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future, but uh um I’m joking though. But uh we can go ahead

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and I’ll call the uh regular meeting to order, but before we

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do that, I’m gonna read this statement again. We have to 00:00:11.834 --> 00:00:14.667

read it each time for, for different meetings. So as

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previously noted, uh, council member Amanda Young of the city

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council will be participating in the meeting. by interactive 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:25.467

technology pursuant to Minnesota statute 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, 5208 5th 00:00:31.266 --> 00:00:34.200

Avenue North, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. I’m physically

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present in the city council’s chambers along with council

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members Christian Eriksson, Nicole Kowski, Shelley Page,

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and Tony McGarvey. All council members can hear one another 00:00:41.734 --> 00:00:44.467

and can hear all discussion and testimony. Members of the

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public can monitor council meeting by calling 1218302-5973.

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entering meeting ID 131393434, and then pressing the pound 00:00:54.734 --> 00:00:58.734

sign when you are asked to enter a participant ID or by

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watching it on CCX Media Channel 16 or by live streaming 00:01:03.567 --> 00:01:09.233

it at HTTPS www. Brooklynark.org/City-council

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slash. All right, so, We can go ahead and call the meeting to 00:01:13.400 --> 00:01:18.000

order. We will need a roll call. Council member Eriksson.

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Council members young. But that Council member Kowski. Mary 00:01:24.467 --> 00:01:32.367

Winston. council member page. Council member McGarvey. 00:01:32.367 --> 00:01:36.634

Councilmember Tran. Mayor Winston, you have a quorum. All

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right, wonderful. So, so if we can all rise for the pledge of

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allegiance. To United States of America. To the republic stands 00:01:53.734 --> 00:02:04.000

a nation indivisible. Liberty and justice for all. All right, 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:07.667

so we’ll go ahead and step into public comment and response.

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There were no, uh, public comments at the last meeting, 00:02:10.867 --> 00:02:14.567

uh, so we don’t have to go into that one, but, uh, we are gonna,

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uh, we do have a Mr. Robert Clay who would like to speak

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for a public comment. I’m gonna ask you if you can limit that 00:02:22.667 --> 00:02:28.567

to 3 minutes, uh, state name and address. Thank you. OK,

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thank you, council members for being here today. Um, yeah, my 00:02:34.367 --> 00:02:39.033

name’s Robert Clay. And, uh, I live at 6280 Forest Avenue

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North of Brooklyn Park. And I’m here regarding, uh, trying to 00:02:42.900 --> 00:02:49.300

come up with some resolution in my sewer, uh, estimates or, or

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my cost, in, in my billing with my sewer. Uh, through the 00:02:54.266 --> 00:03:00.500

utilities department. And uh when I brought here today is 00:03:00.500 --> 00:03:03.300

another example before it was a different property that I

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compared myself to. And, uh, this is another neighbor that I

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brought an example and as you can see, uh, there’s a big 00:03:13.300 --> 00:03:18.834

difference in the sewer cost. Uh, that, that the neighbors

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are paying, uh, that have, uh, city water. And for me, that 00:03:25.033 --> 00:03:34.100

have my own water. Or no city water. So I’m, I’m asking that 00:03:34.100 --> 00:03:39.033

if we can come up with some conclusion or some uh

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resolution here. Uh, I don’t think it’s that hard to figure 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:47.467

out. Between us all if we can figure something out as, as to

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reduce my cost. Uh, I feel that it’s not fair, and um I think 00:03:54.900 --> 00:03:58.734

it’s time that I, I received some kind of discount or some

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kind of reduction in my cost for my sewer because it’s, you 00:04:03.467 --> 00:04:06.100

can understand that, um, I can’t be going through that

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much water to be paying that much on my sewer bill, and uh I 00:04:11.634 --> 00:04:14.734

appreciate if you could help me with this. I’ve, I’ve tried to

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reach out, uh, last week. I reached out to Maria Tran, uh, 00:04:20.166 --> 00:04:23.233

email, and then I’ve also tried to reach out to, uh, Mayor

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Winston And I haven’t got any response back from that, and I

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know in my last meeting, you said someone would be getting 00:04:32.834 --> 00:04:37.667

in contact with me and that never happened. So, um, I mean,

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as much as it takes to, you know, be here so we can get 00:04:42.033 --> 00:04:46.166

this figured out. And I think this is something that very

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simple, very simple. I mean, I know what needs to be done.

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It’s just a matter of getting the approval. Um, thank you. So 00:04:58.467 --> 00:05:02.233

thank you, just, uh, um, just very quickly because I, I 00:05:02.233 --> 00:05:04.900

generally don’t respond here. I know that you reached out to me.

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This has been put in front of our city manager staff is

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looking into it. Uh, I know that you say it’s simple. Uh, I 00:05:11.834 --> 00:05:14.033

think there’s another perspective to that that isn’t

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quite as simple, uh, but, uh, I believe by probably the next

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regular meeting we have, uh, there’ll be a public response 00:05:23.033 --> 00:05:26.367

out but uh hopefully uh we get back to you with kind of some

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of the findings that we have on our end as well. So thank you

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for coming up here. I know you want us to move faster, but 00:05:31.667 --> 00:05:36.100

trust and believe, um. Trust and believed that uh this has

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gotten in front of me, but I am not a cousin to always

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responding until we have a good understanding of exactly what 00:05:41.800 --> 00:05:45.166

we’re dealing with. So, thank you. OK. Thank you for

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listening. Uh Thank you, Mayor. I, sir. I, I sent a resolution 00:06:01.734 --> 00:06:05.767

on April 4th. I think maybe you missed the email. Um, I have it

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here. We had some ideas for private monitoring and some 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:12.734

cost items for that. Do you remember seeing that email in

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April? I can resend the email and have that over to you right

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now and then when you get home, you can take a look at it. It’s

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some options that we can do private monitoring for you so 00:06:21.834 --> 00:06:26.000

you can see your usage and then maybe you can reach back out to

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me. I’ll start a new chain and then you can just reply to that.

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And we can um see if you have that resolution. Uh, because 00:06:33.500 --> 00:06:40.467

they did go through. Um, a lot of detail here, so I’ll do my 00:06:40.467 --> 00:06:43.100

best to send it from here, otherwise, I’ll go home and do

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it tonight, so you’ll have it. OK? You’re welcome. Yeah, thank

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you. Yeah, thank you for that, uh, customerser page. I saw

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that as well, so, um, I would take a look at that. OK. Yeah. 00:06:53.233 --> 00:07:01.266

Well All right, so next, um, we’re gonna jump into approval 00:07:01.266 --> 00:07:03.634

of the agenda and just so everyone is on the same page

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because people may not have seen this updated agenda, um,

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3B1 so interview applicants for commissions has been removed, 00:07:12.533 --> 00:07:15.867

uh, and then 3B3 presentation of police department community

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awards that also has been removed, but 3B 3B.2 Human 00:07:22.634 --> 00:07:24.300

Rights Commission 3B.4 still exists. And then when we look

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at the 4.15 authorized the purchase of computer equipment

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from inside public sector that has been added as well, so I 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:36.500

just want to make that, uh, oh, and then 7.1, a travel request

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has been added as well. So just so that folks. Know that those 00:07:40.367 --> 00:07:44.533

changes have been made if you have not seen that. So, um, is

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there a motion to approve the agenda. All right. Uh, So the 00:07:53.567 --> 00:07:55.834

motion was made by Councillor McCannowski, seconded by

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Councilman McGarvey. We will need a roll call vote. Proving 00:08:02.834 --> 00:08:08.567

the agenda, Council member Erikson. Council member Young.

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I. Councilman Kowski. Council member page. Council member 00:08:17.100 --> 00:08:19.834

McGarvey Mayor Winston. The motion passes with 6 yes votes,

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0 no votes. All right, thank you. So next we can go ahead 00:08:24.734 --> 00:08:29.367

and move to the Human Rights Commission annual report in

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2025 work plan. A point of order If she’s participating 00:08:35.934 --> 00:08:49.567

remotely. Council member Jean, we need to see you on video. My 00:08:49.567 --> 00:08:57.133

video is on. There she is. It seems like it’s only picking it 00:08:57.133 --> 00:09:07.033

up, picking her up when she talks. From what I see, um, I’m 00:09:07.033 --> 00:09:13.300

only seeing like The phone number pop up. So you pop up 00:09:13.300 --> 00:09:18.166

whenever you talk. Yeah, so my camera is on, but it seems like

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the main speaker is um the phone number. Here we go. OK Um 00:09:40.367 --> 00:09:44.767

No, keeping, keeping democracy stronger. Say that on the

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record. This one right here. Yes, sir. OK. OK. Well Yeah OK 00:10:24.734 --> 00:10:37.533

I see. Good evening everyone. City council. Mayor Winston, 00:10:37.533 --> 00:10:41.233

audience members and council member Sean, who was a far and 00:10:41.233 --> 00:10:45.100

those who were afar listened in today. We are ecstatic, we

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being the human rights commission of Brooklyn Park,

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about sharing this apparatus to be able to talk about what we 00:10:52.467 --> 00:10:57.734

have done to help advance the city’s goals for Brooklyn Park

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in the 2024 year, as well as what we are looking to do for 00:11:02.100 --> 00:11:04.367

the 2025 year to help advance the goals as it relates to

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human rights. in the city of Brooklyn Park. I am here with

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our chair. Andrea Perez, Michaela, who will take us 00:11:15.900 --> 00:11:17.934

through this journey of learning about what we have

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done. My name is Marcellus Davis. I’m the Racial equity 00:11:22.834 --> 00:11:25.533

diversity and inclusion manager for the city of Brooklyn Park,

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and I would turn it over to chair Andrea. Thank you, Doctor 00:11:32.467 --> 00:11:36.233

Davis. You said journey, so that’s, you know, a a lot to

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live up to. Um, it feels like I was just here and it’s been a 00:11:42.033 --> 00:11:46.767

year already. um, so I’m happy to share um what we’ve done,

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what we’ve been up to, and then what our plan is for the rest 00:11:50.667 --> 00:11:57.500

of the year. Um, we are always striving to be in alignment

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with Brooklyn Park’s vision, um, which is a thriving community 00:12:01.800 --> 00:12:06.634

inspiring pride or opportunities exist for all. Um,

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our human rights commission assess the Minnesota Department 00:12:10.467 --> 00:12:12.734

of Human Rights in implementing state laws against

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discrimination. We also advise the city council on human

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rights issues that face Brooklyn Park residents and

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promotes human rights within our community. Um, for those of 00:12:23.734 --> 00:12:30.567

us who might not be aware, um, this is, these are the um Uh, 00:12:30.567 --> 00:12:35.467

two articles in our bylaws, um, that talk about um what we are,

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what we do, um, and, and what we’re striving for. We recently 00:12:43.467 --> 00:12:47.166

onboarded 3 new members to our human rights commission, um, so

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these are the folks from the different districts, um, that 00:12:51.533 --> 00:12:55.634

are joining us on this journey for the for the next couple of

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years, um, also grateful to um council member Zhang and also 00:13:01.767 --> 00:13:06.467

Doctor Davis, a staff liaison. And here are a couple of

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pictures of us very happy either before or after our 00:13:10.100 --> 00:13:14.000

meetings, um, we probably had some snacks that day, which is

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why we are smiling. Um, this, um, kind of showcases, um, the 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:29.300

Brooklyn Park Human Rights Commission work in review. So

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um for 2024, um, we worked on police reform and racial 00:13:34.266 --> 00:13:40.000

justice work. Um, we also, uh, we’re in alignment with the 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:44.767

five-year long range plan, um, and also, um, a lot of our work,

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um, was also, we were able to tie it. To the Brooklyn Park

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2025 goals as well. As are notable work for the Human 00:13:55.100 --> 00:14:00.900

Rights Commission, um, we, uh, hosted an educational session 00:14:00.900 --> 00:14:04.133

about the uh presidential executive orders on immigration.

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Um, we continue to monitor that and work with um staff at the

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City of Brooklyn Park to see how we can continue to partner 00:14:13.233 --> 00:14:19.000

um as things continue to come up. Um, we also continue

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strengthening our relationship with the city council and also 00:14:23.233 --> 00:14:28.100

have seeked out, um, the advice of Mr. Montero and wanting to

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learn a little bit more about um what our, what our capacity 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:38.734

is as our human rights, um, commission within the city. Uh,

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we also um have uh advised or or written um Recommendations 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:49.033

for the city council. We also had a ride along with Mayor

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Winston, um, to learn about his vision about the city, and, and 00:14:54.367 --> 00:14:58.133

the biotech corridor. Uh, we’ve also met with various leaders

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across the city organization um to look for opportunities of 00:15:02.367 --> 00:15:06.033

collaboration, um, and we’ve had, um, Chief Brewley, we’ve

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had Chief Conway and also the Treasure Dixon, um, to come to 00:15:10.266 --> 00:15:13.000

our meetings and, and we’ve really appreciated not only

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their time, Um, but their expertise and, and how much

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they care um for the city that we all live in and and have 00:15:21.500 --> 00:15:26.500

grown to love as well. So as we look ahead for our 2025 work

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plan. Um, we have 4 main goals. Um, one of the things that 00:15:32.800 --> 00:15:37.100

we’re also very aware of is that we have a lot of passion

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for this work. So how do we also kind of narrow it down as 00:15:41.767 --> 00:15:48.133

we, as we try to make things more actionable, so our, our,

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our first goal is to enhance awareness of the human rights 00:15:51.900 --> 00:15:54.133

commission across the city. So for people to know not only who

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we are, but what we do. When can they come to us, what our

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scope is and things like that. Our second goal is um 00:16:04.233 --> 00:16:07.367

strengthening learning opportunities um for Our

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commissioners, um, so building our internal capacity is very 00:16:11.166 --> 00:16:16.000

important to us, and this is now my 2nd term, so um I’ve

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already been on the commission for 3 years, so now as I’m

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thinking of what, what would I want my legacy to be as chair 00:16:23.467 --> 00:16:31.467

is to also leave the commission with um more I would, I would 00:16:31.467 --> 00:16:33.734

say stronger internal policies so that we don’t have to

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continue kind of like reinventing the wheel. Every

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single year or every single time that we have, um, either 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:44.233

new commissioners on board or a new chair. Um, also foster a

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stronger partnerships and collaboration with other human

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rights commissions, not only at the state level, um, but also, 00:16:50.133 --> 00:16:54.367

um, in different cities and then our third goal is

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accountability and community response. Um, so part of the

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work that we do um is also responding to community needs, 00:17:01.934 --> 00:17:05.100

um, so, you know, there might be some months where, you know,

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maybe something isn’t necessarily coming up, so then

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we will be focusing on that awareness we will be focusing 00:17:10.367 --> 00:17:14.166

on strengthening our internal capacity, um, but then, you

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know, similar to the immigration events um that,

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that have been happening, they’re more in response to the 00:17:21.233 --> 00:17:24.834

community’s needs, so that’s something um that we would also

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be working on throughout the rest of the year. And then

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lastly, um, our goal for would be collaboration and 00:17:31.300 --> 00:17:35.000

partnership with um city government and the city council.

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So again, understanding. You know, what are uh what are, 00:17:40.233 --> 00:17:43.500

what our strengths are collectively, um, what can we

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improve, uh, together and at the same time, how can we

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continue supporting um our staff and residents as well. So 00:17:52.133 --> 00:17:55.734

I am open to any questions if you have them, and I appreciate

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your time. Well, thank you for, uh, one, the presentation, but 00:18:05.467 --> 00:18:09.800

two, also just uh stepping up and volunteering in that, in

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that role. Uh, it’s very much appreciated. I also want to say 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:16.734

that I did enjoy the meeting where we were talking about the

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biotech district before we jump into any questions, if any 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:25.734

council member has has questions, um, I do want to

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just say briefly that there’s an opportunity as we move

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forward with this biotech, um, uh. You know, in terms of some 00:18:32.567 --> 00:18:36.367

of the goals that you have in terms of equity, uh, I tend to

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think equity is more of ownership, uh, you know, not,

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not some political or morphous ownership, but yeah, when we 00:18:44.900 --> 00:18:48.100

talk about developers or jobs coming in or stocks or

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opportunities to build wealth. There’s going to be a very real 00:18:50.867 --> 00:18:54.000

opportunity there, right? If we’re talking about 10,000 jobs,

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a few 1000 housing units, uh, there’s opportunities for

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developers who haven’t necessarily had opportunities, 00:19:00.634 --> 00:19:03.200

um, for women to get that haven’t had a ton of

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opportunities, right? So I think the work that you do is

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going to be key every step of the way, uh, in terms of making 00:19:10.567 --> 00:19:12.734

sure that that real wealth is created and that wealth is

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going to be important just to stabilize Brooklyn Park, make

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sure that we have strong communities that have real

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ownership within the community. So I’m happy to continue having 00:19:21.734 --> 00:19:26.166

that conversation. I think that at times we have, uh, uh, folks

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who live near us who don’t quite understand the vision. Uh,

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I don’t know if they see it as competitors or they just don’t 00:19:31.567 --> 00:19:34.567

understand. the vision, but I think your voice and you

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helping residents understand exactly what we’re trying to do,

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uh, versus a stereotype or a fictional. Account is going to 00:19:42.033 --> 00:19:46.300

be important in terms of us, um. Really getting opportunities in

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a city that many, many times people have just written off as

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not deserving those opportunities. So I think your 00:19:50.567 --> 00:19:53.233

leadership there is going to be key. So I don’t know if there’s

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any questions from any other council members. Oh, Councilor

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Jo. Thank you, Mayor. Um, I You can’t hear your claps, but we 00:20:09.033 --> 00:20:12.834

see them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I hear my class cause y’all can’t 00:20:12.834 --> 00:20:16.233

say that I’m clapping. I promised that the last meeting

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that uh I taught for HRC, so even though I’m not there in 00:20:20.133 --> 00:20:24.000

person today. I intend to keep my promise. Great job, Andrea.

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Um, I thank you, Doctor Davis as well for your support. Um, I

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just wanna say thank you for all that y’all do. I always 00:20:31.900 --> 00:20:36.100

have the most eye opening conversations with you all, um,

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and I always have a joke or a story to share with my husband

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after each meeting, whenever I go home. And so I appreciate 00:20:42.734 --> 00:20:48.000

all that you do and for really stepping up to um advocate for

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our communities, um, and I just want to say that I’m really 00:20:51.033 --> 00:20:54.634

glad that HRC is the first commission that um I was signed

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on to um starting my role here as council member, so thank you

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so much. Thank you. All right, I don’t see any, any questions. 00:21:06.400 --> 00:21:11.367

You caught us on a Friday, sorry. But um, but, uh, but 00:21:11.367 --> 00:21:13.934

thank you again and please let the, uh, I will say it, you

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know, to, to the other to the commissioners, but thank you

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for your, uh, your service. And then again, thank you for 00:21:20.467 --> 00:21:26.100

coming in as well and I appreciate it. Thank you. All

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right, so next, um, Mayor Winston, you have a motion. On 00:21:32.500 --> 00:21:39.467

to accept the, uh, let’s see. Is there a motion? Does anybody

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care to make that motion? To accept the report, is it a 00:21:43.667 --> 00:21:46.367

motion to move to accept the report and work plan of the

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Human Rights Commission for 2024.. 2nd, so the motion was 00:21:50.734 --> 00:21:53.634

made by uh Councilor Erickson, seconded by Councilman McGarvey.

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Uh, so we’ll need a roll call. OK. All right, you’re voting on

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item 3B2. Council member Jean. Hi. Councilor Koanowski. 00:22:08.800 --> 00:22:16.467

Council member Page. I Uh Council member Erikson, Council 00:22:16.467 --> 00:22:20.033

Mayor Winston. I. Emotion passes with 6 yes votes, 0 no 00:22:20.033 --> 00:22:25.400

votes. Thank you. Forgive me for not calling out that motion.

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All right, so next we have uh Hennepin County commissioner, 00:22:31.266 --> 00:22:36.000

uh, Jeff Lundy will provide an update. I think we’ve asked for

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200 million from the, uh, county, so. All, all cash, yeah. 00:22:45.634 --> 00:22:51.000

No strings. Checks in the mail. Uh, thank you, uh, Mayor 00:22:51.000 --> 00:22:53.734

Winston, council members, staff, uh, I’ll try to be brief. I

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know you can read as well as I can, probably better, so I’ll

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try to skim over stuff that I knew you could review. So some 00:23:00.100 --> 00:23:03.367

slides are a little bit of a review, uh, just as always, I

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like to let you know about my staff because they’re very

00:23:06.634 --> 00:23:09.634

important uh to the work and they’re available at all times.

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Um. Commissioner policy, uh, Parker Land is on maternity 00:23:15.266 --> 00:23:18.233

leave, uh, with her first child, so she is not available for the

00:23:18.233 --> 00:23:23.133

rest of the summer, um, Ingrid is back as many of you know, uh, 00:23:23.133 --> 00:23:27.400

she was, uh, stuck in a war zone in Africa, uh getting your

00:23:27.400 --> 00:23:31.500

husband out. She was successful. Uh, she’s back safely with her 00:23:31.500 --> 00:23:35.367

husband, so my team has been in a little bit of a weird state.

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Uh, Emma is a, uh, urban scholar from the University of

00:23:38.634 --> 00:23:40.634

Minnesota. She’ll be with me through the end of the summer. 00:23:40.634 --> 00:23:43.800

Any one of them or myself is available. If you have

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questions, we’ll, we always take a team approach uh to

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things, and, uh, I always want to apologize to you, reach out 00:23:51.367 --> 00:23:55.567

to elected officials, um, by March, uh, this year with all

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the flux with within my office for my staff, uh, we’re a

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little bit behind, um, and so for you that haven’t had that 00:24:01.133 --> 00:24:03.634

pleasure, uh, you don’t know what you’re missing, but soon

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you will have that opportunity. Uh, just, uh, I had the

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leadership on the side just to let you know what I’m

00:24:08.500 --> 00:24:10.533

concentrating on. Uh, this is my 5th year chairing the public 00:24:10.533 --> 00:24:14.934

safety. committee, uh, if it’s a public safety committee or uh

00:24:14.934 --> 00:24:18.200

part of the county I’m typically, I’ll be chairing it.

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And so I do that at the, uh, allowed to do that by my fellow 00:24:22.300 --> 00:24:25.100

commissioners, and so I concentrate on that, um, work

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as well. Couple of things just really quick, we continue to 00:24:30.567 --> 00:24:33.500

evolve what we call safe communities, uh, since I’ve

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been involved with the county board in 2021, we really

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started the county didn’t historically get involved with

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some of the work that you all are embarking upon, which is 00:24:42.100 --> 00:24:45.767

really getting into people’s lives before they get, people

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get connected with justice and so we are continuing to build

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that out. Last year was a Safe Community summit, and thank you, 00:24:51.634 --> 00:24:55.900

Brooklyn Park for attending. Um, this year, we have continued to

00:24:55.900 --> 00:24:59.233

contract with Cities United, uh, we will be I think your city is

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one of the cities we’ll be working with you individually 00:25:02.000 --> 00:25:05.100

rather than having a big group, uh, so we are continuing that.

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I think there’s a survey out. If you didn’t receive that,

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please let me know, but just trying to get more localized. 00:25:11.100 --> 00:25:15.166

The goal is to help cities empower community, um, you know,

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if we wait till 911 is called, it’s usually a lot of missed

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opportunities to help get in front of kids’ lives, um, or 00:25:22.200 --> 00:25:25.300

make a difference. And so we know the sooner and earlier we

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get, the better it is. Uh, safe community pillars. This is 00:25:30.166 --> 00:25:34.634

really just, uh, what we really are after, um, and if you

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notice, not talking about police, we’re not talking about

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jail, we’re not talking about courts, we’re not talking about

00:25:39.300 --> 00:25:41.467

uh county attorneys, public defenders. We’re talking about 00:25:41.467 --> 00:25:45.133

community, we’re trying to get earlier, uh, in the process. We

00:25:45.133 --> 00:25:49.300

are still sticking with the every year grant that will come

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available safe community grants, members of the community. Now 00:25:53.033 --> 00:25:57.467

also, um, it’s not $200 million but it is money, but the cities

00:25:57.467 --> 00:26:02.166

certainly are welcome to apply and apply to programs, uh, we 00:26:02.166 --> 00:26:04.800

always ask people to treat it as money that can be there and

00:26:04.800 --> 00:26:08.634

it can also go away. And so by that I mean, you don’t want to

00:26:08.634 --> 00:26:11.367

build into your budget, but use it to offset or maybe take a 00:26:11.367 --> 00:26:18.767

chance, build the pilot out. This year, uh, if anybody’s uh

00:26:18.767 --> 00:26:22.367

looking uh to get involved with something, the city’s United 00:26:22.367 --> 00:26:26.734

convening is now open. That will be in late October, early

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November. Um, and that’s an opportunity to be in Louisville.

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It is a, it is an awesome place, an awesome meeting to go to, 00:26:33.667 --> 00:26:36.300

you will come away, uh, enthused, you’ll come back with

00:26:36.300 --> 00:26:38.467

ideas, you’re going to come meet people who are going to

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tell you, like I always remember the city of Buffalo, 00:26:41.133 --> 00:26:44.266

their claim to fame is they’ve tried everything and failed.

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And so that’s how they get to success. And so they’re very,

00:26:48.100 --> 00:26:51.233

they share that things that they’ve tried may work in 00:26:51.233 --> 00:26:54.000

others, but that whole idea about sharing ideas back and

00:26:54.000 --> 00:26:58.767

forth, uh, Henne County will be hosting a cot, kind of a cohort

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there, uh, unfortunately, we’re not offering to pay for people 00:27:01.567 --> 00:27:04.467

to go there, but when you’re there, we will have breakout

00:27:04.467 --> 00:27:07.567

sessions just for Hennepin County to bring in people to

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help do that. So take a look at that. I put the link on there, 00:27:12.667 --> 00:27:14.367

uh, certainly something to consider. I think most people

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who have gone to it. come back with a renewed sense of purpose

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and the ability, the idea that we’re not alone. Sometimes 00:27:21.734 --> 00:27:24.400

everybody thinks it’s only us, we have these problems, there

00:27:24.400 --> 00:27:28.100

are problems all over. And so those are really opportunities.

00:27:28.100 --> 00:27:32.367

Uh, what my focus, I think, has always been about youth 00:27:32.367 --> 00:27:35.100

interventions, um, and so, you know, we’ve got 3 strategies

00:27:35.100 --> 00:27:37.800

going at the same time, the working group on the Youth

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Interventions, which was the county’s endeavor to try to get 00:27:41.533 --> 00:27:44.800

the state to stand up some solutions. The regional

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framework, which is really about the counties coming

00:27:48.500 --> 00:27:52.200

together to form, uh, metro solution to some of these and 00:27:52.200 --> 00:27:55.367

also the crisis stabilization center. So I’ll step through

00:27:55.367 --> 00:27:58.100

those quickly. I think you’ve seen this before, but we did

00:27:58.100 --> 00:28:01.233

have have a bill that I got hearing. We had Senator 00:28:01.233 --> 00:28:03.567

Champion in the Senate, Representative Nao carried the

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bill. We are trying to do a a save, uh, it didn’t get through.

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And so, uh, we had some legislators today, and we, we 00:28:13.000 --> 00:28:16.734

said we need your help and you’re not partners if you’re

00:28:16.734 --> 00:28:19.467

not passing this stuff. We can’t change state law, we

00:28:19.467 --> 00:28:22.567

can’t change licensing, we can’t change certifications. 00:28:22.567 --> 00:28:25.233

There’s a lot of things counties can’t do, and we need

00:28:25.233 --> 00:28:29.634

the legislature to do that. And so we’ve been Raising that

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voice up, because there are things that they have to do. 00:28:32.734 --> 00:28:35.834

Cities have things that only cities can do. Counties have

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things, there are state things that just frankly, the state’s

00:28:37.767 --> 00:28:42.800

got to get it in gear and do some stuff. Uh, when we issued 00:28:42.800 --> 00:28:45.500

the task force report of which these are the six main

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conclusions. We found a report in 1997. That listed pretty

00:28:49.400 --> 00:28:52.000

much the same things that we’re facing now, and they didn’t do 00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:55.367

anything with it. So, um, I think, you know, when you talk

00:28:55.367 --> 00:28:58.367

about things that we all can do, there are moments of

00:28:58.367 --> 00:29:00.533

legislature need to step up. And if you hear my voice, I’m 00:29:00.533 --> 00:29:03.767

not saying about partying, I’m asking them to do their job and

00:29:03.767 --> 00:29:07.467

help us out, because frankly, I can’t change those things, you

00:29:07.467 --> 00:29:10.834

can’t change those things, but we’re all. Controlled by them. 00:29:10.834 --> 00:29:16.500

What can we do to help kids with the behavior and issues.

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Regional framework, uh, there you can see the counties, the

00:29:19.367 --> 00:29:22.300

idea that you have Hennepin and Ramsey together, it’s like cats 00:29:22.300 --> 00:29:25.100

and dogs. Uh, the fact that we are partnered, I should say

00:29:25.100 --> 00:29:28.266

just how serious we are. um, these are the counties that

00:29:28.266 --> 00:29:32.000

have partnered up to do a regional framework. The idea I 00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:36.233

use and it’s summer, almost feels like it. Um, is when

00:29:36.233 --> 00:29:38.900

you’re having a barbecue, everybody brings a piece, right?

00:29:38.900 --> 00:29:41.634

Somebody brings this, somebody brings that. Someone’s good at 00:29:41.634 --> 00:29:44.266

this, they bring that to the table. So what the counties are

00:29:44.266 --> 00:29:47.367

doing is saying what pieces do we have that we can put

00:29:47.367 --> 00:29:50.634

together to put a regional framework of that can be 00:29:50.634 --> 00:29:54.900

available. Uh, one county may have a really great program for

00:29:54.900 --> 00:29:58.000

kids who’ve suffered sexual abuse and trauma. That’s

00:29:58.000 --> 00:29:59.867

different. There are kids who have come out of a situation

00:29:59.867 --> 00:30:02.634

where there may be addiction, which is different than kids 00:30:02.634 --> 00:30:06.200

who have some acute psychosis or mental health challenges.

00:30:06.200 --> 00:30:09.567

These are very different places that kid could find themselves

00:30:09.567 --> 00:30:13.033

in. Sometimes they’re in a couple. So what we’re doing is 00:30:13.033 --> 00:30:15.266

actually putting our pieces together to say, who does

00:30:15.266 --> 00:30:18.934

something really well? Let’s use that and rather than have

00:30:18.934 --> 00:30:21.734

us each build our own system. Because frankly, we don’t have 00:30:21.734 --> 00:30:24.367

the money to be able to do that. It would be hundreds of

00:30:24.367 --> 00:30:28.033

millions of dollars. So we are working that, they are meeting

00:30:28.033 --> 00:30:32.233

right now, um, well, not now, Friday, but uh they’re meeting 00:30:32.233 --> 00:30:35.000

as we speak to come up with these solutions. And, uh,

00:30:35.000 --> 00:30:39.367

trying to come up with reform, uh, as that as I beat up the

00:30:39.367 --> 00:30:43.500

legislature. The good part is, the state agencies have been 00:30:43.500 --> 00:30:46.166

giving us some flexibility. One thing that we can’t do is mix

00:30:46.166 --> 00:30:49.634

kids that are in the DHS system with kids that are in the

00:30:49.634 --> 00:30:54.233

corrections. Licensing does not allow us to have a single place. 00:30:54.233 --> 00:30:56.867

They’re actually going to allow us to test out some of those,

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and that’s really important because we should be able to

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work with kids who have trauma and from that trauma comes 00:31:04.834 --> 00:31:07.500

violence before they become, before they hurt someone. So

00:31:07.500 --> 00:31:12.300

this will be part of that step. More to come there. Uh, this 00:31:12.300 --> 00:31:16.734

last one is in motion, uh, so at the end of the summer, 1800

00:31:16.734 --> 00:31:20.834

Chicago, we will have a crisis center that will be very 00:31:20.834 --> 00:31:24.033

acutely focused on kids with violent tendencies who have

00:31:24.033 --> 00:31:27.767

Mental health, mental challenges at the root of it.

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Kids can get into the system. Not through the corrections, 00:31:31.667 --> 00:31:35.300

but it can be corrections. So they can be someone who has

00:31:35.300 --> 00:31:38.567

maybe acting out, maybe he has some identified things, but

00:31:38.567 --> 00:31:41.100

they haven’t done something criminally. And so we can 00:31:41.100 --> 00:31:43.367

actually put them in the same place. So remember I talked

00:31:43.367 --> 00:31:48.100

about the flexibility? Between DHS Department of corrections,

00:31:48.100 --> 00:31:52.367

this facility will be up and running, uh, this summer, and, 00:31:52.367 --> 00:31:55.567

uh, the city county invested about 15 million, 7.5 for

00:31:55.567 --> 00:31:58.767

capital to redo the place because it has to be done a

00:31:58.767 --> 00:32:03.567

certain way, about 7.5 for what I call the tail, which is to 00:32:03.567 --> 00:32:07.867

provide nexus center nexus systems to be able to do that.

00:32:07.867 --> 00:32:12.734

So when that is available, we’ll have about 12 to 15 beds 00:32:12.734 --> 00:32:16.133

to take kids. Uh, I will say it this way. If you have a leaky

00:32:16.133 --> 00:32:20.100

roof. You put an out of bucket, what happens to that bucket 00:32:20.100 --> 00:32:24.500

eventually? builds up. So we know this has got to be

00:32:24.500 --> 00:32:27.734

something quick and we need to find kids. So this will be

00:32:27.734 --> 00:32:31.834

taking kids from where they are. Put him in a safe place where 00:32:31.834 --> 00:32:35.166

they can get assessed, they can get stabilized, things can calm

00:32:35.166 --> 00:32:38.233

down, and then we move them on. So the goal is not to have

00:32:38.233 --> 00:32:41.500

people more than 45 days. It’s not their permanent place. is 00:32:41.500 --> 00:32:45.233

meant to be in and out and really trying to find a place

00:32:45.233 --> 00:32:51.100

to put, uh, Needs kids in needs with that. This again will be 00:32:51.100 --> 00:32:55.133

open this council. Public safety, uh, from around the

00:32:55.133 --> 00:32:57.500

county will be invited to the opening. We’re gonna take a

00:32:57.500 --> 00:33:01.900

couple, 3 days before it opens, invite people in to see what 00:33:01.900 --> 00:33:05.166

actually a crisis center looks like. Everybody talks about

00:33:05.166 --> 00:33:09.467

them. They are not barbed wire, they’re not fences, they’re not

00:33:09.467 --> 00:33:12.400

jails. They are very different and they’re really about mental 00:33:12.400 --> 00:33:14.767

health. And so we’re going to give a chance for everybody and

00:33:14.767 --> 00:33:19.166

you will, this council and public safety and other people

00:33:19.166 --> 00:33:22.367

will receive invites. The other part I’ll just mention is that 00:33:22.367 --> 00:33:26.100

we have community advisory board. So it’s not just about

00:33:26.100 --> 00:33:29.734

staff people devising something that we actually have community

00:33:29.734 --> 00:33:32.467

members of lived experience we’re actually helping us as we 00:33:32.467 --> 00:33:37.266

create this place. I know what you’re thinking. I couldn’t let

00:33:37.266 --> 00:33:39.900

a presentation go and not talk about blue light, so I left one

00:33:39.900 --> 00:33:43.033

slide in there. I just wanted to say that things are 00:33:43.033 --> 00:33:45.734

progressing, obviously, you know, missal consent is a big

00:33:45.734 --> 00:33:49.100

mile mark, um, and so I think we all were geared toward that.

00:33:49.100 --> 00:33:53.233

Um, so right now we’re moving on environmentals. There are 00:33:53.233 --> 00:33:56.900

light rail, uh, full funding grant agreements, the FDA that

00:33:56.900 --> 00:34:00.100

are ahead of us and we’re watching those, so we believe 00:34:00.100 --> 00:34:03.900

we’re in a good place until we’re told otherwise, uh, the

00:34:03.900 --> 00:34:06.767

county has the funding to pay for the bonds. So from our

00:34:06.767 --> 00:34:09.266

perspective, we are just waiting for the environmental,

00:34:09.266 --> 00:34:12.634

the design work to get done. We’ll move that into the place 00:34:12.634 --> 00:34:17.233

where then We are so hopeful to start construction next year.

00:34:17.233 --> 00:34:23.667

So, uh, start, of course, but we know there’s a lot of work, 00:34:23.667 --> 00:34:25.166

um, anti-displacement engineering. Brooklyn Park has

00:34:25.166 --> 00:34:29.000

a, a good, good challenge, which is your 90% engineered,

00:34:29.000 --> 00:34:32.734

but that doesn’t mean that Brooklyn Park, the new 00:34:32.734 --> 00:34:35.100

leadership should not be thinking that there can’t be

00:34:35.100 --> 00:34:38.100

changes or things that you want to want to see those things

00:34:38.100 --> 00:34:41.300

will go through the same process. We just are farther 00:34:41.300 --> 00:34:44.000

along other cities like Robinsdale, Minneapolis. It’s

00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:46.800

just gonna be a little longer, but our goal is to have that by.

00:34:46.800 --> 00:34:50.667

of this summer. We continue to move forward. We have lobbyists. 00:34:50.667 --> 00:34:57.300

That we pay to make sure of that. Second to last slide, so

00:34:57.300 --> 00:35:00.100

I’m trying to do it fast, but I forget the police took away 00:35:00.100 --> 00:35:03.367

their award ceremony, I could use some of their time. Um, so

00:35:03.367 --> 00:35:06.634

one thing I just wanted to highlight, uh, during the

00:35:06.634 --> 00:35:09.567

budget process, commissioners have what’s called commissioner

00:35:09.567 --> 00:35:11.767

budget amendments. I don’t want to give you guys ideas, but if 00:35:11.767 --> 00:35:15.367

you feel so enthused, it’s a way for the commissioners to

00:35:15.367 --> 00:35:19.734

say, I want to bring something specific. To, uh, this, it can

00:35:19.734 --> 00:35:22.900

be pilots, embedded social worker was a pilot. It was 00:35:22.900 --> 00:35:26.634

bought by Commissioner Opat. Uh, it started here. That was a

00:35:26.634 --> 00:35:29.367

pilot that has now become standard. So the idea behind

00:35:29.367 --> 00:35:34.233

these is you try pilot, you see if it works, if it works, um, 00:35:34.233 --> 00:35:37.867

oftentimes we have to use part of reserve money. Every one of

00:35:37.867 --> 00:35:42.734

my budget amendments was net neutral. It was Did not incur 00:35:42.734 --> 00:35:45.033

any costs above the fact that the departments agreed that

00:35:45.033 --> 00:35:48.567

they would take that under work without adding burden. The

00:35:48.567 --> 00:35:53.867

first one I just want to mention is when Hennipa County, 00:35:53.867 --> 00:35:56.533

African American indigenous mothers suffer much higher rate,

00:35:56.533 --> 00:35:59.767

whether it’s the health of the child, it’s the health of the

00:35:59.767 --> 00:36:03.033

mother, or both, and so the disparities are pronounced. And 00:36:03.033 --> 00:36:08.533

so we have a maternal health, uh, board. So, uh, one of my

00:36:08.533 --> 00:36:11.500

amendments was to establish a community advisory board. So 00:36:11.500 --> 00:36:14.166

it’s really good to have staff, but we want to have people with

00:36:14.166 --> 00:36:17.867

that experience, so that was established. The second one,

00:36:17.867 --> 00:36:21.100

which I’ve shared with the chief, is we’re going to do a 00:36:21.100 --> 00:36:24.100

study of law enforcement in the future of law enforcement Henin

00:36:24.100 --> 00:36:28.033

County, looking out 5 and 10 years to see what are the costs

00:36:28.033 --> 00:36:31.367

of law enforcement can do at a macro level. So what are we 00:36:31.367 --> 00:36:33.734

foreseeing? What is City Brooklyn Park? Going to have to

00:36:33.734 --> 00:36:39.767

look out in 5 and 10 years for the cost of police. And that is

00:36:39.767 --> 00:36:43.166

a driver for budgets and so we just think that Eyes Wide Open 00:36:43.166 --> 00:36:47.300

is best. We also think that information might be used to

00:36:47.300 --> 00:36:50.467

inform policies at the state and county level to bring more 00:36:50.467 --> 00:36:53.867

investment to get people. It’s nice to get a grant, Grants go

00:36:53.867 --> 00:36:57.100

away. Now you got to pay for that officer. Um, so what can

00:36:57.100 --> 00:36:59.834

we do? So that report will be at the end, probably be

00:36:59.834 --> 00:37:03.834

finished by the end of the year. It’ll look at all agencies 00:37:03.834 --> 00:37:07.000

within Hennepin County Sheriff, all, uh, law enforcement at the

00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:10.734

city. It’s really to be a macro-level tool. So you can 00:37:10.734 --> 00:37:14.166

kind of guess where’s the The cost, how many people are

00:37:14.166 --> 00:37:16.634

retiring, how many people are leaving the profession? Are

00:37:16.634 --> 00:37:19.367

they being replaced? Are we seeing more people coming in

00:37:19.367 --> 00:37:21.233

that are leaving, those kind of things are going to have direct 00:37:21.233 --> 00:37:27.467

burden. Obviously Cities United support uh something uh number

00:37:27.467 --> 00:37:31.667

4, the use of anime, if you have kids, kids really resonate 00:37:31.667 --> 00:37:35.000

with anime. Mine do. Um, we are going to try to pilot, you’ll

00:37:35.000 --> 00:37:37.100

probably see that through Brooklyn Bridge will probably

00:37:37.100 --> 00:37:40.200

be one of the partners, but I can’t say that for sure. Um, 00:37:40.200 --> 00:37:44.367

but we try to use anime pilot to see, is there a way to

00:37:44.367 --> 00:37:47.100

connect with kids using different modes and medium. So

00:37:47.100 --> 00:37:50.300

I think everybody knows that the adults got on Facebook and 00:37:50.300 --> 00:37:54.500

who left Facebook, all the kids. So, yeah, it’s like cha chasing

00:37:54.500 --> 00:37:58.834

them around. So we’re gonna look for that, uh, the last

00:37:58.834 --> 00:38:02.567

couple number 5 is, if you didn’t notice on your levy tax 00:38:02.567 --> 00:38:07.000

levy statement last year. There was 1% for HCMC. So we do own a

00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:12.166

hospital. We have a $3 billion budget for the county. We have 00:38:12.166 --> 00:38:15.533

$1.5 billion hospital. We had to dedicate 1% of our tax levy

00:38:15.533 --> 00:38:20.233

last year for funding. for HTMC healthcare system. And so my 00:38:20.233 --> 00:38:23.533

bar was to bring forth the idea that there are ways we can work

00:38:23.533 --> 00:38:28.166

better. We need to look at collaboration, saving money. Um,

00:38:28.166 --> 00:38:31.233

I’ll just skip to the bottom one, immigration Services, I 00:38:31.233 --> 00:38:34.266

don’t want to skip that actually. It’s really about

00:38:34.266 --> 00:38:37.900

identifying services that are available to immigrants, uh,

00:38:37.900 --> 00:38:41.734

you know, Rita and Ingrid from my office are 2nd generation. 00:38:41.734 --> 00:38:45.000

I’m 4th. So everybody talks about immigrants, they talk

00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:48.233

about they’re coming from here. I’m only 4 away from the people

00:38:48.233 --> 00:38:51.133

that rode the ship over, uh, some people didn’t have a 00:38:51.133 --> 00:38:55.367

choice, right? And some people are just arriving, so there are

00:38:55.367 --> 00:38:58.634

services that are available outside of government that are

00:38:58.634 --> 00:39:01.300

available for people to use. There are churches who want to 00:39:01.300 --> 00:39:04.367

help. So we’re seeing this have a coordination so that not

00:39:04.367 --> 00:39:07.166

everything has to be taxpayer funded. If there are people

00:39:07.166 --> 00:39:10.367

willing to give money. The last thing is we are working with 00:39:10.367 --> 00:39:13.667

Blue Line for the creation of uh cultural corridors. Uh, some

00:39:13.667 --> 00:39:16.233

of those are naturally occurring, but really trying to

00:39:16.233 --> 00:39:21.166

say if a city identifies uh culture, historical, uh, 00:39:21.166 --> 00:39:24.233

emphasis that they want to take, try to put some money to help

00:39:24.233 --> 00:39:27.467

design and think that through. And so you will see that. The

00:39:27.467 --> 00:39:31.667

last thing I’ll mention is just that Commissioner budget 00:39:31.667 --> 00:39:36.166

amendments, if you’ve heard of AI, Affordable commercial

00:39:36.166 --> 00:39:39.166

investment fund for the blue line, that was a budget

00:39:39.166 --> 00:39:41.400

amendment for Commissioner Fernando and myself, that puts 00:39:41.400 --> 00:39:45.367

a million dollars a year for anti-displacement efforts. So

00:39:45.367 --> 00:39:49.900

those kind of things are where these come. Let’s see. And

00:39:49.900 --> 00:39:53.567

before questions, I just want to share, we talked about tax 00:39:53.567 --> 00:39:58.667

assessment. I did not plan this. Um, but the budget forecast for

00:39:58.667 --> 00:40:02.166

counties, you will start to see this in the news a lot. is not 00:40:02.166 --> 00:40:05.500

good. So cost shifts from the state, uh, Henpa County is

00:40:05.500 --> 00:40:08.734

looking at about a $53 million bill handed over to us. People

00:40:08.734 --> 00:40:12.800

are saying it’s gonna be less. We take the worst case scenario, 00:40:12.800 --> 00:40:16.734

uh, every $10 million is a levy point to the county. So we are

00:40:16.734 --> 00:40:19.867

looking at if they shift disability waivers, which is a

00:40:19.867 --> 00:40:22.634

Medicaid entitlement to the county without money, meaning 00:40:22.634 --> 00:40:25.934

we have to deliver it. We don’t get any money to to do it. We

00:40:25.934 --> 00:40:29.934

have to pay for it ourselves. That is a serious dollars,

00:40:29.934 --> 00:40:37.900

Carver County, it’s 9.8 levy points. Ours is 5.3, rural is a 00:40:37.900 --> 00:40:42.166

3rd 33% increase in taxes, not a levy point, it’s a flat out 00:40:42.166 --> 00:40:47.000

13% increase. So the reason I mentioned that is, that’s just

00:40:47.000 --> 00:40:49.634

our present. That doesn’t include anything that the

00:40:49.634 --> 00:40:53.467

county is planning on, whether it’s increased wages, whether 00:40:53.467 --> 00:40:56.033

it’s investments, that’s not even on the table. That’s just

00:40:56.033 --> 00:41:00.367

off the top, a present. I didn’t receive, that does not 00:41:00.367 --> 00:41:03.000

include what the federal government’s going to do. I

00:41:03.000 --> 00:41:06.233

don’t know what that they’re gonna do, but I know that 52%

00:41:06.233 --> 00:41:09.000

of Medicaid money in the city of Minnesota goes through

00:41:09.000 --> 00:41:12.567

Hennepin, and you’ve got some Medicaid will be cuts that will 00:41:12.567 --> 00:41:16.467

affect Hennepin. So we are, and I’m being honest with everybody,

00:41:16.467 --> 00:41:20.033

looking at possibly the largest tax flow increase in the 00:41:20.033 --> 00:41:23.266

history of Henneber County. We’re sitting at 5.3 right now.

00:41:23.266 --> 00:41:25.467

We’re not even added ours. We don’t know what the feds are

00:41:25.467 --> 00:41:28.767

going to do, so like yourselves, as you batten down the hatches

00:41:28.767 --> 00:41:32.133

and you look at things, we are, and I know that we share some 00:41:32.133 --> 00:41:35.100

grants. Jack Grant is one that comes to mind. There’s some

00:41:35.100 --> 00:41:37.634

violence prevention grants that come from the feds. We are

00:41:37.634 --> 00:41:41.400

working out the assumption that they all go away. So that’s a 00:41:41.400 --> 00:41:45.200

worst case plan. I share that with you only to let you know

00:41:45.200 --> 00:41:47.767

we’re watching that very closely because we know so much

00:41:47.767 --> 00:41:51.734

of our money then is granted out to other agencies, uh, and 00:41:51.734 --> 00:41:54.300

simply we don’t know, therefore, we’re going to assume the worst

00:41:54.300 --> 00:42:02.900

and hope for the best. So with that, I’ll stop. Well, um, 00:42:02.900 --> 00:42:05.200

thank you for coming and reporting out to us. It’s safe

00:42:05.200 --> 00:42:09.300

to say that the $200 million check is going to be put on

00:42:09.300 --> 00:42:12.934

hold, uh, given what you were just saying right there. But, 00:42:12.934 --> 00:42:15.133

uh, thank you for again, coming out and spending time. I know

00:42:15.133 --> 00:42:18.233

in the past, you know, I, I’ve run against you, but I very

00:42:18.233 --> 00:42:21.467

much appreciate the service, um, that you’ve done for our city, 00:42:21.467 --> 00:42:24.634

uh, in terms of just fighting for us, uh, getting us

00:42:24.634 --> 00:42:26.467

resources as a commissioner and then your former time as mayor,

00:42:26.467 --> 00:42:30.000

I very much appreciate it and and uh. I appreciate you being 00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:33.734

in that commissioner position and what you do for us. It’s,

00:42:33.734 --> 00:42:37.533

you’ve been in ally. Um, there are, um, a few things um I

00:42:37.533 --> 00:42:40.734

wanted to ask, uh, so I think one for that future of law 00:42:40.734 --> 00:42:44.367

enforcement is just pointing something out. So, uh, you’ve

00:42:44.367 --> 00:42:47.634

heard the congregate care facilities, but 1.7% of the

00:42:47.634 --> 00:42:52.367

housing is conre care facilities, about 10% of our um 00:42:52.367 --> 00:42:55.200

Public safety calls come from that. Uh, and I’m not sure the

00:42:55.200 --> 00:42:58.834

exact breakdown on law enforcement, but it’s

00:42:58.834 --> 00:43:01.533

significant law enforcement versus uh the fire department. 00:43:01.533 --> 00:43:05.200

Um, and I know there’s a little bit of tension there, but I

00:43:05.200 --> 00:43:09.000

know it’s significant, and I just, I would ask that as you

00:43:09.000 --> 00:43:12.233

go through that process, you take into account, I know you 00:43:12.233 --> 00:43:14.900

probably we’re already, you take into account that when it

00:43:14.900 --> 00:43:17.634

comes to a Brooklyn Park and in some regards, Brooklyn Center

00:43:17.634 --> 00:43:20.734

and and especially in the northwest suburbs overall that 00:43:20.734 --> 00:43:22.133

we have a disproportionate amount of congregate care.

00:43:22.133 --> 00:43:25.000

facilities, which runs up our tab when it comes to that

00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:28.166

public safety. So we want that to be built in as a model so

00:43:28.166 --> 00:43:31.300

that those dollars are accounted for. And on our end, 00:43:31.300 --> 00:43:35.634

we’ll do the part to slow some of that growth, uh, but we also

00:43:35.634 --> 00:43:39.900

just need our partners to make sure that that message is being

00:43:39.900 --> 00:43:44.734

told to folks as well, um, the second piece is I just want to 00:43:44.734 --> 00:43:47.367

ask really quickly because I know folks wanna um continue

00:43:47.367 --> 00:43:52.200

moving this along, but for the um cities united. What is it, 00:43:52.200 --> 00:43:54.467

you know, are there any other specific things you would ask

00:43:54.467 --> 00:43:58.734

for the city? Do you think we can You know, be more robust in

00:43:58.734 --> 00:44:00.800

our support. Are, are we missing out on things? Are 00:44:00.800 --> 00:44:03.400

there things that you kind of say, I wish they would do this,

00:44:03.400 --> 00:44:07.800

to assist us with. No, I, I think the, the good news is the

00:44:07.800 --> 00:44:10.934

city has been involved. You have officers who have attended 00:44:10.934 --> 00:44:14.100

council you have staff, you have people, so you’re actually

00:44:14.100 --> 00:44:17.867

starting from not go, you’re actually around the corner. Um,

00:44:17.867 --> 00:44:21.033

I think that just continuing to do what you’re doing, you’re 00:44:21.033 --> 00:44:23.767

talking about moving supports for families and your police

00:44:23.767 --> 00:44:26.500

department, getting people connected to services rather

00:44:26.500 --> 00:44:29.667

than a 911 call with the police. I think that is the heart of

00:44:29.667 --> 00:44:33.767

Cities United, which is empowering people and so I 00:44:33.767 --> 00:44:37.033

think that a good thing is you I know, you know, work on that

00:44:37.033 --> 00:44:39.133

plan is, you, you know, the nice thing about the city’s not

00:44:39.133 --> 00:44:41.300

convenient, you’re gonna be able to have an opportunity to 00:44:41.300 --> 00:44:44.500

meet other cities who might be 6 to 9, 12 months ahead of you

00:44:44.500 --> 00:44:48.233

in your journey, and you might best practices. I love learning

00:44:48.233 --> 00:44:51.467

from other people’s mistakes. Um, and so those kind of things, 00:44:51.467 --> 00:44:55.800

I think are really are powerful. So. Well thank you and I know

00:44:55.800 --> 00:44:59.033

that um you were important spearheading the alternative

00:44:59.033 --> 00:45:01.166

response team, uh, and that gave us some courage to, to do 00:45:01.166 --> 00:45:03.400

what we’re doing with our community and interventions, so

00:45:03.400 --> 00:45:07.100

I very much appreciate that the, the third thing that I wanted

00:45:07.100 --> 00:45:10.367

to, to kind of touch on was, I know that you’re saying the 00:45:10.367 --> 00:45:12.000

legislature that there’s some things that they need to live

00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:14.467

on. I think one of the things that we’re concerned about, I

00:45:14.467 --> 00:45:18.834

think I saw it listed, um, I know I saw it listed was these

00:45:18.834 --> 00:45:21.500

regional continuum of care, so the smaller facilities for 00:45:21.500 --> 00:45:25.300

youth, I guess, where are we on that, um, Because I feel like

00:45:25.300 --> 00:45:27.500

as a city, we’re getting to a point where we’re saying, look,

00:45:27.500 --> 00:45:30.100

if that’s going to take another 5 to 10 years. And just for 00:45:30.100 --> 00:45:32.734

folks in the audience or folks watching this, you know, our

00:45:32.734 --> 00:45:38.000

police department can also often pinpoint a youth that is

00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:40.200

exhibiting either troubling behavior or even violent 00:45:40.200 --> 00:45:44.900

behavior, but many times, um, they, there’s nowhere to place

00:45:44.900 --> 00:45:48.100

them within the current system that we have set up. They go

00:45:48.100 --> 00:45:51.367

back home 3 months later, they’re killed. Someone else 00:45:51.367 --> 00:45:54.200

got killed, and luckily that’s been going down to a certain

00:45:54.200 --> 00:45:57.200

extent. in Brooklyn Park, but we really want to get upstream

00:45:57.200 --> 00:46:00.100

of that. And so what I’m getting at is that, is that 00:46:00.100 --> 00:46:02.533

something that we’re looking at a 5 to 10 year timeline on,

00:46:02.533 --> 00:46:07.367

because if it is, then I just, I just want an honest update,

00:46:07.367 --> 00:46:09.900

then we need to start looking at things that we can carve out

00:46:09.900 --> 00:46:12.767

as a city to kind of get ahead of that because that is one of 00:46:12.767 --> 00:46:15.367

the issues that we are very much struggling with, and I

00:46:15.367 --> 00:46:17.634

think getting upstream of that can make some big difference.

00:46:17.634 --> 00:46:21.000

So I just wanted to, to hear where we are with that and who 00:46:21.000 --> 00:46:23.467

we need to talk to or do we need to start looking

00:46:23.467 --> 00:46:26.500

internally to say how we’re going to handle. I, I think

00:46:26.500 --> 00:46:30.734

what you’re seeing this summer is the first step of that, 00:46:30.734 --> 00:46:34.100

that’ll be the first place, that’s the kids in crisis, um,

00:46:34.100 --> 00:46:37.367

they can get there through commitment with their parents’

00:46:37.367 --> 00:46:40.900

help to uh chips, right, child protection where the, the, the 00:46:40.900 --> 00:46:45.900

county becomes their parent, so to speak. Uh, it could be that

00:46:45.900 --> 00:46:49.467

they do something wrong, they end up in juvenile court, where

00:46:49.467 --> 00:46:51.400

they’re found incompetent, or maybe they’re just as part of 00:46:51.400 --> 00:46:53.734

the diversion, they’re gonna, so that facility is unique in

00:46:53.734 --> 00:46:56.867

the state of Minnesota. that we actually for the first time can

00:46:56.867 --> 00:46:59.200

put kids, we don’t care about their backgrounds or how they

00:46:59.200 --> 00:47:01.467

got there. We’re actually focused on the kid and that’s 00:47:01.467 --> 00:47:03.900

kind of the tenet of some of that work that we’ve done at

00:47:03.900 --> 00:47:07.100

the state is, say, telling the state, let us do stuff. So

00:47:07.100 --> 00:47:09.834

right now, that crisis center, which will be up and running at

00:47:09.834 --> 00:47:13.500

the end of the summer will be that first step. The regional 00:47:13.500 --> 00:47:18.367

framework, I think you’ve got facilities in Dakota, Anoka,

00:47:18.367 --> 00:47:20.634

existing where they’ve already have facilities and once we put 00:47:20.634 --> 00:47:23.000

them together, so it’s a network, we’re going to be able

00:47:23.000 --> 00:47:26.834

to start to refer kids within our system so that we’re

00:47:26.834 --> 00:47:30.033

actually working together right now, every county competes. 00:47:30.033 --> 00:47:32.734

Every day, people who have to place a kid are competing

00:47:32.734 --> 00:47:35.367

against every other county to try to find a bed that will

00:47:35.367 --> 00:47:38.567

then also take the kid. So I think, you know, that’s why I

00:47:38.567 --> 00:47:41.767

put those three things. One’s immediate crisis center, the 00:47:41.767 --> 00:47:46.000

regional framework is probably 12 to 18 months. And, and more,

00:47:46.000 --> 00:47:49.266

right? It’s going to continue to add on. And then the state,

00:47:49.266 --> 00:47:52.467

one thing, uh, that will, you know, share with you is, you 00:47:52.467 --> 00:47:54.900

know, Ramsey County, they had their grant money and everybody

00:47:54.900 --> 00:47:58.900

was like, Hineman, you need to get that. As of today, they

00:47:58.900 --> 00:48:02.634

have no beds, no providers, and no places, and I don’t see that 00:48:02.634 --> 00:48:06.900

as a gloat. I say that because the system is stacked against

00:48:06.900 --> 00:48:11.200

us to do it. You could build the world’s greatest building, 00:48:11.200 --> 00:48:18.033

and it’ll be empty because 1/3 of the state’s bed. Before 2012,

00:48:18.033 --> 00:48:26.100

we had 2200. 2250 beds statewide. Today we have 1400. 00:48:26.100 --> 00:48:28.767

So we’ve lost 3 of the beds in the state. If we did nothing

00:48:28.767 --> 00:48:34.100

more than Open up those beds. We need staff to do that. 00:48:34.100 --> 00:48:36.800

That’s a 30, you know, a 50% increase of what we have now.

00:48:36.800 --> 00:48:40.000

That’s 7 of her beds. We don’t need to build anything if we 00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:43.734

could just open that up, and that’s where the state comes in

00:48:43.734 --> 00:48:48.000

because we need them to change the reimbursement rates, the

00:48:48.000 --> 00:48:50.834

training, so many things like that. So I break it out and, 00:48:50.834 --> 00:48:55.367

you know, what your 0.5 to 10 years, I’d say the first two,

00:48:55.367 --> 00:48:59.400

the crisis center is our first step, the regional are probably

00:48:59.400 --> 00:49:01.934

within 24 months, and you’ll start. To see actual steps in 00:49:01.934 --> 00:49:08.233

there. And we still do have about 27 to 29 places that we

00:49:08.233 --> 00:49:12.800

do place kids in now, as right now, uh, that we’re using, but 00:49:12.800 --> 00:49:17.000

they are It’s difficult sometimes. OK, and then so

00:49:17.000 --> 00:49:20.567

there will be, but there will be some locations within the 00:49:20.567 --> 00:49:25.934

Hennepin County area. OK. The crisis center is 1800 Chicago,

00:49:25.934 --> 00:49:29.467

Minneapolis. So um and then the last piece, uh, because I know

00:49:29.467 --> 00:49:33.033

you touched on the light rail and, and, you know, this has 00:49:33.033 --> 00:49:36.100

been something we’ve been looking to move forward as

00:49:36.100 --> 00:49:40.367

partners, I guess, because I say it, but do, can you kind of 00:49:40.367 --> 00:49:43.266

explain some of the, the economic benefits that brings

00:49:43.266 --> 00:49:45.233

because I think people talk about everything else sometimes,

00:49:45.233 --> 00:49:47.800

but that, and I think when we look at Brooklyn Park, right?

00:49:47.800 --> 00:49:51.000

Um, there’s a number of developers and folks that are 00:49:51.000 --> 00:49:54.166

saying, hey, we think that makes sense to have here for us

00:49:54.166 --> 00:49:57.467

to create the jobs and and the the amenities that the city

00:49:57.467 --> 00:50:01.734

wants, but if you could kind of speak to what uh his 00:50:01.734 --> 00:50:04.367

historically has come from that type, from establishing a line

00:50:04.367 --> 00:50:06.300

so that people have an understanding of what that is.

00:50:06.300 --> 00:50:09.800

Yeah. Well, I think, you know, first of all, if you talk about

00:50:09.800 --> 00:50:12.934

how many stops you have, Brooklyn Park has 5. Usually 00:50:12.934 --> 00:50:17.400

within a quarter to 1/3 of a mile of the stop, uh, property

00:50:17.400 --> 00:50:22.100

values go up 15 to 25%, just because of proximity to stop 00:50:22.100 --> 00:50:27.300

drives up the value. People who want to live on a line, my son.

00:50:27.300 --> 00:50:30.166

Lives right across the street on UM campus with the light 00:50:30.166 --> 00:50:33.867

rail. He uses it. He’s So those kind of proximity where people

00:50:33.867 --> 00:50:37.000

want to live, so you can look at that tax value that I’ve

00:50:37.000 --> 00:50:40.834

heard this council, yourself, Mr. Mayor, uh, talk about what 00:50:40.834 --> 00:50:43.867

increased value, that is one of those net additions, it’s a

00:50:43.867 --> 00:50:46.800

multiplier, and you’ll start to see people really start to

00:50:46.800 --> 00:50:49.734

invest. I think of the work that you’ve done as a city with,

00:50:49.734 --> 00:50:54.567

you know, the, um, The business support center, um, and so 00:50:54.567 --> 00:50:57.734

those kind of things we think are going to really pop. I

00:50:57.734 --> 00:50:59.233

think you’re seeing Robinsdale starting to really climb into

00:50:59.233 --> 00:51:03.734

the fact that they go vertical, the tax base suddenly changes 00:51:03.734 --> 00:51:06.867

overnight because a one-story building is not worth as much

00:51:06.867 --> 00:51:11.133

as a six story building. So I also think, and I know, you 00:51:11.133 --> 00:51:15.133

know, you went to, uh, Japan, that international companies

00:51:15.133 --> 00:51:19.000

tend to think of transit is different than Americans

00:51:19.000 --> 00:51:20.567

companies. So when they come here and look, they’re looking 00:51:20.567 --> 00:51:25.533

through Their eyes, that’s what they want to see, and so

00:51:25.533 --> 00:51:29.300

there’s no accident that those companies in Japan, other

00:51:29.300 --> 00:51:32.367

places are located on light rail because they see that as 00:51:32.367 --> 00:51:34.533

essential to their development, and they want to build on that.

00:51:34.533 --> 00:51:38.233

So I think in that regard, you makes it easier to fight for.

00:51:38.233 --> 00:51:41.000

International companies because they absolutely want to be on a 00:51:41.000 --> 00:51:44.634

rail system, I mean, as you know, Tata Pharmaceutical has

00:51:44.634 --> 00:51:49.467

all that empty land. If they expand. They’re just gonna flip

00:51:49.467 --> 00:51:52.734

a new building over, and if I understand correctly, they make 00:51:52.734 --> 00:51:56.300

a couple bucks or selling medicine out of that facility, 00:52:05.567 --> 00:52:09.734

can’t take it away from us. Bus lines move when I first became

00:52:09.734 --> 00:52:11.900

a council member, they moved the bus line from Brookdale 00:52:11.900 --> 00:52:14.233

Drive. There wasn’t a dang thing I could do about helping

00:52:14.233 --> 00:52:17.734

the people who lived on it, whose commute went from 30 to

00:52:17.734 --> 00:52:20.100

90 minutes each way. When they put two pieces of metal 00:52:20.100 --> 00:52:24.133

parallel on the ground for 11 miles. That is sticking. And so

00:52:24.133 --> 00:52:27.867

they can’t screw with us, is what I look at. And that is an

00:52:27.867 --> 00:52:30.033

investment in our people. That’s I mean, they can’t take 00:52:30.033 --> 00:52:32.734

it. They can move buses all day long, they are gonna have to

00:52:32.734 --> 00:52:35.734

honor the terms of that light rail, and that means from now

00:52:35.734 --> 00:52:41.400

till Light brows don’t move, they don’t leave, uh, 100 years 00:52:41.400 --> 00:52:45.000

that people are gonna be able to ride that system, so. No,

00:52:45.000 --> 00:52:47.800

thank you for your work on that. I know that it’s far enough

00:52:47.800 --> 00:52:49.400

along that it looks like it’s going to happen and I think

00:52:49.400 --> 00:52:52.467

from the Brooklyn Park perspective as to some of the 00:52:52.467 --> 00:52:55.200

things you said, it’s how do we make it work for our city. Uh,

00:52:55.200 --> 00:52:58.367

you’ve been in my position, uh, in the past. So how do we make

00:52:58.367 --> 00:53:01.667

it work for our cities so that our residents can get what they 00:53:01.667 --> 00:53:05.800

need from it, right, in terms of slowing property taxes or

00:53:05.800 --> 00:53:09.634

the amenities they need or just more jobs or jobs for youth

00:53:09.634 --> 00:53:12.900

even. So, thank you for the work. I don’t know if there’s 00:53:12.900 --> 00:53:18.200

any, um, Further questions or comments from If I may, Mr.

00:53:18.200 --> 00:53:22.400

Mayor, if, if I live north of 610. 610 is a parking lot at 00:53:22.400 --> 00:53:26.100

rush hour, so anybody who says there isn’t rush hour anymore.

00:53:26.100 --> 00:53:29.867

Go to 610. That people are dropping off on 93rd if you

00:53:29.867 --> 00:53:34.033

live, I know Councilor Kanowski lives there, you know very well 00:53:34.033 --> 00:53:37.834

that that place, there is a rush hour in its back. And so I

00:53:37.834 --> 00:53:41.100

think transits can become even more and more back on the table, 00:53:41.100 --> 00:53:47.467

so. Uh, Tom McCleanowski. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you,

00:53:47.467 --> 00:53:51.667

Commissioner Lundy. Um, it was great joining you and the team 00:53:51.667 --> 00:53:55.000

on the bus tour. Just wanted to follow up. I think there was

00:53:55.000 --> 00:53:57.166

conversation about grants, and if you don’t ask for them, you

00:53:57.166 --> 00:54:00.834

don’t get them. Um, is there a list of those types of grants 00:54:00.834 --> 00:54:03.000

for development opportunities that can be shared with the

00:54:03.000 --> 00:54:07.367

city. I, I had a, a, a two-pa that kind of listed to grants

00:54:07.367 --> 00:54:10.233

at the county and the state and the federal and kind of gave 00:54:10.233 --> 00:54:13.533

background so you know a few chances. That’s been updated.

00:54:13.533 --> 00:54:17.367

So I do owe that back they. Follow process and as I shared

00:54:17.367 --> 00:54:21.667

on the bus ride, the county budgets as we go, so we don’t 00:54:21.667 --> 00:54:26.000

keep a fun like you have the EDA fund or housing fund, we

00:54:26.000 --> 00:54:29.767

don’t, we, every year we we allocate money and we spend it.

00:54:29.767 --> 00:54:32.800

So we don’t have like, oh, we have this Bluebird showed up 00:54:32.800 --> 00:54:37.634

and we need money. So it’s very regulated, um. Grant process

00:54:37.634 --> 00:54:41.100

and so, as I shared the bus ride, I look at that Excel 00:54:41.100 --> 00:54:43.634

spreadsheet that says, well, the money’s going, I’m looking

00:54:43.634 --> 00:54:47.133

for District one, but unless people are asking, there’s no

00:54:47.133 --> 00:54:50.000

way I can, there’s nothing to give out. Yeah, thank you for 00:54:50.000 --> 00:54:52.634

that. We definitely wanna figure out what those grants

00:54:52.634 --> 00:54:55.200

are and start applying. And on that note too, again, they use

00:54:55.200 --> 00:54:59.000

it or lose it type of money. Is there any funds set aside when

00:54:59.000 --> 00:55:03.400

you talk about cultural corridors, identifying, um, 00:55:03.400 --> 00:55:06.467

designing. Is there any money for arts integration with any

00:55:06.467 --> 00:55:10.734

of that. And then if there is, this is stuff we can apply for. 00:55:10.734 --> 00:55:14.133

If we are granted the money, does that have an expiration

00:55:14.133 --> 00:55:18.300

date on usage, things like that. So, uh, that money would, the

00:55:18.300 --> 00:55:21.367

money that’s allocated for that, so I would expect we’ll have, 00:55:21.367 --> 00:55:24.734

so we allocated money, we approved the budget last

00:55:24.734 --> 00:55:27.367

November, December, um, I would expect by the summer to have

00:55:27.367 --> 00:55:30.467

some stuff start to hit the field. What the county likes to 00:55:30.467 --> 00:55:33.767

do is pay for advisory service consulting because it’s like

00:55:33.767 --> 00:55:35.800

one time money. The city’s like, I don’t want to pay a

00:55:35.800 --> 00:55:38.000

consultant to come in and help us with something. So kind of

00:55:38.000 --> 00:55:41.100

money often is used for that kind of one-timers, uh, but 00:55:41.100 --> 00:55:43.834

there will be actually money put on the table, uh, you know,

00:55:43.834 --> 00:55:48.634

we’ve been given money by the state that we are kind of the

00:55:48.634 --> 00:55:51.300

adjudicators of, um, that will be used for different things, 00:55:51.300 --> 00:55:55.500

and it’s our intent to have that art, I think the

00:55:55.500 --> 00:55:57.367

stationary planning, when that gets to be more, you’re gonna

00:55:57.367 --> 00:56:02.567

have that chance to really say, we want. This stop. To reflect 00:56:02.567 --> 00:56:05.800

the community that’s around it or reflects some kind of

00:56:05.800 --> 00:56:09.033

viewpoint. That’s, that’s up to City Brook Park, um, so we will

00:56:09.033 --> 00:56:12.367

be putting money and services for that. And then again, is 00:56:12.367 --> 00:56:15.867

that going to be in a list of things that we know to apply

00:56:15.867 --> 00:56:17.734

for. OK. Thank you, Commissioner, I appreciate it.

00:56:17.734 --> 00:56:21.767

Yeah. And I think, and I don’t know if Brooklyn Park has it, 00:56:21.767 --> 00:56:24.367

but we’ve also, you’re starting to see money. I know Crystal

00:56:24.367 --> 00:56:28.133

and Robin still got money to help with staff augmentation. I

00:56:28.133 --> 00:56:31.367

don’t know if, um, yeah, so there was money that was 00:56:31.367 --> 00:56:34.100

allocated by the Met councils and not our money, but uh

00:56:34.100 --> 00:56:38.400

sometimes it is, but anyway, uh, that is to provide some

00:56:38.400 --> 00:56:40.100

technical expertise where you’re like, hey, we got a 00:56:40.100 --> 00:56:42.567

library for a couple of years, we can’t afford a staff person,

00:56:42.567 --> 00:56:46.734

so we’re helping to try to offset those costs so that you

00:56:46.734 --> 00:56:49.033

can get good guidance from somebody. And not have to have

00:56:49.033 --> 00:56:57.667

the taxpayers’ cover for a long time. All right, again, uh, 00:56:57.667 --> 00:57:00.500

seeing no further comments, uh, thank you for taking the time 00:57:00.500 --> 00:57:02.400

to come out and thank you for all the work that you do and

00:57:02.400 --> 00:57:05.166

that you’ve done for our cities. Very much appreciated. Thank

00:57:05.166 --> 00:57:14.100

you. All right, so next we’ll go ahead and head into the Uh, 00:57:14.100 --> 00:57:19.467

let’s see, consent agenda. Is there a motion to approve? All

00:57:19.467 --> 00:57:23.634

right, so the motion uh made by council member Kliowski, 00:57:23.634 --> 00:57:26.266

seconded by Council member McGarvey. We need a roll call.

00:57:26.266 --> 00:57:32.200

OK. All right, you’re voting on the consent item, uh, council 00:57:32.200 --> 00:57:37.533

member Klinowski, Council member Page. Council member

00:57:37.533 --> 00:57:43.934

McGarvey Council member Erikson. Council member Joan. I Mayor 00:57:43.934 --> 00:57:48.266

Winston. The motion passes with 6 yes votes, 0 no votes. All

00:57:48.266 --> 00:57:53.634

right, wonderful. So, I think next, uh, we have a Travel 00:57:53.634 --> 00:58:11.200

request item? Let’s see. 7.1. So OK. So Director Greene, are 00:58:11.200 --> 00:58:14.934

you gonna, uh, present that or because I know city manager

00:58:14.934 --> 00:58:25.634

struggle is not here. I Oh no. it It is a motion to approve 00:58:25.634 --> 00:58:27.200

Council member Christian Erickson to travel to and

00:58:27.200 --> 00:58:30.634

attend the LMC annual conference in Duluth, Minnesota 00:58:30.634 --> 00:58:35.266

from June 25th through 27, 2025. Uh, I guess I can ask Attorney

00:58:35.266 --> 00:58:38.000

Thompson, do we need somebody or can, can, Council member

00:58:38.000 --> 00:58:46.000

Erickson do it? OK, I didn’t know if we needed to. we should 00:58:46.000 --> 00:58:48.233

say a few words about it just so that the public knows

00:58:48.233 --> 00:58:51.367

exactly what it is. So I guess, uh, cousin Erickson, if you 00:58:51.367 --> 00:58:54.934

wanted to say a few words and then we’ll make the motion.

00:58:54.934 --> 00:59:01.100

Yeah, this is the annual conference of the Um League of 00:59:01.100 --> 00:59:11.100

Minnesota cities. I was at the, um, Advanced council member Get 00:59:11.100 --> 00:59:18.467

together in February and I learned that there’s a lot of

00:59:18.467 --> 00:59:21.834

breakout sessions about what communities are doing, um, that 00:59:21.834 --> 00:59:26.567

are led by the communities that have done them. And uh I’ve

00:59:26.567 --> 00:59:31.266

heard that there’s going to be several sort of related to 00:59:31.266 --> 00:59:35.533

public-private partnerships and, um, different. Creative

00:59:35.533 --> 00:59:37.100

development approaches that different communities have

00:59:37.100 --> 00:59:40.300

tried, um. I was actually sitting next to the mayor of 00:59:40.300 --> 00:59:42.634

Walker, Minnesota, and they built a new public library

00:59:42.634 --> 00:59:47.300

completely off of private donations. from residents, so,

00:59:47.300 --> 00:59:50.100

um, a lot of communities are trying different interesting 00:59:50.100 --> 00:59:58.233

things to. Meat Their needs and tough times and. Um, so mostly

00:59:58.233 --> 01:00:02.367

I wanted to go to just learn from that. From what our city 01:00:02.367 --> 01:00:06.033

other neighboring cities are doing. Don’t make sense to me.

01:00:06.033 --> 01:00:11.867

Thank you. um, Councilor Mary McGarvey. I would make the 01:00:11.867 --> 01:00:15.100

motion to approve council member Christian Eriksen to

01:00:15.100 --> 01:00:18.834

travel to and attend the LMC annual conference in Duluth,

01:00:18.834 --> 01:00:22.033

Minnesota from June 25th through the 27th of the year 01:00:22.033 --> 01:00:28.467

2025. All right, so the motion was made by council member,

01:00:28.467 --> 01:00:32.133

McGarvey, seconded by Council member Kowski. We will need a 01:00:32.133 --> 01:00:35.634

roll call, OK? Uh voting on agenda item 7.1. Council member

01:00:35.634 --> 01:00:41.200

page. Council member McGarvey. Nice. Council member Erikson. 01:00:41.200 --> 01:00:53.734

That’s OK. Council members young. I Council member 01:00:53.734 --> 01:00:59.467

Klianowski. Mayor Winston. The motion passes with 5 yes votes,

01:00:59.467 --> 01:01:03.867

0 no votes, 1 abstention. All right. Wonderful. All right, 01:01:03.867 --> 01:01:10.667

we’ll have fun on the. And the uh At the conference. Um, uh, 01:01:10.667 --> 01:01:15.133

and so next, uh, we will have the Earth Day litter pickup

01:01:15.133 --> 01:01:36.834

appreciation. Um Presentation This will be made by Cindy 01:01:36.834 --> 01:01:41.000

Dearish Hall. Community experience and engagement 01:01:41.000 --> 01:01:44.734

manager. Along with Tim Pratt, uh, the recycling manager. So

01:01:44.734 --> 01:01:53.367

thank you all. Tim, I’m sorry. I’m just Forgive me. I just 01:01:53.367 --> 01:02:07.133

read the thing off, Greg, so forgive me. Friday. Oh Yeah. 01:02:07.133 --> 01:02:55.266

Like a lot less present Thank you, Mayor, City council, city 01:02:55.266 --> 01:03:00.567

staff, and community. Um, thank you for your time. It’s a 01:03:00.567 --> 01:03:04.800

privilege uh to be present today regarding the

01:03:04.800 --> 01:03:08.100

beautification of Brooklyn Park through litter prevention and

01:03:08.100 --> 01:03:15.467

cleanup updates. On March 3rd, 2025, a work session was held 01:03:15.467 --> 01:03:20.367

to discuss the beautification. Of, I’m sorry, the 01:03:20.367 --> 01:03:25.100

beautification. Brooklyn Park Initiative at that meeting, the

01:03:25.100 --> 01:03:31.100

city, the council. Directed city staff to identify 01:03:31.100 --> 01:03:35.467

effective strategy strategies. To improve cleanliness across

01:03:35.467 --> 01:03:43.367

parks. Neighborhood streets. A major corridors. Today’s update 01:03:43.367 --> 01:03:48.000

responds directly to the council’s feedback. As stewards

01:03:48.000 --> 01:03:52.300

of our shared environment we’re committed to tackling this 01:03:52.300 --> 01:03:59.266

issue head on by raising awareness, promoting community

01:03:59.266 --> 01:04:14.734

responsibility in organizing collaborative cleanup efforts. 01:04:14.734 --> 01:04:20.767

So, um, as you know, we recently, uh, did some surveys 01:04:20.767 --> 01:04:25.934

and we uh came up with the beautiful places, Brooklyn Park

01:04:25.934 --> 01:04:29.133

residents, uh, and businesses owners do their part to

01:04:29.133 --> 01:04:37.100

maintain and clean and attractive, uh, neighborhood. 01:04:37.100 --> 01:04:40.467

Letter prevention and pick up efforts are currently spread 01:04:40.467 --> 01:04:46.200

across various departments. Cry contractors and partner

01:04:46.200 --> 01:04:49.400

agencies such as Hennebin County and the state of

01:04:49.400 --> 01:04:52.867

Minnesota. No single staff or department oversees these 01:04:52.867 --> 01:05:00.400

ongoing efforts. We will utilize swim lane analysis to 01:05:00.400 --> 01:05:09.200

coordinate. Better And uh and identify solutions. Um So the

01:05:09.200 --> 01:05:14.166

reasons are because it provides clarification of complex 01:05:14.166 --> 01:05:19.000

processes better understanding of. Communication highlight

01:05:19.000 --> 01:05:23.100

redundancies between different lanes and identify bottlenecks 01:05:23.100 --> 01:05:28.033

waste and other inefficiencies. Identify participants and easy

01:05:28.033 --> 01:05:42.467

analysis. City staff Continue to show action since the last 01:05:42.467 --> 01:05:49.200

sex, um, the last, uh, uh, meeting. Uh, we hired

01:05:49.200 --> 01:05:52.934

environmental intern identify key areas where litter tends to 01:05:52.934 --> 01:05:57.233

accumulate, support public education campaign on litter

01:05:57.233 --> 01:06:01.000

prevention support community-led. Pick up events 01:06:01.000 --> 01:06:03.934

Published beautified Brooklyn Park article in May 2025 Park

01:06:03.934 --> 01:06:10.634

Pages. Continue utilization of STS, sentenced to serve cruise 01:06:10.634 --> 01:06:23.467

for litter. Uh, collection. We have proposed new strategies, 01:06:23.467 --> 01:06:28.367

which also includes um developed centralized citywide

01:06:28.367 --> 01:06:31.634

litter response coordination create a dedicated beautified 01:06:31.634 --> 01:06:35.834

Brooklyn Park web page. Utilizing our GIS reporting

01:06:35.834 --> 01:06:45.734

tool. Volunteer resource hub and continual. Evaluating 01:06:45.734 --> 01:06:51.133

volunteer models for potential future adoption. Increase 01:06:51.133 --> 01:06:55.467

access to litter collection supplies such as grabbers and

01:06:55.467 --> 01:07:12.000

bags at um ONM Community Activity Center and City Hall. 01:07:12.000 --> 01:07:19.500

So, um, We continue to educate a personal uh personal

01:07:19.500 --> 01:07:22.133

responsibility campaign through our communications, uh, team. 01:07:22.133 --> 01:07:28.100

Um One of which is we can use uh update our website to

01:07:28.100 --> 01:07:33.367

enhance public access and transparency focus on 01:07:33.367 --> 01:07:35.667

empowering residents and businesses promote personal

01:07:35.667 --> 01:07:41.467

action, every piece matters. Partners with school. Schools 01:07:41.467 --> 01:07:57.400

for later education and contest. Monthly beautified Brooklyn 01:07:57.400 --> 01:08:01.266

Park litter challenges promote through social media articles 01:08:01.266 --> 01:08:06.467

and city newsletters and website spotlights posters and

01:08:06.467 --> 01:08:11.266

signage at parks, buildings, etc. And quick, did you know 01:08:11.266 --> 01:08:16.634

litter prevention videos featuring staff and residents.

01:08:16.634 --> 01:08:21.100

The message of personal responsibility creates positive 01:08:21.100 --> 01:08:25.667

cultural shift. We also continue to promote. Active

01:08:25.667 --> 01:08:31.000

involvement in schools and community organizations. Oops, 01:08:31.000 --> 01:08:41.800

sorry, I didn’t go back. Our community engagement remains 01:08:41.800 --> 01:08:46.133

steady and manageable. We utilize events in uh uh our

01:08:46.133 --> 01:08:49.133

community uh relationships to build momentum into next year.

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Some of the community cleanups we have planned and completed, 01:08:55.033 --> 01:08:59.867

um, in include number one, the West District, um, event, which

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was on Earth Day. We met at Central Park and separated in 3 01:09:05.233 --> 01:09:09.467

groups including um clean up and the Central Park, Bass

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Creek Park and Crestview Elementary and just a friendly 01:09:14.367 --> 01:09:19.634

reminder, uh, that in your packets, in your requests for

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counsel action, we included two pictures of these events on 01:09:23.400 --> 01:09:26.634

Earth Day that occurred in partnership with Target and

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other community members. Um, where we pictured a group of uh 01:09:32.467 --> 01:09:38.800

of the first original group where we met at um Central Park

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and another picture including um Target representatives, 01:09:43.667 --> 01:09:49.400

community members, and the students of um Crestview

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Elementary. We also included in your packet an email that we 01:09:54.834 --> 01:09:59.533

received from The principle of Crestview Elementary, Stephanie

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Webster. Who stated thank you. The students shared the types 01:10:05.467 --> 01:10:08.734

of trash they collected and how proud they were to clean up.

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They were shocked at how much litter was scattered about. We 01:10:12.533 --> 01:10:16.233

appreciate you coming out with your team of volunteers. It

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made Earth Day memorable. Thank you for the pictures we’ll put

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them on our newscast tomorrow. And on this PowerPoint, uh, you 01:10:26.367 --> 01:10:32.266

will see a timeline of when we plan to launch our web page and 01:10:32.266 --> 01:10:37.634

park page’s articles are published hosts small city

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council litter walks. Evaluate, volunteer expansion, um, 01:10:43.467 --> 01:10:49.367

options. These are just concepts only. And finally in

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October through December, fall lit or sweep and end of review. 01:10:59.367 --> 01:11:10.634

Bless you. And in closing. As community members we all want a 01:11:10.634 --> 01:11:13.800

cleaner Brooklyn Park. It is a shared commitment. Everyone has

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a role to play, residences, businesses, school, and city

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staff. Together we work together to beautify the 01:11:21.000 --> 01:11:26.166

Brooklyn Park. We encourage council and community members

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to spread the word and to participate. Thank you. And 01:11:39.400 --> 01:11:45.867

questions. Uh, council member McGarvey. Thank you, Mayor. I 01:11:45.867 --> 01:11:48.533

just wanted to, I don’t have any questions. I just wanted to

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thank you, Cindy, and the team, Chris, especially. I heard he 01:11:52.200 --> 01:12:00.266

was, uh, monumental out there and uh I just I asked Cindy to 01:12:00.266 --> 01:12:03.033

read that letter from the principal because I think

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that’s where it starts. We planted some seeds that day in

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children. who were now able to say There’s litter. I could 01:12:13.634 --> 01:12:17.367

just pick it up. We don’t have to leave it there. And so thank

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you guys for all that work. I tried to make it to that, had a, 01:12:20.000 --> 01:12:26.400

you all know that I had a surprise meeting, etc. etc. um.

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But just super glad to see this happening and commit, I commit 01:12:31.133 --> 01:12:37.300

to. participant in the future and Helping to Continue this.

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Thank you. Thank you, Council member Mugabey and Mayor, may I 01:12:40.834 --> 01:12:44.133

please add something, please? Yes, sir, thank you. I forgot

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to mention that we do have two other, uh, citywide cleanups

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planned. The next one will be uh Saturday, June 28th and 01:12:55.734 --> 01:13:02.200

Saturday, July 26th, um, One in the East District and one in 01:13:02.200 --> 01:13:06.634

the central district and we’ll meet at Central Park to decide

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which area we should uh go to next. All right. Thank you. 01:13:13.467 --> 01:13:16.800

Thank you for the uh presentation. I think it’s, um,

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moving in the right direction. Uh, I enjoyed actually being 01:13:20.467 --> 01:13:24.000

out there, um, cleaning up Central Park. I will say that,

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you know, uh, staff does a pretty good job out there, but

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it’s just so much traffic in some of these areas that I 01:13:31.533 --> 01:13:34.867

think there’s a extra helping hand needed, so I’m, I’m happy

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that we have this program that we’re putting in place that

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we’re gonna have the community involved, which gives uh 01:13:41.834 --> 01:13:45.467

ownership as well. Uh, I do think in, in, uh, this is just

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for you, um. Uh, a staff to consider, but I do think that 01:13:50.200 --> 01:13:54.033

when we talk about some of the usage of the reservation area

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as picnic, uh, the, you know, the picnic areas and other

01:13:56.634 --> 01:14:00.100

places that people can can rent or reserve. I think that 01:14:00.100 --> 01:14:05.266

there’s a, there needs to be a discussion in terms of um

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maintaining our high standards there. Uh, what we can do is a

01:14:08.467 --> 01:14:11.233

city to encourage people to do that as well. Uh, I don’t think 01:14:11.233 --> 01:14:14.266

we need to talk on it, but I just do want to get this on the

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record because I don’t uh city manager struggle will watch it

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and then I know Greg. You’re here as well. Um, so let’s make 01:14:20.166 --> 01:14:23.900

sure that because people love to use those areas for a family

01:14:23.900 --> 01:14:27.166

barbecues or just get togethers or reunions. So I think we need

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to make sure that we’re keeping high standards in those

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locations as well, but I think we’re off to a to a good start, 01:14:33.100 --> 01:14:36.734

taking accountability. Uh, I will say very much thank you to

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the council members for this. I know a council member Garvey,

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this is something that you came in and you were adamant about. 01:14:42.500 --> 01:14:46.367

So thank you for your leadership on that as well. And

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uh I think the more that we can get this out in the more

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partners we can bring in, it’d be nice if You know, uh, we 01:14:52.166 --> 01:14:54.800

have to build up to this, right? But if we get to a point where

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we have various sites, we’ve got 150, 200 people going out

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there. I think we can make a big impact in a day for very 01:15:03.500 --> 01:15:06.100

cheap amount, uh, because we’re always going to be, you know,

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budget conscious with this stuff. So, but again, thank you

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and thank you all for your leadership on it. Thank you, 01:15:10.467 --> 01:15:19.467

Mayor. Thank you, counsel. All right. All right, so next we

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can move to, are there any Excuse me, council member 01:15:23.100 --> 01:15:31.767

reports and announcements. Councilman McGarvey. The Thank 01:15:31.767 --> 01:15:34.367

you. And, and I’m just going to double check because I would

01:15:34.367 --> 01:15:38.100

like to go last if there are others, but if there’s not,

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I’ll go ahead right now, cause I realize. Trying to get 01:15:42.367 --> 01:15:47.734

through this, but I do have 4 things. It’s time for history

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with Grandpa McGarvey. The three very important things, 01:15:50.467 --> 01:15:58.934

and I think this week, um, Well, they all happened this week. Is

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that like a CCTV uh history with grandma. So Monday, April 01:16:05.367 --> 01:16:09.100

28th was Workers’ Memorial Day or International Workers

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International Workers’ Memorial Day. It takes place annually 01:16:11.467 --> 01:16:16.100

around the world on April 28th. Uh, in remembrance of, of

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action for workers killed, disabled, injured, or made

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unwell by their work in 1989, the AFL-CIO declared April 28th 01:16:24.100 --> 01:16:28.266

Workers’ Memorial Day to honor the thousands of workers, uh,

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working people killed and injured on the job every year. 01:16:31.634 --> 01:16:35.200

April 28th is the anniversary of the date that the

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occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 went into effect.

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And when the occupational Safety and Health 01:16:41.734 --> 01:16:49.000

Administration, OSHA was formed on April 28, 1971. Excuse me,

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Workers’ Memorial Day is an opportunity to highlight for uh 01:16:51.800 --> 01:16:57.133

the preventable nature of most workplace incidents and ill

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health promote campaigns and organization in the fight. For 01:17:01.400 --> 01:17:03.533

improvements in workplace safety, being a working person,

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that’s very important to me. The slogan for the day is

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remember the dead and fight for the living. Uh, Thursday, May 01:17:12.634 --> 01:17:17.934

1st is May Day or International Workers’ Day commemorates

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multiple instances of workers in the latter half of the 19th 01:17:21.100 --> 01:17:24.634

century, being injured or killed while participating in

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general strikes. And what were their demands? Their demands

01:17:28.533 --> 01:17:32.367

were for an eight-hour day. An 8-hour workday. So every time 01:17:32.367 --> 01:17:36.367

you punch out after 8 hours, remember, people died to make

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that possible. And those two things come together in this 01:17:40.800 --> 01:17:51.000

3rd 1. Going back to Tuesday, April 29th. April 29th, 1945. 01:17:51.000 --> 01:17:54.400

was the day that the concentration camp at Dachau

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was liberated. On April 1 and I’m gonna read this. It’s a

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little lengthy. My source is the Holocaust encyclopedia. And 01:18:03.867 --> 01:18:08.200

some personal experience you’re not, I wasn’t at Taco. um, but

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on April 29th, 1945, 80 years ago last Tuesday, American 01:18:13.000 --> 01:18:17.734

forces liberated the Dachau concentration camp. Dakau was

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established in March 1933, and its first regular, it was the 01:18:22.000 --> 01:18:26.266

first regular concentration camp established in Germany by

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Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist Party. Initially, the 01:18:31.100 --> 01:18:35.500

internees were primarily German communists. Social Democrats

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and trade unionists like me. The other political opponents 01:18:40.133 --> 01:18:43.367

of and other political opponents of Hitler. Over time,

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other groups were also interned at Dachau, such as Jehovah’s

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Witnesses. Gypsies, gay men, as well as associals and repeat 01:18:53.667 --> 01:18:59.400

criminal offenders. It wasn’t And I bring this up because we

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typically think of the Jewish people’s plight during the 01:19:01.867 --> 01:19:07.667

Holocaust. But it wasn’t until November of 1938, and I’m not

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detracting from that. I’m saying there was a lot of other 01:19:10.734 --> 01:19:15.934

people included as well. It wasn’t until November of 1938

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in the aftermath of Kristallnacht. Almost 11,000 01:19:20.367 --> 01:19:24.533

Jewish men were interned there. The camp area consisted of 32

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barracks, including one for clergy, imprisoned for opposing 01:19:30.000 --> 01:19:35.133

the Hitler and one reserved for medical experiments performed

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on prisoners. Dachau had some 100, 140 subcamps in southern 01:19:40.200 --> 01:19:46.867

Bavaria. The prisoners were also used as forced laborers.

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Thousands of the dehumanized prisoners there were worked to 01:19:50.734 --> 01:19:55.367

death. Thousands died in gas chambers at nearby camps, and

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thousands were tortured or used in medical experiments and then

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left to die or executed. In April of 1945, there were 01:20:07.734 --> 01:20:11.100

67,665 registered prisoners in Dako and its subcamps. More 01:20:11.100 --> 01:20:15.734

than half this number were in the main camp, which was 5

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acres and 34 barracks, 32,000 people. The Nazis would cram 01:20:24.800 --> 01:20:30.300

1600 people into barracks designed to hold 250 of these, 01:20:30.300 --> 01:20:37.100

22,100 were Jewish people. Twice that number, 43,350

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opposed the Hitler administration and were 01:20:40.734 --> 01:20:43.467

categorized as political prisoners. With the remainder

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falling into various other categories. I’m almost done.

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And 20, on April 29th, 1945, the men of the 45th Infantry 01:20:52.266 --> 01:20:57.000

Division, one of which was my 33 year old maternal

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grandfather who had a wife and 4 children at home in Saint 01:21:00.000 --> 01:21:05.266

Anthony Village, Minnesota. John Melvin Johnson. They

01:21:05.266 --> 01:21:09.100

approached DACA. At first they were alarmed by the

01:21:09.100 --> 01:21:12.800

overwhelming and acrid smell surrounding the area, but once 01:21:12.800 --> 01:21:17.634

inside in 4 days after they witnessed the horrors visited

01:21:17.634 --> 01:21:20.800

upon fellow human beings under the orders of a delusional 01:21:20.800 --> 01:21:25.200

tyrant. We must never forget this, and we must never let it

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happen again, but I’m afraid that this is where the previous

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two items I mentioned come together. Well, I am not a 01:21:33.100 --> 01:21:36.934

sheet metal worker. The sheet metal workers union and the

01:21:36.934 --> 01:21:41.000

painter’s union. Both belonged to the National Building Trades 01:21:41.000 --> 01:21:47.634

Union. And so my brother Kilmar Garcia is being held in a

01:21:47.634 --> 01:21:54.000

concentration camp in Uh, El Salvador, CA, as we speak. This 01:21:54.000 --> 01:22:03.734

is beginning to happen again. Thank you. Sorry, I said 4 01:22:03.734 --> 01:22:08.867

things. I had 1 more. This is good news. I wanted to mention

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the children’s mental health awareness day. Thursday, May 01:22:13.767 --> 01:22:19.533

8th, 2025, 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Brooklyn Park Community

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Activity Center, and I promise that is all I have. Thank you. 01:22:25.934 --> 01:22:31.934

I was a little sobering to end on, but, uh, well, um, I think 01:22:31.934 --> 01:22:36.634

you’re right, uh. Seeing that there’s no city manager reports

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and announcements and no other announcements from city manager 01:22:40.367 --> 01:22:42.567

um from city councilors, uh, the meeting is adjourned. Thank