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Description
Mayor Jacob Frey, City Council Vice President Andrea Jenkins and City Council Member Alondra Cano, along with other City leaders, will provide an update on next steps for 38th & Chicago.
A
A
It
was
in
and
of
itself
a
beautiful
thing,
but
the
intervening
months
have
been
far
less
straightforward.
The
barricades
that
were
originally
placed
at
the
intersection
to
protect
both
people,
as
well
as
the
public
art,
are
now
in
many
senses,
used
as
a
screen
for
illicit
activity
and
have
re-traumatized
a
neighborhood
that
has
already
experienced
far
too
much
over
the
last
year,
we've
received
quite
a
bit
of
correspondence
over
the
last
several
months
from
neighbors
that
are,
in
some
cases
being
re-traumatized,
and
I
wanted
to
share
that
with
you.
A
One
from
november
reads:
do
something
anything
more
gunshots.
Last
night
getaway
cars
driving
at
40
miles
an
hour
another
just
a
few
days
later.
We
feel
so
very
helpless.
Who
do
we
talk
to
about
the
difficulty
of
living
there
and
not
having
a
voice
at
the
end
of
the
year?
Mr
floyd's
death
was
gut-wrenching
and
a
travesty,
which
is
why,
when
violence
like
this
takes
place
in
the
area,
many
people,
I
know,
are
afraid
to
visit
the
memorial.
So
there
are
two
dynamics
that
are
taking
place.
We
have
to
acknowledge
both
truths.
A
At
the
same
time,
small
businesses,
several
of
them
several
of
them
by
pac-owned,
have
been
denied
a
fair
shot,
not
not
just
by
kovid
19,
but
by
the
events
that
have
happened
in
the
in
the
months
that
have
come
after
may,
25th
the
people
who
live
and
own
businesses
near
38th
in
chicago
have
found
themselves
at
the
center
of
a
global
reckoning.
They
didn't
ask
for
this,
but
they
have
stepped
up
in
a
extraordinary
way.
A
The
truth
is
that
the
situation
at
hand
is
not
sustainable.
We
are
united
in
that
understanding.
We
are
united
in
that
understanding
and
we
are
united
in
this
plan
moving
forward
in
creating
this
plan.
There
are
three
realities
that
we
need
to
acknowledge.
First,
the
intersection
at
38th
in
chicago
has
forever
been
changed.
We
are
not
going
back
to
normal
at
that
intersection.
A
A
A
However,
through
the
trial,
the
area
will
remain
closed
to
vehicular
access,
so
just
to
be
clear,
close
to
vehicular
access,
not
closed
in
any
way,
shape
or
form
to
city
service.
In
fact,
the
city
service
that
we
provide
will
be
enhanced
in
that
area.
So
the
people
who
join,
who
are
joining
me
here
today,
have
been
united
in
this
plan.
A
A
The
magnitude
of
these
decisions
is
not
lost
on
me.
I
know
there's
a
great
deal
of
frustration
and
pain
and
community
and
how
we,
as
a
community
come
choose
to
move
forward,
must
honor
that
pain
and
frustration,
and
it
must
prioritize
healing,
we've
been
in
contact
with
a
number
of
different
community
members,
as
well
as
multiple
jurisdictions,
to
figure
out
how
we
best
move
forward,
and
with
that
I
will
be
turning
it
over
to
council
member
kano,
who
is
one
of
the
two
council
members
that
represent
that
intersection.
The
second
is
council.
B
I
have
been
very
impressed
with
the
many
many
groups
and
organizations
that
we
have
engaged
to
discuss.
How
do
we
support
this
community
and
move
forward
in
healing
so
today,
knowing
that
we
expect
a
difficult
month
in
march
and
that
the
one
year
marker
will
come
in
may
we're
here
to
stand
together
to
say
we
are
going
to
support
our
city
through
this?
A
C
I
have
a
deep,
profound
understanding
of
the
significance
of
what
brought
our
city
and
certainly
the
intersection
of
38th
in
chicago
to
where
it
is
today,
and
so
I
want
to
just
take
a
moment
to
to
name
that
over
the
past
year
I
certainly
have
been
in
conversations
with
community,
specifically
in
the
38th
and
chicago
area.
I
was
just
recently
there
this
tuesday
talking
to
community
members
over
at
the
square.
C
I
also
know
that
hope
and
resiliency
can
erode
in
time
over
long
periods
of
suffering
and
many
of
our
neighbors
in
that
community
have
felt
that
they've
suffered
the
businesses,
the
residents
and
visitors,
and
so
I
cannot
allow
that
to
happen.
As
mayor
frye
indicated,
38th
in
chicago
is
not
an
autonomous
zone.
C
But
the
intersection
must
open
and
it
must
open
with
an
intentional
and
thoughtful
and
compassionate
way
that
all
of
my
city,
leadership
and
colleagues
are
doing
the
number
of
people
in
this
room
today.
What
30th
chicago
really
is
all
about.
It's
about
wellness
and
I've
learned
that
wellness
helps
to
cultivate
the
best
in
our
humanity
and
I'm
proud
to
team
up
with
not
only
our
leadership
and
our
my
other
colleagues
here
from
the
city
of
minneapolis,
but
walking
in
step
with
community.
C
So
when
we
get
to
that
point
of
reopening
the
minneapolis
police
department
will
play
a
role
in
that,
but
we
will
play
a
role
in
it
in
concert
with,
in
collaboration
with
our
community
stakeholders
and
so
there'll
be
continued
conversation.
There
will
be
tough
conversations,
but
I
will
tell
you
that
the
people
that
I've
spoken
with
they
want
to
get
to
that
point
of
healing
that
councilmember
connor
talked
about
and
we
all
need
to
stand
with
them
together
as
we
go
down
that
journey.
C
So
I
will
pause
at
this
point,
but
I'm
very
I
want
to
thank
the
community,
that's
been
out
there.
I
recognize
the
pain,
the
trauma
that
they've
experienced
and
I
will
continue
to
support
them
in
the
manner
in
which
that
I
can,
but
I
also
feel
very
confident
with
the
leadership
here
and
my
fellow
colleagues
in
the
city
enterprise
department
that
we
will
get
to
a
place
in
concert
with
our
community
that
uplifts
38th
in
chicago
and
moves
us
toward
a
better
place.
Thank
you.
D
Organizations
like
612
mash,
the
agape
movement
becoming
a
man
project,
the
gatekeepers
ministry
and
the
touch
outreach,
and
so
you
know
we
really
want
to
see
this
community
continue
to
thrive.
Continue
to
build,
but
reopening
reconnecting.
This
area
to
the
rest
of
the
city
is
the
utmost
importance.
D
E
E
Thank
you,
mayor
frye.
My
name
is
brett
jelly.
I
am
the
interim
director
of
public
works.
My
name
is
b-r-e-t-t-e.
Last
name
is
spelled
h-j-e-l-l-e
I'd
like
to
share
information
on
two
items.
The
first
is
the
services
we've
been.
We
are
providing
to
the
area
today
and
will
continue
to
provide
to
the
area
and
explain
the
street
reconnection
plan.
E
E
Services
have
included
traffic
signs
and
barricades
to
protect
pedestrians
in
the
area,
while
preserving
emergency
and
service
vehicle
access.
We
have
been
providing
regular,
solid
waste
services
to
the
memorial
area
and
to
the
homes
in
the
area,
and
we've
also
been
providing
snow
and
ice
control.
This
winter
services
will
continue.
We
have
also
are
planning
lighting
improvements,
traffic
calming
and
we're
providing
enhanced
snow
and
ice
services
and
hauling
snow
out
as
needed.
E
Our
reconnection
of
the
intersection,
the
work
around
that
started
this
past
summer
and
fall
when
the
city
engaged
the
community
on
interim
road
design
options.
We
heard
several
priorities
during
that
process,
including
preserving
space
for
mourning
and
reflection,
protecting
art,
providing
residents
and
businesses
access
and
restoring
transit
services.
E
E
F
Brennan,
thank
you
mayor.
I'm
andrea,
brennan,
interim
director
of
cped,
that's
a-n-d-r-e-a,
brennan
b-r-e-n-n-a-n
good
afternoon.
A
central
focus
of
the
work
of
the
community
planning
and
economic
development
or
cped
department
is
developing
our
workforce,
especially
our
young
workforce
and
supporting
housing
stability,
especially
for
black
indigenous
and
people
of
color
residents,
who
have
not
benefited
equally
from
economic
growth
for
workforce
development.
F
In
addition
to
leveraging
the
city's
nationally
recognized
step
up
summer,
internship
program,
workforce
partners
also
include,
but
are
not
limited
to
project
for
pride
and
living
and
summit
academy.
Oic
an
essential
part
of
our
efforts
is
helping
to
prepare
workers
for
careers
that
sustain
families
and
strengthen
communities.
F
F
We
intend
to
reach
as
many
minneapolis
low-income
and
by
poc
youth
through
our
step-up
summer
youth
internship
program
that
we
can,
just
as
we
did
last
summer,
serving
more
than
eighteen
hundred
minneapolis
youth.
Anyone
with
available
jobs,
internships
or
grant
funding.
Please
connect
with
us,
we're
always
interested
in
partnering.
F
On
the
housing
front,
the
city
continues
to
support
housing
stability,
prevent
involuntary
displacement,
expand
our
homeless
response
system
and
invest
in
record
high
number
of
new,
affordable
housing
units
as
an
early
housing
response
to
the
pandemic.
In
2020,
the
city
created
an
emergency
housing
assistance
program
that
served
more
than
600
minneapolis,
low-income
households.
F
In
addition,
in
late
2020,
the
city
provided
grant
funding
under
a
new
pilot
program
designated
to
provide
housing,
stability,
housing,
stabilization
advocacy
and
home
ownership
readiness
services
to
renters
in
one
to
four
unit
properties.
Four
organizations
that
serve
residents
in
the
38th
and
chicago
area
received
a
total
of
eight
hundred
and
seventy
thousand
dollars
in
city
funding.
For
this
purpose.
F
These
organizations
include
potterhork
park
partner
horn
park,
neighborhood
association,
hispanic
advocacy
and
community
empowerment
through
research,
lutheran
social
services
and
the
nia
project.
Information
about
how
to
contact
these
organizations
is
on
our
website.
Also
on
our
website
is
updated.
Information
regularly
on
additional
housing
supports
that
the
city
is
supporting
and
making
available.
A
A
We
want
to
listen
to
community
and
you
know
what
better
way
to
to
listen
to
community
than
contacting
them
quite
directly
and
asking
every
single
individual
that
lives
or
or
works
as
a
business
in
the
area,
what
they
think,
and
so
that
that
that
is
the
that
is
the
direction
we're
going
in
terms
of
the
survey
following
the
results
of
the
survey
we'll
be
able
to
implement
the
vision
that
community
is
hoping
for.
Can.
G
A
We
hope
to
get
the
survey
out
as
soon
as
possible,
it's
being
drafted
literally
right
now,
once
the
draft
is
approved,
it
can
be
sent,
of
course,
we'll
give
a
certain
number
of
days
for
individuals
and
community
to
respond
to
that
survey.
We'll
collect
the
results,
tally
them
up
and
determine
which
direction
we're
going
to
go
now
either.
One
of
the
options
includes,
I
should
say
both
of
the
options
include
a
memorial
in
largely
the
same
place
where
george
floyd
was
killed.
A
H
What
happens
between
now
and
then
because
we
have
heard
these
calls
from
community
that
you
highlighted
when
you
were
originally
talking,
people
that
live
in
the
area
that
are
frustrated
that
don't
feel
like
police
are
responding.
What
happens
between
now
and
when
this
reopens
and
when
this
vision
comes
to
life.
A
So
the
question
was
what
happens
between
now
and
that
time
period
following
the
trial
when
the
intersection
is
open
to
vehicular
traffic,
I
can
bring
our
chief
up
here
in
just
a
second,
but
one
of
the
main
pieces
that
we
all
felt
strongly
about
was
that
this
area
should
not
just
get
basic
and
core
city
services.
It
should
be
bolstered
so
that
that
area
will
get
robust
city
service,
whether
that
is
snow
removal
and
plowing
or
911
response
and
ems.
A
We
want
to
make
sure
that
that
area
is
fully
accessible
for
all
of
those
core
city
services
that
residents
and
businesses
expect.
It
will
be
continue
to
be
closed
for
vehicular
traffic
and
a
big
reason
for
that
is
we
recognize
the
reality
that
the
trial
is
coming
in
a
matter
of
weeks
during
the
trial.
We
know
that
38th
in
chicago
will
be
very
important
gathering
space
for
community.
We.
A
That
away
from
them,
we
recognize
that
that's
just
a
truth,
and
so
the
closure
to
vehicular
traffic
on
a
temporary
basis.
While
the
city
enhances
the
core
city
services
that
will
be
located
around,
that
area
is
going
to
be
really
important
and
in
addition
to
that,
we're
working
for
we're
working
towards
a
number
of
different
workforce
improvement
options.
So
so
that
you
know
if
youth
have
full
access
to
to
jobs
and
training.
I
Question
just
having
been
down
there
and
I'm
going
to
refer
to
him
as
the
protectors
on
the
ground
there
I
know
you've
been
you
know
if
you
want
to
call
negotiating,
but
it's
just
changing
letters.
What
if
they
just
do
not
want
to
leave,
I
mean
they.
They
practice
kind
of
filling
up
the
barricades
expecting
any
time
that
someone's
going
to
show
up
and
move
them.
I
mean:
is
the
city
physically
prepared
to
move
these
people
out?
G
H
A
More
and
more
through
the
last
eight
months
is
that
you
know
we
all
have
a
role
to
play
in
moving
society
forward
and
I
fully
understand
their
presence
and
I
fully
understand
what
they're
seeking,
which
is
justice
they're,
seeking
dramatic
transformational
change
in
terms
of
how
we
operate
as
a
city,
not
just
in
the
police
department,
but
in
terms
of
economic
inclusion
and
collectively,
we've
met
with
them
on
numerous
occasions.
We've
heard
them
out,
and
you
know
I
think
that
you
know
one.
A
Has
been
to
have
this
space,
be
one
of
racial
justice
and
healing
one
of
their
key
asks
is
to
not
go
back
to
normal,
and
we
do
not
intend
to
do
so
now.
Will
this
intersection
ultimately
be
reopened?
That
is,
of
course,
the
intention
and
yes,
it
will,
but
for
the
in
the
present
state,
we
wanted
to
make
sure
that
there
are
robust
and
enhanced
city
services
that
are
being
delivered
and
that's
the
direction
we're
going
to
go.
J
A
So
the
question
was
what
happens
in
the
interim
before
the
trial
is
complete
and
the
jury
verdict
has
been
read.
So
in
the
interim,
a
number
of
things
are
going
to
happen.
First,
we
will
be
offering
enhanced
city
services
to
that
area
and
we've
gone
through
a
laundry
list
of
what
that
will
ultimately
look
like.
Second,
we
are
working
towards
a
workforce
program
for
that
area
that
will
specifically
focus
on
youth.
K
It's
been
almost
nine
months
since
the
killing
of
george
floyd,
and
I
know,
there's
been
a
lot
of
back
and
forth
with
various
members
of
city
council
on
how
to
handle.
You
know
38th
in
chicago
for
people
who
have
been
putting
the
call
out
to
help
or
a
response
from
the
city.
What
can
you
tell
them
about
what
took
so
long?
Well,.
G
A
I
Can
we
just
get
a
quick
assessment?
Just
given
kind
of
you
know
up
here
at
the
where
we
are
with
policing,
I
mean
I
know
we
hear
robust
city
services,
snow
ice,
garbage
collection.
Where
are
we
with
police?
I
mean
we
see
social
media
videos
out
of
there
that
you
got
your.
Your
teams
are
still
seem
to
be
stopped
at
barricades.
Quite
a
bit
and
you
know,
engage
with
protectors
and
I'm
just
kind
of
curious
right
now
can.
Can
you
send
a
squad
in
there
if
there's
a
shooting
back
at
cut
foods
or
something.
C
So
the
question
being:
where
are
we
at
right
now
in
terms
of
our
minneapolis
police
department,
in
our
response
to
the
intersection
of
38th
in
chicago?
So
again,
there's
the
environmental
design
by
its
nature
is
is
really
not
conducive
to
that
free
flow
of
traffic
and
oftentimes.
When
our
officers
have
to
respond.
If
it's
an
emergency
call,
whether
it
be
fire
or
ems,
it's
it's
obviously
better
to
have
an
intersection.
That's
that's
widely
open.
C
Obviously
we
are
also
very
sensitive
to
the
space
that
folks
are
holding
there,
and
so
we
have
done
a
great
job.
I
want
to
commend
the
third
precinct.
Supervisors,
particularly
who've,
done
a
a
very
good
job
under
those
circumstances
having
a
developing
a
communication
liaison
with
some
of
the
event
organizers
out
there.
C
I
think
that
that
has
that
has
helped,
but
to
the
same
point
there
are
still
there's
still
improvements
that
need
to
be
made
and
with
the
reopening
it
will
just
continue
to
help
us
provide
those
robust
services,
as
the
mayor
had
mentioned
in
a
in
a
timely
fashion,
and
so
we're
continuing
to
continue
to
work
on
that.
I
was
just
out
there
again.
C
This
tuesday,
but
I
will
tell
you
that
the
conversations
that
I've
had
folks
respect
and
recognize
the
importance
of
making
sure
that,
as
a
city
we're
really
respecting
and
honoring
that
space
and
the
memorial,
but
at
the
same
time
they
they're
ready
they're
ready
to
to
open
that
up.
And
so
we
will
work
alongside
them
as
well
as
our
other
city
partners.
Just.
C
Typically,
what's
happening
operationally
right
now,
squads,
obviously
based
on
the
the
area
of
that
intersection.
If
they
need
to
park
up
as
close
as
they
can
to
get
into
30th
in
chicago,
they
certainly
will
what
has
happened
over
the
last
several
months
as
soon
as
the
event
organizer
should
recognize
one
of
our
officers
in
uniform,
they'll
approach
them
ask
them.
Can
we
assist?
Where
are
you
going,
which
house
and
and
they'll
they'll
do
that
now?