During the last election there were two towns southwest of Minneapolis who
proposed merging. It took an affirmative vote by the majority of citizens
of both cities.
Carol Becker
Longfellow
----- Original Message -----
From: Noah Logsdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Minneapolis Issues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 4:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Mpls] Annexing a few suburbs?
> How would the city go about annexing? Would we need a charter amendment?
Do
> the suburbs have a choice? This is an interesting topic.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Strand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Terrell Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Minneapolis Issues"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 1:30 AM
> Subject: Re: [Mpls] Annexing a few suburbs?
>
>
> > I know Indianapolis has also expanded to the size of
> > the county. This appears to have worked very well for
> > them! David Strand, Ward 7, Loring Neighborhood
> > --- Terrell Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Barbara Nelson writes:
> > >
> > > > Seems to me that the city tried to annex some
> > > inner ring suburbs
> > > > way back when, ....
> > >
> > > > ... My second question is, why is the
> > > opportunity "lost forever"?
> > >
> > > [TB] Seattle has annexed out in to the suburbs. Its
> > > been done in Ohio
> > > although I don't remember if its in Cleveland or
> > > Cincinnati. The City of
> > > Honolulu includes the entire island of Oahu.
> > >
> > > We have an obscene number of municipalities in
> > > Hennepin County, in the
> > > entire metro area, each with its own Police Chief,
> > > Fire Chief, City Clerk,
> > > City Manager, City Council. Not only is it
> > > extremely expensive, it makes
> > > planning much more difficult than it should be.
> > > Merging all of the
> > > municipalities in, say, Hennepin County would create
> > > some tremendous
> > > efficiencies.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Terrell
> > >
> > >
> > > _________________________________
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