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Greetings Ward 11,
Happy Spring Season!
Mayor Frey has called a special meeting of the City Council to be held Thursday, March 30, 2023, at 10:00 AM in the Council Chamber, Room 317, City Hall (350 S 5th St). The purpose of the meeting is to receive a briefing on the litigation matter of State of Minnesota by Rebecca Lucero, Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Human Rights v. City of Minneapolis.
The Special Meeting of the City Council can be viewed on:
To view the agenda for the special meeting, click here.
The Public Works & Infrastructure (PWI) Committee meeting for Thursday, March 30, 2023, has been cancelled. The next regularly scheduled PWI Committee meeting will be held on April 20, 2023.
The next Ward 11 Public Safety Meeting is on Tuesday, April 11th from from from 7:00 PM-8:30 PM at Pearl Park Recreation Center (414 E Diamond Lake Rd, MPLS, MN 55419) or online.
This Ward 11 Public Safety Meeting will feature the Department of Neighborhood Safety (formerly the Office of Violence Prevention). The Department of Neighborhood Safety will share presentations and engage in discussions.
We will have printed materials with updates from the Office of Community Safety, Emergency Management, 911, MFD, and MPD available.
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At the Committee of the Whole Meeting on Tuesday, March 21, 2023 we received 2023 Assessment Report from the City Assessor. To view the 2023 Assessment Report, click here.
This Ward 11 Newsletter's Minneapolis DataSource Featured Dashboards is the Residential Median Estimated Market Value Dashboard.You can use the Residential Median Estimated Market Value Dashboard to view median estimated market values by neighborhood for residential property in the City of Minneapolis.
Minneapolis Public Schools is on Spring Break from Monday, April 3, 2023-Friday, April 7,2023. To view Minneapolis Public Schools' 2022-2023 Student School Year Calendar, click here.To view Minneapolis Public Schools' 2022-2023 Student School Year Calendar, click here.
The City Council and its Committees have Ward Work Weeks scheduled for the week of Monday, April 3, 2023-Friday, April 7,2023, as such, there will be no City Council Meetings nor Committee Meetings during that time.
In Gratitude,
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The next Ward 11 Public Safety Meeting is on April 11th from from from 7:00 PM-8:30 PM at Pearl Park Recreation Center (414 E Diamond Lake Rd, MPLS, MN 55419) or online.
This Ward 11 Public Safety Meeting will feature the Department of Neighborhood Safety. The Department of Neighborhood Safety will share presentations and engage in discussions.
We will have printed materials with updates from the Office of Community Safety, Emergency Management, 911, MFD, and MPD available.
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Bachman's Floral, Home & Garden
www.bachmans.com
(612) 861-7676
6010 Lyndale Ave S, MPLS, MN 55419
Bachman’s was founded in 1885 and remains family-owned, with fifth-generation Bachman family members leading the company today. Based in Minneapolis, Bachman’s operates retail locations in the Twin Cities, including six full-service floral, home, and garden centers, a hardscapes center, and 29 floral departments within Lunds & Byerlys grocery stores.
The company also operates indoor and outdoor landscaping divisions, a wedding/special events department, a nursery wholesale division, seven acres of greenhouses, and a 700-acre growing range in Farmington, Minnesota, which produces many of the plants, flowers, and landscaping products sold by Bachman’s today.
Bachman’s on Lyndale is home to a variety of events offering education and inspiration to the community. Meet your local farmers and makers during Indoor Farmer’s Markets, support animal rescue with pet adoption meet and greets, or learn something new in seminars and workshops offered throughout the year.
Don’t miss Bachman’s Spring Ideas for the Home Tour – this event brings the beauty of the season into their Lyndale Avenue store. Explore springtime with home décor trends and welcoming outdoor rooms replete with all the sights of spring including budding branches, fresh florals, and bright hues to wash away winter blues. Open now through April 2, 2023. $5 Tickets available at Bachmans.com. Twenty percent of ticket proceeds from “Ideas for the Home - Spring” will benefit the Minneapolis Institute of Art’s Friends of the Institute, one of the oldest and most active museum volunteer organizations in the nation.
All Ward 11 Newsletters have a Ward 11 Small Business Spotlights section. To have a small business featured in the Ward 11 Small Business Spotlights section, please click here to fill out the Ward 11 Business Spotlights Form.
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Minneapolis DataSource is the source to view and search City of Minneapolis interactive visualizations and dashboards. The City of Minneapolis has interactive visualizations and dashboards on to create transparency and provide information on Public Health, Community Safety, Elections, Housing & Development, etc.
Residential Median Estimated Market Value Dashboard
Use the Residential Median Estimated Market Value Dashboard to view median estimated market values by neighborhood for residential property in the City of Minneapolis.
To learn how to use the Residential Median Estimated Market Value Dashboard, read the "How to use the dashboard" section of the Residential Median Estimated Market Value Dashboard webpage.
The City of Minneapolis is seeking applicants to the Audit Committee.
The Audit Committee oversees the work of the new Office of City Auditor, with the mission of bringing accountability, transparency and efficiency to all City departments and divisions
The Audit Committee helps to identify and manage a broad range of risks through program audits, shape the audit plan, provide feedback on audit reports, and help ensure audit findings are properly addressed.
The Office of the City Auditor includes the Internal Audit division, which existed before the restructure, as well as a new Policy and Research Division, which plays an active role in the City of Minneapolis’s legislative process
The application deadline has been extended to April 4, 2023. To submit an application to the Audit Committee, click here.
The City of Minneapolis is now reviewing applications for the new Community Commission on Police Oversight. More than 160 people applied to serve on the commission, which will convene for the first time in late April.
The new commission will include 15 members: 13 appointed by the City Council (one per ward) and two appointed by the mayor. The civilian commissioners will serve as panelists to review investigations of alleged police misconduct and make recommendations that will be forwarded to the chief of police.
The work of the full commission will take place during public meetings, when residents can watch presentations, listen to discussions and give input.
The City sought applicants who represent a cross section of Minneapolis including formerly incarcerated people; LGBTQ community members; Black people, Indigenous people and other people of color; people with different abilities; and community members from every ward of Minneapolis.
Read more on the City website.
Apply for Green Cost Share funding!
The City of Minneapolis offers matching funds to property owners who make property updates that lead to greater energy efficiency and pollution reduction.
We Offer Support for the Following Property Updates:
The next application review date for Green Cost Share funding is April 3, 2023. The applicate review dates later in the year are June 1, 2023 and August 1, 2023.
To learn more about Green Cost Share funding, click here.
To apply for Green Cost Share funding, click here.
For Poisoning Prevention Week, know how to protect young children from lead poisoning. Lead poisoning can damage the brain and other vital organs and cause behavior problems and even death with high enough exposure.
We’re seeing more children with elevated blood lead levels in Minneapolis: 112 children tested positive for lead poisoning in 2022, which is the highest number since 2018. Since lead exposure commonly comes from lead painted windows, older painted toys and older pottery, here are some tips to keep your children safer around these.
Lead Paint Protection:
The most common cause of lead exposure in homes is lead paint dust, which often comes from windows with paint from before 1978. If your windows could have lead paint, watch this video to learn how to properly clean them before having them open this spring.
Test Household Items For Lead:
Common household items that can contain lead include older pottery and older painted wood, metal or vinyl toys such as animals, farm animals, dinosaurs, old trucks and toy tractors.
Contact the Health Department to get your household items tested for lead.
In the meantime, keep older painted toys away from young children, and don’t put food or drinks in older pottery or pottery that came from outside the U.S.
Visit the City website for more information on testing your children and home for lead.
Sign up now for a free two-day training to help make you more resilient, confident, prepared and secure in a natural or human-caused disaster.
In Ready Camp, You’ll Learn About:
- Making an emergency preparedness kit.
- Emergency alerts.
- Severe weather.
- Planning for medical needs.
- Staying in contact with your family.
- Protecting your pets.
You will also learn ways to store water and emergency food supplies, create first aid and survival kits, make a list of affordable and recommended emergency items, and get examples of equipment and devices that can help in surviving a disaster.
Ready Camp will feature experts from City of Minneapolis Emergency Management and the 911 Call Center and Health Department, Hennepin County Emergency Management, and Xcel Energy.
Plan to join both sessions:
Free two-day Ready Camp 6-9 p.m. Tuesday, April 18 6-9 p.m. Wednesday, April 19 East Phillips Community Center, 2307 17th Ave. S.
Food provided at no cost both days will include vegan and vegetarian options.
Register by April 10.
Over the coming year, Metro Transit will develop a plan to improve its service as more resources, such as additional drivers, are available. Metro Transit wants your input in shaping plans for the next five years to best meet the needs of our region.
Metro Transit Survey:
Take this online survey by May 15. You will be asked questions about your transit values and priorities.
Community Workshops:
You can also attend a community workshop on the future of transit:
Learn more about the project timeline and more community workshops at metrotransit.org/Network-Now.
We’re asking for the public’s help to report potholes to 311. Public Works uses those reports to help prioritize work and take care of street issues as efficiently and effectively as possible.
There are many ways to contact 311. You can call, email, text or use the mobile app!
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Call: You can call 311 or (612) 673-3000 Monday through Friday from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM
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Email: You can email minneapolis311@minneapolismn.gov 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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Text: Just text two or three keywords to 311TXT or 311898 to receive an answer from the Minneapolis 311 information database on your mobile phone 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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App: Report neighborhood issues on the 311 mobile app 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Potholes form when water enters cracks in the streets, freezes, expands and then breaks up the pavement. While it’s typical to see potholes form in the winter and spring, we’re seeing more potholes than usual because this winter has had more freeze-thaw cycles than usual. We even had a stretch of days in January with a freeze-thaw cycle almost every day: above freezing during the day and below freezing at night.
To fill potholes in the winter and early spring, City crews use “cold mix,” an asphalt product that is temporary. It may pop back out and need filling again. It will likely need to be replaced when the asphalt plants open in the spring.
Once the asphalt plants open in the spring, usually after April 1, City crews will be aggressively filling all potholes with more long-lasting material.
Then in the summer, crews fill cracks in the streets to keep water out and prevent the next year’s potholes as much as possible. We also resurface about 15 miles of streets each year and have multiple yearly reconstruction projects.
Watch a press conference about the City’s response to the challenging pothole season.
The Minneapolis Teen Job & Opportunity Fair brings together hundreds of young people and youth-serving programs every year from around the city to learn about opportunities with many local employers. This is the perfect place for Minneapolis youths to look for their summer jobs.
Employers Attending and Hiring at the Job Fair include:
- City of Bloomington, Minnesota.
- Great Wolf Lodge.
- Home Depot.
- The Loppet Foundation.
- Minneapolis Police Department.
- Steven Scott Management.
- True Friends.
Minneapolis Teen Job & Opportunity Fair 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, April 15 2117 West River Road N.
Young people can attend one of the prep rallies in the days and weeks before the April 15 event to meet employers, research jobs, discover their skills and interests, and create their resume.
Learn more about how to get involved.
The first part of a project to preserve Minneapolis African American heritage is complete. The community outreach effort asked Black community members about their needs and wants related to heritage preservation and cultural resources.
This engagement project is the first step toward creating a comprehensive historic and cultural context study, a document that will identify and research many different sites and properties in Minneapolis significant for their associations with Black and African American heritage.
About the Report:
In the engagement report, you’ll find:
- Information about activities with the community.
- A draft outline of the history of African Americans in Minneapolis. This type of document describes significant historic properties, neighborhoods of interest, and the community that shaped the history of Minneapolis. The City will use this outline to guide heritage planning.
- A preliminary list and map of places in the city that may be important to the African American community.
Next Steps:
- Staff will apply for a grant to fund the historic and cultural context study, based on the drafted outline.
- Staff will continue to engage with interested community members.
Read more about the project on the City website.
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