 Please join me for a discussion on addressing unsheltered homelessness. This is an opportunity to share your input, learn about our ongoing housing policy work, and reconnect as we begin the new year.
When: Friday, January 17, 2025 from 8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Where: Wildflyer Coffee, 3262 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55406
Being a welcoming city means that Minneapolis supports and connects neighbors and residents with the services they need and the opportunities they strive for. The City’s Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs will continue to engage with immigrant communities, providing information and resources for legal assistance, food, shelter, transportation, healthcare, victim services and more.
We stay committed to limiting the City’s role in federal immigration enforcement. Minneapolis already has a local law in place that limits City employees from inquiring about immigration status or participating in civil immigration enforcement.
It’s not too late in the season to get your flu shot. Minnesota is seeing its highest flu hospitalizations since the Minnesota Department of Health started tracking hospitalization data. Getting the flu vaccine can lower your chances of getting very sick and help protect others by keeping the virus from spreading.
Minneapolis firefighter Mark DeLude knows this too well after losing his father to the flu. DeLude’s father, also a Minneapolis firefighter, was not vaccinated. Watch DeLude’s story: Fighting the Flu: Minneapolis Firefighter Saving Lives in Father’s Memory.
Protect yourself and your loved ones by getting the flu vaccine at a free flu clinic or with your healthcare provider.
Join this online event focused on reflection, connection and action. The National Day of Racial Healing is an opportunity to come together as a community, engage in courageous conversations, and work toward building a more inclusive and just society. Through healing conversations and collective efforts, we can break down barriers, strengthen bonds, and create a future of mutual respect and understanding. Together, we heal, grow and move forward.
Learn about the history of the National Day of Racial Healing.
Featured speaker
Featured speaker Anton Treuer (pronounced troy-er) is a professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University and an author of many books. He’s building an Ojibwe teacher training program at BSU and his equity, education and cultural work has put him on a path of service around the nation and the world.
The City of Minneapolis is a co-sponsor of this Hennepin County event.
National Day of Racial Healing 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21 Register for this online event.
The Cities of Minneapolis and Seattle have been jointly awarded $14.8 million in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation. This new funding builds on $2 million that each of the cities received in 2023. The two cities are collaborating to address growing challenges that many cities face in managing limited curb space for competing needs such as deliveries, sidewalk use and street travel lanes.
Read more on the City website.
From Feb. 3-24, the City plans to accept grant applications to help pay for repairing failing private sewer pipes and connections to the public sewer. Homeowners can receive grants between $5,000 to $10,000 and may need a match to receive the funds. Funding will be awarded on a lottery-based system. This year’s funding is expected to provide grants to 32-38 property owners. You can look at information now to get ready with bids and then apply when applications open.
Find eligibility and more information on the City website.
The Minneapolis Health Department is giving away free radon test kits to encourage people to test their homes for radon. Radon is an invisible, odorless gas that’s the second leading cause of lung cancer, and two in five homes in Minnesota test high for radon.
Radon comes from the soil and rock around a home. It enters through cracks and holes in the basement floor.
Learn more about free radon test kits and the City’s grant funding for mitigation systems on the City website.
Gregory Wheeler, a Minneapolis homeowner, called the City of Minneapolis to help keep his family safe and healthy when his home tested high for radon levels. Watch the video.
 Applications are open now for Step Up internships. For more than 20 years, the City’s Step Up program has provided summer employment for Minneapolis residents 14-21. Youths are placed in internships at public, private, nonprofit and community organizations.
Applications for summer are open until Feb. 14.
 The City of Minneapolis is organizing the Feb. 8 Community Connections Conference around the power of participating in your community and local decision-making. The theme is Participation is Power: Speak, Act, Grow. The annual free conference connects Minneapolis residents, community groups, neighborhoods and local government.
Learn more and sign up online.
Help shape the future of bus routes through downtown Minneapolis.
Public open houses
Online Noon-1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21 Join on Microsoft Teams or watch any time on the project webpage starting Jan. 28.
Evening 4-6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 22 Minneapolis Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall
Midday Noon-1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 28 IDS Crystal Court, 717 Nicollet Mall
Take the survey and learn more on the City website.
Contact the Ward 9 Office
Email: jason.chavez@minneapolismn.gov
Phone: 612-673-2209
We've moved while work is being done in City Hall. Our office is in:
Room 100, Public Service Center
450 South 4th St.
Get directions
For reasonable accommodations or alternative format please contact 311. People who are deaf or hard of hearing can use a relay service to call 311 at 612-673-3000. TTY users call 612-263-6850. Para ayuda, llame al 311. Rau kev pab, hu 311. Hadii aad caawimaad u baahantahay, wac 311. |
