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Mounds View City Council July 22, 2024 Regular Meeting Page 5 this home should not be sold to a person of color. He asked if this was thriving and desirable. He questioned if this language embodied Welcome Home. He discussed how redlining happened in the City and this language was still in place. He understood racial covenants were not enforceable today, but what was the City’s responsibility, what would doing something about covenants do. He asked if doing something about the covenants would begin to heal the hurts of years ago. He reported with the themes of being thriving and desirable as well as embracing Welcome Home, it was the Council’s determination that the City was not living up to who it was supposed to be. For this reason, he believed the City was responsible. When a person of color or any person for that matter moves into one of those homes and signs a deed with those words, the City was responsible. He wanted to ensure no one was excluded from homeownership. He wanted to ensure the children in this community could view a racial covenants map of Mounds View and it would read zero. He believed the City was responsible for either leaving the foundation of racial covenants in place, or finishing the job and taking out that foundation and building a new foundation that was welcoming for all. He stated anything successful has a good foundation. He was proud of the fact Mounds View was the first community to make a commitment to shatter this foundation and build a new welcoming one. In summary, like the AA statement, whenever the City is confronted with something, such as a legacy of racism through language in deeds, he wanted to see the City being responsible for it in order to bring about healing of the hurts of the past. He reported this was the reason the City has proactively mailed every home the instructions and forms needed to discharge the racial covenants that were in place and the City would be covering the cost. He indicated all residents selling their home would have to have racial covenants discharged prior to the sale of their home and it was now illegal to have racial covenants in place in Mounds View. He stated this would be the way Mounds View takes responsibility for this issue. When people ask is Mounds View a thriving and desirable community that embraces its motto of Welcome Home, we can say yes because the City went back to the beginning of overt racism and did something about it in the present. He thanked everyone who has had a hand in getting the City to this point. He also wanted to thank his fellow Councilmembers. He appreciated the fact he had an amazing team that has voted unanimously to support this issue. He stated today the City was laying new bricks together in order to build a new foundation that was welcoming for everyone. He appreciated how the City and community were taking responsibility uniting in one purpose to be able to say Welcome Home Mounds View. B. Resolution 9962, Approving the Purchase of Additional Concrete Panels for an Outside Material Storage Bin. Public Works/Parks and Recreation Director Peterson requested the Council approve the purchase of additional concrete panels for an outside material storage bin. He explained the 10 panels were needed for an outside storage bin for street sweepings at Public Works. Mayor Lindstrom asked if the City would be paid for the sand. Public Works/Parks and Recreation Director Peterson reported the City would not be paid, but it would also not be charged for the sand. MOTION/SECOND: Gunn/Clark. To Waive the Reading and Adopt Resolution 9962, Approving the Purchase of Additional Concrete Panels for an Outside Material Storage Bin.