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Keep NRP Funding in Minneapolis
  1. Signatures
    318 out of 1,000
    Petitioning
    1. Council Member (+ 13 others)
      Petitioning
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      • Council Member (Gary Schiff)
      • Council Member (Barbara Johnson)
      • Mayor (R.T. Rybak)
      • Council Member (Meg Tuthill)
      • Council Member (Kevin Reich)
      • Council Member (Don Samuels)
      • Council Member (Cam Gordon)
      • Council Member (Robert Lilligren)
      • Council Member (John Quincy)
      • Council Member (Lisa Goodman)
      • Council Member (Sandra Colvin Roy)
      • Council Member (Elizabeth Glidden)
      • Council Member (Diane Hofstede)
      • Council Member (Betsy Hodges)
  2. Created By
    Ariah Fine
    Minneapolis, MN
About this Petition Petition Letter

 Last minute cuts are being made to neighborhood funds that were awarded to communities.  Low-income neighborhoods hit by the recession, foreclosures, and unemployment will be hurt the most.  The proposed City Council action will take 50% from neighborhood revitalization plan funding and in some cases freeze all remaining funds.

The majority of neighborhood funds go towards housing loans/grants, rehab of foreclosures, down-payment assistance, public safety efforts, youth programming, strengthening neighborhoods and program staff. 

Tell your mayor and council member to protect neighborhood funding and oppose any effort to freeze and cut money committed to neighborhoods.  The Northside needs City investment not disinvestment.

Recent Signatures

Don't Cut or Freeze NRP Funds, Support our Neighborhoods!

Greetings Mayor and City Council,

I oppose the current budget proposal to freeze and divert funds committed to neighborhood groups through the Neighborhood Revitalization Program. These are hard financial times and we need stable, supported communities more now than ever before.

This last minute proposal will divert committed funds from the neighborhoods that are struggling the most with unemployment, the foreclosure crisis, and agency cutbacks. This is not the time to change the rules of the game without notice and take needed resources from the most challenged areas of Minneapolis to redistribute to the most secure.

The challenges the City faces that require thoughtful, innovative and just policy-making. This proposal has had little time to be reviewed in a thoughtful manner. There is nothing innovative or just about disinvesting in struggling neighborhoods to avoid hard but needed decisions.

Please do not support the diversion and freezing of the remaining NRP funds.

[Your name]

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