WATCH: Former park board commissioner on unlicensed food vendors: 'It’s obscene what's being allowed to happen' Becka Thompson, a former Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board commissioner and former candidate for Minneapolis City Council, spoke with Liz Collin about the out-of-control problem with unlicensed food vendors in Minneapolis. “The amount of laws that are broken ... the massive amounts of the fire codes being violated, the business codes being violated — it's obscene what's being allowed to happen,” Thompson said.  “I mean, dumping grease into our stormwater system, like I don't even know where to begin on that,” she added.