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From YouTube: August 15, 2022 City Council
Description
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey delivered his recommended budget address live from the City Council Chambers. For the first time, Frey recommended a biennial budget – covering both 2023 and 2024.
A
B
Chavez,
president
council
member
alison
here,
council
member
of
utah
president
council
member
rainville,
president
councilmember
goodman,
is
absent.
Councilmember
wansley,
president
councilmember
johnson
president
councilmember
osman,
is
absent.
Vice
president
paul
masano
present
president
jenkins
president,
there
are
11
members
present.
A
B
A
D
Madam
president,
good
morning,
council
members,
council,
member
latricia,
vita
councilmember,
michael
rainville,
councilmember,
jeremiah
ellison,
council
member,
emily
koski,
council,
member,
aisha
shuktai
council,
president
andrea
jenkins,
council,
vice
president
lynette
paul
masano
member
jason
chavez,
council,
member,
robin
wansley
council
member
andrew
johnson
council
member
elliott
payne.
It
is
so
good
to
be
here
with
you.
D
Thank
you
to
the
minneapolis
park
board
and
recreation,
superintendent,
al
bangora,
minneapolis
park
and
recreation
board.
President
meg
forney
board
of
estimate
and
taxation.
President
preece
stinson
board
of
estimate
taxation.
Vice
president
brandt
minneapolis,
public
housing
authority,
executive
director,
warsami
minneapolis,
public
housing
authority
board
chair
mr
tom
hoke
city
department
leaders.
It
is
an
honor
to
be
here
with
you
is
an
honor
to
be
part
of
your
team
and
to
our
extraordinary
community
partners.
It
is
an
honor
here
today
to
present
to
you
our
2023
proposed
budget.
D
This
is
the
first
time
I've
been
giving
this
budget
speech
from
back
in
the
council
chambers.
Again
after
two
long
years
of
a
hiatus.
It
is
really
good
to
be
back.
I
think
it's
safe
to
say
that
government
over
the
last
several
years
has
been
more
acutely
involved
in
everyone's
daily
lives.
The
coveted
19
panjet
democ
has
changed
how
people
interact
with
government
at
all
levels,
especially
at
local
levels,
especially
in
large
cities
like
minneapolis.
D
All
levels
of
government
exist
to
provide
services
to
the
people
of
this
country,
providing
past
present
and
future
needs.
The
judicial
system
litigates
the
past
congress
passes
bills
for
the
future.
Cities
operate
in
the
here
and
now
you
need
your
garbage
picked
up.
Now
you
need
a
home
now
you
need
to
feel
safe
right
now.
D
D
So
this
year
we're
focusing
on
the
services
you
can
and
should
count
on
now
and
we're
going
to
do
them
with
excellence.
Great
service
should
not
be
the
exception
to
the
rule,
there's
a
good
reason
as
to
why
we
may
have
fallen
short
over
these
past
few
years,
but
these
setbacks
will
not
define
our
city.
D
D
D
And
we
want
to
provide
the
best
possible
service
to
our
residents.
We
want
them
to
be
safe,
housed
and
cared
for,
and
we
want
them
to
be
happy
here
and
now
our
services
begin
with
this
budget.
A
brief
glance
at
your
budget
books
reveals
a
substantial
change
this
year.
For
the
first
time,
you'll
see
we're
accounting
for
not
only
2023
but
also
2024..
D
For
two
whole
years,
we've
been
reacting
on
the
defensive,
responding
to
a
litany
of
crises
by
amending
budgets
and
re-amending
them
again,
as
projections
change
as
our
city
comes
back
and
by
the
way
it
is
coming
back.
Let's
press
that
advantage
and
do
more
than
simply
get
back
to
the
old
normal
we
can
blow
by
that
old,
normal
and
do
things
differently
than
we
ever
have
before
this.
Here
is
one
example.
D
D
D
Speaking
of
results,
I'd
like
to
take
a
moment
to
thank
our
entire
budget
and
finance
team,
especially
for
their
hard
work
on
this
first
biennial
budget.
Also
to
congratulate
the
team
for
being
awarded
the
government
finance
officers
association's
distinguished
budget
presentation
award
just
this
last
year.
It's
a
well-deserved
kudos
now.
The
second
benefit
of
a
biennial
budget
provides
improved
trust
between
mayor
and
council.
If
I
tell
you
that
a
program
will
be
partially
funded
in
the
first
year,
2023
and
fully
funded
in
the
second
year.
D
D
Now,
inevitably,
we
can't
predict
the
future
seemingly
wise
budget
allocations
now
and
today
will
need
to
be
amended
later
so
next
year
I
will
present
an
amended
budget
with
new
figures
and
you,
the
city
council,
will
once
again
amend
that
budget
and
approve
it
as
we
embark
on
a
new
government
structure.
This
biennial
budget
process
is
an
important
change
to
help
improve
responsiveness
in
our
city
to
help
provide
better
service
to
our
constituents.
D
Speaking
of
the
government
structure
with
this,
which
this
is
all
part
of
we're
changing
ours
for
the
first
time
in
over
100
years,
if
you've
heard
me
discuss
the
government
strut
restructure,
then
you've
heard
me
refer
to
the
work
we're
doing
today
as
the
most
important,
the
most
impactful
and
the
most
enduring.
We
will
do
as
local
officials,
perhaps
in
our
entire
career
people
love
minneapolis.
D
D
The
relationship
between
the
city
attorney
and
city
council
is
an
important
one,
as
the
city
attorney
represents
both
the
mayor
and
the
city
council.
Equally
last
week,
commissioner
cedric
alexander
was
sworn
in
as
our
first
commissioner
of
the
office
of
community
safety
and
the
steps
are
being
taken
toward
this
new
comprehensive
approach
for
public
safety.
D
D
Not
only
are
we
setting
this
office
up,
we
are
staffing,
it.
A
combination
of
reorganized
positions,
and
this
budget
proposal
will
give
the
office
of
community
safety
five
additional
positions
to
help
facilitate
this
integrated
work.
This
work
is
new.
It
has
to
be
innovative
and
different,
and
so
it
also
needs
proper
staffing
and
we
have
other
offices
that
need
staff
now.
I
know
this
isn't
news
to
anyone
in
this
room,
but
recently
the
minnesota
supreme
court
reaffirmed
what
we
already
know.
D
Our
city
needs
more
police
officers,
whether
talking
to
business
owners
on
lake
street
residents
on
the
north
side
or
activists
outside
my
home.
I've
been
consistent
in
my
message:
we
need
officers
and
we
need
them
to
reflect
the
values
of
our
city.
The
values
that
we
insist
upon
I've
been
pushing
an
aggressive
plan
for
recruitment
and
retention
to
rebuild
our
officer
ranks
as
well
as
strengthen
community
trust
in
the
minneapolis
police
department.
That
commitment
has
been
cemented
through
policy
and
centered.
D
D
Commissioner,
alexander's
idea
of
recruiting
officers
at
our
restaurants
over
in
cedar,
riverside
or
on
a
sidewalk
over
on
east
lake
street
is
exactly
the
right
approach.
We
are
going
to
find
community
oriented
officers
where
you
should
find
them
first
in
community
recognizing
that
we
won't
get
back
to
full
staffing
overnight.
D
We
must
do
things
differently
in
the
office
of
community
safety,
specifically
in
the
area
of
technology.
Through
strategic
investments,
we
will
be
able
to
utilize
both
our
patrol
and
investigative
resources,
more
efficiently
hold
perpetrators
of
violent
crime
accountable.
At
the
same
time,
that's
why
we
gave
one
million
dollars
in
arpa
funds
to
mpd
to
expand
both
portable
cameras
and
lighting
technology,
we're
doubling
down
on
the
technology
advancements
in
this
budget
technology
isn't
a
magic
wand
fix,
but
it
certainly
is
the
way
of
the
future.
D
Combine
that
with
mutual
aid
funding
and
increased
overtime,
we
can
help
bridge
the
gap
that
we
now
see
and
we
need
to
be
thinking
about
the
future
of
our
safety
services.
At
the
same
time,
the
office
of
community
safety
goes
well
beyond
policing
we're
integrating
all
safety
services,
including
violence
prevention
and
mental
health
response.
D
This
was
a
key
recommendation
for
my
community
safety
work
group.
We
need
to
invest
in
prevention
work
now.
Those
services
will
live
in
a
new
department
called
the
neighborhood
safety
department
and
we're
making
sure
that
they
are
funded.
An
incredible
portfolio
of
our
office
of
violence
prevention
doesn't
go
unnoticed.
D
They
continue
to
break
the
cycle
of
violence
and
do
so
with
both
integrity
and
innovation,
even
gaining
attention
and
technical
assistance
from
the
white
house
community
violence,
intervention
collaborative.
We
used
over
3.3
million
dollars
of
arpa
funds
for
short-term
expansions
in
the
office
of
violence
prevention
work
through
2023,
starting
in
2024.
D
We
are
transitioning
to
ongoing
funding
for
over
2.3
million
in
office
prevention,
work
to
make
that
expansion,
permanent,
think
of
the
minneapolis
violence,
interrupters
and
adolescent
group
violence,
intervention
programs.
This
work
will
now
continue
in
a
sustainable
way,
so
people
and
our
city
enterprise
can
count
on
it.
Additionally,
we
will
include
a
one-time
extension
of
the
violence
prevention
fund
at
a
one
million
dollars
to
continue
supporting
community
generated
and
implemented
violence
prevention
efforts.
D
Now,
we've
heard
loud
and
clear
from
community
members
from
council
colleagues,
from
mpd
officers
and
from
our
mental
health
responders.
We
need
to
expand
the
behavioral
crisis
response
team.
This
program
began
as
a
pilot
with
canopy
mental
health
and
consulting
and
has
yielded
results
that
speak
for
themselves
in
just
three
and
a
half
months.
D
They
have
taken
roughly
sixteen
hundred
calls
with
two
vans
for
the
entire
city:
we're
investing
1.45
million
dollars
in
2023,
with
a
ramp
up
to
2.9
million
dollars
in
2024
to
expand
our
mental
health
response
services
for
deeper
coverage,
citywide
providing
24
7
service
with
five
vans
beyond
police
and
neighborhood
safety.
Our
office
of
community
safety
is
rounded
out
with
fire
9-1-1
and
emergency
management,
each
focusing
on
integration
and
innovation
of
services.
For
example,
the
fire
department
is
receiving
245
000
of
funding
to
update
obsolete
and
unsupported
software.
D
This
might
sound
boring,
but
let
me
tell
you
this
is
critical.
Their
new
software
will
bring
the
department
in
alignment
with
the
state
fire
marshal's
national
fire
incident
reporting
system
to
maintain
reporting
requirements
to
fema.
We
also
requested
a
three-year
grant
from
the
federal
government
for
15
firefighters.
D
If
that
grant
is
received,
the
investment
will
then
be
ongoing
and
safety
in
our
city
even
goes
even
beyond
the
bounds
of
the
office
of
community
safety.
In
addition
to
the
camera
and
lighting
investment
in
the
mpd,
we
used
1.21
million
dollars
in
art,
buff
funding
to
eliminate
the
city-wide
lighting
repair
backlog
and
to
improve
lighting
quality
in
our
cultural
districts
and
near
two
schools.
D
D
To
handle
time,
traffic
control
agents
to
handle
increases
in
parking
complaints,
traffic
management
and
special
events
in
the
city
request
for
traffic
control
services
from
sponsoring
entities
and
mpd
have
increased
to
a
level
that
the
four
staff
members
presently
cannot
do
on
their
own.
They
cannot
accommodate
these
added
positions,
will
lift
that
burden
and
allow
us
to
be
nimble
and
address
where
we
have
traffic
enforcement
needs
at
any
time
of
the
day.
D
I
know
safety
is
and
rightfully
so
top
of
mind
right
now
for
much
of
our
community,
but
the
government
restructure
is
about
providing
effective
and
efficient
services
in
all
areas
of
local
government.
Importantly,
that
includes
our
legislative
branch,
the
branch
that
holds
13
esteemed
council
members,
their
staff,
the
office
of
the
city,
clerk,
the
city,
auditor
and
all
appointed
boards
and
commissions
question
one
last
year
dictated
a
clear
executive
mayor
and
a
clear
legislative
body
in
the
city
council.
Ensuring
that
both
branches
can
operate
effectively
requires
a
reorientation
of
positions.
D
We're
therefore
honoring
our
commitment
to
the
city
council
and
fulfilling
their
ask
for
more
support
by
transitioning
six
existing
positions
into
the
audit
department
in
2023
to
fulfill
legislative
functions
and
priorities
and
an
additional
position
in
the
clerk's
office
in
2024
for
outreach
and
consultant
management
under
the
excellent
leadership
of
our
city
clerk
casey
carl
part
of
that
outreach
is
to
our
minneapolis
voters.
Thank
you
to
him,
and
his
team
minnesota
and
minneapolis
is
known
for
consistently
high
voter
turnout
like
we're
talking
the
highest
in
the
nation.
D
D
D
It
requires
a
commitment,
not
just
in
words
but
in
action.
That's
why
we
have
elevated
race,
equity
inclusion
and
belong
into
its
own
standalone
department.
In
this
new
structure,
including
its
name
change,
we
are
investing
over
282
thousand
dollars
in
our
race
equity
work,
including
the
design
of
the
minneapolis
equity
report,
to
provide
an
annual
measure
of
equity
in
our
city,
both
internally
and
externally.
D
D
D
We've
launched
a
national
search
for
this
role,
knowing
we
need
someone
well
suited
to
oversee
many
different
critical
city
functions,
and
I
would
be
remiss
if
I
didn't
give
heather
johnson
the
credit
she
deserves
for
leading
our
city
coordinator's
office.
Over
this
past
year.
She
has
been
instrumental
in
shifting
our
government
structure
and
directing
what
will
become
the
office
of
public
service.
D
D
D
People
won't
feel
safe
in
our
city
without
having
the
trust
in
the
departments
that
are
providing
the
fundamental
services
through
all
the
investigations.
The
back
and
forth,
we've
been
clear.
Our
city
will
enter
into
a
consent.
Decree
importantly,
one
consent
decree
coordinating
this
work
with
the
minnesota
department
of
human
rights
and
the
department
of
justice
and
arriving
at
a
consent
decree
that
is
enforceable.
D
D
We
have
reached
out
to
other
jurisdictions
that
have
entered
into
a
consent
decree
the
best
advice.
We've
heard
you
don't
want
to
presuppose
an
outcome
before
it
happens.
All
we
can
do
is
prepare.
That
means
reserving
funds
in
the
next
two
years.
We
will
be
reserving
two
million
dollars
this
year
and
three
million
next
year
and
in
future
years
to
allow
timely
action
once
the
work
begins.
D
D
Let's
make
sure
we
give
them
something
to
be
proud
about.
Let's
pick
up
the
trash,
let's
plant,
more
trees,
let's
clean
up
the
graffiti,
let's
put
out
the
darkness
and
turn
on
the
lights.
With
this
budget,
we
are
doing
all
of
that
and
more
some
of
our
most
basic
bread
and
butter
service
is
provided
by
the
exceptional
team
we
have
in
public
works,
our
largest
city
department.
The
work
is
not
glamorous,
it's
not
generally
in
the
news
or
media.
D
Sometimes
it
is,
but
let
me
tell
you
it
is
necessary
and
that
work
makes
people's
lives
better
by
investing
in
these
services.
We
are
improving
our
response
times
to
a
3-1-1
request
and
by
improving
our
responsiveness.
We
are
building
trust
with
our
residents
for
the
long
haul,
with
a
nearly
3.8
8
million
dollar
investment
in
2023,
increasing
to
4.37
million
dollars
in
2024,
we're
improving
roads,
trails
and
a
3-1-1
response.
D
This
means
we're
putting
our
dollars
toward
addressing
concrete
repair,
litter,
pickup,
mowing
graffiti
sealcoat
operations,
trails
and
protected
bike
lanes
that
includes
winter
complaint
response
and
parking
ramp
maintenance.
So
that's
a
long
list
and
it
deserves
the
investment
with
significantly
reduced
revenues.
We
had
to
sacrifice
these
last
couple
of
years.
If
you
noticed
we
weren't
doing
these
basic
functions
as
well.
You
were
probably
right
we're
recommitting
to
that
work
and
importantly,
we're
expanding
it.
D
One
service,
that's
critical
to
our
city
and
to
our
planet.
It's
trees
to
find
a
street
in
minneapolis
that
looks
better
with
fewer
trees
on
it.
I'm
certain
you're
going
to
fail,
find
a
climatologist
that
does
doesn't
acknowledge
that
trees
help
improve
our
climate.
You
won't
find
a
psychologist
who
thinks
the
presence
of
trees
where
you
live
does
not
improve
mental
health.
D
D
D
When
we
talk
about
climate
change,
we
generally
talk
about
doing
something
less.
There
are
other
areas
where
we
need
to
be
doing
more,
always
more
like
affordable
housing,
affordable
housing
is
now
has
been,
and
probably
always
will
be,
my
passion
in
service,
because
housing
is
a
right.
We
have
transformed
our
budget
process
to
bake
that
funding
in
it
is
now
a
core
service
in
our
city,
not
just
as
a
one-time
change
item.
When
money
is
plentiful,
people
need
an
affordable
home,
especially
when
economic
times
are
tight.
D
D
It's
already
an
ongoing
budget
item
and
by
the
way
this
program
is
getting
results,
since
it
began
in
2019,
we've
housed
over
three
thousand
three
hundred
kids
and
their
families,
and
counting
all
in
partnership
with
the
minneapolis
public
housing
authority,
minneapolis,
public
schools,
hennepin
county
and
the
ymca
of
the
north.
Those
kids
are
staying
now
in
the
same
schools.
D
D
D
D
And
32
percent
of
these
new
units
are
deeply
affordable,
serving
households
with
income
at
or
below
30
percent
of
area.
Median
income
this
by
the
way,
is
four
times
the
number
of
units
that
we
were
producing
in
2019
and
even
greater
more
times.
The
number
that
we
were
producing
before
that,
even
though
these
results
are
incredible,
I'm
beginning
to
expect
them
each
year,
as
should
you
with
this
continued
investment,
I'm
confident
that
our
housing
staff
and
incredible
community
development
partners
will
be
able
to
deliver
on
that
expectation.
D
Here's
another
housing
expectation.
If
you're
getting
evicted,
you
should
have
representation
in
housing
courts
across
the
country.
90
percent
of
landlords
have
attorneys,
while
only
10
percent
of
tenants
have
attorneys
without
legal
representation
and
a
keen
understanding
of
the
housing
legal
system
and
the
unfairness
it
often
brings
that
in
fairness
becomes
the
law.
We
want
to
change
that.
We
are
changing
that
the
sixth
amendment
provides
legal
representation.
If
you're
charged
with
a
criminal
offense.
D
D
An
ordinance
is
an
important
step,
but
we
still
need
to
make
sure
we
allocate
the
resources
to
make
that
right
available
through
our
1
million
arpa
investment
and
partnerships
with
hennepin
county
community
partners
like
mid-minnesota
legal
aid
renters
across
access
that
right
in
a
housing
court.
Today
they
will
access
that
right
in
a
housing
court
today
to
ensure
the
sustainability
of
that
access.
We
are
increasing
ongoing
funding
by
five
hundred
thousand
dollars
in
2024
to
reach
750
000
total
to
continue
providing
right
to
counsel
this.
D
D
Disinvestment
requires
more
repairs.
Historic
demand
requires
more
units
more
homes.
Two
years
ago
we
helped
fund
and
embarked
upon
the
elliott
twins
redevelopment
project
alongside
the
minneapolis
public
housing
authority,
the
u.s
department
of
housing
and
urban
development
and
hennepin
county.
The
project
is
now
complete
without
a
single
resident
being
displaced.
D
Some
said,
the
financing
strategy
used
was
would
result
in
both
privatization
and
displacement.
That
did
not
happen
in
last
year's
budget.
We
added
one
million
dollars
in
ongoing
funding
to
re-establish
commitments
to
public
housing
in
our
city,
and
we
used
4.6
million
in
our
funds
to
provide
gap,
funding
to
replace
16
existing
units
in
this
repair
and
add
84
units
of
brand
new
quality,
2
and
three
bedroom
homes.
D
D
We
must
help
right.
This
ship
convene
the
stakeholders
refurbish
existing
units
and
build
more
and
get
our
public
housing
residents
the
results
that
they
need
and
they
deserve.
Thank
you
to
executive
director
abdi
warsami
for
your
advocacy
for
chair
to
chair
tom
hock
for
your
vision
to
director
andrea
brennan,
for
your
extraordinary
work.
We're
going
to
get
this
right.
D
Another
core
service
that
we
have
baked
into
our
budget
is
economic
inclusion.
I
can't
stress
the
importance
of
this
enough,
especially
now,
while
our
city
is
recovering
earlier
this
year,
my
inclusive
econ
economic
recovery
work
group
provided
recommendations
that
we
recreate
the
black
middle
class,
support,
workforce
training
and
entrepreneurship
and
provide
opportunities
for
wealth
creation.
D
The
work
group
absolutely
connected
the
dots
between
having
an
affordable
place
to
live,
especially
one
where
you
can
build
generational
wealth
through
homeownership
as
a
critical
piece
of
economic
inclusion,
their
recommendations
included
sustaining
and
expanding
investments.
In
these
initiatives,
our
commercial
property
development
fund
has
gone
from
pilot
to
mainstay
because
it's
working
to
successfully
provide
real
estate
ownership
opportunities
to
buy
poc
business
owners.
It's
successfully
giving
entrepreneurs
a
route
to
build
both
the
business
and
the
intergenerational
wealth.
D
At
the
same
time,
they
should
reap
the
benefits
of
these
gains
in
equity,
rather
than
have
their
dreams
displaced.
When
the
rents
increase
with
two
million
dollars
of
additional
funding
in
this
budget,
combined
with
10
million
dollars
in
art
of
funds
and
five
hundred
thousand
dollars
ongoing,
we
can
continue
the
pace
of
loan
issuance
in
twenty
twenty
three.
D
D
D
D
Additionally,
we're
not
stopping
there
we're
investing
another
round
of
one-time
funding
of
one
million
dollars
to
continue
the
pilot
of
the
community
safety
strategies
program.
This
program,
which
is
truly
an
embodiment
of
community
ideas
and
innovation,
is
helping
us
achieve
safety
goals
and
strengthen
our
workforce.
D
D
I'm
sick
of
our
focus
so
exclusively
being
on
harm
reduction
with
limited
treatment
options
available.
When
you
love
someone,
you
don't
just
want
to
prevent
their
death
with
a
shard
of
not
a
shot
of
narcan.
You
want
them
to
get
better
compassion
is
giving
people
the
tools
and
the
treatment
to
better
their
life
right
now.
D
We
will
have
more
information
to
share
on
that
project
very
soon
and
in
the
immediacy
we'll
be
investing
645
000
in
ongoing
spending
for
evidence-based
treatment
for
opioid
addiction,
those
suffering
from
addiction,
be
they
somali
american,
indian,
black
or
white,
we
will
be
able
they
will
be
able
to
get
that
help
now
and
over
the
next
two
years
our
health
department
will
conduct
a
thorough
engagement
process
on
how
best
to
use
future
fundings
to
combat
this
opioid
epidemic.
That
is
very
real.
D
The
recent
overturn
of
roe
v
wade
sent
shock
waves
across
our
country
and,
while
minnesota
provides
statutory
protection
for
pregnant
people,
it
is
incumbent
on
all
of
us
to
step
up
even
more
with
a
three
hundred
thousand
dollar
investment
toward
abortion.
Access
will
ensure
that
people
who
need
help
can
get
it
in
our
city
and
with
executive
order.
2022-0.
D
No
city,
staff
or
department
will
work
with
or
provide
information
to
other
states
or
jurisdictions,
pursuing
legal
action
against
individuals
seeking
reproductive
health
care
or
entities
providing
reproductive
health
care
in
minneapolis,
our
kids,
our
teens.
They
need
help
too
and
we're
recommending
four
hundred
forty
thousand
dollars
in
ongoing
funding
for
our
school-based
clinics.
D
My
budget
last
year,
including
an
historic
collaboration
with
the
minneapolis
park
and
recreation
board,
to
bring
youth
recreation
front
and
center
through
their
great
work.
This
partnership
is
already
bearing
fruit.
Whether
the
topic
is
safety,
workforce
development
or
physical
and
mental
health.
Kids
are
looking
for
things
to
do
we're
fulfilling
our
commitment
to
youth
recreation
with
our
2.6
million
dollar
investment
to
make
sure
they
can
access,
enriching
and
productive
opportunities.
D
Safe
recreational
opportunities
are
not
truly
safe
unless
we
make
the
proper
investments.
So
this
year
we
are
honoring
the
park
board's
additional
request
to
bolster
security
and
park
space
through
additional
sworn
and
non-sworn
personnel.
This
will
help
ensure
the
youth
programming
and
all
activities
that
are
taking
place
in
our
parks
on
a
daily
basis
are
safe.
D
D
D
Leaders
in
every
department
are
stepping
up
and
are
doing
jobs
that
they
never
really
anticipated
doing
all
to
keep
our
city
our
great
city,
rising
after
a
couple
of
tough
years,
and
because
of
them
because
of
you
all
rise,
we
will
you
all
deserve
more
credit.
You
also
deserve
support
with
this
budget.
We
are
investing
in
our
people
and
in
their
families.
D
Right
now,
a
city
staff
member
who
has
a
baby
or
adopts
a
child
only
gets
three
weeks
of
paid
parental
leave.
Today,
I'm
proud
to
announce
we're
expanding
that
to
12
paid
weeks,
and
we
aren't
waiting
around
to
do
it.
Council
members
on
the
policy
government's
oversight
committee
will
be
able
to
discuss
and
vote
on
it
literally
this
afternoon.
D
Some
argue
this
benefit
will
result
in
reduced
productivity
for
those
nine
additional
weeks
of
leave.
I
would
argue
that
it
is
a
far
bigger
loss
when
an
employee
goes
to
work
elsewhere,
because
they
can't
have
a
baby
and
simultaneously
work
for
the
city
of
minneapolis,
in
addition
to
being
able
to
care
for
their
babies,
our
employees,
they
deserve
to
feel
safe.
D
So
if
the
question
ever
comes
forward
on
whose
side
I'm
on
it's
theirs,
it's
our
city
staff.
This
budget
is
also
making
sure
our
staff
are
equipped
with
the
skills
and
agility.
They
need
to
understand
one
another,
no
matter
the
differences,
that's
why
we
have
a
two-year
diversity,
equity
and
inclusion
plan,
and
we
need
someone
to
oversee
it
to
make
sure
it's
done
right,
so
we're
investing
120
000
in
ongoing
funding
to
hire
a
project
coordinator
and
two
thousand
dollars
in
ongoing
funding
to
hire
to
retain
contractual
services
for
workforce
dei
initiatives.
D
This
will
ensure
sustainability,
accountability
and
effectiveness,
as
we
focus
on
recruitment
and
hiring
changing
our
internal
culture
and
building
an
infrastructure
to
support
to
support
these
changes
and
we're
not
stopping
there.
We're
funding
a
first
of
its
kind,
anti-racism
curriculum
to
shift
the
culture
of
our
workplace
with
forty
thousand
dollars
in
ongoing
funding.
All
of
our
employees
will
be
educated
on
systemic
racism
and
how
to
create
a
more
inclusive
work
environment.
The
funding
includes
five
thousand
dollars
to
support
the
engagement
of
community
members
during
the
design
phase.
D
D
D
D
The
budget,
however,
is
a
document
of
numbers
and
behind
every
one
of
those
numbers
is
a
person
who
benefits
a
person
who
needs
help
a
person
that
has
the
right
to
safe
drinking
water,
an
affordable
home
and
clean
air
behind
this
budget
is
the
well-intentioned
goal
to
make
our
city
better
now
to
make
our
city
safer
now
to
make
our
city
more
prosperous.
Now
we
have
no
time
to
waste
the
action
items
come
now
to
achieve
these
goals.
We
can't
subscribe
to
the
easy
promise
of
a
simple
solution,
because
that
promise
will
be
broken.
D
Rather,
we
must
promise
to
double
down
and
to
do
this
work
of
good
governance,
the
work
of
rebuilding
the
work
of
integrating
our
safety
systems,
restructuring
our
government
and
recreating
a
black
middle
class
and
we're
on
our
way.
There
have
been
moments
over
the
past
couple
of
years,
where
it's
been
hard
to
see
that
light
at
the
end
of
the
tunnel.
D
There
have
been
times
when
arriving
at
the
positive
outlook
is
an
effort
in
and
of
itself,
but,
having
put
in
that
effort,
we
have
created
our
own
runway,
we
are
poised
poised
for
takeoff,
the
flight
will
be
bumpy
and
we
may
need
to
reassess
and
take
some
detours
along
the
way,
but
there
will
be
no
dispute.
We
are
moving
in
the
right
direction.
Our
city
is
coming
back
here
and
now.
A
A
C
A
C
C
We
anticipate
starting
departmental
hearings
the
next
day
september,
13th
also
at
1,
30
pm,
department,
hearings
and
budget
presentations
will
continue
through
the
end
of
october.
As
usual,
we
have
planned
a
total
of
three
public
hearings
on
the
budget.
The
first,
which
will
be
conducted
by
the
budget
committee,
is
scheduled
for
thursday
november
10th
at
10
am
following
that
we
expect
to
conduct
the
second
hearing
at
an
adjourned
meeting
of
the
city
council
on
november
15th
at
6
05
pm.
C
We
anticipate
budget
markup
at
the
budget
committee
will
begin
on
december.
1St
at
10
am,
and
continue
to
the
next
day
december,
2nd
also
at
10
am
at
that
time.
The
committee
will
make
its
final
recommendation
on
the
budget
as
amended
and
forward
it
to
the
city
council
for
its
third
and
final
public
hearing
on
tuesday
december
6
at
6
05
pm.
C
This
hearing
will
be
the
required
truth
in
taxation
hearing
and
will
be
followed
by
a
formal
vote
and
adoption
of
the
budget
that
same
night
a
full
calendar
with
all
these
dates
and
times
has
been
posted
in
limbs
for
public
access
and
has
been
added
to
the
council
members
calendars.
I
look
forward
to
collaborating
and
working
with
my
colleagues
over
the
next
few
months
in
this
process.
Thank
you.