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CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS

MetroLab Network

City Coordinators Office

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December 5, 2019

What is the MetroLab Network?

• Consortium of cities and

universities around the country

• Goal:
• partnering on research, development, and

deployment (RD&D) projects to address challenges facing urban areas: inequality in income, health, and opportunity; environmental sustainability and resiliency; and aging infrastructure

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Our MetroLab

• Kathie Doty
• UMN Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA)
• Metro Lab Coordinator (also the Program Director for

the Hennepin-University Partnership)

• Participants
• University of Minnesota
• City of Minneapolis
• City of St. Paul
• Hennepin County

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Why Is Minneapolis Involved?

• From the City’s Perspective

Academia

world-class researchers & top-notch students

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Local Government

real-world issues, data, funding, savvy practitioners

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• Meaningful, Relevant Research, Development & deployment of solutions
• Better Informed Public Policy and Practices
• Resources , data, and findings shared across multiple jurisdictions
• Easy access to University Resources like education, workshops, and classrooms
• Better Educated Students / Stronger Future Workforce
• Pipeline to employment

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Why is the University interested?

• Recent history of focus
• n “Grand Challenges”
• New leadership is

bringing fresh perspective:

• New President, Joan

Gabel

• New Executive Vice

President and Provost starting in March, Rachel Croson

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Example Projects Shared through the MetroLab Network

• Minneapolis – Future of Minneapolis Parking Ramps
• Study evaluating the future directions of the ABC Ramps in downtown Minneapolis.

Ramps were completed in 1992 as part of the I-394 construction using federal Congestion Management and Air Quality (CMAQ) funds. The purpose of the ramps is to have programs that support reducing congestion and improving air quality by reducing SOV trips from the I-394 corridor. As transportation behaviors, modes, technologies and plans surrounding the ramps have changed over the first half of the ramps' design life, this study will examine opportunities for ensuring that the ramps continue to address transportation challenges over the next 25 years.

• St. Paul - Racial Data Equity Exploration
• Identifying racial disparities in the criminal justice system and ways the Saint Paul

Attorney’s Office can contribute to reducing disparities at each decision point in the life cycle of a case.

• Hennepin County - Access to Early Screening and Early

Intervention

• Project to 1) Collect data on current HC screening rates and early intervention follow-

up; 2) Conduct a pilot intervention project with parent navigators to support family engagement, increase screening and referral rates, connect with community partners, identify reasons why families choose or decline early intervention services; 3) Develop community outreach systems with a pilot of parent navigators to broaden HC Public Health, Thrive by Five, Follow Along and WIC.

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Possibilities

• Detailed examination of known city problems
• Program and concept evaluation
• Creation of evaluation methodologies
• Creation of predictive models
• Workshop collaboration
• Volunteer access
• Feasibility analysis
• Strategy development

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Questions

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