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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes July 11, 2017 Page 6 inspired by what he saw. He stated he was inspired. Mr. Odie invited new voices and to let those voices 1 guide us to a better future in St. Anthony. 2 3 Ms. Sandy Sherman stated she went to an Open House that CPG had in March. There were about 200 4 people in attendance and they saw drawings of the plan. She stated she spoke with the City Planner and 5 was told the Council is committed to affordable housing. Ms. Sherman noted over $800,000 was given 6 in subsidy for Silver Lake Village and she was told $1,100 was the cost of affordable housing in Silver 7 Lake Village, which is extremely high and not affordable. Ms. Sherman asked the Council to commit to 8 affordable housing and to lead. She stated they want the Lowry Grove residents to live in St. Anthony 9 and they want real low income affordable housing. 10 11 Mr. Bernard Walker stated he is a resident of St. Anthony and wanted to address reform in the Police 12 Department in St. Anthony. He stated his belief that the death of Mr. Castille was preventable and if 13 Officer Yanez is one bad apple, then he believes that St. Anthony has too many bad apples and bad 14 apples should not be protecting the public. Mr. Walker stated he may not be a good fit for the position. 15 He read some comments from his friend who is a cop from Chicago that described how he would have 16 handled the situation. Mr. Walker described his 2½ hour meeting with Police Chief Mangseth and spoke 17 about cultural competency testing. He suggested the Mayor work with the Police Chief and let him make 18 recommendations for improvements. Mr. Walker asked Council to be open to changes. 19 20 Mayor Faust stated he is open to the reform, noting the Council is aware of the training for the Police 21 Department. 22 23 Police Chief Mangseth addressed the Bullet Proof Warrior Training, stating 4-5 officers did attend that 24 training but no other officers are attending it. The training is post-certified for officers. Mayor Faust 25 stated 16 hours per year are required for officer training and de-escalation is a relatively new training. 26 Police Chief Mangseth stated he began advancing the training as soon as he was named Interim Police 27 Chief. He explained that this past year, every officer received 2 hours of de-escalation training and the 28 Police Department received some unique training from the DOJ. He stated procedural justice training 29 will be scheduled. Police Chief Mangseth confirmed he will follow-through with the DOJ on training 30 opportunities for the Department. Mayor Faust stated he is committed to fund any training for the Police 31 Department. 32 33 Mr. Walker stated the Salt Lake City Utah department has gone through de-escalation training and the 34 number of incidents, such as the death of Castile, have dropped drastically. Police Chief Mangseth stated 35 he accepts the responsibility to see that the St. Anthony Police Department is trained in de-escalation. 36 37 Mr. Pablo Tapia, Co-founder of Assembly of Civil Rights, spoke about the crisis in Lowry Grove. He 38 asked why it was easy to have money for Officer Yanez but no money for Lowry Grove residents. He 39 stated within three hours he was pulled over three times in St. Anthony, twice by the same officer. Mr. 40 Tapia stated this indicated to him that there were problems with race in St. Anthony. He stated his 41 opinion that Philando was killed as well as the dreams of the residents of Lowry Grove. He stated his 42 belief that the police made the comment it was a good thing Lowry Grove was closing because there 43 were many problems there. Mr. Tapia asked the Council and Mayor for commitment to work with the 44 citizens of St. Anthony Village and the members of Lowry Grove to move forward on affordable 45 housing. He stated they need affordable housing in the range of $450-$500 a month. 46 10