One City One Future:
A New Deal For Minneapolis
One city, one future means that we are all affected by the disparities in Black, Brown, and indigenous communities from jobs, housing, education, and community safety and wellness, our stories, our liberation, and our futures are tied together and this is a campaign that seeks to win tangible gains for our neighborhoods through multi-racial coalition-based organizing to fund the things we need through a racial justice and equity-based funding initiative/budget fight.
A New Face
Ensuring the Office of Race and Equity is elevated into an Executive Office gives way to the office having the resources and influence necessary to create expansive programming and initiatives that will put a dent into decades-long divestment into communities of color.
Funding
Fully funding the Strategic Race and Equity Plan with an initial appropriation of $10 million dollars a year.
Competitive Pay & Equity
Pushing the city to create a unique and equity-based partnership with community and labor partners to provide resources from the SREAP to engage, train and retain BIPOC workers in the building trades among other areas of the workforce.
Access
& Insights
Amend the SREAP by passing an ordinance that mandates that workers on any city-funded development at the level of $2 million dollars or more come from distressed or historically underserved communities like North Minneapolis, Phillips, and Little Earth. Using these median income areas as an eligibility indicator to support this initiative the city will work with community partners and labor on resourcing the work around engaging, training, and retaining these workers.
Cultivating Growth
Creating a table inside the office of violence prevention to incubate new youth job training and development initiatives as well as nurture and guide existing programs that focus on restorative justice, pathways to green-economy and building trade careers and trauma-informed healing.