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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes September 25, 2018 Page 4 Wendy Webster getting the information and coordinating the event. Mayor Faust congratulated 1 the CHANGE students who were at the high school encouraging students to vote. 2 3 Councilmember Stille thanked the students that came up with the ideas. 4 5 VII. REPORTS FROM CITY MANAGER AND COUNCIL MEMBERS. 6 7 Councilmember Jenson stated he attended the Fire Relief Association Meeting last evening. 8 9 Councilmember Stille stated today he attended a NAOIP Meeting and the topic was Pace Funds. 10 11 Councilmember Gray reported he received an email from Dana Healey, Director of CTV. The 12 FCC has a meeting tomorrow and one of the subjects is to promote faster development of 5G 13 Wireless. 14 15 VIII. COMMUNITY FORUM. 16 17 A former resident of Lowry Grove stated she is looking for justice because Council knew Lowry 18 Grove was going to be sold and the Council lied to them. She felt they were discriminated 19 against because they were poor and she wants justice for their community. She thinks the 20 Council does not care about the lives of seniors and children because they were ‘thrown to the 21 curb’ by Council. 22 23 A former resident of 2501 Lowry Grove, stated she is here fighting for justice for the residents of 24 Lowry Grove. She has to get up early so her son can catch the bus at 5:30 a.m. because Council 25 closed Lowry Grove. They are fearful in their new neighborhood and they felt safe in Lowry 26 Grove. She believed it was not right what Council did to them because they are Latinos. Her son 27 still attends school in St. Anthony. She asks for justice for everyone. 28 29 Ms. Antonia Alvarez, lived at 2501 Lowry Grove, stated she brought her own interpreter because 30 they have never been offered an interpreter from the City. From the very beginning, they have 31 faced discrimination from the Council. She said it is the Mayor’s fault that some of the students 32 attending St. Anthony schools do not live in St. Anthony because the Council threw them out. 33 She demanded the check of justice that the community of low-income people were denied. The 34 resident association demands affordable housing for their low-income community. They would 35 like to receive damages for the residents of Lowry Grove because many are still paying the price 36 for the injustice Council has done to them. Every day she receives calls from people who are still 37 living in the streets. They want the right to return to the City with dignity as a community of 38 color and low-income. She stated the longer the residents of Lowry Grove need to wait for 39 justice the longer the Council’s cross to bear will become. There was a man that killed himself in 40 Lowry Grove (Frank Delmar). She demands justice on behalf of him and the whole community 41 in Lowry Grove. She hopes Council has seen the newspapers because others are demanding with 42 them. She stated they want justice, affordable housing, and damages to be paid to the resident 43 association. She wants Council not to just listen to her but to act. 44 45 IX. INFORMATION AND ANNOUNCEMENTS. 46 4