Minneapolis, Minnesota
| Minneapolis, Minnesota | |
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| General information | |
Mayor of Minneapolis
Jacob Frey | |
| Last mayoral election: | 2021 |
| Next mayoral election: | 2025 |
| Last city council election: | 2023 |
| Next city council election: | 2025 |
| City council seats: | 13 |
| City website | |
| Composition data (2019) | |
| Population: | 420,324 |
| Race: | White 63.6% African American 19.2% Asian 5.9% Native American 1.4% Pacific Islander 0.0% Two or more 4.8% |
| Ethnicity: | Hispanic 9.6% |
| Median household income: | $62,583 |
| High school graduation rate: | 90.0% |
| College graduation rate: | 50.4% |
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Minneapolis is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota. The city's population was 429,954 as of 2020, according to the United States Census Bureau.
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City government
- See also: Mayor-council government
The city of Minneapolis utilizes a strong mayor-council system. In Minneapolis, the city council serves as the city's primary legislative body and the mayor is considered the city's chief executive.[1][2]
Mayor
The responsibilities of the mayor include proposing a budget, proposing policies, serving as the city's spokesperson, signing legislation into law, overseeing city administration, declaring states of emergency, supervising the heads of the city's charter departments, and directing public safety functions.[1]
The current Mayor of Minneapolis is Jacob Frey (nonpartisan). Frey assumed office in 2018.
City council
The Minneapolis City Council is the city's primary legislative body. It is responsible for adopting the city budget, adopting financial policies, conducting audits of the city's finances, adopting contracts, confirming appointments of the charter department heads, adopting planning and zoning codes, and enacting or amending city laws, policies, and ordinances.[1]
The city council is made up of 13 members, each of whom is elected by one of the city's 13 districts.[3]
The widget below automatically displays information about city council meetings. The topic list contains a sampling of keywords that Voterheads, a local government monitoring service, found in each meeting agenda. Click the meeting link to see more info and the full agenda:
Minneapolis Board of Estimate and Taxation
Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board
Other elected officials
Ballotpedia does not cover any additional city officials in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Mayoral partisanship
Minneapolis has a Democratic mayor. As of November 2024, 63 mayors in the largest 100 cities by population are affiliated with the Democratic Party, 25 are affiliated with the Republican Party, one is affiliated with the Libertarian Party, four are independents, five identify as nonpartisan or unaffiliated, and two mayors' affiliations are unknown. Click here for a list of the 100 largest cities' mayors and their partisan affiliations.
Mayoral elections are officially nonpartisan in most of the nation's largest cities. However, many officeholders are affiliated with political parties. Ballotpedia uses one or more of the following sources to identify each officeholder's partisan affiliation: (1) direct communication from the officeholder, (2) current or previous candidacy for partisan office, or (3) identification of partisan affiliation by multiple media outlets.
Elections
2023
The city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, held general elections for city council on November 7, 2023. The regular filing deadline for this election was August 15, 2023, and the write-in candidate filing deadline was October 31, 2023.
2021
The city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, held general elections for mayor, city council, board of estimate and taxation, and park and recreation board on November 2, 2021. The filing deadline for this election was August 10, 2021.
2020
The city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, held a special general election for Minneapolis City Council Ward 6. The election was held on August 11, 2020, which was the statewide primary election date. The candidate filing deadline was June 2, 2020.
The seat became vacant after Abdi Warsame left city council to become executive director of the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority in March 2020.[6]
2017
The city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, held a general election for mayor, city council, board of estimate & taxation, and park & recreation board on November 7, 2017. The filing deadline for candidates who wished to run in this election was August 15, 2017.
Census information
The table below shows demographic information about the city.
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| Demographic Data for Minneapolis | |
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| Minneapolis | |
| Population | 429,954 |
| Land area (sq mi) | 53 |
| Race and ethnicity** | |
| White | 62.7% |
| Black/African American | 18.5% |
| Asian | 5.2% |
| Native American | 1.2% |
| Pacific Islander | 0% |
| Two or more | 7.8% |
| Hispanic/Latino | 9.9% |
| Education | |
| High school graduation rate | 90.8% |
| College graduation rate | 53.5% |
| Income | |
| Median household income | $76,332 |
| Persons below poverty level | 9.6% |
| Source: population provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "Decennial Census" (2020). Other figures provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2017-2022). | |
| **Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here. | |
Budget
The city's budget process operates on a fiscal year cycle from January 1 to December 31. The mayor is responsible for proposing the budget. After the mayor proposes the budget, the Board of Estimate and Taxation reviews the budget and holds a hearing to allow for public input in the budget process. The city council will then review the budget and hold public hearings to get resident input. By mid-December, the city council will finalize any amendments to the budget and adopt the final budget.[7]
Fiscally standardized cities data
The fiscally standardized cities (FiSC) data below was compiled by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy to make municipal budgets comparable across cities in the United States.[8]
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FiSCs are constructed by adding revenues and expenditures of each central city municipal government to a portion of the revenues and expenditures of overlying governments, including counties, independent school districts, and special districts. The allocations to FiSCs are estimates of the revenues collected from and services provided to central city residents and businesses by these overlying independent governments. Thus FiSCs provides a full picture of revenues raised from city residents and businesses and spending on their behalf, whether done by the city government or a separate overlying government.[9] |
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| —Lincoln Institute of Land Policy[10] | ||
The tables below show estimated finances within city limits. As such, the revenue and expenses listed may differ from the actual city budget.
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Historical total revenue and expenditure
To see the historical total revenue or expenditures as a rounded amount in this city, hover over the bars.[8]
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Contact information
Mayor's office
City Hall, Room 331
350 S. Fifth St.
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Phone: 612-673-2100
City Clerk's office
City Hall, Room 304
350 S. Fifth St.
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Phone: 612-673-2216
Click here for city council contact information.
Ballot measures
The city of Minneapolis is in Hennepin County. A list of ballot measures in Hennepin County is available here.
Noteworthy events
2020: Events and activity following the death of George Floyd
During the weekend of May 29-31, 2020, demonstrations and protests took place in cities nationwide, including Minneapolis, following the death of George Floyd. Events in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, area began on Tuesday, May 26, the day after George Floyd's death.[11] On May 28, Gov. Tim Walz (D) activated and deployed the Minnesota National Guard to the cities at the request of Mayor Jacob Frey (D).[12] That night, people occupied and set fire to the Third Precinct police department building in Minneapolis.[13] On May 29, Frey and St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter III (D) instituted curfews in the cities.[14]
On May 27, Frey said that the officer involved in Floyd's death, Derek Chauvin, should be arrested, saying, "I've wrestled with ... one fundamental question: Why is the man who killed George Floyd not in jail?"[15] On May 29, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman (U) announced murder and manslaughter charges and Chauvin was arrested.[16]
2015: Study on city's nondiscrimination laws
In July 2015, the Movement Advancement Project described Minneapolis, Minnesota, as a city or county that prohibited discrimination in employment on the basis of gender identity via ordinances that apply to public and private employers. At that time, a total of 71 of America's largest 100 cities prohibited private employers from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation, while 69 of those cities also prohibited discrimination based on gender identity. This did not include those jurisdictions that prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity for government employees.[17]
Nondiscrimination laws can cover a variety of areas, including public employment, private employment, housing, and public accommodations. Such laws may be enacted at the state, county, or city level.
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 City of Minneapolis, "Roles of Mayor and City Council," accessed March 11, 2022
- ↑ City of Minneapolis, "Government structure," accessed March 11, 202
- ↑ City of Minneapolis, "Council," accessed October 23, 2014
- ↑ City of Minneapolis, "§ 5.3. - Organization.," accessed August 25, 2021
- ↑ City of Minneapolis, "Board of Estimate & Taxation members," accessed August 25, 2021
- ↑ Star Tribune, "Abdi Warsame's move from Minneapolis City Council to housing agency stuck in red tape," February 28, 2020
- ↑ City of Minneapolis, "Budget planning steps," accessed August 23, 2023
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, "Fiscally Standardized Cities database," accessed August 23, 2023
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, "Fiscally Standardized Cities," accessed August 23, 2023
- ↑ Minnesota Public Radio, "Tear gas, chaos, rain: Protests rage after man dies in Mpls. police custody," May 26, 2020
- ↑ NBC DFW 5, "Nationwide Protests Over George Floyd’s Death Turn Violent," May 29, 2020
- ↑ Fox 9 KMSP, "Rioters set Minneapolis police precinct on fire as protests reignite over George Floyd's death," May 28, 2020
- ↑ NBC 10 News, "More National Guard members to be called up after 4th night of Minneapolis unrest," May 30, 2020
- ↑ AP, "Mayor: Officer who put knee on man’s neck should be charged," May 28, 2020
- ↑ NPR, "George Floyd's Arresting Officer Charged With 3rd-Degree Murder, Manslaughter," May 29, 2020
- ↑ Movement Advancement Project, "Local Employment Non-Discrimination Ordinances," accessed July 7, 2015
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