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meeting to order, uh, Mr. Montero, could we have a roll 00:00:11.000 --> 00:00:19.934

call vote, please? Mayor prote Erickson here council members.

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Council member Kliowski. Um, Mayor Winston. Council member 00:00:25.533 --> 00:00:38.166

Page. Councilman McGarvey. Council member Tran. Uh, chair, 00:00:38.166 --> 00:00:42.400

excuse me, uh, Mayor Pro Te Erickson, you have a quorum. 00:00:42.400 --> 00:00:47.200

Thank you, um, I’m assuming Councilman Bertrand will be

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rejoining us online. Um, so you need to read the statement 00:00:50.934 --> 00:00:54.233

again. uh, related to the regular council meeting April

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14th, 2025, council member Maria Tran of the city council

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will be participating in the meeting by interactive 00:01:01.100 --> 00:01:04.834

technology pursuant to Minnesota statutes. Section

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13D.02 rather than in person at the city council’s regular

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meeting place at City Hall, council chambers, 5280 heaven 00:01:12.266 --> 00:01:15.634

and North, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. I am physically

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present in the council chambers along with council members

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Amanda Shenzhen. Uh, Nicole Kloofsky, Shelley Page, and 00:01:23.567 --> 00:01:26.133

Tony McGarvey. All council members can hear one another

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public can monitor the council meeting by calling 218-302-5973

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www.rooklynark.org/city-council. Just Would ask everyone to rise

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for the Pledge of allegiance, please. one nation. Yeah. Right 00:02:27.100 --> 00:02:31.934

now is the time for public comment. Uh, public comment 00:02:31.934 --> 00:02:34.000

provides an opportunity for members of the public to

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address the council on items which are not on the agenda.

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Public comment is limited to 15 minutes. If no one is in 00:02:41.467 --> 00:02:44.166

attendance for public comment, the regular meeting may begin.

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It may not be used to make personal attacks, to air

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personality grievances to make political endorsements or for 00:02:51.634 --> 00:02:54.200

political campaign purposes. Individuals should limit their

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comments to 3 minutes. Council members will not enter into

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dialogue with residents. Questions from the council will 00:03:01.200 --> 00:03:03.867

be for clarification only. Public comment will not be used

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as a time for problem solving or reacting to the comments

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made, but rather as an opportunity for hearing the

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residents for informational purposes. is only, uh, city 00:03:12.367 --> 00:03:14.834

manager’s trouble. Do you have response to prior public

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comment. Yeah. Protem Eriksson, members of council, uh, there

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was one public comment at the last full city council meeting, 00:03:22.567 --> 00:03:25.867

uh, for Mr. Clave. Uh, he’s in a unique situation where he’s

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not on city water, gets his water from a well, um, but he 00:03:30.734 --> 00:03:35.667

is on, um, our sanitary sewer system, um and so he does get

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charged. Uh the base fee for the sewer service, um, he has 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:49.200

concerns with regard to the $72 per quarter charge, uh,

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believes that the water that he uses and it goes down the sewer 00:03:52.233 --> 00:03:56.233

system, does not necessitate a charge of that level. Um,

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Mister Hogue, uh, Director Hogue did some work, uh, with 00:04:02.100 --> 00:04:04.734

regard to reviewing his circumstance, also did some

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comparisons, shared that information with the city

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council, but just want to share that publicly. In terms of that

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base rate. Other comparable cities around us, uh, again, 00:04:15.367 --> 00:04:20.133

Brooklyn Park is $72 per quarter. Coon Rapids is 00:04:20.133 --> 00:04:23.934

slightly higher at uh almost $78 per quarter. Champlain is

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at almost $109 per quarter. Brooklyn Center is at just over

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$103 per quarter and Burnsville, which is further away, um, is 00:04:32.533 --> 00:04:36.266

at 98 per quarter. Um, so the, the council always does have

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the prerogative of changing the policy or that particular fee, 00:04:40.033 --> 00:04:44.800

um, but in this case, Without knowing exactly the amount of

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usage that uh Mr. Clave has, um, although, you know, there is a

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possibility of putting in a water meter itself, and, um, 00:04:54.934 --> 00:04:58.233

And you know, so we could get a sense in terms of how much

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water is going through his system, but alternatively, we 00:05:02.467 --> 00:05:07.200

do think that um the base sewer charges are well within line

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with what other communities are at. So I just want to update 00:05:10.400 --> 00:05:12.634

the council and the community about that, and we will

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continue to work with Mr. Clave, um, but I feel at this point,

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um, staff is just enforcing the policy that exists today. Thank

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you. Thank you, Mr. Strobel. Uh, Mr. Montero, do you have any? 00:05:27.467 --> 00:05:30.734

Mayor Pro Tem Erickson and uh council members, I do not have 00:05:30.734 --> 00:05:35.100

anyone signed up to speak tonight. Are there any

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residents wishing to speak in public comment? OK, thank you. 00:05:40.367 --> 00:05:51.200

Uh, we will move on to approval of the agenda. Is there a 00:05:51.200 --> 00:05:56.000

second? All in favor of approving the agenda. My prote

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Eriksson wrote. Well Uh clarification from city 00:06:00.767 --> 00:06:03.900

attorneys. Should we go ahead and do the roll call vote. She

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is not present at this time. Councilman Bertrand. Uh I 00:06:10.033 --> 00:06:13.400

pretend, no, you don’t need to do a roll over if the missing

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cos member is not present. OK, all in favor of approving the

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agenda. Opposed? OK. We will now move on to public 00:06:26.100 --> 00:06:28.934

presentations. I would like to invite Chief Brewley to the

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podium. Good evening, Mayor Protem Erickson council members. 00:06:41.200 --> 00:06:45.734

Mark Ruley, police chief, uh, it’s my pleasure to present to

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you numerous community awards. I invite you to come down if

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you would like. Um, we have a handful of them that we would 00:06:50.634 --> 00:06:53.800

like to call up the community and reward them. Uh, we started

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doing this a while ago and one of the reasons we want to

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affirm is there’s a ton of amazing community members that

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partner with the police routinely uh to make their 00:07:02.367 --> 00:07:04.533

communities safe and so we really want to lift those up

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and highlight those and you’ll see some of those this evening.

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The first one I would like to invite up one of our community 00:07:11.934 --> 00:07:13.867

members, Natasha Robinson should be receiving a community

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award. On behalf of the residents of the city of 00:07:24.834 --> 00:07:27.400

Brooklyn Park and the Brooklyn Park Police Department, you are

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hereby commended for your actions as set forth below. In 00:07:30.734 --> 00:07:33.867

May of 2024, our officers were dispatched to the holiday gas

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station on the 8500 block of Jefferson Highway after reports

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of a woman using a Bitcoin ATM inside the store. An employee 00:07:42.533 --> 00:07:45.734

Natash Robinson noticed an elderly woman typing in numbers

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and suspected that she was being scammed. Concerned, she

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approached the woman and stopped her actions, still 00:07:53.033 --> 00:07:55.100

uncertain, Natasha decided to call the Brooklyn Park Police

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Department. Upon arrival, officers found the victim still

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at the Bitcoin ATM attempting to insert money after speaking 00:08:02.734 --> 00:08:06.000

with her, they confirmed she was indeed being scammed. The

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scam began after the victim clicked a phishing email which 00:08:10.133 --> 00:08:14.500

led to her withdrawing cash and attempting to deposit it into

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the Bitcoin ATM. Thanks to Natasha’s vigilance, a senior

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citizen was saved from losing $5000 to a sophisticated online 00:08:21.533 --> 00:08:25.100

scam. The strong community spirit in Brooklyn Park thrives

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because of individuals like Natasha. who step up to help

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strangers simply because it’s the right thing to do. The city 00:08:31.567 --> 00:08:35.300

of Brooklyn Park is grateful to her and being part of our great

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community. Thank you. It’s my pleasure to invite up two 00:09:01.867 --> 00:09:05.133

community members, Jeffrey Vang and Joseph Fang. They will be

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receiving a community award. On behalf of the residents of the 00:09:17.934 --> 00:09:20.000

city of Brooklyn Park and the Brooklyn Park Police Department. 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:24.266

You are hereby commended for your actions as set forth. In

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September 2024, Brooklyn Park police officers responded to a

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distress call from the 1900 block of 87th Trail North, 00:09:30.233 --> 00:09:33.000

where a woman reported her ex-husband was aggressively

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banging on her front door. While officers were en route,

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she heard windows breaking and her ex-husband threatening her 00:09:40.033 --> 00:09:43.100

life. He had previously threatened her and the lives of

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her family twice. Once while being armed with a firearm.

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Jeffrey and Joseph Vang also lived at the residence as the 00:09:52.100 --> 00:09:55.266

woman and her children barricaded themselves in a

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downstairs bathroom. Jeffrey and Joseph positioned

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themselves outside the bathroom door to protect them. They soon 00:10:02.934 --> 00:10:06.000

heard gunshots and more windows shattering. The suspect had

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entered the home, through a downstairs window, wielding a

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shotgun. Jeffrey and Joseph bravely confronted the intruder, 00:10:13.934 --> 00:10:16.634

tackling him and pinning him in the shotgun underneath him.

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Despite the struggles, they maintained control until

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Brooklyn Park police officers arrived and took him into 00:10:21.567 --> 00:10:26.734

custody. Jeffrey and Joseph demonstrated remarkable courage,

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risking their own safety to thwart an armed intruder

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intending to do harm. They’re swift, decisive action in a 00:10:33.734 --> 00:10:36.100

dangerous situation were truly heroic. Thank you and

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congratulations. Yeah. Yeah, perfect. Yeah, Next, what we 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:12.834

are going to do the Dolois Brown service to community 00:11:12.834 --> 00:11:16.934

award. We have two recipients. First, I’d like to invite up

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Kareem and Jordan. Cream is the daughter of Dolois and Jordan 00:11:26.667 --> 00:11:29.533

is her grandson. I would like to read the description of the

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award before we proceed. Dolores Bolden Brown. was an 00:11:35.734 --> 00:11:38.367

inspirational resident of Brooklyn Park that suffered a

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tragic death on April 9th of 2012. She spent the majority of 00:11:42.667 --> 00:11:46.000

her life caring for others, and particularly caring for

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children. Dolores was a devoted member of her church serving, 00:11:51.166 --> 00:11:55.467

serving on the praise and worship team and the food

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ministry team. She was instrumental in collecting and

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providing food to the homeless families, and then she 00:12:01.367 --> 00:12:03.533

demonstrated leadership with providing for children and

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lunches. Dolores was described by fellow members as a giving,

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loving and encouraging woman who consistently saw the good 00:12:11.800 --> 00:12:15.767

in people. Dolores sought to help others reach their

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potential and was always there providing guidance. She felt it

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was important to enable and empower those she worked with 00:12:22.367 --> 00:12:25.800

and her love and guidance made an impact on many lives. The

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Lois would have desired to see her passion for giving and 00:12:30.200 --> 00:12:35.000

generosity carried on by others. The Dolores Boldon Brown Award,

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created in 2016 is bestowed upon an individual who provides

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truly passionate and selfless service to the community of 00:12:41.100 --> 00:12:45.867

Brooklyn Park. This award recognizes and celebrates the

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outstanding work of a person who has had an enduring and

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positive impact on our city. the I would like to invite up 00:13:02.767 --> 00:13:06.467

Brenda Kennelly. There’ll be your first recipient and the

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awards will be read this evening by Jordan. Alright,

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thank you. All right. Brenda Kinley has, sorry, Brenda 00:13:19.200 --> 00:13:22.500

Kenley has been, uh, I committed member of the 00:13:22.500 --> 00:13:29.367

community. Malta, I’m sorry, I’m messing up. I’m nervous,

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guys. Brenda Kennedy has been a committed member of multiple 00:13:33.634 --> 00:13:37.934

civic organizations over the years. Um, this includes the

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North Suburban scholarship Group of 13 years, helping 00:13:41.667 --> 00:13:44.266

local youth through extracurricular activities in

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the education. She also served on the governance. Yeah, 00:13:52.367 --> 00:13:55.900

Governors council, uh, of the Northwest Hennepin family

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services. Co Collaborative promoting vital family services 00:14:04.100 --> 00:14:09.567

in the region as a board member of family to family mobile

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ministries. Brenda has helped provide clothing, furniture, 00:14:13.300 --> 00:14:18.467

and food for those in need throughout the Twin Cities,

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creating a lifeline for individuals and families facing 00:14:21.367 --> 00:14:27.667

hardship. And her professional life and Brenda has been, um,

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the clinical manager at Hennepin Healthcare, Brooklyn 00:14:30.467 --> 00:14:36.100

Park Clinic at the pharmacy since it’s open in 2010. Under

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her leadership. Uh, under her leadership at the clinic. Um, 00:14:43.100 --> 00:14:50.000

has expanded to offering to included services like 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:55.800

Pediatrician, OBGYN and a certified nurse midwife program,

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ensuring health care for the community for the community.

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Brenda goes above and beyond to help patients to help parties 00:15:05.467 --> 00:15:11.266

access more, not only medical, but also helps connect 00:15:11.266 --> 00:15:17.367

community members in need with essential resources. She has

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continuingly continuously. and shown support towards others 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:29.533

during their most challenging times. Brenda’s contribution.

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Extended beyond her work at the clinic, Brenda has also been an 00:15:35.467 --> 00:15:40.000

active volunteer member of the Brooklyn Park. Crime Prevention 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:44.467

Association, where she has shown an unwavering commitment

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to the public safety and fostering a strong sense of

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community. Most recently, Brenda found a chapter founded, 00:15:54.100 --> 00:15:59.867

um, a chapter of Sleep and hollow Place. And national

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organization dedicated to providing beds for children who 00:16:03.133 --> 00:16:08.467

are sleeping on the floor, couches, and under other unsafe

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conditions through our leadership. Um, through her 00:16:13.266 --> 00:16:18.100

leadership last 100. Through her leadership last year, 100

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children in Brooklyn Park received brand new beds, 00:16:20.867 --> 00:16:27.133

providing them. Not only for comfortable places to sleep,

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but also seem, uh, seams of dignity. And hope For the 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:38.934

future, Brenda’s dedication to this causes causes reflects her

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beliefs that every child deserves a safe place to rest 00:16:43.200 --> 00:16:48.533

and she is working tirelessly to make it a reality for

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families in need. In conclusion, Brenda is not a commit. Brenda 00:16:53.000 --> 00:16:59.934

is not just a community leader. She is a beacon of inspiration,

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embodying values. Um Abiding values. Uh Of a dedication and 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:15.200

selfless sorry, and selflessness. Her dedication to

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the community service, and leadership has left. A lasting 00:17:20.533 --> 00:17:26.567

impact on our city. It is our pleasure and honor to recognize

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Brenda Kinley. Uh, as a recipient of the Dolores Golden 00:17:31.266 --> 00:17:34.500

Brown service Community Award, the residents of Brooklyn Park

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and the members of Brooklyn Park Police Department. Thank

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you. I All right, 2nd 1. Um, Monica have a have a, I don’t 00:17:57.867 --> 00:18:03.266

want to say the last name wrong, sorry if I did. Monica Haba is 00:18:03.266 --> 00:18:08.100

honored with the 2024 the Lois Bolden Brown service to

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community award for expe Exponential dedication and 00:18:14.467 --> 00:18:19.367

leadership, as resident service coordinator at Huntington Place

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Apartments, Minnesota’s 2nd largest apartment community 00:18:24.634 --> 00:18:29.000

home to over 2500 residents since since assuming her role

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in March 2024, Monica has worked tirelessly to address 00:18:35.934 --> 00:18:39.233

critical needs and improve the quality of life for residents

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facing significant challenges. s Monica expands, um, food 00:18:46.500 --> 00:18:53.467

giveaways to twice monthly launch health cooking classes, 00:18:53.467 --> 00:18:58.200

organized monthly health resource fairs. And pardon with

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the YMCA to offer summer swim days. All aimed at enhancing uh 00:19:06.266 --> 00:19:09.667

residents health and wellness. She received community

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enhancement through Coffee and combo gathering quarterly 00:19:16.367 --> 00:19:19.000

resident meetings and orchestrating, uh, one of

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Huntington Place’s most significant national night out 00:19:22.734 --> 00:19:28.634

national night out events. Her dedication of fostering growth

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and creativity led to the Introduction of sewing classes 00:19:35.634 --> 00:19:39.367

and the establishment of a second resource room providing

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essential food and clothing. Additionally, Monica is 00:19:43.100 --> 00:19:46.800

continued core programs like bingo, Early childhood

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education and specific holiday celebrations that bring joy and 00:19:51.100 --> 00:19:59.100

connections to the community. Monica’s um man, I, I’m just

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skiing my tongue is, I can’t even do it right now. Her 00:20:02.867 --> 00:20:09.266

leadership. Innovative programs in our unwavering commitment to

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Huntington Place residence, um. Man, it’s never like spirits, 00:20:17.867 --> 00:20:24.133

services, and crab berade by this award. It is our pleasure 00:20:24.133 --> 00:20:31.667

and honor to recognize Monica Habit as the resident. of the 00:20:31.667 --> 00:20:35.467

Delosboro Service Community Award, the resident of Brooklyn

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Park and members of Brooklyn Park. Police department, thank

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you. So good Did Good. by the beach. this Yes. I’m going to 00:21:04.200 --> 00:21:06.867

pause the meeting for 5 minutes if any of the recipients would

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like to do photographs with the chief of counsel or with the

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family. Mayor Prote can just say one comment before we do 00:21:13.467 --> 00:21:15.500

that. Just thank you for everybody that coming, the

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family members, the work, you can see why the Delois Brown is

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very special to us in the police department, um, and why 00:21:21.266 --> 00:21:26.100

we had two winners because two amazing people of our community,

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um, one is literally giving beds to children that would not

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have a bed to sleep in if it wasn’t for her and uh 00:21:31.533 --> 00:21:36.266

Huntington, um, in the leadership, uh, that Monica has

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had there it’s been one of the reasons why we are seeing

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historic low, um, in in crime at the. that facility, um, and 00:21:42.934 --> 00:21:46.533

so it is that kind of partnership, uh, with people

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like her that makes a big impact in our community, so

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super happy um that all of you came. Congratulations to all 00:21:52.533 --> 00:21:55.000

recipients and I can’t emphasize enough how important

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it is to the police department and to me that we have great

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partners like this community um for us to be effective in 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:31.934

public safety, so keep it up and congratulations. this. And 00:22:31.934 --> 00:23:38.266

Right. It’s No I was. that Yeah 321. lots of 3. Yes please 00:23:38.266 --> 00:24:08.000

thank you. Sorry, one more time. Right Thanks. Thank you. Yeah 00:24:08.000 --> 00:25:11.467

the recipients come back up for the family. I I said I Exactly 00:25:11.467 --> 00:28:30.667

Um Oh Oh not. So Yeah that. lasts on her phone No s. OK 00:28:30.667 --> 00:28:40.800

Yeah OK, I’m going to move on to 3B2. Uh, this is a 00:28:40.800 --> 00:28:49.367

proclamation related to Arbery. Proclamation declaring May 3,

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2025 as Arbor Day and the month of May is Arbor month in the 00:28:52.533 --> 00:28:56.467

city of Brooklyn Park. Whereas in 2025 in the United States,

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Arbor Day will be celebrated on April 25th, and whereas 00:29:00.133 --> 00:29:03.734

Brooklyn Park will be selling Arbor, celebrating Arbor Day by

00:29:03.734 --> 00:29:08.166

having its annual sale on May 3rd. And whereas Arbor Day

00:29:08.166 --> 00:29:10.734

reminds us all of the significance of trees and 00:29:10.734 --> 00:29:13.367

forests, acknowledging their role in the economy, culture,

00:29:13.367 --> 00:29:18.233

history, and future of our communities. And whereas trees

00:29:18.233 --> 00:29:21.867

in our city increase property values enhance the economic 00:29:21.867 --> 00:29:25.634

vitality of business areas and beautifier community. And

00:29:25.634 --> 00:29:28.033

whereas the health and longevity of Minnesota’s trees

00:29:28.033 --> 00:29:32.100

are being affected by changing temperatures and precipitation, 00:29:32.100 --> 00:29:35.834

extreme weather events and increasing pressure from pests,

00:29:35.834 --> 00:29:38.934

diseases, and invasive species. And whereas Minnesota’s at risk

00:29:38.934 --> 00:29:43.200

to lose over 1 billion ash trees due to emerald ash pore, 00:29:43.200 --> 00:29:46.000

and whereas a healthy tree canopy decreases temperatures

00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:48.834

along streets, providing cooler spaces in the summertime for

00:29:48.834 --> 00:29:52.033

recreation and commerce. And whereas the careful management 00:29:52.033 --> 00:29:54.533

of our trees and forests protects drinking water and

00:29:54.533 --> 00:29:58.300

reduces the cost of water treatment, and whereas planting

00:29:58.300 --> 00:30:00.867

and maintaining trees is a natural and easy way to keep 00:30:00.867 --> 00:30:05.867

our water clean. Now, therefore, I, Chris Ericsson, on behalf of

00:30:05.867 --> 00:30:09.400

Hollis Winston, mayor of the city of Brooklyn Park, do

00:30:09.400 --> 00:30:12.667

hereby proclaim a 3rd 2025 as Arbor Day and the month of May 00:30:12.667 --> 00:30:16.467

is Arbor Month in Brooklyn Park. Be it further resolved that the

00:30:16.467 --> 00:30:18.734

mayor and council members urged residents to become more aware

00:30:18.734 --> 00:30:22.734

of the importance of trees and their impact on the well-being 00:30:22.734 --> 00:30:32.533

of neighborhoods. And on a related note. Um, we would like 00:30:32.533 --> 00:30:38.266

to acknowledge our local target store and their team, um, in

00:30:38.266 --> 00:30:40.400

that they have scheduled a litter cleanup event for Earth 00:30:40.400 --> 00:30:45.734

Day, April 22, 2025 from 10 to noon. Uh, this will take place

00:30:45.734 --> 00:30:50.000

at the Brooklyn Park Target at 7535 West Broadway Avenue. We 00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:52.900

will also be scheduling a cleanup with Crestview

00:30:52.900 --> 00:30:58.000

Elementary. We invite community members to keep track of social

00:30:58.000 --> 00:31:00.634

media, as we’ll be listing opportunities for additional 00:31:00.634 --> 00:31:02.900

litter cleanup dates to come as part of our effort to beautify

00:31:02.900 --> 00:31:11.867

Brooklyn Park. I would now like to invite representatives of 00:31:11.867 --> 00:31:14.100

the Budget Advisory Commission to present their 2025 work plan.

00:31:14.100 --> 00:32:03.667

gave her. Oh, it’s So you Mayor Pro Tem Erickson and council 00:32:03.667 --> 00:32:06.800

members. I’m Antonia Green, the City’s finance director.

00:32:06.800 --> 00:32:11.133

Tonight, um, the budget advisory commission will be 00:32:11.133 --> 00:32:15.100

presenting their 2025 work plan, um, presentation, um, tonight

00:32:15.100 --> 00:32:20.834

we will have Chair Henry Blake, and Vice Chair Petty. That will 00:32:20.834 --> 00:32:24.533

provide the presentation of the work plan on behalf of the

00:32:24.533 --> 00:32:28.467

budget advisory commission, and afterwards, um, all of the

00:32:28.467 --> 00:32:31.567

commissioners that are in attendance will stand for any 00:32:31.567 --> 00:32:35.500

questions that the um council may have. Um, traditionally,

00:32:35.500 --> 00:32:38.934

since we have a couple new um council members, I would just

00:32:38.934 --> 00:32:42.767

like to add that the um budget advisory commission does their 00:32:42.767 --> 00:32:45.867

um work plan a little bit differently. Normally with all

00:32:45.867 --> 00:32:50.667

of the um commissions, you have a work plan as well as that 00:32:50.667 --> 00:32:53.934

look back or that explaining to you what they accomplished in

00:32:53.934 --> 00:32:57.634

the previous year, um, because the budget advisory commission

00:32:57.634 --> 00:33:01.867

does that in November. We actually do not um provide that, 00:33:01.867 --> 00:33:05.133

um, what we’ve done previously. in tonight. We won’t be

00:33:05.133 --> 00:33:09.266

providing that tonight. So with that, I will turn things over

00:33:09.266 --> 00:33:17.000

to Chara Blake and vice chair Petty. Just click the change 00:33:17.000 --> 00:33:26.000

yeah, you Thank you, uh, Latrina, um. Merote and council 00:33:26.000 --> 00:33:29.834

members, the budget advisory commission begs leave to

00:33:29.834 --> 00:33:38.800

present his work plan. So my name is Henry Blake and I’ll be 00:33:38.800 --> 00:33:45.233

be presenting on behalf of the commission. So the mission of 00:33:45.233 --> 00:33:49.000

the budget advisory commission is to ensure the long term

00:33:49.000 --> 00:33:53.667

fiscal health of the city of Brooklyn Park by providing 00:33:53.667 --> 00:33:56.934

strategic direction to the council. Our projections and

00:33:56.934 --> 00:34:02.200

measurements are used. To establish priorities that align 00:34:02.200 --> 00:34:07.467

with the city’s um. strategic plan, ensuring resources are

00:34:07.467 --> 00:34:10.500

invested appropriately to meet the vision. And the mission of 00:34:10.500 --> 00:34:15.133

the city. So these are the members of the uh Budget

00:34:15.133 --> 00:34:21.367

advisory uh. Commission Henry Blake is the chair of William 00:34:21.367 --> 00:34:24.634

Perry is vice chair, and we have council member. Shelley

00:34:24.634 --> 00:34:31.634

Page as our council is Fakimaoki, Katrina Green, 00:34:31.634 --> 00:34:38.533

Michael Mattox Nahashan Mobisa. Emmy Muir and um Erica. Walker

00:34:38.533 --> 00:34:43.867

So just go with the work plan, um. We already in the in the 00:34:43.867 --> 00:34:47.734

2nd quarter, so I’ll just keep with um those things that we’ve

00:34:47.734 --> 00:34:53.100

done in January, so basically what we did was um we did an a 00:34:53.100 --> 00:34:56.166

member’s introduction uh during our regular meeting in January.

00:34:56.166 --> 00:35:00.734

We did have elections of all officers and uh we did review 00:35:00.734 --> 00:35:07.266

the Annual bylog of the Budget Advisory Commission and then we

00:35:07.266 --> 00:35:12.166

commenced the process of developing a work plan for. Um, 00:35:12.166 --> 00:35:15.100

for the year. In February, we also did have a regular meeting.

00:35:15.100 --> 00:35:22.867

And we did finalize uh the work plan for 2025. And we did 00:35:22.867 --> 00:35:28.634

assignment of um committee members for 2025, and we, we,

00:35:28.634 --> 00:35:36.233

over time we’ve had um Saxos, um, we had 3, areas of 00:35:36.233 --> 00:35:40.567

concentration which are still tax, employee retention, and uh 00:35:40.567 --> 00:35:45.266

uh benefit fund. So, uh, we still anticipating as to

00:35:45.266 --> 00:35:49.000

whether to retain those or not, but we do have some new members

00:35:49.000 --> 00:35:53.266

who, who are gonna be coming on, so we wanted to give them the 00:35:53.266 --> 00:35:57.734

opportunity to be part of the decision-making process, so we

00:35:57.734 --> 00:36:01.734

are holding on to that, I think until our next meeting, which 00:36:01.734 --> 00:36:08.734

is in approximately uh. 8 days. So for uh March. We did have a

00:36:08.734 --> 00:36:11.634

regular meeting with we developed the template and 00:36:11.634 --> 00:36:18.367

questionnaires, um. To uh departments. For use uh for the

00:36:18.367 --> 00:36:22.634

budget presentation every year we develop um template to send 00:36:22.634 --> 00:36:28.500

out to various um Departments of the city. So that they give

00:36:28.500 --> 00:36:32.367

us some information with regards to what the plans are 00:36:32.367 --> 00:36:38.133

for the budget year. And we there was a special meeting on

00:36:38.133 --> 00:36:42.033

the 2nd of April with regards to new commissioners 00:36:42.033 --> 00:36:49.367

orientation. Um We did have an, uh, it was optional for

00:36:49.367 --> 00:36:52.100

existing commission and the commissions, it was not 00:36:52.100 --> 00:36:55.734

actually required for, for it was, it was required for new

00:36:55.734 --> 00:36:58.367

commissioners but not for existing ones, so that’s why

00:36:58.367 --> 00:37:02.266

some of us are not here, I think. Alright, and then we uh 00:37:02.266 --> 00:37:07.000

we do have this special meeting today, which is to present the

00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:13.500

work plan to the council. And technically, um, We’re supposed 00:37:13.500 --> 00:37:18.734

to have our. official meeting, regular meeting on the 22nd.

00:37:18.734 --> 00:37:22.367

That is when the new chair is supposed to begin his function, 00:37:22.367 --> 00:37:26.767

so I don’t know in which capacity I’m actually in right

00:37:26.767 --> 00:37:33.133

now, I, I, I think I’m the impromptu chair right now. So 00:37:33.133 --> 00:37:37.567

we’re supposed to be officially starting duties. Um, on the

00:37:37.567 --> 00:37:42.734

22nd, and at that time we, we, we, we have the privilege of 00:37:42.734 --> 00:37:46.100

hosting the city manager. Who’s going to give us some

00:37:46.100 --> 00:37:50.734

highlights on some basic things within within the city. And in 00:37:50.734 --> 00:37:56.667

May, we’re also going to have a regular meeting with the EDA to

00:37:56.667 --> 00:38:00.867

talk about biotech, um, the whole of of biotech in the city 00:38:00.867 --> 00:38:04.400

who want to really have some graphs on what’s unfolding with

00:38:04.400 --> 00:38:11.467

regards to that. And um In June we’re gonna have our revenue 00:38:11.467 --> 00:38:17.400

meeting. Looking at the guiding principles and assumptions for

00:38:17.400 --> 00:38:21.667

revenue, those are key factors when it comes to preparing the 00:38:21.667 --> 00:38:26.567

budget for the city. And then uh those tax foods that I did

00:38:26.567 --> 00:38:29.200

mention before, we’re going to be having a check in to see how

00:38:29.200 --> 00:38:35.533

far they are with regards to the planning. And then um. In 00:38:35.533 --> 00:38:39.367

July there’s an everything plan would be celebrating. And

00:38:39.367 --> 00:38:43.000

August we’re gonna have our regular meeting and at that 00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:49.467

time what we’re going to start to have presentations. All, all

00:38:49.467 --> 00:38:52.634

of the departments are going to by then we have received a 00:38:52.634 --> 00:38:55.000

different templates for the presentation this time around,

00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:59.000

we want to make, we don’t just want to make it general

00:38:59.000 --> 00:39:01.367

templates being sent out to the different departments. We want 00:39:01.367 --> 00:39:05.367

them to be, I think more department specific, so we’re

00:39:05.367 --> 00:39:10.834

going to be looking into that. And then we’ll also be uh 00:39:10.834 --> 00:39:14.734

getting snapshots from the external or other findings on

00:39:14.734 --> 00:39:20.367

the city’s books. And in um September we’re gonna have a 00:39:20.367 --> 00:39:22.834

meeting with click, which is the capital long range

00:39:22.834 --> 00:39:27.266

Improvement commission. Uh, every year we do have a meeting

00:39:27.266 --> 00:39:31.166

with them to um look at things from a long term perspective 00:39:31.166 --> 00:39:36.033

that’s part of our mission, so we do have um a meeting with

00:39:36.033 --> 00:39:38.900

them every year to look at those priorities of the city

00:39:38.900 --> 00:39:45.533

when it comes to long range planning. Um, in September, Um, 00:39:45.533 --> 00:39:49.266

so one of the things that we’ve been doing over time that has

00:39:49.266 --> 00:39:55.634

the disadvantage of the city to the commission was having Uh, 00:39:55.634 --> 00:40:00.400

these different uh departments come in late, um, during the 00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:04.100

year like around October and then that usually pose a

00:40:04.100 --> 00:40:07.467

problem because we’re not able to analyze all of their

00:40:07.467 --> 00:40:12.133

presentations and be able to come up with an efficient um 00:40:12.133 --> 00:40:15.734

Report to, you know, time effusion report to the to the

00:40:15.734 --> 00:40:21.834

city, so there has been um taken care of in our work plan 00:40:21.834 --> 00:40:28.200

for this year we have more of the departments coming in uh

00:40:28.200 --> 00:40:32.567

September and um that is why you see uh we have 2 meetings. 00:40:32.567 --> 00:40:35.367

I mean, we have not determined the time, but we have agreed in

00:40:35.367 --> 00:40:39.533

principle. Uh, that those meetings will be held in

00:40:39.533 --> 00:40:43.200

September that will give us ample time to be able to review 00:40:43.200 --> 00:40:48.100

all of the all of the uh different. Um, presentations

00:40:48.100 --> 00:40:51.800

from the different departments and be able to Prepare our so 00:40:51.800 --> 00:40:57.166

in September, we anticipate looking at Um, reviewing the

00:40:57.166 --> 00:41:03.467

plans of uh park and rec, fire department, police department, 00:41:03.467 --> 00:41:08.300

um, operations and maintenance. Yeah, administrative department

00:41:08.300 --> 00:41:10.834

finance and budget, uh community, community 00:41:10.834 --> 00:41:16.300

development. I would also be And then uh for a regular

00:41:16.300 --> 00:41:21.634

meeting in September will also be having the city manager and 00:41:21.634 --> 00:41:25.800

city managers and council president uh present the budget

00:41:25.800 --> 00:41:27.934

recommendation for levy that is very key for our budget. We

00:41:27.934 --> 00:41:32.300

want to know what levy we’re going to have. I know the, the, 00:41:32.300 --> 00:41:35.634

the city council also has to get levy from, I think perhaps

00:41:35.634 --> 00:41:38.634

from the counter of some some other structure, but we have to

00:41:38.634 --> 00:41:42.934

wait for that in order to make our recommendations to the um 00:41:42.934 --> 00:41:46.667

To the to the council so we anticipate by that time we

00:41:46.667 --> 00:41:50.000

would have had the all of the parameters needed to make the 00:41:50.000 --> 00:41:55.200

levy at that time. So we’re also gonna have a special

00:41:55.200 --> 00:41:59.533

meeting, um, in October to review city to review all of

00:41:59.533 --> 00:42:04.934

these things again. So by the time we receive the levy, uh, 00:42:04.934 --> 00:42:08.634

perhaps early on early aimmo, we can go back down to our, our

00:42:08.634 --> 00:42:11.233

drawing board and then come up with recommendations to the 00:42:11.233 --> 00:42:17.533

council. And in November, um, We’ll be coming back to the

00:42:17.533 --> 00:42:25.266

council with all. Final report. And um with I think we are 00:42:25.266 --> 00:42:28.400

anticipating that that is going to be the last meeting as it’s

00:42:28.400 --> 00:42:31.500

gonna be just a day before a regular meeting, so we have 00:42:31.500 --> 00:42:34.734

that decided on that yet, but I think that’s, that might be a

00:42:34.734 --> 00:42:49.133

consensus of the um of the body. Thank you. Any questions? 00:42:49.133 --> 00:42:54.533

Berkowski? Thank you, Mayor Portem. I have a question for 00:42:54.533 --> 00:43:01.400

the budget advisory, but also perhaps for Devon and Jay. So 00:43:01.400 --> 00:43:07.266

we require our charter commission to review biannually

00:43:07.266 --> 00:43:09.934

the mayor and council salaries, and I’m wondering if it would

00:43:09.934 --> 00:43:15.800

make sense in the future to Have a coordinated work session 00:43:15.800 --> 00:43:20.533

with the budget advisory. Committee because The charter 00:43:20.533 --> 00:43:23.367

commission doesn’t really know the annual budget and the

00:43:23.367 --> 00:43:26.500

pieces, um, that come into play with that. I can see where,

00:43:26.500 --> 00:43:29.200

especially after the last conversation that charter

00:43:29.200 --> 00:43:33.033

commission had regarding this where the budget advisory input 00:43:33.033 --> 00:43:36.533

would be essential, um, in making those determinations

00:43:36.533 --> 00:43:39.367

biannually. It’s a suggestion. And a question if there’s, if

00:43:39.367 --> 00:43:42.100

that would be of interest, I guess as well to the Budget 00:43:42.100 --> 00:43:49.100

group. And interest. Oh yes. Yep. Had a consensus of the

00:43:49.100 --> 00:43:59.100

team, so. Any further Yeah, Mayor Pro Tem, Eriksson comes 00:43:59.100 --> 00:44:01.734

from Klenowski, um, yeah, I mean, there’s nothing that 00:44:01.734 --> 00:44:04.867

dictates that the charter commission um make that

00:44:04.867 --> 00:44:07.734

decision. They’re largely used to make a recommendation.

00:44:07.734 --> 00:44:10.834

Ultimately the decision does come to the city council, um, 00:44:10.834 --> 00:44:13.634

but if the council’s supportive of, of using the Budget

00:44:13.634 --> 00:44:15.767

Advisory commission and the Charter commission. I think

00:44:15.767 --> 00:44:20.467

it’s a great idea and um get more voices in terms of 00:44:20.467 --> 00:44:27.367

engaging in that um that item. Thank you. When What Councilman

00:44:27.367 --> 00:44:32.734

McGarvey. Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem. I just wanted to say thank 00:44:32.734 --> 00:44:37.100

you to the budget, budget. Advisory committee for all of

00:44:37.100 --> 00:44:39.867

your work and for being here tonight. Thank you for the

00:44:39.867 --> 00:44:47.800

presentation. Thanks. Council member page. I also want to say 00:44:47.800 --> 00:44:50.900

thank you. I think we have a fun group. So you’ve been 00:44:50.900 --> 00:44:53.734

teaching me a lot. I was on vacation for the last meeting,

00:44:53.734 --> 00:44:56.734

so sorry I missed it, but I know we have some other people

00:44:56.734 --> 00:45:00.734

here too, so thanks to new folks, um, and appreciate you 00:45:00.734 --> 00:45:04.667

guys. It’s a good group and very, very dedicated to your

00:45:04.667 --> 00:45:08.467

commission. So we appreciate that. And you make me laugh too,

00:45:08.467 --> 00:45:16.100

so I think that’s positive. that May I approach him, um, 00:45:16.100 --> 00:45:19.634

council members, um, um, several of the members wanted

00:45:19.634 --> 00:45:27.133

to know if um you wanted that to happen. I’m sorry, um. 00:45:27.133 --> 00:45:29.867

Councilman Manowski’s um proposal that you want that to

00:45:29.867 --> 00:45:36.800

happen during this cycle or for the next um cycle. We had one 00:45:36.800 --> 00:45:39.000

meeting with the charter commission where they were

00:45:39.000 --> 00:45:41.667

reviewing it. I believe it’s going to come back up in the 00:45:41.667 --> 00:45:47.000

May session. If it is possible to coordinate between the

00:45:47.000 --> 00:45:50.667

budget advisory and charter, I can see nothing but benefit. 00:45:50.667 --> 00:45:53.900

for both commissions to be communicating on that, but I

00:45:53.900 --> 00:45:58.367

don’t know how the timeline agrees with everyone’s

00:45:58.367 --> 00:46:04.533

schedules, um. The proteum. Eric’s son, council members, um, 00:46:04.533 --> 00:46:06.667

we can definitely take that under advisement and see how we

00:46:06.667 --> 00:46:10.934

can work that into our work, um, our agenda for the 22nd. Thank 00:46:10.934 --> 00:46:15.734

you. Thank you. Thank you so much, members of the Budget

00:46:15.734 --> 00:46:19.033

Advisory Commission, we appreciate your work and your

00:46:19.033 --> 00:46:23.734

guidance. Um, is there a motion to accept the BAC’s work plan. 00:46:23.734 --> 00:46:29.300

So moved. We have a motion in a second, uh, it looks like uh we

00:46:29.300 --> 00:46:33.567

need to roll call vote, please. Yes. So we’re voting on item 00:46:33.567 --> 00:46:40.634

3B3. Council member Zhang. Council member Klianowski 00:46:40.634 --> 00:46:45.734

Council member Page. Council member McGarvey Council member

00:46:45.734 --> 00:46:59.533

Tran. Council member Tran, I believe you’re muted. And OK. 00:46:59.533 --> 00:47:03.400

And Mayor prote Erickson. All right. motion passes with 6 yes 00:47:03.400 --> 00:47:10.200

votes, 0 no votes. Thank you so much. All right, we are now 00:47:10.200 --> 00:47:18.200

going to move on to the consent agenda. Is there a motion to

00:47:18.200 --> 00:47:24.634

move or a motion to approve the consent agenda. So moved. OK. 00:47:24.634 --> 00:47:28.367

Motion from Councilorowski, second from McGarvey. Uh, now

00:47:28.367 --> 00:47:32.200

the roll call vote, please. OK, we’re voting on the consent 00:47:32.200 --> 00:47:39.200

item. Council member Klinowski. I Council member Page. Council

00:47:39.200 --> 00:47:47.100

member McGarvey. Council member Tran. I Council members young 00:47:47.100 --> 00:47:51.367

Mayor pro Tim Erickson. The motion passes with 6 yes votes, 00:47:51.367 --> 00:48:04.634

0 no votes. OK. We will now move to 5.1 a public hearing on 00:48:04.634 --> 00:48:08.367

a liquor license for C senior kitchen. It’s like a Jason

00:48:08.367 --> 00:48:12.767

Newbie, or sorry, Keith Julie. Sorry, no you’re Jason. Yeah, 00:48:12.767 --> 00:48:18.033

really. Good evening, uh, Mayor Portem, members of the council.

00:48:18.033 --> 00:48:21.367

My name’s Jason Newby inspections and environmental 00:48:21.367 --> 00:48:24.500

health manager stepping in for Keith Julie tonight. Uh, item

00:48:24.500 --> 00:48:29.200

5.1 is a new on sale in Texan liquor license for Cignorra

00:48:29.200 --> 00:48:34.734

Kitchen LLC doing business as as CC in your kitchen, located 00:48:34.734 --> 00:48:38.800

8582 Edinburgh Center Drive. Uh, this restaurant was previously

00:48:38.800 --> 00:48:44.100

uh Tacos El P Paraiso and opened as Cor kitchen on March, 00:48:44.100 --> 00:48:47.900

in March of 2025. Uh, at the time this report was completed,

00:48:47.900 --> 00:48:51.100

uh, the business location had a few minor, uh, remaining fire 00:48:51.100 --> 00:48:53.934

code issues that they’re working on. Um, the business

00:48:53.934 --> 00:48:58.000

owner has been very cooperative and um must have all these

00:48:58.000 --> 00:49:00.767

issues resolved within 2 business days. Uh, once this is 00:49:00.767 --> 00:49:04.000

verified, uh, that all the issues are corrected the liquor

00:49:04.000 --> 00:49:07.100

license will be issued out. Uh, staff recommends approval of

00:49:07.100 --> 00:49:10.500

this liquor license contingent upon these remaining quota 00:49:10.500 --> 00:49:15.634

issues, and I don’t know if C uh CCR anyone here,

00:49:15.634 --> 00:49:18.834

representatives are here tonight. Oh, we do have one,

00:49:18.834 --> 00:49:21.166

remember, so if you have any questions, I’m sure you’d be 00:49:21.166 --> 00:49:27.367

happy or if you’d like to say a few words. Thank you. OK, I’m

00:49:27.367 --> 00:49:32.200

gonna go ahead and open the public hearing first. OK. 00:49:32.200 --> 00:49:35.200

Anyone from the public wish to address liquor license for

00:49:35.200 --> 00:49:40.467

Cignor. Uh, seeing none will open for questions from council 00:49:40.467 --> 00:49:49.400

members if there are any. Seeing none. Would anybody like

00:49:49.400 --> 00:50:03.667

to make the motion. Yeah Thank you. Mayor Tim Erickson, did I 00:50:03.667 --> 00:50:13.800

hear you say you closed the public hearing? Yes. Sorry, I 00:50:13.800 --> 00:50:20.233

would like to close the public hearing. I would like to make a 00:50:20.233 --> 00:50:25.000

motion to approve a non-sale intoxicating liquor license or

00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:29.834

C ignor LLC doing business as C in your kitchen, located at

00:50:29.834 --> 00:50:35.734

8582 Edinburgh. Center Drive North, contingent on completion 00:50:35.734 --> 00:50:44.400

of all remaining fire code issues. OK, we have a motion 00:50:44.400 --> 00:50:51.200

and a second, Mr. Montero, could you? Council member Page. 00:50:51.200 --> 00:51:00.233

Councilman McGarvey. Remember Tran? I Council member Jean. 00:51:00.233 --> 00:51:04.133

Council member Klinowski. Mayor Tim Erickson. Right. The motion

00:51:04.133 --> 00:51:10.133

passes with 6 yes votes, 0 no votes. Thank you so much and 00:51:10.133 --> 00:51:21.100

good luck with your business. Um Moving on to 7.1 appointment 00:51:21.100 --> 00:51:27.033

of an alternate council liaison to the charter commission. That

00:51:27.033 --> 00:51:44.634

you? Uh, Prote Erickson, uh, members of the council, Jay 00:51:44.634 --> 00:51:50.100

Stru, city manager here in Brooklyn Park, um, the charter 00:51:50.100 --> 00:51:54.266

commission has asked for the assignment of an additional

00:51:54.266 --> 00:51:58.400

council liaison and alternate liaison in the event that the

00:51:58.400 --> 00:52:03.834

current liaison is not able to make a particular meeting, uh, 00:52:03.834 --> 00:52:07.533

charter commission really values council voice at their

00:52:07.533 --> 00:52:10.367

charter commission meetings and so this item is before you this 00:52:10.367 --> 00:52:12.867

evening of trying to identify some somebody that can come in

00:52:12.867 --> 00:52:16.166

the event that comes from Kanowski is not able to to make

00:52:16.166 --> 00:52:20.934

that meeting work. I would, I would also note that the 00:52:20.934 --> 00:52:24.100

charter commission typically takes summers off, so as a

00:52:24.100 --> 00:52:28.500

selling point to anybody who wants to step up and volunteer

00:52:28.500 --> 00:52:37.734

to be an alternate uh liaison. Just as a reminder that current 00:52:37.734 --> 00:52:46.100

liaison is. Councilor Kanowski, Councilorowski. Uh, 00:52:46.100 --> 00:52:51.934

Councilmancy. Think you may approached him. Uh, what, what 00:52:51.934 --> 00:52:58.000

days does the commissionerrickson and council

00:52:58.000 --> 00:53:00.400

members, they meet on the 2nd Wednesday of each month, only 00:53:00.400 --> 00:53:14.100

once a month. I got a meeting that night. I can’t remember 00:53:14.100 --> 00:53:18.500

Jean. Thank you. I was just gonna ask what time are the

00:53:18.500 --> 00:53:22.367

meetings? Mayorr Tim Erickson and council members at 7 00:53:22.367 --> 00:53:27.734

o’clock. They start at 7 o’clock. Thank you. Uh,

00:53:27.734 --> 00:53:34.634

Councilor Kanowski. Thank you, Mayor Portem, um, I’ve served 00:53:34.634 --> 00:53:38.100

on the charter commission for 3 years and I genuinely think

00:53:38.100 --> 00:53:42.634

it’s fascinating. So if anyone wants to understand the nuts 00:53:42.634 --> 00:53:45.400

and bolts of a, what makes a charter city a charter city.

00:53:45.400 --> 00:53:51.667

It’s basically our, our city’s constitution, um, it’s a very 00:53:51.667 --> 00:53:57.200

esteemed group of people. They have very Robust conversations

00:53:57.200 --> 00:54:01.767

about any, anything that needs to be changed or updated. They 00:54:01.767 --> 00:54:06.266

also handle, um, redistricting based on census, um, as

00:54:06.266 --> 00:54:10.000

required. It’s a It’s a really fantastic way to understand 00:54:10.000 --> 00:54:14.533

your city and why it functions the way it functions as a

00:54:14.533 --> 00:54:18.367

selling point, um, unfortunately, my work life has

00:54:18.367 --> 00:54:21.533

just produced a lot more travel than the first two years of 00:54:21.533 --> 00:54:25.266

council, so it is harder for me to make every meeting, but they

00:54:25.266 --> 00:54:29.066

do take summers off, um, but when they are meeting it, it’s

00:54:29.066 --> 00:54:33.367

fascinating, so come on. Someone step up now. Is there a 00:54:33.367 --> 00:54:35.467

council member who feels particularly called to this

00:54:35.467 --> 00:54:45.200

role. Councilor Jean. Uh, I mean, if, you know, the council 00:54:45.200 --> 00:54:49.400

agrees upon it. I would love to step in and, um, be the

00:54:49.400 --> 00:54:54.133

ultimate for um the charter commission. Um, I am personally 00:54:54.133 --> 00:54:57.900

also very fascinated and passionate about redistricting,

00:54:57.900 --> 00:55:03.667

um, and about our civic process including elections, so I would 00:55:03.667 --> 00:55:12.867

propose myself. I second. OK. Was that motion in a second? Oh 00:55:12.867 --> 00:55:20.867

yeah OK. Um, motion to appoint council member Zhang as the 00:55:20.867 --> 00:55:23.500

alternate counsel liaison to the charter commission. Mr.

00:55:23.500 --> 00:55:30.634

Montero, would you call the room? Council member McGarvey 00:55:30.634 --> 00:55:38.100

Council member Tran. Abstain. Council members young. Council

00:55:38.100 --> 00:55:45.934

member Kanowski. Council member page. Mayor Tim Ericson. The 00:55:45.934 --> 00:55:55.634

motion passes with 5 yes votes, 0 no votes, 1 abstention. OK. 00:55:55.634 --> 00:56:02.800

We will now move on to 8.1. This is a presentation on 00:56:02.800 --> 00:56:06.266

reimagining public safety. And I believe there’s a number of

00:56:06.266 --> 00:56:14.233

staff members involved in this presentation. Hi, good evening, 00:56:14.233 --> 00:56:16.867

Kasper Erickson, members of the council. Uh, my name is Jay

00:56:16.867 --> 00:56:21.266

Strobel, city manager, uh, back again for this agenda item, um, 00:56:21.266 --> 00:56:24.000

as you just noted, Mayor Pro Tem, we’ve got quite the

00:56:24.000 --> 00:56:28.634

collection of Uh, presenters this evening, uh, which I think

00:56:28.634 --> 00:56:36.300

is really representative of Um The work, let me just. The work 00:56:36.300 --> 00:56:43.567

of uh. Working towards a safe community, um, several years 00:56:43.567 --> 00:56:46.266

ago, um, we started and we’re gonna spend a little bit of

00:56:46.266 --> 00:56:49.200

time going through the history here, um, we were connected

00:56:49.200 --> 00:56:52.200

with an organization called Cities United, which is largely 00:56:52.200 --> 00:56:56.400

a, a, a national organization connected to mayors throughout

00:56:56.400 --> 00:57:01.934

the country focused on um improving safety outcomes, 00:57:01.934 --> 00:57:08.734

especially for um, Young black men and um this has been uh

00:57:08.734 --> 00:57:12.934

organization we’ve been very connected to, um, and they have 00:57:12.934 --> 00:57:17.200

uh been really instrumental in terms of some of our innovative

00:57:17.200 --> 00:57:19.800

and reform efforts and part of our reimagined public safety

00:57:19.800 --> 00:57:25.667

work. And um several years ago, we created our first reimagined 00:57:25.667 --> 00:57:28.567

public safety plan, um, since that time, we’ve made

00:57:28.567 --> 00:57:33.800

significant progress. And uh this last year, um, because of 00:57:33.800 --> 00:57:36.567

that progress and wanting to build on that momentum and that

00:57:36.567 --> 00:57:41.266

innovation work that um we have been putting in place and 00:57:41.266 --> 00:57:44.734

practice over the last 1015, 20 years. Uh, we wanted to come

00:57:44.734 --> 00:57:48.200

together and sort of update that plan and bring that plan

00:57:48.200 --> 00:57:51.467

before the city council. So you see here, the mission that 00:57:51.467 --> 00:57:56.734

actually this team that’s before you, uh, created a last

00:57:56.734 --> 00:57:59.133

fall and uh we’re really excited to share with you this

00:57:59.133 --> 00:58:02.133

evening, uh, some updated strategies, um, prior to 00:58:02.133 --> 00:58:04.000

getting into those updated strategies, we’re going to

00:58:04.000 --> 00:58:07.000

spend a little bit of time giving a little bit of um

00:58:07.000 --> 00:58:10.400

context for how we got here and sort of how we’re moving 00:58:10.400 --> 00:58:26.100

forward. So with that, I’ll turn over to Chief Brewley. 00:58:26.100 --> 00:58:29.900

Mayor Erickson council members, uh, Chief Mark Ruley, um, just

00:58:29.900 --> 00:58:32.000

wanna jump in here and give a little bit of context and 00:58:32.000 --> 00:58:38.367

history, um, going back to uh 2006, 2007, uh, the city of

00:58:38.367 --> 00:58:41.100

Brooklyn Park, um, we’re really at, uh, that’s where you see 00:58:41.100 --> 00:58:46.634

the, the crime at 9,126. That was, um, essentially almost our

00:58:46.634 --> 00:58:49.734

height, um, and what really done her lying information

00:58:49.734 --> 00:58:53.266

there was the amount of juvenile violent crime that we 00:58:53.266 --> 00:58:57.033

had and specifically homicides involving um young. black,

00:58:57.033 --> 00:59:02.367

African American men, boys in this community was, was that, 00:59:02.367 --> 00:59:05.533

um, absolutely unacceptable levels, um, the police

00:59:05.533 --> 00:59:08.266

department was, uh, having enforcement, making lots of

00:59:08.266 --> 00:59:13.000

arrests, and really having very little impact on this crime and 00:59:13.000 --> 00:59:16.900

the city uh collectively agreed to hire the police executive

00:59:16.900 --> 00:59:20.567

Research Forum to come in and do research uh on the city and 00:59:20.567 --> 00:59:24.200

kind of stay the status of what crime and what dynamics

00:59:24.200 --> 00:59:26.467

occurred. The research came back. With several

00:59:26.467 --> 00:59:29.767

recommendations and none of them bigger than um

00:59:29.767 --> 00:59:32.233

identification that there was very few things for our young 00:59:32.233 --> 00:59:36.000

people to do in this community, um, over time because of

00:59:36.000 --> 00:59:38.767

problems and crime, things like basketball hoops were taken

00:59:38.767 --> 00:59:41.266

down in the community, we just simply took them down because 00:59:41.266 --> 00:59:45.634

so much crime is occurring, and essentially what we created was

00:59:45.634 --> 00:59:49.367

an environment where um kids were really turning to gather

00:59:49.367 --> 00:59:57.266

and gangs um as activities of, of To associate, um. Which 00:59:57.266 --> 01:00:01.634

brings us to this slide, um, to give kind of a time load 01:00:01.634 --> 01:00:05.367

timeline. So in 2007, uh, is where we started, where they

01:00:05.367 --> 01:00:10.266

had a record high violent crime involving youth and we started 01:00:10.266 --> 01:00:13.367

uh a path as a city collectively to find out how

01:00:13.367 --> 01:00:16.634

can we do better and it started with, how do we create more

01:00:16.634 --> 01:00:18.734

opportunity for young people to have healthy activities. And so

01:00:18.734 --> 01:00:24.033

in 2009 is when Z one opens, um, the current rec center there, 01:00:24.033 --> 01:00:27.266

um, and that was just a step of numerous. steps of putting in

01:00:27.266 --> 01:00:30.100

basketball hoops and other things that we could find ways 01:00:30.100 --> 01:00:33.367

to connect with youth and get youth and healthy activities.

01:00:33.367 --> 01:00:37.000

In 2014, uh, we officially partnered with the cities

01:00:37.000 --> 01:00:39.634

United National Network. This is where we started to look

01:00:39.634 --> 01:00:43.266

broadly across the nation about strategies that were effective 01:00:43.266 --> 01:00:45.533

and thinking through public safety, not just through the

01:00:45.533 --> 01:00:49.200

lens of enforcement, but really holistically through the lens

01:00:49.200 --> 01:00:52.367

of um intervention and prevention, and of course, 01:00:52.367 --> 01:00:55.233

accountability is has to be entwined in there. 2014, we

01:00:55.233 --> 01:00:59.800

realized Um, we could no longer just wait for uh our police

01:00:59.800 --> 01:01:02.467

department to be diversified. Um, we were really proactive 01:01:02.467 --> 01:01:05.767

with council, and we decided to start what we call our grow our

01:01:05.767 --> 01:01:08.500

own program, where we recruited young people um into our cadet

01:01:08.500 --> 01:01:12.100

program, pay for their education and uh quite honestly, 01:01:12.100 --> 01:01:15.900

that is one of the reasons why we have a um very diverse and

01:01:15.900 --> 01:01:19.000

growing diversity police permit today is because of that

01:01:19.000 --> 01:01:23.800

initiative back in 2014. In 2015, uh, Brookin joint powers 01:01:23.800 --> 01:01:26.467

formed with Brooklyn Center. Brooklyn Center had Brooklyn.

01:01:26.467 --> 01:01:29.266

has very similar crime issues and dynamics. And so partnering

01:01:29.266 --> 01:01:34.634

with them to really address um employment disparities in our 01:01:34.634 --> 01:01:39.000

communities and also reduced risk factors linked to violence

01:01:39.000 --> 01:01:41.100

in both communities, and obviously, as you all know, 01:01:41.100 --> 01:01:45.734

that program is still going strong today. With that, I turn

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over to my colleague to finish the timeline. Good evening, 01:01:51.233 --> 01:01:53.934

Protem, members of the council. My name is Pam McBride. I’m the

01:01:53.934 --> 01:01:57.000

youth services manager here in the city of Brooklyn Park. As

01:01:57.000 --> 01:02:00.100

Chief Bruley said on the timeline, as you’ll see, in 01:02:00.100 --> 01:02:03.867

2017, the Youth Services division was created. It was an

01:02:03.867 --> 01:02:06.533

opportunity for the city to be able to really look at our rec

01:02:06.533 --> 01:02:09.900

and parks department and focus on our efforts that we had with

01:02:09.900 --> 01:02:13.000

young people, um, particularly our young people that might be 01:02:13.000 --> 01:02:17.200

experiencing more barriers and challenges in our city. We also,

01:02:17.200 --> 01:02:19.934

um, moved a youth intervention services contract that we

01:02:19.934 --> 01:02:23.533

historically had with a contractor into an employment 01:02:23.533 --> 01:02:28.400

opportunity of a youth services, um, intervention specialist in.

01:02:28.400 --> 01:02:33.266

2017. In 2018, as you will see, we had a multi-departmental 01:02:33.266 --> 01:02:36.000

cities United Roadmap Academy as Chief said, some of our work

01:02:36.000 --> 01:02:40.200

that we had worked on in our cities united national team 01:02:40.200 --> 01:02:42.867

really looked at sending our police department as well as

01:02:42.867 --> 01:02:46.100

the city’s unit liaison in the city of Brooklyn Park to

01:02:46.100 --> 01:02:50.367

establish a roadmap of how we are able to achieve and reduce 01:02:50.367 --> 01:02:54.634

um violence um for young black men and boys by the year 20225.

01:02:54.634 --> 01:02:59.934

In 2021, we had the expansion of our services, our, um, the

01:02:59.934 --> 01:03:03.133

City of Brooklyn Park and in our Wreckham Parks department 01:03:03.133 --> 01:03:05.467

developed and brought forward what was the Brooklyn Park

01:03:05.467 --> 01:03:09.533

Youth Outreach team. This was after, um, the really stressful

01:03:09.533 --> 01:03:14.367

year of 2020, as we thought of, um, and connected around um the 01:03:14.367 --> 01:03:18.834

pandemic, um, as well as the um murder of George Floyd really

01:03:18.834 --> 01:03:21.800

yielded an opportunity in our city to be able to have 01:03:21.800 --> 01:03:23.867

outreach workers in community and meeting young people where

01:03:23.867 --> 01:03:28.367

they’re at. or juvenile unit was um solidified and focused

01:03:28.367 --> 01:03:33.634

to be able to really um cue in on the work and the expertise 01:03:33.634 --> 01:03:37.500

of um officers focusing on our young people. And in addition

01:03:37.500 --> 01:03:42.133

in 2021, the youth entrepreneurship program was a 01:03:42.133 --> 01:03:44.800

um innovation of our workforce development program or excuse

01:03:44.800 --> 01:03:48.166

me, our workforce development division in our community

01:03:48.166 --> 01:03:50.867

development department and our wreck and Parks department 01:03:50.867 --> 01:03:53.400

focusing on some of our young people, particularly young

01:03:53.400 --> 01:03:57.634

adults that face challenges around um jobs and but yet

01:03:57.634 --> 01:04:01.467

really had the skills, the talents to be able to um grow 01:04:01.467 --> 01:04:04.533

their own business and is an entrepreneurship program that

01:04:04.533 --> 01:04:07.734

still exists today, having upwards of 50 young people

01:04:07.734 --> 01:04:09.867

engaging in this program and developing their own businesses.

01:04:09.867 --> 01:04:17.000

In 2021, also there are police department focused in after 01:04:17.000 --> 01:04:20.000

2020 and really looked at how might they be able to look at 01:04:20.000 --> 01:04:23.734

um the operations of the police department, being able to

01:04:23.734 --> 01:04:27.100

partner and contract with the Wilder Research Center, um,

01:04:27.100 --> 01:04:30.200

focusing and putting together a report to be able to look at 01:04:30.200 --> 01:04:33.000

how we could establish promising and best practices in

01:04:33.000 --> 01:04:38.200

our policing. In 2022, as you’ll see there, we have the

01:04:38.200 --> 01:04:41.934

cities united reimagined public safety strategy. Some of our 01:04:41.934 --> 01:04:45.133

partnerships from our national network and cities united

01:04:45.133 --> 01:04:50.533

shifted their focus from a road map to to focusing on um 01:04:50.533 --> 01:04:53.100

actually reimagining public safety. So taking what might

01:04:53.100 --> 01:04:55.533

have been a public safety strategy with police

01:04:55.533 --> 01:04:59.033

departments and looking at how my whole entire city’s

01:04:59.033 --> 01:05:01.667

departments really focused their efforts to reimagine what 01:05:01.667 --> 01:05:03.667

the safety strategy would look like and work together to

01:05:03.667 --> 01:05:12.367

accomplish it. In 2024, 2018 and 2022, and today in 2025, we 01:05:12.367 --> 01:05:15.533

are engaging with our city council, really looking at an

01:05:15.533 --> 01:05:18.367

opportunity kind of these benchmarks as city manager

01:05:18.367 --> 01:05:22.467

Strobel spoke on and being able to um bring this information to 01:05:22.467 --> 01:05:24.734

the city council to be able to get your reactions and comments

01:05:24.734 --> 01:05:31.233

on the work that we’re doing moving forward. In 2023, uh, 1 01:05:31.233 --> 01:05:34.400

more piece that our police department focused in on in

01:05:34.400 --> 01:05:37.634

addition to their work around the Wilder research, they also

01:05:37.634 --> 01:05:40.867

saw that being able to put forth an alternative response 01:05:40.867 --> 01:05:44.634

team to engage in our community, to not only have officers being

01:05:44.634 --> 01:05:48.367

able to engage with our community members but have an

01:05:48.367 --> 01:05:51.100

alternative response coupled with social workers and, and 01:05:51.100 --> 01:05:54.133

resources to be able to meet the needs of our community in

01:05:54.133 --> 01:05:58.133

times of crisis. And the 2024, our reimagining public safety

01:05:58.133 --> 01:06:03.233

staff. as city manager Strobel talked about came together in a 01:06:03.233 --> 01:06:04.900

participatory process to be able to put forth what our

01:06:04.900 --> 01:06:07.634

mission would be and to be able to outline some of the

01:06:07.634 --> 01:06:12.867

strategies we have here today. And then finally in 2025, um, 01:06:12.867 --> 01:06:17.100

as a lot of us heard a number of the um some of the

01:06:17.100 --> 01:06:19.233

strategies that we had encountered in our police

01:06:19.233 --> 01:06:22.000

department being able to share data, being able to look at how 01:06:22.000 --> 01:06:28.266

do we how do we be able to see what actually um is needed in

01:06:28.266 --> 01:06:32.100

our community around um of our police department being able to 01:06:32.100 --> 01:06:34.734

respond to what our young people need and being able to

01:06:34.734 --> 01:06:38.400

have a different strategy of community intervention and

01:06:38.400 --> 01:06:41.300

bringing that in-house and not utilizing. Um, outside 01:06:41.300 --> 01:06:44.266

contractors, but being able to see how can we have this

01:06:44.266 --> 01:06:47.166

intervention unit be able to be designed, built, and in

01:06:47.166 --> 01:06:49.934

partnership with our work that we already have in intervention

01:06:49.934 --> 01:06:58.200

services in our city. As you’ll see from the next slide, we 01:06:58.200 --> 01:07:02.467

have our cities United National Network diagram. On this page 01:07:02.467 --> 01:07:05.867

you will see it is, it says Brooklyn Park reimagine in

01:07:05.867 --> 01:07:09.734

public safety. This is kind of an infographic that the

01:07:09.734 --> 01:07:12.367

national network put together to really move towards safe, 01:07:12.367 --> 01:07:16.266

healthy, and hopeful communities. This infographic

01:07:16.266 --> 01:07:18.767

shares opportunities to look at solutions that interrupt the

01:07:18.767 --> 01:07:23.000

cycle of violence, violence dismantle systems of inequity, 01:07:23.000 --> 01:07:25.634

invest in our community and leverage our political will.

01:07:25.634 --> 01:07:30.000

Some of the things you can see on there is our outreach team. 01:07:30.000 --> 01:07:33.734

We have coordinated response. We have responses to be able to

01:07:33.734 --> 01:07:36.934

um bolster family support, increasing youth programs,

01:07:36.934 --> 01:07:40.800

getting our schools involved by boosting education, knowing 01:07:40.800 --> 01:07:43.266

that sometimes violence does indeed get into our hospitals

01:07:43.266 --> 01:07:47.100

and looking at how we partner with hospital-based violence

01:07:47.100 --> 01:07:51.266

and um intervention and also kind of in a, in a larger scale, 01:07:51.266 --> 01:07:54.033

being able to respond and connect with our county

01:07:54.033 --> 01:07:57.734

partners and looking at our juvenile justice system. Um.

01:07:57.734 --> 01:08:02.800

This, um, this network, um, on this infographic is something 01:08:02.800 --> 01:08:06.233

that the national team works with some of the um logos that

01:08:06.233 --> 01:08:08.367

we have here were something that Brooklyn Park did to be

01:08:08.367 --> 01:08:16.367

able to make that our own in order to respond. In 2018, I 01:08:16.367 --> 01:08:20.100

had the pleasure of joining the City of Brooklyn Park and being 01:08:20.100 --> 01:08:23.367

able to put forth what the city has as a youth services

01:08:23.367 --> 01:08:26.533

division. The Recca Parks Department has served for many,

01:08:26.533 --> 01:08:32.367

many years, for decades, being able to respond and um offer 01:08:32.367 --> 01:08:34.500

great recreation programming facilities that meet our

01:08:34.500 --> 01:08:37.233

community’s need and one of the things that the rears

01:08:37.233 --> 01:08:40.900

department did see was a focus and an interest in being able 01:08:40.900 --> 01:08:44.734

to say in 2009, uh focusing on what the, what the chief talked.

01:08:44.734 --> 01:08:49.400

talked about in expanding the services of the Zamo recreation

01:08:49.400 --> 01:08:53.667

Center and making sure that in 2018, we could look at a theory 01:08:53.667 --> 01:08:57.100

of change and a way to evaluate the practice goals and outcomes

01:08:57.100 --> 01:09:00.100

that meet the needs of some of our young people that face high 01:09:00.100 --> 01:09:02.734

barriers. In order to do that, what we did was come up with

01:09:02.734 --> 01:09:04.934

this theory of change in partnership with the Brooklyn

01:09:04.934 --> 01:09:08.166

Bridge Alliance, and it is as follows. The use services is a

01:09:08.166 --> 01:09:12.367

division of our department, coordinates both internal and 01:09:12.367 --> 01:09:14.834

external partners to provide promotional opportunities which

01:09:14.834 --> 01:09:17.400

are program s that you might see each day at the Zainwood

01:09:17.400 --> 01:09:20.367

Recreation Center and some of our great staff, prevention 01:09:20.367 --> 01:09:24.133

opportunities to get young people engaged early and often,

01:09:24.133 --> 01:09:26.767

and an intervention services to youth in Brooklyn Park, so that

01:09:26.767 --> 01:09:31.100

all young people are engaged and prepared for success. This 01:09:31.100 --> 01:09:34.367

division does this work so that vulnerable young people have

01:09:34.367 --> 01:09:37.000

coordinated supports and resources to prevent reaching a

01:09:37.000 --> 01:09:41.233

crisis stage and young people in crisis have the intense 01:09:41.233 --> 01:09:44.367

treatment and care management to not remain in crisis but

01:09:44.367 --> 01:09:46.567

partner with our intervention staff to be able to get out of

01:09:46.567 --> 01:09:49.767

that crisis and move to a thriving experience. And lastly,

01:09:49.767 --> 01:09:53.500

so that all young people will thrive in meeting their basic 01:09:53.500 --> 01:09:57.200

needs, their health, have social connections and be able

01:09:57.200 --> 01:10:00.467

to connect with their and focus on their own identity and 01:10:00.467 --> 01:10:02.734

aspirations for the future. The youth services division

01:10:02.734 --> 01:10:04.867

includes, as you all know, from the great groundbreaking that

01:10:04.867 --> 01:10:07.634

we had this last week, our Zinga Recreation Center, the

01:10:07.634 --> 01:10:11.634

focus that it has on teens are great arts and engagement staff 01:10:11.634 --> 01:10:14.834

finding ways for young people to experience art kindergarten

01:10:14.834 --> 01:10:18.233

through 5th grade, youth-based street outreach and prevention

01:10:18.233 --> 01:10:20.100

intervention services. And with that, I’ll turn it over to my 01:10:20.100 --> 01:10:30.367

colleague. Me prote council members, um, we are just 01:10:30.367 --> 01:10:31.934

effectively now this month and I’ll turn over to the treasurer

01:10:31.934 --> 01:10:34.400

Dixon, who is the manager of our community intervention unit,

01:10:34.400 --> 01:10:39.166

but this month we are starting to um activate um in almost

01:10:39.166 --> 01:10:41.100

full capacity our community intervention unit, but I want 01:10:41.100 --> 01:10:43.300

to give context to how we started this in the police

01:10:43.300 --> 01:10:48.100

department, um, we have never been more effective on solving

01:10:48.100 --> 01:10:51.800

or clearing crimes in the history, um, the amount of data 01:10:51.800 --> 01:10:54.367

that we collect, the intelligence that we have

01:10:54.367 --> 01:10:56.500

available specifically through public sources and the soft.

01:10:56.500 --> 01:10:59.900

Software that we use has never made us more effective, um, on

01:10:59.900 --> 01:11:03.467

doing this, but it also has made us incredibly effective 01:11:03.467 --> 01:11:06.166

about finding and identifying those who are at risk, who are

01:11:06.166 --> 01:11:08.834

feuding with gangs, who are feuding and targeted at each

01:11:08.834 --> 01:11:12.000

other, um, rightfully so, police can’t preemptively go 01:11:12.000 --> 01:11:14.166

grab somebody because we think they’re going to be shot or

01:11:14.166 --> 01:11:18.000

killed or in harm’s way, um, but when for me and haha moment

01:11:18.000 --> 01:11:21.033

was literally one of my detectives had said on a Friday, 01:11:21.033 --> 01:11:23.300

a, a kid’s name when they were briefing a certain case and

01:11:23.300 --> 01:11:26.200

said he’ll be dead by Sunday, um, and by Saturday night he

01:11:26.200 --> 01:11:28.734

had been. shot. And that was simply by the intelligence and

01:11:28.734 --> 01:11:31.233

around that person and the amount of violence that they 01:11:31.233 --> 01:11:34.467

had been involved in over the course of the past two weeks,

01:11:34.467 --> 01:11:37.634

um, never committing a crime, but being so close proximity

01:11:37.634 --> 01:11:40.300

and with social media identifying that they were 01:11:40.300 --> 01:11:43.734

going to get involved in this risky behavior. To me, that was

01:11:43.734 --> 01:11:47.734

such a Failure of government and the police department to be

01:11:47.734 --> 01:11:50.533

able to have intelligence at that level and do nothing with 01:11:50.533 --> 01:11:53.734

it. Um, that is what for me created this idea of the

01:11:53.734 --> 01:11:56.467

community intervention unit to have public safety be broader

01:11:56.467 --> 01:11:59.634

than just enforcement, but truly look at those that are

01:11:59.634 --> 01:12:03.266

most risk and be able to do an intervention with the family, 01:12:03.266 --> 01:12:06.100

with the loved ones, with that individual to try to identify

01:12:06.100 --> 01:12:09.100

and get people in the in their lives like to get them off the

01:12:09.100 --> 01:12:12.834

track, and I often described it as the top 20 individuals who 01:12:12.834 --> 01:12:16.033

we are often watching, following, um. Often haven’t

01:12:16.033 --> 01:12:20.634

come in contact with that uh fit in that, in that category. 01:12:20.634 --> 01:12:24.800

Um, With that, I’ll turn it over before I steal all the

01:12:24.800 --> 01:12:30.000

treasures. Thunder. Thank you too. Thank you, Mayor Peartem 01:12:30.000 --> 01:12:33.166

and the council. I just want to say thank you first for the

01:12:33.166 --> 01:12:36.367

support that we’ve had for this unit because it’s been

01:12:36.367 --> 01:12:38.233

tremendously um supported both inside of Brooklyn Park

01:12:38.233 --> 01:12:41.166

professionally, but also in the community and knowing that 01:12:41.166 --> 01:12:44.000

we’ve set a standard um as the first of its kind, actually in

01:12:44.000 --> 01:12:47.033

the nation, there is no other program that we know that

01:12:47.033 --> 01:12:50.767

exists that exists like this, um, we take the opportunity to 01:12:50.767 --> 01:12:53.467

say we’re committed to making these outcomes and these goals

01:12:53.467 --> 01:12:56.800

because what we know from the Brooklyn Park data as well as

01:12:56.800 --> 01:12:59.467

our interactions with communities. is that they, the

01:12:59.467 --> 01:13:02.133

kids and the youth of Brooklyn Park are feeling like they are 01:13:02.133 --> 01:13:05.734

left out in the moment in time when they need it most, and

01:13:05.734 --> 01:13:08.467

this team is dedicated to making sure that we are

01:13:08.467 --> 01:13:11.667

continuous in our responses to them and for them. Our 01:13:11.667 --> 01:13:14.300

referrals come directly from our officers so that they are

01:13:14.300 --> 01:13:17.467

set in stone with the fact that our officers are making the

01:13:17.467 --> 01:13:21.300

most interactions with them negatively or positively, um, 01:13:21.300 --> 01:13:23.834

mostly negative, but we want to make sure that we’re

01:13:23.834 --> 01:13:26.734

highlighting the fact that we get to then utilize all of that

01:13:26.734 --> 01:13:31.000

information from On that incident, but an entire sheet 01:13:31.000 --> 01:13:34.166

of what they’ve gone through both within government and

01:13:34.166 --> 01:13:37.266

outside of it to make sure we’re making a holistic view of

01:13:37.266 --> 01:13:39.533

an individual, not just focusing on the one incident

01:13:39.533 --> 01:13:43.033

our team was called to a scene for, and we utilize that 01:13:43.033 --> 01:13:45.767

information to then take our time to speak not only to the

01:13:45.767 --> 01:13:48.100

youth and young adults, but also the family dynamic of

01:13:48.100 --> 01:13:51.734

what’s going on in that person’s life. We use this time 01:13:51.734 --> 01:13:54.867

as our unit to be able to be community facing program,

01:13:54.867 --> 01:13:56.533

although we work within a police department, we want to

01:13:56.533 --> 01:14:00.100

make sure that we’re not only Bridging gaps between police 01:14:00.100 --> 01:14:03.367

and community, but also taking our time to actually build

01:14:03.367 --> 01:14:05.734

trusting relationships within ourselves for our team. That’s

01:14:05.734 --> 01:14:09.266

why we don’t wear vests or have tasers or anything like that.

01:14:09.266 --> 01:14:14.033

They are out in their normal clothes, um, uniforms for what 01:14:14.033 --> 01:14:16.867

we’ve designed and making sure that we’re not only being

01:14:16.867 --> 01:14:18.767

approachable but approaching those that we know need us most.

01:14:18.767 --> 01:14:24.734

Um, I did want to also highlight that we utilize the 01:14:24.734 --> 01:14:30.767

crime data in a very, very, um, expansive way. We are Hitting 01:14:30.767 --> 01:14:35.467

numbers and times where we are completing information that is

01:14:35.467 --> 01:14:38.634

vast and changing day by day, um, the youth of Brooklyn Park

01:14:38.634 --> 01:14:41.467

are very transient and so we utilize the data on a very 01:14:41.467 --> 01:14:44.500

frequent basis, something that we may see in the morning

01:14:44.500 --> 01:14:47.634

changes by the evening. And so us being able to have all the

01:14:47.634 --> 01:14:49.834

information from law enforcement partners from Park

01:14:49.834 --> 01:14:53.567

and Rec Partners, from all of Brooklyn Park organization is 01:14:53.567 --> 01:14:55.834

vital in our capacity to be able to change and move the way

01:14:55.834 --> 01:14:58.533

we need to, to make sure that we’re um related to youth the

01:14:58.533 --> 01:15:08.533

way we need to be. I will pass it along. As I started the 01:15:08.533 --> 01:15:11.166

presentation, you know, this work is not the work of one 01:15:11.166 --> 01:15:13.000

department, it’s the work of all of our departments and the

01:15:13.000 --> 01:15:16.000

work of all of our community to make progress in this. And so

01:15:16.000 --> 01:15:19.767

this is just A few of the folks involved in this work, um,

01:15:19.767 --> 01:15:22.467

that’s been part of this team here in the last few months and 01:15:22.467 --> 01:15:28.233

we’ll be, uh, the work going forward. So now we’re Cheering

01:15:28.233 --> 01:15:30.500

for the future, um, everything we’ve done in terms of 01:15:30.500 --> 01:15:32.567

presentation to this point is really sort of setting the

01:15:32.567 --> 01:15:35.367

stage, providing a little bit of background. So what we’re

01:15:35.367 --> 01:15:38.000

gonna do is we’re gonna walk through kind of this

01:15:38.000 --> 01:15:42.166

reimagining public safety 2.0 around these categories of 01:15:42.166 --> 01:15:46.467

intervention, prevention systems and policy change,

01:15:46.467 --> 01:15:49.867

community response engagement coordinated crisis response and

01:15:49.867 --> 01:15:51.934

organization coordination, um, and so what you’ll see here is 01:15:51.934 --> 01:15:56.100

just a variety of strategies, some that are, um, in flight,

01:15:56.100 --> 01:15:58.734

some there might have been completed. Um, recently, and

01:15:58.734 --> 01:16:01.467

then also some things that we would identify in the future, 01:16:01.467 --> 01:16:06.767

and we really consider this an evolutionary process of we are

01:16:06.767 --> 01:16:10.467

continuing to identify what are some of those new innovations 01:16:10.467 --> 01:16:12.734

and opportunities uh for us to continue making progress in

01:16:12.734 --> 01:16:15.767

headway. So with that, I will turn it back over to the folks

01:16:15.767 --> 01:16:26.634

to talk about intervention. As city manager Strobel talked 01:16:26.634 --> 01:16:29.767

about, we have, uh, both with treasurer and I have kind of

01:16:29.767 --> 01:16:34.100

the first element of our reimagining public safety 2.0. 01:16:34.100 --> 01:16:37.266

And with this, as it says here, this is intervention. Our group

01:16:37.266 --> 01:16:40.500

talked about that this is a way for at-risk young people and 01:16:40.500 --> 01:16:43.567

young adults to have intervention supports to thrive.

01:16:43.567 --> 01:16:45.867

This is a chance where, as you’ve heard, both the

01:16:45.867 --> 01:16:48.367

treasurer and I talk about intervention efforts in the

01:16:48.367 --> 01:16:51.567

city of Brooklyn Park. So together as partners we’re able 01:16:51.567 --> 01:16:55.400

to be able to look at through police and through Um, use

01:16:55.400 --> 01:16:57.634

services being able to see how we can provide these

01:16:57.634 --> 01:17:01.300

opportunities, be it young people that um might connect 01:17:01.300 --> 01:17:04.467

through 11 of our, our portfolios or they might

01:17:04.467 --> 01:17:09.300

connect through um some of the uh city the police-driven data

01:17:09.300 --> 01:17:12.300

that the treasure talked about. So with that, we have a couple 01:17:12.300 --> 01:17:17.233

of examples on our slide. Um, there’s a list here, so we

01:17:17.233 --> 01:17:19.000

won’t go through all of them, but we really wanted to hit on

01:17:19.000 --> 01:17:21.834

some of the most important parts, and that’s really the 01:17:21.834 --> 01:17:25.266

fact that This innovative approach that we’re using,

01:17:25.266 --> 01:17:28.467

utilizing all of our departments within Brooklyn

01:17:28.467 --> 01:17:31.166

Park organization really stands alone and stands in an 01:17:31.166 --> 01:17:33.734

importance of it. And so when we look at things like the

01:17:33.734 --> 01:17:36.467

action of building an intervention team, you all were

01:17:36.467 --> 01:17:39.634

very responsive in making sure that happened. We look at

01:17:39.634 --> 01:17:44.467

hiring a CIU manager. I’m here. Thank you. Uh, we talk about 01:17:44.467 --> 01:17:47.200

establishing collaboration for youth services. Pam and I work

01:17:47.200 --> 01:17:50.367

very hard daily on this because we come with two different 01:17:50.367 --> 01:17:53.567

portfolios. We come because we come from two different

01:17:53.567 --> 01:17:57.233

departments were able to really see how the cohesion would

01:17:57.233 --> 01:18:00.467

would would really work in the efforts of making sure that 01:18:00.467 --> 01:18:03.100

we’re really connecting with both um our target audience or

01:18:03.100 --> 01:18:05.500

I should say focused audience, as well as our community in a

01:18:05.500 --> 01:18:10.033

whole. Um, I say, I would say that how we approach our work 01:18:10.033 --> 01:18:12.934

to reimagine public safety means a lot to both these

01:18:12.934 --> 01:18:16.667

efforts that we have here, just reviewing data and establishing

01:18:16.667 --> 01:18:20.166

an activation system that’s in future, but it’s literally in 01:18:20.166 --> 01:18:23.000

progress as well too, because as we work through not only

01:18:23.000 --> 01:18:26.133

this presentation, but our day to day work. We’re establishing

01:18:26.133 --> 01:18:29.266

our process of how we’re going to interact with each other,

01:18:29.266 --> 01:18:33.500

utilizing data that’s shared or not shared. Um, we have a 01:18:33.500 --> 01:18:36.734

section, and I’m sorry, council member Train is in the way

01:18:36.734 --> 01:18:41.033

there, a section of recurrent mental health programs and 01:18:41.033 --> 01:18:44.300

reviewing that information. Not only do we work with just, um,

01:18:44.300 --> 01:18:47.934

PD employees, but we also work with Park and Rec and everyone

01:18:47.934 --> 01:18:51.100

in the organization to really define a holistic view of 01:18:51.100 --> 01:18:55.900

what’s going on. This part um would be in progress, but it’s

01:18:55.900 --> 01:18:58.133

also very current and completed at the same time. So as we go

01:18:58.133 --> 01:19:01.200

through certain things that we’ve checked off as goals we 01:19:01.200 --> 01:19:18.467

continuously add. as well. There we go. Awesome, we’re 01:19:18.467 --> 01:19:21.567

going to invite one more colleague up to the up to the 01:19:21.567 --> 01:19:26.300

podium here with us today and one of the things that we talk

01:19:26.300 --> 01:19:29.500

about also is that um we’ve talked a lot about intervention,

01:19:29.500 --> 01:19:34.300

but there is a strategy that comes kind of that step before 01:19:34.300 --> 01:19:36.000

intervention and throughout intervention, which are

01:19:36.000 --> 01:19:38.100

prevention efforts. This is a chance for our young people and

01:19:38.100 --> 01:19:41.900

young adults with high barriers to have supports, um, to thrive, 01:19:41.900 --> 01:19:45.800

and this may look a a variety of different ways and we have,

01:19:45.800 --> 01:19:47.734

I will let Jolene introduce. yourself and we’ll talk to you

01:19:47.734 --> 01:19:51.467

a little bit about some other prevention strategies. Good 01:19:51.467 --> 01:19:55.200

evening, uh, Mayor Pertem in council, thank you so much for

01:19:55.200 --> 01:19:58.567

having us. So I’ll mainly talk about the economic well-being

01:19:58.567 --> 01:20:01.100

and workforce development. I’m part of the workforce 01:20:01.100 --> 01:20:03.767

Development division, and so a lot of the pieces that we can

01:20:03.767 --> 01:20:06.900

really help to set up our young people is being able to meet

01:20:06.900 --> 01:20:09.834

them early on. And so the programming of Brooklink is

01:20:09.834 --> 01:20:12.367

really there to be able to provide those opportunities for 01:20:12.367 --> 01:20:16.500

youth and young adults in our community to be able to not

01:20:16.500 --> 01:20:18.567

only help them contribute towards their economic

01:20:18.567 --> 01:20:21.934

well-being, but also just being able to have activity. that 01:20:21.934 --> 01:20:25.233

will be uh help them in order to do positive things, whether

01:20:25.233 --> 01:20:28.367

it’s during the summer or throughout the school year, um,

01:20:28.367 --> 01:20:31.000

that they’re doing things that are investing into their future 01:20:31.000 --> 01:20:34.266

and having them see themselves in a positive light and doing

01:20:34.266 --> 01:20:36.834

things that are meaningful in the community. And so as you

01:20:36.834 --> 01:20:39.634

see the list there in terms of prevention of various

01:20:39.634 --> 01:20:43.266

activities that we’re planning to do or are are in progress. 01:20:43.266 --> 01:20:45.734

Some of the things uh include the workforce development

01:20:45.734 --> 01:20:48.734

programming. So we’ve talked about the Brooklyn programs

01:20:48.734 --> 01:20:51.233

with the flagship program of the summer internships. And 01:20:51.233 --> 01:20:53.467

then the youth entrepreneurship program. And then there’s a few

01:20:53.467 --> 01:20:56.634

things as well that the police department is currently doing,

01:20:56.634 --> 01:21:00.300

um, one being the police college internships, so really 01:21:00.300 --> 01:21:05.233

trying to diversify um uh their their uh their staff as well.

01:21:05.233 --> 01:21:08.934

And then, um, looking at as well some other various other

01:21:08.934 --> 01:21:11.767

initiatives like establishing the Chiefs youth advisory 01:21:11.767 --> 01:21:15.233

council, um, that that is uh something that’s already

01:21:15.233 --> 01:21:18.000

completed and then um other things that are in progress

01:21:18.000 --> 01:21:20.266

looking at maintaining police and youth prevention programs. 01:21:20.266 --> 01:21:23.000

So, um, Looking collectively just as a whole within the

01:21:23.000 --> 01:21:27.567

community, I’m looking at various ways that we can either

01:21:27.567 --> 01:21:30.767

provide program activities, um, have new initiatives that would 01:21:30.767 --> 01:21:33.734

allow you to have positive things that they’re doing

01:21:33.734 --> 01:21:36.734

throughout their day. And then I will call my colleague as

01:21:36.734 --> 01:21:40.467

well, um, Cindy, to be able to just talk through on the 01:21:40.467 --> 01:21:52.734

community engagement aspect about prevention. Thank you 01:21:52.734 --> 01:21:56.500

Mayor. Thank you, council members, it’s a pleasure to be

01:21:56.500 --> 01:22:00.266

here tonight, uh, to represent the community engagement team 01:22:00.266 --> 01:22:03.834

and also I have my colleague, uh, Chris Dong here with me as

01:22:03.834 --> 01:22:08.166

well, who has been an instrumental in our community

01:22:08.166 --> 01:22:13.467

engagement work, um, as well as our colleagues, we all work as 01:22:13.467 --> 01:22:18.767

a truly one division um one unit. Within the city, um, so

01:22:18.767 --> 01:22:22.734

some of the things that we have done uh within community 01:22:22.734 --> 01:22:28.367

engagement is um. We have supported uh The idea of

01:22:28.367 --> 01:22:33.734

creating processes and community engagement, um, 01:22:33.734 --> 01:22:37.734

adding resources, partnerships, and connections, um, including

01:22:37.734 --> 01:22:42.867

health, interfaith, nonprofits, and after school programming, 01:22:42.867 --> 01:22:47.634

cultural and um which includes cultural and community

01:22:47.634 --> 01:22:53.033

organizations as um Uh, we support establishing uh 01:22:53.033 --> 01:22:59.567

processes for on on call responses, um, And relying on

01:22:59.567 --> 01:23:04.734

information resources which we provide to community members, 01:23:04.734 --> 01:23:09.500

um, we support holistic approach to youth intervention

01:23:09.500 --> 01:23:16.467

and um support training, um, in educating, informing, um. 01:23:16.467 --> 01:23:22.900

Community members as a whole. So thank you. Um, next Uh Mr 01:23:22.900 --> 01:23:36.767

Sterling. I sure you guys are doing. Good evening, Mayor 01:23:36.767 --> 01:23:40.166

Peartown members of the council, Brad Talberg, uh, recreation 01:23:40.166 --> 01:23:43.166

Parks director. Um, whenever we’re doing this work that

01:23:43.166 --> 01:23:46.367

represents a significant shift in the way government has

01:23:46.367 --> 01:23:49.000

always approached this work. We know that many of our systems,

01:23:49.000 --> 01:23:52.800

whether it’s public safety, housing, economic development, 01:23:52.800 --> 01:23:55.000

um, or youth programming haven’t always served everyone

01:23:55.000 --> 01:23:58.367

equitably. There is a need to identify and change these

01:23:58.367 --> 01:24:01.000

systems and policies that are creating barriers to achieving 01:24:01.000 --> 01:24:04.800

the highest levels of impact. What’s different now is that

01:24:04.800 --> 01:24:07.867

we’re embracing a more comprehensive wraparound

01:24:07.867 --> 01:24:10.033

approach. We’re acknowledging that young people don’t 01:24:10.033 --> 01:24:13.200

experience life in silos, so our support system shouldn’t

01:24:13.200 --> 01:24:17.500

exist in silos either. The shift requires coordination and

01:24:17.500 --> 01:24:20.000

collaboration across departments, institutions, and 01:24:20.000 --> 01:24:22.300

jurisdictions. It’s not just the responsibility of the city

01:24:22.300 --> 01:24:25.767

of Brooklyn Park, but it also involves state and federal

01:24:25.767 --> 01:24:29.867

guidelines, uh, county programs and school district policies.

01:24:29.867 --> 01:24:33.133

This is about long-term system level change that takes time 01:24:33.133 --> 01:24:40.000

and involves everyone. On this slide didn’t advance, did it? 01:24:40.000 --> 01:24:48.500

Hold on. There we go. Um On this slide, you can see an

01:24:48.500 --> 01:24:52.367

inventory of the work, um, the staff has identified that, um, 01:24:52.367 --> 01:24:55.634

is needed to inform future policy change. Um, some of this

01:24:55.634 --> 01:24:59.667

or most of this is uh future work that’s been identified, um,

01:24:59.667 --> 01:25:02.033

some of it is an expansion of things that are already in 01:25:02.033 --> 01:25:06.667

place. Uh, for instance, um, identifying community partners,

01:25:06.667 --> 01:25:10.467

uh, just today, um, a number of people on this uh in this 01:25:10.467 --> 01:25:13.567

presentation, we’re part of a meeting with the Oso School

01:25:13.567 --> 01:25:16.233

District, um, a quarterly meeting that happens with the

01:25:16.233 --> 01:25:20.000

city of Brooklyn Park, the city of Maple Grove, um, our 01:25:20.000 --> 01:25:23.667

partners with Ossuary schools, um, the city of Oso and also

01:25:23.667 --> 01:25:25.400

North Hennepin Community College, uh, to talk the status

01:25:25.400 --> 01:25:28.000

of school safety and some of the trends that we’re seeing

01:25:28.000 --> 01:25:31.900

within our city, um, they’re seeing within the school, um, 01:25:31.900 --> 01:25:35.000

and other communities are experiencing as well. Um, well,

01:25:35.000 --> 01:25:38.767

most of this work, um, you see on this slide here is

01:25:38.767 --> 01:25:42.100

establishing a baseline for the ever-changing landscape of 01:25:42.100 --> 01:25:46.266

services provided so we can strategically focus our time

01:25:46.266 --> 01:25:48.900

and implement change. Obviously, some of these, uh, like

01:25:48.900 --> 01:25:52.266

reshaping the criminal justice system are a much heavier lift 01:25:52.266 --> 01:25:55.300

than others, um, but we will be, uh, these are things that we’ll

01:25:55.300 --> 01:25:58.634

be tackling in the future. Um, there’s a lot of work ahead of

01:25:58.634 --> 01:26:03.467

us. It will take staff, you as elected officials, educators, 01:26:03.467 --> 01:26:07.033

law enforcement, nonprofits. and other potential partners to

01:26:07.033 --> 01:26:09.634

provide transformational leadership with bold and

01:26:09.634 --> 01:26:11.867

forward-thinking reform to create safe, healthy, and 01:26:11.867 --> 01:26:22.100

hopeful futures for our young people. All right. And then the 01:26:22.100 --> 01:26:26.734

next one that we’ll talk about is, um, so since we, there’s

01:26:26.734 --> 01:26:28.500

all of the internal systems work that we’re doing. We also

01:26:28.500 --> 01:26:31.734

want to make sure that we’re connecting to the external 01:26:31.734 --> 01:26:35.467

pieces, so all of the resources that are that are present

01:26:35.467 --> 01:26:38.500

within our community. And so I’ll invite Cindy, yup, to be

01:26:38.500 --> 01:26:46.000

able to speak to that. Thank you, um, Mayor thank you city 01:26:46.000 --> 01:26:48.567

council. It’s a pleasure again to be in front of you today. My

01:26:48.567 --> 01:26:52.100

name is Cindy Denish. I’m the community engagement experience 01:26:52.100 --> 01:26:55.667

manager. I’m here with my colleagues. Um, thank you again.

01:26:55.667 --> 01:27:01.467

Um, so this was, this is a citywide community response and 01:27:01.467 --> 01:27:09.467

engagement, um. Action plan is to establish process for on

01:27:09.467 --> 01:27:11.300

call response for community. This is in the future, and 01:27:11.300 --> 01:27:17.000

again, this would include the whole um city and not just uh

01:27:17.000 --> 01:27:20.634

the community engagement department, um, and established 01:27:20.634 --> 01:27:23.300

comprehensive list of community partners, so what we do in

01:27:23.300 --> 01:27:29.300

community engagement is we have an ongoing list of uh be it

01:27:29.300 --> 01:27:32.533

culturally specific organizations, uh, all 01:27:32.533 --> 01:27:34.734

organizations uh within the city of Brooklyn Park. that we

01:27:34.734 --> 01:27:41.000

communicate with on a regular basis. Um, Also, uh, our future 01:27:41.000 --> 01:27:46.266

goal is to inform relevant city staff uh for holistic approach,

01:27:46.266 --> 01:27:48.500

uh, to youth involvement and participation, a big part of

01:27:48.500 --> 01:27:52.734

that is our rec and Park’s team, as you know, they do a great 01:27:52.734 --> 01:27:59.634

job with our youth and uh youth involvement and uh currently

01:27:59.634 --> 01:28:04.367

our crime prevention has been stellar. The numbers that, uh, 01:28:04.367 --> 01:28:07.734

Chief Brewley uh demonstrated shows, uh, they’re hard work

01:28:07.734 --> 01:28:11.900

and dedication that is. Uh, continuously demonstrated in 01:28:11.900 --> 01:28:15.500

the community and ongoing, so, um, thank you and ladies, do

01:28:15.500 --> 01:28:25.834

you want to add to that or? OK. Um, you’ll notice that this one 01:28:25.834 --> 01:28:29.000

also says coordinated response, but it’s more focused on crisis

01:28:29.000 --> 01:28:31.133

response, and that is more geared towards when you hear 01:28:31.133 --> 01:28:34.834

that, you obviously think of PD first, but it really is a

01:28:34.834 --> 01:28:37.567

comprehensive approach for everything that we want to

01:28:37.567 --> 01:28:41.233

accomplish within Brooklyn Park and as our partnerships really 01:28:41.233 --> 01:28:45.500

rely on. So, um, working with the partnerships to create a

01:28:45.500 --> 01:28:48.900

cohesive or cohesive approach that utilizes all individuals’

01:28:48.900 --> 01:28:51.900

portfolios, whether they be independent or together, so for 01:28:51.900 --> 01:28:55.133

each one of our departments we have individual port. to create

01:28:55.133 --> 01:28:58.400

processes that we would use in a coordinated response or in

01:28:58.400 --> 01:29:01.567

our own individual response. What we’re doing right now for 01:29:01.567 --> 01:29:05.400

future reference is for us to create a response that actually

01:29:05.400 --> 01:29:08.000

involves every single part of what we’d like to do

01:29:08.000 --> 01:29:12.166

individually, but put that together. So for PD when we’re 01:29:12.166 --> 01:29:15.033

talking about um a shooting or something that happens we

01:29:15.033 --> 01:29:17.567

automatically go into a responsible a process that we

01:29:17.567 --> 01:29:21.300

use. Now we want to add into the fact that we have a team of 01:29:21.300 --> 01:29:23.300

community intervention, who’s going to check in with families

01:29:23.300 --> 01:29:27.100

afterwards and then After that 1st 48 hours, how do we get

01:29:27.100 --> 01:29:29.367

community engagement involved to be able to say, hey, what

01:29:29.367 --> 01:29:33.133

are we doing for this family or this community to help them 01:29:33.133 --> 01:29:35.734

resolve this issue or even get to a better place and where

01:29:35.734 --> 01:29:38.900

they’re not having more issues occurring in their areas and

01:29:38.900 --> 01:29:40.767

their locations. So we’re utilizing this slide to just 01:29:40.767 --> 01:29:44.834

let you know that it’s coming, we’re working on it, we want to

01:29:44.834 --> 01:29:48.100

provide you with what we know, um, so far, but we’re expanding

01:29:48.100 --> 01:29:51.266

this to be very robust in our future because we utilize it 01:29:51.266 --> 01:29:55.500

and we’re seeing that it will be utilized very soon. here, as

01:29:55.500 --> 01:29:59.867

we have um seasons of um higher rates of crime, things of that

01:29:59.867 --> 01:30:03.634

nature, um, schools and um parks and as they go through 01:30:03.634 --> 01:30:05.500

their seasons of when they’re open and when they’re closed

01:30:05.500 --> 01:30:08.467

and when they have um higher activities and when they don’t.

01:30:08.467 --> 01:30:11.900

This will be a good opportunity for us to utilize what that 01:30:11.900 --> 01:30:24.734

response really looks like. And of one. All right. All right, 01:30:24.734 --> 01:30:29.734

so we’re coming down the home stretch, um. In terms of

01:30:29.734 --> 01:30:31.266

organizational organizational coordination, uh, the first 01:30:31.266 --> 01:30:36.133

thing I want to highlight is um uh assistants to the City

01:30:36.133 --> 01:30:39.000

Manager Zach Cramco um over there has been our project

01:30:39.000 --> 01:30:42.200

leader in terms of organizing this work over the last several 01:30:42.200 --> 01:30:45.233

months, sort of brought this great group of talented folks

01:30:45.233 --> 01:30:48.800

together, um, and it really has been helpful in terms of

01:30:48.800 --> 01:30:51.500

organizing um how we develop this new plan. So I just want 01:30:51.500 --> 01:30:55.734

to give uh credit to Mr. Krampka for his work, um, and

01:30:55.734 --> 01:30:59.033

obviously all the folks that are here this evening. But

01:30:59.033 --> 01:31:01.100

organization coordination is, is really something about how 01:31:01.100 --> 01:31:03.767

we want to continue uh to best deliver this work. We know that

01:31:03.767 --> 01:31:08.100

we all have to be on the same page. Um, we need to have our

01:31:08.100 --> 01:31:11.266

specific performance measures, measure tracking our progress, 01:31:11.266 --> 01:31:13.900

uh make sure that we’ve got, you know, the resources to move

01:31:13.900 --> 01:31:17.166

forward on this work, uh, share our success, and so on and so

01:31:17.166 --> 01:31:21.567

forth. So, uh, more to come on this, um, uh, but it really 01:31:21.567 --> 01:31:25.634

excited that, you know, this is part of the glue that brings

01:31:25.634 --> 01:31:27.767

everything together and um so everything you just heard, a

01:31:27.767 --> 01:31:31.367

lot of that will be helped through this coordination piece 01:31:31.367 --> 01:31:34.800

to close things out, Chief really wants to go through. Um,

01:31:34.800 --> 01:31:38.133

actually, he wants to go back and give a little bit more

01:31:38.133 --> 01:31:44.900

details on The story here, so turning it over to the chief. 01:31:44.900 --> 01:31:47.567

My protem Eriksson council members, I just wanted to recap

01:31:47.567 --> 01:31:50.834

and talk about our shared successes. We go to the map 01:31:50.834 --> 01:31:55.000

there in 2006, 2007, where we are at the peak of our crime

01:31:55.000 --> 01:31:56.734

and specifically the peak of violent crime, I think it

01:31:56.734 --> 01:31:58.533

really tells a story that’s when we brought in the research

01:31:58.533 --> 01:32:00.900

and that’s when we started the coordination. We started 01:32:00.900 --> 01:32:04.166

putting, uh, first thing we did is put basketball hoops back in

01:32:04.166 --> 01:32:06.367

the parks. We opened up Zanewood Rec Center, and then

01:32:06.367 --> 01:32:11.033

what you heard over the last 18 years to where we’re at today 01:32:11.033 --> 01:32:13.734

is a partnership collaboration and continuous focus and

01:32:13.734 --> 01:32:18.100

strategies. How to make this community better and safer, and

01:32:18.100 --> 01:32:21.734

as our the, the other line that shows our population going up, 01:32:21.734 --> 01:32:25.367

we have effectively over 18 years drove crime down,

01:32:25.367 --> 01:32:28.100

including today, we’re in 20, uh we just we’re gonna release

01:32:28.100 --> 01:32:32.467

our stats next week, but I can tell you that we have reached a 01:32:32.467 --> 01:32:36.200

historic low, um, of crime, um, so in modern history, we’ve

01:32:36.200 --> 01:32:41.100

been keeping, we’ve never had a lower level of crime, uh, 6% 01:32:41.100 --> 01:32:45.367

less than last year and our violent crime is 25.5%. than

01:32:45.367 --> 01:32:50.033

last year, um, it’s monumental and what I think I most 01:32:50.033 --> 01:32:52.166

impressed by this community, this leadership team, and the

01:32:52.166 --> 01:32:57.033

folks that already spoke up here is we’re still meeting and

01:32:57.033 --> 01:33:00.734

talking about how do we hone our strategies and skills to do 01:33:00.734 --> 01:33:05.000

better next year, um, but I think it is a really incredible,

01:33:05.000 --> 01:33:08.300

um, what we’ve done over the last 18, the last 18 years, um,

01:33:08.300 --> 01:33:11.300

and I would note just for context because somebody jumps 01:33:11.300 --> 01:33:16.734

out at that 2018, 1920, you see that peak and that is, um, the

01:33:16.734 --> 01:33:21.000

George Floyd civil unrest, um, and that was across the entire 01:33:21.000 --> 01:33:23.100

nation that anomaly occurred, um, but other than that, we

01:33:23.100 --> 01:33:25.834

have effectively been pushing crime down for the course of 18

01:33:25.834 --> 01:33:29.200

years, just being better at working with community and

01:33:29.200 --> 01:33:31.834

solving community problems. But that, I’ll pause and we’ll 01:33:31.834 --> 01:33:42.567

stand for questions. Thank you all, uh, Council member 01:33:42.567 --> 01:33:48.900

McGarvey. Thank you, Mayor Protem. So first of all, you

01:33:48.900 --> 01:33:54.133

did clear this up. Uh, city manager Strobel, but I just 01:33:54.133 --> 01:33:57.300

wanted to see Mister Cramke, did you really prepare this

01:33:57.300 --> 01:34:03.166

thing as it states on our Great job, man. First, I had two 01:34:03.166 --> 01:34:06.900

questions in a statement. Second question, Did you guys

01:34:06.900 --> 01:34:13.834

do a dress rehearsal? No. This was the most riveting. 01:34:13.834 --> 01:34:16.500

Presentation, I think I’ve sat through since I’ve been on the

01:34:16.500 --> 01:34:21.300

council here. So thank you and, and thank you for the work and 01:34:21.300 --> 01:34:24.233

I usually only cry when Hallmark, the Hallmark

01:34:24.233 --> 01:34:29.400

Channel’s on because I don’t like it. But put a lump in my

01:34:29.400 --> 01:34:35.367

throat to see the departments working together to and getting 01:34:35.367 --> 01:34:39.567

results. Oh my God, where does that happen in this world? So

01:34:39.567 --> 01:34:44.734

thank you so much. Great job, great work. Wow, I’m blown away. 01:34:44.734 --> 01:35:07.233

Thank you. Council member Tran. Um, Thank you for Letting me, 01:35:07.233 --> 01:35:11.634

uh, asking question. My, my question is, Um, do you have 01:35:11.634 --> 01:35:23.233

the, um, The information that uh school notifying. CD about 01:35:23.233 --> 01:35:31.133

absentee rape and 2NC. schools And uh ASIO school after school 01:35:31.133 --> 01:35:38.767

activity. Um Like elementary school and style of 85th. Do

01:35:38.767 --> 01:35:44.867

you have a do uh report or information. A pro Tim Erickson 01:35:44.867 --> 01:35:47.367

calls members, uh, Council member Tran, I do not have the

01:35:47.367 --> 01:35:50.133

information available now. We do work with our partners the 01:35:50.133 --> 01:35:53.734

Osco District a lot. I can tell you that they track truancy and

01:35:53.734 --> 01:35:58.000

has been an issue, um, it is not enforced as it was 25, 30

01:35:58.000 --> 01:36:01.367

years ago. It’s just been a change in the direction of 01:36:01.367 --> 01:36:05.467

enforcing um. Well, uh, kids that don’t attend school, um,

01:36:05.467 --> 01:36:08.166

but I do know that uh the numbers have been up in the

01:36:08.166 --> 01:36:11.100

school district has brought that up at uh safety briefings 01:36:11.100 --> 01:36:24.667

in the past. Thank you. Council member Kowski. Yeah, thank you, 01:36:24.667 --> 01:36:28.367

Mayor Protown. um, amazing work, um, and, and a great

01:36:28.367 --> 01:36:33.233

presentation. Thank you. Um, numbers don’t lie. So the work 01:36:33.233 --> 01:36:37.533

is working. One question I had through this presentation is,

01:36:37.533 --> 01:36:40.166

how does this, the work that you guys have already put so 01:36:40.166 --> 01:36:42.867

much time and energy into and our building out. How does that

01:36:42.867 --> 01:36:46.200

work with the violence interruption specialists. I

01:36:46.200 --> 01:36:48.166

don’t even know where that system is at since we brought

01:36:48.166 --> 01:36:51.367

it in-house, but do they coordinate? Are they part of 01:36:51.367 --> 01:37:08.100

this team? these It Yeah Um, thank you so much, council 01:37:08.100 --> 01:37:12.800

members and, uh, Mayor Protem that really does fold in, so 01:37:12.800 --> 01:37:17.500

there are certain amounts of um information for this team that

01:37:17.500 --> 01:37:20.900

really defines the roles. So not only are they traditional 01:37:20.900 --> 01:37:23.567

violence interruptions, but interrupters, but we’ve now

01:37:23.567 --> 01:37:27.033

transformed our role to be community intervention

01:37:27.033 --> 01:37:28.734

specialists because they don’t just focus on violence and

01:37:28.734 --> 01:37:31.567

because they don’t just show up when there’s just incidents we 01:37:31.567 --> 01:37:34.734

utilize the information that we’ve had from like um

01:37:34.734 --> 01:37:36.634

prevention intervention specialist Calvin Currington as

01:37:36.634 --> 01:37:41.634

well as our um PD data to utilize the information of 01:37:41.634 --> 01:37:45.834

saying, what else can we provide? And so our team, that

01:37:45.834 --> 01:37:50.100

8 person community facing team really does work with not only 01:37:50.100 --> 01:37:53.300

um park and rec in our community development team, but

01:37:53.300 --> 01:37:56.500

also they um work hand in hand with their co-workers, which

01:37:56.500 --> 01:37:59.834

are the community intervention specialists. They have the case

01:37:59.834 --> 01:38:04.500

load portion of um Of what this unit focuses on. And so they 01:38:04.500 --> 01:38:07.266

really do check in with PD, check in with Park and Rec,

01:38:07.266 --> 01:38:10.467

check in with their coworkers to make sure that where they’re 01:38:10.467 --> 01:38:13.000

needed, they’re going first, and then they also wear the

01:38:13.000 --> 01:38:16.300

boots on the ground and make sure they have a good um

01:38:16.300 --> 01:38:18.934

relationship with the residential manager’s

01:38:18.934 --> 01:38:22.634

businesses, as well as the schools in the SROs. So they do 01:38:22.634 --> 01:38:26.934

fold into everything. Thank you for the answers. So just so I

01:38:26.934 --> 01:38:31.767

can straighten out my brain in the past, it was, we had 01:38:31.767 --> 01:38:34.300

independent groups doing the violence interruption. So now

01:38:34.300 --> 01:38:38.200

that it’s in-house, is that what you manage? Yes, ma’am. So

01:38:38.200 --> 01:38:42.000

that that contracted work was literally like placing spaces, 01:38:42.000 --> 01:38:46.100

um, where there were the highest crime, and then this

01:38:46.100 --> 01:38:49.934

one is now in-house being police um employees, but also

01:38:49.934 --> 01:38:53.266

utilizing all of the data information that we needed from 01:38:53.266 --> 01:38:55.900

the department to be Centralized inside of Brooklyn

01:38:55.900 --> 01:39:00.000

Park instead of focused on one particular area. I think that’s 01:39:00.000 --> 01:39:03.367

fantastic. That’s wonderful and welcome, so happy to have you

01:39:03.367 --> 01:39:05.467

very fortunate to have you, the treasure. Thank you so much.

01:39:05.467 --> 01:39:22.934

Thank you. Uh, council member Page. Thank you. Um So first I 01:39:22.934 --> 01:39:27.800

would say I, I’m just amazed by the work and the collaboration

01:39:27.800 --> 01:39:30.467

to see, I mean, you are all leaders in your departments, 01:39:30.467 --> 01:39:33.266

and you all work together. Um, this is what I want the whole

01:39:33.266 --> 01:39:36.400

world to know and the narrative of Brooklyn Park to see how

01:39:36.400 --> 01:39:40.033

much we care, um, and it goes way back. It isn’t, it didn’t 01:39:40.033 --> 01:39:42.734

just start. You’ve been working on this for a long time, even

01:39:42.734 --> 01:39:47.500

with new additions, so, um, one of the things, kind of that

01:39:47.500 --> 01:39:50.266

guides my life is to grow up and be the person I needed when 01:39:50.266 --> 01:39:54.567

I was younger, and I think each one of is the person I needed

01:39:54.567 --> 01:39:57.800

when I was younger and I applaud you for that. So it’s

01:39:57.800 --> 01:40:02.567

been really nice to get to know. A lot of you personally, um, 01:40:02.567 --> 01:40:05.767

and see your commitment to our community. It’s just amazing

01:40:05.767 --> 01:40:08.467

and people need to talk about this more often. So thank you

01:40:08.467 --> 01:40:11.533

for that. Um, the only question I had was, and I might have 01:40:11.533 --> 01:40:15.233

missed it because there’s a lot of good information here was

01:40:15.233 --> 01:40:18.467

the alternate response team or is that intertwined with what

01:40:18.467 --> 01:40:24.467

you’re doing as well for Um Those situations. for those 01:40:24.467 --> 01:40:28.734

youth who need that. Mayor Porter Eriksson council members

01:40:28.734 --> 01:40:32.367

Council member Page, um, the alternate response team is not 01:40:32.367 --> 01:40:34.500

directly related to that, but of course, you see the

01:40:34.500 --> 01:40:37.266

collaboration that we have um across interdepartments and

01:40:37.266 --> 01:40:39.533

same with within our organization so our community

01:40:39.533 --> 01:40:42.266

health unit, which is our, used to be called our mental health 01:40:42.266 --> 01:40:45.734

unit. It’s now called Community Health Unit is where social

01:40:45.734 --> 01:40:47.467

workers in our community response team leaders, we also

01:40:47.467 --> 01:40:51.033

have a detective and a sergeant that are assigned there and so 01:40:51.033 --> 01:40:53.800

that alternative response team is taking calls regarding

01:40:53.800 --> 01:40:56.000

mental health and a lot of those calls are at group homes,

01:40:56.000 --> 01:40:59.133

which has been. topic in the in the media recently and a topic

01:40:59.133 --> 01:41:03.266

that we’ve had at the Capitol about um how many calls we have, 01:41:03.266 --> 01:41:06.133

but, uh, quite a, quite a few of their calls of the term

01:41:06.133 --> 01:41:11.400

alternative response team is at, um, Um, at our congregate care 01:41:11.400 --> 01:41:14.667

facilities, but really it’s intended for anyone that’s

01:41:14.667 --> 01:41:17.900

suffering from mental illness and crisis. So this is crisis

01:41:17.900 --> 01:41:23.100

as well. So will that overlap? That’s what I was talking about 01:41:23.100 --> 01:41:26.900

the collaboration, so, um. There’s been some examples of

01:41:26.900 --> 01:41:28.934

that. I’m just trying not to give too much detail, but I

01:41:28.934 --> 01:41:32.166

mean, yes, so like when the treasure’s team is deployed out 01:41:32.166 --> 01:41:34.367

and then the treasurer can call them out at night, which has

01:41:34.367 --> 01:41:37.000

happened where officers have had uh some juveniles with

01:41:37.000 --> 01:41:39.767

knives and and and some complexities around that, they

01:41:39.767 --> 01:41:42.400

call the treasure’s team out, um, but many times those that 01:41:42.400 --> 01:41:45.033

are involved in those incidents are suffering from mental

01:41:45.033 --> 01:41:47.166

illness and so she can immediately reach out to the

01:41:47.166 --> 01:41:49.400

detective, and she can also reach out to our art teams and

01:41:49.400 --> 01:41:52.467

have them come to a scene just like our police officers, so 01:41:52.467 --> 01:41:54.734

that’s the idea that all the tools may have different

01:41:54.734 --> 01:41:56.734

disciplines, but all those tools are. available for us to

01:41:56.734 --> 01:41:59.233

find the best outcome for those individuals that they were

01:41:59.233 --> 01:42:09.000

we’re dealing with. Thank you so much. council member John 01:42:09.000 --> 01:42:12.233

Thank you. Um, no questions, but as I’m looking at the 01:42:12.233 --> 01:42:15.900

reflection slide, I really wanted to share and say thank

01:42:15.900 --> 01:42:20.166

you for the presentation, um, and honestly, really thank you 01:42:20.166 --> 01:42:23.033

to all of the staff and partners who really prioritize

01:42:23.033 --> 01:42:27.667

our youth, especially in the midst of uh conversations

01:42:27.667 --> 01:42:29.300

surrounding public safety, um, for a good moment, I totally

01:42:29.300 --> 01:42:31.400

forgot that we were talking about public safety. I thought 01:42:31.400 --> 01:42:35.734

we were talking about like youth engagement you my youth

01:42:35.734 --> 01:42:37.800

initiatives, right? Um, but then I think that’s something

01:42:37.800 --> 01:42:40.100

that I really admire as well too and really appreciate. So 01:42:40.100 --> 01:42:44.900

thank you so much, um, for, uh, truly centering our youth, uh,

01:42:44.900 --> 01:42:49.166

because they are truly so smart, right, really observant, um,

01:42:49.166 --> 01:42:53.266

and they really, um. Go based upon the examples that are 01:42:53.266 --> 01:42:55.500

surrounding them. And so I’m really proud to say that we

01:42:55.500 --> 01:42:58.667

have these programs in place and we have staff like y’all,

01:42:58.667 --> 01:43:01.634

um, that, you know, are the leading example for our youth. 01:43:01.634 --> 01:43:07.266

And so I just really wanted to um say that I admire all of, uh,

01:43:07.266 --> 01:43:09.934

your work, including all of your department’s works, and

01:43:09.934 --> 01:43:13.667

the fact that we are able to come together as one, and 01:43:13.667 --> 01:43:17.367

provide these initiatives around public safety is truly,

01:43:17.367 --> 01:43:23.634

truly admirable and beautiful. So thank you all so much. 01:43:23.634 --> 01:43:35.000

Council member Tran. Thank you. Um, I reckon I have not got the 01:43:35.000 --> 01:43:40.934

answer for my second question about uh school improvement, uh, 01:43:40.934 --> 01:43:47.734

after school improvement from ASIO because um we have uh uh

01:43:47.734 --> 01:43:52.000

resident uh concerned about this for a long period of time, 01:43:52.000 --> 01:43:57.367

so I want to see if Anything progress this year and in the

01:43:57.367 --> 01:44:05.634

future for, for from the SCO school. He approached him 01:44:05.634 --> 01:44:08.033

Erickson council members, Council member Tran, um, we do

01:44:08.033 --> 01:44:12.467

not control the school district in their after school, um, 01:44:12.467 --> 01:44:15.100

curriculum. We communicate a lot with the school like, uh,

01:44:15.100 --> 01:44:18.166

the director said, um, we had a meeting today and we have a

01:44:18.166 --> 01:44:20.000

routine meetings with them. We have our school resource 01:44:20.000 --> 01:44:23.500

officers that are embedded in our schools, um, and so

01:44:23.500 --> 01:44:27.367

everybody has the shared values. What curriculum that they

01:44:27.367 --> 01:44:30.634

operate, um, I am not aware of and we don’t control that or 01:44:30.634 --> 01:44:33.800

how often they have curriculum or after school programming,

01:44:33.800 --> 01:44:36.900

obviously what we we are focused on is the extensive

01:44:36.900 --> 01:44:39.500

after-school program that our Park and Rex, um, department

01:44:39.500 --> 01:44:41.367

runs both at the community activity center and certainly 01:44:41.367 --> 01:44:44.467

at the Zainwood Rec Center and then expanding upon that is

01:44:44.467 --> 01:44:47.567

what uh was the groundbreaking on Monday where there are

01:44:47.567 --> 01:44:51.300

expanding that facility to be able to provide even additional 01:44:51.300 --> 01:44:57.834

after-school programming. So, um, can the CD, uh, stop, uh,

01:44:57.834 --> 01:45:04.100

you know, uh, look into that because uh I believe uh last 01:45:04.100 --> 01:45:10.533

month, Governor team said that the The school, uh ASIO, you 01:45:10.533 --> 01:45:16.467

know, um, irresponsible for To take care of of this kind of

01:45:16.467 --> 01:45:26.533

thing for, for a local uh Uh student. In in this area. Yeah, 01:45:26.533 --> 01:45:28.667

Merote Erickson council members, council member Tran, you know,

01:45:28.667 --> 01:45:33.000

this has been a topic that Mayor Winston and I have 01:45:33.000 --> 01:45:35.100

directly spoken to Superintendent Haile. It’s also

01:45:35.100 --> 01:45:39.367

been a topic that uh Director Tolberg and I have spoken to

01:45:39.367 --> 01:45:44.233

others, uh, within a school districts, uh, they are well 01:45:44.233 --> 01:45:48.100

aware of of the communities concerned and, um, city leaders

01:45:48.100 --> 01:45:51.367

have raised these concerns with the school district that has 01:45:51.367 --> 01:45:54.000

not brought about a change of course, so I would encourage

01:45:54.000 --> 01:45:57.000

community members. or other members of council to continue

01:45:57.000 --> 01:46:01.367

that work, but we have conveyed the message in our interest, uh, 01:46:01.367 --> 01:46:04.567

to expand opportunities for our youth, uh, for after school

01:46:04.567 --> 01:46:10.300

opportunities, um, that are, uh, equitably shared across the 01:46:10.300 --> 01:46:14.634

School district and um. I, I recognize your question and

01:46:14.634 --> 01:46:17.767

just want folks to know that we have made efforts to make

01:46:17.767 --> 01:46:20.033

changes and ultimately that’s the responsibility of the 01:46:20.033 --> 01:46:22.200

school district to decide if they want to make those changes.

01:46:22.200 --> 01:46:29.100

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. I have a couple of

01:46:29.100 --> 01:46:32.400

questions and Hopefully this isn’t one that I’ve just missed 01:46:32.400 --> 01:46:36.667

over the last couple of months. I’m curious about the park and

01:46:36.667 --> 01:46:41.300

rec staff that used to do direct intervention after 01:46:41.300 --> 01:46:44.100

school is that program still running and how is it

01:46:44.100 --> 01:46:48.767

interacting with the Police department’s programming. Mere

01:46:48.767 --> 01:46:53.667

pro tem, members of the council, um, absolutely, we have a long 01:46:53.667 --> 01:46:57.000

standing since I’ve been here for 8 years. We used to work

01:46:57.000 --> 01:47:00.100

with, um, a contractor of a nonprofit organization, but 01:47:00.100 --> 01:47:04.900

Kelvin Carrington, our Brooklyn Park youth outreach team, um,

01:47:04.900 --> 01:47:07.100

lead our intervention efforts inside of the parks and rec

01:47:07.100 --> 01:47:10.667

department. Um, Kelvin works with multiple facilitators, 01:47:10.667 --> 01:47:13.834

partners, and outreach, and the same with recreation Center to

01:47:13.834 --> 01:47:17.567

be able to respond. Um, he works in partnership, meets

01:47:17.567 --> 01:47:20.767

regularly with the treasure and her. and as the Treasure talked 01:47:20.767 --> 01:47:23.467

about lots of different ways that we can look at how we

01:47:23.467 --> 01:47:27.734

might have some young people that are that Kelvin might be

01:47:27.734 --> 01:47:30.734

seeing inside of uh kind of care management, working with 01:47:30.734 --> 01:47:34.166

young people and it might be a young person that gets into a

01:47:34.166 --> 01:47:37.367

little bit more trouble, and that might be an opportunity to

01:47:37.367 --> 01:47:39.266

enlist our community intervention unit as partners

01:47:39.266 --> 01:47:42.767

to be able to kind of have a warm hand off and be able to 01:47:42.767 --> 01:47:46.467

support the work as well. Also, it goes the other direction,

01:47:46.467 --> 01:47:48.567

being able to say, how do we look at young people that we

01:47:48.567 --> 01:47:52.467

might both know and look at how might we also be able to offer 01:47:52.467 --> 01:47:55.467

supports in that way, but the intervention team inside of

01:47:55.467 --> 01:47:58.734

Parks and Rec is still going great, Kelvin um carries a

01:47:58.734 --> 01:48:02.000

caseload of over 30 young people on his own and um 01:48:02.000 --> 01:48:04.000

connecting with our Brooklyn Park Youth Outreach team to

01:48:04.000 --> 01:48:06.266

meet our young people where they’re at, make those

01:48:06.266 --> 01:48:08.934

referrals across the city and in the schools and respond in a

01:48:08.934 --> 01:48:13.734

great way. Thank you so much for clarifying. Uh, one last 01:48:13.734 --> 01:48:19.567

question. So, This community in uh intervention approaches. As

01:48:19.567 --> 01:48:23.834

was said, quite unique, uh, first of its kind, certainly in 01:48:23.834 --> 01:48:28.800

Minnesota, um. Our neighbors, Brooklyn Center, Robinsdale,

01:48:28.800 --> 01:48:37.667

Champlain, who don’t have such a robust. Um Resource as we do, 01:48:37.667 --> 01:48:41.100

how are we uh supporting and engaging our neighbors because 01:48:41.100 --> 01:48:46.233

we all know that. Youth don’t know municipal boundaries. So

01:48:46.233 --> 01:48:48.500

I’m curious to hear a little bit more about the cooperative

01:48:48.500 --> 01:49:03.367

work with our neighbors. Go ahead. that set Mayor Proto 01:49:03.367 --> 01:49:06.300

Mason council members, um, I always appreciate your

01:49:06.300 --> 01:49:08.734

intuition because that is the topic of the day. We learned

01:49:08.734 --> 01:49:10.734

very quickly and and we kind of always do it, but really when 01:49:10.734 --> 01:49:14.533

the treasure, the treasures team um got going and started

01:49:14.533 --> 01:49:16.567

identifying youth um that are at risk, high kids, and these

01:49:16.567 --> 01:49:19.467

are kids who identify like uh uh stop a stolen car and

01:49:19.467 --> 01:49:22.500

there’s a gun in the car, but there’s two passengers, so the 01:49:22.500 --> 01:49:24.734

driver gets arrested um to be held accountable, but you have

01:49:24.734 --> 01:49:26.734

two passengers that were willing to get in a stolen car

01:49:26.734 --> 01:49:29.734

and were aware that there’s a gun in there, but there’s no

01:49:29.734 --> 01:49:31.900

criminal charges on them, but we know they’re high risk, um, 01:49:31.900 --> 01:49:34.767

and so those are. kind of the group of, of kids, the treasure

01:49:34.767 --> 01:49:38.000

is focused on, they’re very transient. And so while the

01:49:38.000 --> 01:49:40.800

treasurer’s team may try to connect with them, loved one’s 01:49:40.800 --> 01:49:42.767

family, uh, they’re transit, they’re already gone, now

01:49:42.767 --> 01:49:45.500

they’re in New Hope or they’re in Brooklyn Center or they’re

01:49:45.500 --> 01:49:48.800

down in Robinsdale, um, and so we have to be able to continue

01:49:48.800 --> 01:49:52.900

to follow them and work with them, and that really sparked 01:49:52.900 --> 01:49:55.500

our interest um recently as a city to be able to figure out

01:49:55.500 --> 01:49:59.834

how do we align the Northwest suburbs to be better and more

01:49:59.834 --> 01:50:01.734

effective together. Our resources are not, we share the 01:50:01.734 --> 01:50:05.734

same interest in the um, trying to resolve the same similar

01:50:05.734 --> 01:50:08.734

issues and so we’ve united around uh Coblecom themes and

01:50:08.734 --> 01:50:11.500

one of them is around like a real-time crime center and 01:50:11.500 --> 01:50:14.000

you’re sharing and information sharing center for both

01:50:14.000 --> 01:50:17.734

enforcement. But also really heavily on the intervention

01:50:17.734 --> 01:50:20.567

work so that um we take the resource, like the treasure’s 01:50:20.567 --> 01:50:25.467

team, and in a perfect world, what we would do is have a

01:50:25.467 --> 01:50:28.467

bigger team that would be regional across the Northwest

01:50:28.467 --> 01:50:31.467

suburbs, and we have been at the state, uh, the mayor, the 01:50:31.467 --> 01:50:34.233

city manager’s lead has led us to the state capital, really

01:50:34.233 --> 01:50:38.800

asking for a state investment in this, um, idea of helping us

01:50:38.800 --> 01:50:42.033

get the software and the apparatus stood up to be able 01:50:42.033 --> 01:50:45.000

to share effectively, um, between all the communities, um,

01:50:45.000 --> 01:50:48.533

both. Again, both for intervention work, but also for

01:50:48.533 --> 01:50:50.634

enforcement work cause the same issues that exist for 01:50:50.634 --> 01:50:53.367

enforcement, um, somebody may commit commit a crime here, and

01:50:53.367 --> 01:50:55.567

then they’re gone, they’re down in Robinsdale, we can’t find

01:50:55.567 --> 01:50:59.033

them or know what they’re doing in Robinsdale. So, um, that’s

01:50:59.033 --> 01:51:05.500

kind of the 10,000 ft view of it. But I would just offer up 01:51:05.500 --> 01:51:09.367

that to me and that I speak for the treasure, but that is just

01:51:09.367 --> 01:51:13.000

a glaring issue that we’re going to have is, um, because 01:51:13.000 --> 01:51:17.000

we, you know, if you think about uh working with the youth

01:51:17.000 --> 01:51:20.533

who’s been in a stolen car and got a gun and there’s that 01:51:20.533 --> 01:51:24.133

intense case management of them to try to get the resources,

01:51:24.133 --> 01:51:25.467

potentially mental health assessment, um, do they have

01:51:25.467 --> 01:51:28.033

enough food, lodging, safety needs taken care of. I mean,

01:51:28.033 --> 01:51:31.166

you get them out of that environment of willing to get 01:51:31.166 --> 01:51:34.834

into a stolen car, then you, that soft handoff that I think

01:51:34.834 --> 01:51:37.033

Ham talked about is how do we get them in Zane, what are

01:51:37.033 --> 01:51:40.367

other activities that make them really resilient to getting 01:51:40.367 --> 01:51:42.900

back into that behavior, that activity. So give them a new

01:51:42.900 --> 01:51:46.100

focus and and wrap around services really hard to do when

01:51:46.100 --> 01:51:52.500

they’re moving every month. Thank you. Um, so there’s still 01:51:52.500 --> 01:51:57.467

Legislative activity around that in this session. Uh, mere

01:51:57.467 --> 01:52:01.667

proteer members of the council, um, there is legislative 01:52:01.667 --> 01:52:05.400

activity around that, um, in fact, just last week, and

01:52:05.400 --> 01:52:08.000

Representative Hiltsley was just here. uh, we were part of

01:52:08.000 --> 01:52:12.767

a meeting, um. Um, with additional representatives to 01:52:12.767 --> 01:52:17.033

try to garner support for some of this work, um. Resources are

01:52:17.033 --> 01:52:20.900

going to be really challenging to get through the capital, um, 01:52:20.900 --> 01:52:23.500

but you know it, nothing else, you know, we’re making the

01:52:23.500 --> 01:52:27.166

pitch, we’ve met with a number of legislative leaders in both

01:52:27.166 --> 01:52:30.533

the Senate, including Senator Limmer, Senator Hoffman, 01:52:30.533 --> 01:52:34.634

Senator Pah, and then also in the house, a number of, of

01:52:34.634 --> 01:52:38.567

leaders uh regarding this idea and um We hope whether it’s

01:52:38.567 --> 01:52:41.634

this session or future session, that whether it’s state 01:52:41.634 --> 01:52:45.367

resources, county resources, or other resources, we’re able to,

01:52:45.367 --> 01:52:48.734

to take this more regional plan and put that together. You, you

01:52:48.734 --> 01:52:52.767

know, our goal is to take that 5,7008 and continue to drive 01:52:52.767 --> 01:52:55.500

that down, um, and I think that part of the situation we’re

01:52:55.500 --> 01:52:59.300

dealing with is that 80/20 rule, maybe the 80%, a little bit

01:52:59.300 --> 01:53:02.000

easier strategies, but now we’re getting into the more 01:53:02.000 --> 01:53:04.567

challenging strategies and uh so we’re going to keep on

01:53:04.567 --> 01:53:06.634

pushing the boundaries to, to continue to make Brooklyn Park

01:53:06.634 --> 01:53:11.500

safer, so. That’s her goal. And Commissioner Lundy is aware of 01:53:11.500 --> 01:53:16.300

these efforts, given that this geography closely overlaps his.

01:53:16.300 --> 01:53:20.000

Yeah, Ame protime Eriksson, uh, in addition to meeting with 01:53:20.000 --> 01:53:23.367

legislators, uh, Chief Brule, Mayor Winston, uh joined the

01:53:23.367 --> 01:53:28.000

mayor of Golden Valley. They’ve had meetings, um, with the

01:53:28.000 --> 01:53:32.367

County board chair. We’ve had meetings with Hennepin County 01:53:32.367 --> 01:53:36.767

Commissioner Lundy, um, so yes, again, I focus at the county

01:53:36.767 --> 01:53:40.367

level and the state level, um, and it’s been great working in 01:53:40.367 --> 01:53:43.033

coordination with these other communities. Uh, we’ve been

01:53:43.033 --> 01:53:47.300

working on this since last fall and um uh We will continue this

01:53:47.300 --> 01:53:49.634

work until, you know, we, we get those resources to make

01:53:49.634 --> 01:53:58.567

this happen. Thank you. when else? Thank you so much for all 01:53:58.567 --> 01:54:04.367

of this information and all of your hard work. answer. It’s 01:54:04.367 --> 01:54:14.033

Yeah OK, we will move into council member reports and 01:54:14.033 --> 01:54:17.734

announcements. Are there any council member reports. council

01:54:17.734 --> 01:54:25.100

member Kowski. Thank you Mayor Pro Tem. um, the charter 01:54:25.100 --> 01:54:31.233

commission met this last week to discuss, um, bringing the 01:54:31.233 --> 01:54:37.033

resolution regarding how to solve some of the issues with a

01:54:37.033 --> 01:54:41.767

long-standing council, um, Absences where someone Purple 01:54:41.767 --> 01:54:44.467

For better or for worse, someone isn’t in the seat for

01:54:44.467 --> 01:54:48.166

months at a time, um, such as council member McGarvey’s spot

01:54:48.166 --> 01:54:52.533

was, um, didn’t have anyone to fill the seat for 9 months. So 01:54:52.533 --> 01:54:54.734

that ordinance will be brought back or that amendment rather

01:54:54.734 --> 01:54:59.900

will be brought back to discuss at some point. Um, also

01:54:59.900 --> 01:55:03.233

reviewing council and mayor salary as a statutorily 01:55:03.233 --> 01:55:06.100

required. Also, um, just in the community now, I want to say

01:55:06.100 --> 01:55:10.266

that I went to a scal and distillery. Amazing. Met the, 01:55:10.266 --> 01:55:14.367

the one of the people who owns it, the wife, don’t be jealous,

01:55:14.367 --> 01:55:17.000

council member page, they’re celebrating Cambodian New Year

01:55:17.000 --> 01:55:20.266

and it was fabulous, really, um, Brooklyn Park is so fortunate 01:55:20.266 --> 01:55:24.000

to have an amazing distillery like that. And then last but

01:55:24.000 --> 01:55:29.300

not least, just wanted to congratulate Protem Erickson on

01:55:29.300 --> 01:55:31.634

running his first meeting that I’ve been at. All the way 01:55:31.634 --> 01:55:35.233

through, we all knew you would do a great job. You’ve got a

01:55:35.233 --> 01:55:44.800

great temperament to be pro tem. Thank you. McGarvey. Thank you, 01:55:44.800 --> 01:55:49.033

Mayor Protem, and I would concur with that. Um I just

01:55:49.033 --> 01:55:52.867

wanted to say that I realized I made everybody else in the city 01:55:52.867 --> 01:55:57.834

upset when they said that that was the best. Uh, presentation

01:55:57.834 --> 01:56:02.000

I sat through, so I apologize to the whole rest of the city. 01:56:02.000 --> 01:56:06.100

Um, and I just wanna say that I’m really uh a bummed that I

01:56:06.100 --> 01:56:11.934

wasn’t able to be at. The, uh, Zane would, uh, groundbreaking. 01:56:11.934 --> 01:56:16.367

I was out of town for work, but it sounds like that was a great

01:56:16.367 --> 01:56:18.900

event and uh glad, glad everybody that was there was

01:56:18.900 --> 01:56:25.867

there and Again is so impressed with what you guys are doing. 01:56:25.867 --> 01:56:34.033

This is amazing. Thank you. OK, seeing no other council member 01:56:34.033 --> 01:56:38.233

reports, I’d move to Mr. Strom. Yeah, mere, mere proteerics and

01:56:38.233 --> 01:56:40.834

members of the council, just one thing this evening, or 01:56:40.834 --> 01:56:44.634

actually two, I wanted to recognize the Zane Wood

01:56:44.634 --> 01:56:46.200

expansion groundbreaking recognized Director Tolberg and

01:56:46.200 --> 01:56:52.634

all the work of that um has led up to that day. Um, it’s uh 01:56:52.634 --> 01:56:56.266

been incredible opportunity and, um, just as we just, um,

01:56:56.266 --> 01:56:59.000

presented on reimagining Public Safety 2.0. This is one example

01:56:59.000 --> 01:57:03.300

of sort of expanding that, I’m creating opportunities for He 01:57:03.300 --> 01:57:07.000

was for decades ahead, so excited about what uh that

01:57:07.000 --> 01:57:09.200

scene, what expansion and the renovation of the existing

01:57:09.200 --> 01:57:12.834

space will bring. I mean, then lastly, just a reminder for 01:57:12.834 --> 01:57:16.233

city council, um in, in Councilor McGarvey gets bonus

01:57:16.233 --> 01:57:19.166

points cause he tried to hand in his homework early, um, but

01:57:19.166 --> 01:57:23.233

we do have a um council staff leadership retreat on Wednesday 01:57:23.233 --> 01:57:27.367

evening. We’re gonna be at Edinburgh USA I believe

01:57:27.367 --> 01:57:30.500

starting about 5:30. Um, so just a reminder that’s really 01:57:30.500 --> 01:57:33.367

important evening where we get together, talk about, uh, do a

01:57:33.367 --> 01:57:35.834

little bit of level setting in terms of how things are, are

01:57:35.834 --> 01:57:39.100

going, but then spend most of the time in terms of priorities.

01:57:39.100 --> 01:57:43.400

And so I look forward to that evening and um just a reminder 01:57:43.400 --> 01:57:47.567

that uh we’re gonna be doing that. Thank you all. Council

01:57:47.567 --> 01:57:50.300

member train came on the board just before Mr. Strobel. Do you 01:57:50.300 --> 01:58:00.400

have a report? Thank you. Um, I, uh, I just want to say, uh, on, 01:58:00.400 --> 01:58:06.467

on this last weekend, uh there was uh Workers try on uh at the

01:58:06.467 --> 01:58:15.934

festival. uh supermarket and uh The, um Many, um, a The city 01:58:15.934 --> 01:58:24.467

council was there, included Mao and um Senator John Huffman. So 01:58:24.467 --> 01:58:30.767

I hope that uh there is a You know, uh, come to a solution 01:58:30.767 --> 01:58:37.200

between the employers and employees because uh people Uh,

01:58:37.200 --> 01:58:43.233

dessert to have a considerate way for um, you know, for 01:58:43.233 --> 01:58:49.467

survive. And that’s why uh we support them the, the less

01:58:49.467 --> 01:58:56.100

people live on um. Poverty leap on the welfare, the better 01:58:56.100 --> 01:59:05.033

America economy. Thank you, Councilman Bertrand, um. Seeing