City Council - Regular Meeting

Good morning, everyone. My name is Elliott Payne. I'm the president of Minneapolis City Council. And before we convene our meeting, we have the presentations of honorary resolutions. Before I invite council members up, I want to note that we recognized On the shooting and Annunciation on Tuesday at our Committee of the Whole, we honored the victims, survivors, families, and community of Annunciation and commemorated the one year of hope and healing. We did that on Tuesday because today is the exact one year anniversary, and we just want to take a moment of silence to recognize Fletcher Merkel,

Thank you, Council President Payne. I'm wondering where my people are. Come right on in. Come right on in. Come right on up. Good morning, good morning. Good morning, good morning. this no this um resolution is honoring the dozens and north minneapolis food focus future whereas the dozens is a community-centered celebration taking place on saturday august 29th along west broadway avenue between logan avenue and penn avenue in north minneapolis bringing residents, organizations, small business, families, artists, food advocates, and community leaders together for a day of food, music, culture,

Put some respect on the north side. Would anybody else like to say anything?

I'm one of the co-chairs of Minneapolis Northside Green Zone.

Thank you all so much for coming here. And I know that we have a resolution coming up for the Northside Green Zone. So you'll be back again while we present that. So I thank you all so much. And thank you to my colleagues for allowing us this space this morning too as well.

Next up, we will recognize welcome week with Councilmember Chavez.

Well, we're super excited to recognize Welcoming Week 2026. We'll first start off by reading the resolution here with our colleagues, and then we're going to pass it to Director Rivero to kick us off. All right, y'all. So recognizing Welcoming Week 2026, whereas Welcoming Week, sponsored nationally by Welcoming America, brings communities together to strengthen connections across languages, cultures, and customs worldwide. TO AFFIRM THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF ALL COMMUNITIES, INCLUDING IMMIGRANT, REFUGEES, NEW AMERICANS, AND LONGTIME RESIDENTS, AND TO INVITE REFLECTION ON THE MEANING AND PROCESS OF

And whereas Minneapolis is strengthened by people who call our city home, including immigrants, refugees, new Americans, and longtime residents who contribute as neighbors, workers, business owners, public servants, community leaders, and advocates. And whereas the stories, cultures, languages, and experiences of our diverse communities are the essence of Minneapolis and contribute to the cultural, civic, and economic vitality of our city, And whereas current events with continuing impact on our communities, including Operation Metro Surge, have demonstrated the importance of trust, clear and

And whereas a welcoming Minneapolis requires more than words or celebrations, it calls for continued commitment to language access, equitable services, meaningful community engagement, inclusive employment practices, and ensuring residents have real opportunities to shape the decisions that affect their lives. And whereas our communities continue to show resilience, creativity, and support for one another, reinforcing the strength that comes from a shared commitment to belonging. And whereas Welcoming Week 2026 with the theme, Stories We Share, The Courage to Connect, will take place September

Now, therefore, be it resolved that the Mayor and City Council do hereby recognize Welcoming Week 2026, September 10th through 19th, and reaffirms Minneapolis' commitment to being a city where every resident can experience safety, dignity, connection, opportunity, and belonging. Further, the City of Minneapolis encourages community recognition of Welcoming Week through strengthening connections and partnerships, expanding equitable access to services, and supporting community-driven efforts that foster trust and inclusion throughout the city. Thank you.

Thank you all. We're going to first pass it to Director Rivero, and we really want to thank staff for all the work that they do on this. Thank you.

Quick thing. I think it's been a really tough year for our neighbors in Minneapolis and St. Paul across the state of Minnesota. So I think this day is really important to say that our neighbors are welcome here, that our neighbors are still here, and they're going to continue to stay here despite the attacks towards our neighbors. So I just at least wanted to say a few words. of the importance of Welcoming Week, the importance of events that are going to be happening to say that our neighbors do belong here, and they always will. So at least... Oh, yep.

And as we're speaking about the importance of making sure all of our neighbors, and in particular today, we're talking about our immigrant, refugee, new American neighbors, it's also important to recognize the value that the Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs has in our city, not just in our city enterprise, but for our broader community. It's one very, very small way in which, as an institution, we tell our community that we take this work seriously. And I know that the future is, tenuous, but wanted to take a second to just really, really thank the work that's carried out every day by t

Yeah, thank you so much for your words. Thank you for being here. And echo what my colleague said about thanking OERA and Neighborhood Community Relations for all of your work, not just for this resolution, but this last year and the many, many years prior to this that have been foundational in having a resilient local government that can show up for community members, but also hear community members and be responsive to their needs because at the end of the day this welcoming week what I think about is this is really a government reflecting its people because the city of Minneapolis is active

At this time, I'm going to call this regular meeting of the City Council for August 27th to order. The clerk will call the roll.

Let the record reflect that we have a quorum. Before we begin the meeting, let me remind all members and staff that this meeting is broadcast live to enable greater public participation. The broadcast includes real time captioning as a means to increase the accessibility of our proceedings to the community. Therefore, all speakers need to be mindful of the rate of their speech so that our captioners can fully capture and transcribe all comments for the broadcast. We ask all speakers to moderate the speed and clarity of their comments. With that, the agenda for today's meeting is before us. Are

That carries and the agenda is adopted. The next item is acceptance of minutes from our regular meeting of August 13th. May I have a motion to accept those minutes, please?

That carries, and the minutes have been accepted. Finally, we have the referral of petitions, communications, and reports to proper committees. May I have that motion, please?

That carries and those matters have been referred. The next order of business is the presentation of reports from our standing committees which are taken in alphabetical order. We'll begin with the report of our business housing and zoning committee given by that committee's chair, Vice President Osman.

Thank you, President Payne. The Business, Housing, and Zoning Committee will be bringing five items today. Item one is approve an ordinance related to the dress code posting requirement. Item 2 approves one liquor license. Item 3 approves four liquor license renewals. Item 4 approves seven gambling license renewals. And lastly, item 5 approves a liquor license renewal for rain in Ward 6. I'm sorry, in Ward 10. With that, I will move all items for approval.

Vice President Osman has moved approval of the committee's report. And before I look to the queue, I'll recognize that we've been joined by Councilmember Wansley. Is there any discussion on the biz report? Seeing none, I'll ask the clerk to call the roll.

That carries, and the report is adopted. The next report is from our Climate and Infrastructure Committee, which will be presented by that committee's chair, Councilmember Wansley. Or actually, should we have Councilmember Stevenson?

Thank you, Mr. President. The Climate and Infrastructure Committee has 14 items. One, passage of resolution approving municipal consent for MnDOT Central Ave. Two, passage of resolution designating the Northside Greenway Phase 2 project and authorizing temporary construction easements for said project. Three, passage of resolution for gift acceptance from the US Department of Transportation. Four, authorizing acquisition of temporary construction easements for the Grand Avenue Bridge over the Midtown Greenway. Five, passage of resolution returning Nicollet Avenue public restroom funding from t

I'll move approval of the full report. Council Member Stevenson has moved approval of the committee's report. I added myself to queue to note that I have brought an amendment for item number one, so we can take that up on a separate vote. Is there any discussion on the remainder of the report? I'll recognize Council Member Renville.

Thank you. I wish to speak about the proposed resolution.

Okay, we'll take that up once we get there. Council Member Chaudhry.

Thanks, President Payne. Going to just keep it really brief. Wanted to, again, just highlight the Nicollet Avenue public restroom funding. Just this past few months, earlier in the summer, Councilmember Stevenson, Whiting, and myself, we had a meeting with seniors in our ward and one of the seniors who's a constituent of mine pulled me aside and she was just like, I have this really great idea. What if we had public restrooms on Nicollet Avenue and in areas in downtown where there are transit users and seniors who need to use the bathroom? I've run into that issue and I told her, we actually h

Seeing no one else left in queue, I'll ask the clerk to call the roll on the C&I report minus item number one.

vice president boston i president by there are thirteen months those items carry next will take up item number one and all recognize comes member rainbow thank you say i i just wanted to uh... i saw this resolution i sat down and i read it uh... but perhaps in the future when something uh... affects my war i could get the knowledge ahead of time so i just asked for that courtesy my objection had i been allowed to comment on this i would have spoke that it's not strong enough for the arts district to get them at the table they have a very good idea about how to reduce central avenue and i feel

I'LL PUT MYSELF IN CUE. I WORKED WITH STAFF TO DEVELOP THIS. I ANNOUNCED IT AT THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE. I DON'T RECALL IF YOU WERE THERE THAT I WOULD BE WORKING WITH STAFF TO BRING AN AMENDMENT. THIS WAS THE STAFF RECOMMENDED LANGUAGE. I WOULD ACTUALLY SUPPORT STRENGTHENING THIS IF WE WANTED TO TABLE THIS FOR THE REMAINDER. And pick it up?

I moved the table so we can get this ironed out, thank you.

All right, without objection, let's table this and see if we can't get our staff to draft something up, maybe working together with our offices. Thank you.

Let's move on to- As in we're continuing the item cycle?

No, we're tabling it until we get to later in the agenda today. Yeah.

And I'm going to shoot a note to my staff. With that, we're going to table that and move on to our next committee report, which is the Committee of the Whole by that committee's chair, Councilmember Chaudhry.

Thanks, President Payne. The Committee of the Whole will be bringing two items forward. Item number one approves a resolution honoring the victims, survivors, and families and community of Annunciation School and Church and commemorating one year of hope and healing. Item number two is a resolution rescinding delegated authority for non-disclosure agreements to the Community Planning Economic Development Department. With that, I will move both items for approval and see if there's any discussion.

Councilmember Chaudhry has moved approval of the committee's report. Is there any discussion? Councilmember Whiting.

Thank you, President Payne. Just want to note here specifically to item number one on here. I know we had yesterday, as we mentioned, at the top of the agenda. Wanted to, again, thank this body for our work that we've done earlier this year in banning assault rifles, or putting a resolution forward to ban assault rifles in this community. Just want to... Reiterate a note here that is as pertinent as it was last year as it is today. The leading cause of death for our children in this country is gun violence. It's not car accidents. It's guns. It's not poverty. It's guns. It's not cancer. It's g

Seeing no one else left in the queue, I'll ask the clerk to call the roll on the Cowell Report.

That carries. Next is the report of our Enterprise and Labor Relations Committee, which will be presented by its chair, Council Member Palmisano.

Thank you, Mr. President. The Enterprise and Labor Relations Committee has four items to bring forward this morning. The first is the quarter two quarterly donations report. It is that these are all of the Donations made to the city of Minneapolis valued under $15,000 item 2 is a gift acceptance from the Minnesota chapter of the National Institute of governmental purchasing first Daphne Holloway items 3 & 4 are approving two legal settlements with the Star Tribune media company in the amounts of twenty three thousand and eighty five hundred dollars respectively I'll move approval of the full r

Council member Paul Massano has moved approval of the committee report. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, I'll ask the clerk to call the roll.

That carries, and that report is adopted. Finally, we have the Public Health Safety and Equity Committee, which will be presented by that committee's chair, Council Member Chavez.

Thank you, Mr. President. The Public Health Safety and Equity Committee is bringing forward six items. Item one is a package of five ordinances related to regulating noise in the city. Item two is an ordinance regarding pet ownership restriction changes. Item number three. authorizes a contract amendment with Professional Recovery Organization Network for Firefighter Mental Health Services. Item four authorizes a contract amendment with Axon Enterprise for additional software licenses, body-worn cameras, digital video storage, tasers, and related equipment for the police department. Item five

I'll move approval of these items. Councilmember Chavez has moved approval of the committee's report. Is there any discussion? Councilmember Vita.

I'd like to pull item one for discussion.

Councilmember Vita has pulled item one. We'll take that up after the remainder of the items. Councilmember Wansley.

Thank you. I would like to pull item number two for a separate discussion and vote.

Councilmember Wansley has pulled item number two. Any discussion on the remainder of the report? Seeing none, I'll ask the clerk to call the roll on the PHSE report minus items one and two.

All right, there are 13 eyes that carries Next we'll take up item number one and I'll recognize councilmember Vita.

Thank you president pain first I just want to say this came up in committee and I didn't have any questions or concerns about the noise ordinance changes, but Residents in North Minneapolis had lots of questions about this and concerns. So I know that Kelly's here and maybe can answer some questions please Yes, so the folks are concerned about safety and how the city is. I guess inserting themselves in what makes them feel safe and so this ring camera situation is is what we're dealing with here. I guess the first question is how is this going to be enforced.

Okay, but it will be, how many complaints do we have noted for this?

Okay, and are these like duplicate complaints or are these 12 different households and 12 different neighborhoods?

Okay. I just, you know, I want to talk about some of the concerns I've heard. really are concerned about the public safety trade off for this. The feedback I've received is this is used as a tool for package thieves, right? Like this sounds off and it scares people, it makes other neighbors alert that somebody could be walking up to someone else's porch or their porch. elderly folks use this as a tool, people who maybe have hearing impairments. It might sound loud to the neighborhood, but it sounds perfectly normal to them. The other issue that's coming up is, does this disproportionately affe

Yeah, and I appreciate you sharing that, but I also think that before we change an ordinance, we should maybe try to work through this situation, this one situation, because I've just heard from too many people who really don't understand what we're changing here and feel like it's gonna impact them greatly because it is used as a public safety tool for them. And they don't feel like they get assistance with other things when they need it. They certainly are afraid of um inspectors driving around the neighborhood uh you know they feel like they're going to be targeted by this and i appreciate

Thank you, President Payne. Just a moment. Would you be able to explain the other parts of the changes of just for us to be aware of it?

THAT'S BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED. I'LL RECOGNIZE COUNCIL MEMBER WARN.

THANK YOU COUNCIL PRESIDENT PAIN. I don't know if there's a rash of break-ins that are happening in Hawthorne community over in North Minneapolis, but I have one of these alarm systems that whistles at people when they are in your zone. So you can set up in your app what your zone is about where you want it to alert you. So it was funny because, not funny like ha-ha, but it was strange because just yesterday I sent a video, a copy of the video to one of my constituents who had told me just literally right up the street from his house where someone had broken into his home just like not even tw

thanks uh president payne i just had a clarifying question um just want to make sure i fully am checking my understanding so just in reading the code uh it says sounding of a motion sensor on private property so far as it's not audible from an urban neighborhood or residential mixed use district boundary or permitted conditional residence use so could you just explain like in which circumstances the sounding of a motion sensor is allowed on private property versus when it's not, like how would you determine when it's violating this code?

A sidewalk or like light rail station? Correct. It's just a place where someone lives? Correct. Okay, that's helpful.

Thank you, President Payne. I'm just wondering if we can figure out a way to separate these votes. I want to vote against this portion of the noise ordinance change and not the entire item. So clerks, maybe you can help with that. I know that Council Member Chavez has moved this, but I would like to separate it out if possible.

I think we can take each of these sub points up one at a time. Mr. Carl?

Thank you. I was wondering, does this include like fire alarms and things like that, medical alert devices and stuff like that? Because people have those things in their home too. So if a fire alarm goes off in someone's home, you want it to be loud enough to where a neighbor next door could hear right especially if someone may be living alone or whatever else the case is and you want it to be an annoying sound so that someone knows to call for help in the event that maybe you can't right so i'm trying to is does this can you answer that for me please yes absolutely so council president payne

Yeah, but if a motion sensor device, I mean, you can adjust the settings. The point is you can adjust the settings, that it doesn't pick up a rabbit or a squirrel or a butterfly or a bird, right? You can have it so that it detects people or, you know what I'm saying, a package, right? Right. So like my security system will say, yes, there's been a package delivered or there is a person lingering in your you know what I mean? Like so I know someone is at my door or whatever else the case is. But then if someone then breaks in. and there is a glass break, yeah, that thing's going to sing like, y

And that would be fully allowed. So those those medical emergency and medical alert things. But as far as the cameras whistling at somebody or saying, we see you, you're being watched, you're being observed, making those because that's what it typically does. or makes a chiming sound.

Okay, okay. Thank you for that clarification.

I will recognize Council Member Stevenson.

Thank you. I just wanted to ask again, there's been a lot going on here. What are the changes that this ordinance does?

Okay, so the only change is that we're adding in no motion detector, like no device that has a motion detector can be heard from adjacent properties. That's the only change.

Okay. And does it ban fire alarms? No, it does not. Okay. Thank you. And I appreciate my council member for pointing out that you can adjust the sound on your ring cameras and you can adjust where on your ring camera, it makes it go off. In my neighborhood, I understand this is not one of the places that has received a complaint yet, but right next to one of the bus stops, you get off the bus stop, and if you cross the street and walk to your house, a ring camera goes off every time you walk in front of this particular house, and then it's so loud you can hear it for, like, across the intersec

Thank you, Mr. Chair. While we have Ms. Molman, thank you for being here. I did want to ask, this is a large ordinance, like 10 pages long. I haven't had time to dive deeply into it. But the concerns I get most frequently from neighbors that are right around crosswalks near schools along 50th Street are the extremely loud, 24-7, public works installed, wait, wait type concerns. Messages that they hear from their windows because they have shorter front yards and such it's installed in city right-of-way It wouldn't be considered in the definition of alarm as you have just explained While there a

I do appreciate that. I'm afraid that all of these 311 reports, of which there are numerous, end up going just back to Public Works, but we should involve health in this, in trying to find a solution here. So, thank you.

THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. ACTUALLY, THE DISCUSSION POINT THAT COUNCILMEMBER PALMASANO BROUGHT UP AROUND INTERSECTION CROSSING Infrastructure and the the sounds that are made and so I just wanted to make mention here because it's a it's a thing that I've worked on with a constituent that a part of the reason those sounds are a little bit louder is is it's an ADA access thing and and it helps to people safely cross intersections and that especially people who may be visually impaired and so the the audio cue is is what helps them safely cross the street and so you know just I'll speak for my my

So Kelly, is there any way this language can be reworked? Do you have any ideas? I hear long clear, and I raised this in committee, and you had a good answer. I wasn't satisfied with it. And as you can see today, some of us are not satisfied either. Do you have any thoughts in your professional opinion how we could manage this issue?

OKAY. THANK YOU. I MOVE TO DELAY ONE CYCLE. SECOND.

THERE HAS BEEN A MOTION TO DELAY A CYCLE. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION ON THAT MOTION? Seeing none, I'll ask the clerk to call the roll on the motion to delay item number one of the PHSC report.

That motion carries, and that item will be revisited at the next council meeting. Next, we will take up item number two, which is the pet ownership restrictions ordinance, and I believe it was Councilmember Wansley that pulled that item. I now recognize Councilmember Wansley.

Thank you, President Payne. I just want to speak to this item. I'm really excited about it finally coming forward to full council. Just some context on this. Back in 2024, Councilmember Chavez and I worked together with city staff specifically in civil rights. and a number of other community partners to pass a comprehensive overhaul of our city's civil rights ordinances, thus making Minneapolis become one of the first cities in the country to establish a protected class for justice impacted residents. We won this change through close partnership with incredible leaders and organizations in the

Second. Council Member Wamsley has moved this item for approval. It's been seconded. I'll recognize Council Member Warren.

Thank you, President Payne. I want to say that this sounds really good and I am excited to hear that this is coming forward. Animals are a lot of times emotional support for individuals and definitely serve as a healing mechanism for individuals who may be just as impacted or anyone, period. I don't think that there should be any additional fees around having those animals. When you have an emotional support animal, even when you're living in specific housing, you don't have to pay those additional pet deposits or whatever else the case is, and this removes a great deal of barriers. I would li

Sounds great to me. Thank you, Council Member.

Thank you. I am glad to see Director Schindel here today, and I have a couple clarifying points I'd like to ask him to make, if that's all right. First, I'll say I agree with Council Member Wansley's argument about equity for justice impacted individuals who served their time, and I support this ordinance change. At the same time, Yesterday I received outreach of people concerned from animal rescue organizations Thanks to councilmember Whiting. He took time in his busy night to dive into that with me and I think I understand But director Shendell, could you confirm for me that this amendment d

I do want to point out that a big concern in the domestic violence support community is about abusers who use pets and animals in their violence against mostly women. I'm curious what kind of engagement has been done with our stakeholders, including our wonderful and trusted rescue organization partners, because those are the ones I heard from yesterday.

Is it true that the Animal Control Advisory Committee was eliminated a while back? You just mentioned it.

I just want to say yes. Thank you, Director Schindel. These are really great rescue groups. Underdog is one example of another one who are helping to really be a soft landing for dogs from animal control and help relieve our numbers, as well as what you said, really complex and difficult situations. I think, you know, the... The former Animal Control Advisory Committee was maybe one way we used to communicate to people involved in the work, but it's really important that we talk to stakeholders so they know what this is and what it's not. I think they heard about this from the press conference

Council Member Whiting. Thank you, President Payne. And just a quick question. I think Council Member Palmisano is exactly right, particularly as it relates to the, I think, confusion around this specific ordinance change, particularly by the title, I think, of the ordinance. Could you walk through maybe like briefly what the actual changes are happening and what is not happening as well? And I know we did this also in committee as well, so I appreciate you putting up with my additional question.

That's really helpful. Thank you, Director. Because I know the first time I read it, I was quite confused of like, hey, where are we adding? Are we changing some of these things? Are we actually making it easier for people that have some of these animal endangerment kind of charges? Easier to get animals and as I was actually not. And so thank you for the explanation. I appreciate it. Thank you.

Seeing no one else left in the queue, I will ask the clerk to call the roll on PHSE item number two.

THAT CARRIES AND WE GOT GUIDANCE FROM THE CITY ATTORNEYS AND THE CLERKS ON ITEM 1.1, COUNCIL MEMBER VITAB REQUESTED A DIVIDED VOTE AND WE WILL TAKE UP AS OH, WE ALREADY DID THAT. THAT'S RIGHT. OK, I'm sorry. I'm catching up with my chats and following the queue at the same time. That's done. All right, that's done. So we will now revisit. We had tabled item number one on the Climate and Infrastructure Committee. This is the municipal consent for Central Avenue. MY INTENTION WITH MY ORIGINAL AMENDMENT WAS TO INCLUDE A REQUEST FROM THE COMMUNITY TO INCLUDE AN ART WALK. THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE THAT

Yes, and I want to thank you for allowing me to have input on that. And I do appreciate that the community is so involved. MnDOT is a great organization, but they develop highways. And this could be the densest part of Northeast Minneapolis, at least up in Ward 1. And they just have to think differently and for sure listen to the community in this. So I appreciate the opportunity for input, Mr. President.

Seeing no one else left in queue, I'll ask the clerk to call the roll on climate and infrastructure item number one.

That carries and that completes all of the reports of our standing committees. The next order of business is notice of ordinance introductions. We have two notices today. First, Councilmember Chaudhry and Vice President Osmond are giving notice of two ordinance ORDINANCES, AMENDING PROVISIONS, AND TWO SEPARATE TITLES OF THE ORDINANCES, AMENDING PROVISIONS, AND TWO SEPARATE TITLES OF THE ORDINANCES, AMENDING PROVISIONS, AND TWO SEPARATE TITLES OF THE CODE RELATED TO THE ZONING CODE CODE RELATED TO THE ZONING CODE CODE RELATED TO THE ZONING CODE AND LAND SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS AND LAND SUBDIVIS

Is there a second? Those have been moved and seconded. I'll recognize Councilmember Palmesano.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. You did a good job explaining this, but I just wanted to offer just some kind of plain speak about it. When this click item was originally introduced, the plan was to repeal click as established in ordinance and just reconstitute it by resolution. It is now being proposed to leave it in ordinance and that CLIC will remain a Tier 2 body. Even though they don't have decision-making authority, the council and mayor rely heavily on their recommendations for the capital budget, and that feels more like Tier 2. Some of you heard that in budget committee this week. Another way t

Councilmember Chavez. Thank you, President Payne. If Councilmember Palmesano or Clerk Hawkins please explain to the public what the current policy is, what the current breakdown of seats are, and then what this proposed change would do.

I'm going to cede this to Clerk Karl, because you can say it a lot more succinctly than I can.

I think there should be more further conversation about this proposal particularly about the amount of seats that are being proposed because I think one there hasn't really been engagement on this ordinance with the city council at least myself I'll speak for myself and I hope that there are briefings that are set up. I think we're moving super quick with this ordinance without having engaged many of us, at least some of us on the council. And I know this is already now going to go to committee already. And I think that there should be briefings, conversations, engagement. Is there any comment

I can chime in here. I've had several conversations with Chair Bernstein on this. I've also had conversation with some, not all, CLIC members. As you can see, this body is huge. There are a number of people that us as a city council, we just leave those seats empty. It gets incredibly difficult to make quorum on this very large body. So that plus not having to go through a very long introduction and training with new CLIC members that cycle on and off, These are some of the reasons for the change. I'll be happy to have a conversation with you and others offline to go through this. And this is

Thank you. I would love a briefing because there hasn't been a briefing on this particular language at all. So it's the first time we're starting to see this language. I think we're rushing it without engaging CLIC. I think it's very clear that CLIC has not been fully engaged. And I think that should have been step number one. Thank you. Council Member Wansley.

Thank you president pain also why I will not be supporting this and having conversations with even my own click members who I know who have not been thoroughly consulted on this and also even with the proposed recomposition of mandating QUALIFIED EXPERIENCE. SOMETHING THAT I HAVE MOST APPRECIATED ABOUT CLICK IN THIS CURRENT ITERATION AS IS THE INTENT OF OUR ABC'S IN GENERAL IS FOR IT TO BE AN ENTRYWAY OR GATEWAY FOR REGULAR WORKING CLASS PEOPLE ACROSS OUR CITY TO GET SOME LEVEL OF EXPERIENCE OF SUPPORTING OUR CITY IN MAKING DECISIONS AND BRINGING DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES AND EXPERTISE ABOUT THE

Thank you, President Payne. Is this in relationship to the presentation that we received from the chair the other day?

May I, through the president, to my council colleague? Council Member Warren, I believe that was just a regular report, but Chair Bernstein did take the opportunity while in front of this budget committee to talk about some of his own views on this matter. I will say, sure, let's talk about this. This obviously needs to go offline and be a conversation. We have been in conversation about this with CLIC and with the chair of this body for years. I appreciate having a wide buy-in of a lot of people around the city, but they need to show up. And it's difficult. It's in the middle of the day. It's

I RESPECT THAT, COUNCIL COLLEAGUE PALMASANO, AND I something that you have a broad vision for, and I would like to see this board and commissions be successful. As a new council member, these things were just brought to my understanding per the report of the chair in our budget committee meeting, and I truly would like to support, but I don't feel like I have enough information I did have a conversation with our CMC and talk to them about, you know, how boards and commissions could be better introduced to new council members so that we have a well-informed decision. Like I didn't know that I d

SO I, AGAIN, I WANT TO PASS Suggestion this over to clerk Carl. I won't be supporting that because I do think there's still plenty of time to have these discussions But clerk Carl wants to say something.

OK, thank you for that clarification, clerk, because he made a lot of the chair when he came and presented, made a lot of recommendations and saying we want to do this and it's got to be this and it needs to be that. And so I'm in honesty, I'm confused at this moment as to what it is that we're saying that we're doing, what it means to be. to what it was to be one who's on first who's on 3rd I'm not exactly sure but I want to make a well-informed decision about this and there were a lot of recommendations and requests that the chair when he presented before budget that he stated and this was m

Councilmember Warren, I think some of your questions are more broadly about all board and commission reform work. That's something that I'm working on with Council President Payne, and it's about how do we bring our boards and commissions a little closer to the council's work and involve them in our work plans and our processes. THAT'S AN IMPORTANT CONVERSATION. PLEASE ALLOW ME TO MAKE THIS CHANGE TO THE CURRENT INTRODUCTION THAT STANDS BECAUSE ALL IT'S DOING IS MAKING ANOTHER CONCESSION THAT IS SOMETHING CHAIR BERNSTEIN ASKED FOR.

OKAY. I'LL SUPPORT YOU IN THAT. AND I'M TRUSTING THIS PROCESS OPENLY. BUT I WILL PULL UP THE END.

COUNCIL MEMBER WARREN, ARE YOU WITHDRAWING YOUR MOTION TO DELAY? YES, SIR. Okay, Council Member Whiting.

Thank you, President Payne. And again, right, just like Council Member Warren, I'm new and so used to, or not, I think, entirely understanding of the process. But it is my understanding, I think we had this similar conversation. At some point during OMS, when there was a discussion of trying to move something into committee, I believe Council Member Schaffer had some concerns about at that time. And then we then moved it to committee and had that discussion process in committee. I think Council Member Stevenson was like, hey, this is a norm that we, Usually do to move it into committee to have

Beautiful. Thank you so much, Clerk Carl. That is quite helpful. That is all. Thank you.

Thank you, Council President. Council Member Whiting, you stole my thunder. I was going to say that this was like that time in the winter when We were fighting over a different introduction. I don't think we should fight over introductions. There was an apocryphal moment where rent stabilization was killed at this stage and that was really shady. We should let things move into committee so that we can discuss them and have our thoughts and our feelings and let the public hear about them and let the public speak about them. So I will be supporting this introduction and referral and I almost cer

Yes, thank you President Payne. Through your chair to Councilmember Palmisano, I had a question.

My question is, can you give us a rough time frame for when you and the President will be through this work or coming before us? Councilmember Schaffer, now we're talking about two different things and one is kind of out of order, but the work on all boards and commissions reform has probably a longer trajectory than trying to get CLIC ironed out because it's an important thing to get under wraps here, but specifically this CLIC change, which yes, maybe I shouldn't have brought forward wanting to make this concession immediately, but I'm trying to continue to bring people into the conversation

So let me just clarify this you're saying that the click reforms will come forward before the ABC reforms exactly and in your language then in speaking to Aligning with ABC reforms doesn't that's what doesn't make sense is we don't have visibility into that and so I think um maybe that's just part of the discussion that we have but to say this click work will align with what's happening but we haven't done that work yet feels a little bit like a conflict i hear you um colleagues moving this click stuff into

tier two will make it kind of a different level. Because it does already, there's clear inputs and outputs of what CLIC does and how it feeds what we do as a body. It is less clear what other boards and commissions do. I'm not picking on anybody, but like, for example, the Homegrown Foods Council or SEAC or some of these other bodies that are advisory, but they don't interact with council or committees in structured ways how to help that to better connect. That's what the work is of ABC reform.

Well, thank you for taking this up. And I agree wholeheartedly that we can use those citizen groups more effectively if we have a process of communication that we work together on to move that forward. Because that's a huge resource that we're potentially missing and input that we might not get unless we specifically reach out for it ourselves directly. AND THEN ONE OTHER POINT I WOULD SAY IS IN OUR FURTHER DISCUSSIONS AROUND ALL OF THIS, IF YOU COULD JUST GRAB THE DATA THAT I'M SURE YOU HAVE AROUND QUORUM ISSUES BECAUSE I'VE HEARD THAT ACROSS THE BOARD FROM OTHER BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS AND TH

Yeah, I appreciate it. And just to be clear, I'm not trying to get ahead of the broader reform work with this initiative. My original notice was to align CLIC with ABC reforms already in place that we did like two terms ago. This is a departure from that is all. Thank you.

Councilmember Chavez. Thank you, President Payne. I just did want to point out that at the next AO meeting, we will not be voting to set a public ELR. At the next ELR meeting, we are voting to set a public hearing for this ordinance, is my understanding. So I guess I want clarification. Are we moving forward next cycle already? because i see the agenda it says we're setting a public hearing for this ordinance already so i'm hearing from my colleagues i guess i will support this motion today but i guess i want a commitment from councilman promosano that you'll just refer back to staff so we act

That's a good point. I don't think it's wrong to hear from the public and hear what people might be thinking and then to continue talking about it. In fact, that might be refreshing to hear from somebody other than Chair Bernstein or other than people reaching out individually to other council members. So in my mind, that's not A bad thing is to have a public hearing and then maybe hold it a while for further changes. But if there's more people interested in delaying a public hearing, I'm also happy to set that date further out or just cancel that notice at committee, which I chair.

I'm just, thank you. I don't have a position necessarily. I'm just pointing out that Next Cycle were already taking action on this item. And I saw it on LIMS and I'm pointing it out because it seems like this was gonna take long. The way it was being spoken on there is that it's gonna take long, but it's literally Next Cycle already, so. Just pointing that out because I think there's a lot of feedback that we have here and I think we should all have briefings, we should all have conversations. It seems like maybe we're highlighting the concerns of the chair or what the chair likes and doesn't

SO JUST TO CLARIFY, IN A MEETING IN TWO WEEKS, THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO SET A PUBLIC HEARING, WHICH WE CAN DELAY, BUT THAT WOULDN'T BE FOR ANOTHER TWO WEEKS.

I'm not saying that we should delay the public hearing. I'm just saying that I want to come in as the primary author yourself, Council Member Pramosano, that if we were to set a public hearing and there's a lot of feedback, obviously you already submitted language here that we all get to now eventually see for the public. And there are a lot of concerns that I'm expressing that many people on the dais are expressing. And I hope that when the time comes, that feedback is taken into consideration. Thank you. Council Member Chagtai.

Thank you, thank you Mr. President. I really appreciate the discussion that has unfolded here as well as the discussion earlier this week in the Budget Committee following Chair Bernstein's presentation. I think my biggest takeaway from both sets of discussion is that this is an issue the Council's really engaged on. This is something that we all really care about. That makes a lot of sense to me. So just from discussion, a couple things I want to reiterate or just provide some clarification on that stood out to me. First, with the introduction and referral calendar, I am someone who has a rea

Thank you, Mr. President. I don't think I'm going to wade into anything regarding actual policy positions I hold. I will look forward to sharing that with Councilmember Palmisano as we proceed. I just want to state one thing that I've been kind of thinking about since we had our conversation in budget, and that's in regards to vacancies and quorum issues on boards and commissions. I do think this is something that's not going to be fixed through the legislative process. I do think like perhaps there is an idea that Chair Bernstein shared about seated members creating quorum. I do think that th

I WASN'T GOING TO ADD MYSELF TO CUE, BUT I ALSO WASN'T EXPECTING THERE TO BE SUCH A ROBUST CONVERSATION ON THE INTRODUCTION AND REFERRAL CALENDAR, SO I JUST WANTED TO JUMP IN BECAUSE COUNCIL MEMBER PAUL MASSANO MADE MENTION OF US WORKING TOGETHER ON BROADER REFORMS AROUND THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS, AND I JUST WANTED TO BRING THE ENTIRE BODY INTO THE CONVERSATION A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHERE MY HEAD IS AT, AND THAT IS THAT WE HAVE NOT BEEN OPERATING WITH A STRATEGIC PLAN SINCE THE HODGES ADMINISTRATION. WE HAD STRATEGIC RACE EQUITY ACTION PLAN THAT WAS ADOPTED IN functions as a strategic plan, but it

Thank you to my colleagues for this feedback. Here we are doing work in a city council meeting, not my intent. It's important for me to say my own feelings about this are removed here. My interest is in the public good and the health of our budget process. My driving, let's get this done already, is it would be good to get this figured out so that we can all recruit qualified members so that they can start this process again at the beginning of next year. So timing here is important. Whether it's one appointment or two appointments, we have to come to terms on what we're doing. Something that

CHAIR'S PRIVILEGE TO SAY WE DON'T HAVE A CHALLENGE OF FINDING TIME. WE HAVE A CHALLENGE OF PRIORITIZING TIME. AND SO I'M GOING TO BE WORKING WITH THE CLERK TO MAP OUT A CALENDAR FOR THESE LEG LEADERSHIP LABS AND THESE DATES WILL WORK FOR YOU IF THIS IS IMPORTANT CONTENT FOR YOU. IF THESE DATES DON'T WORK FOR YOU, THERE ARE OTHER IMPORTANT THINGS GOING ON IN YOUR COMMUNITY AND THERE IS ZERO JUDGMENT ABOUT HOW YOU'RE PRIORITIZING THAT. WITH THAT, THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION ABOUT THE VOTES, SO I WOULD LIKE US TO JUST TAKE THESE UP AS SEPARATE VOTES FOR EACH ITEM, STARTING WITH ITEM NUMBER ONE, THE

That carries and now we'll take up item number two, which is commercial and multifamily energy disclosure repeal ordinance. And I'll have the clerk call the roll.

THAT CARRIES AND THOSE ARE THAT CARRIES AND THOSE ARE REFERRED TO THE APPROPRIATE REFERRED TO THE APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES. COMMITTEES. THE NEXT ORDER OF BUSINESSES THE NEXT ORDER OF BUSINESSES RESOLUTIONS, WE HAD TWO RESOLUTIONS RESOLUTIONS, WE HAD TWO RESOLUTIONS ON OUR AGENDA TODAY THAT ON OUR AGENDA TODAY THAT RECEIVED A PRESENTATION AT THE RECEIVED A PRESENTATION AT THE BEGINNING OF OUR MEETING. BEGINNING OF OUR MEETING. DO COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE ANY DO COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE ANY COMMENTS TO ADD? COMMENTS TO ADD? MAY I HAVE A MOTION TO AD

That carries and those resolutions are adopted and finally we have the order of announcements are there any announcements councilmember if you talk.

Thank you chair of pain. Couple things sad announcement and happy announcement. The first one is the world lost an icon this week. in Dolly Parton. I just want to read an email that my aide Wyatt sent to the mayor's office, a part of an email. It's the longest email I've ever seen him write, so I'll just read a part of this email. He says, we the people of Ward 4 would like to request a mayoral proclamation recognizing September 25th, 9 to 5, as Dolly Parton Day in the city of Minneapolis. A nod to her iconic song and film 9 to 5. 9 to 5 became far more than a hit song. It gave voice to the ex

The end. Happy birthday. happy birthday to you happy birthday yeah she's celebrating a big one too so happy birthday council member warren and we are lucky to have you here at the minneapolis city council the end council member rainville

Oh, what a nice surprise. Congratulations on turning 40 Councilmember Warner. So I on this very solemn anniversary of the Annunciation Catholic school shooting, I just want to thank all the responders not only that they but are watching us all the time, whether it's fire, police 911 operators, ambulance drivers, mutual aid agencies who helped out. Unfortunately, we had to have something like that for us to really see front and center how important they are. And I was drawn to do the shout out today. Channel 11 ran a very brief episode this morning interviewing six of our officers, including In

Before I call on Councilmember Whiting, I want to have Councilmember Osmond's vote recognized without objection.

Okay, Council Member Whiting. Thank you, Council President Payne. Two quick announcements here, particular to, as Council Member Rainville notes, today is again the one year commemoration date of the tragedy at Annunciation. With that, from 1 to 5 PM today at Pearl Park, an unhoused neighbor and MPS school supply drive as well as a boulevard beautification. And so please feel free to come and join us as council members and then as residents across the city of Minneapolis. You can just show up and show up as neighbors as we move our feet in joy. A version of happiness too as well for the other

Thank you, Council President. Thank you, colleagues, for my warm birthday wishes. The Dozens is happening August 29th, and Northside has a theme song, but you didn't know that. Wanted to also have a moment of respect, and I know my council colleague and I are going to be doing something later, but to recognize Charles Dillon, also known as Chaz Millionaire, who passed away this week. He is remembered across the Twin Cities community for his decades of service in Minneapolis radio to KMOJ. since 1981 and um he hosted a number of programs on KMOJ and ran tributes um smooth soul flight 612 you kn

Thank you. Um, not this Saturday, but next Saturday, September 5th is South side back in the day from 11 AM to 7 PM at Phelps park. Uh, lots of activities, lots of live entertainment, um, come down. It's a great time. I just wanted to read a little, um, join us as we celebrate South side's history and present reconnect and make lasting memories together. And one highlight, my office will be tabling about a pocket park that is going up at 4th and 38th. This is something that my predecessor, Councilmember Jenkins, had advocated for and gotten through, and it is currently under construction. So c

Thanks, President Payne. Two happy announcements I want to make. The first is on September 4th, it's Council Member Chugtai's birthday. So I have to shout out the other Virgo on the council plate, Virgo's Groove by Beyonce. um so just just make sure you wish her happy birthday as it comes around to as well as councilman warren the other happy announcement that i want to share is that uh councilmember whiting and his lovely wife kelly their due date for their first baby their baby girl is tomorrow so that's really exciting and wanted to just congratulate him and kelly for this just wonderful gi

yeah i just heard there was somebody else that was forever 40. you know council member vita is that true september 2nd proud to be 50. okay all right all right amen well happy birthday to you um maybe we need to have a big celebration with everybody um two things i just wanted to remind everyone the police chief listening sessions are beginning and ward 7 has the special distinction of being in three police precincts So I was on the north side with my colleagues yesterday with Precinct 4, downtown with Councilmember Rainville the night before, and look forward to the fifth precinct in mid-Sept

Thank you, Mr. President. I wanted to share a really happy announcement and ask my colleagues to join me in congratulating Council Member Chowdhury. She is getting married this weekend, and it's a really big deal. So if we would all consider maybe not blowing up her inbox, that'd be a really kind thing we could do as a wedding gift as she enters this new chapter in her life. But congratulations. And this is a really big deal. Thank you.

With that, we've completed our business today with nothing further to come before the council. And without objection, this meeting is hereby adjourned.