Betsy Hodges for City Council

The Southwest Journal has an article on our campaign this week. Here are some highlights:

The incumbent is first-termer Betsy Hodges, a former development director at a legal non-profit and staff member for Hennepin County Commissioner Gail Dorfman. Hodges plays several important roles on the City Council, but key might be her position as chairwoman of the Intergovernmental Relations Committee. That job has her actively hopping between St. Paul and Minneapolis, sometimes Washington and Minneapolis, to keep the city's needs on legislators' minds. It also has made her an important middleman between the city and the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, a position that puts her in the center of an ever-tense relationship.

She's been a main spokeswoman for creating awareness of two pressures on taxpayers: the city's ballooning pension fund obligations and the decreases in state-distributed Local Government Aid (LGA). Hodges has long advocated for pension fund reform, and she helped initiate an effort to research alternatives to LGA.

 

 

Check out the rest of the article here.