The Journal, Feb. 22–March 7, 2018 by The Journal

THE NEWS SOURCE FOR DOWNTOWN & NORTHEAST MINNEAPOLIS RESIDENTS FEBRUARY 22–MARCH 7, 2018

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ineteen Minneapolis Fire Department cadets are training in Northeast Minneapolis this week, representing the best from a field of more than 1,200 candidates. To get there, each completed a timed physical agility test that involved swinging a sledgehammer to simulate forced entry. They had to climb a stair-stepper while holding 75 pounds — without touching the railing for balance — and underwent department interviews, background checks and medical and psychological exams. For many, the cadet class is the culmination of years of work. Jared Moore, a Life Time Fitness manager, said he applied to become a firefighter several years ago and didn’t make it past the first round. This time, he’s one of the top 19 recruits. Born and raised in Minneapolis, Moore grew up near the station on Lowry Avenue North.

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Part of Riverside Park renamed for Annie Young Park Board will consider a full renaming to honor the late commissioner By Eric Best / ebest@journalmpls.com A piece of the city’s riverfront now bears the name of one of its longstanding champions. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board voted Feb. 7 to rename the lower portion of Riverside Park after Annie Young, who passed away in January after serving 28 years on the board. Commissioners are considering renaming the entire park after Young. The lower portion of the Riverside Park will be known as Annie Young Meadow. Becki Smith, Young’s campaign manager, told commissioners that the 28 acres of riverfront land, one of the city’s first parks, held a special place for the former citywide commissioner. “If anybody asked her which park she liked the most, she would actually say she liked them all because they were all different and unique in their own ways,”

she said, “but I will say if anybody asked which held her fondest memories, she would say Riverside Park was the place that held her fondest memories.” In 2005, former Commissioner John Erwin formally nominated that the lower portion of the park should be named for Young, who was an early adopter of the board’s push to reclaim and develop riverfront property. During her tenure as the board’s second longest-serving member, Young supported water quality, reducing pesticide use and RiverFirst, an initiative that is being realized with highprofile projects like Water Works. As the board’s acting president, Young signed the final paperwork in the acquisition of the Scherer site where the board is now recreating Hall’s Island. SEE ANNIE YOUNG / PAGE 14

Commissioners voted 7–0 to change the name of the portion of the park alongside West River Parkway from Lower Riverside Park to Annie Young Meadow. The approved resolution puts in place a plan to have a public hearing within 45 days of the Feb. 7 vote regarding the renaming of the entire park to Annie Young Riverside Park. At-Large Commissioner LaTrisha Vetaw was absent for the vote. District 5 Commissioner Steffanie Musich abstained after voting against a suspension of board rules, which was necessary because of the board’s renaming policy requiring community input. Musich introduced a substitute motion calling for additional public comment in order to follow the policy, though it failed after only drawing support from Commissioner Meg Forney (at-large).

Riverside Park, one of the city’s first parks, is located along West River Parkway in the CedarRiverside neighborhood. Photo courtesy of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board

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Moments in Minneapolis By Cedar Imboden Phillips

hat is your chosen form of transportation this winter? Odds are that it doesn’t involve a horse and sleigh. But it wasn’t all that long ago that horses were a regular part of life in downtown Minneapolis. These horses, sleigh and driver were photographed outside of 616 Nicollet Ave. in the winter of 1905. Despite the advent of the automobile, the demand for horses remained strong. Local horse dealers Barrett & Zimmerman reported that 1905 was their best year to date and optimistically projected even more growth in 1906.

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Downtown continues to grow, drawing new residents and continued interest from developers, according to a snapshot of the city’s urban activity recently released by the Minneapolis Downtown Council. Now nearly 43,500 people call downtown’s five neighborhoods home, the council said in a presentation at its annual meeting in February. That’s a 6 percent jump from last year’s population of 40,864 and a 36 percent increase from 2006. Developers are building for even more residents. The city topped $1 billion in construction permits in 2017 for the sixth consecutive year. Of the $1.5 billion in permits, a little more than half were related to projects in the City Council’s Ward 3 and Ward 7, which include much of downtown and its surrounding neighborhoods. The council is tracking more than 1,200 rented units that are currently under construction, along with 374 condos or owned residential units.

The annual numbers reveal many of downtown’s largest employers remain at the top. Target, bouncing back from massive layoffs in early 2015, added more than 180 employees in 2017 over the previous year for a total workforce of 8,333 people. Hennepin County Medical Center (7,105), Wells Fargo (7,000), Hennepin County (6,595), Ameriprise Financial (4,893), U.S. Bank (4,651) and Xcel Energy (2,351) are among the city’s biggest urban employers. SPS Commerce, which expanded in the 333 South Seventh building that is now named SPS Tower after the company, didn’t make the list in 2016, but is now the 13th largest employer downtown with a staff of 1,002. The Downtown Council itself has grown substantially over the past year. The organization reported adding 86 new members in 2017, an increase of 19 percent, for a total of 440 businesses and other members.

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For the Wells family, the apple falls one state over from the tree. Suann Wells is the founder of the Beancounter Coffeehouse & Drinkery in Burlington, Iowa, which will expand into the Minneapolis market next month under the direction of her son, Zach Danekas. Danekas, a Downtown East resident, will be the general manager of the 1,200-square-foot café, which will occupy the former World Café space on the Soo Line building’s skyway level. The family plans to open at least one more Minneapolis café, which would follow the model of the Burlington location with a liquor license, regular acoustic music and a larger footprint. “We’re excited to be a part of not just downtown Minneapolis, but Minneapolis in general, and to make it even more of a home going forward,” Wells said. Wells, a former chief financial officer at an international consulting firm (hence the café’s name), and her husband opened the first Beancounter as a retirement plan 16 months ago in Burlington, a town of about 36,000 people located 300 miles southeast of the Twin Cities. The café uses organic, fair trade beans, including its own blend, from Grounds & Hounds Coffee Co., a Lawrenceville-based company that donates 20 percent of its proceeds to no-kill animal shelters. While the Minneapolis skyway space

will be smaller and won’t have room for music, the new location will have a food menu for grab-and-go meals. Danekas said they plan to have leather chairs and enough space for office workers or the building’s residents to meet. Wells said the Minneapolis location is just one of five stores they plan to open in the next five years. While she declined to comment on where future cafés will be located, she said the next coffeehouse will be a larger location in Minneapolis. “We are a local family-owned and -operated business and we plan to keep our new roots firmly planted in Minneapolis,” she said. “We’re here for the long haul.” Danekas, a regional operations manager at Vancouver-based office catering company Foodee, has lived in the city for the past five years. He said their tagline of “Come. Sit. Drink. Enjoy.” is about being welcoming and inclusive, which is how his family operates. “That’s really important to us as our basic model or mantra,” Wells said. The Minneapolis Beancounter Coffeehouse is slated to open in early March at 105 S. 5th St. The space was once home to Café Zentral, the sister café of Brasserie Zentral and the Foreign Legion wine bar. The two restaurants were located on Soo Line’s ground floor where Mercury Dining Room and Rail and the Shindig event space now operate.

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A Brewer’s Tasting Table that will give groups of up to 12 guests a glimpse into the brewing process while dinning and drinking beer pairings. The second floor of the concept will house Brewer’s Den, a members-only social club with meeting rooms and lounges for private events. Memberships will run $27–$81 per month and may include perks like growler refills, gift cards and brewing classes, along with regular sneak peeks into new beer varieties. On the fourth floor, the nonprofit’s Finnovation Lab is partnering with Impact Hub MSP to create an accelerator space for emerging mission-driven brands. The office will feature a co-working space where Finnegans will provide mentorship, workshops and other resources to members. Founder and CEO Jacquie Berglund said having each element under the same roof will connect guests to the Finnegans’ mission of eliminating hunger. “The taproom represents numerous, progressive changes for our brand — a new public space for our fans to gather, a new portfolio of beers to sample and a new opportunity to create positive impact in our community,” she said. The taproom is slated to open in March. The incubator lab is on track to open this May. The building is located within the KrausAnderson block redevelopment between 8th and 9th streets and 5th and Portland avenues. The developer has already opened its new mid-rise headquarters building on the block where the 17-story HQ Apartments and the 168-room Elliot Park Hotel are nearing completion.

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When Rita Katona doesn’t feel so well, she opens her fridge and takes her own health and wellness products. The co-founder of So Good So You is bringing even more of the brand’s juices, plant-based beverages and other retail products to the skyway with its flagship breakfast and lunch stop. So Good So You has opened its second skyway location, this time with a full kitchen, at the Retek Building across from the Target headquarters. While the café’s menu will be vegan, mostly gluten free and entirely plant-based, Katona said the food isn’t just health food. It should taste good and look good too, she added. “We want to attract the tailgater from the Super Bowl … who just wants a really good, filling meal that’s going to make them feel awesome,” she said. The approximately 30-seat So Good So You café occupies the space last home to Tommy Carver’s Garden of Flowers. Katona, who spent seven years at Target’s corporate office, said the flower shop was a common site for work meetings and hopes office workers will hang out at the café, which will feature sockets to plug in laptops and USB-connected devices at every seat. “I want people from Target sitting down here, having their [meetings] and having a smoothie,” she said. The café joins the brand’s first skyway concept, a juice and smoothie bar in the Baker Center, but further expands the menu with five plates ($12), five toasts ($7), 10-plus smoothie varieties and several packaged sweets and snacks. The protein plates each contain at least 30 grams of protein, Katona said, thanks to ingredients like chickpeas, hemp seeds, edamame and cashews instead of meat or vegetarian meat alternatives. The mixtures of vegetables, fruits and grains come topped with signature dressings, like a Turmeric Liquid Gold Sauce or another with spicy horseradish. So Good So You enlisted Jessi Peine, formerly a chef at Birdie in Kingfield, to craft the food options. “We wanted to curate the experience for

the customer, which is not something you really find in the skyway,” Katona said. The company recently rebranded its organic juice line ( Juice So Good), its perishable baby food pouch line (So Good Baby) and nut-based latte drink line (Coffee So Good) under the So Good So You moniker. Each of those brands, plus new $3.99 wellness shots, are available at the café. While they are the same products found in grocery stores like Lunds & Byerlys or Target, the café’s products don’t travel far. The company’s zero-waste production facility is located a few miles away in the Como neighborhood of Southeast Minneapolis. The sustainability theme is evident in the café where products come with organic and/or locally sourced ingredients and don’t contain preservatives or artificial additives. Drinks come with compostable straws — a rarity in restaurants, Katona said — and bottles of juice are shipped with an alternative to Styrofoam that dissolves in water instead of ending up in a landfill. The company’s tagline of “For the Love of Body & Planet” is written outside the space designed by Shea Design. “There’s so much nasty stuff out there in food, especially in packaged food. Anything that has our name or our logo or that sell here in this location or elsewhere lives up to those standards,” she said. A small retail wall features water bottles with infusers, T-shirts and copies of author Josh Tickell’s sustainability-themed book “Kiss the Ground.” The fast-casual café has two lines, one for people who have ordered ahead of time and a made-to-order line. So Good So You will soon rollout online ordering on its website, sogoodsoyou.com, along with a catering service. Katona said her and husband and co-founder Eric Hall are already scouting out new locations if the concept is successful. “This really helps bring to life what we’re about as a brand,” she said. So Good So You, at 950 Nicollet Mall, is open 7 a.m.–6 p.m. during the week.

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Committee approves plan for body camera reports The Minneapolis Police Department’s plan to issue quarterly reports on its body-worn camera program won the approval of the City Council’s Public Safety and Emergency Management Committee. The council last year directed the department to submit the reports in response to an audit of the body-worn camera program. Among other issues, the audit showed officers often were failing to turn on their cameras after being dispatched to a call and that the recordings were sometimes ended early without explanation. The city audit was released two months after Fulton neighborhood resident Justine Damond, also known as Justine Ruszczyk, was shot by a Minneapolis police officer who responded to her 911 call. The body cameras won by both that officer, Mohamed Noor, and his partner were turned off at the time. Two weeks later, then-interim Police Chief Medaria Arradondo ordered a change to the department’s body camera policy that required officers to activate their cameras after being dispatched on any call or in response to selfinitiated activity. The first quarterly report on the program, expected in the next few months, will track the number of videos produced by the body worn cameras, the total hours of footage and the precincts where the videos are recorded. Deputy Chief of Professional Standards Henry Halvorson told the committee at its Feb. 15 meeting that future reports will also include checks on when officers start, activate, use and deactivate their cameras, as well as how

Minneapolis police use body-worn cameras manufactured by Axon. File photo they categorize and attach case numbers to the video when filing the data. Those audits will cover about 2 percent of officers. City Council Member Linea Palmisano said that audit data would be essential to building public trust in the program. “I think the thing most important to the public here is: How often are body cameras not being turned on when dispatch data indicates that they should? I don’t know that the public cares as much about start-up checks and the activation checks,” Palmisano said. The department is also rewriting its bodyworn camera policy to respond to the short-

Thissen out of governor’s race Rep. Paul Thissen of Southwest Minneapolis’ District 61B ended his campaign for governor in early February. Thissen made the announcement Feb. 7, the morning after DFL precinct caucuses were held across the state. In a straw poll to determine caucus participants’ preferences in the governor’s race, the eight-term state representative finished behind five other DFL candidates with less than 5 percent of the vote. Congressman Tim Walz won the straw poll with just over 30 percent of the vote. His running mate is Rep. Peggy Flanagan of St. Louis Park, a former Minneapolis School Board member. Thissen announced in January he would not seek another term representing District 61B, which extends from Uptown south to the Richfield border. There are currently four DFL candidates vying for his seat: Sara Freeman, Tim Laughinghouse, Jamie Long and

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comings highlighted in the city’s September audit of the program. Halvorson said the new policy would address specific issues raised in that report, including the inconsistent categorizing of body camera videos. Misclassification of the recordings could mean some video evidence was not retained as long as was called for in policy. Halvorson said a draft of the updated policy was complete and under review by city and police department staff. The department aims to complete that review by March, he said. Once adopted, the department plans to update its body-worn camera training and training materials. It’s also in the process of hiring civilian staff to review compliance with the new body worn camera policy. Those civilians will be assigned to the department’s quality assurance unit, Halvorson said. City Council Member Jeremiah Ellison asked Halvorson how the department’s body camera usage was affected by officers who “simply don’t like this tool and don’t want to use this tool because they haven’t had to use it in the past.” Halvorson said officers had struggled to adapt to other new technologies, including the mobile video cameras installed in squad cars and GPS, but eventually learned to embrace both. “So, there might have been an initial pushback on (body-worn cameras), but when officers see the importance of it, what it captures and what it shows from their perspective, there’s definitely more positive responses then we have had negative responses,” he said.

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Meggie Wittorf. The DFL endorsing convention for the district is March 24. In a statement released by his campaign, Thissen said he was “incredibly blessed and honored” to have represented his district in the Legislature since 2002. “Not many people get such a chance,” he said in the statement. “I’ve done my best to do all I could with that opportunity. But I know from experience that so much of life is not just working hard, but being in the right place at the right time. Now is not the right time for my campaign for Governor.” Thissen was elected leader of the DFL House members in 2012 and served as Speaker of the House for the 2013–2014 biennium. In his statement, Thissen said a discussion on racial equality and the state’s wide disparities should be “the heart of the 2018 campaign.”

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THE PARK BOARD’S VERSION OF RENT CONTROL

he Minneapolis park superintendent stands alone among municipal officials in the Twin Cities area in having a tax-supported place to live. It’s not free. Former Superintendent Jayne Miller paid $1,154 monthly to live in the hulking Dutch colonial house that overlooks the Lyndale Farmstead Park sledding hill. That once may have been a fair rent, but it hasn’t risen in more than six years. The Park Board’s version of rent control for its superintendent persisted even after promises in late 2016 to re-examine the house’s rent after this reporter highlighted the situation. Then-President Anita Tabb said she’d seek a review of the superintendent’s rent once the board adopted its annual budget in late 2016. Tabb didn’t return this reporter’s calls about the matter a few days before her term expired in December. But a board spokeswoman said such a review didn’t start until late last year, almost a year later, and still isn’t complete. The Park Board’s laxness comes despite one Southwest area rental-market specialist’s estimate that rents have gone up at least 15–20 percent since the superintendent’s rent was last set in 2011. Plenty of other tenants in Minneapolis no doubt wish they could go that long without a rent increase.

This isn’t a matter of whether you loved or loathed Miller, a career public servant. She accomplished a number of steps to lift the park system out of its old boys’ network and played a key role in assuring better funding for neighborhood park improvements. She also could be a demanding boss, engendered some union opposition and ultimately foundered on the perception — fair or not — that the park system wasn’t serving minority residents equitably. Seeing the handwriting on the wall with a newly elected insurgent board, she left her $171,253 per year job without waiting out the mid-2018 expiration of her contract, as this writer forecast in a column last summer. Not hiking the rent has implications for Miller or any future superintendent, and for the board. One is that charging her a belowmarket rent amounts to additional compensation. The added compensation would have pushed Miller over the state salary cap on local officials in 2016, when she was already at the maximum allowed. There are also tax implications. The IRS regards any difference between the fair market rent for a provided residence and what the employee is actually paying as taxable compensation. Not keeping the rent up to date could mean a back tax bill for the superintendent. The board spokeswoman

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e’re just six weeks away from the annual return of Nice Ride Minnesota’s green bikes in early April. By summer, the system will see big changes — “dockless” bikes, cheaper prices, lots more bikes serving more of Minneapolis and electric-assist bikes. Last fall, Nice Ride — the local bike share provider since 2010 — announced that it was planning to transition to an expanded fleet of dockless bikes. Instead of requiring riders to rent and return bikes at stations, dockless bike sharing allows riders to find a bike using an app and, when they’re finished, park it in any approved area near their destination. The shift would be funded with private dollars through a partnership with a private company. Nice Ride, a nonprofit, has received funding from a variety of public and private sources, as well as from users. The transition hit a bit of speed bump in January when St. Paul announced it would not be participating in Nice Ride’s transition to dockless bike share, citing legal concerns over the vendor selection process. The City of Minneapolis, Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board and University of Minnesota remain poised to continue the work with Nice Ride, pending final details. St. Paul may rejoin the effort later or seek a different approach to bike sharing.

Weighing exclusivity

Also in January, Nice Ride announced that they had selected New York-based Motivate as their vendor for dockless bikes after a review committee recommended the company in a competitive process. (Full disclosure: I was on the review committee.) Final details of the transition are still being worked out. Nice Ride has said they expect an agreement to go to the City Council for review soon. Based on recent information from Nice Ride and information that Motivate shared at a public meeting in November, we can expect the proposal to include: — $1 rides for 30 minutes — double the number of bike-share bikes in Minneapolis, serving more of the city — a pilot program to test electric-assist bikes — a winter bike share pilot Current Nice Ride memberships will remain active, and Nice Ride’s current docks and fleet will continue in 2018 as part of a transition to full dockless bike share. “We are excited that new privately funded technologies — dockless bike share and electric-assist bikes — are increasing mobility and health options in cities,” said Bill Dossett, Nice Ride’s executive director. Motivate’s proposal also included a unique solution to the challenge of dockless bikes

One of the big questions that the city will undoubtedly be weighing as they conduct a final review is whether to have Nice Ride be the exclusive provider of bike share in Minneapolis. In most cities, dockless bike share is provided by a variety of companies competing in a regulated market. In Seattle, a pilot worked with three companies who had more than 9,000 bikes on the streets by last December. Washington, D.C. has five dockless companies operating alongside docked bike share. Nice Ride’s approach, pending final approval, would be different in that Nice Ride — and its partner Motivate — would be the exclusive provider of bike share in Minneapolis, likely until 2021. In exchange for exclusivity, they would be required to meet certain standards in an arrangement approved by the City Council. When Nice Ride’s process to transition to dockless started last summer, I wasn’t sure whether open competition or a contract with a single entity was preferable. Some have argued strongly that a regulated market means competition that will drive access (more bikes), cheaper prices and better service. After looking at this in other cities, talking to people and listening to proposals, I strongly feel that a contract with a single entity is the most likely approach for dockless bike share to be the most successful in Minneapolis (and hopefully in the future, St. Paul). I think it provides the best chance to serve more parts of the city, whereas private companies on their own have incentive to focus in highest demand areas. It also

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ensures bikes aren’t being left blocking sidewalks, and it will be sustainable over a longer term in our market, where many people already own bikes. Now, the contracting is important, and if Minneapolis can’t get a good agreement, they should not do it. And it still might not work out, because the bike share industry is changing quickly. But it would still be a good deal for just a few years.

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Some city needs to try this approach to dockless, and Minneapolis is in a good spot to do that. In a few years, cities across the country will be able to better determine what works for them. I also applaud Nice Ride for being proactive on this change. They could have kept on and made it hard for competitors to enter the market. Instead, they are using their assets to support the transition and have used their time to try to set up the best deal possible for the Twin Cities.

Ethan Fawley is executive director of Our Streets Minneapolis.

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12 journalmpls.com / February 22–March 7, 2018 FROM TOP OF THE CLASS / PAGE 1 “I’m looking forward to all of the training,” he said. Nearly 300 other finalists wait on a ranked list to enter cadet training. Fire Chief John Fruetel said the list will likely stand for the next two years, and chances are high that many of their names will be called. He expects significant attrition as firefighters retire over the next three to five years. A thousand-plus applicants is not an unusual number for the Minneapolis Fire Department, which currently holds 429 employees. The last time the department recruited, in 2013, nearly 5,000 people picked up applications and nearly 3,000 people applied, Fruetel said. When the economy takes a downturn, more people consider firefighting, he said. “There is a lot of stability in this career,” he said. There were 1,800 applicants when Fruetel joined the department in 1979. “A lot of folks just want to serve their communities,” he said.

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Cadet Romel Bacon enrolled in the EMS Pathways Academy in 2016. He previously worked as a chef and trained at Le Cordon Bleu, and he was looking for a career change. Cadet Mallory Cramer previously worked at a Chevy dealership in Bloomington. A South High School alum and longtime basketball player, she knew she wanted a physical job that required working with her hands. “I just went for it,” Cramer said. Historically, not everyone graduates from the cadet training program, although Fruetel suspects the current class will have no problem. He said some cadets discover that firefighting isn’t for them. “All of a sudden you put on a breathing apparatus and you’re a little more claustrophobic and a little more afraid of heights than you thought,” he said. “That’s why we have that process.”

A changing job During a tour of the Emergency Operations Training Facility in Northeast Minneapolis, Staff Capt. Stephanie Johnson, a Kingfield neighborhood resident, cautioned the cadets not to bring any firefighting clothing home to their families. Firefighters work in increasingly dangerous environments, Fruetel said. The increasing amount of plastics and synthetic materials in homes can generate carcinogenic byproducts when burned. Firefighters routinely encounter diesel exhaust, asbestos, carbon monoxide and benzene, and the International Association of Fire Fighters reports that cancer is now the leading cause of death for firefighters. The days of black, soot-covered helmets are gone. “We’ve changed the procedure on how we clean our gear,” Fruetel said. Technology advances represent the biggest change to the department in recent

Staff Capt. Stephanie Johnson trains cadets at the Emergency Operations Training Facility in Northeast Minneapolis. Photo by Michelle Bruch years, he said. The breathing apparatus, for example, now features built-in thermal imaging to assist in rescue searches. Operating procedures and command structures have also improved safety. Fruetel said the current cadet class is 52 percent people of color and 15.8 percent female. Fifty-seven percent are veterans. A 1970 lawsuit alleging employment discrimination resulted in a federal court order to diversify the Minneapolis Fire Department; court oversight continued until 2000. Fruetel said he’s worked hard to diversify the department. “That’s easy to say, but I want to make sure we get that done,” he said. “… A lot of the female firefighters I trained are retiring.” The department eliminated the written exam this year, and the recruiting process

emphasizes skills like fluency in a second language. Every cadet class now includes 30 percent from the EMS (Emergency Medical Services) Pathways Academy, where graduates receive Emergency Medical Technician certification as part of a paid program. The program launched in 2016 as a partnership between the Fire Department and Hennepin County Medical Center with funding from the Minneapolis Foundation and support from Project for Pride in Living. “It gives young adults the opportunity to consider a career they may not have considered before,” Fruetel said. “… I can’t think of anything better than to recruit someone out of North Minneapolis and have them come back into the community and come take care of that community.”

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County to test driverless technology on greenway By Nate Gotlieb / ngotlieb@journalmpls.com Hennepin County is planning a demonstration of an all-electric shuttle that’s capable of operating without a human operator. The county is planning to test the EZ10 shuttle April 20–22 on the Midtown Greenway near Hennepin Avenue. The shuttle can go up to 25 miles per hour, can accommodate up to 12 passengers and meets Americans with Disabilities Act standards. John Doan of Hennepin County Community Works said the shuttles have logged over 75,000 operating miles world-

wide without any major safety incidents. The test will come as the county continues to invest in mass transit systems, such as the planned Orange Line bus-rapid transit and Southwest Light Rail Transit lines. It also comes as the county works toward its goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the number of vehicle miles traveled. Driverless shuttles could connect more people to mass transit by picking them up and dropping them off closer to their homes, Doan said. That, in turn, could help reduce

car trips and greenhouse gas emissions. Doan said people are generally willing to walk a quarter of a mile or bike half a mile to access transit. But that “walkshed” or “bikeshed” can shrink quite a bit when it’s raining or cold outside, he said. The driverless shuttles could give riders a closer access point to transit, Doan said. “It creates all of a sudden the opportunity for people who otherwise wouldn’t be able to access transit and the transit stations to be able to access it,” he said.

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The east-west Midtown Greenway could be a candidate for such a shuttle system. Doan noted its connection to the future Southwest light rail and Orange Line as well as the existing the Blue Line light rail to the east. Having a shuttle along the greenway could allow riders to go east and west without going through downtown Minneapolis, Doan said. In the suburbs, SouthWest Transit offers a first- and last-mile connection service called Southwest Prime. For $4 per person, riders can receive curb-to-curb service within Eden Prairie, Chaska, Chanhassen and Carver. SouthWest Transit CEO Len Simich said the goal is to get to riders within 20 minutes. Over 300 people a day use Prime, he said, adding that SouthWest Transit has been able to reduce labor costs compared to the dial-aride service it used to run. Prime runs Monday through Friday and provides a connection on Saturday to Southdale Center. SouthWest is looking at electric vehicles for the year-and-a-half-old service, Simich said, adding that Prime provides the flexibility that’s required for workers in the area’s industrial parks. He said SouthWest is also looking at doing a demonstration of the driverless shuttle technology. Hennepin County will use human operators for its demonstration. The county will lease the shuttle from the Minnesota Department of Transportation, which has been testing it over the past few months. The demonstration is projected to cost around $25,000, Doan told the County Board.

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14 journalmpls.com / February 22–March 7, 2018 FROM ANNIE YOUNG / PAGE 1 “I cannot support the hypocrisy of honoring a woman who believed in process and community engagement by bypassing that process and community engagement,” Musich said. The meeting also served as a public celebration for Young, with several of her former colleagues and fellow elected officials speaking on her work with the Park Board. Brian Rice, the board’s longtime legal counsel, called Young a “person of rare quality.” “She was an earth protector. She was a historian. She was a shrewd vote counter.

She was an idealist. But she was also pragmatic and she knew how to get things done,” he said. Council Member Cam Gordon, a fellow member of Young’s Green Party, described her as a “troublemaker” with a soft side. “I know that she could certainly be abrasive, but she could also be really nurturing and caring. She was always looking at how she [could] bring others along and into the fold and raise them up and help them move forward,” he said. Over the years, Mayor Jacob Frey said, he got several pointers from Young, who relayed decades of local institutional knowledge.

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“The historic knowledge that she had about policy, about community building [and] just about love of community in general, was [indispensable],” he said. Many park staff and younger commissioners said Young served as a mentor. Deputy Superintendent Jennifer Ringold, also the board’s secretary, said Young stressed the community’s role in the organization. “She really I think helped staff understand the human side of commissioners,” she said. Vetaw, a newly elected citywide commissioner, described Young as a “soul sister” who managed to unload a lot of wisdom in her first month on the board. “In very, very little time I got lots of advice,” she said in a video message. Musich, who served one term with Young, said she will support her legacy by “being willing to not just go along with the wave.” “Watching her serve was a great example for all of us because she did not compro-

Young. Photo courtesy of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board mise if it meant putting aside her values or her desire to see us produce the best government that we possibly could for the citizens of Minneapolis,” she said.

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New Park Board is still ﬁnding its bearings After a divisive election year and unprecedented turnover, six new members and three returning commissioners are settling in as a different Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board emerges. It’s been a year of new beginnings at the Park Board, which lost its superintendent to another city in February. Commissioners, many of them first-time elected officials who are still learning the ropes, will spend the year looking for a new top executive. District 5 Commissioner Steffanie Musich says there’s a learning curve for every commissioner, from newly elected officials to returning commissioners who find themselves in leadership roles. The first few meetings have been “awkward,” she added. “At the moment, this organization sort of feels rudderless. We’re just drifting along. I hope that changes as folks gain more experience,” said Musich, who is serving her second term representing the Lake Nokomis area. “It’s a big jump to go from the campaign trail to being on the dais and doing the work of a commissioner.” Former Superintendent Jayne Miller announced her resignation late last year before the latest generation of commissioners took office. In an interview before she left, Miller said she had concerns with the number of new commissioners and several of their campaigns that opposed her and her work. Jono Cowgill, a newly elected commissioner whose District 4 stretches between Bde Maka Ska and the downtown riverfront, said he doesn’t think anyone should be concerned. “I got involved not to take anybody down but to be talking aspirationally about what could be better about how the Park Board includes everybody in the community, (shapes) our community spaces and (makes) safe, engaging places to live. I think everyone on the board shares that,” he said. With only a few meetings under its belt so far, the character of the new Park Board has yet to materialize in votes or policy. Musich, however, said she’s already experienced a lack of communication between board members. Little things, such as directing speakers during the board’s regular open time to staff, have fallen by the wayside.

Commissioners Chris Meyer (District 1), Steffanie Musich (District 5), Kale Severson (District 2) and LaTrisha Vetaw (at-large) were sworn in at the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board’s Jan. 2 annual meeting. Photo courtesy of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board “There’s definitely a clique, and I’m not part of it,” she said. “I just don’t know how much we’re listening to each other yet.” Meg Forney, a returning at-large commissioner, said while she doesn’t feel a separation from her fellow commissioners, it does feel different from the previous board. The body then felt “matured,” Forney said, because she was coming as a freshman commissioner among several seasoned park officials. “We’re definitely a board who hasn’t coalesced and figured out what is it that we can agree on,” she said. Many commissioners may simply be navigating politics for the first time. Cowgill said he joined the board not as a politician, but as a neighborhood organizer who didn’t have relationships with many Park Board members. The Lowry Hill East resident said he doesn’t see a divide between new and returning commissioners. As the vice chair of the board’s Planning Committee and a professional planner outside politics, he said Forney has been a mentor to him as chair. The two don’t live far from each other, either. “The schism that was really marketable during the campaign … I don’t think exists in the reality of a workaday environment,” he said. “I think it’s critical to the intellectual independence of our different Park Board members to stay away from (the) sort of narrative that we’re voting as a bloc.” Forney, who said the election is “water over the dam” now, said she’s hopeful the nine commissioners can learn from each other. So

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far, they’ve received more training than they have in years past, she added. “I’m trying my best to see the real, genuine people,” she said. District 1 Commissioner Chris Meyer is chair of the board’s Legislative & Intergovernmental Committee. He said he’s spent the first couple months working long hours preparing for the next legislative session. “We have a lot to learn,” he said. “There’s been lots of reading [and] a lot of staff meetings.” Cowgill, 29, said there is an advantage to the new group of commissioners, who represent a shift toward a younger, more racially diverse Park Board. Their experiences are just as necessary as the experiences and longevity of seasoned commissioners, he added. “Diversity and energy around that is hugely needed at a time when our city is growing (and) when we have so many more young people moving into the city,” he said. President Brad Bourn (District 6), the ranking commissioner on the board, said the key difference with the current board is its energy. There’s a “spark of curiosity” among commissioners that has them open to new ideas, he added. “(Before,) the first answer was ‘we can’t do this,’ ‘we’ve tried this’ or ‘no, because,’” he said. “All the commissioners are really starting from ‘why can’t we do this?’ or ‘why can’t we work this way?’” Commissioners will need to come together in a search for a new superintendent. Superintendent Emeritus Mary Merrill, a former superintendent and commissioner, is serving as Mill-

er’s temporary replacement through October. Musich said she would like to see a new superintendent with a handle on modern business practices, which would be useful in making sure the board’s business practices are self-sustaining and property taxes don’t price out Minneapolis residents. Managing the board — almost like a “city within the city,” she said — requires balancing complicated moving parts. “I really want to see someone who has some deep executive roots,” she said. Cowgill said ground-up experience working with communities, especially under-represented communities, is on his priority list. Meyer said he’d ideally like someone from Minnesota who is able to stay with the organization for a while. Before the board even begins its search, Forney said she’d like an independent facilitator to review their aspirations for the organization and help them figure out what they want to see in the city’s next parks leader. The search will be the primary topic of the board’s March 1 retreat. Bourn, who is the only sitting commissioner who has gone through a superintendent search process, said a request for proposals for a search firm will likely go out in mid or late March. He said community input will be key to the process. “We’ve never really engaged folks in our community of what kind of interactions and values are important… in a superintendent,” he said.

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Minnesotans pride themselves on being hardy, and the Winter Beer Dabbler offers the perfect opportunity to prove their mettle. The annual fest is the biggest outdoor beer festival in the state, taking place on the Minnesota State Fair grounds. Sample more than 500 different offerings from over 150 local, regional and national craft breweries and cideries. Enjoy live music, sample meat and cheese and watch brewers battle it out in the American Brewer Warrior competition.

Head to Modist Brewing for an evening of craft beer, live blues and BBQ. The brewery will have a selection of specialty brews just for the event, and they’ll be joined by ZZQ Smokehouse, which will provide barbecue pulled pork and chicken. A lineup of four bluesinspired brands will play throughout the evening, including Crankshaft and the Gear Grinders and Hurricane Harold’s All Star Blues Revue.

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Minnesotans don’t put away their bikes for the winter — they add fat tires and ride them. Participate in bike races through three Minneapolis parks or stick around the brewery to demo fat bikes, shop local vendor booths, warm up by a campfire and enjoy marshmallows and hot chocolate, food trucks and kids’ activities.

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MUSIC

The endless blue

“Don’t be afraid of the wave and where the wave might take you,” begins the debut album of Twin Cities-based gritty surf band Lavender Daughter. The line, the first of the self-titled record’s intro tune “Blue,” sets the listener up for an oceanic journey. The soundtrack to this ocean comes from core members Seth Hynes-Marquette (drums, backing vocals), Kalee Joy (vocals, guitar) and Lucas John Beach (vocals, percussion). The three McNally Smith College of Music alumni have been playing together for roughly four years now, but if you asked the group a couple of years ago when they were planning to release their debut record, they might’ve said never. Like Fleetwood Mac, one of their biggest inspirations, the wave took Lavender Daughter through choppy waters. “You could see it on our previous tours. We just looked like we hated each other. This record is about our troubles together and mending the ties,” Joy said. “I honestly thought that things were so tumultuous that [I thought,] ‘Oh my God, is this band going to break up? Am I going to lose my band?” Hynes-Marquette said. “Now we’re producing more than ever.” After writing and recording the 14-track record in Joy’s East St. Paul apartment, the three can talk about it frankly. It comes through on the album, which delves into the murkiness of real life and relationships. These aren’t story-

Lavender Daughter’s release show for its debut album is March 1. Submitted photo book romances from countless love songs but lives where things aren’t easy and no one is telling you how to feel. You’re swimming in open water and you don’t have your bearings. Joy’s soulful voice sounds earnestly innocent on her verses on the pop-infused “Run,” one of the band’s oldest songs, even when she’s threatening to bury a relationship at a crossroads (“If you want to go / let me know / If you want to stay / come my way / but if we’re done / you better run,” Beach sings). Beach, who trades leading vocals with Joy throughout the album, grits through a weak moment on “Prom King,” which deals with the emotional rush of a ﬂing you sought with someone who isn’t your knight in shining armor (“I begged you to take off your crown / I let you hurt me”). What about when your mind can’t catch up to body chemistry, such as with the similarly nuanced “Electricity,” a spicy song on the band’s grungier side (“Would you turn me on? / I can’t tell what’s right / Can’t tell if you’re wrong / Oh, but you turn me on”). The album closes on “Surf Cop,” the beachiest of the bunch and a tongue-in-cheek tune about a board shorts-clad

cop combing the shore like he’s Poseidon, backed by bright guitars that come in like King Ghidora’s screeches — though Hynes-Marquette adds his own roars. Joy said the album, engineered and mastered by Anthony Cadiz, was recorded live and is a good representation of their live performance. “I wanted it to feel like it was living and breathing in your arms. I felt like if we had just recorded with a click [track] in a studio it would’ve felt robtronic,” she said. When the trio listened to the album for the first time, they cried. That chapter behind them and documented in music the band wrote together, Lavender Daughter says there is a lot more on the way. Waves work in mysterious ways and you realize your heart is bigger than you thought. “I know it sounds trite, but it meant a lot to me to figure that out because of how emotional and personal these songs are,” Beach said. “Surrendering to change is really hard, but there’s beautiful things at the end of it.” Lavender Daughter will play a release show on Thursday, March 1 at First Avenue’s 7th Street Entry. Openers include local bands Boomtown Riot (featured in our Oct. 19, 2017 issue) and Shadow Party.

FOOD

A food journey to Japan

If you’ve tried out the authentic, ingredientforward dishes of Kado no Mise and want the next level of the Japanese dining experience, then take the stairs a level up. On the other end of the building from a second-story whiskey bar, named Gori Gori Peku (whiskey lovers, take note), chef Shigeyuki Furukawa has crafted a tasting menu unlike any other in the city, state or even the region. Kaiseki Furukawa is a clean, minimalist expression of Japanese tea ceremonies dating back centuries. Each intricate plate of the 10-course kaiseki menu is the chef’s interpretation of the exact moment in time, told through the lens of Japanese traditions. To celebrate a recent birthday, I made it to the restaurant. The menu will change with time, so it’s not important

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to delve into each course, but what I can say is that few dining establishments can tell a story through food like Kaiseki Furukawa. Broths come out with little color, but the most surprising and bold ﬂavors. Subtle dishes tell stories of the Japanese New Year with gold leaf and traditional ingredients. Sake and wine pair beautifully with several courses, often adding to the canvas with ﬂavors developed as far back as the 16th century. Some of those sake breweries go back a while, I’m told. I’m not sure what your food budget is, but this meal isn’t for a casual night out. With tax and tip, it will set you back nearly $170 a person before you even have a glass of wine (pairings will run you another $60 per person, plus tax and tip). It pays to serve a truly one-of-a-kind dining experience, and if that’s what you’re looking for, the hefty price tag is all the more manageable. Dinner is available on Friday and Saturday after 5 p.m.

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Ask Dr. Rachel / By Rachel Allyn

POLITICAL TENSION

This most recent presidential election has really taken a toll on my relationship with my parents. Although I have never agreed with their political beliefs and have voted diﬀerently from them ever since I could vote, the tension has reached a new level this past year. I feel stuck and don’t know how to have conversations with them without it leading to a heated argument. How can I get past the anger and confusion I feel toward them in order to preserve our relationship?

n our lives there is a time to sit back and listen and a time to speak loud and clear. And in this case, there is a time for completely avoiding politics with your parents altogether. You have taken the route in which you’ve let your opinions be known, resulting in discord. This is typically what happens when we feel threatened or misunderstood; our nervous system goes on high alert and we get reactive. After all, the political is personal, and humans are reactive creatures by nature. I believe that with certain issues to be complacent and not speak up is the equivalent of actively doing harm. So I under-

stand the urge to try to convince your parents that their viewpoints are problematic for you and the greater good. If you proceed with option A, begin by slowing down, breathing and asking questions to your parents as a way to listen and understand what guides them. With option B, stop, breathe and try to make your statements based on facts versus feelings. Try to find any common ground and shared values. Do not surrender your beliefs, but do let go of trying to change your parent’s. Recognize that there are some things so deeply engrained in the other person that no amount of persuasion can make a difference. The expression to “not talk about religion or politics” exists for a reason. That may be true now more than ever. Our current president is an archetype — a concept created by the psychoanalyst Carl Jung that explains a representative model or prototype of our collective unconscious. For example, there is the mother archetype (Clair Huxtable), the hero archetype (Luke Skywalker) as well as the jester, the explorer, the rebel, the ruler, the sage, the innocent, the mentor and the villain, among others. Depending on your political stance, Trump may be the villain or the hero archetype. Jung also talked about our inner “shadow,” that often unknown darker part

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Dr. Rachel Allyn is a licensed psychologist in private practice. Learn more about her unique style of therapy at DrRachelAllyn. com. Send questions to Rachel@DrRachelAllyn.com.

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