Mayor’s Minutes: Brooklyn Park’s Hollies Winston
Brooklyn Park Mayor Hollies Winston spoke recently with CCX Media’s Dave Kiser about the city’s on-going response to the murders of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband in their home near Edinburgh USA in June.
“Speaker Hortman had an incredible impact on our community,” Mayor Winston told Kiser. “As a community, we are working through what it means to go through what we went through, and also to let people know we are strong, and we also have many voices and no one is going to control our voice as a city.”
Winston also spoke about progress in the construction of a new Teen Center adjacent to Zanewood Recreation Center.
“We’re extremely excited, so just that our teens have a ton to do within the city,” said Winston. “For us, it’s saying we’re very much vested in saying we’re invested in our youth in the city of Brooklyn Park.”
Among the legislative priorities achieved by the city this year in St. Paul, Winston praised money coming to Brooklynk, the joint teen employment and empowerment program with the City of Brooklyn Center that is celebrating its ten-year anniversary.
“It gets youth into the system to take some of those jobs within biotech but also within other industries in Brooklyn Park as well,” said Winston.
