# October 7, 2026 Public Health, Safety & Equity Committee

The Minneapolis Public Health, Safety & Equity Committee met on October 7, 2026. Procurement actions included forwarding a three-year, $443,714 contract with Cellebrite US Corporation for mobile-device forensic software to the full Council without a committee recommendation; members requested more information about the sole-source process and comparison with St. Paul’s approach. The committee also forwarded Health Department master-contract amendments for 2027–28, from a vendor pool established through a 2025 RFP; the amounts are maximum placeholders, not guaranteed spending. It approved a $19,800 increase to Northstar Sustainability’s Food Forward contract, funded within a USDA grant, and approved related health-service contract items. A grant-funded purchase of Meridian vehicle-intrusion barriers for events was approved; the discussion cited about $96,000 for the barriers and nearly $4,000 for training. The committee also approved firefighter training funding and a three-year FEMA SAFER grant supporting 15 firefighter positions, with an approximately $450,000 local match planned in the 2027 budget. Donations covering staff travel and the transfer of surplus mounted-patrol property were also approved.

The committee voted 4–2 to recommend denial of the Community Bridges, Inc. mobile crisis response contract, sending that recommendation to the full Council amid debate about a potential transition to city-run services and the risk of service disruption. It received and filed the quarterly encampment-closure report, which recorded costs of just over $12,000 in the first quarter and about $5,500 in the second; members requested additional cost, staffing, shelter-availability, and housing-placement data. The committee also advanced oversight requests concerning police overtime and fleet audits; the transcript ends before a vote on the final overtime audit request is recorded. No procurement award or budget decision was identified in the environmental health overview.

**Jurisdictions:** sled
**Industries:** Public Safety, Healthcare
**Topics:** Grants & Funding, Physical Infrastructure
**Published:** October 07, 2026

### Sources
- [October 7, 2026 Public Health, Safety & Equity Committee](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKCsEkb4XuU) - cityofminneapolis