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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2025.05.05 CCP WORKCOUNCIL/EDA WORK SESSION MEETING City Hall Council Chambers May 5, 2025 AGENDA 1. Active Discussion Items a. Community Safety and Violence Prevention Commission 2. Adjournment Page 1 of 23 4/24/2025 1 OCPHS Department Annual Report April 28th,2025, City Council Meeting LaToya Turk, Director Overview •Office of Community Prevention, Health and Safety structure •Division presentations: Community Engagement, Arts & Beautification, Public Health & Safety •2025 Priorities 2 1 2 Page 2 of 23 4/24/2025 2 Director Community Engagement Coordinator Community Engagement Specialist Artist in Residency 3 Community Engagement 4 3 4 Page 3 of 23 4/24/2025 3 Core Functions Outreach and Trust-Building •The team facilitates direct connection between the City and the community through relationship-centered outreach. This includes presence at community events, neighborhood conversations, and targeted efforts to engage all stakeholders, especially underrepresented populations. By listening and responding to stakeholders, the team fosters transparency, accessibility, and trust in local government. Program Collaboration •The community engagement team works with city wide departments to plan community-informed programs and initiatives. Whether it's co-creating policies, gathering feedback on city initiatives, or coordinating public forums, the engagement team ensures that the community is an active partner in shaping outcomes that impact their quality of life. Equity, Inclusion, and Cultural Responsiveness •Ensuring that engagement practices are inclusive, culturally competent, and accessible is a cornerstone of the engagement team's work. This includes providing language support, designing multi-format engagement options (in-person and virtual), and centering voices from a diverse group of backgrounds. Community Engagement 5 Internal/External strategic planning team Community Partnerships Metric incorporation Program Highlights 2004 Accomplishments 6 5 6 Page 4 of 23 4/24/2025 4 2024 metrics 7 8 7 8 Page 5 of 23 4/24/2025 5 2025 Community Engagement Priorities Strengthen Community Partnerships for Shared Impact Deepen relationships with residents, grassroots/local organizations, faith institutions, businesses, and regional partners to build a more collaborative ecosystem of engagement. Key Strategies: •Formalize partnerships with community-based organizations. •Establish a Community Partner Advisory Group to co-design programs and provide feedback on city initiatives. •Support co-hosted events and initiatives that elevate trusted community voices and increase resident participation. 9 2025 Community Engagement Priorities Analyze and Leverage Community Data to Drive Decision-Making Use disaggregated community data and engagement analytics to identify trends, measure reach and equity, and ensure engagement efforts are effectively meeting the needs of all stakeholders. Key Strategies: •Develop an annual Community Engagement Report to track participation. •Utilize data from surveys, public feedback, and digital platforms to guide program improvements. •Incorporate qualitative community stories and lived experience into reports to complement quantitative metrics. 10 9 10 Page 6 of 23 4/24/2025 6 2025 Community Engagement Priorities Implement a Citywide Engagement Strategy Create a unified and consistent approach to public engagement across to increase transparency, coordination, and resident trust. Key Strategies: •Launch and implement a Citywide Community Engagement Strategic Plan guided by the IAP2 framework. •Provide staff training and a standardized toolkit for equitable engagement practices. •Align departmental calendars to support coordinated outreach efforts and reduce engagement fatigue in the community. 11 2025 ARTS & BEAUTIFICATION 12 11 12 Page 7 of 23 4/24/2025 7 Arts & Beautification CORE FUNCTIONS I. CULTURAL AND PUBLIC ARTS COMMISSION On April 8, 2024, the City Council established a resolution to establish the inaugural Cultural and Public Arts Commission. This commission serves as a guiding body to enhance community vibrancy by integrating public art into public life. With diverse representation, the commission plays a crucial role in creating a more inclusive, connected, and enriched city environment. The Commission embraces a holistic view of art—as something placed in public space, something that is public space, and something that serves the public interest. This includes: Seek funding opportunities Contributing to improved community health and overall quality of life through arts access Art as a platform for dialogue, inclusion, and cultural expression Art as a tool for placemaking and community identity Public art as an interactive and transformative experience Enhancing the built environment and social infrastructure through public art 13 Major Projects Completed in 2024 14 13 14 Page 8 of 23 4/24/2025 8 Arts and Beautification 2025 PRIORITIES I. Cultural and Public Art Commission II. Public Art Policy III. Adopt-a-Park 15 PUBLIC ART POLICY 16 15 16 Page 9 of 23 4/24/2025 9 17 Public Health & Public Safety Core Functions Strengthening Community Relationships: Focusing on partnering with local organizations to provide health and wellness resources where critical healthcare services Continue to create a coordinated ecosystem of public health stakeholders to improve access to needed services (public safety, mental health resources, economics and access to life essential resources). 18 17 18 Page 10 of 23 4/24/2025 10 Collaborations that focus on service delivery and community partnerships/collaborations •Medpods •Health Fair •Opioid and Narcan Administration Education •Community Crisis Response Team Monthly Meetings •Expanded Response Model 2024 Year in Review 19 2025 Priorities Community Resource Mapping & Gap Analysis Identify existing public health and safety resources across city departments, nonprofits, and health systems. Key Strategies: •Conduct a citywide audit of crisis response services, mental health providers, housing supports, and prevention programs. •Use GIS mapping to visualize areas of over- or under-resourced services. •Create a centralized public dashboard for internal and external stakeholders. 20 19 20 Page 11 of 23 4/24/2025 11 2025 Priorities Data-Driven Framework Objective:Integrate real-time and historical data to shape responsive policy and funding requests. Key Strategies: •Use the Expanded Response Team reports to identify behavioral trends, seasonal shifts, and hotspot emergence. •Convene annual data reviews with civic and business stakeholders. 21 2025 Priorities Strategic Public Health Plan Development Objective:Draft a citywide public health strategy that explicitly addresses social determinants and public safety co-responses. Key Strategies : •Partner with Public Health departments for technical assistance. •Align plan pillars with violence prevention, behavioral health response, emergency preparedness, and environmental health. •Host community listening sessions to co-create objectives and outcomes. 22 21 22 Page 12 of 23 4/24/2025 12 2025 OCPHS Department Strategic Priorities 23 2025 Strategic Priority #1 Ensure a coordinated, public health orientated approach that relies on a diversity of evidence-based approaches to public safety, health, economics and access to life essential resources for residents and business owners within the City. 1. Collaborate with regional partners to develop a public health strategic plan for the City 24 23 24 Page 13 of 23 4/24/2025 13 2025 Priority #2 Continue to provide leadership, programming, coordination and evaluation for implementation on preventative, health equitable and safe practice work plans for an intentional City-centered engagement framework. 2. Implement a citywide community engagement strategic plan. 25 2025 Priority #3 Continue to address the community's need for a holistic approach to the intersection of public health and community safety. 1. Work with internal and external partners to evolve Expanded Response Model (prevention, intervention response and recovery) 26 25 26 Page 14 of 23 4/24/2025 14 Questions 27 27 Page 15 of 23 Member Butler introduced the following resolution and moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 2024-138 RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING THE BROOKLYN CENTER COMMUNITY SAFETY AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION COMMISSION AND DEFINING DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES WHEREAS, on May 15, 2021, the City Council for the City of Brooklyn Center (“City”) passed Resolution No. 2021-73, adopting the Daunte Wright and Kobe Dimock-Heisler Community Safety and Violence Prevention Act (the “Act”); and WHEREAS, the Act required the City to create a permanent Community Safety and Violence Prevention Committee, which was to be tasked with reviewing and making recommendations regarding the policing response to the protests that occurred in the City in April 2021, reviewing the current collective bargaining agreement between the City and the Police Department, making recommendations prior to the renegotiation of the agreement and before its final approval, recommending the City Council create a separate and permanent civilian oversight committee for the new Department of Community Safety and Violence Prevention, reviewing Chapter 19 of the City Code, making recommendations with regard to repealing or amending provisions or penalties therein, including fines and fees, and periodically making any other recommendations to the City Council related to initiating programs or policies to improve community health in the City; and WHEREAS, the Community Safety and Violence Prevention Committee was to include a majority of members that are City residents with direct experience being arrested, detained, or having other similar contact with the Brooklyn Center Police Department or had direct contact with one or more of the other services to be provided by the new Department of Community Safety and Violence Prevention; and WHEREAS, the Community Safety and Violence Prevention Committee was to be chaired by the Mayor, with list of potential members created by the Director of the Department of Community Safety and Violence Prevention and members from that list recommended by t he Mayor and confirmed by the City Council; and WHEREAS, the City Council is authorized by Section 2.02 of the City Charter to create boards, commissions, and committees to assign to them specific duties; and WHEREAS, the City remains committed to creating a safer, healthier, more just, and more thriving community by promoting a diversity of responses to our community's safety needs that do not rely solely on our armed law enforcement officers; and WHEREAS, the City remains committed to putting in the work necessary to bring about changes as quickly as possible in how the City provides public safety while recognizing that some of these measures will take longer to implement than others and that additional work remains to be done to create a healthier and more equitable community; and Page 16 of 23 WHEREAS, due to the permancey of the Community Safety and Violence Prevention Committee referenced in the Act and the importance of the work they will be tasked to perform, the City Council desires to establish the body as a permanent advisory commission for the City of Brooklyn Center, as opposed to a committee, to be identified as the Community Safety and Violence Prevention Commission (“Commission”). The Act shall be amended to reflect the establishment of a commission as opposed to a committee; and WHEREAS, the City Council desires to expand upon the Act and to expand and clarify the duties, responsibilities and structure of the Commission. The Act shall be amended to reflect the duties, responsibilities and structure of the Commission as set forth in this Resolution; and NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, as follows: 1. Establishment. The advisory Community Safety and Violence Prevention Commission (“Commission”) is hereby established for the City of Brooklyn Center. 2. Scope. In accordance with the Act and the findings set forth above, the scope of activity of the Commission shall consist of advising the City Council and other City advisory commissions and committees regarding matters relevant to Community Safety and Violence Prevention functions. 3. Purpose. The general purpose of the Commission is to act in an advisory capacity to the City Council on issues related to Community Safety and Violence Prevention. 4. Duties and Responsibilities. In accordance with the Act and the findings set forth above, and in fulfilllment of its purpose, the Commission’s duties and responsibilities of the Commission include, but are not limited to, the following: a. Develop, advise, recommend, and upon adoption by the City Council, monitor the execution of a comprehensive plan and recommend amendments to the plan as warranted relevant to community safety and violence prevention matters in the City, including the Act; b. Advise and assist the City in the adoption of policies and procedures by the City Council responsive to changing diverse community needs and concerns in matters of community safety and violence prevention; c. Annually report to the City Council regarding accomplishments toward fulfillment of such comprehensive plan and recommend amendments to the plan as warranted; d. Advise and assist the City in reviewing and discussing community safety and violence prevention policies for the City, and make recommendations to the City Council concerning community safety and violence prevention in the City; Page 17 of 23 e. Work with City staff and other Commissions on matters regarding community safety and violence prevention in the City; f. Review current community safety and violence prevention initiatives, practices, and policies; g. Work with neighborhood committees to understand the community safety and violence prevention needs of each area in the City; h. Identify high-priority areas for community safety and violence prevention in the community and analyze methods of fulfilling these needs and interests and presenting alternative recommendations for actions to the City Council; i. Provide opportunities for the citizens of Brooklyn Center to voice their concerns and opinions regarding community safety and violence prevention matters; j. Recommend new and innovative concepts in community safety and violence prevention for the City; k. Advise, review and make recommendations for the City’s response to protests; l. Review the current collective bargaining agreement between the City make recommendations prior to final approval to the City Manager; m. Periodically make any other recommendations to the City Council related to initiating programs or policies to improve community health in the City. 5. Composition. The Commission shall be composed of a Chairperson and six (6) voting members and four non-voting advisors, all of whom shall be appointed and serve as set forth below. All voting members of the Commission shall be residents with direct experience or contact with the public safety, judicial or public health systems. Or have had direct contact or expertise with one or more of the public safety, judicial or public health systems. All non-voting advisors shall be appointed and serve as set forth below. All non- voting advisors shall have direct experience or contact with the public safety, judicial or public health systems or have had direct contact or expertise with one or more of the public safety, judicial or public health systems 6. Method of Selection. The Office of Community Prevention, Health and Safety will provide the Mayor with a list of commission candidates to serve on the Commission after review with Brooklyn Center Police Department, Brooklyn Center Fire Department and Brooklyn Center Parks and Recreation Department. The Mayor will recommend candidates to the City Council for appointment. The City Council shall appoint members to the Commission by resolution. Page 18 of 23 7. Initial Appointment. The Commission under this resolution shall become effective March 30th, 2025, or soon thereafter, and shall consist of three members appointed for a term through 2027, three members appointed for a term through 2026, and one member appointed for a term through 2025. 8. Term of Office. The terms of office for Commission members shall be staggered two-year terms, except that any person appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which their predecessor was appointed shall be appointed only for the remainder of such term. Upon expiration of their term of office, a member shall continue to serve until their successor is appointed and shall have qualified. Terms of office for members of the Commission shall expire on December 31 of respective calendar years. In the event an appointed Commission member suffers from an extended illness, disability, or other activity preventing proper fulfillment of duties, responsibilities, rules, and regulations of the Commission, the Commission member may be temporarily replaced during the temporary leave by an interim Commission member recommended by the Mayor and appointed by the City Council. 9. Resignations-Removal from Office-Vacancies. Commission members may resign voluntarily or may be removed from office by the Mayor with consent of the City Council. Three consecutive unexcused absences from the duly called Commission meetings or unexcused absences from a majority of duly called Commission meetings within one calendar year shall constitute automatic resignation from office. The City Council liaison shall inform the Mayor and City Council of such automatic resignations. Vacancies in the Commission shall be filled by appointment of the City Council. The procedure for filling Commission vacancies is as follows: a. Notices of vacancies shall be posted for 30 days before any official City Council action is taken; b. Vacancies shall be announced in the City's official newspaper; c. Notices of vacancies shall be sent to all members of standing advisory commissions; d. The City Clerk shall forward copies of the applications to the Public Safety Departments (Office of Community Prevention, Health and Safety, Brooklyn Center Police Department, Brooklyn Center Parks and Recreatioon Department and Brooklyn Center Fire Department) and the Mayor; e. The Mayor shall identify and include the nominee's name in the City Council agenda materials for the City Council meeting at which the nominee is presented; Page 19 of 23 f. The City Council, by majority vote, may approve an appointment at the City Council meeting at which the nominee is presented. 10. Chairperson. The Commission’s Chairperson shall be elected by a majority vote of the Commission membership. The election shall be conducted at the Commission’s first meeting and at the first regular meeting of each calendar year, or, in the case of a vacancy, within two regularly scheduled meetings from the time a vacancy of the Chairperson occurs. The Chairperson may be removed by a majority vote of the Commisison membership. The Chairperson shall assure fulfillment of the following responsibilities in addition to those otherwise described herein: a. Preside over meetings of the Commission; b. Appear, or appoint a representative to appear, as necessary, before City advisory commissions and the City Council to present the viewpoint of the Commission in matters pertaining to community safety and violence prevention as it relates to business under consideration by said commissions or City Council; c. Review all official minutes of the City Council and other advisory commissions to inform the Commission of matters relevant to community safety and violence prevention; d. Serve as a liaison with other governmental and voluntary organizations on matters relevant to community safety and violence prevention. 11. Vice Chairperson. A Vice Chairperson shall be appointed annually by the Chairperson from the members of the Commission. The Vice Chairperson shall perform such duties as may be assigned by the Chairperson and shall assume the responsibilities of the Chairperson in their absence. 12. Representation Requirements. Due regard shall be given by the Mayor and City Council in appointing Commission members which will take into consideration geographical distribution within the City, as described in paragraph 20 below, and the representative nature of the Commission in terms of gender, religion, ethnic, racial, age, handicapped, employee, and employer groups. 13. Conflict of Interest. No Commission member shall take part in the consideration of any matter wherein their interest might reasonably be expected to affect their impartiality. 14. Compensation. Commissioner members shall serve without compensation. 15. Bylaws, Rules and Procedures. The Commission shall adopt such bylaws, rules and procedures not inconsistent with these provisions as may be necessary for the proper execution and conduct of business. Bylaws adopted by the Commission shall become effective upon approval and consent of the City Council. Page 20 of 23 16. Meetings. The initial meeting of the Commission shall be convened by March 30th, 2025. Thereafter, regular meetings shall be held with the date and time to be determined by the Commission. Special meetings may be called by the Chairperson. 17. Staff Liaison. The City Manager shall assign one member of the staff to serve as staff liaison to the Commission. The staff member liaison assigned shall perform administrative duties on behalf of the commission. In addition to the Staff Liaison, City staff from all public safety departments will attend commission meetings including the Office of Community Prevention Health and Safety, Brooklyn Center Police Department, Brooklyn Center Parks and Recreation Department and Brooklyn Center Fire Department with the Office of Community Prevention, Health and Safety serving as the liaison for the commission. 18. Ex Officio Members. The Mayor, or the member of the City Council appointed by the Mayor, shall serve as an ex officio member of the Commission, privileged to speak on any matter but without a vote, and shall provide a liaison between the Commission and the City Council. 19. Neighborhoods: a. Neighborhood Advisory Committees: Commission members shall be assigned by the Chairperson as liaisons to neighborhood advisory committees of the Commission. It will then be the responsibility of each neighborhood advisory committee of the Commission to review safety and violence prevention matters and present the neighborhood opinions and concerns on general and specific safety and violence prevention programs directly affecting that neighborhood. b. Neighborhoods Described (See also Exhibit A attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference). i. Southeast Neighborhood: The Southeast neighborhood shall be bordered on the south by the south city limits; on the east by the Mississippi River; on the north by FAI-94; and on the west by Shingle Creek. ii. Northeast Neighborhood: The Northeast neighborhood shall be bordered on the south by FAI-94; on the east by the Mississippi River; on the north by the north city limits; and on the west by Shingle Creek. iii. Northwest Neighborhood: The Northwest neighborhood shall be bordered on the south by FAI-94; on the east by Shingle Creek; on the north by the north city limits; and on the west by the west city limits. iv. West Central Neighborhood: The West Central neighborhood shall be bordered on the south by County Road 10; on the east by Brooklyn Boulevard; on the north by FAI-94; and on the west by the west city limits. Page 21 of 23 v. Central Neighborhood: The Central neighborhood shall be bordered on the south by County Road 10; on the east by Shingle Creek; on the north by FAI-94; and on the west by Brooklyn Boulevard. vi. Southwest Neighborhood: The Southwest neighborhood shall be bordered on the south by the south city limits; on the east by Shingle Creek; on the north by County Road 10; and on the west by the west city limits. 20. The Act is hereby amended as referenced in this Resolution. December 9, 2024 Date Mayor ATTEST: Assistant City Manager/City Clerk The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly seconded by member Graves and upon vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor thereof: Butler, Graves, Kragness and the following voted against the same: Jerzak, Lawrence-Anderson whereupon said resolution was declared duly passed and adopted. Page 22 of 23 EXHIBIT A Map of Neighborhoods Page 23 of 23