Current MPCA commissioner to bring 25 years of experience in public, private and nonprofit sectors Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak announced today that he will nominate Paul Aasen, the current commissioner of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, to be the next city coordinator of the City of Minneapolis. Mayor Rybak will make the nomination at the [...]
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I’m very pleased to announce that I have named current Assistant Chief Janeé Harteau to serve as Minneapolis’ next chief of police beginning in 2013, following the retirement of Chief Tim Dolan at the end of 2012. One of the most important choices a mayor can make is a police chief, and I came to [...]
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For Minneapolis to grow — and for us all to grow into One Minneapolis — North Minneapolis must grow. That’s the message I delivered Wednesday at my annual State of the City speech, called “One Minneapolis, Growing North”, which I gave at the Capri Theater on West Broadway, the same place I gave my State [...]
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I’m excited to share some new data that represents good economic news for Minneapolis, in both jobs and housing. First, good news about jobs in Minneapolis: From mid-2010 to mid-2011, 5,300 new jobs were created in Minneapolis. That’s the fastest rate of job growth in Minneapolis since 2006. What’s more, 2,300 more Minneapolis residents now [...]
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At a time when so many people are still hurting and the economic recovery is fragile, we must work together to reduce the inequalities that make our economic challenges harder to overcome. It’s a simple principle: when the economy works for everyone, everyone benefits. To make this happen, we all have to get up off [...]
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Yesterday, I stood with Governor Mark Dayton, legislative leaders, labor leaders, business leaders and representatives of the Minnesota Vikings to announce a two-part deal that is very good for Minneapolis. A new stadium at the Metrodome site, with Vikings’ paying more than half of a $1-billion investment The first part: We will build a new [...]
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Stadium construction to create 13,000 construction jobs and $300 million in wages, plus 3,400 ongoing jobs Labor leaders announce agreements with Vikings to keep project on time and on budget by using union labor, retaining union jobs; City, Vikings in talks to set aggressive hiring goals February 6, 2012 (MINNEAPOLIS) — Leaders of organized labor, [...]
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As you probably know, City Council President Barbara Johnson and I have proposed a plan to lower property taxes in Minneapolis, fund the Minneapolis Convention Center and the Target Center, and contribute to a new Vikings stadium at the Metrodome. And we do all this by using existing Minneapolis sales and user taxes for Minneapolis — [...]
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President Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight is a road map for an America that’s built to last, the America the middle-class deserves. But before we get to that, let’s start with some indisputable facts: after inheriting an economic catastrophe, President Obama has delivered 22 straight months of private-sector job growth. Mayors like me [...]
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I’m very pleased that this week, we rehired eight rookie police offices whom we had to lay off in late 2009 because of budget cuts, just as they were beginning their careers. I’m especially happy that six of these eight officers are people of color, and that one is a woman. For years now, we [...]
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