Interesting - the Mayor and the 3 citywide at-large Park Commissioners are
the specific 4 people entrusted to use a citywide vision when approaching
planning and decision making for the City of Minneapolis. I can tell you
as one of those citywide people I truly have a city wide vision that
includ
There have been a couple of postings that I believe unfairly criticize a very
hard working public official. I know that the list manager has asked that
responses be taken off line, but if the statement was made in public, I think
the only fair way is to have an answer in public.
What I am ang
Russ Peterson wrote:
"Imagine if we focused redevelopment on avenues and streets radiating
and stretching way into the neighborhoods instead of just one or two blocks
downtown. Does anybody have thoughts?"
The kind of planning Russ promotes was done in south Mpls in pre-WWII times.
Does anyone
1 A Finance Director is named after a national search and there was no
mention of process or finalists.
2 A Finance Director is named who has had extensive experience with public
funding of professional sports facilities.
3 It is revealed that the city is indeed considering givin
This is a reminder not to get personal when responding to differences of
opinion. It's fine to criticize someone's argument, but "impugning" someone
(and not their case), calling someone "shameful" and telling them how,
exactly to read their email is gratuitous and not appropriate for this list.
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I'm really sorry that the attachment keeps getting messed up. The text
version is not as pretty but works on my computer so here it is:
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These copies of Brian Hanninen's response to the candidate questionnaire
should work (sorry for any inconvenience).
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Sorry about the scramble message for Brian Hanninen's response to the
city candidate questionnaire. I am making another attempt to send i
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Candidate Brian Hanninen has submitted the first response to the City
Candidate Questionnaire which was sent out the week before last.
The
I hate to tell you guys but first off, no finance officer "brokers"
political deals like the ones that you are talking about. No consultants
broker those kind of deals either. Politicians broker those kind of deals.
No staff person would get within a mile of the kind of heavy politics it
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In response to Lisa McDonald's post.
>I asked our budget staff about the issue of both capital and the $2 million
"structural deficit." I was told there will be no change in the li
Actually Ann, I was talking about the Pat Born that St. Paul hired in 1999 to
help try and negotiate a deal with the MN twins for a publicly funded
stadium. I was talking about the Pat Born who worked with Milwaukee on the
publicly funded, Miller Park and the Pat Born who worked with St. Loui
If you read my piece accurately ms berget you will see
that what i object to is the process and the lack of
transparency.
i believe i made clear that i do not know pat born and
that he in fact may be a fine and ethical person.
what i object to are smoke and mirrors. if you like
them. fine. keep
I don't know about the rest of you, but I wince when I hear another character
inuendo about a public figure before there are any facts to support such
inuendo.
I don't know if this is the same Pat Born who facilitated many bond sales for
Mpls. Public Schools in recent years, but I hope it is.
>i don't know patrick born. he may be a good choice.
>the best even, a real phenom. but as ms mcdonald was
>qouted as saying in the paper today regarding the new
>stadium proposal, " i don't think it will pass the
>smell test."
I don't get it. The voters have said NO repeatedly to stadium subsid
Wade Russell mentioned the name of Patrick Born, the
choice of our city coordinator to head the finance
department, and alluded to the fact(?) that he was
licking his chops to get a chance to broker another
stadium deal like the ones he engineered in other
cities. Whether that is true or not I do
David Brauer writes:
> I think Terrell Brown took the time to make moderate
> Republican points - but aiming his fire more at DFL politicos
I don't think that all of these points need to be considered partisan. I
don't need to look to only one party to find people who think that our
prope
I appreciate Mr. Gustafson comments on this issue. I asked our budget staff
about the issue of both capital and the $2 million "structural deficit." I
was told there will be no change in the library capital this year from the
currently allocated capital. The referendum doesn't kick in till next ye
> Brauer, you sound a little defensive here.
>
> That wasn't the Minneapolis GOP chair - it was the entire Minneapolis GOP
> committee who voted to support the library referendum. It voted to
> support the school referendum as well. And then later requested that this
> be printed on the GOP samp
Is it just me, or do others, who remember the battle over the location of the
Metrodome (thank you DT Mpls. Council & Cowles Publishing), feel like this is deja vu?
Jenny Heiser
East Phillips/Ward 6
Gary C Bowman, Jr wrote:
> As I was working OT overnight last night, I had the opportunity to r
Here is the critical quote from the Strib article:
"You do something for us, private sector, and we'll (the city) do something
for you."
It doesn't make any difference if it is cash, TIF financing, land, or some
other transaction. Our city hall is determined to get a new stadium, by
giving the w
To help get their stadium, the mayor and our city coordinator are bringing in
new finance director, Patrick Born. Born has brokered many publicly financed
stadiums and is licking his chops to add another to his list.
wade russell
longfellow
ps. How did, or how will the city council vote t
OOPS. Forgot to signscatterbrained due to the upcoming holidays I'm
sure..
JBurns, Cleveland
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: famous, or not so watering holes
>Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 18:04:29 EST
>
>You didn't sign your post.
>
>Valerie Powers
>Ward 10
As I was working OT overnight last night, I had the opportunity to read today's Strib.
Once again, we have another stadium scheme. This one takes a little different
approach and I'll let you each read the story for yourselves (Sorry, being up all
night leaves me a little too tired to do much
Elizabeth:
This sounds like a wonderful idea to me. I told
John Brian that my mother went through this a
couple of years ago and she ended up relocating
and it was traumatic for her.
Matthea
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> I received your lengthy letter in regard to the
> Cedar Riverside apartm
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