In an effort to get as much community feedback as possible, my office has worked with the City Coordinator's office to organize an additional listening session on minimum wage in south Minneapolis. The meeting, which will be held this Thursday, March 2, from 6-7:30 pm at Mayflower Church, is a great opportunity for you to make your voice heard on this issue. I believe it is crucial to hear from City residents and business owners on how this issue will affect them in advance of considering a policy.
If you are unable to attend, I'd encourage you to send feedback to my office directly or fill out the City's minimum wage community survey here.
The southernmost part of Armatage neighborhood,
along with a larger portion of Richfield, will receive Gypsy Moth
treatment this spring. The treatment will be administered by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA).
For more background read the Southwest Journal article here.
Additional information about the treatments used can be found here.
A public meeting will be held by the MDA:
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
4:00 – 6:30 p.m.
Sheridan Hills Elementary School
6400 Sheridan Avenue S
Richfield, MN 55423
This month, the City Council unanimously voted to restore full funding to all the neighborhood organizations that lost a portion of their allocated Neighborhood Revitalization Program (NRP) funding in December of 2010. The funding was originally frozen due to unanticipated cuts in State aid funds to the City. We are now able to restore this crucial NRP funding due to the higher than expected revenue from the specially approved Tax Increment Financing District (TIF), which is expected to be higher than projected for the next few years, before it
expires in 2020.
Thank you to everyone who attended the Palmisano Presents workshop on February 25 on the Psychology of Sustainable Behavior! This workshop, which I co-hosted with Ward 11 Council Member John Quincy and the Environmental/Green Teams from Lynnhurst and Tangletown, was led by Professor Christie Manning, who teaches in the department of Environmental Studies at Macalester College. The almost 100 attendees discussed what stops people from taking action and how to encourage and inspire change in their communities in the future. I am inspired by those who were in attendance that chose to spend their time learning about how they can improve the environment on a local level and look forward to their work building bridges to a larger-scale, city-level systemic change.
Get household items fixed for free and learn valuable repair skills at an upcoming Fix-It Clinic.
At Fix-It Clinics, residents bring in small household appliances, clothing, electronics, mobile devices and more and receive free guided assistance from volunteers with repair skills to disassemble, troubleshoot and fix their items.
Fix-It Clinics teach valuable troubleshooting and basic repair skills, build community connections and reduce the number of repairable objects that are thrown in the trash.
When: Saturday, March 11, 12pm-4pm
Where: Burroughs Elementary School, 1601 W 50th St, Minneapolis
No pre-registration is required. Items must be carry-in-sized.
Bring any parts and supplies that might be helpful. This event is family
friendly!
Examples of what to bring: lamp, vacuum cleaner, fan, paper
shredder, electric kettle, sewing machine, toy, clothing, blender, mixer,
wooden chair, smartphone, laptop, jewelry, etc.
Due to popular demand, the City’s $25
trees program will operate by lottery this year. Minneapolis property owners
can enter the lottery any time between March 13 and 20. Lottery entrants will
hear back by March 22. Approximately 1,000 property owners will be selected to order a $25
five to eight-foot tree.
The fifteen varieties available this year include large
species, flowering trees and several kinds of fruit trees. Any Minneapolis
property owner can register in the lottery to order a tree to plant on private
Minneapolis property this spring. Comparable trees cost about $125 at a
nursery.
Property
owners can register for the lottery any time from March 13 to March 20.
$25
trees are available for Minneapolis residents, businesses and nonprofits.
Limit
one tree per property owner.
Trees
must be picked up May 20, 21 or 22 at the City of Minneapolis Impound Lot.
Volunteers will be on hand to help load each new tree and a complimentary
bag of mulch into vehicles.
In the past 11 years, the City Trees program has
provided more than 12,000 trees for planting on private property. The City
Trees program helps meet Minneapolis’ health goal focusing on the well-being of
people and the environment. Since 2006, the City of Minneapolis has funded the
City Trees program, a low-cost way for folks to help build the city’s tree
canopy.