Enterprise and Relations Committee Meeting - September 8, 2026
Enterprise and Relations Committee Meeting - September 8, 2026
The Enterprise and Relations Committee met on Wednesday, September 8, 2026, with Chair Linne Palmasano presiding. Five members were present (Councilmembers Vietal, Schaefer, Chavez, Chang Time, and Chair Palmasano), constituting a quorum. The meeting addressed several consent items and a referral of a proposed ordinance back to staff.
Consent Calendar
- Items 1 through 4 were approved unanimously. Item 1 authorized a contract with State Ramp for a standardized approach to evaluating cloud service provider cybersecurity practices (no cost). Item 2 was a contract amendment for the My Minneapolis Employee Engagement Survey. Items 3 and 4 were not individually described in the transcript but were included in the approval.
- Item 6, setting a public hearing for the Capital Range Improvement Committee reform ordinance, was referred back to staff for additional briefings and to allow more time for councilmember questions, with a report back in a future cycle.
Discussion Items
- Chair Palmasano moved to refer Item 6 back to staff, noting that previous council discussions indicated a feeling of being rushed. Councilmember Schaefer asked for clarification, and Chair Palmasano explained that the referral was not a restart but a pause to ensure all feedback is incorporated, with the goal of filling committee seats by the next CLIC meeting (early next year). Councilmember Schaefer confirmed this understanding.
Key Outcomes
- Unanimous approval (5-0) of Items 1 through 4.
- Referral of Item 6 back to staff (5-0).
- A separate roll call vote was held on Item 5, which passed unanimously (5-0). The nature of Item 5 was not specified in the transcript.
- All approved items (1-5 and the referral of Item 6) were moved to the full council for consideration.
Meeting Transcript
Good morning and welcome. My name is Linne Palmasano, and I'm chair of the Enterprise and Relations Committee, and I'll be chairing today's meeting. I will call to order our regular meeting for Wednesday, September 8th. I think it will be a brief one. Before we begin, I would like to re offer a friendly reminder, reminder to all members, staff, and the public that these meetings are broadcast live to enable greater parti public participation. These include real-time captioning as a method to increase accessibility. So please, all speakers be mindful of the rate of their speech so that we can fully caption and transcribe all comments. Councilmember Vietal. Present. Schaefer. Present. Stevenson is absent. Chavez? Present. Chang Time. Present. Vice Chair Whiting is absent. Chair Palmasano. Present. We have five present. Thank you. Let the record reflect we have a quorum, and I'll remind my colleagues that we do have speaker management. I'm not sure that we necessarily need it. But let's start with our consent items and I'll read them for the record. Item one is authorizing a contract with state ramp for a standardized approach to evaluating cloud service provider cybersecurity practices. That's a no cost contract. Item number two is a contract amendment for the My Minneapolis Employee Engagement Survey. And item six is setting a public hearing for the Capital Range Improvement Committee reform ordinance. I want to mention we had a long discussion about this on the dais a couple weeks ago, and I hear you that we would like more information on this proposed change. So in deference to my colleagues and as a courtesy, I will move to refer this back to staff to allow more time for briefings and get everyone's questions answered with a report back in a future cycle. So is there any discussion on these items? I'm moving um one through four and item number six back to staff. Thank you, Chair Palmasano. Just a quick question about item number six. So you're gonna move that back to staff. It's a referral back to staff. Okay, so a referral back to staff, which means we can start all over again, basically. I hope not. Um but rather it just gives more time because what I heard at our last council meeting was that people felt we were rushing this. And after two years at this point, if people feel rushed, we better make sure that they are fully aware and that all of their feedback is incorporated. Okay, so the move back to staff really is just to give people briefed on the possibilities, make changes if necessary. But to stay on the cycle of moving forward. Uh not to start all over again. My interest is still being able to move forward at a rate that will let us get all of these seats um filled by the next time click meets, which is early next year. Oh, got it. Okay. So that everybody has time to um you know uh seat people from their own communities onto this body. Okay, but it is in collaboration with next year's clicks meeting. Right. I think it's like January or something like that.
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