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Planning Commission Regular Meeting Minutes August 18, 2020 Page 10 Motion by Commissioner Socha, seconded by Commissioner Erickson, to recommend that the 1 City Council approve an amendment to the Silver Lake Village Planned Unit Development 2 (PUD) at 3725 Stinson Blvd., with the conditions as detailed in the staff report. 3 4 Motion failed 2-2 (Rude, Payne opposed) – 3 (Morita, Neumann and Westrick 5 abstained). 6 7 Mr. Grittman indicated the failure of the motion leaves the Chair with two options, it can be 8 sent forward to the Council with the split recommendation, basically a negative 9 recommendation or a Commissioner could render another motion if someone desires to. 10 11 Chair Westrick asked if another Commissioner wanted to propose a motion. 12 13 Commissioner Neumann thought this seemed pretty straight forward in the impassioned 14 presentation and plea from the enterprise and representative. She did not know what the 15 Commission is continuing to discuss. 16 17 Chair Westrick indicated the Commission either needs to move forward with the 18 recommendation as it stands to the City Council and they can decide because the Commission 19 is recommending or if someone has a different motion for the Commission to take. 20 21 Commissioner Neumann thought the Commission should move forward with what it has. Chair 22 Westrick indicated she did not disagree with that and unless she hears another motion this will 23 move forward to the City Council. 24 25 Chair Westrick thanked Mr. Holts for coming to the meeting and thought the project had a lot 26 of potential and exciting things along with a lot of tradeoffs. 27 28 29 IV. STAFF REPORTS. 30 31 Commissioner Neumann indicated she met with the Mayor and City Staff last week and 32 discussed defunding the police in order to invest in community programs in St. Anthony. 33 That was attended by a representative from St. Anthony SACA and SAVEC and some 34 community members of color, including Mosque representatives. It was a really fruitful 35 conversation and were able to get the Mayor’s stance on defunding police. She believed they 36 pay about ninety thousand dollars per police officer in the City and they hire every year more 37 police officers since 2016. She thought it was important to go through the budget line by line 38 to see that what they care about is where their money goes in the City. She was looking to 39 have those community agencies meet with City Staff again. She knew they were running a 40 few open sessions with Coffee with the Council and some other things on August 25th. She 41 thought it was good to see that community groups for black and brown individuals of color in 42 St. Anthony want to meet and go line by line over the budget with the Mayor and City 43 Council. 44 45