Good afternoon.

Welcome.

My name is Linne Palmasano, and I'm the chair of the Enterprise and Labor Relations Committee.

I'll be chairing today's meeting, and I'll call it to order for October 5th, 2026.

Before we begin, I'll offer my friendly reminder to all committee members, staff, and the public that these meetings are broadcast live to enable greater public participation.

They include real-time captioning as a further method to increase accessibility.

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

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

Councilmember Vita.

Present.

Schaefer.

Present.

Stevenson, present.

Chavez.

Present.

Chick time.

Present.

Vice Chair Whiting is absent.

Chair

Palmson.

Present.

We have six present.

Thank you.

Let the record reflect we have a quorum and you can sign in to speaker management or just get my attention, no problem.

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

Item number one is approving a winter work reserve pool letter of agreement for labor's local 363 rate update.

Item number two is a contract amendment with Keystone Compensation Group for Classification and Compensation Consulting Services.

Item number three is a contract amendment with Goodworks for change management services.

Item four is a contract amendment with the aliveness project for housing opportunities for persons living with HIV AIDS programming.

Item number five is a contract amendment with Cordia for Steam Service at the Public Service Center.

That's the one across the street that we used to use.

Item number six is an off is authorizing a contract with principal financial solutions for investment custody securities lending and trustee services.

Item number seven is a contract amendment with Suez SES North America for support and maintenance of our water lab and operational data management system.

Item number eight is a legal settlement, the claim of Alice Na.

Item number nine is referring to staff the subject matter of an ethics updates ordinance.

Item number ten is setting a public hearing for October 19th to consider the appointment of Peter Maringolo and Drew Duffy to the Ethical Practices Board.

Is there any discussion on these items?

Seeing no discussion, I'll go ahead and move approval of the consent agenda.

Um all those in favor of this consent agenda, please signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

The ayes have it, and those motions carry or that motion carries.

Our next item is a contract amendment with LSE Architects for Architectural and Engineering Design Services.

I have Arthur Maya from our finance and property services to get us started and just give us a brief overview.

Welcome.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, everyone.

Good afternoon, Chair and the Council members.

Uh this is a request authorization to increase contract with LSE York tax for additional architecture engineering services for the Minneapolis Democracy Center.

Uh there are multiple reasons why this amendment is needed.

And it's an example, uh the project's programming requirement and overall design complexity uh were much greater than anticipated when the original RFP was released.

Uh as the design developed, the project require a larger and more complex building program along with additional stormwater management, site modifications, utility work, um structur changes, design of work related to contaminated soils, etc.

Also when the RFP was issued, uh the intent of the was intended to reuse the mechanical and the structural uh excuse me, the mechanical and electrical uh existing of the building, but during the assessment was identified that would not be possible anymore.

So LSE had to design a completed uh change of the mechanical electrical and plumbing uh for the uh Neapoles Democracy SANR.

Uh as a positive point of that, we're now able to pursue lead certification and do geothermal assessments.

We're doing a Darcy well in our property.

uh excuse me the mechanical and electrical uh existing of the building but during the assessment was identified that would not be possible anymore so lc had to design a completed uh change of the mechanical electrical and plumbing uh for the uh was democracy standard uh as a a positive point of that we're now able to pursue lead certification and do geothermal assessments we're doing a darcy well in our property so it was also like you know a more complex system the LSE had to design for the building itself but I think with a greater benefit for the project itself uh lastly uh this amendment also reflects additional commuter engagement uh with neighboring properties and design changes result from it from it following in the planning commission meeting uh these are just some of the reasons why we are pursuing this additional uh scope amendment with LSE architects and I'm available to answer any questions thank you for the presentation um there's nobody in queue right now I'll just say this feels fairly standard in our large design contracts conditions change and further work is needed in this case we had mechanical systems and electrical systems and plumbing that needed to be reworked as well as redesign in consideration with the neighboring properties um but what we get in return for that extra cost is going to be a lead certified building we get a better building in this neighborhood because of it and that's a positive thing.

Councilmember Chavez

uh thank you Chair Paul Sano and thanks for the for the update really much appreciated and the geothermal component the conversation part of this is something that a lot of my residents have been asking for for a very long time so um just wanted to at least point that out and say thank you.

Yeah