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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes June 9, 2020 Page 6 highlighted in plain site the impact of systemic racism throughout society. Systemic racism does 1 exist in every facet of society and a white person may not see it, however, systemic racism is 2 real, is deadly and it exists and if you live in the US, you breath in systemic racism every day and 3 it is important to acknowledge and to start to see it and it is even more important that it is 4 dismantled. Systemic racism exists in housing, schools, health care, law enforcement, the 5 economy and impacts every facet of the world. As mentioned before, leadership matters and the 6 task as leaders is to help dismantle it and although words matter, actions are even stronger. 7 8 VI. GENERAL BUSINESS OF COUNCIL. 9 10 A. Reducing Speed Limit of City Streets to 25 mph 11 12 City Manager Casey reviewed the staff report with the Council. 13 14 Motion by Councilmember Webster, seconded by Councilmember Jenson, to approve the second 15 reading of Reducing Speed Limit of City Streets to 25 mph. 16 17 Motion carried 5-0. 18 19 VII. REPORTS FROM CITY MANAGER AND COUNCIL MEMBERS. 20 21 Councilmember Jenson stated he attended the Ramsey County Local League of Governments on 22 June 5th. The primary discussion was collected work between cities on surveys. 23 24 Councilmember Walker stated on June 2nd Dana Healy of CTV sent out an email to all the 25 Commissioners regarding how CTV can play a role in facilitating conversation around the 26 death/murder of George Floyd in such a way of having various members of the community come 27 in and have a conversation. She wanted to know what the Commissioner’s thought and as far as 28 he knew he was the only one that chimed in. There was a zoom session and discussion about the 29 State of Affairs in the Country. The process that has gone on and trying to understand even the 30 looting without condoning, how sociologically and even from an issue of oppression how that is 31 occurring. It was not a recorded zoom meeting, just a discussion. 32 33 Mayor Stille stated he attended the Regional Council of Mayors meeting on June 8th and there 34 was a lot of talk about affordable housing initiatives and what the Legislature has in front of it 35 that might not happen given some of the stalling that has gone on with COVID-19. Given the 36 strong need for affordable housing in the region, it was a little disheartening to see that may or 37 not occur. There was also a round table and Mayor Frey was there and talked a little bit about 38 what some of the decisions have gone on in Minneapolis. He thought Mayor Frey has taken a lot 39 of heat, but Mayor Frey is in a tough position and doing the best he can, and his heart is in the 40 right place. 41 42 Mayor Stille noted he also attended the Mississippi Watershed Organization Board meeting and 43 talked about watershed assessments. There was a City gathering for the George Floyd memorial 44 and he attended for about an hour. He indicated it was nicely done in honor of George Floyd. 45 46 6