Welcome to the regular meeting of the Public Health Safety and Equity Committee for September 9th, 2026.

I am Jason Chavez, the chair of this committee.

Before we begin the meeting, I want to offer a friendly reminder to all 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 all speakers to moderate the speed and clarity of their comments.

At this time, I'll ask the clerk to call the roll so we can verify a quorum for this meeting.

Councilmember Payne.

Present.

Present.

Beta.

Present.

Whiting is absent.

Vice Chair Stevenson is absent.

Chair Chavez.

Present.

That is five members present.

Let the record reflect that we have a quorum.

I remind my colleagues that we'll be using speaker management today, so please make sure you're signed in.

Before we begin, I'd like to start by acknowledging the tragedies that have affected Minneapolis in the last week.

On September 2nd, 2026, there was a mass shooting in the Lowering Park neighborhood.

Three officers were injured in the response.

One sustained an apparent non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the leg.

One underwent surgery, and a third was evaluated for an apparent non-life threatening injury.

Four additional victims with apparent gunshot wounds were transported to the hospital.

One of those individuals died at the hospital, and another was killed on the scene.

On September 5th, 2026, a woman was left in critical condition after a shooting in the parking lot near 44th Avenue North and Lindo Avenue North.

On September 5th, 2026 at 94 Eastbound between Portland Avenue and Chicago Avenue.

A man was shot.

And on September 6th, 2026, two men were found with suspected gunshot wounds in Diggy Town near the University of Minnesota East Bank campus.

My thoughts are with the families, friends, and loved ones of those who were killed, and with everyone recovering from their injuries, including the Minneapolis police officers who were injured, those who responded to the scene, and the medical professionals helping throughout all these entire tragedies.

So I'm also gonna pull up the cue.

Great.

So our consent agenda.

Item number two accepts a grant from the Subaru Loves Pets program to support animal care and control.

Item three, Rescence Council Resolution 2026R201 and accepts the Gary Sinese Foundation First Responder Outreach Grant to purchase portable radio kits.

Item five accepts reimbursement from the Minnesota Board of Firefighter Training and Education for approved trainings.

Item six, seven, and eight accept donations for staff conference attendance.

Item nine approves two appointments to the advisory committee on people with disabilities.

And item 10 waves of residency requirement for current public health advisory committee member Tavia.

Colleagues, are there any discussion on any of these items or would like anybody like to pull an item out?

All right.

With that, I'll move approval of the consent agenda.

If I can get a second.

See no further discussion on the motion.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed say nay.

Any abstentions, those items carry.

Next, we'll have to take our public hearing.

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Good afternoon, Chair, Council members.

The policy board themselves, the uh they approve neighborhood um neighborhood plans assist that the complaints that are specific to the NRP program itself.

Um the NRP membership includes folks from the mayor's uh mayor's representative, Minneapolis City Council representative, who is um council member uh Warren at this time, a park board commissioner, Hennenbridge County, Minneapolis School Board, um, and then eight neighborhood uh representatives as determined by it in an election.

Um, here are the policy board districts.