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• Passage of Resolution approving the

Neighborhoods 2020 framework recommendations.

Requested Council Action

Pictured: Whittier Alliance volunteers at Whittier booth at Eat Street Festival in 2018

“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.”

― Ja Jane Ja Jacobs, The e De Death and Lif Life e of

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Photo courtesy of Meet Minneapolis

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Neighborhoods 2020

…is the recommendation for the City’s future programming and funding of neighborhood

• rganizations and community-

based organizations in Minneapolis.

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Neighborhood Organizations

Neighborhood organizations are uniquely positioned to identify local needs and that a robust neighborhood system greatly benefits the residents of Minneapolis. For 30 years, 70 Minneapolis neighborhood organizations have:

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Connected neighbors Promoted a neighborhood identity Hosted activities like voter registration, community gardens, youth programs Organized around issues like housing, livability, safety and the environment Empowered residents through civic engagement Connected government and residents

• 70 recognized neighborhood organizations –some 100 years old!
• Each is an autonomous nonprofit, incorporated with State of

Minnesota

• Volunteer boards elected by residents (and others)
• Some have annual revenues as little as $18,000, some as high as

$600,000+ Neighborhood Organizations: The Basics

• Represent communities as small as 600 residents to as large as

20,000 residents

• Some represent highly diverse neighborhoods with multiple

languages spoken at home

• Each community faces different issues: responding to crime,

transit initiatives, development issues, schools, community health, etc. Each Represents A Unique Community:

• Home fix-up loans, home-ownership assistance, and home rehab
• Park improvements, reforestation projects, rain gardens and

community gardens

• Block clubs, block parties, cameras, and other safety initiatives
• Streetscape and commercial corridor projects (think Eat Street!)
• Community centers (Whittier, Prospect Park, Harrison,

Windom) Neighborhood Organization Outcomes

NRP Funds $226,072,907 Community Participation Program Funds $34,701,463

Since 2016: Volunteer Hours: 314,268 Value of Volunteer Time: $8,653,376

Program Income $33,225,616

Total Neighborhood Funding since 1992 $302,557,668

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Activity and Funding

Citizen Participation Program $8,557,682

Neighborhood Board Diversity

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2014-18 Diversity Survey results:

• 1. Individuals serving on neighborhood organization boards closely match their

neighborhoods’ demographics in age, income and gender.

• 2. Board members’ educational background and disability status almost matches

neighborhood demographics, but is still lacking diversity.

• 3. Renters and people of color remain significantly underrepresented.

Critical Issues

• Growing and diversifying population
• Majority renter population
• Affordable Housing will be an ongoing policy

priority –Production not keeping up with loss

• Increased focus on equity and inclusion in City

policy and programs

• Ongoing focus on eliminating racial disparities

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Source: City Council Study Session – Aug 3, 2017

Equity Focus

• “Minneapolis will have an equitable civic participation

system that enfranchises everyone, recognizes the core and vital service neighborhood organizations provide to the City

• f Minneapolis, and builds people’s long-term capacity to
• rganize and improve their lives and neighborhoods.”

Minneapolis 2040 Plan

Timeline

• 2016 – Blueprint for Equitable Engagement

adopted by City Council

• 2016 – 2017 Art of Hosting conversations
• 2016 – 2018 – NCEC 2020 Subcommittee
• 2018 – Work groups established by City Council
• 2019 – Completion of the Neighborhoods 2020

Framework

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Pictured: People writing their ideas during brainstorming at Art of Hosting meeting at Powderhorn Recreation Center .

Art of Hosting Engagement

NCR staff spent 2017 listening to people and organizations:

• 5 meetings using the Art of Hosting

and World Café engagement methodology

• Over 500 people attended
• Culturally specific focus groups for

Lao, Hmong, Latino and American Indian communities

• City luncheon conversations with

staff from Minneapolis City Departments and elected officials

• On-line survey
• Community Connections Conference
• Meetings with NCEC, City of Seattle,

City of St. Paul and Minneapolis neighborhoods

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Pictured: People writing their ideas during brainstorming at Art of Hosting meeting at Powderhorn Recreation Center .

Art of Hosting Common Themes

Neighborhoods are important, and neighborhood

• rganizations:
• Need more funding and more efficient use of

resources

• Want to be effective leaders
• Need help to increase equity and inclusion
• Want to be good partners
• Are a historic link between civic and community life

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Pictured: Man speaking at Art of Hosting meeting at Powderhorn Recreation Center .

NCEC 2020 Subcommittee

1. The City will fund programming based on scope of services,

• utcomes and performance measures

2. The City will provide oversight and structure for use of public funds 3. Supporting grassroots organizing is fundamentally important 4. The City will maintain a place-based neighborhood engagement system 5. Equity and inclusion of all residents is the aspirational goal 6. Partnership and collaboration with community-based

• rganizations is paramount to achieving our goals

7. The engagement system should support the community for the next decade

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The Neighborhoods 2020 Roadmap

• March 2018, the revised roadmap was released
• Summarized what we heard from Art of Hosting
• Asked for ideas regarding models to consider
• Stated that work groups would be established in

June 2018

• Work groups would make recommendations to be

brought to Council

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Work groups

For five months, 46 volunteers drafted the recommendations that formed the basis for the Neighborhoods 2020 Framework in three areas:

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• 1. Program Guidelines, Funding & Implementation
• 2. Governance Advisory Structure
• 3. Citywide Community Engagement Policy

Pictured: Orientation meeting for Neighborhoods 2020 work group members in 2018.

Work groups

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• 1. Program Guidelines, Funding & Implementation

Members

1. Kari Louwagie, NCEC Representative 2. Marcus Mills, NCEC Representative 3. Marcea Mariani, NRP Policy Board 4. Tony Sterle, Mayoral Appointment 5. Cacje Henderson, City Council Appointment 6. Sara Gangelhoff, City Council Appointment 7. Beryl Ann Burton, Fowell 8. Brandon Burbach, Webber-Camden 9. Becky McIntosh, Windom

• 10. Becky Timm, Nokomis East/Victory
• 11. Sarah Linnes-Robinson, Kenny/Kingfield
• 12. Claire Bergren, Powderhorn Park
• 13. Kathleen Cole, Waite Park
• 14. Sunny Chanthanouvong, Harrison
• 15. Long X. Yang, Hawthorne
• 16. Nate Streeter, Folwell

Work groups

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• 2. Governance Advisory Structure

Members

1. Not filled, Cultural Community Representative 2. Nick Cichowicz, NCEC Representative 3. Jeff Strand, NCEC Representative 4. Council Member Reich, NRP Policy Board and City Council 5. School Board Member Samuels, NRP Policy Board 6. Erin Hart, Mayoral Appointment 7. Alexis Pennie, Jordan 8. Janet Court, Powderhorn Park 9. Kelley Skumautz, McKinley/Camden

• 10. Nikki Lindberg, Armatage
• 11. P. Victor Grambsch, Nicollet Island/East Bank
• 12. Saralyn Romanishan, Lowry Hill East
• 13. Shauna Dee, Stevens Square
• 14. Erika Dani, Victory
• 15. Stearline Rucker, Field-Regina-Northrop

Work groups

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• 3. Citywide Community Engagement Policy

Members

1. Peter Eichten, NCEC Representative 2. Denis Houle, NCEC Representative 3. David Boyd, NRP Policy Board 4. Melvin Hamilton, Mayoral Appointment 5. Council Member Cam Gordon 6. Council Member Steve Fletcher (David Zaffrann) 7. Carin Peterson, Sheridan 8. Cathy Spann, Jordan 9. Khadra Fiqi, Cedar-Riverside

• 10. Aryca Myers, Bryant/Lyndale
• 11. Caitlin Ross, Standish-Ericsson
• 12. Danielle Tietjen, Folwell
• 13. Gary Simpson, Loring Park
• 14. Vanessa Haight, Elliot Park/Minnehaha
• 15. EG Nelson, Bancroft
• 16. Lolita Carter, Near North

Work Groups

Work group vision statement:

The Neighborhoods 2020 process will develop a robust and creative community-based engagement framework that will allow the City to marshal the resources, energy and creativity of all its residents for a better future.

• IAP2 Level of Participation - Collaboration
• 5 community meetings to discuss draft workgroup

recommendations

• 3 meetings in Lao, Spanish and Somali
• 16 “in the community” NCR office hours
• Over 400 people attended
• Final Work Group recommendations released in mid-Dec

2018

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Pictured: Public comment meeting about Neighborhoods 2020 with Southeast Asian community members at Harrison Recreation Center.

NCR 2020 Framework Recommendations

NCR released the department’s recommendations as the Neighborhoods 2020 Framework on January 28th, 2019 Internal City Review Team

• Division of Race and Equity
• I-Team
• City Attorney’s Office
• Arts, Culture and Creative Economy
• City Coordinator’s Office
• Finance and Property Services
• NCR

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Pictured: Public comment meeting about Neighborhoods 2020 with Southeast Asian community members at Harrison Recreation Center.

Public Comment

Over 300 comments on the Neighborhoods 2020 Framework from residents, neighborhoods and community organizations received through:

• Email
• Text message
• Voicemail
• Meetings
• Comment Cards
• U.S. Mail

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Pictured: Public comment meeting about Neighborhoods 2020 with Southeast Asian community members at Harrison Recreation Center.

Public Comment

• 5 NCR sponsored community informational sessions
• 3 meetings in Lao, Spanish and Somali
• 36 presentations to neighborhood boards and ward

sponsored events

• Over 1,000 people reached

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Pictured: Public comment meeting about Neighborhoods 2020 with Southeast Asian community members at Harrison Recreation Center.

Public Comment Meetings

Map of public comment period informational meetings

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Pictured: Public comment meeting about Neighborhoods 2020 with Southeast Asian community members at Harrison Recreation Center.

What it is: General parameters for the program.

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Neighborhoods 2020 Framework

Neighborhoods 2020 Framework

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What it isn’t: It is not the operational aspects of the program. Program guidelines that operationalize the program still need to be developed.

Vision

Neighborhoods 2020 vision is to have an inclusive community where all people are valued, all communities engaged, and leadership mirrors the diversity of our city.

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Pictured: Cleveland Neighborhood, Clean City Youth

• 2. Neighborhood programming that is:
• Transparent
• Accountable
• Consistent
• Understandable
• Equitable
• Collaborative
• A source of pride and belonging for communities

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Pictured: Building Bridges and Breaking Bread organized by Kingfield, Lyndale, Central and Bryant neighborhood associations, the Seward Friendship Store, Sabathani Community Center, Kente Circle, The MN Spokesman-Recorder, MnDOT, and the 8th Ward Council Office.

Goals

Program Purposes

• Identifying and acting on neighborhood priorities
• Influencing City decisions on plans, policies and

services

• Increasing involvement in civic and community life

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Pictured: Kingfield Neighborhood Association get out the vote tent.

NCR Supportive Services

• Training, tools and resources
• Arts, culture and creative economy to support

engagement capacity

• Tools for working effectively with underrepresented

communities

• Division of Race and Equity to increase equity and

provide undoing racism training

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Pictured: NCR staff after 2019 Community Connections Conference

NCR Internal Review

• How to best support neighborhood organizations

and achieve the program goals

• Continue to support the City’s engagement and

access needs

• Conduct an internal review of the department’s

services

• Budget neutral approach

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Pictured: NCR engagement learning lab in progress.

Simplifying Process and Increasing Access

• Minimum Bylaw Standards
• Financial and Legal Accountability
• Diversity Action Plan
• Meetings and Elections
• Board Term Limits
• Pooling Resources
• Neighborhood Day

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Pictured: Folwell Neighborhood Welcome Packets for new neighbors.

Funding Structure

75% of total allocation for neighborhoods

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25% of total allocation available for community- based organizations

• Progressive approach to

supporting diverse representation

• 50% of allocation is base

funding

• 25% is impact funding
• 25% is discretionary

funding

• Ensure minimum allocation

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Funding Structure

Governance

NRP Policy Board:

• Elevate role of current NRP Policy Board
• Expand to include elected neighborhood

representatives

• Transparent and simple system to elect neighborhood

representatives

• Meet the statutory requirements of the NRP laws
• 100% focused on neighborhood work
• End the Neighborhood Community Engagement

Commission

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Pictured: NCEC commissioners in orientation.

Governance

Community Engagement Commission:

• Create a new Community Engagement Commission

focused on supporting City-wide engagement policy and efforts

• Support City departments with the development

and execution of engagement plans

• Elevate the role of the International Association of

Public Participation (IAP2) principles and practices

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Pictured: NCEC commissioners in session.

City-wide community engagement policy timeline

• 1. Where we are
• 1. Re-engagement of workgroup 3
• 2. Internal City staff group
• 3. Developing engagement plan
• 2. The outcomes
• 1. The creation of a City-wide community

engagement policy; and

• 2. The creation of an engagement toolkit

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Citywide community engagement policy timeline

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• Reconvene workgroup 3
• Internal City staff group
• Develop Community Engagement Plan

May 2019

• Conduct engagement
• IAP2 training for City staff and community

members

June- September 2019

• Review and report on engagement outcomes

October – November 2019

• Draft Community Engagement Policy

December 2019 – January 2020

• Review and comment period on Community

Engagement policy draft

February – April 2020

• Council adoption of City-wide Community

Engagement Policy

May – June 2020

Moving Forward

• Community Engagement Commission – Aug. 26
• NRP Policy Board – Aug. 26
• Develop guidelines and logic model – Nov. 4
• Templates for Diversity Action Plan and Outreach Plans
• NCR department review to support goals of programs,

neighborhoods and enterprise engagement needs –

• Nov. 4
• Citywide Engagement Policy Underway

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Thank you in the most widely-spoken languages, refugee languages and native languages of Minnesota.