I did my best to either reappoint returning members to their existing boards or to understand where members would land best. But we've been through a lot over the last few weeks and I'm sure people did not have it at the top of their mind on what boards out outside boards they'd want to be a participant of. So please review that and give me your feedback before the end of day either today or at least by noon tomorrow so that we can accommodate those appointments and amendments for the full council on Thursday.

This would now bringing up to more modern business subsidy act requirements so that we can put more money into businesses. I believe it's the lowest now will go from 50 to 75 and I think the highest is like 125. We have been we have $2.2 million ongoing in this loan program... The highlights is more small businesses, especially businesses of color, entrepreneurs, and of color are getting the funding they need to stay, grow, and do business in the city of Minneapolis.

Mr. Beck has applied for this role because of his work as the general manager of the graduate hotel and I am incredibly concerned at the way the graduate hotel has conducted itself in relation to the community concerns about them allegedly housing ICE agents... Instead, they responded by criminalizing protesters, leading to dozens of avoidable arrests, including many undergraduate students who were nonviolently protesting.

I I think the the body has the ability to deny appointments for a variety of reasons. Um, generally speaking, I would urge caution against uh denying someone for um views they may have expressed or um things of that nature. And but again there is broad discretion for appointing to uh boards and commissions.

When my business partner and I bought Lorada Market, we really thought that having that vacant lot there just didn't really do much for our community. It's a place where people can do all kinds of use of illegal substances. Um, it just obviously looks like our neighborhood is abandoned. And so when the opportunity came up to buy it, we really wanted to jump on it.

Uh thank you so much for doing business with city of Minneapolis and also being creative, a land that has been sitting there for a while. Uh Mike, I have a question. Uh we are seeing um especially on legree area where a bait parking um like a plate reader uh where folks are um without a gate people are coming in um maybe going somewhere else but they are um pulling in and as soon as they get out uh the plate reader um picks up and sends them a large bill because they didn't somehow pay. So will will this be a paid parking service or um is it open to your customers or businesses? How will this uh work?

For this historic district, design guidelines indicate that vinyl siding is not considered an appropriate substitute material for a house that would have originally had wood siding. This is because it has a very different finish, texture, and appearance from wood. Additionally, when non-historic materials need to be replaced, the design guidelines encourage restoration of historic wall cladding, which would be wood, or incind replacement, which would be aluminum.

I'm pleading with the with the city council to overturn uh the HPC's uh decision and strike conditions one and two. Um because taking off the siding that was recently installed would be a detrimental cost to my organization and potentially lead to the closure of closure of that building and maybe even the displacement of the of the people within.

I I share in the perspective that it would be very arduous for this applicant to have to remove every single piece of sighting that they've already put forward and then replace it. Uh, personally, I think the new vinyl sighting looks pretty good and is a big improvement.

This is a overhead view of our property. Um, it was built in 1952 on a double lot. The house was shifted towards the south and west of the lot, leaving a rather small back garden area and a rather large sideyard area with the intent that the sideyard be the outdoor space for this property. We're simply asking for the same consideration to be able to put a six-foot fence in our sideyard to create that same privacy.

So essentially um when you have a corner lot um six-foot fences are allowed in rear and sidey yards and anything forward of the required setback um front yard setback is required to be 4 feet... the proposed amendment that we're looking at would allow um a 6-foot fence for the duration of that sideyard up to where the the you know essentially where the front of the house is or where that required yard would begin.

With quasi judicial hearings and matters, we have to look at what are uh the laws and policies that we currently have in place. It's not a place for us to legislate um and change the rules. That's what the ordinance and legislative process is for and that's where it seems like to address this greater issue, that's where we'll need to make the changes.

The Minnesota Supreme Court has been clear. Selling liquor in the city of Minneapolis is a privilege and not a right. Additionally, the city's police power to promote the general welfare is extremely broad. Uh thus, the Minnesota Supreme Court has long held that a city properly uses its police power not to renew a liquor license when non-renewal promotes the general welfare of the city.

I first noticed that ICE was staying in the hotel on or about the f uh January 5th of 2026. I was entering the parking lot and noticed a larger group of men standing in the parking lot. As we were walking through the parking lot, I noticed several cars with out ofstate license plates and bars on the inside of the cars... My manager told me that it was not safe to go to the other side of the hotel because that is where the ICE agents were staying and and they were concerned with my safety.

What this motion that I'm putting before this body is do we want to take a moment to do due process and investigate the situation that our constituents throughout the city have raised up as a grave concern or not? Right? That's what this is about. Do we want to take this step that we are afforded that we can do as a council or not?

But in my mind generally any potential of delay in approving this beyond Thursday is about something much bigger and broader than liquor licenses. We are saying to all of our small businesses, restaurants and the hospitality industry that Minneapolis is an a a an unsafe a safe pl is not a safe place to do business. And why we are not a stable regulatory environment.

I'm really struggling and having a hard time here with why we keep lingering in this um in this area. With all due respect, if we were given information from the attorneys at the committee of the whole meeting two weeks ago, is that correct, attorney? Um that there had not been anything that was presented um at that time to, you know, hold on to uh the liquor licensing and not move forward. So, I'm just going to recommend that we move forward and and stop playing in the face of of our our businesses that are already suffering.