Remarks by Linea Palmisano
25 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“I'm one of the co-chairs of Minneapolis Northside Green Zone.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“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…”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“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.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“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…”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“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.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“Is it true that the Animal Control Advisory Committee was eliminated a while back? You just mentioned it.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“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…”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“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…”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“I'm going to cede this to Clerk Karl, because you can say it a lot more succinctly than I can.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“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…”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“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.…”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“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.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“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.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“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…”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“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.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“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.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“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.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“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.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“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…”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. President. I'd like to echo what my colleague, Councilmember Vita said, and I cannot say it better than that. I won't try and restate what she said. As a leader and a person, we couldn't ask for anything more than the consideration, the thoughtful approach, the intelligence paired with the compassion and, oh, by the way, the lived experiences of Enrique Velazquez. You have a hard job. It is such a necessary and important one to keep our city functioning. And your employees are on the very front lines of this work. I see you support them, help them to handle tough situations.…”
City Council · Jul 30, 2026
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“Thank you. Colleagues, two things can be true here at the same time. We can absolutely support the downtown Longfellow Business District and do whatever we can to support their success, given the history of 3,000 Minnehaha and its impact on their livelihoods. I give all that due deference to the council members who represent the community in this vicinity. And we can also build a democracy center that meets our needs of our city and brings an incredibly valuable and important asset to this area. And that is something to celebrate today. We would, I need to point out, we would never put a…”
City Council · Jul 30, 2026
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“THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. I THINK COUNCIL MEMBER OSMAN already said most of what I was going to say. We are not abandoning our values or beliefs here because the terms of this grant do not require that. And I would be happy to entertain a resolution condemning language and requiring the city not to be required to violate a separation ordinance, but I fear that the confusion around this grant is made by rhetoric on this dais, not by the requirements of the grant, and not by our city attorney, who has said basically the same thing in Committee of the Whole again for us today. WE ARE ACCEPTING…”
City Council · Jul 30, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. President. The Enterprise and Labor Relations Committee has 10 items to bring forward today. I think all are non-controversial here. First is a legislative process reform research and recommendations request. Item number two is a bid for the fire department training apparatus expansion project. Item three is what we think is the last small contract amendment with Shaw-Longquist for the city hall restack phase three project. Item four is a contract with Saba Software for enterprise-wide performance management system support and maintenance. And five is a legal settlement with…”
City Council · Jul 30, 2026
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“Thank you. I'll echo Clerk Carl's comments. I cannot wait to move into the new Democracy Center and cast my vote there in the next presidential election. But meantime, I had a terrific experience at the Early Vote Center at 908 East Hennepin this week. I see other stickers here that show that others have also gone to East Hennepin to cast their ballot early for the primary that is August 11th. um there is there are a few excuses to not be able to find a way to vote there are pop-up locations happening before the primary i had a wonderful voter forum there were a forum in my ward last week…”
City Council · Jul 30, 2026