Chairs: Peter McLaughlin, District 4

Jeff Johnson, District 7

Members: Mike Opat, District 1

Mark Stenglein, District 2
Gail Dorfman, District 3
Randy Johnson, District 5
Jan Callison, District 6

FINAL COMMITTEE AGENDA

BOARD OF HENNEPIN COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

Intergovernmental

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

1:30 PM

1. Minutes From Previous Meeting

A) January 12, 2010

2. New Business

Addendum

A) 10-0065
Submission of fiscal year 2011 federal appropriation requests

B) 10-0066
Add to 2010 State Legislative Platform: Jobs and Child Support - offered by
Commissioner McLaughlin

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 Chairs: Peter McLaughlin, District 4
Jeff Johnson, District 7

Members: Mike Opat, District 1

Mark Stenglein, District 2
Gail Dorfman, District 3
Randy Johnson, District 5
Jan Callison, District 6

COMMITTEE MINUTES

BOARD OF HENNEPIN COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

Intergovernmental

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

1:30 PM

Commissioner McLaughlin, Chair, called the meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 to order at 1:59 PM. All Commissioners were present with the
exception of Commissioner Randy Johnson.

1. Minutes From Previous Meeting

A) December 2009

Commissioner Opat moved to approve, seconded by Commissioner Stenglein and approved

unanimously - 6 YEAS 1 ABSENT (Randy Johnson) - APPROVED

2. New Business

Items for Discussion and Action

A) 10-0015
Economic stimulus package project and priorities list for Hennepin County-County
Administrator Action Report dated January 12, 2010.

Commissioner Stenglein moved approval, seconded by Commissioner Opat and approved

unanimously - 6 YEAS 1 ABSENT (Randy Johnson) - CONSENT

Addendum

B) 10-0029
2010 State Legislative Platform

Commissioner Stenglein moved approval, seconded by Commissioner Dorfman. Commissioner

Jeff Johnson moved to progress, seconded by Commissioner Opat and approved unanimously -
6 YEAS 1 ABSENT (Randy Johnson) - PROGRESSED

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 C) 10-0030
2010 State Legislative Priorities

Commissioner Callison offered an amendment to remove the last bullet point from the 2010
Legislative Platform Priorities list dated January 7, 2010, seconded by Commissioner Jeff
Johnson and approved unanimously - 6 YEAS 1 ABSENT (Randy Johnson) - APPROVED.

Commissioner Opat moved to progress the Platform Priorities list as amended, seconded by
Commissioner Jeff Johnson and approved unanimously - 6 YEAS 1 ABSENT (Randy Johnson) -
PROGRESSED

There being no further business, the meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for Tuesday,
January 12, 2010 was declared adjourned at 2:58 PM.

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Hennepin County Board Action Request
10-0065

Item Description:

Submission of fiscal year 2011 federal appropriation requests

Resolution:

BE IT RESOLVED, that the Hennepin County Board supports the fiscal year 2011 federal appropriation
requests as listed:

TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT
• Lake Street Transit Access Project - $6 million
I-35W and Lake Street (CSAH 3)

• Lowry Avenue Bridge - $39 million

Replacement Phase II

• I-35W Northbound Entrance Ramp - $20 million

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From 4 Street South

HOUSING, COMMUNITY WORKS & TRANSIT DEPARTMENT

• Southwest Transitway $10 million
Preliminary Engineering

• Minneapolis Transportation Interchange Facility - $8 million

Draft Environmental Impact Statement and Project Development

• Bottineau Corridor - $1.5 million

Environmental studies, site preparation and demolition

ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT

• North Loop District Energy - $8.6 million
Design and construct district energy system

• HERC Energy Efficiency and Conservation Project - $7 million

Design and install energy efficiency and conservation components

HUMAN SERVICES & PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT

• Jobs Program - $10 million
Wage subsidy to underwrite private nonprofit and public sector jobs

RESEARCH, PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT

• Teen Pregnancy Prevention - $500,000

HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER

• Hennepin Health Sciences Education & Simulation Center - $400,000
• Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber/Replacement Facility - $500,000
• Electronic Dental Documentation and Imaging System - $300,000

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 • Family Medicine Residency Educational Facilities and Equipment - $500,000

HENNEPIN JUSTICE INTEGRATION PROGRAM

• Enhancing Everything Electronic - $3.6 million
• Integrated Document Sharing, Management, and Connectivity - $3.5 million
• Juvenile Integrations -$4.4 million

NORTHPOINT HEALTH & WELLNESS CENTER

• Health Care Home - $450,000
• Parking Ramp and Associated Street Improvements - $10 million

SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT
• Radio Consoles for 911 Dispatch Center - $2.5 million
• Training and Audio-Visual Equipment for 911 Dispatch Center - $975,000
• Cellular Exploitation System (Kingfish) - $426,150

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Hennepin County Boa rd Ac t i on Re qu est ( con t inu ed)

Requesting Department County Administration

Recommendation from County Administrator Recommend Approval
Committee Assignment Intergovernmental Committee

Background

The list of appropriation requests was developed by Intergovernmental Relations on behalf of county
departments.

New Contract
Contract Amendments
Supplemental
Budget Appropriations
Transfers
Approvals

Department Head Date

Deputy/Assistant Administrator Date
County Administrator Date

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 BACKGROUND INFORMATION
FOR FY2011 FEDERAL APPROPRIATIONS REQUESTS
Intergovernmental Relations – February 2, 2010

TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT

• I-35W and CSAH 3 (Lake Street) - $6 million

Total project cost is $224 million for transit access project.

• Lowry Avenue Bridge - $39 million

Total project cost is $39,000,000 for replacement Phase II

• I-35W Northbound Entrance Ramp - $20 million

Total project cost is $20 million for northbound entrance ramp to I-35W from 4th Street
South.

Note: Transportation Department will be submitting a FY 2011 Funding Request on behalf of

the Highway 55 Corridor Coalition for the Highway 55 Corridor Project.

HOUSING, COMMUNITY WORKS AND TRANSIT DEPARTMENT

• Southwest Transitway - $10 million – Preliminary engineering

• Bottineau - $1.5 million - Draft EIS and project development.

• Minneapolis Transportation Interchange - $8 million - Environmental studies, site

preparation and demolition.

ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT

• North Loop District Energy - $8.6 million

Design and construct a district energy system capable of providing the North Loop
neighborhood of Minneapolis, MN with its heating and cooling needs using renewable energy
from the Hennepin Energy Resource Center (HERC) - Hennepin County's waste to energy
facility.

• Hennepin County Energy Center Energy Efficiency and Conservation Project -

$7 million
Design and install energy efficiency and conservation components at the Hennepin County
Energy Center which is an energy producer for the county's district energy system in
Minneapolis, Minnesota. The project would recover heat from the flue gases and use
outside air to cool chilled water, resulting in increased efficiency and a reduction in natural
gas and electrical use.

HUMAN SERVICES & PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT

• Jobs Program - $10 million - For a jobs program using TANF Emergency Funds
The program would be for unemployed or underemployed after receiving services and job
search assistance. The objective is to provide participants with hands-on experience in a
real work setting through which they earn wages and acquire new skills and enhance
existing skills.
RESEARCH, PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT

• Teen Pregnancy Prevention Project Replication - $500,000

Teen pregnancy leads to negative outcomes for teen parents and their children, and is
costly to taxpayers. Hennepin County’s teen pregnancy rate is significantly higher than the
state of Minnesota. To address this issue, Hennepin County has developed a successful
model of a community-based approach to teen pregnancy prevention. The model brings the
county, schools, parents, faith communities, libraries and local organizations together in
new ways. In brief, the model employs the following steps:

1. Target specific geographic communities

2. Use County’s leadership role to help raise awareness
3. Assess community readiness, strengths, and needs
4. Convene a group of strong and committed partners
5. Provide programs that are both evidence-based and meet the needs of the
community in the areas of healthy youth development, education for parents of
teens, comprehensive sex education for teens, and increased accessibility of
reproductive health care
6. Evaluate process and outcomes

The model is working. Intensive evaluation found reduced risky sexual behavior among
some program participants and increased use of family planning services by sexually active
teens. In addition, there have been positive changes in the underlying factors that impact
risky sexual behavior, specifically knowledge, attitudes and intentions. Program participants
know more about how to prevent pregnancy and avoid risky sexual behavior. More
participants believe in the importance of waiting until adulthood to become parents, and
they believe more strongly in their ability to do so. Parents are communicating more and
better with their children about sex and relationships.

The model is ripe for replication throughout not only Hennepin County, but the state of
Minnesota. There are eight cities in Hennepin County with teen birth rates significantly
higher than the state average. We are working in two of those communities—Richfield and
Brooklyn Center—already. This request will fund the first phase of replication in four
additional cities. Specifically, the funding will support:
• Documentation of the model, so that communities can implement it with fidelity and
achieve similar positive results.
• The completion of steps 1 – 4 of the model (selecting communities through
convening a group of strong and committed partners) in four cities in Hennepin
County.

Other federal, state, and foundation funds will be sought to support program delivery and
evaluation (steps 6-7) in these communities.
HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER

• Hennepin Health Sciences Education and Simulation Center - $400,000

Facility modification, virtual reality task trainers, high fidelity mannequins, computers and
projectors

• Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber - $500,000 - Replacement Facility

Equipment

• Electronic Dental Documentation and Imaging System - $300,000

Hardware and software system to support dentistry care across the Hennepin system, e.g.
HCMC, North Point, Adult Detention Center, etc.

• Family Medicine Residency Educational Facilities and Equipment - $500,000

Computer lab and projectors, exam room-based recording system, ultrasound machine,
procedure kits and anatomical models, and injection models
HENNEPIN JUSTICE INTEGRATION PROGRAM

• Enhancing Everything “E” - $3.6 million

In 2007, Hennepin County successfully implemented a web based data exchange
infrastructure that supports more than eighty real time information exchanges and
notifications between more than twelve criminal justice information systems. There are
initiatives that may already be in development or have been identified and placed on a
priority list that require more resources to fully implement them across the criminal justice
agencies in the County. “E-citations” is moving forward with the first single agency
implementation of adult/juvenile citations scheduled for mid 2010; however, additional
funding is needed to roll it out throughout the County. “E-charging” requires the creation of
data exchanges and integrations from local Law Enforcement to Hennepin County, to the
Minnesota State Supreme Court. “E-authority to detain” focuses on automation of manual
practices used by Local Law Enforcement, County, and State agencies to identify and detain
subjects. These projects would ensure that the justice agencies receive timely and accurate
information, at the right time, while enabling electronic workflow to replace paper process
dependencies that the agencies rely on today.

• Integrated Document Sharing, Management, and Connectivity - $3.5 million

The many justice agencies within Hennepin have individual operating practices that support
exchanging paper forms through mailing, faxing, or phoning information. Defining a
centralized process to share, store, categorize, manage, and secure electronic content, can
affect efficiency and quality of public safety. Electronic content management and
integration includes automating documents, forms, images, email, photos, video, and audio.
There are also gaps that exist in connectivity. Benefits to justice partners could be
measured by elimination of antiquated movement of forms through mailing and faxing, as
well as elimination of physical prompts in work flow processing, i.e., multiple in and out
baskets, multi colored or duplicate forms, and multiple files.

• Juvenile Integrations - $4.4 million

In 2007, Hennepin County successfully implemented a web based data exchange
infrastructure that supports more than eighty real time information exchanges and
notifications between more than twelve criminal justice information systems. The juvenile
system in Hennepin County can reap similar benefits in exchanging information. A current
initiative that will establish a common identification information system for juveniles
accessible to criminal justice partners within Hennepin County is only the start. Juvenile
agencies rely heavily on paper that is copied, faxed, mailed and transported in all directions.
They are still working with multi-set forms and wire baskets for work flow and distribution.
Staff input the data into their agencies individual information system, creating opportunities
for missing or inaccurate data. With integrations, juvenile agencies will be able to efficiently
transform their paper dependant processes which will enable them to get the right
information, to the right people, at the right time.
NORTHPOINT HEALTH & WELLNESS CENTER

• Health Care Home - $450,000

The funds will be used for:
o A project manager to oversee implementation of the model (one year only)
o Implementation of “TransforMed” health care home model (one year only)
o IT support & marketing
o Communication materials for patients
o Patient listening sessions
o Staff education

Literature and experience indicate that, when a patient has a stable personal and
professional relationship with a primary care provider, the patient is more likely to have
better health outcomes; be more satisfied with the services provided; and receive more cost
effective care. The Health Care Home model is the preferred delivery model for patients with
chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and asthma. Reimbursement for
the services provided under this model is also in addition to our FQHC reimbursement
amount.

The essential components of a health care home include:

o A multi disciplinary team committed to the patient, at least one member of which
is continuously available to respond to concerns raised by the patient
o A single individual (care coordinator) dedicated to managing the care for
individual patients, including care necessarily provided elsewhere
o Support and encouragement for patients to determine and realize their own
health care goals and incorporate them into an individual health care plan
o Community staff (CHWs) to integrate a range of psychosocial services for the
patient based on need and intended to support the achievement of health care
goals
o An electronic medical record that: supports the patient in the achievement of
his/her goals: informs the practitioner and care team of progress in achieving
those goals and related clinical outcomes;
o Cost effectiveness in the delivery of care, consistent with the individual health
plan and improvement of community health

• Parking Ramp - $10 million - 3.5 level above-ground parking ramp and city-
mandated code compliance and street improvements
As part of this summer's competitive stimulus grant proposal, NorthPoint applied for a $12
million grant in addition to a $6 million Hennepin County appropriation for a new 22,000
square foot building and associated parking ramp. (See Hennepin County Grant Information
Number FG-7UDT5N.) The grant was denied.

As part of that grant proposal, a parking study was completed showing NorthPoint’s current
parking demand is approximately 85-100 spaces short. Increased parking is needed to
meet current and future demands and city of Minneapolis code. The parking ramp portion
of the proposal is for $8.4 million to complete a 3.5 level above ground parking ramp with
parking capacity of about 300 spaces. An additional $1-2 million is necessary for associated
street improvements.
SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT

• Radio Consoles for 911 Dispatch Center - $2.5 million

Equipment currently included in the capital improvement budget for the communications
facility. System is based upon Internet Protocol (IP) packet data communications and is
designed to be compatible with the latest IP radio networks, which the State will move to in
the near future enabling the county to be prepared for updates to the statewide radio
system.

• Cellular Exploitation System (Kingfish) - $426,150

Description: This equipment would be used in the Sheriff's investigations bureau. The
system acts as a mobile wireless phone tower and has the capability to find, track and/or
deny mobile phone service. Acting as its own tower, this device can receive information
from all mobile phones that are powered on within a predetermined radius. This allows
investigators to gain mobile phone intelligence regarding suspects involved in criminal
activity.

• Training & A/V Equipment for 911 Dispatch Center - $975,000

This system would provide personnel the ability to send and receive live visual and auditory
public safety related information both within the facility and external to the facility.
Recipients would include police/fire/EMS officers in the field, other dispatch centers,
emergency operations centers, on-scene command vehicles and other similar users.

The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office is the largest Sheriff’s office in the state of Minnesota,
serving a population of more than 1.1 million people across 611 square miles. As the
county-wide law enforcement agency, the Sheriff’s office is statutorily required to provide
911 emergency dispatch service to residents of the county. The Sheriff’s office has the
largest consolidated dispatch center in the state of Minnesota, providing dispatch to 36
communities in Hennepin County. In 2009, 599,300 events were dispatched through this
facility.

Through the Hennepin County Capital Improvement Project plan, the 60-year old 911
dispatch center is scheduled to be replaced with a new $25 million facility located at the
Parker’s Lake Correctional Facility property in Plymouth. Construction is currently scheduled
to begin in 2011. Due to the fiscal environment of the county, the project was reduced in
scope and important pieces of technology removed from the plan.

This system would provide personnel the ability to send and receive live visual and auditory
public safety related information both within the facility and external to the facility.
Recipients would include police/fire/EMS officers in the field, other dispatch centers,
emergency operations centers, on-scene command vehicles and other similar users.
Equipment will be strategically distributed throughout the 911 emergency communications
center.

Core equipment includes: Video wall for dispatch; video conferencing, projection and large
format monitors for all meeting and training rooms; digital white boards for all meeting and
conference rooms; and video switching routers.

This equipment will enhance the safety of the public of Hennepin County by providing
emergency dispatchers real time information that they can then distribute through
streaming feeds to the appropriate public safety responders. This equipment will provide
valuable and timely information between dispatch, incident command and the field
responders for a proper and safe approach to the incident.
Hennepin County Board Action Request
10-0066

Item Description:

Add to 2010 State Legislative Platform: Jobs and Child Support - offered by Commissioner McLaughlin

Resolution:

BE IT RESOLVED, that the following two issues be added to the 2010 State Legislative Platform:

JOBS
Reinstate the Minnesota Employment and Economic Development (MEED) Program with modifications to
target the program to good jobs with wages sufficient to support a family.

CHILD SUPPORT
Support redesign of child support enforcement processes that make client service, access and positive
outcomes the main priority and that include investments in the current county-administered system to
enhance consistency, efficiency, cost-effectiveness and accountability for outcomes.

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Hennepin County Boa rd Ac t i on Re qu est ( con t inu ed)

Requesting Department Commissioner McLaughlin

Recommendation from County Administrator
Committee Assignment Intergovernmental Committee

Background

New Contract
Contract Amendments
Supplemental
Budget Appropriations
Transfers
Approvals

Department Head Hatt, Kathryn Date 2/1/2010

Deputy/Assistant Administrator Date
County Administrator Date

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