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Mayor R.T. Rybak is set to announce details of a "workforce agreement" at a press conference Monday afternoon, WCCO reports. The latest proposal would put a new stadium on ground right next to the current Metrodome.
About 100 people gathered at the Lake Nokomis Community Center Tuesday night for the first of two public forums on the controversial plan to fund the proposed downtown stadium. The Star Tribune reports the number of opponents and supporters appeared to be evenly split. Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak will hold another forum Wednesday night.
The Ways and Means committee is set to meet Monday afternoon to discuss the city's share of the stadium measure Gov. Mark Dayton signed into law last week. The full council is expected to take a formal vote on the nearly $1 billion proposal on Friday.
Never mind the Legislature, Mayor R.T. Rybak may not be able to get his stadium proposal past Minneapolis' city council. Council members were underwhelmed by the mayor's presentation of a plan that would apply city sales tax money to a Vikings stadium once Minneapolis' convention center is paid off. A head count by the Downtown Journal finds Rybak lacks the votes to pass it right now.
One year after holding property taxes flat, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak at his annual budget Wednesday proposed a 1.7 percent increase for next year. Rybak said the increase would have been 3.4 percent if not for the Vikings stadium legislation, which alleviates the city of financial obligations to the Target Center.
Union leaders joined Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak to promote a stadium project they say would create 7,500 construction jobs in the city. Rybak is still working to convince city council members to back his plan to build a new home for the Vikings.
The DFL Senate Majority Leader told Minnesota Public Radio the City of Minneapolis is a key factor. State officials have yet to receive any formal support for the stadium plan from the City Council.
Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak says the 13-member city council should show that the city is on board with the Vikings stadium plan presented by Gov. Mark Dayton and team officials this week. One way to do that might be a non-binding resolution. A bill could surface at the legislature next week.
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