Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis proposes to plant 200,000 more trees
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Minneapolis metropolis officers are pushing forward with plans to make use of $1 million from the American Rescue Plan to develop the city tree cover.
A launch on Monday acknowledged the cash will assist jump-start the Inexperienced Minneapolis Local weather Resiliency Initiative objective, including 200,000 new timber to the prevailing 600,00 beneath the Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board administration within the metropolis.
The transfer was introduced by Mayor Jacob Frey throughout his State of the Metropolis tackle, and can see town, the parks board, and Inexperienced Minneapolis collaborate on the plan, the objective of which is to have the timber planted by the 12 months 2040.
“Inexperienced Minneapolis will lead collaboration with the MPRB so as to add and preserve timber that may mitigate the Metropolis’s main warmth islands – North and South Inexperienced Zones and Downtown – and equalize tree cover protection throughout environmentally deprived elements of town,” the MPRB acknowledged, partially.
The American Rescue Act was handed by federal lawmakers, aiding native authorities businesses with the financial downfall throughout the pandemic. Cities in Minnesota obtained $500 million to make use of in a mess of how.
MPRB Superintendent Al Bangoura stated the board has been working to “construct a extra numerous, resilient tree cover” all through town because of a current emerald ash borer infestation.
“We are able to hold that momentum going with this ARPA funding in help of the Inexperienced Minneapolis Local weather Resiliency Initiative,” he stated within the announcement. “It permits MPRB to plant a complete of 18,000 timber in 2023 and 2024, with a concentrate on the Inexperienced Zones. That’s triple the quantity we’d be planting with solely MPRB basic funds.”
In response to analysis carried out by MPRB, every metropolis taxpayer saves round $100 a 12 months from timber being on public property. Bushes course of about 200 million gallons of water every year, saving as much as $6 million in stormwater administration prices.
As well as, city forestation improves high quality of life for residents, will increase property values, lowers heating and air-con prices, prevents erosion and offers wildlife with habitats.
Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board President Meg Forney acknowledged {that a} key objective included on this motion is to scale back MPRB’s carbon footprint. She stated that the group’s first carbon-accounting report, accomplished three years in the past, confirmed an organization-wide baseline for greenhouse gasoline emissions.
“We surpassed our 10% discount objective in simply 4 years!” Forney stated in a launch. “Now we’re setting a brand new, bold objective for the following 4 years.”
The partnership between the parks and recreation board, town and Inexperienced Minneapolis is a part of the latter’s Twin Cities Local weather Resiliency Initiative. The plan is to concentrate on increasing the city tree cover throughout the seven-county Twin Cities metro space.
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Minneapolis, MN
Twin Cities Pride Parade kicks off in Minneapolis
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Twin Cities Pride Parade in Minneapolis [RAW]
The Twin Cities Pride Parade kicked off Sunday on Hennepin Avenue in Minneapolis.
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – Sunday is the last chance to check out the Twin Cities Pride Festival.
The Twin Cities Pride celebration continues with the parade heading down Hennepin Avenue in Minneapolis before ending in Loring park.
A livestream of the parade can be seen above.
The parade started at 11 a.m. Sunday and is set to go until 2 p.m.
More than 650 vendors and several community resources can be found at the park.
A full lineup of events and times for Twin Cities Pride events can be found here.
Minneapolis, MN
OPINION EXCHANGE | Police contract delivers change for Minneapolis residents and officers
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Minneapolis is at the forefront of change in policing and community safety in this country. From formally establishing a new comprehensive model for community safety to a court agreement that provides the framework for lasting change, the people of Minneapolis and our entire local government have embraced reform and begun the hard work of redefining what safety looks like in our city. Together, we are embarking on a journey that will fundamentally change the way we do business for future generations.
That same push for progress guided our city’s approach to negotiating a new police contract.
With 40% fewer officers today than this time four years ago, Minneapolis is at an inflection point. That’s why we approached negotiating this contract with a willingness to think bigger on both changes to the contract and officer pay.
For decades, city officials have gradually given away managerial oversight to the police union in exchange for modest pay increases. The results: limited authority for police chiefs to manage a culture they were charged with shifting and limited ability to recruit and retain officers with below-market pay.
Even before negotiations for a new police contract began nine months ago, it was clear that we would need to approach negotiations differently. That’s why last year we hosted a series of listening sessions across Minneapolis that sought community input to guide the city’s priorities and included several City Council members on the labor negotiations workgroup. Thanks to months of input from residents across our city, we developed and successfully pushed the union to agree to significant reforms.
The city fought for and secured increased transparency, accountability and oversight. This agreement moves us in the right direction by:
• Giving the chief more discretion over job assignments and staffing requirements, so that the department can assign officers to areas of the greatest need and make promotions based on candidate readiness rather than arbitrary staffing percentages.
• Ending old and outdated side agreements and zipping up all of the written agreements into the contract so the city, the union and the public know exactly what has been agreed to in writing at the start of the term of the contract.
• Getting the union to agree that we can use non-sworn employees for investigative work, which will allow the chief to put more officers on the street focused on critical safety work instead of sitting behind a desk.
These are just a few key ways this contract answers the call for change. Taken together, these terms will increase the tools available to the chief of police to instill accountability and shift the culture.
This contract can also help us deliver on change residents from across every neighborhood are rightly demanding: replenishing the ranks. The downward trend in officer staffing is not going to correct itself, and the raises negotiated in this contract will help Minneapolis compete for a limited pool of candidates.
The increased pay and financial incentives will help give Minneapolis and the MPD an opportunity to stabilize staffing levels, which would in turn reduce reliance on overtime to fill shifts and response times to get to people who need help. Overreliance on overtime is a cycle that leads to burnout, causing more officers to leave and fewer potential applicants wanting to apply. This exacerbates the staffing crisis we are already experiencing. Making pay competitive is not a nice-to-have — it’s a need-to-have for the overall health of our city’s safety ecosystem.
Does this contract deliver on every change we sought? No, of course not. It is a contract negotiation, and compromise is the essence of this work. After months of engagement, good faith negotiations with the union and hard-fought reforms secured, this contract represents an opportunity to deliver meaningful change in policing and deliver more than lip service to the police officers who go to work every day to help make Minneapolis safer.
We are a city of progress. Further delaying this contract is not progress; voting on it is. We encourage City Council members to vote yes and to vote yes now.
Jacob Frey is mayor of Minneapolis. Todd Barnette is community safety commissioner. Brian O’Hara is chief of police.
Minneapolis, MN
1 woman injured, 1 arrested in shooting at Minneapolis park
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One woman was injured in a shooting at a Minneapolis park on Friday.
According to Minneapolis Parks Police, just before 4 p.m., a woman was shot by another woman at the northeast corner of Peavey Park.
The woman was brought to HCMC with non-life-threatening injuries.
Authorities say the suspect left in a vehicle but was arrested later Friday night by Minneapolis police.
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