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From YouTube: May 4, 2022 Budget Committee
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A
A
And
so
what
you'll
see
in
front
of
you,
the
light
blue
behind
the
bars
is
showing
our
base
spending
in
2022
and
the
dark
blue
at
the
top
shows
the
spending
that
we
added
back
as
a
part
of
the
2022
budget.
So
the
blue
area
behind
the
green
bars
shows
our
spending
the
green
bars.
Excuse
me.
There
we
go.
The
green
bars
show
our
revenue
sources
and
these
are
property
taxes
and
other
general
fund
revenues.
A
So
you'll
see
that
if
you're
looking
at
just
the
green
bars
compared
to
the
blue
area,
we
are
falling
short
of
revenues
that
match
expenditures
until
we
look
a
little
bit
out
into
the
into
the
future,
where
we
see
our
own
source
revenues
starting
to
rebound
and
meet
meet
the
needs
that
we
have
projected
for
spending.
A
In
the
interim
years,
22
23
and
24
we've
planned
to
use
arpa
funds
and
that's
the
yellow
portion
of
those
bars
to
fill
in
as
our
revenues
recover.
And
so.
By
doing
this
analysis,
we
feel
good
about
the
amount
of
arpa
funds
that
we
have
planned
to
use
for
revenue
replacement,
as
adopted
in
the
2022
budget,
to
support
adding
back
city
programs
and
people,
but
in
a
way
that
is
not
setting
us
up
for
future
cuts
in
2025.
Once
federal
resources
go
away.
A
To
this
point,
so
starting
in
february
of
2021,
in
anticipation
of
federal
legislation
being
passed,
the
city
started
organizing
work
groups
using
subject
matter
experts
to
think
through
proposals
and
prioritize
goals,
and
so
this
work,
rather
than
being
organized
in
department
groups,
was
organized
into
cross-departmental
groups
focused
on
the
goals
listed
in
front
of
you,
so
housing
and
homelessness,
economic
rebuilding,
public
safety,
climate
and
public
health
and
then
city
capacity
and
performance.
A
So
those
groups
were
made
up
of
city
staff
that
are
subject
matter
experts
and
they
worked
to
create
proposals
and
provide
prioritization
information
in
may
of
2021.
So
almost
a
year,
exactly
a
year
ago
today,
the
mayor
released
his
recommendation
for
the
first
phase
of
decision
making
for
arpa
funds,
and
at
that
time
the
decision
was
made
to
break
up
arpa
decision-making
into
two
phases.
A
The
other
was
to
take
more
time
to
get
the
final
guidance
interact
with
the
community
more
about
their
preferences
and
work
with
other
jurisdictions
that
were
also
deploying
these
funds,
and
so,
given
those
two
tensions,
the
decision
was
made
to
break
up
decision
making
do
phase
one
in
may
of
2021
and
phase
two
right.
Now
that
we're
kicking
off
in
july
of
2021,
the
council
amended
and
adopted
those
recommendations
and
phase
one
was
passed
as
a
part
of
that
process.
A
After
phase
one
was
passed
and
implementation
was
underway,
work
groups
met
to
reconvene,
refine
proposals,
add
additional
proposals
in
the
fall
of
2021.
in
the
fall
of
2021.
The
city
also
hosted
a
survey
to
collect
more
input
from
residents
about
their
priorities
for
this
arpa
spending
and
that
the
results
of
those
surveys
are
posted
to
our
website
to
the
data
source
portion
of
the
city's
website
and
show
you
from
the
survey
what
were
people's
preferences
in
terms
of
the
goal
areas
that
we've
organized
this
work
around
and
within
those
goal
areas?
A
What
are
some
of
the
actions
that
were
the
priorities
of
folks,
responding
to
the
survey
in
november
2021,
or
rather
from
september
through
november?
There
were
several
additional
appropriations
made
from
the
arpa
fund,
and
these
were
done
outside
of
the
two
phased
decision
making
processes
for
time-sensitive
appropriations.
A
In
2022,
we
adopted
the
budget
for
the
city,
the
annual
budget,
as
a
part
of
that
budget,
the
plan
to
use
around
119
million
dollars
of
arpa
funds,
as
revenue
replacement
was
incorporated,
and
that
plan
we
just
saw
using
the
multi-colored
bar
graph
that
was
included
in
the
in
the
2022
adopted
budget.
In
addition,
there
was
3.75
more
funds
appropriated
to
support
programs
at
the
office
of
violence,
prevention
and
the
office
of
performance
and
innovation.
A
In
addition
to
these
specific
proposals,
there
are
a
handful
of
other
actions
before
the
committee.
The
first
is
repurposing
an
additional
seven
million
dollars
from
phase
one.
This
is
happening
entirely
in
the
housing
portion
of
these
proposals
and
will
be
discussed
in
depth
on
friday
by
folks
in
cped.
But
essentially
these
changes
were
recommended
by
the
cped
team
in
order
to
get
money
out
the
door
as
fast
as
possible
and
in
the
hands
of
the
best
best
proposals
that
they
have
and
before
them.
A
So
it's
reallocating
seven
million
of
dollars
from
phase
one
in
order
to
be
spent
a
little
bit
more
flexibly
to
get
dollars
out
the
door
quicker.
A
We
are
also
essentially
swapping
funds
for
two
programs
that
were
appropriated
in
phase
one.
So
the
first
is
the
commercial
property
development
fund
in
phase
one
ten
million
dollars
was
appropriated
to
this
project
or
to
this
program
at
the
city
and
after
final
guidance
came
out
in
january
of
this
year,
it
was
determined
that
arpa
funds
just
are
not
a
fit
for
that
program.
A
However,
cped
is
seeing
a
lot
of
demand
for
funds
in
this
program,
and
so
what
we
are
going
to
do
is
the
remaining
six
million
dollars
from
that
appropriation.
We
are
going
to
reduce
the
arpa
spending
and
increase
general
fund
spending.
A
Then
we
are
going
to
increase
revenue
replacement
into
the
general
fund,
so
we're
not
impacting
the
general
fund's
bottom
line,
but
we
are
using
general
fund
dollars
to
support
this
program
so
that
it
can
be
implemented
in
in
the
way
that
the
program
is
set
up,
similar
story
with
the
digital
equity
proposal
from
phase
one.
So
we
are
partnering
with
hennepin
county.
A
Our
I.t
department
is
to
ensure
that
low-income
households,
especially
those
with
children
that
are
participating
in
virtual
learning,
have
access
to
high-speed,
high-quality
internet,
and
so
in
that
partnership
with
hennepin
county,
we
have
received
a
request
from
them
that
general
fund
dollars
are
what
they
are
contributing
to
the
project
and
it
will
streamline
the
spending
of
these
dollars
make
for
easier
reporting.
If
we
did
the
same
so
we're
doing
a
similar
sort
of
swap
where
we
are
decreasing.
A
The
arpa
appropriation
and
increasing
the
general
fund
appropriation
by
the
same
amount,
but
then
replenish
or
we're
going
to
increase
our
revenue
replacement
into
the
general
fund
so
that
there's
no
impact
to
the
general
fund
and
then
the
last
thing
that's
happening
in
this
recommendation
is
to
reorganizing
our
homelessness
response.
A
So
in
phase
one,
we
had
appropriated
funds
to
the
health
department
to
cped,
as
well
as
to
regulatory
services.
This
is
going
to
consolidate
all
of
that
work
under
regulatory
services
so
that
they
can
to
reflect
the
city's
reorganization
to
concentrate
that
work
in
one
department,
regulatory
services.
A
So
those
are
the
additional
actions
along
with
the
proposals
that
you're
going
to
hear
about
today
and
on
friday,
I
will
go
to
the
next
slide.
So
this
is
a
pie
chart
that
shows
you
of
the
total
appropriation
271
million
dollars.
How
are
we
breaking
that
up
at
a
high
level,
and
so
109
million
dollars
has
been
appropriated
already,
and
so
that
includes
phase
one
that
includes
interim
appropriations
and
that
is
modified
by
our
rollover
process.
A
43
million
dollars
is
the
amount
of
spending
that's
before
you
right
now.
As
part
of
phase
two
and
119
million
dollars
has
been
identified
as
revenue
replacement
as
part
of
a
three
year
plan
in
22,
23
and
24
to
replace
revenues
and
bring
back
cuts
that
were
made
in
20
and
21..
A
So
that's
a
really
high-level
look
at
the
entire
allocation
and
then
this
is
looking
at
just
the
proposals.
So
taking
aside
the
revenue
replacement
dollars,
when
we
look
at
the
109
million
that
we've
already
appropriated,
this
is
a
spending
status
update,
so
10
million
dollars
has
already
been
spent
and
there
is
an
additional
10
million
encumbered,
which
means
that
there
is
a
purchase
order
or
active
contract
in
place,
and
we
expect
that
money
to
go
out
the
door
soon.
A
It
is
hard
to
get
my
brain
around
the
fact
that
we
have
had
these
funds
only
since
may
of
2021,
and
our
final
guidance
actually
only
came
out
earlier
this
year.
It
seems
like
much
longer,
but
we've
actually
only
had
about
four
months
with
the
final
guidance
from
treasury
to
to
ensure
that
we
are
spending
the
dollars
appropriately,
so
that
lag
and
final
guidance
from
the
treasury
has
impacted
our
ability
to
spend
money
quickly.
A
Another
thing
that
we
have
run
into
at
the
city
is
around
hiring,
so
hiring
for
every
everyone.
Right
now
is
difficult,
but
temporary
positions,
particularly
which
were
a
part
of
phase
one
to
implement
these
temporary
increases
in
spending
were
very
hard
to
fill
at
the
city,
and
so
that
is
why
you
saw.
I
think.
A
lot
of
funds
not
rolled
over
from
2021
was
due
to
staff
positions
that
we
were
unable
to
fill
and,
of
course,
the
when
we
are
unable
to
fill
staff
positions.
It
just
puts
more
pressure
on
the
current.
B
A
In
addition,
establishing
new
programs
takes
time
for
for
departments
that
have
received
funds
for
entirely
new
proposals.
New
programs
establishing
those
guidelines
working
with
our
city,
attorney's
office,
working
within
the
procurement
and
other
financial
policies
of
the
city,
does
take
time
and
and
that's
something
that
we've
noticed.
A
The
flip
side
of
that
is
that
programs
that
have
already
existed
and
already
have
pent
up
demand
so
they're
already
seeing
more
demand
than
we
have.
The
ability
to
fund
have
been
able
to
move
quickly
and
spend
those
dollars.
So
I
would
point
out
the
green
cost
share
program
as
one
of
those
that
has
been
able
to
spend
this
money
very
efficiently
and
then
the
last
thing
is
that
some
programs
are
a
better
fit
for
general
funds.
A
There
are
a
lot
of
really
good
programs
that
are
funded
using
these
arpa
dollars
and
some
from
phase
one,
as
as
you
will
notice
from
my
earlier
comments.
Just
are
not
a
good
fit
for
arpa
funds
either
because
of
the
timeline
on
spending
or
the
restrictions
placed
around
them,
and
so
some
proposals
will
end
up
being
just
a
better
fit
for
using
the
city's
general
funds.
A
All
right-
and
so
this
last
bit
is
just
a
high
level
look
at
the
recommendations
included
in
the
mayor's
recommendations
for
phase
two
of
arpa
spending,
so
these
are
organized
again
by
goal
area.
You'll
see
the
orange
bar
shows
the
city
capacity
and
performance
at
8.9
million
dollars.
A
The
blue
bar
is
climate
and
public
health
and
that's
11.6
million
dollars.
The
light
blue
bar
shows
the
economic
rebuilding
total
in
these
recommendations
for
10.9
million
dollars,
the
the
purple
bar
is
for
housing
and
homelessness,
and
that
is
for
5.2
million
dollars.
I'll
make
a
note
about
that
that
the
mayor's
proposal
also
includes
repurposing
seven
million
dollars
of
funding
from
phase
one.
So
when
you
hear
cped
present
on
their
proposals
on
friday,
they
will
be
speaking
to
a
12
million
dollar
figure,
and
that
is
because
of
that
repurposing
and
the
final
category.
A
So,
just
to
recap
the
process
that
we
are
going
to
undertake
to
finalize
these
proposals.
Last
week
on
thursday,
the
council
received
and
filed
the
mayor's
arpa
recommendations
and
state
of
the
city
address
and
referred
that
to
the
budget
committee.
Today
we
are
meeting
to
hear
a
review
and
begin
to
hear
department
presentations
that
will
continue
on
friday
at
10
am
next
week.
A
On
thursday
we
will
have
a
public
hearing
in
the
evening,
starting
at
605,
and
the
following
week
is
when
we
will
do
markup,
and
so
our
markup
is
scheduled
for
wednesday
may
18th,
starting
at
10.
the
amendments
we
are
asking
to
be
submitted
to
myself
and
to
the
budget
chair
koski
by
monday
may
16th,
and
that
is
so
that
we
can
review
the
language,
make
sure
that
everything
is
good
to
go
from
the
clerk's
perspective,
that
financial
policies
are
met
and
that
these
are
arpa
eligible
expenditures.
A
A
D
A
Yes,
so
great
question,
and
in
2022
I
I
would
direct
you
and
I'm
happy
to
share
out
some
slides
from
our
budget
book
from
the
adopted
budget,
where
we
sort
of
forecast
what
those
revenues
will
be.
A
We
are
expecting
2022
to
to
see
the
beginning
of
that
rebound
from
the
the
economic
recession
and
particularly
in
our
sales
taxes.
We
have
already
seen
some
of
that
improvement
happen.
We
are
not
forecasting
a
full
recovery
to
pre-pandemic
levels
until
2024.,
so
we
expect
to
start
to
see
that
recovery
in
2022
and
23,
but
will
not
be
back
to
sort
of
pre-pandemic
revenue
until
2024
is
our
current
expectation.
D
Okay,
if
I
may
one
more
question
so
you
say:
you're
seeing
the
sales
tax
come
back,
does
that
include
the
the
entertainment
taxes
from
downtown.
A
Yes,
so
entertainment
taxes
are
a
smaller
portion
of
the
overall
sales
tax,
but
we're
the
most
affected
in
the
last
two
years.
Due
to
the
restrictions
because
of
the
pandemic,
we
are
starting
to
see
those
come
back
and
we
have
a
model
that
we
create
in
the
budget
office
using
input
from
lots
of
other
departments,
including
the
convention
center.
Where
we've
looked
at
national
trends,
we've
looked
at
trade
associations
that
study
things
like
like
hospitality
and
entertainment
and
incorporated
those
into
our
forecasts,
and
so
we
are
using
backwards.
A
So
when
we're
doing
that
forward,
look
we've
had
to
bring
in
a
lot
of
external
data
points
to
make
sure
that
we
are
forecasting
accurately
and
we
found
in
2022
when
the
books
were
closed
on
that
year,
that
our
our
projections
for
that
year
were
about
5
million
under
what
the
actuals
were.
So
we're
feeling
good
about
our
projections
for
sales
taxes.
C
B
Thank
you,
madam
chair.
I
was
just
curious
if
we
could
get
a
a
list
of
the
7.8
million
dollars
that
were
rolled
over
like
what
were
those
appropriations
that
were
not
spent.
Yes,.
A
Chair
paul,
masano
and
council
president
jenkins,
we
can
get
you
that
we
have
a
lims
file
from
when
it
went
through
committee
that
details
the
ones
that
were
rolled
over
and
the
ones
that
weren't
and
I'll
just
say.
The
predominant
rationale
for
dollars
that
weren't
rolled
forward
were
because
they
were
for
staff
that
just
didn't
get
hired
in
time
and
we
had
already
appropriated
staff
funds
in
2022.
E
Thank
you,
chair
palmisano,
just
a
quick
question
about
slide
number
12.,
just
a
summary
of
the
12
million
that
was
spent
just
a
synopsis
on
what
programs,
if
that
was
staffing
to
you,
know,
initiatives
that
fit
the
identified
buckets
that
staff
kind
of
galvanized
around.
A
Yes,
jeff
palmisano
and
council
member
once
lee
warlabah,
so
you're
wondering
of
the
the
amount
we've
spent
so
far.
What
was
that
spent
on?
So
I
don't
have
the
details
in
front
of
me,
but
I
can
tell
you
off
the
top
of
my
head.
The
proposals
that
were
spent
and
spent
quickly
were
the
furlough
relief
for
city
employees.
A
F
A
Great
question
chair
paul
masano
and
councilmember
payne.
We
have
final
guidance
now,
so
it
shouldn't
be
an
issue
with
phase
two
for
phase
one.
We
were
really
building
the
ship
as
it
was
flying
and
so
was
the
federal
government,
so
the
treasury
released
its
interim
guidance
last
summer.
Last
may,
in
addition
to
a
lot
of
questions
where
they
were
seeking
feedback
from
local
municipalities.
A
There
were
many
months
in
between
when
we
got
the
final
guidance
and
so
that
time
period,
when
we
had
the
closure
of
comments
from
the
feds
and
got
the
final
guidance
was
really
the
most
uncertain,
because
we
had
no
idea
when
the
final
guidance
were
coming
out.
Now
we
have
that
final
guidance.
We
don't
anticipate
any
further
disruptions.
C
Thank
you,
council,
member
rainfield.
Did
you
still
have
a
question?
Thank
you
before
we
move
on,
though,
I'm
going
to
ask
the
clerk
to
officially
call
the
roll
for
the
meeting
just
so
we
can
demark
this
as
a
official
meeting.
G
G
I
Good
morning,
chair
of
palmisano
members
of
the
committee,
my
name
is
dushani
dai,
I'm
the
cfo.
I
will
start
the
department,
presentations
and
finance
and
property
services
as
the
budget
director
outlined
for
you.
The
mayor
has
proposed
8.9
million
for
the
goal
area,
city
capacity
and
performance
out
of
the
arpa
phase.
2..
I
B
I
I
Subrecipient
monitoring
may
consist
of
site
visits,
regular
contact
with
entities
meeting
or
reviewing
financial
information
city
finance
team
is
compliant
with
monitoring
for
existing
federal
programs.
However,
this
allocation
of
funding
from
our
phase
ii
will
fund
a
contract
specifically
for
rpa
related
sub-recipient
spending,
and
this
will
actually
reduce
the
risk
to
the
city.
We
can
ensure
that
the
sub-recipients
are
following
the
treasury
guidelines
as
well.
I
I
These
temporary
staff
have
been
instrumental
in
you
know
getting
the
program
up
and
running.
You
know
they
manage
the
the
websites,
the
contracts
and
assisting
departments
and
evaluating
proposals.
You
know,
I
would
add
that
you
know
they've
been
a
great
asset
to
the
city,
even
though
they've
been
hired
as
temporary
employees.
E
Thank
you,
chair
promisano.
As
the
budget
director
highlighted
in
kind
of
our
spending
status,
it
seemed
like
much
of
the
dollars
that
have
been
spent
has
also
been
absorbed
by
the
enterprise
like
around
staff
temporary
staff
as
well.
How
does
our
monitoring,
or
this,
this
monitoring
position
or
proposal
relates
to
that.
I
I
So
this
this
allocation
would,
you
know,
essentially
hire
a
contract
person
to
do
that
work
specifically
for
our
funded
programs,
so
that
they,
you
know
this
person
may
have
to
visit.
You
know
organizations
that
have
received
city
funding
to
do
you
know,
site
visits,
reviewing
financial
information
and
ensure
that
they're
following
the
treasury
guidelines
that
are
set
forth.
E
Thank
you
director
digest
clarification,
so
this
is
external
programs.
I
think
the
question
I
was
getting
of
it
seems
like
we've
also
spent
a
lot
of
the
dollars
to
support
our
own
internal
operations.
With
that
monitoring
also
extend
to
those
internal
departments.
It
seems
like
no
more
outward
external,
like
some
of
the
ovp
work
we
might
be
doing,
for
instance,.
I
You
know,
I
think
the
the
contract
could
be.
You
know
for
internal
or
external,
depending
on
how
we
write
it.
The
main
focus
will
be
for
external
partners
since
they're
the
most
risk
to
the
city.
C
J
Thank
you,
chair
paul
masano,
council
members.
My
name
is
adam
arvidsson
and
I'm
the
director
of
strategic
planning
at
the
minneapolis
park
and
recreation
board.
I
want
to
start
by
saying
that
superintendent
al
bangor
sends
his
regrets.
He's
unexpectedly
unavailable
today,
so
we'll
have
three
other
staff
members
presenting
projects
fairly
quickly
to
you,
but
obviously
happy
as
always
to
take
questions.
J
I'm
going
to
speak,
specifically,
I'm
going
to
speak
specifically
about
the
north
commons
park,
phase
1
implementation,
so
this
project
is
a
vision
to
create
a
new
recreation
and
community
center
at
north
commons
park,
as
well
as
update
and
expand
and
make
a
whole
lot
more
fun.
The
existing
water
park
there.
This
project
already
does
have
funding
through
the
npp
20
agreement
with
between
the
park
board
and
the
city,
as
well
as
other
external
funding
sources,
including
from
the
state
and
the
federal
government.
J
North
commons
park
is
located
in
an
acp-50
area
on
the
north
side,
an
area
that
was
impacted
disproportionately
in
terms
of
access
to
recreation
by
code
19,
because
there
are
not
many
of
the
large
regional
parks
where
a
lot
of
people
were
able
to
congregate
with
additional
space
when
the
parkways
and
such
were
closed.
So
on
the
north
side,
the
parks
are
much
smaller
and
we
did
have
to
close
facilities
during
the
covet
19..
J
In
addition,
as
I
mentioned
north
commons
park,
phase,
one
is
going
to
offer
residents
of
north
side
minneapolis
a
new
recreation
and
community
gathering
facility,
and
I
do
want
to
stress
that,
though
we
call
this
sometimes
a
recreation
center,
it
truly
is
a
community
center.
This
is
about
sports,
but
it
is
also
about
arts.
It
is
about
gathering,
it
is
about
community
coming
together
in
that
space
connection
to
the
city's
goals.
I
have
listed
a
couple
of
them
here,
I'm
going
to
go
through
the
them
very,
very
pretty
quickly,
but
public
services.
J
We
really
try
to
engage
equitably
around
projects
like
this,
and
this
vision
is
actually
the
result
of
many
years
of
community
engagement,
leading
first
to
a
master
plan
that
we
are
now
working
to
implement
in
terms
of
environmental
justice.
We
do
have
an
outdated
and
inefficient
recreation
center
and
an
outdated
and
inefficient
water
park.
We
can
make
these
high
quality
healthy,
efficient,
green
infrastructure
in
a
location.
That's
just
three
blocks
from
the
north
side:
green
zone
built
environment.
J
It's
always
important
for
us
to
create
high
quality
built
infrastructure
for
community
members
parks
are
critical
infrastructure
in
our
view,
and
so
we
have
an
opportunity
to
do
that:
public,
health,
again,
recreation.
It's
about
public
health,
whether
that's
indoor,
recreation,
outdoor
recreation,
arts,
gathering
or
access
to
water,
safe
water,
recreation,
learn
to
swim
programs,
things
like
that
and
then
lastly,
arts
and
culture.
There
are
guiding
principles
associated
with
the
north
commons
project.
J
The
demographics
of
the
area
around
north
commons,
north
commons
sits
basically
on
the
boundary
of
two
neighborhood
areas,
willard
hay
and
near
north,
and
you
can
see
from
the
chart
that
I
show
here
that
in
terms
of
the
percentage
of
people
of
color
in
those
neighborhoods,
it
highly
exceeds
the
city
as
a
whole.
In
fact,
these
are
some
of
the
highest
populations
of
people
of
color
in
the
entire
city.
You
can
see
near
north.
J
J
So
when
we
were
doing
the
master
plan
visions
for
north
commons
park,
we
actually
created
a
set
of
guiding
principles
that
were
adopted
as
policy
by
the
board
of
commissioners
that
ensure
that
north
side
residents
are
really
having
access
to
this
and
that
the
whole
project
is
designed
so
that
they
have
a
welcoming
space
to
come
to.
So
those
guiding
principles
were
crafted
in
collaboration
with
the
community
and
as
I
mentioned,
they
were
adopted
by
the
board
of
commissioners.
So
we
consider
them
to
be
policy
direction
for
the
design
of
this
facility.
J
It
comes
out
of
a
two-year
plus
visioning
that
took
place
between
2017
and
2019,
subsequent,
to
which
we've
been
seeking
funding
to
implement
this
grand
vision.
This
would
be
one
of
the
most
dramatic
transformations
of
any
park
in
minneapolis.
It
would
be
our
largest
recreation
center
and
we've
continued
that
engagement
by
doing
a
few
key
things
as
we
move
into
the
community
engagement
for
the
center
itself.
J
We
actually
just
launched
a
community
collaborators
program
where
we'll
be
hiring
community
members
and
organizations
to
engage
on
our
behalf,
sometimes
maybe
not
even
with
the
park
board
in
the
room.
So
we
can
have
those
authentic,
authentic
conversations
that
then
are
brought
back
and
incorporated
into
the
project.
So
these
community
community
members
get
paid
for
this
work.
So
we're
entertaining
proposals
right
now
for
that
in.
J
So
that's
the
conclusion
of
north
commons.
I
don't
know
if
the
chair
wants
to
make
the
prerogative
of
answering
questions
on
this
or
to
go
through
the
two
other
park
board
presentations
and
hold
for
questions
at
the
end.
I'll
leave
it
to
you,
chair.
J
K
Thank
you
good
morning,
chair,
palmisano
council
members,
pleasure
to
be
here.
Thank
you
for
the
opportunity.
K
We
are
here
in
large
part
thanks
to
a
partnership
with
green
minneapolis
and
the
office
of
sustainability,
where
they
had
proposed
investment
in
trees
and
with
the
arpas
stipulations
we
land
on
just
focusing
on
the
trees,
but
thinking
about
the
trees
as
a
big
investment,
throwing
a
stone
into
a
calm
lake
and
the
ripple
effects
of
those
trees
where
we
would
be
augmenting.
K
The
current
city
street
tree
park
tree
planting
program
with
the
additional
arpa
funding.
So
currently
we
we
spend
about
390
000
planting
trees,
which
plants
about
two
two
to
three
thousand
trees.
K
K
This
is
important
because
we
lose
about
two
to
three
thousand
trees
a
year
just
to
natural
attrition,
whether
it's
disease,
natural
death
damage
et
cetera
storms.
We
lose
those
trees
and
when
we're
planting
two
to
three
thousand
trees,
we're
only
replacing
the
trees
at
a
one
to
one
replacement
ratio.
And
so
if
the
goal
is
to
grow
the
canopy,
which
is
necessary
in
the
face
of
climate
change,
we
need
to.
K
And
so,
if
you
didn't
have
a
tree,
you
didn't
get
a
tree
about
three
years
ago
through
our
racial
equity
action
plan,
we
changed
that
practice
to
where,
if
the
tree
couldn't
fit
back,
we
moved
it
into
areas
that
didn't
have
trees,
and
so,
in
the
past
past
three
years
we've
planted
almost
2500
trees
in
the
underserved
areas.
This
additional
arpa
funding
allows
us
to
accelerate
that
prioritize
those
areas
and
grow
the
canopy
in
those
areas.
K
In
terms
of
engagement,
we
have
the
joint
minneapolis
tree
advisory
committee.
That's
made
up
of
council
representatives,
appointments
mayor
oral
appointments,
board,
appointments
and
citizens.
This
group
has
been
advising
for
many
years.
I
think
almost
15
at
this
point
and
they've
often
advocated
for
an
increase
in
the
canopy
and
so
they're
aware
of
the
initial
proposal.
We
will
be
working
with
them
as
we
move
through
this.
Should
the
funding
come
through.
K
We
also
have
a
forestry
outreach
coordinator
position,
funded
and
currently
being
recruited.
It
closed
last
week
which
this
position
will
be
responsible
for
working
with
the
community
and
engaging
the
community,
and
so
we
see
that
as
an
inte.
You
know
an
important
part
of
this.
This
project
as
well,
and
then
we
do,
you
know
just
to
get
to
the
very
you
know
fine
details.
We
do
have
a
standard
practice
of
notifying
the
public
with
door,
hangers
and
everything.
So
people
would
know
the
trees
are
coming.
E
No
questions
just
comments:
hello
park,
boyfriends,
it's
so
good
to
see
all
of
you.
I
was
excited
to
see
that
north
commons
is
a
part
of
this
budget.
You
know
for
the
past
few
years
this
has
been
a
big
project
in
north
minneapolis.
Lots
of
work
have
has
been
put
into
this
project
at
the
state
level.
Community
members
have
come
together
to
figure
out
funding
streams
for
this.
So
I'm
happy
to
see
the
park
board
here,
asking
for
funding
for
this
project
and
also
the
trees.
E
You
know
north
minneapolis
had
a
lot
of
damage
in
the
tornado
and
is
still
recovering
and
south
side
and
north
side
have
green
zones
that
need
these
trees.
So
I'm
happy
to
see
you
all
here
advocating
for
a
lot
of
the
stuff
that
I
worked
on
for
four
years
at
the
park
board.
Is
I
didn't
think
that
it
would
end
when
I
left,
but
I'm
happy
to
see
that
these
are
still
priorities
and
especially
in
underserved
communities.
So
thank
you
all
so
much.
C
L
Perfect,
okay,
good
morning,
chair
palmisano
and
council
members,
I'm
here
to
just
provide
the
beginning
of
a
brief
update
of
our
previous
arpa
appropriation.
L
The
time
period
is
january,
1st
of
2022
through
december
31st
of
2024.
So
we
have
three
allocations
coming
in
those
three
years.
We
are
combining
that,
with
our
property
tax
levy
increase
and
our
general
fund
budget
to
provide
2.6
million
dollars
of
ongoing
youth
investment
and
the
addition
of
22
full-time
staff
to
provide
direct
services
to
our
minneapolis
youth,
we
will
be
phasing
property
tax
increases
over
the
next
several
years.
L
That
will
support
the
ongoing
youth
investment
as
the
arpa
funds
end
in
2024.,
the
full
youth
investment,
so
the
whole
2.6
million
dollars
annually
is
intended
to
provide
the
following
outcomes.
The
arpa
allocation
will
be
assisting
us
in
directly
supporting
the
staffing
costs
until
the
property
tax
levy
catches
up
and
takes
over
over
for
that.
So
the
areas
where
we
are
focusing
is
youth
programming
in
our
recreation
center,
that
is
12
full-time
staff
to
provide
the
mentor
and
direct
support
to
and
expand
our
youth
programming
at
our
rec
centers.
L
It
is
the
creation
of
our
and
revamping
of
one,
but
our
creation
of
our
spark
studios
and
providing
direct
staffing
for
six
unique
locations
within
our
our
city
that
will
spark
youth
creativity,
imagination
and
exploration
in
technology,
arts,
music,
design
and
entrepreneurship
type
activities.
We
also
have
really
invested
in
youth
employment.
We
are
the
largest
youth
employer
in
the
city
of
minneapolis,
and
I
don't
see
anyone
overtaking
us
anytime
soon,
so
this
provides
employment,
career
pathways
and
youth
development
from
from
initial
part-time
job
to
hopefully
full-time
careers
and
also
nature-based
programming
and
intergenerational
programming.
M
Morning,
thank
you,
chair
palmisano
and
council
members.
I'm
going
to
give
you
an
update
of
where
we
are
with
the
arpa
appropriation
right
now.
There
are
three
phases
that
we're
in
implement
track.
Data
and
report
results
we're
currently
in
the
implementation
phase,
so
we
are
busy
hiring
staff
developing
the
programs
and
the
curriculums.
M
M
M
We
will
be
tracking
data
through
our
data
insights
team,
utilizing
power
bi
and
are
able
to
provide
information
at
the
park
level
through
our
park
profiles.
As
positions
are
hired,
they
are
implementing
programs.
We
are
then
able
to
track
the
data
and
will
begin
to
report
results
as
programs
finish
and
data
becomes
available.
M
Positions
and
programs
are
being
primarily
placed
in
the
acp
and
acp
50
areas
of
the
city,
utilizing
our
recreation
center.
Racial
and
economic
equity,
matrix
youth
programs
in
these
areas
are
available
for
free
with
a
pay.
What
you
will
option-
and
that
is
my
update.
If
there
are
any
questions,
I'm
happy
to
answer
them.
C
Does
the
park
board
have
any
further
parts?
Okay,
any
thoughts
or
conversation
about
the
park
board
recommended
budget.
I
have
a
couple
I
did
want
to
mention
how
pleased
I
am
with
the
more
trees.
Please.
I
guess
that's
what
we're
calling
it
now
right,
mr
barrick,
mr
barrick
and
myself,
and
a
couple
of
park
board.
C
Commissioners
and
members
of
the
private
sector
have
been
involved,
for
I
bet
over
a
year
now
in
trying
to
lift
a
carbon
offset
program
off
the
ground
and
it's
really
exciting
to
see
this
be
some
amount
of
taking
shape,
and
this
is
one
of
the
pieces
of
that
puzzle.
I
also
wanted
to
mention
about
the
important
improvements
to
our
rec
centers
in
important
parts
of
our
city.
I
recently
read
in
the
paper
that
that
is
not
considered
in
the
national
parks
ratings
and
I
think
that's
a
shame.
C
So,
while
our
parks
maybe
don't
get
to
retain
their
top
two
status
or
top
three
status
in
the
country,
they
are
number
one
in
our
hearts
and
you
are
doing
the
right
thing.
So.
Thank
you.
I
think
that
the
next
person
that
director
kruver
was
going
to
usher
up
was
mr
johnson
welcome.
N
Good
morning,
thank
you
vice
chair
palmisano
and
the
budget
committee.
My
name
is
jeff
johnson,
I'm
the
executive
director
at
the
minneapolis
convention
center
and
I'm
bringing
forward
two
submissions
to
our
process
that
represent
the
hospitality
industry
in
minneapolis
with
me.
Today
are
also
sandy
christensen
from
meet
minneapolis
she's,
the
vice
president
of
finance
and
human
capital
and
from
the
downtown
council,
steve
kramer.
It's
president
and
ceo.
N
N
They
will
be
able
to
expand
these
successful
programs
with
the
mayor's
recommendation
of
two
million
dollars
in
this
second
phase
of
funding,
I
think
we've
all
heard
that
the
pandemic
has
hit
the
hospitality
industry.
Hard
and
minneapolis
has
taken
a
harsher
jobs
and
revenue
hit
than
our
competitors,
and
we
know
that
recovery
is
going
to
be
slow,
especially
if
we
don't
get
this
needed
help.
N
N
Bipac
residents
also
make
up
a
large
percentage
of
our
hospitality
workforce
as
an
example.
If
you
look
at
the
convention
center,
our
staff
is
extremely
diverse,
with
54
percent
of
our
staff
identifying
themselves
as
bipoc
and
drilling
down
even
more.
The
largest
group
of
employees
at
the
convention
center
with
46.4
percent
identify
themselves
as
black
or
african
american,
and
this
isn't
just
shown
at
entry-level
positions.
N
N
N
You
heard
budget
director
kruver
talk
about
the
300
million
dollars
lost
in
the
city,
but
the
downtown
assets
fund
through
the
hospitality
sales
taxes
lost
at
least
50
million
dollars
in
expected
tax
receipts
due
to
the
pandemic.
N
N
The
downtown
assets
fund
acts
as
a
shock
absorber
to
the
general
fund,
so
that
these
activity-based
taxes
pay
for
the
amenities
needed
to
drive.
Hospitality
spending,
jump
starting
the
hospitality
industry
and
inviting
people
back
downtown
for
events
is
vital
to
making
sure
that
the
downtown
assets
fund
remains
in
a
healthy
position.
N
Minneapolis
hospitality
industry
fell
farther
and
is
recovering
slower
than
our
national
state
and
metropolitan
competitors.
This
slide
shows
how
our
hotel
occupancy
fell.
That's
the
darkest
blue
line
on
the
graph
compared
to
the
metro
area
and
other
the
other
two
large
hospitality
cities
in
our
state
on
a
national
level.
Minneapolis
lags
our
competitive
set
and
has
the
longest
road
to
recovery.
N
N
We
have
a
long
history
of
tracking
key
performance
indicators
through
the
meet
minneapolis
contract
and
we
will
be
able
to
track
this
money
in
order
to
show
the
impact
to
minneapolis,
and
we
mean
the
whole
of
minneapolis
by
highlighting
cultural
neighborhoods
experiences
in
many
of
those
neighborhoods
and
the
support
of
many
of
our
local
bipac
bypoc
businesses.
N
So
can
this
money
do
what
we're
promising?
Well,
we
have
seen
great
results
from
the
first
round
of
the
arpa
funding
with
meet
minneapolis's
marketing
campaign.
They
have
been
able
to
almost
produce
a
dollar
for
dollar
return
on
investment
and
hospitality.
Taxes
to
the
city,
lodging
taxes
that
are
levied
on
room
rates
get
deposited
back
into
the
downtown
assets
fund.
This
activity
also
generates
other
spending
in
restaurants,
retail
and
other
attractions
that
keep
our
businesses
open
and
our
community
employed.
N
The
large
incentive
sales
funds
drives
spending
and
tax
collection
through
event.
Spending
meet
minneapolis
secured
the
connect
conference
in
2023
that
will
bring
around
fifteen
hundred
meeting
planners
to
minneapolis.
We
know
that
once
these
many
these
meeting
planners
visit
minneapolis,
they
are
more
inclined
to
host
their
event
in
minneapolis.
N
Having
this
event
and
hosting
the
event,
this
event
will
stimulate
our
ability
to
host
events
in
the
coming
years.
This
money
also
helped
to
keep
events
in
minneapolis.
Here.
During
this
first
quarter,
we
were
able
to
help
events
with
their
marketing
in
order
to
get
more
people
to
come
to
those
events,
and
we
were
also
able
to
part
with
partner
with
the
downtown
improvement
district
ambassadors
to
help
make
people
feel
more
secure
and
more
welcomed
when
they
came
downtown.
N
N
The
downtown
council
has
a
long
history
of
providing
free
events
to
the
public
that
are
funded
through
partnerships
with
the
city,
but
also
with
the
other
business
partners.
Downtown
and
much
work
has
been
done
over
the
past
few
several
years
to
highlight
partnerships
with
women
and
minority
owned
local
businesses
and
entertainment
groups.
N
N
So
the
success
of
these
events
is
not
only
just
the
economics
but
again
those
smiles
and
the
participation
of
our
community
that
we
see
in
hosting
those
events
and
that's
what
the
downtown
council
is
bringing
forth
today.
So
that
ends
my
prepared
remarks.
I'm
happy
to
stand
for
questions
and
also
members
from
indianapolis
and
the
downtown
council.
O
O
I
have
worked
extensively
with
sciu
and
local
17
on
the
issues
surrounding
hospitality
workers
and
getting
them
back
to
work,
and
I
would
think
that
if
they
didn't,
if
this
recommendation
was
not
being
made
from
minneapolis,
it
would
be
requested
through
seiu
and
local
17..
Seiu
is,
is
almost
predominantly
women
of
color
working
in
these
hotel
jobs
and
they've
been
unemployed
as
a
result
of
not
having
hotel
rooms
filled.
So
I'm
wondering
if
you
can
just
fill
us
in
on
where
seiu
and
local
17
are
on
this
request.
N
Vice
chair
palmisano
council
member
goodman,
I
would
also
include
our
ayatsi
labor
staff,
our
other
labor
laborers,
that
work
through
our
decorator
companies.
So
it
is
our
restaurant
industry,
our
hotel
industry,
our
event
industry.
N
We
need
to
have
consistent
hospitality
work
in
our
in
our
city
and
I
think
that's
what
the
laborers
are
are
asking
for
and
are
wanting
is
to
make
sure
that
they
can
get
their
employees
back
to
work
on
a
consistent
basis
that
the
jobs
that
are
available
are
consistent
for
them
and
and
that
we
have
that
business
so
that
we're
able
to
hire
everyone
back.
O
O
So
we
know
what
happened
after
a
million
dollars
was
spent
because
we
can
tell,
through
the
tax
generation
that
we
see
through
tax
receipts,
that
our
arpa
money
is
working
and
I'm
not
sure,
if
that's
the
case
for
all
of
the
other
kinds
of
requests
as
equally
valuable
as
they
are
here.
We
know
that
there
has
been
a
a
result
as
a
result
of
the
phase
one.
Do
you
want
to
talk
a
little
bit
about
that?
O
Or
could
we
see
that
in
the
chart
that,
after
the
phase
one
money
was
allocated,
we
know
conferences
or
conventions
came
here
that
used
room
nights
and
or
took
rooms
at
our
convention
center,
because
we
also
have
hundreds
of
employees
union
employees
at
our
convention
center,
who
have
also
been
out
of
work,
including
another
500
at
kelber,
who
also
have
been
out
of
work?
Could
you
talk
a
little
bit
about
that.
N
Vice
chair,
palmisano,
councilmember,
goodman,
yes,
and
what
we
saw
from
the
marketing
campaign
that
meet
minneapolis
did
over
ten
thousand
room
nights.
So
that's
ten
thousand
people
or
ten
thousand
stays
in
a
hotel
were
produced
from
that
initial
campaign,
and
so
that's
significant,
especially
in
a
time
where
our
occupancy
has
been
very
very
low,
and
so
that
has
really
been
able
to
jump
start
that
hospitality
community.
I
mentioned
that
connect
event,
so
that
is
a
very,
very
large
event.
N
We
were
able
to
secure
that
event
for
2023,
that's
the
one,
that's
bringing
the
meeting
planners
in
town
and
then
first
quarter
at
the
convention
center
was
a
very
challenging
quarter
for
us,
based
on
the
omicron
coming
back
and
and
having
a
very
difficult
time,
keeping
our
events
that
were
actually
contracted
with
us
to
to
happen,
and
so
we
were
able
to
use
through
meet
minneapolis
some
of
these
funds
to
keep
events.
N
There
were
at
least
four
events
that
would
have
cancelled,
but
for
the
ability
for
us
to
help
them
with
marketing
to
try
to
get
out
and
make
sure
that
the
attendees
that
were
going
to
come
new,
the
safe
practices
that
we
had
and
the
ability
for
them
to
come
to
the
convention
center,
but
also,
then
that
partnership
with
the
downtown
improvement
district
ambassadors
to
make
sure
that
people
felt
welcomed
when
they
did
come
downtown
and
come
to
the
convention
center.
And
so
we
were
able
to
save
those
those
events
through
this.
This
funding.
C
Thank
you,
council,
member
ones,
lee
warlow.
E
Thank
you,
chair
palmisano.
I
just
had
a
quick
question.
You
mentioned
earlier
about
the
downtown
assets
fund
being
kind
of
the
shop
absorbent
for
some
of
the
the
covic
financial
impacts
on
some
of
these
major
stadiums
that
you
all
have
you
know
relationships
with.
You
have
figures.
I
know
on
slide
33,
you
kind
of
map
out
the
hospitality,
tax
receipts
and
the
deductions
and
increases
of
that.
Do
you
also
have
figures
for
the
financial
impacts
of
that
downtown
assets
fund
as
well.
During
that
same
time,
period.
N
Vice
chair,
palmisano,
council
member
onesie
warlabah,
we
could
get
that
for
you,
but,
yes,
we
do
know
the
impact
versus
the
budget.
We
were
able
to
make
some
strong
financial
decisions
over
these
last
two
years.
Part
of
those
decisions
were
that
we
were
able
to
move
many
of
our
staff
to
other
city
departments
which
reduced
our
expenses
and
helped
the
city
during
during
those
very
difficult
times
of
the
pandemic.
So
the
effect
wasn't
as
great
as
as
we
we
thought
it
was
going
to
be.
N
Quite
quite
a
lot
too
part
of
the
the
challenge,
though
here,
is
that
we're
in
a
decent
position
right
now
much
better
than
what
we
had
projected,
but
we
also
know
that
the
recovery
is
going
to
take
longer
than
than
what
we
would
expect
a
normal
recovery,
so
at
least
three
years
of
getting
back
to
the
levels
that
where
we
were
in
2019,
and
so
these
fixed
expenses
that
I
talked
about,
those
expenses
still
come
in
every
year
and
we
made
those
commitments
believing
that
our
tax
revenue
was
going
to
be
at
a
certain
level,
and
we
know
that
both
that
tax
revenue
will
most
likely
not
get
back
to
that
level.
N
E
N
Vice
president,
or
vice
chair
of
palmisano
and
council
member,
once
they
were
about
again,
we
can
get
the
specific
numbers
again
just
in
revenue,
it's
about
90
million
dollars
that
we
were
getting
pre-pandemic
to
again
about
50
million
dollars
post
pandemic,
but
otherwise.
F
N
Chair
palmisano,
councilmember
payne.
I
think
what
we
have
heard
from
meet
minneapolis
is
that
they
believe
that
this
second
phase
of
funding
will
be
more
heavily
on
the
marketing
end
of
things,
especially
on
reputational
management,
especially
on
trying
to
get
out
there
and
get
the
news
about
minneapolis
out.
N
I
think
we
all
know
that
it's
been
a
difficult
time
in
minneapolis
and
we
want
to
get
out
there
and
tell
the
story
of
of
all
the
great
things
that
are
happening
in
minneapolis,
and
so
I
think
that
there
will
be
a
I
don't
know
what
percentage
necessarily
but
a
stronger
percentage
working
towards
the
marketing
end
and
a
less
percentage
working
towards
the
sales.
F
N
D
N
F
And
then
final
question
on
this:
is
this
hundred
and
ten
thousand
hospitality
taxes?
F
N
So
the
and
ten
thousand
dollars
in
hospitality
taxes
is
really
going
back
to
that
ten
thousand
room
nights
that
were
generated
through
that
program,
and
so
we
know
that
those
ten
thousand
room
nights
on
an
estimated
based
on
the
average
daily
rate
would
bring
back
about
a
hundred
and
ten
thousand
dollars
in
just
the
lodging
taxes.
But
then
there
are
other
hospitality
taxes
again.
N
It's
it's
a
restaurant
tax,
a
liquor
tax,
the
lodging
tax
that
all
together,
it's
been
almost
a
one-to-one,
spend
so
for
every
one
dollar
they're
putting
into
those
marketing
they're
almost
getting
a
one
dollar
back.
P
Thank
you,
madam
vice
president,
and
thank
you
for
your
presentation
and,
as
you
say,
it's
been
very
tough
for
city
of
minneapolis
and
also
the
comments
you
made.
That
is
probably
one
of
the
hardest
cities
that
will
come
up
and
come
back
to
normal
on
and,
as
you
mentioned,
that
there
are
large
minority
women
that
have
rely
on
these
stable
jobs,
especially
housekeeping
that
worked
for
a
long
long,
many
years
and
putting
back
to
work
and
really
putting
some
dollar
amount.
P
Behind
that
it's
it's
a
very
smart
decision
to
make
my
question
is:
is
there
any
effort
or
any
revenue
anything
coming
out
out
of
the
state
to
make
sure
that
we
are
getting
like
come
visit,
minnesota
or
or
is
there
a?
Are
you
working
or
is
there
any
any
dollar
amount?
That's
coming
from
the
state,
looking
forward
to
make
sure
that
our
city
are
back
and
our
state
are
back
to
normal.
N
Vice
chair
of
homicide
council
member
osman,
I
know
that
the
state
is
working
on
and,
as
I
think
in
both
both
houses,
they
are
working
on
some
funding
for
hospitality.
N
D
Thank
you,
madam
chair,
mr
johnson.
Thank
you
so
much
for
the
presentation
and
I
had
the
chance
to
walk
around
not
only
this
week
to
see
the
excitement
of
downtown
see
how
busy
the
restaurants
were,
but
also
during
the
ncaa
women's
final
four,
so
special
events
conventions,
that's
that
is
creating
the
hope
of
bringing
downtown
back
thanks
to
the
staff
at
the
mcca.
D
Excuse
me
mcc
the
meet
minneapolis
staff
sandy
when
you
go
back,
if
you
could,
please
send
my
best
tell
them.
Thank
you
and
jeff
your
downtown
improvement
district
of
staff
they're
just
doing
a
very,
very
good
job,
so
friendly
those
ambassadors
is
helping
our
both
our
out
of
town
guests
and
as
our
office
workers
come
back,
the
did
is
there
for
them.
So
all
three
of
you
are
creating
that
hope,
you're
bringing
us
back.
Thank
you
very
much.
O
I
just
wanted
to
make
one
more
observation.
A
number
of
us
are
on
the
minneapolis
board
and
we
know,
even
though
no
one
really
said
that
a
good
amount
of
money
at
minneapolis
is
going
to
support
commercial
and
cultural
corridors
in
the
city,
and
that
is
part
of
the
marketing
effort.
So
I
think
it's
really
important
to
note
that
there's
been
an
increasing,
important
focus
on
helping
convention
visitors
who
really
want
to
see
neighborhoods
like
most
of
us
when
we
go
to
a
city
we
don't
just
like
hang
out
in
seattle.
O
We
try
to
take
a
look
at
the
interesting
neighborhoods
throughout
the
city
and
meet
minneapolis
has
been
increasingly
focused
on
that,
and
I
also
want
to
note.
I
led
a
series
of
tours
of
the
convention
center
and
kelber
catering's
operation
during
the
last
cycle
and
a
number
of
council
members
here
took
us
up
on
that.
It
was
pre-covered,
and
perhaps
we
could
organize
those
again
so
that
you
can
meet
some
of
the
people
who
are
working
in
the
convention
center
and
kelber
catering.
O
In
a
way
there
are
employees,
their
workforce
is
extremely
diverse,
especially
as
it
pertains
to
management
and
it's
kind
of
interesting
to
see
how
they
put
out
2,
000
meals
for
lunch,
and
who
does
that
work,
and
so
I
will
work
with
raedean
and
others
in
the
clerk's
office
to
try
to
set
up
an
opportunity
for
anyone
who
would
like
to
go
over
to
the
convention
center.
I'll
also
note:
we
have
one
of
the
largest
solar
arrays
in
the
state.
O
Q
Thank
you,
chair
palmisano
and
members
of
the
budget
committee,
I'm
here
to
talk
about
two
requests
for
arpa.
The
first
is
black
business
week,
which
is
intended
to
authentically
amplify,
celebrate,
educate,
promote
and
support
black
businesses
in
the
city
of
minneapolis.
As
you
can
see
from
this
slide,
it
says
this
was
a
an
existing
pre.
It
was
an
existing
city
program
that
was
previously
unbudgeted.
Q
As
I
think
council
member
payne
can
tell
you
when
he
was
a
consultant
here.
He
worked
on
black
business
week
back
in
2019
and
at
that
point
in
time
we
did
have
a
directory
of
black
businesses
and
work
hard
to
promote
those,
and
so
this
request
is
to
rejuvenate
those
efforts
in
the
summer
in
basically
advance
in
advance
of
black
business
month
in
august,
and
so
our
intention
would
be
to
move
forward
with
this
promotion
at
the
end
of
the
of
july.
Q
As
you
all
know,
black
businesses
are
just
have
been
disproportionately
been
impacted
by
the
pandemic.
We
have
continued
to
have
some
growth.
However,
the
inequalities
related
to
these
businesses
are
continuing
to
show
themselves
and
we
have
very
clear
statistics
about
those
as
well.
In
local
communities,
so
that
is
our
first
request
for
twenty
thousand
dollars.
Q
The
second
is
priority.
Priority
project
support.
This
is
really
about
project
management.
As
you
all
know,
we
have
a
lot
of
major
initiatives
that
involve
a
lot
of
departments
throughout
the
enterprise
that
have
somewhat
stalled.
If
you
will,
for
example,
30th
in
chicago,
we
have
the
public
works
projects,
and
we
have
you
know
some
initiatives
related
to
george
floyd
square,
that
we
want
to
move
forward
with,
and
we
really
need
somebody
at
a
high
level
within
the
coordinator's
office
to
help
do
some
project
coordination
and
bring
all
those
departments
together.
Q
We
feel
that
this
will
both
help
staff
coordinate
better
with
each
other,
as
well
as
really
be
able
to
move
forward
and
help
residents
on
some
of
these
very
significant
initiatives
that
we
have
underway,
we
would
start
contracting.
This
is,
I
will
be
fully
transparent.
This
is
a
a
one-time
appropriation,
and
so
we
would
begin
contracting
out,
as
we
would
like
to
get
moving
on
this
very
quickly.
Q
The
last
slide
is
the
recap:
as
you
heard
our
budget
director
say
earlier,
we
have
been
hampered
in
some
ways
by
some
of
the
staff
turnover
as
well.
Our
arpa
evaluation
consultant.
I
think
council
member,
wants
the
world
of
mentioned
evaluation.
This
is
really
to
help
us
evaluate
some
of
the
progress
with
these
arpa
funds
that
is
actually
moving
along
quite
well.
We've
had
a
contract
with
wilder
arts
and
cultural
workforce
support.
We
have
we're
going
to
ask
rollover
with
that,
just
because
we
have
not
been
able
to
move
forward,
given
some
unfortunate.
Q
We
had
a
staff
member
pass
away
and
another
leave
the
city,
and
so
we've
had
a
lot
of
turnover
in
that
regard.
The
quarter
activation
we're
working
currently
with
pillsbury
united
on
that
effort,
the
ending
of
human
trafficking.
We
do
have
a
contract
in
place
and
that
is
moving
along
quite
well
with
family
partnerships
and
then
the
race
and
equity.
You
all
know
very
well
that
we've
had
a
lot
of
turnover
in
race
and
equity.
Q
We're
super
excited
to
have
our
executive
director
taisha
green,
on
board
and
hiring
her
staff,
and
so
this
is
really
specifically
for
the
truth
and
reconciliation
work
as
well,
and
so
that
has
been
requested.
The
second
piece
of
it
is
the
request
for
the
truth
and
reconciliation,
and
so
we're
looking
to
roll
some
of
those
requests
forward
as
well,
but
we
expect
that
to
start
moving
very
quickly
with
that,
I
stand
for
questions.
F
Thank
you,
madam
chair.
I'm
not
sure
if
this
is
a
question
directly
for
you,
but
I'm
just
kind
of
looking
through
kind
of
our
total
economic
rebuilding
allocations,
and
I'm
just
wanting
to
put
this
out
in
this
space
around
our
thought
process
around
building
wealth
when
it
comes
to
economic
rebuilding.
F
There's
kind
of
like
this
immediate
return
on
ad
spend
that
we
see
with
the
meet
minneapolis
marketing
campaign
that
you
can
kind
of
do
this
one-to-one
translation
on
what
that
benefit
might
be,
but,
as
we
think
about
this
kind
of
unique
opportunity
for
bringing
in
federal
dollars
and
really
addressing
some
of
our
economic
disparities
in
the
city,
I'm
just
wanting
us
to
kind
of
just
I
just
want
to
be
out
in
the
space
of
like.
Can
we
think
about
wealth
building
opportunities
in
a
in
a
deeper
way
when
we're
thinking
about
some
of
these
dollars?
F
Q
Chair
promisano
council
member
pain.
It
may
not
be
a
question
directly
for
me,
but
I
just
want
to
say
that
I
agree
with
you
and
I
know
that
we
have
been
talking
with
our
partners
in
c-pet
as
well
to
make
sure
that
we're
not
just,
and
that
came
up
a
lot
in
the
the
mayor's
economic
development
work
group,
the
inclusive
economic
group
development.
It
was
really
intended
to
you
know:
let's
we
want
to
grow
our
black
middle
class
and
we
don't
want
this.
We
don't
want
the
one-offs
and
so
just
want
to.
Q
R
R
R
R
That
has
grown
really
rapidly
over
the
last
50
years
and
especially,
that's
been
exacerbated
during
the
coronavirus
pandemic.
So,
as
a
city,
we
value
very
much,
and
I
know
that
you
all
do
both
job
creation
and
the
quality
of
those
jobs
created
to
that
end
to
to
the
end
of
the
quality
of
jobs
created.
R
R
Unfortunately,
national
surveys
have
estimated
when
you
translate
that
data
to
here
locally
in
minneapolis,
there
are
millions
or
even
tens
of
millions
of
dollars
that
are
earned,
but
un
unpaid
to
workers
yearly.
R
So
what
our
worker
centers
do
really
is
help
workers
empower
workers
to
enforce
their
own
rights
and
again
increase
the
quality
of
the
jobs
that
they
fill
and
collect.
Many
of
those
unpaid
earned
but
unpaid
wages,
either
on
their
own
or
with
the
help
of
worker
centers
or
the
third
way,
is
working
in
collaboration
with
staff.
R
Here
at
the
city,
including
my
team
to
to
date,
I
I
would
say
that
in
the
best
way,
to
kind
of
overall
paint
the
picture
of
the
outcome
of
the
work
that
worker
centers
is
historically
in
in
aggregate
all
of
our
work.
Centers
locally
generally
collect
or
empower
workers
to
collect
on
their
own
more
wages
per
year
than
the
minnesota
department
of
labor
or
the
city
of
minneapolis
labor
standards
enforcement
division.
R
So
the
more
that
we
can
invest
and
work
with
them
directly.
The
more
we
are
careful
in
again
reaching
our
most
vulnerable
workers
and
raising
the
the
quality
of
the
jobs
filled
by
by
those
most
vulnerable
workers.
R
The
the
other
part
of
this
program,
I'll
close
with
this.
The
other
part
of
this
program
that
is
unique
with
this
proposal,
is
sort
of
marrying
all
of
that
work
with
existing
work
in
our
city
coordinators
office,
around
labor,
trafficking
prevention,
there's,
a
huge
sort
of
overlap
and
correlation
between
existence
of
wage
theft
and
the
existence
of
labor
trafficking,
which
often
times
is
is
really
agree,
includes
really
egregious
forms
of
wage
theft.
R
So
this
proposal
is
intends
to
sort
of
marry
those
two
bodies
of
work
and
and
make
sure
that
all
of
the
stakeholders
that
are
working
in
that
space
and
working
to
to
again
improve
the
the
quality
of
jobs
created
in
our
economy
is
also
ensuring
that
we're
preventing
and
discouraging
labor
trafficking,
to
the
extent
that
the
city
most
possibly
can
and
with
that,
I
will
stand
for
any
questions
that
you
might
have.
C
S
Well,
good
morning,
madam
vice
president
and
chair,
I
think
this
should
work,
so
I'm
gonna
move
right
into
our
presentation.
The
first
recommendation
is
around
street
lighting
and
this
recommendation.
It
obviously
is
a
ongoing
program
of
the
city,
but
the
mayor
has
recommended
here
a
million
and
300
almost
400
000.
S
This
really
will
help
us
address
that
citywide
backlog
of
650
street
repairs,
outages
and
wrecks.
We
have
a,
unfortunately,
a
large
number
of
street
lights
that
go
down
because
people
run
into
them
and
so
to
be
able
to
deal
with
that
outage.
That
is
part
of
what
this
will
help
us
do.
S
Again
it
is
a
city-wide
effort,
and
so
particularly
these
two
cultural
districts,
as
well
as
the
two
schools
are
going
to
benefit,
but
there
is
benefit
for
all
engagement
and
feedback
that
has
been
done
through
the
3-1-1
process.
Unfortunately,
that
has
meant
over
three
thousand
three
one.
One
reports
of
light
outages-
and
I
just
I
think,
I'm
gonna
just
hit
this
head
on.
There-
are
about
four
to
six
areas
of
the
city
that
have
total
outages.
S
We
will
be
coming
back
to
you
with
another
proposal
by
the
end
of
the
year
through
the
budgeting
process
to
address
those
lights.
Those
are
light
systems
where
no
matter
what
anyone
would
do,
the
lights
are
not
going
to
come
back
on.
This
is
not
a
matter
of
bulbs.
This
is
a
matter
of
actual
systems
needing
to
be
replaced.
O
It
is
thank
you,
madam
chair.
Unfortunately,
I
have
to
run
to
another
meeting,
but
council
president
bender
and
I
worked
for
two
years
to
try
to
get
public
works
to
add
a
simple
400
000
into
the
system
because
of
this
635
lights
that
were
out,
so
I
am
thrilled
that
director
anderson
kelleher
asked
the
mayor
for
this,
because
this
is
a
huge
part
of
the
public
safety
continuum
and
also
moving
led,
I
think,
is
just
really
consistent
with
where
public
works
is
at
on
sustainability.
O
So
I'm
wondering
really
if,
if
there
are
635
lights
out,
all
of
those
are
slated
to
get
resolved,
but
that
does
not
count
the
stephen
square
loring
heights
problem
where
lights
are
at
the
end
of
their
useful
life
and
will
we
then
see?
I
mean
we
have
to
wait
for
the
budget
and
then
it
could
take
another
year.
Meanwhile,
to
be
honest,
if
you
ask
folks
in
stephen
square
and
in
the
lasalle
area,
there
is
a
massive
shooting
problem
over
there
and
it's
very
dark,
I'm
just
wondering
do
we
have
to
wait
that
long?
O
S
Chair
council,
member
goodman,
that
was
a
lot.
Thank
you
for
the
compliment.
The
compliment
goes
to
the
deputies
and
to
mr
lauren
and
others
who
worked
on
this
proposal.
Obviously
pulling
it
through
is
an
important
part
of
my
job.
So
I
will
say
the
kudos
goes
to
the
team.
S
S
There
is
a
co
there's
a
como
component
here,
there's
a
number
of
places
where
we
have
just
these
all
out
outages
and
it's
system
failure.
It's
where
the
the
wires
underneath
the
ground,
the
connections
to
the
lights
they
are
failing,
and
so
we
can
work
with
you
on
that.
To
make
sure
that
we're
as
ready
to
go,
we
do.
I
will
anticipate
that
public
works
sees
that
as
an
important
capital
cost
as
a
way
to
address
the
need.
So
thank
you.
P
Oh,
thank
you,
madam
president.
Thank
you
director
anderson.
I
just
want
to
kind
of
take
it
away
where,
where
councilmember
goodman
left
I've
been
here
almost
two
years
and
the
most
complaint
I
got
from
my
neighborhood
was
lights
and
I
think
I've
been
bugging
and
emailing
and
public
works
and
highlighting
the
issue
of
lights.
We
talk
about
public
safety,
we
talk
about
terms
of
policing
and
all
these
great
things,
but
we
can
no
longer
wait
and
we
have
to
act
on
it.
P
We
have
to
get
lights
on
our
streets,
especially
in
port
neighborhood,
a
neighborhood
that
have
we
have
the
youth
the
most
in
the
area,
and
I
am
glad
that
this
is
something
that
we're
focusing
on
arp
money
and
just
kind
of
kind
of
highlight
how
important
it
is
and
how
important
it
has
been
in
my
world
to
get
the
lights
on
our
neighborhoods.
Thank
you.
S
Mr
chair,
thank
you
councilmember
osmond.
Thank
you
for
those
comments.
We
appreciate
them.
We
agree
with
you
that
this
is
not
only
a
important
need
of
the
transportation
system,
whatever
mode
you're
traveling
in
particularly
for
folks
who
are
pedestrians
and
on
bikes,
but
it
also
is
an
important
part
of
the
public
safety
continuum.
So
thank
you.
S
E
You
so
this
outline
you
have
has
very
specific,
like
targets
for
lights.
Is
there
opportunities
for
you
for
public
works
to
work
with,
like
our
ward
offices,
because
we
have
specific
needs,
so
is
there
like
extra
money
or
opportunity
for
more
money
in
this
budget?
I've
had
so
many
meetings
about
lighting
in
ward
4.
A
couple
weeks
ago,
I
had
a
large
group
of
folks
come
to
my
office
and
they
want
to
do
a
campaign,
get
lit
minneapolis
and
put
lights
all
over
the
city.
I
know
it's
a
good
name
right.
E
I
designed
a
t-shirt
and
everything
for
it.
This
was
all
in
a
two-hour
meeting,
but
it's
a
big
deal
right
like
on
the
north
side.
It's
dark.
I
had
some
young
people
come
here
last
week
and
presented
to
me
and
one
of
the
challenges
was
how
dark
it
is.
A
young
lady
bought
a
poster
board
and
showed
us
how
dark
it
is
when
she
goes
to
school
in
the
morning
and
when
she's
coming
home
at
5
30
in
the
evening
right
like
getting
off
a
bus
on
a
busy
street.
E
So
this
is
a
big
deal
to
to
my
constituents
for
sure,
and
I
just
wanted
to
know
if
there's
the
opportunity
in
this
budget,
or
should
I
be
in
the
mayor's
office
screaming
for
more
money,
because
I,
like
I
like
this,
the
cultural
corridors
that
type
of
stuff-
but
this
doesn't
affect
my
ward
and
you
know
broadway
is
seems
like
what
people
think
about
in
north
minneapolis,
but
we
have
lorry
and
we
have
lindale
and
you
know
penn
some
of
these
very
busy
streets
that
are
very
dark
and
has
a
lot
of
accidents.
E
And
so
I
want
to
just
make
sure
that
there's
opportunity
for
me
to
work
with
public
works
or
to
go
in-
and
you
know,
beg
the
mayor
for
more
money,
because
we
need
to
get
lit
in
ward
4
for
sure.
S
We
have
the
this
backlog
and
we
certainly
can
work
with
members
of
community,
especially
if
there
is
a
public
safety,
a
direct
public
safety
need
in
an
area
we
have
been
able
to
at
times
go
out
and
address
that,
and
I
know
that
we're
working
on
some
things.
The
city
coordinator's
office,
is
working
on
a
number
of
things
collaboratively
on
that
topic.
But
I,
like
I,
like
the
topic,
and
it's
one
of
the
things
I'm
committed
to
get
us
on
track
to
remedy.
E
E
Thank
you
vice
chair
chavez,
also,
director
kelleher.
This,
like
many
other
council
members,
have
echoed.
This
has
also
been
a
big
issue
in
my
world,
primarily
actually
around
the
university
area,
and
this
has
also
been
an
issue
where
of
all
the
public
safety
challenges
that
we're
facing
right
now
seems
to
be
the
most
non-controversial
bit
and
really
also
looking
at
what
is
the
additional
investments
that
we
can
make.
E
We've
been
fortunate
that
inspector
mcginty
over
at
the
second
precinct
they've
offered
some
support
with
existing
lightings,
or,
I
think,
they're
using
mobile
lights.
I
don't
know
if
we
have
capacity
to
invest
in
that.
Also,
it
seems,
like
lights,
are
really
expensive,
which
is
ridiculous,
but
I
know
they
know
that
that's
like
the
mobile
lights
has
been
a
cost
effective
way
and
getting
quicker.
You
know
lighting
towards
certain
areas.
Do
we
have
analysis
of
investments
in
which
we
could
make
into
some
of
those
more
cost-effective
models
to
get
to?
E
I
think
broader
areas,
be
it
in
council,
member,
vitals,
ward
or
mines
or
in
council
member
osmonds,
but
yeah
do
we
have
a
breakdown
of
that
somewhere.
S
So,
mr
chair
and
councilmember
wansley
worlabah,
in
fact,
we
meet
regularly
with
the
university
of
minnesota
I'm
meeting
with
their
person
tina
airmas
today
again
about
this
lighting
issue.
They've
done
analysis.
They
have
some
ideas
around
it
too.
S
F
Thank
you,
madam
chair
yeah.
I
was
just
curious
for
context.
Is
this
backlog
unique
or
is
there
something
about
kovid
that
has
led
it
to
grow,
or
is
this
just
a
reflection
of
our
aging
infrastructure.
S
So,
madam
chair
and
councilmember
payne,
I
think,
there's
a
combination
of
effects
right.
There's
during
covid
people
definitely
spent
more
time
in
their
community.
They
noticed
things
they
called
3-1-1.
There
are
some
effects
of
the
issues.
What
I
talked
about
with
crashes
and
wrecks
in
terms
of
lighting
being
damaged
we've
seen
more
of
that
recently.
S
You
know
we
do
do
our
best
to
try
to
recover
costs,
but
it's
a
difficult
thing
to
do,
and
so
I
think
that
that
is
one
place
that
we've
seen
an
uptick
and
then
we
do
have
very
serious
aging
infrastructure
here
that
we
have
to
tackle-
and
those
are
you
know
it
kind
of
ranges
from
those
outage
areas
where
we're
we
have
about
four
to
six
areas
within
neighborhoods
that
need
total
replacement.
B
Thank
you,
madam
chair.
Just
a
little
levity.
The
most
reports
or
complaints
I
get
about
lights
in
my
ward
is
they're
too
bright,
but
that's
another
another
issue,
but
I'm
I'm
just
I'm
confounded.
There
are
areas
in
the
city
where
there
are
literally
no
lights
at
all
and
where
are
these
four
to
six
areas.
S
So,
madam
chair
and
council
president
jenkins,
I
can
get
you
the
entire
map,
but
I
know
that
como
is
one
of
those
there's
a
area
in
the
como
neighborhood
in
southeast
there's,
an
area
that
is
ridgewood
to
the
it
would
be
the
southern
side
of
loring
park.
I
think
I'm
trying
to
remember
all
of
our
areas.
S
S
There
are
low
cot,
I
will
just
say
there
are
low
low-cost
options,
but
they're
not
attractive
and,
and
that
is
coming
in
you
know,
working
with
our
our
electricity
partner
usually
excel.
Those
are
usually
wooden,
poles,
they're,
not
we
don't.
I,
I
think,
we're
really
interested
in
making
sure
that
people
have
pedestrian
scale
lighting
in
some
in
the
cases
where
we
can
replace
that
also
street
lighting.
S
B
We'll
residents
be
assessed
for
these
non-functioning
lights.
S
So,
madam
chair
and
president
jenkins
were
working
on
what
can
be
done
there,
particularly
for
communities
where
either
you
have
a
high
rental
rate,
as
well
as
a
low
income
community,
and
what.
S
S
Been
going
on
in
stevens
square,
there
is
not
that
level.
I
mean
it's
very
difficult.
All
many
of
you
have
been
organizers,
you
understand
getting.
Signatures
is
a
difficult
thing,
especially
in
a
high
rental
area,
so
we're
looking
at
how
we
can
change
our
policy
to
have
it
be
more
responsive
to
the
needs
of
the
community.
P
Osman
yeah,
just
what
stephen
square
is
in
ward
6
and
I
have
been
working
with
public
works.
I
know
the
survey
went
out,
it
came
back,
failed,
which
means
residents,
say
they're,
not
going
to
pay
for
the
lights
right
and,
as
you
mentioned,
high
renters,
very
low
income
families.
P
If
you
can
give
us
what
other
options
are
out
there
to
make
sure
that
we
are
not
leaving
this
group
of
people
behind
and
some
of
the
bright
lights
we
could
use
in
our
encounters
with
president's
ward.
S
So,
madam
chair
and
councilmember
osmond,
we
we
are
going
to
be
bringing
forward
some
changes
that
we
would
like
to
work
with
you
all
to
implement
to
be
able
to
address
these
issues
that
you
know.
I
think
the
policy
when
it
was
put
in
place
when
maybe
there
was
a
lot
of
emphasis
on
decorative
or
pedestrian
level
lighting
a
number
of
years
ago.
C
S
All
right,
mata
chair,
I'm
gonna,
go
to
our
couple
of
other
items.
This
is
an
exciting
one.
Our
service
worker
trainee
program
expansion.
This
is
an
existing
program.
The
mayor
has
recommended
a
little
under
a
million
dollars
to
expand
this
program,
we'd
be
going
from
20
participants
to
40
participants,
and
I
would
like
to
show
you
particularly
since
I
know
time
is
short
what
that
means.
S
That
really
means
that
we
can
have
a
workforce
in
training
that
looks
much
more
like
the
community
we're
serving,
and
that
is
an
important
goal
of
mine,
an
important
goal
of
yours,
an
important
goal
of
the
cities
and
public
works
overall,
and
so
you
can
see
that
when
we
have
really
engaged
in
this,
we
get
a
very
successful
pathway
to
ongoing
employment.
S
Public
works
trainees
together
both
from
the
water
distribution
operators
area,
which
is
a
very
important
area
for
us
to
be
able
to
build
the
bench
as
well
as
the
public
service
employees.
In
public
works,
our
final
item
is
the
mayor's
recommending
twenty
thousand
dollars
that
will
help
with
the
open
streets
program.
This
will
come
to
public
works
and
we
will
work
with
our
partner
at
at
our
streets
to
be
able
to
deliver
the
program.
S
There
are
a
number
we
already
support
this
program,
180
000
through
the
city
budget,
but
we
are
going
to
increase
that
with
support
for
hard
costs
and
we
are
going
to
try
to
take
off
their
plate
a
number
of
the
hard
costs
that
we
can
pay
for,
porta-potties,
sanitation,
a
number
of
other
things
we
are
looking
forward
and
looking
to
how
we
can
deliver
on
this
important
city
goal
better
in
the
future
and
there's
a
few
different
ways:
we're
analyzing
to
see
how
that
could
happen,
and
one
of
the
concerns
that
I
know
council
members
have
had
is
the
fees
that
have
been
charged
to
support
the
the
program
and
we're
looking
at
ways
that
you
know.
S
Could
we
do
something
within
the
city
that
will
help
with
that?
Of
course,
in
2022
we
already
have
a
number
of
open
streets
planned
the
five
open
streets
that
are
planned.
Lindale
franklin,
east
lake
street,
west,
broadway
and
minnehaha,
and
with
that
I
know
that
council,
member
wansley
warbula,
is
also
interested
and
we
are
interested
in
public
works
in
doing
a
race
equity
analysis
of
this
program
to
make
sure
that
both
from
the
participants
who
are
the
vendors
but
also
people
coming
to
the
program
that
we
are
reaching
out
and
really
engaging
people.
S
It's
clearly
got
an
economic
aspect
to
it,
about
getting
people
to
come
and
interact
with
folks
who
have
stores
and
vendors
on
the
streets
in
these
areas,
exposing
them
to
that
and
getting
that
sort
of
virtuous
circle
going
again
so-
and
I
think
that
I
just
wanted
to
say
that
we
appreciate
the
past
appropriation
that
came
through
the
arpa
funding
that
includes
the
neighborhood
calming
efforts
of
a
half
million
dollars.
H
Director,
I
just
want
to
say
thank
you
for
the
lighting
stuff.
I
know
that
it's
going
to
impact
ward
9,
especially
on
the
east
lake
street
corridor
heavily,
and
I
know
that
one
thing
that
I
can
be
shot
about
is
the
safety
on
lake
street
and
especially
given
the
challenges
of
the
past
few
years.
S
F
Thank
you,
madam
chair
yeah.
I
just
wanted
to
thank
you
for
including
open
streets
in
this
as
well,
and
I'm
really
hopeful
that
a
race
equity
analysis
will
give
some
indication
on
what
a
proper
distribution
of
those
events
ought
to
be,
and
especially
having
a
deeper
understanding
of
those
economic
impacts,
especially
for
some
of
the
communities
where
these
are
hosted.
I
think
that
I
would
love
to
see
it
return
back
to
central
avenue,
so
I'm
selfish
in
my
excitement
about
this.
So.
C
E
Don't
run
off
just
yet
back?
No,
I
just
wanted
to
say
thank
you
also
for
this
presentation.
I
know
you
and
I
have
had
conversations
about
not
just
doing
a
race
and
equity
analysis
of
just
open
streets.
I
think
you
have
a
great
idea
of
expanding
that
to
public
works
and
I
think
a
good
example
of
that
is
just
looking
at
the
service
worker
training
program
like
how
could
we
be
extending
that
to
all
other?
You
know
amazing
work
that
happens
through
public
works,
especially
around
green
jobs
and
green
infrastructure.
E
E
E
Thank
you,
madam
chair.
Just
a
couple
comp
compliments.
Thank
you
so
much
for
including
the
traffic
calming
funding.
It's
really
important
to
my
award.
Some
of
those
projects
are
in
ward.
4.
I've
had
the
pleasure
of
meeting
with
your
staff
to
talk
through
some
of
those
projects
and
they're
pretty
exciting,
especially
because
we
see
so
many
accidents
in
my
ward
and
then
open
streets.
You
know
a
long
long
long
long
long
long
time
ago
I
was
on
the
board
of
the
bicycle
coalition.
E
I
was
board
chair
and
it
was
a
huge
deal
for
me
to
have
open
streets
come
to
west
broadway.
It
felt
like
you
know
if
you
could
walk
down
broadway
with
no
cars
or
bike
down
broadway
with
no
cars.
You
like
hit
the
mecca
of
no
cars
right
right.
So
I'm
happy
to
see
that
you
have
this
funding
in
here
and
that
you
are
continuing
to
partner
with
this
group
on
making
sure
we
have
these
type
of
amenities,
especially
in
north
minneapolis.
E
My
fear
is
when
we
lose
funding
streams
for
these
organizations,
the
north
side
always
seems
to
get
hit
the
hardest.
You
know
I
I
don't
want
to
see.
Broadway
open
streets
go
away
because
it's
a
big
deal.
I
know
it's
one
of
the
lowest
attended
open
streets,
but
it's
important
that
we
have
that
amenity
in
north
minneapolis.
So
I'm
appreciative
that
you
and
your
staff
have
made
this
work,
and
you
know,
of
course
we
they
could
always
use
more
money.
But
I'm
happy
to
see
that
you,
you
know
you.
E
S
Madam
chair,
so
do
I
council,
member
vita-
and
I
I
just
want
to
emphasize
that
we
do
have
a
commitment
to
this
programming
within
the
city
and
so
the
questions
will
we
will
be
analyzing?
How
can
we
better
both
do
the
analysis,
the
distribution,
the
support,
maybe
lessen
the
burden
on
the
way
it's
been
funded
recently,
but
still
partner
with
important
community
organizations.
So
we're
looking
at
a
bunch
of
options
here
that
I
think
will
really
help
and
madam
chair
I'll
say
having
been
an
organizer
in
my
early
days.
S
I
understand
the
need
to
push
hard
but
there's
a
sweet
spot
there,
and
so
I
think,
you're.
I
think
your
councilmember
vita
you're
expressing
that.
C
C
L
T
Needless
to
say,
I'm
always
excited
to
have
an
opportunity
to
speak
on
behalf
of
the
4
000
employees,
who
represent
the
enterprise
and
am
very
excited
to
present
this
proposal
to
you.
But
before
I
get
into
some
of
the
details,
I
just
want
to
talk
a
little
bit
about
what
human
resources
guiding
principles
are.
We
took
some
time
in
this
last
two
years
due
to
the
pandemic
and
the
unfortunate
murder
of
george
floyd
to
really
land
around
some
guiding
principles,
because,
as
you've
heard
from
my
colleagues,
these
two
events
have
really
shaped.
T
How
are
not
only
the
economic
part
of
the
work
and
the
community
work
that
the
city
is
is
involved
in,
but
the
people
work,
and
so
we
felt
it
was
very
important
for
us
as
a
team,
to
say
what
are
the
guiding
principles
that
we're
going
to
be
doing
our
work.
And
we
ask
you
to
to
we're
very
willing
to
dialogue
with
you
about
this.
But
we
have
four
key
dieting
principles
champion,
workforce
equity,
being
an
employer
of
choice,
employee
health
and
well-being
and
leverage
technology
and
data.
T
T
I
do
want
to
pause
for
a
moment
and
because
council
member
wesley
wallabich,
you
mentioned
something
about
technology
when
you
were
talking
about
public
works
and
I'm
very
excited
that
we've
been
working
over
the
last
few
months
to
put
together
a
really
strong,
user-friendly
dashboard
that
gives
our
departments
the
opportunity
to
to
dig
a
little
bit
deeper
into
their
data
so
that
they
can
look
at
the
recruitment
data,
their
retention
data
and
what
you
mentioned
around
workforce
planning.
T
So
what
we're
doing
in
that
space
is
we're
actually
meeting
with
every
single
department,
what
we're
calling
conversations
that
matter
that
are
really
helping
our
departments
learn
how
to
navigate
this
new
tool
and
holland
will
be
talking
about
later.
How
we
also
will
have
a
public
facing
tool.
We
want
to
start
with
the
department,
so
I
just
felt
the
need
to
respond
to
that,
because
that's
something
we
are
really
working
on
to
get
the
department
leaders,
the
tools
and
the
the
resources
that
they
need.
T
There
will
also
be
a
part
of
that
in
the
budgeting
process,
thanks
to
budget
director
amelia
huffman,
who
we
are
we're
also
working
on
that.
So
I
just
needed
to
I
just
needed
to
say
that
real
quick,
it's.
T
Things:
okay,
it's
because
I've
been
here
for
a
long
time
and
I
need
caffeine.
Forgive
me!
Let
me
get
back
on
the
corner,
so,
first
of
all,
before
director
atkinson
comes
up
here.
I
just
wanted
to
give
you
a
few
key
data
points.
If
I
may,
regarding
the
enterprise
in
2021,
the
number
of
applicants
decreased
by
28
city-wide
19
of
all
positions
in
the
enterprise
were
vacant.
T
As
of
april,
1st,
2022
and
voluntary
turnover
has
increased
from
3.7
in
2019
to
6.3
as
of
march
20
2022.,
and
so,
as
you
can
see,
that's
just
a
brief
overview
just
of
what
has
been
going
on
in
our
enterprise.
T
More
specifically,
what
director
of
atkinson
is
going
to
talk
about
from
a
data
perspective
is
really
focusing
on
public
safety
and
those
numbers
and
then
talk
about
what
are
some
of
the
recruitment
and
retention
initiatives
that
we're
requesting
funding
for
through
the
mayor's
budget.
So
I'm
going
to
turn
it
over
to
director
atkinson
for
a
few
minutes.
U
Thank
you,
chro
ferguson
appreciate
it
chair,
paul
masano,
council
members.
Thank
you.
I'm
director
atkinson
labor
relations
director
for
the
city,
thank
you
for
allowing
us
to
speak
today
regarding
the
workplace,
recruitment
and
retention
data
with
we
just
wanted
to
highlight
a
few
of
the
specific
areas
where
we've
seen
some
really
precipitous
declines
in
where
we've
been
able
to
both
recruit
and
retain
311,
specifically,
our
customer
service
agents
in
their
the
csa2,
a
five
percent
decrease
in
the
average
number
of
applicants.
U
These
are
from
based
against
pre-pandemic
numbers
14
vacancies
in
march,
which
is
a
significant
portion
of
the
staff
for
9-1-1.
It's
extremely
difficult.
Our
previous
directors
spoke
on
the
fact
that
when
there's
a
depleted
workforce,
the
remaining
workforce
has
a
very
difficult
time.
Keeping
up
with
this.
That's
really
what
we're
experiencing
in
this
case
our
community
service
officers
csos
as
part
of
the
mpd
pathway
program.
U
U
Also,
police
officers.
We
had
a
10
decrease
in
2020
and
at
29
to
70
percent
decrease
in
the
overall
applicants.
The
reason
why
there's
a
spread
there
is
because
there's
different
classes
that
are
hired
throughout
the
year.
So
in
one
of
the
classes
we
experienced
a
29
decrease
and
then
a
subsequent
one.
We
experienced
the
70
decrease.
U
Regarding
the
hr
recruitment
retention
and
hiring
initiative
that
we
want
to
move
forward
with
it's
not
an
existing
city
program,
there
were
no
previous
arbor
funds
attached
to
it,
so
the
mayor
recommends
7
million
for
this
particular
initiative
and,
as
some
of
the
others
have
commented
on,
the
pandemic
has
exacerbated
the
ability
for
the
city
of
minneapolis
to
hire
and
recruit,
retain
several
critical
positions.
In
fact,
almost
all
critical
positions
across
the
city,
but
then
specifically
in
public
safety.
U
So
the
funds
will
help
support
a
comprehensive
strategy
to
recruit
and
that
hire
and
retain
these
employees.
It's
it's
going
to
be
done
through
a
number
of
ways.
The
first
section
that
I
want
to
comment
on
is
a
significant
portion
will
be
of
the
funds
will
be
used
to
develop
attraction
and
retention
incentives
for
employees
throughout
the
enterprise
hr.
In
order
to
support
this,
we're
also
going
to
be
hiring
two
more
positions.
U
So,
regarding
this
campaign,
it's
the
the
importance
of
this
particular
initiative
is
to
target
hiring
for
hard
to
fill
positions
such
as
police
and
fire
in
9-1-1,
and,
again,
like
I
said,
there's
also
other
positions
out
there.
For
instance
3-1-1.
I
think
we
sometimes
forget
how
important
311
is
to
fielding
a
lot
of
these
first
requests
from
the
residents.
It's
an
extremely
critical
factor.
We
have
to
make
sure
that
everyone
is
being
addressed.
U
Regarding
the
recruitment
and
retention
initiative,
it
will
provide
critical
public
safety
services
for
a
community,
with
a
focus
on
hiring
and
retaining
employees
who
choose
to
work
for
an
employer
focusing
on
equitable
outcomes
for
the
community.
I
you
know
a
lot
of
times
when
we're
looking
at
the
metrics.
It's
really
easy
to
see
how
many
folks
come
in,
but
one
of
the
metrics
that
I
don't
think
it's
enough
attention
is
in
retention,
because
it's
kind
of
here's
who
you
didn't
lose,
and
that
is
a
key
way,
that
the
city
actually
maintains
its
staffing
levels.
U
So
the
city
of
minneapolis
residents,
businesses
and
visitors
will
benefit
from
adding
the
capacity
to
our
public
safety
and,
of
course,
to
the
other
services
and
human
resources
will
continue
to
monitor
data
on
recruitment
and
retention
and
in
the
second
quarter,
human
resources
will
provide
results
on
a
new
public-facing
workforce
dashboard,
and
this
is
what
chro
ferguson
was
just
mentioning
previous
in
that
we
are
in
the
middle
of
developing
a
lot
of
this
forward-facing
information,
we're
partnering
with
our
departments
now
to
ensure
that
we
actually
have
a
model
that
works.
U
That's
in
process
it'll
help
quantify
and
track
what
some
of
the
results
are
that
we
actually
have
from
this
from
this
funding
and
then
I'll
turn
the
remains
of
it
over
to
my
team.
Thank
you,
or
rather
chair,
paul,
masano
and
councilman.
If
there's
any
questions
directly
for
me,
I
could
answer
them
now.
C
E
E
We
could
do
everything
that
we
can
on
the
recruitment
side,
but
also
acknowledging
as
the
department
of
minnesota
department
of
human
rights
report
of
last
week,
just
confirmed.
We
have
extremely
dysfunctional
police
department
right
now
and
that
transcends
into
residents
not
wanting
to
come
work
for
what
is
very
clear.
A
toxic
racist,
misogynist
environment.
E
T
T
We
had
to
take
a
pause,
but
one
of
the
things
we
are
very
committed
to
is:
we
believe
that
data
data
from
either
qualitative
or
quantitative
data
is
what
we
need
to
begin
to
be
able
to
drive
business
decisions,
and
so
in
our
work
we
can't
control
culture.
We
can
only
do
a
part
of
that
work,
but
one
of
the
things
that
we've
done
thanks
to
our
colleague
in
finance
is
is
having
a
dashboard
that
we
can
look
at
whether
it
is
the
hiring
whether
it
is
the
retention
we've
got.
T
Other
critical
questions
we
can
ask
and
what
we're
asking
departments
not
just
as
related
to
the
the
police
department,
but
help
us
understand.
You
know
we
have
exit
interview
data.
You
know
this
is
how
you
can
begin
to
ask
critical
questions
and
it's
an
objective
way
of
trying
to
figure
out
what's
going
on.
T
T
That's
why
we're
so
excited
about
this,
because
for
the
first
time
since
I've
been
here,
we
have
some
data
that
can
ask
those
critical
questions
and
then,
if
indeed
it
is
something
around
culture,
then
we
have
to
ask
ourselves
some
other
questions.
We're
also-
and
this
is
getting
a
little
bit
off
over
and
beyond
what
we're
asking
for
here.
We
also
are
investing
in
some
specific
leadership.
Development
programs
around
racism
that
are
is
in
our
budget
right
now.
T
T
T
We,
as
all
of
you
know,
and
all
of
you,
because
you've
experienced
this
in
your
own
lives
and
in
the
lives
of
your
families,
is
that
our
employees
are
experiencing
trauma
with
the
challenges
faced
within
the
last
two
years
and
we
put
together
income
in
in
collaboration
with
many
stakeholders,
including
our
finance
partners,
and
we
put
together
a
pilot
earlier
in
2021,
with
a
focus
on
removing
some
of
the
barriers
to
obtaining
mental
health
services
and
treatment.
We
expanded
our
mental
health
resources.
T
T
Lastly,
I
just
want
to
give
a
brief
recap
of
the
appropriations
from
arpa
and
what
the
outcomes
have
been.
The
first
one
was
around
furlough
relief
and
employees
were
compensated
for
mandated
furlough
days,
temporary
staffing.
We
did
hire
staff
to
support
the
hiring
recruitment
and
re
re
retirement.
It
should
be
retention,
I
believe,
for
police.
It
says
return
retirement.
T
We
implemented
the
covet
vaccination
and
testing
policy,
as
you
know,
and
last
but
certainly
not
least,
is
the
mental
health
pilot
program
and
the
outcome
was
around
the
mental
health
pilot
program
and
funding
was
implemented.
I
am
now
happy
to
stand
for
any
questions
that
you
might
have.
C
E
E
That
was
also
decimated
in
the
wake
of
george
floyd,
largely
black
women
and
city
employees,
who
left
and
also
dealt
with
just
immense
amount
of
racialized
trauma
and
knowing
that
that's
a
dynamic
that
many
of
our
byproxy
employees
experience
in
trying
to
carry
out
equity
or
just
their
work
in
general,
with
this
enterprise
and
recognizing
you
know,
this
is
something
that
they
often
need
in
order
to
stay
here
and
to
carry
out
their
work,
and
I
know
there's,
of
course,
a
focus
on
police
officers,
but
I
think
of
our
city,
employees,
who
also
wake
up
every
single
day
and
feel
the
heaviness
of
having
to
represent
our
enterprise
right
now
in
such
a
very
challenging
time
in
our
city
and
have
to
do
so
with
a
brave
face.
E
Yes,
so
any
way,
we
could
extend
this
program
to
those
employees
as
well.
T
T
That's
only
one
phase
of
that.
We've
already
contract
we're
contracting
with
him
to
do
some
additional
work
in
may,
and
then
we
have
been
working
diligently
behind
the
scenes
to
secure
an
additional
bypoc
resource
for
our
employees
that
we
are
hoping
to
be
able
to
roll
out
in
may.
That
way,
and
it's
a
it's
a
virtual
option.
These
are
certified
by
park
mental
health
providers
that
we
are
finally
very
excited,
in
collaboration
with
medica,
to
get
that
resource
for
our
employees,
recognizing
that
many
of
our
employees
are
suffering
from
exactly
what
you're
talking
about.
T
So
that
is
our
hope
through
this
program,
as
well
as
the
other
programs
that
I've
just
talked
with
you
about
to
try
to
get
mental
health
providers
that
look
like
our
backpack
employees,
and
so
we
have.
We
have
been
working
on
that
and
we
are
pretty
much
we'll
be
ready
to
roll
that
out
we're
hoping
by
this
by
the
end
of
this
month,
because
I
just
need
to
say
this.
Also
one
size
fits
all
is
not
one
size
fits
all
approach.
H
H
T
Absolutely
council
excuse
me,
chair
parmisano,
councilmember
chavez.
I've
had
some
initial
conversations
with
chief
tyner
about
that
very
thing,
and
we
are
very
much
open
to
doing
that
work.
I
had
shared
with
him
that
there
was
some
initial
work
with
the
police
department.
They
had
had
done
a
women's
academy
that
was
very
successful,
so
we
stand
ready
to
support
that
work.
C
C
You
mentioned
wanting
to
get
up
and
running
a
dashboard,
that's
public
facing
to
say
how
we're
doing,
and
that's
always
important,
but
I'm
not
sure
that
has
value
to
do
more,
recruiting
or
do
all
of
the
processing
that
has
been
put
on
your
shoulders
to
get
more
people
into
our
organization
and
to
try
and
recruit
the
best
people
to
our
organization.
So
can
you
help
me
understand
where,
in
your
comprehensive
strategy,
technology
fits
in
because
I
believe
there
are
things
that
are
vastly
overdue
as
investments
for
your
for
your
work.
T
Sheriff
homicino,
we
would
agree
with
you
what
we're
talking
about,
and
there
is
some
work
in
collaboration
with
our
finance,
with
our
I
t
and
us
to
look
at
what
additional
investments
potentially
need
to
be
around
the
technology
space.
At
the
same
time,
what
we
are
doing
now
is
that
data
point
the
data
points
those
help
us
in
recruiting.
T
So,
for
example,
if
we
see
a
certain
gap
in
a
particular
area
having
the
data
around
that,
whether
it's
retention
data,
whether
it
is
data
by
generations,
whether
it's
data
in
terms
of
who's
leaving,
we
use
that
data
in
working
with
the
departments
to
to
help
us
to
help
inform
what
we
need
to
do.
And
so,
when
we
put
together
these
dashboards
and
got
this
information
and
I'll
just
use
a
department,
for
example,
that
we
initially
met
with,
and
we
presented
this
information
to
them
and
showed
them
how
to
access
the
data.
T
The
departments
start
looking
at
things
differently,
and
so
that's
the
hope
that
getting
these
dashboards
and
we
would
be
more
than
happy
one
of
our
date.
Our
analyst
works
for
joe
would
be
more
than
happy
to
do
a
demonstration,
because
when
people
begin
to
see
the
data
is
not
about
hr
telling
them.
This
is
what
you
need
to
do
right.
It's
about
the
department
saying,
oh,
my
goodness,
we're
seeing
some
patterns
here.
We
are
showing
them
trend
data
over
five
years.
T
So,
if
you're
seeing
something
go
up
or
something
go
down,
what
does
that
tell
you?
Are
you
seeing
some
gaps
and
what
we
want
to
eventually
get
to
is
the
future,
but
that's
why?
It's
not
on
a
spreadsheet.
It
really
gives
departments
the
opportunity
to
really
see
a
little
bit
more
because
if
you're,
only
looking
at
at
the
workforce
here
and
you're,
not
looking
at
the
trend
you're
not
looking
at,
maybe
you
are
doing
a
great
job
with
certain
segments
of
the
workforce,
but
you're
not
doing
well
in
that
workforce.
T
C
I
appreciate
that
and
I
would
like
to
be
walked
through,
and
maybe
some
of
my
colleagues
would
like
to
join
me
for
this.
I
would
like
to
be
walked
through
our
online
visual
and
how
somebody
submits
an
application
and
and
goes
through
the
process
of
the
city,
because
the
few
number
of
data
points
that
I've
received
as
feedback
show
us
to
not
be
on
par
with
other
private
sector,
employers,
other
public
sector
employers,
and
I
think,
no
matter
who
or
how
we
are
doing
recruiting.
C
We
need
to
have
a
modern
public-facing
arm
for
somebody
brand
new
without
any
connection
into
city
hall,
to
seek
out
and
submit
a
resume
through
or
an
application
through
or
whatever
the
requirements
are
for
the
job
and
and
we
need
to
follow
up
with
them,
and
I
would
really
like
to
see
how
we're
doing
that
and
how
we
might
be
able
to
improve
that.
T
We
would
we
would
really
support
that,
and
one
of
the
other
things
we're
doing
is
we
are
looking
at
and
have
requested
and
received
support
from
internal
auditor
to
take
a
look
at
our
entire
hiring
process,
and
so
we
are
working
with
our
internal
auditor
to
also
see
if
there
are
ways
that
we
can
improve.
T
What
we're
doing,
where
are
the
gaps
in
what
we're
doing,
and
we
we've
signed
off
on
that
we've
had
some
initial
conversations
with
the
internal
auditor's
team
as
as
a
matter
of
fact,
we
met
with
them
yesterday
that
may
not
answer
all
the
questions,
but
we're
trying
to
do
everything
in
our
power
what
we
can
do
to
figure
out
what
we
need
to
do
better.
I
think
that
there's
a
way
that
technology
can
help
us,
but
all
this
is
what
our
hope
is.
C
C
Thank
you.
Thank
you,
ms
kruver,
and
all
of
our
presenters
for
today's
report
and
I'll
direct
the
clerk
to
please
receive
and
file.
That
report
just
a
quick
note
that
our
next
meeting
is
this
friday
at
10
a.m.
On
friday,
where
we
will
hear
more
details
about
budget
proposals
and
then
we
will
have
a
public
hearing
on
thursday
may
12th
at
6
05
pm
to
hear
comments
from
the
community
before
we
consider
amendments
to
mayor
frye's
proposals
the
following
week:
are
there
any
questions
about
next
steps?
I'm
not
seeing
any
so.