Bemidji City Councilor Ron Johnson elected president of League of Minnesota Cities

BEMIDJI — Bemidji Metropolis Councilor Ron Johnson has been elected as president of the League of Minnesota Cities for the 2022-2023 time period.

Johnson has represented Ward 3 of Bemidji for the final 20 years and works at Lakeland PBS because the promotion supervisor. He was the league’s vp final 12 months and can be the previous president of the Coalition of Higher Minnesota Cities.

“Ron Johnson is a longtime member of the league,” Dave Unmacht, the league’s government director, stated in a launch. “His dedication to Bemidji and your entire group of cities in our state is inspiring.”

Elected in the course of the league’s annual convention, which was held over two days beginning on June 22 in Duluth, Johnson will serve on the group’s board of administrators for the 2022-2023 time period.

“We sit up for his considerate management throughout these difficult, but thrilling occasions for municipal authorities in Minnesota,” Unmacht stated.

The League of Minnesota Cities is a corporation with greater than 830 member cities which are devoted to serving to cities all through the state construct high quality communities by means of advocacy, evaluation and collective motion.