Good afternoon and welcome.

My name is Linne Palmasano, and I'm the chair of the Enterprise and Labor Relations Committee, and I'll call to order our regular meeting for July 6th, 2026.

Before we begin, I'll 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 another method to increase our accessibility.

And all speakers, could you please 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 Vito.

Present.

Schaefer.

Stevenson.

Present.

Chavez?

Present.

Shuktai?

Is absent.

Vice Chair Whiting?

Present.

Chair Palmasano.

We have six present.

Let the record reflect that we have a quorum, and I'll remind my colleagues that we'll be using speaker management.

So please go ahead and sign in.

Let's start quickly with our consent items, which I'll read for the record.

Item number one is a resolution of our quarterly donations report.

Item two is a resolution for gift acceptance from Co.

Minnesota.

That's for Councilmember Stevenson to attend an event.

Item number three is a collective bargaining agreement with the firefighters, local 82.

Item four is a legal settlement, the workers' comp claim of Genevieve Hansen.

Is there any discussion on these items?

Uh clerk, we don't have the ability to get into queue.

Ah, there we go.

I don't see anybody in queue.

I'm looking at your screen.

Ah, Councilmember Vita.

I was just checking.

Sorry.

All right.

Seeing no one up for discussion, I'll move approval of the consent agenda.

All those in favor, please signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Those items carry.

Next, we will have our public hearing, which is the appointment of our city assessor, Rebecca Momquist, and I'll invite the mayor to introduce this item.

Thank you, Chair Palmasano, Vice Chair Whiting, members of the City Council.

I'm pleased to nominate Rebecca Anderson Momquist for the position of city assessor.

The city assessor is the engine behind so much of the work that the city does, and the office is responsible for estimating the market value and classification of property.

And this valuation is the foundation of property taxes, but also our ability to deliver services throughout our city.

Since joining Minneapolis in 2014 and later being appointed City Assessor in 2021, Rebecca has led an office responsible for the valuation and classification of a hundred and thirty thousand properties at a $64 billion market value.

She's also demonstrated some key competency while navigating some extraordinary market volatility that occurred during and the aftermath of COVID-19.

She led the department through one of the most challenging real estate of environments, probably in modern history.

And she's managed to maintain a defensible assessment process.

There's grounded in market evidence.

It's maintaining a defensible assessment that allows us to collect taxes and run our city, regardless of the external circumstances that may be taking place.

That is an honorable job.

It is an honorable profession.

And our assessor and our assessor's department does it with really great skill.

Minneapolis successfully defended those valuations through the appeals process, maintain compliance with state uh requirements, and helped ensure confidence in the integrity of the assessment system.

Additionally, Rebecca represented Minneapolis on the national stage as well through International Association of Assessing Officers serving as their president in 2024.

And during her service, she founded the Women's Initiative Network establishing the organization's Diversity Equity and Inclusion Council, and was awarded the prestigious fellow designation and recognition of contributions to the profession.

So these uh experiences have strengthened her leadership, uh, has resulted in better governance uh for the city of Minneapolis, and I'm proud to put forward Rebecca Anderson Momquist because of the work that she's done uh through market uncertainty, the experience she has in steady leadership, and how essential she is to maintaining public confidence in her system.