City waste‑prevention staff presented a code‑change proposal to add salvage lumber as an explicit material option in building codes, citing a nationwide coalition, a local deconstruction pilot and DEQ landfill studies showing reusable lumber in the waste stream; the proposal would go to International Code Council jurisdictions this year.

Homegrown Minneapolis staff and the Homegrown Food Council updated the committee on the Minneapolis Food Vision and Food Action Plan. Staff described programs including a Food Forward restaurant pilot to prevent wasted food, boulevard-gardening guidance after an ordinance change, a $50,000 urban-farm land trust pilot, and farmers market metrics;