>> WCOME TO THE REGULAR MEING OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH, SAFETY, AND EQUITY COMMITTEE FOR JULY 22nd, 2026. I AM JASON COMMITTEE. BEFORE WE BEGIN THE MEETING, I WANT TO OFFER A FRIENDLY REMINDER TO ALL MEMBERS, STAFF, AND THE PUBLIC BROADCAST LIVE TO ENABLE GREATER PUBLIC PARTICIPATION. THESE BROADCASTS INCLUDE REAL-TIME CAPTIONING AS A FURTHER METHOD TO INCREASE THE ACCESSIBILITY OF OUR PROCEEDIN TO THE COMMUNITY. THEREFORE, ALL SPEAKERS NEED TO BE MINDFUL OF THE RATE OF THEIR SPEECH SO THAT OUR CAPTIONERS CAN FULLY CAPTURE AND TNSCRIBE ALL COMMENTS FOR THE BROADCAST. WE ASK ALL SPEAKERS TO MODERATE THE SPEED AND CLARITY OF THEIR COMMENTS. I ALSO WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS WEEKEND, OUR CITY WAS SHAKEN BY TWO SEPARATE MASS SHOOTINGS IN SOUTH MINNEAPOLIS, ONE OUTSIDE THAT LEFT NINE PEOPLE INJURED10 AND ANOTHER ON NICOLLET AVENUE IN WARD 6, THAT TOOK THE LIFE OF A 28-YEAR-OLD PERSON AND WOUNDED FOUR OTHERS. ADDITIONALLY ON SUNDAY NIGHT, TWO HOUSES WERE STRUCK BY GUNFIRE IN POWDER HORN PARK. ON MONDAY NEAR 12th AVENUE AND OLIVER NORTH IN WARD 5 SOMEONE WAS SHOT AND SUFFERED NONLIFE THREATENING INJURIES. ON MONDAY NIGHT ADDITIONALLY ANOTHER SHOOTING HAPPENED ON NICOLLET AVENUE IN WARD 6, AGAIN, MASS SHOOTING WHERE SOMEONE SUFFERED NONLIFE THREATENING GUNSHOT WOUNDS AND AGAIN YESTERDAY ANOTHER SHOOTING OCCURRED IN THE SAME AREA. MY HEART IS WITH THE VICTIMS, THEIR FAMILIES, AND EVERYONE ACROSS OUR CITY WHO IS IMPACTED BY GUN VIOLENCE IN MINNEAPOLIS. IN TODAY'S COMMITTEE WE WILL ALSO BE HEARING ABOUT THE CITY'S NON-FATAL SHOOTING TASK FORCE THAT WAS FUNDED BY THE CITY COUNCIL AS A WAY TO ADDRESS GUN VIOLENCE. AND OUR OFFICE OF COMMUNITY SAFETY QUARTERLY REPORT IT WILL BE IMPORTANT FOR THE PUBLIC AND FOR US AS ELECTED OFFICIALS AS A BODY TO LOOK AT THESE REPORTS AND WORK TO ADDRESS THE MISSING GAPS, INCLUDING THE PLANS FOR MPD, IMPROVING CROSS-JURISDICTIONAL COORDINATION, DEPLOYING VIOLENCE INTERRUPTERS IN AREAS IMPACTED BY FUN VIOLENCE IN-- GUN VIOLENCE INCLUDING OUTSIDE THEIR USUAL ZONES, WHEN AND WHERE THE VIOLENCE SHOWS UP, NOT JUST WHERE IT'S BEEN BEFORE. INVESTING IN THIRD SPACES FOR OUR YOUTH SO OUR KIDS AND TEENS HAVE SOMEWHERE TO GO, AND SOMETHING TO BELONG TO THA ISN'T THE STREETS. I THINK ABOUT OUR SPACE AS BEING OPEN LATE AT NIGHT FOR SPORTS, SUMMER AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT FUNDING, STREET LIGHT VACANT LOT REMEDIATION TO ADDRESS CONCERNS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS, BUSINESS AND NIGHTTIME DISTRICT SAFETY PLANNING THAT IS REALLY IMPORTANT, AND RAPID RESPOE COMMUNITY FUNDINGX A MECHANISM TO GET FUNDS TO AFFECTED NEIGHBORHOODS AND BLOCKS THAT ARE IMPACTED BY THESE INCIDENTS. AT THIS TIME, I WILL ASK THE CLERK TO CALL A ROLL SO WE CAN VERIFY A QUORUM FOR THIS MEETING. #. >> COUNCILMEMBER PAYNE >> PRESENT. >> WONSLEY. >> PRESENT. >> RAINVILLE. >> PRESENT. >> VETAW. >> PRESENT. >> WHITING. >> PRESENT. >> VICE CHAIR STEVENSON IS ABSENT. CHAIR CHAVEZ IV. >> PRESENT. >> THAT IS SIX MEMBERS PRESENT. >> LET THE RECORD REFLECT THAT WE HAVE QUORUM. I'LL REMIND MY COLLEAGUES THAT WE'LL BE USING SPEAKER MANAGEMENT TODAY, SO PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE SIGNED IN. TODAY WE WILL BE BEGIN WITH OUR CONSENT AGENDA. AFTER OUR CONSENT AGENDA, WE WILL MOVE ONTO THE PUBLIC HEARING. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK DURING THE PUBLIC HEARING AND HAVE NOT SIGNED UP TO SPEAK, MAY REGISTER TO SPEAK BEFORE THE COUNCIL. ON OUR CONSENT AGENDA, ITEM NUMBER 2 AUTHORIZES A CONTRACT WITH HENNEPIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOR THE POLICE CADET PROGRAM. ITEM 3 AUTHORIZES CONTRA AMENDMENT WITH GOVWORX INC. TO PROVIDE QUALITY ASSURANCE SOFTWARE FOR 911. CENTER FOR MULTICULTURAL MEDIATION FOR COMMUNITY TRAUMA RESPONSE SERVICES. ITEM 5 AUTHORIZES A CONTRACT AMENDMENT WITH THE MOTHER'S LOVE INITIATIVE FOR COMMUNITY TRAUMA RESPONSE SERVICES. ITEM 6 ACCEPTS A GRANT FOR THE MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO PROVIDE FAMILY HOME VISITING SERVICES AND AUTHORIZEN AGREEMENT WITH THE STA OF MINNESOTA FOR THE GRANT. ITEM 7, APPROVE THE LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE RELATED TO NEIGHBORHOOD SAFETY CONTRACT MANAGEMENT AUDITS. COLLEAGUES, IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION OR ARE THERE ANY ITEMS ANYBODY WOULD LIKE TPULL FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION? COUNCILMEMBER WONSLEY. >> THANK YOU, CHAIR CHAVEZ.I DID WANT TO SEE IF WE HAD REPRESENTATIVES FROM NSD HERE. I DID HAVE A QUESTION REGARDING ITEM NUMBER 5, THE CONTRACT AMENDMENT WITH THE MOTHER'S LOVE. >> IS ANYBODY HERE FROM NSD. >> I ALSO SEE COMMISSIONER BARNETT HERE TOO. >> COMMISSIONER BARNETT >> YES, SO THE QUESTIONS I HAD RAISED, I KNOW DIRECTOR AMANDA HARRINGTON EARLIER THIS YEAR DID MENTION THAT SHE WOULD BE NSETTING THIS PROGRAM AND RESTRUCSTRUCTURING IT AND DOING A PILOT PHASE BECAUSE WE'RE BEI ASKED TO EXTEND THIS CONTRACT, SO I WANTED TO GET A LITTLE BIT ME INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT'S THE RESTRUCTURING PROCESS LOOKING LIKE FOR THIS PROGRAM. AND A TIMELINE ON WHEN YOU BELIEVE THAT RESTRUCTURING WILL BE FULLY FLESHED OUT. >> OH, YOUR MIC. >> THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER WONSLEY, I DON'T REMEMBER ALL THE DETAILS. KNOW THAT THERE IS SEVERAL CONTRTS THAT EXPIRE AND THAT THERE WAS I BELIEVE SOME FUNDS LEFT OVER TO EXTEND THIS CONTRACT. IF YOU DON'T MIND WAITING FOR THE QUARTERLY REPORT WHEN AMANDAARRINGTON WILL BE HERE, I THINK SHE CAN ANSWER THAT QUESTION FOR YOU. >> OKAY AND I'LL ALSOOTE IT FOR STAFF FOLLOW-UP AS WELL. >> ALL RIGHT, WE'LL GET STAFF FOLLOW-UP ON THAT. I'LL MOVE APPROVAL OF THESE ITEMS. AND SEEING NO ONE ELSE ON QUEUE, ON THAT MOTION, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. THOSE OPPOSED SAY NAY. ANY ABSTENTION? THAT CARRIES. NEXT WE'RE GOING TO TAKE UP OUR PUBLIC HEARING WHICH IS CONSERATION OF THE THE MAYOR'S NOMINATION OF DR. FREEMAN TO THE APPOINTED POSITION OF FIRE CHIEF. ANYONE WHO SIGNED UP FOR THIS ITEM WILL BE GIVEN TWO MINUTES EACH TO TESTIFY. FOR EVERYONE IN ATTENDANCE AND ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO MAY PARTICIPAT IN OUR HEARINGS OR COMMENT PERIOD, LET ME OFFER BEING RECORDED AND BROADCAST. RE BOTH THE RECORDING AND THE BROADCAST ARE CLASSIFIE AS PUBLIC DATA UNDER THE MINNESOTA GOVERNMENT PRACTICES ACT. BY ATTENDING AND PARTICIPATING IN THESE PROCEEDINGS, YOUR IMAGE AND ANYESTIMONY OR INFORMATION THAT YOU PROVIDE WILL BE ALSO SUBJECT TO DISCLOSURE UNDER THAT LAW. THAT INCLUDES BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO YOUR ATTENDANCE, YOUR NAME, AND OTHER PERSONAL DETAILS TESTIMONY OR COMMENTS YOUANY PROVIDE, WHICH INCLUDES ANY WRITTEN SUBMISSIONS YOU MAKE, WHICHRE INCLUDED IN THE RECORD OF THIS MEETING. TO INTRODUCE THE MAYOR'S NOMINATION FOR FIRE CHIEF, WE HAVE BEENOINED BY COMMISSIONER BARNETT WHO I'LL NOW INVITE TO SPEAK ON THIS NOMINATION. >> THANK YOU, AND GOOD AFTERNOON. THANK YOU, CHAIR CHEZ AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND ALSO MEMBERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY THAT -- MINNEAPOLIS COMMUNITY THAT A PRESENT HERE TODAY. ITS MY PRIVILEGE AND HONOR TO BE OBSERVE YOU TODAY TO -- BE BEFORE YOU TODAY TO PRESENT MAYOR FREY'S NOMINEE FOR CHIEF OF MINNEAPOLIS FIRE DEPARTMENT, DR. REGINALD FREEMAN. WHEN SEARCHING FOR THE NEXT LEADER OF OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT, THE OBJECTIVE WAS CLEAR. WE WANTED A FORWARD THINKING BATTLE TESTE ADMINISTRATOR WHO UNDERSTANDS MONITORING EMERGENCY RESPONSE, PRIORITIZES THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OUR FIREFIGHTERS, AND BUILDS GENUINE TRUST RELATIONSHIPS WITH EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD IN OUR CITY. AND DR. FREEMAN, WE FOUND THAT LEADER. A DISTINGUISHED CAREER DEFINED BY PUBLIC SERVICE, AND MANY YEARS O EXTRAORDINARY EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP IN FIRE AND EMERNCY MANAGEMENT. HE HAS SERVED AS A FIRE CHIEF IN OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA. IN HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, AS WELL AS THE FIRE CHIEF FOR LOCKHEED MARTIN. HE BRINGS DEEP EXPERTISE IN MANAGING COMPLEX, HIGH STAKES MUNICIPAL OPERATIONS. WE TRULY, WHAT TRULY HAS SET DR. FREEMAN APART IS HIS VISION FOR MONITORIN COMMUNITY CENTERED PUBLIC SAFETY APPROACH. HE HAS CONTINUOUSLY DEMONSTRATED A COMMITMENT TO FIREFIGHTERS' HEALTH AND WELLNESS, ADVOCATING FOR CUTTING EDGE PHYSICAL SAFETY GEAR, MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES, AND CANCER PREVENTION PROTOCOLS TO PROTECT THOSE WHO PROTECT US. HE HAS EXPANDED PIPELINE PROGRAMS SO THAT THEIRE DEPARTMENT REFLECTS A DIVERSE COMMUNITY. JUST LIKE THE ONES WE HAVE HERE IN MINNEAPOLIS. HE HAS LEVERAGED MODERN EMERGCY MANAGEMENT METRICS TO OPTIMIZE RESPONSE TIMES. AND RESOURCE DEPLOYMENT ACROSS FIRE DEPARTMENTS. YOU DON'T HAVE TO TAKE MY WORD FOR IT. OVER THE PAST SEVERAL WEE, OUR OFFICE HAS RECEIVED LETTERS OF SUPPORT FOR DR. FREEM FROM FIRE CHIEFS, FIREFIGHTERS, LABOR LEADERS, AFFECTED CLERGY, CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATION, NATIONAL FIRE SERVICE ORGANIZATION, EDUCATOR AND COMMUNITY LEADERS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES. WHAT HA STRUCK ME IS HOW CONSISTENT THEY DESCRIBED DR. FREEMAN. THEY PREETEDLY DESCRIBED -- REPEATEDLY DESCRIBED HIM AS A LEADER OFNTEGRITY, A RELATIONSHIP BUILDER, SOMEONE WHO EARNS TRUST AND SOMEONE WHO BETTER AND STRONGER. THEYATIONS DESCRIBE HIM AS SOMEONE WHO LISTS BEFORE ACTING, WHO VALUES FIREFIGHTERS, WHO RESPECTS LABOR, WHO BUILDS PARTNERSHIPS WIT NEIGHBORHOODS, FAITH COMMUNITIES, ELECTED OFFICIALS, AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZAONS. BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, HE IS SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS THATUBLIC TRUST IS EARNED EVERY DAY. AGAIN AND AGAIN, PEOPLE WROTE THAT HE DEVELOPS PEOPLE NOT JUST GANIZATIONS. THEY DESCRIBED HIM AS A MENTOR WHO INVESTS IN FUTURE LEADERS CREATES OPPORTUNITIES FOR OTHERS. UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP, FIRE DEPARTMENTS RECEIVED NATIONAL ACCREDITATION, STRENGTHENED ACCOUNTABILITY, IMPROVE OPATIONAL PERFORMANCE, SECURED SIGNIFICANT GRANT FUNDING, EXPANDED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, IMPROVED MORALE, AND ENHANCED COMNITY ENGAGEMENT. AFTER REVIEWING DR. FREEMAN'S RESUME AND RECORD, AFTER MEETING WITH HIM, AND CONSIDERIN THE OVERWHELMING SUPPORT FROM THOSE WHO HAVE SERVED ALONGSIDE HIM, I BELIEVE HE'S A COMPASSIONATE LEADER, A DISCIPLINED ADMINISTRATOR, AND A COLLABORATIVE PARTNER WHO RESPECTS THE RICH HISTORY OF THE MINNEAPOLIS FIRE DEPARTMENT, AND HE IS WELL EQUIPPED TO LEAD OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT FOR MANY YEARS TO COME. WITH THAT, MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, I ASK THAT YOU MOVE DR. FREEMAN'S NOMINATION FORWARD FOR CONDERATION AND STRONGLY URGE YOU TO CONFIRM DR. FREEMAN AS THE CHIEFF THE MINNEAPOLIS FIRE DEPARTMENT. THANK YOU, CHAIR. >> THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER. I WOULD LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE HAVE BEEN JOINED BY VICE CHAIR STEVENSON AND COUNCIL VICE PRESIDENT OSMAN AND COLLEAGUES, WITHOUT OECTION I LIKE TO MARK DOWN VICE CHAIR STEVENSON AS THE AYE ON THE CONSENT AGENDA. ALL RIGHT. AT THIS TIME, COLLEAGUES, I'M GOING TO PROCEED TO OPE THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE APPOINTMENT, AND THEN WE CAN PROCEED ONTO QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM THE COUNCILMEMBERS HERE TODAY. BUT BEFORE THAT, WE WILL ALSO HEAR FROM THE NOMINEE. SO AT THIS TIME, I'M GOING TO PROCEED TO OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS APPOINTMENT. THE FST PERSON TO SIGN UP TO SPEAK IS MARK NUMBER 1. >>OOD AFTERNOON, THROUGH THE CHAIR CHAVEZ. DON'T START MY CLOCK YET IF YOU KNEW ME. IF YOU KNEW ME TWO MINUTES IS PRETTY TOUGH. SO I'LL USE SOME OF MY BUDDY'S TIME IF I COULD. BUT FIRST AND FOREMOST, THE FACT THAT I'M UP HERE TODAY AND NOT HE POIGNANT RELATIVE TO THEPRETTY IMPORTANCE OF THIS POSITION, AND WHAT I'VE BEEN TOLD FROM OUR MEMBERS. I GUESS JUST TO BUILD ON TOP OF WHAT THE COMMISSIONER SAID, YOUNOW, WE'VE HAD A LENGTHY PROCESS. YOU GUYS WENT OUTSIDE, YOU SPENT SOME MONEY, D YOU ENTRUST ADFIRM TO BRING THE BEST CANDIDATES. THAT PROCESS WENT THROUGH THROUGH NUMEROUS INTERVISIONS, AND HIMSEL AMONGST THOSE PEOPLE AND THOSE INTERVIEWS. THE COMMISSIONER GAVE YOU THE ADMIN SIDE AND THEIR GOALS ON THEIR SIDE. WELL I'M HERE TO TELL YOU ON THE LABOR SIDE. EVERYBODY I SPOKE TO FROM THE INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL SECRETARY, FORMER STATE CALIFORNIA PRESIDENT, 28-YEAR CONNECTICUT PRESIDENT, FIREFIGHTERS FROM OAKLA, FIREFIGHTERS FROM HARTFORD, I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU HOW MANY PEOPLE I SPOKE THROUGH OUT OF STATE PLUS OVERWHELMING SUPPORT, PHONE CALLS, PHONE CALLS TODAY , INTERNAL MEMBERSHIP IN SUPPORT OF THIS. AND WHAT'S DRIVING THIS IS I JUST THINK WE'VE COME TO A PLACE WHERE IN SHORT IT'S JUST TIME FOR FRESH AYES. IT'S TIME TO BRING SOME PEOPLE, IT'S TIME TO BRING LEADERSHIP BACK TO THIS DEPARTMENT. I'VE BEEN HERE 26 YEARS. IT'S TIME TO BRING DEVELOPMENT BACK. IT'S TIME TO GET FIRM, FAIR, CONSISTENT. IT'S TIME TO BRING PEOPLE TREATED EQUALLY ON ALL FRONTS. IT'S TIME TO BRINGPPORTUNITY FOR THOSE OFFERED TO EVERYBODY. IF THERE EVER WAS A TIME AND ME BEING UPERE NOT GOING INTERNAL, IS HUGE IF YOU KNOW ME. I'VE SAT IN ON FEW INTERVIEWS IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW, THE DOC WAS THE FIRST CHOICE LAST TIME. AND THEYHOSE TO STAY INTERNAL. FROM, IF YOU GUYS WERE -- I'M SURE Y'ALL READ THE RESUME BUT IF YOU WROTE THE SCRIPT, IF YOU GUYS CAN FIND ANYBODY ONAPER MORE QUALIFIED IN THE COUNTRY, BECAUSE I'VE LOOKED, IN THE COUNTRY, Ph.D, NFPA MEMBER, MULTIPLE FIRE DEPARTMENTS, AUTHOR FOR THE NATIONAL FIRE ACADEMY FOR THE CURRICULUM ON DEI THAT OBVIOUSLY GOT THE FIRST CLASS TRUMP TOOK CARE OF THAT PROGRAM,. >> THANK YOU. >> PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU CAN FIND A BETTER CANDIDATE. >> THANK YOU, MARK. >> WOW, THAT WAS IT. >> YEAH, WE ONLY GIVE TWO MINUTES. >> FULL SUPPORT AND DIRECTION. >> NEXT UP WILL BE NUMBER 2, JOSEPH. IF YOU HAVE NOT SIGNED UP TO SPEAK AND WISH TO SPEAK, JOSEPH IS THE LAST PERSON TO SIGN UP, SO PLEAS DO SO WITH OUR CLERKS. WELCOME. >> THANK YOU, CHAIR CHAVEZ. MOST OF YOU I MET BEFORE. MY NAME IS JOSEPH MADISON. I'M A RETIRED FIREFIGHTER,INNEAPOLIS RESIDENT. I WAS PART OF THE TMT FOR FOUR YEARS. I WAS PART OF LABOR MANAGEMENTOMMITTEE FOR CLOSE TO 20. A LOT OF EXPERIENCE WITH WHAT'S, WHAT WE'VE BEEN THROUGH AND WHAT WE'RE, WHERE WE NEED TO GO. I'M EXCITED THAT WE'RE GOI TO ANOTHER DIRECTION. I'VE BEEN IN THOSE ROOMS. I'VE SEE EVERYTHING BE RETREAD OVER AND OVER FROM MANY, MANY YEARS. I THINK IT'S TIME FOR MINNEAPOLIS TO HAVE A NEW VOICE FROM THE OUTSIDE. AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD. I LOOKED AT THE, HIS NOMINATION RESPONSE, THE CANDATE RESPONSE, AND THE ONE THING THAT I, I REALLY LIKED WAS HE SAID THAT PARAPHRASING, HE'S NOT JUST COMING IN HERE TO MAKE ANGE. HE'S NOT JUST GOING TO COME HERE AND, YOU'RE HERE, THESE PEOPLE AND THE PLACES. HE CAME IN HERE AND SAID I'M GOING TO LISTEN AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS GREAT. THE FIREFIGHTER STUFF ION'T WORRY WITH BUT THE OTHER -- HE DOES HAVE THE CREDENTIALS. BUT I WOULD REALLY LIKE FOR US TO MOVE FORWARD. LAST TIME WE WENT THROUGH NOMINATION PROCESS, IT WEN ON FOR MONTH AND MONTHS AND MONTHS. IT GOT BEHIND, BEHIND, BEHIND, AND BRIAN ENDED UP HAVING MAYBE THREE YEARS WHERE HE COULD HAVE FOUR. I DON'T WANT US TO GO THUGH THIS AGAIN. I WANT US TO GET, GET GOING, GET DR. FREEMAN OUT THERE, WORKING SO WE CAN MOVE FORWARD AND BRING BACK MORALE TO THIS FIRE DEPARTMENT. THANK YOU VY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME. >> THANK YOU. I'M GOING TO ASK THE PUBLIC THREE TIMES. IF YOU WISH TO TESTIFY, OR SIGN UP, GOING ONCE, GOING TWICE, GOING THREE TIMES. SEEING NO ONE ELSE WISHING TO SPEAK, I WILL NOW CLOSE THE HEARING AND INVITE THE NOMINEE TO PROVIDE HIS STATEMENT. WELCOME, DOCTOR. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE, MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL, MAYOR FREY, FIREFHTERS OF THE MINNEAPOLIS FIRE DEPARTMENT, DISTINGUISHED GUESTS, AND THE RESIDENTS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS OF MINNEAPOLIS. GOOD AFTERNOON. ANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO APPEAR BEFORE YOU TODAY. I AM DEEPLY HONORED TO BE CONSIDERED FOR CONFIRMATION AS THE NEXT FIRE CHIEF FOR THE MINNEAPIS FIRE DEPARTMENT. I WANT TO BEGIN BY EXPRESSING MY SINCERE GRATITUDE TO MAYOR FREY, TO THE CITY COUNCIL FOR YOUR THOUGHTFUL CONSIDERATION, AND TO THE DEDICATED MEMBERS OF THE MINNEAPOLIS FIRE DEPARTMENT WHOSO PROTECTING THIS GREAT CITY HAS EARNED THE RESPECT OF COMMUNITIES ACROSS OUR GREAT NATION. I ALSO WANT TO THANK INTERIM CHIEF RUTGER WHO STEPPED UP TO LEAD THE DEPARTMENT WHILE THE CITY SEARCHED FOR A PERMANENT CHIEF. TODAY IS NOT SIMPLY ABOUT CONFIRMIN A FIRE CHIEF. IT IS ABOUT AFFIRMING A SHARED COMMITMENT TO PUBLIC SERVICE, TO EXCELLENCE, TO ACCOUNTABILITY, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, TO THE PEOPLE WHO CALL MINNEAPOLIS HOME. NOW THROUGHOUT MY ENTIRE CAREER, I HAVE HAD THE EXTRAORDINARY PRIVILEGE OF LEADING FIREFIGHTERS AND EMERGENCY REONDE IN COMMUNITIES FACING COMPLEX CHALLENGES. I HAVE LED ORGANIZATIONS THROUGH NATURAL DISASTERS, PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCIES, ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATIONS, INTERNATIONAL ACCREDITATION, AND PERIODS OF SIGNIFICANT CHANGE. THOSE EXPERIENCES HAVE TAUGHT ME SOMETHING THAT HAS SHAPED MY LEADERSHIP PHILOSOPHY. LEADERSHE POSITION THAT -- IS NEVER ABOUT THE POSITION THAT YOU HOLD. IT IS ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT YOU SERVE. IF CONFIRMED, I WILL APPROACH THIS ROLE FIRST AS A SERVANT, SERVING THE FIREFIGHTERS WHO RISK THEIR LIVES EVERY DAY. SERVING OUR CIVILIAN TEAM MEMBERS WHOSE WORK STRENGTHENS THIS DEPARTMEN SERVING OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS ABOVE ALL, SERVING EVERY AND RESIDENT AND COMMUNITY MEMBER, SION FOR THE MINNEAPOLIS FIREY DEPARTMENT IS STRAIGHORWARD AND VERY INTENTIONAL. I WANT US TO BECOME THE NATION'S BENCHMARK FOR METROPOLITAN FIRE SERVICE EXCELLENCE, NOT SIMPLY BECAUSE OF WHAT WE ACCOMPLISH OPERATIONALLY. BUT BECAUSE OF HOW WE ACCOMPLISH IT. A DEPARTNT WHERE FIREFIGHTERS KNOW THEY ARE VALUED, DEVELOPED, AND EMPOWERED. A DEPARTMENT WHERE LEADERSHIP IS VISIBLE, APPROACHABLE, AND ACCOUNTABLE. A DEPARTMENT THAT EMBRACES INNOVATION WHILE HONORING ITS PROUD HISTORIC TRADITIONS. A DEPARTMENT WHERE DIVERSITY IS RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF OUR GREATEST STRENGTHS BECAUSE OUR WORKFORCE SHOULD UNDERSTAND AND REFLECT THE COMMUNITIES THAT WE PROUDLY SERVE ON A DAILY BASIS. BEFORE THE EMERGENCY HAPPENSST THROUGH MEANINGFUL RELATIONSHIPS TH NEIGHBORHOODS, COMMUNITIES, BUSINESSES, SCHOOLS, FAITH LEADERS, AND COMMUNI ORGANIZATIONS. AND A DEPARTMEN THAT NEVER STOPS ASKING HOW WE CAN IMPROVE TOMORROW BEYD WHAT WE ACHIEVED TODAY: NONE OF THESE IMPERATIVES ARE EASY. HOWEVER, MY PRIOR SUCCESS WITH INFUSING THESE INTENTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS HAS BEEN ORCHESTRATED BY CONSISTENT AND STEADFAST COLLABORATION WITH BOTH INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDERS. THERE IS A STARK DFERENCE BETWEEN FIRE STATIONS AND FIREHOUSES. NOW, FIRE STATIONS THEY HAVE EQUIPMENT, THEY HAVE TOOLS, AND PEOPLE THERE TO DO A JOB. FIRE HOUSES ON THE OTHER HAND, THEY HAVE DEDICATED PROFESSIONALS WHO CARE ABOUT ONE ANOTHER AND RESPECT THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND CITY THA THEY SERVE. THEYRE AN INTEGRAL PART O THE COMMUNITY, CONTRIBUTING TO THE VITALITY AND QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ALL. AS THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS FIRE CHIEF, I WILL LEAD OUR DEPARTMENT IN ADOPTING THE, THIS FIREHOUSE APPT SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY. WE WILL BE PART OF IT. PUBLIC SAFETY HAS EVOLVED DRAMATICALLY. TODAY'S FIRE CHIEF MUST BE MORE THAN AN INCIDENT COMMANDER. THROUGH THE MY CAREER, I HAVE ADAPTED MEW LEADERSHIP TO REFLECT THE SPECIFIC NEEDS OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND COMMUNITIES THAT I SERVE WHILE INCORPORATING A MODERN AND INCLUSIVE APPROACH FURTHERMORE, I HAVE LEARNED THAT TODAY'S FIRE CHIEF MUST ALSO BE A STRATEGIST, ALONG WITH A COLLABORATOR, A FISCAL STEWARD, A MENTOR, A LISTENER, A PROBLEM SOLVER, AND LAST BUT N LEAST, A TRUSTED PARTNER. SOMEONE CAPABLE OF LEADING THROUGH COMPXITY WHILE NEVER LOSING SIGHT OF T HUMANITY BEHIND EVERYINGLE DECISION. THIS IS WHO I AM. I AM PASSIONATE ABOUT SERVING AND BEING OF SERVICE, T MOST IMPORTANTLY, I A SOMEONE WHO MAKES A DIFFERENCE. IF CONFIRMED, MY PRIORITIES WILL BE CLEAR. PROTECT OUR FIREFIGHTERS BY MAKING SAFETY, WELLNESS, AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDIONAL, NOT OPTIONAL. STRENGTHEN OPERATIONAL READINESS THROUGH TRAINING, TECHNOLOGY, DATA INFORMED DECISION MAKING, AND CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT. BUILD RELATIONSHIPS ROOTED IN TRANSPARENCY, TRUST, AND MUTUAL RESPECT WITH LABOR, ELECTED OFFICIALS, NEIGHBORING AGENCIES, AND EVERY COMMUNITY THAT WE SERVE. DEVELOP FUTURE LEADERS WHO WILL LEAVE THIS DEPARTMENT STRONGER THAN THEY FOUND IT. AND ENSURE EVERY DECISION REFLECTS RESPONSIBLE STEWARDSHIP OF TAXPAYER RESOURCES WHILE DELIVERING EXCEPTIONAL EMERGENCY SERVICES. NOW, I RECOGNIZE THAT MINNEAPOLIS HAS EXPERIENCED MOMED PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN INSTITUTIONS. THOSE MOMENTS ALSO PRESENT EXTRAORDINARY OPPORTUNITIES. PPORTUNITIES TO LISTEN MORE THAN WE SPEAK, TO ENGAGE BEFORE PROBLEMS EMERGE, TO LEAD WITH EMPATHY. TO EARN TRUST THROUGH CONSISTENT ACTION, AND TO DEMONSTRATE EVERY SINGLE DAY THAT PUBLIC SERVICE REMAINS ONE OF THE NOBLEST PROFESSIONS. TRUST IS NOT BUILT THROU SPEECHES. IT IS BUILT THROUGH PRESENCE, THROUGH INTEGRITY, THROUGH ACCOUNTABILITY, THROUGH KEEPG PROMISES. IF GIVEN THE PRIVILEGE OF SERVING AS YOUR FIRE CHIEF, I INTEND TO EARN THAT TRUST EVERY SINGLE DAY. TO THE FIREFIGHTERS OF MINNEAPOLIS, KNOW THIS. I BELIEVE IN YOU. I WILL ADVOCATE FOR YOU. I WILL CHALLENGE YOU TO PURSUE EXCELLEN. I WILL EXPECT PROFESSIONALISM, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND COMPASSION BECAUSE OUR COMMUNITY DESERVES NOTHING LESS. AND I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT LEADERSHIP IS NOT ABOUT ASKING OTHERS TO DO WHAT WE ARE UNWILLING TO DO OURSELVES. TO THE RESIDENTS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS OF MINNEAPOLIS, YOU DESERVE A FIRE DEPARTMENT THAT IS PREPARED BEFORE THE EMERGENCY, EXCEPTIONAL DURING THE EMERGENCY, AND ENGAGED LG AFTER THE EMERGENCY HAS ENDED. YOU DESERVE LEADERS WHO LISTEN, WHO ARE VISIBLE, WHO ARE ACCOUNTABLE, WHO UNDERSTAND THAT ERY INTERACTION IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO STRENGTHEN PUBLIC UST. IROMISE TO LEAD WITH INTEGRITY. WITH HUMILITY. AND WITH COURAGE. AND WITH AN UNWAVERING COMMITMENT TO THIS GREAT CITY. FINALLY, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK MY WIFE ERIN AND OUR DAUGHTERS HARMONY AND JOY FOR THEIRONSTANT ENCOUGEMENT D SACRIFICES THROUGHOUT MY ENTIRE CAREER. THEIR LOVE, THEIRUPPORT, HAVE MADE THIS JOURNEY POSSIBLE, AND I AM GRATEFUL TO HAVE THEM IN MY LIFE. MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE, I UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF IS RESPONSIBILITY. I DO NOT VIEW THIS OPPORTUNITY AS THE CULMINATION OF MY CAREE I VIEW IT AS THE BEGINNING OF MY MOST IMPORTANT CHAPTER OF PUBLIC SERVICE. SHOULD YOU ENTRUST ME WITH THIS RESPOIBILITY, I PLEDGE TO DEVOTE MY EXPERIENCE, MY ERGY, AND MY HEART TO ENSURING THAT THE MINNEOLIS FIRE DEPARTMENT CONTINUES TO PROTECT LIVES, STRENGTHEN COMMUNITIES, AND SERVE AS A MODEL OF EXCELLENCE FOR GENERATIONS TO COME. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME, YOUR CONSIDERATION, AND YOUR COMMITMENT TO THE PEOPLE OF MINNEAPOLIS. I YIELD AND WELCOM ANY QUESTIONS. >> THANK YOU, DR. FREEMAN. 'M NOW GOING TO OPEN UP QUESTION AND DISCUSSION FROM COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND WE WILL START OFF WITH COUNCILMEMBER VETAW. >> THANK YOU, CHAIR CHAVEZ, THANK YOU SO MUCH, DR.REEMAN. YOU KNOW, YOU AND I MET ON FRIDAY AND I TOLD Y THAT SOMETIMES I'M A LITTLE DELAY IN PROCESSING. WE HAD A COUPLE HOUR CONVERSATION. A LOT OF QUESTIONS CAME OUT O NOT ONLY THE DISCUSSION I HAD WITH YOU BUT I ALSO TALKED TO Y ABOUT REACHING OUT TO SOME OF THE FOLKS WHO PARTICIPATED IN YOUR INTERVIEW PROCESS AND YOU SENT I THINK MAYBE 20 LETTERS OF REFERENCE AND SOME OTHER THING SO JUST I HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS, DR. FREEMAN, SO BUCKLE UP. AND I WARNED THE CHAIR IN ADVANCE THAT I WAS GOING TO HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS. MY FIRST QUESTION THOUGH I THINK ONE OF THE PARTS OF THE CONVERSATION WE TALKED ABOUT FOR ME WAS JUST LIKE WHY MINNEAPOLIS AND SO SO MY FIRST QUESTION IS THAT YOU SHARE YOU HAVE BEEN A CHANGE AGENT AND I WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU SEE IN THE MINNEAPOLIS FIRE DEPARTMENT. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO CHANGE OR WHAT DO YOU THI NEEDS TO HAPPEN IN THE MINNEAPOLIS FIRE DEPARTMENT? >> YES, COUNCILMEMBER, THANK YOU FOR THAT QUESTION AND MY PREVIOUS ROLES SPECIFICALLY WENT TO HARTFORD TO FIX ISSUES, SPECIFICALLY WENT TO OAKLAND TO FIX ISSUES. I'M NOT COMING TO MINNEAPOLIS TO FIX ANY SPECIFIC ISSUES. I'M BEYOND THAT IN MY CAREER. I SEE MINNEAPOLIS AS A BEAUTIFUL DIVERSE COMMUNITY WITH AN EXCEPTIONAL FIRE DEPARTMENT WHICH I HOPE TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO AND PLEASURE TO LEAD. >> OKAY, SO YOU DON'T SEE CHANGE -- I'M TRYING TO GET TO WHAT DO YOU THINKEEDS TO BE CHANGED OR WHAT IS THERE THAT YOU NEED TO CHANGE AND HOW ARE YOU GOING TO DO THAT AND WHAT DOES IMPLEMENTATION LOOK LIKE? >> SURE SO THERE IS CRISIS IN HARTFORD AND OAKND. WE DON'T HAVE CRISIS IN THE MINNEAPOLIS FIRE DEPARTMENT, BUT AS A PROFESSIONAL I HAVE NOT HAD AN OPPOUNITY TO DO A DEEP DIVE OR LOOK BEHIND THE CURTAIN AT THE ORGANIZATION. BUT WALKING INTO A FIREFIGHTER HEALTH AND WELL-BEING PROGRAM IS I PLACE AND WELL IN TACT, FUNDED, AVAILABLE, ACCESSIBLE TO THE MEMBERS, ENSURING THAT WE HAVE A ROBUST PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM WHICH INCLUDES NOT ONLY IPSACK AND PROBOARD CERTIFICATION PROGRAMS BUT ALSO ACCESS TO HIGHER, HIGHER LEARNING AND HIGHER EDUCATION AT NO COST TO THE MEMBERSHIP. THOSE ARE JUS A FEW EXAMPLES OF THINGS THAT I WOULD BE LOOKING >> OKAY. I DON'T KNOW IF THIS NUMBER IS TRUE BUT GOOGLE SAID IT WAS. THAT YOU CURRENTLY OVSEE A $2.2 BILLION OPERATION IN SAUDI ARABIA. CAN YOU DESCRIBE THE SCOPE OF THAT OPERATION A HOW MANAGING A ORGANIZATION THAT SIZE HAS PREPARED YOU TO LEAD THE MINNEAPOLIS FIRE DEPARTMENT. >> WELL, I DO HAVE A SIGNED NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY OF NEM, SO I CANNOT GO INTO SPECIFICS. HOWEVER, NEHAM IS THE SIZE OF BELGIUM, AND MY RESPONSIBILITY IS TO ENSURE THAT FI AND EMERGENCY SERVICES THROUGHOUT ALL OF NEHAM IS IN TACT, EFFICIENT AND PROFESSIONAL. >> OKAY. AND WHAT'S MOTIVATING YOU TO LEAVE THAT POSITION NOW ANDOME TO MINNEAPOLIS? >> MINNEAPOLIS THI OPPORTUNITY HAS CAMEP AGAIN. THIS IS THE SECOND TIME I HAVE APPLIED FOR THE POSITION. I APPLIED THE RST TIME WHEN CHIEF TYNER WAS APPOINTED. SO FOR ME, THISS AN EXCEPTIONAL OPPORTUNITY TO LEAD A GREAT FIRE DEPARTMENT. >> ONE OF E THINGS THAT KIND OF SHOCKED ME A LITTLE BIT WHEN WE MET, I WAS TALKING TO YOU ABOUT BUDGET, AND YOU HAD TOLD ME THAT NO ONE HAD EVEN BROUGHT DGET UP A IT WAS A LITTLE ALARMING FOR YOU THROUGHOUT MULTIPLE INTERVIEWS AND COERSATIONS AND AS I SAID TO YOU, BUDGET IS CERTAINLY GOING TO BE AN ISSUE. TALK ABOUT YOUR PERIENCE IN OAKLAND, HARTFORD, AND SAUDI ARABIA MANAGING DEPARTNTAL BUDGETS, PARTICULARLY WHEN YOU FACE REDUCTIONS OR SIGFICANT FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS? >> SHURB, BOTH IN HARTFORD AND OAKLAND, THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF , PERFORMANCE BASED BUDGET AND THEN ZERO BASED BUDGET. SO IN BOTH INSTANCES, I TOOK THE APPROACH OF DEVELOPING A ZERO BASED BUDGET THAT ALLOWS US TO GET EVERYTHING THAT WE NEED AND HOPEFULLY GET A FEW THINGS THAT WE WANT, WH A ZERO BASE BUDGET. IN SOME INSTANCES IT PLAY BE APPROPRIATE TO REVIEW -- MAY BE APPROPRIATE TO REVIEW AND PURSUE A PERFORMANCE BASED BUDGET WHETHER ZERO OR PERFORMANCE BASES I'M GOING TO PULL MINIMUM FIVE YEARS OF OUR BUET OF THE MINNEAPOLIS FIRE DEPARTMENT OF T CITY TO LOOK AT WHAT WAS FUNDED AND WHAT WAS ACTUAL AND THAT GIVES US AN IDEA OF WHERE WE NEED TO PIVOT. SO THAT'S MY EXPERIENCES WITH BUDGETS,ND NOT ONLY THAT, DEPENDING ON THE MUNICIPALITY, SOTIMES THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT BUDGET IS INCLUDED INOUR OPERATING FUNDS. I'M NOT SURE HOW WE DO IHERE IN MINNEAPOLIS BUT ALSO HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH MANAGING OUR CAPITAL BUDGETS FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. >> SO THAT LEADS ME INTO MY NEXT QUESTION. THE FIRE DEPARTMENT S EXCEEDED ITS BUDGET BY APPROXIMATELY 5 TO $7 MILLION IN THE L LAST FIVE YEARS. WHAT STRATEGIES ARE YOU PLANNING TO IMPLEMENT TO BRING THAT BACK INTO ALIGNMENT WITH THE BUDGET? >> THAT'S GOING BACK TO ZERO BASE. THAT'S WHY THE ZERO BASE CONCEPT IS SO CRITICALLY IMPORTANT. I'M COM NOT SURE HOW THE BUDGET WAS DEVELOPED PRIOR TO 2026 OR PRIOR TO ME TAKING COMMAND OF THE ORGANIZATION IF SO -- THAT WILL ALLOW ME T GO BACK TO MY LEADERSHIP AND TO GIVE RECOMMENDATIONS ON ANY CHANGES AND ALSO JUSTIFICATION WHY I'M REQUESTI THOSE CHANGES. WHICH WOULD BE TO BRING IN THE BUDGET TO BE MORE REFLECTIVE OF OUR EXPENDITURES. >> OKAY MAYBE I NEED TO UNDERSTAND MORE ABOUT THIS ZERO BASE STRATEGY, BUT YEAH, I'M NOT CATCHING, LIKE, LIKE THE ACTUAL STRATEGIES TO GET US BACK-TO-BACK DOWN -- I MEAN FIVE TO $7 MILLION WITHIN THE BUDGET. >> SURE, SO IN MOST INSTANCES, MADAM COUNCILMEMBER, THAT OVERAGE FOR THE BUDGET IS RELATED TO OVERTIME. SO WE WOULD LOOK AT OUR ALLOCATED NUMBERS FOR STAFFING WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION. LET'S JUST SAYE HAVE AN ALLOCATED NUMBER WITHIN THE RE DEPARTMENT OF 474 TEAM MEMBERS. MOST PEOPLE WOULD SAY EMPLOYEES.I DON'T USE THE TERM EMPLOYEE BECAUSE IF YOU TAT SOMEONE LIKE AN EMPLOYEE, THEY'RE GOING TO ACT LIKE IT. IF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT WE HAVE TEAM MEMBERS AND FAMILY MEMBERS. SO LET'S JUST SAY YOU HAVE 4 TEAM MEMBERS THAT'S BUDGETED FOR. BUT YOU ONLY HAVE 440 ON THE BOOKS. THAT ARE ACTUALLY EMPLOYED WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION. THAT'S GOING TO INCRSEND DRIVE YOUR OVERTIME. THAT'S WHERE MY RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE TO THE LEADERSHIP TO SEE IF WE GO GO TT CYCLE ENDS. OVERTIME IS A DIFFERENT STORY BECAUSE THAT'S PREDICATED ON STAFFING, SO MY JOB WOULD BE TO COME IN, LOOK AT THE STAFFING, ON THE PERSONNEL SIDE, ON THE NONPERSONNEL, SEE IF WE HAVE GONE OVER BUDGET ON NONPERSONNEL, MAKE THE IMMEDIATE CORRECTIVE ACTNS TO ENSURE THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN AGAIN. >> OKAY I THINK I WILL HAVE MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT BUT I WILL JUST GET TO THE NEXT ONE. HOW MANY INDIVIDUALS FROM OUTSIDE OF THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS DO YOU ANTICIPATE BRINGING INTO LEADERSHIP OR OTHER POSITIONS IN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT? >> NOT CERTAIN ON THAT NUMBER JUST YET. >> OKAY. SO IF YOU WERE TO HIRE EXTERNAL PERSONNEL WITHOUT AN INCREASE IN THE DEPARTMENT'S BUDGET, HOW WOULD YOU AVOID -- LIKE HOW CAN YOU AVOID IMPACTING THE CURRENT EMPLOYEES AND WOULD THERE BE LAYOFFS POSSIBLY? >> LAYOFFS IF I -- EXTERNAL TEAM MEMBERS IN? >> RIGHT. >> NO, NO, I WOULDN'T DO THAT, NO, MA'AM. >> OKAY, BECAUSE I MEAN, YOU TOLD ME YOU WERE BRINGING IN EXTERNAL. >> POSSIBLY. >> THAT COULD'VE CHANGED. >> RIGHT, I TOLD YOU POSSIBLY I WOULD BE. YOU ASKED HOW MANY PEOPLE II WOULD BRING IN THAT I WOULD BE CONSIDERING, AND I BELIEVE I SAID TWO. >> AT LEAST TWO. RHT. OKAY. WOING WITHIN CIVIL SERVICEE SYSTEMS AND ADMINISTERING DEPARTMENTS GOVERNED BY COLLECVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS. >> YES, MA'AM, BOTH HARTFORD AND OAKLAND WER CIVIL SERVICE, AND WORKED CLOSELY HAND IN HAND WITH BOTHIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONS AND HARTFORD AND IN OAKLAND. >> OKAY SO YOU, LIKE, YOU'RE FALIAR WITH THE POLICIES AND PRACTICES, ESPECIALLY IN, LIKE, HIRING AND WHO HAS TO STAY AND, LIKE. >> ABSOLUTELY. >> OKAY. AND FOR LEADERSHIP TRANSITIONS, CAN YOU CREATE -- I MEAN, LEADERSHIP TRANSITIONS CAN CREATE UNCERTAINTY WITHIN ORGANIZATIONS. THIS IS SOMETHING WE TALKED ABOUT TOO. HOW WOULD YOU BUILD TRUST ACROSS THE DEPARTMENT AND WHAT STEPS WOULD YOU TAKE TO ENSURE PERSONNEL ARE TREATED FAIRLY REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THEY SUPPORTED YOUR CANDIDACY AND NOT. >> SURE MY OATH OF OFFICE ALWAYS DICTATESY ACTIONS. I NEVER VIOLATE MY OATH OF OFFICE. BEING A PUBLIC SNT MEANS YOU HAVE TO PUT YOUR PERSONAL FEELINGS ASIDE, AND FOR MY 25 YEAR CAREER, ROUGHLY 20 SERVINGS CHIEF, MY OATH HAS ALWAYSFIRE SUPERSEDED EVERYTHING I HAVE DONE IN REGARDS TO ACTIONS AS A SWORN MEMBER OF SOCIETY. SO TREATING PPLE WITH DIGNITY AND RESPECT IS THE EXPECTATION. NOT THE EXCEPTION. GOING BACK TO THE ORIGINAL QUESTION, I HAVE MADE I MY DUTY AS THE FIRE CHIEF, AS THE NEW FIRE CHIEF, WHETHER IT BE HARTFORD OR OAKLAND, TO VISIT WITH ALL OF OUR MEMBERS ON ALL THREE SHIFTS AND IN HARTFORD IT WAS FOUR SHIFTS, TO VISIT ALL FIREFIGHTERS ON ALL SHIFTS AT ALL FIREHOUSES NO MATTER HOW LONG IT TAKES ME TO ACCOMPLISH THAT GOAL, I DO THA BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THEM TO SEE ME IN PERSON, IMPORTANT FOR ME TO TK ABOUT EXPECTATIONS THAT I HAVE OF THEM, BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY TO HEA WHAT EXPECTATIONS THEY HAVE OF ME. AND THAT'S WHY I DO THAT. I ALSO CREATED SOMETHING CALLED CHIEF'S MEMORANDUMS. THERE ARE A NUMBER OF MEMORANDUMS SO NOT NECESSARILY SOMETHING INFORMAL ENOUGH TO BE SENT BY EMAIL BUT SOMETHING COMING DIRECTLY FROM ME THAT I WANT ALL MEMBERS OF THE ORGANIZATION TO HAVE SO I'LL DRAFT THE EMAIL NUMBER AND SEND THAT OUT TO THE ENTIRE PARTMENT. THOSE ARE JUST EXAMPLES OF THE COMMUNICATIONS TI HAVE DONE BEFOREN THE PAST AND I WOULD DO IF APPOINTED AS A FIRE CHIEF HERE IN MINNEAPOLIS. >> DR. FREEMAN, I REALLY DO APPRECIATE THIS ANSWER TODAY BECAUSE YOU CERTAINLY HAD -- WE HAD A DIFFERENT CONVERSATION ABOUT ABOUT SOME VERY SPECIFIC THINGS ON FRIDAY THAT WERE EXTREMELY ALARMING TO ME SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED BETWEEN NOW AND FRIDAY, BUT THAT -- YEAH, THERE'S JUST A COMPLELY DIFFERENT TONE ABOUT THE CURRENT PERSONNEL AND HOW FOLKS SHOULD BE TREATED AS PERSONNEL OR LIKE YOUR APPACH TO, YOU KNO WHO'S IN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT RIGHT NOW. THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH RESPONSE TIME IS CURRENTLY HOUSED WITHIN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. WHAT ISOUR VISION FOR THAT PROGRAM AND HOW DO YOU SEE IT FITTIN FIT INTO THE DEPARTMENT'S MISSION GOING FORWARD. >> WE HAD AN ADDITIONAL PROGRAM GOING FORWARD MACRO, MOBILE ASSISTANCE COMMUNITY RESPONSE ORGANIZERS, AND WE BASED THIS PROGRAM OFF OF THE CAHOOTS PROGRAM IN OREGON. IT STARTED OFF AS A PILOT PROGRAM WHICH WAS FUNDED WITH $10 MILLION OF FEDERAL MONEY. AFTER MONTHS, AFTER THE PILOT, WE BROUGHT IT IN HOUSE UNDERNEATH THEIRE DEPARTMENT, STILL CIVILIAN PERSONNEL THAT WERE MEMBERS OF THIS TEAM, BUT WE MANAGE IT WITHIN OAKLAND FE. SO HAVE THAT EXPERIENCE, VERY MUCH BELIEVE IN EVE ASPECT OF THIS PROGRAM AND ITS IMPORTANCE TO THE CITY. >> AND M LAST QUESTION, IN OUR CONVERTION, COMPLETELY LIKE I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE THIS CAME FROM, BUT YOU STARTED TALKING TO ME ABOUT THE POLICE CHIEF SALARY AND HOW THERE WAS A DIFFERENCE. $100,000 GAP IN THE POLICE CHIEF SALARY VERSUS THE MINNEAPOLIS FID U THINK THE POLICE CHIEF SHOULD MAKE $100,000 LESS BECAUSE I CAN'T SEE HOW THE BUDGET CRISIS WE'RE IN, HOW YOUR SALARY WOULD GO UP AND ESPECLLY BECAUSE WE JUST DID, WE JUST DID A SALARY CHANGE FOR THE FIRE CHIEF. SO I'M JUST WONDERING WHAT ARE YOUR EXPECTATIONS FOROUR SALARY AS THE FIRE CHIEF. >> EXACTLY WHAT'S BEEN OFFERED TO ME. I'M TOTALLY FINE WITH THE SALARY THAT HA BEEN PROPOSED. I THOUGHT YOU AND I WERE HAVING A LIGHTHEARTED CONVERSATION. I SAID THAT IN JEST IN REGARDS TO THE SALARY. IT'S A NONISSUE AS FAR AS WHAT THE PICE CHIEF MAKES VERSUS WHAT I MAKE. WHAT I WAS OFFERING AND WHAT I HAVE ACCEPTE, MADAM COUNCMEMBER. >> I DON'T THINK -- FIRST OF ALL, THAT COMMENT WASN'T -- THERE WAS NOTHING LIGHTHEARTED WHEN THAT CONVERSATION WAS STARTING TO HAPPEN ABOUT THE SALARY, AND YOU BROUGHT IT UP AND SAID SPECIFICALLY THAT YOU'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFE, SO THAT OBSERVATION IS WAY OFF OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN THAT MEETING. I WOULD'VE NEVER EVEN THOUGHT ABO THE POLICE CHIEF SALARY, AND I DON'T -- I DON'T THINK THAT THAT WAS A MOMENT OF LIKE, JOKING OR LIGHTHRTEDNESS OR ANYTHING IN THATONVERSATION. I WAS STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHY THAT EVEN CAME UP AT ALL BECAUSE WE WEREN'T TALKING ABOUT SALARY AND SO I'M SORRY THAT THAT WAS YOUR INTERPRETATION OF IT. IT RLLY FELT LIK TO ME AS A COUNCILMEMBER WHO JUST VOTED FOR THIS SALARY TO BE ADJUSTED, THAT YOU REALLY THOUGHT WE WERE UNDERPAYING THE FIRE CHIEF AND WAS FISHING TO SEE IF THERE WAS A POSSIBILITY FOR THE SALARY TO CHANGE OR ALSO TO LET ME KNOW THAT IT IS SOMETHING YOU ARE GOING TO BE WORKING TOWARDS. AND AS I SAID THERE AND I'LL SAY HERE ON THE DAIS, THAT'S NOT SOMETHING I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO DO. SO I'M HAPPY TO HEAR THAT YOU'RE SATISFIED WITH THE SALARY THAT IF YOU RECEIVE THIS JOB, YOU'LL BE GETTING. >> IF -- MAY I RESPOND TO THAT? SO IF I WERE TO PURSUE A SALARY CHANGE, I WLD GO TO MY SUPERVISORS. I WOULD NOT COME TO ANYOUNCILMEMBER AND TALK TO THEM ABOUT MY SALARY. THE SALARY THA WAS PROPOSED I'VE ACCEPTED, GLADLY, AND IT'S A NONISSUE FOR ME. >> NEXT UP WE HAVE VICE CHAIR STEVENSON. >> THANK YOU, CHAIR. THANK YOU FOR COMING HERE, DOCTOR. WE HAD A GREAT CONVERSATION THE OTHER DAY, ASKED LOT OF QUESTIONS OF YOU. PERHAPS TOO MANY. AND YEAH, THERE WER SOME THINGS ABOUT YOUR ANSWERS AND ABOUT YOUR PAST THAT I THOUGHT WAS REALLYMPRESSIVE AND I REALLY LIKE WHAT YOU'VE SAID ABOUT WORKING WITH THE MENTAL HEALTH RESPONSE IN OAKLAND. AND I REALLY APPRECIATED WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT MOVING TO HARTFORD TO ADDRESS BEHAVIORAL ISSUES IN THE DEPARTMENT THERE. AND THEN THERE WERE OTHER THINGS THAT GAVE ME A LITTLE BIT OF YELLOW FLAGS, LET'S SAY, NOT RED FLAGS. BUT SOMETHING THAT'S COME UP IN THE MEDIA THAT I JUST WANTED TO HEAR DIRECTLY FROM YOU IS THERE'S BEEN A LAWSUIT AGAINST HARTFORD AROUND SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, NOT ABOUT YOU, YOU'RE NOT IMPLICATED, BUT BUT IN THE DEPARTMENT THAT YOU, THAT YOU WERE THE HEAD OF, AND I JUST WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU ABOUT THAT, WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THAT, WHAT DID YOU KNOW, LIKE, CAN YOU TELL ME ABOU THE SITUATION? >> THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTION, MR. COUNCILMEMBER. AND I BELIEVE THE LAWSUIT WAS ABOUT MAYBE GENDER DISCRIMINATION. I HAVE NOT READ THAT LAWSUIT IN DETAIL BECAUSE I WAS NOT INVOLVED IN THE LAWSUIT, AND THAT IS MY OFFICIAL STATEMENT TO YOU AND THE RESIDENTS OF THE CITY OF MINNEOLIS. EVEN IN THE ARTICLE THAT RAN IN THE NEWS, IT SAID I WAS NOT NAMED- A DEPARTMENT THAT'S THE SIZE OF 400 PEOPLE, EVERYONE'S NOT GOING TO BE PERFECT. WHAT YOU RELY ON IS THAT PEOPLE IN POSITIONS OF AUTHORITY DO THE RIGHT THING. AND ONE THING I CAN ASSURE THIS COMMITTEE, THE COUNCIL AS WELL AS THE RESIDENTS AS WELL AS THE MEMBERS OF MNEAPOLIS FIRE DEPARTMENT, THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NEVER BEEN AN ISSUE THAT'S BEEN BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION THAT I DID NOT QUICKLY AND SWIFTLY ACT ON. I ASSUME COMMAND ON HARTFORD FIRE DEPARTMENT BECAUSE THERE WERE A NUMBER OF BEHAVIORAL ISSUES. VIOLATION OF CITY POLY AND VIOLATION OF DEPARTMENT POLICY. TO SIX YEARS AS I SERVED AS FIRE CHIEF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DIRECO INTERIM DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS WORKING TEE JOBS, DEPARTMENT HEAD JOBS FOR THE CITY OF HARTFORD, I SUSPENDED AND/OR FIRED TERMINATED MORE FIREFIGHTERS IN MY TENURE THAN THE PRIOR THREE CHIEFS BEFORE ME TO BRING STRUCTURE, ORGANIZATION AND DISCIPLINE TO AN ORGANIZATION. I WOULD NEVER NOT ACT ON ANYTHING THAT'S BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION. AND I APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK PUBLICLYUCT THIS BECAUSE THERE WAS THIS INTERPRETATION THAT I WAS CULPABLE IN SOME SHAPE, FORM, ORASHION BECAUSE THIS LAWSUIT WAS FILED I THINK A YEAR AFTER I HAD LEFT AND ASSUMED COMMAND OF OAKLAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. BUT REST ASSURED AGAIN, I WAS NOT NAMED, I WAS NEVER CONTACTED BY THE HARTFORD CITY ATTORNEYS FOR ANY COMMENT, FOR ANY DEPOSITIONECAUSE I WAS NOT INVOLVED. >> THAT'S GOOD TO HEAR. IWASN'T YOU WERE INVOLD JUST TO BE CLEAR. >> YES, SIR, AND I -- I APOLIZE IF I, IF IT CAME ACROSS THAT WAY. I'M JUST SAYING IN GENERAL, YOU KNOW, JUST FOR THE AVERAGE PSON IN THE PUBLIC OR EVEN THE MINNEAPOLIS FIREFIGHTER OR ANY COUNCILMEMBER, TT MAY, YOU KNOW, HAVE A QUESTION IF I WAS INVOLVED. >>EAH, THE REASON I BRING THIS UP IS BECAUSE MINNEAPOLIS IS NOT IMMUNE FROM GENR DISCRIMINATION NOR RACISM AND SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT YOU MAY BE CONFRONTEDITH IN YOUR TIME HERE AND ENTIRELY UNACCEPTABLE. WE WANT A CHIEF TO ACT PROMPTLY TO MAKE SURE WOMEN AND PEOPLE OF COLOR ARE PROTECTED I OUR FIRE SYSTEM. >> ABSOLUTELY. >> I ASKED YOU IN OUR PRIVATE MEETING ABOUT STREET DESIGNS. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I THINK MINNEAPOLIS DOES DIFFERENTLY THAN MOST OTHER CITIES IN THE COUNTRY, AND I WANTED TO IMPRESS UPON YOU THAT. YOU WILL BE ASKED VERY FREQUENTLY ABOUT YOUR THOUGHTS ON STREET DESIGNS. IT'S PART OF THE PROCESS WHICH WE TALKED ABOUT AND HE IN MINNEAPOLIS WE BUILD A LOT OF BICYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE. AND THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO PEOPLE AROUND THE CITY. AND I JUST WANTED TO HEAR FROM YOU AGAIN AND MAYBE THE PUBLIC T HEAR FROM YOU ABOUT MAYBE YOUR EXPEENCE AROUND WORKING WITH PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENTS ON STREET DESIGN AND YOUR EXPERIENCE IN BALANCING WITH T PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT THE NEED FOR SAFER INFRASTRUCTURE FOR OUR COMMUNITIES AS WELL AS INFRASTRUCTURE THAT IS LARGE ENOUGH FOR OUR FE TRUCKS. >> NO, ABSOLUTELY. AND BOTH IN HARTFORD AND INAKLAND I WORKED CLOSELY WITH AND HARTFORD IT WAS PUBL WORKS, IN OAKLAND WE HAD A DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION THAT WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ROADWAYS. AND WE ALSO HAD NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS THAT WE WORKED WITH HAND IN HAND IN RERDS TO BICYCLE LANES AND AN IMPORTANT PART OF MY JOB, AND IT ISERY CRITICAL FOR ME AS THE FIRE CHIEF TO ENSURE THAT I'M DOING EVERYTHING THAT I CAN TO GET TO YES AND WHAT I MEAN BY THATS IF THERE IS A NEW DESIGN OR REDESIGN OF A ROADWAY, YOU KNOW, I AM NOT OF THE POSITION THAT WE ARE GOING TO STAND FAST IN THE SCOPE OF WELL THISAS TO BE X AMOUNT OF FEET WIDE PER MINNESOTA D.O.T., SO OUR APPARATUS CAN GET THROUGH. OUR JOB AS A FIRE DEPARTMENT IS TO SEEOW WE CAN ENSURE THAT WE ARE DNG EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO PARER WITH ALL LEVELS OF THE COMMUNITY AND THE CITY AND THAT INCLUDES ROADWAY DESIGNS FOR PEDESTRIANS AND BIKE LANES. SO THAT'S BEEN MY EXPERIENCE BEFORE IN THE PAST. I WELCOME THAT OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE THOSE DISCUSSIONS. THAT'S VER BEEN AN ISSUE. >> THAT'S GREAT. THAT'S GOOD TO HEAR. I'M SURE THERE WILL BE MANY MORE QUESTIONS GOING ON, BUT I DID WANT TO REITERATE SOME OF THE QUESTIONS AROUND THE BUDGET. AND CROSS-REFERENCI THIS WITH WHAT YOU'VE SAID ABOUT I THINK I MUST'VE MISHEARD YOU BUT YOU KIND OF INSINUATED THAT MINNEAPOLIS DIDN'T HAVE ISSUES IN OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT, AND I ASSURE YOU THAT THE REASON THAT WE'VE BEEN GOING OVER FIVE TO $7 MILLION IS BECAUSE WE DO HAVE ISSUES. WE HAVE STAFFING ISSUES IN OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT, SO CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE NEED TO ADDRESS THOSE STAFFING ISSUES AND THE NEED TO STAY WITHIN OUR BUDGET AND HOW YOU WOULD ADVOCATE FOR THE DEPARTMENT IN REGARDS TO THAT ISSUE? >> YES, SIR. SO NUMBER 1 JOB OF FIRE CHIEF IS TO MAKE SURE THE FIREFIGHTERS ARE TAKEN CARE OF. IF THE FIREFIGHTERS ARE NOT TAN CARE OF, THEY CAN'T TAKE CARE OF THE COMMUNITY. SO THAT'S CRIT CRITICALLY IMPORTANT. AGAIN BEING ABLE TO WALK INTO THE DOOR TO DO AN ANALYSIS OF THE BUDGET AS WELL AS OUR STAFFING, LOOK AT RESPONSE TIMES PER NOT JUST FIREHOUSE BUT PER COMPANY WHETHER IT BE THE INGENR THE TRUCK COMPANY AND IF WE'RE NOT MEETING THE INDUSTRY STANDARD, THEN THAT'S WHEN WE START PEELING THE LAYERS OF THE ONION BACK EVEN MORE TO TRY TO FIND OUT WHY. IF IT'S A MATTER OF STFING, THEN THAT OF COURSE IS GOING TO BE ADDRESSED AND PROSED TO MY, MY BOSSES, AND THE FORM OF AN ADDITNAL BUDGET RD EXTRA MEMBERS IN A CLASS, YOU KNOW, I THINK WE HAVE THE NUMBER OF 15 SO FAR THAT WE HAV ALLOCATED FOR THE NEXT UPCOMING CLASS. AND QUITE FRANKLY SPEAKING, THAT NUMBER SEEMED LOW TO ME AND I TALKED TO THE BOSS ABOUT THAT. IN REGARDS T YOU KNOW, BECAUSE WHEN I THINK ABOUT HOW LONG IT TAKES FOR A CLASS TO GET THROUGH, A DEPENDING ON HOW SHORT WE ARE NOW, WE'RE STILL GOING TO BE, WE MAY BE EVEN NEGATIVE 6 BY THE TIME THAT CLASS OF 15 HITS THE STREETS. SO IT'S NOT GOING TO HELP US WITH THE OVERAGE,EDUCING OVERTIME. AND LACK OF STAFFING FROM A FIREFIGHTER PERSPECTIVE IS A SAFETY ISSUE. IT'S A DIRECT SAFETY ISSUE F THE FIREFIGHTERS, AND IT'S A SAFETY ISSUE FOR THE COMMUNITY. IF THEY DON'T HAVE ENOUGH PERSONS ON THE FIRE GROUND TO EXECUTE THE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES , EVERY TRUCK HAS A SPECIFIC TASK THAT THEY HAVE TO ACCOMPLISH. IF THERE I NOT ENOUGH FIREFIGHTERS TO DO IT, IT COMPROMISES PUBLIC SAFETY. SO MY JOB IS TO COME I AND TELL THAT STORY. AND TO ASK FOR ADDITIONAL RESOURCES AS NEEDED. >> ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. >> ALL RIGHT. I PUT MYSELF NEXT ON QUEUE. WELCOME, DR. FREEMAN, THANKS FOR BEING HERE TODAY. I HAD MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT MAYBE SOME OF YOUR PLANS OR ALSO MAYBE SOME OF THE WORK THAT YOU HAVE DONE WHEN IT COMES TO THE RECRUITMENT OF WOMEN FIREFIGHTERS AND HIRING PEOPLE OF COLOR INTO THE WORKFORCE. I WANT TO HEAR SOME OF THE ISSUES MINNEAPOLIS FIRE DEPARTMENT, WHICH IS NOT ENOUGH WOMEN FIREFIGHTERS, MAYBE MORE SPORT NEEDED FOR WOMEN FIREFIGHTERS, AND THE EMPLOYEES THAT WE HAVE, AND ALSO THE RECRUITMENT EFFORTS WHEN IT COMES TO NOT JUST RECRUITMENT OF FIREFIGHTERS BUT ALSO PARTICULAR AREAS THAT NEED TO GROW IN MY OPINI. >> YES, SIR, THANK YOU. MY CAREER STARTED IN MISSISSIPPI, AND I WAS ON THE RECEIVING END OF A LOT OF ACTIONS THAT I SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN PRIVY TO AS THE FST AND THE ONLY AFRICAN AMERICAN FIREFIGHTER IN THAT ORGANIZATION. SO FOR ME, HAVING AN INCLUSIVE ORGANIZATIO IS PERSONAL FOR ME. HAVING ONE THAT'S REFCTIVE OF THE COMMUNITY IS VERY PERSONAL. SO IN HARTFORD, I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO HIRE ROUGHLY 130, 135 FIREFIGHTERS. OUT OF THE 130 FIREFIGHTERS, 96 WERE EITHER BLACK OR LATINO. AND IN OAKLAND, WE PARTNERED WITH ALL OF OUR EITY GROUPS, SO WE HAD THE BLACK FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION, WE HAD THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HISPANIC FIREFIGHTERS ANDE ALSO HAD OUR WOMEN'S FIREFIGHTER GROUP THAT WE WORKED HAND IN HAND WITH WITH ADDRSING DEPARTMENT ISSUES. I WAS A FOUNDING MEMBER IN OAKLAND THE OAKLAND WOMEN AND NONBINARY FIREFIGHTERS GROUP. OAKLAND'S NICKNAME IN CALIFORNIA ESPECIALLY, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA IS THE TOWN. SAN FRANCISCO BENET NICKNAME IS THE CITY BUT OE OAKLD WOMEN NONBINARY FIREFIGHTERS, THE TOWN FIREFIGHTERS IS SOMETHING THAT I WAS COFOUNDER OF AND VERY, VERY PROUD ORPHWHAT WE HAVE DONE SINCE ITS INCEPTION. WE HAVE NOT ONLY PARTICIPATED AND ASSISTED IN OTHER GIRLS CAMPS IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, BUT WE HAD OUR FIRST GIRLSIRE CAMP IN OAKLAND UNDER MY LEADERSHIP TO WHERE THE MAYOR CAME AND OTHER CITY COUNCILMEMBERS CAME TO SHOW THEIR SUPPORT. THERE IS A LETTER FROM CANDICE COSHMAN WHO IS ACTUALLY STILL THE PRESIDENT OF THE TOWN FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION WHO SPEAKS MORE IN DETAIL AS FAR AS MY INVOLVEMENT AND MY CONTRIBUTIONS TO ENSURING THAT WOMEN AND NON BINARY MEMBS OF THE COMMUNITY HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO WEAR THE UNIFORM. SO FROM HARTFORD TO OAKLAND, I HAVE A TRACK RECORD OF ENSURING THAT NOT ONLY THE DEPARTMENT IS REFLECTIVE OF THE COMNITY BUT THERE IS EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND ACCESSIBILITY FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS TO WR THE UNIFORM. >> THANK YOU, DR. FREEMAN. SO BEFORE I PASS IT ONTO COUNCILMEMBER WHITING, I KNOW THAT THERE'S A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS THAT FOLKS ARE BRINGING UP ON THE DAIS SO I'LL JUST MOVE THIS FORWARD WITHOUT RECOMMENTION. AND WHAT THAT MEANS FOR YOU IS THE FULL COUNCIL WILL HAVE A FINAL DEBATE ON THIS NOMINATION ON THURSDAY NEXT WEEK. IF I CAN GET A SECOND. COUNCILMEMBER WHITING. >> THANK YOU, CHAIR CHAVEZ AND THANK YOU DR. FREEMAN. I HAVE A FEW QUESTIS BUT I ALSO WANT TO NOTE RIGHT, THE WAY I KIND OF TAKE THESE APPOINTMENTS, I AM NOT A FIREFIGHTER. I DON'T PERFORM TO BE ONE. THIS IS NOT AN AA OF EXPERTISE THAT I DO HAVE, AND SO WHEN THESE KIND OF APPOINTMENTS COME ACROS MY DESK, I LOOK AT THOSE WHO THIS IS THEIR PROFESSION WHO HAVE SPENT THEIR ENTIRE CAREER IN THIS AREA AND HAVE HAD CONVERSATIS AT LENGTH WITH OUR UNION REPRESENTATIVES AND OVER THE LAST I THINK WHAT WE ARE CLOSE TO SEVEN MONTHS NOW FOR OUR NEW FOLKS, I DON'T THINK REPRESENTATIVES THAT HAVE SPOKE STRONGER OF THEIR APPOINTEE THAN LOCAL 82 AND SO I THINK THAT IS A HIGH MARK OF TRUST FROM A GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE JUST HERE, RIGHT JUST MEETING YOU IN THIS VERSION OF THIS PROCS VOLUMES TO ME ABOUT YOUR CREDENTIALS AND YOUR ABILITY TO COME IN AND, AND KEEP THIS DEPARTMENT TO A LEVEL OF A STANDARD THAT IS DESERVING OF A CITY LIKE MINNEAPOLIS AND SO I AM, I AM FULLY APPRECIATIVEF YOUR SUPPORT HERE FOR THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS, AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO HOPEFULLY IF YOU ARE CONFIRMED, LEADING THIS DEPARTMENT AND SERVING TS CITY. AND WITH THAT I DO WANT TO KIND OF RIGHT -- IT'S HOW I AGAIN LOOK AT HOW TO SUPPORT OR NOT SUPPORT, APPOINTEESR THE PEOPLE THAT THEY HAVE WORKED WITH, I THINK YOU'VE SENT OVER 22 LETTERS OF SUPPORT FROM CHIEFS ACROSS THE COUNTRY, CHIEFS INTERNATIONALLY, AND JUST WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO RD JUST A FEW NOTES FROM TWO OF THEM THAT I THINK STUCK OUT TO ME, PARTICULARLY THE FIRST ONE BEING THE NAACP OAKLAND BRANCH. I WANT TO NOTE HERE IT SAYS DURING HIS TENURE AS FIRE CHIEF OF OAKLAND, CHIEF FREEMAN DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF AS A RESPESPECTED AND EFFECTIVE LEADER WHO CONSISTENTLY DEMONSTRATED PROFESSIONALISM, INTEGRITY, AND A DEEP COMMITMENT TO PUBLIC SERVICE. HE LED THE DEPARTMENT DING CHALLENGING TIMES WHILE MAINTAINING A FOCUS ON OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE, COMMUNITY ENGEMENT, AND THE WELL-BEING OF BOTH FIREFIGHTERS AND RESIDENTS. I THINK THIS IS A VERSION THAT SPEAKS OUTSIDE OF INTERNAL FIRE DEPARTMENT, THOSE THAT YOU MAY HAVE MENTORED OR NOT BUT THIS IS A COMMUNITY GROUP H THAT HAS NO I THINK ABILITY TO KIND OF STEP IN AND THEY DECIDED TO DO SO BECAUSE I THINK THEY BELIEVE IN YOUR LEADERSHIP. AND IT GOES ON PARAGRAPH AFTER PARAGRAPH KIND OF TALKING ABOUT THE HIGHLIGHTS OF WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO. THE OTHER ONE IS, IS I THINK NOW THAT THE CHIEF OVER AT E CITY OF HARTFORD WHERE YOU LEFT AGAIN WANT TO KIND OF READ A LITTLE SNIPPET FROM THAT. DURING HIS TIME AS OUR 37th FIRE CHIEF, REGGIE LEFT AN INCREDIBLE MARK ON THE HARTFORD MANAGE THE DEPARTMENT. HET JUST TRANSFORMED IT. HE WAS A DRIVING FORCE BEHIND OUR PUSH TOWARDS INTERNATIONAL ACCREDITATION, MONETIZINGUR DAY-TO-DAY OPERATIONS AND CREATING REAL PATHS FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, RECOGNIZIN THE CRITICAL NEED FOR LONG-TERM INFRASTRUCTURE STABILITY. HE SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENTED A COMPREHENSIVE APPARATUS REPLACEMENT PLAN AND THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLA TO OVERALL OUR OUTDATED -- OVERHAUL OUR OUTDATED FIREHOUSES AND IT SOUNDS LIKE AS YOU HAVE NOTED THAT ONE OF THE REASONS YOU CHOSE TO GO TO HARTFORD WAS BECAUSE THAT BECAUSE WAS A PLACE THAT NEEDED -- THAT WAS A PLACE THAT NEEDED A CHANGE AGENT AND KIND OF HEARING THIS IT SHOWS THAT, RIGHT, WE HEAR LOTF I THINK ESPECIALLY FROM THIS DAIS OF FOLKS THAT HAVE GONE TO PLACES THAT NEED A CHANGE AGENT, AND MAYBE OR MAYBE IT HASN'T ACTUALLY MOVED. A THIS I THINK IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF SHOWING THAT YOU DIDN'T JUST KIND OF SAY YOU WERE GOING TO GO IN AND CHANGE IT. IT SHOWS THE IMPLEMENTATION AND THE RESULTS OF YOUR EFFORTS AND YOUR WORK. AND THEN LASTLY I HAD JUST KIND OF A FEW QUESTIONS AS MY COLLEAGUES ARE QUITE ASTUTELY MENTIONING IS WE HAVE A BUDGET DEFICIT. WE HAVE ANYWHERE I THINK BETWEEN $28 MILLION TO $33 MILLION COMING UP IN THIS BUDGET. MPD, MFD, PUBLIC WORKS TO A LITTLE BIT DEGREE ARE KIND OF THE LARGE VERSIONS OF THOSE HAVE GONE OVER. THEY'RE ALLOCATED BUDGETSTS -- THEIR ALLOCATED BUDGETS FOR THE YEAR. I THINK WE HEARD SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 5 TO $7 MILLION OVER THE LAST FIVE SOO TO SIX YEARS THAT MFD HAS GONE OVER. MY UNDERSTANDING IS A LOT OF THAT IS BASED PURELY ON OVERTIME AND STAFFING. MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT RECENTLY THAT IS DUE IN LARGE PART TO FAMILY LEAVE, PTSD LEAVE, INJURY LEAVE, VACATION LEAVE, AND THE OTHERS. AND RIGHT WE ALL KNOW THAT OVERTIME COSTS ARE LARGER TN THAT OF A, OF A KIND OF ON STAFF, A REGULAR FIREFIGHTER, A REGUL TEAM MEMBER. AND IT IS FROM MY UNDETANDING AGAIN IS THAT A LOT OF THAT OVERTIME IS BASED ON THE HIRING BACK AND SO YOU HAVE TO THEN FILL THOSE SPOTS, FILL THOSE MINIMUMS, OTHERWISE YOU HAVE TO START SHUTTING DOWN ENGINES. WITH THAT PROCESS, EITHER SOUNDS LIKE TO ME THAT EITHER WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO START TO SHUT DOWN ENGINES, SHUT DOWN RIGS, OR INCREASE OUR STAFFING LEVELS TO GET TO A POINT WHERE WE DON'T HAVE THAT LEVEL OF LEAVE. CAN YOU KIND OF JUST WALK MEHROUGH A LITTLE BIT WHAT YOUR CALCULUS WOULD BE WHEN YOU'RE KIND OF COMING T THAT POINT OF MAKING THOSE DECISIONS BASED ON HOW, HEY ARE WE GOING TO HAVE TO START CUTTING ENGINES, CUTTING RIGS OR MAYBE IT'S BOTH. THIS IS YOUR APPOINTMENT. I PROBABLY DON'T HAVE TO FIGURE THAT OUT. >> NO, NO WORRIES, SIR. THANK YE QUESTION. SO YOU KNOW, WHEN WE LOOK AT STAFFING, THERE'S FIRE CHIEFS, WHAT WE HAVE WHAT WE CALL A FILL FACTOR CALCULATION. N YOU LOOK AT THE HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE OF SICKTIME UTILIZATION AS WELL AS ON THE JOB INJIES. AND THEN FOR THE DAYS OF BEING OFF, OFF THE LINEE FOR THESE MEMBERS. THAT GIVES YOU AN IDEA, AND YOU HAVE YOUR MINIMUSTAFFING FOR THE DAY. COUPLED WITH ALL OF THOSE IMPERATIVES WITH THE FILL FACTOR T INCLUDE VACATION, LET'S SAY MINIMUM STAFFING FOR MFD IS 110 A DAY BECAUSEF THE NUMBER OF TRUCKS AND ENGINES. NORD TO GET N ORDER TO GET TO 110 BECAUSE OF THE FILL FACTOR CALCULATION BECAUSE OF THE SICK TIME UTILIZATION AS WELL AS ON THE JOB INJURY, IN ORDER TO GET TO 110 WE MAY HAVE TO STAFF EVERY SHIFT AT 116.4. IN ORDER TO GET 110. NOW, THE CAVEAT OR WHAT'S CONTRIBUNG TO THE OVERTIME HERE IS THE PTSD UTILIZATION. WHICH IS A FORM OF SICK USE BUT NOW WE HAVE TO TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION. SO WALKING INTO THE DOOR, MR. COUNCILMEMBER, I WOULD BE DOING THAT ANALYSIS LOOKING AT THE FILL FACTOR CALCULATION THAT'S BEEN DONE PRR TO MY ARRIVAL. LET'S JUST SAY 1% CHANCE OUT OF 100 IT HAD BEEN DONE, WE WILL DO IT AND THEN I WILL TAKE THOSE FINDINGS TO MY BOSS TO PUBLIC SAFETY LEADERSHIP. IN REGARDS TO SHUTTING DOWN, WHETHER IT'S TEMRARILY OR PERMANENTLY, BROWNING OUT COMNIES, IT DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER IT'S A ENGINE OR TRUCK WE HAVE STANDARDS OF RESPONSE COVERAGE. SOTANDARDS OF RESPONSE COVERAGE LETS US KNOW HOW MANY ENGINES WE SHOULD HAVE IN THESITY, HOW MANY TRUCKS, HOW MANY FIREHOUSES AND THEN THE LOCATION OF THOSE TRUCKS, ENGINES, AND FIREHOUSES. SO RIGHT NOW WE COULD ASSUME THAT OUR 19 STATIONS ARE EXACTLY WHERE THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE. WE HAVE TH APPROPRIATE NUMBER OF ENGINES, WE HAVE THE APPROPRIATE NUMBER OF LADDERS. ONCE WE START TAKING AWAY FROM OUR CURRENT LEVEL OF RESOURCES IT IS A DETRIMENT TO PUBLIC SAFETY. NUMBER 1. THEN IT'S A, IT'S CONTRIBUTING TO THE SAFETY OF OUR MEMBERS THAT'S WEARING A UNIFORM THAT'S DOING THEIR JOB. SO CUTTING RESOURCES WHETHER IT BE PERMANENTLY OR TEMPORARILY SHOULD BE DONE UNDER THE DIRE, THE MOST DIR CIRCUMSTANCES. BECAUSE OF THE COMPROMISE TO SAFETY, TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC, AS WELL AS TO THE MEMBERS. SO THE PLAN IS FOR US TO LOOK AT WHERE WE'RE AT, COME UP WITH SOME FORMIDABLE SOLUTIONS TO WHERE WE DON'T HAVEO GO DOWN THAT PATH, BUT THERE WOULD BE OPTIONS A, B, AND C PRESENTED TO TY LEADERSHIP. >> HELPFUL AND THEN LAST QUESTION HERE, AS IT RELATES, I JUST WAS LEARNING ME NUMBERS WITH THE PREVIOU CONVERSATION, I THINK ABOUT MAYBE 80, 75 T 80% OF MPD'S CALLS RIGHT NOW ARE NONFIRE RELATED AND I THINK THAT WE A SEEING THAT WITH THE LEVEL OF FIRE MITIGATION, FIRE TECHNOLOGIES KIND OF BROADENING THE KIND OF FIRE APPROACH AND FIRE SAFY ACROSS THE COUNTRY. WITH THAT, THAT BEING THE CASE, HOW DO YOU SEE A 4WARD LOOKING AND MODERNIZED FIREEPARTMENT WHERE THE VAST MAJORITY OF YOUR CALLS ARE NONFIRE RELATED AND MORE EMS AND PERSON IN CRISIS RELATED CALLS. HOW DO YOU SEE A DEPARTMENT LIKE MINNEAPOLIS MOVING IN A DIRECTION THAT I THINK IS RESPONSIVE TO THE TYPES OF CALLS THAT THAT ARE NOW COMINGN. >> YES, SIR, AND YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT WITH THE STATISTICS IN REGARDS TO CALLS FOR SERVICE. S PARTICULARLY. NATIONWIDE AVERAGE FOR EMS RESPONSE FOR FIRE DEPARTMENTS IS 70, 75%. SO WE'RE NOT IMMUNE TO THAT HERE IN MINNEAPOLIS. IN REGARDS TOIC TAKING -- TO TAKING ON ADDITIONAL SCOPES OF WORK SUCH AS THE BEHAVIORAL OR MENTAL HEALTHANCE SOME OR INTERVENTION ROLE, THAT TO ME IS, SHOULD BE WELCOME WITH OPEN ARMS, NOT ONLY JUST HERE IN MINNEAPOLIS BUT NATIONWIDE. AND THE SCOPE OF WHAT WE DO YOU KNOW WE'RE TITLED, WE'RE CHARTED UNDER MINNEAPOLIS FIRE DEPARTMENT. THIS IS NOT GOING THROB POPULAR WITH OUR -- TO BE POPUL WITH OUR MEMBERS BUT WE SHOULD BE MINNEAPOLIS FIRE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES. OR MINNEAPOL FIRE AND RESCUE BECAUSE WE DO SO MUCH MORE THAN JUST FIGHT FIRE. SO WE EMBRACE THOSE ADDITIONAL TIES. WE EMBRACE THE EXPECTATIONS OF LOOKING AT WHAT ELSE WE CAN DO TO CONTRIBUTE TO A SAFER CITY HERE IN MINNEAPOLIS, AND WE'LL CONTINUE THAT UNDER MY ADMINISTRATION IF GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY. >> THANK YOU AND LAST THING IF YOU NEED SOME SPACE IN YOUR BUDGET, YOU CAN FEEL FREE TO CUT MY BROTHER-IN-LAW FROM A FEW RIGS. [LAUGHTER] ANK YOU. >> ROGER THAT. >> THANK YOU. ON THAT MOTION, TO MOVE THAT FORWARD TO FULL COUNCIL WITHOUT A RECOMMENDATION. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. THOSE OPPOSED SAY NAY. ANY ABSTENTIONS? THANK YOU F BEING HERE, DR. FREEMAN. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I APPRECIATE EVERYONE IT'S TIME. >> ALL RIGHT, COLLEAGUES. THERE ARE ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE D JUST ASK MY COLLEAGUES ON THE DAIS TO PLEASE WE NEED TO FINISH THESE ITEMS TODAY. IT JUST NEEDTO HAPPEN. AND IF YOU'RE GOING TO, YOU KNOW, BE ON QUEUE FOR 15INUTES TALKING, MAYBE LET'S ASK THOSE QUESTIONS VIA EMAIL. [LAUGHTER] I DON'T KNOW WHAT -- WE ALL HAVE THINGS TO SAY, SO I JUST NEED US TO, AS AN ASK TO MY COLLEAGUES, WHERE NEED US TO FINISH THESE I-- I NEED TO FINISH THESE ITEMS TODAY. I DO NOT WANT TO DELAY THESE ITEMS ANY FURTHER. ITEM NUMBER 8, RECEIVE AND FILE. WE NOW HAVE OUR NEXT ITEM IS RECEIVE AND FILE PART OF THE AGENDA STARTING WITH ITEM NUMBER 8. PRESENTATION RELATED TO SENIOR RESIDENT HOUSING STABILITY IN MINNEAPOLIS AND I'LL INVITE ASHLEY FROM OUR LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH AND OVER SIGHT SENIOR POLICY ADVISOR TO BEGIN THE PRESENTATION. WELCOME. >> GOOD AFTERNOON, CHA CHAVEZ AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE. MY NAME IS ASHLEY DZIUK AND I'M FROM LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH AND OVERSIGHT AND I'M HERE TO PRESENT ON SENIOR RESIDT HOUSING STABILITY AND COHOUSING OPTIONS. THE STAFF DIRECTION REQUESTED A LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS OF THE STATE OF HOUSING F SENIOR RESIDENTS IN MINNEAPOLIS AND POLICIES AND PROGRAMS FROM OTHER CITIES THAT HAVE INCREASED SENIOR HOUSING AND COOPERATIVE AND COHOUSING MODELS. JUST A LITTLE BACKGROUND. HOUSING SUPPLY ACROSS THE UNITED STATES FACES SEVERE SHORTAGES AND CHALLENGES INCLUDING AFFORDABLE, ACCESSIBLE, AND AGE FRIENDLY HOUSING FOR SENIORS. WHIL TRADITIONAL SENIOR HOUSING WILL PLAY A ROLE IN FULFILLING THIS NEED, EXPANDING HOUSING OPTIONS AND MODIFYING EXISTING HOUSING WILL BE NECESSARY AS WELL. ALREADY IN 2017 YOU CAN SEE ON THE MAP THERE IN MANY METRO AREAS ACROSS THE COUNTRY, MORE THAN A THIRD OF OLDER AGED 65 PLUS HOUSEHOLDS WERE COST BURDENED. MINNESOTA HOUSING STAFF SAID TOEET THE HOUSING NEEDS IN MINNESOTA, INCLUDING FOR OLDER ADULTS, A FULL CONTINUUM OF OPTIONS IS NECESSARY, ALONG WITH THE FUNDING AND FLEXIBILITY F ALL OF THEM. THIS SENTIMENT WAS ECHOED BY CITY HOUSING STAFF ACROSS THE COUNTRY. THERE IS NO ONE POLICY OR PROGRAM THAT WILL SOLVE HOUSING NEEDS FOR ALL SENIORS AS THEIR NEEDS AND WTS CAN VARY DRAMATICALLY. TO ADDRESS ALL OF THEM, THERE LIKE NEEDS TO BE A DOZEN OR MORE PROGRAMS THAT SUPPORT A VARIETY OF HOUSING OPTIONS. WHILE MNEAPOLIS HAS GOALS AROUND INCREASING AFFORDABLE SENIOR HOUSING, COMMUNITY PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STAFF STRESSED THAT EVEN SUBSIDIZED HOUSING IS N TRULY AFFORDABLE FOR MANY SENIORS ON FIXED INCOMES. NOW WE'LL GET INTO HOUSING AFFORDABILITY AND STABILITY FOR SENIOR RESIDENTS IN MINNEAPOLIS. ACCORDING TO MINNESOTA HOUSING, SOME COMMUNITIES HAVE SHARED IDENTITIES, EXPERIENCES, OR GEOGRAPHIES DISPROPORTIONATELY FACE HOUSING INSTABILITY AND EXPERIENCED DISPARITIES AND ACCESS AND OUTCOMES: THESE INCLUDE WEST INCOME, PEOPLE OF COLOR, PEOPLE OF DISABILITIES, SINGLE PARENTS, LARGE FAMILIES, AND OLDER ADULTS. THE REPORT CONTAINS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION DETAILING THESE DISPARITIES OF SEVERAL COMMUNITIES FACE WHEN FACING HOUSING AFFORDABILITY AND AVAILABILITY. WHEN HOUSEHOLDS ARE COST BURDENED, THEY HAVE FEWER RESOURCES TO MEET THEIR OTHER BASIC NEEDS, SUCH AS FOOD E CONSIDERED COST BURDENED WHEN 30% OR MORE OF THEIR INCOME IS SPENT ON HOUSING. IN 2023 IN MIESOTA, 29% OF HOUSEHOLDS, SORRY HOUSEHOLDS, AGED 65 TO 74, WERE COST BURDENED WITH THAT NUMBER INCREASING TO 40% FOR HOUSEHOLDS AGE 75 PLUS. 2024 DATA SHOW THAT 66% OF SENIOR RENTERS IN HENNEPIN COUNTY WERE COST BURDENED AND IT IS UNSURPRISINGLY THAT EXTREMELY LOW INCOME REPRESENTERS FACE THE LARGEST CHALLENGES IN FINDING AFFORDABLE HOUSING. HAVING A DISABILITY INCREASES THE LIKELIOD OF FACING HOUSING INSTABILITY. 38% OF HOUSEHOLDS WITH A DISABILITY ARE COST BURDENED. THE MAJORITY OF THE STATE'S AFFORDABLE HOUSING STOCK IS OLDER WITH LIMITED AMENITIES INCLUDING ACCESSIBILITY. AS THE CHART SHOWS, THE SHARE OF MINNESOTANS WITH A DISABILITY SUBSTANTIALLY IREASES AFTER AGE 74. THE CURRENT NEEDS OF THE REGION'S RESIDENTS COMPOUNDED WITH INCREASING NEEDS IS THE POPULATION -- AS THE POPULAON AGES MEANS A SUPPLY OF HOUSING OPTIONS ACCESSIBLE TO PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES MUST BE INCREASED. AS HOUSING AFFORDABILITY AND STABILITY ARE GREATLY IMCTED BY INCOME, THE POVERTY LEVEL OF ANY GIVEN POPULATION IMPACTS THAT POPULATID KEEP AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPTIONS. MINNESOTA'S POVERTY RATE IS AROUND 10% AND FOR THE FIRST TIME IN TWO -- ALMOST TWO DECADES, OLDER ADULT POVERTY IS AS HIGH AS THE STATEWIDE RATE. THIS HAS BEEN DRIVEN ALMT BY INCREASES IN POVERTY AMONG THOSE AGE 75 PLUS WHOSE POVTY RIGHT EXCEEDS THE STATEWIDE RATE. IN MINNEAPOLIS FROM 2018 TO 2022, THERE WERE 6,073 SENIORS AGED 65 PLUS BELOW POVERTY LEVEL. ANOTHER INDICATOR OF HOUSING INSTABILITY -- HOUSING STABILITY IS THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS. WHILE THE RESEARCHERS' 2023 STUDY AFOUND 1,223 ADULTS AGE 55 OR OLDER EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS. HOUSING COST BURDEN IS A KEY INDICATOR LIKE I SAID OF HOUSING AFFORDABILITY AND STABILITY. IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THIS KUTISTIC WOULD BE THE MOST EFFICIENT IN COMPARING MINNEAPOLIS SENIOR HOING AFFORDABILITY TO EXAMPLE CITIES. AND FOR CONSISTENCY AND EASE OF DIRECT COMPARISON, DATA FOR THIS CHART COMES FROM THE S. CENSUS BUREAU 2024 AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY ESTIMATES. AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE CHART, MINNEAPOLIS HAS THE LOWEST PERCENTAGE OF SENIOR RENTERS WHO ARE COST BURDENED, AT 49.2% COMPARED TO THE EXAMPLE STUDIES CITED THRGH THE REPORT. GETTG INTO A QUICK ESTIMATE OF AFFORDABLE SENIOR DESIGNATED UNITS CREATED SINCE 2020, THOUGH NOT COMPREHENSIVE, NONPROFIT USING LINK CAN PROVIDE SOME CONTEXT AROUND THE NUMBER OF SENIOR DESIGNATED AFFORDABLE UNITS CREATED SINCE 2020. IN MINNEAPOLIS, FROM 2020 TO 2024, FOUR SENIOR DESIGNATED NEW PROPERTIES WERE CREATED TOTALING 306 AFFORDABLE UNITS AND EIGHT SENIOR DESIGNATED PRESERVED OR STABILIZED PROFITS WERE CREATED TOTALING 787 AFFORDABLE UNITS. HOW AFFORDABLE THEY ARE IS WHAT IS SHOWN IN THE CHART THERE. AND IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT ONLY DEVELOPMENTS WITH PUBLIC AND/OR PRIVE CAPITAL FUNDING WITH AFFORDABILITY OBLIGATIONS ARE INCLUDED IN THESE NUMBERS. ONTO AN OVERVIEW OF LOCAL, STATE, AND FEDERAL PROGRAMS THAT PROVIDE HOUSING SUPPORT FOR SENIORS. THERE ARE MANY FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL PROGRAMS THAT SUPPORT S WITH LOW-INCOMES. THE LIST ON THE SLIDE IS A NONEXHAUSTIVE OVERVIEW OF PROGRAMS THAT EITHER TARGET SENIORS OR A MAIN GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS USED BY SENIORS TO HELP WITH THEIR HOUSING NEEDS. IT'S ALSO REALLY IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT ACCORDING TO PENS LENNERED DAVIS INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND ECONOMICS, THE ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL ACT IS PROJECTED TO CUT MEDICAID BENEFITS BY MORE THAN $1 TRILLION. THOUGH NOT DIRECTLY TIED TO SENIOR HOUSING, MEDICAID IS THE PRIMARY PAYER FOR LONG-TERM SVICES FOR OLDER ADULTS AND PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES. INCLUDING NURSING HOME AND IN-HOME CARE. IN ADDITION, MEDICAID CUTS MAY DRIVE DOWN PAY FOR ALREADY UNDERPAID CARE WORKERS. COMBINED WITH IMMIGRATION STRICTIONS, THERE COULD BE EVEN MORE SEVERE SHORTAGES IN BOTH NURSING HOMES AND HOME CARE. THIS MAY PUT MORE PRESSURE ON THE SENIOR HOUSING LANDSCAPE OVERALL. NEXT I'M GOING TO GOVER SOME LOCAL PUBLIC HOUSING COOPERATIVE AND COHOUSING EXAMPLES. MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY HAS 11 BUILDINGS TOTALING 1,957 UNITS THAT ARE DESIGNATED SENIOR UNITS. SENIOR DESIGNATED HIGH RISES ARE RESERVED FOR THOSE AGED 50 PLUS WITH PRIORITY GIVEN TO THOSE AGED 62 PLUS. MPHA STAFF SAID THEY ARE USUALLY ABLE TO GET THOSE 62 OR OLDER INTO THEIR SYSTEM QUITE QUICKLY, PLACING THEM IN A UNIT WITHIN A COUPLE MONTHS OF APPLICATION. THE AVAILABILITY OF SENIOR DESIGNATED UNITS IS MUCH GREATER THAN ANY OTHER TYPE OF MPHA UNIT. OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS, SENIOR UNITS HAVE NOT GENERALLY HAD A WAITING LIST FOR INDIVIDUALS AGE 62 PLUS AS OF APRIL WHEN I SPOKE WITH THEM THERE WAS CURRENTLY NO WAITING LIST FOR APPLICANTS AGE 62 PLUS. BUT FOR INDIVIDUALS AGED 50 PLUS, THERE WAS A WAITING LIST OF 2,635 APPLICANTS. TO MAKE SURE WE'RE L ON THE SAME PAGE I'M GOING -- ALL ON THE SAME PAGE I'M GOING TO PROVIDE SOME QUICK DEFINITIONS FOR COOPERATIVE AND COHOUSING MODELS. COOPERATIVEERIZE A HOUSING MODEL WHERE RESIDTS COLLECTIVELY OWN AND CONTROL THE CO-OP. TO JOIN A HOUSING CO-OP, MEMBERS PURCHASE A SHARE IN THE COOPERATIVE CORPORATION AND OBTAIN THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO OCCUPY A UNIT IN ADDITION TO DECISION MAKING POWER IN THE CO-OP'S GOVERNANCE. HOUSING CO-OPS ARE GENERALLY SET UPN ONE OF THE SEVERAL MAIN TAT COIRS LISTED ON THE -- MAIN CATEGORIES LISTED ON THELIDE THERE. COOPERATIVE IS THE LEGAL, FINANCIAL, AND OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE. COOPERATES CAN BE A TYPE -- COOPERATIVES CAN BE A TYPE OF COHOUSING. CONDOMINIUMS, SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES, ET CETERA, AND THE COMMUNITY STRUCTURE, COHSING, COLIVING, SUCH LIKE THAT. COMMUNITY THAT COMBINES PRIVATE LIVING SPACES WITH SHARED INDOOR AND OUTDOOR SPACES, DESIGNED TO SUPPORT CONNECTION, COLLABORATION, AND AN INTERDEPENDENT LIFE. IT IS NOT A LEGAL STRUCTURE BUT THE CONCEPT OF RESIDENAL DEVELOPMENT WHERE SOMEONE OWNS THEIR OWN PRIVATE HOME OR UNIT WITH THE GOAL OF A COLLABORATIVE NEIGHBORHOOD. THERE ARE COHOING COMMUNITIES THAT ARE CO-OPS, ONE THAT ARE CONDOMINIUMS AND SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES WITH A HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION. THERE CAN ALSO BE COLIVING WITHIN COHOUSING. COLIVING IS USUALLY SHARED HOUSING SUCH AS A ROOM IN A HOUSE. GETTING INTO SOME LOCAL EXAMPLES, WITH ABOUT 89 SENIOR COOPERATIVES, MINNESOTA IS HOME TO AROUND 60% O SENIOR COOPERATIVES HOUSING IN THE COUNTRY. THERE ARE CURRENTLY TWO SENIOR COOPERATIVES IN MINNEAPOLIS. BECKETT WOOD AND NOKOMIS SQUARE COOPERATIVE. SOME SENIOR CO-OPS ARE BELOW MARKET RATE, AND A FEW MAY INCLUDE AFFORDABLE UNITS: WHILE MANY OF THEM HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR DECADES, CREATING AND CONSTRUCTING NEW SENIOR CO-OPS ESPECIALLY FOR THE LOWER TO MILE INCOME MARKET WOULD LIKELY REQUIRE SIGNIFICANT OUTSIDE FINANCIAL SUPPORT. AND SPEAKING WITH THE COOPERATIVES LISTED ON THE SLIDE FOR THIS REPORT, ALONG WITH OTHER COOPERATIVE AND COHOUSING EXPERTS, MANY OF THEIR SUGGESTIONS FOR STEADYUPPORT WHICH YOU CAN FIND LISTED IN THE REPORT UNDER EACH OF THEIR RESPECTIVE SECTIONS, BUT BROADLY THEY FALL INTO SEVERAL BUCKETS AND I'M GOING TO COV THESE IN THE NEXT SECTION. IN SPEAKING LIKE I SAID WITH CITS FOR THE REPORTS, MOSE CITY HOUSING STAFF SAID FOCUS IS ON ADDING AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPTIONS FOR ALL LOW INCOME RESIDENTS RATHER THAN TARGETING SENIOR HOUSING SPECIFICALLY. AND AS REQUESTED I AM FOCUSING PRIMARILY ON COOPERATIVE AND COHOUSING MODELS BUT I DO INCLUDE A COUPLE MORE IN THIS PRESENTATIO AND THERE IS OTHER OPTIONS IN THE ROUTER AS WELL. THE FIRST BUCT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT IS CITY SERVICES. CITIES CAN PROVIDE SERVICES TO ENCOURAGE AND SUPPORT HOUSING COOPERATIVE AND COHOUSING MODELS. THIS COULD INCLUDE FOR EXAMPLE STREAMLINING THE PERMITTING AND APPROVAL PROCESSES FOR SENIOR SPECIFIC HOUSING PROJECTS OR PROVIDING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR HOUSING COOPERATIVES FOR EXAMPLE GOVERNANCE AND SELF-MANAGEMENT TRAINING, RESIDENT EDUCATION, THOSE SORTS OF THINGS. MANY COOPERATIVE AND COHOUSING INDIVIDUALS IN THE TWIN CITIES AND AROUND THE COUNTRY INTERVIEWED FOR THIS REPORT EMPHASIZED HOW BENEFICIAL CITY PROVIDED EDUCATION ANDECHNICAL ASSISTANCE WOULD BE IN SUPPORTING THESE HOUSING MODELS. ONE EMPLE PROGRAM BOSTON PROVIDES TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR HOUSING COOPERATIVES THROUGH A CONACTED PROVIDER FOR 20 HOURS A WEEK WHO SUPPORTS AT LEAST 500 UNITS OF HOUSING ACROSS FIVE TO 10 COOPERATIVES. THE SECOND BUCKET IS DEDICATED FUNDING AND FINCING. CITIES CAN PROVIDE SUBSIDIES OR GRANTS FOR HOME MODIFICATION, ACCESRY DWELLING UNITS OR FOR CREATION AND MAINTENANCE OF SENIOR COOPERATIVES. THEY CAN ALSO OFFER LOW NO INTEREST LOANS, TAX BREAKS AND GRANTSO COVER START-UP COSTS RENOVATIONS AND TO HELP INDIVIDUAL LOW-INCOME HOUSEHOLDS PURCHASE MEMBERSHIP SHARES. THE IMPORTANT PIECE HERE IS THAT IT IS TARGETED AND DEDICATED FUNDING FOR WHATEVER TYPE OF HOUSINGODEL YOU WANT TO FOCUS ON. ADDITIONALLY, NUMEROUS INDIVIDUALS INTERVIEWED IN THIS REPORT DISCUSSED THE IMPORTANCE OF ENSURING ALREADY EXISTING PROGRAMS CAN BE USED FOR COOPERATIVE AND COHOUSING MODELS. FOR EXAMPLE, ALLOWING INDIVIDUALS TO UTILIZE DOWN PAYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS TO PURCHASE COOPERATIVE HOUSING MEMBERSHIP SHARES. THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS' LOW MODERATE INCOME HOME BUYER DOWN PAYMENT ASSISTANCE LOAN CANNOT CURRENTLY BE USED FOR BUYING A HOUSING COOPERATIVE MEMBERSHIP: GETTING INTO SOME CITY EXAMPLES, CHICAGO'S SOUTHSHORE CONDO CO-OP PRESERVATION PROGRAM PROVIDES GRANTS TO EXISTING COOPERATIVES FOR NECESSARY CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS. AND THEIR SHARED EQUITY INVESTMENT PROGRAM PROVIDES COOPERATIVE PURCHAS PRICE ASSISTANCE AND ACQUISITION SUPPORT. IN NEW YORK NOT SURPRISING THEY HAD MANY PROGRAMS, THE AFFORDABLE NEIGHBORHOOD COOPERATI PROGRAM SELECTS QUALIFIED DEVELOPERS TO REHABILITATE DISTRESSED CITY OWNED OCCUPIED MULTIFAMILY PROPERTIES IN ORDER TO CREATE AFFORDABLE COOPERATIVES FOR LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSEHOLDS. IN ADDITION, THE CITY HAS MORE RECENTLY STARTED FINANCING AND NEW CONSTRUCTION -- TAXNS FOR EXEMPTIONS FOR NEW CONSTRUCTION, REHABILITATION, AND STABILIZATION OF HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATE COOPERATIVES. THESE HDFC CO-OPS BENEFIT FROM REDUCED REAL ESTATE TAXES IN EXCHANGE FOR FOLLOWING INCOME AND RESALE RESTRICTIONS AMONG OTHER GOVERNANCE RESTRICTIONS. AND THE CITY'S OPEN DOOR PROGRAM FUNDS THE NEW CONSTRUCTION OF COOPERATIVE AND CONDOMINIUM BUILDINGS AFFORDABLE FOR PURCHASE BY MODERATE AND MIDD INCOME HOUSELDS. LIKE I SAID, NEW YORK HAS SEVERAL OTHER PROGRAMS THAT ARE INCLUDED IN THE REPORT, WHICH SUPPORTS SENIOR HSING. AND LASTLY, IN 2024, SEATTLE FUNDED FOUR OUT OF TEN UNITS IN THE -- COOPERATIVE AND WILL ALSO BE PROVIDING MORE THAN $9 MILLION FOR THE UPCOMING 68-UNIT ULU. NEXT IN ADDITION TO FUNDING MANY INDIVIDUALS DIFFICULTY IN FINDING AND THEN SECURING LAND OR EXISTING BUDINGS, ESPECIALLY WHEN COMPETING AGAINST LARGE DEVELOPERS. CITIES CAN ASSIST SMALL DEVELOPERS AND PRIVATE CITIZENS TO FIND AND SECURE APPROPRIATE PROPERTIES. CITIES CAN ALSO LEVERAGE LAND THEY CURRENTLY OWN TO ENCOURAGE COERATIVE AND COHOUSING MODELS BY DONATING THE LAND IF CERTAIN CRITERIA ARE MET. IN BOULDER, FOR EXAMPLE, THE CITY IS CONSIDERING DONATING A PIECE OF CITY OWNED LAND TO A PROJECT IN EXCHANGE FOR A CERTAIN NUMBER OF PERMANENTLY AFFORDABLE UNI. THEY SENT AN RFP IN APRIL TO DEVELOPERS AND ARCHITECTS TO IDEALLY GET A COHOUSING MODEL DESIGN ELEMENTS. TENANTSIVE COMMUNITY, TENANT AND COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITY TO PURCHASE ACTS ARE LA THAT ALLOW TENANTS TO ORGANIZE AND PURCHASE THEIR BUILDING BEFORE IT IS SOLD TO A PRIVATE DEVELOPER WHICH CAN HELP FACILITATE THE CREATION OF COOPATIVES. TENANTS OFTEN STILL HOWEVER NEED HELP TO SECURE FINANCING, WHICH CAN COME FROM COMMUNITY LAND TRUST, NONPROFIT PARTNERS OR GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE. OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, MINNEAPOLIS HAS CONSIDERED DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF OPPORTUNITY TO PURCHASE AND RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL POLICIES. THE MOST RECENT VERSION IN THE TENANT PROTECTIONS ORDINANCE WAS INTRODUCED AGAIN AT THE BEGINNING OFHIS COUNCIL TERM AND WAS REFERRED TO STAFF ON MARCH 3rd. ZONING IS ANOTHER BUCKE ENSURING ZONING REGULATIONS ENABLE DENSITY COULD ENCOURAGE THE DEVELOPMENT OF MORE HOUSING TYPES SUITABLE FOR SENIORS, INCLUDING COOPERATIVE AND COHOUSING MODELS. IN 2019, MINNEAPOLIS BECAME THE FIRST MAJOR U.S. CITY TO ELIMINATE SINGLE-FAMILY ZONING. SEVERAL EXAMPLE S CITIES INTERVIEWED FOR THIS REPORT SAID THAT WHILE IT'S IMPORTANT FOR ZONING ALLOWS FOR DENR HOUSING MODELS THEY ARE STILL WAITING TO SEE THE IMPACT OF THOSE FEWER RESTRICTIONS. CPED STAFF COULD NOT IDENTIFY ANY ZONG CODE PROVISIONS THAT WOULD PROHIBIT COOPERATIVE OR COHOUSING MODELS IN MINNEAPOLIS. THEY DID HOWEVER POINT OUT THAT THOUGH MANY PROPERTIES WERE UPZONED IN THE 2040 PLAN, ALL APPLICABLE ILDING CODES AND RELATED POLICIES AND PROCEDURES HAVE NOT QUITE CAUGHT UP IN PRACTICE. SEVERAL LOCAL COOPERATIVE AND COUSING CREATORS AND A COUPLE TRYING TO CREATE ONE MENTIONED THE COMPLICATIONS OF WORKING WITH BUILDING CODES THAT DO NOT QUITE FIT THE UNIQUENESSF COOPERATIVE AND COHOUSING MODELS. THEY SUGGESTED THE CITY COULD CREATE BUILDING AND OTHER APPLICABLE CES THAT ARE SPECIFIC TO THOSE TYPES OF MODELS. CITIES CAN ALSO INCENTIVIZE OR USE INCENTIVES AND/OR REQUIREMENTSO ENCOURAGE THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO BUILD OR PRESERVE SENIOR HOUSING IN OER TO MEET YOUR GOALS. THIS COULD INCLUDE OFFERING INCENTIVES DEVELOPERS IF A SET NUMBER OR PERCENTAGE OF UNITS ARE AFFORDABLE FOR SENIORS AND NEW RESIDENTIAL PROJECTS OR OFFER PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTIONS FOR SENIOR HOUSING COOPERATIVES, COHOUSING, ET CETERA. THE LAST PROGRAM BUCKET IS QUITE DIFFERENT FROM THETHERS. IT IS DIRECTLY FUNDING SENIOR HOUSING SUPPORT PROGRAMS. SEVERAL CIES IN THIS REPORT HAVE DEVELOPED AND FUNDED PROGRAMS THAT HELP RESIDENTS SAFELY NAVIGATE ADDITIONAL SENIOR HOUSING OPTIONS. FOR EXAMPLE, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON'S HOME SHARE PILOT PROGRAM CONNECTS SENIORS WHO WISH TO RENT O BEDROOM -- RENT OUT A BEDROOM IN THEIR HOME TO VETTED INDIVIDUALS AND CONNUES TO PROVIDE SUPPORT THERE THE DURATION OF THE EN-- FOR THE DURATION OF THENTIRE RENTAL AGREEMENT. IN ROCHESTER MINNESOTA, THE COALITION FOR, A CROSS-SECTOR PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE CITY, COUNTY, ROCHESTER PILOTING A SENIOR HOUSINGENTLY MENTORSHIP PROGRAM, WHICH WILL TRAIN SENIORS WHO HAVE ALREADY NE THROUGH THE TRANSITION OF MOVING FROM THEIR FAMILY HOME INTO A RENTAL PROPERTY OR SMALLER HOME THEY WILL THEN HAVE OTHER SENIORS MAKE THAT SAME TRANSITION. SOME ADDITIONAL NATIONAL EXAMPLES, INCLUDE IN CHAGO HOME IS A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION THAT FOSTERS INDEPENDENCE, JOY,ND CONNECTION FOR SENIORS WITH LOW-INCOMES BY PROVIDING INTERGENATIONAL COHOUSING AND HOUSING SUPPORT SERVICES. IN CINCINNATI NONPROFIT RENTING PARTNERSHIPS HAS CREATE ADSELF-DESCRIBED RENTAL EQUITY CN EARN FINANCIAL CREDITS IF IT THEY MEET CERTAIN COMMITMENTS. AND IN PORTLAND, AND NOW THREE ADDITIONAL CITIES, BRIDGE MEADOWS IS AN INTERGENERATIONAL COMMUNITY WHICH USES THE POWER OF COMMUNITY TO HELP CHILDREN HEAL FROM THE TRAUMA OF FOSTER CARE. ELDERS LIVE IN THE COMMUNITY SERVING AS MENTORS, FRIENDS, AND CAREGIVERS TO THE CHILDREN AND EACH OTHER FORMING A SAFETY NET OF CARE AND INTERDEPENDENCE. THERE ARE SEVERAL OTHER NATIONAL PROGRAMS DISCUSSED IN THE REPORT, AND I HOPE YOU HAVE TIME TO EXPLORE SOME OF THEM IN MORE DETAIL AS YOU CONSIDER THIS TOPIC. THAT IS THE END OF MY PRESENTATION, AND I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PRESENTATION . >> THANK YOU SO MUCO YOU AND ASHLEY FOR THIS INCREDIBLE PRESENTATION. I'LLIRST PASS IT TO COUNCILMEMBER WONSLEY. >> THANK YOU, CHAIR CHAVEZ. I JUST WANTED TOIVE SOME BRIEF THANKS TO OUR LRO STAFF F PUTTING THIS PRESENTATION TOGETHER. I BROUGHT THE MOTION ASKING FOR THIS REPORT AFTER DOING A NUMBER OF DOOR KNOCKS IN MY WARD WHERE I SPOKE TO RESIDENTS W WERE STRUGGLING WITH NOT ONLY JUST AGING IN PLACE BUT ALSO FEELING AS IF THEY WERE CONFINED TO TT OPTION AS SOME OF THESE LARGER HOMES, ESPECIALLY IN PROSPECT PARK, BECAUSE THERE WEREN'T FORDABLE HOUSING OPTIONS -- AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPTIONS THAT THEY COULD TRANSITION INTO. THAT'S STILL WITHIN THEIR COMMUNITY OR EVEN WITHIN THE PARAMETERS OF MINNEAPOLIS. THEY FELT THEY WOULD EITHER HAVE T LEAVE MINNEAPOLIS OR THE STATE ALTOGETHER IF THEY WANTED TO PURSUE AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPTIONS. SO THEY WOULD RATHER STAY IN THESE HOMES THEY ARE BECOMING INCREASINGLY CHALLENGE FOR THEM TO MAINTAIN AND UPKEEP. AND ALSO I HEARD THIS FEEDBACK FROM OUR MINNEAPOLIS ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON AGING WHERE THEY ALSO NAMED WHEN I CHAIRED THE ADMINISTRATION ENTERPRISE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE THAT HOUSING WAS ANOTHER BIG ISSUE THAT COMES UP FOR OUR AGING POPULATION ACROSS THE CITY AND THE LACK OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPTIONS FOR THAT, SO D -- COMMUNITY. S WHILE IT WAS GREAT TO SEE THAT WE HAVE A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF SENIOR COOPERATIVES, IT'S VERY CLEAR ALSO WITH SLIDE 13 WHERE THAT DATA SHOWS TT FOR INDIVIDUALS 50 AND OLDER, THAT THERE IS A 2600 APPLICANT WAITLIST JUST FOR OUR PUBLIC HOUSING. SO FOR ME, I THINK THIS IS JUST PART OF THE ONGOING LESLATIVE WORK THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE T DO AS A BODY O LIKE HOW TO REIMAGINE USAGE OF OUR BONDING AND OUR FINANCING ASSETSO ACTUALLY ENCOURAGE MORE DEVELOPMENT OF EXTREMELY AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR SENIORS BECAUSE THEY'RE A PART OF OUR COMMUNITY AND THEY SHOULDN'T FEEL AS IF ONCE THEY REACH THE LATER PHASES OF THEIR LIVES, THAT THEY CAN'T STAY HERE BECAUSE IT'S NOT AFFORDABLE FOR THEM. SO I'M REALLY GRATEFUL THAT YOU ALL COMPILED THIS REPORT. THAT GIBS US SOME REAL GOOD EXAMPLES TO LOOK AT OTHERITIES THAT HAVE MODELED REALLY GOO WORK OF SUPPORTING THEIR AGING POPULATION AS WE ALSO DEVELOP NEXT STEPS ON HOW WE CAN DO THE SAME HERE IN OUR OWN BACKYAR SO I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. >> VICE CHAIR STEVENSON. >> THANK YOU. I HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS THAT I'LL EMAIL YOU ABOUT. THIS WAS REALLY INTERESTING. JUST ONE QUESTION. FOR RIGHT NOW. DUS MINNEAPOLIS HAVE LIMITS ON NONRELATED PEOPLE LIVING INHE SAME HOUSE? >> UM, I THINK THERE WERE SOME RECENT CHANGES. I THINK THERE ARE LIMITS BUT I AM NOT CURRENTLY AWARE OF THEM. >> I HAVE OTHER THINGS I WIL ASK YOU OFFLINE. THANK YOU. >> COUNCIL PRESIDENT PAYNE. >> THANK YOU, CHAIR CVEZ AND ECHOING SOME OF COUNCILMEMBER WONSLEY IT WAS CONVERSATION SHE HAS HAD AT DOORS. I HAVE HAD SIMILAR ONES AROUND MY WARD, FOLKS' ANXIETY ABOUT AGING IN PLACE AND IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT HOW EXPENSIVE HOUSING IS BUT ALSO ACCESS TO SERVICES AND BEING ABLE TO COMPLETE YOUR ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING AS PART OF A MORE EXPANSIVE VIEW OF WHAT IT MEANS TO AGE IN PLACE. SO THERE IS ORGANIZATIONS LIKE SOUTHEAST SENIOR SERVICES, THERE USED TO BE A SENIOR SERVICES ORGANIZATION SERVING NORTHEAST THAT WAS SIMILAR THAT HAS HAD TO FOLD AND I THINK THAT IT WOULD BE REALLY WISE OF US TO THINK ABOUT TH AS A FULL SYSTEM OF SERVING AN AGING COMMUNITY NOT JUST THE COST OF HOUSING BUT WHAT IT MEANS TO LIKE LIVE AND THRIVE AS YOU AGE IN PLACE. SO THANK YOU FOR THIS REPORT. >> COUNCILMEMBER VETAW. >> THANK YOU, CHAIR. I JT WANTED TO SAY THANKS FOR THE REPORT ALSO. WHAT I HEAR FROM S SENIORS OR THE AGING POPULATION ON THE NORTH SIDE IS PRIMARILY AROUND MARKET RATE HOUSING ACTUALLY. LIKE FOLKS WHO ARE SELLING THEIR HOMES AND ARE LKING FOR CONDOS WITH LOTS OF AMENITIES AND YOU KNOW, AN OPPORTUNITY TO STAY NEAR THEIR GRANDCHILDREN, THEIR CHURCHES, AND SO I CERTAINLY HAVE PEOPLE THAT ARE ASKING FOR MORE AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPTIONS. BUT I THINK IT'S KIND OF MIXED IN WHAT PEOPLE ARE LKING FOR. I'VE HAD LOTS OF CONVERSATIONS WITH SENIORS JUST ABOUT TRANSITIONING INTO TOWNHOMES OR CO-OPS SO THAT YOUNOW SOMEONE IS DOING THE YARD CARE AND THE THINGS THEY WANT TO GIVE UP IN THEIR SENIOR -- THEIR SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES, YOU KNOW, THAT THEY HAD FOR 40-PLUS YEARS SO I THINK IT'S JUST KIND OF A MIX OF WHAT I HEAR ON THE NORTH SIDE BUTERTAINLY A NEED FOR MANY DIFFERENT OPTIONS, AND I LL JUST SAY THERE IS ALSO -- I WAS JUST HAVING A CONVERSATION WITH A DEVELOPER AOUPLE WEEKS AGO ABOUT THE NEED FOR THERE BEING SENIOR ASSISTEDIVING FACILITIES IN MINNEAPOLIS AND IN PARTICULAR NORTH MINNEAPOLIS. RIGHT WHERE THEY CAN GET HELP IF THEY HAVE MEDICALONDITIONS OR IF THEY, IF YOU KNOW IF THEY'RE ON THEIR OWN BUT THEY JUST WANT TO BE AMONGST COMMUNITY. YOU KNOW LOT OF OUR SENIORS JUST WANT THAT FEELING OF COMMUNITY AND NOT LIVE BY THEMSELVES AND HAVE SOMEONE AROUND AND SO I THINK I'VE BEEN HEARING ABOUT MIXED, HOW OUR SENIORS NEED SO MANY DIVERSE THINGS BECAUSE THEY Y CENTERS LIKE JUST FOR SENIORS. HOW DO WE BUILD UP ACTIVITIES NEAR WHEREVER WE ARE PUTTING NEW LIVING FACILITIES EVEN IF IT'S NOT JUST FOR SENIORS, SO I THINK IT'S KIND OF MIXED. I'M GLAD TO SEE THIS PRESENTATION, AND I'LL CERTAINLY BE FOLLOWING UP WITH SOME MORE QUESTIONS AND MAYBE SOME ACTION ITEMS. SO THANK YOU. >> SEEING NO FURTHER DISCUSSION, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. WE APPRECIATE YOU, ASHLEY AND THE LOR DEPARTMENT. I WILL ASK THE CLERK TO FILE THA REPORT. OUR NEXT ITEM IS RECEIVING THE FIRST AND SECOND QUARTER UPDATES REGARDING THE NON-FATAL SHOOTING TASK FORCE. ACTUALLY JUST KIDDING. JUST KIDDING. JUST KIDDING. OUR NEXT ITEMS RECEIVING AN OVERVIEW OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH ADVISORY COMMITTEE. I'LL INVITE MARGARET OUR SENIOR PUBLIC HEALTH SPECIALIST TO BRING THAT PRESENTATION. I JUST SKIPPED IT BY ACCIDENT. >> YOU SCARED ME FOR A SECOND. I WAS LIKE AND WE'RE OFF. ALL RIGHT. I THINK WE'RE READY TO GO. >> WELCOME. >> HELLO, CHAIR CHAVEZ AND COUNCILMEMBERS. MY NAME IS MARGARET SCHUSTER AND I'M A SENIOR PUBLIC HEALT SPECIALIST IN THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. I'M ALSO THE STAFF LIAISON FOR THE PUBLIC HEALTH ADVISORY COMMITTEE, AND I'M HERE WITH BHUPINDER MANHANI, WE'RE GOING TO PRESENT A BRIEF HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW OF THE PHC, AS WELL AS ITS PURPOSE, MEMBERSHIP, AND HIGHLIGHT A FEW OF THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS. I HAVE TO DO SOMETHING HERE. THE PHAC IS THE LONGEST STANDING VOLUNTEER ADVISORY COMMITTEE IN MINNEAPOLIS. IT WAS FIRST ESTABLISHED IN 1976 AS A RESULT OF THE REORGANIZATION OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM IN THE STATE OF MINNESOTA, WHICH REQUIRED THAT COMMUNITY HEALTH BE THEY ACTUALLY HAVE A COMMUNITYAT ADVISORY COMMITTEE. AND SO PHAC FIRST GOT ESTABLISHED DURING THAT TIME. THEIR PURPOSE REALLY IS TO SERVE THE CITY COUNCIL, THE MAYOR, AND THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, AND PROVIDE RECOMMENDATIONS ON MATTERS THAT AFFECT THE PEOPLE IN MINNEAPOLIS. WHETHER THOSE ARE RESIDENTS, OR VISITORS. OR THE VARIETY OF EVENTS OR TRAGEDIES THAT WE HAVE IN THE STATE. IN THE CITY. THEY ALSO SERVE AS LIAISONS BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE COMMUNITY. THEY LISTEN TO TH COMMUNITY'S VOICE, THEY HEAR THEIR CONCERNS, THEIR COMPLAINTS. ND VIEWS. AND THEN ARE ABLE TO DIRECT THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS OR DIRECT THOSE COMMENTS TO THE APPROPRIATE PART WHETHER IT'S CITY COUNCIL, MAYOR, OR THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. IN REGARDS TO THE MEMBERSHIP, MEMBERS ARE APPOINTED TO SERVE TWO-YEAR TERMS AND THEN THEY CAN SERVE UP TO FOUR CONSECUTIVE TERMS. WE HAVE 21EMBERS ON THE COMMITTEE. AND THEY REPRESENT EACH OF THE 13 WARDS. WE HAVE TWO REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE MAYOR'S OFFICE. WE HAVE THREE MEMBERS THAT ARE NOMINATED BY THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT FOR SPECIFIC PROFESSIONAL OCCUPATIONAL, EDUCATIONAL, OR LIVED EXPERIENCES THAT ALIGN WITH HEALTH DEPARTMENT GOALS. AND WE HAVE THREE EXTERNAL APPOINTMENTS FROM LONGTIME PARTNERS LIKE THE MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS, THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, AS WELL AS HENNEPIN COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH. AND THA CAN BE HENNEPIN COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH OR HUMAN SERVICES. IN ADDITION, MEMBERS MUST COMPLETE ONBOARDING REQUIREMENTS, WHICH INCLUDE AN OATH OF OFFICE, ETHICS TRAINING, AND A PARTICIPANT AGREEMENT. THIS SLIDE I JUST WANTED TO SHOW YOU THE DEPTH OF THE EXPERIENCE THAT THE MEMBERSHIP HAS. THEY HAVE A DEEP WELL OF EXPERTISE WHETHER IT'S EDUCATIONAL, OR WE RANGING PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL EXPERIENCES. AND NOW CHAIR CHAVEZ, AND OTHER COUNCILMEMBERS, I'M GOING TO RN IT OVER TO BHU WHO WILL PRESENT THE REST OF THE SLIDES. >> I'M THE ASSOCIATE VICE CHAIR FOR THE PHAC AND I WORK AS A HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATOR IN A LOCAL HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM. I WANT TO START BY ST HIGHLIGHTING A COUPLE OF WAYS THAT PHAC HAS SUPPORTED OUR CITY OVER THE LAST YEAR, AND IT'S HELPFUL TO GROUP OUR WORK INTO THREE DIFFERENT AREAS FIRST WOULD BE PROVIDING POLICY INPUT. EXAMPLES OF THIS ARE SUBMITTING RECOMMENDATIONS ON OPERATION METRO SURGE INCLUDING A LETTER THAT WE HAD IN SUPPORT OF AN EVICTION MORATORIUM, AND THEN WE'VE ALSO PROVIDED RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE CITY'S OPIOID RESPONSE STRATEGIC PLAN. THESE TYPES OF OPPORTUNITIES HELP BRING A PUBLIC HEALTH PERSPECTIVE TO THESE POLICY DISCUSSIONS THAT IMPACTED MINNEAPOLIS RESIDENTS. SECOND IS SUPPOING THE PUBLIC HEALTH PLANNING. WE BECAME THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR THE COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSESSMENT AND ALSO PROVIDED FEEDBACK ON THE DEPARTMENT'S STRATEGIC PLAN, AND THESE TYPES OF EFFORTS HELP ENSURE THAT COMMUNITY VOICES AND DIVERSE PROFESSIONAL PERSPECTIVES ARE INFORMING OUR NG-TERM PLANNING. AND THEN FINALLY, COMMUNITY -- SUPPORTIN COMMUNITY HEALTH INITIATIVES. SOME MEMBERS HAVE VOLUNTEERED TO HOST AIR QUALITYONITORS, WE ALSO PARTICIPATE IN VARIOUS EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES. EITHER BYRINGING IN SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS TO OUR MEETINGS AND/OR GOING OUT TOHE CITY AND THE COMMUNITY SUCH AS TOURING THE WATER TREATMENT PLANT AFTER WE LEARNED A BIT MORE ABOUT IT THROUGH THE TAP WATER AMBASSADOR PROGRAM. THESE TYPES OF ACTIVITIES HAVE HELPED US BE BETTER INFORMED ADVISORS WHILE ALSO SUPPORTINGHE DEPARTMENT'S INITIATIVES. ACROSS ALL OF THESE ACTIVITIES OUR GOAL HAS BEEN TO SERVE AS A RESOURCE THAT CAN BRING TOGETHER COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVES A EVIDENCE BASED THE LAST YEAR, PHAC HASYOND JUST CONSISTENTLY SERVED AS A FORMM WHERE EMERGING PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUES CAN BE EXPLORED BEFORE OR DURING POLICY DISCUSSIONS. OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, WE'VE HELPED DEVELOPED CHILDHOOD LEAD POISONING GUIDELINES, GIVEN FEEDBACK DURING THE COVID 19 RESPONSE, SUPPORTED A NUMBER OF OF DIFFERENT HEALTH ORDINANCES AND RESPONDED TO COUNCIL REQUES TO STUDY TOPICS SUCH AS CRUMB RUBBER IN PLAROUNDS. THE SPECIFIC ISSUES CAN CHANGE OVER TIME, BUT PHAC'S ROLE HAS REMAINED CONSISTENT, BRINGIN TOGETHER COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND PROFESSIONALS FROM DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES TO EXAM ISSUES THROUGH A PUBLIC HEALTH LENS. LOOKING FORWARD, WE'D REALLY LIKE TO STRENGTHEN OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY COUNCIL AND WITH THE MAYOR. PHAC ISN'T BEST USES WHEN REACTING AFTER DECISIONS HAVE BEEN MADE. WE DO TRY TO REGULARLY REVIEW THE COUNCILMEMBERS', COUNCIL COMMITTEES' SPEANDZ AND THE AGENDAS OF OTHER ADVISORY COMMITTEES SO WE CAN IDENTIFY WHERE A PUBLIC HEALTH EXPECTER MIGHT BE HELPFUL BUT WE MIGHT ALSO WELCOME OPPORTUNITIES TO ENGAGE IN THESE TYPES OF DISCUSSIONS. ARE THERE PARTICULARLY POLICY -- ARE THERE PARTICULAR POLICY AREAS WHERE YOU THINK AN EARLY PUBLIC HEALTH PERSPECTIVE WOULD BE HELPFUL? ARE THERE EMERGING ISSUES OR PRIORITIES YOU'D LIKE PHAC TO SPEND MORE TIME ON OVER THE COMING YEAR? AND FINALLY HOW CAN WE BEST SUPPORT THE COUNCIL. OUR GOAL IS TO BE A CONSTRUCTIVE PARTNER AND A RESOURCE THAT CAN HELP INFORM POLICY DECISIONS BEFORE THEY ARE FINALIZED. WITH THAT SAID THANK YOU F THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE MORE ABOUT PHAC TODAY. WE APPRECIATE YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, WE APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PARTNER WITH ALL OF YOU, THE MAYOR, AND THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT IN ADVANCING THE HEALTH OF MINNEAPOLIS RESIDENT WITH THAT SAID, WE'RE HAPPY TOIC TAANY FEEDBACK YOU MIGHT HAVE -- TO TAKE ANY FEEDBACK YOU MIGHT HAVE ON THE QUESTIONS THAT WE POSED OR ANY QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE FOR US. >> THANK YOU FOR TT PRESENTATION, BHU AND MARGARET AND FOR THE WORK OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH ADVISORY COMMITTEE. AND THE WORK AND ADVOCACY OF THE COMMITTEE TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC HEALTH OF OUR NEIGHBORS HERE IN MINNEAPOLIS IN ADDITION TO THE ADCACY TO PROTECT OUR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY ESPECIALLY FROM THE IMPACT OF OPERATION METRO SURGE THAT OUR COMMUNITY PLEBS ARE -- MEMBERS ARE STILL FEELING THE IMPACT AND WILL FOR THE YEARS TO COME, SO JUST THANKFUL THAT YOU ALL CAME TO COMMITTEE TODAY AND PLEASE SEND MY THANK YOU TO THE ADVOCACY OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH ADVISORY COMMITTEEHO I REALLY APPRECIATE THE EXPERTISE AND WORK THAT THEY DO IN THE CITY. >> THANK YOU. >> WITH THAT, I DON'T SEE ANODY ELSE ON QUEUE, SO COLLEAGUES, IF YOU DO HAVE QUESTIONS, FOLLOW UP OVER EMAIL AND YOU CAN GIVE IT TO OUR CLERKS. WITH THAT, SEEING NO FURTHER DISCUSSION ON THIS ITEM, I'LL ASK THE CLERK TO RECEIVE AND FILE THAT REPORT. OUR NEXT ITEM IS RECEIVING THE FIRST AND SECOND QUARTER UPDATES REGARDING THE NON-FATAL SHOOTING TASK FORCE. LIEUTENANT SCHROEDER TO BEGIN THAT PRESENTATION. WELCOM. >> GOOD AFTERNOON. DO YOU WANT TO INTRODUCE YOURSELF? >> I'M COMMANDER ZIMMEAN OF MAJOR CRIMES UNIT, AND LIEUTENANT SCHROEDER IS IN CHARGE OF THE HOMICIDE UNIT AND TEAM.D PUT TOGETHER OUR NEW FAST >> THANK YOU AND IF WE CAN GET CLOSE TO THE MIC SO WE CAN HEAR YOU CLEARLY THAT WOULD BE GREAT. >> HEY, GOOD AFTERNOON. THANKS FOR HAVING US TODAY. I I'M ANDREW SCHROEDER THE LIEUTENANT IN MAJOR CRIMES HERE TODAY TO TALK ABOUT OUR NON-FATAL SHOOT TEAM WHEN WE CALL FAST FOR FIREARM ASSAULT SHOOT TEAM. COUNCILMEMBER WONSLEY HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME KIND OF SEE US IN ACTION, AND GET A LITTLE TOUR OF WHAT WE DO, HOW WE DO IT, AND TODAY I'M JUST HERE TO GIVE A BRIEF HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW OF WHAT WE'VE DONE SO FAR. SO KIND OF JUST HISTORICALLY BEFORE FAST, HOMICIDE DETECTIVES WERE ASSIGNED SHOOTINGS. THAT TOOK AWAY FROM HOMICIDE INVESTIGATIONS. AND S JUST KIND OF A LITTLE HISTORY OF WHERE WE WERE LAST YEAR. WE HAD 226 INCIDENTS, 310 VICTIMS, AND 32 MULTIPLE VICTIM SHOOTINGS, TWO OR MORE. SO AS YOU GUYS TALKED ABOUT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MEETING HERE, WE HAD A COUPLE BIG ONES OVER THE WEEKEND, THE NINE-PERSON SHOOT AT RAIN AND THEN A FIVE-PERSON SHOOT AT 19th AND NICOLLET AND THEN ANNUNCIATION HAD 29 GUNSHOT VICTIMS, WAS THE HIGHEST VICTIM COUNT, THE LARGEST MASS SHOOTING IN THEOUNTRY LAST YEAR. SO WHO GETS SHOT IN MINNEAPOLIS? THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE LAST YEAR, AND IN THEATA IS SIMILAR THIS YEAR. SO 248 MALES, 62 FEMALES, 52 OF THE PEOPLE SHOT WERE JUVENILES. A LARGE PERCENTAGE JUST WE'RE TALKING STRAIGHT FACTS HERE, BLACK MALES UNDER THE AGE OF 35. O WE CREATED THE FIREARM ASSAULT SHOOT TEAM. WE STARTED MARCH 22nd SO WE'VE BEEN GOING YOU KNOW ABOUT 16 WEEKS HERE. THIS WAS CREATED ON THE LAST TIME WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE HERE. SO WHO IS IN FAST? WE HAVE A LIEUTENANT, LIEUTENANT ADAM LAPINSKY IS OVERSEEN BY COMMANDER ZIMMERMAN. WE HAVE FOUR B AGENTS. RAMSEY COUNTY DEPUTY, METRO COUNTY DEPUTY, WE HAVE THREE OFFICERS FROM BLOOMINGTON TH ARE HERE JUST FOR THE SUMMER, AND THEN WE ALSO SHARE INTELLIGENCE WITH YOU NAME THE AGENCY AROUND, THAT'S WHO WE SHARE INFORMATION WITH. HENNEPIN COUNTY IS A HUGE PARTNER. AND THEN SINCE THIS SLIDE WAS CREATED WE'VE ALSO ADDED A FEDERAL PARTNER, SPECIAL A HUGE TREMENDOUS SUPPORT TO US. WE ALSO HAVE THE SAME TYPE OF SUPPORT IN HOMICIDE UNIT OF FEDERAL ATF AGENT. SO THIS WAS AS OF JUNE 25TH OF WHERE WRE AT FOR THE YEAR. 66 IIDENTS, 91 VICTIMS. AND THE GRAPH ON THE SIDE JUST KIND OF SHOWS WHERE SHOOTINGS ARE HAPPENING. MAJORITY OF SHOOTINGS HAPPENED IN THE FOURTH PRECINCT AND THE THIRD PRECINCT. AND THEN JUST A LITTLE CONTEXT FORHERE WE'RE AT RIGHT NOW. SINCE JULY FIRST WE'VE HAD A BUSY JULY, WE'VE HAD 32 NON-FATAL SHOOTING VICTIMS, THREE HOMICIDE VICTIMS. SO WHAT DO WE DO IN FAST? WE DON'T READ THE CASES AND DECIDE IF TRE IS ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO GO INVESTIGATE IT. EVERY SINGLE SHOOTING AS IT SHOULD BE IS THOROUGHLY INVESTIGATED LIKE A HOMICIDE. ALL OF THEM, NO MATTER IF THE VICTIM IS COOPERATIVE OR NOT, IF THEY LIE OR NOT, IF THEY TELL US WHERE IT HAPPENED OR NOT, WE INVESTIGATE IT TO THE BEST OF OUR ABILITY. PART OF THE REASON THAT FAST IS SUCCSFUL AND THE MODEL IS SUCCESSFUL IS BECAUSE WE'RE TAKING SHOOTERS OFF THE STREET. SO THAT MEANS PEOPLE THAT ARE SHOOTING ARE NOW NOT THERE TO COMMIT DOMESTIC ASSAULT. TO COMMIT ROBBERIES. TO COMMIT OTHER VIOLENT CRIMESMENT WE'RE TAKING THEM OFF THE STREET BY THOROUGHLY INVESTIGATING ALL SHOOTINGS. PART OF THE SHOOTING, THE FAST TEAM IS IT'S HOUSED NEXT TO OUR HOMICIDE UNIT, WHICH I'LL PUT OUR HOMICIDE UNIT UP AGAINST ANYONE IN THE COUNTRY. THEY ARE THE BEST INVESTIGATORS AROUND. AND TO HAVE THESE KIND OF NEW UNGER INVESTIGATORS SITTING WITH THE HOMICIDE UNIT LIKE YOU SAW COUNCILMEMBER WONSLEY, ERE'S THIS KIND OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND MENTORSHIP GOING ON EVERY SINGLE DAY. WE HAVE INCREASED COMMUNICATION WITH THE USE OF RESOURCES THROUGH HENNEPIN COUNTY AND THE BCA AND ALL HOWEVER THE METRO -- ALL OVER THE METRO AND BY SOLVING VIOLENT CRIME, BY HOLDING PEOPLE THAT SHOOT PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE, WHAT'S COOL ABOUT TALKING AUT SHOOTINGS IS EVERYONE AGREES THAT SHOOTING SOMEONE IS WRONG. AND THAT'S PROBABLY SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN IN THIS ROOM A LOT. WHERE EVERY SINGLE PERSON AGREE ON SOMETHING. WE ARE ABLE TO THOROUGHLY INVESTIGATE AND HOLD PEOPLE THAT SHOOT PEOPLE THAT FIRE GUNS IN THE CITY IN FRONT OF PEOPLE'S HOUSES, HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE AND SEND THEM TO JAIL. BY, BY HOLDING PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE, PROVES TRUST WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT WE'RE INVESTIGATING,HEIR SON OR THEIR DAUGHTER, OR THEIR NIECE OR NEPHEW GETTING SHOT. CLEARANCE RATES. I DIDN'T EVEN WANT TO SPEAK ABOUT THIS BECAUSE IT'S TOO EARLY. THESE CES TAKE TIME. WE'RE STILL WORKING ON CLEARANCE RATES IN THE HOMICIDE UNIT FROM SEVERAL YEARS AGO. THESE ARE LONG COMPLEX INVESTIGATIONS, BUT AS IT IS, 2025 THE BASELINE WAS 73 CASES AT 41% CLOSURE, WHICH IS DECENT. THAT'S ALL I GOT FOR YOU TODAY. NOW THAT WE'VE GIVEN YOU KIND OF THE OVERVIEW OF IT, NOW FUTURE UPDATES AND MEETINGS WE CAN KIND OF JUST TALK ABOUT WHERE WE'RE TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS. I'M HAPPY >> THANK YOU. MINORITY LEADER WONSLEY. >> THANK YOU, CHAIR CHAVEZ. OF COURSE ALWAYS EXCITED TO RECEIVE UPDATES ABOUT THE STATUS OF OU FAST TEAM OR OUR NON-FATAL SHOOTING TASK FORCE. OF COURSE WE'RE ALSO R ALWAYS LOOKING AT THE TREMENDOUSUCCESS THAT'S HAPPENING ACROSS THE RIVER WITH ST. PAUL RECENY ACCOMPLISHING ABOUT 100% CLOSURE RATE SINCE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THEIR FAST TEAM AS WELL OR THEIR NON-FATAL SHOOTING TASK FORCE AND I THINK THAT SUCCESS ALSO LEVERAGING UP WHICH SOME OF YOU WERE PART OF THAT PRESS CONRENCE, BUT WITH THE STATE ALSO NOW DEVOTING RESOURCES TO OTHER JURISDICTIONS ACROSS THE STATE TO DO SIMILAR WORK TO REDUCE GUN VIOLENCE IN THR COMMUNITIES AS WELL SO SEEING THIS IS A MODEL NOT ONLY BEING EMBRACED NATIONALLY BUT SEEING TWO OF MINNESOTA'S LARGEST CITIES ALSO ADOPT THIS AS A CRITICAL WAY OF REDUCING GUN VIOLENCE IN THEIR COMMUNITIES AND GTING SMALL PORTION OF OUR GENERAL A COMMUNITY BUT THAT COMMIT A BULK OF THESE VIOLENT CRIMES BY BEING TARGETED IN OUR RESOURCES AND GOING AFTER THAT SPECIFIC POPULATION HOW THAT FREES YOU UP FOR OR MAN POWER WITHIN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO ACTUALLY THEN DO THE, THE ACCOUNTABILITY PIECE. GETTING THE PEOPLE OFF THE STREETS AND WORKING WITH OUR VARIOUS PARTNERS TO DO SO. SO ALWAYS HAPPY TO HEAR THE PROGRESS THAT'S BEING MADE SINCE THE VERY EARLY IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS. YOU MENTIONED MARCH, AND I JUST WANTED TO ALSO GET JUST SOME UPDATES BECAUSE SCE MARCH AS YOU'RE AWARE WE'VE HAD SOME PRETTY SIGNIFICANT SHAKE-UP IN OUR POLICE DARTMENT LEADERSHIP STRUCTURE. SO I JUST WANT TO GET AENSE OF HAS THERE BEEN ANY IMPACTS TO THE FAST TEAM AS WELL IN TMS OF YOUR MAKEUP, SINCE THERE HAS BEEN THIS ORGANIZATIONAL OVERHAUL AT THE LEADERSHIP LEVEL UNDER OUR CURRENT INTERI CHIEF? >> YES, THANKS FOR THE QUESTION. THE MAJOR CHANG IS THAT SINCE INTERIM CHIEF, CHIEF PETERN CAME WITHIN WEEKS WE HAD AN ATF AGENT SITTING WITH US IN FAST. >> OKAY. >> AND I JUST GOT OFF THE PHONE WITH CHIEF PETERSON AND I TALKED WITH SHERIFF LAST NIGHT, AND WE'RE HOPEFULLY GOING TO BE WORK WITH US ON THE FAST TEAM ALSO. >> OKAY. >> AND THAT'LL BE VY IMPORTANT. >> AND ACTUALLY THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WE TALKED ABOUT DURING OUR TOUR AS WELL I THINK IT WOULD BE GOOD FOR THIS BODY TO GET A LITTLE BUT MORE CLARITY BECAUSE I HEARD SOME CONFUSION RAISING A COUPLE WEEKS AGO ABOUT THE MAKEUP OF THE FAST TEAM IN TERMS OFTAFFING, SO I KNOW THE BUDGET AMENDMENT EARMARKED JUST UNDER $2 MILLION FOR AND THIS IS WITHIN MONOPOLY'S EXISTING BUDGE -- MPD'S EXISTING BUDGET TO SUPPORT THE USAGE OF INVESTIGATORS AND I KNOW THERE HAS BEEN SOME CHALLENGESITH HOW TO BRING IN THE SEASONED INVESTIGATORS THAT YOU ALL NEED IN ORDER TO ACTUALLY EXECUTE THE WORK. BUT I'VE BEEN SO IMPRESSED WI THE CREATIVE WAYS IN WHICH YOU'VE BROUGHT IN JURISDICTIONAL PARTNERS ACROSS JURISDICTIONAL PARTNERS TO HELP FULFILL THE GAPS AND AT LEAST DURING THE TOUR, I WAS INFORMED THATT SOME OF THESE FOLKS WERE DOING IT IN THEIR VOLUNTEER CAPACITY. SO CA YOU JUST GIVE AN OVERVIEW OF LIKE THE COMPOSITION OF THE TEAM OF YOU KNOW, PAID PERSONNEL TO THE SUPPORT THAT WE'RE RECEIVING FROM OTHER AGENCIES IN A VOLUNTARY CAPACITY.? >> SO WE PAY MINNEAPOLIS DETECTIVES. EVERYONE ELSE WE'RE NOT PAYING THE BCA, WE'RE NOT PAYING RAMSEY COUNTY.WE'RE NOT PAYING METRO TRANSIT. WE'RE NOT GIVING THEM CARS. WE'RE FOUGHT GIVING THEM ANYTHING EXCEPT -- NOT GIVING THEM ANYTHING EXCEPT ACCESS TO OUR REPORTS, OUR RESOURCES. SO IF THEY GET CALLED IN ON THEIR OVERTIME, THAT'SN THEIR CITY. WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT THE MAKEUP OF THIS IS THAT ONLY TO DATE ONLY ABOUT 47 WE'LL CALL IT 50% OF OUR SHOOTING VICTIMS ACTUALLY LIVE IN THE CITY. THAT MEANS HALF OF OUR SHOOTING VICTIMS LIVE IN BROOKLYN PARK, BROORK LN CENTER, YOU NAME THE CITY, THAT'S WHERE THEY LIVE. THAT'S WHY THERE'S THIS BUY IN FROM YOU KNOW ESPIALLY BLOOMINGTON. ONE OF OUR FIRST SHOOTING CASES ONE OF THE VICTIMS WAS FROM BLOOMINGTON AND THE SUSPECT WAS ARRESTED AT HIS HOUSE IN BLMINGTON. COMING TO THE CITY TO DO VIOLENT CRIME. SO WE'RE NOT PAYING ANYTHING EXCEPT THE SEVEN OFFICERS AND THE LIEUTENANT. >> THANK YOU FOR CONFIRMING AT. SO FOR THE MPD OR CITY SIDE WE HAVE EIGHT DEDICATED AFFING TOWARDS THIS, AND EVERYONE ELSE IS DOING IT IN THEIR VOLUNTARY CAPACITY. I THINK THAT'S AMAZING. AGAIN, HOW YOU'VE NAVIGATED SOME OF THE STAFFING CHALLENGES TO MAK SURE WE'RE GETTING THAT SEASONED EXPERTISE WE NEED. AND ALSO JUST FOR CLEARWAR CLARITY WITH THE SEVEN DEDICATED STAFF THEY ARE BASICALLY DOING CITYWE WORK BECAUSE THEY'RE TAKING THESE -- THE CASES THAT YOU ALL ARE, YOU KNOW, RECEIVG, THE NON-FATAL, THIS IS HAPPENING FROM ALL ACROSS THE CITY BECAUSE I THINK THERE HAS BEEN SOME CONCERNS AROUND IS THIS REMOVING RESOURCES FROM ONE AREA FOR ANOTHER. FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, THIS IS DEDICATED TO ADDRESSING CITYWIDE SHOOTINGS, CORRECT? >> 100%. >> ONE THING, COUNCILMEMBER, THE SINCE WE STARTED FAST, AND I BELIEVE WE TOLD YOU THIS WHEN WE MET WITH YOU A FEW MONTHS AGO, AND IT'S GOTTEN BETTER SINCE EVEN, IS HOMICIDE NOW HAS TIME TO CLEAR UP SOME OF THE CASES FROM LAST YEAR, AND YOU KNOW THAT THEY DN'T HAVE TIME BECAUSE THEY WERE WORKING HOMICIDE AND SHOOT -- YOU KNOW, WHATHE FAST TEAM IS DOING NOW. AND SO IT'S GIVEN THEM MORE TIME TO FOLLOW UP ON THOSE CASES, AND I KNOW I'VE TALKED TO SOMEMOTORS ME MOTHERS AT SCENES, AT THE HOSPITAL FOR OUR VICTIMS OF SHOOTINGS, THE NON-FATAL SHOOTINGS, AND THEY JUST APPRECIATE SO MUCH HAVING AN OFFICER, AN INVESTIGATOR COME, DOESN'T MATTER WHAT TIME A NIGHT, SEN DAYS A WEEK. AND THEY REALLY APPRECIATE IT. AND IT'S MAKING A DIFFERENCE. >> NO, IOVE THAT, AND THIS MIGHT BE RAISED IN THE QUARTERLY REPORT THAT MPD'S PRESENTING, BUT I THINK THEY DID THIS PREVIOUSLY OF YOU HIGHLIGHTG AGAIN, AND YOU SAID THIS IN THE, THIS HAS BEEN OR UPLIFTED IN THE MODEL ITSELF AS YOU JUST HIGHLIGHTED WHEN YOU'RE ADDRESSING THE NON-FAT SHOOTINGS AND I FORGET THE STAFF MEMBER WHO FRAMED IT,VERY NON-FATAL SHOOTING SHOULD BE TREATED AS ATTEMPTED MURDER. ESSENTIALL THAT'S ONE WHERE IT DIDN'T HAPPEN AT THAT TIME BUT CAN HAPPEN AGAIN. AND THE WAY THAT YOU ALL HAVE RESTRUCTURED YOUR WAY UNDER THIS TASK FORCE TO TREAT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM AS IF THEY WERE A HOT ALONGSIDE YOUR HOMICIDE DIVISION WITH THEM BEING LOCED NEXT TO YOU ALL AND THEN SEEING THE CASE CLOSURE RATES SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASEOR OUR HOMICIDE DIVISION AS WELL LIKE AGAIN I'M JUST VERY IMPRESSED WITH WHAT YOU ALL HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO WITH THIS IN SUCH A SHORT PERIOD R WITHERED TO WHAT THE DATA -- LOOKING RWARD TO WHAT THE DATA SHOWS. YOU'RE AROUND 40% OF CASE CLOSURE AND THAT'S A QUALITATIVE MARKER OF PROGRESS THAT WE SHOULD ABSOLUTELY BE TRACKING AND I'M GLAD TO HEAR THE ANECDOTAL EXAMPLES TOO OF YOU KNOW HAVING INVESTIGATORS BE ON THE SCENE IMMEDIATELY HOW PEOPLE REALLY APPRECIATE THAT PRESENCE WHEN THEY'RE EXPERIENCING ONE OF THE WORST MOMENTS IN THEIR LIVES. LIKE, I'M REALLY EXCITED TO SEE MORE OF T PROGRESS COME FORWARD IN THE REPORTING ON THAT TO THIS BODY SO THANK YOU ALL. >> YEAH, YOU'RE WELCOME. YOU'RE WELCOME. >> VICE CHAIR STEVENSON. >> YES, THANK YOU. IT'S TIMELY AND UNFORTUNATE TO BE HAVING THIS CONVERSATION NOW AFTER A WEEKEND OF A LOT OF MASS SHOOTINGS OR A LOT OF PEOPLE GETTING SHOT IN THE CITY. SO THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. IT'S CLEAR I'VE BEEN TALKING TO THE INSPECTORS IN PRECINCT 5 AND PRECINCT 3, MY WARD BORDERS THE TWO, AND THEM TALKING ABOUT THAT THEY'VE SEEN REDUCTIONS IN VIOLENT CRIMES IN THOSE PRECINCTS. AND AT THE SAME TIME, UNTIL THERE ARE ZERO SHOOTINGS IN THE CITY, WE WON'T BE SATISFIED AND I KNOW YOU WON'T BE SATISFIED UNTIL THERE ARE ZERO SHOOTINGS AS WELL. SO I KNOW WHAT'S NEEDED IN SOME REGARDS WHEN IT COMES TO POLICY AT THE STATE AND FEDERAL LEVEL. WE NEED GUN CONTROL ABSOLUTELY. WE NEED MORE RESOURCES FOR OUR COMMUNITIES. BUT WHAT I WANTED TO ASK YOU IS WHAT DO YOU NEED FROM US AS A COUNCIL IN ORDER TO ADVANCE YOUR WORK HERE IN THE CITY WITHOUT YOU KNOW GETTING OUTSIDE HELP? >> I MEAN, NO DBT WE NEED MORE INVESTIGATORS. THIS WAS, THIS WEEKEND WAS A GREAT EXAMPLE. WE ARE, WE'RE UNDER WATER FROM THIS PAST WEEKEND, BUT YOU KNOW BLOOMINGTON HAS THREE DETECTIVES. THEY'RE ALL FANTASTIC. BUT THEY'RE LEAVING. THEY'RE GOI BACK TO BLOOMINGTON. THEY WERE -- CHIEF HODGES IN BLOOMINGTON WAS ONLY ABLE TO DID DEDICATE STAFF FOR THE SUMMER. MY UNDERSTANDG IS SOME OF THE OFFICERS ARE GOING BACK INTO SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS, SO THAT'S WHERE HE GAVE THEM TO US FOR THE SUMMER. SO COME, YOU KNOW, SEPTEMBER, WE'RE GOING TO BE DOWN THREE. WEEED MORE BODIES, YOU KNOW, THAT'S OUR BIG ASK RHT NOW. AND WE UNDERSTAND THAT COMES FROM STAFFING. DEPARTMENT-WIDE. AND WE'RE WORKING WITH OUR CURRENT LEADERSHIP TO YOU KNOW HAVE THOSE CONVERSATION MOVING FORWARD. >> ARE YOU THE ONES HANDLING THE STAFFING LEVEL OF YOUR TEAM AND LIKE LOOKING OUTSIDE THE DEPARTMENT WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT AND WHAT BARRIERS ARE YOU SEEING TO GETTING ADDIONAL INVESTIGATORS? >> WELL, THE BIGGEST BARRIER IS THE NUMBER OF OFFICERS, AND YOU KNOW IN THE STREET THAT YOU KNOW ARE NEEDED FOR ORT DUTIES ALSO, BUT -- OTHER DUTIES ALSO, BUT WE EP CHIPPING AWAY AT IT, YOU KNOW, AND OFFICERS COME UP TO US AN EXPRESS INTEREST IN JOINING FAST, AND SO IT'S, IT'S JUST A MATTER OF, OF THE NBER OF OFFICERSRIGHT NOW. >> AND I THINK MINNEAPIS IS NO DIFFERENT THAN A LOT OF SUBURBAN AGENCIES. WHEN WE WERE IN THE PROCESS OF CREATING FAST, WE LIKE WENT AROUND LIKE DOOR TO DOOR SALESMEN KIND OF ASKING PEOPLE FOR WILL YOU HELP US BUT ALSO WILL YOU SEND INVESTIGATORS TO US TO GET EXPERIENCE, BLOOMINGTON DOESN'T HAVE 260 SHOOTINGS A YEAR. THEY HAVE A COUPLE. BLOOMINGTON HASN'T HAD A SHOOTING NACOUPLE YEARS U KNOW, MINNEAPOLIS STANDS ON THIS MOUNTAIN OF VIOLENT CRIME COMPARED TO ANY OTHER CITY IN THE COUNTY BROOKLYN PARK, ARGUABLY THE MOST VIOLENT CITY BESIDES US, I THINK IN 2024, THEY HAD 16 SHOOTINGS. WE HAD 260. THAT'S THE CLOSEST NUMBER. SO BY OTHER AGENCIES SENDING US THEIR HELP, THEY GET SOME VIOLENTRIME EXPERIENCE. SO WHEN IT DOES HAPPEN IN THEIR CITY THEY KNOW EXACTLY WHAT TO DO. O THE, ONE OF THE BARRIERS IN GETTING MORE HELP FROM OUTSIDE RESOURCES IS EVERYONE'S IN A STAFFING CRISIS. PEOPLE, OTHER DEPARTMENTS AREN'T FULLY STAFFED WHERE THEY CAN JUST GIVE SOMEONE AT THIS POINT IN TIME BUT THOSE CONVERSATIONS ARE ONGOING AND WE'RE STILL KNOCKING ON DOORS IF YOU WILL SAYING YOU KNOW, LET'S WORK TOGETHER ON THIS. >>> HI, I JUST WANTED TOED A SOMETHING TO THIS. I DON'T THINK YOU ALL -- TO ADD SOMETHING TO THIS. I DON'T THINK YOU CAN SHARE THIS PIECE BUT SOMETHING WE HAVE BEEN IN CONVERSATIONS WITH THE ADMINISTRATION ABOUT IS ALSO LOOKING AT THE UPCOMING BARGAINING CONTRACT F THE POLICE FEDERATION. I MEAN, YOU HINTED THERE ARE REQUIREMENTS IN TERMS OF HOW WE HA TO ALLOCATE OUR CURRENT MPD STAFNG. ALLUDED TO 70/30 OF WHO CAN BE OUT, YOU KNOW, DOING PATROL VERSUS OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEADERSHIP NEEDS OF THE DEPARTMENT. AND I THINK THERE HAS BEEN LONG DISCUSSIONS OF HOW WE CAN BE IN GOOD FTH NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE POLICE FEDERATION TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE FLEXIBILITY SO THAT WE CAN HAVE MORE STAFF TO DEDICATE TOWARDS INVESTIGATIONS BEUSE YOU DO HAVE TO BE AT A CERTAIN RANK, DETECTIVE RANK NIN ORDER TO DO THAT. SO I THINK OUR CONTRACT WILL BE A GOOD PLACE TO HAVE THOSE CONVERSAONS. I KNOW WITH VICE CHAIR WHITING AND COUNCMEMBER PALMISANO, CHAIR OF THE ENTERPRISE LABOR RELATIONS COMMITTEE, THEY'RE HAVING THESE REGULAR CHECK-INS ABOUT THE CONTRACT, AND I WOULD INVITE COLLABORATION ON LOOKING AT HOW WE CAN REALLY STRENGTHEN SOME PROPOSALS TO SUPPORT THAT EXIBILITY SO WE CAN HAVE MORE DEDICATEINTERNALLY STAFF FOR INVESTIGATIONS. >> YOU PREEMPTED WHERE I WAS GOING WITH THIS. I WAS WONDERING ABOUT LATERAL HIRES WHETHER TT IS A BARRIER OR NOT. AND WHAT WE COULD DO THERE AS WELL AS IF CIVILIAN INVESTIGATORS WOULD BE POSSIBLE. AND I KNOW UNDER THE CONTRACT, BOTH LATERAL HIRES AND CIVILIAN N SOME WAYS AND LIMITED IN OTHER WAYS. SOEI WAS CURIOUS TO, IF I WOULD HEAR THAT FROM YOU. BUT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I'M CERTAINLY LOOKING AT. SO THANK YOU FOR PREEMPTING TT. >> JUST TOOLLOW-UP, BOTH COUNCILMEMBERS, OUR NEW DEPUTY CHIEF CHARLIE ADAMS HAS HELPED US WITH BARRIERS THAT WE MIGHT ENCOUNTER AS FAR AS GETTING THINGS THAT WE NEED. AND JUST VING SOMEBODY AT THE TOP THAT UNDERSTANDS INVESTIGATIONS, HE AND I WORKED HOMICID YOU KNOW 20 YEARS AGO TOGETHER, AND HE LEARNED A LOT FROM ME THEN. [LAUGHTER] AND HE'S BUT HE'S A GREAT DEPUTY CHIEF. SO. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. >> COUNCILMEMBER WHITING. >> THANK YOU, CHAIR CHAVEZ. AND AGAIN, AND I WILL DO THIS EVERY SINGLE TIME WE HAVE A PRESENTATION ON OUR FAST TEAM. AGAIN, JUST DEEPLY THANKING COUNCILMEMBER WONSLEY FOR THIS INVESTMENT INTO AN AREA THAI THINK IS DEEPLY IMPORTANT AND I THINK MAYBE ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS THAT THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS CAN BE DOING IN ITS POLICING WORK RIGHT NOW, AND MIRE NEXT COMMENTS PLEASE DON'T TAKE THIS AS ANY DISRESPECT TO YOU BOTH AND YOU ARE TEAMS BECAUSE I DON'T THINK THIS IS THE WAY IT WAS MEANTR INTENDED. WHEN WE ARE LOOKING AT THE NON-FATAL CLEARANCE RATE OF 41.2%, I DON'T THINK ANY VERSION OF 58% NONCLOSURE OF THESE THINGS GOING UNSOLVED ARE DECENT. AND I DON'T TNK THAT IS THE WAY YOU MEANT IT, AND BECAUSE I KNOW THAT HOW IMPORTANT YOU SEE THIS WORK. BUT AS I THINK OTHER COLLEAGUES HAVE STATED, THAT IS 148 VICTIMS THATTER AND THEIR -- AND THEIR FAMILIES THAT HAVE ZERO SENSE OF CLOSURE AND JUSTICE. ZERO. AND SO WHATEVER IT IS TO KIND OF TO COUNCILMEMBER STEVENSON'S POINT, HOWEVER WE CAN BE HELPFUL TO PLEASE, PLEASE LET US KNOW. I WORK TIRELESSLY TO FIGURE OUTILL THOSE RESOURCES THAT WILL DO THAT. BECAUSE UNTIL WE SEE SOME LEVEL OF THIS THAT IS NOT NECESSARILY EVEN NONEXISTENT. I KNOW THAT IS HARD. BUT TO APPOINT WHERE I THINK HALF, MORE THAN HALF OF OU SHOOTINGS IN THE CITY ARE GOING UNSOLVED. AND SO THAT MEANS THAT IS NOT JUST 148 VICTIMS. THAT IS THE, THE INFLUENCE OF FAMILY, THEIR FRIENDS, AND ALL OF THEIR LOVED ONES THAT ALSO DO NOT -- AND ACCOUNTABILITY THAT IS DESERVED IN SITUATIONS LIKE TS. AND SO THANK YOU TO YOU ALL AND YOUR TEAM THAT IS DOING THIS. AGAIN, LIKE HOWEVER WE CAN BE HELPFUL WHETHER THAT'S BOTH WITHIN MPD D THE RESOURCES THAT YOU ALL NEED, OR OTHER STRATEGIES THAT YOU HAVE SEEN TO WORK WHETHER THAT'S IN ST. PAUL OR ACROSS THE COUNTRY, TAP US IN BAUSE YOU HAVE A WILLING PARTICIPANTS IN THAT WORK. SO SORRY THAT MY FRUSTRATIONS ARE COMING OUT AT YOU ALL. >> IF I CAN. >> PLEASE WE'RE 100% WITH YOU AND WHEN I SAY OUR CLEARANCE RATE OF 41% IS DECENT, THAT'S COMPARED TO NATIONAL AVERAGE. FOR OUR CITIES OUR SIZE. I DON'T THINK IT'S DECENT UNLESS THEY'RE ALL SOLVED. THATTS' OUR GOAL. WE WANT TO BE AT 100%. THAT'S NOT REALISTIC. CLEARANCE RATE FOR HOMICIDES A GOING TO BE 85%, AND WE SHOULDN'T BE SATISFIED UNTIL IT'S 100%. >> THANK YOU. >> YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT. >> THANK YOU. >> COUNCILMEMBER VETAW. >> THANK YOU, CHAIR. THANK YOU, LIEUTENANT AND THANK YOU SECOND -- COME ON, Z, YOU TALKING ABOUT CHARLIE LIKE THAT. YOU ARE GOING TO BE IN BIG TROUBLE. [LAUGHTER] THANK YOU, THANK YOU, COMMANDER. I REALLY DO APPRECIATE BOTH OF YOU BEING A PART OF THIS TEAM BECAUSE I HAVE A HISTORY OF TALKING TO YOU ANDEARNING FROM YOU ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH OUR FAMILIES IN PARTICULAR ON THE NORTH SIDE. YOU BOTH KNOW I'VE COME TO YOU WITH QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS, FAMILY MEMBERS WALKING UP TO ME AT SPORTING EVENTS AT THE STORE WHEREVER AND ASKING ABOUT PROGRESS IN THEIR FAMILY'S JUSTICE. AND SO I REALLY DO APPRECIATE THE TWO OF YOU BEING HERE AND BEING A PART OF THIS TEAM, BUT SOME OF THE QUTIONS I'VE HAD THOUGH WAS HOW WAS THE NUMBER OF OFFICERS DETERMINED LIKE HOW DID WE GET TO WE NEED SEVEN AND WHAT IS LIKE THE DESIRABLE NUMBER FOR MPD OFFICERS AS A PART OF THIS TEAM? >> SO WHEN WE WERE BUILDING THE FRAMEWORK FOR THIS, WE WENT BASED ON I GUESSULL DISCLOSURE, I MET WITH ST. PAUL. WE, THEY HAVE A VERY SUCCESSFUL TEAM, AND THEY TOLD ME THE NUMBER OF SHOOTINGS THEY HAD, THE NUMBER OF DETECTIVES THEY HAD, AND SAID WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH. THEY HAD THIS ISUST FROM MEMORY SO DON'T QUOTE ME ON THIS. SOMETHING LIKE 100 SHOOTINGS A YEAR, AND MAYBE LIKE TEN DETECTIVES. AND THEY SAID WE COULD DEFINITELY USE ONE MORE AND I'M LIKE, WELL, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE MORE THAN DOUBLE THEIR SHOOTINGS, SO WE NEED, YOU KNOW, I THINK OUR FRAMEWORK NUMBER WAS 16 ACWH -- 16 ACTUAL DETECTIVES. THAT'S WHERE WE BUILT IT. BASED ON NATIONAL DEL CASE LOADS, WE CAN'T HAVE ONE DETECTIVE WITH 30 CASES A YEAR. THAT'S TOO MUCH. SO WE USED OUR DATA FROM THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS ON HOW MANY SHOOTINGS WE HAVE DIVIDED BY BEST PRACTICES. WE WANT OUR DETECTIVES TO HAVE ANYWHERE BETWEEN 10 AND 15 CASES. SAME THING FOR HOMICIDE. THESE ARE IN A SENSE THE SAME UNITS, SOETHAT'S HOW WE BASE THE MODEL, AND THAT'S OUR DESIRED GOAL. NAPERFECT WORLD, 16 DECTIVES. >> IN A PERFECT WORLD, 16 DETECTIVES. OKAY. >> AND WE BUILT THAT NUMBER- WE KNEW WE DIDN'T HAVE 16 MINNEAPOLIS DETECTIVES SO WE SAID WHAT CAN WE GET FROM MINNEAPOLIS IN OUR PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION, AND THE NUMBER WAS SEVEN THAT THEY WOULD GIVE, SO WE HAD TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO COMEP WITH A DIFFERENCE AND THAT WAS DOOR KNOCKING. >> WITH OTHER AGENCIES. >> YEAH, AND OKAY. SO THE DOOR KNOCKING FROM THE OTHER AGENCIES IS GOOD, BUT I THINK LIKE WHERE THERE HAS BEEN SOME CONFUSION ON THIS COUNCIL IS THAT THE SEVEN NUMBER WERE OFFICERS WHO WERE A PART OF A PRECINCT, AND WE'RE TAKING OUT OF THE PRECINCT, AND PUT INTO THIS TEAM. SO FOR INSTANCE, THE FOURTH PRECINCT LOST TWO OFFICERS TO THE FAST TEAM. SO I APPRECIATE THE ABILITY TO SOLVE PROBLEMS BUT THAT ALSO MEANS THAT TWO BODIES ON THE PREVENTIVE SIDE OF THINGS THIS TEAM.E STREETS AND ARE ON >> YEAH. >> AND SO THE OFFICER WHOSE BUILT UP THIS TEAM WERE OFFICERS WHO WERE PRIMARILY TAKEN OUT OF PRECINCTS AND PUT O THE TEAM. >> YEAH. NO, THAT'S TRUE. COUNCILMEMBER, EACH OF THE ONE OR TWO OFFICERS. AND I KNO, IT WAS DIFFICULT FOR INSPECTOR ADAMS AT THE TIME TO GIVE UP TWO OFFICERS TO THE FAST TEAM, BUT YOU KNOW, WHAT I EXPLAINED TO INSPECTOR ADAMS IS YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A WHOLE TEAM THAT'S GOING TO BE INVESTIGATING SHOOTGS THAT HAPPENED, AND WHETHER IT'S A NORTH SIDE OR SOUTH SIDE, AND YOU KNOW,NCE MORE OFFICERS ARE ON THE JOB, HOPE FAILING THOSE POSITIONS CAN BE -- HOPEFULLY THOSE POSITIONS CAN BE FILLED BUT YOU KW WE NEEDED TO GET EXPERIENCE. YOU KNOW, AND FOURTH PRECINCT CERT TEAM IS ONE OF THE BEST, YOU KNOW, INHE CITY. AND SO THAT'S WHY WE WENT TO ALL THE PRECINCTS AND GOT INVESTIGATORS. >> AND ONE THING YOU HAVE TO THINK ABOUT IS IF YOU'RE ALL NOT FAMILIAR WITH OUR COMMUNITY RESPONSE TEAMS CERT, THERE ARE A COUPLE IN THE CITY, THOSE ARE LIKE YOU KNOW THE FUNNEL TO INVESTIGATIONS. THEY'RE, THEY'RE A UNIT THAT'S A MIX OF PATROL AND IESTIGATORS SO IN A SENSE, OUT OF THE SEVEN INVESTIGATORS, WE ONLY TOOKWO THAT WERE 911 RESPONSE SO ONLY TWO OFFICERS OFF THE STREET IF YOU WILL, THE REST CAME FROM THE DOWNTOWN CRT TEAM, THE NORTH SIDE CRT TEAM SO WE ONLY TOOK TWO 911 RESPONDERS HERE ANDHAT IN A WAY WAS BENEFICIAL LIKE Z SAID AND NOW THESE UNITS, THE CRT TEAMS HAVE BACKFILLED THEIR UNITS TO GIVE OTHER PEOPLE MORE EXPERIENCE. >> NO, AND, I, I UNDERSTAND THAT, AND I APPRECIATE THAT. BUT IHINK THE DIFFERENCE AND WHERE I'VE BEEN STRUGGLING WITH THIS IS THAT THE, I FOLLOWED THE DRAFT OF NEW OFFICERS, AND IT'S NOT ALWAYS, YOU KNOW, A CONSISTENT NUMBER THAT COMES INTO THE FOURTH PRECINCT AND SO S TWO OFFICERS THE THAT TAKES OFFICERS OFF THE STREETS. WE DON'T HOW MANY OFFICERS WE'RE GOING TO GET I THE NEXT DRAFT. ARE AWAY AND UNTIL WE GET AERS CONSISTENT NUMBER OF PEOPLE OR TECHNOLOGY OR SOMETHING TO HELP US, THERE IS ALWAYS A LOSS IN THE FOURTH PRECIT AND YOU SAID IT YOURSELF, THE FOURTH PRECINCT HAS THE HIGHEST, IS THE THIRD AND THE FOURTH PRECINCT HAS THE HIGHEST NUMBER OFS OF THESE CRIMES AND FATALITIES, WHICH MEAN THAT YOU KNOW YES, THERE'S HELP FROM THE OTHER END, BUT ON THE PREVENTIVE SIDE, ONHE SIDE OF THE FOLKS WHO KNOWS WHAT'S HAPPENING ON THE STREETS, IF WE KEEP TAKING CONSTAN CONSTANT LOSSES LIKE THAT, LIEUTENANT SCHROEDER YOU WORKED IN THE FOURTH PRECINCT FOR A VERY LONG TIME SO YOU KNOW HOW IT IS ON THE STREETS EVERY DAY IN THE FIRST PRECINCT AND HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO HAVE CONSISTENT REPRESENTATION LIKE OUT THERE EVERY SINGLE DAY.AND TAKING LOSSES NOT ONLY FROM TASK FORCE OR FROM DRAFTS IS A HUGE HIT TO COMMUNITY THAT IS DEALING WITH A LOT OF PROBLEMS. >> YEAH. YEAH. >> THANK YOU. >> COUNCILMEMBER RAINVILLE. >> THANK YOU, CHAIR CHAVEZ. I HAVE A QUESTION FOR EITHER ONE OF YOU. WHEN COUNTY ATTORNEY JOHN TROY CAME OR TO TELL US ABOUT THE SUCCESS OF THE FAST TEAM ACROSS THE RIVER, HE SAID HE ADMITTED THAT HE H A, ADMIT THEY WERE WRONG IN HOW THEY DEALT WITH THE ST. PAUL POLICE AND THEY HAD TO RETHINK THAT EFFORT SO THEY COULD HAVE A BETTER RELATIONSHIP. I'M WONDERING HOW IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE COUNTY ATTORNEY? HAS THAT CHANGED WITH THE HENNEPI COUNTY ATTORNEY 'S OFFICE? >> I CAN TELL YOU WE WORK AND SPEAK TO AND MEET WITH MEMBERS OF THE COUNTY ATTORNEY' OFFICE EVERY SINGLE DAY. OUR RELATIONSHIP ON THE LINE LEVEL IS GREAT. WHAT HAPPENS UP ABOVE US AND BELOW US, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT, DOESN'T AFFECT US. WE THE WORKING GUYS THAT ARE PUTTING PEOPLE IN JAIL AND SUBMITTING CHARGES, HAVE ABSOLUTELY GREAT RELATIONSHIP. >> YEAH. WITH THE CHARGING ATTORNEYS, THE ACTUAL ATTORNEYS THAT GO TO COURT? GREAT RELATIONSHIP. AND THEY'VE BEEN VERY GOOD WITH US. YEAH. WE DON'T DEAL WITH THE POLITICS UP . >> RIGHT AND I'M NOT ASKING ABOUT THE POLITICS. I JUST WANT TO SAY ARE THE CASES GETTING CHARGED. >> THAT'S A WORK IN PROGRESS ALWAYS, AND IT'S A CONVERSATION, BUT -- >> I UNDERSTAND, I UNDERSTAND. >> IT'S A GOOD RELATIONSHIP. >> YEAH. THANK YOU. >>> MINORITY LEADER WONSL. >> THANK YOU FOR THAT. AND ACTUALLY THANKS FOR THE REMINDER OF LIKE CHAIR CHAVEZ LAST TERM IT WAS UNDER YOUR LEADERSHIP THAT WE WERE ABLE TO BRING IN JOHN CHOI AND PARTNERS FROM FORGETTING THE MINNESO CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM TEAM TO TALK ABOUT THIS MODEL AND IN MANS PREVENTIVE. I DON'T OFTEN SEE 911R PATROL OFFICERS ON THE PREVENTIVE SIDE. THEY ARE ON THE DEFENSE SIDE BEING ABLE TO CATCH CULPRITS MORE QUICKLY BECAUSE THEY ARE ABLE TO COMMIT ANOTHER SHOOTING. AND I WOULD SAY THE WAY THAT YOU'VE MADE UP THIS TEAM IS VERY COGNIZANT WITH YOU SAYING YOUNLY PULLED TWO OFFICERS OFF THE STREETS OUT OF THE SEVEN THAT'S DEDICATED ON THE 5, LIKE, HOW EXPLICIT YOU NAME IN PRECINCT FOUR, AND ALSO WHAT IS THE NEXT HIGHEST PRECINCT THREE, HAVE THE HIGHEST RATES OF SHOOTINGS. AND I CAN IMAGINES THAT AGAIN, THE INVESTIGATORS ARE DEDICATED ON OUR SIDE. THEY ARE SPENDING A BULK OF THEIR TIME ALSO RESPONDING TO THESE INCIDENTS AS HAPPENI IN NORTH MINNEAPOLIS IN SOUTH MINNEAPOLIS WHERE PRECINCT 3 IS TOEMOVE PERPETRATORS OFF THE STREETS. AND ALSO JUST FOR CLARITY OF LIKE CASE CLOSURES, YOU CAN'T CLOSE THE CASE UNTIL THERE IS A PROSECUTION. SOHERE IS THE WHOLE FULL CIRCLE OF, YOU KNOW, FROM THE START OF THE TRAGEDY HAPPENS TO THE CLOSURE IS BEING THAT SOMEONE IS INDICTED O CHARGES AND ARE RECEIVING JUDICIAL ACCOUNTABILITY, AND THAT DOES HAVE TO HAPPEN IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OUR COUNTY PARTNERS, WHICH AGAIN YOU ALL AND EVEN JOHN, COUNTY COMMISSIONER RAMSEY COUNTY COMMISSIONER JOHN CHOI NAMED THAT OF LIKE THIS IS A PARTNERSHIP MODEL. YOU CANNOT DO THIS IN ISOLATION, SO IT'S GREA TO SEE YOU ALL ARE LANGERING IN THOSE PARTNERSHIPS AND BEING VERY EXPLICIT IN THE NEEDS THAT YOU HAVE ABOUT NEEDING FOR ADDITIONAL BODIES IN TERMS OF INVESTIGATORS AND THAT IS WHAT THE BUDGET AMENDMENT THAT WE BROUGHT FORWARD ESSENTIALLY REFLECTED THAT EXPERTISE IS GIVING YOU ALL THAT DESIGNATED POOL OF INVESTIGATORS TH IT'S BEEN A STRUGGLE TO JUST CORRAL BECAUSE WE RECOGNIZE S COUNCILMEMBER WHITING HIGHLIGHTED. THE 100-PLUS FAMILIES WHO HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO BE REFLECTED IN THAT CASE CLOSURE IS ONE FAMILY THAT DOES NOT HAVE CLOSURE THAT DID NEVER SEE FORMAL OR TRADITIONAL JUSTICE. SO I JUST WANTED TO PROVIDE SOME OF THAT CLARITY AND ALSO AGAIN THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER CHAVEZ, FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP IN HAVING US BE ABLE TO GET TO THIS PLAC WHERE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MODEL BECAUSE THERE WERE NAYSAYERS THEN BEING LIKE I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD DO THIS. THAT'S ST. PAUL'S THING. WE CAN'T DO THAT HERE. AND IT'S LIKE WE ARE DOING IT HERE. AND THAT'S ALL -- AND WE HAVE PEOPLE READY AND WILLING WITHIN OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT, WE HAD THE POLITICAL WILL OF THIS BODY TO MOVE THE MONEY WITHIN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO SAY NO WE'RE GOING TO PRIORITIZE THIS. AND IT'S BECAUSE OF THAT THAT WE CAN SEE HOWEVER MANY DOZEN FAMILIES REPRESENTED IN THAT 41% CASE CLOSU WHO ARE RECEIVING JUSTICE AND THEN MOVING FORWARD TO GET GET TO THE00% SO THAT WE KNOW SHOOTIN ARE NOT BECOMING NORMALIZED IN OUR COMMUNITIES AND THUS GUN VIOLENCE. SO I'M SO GRATEFUL TO BE LIKE OH, A YEAR LATER WE'RE APPROVING WE CAN DO THE GREAT THINGS THAT ST. PAUL. ST. PAUL IS NOT THE ONLY CITY THAT CAN HAVE NICE THINGS. >> AND IN A YEAR OR TWO HOPEFULLY THEY CAN LEARN FROM US. >> [LAUGHTER] >> YEAH, I THINK THAT ONE, JUST THANK YOU FOR THIS PRESEATION. IT'S REALLY HELPFUL. AND EVEN, GOING FURTHER THAN BEYOND A YEAR AGO, I REMEMBER THAT PARTICULARLY WITH THE LEADERSHIP OF COUNCILMEMBER WONSLEY, WE BROUGHT THE COUNTY ATTORNEY TO SPK AND FROM THE COUNCIL AND THAT'S WHEN WE LEARNED ABOUT AT LEAST OFFICIALLY THROUGH A PUBLIC MEETING THE CLEARANCE RATES WITHIN OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT. THAT WAS ALARMING FOR US ON CITY COUNCIL WHEN CASES WERE NOT SUBMITTED T FOR CHARGING. OU CAN'T BLAME THE COUNTY IF YOU DON'T H SUBMIT CASES TO THE COUNTY ATTORNEY. THAT'S NOT HOW MATH WORKS. SO THAT IS AN ISSUE IF THERE IS GUN VIOLENCE HAPPENING IN OUR CITY AND WE ARE NOT EVEN SUBMITTING CHARGES, TO THE COUNTY ATTORNEY, HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO PROSECUTE GUN VIOLENCE IF YOU'RE NOT EVEN SUBMITTING IT? SO I THINK THAT WAS BIG RED FLAG THAT WE HAD IN COMMITTEE A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO AND AGAIN WANT TO THANK -- WONSLEY SHE W VERY RELENTLESS IN AT LEAST SAYING THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN, WE LEARNED FROM EXPERTS, WE LEAED FROM -- COUNTY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, THIS BUDGET AMENDMENT HAPPENED AND NOW THE CONVERSATION AROUND THE TIME BEFORE THIS HAPPENED WAS TT WE SHOULD NOT BE DOING THIS BECAUSE WE'RE NOT ST. PAUL. WE SHOULD NOT BE LEARNING FROM EXPERTS THAT HAVE SUCCESS WITH THIS KIND OF PROGRAM SINCE TO ME I THINK IT'S -THIS IS SHOWING OTHERWISE THAT WE CAN LEARN FROM OTHER CITIES TO CURB GUN VIOLENCE IN OUR CITY AND INVESTIGATE THINGS MUCH BETTER. I WANT TO ADD MORE CONTEXT BECAUSE YES, TO COUNCILMEMBER WHING'S CONCERNS WE DO NEED TO IMPROVE OUR CLEARANCE RATES. THATT IS A MAJOR RED FLAG, BECAUSE IT WAS EVE WORSE BACK THEN AND I THINK THIS IS STRATEGY IS O THING THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN A LOT MORE OF BEHIND THESE CLEARANCE RATES BECAUSE BEHIND THESE CLEARANCE RATES ARE FAMILIES AND LOVED ONES THAT HAVE HAD NOT HAD JUSTICE IN AT THESE CASES SO I AT LEAST WANTED TO ADD MORE DETAIL. SEEING NO ONE ELSE ON QUEUE, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. I WL ASK THE CLERK TO RECEIVE AND FILE THAT REPORT. OUR NEXT ITEM IS RECEIVING A REPORT RELATED TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT'S PARTICIPATION IN FEDERAL TASK FORCES. WELCOME. COMMANDER BROWN. WELCOME. >> HI. GOOD AFTERNOON, CHAIR CHAVEZ, COUNCILMEMBERS, COUNCIL MUCH FOR HAVING ME. I AM SO COMMANDER CHRIS BROWN. I AM THE T AFFAIRS AND FINANCE FOR MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT. WITH ME TODAY IS CSO REESE. CSO REESE IS GOING TO ASSIST IN WHAT I CANNOT DO, WHICH ST. TALK -- IS TALK AND PUSH BUTTONS AT THE SAME TIME. SO I WILL DIRECT QUESTIONS OF THE LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE AND I'LL BE OPEN TO QUESTIONS YOU HAVE AT THE END. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. >> THANK YOU. >> SO QUEION NUMBER 1, THE FULL TEXT OF ANY AGREEMENT OR MEMORAND OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN MPD AND FEDERAL AGENCIES RELATED TO HSTFs SO THAT'S HOMELAND SECURITY TASK FORCE, I'LL BE INTERCHANGING THE HSTFs AND HOMELAND SECURITY SK FORCE THROUGHOUT MY SPEAKING HERE, SO INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE OVERTIME REIMBURSEMENT AGREEMENT FOR 63 OFFICERS WHICH WAS SIGNED BY CHIEF BRIAN O'HARA IN THE FBI INSTIGATIONS. SPECIFIC QUESTION OUTLINED INCLUDE THE DATE OF EACH AGREEMENT THAT WAS EXECUTED IN THE NAME AND THE TITLE OF ALL CITY OFFICIALS WHO REVIEWED AND APPROVED THE AGREEMENT PRIOR TO SIGNING. SO THE FULL TEXT OF THE AGREEMENT CAN BE FOUND IN THE LIMS FILE THAT WAS PROVIDED TO COUNCIL, AND THE AGREEMENT WAS EXECUTED ON JANUARY 23rd, 2026. THE MPD SIGNATURES W FORMER CHIEF BRIAN O'HARA. COMMANDER ERIC FORCE WHO IS NOWETIRED WITH INVESTIGATIONS, AND INVESTIGATIVE LIEUTENANT STEVE HERRIN. SECOND QUESTION. THE TOTAL NUMBER OF MPD OFFICERS ASSIGNED TO HSTF RELATED DUTIES, THE DURATIONS OF THEIR ASSIGNMENTS, AND WHETHER THE SCHEDULED END DATE EXISTS FOR THE COLLABORATION. SPECIFICALLY IDENTIFY THE SPECIFIC INVESTIGATIONS OR ENFORCEMENT CATERIES OFFICERS HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED TO. SO I'M GOING TO PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT OF CONTEXT TO THIS. SO HOMELAND SECURITY TASK FORCE, HSFT ARE FEDERAL INTERAGENCY LAW ENFORCEMENT PARTNERSHIPS. THEY WERE ESTABLISHED IN 2025 TO ADDRESS THE COMPLEX CRINAL INVESTIGATIONS AND THREATS INVOLVING TRANATIONAL CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS. HUMAN SMUGGLING, NETWORKS,ARTEL RELATED ACTIVITY, WEAPONS TRAFFICKING, MONEY LAUNDERING, AND OTHER CROSS-BORDER CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES. THE TASK FORCE WAS STRUCTURED AS COOINATED MULTIAGENCY OPERATIONS INVOLVING ENFORCEMENT PARTNERS AND RELY ON INTELLIGENCE DRIVEN INVESTIGATIONS AND REGIONAL ENFORCEMENT COORDINATION. HSTFs ARE GENERALLY LED BY FEDERAL AGENCIES, INCLUDING COMPONENTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, SUCH AS HSI AS WELL AS DEPARTMENTS OF JUSTICE WHICH INCLUDE THE FBI. BASED ON PUBLICLY AVAILABLE INFORMATION, PARTICIPATION IN THE HSTF RELATED ACTIVITY MAY BE, MAY INCLUDE INVESTIGATIONS INVOLVING ORGANIZED CRIMINAL ENTERPRISES, WEAPONS TRAFFICKING, FINANCIAL CRIME AND OTHER PUBLIC SAFETY RELATED CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS. ANY PARTICIPATION BY THE MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT WOULD BE LIMITED TO LFUL PUBLIC SAFETY OR CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION FUNCTIONS, CONDUCTED THAT WHICH AREONSISTENT WITH MPD'S AUTHORITIES, CITY POLICY, AND ALL APPLICABLE LAWS AND ORDINANCES. SO IN THE LIMS FILE THAT WE PROVIDED, THERE IS A PRESS RELEASE THAT WAS DATED JUNE 30th, 2026, THAT RELATES TO THE SPECIFIC TASK FORCE THAT LED TO THIS LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE. AND I'LL TALK A LITTLE BUT MORE ABOUT THAT AFTER THE QUESTIONS HERE. SO SPECIFIC MPD HSTF INVESTIGATIONS, SOME OF THE MORE RECENT ONES ILUDE THERE WAS A LOWE'S GANG INVESTIGATION, A RICO CASE OUT OF MINNEAPOLIS. RACKETEERED ORGANIZATIONS ACT. THERE WAS A FAMILY MOB CASE OUT OF SOUTH MINNEAPOLIS THAT WAS FOR DRUG CONSPIRACY, GUNS, AND VIOLENCE, AS WELL AS A G BLOCK AND -- BOY GANG CASE OUT OF SOUTH MINNEAPOLIS. THAT WAS FOR DRUG CONSPIRACY. BOTH OF THOSE SPECIFIC CASES WERE THE ONESN RELATION TO THE JANUARY 22nd U WITH THE HOMELAND SECURITY TASK FORCE. ADDITIONAL CASES RECENTLY, THERE'S A FIREARMS POSSESSION CASE OUT OF 19th AND NICOLLET AVENUE SOUTH. FIREARMS POSSESSION CASE WHICH WAS RELATED TO A ST. PAUL SHOOTING AS WELL AS A CARJACKING INCIDENT THAT OCCURRED AT 19th AT PART OF THIS QUESTION, DESCRIBE THE CHAIN OF COMMAND GOVERNING OFFICERS WHILE ON HSTF DUTIES. SPECIFICALLY WHETHER OFFICERS REPORT TO MPD COMMAND OR TO A FEDERAL AGENCY SUPERVISOR. SO MINNEAPOLIS POLICE MEMBERS WHILE WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH HSTF DO NOT RECEIVE ORDERS OR REPORT TO ANY FEDERAL AGENCY SUPERVISOR. MINNEAPOLIS MEMBERS FOLLOW THE NORMAL MINNEAPOLIS POLICE CHAIN OF COMMAND WHILE THEY'RE ASSISTING IN THESE CAPACITIES, SO IN THIS WAY, YOU WOULD HAVE AN OFFICER WOULD REPORT TO A SERGEANT, SERGEANT TO LIEUTENANT, COMMANDER TO DEPUTY CHIEF, ASSISTANT CHIEF ALL THE WAY UP TO CHIEF SO THEY WOULD CONTINUE TO FOLLOW THAT AS WELL AS THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEM WOULD BE THE HIGHER IN CHAIN OF COMMAND. SO THE NEXT HALF OF THE QUESTION WAS CONFORM WHETHER MPD POLICY INCLUDING BUT NAWMENT LIMITED TO MPD POLICY ADOPTED PURSUANT TO THE MDHR SETTLEMENT OR RETENTION POLICIES APPLY IN FULL TO OFFICERS WHILE ASSIGNED TO HSFPs. SO OFFICERS IN CASE IT COMES OUT IN MY -- IN MY TALK HERE, SO TFOs, WHICH IS A TASK FORCE OFFICER, THOSE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE AUALLY ASSIGNED TO THESE HOMELAND SECURITY TASK FORCES, SO THEY WOULD BE, AND THOSE PEOPLE ALL MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT SO INCLUDING TFOs WHEN THEY ARE HERE, THEY ARE MEMBERS AND THEY MUST ABIDE BY ALL CITY ORDINANCESES, POLICIES, AND DATA RETENTION POLICIES REGARDLESS OF WHAT CAPACITY THEY'RE ASSISTING WITH ANOTHER AGENCY. I CAN GIVE AN EXAMPLE. THERE WAS QUITE AWHILE EGO WHEN MINNEAPOLIS FIRST GOT OUR BODY WORN CAMERAS WE HAD, WE WERE KIND OF LEADING THE LAW ENFORCEMENT NETWORK WITH GETTING TH POLICIES, AND THERE WERE SOME AGREEMENTS THAT WE HAD WITH OTHER AGENCIES, AND BECAUSE OF TH WE HAD TO PAUSE SOME OF THOSE AGREEMENTS BECAUSE WE DON'T COMPROMISEUR POLICIES FOR ASSISTING IN ANY ONE OF THOSE CAPACITIES. THIRD ESTION, HOW IS THE CITY MONITORING AND ENSURING COMPLIANCE WITH THE MINNEAPOLIS SEPARATION ORDINANCE FOR MPD OFFICERS ASSIGNED TO HSTF DUTIES, INCLUDING WHAT DOCUMENTATION OR REPORTING MECHANISMS ARE IN PLACE. SPECIFICALLY IDENTIFY WHO AT MPD OR THE OFFICE OF COMMUNITY SAFETY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ONGOING COMPLIANCE MONDERING. SO ALL MNEAPOLIS POLICE MEMBERS HAVE COMPLETED THE CITY'S SEPARATION ORDANCE TRAINLING AS WELL AS TRAINING WITHIN OUR MINNEAPOLIS PL POLICE DEPARTMENT, GOING OVER THOSE POLICIES SPECIFICALLY. IN MATTERS INVOLVINGOINT INVESTIGATIONS WITH FEDERAL PARTNERS, REGULAR CHECK-INS DO OCCUR WITH THE LEAD MPD INVESTIGATOR ASSIGNED TO THE COLLABORATIVE FBI, HSI, AND MPD NNARCOTICS INVESTIGATION TO ENSURE THAT ONGOING COORDINATION AND COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE POLICIES AND LEGAL REQUIREMENTS SO THERE IS ONGOING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MPD'S SUPERVISORS AND THE OFFICERS THAT ARE ASSIGNED TO ASSIST ON THE HSTFs. HSTF CURRENTLY ONLY HAS ONE MEMBER, ONE TFO THAT'S ASSIGNED TO HSTF, AND THAT'S A LIEUTENANT. ASSIGNED TOHE TASK FORCE AND HE OPERATES UNDER MINNEAPOLIS CITY ORNANCES AND MPUD POLICIES WHILE WORKING IN THAT CAPACITY. HIS DIRECT SUPERVISOR THE COMMANDER OF SPECIAL OPERATIONS DIVISION. SO ONCE AGAIN, ALL MINNEAPOLIS POLICE MEMBERS THAT ASSIST IN THE CAPACITY IN ANY CAPACITY ON HSTFs FOLLOW ALL CITY ORDINANCES AND POLICIES THIN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT BECAUSE THEY WOULD NOT ASSIST IN ANY OF THESE AGENCIES IF THEY DIDN'T FIRST WEAR THE BGE OF MPD. QUESTION NUMBER 4, DATA ON THE OPERATION IMPACT OF ASSIGNING OFFICERS TO H STF DUTIES ON MPD'S CORE PATROL AND INVESTIGATION FUNCTIONS, SPECIFICALLY IDENTIFY WHICH PRECINCTS OR UNITS THE 63 OFFICERS WERE DRAWN FROM, AND DURING WHAT PERIODS. SO FOR ALL OF YOUR GUYS' SAKE JUST TO GET A LITTLE MORE DETAIL ON IT, THE 63 OFFICERS SPECIFICALLY REFER TO IN THE QUESTION ARE THE, ARE THOSTHAT WERE PART OF THE MOU THAT WAS SIGNED ON JUNE 22nd. THE 63 OFFICERS NOT ALL OF THE 63 OFFICERS ACTUALLY HAD TASK FORCE DUTIES. THE MOU WITH PUTTING THE 63 ON THERE WAS TO AID IN EASE FINANCIAL REIMBURSEMENT IN THE EVENT THAT TAY DID PARTICIPATE. THE TFO TOLD ME THAT HE BELIEVES ONLY APPROXIMATELY EIGHT PEOE FROM THAT 63 LIST EVEN HAD ANY SORT OF ASSISTANCE THAT THEY PROVIDED DURING THAT INVESTIGATION TIME. SO THEY WERE ADDED FOR THE EASE OF FINANCIAL REIMBURSEMENTS. MPD STAFF MEMBERS WHO WERE OF THE 63 WERE PEOPLE FROM SOUTH SIDE REACT TEAM, 4th PRECINCT COMMUNITY RESPONSE TEAM, FIRST PRECINCT COMMUNI RESPONSE TEAM, GUN INVESTIGATION UNIT, MPD SWAT TEAM, AND THE TIME PERIOD IN WHICH THE INVESTIGATIONS WERE BEING CONDUCTED WAS FROM FEBRUARY, SHORTLY AFTER IT WAS SIGNED, UNTIL THE END OF MARCH. THE NEXT PART OF THE QUESTION WAS PROVIDE ANY DATA ON PATROL COVERAGE RESPONSE TIMES OR INVESTIGATIVE CAPACITY DURING THE PERIOD OF HSTF ASSIGNMENT LIKE I SAID THERE IS ONLY ONE LIEUTENANT WHO'S ACTUALLY SIGNED AS A TFO FOR THAT HSTF AND HE PRIMARILY WORKS ON MINNEAPOLIS CASES SO PATROL COVERAGE AND RESPONSE TIMES DIDN'T APPLY. WE DIDN'TAVE ANY SLOW DOWN FROM PATROL. THE NEXT PART WAS GIVEN BRIAN, CHIEF BRIAN O'HARA'S PRIOR STATEMENTS TO THE CITY COUNCIL THAT UNDERSTAFFING REQUIRES MPD TO TRIE VIOLENT CRIME INVESTIGATIONS, EXPLAIN HOW THE ASSIGNMENT OF OFFICERS TO FEDERAL OVERTIME DUTY ON HSTF IS CONSISTENT WITH THOSE STAFFING CONSTRAINTS. THIS IS FFANTASTIC QUESTION. I'M GOING TO PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT OF CONTEXT TO IT. SO H STF, THEY ASSIST IN VIE LNT CRIME INVESTIGATIONS TO BRING TOGETHER FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL L LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES IN A COORDINATED EFFORT WHICH INCLUDES INTELLIGENCE SHARING, ENFORCEMENT, ENVIRONMENT FOCUSED ON IDENTIFYI AND DISRUPTING ORGANIZED CRIMINAL ACTIVITY, AND DRIVING THE VIOLENCE WITHIN THE COMMUNITIES INCLUDING MINNEAPOLIS. THROUGH ACCESS TO COMBINED INVESTIGATION RESOURCES, ANALYTICAL SUPPORT, FEDERAL PARTNERSHIPS AND MULTIJURISDICTIONAL COORDINATION, HSTFs ENHANCE THE ABILITY TONVESTIGATE VIOLENT OFFENDERS, INVOLVED IN NARCOTIC, TRAFFICLING,IREARMS TRAFFICKING, ORGANIZED CRIMINAL ENTERPRISES AND RELATED VIOLENT CRINAL ACTIVITY. FOR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES IN MINNEAPOLIS DEFINITELY ONE OF THOSE, HSTF FUNCTIONS AS A FORCE MULTIPLIER. IT EXPANDS INVESTIGATIVE CAPACITY BEYOND WHAT ANY SINGLE AGENCY COULD DO ALONE. THE COLLABORATION ALLOWS AGENCIES TO LEVERAGE SHARED INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS, SPECIALIZED FEDERAL RESOURCES, INVESTIGATIVE TEXNOLOGIES. CONNECT VIOLENT INCIDENTS ACROSS JURISDICTIONS, AND SUPPORT LONG-TERM INVESTIGATIONS, TARGETING THE INDIVIDUALS AND THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE DRIVING THE VIOLENT CRIME. THESE CLABORATED EFFORTS ALSO PROMOTE FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY BY REDUCING DUPLICATION OF EFFORT, MAXIMIZING THE LIMITED RESOURCES AND ENABLING AGENCIES TO ACCOMPLISH MORE TOGETHER THAN THEY COULD INDEPENDENTLY. QUESTION NUMBER 5. QUESTION NUMBER 5 IS WHERE ANY AGREEMENTS OR MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN MPD AND ANY FEDERAL AGENCY RELATED TO HSTF WERE PRESENTED TO THE CITY CONL F APPROVAL AND INNOTESH WHY -- AND IF NOT, WHY NOT. FURTHER IDENTIFY ANY AGREEMENT WITH MPD AND FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES THAT HAVE NOT BEEN BROUGHT TO CIT COUNCIL FOR APPROVAL FOR THE PERIOD OF JANUARY 20th, 2025,HROUGH PRESENT. SO, SO HISTORICALLY, WHEN IT COMES TO A LOT OF THESE AGREEMENTS THAT MINNEOLIS IS, MPD IS ENGAGED IN, HISTORICALLY I WOULD SAY THE ANSWER IS NO. AND I'LL GIVE A LITTLE BIT OF -- BECAUSE MANY OF THESE AGREEMENTS THAT MOUs, THE MAAs AND THE JPAs, MANY OF THEM THEY HAVE BEEN IN PLACE FOR NEARLY 20 ESTABLISHED COLLABORATIVENG PARTNERSHIPS AMONGST DIFFERENT JURISDICTIONS AND AGENCIES. THESE PRIMARILY SERVE AS MUTUAL ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, MOST OF THEM AGREEMENTS SPECIFICALLY JUST OUTLINE THAT ONE AGENCY WILL AID WHEN ANOTHER CIRCUMSTANCES ARE WARRANTED AND COORDINATE A RESPONSE . MPD CURRENTLY HAS 25 SIGNED AGREEMENTS. SOME OF EM HAVE END DATES AND OTHERS ARE ONGOING. OF THE 25, 10 OF THESE HAVE BEEN APPROVED BY MINNEAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL. MANY OF WHICHHAT ARE SIGNED BY MINNEAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL ARE SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE THERE IS A REIMBURSEMENT EXPECTATION. SO THERE IS FINANCIAL REQUIREMENT TO GET APPROVAL FOR THAT. SO EXAMPLES OF THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF AGREEMENTS WE DO HAVE WITH OTHER AGENCIES, THERE IS MOUs, WHICH IS A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING. AORMAL DOCUMENT BETWEEN THE TWO PARTIES TO WORK TOGETHER ON A MUTUAL UNRSTANDING OF TERMS. THERE ARE MAAs, AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN TWO AGENCIES TO SHARE RESOURCES, AGENCY, AND JURISDICTION AND STAFF DURING DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES. AND MA,EST ARE CONTEMPLATED AND AUTHORIZED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTE. THE JOINT POWERS AGREEMENTS, THE JPAs, THEY'RE LEGALLY BINDING CONTRACTS BETWEEN TWO PARTIES AND PUBLIC AGENCIES TO JOINTLY EXERCISE IN COMMON POWERS, POOLING RESOURCES AND SHARING RISKS TO PROVIDE SERVICES IN BOTH JPAs AND MA AAs ARE BOTH CONTEMPLATED AND AUTHORIZED UNDER MINNESOTA STATE STATUTE. I WOULD LIKE TO TA THIS TIME TO JUST GIVE A LITTLE -- I'VE SPOKEN TO A COUPLE OF COUNCILMEMBERS IN THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS. ONE OF THE COMMON QUESTIONS THAT I'VE HEARD IS JUST TOUCHING ON THE DETIZATION THAT GOES ON ON WHEN THESE TFOs ARE WORKING ALONGSIDE THE FEDERAL AGENCIES. AND THE REASON FORHAT. SO THERE IS A COUPLE OF POINTS TO MAKE HERE. FIRST ONE IS I CAN'T WRITE A FEDERAL WARRANT. I CAN'T IT'S NOT BECAUSE I CAN'T PHYSICALLY DO IT. IT'S BECAUSE I'M NOT AUTHORIZED TO DO IT. BY BEING PART DEPUTIZED UNDERNEATH THE FEDERAL REGULATIONS YOU'RE ALLOWED TO -- GIVES Y THAT AUTHORITY TO BE ABLE TO WRITE A WARRANT SPECIFIC TO THAT. THERE ARE OTHER THIN, DOCUMENTATION, OTHER THINGS THAT YOU COULD BECOME PRIVILEGED TO BE ABLE TO DO SO. SO WHY IS IT IMPORTANT? WL, AGAIN I GOT TO DO A LITTLE BIT MORE DIGGING TO BE ABLE TO EXPLAIN THE DETAILS OF IT. SO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OPERATES AND GIVES REGULATIONS UNDER THE C FR, THE CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS. THE CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS IS MADE UP OF 50 TITLES, FEDERAL AUTHORITIES THAT ARE GRANTED UNDERNEATH THOSE TITLES ARE FOR DIFFERENT AGENCIES TO SO LIKE ONE TITLE MIGHT BE TO INVESTIGATE FIREARMS CASES. ANOTHER TITLE MIGHT BE TO INVESTIGATE DRUG CASES. CUSTOMS CASES. AND YES, THERE ARE TITLES SPECIFICALLY FOR IMMIGRATION LAW ENFORCEMENT AS WELL. SO THE TITLES THAT MPD HAS BEEN GIVEN DEPUTIZATION IN ORDER TO INVESTIGATE ARE GOING TO BE FOR FIREARMS, DRUGS, AND CUSTOMS. EACH ONE OF THOSE ARE THE TITLES, AND THOSE ARE THE DEPUTIZATIS THAT THEY ACTUALLY ARE PROVIDING AUTHORITY TO. SO UNIQUE TO THAT IS THERE ARE DIFFERENT MOUs, ONE EXISTING WITH HSI, AND I CAN GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF INTERESTING, AND SPECIFICALLY OUTLINE IN THOSE MOUs THE AUTHORITIES THAT ARE GRANTED OR NOT GRANTED, AND ONE OF THOSE ON HSI SPECIFICALLY SAYS AND I'M GOING TO GIVE I VERBATIM HERE, SO TITLE 18 IN THE CFR IS WHAT GIVES ENFORCEMENT FOR IMMIGRATION LAWS, AND THE SPECIFIC LANGUAGE IN THERE IT SAYS HOWEVER, IN DESIGNATED CUSTOMS OFFICERS ACCEPTED, HSI IS NOT CONVEYING THE AUTHORITY TO ENFORCE ADMINISTRATIVE VIOLATIONS FOR IMMIGRATION LAWS. SO IT WAS ACTUALLY PUT INTO THE AGREEMENT, AND THIS IS PRIOR TO METRO SURGE, AN OLDER AGREEMENT THAT WE HAVE, BUT THAT WAS NEVER AN AUTHORITY. THAT WAS EVER GRANTED TO US, NOR HAVE WE EVER SOUGHT IT. SOUST IMPORTANT DISTINCTION TO MAKE. I HAD SAID THAT I WAS GOING TO TALK A REAL BRIEFLY AND JUST HIGHLIGHT A FEW OF THE THINGS REGARDING THE MOU SPECIFICALLY THAT WAS SIGNEDN JANUARY 22nd. THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE DID A PRESS RELEASE ON JUNE 30 TO KIND OF OUTLINE SOME OF THE OUTCOMES FROM THIS PARTICULAR MPD'S INVOLVEMENT IN THAT AGREEMENT. AND I'LL JUST GO OVER OO FEW THINGS HERE: SO THE OPERATION RESULTED IN ARRESTS, SEIZURE OF FIREARMS, DRUGS, AND DISRUPTION OF MAJOR CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES. AS A RESULT OF THE INVESTIGATIONS, 25 MEMBERS AND THEIR ASSOCIATES OF GANGS HAVE BEEN CHARGED OVER A SPAN OF FIVE MONTHS, THE INDIVIDUALS INDICTLED TODAYEANING THE JUNE 30th PRESS RELEASE, ATTEMPTED TO TRAFFIC NO LESS THAN 333,000 DEADLY DOSES OF FENTANYL INTO THE MINNEAPOLIS COMMUNITIES. ONE OF THE TARGETS OF THE INVESTIGATION WAS A FAMILY MOB DRUG TRAFFICKING ORGANIZATION. THIS MEMBER, THE MEMBERS OF THIS GANG WERE FENTANYL TRAFFICKING CONSPIRACY AND TT MAINTAINED THAT OPEN AIR DRUG MARKET NEAR THE AREA OF LAKE STREET AND PARK AVENUE SOUTH. ANOTHER ORGANIZATION THAT WAS TARGETED WAS AMMANY ORGANIZATION. THE MEMBERS OF THIS DRUG TRAFFICKING ORGANIZATION, SOME MEMBERS OF WHICH ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE G BLOCK AND -- BOY GANGS WHO BASE THEIR OPERATION NEAR 19th AND NICOLLET AVENUE SOUTH. THE FLOW OF THE NARCOTICS CONTRIBUTED FROM THIS GANGS CONTRIBUTED TO THE ESCALATION OF VIOLENCE AND THE SHOOTINGS THAT HAPPENED AT 19th AND NICOLLET IN RECENT PAST. SO THOSE ARE JUST TO SHOW THAT WHEN OFFICERS FROM MINNEAPOLIS ARE ASSISTING IN THESE HOMELAND SECURITY TASK FORCE, THEY'RE DOING SO T PROVIDE A SERVICE TO MINNEAPOLIS. THIS IS, THEY'RE COMBATING THE CRIME AND THE VIOLENCE AND THE DRUGS THAT ARE PLAGUING OUR COMMUNITY. THEY'RE NOT DOING IT FOR, YOU KNOW, JUST BECAUSE IT'S A MUTUAL RESPECT TO HELP OUT ANOTHER ORGANIZATION. E THINGS HAPPENING IN MINNEAPOLIS. THE SPECIFIC AGREEMENTS THAT WE DID SIGN ON JANUARY 22nd I HOPE YOU DO SEE THE FRUITS OF THAT IN OUR COMMUNITY FEELS SAFER BECSE OF IT. SO I CAN OPEN UP ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. >> YES, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION. I GUESS A FEW THINGS FOR ME. I WOULD STILL LIKE TO GET THE DOCUMENTS THAT WERE IDENTIFIED ON THE LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE, AND IF WE CAN ADD THOSE TO LIMS, I THINK YOU SAID THERE WERE HOW MANY? >> 25. WE HAVE A FILE THAT WILL I THINK WE CAN MAKE AVAILABLE T YOU. >> YES, IF WE CAN MAKE THAT AVAILABLE TO THE CITY COUNCIL AND ON LIMS FO THE PUBLIC RECORD. I THINK ONE OF THE REASON WE BROUGHT FORWARD TS LEGISLATIVE DIRECTIVE IS THE CONCERN THATOME OFFICERS COULD BE DEPUTIZED. THAT YOU JUST BROUGHT UP, BY THE FEDAL GOVERNMENT WHICH IS UNDER THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SO I THINK FOR ME SOMETHING THAT I WOULD LIKE AS A FOLLOW-UP, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE TODAY BECAUSE WE HAVE E PROTOO CALLS THE MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS IN PLACE SHOULD AN OFFICER BE DEPUTIZED. I THINK WE HAVE A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THAT IN MY OPINION HAS THREATENED DEPUTIZING MANY OF OF OUR OICERS ACROSS THE COTRY, WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT I THINK COULD CAUSE REAL FEAR TO OUR COMMUNITY, AND THEN I THINK ONE THING IS THAT THE NEW YORK POLICE DEPARTMENT HAD AN INCIDENT WHERE AN OFFICER BROKE CITY LAW ON NOVEMBER 21st, 2024, UNDER ONE OF THESE HOMELAND SECURITY TASKORCES. SO WHEN YOU HEAR SOME CONCERNS FROM SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES INCLUDING MYSELF, IS THAT SOME OF TSE TASK FORCES WE'VE HAD OFFICERS IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE COUNTRY VIOLATE SEPARATION ORDINANCE AS A RESULT OF BEING IN THESE TASKORCES. OBVIOUSLY SOME OF THEM WERE HELD ACCOUNTABLE WHICH IS GOOD, BUT I THINK THAT'S WHERE THESE QUESTIONS COME FROM TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DO HAVE PROTOCOLS IN PLACE TO ENSURE THAT IF OUR DEPARTMENT IS GOING TO PARTICIPATE IN THESE TASK FORCES, WHAT GUARDRAILS DO WE HAVE IN PLACE TO PREVENT ANY COORDINATION WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WHEN IT COMES TO ENFORCING FEDERAL IMMIGRATION LAW WHICH IS NOT OUR ROLE. SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE THOSE COMMENTS AND WOULD LIKE TO SEE THESE AGREEMENTS IN THE FUTURE. >> THANK YOU, CHAIR CHAVEZ. >> COOL. I DON'T SEE ANYBODY ELSE ON QUEUE. SO THANKS SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE. WE APPRECIATE IT. AND WE'LL BE IN TOUCH. WITH THAT, COLLEAGUES, SEE NO FURTHER DISCUSSION ON THIS ITEM, I WILL ASK THE CRK TO RECEIVE AND FILE THAT REPORT. AND NOW WE HAVE OUR LAST ITEM, WHICH IS OUR SECOND QUARTERLY UPDATE FROM THE OFFICE OF COMMUNITY SAFETY. I WILL INVITE COMMISSIONER BARNETT, THANKS FOR BEING PATIENT, TO BEGIN THAT PRESENTATION. >> IN T INTEREST OF TIME, IF IT'S OKAY, CHAIR, ONE, I AM NOT GOOD AT THE COMPUTER, SO SOMEONE WILL COME UP AND DO THAT, BUT MOST OF THIS YOU KNOW, SO IF YOU DON'T MIND, I'LL JUST START WITHOUT THE SLIDE PRESENTATION. GOOD AFTERNOON, CHAIR CHAVEZ, VICE CHAIR STEVENSON, AND CITY COUNCILMEMBERS. TODD BARNETTE. IT'S NOT MOVING FORWARD. ORR, OOH, THERE WE GO, IT'S FINE. THANKS FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE SECOND QUARTER UPDATE ON THE OFFICE OF COMMUNITY SAFETY AND ITS DEPARTMENTS. TODAY WE'RE HIGHLIGHTING, YOU'LL GET A HIGHLIGHT FROM EH DEPARTMENT. THE PROGRESS THAT THEY'VE MADE OVER THE PAST QUARTER, AND THE FOCUS THAT THEY HAVE MOVING INTO THE THE SECOND HALF OF THE YEAR. FOR THOSE WHO ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE OFFICE OF COMMUNITY SAFETY, UNDER THE OFFICE OF COMMUNITY SAFETY, THE POLICE, FIRE, 911, WHICH IS EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS, EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, NEIGHBORHOOD SAFETY, THIS STRUCTURE ALLOWS US TO BETTER COORDINATE THE WORK, BREAK DOWN SILOS AND ALSO DELIVER MORE COMPREHENSIVE APPROACHO COMMUNITY SAFETY FOR THE RESIDENTS AND VISITORS OF THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. OUR MISSION OF COURSE IS ONE IN WHICH IS PRETTY STRAIGHTFORWARD. IT'S TO PROVIDE A COORDINATED, COMPREHENSIVE AND EQUITABLE SAFETY SERVICES TO EVERYONE WHO LIVES AND VISITS THE OFFICE OF -- VISI THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. OUR VISION IS A CITY IN WHICH ALL PEOPLE FEEL SAFE, SOCIAL DISPATIES ARE ELIMINATED, AND THE RESIDENTS CAN ACCESS OPPORTUNITIES AND RESOURCES. THESE PRINCIPLES CONTINUE TO GUIDE THE WORK THAT YOU'RE HERE FROM ALL THE DEPARTMENTS TODAY. HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE OFFICE OF COMMUNITY SAFETY FOR THE SECOND QUARTER. WE'VE COMPLETED AS YOU KNOW, THE NATIONAL SEARCH FOR THE FIRE CHIEF. YOU HEARD OUR NOMINEE TODAY, DR. FREEMAN. WE'RE CURRENTLY WORKING ON AND LOOKING FORWARD TO PRESENTING THE COUNCIL WITH A NEW NOMINEE FOR THE CHIEF OF POLICE. WE ARE ALSO IN THE PROCESS AS, I BELIEVE ALL OF YOU ARE AWARE THAT THE BEHAVIORAL CRISIS CONTRACT WILL EXPIRE HERE SOON, AND SO WE A BEEN GOING THROUGH THE PROCESS OF LOOKING FOR OUR VENDOR FOR 2027. AS WE LOOK AHEAD, LIKE I SAID, IT'S THE FIRE CHIEF VENDOR, AND ALSO ONE THING THAT'S NEAR AND DEAR TO ESPECIALLY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT SEPTEMBER WHICH SOME OF YOU HAVE ATTENDED IS THE BATTLE OF THE BADGES. I BRING THAT UP BECAUSE THIS YEAR WE ASKED THAT THE DEPARTMENTS OUTSIDE OF MINNEAPOLIS NOT CHEAT. THEY LIKE TO BRING IN RINGERS TO, TO DO THE BARBECUING AND WE STICK BY THE RULES. SO WE, WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT. IN FACT, THAT IS ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS IN THE SUMMER AND I'M SO GLAD THAT THEY BROUGHT IT BACK. BECAUSE IT'S A CHANCE TO ENGAGE WITH COMMUNITY AND IT'S JUST A VERY FUN TIME FOR OUR DEPARTMENTS TO BE OUT THERE AS WELL. SO I'LL PASS IT OFF TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. AND I HOPE DIRECTOR SAYER CAN ADVANCE THIS. >> YEP, THANK YOU, WELCOME, DIRECTOR SAYER. THEN JUST FOR COLLEAGUES. THE WAY I WANT TO APPROACH THIS TODAY IS THIS IS A LONG PRESENTATION. WE'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH ALL OF IT AND W WE'LL PROBABLY ASK OUR CLERKS FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS THAT WE WILL THEN SEND TO DEPARTMENT STAFF TO ANSWERHOSE QUESTIONS IF THAT'S OKAY WITH EVERYBODY. WANT TO MAKE SURE WE GET OUT OF HERE. SO WE WON'T BE ASKING QUESTIONS OUT LOUD TODAY, LUCKY Y. WE'RE GOING TO FOLLOW UP OVER EMAIL. >> HI, GOOD AFTERNOON, COUNCIL CHAIR PRESIDENT CHAVEZ, SORRY I'M A LITTLE TIRED TOO. IMY NAME IS RACHEL SAYER, I'M THE DIRECTOR OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. I'LL GO THROUGH THIS QUICKLY. YOU ALL KNOW OUR MISSION. WE ARE HERE TO PREPARE THE COMMUNITY AND COORDINATE RESPONSES TO DISASTERS. IN Q2 WE ENGAMED DIRECTLY OVER 600 PEOPLE ALONE. WE'RE REALLY OUD OF THAT. ON READINESS FOR DISASTERS AT DIFFERENT EVENTS WHERE WE REALLY CENTERED ESPECIALLY ENGAGING WITH OUR HISTORICALLY ORGANIZED COMMUNITY MEMBERS. ALL 65 OF OUR SENS IN THE CITY ARE CURRENTLY UPDATED AND WORKING. THAT'S A REALLY EXCITING STATUS FOR US ALL. WE HAD A LOT OF UPDATING AND MAINTENANCE TO GO THROUGH OVER THE LAST YEAR. WE HAVE TRANSITIONED OUR EMERGENCY SUPPLY WAREHOUSE WHICH S IS REALLY FOR ERGENCY LARGE SCALE DISASTERS ONTO A DIGITAL SYSTEM. THAT'S REALLY AN EXCITING TRANSITION FOR US. WE HAVE INCREASED OUR COLLABORATION WITH THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT'S EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS TEAM, SO WE'RE APPROACHING THAT WORK AS ONE AS A WHOLE CITY. A WE COLLABORATED WITH A LOT OF PARTNERS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE ST. ANTHONY FALLS CUT-OFF WALL REPORT THAT CAME OUT A FEW WEEKS AGO, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR CITY PREPAREDNESS. WE ALSO IN Q2 WORKED TO SUPPORT EMERGENCY ALT MESSAGING ALONGSIDE IN RESPONSE TO OUR MPD COLLEAGUES EN NEEDED FOR A FEW INCIDENTS AND WE CONTINUE TO WORK ON RECOVERY ACTIVITIES FOR ANNUNCIATION RELATED TO OMS. LOOKING HEAD TO Q3 WHICH WE'RE IN NOW, WE WOULDXPECT TO SEE CONTINUED SEVERE WEATHER INCLUDING POTENTIAL FOR EXTREME HEAT, AIR QUALITY, JUST WANT TO POINT OUT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVE SAID THAT THE FIRES UP NORTH ARE LIKELY NOT GOING TO BE OUT UNTIL IT SNOWS. THAT MEANS WE NEED TO EXPECT POOR AIR QUALITY OFF AND ON THROUGH THE RE OF THE SUMMER INTO THE FALL. ELECTIONS PREPAREDNESS IS ANOTHER ITEM THAT WE'RE WANTING TO FOCUS ON AS WELL AS LOOKING OUT TO THE 2028 NFL DRAFT PLANNING. I'LL JUST NOTE MY DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN PULLED INTO HERITAGE PARK COORDINATION THAT HAS TAKEN ALMOST ALL OF OUR TIME, SO THAT MEANS EVERYTHING EL TAKES A BACK SEAT RIGHT NOW. SO SOME OF THIS CHITICAL WORK IS BASICALLY ON HOLD WHI WE DO THAT OTHER WORK. THAT'S IT FOR ME. I WILL HAND IT OVER TO NEIGHBORHOOD SAFETY. >> WELCOME, DIRECTOR HARRINGTON. >> GOOD AFTERNOON, AMANDA HARRINGTON, DIRECTOR OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD SAFETY DEPARTMENT. AS YOU KNOW NEIGHBORHOOD SAFETY USES PUBLIC HEALTH APPROACH TO REDUCE THE IMPACT OF VIOLENCE IN OUR COMMUNITIES WITH A SPECIFIC FOCUS ON REDUCING GUN VIOLENCE AS WELL AS CONTINUING THE CITY'S WORK DOING HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION. WE D A LOT OF THINGS HAPPENING IN QUARTER 2. FIRST I WILL HIGHLIGHT THAT JUNE WAS GUN VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH, AND SAY THANK YOU TO COUNCILMEMBER CHOWDHURY BUT ALL COUNCILMEMBERS WHO SUPPORTED THE RESOLUTION AND THANKS TO ALL THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS WHO STOOD WITH US THAT DAY BUT THEN DO THIS WORK EVERY DAY. WE'VE BEEN ENGAGING WITH THE COMMUNITY IN UPTOWN TO GET THEIR INPUT FOR THE COMMUNITY SAFETY AMBASSADOR EXPANSION. I'LL TALK MORE ABOUT THAT IN A MOMENT. AND AS DIRECTOR SAYER MENTIONED WE HAD THE SAFE SUMMER KICKOFF. WE BELIEVE ABOUT 500 PEOPLE WERE PRESENT AT THAT EVENT, SO WE APPRECIATE EVERYONE WHO CAME OUT ON THAT VERY HOT, SUNNYAY. IN MAY WE LAUNCH ADSHOOTING -- LAUNCHED A SHOOTING ALERT PROGRAM. NEIGHBORHOOD SAFETY NOW GETS UPDATES FROM MPD WHICH SHOOTINGS OCCUR SO THAT WE CAN GET THAT INFORMATION CONSISTENTLY TO VIOLENCE INTERRUPTERS. THE GOAL IS TO INCREASE CONSISTENT COMMUNICATION TO THE VIOLENCE INTERRUPTERS JUST TO ADD TO THE INFORMATION THAT THEY'RE ALREADY GETTING FROM THEIR PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY. ONCE WE REFINE THE PILOT WE HOPE TO EXPAND THAT TO BE CITYWIDE AND TO LOOP IN OTH RESOURCES IN OUR DEPARTMENT INCLUDING COMMUNITY TRAUMA RESPONSE AND OTHER BOOTS ON THE GROUND CONTRACTORS. AND OUR NEW ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION, VICKY STARTED LASTLY. I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THE WALK ALONGS THAT COUNCILMEMBERS ENGAGED IN WITH ME AND VIOLENCE INTERRUPTERS, SO THANK YOU T COUNCILMEMBERS OSMAN, CHAVEZ, WONSLEY, AND THE RAIN AND THE SHINE. ALLN COUNCILMEMBERS ARE OF CRSE INVITED TO DO WALK ALONGS, AND I'VE ALSO WALKED ALONG WITH A COUPLE OF OUR OTHER CONTRACTORS. I PARTICULARLY WANT TO SHOUT-OUT COMMUNITY PEACE BUIERS WHO HAVE BEEN WORKING IN THE STEVENS SQUARE AREA AND ARE SPENDING SOME EXTRA TIME AT 19th AND NICOLLET FOLLOWING THE RECENT SHOOTING. N I'LL SHIFT TO SOME SPECIFIC PROGRAM AREAS. OUR GBI AND YGBA PROGRAM IS ALSO KNOWN AS GROUP VIOLENCE INTERVENTION. BUT WE ALSO THINK ABOUT THAT AS GUN VIOLENCE INTERVENTION. THEY FOCUS ON SERVING THE HIGHEST RISK INDIVIDUALS. AS A VICTIM OR PERPETRATOR. AS A REMINDER SUCCES IS REALLY MEASURED BY OUR TAG LINE OF KEEPING CLIENTS SAFE, ALIVE, AND FREE. BUT WE DO TRACK A NUMBER OF METRICS FOR THIS PROGRAM. IN QUARTER 2 WE HAD 99% OF CLIENTS REPORTING NO VIOLENT ACVITY. WE ALSO HAD SOME IMPROVEMENT ON THEIR CLIENTS REACHING THEIR EMPLOYMENT GOA, INDEPENDENT LIVING SKILLS, AND HEALTH AND WELLNESS. THE MINYAP LUS PROGRAM IS OUR VIOLENT INTERRUPTER PROGRAM. CONTRACTORS HAVE NOT CHANGED FOR THIS PROGRAM. WE STILL CURRENTLY HAVE FIVE CONTRACTS. THE MAP ON THE SLI IS THE MOST CURRENT SLIDE SHOWING THE EXPANDED ZONES IN NORTH MINNEAPOLIS AND SOUTH MINNEAPOLIS. ANYBODY CAN VIEW THIS DASHBOARD. THE SIMPLEST WAY IS JUST GOOGLE MINNEAPOLIS VIOLENCE PREVENTION DASHBOARD. SO THAT YOU CAN SEE EXACTLY WHERE PEOPLE WORK AND WHICH ORGANIZATIONS SERVES WHICH SECTION. WANTED TO NOTE JUST ME OF THE KEY MEASURES THAT WE HAVE BEEN TRACKING. THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN PUBLIC EDUCATION MATERIALS THAT HAVE BEEN DISTRIBUTED IN COMMUNITIES AS WELL CONFLICT MEDIATIONS. A LOT OF THAT IS DUE QUITE HONESTLY TO THE NICER WEATH JUST MORE PEOPLE ARE OUTSIDE. WE ALSO HAD AN INSTANCE THAT I HAVE EMAILED ABOUT TO CITY COUNCO ACKNOWLEDGE DURING ONE OF MY WALK ALONGS WITH RESTORATION INC., WE WERE, I RIDI RIDE -- I WAS RIDING IN A HOT SPOT WHEN A CALL CAME FROM ONE OF THEIR TEAMS NEAR BROADWAY THERE WAS A FIGHT IN PROGRESS. EVERY VIOLENCE INTERRUPTER WENT TO THE LOCATION. BY THE TIME I GOT TO THE LOCATION, THE FIGHT HAD FINISHED BUT YOU CAN SEE THE PEOPLE STILL ONHE SCENE WERE VISIBLY ON EDGE AND SHAKEN. THE VIOLENCE INTERRUPTEREAM DID WHAT TAY DO TALKING TO PEOPLE, AND AS PART OF THAT, THEY ALSO SPREAD OUT IN CASE RETALIATION AND SURE ENOUGH, TWO CARS CAME DRIVING BACK, WHO HAD BEEN INVOLVED INHE FIGHT, AND RESTORATION INC. WAS ABLE TO WE ALSO LEARNED LATER THAT ONE OF THE INDIVIDUALS WHO HAD BEEN INVOLVED IN THE FIGHT HAD A GUN ON THEM, AND SO THAT'S JUST A REALLY GOOD EXAMPLE OF IT'S HARD SOMETIMES TO PROVE WHAT VIOLENCE INTERRUPTERS DO. WE'RE PROVING A NEGATIVE. WE'RE PROVING THAT THEY STOPPED SOMETHING THAT NEVER HAPPENED NCHLT THAT INCIDENT THAT THEY WERE INVOLVED IN COULD'VE BEEN A SHOOTING. AND SO WHEN WE HAVE STATS LIKE 49 CONICT MEDIATIONS CONDUCTED, I HOPE THAT FOLKS READ THAT TO MEAN 49 SHOOTINGS PREVENTED. 49 HOMICIDES PREVENTED. BECAUSE THAT'S T MEANING OF THE WORK THAT VIOLENCE INTERRUPTERS DO. I DID NOT REPORT ON SAFETY AMBASSADORS LAST TIME, BUT I KNOW THIS IS A PIT PROGRAM THAT FOLKS ARE VERY INTERESTED IN. OUR COMMUNITY INTERACTIONS HAVE NEARLY DOUBLE FROM FIRST QUARTER AS WELL AS AN INCREASEN BUSINESS CHECKS, REFERRALS TO SHELTER AND SAFETY ESCORTS. WE THINK A LOT OF THIS IS DUE TO SEASON CHANGES. DURING OPERATION METRO SURGE A LOT FEWER PEOPLE WERE ON THE STREET AND A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE LOCKING THEIR DOO MAKING BUSINESS CHECKS IMPOSSIBLE TO DO. WE HAD ROLLED OUT THE DISPATCHER IN JANUARY BUT CALLS REALLY START BEING RECEIVED BY THEM IN APRIL. WE HAD 15 CALLS FROM THE LAKE REET AREA AND 5 CALLS FROM THE FRANKLIN AREA. 10 OF THOSE SULTED IN ESCALATION TO 911 AND ONE OF THOSE INCLUDED A PERSON WITH A WEAPON. WE AS I NOTED ARE GOING TO EXPAND INTO UPTOWN BASED ON THAT GEOGRAPHIC AREA. RIGHT NOW WE'RE ANTICIPATING HIRINGIGHT AMBASSADORS, TWO SUPERVISORS AND ONE ADDITIONAL DISPATCHER BECAUSE WE ANTICIPATE THAT THE COMMUNITY WILL TELL US THAT THE HOURS THE SAFETY AMBASSADORS SHOULDE OUT IN UPTOWN ARE DIFFERENT FROM THE NEEDS ON LAKE STREET AND FRANKLIN. WE HAVE CREATED A SURVEY IN ADDITION TO THEEETINGS THAT WE'RE GOING TO TO GET INPUT FROM THE COMMUNITY. D THE JOB DESCRIPTIONS THAT WE HAVE FOR THIS ARE CURRENTLY WITH HR AND THE UNION FOR APPROVAL. BECAUSE AS FOLKS KNOW, WE ARE BRINGING THAT PARTICULAR PILOT IN HOUSE. GIVEN THE NUMBER OF QUESTIONS I'VE RECEIVED ON THIS IN PREVIOUS COUNCIL MEETINGS I HAVE NOTED TO COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT WE'VE TRIED TO SCHEDULE LEGISLATIVE LABORATORIES TO DIG INTO THIS DEEPER. IT'S BEEN RESCHEDULED TWICE BUT I'M STILL HOPEFUL THAT WE'LL GET ONE ON THE BOOKS. AND COMMUNITY TRAUMA RESPONSE. I WANT YOU TO KNOW I DID HEAR THIS QUESTION, AND I SPRINTED UP HE, BUT I MADE IT BY THE TIME THE VOTE HAD ALREADY BEEN TAKEN, SO I'M HOPING TO ANSW YOUR QUESTION NOW. WHILE I GIVE A SUMMARY. SO COMMUNITY TRAUMA RESPONSE CURRENTLY HAS NINE CONTRACTS. ALL OF THOSE CONTRACTSND AT THE END OF AUGUST. AS YOU NOTED, ONE OF THOSE CONTRACTS, A MOTHER'S LOVE WAS ON THE CONSENT AGENDA EARLIER FOR AN AMENDMENT AND A ONE-YEAR CONTRACT EXTENSION. WE ARE PLANNING TO REDO ALL THE COUNITY TRAUMA RESPONSE MODEL IN GENERAL. THE A MOTHER'S LOVE CONTRACT EXTENSION IS REALLY THE FIRST STEP IN THAT CHANGE. SO A MOTHER'S LOVE WAS ALREADY SPONDING TO SHOOTINGS IN ADDITION TO DOING BOOTS ON THE GROUND, THIS CONTRACT EXTENSION ENHANCES THAT WORK BY INCREASING COMMUNICATION. I TKED EARLIER ABOUT THE PILOT THAT WE HAVE GOING ON WHEN MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPAMENT AND SO WHAT WE'RE BUILDING INTO THIS NEXT ITERATION OF COMMUNITY TRAA RESPONSE IS GETTING THOSE SHOOTING ALERTS FROM MPD AND DISPATCHING OUR CMUNITY TRAUMA RESPONSE OUT TO THE SCENES QUICKER, OBVIOUSLY WHEN THE SCENE IS SAFE, SO THAT THEY CAN PROVIDE MORE IMMEDIATE RESPONSE TO THE COMMUNITY, NOT JUST VICTIMS, BECAUSE WE ARE GETTING THOSE IN OTHER WAYS, BUT TO THE LARGER COMMUNITY IMPACTED BY SHOOTINGS. WE HOPE TO HAVE THAT STARTING IN SEPTEMBER, AND WE'RE ALSO EXPLORING A PARTNERSHIP DOING COMMUNITY TRAUMA RESPONSE WITH HENNEPIN COUNTY ALTHOUGH WE'RE STILL IN NEGOTIATIONS ON TH PIECE OF IT. WE WILL EVENTUALLY HAVE TO DO A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL FOR THIS NEW VISION OF THE COMMUNITY TRAUMA RESPONSE BUT WE'RE HOPING TO LEARN FROM THE CONTINUED CONTRACT WITH A MOTHER'S LOVE THAT WILL HELP US WRITE THE BEST RFP POSSIBLE WHEN WE HAVE TO DO IT EARLY NEXT YEAR. I WAS ALSO ASKS BY COUNCILMEMBE WONSLEY TO TALK ABOUT NEXT STEP. NEXT STEP IS ONE OF OUR VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES PROGRAMS. IT'S SCIENTIFICALLY A HOSPITAL BASED VIOLENCE INTERVENTION. WE CONTRACT WITH HENNEPIN HEALTH CARE TO PROVIDE THIS SERVICE, AND THEY OPERATE IN FOUR HOSPITALS. BASICALLY THE NEX STEP TEAM GETS CALLED ANYTIME SOMEBODY PRESENTS IN ONE OF THESE FOUR HOSPITALS WITH A GUNSHOT WOUND. THEY WILL OFFER SERVICES TO THE INDIVIDUAL WHILE THEY'RE IN THE HOSPITAL, AND THEY CAN TAKE REFERRALS. SO IF PEOPLE AREN'T READY TO ACCEPT THESE SERVICES AT THAT MOMENT OF CRISIS IN THE HOSPITAL, THEY WILL CONNECT BACK WITH THEM OR CHECK BACK WITH THEM LATER AND SEE IF THEY'RE READY. THEIR GOAL IS REALLY TO REDUCE RETALIATION SO CALMING EVERYBODY DOWN IN THE MOMENT BUT THEN ALSO PROVIDING THAT LONG-TERM CARE. IT'S A LONG ROAD TO RECOVERY AFTER SOMEBODY'S BEEN SHOT, AND SO THEY SUPPORT THEM GETTING PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT, FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, ADVOCACY, THEY COLLECT A LOT OF INFORMATION, BUT A FEW HIGHLIGHTS THEY'VE SERVED 355 PATIENTS THIS YEAR, 29 OF WHOM WERE NEW IN QUARTER 2. THEIR MOST USED SERVICES INCLUDE INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING, EMERGENCY FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, AND CRISIS INTERVENTION. I WILL NOTE THAT I HAD A COUPLE OF STAFF FROM NEXT STEP HERE BUT UNFORTUNATELY WERE ABLE TO DO -- BEFORE WE WERE ABLE TO DO THE THERE IS ALWAYS MORE WORK TO BE DONE. WE PLAN TO COMPLETE OUR FIRST ANNUAL DEPTMENT REPORT THIS SUMMER. WE'RE ALSO GOING TO RELEASE A PUBLIC DASHBOARD FOR VIOLENCE INTERRUPTERS WITH THE HELP OF CURE VIOLENCE GLAL. SPOILER ALERT, IT'S ACTUALLY ALREADY ON OUR WEB SITE, SO YOU CAN ALREADY LOOK AT THAT DASHBOARD RIGHT NOW. WE PLAN TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND UPDATE POLICIES AND OUR PROCEDURES. THIS WASLWAYS OUR PLAN BUT NOW IT'S TIED TO WORK OUR PLAN TO ADDRESS THE RECEN CITY AUDIT. AND UCIALIER THIS YEAR WE STARTED A GUN VIOLENCE PROBLEM ANALYSIS. WE'LL CONTINUE WOING AND GATHERING DATA ON THAT TO HELP US GUIDE PROGRAMMATIC DECISIONS IN THE FUTURE. WE'LL CONTINUE THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN UPTOWN AND WORKING WITH MPD TO REFINE THE SHOOTING ALERT PILOT. AND LASTLY, WE'RE WORKING ON THE NEXT ITERATION OF COMNITY TRAUMA RESPONSE AS I NOTED A MOTHER'S LOVE WILL BE KIND OF THE FIRST CASE IN HELPING US INCREASE MORE CLOSER TO REAL-TIME DISPATCH. WE HAVEN'T DONE ANY DISPATCHING OF SERVICES LIKE THAT BEFORE ANDO HOPEFULLY BY SEPTEMBER, WE'LL HAVE THAT UP AND RUNNING IN NORTH MINNEAPOLIS. SNOTHANK YOU. BEFORE I HAVE COLLEAGUES, YOU CAN START PREPARING THE QUESTIONS WE HAVE. THAT WAYE HAVE IT ON THE RECORD. FEEL FREE TO START THINKING OF SOME OF THE QUESTIONS WE HAVE SO READ IT TO THE CLERKS BEFORE OUR MEETING ENDS. ALL RIGHT, WELCOME DIRECTOR. >> GOOD AFTERNOON, CHAIR CHAVEZ AND COUNCILMEMBERS. I'M THE DIRECTOR OF MINNEAPOLIS EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS CENTER. OUR MISSION STATEMENT FOR THE 911 CTER MOST OF YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH, OUR MAIN GOAL IS TO SAVE LIVES, PROTECT PROPERTY, AND ASSIST THE PUBLIC IN THEIR TIME OF NEED. THROUGH SOME THE QUARTER 2 HIGHLIGHTS, WE'VE DONE ABOUT 158,000 CALLS IN THE SECOND QUARTER WHICH IS REMAINING ABOUT STEADY WITH PAST HISTORY DURING THE SAME TIME PERIOD. THE CALL VOLUME STARTS TO GO UP A BIT IN JUNE, AND WE ARE SEEING THAT INCREASE ON QUARTER 2 HERE WHERE IT WENT UP ABOUT 2.8%. OUR CALL ANSWER TIMES ARE SLOWLY INCREASING FROM WHERE WE WERE AT LAST QUARTER. WE ARE UP TO ABOUT 87% OF THE TIME THAT THE THOSE CALLS ARE BEING ANSWERED WITHIN 15 SECONDS. AND OVER 90% OF THE TIME THAT THOSE CALLS ARE BEING ANSWERED WITHIN 30 SECONDS. SO WE'RE GETTING CLOSER TO REACHING THE GOAL OF WANTING TO BE OVER 90% OF THE TIME IN 15 SECONDS OR LESS. OUR STAFFING HASEMAINED FAIRLY STEADY IN THE RADIO SHOP FOR SEVERAL YEARS, ALTHOUGH THERE ARE A COUPLE OF RETIREMENTS THATRE POSSIBLY ON THE HORIZ HORIZON IN THAT DEPARTMENT. FOR 911 WE ARE DOWN ABOUT NINE EMPLOYEES RHT NOW. I HAVE 9.5 HERE BECAUSE I DO HAVE SOME PART-ME EMPLOYEES. THE, THE WE HAVE FIVE PEOPLE STARTING ON MONDAY. SO THAT WILL HELP TO FILL THE GAP OF WHAT WE'RE SHORT RIGHT NOW. THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE THAT WE ARE RUNNING INTO AS THE CALL TAKERS AND DISPATCHERS, PST2s AND 3s GET TRAINED AND LEARN THEIR JOBS, IT'S THE PROMOTION FROM BEING A PST2 CALLTAKER INTO A PST3 DISPATCHER. THE CALL TAKERS HAVE DEVELOPED A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF SENIORITY ON THE AREA THAT THEY'RE AT RIGHT NOW, AND IF THEY TRANSFER OVERO THE PROMOTIONAL ROLE OF A DISPATCHER, THEY OFTEN LOSE THEIR SENIORITY AND GO AT TO THE BOTTOM OF THE LIST. THAT'S CREATING SOME NOT A LOT OF DRIVE FOR PEOPLE WANTING TO DO THAT PROMOTION. THEY ARE TWO IMPORTANT JOBS BUT VERY DIFFERENT JOBS. SO RIGHT NOW TO DO A BALANCE WITHHAT, WE ARE DETAILING SOME OF THE EMPLOYEES TO BE ABLE TO START TOEARN THE DISPATCH POSITION, BUT WE ARE GOING TO NEED TO FIND SOME WAYS TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO PERMANENTLY PROMOTE TO THAT. THE AMOUNT OF TIME IT TAKES TO HIRE AND TRAIN IS ALSO ANOTHER ONE OF THE CHALLENGES THAT WE FACE. THE GROUP OF FIVE THAT WE HAVE COMING IN RIGHTS NOW, THE AD HAS BEEN OUT THERE, THEY'VE BEEN THROUGH BACKGROUNDS FOR SEVERAL MONTHS BEFORE THEY ACTUALLYET INTO OUR DEPARTMENT AND THEN THERE IS THREE MONTHS OF TRAINING. SO WHEN THI WAS FIRST PLACED, WE WERE ONLY DOWN A COUPLE OF EMPLOYEES AND SINCE THEN HAD LOST MORE. SO WE REALLY NEED TO BE ABLE TO LOOK AT THAT ATTRITION RATE THAT OFTEN HAPPENS, ESPECIALLY WITH N1 AND DISCOVERING THIS JUST ISN'T A JOB FOR THEM. OUR QUALITY ASSURANCE IS STILL STAYING STEADE CALLS MEASURING AT A HIGH QUALITY ASSURANCE STANDARD. OUR SOFTWARE THAT WE' BEEN RUNNING THROUGH GO GOVWORX ANALYZING MORE OF THOSE CALLS THAN WHAT A HUMAN CAN DO IS SHOWING THAT NUMBER TO STILL REMAIN UP IN THE UPPER 90 PERCENTILE FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE. WE'RE DOING SOME ADJUSTMENTS TO THAT SOFTWARE RIGHT NOW TO HELP PICK UP ON SOME OF THE NUANCES THAT A COMPUTER CAN'T MEASURE WHEN IT'S GOING THROUGH AND WE HAVE TO TELL IT HOW TO RECOGNIZE FOR EXAMPLE A WEAPON. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SOMEONE STANDING IN THE KITCHEN CHOPPING ONIONS AND HAS A KNIFE IN THEIR HAND WHILE THEY'RE ARGUING WITH SOMEONE, VERSUS SOMEBODY WAVING A KNIFE AROUN AND POINTING IT AT SOMEONE. SO WE HAVE TO TEACH THE SYSTEM TO DO THAT. BUT WE ARE GETTING MORE SUPERVISORS, MANAGERS INVOLVED IN LOOKING AT THAT AND HELPING TO NARROW IT DOWN SOME OF THO SO I HOPE TO HAVE IT FULLY UP AND RUNNING FOR ALL EMPLOYEES BY THE FIRST OF THE YEAR. WE CONTINUE TO WORK WITH MENTAL HEALTH AND KEEPING THE STAFF MOVING IN AND A GOOD HEALTHY CONDITION. WE'VE GOT SOME PEER SUPPORT TRAINING THAT GOES ON ON A REGULAR BASIS, AND THEN OF COURSE OUR COLLABORATIVE RK WITH THE FIRE DEPARTMENT WITH BCR, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT ON THE RESPONSE TIMES WHICH I'M SURE YOU'LL HEAR ABOUT MORE, AND SUCCESSFULLY NAVIGATING SOME OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE SAFE AND THRIVING CMUNITIES. THE RADIO SHOP HAS UPDATED ALL T DISPATCH COUNCILS, AND THEY ARE WORKING ON MAKING SURE THAT THE ARMOR INTERFACE TO THE COMPUTERS IS WORKING PROPERLY. OUR EMBEDDED SOCIA WORKER PROGRAM IS STILL SHOWING TO BE SUCCESSFUL. SHE'S TAKEN ABOUT 260 INCOMING CALLS SINCE THE PROGRAM STARTED LESS THAN A YEA AGO. SHE'S DONE 87 REFERRALS TO DIFFERENT RESOURCES LIKE HOUSING, SUBSTANCE ABUSE NEEDS, AND ABOUT 13 OF THEM HAVE BEEN REFERRED TO POLICE EMBEDDED SOCIAL WORKERS WHERE MAYBE A FACE TO FACE INTERACTION MIGHT BE MORE APPROPRIATE. LOOKING AHEAD INTO QUARTER 3, OUR CALL VOLUME TYPICALLY STARTS TO DROP AFTER ABOUT THE SECOND WEEK IN SEPTEMBER. THE FIRST COUPLE OF WEEKS IN SEPTEMBER ARE STILL VERY BUSY AS KIDS GET ON THE WRONG SCHOOL BUS AND WE SPEND A LOT OF TIME HELPING WITH THAT. AND OUR TRAINING WILL CONTINUE TO GROW WITH THIS QUALITY ASSURANCE PROGRAM AND THANK YOU FOR APPROVING TODAY THE HIRE PROGRAM THAT WE WILL BE ADDING TO GOVWORX WHICH WILL HELP DOING BETTER ANALYZING AND SCREENING FOR TRAINING. THE EMBEDDED SOCIAL WORK PROGRAM IS STARTING TO MAKE SOME OUTGOING CALLS ON CALLS THAT SHE'S SITTING THEREIN THAT MAY BE A CHECK -- SITTING IN THERE THAT COULD BE A CHECK RESOLVE OVER THE PHONE RATHER THAN SENDING SERVICE OUT THERE AND WE'LL ALSO START WORKING MORE WITH HENNEPIN COUNTY AND COPE OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS AS COPE IS NOW ABLE TO DIRECTLY TIE TO OUR COMPUTER SYSTEM IN ANIQUE METHOD SO WE CAN SEE WHERE THEY'RE AT. WE CAN'T DISPATCH THE THROUGH THIS SYSTEM BUT AT LEAST WE CAN SEE WHERE THEY'RE AT AND HELP TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE SECURE. RADIO SHOP IS GOING TO BE WORKING ON THE THIRD PRECINCT'S COMMUNITY SAFETY CENTER. AND OUR CAD SYSTEM UPGRADE THAT IS DUE TO GO INTO PLACE IN THE FOURTH QUARTER IS INSTALLED ON OUR TRAINING SYSTEM RIGHT NOW ANDE'RE SPENDING TIME OVER THIS QUARTER THE THIRD QUARTER WORKING THE BUGS OUT OF IT BEFORE IT ACTUALLY GOES LIVE. AND I WILL TURN IT OVER TO CHIEF RUTGER. >> WELCOME, INTERIM CHIEF RUTGE. >> GOOD AFTERNOON, CHAIR CHAVEZ AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS. I'M INTERIM CHIEF MELANIE RUCKER, MINNEAPOLIS FIRE. I'LL START OFF. THIS HASN'T CHANGED. I WON'T REREAD IT FOR YOU ALL. WE HAVE GRADUATED OUR TENTH EMS PATHWAYS ACADEMIES CLASS SINCE THE PROGRAM BEGAN IN 2016. THAT CLASS GRADUATED ON MAY 22nd. OUT OF THIS YEAR'S CLASS OF 20 INTERNS, 17 OF THOSE GRADUATES ARE NOW NATIONALLY REGISTERED EMTs. AND FROM T 2016 ON, GRADUATES ON THE MINNEAPOLIS EMS PATHWAYS ACADEMIES HAVE BECOME MINNEAPOLIS FIREFIGHTERS AND PARAMEDICS INGENCIES ACROSS THE REGION. OF NEARLY THE 200 GRADUATES, 67 ARE CURRENTLY MEMBERS OF THE MINAPOLIS FIRE DEPARTMENT. ANOTHER EIGHT OF THOSE GRADUATES ARE PART OF THIS YEAR'S ACADEMY. AND AS YOU ARE KNOW, THE EMS PATHWAYS ACADEMY IS A PATHWAYS TO HELP BRING INTO THE FIRE DEPARTMENT THE HISTORICALLY UNDERREPRESENTED COMMUNITIES, BIPOC COMMUNITIES AND WOMEN INTO THE FIRE DEPARTMENT SO WE ARE VERY PROUD OF THIS PROGRAM AND WE CONTINUE TO HAVE IT EVERY YEAR. AND THEN THE NEXT HIGHLIGHT THAT WE HAVE THE PUBLIC SAFETY AIDE ADDED TO THE FIRE DEPARTMENT'S BUDGET IN MARCH. ALLOWED US TO UPGRADE CRITICAL SAFETY EQUIPMENT. WE PURCHASED NINE NEW SETS OF EXTRICATION TOOLS. THERE ARE SPREADERS AND CUTTERS, COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE JAWS OF LIFE, WHICH ARE NOW BEING OUTFITTED FOR AND TO B DEPLOYEDEDEN OUR RESCUE TRUCK AS WELL AS OUR LADDER TRUCK WITHIN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS. ANDHIS IS CRUCIAL BECAUSE ACCORDING TO MANUCTURERS AND NFPA STANDARDS THESE TOOLS SHOULD RETIRE AFTER TEN YEARS OF SERVICE IF THE SAFETY OF OUR FIREFIGHT -- FOR THE SAFETY OF OUR FIREFIGHTERS AND OUR COMNITIES. OUR TOOLS WERE 14 YEARS OLD. AS YOU KNOW, EX TRIICATION TOOL AGES, THE HYDRAULIC FLUIDS LEAK, THE CUTTING REDUCES OUR CUTTING AND SPREADING CAPABILITIES, THE METAL COMPONENTS CAN BECOME FATIGUES AND OLDER TOOLS STRUGGLE WITH TODAY'S REINFORCED VEHICLE DESIGNS. AND ALL THESE FACTORS CREATE RISKS TO SLOWER EXTRIICATIONS, UNEECTED TOOL FAILURES, SCENES, AND INCREASES THE DANGEROUS FOR -- DANGERS FOR BOTH FIREFIGHTERS AND TRAPPED OCCUPANTS. SO THESE UPGRADES HAVE SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVE PROPROVED THE RABILY, PERFORMANCE, AND OVERALL OPERATIONS FOR SAFETY FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. AND SO WITH THAT, WE ALSO WITH THE WE ALSO PURCHASED 18 NEW SETS OF TURNOUT GEARS FOR OUR GRADUATING GET CLASS. AND THEN YOU KNOW WITH THAT I WANT TO THANK COUNCILMEMBER VETAW AND AND THE ENTIRE COUNCIL FOR THIS SUPPORT AND INVESTMENT IN THE FIREFIGHTERSAFETY AND THE COMMUNITY'S PROTECTION. AND THEN GOING ONTO OUR STAFFING AND LEAVE PRESSURES. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT US TO BECAUSE AS YOU KNOW, OUR TOTAL SWORN FTEs IF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT IS 434. WE ARE CURRENTLY OPERATING WITH ONLY 412 FIREFIGHTS, AND OF THAT 412, 13 OF THOSE SWORN FTEs ARE ACTUALLY WITHIN ADMINISTRATION AND TRAINING. SO THEY'RE NOT ACTUALLY OPERATIONAL OR ON THE FIELD SO WE'RE AT A MINIMUM OF LIKE CLOSE TO 400 OR UNDER 400 AT THIS TIME. AND THIS IS PRIMARILY DUE TO RETIREMENTS AND A SMALL NUMBER OF YOUNG FIREFIGHTERS THAT ARE LEAVING FOR BETTER OPPORTUNITIES. OTHER FIRE DEPARTMENTS THAT USED TO BE VOLUNTEER ARE GNG TO PAID, FULL PAID FIRE DEPARTMENTS, AND THEY'RE STARTING SALARIES ARE HIGHER THAN OURS, BUT YOU THINK LAWLONG-TERM STENTS AT OURS ARE BETTER SO A LOT OF THEM THERE BETTER OPPORTUNITIES. AND THEN ALSO IN JUNE ALONE WE HAVE A NOTICEABLE LOSS OF 10 FIREFIGHTERS THATT ARE RETIRING. OUR DEPARTMENT CURRENTLY HAS 73 FIREFIGHTERS THAT ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RETIREMENT THIS YEAR. THAT'S JUST ELIGIBLE. SO WE'RE NOT CERTAIN HOW MANY OF THOSE ARE GOING TO TAKE THAT OPPORTUNITY TO RETIRE. SO THAT'S REPRESENTS A SIGNIFICANT STAFFING CHALLENGE FOR US. AND EVEN AFTER THE CURRENT CADET CLASS OF 17 GRADUATES, WE WILL STILL BE REMAINING UNDER OUR UTILIZED STRENGTH, BRINGING US TO 429. OPERATIONAL STAFF SWORN PERSONNEL. AND THEN ON ANY GIVEN DAY, APPROXIMATELY 50 FIRE PERSONNEL ARE ABSENT FROM DUTY DUE TO VARIOUS TYPES OF LEAVES AS WE HAVE MENTIONED BEFORE. IT COULD INCLUDE LONG-TERM MILITAR LEAVE, SHORT-TERM MILITARY LEAVE, FMLA AND PTSDEAVE. THIS PUTS ADDITIONAL STRAIN ON OUR CAPACITY SO THAT'S MAJOR FOR US. AND SO AGAIN, WITH THAT, THAT'S GOING TO ALSO INCREASE OUR OVERTIME AND HIRE BACK NEEDS. AND THEN QUARTER 2 OUR TOTAL RESPONSES HAS ALSO INCREASED BASED ON JUST FROM LAST YEAR'S QUARTER 2. THIS YEAR WE FOR TOTAL EMERGENCY CALLS, WE HAVE INCREASED 350 CALLS OVERALL SINCE LAST YEAR. AND THEN OF THOSE TOTAL CALLS, 145, 145 OF THOSE ARE STRUCTURE FIRES, WHICH IS ALSO INCREASED SINCE LAST YEAR. AND THEN CAN GO ON TO OUR BCR WHICH IS CONTRACTED UNDER FIRE. THEIR TOTAL RESPONSE CALLS FOR QUARTER 2 HAVE WENT UP AS WELL. THEIR CURRENT QUARTER 2, 200532 SO THEY HAVE INCREASED ABOUT 600 SINCE QUARTER 1. AND AS MENTIONED BEFORE, OUR BEHAVIOL CRISIS RESPONSE CONTRACT WITH OUR CURRENT PROVIDER EXPIRES AUGUST 15th. AND WE ARE OUT FOR RFP. THE NEW BEHAVIORAL CRISIS RESPONSE HAS BEEN RENAMED TO MOBILE CRISIS RESPONSE. AND THIS NAME CHANGE IS BASED ON BROADENING THE SCOPE OF RESPONSE TO INCLUDE RESPONSES NOT JUST BASED ON MENTAL HEALTH BUT OUTSIDE AND JUST KIND OF THE LIVEABITY CRISISES THAT THEY CAN RESPOND MORE TO NOT JUST ONLY BASED ON MENTAL HEALTH RESPONSES THAT ARE NEEDED. SO WE HAVE TO INCREASE THA CAPACITY, SO THAT'S WHERE WE'RE CHANGING THE NAME TO MOBILE ISIS RESPONSE. THE RFP CLOSED ON MAY 19th. AND IS CURRENTLY IN THE REVIEW AND EVALUATION SCHEDULED TO BEGIN ONTRACT IS JANUARY 1st, 2027. AND THEN ALSO AGAIN OUR CURRENT FIREFIGHTER CADET CLASS THAT WE HAVE GOING ON RIGHT NOW OF 17 IS SET TO GRADUATE AT THE END OF AUGUST. AND OF THAT 17 WE'RE PROUD TO SAY THAT FIVE OF THEM ARE WOMEN SO THAT IS A GREAT ASSET TO US TO CURRENTLY EXPAND THIS PROFESSION TO ALL PEOPLE WHO ARE WILLING TO WOR AND SERVE THE COMMUNITY. AND THEN ALSO WE ARE CURRENTLY IN OUR PROMOTIONAL PROCESS OF REPLACING DEPUTY CEF POSITION THAT'S DUE TO RETIREMENT AS WELL AS OUR PROMOTIONAL POSITIONS OF OUR FIRE MOTOR OPERATORS WHICH ARE THE ONES THAT DRIVE THE TRUCKS SO THAT'S WHAWE HAVE LOOKING FORWARD INTO THE LOOK AHEAD IN QUARTER 3. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. NEXT SAFETY AND DESIGN. DIRECTOR WILL CHRISTENSEN. >> GOOD AFTERNOON, I'M WL CHRISTIANENSON, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY SAFETY DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION. TODAY'S UPDATE WILL COVER THE Q2 HIGHLIGHTS AND Q3 LK AHEAD ACROSS THE SAFE AND THRIVING COMMUNITIES PLAN. AND WORK GROUP. THE ASSET AND GAPS ANALYSIS, AND COMMUNITY SAFETY CENTERS. FIRST IN Q2, WE'VE CONTINUED OUR ANNUAL REVIEW OF THE SAFE AND THRIVING COMMUNITIES PLAN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THAT PLAN. ASSESSED HOW ACTIVE PROJECTS ARE GOING FORWARD ACROSS DEPARTMENTS AND PARTNERS: LOOKING AHEAD TO Q3, WE'LL KEEP REFINING THAT PLAN AND SHARE THAT AND A PUBLISHED ROAD MAP FOR THE REST OF 2023 -- 2026. FOR THE SAFE AND THRIVING COMMUNITIES WORK GROUP, WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF SEATING SIX NEW MEMBERS FOR THAT WORK GROUP. HOPEFULLY BY OUR AUGUST MEETING. THEY'VE ADOPTED THEY ARE 2026 WORK PLAN. THIS WORK PLAN REALLY CONTINUES DEPARTMENTAL PRESENTATIONS AND SITE TOURS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CITY, OUR SYSTEMS, AND THE SAFE AND THRIVING COMMUNITY REPORT. THEY'VE HEARD FROM MECC, 911, AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. LAST WEEK, COUNCIL APPROVED A2.5 MILLION BURN GRANT TO SUPPORT RESEARCH AND ALTERNATIVE RESPONSE DEVELOPMENT. THIS WORK WILL HELP US FULFILL RECOMMENDATIO FROM THE SAFE AND THRIVING COMMUNITIES REPORT AND THE ASSET AND GAPS ANALYSIS. AS I MENTIONED LAST WEEK, DATA ANALYSIS IS FOCED ON 911 PROBLEM NATURE CODES, AND WHICH ONES WE CAN RESPONSIBLY DIVERT FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT TO ALTERNATIVE RESPONSE. AGAIN, TWO PILOTS ARE BEING COORDINATED WITH PMI AND OCS. THE CIVILIAN RESPSE TO NONINJURY TRAFFIC INCIDENTS, AND A JUVENILE DEFLECTION PROGRAM. SHIFTING TO COMMUNITY SAFETY CENTERS, OUR NEAR-TERM OPERATIONS, AND FACILITIES WORK. THE LAKE STREET SAFETY CENTER CONTINUES OPERATIONS. FOR SOUTH MINNEAPOLIS, CONSTRUCTION STARTED IN MAY AND OPERATIONAL PLANNING HAS BEGUN. FOR NORTH MINNEAPOLIS, N FOURTH -- THE FOUR PRECINCT, NORTH MINNEAPOLIS SAFETY CENTER AND FOURTH PRECINCT FEASIBILITY STUDY KICKED OFF. IN Q3 WE'LL EVALUATE LAKE STREET AS A PILOTD PREP FOR THE TRANSITION TO THE SOUTH MINNEAPOLIS SAFETY CENTER: AND THEN ALSO IN Q3, SOUTH MINNEAPOLIS COMMUNITY SAFETY CENTER CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATIONS PLANNING WILL CONTINUE. WITH AN ANTICIPATED GOAL TO OPEN THAT CENTER AT THE END OF 2026. I WANT TO PROVIDE A BEF OVERVIEW OF OPERATIONS AT SOUTH MINNEAPOLIS SAFETY CENTER AND HOW WE'RE ENVISIONING THAT PROCESS. YOU KNOW, THE CENTER'SUNCTIONALITY WILL PRIORITIZE USABILITY AND CO-LOCED SERVICES. AS YOU KNOW, CORE COMPONENTS INCLUDE A 311 SERVICE CENTER, SEVERAL COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS, THE YOUTH CONNECTION CENTER, AND SHARED MEETING SPACES. SO NEXT STEPS THERE TO FINALIZE OUR OPERATIONS PLAN. SPACE USE POLICY, AND ESTABLISH OPERATING HOURS. AS WE DO THIS PLANNING, CORE PRINCIPLES, THAT GUIDE INCLUDE PERSON CENTERED AND TRAUMA INFORMED DESIGN, A ESTABLISHING CLEAR GOVERNANCE AND COMMUNICATIONS TO CLARIFY DIFFERENT PARTNER ROLES AND STREAMLINE SERVICES THESE LAST TWO SLIDES, 7 AND 8 ARE REALLY FOR YOUR REFERENCE COVERING OUR WORK IN Q1 AND2 AND LOOKING FORWARD TO KEY MILESTONES IN Q3 AND 4. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. THE NEXT AND ACTUALLY LAST I THINK WE HAVE TH MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT. AND THEN COLLEAGUES WE'LL BE READY TOEAD OUR QUESTIONS AND THEN WE'LL BE DONE. WELCOME. >> THANK YOU, CHAIR, GOOD AFTERNOON, CHAIR CVEZ AND VICE CHAIR STEVENSON. 'M HERE ALONG WITH ASSISTANT CHIEF MARK -- TO ESENT PRESENTATION FOR THE UPDATE FOR MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT. WE'LL START OFF WITH THE, THE YEAR TO DATE RECRUITMENT STAFFING NUMBERS. THE LAST TIME WE GAVE AN UPDATE, I WENT THROUGH THE LATERALS RECRUITS AND CADETS AND CSOs AND KIND OF GAVEN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THOSE PLATFORMS ARE, OR PATHWAYS ARE SO UNLESS YOU WANT ME TO REPEAT THOSE I'LL FOR THE SAKE OF TI MOVE FORWARD WITH THE NUMBERS. LATERALS WE'RE 10 FOR HIRING AT THIS POINT THIS YEAR AS OF JULY 13th I WILL SAY. RECRUITS WE'RE AT 13 HAVE BEEN HIRED. CADETS ARE AT 45 AND OUR COMMUNITY SERVICE OFFICERS WHICH ARE COMMONLY KNOWN AS CSO OS ARE AT 28. OUR TOTAL NUMBER TO DATE FOR HIRES AS OF 2026 IS 96 AS OF JULY 13th AND OUR TOTAL SWORN STAFFING AS OF JULY 13th WAS AT 626. >> GOOD AFRNOON, COMMISSIONERS CHAVEZ. I'M GOING TO HANDLE THE NEXT COUPLE OF SLIDES, COUNCILMEMBERS. THANKS FOR HAVING ME. OUR REAL NORTH STARS THERE OPERATIONS ARE CLEARANCE RATES AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE, SO INVESTIGATING CRIMES THAT HAVE OCCURRED AND THEN GETTING TO PEOPLE AS FAST AS WE CAN. THIS SLIDE REPRESENTS WHAT WE DID IN 2025, AND WHAT WE DID IN QUARTER 2, LIKELY THE RESULTS WILL BE SHOWN IN QUARTER 3, 4, AND BEYOND BECAUS INVESTIGATIONS TAKE TIME TO COMPLETE AND THAT CLEARANCE RATE THAT I THINK WE HEARD FROM EARLIER, WE HEARD FROM LIEUTENANT SCHROEDER, CLEARANCE RATES CONTINUE TO GO UP AND AS HE SHARED WE'RE VERY PROUD OF OUR 85% CLEARANCE RATE FOR HOMICIDES. SO THE OTHER THING AT WE SAW IN QUARTER 2 WAS THE EXTENSION OF QUARTER 1'S PROGRESS WITH RELATED TO RESPONSE TIME. RESPONSE TIME ACROSS OUR ORGANIZATION WAS INTOLERABLE OVER THE COUPLE OF YEARS IN WHICH STAFFING WAS A CHALLENGE. BUT WE DID FIND WAYS TO INCREASE OUR RESPONSE TIME, DECREASE OUR RESPONSE TIME AND INCREASE OUR SVICE BY GETTING TO, BY GETTING TO OUR11 RESPONSE EMERGENCIES QUICKER. WE DID THAT THROUGH A NUMBER OF INITIATIVES I THINK YOU'RE HEARD OF SOME OF TH THESE BUT I'LL BE REAL BRIEF ON THEM. WE'VEONE THESE JUVENILE OUTREACH INITIATIVES. THAT HAS HELPED I THINK LIEUTENANT KELLEY O'ROUR HAS PRESENTED ON THAT. THAT HAS HELPED A LOT WITH OUR JUVENILES AND MADE SURE THAT WE DIDN'T V QUITE AS MANY PROBLEMS IN THE COMMUNITY. WE'VE ALSO IMPLEMENTED THE JAIL EFFICIENCY BEAT. IT'S MIGHT BE YOU MAY HAVE HEARD IT OF BUT WHA IT'S DONE IS ALLOWED OUR PERSONNEL WHO ASSIGNED TO PRECINCTS HANDLING EMERGENCIES TO RELY ON PEOPLE WORKING THE JEB JUST A COUPLE OF FOLKS WHO ARE TAKING THEIR ARRESTS PEOPLE AND DEALING WITH THE SOMETIMES SEVERAL HOURS IT TAKES TO GET SOMEONE INTO JAIL AND THEN BRINGING, ALLOWING THE PERSONNEL TO GET BACK ON THE STREET. THE JEB IS STAFFED WITH OVERTIME AND IT'S THE PEOPLE THAT ARE INVESTIGATIVE FOLKS AND PEOPLE THAT AREN'T QUITE AS ADEPT AT HANDLING EMERGENCIES, OR FRANKLY DNG THE WORK OUT IN THE COMMUNITY THAT WE RELY ON FROM OUR PRECINT, OUR PRECINCT FOLKS. THAT'S TURNED INTO A BIG, A BIG CHANGE IN OUR RESPONSE TIMES BECAUSE THE PEOPLE ARE GETTING, OUR OFFICERS ARE GETTING BACK INTO THE, I SAW YOU LOOKING AT YOUR CLOCK, SIR, I'LL BOO EQUICK -- BE QUICK. GETTING BACKO ANSWERING CALLS AND MAKING ARRESTS WHEN THEY HAVE TO. ANOTHER THING WE HAVE DONE TO DECREASE RESPOE TIMES IS USE OUR OVERTIME A LITTLE BIT BETTER WITH REGARD TO WHEN OUR SHIFT CHANGES ARE TO MAKE SURE WE DON'T HAVE LARGE LAPSE IN RESPONDING TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE CALLED 911, ESPECIALLY IN THE PRIORITY 1 CALLS, WHICH IS DISPLAYED ON THE SCREEN AND THOSE FOLKS JUST LITTLE, MAYBE A YEAR AGO WERE WAITING NINE MINUTES 20 SECONDS AS A MEDN AVERAGE AND NOW THEY'RE, WE'RE DROPPING BELOW SEVEN MINUTES IN SOME CATEGORIES AND CERTAIN PERSON THAT IS WORKING THE OVERTIME SHIFT DURING THEIR SHIFT GAP IS ACTUALLY OUT ON THE STREET DURING ROLL CALL, THOSE FEW PEEP THALLAL THAT ARE OUT THERE WORKING REALLY HELPS US MANAGE THE PRIORITY 1 CALLS AND BRINGS THIS NUMBER DOWN: IT HAPPENS AS WELL IN THE PRIORITY 2 CATEGORY, WHICH IS ON THE SCREEN NOW, A ANDURE RESPONSE TIMES TO CATEGORY 2 IS INCREASING OUR ABILITY TO GET TO THE FOLKS WHO ARE CALLING, WHO AREN'T NECESSARILY EXPERIENCING IMMINENT EMERGENCIES THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE HURTING OR STEALING FROM EM AREN'T, AREN'T THERE IN, IN THEIR PRESENCE. BUT THEY'VE EXPERIENCED A CRIME A THEY NEED RESPONSE. SO GETTING THAT NUMBER DOWN TO 20 MINUTES OR LESS IS ON OF OUR SUCCESSES THAT WE'VE SEEN IN QUARTER 2. THESE IMPROVEMENTS REFLECT THE HARD WORK OF OUR OFFICERS, INVESTIGATORS, DISPATCHERS, CIVILIAN STAFF, AND WHILE THERE IS A LOT MORE WORK TO DO, WE HAVE MEANINGFUL INDICATORS THAT OUR STRATEGIES, OUR OPERATIONAL STRATEGIES ARE MOVING US IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. AND WE DO REMAIN FOCUSED ON CONTINUING THIS PROGRS BECAUSE IMPROVING PUBLIC SAFETY STARTS WITH RERESPONDING CONVICTLY A -- WITH RESPONDING QUICKLY AND INVESTIGATING THOSE CRIMES THAT OUR COMMUNITIES ARE DEMANDING OF US. I THINK I'M BRINGING AC GAITERS BACK UP. >> THEN WE'LL MOVE ONTO QUESTIONS. >> AS WE GET INTO THE NEXT SLIDE IT'S JUST GETTING BACK AND UPDATING YOU ON WHAT'S BEEN TAKING PLACE WITH US IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT CELEBRATING CULTURE, COMMUNITY, AND CONNECTION. WE CONTINUE TO GET OURSELVES INVOLVED IN BE INVITED E ARE IN BULLET POINTS ON THE SLIDE. THE AMERICAN INDIAN BEEN A PART OF IF THE LAST FEWVE YEARS AND THAT -- FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS AND THAT WASN EXCELLENT EVENT AS WE TRAVEL THROUGH FROM THE LITTLE EARTH HOUSING COMMUNITY OVER THE WOODS AND OVER AT THE AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER AT FRANKLIN AVENUE. SINGO DEMAIO WE CELEBRATED THAT HERE IN MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL AS WELL. JUNETEENTH, THE NORTHEAST EVENTS, THE DOG PARADE WHICH MOST PEOPLE ARE FAMILIAR WITH, A VERY POPULAR EVENT FOR OFFICERS AND CSO OS AS WELL. LET'S ROLL BIKE RIDE IS WHERE STUDENTS AND POLICE OFFICERS GO ON A BIKE RIDE TOGETHER. AND THE -- INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL WHICH WE ALSO TABLED THAT. WHEN WHERE SAY TABLE THERE WAS A RECRUITMT TABLE AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TABLE. THE POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE ADVENTURE CLUB. THIS IS WHERE WE TAKE ABOUT 25 INDIVIDUALS AND MAKE ABOUT EIGHT, 9 FIELD TRIPS A DURING THE YEAR, AND THAT CONTINUES AS WELL. NATIONAL NIGHT OUT IS COMING UP,HE 4th OF AUGUST SO WE WILL BE VERY EXCITED TO SEE ALL OF YOU OUT THERE. AND THE YOUTH COMMUNITY ACADEMY, USED TO BE OUR ADULT ACADEMY. NOW IT'S OUR YOUTH ACADEMY. WE HAVE THREE DATES GOING, AUGUST 4th, AUGUST 11th AND AUGUST 18th AND THEN THE BACK TO SCHOOL JAMBOREE WHICH IS POPULAR WITH THE KIDS BECAUSE YOU GET FREE BACKPACKS AND FREE FOOD FOR EVERYONE. AND THEN THE PEOPLE'S BARBECUE AND OUTSIDE OF THAT, THAT CONCLUDES, I BELIEVE, OUR PRESENTATION FOR OCS AND BARRING ANY QUESTIONS BUT I THINK WE HAVE A DIFFERENT FORMAT FOR QUESTIONS. >> YES, WE HAVE TO MOVE ON QUICKLY. AND WITH THE RULES WE HAVE TO ASK THE QUESTIONS HERE PUBLICLY. I THINK MAYBE MY REQUEST TO STAFF WOULD BE, WITH PERMISSION FOR COUNCILMEMBERS TO JUST EMAIL THE QUESTIONS AND THEN GET ANSWERED BACK OVER BRIEFING. OTHERWISE WE CAN READ IT QUICKLY, BUT IT JUST DOESN'T FEEL LIKE WE HAVE ENOUGH TIME. SO I GUESS WHAT I'M JUST GOING TO REQUEST IS THAT WE FOLLOW UP OVER EMAIL. I YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, EMAIL TO ME. MY OFFICE WILL THEN EITHER SEND IT TO THE CLERKS OR SEND IT TO STAFF THEMSELVES FOR A RESNSE BECAUSE OTHERWISE IT'S NEAR IMPOSSIBLE. OKAY. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE. THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. JUST EMAIL ME OR WE'LL FIGURE IT OUT OFFLINE AND WE CAN FOLLOW UP OVER EMAIL. SEEING NO FURTHER DISCUSSION, I'LL A THE CLERK TO RECEIVE AND FILE THAT REPORT. SEEING NO FURTHER BUSINS, BEFORE US, I WILL DECLAREHIS MEETING ADJOURNED.