Racial Equity Impact Analysis (REIA)

The Racial Equity Impact Analysis helps the City consider racial equity outcomes when shaping policies, practices, programs and budgets.

2025 Lead Service Line Replacement Project Orders Acceptance - REIA

Section 1: Background

Does this impact one of the City's Goal Areas

Policy Goals

Operational Goals

Public Safety	No
Housing	No
Economic Development	No
Public Services	No
Environmental Justice	No
Built Environment & Transportation	Yes
Public Health	Yes
Arts & Culture	No

Workforce	No
Spending	Yes
Data	No
Community Engagement	No

Describe the impact on selected goal areas.

Grant monies enable Minneapolis to replace private lead service lines, eliminating a potential source of lead exposure for Minneapolis residents. In accordance with MN Statute 446A.077, lead service line replacement grant expenditures shall be prioritized based on the following criteria:

(1) removing lead service lines that are an imminent threat to public health and safety;

(2) targeting areas with children with elevated blood lead levels;

(3) targeting areas with children under the age of five;

(4) how the recipient will target the removal and replacement of lead service lines that provide drinking water to schools, licensed child care facilities, or other properties known to the recipient to be used by disproportionately large numbers of children;

(5) targeting areas with lower-income residents and other disadvantaged communities;

(6) coordinating the replacement of publicly owned and privately owned portions of lead service lines; and

(7) coordinating the replacement of lead service lines with water main replacement projects for the most efficient use of money.

Who participated in completing this analysis?

State legislators.

Section 2: Data

LIST THE SPECIFIC GEOGRAPHIES THAT WILL BE IMPACTED AND THE RACIAL DEMOGRAPHICS OF CONSTITUENTS IN THOSE AREAS:

Residents throughout the City will be able to have their leaking lead service line replacements covered by grant funding.

LSLs are being replaced in project areas across the city where street or sewer improvement projects will be done in 2026.

Replacement projects 2025 projects will impact the Northside (Hawthorne neighborhood) and Southside Green Zones (Ventura Village neighborhood).

Hawthorne neighborhood: 50% Black, 18% Asian-Pacific, 14% White, 9% Hispanic, 7% two or more races, 1% American Indian, 1% some other race. 60% of the occupied housing units are Rented and 40% are Owned. 37% of the population is below poverty level.

Ventura Village neighborhood: 44% Black, 25% Hispanic, 21% White, 5% Asian-Pacific, 5% American Indian and 4% two or more races, 1% some other race. 91% of the occupied housing units are Rented with only 9% Owned. 38% of the population is below poverty level.

Lead Service Line Replacement Project Web Page

What does available data tell you about how constituents from BIPOC communities currently relate to the desired outcome as compared to white constituents?

Availability of grant funding for private lead service line replacements eliminates a considerable cost burden for any property owner, but has a proportionately larger impact on lower-income property owners. Replacement of lead service lines eliminates a potential source of lead for all residents living in a property.

What data is unavailable or missing? How can you obtain additional data?

Knowing which specific properties targeted for LSL replacements are rented vs. owned. Account data from Utility Billing will be used to determine contact information for Owner and Tenant to coordinate LSL replacements at individual properties.

Section 3: Community Engagement

Using the International Association of Public Participation (IAP2) Public Participation Spectrum, which participation strategy(s) was used when engaging those who would be most impacted?

Inform	Yes
Consult	No
Involve	No
Collaborate	Yes
Empower	No

Describe the Engagement and what have you learned?

The City will inform property owners/residents in project areas of the planned replacement of their private service lines. Collaboration with residents will be necessary to coordinate replacement work, including ability for contractors to perform work on property and access to the inside homes for replacement of the portion of the water service line that connects to the water meter. Explaining the limited amount of excavation necessary for the replacement methods used has been helpful.

Section 4: Analysis

How does the outcome for this ordinance, amendment, or policy help the city achieve Racial Equity?

-NA- (Not an ordinance, amendment, or policy)

Section 5: Evaluation

How will impacts be measured? What are the success indicators and process benchmarks?

Replacement of all LSLs in project areas. Property Owner and Tenant issues and concerns will be evaluated and reflected in future iterations of project communications and delivery methods.

How will those who are impacted be informed of progress over time?

TheFederal Lead and Copper Rule Improvements and associated State requirements require annual reporting of LSL replacement rates for Public Water Systems, including Minneapolis.

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