 Yesterday, Mayor Frey, Council Member Linea Palmisano, and City climate leaders joined local business owners to highlight a major pillar of the Climate Legacy Initiative (CLI), the Green Cost Share program.
The Green Cost Share program helps reduce pollution and addresses climate change by helping businesses and residential property owners make infrastructure upgrades that improve the environment and save money. In 2024, Mayor Frey invested $8.6 million in the Green Cost Share program, $4.2 million of that from the new CLI funding.
The CLI is Mayor Frey’s innovative plan to fund the City’s accelerated, equitable, and aggressive climate goals over the next ten years. Through the CLI, Minneapolis is poised to become one of the most sustainable cities in the nation.
Mayor Frey's administration is recommending the City move forward with reopening the former Third Precinct building at 3000 Minnehaha Avenue in South Minneapolis as the new Elections & Voter Services location. At the mayor's direction, staff have also accounted for an 8,000-square-foot community space within the building — allowing for dynamic and flexible community use in addition to an annual early voting location and elections warehouse.
The Star Tribune Editorial Board posted "Move ahead with Third Precinct plan" last week which included:
"There is always room for civic discussion, and there is plenty of it yet to come if the city proceeds with a truth and reconciliation process... But it is time — well past time, in fact — to resolve the fate of the building at 3000 Minnehaha Avenue."
A community information session will be scheduled this spring and public engagement surrounding the community-use space is set to begin this summer. Check this website to stay up to date on engagement opportunities.
 Last week, Mayor Frey celebrated the grand opening of the Intersect and Cedar Lake Bike Trail in the North Loop. This new corridor includes a bike ramp between North 2nd Street and the trail along the railroad tracks below. The trail will make it easier for cyclists to access downtown and support small businesses like Treats and Story & Teller along the way.
Minneapolis is a top bike-friendly city — and it’s because we continue to prioritize and invest in accessible and innovative routes.
 Mayor Frey, Community Safety Commissioner Todd Barnette, and Minneapolis 911 Director Joni Hodne joined municipalities across the country in celebrating National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week. Part of the celebration was the relocation of Minneapolis 911 to an upgraded space to allow it to better handle the nearly 600,000 emergency and non-emergency calls it receives per year.
“The first responders of our first responders are an incredible team,” said Mayor Frey. “Every hour of every day, they prioritize the safety and well-being of our residents and are working directly with them in the face of an emergency. To recognize the importance of our 911 department and staff, we have invested in a new 911 center. From enhanced technology to additional space for training, to new equipment – these upgrades will help our dispatchers continue providing life-saving support to the people in our city.”
The City continues to hire additional staff in 911. For more information about a career with Minneapolis 911, please visit: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/government/jobs/job-openings/featured-jobs/
 This past week, Minneapolis hosted the American Planning Association’s National Conference, bringing together planners, leaders, and policymakers from across the US. Mayor Frey gave opening remarks to conference-goers and sat on a few panels to discuss Minneapolis-specific initiatives.
What better place to have this conference than the home of nation-leading, innovative zoning reform — our Minneapolis 2040 Plan. The mayor highlighted the successes we have seen through the 2040 Plan, like record-breaking deeply affordable housing production.
Office of Community Safety staff have been meeting with the south Minneapolis community about the South Minneapolis Community Safety Center and the Lake Street Community Safety Center. They’ve held public meetings and are also talking to people on the street about the two community safety centers. The information will help decide on what services could be in the community safety centers.
Here are some upcoming events for people in south Minneapolis:
- Talking with South High School students: April 19.
- Talking with people who identify as Southeast Asian: April 20.
- Talking with people who identify as Latino: April 20.
- Talking with people who identify as African American: April 25.
- Talking with older adults: April 26 and May 6.
Learn more about the Community Safety Center plans.
The City of Minneapolis has launched a citywide music census to measure its music ecosystem. This will help make more informed, data-driven decisions about the local music economy.
The music census is an online survey that will include questions about:
- Demographics
- Workspace needs
- Health and wellness
- Housing history
- Sentiments around diversity, equity and belonging
All adults who work in the music industry in Minneapolis can take the music survey through April 26.
To complete the survey in English or Spanish, visit the City website.
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