April 21, 2016 by The Journal

THE NEWS SOURCE FOR DOWNTOWN & NORTHEAST MINNEAPOLIS RESIDENTS APRIL 21–MAY 4, 2016

Retail janitors strike outside of the downtown Macy’s. Photo by Uchechukwu Iroegbu

SHORTCHANGED // An in-depth look at wage theft

Local leaders examine ways to combat wage theft Leticia Zuniga with her husband Abraham Quevedo in Washington, D.C. Submitted photo

By Sarah McKenzie /smckenzie@journalmpls.com Leticia Zuniga and Abraham Quevedo kept noticing hours missing from their paychecks week after week while on the job for a cleaning subcontractor hired for janitorial work at local Macy’s and Herberger’s stores. At the time, they earned $7.25 an hour. They would report the problem to their supervisor who always assured them it would get fixed. But it never did. Zuninga and Quevedo eventually decided to file a class action lawsuit in federal court along with several other local janitors against the subcontractor, Illinois-based Capital Building Services Group, for underpayment and other state and federal employment law violations.

In many cases, workers earned $4 to $5 an hour for their cleaning work. The non-union janitors won a settlement earlier this year with Capital for $425,000 in back wages and damages, which will impact about 600 workers, Quevedo said. Zuniga and Quevedo, members of the Minneapolisbased workers advocacy group Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha (CTUL), recently traveled to Washington, D.C., to share their experiences with wage theft with federal lawmakers.

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INSIDE

Westminster renovating to become greener, more accessible to community

By Sarah McKenzie / smckenzie@journalmpls.com

Westminster celebrated a groundbreaking for its expansion April 10. Submitted photo

Westminster Presbyterian Church has embarked on a major renovation project to expand its footprint and open up its spaces to the community on Nicollet Mall. Construction started April 10 on a new 40,000-squarefoot wing designed by James Dayton Design that will open onto Nicollet Mall & Marquette Avenue. A quarter of the new wing will be dedicated to an onsite community outreach partner, said Tim Hart-Anderson, Westminster’s SEE WESTMINSTER / PAGE 17

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The Gateway tower would accommodate a proposed streetcar line bisecting the block. Image courtesy of ESG Architects

NICOLLET & WASHINGTON

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United Properties is in talks with Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts to anchor its 35-story hotel and apartment tower on the north end of Nicollet Mall. Bill Katter, president and chief investment officer of the Bloomington-based developer, unveiled new concepts of their Gateway development planned for the Nicollet Hotel Block at Nicollet & Washington. United Properties and partners have refocused the tower toward luxury users with a five-star hotel and luxury apartments, increasing development costs to $260 million, up from $161 million. Katter said the project, if executed, would bring activity, jobs and excitement to the Gateway District near the downtown Minneapolis riverfront. “It’s a game-changer for the north end of the Nicollet Mall,” Katter told residents at a Downtown Minneapolis Neighborhood Association meeting. New plans for The Gateway call for an approximately 530-foot tower with 164 luxury apartments and a 300-room hotel. The skyway-connected project would have about 18,000 square feet of retail, including a 7,500-square-foot space for a “world-class” restaurant to pair with the hotel. While Four Seasons hasn’t committed to the project, Katter said they have been in talks with the Canadian company for the past few months to anchor the tower. The project would be the first five-star hotel in the Twin Cities market, and the company’s second branded location in the Midwest after Chicago. Katter said a Four Seasons hotel is “truly a hallmark of a vibrant, successful city.” “We think that it’s time that Minneapolis-St. Paul has this brand here,” he said. United Properties has been tailoring the project to attract a high-end hotel. The tower plans now feature a 10,000-square-foot, stateof-the-art ballroom for the hotel. Texas-based JMI Realty, a luxury hotel developer, is United Properties’ hotel partner. “There’s no ballroom in Minneapolis right now that is as cool as what we’re trying to promote here,” said Aaron Roseth, principal with ESG Architects, which is designing the project. Another important point for the hotel is the tower’s skyway connection over 3rd Street to the Minneapolis Central Library, which is designed to accept skyway connections. While the building isn’t connected to the skyway system yet, Opus Group’s Ritz Block development on the other side of Nicollet may offer a connection. An 18,000-square-foot deck has been enhanced from previous designs to include indoor and outdoor pools. Both hotel guests and apartment residents could use an outdoor terrace overlooking 3rd & Nicollet. The other part of the project is 164 units of luxury apartments. Gary Wallace,

managing director of Charleston, S.C.-based Greystar, the developer’s new housing partner, said the high-end units would average about 1,700 square feet and estimated rents would be more than $3 per square foot. The top two floors of the tower would have penthouse units. Wallace described the units as “condoesque” with luxury finishes currently unavailable in the Minneapolis rental market. The hotel is driving the change in apartments, which Wallace said he expects to be “best in class” to match. “This will be the ultimate luxury product that’s presented to Minneapolis in terms of apartments,” Roseth said. Wallace said the units would target empty nesters downsizing from their homes. Greystar is the largest property manager of multifamily apartments in the country. The company manages about 3,400 units in Minneapolis, including Junction Flats in the North Loop, which it owns. The Gateway would be 530 feet tall thanks to an LED-lit architectural spire that Roseth estimated is about 100 feet tall. The tower would be the eighth-tallest building in Minneapolis and have unobstructed views of the Mississippi River. The Gateway would have three underground parking levels with a combined 575 spaces, up from two levels. United Properties is planning the full-block development to eventually accept a proposed Nicollet-Central Corridor streetcar line, which would bisect the parcel. Outside the tower, street infrastructure and green spaces are meant to connect to Cancer Survivors Park across Nicollet. The design team said they’re also working with the City of Minneapolis to integrate the building into the overhaul of Nicollet Mall. Previous plans for the tower have shown a fluctuation in height from 33-36 stories. The newest plans also shift away from more “mainstream” users, such as with the originally proposed Canopy by Hilton Hotel and several hundred apartments, Katter said. Last February, United Properties’ original plan beat out three other proposals from other developers to win exclusive negotiations rights for what Ward 3 Council Member Jacob Frey says is “arguably the sexiest parcel” in Minneapolis. The site is named for the former 12-story Nicollet Hotel, which was built on the parcel in 1924 and demolished in 1991. The City Council approved the $10.4 million sale of the land in January though council members added a contingency so that the project’s final design meets expectations for an iconic development. Katter said they plan to break ground sometime between the end of 2017 and the spring of 2018. The project would take 30-36 months to build.

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A new mural from artist Greg Gossell at Hennepin & 10th. Photo by Eric Best

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The Hennepin Theatre Trust plans to use a grant from Southwest Airlines to liven up Hennepin Avenue. The trust announced that it has received a $200,000 grant from the airline’s Heart of the Community program. The organization will work with placemaking nonprofit Project for Public Spaces to bring public art, greening efforts and multicultural offerings to a fiveblock portion of Hennepin between 5th and 10th streets. The project, known as “5 to 10 on Hennepin,” falls within the trust’s recently launched WeDo cultural district. The organization, which operates four theaters along Hennepin, has also brought two murals — the five-story Bob Dylan mural at 5th and another at 10th — pop-up parks and its Made Here storefront art initiative to the thoroughfare.

“As we activate the larger WeDo Cultural District initiative, we have an opportunity to create a significant impact in a designated area and build on the success for the future,” said Tom Hoch, president and CEO of the trust, in a statement. “We’re lucky to partner with national experts of public space planning which will bring tangible benefits to our local community.” Minneapolis was one of five communities that received grants from the program, which supports placemaking efforts. More than 90 applicants across 60 cities were in the running for the grants. The trust will solicit public input to guide programming for the five-block site. The goal of the initiative is to build a shared vision of Hennepin “where everyone feels welcome and comfortable,” according to a statement.

Roe Wolfe’s name now replaces Arrow’s on the awning at 121 N. 1st St. in the North Loop. Photo by Eric Best

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Roe Wolfe is now open in its new space in the North Loop. Owner Ashley Kilcher has relocated the women’s clothing and beauty boutique from Washington Avenue into the former Arrow space on 1st Street just a couple blocks away. Roe Wolfe had called Washington home since 2013 when it moved from its original location in Mendota Heights.

Kilcher told The Journal earlier this year that the new space is a similar size, but will have more outdoor space for events. The store at 121 N. 1st St. is hosting a grand reopening party on Saturday, April 23 as part of a Spring Crawl event from 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Roe Wolfe is open Sunday through Tuesday from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. and Wednesday through Saturday from 10 a.m.-7 p.m.

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Blackeye Roasting Co. is bringing its nitro cold brew coffee to the skyway this spring with its first Minneapolis location. The Twin Cities-based company, known for its draft and canned coffee, is planning a café in the Towle building at 2nd Avenue South & 4th Street South in downtown Minneapolis. Minneapolis residents have already been able to buy Blackeye’s coffee on tap at restaurants like Red Cow and Pizza Luce and in cans at stores like Lunds & Byerlys and Whole Foods. The 18-seat café will have 10 tap lines and serve the company’s nitro cold brew coffee, as well as its nitro iced tea, kombucha from Prohibition Kombucha and non-alcoholic cocktails inspired by Bittercube. Blackeye

will also offer its traditional hot coffee and espresso-based drinks. For regular drinkers of Blackeye’s coffee or new fans who want to bring it home, the skyway location will refill growlers of the cold brew coffee. Blackeye debuted 12-ounce cans of its nitro cold brew and signature cold brew earlier this month. The company, founded in 2014 by Matt McGinn, also offers office coffee subscriptions and a delivery service for its cans and growlers. McGinn co-owns Blackeye’s original home, Quixotic Coffee in St. Paul, with partner Jake Nelson. Blackeye will open the café at 330 2nd Ave. S. in the Towle building, also known as the Galaxy office building, this spring.

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Saks Off 5th has opened a new store in downtown Minneapolis after closing its store across Nicollet Mall last year. The high-end fashion retail store, which opened April 21, is an anchor tenant at City Center on Nicollet Mall. The two-floor, 40,000-square-foot space was once home to

Office Depot on the street level. Saks Off 5th closed its store in Gaviidae Common on Nicollet Mall, which is now home to a two-story Walgreens store. The retailer has been in downtown Minneapolis for more than 25 years.

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Council approves four-lane redesign plan for 3rd Avenue A redesign plan for the downtown stretch of 3rd Avenue featuring four lanes of traffic and new bike lanes passed the City Council on April 15 despite concerns from biking community leaders who favored a three-lane layout for a portion of the street with a planter-protected bike lane. Business leaders had expressed concerns about the impact a three-lane configuration would have on traffic flow. The 3rd Avenue corridor will be redesigned to feature four-lanes of traffic and bike lanes in both directions from 1st Street South to 16th Street South. Planted medians in the middle of the street will be removed, but talks are underway to identify other areas for green space along the avenue. Construction on the $3 million project is expected to start later this year and be completed in 2017. Before the final vote, a motion offered by City Council Member Lisa Bender (Ward 10) that called for three lanes of traffic on 3rd Avenue south of 8th Street along with the planter-

protected bike lane failed 6-7. Bender, who commutes by bike along 3rd Avenue, highlighted studies indicating threelane streets are safer than four-lane streets. She said biking along the street can be “pretty terrifying in some spots.” Her favored design would have also saved planted medians in the middle of the street paid for by downtown businesses and championed by City Council Member Lisa Goodman (Ward 7). She also argued that moving ahead with a three-lane configuration would have minimal impacts on traffic flow. The Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition also lobbied for the three-lane configuration south of 8th Street along with the planter-protected bikeway, which would have been the city’s first. Bike lanes on 3rd Avenue will fill a gap for bikers downtown since there aren’t any protected north-south routes on downtown’s east side. Council Member Cam Gordon also offered a motion to test out the three-lane configuration for a year, but it failed 5-8.

Community leaders outline agenda for addressing racial gaps A coalition of black leaders have unveiled a legislative agenda with a long list of ways to tackle the state’s racial disparities, including $75 million in startup capital for black businesses. The United Black Legislative Agenda includes several criminal justice reforms and economic development initiatives. Anthony Newby, executive director of Neighborhoods Organizing for Change, said addressing the state’s racial gaps should be a top priority for legislators this session just like the Real ID issue and extension of unemployment benefits for laid-off workers on the Iron Range. Gov. Mark Dayton has proposed $100 million in his supplemental budget for racial equity efforts. “We are at a pivotal moment in this state, both with some of the largest racial disparities in the country, and in a movement when black people from communities across the state are demanding not only equal treatment but equal opportunity and equal investment,” Newby said. Jeff Hassan, executive director of the African American Leadership Forum, said black Minnesotans were the one demographic group to see incomes drop between 2013 and 2014. Median income for black households in the state dropped from $31,500 to $27,000, according to the U.S. Census. “That was a wake-up call for all of us,” he said.

As for economic priorities, the agenda calls for the creation of a $75 million business capital fund to support African and African American businesses. Hassan said black-owned businesses hire people of color at higher rates than other businesses. It also seeks more support for summer jobs program for youth of color who experience unemployment at much higher rates than white youth and family friendly workplace policies that offer flexible work schedules and paid sick time. On criminal justice, the agenda seeks a ban on grand juries for police-involved shootings, a ban on private prisons, sentencing reform addressing the mass incarceration of people of color, voting rights restoration for people who have served their time, and body camera policies that emphasize policy accountability. Asha Long of Black Lives Matter Minneapolis said the state needs to stop the “criminalization of black people.” “Our communities need economic investment and opportunity, not prisons. We need policies that will hold the police accountable, not allow them to escape responsibility,” she said. The agenda also calls for an increase in hate crime penalties to address the increase in Islamophobia and more investments in job training and education for Somali youth.

The late artist Kirk Washington Jr. Submitted photo

Council honors noted artist, community organizer who died in car crash Kirk Washington Jr., a beloved local artist and community organizer who died in a car accident April 4, was honored with a special resolution April 15 at the Minneapolis City Council meeting. The resolution noted that Washington, a fifth-generation Minnesotan, spoke the “gospel of the Northside.” “Kirk Washington Jr. told his story and the stories of the forgotten, the oppressed and marginalized with verve,” said Council Member Blong Yang (Ward 5), reading from the resolution. Washington, 41, was one of 12 poets who contributed to the poem, “One Minneapolis: A City in Verse,” which was read during Mayor Betsy Hodges’ inauguration. As part of a collaboration between Intermedia Arts and the City of Minneapolis, Washington worked with city staff to improve digital access for low-income people and communities of color. He lived in the city’s Harrison neighborhood. He worked in a variety of mediums as an artist, including theater, music, design, painting, photography and sculpture, among other things. He was also a featured artist in the Hennepin Theatre Trust’s Made Here urban walking gallery. The Journal interviewed him about his work in August 2014. A post on the Intermedia Arts website reflected on his vision: “He believes the collective imagination is the path that art can offer the world. He also believes this genius happens when life societies and their citizens realize and lean into their brokenness. It is there where the wounds are that we have the highest chance to heal.” Washington is survived by his wife Aster Nebro and daughters Azalea and Keah. (To see a video of a Journal interview with Washington, go to journalmpls.com)

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GREEN DIGEST

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Minneapolis parks due for a spring cleaning The annual Minneapolis Earth Day Cleanup, described by the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board as “the largest community-service project in the city,” is 9:30 a.m.–noon April 23. Recent years have seen more than 2,000 volunteers turn out to help collect litter in city parks and on the shores of lakes, streams and the Mississippi River. This year, they’ll be gathering at three dozen different cleanup sites spread across the city. The first Minneapolis Earth Day Cleanup was held in 1995, and the Park Board estimates the event has removed more than 140,000 pounds of trash from streets and parkland since then. Volunteers should bring gloves if they have them, but both gloves and trash bags will be available at the cleanup sites. While there’s no need to register, large groups of 20 or more volunteers are encouraged to contact Erica Chua at echua@minneapolisparks.org or 230-6479 ahead of time to see where they’re needed. Boom Island is one of this year’s cleanup sites and it’s also host to the inaugural 5K Bee Run/Walk/Cleanup put on by local nonprofit Great River Coalition in collaboration with the Park Board. The event aims to draw attention to efforts to preserve and expand habitat for bees, butterflies, birds

Arboretum hosts Urban Waters Forum The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum hosts a forum on protecting urban lakes and streams April 23. The 2016 Urban Waters Forum will gather together local experts and community members to share information on keeping local waters clean. Opportunities for citizen and community involvement in reducing water pollution are a focus of the forum. Attendees will learn about actions they can take on their own property or in their neighborhoods. They’ll also have a chance to connect with Master Water Stewards who are trained in reducing the pollution caused by urban stormwater runoff. Minnehaha Creek Watershed District is one of a number of local groups sponsoring the event. The forum runs 8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. April 23 at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, 3675 Arboretum Drive, Chaska. The cost is $20 ($15 for arboretum members). For more information, or to register, go to arboretum.umn.edu/2016UrbanWaters.aspx or call 301-1210.

Earth Day Cleanup events will be held throughout the city April 23. File photo and other pollinators along the full length of the Mississippi River, from Itasca to the Gulf of Mexico. The course takes participants from Boom Island to Nicollet Island and across the Stone Arch Bridge toward downtown. From there, runners and walkers head up West River Parkway to the Plymouth Avenue Bridge for the return to Boom Island. Race-day registration ($40) opens at 7:30

a.m., but runners and walkers can also register in advance ($35) at greatrivercoalition.com. The race starts at 9 a.m., and participants are encouraged to join the cleanup after they cross the finish line. For a list of all the cleanup sites and more information on the Minneapolis Earth Day Cleanup, go to minneapolisparks.org.

Volunteers needed to monitor wetland health The Wetland Health Evaluation Program is recruiting volunteers for another season of wading into wetlands to catalog plants and invertebrates. There’s a high demand for volunteers in Minneapolis, where teams of citizen scientists monitor 10 separate wetlands, said Mary Karius of Hennepin County Environmental Services. No experience or expertise is required, but the volunteers produce valuable

scientific data that is used to guide planning and natural resource management. Volunteer applications will be accepted through June 15, but Karius suggested those interested should apply early. The first outings to wetlands often take place in late May or early June. For more information, or to register as a volunteer, go to the county’s website, hennepin.us, and enter “WHEP” into the

search bar. Educators may be interested in a similar monitoring program that is targeted to school classes and youth groups. The county is recruiting new groups into its River Watch program, which sends teams of middle and high school students into local streams to sample for macroinvertebrates. “It’s more educational and outreach than data collection, but the data we get is pretty

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SHORTCHANGED // An in-depth look at wage theft “People should not remain silent. They should get legal help,” Quevedo said during a recent interview, speaking through a translator. “The more people that speak up the better so these companies change their policies.” Zuniga said people need to realize that wage theft is a widespread problem in the Twin Cities that is not isolated to one bad actor. She said it’s a major burden for lowwage workers who already face challenges making ends meet. “We lost our money and we also lost our time,” she said of the legal battle against Capital Building Services. In the class action lawsuit, lawyers for the janitors noted that subcontractors are under significant pressure to cut costs. “Increasingly, Minnesota businesses subcontract out to the lowest bidder labor traditionally performed by their own employees,” they wrote in the complaint. “The result is a classic race-to-the-bottom, where unscrupulous subcontractors compete for contracts by exploiting vulnerable workers to keep costs low. In this new ‘fissured workplace,’ some of the most egregious mistreatment of workers occurs right under the noses of some of Minnesota’s most esteemed businesses and retail establishments.” Low-wage workers, often recent immigrants with limited English proficiency at the “margins of economic life,” are the most vulnerable to exploitation, the lawsuit noted. Brian Payne, co-director of CTUL, said workers need to feel empowered to speak up when they’ve been victimized. “So long as workers live under the constant fear of losing their livelihood if they complain about workplace issues, wage theft will never end,” he said. “Real change requires ensuring that workers have a voice in their workplaces.”

Federal bill would mandate paystubs Sen. Al Franken and Congressman Keith Ellison are backing federal legislation requiring employers to provide workers with pay stubs as a way to combat wage theft. It sounds like a simple measure, but many low-wage workers who have been shortchanged by their employers don’t get pay stubs, making it difficult for them to challenge their employers and go after the money owed to them. Franken has sponsored the proposed Pay Stub Disclosure Act in the Senate and Ellison is a co-sponsor of the bill in the House of Representatives. “Americans are spending more hours working than ever, but all too often, they aren’t compensated fairly — and as a result working families suffer,” Franken said. “While a majority of employers are playing by the rules, wage theft is a real problem that’s causing workers to not receive the money they have earned. … Our bill will combat this crooked tactic by giving each employee a pay stub, allowing them to make sure that employers aren’t shortchanging their hours, wages or overtime pay.” A recent survey of a 173 low-wage workers in the Twin Cities found that nearly half had experienced wage theft by employers.

(Lower left) Leticia Zuniga and Susan Kikuchi of CTUL. (Top and right) Retail janitors at a recent strike outside of the downtown Macy’s. Submitted photos CTUL and the Advocates for Human Rights surveyed workers in a variety of industries, including janitorial services, restaurants, retail, construction, manufacturing, hospitality and temp work. The average annual salary for workers was $14,737. The problem was especially prevalent for janitors like Zuniga and Quevedo with two-thirds reporting they had experienced wage theft. The Pay Stub Disclosure Act would require employers to provide pay stubs to workers covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act’s minimum wage or overtime rules with the number of regular and overtime hours worked and the employee’s pay rate. Workers would also have the right to copies of their own payroll records. The legislation would also codify a 1946 Supreme Court ruling that presumes an employee’s own credible evidence and testi-

Learn more about wage theft and efforts to fight the problem ``Workday Minnesota (workdayminnesota.org): The project of the Labor Education Service at the University of Minnesota recently published an investigation on wage theft in Minnesota. The project also outlines ideas for fighting it. ``Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha (ctul.net): CTUL organizes low-wage workers across the Twin Cities and has collaborated on reports examining wage theft. ``The Advocates for Human Rights (theadvocatesforhumanrights.org): The Advocates for Human Rights has partnered with CTUL on investigating the exploitation of low-wage workers in the Twin Cities.

mony about his or her pay is true when an employer fails to keep pay records. Rep. Bobby Scott, a Democrat from Virginia who cosponsored the House bill with Ellison, said many workers are unaware that they are victims of wage theft. “This injustice occurs because employers are under no state or federal requirement to produce a pay stub itemizing wages and deductions,” he said. “Given the prevalence of this problem, we must work to ensure that workers have the tools necessary to fight back against wage theft.” Currently 42 states, including Minnesota, require employers to provide some sort of paystub to workers, but standards vary as does enforcement. A study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Labor in 2014 focused on California and New York found more than 600,000 weekly minimum wage violations, which added up to $28.7 million in weekly lost income for California’s workers and $20.1 million in weekly lost income for New York workers.

Local efforts to fight wage theft The City Council also recently voted to update its prevailing wage ordinance — one of its main tools to fight wage theft. The update codifies the city practice of wage enforcement for city contracts worth at least $50,000, said the city’s Civil Rights Director Velma Korbel.

Wage violations for smaller city contracts are reviewed when complaints are filed with the city. “Just last year through its prevailing wage monitoring, the Civil Rights Department recovered almost $200,000 of unpaid wages to workers on city projects,” Korbel told a Council committee April 13. City Council Vice President Elizabeth Glidden (Ward 8), who co-authored the update to the prevailing wage ordinance with Council President Barb Johnson (Ward 4), said constituents are sharing stories with Council members about their experiences with wage theft and urging local officials to take more actions to fight the problem. “The challenge is that good employers are following the law, but there are bad actors out there,” she said. “We have people being taken advantage of and we do not have the resources invested in making sure our good system of laws is being enforced to their fullest, and that we have more standard compliance across the line.” Another recent case of wage theft to make the headlines involved the case of an electrical company that underpaid workers for electrical work on a state transportation project. In March, Hennepin County District Judge Tamara Garcia found Laura Plzak guilty of 16 counts of failing to pay workers the prevailing wage. She was convicted of 13 counts of theft by swindle over $35,000 and three counts of theft by swindle over $5,000. Her sentencing hearing has been set for May 13. Plzak, president and CEO of Honda Electric, which she runs with her husband Jeffrey, had a contract with the Minnesota Department of Transportation for electrical work on a project at I-35W and I-694. Her husband pled guilt to similar charges in federal court last year and was sentenced to 22 months in prison. She was found guilty of falsifying government documents to make it appear that she was going to pay workers on the project the prevailing wage. State officials started investigating her after a former Honda employee told investigators he was paid $17 an hour instead of the $58.50 an hour he was supposed to make under the prevailing wage law. For low-wage workers, particularly new immigrants, fear can be a major factor to overcome in addressing wage theft. CTUL has a Workplace Rights Defenders Program that provides workers with information about their rights and encourages them to feel empowered when confronting employers. Workday Minnesota, a project of the Labor Education Service at the University of Minnesota, also recently published an investigation into the state’s wage theft problem on its website — workdayminnesota.org. It also outlined solutions to fight the problem, including more education about workplace rights, improved government enforcement and more organizing among workers. Madeline Lohman, a senior researcher with the Advocates for Human Rights in Minneapolis, said workers can face a lot of barriers when they try to go after money owed to them. “Workers face this gauntlet of navigating all of these different referrals and they may get lucky and get the right phone number to begin with or they may not, and all of that makes it less and less likely that they are going to get helped,” she said. Zuniga of CTUL, who still works for Capital Building Services, said she wants more people to become aware of the problem and help fight it. “There needs to be real consequences for companies who violate the law,” she said. “There needs to be actual punishments.”

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Wage theft watchdogs By Eric Best / ebest@journalmpls.com The Fair Contracting Foundation of Minnesota is one of the Twin Cities’ leading organizations in the fight against wage theft. The foundation is one of just a few dozen organizations across the country that focus on wage theft in the public sector construction industry, and the only one in Minnesota. Created in 2011, the nonprofit labor management committee employees three investigative attorneys who pursue complaints and cases of wage theft, from local contactors not paying prevailing wages to employees misclassified as independent contractors, in all levels of government across the state. We spoke with Mike Wilde, the foundation’s executive director, to talk about FCF’s work and wage theft.

Why was the foundation created? Wilde: The FCF was created as a program sponsored by the Minnesota State Building and Construction Trades Council to address Wilde some of the wage theft and unlawful practices in the publically funded construction industry. The [council] had seen many laws go unenforced for a long time and they wanted to make sure all the contractors that

were bidding on public work were adhering to the law. And so they created the Fair Contracting Foundation, the very first for the state.

What does FCF’s work look like? The FCF promotes prevailing wage law education, compliance and enforcement. It advocates for practices, policies and laws that ensure fair government contracts, a strong local industry and protection of the public interest. It operates like a small law office. We take leads, calls and questions from various sources about people who are cheated on public construction. Sometimes they’re from individual employees who speak out, trade representatives who see red flags or its competing contractors who want the law to be followed. Those are the three big ones. What we usually do is get all the information we can and we present it to the enforcing agency, like the Minneapolis Department of Civil Right, Minnesota’s Department of Labor and Industry or the U.S. Department of Labor.

Are there types of wage theft that are increasing? A really fast and growing one is what’s called employee misclassification. All of the laws that are labor and employ-

ment-wise are established based on the employee-employer relationship. But a lot of companies are saying, “I don’t have employees, I just hire independent contractors.” A man with a van and a paintbrush is a painter, Joe’s Paint Company, and it’s a scam. And that way the employers don’t pay Social Security, any FICA taxes, any state or federal taxes, or worker’s comp. So they drive bids down. And what happens is all those laws go out the window. And the people on the receiving end think they’re empowered because they’re self-employed, but they’re employees misidentified as independent contractors. So there’s a lot of victims in that — the state coffers, the federal coffers, and in my mind its Social Security fraud. There’s a lot of legality involved on whether that’s the case.

contractor” law that started Jan. 1, 2015. There are certain threshold that if the contactor cannot verify that they’ve passed those thresholds then they’re not deemed responsible and can’t bid on public sector work. The standards are pretty high. If you have a bookkeeping error you’re not going to run afoul of that law. Now, all of sudden, businesses have an added incentive to pay their workers according to the law. And quality, law-abiding contractors appreciate it. Everyone has to play on the same level playing field.

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What can people do to stop wage theft?

Up until recently there was none. [Regarding] repayment, a lot of people joked that it was an interest-free loan where they had to pay back what they should’ve paid in the first place, and that’s it. Usually they just get a lawyer and negotiate it down to some sort of middle dollar figure. Now in public construction, there’s a state law called the “responsible

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Workers face uphill battle going after pay owed to them By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@journalmpls.com A former employee of LaMac Cleaners in Lynnhurst and Tangletown went to court this month asking for thousands in overtime pay she said she was shorted over the course of five years. “We knew that we were entitled to it, but out of need we never said anything,” said the woman, who spoke through a translator and requested not to print her name. Since taking a different job, she’s brought hundreds of pay stubs in to Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha (CTUL), the nonprofit that translates as The Center of Workers United in Struggle. She showed the court pay stubs that initially list all hours paid at one rate — 97 hours in a two-week pay period at $12 per hour, for example. Later pay stubs document 80 hours per pay period, she said, with her overtime hours switched to a separate line item called “Commissions” also paid without a time-and-a-half rate. LaMac owner Nugzari Zedania said the allegations are “not right,” and declined to discuss the issue. “We did pay commissions, vacations, everything,” he said. A judicial officer determined April 15 that the employee is entitled to a judgment of more than $4,000. The woman said she wants to see more workers fight for what they are owed. “I did something so that people stop abusing us workers,” the woman said. “Us immigrant workers, we come here to struggle, to progress, to not stay on the bottom. That’s why we work so hard, to get ahead and to have something in life, but sometimes you can’t.”

‘So many stories’ CTUL reports that its recent survey of 173 Twin Cities workers in low-wage industries found that half of respondents experienced wage theft.

A 2008 survey of more than 4,000 workers in low-wage industries in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City (funded by the Ford, Haynes, Joyce and Russell Sage Foundations) found that more than two-thirds of respondents experienced at least one payrelated violation in the previous work week. Twenty-six percent of respondents were paid less than minimum wage, and 76 percent were not paid overtime rates. Lyndale resident Irene Gomez said she was paid a flat monthly rate for cleaning work in Minneapolis, and when she did the math, she realized she was only making $2-$3 an hour. Her son Javier Martinez said his paychecks bounced last year while he worked for a subcontractor cleaning P.F. Chang’s at Southdale Center. When he pursued the matter, he said he learned the contractor Coast to Coast went bankrupt and closed, and said he lost nearly $4,000 in wages. A spokesman for P.F. Chang’s did not respond for comment, and Coast to Coast could not be reached for comment. “There are so many stories, and everybody has one,” Gomez said through a translator. “It feels like discrimination to me.” While Gomez was discussing the issue at a Lake Street shop, a passerby stopped to listen and shared her own story. The Whittier resident said she was owed $600 or more from Las Mojarras Restaurant on Lake Street. She found another job and encountered the same issues there, she said through a translator. Las Mojarras did not respond to voicemails for comment. “Big stores or small stores, they do the same thing,” Gomez said. “They take advantage of people who don’t have documents, and they use that to intimidate you,” said the Whittier resident. “They say, ‘If you speak, then I’ll speak. If you speak about me not paying you, I’ll speak about your status.’” “Many of us are afraid,” Gomez said.

Minneapolis painter Dameon Jones said he’s gone weeks without pay for his work. Photo by Michelle Bruch “Sometimes I think it’s my right, I’m not doing anything wrong. I’m not stealing … I just want my money that I worked for.” Bryant resident Jose Gomez’ paychecks for construction work bounced so frequently, bank staff said they would call the police if it happened again, according to CTUL Organizer Terin Mayer. Gomez is preparing to seek nearly $7,000 in payment from Parada Roofing & Remodeling for work in 2015. Enoc Parada Garcia could not be reached for comment. “This is such an important issue for our clients and the entire community,” said Martha Delaney, deputy director of the

Volunteer Lawyers Network, in an email. “When people aren’t paid their wages, they can sink into homelessness (which is difficult to recover from) and even be pushed on to public assistance. People who steal from those in poverty are stealing from our community as a whole, not just the people who suffer directly.”

One man’s wage war Willard-Hay neighborhood resident Dameon Jones said weeks without pay from his employer had a major impact on his life — he was facing eviction, and he was

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Collectability is usually No. 1 for these clients…Oftentimes I’m giving people bad news. — Glen Drew, resource attorney at the Volunteer Lawyers Network

said he’s had issues with Jones. He pointed to a 2013 police report he filed for a paint sprayer Jones allegedly did not return. He also pointed to a judicial decision in May 2014 that determined Jones was not eligible for unemployment benefits after leaving Jamek, under the reasoning that Jones did not quit for a good reason caused by the employer. U.S. Department of Labor spokeswoman Rhonda Burke said there is an open investigation of Jamek Engineering involving alleged violations of prevailing wage laws. Additional investigations into Jamek concluded in July 2014 and ordered payment to Jones and other workers for back wages owed, she said. The Minneapolis Department of Civil Rights (MDCR) awarded Jones findings of probable cause in 2015 for employer discrimination and retaliation, and ordered a $20,000 judgment in Jones’ favor last March. According to the MDCR investigation, bank statements show Jones was paid thousands of

dollars less than a white painter on the same job site, and Jones was paid on a less regular basis. MDCR also determined that Ekhator’s police report was filed less than a week after Jones filed a discrimination complaint with the city, at a time when Ekhator knew Jones had the sprayer. Jones said the experience has been discouraging. “I’m scared to get back into the field, because I don’t know if I’m going to come across a guy like that,” he said. He said he hasn’t been able to collect funds awarded in the MDCR ruling.

A challenge to collect Minneapolis resident Cecilia Guzman is still owed thousands awarded in Hennepin County District Court for a job cleaning an Uptown apartment building, said Mayer of CTUL. Court records indicate that a writ of execution to secure $4,570 in back pay was unsuccessful, because HD Cleaning LLC had closed its bank account. The court recently agreed to order the company to file a financial disclosure form. HD Cleaning could not be reached for comment. Glen Drew, resource attorney at the Volunteer Lawyers Network, said he sees many employees left without pay when a restaurant or business closes. If the business dissolves or files for bankruptcy, securing lost wages becomes extremely difficult, he said.

“Collectability is usually No. 1 for these clients,” said Drew. “…Oftentimes I’m giving people bad news.” Ryan Hanson of Coon Rapids said he did recover back pay for lost wages. He said he was installing carpet and vinyl flooring in late 2014 for Hunt’s Carpet Service Inc. when he learned from a co-worker they were entitled to prevailing wage pay. He recalls they were making $17 an hour, when the prevailing wage rate was more than $46. CEO Robert Hunt declined to discuss the issue. After a yearlong process working with Hennepin County and the Fair Contracting Foundation, Hanson received one of two checks for several thousand dollars in back pay last Christmas Eve. “It was a good day,” he said. “…I had the short end of the stick other times, where I basically end up walking away. They just file for bankruptcy or whatever they do, and nobody recovers a dime.” A 2015 agreement between Hennepin County and Hunt’s Carpet Service calls the prevailing wage settlement a compromise of a disputed claim and not an admission of guilt; the principals agreed not to work on any government projects for five years. “It was a nice change of pace to have something go right,” Hanson said. “I am a guy who does an honest living and just wants an honest check.”

HOW TO ENSURE FAIR PAY ON HOUSEHOLD PROJECTS The U.S. Department of Labor found more than 5,500 violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act by employers in Minneapolis between 2005 and 2014, according to Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha (CTUL, The Center of Workers United in Struggle). “We have wage and hour laws being broken with impunity,” said CTUL Organizer Terin Mayer. “A lot of homeowners don’t even know this.” Mayer said it’s common for bonded and licensed general contractors to turn over work to subcontractors, who may in turn also hire subcontractors. “The amount of money starts diminishing, and the amount of risk and responsibility gets pushed down to the workers at the bottom of the chain,” he said. Attorney Justin Cummins, who handles wage theft cases, recommends asking general contractors pointed questions: Are workers on the job classified as employees or independent

contractors? “If they are independent contractors, you can virtually guarantee there is going to be a problem,” he said. Employees misclassified as independent contractors are often denied minimum wage, overtime pay, family and medical leave and unemployment insurance, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. According to the Minnesota Department of Labor, an individual is only an independent contractor if they maintain an independent office and equipment, file self-employment tax returns with the IRS, and operate a business dependent on business receipts and expenditures. Cummins recommends asking contractors other pointed questions as well: Do you comply with wage and hour laws? Do you comply with Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations? Do you pay overtime rates? “They can lie to you, but asking the question is a start,” Cummins said.

He said homeowners can get a feel for the business based on the response, and they can set the expectation that workers are paid fairly. Peter Jaworski, business manager at Roofers & Waterproofers Local 96, suggests calling the Better Business Bureau to see a report on the contractor. He also suggests talking to workers on the job, and asking people who know the industry about specific contractors. The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry offers the following recommendations. Before hiring a contractor: ``Ask for the contractor’s license number, and contact (651) 284-5069 or 1-800-342-5354 to verify the builder is currently licensed and find any disciplinary history. The status of a contractor’s license can also be verified at secure.doli.state.mn.us/lookup/ licensing.aspx.

`Àsk for references and check in with former customers ``Check the contractor’s litigation history on the state court system’s website at pa.courts.state.mn.us/ default.aspx. Avoid contractors that: `Àrrive in an unmarked truck or van `Àppear to be willing to do the job at an unusually low price ``Provide only a post office box as a business address ``Refuse to provide a license number issued by the state of Minnesota `Ùse high-pressure sales tactics — Michelle Bruch

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200 Central The Heritage Preservation Commission has continued Alatus’ 37-story condo tower project 200 Central Ave. SE until May due to a petition for an environmental assessment filed with the City of Minneapolis. The Minneapolis-based developer has been eyeing the site of the Washburn-McReavy Funeral Chapel for the past couple years and is now moving forward with a 207-unit condominium project. Alatus is proposing 6,700-square-feet of retail on the ground floor, including a restaurant from restaurateur Ryan Burnet, and 333 parking spaces. The petition was filed by Neighbors for East Bank Livability, which cited concerns with the building’s height and its impact on nearby buildings.

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Hyatt Centric Mortenson is moving ahead with plans for a Hyatt Centric hotel on the site known as the Guthrie Liner parcel in the Downtown East neighborhood. The Golden Valley-based developer is proposing a nine-story building with the 203-room hotel, ground-level retail space and approximately 14,000 square feet of office space for the American Academy of Neurology, which is headquartered adjacent to the site. A skyway connection would connect the two buildings at the sixth level. The city Planning Commissions’ Committee of the Whole review the preliminary plans during a April 14 meeting. The site, located along Washington Avenue near the Guthrie Theater, is currently vacant.

Lindenmeyr Munroe, a division of New York-based paper company Central National Gottesman, is acquiring the family-owned C.J. Duffey Paper Company in the North Loop. The local 70-year-old paper company owns a few buildings near downtown Minneapolis, including a fivestory warehouse at 300 6th Ave. N., an eight-story building at 608 3rd St. N. and a parcel at 528 Washington Ave. N. with several buildings.

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First-time homebuyers face short supply Tight market for starter homes in Minneapolis challenges would-be homeowners

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@southwestjournal.com It’s the toughest market in at least a decade for first-time homebuyers shopping in Minneapolis. The supply of homes in the Twin Cities metropolitan area hit a record low in January, according to the Shenehon Center for Real Estate at the University of St. Thomas. In Minneapolis, experts say the market is tightest for homes in the range of $150,000– $300,000 — exactly where many first-time buyers are looking. “I’ve got data that goes back 10 years, and I’ve never seen the market look quite like this in terms of the short supply,” said Herb Tousley, director of real estate programs at the University of St. Thomas. “That’s the big thing about this market that seems to be different, is that the number of homes for sale is just at historically low levels and has been for the last couple of years.” Lauren Novak, a real estate executive with Re/Max Results in Edina, said there’s “a learning curve for buyers who are getting into the market.” This spring, desirable homes were selling within 24 or 48 hours of being listed, Novak said, which meant buyers had to act fast and understand that, with so many homes attracting multiple offers, sellers have a lot of leverage. Minneapolis is considered a very affordable housing market compared to other metropolitan areas. But data compiled by the University of St. Thomas showed home prices rising faster than incomes, a sign that the imbalance in supply and demand is making it harder for some to achieve homeownership.

The house hunt Anna Martin, a Kingfield renter who is just starting her home search, said she’s noticed the effect of creeping housing prices since she began perusing the listings late last summer. Martin, 31, a project manager for Capella University, plans to focus her house hunt on the Longfellow neighborhood where a friend recently purchased a home.

Joanna Olson, pictured with her partner, Ben, is eagerly awaiting closing on her new home in the Standish neighborhood. Photo by Courtney Lowe

“I just feel like earlier in my search there were more houses coming to me that were in my price range but still had a lot of what I’m looking for,” Martin said. She’s not the only one who’s noticed. “My buyers have commented, too, that the houses have started to feel a little less good at the prices that they’re focusing on,” Novak said. “It’s not anything drastic, but they’re not getting better.” Still, well-prepared shoppers are finding success. The key for Joanna Olson was doing her research in advance, so when the right home came up she was ready to act. In April, the 31-year-old communications manager for Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota was looking forward to closing on a home in the Standish neighborhood, her first, which she plans to share with her partner, Ben, who also works for a nonprofit. Going in, Olson expected the search to take a few months, but couple spent exactly one Saturday morning in March looking at homes with their real estate agent. “The house we put an offer on was the third one we saw that day,” Olson said. “We went to Chipotle at the end and my partner and I were going, well, that house isn’t going

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to be there tomorrow, probably, so if we want it we should probably put an offer on it. “So we just did.” Olson offered asking price, which was just under $170,000 for a recently renovated 800 square feet, two bedrooms and one bathroom. When she found out there was another offer on the house, she sweetened the deal by offering to pay closing costs. “In the grand scheme of things, we found a place we like, so what’s a couple grand?” Olson said. She found the right combination of amenities — proximity to parks, easy access to bike trails and transit — and cost. Her mortgage payment won’t be much more than rent on her apartment in Northeast. “We got really lucky,” Olson said.

Leverage Novak said buyers offering to pay closing costs is more common in market where sellers are seeing not just one or two but multiple offers on their homes. “If you’re in a competition, you just have to know somebody else is, at a minimum, going to pay the true full price without asking for

any concessions,” she said. While some houses were still selling right out of the gate this spring, Novak said, some savvy sellers were responding to the market and adopting a new strategy. They wait to view offers, inviting multiple bids that drive up the sale price. “They have the leverage to do that,” she said. Novak said it’s hard for some of her clients to get around the “mental block” of making a bid above asking price. But she said it can be the right move if, after careful consideration, the home seems to be as good or better than many of the homes on the market in the same area for a similar price. “It has to be justified,” she said. “If the data doesn’t support that and it doesn’t stack up well against competition, then you don’t necessarily want to be making an emotional decision and offering over asking price just because you want this house.”

Looking ahead Tousley said the extremely tight housing supply is at least partly due to the lingering effects of the Great Recession and the crash in housing values that accompanied it. While the median home price has largely recovered since the recession, there are still a number of homeowners who have either negative equity or near-negative equity in their homes. Tousley said those in the latter category might want to move to a more expensive home, but can’t afford to without more time to pay on their mortgages and a continued rise in home prices. “A lot of these people are still sitting on the sidelines waiting until their equity positions get better, and at that point you’re likely to see more homes coming onto the market,” he said. It’s not just that the supply of homes is tight, he added. Low interest rates are enticing more buyers into the market.

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Condo inventory remains low downtown By Sarah McKenzie / smckenzie@journalmpls.com The housing inventory for downtown and northeast Minneapolis remains tight, leading to increased prices and a challenging market for new buyers. Developers have started pitching new condo projects in the downtown area after focusing on high-end apartment towers in recent years. Fritz Kroll of Edina Realty said he’s excited to see the talk of projects move toward construction. “I think key words for 2016 are new, luxury and tall,” he said. “I believe the cost of new condos will make the market even tighter for existing condos because many buyers will go for value, rather than new.” Kroll said the strong rental market has been an asset for downtown. “All of the new rentals that have come online have been wonderful for the downtown for sale market because they have helped make downtown more vibrant, and many downtown renters become downtown buyers,” he said. Joe Grunnet, owner of the North Loopbased real estate company Downtown Resource Group, said limited inventory downtown might prompt would-be buyers to remain renters. “I personally think the downtown and riverfront condo market will stay strong for the next three to even five-plus year, my big concern is really affordability,” he said. “With the resale markets prices climbing so fast and zero new inventory coming on in the near future for first time buyers. First time buyers may be stuck in renting.” A new rental development in the pipeline includes the proposal to convert the Northstar Center office building into a 266-unit apartment tower at 6th Street & 2nd Avenue. As for large condo developments on the horizon, condo developer Jim Stanton has proposed a 14-story, 374-unit development for a surface parking lot in the Mill District. The 726,000-square-foot tower named Legacy would go up at 13th Avenue & 2nd Street. It would be loaded with amenities, including a playground, pet exercise area, bike racks, green roof, exercise room and

(Top left and above) The Alatus tower and (left) The Legacy project. Submitted images pool/spa, among other things. Meanwhile, across the river, developer Bob Lux has plans for a 40-story condo tower with 207 units in the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood. The tower site is 200 Central Avenue, which is now home to a Washburn-McReavy funeral home. Condos would range from $300,000 to several million for penthouses. The project has faced neighborhood opposition because of its height. According to the latest update from the Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors (MAAR), there were 131 homes for sale in downtown neighborhoods in March — down 19.1 percent from a year ago. The median sales price for homes in the downtown area year-to-date was $275,000, up 10 percent from a year ago. MAAR

includes Downtown East, Downtown West, Elliot Park, Loring Park, North Loop and Stevens Square-Loring Heights in the downtown market. Downtown East topped the list of downtown neighborhoods for highest median sales prices year-to-date at $518,500. In Northeast, there were 65 homes for sale in March, down about 28 percent from a year ago. The median sales price for Northeast neighborhoods year-to-date was $208,755, up 16.7 percent from the same period a year ago. St. Anthony West neighborhood had the highest median sales price year-to-date at $290,500. Overall, the median list price in the Twin Cities was $222,000. MAAR president Judy Shields said despite

the lack of inventory sellers still need to be smart about listing price. “The small gain in seller activity was nice, but it falls short of the supply levels needed to sustain the demand we’re seeing,” she said. “That should be motivating for sellers, but it’s still important to understand that your home needs to be priced right.” MAAR president-elect Cotty Lowry said buyers need to be ready to act fast. “Serious buyers should be prepared to make their strongest offer right up front this spring,” he said. “Traffic at open houses is as strong as I can recall, which makes additional options on the supply side of the equation that much more critical.”

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Council leaders working on compromise funding proposal for parks City leaders are working to create a lastminute funding alternative to a referendum that would raise money to repair neighborhood parks. Council members discussed a neighborhood park funding plan drafted by Council President Barb Johnson (Ward 4) and Council Member Lisa Goodman (Ward 7) during an April 13 Committee of the Whole meeting. The proposal is one of several options before the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board to fund a backlog of maintenance issues in the city’s neighborhood parks.

Council members and Mayor Betsy Hodges are working on an additional proposal that would address both park funding and an annual $30 million need to maintain the city’s street infrastructure, as the city’s Public Works department detailed to council members earlier this year. The council is expected to vote on a proposal before May when the Park Board could move forward with a fall referendum to raise roughly $300 million over 20 years. The Johnson-Goodman plan, the current proposal making its way through the council, would guarantee about $11 million

in additional funding for parks. The agreement, based off concurrent ordinances, draws from $8 million from various existing sources, about $2.5 million in local government aid that the board has historically received and $3 million for operating costs based on a 1 percent increase of the city’s tax levy. Council Member John Quincy (Ward 11) and Hodges introduced their own plan in early April that would raise $300 million, including $10 million for the Park Board and $20 million for street repairs annually over 10 years. Hodges said in a statement

that the proposal is “another step” in the process in crafting a compromise. “I am confident that by putting all the best ideas on table we can move forward together,” she said. The council’s Ways and Means Committee and Committee of the Whole are slated to discuss the additional details of the Johnson-Goodman plan. Park Board Superintendent Jayne Miller was scheduled to present a five-year investment plan during the board’s April 20 meeting, after this issue went to press.

Park Board moves ahead with goats, glyphosate ban Park commissioners approved new tactics, from a reduction of glyphosate-based herbicides to using goats, in its fight against invasive species in the city’s parks. Commissioners of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board voted to eliminate all products with glyphosate as an active ingredient, such as Roundup, from being applied in neighborhood parks. The decision follows a report that park staff presented in March detailing the board’s use of herbicide across the system. The board may continue to apply the widely used chemical, which the International Agency for Research on Cancer classified last year as “probably carcinogenic to humans,” in the system’s golf courses, regional parks and existing projects already underway, such as in Loring Park. The Park Board has been phasing out the chemical for years. Assistant Superintendent Justin Long said that prior to the ban, park staff and the board’s contractors applied very little glyphosate products in neighborhood parks. “We use so little in our neighborhood park system… that’s why it made sense to start there,” he told The Journal. “We

would much rather have a more sustainable park system if we can.” The ban puts the onus on park staff to find alternatives to glyphosate-based products, Long said. “Roundup has been considered safe in the past, however, recent research

raises some concerns as to whether this is true. The Operations Committee chose to err on the side of safety for residents, our employees, and environment,” said At-Large Commissioner John Erwin, who also works as a horticultural science professor at the University of Minnesota,

in a Facebook post. Commissioners also approved a trial run to use goats to target invasive species like buckthorn in two areas of the park system. Park staff will select the sites, though commissioners have tossed around an area at Theodore Wirth Park. The board hopes that by using goats they can better eradicate invasive species because the animals can get to steep and wooded areas and are more efficient than having staff mechanically cut away at the weeds. Plus, they’re not expensive, Long said. Long was a part of Atlanta’s park system when it tried using goats to eat away at ivy and kudzu. The goats “decimated” them, he said. While goats aren’t a silver bullet, Long said they give the board another option in its management of invasive species. “It’s another tool in the process. I don’t think it’s been ruled as a solution,” he said. Long expects to use goats on the two sites this year.

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journalmpls.com / April 21–May 4, 2016 17 FROM WESTMINSTER / PAGE 1 senior pastor. The church is in talks with an alternative high school and a nonprofit that offers early intervention programs for children that have faced trauma, he said. The wing will be a glassy, contemporary counterpoint to its historic and stately 1897era building with flexible spaces for worship and community gatherings. There will also be new green spaces for the community to enjoy, a green roof on the new wing and a system to collect rainwater for reuse inside and outside the building. “We’re creating a four-block outdoor room that will make this part of the city lovely, livable, walkable and children friendly,” Hart-Anderson said. Westminster will be a book end for the new $50 million Nicollet Mall redesign led by James Corner Field Operations, which is expected to be completed by the end of 2017. He said the expansion project will help prepare the congregation for the future. The church has just over 3,100 members and draws people from all over the metro area, but mostly from downtown-area neighborhoods. “The goal of the project is to position this congregation for the next 100 years in downtown Minneapolis. Across the country downtown congregations have seen challenges of one sort of another,” he said. “Westminster feels like it will meet many of the challenges by providing much better access, better visibility in the community and a building that is more of a 21st century design.” To make way for its new wing, the church is demolishing an eight-story office building on Marquette. It is also adding new underground parking behind the church and renovating the historic church to make room for new libraries and co-working spaces, among other things. Architect James Dayton, whose great-great grandfather was an early member, called the church a “cornerstone of the city.” “We believe these new spaces will inspire and invite people with their warmth and light,” he said. Westminster also purchased an apartment building on Marquette in 2012 in preparations for its expansion and paid moving costs to resettle 60 tenants. The church has also committed to supporting 150 affordable housing and supportive housing units in the downtown area as apart of its $7 million “Open Doors Open Futures” campaign. So far, the church has invested in 62 units of affordable housing at the Rose, a new

An illustration of the new 40,000-square-foot wing planned for Westminster along Nicollet Mall. Submitted image affordable housing development south of downtown at 1928 Portland Ave., and apartments in the building once home to the King and I Thai restaurant in Loring Park, Hart-Anderson said. Westminster is also working with HCMC to build 90 units of housing near the medical center for medically fragile people experiencing homelessness. Construction at the church is expected to take two years. A group of eight people founded Westminster in 1857 and raised $2,000 to build a church on 4th Street, according to the church’s website. After a major growth spurt it moved to 7th & Nicollet in 1883. Then a major fire prompted the church to move again to its current site at 12th & Nicollet in 1897. Westminster was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. The church is also known for its Westminster Town Hall Forum series, which launched in 1980. More than 250 noted speakers have been featured, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Eli Wiesel, Salman Rushdie and Tom Brokaw. Hart-Anderson said the church is focused on helping advocate for the common good through its ministries, outreach work and speaker series. “We have a highly polarized society these days and the church, I hope, can be a force for civic engagement and civic dialogue,” he said.

Westminster senior pastor Tim Hart-Anderson discusses the church’s expansion plans. Photo by Sarah McKenzie City Council Member Lisa Goodman (Ward 7) called the church’s renovation project a “gift to the city.” “The church’s investment in our downtown and its plan to make its spaces open and welcoming to all is a remarkable statement,” she said. Minneapolis Downtown Council CEO Steve Cramer also offered praise.

“Westminster has given great thought to how it can best serve this city,” he said. “The new building, the green spaces and the commitment to affordable housing are major contributors to a growing downtown.”

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The Sheridan Story

A Sheridan Story volunteer packs a weekend food bag into a student’s backpack. Photo courtesy of the The Sheridan Story

Northeast-based nonprofit provides thousands of Twin Cities children with extra food each week

A crusade against hunger The Sheridan Story launched in 2010 after school leaders at Sheridan Elementary in Northeast started noticing students grabbing extra food on Fridays so they would have something to eat on the weekends. School leaders turned to the nearby Mill City Church and asked the pastor for help. Soon church members started providing weekend food bags to 27 kindergarteners. It expanded to all grades in the school two years later and added Delano Elementary School in the spring of 2013. Now the nonprofit has weekend food programs in 91 schools across the Twin Cities. Over 200,000 children face hunger in Minnesota, including 100,000 in the Twin Cities. Location Sheridan Story board member Wendi Jarson, a former assistant principal at Sheridan Elementary, said she noticed kids 740 Hardin St. NE Suite B were more excited about coming to school on Fridays once the weekend food bags started arriving. They were also more likely to bring their backpacks to school, because they didn’t get food without them. Contact Jarson led an effort within her own church to sponsor the program at Mississippi Elementary School in Coon Rapids. 612-568-4003 She and a group of 12 volunteers distribute food to 34 kids each week. info@thesheridanstory.com She told one story of a mom who started crying out of gratitude after a teacher suggested the program to her. That family didn’t have any money at the time, Jarson said, and had been eating bread and peanut butter for the previous Website week and a half. thesheridanstory.com “There’s stories like that everywhere,” Jarson said. “It’s such a way to give back to the community. It’s a great way to give back to the kids.” Year Founded Each week, the Sheridan Story provides an estimated 3,800 Twin Cities kids with about five pounds of food on Friday 2010 afternoons at no cost. The nonprofit sources, packages and distributes the food to the schools, where local sponsors, such as churches or businesses, distribute it. The organization has distributed more than 500,000 meals in its six-year history in an effort to provide a solution to childhood hunger. “It’s not that we (as a society) don’t have enough food,” said Sheridan Story executive director Rob Williams. “It’s that it’s not in the homes where the kids need it. …Ours is really a distribution solution and a logistical solution.” The organization works primarily with elementary schools, whose kids can be most susceptible to hunger, Williams said. It doesn’t require that students qualify for free or reduced lunch to participate, and families need to opt in to the program to receive food. A typical bag of food includes the following: a canned fruit, vegetable, protein (such as tuna or chunk chicken), carbs (rice, oatmeal or pasta), and a chili, soup or stew. The Sheridan Story does not include junk food or snacks. “It’s a very smooth program,” said Laura Saatzer, principal of Farnsworth Aerospace Magnet School in St. Paul. “It’s something that we know that (families) are really counting on.” About 100 Farnsworth students utilize the program, Saatzer said. Volunteers come to the school each Friday and discreetly put the food in the kids’ backpacks, helping the families fill the weekend food gap. “In order for kids to be really ready to learn, they have to have those basic needs met,” Saatzer said. “We can work really hard to teach them, but if they aren’t properly nourished, that’s a problem.”

By the numbers

Number of schools in the Twin Cities served by The Sheridan Story

3,800

Approximate number of Twin Cities students who receive weekend food bags each week

500,000 Number of meals The Sheridan Story had distributed to students as of February since it launched in 2010

$130

Cost for The Sheridan Story to provide food to one student for a year, which covers approximately 134 meals

What you can do Sponsor your local school. For more info go to the thesheridanstory.com/sponsor-a-school. Host a food drive. The Sheridan Story has resources on its website to help people implement a successful food drive. Go to thesheridanstory.com/food-drive. Donate at The Sheridan Story website with a check, via United Way or another payroll program.

About the Where We Live project This project is an ongoing series spearheaded by Journals’ publisher Janis Hall showcasing Minneapolis nonprofits doing important work in the community. The editorial team has selected organizations to spotlight. Nate Gotlieb is the writer for the project. To read previous features, go to southwestjournal.com/section/focus/where-we-live.

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What are you most proud of?

Photos and interviews by Stephanie Glaros

5DURAN MAYFIELD, ST. PAUL Graduating high school, because my mom died when I was 14, and I was going from foster home to foster home. It was kind of a struggle living with other people. Like, you can’t go in the refrigerator without asking. It’s just horrible. It’s really depressing, it just feels like nobody really cared about me and loved me. I just felt rock bottom. But I made it. I graduated two years ago. How did you manage to graduate? Because I knew if I didn’t get my diploma that I probably wouldn’t succeed in life. So I really pushed myself hard and stayed in school. A couple of my friends dropped out, but I just couldn’t see myself being out here in the streets without an education.

5KATLYN TARRAS, MINNEAPOLIS I feel like I have a lot of self-respect. I’ve gotten to a point where I’m living life for myself and not for anyone else. What led to that change? Sometimes people don’t bring out the best in you. I was in a relationship for a while that I thought I enjoyed, and I thought I could be myself in. But once I realized I wasn’t myself, I had a lot of respect for myself to get out of that situation. What made you realize that you weren’t being yourself? I felt like I was taking care of someone all the time. I was kind of babysitting them. I felt like I couldn’t live my own life because I was trying to fix someone else. I was kind of close-minded, like, “This is what my life is gonna be like,” and I settled for it. I’ve lived here for 24 years, and I always thought, “This is where I’m gonna end up.” You just realize there’s a whole new world of possibilities out there, and there’s a lot of people I haven’t met. Before, my energy was focused on someone else, and now my energy is focused on myself, and learning what I’m passionate about, what my goals are for the future, and where I wanna go in life. I’m at a point where it’s not so much about someone else, but it’s more about me.

5NATHAN WILLAR, BLAINE My relationships with my friends and family. The pride in that is when I think about the comfort and the strength that they give me, but also the way that I can support them and be a helper to them in their times of need. That gives me a lot of joy and strength. Has there been a time you can think of when you’ve been able to be there for someone else? It’s the small things. The text message that comes in and says, “Hey, I really need to talk,” and I’m able to say “I’m open at lunch. Where can we meet?” Just to be there for someone, that makes me feel really good, like I’ve met their need. Can you think of a time when other people have been there for you? Yeah, I met with some guys this morning to talk through life. Just to share some of the struggles and some of the hardships that I’m going through, and to hear theirs, and to speak truth into each other’s lives early in the morning before work. So I’ve had a great day today, and I know that there’s guys out there that have my back, and are willing to drop anything to meet with me.

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Botanica Light Grey Art Lab is celebrating the arrival of spring with its latest exhibition, “Botanica,” which showcases the world’s flora from 125 artists. Designers, illustrators and crafters have put together art inspired by the plant kingdom — from ferns to fungi — in as many forms, from oil painting to collage, embroidery to jewelry. Light Grey Art Lab’s gallery in Whittier is free and open to the public from 12-7 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and 12-5 p.m. on Sunday. Where: Light Grey Art Lab, 118 E. 26th St. / When: Through May 13 / Cost: Free / Info: lightgreyartlab.com

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If you’ve never visited the Ard Godfrey House, you’ve probably passed it on your way to work or a Northeast Minneapolis taproom. A perfect time to visit the historic 1849 home, tucked among the hustle and bustle at University & Central, is The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis’ Dandelion Day celebration. The day celebrates the introduction of dandelion seeds to the St. Anthony Falls area. Both adults and kids can learn to make dandelion necklaces, bracelets and crowns; get dandelions painted or temporarily tattooed; and even bring recipes home for dandelion coffee and more. Guests can also tour the historic home with hostesses dressed in period fashion. Where: Ard Godfrey House, 28 University Ave. SE When: Sunday, May 15 from 1-4 p.m. Cost: Free Info: womansclub.org

For many in Minnesota, MayDay is a quintessential Minneapolis event to welcome spring and connect with their community. MayDay is a day of performances, festivities and a parade from In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre. The parade begins at noon at Bloomington Avenue South and 25th Street East, traveling south on Bloomington and ending at Powderhorn Park. The parade culminates with the Tree of Life ceremony, a multi-generational ritual after the parade with giant serene puppets and live dancers. The festival follows the ceremony and features live music, dancing, food, canoe rides and more. Where: Powderhorn Park, 821 E. 35th St. When: Sunday, May 1 at noon Cost: Free Info: hobt.org Last year’s MayDay parade. Photo by RJL Photography

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Sideways Stories from Wayside School For generations the wacky classrooms, quirky students and unique teachers of the “Wayside School” series has captivated young readers. Now, the Youth Performance Company is bringing the books to life, interpreting the classroom comedies for the theater. The show, recommended for second grade and up, is a delightful way to introduce kids to theater as the kids of Mrs. Jewls’ classroom solve a silly mystery on stage. Where: Howard Conn Performing Arts Center, 1900 Nicollet Ave. When: Friday, April 29 through Sunday, May 15 Cost: $15, $12 for children and seniors Info: youthperformanceco.org

5K Bee Fun Run/Walk

Kentucky Derbatante Northeast Minneapolis’ local faux country club is once again hosting its own twisted version of a Kentucky Derby event. Betty Danger’s Country Club will have a derby hat contest, live ponies and an ‘80s dance party. If that wasn’t enough to transport you to the horse capital of the world, then perhaps dancing at a derby ball and a mint julep — one is included with admission — will do the trick.

What better way to celebrate Earth Day than to get outside and, while you’re at it, do a little cleaning up of the city’s parks? The Great River Coalition is hosting a 5K Bee Run/Walk and river cleanup where runners and walkers can take to Boom Island Park for a 5K run/walk at 9 a.m. and then clean up the river at 9:30 a.m. Participants can also enter to win club seats at U.S. Bank Stadium or even a 55-inch TV. Registration opens at 7:30 a.m. and includes a shirt, honey packets and a bee headband. Bags and gloves are provided for the cleanup. Where: Boom Island Park, 724 Sibley St. NE When: Saturday, April 23 fro, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Cost: $35, $40 day of race, kids 6 and under free Info:greatrivercoalition.com

Where: Betty Danger’s Country Club, 2501 Marshall St. NE When: Saturday, May 7 from 3-9 p.m. Cost: $16.95 in advance Info: bettydangers.com

Fight Like A Mother

Telling: Minnesota 2016

The ColorWheel Gallery is hosting its seventh year of “Fight like a Mother!” exhibition. The exhibition’s 20 local artists, all mothers, were asked to response in their art to “What does ‘Fight like a Mother’ mean to you?” and the results — from painting and collage to sculpture and textiles — express the power, love and struggle of women and motherhood. The exhibition will feature live performances every 30 minutes throughout the day with poetry and spoken word.

The Telling Project returns with its presentation of “Telling: Minnesota 2016” at the Guthrie Theater. Jonathan Wei, founder and executive director, and co-founder Max Rayneard created The Telling Project to prompt community discussion and recognition of the realties of military service. The project collaborates with local community organizations to interview and records veterans and families, transcribe them verbatim and construct a script. Then veterans and family members work with a director to perform and tell their story, from deployed social workers to those enlisted. More than 200 military veterans and military family members have taken to stages around the country as part of The Telling Project.

Where: ColorWheel Gallery, 319 W. 46th St. When: Saturday, May 7 from 2-8 p.m. Cost: Free Info: colorwheelgallery.com

Support the Parks You Love

Where: Guthrie Theater, 818 S. 2nd St. When: April 29 through May 1 Cost: Free Info: guthrietheater.org

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A tour of Target Field treats By Eric Best / ebest@journalmpls.com The Minnesota Twins not only unveiled new stadium fare available to fans this season but new venues to enjoy them. The team recently led media and season ticket holders through new eats, from a bolder Bloody Mary to an array of ice cream, as well as $5 million in enhancements to Target Field’s center field. On the first level of center field, the team has added Catch, a private suite available to season ticket holders, which it has been planning since last year. Access to the 112-seat bar and restaurant space is all-inclusive and includes small plates and drinks. On the second level, the team has added a new Pizza Luce stand and Red Cow stand. Red Cow, which debuted at the ballpark last year, is expanding its menu with its award-winning turkey burger and poutine. The general admission space also includes the Twins-themed Minnie and Paul’s pub, which serves Minnesotabranded food options. Target Field’s food service provider Delaware North has introduced several items to the ballpark this season. Hot Pretzel Bites & Brews will have a cart in section 101 that will serve three kinds — savory, sweet and local — of fresh pretzel bites. Hrbek’s is offering a new signature drink, the Buffalo Chicken Bloody Mary, which will have, among other toppings, a chicken wing and a pepperoni stick. The

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