City of Minneapolis, MN 2022 Minneapolis City Council and Committee Meetings, 21 Mar 2022

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From YouTube: March 21, 2022 Public Health & Safety Committee

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The regular meeting of the minneapolis public health and safety committee for march 21st 2022 will now begin.

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Hello, everyone and welcome to the regular meeting of the public health and safety committee for march 21st 2022. I am latricia vitale and I'm the chair of this committee. As we begin, I will note for the record that this meeting has remote participation by members of the city, council and city staff as authorized under minnesota statutes, section 13-d 0-2-1 due to the declared local public health emergency.

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The city will be recording and posting this meeting to the city's website and youtube channel as a means of increasing public access and transparency. This meeting is public and subject to the minnesota open meeting law. At this time, I will ask the clerk to call the role, so we can verify a quorum for this meeting.

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Council member wansley warlipa.

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President councilmember rainville president council member ellison, here council member paul masano present vice chair payne president and chair vita present. There are six members present. Let the.

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Record reflect we have a quorum with that the agenda for today's meeting is before us. There are three items on today's consent agenda item. One is accepting a minnesota department of health grant amendment for maternal child health, federal home, visiting funds.

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Item two is accepting the mississippi watershed management organization, grant for erosion and sediment control enforcement and item number three is arthorizing: a grant application to the minnesota division of homeland security and emergency management, support prevention, preparation, mitigation response and recovery efforts from active terrorism and other hazards.

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Is there any discussion on these items.

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Council member wansley warlabah.

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Thank you, chair vita. I would like to pull item three for discussion.

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Thank you, so we will move ahead with uh items one and two.

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Can I please ask the clerk to call the roll on items one and two.

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Council member wansley warlipa, I council, member rainville.

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Councilmember ellison aye councilmember paul masano hi vice chair payne, chair vita. I there are six eyes thank.

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You that carries and so for item three: is there council member weinsley laba? Do you have specific questions, or do we have a staff person here that could possibly give us a brief presentation on item number three.

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Yes, thank you. Council can.

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You hold on second just to see if we have a staff person here that can give us a presentation.

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Or whatever, just clarification again, warlo by, I know it's big sure, everybody.

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Thank you. Is there someone here a staff person here.

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Council member, it doesn't look like someone from the office of emergency management is on right now, but we can try to call some of them in very quickly. Thank you.

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All right, chair vita, it looks like alec bruns has joined us, hello.

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And welcome. Thank you so much. um If there's a a brief presentation that you could provide on this item. That would be great and I think um council member has questions. Yes. Thank.

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You uh good morning, chair guitar to er. Excuse me yeah, trevita, council member wants I uh my name is alec bruns. I work in the office of emergency management. This grant that we are applying for is called the urban area security initiative, and it is a annual grant that we receive through the state that helps us with a lot of our emergency management preparations for acts of terrorism and other hazards, and this year it will be.

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This grant is for nine hundred and four thousand dollars and it'll be used in part for supporting our staff payroll that we have for the office of emergency management, a public works training, plan development and then exercises for our staff and a incident management situational monitoring tool that we have.

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Thank you for that alex. I did wanted to get clarification on this only because I'm pretty familiar with um some of the cbe and recent um counter. Well domestic uh terrorism, guidelines that was passed federally and wanted to see if that was part of shaping um some of the funding requests coming through the state on you, all's behalf um and also recognizing.

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There has been lots of public just concerns about some of these initiatives and just wanted to make sure if there was any connection um between what we were applying for and some of those like domestic terrorism guidelines that um are very concerning, especially for the well-being and surveillance of black and brown and immigrant communities.

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um So it sounds like that might not be the case uh unless it is related to how we go about our incidents. um Exercises.

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uh Chair vita to the council member. No, that is uh not something that we've encountered uh in the application for this grant. uh That has influenced our uh kind of what we're looking to use these funds for uh these uh this opportunity, for this grant actually came up last year, uh it would have been last year february that ema first released the notice of funding for this grant, uh which I, uh at least at the time I don't believe, had been influenced by uh any other um uh new recommendations that you were discussing.

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That was clarifying questions that I had thank you, chair, vital for getting staff on for that quick and clarifying presentation and thank you alex for providing it.

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Thank you, councilmember. Is there any further discussion.

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With no further discussion, I would move for approval of item number three. Will the clerk please call the roll.

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Council member wanzi warlipa aye councilmember rainville aye councilmember ellison, aye, councilmember, paul masano hi vice chair payne,.

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And chairvita I there are six eyes.

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That carries and the consent agenda has been approved, seeing no further business before us and without objection. I will declare this meeting adjourned. Thank you. Everyone.

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