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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes January 10, 2017 Page 4 City departments, elected and appointed officials and contracted staff. Staff and elected officials 1 from Falcon Heights and Lauderdale also attended. In all, 137 individuals attended the sessions. 2 3 The facilitators from the Racial Equity Minnesota Network distributed a survey for attendees to 4 complete and have compiled feedback received from the attendees that the City staff Equity 5 Committee will review and share with staff and ultimately use to guide next steps as a City on 6 this topic. 7 8 VII. REPORTS FROM CITY MANAGER AND COUNCIL MEMBERS. 9 10 City Manager Casey reported tonight is the listening session for the Department of Justice at the 11 High School. There will be another session tomorrow evening in Lauderdale. The City wants to 12 hear from all St. Anthony residents on how they feel about the St. Anthony Police Department. 13 There is a link on the website for an email address for those wishing to email their comments. 14 The email will be forwarded to the Department of Justice and it will be reviewed. 15 16 Councilmember Brever stated she attended the January 6, 2017, the community conversation 17 with the DARE to be Real students. On January 8, 2017, she attended the Sister City Meeting. 18 She noted next week the Family Services Collaborative Group will be resuming their discussions 19 with Racial Equity Minnesota group. 20 21 Councilmember Jenson stated he attended the Kiwanis meeting, the History Committee meeting, 22 and the St. Anthony Fire Department Relief Fund meeting at the end of December. On January 3, 23 a liaison to Ramsey County, he attended the retirement ceremony of Matt Bostrom. 24 25 Councilmember Stille had no report. 26 27 Mayor Faust stated on December 15, 2016, there was a press conference along with other 28 attendees. This is why the listening sessions have been planned. Suggestions will come from the 29 COPS group for recommendations on how to make St. Anthony better. On December 9, 2016, 30 Mayor Faust attended the Regional Council of Mayors. Earlier today, he attended the Mississippi 31 Watershed Management Organization Board Meeting and Councilmember Reich from 32 Minneapolis was re-elected as the Chair. 33 34 VIII. COMMUNITY FORUM. 35 36 Mayor Faust invited residents to come forward at this time and address the Council on items that 37 are not on the regular agenda. 38 39 Hearing none, Mayor Faust moved forward with the agenda. 40 41 IX. INFORMATION AND ANNOUNCEMENTS. 42 43 None. 44 45 X. ADJOURNMENT. 46 10