Folks:
We have less than a month to go before two of the bigger referenda in
Minneapolis's history - the schools, and libraries initiatives. Does the
silence mean everyone is ready to queue up in the voting booth and pull the
YES lever, or are you all planning to vote NO and don't want to make
Part of the problem with this issue, David, especially schools, is in this
day and age to be against the referendum on schools is like being against God
and motherhood. However, I have to say that I am against the one on schools.
When the first one came up I questioned some of the school
Ann Freeman wrote a while back about all of the junk that citizens
cleaned out of the Greenway trench (just before it opened?). I found
that interesting because I thought that constructing the Greenway should
have included such clean-up.
M. Hohmann wrote about shifting the tax mix and thought
While I will queue up in the voting booth line, I haven't joined any queues
to 'honk' in support of... I think the voting public is looking for more
than PR gimickery in return for their tax dollars. Of course, the bottom
line is that we get what the majority votes for... for better or
In a message dated 10/6/2000 9:15:07 AM Central Daylight Time,
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there is much work being done on what is called bio-
diesel, made from soybeans, I think. Would that be a fossil fuel?
No, soy-based fuels are considered a renewable resource... not a fossil fuel.
No
Rosalind Nelson wrote:
That means he broke the law. This weeks Pulse, available for free
at your local newspaper box or at
http://www.pulsetc.com/V4I27/hardtimes.html describes how Joe
Biernat went against the administrative law hearing procedure,
written by the city attorney, to ask the
This is all such who-ha. The bottom line is that I made a motion during the
affortdable housing hearings to make it 20 percent of BOTH rental and
homeownership projects when the developer got city assistanmce. Needless to
say some MCDA staff members were lobbying against either one of those
How to judge tax value? That is a hard question for the public to
understand. And I don't think you can penalize schools or libraries because
our city administration continues to contribute to wealthfare. That just
isn't appropriate. It seems to me that you need to take each item
separately
I work on the Edina side of the same intersection and
there is some graffiti over there (mostly parking
ramps), but it is always gone the same day (actually
over night).
jon kelland
mpls
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The other night going through the 50th and France
intersection, I noticed
The most troubling aspect of Boston's employment with
the city, is that his check is drawn from contributing
corporations who volunteer to make his salary a
reality!
It is bad enough that a position is created and no
application process is opened. It is also rightfully
concerning that Boston
Not only is $120,000 ludicrous it is redundant. Just three/four years ago
Park Board Commissioner Rochelle Berry-Graves put together a Blue Ribbon
Commission with Frank Quilici (former Twins honcho) to head up the Select
Committee on Youth Sports. We are now just beginning to reap the benefits
Thanks to David Brauer for bringing up the referenda. We appreciate
Karens concerns about whether small class size really makes a
difference with student achievement. We can assure Minneapolis residents
that test data shows a positive correlation between low class size and
student achievement.
Consider...
$120,000 corporate gift to fund a position without a competitive
advertisement
$11 million on top of $30 million? tax diversion to Target Corp
$30 million wealthfare subsidy to Steven Spielberg
subsidized high end market housing with no affordable component
two NRP neighborhood
People may not be talking about libraries, but they certainly are using
them.
In 1999, the Minneapolis Public Library answered 2.3 million reference
calls, received 2.4 million visitors, and circulated 2.5 million books, CDs
and videos. This year, Central Library circulation is up 14%. Today,
I have not read "pulse" yet this week. I am looking
forward to it.
Why am I not surprised that Joe Biernat forwarded
letters to the police? I've watched him in committee
countless times and I find him the smarmiest person in
city hall.
I spent some time looking at campaign contributions to
CM
New cell phone number.
Warm Regards -- Terry Matula
DR Horton, Inc. - MN
3459 Washington Drive, Suite 204
Eagan, MN 55122
direct651-256-7142
fax 651-454-0460
cell 612-490-2331
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
10795 Lehigh Road South
Hastings, MN 55033
home 651-459-6410
fax
Sorry this reply took me awhile. But here's the answer. Last year the
legislature passed a law which doesn't let local jurisdictions discriminate
against either modular homes or trailer homes. This was done because
Representative McElroy has a modular home factory in his district.
So I asked
I'm not sure that Mr. Boston's employment with the city is a contract. I
realize that corporations were solicited to pay the amount of his salary, but
I haven't seen anywhere if he will be an employee of the City. If he is to
be a FTE, then you would also have to include the amount for his
I concur with Russ Peterson's list of ludicrous city spending with one
exception... "a huge tax subsidy for 50th and France..."
I may be a bit defensive, since it was my project I pushed through, but the
reality is that TIF is appropriate for redevelopment in supposedly "good"
neighborhoods,
In May Central Neighborhood's board election caused a series
of unfortunate events, one of which was the loss of our
contract with MCDA for citizen participation. The house
Karen Forbes wanted to have on her street built by PRG was
not, therefore, open to citizen input.
Also, it was the mayor
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