# October 15, 2026 Minneapolis City Council


**Body:** cityofminneapolis
**Date:** October 14, 2026
**Jurisdiction:** SLED

**Tags:** Public Safety, Construction & Infrastructure, Physical Infrastructure


At the October 15, 2026 Minneapolis City Council meeting, the Council approved multiple procurement and contract items. Climate and Infrastructure items included bids for concrete rubble crushing, Hilton Ramp plumbing replacement, sewer lining and pump station work, plus amendments for lead-service-line replacements, the 26th Street East/Hiawatha Avenue safety project, and Hennepin County waste-disposal services. The waste-disposal amendment passed 12–0; members discussed its relationship to the City’s goal of closing the HERC incinerator by the end of 2027 and called for sustainable funding for zero-waste initiatives. The Council also approved a package of Health Department master contracts—described as 80 contracts and more than $15 million in increases to contractual services—after a motion to postpone failed. Members requested additional historical funding information for future consideration. Other contract items included amendments involving Good Works for change-management services, Aliveness Project housing programming, Cordia steam service, Principal Financial Solutions investment services, and SUEZ North America water-lab support.

The Council denied, 7–5, the proposed approximately $5.9 million mobile crisis response contract with Community Bridges, selected through an RFP with seven applicants. Members debated service continuity, the proposed expansion of the program’s scope, and whether to bring services in-house. A separate motion to waive procurement rules to allow the administration to pursue a short-term extension with current provider Canopy Roots was introduced; the City Attorney clarified that it would only remove a policy barrier and would not itself authorize an extension, and the transcript ends before that motion’s disposition. The Council also sustained the Mayor’s veto of an ordinance regulating commercial autonomous vehicles, so the ordinance was not adopted; a council member announced intent to introduce a revised measure at a future meeting. The Minneapolis Public Schools closure-plan item was withdrawn.

**Source:** cityofminneapolis