Good afternoon and welcome.

My name is Linnae Palmasano, and I'm the chair of the Enterprise and Labor Relations Committee, and I'll call to order our regular meeting here for Monday, May 11th, 2026.

Before we begin, I'll offer a friendly reminder to everyone that these meetings are broadcast live to enable greater public participation.

They are real time captioned as a method to increase accessibility of our proceedings to the community.

So please, all speakers be mindful of the rate of your speech so that captioners can fully capture and transcribe all comments for the broadcast.

I'll ask the clerk to please call the roll.

Councilmember Vita.

Present.

Schaefer.

Present.

Stevenson.

Present.

Chavez?

Present.

Shuktai?

Present.

Vice Chair Waiting.

Present.

Chair Palmasano.

Present.

We have seven present.

Thank you.

Let the record reflect that we have a quorum.

Colleagues, I don't anticipate us going very long today, so let's just use our flags, our flags at our table, and I'll keep an eye out for them.

For members of the public that might be here for one of the public hearings, if you wish to address the committee, please register with the clerks right over there.

We'll start with our consent items.

That's items two through 13 on our agenda, which I can read briefly for the record.

Item number two is a collective bargaining agreement with MAPE, the Minneapolis Professional Employees Association, for 2026, 2027, and 2028.

Item three is a low bid for the public service building elevator repairs and maintenance.

Item four is accepting a low bid for traffic maintenance facility re-roof project.

Item five is a contract with Barry Dunn McNeil and Parker for ERP program management professional services.

Item six is a contract authorization with HCM for architectural and engineering design services that has to do with our water distribution facility project.

Item seven through ten are all legal settlements related to workers' compensation claims.

Item 11 is approving the settlement of Quarto Gay Floor Capanaku versus the city of Minneapolis.

Item 12 is passage of a resolution related to a gift acceptance from public rights project and safer communities initiative.

Item 13 is setting a public hearing for June 1st to consider the mayor's nomination of William Walker to our civil service commission.

Is there any discussion on any of these items?

Anything you'd like to pull off.

Councilmember Chavez.

Oh I'm sorry.

Councilmember Chugtai.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

I am just wondering if I don't see anyone from the Human Resources Department here, so I don't believe they'll be available to answer any questions.

But if there was any discussion at agenda setting about item number two, the collective bargaining agreement with uh the Minnesota Minneapolis Professionals uh Employees Association's MPEA MPEA.

And you know, this is a um this uh agreement is uh several months into uh has been expired for for quite a bit of time now.

Um and I I know that we've received letters and uh things like that from the parties, and so it just would be helpful to know how resolution was achieved and just some high-level uh economic terms that that changed.

Um certainly I did have more information in front of me when we went through agenda setting.

I don't see any right now.

I mean it was just the points of the agreement, though it wasn't a discussion on how it came to be.

Um, the points of the agreement would be great to.

Yeah.

Um, let me see if I can't get that for you.

In the meantime, could we pull out items two and eight and do a roll call on the rest of the items, please for consent?

Councilmember Vita.

Aye.

Schaefer.

Aye.

Stevenson, aye.

Chavez?

Aye.

Shuktai?

Aye.

Vice Chair Whiting?

Aye.

Chair Palmasano.

Aye.

We have seven ayes on all consent items except two and eight.

Thank you.

Then could we call the roll on item number eight, please?

That's the legal settlement.

Councilmember Vital?

Aye.

Schaefer?

Aye.

Stevenson?

Aye.

Chavez?

No.

Shug Type?

Nay.

Vice Chair Whiting?

Aye.

Chair Palmasano?

Aye.

We have five ayes and two nays.

Thank you.

That carries.

I'm sorry, Madam Chair.

I will get.

Sorry, Councilmember Chug Ty.

I guess I'm sharing this meeting.

Um I can get more information for you.

At agenda setting, Councilmember Stevenson's staff had asked a little bit more about it and had suggested that a meeting be set up.

Were you, Councilmember Stevenson, able to get your questions answered?

I had a meeting with the city attorney about this in general, but not specifically about this particular contract.

I was gonna follow up later more on this, but maybe you and I should talk offline about this subject.

Let's do that.

Um with that, Madam Chair, uh I'm I don't want to hold keep this item held up, um, so I'm fine with us calling the role on it and continuing the item, and perhaps um you and I can check in offline and then me and council member Stevenson can do the same and and we'll we can go from there.

Thank you for your attention.

That sounds good.

All right, clerk, please call the roll on item number two.

Councilmember Vita?

Aye.

Schaefer?

Aye.

Stevenson?

Aye.

Chavez?

Aye.

Shug Time?

Aye.

Vice Chair Whiting?

Aye.

Chair Palmasano.

Aye.

We have seven ayes.

Great.

That carries next.

We're gonna go to our public hearing.

Just read that.

Um this is related to the ethics education ordinance, and anyone who wishes to sign up for these items will be given two minutes each to testify.

But before that, we'll start with Kuma Blake who will give us a brief presentation about these items.

Good afternoon, Chair and Council members.

So I'm Kima Blake, the designated ethics officer for the City of Minneapolis government.

Currently appointed members to city advisory committees, boards, and commissions are required to complete initial ethics education training within six months of their appointment and then refresher training every four years.

Um but currently our advisory committees, um, boards and commissions have varying terms.

The most common is two years.

So the objectives with this amendment is to align um the initial and refresher training with appointment and reappointment.

So we currently um do that by amending three different sections.

So if approved, appointment members of bodies would be required to complete ethics education training within 90 days of being appointed or reappointed to a body.

So this accounts for the varying terms of different bodies.

So pending any questions, um, that's it for my comments.

Thank you.

I think that seems pretty straightforward.

Umber Whiting, did you want to share anything more or no?

I just uh I just uh want to say probably a note of thank you both to uh Q here, our ethics officer and in our clerk's office, um, for authoring this and moving this forward, and then uh a brief thank you um for our own ethics training uh that the majority of my council colleagues did uh last week.

I know I really appreciate it, and I'm sure the rest of my colleagues did as well.

And so I know all of this moves us forward and in ensuring that we have a standard of of ethics at the highest across uh all bodies of government.

So I appreciate you for doing that for us, all right.

I will now open this public hearing.

Um I don't see anybody signed up to speak.

Is that the case, Mr.

Clerk?

That is correct, madam chair.

There are no members of the public signed up.

All right, I need to ask three times.

Is anybody interested in addressing this committee for this hearing?

Seeing no one else wishing to speak.

That has a question mark at the end.

Okay, I will now close this public hearing.

Colleagues, is there any discussion on this ordinance change?

Seeing none, I'll move approval of this item.

All those in favor, please signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Are there any opposed?

That motion carries.

Uh with that, we've concluded all business to come before the committee today.

And if there are no objections, we will stand adjourned.