know
if
I
know
that
council
vice
president
jenkins
council,
president
bender
and
council
member
ellison
had
been
listed
on
the
staff
direction.
Perhaps
the
technical
team
could
pull
up
that
staff
direction
so
that
it's
on
the
screen
and
the
public
can
see
it.
M
So,
mr
chair,
this
is
the
staff
direction
that's
been
drafted
and
I
think
that
council
president
bender,
had
sought
recognition.
I
know
that
we're
all
having
technical
difficulties.
A
D
Thanks,
mr
chair,
I'm
not
having
technical
difficulties,
but
I
think
I
I
have
degraded
eyesight
due
to
age
and
looking
at
a
computer
for
two
years,
I'm
not
sure
if
it's
big
enough
for
others
to
see.
But
again
all
of
my
colleagues
have
this
in
their
inboxes.
D
So
in
conversations
with
with
council
vice
president
jenkins
office,
as
well
as
the
chair
and
staff,
it
sounds
like
there
isn't:
a
recommendation
ready
for
from
staff
or
policy
makers
related
to
implementation.
That
could
be
decided
before
the
end
of
this
year.
D
We
do
have
our
budget
amendment
process
coming
up,
which
could
be
an
opportunity
if
any
policymakers
want
to
bring
something
forward
in
preparation
for
the
next
term,
but
barring
that
it
seems
that
the
timeline,
the
most
realistic
timeline,
is
to
ask
staff
to
come
back
with
recommendations
early
next
year,
as
I've
talked
to
folks
who
will
actually
be
on
the
city
council
next
year.
It
sounds
like
folks
are
comfortable
with
that
timeline.
D
I
remain
committed
to
supporting
as
smooth
as
transition
as
possible,
so
if
folks
want
to
revisit
that
of
course
reach
out
any
time,
but
this
would
simply
put
direct
staff
to
continue
to
answer
some
of
the
questions
that
were
identified
by
mr
carl,
as
well
as
some
of
the
questions
today
and
bring
forward
recommendations
related
to
the
audit
ordinance
amendments,
any
kind
of
staff
shuffling
that
may
happen
in
the
audit
department
in
the
city,
council,
etc.
D
A
J
J
D
D
Okay,
thank
you
for
for
your
patience
with
that.
With
that
councilmember
reich.
L
D
I'll
come
back
to
that,
since
I
think
he's
on
the
phone
council
member
palmisano.
C
C
A
Lastly,
and
I
believe
that
that
concludes
our
third
discussion
and
so
yeah,
seeing
no
further
discussion
I'll
direct
the
clerk
to
file
that
reports
and
lastly,
we
will
have.
We
will
receive
reports
from
the
standing
committees
on
matters
to
be
considered
by
the
full
council
this
friday.
And
we
will
begin
with
the
budget
committee
chaired
by
councilmember
palmisano.
J
Thank
you,
mr
chair.
At
this
cycle's
budget
committee,
we
received
a
brief
contextual
overview
of
the
report
from
budget
director,
emilia
kruver,
and
we
had
our
first
of
three
public
hearings
on
on
our
mayor's
proposed
2022
budget.
There
were
no
actions
to
forward
to
council
this
cycle
happy
to
answer
any
questions.
Thank
you.
A
Great
seeing
more
questions,
we
will
move
to
business
inspections,
housing
and
zoning
committee
chaired
by
councilmember
goodman,
who,
I
believe
is
back.
B
I
am
thank
you,
mr
chair.
We
are
bringing
23
items
forward
for
approval
tomorrow.
I
will
just
take
time
to
note
there
will
be
45
items
coming
forward
in
the
next
cycle,
so
everyone
that
serves
on
biz
please
be
prepared
for
a
longer
than
usual
meeting
so
that
we
don't
have
to
meet
twice
in
december
item.
One
is
the
appointment
of
suray
garnett
hutchuli
to
be
the
appointed
director
of
the
department
of
regulatory
services.
B
Unfortunately,
this
appointment
ends
on
january
3rd,
but
we
will
remain
we'll,
wait
and
see
what
the
mayor
suggests
for
all
of
these
departments
going
forward
and
she's
done
a
terrific
job,
so
I'm
thrilled
to
have
the
opportunity
to
have
her,
cheering
and
and
being
the
director
of
this
department
item
two
is
a
rental
hall,
an
extended
hour's
license
for
deco
catering
in
the
tenth
ward
item.
Three
is
on
sale,
wine
and
general
entertainment
at
the
olympic
cafe
in
the
fifth
ward
item.
B
Four
is
the
capri
theater
on
sale,
wine
with
general
entertainment
in
the
fifth
ward
item?
Five
is
a
land,
conveyance
and
development
terms,
with
united
properties,
the
minneapolis
park
and
recreation
board
and
excel
for
city-owned
properties
located
at
the
upper
harbor
terminal.
You'll
see
there
are
about
eight
actions
associated
with
that
item.
Six
is
a
change.
A
slight
change
in
our
special
legislation.
B
Tax
increment
fund
item
number:
seven
is
the
levy
for
special
assessments
related
to
nuisance
conditions.
There
was
one
person
who
testified
who
I'm
hopeful
has
worked
out
their
issues
with
city
staff
and
we'll
double
check
on
that.
We
did
forward
this
without
recommendations,
so
we
could
have
staff
work
through
that.
I
don't
know
if
there's
any
staff
on
this
call,
who
can
speak
to
that
I'll,
just
pause
for
a
moment.
L
So
that
was
a
ward,
2
property
and
I
had
an
opportunity
to
talk
to
staff
about
it
and
I
think
they
worked
it
out.
I
can
share
details
that
people
want
the
property
is
going
to
be
demolished
and
they're
going
to
waive
the
vacant
boarded
fee
if,
when
the
permit
is
pulled
for
that,
so
I'm
prepared
to
move
it
forward
with
recommendation
or
to
have
you
do
so
at
the
council
meeting.
Madam
chair
of
the
committee.
B
Thank
you
so
much
council
member
gordon
for
following
up
with
that.
We
will.
The
committee
will
take
council
member
gordon's
recommendation
as
he
was
actively
involved
in
this
in
committee
as
well.
Item
number
eight
was
denying
a
variance
at
2827,
18th
avenue
south
item
nine.
Are
the
liquor
license?
Approvals
and
10
are
reappointments
by
the
mayor
to
the
public
housing
authority
board
item
11
is
a
commercial
property
development
loan
for
a
property
in
the
fourth
ward
item
number
12
is
a
rezoning
in
the
third
ward
item.
B
13
is
the
national
is
a
national
dislocated
worker
grant
for
workforce
development
services?
This
is
accepting
an
800
000
grant
item.
14
is
a
contract
for
workforce
development
services
in
the
region.
Item
15
is
the
carry
forward
of
our
2021
tax-exempt
housing
revenue
bonds.
I
will
note
word:
we
have
huge
requests
and
not
as
much
money
as
we
would
like.
We
will
also
be
bringing
the
nine
percent
tax
credit
and
affordable
housing
trust
fund
recommendations
forward
in
the
first
cycle
of
2022.
B
item
number
16
is
the
supplemental
fiscal,
2021,
esg
capital
funding
recommendations
and
we
will
be
taking
up
the
support
services
recommendations
in
the
next
agenda
item.
17
is
a
right-of-way
vacation
item
number
18
is
a
street
vacation
for
the
park
board
item.
19
is
a
rezoning
at
7,
15,
13
avenue
southeast
item.
20
is
a
rezoning
on
alley,
vacation
on
12th
avenue,
south
the
2800
block,
roughly
of
28
of
the
12th
avenue
south
item
21
our
technical
zoning
code
revisions
with
regard
to
clarifying
vague
and
confusing
provisions.
B
B
A
C
Thank
you,
chair
ellison.
The
policy
and
government
oversight
committee
is
bringing
forward
17
items.
C
A
Thank
you
and
I
see
no
questions,
so
we
will
move
on
to
the
public
health
and
safety
committee
chaired
by
council
member
cunningham,
but
members
are
giving
your
report.
E
Thank
you,
mr
chair.
The
public
health
and
safety
committee
is
bringing
forward
seven
items
for
consideration
tomorrow.
The
first
is
a
training
reimbursement
grant
for
the
minnesota
board
of
firefighter
training
and
education.
E
The
second
is
a
gift
acceptance
from
the
minneapolis
police,
canine
foundation
for
two
two
dual
purpose:
police
working
dogs
to
replace
two
dogs
who
are
retiring
and
we
wish
them
a
happy
retirement
item.
Number
three
is
a
contract
with
next
gen
health
care
for
managing
electronic
medical
records.
Item
number:
four:
is
the
2021
national
forensic
sciences
improvement
grant
from
the
minnesota
department
of
public
safety
for
the
police
department
crime
lab
item
number?
Five
is
a
grant
agreement
with
the
city
of
orono
police
department
for
traffic
enforcement
item
number.
E
A
K
Thank
you,
mr
chair.
The
committee
will
be
affording
17
items
item.
One
is
the
bryant
avenue
south
reconstruction
project
item
two
is
the
franklin
avenue
west
reconstruction
project?
Three?
Is
the
water
distribution
improvement
appropriation
increase?
Four?
Is
the
capital
project
close
out
and
appropriation?
K
Five
through
nine
are
contract
amendments
for
activities
of
the
department.
Ten
is
the
temporary
construction
agreement
with
u
of
m
for
bridge
9
repairs.
K
K
13
is
the
grant
application
with
mndot
for
the
2022
safe
routes
to
school
infrastructure
program
for
the
philips
traffic
study
project
14
is
a
quick
claim
deed
to
clarify
property
ownership
vacated
land
at
holden
street
in
buchanan
15
is
a
pregame
2022
nhl
winter
classic
block
event
permit
16
and
17
are
both
bids
for
activities
of
the
department.
I'll
stand
for
questions.
Mr
chair,
thank.
A
You
and
seeing
no
questions.
We
will
now
move
to
the
executive
committee
report
given
by
council
president
bender.
A
Thank
thanks
so
much
and
seeing
no
questions.
We
have
concluded
all
business
to
come
before
the
committee
today
and
hearing
no
objection.
I
will
declare
this
meeting
adjourned.
Thank
you.
Everyone.