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• Identify Community Advisory Group members who will provide foundational insights into how racially disparate policing practices affect people’s everyday lives; • Identify key project staff and participants (the “RBAP Work Group”) and the baseline hours required for participation; • Identify key project consultants that will bring the necessary and various expertise required for the institutional assessment; • Develop proposed budget and budget narrative; • Identify sources of project funding and in-kind contributions; • Identify and resolve data access issues, including any necessary agreements, so that the St. Anthony Police Department and the City of St. Anthony can provide access to records, data and information to the maximum extent allowed under state and federal law; and • Draft an assessment project Memorandum of Understanding that ensures that all participants are committed to shared goals and activities. Members of the Planning Group This initial planning group will include Police Chief John Mangseth, Mayor Jerry Faust, City Manager Mark Casey, St. Anthony resident Kristine Lizdas, St. Anthony resident Jenifer McGuire, St. Anthony resident Nancy Robinett, community activist Curtis Avent from Justice Occupation for Philando, community activist John Thompson (a friend of Philando Castile), one representative from Falcon Heights (to be named) and one representative from Lauderdale (to be named). Other members of or advisors to the planning group may be added by the Planning Group for reasons of need and outreach. Timeline There is urgency to this planning group process because of the urgency associated with the tension, sadness and publicity surrounding the death of Philando Castile. The planning group agrees to communicate regularly among itself via in-person, small group and remote communications, and meet in-person at least twice over the first month, with the goal of producing a formal proposal for the City Council and St. Anthony Police Department on conducting an institutional assessment of racial bias in policing by the October 25, 2016 City Council meeting. The planning group understands that it will work cooperatively and that each member will use its best efforts in this proposal development. 56