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The first Black city council member was Van White, elected in 1979 to represent Ward 5. [5] The first openly gay member, Brian Coyle, was elected in 1983 to represent Ward 6, and died of AIDS while in office as council vice president. [6] [7] In 2017, Phillipe Cunningham from Ward 4 and Andrea Jenkins from Ward 8 were elected to the City ...
This is the first Minneapolis City Council election since 2017 in which members are elected to the usual 4-year terms, rather than 2-year terms. In 2020, voters passed a ballot measure to elect council members to two separate, two-year terms in 2021 and 2023. This measure was meant to keep city council and mayoral terms concurrent. [3]
Should Minneapolis voters be allowed to simply vote to change the city's laws? Council Member Robin Wonsley thinks so, and there appears to be enough support on the City Council to move the idea ...
The City Council could approve the proposed changes with a unanimous 13-0 vote. But failing that, the city's Charter Commission could submit the changes for inclusion on the 2025 ballot and allow ...
The 2023 Minneapolis City Council election took place in the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States on November 7, 2023. The Minneapolis City Council is made up of 13 members, with one council member representing each of the city's 13 wards.
The Minneapolis City Council passed a measure Thursday that would increase wages for drivers of ride-hailing services to an equivalent of more than $15 an hour — which opponents say may increase ...
Andrew Johnson (born 1983 or 1984) is an American politician and systems engineer from Minneapolis, who represented the city's 12th Ward on the Minneapolis City Council from 2014 to 2023. Formerly President of the Longfellow Community Council, Johnson was first elected in 2013 as a member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL ...
With a vote looming this week to reconsider Minneapolis' new rideshare minimum wage law, City Council President Elliott Payne and Council Members Katie Cashman and Aurin Chowdhury say they will ...