Mayor’s Minutes: Brooklyn Center’s April Graves
Brooklyn Center Mayor April Graves spoke recently with CCX Media’s Dave Kiser about election results and the way the city is approaching probable changes to MN Highway 252.
Mayor Graves said Laurie Ann Moore and incumbent Kris Lawrence-Anderson won city council races, and the ballot provision requiring the city grant policy to be in the city charter passed.
The other ballot measure to create a sales tax option to help fund improvements to the city’s community center failed.
“It was very close,” said Gravers. “I’m sure we’ll still find ways to make improvements to the community center.”
Meanwhile, the city continues to await MNDOT’s plans for improving Highway 252 in the city.
Graves said both Brooklyn Center and Brooklyn Park requested the state agency study other alternatives than making it a freeway–and to include equity-based considerations into those plans–but that hasn’t happened.
“We do know that it will have big effects on our tax base if they go ahead with these freeway options,” said Graves. “Although we haven’t backed down in our desire to have other alternatives studied, we are trying to prepare ourselves for some demands if they continue to push forward.”
