The Minneapolis mayor has a salary of $140,814, which was set in 2021. Among the 18 cities that were part of the comparative pool, the average mayoral salary is $197,565, which means that the Minneapolis mayor is about $56,000 shy of the average paid in the list of peer cities, which puts the mayor in Minneapolis at the bottom 15% of the responding cities.

For mayor, the salary be set at $187,000 for the next elective term, which begins January 2, 2026. It should be maintained at that rate for each of the following years in that term. This change would reflect the significant increase in the scope of authority, powers, and responsibilities that voters gave the mayor when they adopted the executive mayor structure in 2021.

I did find it kind of concerning the letter that was just forwarded to council that's being passed on to the charter commission by Mayor Fry essentially asking for the authority in which we have to set compensation be removed and placed within the scope of authority of the charter commission.

This amendment related to MPD offduty fees is a onetime allocation to MPD for the implementation of the offduty program. This figure is taken directly from MPD's presentation on offduty fees that took place in the public health and safety committee just this past May. That alone underscores the need to keep this amendment intact as it provides MPD with the resources needed to implement offduty fees in 2026 and Brute Coupe up to $1.4 million to offset the cost of taxpayer dollars.

The source of that is public safety services and that's mostly precinct operations and staffing. And so I'm curious what kind of impact will this cut to operations and earmark is a cut. What kind of cut would this be? What what would be the impact of this cut? um if this is going to impact precinct operations and staffing.

The presentation that I gave regarding the offduty fee, that was to calculate what the fee would be to recover to fully fund collecting a fee. As stated in the presentation, it it did not include the implementation. So, that fee is just for the work that the people does. The second bullet on the second page says it doesn't include the implementation.

I believe that you know 38th Street is a has become a destination for uh visitors and and travelers from all around the country and subsequently around the world. And we should be investing in this process, not only to improve the communities that surround 38th Street, but to um lift it up to the significance that it has um garnered as a result of, you know, the murder of George Floyd.

It's very clear from our public hearing that we had in the climate and infrastructure committee last Thursday that the unanimous view of everyone in the community is that the small businesses of the area and the community resources of the area deserve more investment from the city. And I think we all agree with that. And this is how we can put our money where our mouth is when it comes to our support for uh 38th Street and the Chicago corridor.

This fund gives the ability to invest collectively in stabilizing physical property and infrastructure. It gives funding for events, marketing and a branding strategy. Funding for ownership and preservation of homes and businesses for economic security and implementation of this plan which is really critical to the residents in South Minneapolis who have been advocating for uh the strong imple imple implementation of the 38th Street Thrive Plan.

The safety ambassadors through DID, um they do do a service and do a great job there. you know that we have a pilot right now uh that's happening uh in on uh East Lake Street uh with our safety ambassadors that are being dispatched out of the um Lake Street uh safety center. uh the idea is to be able to expand that program.

I just wanted to make sure that was clarified. I know that was a big priority of mines. Um, as you know, we do a lot of contracts with external organizations, and what we've seen this past year is, um, we've had deep concerns by some of the vendors that have been selected by our external partners, but that does not fall under our oversight. Um, so I'm really happy that we were able to have a conversation and come to this place where we know Office of Community Safety will be administering our RFP and allowing council to be part of that oversight and approval process.