Budget Committee April 22, 2024   4/22/2024

Good afternoon.

I'm Aisha Chugtai and I'm the chair of the Budget Committee.

I'm going to call to order our regular committee meeting for Monday, April 22, 2024.

Councilmember Payne.

Present.

Rainville.

Present.

Vitaw.

Present.

Ellison is absent.

Osman is absent.

Jenkins is absent.

Chavez.

Present.

We'll begin with the consent agenda which includes one item and that is the reappointment of Erika Mauter to the Capital Long Range Improvement Committee.

Are there any questions on this item?

As a reminder we'll be using speaker management but if you don't have it pulled up you can use your flag for now.

Seeing no questions, I will move approval of this item.

Can I have a second?

Second.

Is there any other discussion on this item?

Seeing none, those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Those opposed say nay.

Any abstentions?

The ayes have it, and that motion carries.

Next, we have our first discussion item, which is the appointed position of Director MPD Training in the Police Department.

I will invite Brenda Miller from our Human Resources Department to begin that presentation, and then we'll be joined by Assistant Chief Gators to add further context.

All right, good afternoon.

Good afternoon, Chair Chugtai and Vice Chair Koski and members of the committee.

I'm Brenda Miller, the classification and compensation manager for the city.

I'm here today to talk about the director of MPD training.

This is a civilian position which is part of the police department and oversees MPD training.

The director manages sworn police officer training in compliance with the police officer standards and training and the settlement agreement and the Department of Justice consent decree.

The director of MPD training has been evaluated at 573 points grade 12.

The 2024 schedule for this position is about $125,000 to $148,000.

Assuming the future incumbent starts at step 2, the 2024 annualized cost of base salary benefits and fringe is about $177,000.

The cost is included in the 2024 budget, and changes are effective when council approves it on April 25th.

assuming council approves that on April 25th.

This position meets the criteria of section 2010-10 of the Minneapolis Code of Ordinances.

It reports to the assistant police chief.

It's a member of the police department's executive management team.

It leads the development and implementation of city policy goals, strategic planning, and strategic planning for the police department.

It requires leadership, vision, team building, and strategy implementation.

And lastly, it establishes policy goals and strategies that are consistent with the goals and priorities established by the Mayor, City Council, and the Police Chief.

Thank you.

Thank you chair and vice chair and committee and council members.

Just to make you aware of this position, just going over the history of the police department, we have long been training and using sworn personnel for most but not all training.

Now with that in mind we have phenomenal trainers within our department.

who are

We also need individuals who understand the learning process or pedagogy.

We also need individuals who understand adult learners.

And there are people learning in many different ways and you need experts who come in and are able to actually put together strategies and curricula that will actually work in our best interest with making those curricula consistent with or congruent with

the settlement agreement.

Excellent, thank you.

AC Gators Committee members, are there any questions?

Thank you Vice President Chuck Tai.

Great question Chair and Council Member.

At this point, I'd be guessing.

We'd be guessing to the future, but we do know that when we're looking at changing the culture and the way that we've trained in the past, best approach and practice is that, and with other agencies, is that you bring in individuals who have the expertise at times.

As I said before, we have excellent instructors on our police department and they're phenomenal.

Excellent.

Council Member Osman, go ahead.

Thank you, Chair.

I was wondering if my vote can be counted on consent item approving Erika Mora for city council reappointment.

Clerks, can you note that?

Thank you.

AC Gators, it looks like there are no further questions for you.

Thank you for your time and Miss Miller for your presentation.

Seeing no further discussion on this item, I will move approval of item number two.

The item has been moved and seconded and on the motion to approve all those in favor please signify by saying aye.

Those opposed say nay.

Any abstentions?

The ayes have it and that motion carries.

Next we will move to our final discussion item, item number three, which is the appointed position for senior manager for banking, investments, and debt in the finance department.

Once again, I will invite Ms. Miller to begin that presentation, and I'll note for the record that Councilmember Ellison has joined us in this committee.

Thank you.

So, reporting to the Director of Investments and Debt Management, the Senior Manager, Banking, Investments, and Debt is part of the Finance and Property Services Department's Banking, Investments, and Debt Division.

The senior manager manages the staff and the results of the city's capital market activities and serves as the chief of staff for the division.

The senior manager banking investments and debt has been evaluated at 533 points, grade 11.

The 2024 salary schedule for the position starts at about 116,000 and goes up to 137,000.

At step 5 in 2024, the estimated annualized cost of the base salary benefits and fringe is about $175,000, which represents a total of a $12,000 increase over current estimated annual costs.

The 2024 incremental cost is covered by cost savings due to a vacancy in the debt manager position.

And again, changes are effective April 25, 2024.

This position meets the criteria of section 2010-10 of the Minneapolis Code of Ordinances.

Once again, this position reports to the Director of Investments and Debt Management.

It's a member of the Finance and Property Services Management Team.

It develops and implements city policy goals and strategic planning for finance and property services.

It requires leadership, vision, team building, and strategy implementation and establishes policy goals and strategies that are consistent with the goals and priorities established by the mayor, city council, and the chief financial officer.

And lastly, requesting for both positions that the committee finds that these positions meet the appointed criteria as defined in section 2010-10 of the Minneapolis Code of Ordinances and forwards them to City Council for approval.

Wonderful, thank you for that presentation, Ms. Miller.

Good afternoon, Chair Chugchi and members of the Budget Committee and thank you for taking this request here today.

I'm Alan Hoppe, Director of Banking, Investments, Debt, and the Merchant Card Business for the City.

I've put on the screen here some information which is already in slightly different form in the materials that you've already received.

Rather than going point by point through this,

I'll just go to the question of, well, why?

Why are we here today?

Well, obviously, HR has done an assessment of the duties being performed and come to this conclusion that this position should be upgraded from a manager to a senior manager, so that part is done independent of

of my involvement.

My involvement, of course, was to make a request that HR look at the duties being performed and to be sure that it is correctly scaled within the city system.

So I'm grateful for HR to complete that effort.

A couple things have changed.

The position originally started as a manager four to five years ago.

At that point in time, it was a new position covering just debt and investments.

Since I came on board three years ago my background's in treasury type work dealing with all the things that we currently cover and I discussed with the CFO and the controller the interest and ability for us to bring the banking team over to our group which included the merchant card and that was agreed to so we have a consolidation of

focus with the financial sector, especially the financial institution sector.

So that's a strength for the city to have more people doing the same thing and sharing a body of knowledge so that's efficiency and maximization for the city.

So we've had an expansion of the duties compared to what was originally set.

And then of course the finance industry

doesn't get any simpler and being in government, I know we can all appreciate that the regulatory environment doesn't get any simpler.

So there's a pretty heavy lift here with responsibilities to keep the operations running and to be aware of what's going on in the industry and to make sure that services are delivered.

Thank you for For that information director hoppy and miss Miller for your presentation.

Are there any questions for?

either presenters

Seeing none, I will move approval of item number three on the motion to approve.

All those in favor, please signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Those opposed, say nay.

Any abstentions?

The ayes have it in that.

Motion carries.

Yes.

Thank you, Chair Chugtai, Council Members.

I promise we'll be leaving this meeting very shortly into adjournment.

I just wanted to take this time to give that announcement that the Policy and Research Team did share with you an addendum briefing on the TNC vehicle and operations impact analysis.

and Chair Chavez of the Committee of the Whole Committee and I have discussed bringing on a walk-on item for a presentation at the Committee of the Whole meeting.

If that meeting does go too long, I will work with Chair Osman of Biz to get that on the Biz Committee agenda.

So just wanted to note that for the public and council members since we have been awaiting this information and just wanted to give the heads up.

Wonderful.

Thank you council member.