It is prepared and uh presented by the human resources department and the finance department um cooperatively and we'll be be providing a summary of things like the approved council approved budgeted um workforce FTEES which includes um both permanent positions seasonal um as well as [clears throat] excuse me status of positions whether FTEES are positions are filled they're vacant.

About 8.4% of our positions are vacant currently about 360.35 FTEES again similar vacancy rate as September of 2025 um which is not not an unusual vacancy rate for lo for local government industry.

7.2 7.2 2 million budgeted in fiscal year 2026 and 19.1 million spent through July of 2026. Um the large overages again as you know largely for public safety departments larger uh spend than budgeted for 911, fire, police.

The mayor is proposing cuts to many of these vacant positions. Is that accounted for here or or what you're showing us is absent the mayor's proposal?

We have two items. uh the South Minneapolis underserved communities opioid response. That's a um $150,000 out of our opioid settlement to go towards um uh services in South Minneapolis. We have provided training um to partners on the implementation of our long acting buprenorphine treatment, otherwise known as brooks.

Is there work around the opioid response being done in North Minneapolis too or is this just a specific targeted program?

Um, this was a position that we are should be posted any time now. So, we've been moving forward with it. We did have a funding change sort of mid year um that would allow us to better meet the goals of the position which was to advance the zerowaste uh plan that we have as a city. Um by shifting the funding we're able to focus on commercial and multif family residential versus instead of only single family or and small multif family residential properties.

for us to implement an offduty fee structure, uh we need to build the underlying systems to be able to actually collect the fee. Uh that work is in process.

Our goal is to have fe fee collection for this. So if you don't have the resources, we need to have a conversation about what you need to make it happen because right now it's unacceptable that we're not collecting these fees.

I think this truly is a waste if you're asking my time and that you know individuals should be working very diligently with our county attorney to deeply investigate all gunshot injuries or what have you. There's not a specific task force that needs to be assigned it.

MPD is overspending already its budget. It is leading to massive cuts into basic city services, including our neighborhood safety department. When it comes to violence interrupterss, violence prevention services, services that we need to do and keep to keep people safe in our city. Now, residents continue to subsidize offduty programs for MPD, side gigs for MPD, which is leading to further cuts into basic city services.

The neighborhood safety department was um provided with $100,000 for safety initiatives in the Stevens Square neighborhood. We have had services in that community. Um the contract began December 31st, 2025 and continues today.

Instead of in lie of of in engaging a consultant to tell us about how to um reduce barriers to um uh commercial uh investments in buildings. We're actually uh um putting together a strategy around economic activation in downtown and uptown.

We are not we have not hired a FTE as directed, but we are staffing it with our employment and training...That funding, both those funds, the 125 and the 102 are kind of locked in the budget.

you're moving forward the intent of the council without necessarily spending the funding. Can you speak to a little bit what happens then uh if the intent is fulfilled but the funding is not used?

when the council directs this funding that's locked into that specific use. In order for the department to access those two funding sources...I had h would have to come back to the council and ask for you to re to move that somewhere. So, it's effectively a cut to the city to CPAD's general budget.

the plan projected spending for 2026 is $50 to $60,000. The lower spending is just due to a year later start on the road construction project.

So, you anticipate you'd be able to find that specific money somewhere because rollover it goes straight to the police. We all know that. So, the money is not coming back. You know, you can get this money somewhere else.

A number of these economic development programs were delayed in implementation in the year for two reasons. One um operation metro surge setting up the resiliency fund...And then we we had a a slight pause on um uh on spending money and hiring people from the mayor as he was deliberating his budget.

there was an agreement between the council and mayor last year on the budget and to then say we're potentially not going to be doing some of these programs even though there was a signed budget approved by council and then to say that we're not going to be doing this. I just think that's wrong and unacceptable and it's not democratic.

CPED because of budget rollover impacts, budgeted funds from 2025, $5 million of budgeted funds for 2025 did not survive into 2026. So while there were while there was um agreement on what was in the budget, there's also consequences of the costs of doing business here at the city and that has had some impacts and so we've had to make some some critical and challenging decisions.

My concern is about the duplicatedness of services simply because through the coordinated entry program and the homeless information management system that the the county implemented in 2016...So, I'm trying to understand who the emergency is for when it's Minneapolis Public Housing Authorities fidiciary responsibility to formulate um um relationships with other housing service providers. So, why are we in this?

I appreciate every single program here, but as someone who worked at a nonprofit for over 15 years before I got here, I know that almost all of these things listed here, they have programs or partners of um that nonprofit have programs that that does this. So, it's not about not supporting the program. It's about supporting people not paying for the same thing two, three, four, and five times.

Its failures is that there's about 1,700 people on the list and almost none of them will get housed through coordinated entry. So, you know, it really is this this lack of lack of available homes and lack of available funding...this is a crisis and I think spending some money on a crisis is worthwhile.

The emergency housing voucher program is completely different from rental assistance...The program is meant to help 50 families and 50 adults facing uncharted homelessness...what devastating impact it would have, especially since the program has already started.

Traffic safety for all. This was a council amendment uh focused around traffic calming and related traffic safety measures um of 5.5 million. Um, I can say that we are on track to spend the full allocation this year. We're entirely using city forces to construct all of those.

over half of this funding was for neighborhood traffic calming...I will note that the neighborhood traffic calming is really more of a livability issue than it is a safety issue. Um and so um if you look at trash crash statistics citywide, um it's about 1% of fatal and serious injury crashes happen on local streets compared to 41% on our high injury street network.

This funding is a part of a larger contract with our co-inforcement partners...it generally focuses on raising awareness of and supporting enforcement of our workplace protections here in the city.

79 know your rights presentations, 988 workers trained, 215 peer trainers prepared, 534 work sites reached, 318 workers received consultations and technical assistance, and 109 workers received ongoing case support.

the proposed budget uh this year will that has it has will this be gone because I I heard there might be a conversation with uh say tool partnership uh and um the budget allocation or the budget proposal this year is not there. Can is can anybody answer on the budget book about uh next year and what the next year looks like when it comes to code enforcement?

The communications had two uh one-time budget amendments for relatively small amounts of money, $12,500. In both cases, this money has been contracted and is out the door. One for a cultural media and then one for the city's public access uh service.

The next department is finance and property services. They had three ongoing uh change items. First one is a custodian. uh that position has been filled. One is for security at Minneapolis Animal Care and Control. Uh that position has been filled. And then they had a third mobile security position that they are working uh through the hiring process and expect to have it filled at the end of this year.

The first item that we have is the franchise fee allocation of $3.8 million. Uh health is that's for doing weatherization work around the city. We set a target of getting at least 40% of that to EJ areas...we've hit 60% of that funding right now is going towards uh those EJ target areas.

In the other two areas in utility assistance...we have 93 households uh enrolled in that program...we have 800 households applications in progress. So we just started that with Henipin County CAP...we anticipate that we're going to far exceed the need that is or the need is going to far exceed the the dollars that we have available for people.

this is much like much needed area of work with our partner over at CAP. I mean the the money that they need, the the amount of applications that they get in for energy assistance, the the small amount of resources that we have in this city.