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Mounds View City Council July 22, 2024 <br /> Regular Meeting Page 4 <br /> 1 Mounds View would want to take care of this on a voluntary basis. He stated the City Council <br /> 2 could escalate the fines in the future if there was a great deal of non-compliance. <br /> 3 <br /> 4 Luke Edmond, 8407 Spring Lake Road, questioned if the buyer or seller was getting penalized. <br /> 5 <br /> 6 Mayor Lindstrom reported the seller would be penalized. <br /> 7 <br /> 8 Catherine Smith, 2142 Bell Lane, inquired what the timeline was to have the racial covenants <br /> 9 discharged before fines would be assessed. <br /> 10 <br /> 11 Mayor Lindstrom indicated the City would work with the homeowner at the time of sale on this <br /> 12 matter. He explained a sewer line inspection would have to be completed at the point of sale as <br /> 13 well. <br /> 14 <br /> 15 Sharon Kirscher, 8406 Red Oak Drive, asked how many people have come forward so far to have <br /> 16 their racial covenants discharged. <br /> 17 <br /> 18 Mayor Lindstrom understood that 30 residents have had their racial covenants discharged to date. <br /> 19 <br /> 20 Mayor Lindstrom closed the meeting for public comment. <br /> 21 <br /> 22 MOTION/SECOND: Clark/Gunn. To Waive the Second Reading and Adopt Ordinance 1014, <br /> 23 Adding a New Chapter 38 to Title II of Mounds View City Code Regarding Discriminatory <br /> 24 Covenants. <br /> 25 <br /> 26 ROLL CALL: Cermak/Clark/Gunn/Lindstrom. <br /> 27 <br /> 28 Ayes—4 Nays—0 Motion carried. <br /> 29 <br /> 30 Mayor Lindstrom read a statement as to why the community was responsible for doing something <br /> 31 about racism. He stated at Alcoholics Anonymous there is a statement, when anyone anywhere <br /> 32 reaches out for help, I want the hand of AA to be available and for that I am responsible. He stated <br /> 33 when Mounds View began to approach the topic of racial covenants the Council did so through a <br /> 34 lens of the legacy of exclusion that racial covenants represent and the hurts associated. He <br /> 35 understood racial covenants were a movement after slavery that led to segregation. He appreciated <br /> 36 how the City was acknowledging the wrong in racial covenants but wanted to see the City move <br /> 37 farther in order to address the foundation of hate and exclusion. He reported the City's theme was <br /> 38 thriving and desirable. He commented on how the Community Engagement Committee had <br /> 39 created the slogan, Welcome Home. He discussed how with these themes defining the City, a <br /> 40 deeper look was taken into the history of the community and the effects of racism through the <br /> 41 Mapping Prejudice project and the awareness that was brought to this issue. He reported Mounds <br /> 42 View was four square miles and had 571 racial covenants in place, which averaged to one every <br /> 43 37 feet. He explained in Mounds View hundreds of homes that have language in place that states <br /> 44 this home should not be sold to a person of color. He asked if this was thriving and desirable. He <br /> 45 questioned if this language embodied Welcome Home. He discussed how redlining happened in <br /> 46 the City and this language was still in place. He understood racial covenants were not enforceable <br />