(snip) I believe that the NRP was established, in part, to foster neighborhood-based planning and the development of neighborhood-based solutions to the concerns and problems found in those neighborhoods. NRP is based on neighborhood empowerment and making spending decisions is key to this. It is not the Board's appropriate role, in my opinion, to decide how to spend funds by establishing specific programs on its own that it may think are best for the neighborhoods.
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This is exactly correct from what I understood NRP to be when I chaired the NRP Steering Committee in Seward. I also remember speaking to the City Council about these very issues when the Council tried to usurp neighborhood control several years ago. This is power-mongering on the part of the Policy Board, plain and simple. It is wrong and shouldn't be tolerated by the citizens of Minneapolis. I, for one, can't even believe this happened.
MJ Mueller Seward
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