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Commissioner Barnette begins leading Office of Community Safety.

• City Council approves site for South Minneapolis Community Safety Center.
• Safety Design & Implementation committees form:
  
  • Conceptual services/resources group
  • Infrastructure planning/design group
  • Community relationships/communications group
  • Finance group
• City Council approves $1 million to contract with New York University (NYU) School of Law Policing Project.

• OCS hires Director of Community Safety Design & Implementation, Amanda Harrington.
  
• Work starts on the Lake Street Safety Center.

• Phase one work begins on the community safety ecosystem.
  • Set up processes and agreements for Office of Community Safety and Office of Public Service to get this work done.
• City signs purchase agreement for South Minneapolis Community Safety Center.
  • This is located at 2633 Minnehaha Avenue. 
• City begins asset and gaps analysis to understand what safety services already exist, what's missing, and how we can improve.

• Finalized the mission, vision, and values of the design and implementation work.
• City officially started working with NYU's Policing Project on:
  • An asset and gaps analysis.
  • Building data dashboards.

• Community engagement starts around the South Minneapolis Community Safety Center.
• Community engagement to learn what services are important to the community to have in the South Minneapolis Community Safety Center and Lake Street Safety Center.
• Work begins on safety pilots:
  • Non-injury traffic accident response.
  • Social worker in 911 to respond to mental health and substance use related calls.
  • Community safety ambassadors in cultural districts.

• We reviewed feedback received from the community.
• Lease approved for the Lake Street Safety Center.
• We started the fair application process for the South Minneapolis Community Safety Center.
  • We are looking for professionals from organizations outside of the City.
• We started looking closer at safety services to:
  • Make sure they are working.
  • Figure out the best way to share that information with the community. 

• We'll hold an event to help the community and safety service staff in the City work closer together.

• We expect to get the first draft of asset and gaps analysis report.

• We'll host more community engagement events about:
  • Updates on the community safety centers.
  • More information about the community safety ecosystem.

• We'll share more data dashboards about non-police work.
• We expect to get the final Action Report from NYU's Policing Project.

• We expect all City safety services to work together with contracted community organizations.
• We'll work on recommendations from NYU's Policing Project's Action Report.