AGE - PEACE Commission - 2024-09-12 September 12, 2024 — 6:30 PM
Council Conference Room
Hybrid Meeting
1.Call to Order
2.Land Acknowledgment
We acknowledge and honor the Dakota nation, on whose ancestral land the City of Golden Valley
is built, and whose land resources we use. We commit to counteracting the erasure of the
cultural practices and presence of the Dakota people and through education and by amplifying a
wide range of indigenous voices.
3.Attendance/Roll Call
Trey Gladney Alicia Dang Trevor Parks Karen Boehne
Katrina Cisneros Janet Frisch Cory Salazar
Henry Crosby Bridget Glass Madeline Ryan
4.Approval of Agenda
5.Approval of Minutes
5.A.Approval of Minutes - August 8, 2024
6.Check In
If you could listen to one song for the first time again, what song would that be?
7.Discussion/Action Items
a. Update from Prosecutor (If attends)
b. dr. raj Police Coaching Overview and Exercise
c. Subcommittee Updates
d. Staff Updates
a. Policy Review
b. SRO Contract
c. Just Love Onboarding
PEACE COMMISSION MEETING AGENDA
Police Employment, Accountability, & Community Engagement (PEACE) Commission meetings are
being conducted in a hybrid format with in-person and remote options for attending.
Remote Attendance: Members of the public may attend this meeting via Microsoft Teams .
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8.Check Out
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9.Adjournment
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PEACE COMMISSION MEETING MINUTES
AUGUST 8, 2024 — 6:30
PM
Council Conference Room
Hybrid Meeting
1. Land Acknowledgment
We acknowledge and honor the Dakota nation, on whose ancestral land the City of Golden Valley
is built, and whose land resources we use. We commit to counteracting the erasure of the
cultural practices and presence of the Dakota people and through education and by amplifying a
wide range of indigenous voices.
2. Attendance/Roll Call
X Trey Gladney X Alicia Dang X Trevor
Parkes
X Katrina
Cisneros
X Janet Frisch X Bridget Glass
Henry Crosby X Madeline Ryan Cory Salazar
X Karen Boehne
City Staff: Scarlett Gonzalez, Roslyn Harmon, Seth Kaempfer
3. Check in –6:38pm
What is something that made you smile recently?
4. Approval of Agenda
5. Approval of Minutes
5.A. PEACE Meeting Minutes 7.11.24
MOTION to approve minutes for 7.11.24 by commissioner Frish, 2nd by Commissioner Glass. Approved
unanimously.
6. Discussion/Action Items
a. State of the Grant Review
Vice Chair Cisneros started by listing attendees in the State of the Grant meeting which
included: City representatives from Brooklyn Center, representatives from Golden Valley
Police, City staff, national consultants from the East Coast, and many more. Cisneros stated
that the purpose and initiative of the grant is to start thinking of alternative and
appropriate responses for public safety. Cisneros continued stating that her purpose was to
give an overview of the PEACE commission and to speak on the intersection between
PEACE Commission work and Pohland Grant. During the State of the Grant meeting
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Cisneros reported that in 2023 the PEACE Commission did a lot of groundwork . She also
highlighted specific people that have put in a lot of work during the founding moments of
the PEACE Commission as well as to finalize the grant like former Community Connection
Specialist Airrion Williams and current Chair Trey Gladney. Another point of Cisneros
presentation during the State of the Grant meeting was to show the strategy of the PEACE
commission in taking the language of the Pohlad Grant and infuse it into the City Counsil
approved work plan. Cisneros then highlighted, during the State of the Grant meeting,
PEACE’s participation in drafting the RFP for the community response team as well as the
collaboration with the City Administration. Lastly, Cisneros highlighted the work of the data
subcommittee and showcased police work that is now made available to the public.
b. Meeting with City Manager
Chair Gladney, Vice Chair Cisneros and Community Connection Specialist Gonzalez sat in on
a meeting with City Manager Schuchman. During this meeting Schuchman elaborated on
his previous work in Duluth leading another City with Community response and altern ative
response models successfully. Gladney and Cisneros feel hopeful that Schuchman will
extend these initiatives beyond the timeframe of the Pohlad grant as Schuchman is
thinking long-term in creating strategic partnerships along the City. Secondly, duri ng this
meeting they talked about continued partnership with 1) working closely with Police on
Flock Camera System, 2) expanding partnership with also the DEI Commission.
c. Subcommittee Updates:
Trevor parks from data subcommittee recently attended a police policy review meeting
with the City with positive outcomes. PEACE data subcommittee was invited to attend
weekly meetings. Data subcommittee is getting together to diversify the workload.
Commissioner Frisch is going to help with data subcommittee to review police policies. City
Equity and Inclusion manager explained that one of the activities of the Pohlad
Collaborative Solutions Grant a Racial equity policy review for police policy. Golden Valley
PD is working on having their Police manual be up to date and code, while the policy
review is happening simultaneously. The people involved with this review include City
Attorney Maria Cisneros, Seth Kaempfer, Assistant Chief White, as well last two consultants
that were paid for from the Pohlad Grant. The contract that is via police is Lexipol providing
project management; the contract via Pohlad is Aviellahcc providing racial policy review.
Kaemfer provides a lens beyond race, Maria Cisneros provides a legal lens, and AC White
provides a police and operational lens; Lexipol provides police and operational lens and
best practices from other police departments. PEACE will be included to be able to go into
the policy and have commentary from a community perspective. Kaempfer mentioned that
the State of the Grant brought to light how rare it is for police to do racial police reviews;
Golden Valley is unique and cutting edge in doing that.
Commissioner Glass from Community engagement subcommittee reported that their
subcommittee have reached out to Umascus Way over dates and logistics to be able to
table and send people their community survey. Community Service Cory Salazar has
expressed interest in tabling, but also Commissioner Glass stated anyone else outside of
the community engagement subcommittee could also volunteer. In regard to getting the
surveys translated the subcommittee had decided to use Google Translate and ChatGBT
before putting it live on the City of Golden Valley Website.
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Hiring subcommittee reported that there is a new set of questions for police interviews.
There was a partnership between PEACE and PD in terms of input for those questions. The
last interview Vice Chair Cisnero sat in had those questions. Cisneros reports that its been
interesting to see Police Department ask interview questions from an equity lens. For
example, some questions asked about the history of policing. Inter terms of hiring
numbers, as of now, PD has six patrol officer positions to be filled.
d. History of policing event:
Interim Community Connections Specialist stated that there will be a meeting to coordinate
a history of policing event in Golden Valley. The idea stemmed from s itting in interviews
and realizing patrol officers in general and our own police department are not in alignment
with details regarding the history of policing and its origins. The people in this meeting will
be Interim Community Connection Specialist Gonzalez, Equity and Inclusion Manager
Kaempfer, Deputy City Manager Santelices, embedded social worker Moreno, members
from Just Love community response team, community member and activist Dr. Raj, and
with input from Chief of Police Green. There is currently a lot of support for this event and
many people see the benefit of looking back into our history in order to move forward.
There is not a lot of details on how the event is going to manifest as it will be discussed in
the first meeting as a group having all voices and concerns heard.
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7. Adjournment 8:00pm
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