12/23/03: Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) presents Rybak with a "Grinch of the Year Award" for failing to follow through on his campaign promise to fight predatory lending.
http://www.southsidepride.com/2004/07/articles/rybakhousing.html
http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=1967
6/16/06: Glidden votes to implement the ballpark process.
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/council/archives/proceedings/2006/20060616-proceedings.pdf
(Page 608 [Page 75 in PDF])
7/22/06: Officer Jason Andersen shoots Fong Lee.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/05/28/fonglee_verdict/
7/25/06: Dolan allows Andersen to come back to work. Police say they have some video.
http://www.charityadvantage.com/CUAPB/072506Newsletter.asp
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-148633484.html
Frame by frame:
http://tomstream.blogspot.com/2009/06/fong-lee-close-ups.html
9/25/06: Glidden, Gordon, and Hodges send memo to Rybak listing 8 concerns about Dolan. They also meet in person. The StarTribune updates this story on their web site by 10/2.
http://www.startribune.com/462/story/717439.html
10/11/06: Dolan answers questions from CM Gordon. " ‘I’m going to have discretion I'll use on discipline--I want that,’ Dolan said Wednesday, adding that the mayor, council or CRA will not dictate his decisions. ‘I owe that to the officers and the community, but I also owe it to myself ethically.’ "
http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2006/10/the_struggle_for_tim_dolans_so.php
"The CRA Board is an independent body of eleven Minneapolis residents, selected by the Mayor and the City Council."
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/cra/CRAFAQs.asp
10/20/06: The City Council votes to approve Dolan as Chief of Police.
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/council/archives/proceedings/2006/20061020-proceedings.pdf
(Page 992 [Page 29 in PDF])
http://secondward.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_archive.html
11/3/06: City council approves $78 million bonding proposal for the Midtown Eco Energy Center.
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/council/archives/proceedings/2006/20061103-proceedings.pdf (Page 1039 [Page 5 in PDF])
3/09/07: Glidden votes to merge the city and county libraries, circumventing the charter process.
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/council/archives/proceedings/2007/20070309-proceedings.pdf
(Page 214 [Page 35 in PDF])
2/12/08: According to a four-part series by Dan Gordon in the Twin Cities Daily Planet in February 2008, the City of Minneapolis received $130 million in Empowerment Zone bonding authority from the federal government, to be spent from 1999 through 2009. The money was intended to fight poverty, but the only Empowerment Zone bonding proposal ever approved by the City Council was November 3, 2006, to use $78 million of it for the Midtown Eco Energy Center, a garbage burner which was to have been built one mile from Powderhorn Park.
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/9279#
3/21/08: The City Council adopts the "38th St & Chicago Ave Corridor Framework/Small Area Plan" which cited as a model four-story condominium apartments in Downtown Minneapolis.
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/council/archives/proceedings/2008/20080321-proceedings.pdf
(Page 205 [Page 23 in PDF])
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/cped/docs/chicago_38_executive_summary.pdf
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/cped/docs/chicago_38_section2.pdf
(Page 31 [Page 9 in PDF])
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/council/ward8/Ward_8_Citywide_and_Ward_Issues.asp
(Link is to "Small Area Planning for 38th Street and Chicago Avenue")
The Metropolitan Lofts condominiums, located at 545 S. 2nd Street, are priced at $400,000 to $700,000.
http://www.minnesotas-real-estate.com/Metropolitan-Lofts.htmCompanies involved in this building are Elness Swenson Graham Architects, Inc., David Bernard Builders & Developers, Kraus-Anderson Construction Company, Meyer, Borgman & Johnson, Inc., and Braun Intertec.
http://www.emporis.com/application/?nav=building&lng=3&id=263876
7/28/08: Dolan presents Andersen with Medal of Valor.
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/news/20080728MPDAwards.asp
9/11/08: MPR reports, "Four years ago, there were 230 vacant boarded buildings in Minneapolis. Today, there are about 950. That number has spiked in recent years as a result of the foreclosure crisis. Studies show vacant homes are expensive. Taxpayers pick up the tab for inspections, 911 calls, cutting the grass and removing trash and snow. Vacant homes also depress property values and cost the city money in lost property taxes. But the demolitions aren't cheap either, at an average of $17,000 each."
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/09/10/house_demolition_minneapolis/
1/29/09: The Star Tribune reports that the county is considering spending $500,000 to deal with odor control at their downtown garbage burner.
http://www.startribune.com/local/38676967.html?elr=KArks:DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiacyKUnciaec8O7EyUr
http://www.startribune.com/newsgraphics/38653402.html?elr=KArks:DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiacyKUUr
2/23/09: Mayor Rybak proposes sending Civil Rights complaints to state.
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/mayor/docs/2009RevisedBudgetSlides.pdf
(Page 35)
3/27/09: The city announces $6.5 for purchase and rehab, $6 million for purchase and demolition, and $500,000 to help borrowers. The Director of Housing Policy and Development states that nearly $77 million has been leveraged.
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/mayor/news/20090325newsmayor_nspforeclosurefunds.asp
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/council/archives/proceedings/2009/20090327-proceedings.pdf
(Page 261 [Page 16 in PDF])
4/4/09: KSTP reports that apartment vacancies are up in downtown Minneapolis. "New condos that can't sell are turning into rental properties—this is often called the shadow market."
http://kstp.com/news/stories/S866307.shtml?cat=1
5/4/09? : Channel 9 (KMSP/FOX TV) reports Jason Anderson’s contradictory testimony. Andersen said Lee, while laying on his back raised the gun up, but later Andersen said the gun fell three feet away. They also report that Mark Robbins, the Mankato law enforcement expert in the Channel 9 report, thought that Lee’s wounds were consistent with a defensive reaction.
Source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2Dm4SX-N5M
6/2/09: Glidden votes with the majority as the council approves $2 million for the Shubert theater and $284,047 for TenKSolar.
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/council/archives/proceedings/2009/20090602-proceedings-adj.pdf
(Page 496 [Page 3 in PDF])
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/mayor/news/20090602newsmayor_Minneapolistofundshubert.asp
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/council/2009-meetings/20090612/Docs/CDBG_ConPlan3_RCA.pdf
6/3/09: The Star Tribune reports that the Shubert theater will be getting $2 million in stimulus money. "The Shubert, which got all of the money it applied for, will create 101 construction jobs and the equivalent of 41 full-time permanent jobs, 38 of them earmarked for applicants from low-income neighborhoods.
By contrast, a competing project to build a solar panel manufacturing facility [TenKSolar] in a low-income area of Minneapolis promised 360 jobs by 2011. But it is getting only $284,047 of a requested $1.2 million. Money to protect condemned and boarded-up properties by winterizing them also got only $200,000 of a requested $400,000."
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/onstage/46768652.html?page=1&c=y
6/15/09: Jason Andersen is arrested for domestic assault.
http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=799908
http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2009/06/officer_who_sho.php
8/19/09: Rybak aide Erika Prosser tells protesters from the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign that the mayor doesn't support a moratorium on foreclosures.
Glidden has endorsed Rybak.
9/1/09: City Pages reports, "In the past four years, Minneapolis paid about $9.5 million in about 80 police misconduct settlements."
http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2009/09/minneapolis_pay.php
9/3/09: Prosecutors drop charges against Jason Andersen, saying, "sufficient admissible evidence does not exist." Andersen had been jailed for several hours after the incident, and was released. A judge ordered he not use drugs or alcohol, submit to random drug testing, and that he not have any contact with the victim.
http://kstp.com/news/stories/s1121304.shtml