Good morning everyone. My name is Elliot Payne. I'm the president of Minneapolis City Council and I'm going to call this regular meeting of city council for August 21st to order. The clerk will call the role. Council member Osman is absent. Rainville is absent. Chavez present.
Vita present. Ellison is absent. Ksky is absent. Wonsley is absent. Jenkins present. Palmisano present. Chowry present. Cashman present. Vice President Shaktai is absent. President Payne present. There are seven members present.
Let the record reflect that we have a quorum. Before we begin the meeting, I want to offer a friendly reminder to all members and staff that this meeting is broadcast live to enable greater public participation. The broadcast includes real-time captioning as a further method to increase the accessibility of our
proceedings to the community. Therefore, all speakers need to be mindful of the rate of their speech so that our captioners can fully capture and transcribe all comments for the broadcast. We ask all speakers to moderate the speed and clarity of their comments. I will also note that we've
been joined by council member Wansley. With that, the agenda for today's meeting is before us. Are there any amendments to the agenda? Seeing none, may I have a motion to adopt the adjust agenda? Second. The clerk will call the role.
Council member Chavez, I. Council member Von, I. Council member Wanssley, I. Council member Jenkins, hi. Council member Pomisano, I. Council member Chowry, I. Council member Cashman, I. President Payne, I.
There are eight eyes. That carries and the agenda is adopted. The next item is acceptance of minutes from our regular meeting of August 7th. I would entertain a motion to accept those minutes. So move. Second. The clerk will call the role. Council member Chavez. I. Council member Vto. I.
Council member Wanssley. I. Council member Jenkins. I. Council member Palmisano. I. Council member Chowry. I. Council member Kashman. I. President Payne. I. There are eight eyes. That carries and the minutes have been accepted. Finally, we have the referral of petitions, communications, and
reports to proper committees. May I have that motion, please? So moved. Second. The clerk will call the role. Council member Chavez, I. Council member Vita, I. Council member Wsley, I. Council member Jenkins, I. Council member Pomisano. I. Council member Chowry. I.
Council member Cashman. I. President Payne. I. There are eight eyes. That carries. And those matters have been referred. The next order of business is the presentations of reports from our standing committees. Those are taken in alphabetical order beginning with the report of our administration and enterprise oversight committee which
will be presented by its chair council member Wanley. Thank you Mr. President. The administration and enterprise oversight committee is bringing forward 19 items. Uh the first is a gift acceptance from the big city's health coalition of
registration lodging incidentals airfare of meals and transportation of deone chaplain. Two is a gift acceptance from the Wisconsin Environmental Health Association of Registration and Lodging for Cindy Wworth. Three is a gift
acceptance from Eden Hall Exhibitions for 911 directors form for travel, lodging, and mills for Joanie Hodney and Leticia Cardinz. Four is a gift acceptance from the share use mobility center of registration, travel, meal,
and lodging expenses for Max Gonzalez. Five is a MPFA grant for the Department of Public Works water distribution facility. Six is a bid for combined sewer overflows 001 and 117 storm sewer
improvement project. Seven is contracts with various community partners for senior services and senior community navigator services. Eight is a contract amendment with Geographic Software Specialists Inc. for engineering, data integration, and
automation services. Nine is a contract amendment with Vinko, Inc. for catch basin and maintenance hole repairs. 10 is a contract amendment with Axon Enterprise, Inc. for upgrading helmet cameras for the police department. 11 is a contract amendment with Grenic, Inc.
for subscriptionbased document hosting services. 12 is a contract amendment with Meer Contracting, Inc. for the Second Street North Sanitary Sewer Improvements Project. 13 is a contract amendment with Michael's Trenchless, Inc. for the large
diameter sewer cured in place pipelining 2024 project. 14 is contract amendments with multiple organizations for 2025 group violence intervention services. 15 is a contract or contract amendments with multiple organizations for the 2025
youth group violence intervention services. 16 is a lease agreement with Seaban Community Center for Environmental Training Space at 310 38 Street East. 17 is torque claims procedures updates. 18 is a legal
settlement workers compensation claim of Beavenon Buert. and 19 are contracts with multiple law firms for workers compensation legal services for a total budgeted amount not to exceed $2.4 million. With that, I'll move approval for all items and stand for any
questions. Council member Wley has moved approval of the committee's report. Is there any discussion? Council member Jenkins. Thank you, Chair. I just wanted to just briefly comment on item I believe number
16 lease agreement with Sebanthian Community Center for environmental training. Just you know mentioning that it is green jobs training um in the area of George Floyd Square
which is one of the quote 24 demands. And so, um, we're training young people to be in the future for green jobs. Council member Chavez, I just like to move item number 18 for a
separate vote. Council member Chavez has moved item 18 for a separate vote. Uh, we will take up the rest of the items and I am not seeing anyone else in queue. So, I will ask the clerk to call the role on all items except item number 18. Uh, Mr. President a note items one
through f five are acceptance of grants and under state law it requires a twothirds affirmative vote of the body. We'd need nine votes. I suggest we separate items 1 through five and table those till later in the meeting. Take up votes on 6 through 17 and 19 and leave
18 pulled aside as council member Chavez requested. All right, we will do that. On that revision, I'll ask the clerk to call the role. So this would be a vote on items 6 through 17 + 19.
Yep. Council member Chavez. I. Council member Vita. I. Council member Wanssley. I. Council member Jenkins. I. Council member Pomisano. I. Council member Chowry. I. Council member Kashman. I. President Payne.
I. There are eight eyes. That carries. Next we'll take up item number 18. And seeing no one in queue, I will ask the clerk to call the role. Council member Chavez, no. Council member Vita, I.
Council member Wanssley, nay. Council member Jenkins, I. Council member Palisano, I. Council member Chowry, I. Council member Cashman, I. President Payne, I. There are six eyes and two nazs. That carries. Uh, and we will take up
items one through five. uh likely under unfinished business. Uh next we will have a report from our budget committee given by council member Kashman. All right. Thank you, Mr. President. The budget committee is bringing forward one item appointed position in the city
clerk's office for the director of legislative research and oversight and I'll move approval of this item. Council member Kashman has moved approval of the committee report. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, I will ask the clerk. Oh,
Council Member Jenkins. Thank you, Payne. I'm I'm just curious, is this a um disposition? Is there a candidate already
uh identified for this role or will it be an open uh Mr. Clerk, do you want to speak to that? Uh Mr. president to council member Jenkins. There is a person who's filling this position uh under a different title. This is basically retitling the
position that was uh a combination of the previous directors of policy and research and the director of oversight and evaluation. Thank you. Uh I'll note that we've been joined by Vice President Chugai. have that. Does that get us to our
number nine count? Uh should we uh finish with our uh budget report and then come back to AO? All right. Uh on that item, I'll ask the clerk to call the role. This is the vote on the budget committee
report. Council member Chavez. I. Council member Vita. I. Council member Wanssley. I. Council member Jenkins. I. Council member Pomisano. I. Council member Chowry. I council member Kman I Vice President Shuktai I President Payne
I there are nine eyes's that carries and the report is adopted we will uh take up items 1 through five on the AO report and then uh before we do that Vice President Chuck Tai would
you like to have your vote uh recognized on the remainder of the report and just for your awareness um all items except for item 18 passed unanimously. And item 18 was pulled for a separate vote. Uh yeah, I'd like to vote in the
affirmative on all items except for number 18. Uh which is voting as an A. Okay. Clerk's got that. We have that. All right. So we will now take up items one through five which required nine votes. Uh and seeing no discussion, I
will ask the clerk to call the role. Council member Chavez. Hi. Hi. Council member Vita. I. Council member Wanssley. I. Council member Jenkins. I. Council member Pomisano. I. Council member Chowry. I. Council member Cashman. I.
Vice President Chuck Tai. I. President Payne. I. There are nine eyes. That carries. And the full report is adopted. Next, we will take up our business, housing, and zoning committee report, which will be given by council member Chowry.
Thank you, President Payne. The biz committee is bringing seven items forward. Item number one is approving bonds to the University Gateway Corporation. Item number two is denying an appeal submitted by Molly Reichart regarding the Seven Points residential
development. Item number three is approving five liquor license renewals. Item number four is approving three gambling licenses. Item number five is accepting a grant from the Subaru Loves Pets program for pet adoption fees. Item
number six is accepting a grant from the MN State Historic Preservation Office for costs related to the NAPC conference next July. And lastly, item number seven is approving a reszoning application to Quarry Developers for the property at
1501 Johnson Street Northeast. With that, I will move all items for approval and move item number two for denial. Council member Chowry has moved the report. Is there any discussion?
Council member Chowry. Thank you, President Payne. Um, I did want to just take a moment uh to share about a receive and file that we got at the business housing and zoning committee on August 12th. We received a
presentation from the director of regular regulatory services on the encampment reporting ordinance quarter 1 report which accounted for encampment removals from December 19th to March 19th. March 18th actually I believe. Um
I feel like it's important to just share this out in the larger body because we have gotten two reports back to us and this is the first report of the year of 2025. Um, I want to reiterate that the legislative intent of the encampment removal reporting ordinance was to bring
transparency, accountability, and oversight to the processes involving the removal of encampments in Minneapolis. Um, and also responding to the growing need for data datadriven approach to managing and understanding unsheltered homelessness in our city and the fact
that good governance requires good data. And that's why I want to take some time um to share about that report in a in a larger group and we also did not have um a lot of time for questions to really dig deeper into it. Um I will share a
little bit of my disa dismay that both times that the report was being brought to the body um the the presentation of the report itself was what I felt dismissed. The item was set to be a simple receive and file without a presentations. Both times I myself had
to act to change course. The first time was understandable. The second time I don't find acceptable. It flies in the face of the legislative intent. And the limbs files alone cannot give anyone a full understanding of the state of unsheltered homelessness and encampments
in our city. An issue that real people are impacted by, both housed and unhoused alike. and an issue especially lately in our city um that many of our constituents have been reaching out to to understand what is our plan um as local government to address and an issue
that so clearly shows the results of poverty, addiction, government action or inaction, negative action and so on. And additionally, there were many discrepancies within that report that I believe warrant a presentation and questions from council to staff to
improve reports into the future. Um, a couple of things that I will highlight, um, is that the HRT visits are up, which I think is a good thing. Um, I think it is us strengthening the capacity that we have as city of city of Minneapolis to
do street outreach, and there's opportunities to connect better with Henipin County and other jurisdictions to improve that, improve on that. Um, police aren't being used as the main tool to clear encampments, which is a difference from the last report. Um
there needs to be significant work done between the city and county to improve data collection on housing outcomes and a clear idea of where when people are seeking resources especially around addiction. Um there was not a clear delineation between acceptance of
shelter but an acceptance of uh other housing types. There needs to be a correction issued in this report to include data that's required that um shares when an encampment was was within a onem radius of another encampment
within a year. Um the report also indicated that service providers are not consistently notified of the day of a encampment closure and oftentimes not even there at at all even as there are individuals present at the
day of an encampment clearing which is deeply concerning. Um only six out of the 13 clearings had a notice of closure oftentimes without advanced notice. And then something that I do find troubling that I think as a city we can address pretty rapidly if we have the will to is
that items are routinely discarded and currently there is no information on what items are discarded and recorded and storage is not provided on the day of a removal when people are most likely to accept storage services. The last thing that I'll close on is
I think it there is a there is a kind of an an urge to paint uh the the conditions from the first report to the second report as rosy and better. Um I
was really dismayed to see that a press release was uh given on July 29th before we got a presentation by the administration that had shared that the cost had dropped by 81% um and that things were so much better
and I think any math teacher would say that you cannot compare five months of data to three months of data as a onetoone it's not proportional and also as a city comparing summer the summer season to a winter season given given what we know about unsheltered homelessness is a choice I don't think gives the public an accurate
representation on what's going on. Lastly, um I'll just share from my perspective and tracking unsheltered homelessness um this last year, especially into 2025, we do have a new policy that's implemented where we aren't whack-a-ole
and breaking apart encampments. rather we're whack-a-oleing and telling people that they can't sleep in a certain area and um that that's a choice that has been made. I I do see a result of that being people hiding in the shadows being
in areas that are less visible. Um I see I've heard from service providers and community members that are doing work in unsheltered homelessness that they are seeing a lot of the unsheltered people that they're communicating with in jail rosters. not just within the city of
Minneapolis, but in suburbs um and seeing an uptick of that. And I think it's just really important that we hold ourselves accountable as an organization to be really eyes wide open on what's actually happening so we can address
unsheltered homelessness in the city of Minneapolis with compassion and with a goal of actually reducing it. And I don't think we're quite there yet. And I think our community can point out many places within our city where we're seeing disproportionately indigenous and
black community members, especially young community members struggling with the combination of unsheltered homelessness, addiction, poverty, what have you. So, I just wanted to take some time to speak on it. Uh, because this report is really important to me and I hope that there are improvements made in
the next report and I will be doing work with staff and my other colleagues if they want to join me in ensuring that we can have a better report because I want it to be successful and I wanted to help us get to the policy outcomes that we're trying to get at. Thank you,
Council Member of Utah. Thank you, uh, President Payne. My question is for Council Member Chowry. I guess I'm wondering so the you had the report but the you were saying you had to advocate to have the report so it did
happen in biz. So that would be like so if you if you had to advocate for it that would be with the chair of biz. That's not like staff or anybody else. That would be like someone putting it on the agenda which is usually the chair.
Yeah. So, I did express to the chair and the vice chair that this is something that needs to be a presentation moving forward. I don't know why they decided not to have it be a presentation. Um, even though I've indicated that in the past, I will say that in agenda setting,
all staff was present um to chime up and say, "Yeah, this needs to be a presentation or not." I think there's just accountability across the board that needs to be shared. And it's not my goal to fingerpoint or blame one individual, one entity. I just think we need to do better. No, I I agree with like, you know,
sometimes it's not one person, but I just needed some clarity on Exactly. I mean, I I just thought like a chair puts things on agenda setting and that's what staff does. If it's there for discuss, you know, if it gets placed in discussion, it's a discussion and not
like staff can say we don't want to talk about that. So, it's really at the chair's discretion to have it as a discussion item or not. So, thank you for getting it on the discussion item. I just needed some clarity on that. Yeah, I appreciate the question. Council member Jenkins.
Thank you, uh, Chair Payne. I guess I I just add a little context as a member of the committee. You know, we have very very long uh agendas and our meetings typically
uh go until 4:30. And so I I I think the chair um was just trying to manage the process um and not necessarily disregarding the the report. It's just
my opinion, but the context is we we typically have uh pretty contentious public hearings as well as very long agendas. Council member Chowry. Thank you, President Payne. I will say I
meant to say this in my remarks. I think for the future, if there's not time in our biz agenda, because it is long, I will say the day that we were supposed to have the presentation, we ended early, so there would have been ample time. um we should either have it at the
committee of the whole which is a request to this body or we should have it at the administration enterprise oversight committee if there's more time. Um I think it's just worthwhile having a longer conversation and time to prep and we didn't get to a place where
we could ask all the questions especially I can speak for myself I didn't get to ask all the questions I would have liked to. Council member Rainville. Oh, and I should say we've been joined by council memberville. Thank you. And uh if I could uh please
without objection be counted affirmative on the previous votes. Yeah, without objection. Thank you. So uh Council Member Chowry, great idea about connecting with the county uh for more help with the homelessness and addiction crisis that
we face. Uh, I'd love to, and I don't want to debate you today, uh, yeah, because it's a long conversation, but I'd love to, uh, work with you and just get your ideas. I have I have tried and struck out, uh, in working with the county, but perhaps you have a better
approach. I'd like to hear. Thank you, Council Member Wanzi. Thank you, President Payne. I'm just conversing with my vice chair of AO here, Pomisano, but would love to also connect with chair Chavez if there's a space as we've done with some of the
violence prevention contracts um either to Rathom and Cal or uh as the agenda is getting shorter in AO if that presentation could also be forwarded there um and then we can invite all committee members to join um that committee for that presentation. So,
just wanted to offer that up um as an option as well. Council member Chavez. Thanks, President Payne. Yeah, happy to be in conversations about this discussion about whether it's AO cow, but I will say that the business, housing, and zoning committee that day was just 40 minutes long. It had enough
time to have this presentation. I'm not sure why there wasn't this presentation, especially after when the first time we had this report, we had extensive conversations with staff about having these presentations in committee. So there just should have never been a reason of this not being in committee based on previous conversations that
we've had. And I think moving forward, I just hope that uh we have these reports in front of the body more in a timely manner, not months later and also um with presentations and that we don't have to ask for that cuz it's just expected.
With that, I will ask the clerk to call the role on the biz report. Council member Rainville. Hi. Council member Chavez. Hi. Council member Vto. Hi. Council member Wanssley. I. Council member Jenkins. I. Council member Pomoson.
I. Council member Chowry. I. Council member Kashman. I. Vice President Chuck. I. President Payne. I. There are 10 eyes. That carries and the report is adopted. The next report is from our climate and infrastructure committee which will be presented by that committee's chair,
Council Member Kman. Thank you, President Payne. Climate and Infrastructure Committee is bringing forward three items. Item one, passage of a resolution adopting and levying assessments for sidewalk repair and construction. Item two, approving the appointment of Nate Boon to the
pedestrian advisory committee. Item three, approving a legislative directive related to franchise fees and climate action. I'll move approval of all three items. Council member Kashman has moved approval of the committee's report. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, I'll ask the clerk to call
the role. Council member Rainville. I. Council member Chavez. I. Council member Vita. Hi. Council member Wanssley. I. Council member Jenkins. Hi. Council member Palasano. I. Council member Chowry. I. Council member Cashman. I. Vice President Chuck Tai.
I. President Payne. I. There are 10 eyes. That carries and the report is adopted. The next report is from the committee of the whole which will be presented by that committee's chair, council member Chavez. Thank you, President Payne. The committee at the whole is bringing forward
a variety of items. Item number one is approving the police oversight and accountability ordinance. Item number two is approving nine and denying two community trauma response contracts. And item number three is approving a resolution that reallocates the two denied community trauma response
contracts. These two contract funds are then to be distributed equitably to current contractors. With that, I'll move approval of all items except items 2.9 and 2.11, which I'll move for denial. Additionally, I will ask for a separate vote on items 2.2, 2.9, and
2.11. I do know that there are some amendments. Council member Chavez has moved approval of the committee's report. Uh, is there any discussion? Okay. Um that means we will be taking up
everything except 2.2 2.9 and 2.11. Um is there any discussion on the remainder of those items? I'm not seeing anyone in queue. I'll just add myself just to make a few remarks about uh CCPO. This was uh
almost two years in the making. I gave notice maybe within the first uh meeting of of this term uh to open up the books on CCPO. We were able to take in feedback from community, from commissioners, from professional staff.
We were also able to learn about some of the limitations about what we can do by way of ordinance. I'm actively working with the city attorney on uh what the next remedies are to that, including um maybe additional ordinances around
reporting or um all the way up to amendments to the charter. So, uh I'm really proud of this work as it stands, but I also recognize that uh there's still more work to be done here. So, uh I see council member Von and Q. I'd like
to pull out um item three for uh an amend amendment to the motion. A motion to amend the amendment. All right. Um and it's before you. I think everyone's got it at the their seat. No, that wasn't pulled out.
So, I thought you Thank you for doing that. We will take up all items except 2.2, 2.9, 2.11, and item number three. And seeing no one in quue for th uh for those uh I'll ask the clerk to call the
role. Council member Rainville. Hi. Council member Chavez. Hi. Council member Vto. This is on 2.2. Uh all items except 2.2 2.9 2.11 and item three. So abstain on 2.2. We're not voting on that. Oh, we're not taking that up yet.
Okay. Except I'm sorry. Yeah. I Council member Wanley I. Council member Jenkins I. Council member Pomisano. Hi. Council member Chowry. I. Council member Kashman. I. Vice President Chuck Tai. I. President Payne. I. There are 10 eyes.
Those items carry. Now we will take up each of these remainders one at a time. Starting with item number 2.2. Is there any discussion on that? Seeing none, I will ask the clerk to call the role. Council member Rainville. I. Council member Chavez. Hi. Council member Vita.
Abstain. Council member Wanssley. I. Council member Jenkins. I. Council member Pomisano. I. Council member Chowry. I. Council member Kashman. I. Vice President Chugtai.
I. President Payne. I. There are nine eyes and one abstension. That item carries. Next, we will take up item 2.9. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, I will ask the clerk to call the role. Council member Rainville.
I. Council member Chavez. And I just I just want to clarify the motion. Yes. So we can clarify the motion. Sorry. It is to deny. Correct. The So an I an affirmative would be to deny the contract. So we can redo it.
No. Okay. Council member Chavez. I. Council member Vita. No. Council member Wanssley. I. Council member Jenkins. Abstain. Council member Pomisano,
no. Council member Chowry, I. Council member Cashman, I. Vice President Chuck Dun, I. President Payne, I. There are six eyes, three nays, and one abstension. That carries. Next, we will take up item
2.11. And again, in this instance, an affir affirmative vote would be to deny the contract. And I'll have the clerk call the role. Council member Rainville. No. Council member Chavez, I. Council member Vita,
no. Council member Wanley, I. Council member Jenkins, abstain. Council member Pomisano, no. Council member Chowry, I. Council member Kashman, I. Vice President Chuck Tai, I. President Payne, I.
There are six eyes, three nays, and one abstension. That carries. And finally, we will take up item number three. And I will recognize council member Vita. Thank you. So, I just thank you very much, council members Chowry and Chuck
Tai for moving thisution forward to make sure that the money um goes back to North Minneapolis. I just added some language and it has been reviewed by the attorneys and the language is before you. Just wanted to add that so we can
have clarity on this resolution because I think it's important that this money goes back to where this money was taken from in the previous contracts. And it just specifies that it's North Minneapolis and it's including direct outreach and impacted by violence
conflict mediation, family and youth engagement and trauma-informed care and connections to recovery and support resources is what's been added to the language. Uh, council member Vita has moved to amend the resolution. Is there a second?
Second. All right. Uh, Vice President Chuck Tai. Yeah. Thank you, Mr. President. I wanted to thank council member Vita for bringing forward this this amendment to help strengthen this resolution. Um so I really appreciate that the intent
here of the author is to make sure the resources um are are then redistributed to to make sure there are no cuts to services in the communities that were going to be impacted by the the contracts that were denied. Um I just
remember from the staff presentation that these resources were coming both to North Minneapolis and then also to South Minneapolis in WS 9 and six. Um that was the the where those contracts were were going to be. So Council Member Vita, would you be amendable to just uh
including like North Minneapolis and South Minneapolis or North Minneapolis and other impacted communities um just to be inclusive of where those contracts actually got cut from? So, I think that's fine, but what what I learned from staff in talking about this is that
these other groups that have been approved may not have the ability to do that, right? Like there's this is these this group had a specific um area because they're this group. Yeah, but this and this group specific
area also included six words six and nine. No, I I understand what you're saying, but I'm saying when the when the funding gets redistributed, it's not necessary. Listen, just put it on there. It's fine. But okay, that that this language came from staff. Great. So, I I think my my amendment
would be um with a focus on delivering critical restorative services in North Minneapolis and other impacted communities. Whatever. Great. Uh, Mr. Clerk, uh, procedurally, if there's no objection, I would like to take up both
at the same time. Absolutely. If there's no objection to the amendment as amended, we can vote one time on the motion as it's been severally amended. All right. On that, um, Council Member Oh, yes.
Council member Wanley. Thank you, President Payne. I was just going to ask if we could just include the geographic areas that were listed in the presentation in the amendment because what you're saying is somewhat also sorry the newly proposed amendment
before is kind of um already emphasized here that says including direct outreach in areas most impacted by violence. So that gets at the already impacted. So, if we just list the geographic locations, ward six, nine, and five,
and four. I'm I'm referencing the ones that were listed in the presentation. I think that what's Vice President Chuck Ty was So, so in North Minneapolis and South Minneapolis. Can we just say that? Yeah. Great.
Okay. Um, Vice President Chai is writing those notes down to hand over to you, Mr. Clerk. And we will take up, which sounds like without objection with that, we will take up this as one vote. Uh, and I will
ask the clerk to call the role. Council member Rainville. Hi. Council member Chavez. Hi. Council member Vita. Hi. Council member Wanssley. Hi. Council member Jenkins. Hi. Council member Pomisano. I council member Chowry I council member Kman
I vice president Chugtime I President Payne I there are 10 eyes. That carries and the full committee report is adopted. Finally we have the public health and safety committee which will be presented by that committee's chair council member Chavez.
Thank you Mr. President. The public health and safety committee is bringing forward three items. Item number one is passage of an ordinance related to fees for the use of cityowned resources. Item number two is authorizing a grant acceptance from the Minnesota Department of Health for a public health emergency
preparedness activity and appropriating funds to the health department. Item number three is authorizing a joint pause agreement with the state of Minnesota for hazardous material response and approaching funds appropriating funds to the fire department. And with that, I'll move approval of these items.
Council member Chavez has moved approval of the committee's report. Is there any discussion? Council member Inville. Uh thank you. I'd like to move item number one for a separate vote in discussion. Council member Rainville has pulled item
one. Uh is there any discussion on the remainder of the items? Seeing none, I will ask the clerk to call the role on PHS items two and three. Council member Rainville. I. Council member Chavez. Hi. Council member Vto.
Hi. Council member Wanssley. Hi. Council member Jenkins. Hi. Council member Palmisano. I. Council member Chowry. I. Council member Kashman. I. Vice President Chuck. Hi. President T. I. There are 10 eyes. Those items carry. Uh, next we will take
up item number one. And is there any discussion on this item? Seeing none, I will Oh, Council Member Rainville. Uh, thank you. I do have a question uh for the author. Has there been any uh uh
discussion around or or effort made to gather data on the effects of this? In particular, I'm thinking of these large events like the Gay Pride Parade, Twin City Marathon, uh Pro Sports, Stace of Minnesota. Those use a lot of uh police resources as well
as uh Centerpoint Energy in their day-to-day operations, replacing pipes. uh that they do have police officers uh with that council member and if not you know could we consider that as we move forward? Council member Wanley.
Thank you President Payne. Just to ground um the body and what we're actually voting in or voting on today. Appendix J is enabling legislation for us to charge fees for um city- owned resources used in programs like offduty.
Um, so we're not charging, we're not approving a specific fee today. This is literally enabling legislation. So in regards to your question around research, there is a very thorough comprehensive presentation and report that the policy and research division uh
led on uh that was presented to the administration enterprise oversight committee uh in June. I recommend you reading that. Um they talk about the overall impacts. Uh, also NPD provided a recommended fee that we talked about that we're going to bring forward on
September 11th. Um, and I will recommend you starting there, but there has been research done on this for about two and a half years. Uh, thank you. So, do you have a short answer? Yes. No. Read the report. Read the report. Right. Thank you for the lecture.
No, that's I'll ask the clerk to call the role. Council member Brainell, no. Council member Chavez, I. Council member Vita, I. Council member Wsley, I. Council member Jenkins, I. Council member Pomisano, I.
Council member Chowry, I. Council member Kashman, I. Vice President Chugai, I. President Payne I. There are nine eyes's and one nay. That carries. The report is adopted and that completes the reports of our standing committees.
The next order of business is notice of ordinance introductions. We have two notices today, both from council member Paulano. First, council member Palmisano gives notice of intent to introduce at our next regular meeting the subject matter of an ordinance amending admin administration code by repealing chapter
36 in whole to allow for the creation of arts commission consistent with appointed boards and commission reform and adding section 43.50 relating to funding for public art. Second, Council Member Palmisano gives notice of intent to introduce at our
next regular meeting the subject matter of an ordinance amending the administration code by repealing chapter 35 and hold to allow for the creation of a capital longrange improvement committee consistent with appointed boards and commissions reform. Are there any questions on these notices? Uh I'll
recognize council member Paul Misano. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just a brief explanation of this work. The repeal of the capital long-range improvement committee and the Minneapolis Arts Commission ordinances. They're not about these boards per se. It's about implementation of our new appointed
boards and commissions reform ordinance. Click and the arts are tier three bodies in that and they were they were some of the few that were actually created by ordinance. Our new process calls for a repeal of that and to instead
incorporate them by resolution. So, um that those resolutions will come forward for your consideration at the end of this legislative process for repeal. Um I can be in touch with all of you about any um changes to the format of those
boards that have been suggested um by staff and we can take it from there. But I understand that there's some concern over massive changes. I don't see these as massive changes. I mostly see this as a um format change. They used to be an ordinance and now they're going to be a
resolution just like the rest of our appointed boards and commissions. Seeing no one else in queue, those notices are hereby given and no further action is required at this time. The next order of business is the introduction and referral calendar. We have four items on the agenda today.
First, pursuant to notice, council members Osman and Chowry move to introduce the subject matter of an ordinance amending the license and business regulations code for first reading and referral to the business housing and zoning committee, adding a new chapter 325 entitled cannabis events
to establish a process to provide local approval for and to regulate and permit events held by state licensed cannabis event organizers. Second, pursuing to notice, I move to introduce the subject matter of an ordinance amending the administration code for first reading and referral to
the administration and enterprise oversight committee, amending provisions related to city property and resources and use of official time. Third, pursuant to notice, council member Chavez moves to introduce the subject matter of two ordinances amending the
building and heritage preservation codes for first reading and referral to the business housing and zoning committee, adding and amending provisions related to requirements associated with the demolition and wrecking of structures. Finally, pursuant to notice, council members Osman and Wanley move to
introduce the subject matter of an ordinance amending the housing code for first reading and referral to the business housing and zoning committee amending provisions related to rental dwelling licenses. Uh Mr. Clerk, uh it shows me moving ordinance
associated with um city property and resources. Is this the uh the ethics code? Got it. Okay. Just didn't want to confuse that with the offduty. Uh may I have a motion to approve these introductions? So moved. Second. Is there any discussion?
Uh Council Member Cashman. Thank you so much, President Hayne. I'm really energized by all of these um ordinance introductions and referrals coming through and curious to to learn more um about the the goals. And I just
was wondering if Council Member Wanley would give us a brief overview of what the rental license ordinance um might include because I asked because there are some um landlords in my ward who have been pretty negligent to the point
where tenants unions are forming all over Luring Park right now. And there's a couple of owners in particular who I believe don't deserve to have rental licenses from the city given the conditions that they're putting the renters through. Um so I'm a little curious about what we could do through
this ordinance to to um maybe increase some of the penalties that are being put on landlords who do have like a series of inspections showing uh incomplete maintenance of the building. But if you could just give a brief sense of what
you're intending to do with this ordinance, that would be great. Council member Wans. Yeah, thank you uh council member Kashman for the question. So we're still very early in the development of this and just the notice. Um so more than happy to have further conversations
offline but the key intent if you think of as we approve liquor licenses um and where we can raise concerns about certain business practices conditional permit those type of opportunities essentially it would be having a similar process for rental licenses um because
as you highlighted we've talked about those um uh or repeat offender property owners in the individual or peacemail sense but to have a place in a committee where we do view them collectively when they're being asked for, you know, permission or approval. We would like to
see that process move forward. So, again, very early stages, but I would say equated to the approval and review process of like our liquor licenses. Thank you. That's super helpful. Appreciate it. Seeing no one else in queue, I will ask
the clerk to call the role. Council member Rainville. Hi. Council member Chavez. Hi. Council member Vita. Hi. Council member Wanley. I council member Jenkins I council member Palmisano I council member Chowry I council member Kman I vice president Chuck Tai
I President Payne I there are 10 eyes's that item carries. The next order of business is unfinished business. We have one item today which is the consideration of an earned sick and safe time update uh updated ordinance. This
item was referred to the council without recommendation by the public health and safety committee and then postponed at our last meeting. I will see if either the chair of public health and safety or the author, council member Paul Misano would like to speak to this item or make
a motion. Council member Palmo, I believe council vice president Jugta is in queue before me and I'm happy to yield to her. Uh, Vice President Jai. Uh, thank thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Council Member Palmisano. Um
so uh at the at the at our previous council meeting I I remember sharing with the body that um I had some uh amendments that I was that I had um been working on with uh the city attorney's office. They were in the process of
reviewing those. We had the opportunity to um discuss that uh last week and have um you know kind of parsed out these amendments into uh things that are uh that are going to require a lot more
work um that that kind of need to be separated. I know that's something council member Palmisano has brought up as well. Um so I think that's in line with her request about you know not continuing to delay this for months at a time while we work through things that are going to take a substantial amount of time. So that um uh with the
remaining uh items um that are uh that that our attorneys can work through um more quickly. uh they just need a little bit more time um to get those finalized and make sure that those are parsed out. Um so that we can get this uh amendment
or this this ordinance adopted with with the more um easier to work through uh amendments first and then can return to uh the the the policy itself at a later date if that's if that's the direction that we want to go in. So with that,
I'll make a motion to continue this item by one more cycle. Just wanted to provide my colleagues with uh all the context. Vice President Chad has moved to continue this for another cycle. Is there a second to that? Second.
Council member Palmisano. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um if if there are small changes um that we can provide in this next cycle from our city attorney that are not part of the larger body of
work that needs to be deeply analyzed and um and they do feel pretty confident that they can be ready with those. I am agreeable to one more delay um until our council meeting on September 11th. Um,
council member Chugtai can maybe provide more insight into what those small changes are. She has not yet shared them with me. Um, though through conversation with the city attorney, I understand they are small, albeit they are deviations from state ordinance. For
example, no longer exempting farmers in our version of the ordinance as the state does. Um now there are not many farmers in our city with employees but to the extent that there are um I am reluctantly willing to wait one more cycle. Unfortunately it's a 3-w week
cycle and um I will say yet again I do not want to hold up this initial work. It was about two years worth of staff work um for possibly several months. So, I appreciate council member Chugtai's willingness to um separate some of the
um the deeper things here and bring that forward when it's ready. But to the extent we can accommodate some of these small changes, I will agree to this one more time. Thank you. Seeing no one else in queue, I'll ask the court to call the role on the
continuation of this item for one more cycle. Council member Braville. I. Council member Chavez. Hi. Council member Vto. Hi. Council member Wansley. Hi. Council member Jenkins. I. Council member Pomisano. I. Council member Chowry. Hi. Council member Kashman. I. Vice President Chugtai.
I. President Payne. I. There are 10 eyes. That carries. And that item will be continued. Uh we will now move to new business. Uh today we have receipt of the mayor's uh 2026 recommended budget
which was presented on August 13th. I will recognize the budget committee chair, Vice President Chuck Ty, for a motion on this item. Thank you, Mr. President. Um, I am so thrilled to move to refer the mayor's recommended 2026 budget to the budget committee for its review and
consideration. Vice President Chug Tai has moved to refer consideration of the 2026 budget to the budget committee. May I have a second to that motion? Second. That has been moved and seconded. Are there any questions or comments from councel?
Seeing no, all those in favor say I. I. Oppos say nay. Any exceptions? That carries. And the mayor's 2026 recommended budget has been referred to the budget committee. Our next order of business is announcements. Are there any
announcements from council members? I do. Council member Trrey. Well, we don't have our next meeting until September 11th. So, I'm just going to first say that the Monarch Festival, the 17th annual Monarch Festival is on
Saturday, September 6th, um just east of the Lake Ncomomas Community Center. And it's going to be amazing. There's going to be um food, music, dance, hands-on art, native plants, um a lot of work to
kind of talk about the cultural connection between the migration from Minnesota to Mexico of the monarch butterflies, and I'll be tableabling there. So, please come on and stop by. And also, today is Council Member Robin Wanley's
birthday. You thought you thought someone was going to mention that. It's literally today. So, happy birthday. I think we should sing. Exactly. So, we should sing. Ready?
1 2 3. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday. Happy birthday to you. now in Spanish. Yeah, I know. A for effort. A for
effort. Thank you. Y'all are y'all have many talents just singing and but yes. [Laughter] With that, we've completed our business today with nothing further to come
before the council. And without objection, this meeting is hereby adjourned.