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[Annette Fazzari]

TheAt Large Park Board race includes incumbents Meg Forney and Londel French with challengers Katherine Kelly, Mary McKelvey, Tom Olsen, Charles Rucker, and Alicia D. Smith. Incumbent LaTrisha Vetaw is running for Ward 4 City Council instead of for re-election. Voters will choose three candidates to fill the three At Large seats, which represent the entire city.

Our emergency tree levy expires this year. I am a lead commissioner in a Climate Resiliency Initiative, beginning the creation of certified carbon-offset-credit program to create revenue to grow green space, to support environmental resiliency. 20-year campaign, planting, maintaining 200,000 additional street and parkland trees, expanding MPRB Urban Forestry capabilities.

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I am running for Park Board because of my 3 passions, my 3 priorities, my 3 areas of focus in my life are Minneapolis parks and rec, people, and planet. I want to take our park and rec from being number one to being the best in the world.

At this time I support the Parks for All Plan. Going forward if there was something that would need to be update or amended as a future commissioner I would review the information and take timely action.

Increasing our revenue. Create new revenue paths. To be successful in this day and age you need to grow and expand because if one area is not creating profit it will take a toll on the other areas. All areas need to work like a well oiled machine.

We need to be fair when we manage and invest in the park and rec assets with opportunity and access. Equity is import to me because I do not want my children to say "Mom, why did you stand by and do nothing?"

Wow! The possibilities are endless. We could create you tube videos on parks and rec to create passive income. We could partner with the local sports teams to volunteer. We could create an event to share ideas.

Fortunately, this isn't an either/or question, because capital expenditures use different funding sources than the General fund, where most service and recreation program funding comes from. We can say yes to both, and they will enhance each other.

NPP20, or the 20 year Neighborhood Parks plan, was designed with a racial equity matrix that is now a national model. I support using this transparent, public matrix to determine when and where to invest in our neighborhood parks. I think this matrix could be expanded to areas such as trails, programming and services.

I want to serve on the Park Board because we need a youth voice who is focused on climate action, working to make our parks sustainable for future generations. I also have past governing experience which will allow me to govern and manage our parks with care.

I do support it. It recognizes the many priorities we must balance as a Park Board, while acknowledging changes we must make to ensure our parks thrive into the future. If anything, it could make stronger climate commitments, but individual commissioners can take that upon themselves to accomplish.

We must fund these in roughly equal measure. Improved maintenance reduces barriers to our parks, and we should prioritize that over new projects. Services build community and can help heal divides that have spread over the last two years, so this can not be neglected.

Opening our parkways to pedestrians was an incredible success last summer. I would implement this more often when the weather is nice for certain parkways. I would also like to allow open liquor, if managed like other successful cities (Savannah, Paris), this will be a boon to our city.

It's time to become creative and engaging new opportunities at our parks. I believe working with community based organizations to produce specific activities to bring in resources and energy is vital at this time.

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I want to serve the Park Board for many reasons: such as ensuring that all parks are truly serving the unique needs of every one in our community, to bring families back to parks for recreation and building lifelong friendship and voice to address the inequalities that we have seen.

I support the comprehensive plan. I do believe we need to go back, make some minor adjustments and find creative ways to excuse the plan while getting to work immediately. I would also explore creative ways we could partner with other organizations to deliver and close out this plan.

I would take a creative approach like finding ways that we may collaborate with other organizations to offer programming, seek outside funds that we may go after to cut costs. Lastly, what skills or passion does our staff have that we have yet to tap into and work from there.

Equity should be the lens in which we are looking from when we are making decisions. We must prioritize communities that have been divested in and underserved; ensuring high quality programs and building facilities and when not building ensuring that the buildings are not falling apart in need of repairs.

One thing I would love to do is partner with other nonprofit and corporate entities to build relationships that we may leverage dollars or resources to bring to our communities, enhancing not only the physical features in our parks but also improving program offerings, special events and staff development.

In my 1st term, I have paved the way to take clear steps: To reduce barriers to park access for all, To bring families & kids closer to our parks by continuing to secure parks & trails along the Mississippi for No & NE residents as well as make connections into those communities, To build a park system for future generations by expanding public/not-for-profit partnerships to bring new funding in to maintain our parks thus limit the burden on taxpayers, while ensuring open space for all residents.

The ultimate displacement of the current toxic industries adjacent to the Mississippi River is essential for environmental justice. The health disparities resulting from the industrial air, water and soil pollutants in North Minneapolis are unacceptable. Yet, displacement of immediate residents is avoidable. I will advocate for a mixed-income neighborhood structure.

I was one of the lead Park Commissioners in securing $220 million for our neighborhood parks and that money will be directed first toward racially concentrated areas of poverty. I ask for your support to return me to office to continue the stewardship of reducing barriers to park access, protecting equitable funding for neighborhood parks, ensuring families in our most vulnerable communities have high quality parks for years to come. I ask for your #1 vote.

Because I have the values to get it right and the acumen to get it done. I understand municipal finance and budgeting, and have visited all 49 Rec Centers. I have lived and worked in three states and three continents and have come to learn the only difference in global poverty is scale. As a genderqueer person I understand what it feels like to be under attack just for existing. As a white elected official my role would be building solidarity to actively defeat white supremacy.

We need to find more sources of funding, especially at the state and county level. The state has provided small amounts of bonding money for youth development in the past, and I want MPRB to focus on securing more! DNR has a lot of money for recreation we can tap into. Our biggest savings will come from stopping outsourcing and contractors in situations where public employees do the work better and cheaper.

Recruitment, hiring, and retention are the place to start. There are a lot of discriminatory job requirements that prevent people from being hired, re-hired, or moving into management. Work to get healthcare and other protections for ALL employees, not just the full-time staff that are disproportionately white.

The Park Board has a seat on the Planning Commission! We need LOTS more housing ALL over the city to prevent displacement. We can grow without displacement if we focus the upcoming growth in a dense fashion that supports affordability and multimodal transportation, because housing costs and transportation costs are linked. We must advocate for and build environments that make alternative transportation viable. Urbanism is environmentalism.

75% of the salaried staff at MPRB are white, this must be changed in order to grow equity with our park system. We need a full review and reconciliation of complaints by staff of color at MPRB to begin to determine the extent to which white supremacy is upheld and expressed in our park system. I fully support eliminating the 4 year degree requirement we now have for many staff leadership positions in parks and admin which keeps qualified candidates of color unfairly out of management.

Elimination of 4 year degree requirement as explained above, repeal of lurking and spitting ordinances, implementation of soil carbon sequestration goals and strategies, elimination of pesticide use, elimination of toxic shredded tire play surfaces, investment in local food system initiatives including fruit trees in parks, urban farms and community gardens on empty lots, investment in soccer, restructuring of community engagement to empower community, legalize skateboarding.

We will increase training and awareness at the park board to make sure we utilize what we have. There is a lack of discipline and I want to make sure each person knows that there job is so vital to making sure our communities thrive. I would like to set up work study programs for our staff so that they receive degrees through these classes and training.

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