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GG-19 REGULATION OF MASSAGE THERAPISTS GG-20 PEACE OFFICER ARBITRATION REFORM GG-21 PUBLIC SAFETY TRAINING AND RESOURCES •Establishing an earlier deadline for ending in-person absentee voting. •Authorizing cities to schedule election judges to conduct absentee voting at an earlier date in health care facilities. •Additional funding and flexibility for cities that administer absentee balloting and early voting. •Requiring the legislature to conduct a cost-benefit analysis for Minn. Stat. § 203B.085, which mandates certain days and hours for early voting, weighing the number of voters served by extended hours on evenings and weekends with the cost to local governments. In the absence of statewide regulation for massage therapy practitioners, many cities have enacted local ordinances that require massage therapists to obtain a local professional license to assist law enforcement in differentiating between legitimate providers and illegitimate businesses fronting as massage therapy establishments. Metro Cities supports statewide registration or licensure of massage therapists to aid local law enforcement efforts in this area. Metro Cities supports cities’ ability to continue to license massage therapy businesses. Many municipalities in the metropolitan area provide law enforcement services and employ licensed peace officers. To ensure the public’s safety and trust, and to strengthen collaboration between citizens and peace officers, cities must have the authority to effectively govern local law enforcement agencies. City officials are ultimately responsible for the safety and protection of the local community. Metro Cities supports statutory arbitration reforms to allow for the discipline, including removal, of law enforcement officers who have been found to have violated local law enforcement agency policies. Metro Cities further supports a reasonable standard of review in law enforcement arbitration cases, which would limit the determination of arbitrators to whether the actions of an employer were reasonable and consistent with city and agency policies. Metro Cities further supports using administrative law judges (ALJs) or arbitration to address grievances and discipline related to police misconduct. Metro Cities acknowledges that the tasks public safety responders have been asked to address are increasingly the result of inadequate social services and programs. 23