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B
Good
afternoon
my
name
is
andrea
jenkins
and
I
am
the
chair
of
the
policy
and
government
oversight
committee.
I
am
going
to
call
to
order
our
regular
committee
meeting
for
wednesday
january
27th.
I
will
note
for
the
record.
This
meeting
has
remote
participation
by
council
members
and
city
staff
as
authorized
under
the
minnesota
open
meeting
law,
section
13
d
.021
due
to
the
declared
state
of
emergency
state
of
local
public
health
emergency,
and
at
this
time
I
will
ask
the
clerk
to
call
the
role
to
verify
a
presence
of
acorn.
D
C
C
A
C
B
Thank
you
clerk
and
let
the
record
reflect
that
we
do
have
a
quorum
colleagues,
we
do
have
32
items
on
today's
agenda,
including
a
public
hearing
and
one
discussion
item.
B
However,
I
am
gonna,
take
the
chairs
privilege
today
and
ask
you
all
to
join
me
in
a
moment
of
silence,
just
honoring
and
and
and
recognizing
the
life
and
the
contributions
of
a
long-term
city,
employee,
amelia
brown,
who
worked
in
the
coordinator's
office,
the
arts
and
and
creative
cultural
creative
department,
and
really
just
want
to
take
a
moment
to
honor
her
service
to
the
city
and
and
to
the
world
and
the
contributions
she's
made
to
helping
to
rebuild
our
communities
and
communities
all
throughout
the
world
in
cuting,
including
her
work
in
new
orleans
during
hurricane
katrina,
in
paul's,
church,
australia
and
and
so
many
other
places
throughout
the
world
who
have
dealt
with
tragedy
and
trauma.
B
B
B
B
Thank
you.
Everyone
really
appreciate
that
and,
as
I
mentioned,
we
do
have
32
items
on
today's
agenda,
including
a
public
hearing
and
one
discussion
item.
We
will
begin
with
item
number
one
on
the
agenda,
which
is
an
amendment
to
the
us
department
of
housing
and
urban
development
2020
consolidated
action
plan.
B
We
will
begin
with
the
staff
presentation
which
I
believe
will
be
introduced
by
matt
bauer
from
the
department
of
finance
and
property
services.
Mr
bauer,
are
you
available.
E
E
E
Any
public
comments
received
will
be
included
in
the
amendment
before
holding
the
hearing.
I'd
like
to
request
the
chair
of
the
chair
to
allow
for
a
summary
presentation
of
how
the
city
has
allocated
this
covet.
19
hud
funding
received
to
the
federal
cares,
act
and
summarizing
the
proposed
amendment
after
the
hearing
I
can
stand
could
stand
for
any
questions,
and
I
am
also
accompanied
by
katie
topinka
from
community
planning
and
economic
development
and
noyah
woodridge
from
health
who
can
answer
questions
as
well.
E
B
Thank
you,
mr
bauer,
and
if
it
is,
if
there
are
no
questions
from
council
members,
we
can
go
ahead
and
open
up
the
public
hearing.
B
Fair,
are
there
members
listed
in
the
chat?
B
Seeing
that
there
are
no
speakers,
I
will
just
ask
one
more
time
to
ensure
that
everyone
who
wants
to
speak
has
an
opportunity
and
saying
none.
I
will
now
close
the
public
hearing
and
move
approval
of
this
item.
E
Yeah
chair
jenkins,
I'd
asked
to
kind
of
summarize
the
the
the
request
that's
before
the
committee
and
then
provide
an
overview
of
how
we
have
spent
our
hud
kobet
19
funding.
B
Thank
you
all
right,
mr
bauer.
Please
proceed.
E
E
We're
requesting
approval
of
recommended
staff
recommended
budget
priority
allocations
and
strategies
for
the
amendment
and
asking
for
staff
direction
to
prepare
to
submit
the
amendment
to
hud
in
order
to
accept
a
forthcoming
round
three
grant
in
the
amount
of
2.9
million
dollars
from
hud
and
authorizing
a
grant
agreement
for
with
hud
for
these
funds
on
the
next
slide.
Please.
E
In
spite
of
referring
to
this
as
round
three
of
cdbg
coveted
funding,
this
is
actually
the
second
round
allocation
of
cdbg
coveted
funds
to
the
city
following
a
6.6
million
dollar
allocation
provided
last
summer
out
of
round
one.
The
second
announced
round
of
funding
from
hud
went
to
states
only.
E
This
third
distribution
of
funding
goes
to
entitlement
communities
based
on
a
formula
based
on
additional
need
factors,
including
prevalence
of
covet
19
infection
rates
to
date,
and
with
today's
staff
recommended
project
allocations,
the
city
has
received
just
under
23
million
dollars
of
hud
covet
funding
and
those
funds
are
allocated
among
the
strategies
outlined
on
this
chart.
E
E
13
million
of
the
23
million
is
emergency
solutions,
grant
funding
for
addressing
issues
of
homelessness,
and
with
this
second
out
or
this
allocation
of
cdbg
covet
funding
before
the
committee
today,
nine
and
a
half
million
is
community
development.
Block
grant
that
can
address.
A
variety
of
community
needs
stemming
from
the
covit
19
pandemic.
E
As
subject
of
the
proposed
amendment,
the
city
staff
is
recommending
that
the
2.9
million
of
round
three
funding
continue
supporting
the
city's
homelessness
response
with
staff
response
staff
support
for
a
public
health
outreach
to
persons
who
are
unsheltered
in
our
community,
along
with
temporary
staffing,
for
coordinating
both
hud
funding
and
other
resources
in
addressing
a
housing
response
to
those
without
housing.
E
This
concludes
the
summary
of
what's
before
the
committee
today
and
we
I
can
stand
for
any
questions
and
as
as
well
as
I
have,
we
have
katie
tapinka
and
noya
woodridge
available
as
well.
Thank
you.
B
Thank
you,
mr
bauer,
see
we
have
a
question
or
comment
from
council
president
bender.
F
Thank
you,
madam
chair.
I
just
wanted
to
first
offer
a
reminder
that
one
element
of
this,
which
is
some
of
the
funding
for
the
health
related
response
to
encampments,
came
out
of
our
budget,
the
conversations
and
the
direction
that
we
gave
then
so,
thanks
to
the
council
members,
you
know,
for,
I
think,
helping
support
and
provide
that
direction.
F
And
then
I
just
really
wanted
to
thank
all
the
staff,
katie
tapinka
and
neuer
woodrich,
but
also
basically
every
you
know,
many
of
our
department
heads,
andrea
brennan
and
robin
hutchison
and
mark
ruff,
our
igr
team,
as
well
as
peter
eminent
from
the
mayor's
office
and
diana
pennington
from
my
office,
all
of
whom
spent
hundreds
of
hours
over
the
summer
trying
to
do
our
best
to
respond
to
a
crisis
in
our
homeless,
encampments
of
safety
and
security
and
and
health,
and
which
was
compounded
by
the
pandemic
and
the
unrest
and
all
of
the
other
things
that
were
happening
in
our
city.
F
And
as
we
look
forward
as
ms
brennan
presented
the
other
day,
we
we
do
have
significantly
more
shelter
capacity.
But
we
also
know
that
folks
will
be
experiencing
homelessness
outside
in
our
community.
And
I
think
that
these
resources
and
this
approach
gives
us
a
better
start
to
providing
a
more
coordinated.
B
Three
is
a
resolution
to
provide
the
sunset
of
the
neighborhood
and
community
engagement
commission
and
number
four
is
various
appointments
to
the
transgender
equity
council
item
number
five
is
a
resolution
accepting
fourth
quarter
2020
donations
item
number
six
is
setting
the
public
hearing
for
february
10th
to
consider
an
amendment
to
the
minneapolis
code
of
ordinance,
ordinances
related
to
facial
recognition,
technology
item
number,
seven
authorizes
the
city
to
join
and
a
mikas
brief.
B
In
the
case
of
cedar
point
nursery
versus
hasid
item
number
eight
authorizes
the
city
to
join
as
an
amicus
in
lawsuits
that
challenge
the
federal
administration's
immigration
related
policies.
B
Item
number
11
authorizes
an
increase
to
a
contract
with
miller
dunwoody
architectures
incorporated
item
number
12
is
a
contract
amendment
with
in-text
software
solutions,
inc
for
consulting
services
and
items.
13-30
are
various
contract
amendments
related
to
the
public
service
building
project,
the
details
of
which
are
listed
on
the
agenda
and
item
number
31
is
a
report
of
the
city's
response
to
data
practice
request.
B
For
discussion
we
have
item
number
32
on
our
agenda.
Is
there
is
a
report
on
the
results
of
the
citywide
community
engagement
evaluation
study,
renee
youngs
from
the
city
coordinators
office
will
be
presenting
this
report
and
before
I
invite
ms
young
to
give
that
report,
I
want
to
recognize
councilmember
fletcher.
G
Vice
president,
I
just
wanted
to
note
it
has
been
a
a
steady
fixture
of
our
pogo
agenda
and
of
the
ways
and
means
agenda
before
that
to
have
a
significant
percentage
of
the
agenda
taken
up
by
contract
amendments
and
and
all
of
the
various
actions
required
to
oversee
the
construction
of
the
of
the
new
public
service
building,
which
is
a
beautiful
looking
building
and,
I
think,
a
a
real
accomplishment,
and
so
I
just
wanted
to
take
a
moment
to
acknowledge
and
congratulate
greg
goelke
for
all
of
the
work
overseeing
this
project.
G
We've
learned
that
he
is
planning
to
retire,
so
I
want
to
congratulate
him
on
his
retirement
and
just
expressed
deep
appreciation.
There's
been
a
huge
volume
of
work
that
has
come
through
this
council,
this
term
related
to
this
project
and
obviously
over
a
long
career.
This
is
not
his
only
accomplishment,
but
I
wanted
to
to
really
highlight
this
and
just
appreciate
greg
goelke's
contribution.
B
Thanks
for
that
acknowledgement,
councilmember
fletcher
and
I
absolutely
agree-
and
before
we
move
on
to
our
next
discussion
item,
I
do
want
to
make
sure
that
we
approve
the
consent
agenda,
and
so
I
will
move
that.
We
accept
this
agenda
and
ask
the
clerk
to
call
the
role.
D
C
B
H
Yes,
thank
you
chair
jenkins
and
members
of
the
committee.
I
will
invite
oh
there
they
are
our
wonderful
tech
team
colleagues
have
put
up
a
presentation
that
our
consulting
team
has
prepared.
My
name
is
renee
youngs.
H
I
am
a
policy
and
research
management
analyst
in
the
city
coordinator's
office,
I've
had
the
good
fortune
to
be
the
contract
manager
for
the
citywide
community
engagement
evaluation
over
the
past
year
or
so,
and
that's
meant
serving
as
one
of
the
two
lead
staff
contacts
in
the
work
with
our
consultant
team,
along
with
cheyenne
brodin
from
the
neighborhood
and
community
relations
department.
Who's.
Also,
here
in
the
meeting
today,
to
provide
some
comments
in
a
few
moments.
H
I
will
come
back
briefly
to
give
some
background
on
this
work,
but
first
wanted
to
turn
the
floor
over.
If
I
may,
to
the
consultant
team
to
introduce
themselves
kate,
noble
of
calibri,
consulting
and
matt
rezak
of
blue
dot,
consulting
they'll
take
just
a
brief
moment
here
to
share
about
their
approach
to
evaluation
into
this
work.
Before
we
get
into
the
the
substance
of
the
report
next
slide,
please.
I
I
I
I
won't
name
everyone
who
was
involved,
but
I
want
to
acknowledge
the
people
who
had
larger
roles,
so
thank
you.
Cheyenne
brodin
of
ncr
and
renee
youngs
of
the
city
coordinator's
office,
you've
been
wonderful
guides
and
teammates
in
a
very
challenging
year.
We
thank
carolina
de
la
rosa
and
nadia
akhtar,
who
we
collaborated
with
on
data
analysis,
and
we
thank
the
members
of
the
subcommittee
who
were
involved
in
project
design
and
meaning
making
of
the
evaluation
findings
next
slide.
Please
now
renee
will
provide
background
about
how
the
evaluation
originated.
H
Just
briefly,
the
origin
of
this
evaluation
project
was
that
it
was
a
recommendation
that
came
out
of
neighborhoods
2020
work
group
work
early
in
2019,
so
that
that's
how
this
project
came
to
be,
and
city
council
requested
an
evaluation,
and
you
see
on
the
screen
here
in
front
of
you
now
a
portion
of
that
staff
direction,
laying
out
the
scope
a
little
bit
and
then
our
consulting
team
was
solicited
and
identified
through
the
city's
target
market
program
and
work
began
on
the
project
about
a
year
ago.
H
The
entire
evaluation
process
and
and
data
collection,
and
everything,
of
course,
were
influenced
a
great
deal
by
the
multiple
crises
and
and
events
that
the
city
has
faced
throughout
calendar
year.
2020.
H
At
a
very
high
level,
we
learned
that
city
leaders
and
staff
and
residents
are
all
aware
of
the
need
for
some
changes
to
how
the
city
approaches
community
engagement
as
an
enterprise,
so
you'll
see
from
kate
and
matt
some
information
from
the
evaluation
providing
data
to
understand
the
city's
current
practices
holistically,
some
near-term
suggestions
for
change
and
also
a
road
map
for
longer
term.
Systemic
changes
to
improve
engagement
next
slide,
please.
H
So.
The
purpose
of
the
evaluation,
as
it
was
scoped
to
implement,
was
essentially
to
inventory
the
city's
existing
engagement
efforts
across
all
departments
at
all
levels
of
all
types,
and
particularly
to
try
and
understand
current
community
engagement
efforts
through
a
lens
of
equity
and
racial
equity
and
then
based
on
that
understanding
of
sort
of
the
status
quo
to
identify
what
needs
to
happen
for
all
city
staff
to
be
able
to
practice
quality
community
engagement.
H
So
that
that's
the
background
I
have
to
offer
and
I'll
turn
it
back
over
to
kate
and
matt
to
get
into
a
deeper
discussion
of
the
evaluations,
methodology,
their
findings
and
recommendations.
Next
slide,
please.
I
Thanks
renee,
so
the
city
chose
to
focus
data
collection
on
the
perspectives
of
city
personnel
and
to
complement
the
internal
focus
with
resident
perspectives.
The
intention
of
this
internal
focus
was
to
create
a
baseline
of
the
current
reality
about
how
city
personnel
understand
and
practice
community
engagement.
J
Thanks
kate,
so
there
are
really
two
overarching
takeaways
that
we
really
want
to
highlight.
The
first
is
that
the
term
community
engagement
really
means
at
least
three
interconnected
things.
The
first
is
relationship
building,
and
so
this
is
really
the
foundation
of
all
quality
community
engagement
and
and
as
an
essential
core
component.
J
The
second
is
interaction
through
core
city
functions,
and
this
is
probably
the
most
common
form
of
engagement
and
includes
things
such
as
regulatory
activities,
and
then
the
third
is
what
we've
called
intentional
community
engagement
and
that's
when
the
city
really
seeks
additional
input
and
even
collaboration
with
residents
to
to
develop
and
deepen
services
and
make
decisions
and
so
performing
well
at
kind
of
each
one
of
these
three
contexts
requires
a
variety
of
skills
and
mindsets
next
slide.
Please.
J
J
J
J
It
involves
planning
to
identify
what
can
be
influenced
and
to
what
degree
it
includes
transparent
communication,
it's
data
driven
with
a
focus
on
race
and
socioeconomic
status,
and
it
includes
time
to
reflect
and
evaluate
see.
Next
slide.
Please
looks
like
we
might
be
off
a
slide,
so
I'm
just
gonna
if
you
can
move
to
the
next
one.
Oh,
no,
I'm
sorry.
This
is
hold
where
you're
at
where
you're
at
thanks.
J
J
We
found
that
reducing
barriers
to
access
is
really
not
a
common
practice
at
the
city
in
these
ways
and
acknowledge
that
there
may
be
legal
or
risk
management
concerns
with
things
like
providing
food
and
compensation
and
child
care.
But
we
also
think
that
sort
of
figuring
out
what
is
possible
is
a
conversation
worth
having
within
the
city
now
on
to
the
next
slide,
please.
J
So,
with
that
background
about
what
makes
for
effective
and
equitable
community
engagement,
I
want
to
share
now
some
of
the
specific
findings
about
the
city's
current
engagement
practices.
So
the
good
news
is
that
minneapolis's,
current
community
engagement
practices
incorporate
the
characteristics
of
effective
and
equitable
engagement
to
some
extent,
the
evaluation
identified
over
100
specific
bright
spots
that
had
characteristics
like
they
were
community
centered.
J
They
took
a
multi-faceted
approach
and
they
were
educational
in
nature
next
slide,
please,
surprisingly,
the
planning
and
communication
were
not
really
emphasized
or
highlighted
as
strong
characteristic
characteristics
of
these
bright
spots,
even
though
they
were
seen
by
city
personnel
as
being
best
practices
for
doing
quality.
Community
engagement
next
slide.
J
We
also
learned
that
the
capacity
to
pro
to
practice,
equitable
community
engagement,
also
exists
in
the
city
and
some
of
the
indicators
of
that
were
the
ability
to
be
adaptable.
A
commitment
to
developing
staff
capacity
for
racial
equity
is
exists
in
the
city
enterprise
to
some
extent
and
being
relationship
focused
next
slide.
Please.
J
There
are
also
some
city
structures
that
really
reinforce
these
positive
community
engagement
characteristics
such
as
neighborhood
and
community
relations,
the
race
and
equity
division,
and
many
dedicated
staff
and
city
leadership
who
are
named
as
being
sort
of
assets
to
the
enterprise.
J
J
J
Some
of
the
let's
see
other
themes
tied
to
problem
areas
included
being
uncollaborative,
perpetuating
some
disparities
in
access
and
inadequate
communication
and
another
problem.
That
is,
that
certain
resident
groups
are
under
engaged
and
under
represented,
particularly
on
house
residents,
youth,
bipark
residents
and
renters
as
well
and
next
slide,
please.
J
Unfortunately,
the
city's
community
engagement
problems
we
found
were
really
to
be
systemic
and
range
from
inadequate
practices
that
you
see
on
the
surface,
to
under
unadequate
skills
and
policies
that
underlie
those
practices
to
mindsets
and
organizational
culture
that
that
really
run
deep,
particularly
the
city's
european-american
norms,
really
undervalue
what's
needed
to
do.
Equitable
community
engagement
exceptionally
well,
so
I'll
now
turn
it
back
over
to
kate,
who
will
dig
into
some
more
of
the
details
of
these
barriers
and
talk
about
recommendations.
I
I
We
heard
barriers
related
to
community
too,
especially
around
characteristics
that
make
it
difficult
for
community
members
to
connect
with
the
cities.
So
examples
of
these
barriers
are
having
to
attend
to
basic
needs
over
participating
in
civic
engagement,
a
lack
of
access
to
technology
and
not
understanding
civic
processes.
Next
slide,
please.
I
Overall,
we
found
strong
alignment
between
perceptions
of
city
staff
and
residents
and,
as
renee
said
at
the
beginning,
both
staff
and
residents
are
well
aware
of
the
shortcomings
of
city
practices.
Next
slide,
please
so
moving
on
to
recommendations,
the
recommendations
detail
a
two-pronged
approach
to
addressing
these
findings.
I
I
So
the
first
set
of
recommendations,
as
I
said,
is
about
systematizing
equitable
engagement
capacity.
Recommendations
related
to
initiating
initiating
reformed
in
policies
are
about
updating
ordinances
that
are
barriers
to
effective
equitable
engagement.
So,
for
example,
there's
a
perception
that
some
ordinances
require
staff
to
collect
public
input
when
it
does
not
make
a
difference
in
a
decision-making
process.
I
Within
this
we
recommend
establishing
engagement
standards
for
both
staff
and
consultants
that
are
leading
engagements,
including
requiring
trainings
on
equitable
community
engagement
and
racial
equity.
Developing
and
implementing
an
equitable
community
engagement
certification
program
and
elevating
practices
is
also
about
co-developing
engagement,
standards
for
neighborhood
organizations,
staff
and
boards
and
commissions
members
next
slide.
Please.
I
The
recommendations
about
creating
a
culture
of
learning
are
to
develop
community-based
research
and
evaluation
capacity
among
staff,
providing
transformational
professional
development
opportunities
and
encouraging
staff
to
name
mistakes
and
try
new
approaches
and,
finally,
shifting
the
enterprise
identity
is
about
embedding
community
engagement
in
city
values,
department
missions
and
key
messaging
and
requiring
the
use
of
more
collaborative
engagement
levels
for
staff
who
have
been
trained
in
community
engagement.
Best
practices
next
slide,
please
so
now
I'll
turn
it
over
to
cheyenne
brodin
who's,
going
to
highlight
the
city's
next
step
for
the
work.
K
Yes,
hi
everybody,
my
name
is
cheyenne
brodine
and
I
am
the
internal
services
manager
within
the
neighborhood
and
community
relations
department,
and
I
will
share
some
of
the
next
steps.
We've
identified
to
move
this
work
forward.
First
we'd
like
to
begin
policy
development
on
the
community
engagement
policy
for
the
city.
K
K
We
are
also
working
with
the
finance
department
to
assess
the
costs
within
the
within
the
recommendations
of
the
report.
K
K
We
would
then
begin
developing
a
work
plan
for
implementation,
and
so
you
know
our
we
will
continue
to
do
this
work
collaboratively
with
other
city
departments
and
actually
through
this
work,
we
have
created
a
large
network
of
engagement
folks
from
around
the
city
that
come
together
to
talk
about
engagement,
best
practices,
and
so
we
really
have
built
a
strong
foundation
to
continue
this
work
in
a
collaborative
manner
and
also
in
terms
of
collaborating
with
other
departments.
K
It's
going
to
be
important
to
work
on
these
recommendations
and
bring
in
the
different
perspectives
from
from
different
departments.
You
know
finance,
obviously,
the
cost
implications,
but
also
the
city's
attorney's
office
has
has
taken
a
look
at
this
report
and
noted
some
areas
for
discussion.
You
know
if
we
were
to
you
know,
work
on
implementing
so
and
also,
I
would
say,
race
and
equity.
K
We
would
want
to
work
closely
with
as
well
to
make
sure
that
some
of
some
of
the
recommendations
around
you
know
advancing
racial
equity
in
this
work
is
an
aligned
in
a
is
in
alignment
with
our
race
and
equity
work
as
a
city,
and
so
also
you
know,
city
departments
and
staff
that
do
this
work.
We
want
to
make
sure
have
opportunity
to
weigh
in
and
most
importantly,
policy
makers.
We
want
to
make
sure
that
you
guys
have
a
chance
to
weigh
in
and
and
weighing
on
this
work.
K
So
once
we've
got
that
plan
developed,
we
would
look
at
you
know
to
begin
to
implement
some
of
the
recommendations
and
we
are
willing
to
come
back
and
to
share
updates
and
the
work
plans
as
we
move
this
work
forward.
So
next
slide
please.
B
Thank
you
so
much
ms
brodin
and
ms
young,
and
and
kate
and
matt
for
for
your
services.
We
appreciate
the
report
and
the
recommendations.
Are
there
questions
from
my
colleagues
and
I
do
see
councilmember
cunningham
in
q,
councilmember
cunningham.
D
Thank
you,
madam
chair.
I
will
just
I
don't
have
any
questions.
Actually
I
just
want
to
give
the
comment
that,
when
this
work
was
brought
forward,
I
this
is
exactly
what
I
had
hoped
to
see.
It
was
really
concrete
recommendations
really
naming
the
roots
of
the
barriers
and
the
challenges,
then,
with
the
next
steps,
including
implementation
plans
and
assessments
of
how
much
it
will
cost.
I
love
all
of
that.
A
D
Really
great
work
to
the
whole
team,
matt
and
kate.
It
was
really
awesome
working
with
you
on
this
project
and
thank
you
for
your
thoroughness
and
the
work
that
you
that
you
have
done.
It's
it's
easy.
It
would
be
easy
to
say
you
need
to
have
more
community
meetings.
You
need
to
you,
know,
kind
of
rehash
the
status
quo.
What
you
have
brought
here
in
front
of
us
today
is
a
different
paradigm
of
community
engagement.
D
A
lot
of
folks
will
use
buzz
language
like
structural
changes,
but
not
actually
name
what
structural
changes
look
like,
and
you
did
that
here.
So
I'm
very
grateful
for
the
thorough
product
that
you
all
delivered
with
the
I
think
it's
about
200
pages.
I
I
appreciate
that
that
work
product.
I
I
think
that
there
is
a
lot
there.
We
as
a
city
enterprise,
have
a
lot
of
work
ahead
of
us
to
improve
community
engagement,
which
is
why
it
was
something
that
was
identified
by
community
members
in
the
first
place.
D
F
F
The
staff
direction
came
about
in
part
because
we
were
discussing
creating
some
new
goals
and
incentives
and
requirements
for
a
race,
equity
approach
to
neighborhood
organizations,
and,
as
we
did
that
important
work,
we
also
wanted
to
acknowledge
and
take
responsibility
for
the
ways
in
which
the
city
itself
can
more
directly
center
race
equity
in
our
community
engagement,
and
I
so
appreciate
how
how
much
that
shows
up
in
this
and
how
clear
and
specific
the
identification
of
that
issue
and
the
challenges
and
recommendations
is
in
this
report
and
the
executive
summary
one
thing
I
wanted
to
mention
and
I'm
sure
there's
a
parallel
at
the
staff
level,
but
at
the
city
council,
which
I'm
most
familiar
with.
F
I
know
that
my
colleagues
and
staff
in
council
offices
who
have
cultural,
competency
or
language
skills
are
are
shouldering
an
extra
burden
related
to
community
engagement
because
we
do
not
have
sufficient
capacity
throughout
the
enterprise,
and
so
I
know,
for
example,
the
ward
6
council
member.
F
I
know
my
constituents
at
ward
10,
often
reach
out
to
first
council,
where
sami
now,
customer
osmond,
members
of
the
sovali
community
throughout
the
city
and
even
maybe
throughout
the
region,
are
reaching
out
and
of
course,
representation
matters
and
is
so
meaningful,
because
members
of
our
community
have
a
way
to
connect
with
someone
that
they
feel
comfortable
with
and
also
we
just
can't
rely
on
council
members
and
council
staff,
and
I
assume
also
department
staff
who
have
those
skills
or
competencies.
F
You
know,
in
addition
to
all
the
other
things
that
they
are
doing,
it's
just
not
a
it's,
just,
not
a
sustainable
way
to
make
sure
that
we
have
those
language
skills,
those
cultural
competence,
skills
that
we
are
truly
centering
race
equity
in
our
work.
So
I
appreciated
there
was
one
little
recommendation
around
having
some
an
extra
staff
person
in
the
city
clerk's
office.
F
Specific
to
that
role.
I
think
many
of
you
have
been
in
some
of
the
department
head
meetings
that
we've
been
having
recently
and
I've
mentioned
publicly
as
well,
that
casey
carl
and
I
are
working
on
some
potential
staffing
scenarios
where
the
city
council
in
the
future
may
be
able
to
have
some
extra
staff
capacity
to
do
to
support
communications
and
community
engagement,
work
and
policy
work
that
the
city
council
is
leading
on
as
one
option
of
a
way
to
help
kind
of
fill.
F
Some
of
those
needs,
because
a
lot
of
the
engagement
for
policy
work
or
even
specific
things,
upper
harbor
terminal,
what's
happening
at
38th
in
chicago
anytime.
There's
you
know
a
crisis
or
or
a
problem
in
a
particular
part
of
the
city.
The
council
office
is
really
often
the
front
line
for
answering
questions,
but
also
really
proactively,
doing
outreach
and
engagement.
F
So
I
think
it's
one
of
the
places
where
we
can
do
better
at
supporting
a
more
integrated
approach
or
structural
approach
to
having
that
capacity,
and
I
also
like
I
said
as
and
then
the
report
shows
that
you
know
that
I
think
that
is
an
issue
in
the
enterprise
as
well.
So
anyway,
thank
you
so
much
for
these
recommendations
and
just
want
to
offer
my
full
support
for
finding
a
way
to
implement
them,
knowing
how
much
we
are
strained
and
our
budgets
are
strained.
L
Thank
you
very
much,
and
I
am
don't
disagree
with
anything
that
my
colleagues
have
just
said.
I
really
appreciate
this
report.
I
appreciate
how
extensive
it
is
and
the
recommendations
and
I'm
fully
supportive
that
we
try
to
follow
up
with
those
with
an
implementation
plan.
I
think
we
run
the
risk
with
anything
like
this
of
us
not
implementing
it
sitting
there
and
we're
not
quite
sure
what
to
do
and
what
next
steps
to
take-
and
I
don't
want
that
to
happen
with
this.
L
I
am
particularly
concerned
that
there's
probably
some
things
we
could
implement
now
and
then
there's
other
things
that
are
going
to
have
budgetary
considerations
for
the
future,
and
I
want
to
you
know
it's
hard
it's
hard
for
me
to
have
the
council
to
touch
something
like
this
and
not
give
it
more
of
a
clear
direction
about
implementation,
but
I'm
also
seeing
that
we
basically
agree
with
the
staff
recommendation
that
we
begin
implementing
and
come
back
with
an
implementation
plan.
I
guess
my
question
is:
how
soon
can
we
start
to
see
that
and
touch
that?
L
And
I
believe
that
through
this
report
we
have
a
real
opportunity
to
lead
by
example,
and
really
kind
of
steer
our
ship
in
a
better
direction.
But
we
need
to
be
there
to
help
do
that.
So
maybe
we
could
just
get
some
indication
about
when
you
think
we
could
get
a
report
back
in
how
many
weeks
and
kind
of
start
to
see
the
implementation
plan
fleshed.
K
Out
yeah,
chair
jenkins,
councilmember
gordon,
you
know
we
are
already
have
had
conversations
with
the
finance
department
about
the
financial
assessment
and
their
beginning
work
on
that.
So
I
would
say
you
know
about
two
months.
We
could
probably
bring
back
a
financial
assessment
and
then
from
that
we
could
start
developing
a
work
plan
for
implementation
that
we,
I
would
think,
timing
around.
That
could
be
that
around
the
summer,
maybe
june
or
july,.
L
B
Yeah,
thank
you
for
that
request
and,
as
chair
of
the
committee,
I
would
absolutely
welcome
that
report.
Whenever
it's
available
two
months
sounds
like
a
really
good
time.
B
You
know
I
would
just
add,
and
and
and
maybe
I
missed
it,
but
I'm
not
sure
I
was
trying
to
pay
pretty
close
attention
that
we
as
a
city,
I
think,
fall
short
and
really
engaging
with
the
lgbt
community
and
so
really
want
to
make
sure
that
we're
thinking
about
how
do
we
incorporate
those
voices
that
broad
community,
which
is
is
certainly
encapsulated
within
the
the
broader
sort
of
racial
and
ethnic
identities,
but
but
not
necessarily
called
out
specifically
around
issues
as
they
relate
to
the
the
lgbtqia
communities,
and
so
just
want
to
throw
that
into
the
mix.
B
And
I
know
councilman
cunningham
would
probably
agree
that
you
know
myself
and
he
we
do
receive
issues
related
specifically
to
those
communities,
even
though
they
may
not
be
in
in
our
ward.
And
so
how
can
we
establish
a
process
where
those
information
that
those
inputs
can
be
incorporated
into
city,
wide
community
engagement,
councilmember
osman,.
M
Thank
you,
madam
chair.
I
do
agree.
My
colleagues
president
bender
and
those
of
other
council
members
that
spoke,
I
think
representation
matters
in
my
community
in
in
east
african
community
and
immigrant
community
overall
ward
6
office
has
been
the
gateway
for
so
many
issues
that
my
community
face
is
not
just
a
city
issue,
but
state
and
federal
issue.
M
We
are
the
first
person
they
contact
when
things
come
up
just
within
the
city
also
with
with
different
government
entities,
so
representation
matters
in
my
community.
I
campaign
letting
my
residents
know
you're,
not
a
guest
here.
You
are
part
of
the
community
and
we
want
to
make
sure
that
we
are,
as
a
city,
set
an
example
of.
B
M
Know
making
people
welcome
and
making
them
that
they
are
part
of
the
community
and
having
the
reflection
of
the
community
is
what
our
city
needs,
and
I
stand
behind
that.
M
I'm
the
example
of
that
and
just
want
to
say
that
you
know
I'm
willing
to
really
want
to
take
the
time
to
thank
people
that
have
put
this
work
together
and
recommend
gave
those
recommendations,
and
I
encourage
my
colleagues
and
as
a
city
enterprise,
to
really
take
the
lead
to
take
those
recommendations
very
serious
and
see
what
we
can
do
to
make
sure
we
are
representing
all
members
of
of
our
city
of
minneapolis,
and
I
just
want
to
add
that.
So.
Thank
you.
B
Scene,
none,
I
will
again
add
my
gratitude
and
thanks
to
all
the
members
who
who
put
together
this
report
and
those
efforts-
and
I
will
direct
the
clerk
to
receive
and
file
this
report.
Thank
you
so
much
and
we've
already
approved
our
consent
agenda.
So
we
will
now
move
to
the
reports
of
standing
committees
on
matters
to
be
considered
by
the
full
council
this
coming
friday
and
will
start
with
the
business
inspections,
housing
and
zoning
committee
chaired
by
councilmember
goodman.
N
Thank
you,
madam
vice
president,
members
of
the
council,
there'll
be
13
items
that'll
be
moved
forward
for
approval
on
friday.
Item
number
one
is
a
new
license
for
tipsy
steer
in
the
12th
ward
items.
Two
three
four
five:
six
are
all
land
sales
item
number
seven
is
the
interim
use
permit
on
behalf
of
avivo
for
the
tiny
indoor
village
project
at
1251
washington
avenue
in
the
third
ward
item
number
eight:
are
appointments
to
the
planning
commission
bill,
baxley,
alyssa,
olson
and
keith
ford
item
number.
Nine?
N
Are
appointments
to
the
arts,
commission,
marianna,
mansfield
and
jeffrey
swinton?
Item
number
10
are
exclusive
development
rights
to
the
city
of
lakes,
land
trust
for
a
commercial
property,
a
commercial
land
trust
property?
Actually,
in
the
10th
ward,
at
19,
east
26th
street
item
number
11
is
approving
a
grant
for
our
low
barrier
housing
program.
Item
number
12
is
an
exemption
from
the
inclusionary
zoning
project
at
507th
street
south.
N
The
reason
for
this
exemption
is
12
of
the
units
will
be
free
in
a
program
with
firefighters,
for
healing
that
help
house
people
who
have
been
burned
victims
getting
treatment
at
hcmc
and
item
number
13
are
grant
applications
to
deeds
redevelopment
grant
program.
These
are
all
affordable
housing
projects
that
I
would
guess
everyone
is
familiar
with.
I'm
happy
to
stand
for
questions
on
items
1-13.
N
B
B
Are
there
any
questions
say
none?
I
actually
do
have
one
question
regarding
item
number:
seven
councilmember
goodman.
N
Is
online
already,
almost
20
people
are
already
living
there.
That
was
a
condition
of
the
federal
grant,
actually
was
that
they
had
to
have
some
occupancy
prior
to
the
end
of
the
year,
and
they
are
continuing
to
build
the
indoor
villages
inside
the
building
and
anticipate
will
be
full
sometime
soon.
I'm
not
sure.
If
council
member
fletcher
has
a
more
recent
update
than
I
have,
they
were
given
a
temporary
certificate
of
occupancy,
and
this
would
be
the
interim
use
permit
that
they
would
need.
B
Great,
thank
you.
I'm
glad
I
asked
and
are
there
any
other
questions
scene?
None.
We
will
move
to
the
next
committee
report,
the
public
health
and
safety
committee
given
by
chair
cunningham.
D
Thank
you,
madam
vice
president.
I
actually,
if
it's
possible
for
you
to
come
back
to
our
committee,
because
I'm
having
challenge
challenge
finding
the
script
with
the
latest
item.
So
if
it's
okay
with
you,
if
we
can
please
come
back
to
this
committee,.
O
Thank
you,
madam
vice
president.
The
committee
will
be
forwarding
a
total
of
13
items
item.
One
is
a
street
reconstruction
project
item
two
is
a
contract
with
eureka
recycling
items
three
through
seven
are
contract
amendments
for
continuing
work
of
the
department
item.
Eight
is
an
alley
easement
with
hennepin
llc
for
a
portion
of
hennepin
avenue.
B
Are
there
any
questions,
the
I'll
just
check
in
with
councilmember
cunningham?
Are
you
prepared
to
give
the
public
health
and
safety
report
now.
D
So
the
public
health
and
safety
committee
is
bringing
forward
five
items
for
approval
on
friday.
The
first
is
accepting
or
approving
payroll
and
council
appointments
to
the
civil
rights
commission.
Item
number
two
is
authorizing
a
signature
by
the
minneapolis
health
commissioner,
or
their
designee
on
updated
and
expanded
healthcare
plan
insurance
contracts
for
the
school-based
clinics
service
reimbursement.
D
Item
number
three
is
authorizing
the
minneapolis
police
department
to
enter
into
a
release
of
liability,
hold
harmless
and
defense
and
indemnification
agreement
with
metropolitan
council
related
to
ownership
and
maintenance
of
the
workforce.
Director
system
item
number
four
is
authorizing
issuance
of
an
rfp
for
violence,
interruption,
outreach
services
for
the
office
of
violence,
prevention's,
minneapolis,
strategic
outreach
initiative
and
item
number
five
is
directing
the
directing
health
department
staff
to
collaborate
with
other
city
departments
and
advisory
committees
to
develop
an
action
plan
related
to
eliminating
child
lead
poisoning.
D
So
I
am
happy
to
answer
any
questions
on
that.
I
will
also
just
add
for
my
colleagues
that
at
this
last
meeting
we
had
four
really
important
presentations.
D
The
first
had
to
do
with
a
workplace
advisory
committee
worker
outreach
and
engagement
recommendations
for
safely
reopening
the
downtown
economy.
We
actually
had
workers
come
to
speak
to
us
about
that.
So
I
highly
recommend
my
colleagues
to
take
a
look
at
that.
Then
item
number
excuse
me
in
the
second
presentation
that
we
had
was
a
really
robust
presentation
around
data
reflecting
back
on
2020
the
crime
and
violence
data,
the
staff
that
we
had
there
gave
us
really
good
insights.
D
We
we
have
really
great
crime,
analyst
and
mpd,
so
I
would
recommend
folks
to
take
a
look
at
that.
That
helps
give
a
lot
of
context.
We
got
an
update
from
about
the
phase
one
of
the
community
engagement
for
transforming
community
safety.
We
got
that
from
director
sasha
cotton
around
the
work
that
has
been
done
thus
far
again,
really
good
foundation
of
what
is
ahead
of
us
related
to
the
transforming
community
safety
work.
D
And
then
we
got
a
brief
update
from
andrea,
larson
and
gina
allen
from
the
coordinator's
office
around
the
next
steps
related
to
the
alternatives
to
police
response
work.
So
we
had
four
very
substantive
presentations
that
are
critical
work,
that's
happening
at
the
city,
and
so
I
highly
recommend
for
my
colleagues
as
well
as
the
public
to
make
sure
you
you
take
a
look.
Look
at
those
and
again
I'm
happy
to
answer
any
questions.
B
And
thank
you
councilman
cunningham,
a
small
but
powerful
agenda
coming
up
and
we
appreciate
those
those
reports
as
well,
and
you
know
those
presentations
that
you
noted
are
really
critical
and
know.
There's
a
lot
of
interest
in
those.
B
It
would
be
interesting,
especially
on
the
heels
of
the
recommendations
around
community
engagement,
that
we
just
received
to
try
to
figure
out
ways
that
we
can
more
broadly
disseminate
that
information.
But
are
there
any
other
questions
for
councilmember
cunningham,
any
other
questions
in
none?
We
will
now
hear
the
executive
committee
report
given
by
the
vice
chair
council
president
bender.
F
Thank
you,
madam
chair.
The
executive
committee
will
afford
just
one
item,
which
is
passive
passage
of
a
resolution
which
would
amend
our
wage
freeze
policy
and
that
would
remove
the
freeze
on
step
movements
for
appointed
politically
appointed
and
non-represented
employee
groups.
F
We,
we
also
did
have
an
regular
presentation
on
the
hiring
freeze
that
we
have
in
place
at
the
city,
as
well
as
the
reappointment
of
the
interim
civil
rights
director,
frank
reed
thanks,
madam
chair.
B
Thank
you,
council,
president
bender,
and
with
that
we
have
dispensed
with
our
business
to
come
before
this
committee
today,
and
so
consequently,
we
are
adjourned.
Thank
you
all
very
much.