The Administration & Enterprise Oversight Committee met on December 1, 2025 (afternoon meeting). Chair Robin Wonsley convened the committee with 5 members present at roll call (Payne, Vita, Cashman, Palmisano, Wonsley; Chughtai absent). The committee amended its agenda to add a bridge rehabilitation bid as a new consent item, adopted two public-hearing items (a payroll-related ordinance update and a Civil Service Commission reappointment), approved a large consent calendar (with one item separated for a roll-call vote), approved two discussion contracts (human trafficking services for the South Minneapolis Community Safety Center and a new 311 CRM system), referred a proposed blanket NDA authority for special events back to staff after a tied vote, forwarded a Health Department master contract item without recommendation, and then entered closed session for police federation labor negotiation strategy and a security briefing related to potential increased federal activity.
Payroll update ordinance (Public Hearing Item 1)
Civil Service Commission reappointment (Public Hearing Item 2)
Item 47 — Contract with The Link for human trafficking advocacy training and survivor support services
Item 48 — Contract with Catalyst Consulting Group, Inc. for a new 311 Citizens Request Management (CRM) System
Item 49 — Special event-related nondisclosure agreement (NDA) authority (blanket request)
Health Department master contracts (2026–2028) — forwarded without recommendation
All right, good afternoon, everyone. My name is Robin Winsley, and I am the chair of the Administration and Enterprise Oversight Committee, and I'm going to call to order our regular committee meeting for today, December 1st, 2025. Before we begin, though, I do 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 the 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 that all speakers moderate the speed and the clarity of their comments. And with that, I will ask the clerks to call a roll. Council Member Payne. Present. Vita. Present. Cashman. Present. Chogtai is absent. Vice Chair Palmisano. Present. Chair Wansley. Present. That is five members present. Let the record reflect that we do have a quorum. I'll also remind my colleagues that we'll be using speaker management today, so please make sure to sign in or let the clerks know if you need assistance. Also today is the last AO meeting of the term. Yay for us. note that we have also, as a result of this, a very long impact agenda, including some topics for closed session. In order to manage this agenda, we'll need to stay focused on managing our time together. And it's my goal with that in consideration that we would get to our security briefing by 3 p.m., also within our closed session time frame. The clerks will be helping us monitor our time and I'll provide helpful reminders as needed throughout our meeting as well. Before we move on to our publishing agenda, I do have a proposed addition to it, which is approving a bid for Nicolette Ave Bridge over Minnehaha Creek Rehabilitation Project. There are copies in front of us if you would like to take a look at it and specifically copies of the request for Council action. If we added this to the agenda, it would become item number 53. That said, is there any discussion on including item 53 on the consent agenda? Seeing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed say nay. All right. The ayes have it and that motion carries and the agenda is amended. That said, we're going to start off with the public hearing specifically item number one is a payroll update ordinance i will ask payroll director tammy hoff to come forward and speak on this item good afternoon council members so this ordinance updates modernizes and clarifies the city's payroll, holiday, and related personnel code provisions to align with current administrative processes, state law requirements, and then just language standards. The existing code has remained largely unchanged since the 1980s. Over time, updates to technology, labor agreements, and statutory requirements have made portions of the code outdated or inconsistent with our current practice. Key changes are really modernizing of payroll processing and payment methods. The language is updated to reflect our current practice, which is paying employees by electronic funds transfer rather than paper checks. Aligning our state pension statutes, which is referring to state law governing pension deductions for police, fire, and general plan participants.