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Kingfield Neighborhood Association Board Meeting, June 13, 7 PM, MLK Park
Dr. Martin Luther King Legacy Council, June 14, 6:30 PM, MLK Park
Crime Prevention and Safety Committee: May 15, 6:30 PM, Graffiti Clean-up Event! Meeting location 40th & 3w at the pedestrian bridge!
Youth & Schools Committee, TBD, MLK Park
Green Committee, no meeting scheduled.
Redevelopment Committee, May 23, 7 PM, MLK Park
Event Committee, TBD, MLK Park
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Dec
4
CCP Safe Budget Update
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Here is a general update of the Ways & Means Committee actions last night – thank you for engaging on these critical budget issues and the importance of crime prevention specialists to public safety work in Minneapolis.
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Thank you for contacting me about the City’s 2010 budget, and specifically the need to maintain our crime prevention specialist program as part of the police department. I agree this is a priority for our city.
It was just this Monday that Chief Dolan announced he would cut crime prevention specialists as one strategy to meet the police department’s ongoing large structural deficit. Last night, in a meeting that lasted until 10:30 pm, the council Ways & Means committee (I’m on this committee) identified dedicated funding for crime prevention specialists for 2010 – replacing almost all of the funding for this program. We also made several cuts to other departments to save firefighter jobs and police jobs for the future. I believe our focus on preserving public safety services was the right thing to do among many tough choices.
The other major action taken by the budget committee was to approve a property tax levy reduction from 11% to 7% to reflect reduced city pension obligations due to a recent court decision that the pension funds were overcharging the city.
The full Council is scheduled to adopt the 2010 budget on Monday, December 7, at 6:05 pm.
Elizabeth Glidden, 8th Ward Councilmember
elizabeth.glidden@ci.minneapolis.mn.us
Dec
3
Kingfield now has a guaranteed community school–Lyndale Community School at 312 West 34th Street!
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Come find out why your neighbors are excited about this school!
Parent-led Tours: Lyndale parent Liz Short will show you around the school and share all she knows from 8 years at Lyndale Community School. Tours will be held on Tuesday Dec. 8 at 9:00 am and Thursday Dec. 10 at 10:00 am. Tours will restart in January. Please call the school to schedule one. 668-4000.
Also mark you calendars–
Open House Presentation: Wednesday, January 13, 6:30-8:00 pm. Come hear the principal, teachers and parents talk about the educational vision of Lyndale Community School, the many community partnerships, and the Core Knowledge curriculum.
Children’s Tour: Friday, January 22, 9:30 AM. Lyndale Community School principal Ossie Brooks-James will show children around the school and answer their questions on this day off from school. Please call the school to reserve a space for your child. 668-4000.
Dec
3
Local Art Holiday Opening
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Make a difference this holiday season!
Support your LOCAL business & artists as you purchase unique, fun & funky gifts in a comfortable & interesting atmosphere.
Featuring the work of local artists; Tammy Ortegon, Westy Copeland & Eileen Espinosa (painting) Amina Harper (illustration) Maya Rose, Brenna Busse, Kristen Treuting, Laura Burlis, Carole Bersin, Rose Shetka (clay, textiles & more)
feminist-shirts by KM Stitchery, fused glass by Lisa Mathieson, plant dyed & hand spun yarns by Swagg biz, plus many more artists, gifts, funny holiday cards, art prints, natural body products, perfume oils, jewelry, angels around the world, funky baby onesies, peace coffee, gypsy tea, Bt McElrath chocolates & unique treasures.
Opening reception:
Saturday, December 12th 6 – 10pm and
Sunday, December 13th 12 – 6pm (yarn spinning demonstration by Kim Christensen 2:oo-4:oo on sunday)
The Color Wheel Gallery
319 W 46th St (46th & Grand)
Minneapolis 612 823 5693
Show runs: December 12- 27 gallery hours: 11-7pm Tues-Sat
Opening event is free & open to the public and will feature wonderful refreshments, unique gifts & great conversation with interesting people.
Dec
2
Reporting Darcy Pohland MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)
When Minneapolis police chief Tim Dolan presented his plan Monday to cut $5 million from the police department budget, council members were surprised. For one thing, the members of the Ways and Means Committee expected more cuts — $8 million, not $5 million.
The other surprise was Dolan’s plan to get rid of the city’s crime prevention specialists, a favorite program of many council members. Ninth Ward Council Member Gary Schiff didn’t see it coming.
“This has not been on the chopping block until yesterday,” he said.
Dolan plans to save $3.7 million by eliminating 47 jobs — 26 police support positions and 21 crime prevention specialists. Together, those jobs represent almost 23 percent of the police department’s civilian employees. Other cuts include the mounted patrol, cell phones for non-supervisors and the chaplain corps, which helps with family notification.
WCCO-TV wanted to interview a crime prevention specialist for this story, but Chief Dolan wouldn’t allow it.
Instead, residents in a Minneapolis neighborhood sounded off.
Bill Bryant owns one home in the Minneapolis midtown area and he’s fixing up another. A member of the 11th Avenue Block Club for 20 years, Bryant said it would be a “terrible loss” if the crime prevention specialists were laid off.
“We have made so much progress so far,” Bryant said. “We feel we are running the right direction, and to cut that off at this time when things are going so well would be a terrible loss of momentum.”
Just today Bryant received emails about a nearby business burglary and holiday crime prevention tips.
“You can’t learn, understand and notify if you’re not aware of what’s going on,” Bryant said. “I’m notified when there’s a serious crime of a certain level that took place within a block or two of where I live, and I can take that information and pass it on to other block club members.”
Crime prevention specialists help residents deal with problem properties and problem people in city neighborhoods. They tend to focus on what are known as livability issues.
“So if there’s an area of prostitution or drug dealing or a vacant house that somebody broke into, it’s that crime prevention specialist who removes the burden from 911 and allows citizens to work with city employees to solve those problems,” Schiff said.
Even Dolan, the man behind the plan to cut the community crime prevention staff members, believes they do good work. At Monday’s Ways and Means Committee meeting he said, “The work they do at keeping communities connected and connected with us is valuable. Very, very valuable. But, it is just something that, at this point in our budget, we cannot afford.”
Council members like Schiff say those jobs are worth saving.
“If we want crime prevention specialists to continue to work with block club leaders, then we need to make that statement,” he said. “We also need to provide the chief with the funding to keep them employed, so that’s our job in the next 72 hours.”
The Ways and Means Committee will start marking up the city’s 2010 budget Wednesday — saving some programs and cutting others. The final budget vote is scheduled for Monday.
Dec
2
By Jake Weyer, SW Journal
Construction of a 42-unit development for at-risk youth and young adults was scheduled to be underway by the end of November at 3700 Nicollet Ave. S.
Nonprofit housing developer Plymouth Church Neighborhood Foundation (PCNF) partnered with homeless-youth service provider YouthLink on the long-anticipated and initially controversial project, called Nicollet Square. First proposed in the fall of 2007, the Kingfield Neighborhood Association (KFNA) approved plans for the development in April of 2008 after months of in-depth community discussions. The Minneapolis Planning Commission followed with its approval in September of that year.
The project was delayed while PCNF worked to secure $9.2 million in private and public financing, accomplished in part through federal
November 30, 2009
Full Article
Dec
1
BAKERY/CHOCOLATERIE COMING TO 46th and GRAND IN MINNEAPOLIS
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Pastry Chef John Kraus, an American pastry chef trained in the European artisan model, is leaving Chicago’s French Pastry School (the nation’s top pastry program) for Minneapolis to open Patisserie 46, a neighborhood bakery.
Patisserie 46 will open in early 2010 in the Minneapolis Kingfield neighborhood, near Lake Harriet, on the northwest corner of 46th and Grand, by Café Ena and King’s. The bakery will use locally sourced ingredients and offer everything from croissants, brioche, Kugelhopf, artisan breads, coffee cake and muffins and Liege waffles to artisan ice cream and sorbet, petits gateaux, birthday and wedding cakes, and of course great cookies, from elegant (and trendy!) macarons to chocolate chip.
Chef Kraus knows his way around bread and chocolate. He has twice been named one of Pastry Art and Design Magazine’s “Top Ten Pastry Chefs in America” (2005 and 2006), and was the winner of the 2004 Food Network Chocolate Challenge.
“In France, you know, every day, people go to the bakery first thing in the morning to get their croissants, their bread, their daily neighborhood gossip,” says Chef John Kraus, owner, Patisserie 46. “Minneapolitans need that luxury moment for themselves, and Patisserie 46 is where they’ll find it. Every neighborhood needs a bakery that they can walk to and send their family to for a loaf of bread.”
Kraus has participated in major competitions and special events across the U.S. and France, winning things like the prestigious Patisfrance Pastry Chef of the Year and the National Dessert Champion. He has completed numerous stages at Le Palais du Chocolat in France. Before joining The French Pastry School, Kraus was Pastry Chef at NoMI restaurant in the Park Hyatt Hotel Chicago and at Magnolia and the Wild Boar, in Nashville, Tenn.
Getting back to basics is Kraus’s passion, which is why he’s moving his family to the Twin Cities, to settle and open Patisserie 46. “It is time to make a move back to the table, beginning with the fresh, honest products of the neighborhood bakery,” he says. “We as a culture will move to this eventually—we’ve lost touch with how the rest of the world eats.”
Patisserie 46, on the corner of 46th and Grand, opening in spring 2010, will be a bakery/chocolaterie/gelateria/family gathering place. You’ll find it will be your go-to for all your bread, pastries, cupcakes, birthday cakes, wedding cakes, chocolates, really great coffee, hot chocolate, sandwiches and ice cream. The bakery will also offer classes and apprenticeships. For more, friend us on Facebook/patisserie46 or follow us on Twitter @patisserie46.
Jennifer Weismann
jenniferweismann@gmail.com