Minneapolis City Council — Transcript
Tuesday, June 9, 2026
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Minneapolis Council Advances Police Reform Efforts Through Consent Decree Subcommittee
Reports of Standing Committees
Gun Violence Awareness Month Resolution
Enterprise and Labor Relations Committee Items
Business, Housing and Zoning Committee Items
Climate and Infrastructure Committee Items
Public Health, Safety and Equity Committee Items
Budget Committee Items
Intergovernmental Relations Committee Items
MPD Training Services Contract Amendment
MPD Roleplaying Scenario Training Contract Amendment
MPD Internal Affairs Investigatory Services Contract Amendment
Notable Quotes (23)
Let the record reflect that we have a quorum.
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Without objection, I would like to move to amend the agenda by adding an honorary resolution regarding gun violence awareness month. Is there a second?
Good afternoon. Thank you, Madam Chair. The ELR committee intends to bring 12 items forward to full counsel.
Thank you, Chair Chowry. The business, housing, and zoning committee will be bringing 18 items on Thursday council meeting.
I would just like to pull um that item for um discussion. And I would also like to appoint the legislative directives to the appropriate committees that support it as well.
So I guess the goal will be here to at full council amend that legislative directive to then say to report back to the relevant committee so that way it can go to business housing and zoning and PHSSE in the future.
I think we should move forward with the legislative directive with the current scope of it so that we keep that timeline going forward and I think it's smart to just kind of reflect that we want to have some of this content shared in the various committees that do have relevant information.
Thank you, Chair Chargerie. The CNI committee has 17 items to bring forward.
So this project has been buil uh the community as something that is being done to invest in the community in response to this murder even though the uh the planning for this project began back in 2018. And so this project is not like any other street reconstruction project. The community has undergone incredible uh hardship leading into this and um I in on Thursday we should uh deny points one and two uh in order to come up with a different way which we have a different way of paying for these assessments because this is not the typical u street reconstruction project. This is something uh totally different entirely.
Uh I just wanted to also inform my colleagues there was a memo or staff memo request made in regards to the big honking truck parade; and that is currently in your inbox in terms of who's sponsoring it.
The public health safety and equity committee will be bringing forward 10 items.
So yeah. So Chair Chry in the public health safety and equity committee, there was a motion to delete item number two, which is the mayor's nomination of Brian O'Hara to be the position of police chief. that was voted to be deleted from the agenda. I just want to clarify ahead of Thursday's council meeting that if we still need to take that vote again or if the committee deleting it deletes it because it's still on this.
It will have to be fully deleted at council because committees just send the recommendation to council. So, it'll be have to be fully at council on Thursday.
The budget committee will be bringing forward two items.
This morning, the IGR committee received one item for Thursday's council meeting.
this committee was born out of a deeply painful chapter in our city's history following the murder of George Floyd in 2020.
Our job here is to track the city's progress, ensure transparency for the public, and approve the necessary resources and contracts that make this reform work possible.
So, stop, search, and citation arrest and non-discriminatory policing early on in the position that I I carry as a commander of the training division. I I felt that, um, you you couldn't I think they were intrinsically together, meaning you can't teach stop, search, citation, arrest without incorporating all of the aspects of non-discriminatory policing.
Exceptional Edge is going to be doing a train the trainer on the on the approved polic lesson plans once they're approved by LEAF and MDHR. And they'll also be working alongside um uh the instructors as which is going to be MPD instructors as well as uh city attorney's office will be assisting in the in the delivery of the training.
The cost of the estimated cost would be an extension of uh the $103,300.
The role of the force investigation team is we conduct reviews and audits of all the force incidents that happen in the city.
We use DLG the consulting group to help supplement our workload as right now we just do not have the staffing to accommodate the number of uh uh of um quality assurance reviews that we need to complete every year.
People (25)
Chaired the committee meeting and called it to order.
Attended the meeting and was present.
Attended the meeting and was present.
Attended the meeting and was present. Vice chair of the Intergovernmental Relations committee.
Absent from the meeting, but later joined.
Attended the meeting and was present. Requested to pull an item for discussion.
Absent from the meeting, but later joined. Chair of the Business, Housing and Zoning Committee.
Attended the meeting and was present. Vice chair of the Budget Committee.
Attended the meeting and was present. Spoke against the assessment for the 38th Street and Chicago Avenue reconstruction project.
Attended the meeting and was present. Chair of the Public Health, Safety and Equity Committee.
Attended the meeting and was present. Chair of the Settlement Agreement and Consent Decree Subcommittee.
Attended the meeting and was present.
Absent from the meeting due to a pressing matter in her ward.
Mentioned in the Enterprise and Labor Relations Committee report for a gift acceptance.
Chaired the Enterprise and Labor Relations Committee.
Subject of a workers compensation claim mentioned in the ELR report.
Subject of a workers compensation claim mentioned in the ELR report.
Chaired the Climate and Infrastructure Committee. Informed colleagues about a memo regarding the Big Honking Truck Parade.
His murder at 38th and Chicago was referenced in discussions about the street reconstruction project.
Mayor's nomination for Police Chief, deleted from the agenda.
Will attend the Strive Together 2026 Policy Summit and City Accelerator Cohort Meetings.
Introduced the subcommittee and its purpose.
Provided information on MPD training services and roleplaying scenario training contracts.
Provided information on investigatory services contract for the Force Investigation Team.
Commander of the Force Investigation Team within the Minneapolis Police Department.
Places Mentioned
Events & Meetings (8)
- June 9th, 2026, Regular meeting of the Committee of the Whole
- Thursday (upcoming council meeting)
- June 18, 2026, Big Honking Truck Parade event
- June 12th, 2026, 612 days block event
- Spring of 2027, Anticipated completion date for training
- December 2027, Contract extension for training services
- June 1st, Start of second police academy
- October (upcoming), Third police academy starts
Ordinances & Resolutions (3)
Regarding Gun Violence Awareness Month
Related to Heritage Park
Related to law enforcement agency agreements