§ 465.20. Special services to be performed; operating plan; service agreement.

(a) The special services to be furnished within the district may include:

(1)

Clean and safe programs, including, but not limited to, sweeping, litter pick up, trash removal, sidewalk cleaning, graffiti abatement, snipe and poster bill removal, snow services, security services, closed circuit television (CCTV) systems and monitoring, etc.;

(2)

Marketing/promotion/special events, including, but not limited to, event programming, websites, newsletters, etc., district area business recruitment and retention programs, coordination of street markets and street vendors within the district, etc.;

(3)

Physical enhancements, including, but not limited to, hanging baskets, landscape planters, trash receptacles, etc.;

(4)

Maintenance of enhanced streetscape components above city standard, including, but not limited to, fixtures, sidewalks, electrical and irrigation systems, landscaping, fountains, etc.; and

(5)

Management and oversight services and administrative services, including usual and customary start-up and on-going administrative costs.

(b)

Each year, prior to imposition of any service charge, the city council will adopt by resolution an operating plan that describes with particularity the special services to be performed. Any physical enhancements to be installed by the district shall be maintained by the district, and to the extent they are not maintained, the city shall have the right to remove them. The district shall not be obligated to maintain any physical enhancements installed by parties other than the district unless and until said maintenance is included in the adopted operating plan. The operating plan, and any amendments that may be made from time to time by subsequent resolution, is hereby incorporated into this chapter. The special services to be furnished in the district may not include a service that is ordinarily provided throughout the city unless an increased level of the service is provided in the district.

(c)

The special services described in the operating plan will be furnished by the Minneapolis Downtown Council, its subsidiary or an approved assignee (the "district entity"), in accordance with a service agreement to be entered between the district entity and the city. Notwithstanding any other ordinance provision, the service agreement provided for in this section is hereby exempt from the requirements of the following provisions of the Minneapolis Code of Ordinances: section 18.200 (equal benefits provisions in contracts); section 24.220 (prevailing wage); section 139.50 (non-discrimination and affirmative action provisions in contracts); and Chapter 423 (small and underutilized business enterprise program). Provided, however, that the service agreement shall contain provisions that require the district entity to do the following:

(1)

When the district entity seeks competitive bids for special services in the district, in addition to any other bids sought, it shall seek bids from, but not limited to, vendors on a list of small and underutilized businesses provided by the city;

(2)

The district entity shall have a modified affirmative action plan that meets city ordinance section 139.50;

(3)

The district entity shall notify and extend any benefits offered to its employees based on marital status to employees with domestic partners registered as such pursuant to Minneapolis Code of Ordinances: section 142.30 and shall require its contractors and subcontractors to notify and extend the same benefits to any of their employees providing services to the district; and

(4)

The district entity shall apply the prevailing wage provisions of section 24.220 to any construction work that requires funding from more than one (1) year's assessment cycle. (2008-Or-102, § 1, 12-12-08; 2013-Or-056, § 1, 5-24-13; Ord. No. 2017-049 , § 1, 9-20-17)