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If this is a problem, let me know and I can forward it. Best, David -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 1:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mpls] Shane Price Issue Platform David: I appreciate and encourage your respectful approach to asking issue oriented questions. I discussed your questions with Shane, he presents the following response: I also appreciate the folks that caught the errors that spellchecker didn't and have an updated version for those editions. [Your question] Are you really saying that is sufficient? Jobs for a stadium deal? I worry that such a deal could be the modern equivalent of $24 in beads for Manhattan...that the jobs will be few but the public subsidy could be nine figures. How can we be sure this deal is not a fig leaf? [Price response] The point behind this position is changing the way that development contracts are approved by the city. The contract negotiations usually never consider neighborhood employment or training opportunities . Many times developers will bring workers from other states, while able bodied residents remain untrained and miss opportunities for employment. The neighbors will pay the most when we don't advocate for the broad spectrum of the needs of the community. [Your inquiry] The average dollar in Edina is recycled at least five times before it leaves that community. In North Minneapolis, our dollar is rarely recycled once. [Price response] There are many initiatives being spear headed by neighborhood residents that with research that is available to read. This particular research came from Crossroads Research, a very respectable research firm that assists neighborhood empowerment projects. Crossroads assisted North Minneapolis residents in a poverty reduction research initiative last year and produced this along with other valuable information, some of which is available to the public. You can contact Angela Dawson for more information on the report. [Your inquiry regarding affordable housing] An attractive idea - I'd like to know more about how it would actually work. For example, to replace predatory lending with a "non-predatory" version, some lender is going to have to accept a lower return. Do we have evidence that the risk is low enough to pay back a lower return? If not, you'll just wind up with no lending...which might be worse for the people of Hawthorne and Jordan. Again, I'd just like a practical roadmap. [Price response] Predatory lending activists are working very hard to balance the need for residents to keep their equity and continue to expand opportunities for responsible, creative lending. Housing organizations are looking at alternative lending products. Shane supports the work that these organizations are doing and will author sensible laws that open homeownership opportunities without burdening them or the neighborhood with the problems of maintaining the property. [Your inquiry] I'm with you, environmentally. But I do want to get some sense of where the bucks will come from for renewables in the short run, and how city/taxpayer finances can accommodate it. [Price response] Organizations in Minneapolis are designing renewable energy models all around the state. Members of the Green Party and others are working hard to provide sensible solutions that project our dependence on single source utilities and respect our need for reliable water and air. The plans are being developed and will be proposed within the next year. Shane will bring together the opposing issues and help facilitate a workable solution with the concern of our responsibility to future generations as paramount to the process. These are Shane's words, vision and ideals written and edited by his campaign management team. A VOTE FOR HOPE AND CHANGE IS A VOTE FOR YOURSELF www.shaneprice.org Angela Dawson Jordan _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
