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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes August 11, 2020 Page 3 prepared appropriately and also sanitary. He indicated he did not know the protocols of that but 1 thought there had to be some sort of notification needed in order for that to occur. He explained 2 in the application Ms. Solomon stated she did not need any true assistance other than the 3 privilege of using the space and if Public Works would be willing to use the blockades to block 4 the parking lot space if the parking lot was used and he wondered what was meant by that. Ms. 5 Solomon explained she was not sure if the City would be ok with the festival using the parking 6 lot space because there is a baseball tournament that Saturday happening all throughout the day 7 so if the City was not willing to allow the festival to be in the parking lot space and the grace 8 space then the City would need to tell her which space could be used. 9 10 Mayor Stille asked in regard to the 250 maximum participants as directed by the State of 11 Minnesota for the guidance for safe celebrations and events, how will Ms. Solomon manage if 12 more people were to come to the festival. How will that be regulated. Ms. Solomon explained 13 she will still try to put the best of her abilities, the protocol she already has in place to social 14 distance the vendors and the performance happening at whatever time. There will be marks in 15 the ground to show what six feet in distance looks like and hopefully that guideline will be used. 16 She will also be announcing that guideline throughout the event to hopefully social distance. 17 Mayor Stille thought that limitation will be difficult to be made, which is his point. 18 19 Councilmember Randle asked if the insurance policy has been covered. Ms. Solomon explained 20 she was not aware she would need to obtain an insurance policy but if that is something that is 21 needed then she will get one. Councilmember Randle indicated that is required to rent space. 22 Ms. Solomon indicated she was not aware of that and she also did not know she would need to 23 rent space because it is public space in the City. 24 25 City Manager Casey explained within the City’s facility use rentals the parking lot is not one of 26 those. The only time the parking lot has been rented has been for VillageFest and WinterFest. 27 There is an insurance policy that goes with that but is tied to the liquor operations that both 28 events had and was a requirement of that. At this time there is no City requirement to have 29 insurance for use of a parking lot but also the City is keeping its eyes wide open in that the City 30 is liable at the end of the day if there is any neglect that would be done on the City’s behalf that 31 would happen in that parking lot. He noted this does bring a new issue on board, if the Council 32 so chooses, to add parking lots to reservable places or community services to rent on behalf of 33 the City. He thought that needed to be a discussion for a later date. 34 35 Councilmember Randle asked why Ms. Solomon wants to have a festival now, in the middle of a 36 Pandemic when there are no other cities having festivals and the City of St. Anthony is not even 37 having VillageFest. Ms. Solomon kindly disagreed that festivals along with rallies are 38 happening in South and North Minneapolis which she has been going to. She understood that 39 COVID is a risk but being a part of the movement and being a part of that community is a risk 40 worth taking if it is fighting for what she strives for. Although this festival is not intentionally 41 towards Black Lives Matter movement, it is to redistribute wealth to black and brown families 42 that are well deserved businesses that are under appreciated and to celebrate the black and brown 43 families in St. Anthony and show they can be represented. 44 45 3