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On Monday, September 28, 2026, the Minneapolis Budget Committee met to review analysis and budget presentations related to the mayor's recommended 2027-2028 budget. No agenda or minutes were provided in the source materials, so this summary is based on the raw transcript. Roll call showed seven members present, establishing a quorum; Councilmembers Wandsley, Vita, Warren, Osman, and Whiting were marked absent. The roll call initially listed Councilmember Palmasano absent, but Palmasano later participated in discussion. Chair Aisha Chuktai presided.
Good afternoon. My name is Aisha Chuktai, and I'm the chair of the budget committee. I'm gonna call to order our regular meeting for Monday, September 28th, 2026. 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 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 the presence of a quorum. Councilmember Payne present. Councilmember Wandsley is absent. Councilmember Rainbow. Councilmember Vita is absent. Councilmember Warren is absent. Councilmember Osman is absent. Councilmember Stevenson? Present. Councilmember Chavez. Present. Council Member Whiting is absent. Councilmember Chowri. Present. Councilmember Palmasano is absent. Vice Chair Schaefer. Present. And Chair Chung Tai. Present. There are seven members present. Let the record reflect that we have a quorum. I'll remind my colleagues that we are using speaker management today. So please make sure to sign in. Our first um item on the agenda is a response to a staff direction regarding payment in lieu of taxes or pilots. I'll invite I will invite Christina Keterling, the senior advisor to the Board of Estimate and Taxation to join us and begin this presentation. Welcome, Miss Keterling. Good afternoon, Chair Chuck Chai, members of the committee. I'm Christina Kiderleen. I'm the senior advisor to the Board of Estimate and Taxation. Um today what I'm going to be presenting for you is an analysis of Minneapolis's tax exempt landscape. This is in result uh in response to a staff direction that this committee gave. I won't read it verbatim. I'm sure you guys remember what you told, but basically what you were asking for was a list of numbers concerning the Minneapolis tax base, how many tax exempt properties we have of those properties, what's the makeup of them, what's the makeup of the organizations that own them? So today, through um various different methods, we're gonna answer those questions for you. As a little roadmap of our discussion, first we're gonna start with an overview of the tax exempt landscape itself. Then we're gonna move into an introduction of pilot or payment in lieu of taxes and go over what actually that is. Introduce some alternative viewpoints, who likes pilot, who doesn't like pilot, explore how some example cities receive non-tax payments, how they manage their pilot programs, and then have a brief summary of Minneapolis City Services as part of the budget to kind of talk about what it might look like as a first pass on what a pilot program could maybe look like here. So here's the approach we took to answer your questions. Like I said, in your request, it was very numbers heavy.