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C
A
Present,
let's
reflect
that
we
do
have
a
quorum
with
that.
The
agenda
for
today's
meeting
is
before
us
before
we
take
up
the
items
on
the
published
agenda.
I
would
like
to
make
a
motion
to
amend
the
agenda
to
add
an
item.
The
item
is
a
presentation
on
the
work
of
the
lead
and
healthy
homes
unit
in
the
health
department.
You
have
printed
copies
of
the
materials
related
to
this
item
in
front
of
you,
and
this
would
be
item
two
on
the
agenda.
Can
I.
Please
have
a
second
on
that
motion.
A
D
A
A
Seeing
none
I
will
move
approval
of
the
consent
agenda.
All
those
in
favor,
please
say:
I
I
opposed,
nay,
that
carries
in
the
consent.
Agenda
is
approved
and
our
next
item
is
receiving
and
filing
a
presentation
on
the
work
of
the
lead
and
healthy
homes.
Unit
within
the
health
department
here
to
present
is
Lisa.
Smusted
Smith's,
dad
sorry
Lisa
smithstad
from
the
health
department.
E
Thank
you,
chair
Vita,
I'm,
Lisa,
sbestad
manager
of
the
lead,
Hazard
control
and
healthy
homes
unit
for
the
Minneapolis
Health
Department.
Our
abiding
goal
is
to
stop
using
children
as
lead
paint
detectors.
We
are
changing
our
programming
because,
usually
we
just
respond
after
lead.
E
A
child
has
been
lead
poison
and
we're
changing
our
programming
and
have
been
working
a
few
years
now
to
get
to
the
issues
before
a
child's
poisoned,
because
when
a
child's
been
lead,
placing
that
results
in
permanent
brain
damage-
and
it
makes
it
difficult
for
them
to
learn
in
school
and
it
affects
the
impulse
center
of
the
brains
which
can
have
lifelong
repercussions.
So
what
are
the
most
hazardous
surfaces
in
the
home?
They
are
typically
the
back
of
the
window
Sash
and
the
window
jams,
which
is
the
picture
on
the
far
right.
E
This
paint
was
put
on
over
a
hundred
years
ago.
It
lasted
great
for
40
years,
time's
up
it's
falling
off
all
over
on
the
windows.
The
window
sills
are
a
big
Hazard
because
they're
at
the
mouth
level,
where
children
like
to
teeth
and
any
painted
floor,
because
when
children
when
babies
are
crawling
on
Floors,
they
will
look
floor
if
you're,
a
parent
you've
seen
that
happen,
and
if
it's
a
lead
painted
floor
that
can
have
lifelong
repercussions.
E
Lead
paint
poisoning
is
an
environmental
justice
issue.
So
here's
a
map
of
where
we
have
been
seeing
it
happen
between
2015
and
2022
74
of
poison.
Children
are
bipoc,
82
percent
are
less
than
8
percent
of
area.
Median
income
and
63
percent
of
properties
are
rental,
and
this
is
where
we
can
make
a
really
effective
change
in
how
we're
directing
our
resources
so
I
want
to
point
out.
E
The
overlap
between
rental
properties
here
on
the
left
in
the
middle
are
the
properties
that
were
built
before
1978
when
lead
paint
was
banned
and
that's
all
the
yellow
and
green
there
and
the
on
the
far
right
is
the
children
who
are
lead
poisoning
the
density.
So
you
can
see
how
these
three
things
overlap.
So
we
know
where
it's
happening.
We
know
how
to
direct
our
resources.
One
of
the
things
that's
also
coming
down
the
pike
is
in
the
State
legislature.
Last
year
they
changed
the
definition
it
used
to
be.
E
They
were
calling
children
lead
poisoned
at
five
micrograms
per
deciliter
and
they
are
dropping
that
down
to
3.5.
So
we
have
the
option
to
start
doing
inspections
and
writing
corrective
orders.
We're
working
out
how
we're
going
to
do
that.
That's
going
to
about
double
our
caseload,
so
we're
working
on
aligning
our
resources
and
our
response.
We
are
hoping
running
some
Pilots,
maybe
this
year,
and
maybe
next
year,
we'll
see
how
we
roll
that
program
out.
E
I
want
you
to
know
that
these
are
medical
referrals,
so
what
a
child
goes
in
to
their
normal
two-year
childhood
checkup.
That's
when
the
bloodlet
test
is
being
taken
and
when
that
information
all
goes
to
the
state
and
then
the
state
contacts
us
as
the
local
jurisdiction
responsible
for
going
out
and
identifying
the
hazards
and
getting
them
corrected
so
in
this
shows
the
progress
we've
been
making
from
June
2013
or
from
2013
to
June
of
this
year.
E
Oh
actually,
I
I
did
take
off
2023
I'm.
Sorry
about
that.
So
we
believe
that,
as
inspections
increase,
we
see
childhood
lead
poisoning
go
down,
and
it's
borne
out
by
this
graph.
We
covid
was
a
very
strange
animal
and
because
children
didn't
go
in
and
get
tested,
we
think
that
was
one
of
the
a
couple
of
different
drivers
that
then
we
saw
increased,
lead
poisoning
in
21
and
22,
but
we
think
we're
with
the
that
high
peak
of
inspections.
E
You
see
there
that
was
with
the
arpa
money
that
was
granted
to
the
city
so
that
we
can
get
ahead
of
hazards
and
properties
and
so
we're
kind
of
back
on
track.
E
If
you
look
at
this,
this
is
our
our
rates
in
2023
they're
about
half
of
what
they
were
last
year,
that's
kind
of
where
we
expected
to
be
on
track
if,
if
things
had
gone
as
normal
back
in
2019,
so
I
I
think
this
shows
that
we
are
making
good
progress
and
getting
into
the
right
properties
and
I
think
the
right
properties
is
demonstrated
by
this
chart
here.
This
is
we're
going
in
with
regulatory
Services
when
they're
doing
rental,
licensing
inspections,
that's
a
little
easier
on
both
the
tenants
and
the
and
the
landlords.
E
It's
just
one
appointment,
we're
all
going
in
together
and
then
we're
identifying
lead
hazards,
and
we
are
also
offering
them
resources
to
correct
lead
hazards
at
that
point
in
time
and
we're
targeting
the
rental
properties,
because
75
percent
of
lead
play
place
needs
if
we
go
back
more
historically
than
the
last
few
years,
earn
rental
properties
and
we're
selecting
the
by
the
areas
that
have
traditionally
the
highest
lead,
poisoning
and
79
of
the
hostas
we're
going
into
had
lead
paint
hazards.
So
the
only
thing
missing
there
between
that
and
an
ebl
is
is
a
two-year-old.
E
This
is
a
picture
of
what
it
looks
like
when
a
property
is
undergoing
the
lead,
Hazard
reduction.
We
now
we
currently
are
running
three
federal
grants
that
are
bringing
resources
to
our
community.
We
have
a
HUD
LED,
Hazard
control
grid,
a
HUD,
healthy
homes,
Grant
and
the
American
Recovery
plan.
Act,
the
arpa
money
is
kind
of
unique,
it's
the
easiest
one
to
qualify
for.
So,
if
you,
if
the
property
is
in
this
purple
area,
you
automatically
qualify
for
arpa
funds
to
come
in
and
produce
lead
hazards.
E
So
in
those
properties
we
are
targeting
the
Windows
window,
sills
and
Floors,
because
those
are
the
areas
that
we
see
are
responsible
for
most
of
the
lead
poisoning.
The
other
really
interesting
thing
about
this
chart
is
34
percent
of
the
inspections.
We're
doing
are
voluntary
inspections,
so
we
are
coming
in
under
compliance.
This
is
where
we've
done
Outreach
and
homeowners
and
rental
property
owners
have
reached
back
and
said.
Yes,
we
want
to
take
advantage
of
those
resources
that
you
have
and
they
invite
us
to
come
in
the
HUD
LED
Hazard
control.
E
Grant
is
running
from
2020
to
2024
we're
going
to
make
225
properties
safe.
We
have
about
26
slots,
left
people
enroll
in
this
grant,
either
because
a
child's
been
poisoned
or
because
they're
choosing
to
do
the
prevention
mitigation
of
those
lead
hazards.
This
grant
is
based
on
someone's
the
residence
income
to
qualify
for
this
grants
we
put
about
twelve
thousand
dollars
per
property
in
the
grant
that
can
go
up
to
twenty
five
thousand
dollars
kind
of
varies
on
the
needs
of
the
property.
E
We
also
have
additional
five
thousand
dollars
per
property
that
we
can
put
in
to
do
other
Healthy
Home
hazards
like
radon
mitigation,
handrails,
Electrical,
Plumbing,
pest
control
and
our
department
has
been
working
very
hard
to
braid
funds.
So
when
we
get
there's
weatherization
or
climate
change
money,
we
serve
as
a
vehicle
we're
already
in
the
house
we're
working
with
the
families
and
the
property
owners.
We
can
bring
additional
resources
to
to
do
more
of
a
wrap
around
for
that
house
to
do
a
deep
dive
on
the
house.
E
Instead
of
just
a
shallow
touch,
I
and
if
people
don't
want
to
work
with
the
City
of
Minneapolis,
Hennepin
County
also
has
lead
grants.
So
there's
no
excuse
for
not
reaching
out
there's
a
lot
of
money
to
help
reduce
lead
hazards.
In
our
city
we
have
a
healthy
homes.
Grant
HUD
has
just
started
handing
these
out
handing
out
their
competitive
Grant
projects,
but
they've
just
started
in
2022
Distributing
them
again.
E
E
We've
had
difficulty
in
past
years
getting
people
to
apply
for
the
grants
getting
up
on
the
website.
We
had
a
couple
hundred
applications
in
two
months,
so
it
is
the
change
in
Technologies
and
our
social
media
change
and
how
we
advertise
is
showing
benefits
and
getting
people
in
touch
with
the
resources
we
have
to
offer.
E
We
also
just
this
year,
ended
at
EPA
environmental
justice
Grant.
This
ran
from
2021
to
this
month.
Its
goal
was
to
provide
the
community
information
and
Supplies
on
lead,
paid
hazards,
asthma
and
safe
cleaning
around
a
covid,
and
we
did
a
lot
of
Outreach
on
Healthy
Home
environments
and
how
to
keep
your
home
environment
toxic
free
and
we
braided
did
a
lot
of
braiding
of
this
funding
with
our
asthma
funding
and
the
grants
to
provide
a
wider
reach
to
the
neighborhoods.
E
The
the
asthma
program
we
have
one
part-time
staff.
They
were
partially
funded
by
that
EPA.
Grant
that
just
ended
so
I
our
production
might
level
off
a
little.
E
But
what
we
go
out
to
homes
of
people
who
have
asthma
of
children
with
who
have
asthma
and
we
bring
products
that
research
has
shown
actually
help
reduce
the
environmental
allergen
triggers.
We
try
to
focus
on
the
child's
bedroom
so
that
they
get
a
good
night's
sleep
and
they
can
get
up
the
next
morning
and
go
to
school,
and
we
do
that
by
providing
an
allergen
vacuum
for
the
house.
E
A
HEPA
air
cleaner
for
the
child's
bedroom
and
then
mattress
covers
and
pillow
covers
that
are
allergen
rated
because
they
prevent
dust
mites,
which
is
a
very
well-known
allergen
with
the
northern
metal
settlement
money.
When
we're
in
a
property
in
north
and
Northeast
Minneapolis,
we
can
also
do
integrated
Pest,
Management
and
mold
remediation
and
with
those
funds,
we've
also
provided
a
few
hundred
asthma
spacers
for
inhalers.
E
So
sometimes
the
insurance
programs
provide
one
spacer
for
the
asthma
inhaler,
but
the
child
also
needs
to
take
their
asthma
medication
at
school
so
that
that
funding
has
provided
those
so
that
they
can
take
their
medication
more
effectively
when
they're
in
school.
E
On
the
south
side,
we
provide
these
products
through
the
EPA
grant
that
just
ended
and
City
General
funds,
and
if
somebody
has
a
a
child
with
asthma
and
we
defined
a
child
as
anyone
under
age
21,
they
can
go
to
our
website,
click
a
button
and
fill
out
the
application,
and
they
will
be
contacted
to
come
out.
Have
someone
come
out
and
bring
these
products
to
their
house
and
see
if
there
are
other
items
like
like
housing
items
like
mold,
if
you're
in
a
rental
property
that
we
can
look
at
and
get
corrected?
E
So
what
are
our
goals?
It's
to
stop
using
children
as
lead
paint,
detectors?
I
can't
say
that
enough
and
we
want
to
stop
the
hazards.
We
know
enough
about
where
it
is
the
age,
the
housing
and
the
neighborhoods.
So
we're
moving
to
do
more
and
more
prevention
inspections
and
get
those
hazards
remediated
before
a
child
is
brain
damaged.
F
A
couple
of
things:
no,
no
real
questions
just
wanted
to
say
that
this
has
been
a
priority
addressing
lead.
You
know
if
I
know,
for
a
number
of
council
members.
Obviously
councilmember,
Vito
and
I
have
a
great
interest
in
this
because
we
see
it
in
our
Wards.
We
see
you
know,
you
know
folks
living
in
conditions
where
you
know
the
kids
are
susceptible
to
these
hazards,
and
so
just
want
to
say
that
I
really
appreciate.
F
Not
only
you
know,
I
think
my
original
Vision
was
just
like
disclosure
as
long
as
more
people
know
what
the
risks
are
and
I
feel
like
you
and
your
department
and
and
the
health
department
have
gone
above
and
beyond
and
said:
hey
we're
going
to
put
a
lot
of
money
into
this,
we're
going
to
make
sure
that
we
are
actually
reducing
the
hazards
that
folks,
that
kids
experience
and
that
people
experience,
and
so
there's
a
lot
that
I
could
go
through
in
the
in
in
the
presentation
and
highlight
as
something
that
I
find
incredible,
but
really
just
wanted
to.
F
Thank
you
for
the
work
and
and
and
and
and
thank
my
colleagues
in
the
mayor
for
raising
this
to
a
priority
and
funding
these
things
at
a
level
that
can
actually
make
sure
that
we're
addressing
them.
So
that's
all.
Thank
you.
D
Thank
you,
madam
chair
building,
off
of
councilmember
Ellison,
definitely
want
to
show
appreciation
for
this
work.
I
think
it's
really
important
and
I
also
want
to
maybe
understand
what
the
current
budget
reality
is,
especially
as
it
relates
to
arpa
Dollars
and
the
fiscal
cliff
Grant
dollars,
and
you
know
how
stable
or
fickle
those
grand
dollars
are
and
and
what
we
should
be
thinking
about
in
terms
of
our
long-term
commitment
to
this
I
wonder
if
you
could
just
give
a
high
level
view
of
what
that
budget
reality
is
for
you.
E
E
Option
to
be
able
to
be
able
to
do
both
the
inspections
and
the
rehabs
and
the
properties
I
think
we
are
finally
putting
enough
money.
You
know,
but
that
money
ends
in
two
years.
If
we
really
want
to
solve
the
problem,
because
when
you
look
at
that
map,
there's
a
lot
of
houses
there
and
we
we
need
to
get
the
lead
out
of
them,
because,
as
soon
as
you
introduce
a
child
to
that
environment,
they
are,
they
are
at
risk
of
being
poisoned.
E
The
Grant
dollars
are
competitive,
but
we've
been
successful
for
the
last
20
years
of
getting
them,
and
so
we
one
of
the
ways
that
the
general
fund
really
helps
us
to
get
other
money
is
because
of
the
leverage.
So
when
we
get
these
federal
grants,
we
have
a
match
requirement,
and
so
we
use
our
general
funds
in
order
to
get
that
money
and
there's
a
lot
of
restrictions
and
strings
on
the
federal
money.
E
They're
they're
all
targeted
toward
you
have
to
be
under
80
percent
Ami
Ami
to
qualify
one
of
the
gifts
of
the
arpa
money
is
we
were
able
to
finally
do
something
for
parents,
maybe
that
made
more
money
than
that
and
had
a
lead
poisoned
child
and
we're
looking
at
forty
thousand
dollars
worth
repairs
on
their
homes
to
make
it
safe.
So
we
were
able
to
because
of
how
that
legislation
was
written.
We
were
able
to
also
assist
something
some
other
families
also.
E
C
C
Could
you
please
contact
my
office
I'd
like
to
speak
to
you
a
little
bit
more
I
notice
on
the
maps
that
there
are
areas
of
my
war
that
are
eligible
for
this
help?
So
I
would
like
to
help
help
you
by
helping
to
form
the
members
of
my
community.
C
E
A
One,
let
me
just
say
something:
really:
quick:
okay,
man
you'll
have
the
floor.
I
want
to
say
thank
you
so
much
for
this
work.
You
know,
councilmember
Ellison
has
really
mentored
me
and
my
office
through
the
LED
work.
It
was
something
that
was
important
because,
as
he
said,
it's
a
big
issue
on
the
North
side
and
for
underserved
families.
A
So
it
was
probably
one
of
the
first
things
that
you
know
we
got
to
work
on
at
a
high
level,
I'm,
so
proud
of
the
work
that
you
and
the
entire
health
department
has
done
to
put
the
north
side
first
in
this.
This
is
a
huge
problem
for
a
lot
of
our
children
and
when
I
I
never
forget,
when
someone
from
the
health
department
said
we're
going
to
stop
using
our
kids
as
lead
detectors.
A
When
you
hear
that
for
the
first
time
it
shakes
you,
you
really
think
about
it
in
a
different
way
than
kids
getting
lead,
poisoning
from
touching
old
windows
or
if
you
really
think
about
it
differently,
when
you
think
about
people
find
out
that
lead
is
in
their
house
or
somewhere
when
their
children
are
sick,
when
it's
probably
too
late
in
some
cases,
and
so
this
has
been
your
life's
work
and
others
life's
work
and
I
appreciate
it.
Our
children
appreciate
it.
I
know
I'm
not
supposed
to
speak
for
everyone,
but
I.
A
Am
everyone
appreciates
this
tremendous
work?
This
undertaking
of
we're
not
going
to
let
our
children
be
lead
detectors.
I've
had
my
nephew
is,
was
a
lead
detector
and
now
his
son
is-
and
so
it's
been
wonderful
working
with
you,
I
have
appreciated
all
the
things
that
you
and
the
health
department
have
taught
me.
I've
appreciated
council
member
Ellison's
leadership
on
this
and
making
sure
no
matter
what
we
have
money
to
fund
this
work.
A
G
You
Madam
chair
and
council
members.
You
know
this
is
an
issue
that
the
more
you
learn
about
it,
the
more
you
understand
its
importance.
Everybody
comes
into
public
service
having
a
different
passion
and
you
can't
be
possibly
be
passionate
about
every
single
issue,
but
when
you
understand
the
long-term
and
permanent
impacts
regarding
lead
poisoning,
you
gain
a
deep
appreciation
for
how
incredibly
important
your
work
is
and
miss
mested,
or
also
known
as
Beyonce
of
the
health
department.
We're
we're
really
grateful
for
your
work,
but
I
do
have
several
questions.
G
First,
I
understand
that
in
the
early
2000s
over
500
children
in
the
City
of
Minneapolis
would
get
lead
poisoning
in
a
year.
Is
that
correct.
G
And
I
also
understand
that
you
know
you've
been
working
for
the
City
of
Minneapolis
and
you've
created
a
mission-driven
culture
in
lead
and
healthy
homes.
Program
which
prevents
lead
exposure
in
youth.
Isn't
that
right,
yes
and
you've
since
taken
over
the
program,
you've
successfully
landed
28
million
dollars
in
grant
funding
to
address
childhood
lead
poisoning.
Isn't
that
correct?
That's
true!
That's
right
and
you've
been
persistent
in
your
work
and
aptitude
and
funding
has
brought
some
really
successful
results
and
you've
remained
unsatisfied
until
no
child
is
affected
by
the
lifelong
consequences
of
lead.
G
E
G
And
you've
helped
respond
to
protect
and
save
countless
children
from
their
harmful
from
the
harmful
effects
of
lead.
Poisoning
in
the
City
of
Minneapolis
will
forever
be
grateful
and
you're
retiring
from
your
position
on
August
1st
2023
in
the
City
of
Minneapolis
congratulates,
and
thanks
you
for
the
so
many
years
of
incredible
work.
You
don't
need
to
answer
that.
G
One
I'll
just
tell
you
that
that
is
correct,
but
the
final
thing
that
is
correct
and
needs
to
be
acknowledged
is
that
I
do
hereby
Proclaim
July
26
2023
is
Lisa
smed's
dead
day
in
the
City
of
Minneapolis.
E
A
Thank
you,
mayor
Frye.
Thank
you
so
much
mayor
Frye
for
your
help
on
this
also,
and
for
that
wonderful
Proclamation.
Thank
you,
okay!
So
we're
going
to
move
on
to
the
next
item.
The
next
item
is
a
discussion
item
receiving
and
filing
enough.
Oh
no
I
think
we
got
to
receive
and
file.
The
did
I
do
that
on
the
last
item,
you
got
it
all
right.
Thank
you.
A
The
next
item
is
receiving
and
filing
an
update
on
neighborhood
programming
here
to
present
on
this
item
is
Stephen
Gallagher
from
neighborhood
and
community
relations.
Oh
karimos
here
welcome
director.
H
Good
afternoon,
thank
you,
chair
I
am
going
to
do
just
a
quick
introduction,
but
I'm
a
little
bit
moved
right
now,
I,
don't
know
if
this
is
appropriate.
I'm
just
going
to
acknowledge
to
you
that
I
started
at
the
city.
I,
don't
know
in
2016
and
I
met.
H
Lisa
Smith
said
when
I
was
working
in
regulatory
services
and
came
from
the
world
of
weatherization
and
energy
assistance
and
working
with
households
that
qualified
for
programs
like
that
and
I
had
the
same
reaction
as
you
did
chair
that
I
met
Lisa
shortly
after
I
started
working
here,
and
she
used
that
phrase
that
we
should
not
be
using
our
children
as
lead
detectors,
and
it
had
a
profound
change
on
how
I
understood
the
work
that
we
had
to
do
in
front
of
us
and
I
just
want
to
say.
H
A
H
So
chiravita,
council
members,
my
name,
is
Karen
Moe
I
am
director
of
neighborhood
and
community
relations
and
I
am
very
grateful
to
be
standing
here
today.
I
just
wanted
to
do
a
couple
of
acknowledgments
before
I
turn
it
over
to
Stephen
Gallagher
who's.
The
manager
of
the
neighborhoods
program
first
I
want
to
say
thank
you
to
council
members.
H
This
legislative
directive
we're
here
today
to
present
on
the
legislative
directive
that
came
through
in
December
of
2023
and
I,
want
to
say
thank
you
when
I
started
at
neighboring
community
relations
shortly
before
Stephen
Gallagher
started
the
neighborhood
2020
work
was
actually
already
underway,
and
so
we
kind
of
came
in
a
lot
towards
the
tail
end
of
a
lot
of
work.
H
That
was
being
done
led
by
the
city
with
community
members,
with
our
neighborhood
organizations
and
with
council
members
and
the
mayor's
office,
and
it
was
a
lot
of
work
and
in
the
last
couple
years,
we've
started
to
implement
the
work
that
Council
directed
us
to
do
and
during
that
Stephen
and
I
have
talked
a
lot
around
the
need
for
us
to
do
continuous,
Improvement
internally
in
our
department
to
make
sure
that
we
are
supporting
our
neighbor
organizations
most
effectively
and
with
our
neighborhood
organizations
to
make
sure
that
they
have
the
support
that
they
need
to
to
be
effective.
H
This
legislative
directive,
I
think
actually
follows
that
intention
that
we
continue
as
a
city
to
check
in
on
ourselves
and
make
sure
that
we
are
actually
having
the
impact
that
we
want
to.
So
I
really
appreciate
you
directing
us
to
do
it.
It
was
our
intention
to
do
it,
but
sometimes
it's
helpful
to
have
the
deadline
to
have
to
come
back
and
present
on
it.
So
thank
you.
H
I
also
want
to
say
thank
you
to
chair.
Vita
I
know
that
we,
you
have
been
super
flexible
and
supportive
with
us.
This
legislative
directive
has
quite
a
lot
of
directions
in
it.
This
is
just
the
first
of
what
we
anticipate
at
least
two
Council
presentations,
just
based
off
of
the
volume
of
research
and
information
that
we
had
together
and
I
just
want
to
say.
Thank
you,
chair
Vita,
for
your
flexibility
in
working
with
our
office
to
make
sure
that
we
had
sufficient
time.
H
We
are
planning
on
coming
back
in
August
to
follow
up
on
some
of
the
work,
we're
not
going
to
get
through
everything
today.
So
I'll
just
set
the
stage
for
that
and
say
we're
going
to
start
today
and
then
we'll
come
back
and
continue.
The
conversation
in
August
I
also
want
to
say
thank
you
because
neighborhood
and
community
relations
manages
the
contracts
and
the
relationships
with
our
neighborhood
organizations,
but
actually
we
do
that
on
behalf
of
the
entire
city,
and
we
could
not
do
that
work
and
the
legislative
directive
that
we're
responding
to
today.
H
We
really
had
to
rely
on
our
partners
inside
the
city,
including
staff,
at
Department
of
Finance
and
development,
Bob
Cooper,
Stacey,
Sorensen
and
Brad
honnell,
the
city
attorney's
office,
intergovernment
relations,
the
city
auditor,
just
to
name
a
few
of
the
staff
that
have
spent
time
over
the
last
couple
months
weighing
in
on
us
and
spending
quite
a
bit
of
time
providing
guidance.
So
thank
you
to
all
of
those
folks.
H
I
also
want
to
just
acknowledge,
I'm,
not
sure
if
you
all
have
had
the
chance
to
meet
all
of
our
staff
and
last
year
with
the
retirement
of
Jack
Whitehurst,
who
some
of
you
may
know,
and
with
etrophic
renette
moving
over
Department
of
neighborhood
safety.
We
were
able
to
add
a
couple
staff,
and
so
we
have
joining
us
today,
Tate
noon
and
Victoria
Balco.
H
We
also
have
our
senior
neighborhood
Specialists,
Erica,
Meyer
and
Ariah
fine,
and
that
makes
up
with
Stephen
Gallagher
the
neighborhoods
team.
Those
five
folks
are
the
ones
who,
every
day,
work
to
support
our
70
neighborhood
organizations.
So
I
want
to
do
a
huge
shout
out.
They
put
a
lot
of
work
into
this.
H
Many
of
you
know
them
and
if
you
don't
I
hope
you
get
the
chance
to
meet
them,
they're
fabulous
staff
with
that
I'm
going
to
turn
it
over
to
Stephen,
to
walk
us
through
the
presentation
today
and
just
a
reminder
that
today,
we're
kind
of
starting
the
conversation,
we're
really
going
to
focus
on
the
programmatic
pieces
and
we'll
be
coming
back
with
respect
to
other
processes,
we'll
be
coming
back
in
August
to
talk
a
little
bit
more
about
the
financial
pieces.
I
D
D
I
Okay,
so
I'm
not
going
to
be
able
to
do
this,
for
many
notes
that
I
have
so
feel
free
to
ask
any
questions
as
I
go
by
I
do
want
to
start
the
presentation
with
a
David
rubiner
in
his
one
of
his
last
presentations
was
many
of
you
know
as
our
previous
director
and
passed
away
this
last
year.
He
started
his
last
presentation
with
this
quote,
and
it's
cities
have
the
capability
providing
something
for
everyone
for
everybody
only
because
and
only
when
they
are
created
by
everyone.
I
I
This
legislative
directive
had
four
main
components
that
came
through
and
you'll
see
it
has
to
do
with.
It
has
to
do
with
looking
at
the
different
funding
sources,
the
different
pots
of
money
and
also
the
NRP
funds,
and
then
lastly,
provide
some
recommendations
and
Analysis
of
the
funding
mechanisms
and
the
feasibility
for
the
next
fiscal
year.
I
We're
going
to
wait
for
the
financial
aspect
until
after
the
mayor
releases
his
budget
and
then
we'll
come
back
at
the
right
away
after
the
after
the
mayor
releases,
the
budget
I
will
say
that
this
legislative
directive,
we
actually
broke
down
into
22
different
subsections,
because
it
was
a
lot
of
information
to
go
through.
I
We,
we
did
want
to
make
sure
that
we
maintained
our
our
Echo
engagement
fund,
our
racial
Equity
components
and
the
goals
of
the
neighbors
2020
program.
The
first
aspect
also
asked
for
recommendations
to
improve
the
Citywide
Neighborhood
Network
Fund,
in
order
to
maintain
a
full
network
of
neighborhood
organizations
and
through
breaking
that
down.
As
you
can
see,
we
wanted
to
make
sure
that
we
and
that
took
analysis
to
what
the
base
funding
is
needed.
I
What
does
it
take
to
run?
A
compliant
non-profit
meaningfully,
engage
all
residents
across
their
their
prospective
areas,
Grant
Management
and
other
day-to-day
activities
of
neighborhood
organizations.
I
One
of
the
first
additional
piece
on
there
was
per
activity.
Billing
rate
I
believe
councilmember,
Payne
championed
this
this
aspect
and
we'll
cover
in
in
a
little
bit
later.
The
second
piece
was
analyze:
the
effectiveness
of
all
of
the
programs
report
the
results
and
make
recommendations
to
improve
their
to
improve
their
utilization.
I
I
This
Frontier
really
shows
neighborhood
organizations,
since
1992
have
had
about
a
311
million
dollars
that
have
come
into
the
program.
This
combines
all
of
the
NRP
funds
program,
income,
Community
participation,
citizen
participation
and
neighbors
2020..
What
really
sticks
out
here
is
that
just
in
2022,
there's
94
000
hours
of
volunteer
time,
which
equates
to
just
over
3.2
million
dollars
of
in-kind
contributions
with
those
volunteers.
I
That's
work,
that's
local!
It's
work
that
volunteers
and
residents
really
invest
into
the
neighbor
neighborhoods,
we'll
start
to
get
into
the
Citywide
Neighborhood
Network
fund.
I
All
right,
so
the
function
of
the
Citywide
Neighborhood
Network
fund
provides
administrative
cost,
overhead
costs
and
other
community
organizing
costs
this
in.
However,
this
fund
really
has
the
the
responsibility
to
ensure
that
organizations
are
compliant
with
a
Litany
of
requirements.
This
could
be
the
Internal
Revenue
Service
Minnesota
Secretary
of
State,
the
Attorney
General's
office
are
contracts
and
it
reflects
the
best
practices
for
nonprofits.
One
of
the
things
that
we
found
when
we
went
through
the
initial
application
for
the
neighborhood
Network
fund
was
that
three
organizations
actually
lost
their
non-profit
status
through
this
review.
I
Seven
others
were
close
to
losing
or
seven
others
actually
lost.
Their
ability
were
dissolved
by
the
Minnesota
attorney
general's
office.
To
be
a
non-profit,
I
say
this
not
as
a
negative
I
say
this
as
a
positive
that
we
were
able
to
work
together
to
fix
those
issues
through
this
process,
and
I
could
say
that
all
neighborhoods
69
out
of
70
neighborhoods
are
100
compliant
with
both
our
requirements
as
well
as
all
the
other
government
entities.
I
Next
slide
this
one,
the
the
Partnerships
with
government
programs-
and
this
has
to
go
with
the
per
billing
rate
neighborhoods
work
with
a
an
array
of
government
agencies,
including
the
City
of
Minneapolis
Hahnemann
County,
Park,
Board,
School,
Board,
Department
of
Transportation
met
Council
and
many
others.
I
I
So
when
we
started
looking
into
what
are
those
relationships
and
what
can
they
be
going
forward?
We
we
contacted
those
organizations
Hennepin
County,
they
utilized
neighborhood
groups
to
engage
on
projects
and
programs.
They
actually
have
two
contracts
with
neighborhood
organizations
around
the
blue
line
and
they
reached
out.
They
responded
to
an
RFP
and
they're
in
their
current
in
those
in
those
projects.
Now
Hennepin
County
started
a
new
Outreach
in
community
support
department,
which
is
very
exciting.
There
were
about
six
and
a
half
seven
months
old.
I
Neighborhood
organizations
are
now
now
invited
to
sign
up
for
this,
so
they
could
be
paid
for
engagement
engagement
with
the
county,
so
this
is
just
extending
it
a
little
bit
more
Hennepin
County
has
also
agreed
to
agreed
to
come
to
the
table
when
we
kind
of
discuss
further
what
it
might
look
like
for
all
of
these
entities
to
come
together,
maybe
for
a
suite
of
services
or
to
Define
what
Rose,
neighborhoods
and
those
entities
can
play
together
and
what
kind
of
cooperation
we
can
do
going
further.
I
Minneapolis
Park
Board
was
really
excited
about
the
conversation
as
they
are
a
permanent
member
of
the
policy
board
and
they
have
a
long
history
of
cross-investment.
I
say
this
because
neighborhoods
have
put
millions
of
dollars
into
the
park
board
into
part
facilities
through
their
NRP
funds.
Neighbors
are
using
space
they're
using
space
for
offices.
They're
using
space
for
events
and
for
meetings-
and
it
is
the
it
is
the
part
where
standard
practice
to
engage
with
neighborhoods
when
projects
come
forward.
However,
one
thing
we're
finding
is:
there's
no
record
keeping
about
that
relationship.
How
much?
I
What
is
the
return
on
an
investment
from
neighborhoods
utilizing
park,
space
and
Parks,
utilizing
the
neighborhood
organizations
so
over
the
course
of
2023
the
remaining
the
remaining
part
of
the
year?
We're
going
to
do
some
data
collection
to
find
out?
What
is
that
relationship
and
what
can
the
park
board
along
with
the
city?
How
can
we
make
that
relationship
even
more
solid?
If
you
will
some
feedbacks
from
neighborhood
organizations
or
the
part
board
was
creating
some
programming
in
local
neighborhood
parks,
but
the
neighborhood
organizations
had
no
idea
about
that
programming.
I
I
will
say
that
Minneapolis
Board
of
Education,
they
are
also
a
permanent
member
on
the
policy
board.
They
do
have
a
history
of
working
with
neighborhoods
and
for
an
example,
Whittier
Whittier
neighborhood
utilize
their
NRP
funds
to
actually
help
create
the
Whittier
neighborhood
school,
which
is
a
very
successful
School
within
the
system.
Currently
they
do
not
use
neighborhoods
as
an
engagement
partner,
but
neighborhoods
do
utilize
property
space
and
meeting
space.
I
However,
the
school
district
right
now
is
unable
to
commit
any
to
anything
financially
as
they
are
running
in
some
problems
with
with
the
number
of.
I
And
the
amount
of
money
that
comes
in
from
the
state
based
on
student
enrollment
they're
willing
to
have
a
discussion
but
not
willing
to
commit
to
anything
further
than
that.
I
I
will
say
that
I
was
very
impressed
with
City
departments
when
I
came
to
cped
Public
Works,
reg,
Services
police
department
and
others
willing
to
come
to
the
table.
I've
talked
about
how
they
utilize
neighborhood
organizations
and
what
are
some
potential
ways
for
them
to
partner
going
forward.
I
was
here,
I
believe
it
was
last
week
when
Public
Works
came
forward
and
talked
about
snow,
shoveling
and
neighboring
organizations
being
part,
maybe
being
part
of
that
solution.
I
Those
are
the
type
of
programs
or
things
that
we'll
be
bringing
forward
in
that
work
group
to
see
how
we
can
really
bring
forward
the
the
city
in
different
city
departments
and
explore
opportunities
to
expand
those
relationships
within
neighborhoods.
We
want
to
potentially
create
like
a
suite
of
services.
I'll
give
an
example:
the
Minneapolis
Police
Department
might
call
on
a
neighborhood
organization
to
have
a
community
meeting
on
a
level
3
sex
offender
that
comes
into
the
neighborhood,
the
neighborhood
organization,
oftentimes
door.
Knocks,
they
flyer
they
get
information
out.
I
The
police
department
shows
up
to
give
the
information,
but
the
neighborhood
does
all
the
work.
If
we
can
establish
what
is
that
rate
that
it
could
very
well
be?
Well,
maybe
if
let's
say
that
would
be
500
for
a
meeting
for
all
that
work,
we
want
to
make
that
consistent
through
all
of
our
government
Partners.
So
there
isn't
this.
I
There
isn't
70
different
negotiations
going
on
with
with
five
different
funding
partners
and
feel
free
to
interrupt
me,
because
I
may
forget
some
things
as
we
go
forward:
I'm
going
to
transition
into
the
effectiveness
and
we'll
kind
of
go
through
the
programs
here,
the
Ecuador
engagement
fund.
The
purpose
is
the
projects,
programs,
Outreach
and
engagement
activities
and
engaging
communities
throughout
the
city,
with
the
focus
on
Equity.
I
Each
neighborhood
organization
uses
data
to
understand
their
demographics
of
their
neighborhood
organization.
They
search
for
the
historically
underrepresented
community
members
in
their
neighborhood,
with
that
they
plan
make
a
plan
how
to
reach
out
to
those
folks
and
involve
them
into
the
neighborhood.
I
So
so
those
those
planes
actually
identify
engagement
strategies
that
are
tailored
to
the
to
the
folks
that
they
want
to
ensure
are
part
of
their
neighborhood
organization.
This
encourages
encourages
neighborhood
organizations
to
remove
barriers
to
participation
within
their
own
organization
and
encourages
more
voices
at
the
table
and
I
think
we
all
know
here,
representation
matters
where
decisions
are
being
made,
and
so
this
it's
very
encouraging
I
will
say
that
we
just
did
a
neighborhood
board
representation.
This
is,
after
18
months
really
of
the
program
being.
I
In
effect,
we've
already
seen
just
about
a
3.1
increase
in
the
number
of
number
of
renters
on
on
neighborhood
boards,
which
is
quite
significant.
It's
200,
more
people,
200
more
renters
that
have
come
in
to
the
neighborhood
organizations,
pretty
significant.
When
we
look
at
the
3.1
percent
number,
it
doesn't
say
that
the
actual
story
behind
folks
coming
to
the
table
expressing
themselves
and
what
they
need
at
the
local
level.
I
Additionally,
this
board
diversity
survey
showed
that
we
have
around
a
4.3
percent
increase
in
Black,
indigenous
and
people
of
color
serving
on
boards,
and
this
equates
to
about
a
hundred
more
black,
indigenous
and
community
members
of
color,
serving
on
neighborhood
boards,
a
hundred
more
in
18
months
that
have
come
forward
through
different
practices
of
neighborhood
organizations
relating
their
Ecuador
engagement
planes
and
turning
them
into
action
to
bring
new
faces
onto
onto
the
neighborhood
again.
I
4.3
percent
doesn't
seem
like
a
lot,
but
a
hundred
new
people
that
have
never
been
part
of
the
neighborhood
organizations
are
now
and
now
sitting
on
the
table.
That's
huge
in
our
in.
In
my
estimation,
that
will
continue
as
we
go
down.
I
This
engagement
fund
ensures
all
residents
have
an
Avenue
for
engagement
practices,
especially
residents
from
historically
underrepresented
communities,
community-based
organizations
and
neighborhoods
partner,
together
to
try
to
work
on
projects
and
programs
to
to
try
to
bring
folks
together,
I
believe
we
were
here
a
couple
months
ago
to
speak
on
some
contracts
that
came
forward
of
the
partnership
engagement
fund
and
showed
a
heartwarming.
Video
I
also
want
to
say
that
there
are
quite
a
few
partnership
engagement
fund
recipients
here
today,
because
they're
invested
in
this
program.
I
When
we
talk
about
the
partnership
engagement
fund,
it's
not
an
NCR
fund
per
se,
as
Karen
talked
about
how
this
is
a
how
this
is
more
of
a
city-wide
piece,
but
you'll
notice
that
you
know
this
is
designed
by
Community
reviewed
by
community
and
Community
needs
are
identified,
but
we
also
look
at
other
pieces
of
the
city,
you'll
notice,
like
the
Minneapolis,
2040,
comprehensive
plan,
climate
initiatives,
healthy
food
parks
and
employment,
green
zones,
racism
as
a
public
health,
emergency,
Strategic,
Equity
action
plan.
All
of
those
pieces.
I
The
partnership
engagement
fund
touches
the
map.
On
the
left
hand,
side
shows
the
neighborhoods,
the
neighborhood
Partners
in
the
last
two
years.
These
are
the
neighborhoods,
the
darker,
the
the
more
the
more
projects,
the
one
on
the
right
shows.
Where
are
the
Project's
locations
you'll
notice
that
the
locations
are
spread
out
through
the
entire
city
of
Minneapolis.
I
I
This
was
these
are
different
funds
different
needs
for
different
funds.
The
partnership
engagement
fund
is
competitive,
one-time
funds.
They
are
not
for
General
operations,
they're
they're
used
for
newer,
expanded
programming
and
they
specifically
focus
on
engaging
historically
underrepresented
communities.
Neighborhood
funding,
however,
there's
about
three
million
dollars
a
year.
Non-Competitive
allocation
covers
engagement,
Focus
and
does
cover
General
operations
and
there's
been
ongoing
funding
for
over
30
years.
I
In
fact,
the
City
of
Minneapolis
has
invested
in
a
neighborhoods
approximately
55
years
and
then
neighbors
are
Equity
focused
starting
in
2021,
and
that's
no
required
to
no
required
outcomes
to
receive
that
funding.
I
I
do
want
to
mention
the
partnership.
Engagement
from
the
leadership
representation
about
70
percent
of
the
leaders
of
the
partnership
fund
programs
are
black
indigenous
and
people
of
color
tenants
actually
make
41.
41.2
percent
of
the
leadership
in
the
in
the
partnership
engagement
fund,
I,
do
say:
I
want
to
say
that
52.6
of
the
city
population
are
renters,
so
we're
a
little
bit
short
on
that
Gap
as
well.
I
Moving
on
to
the
collaboration
and
shared
resources
fund,
this
fund
provides
organizations
with
the
resources
to
support
their
voluntary
consolidation
efforts
or
merging
or
sharing
of
Staff
we've
had
seven
applications
from
18
organizations
forward
of
share
staff
and
collaborate
on
projects
and
14.
I
We're
looking
at
a
full
merger
I
believe
there's
going
to
be
four
to
six
neighborhoods
that
are
expected
to
complete
their
activities,
including
mergers
within
the
next
12
months,
and
this
is
really
exciting
for
even
the
programs
that
didn't
go
forward
with
with
merging
what
they
did
is
they
took
a
look,
a
deep
dive
into
their
finances
on
their
programming.
I
What
they're
able
to
do
what
kind
of
Staff
they
might
need
and
they
were
able
to
do
a
deep
dive
and
create
actually
a
strategic
plan
for
their
own
organization,
even
if
they
didn't
move
forward
with
with
merging
more
solid
relationships
between
organizations
developed
out
of
this.
So
I
don't
think
this
is
a
negative.
However,
I
will
say
I
believe
we
started
this
project
a
year
early
when
we
started
it.
It
was
in
the
middle
of
a
civil
unrest.
After
the
murder
of
George
Floyd,
there
was
coveted
19.
I
We
started
this
program
and
I
think
we
were
early
in
that
first
year.
It
didn't
give
neighborhoods
enough
time
to
to
plan
on
on
any
collaborations
or
mergers
the
second
and
third
year
we
did
this.
We
saw
a
lot
more
interest,
a
lot
more
people
want
to
come
in
and
wanted
to
kind
of
look
at
better
ways
to
operate
together.
I
This
is
the
the
big
one
that
I
think
a
lot
of
neighborhood
organizations
are
wondering
about
as
well
as
some
council
members
I
wanted
to
talk
there,
there's
about
14
million
476
thousand
dollars
in
uncontracted
funds
that
have
already
been
allocated
to
Neighborhood
organizations.
Additionally,
there's
about
11.6
million
in
contracted,
but
unspent
funds.
Those
funds
are
allocated
to
the
neighborhoods
and
and
by
ordinance
any
income
received
through
through
program
income
stays
with
the
neighborhood
that
generates
that
program
income.
I
What's
interesting
here
is
that
the
nrpe
funds
perceived
through
the
capitalization
of
the
Tif
Tiff
program,
was
about
226
million
dollars.
However,
through
neighborhood
programming,
the
neighborhoods
have
expended
240
million
dollars,
so
they've
managed
to
leverage
These
funds
receive
program
income
and
continue
the
NRP
program
started
in
1991,
and
it
was
supposed
to
be
a
20-year
program
where
in
year,
32.
I
it's
a
good
use
of
funds
that
they've
done
the
remaining
funds,
you'll
notice
that
one
third
of
uncontracted
funds
are
held
by
Hawthorne
Jordan
near
Northwest,
hay
and
Longfellow.
I
They
also
received
a
a
lot
of
funds
in
the
beginning,
had
a
lot
of
program,
program,
income
that
that's
come
back,
and
these
are
the
the
areas
of
concentrated
poverty
and
the
most
need
of
support.
So
there
was
some
talk
about
bringing
the
NRP
fund
balance.
I,
don't
want
to
say,
call
back,
but
utilize,
those
funds
for
different
purposes,
different
neighborhood
purposes
that
would
actually
I
believe,
hurt
the
overall
neighborhood
system.
I
If
we
were
to
do
something
like
that
and
then
I
will
say,
there's
actually
we
also
have
a
legal
opinion
that
states
that
by
doing
so
would
what
caused
the
would
cause
neighbors
to
have
two
sets
of
rules,
one
for
the
neighbor
neighborhoods
2020
program,
another
set
for
the
for
the
NRP
program.
They
don't
come
together
once
General
funds,
one,
not
the
NRP
funds
themselves,
have
a
lot
of
strings
attached.
I
Where
you
can't
do
food,
entertainment,
renters,
you
can't
really
help
renters
a
lot,
it's
more
of
a
capital
project
and
again
this
was
developed
in
1991.
This
is
what
was
needed
in
1991
to
to
help
our
housing
stock.
Now
we're
seeing.
We
need
to
engage
more
resonance
in
the
programs
and
as
well
as
in
the
city.
I
One
of
the
questions
from
the
legislative
directive
was:
how
can
we
create
more
flexibility
with
the
NRP
funds,
as
well
as
make
sure
that
those
funds
are
expended
in
2015
NCR
developed
a
NRP
expenditure
policy
that
was
that
was
approved,
I
believe
at
the
at
the
council
level
and
in
this
neighborhoods
identified
action
plans
to
spend
those
funds
with
five
between
five
and
seven
years,
all
neighborhoods,
with
NRP
allocation
are
mandated
to
to
planned
on
these
fund
expenditures.
We
plan
on
doing
a
renewed
focus
on
that
expenditure.
I
Policy
and
I'll
be
completely
honest
in
2015,
director
Mo
and
myself
were
not
here.
This
fell
through
the
cracks,
and
then
we
learned
about
it
and
there's
some
ways
that
we're
going
to
implement
and
try
to
get
neighborhoods
to
have
a
more
training
on
what
they
can
spend
their
NRP
funds
help
them
plan
long
term
how
those
funds
can
be
activated
within
the
community.
I
I
This
is,
it
was
an
interesting
question,
as
NRP
funds
were
never
intended
to
be
reserved
for
for
neighborhood
operations,
short-term
long-term
but
they're
intended
to
be
active
to
improve
neighborhoods
and
residents
lives,
and
then
I
also
want
to
say
that
neighbors
2020
program
required
neighborhoods
to
to
prepare
and
Implement
a
fundraising
strategy.
Some
neighborhoods
indicated
that
the
only
funds
that
that
they
will
go
after
is
the
City
of
Minneapolis.
I
However,
much
is
within
the
program.
Additionally,
I
want
to
point
out
that
neighborhood
organizations
are
independent,
501c3
organizations.
They
are
able
to
have
fundraisers
that
are
able
to
write
grants
and
have
other
fundraising
mechanisms,
so
so
by
I,
don't
believe
we
can
say
that
NRP
funds
should
be
used
for
Reserve,
but
rather
NRP
funds
should
be
used
to
plan
how
the
organization
is
going
to
operate
for
the
next
five
to
seven
years
again
we're
in
year
31
32
of
an
NRP
program
that
was
scheduled
to
be
20
years.
I
One
of
the
biggest
feedback
that
I
received
when
I
was
a
neighborhood,
so
I
was
a
neighborhood
executive
director
for
about
10
12
years
and
I.
Hear
this
all
across
the
system
is
that
the
NRP
policy
board
for
NRP
phase
two
mandated
that
70
of
all
of
their
funds
be
dedicated
towards
housing.
I
So
in
order
to
meet
that
52.5
threshold,
the
policy
board
said
70
percent.
Reviewing
those
numbers
neighborhoods
are
on
track
to
exceed
that
goal
by
5
million
dollars.
It's
our
recommendation
that,
in
order
to
create
flexibility,
we
remove
that
barrier
to
Neighborhood
organizations
to
spend
money
on
on
housing.
This
does
not
prohibit
them
from
spending
money
on
housing,
but
rather
create
some
flexibility
there.
I
This
also
allows
neighborhoods
to
spend
money
or
or
assist
in
renters
being
flexible
in
the
needs
of
the
community
and
resp,
or
reduces
barriers
to
responding
to
the
needs
of
the
community.
When,
after
the
murder
of
George
Floyd
during
covid,
we
had
to
say
no
too
many
times
to
what
neighborhoods
wanted
to
do
with
their
NRP
funds
in
order
to
respond
to
emerging
and
immediate
needs,
this
would
break
down
some
of
those
pieces
in
order
for
them
to
be
able
to
respond
when
things
come
forward.
I
We
feel
like
this
is
actually
a
pretty
important
piece
and
it
has
a
lot
of
support
from
neighborhood
organizations
and
what
themselves
I
do
want
to
mention
that,
for
a
long
time,
interest
rates
were
not
compatible,
but
with
banks
that
they
were
able
that
neighborhood
organizations
organizations
were
could
provide.
There's
a
lot
of
strings
that
are
attached
with
State
funding
when
it
comes
to
utilizing
Tif
dollars
for
any
development
projects,
and
the
amount
per
neighborhood
is
not
enough
to
really
have
a
seat
at
the
table.
I
I
The
additional
strings
for
that
so
I
think
that's
a
lot
of
the
reason
why
these
funds
have
not
been
used.
Additionally,
we
used
to
have
four
different
servicers
for
loans.
We
allow
neighbor
organizations
to
do
a
grant
program,
but
not
loan
programs,
because
that
takes
servicing
that
loan
so
oftentimes
it
would
be
like
Greater
Minnesota
housing
fund,
Center
for
Energy
and
environment.
Some
of
those
went
away.
I
I
I
On
the
last
last
meeting,
I
was
here:
we
talked
about
the
current
NRP
policy
board
and
the
plans
to
increase
participation
or
membership
of
that
policy
board
from
four
neighborhood
representatives
to
eight.
The
purpose
of
the
policy
board
is
to
advise
Council,
make
recommendations,
review
plan
modifications
over
two
hundred
thousand
dollars.
This
started
as
a
joint
Powers
agreement
with
the
all
the
funding
Partners
when
we
talk
about
Park
Board,
School,
Board,
Library,
board,
Hennepin
County
in
the
city,
they're
still
members.
I
As
long
as
there's
some
original
NRP
funds
available,
they
are
members
of
the
NRP
policy
board.
There's
five
elected
officials
currently
and
there's
four
neighborhood
Representatives,
the
city
clerk,
the
city,
attorney's
office
and
NCR
are
continuing
to
pursue
changes
to
the
to
the
ordinance,
as
requested
by
the
council.
I
Previously
the
appointments,
so
an
idea
to
transition
between
the
ordinance
change
and
the
election
of
new
members
would
be
for
the
NRP
policy
board
members
currently
to
appoint
three
additional
members
to
serve
and
tell
what
such
time
as
we
can
have
an
election
by
The
Neighborhood
organizations
about
who
they
wish
to
have
represent
them
at
the
policy
board.
I
I
will
say
this
as
well:
there's
been
some
misinformation
about
the
policy
board
and
the
way
the
elections
will
come
forward.
The
City
attorney
city
clerk's
office
are
working
at
creating
a
draft
ordinance
that
would
be
presented
to
Neighborhood
organizations
in
two
weeks
and
with
the
with
the
goal
of
having
six
districts
and
two
at
large
members,
each
one
of
those
districts
comprised
with
various
neighborhood
organizations,
and
they
will
actually
select
the
member
that
they
would
like
to
have
serve
on
the
policy
board
for
that
term.
I
I
So
you'll
see
something
come
forward,
probably
within
two
weeks
or
so
from
the
city
clerk
and
and
the
City
Clerk
and
the
city
attorney's
office,
and
then
through
this,
oh,
we
looked
at
making
sure
that
we
had
an
equity
Focus,
an
equity
lens.
Looking
at
all
of
our
programs,
it's
a
core
tenet
of
NCR
and
we
want
to
make
sure
Minneapolis
has
an
equitable
civic
participation
system
that
enfranchises
everyone
recognizes
the
core
and
vital
service.
I
Neighborhood
organizations
provide
to
the
City
of
Minneapolis
and
builds
people's
long-term
capacity
to
urbanize
and
improve
the
lives
of
the
neighborhoods,
I.
Think
and
then
the
last
one
is
the
summary
of
recommended
actions.
I
believe
you've
also
had
a
copy
of
our
legislative
update,
the
narrative
that
was
included
in
the
packet,
which
is
more
detailed
than
this.
This
slide
presentation,
but
one
would
be
the
70
housing
expenditure
policy
requests.
Igr
work
with
the
state
legislators
legislature
to
allow
public
officials
to
designate
a
NRP
policy
board
rep.
I
I
We
talked
about
the
request
of
the
city,
attorney's
office,
City,
Clerk
and
NCR
to
work
at
implementing
and
changing
the
NRP
policy
ordinance,
and
then
the
policy
board
appointing
four
members
into
which
time
and
election
occurs
so
kind
of
a
transition
between
the
two
I
think.
Most
of
the
questions
will
probably
come
come
up
on
the
August
25th
meeting
when
we'll
talk
about
allocation
allocation
tables,
how
much
each
neighborhood
is
would
receive.
I
We've
been
working
with
DFD
the
mayor's
office
to
try
to
get
those
numbers
solidified
and
respecting
the
budget
process
will
be
coming
back.
August
25th
right
after
the
right
after
the
mayor
releases,
their
budget
and
I
can
honestly
say
that
I'm
excited
about
showing
this,
because
we
we've
done
a
lot
of
work
on
creating
ensuring
that
we
stay
within
an
equitable
framework
and
Equitable
lens,
while
still
honoring
the
work
that
neighborhood
organizations
do
and
have
done
so
I'm
excited
to
bring
that
forward
to
you,
I
believe
it's
August
25th.
A
J
Thank
you,
madam
chair.
Thank
you
for
this
presentation.
J
We
have
70
neighborhood
organizations
I'm,
not
sure
why
the
collaboration
fund
needed
to
necessarily
take
away
from
the
total
of
neighborhood
funding.
To
do
that
work
to
do
that.
Effort
I
see
that
out
of
it
we
got
two.
Maybe
mergers
or
collaborations
and
I
agree
that,
particularly
for
these
smaller
neighborhoods,
that
that
is
a
need.
We
have
to
look
at
sharing
resources.
We
have
to
look
at
being
a
little
bit
more
efficient
in
that
work.
J
So
I
I
am
a
little
bit
concerned
about
the
amount
of
time
spent,
justifying
the
partnership
fund
and
not
enough
on
Just
the
good
work
that
neighborhoods
do,
or
that
the
network
of
neighborhoods
do
something
that
I
know
worked
pretty
well
in
well
in
the
planning
of
it
worked
well
and
it's
something
that
we
learned
from
the
atmosphere.
J
Post-Murder
of
George
Floyd
was
how
effective
in
Communications
a
full
network
of
neighborhoods
could
be,
and
one
of
the
really
important
items
that
we
put
in
place
was
way
to
get
information
better
from
the
community
back
to
the
city.
Instead,
we
were
just
communicating
from
the
city
out
and
what
we
learned
from
all
the
pain
that
we
went
through
in
2020
was
that
we
need
to
do
better
in
communic
being
able
to
hear
what's
coming.
The
other
direction
too,
and
a
lot
of
neighborhood
organizations
stepped
into
that
space
immediately.
J
But
we
worked
to
really
more
more
or
less
formalized
that
it.
You
know
a
little
bit
better
so
well,
that's
what
I
have
for
now.
J
I
You
see
some
chair,
Council
Council,
vice
president
I,
apologize
that
if
I
didn't
stress
the
importance
of
neighborhood
organizations
and
the
work
they
do
in
Minneapolis.
This
is
a
premier
Premier
program
throughout
the
country
we
get
called
every
month
from
different
cities
asking
how
we
do
our
work
in
Minneapolis,
because
this
is
the
gold
standard.
I
We
recently
went
to
El
Paso
and
we're
one
of
the
main
speakers
to
show
how
our
programming
has
been
working-
and
this
is
just
continuing.
I've-
had
invites
all
across
the
country
to
come,
speak
to
different
city
council
members
to
talk
about
how
we're
able
to
do
it.
I
Seattle
Portland
others
have
just
given
up
on
their
neighborhood
organizations
and
went
to
a
combined
grant
program.
We
here
it's
in
the
Minneapolis
2040
plan.
It's
within
our
own
documents.
We
value
the
relationship
between
neighborhood
organizations
and
the
City
of
Minneapolis.
It
is
a
core
tenet
of
the
work
that
we
do
here
and
I
apologize
if
I
didn't
make
that
clear,
but
there,
but
we
want
to
uplift
the
neighborhood
organizations
and
not
downplay
them
so
I
apologize
if
I
came
across
that
way.
J
If
I
may
I
appreciate
that
at
a
different
committee
meeting
I
think
you
yourself
acknowledge
that
it
actually
takes
capacity
to
be
able
to
administer
and
partner
these
grants
in
neighborhoods
that
then
don't
get
funded
enough,
have
less
and
less
time
and
capacity
to
do
that
work.
J
I
Chair
Council
vice
president
I
believe
in
August
25th.
We've
worked
really
hard
internally
to
take
a
look
at
what
does
it
take
to
run
a
neighborhood
organization?
What
is
the
minimum
amount
of
minimum
needed
for
that
and
how
to
move
forward?
I
think
we
learned
over
the
last
couple
years
and
we've
had
a
lot
of
feedback
from
both
Council
and
neighborhood
organization
and.
G
I
One
thing
that
really
stick
stuck
out
to
me
was:
what
are
your
neighborhood
organization
received
around
160
thousand
dollars
a
year?
Their
executive
director
told
me
it
is
very
hard
to
do
work
with
surrounding
neighborhoods
that
don't
have
enough
money
to
have
a
minimum
amount
of
staff
that
stuck
with
me,
and
we
brought
that
forward
and
I
hope
to
relate
that
coming
forward.
D
Thank
you,
madam
chair
I
felt
that
this
map
that
overlaid
the
areas
of
concentrated
poverty,
the
areas
of
concentrated
wealth
and
where
our
engagement
fund
projects
are-
and
this
really
helps
to
visualize
how
effective
it
is
to
have
this
program.
Target.
Those
areas
and
I
think
that
one
of
the
challenges
with
neighborhoods
is,
like
you
said,
we're
32
years
into
a
20-year
program.
We
just
have
some
fiscal
realities
that
are
just
a
real
Challenge
and
so
for
those
limited
resources.
D
I'm
really
encouraged
to
see
that
those
dollars
are
getting
spent
in
the
areas
of
highest
need
and
I
think
that
is
appropriate,
even
though
we
do
still
have
a
lot
of
neighborhoods
that
are
feeling
the
kind
of
the
pinch
of
the
lack
of
resources.
But
I
actually
had
a
more
technical
question
around
the
spreadsheet,
with
the
button
spent
or
uncontracted
and
unspent.
D
Could
you
just
share
what
that
distinction
is,
and
maybe
like
What's
the
timing,
because
it
seems
like
both
of
those
categories
have
been
approved,
spending
approved
by
our
policies
or
in
our
process,
but
haven't
been
spent
yet
so
I'm
just
curious.
If
there's
like
a
kind
of
a
rough
timeline
that
we
would
want
to
see
the
unspent
dollars
spent
and
then
the
uncontracted
dollars
contracted.
I
Chair
councilmember
Payne,
that's
that's
the
million
dollar
question,
literally
the
tens
of
million
dollars
a
question.
I,
don't
know
if
there
should
be
like
a
definite
time
period
that
these
funds
should
be
should
be
expended.
What
we
should
be
doing-
or
we
will
be
doing-
is
asking
neighborhoods
to
plan
about
how
they're
going
to
spend
these
funds
in
the
coming
years
and
stick
to
that
plan,
so
they
can
identify
re-identify
the
needs
of
the
neighborhood
and
some
any
projects
that
they
want
to
move
forward.
I
Put
that
into
a
plan
and
then
utilize
that
at
every
board
meeting
and
how
they
operate
going
forward.
There
are
a
significant
amount
of
funds,
but
if
you
look
at
like
Hawthorne
Jordan
near
North,
Willard,
hey,
there's
a
lot
of
need
there,
and
so
there
there
isn't.
There
is
a
time
or
the
time
is
now
for
them
to
prioritize
what
those
needs
are
and
to
put
these
NRP
funds
into
action,
and
just
I
want
to
clarify
that
that
contracted
and
uncontracted
mean
that
the
fun
doesn't
mean
the
funds.
Don't
don't
stay
with
the
neighborhood.
I
It's
just
that
there
contracted
they've,
already
put
those
funds
into
action
and
that
they're,
currently
being
active,
acted
on
the
uncontracted
funds.
Are
those
funds
that
neighborhoods
haven't
developed
a
plan
for
yet,
and
so
those
are
the
funds
that
we
would
like
them
to
develop.
A
plan
of
how
you're
going
to
going
to
move
forward.
I
I
will
say:
I
feel
a
lot
of
neighborhood
organizations
are
utilizing
some
of
those
uncontracted
funds
to
augment
their
administration,
because
there
wasn't
enough,
there's
not
enough
funds
in
the
neighbors
2020
program
to
provide
enough
for
administrative
purposes,
but
that
was
actually
part
of
the
planning
of
neighborhoods
2020.
Knowing
we
had
these
other
funds
and
the
neighborhood's
2020
funds
bringing
them
together
in
order
to
have
some
administrative
pieces
on
there,
I
hope
that
answers
your
question.
Yeah.
I
Chair
council,
member
you're,
100
correct,
however,
it's
not
their
bank
accounts.
The
city
holds
those
funds
got
it
got
them
through
the
division
of
finance,
Property,
Services
vision.
A
A
In
my
mind,
this
information
you've
shared
today,
you're
always
available
for
questions,
concerns
whatever
so
that
makes
me
feel
good
too,
but
but
I
love
the
part
where
you
said
you
know
this
was
created
in
the
90s
and
we're
living
in
different
times
now,
and
we
really
have
to
be
flexible
and
adjust
and
that's
where
I
want.
That's
the
strong
part
for
me.
That's
what
I
really
want
us
to
work
on
as
a
city
is
how
do
we
adjust
and
adapt
to
the
needs
of
the
people
in
neighborhoods
now
underserved
communities?
A
I
Yes,
thank
you
and
I
would
like
to
thank
all
of
you,
as
we've
had
discussions
about
what
what
your
Visions
are,
what
you
see
as
well
as
other
council
members
and
other
City
departments,
this
I,
don't
want
to
say,
is
an
NCR
report,
but
it's
really
a
report
from
a
combination
of
All
of
Us
coming
together
to
kind
of
review
these
pieces
and
we're
going
to
continue
that
in
August
after
the
mayor
releases,
this
budget.