Roll call, please.

Vice Chair Coleman.

Here.

Johnson.

Joseph?

Here.

Kim.

Here.

Maker.

Here.

Yang.

Here.

Chair Bowie.

Here.

There are six members present, one arriving shortly.

Johnson.

Thank you so much, Pierre.

Welcome everyone.

This is the public safety committee.

We have a packed house here.

And I just want to say thank you so much to all my colleagues and also all of our partners and our Ramsey County partners as well as our assistant mayor making sure that we have this day possible.

This is not a public hearing, so we will not be having any public uh comments from the audience that is going to be scheduled or already scheduled today at 4 30 after our city council meeting.

The whole general purpose for this council, or excuse me, this public safety meeting is really for our council members to really fill the details, provide insight, perspectives, and really provide feedback to some of our partners that are leading this um encampment um transition.

Also, Assistant Mayor and the Mayor's office have already provided responses to some of those questions.

There's gonna be more, obviously, that comes.

So even what's limited on the presentation, please feel free to ask questions for follow-ups as well.

So uh we're just gonna get straight into it.

So Pierre, if you mind uh reading item number one, please.

Now reading into the record, item number one, SR 26 145, Mayor's encampment release plan.

Wonderful.

So if we can uh welcome Assistant Mayor Cedric Baker uh to the mic.

Um and also um uh Sister Mayor, before you get started, if you can just share and clarify who all is here to present um, you know, on behalf of the county, if there's any other community organizations present that we should acknowledge today.

Yeah, thanks.

Thanks, uh Chair Bowie, members of the committee.

Uh the only other person here is uh council manager Ling Becker that will be speaking with me and providing perspectives from Ramsey County.

Um outside of that, uh we did have a request in, but um our heart team members are out doing the work right now, so uh my goal is to uh speak, do my best to speak on their behalf.

Um and if we cannot get the information that you need today, we will definitely get it to you.

Okay.

And also we see there's not any presentation materials provided from the county.

Um can we ensure that we have follow-ups with some of the um materials that we cover after?

Uh uh Chair Bowie.

What we plan to do in our presentation is really highlight what to expect, and my goal is for County Manager Becker to really explain uh what they're doing and what they plan to do in the future.

Okay, thank you.

Okay, uh again, Chair Bowie, members of the committee, thank you so much for this time.

I am grateful for this opportunity to provide you with some information about our coordinated response to unsheltered homelessness and specifically our um encampments here in the city.

Uh this presentation is an opportunity um for the mayor's office to explain uh to plan to explain, excuse me, our plan and also really to acknowledge the complexity of this topic because it's hard.

The goal is to provide more insight into how we arrived at this moment, insight into our coordination efforts, and what you can expect moving forward.

So this is the agenda for my time with you.

I want to talk a little bit about their background and then the assessment that was taken to get to this moment.

Excuse me, uh County Manager Becker to come up and present with me.

We'll talk a little bit about the closure process and again next steps.

And at the very end, I just know that there are a lot of questions that have been floating around.

Um I know I'm not gonna be able to get to all of them, but I want to be able to address a few of them just in a small amount of time that I have.

So first, I'd like to ground the committee in a little bit of context for this conversation.

Um much of this work really started um with our community safety alignment team.

We call it CSAT, uh, which is a cross-functional team designed to create uh alignment within our city's public safety approach.

Uh the goal of this group is really to implement and coordinate an overall city strategy to support our community.

Um I facilitated this group when I first started and was appointed as the director of the Office of Neighborhood uh neighborhood safety, and uh as I continued and was appointed as the assistant mayor for people in a neighborhood vitality, um, I continue into that work.

Um as you see here, this department represents different um uh cross-functional departments uh within the city, and the main goal of this group was to really talk about community safety, public safety.

One of the things that came up in our conversations repeatedly at the beginning of this administration was safety and encampments.