Year-to date, MECC answers approximately 81.11% of the calls within 10 seconds. We continued working to improve this performance through our new technology, strategic hiring, and enhanced services.

Over the past year, this position has assisted with more than 500 calls, approximately 571 to date. As highlighted in the mayor's budget recommendations, MECC is requesting to continue the contract with Henipin County to maintain this in-house support.

PFML has created a new challenge for us because it doesn't have the parameters around it fully built in yet. And so as we navigate that um we're learning new rules and new um ways people are able to utilize it. So this first year has just brought a lot of navigating and challenges on how it impacts the center.

Currently the way that the PFML is written up is that upon hire with the city, PFMLA can be utilized by any city employee. Um, and then if they decided they wanted to quit working, they can choose to do that.

Mayor Fry's budget proposes the 2027 budget to be about 9.7 million. That includes $2.3 million investment in community safety ambassadors, which does cover the cost of 23 full-time equivalent staff and about a $2.7 million reduction to contracts as well as a $300,000 reduction to FTEES.

The cut to the violence interruptors is about 71% compared to our spending in 2026. We would reduce from five current zones down to two zones, likely one zone in North Minneapolis and one zone in South Minneapolis.

The city is also cutting community- based programs designed to prevent violence before it begins while MPD continues its pattern of overspending year after year...I think it's very sad to hear about the cuts that are happening to this department when we need to have a comprehensive public safety system that keeps everybody safe.

And I I just feel every time we get here it's like the same thing and nothing. You know, I we we talked in this meeting we had last week about the ambassador program. I supported that program because I thought that program was going to be on Li Avenue as a cultural corridor. And then boom, I get told, "Wait till your turn again.

The the safety ambassadors are not created to interrupt violence. They're not um they're not violence interrupterss. They um it sounds like had a very um specific vision from this council. Um much of which was to improve safety in business and cultural corridors.

Then I see what is it a $2 something million investment for the rest of the city outside of downtown. And that um you know doesn't feel fair, correct, right, equitable.

For 2027 and 28 there's a proposed budget change that is decreasing the ACA budget by $468,000 plus and the decreased drivers are based on there's a $250,000 non-personnel divestment which I'll talk about in another slide. And then the reduction of the one time only 300k for George Floyd Square arts preservation. It's a total decrease of 10% from 26 to 27.

So this is a significant reduction uh from 595,000 to 395,000. Uh it means that we are cutting our program by 1/3.

I think of it as the salve to the wound of cultural displacement and gentrification.

In other words, we had 117 applicants for 13 available spaces over two years. And so, that is just a demonstration of the level of demand of people wanting to do great stuff in our city.

I so appreciate you on Li Avenue. You do above and beyond what you can to bring life to that corridor. and is greatly appreciated. You know, when um this department was originally started, that was our conversation. What are we going to do on Li and both sides of Li because it is the divider of WS four and five and you all have really stepped up and had some great festivals there and and you know the best part of it is that you include the community.

That is what we hear. Um how we are able to deploy and reimburse city funding is the primary issue. But um all of these organizations that are apply are all small businesses and it costs money to launch and start um a project with us.