Brooklyn Center City Council Meeting

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Agenda

[0:05] Roll Call

[0:10] Pledge of Allegiance

[0:35] Informal Open Forum - This is an opportunity for the public to address the City Council on items that are not on the agenda. It is limited to 15 minutes. It may not be used to make personal attacks, air personality grievances, make political endorsements, or for political campaign purposes. Council Members will not enter into a dialogue with the presenter. Questions from the Council will be for clarification purposes only. It will not be used as a time for problem-solving or reacting to the comments made but for hearing the presenter for informational purposes only. The first call will be for those that have notified the Clerk that they would like to speak during the open forum and then ask if anyone connected to this meeting would like to speak. When called upon, please indicate your name and then proceed. Please be sure to state your name before speaking.

[1:05] Informal Open Forum - This is an opportunity for the public to address the City Council on items that are not on the agenda. It is limited to 15 minutes. It may not be used to make personal attacks, air personality grievances, make political endorsements, or for political campaign purposes. Council Members will not enter into a dialogue with the presenter. Questions from the Council will be for clarification purposes only. It will not be used as a time for problem-solving or reacting to the comments made but for hearing the presenter for informational purposes only. The first call will be for those that have notified the Clerk that they would like to speak during the open forum and then ask if anyone connected to this meeting would like to speak. When called upon, please indicate your name and then proceed. Please be sure to state your name before speaking.

[22:17] Invocation - Graves

[24:00] Approval of Agenda and Consent Agenda - These items are considered to be routine by the City Council and will be enacted by one motion. There isn’t a separate discussion for these items unless a Councilmember so requests, then it is moved to the end of the Council Consideration Items.

[24:30] Presentations/Proclamations/Recognitions/Donations

[50:14] Planning Commission Items

[50:18] Council Consideration Items

[50:25] Ordinance Amendments to Chapter 12 Adding Property Maintenance Requirements and Amending the Commercial Vehicle Storage Language in Chapter 19 - Motion to approve an ordinance amending Chapter 12 and Chapter 19- 103.12 of the City Code of Ordinances regarding property maintenance standards and public nuisances. (first reading)

[1:05:16] Council Report

[1:10:20] Adjournment

[1:23:57] Call to Order - The City Council requests that attendees turn off cell phones and pagers during the meeting. A copy of the full City Council packet, including EDA (Economic Development Authority), is available to the public. The packet ring binder is located at the entrance of the council chambers.

[1:24:15] Roll Call

[1:24:30] Approval of Consent Agenda The following items are considered to be routine by the Economic Development Authority (EDA) and will been acted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a Commissioner so requests, in which event the item will be removed from the consent agenda and considered at the end of Commission Consideration Items.

[1:24:50] Commission Consideration Items

[1:24:55] Adjournment

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[0:03] Councilmember Butler, councilmember Jersey, councilmember Cragnis, councilmember Lawrence Anderson, chair, chair, chair, please rise for the pledge of lesions,

[0:18] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God in the visible liberty and justice for all,

[0:33] all right that brings us up to informal open forum. I'm going to read the council meeting decorum.

[0:40] Do I have consensus from Council members to extend open form by about 10 minutes?

[0:50] So instead of ending at 715 we'll end at 725.

[0:54] Just because we used up probably by the time I'm done reading the decorum 10 minutes of open form time.

[1:02] That okay with Council members?

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[1:09] conduct of business, all persons in attendance who participate in such meetings shall conduct

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[1:32] Members of the public may only speak during the meetings when allowed under council rules and only after being recognized by the presiding officer.

[1:39] The presiding officer may establish time limits for the acceptance of public comments or testimony.

[1:43] Public comments or testimony must be addressed to the presiding officer and not to other council members staff or others in attendance.

[1:50] All elected officials shall be referred to by their proper title and surname.

[1:53] Public comments should avoid personal accusations, profanity or other improper content for a public meeting.

[1:59] Intimidating behaviors, threats of hostility, or actual violence are disallowed, audible demonstrations

[2:03] intended to disrupt the meeting should be avoided, including stopping feet, snapping

[2:08] fingers, clapping hands, and other conduct that may be intimidating or threatening to others.

[2:12] Holding, displaying, or placing banner signs, objects, or other materials, and a way that

[2:16] endanger others prevents the free flow of individuals within a chamber or obstructs or

[2:20] prevents the viewing of the meeting by others is not allowed.

[2:23] The presiding officer shall request any person who disrupts, interferes with their disturbs

[2:26] the orderly conduct of a meeting to cease the conduct, and as an essential issue in oral warning

[2:31] to the individual or individuals found to be in violation, if they persist at disrupting

[2:36] interfering with or disturbing the meeting, the presiding officer may have them removed

[2:39] or under appropriate circumstances temporary clear the gallery.

[2:43] If for any reason the presiding officer fails to make such action, the majority vote may be substituted

[2:47] for action by the presiding officer to maintain order and decorum over the proceedings.

[2:52] The council chamber capacity is 76 persons per fire code.

[2:55] So, this is an opportunity for the public to address the city council on items that are not

[2:59] on the agenda.

[3:00] It's limited to 15 minutes and may not be used to make personal attacks, air, personality

[3:04] grievances, make political endorsements, or for political campaign purposes.

[3:09] Council members will not enter into a dialogue with the presenter questions from the council

[3:12] will be for clarification purposes only.

[3:15] It will not be used on the time for problem solving or reacting to the comments made, but

[3:18] for hearing the presenter for informational purposes only.

[3:22] The first call will be for those that have notified the clerk that they would like to speak

[3:25] during the open form, and then I'll ask if anyone connected to the meeting would like to speak

[3:28] when called upon, please indicate your name and then proceed and be sure to state your

[3:32] name before speaking.

[3:33] I'll also remind folks that we keep your comments to two minutes or less so that we can

[3:38] make sure that everybody would get a chance to speak today.

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[3:55] Okay.

[3:56] Okay.

[3:56] Okay, within a 10 additional minutes we're just starting.

[3:58] 10 minutes late.

[3:59] So, we're giving in at, Yes.

[4:02] Do we have any blue cards?

[4:06] Larry Bottle.

[4:08] Come on up, Laurie.

[4:13] Thank you, Mayor.

[4:14] Graves and Council members.

[4:16] I really don't want to speak tonight.

[4:19] But regarding the resolution,

[4:22] when worried about the budget to fund the resolution,

[4:29] it

[4:29] health and prevention which I want to voice that that's very important to the city and community members as a whole.

[4:36] Otherwise the resolution is funded through the Polic Grant and Bluegrass Blue Shield grant.

[4:43] The same concerns about funding should also be taken into consideration when looking at the overfunded police budget, which last year by my calculations,

[4:51] and jump from 41 to 47% give or take regarding a permanent committee.

[5:00] Having knowledge of police contracts and policies is absolutely essential.

[5:06] At least some of the members on that permanent committee should have that knowledge.

[5:11] There are people in the community who are qualified to speak on this and make recommendations accordingly.

[5:17] So a recommendation or an advisement is just that there is a according to state law.

[5:25] That's all they can do is make recommendations.

[5:27] And that's based on the community, so it's not a business decision, it's based on

[5:35] community and what we have experienced.

[5:39] And if you're looking to look at another city who's been successful, Chief Senoya and

[5:47] Duluth has made huge strides in accountability for his department and traffic stops and

[5:52] and expand the response team and they also have a civilian review board so I'd recommend looking at that.

[5:58] And until we acknowledge the hiring that's being done in our community, even still some tough conversations need to be had.

[6:06] There's been no opportunity for healing, so I would encourage you to still have those conversations with us,

[6:12] with other community members and invite everybody to the table so we can talk about it and get through it and decide what's best for time everybody.

[6:20] Thank you.

[6:26] Do we have another name? Kevin Sherber. Come on up Kevin.

[6:37] Thank you Mayor Grace for giving us this chance to speak.

[6:41] I'd concern that no links were provided in the agenda online for the study session.

[6:48] The latest versions of the Red of the Solutions have had in the Code of Connetic had changes that I think should have been

[6:55] available to us who attend regularity and those that maybe know little about it.

[7:03] Especially as change has come up from my understanding it is different the last time.

[7:08] Additionally, given that we already have a weak mayor council system,

[7:12] I don't think it is prudent to give even more power to unelected officials.

[7:17] We do live in a representative Republic, not a true denoxic.

[7:23] So I just hate to see mob stuff happen when we black people in and then people want to throw them out.

[7:29] We're seeing this at the federal level.

[7:31] I really don't want to see that armist animosity at the city level.

[7:36] Thanks Kevin.

[7:39] The heatcon.

[7:41] Come on up in the heat.

[7:48] Oh, hello.

[7:49] Good evening, Mayor and respect to the council members and Brooklyn Center residents.

[7:55] I thought it'd stop in tonight and mention an issue of concern, which was I've been visiting

[8:02] a few Brooklyn Center businesses, big and small, and noticed that they've got brochures

[8:09] publicizing our neighbors in Maple Grove. All their businesses and services and a nice

[8:18] and I'm just thinking, where are our Brooklyn Center brochures

[8:24] publicizing our city businesses and services in a nice attractive format?

[8:31] Everyone wants to grab and take home and sit down and read and maybe there's a web version on the

[8:37] city website and other locations.

[8:40] So I wanted to bring that to your attention and maybe this could be a project for city staff to do.

[8:48] And have those out there, instead of encouraging us to go off to Maple Grove to do our shopping and do our services.

[8:58] So when did it bring that to your attention?

[9:02] So was this a brochure created by the city of Maple Grove and it's in our Brooklyn Center businesses?

[9:09] Is that what you're saying?

[9:10] And that, yeah, I don't remember if it was the city or some other entity, entity that produced

[9:18] it, but it says Maple Grove and the front, and it's Maple Grove look fairly attractive

[9:24] to drive off to and do all your shopping there and do all your business there and get your

[9:31] services done there when we could be doing all that here in our city and supporting our

[9:39] businesses and our services and our tax base. So putting that out there. And then the second

[9:47] thing which wasn't really going to bring up, but that's my point now. You've used up your two

[9:52] minutes now. Okay, I'm just saying that there is a lot of broken glass that the intersection

[9:56] and of Highway 252 and the 66 Avenue.

[10:00] Every time I drive through, which is every day, there's some there, and I'm wondering who cleans that up.

[10:06] I'm not sure if you could all lean on them and have them come by every day.

[10:15] Okay, thank you.

[10:16] I would really appreciate it.

[10:18] Thank you.

[10:19] But concerned about my tires.

[10:21] Thank you.

[10:24] Katie Wright.

[10:26] Come on up, Katie.

[10:32] Thank you.

[10:33] My name is Katie Wright.

[10:35] I am the co-founder of Dante and Colby,

[10:37] no more names initiative.

[10:39] And I just wanted to speak a little bit

[10:41] on when city staff and city council members

[10:43] are looking at changing, verbiage and language

[10:50] and resolutions that have been made

[10:52] because there was harm done to community and families

[10:56] and our Black and Brown community at that

[10:59] that they're looking at the whole before they're looking

[11:01] at just the word.

[11:03] Since Dante has been killed, there has still been numerous traffic stops that are targeting

[11:09] our Black and Brown community.

[11:11] 50% of Black people are being pulled over, but 81% of our traffic stops are people either

[11:19] Black or Brown people that identify that are non-white.

[11:22] So when we're looking at changing the average, we need to look at changing the whole in our

[11:26] city because the reason why that resolution was written is because of a traffic stop and

[11:30] our harm was created, but what have we done to change the harm to where we can change what

[11:36] is the whole picture in our city instead of just a simple word that maybe said a council

[11:42] doesn't agree on.

[11:44] Thank you.

[11:44] Thank you, Katie.

[11:48] Naval, Laura.

[11:49] Come on, Naval.

[11:55] Hello.

[11:56] I just have more questions concerns about special planning and permits.

[12:02] There's some language and questions we got back in regards to things I didn't even put in the application for one.

[12:13] There's something about cannabis usage on public space.

[12:17] Even though this particular is private property open to a public event, Minnesota does not have special license for that currently.

[12:29] And that was a question asked to us, but that's into law, so I'm not for sure who did the research on that.

[12:37] Also,

[12:40] it's not, it's outdoors, so you can do that outdoors.

[12:46] This is not a public housing space.

[12:48] It's also not enclosed, so I just need more clarification about what the council is looking for.

[12:57] like when I answer the question,

[12:59] you're asking for more detail plan,

[13:02] in regards to RVs in the back of the stage,

[13:06] also that language was in the application that I didn't submit.

[13:11] So when you're speaking about applications from last year

[13:14] and in this year, it's confused for me

[13:15] because I didn't submit that in the application.

[13:17] So you're like asking a bunch of things

[13:20] that I have no knowledge of, but I'm also giving you a plan

[13:24] that's being held up in this process.

[13:26] So I'm looking for someone today to talk to me so that way and we can clear this up behind doors because this is a event that

[13:35] Supposed to be happening this weekend, and I'm

[13:39] Happy to exercise my first amendment rights and turn this into a protest and

[13:45] Make sure things are taken care of so let's come to some resolution of making this work for a community event

[13:53] Thank you, Naval. I recently have had a few conversations with staff as well as connected

[14:02] some, community or some organizers of the event with staff in the city. I'm hopeful that

[14:09] maybe we can iron out some of the issues. I do know that typically a special event permit

[14:16] is supposed to be put in 45 days prior to the event happening. I don't know I haven't been

[14:23] the council probably has no idea what you're talking about. The only reason I know is because

[14:29] people have been calling me about it and because I know about the event that we attempted to have

[14:34] last year and I want you to know that I have been doing my best to advocate and connect people

[14:40] where connections need to be made because I want to see the success of the event, the success

[14:46] of the business and have that be a benefit to the city.

[14:50] Absolutely. So I just want to make sure, hey, I'm here. I'll say after,

[14:55] whatever I need to do to make this work and move forward and answer all the questions.

[14:59] Someone to some of this.

[15:02] I'll follow up with you and also request the staff to that. Thank you.

[15:09] Lori Moore, come on up, Lori.

[15:13] Hello, Mayor, council members. I for the third year attended the Brooklyn Center Health Fair

[15:18] on Saturday and actually went around for about three hours, so much so that I didn't even say hi to my fellow

[15:24] lady Lyon, who is doing kid-site screenings.

[15:28] But I just had some questions I thought I couldn't find a thing online.

[15:33] I know we're as council member Chris Lawrence Anderson said certainly a lot of the communication with residents comes in our newsletters and online through the city website.

[15:45] But three hours I just wondered about attendance numbers having been at the previous venue in Centennial Park over here.

[15:54] The numbers seem very low to me.

[15:57] I mean, extremely low.

[15:59] I did not know that it was going to be indoors.

[16:02] Like, literally, the only thing that was outside

[16:04] was the food trucks, Brooklyn Center Police Department

[16:08] and Brooklyn Center Fire Department.

[16:12] I recall that I don't know if it was during a council meeting

[16:16] or not, that the reason why their venue

[16:18] changed to Brooklyn Center Senior and Junior High School

[16:22] accessibility? Is that the only reason that why the venue change? Ambient indoors on a beautiful

[16:31] August day. And then I could also not find mayor and council members where the cost of the

[16:38] health fair, whether that comes out of the recreation budget, or if it's a joint out of the budget

[16:43] of the Office of Community Health Prevention and Safety. But it was, I loved it. Obviously,

[16:52] I

[16:52] It was wonderful, but I did have those questions for you.

[16:55] Thank you.

[16:56] Yeah, probably we haven't compiled all that data yet, but I'm sure that we'll be getting some

[17:01] of that.

[17:01] I also attended the Health Fair and was there from about, um, I don't know, two, thirty to four.

[17:08] There was a lot of videotaping of the free college campaign.

[17:11] If people don't know about the North Star Promise, you can attend college free in Minnesota

[17:16] to make under $80,000.

[17:18] That's for youth as well as adults.

[17:21] So, helping to promote that, I did think that the things were kind of spread out, so there was like, it was inside, but things were kind of spread out, so it was difficult to sort of assess how many people had been there at any given time.

[17:33] But looking forward to a report back on that definitely good energy in the space.

[17:39] Venus Tomlinson?

[17:44] Can you say your name again?

[17:45] I didn't understand what the cook said.

[17:47] Venus Tomlinson.

[17:49] Thank you.

[17:50] Hi, Madam Mayor and Council.

[17:52] I am actually here today.

[17:53] We have a food shelf task for ink.

[17:56] This located on Brooklyn Boulevard.

[17:58] And we're here to ask.

[18:00] We're trying to get help from the city to see if we can expand our building somehow.

[18:06] Just the space that we're in is really small.

[18:08] For example, just for this.

[18:10] For the month of July, we serve 3,455 people.

[18:15] I'm some people, household.

[18:16] and our numbers keep going up and we need a larger space and our founder miss

[18:22] miss actually everything she's using right now is out of her budget to feed the

[18:27] people we are we also have connected with the food group and waiting to see what

[18:32] second harvest says but very now we just looking for a bigger larger space and

[18:37] we've been trying to I have made a couple of attempts but I feel like I'm just

[18:41] going in circles I don't really know who I need to be connecting with so we're

[18:45] here to ask for some kind of help to see how we can expand to help feed our community.

[18:51] I want to thank you for the great work that you're doing for our community members.

[18:54] That's a lot of people to be feeding, but definitely very needed and request a staff

[18:59] bubble up with you. So make sure you leave your contact number. Okay, move ahead.

[19:03] Go ahead, Councilmember Lawrence Anderson. Miss Venus, I have a question. What is your address?

[19:07] Our address is 59.01, Brooklyn Boulevard, sweet 105.

[19:18] What are you near?

[19:20] I'm generally challenged.

[19:21] Do you know where cup food and CVS is?

[19:25] The building?

[19:25] Yep, so CVS.

[19:27] The dentist's office and the brown building is ours.

[19:29] It was not our building.

[19:30] We're down there, Rex, in the space on the lower level.

[19:33] Very good.

[19:34] Thank you.

[19:36] Thank you.

[19:37] Miner cards?

[19:39] No, but we have one person online.

[19:41] Was that what you were going to say, Dr. Edwards?

[19:43] No, Madam Mayor was simply saying that we have the contact information and we'll follow up.

[19:46] Perfect, thank you.

[19:48] I see a hand, Julie B. Go ahead.

[19:50] Madam Mayor, I just, sorry.

[19:52] Just a follow up on that.

[19:53] They did mention that they kind of had to run around.

[19:55] So I would just request that there's an update provided to the council on the outcome of that.

[20:00] Thank you, Councilmember Greggness. Julie B. Go ahead.

[20:07] Good evening. Mayor Grives and Council members. Thanks, staff. Thank you for the time this evening.

[20:12] I just wanted to note, I was a little disappointed in the discussion around the first discussion that you had. I can't find my words, but around council expectations and whatnot. I think, you know, as leaders of in a lot of

[20:32] in the city. It's really important that you lead as you want people to follow and set the

[20:40] example for others and the unwillingness to, I mean, even really discuss having some sort of

[20:48] accountability monitors for yourself when there's a big decorum thing posted outside of council

[20:55] and it's a red before open form and there are measures being put in place even though

[21:01] I agree that there have been some things that were noted, but I don't know if they were acted upon

[21:08] before as far as expectations for people joining commissions and whatnot, but it was just

[21:14] disappointed in that. I think we should be able to expect that people that are leading would

[21:22] hold themselves to the same standard and so for what it's worth. I hope that you all reconsider.

[21:28] or I guess some of us have said it, sending to community.

[21:32] Thanks.

[21:33] We're going to continue our conversations.

[21:36] Thank you for your comments, Julie.

[21:41] Just want to be clear that that conversation

[21:43] has not been closed.

[21:45] We're going to keep going.

[21:45] Thank you.

[21:48] All right.

[21:50] We have made it to 730.

[21:52] And so I will entertain a motion to close,

[21:55] inform, and open form with the City Council.

[21:57] Not a mirror.

[21:58] Go ahead, Councilmember Cragness.

[21:59] I make a motion to close the informal, formal opening.

[22:03] Is there second?

[22:04] I'll second.

[22:05] Please take the roll.

[22:08] Councilmember Butler.

[22:11] Councilmember Jerzek.

[22:12] I.

[22:13] Councilmember Cragnis.

[22:14] I.

[22:14] Councilmember Lawrence Anderson.

[22:16] I.

[22:16] Mayor Grapes.

[22:17] I motion passes.

[22:20] I have the invocation tonight.

[22:23] I'm going to read a poem called The Leader and the Lead.

[22:26] But the lion sticks his claim to the leadership of the pack, but the antelopes remember the

[22:35] ferocious pounce of his paws.

[22:39] The hyenas says the crown is made for him, but then Pala's shudder at his lethal appetite.

[22:47] The giraffe craves a place in the front, but his eyes are too far from the ground.

[22:54] When the zebra says it's his right to lead, the pack points to the duplicity of his stripes.

[23:03] The elephant's trudges into the power of the tussel, but its colleagues dread his trampoline feet.

[23:11] The wordhog is to ugly, the rhino to riotous, and the pack thrashes around, like a snake without a head.

[23:21] Our need calls for a hybrid of habits proclaims the forest sage, a little bit of lion,

[23:30] a little bit of lamb, tough like a tiger, compassionate like a doe, transparent like a river,

[23:38] mysterious like a lake, a leader who knows how to follow, followers mindful of the right

[23:46] to lead.

[23:50] I think on that.

[23:54] That brings us up to

[23:57] agenda item six, approve of the agenda in the consent agenda. I don't believe there are any changes or to the minutes.

[24:05] Do we have a motion to approve the agenda in consent agenda?

[24:08] Madam Mayor.

[24:10] I make a decision to approve the agenda in the consent agenda.

[24:14] Thank you.

[24:15] And I'm clerk please take the roll.

[24:17] Council member Butler.

[24:19] All right. Council member Jerse.

[24:20] Hi.

[24:20] I'm Mr. Craigness.

[24:22] Hi.

[24:22] I'm Mr. Lauren Sanders, and I'm Mr. Mayor Graves.

[24:25] Motion passes.

[24:26] That brings us up to number 7.

[24:28] Presentations, Proclamations, Reconitions, Donations.

[24:31] Tonight we have a presentation on the Brookline Center Opeoid Crisis Response Plan.

[24:36] Dr. Edwards?

[24:38] Yes, Madam Mayor, this is item that has come before the Council and we receive some funding

[24:45] to do some work.

[24:48] And Council has asked presentation on our efforts and what we're doing.

[24:50] So here to present on this is Director Turk, Director of the Office of the Community Prevention Health and Safety.

[24:57] Thank you.

[24:57] Go ahead, Dr.

[24:59] Or I like that.

[25:01] Thank you. Madam Mayor, city council, wait for my presentation. I'll load here.

[25:18] We're away now. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate that. Thank you.

[25:24] Otherwise, I can tell a dead joke.

[25:58] Thank you.

[26:00] Madam Mayor, city council, I said before you today, should I wait for Mayor Graves to come back?

[26:08] I'm sorry.

[26:09] The mayor stepped out for a moment, please proceed.

[26:12] Okay, thank you.

[26:13] I stand before you today to present to you the 2020 Fire Opioid Response Plan for the City of Brooklyn Center.

[26:20] Opioids is a class of drugs.

[26:21] It's a synthetic drug.

[26:22] Most of us know it by names like oxycodone,

[26:27] vicaridin, coating, morphine.

[26:29] It's a synthetic drug.

[26:30] Street terms that would be like the hair on.

[26:34] What opioids do they attach to an opioid receptor in your brain?

[26:38] and they diminish your pain receptors and they increase your pleasure receptor, so it's a very

[26:45] high rate of addiction that we're seeing in opioids. It becomes critical when you take an excessive

[26:53] amount of opioids, it doesn't even have to be an exceptional amount because we have fit in all

[26:58] on the market now, but it decreases your breathing and your heart rate, and so that's when additional

[27:04] measures are needed to save lives, and so the strategic plan that I'll present before

[27:08] you today has a vision to save lives, reduce disparities, heal communities by preventing

[27:13] and treating opioid use disorder, and our mission is to implement a data-driven approach

[27:18] to address the root cause of addiction, engage communities, and mobilize community resources.

[27:24] For the past year and a half, I've been a part of the HannaFen County opioid advisory committee,

[27:30] And Ms. Olidas here today, she's one of the strategic planners from Hennepin County, who the our model, our strategic model is founded in the Hennepin County strategic framework and also some of our community partners who've been assisting us with the strategy this comprehensive strategy was created in collaboration with our first responders or usually the first ones to our on the scene for an opioid overdose outside of family and community partners.

[28:00] You'll see that there's a graph listed on the screen of the opioid-related deaths in Brooklyn Center.

[28:06] Even though we're a small community, Brooklyn Center is sandwiched between two metro areas, which brings us metro problems.

[28:13] And we have one of the highest rates of opioid overdoses in the state.

[28:17] And as you can see from the chart, I listed the three primary ethnic groups that are impacted mostly from 2019 to 2022 on the charts.

[28:27] And right now we're seeing a high rate of opioid overdoses in our black white and indigenous communities.

[28:35] If you go to the Hinup and County opioid dashboard, you're able to follow our rate and track our rate of opioid overdoses.

[28:44] And from 2011 to 2022, in the Brooklyn Center is a code of 55429, we had 36 deaths, which is about 53%.

[28:53] And for 5, 5, 4, 3, 0, we had 29 deaths, so which is a 43% which is pretty high for our population.

[29:03] So as we focus on our strategic plan of prevention, response, treatment, recovery, and community support,

[29:12] we'll prioritize not saving lives using an evidence and data-based data-driven approach,

[29:19] investing in our youth, focusing on racial equity and leading with transparency and inclusion.

[29:28] Again, the strategic framework I'll go through and I'll break down each one of the strategic

[29:32] frameworks of prevention, response, treatment and recovery, and community support.

[29:38] So in our prevention pillar, you have monitoring and communication, education and stigma reduction,

[29:45] addressing access and safe storage and disposal.

[29:52] Under monitoring and communication,

[29:54] we are working to develop a system of tracking,

[29:57] analyzing and sharing timely comprehensive data to support.

[30:00] Court, the opioid prevention framework and develop new strategies, and that will be an internal and external

[30:07] initiative that will be utilizing some systems that are already in place. For education and stigma

[30:14] reduction, we'd like to increase and coordinate education and stigma reduction messaging to key audiences

[30:22] with the goal of raising awareness and knowledge of possible, this is not only possible because there

[30:29] our adverse effects, adverse effects of opioid use, including overdose and opioid use disorder.

[30:36] We are working closely with Brooklyn Center High School, and so we have trained about

[30:42] a little over 100 students to administer Narcan and Eloxin, as well as the staff, and also

[30:48] all of our first responders in PD and Fire trained to administer Narcan and Eloxin.

[30:53] For access, addressing access, increasing accessibility to life-saving drugs, treatment resources,

[31:05] and current initiatives that are going on in the county that we can piggyback on.

[31:10] And for safe storage and disposal, a lot of times you have extra meds that are in your

[31:16] house.

[31:17] And so how do we develop some consistent practices and maybe host some events where we can promote collaboration among public and private entities on safe disposal.

[31:29] And so we have drug boxes that are located at our fire department at some of our pharmaceuticals and our PD but a lot of times those might not be accessible.

[31:38] So maybe doing some more promotion and doing some targeted events to have folks come in and drop off those meds.

[31:45] May I?

[31:46] I'll go ahead.

[31:47] Director, Director Tirk, I have a question.

[31:50] I believe there's one at the library as well.

[31:53] Okay, thank you.

[31:56] For a response plan, we have rescue and harm reduction again, and we've already moved forward

[32:03] on some of these training, all of our first responders and stakeholders in administration

[32:07] of Narcan and Eloxone.

[32:09] We have a plan in our business district.

[32:11] our business district and Chingle Creek is located right across from a Trent major transit hub,

[32:16] which we've known, we know that we, we've have our pluses in our minuses with that transit hub.

[32:22] But to, one of the things that we found out was that our business owners were locking their bathrooms,

[32:27] their bathrooms are inaccessible because they were having problems with drug use in their bathrooms.

[32:32] Also, especially during the summer time, on breaks with a lot of young people that are working in those spaces.

[32:37] So to train one staff member per shift to a minister of Narcan so that they can open those bathrooms back up and also be equipped to save a life if they need to and also administer them small red boxes so they can dispose of you know the needles.

[32:54] Home reduction, corporate safe syringe services and the locks on distribution and monitor

[33:00] innovative practices and other jurisdictions with the settlement funds that we received

[33:06] at the city. Some of our neighboring cities got a little bit more than us based off their

[33:11] population and doing some collaborative initiatives with those other jurisdictions.

[33:19] The next pillar would be treatment and recovery. Access to treatment and recovery services,

[33:24] design and implement culturally and evidence-based interventions by engaging communities

[33:30] disproportionately impacted by the opioid epidemic. Our data shows us that higher rates of our

[33:38] black community and our indigenous community are impacted by opioid overdoses and so starting

[33:43] to create avenues where treatment and education are accessible in those targeted communities.

[33:51] So using our data on opioid-related deaths to track age, age information, race, ethnicity,

[34:00] and geographic area of residency to understand better root causes of those overdoses.

[34:08] And also seek additional funding so that we can partner with community partners who are disproportionately impacted.

[34:21] community support. This is not a one model, one person, one department, strategy, we're

[34:31] definitely, we definitely need the support of the community. Those calls that are coming

[34:36] in, nine times out of 10, they are coming from someone who is concerned about a bison or someone

[34:41] who may have OD. And so tapping into our community partners, which we have some amazing community

[34:47] partners here in Brooklyn Center. And again, centering with the vision is to save lives,

[34:52] reduce disparities, and heal communities by preventing and treating opioid use.

[34:58] So we're looking to break the cycle of trauma.

[35:00] That's left by drug abuse, fentanyl, opioids, now with the additional edition of fentanyl, is

[35:08] wrecking havoc on our community in so many ways. Also, there's been systemic harm when it comes

[35:16] to sentencing guidelines, when it comes to access to treatment, when it comes to economic disparities

[35:22] that all come along with drug abuse in particular the opioid use.

[35:33] So I think you've heard me say evidence-based approach a couple of times.

[35:35] I'll just explain why an evidence-based public health approach is important to us.

[35:41] There are benefits and again I'll go back to the legacy of systemic implications

[35:46] that we are now dealing with when it comes to the inequities.

[35:50] around drug usage, abuse, and treatments.

[35:54] There's been a larger impact on black and Latino communities

[35:59] that have we've seen increased incarceration,

[36:02] fear, economic opportunities,

[36:04] lower accessibility to housing, and some of the key ways

[36:08] that we would like to prioritize racial equity

[36:11] would be providing support to community-based organizations

[36:15] serving the most impacted populations.

[36:21] Also, accessible public education about drug use and effective safety precautions, that's been extremely helpful.

[36:28] Actually, being able to go into the school, you can get a Narcan training down to 15 minutes.

[36:34] The training that we do in the schools, we are in the health class for four to six weeks for their health class.

[36:41] And so we do a full drug education in those spaces,

[36:46] healthy decisions, healthy choices in those spaces.

[36:50] Targeting community engagement and impacted neighborhoods

[36:53] and then participating in diversion recommendations

[36:56] for youth who are at risk for low misdemeanors

[36:58] and moving them away from the criminal justice system,

[37:02] which we've already started to collaborate on the federal level

[37:06] for that.

[37:07] And so evidence-based public health approach

[37:10] will improve and improve health outcomes.

[37:14] It builds trust and collaboration in affected communities.

[37:18] There's sustainable solutions, long-term strategies that adapt to changing trends and needs.

[37:23] And so a year from now, we might come back and say, this worked really well.

[37:28] This didn't work, and we need to make some changes, or there might be some national metrics

[37:32] and data where we need to make some changes.

[37:36] And then cultural and historical considerations, just acknowledging the impacts of the

[37:40] sentencing policies for possession on impacted and marginalized communities.

[37:47] So the project plan, I'm presenting to you a two-year plan.

[37:52] The first year we'll establish some data systems that will be internal and external.

[37:58] There are a ton of systems.

[37:59] The county has done a great job on their opioid dashboard.

[38:02] And so working with the communications department to figure out, how do we have the one

[38:06] stop shop for folks who are able to go online and access that database as well as other

[38:12] resources around education, prevention, and treatment and recovery.

[38:16] Also, distribute in a lot of funds throughout the community.

[38:19] Do some community outreach and some collaboration among different departments.

[38:24] And then come back and give you an annual progress report

[38:28] and making adjustments based on current trends in data.

[38:32] And you're too expand the safe disposal sites and hands community outreach

[38:36] and evaluate outcomes.

[38:38] And again, provide a progress report.

[38:44] So, I have listed here some of the metrics based on the strategic pillars, so we look at

[38:50] prevention.

[38:51] So, one of the metrics is the number of educational programs that we're able to establish.

[38:55] And I think that we are able to reach a large capacity of the community because we have

[39:02] Megan, J.P.

[39:04] D.D.

[39:05] Oh my goodness.

[39:06] Thank you.

[39:07] It's kind of like when everyone says Office of Community Prevention Health and Safety, but I'll let

[39:11] I know that it's like.

[39:14] Prevention, a number of educational programs

[39:16] and one of the measurements is attendance records and surveys

[39:19] that we receive back from participants.

[39:21] Faith disposal sites, just counting the sites

[39:24] and assessing the data that we get from the DDA

[39:27] on what they were able to recover for response,

[39:30] the in the locks on training sessions,

[39:32] and it locks on distributed.

[39:34] And you can see the metrics and the measurement method

[39:38] that we'll use.

[39:42] because I can if you want to read it.

[39:48] All right.

[39:48] One of the partners has been the National League of Cities.

[39:51] They have a lining city county and state resources

[39:55] and a split that they put out to address the opioid epidemic.

[40:00] So it's not a single city or a single policy that's going to be able to address this alone.

[40:04] It's definitely going to take a collaborative effort, and then some of the partners.

[40:11] So this, the presentation, I was had an opportunity over the past year to talk with police, fire, parks and ranks, finance, communications, public works, as well as all of the other community partners that are listed there.

[40:31] I'm going to go back so I can talk a little bit about funding.

[40:38] The city is a part of the national opioid settlement, and so over the next 14 years

[40:43] we're scheduled to get right around $531,000 to help with the initiative to combat the opioid crisis.

[40:53] And so I don't see us expanding all of that money on the initiatives that we have,

[41:00] especially with having the support of the county, the sheriff's office, because they have additional

[41:05] grant funds where we can partner with them, and they will be able to take on those costs for

[41:09] those initiatives.

[41:13] Go ahead, Councilor Lawrence Anderson. Thank you. Thank you for the very thorough report.

[41:19] I have a question. As far as the Narcan that we're using in the city,

[41:25] are those being paid for from the settlement or is it coming out of the general budget?

[41:31] Yeah, Margaris.

[41:33] Councilwoman, those funds that are first respond, or the Narcan that are first responders

[41:39] used are actually funded by a grant that's provided by the Shears Department.

[41:45] So it's not coming out of, say, for instance, the police or the fire department budget.

[41:50] Okay.

[41:50] Thank you.

[41:53] Are there questions from council members?

[41:58] One more.

[41:58] Good.

[41:59] Okay.

[42:00] So the 531,000 that's divided by 14 years.

[42:04] Okay.

[42:04] Thank you.

[42:04] 14?

[42:05] It's about 14 years.

[42:09] Wow.

[42:11] Okay.

[42:13] I just wanted to say great job on collaboration.

[42:18] Also, I'm really excited to hear that you've been able to get into the schools and offer

[42:23] this more in-depth training on choices and understanding sort of the harms, as well

[42:30] I wasn't teaching them how to be the type of person that can show up and save a life if necessary.

[42:37] So I just want to say excellent work.

[42:39] Thank you.

[42:41] Okay.

[42:42] I've had councilmember Jersack.

[42:43] Two questions.

[42:44] I'm wondering if you have some anecdotal experience of just this as infant in the stages, but of

[42:51] how it's going and how it's progressing, that would be the first one.

[42:55] And then the second one is I too really believe in early intervention in the schools and I'm wondering how if there are very cooperative with you and how that partnership works.

[43:08] Absolutely. So, right away when I came into the city, I'm sorry,

[43:13] Mayor Graves, Council Member Jersek, right away when I came into the city, I continued to engage with the schools in various different factors.

[43:22] So when it was time to introduce or request the access to the students, it was very easy for us to be able to come into the classroom.

[43:33] And after the first session, there were young folks that were trying to skip their class

[43:39] to come to the class, and we were very innovative in the delivery model, so it fit for them.

[43:46] So we used TikTok, we used music, we used different strategies that would appeal to the students

[43:52] that were receiving the information role-playing, and so they really got into it and they enjoyed

[43:58] it a lot.

[44:00] Go ahead.

[44:02] Follow up.

[44:02] Because I was so involved with Brooklink, and I understand the enthusiasm, but I have

[44:08] one personal question because I'm certified in carry in our kind, and there's an expiration

[44:13] date on each one, what if an individual in the community who is trained certified and wanted

[44:19] to have or replace their is there an opportunity to come and get that done?

[44:25] We have community partners that we're partnering with, and I'm working with our communications

[44:28] department to get a page up on the website where you can just click and find out.

[44:34] Also, working with fire to kind of figure out some strategies where we could have some

[44:36] forward facing Narcan, like for instance, maybe in a vending machine where folks can come and

[44:41] access it. Some of the tactics and strategies that have been used around the state.

[44:46] We do have Ms. the leader here. So if she wants to talk about some community partners who

[44:50] where you can access Narcan, I would be more than happy to yield some of my time to her.

[44:56] It's a simple, it occurred to me that the bus has...

[45:00] It would be one place that we'd want universal access for that.

[45:03] Absolutely. Thank you.

[45:05] Council, we're correct, miss.

[45:07] Thank you.

[45:09] So, my question is, when is this the 14 years start?

[45:13] And then also, so this is roughly 38,000 a year.

[45:16] I'm wondering what the budget looks like for that.

[45:18] Like, I'm assuming it's including like training costs, educational, and then the

[45:22] Narcan itself.

[45:22] And I wonder what other expenses would be included in that 38,000 that were used in a year.

[45:28] and are we above or beyond that per year? Okay, here Grace, go ahead. I'm

[45:34] councilwoman. I do not intend, this the plan does not intend to go over the

[45:39] a lot of it amount that we have for the grant. It started to earth, I'm sorry,

[45:44] the settlement, those funds started coming in last year. Our community partners that are

[45:57] us Narcan in the spaces that we use them for training.

[46:01] So the only cost for us would be their cost of facilitating the course.

[46:04] The class.

[46:07] Go ahead.

[46:08] Councillor Miller and say Anderson?

[46:12] I have absolutely no idea.

[46:13] How much is Narcan?

[46:16] So you can get Narcan, so Narcan is the nasal and the loxon is the injection.

[46:23] And so you can get Narcan on Amazon for $50 a Vio, it's about $50 a Vio.

[46:30] I'm sure there's some bargaining agreements that we're going on so we can get that cost out.

[46:35] Yeah, that's still pretty steep.

[46:36] I mean, obviously, just save a life. There is no cost associated.

[46:41] But it's still a little pricey.

[46:45] Okay, thank you.

[46:47] Any other questions or comments?

[46:50] Go ahead, Council Member Cragnis.

[46:52] So just a follow-up, so it's possible that there's additional funds available.

[46:55] with a year that we can maybe use from our educational purposes.

[47:00] Mayor Graves, when you say there's more funds

[47:02] available like going after additional funding?

[47:04] No, I'm seeing within that 38,000 year if we're not

[47:07] spending funds on the Narcan itself.

[47:10] What are we spending that money on?

[47:12] Yes, so we are looking to develop some partnerships,

[47:16] like peer recovery partnerships with our fire departments,

[47:18] so say if there's someone who is an addict,

[47:21] say you have a very short window if someone says they want help.

[47:23] And so, a lot of times, getting them to a facility, talking to the right person is crucial.

[47:31] And so, to set up a location where someone who was in that moment saying,

[47:35] I want help to have an onsite peer recovery or on-call peer recovery specialist,

[47:40] where they can tap into right away, that would be an outside contract.

[47:44] Also, the vending machines.

[47:48] And when we talk about the disposal,

[47:51] There's some ad-home disposal kits that we're looking at acquiring, so that you don't necessarily have to come into one of the disposal sites.

[48:00] You can have the pouch at home that you'll be able to dispose of your Narcan. I mean, opioids.

[48:08] I was just interested in, like if we can have more preventative things versus just this be the reactionary to the issue itself.

[48:17] if we were just, and I'm sure they're doing that.

[48:19] I'm just curious what they are going forward.

[48:21] Like the preventative measures that we can put in place.

[48:24] Absolutely, Margaris.

[48:26] Yeah, I love prevention.

[48:28] And the goal is to save lives and to get on top of it

[48:31] before there's an addiction that occurs.

[48:33] And so education is going to be key.

[48:36] We're looking at hosting a summit to do some education.

[48:39] One, going into our business district

[48:40] and talking to business owners because a lot of times

[48:43] they see folks who are struggling with drug addiction

[48:46] and then going into the schools, and then actually talking to our senior population about

[48:51] proper disposal. So, have some initiatives to get on top of it with $38,000.

[49:00] Which kind of tracking, I mean, beyond sort of like the participant numbers and stuff

[49:06] of people that have gone through the training or have been trained, what other tracking data

[49:12] at a tracking, are you planning to lift up through this work?

[49:16] So, I am looking for initiatives that are kind of

[49:21] being held around the city and the country.

[49:25] Every person who receives training through us,

[49:28] we retain their email address.

[49:31] And so, to do some follow-up,

[49:32] like, have you used had to use your Narcan?

[49:36] Have you experienced a situation where you thought you were going

[49:40] you're knocking. Did you feel comfortable? So follow up questionnaires on those folks and then

[49:45] also maybe a year down the line we'll start to see over those numbers come down.

[49:51] Excellent. Thank you. Yep, you're welcome. Any final questions or comments for our director

[49:55] turk? Go ahead. Councilmember Cragnis. I just wanted to say aye.

[50:00] I like the idea that at least having one person on the first shift that is trained in that, I think that's a very great idea. Thank you.

[50:08] Thank you, director.

[50:11] All right. That brings us up to number eight public hearings. We don't have any tonight. Number nine, planning commission items.

[50:18] There are also no planning commission items tonight. So number ten, council consideration items, ordinance amendments to chapter 12,

[50:25] adding property maintenance requirements and many of the commercial vehicle storage language

[50:29] in chapter 19.

[50:31] Will there's that chapter 19 again?

[50:36] Madam Mayor, council members, we've had discussions on this item as well, but here to

[50:41] present is our director, Jesse Anderson, Director of Community Development.

[50:47] Good evening, council members.

[50:49] This is a specific session.

[50:51] We put together an ordinance.

[50:52] I'm in a first reading based on some of that feedback.

[50:55] We have a couple of things we want the consul can still put some thoughts on, but this

[51:01] is a first reading of some cleanup to, for some changes, minor changes to chapter 12 and chapter

[51:07] 19.

[51:09] Chapter 12 is primarily property maintenance.

[51:12] Residential and commercial properties.

[51:14] It's primarily the international property maintenance code.

[51:17] It also includes rental licensing and vacant buildings.

[51:20] Chapter 19 is public nuisances and petty offenses, typically enforced by a code enforcement staff,

[51:28] areas such as junk vehicle, inoperable vehicles, parking on the grass, et cetera.

[51:33] And, actually, those type of things are included in Chapter 19, again, nuisances related

[51:36] to trash, storage vehicles is in Chapter 19.

[51:42] So, the first thing that was three different parts we talked about, mailbox commercial vehicles

[51:45] and commercial addressing.

[51:47] This is a relatively small change of ordinance, but it just is putting in the ordinance that

[51:53] rental properties are required to have mailboxes.

[51:55] We've had a few instances where mailboxes have been damaged, and the landlords won't replace the mailboxes.

[52:04] So therefore the residents don't have a mailbox and we're asking to put in the ordinance so that mailboxes are required rental properties.

[52:11] The next one was addressing the simply just adding some addressing requirements for commercial

[52:18] properties and retail properties.

[52:20] It is handled through residential property maintenance code, but the code is silent on commercial

[52:26] retail.

[52:27] So we're just adding some minor requirements to addressing of commercial properties.

[52:32] Then the last one we'll talk about a little bit more commercial vehicle storage, commercial vehicle

[52:37] or just on chapter 19 and 35, it identifies a commercial vehicle that is a length greater than

[52:43] 21 feet or higher than 8 feet or a gross vehicle weight of 9,000 pounds. That's a current

[52:49] ordinance, how the current ordinance addresses or defines a commercial vehicle. In the new

[52:56] language that's being proposed for the first reading includes making that a larger size, 22 feet

[53:02] length of the 10 feet and height and up to 20,000 pounds.

[53:09] Ladder racks, permanently installed on top of a truck, would not be included in the measurement

[53:14] and equipment of materials stored on top of the vehicle would not be allowed in the proposed

[53:18] ordinance.

[53:21] So again, there is also a part of the ordinance that site size is also a part that sites

[53:27] a type of vehicle that are prohibited.

[53:29] So, the storage of certain type of equipment is not allowed.

[53:33] Regardless of the size, right?

[53:35] Bob Kats, well-drilling equipment, farm trucks,

[53:37] box trucks, those type of things are not allowed

[53:39] based off of the type identified in the ordinance.

[53:44] So, we'll talk a little bit more about the box truck.

[53:47] So, I was brought up at the work session to possibly allow

[53:50] for box trucks or not allow for box trucks to be included

[53:54] on residential properties.

[53:55] I just wanted to talk a few scenarios by the council

[53:59] So let's give them a little more information on the box trucks, part of that ordinance.

[54:03] So under the new ordinance, it would allow some things like these deaf fans, you know,

[54:08] pick up trucks, food trucks.

[54:10] So these would be, these would be allowed under the curtain ordinance, not allowed

[54:14] under the previous ordinance.

[54:17] Again, some vehicles that would be allowed by the new ordinance, previously would have

[54:21] been not allowed.

[54:24] So then there's still some that are not allowed by type rates.

[54:28] So box truck, you know, flat bed, towing truck, those type of vehicles, bus is not allowed

[54:34] by the vehicle type under the ordinance.

[54:36] So those type of vehicles, larger box truck is not allowed, or box truck is not allowed

[54:40] in the proposed ordinance.

[54:43] Again, larger box trucks, or even any box trucks under the current ordinance isn't allowed.

[54:48] So.

[54:48] Go ahead, Councilman.

[54:49] By the way, when in regards to the box truck, they're not allowed at all, right?

[54:53] So it's not just about partnering, they're not allowed at all.

[54:56] Yeah, Madam Mayor, Council Member.

[54:59] So the proposal.

[55:00] So, proposed ordinance would not all box trucks at all. That's what the proposed one was.

[55:05] And what's on the current current? It's the same. So, we wouldn't be removing that box truck prohibited. The current proposed ordinance says box trucks are not allowed. So, the new ordinance and the old ordinance prevents box trucks.

[55:23] And once there an issue is worn, like once they're given it a warning, what else is the

[55:28] record?

[55:29] I'm dealing with this.

[55:30] I'm my block.

[55:31] They've been given a warning, but they come back like every couple of days.

[55:35] So what, the Recourse after that?

[55:38] I'm an American council member, so with a box truck or a commercial vehicle, we would issue

[55:43] citations.

[55:44] If we see it enough, you know, they come and goes with a little bit harder to enforce, we need

[55:49] document that they're there for more than two hours

[55:53] based off the ordinance.

[55:55] So if they come and go a little bit trickier for us,

[55:57] but if they're there constantly in there being stored there,

[56:00] then they would start receiving administrative citations.

[56:03] So they'd get a notice.

[56:04] We try to talk to them, maybe a second notice,

[56:06] and then we start issuing a citation.

[56:09] So yep, so the current ordinance and the proposed ordinance

[56:12] as drafted into the council packet, box hooks are not allowed.

[56:16] I have one at the end of my block, too.

[56:23] Okay, so I think I've already kind of covered most of this.

[56:27] Just box trucks as we're brought up specifically during the work session discussion.

[56:31] So I just wanted to just give a little bit more information on the box trucks.

[56:36] So I'm going to just show a couple different scenarios here.

[56:39] So this box trucks, not a lot of by type, not a lot of by proposed type,

[56:44] but by the size it would be allowed.

[56:46] So it's not a lot by code, it's not allowed by the proposed code, but based off of the size it would be allowed, but it's just allowed by type.

[56:56] This one doesn't meet any of the rules, it's too long, and it's based off a type, it's not allowed.

[57:03] So just to kind of break this down a little bit further, you can kind of see some different sizes here.

[57:09] So again, the top one is a step fan, not a box truck.

[57:12] So the bottom three, not allowed by code because of type.

[57:17] Now, if we went with just length, the one that says 10 foot

[57:20] truck, it would meet the length requirement,

[57:22] but the code does not allow it because of the type.

[57:26] Same with the 15 foot truck, which is actually 22 and a half feet long,

[57:29] would not be allowed by size or type, same with the bottom one.

[57:34] So I just wanted to propose that if there was any changes,

[57:38] there were suggested by the council, I just gave some options here,

[57:41] but the current proposed ordinance still prohibits box trucks

[57:44] of all sizes.

[57:46] So there's three options here.

[57:48] We can leave the proposed ordinance is no box trucks allowed.

[57:52] We could remove the box truck language

[57:54] from the ordinance and any box trucks exceeding 22 feet

[57:58] and 10 feet wouldn't be allowed.

[58:00] Or the third option is if we wanted to allow

[58:03] for smaller box trucks, we could limit maybe 20 feet and 10 feet.

[58:08] So just three scenarios I just wanted to throw up.

[58:10] There's options, again, the proposed ordinance is restricting no box trucks, but I just wanted

[58:15] to see if the council had any interest in any of these other three options, just because

[58:19] it came up with a work session.

[58:23] So any questions?

[58:26] I would like to just keep it in there.

[58:32] Can some of your jurors act?

[58:34] Well, I have several I want to comment on, but I want to wait for him to complete.

[58:40] Are you done?

[58:42] May I proceed?

[58:43] Yep.

[58:45] So I'm curious, what is driving the request to change these ordinance?

[58:50] I get the mailbox and we pretty much agree on it.

[58:53] I get the fact that the licensing requirements and we talk previously about a robust

[58:58] education because right now there still is an ordinance out there for semis and everything else,

[59:03] but like the empire they parked there overnight.

[59:06] My major concern is having spent many years trying to enforce these things well intended

[59:12] ordinances, but they're virtually unenforceable. Because as you know, if they move the box truck

[59:18] three feet, you got to start over and serve notices all over again. I'm curious, did we

[59:24] survey other communities in what they're doing? Did we go out and visit several members? Because

[59:30] one of the things that I'm really concerned with is I just happened to measure a food truck,

[59:36] which is a person's sole business of income today, is 24 feet.

[59:41] Most of them are 22 and a half plus feet, and a lot of people that's the way they make

[59:45] their living.

[59:46] So if fall under that category where we're going to try to take away their living, there

[59:50] is no place for them to park them or if they get done, at the end of the night they come

[59:56] home.

[59:56] They refill their gasoline.

[59:58] They clean it out.

[59:59] It's really late.

[1:00:00] We stock it with foods, and I don't want unintended consequences to happen to these individuals who

[1:00:06] make their livings. And then, you know, how are you going to enforce this from the standpoint

[1:00:10] to we have an inventory right now of all the trucks and stuff in the city and who owns them? And

[1:00:16] the food trucks? I mean, because they're all over. How many can you have on one spot? Can you have

[1:00:21] a food truck and a food trailer? These things aren't defined. And when things are not defined,

[1:00:26] and then you create tension.

[1:00:30] I think the fact that the restrictions of where they can go

[1:00:34] or where they can't go, fronts that back,

[1:00:37] back, set back, alleys and things,

[1:00:39] that's always a point of contention.

[1:00:42] A perfect example of that school bus.

[1:00:44] If that person went to Mindot,

[1:00:46] or the Department of Motor Vehicles,

[1:00:48] and registered as a recreational vehicle,

[1:00:51] as you know, and they say, I'm remodeling,

[1:00:54] we don't have anything to say.

[1:00:55] So then you get into what about isn't you get the person down the block on how come he can have a school bus and he went and registered as a

[1:01:03] At motorhome or a recreational vehicle. So there is some

[1:01:07] I really am in favor of trying to address the concerns that you have I have some living on my block

[1:01:13] And as far as the culture if you don't want to find that a flatbed person said it's not flatbed

[1:01:19] I carry iron and everything else on it. It just all happens. I can carry cars on it too

[1:01:25] So my point is I think we should have a very good role boss after you guys are the experts gather a bunch of information and bring it back to us.

[1:01:35] I could see preceding those other two, but there's too many ambiguities here and that creates conflict with community.

[1:01:44] And there's a lot of people that make their living with these things.

[1:01:47] So what are we going to offer to them as an alternative?

[1:01:54] I'll try to answer some of these questions here, so we don't have an inventory of all the vehicles in the city that are in violation or not in violation.

[1:02:02] This ordinance allows a little bit larger vehicle is the primary difference, right?

[1:02:06] It's a small tweak to the ordinance, so it allows a little bit more.

[1:02:10] Again, it wouldn't allow 24 foot food truck, but it would allow 22 as opposed to right now if it's over 20, it's not allowed.

[1:02:17] So it's letting up on the restrictions just a little bit is what it's doing.

[1:02:20] So all these people pardon me, but all these people have bought these and made investments through a business, now all of a sudden we pass this ordinance and now we're going to go out and take it

[1:02:29] Madam Mayor comes and I don't think our, we would, it would they would be less restrictive so this ordinance as we're enforcing it now is more restrictive than the proposed ordinance

[1:02:45] The reality in good faith is most of these have not been enforced.

[1:02:50] So all of a sudden we go out.

[1:02:52] You know, there's many, many box trucks around the city because there's no place else with these people that own their businesses,

[1:02:58] whether it's like a UPS or a food truck or whatever.

[1:03:01] So it just makes me very nervous because they're more and more accumulate.

[1:03:05] We don't know who all have them.

[1:03:06] So somebody you go out and you're not going to go,

[1:03:08] So I have this thing for two years.

[1:03:10] And now you're telling me I can't have it.

[1:03:13] This is just talking about the ordinance itself.

[1:03:16] It's not necessarily looting to an increase or decrease

[1:03:19] in the amount of enforcement or correct.

[1:03:24] Mademir, yes.

[1:03:25] This is, I believe your original reason

[1:03:27] this came up is because we originally approved

[1:03:29] some changes in the New Zoning Code.

[1:03:31] So it was kind of put on as a work session

[1:03:32] for future work session.

[1:03:34] And then we had the discussion of work session.

[1:03:35] I think that's where it started with the New Zoning Code.

[1:03:38] And that's where the initial conversation went was from the changes the initial zoning code.

[1:03:44] I look at it like it's not really going to change a whole lot of anything that we've been doing.

[1:03:50] What it might do is if there is some kind of a complaint that created a need for code enforcement to go out and had it been prior to the first or second leading.

[1:04:02] and it was 22 feet long, they would then have gotten a ticket,

[1:04:07] whereas should this go into effect, they would not.

[1:04:11] Madam Mayor, that's correct.

[1:04:12] If we had a complaint on our current code,

[1:04:16] 20 foot would be the maximum and the new code would be 22 feet.

[1:04:20] Is the primary change?

[1:04:22] Thank you.

[1:04:23] Any other questions or comments from council members?

[1:04:28] All right.

[1:04:28] I will make a motion to approve a first reading of an ordinance of many chapter 12 and 19103 of the city code of ordinances regarding commercial retail addressing mailbox requirement for licensed rental properties and commercial vehicle storage and a second reading of public hearing will be brought to council leader council meeting. Is there a second.

[1:04:56] I'll second.

[1:04:58] Madam Clerk, please take the roll.

[1:05:00] Council member Butler? Aye. Council member Jersey? nay, for the reasons I stated. Council member

[1:05:07] Cragnis? Aye. Council member Lawrence Anderson? Aye. Mayor Graves? Aye. Motion passes?

[1:05:15] Four one. That brings us up to number 11. Council report? Is there any council members that would like to report on their activities?

[1:05:26] I just wanted to report it on the National Night Out, it was a nice, it was nice to see a lot of community members out, and then I just wanted to know I actually went to one neighborhood and they just had like my amazing egg rolls, so I just really wanted to know that they were amazing and they let me take some home, so thank you.

[1:05:52] And the other council members, go ahead, Councilmember Giuseppe.

[1:05:56] I attended the Parks and Rec creation.

[1:06:01] The Luther event for all the soccer people and Monday night there was held in constitutional hall.

[1:06:08] Night to unite.

[1:06:09] I also attended with another council member.

[1:06:12] I've been attending regularly.

[1:06:14] The 252 task force, in this particular case,

[1:06:17] that had a special two and a half hour meeting at the library and it was for those potential

[1:06:24] public who's property may be affected as what it was. So I attended that one and then

[1:06:33] I met with several constituents.

[1:06:39] That's good.

[1:06:40] Anyone else?

[1:06:42] Yeah, tonight.

[1:06:44] Well because I was out I'm going to just kind of give a little bit of an update on few things.

[1:06:48] So, back in July, I recorded the, I think that was the third quarterly mayors minutes for it with CCX.

[1:06:59] I also took a couple meetings while I was camping and out of town, but pretty not too much.

[1:07:08] I also have been a part of some final sort of meetings around the Northwest Tourism boards,

[1:07:16] a hiring of a new executive director, which she started today.

[1:07:20] I also stopped in today to welcome her, so excited for you guys to meet Leslie Wright,

[1:07:26] who has a good background in multiple different disciplines, but I think is a great addition

[1:07:32] to the organization.

[1:07:34] I also went to the racial healing event that happened both on Monday and Tuesday at the very end of July, it was a wonderful event.

[1:07:52] author, Dr. Joy DeGru, author of post-traumatic slave syndrome was the speaker at that event.

[1:08:03] It was very well-attended, both in the evening and in the day.

[1:08:07] I was happy to see many of our staff, especially from community development and park and

[1:08:12] that chose to come and be part of that, but it was an invite open to council's public sphere

[1:08:21] staff. So there was also folks there from many other cities in the county.

[1:08:30] I've been meeting

[1:08:32] also with some of our development staff, our planner and the folks from New York to just kind

[1:08:39] over some of the recommendations and ideas that came from my trip to the New York School of Design,

[1:08:45] and that was as part of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, summer development, I can't remember

[1:08:53] all the words.

[1:08:57] I also took a tour of the Crescent Cove, which is Hospice and

[1:09:08] And then I also met with a resident who introduced me to a young lady from Liberia who was doing work around domestic violence and childhood trauma, and is interested in work that other organizations are doing here in Brooklyn Park.

[1:09:30] And because they are also from the same, I believe the same county as our sister city.

[1:09:38] I also connected them with the representative that came to visit us for, for John, for the boy and Jama.

[1:09:44] Is that a vanjama?

[1:09:47] So, just making connections, I intended the Brooklyn Bridge for Alliance Board meeting agenda setting meeting.

[1:09:54] I also had a meaning.

[1:10:00] I mean with my fellow council members earlier today for the executive session. And there's one other thing that I'm not remembering, but that's good enough.

[1:10:14] That's plenty. So that ends my report. Any other council members? If not, I will entertain a motion to adjourn.

[1:10:22] I'll move.

[1:10:24] Madam Clerk, please take the roll.

[1:10:26] Council Member Butler.

[1:10:28] Council Member Jersey.

[1:10:29] Council Member Cragnis.

[1:10:31] Council Member Lawrence Anderson.

[1:10:32] Here grades.

[1:10:34] Motion passes.

[1:10:36] All right.

[1:10:36] We do have an EDA meeting.

[1:10:39] Does anybody need a quick break?

[1:10:41] Or are we ready to just kind of.

[1:10:42] Go ahead.

[1:10:43] Let's take.

[1:10:46] Let's do.

[1:10:47] Let's do 10 minutes.

[1:10:48] I think we can still get through this pretty quick.

[1:10:50] I want to step outside for a second.

[1:10:52] Make a phone call.

[1:10:53] Good?

[1:10:53] Thank you.

[1:11:02] I was ready to pound.

[1:23:57] Okay, I did forget to mention I did the national night out, night two night stuff, too, and the health fair. And then me and council member Butler also able to join Congresswoman Omar for breakfast on Sunday yesterday.

[1:24:12] Okay.

[1:24:14] We'll call to order the economic development authority. Please take the roll.

[1:24:21] Commissioner Butler.

[1:24:21] Here. Mr. Jarzac. Here. Mr. Craigness. Here. Mr. Lawrence Anderson. Here.

[1:24:27] President Graves. Here.

[1:24:30] That brings us to approval of the consent agenda.

[1:24:34] Is there a motion?

[1:24:37] I'll make a motion to accept the agenda in the consent agenda.

[1:24:40] Second. Please take the roll.

[1:24:44] Mr. Butler.

[1:24:45] Mr. Jarzac.

[1:24:47] Hi.

[1:24:47] Mr. chair.

[1:24:48] Hi. Mr. Lawrence Anderson.

[1:24:50] aye. President Graves? Aye. Motion passes. There are no commission consideration items so that brings us to adjournment.

[1:25:00] Is there a motion to adjourn? We have a night of it. We do?

[1:25:03] Yeah. No, it's consent.

[1:25:05] It's consent, isn't it?

[1:25:06] Yes. Oh, sorry. My apologies.

[1:25:09] Did you want to talk about that?

[1:25:10] I'm going. Okay.

[1:25:13] You got a American motion to adjourn.

[1:25:15] EDH session.

[1:25:15] I second. Please take the roll.

[1:25:19] Commissioner Butler.

[1:25:20] Excuse me.

[1:25:21] Aye.

[1:25:22] Commissioner Giuseppe.

[1:25:22] Aye.

[1:25:23] Commissioner Cragnis.

[1:25:25] Commissioner Lawrence Anderson.

[1:25:26] Aye.

[1:25:26] President Graves? Aye. Motion passes, Director.

[1:25:30] We're adjourned.

[1:25:32] Dr. Edwards.

[1:25:34] At our next meeting, can we have a discussion about the format for random acts of kindness?

[1:25:42] All right. Thank you, everybody. Staff Council.

[1:25:45] Yes.

[1:25:45] Thanks, everyone.