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Minneapolis: the best city for kids...
Let's make this simple: To create a better city for our children once again, we can focus on few key areas:
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SAFETY:
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AFFORDABLITY:
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COMMUNITY: ​
1. SAFETY First, let's work on cleaning up our neighborhoods by addressing encampments, graffiti, and safety concerns. This happens in the following ways: We direct funds to public safety and public works. When we rid our city of the blighted areas we are signaling to our community that we are wanting to see all succeed. Blighted areas spread like a cancer in a city of our size. We will address slum lords and non compliance by property owners through regulatory services. We will make sure that renters have safe spaces to live if it's section 8 or a brand new downtown high rise. In ensuring this, we actually free up tax dollars to spend elsewhere. We will partner with larger local agencies in reopening the county school, and making sure the state hospital has beds for all of those suffering from the fentanyl addiction crisis in america.
2. Next, we can explore ways to lower property and sales taxes, making it easier for businesses to thrive. Property taxes on single income families, especially single mothers, and retired folks are oftentimes a burden that takes them out of home ownership and the financial freedom that the equity provides. We will ease this burden by trimming the fat from the city budget. We will return to core constituent services: public works, public safety and maintenence of roadways, bikeways and walkways for all. We will make our city the greatest for small businesses in partnerships with housing developers to make the first floor shop location more affordable for start ups and we will partner with our federal officials to connect those in Minneapolis more easily to SBA loans and opportunities. We will also assure that our existing businesses get the support they need with a lowering of their property tax burden, a departure from certain city taxes and a robust return to the free movement of buyers downtown and uptown.
3. Finally, let's build better partnerships with local parks, schools, unions, and the broader community in Minnesota. We cannot do this all alone. That is not how government was set up. It is imperative that the city works with MPS to assure the safety and accountability of all Minneapolis families to our community. This means transparency and collaboration. We must also always keep our parks fully funded. The work that parks do in assuring water quality inside of our city is something we cannot take for granted. We will expand funding for Mpls Parks through the established stormwater initiative and we will also restore all parkways and bike paths inside of this partnership in the next ten years. Let's make this the golden age of parks in our award winning city!
Walkable Neighborhoods, Sustainable Environment
Supporting local businesses is the true backbone of a sustainable future. By choosing to shop local, we can significantly reduce our climate impact, emissions, and foster a stronger community. Every neighborhood deserves more than just parks and schools; it needs accessible restaurants, bookstores, coffee shops, and comic book stores. Together, we can create a safer, greener, and more prosperous city where everyone can walk freely and enjoy what our community has to offer.