what we have to present today is a resolution honoring the victim survivors family and community of enunciation and commemorating one year of hope and healing.

What enunciation has shown so consistently is that they're not just up for the challenge. Uh they're up to go way above and beyond to make sure that everybody feels the kind of nurturing that we aspire to see.

And so as we think about what is our destination building this future filled with hope. That destination is peace. Peace within us, peace around us, peace in our community, peace in our world.

If this proposed resolution if approved would revoke the delegation of that authority and then return it fully to the city council um to have the authority and responsibility to consider and approve any such NDAs confidentiality agreements with developers.

We are seeing an increasing concern about government transparency and trust with local governments across the country especially city councils as it comes to non-disclosure agreements um that several city councils across the country have gotten into with data center developers and this is a step that the Minneapolis city council can take to ensure that we are building on transparency.

Failure to respond to these legislative directives in a timely manner prevents the city council from doing their chartered mandated responsibilities of oversight and budgeting. And without access to timely and accurate information on this, it is hard to make informed decisions about the 2027 budget.

I'll say in regard to the number and the extent of these legislative directives, they are extremely time inensive for staff in addition to the jobs that they they regularly do as well. Um it is we're trying to triage and I think what I've heard is those affecting budget should in council's uh perspective those are the most timely ones that should be turned around if I'm hearing you correctly chair.

What is the remedy to that? Right. Um, we've seen in other jurisdictions, other cities of the city council, I think the mayor of New York sued the city council. I don't remember what the topic was on but like what is that mechanism for when this body by charter authority is making a request for information and we are not getting that information from the administration that's just kind of more of an open question.

I know sometimes it's hard to show somebody your room when it's dirty, but we're okay with looking at a dirty room because then we know what we need to do in order to clean it, right? And so I am appreciative for your hard work and your continued efforts that you do in spite of everything that has transpired in this city to work towards the strong protections. But we want to be stronger and better together.

The way that it's done across the country often follows kind of a a methodology um if you will. But one of the main things obviously that we're going to talk about today is the Alifa report which um as you all noted um in previous hearings paints a mixed picture. Uh it recognizes meaningful accomplishments while also identifying areas where we must improve.

So we develop what what's going to be needed to to push this out in the most effective and meaningful way to the to the cops. So after we work through that, uh what we have now is the content development phase where we're actually in the training division developing the content.

Our unique jurisdiction is community- based complaints, whereas internal affairs handles complaints from within the police department or with uh from city employees. Um, in this past quarter, we have successfully moved uh completed all of the investigative work on all cases that were deemed to be part of the backlog.

That amount of turnover is difficult for any um team. Uh it's extraordinarily difficult in internal affairs where um it's an investigative unit, but it's a very different type of investigation that occurs there.

Really trying to make sure that we're as efficient as possible and moving policies and trainings all the way through the process so that we can actually get to that auditing step in our, um, in our reform process.