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REDA Meeting Minutes—Monday,September 16,2019 Page 7 through. He was working in North Dakota and was offered a job to come to Minnesota to start working. His family came to get a better life but unfortunately, it was one of the lowest points his family has ever been in. He worked for Jose Marino last year on a big project on Xenia Avenue that he thought would be ongoing for three to four years. Jose Marino provided his family with a place to stay and offered great pay but that never happened. Once Joe Marino stopped paying him, he went to Caliper to confront them, was not able to get anything, and also spoke to the superintendent of the job site and no one wanted to help them. He was going around in circles. He explained he also went to the Department of Labor and out of ten-twelve workers, only five of them wanted to go through and talk to the Department of Labor. Jose Marino went to the Department of Labor who had the case and was telling them he was waiting on the payment from Caliper who was waiting on the payment from Reuter Walton and promised him that he was trying to pay them. He never kept with his promise and then his son started to receive phone calls from Jose Marino telling them to drop the case. Jose Marino never called him, but he kept calling his sons. His sons did not want to continue doing that, so his family left for North Dakota to go work again. In October 2018, Jose Marino called him back and asked him to work for Caliper again and Jose Marino was going to pay everything owed to him. The same thing happened again when he came back in October 2018 and nothing was every received. It got to a point where Jose Marino would pay him but would not pay all of the other workers, so he left Caliper again. When he went back to Jose Marino to get his last two weeks of pay, Jose Marino confronted him and got physical. Jose Marino told him he was not going to get paid and that is where it was going to end. He left Jose Marino and found work otherwise. He was still trying to recoup the money, but nothing has happened so far. He stated 22 workers of Jose Marino stopped working because those workers have not been getting paid for several weeks. It has been over three weeks where the workers have not been paid. He does not know who it is that has not been paying their bills but if it is from the GC, it is a subcontractor or Jose Marino, but the workers keep getting the same answer. A lot of the workers are afraid to speak up and this needs to stop. If Reuter Walton says it is paying the subcontractors, then Reuter Walton needs to make sure and enforce that the workers are actually getting paid. Pastor Dana Nelson, Galilea Lutheran Church in Roseville Ms. Dana Nelson, Pastor from Galilea Lutheran Church in Roseville, explained she learned about this from the pastors of the Lutheran Churches in Roseville. She thanked Eric and Samuel for coming forward. She is speaking on behalf of people of faith in Roseville. She thanked Mr. Walton for being at the meeting and for giving to Lutheran Social Service. She noted she has lived in Central America and Peru for most of her adult life so when she hears about these people being in danger, she hears them. Dr. Mohiba Tareen, 1835 West County Road C