Target Field is a publicly-owned stadium which is overseen by the Minnesota Ballpark Authority. Um, it's also home to the Minnesota Twins and is nationally recognized as a cornerstone of the athletic and cultural landscape in Minneapolis. And the city of Minneapolis has adopted positions supporting living wages, affordable health care, union representation, dignified workplaces, and collective bargaining for all workers. Um we are a union friendly city um and town.

We will not be going to the stadium until they bargain in good faith. Uh just lots of solidarity and really appreciate you being here and representing the other workers that can come today.

I am flagging this for concerns because I hope this is the last time that the administration fails to report to the city council on information that is duly meant to get into our hands so we can be good policy makers and use our dual authority to do oversight over anything that the administration does and that the city the city has authority over.

I really do appreciate the the passion that my colleagues have for this. But I I just want to be clear that folks have been communicating with us about the delays. uh we there's been a major transition in this department and the person who was responsible and who council member Chuck Tai and I had asked to present this information um is no longer with the city of Minneapolis and that is not the only uh transition that's happened in the city of Minneapolis in this particular department.

It is a complex problem that we are solving. It comes from years of underinvestment into the rental component of the planned neighborhood. This underinvestment has left the buildings in a state of disrepair to the point where the city has come to the conclusion to provide direct assistance for those currently living at Heritage Park to find new stable and safe places to live.

This hurts me extremely bad and I know it hurts the constituents of this ward. It should hurt every taxpayer here in the city of Minneapolis to know that there have been people right here where we say we stand up for our neighbors. I had three different translators there last night. mother sitting there saying about how they have gone back and forth and back and forth and back and forth to the hospital and telling people at the management company and telling Minneapolis public housing authority and calling 311 with the city for years, people with cancer now cancer diagnosis, people who are in there currently on oxygen machines, people who are signing ROIs with me and if I can walk in there and see this. I'm trying to understand. Is it just Pearl's VISION OR IS EVERYBODY ELSE got the same one I got? Because this is disrespect. It's inhumane.

This is just again a a complete oversight that I not getting at the core from my understanding. I'm asking for a complaint uh MPA commissioner or the staff could have made a complaint using the existing tool that we had given by that legal presidents in 2022. why that wasn't enough for staff to also go in and say, 'Oh,' or commission themselves to do the essentially what council member Warren did and to use a simple phone camera and say, 'Oh, this is really crappy.'

The thing that gives me a little bit of pause on that is I think we lose a necessary touch point on public communication and place for for us to discuss. Um, I just would like some contemplation on how we would go about that.

I've had people approach me that live there and say, 'Yes, this has been like a spotlight on us.' People are showing up to where we live with cameras and talking to us and scaring our kids and like we don't know what to do. We still live here. This is a community. This is a a really big place in North Minneapolis where a lot of people are. And it's not even just this place. There are other apartments around there.

I wanted to point out that there are only two groups of people who care at the end of the day about whether uh Heritage Park is livable and that's the people who live in Heritage Park and that's the city of Minneapolis. And I think we just need to recognize going forward that there really are only the those two groups of people or those two groups who will at the very end of the road which we're at now in terms of the livability of Heritage Park actually care about whether Heritage Park succeeds. So we need to act accordingly when we take our next steps. So to me that says that if we're putting public dollars in, the public needs control.