This ordinance is another piece of ongoing work that uh you all are aware of. my office has been um working to advance for uh almost four years now. Um and this is just another piece of that work of making sure we're improving and increasing transparency around the city's offduty working programs.

There's simply a barrier of a lack of political will.

We're just asking for additional time before this becomes effective to allow the IAT solutions and some of the other decisions that we as a city need to make especially around how are we actually going to collect the fee uh to actually be figured out and implemented.

Even if we don't have a like fully built out tested uh time management system until Q1, Q2 of 2027, that doesn't mean that there's nothing at all whatsoever to report publicly about offduty work.

I think this is It's great that it's coming today, but it is it should have been done this should have been done in like 2017 2018 a really really long time ago. I think this is many mayors have tried to tackle the issue of offduty probably dating back to Sharon cells bel. So I really really struggle to with this request to delay this um to Q1, Q2 of 2027 and also uh without a clear picture of what would what what steps would be taken in order for this um [snorts] rigorous timekeeping software to to come together because often times we say from the administration side Q1 Q2 for something in a specific year and then there's a request to push it back and that's what I worry about.

Lead exposure continues to be one of the most preventable environmental health risks in our community and even low levels of lead can cause serious health problems uh particularly for young children and pregnant women. low-income renters are disproportionately impacted by this legacy environmental hazard.

We have a lack of clarity with the current current ordinance and that creates confusion among city staff, residents and property owners uh about how uh services are rendered about how services will be received and who's responsible for those.

each year we see between 60 and 70% of our elevated bloodled respon uh referrals are coming from rental housing. Um and so that is where we feel like we can have the biggest impact is by targeting those uh those homes and prioritizing uh maintenance.

The program is here for the city to remedy past and ongoing effects of discrimination and its ongoing effects or continuing effects. It allows us to set goals for participation on contracts over $175,000.

One of the key recommendations of the disparity study was to switch from the federal Minnesota um uni unified certification program to the local SER program. And this is what we are doing with the changes today.

I actually went through the certification process with my business just to understand how rigorous it was and it took me about 9 months to do. Not because it was nine months worth of work, but at every step of the process, you would find out, oh, I don't have that documentation in front of me. I got to go get that.

The commission's purpose is as follows. To provide leadership in the area of civil rights to encourage and educate the public in the promotion of civil rights. To ensure that each commissioner is kept up to date on the latest developments in the law and on community issues.

I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank the civil rights commission cuz I know that they were leading pretty profoundly in in that body of work as well. And I think it's a really strong reflection of what I think good governance looks like.

His recent experience working in the Minnesota State House as a research consultant in many different areas I think makes him really well-rounded and um is a great candidate for this kind of work in the city of Minneapolis. I don't I we don't have time to highlight all of them, but that's just kind of one example of the really great perspectives that come to this civil rights committee.

Some of the desired outcomes of our embedded social work program is to provide a response that is timely, effective, and aligned with residents needs. And provide services that are easy to understand, quickly match individuals, families, and to appropriate resources.

In 2026, our plan is to reduce the number of FTEEs and embedded social workers from five to four. This reduction is based on data collected over the past couple of years. We do not anticipate the reduction will impact embedded social work services available to Minneapolis residents.

I would love to know if there's a breakdown of precinct by precinct because I know third precinct is in my ward one of the largest ones. Um of that 450 referrals. Uh what are we seeing coming forward to the third precinct? Um and just to have a little bit more information. There's uh demographic data that's also being collected. um what type of calls uh or type of services are being rendered to those who are be you know m getting referred for uh working with the social worker.

In Henipin County, which is the most granular level of data that we have on these emissions, 3% of air emissions are from point sources. Most air emissions in Henipin County come almost equally from on-road mobile, non-point, and non-road mobile sources.

in order to approve an expansion of a non-conforming uh high impact production and processing use, [snorts] um the applicant would need to show an appreciable decrease of adverse off-site impacts. So, they can get the expansion, but they have to decrease the impact that that business is having on the community around them.

It's also not clear that that um uh this type of license is even allowed under state law that's related to off-site pollutants since the state already issues permits for off-site pollutants. Um so essentially I think our finding is that this would be a really heavy lift and require a lot more um understanding of state law and how that could work and what that would look like.

While currently 51% of MH MHD staff is white, we're looking to um at the leadership positions and that's only 73%. Um that is also occupied by white individual. So the target populations of the FIG grant are the current MHD staff as well as the Minneapolis residents with a focus on recruiting and retaining diverse staff, colle connecting and supporting organizations serving communities of color in Minneapolis and ensuring that existing staff have the opportunity to progress in their public health careers.

Newly established or developing community orgs or individuals can receive up to $15,000 to implement a public health demonstration project at the accumulation of their participation and learning through the institute. The PHCI focuses on identifying and strengthening those community orgs who serve Minneapolis residents at the highest risk of negative health outcomes.

The highle focus areas are intended to be as follows. So, summer employment opportunities for youth and young adults who are currently in high school, part-time, year-long employments for undergraduate, graduate students, as well as non- students who are currently pursuing or interested in a degree in a public health or semi-related field.

one of the comments that stuck out to me from the feedback and the reflection space with those organizations this morning, one of them said, you know, the $15,000 wasn't that much money. I've gotten maybe a little bit bigger grants than that from uh project different participations in the past, but what's different about this experience is that really that one-on-one coaching and support that's really helped to elevate him and spring him forward on his organizational goals and um being able to serve the young people.