From: Pam Fendt Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 10:44 AM To: Elmer, Linda Subject: CED committee Good morning Linda, can this please be shared with the Committee for item 2 on today's agenda? Dear Chairman Rainey and Members of the Committee on Community and Economic Development, From the Menominee, Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Ho-Chunk people who called this area home first, to the waves of newcomers over successive decades to the Milwaukee area, this is our history. Incorporating new arrivals into our economic and social mix: German, Polish, Irish, and Italian immigrants, Black families from the south seeking to escape Jim Crow and find job opportunities in the north, Puerto Ricans who found new opportunities here, migrant workers and their families from Mexico who established a new home in a colder climate, this is our history. The Milwaukee Area Labor Council supports these grants and is very pleased that there will be new services to support the integration of the newest immigrants into our community. Pam Fendt, president Milwaukee Area Labor Council