##VIDEO ID:T_tljf_92IA## [GAVEL] >> WELCOME TO THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY COMMITTEE FOR FEBRUARY 5, 2025. I AM JASON CHAVEZ, THE CHAIR OF THIS COMMITTEE. BEFORE WE BEGIN THE MEETING, I WANT TO OFFER A FRIENDLY REMINDER TO ALL MEMBERS AND STAFF THAT THIS MEETG 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 T OUR CAPTIONERS CAN FULLY CAPTURE AND TRANSCRIBE ALL COMMENTS FOR THE BROADCAS WE ASK ALL SPEAKERS TO MODERATE THE SPEED AND CLARITY OF THEIR COMMENTS. AT THIS TIME, I WILL ASK THE CLERK TO CALL THE ROLL SO WE CAN VERIFY THE PRESENCE OF A QUORUM FOR THIS MEETING. >> COUNCIL MEMBER PAYNE, PRESENT. RAINVILLE, PRESENT. ELLISON IS ABSENT. PALMISANO, PRESENT. VICE CHAIR WONSLEY IS ABSENT. CHAIR CHAVEZ, PRESENT. >> THERE ARE FOUR MEMBERS PRESENT. >> LET THE RECORD REFLECT THAT WE HAVE A QUOR. WITH THAT, THE AGENDA FOR TODAY'S MEETING IS BEFORE US. THERE ARE EIGHT ITEMS ON TODAY'S CONSENT AGENDA ANDNE ITEM RECOMMENDED FOR POSTPONEMENT. ITEM 1 IS ACCEPTING ADDITIONAL GRAN FUNDS FOR THE MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FOR THE PUBLIC HEALTH RESPONSE SUSTAIBILITY GRANT. ITEM 2 IS AUTHORIZING A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE DEPARTMENT O VETERAN AFFAIRS AND MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR AGENCY COORDINATION. ITEM 3 IS AUTHORIZING A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY AND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. ITEM FOUR IS AUTHORIZING A CONTRACT WITH THE MINNESOTA RECOVERY CONNECTION TO IMPLEMENT THE PUBLIC HEALTH REGENERATIVE LEADERSHIP SYNERGY GRANT. ITEM FIVE IS A CONTRACT WITH TY MATCH FOR THE WORK OF THE HEALTHY FAMILIES COMMUNITY-BASED HEALTH INITIATIVE. AND ITEM SIX IS DIRECTING STAFF TO RESEARCH AUTONOMOUS FOOD DELIVERY TECHNOLOGY AND THE IMPACT ON WORKERS. ITEM 7 IS APPROVING A LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE RELATED TO THE ADMINISTRATION'S ABOUT THE 2025 SUMMER SAFETY PLAN. ITEM 8 IS REFERRING TO STAFF THE AMENDED SUBJECT MATTER INTRODUCTION OF AN ORDINANCE RELATED TO CIVIL RIGHTS. ADDITIONALLY, ITEM 9 IS POSTPONING TO THE FEBRUARY 19 MEETING CONSIDERATION OF A RESOLUTION URGING THE ADMINISTRATION TO ADOPT THE SAFE AND THRIVING COMMUNITIES REPORT AND PLAN FOR PUBLIC SAFETY BEYO. MEMBERS, ARE THERE ANY DISCUSSION ON THESE ITEMS? ALL RIGHT. I'LL MOVE APPROVAL OF ITEM 1-8 INCLUDING THE POSTPONEMENT OF ITEM 9. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. THOSE OPPOSED SAY NAY. ANY ABSTENTIONS? THAT CARRIES AND THE CONSENT AGENDA IS APPRED. THE NEXT ITEM IS OUR FIRST DISCUSSION ITEM IS RECEIVING AND FILING A REPORT ABOUT THE FIVE-YEAR RACIAL AND ETHNIC APPROACHES TO COMMUNITY HEALTH GRANT. HERE TO PRESENT ON THIS ITEM IS JENNY FROM THEEALTH DEPARTMENT. HELLO. >> HELLO, GOOD AFTERNOON. CAN YOU SEE THE SLIDES? EXCELLENT. ALL RIGHT. WELL, GOOD AFTERNOON, CHAIR CHAVEZ, COUNCIL MEMBERS. I'M GENERJENKINSMY MINE, THE MA OF THE HEALTHY LIVING NICHE TIFR AND THE PROJECT DIRECTOR FOR THE REACH PROGRAM. AND I AM JOINED BY MY COLLEAGUE LOUISA AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE HEAL DEPARTMENT. WE ARE HIRE TO SHARE UPDATES ON THE REACH PROGRAM INCLUDING ACCOMPLISHMENTS FROM THE FIRST YEAR AS WELL AS EFFORTS UNDERWAY DURING THIS SECOND. SO REACH IS A C.D.C. FUNDED PROGRAM THAT HAS BEEN AUND FOR OVER 25 YEARS, AND THE MINNEAPOLIS HEALTH DEPARTMENT WON A FIVE-YEAR COMPETITIVE GRANT IN 2023. AND WE'RE JUST FEW MONTHS INTO THE SECOND YEAR OF IMPLEMENTATION. THE WORK IS LED BY TWO TEAMS IN. MY TEAM MANAGES THE CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION PORTION, A LOUISA'S TEAM MANAGES THE ADULT VACCINATION PORTION. THE OVERALL GOAL OF REACH IS TO IMPROVE HEALTH OUTCOMES AMONG POPULATIONS THAT EXPERIENCE THE WORST HEALTH DISPARITIES, AND SO IN MINNEAPOLIS, WE'RE FOES KUG ON BLACK, AFRICAN-AMERICAN, AND EAST -- FOCUSSING ON BLACK, AFRICAN-AMERICAN AMERICAN, AND EAST NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITIES BECAUSE THEY EXPERIENCE CHRONIC DISEASES AND VACCINATION RATES. THE WAY THE PROGRAM WORKS IS THE C.D.C. SELECTED PROVEN PUBLIC HEALTH STRATEGIES, AND OUR HEALTH DEPARTMENT IS PUTTING FOUR OF THEM INTO ACTION BY ADAPTING THEM TO MEET THE MINNEAPOLIS NEEDS. SO OVER FIVE YEARS, WE'RE WORKIN TO IMPROVE NUTRITION BY INCREASING ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE, HEALTHY FOODS LIKE FRUITS AND VEGGIES. INCREASE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY BY CREATING SAFE AND ACCESSIBLE PLACES TO MOVE. INCREASED BREASTFEEDING BY IMPROVING LACTATION SUPPORT FOR PREGNANT AND POST-PARTUM FAMILIES. AND INCREASING VACCINAONS BY PROMOTING AND PROVIDING COVID, FLU, AND OTHER VACCINATIONS. SO YOU CAN SEE OUR BUDGET OVER TIME HERE. WE WERE AWARDED THE GRANT IN SEPTEMBER OF 2023, AND AT THAT TIME ANTICIPATED THE ANNUAL FUNDING AMOUNT TO BE CONSISTENT OVER FIVE YEARS. IN YEAR ONE WE RECEIVED A LITTLE OVER $1,021,000 AND IN YEAR TWO THERE WAS A 12% DECREASE, AND WE RECEIVED ABOUT $902,000 SO ABOUT 70-75% OF OUR OVERALL BUDGET IS DEDICATED TO THE CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION STRATEGIES I JUST MENTIONED. AND ABOUT 25-30% IS ALLOCATED FOR THE VACCINATION WORK. YEARS THREE, FOUR, AND FIVE ARE A LITTLE UNCERTAIN. WEET OUR FUNDING AND BUDGET ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE C.D.C. IN SEPTEMBER, BUT WE ANTICIPATE FOR THE REDUCTIONS IN THE VACCINATION AREA. SO REACH IS SUPER IMPORTANT FOR THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT BECAUSE IT CURRENTLY FUNDS ABOUT SIX FULL-TIME STAFF POSITIONS. AND IT ALSO DIRECTLY FUNDS COMMUNITY CONTRACTORS AND PARTNERS IN YEAR ONE AND WE AWDED 13 ORGANIZATIONS A LITTLE OVER $341,000 TO HEL US MEET OUR GOALS. SO THE FIRST CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTIONTRATEGY IS NUTRITION, AND HERE OUR GOAL IS TO INCREASE ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE, HEALTHY FDS LIKE FRUITS AND VEJ VEGGIES. WE HAVE THREE INITIATIVES AND FOOD SERVICE GUIDELINES REALLY SET THE STANDARD FOR FOOD, BERAGES AND FOOD OPERATIONS LIKE A CAFETERIA THAT HAPPEN IN AN ORGANIZATIONAL SETTING. AND SO WE'RE WORKING WITH SIX AREA HOSPITALS TO IMPROVE THE FOOD THAT IS SERVED FOR PATIENTS, STAFF, AND VISITORS WITH ANMPHASIS ON CULTURALLY RELEVANT MENUS IN THE FIRST COUPLE OF YEARS. COLLECTIVELY THESE SIX HOSPITALS SERVE MORE THAN 12,000 MEALS EACH DAY,ND SO WHAT'S ON THE MENU REALLY MATTERS. AND BY 2028, WE AIM TO CHANGE THE GUIDELINES FOR AT LEAST TWO OF THE HOSPITALS THAT ARE WORKING WITH US. FRUIT AND VEGGIE VOUCHER PROGRA IN MINNESOTA, WE'RE FORTUNATE TO HAVE PROGRAMS LIKE MARKET BUCKS AND THE FARMER'S MARKET NUTRITION PROGRAM THAT PROVIDE FREE FRUITS AND VEGGIES SPECIFICALLY WHO ARE SHOPPING AT FARMER'S MARKETS. AND WITH REACH WE'RE WORKING TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF PLACES THAT ACCEPT TSE VOUCHER PROGRAMS AS WELL AS THE NUMBER OF VOUCHERS THAT ARE REDEEMED BY PEOPLE USING THEM. AND SO IN YEAR ONE, WE DELIVERED A FOOD RESOURCE NAVIGATOR TRAINING SERIES AS A FIRST STEP. STAFF AT EIGHT COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINICS AND OTHER HEALTH SYSTEMS PARTICIPATED AND IN TS TRAINING THE NAVIGATORS LEARN MORE ABOUT THE VOUCHER PROGRAMS AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, HOW TO CONNECT PEOPLE TO THESE PROGRAMS AS WELL AS TO OER FOOD RESOURCES. AND SO IN THE SECOND YEAR, WE'RE SHIFTING OUR FOCUS A LITTLE BIT TO FOCUS ON HOW TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF FARMER'S MARKET VENDORS LIKE THE STALLS AT THE MARKET THAT ARE GOING TO ACCEPT THE VOUCHERS. FINALLY, PRODUCE PRESCRIPTIONS, YOU MAY HAVE HEARD ABOUT THESE. THESE ARE AN EFFECTIVE WAY TO GET FRUITS AND VEGETABLES TO PEOPLE WHO ARE EXPERIENCING FOOD INSECURITY AS WELL AS A CHRONIC HEALTH CONDITION, LIKE DIABETES. AND THROUGH REACH 'RE HAPPY TO BE PARTNERING WITH THE NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CLINIC, WHO SCREENS PATIENTS AND REFERS THEM TO ANOTHER PARTNER, BRIGHTSIDE PRODE, AND BRIGHTSIDE DELIVERS BAGS OF THIS FRESH PRODUCE DIRECTLY TO PATIENT'S HOMES WHICH IS PRETTY COOL. AND TO DATE, MORE THAN 184 PATIENTS HAVE PARTICIPATED IN THIS PROGRAM. AND OVER THE NEXT FIVE YES, WE HOPE TO NOT ONLY SUSTAIN THE PROGRAM AT THE NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CLINIC, AND IDEALLY EXPAND IT TO FIVE OTHER CLINICS OR HOSPITALS IN MINNEAPOLIS. SO A QUICK SPOTLIGHT ON THE NUTRITION FOOD RESOURCE NAVIGATOR TRAINING PROGRAM. AGAIN, THE NAVIGATORS ARE CONNECTING WITH FRUIT AND VEGGIE VOUCHERS AND OTHER RESOURCE. I MENTION THE TRAINGS THAT WE OFFERED, BUT WE ARE EXCITED TO PARTNER DIRECTLY ARE FAIRVIEW HEALTH SERVICE TO SUPPORT A STAFF POSITION AT THE RIVERSIDE CLINIC IN THE CEDAR RIVERSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD. YOU CAN MEET KATE. HER PICTURE IS ON THE SLIDE HERE. SHE IS A REGISTERED DIETITIAN WHO HAS HAD 103 PATIENT CONSULTATIONS AND MADE 161 REFERRALS TO PROGRAMS LIKE THE VOUCHER ONES THAT I EXPLAINED EARLIER. >> ALL RIGHT. SO PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IS THAT STRATEGY, AGAIN S WHERE WE'RE CREATING SAFE AND HEALTHY ENVIRONMENTSO BE ACTIVE AND WORKING AROUND THREE LOCATION-BASED PROJECTS AROUND THE CITY. ONE IS THE LITTLE EARTH NEIGHBORHOOD IN SOUTH MINNEAPOLIS AND ON THE NORTH SIDE, THE NORTHSIDE GREENWAY WITH PUBLIC WORKS AS WELL AS WITH THE WILLARD HAY AND NEAR NORTH NEIGHBORHOODS THAT AR REALLY ADJACENT TO THEODORE WIRTREGIONAL PARK AND THE TRAILHEAD. FOR ALL THREE OF THESE, IT REQUIRES A CLOSE COORDINATN WITH CITY PUBLIC WORKS AS WELL AS MINNEAPOLIS PARK AND REC DEPARTMENT. AND BY 2028, WE REALLY WANT TO MAKE SOME OF THE DESIGN CHANGES OR POLICY OR PLAN CHANGES TO STREETS, PARKS AND TRAILS IN THESE NEIGHBORHOODS. AND AGAIN, THE CHANGES ARE SUPPOSED TO IMPROVE PEDESIAN SAFETY BY, FOR EXAMPLE, SLOWING DOWN TRAFFIC ON STREETS TO INCORPORATE COMMUNITY REPRESENTATION LIKE ART INTO THE STREETS AND PARKS AND IDEALLY MAKE IT EASIER AND FUN FOR FOLKS TO WALK, BIKE, PLAY AND BE ACTIVE OUTSIDE. IN THE LITTLE EARTH NEIGHBORHO, WE ARE WORKING WITH THE RESIDENCE ASSOCIATION, AND THEY HAVE CHOSEN TO FOCUS ON INSTALLING TEMPORARY WAY FINDING SIGNS AS WELL AS STREET PAINTING THAT REFCT INDIGENOUS CULTURE, IMPROVE PEDESTRIAN SAFETY, SLOW DOWN TRFIC, AND INFORM FUTURE STREET RECONSTRUCTION WHICH IS PART OF THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM OR PLAN. IF NORTH MINNEAPOLIS AND THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT HAS WORKED WITH PUBLIC WORK ON THE NORTHSIDE GREENWAY FOR OVER A DECADE, SO THIS IS EXCITING TO SEE SOME OF IT COME THE FRUITION. LAST WEEK REACH SUPPORTEDY PROVIDING ADDITIONAL PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT WITH THE CULTURAL WELLNESS CENTER A WELL-KNOWN COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATION, AND SO CULTURAL WELLNESS CENTER DID DOOR KNOCKING AND PROVIDED A COUPLE OF COMMUNITY BIKE RIDES ALONG THE ROUTE SO FOLKS COULD GET INLVED, AND THAT ENGAGEMENT IS INFORMING THE FINAL DESIGN THAT PUBLIC WORKS IS WORKING ON. AND THIRD, IN THE WILLARD HAY AND NORTH NEIGHBORHOOD FOUNDATIONS, WE ARE WORKING WITH THE FOUNDATION THAT OPERATES THE SPACE AND THE PROGRAMS AT THE TRAILHEAD WHICH IS KIND A DESTINATION WITHIN THE PARK THAT IS RIGHT THERE. AND SO WITH REACH, THE GOAL IS TO INCREASE THE UTILIZATION OF THE PARK IN THE PROGRAMS BY THE NEIGHBORS. AND ALSO TO IDENTIFY THE SPACES TO MAKE IT MORE APPEALING. LAST YEAR WE SUPPORTED OUTDOOR PROGRAMMING, A SURVEY WITH PARTICIPANTS AND THIS YEAR THEY ARE INTERESTED IN BUILDING CLOSER CONNECTIONS WITH NORTHSIDE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS. OKAY. QUICK SPOTLIGHT. SO AN EXAMPLE OF THIS PHYSICAL ACTIVITY WORK AND HOPEFULLY THE PHOTOS BRING IT TO LIFE A LITTLE BIT MORE. AND AGAIN, THIS IS ONE WAY THAT WE'RE TRYING TO CATE SAFE AND ACCESSIBLE SPACES FOR PEOPLE TO MOVE AROUND LITTLE EARTH. THE DESIGN CHANGES HERE ARE GOING TO HOPEFULLY SLOW DOWN CARS AND INCREASE COMFORT AND SAFETY AND MAKE THE STREETS MORE WELCING AND ENCOURAGE ACTIVITY. AND WE ARE SUPER EXCITED TO WORK WITH THE NATIVE YOUTH ARTS COLLECTIVE WHICH IS A PROGRAM WITHIN THE LITTLE EARTH ASSOCIATION GROUP OF PROGRAMS. THEY RUN TWO YOUTH TRAINING PROGRAM WHERE IS YOUTH ARTISTS AS WELL AS LEAD ADULT ARTISTS ARE GOING TO DESIGN AND INSTALL SOME SIGNS AND MURALS. THE GOAL IS TO INSTALL 10 SIGNS AROUND THE HOUSING COMPLEX IN PARTICULAR. AND THEY ARE ALSO PROPOSING A REFRESH OF THE EXISTING STREET MURALS THAT WERE DONE BAING IN 2020 AND NEW ONES TO GO ON 18th SOUTH AND OGEMA PLACE. AND FOR THIS WE ARE WORKING THROUGH THE CITY'S ART APPLICATION DESIGN PROCESS. THEY ARE NOT FINAL, BUT COURTESY OF THE NATIVE YOUTH ARTS COLLECTIVE ARTISTS, AND WE LOVE THEIR WORK. FINALLY, BREASTFEEDING IS OUR THIRD STRATEGY FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION, AND IT IS A UNIQUE ONE BECAUSE IT HAS HEALTH BENEFITS FOR BABIES AND THE LACTATING PARENT. AND SOHE GOAL IS TO IMPROVE SUPPORT FOR PREGNANT AND POST-PARTUM FAMILIES. SO HEALTH CARE PROVIDER, CLINICS, HOSPITALS, THEY ALL PLAY A REALL IMPORTANT ROLE IN SUPPORTING FAMILIES AND MEETING THEIR LACTATION GOAL AND THROUGH REACH WE HAVE TWO PROJECTS THAT SUPPORT LACTATION IN HEALTH CARE SPECIFICALLY. ONE IS A TRAINING PROGRAM AND THE SECOND IS LACTATION FRIENDLY CLINICS. AND ON THE FIRST ONE TO TRAIN HEALTH CARE WORKERS AND WE ARE WORKING WITH CULTURALELLNESS CENTER AGAIN AND THE DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK WHO ARE EXPERTS WITH THEIR COMMUNITIES. AND TOGETHER WE'RE ADAPTING AN EXISTING CURRICULUM. AND THEN INVITING STAFF FROM THE COMMUNITY CNICS AND AREA HOSPITALS TO PARTICIPATE. THE SECOND PROJECT IS DEVELOPING A LACTATION FRIENDLY CLINIC PROGRAM WHICH IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CLINICS TO BE CELEBRATED AND RECOGNIZED FORN'T DOING ORGANIZATIONAL POLICIES AND PRACTICES THAT BETTER SUPPORT LACTATION NOT ONLY FOR PATIENTS BUT FOR EMPLOYEES WHO WORK THERE. AND FOR THAT, WE'RE WORKING WH THE MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION, AND OVERALL AIMING TO TRAIN AT LEAST 35 HEALTH CARE STAFF AND ESTABLISH FIVE LACTATION-FRIENDLY CLINICS OVER THE FIVE YEARS. SO A LITTLE BIT MORE TO SPOTLIGHT WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO WITH THE LACTATION FRIENDLY CLINICS, THIS PROGRAM IS STILL IN THE DESIGN PHASE BUT IT IS MODELLED AFTER EXISTING SUCCESSFUL STATE AND FEDERAL PROGRAMS AND YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF BREAFEEDING FRIENDLY HOSPITAL DESIGNATION OR FOREST-FEEDING FRIENDLY HEALTH DEPARTMENTSND WORK SITES. CURRENTLY THERE IS ACTUALLY NOT A STATEWIDE PROGR FOR BREAST FEEDING WORK AT AN OUTPATIENT CLINIC SETTING. AND CLINICS ARE AN IMPORTANT TRANSITION FROM THE CARE IN A HOSPITAL OR BIRTH CENTERR WHEREVER THEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN TO THEIR PRIMARY CARE CLINIC. AND SO TO BE PART OF THIS PROGRAM, CLINIC WILLS COMPLETE A SELF-ASSESSMENT AND RECEIVE SUPPORT FROM US TO MAKE SOM OF THESE CHANGES. AND IT COULD BE TO A POLICY OR A PRACTICE OR IT COULD BE CREATING A PRIVATE LACTATION ROOM THAT MEETS STATE AND FEDERAL GUIDELINES. AND SO WITH THAT, I AM GOING TO INVITE LOUISA UP TO TALK ABOUT ADULT VACCINATIONS. >> THANK YOU. WELCOME UP, LOUISA. >> THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBERS. I'M JUST GOING TO QUICKLY SPEAK TO THE ADULT VACCINATION COMPONENT OF REACH AND WHAT IS NEXT AND WE'LL STAND FOR QUESTIONS. REACH, THE PIECES OF REACH FOR ADULT IMMUNIZATIONS IS REALLY FOES KU -- FOCUSED ON EDUCATION AND OUTREACH. WE HAVE LEVERAGED OTHER FUNDING TO BE ABLEO DO CLINICS. AND IN 2024 WE'VE DONE OVER 87 CLINICS, PROVIDING OVER 1700 IMMUNIZATIONS. AND THIS IS AN INCREASE FROM 22 AND 23. SO DURING THOSE CLINICS, THEN, WE DO PROVIDE OUTREACH AND EDUCATION AND FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON WHAT VACCINATION ARE REQUIRED OR RECOMMENDED. AND ANSWER COMMUNITY QUESTIONS. WE ALSO PARTICIPATE IN EVENTS THAT ARE NOT CLINICAL EVENT WHERE IS WE ARE JUST THERE TO DO OUTREACH AND PROVIDE, YOU KNOW, INFORMATION AND ANSWER QUESTIONS. AND THEN IN ADDITION, WE WORK WITH COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS TO TRAIN TRUSTED MESSENGERS FROM THOSE COMMUNITIES SO THEY CAN HAVE THAT INFORMATION AND PROVIDE THAT INFORMATION WITHIN THE COMMUNITY WHEREAS THE HEALT DEPARTMENT MIGHT NOT BE THERE, BUT COMMUNITY IS HAVING CONVERSATIONS AMONGST THEMSELVES AND GETTING THAT INFORMATION. SO THAT'S IN A NUTSHELL THE WORK FOR OUR IMMUNIZATIONS. AND IT WOULDN'T BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT THE TEAM THAT IS OUT THERE EVERY WEEK DOING EITHER A CLINIC OR AN OUTREACH EVENT AND ENGAGING WITH THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS. SO IN TERMS OF LOOKING AHEAD FOR REACH, AS WE MENTIONED, THERE I SOME UNCERTAINTY AROUND THE AMOUNT OF FEDERAL FUNDING WE MAY CONTINUE TO RECEIVE, BUT WE ARE EXCITED TO MOVE PROJECTS FROM OUR DESIGN AND ASSESSMENT PHASE TO FULL IMPLEMENTATION, AND WITH THAT, HAVING EVALUION AND THINKING OF SUSTAINABILITY BEIN IMPLEMENTATION. WE ARE ALSO LOOKING AT THE STRATEGIES BUT LOOKING AT ARE THERE NEW PROJECTS OR NEW PARTNERS THAT WILL NEED TO ENGAGE T BUILD ON THE WORK THAT IS CURRENTLY BEING DONE. AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO SEEK ADDITIONAL FDING TO COMPLIMENT THE REACH WORK SO WE CAN CONTIN TO DO THE WORK THAT WE ARE DOING. AT THIS TIME WE ARE HAPPY TO STAND FOR QUESTIONS. JENNY WOULD BE THE POINT OF CONTACT FOR THE CHRONIC DISEASE, MYSELF FOR IMMUNIZATIONS AND YEAH THAT'S I THINK IT. >> THANK YOU, JENNY AND LOUISA FOR THE PRESENTATION TODAY. WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT. I WILL SEE IF ANY OF MY COLLEAGUES HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. SO ONE, THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. ALLY HELPFUL. IT IS IMPORTANT TO POINT OUT THE FEDERAL FUNDING ON UNCERTAINTY AND SOMETHING TO KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON AND FIGURE OUT THE POTENTIAL IMPACTS, AND THANK YOU FOR THE WORK YOU ARE DOING AT THE LITTLE EARTH AREA. THOSE ARE INCREDIBLE PROJECTS THAT REALLY HELP THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE THERE, SO REALL HAPPY TO SEE THAT ON TOP OF THE OTHER WORK HAPPENING IN NORTH MINNEAPOLIS AS WELL. WANT TO SAY, THANK YOU, ALL, AND PASS IT TO COUNCIL PRESINT PAYNE AND VICE CHAIR WONSLEY. I WANT TO MAKE SURE -- I HAVE MY LIST HERE. VICE CHAIR WSLEY AND COUNCIL MEMBER ELLISON ARE PRESENT. >> THANK YOU, CHAIR CHAVEZ. I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THE WORK AND SPECIFICALLY SPEAK TO HOW YOUR TEAM DOES GREAT WORK INTEGRATING WITH THE CITY AND HOW WE ARE EXPANDING OUR FOOTPRINT MORE AUTHENTICALLY THROUGH THE COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS. THIS IS IMPORTANT AS WE THIN ABOUT ALL DOMAINS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT. >> VIC CHAIR WONSLEY. >> THANK YOU, CHAIR CHAVEZ. I WANTED TO GO BACK TO THE SLIDE WITH THE ART WORK IN CONJUNCTION WITH LITTLE EARTH AND SUPER, SUPER EXCITED TO SEE THIS PIECE AND REFLECT I WILL BE FOLLONG UP ON THIS. WANTED TO KNOW IF OUR ARTS AND CULTURE AFFAIRSEPARTMENT WAS ALSO INVOLVED IN THIS. AND MAYBE THEY ARE THE DEPARTMENT THAT'S SUPPORTING SOMEWHAT THE PUBLIC ART PERMIT APPLICATION. I AM TRYING TO REMEMBER THE PROCESS FOR THAT. >> YES, YES, YOU ARE CORRECT. THERE IS DEFINITELYN ESTABLISHED PROCESS AND SO I HAVE BEEN IN TOUCH WITH, I BELIEVE, MARY ALTMAN AND OTHER STAFF TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE FOLLOWING THE PROPER PROCESS AND ELIGIBILITY, B WE ARE REALLY EXCITED TO BRING IT FORWARD. >> SUPER EXCITED ABOUT THIS. FOLKS INARD TWO, I LIVE MY HIPPIES, AND NOT ONLY -- NOT JUST SAY HIPPIES, B PEOPLE, I THINK, IN RECENT YEARS HAVE REALLY GOTTEN EXCITED ABOUT HOW TO BRING ART AND ESPECIALLY TRAFFIC CALMING KIND OF HAND IN HAND TOGETHER, AND YOU MENTIONED THAT, TOO, AND BEING ABLE TO USE THAT IN A CULTURALLY INFORMED WAY AND IT IS GREAT TO SEE THAT BE REFLECTED IN THIS WORK AND THAT OUR ARTS AND CULTURAL DEPARTMENT HAS A PROGRAM IN PLACE THAT SHOWS WE CAN LINK THAT. AND AT LEAST THROUGHOUT MY TENURE, THERE HAS BEEN SOME, I THINK, RESISTANCE AROUND LINKING THE TWO BECAUSE IT IS NEW AND INNOVATIVE WORK. AND WE DON OFTEN HAVE TO WAIT FOR WHAT ARE THAT CALLED? BOLLARD. >> THE STICKS IN THE ROAD. >> NOT ALL OF OUR COLLEAGUES ARE FOR THOSE, BUT THERE ARE WAYS TO USE ART AS A MEANS OF NOT ONLY BRINGING JUST THAT COHESION TO OUR COMMUNITY AND SHOUT OUT TO 36th STREEKT COLLECTIVE IN MY WARD THAT DID A PROJECT. I DON'T RECALL IF IT WAS THROUGH THE SAME PROCESS AND WITH THE -- AND SIMILAR BECAUSE THERE WERE SPEEDING EFFTS AND REALLY DID A GREAT JOB OF BRINGING STUDENTS ALONG FROM DIFFERENT ETHNIC BACKGROUNDS AND CENTRALIZING THAT CULTURAL CONNECTION. SO I WAS REALLY, REALLY EXCITED TO SEE THIS BE BROUGHT FORWARD, TOO, AND THE ENGAGEMENT WITH YOUNG PEOPLE. AND SO YEAH, THIS PROGRAM IS JUST LIKE ONE OF THE MOMENTS IN WHICH WE CAN HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE POSITIVE WORK THAT IS HAPPENING AT THE CITY. OFTEN TIMES THAT DOES NOT GET ELEVATED. THIS WAS REALLY EXCITING TO SEE THIS PRESENTATION TODAY. >> SO THANK YOU TO YOU ALL. >> COUNCIL MEMBER PAYNE. >> I WANT TO PILE ON TO THE THANK YOU'S. AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THIS IS IN THE CONTEXT OF A LOT OF MISINFORMATION AND UNCERTAINTY AND HAVING TO BATTL THAT. AN AND LOUISA, WE ARE ON THE RADIO PRRAMENED A TALKING ABOUT THE MISINFORMATION AROUND COVID VACCINATIONS ANDLL THAT STUFF. AND YOU HAVE ENGAGED WITH THE COLLEAGUES AND DOING THIS WORK AND JUST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT SOME OF THAT IS WHAT WE ARE BATTLING AND I NEVER THOUGHT THIS IS A SITUATION WHERE THIS WORK WOULD HAVE AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO IT, B I WANT TOING A KNOWLEDGE WHERE YOU ARE AND DOING AN INCREDIBLE JOB. WHEN YOU ARE LOOKING FOR PARTNERSHIPS AND YOU MENTION THE COMMUNITY AND VAL VALIDATERS FOR THESE ISSUES AND LET US KNOW HOW WE CAN CONNECT WITH YOU AND BE ON THE GROUND SUPPORTING THIS WORK AS WELL. I AM VERY INTERESTED IN MAKING SURE THIS IS WORK THAT DOES CONTINUE. AND THIS IS WORK THAT WE CONTINUE TO IMPROVE ON AND NARRATIVES AROUND VACCINATIONS OR WHATEVER, THAT WE DON'T GET ON THE WRONG -- ON THE COMPLETE WRONG SIDE OF THAT. AND WE'RE GOING TO NEED THIS WORK MORE THAN EVER AS PEOE EAT MORE BEAR MEAT AND RAW MILK OR WHATEVER. BUT -- BUT YEAH, BUT THANK YOU, GS FOR THE WORK AND REALLY DO SEE US AS COMMUNITY PARTNERS AS WELL AS YOU ARE GOING INTO OUR WARD >> THANK YOU. >> SO SEEING NO FURTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS, I WILL DIRECT THE CLE TO RECEIVE AND FILE THAT REPORT. AND VICE CHAIR WONSLEY, COUNCIL MEMBER ELLISON, WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE REFLECTED ON VOTING ON THE CONSENT AGENDA ON TOP OF THE POSTPONEMENT? >> YES. >> YES. >> CLERK, WITHOUT OBJECTION, IF WE COULD MAKE THAT HAPPEN. OKAY, GREAT. AND THANKS SMUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION, JENNY AND LOUISA. NEXT UP IS THE ITEM IS RECEIVING AND FILING A RESPONSE REPT TO THE LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE RELATED TO THE NAVIGATION CENTER UPDATE AND USE OF CITY-OWNED LANDO ADDRESS UNSHELTERED HOMELESSNESS. HERE TO PRESENT IS DIRECTOR ERIC HANSEN FROM CPED. THANKS FOR BEING HERE, DIRECTOR. >> THANK YOU, CHAIR CHAVEZ AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE. MY NAM IS ERIC HANSEN. I AM THE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT FOR THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. AND BEFORE YOU IS T RESPONSE TO A LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE THAT YOU GUYS PASSED BACK IN OCTOB OF LAST YEAR ASKING THREE QUESTIONS YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN ABOUT FORMER NAVIGATION CENTER THAT THE CITY STOOD UP IN LATE, MID TO LATE 2018 AND INTO 2019. AND REVIEW OF THAT AND THEN SOME EVALUATIONS OF POTENTIAL SIGHTS IN THE CITY'S INVENTORY FOR POTENTIALLY RECREATING THE NAVIGATION CENTER. AND WILL GO OVER THE HIGHLIGHTS THAT ARE IN THE REPORT THA WILL BE MORE DETAIL WITHIN THE R.C.A. THAT WE SUBMITTED, BUT LET ME FIRST TALK ABOUT THE RESPONSE TO QUTION NUMBER ONE. SO GOING BACK TO 2018, THE NEED FOR THE NAVIGATION CENTERAS SPURRED ON BY AN ENCAMPMENT THAT WAS HAPPENING ON THE FREEWAY WALL ALONG HIAWATHA AVENUE. AND KNOWN MOSTLY AS THE WALL OF FORGOTTEN NATIVES. THAT ENCAMPMENT, THE NAVIGATION CENTER WAS A RPONSE TO GETTING FOLKS FROM THAT ENCAMPMENT IN THROUGH SOME SOR OF NAVIGATOR THAT GETS THEM INTO SUPPORTIVE SERVICES, WRAP-AROUND SERVICES, AND FINALLY, STABLE AND SAFE HOUSING. THE DEVELOPMENT, THE ORIGINAL CONVERSATION ABOUT A NAVIGATION CENTER OCCURRED BETWEEN THE CITY AND HENNEPIN COUNTY, STATE OF MINNESOTA AND A NUMBER OF NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES. AND MOST OF THE PPLE THAT WERE IN THIS ENCAMPMENT WERE IN INDIGENOUS MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY. AT THE TIME THE CITY COORDINATOR WAS GIVEN THE DIRECTION, THE FORMER CITY COORDINATOR WAS GIVEN THE EFFORT TO LEAD AROUND THE NAVIGATION CENTER. THROUGH THAT WORK THE CITY COORDINATOR DIRECTED THE COMMUNITY OF PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR SITE SEARCH, SIGHT SELECTION, BUILDING OUT T OPERATIONS AND ALL THE OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES OF OPERATING THE NAVIGATION CENTER. GIVE Y A SENSE OF A TIMELINE, WE STARTED IN EARLY SEPMBER WITH THE MAYOR AND THE COUNCIL DIRECTING US TO DO THIS WORK. WE STARTED THE SITE SEARCH PRORTS. WE -- SITE SEARCH PROCESS. WE FOUND A SITE IN OCTOR, AND I WILL GET INTO DETAILS ABOUT THIS PROCESS. WE HAD TO AS A CITY, WE HAD TO PASS AN EMERGENCY DECLARATION FOR THE USE OF -- TO BYPASS SOME PROCUREMENT RULES, WHICH I'LL TALK ABOUT IN A SECOND. AND THEN THROUGH LIKE OCTOBER THROUGH DECEMBER WAS THE GET THE THING SET UP, GET PROCUREMENT, BUY THE MATERIALS, GET OPERATORS, GET IT ALL SET UP. AND IT OPENED IN EARLY DECEMBER. IT WAS OPEN TO JUNE OF 2019 AND AT THAT POINT IN TIME T RESIDENTS DEPARTED AND WE DEMOBILIZED THE NAVIGATION SENTER IN LATE JUNE AND SU SUBSEQUENTLY IN LATE SUMMER SOLD THE EQUIPMENT THAT WAS NAMED FOR THE CITY. STAFF INVOLVEMENT, WE HAD A NUMBER OF DEPTMENTS WORKING ON CPED WHICH LED A LOT OF THE WORK AROUND THE OPERATIONS WITH T CITY COORDINATOR ALSO MANAGED THE OVERALL PROJECT. WE HAD THE PUBLIC WORKS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND POLICE DEPARTMENT ALL CONTRIBUTES IN THE TEAM ACROSS THE ENTERPRE TO GET THIS STOOD UP. THE SITE COST ABOUT -- ALL IN, IT WAS ABOUT $2.9 MILLION FOR BOTH CAPITAL AND OPERATING -- OPERATIONS COSTS. IT WAS JUST NORTH OF THAT, JUST NORTH OF $3 MILLION, BUT WE WERE ABLE TO GET SOM DONATIONS FROM OPEN YOUR HEART, SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES AND RECOVER SOME FUNDING FROM THE SALE OF THE STRUCTURES THAT WE PUT ON THE NAVIGATION CENTER. SO THE CITY HAD TO BEAR ABOUT A $3 MILLION PRICE TAG FOR THE NAVIGATION CENTER. WE DID APPROACH OTHER FUNDING EVEN THOUGH WETARTED WITH OTHER FUNDING SOURCES AND OTHER GOVERNMENTS, THE OTHER GOVERNMENTS DECLINED TO HELP DEFRAY THE COST OF THAT NAVIGATION CENTER. SO THE SITE SELECTION PROCESS, I'M GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT IT NOW, AND THEN I'M GOING TO GET INTO SPECIFICS IN QUESTION TWO BECAUSE THERE IS SOME OVERLAP IN THOSE. BUT IT WAS NOT -- IT WAS NOT A STRAIGHTFORWARD PROCESS. WE AS A STAFF HAD TO LOOK FOR SOMETHING THAT WAS ADEQUATELY SIZED FOR THE PEOPLE THAT WERE IN THE ENCAMPMENTS. THE SITE WE ACTUALLY LANDED ON WAS ABOUT .8 OF AN ACRE. I KNOW WE'RE NOT FARMERS HERE, BUT THAT'S ABOUT 40,000 SQUARE FEET. AND WE FIRST LOOKEDT CITY-OWNED PROPERTIES. THE THREE PROPERTIES THAT POPPED UP THAT HAD THE SITE, 2717 LONGFELLOW AVENUE, ALSO KNOWN AS THE ROOF DEPOT PARKING LOT. I'LL TALK ABOUT THAT IN A SECOND. 2600 MINNEHAHA WHICH IS A VACANT REDEVELOPMENT PROPERTY FOR PRODUCTION AND PROCESSING USE AND I'LL TALK ABOUT THAT IN A SECOND. AND 1314 EAST 24th STREET, WHICH WAS A SITE THAT INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S TASK FORCE WAS GOING TO DEVELOP FOR A PROJECT, AND WE HAVE SUBSEQUENTLY SOLD THAT PROPERTY. WE WENT DOWN THE PATH ON ALL THREE OF THOSE PROPERTIES AND COULD NOT MAKE THOSE- A NUMBER OF THOSE WORK AND I'LL TALK ABOUT THE ROOF DEPOT AND 2600 A. BUT WE FINALLY LANDED ON A SITE AT 2109 DAR, WHICH WAS OWNED AND OPERATED BY THE RED LAKE NATION AND THE RED LAKEATION LEASED IT TO THE CITY FOR OPERATIONS. THE REASON W ONLY HAD THE NAVIGATION CENTER OPEN UNTIL JUNE IS BECAUSE THEY WERE BUILDING A HOUSING DEVELOPMENT WHICH YOU SEE THERE TODAY. AND THAT CONSTRUCTION W STARTING IN MID 2019. SO WE WERE ABL TO SECURE THAT SITE. WE THEN HAD TO WORK WITH SOME NEIGHBORS, THE CEDAR BOX COMPANY WAS ACROSS THE STREET. THEY WERE VERYERVOUS AND I'LL GET INTO THE APPREHENSION OF COMMUNITY MEMBERS AROUND SITES WHEN WE GET TO QUESTION TWO, BUT WE HAD T NEGOTIATE SOME SECURITY COSTS AND CAMERAS AND OTHER THINGS TO GET THE CEDAR BOX COMPANY COMFORTABLE WITH THE -- HAVING THIS NAVIGATION CENTER ACROSS THE STREET. WE ALSO HAD THE CEDAR BOX COMPANY MADE CARDBOARD BOXES AND SO THERE WAS A CONCERN THAT THERE COULD BE -- SOMEBODY MAY GET INTO BUILDING AND IT WAS A BIG FIRE RISK. WE WORK WITH THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AS WELL TO MAKE SURE WE WERE MITIGATING ANY FIRE ISSUES WE MIGHT SEE FROM THAT RISK. INITIALLY THE CITY COUNCIL APPROVED THE BUDGET OF ABOUT $1.5 MILLION. AND WE HAD TO EXCEED THOSE COSTS AND IT'S BECSE WE HAD TO GO SO FAST. SO WE LEARNED REALLY QUICKLY THAT WE NEEDED TO USE THE PROCUREMENT PROCESS TO GO THROUGH, WHAT I WOULD SAY IS A STEADY, COMPETITIVE BIDDING PROCESS THAT WOULD HAVE PROBABLY GIVEN US SOME COST BENEFITS BECAUSE THDIRECTION FROM THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL WAS TO GET THIS OPEN AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AND TS WAS OCTOBER. WE WERE TRYING TO GET THIS SET UP BY WINTER. SO DECEMBER, CLOSE TO WINTER, AND WE WERE FORTUNATE BECAUSE IF YOU REMEMBER TSE WHO WERE IN THE REGION IN 2019 REMEMBER, WE HAD A POLAR VORTEX IN FEBRUARY OF THAT NEXT YEAR, AND SO IT WAS VERY TELY TO HAVE THAT UP AND RUNNING BECAUSE WE WERE ABLE TO KEEP THE PEOPLE THAT WERE FORMERLY IN THE WALL FORGOTTEN NATIVES IN THE NAVIGATION CENTER IN WARM ACCOMMODATIONS. SO WE WENT PRETTY FAST, AND THAN WAS ISSUED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IN OCTOBER TO ALLOW FOR US AS A STAFF TO SET ASIDE PROCUREMENT RULES. BECAUSE WE HAD TO SET ASIDE PROCUREMENT RULES, WE WENT TO FIND THINGS THAT WOULD WORK. AND WE SEARCHED THE OIIELDS OF NORTH DAKOTA FOR STRUCTURES THAT COULD ACCOMMODATE PEOPLE. WE ENDED UP ON A BIG TENT THAT IS CALLED A SPRUNG STRUCTURE AND PUT THAT UP TO ACCOMMODATE 130 PEOPLE AND AT THE PEAK THIS WAS 160 PEOPLE IN THE NAVIGATION CENTER. WE HAD CHALLENGES GETTING THE ANCILLARY BUILDINGS AND COMMUNITY BUILDING, SERVICES AND SHOWERS AND BATHROOMS. WE HAD SOME CONTRACTORS THAT PULLED OUT OF THE CONTRACT AFTER THEY FOUND OUT WHAT THE USE WAS FOR AND W HAD TO GO OUT WITH INTENTIONALITYBOUT LEASING THIS EQUIPMENT FOR THE NAVIGATION CENTER AND ABLE TO FIND A CONTRACTOR AT THAT POI IN TIME. THE BUILDOUT, W USED -- WE WERE ABLE TO USE SOME NATIVE-OWNED FIRMS FOR CONTRACTING AND ARCHITECTURE. WE USED CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION AND CLEARED STUFF THAT WAS ON THE SURFACE AND ENCAPSULATED THE SITE WITH THE BLACK TOP AND THOSE WOULD HAVE BEEN CLEANED UP DURING THE HOUSING CONSTRUCTION. AND BEENCAPSULATING -- BY ENCAPSATING IT WITH THE ASPHALT, WE PROTECTED PEOPLE FROM WHAT WAS UNDERNEATH THE ASPHALT. LET'S SEE HERE. ALL UNTOLD, WE GOT THE SPRUNG STRUCTURES AND GOT THE T COS, DIVIDERS, FOOT LOCKERS, RESIDENCE STORAGE, AND WE HEATED IT. WE POWERED IT. WE PUT WATER INTO IT. WE PUT FENCING. WE HAD SOME ANCILLARY BUILDINGS, AS I SAID. WE HAD THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT PROVIDING SOLID WASTE REMOVAL ON A REGULAR BASIS. WE PUT UP SECURITY CAMER AND HAD SECURITY OFFICERS AND GUARDS ON AND AROUND THE SITE. LET'S SEE HERE. OKAY. OPERATIONS AROUND THE NAVIGATION CENTER, WE HAD SIMON HOUSING SERVICE AS AN OPERATOR. THE CITY DOES NOT PROVIDE THIS KIND OF SERVICE, SO WE NEEDED SOMEBODY WITH COMPETENCE AND THE WHEREWITHALL TO DO IT. WE DID FIND OUT AS WE STARTED THIS SERVICE THAT WE NEEDED A PROPERTY MANAGER AS WELL, AND SO WE WERE ABLE TO BRING A PPL KIND OF IN FLIGHT. A LOT OF THIS STUFF WAS KIND OF BUILDING THE AIRPLANE IN THE AIR. SIMPSON ALSO BROUGHT IN AVIVO TO ASSIST WITH CHECAL DEPENDENCY ISSUES. FOR FOLKS IN ENCAMPMENTS, THERE IS A CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY ISSUE. I BELIEVE BACK THEN A LOT OF IT WAS HEROIN. DIFFERENT FROM WHAT WE SEE NOW WHICH IS A LOT OF FENTANYL IN THE ENCAMPNTS. AS FAR AS OPERATIONAL, THE CITY WAS INTENSELY INVOLVED AND CONVENING THE WEEKLY MEETING WITH THE SERVICE PROVIDERS, ALL THE DEPARTMENTS THAT THE MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT, E.M.S., FIRE DEPARTMENT, PUBLIC WORKS, AND SIMPSON, PPL AND OTHER CONTRACTORS THAT THEY BROUGHT IN. AND JUST TO MAKE SURE WE UNDERSTOOD WHAT WAS GOING ON. SO FAST FORWARD TO JUNE OF 2019, AND THAT'S WHEN WE HAD TO DEMOBILIZE. WE PULLED DOWN EVERYTHING TO ALLOW FOR RED LAKE TO DO THEIR HOUSING DEVELOPMENT. AT THAT POINT IN TIME WE WERE ABLE TO SELL -- WE OFFERED THE SPRUNG STRUCTURES AT A COMPETITIVE BIDS AND NOBODY BOUGHT THEM. WE NEGOTIATED A SALE WITH RED LAKE ANDHEY PURCHASED THEM FOR 180,000. WE SOLD THOSE IN SEPTEMBER 2019. AS OF THE COORDINATOR'S OFFICE REPORTED ON THIS BACK IN MAY OF 2019. TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE NAVIGATION CENTER WAS REQUIRED TO LEAVE, THE DATA THAT WE HAVE IS 130 RESIDENTS WERE EXITED OR HAD EXITED AND 68 HAD POSITIVE EXITS. THEY WENT INTO NEW HOUSING. AND ANOTHER 62 HAD NEGATIVE EXITS, WHICH IS THEY WERE ASKED TO LEAVE. TH EXITED WITHOUT ENGAGING IN SERVICES OR UNFORTUNATELY, SOME FOUND THEIR WAY TO JAIL. >> EXCUSE ME, DIRECTOR. DO YOU MEAN TO MOVE YOUR SLIDE? THERE YOU . THANK YOU. >> ALL RIGHT. YEAH, I'VE GOT A LOT OF PACKED INFORMATION ON THE SLIDES HERE FOR YO I WAS HOPING THE NARRATIVE WOULD CAPTIVATE YOU EVEN MORE THAN THE SLIDES TODAY. ALL RIGHT. QUESTION TWO. THAT IS HOW THE NAVIGATION CENTER HAPPENED IN 2018-2019. WHAT DOES IT MEAN IF YOU WANT TO LOOK AT A CIT SITE AND PUT UP A NEW NAVIGATION CENTER? AND WHEN WE LOOKED AT IT, WE THOUGHT ABOUT IT, LIKE, WE NEED AN ADEQUATE SITE THAT WOULD BE OPEN AND THAT'S A FLEXIBLE -- IT'S FLEXIBLE BECAUSE YOU CAN PUT IN, YOU KNOW -- IF YOU'RE ONLY SERVING A FEW PEOPLE, THEst A SMALL SITE. IF YOU SERVE A LOT, IT'S A LOT. AND LOT LARG. BUT BASED ON WHAT WE LEARNED FROM THE NAVIGATION SENTER IN 2018, WE LOOKED AT ANYTHING THAT IS 3/4 ACRE OR LARGER WITHIN THE CITY'S REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY PROPERTY. AFTER THAT, WE THOUGHT ABOUT WHERE IN THE CITYND SEEING LARGER CONGREGATE ENCAMPMENT SITES THAT SEEM TO BE FORMING IN FIRST PRECINCT, FIFTH, AND THIRD. AND WE EVALUATED THAT LAND AND I HAVE THREE CANDIDATES. EACH OF THEM ARE CHALLENGING CANDIDATES TO REVIEW. AND THIS IS WHERE I AM GOING TO BRING BACK OUR SITE SELECTION, SO BACK IN SITE SELECTION TIME IN 2018, TWO OF THE SITES WERE EVALUATED. 2717 LONGFELLOW AND 2600 MINNEHAHA. THEY ARE STILL OED BY THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS, BUT THEY STILL HAVE COMPLICATIONS. AND THEN I WILL GET TO E 3605. SO 2717 IS THE PARKINGOT IN FRONT OF THE ROOF DEPOT. AND THIS COMMITTEE IS VERY MUCH AWARE OF ALL OF THE WORK THAT THE CITY HAS DONE TO TRY AND SELL THIS, BUT WE HAVE EVALUATED IT AND ARE SHARING IT WITH YOU AS THIS IS THE SIZE TO POTENTIAL ACCOMMODATE A NAVIGION CENTER IF IT IS A SHORT TERM. I AM HOPEFUL AND EAGER FOR THE MIESOTA LEGISLATURE TO MAKE GOOD ON ITS COMMITMENT TO THE ROOF DEPOT PROJECT, AND APPROPRIATE THE MONEY THAT IT'S SUPPOSED TO APPROPRIATE. IF THEY DO THAT, THI SITE COMES OFF OF THE LIST PRETTY FAST BECAUSE WE WILL BE MOVIN TO SELL IT BEFORE SOME FUNDING EXPIRES AT THE END OF JUNE. SO JUST FOR DISCUSSION'S SAKE, I WANTED TO RAISE IT BECAUSE THERE ARE THINGS OUTSIDE OUR CONTROL AND 2600 MINNEHAHA IS AN INDUSTRIAL SITE THAT WE HAVE HAD FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. WE TALKED ABOUT THAT WITH THIS COUNCIL ABOUT USING THIS PROPERTY. I HAVE TOLD THE COUNCIL THIS PROPERTY IS TOO SMALL FOR A CONVENTIONAL, INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT, AND REF R.P.F.'D IT PERIODICALLY OVER THE LAST TWO DECADES AN UNSUCCESS NFL FINDING A TENANT. WHEN WE PUT THIS UP FOR CONSIDERATION, THIS WAS OUR NUMBER ONE SITE OF CITY-OWNED PROPERTY IN 2019. THE PROPERTIES DIRECTLY TO THE WEST AND DIRECTLY TO THE EAST AND DIRECTLY TO THE NORTH HAVE EITHER A RELIGUS CONGREGATION OR A CHARTER SCHOOL. AND THOSEOLKS SHOWED UP AND TOLD US THAT THAT WOULD RATHER NOT HAVE A NAVIGATION CENTER ON THAT SITE. THOSE USES STILL EXIST AS OF TODAY. IT IS A CITY SITE. I WANTED TO SHARE IT WITH YOU, BUT I THINK IT'S VERY COMPLICATED FOR US TO USE THAT AS A NAVIGATION CENTER. AND THEN THE FINAL ONE IS IN THE WARD 12. IT IS 3605 44th STREET. IT IS, YOU KNOW, JUST IN BETWEEN SNELLING AND IS ON 44th STREET HIAWATHA. AND THIS IS A FORMER PUBLIC WORKS YARD. SNELLING YARDS, IF YOU ARE AROUND CITY HALL, THEY CALL IT SNELLING YARDS. WE HAVE A DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT WITH LOUPE TO REDEVELOPMENT IT FOR A MIXED-USE AFFORDABLE HOUSING BUILDING. WE ARE WORKING THROUGH THE LAST INTS OF THE DEAL OF THAT DEVELOPMENT. I'M EXPECTING THAT WE WILL COME TO THE CITY COUNCIL WITH SOME UPDATED TERMS IN THE NEAR TE. BUT IT IS SOMETHING THAT COULD POTENTIALLY BE AVAILABLE FOR A SHORT-TERM NAVIGATN CENTER LIKE WE DID BACK IN 2018-2019. THE CHALLENGE WITH TS SITE IS WE HAVE DONE NO COMMUNI ENGAGEMENT AND WE ARE NOT GOING TO DO THAT BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW IF WE ARE GOING TO GET THERE. WHEN WE TALK ABOUT NAVIGATION CENTERS, IT RAISES PEOPLE'S CONCERN, SO I WANT TO MAKE YOUR AWARE IF YOU SEE TO THE EAST OR TO THE RIGHT OF THE -- TO THE LEFT OF THE -- WELL, I'M SORRY. TO THE EAST. YOU WILL SEE SOME RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES. AND SO WE WOULD HAVE TO BE PRETTY MINDFUL ABOUT HOW WE WOULD OPERATE IT. SO THAT'S THE THREE PROPERTIES THAT WE SAW, AND SO WHAT THAT REALLY TELLS US IS WE HAVE TO D. FIND SOMETHING ELSE. BECAUSE THE THINGS THAT WHAVE IN OUR INVENTORY ARE PROBABLY NOT GOING TO BE ONES THAT WILL BE REALLY SUPPORTED IN COMMUNITY LIKE WE WOULD WANT THEM TO BE SUPPORTED IN COMMUNITY. THOSE ARE THE CITY SITES. THE ANTICIPATED COST, WE DID NOT DO A DEEP DIVE. WE DID NOT GO OUT AND DO ESTIMATES AND SEE HOW MUCH STRUCTURES WOULD COST. WE DID NOT DESIGN ANYTHING. WE'RE JUS TAKING WHAT WE LEARNED FROM THE LAST TIME AND SAYING IN THE RANGE OF $3 MILLION FOR CAPITAL COSTS BECAUSE THAT IS KIND OF HOW MUCH IT COST LAST TIME. WE THINK WE PAID A PREMIUM BECAUSE WE WENT SO FAST. WE PROBABLY IF WE HAVE TIME, WON'T HAVE TO PAY THAT PEOPLIUM, BUT -- PAY THAT PREMIUM, BUT IF WE MOVE FORWARD, WE DO A DEEPER ANALYSIS AND BASED O ON WHAT WE SAW WITH CASUAL COSTS WITH OPERATING COSTS ABOUT $1.5 MILLION A YEAR OR SO. THAT DEPENDS ON SERVICE LEVELS AND PEOPLE THAT ARE INTERESTED. WE DID A SURVEY OF SERVICE PROVIDERS IN A CONVERSATION ROUGHLY ABOUT A YEAR AGO. ABOUT NAVIGATION CENTERS. EACH ONE OF THEM DECLINED TO WANT TO BE INTERESTED IN OPERATING ONE. SO THAT WOULD BE A BARRIER TO HAVING A NAVIGATION CENTER OPERATE AGAIN. BUT WE STILL HAVE TO TEST IT. IF THE COUNCIL WERE TO PUSH FORWARD FOR O OF THESE THINGS AND WE WERE MOVING FORWARD, WE HAVE TO GO FIND IF THAT REALLY -- BECAUSE THAT WAS A CASUAL CONVERSATI, NOT ANYTHING BINDING. LET'S SEE. WHAT ELSE? WE ALSO LOOK AT A PROPERTY MANAGE WE HAVEN'T ASKED ABOUT PROPERTY MANAGEMENT SERVICE IN THE MARKETPLACE TO SEE IF ANYBODY WOULD BE INTERESTE BUT IT IS THE SERVICE PROVIDER THAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PROPTY MANAGER AND IF WE HAVE A GOOD SERVICE PROVIDER, THIS WILL BE EASIER TO NAIL. OTHER CONVERSAONS WE THINK WE WANT TO REMEMBER IS WE ARE VERY INTERESTED IN DOING THIS COLLABORIVELY WITH OTHER GOVERNMENTS. I WILL SAY THIS ISERY EXPENSIVE FOR THE CITY TO DO THIS. THIS IS A COMMUNITY ISSUE AND WE WORK COLLABORATIVELY WITH THE STATE AND COUNTY AROUND UNSHELTERED HOMELESSNESS. IF THIS WOULD BE ONE OF THE COMPONENTS IN THE SYSTEM, WE WOULD LIKE SOME TIME TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE COUNTY AND THE STATE TO SEE IF THEY COULD PARTICIPATE. WE ARE HAVING CONVERSATIONS WITH THOSE ENTITIES ABOUT ALIGNING -- ABOUT BETTER SYSTEM ALIGNMENT, THOSE CONVERSATIONS GO ON IN MULTIPLE TABLES FROM DIFFERENT VANTAGE POINTS WITHIN THE ENTERPRI. BUT THAT IS SOMETHING THAT IS CRITICAL FOR US IF WE ARE GOING TO MOVE FORWARD IS NOT TO DO A GO IT ALONE AND CAN BE VERY CLOSLY TO THE CITY AND SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE A SHARED OUTCOME FOR. AND THEN THE LAST THING, THE THIRD QUESTION WAS SIMILAR TO THE SECOND QUESTION, SO MOST OF THOSE -- MOST OF IT ABOUT WHERE THE CITY LAND COULD BE CONSIDERED, NAVIGATION CENTER, AND TALKED ABOUT THE CITY'S INTEREST IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND THIS IS SHAMELESS PLUG THAT THE CITY OF MINLESS INVESTS MILLIONS FOR RENTING OF STABILIZATION, PROVIDING OWNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES AND REHAB OF PEOPLE WHO OWN HOUSES IN THE CITY. AND WE HAVE A WAY HOME REPORT THAT WILL BE COMING TO YOU AGAIN. AND WE HAVE THESE SEVEN STRATEGIES THAT ARE STILL SALIENT TODAY AND WE ARE HOPEFUL AT WE WILL CONTINUE TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT INTO THE FUTURE BECAUSE THAT IS WHERE THE CITY RELY THRIVES AROUND HELPING PEOPLE FIND STABLE AND SAFE HOUSING. D WITH THAT, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QSTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE. >> ALL RIGHT. SO FIRST, LOOK AT VICE CHAIR WONSLEY AND COUNCIL PRESIDENT PAYNE. >> THANK YOU. I'M NOT EVEN ON. THANK YOU, DIRECTOR HANSEN, FOR THIS PRESENTATION. I DID WANT TO REVISIT IN TERMS OF SOME OF THE SITE TIONS. OF COURSE, THE 2600 AND KNOWING THAT IS IN MY WARD AND KNOWING THAT I HAVE WORKED WITH COUNCIL MEMBER OSMAN AROUND ISSUING OF THE R.F.P. TO FIGURE OUT WHAT CAN WE DO TO ACTIVATEHAT SITE. WITHIN ITS CURRENT ZONED USAGE, BUT ALSO KNOWING -- JUST N -- >> YEP. >> AND ALSO KNOWING THE CONCERNS THAT YOU HAVE RAISED AROUND WHAT DOES IT LIKE TO ALIGN POTENTIALLY A NAVIGATION SITE WITH SOME OF THE CONCERNS OF WHAT OTHER STAKEHOLDERS IN THAT COMMUNITY HAVE RAISED, AS YOU HIGHLIGHTED. BUT SINCE THEN, WE DO HAVE THE SOUTH MINNEAPOLIS SAFETY CENTER THAT IS COMING ONLINE. SO I WASN'T SURE IF THOSE CONVERSAONS HAVE HAPPENED SINCE THEN, IN TERMS OF THAT COMING INTO THE MIX WHERE YOU WILL HAVE THERE-INTRODUCTION OF NOW THE THIRD PRECINCT AND NOW DEPENDING ON OTHER SERVICES IN THAT BUILDING THAT IS ALSO RELATED TO SAFETY AND NOT TIED TO M.P.D. THAT MIGHT EASE SOME OF THOSE CONCERNS BECAUSE AS YOU HIGHLIGHTED, TOO, IT SOUNDS LIKE SECURITY, OF COURSE, WAS ONE OF THE BGEST COMPONENTS IN GETTING BUY-IN FROM SOME OF THE STAKEHOLDERS IN THE FIRST NAVIGATION SITE. >> CHAIR CHAV, VICE CHAIR WONSLEY, I WOU SAY, AGREE WITH ALL OF THOSE POINTS. AND I THINK WHEN WE LOOK AT 2600 MINNEHAHA, WE HAVE NOT DONE -- WE DID NOT GO OUT AND DO ENGAGEMENT THERE EITHER BECAUSE WE DIDN'T WANT TO -- WE DID NOT WANT TO RAISE UP WSH -- WE WANTED TO GIVE YOU THE INFORMATION YOU ASKED FOR AND NOT RAISE EXPECTATIONS ITHE COMMUNITY IN CASE IT WAS AN INFORMATIONAL PUSH. I AM EXPECTING WHEN THINGS SEE THINGS LIKE A NAVIGATION CENTER IN MY EXPERIENCE IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, THOSE WHO DO NOT WANT SOMETHING TO CHANGE WILL SHOW UP. AND I'M EECTING THEY'LL THINK ABOUT THE THINGS -- THE WORST C UNTIL YOU SHOW IT ISN'T GOING TO BE THE WORST CASE SCENARION THEIR MIND, THAT IS WHAT THEY WILL THINK AND THAT WILL SHOW UP. I AM EXPECTING IF WE WENT OUT TO DO COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, WE WOULD GET THE SAME RESPONSE EVE WITH THE COMMUNITY SAFETY CENTER COMING ONLINE ACROSS THE STREET SOON. WE WOULD HAVE TO SEE IF THERE IS -- THERE COULD BE SOME MITIGATIONS TO THOSE FEARS. THE DIFFERENT BETWEEN THE CEDAR BOX COMPANY IN THE LAST ITERATIO THEY WERE A BOX MANUFACTURING FACILITY, NOT A SCHOOL WITH KIDS AND THE COUNCIL AT THE TIME DECIDED THAT IT WAS BETTER TO MITIGATE THE RISK TO THE BOX COMPANY AS OPPOSED TO WHAT THEY WOULD NEED TO DO WITH THE -- WITH WHAT -- WITH THE ISSUES THAT THE SCHOOL WAS RAISING. AND THAT IS THE ONE RIGHT NEXT DOOR THAT RAISED MOSTF THE CONCERNS. SO THOSE THINGS WOULD PROBABLY STILL PREVAIL. BUT I MEAN, JUSTAKE TIME. IT WOULD TAKE TIME. >> THAT IS FAIR WHAT YOU ARE RAISING. I HAD MADE THE ASSUMPTION AND HEARD THAT ENGEMENT WAS DONE AROUND 2600. AND I THINK IT IS STILL WORTH, YOU KNOW, DOI THAT ENGAGEMENT AND KNOWING THINGS HAVE CHANGEDED. BUT I MEAN, WE ARE BRINGING THE THIRD PRECINCT BACK. AND THAT ALSO CAME WITH HALF OF THAT NEIGHBORHOOD HAVINGO DEAL WITH IT BEING ALMOST BURNED DOWN AND SEEING THE CY GO UP IN FLAMES, SO THEY HAVE HAD TO BEAR THE TRAUMA OF THAT COMING BACK INTO THE COMMUNI AND DEALING WITH THE TRAUMA OF THAT, SO LET ALONE, BUT ALSO HAVING A RESOURCE COMING INTO THE COMMUNITY THAT COULD MITIGATE ALSO SOME OF THE OTHER ISSUES THAT THEY'RE EXPERIENCING. LIVABILITY ISSUES OF CHRONIC HOMELESSNESS AND ESPECIALLY SINCE WE DO HAVE THE PRESENCE OF ADDITIONAL RESOURCES THAT FROM MY UNDERSTANDING THE CMUNITY SAFETY SENTER IS TRYING TO INCORPORATE. >> YEP. >> YOU HAVE THE PRESENCE OF ALSO THE LE STREET SAFETY CENTER THAT IS AROUND THE CORNER. IT SOUNDS LIKE WE HAVE SOME MORE RESOURCES -- >> YEAH. >> YES. PEOPLE ARE GOING TO HAVE FEARS. UNDERSTANDABLY. BUT YES. JUST THINKING OF A DIFFERENT CONTEXT OF WHICH WE CAN HOPEFULLY SAY, THERE ARE SOME THINGS WE'RE GOING TO PUT IN PLACE. BU YEAH. >> CHAIR CHAVEZ, VICE CHAIR WONSLEY, THIS PROPERTY OUT OF THE ONES THAT I SHOWED YOU -- PARAGRAPH >> MM-HMM. >> HAS THE LEAST AMOUNT OF, LIKE, DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY ENCUMBRANCES. IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A CITY SI, IRRESPECTIVE OF THE CONTEXT AROUND IT THIS, ONE HAS NO -- THERE'S NO TIES TO . WE WERE TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WE MADE THE COMMITMENT THAT WE'LL R.F.P. IT AT A TIME -- WE HAVE NOT SCHEDULED THAT, SO DON'T ASK THE QUESTION. BUT WE WILL R.F.P. IT AT SOME TIME, BUT WE HAVE NOTONE THAT YET, AND IT CAN BE KIND OF MOTH BALLED. BUT FROM OUR EXPERIENCE IN THE LAST GO AROUND, WE THINK YOU'LL GET A LOT OF POLITICAL PRESSURE TO NOT USE THAT SITE. BUT IT'S OPEN AND THE OTHER TWO THAT WE PROPOSED, THE ROOF DEBOW DOESN'T NEED IT AND A LOT MORE EXPLANATION AND WE WILL GET TO YES WITH THE LOUPE PEOPLE AND THAT SITE IS ONLY OPEN POTENTIAL FOR A COUPLE OF MONTHS AND YOU GET T SAME CONCERN FOR THAT SITE, TOO. NOT GREAT OPTIONS AT ALL IN OUR INVENTORY. >> AND I AM TRYING TO ALSO THINK, TOO, AND GRANTED, FUTURE OF ADDIONAL SPACE. AND IT SEEMS LIKE TO BE DETERMINED WITH THE SOUTH SIDE COMMUNITY SAFETY CENTER AND WHAT SPACE IS AVAILABLE WHERE -- I AM ASSUMING THE NAVIGATION CENTER HAD MOSTLY SLEEPING QUARTERS AND YOU SAID THERE WAS A SEPARATE A SPACE FOR SHOWERS. I WISH THERE WAS KIND OF A BLUEPRINT OF HOW IT LOOKED. AND A WAY TO GET A SENSE OF HOW YOU MENTIONED LIKE THE SQUARE FOOTAGE WAS UTILIZED. >> YEAH. CHAIR CHAVEZ, VICE CHAIR WONSLEY, WE WOULD LIK THAT, TOO. THIS THING WENT SO FAST THAT THE RECORDS ARE NOT REALLY -- LIKE, WE HAD TO PRESS UPON PEOPLE'S MEMORIES AND NOTES FROM TIME TO TIME, BUT WE DID NOT WRITE THAT OUT. AND THE SPRUNG STRUCTURE AND THE QUONSET HUTS, IF YOU CAN FAMILIARIZE YOURSELF, A LOT OF BEDS, COTS AND FOOT LOCKERS. SO NUMBER OF -- AND I DON'T REM. AND THEN THERE WAS A SEPARATE TEMPORARY BUILDING CONSTRUCTED SO YOU COULD DO THE SOCIAL SERVICES AND THE FOOD AND THEN THERE WERE TRAILERS FOR THE SHOWERS AND THE BATHROOM FACILITY SO THEY COULD GET PULLED T. IF YOU HAVE BEEN TO A LARGE FESTIVAL AND SEE A TRAIL WE ARE BATHROOMS ON IT,HAT OR IF YOU ARE AT ONE OF THOSE FESTIVAL WHERE IS YOU SLEEP OVERNIGHT, AND PROBABLY SEE THE SHOWER SITES TOO. THAT IS KIND OF WHAT YOU HAD AT THE SITE. AND IT WAS PRETTY -- IT WAS PRETTY PACKED IN THERE WHEN IT WAS ALL PUT UP. THERE WAS SOME PASSAGEWAYS. I HAVE VISITED IT. I DIDN'T DO THE COUNT THEN, BUT IT WAS A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO AND IT WAS PRETTY TIGHT. >> YOU SAID AT ITS PEAK YOU HAD 160 AND DESIGNED FOR 130. INTENTIONALLY FOR -- >> YEAH, IN THERE. >> OKAY. AND THEN JUST ALSO LAST QUESTION, I ALSO HAD THE ASSUMPTION TT THE COUNTY WAS A PARTNER IN FUNDING AND YOU ARE SAYING THIS IS ALL FUNDED THROUGH THE CITY. >> YEAH. >> CHAIR CHAVEZ, VICE CHAIR WONSLEY, WE DO A LOTF WORK WITH THE COUNTY, AND THEY DO A TON OF WORK WITH UNSHELTERED HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS IN OUR COMMUNITY. THIS ONE DID NOT HAVE FUNDING FOR US AND I DON'T KNOW THE NEGOTIATIONS. I COULD NOT GET THAT DETAIL. IT WAS NOT INVOLVED IN THOSE NEGOTIATIONS. I WOULD IMAGINE IF WE HAD TO DO AN EMERGENCY DECLARATION, JUST SPECULATING, BUT IF WE HAD T DO AN EMERGENCY DECLARATION, THE COUNTY DID NOT HAVE THE NEED TO DO THAT AND PROBAY WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GIVE US FUNDING. THAT IS WHY WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IT NOW AND IF WE WERE TO DO SOMETHING NOW, THE LEAD TIME TO NEGOTIATE WITH OTHER FUNDERS AND FIND THE WAY TO WORK TOGETHER. >> I'M ASSUMING ALSO ILANTHROPIC PARTNERS, IS THIS JUST NOT A SECTOR THAT THEY ARE -- RESPONSIVE TO? LSO? >> CHAIR CHAVEZ, AND VICE CHAIR WONSLEY, I THINK THE SPEED ALSO CONVERSATION, TOO. AND THERE WAS SOME -- AS I PUT IN THE MEMO OR IN THE R.C.A., THERE WERE SOME INVESTMENTS FROM OUTSIDE SOURCES. SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICE WAS ABLE TO GO TO THE FUNDERS AND GET ME MONEY, BUT WE WERE MOVING -- I MEAN, IT WAS TWO MONTHS FROM THE CITY AUTHOZING THE EMERGENCY DECLARATION TO OPENING. AND WE DIDN'T HAVE A SITE AND WE HAD TO FIGURE THAT STUFF OUT. IT WENT PRETTY FAST. AND IT WASN'T BECAUSE OF A WILL FROM PHILANTHROPY AND THE SPEED JUST KILLED IT. >> THANK YOU. >> AWESOME. NEXT UP, COUNCIL PRESIDENT PAE. >> THANK YOU, CHAIR CHAVEZ. YOU SPOKE TO THIS A LITTLE BUILT, AND IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE THAT THERE ARE EXPLICITLY FORMAL CONVERSATIONS BUT FORMAL ANECDOTES THAT THERE IS NO SERVICE PROVIDER THAT WOULD BE WILLINTO DO THIS. AND WHEN WE'VE DONE ENGAGEMENT ON THIS TOPIC, TALKING TO INDIVIDUAL PROVIDERS AND IT SOUND LIKE THERE WAS A WILLINGNESS TO DO THIS. AND THE BRIDGE I AM TRYING TO U KIND OPPOSED PERSPECTIVES AND IF YOU ASK A SERVICE PROVIDER TODAY UNDER THE CURRENT FISCAL REALITY, DO THEY HAVE THE CAPACITY TO STEP IN, THE ANSWER IS PROBABLY NO. BUT I THINK WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO GET AT IS WHAT IT WOULD TAKE FROM A RESRCE PERSPECTIVE TO GET PROVIDERSN THE TABLE. AND I HEARD A LOT OF MYTHOLOGY ABOUT THE NAVIGATION CENTER. I WAS AT CITY HALL AT THE TIME. I WAS IN THE COORDINATOR'S OFFICE BUT IT WAS SUCH A FLURRY OF ACTIVITY, IT WAS KIND OF HARD TO FOLLOW. THKIND OF GENERAL MYTHOLOGY IS THAT IT WAS EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE. YOU LOOK AT THE CAPITAL EXPENSES AND THAT WAS PRETTY BIG, BUT I WAS ACTUALLY SURPRISED IN THIS PRESENTATION THAT IT WAS $100,000 A MONTH FOR SEVEN MONTHS OF OPERATION, WHICH SEEMS MUCH MORE ATTAINABLE. I AM SURE THERE IS SOME IN-KIND SERVICES THAT ARE NOT REFLECTED IN THAT NUMBER.AND OTHER TYPES I'M CURIOUS, YOU KW, AGAIN, UNDERSTANDING THERE HAVEN'T BEEN ANY FORM CONVERSATIONS AROUND THIS, WHAT YOUR PERSPECTIVE IS ON THIS. AROUND THE CAVEAT THAT SERVICE PROVIDERS WOULDN'T WANT TO STEP INTO THIS UNLESS THE RESOURCES WERE THERE FROM A SUSTAINILITY PERSPECTIVE. THAT SEEMED LIKE THAT WAS THE CAVEAT. AND THAT IF YOU JUST ASK A SERVICE PROVIDER TODAY AND WE HAVE SEEN THIS ALREADY WITH SOME OF THE MOST ESTABLISHED SERVICE PROVIDERS, THE TYPES OF FISCAL CLIFFS THEY ARE FACING. IF WE COULD REMOVE -- LIKE, I AM CURIOUS IF WE COULD REMOVE SOME OF THE FISCAL CONSTRAINTS HOW WOULD THAT CHANGE THE CONVERSATION FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE? >> CHAIR CHAVEZ, COUNCIL PRESIDENT PAYNE, SO I WILL TELL YOU -- AGREE. YOU AND I HAVE HAD THIS CONVERSATION ABOUT, WELL, THEY TOLD ME THIS ANDOLD ME THAT. AND WE WILL NOT REALLY KNOW UNTIL WE ACTLLY ARTICULATE WHAT IT IS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACHIEVE. AND THAT, I THINK, WAS THE COMPLICATION IN THE LAST ONE AND MUCH LIKE COMMUNITY HAS WHEN THEY COME TO SOME SORT OF MAJOR CHANGE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZATIONS AND REL BACK ON THE HISTORY OF THE LAST TIME THEY DID IT. AND SO IT WAS KIND OF A -- FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, IT WAS MOVING PRETTY QUICKLY ABOUT WHAT THE OBJECTIVE OF THE NAVIGATION CENTER WAS. IT WASN'T TO FIND STABILITY FOR PEOPLE IN AN ENCAMPMENT ALONG A HIGHWAY WALL, BUT TO ALSO ALIGN A STEM TO GET YOU INTO HOUSING. AND JUST IN THE LAST, YOU KNOW, YEAR OF BEING REALLY CLOSE TO THIS ISSUE, IT IS NOT MY AREA OF EXPERTISE, BUT I'M GETTING A RE PH.D. EDUCATION IN IT. OUR SYSTEMS, RIGHT NOW AREELL INTENTIONED BUT UNALIGNED IN A LOT OF WAYS TO TAKE SOMEBODY OUT OF AN ENCAMPMENT AND GET THEM INTO LONG-TERM HOUSING. AND THERE IS A MIDDLE, MISSING PIECE. AND THE NAVIGATION CENTER, I THINK, WAS INTEND TO BE THAT MIDDLE MISSING PIECE TO GET YOU INTO -- YOU'RE IN A TENT. YOU HAVE SERVICES. YOU'VE GOT CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY, FOOD, ALL THAT SORT OF THING. AND THEN WE WILL GET YOU INTO HOUSING. NOT ALL THE FOLKS IN THE ENCAMPMENT ARE READY FOR THAT NEXT STEP. AND SO I THINK WHAT WE HEARD, AT LEAST WHAT I HEARD DIRECTLY FROM THE SERVICE PROVIDERS IS THAT WAS A VERY CHALLENGING, AND THEY WERE NOT PREPARED FOR THAT EVEN ALIGNING WITH PEOPLE UNDER THOSE ADDICTION CONDITIONS. WHEN WE HAD THE MEETING LAST YEAR, THEWERE TALKING ABOUT FENTANYL AND HOW EXTRAORDINARILY CHALLENGING IT IS. AND I AM TAKING THEIR WORD FOR IT. I HAVEN'T VETTED THIS WITH, YOU KNOW, OUR HEALTH DEPARTMENT FOLKS ASIDE FROM THEM GOING, YEAH, FENTANYL IS REALLY -- LIKE IT TAKES YOU DOWN. AND GETTING OFF OF FENTANYL HAS A DIFFERENT MODEL FROM WHAT I HAVE BEEN TOLD. AND THAT IS A LOT. SO YES, THESE ORGANIZATIONS ARE FACING FISCAL CLIFFS. THE WHOLE HOMELESS RESPONSE SYSTEM IS FACG A FISCAL CLIFF. THE SHELTER SYSTEMS, YOU HAVE HEARD ENOUGH INFORMATION ABOUT THAT. WE WIL KEEP TELLING YOU ABOUT THAT. BUT ALSO HOW IS THE MODEL OF SERVICE FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE IN THESE SITUATIONS THAT HAVE HIT THIS, YOU KNOW, CONDITION WHERE THEY'RE FINDING REFUGE IN -- AND COMMUNITY IN AN ENCAMPMENT AND WHERE E WE AT. AND RIGHT NOW I THINK WE'RE WORKING TOWARD THAT SYSTEM CHANGE. D HOW LONG IT TAKES TO DO THAT. AND I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IS THEY ARE APEHENSIVE AND TO GIVE ASSURANCES TO DO THE FINANCIAL WORK IN THE NAVIGATION CENTER AND EVERY TIME HAVE THE FUNDING CONVERSATION AND THE CAPITAL ONE-TIME EXPENSES AND THE ONGOING EXPENSES. THIS FEELS LIKENE OF THE CONVERSATIONS THAT IS CIRCULAR FOR MANY YEARS IS THAT'S THE COUNTY'S ROLE. THAT'S THE COUNTY'S ROLE. THAT'S THE COUNTY'S ROLE. AND I DON'T EVER -- A I'M NOT COMFORTABLE WATING OUR COMMUNITY DUST OUR HAND AND SAY I DON'T HAVE A ROLE TO PLAY HERE. THE THING I AM CONSTANTLY THINKING ABOUT THE COUNTY'S ROLE AND I THINK TO GET FEDERAL DOLLARS HOPEFULLY STILL AND THE CONTINUUM -- AND LARGELY FUNDED BY PROPERTY. AND VERY IMPRESSIVE ELEMENT TO IT. AND EVEN BEFORE THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION, AND WAS A FUNDING STREAM FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO THE COUNTY FOR RESPONSE TO THAT? AND THE ANSWER IS PROBABLY CLEARLY NO. AND THE RESPONSE FROM CURRENT ADMINISTRATION IS CERTAINLY NO. AND SO A ROLE, I THINK, WE ND TO PLAY AT THE CITY LEVEL IS THE REALITY IS THE FUNDING STREAM DOESN'T MATTER AND PEOPLE ARE ON THE STREETS NOW AND IT IS VERY COLD AGAIN. SOMEBODY NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING, RIGHT? SO I AM TRYING TO THINK THROUGH AS YORE PRESENTING AND WHETHER IT'S A NAVIGATION CENR AND THAT HAS MEANINGFUL AND SIGNIFICANT RESOURCES TO GET INITIATED OR THE CONCEPT THAT SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT AROUND A NAVIGATION HUB. WE JUST GED SOME EMERGENCY FUNDINGOR MIWRC. THAT FEELS MUCH MORE ACHIEVABLE TO ME, AND IT DOESN'T HAVE AS MUCH OF A CAPITAL OUTLAY IN TERMS OF THE PARTNERSHIP THERE. AND I FEEL LIKE WE COULD PROBABLY IDENTIFY A NUMBER OF ORGANIZATIONS THAT IF WE COULD DEVELOP THE MODEL FOR OPERATING, WE COULD MBE PERHAPS FUND AT A SCALE THAT DOES FIT WITHIN A CITY BUDGET. BUT EITHER WAY, I'M JUST TRYING TO THINK THROUGH, THIS WORK NEEDS TO HAPPEN REGARDLESS OF THE FUNDING STREAM. THE MODEL NEEDS TO BE DEVELOPED A WAY THAT IS MORE MATURE AND ROBUST RATHER THAN SLAPPED TOGETHER I TWO MONTHS WHICH IS ONE OF THE INDICATORS THERE ARE TRAUMATIZED FROM THAT EXPERIENCE AND NOT QUICK TO RAISE THEIR HAND TO SAY THEY WANT TO DO IT AGAIN. BUT I THINK YOU'RE HIGHLIGHTING THAT, HEY F WE CAN DO THIS IN A VERY INTENTIONALWAY, WE COULD DO IN IT A WAY THAT COULD SCALE, IN A WAY THAT AT THE SMALLEST OPERATIONAL UNIT CAN FIT WITHIN OUR BUDGET. MAYBE THAT IS THE WAY TO PROVE IT OUT AND THAT IS ACHIEVABLE WITH IT AND TO SCALE IT UP WITH, IF NOT THE COUNTY, BUT THE STATE AS A FUNDER, AND WE CAN HELP ENABLE MORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS WITH THE FOUNDATIONAL CAPACITY AS FAR AS INFRASTRUCTURE AND BUILDING TO ULTIMATELY GET FOLKS INTO THE STABLE HOUSING AND TREATMENT THAT YOU NEED. I AM WONDERING IF YOU HAVE A PERSPECTIVE ON THAT AND CITY SOURCES OF FUNDING VERSUS COUNTY SOURCES OF FUNDING. >> CHAIR CHAVEZ, COUNCIL PRESIDENT PAE, I THINK THAT IS A LITTLE BIT MORE ROBUST ANALYSIS NEED BEFORE I CAN ANSWER THAT QUESTION. AND I WOULD HAVE TO RELY ON A NUMBER OF FOLKS WITHIN THE ENTERPRISE BUTLSO HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE COUNTY. AGAIN, IT IS NOT MY AREA OF EXPERTISE AROUND THIS HOMELESSNESS RESPONSE SYSTEM.I THE LAST YEAR, BUT I'M JUST NOT -- I HAVE NOT GAINED THE EXPERTE TO TELL YOU DEFINITIVELY WHAT THAT IS. BUT IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN GET INFORMATION AND SHARE FROM OTHE TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION. >> I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO DOCUMENT THAT AS AN ADMINISTRATIVE FOLLOW-UP. MAYBE AS AN ADMINISTRATIVE FOLLOW-UP, WE COULD GET SE CLARITY ON FUNDING STREAMS FOR HOMELESS RESPONSE AS IT RELATES TO STATE, COUNTY, AND LOCAL. >> I CAN WORK TOIND OUT WHAT WE KNOW. >> OKAY, AWESOME. I AM UP NEXT. THERE ARE TWO THINGS AT LEAST FOR ME TO NOT ASK QUESTIONS, BUT PROVIDE A FEW COMMEN. AND IF THERE IS THE ADDRESSES AND IF THERE ARE COMPLICATION, IT IS AN IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION AND LISTENING TO THE 2600 SITE AND MINNEHAHA AVENUE SOUTH SITE. IF WE WERE TO MOVE FORWARD TO WORK WITH T ADMINISTRATION ON THIS, WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND? >> CHAIR CHAVEZ, ONE OF THE CHALLENGING PARTS IS THE LAND USE DESIGNATION AND THE SAFE OUTDOOR SLEEPING ORDINANCE, WHICH YOU ARE ONE OF THE AUTHORS OF, IS ADDRESSING THAT AND THAT IS THE FIRST STEP. THIS WAS AN EMERGENCY --E DECLARED IT. WE DECLARED AN EMERGENCY LAST TIME, I THINK F WE WANT TO MORE THOUGHTFUL AND PLANFUL, WE PROBABLY NEED TO STWART A LAND USE ORDINANCE CHANGE -- TO START WITH A LAND USE ORDINANCE CHANGE BEFORE WE ARE ABLE TO DO IT. AT THEAME TIME, WE HAVE TO REALLY DIG INTO, COULD WE PUT THIS TOGETHER IN THE COLLABORATIVE FASHION THATE NEED TO AND WOULD IT HAVE THE RESULTS WE DESIRE? I WILL USE IS OPPORTUNITY TO SAY HOW IMPORTANT IT IS FOR US AS A COMMUNITY TO LOOK AT LONG-TERM SOLUTIONS. WE NEED CULTURALLY COMPETENT FACILITIES THAT ARE CONSTRUCTED OUT OF WOOD AND METAL, NOT TENTS, THAT HELP FOLKS THAT ARE FINDING REFUGE IN ENCAMPMENTS TO GET OUT OF THAT BECAUSE THAT MISSING MIDD IS THERE. YOU HAVE MY COMMITMENT FROM THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT APPARATUS TO WORK WITH OUR PARTNERS TO FIGURE THAT OUT BECAUSE THAT'S NOT SOMETHING EXDO IN TWO NTHS. THAT IS SOMETHING THAT TAKES SOME TIME. AND LOOKING AT POTENTIAL SITES FOR, YOU KNOW, FACILITIES THAT WE CAN BUILD AND PARTNERS AND THE NATIVE COMMUNITY, M.U.D., AND OTHERS HAVE BEEN ENGAGED WITH THE ADMINISTRATION ABOUT THAT EXACT THING AND SO THAT'S ONE OF T THINGS THAT I THINK WE HAVE TO LOOK AT IS, IS THERE A SHORT-TERM NEED BUT A LONG-TERM NEED AND CAN WE COME TOGETHER AT WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WE ARE TRYING TOOLVE AND WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE BECAUSE I THINK GIVEN MY EERIENCE WATCHING THIS, I DON'T KNOIF WE'RE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE. >> FOR SURE. AND THE NAVIGATION CENTER WHICH IS BIG PICTURE TO WHAT IS CREATED IN THE PAST. AND DO NAVIGATION HUBS LOOK LIKE. THEY MIGHT BE A SMALLER SCALE, SMALLER LAND, WORKING WITH AN EXISTING BUILDING OR A NONPROFIT PARTNER THAT IS ALREADY DOING THIS WORK AND JUST IS ABOUT PROVIDING CITY FUNDING TO CREAT ISSUE. I THINK THAT WHEN I THINK ABOUT A NAVIGATION CENTER, I THINK ABOUT NAVIGATION HUBS AND SMALLER SCALE TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO WORK WITH OUR PARTNERS AND SEE HOW IT WORKS AND EVENTUALLY YOU CAN SCALE UP. I THINK THE ISSUE RIGHT HERE IS THAT THIS ISSUE IS VERY PRESSING. AND I THINK WE HAVE TO TRY MANY DIFFERENT THINGS, INCLUDING THIS IN THE PAST. I UNDERSTAND THAT MAYBE THERE WAS CONCERNS. MAYBE SOME THINGS THAT PEOPLE WISH COULD HAVE BEEN DONE BETTER. BUT THE REALITY IS IN MY OPINION, I FELT LIKE THIS HAD SOME SUCCESSES. I FEEL LIKE WE COULD LEARN FROM THOSE SUCCESSES AND WORK WIT COMMUNITY, WORK WITH THE PARTNERS AT THE COUNTY AND STATE AND FIGURE OUT HOW T DO SOMETHING BETTER. THE REASON I AM SAYING THOSE THINGS OUT LOUD IS BECAUSE THESE ARE BIG SITES. BUT I THINK THAT THERE'S ALSO AN OPPORTUNITY TO THINK ABOUT SMALLER SCALE, SMALLER SITES, AND NAVIGATION HUBS. LIKE THE WAY THAT THE MIWR IS DOING THEIR WORK IS A NAVIGATION HUB WITH MORE SUPPORT A SO THAT'S WHY I AM MENTIONING THOSE COMMENTS. I DID -- AND THANKS FOR CLARIFYING. IF WE WERE TO DECIDE TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO WORK WITH THE ADMINISTRATION ANDOW TO MOVE FORWARD AND HOW TO DO THAT, THAT IS CONVERSATIONS WE LIKE TO HAV THAT, TOO. THANK YOU. NEXT UP WE HAVE COUNCIL MEMBER ELLISON. >> THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. IT'S A BIT AWKWARD TO ENTER INTO THE CONVERSATION AS SOMEBODY WHO'S AROUND BECAUSE I BOTH UNDERSTAND THE NEED FOR US TO DO MUCH MORE THAN WHAT WE'RE DOING. WHAT WE'RE DOING NOW IS NOT WORKING. AND THE NAVIGATION CENTER WAS BORN OUT OF A LOT OF URGENCY. AND I THINK IN SOME WAYS REPRESENTE OR FACILITATED, I SHOULD SAY, THE CITY GETTING A LITTLE BIT MORE HAND-ON ON THIS ISSUE AND CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT I FEEL LIKE THE CITY BEFORE WASN'T -- HAD COMPLETELY DELEGATED THIS ISSUE TO THE COUNTY. I THINK WE HAD A FEW FOLKS THAT WORKED ON SOMETHING AT THE CI, BUT WE WEREN'T REALLY HAND ON ON THIS ISSUE. IN THAT REGARD, I THINK THAT THE NAVIGATION CENTER WAS NEEDED IN ITS CONTT. BUT AS SOMEBODY WHO WALKED THROUGH IT A NUMBER OF TIME. AS SOMEBODY WHO, YOU KW, WHO TALKED TO THE SERVICE PROVIDERS AT THE TIME, I THINK THAT THERE'S -- I CAN KIND OF SEE THE DISSONANCE BETWEEN SOMEONE WHO HASN'T -- WHO DIDN'T WITNS WHAT IT WAS. KIND OF ONLY KNOW WHAT IS THE PURPOSE WAS. AND THEN THE FOLK WHO IS D WITNESS WHAT IT WAS WHO WERE, LIKE, WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO DO THAT? THERE IS A LITTLE BIT O A DISTANCE THERE THAT I AM SENSING. AND I THINK EVEN THOUGH -- I AM GLAD WE AR GETTING THIS PRESENTATION AND GLAD WE CAN ASK QUESTIONS HERE IN THIS PLATFORM, BUT I DON'T THINK WE'RE GOING TO I A CHOOEF A SOLUTION IN THIS PLATFORM -- TO ACHIEVE A SOLUTION IN THIS PLATFORM. IF WE ARE GOING TO DO SOMETHING THAT WORKS, IT IS GOING TO REQUIRE A LOT MORE COMMUNICATION. I KNOW THAT IIND OF CAME UP IN A TIME WHERE WE DID WORK GROUPS AND COUNCIL MEMBERS WERE VERY INVOLVED. EVEN IN THE NAVIGATION CENTER, COUNCIL MEMBERS WERE EXTREMELY INVOLVED AND A CONVERSATION ABOUT STRUCTURES AND LOOKING AT A NUMBER OF STRUCTURES. AND, YOU KNOW, COUNCIL MEMBERS WERE INVOLVED IN THAT CONVERSATION. AND ABLE TO SORT OF NOT JUST GET A STAFF REPORT, BUT ALSO MAYBE BE IN A MEETING WHERE IT'S DAWNING ON YOU HOW SMALL ONE STRUCTURE IS VERSUS ANOTHE AND YOU ARE LIKE, ACTUALLY, WE THOUGHT THAT WAS GOING TO WORK AND IT'S NOT GOING TO WORK. THAT KIND OF COMMUNICATION CAN'T HAPPEN ON THE DAIS HERE. AND SO I THINK THAT TO THE QUESTION AND IF COUNCIL WANTS TO BE ENGAGED -- AND MAYBE CALL IT AN INTERNAL WORK GROUP, BUT OTHERWISE WE ARE NEVER GOING TO PRISON THAT DISSONANCE BETWEEN WHATTAFF KNOW, WHAT STAFF EXPERIENCED, WHAT SERVICE PROVIDERS EXPERIENCED, AND WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO DO. ALSO IN THOSE KIND OF SPACES YOU REALIZE HOW DIFFICULTT IS TO NAIL DOWN WHAT YOU ARE TRYING TO ACHIEVE. IT FEELS LIKE WE'RE TRYING TO END HOMELESSNESS, RIGHT? BUT I LOOK AT THAT AMOUNT AND THAT $4.5 MILLION FROMHE PRESENTATION WE JUST SAW, AND I CAN THINK OF -- AND THINK OF PROBABLY A COUPLE DOZEN THINGS THAT I WOULD WANT TOUT $4.5 MILLION TOWARDS TO ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS BEFORE IOULD EVEN CONSIDER A NAVIGATION CENTER BASED ON WHAT I SAW. SO I THINK THERE JUST NEEDS TO BE A LOT MORE DISCUSSION. IF THAT DISCUSSION DOESN'T OCCUR AND I TNK THE ADMINISTRATION NEEDS TO HEAR THIS, THEN I THINK WE'RE CONSTANTLY GOING TO HAVE COUNCIL MEMBERS TRYING TO SOLVE THIS ISSUE FROM THE DAIS, ADMIN BEING A LITTLE BIT OBSTRUCTIONIST TO WHATEVER THE SOLUTION IS GOING TO BE AND CONTINUE TO HAVE DISAGREEMENTS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, ENCAMPMENT EVICTIONS AND THAT KIND OF THING. BUT YEAH, AS SOMEBODY WHO SAW WHAT THE NAVIGATION CENTERAS IN REALITY AND I GET IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THAT, I BELIEVE THAT IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THAT IN REALITY. AND I THINK THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE IT SOMETHING BETTER THAN WHAT IT WAS AND IT WASN'T DIGNIFIED LIVI. I THINK I FEEL PRETTY CONFIDENT IN SAYING THAT. BUT IT WAS IN ITS CONTEXT A NECESSARY STEP IN ORDER FOR US TO ADDRESS THE WALL OF FORGOTTEN NATIVES. WITHHAT CONTRADICTION EXISTING, HOW DO WE CREATE SOMETHING BETTER WITHOUT RECREATING WHAT WAS. AND I FEEL LIKE ALREADY LOOKING AT SITES AND WHERE THIS THING MIGHT GO AND CREATE A TIMELINE AND A BUDGET, I THINK IT'S JUST GOING TO AIM US TOWARDS POSSIBLY RECREATING SOME OF THE PITFALLS, SOME OF THE NEGATIVES. AND I THINK WE'RE JUST STAING WITH A PROCESS THAT IS A LITTLE BIT TOO OVERLY PRESCRIPTIVE. I WONDER, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THIS IS A QUESTION THAT YOU CAN ANSWER ON YOUR OWN, DIRECTOR HANSEN, BUT I FEEL LIK WE'RE A LITTLE BIT IN A CART BEFORE THE HORSE SITUATION. HOW DO WE GET -- HOW DO WE GET ON THE SAME PAGE SO THAT WE -- SO THIS ISN'T THE PROCESS. WE SELECT THE SITE. WE START ASKING PEOPLE IF THEY WANT TO DO IT AND ALL THEY REMEMBER IS WHAT EXISTED BEFORE. AND I JUST DON'T THINK WE WILL END UP WITH A NAVIGATION CENTER OR MORE INVESTMENTS IN HOMELESSNESS IF THINGS CONTINUE TO MOVE ALONG AT THIS CLIP, IN THIS MANNER. AND SO I GUESS I JUST WANTED TO JUMP IN AND SAY THAT BECAUSE I AM LOOKING AT THE PRESENTATION. I AM REMEMBERING WALKING THROUGH THE NAVIGATION CENTER. AND I'M THINKING, WE'R OUT OF WHACK HERE. WE HAVE A GOOD GOAL. I DON'T KNOW THAT WE HAVE A GOOD PROCESS. >> CHAIR CHAVEZ, COUNCIL MEMBER ELLISON, I DON'T KNOW IF I HEARD A QUESTION IN THERE. KIND OF HEARD ONE. LET'S SEE IF I GOT IT. BUT WHAT I WOULD SAY IN RESPONSE THE REASON I AM HERE TODAY IS RESPONDING TO REQUEST FOR INFORMATION THAT YOU AS A BODY WANTED, SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE OBLIGATETO PRESENT ON. AND I HEAR WHAT YOU ARE SAYING. THIS IS A VERY COMPLICATED ISSUE AROUND HOW WE ARE AS A COMMUNITY. AND IT REQUIRES, YOU KNOW, AS CHAIR CHEZ SAID A LOT OF DIFFERENT STRATEGIES. THIS IS VERY PRESCRIPTIVE IN ITS FACE IF YOU SAY 'RE GOING TO GO TO A NAVIGATION SENTER AND MAKING SURE WE KNOW EXACTLY WHY WE'RE DOING IT BECSE THAT WILL BE EASIER TO GET EVERYBODY AROUND. I WOULD BALLOON THAT OUT, BECAUSE 'S PART OF SOMETHING. IT'S PART OF A SYSTEM AND ARTICULATING THAT WOULD BE IMPORTANT. AND I THINK THAT WOULD ALLAY SOME OF THE CONCERNS THAT COMMUNITY MEMBERS HAVE AND HELPFUL AND ADDITIVE AND NOT SUBTRACTIVE, AND I THINK THE CONVERSATION WITH THE NEW GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE WORKS TOGETHER, I'D HAVE TO DEFER TO GETTING BACK TO YOU AND BECAUSE I WANT TO BE RESPECTFUL OF THE APPARATUS THAT I REPORT TO IN MAKING SURE I AM NOT SPEAKING OUT OF TURN AND TALK TO YOU ABOUT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES, COLLABORATION. SO THAT'S HOW WE APPROACH MOST OF OUR WORK. >> YEAH, I APPRECIATE THAT. I WOULD SAY IF THINGS CONTINUE TO -- COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO T TO SOLVE PROBLEMS IN OUR COMMUNITY. THAT IS WHAT WE ARE DESIGNED TO DO A THAT IS WHAT EVERYBODY IS DESIGNED AND TRYING DO. I THINK THAT IF THERE IS NOT COLLABORATION, THOUGH, WHAT I CAN SEE AND THERE WAS A QUESTION OF HOW ARE THEY BUILT. I COULD ALMOSTROBABLY DRAW IT FROM MEMORY THE LAYOUT AND WHERE THINGS WERE AND KIND OF DESCRIBE IT. SOME OF THE INTERIORS AS WELL I DON'T WANT TO BEMOAN THE HORRORS OF THE NAVIGATION CENTER. BUT WE'VE HEARD ENOUGH OF THAT. BUT ILSO REMEMBER WHY IT WAS NEEDED. WHAT I WILL SAY IS THAT, LIKE F WE DON'T FIGURE OUT WHAT THE COLLABORATION IS GOING TO BE AND HOW WE'RE GOING TO MOVE FORWARD IN A WAY WE AGREE, WE WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE COUNCIL FUNDING THINGS THAT THE ADMIN WON'T DO AND THE ADMIN CONTINUE TO DO THINGS THAT THE COUNCIL WON'T FUND, AND I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT CREATES A SOLUTION IN THIS COMMUNITY THAT I THINK WE -- MA BUT WE AS A BROADER REGION, ARE FAILING. AND THAT WOULD BE SORT OF LIKE MY FINAL OBSERVATION IS -- AND THE REASON THAT THE FIRST ITERATION NAVIGATION CENTER WAS ABLE TO HAPPEN IN THE FIRST PLACE WAS BECAUSE OF AN EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF COMMUNICATION.AND I DON'T EVEN THAT IS WHAT IT TOOK TO CREATE SOMETHING WE ALL KIND OF LOOK BACK ON AND THINK WE COULD DO BETTER. I DON'T SEE THAT LEVEL OF COMMUNICATION HAPPENING NOW, WHICH TELLS ME I DON'T THINK WE'RE GOING TO CREATE SOMETHING BETTER THANTHAT. THAT IS MY FINAL OBSERVATION. NOT REALLY A QUESTION AND ALL TH. BUT YEAH. WELCOME TO RESPOND. >> CHAIR CHAVEZ, COUNCIL MEMBER ELLISON, I DO REALLY WANT TO NOT MAKE THIS ABOUT THE NAVIGATION CENTER WAS A DISASTER OR NEGATIVE THING. IT WAS COMPLICATED PROCESS. BUT I THINK WE SHOULD LOOK BACK AT THAT WITH SOME -- MIXED RESULTS. WE SHOULD BE OPEN EYED ABOUT WHAT WE DID, BUT WE WERE ABL AS A COMMUNITY, AS A CITY, TO MOVE VERY QUICKLY TO MEET A NEED IN COLLABORATION, EVEN IF WE DIDN'T GET EVERYTHING RIGHT, BUT WE CAN LEARN FROM THAT. AS YOU SEE IN THE DATA THAT WE GLEAN FROM THE COORDINATOR'S REPORT BACK IN MAY OF 19, MORE THAN HALF HAD POSITIVE EXITS FROM THE NAVIGATN CENTER. AND THAT'S WHERE I WANT TO THINK ABOUT IS MORE THAN HALF OF THE PEOPLE THAT WERE LIVING AT THE WALL OF FORGOTTEN NATIVES ENCAMPMENT FOUND SAFE, DIGNIFIED HOUSING OUT OF THE NAVIGATION CENTER. AND WHILE THE SERCE PROVIDERS WITH ALL OF THE VARIOUS ISSUES THAT THE COUNCIL PRESIDENT RAISED ARE FACING THEN AND STILL FACE NOW AND THE HESANCY TO GO INTO ONE OF THESE THINGS, THERE WAS SUCCESS IN THE NAVIGATION CENTER. AND SO WE CAN'T LET THOSE -- WE HAVE TO LEARN FROM THOSE LESSONS, BUT WE ALSO HAVE TO REMEMBER WE ARE SERVING THE COMMUNITY, AND THE COMMUNITY ISSUES ARE REALLY COMPLICATED. WE CAN LEARN THE SUCCESSFUL THINGS WITH THE NAVIGATION SENTER AS WELL. >> CAN I SAY ONE MORE THING? I 100% AGREE. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I AM REFLECTING ON IS SOME OF THOSE LESSONS, SOME OF WHAT WE LEARNED, WE PUT IO OTHER PROJECTS LIKE AVIVO VILLAGES, FOR EXAMPLE. I CAN'T REMEMBER THE PER PERSON COST. WE PROBABLY COULD DO SIMPLE DIVISION ON IT, BUT I REMEMBER THE FINAL PER PERSON COST WAS THREE TIME WHAT IS WE PROJECTED IT TO BE ORIGINALLY. AND WHEN I THINK ABOUT THE NAVIGATION CENTER, THE -- LIKE WHERE WE HAVE CORRECTED THOSE STRATEGIES AND THE PER PERSON COST, AND NOT JUST THE PER PERSON COST BUT THE PER PERSON OUTCOME, I WONDER IF THERE AREN'T STRATIES THAT ARE MORE EFFICIENT AND MORE SUCCESSFUL THAT, AGAIN, WERE BORN OUT OF THOSE LEARNINGS. AND SHOULDN'T WE -- HOW CAN WE RECREATE THAT? I THINK THAT'S THE -- LESS SO THAN THE TOTAL COST OR THE PER PERSON COST, THE PER PERSON OUTCOME, THERE WERE SUCCESSES, BUT DID WE GET OR DID WE LEVERAGE OUR MONEY IN THE BEST WAY. I REMEMBER A CONSIDERATION I HAD WITH A FORMER COLLEAGUE -- I REMEMBER A CONVERSATION WITH A FORMER COLLEAGUE ABOUT NAVIGATION SENT ERR COUPLE YEARS BACK, AND ALL LESSONS LEARNED, ONE OF THE THINGS I WALKED AWAY FEELING IS BASED ON HOW MUCH WE SPENT PER PERSON,E MIGHT HAVE BEEN BETTER OFF CUTTING THEM A CHECK. EVERY SINGLE PERSON THAT LIVED IN THE NAVIGATN CENTER. THAT MIGHT HAVE PRODUCED BETTER OUTCOMES. A STRAIGHT CASH INFUSION TO THOSE FOLKS, RIGHT? WOULD ALL ALL THEM HAVE SUCCEEDED? NO. I DON'T KNOW. BUT IT WAS AN EXORBITANT COST, AND I DON'T KNOW IF THE COST PER SUCCESS RATE WAS ME SUCCESSFUL THAN HANDING OUT A CHECK. >> YEP. >> AND SO THAT IS -- I'LL JUST LEAVE THAT OBSERVATION THERE AND LET FOLKS JUMP . BUT THOSE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT ARE COMING TO MIND. NOT THAT I HAVE THE SOLUTION, BUT A LOT MORE COMMUNICATION AND OFFLINE COMMUNICATION NEEDS TO BE OCCURRING IF WE'RE EVER GOIN TO SORT OF BRIDGE THIS DISSONANCE BETWEEN WHAT THE ADMINISTRATION IS DOING AND THE SOLUTIONS THAT COUNCIL IS TRYING TO PROPOSE. >> COUNCIL MEMBER PALMISANO. >> THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. FIRST, THERE'S NO QUESTIONS IN . THE DEFICITS THAT COUNCIL MBER ELLISON TALKS ABOUT ARE DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE FACT THAT WE AS A MUNICIPALITY DON'T HAVE THE CAPACITY TO ADDRESS THESE COMPLEX NEEDS ALONE. WE CAN'T DO THIS WORK WELL WHEN WE DO IT ALONE. EARLY IN COUNCIL MEMBER ELLISON, WHAT HE WAS SHARING, I SAID THE NAVIGATION CENTER WAS BORN OUT OF DESPERATION. AND I CAN ACKNOWLEDGE THERE'S STILL DESPERATION TO DO MORE IN OUR COMMUNY. I REMEMBER, I THINK COUNCIL MEMBER ELLISON, YOU WERE PART OF THE STRUCTURE WORK GROUPS, RIGHT? WITH MR. DAVID FRANK, MR. CHUCK LUTZ AND OTHERS. AND HAVING AN INFANT AT THAT TIME, I KEPT WONDERINGOW SOME OF THESE SOLUTIONS WOULD WORK FOR SOMEBODY LIKE ME AS A NEW MOM. AND IT WAS -- AND IT WOUL'T. I THINK WE CAN ALL AGREE AND ESPECIALLY COUNCIL MEMBER ELLISON AND I WHO WERE HERE FOR THIS FIRST NAVIGATION CENTER EXPERIENCE, THAT WE'RE IN A DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENT. DIFFERENT TYPES OF CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY ARE WHAT WE'RE SEEING IN ENCAMPMENTS TODAY. NEW EXPERIENCES OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS IN COMMUNITY TRAUMA RIGHT HERE AS COUNCIL MEMBER WONSLEY POINTED OUT. AND NEW GOVERNMENT ASSETS AND PLACEMENT WITH THE NEW COMMUNITY SAFETY CENTER NEARBY. MAYBE OFFER A NEW OPPORTUNITY. BUT WE HAVE A LOT MORE EXPERIENCE IN HANDLING ENCAMPMENTS AND KNOWING THE ISSUES AROUND IT, WHICH WE HAVE TO BE CANDID ABOUT. GUNS AND SEX TRAFFICKING AND HOW PEOPLE SHOW UP TO PREY ON VULNERAB PEOPLE, NOT TO MENTION ALL THE ISSUES THAT WE EXPERIENCE DURING THE NIGATION CENTER AROUND FOOD, CONSTANT DESTRUCTION OF TOILETS, NORO VIRUS ISSUES. TWO OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS THAT I LEARNED BACK DURING THAT TIME IS, ONE, WE REAY NEED TO ENGAGE OTHER AGENCIES FOR FUNDING AND SUPPORT BEFORE WE GO MOVE FORWARD WITH ACTION PLANS, LIKE YOU SAID. THERE WASN'T TE TO DO THAT THEN. WE WERE RUSHING AGAINST THE WEATHER. AND TH SECOND THING I LEARNED WAS THAT WITH AND DESPITE THE BEST OF INTENTIONS, THIS DID NOT CREATE HUMANE LIVING CONDITIONS. WE SHOULD BE FOCUSED ON LONGER TERM HOUSING. THE NEXT ITERATION OF THIS SPECIFIC NAVIGATION CENTER, THE PROPERTY TURNING INTO CULTURALLY SPECIFIC HOUSING AND I THINK ONE THAT IS SPECIFICALLY FOCUSED ON PEOPLE WORKING ON THEIR SOBRIETY DID JUST THAT. THE SECOND ITERATION OF WHAT THIS PROPERTY WAS THEN KIND OF TURNED INTO, ITHINK, WAS THAT MOST LOGICAL EVOLUTION OF THAT NAVIGATION CENTER FROM THAT WINTER. ALSO, IT WAS CLEAR WE'RE NOT A HOUSING PROVIDER. THAT IS THECOUNTY'S JOB. I THINK WE ARE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE AS SUPPORTERS OF HOUSING FIRST AS A STRATEGY AND WE ACKNOWLEDGE THIS AIN'T OUR STRONG SUIT. YOU DON'T WANT THIS TO BE A NAVIGATION CENTER WAS A DISASTER TYPE CONVERSATION. AND I ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE WE LEARNED A LOT FROM IT AND WE'RE DONE BET WE ARE THAT WISDOMS WE THEN TOPPLED HEAD FIRST INTO THE ENCAMPMENTS OF ENDURING THE PANDEMIC. AVIVO, YES, WAS MENTIONED. WORKING WITH THE STATE, TRYING OUT HELIX AS A STRATEGY. THE GOOD HERE HAS TO TOPPLE FORWARD TO IDEAS THAT WE'LL HAVE HERE AND INTO TH FUTURE. BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN WE SHOULD GO BACK TO THE NAVIGATION CENTER. A COUPLE POINTS THAT YOU HAD MENTIONED THAT I COULDN'T AGREE MORE, WE NEED A PROPERTY MANAGER AND A SERVICE PROVIDER. A SERVICE PROVIDEER IS NOT NECESSARILY A PROPERTY MANAGER. AND VICE VERSA. RIGHT? WE ARE NOT A DIRECT SERVICE PROVER. AND OUR PRIMARY APPROACH IN SOMETHING THAT I THINK WE'RE REALLY GOOD AT ON THE GROUND IS CONNECTING PEOPLE TO HENNEPIN COUNTY. SO WHAT I'M REMINDED OF HEARING YOUR PRESENTATION TODAY AND THINKING BACK TO THOSE NAVIGATION CENTERS OF THE ST, IS THAT THIS IS IS NOT AND WAS NOT SUSTAINABLE IN ANY ONGOING WAY. I CAN'T AGREE MORE WITH WHAT COUNCIL MEMBER ELLISON SAID SUGGESTING THAT $4.5 MILLION COULD HAVE BEEN USED IN BETTER WAYS. I WAS JUST DOING THE MATH HERE. IT MIGHT HAVE STILL BEEN MORE COST EFFECTIVE THAN AVIVO ON A PER PERSON BASIS, BUT IT WAS SO TEMPORARY. AND AVIVO MUCH LONGER. SO I THINK WE COME TO THAT WITH OUR EXPERIENCES OF WHAT THIS WAS IN REALY, THIS NAVIGATION CENTER. THANYOU, MR. CHAIR. >> COUNCIL MEMBER WONSLEY. >> I THINK THERE ARE POINTS OF AGREEMENT, BUT WHERE WE ARE MISSING EACH OTHER AS PASSING SHIPS IS ONE POINT YOU HIGHLIGHTED. THERE ARE A NUMBER OF US TO IDENTIFY THE MSING MIDDLE, BUT ALSO, BEFORE YOU GET TO THE MIDDLE. WE ALL KNOW THERE IS A RLITY THAT THERE IS PEOPLE SLEEPING IN TENTS ON A STREET. WE HEAR FROM OUR RESIDENTS AND I INK COUNCIL MEMBER ELLISON, YOU HIGHLIGHTED NO ONE HERO MANT -- NO ONE HERE ROMANTICIZES THAT ANI THINK THAT IS THE BEST AND IDEAL OUTCOME FOR A RESIDENT IN MY COMMUNITY.AND I WANT TO KEEP. ANI THINK WE ALL WORK TO FIND WAYS SO THAT IS NOT A REALITY FOR ANYONE IN OUR WARD AND COMMUNITY AND CITY, BUT THAT IS THE REALITY IN WHICH WE ARE DEALING WITH. AND I THINK WHERE THE NAVIGATION CENTER REALLY WAS PIVOTAL IS IT TOOK PEOE FROM THE STREETS, FROM A TENT, AND PLACED THEM, WELL, YES, I AM HEARING Y'ALL'S EXPERIENCES, WAS IT THE MOST IDEAL CONDITIONS? AND I AM HEARING THAT, BUT IT BEATS BEING OUTSIDE IN A TENT IN NEGATIVE DEGREE WEATHER. AND YOU MENTIONED THE POLAR VORTEX AND I RECALL READING A REPORT AND AT LEAST BENEFIT OF THE NAVIGATION CENTER WAS IT WAS HEATED. IT WAS INSULATED. SOME OF THE REPORTS THAT WE'RE SEEING IN MANY OF THE FOLKS WHO ARE SLEEPING IN TENTS AND LIVING OUTDOORS ESPECIALLY IN THE WINTER AND DEALING WITH FROSTBITE AND LOSING LIMBS DUE TO FROSTBITE AND HYPERTHERMIA AND DEALING WITH LIFE LONG DISABILITIES BECAUSE OF THAT. THAT IS NOT OKAY. SO THE IDEA IS TO TAKE SOMEONE FROM A TENT INTO EVEN A TEMPORARY, INSULATED SHELTER, TO THEN BE ABLE TO SAY, OKAY, HOW DO WE THEN WALK YOU INTO A NEXT TRANSITION PLACE, IF IT'S AVIVO, AND GET Y TO A PLACE TO GET YOU CONNECTED TO PARTNERS. AND ALL RIGHT. MOVER TOWARDS THAT HOUSINGIRST MODEL. EVERYONE AGREES HOUSING FIRST IS THE IDEAL CHOICE. WE WANT PEOPLE TO EXPERIENCE PERMANENT HOUSING AND TO BE CONNECTED TO THE RESOURCES THEY NEED TOAINTAIN THAT AND LIVE FULFILLING, QUALITY LIVES. BUT THERE IS NOT ONLY BEFORE YOU GETO THE MIDDLE, BUT HOW DO YOU GET PEOPLE NOT TO HAVE TO BE IN TENTS INTO A TRANSITIONAL DIGNIFIESPACE AND THE SHELTER FACES ARE AT CAPACITY AND THE NAVIGATION CENTER OFFERS A SPACE WHERE TO HAVE A SHOWER. I SPEAK WITH COUNCIL MEMBERS COUNCIL MEMBER CHAVEZ AND COUNCIL MEMBER OSMAN AND WE HEARD THE FRUSTRATIONS FROM CONSTITUENTS ABOUT THE TROUBLES OF EVEN GETTING BATOOMS TO EXISTING ENCAMPMENTS THAT SPRING UP, LET ALONE SHOWERS OUT THERE. WE HAVE HAD CONSTITUENTS WHO COME OUT AND THEM THEMSELVES HAVE HAD TO BUILD SHOWERS AND BATHROOMS TO SERVE PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING IN ENCAMPMENTS. THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW DO WE ACTUALLY BUILD A STANDARDIZED AND QUALITY SYSTEM SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO DEAL WIT THE ENCAMPMENTS AND THE NAVIGION OVERSIGHT AND IT WAS FUNDED AND THERE WERE SERVICES PROVIDED AND A COORDINATED APPROACH. AND ONE EVICTION AND MOVES DOWN ONE BLOCK AND ALL IN THE SAME DYNAC. YES, WE ARE ALL WORKING ON A VARIETY OF SOLUTIONS AND TRYING TO PIECEMEAL SOMETHING. AND THE PIECEMEALING IS NOT LEADING TO A COORDINATED APPROACH AND YOU HIGHLIGHTED THAT. THAT IS NOT ITHAT IS NOT INDICATIVE OF US, BUT A NATIONWIDE PROBLEM, AND BEFORE WE GET TO ND GOAL, IF YOU PUT THIS ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE OF M JOURNEY OF WHEN THEY ARE IN A TENT AND WE WOULD LOVE TO SEE THEM BE ABLE TO OWN A KEY TO THEIR OWN HOME, WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE TO GO FROM THAT TENT INTO THE FIRST SPACE AND THEN THE NEXT SPACE. WE CAN'T COMMUNICATE THAT. IS IS WHY WE BROUGHT THIS DIRECTIVE FORWARD TO SAY THAT'S WHERE WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT. WITH OTHER PARTNERS AND SUBJECT EXPERTS. >> COUNCIL PRESIDENT PAYNE. >> THANK YOU, CHAIR CHAVEZ. WHILE COUNCIL MEMBER ELLON WAS MAKING HIS REMARKS, I JUST FOLLOWED THROUGH ON THE THOUGHT EXERCISE. THE MATH IS HERE. $4.5 MILLION WITH 68 SUCCESSFUL EFFORTS IS $66,000 PER SUCCESSFUL EXIT AND WOULD AGREE MAYBE WRITING A $66,000 CHECK MAY HAVE BEEN MORE SUCCESSFUL. >> CHANGE THEIR WHOLE LIFE. >> RIGHT. AND THEN OUR MOST RECENT PIT NUMBER FOR UNSHELTERED HOMELESSNESS FROM 2024 THAT LOOKS LIKE THEY HAVEN'T COMPILED 2025 YET. AND THAT PROBABLY WRAPPED UP ONLY A CPLE OF WEEKS AGO. AND THAT IS $32.8 MILLION OF WHAT IS TOLD TO US AS ONE OF THE MOST INEFFICIENT IN THE LEAST COST EFFECTIVE METHODS PER EXIT. THAT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE ACTUALLY A BANK BREAKING DOLLAR FIGURE IF WE TALK TO THE COMMUNITY AND RAISE THE LEVY BY $33 MILLION, THAT WOULD MAKE PEOPLE'S EYES POP OUT A LITTLE BIT, BUT IF WE SAID AND WE SOLVED HOMELESSNESS AS A RESULT OF THAT, THERE IS CONVERSATIONS TO PARTNER WITH THE COUNTY AND HAVE SERVICE PROVIDERS AND THE PLAN. THAT IS KIND OF THE CEILING IN SOME REGARDS. I AM SURE IT IS FUZZY MATH A LITTLE BIT AND DOESN'T TRANSLATE BECAUSE THE 68 DOESN'T ACCOUNT FOR THE FOLKS THAT WERE NOT SUCCESSFULND HOW MUCH IS IT GOING TO COST TO BE SUCCESSFUL FOR THE FOLKS THAT WEREN'T, BUT I EL LIKE WE OVERCOMPLICATE THIS CONVERSATION SOMETIMES. BECAUSE IF WE CAN HAVE THE POLITICAL WILL TO GET TO $33 MILLION, THAT SEEMS TO ME LIKE THIS WOULD BE SOMHING THAT IS ACHIEVABLE AND MOVE ON FROM THERE FOR THE PEOPLE WHO WOULD BE MORE COMPLEX AND FIT WITHIN THAT BUDGET. IT'S JUST TO SAY IT IS NOT THIS INFINITE, UNSOLVABLE PROBLEM IN THAT WAY. A >> CHAIR CHAVEZ, COUNCIL PRESIDENT PAYNE, THE MIDDLE PART THAT I WAS SPEAK OF IS THE FOLKS THAT ARE IN THE CONGREGATE ENCAMPMENTS. THE COUNTY SYSTEM IS VERY GOOD AT GETTING PEOPLE WHO HAVE HOUSING INSTABILITY INTO SHELTER. THAT IS THE LAST PIECE, THE PERCENTAGE POINTS OF FOLKS THAT ARE FINDING IT THERE. AND ON ITS FACE, LIKE A YEAR AND A HALF AGO, GIVE THEM THE MONEY AND MOVE ON. BUT WHAT I'VE LEARD IN THE LAST YEAR IS THE COMPLEX TIS OF THE FOLKS THAT ARE IN THE ENCAMPMES AND BY JUST GETTING -- AND WHAT I AM TRYING TO GET SO IS I AM NOT SURE IF THAT SOLVES THE PROBLEM BECAUSE THERE ARE FOLKS THAT ARE STRUGGLING WITH ADDICTION ISSUES AND I'M FEELING REAL NERVOUS RIGHT NOW BECAUSE THIS IS NOT ANYWHERE CLOSE TO MY EXPERTISE AND WHAT I HAVE LEARNED OVER THE LAST YEAR. I FEEL LIKE I LEARNED SOMETHING IN MY FIFTH GRADE CLASS AND TELLING MY DAD WHAT I LEARNED, SO I WOULD LIKE TO SAY I THINK THERE'S MORE COMPLEXITY TO COUNCIL MEMBER ELLISON'S IDEA OF JUST CUTTING SOMEBODY A ECK. >> TO BE CLEAR, I AM NOT SUGGESTING WE ARE CUTTING CHECKS BUT AT $33 MILLION, WHAT KIND OF FACILITY WOULD BE BUILT, WHAT KIND OF SERVICES COULD WE DELIVER IN A WAY THAT WOULD BE MORE EFFICIENT THAN THE KIND OF STANDING UP OF THAT PROGRAM. >> YEAH, AND CHAIR CHAVEZ, COUNCIL PRESIDENT PAYNE, I ABSOLUTELY AGREE WIT THE LONG TERM. LIKE, WE GET THE BEST RETURN ON OUR INVESTMENT WHEN WE ARE LOOKING AT LONG-TERM FACILITIES, AND WE ARE PUTTING TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND T AFFORDABLE HOUSING TRUST FUND AT $18 MILLION A YEAR RIGHT NOW AND HOPEFULLY THAT HOLDS. WE'VE GOT MONEY TO BUY FOR PEOPLE TO BUY HOUSES, DOWN PAYMENT ASSISTANCE, ALL THOSE THINGS THAT GET THEM IN THERE. IT'S THAT, LIKE, FIRST, LIKE YOU SAID, WHATS THE FIRST SPACE? AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO SOLVE. I THINK THEITY IS REALLY IN A STRONG POSITION TO GET TO THE LONG-TERM SOLUTIONS. WE'RE JUST LOOKING AT THAT AND FOLKS THAT ARE IN THE CONGREGATE ENCAMPMENTS THAT SEEM TO MOVE AROUND. AND THEY MOVE AROUND ALL OVE AND GO UP AND DOWN THE BLOCKS. AND WHAT DO WE DO TO GET THAT FIRST BASE SO THEY ARE PREPARED FOR THE LONG TERM. AND THAT IS WHE WE ABSOLUTELY HAVE THAT SYSTEM LOCKED DOWN WITH THE COUNTY AND WITH STATE AND THE HOUSING COMMUNITY, THE DEVELOPERS BOTH FOR PROFIT AND NONPROFIT. AND THE CITY HAS BEEN VERY FORTUNATE TO INVEST IN THAT AT A HIGH LEVEL. SO THAT COULD HELP US SOLVE THE LONG TERM. AND WE WANT EVERYBODY I HOUSING. WE WANT TO GIVE THEM A KEY. THAT SYSTEM IS REALLYTRONG AND IT IS THAT MIDDLE AND GET THEM FROM THE ENCAMPMENT TO IT. AND THERE IS JUST -- I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS YET. AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS YET. SO I AGREE. >> THANK YOU. I WANT TO GROUND US IN THE CURRENT SITUATION THAT WE ARE IN IN MINNEAPOLIS. THERE IS JUST NOT ENOUGH SHELTER CAPACITY TO MOVE EVERYBODY THAT IS SLEEPING OUTDOORS IN MINNEAPOLIS ON ANY GIVEN NIGHT INDOORS. AND SAY THEY NOW HAVE A PLACE TO SLEEP ATNIGHT. I THINK THAT THE STAR TRIBUNE WROTE AN ARTICLE ABOUT THATENED A TALKS ABOUT SHELTER CAPACITY AND NOT GOOD IN THE CITY AND THE COUNTY. AND THAT IS AN IMPORTANT CONVERSATION TO HAVE THAT IS THE REASON TO BRING THIS FORWARD ON THINGS THAT HAVE WORKED IN THE PAST AND MIGHT WORK IN THE FUTURE IS BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE SLEEPING OUTSIDE RIGHT NOW. THIS IS DISPROPORTIONATELY IMPACTING FOLKS IN WARD NINE, THE AREA I REPRESENT, AND DISPROPORTIONALLY IN WARD SIX, COUNCIL MEMBER OSMAN'S WARD, AND WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO DO HERE TODAY IS SAY, YES, IT IS GREAT THAT WE ARE BUILDING MORE AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN OUR CITY WITH AMAZING, GREAT WK THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN AND SUPPORTS CURRENT RESIDENTS, RESIDENTS MOVING INTO AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS. AND THERE NEEDS TO BE A SPECIFIC FOCUS ON FOLKS THAT ARE CURRENTLY SLEEPING OUTSIDE. WHAT IS THE CURRENT FOCUS ON THE INDIVIDUAL THAT IS SLEEPING OUTSIDE BECAUSE AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNIT I NOT GOING TO BE ENOUGH. THERE NEEDS TO BE THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNIT WITH SUPPORTIVE SERVICES AND THE WRAP-AROUND SERVICES TO ADDRESS HELP ADDICTION AND JOBOPPORTUNITIES, YOU NAME IT, AND WE WANT TO ADDRESS MANY STRATEGIES TO WORK ON THIS ISSUE. THE REASON WE BROUGHT THIS FORWARD IS TO SEE HOW DID THIS FORMER NAVIGATION CENTER GET ESTABLISHED. YOU ARE PRESENTING THIS TODAY BECAUSE WE GAVE YOU THE DIRECTION. AND I DO WANT TO MAKE THAT CLEAR. AND WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE TO THAT OPTION. AND FOLKS IN MY COMMUNI WERE THE ONES THAT TALKED TO ME, WHICH IS WHY WE BROUGHT THIS FORWARD. >> SURE. >> THERE IS CONVERSATIONS IN THE COMMUNITY OF, OKAY, WE DON'T HAVE TO REINVENT THE WHEEL OF THE SAME NAVIGATION CENTER THAT WAS ESTABLISHED A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO. WHAT DOES IT LOOK LE TO HAVE A SMALLER SITE WORK WITH TRUSTED PARTNERS TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE. IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THE SAME THING. I THINK FOR US WHAT WE'RE LOOKG FOR IS I THINK THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO WORK DIRECTLY WITH INDIVIDUALS ON THE GROUND DOING THIS WORK, HEAR FROM THEIR ADVICE AND THE FOLKS THAT UNHOUSED INDIVIDUALS TRUST AND FIGURE OUT WAYS TO PARTNER AS A CITY TO ESTABLISH SOMETHING DIFFERENT. IT COULD BE SIMILAR, COULD NOT BE, ALLOW US TO LEARN FROM PREVIOUS THINGS WE DID. BUT TO BE FAIR, LIKE, IF WE ARE GOING TO COMPARE THE SUCSS OF THIS, I THINK THE NUMBERS SHOW THIS HAS BEEN MORE SUCCESSFUL THAN A VARIETY OF PROGRAMS THAT WE PROBABLY FUND. AND WE CAN LOOK AT THE DATA. IF YOU'RE TELLING ME A SPECIFIC PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE WERE PERMANENTLY HOUSED, WE SHOULD LOOK AT OTHER PROGRAMS WE FUND AND HOW MAN ARE HOUSED THROUGH THEIR PROGRAMS. WHILE THERE HAVE BEEN MANY THINGS AT, YOU KNOW, DIDN'T GO THAT WELL, THERE ARE MANY THING REPLICATE THAT AND WHETHER IT'S A NAVIGATION CENTER OR HUB IN GENERAL OR THROUGH A DIFFERENT PROGRAM. HOW DO WE REPLICATE THOSE THINGS INTO SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAT IS GOING TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE. BECAUSE I'LL GO BACK TO MY COMMENT AT THE BEGINNING IS THERE IS JUST NOT ENOUGH SHELTER CAPACITY FOR EVERY SINGLE PERSON SLEEPING OUTSIDE IN MINNEAPOLIS TODAY TO MOVE INDOORS. THAT JUST DOESN'T EXIST. SO THERE NEEDS TO BE ALTERNATIVES AND DIFFERENT APPROACHES. AND THIS IS US TRYING TO SAY LET'S TRY SOMETHING NEW BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT JUST BUILDING MORE AFFORDABLE HOUSING WHILE IT IS VE IMPORTANT AND I BELIEVE EVERY SINGLE COUNCIL MEMBER SUPPORTS THAT AND WE HAVE BY VOTING FOR THOSE FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN OUR CITY, WE NEED TO DO MORE. AND THERE NEEDS TO BE NEW STRATEGIES. THIS IS SOMETHING WE'RE TRYING TO LOOK AT. IT'SLEAR WE NEED TO TRY MANY OTHER THINGS. I JUST WANTED TO MAKE THOSE COMMENTS TODAY. COUNCIL MEMBER ELLISON. >> YEAH, I WANTED TO SAY -- ONE, I WILL SAY, I'M ALWAYS A FAN OF CASH INFUSIONS. I THINK WE SHOULD TRY THAT MORE OFTEN. BE A LITTLE LESS PATERNALISTIC IN HOW WE GOVERN. AND FIGURE OUT HOW PEOPLE CAN MAKE THEIR OWN DECISIONS, BUT I AGREE IT'S NOT A FIX FOR EVERY SOLUTION. I WANT TO SAY THAT IN ITS CONTEXT, THIS IS MY OPINION, IN ITS CONTEXT, THE NAVIGATION CENTER WAS GOOD. WE LEARNED A LOT ABOUT ENCAMPMENTS IN THAT TIME. WE LEARNED A LOT ABOUT WHAT PEOP WERE GOING THROUGH IN THAT TIME. AND WHILE WE LEARNED ALL OF THAT, I DON'T KNOW THAT WE PUT ALL THOSE LEARNINGS TO USE. I DON'T KNOW THAT WE'VE NECESSARILY BEEN IN THE BEST POSITION TO BUILD ON THOSE LEARNINGS AT A SYSTEMIC LEVEL. I THINK THAT WHAT WE'VE GOT AND THIS IS MORE KIND OF WHAT I AM SPEAKING TO IS WE'VE GOT A PROBLEM THAT WE'RE NOT SOLVING. WE'VE GOT -- AND THIS IS MY OPINION. I DON'T THINK IT IS CONSIDERATION SO SAY THIS. WE HAVE A MAYOR AND ADMIN THAT ARE ENGAGED IN STRATEGIES THAT COUNCIL DON'T AGREE WITH. WE HEAR FROM COMMUNITY MEMBERS ANSERVICE PROVIDERS THAT EVICTION DON'T LEAD TO PEOPLE BEING HOUSED, RIGHT? SO WHAT I AM SAYING IS I AM NOT THAT HOPEFUL WE WON'TRECREATE THE GOOD OF THE NAVIGATION CENTER BUT ALSO THE BAD. I AM WDERING HOW WE CAN'T ENGAGE IN A PROCESS THAT HELPS US NOT DO THAT OTHER THING. AND WHILE WE WERE AND NOT TO ALWAYS BE RELITIGATING GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE, BUT I DO THINK THAT WE'RE IN A POSITION WHERE POWER IS A LITTLE BIT MORE CONCENTRATED, SO I THINK WE AS A CITY -- THIS IS MY OPINION, NOBODY HAS TO SHARE IT. I DO THINK WE AS AN ENTERPRISE ARE A LOT LESS CREATIVE BECAUSE WE CAN'T SPREAD POLICY MAKER AND BRAIN POWER THIN LE WE USED TO. WE CAN'T SPREAD FOLKS OUT AND SAY YOU ARE FOCUSED AND THAT, YOU ARE FOCUSED ON THAT, YOU ARE FOCUSED ON THAT IN A WAY THAT I FEEL LIKE WE USED TO BE ABLE TO DO. COUNCIL MEMBERS WOULD DEVELOP THEIR NICHE AND WE COULD ALL SORT OF TRUST THAT, OKAY, SO AND SO KNOWS WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT AT LEAST A LITTLE BIT. SO THAT IS SORT OF MY CAUTION. NOT THA THE PRESENTATION IS BAD. NOT SO SAY WE SHOULDN'T CREATE NEW STRATEGY, BUT JUST TO SAY I'M WORRIED WN I SEE HOW WE'RE TRUCKING ALONG. AND THAT THISILL RECREATE THE POSITIVES AND ALSO THE NEGATIVES, SO WHAT WOULD THE POINT OF THAT? ALL THAT HISTORY, AND I DON'T KNOW THAT WE HAVE NECESSARILY TAKEN FL ADVANTAGE OF IT. JUST TO SAY THAT WHEN I WENT TO THE WALL OF FORGOTTEN NAVES, WITHOUT GOING TOO MUCH INTO THE HISTORY OF THAT, BUT I HAD PEOPLE THAT I GREW UP WITH THAT WERE THERE. I HAD PEOPLE WHO WENT TO HIGH SCHOOL WITH MY YOUNGER BROTHER WHO WERE THERE AND THEY WERE THERE, STRUGGLING. WE HAD A COMMUNITY MEMBER WHO LOST THEIR SON THERE IN A VERY PUBLIC WAY. AND SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I GET FRUSTRATED ABOUT, NOT WITH THIS CONVERSATION, BUT JUST IN GENERAL, IS HOW DID WE GO FROM THAT TO JUST EITHER RECREATING IT OR DOING EVICTIONS. FEELS LIKE WE SQUANDERED A MOMENT TO LEARN FROM THAT DECISION, AND I WANT TO SAY THAT MONEY, WHETHER IT'S THE 66,000 PER OR 33,0 PER OR DEPENDING ON HOW YOU BREAK DOWN THAT PERSON, THAT WASN'T OVER THE COURSE OF THE YEAR. THAT WAS FIVE MONTHS? >> NINE. >> THREE, NINE? YEAH, I KNOW WE PUSHED THE -- >> WE PUSHED THE -- >> IT IS IN THE REPORT. >> YEAH. T IT WASN'T OVER THE COURSE OF A FULL YEAR IS WHEY AM SAYING. SO AGAIN, IT IS NOT THE STICKER PRICE OR THE COST, ALTHOUGH IT IS A REALITY TO THINK ABOUT COST. IT IS THE, DID WE IMPROVE PEOPLE'S LIVES WITH WHAT IT CO? IN MY OPINION, THE ANSWER IS, ZOOMING OUT, THE ANSWER IS WE COULD HAVE DONE BETTER. ANDHILE I'M NOT AN EXPERT EITHER, I DO QUESTION WHETHER SPENDING -- GIVING SPENDING $60,000 ON THEM IN THIS MORE PATERNALISTIC WAY, I QUESTION WHICH IS BETTER IN TERMS OF PICKING THEMSELVES UP. IF WE WROTE CHECKS THAT WAY, NONE OF US WOULD GET RE-ELECTED. SO THIS IS TO BE BRAVE YOU ARE IN AND AS AN INSTITION, WE ARE OVERALL LESS CREATIVE. I WOULD LOVE TO SEE US REVERSE THAT BE A MORE CREATIVE INSTITUTION AND TO MY MIND WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF MODELS FOR. AND I GUESS I WILL SORT OF LEAVE IT AT THAT OBSERVATION BUT I HOPE WE CAN BRIDGE THAT SO TO FIGURE OUT HOW THE COLLABORATIONS AND CONVERSATIONS AND THE WORK GROUPS IS AN IMPORTANT CONVERSATION TO HAVE ON THIS. ALL RIGHT. SEEING NO FURTHER QUESTIONS, I WILL DIRECT THE CLERK TO RECEIVE AND FILE THAT REPORT. D OUR FINAL ITEM IS RECEIVING A REPORT ON THE ANALYSIS OF OTHER CITIES' DRUG OVERDOSE PREVENTION STRATEGIST. THANKS F YOUR PATIENCE, EVERYONE. ASHLEY IS HERE TO PRESENT ON THIS THEME. >> THANK YOU. SORRY. GOOD AFTERNOON, CHAIR CHAVEZ AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE. I AM ASHLEY JUKE FROM THE CITY AUDITOR'S PREVENTION AND I AM HERE TO PREVENT ON THE OVERDOSE PREVENTION LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS. THE RST, LEGISLATIVE BACKGROUND, ON JULY 10, THIS COMMITTEE DIRECTED POLICY AND RESEARCH TO COMMIEE A NATIONAL LANDSCAPE AND ANALYSIS OF OTHER CITY'S DRUG PREVENTION STRATEGIES INCLUDING EXPANDING ACCESS TO FENTANYL TEST STRIPS AND NALOXONE AS WELL AS OVERDOSE RESPONSE TEAMS. WE WERE DIRECTED TO IDENTIFY EXAMPLE CITIES, IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES, REURCES, ASSESSMENTS, IMPACT MEASUREMENTS AND GOOD PRACTICES. BEFORE WE GO THROUGH THE PRESENTATION, IT IS IMPORTANT THAT EVERYONE HAS AOMMON UNDERSTANDING OF THE FOLLOWING TERMS. NALOXONE REVERSES THE OVERDOSE. NARCAN IS THE MOST COMMON BRAND NAME. THE MEDICATION USED TO TREAT OPIOID USE DISORDER WITH BUPENORPHINE. AND HARM REDUCTION VENDING MACHINES IS A VENDING MACHINE THAT PROVIDES NALOON E AND PERSONAL HYGIENE PRODUCTS, DRUG DISPOE SAL, GUN LOCKS, AND SYRINGES. AND SHARPSCONTAINERS. AND OVERDOSE RESPONSE TEAMS ARE TEAM WHO IS ENGAGE WITH AN OVERDEUCEURVIVOR OR IN THE DAYS FOLLOWING AN OVERDOSE TO CONNECT THEM WITH A VARIETY OF SERVICES AND STRATEGIES TO REDUCE THEIR RISK FOR FUTURE OVERDOSE.THE ONGOING OPIOID CRI URGENT PUBLIC HEALTH CHALLENGE IN THE UNITED STATES. ACCORDING TO PRELIMINARY DATA IN MIESOTA IN 2023, THERE WERE 1,274 DRUG OVERDOSE DEATHS ABOUT 70% INVOLVED SYNTHETIC OPIOIDS LIKE FENTANYL. THIS MARK AN 8% DECREASE AND IS REFLECTIVE OF NATIONAL TRENDS. AND OVERL DRUG OVERDOSE DEATH RATES HAVE DECREASED, OPIOID DE. IN MINNEAPOLIS IN 2023, THERE WERE 272 OPIOID-RELATED DEATHS. WITHIN THE BROADER OPIOID CRISIS, THERE ARE ADDITIONAL RACIAL DISPARITIES. IN 2021, AMERICAN INDIAN MINNESOTANS WERE 10 TIMES AS LIKELY TO DIE FROM A DRUG OVERDOSE THAN WHITE MINNESOTANS. BLACK MINNESOTANS WERE MORE THAN THREE TIMES AS LIKELY TO DIE FROM A DRUG OVERDOSE THAN WHITE MINNESOTANS. HENNEPIN COUNTY DISPARITIES FOR THESE -- SORRY, FOR THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN AMERICAN INDIAN AND HISPANIC POPULATIONS CONTINUE TO INCREASE. ACCORDING TO THE MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH IN MINNESOTA, THE HEALTH EQUITIES EXPERIENCED BY COMMUNITIES OF COLOR AS A RESULT OF DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH AND SYSTEMIC RACISM RESULTS IN THESE OVERDOSE DEATH DISPARITIES FOR COMMUNITY OF COLOR. ADDING TO THAT, STUDIES HAVE DETERMINED THAT A RACIAL DISPARITY GAP ALSO EXISTS IN NA USE. INCREASING AVAILABILITY AND ACCESSIBILITY TO MEDICATION ASSISTED TREATMENT, ESPECIALLY BUPERNORPHENI IS ESSENTIAL. HARM REDUCTION VENDI MACHINES INCREASE THE ACCESSIBILITY OF HARM REDUCTION PRODUCT INCLUDING NALOXONE. POST-OVERDOSE RESPONSE TEAMS CAN IDENTIFY PEOPLE AT HIGHER RISK OF FAT OVERDOSE AND LINK THEM TO CARE. AND THEY ALSO OFTEN ADDRESS AN INDIVIDUAL'S COMPLEX NEEDS BEYO DRUG USE. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT MINNEAPOLIS CURRENTLY HAS AN NALOXONE VENDING MACHINE PILOT PROGRAM, AND ALL PARAMEDIC CANS ADMINISTER BUPERNORPHEINE. NEXT WE WILL LOOK AT HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE HARM REDUCTION VENDING MACHINE REPORT. THEY HAVE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES. AND ADVANTAGES CAN INCLUDE 24/7 AVAILABILITY, LOW BARRIER ACCESS, AND INCREASED PRIVACY AND ANONYMITY. AND MACHINES DON'T MAKE JUDGMENTS, NOR DO THEY DISCRIMINATE. THIS CAN ATTRACT PEOPLE WHO USE DRUG WHO IS MAY NOT OTHERWISE ACCESS SERVICES FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS, INCLUDING DISTRUST OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES OR GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS. DISADVANTAGES INCLUDE THE INITIAL MACHINE COST AS WE AS ONGOING COSTS TO CHECK AND STOCK THEM. AS WELL AS POTENTIALLY LOSING A TOUCH POINT TO BUILD A RELATIONSHIP WITH SOMEONE WHICH COULD LEAD TO FURTHER TREATMENT SERVES IN THE FUTURE. THESE DISADVANTAGES CAN BE MITIGATED BYMEMBERSHIP-BASED PROGRAMS WHICH REQUIRE ANONYMOUS SIGN-UP AND RENEWALS OR TURNING MACHES OFF DURING OPEN HOURS IF THE HOST SITE OFFERS SIMILAR SUPPLIES. AND WHILE COMMUNITY NALOXONE SA STRATEGY TO REDUCE OVERDOSE DEATHS, THE IS STILL SOME DEBATE AMONG THE HARM REDUCTION PRACTITIONERS THAT I SPOKE WITH ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT IT WAS HARM REDUCTION VENDING MACHINES ARE THE MOST COST EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT SATEGY COMPARED TO OTHER DISTRIBUTION OPTIONS. THERE ARE -- THERE IS SIGNIFICANT VARIATION -- SORRY. I THINK MY COUGH MEDICINE IS THROWING MY BRAIN OFF JUST LITTLE BIT TODAY. THERE IS SIGNIFICANT VARIATION ACROSS HARM REDUCTION VENDING MACHINE PROGRAM PARAMETERS AROUND THE COUNTRY. SUPPLIES PROVIDE VARY GREATLY FROM SOME PROVIDING LOXONE AND OTHERS PROVIDING MUCH BROADER SUPPLY. SUPPLIES ARE IMPACTED B NUMEROUS FACTORS INCLUDING PROGRAM PRIORITY, FUNDING AVAILABILITY, SIZE OF THE MACHINE, AND LEGALITY. FOR EXAMPLE, TEST STRIPS ARE STILL CONSIDERED DRUG PARAPHERNALIA IN A NUMBER OF STATES ANDYRINGE DISTRIBUTION IS ALSO OFTEN LIMITED BY LOCAL CODES. MACHINE FUNCTIONS AND CAPABILITIES ALSO VARY. OPONS INCLUDE MACHINES THAT CAN BE PLACED OUTDOORS OR MUST BE PLACED INDOORS. MACHINES WITHOUT TEMPERATURE CONTROL AND INFORMATION TRACKING SOFTWARE TO INDIVIDUAL ASSOCIATED CODES AND WITH THE VIRTUAL SUPPLY INVENTORY UPDATES TO EVALUATE THE PROGRAM'S EFFECTIVENESS AND BUILD PROGRAM COMMUNITY SUPPORT. MACHINE COST VARIES GREATLY AS WELL DEPENDING ON THE CAPABILITIES. REFURBISHED MACHINES AS LOW AS $2500. AND BETWEEN $8 TO $15,000. AND MOST PROGRAMS INTERVIEWED FOR THIS REPORT DO ALSO GET THEIR NALOXONE FREE FROM THE STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENT WHICH DIRECTLY IMPACTS THE ASSOCIATED COST FOR THEIR PROGRAM AND MACHINES THAT TRACK DATA AND HAVE THE ONGOING MONTHLY COST OF AROUND $100 A MONTH. ACCESSING MACHINE SPLICE AND PROGRAM MEDALS FOR HOW PARTICIPANTS ACCESS THE MACHINES AND TO PUSH THE SUPPLY AND UTILIZE A MEMBERSHIP MODEL AND REQUIRES ANONYMOUS SIGNUP BEFORE PARTICIPANTS RECEIVE A UNIQUE CODE AND/OR A CARD SOMETIMES TO ACCESS SUPPLIES FROM THE MACHINE. SUPPLY LIMITATIONS SET TO LIMIT THE NUMBER OR FREQUENCY OF SUPPLIES PER UNIQUE CODE AND SET TO LIMIT SUPPLIES BUT MOST DON'T. AS FAR AS LOCATION,HERE ARE VARIOUS PROCESSES THROUGH WHICH PROGRAMS HAVE DETERMINED VENDING MACHINE LOCATION. THEY FREQUENTLY CHOOSE LOCATIONS BASED ON CRITERIA INCLUDING HIGHER OVERDOSE RATES AND DRUG USE WITH LIMITED HEALTH CARE ACCESS AND OVERALL GEOGRAPHIC DISABILITY. AND WITH BASED ON WILLINGNESS, PROVEN COMMITMENT AND ADDITIONAL HARM REDUCTION RESOURCES. MANY PEOPLE DISCUSS THE IMPORTANCE OF PLACING VENDING MACHINES IN OR CLOSE TO JAILS, PRISONS, DETENTION CENTERS, AND DUE TO THE INCREASED RISK OF OVERDOSE POST RELEASE. I AM NOT GOING TO LINGER ON THIS TOO LONG, THIS IS THE COMPARISON OF THE HARM REDUCTION CHART REVIEWED INHIS REPORT INCLUDING MINNEAPOLIS AT THE BOTTOM. FEEL FREE TO TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT THIS. IT IS ALSO IN THE REPORT AS WELL AS DETAILS ON ALL OF THE PROGRAMS. TO OVERDOSE RESPONSE TEAM HIGHLIGHTS. AND OVERDOSE RESPONSE TEA PARAMETERS. AND OVERDOSE RESPONSE TEAMS VARY IN MANY WAYS AND SHARE THE COMMON GOALS AND THE MEDIA OVERDOSE RESPONSE AND GENERAL OUTREACH AND FOLLOW-UP CARE AND CONNECTION TO FUTURE TREATMENT OPTIONS. MANY TEAMS COVER ALL THE SERVICES BUT SOME HAVE TEAMS FOCUSED ON ONE AREA OFERVICE AND RESPONSE. SOME OF THE TEAMS WERE PURPOSELY CREATED TO FREE UP OTHER E.M.S. SERVICES FROM RESPONDING AND STAYING ON SCENE FOR OVERDOSE CALLS. MANY TEAMS FILL UP THE GAPS TO CONNECT PEOPLE TO SUPPORT SERVICES AND FINDING HOUSING, JOBS, HEALTH CARE, I.D.'S, INSURANCE, AND THIS RECOGNIZES THE RLITY THAT PEOPLE WHO USE DRUGS CANNOT ADDRESS SUBSTANCE E DISORDER WITHOUT HAVING BASIC NEEDS LIKE FOOD, CLOTHING, SHELTER AND HEALTH CARE MET. IT IS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE UNSHELTERED TO MAKE POSITIV CHANGES INCLUDING STARTING AND STAYING ON MEDICATIONHILE FACING THE STRESS, UNCERTAINTY AND INSECURITY OF NOT KNOWING WHERE THEY WILL BE SLEEPING THAT EVENING. TEAM COMPOSITION, SOME TEAMS EXIST IN FIRE DEPARTMENTS. SOME IN HEALTH DEPARTMENTS. AND SOM IN NONPROFIT ENERGY RESPONSE SERVICES. TEAMS TEND TO BE MULTIDISCIPLINARY, BUT GENERALLY INCLUD AN EMERGENCY HEALTH CARE RESPONDER SUCH AS AN E.M.T. OR PARAMEDIC ANDFTEN INCLUDE A TYPE OF PEER SUPPORT SPECIALIST AND SOMNE WITH LIVED EXPERIENCE, INCLUDING A PEER PPORT SPECIALIST IS CONSIDERED GOOD PRACTICE BY THE SUBSTANCE USE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION. STRONGLY RECOMMENDED BY SEVERAL TEAMS THAT WE SPOKE WITH. TEAM DEPLOYMENT, MOST TEAMS DEPLOY TO SUSPECTED OVERDOSE IN MORE ON OUTREACH AND/OR POSTVERDOSE FOLLOW-UP CARE. MOST ARE DISPATCHED WITH OTHER STANDARDE.M.S. RESPONSE AND POLICE, FIRE, AND AMBULANCE, OR ARE FROM THE FIRE DEPARTMENT THEMSEES MOVING ON TO EMPHASIS FOR NONLAW ENFORCEMENT TEAM IDENTITY, DESPITE FREQUENTLY RELYING ON LAW ENFORCEMENT DATA SYSTEMS, MANY TEAMS EMPHASIZE TO THE PATIENTSHAT THEY ARE WITH FIRE AND HEALTH DEPARTMENTS AND THEY GENERALLY TRY TO CLEAR LICE FROM THE SCENE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE BECAUSE MANY OF THE PATIENTS, ESPECIALLY PEOPLE WHO ASSOCIATIONS OR HAVE HAD NEGATIVE EXPERIENCES WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT. PATIENT DRIVEN COURSE OF ACTN FOR ALMOST ALL THE PROGRAM LS INTERVIEWED FOR THIS REPORT AND HAVE FULL CONTROL OF TH OUTCOMES OF THE TEAM'S RESPONSE. ON THE SCENE IF THEY ARE MEDICALLY STABLE, PIENT CANS DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT TO BE TAKE ON THE THE HOSPITAL AND CAN ALWAYS CHOOSE TO WALKAWAY. AND DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THEY WANT TO START ANY OTHER TREATMENT OPTION. PRE-HOSPITAL AND CAN ADMINISTER PRE-HOSPITAL BUPERNORPHINE AS A UNIQUE ABILITY TO THE TEAM OR A BROADER CAPABILITY. AND MOST OF THEM SECURED THE ABILITY TO ADMINISTER THIS WITHIN THE LAST YEAR OR TWO AND DESCRIBE IT AS A GAME CHANGER BECAUSE IT AOWS PEOPLE TO THINK CLEARLY WITHOUT EXPERIENCING THE CRAVINGS OR ONGOING WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS. STIGMA AND INTERL CULTURAL LEADERS. SEVERAL TEAMS DISCUSS THE STIGMA AND EVEN FROM MEDICAL AND SOCIAL SERVICE PROVIDERS. AND MEMBERS OF THESE TEAMS ARE OFTEN SPECIALLY TRAINED IN OPIOID USE DISORDER, HARM REDUCTION STRATEGIST AND STIGMA REDUCTION AND CAN SERVE AS EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL, CULTURAL LEADERS TO PROMPT POSITIVE SHIFTS IN THE DEPARTMENT CULTURE. AND THE STAFFING WITH A LOT OF FUNDING FOR THE TEAMS HAS INCLUDED OPIOID SETTLEMENT FUNDING. MOST TEAMS WILL GETNALOXONE AND VARY IN TEAM COMPETITION AND THE SERVICES THEY PROVIDE, THEY SHARE THE GOAL OF REDUCING OVERDOSE DEATHS IN THE COMMUNITIES. AND SOM FOCUS ON INCREASED PRE-HOSPIT ADMINISTRATION AND OTHERS SORT OF BROADER POST-OVERDOSE FOLLOW-UP CE AND CONNECTION TO FURTHER TREATMENT OPTIONS. ALLHE COMMUNITIES INTERVIEWED FOR THE REPORT AND DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS OF ALL THE TEAMS CAN BE FOUND IN THE FULL REPORT. JUST HIGHLIGHTING A FEW THINGS THAT CAME UP WHEN I WAS TALKING TO THE TEAMS AROUND THE COUNTRY. ADDITIONAL PROGRAM EXAMPLES INCLUDE THEELE HEALTH IN SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, WHICH PROVIDES A REALTIME CONNECTION WITH A DOCTOR OVER THE PHONE WHO CAN WRITE SOMEONE A BUPERNORPHINE PRESCRIPTION OR CONNECT THEM TO THE CLINIC. IT IS AVAILABLE 16 HOURS A DAY FROM 8:00 A.M. TO MIDNIGHT. AND SAFE SPOT IN BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, IS A VIRTUAL SPOTTING HOTLINE FOR PEOPLE WHO USE DRUGS. AND PEOPLE CAN CALL INTO THE HOTLINE AND CONNECT TO SOMEONE WHO STAYS ON THE LINE AS THE PERSON USES. IF THE PERSON BECOMES UNRESPONSIVE, THE HOTLINE CAN SEND EMERGENCY RESPONSE TO THEIR LOCATION. ADDITIONAL EXAMPLES INCLUDING INCREASED DRUG TESTING OPTIONS, EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGNS AND INTERNAL PREVENTION COLLECTIVE, DRUG USEERS EMPOWERMENT GROUP AND HARM REDUCTION TRAINING FOR PEOPLE WHO SUPPLY DRUG CANS BE FOUND IN THE FULL REPORT. TO THE HIGHLIGHT T OVERDOSE PREVENTION WORK IN THE TWIN CITIES. WHILE NOT REQUESTED IN THE DIRECTIVE, I WANTED TO INCLUDE CURRENT PREVENTION WORK OCCURRING IN MINNEAPOLIS. THIS IS B NO MEANS A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW, BUT HIGHLIGHTED WORK BEING DONE HERE WHICH IS RELEVANT TO THE EXAMPLE DONE THROUGHOUT THE REPORT. THE CITY OF MINNEAPIS HAS A NARCAN VENDING MACHINE PILOT PROGRAM IN JULY OF 2024 AND IS WORKING WITH M-HEALTH FAIRVIEW UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FED CAL SENTER TO OFFER FREE RAPID ACCESS TO BUPERNORPHINE IN THE FIRST STEP PILOT PROGRAM. IN MINNEAPOLIS, E.M.S. SERVICES ARE PROVIDED BY HENNEPIN HEALTH CARE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES. A NONPROFIT SYSTEM SEPARATE FROM THE COUNTY. FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS, ALL PARAMEDIC CAN ADMINISTER WITH NARCAN AND THEY ARE ALSO IN THE PROCESS OF LAUNCHING A TEAM WHO CAN LAUNCH A FIRST DOSE UNTIL THEY MEET WITH A PHYSICIAN WITHIN A FEW DAYS TO CONTINUE THAT. AND THESE PROGRAMS AS WELL AS ADDITIONAL OVERDOSE PREVENTION WORK AND NALOXONE DISTRIBUTION BY THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS, HENNEPIN COUNTY AND STEVE RULER HOPE NETWORK AND OTHERS ARE DISKUZED IN THE FULL REPORT. THAT DOES CONCLUDE MY PRESENTATION. I AM HAPPY TO TALK ABOUT ANYTHING THAT I TALKED ABOUT NOW OR ANYTHING IN THE REPORT. >> THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION. WE APPRECIATE IT. FIRST TO COUNCIL PRESIDENT PAYNE AND VICE CHAIR WONSLEY. >> THANK YOU, CHAIR CHAVEZ. AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS REPORT. IT IS REALLY GOOD. IT IS REALLY GOOD BECAUSE IT HAS SPECIFIC ACTIONS THAT FEEL LIKE WE ARE TANGIBLE ANDTEPS THAT WE CAN TAKE TODAY OBVIOUSLY THROUGH A PROCESS. BUT I GOT A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS. NUMBER ONE, WE GOT A NICE PRINTOUT FROM HOWIE IN THE CHAMBER. HE IS ASKING FORS TO EXTEND OUR PILOT FOR THE VENDING MACHINE TO THE NORTH SIDE. BUT IT IS REALLY INTERESTING TO SEE THE DIFFERENT PRODUCTS THAT WERE AVAILABLE IN THE VENDING MACHINE. I AM WONDERING, YOU KNOW, YOU MENTIONED SOME OF THE STATE STATUTE BARRIERS. YOU MENTIONED SOME OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL BARRIERS. DO YOU SEE ANY OTHER BARRIERS BEYOND THAT? AND JUST OUR ABILITY TO ALLOCATE RESOURCES IN TERMS OF BEING ABLE TO DO VENDING MACHINE EXPANSION? >> I CAN'T SAY I LOOKED SPECIFICALLY TO ANY I MINNESOTA BECAUSE IT WAS MORE OF A NATIONAL LANDSCAPE THAT I WAS LOOKING AT. TEST STRIPS ARE LEGAL IN MINNESOTA AS ARE OBVIOUSLY FENTANYL TEST STRIPS NOW. I CAN'T SAY VARIOUS FUNDING IS A PRIMARY ONE. THE MINNESOTA PORTAL FOR NARCAN HAS BEEN KIND OF FROZEN SINCE JULY OF THIS YEAR. I D NOT HAVE THE CAPACITY WITHIN THIS REPORT TO DIG DEEPER INTO W OR HOW OR WHAT THAT IS. SO FUNDING FOR NALOXONE IS DEFINITELY, LIKE I SAID, PRETTY MUCH EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHETHER A TEAM OR VENDING MACHINE I TALKED TO INHIS REPORT WAS GETTING THEIR NALOXONE COVERED BY THE STATE PRESUMABLY THROUGH OPIOID FUNDING. I THINK IT'S JUST FUNDING AND THEN DOING THE D DILIGENCE OF FINDING SUPPORTIVE LOCATIONS AND CONSISTENTLY BEING ABLE TO -- IT NEEDS TO BE THERE. FIT'S EXPECTED TO BE THERE AND AS WELL AS ANY OTHER SUPPLY, IT NEEDS TO CONSISTENTLY BE THERE TO BE EFFECTIVE. >> AND THE OTHER THING THAT JUST FEELS VERY TANGIBLE IS THE OVERDOSE RESPONSE TEAM. AND I WAS CURIOUS AS YOU LOOKED AT THE LANDSCAPE, WAS IT MORE OF A SPECIALIST OVERDOSE RESPONSE TEAM? OR DID YOU SEE IT MORE AS -- LIKE MORE EXAMPLES OF FIRE OR E.M.S. HAVING WITHIN THEIR CURRENT CAPACITY, HAVING FOLKS THAT ARE DETAILED TO BE IN THAT ROLE. BECAUSE WE'RE STILL IN THE VERY EARLY STAGES, FOR INSTANCE, OF MOVING BEHAVIORAL CRISIS RESPONSE UNDER FIRE, WHICH IS MORE OF AN ADMINISTRATIVE THING THAN AN OPERATIONAL THING, BUT THERE IS A LONG-TERM VISION TO BE ABLE TO HAVE MORE TYPES OF RESPONSES. AND I SEE THIS AS A VERY TANGIBLE RESPONSE TO KIND OF SIMPLIFYING THAT QUESTION. AND WERE THESE MORE SPECIALIST RESPONSE TEAMS? OR WHAT -- DID YOU SEE IT AS A MORE COMMON PRACTE TO EXPAND THE ROLE OF E.M.S. OR FIRE OR OTHER FIRST RESPONDERS? >> THEY WERE SPECIALIZED TEAMS OFTEN WITHIN M.S. OR E.M.T. AND BY THAT I MEAN ST. PAUL, TH HAVE TO DOUBLE CHECK THE REPORT, BUT I THINK IS SIX PEOPLE WITHIN THE E.M.S. WHO IN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND MINNEAPOLIS ANDHAT IS ALL PARAMEDICS. AROUND THE COUNTRY THE TEAMS -- THE FEELING I GOT FROM THEM WAS THAT THEY WERE FOCUSSING ON SPECIALIZED TEAMS BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE -- E.M.S. PEOPLE WITH MUCH MORE TRAING AND IF YOU ARE LIVING IN THAT WORLD ALL THE TIME, YOU ARE MORE LIKELY TO UNDERSTAND THE COMPLEXITIES AND OFFER THE RIGHT WORDS AT THE RIGHT TIME TO CONVEY THE OPTIO IN A RESPONSIVE WAY. OR TO GET A POSITIVE RESPONSE FROM THOSE INTERACTIONS. AND SO THEY DID TEND TO HAVE FOCUSED TEAMS EVEN IF THEY LIVED INSIDE OF AN E.M.S. OR PARAMEDIC OR HEALTH DEPARTMENT. THAT BEING SAID, LIKE I SAID, SOME OF THE PURPOSE OF THE TEAMS WAS TO TAKE PRESSURE OFF OTHER E.M.S. SERVICES SO WITH THE POTENTIAL OVERDOSE OR SOMEONE IN PUBLIC IT WASN'T A POLICE AND FULL AMBULANCE HEADING THERE AND ENDING THAT TIME THERE WHEN THERE WERE POTENTIALLY OTHER MORE -- OTHER URGENT SITUATIONS TO USE THAT TEAM OF FOLKS, VEUS THIS TEAM OF FOLKS. THEY LIVED WITHIN THE GENERAL E.M.T. OR PAMEDIC PROGRAM WITHIN A CITY. >> AND MY LAST QUESTION, BECAUSE WE SEE THIS VERYOMMONLY WITH B.C.R. WHERE THEY WILL SUCCESSFULLY DE-ESCALATE A SITUATION AND THEN THERE IS NOT EXACTLY A GREAT NEXT STEP FOR THAT INDIVIDUAL IN TERMS OF TREATMENT. I THINK THAT WAS A SIMILAR CHALLENGE FOR THE OVERDOSE PREVENTION TEAMS AND WHEN YOU ARE SUCCESSFULLY ABLE TO REVERSE THAT OVERDOSE AND GET PEOPLE STABILIZED AND ESPECIALL -- NARCAN CAN PUT PEOPLE INSTANTLY INTO WITHDRAWAL AND THAT IS THE RISK FOR FATAL OVERDOSE OFTEN WHEN THEY GET RESUSCITATED. WHAT IS -- WHAT DOES OUR LANDSCAPE LOOK LIKE IN TERMS OF THAT LANDSCAPE? >> LOOKING AROUND, AND EVERYTHING COME DOWN TO RESOURS, BEDS THAT ARE AVAILABLE. AND BY THAT I MEAN IN SHELTER AND MORE LIKELY TO ATTEND A MEETING THE NEXT DAY WITH A SOCIAL WORKER OR SOMETHING IF THEY ARE NOT ON THE STREET THAT NIGHT. BEDS IN METHADONE CLINICS AND BEDS IN OVERDOSE WITHDRAWAL MANAGEMENT CENTER. THAT IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST RESOURCES IF THEY ARE WILLING TO GO SOMEWHERE, TRE HAS TO BE SOMEWHERE TO TAKE THEM. AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE ROADS ARE IN MINNEAPOLIS. I THK IT WAS ST. PAUL THAT RIGHT NOW THEY HAVE PEOPLE THAT ONLY TAKE YOU TO A HOSPITAL AND TRYING TO EXPAND THAT TO GO TO THE CLINI 55 OR OTHER TREATMENT SENTERS. THEY ARE TRYING TO LOOK AT WHAT THE CODES ARE AND IF THE ONLY OPTION IS TO WALK AWAY, THEN THEY WALK AWAY. AND TO LOOK AT THOSE THINGS WITHIN OUR CITY TO KNOW WHAT THOSE OPTIONS ARE. >> THAT IS HELPFUL CONTEXT. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT REPORT. >> VICE CHAIR WONSLEY. >> THANK YOU, CHAIR CHAVEZ. FIRST, I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR COMING THROUGH WITH THIS PRETTY EXTENSIVE REPORT AND THANK YOU TO THE POLICY AND RESEARCH TEAM. YOU ALL STAY PRODUCING AND LITERAY ROUND OF APPLAUSE TO YOU ALL. I AM ALWAYS JUST IMPRESSED WITH THE LEVEL OF THOUGHTFULNESS AND THOROUGHNESS THAT YOU ALL POUR INTO THE RESEARCH THAT YOU PRODUCE FOR THE LEGISLATIVE BODY AND YOU ALL HAVE JUST BECOME SUCH A CRITICAL PART IN US DEVELOPING OUR WORK AND OF COURSE, SERNG OUR RESIDENTS. AND THIS IS JUST CLEARLY A FLECTION OF THAT. AND IN US REALLY TRYING TO BE RESPONSI TO WHAT IS A VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE THAT'S IMPACTING MANY OF OUR RESIDENTS. SO I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO PAR AND THANK YOU SPECIFICALLY FOR PRODUCING THIS REPORT. I ALSO WANTED TO ENCOURAGE COLLEAGUES TO THE FIRST STEP TO ORGANIZE SITE VISITS TO SEE THAT. AND ANY COLLEAGUES THAT DID NOT HAVE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT, BE IT ON THIS COMMITTEE OR NOT ON THIS COMMIEE AND HAVE AN INTEREST, WE'RE ALWAYS MORE THAN HAPPY TO CONNECT YOU WITH OUR PUBLIC HEALTH LEADERSHIP, TO FIGURE OUTOW TO COORDINATE THAT VISIT, BUT IT WAS THAT IS ALSO STILL IN PILOT PHASE. AND REALLY LOOKING AT THAT IS SOMETHING THAT NOT ONLY SHOULD BE, I THINK, SUPPORTED BEYOND A PILOT PHASE, BUT HOW ARE WE ABLE TO GET OTHER HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS TO EMBRACE WHAT THEY'RE DOING. SO WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THAT PIECE AND WAS GLAD TO SEE IT WAS REFERENCED BECAUSE THEY'VE COME BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE AND TALK ABOUT THATWORK. AND THEN ALSO TO PITCH TO COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND THE PUBLIC THAT WE'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO HAVE THE PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT FOR THE CITY COME AND GIVE A PRESENTATION ON THEIR OPIOID -- LET ME MAKE SURE I SAY THAT RIGHT. THEIR OPIOID STRATEGIC PLAN IMPLEMENTATION UPDATE ON MARCH 19. SO CHAIR CHAVEZ AND I BROUGHT FORWARD A LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE LAST YEAR -- AND I BELIEVE ALSO, SORRY, COUNCIL PRESIDENT PAYNE, ASKING BASICALLY THE FREY ADMINISTRATION FOR WHAT IS THE COMP COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF THIS IS AN ONGOING CRISIS AND MANY OF OUR RESIDENTS WANTS TO KNOW HOW WE ARE APPROACHING THIS WITH A COMPREHENSIVE FOCUS AND WITH COORDINATION WITH OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES AND PARTNS TO REALLY BE EFFECTIVE IN THE APPROACH. AS A RESPONSE TO THAT LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE, THE ADMINISTRATION HAS FORMED STRATEGIC PLAN, AND THEY ARE GOING TO GIVE THEIR NEXT UPDATE ON MARCH 1 AT 1:30 TO THIS COMMITTEE. AND I'M SURE MANY OFHE COMPONENTS THAT YOU REFERENCE WILL BE ALSO INTEGRATED AND BUILT UPON IN A MUCH BROADER WAY. YEAH, JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE I PITCH THAT, TOO, AND REALLY EXCITED TO FINALLY RECEIVE THAT. SO JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THAT. AND THAT'S ALL. >> THANK YOU. AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION. THERE IS A LOT THAT WE ARE ABLE TO REFURBISH MACHINES AND HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT T SEE IF THAT IS AN APPROACH TO TAKE WITH THE CITY AND THAT MEANS HAVING MORE VENDING CHINES IN MINNEAPOLIS. AND I THINK THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WAS VERY INTERESTING. AND I THINK THE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT HAVING THESE VENDING MACHINES NEAR JAILS, PRISONS, D THAT WAS A GOOD THING TO LEARN FROM RE. SO THAT IS WHAT I WANT TO ENGAGE AND WE WILL DEFINITELY BE FOLLOWING UP. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. >> YEP. ALL RIGHT, COLLEAGUES. SEEING NO FURTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS, I WILL DIRECT THE CLERK TO RECEIVE AND FILE THAT REPORT. AND SEEING NO FURTHER BUSINESS BEFORE US, I WILL DECLARE THIS MEETING ADJOURNED. [GAVEL] . . . .