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Council-dedicated funds: health pilots, CPED projects and debate over using existing resources
Summary
The committee reviewed 13 council-dedicated funds for 2026, including Health Department pilots for opioid response and autism/water safety, CPED's tiny-homes and childcare-worker items, and public-works earmarks; council members asked for clearer reporting and questioned whether using existing departmental resources to satisfy earmarks requires a formal council vote.
Deputy City Operations Officer Brett Jelly opened the committee's review of 2026 council-dedicated funds, the new reporting stream that requires departments to update Council in April and August each year. Health Department representatives reported two items: a $150,000 expansion of a South Minneapolis opioid-response pilot to purchase medication used for opioid-use disorder for federally qualified health centers, and a $25,000 autism-and-water-safety public-health initiative currently proceeding as a…
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