The Administration and Enterprise Oversight Committee of the Minneapolis City Council met on November 10, 2025, at a regular scheduled meeting. Chair Robin Wansley called the meeting to order with five members present (Payne, Vita, Chuck Tai, Vice Chair Palmasano, and Wansley; Cashman absent), establishing a quorum. The committee approved a walk-on addition to the agenda: a request to accept a gift from the Public Rights Project for conference travel, lodging, and mail expenses for City Attorney Kristen Anderson and Assistant City Attorney Sarah Lathrop (item 25). The consent agenda, now comprising 25 items, was moved and passed without discussion.
Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome. My name is Robin Wansley, and I am the chair of the Administration and Entreprise Oversight Committee. I am going to call to order our regular scheduled meeting for today, November 10th, 2025. But before we begin, I want to offer a friendly reminder to all committee members, staff, and the public that these meetings are broadcast live to enable greater public participation. These broadcasts include real-time captioning as a further method to increase accessibility of our proceedings to the community. Therefore, all speakers need to be mindful of the rate of their speech so that our captioners can fully capture and transcribe all comments for the broadcast. We ask all speakers to moderate the speed and clarity of their comments. And with that, I will ask the clerks to call the road. Councilmember Payne. Present. Vita present. Cashman is absent. Chuck Tai present. Vice Chair Palmasano. Present. And Chair Wansley. Present. That is five present. Let the record reflect that we do have a quorum. I'll also remind my colleagues that we will be using speaker management. So if you have any issues with that, please connect with our clerks and make sure to sign in. Before we move to our published agenda, I do know we have a proposed addition to the agenda by our city attorney, Kristen Anderson, which is a request to approve a gift acceptance from public rights project for conference travel, lodging, and mail expenses. For again, city attorney Kristen Anderson and Assistant City Attorney Sarah Lathrop. There are printed copies of the request for counsel action in front of us and requesting that we would add this as agenda item number 25, seeing if there's any discussion on that. All right. Seeing no questions regarding that. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Those not. All right, that motion carries. Great. We will take up our consent agenda, which now has 25 items, including the walk-on that we just approved. Um the first is a gift acceptance from cities today institute for lodging and mail expenses. Number two is a bid for public sidewalk snow and ice removal. Three is a bid for target center steam station improvements, four is a bid for Friedley Softening Plant Lime System Replacement. Five is a bid for Lindale Ave, North Traffic Control Signal Systems and Storm Sewer / Pedestrian Cur Ramps Improvement Project. Six is a master contracts with eligible providers of workforce development services for 2026 through 2028. Seven is a contract with Kodak Architectural Group for Architecture and Engineering Services for the Carpenter and Mechanics Shop on the Freely Water Treatment Campus. Six is a contract amendment with Hogan's Adams PLLC for after action reviews and reports. Nine is a contract amendment with Shehee Construction Company for lighting replacement and target center escalator lobby. 10 is a contract amendment with Tizac Concrete Inc. for the Phillips Traffic Safety Project. 11 is a contract amendment with Bolton and Mink Inc. for engineering and design services for Bridge 9 improvement project. 12 is a contract amendment with certified languages international LLC for remote interpreting services. 13 is a contract amendment with multiple vendors for community trauma response services. And 14 are contract amendments with various immigration legal services providers. 15 is contracts with various organizations for partnership engagement fund projects. 16 is a cooperative funding agreement with Minnesota Historical Society for the St. Anthony Falls Heritage Board.