Save the Bruce Vento Trail from the Rush Line (a/k/a Purple Line) Planners. Saving our trail from destruction is not a new issue for Diana. Diana produced a cablecast, one-hour program back in 2015. Listen to the program today, in 2022, and find out how true Diana’s comments and predictions, back then, remain true today!
OCT 28, 2015 – YouTube. Go to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRZMBLt3bl0&feature=youtu.be
Thank you to all who went out to vote in the Primary Election. My pledge to the residents of Maplewood is to put the people of Maplewood first . . . before partisan demands and the plans of the bureaucratic planners – to implement innovative and workable solutions in a professional, balanced, thoughtful manner.
July 10, 2013 ♦ We had a great time at the White Bear Avenue Parade. Some said we had the best float of the parade – special thanks go out to all of our campaign volunteers that made it happen!
Diana getting ready to board the campaign float.
Getting Ready for the Line Up
Moody’s assigns Aa1 rating to the City of Maplewood’s (MN) $6.4 million GO bonds, Series 2013A.
This is an important article to read. It provides an investor’s insight into today’s finances at Maplewood City Hall. Particularly of note is the portion that delineates what would make the rating drop:
WHAT COULD MOVE THE RATING DOWN
“- Continued declines in valuations or erosion of the demographic profile;
Return to operating deficits in the city’s Ambulance Fund or Community Center Operations Fund;
- Lack of improvement in overall liquidity.
- Significant increase in the city’s debt burden.”
In 2009, I discovered the City was using borrowed money from road improvement bonds to fund, in part, Public Works Department staff salaries. This practice goes to the heart of overall liquidity & debt burden. Those portions of the staff salaries funded by bond money are paid for over the life of the road improvement bond (often 15 years) with interest. This is an expensive way to fund a portion of Public Works staff salaries and is unsustainable in the long run. This practice must be discussed by the Council and a public policy established as to whether this is the best practice for Maplewood to follow.
After our first piece of media press setting out the political landscape, today the Maplewood Mayoral race made its way to MinnPost: Former state Rep. Nora Slawik gets DFL nod in Maplewood mayoral election | MinnPost.
Unfortunately, MinnPost missed the most important story! The Maplewood DFL endorsing convention was held on May 22, 2013 only two (2) days into the filing period. The candidate filing period is from May 21 – June 4, 2013. At the time of the endorsing convention, only 3 people had signed up to run! Further, the only people invited to seek endorsement or who knew that the endorsement convention was occurring were either insiders, those selected by insiders or the delegates themselves.
Margaret Ann Behrens and Diana Longrie, both DFL delegates sent out a Letter DFL Delegates for the Maplewood convention stating the convention was premature and designed to exclude.
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For those that may have missed it, the Pioneer Press began its coverage of the Maplewood elections shortly after the filing period for candidates opened on May 21, 2013: In Maplewood, Longrie v. Slawik for mayor likely – TwinCities.com.