It’s time to
make changes
Minneapolis must prioritize protecting its residents, ending homelessness, and finding revenue sources that lower taxes for all. We need a mayor who attracts people to our city
and eliminates barriers!
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Andrea is committed to bringing positive and meaningful change to Minneapolis. Her extensive experience and unwavering dedication make her the ideal candidate for mayor. Andrea brings 26 years of healthcare experience, guiding newborns to geriatrics through the best and worst of their days. Raised on a working farm, she learned resilience, accountability, and the value of hard work early on. Her life experiences have shaped her belief that Minneapolis can be both compassionate and strong, with opportunities for everyone. OUR Minneapolis needs a planful, hard worker who will learn and grow with our people and make our city once again a safe place to live, work, and enjoy.
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Andrea’s
Plan for Minneapolis
Revenue & Cost Strategy
As mayor, I will reduce our city’s reliance on high business and property taxes by creating new, sustainable sources of revenue.
- Riverfront Expansion: Extend and secure the river boardwalk, linking downtown and uptown.
- Revive Nicollet Mall: Attract business and restore energy downtown.
- Beautify Our City: Draw traffic through magical lights, art, and music playing in the streets.
- Citywide Events: Quarterly or semi-annual Mayor hosted events. A Halloween extravaganza, Holiday Parades, and national, larger-scale events.
- Free Parking Days: Bring traffic into parks, shops, and restaurants where there are free options, pop-up shops, meals & entertainment.
- Arts & Entertainment Access: Expand through affordable transit (bike, walk, public street cars and trolleys, light rail, bus system).
- City Lottery: Implement a citywide lottery.
- City-Owned Casino: Challenge outdated state laws and explore a Minneapolis-owned casino and resort — generating transformative revenue and tourism. Work towards a casino in a high rise along with hotel/condo units.
- Lead in Renewable Energy: Go big on renewable energy sources and leverage across the city, lowering costs for residents, businesses, and the city itself eliminating self-managed installations.
- City-Operated Cannabis Dispensaries: Keep profits local by opening city-run recreational dispensaries.
- Add Smart Amenities: Expand vending options and pay-per-use restrooms in busy areas where other options are not available.
- Rehabilitation Through Service: Offer long-term inmates opportunities to contribute to city maintenance projects, offsetting incarceration costs while supporting rehabilitation.
- Zero-Waste Minneapolis: Become a self-sustaining waste recycling city, improving resilience and lowers costs.
- Budget Overhaul: Line-by-line review to cut pork, fund real priorities, and include public input.
We need a team of experts in Marketing, City Planning, Government Affairs, and Social Services working together to move Minneapolis forward.
As Mayor, I will host community chats, weekly or bi-weekly, with residents, business owners, and community leaders to hear their voices.
Each week, my leadership team will meet and review existing and new ideas for change, and take action along with communications to business owners and residents. More volume from consumers and tourists will drive that revenue and lower taxes for all the residents and businesses, AND SAFETY!
Safety Strategy
Safer Everywhere Initiative: Decisive, data-backed, and speedy deployment of joint community programs that also save money.
- Dignified Approach: Handle with dignity, yet a firm hand on recourse.
- Keep the City Informed: KEEP residents and business owners informed on crime, reality vs. what’s reported, and offer a communication mechanism to report those not reported through normal channels.
- Safer Roads: END street racing along Highway 35 in the evenings.
- Police Presence: MORE police officers on the streets and within public transportation, along with significant de-escalation training and better tools.
- First Responder Support: Better treatment for police, fire & rescue, and healthcare workers. This will lower turnover and improve the quality of their efforts.
- Curb Vandalism & Property Crime: STOP windshield smashing and break-ins with more police patrolling.
- Address Vacant Properties: Partner with businesses and community leaders to reimagine unused housing, buildings, and open land.
As mayor, I will model after cities not just in the U.S., where safety is a priority. We do not need to recreate the wheel! I will add-in latest technology along with a stronger and more equipped police force. These officers are the first ones to show up to help you when needed, and focus on the true need.
Affordable Housing & Community Strategy
Everyone deserves a safe, stable place to live, which includes rent caps, stronger safety standards for rental properties, and incentives for owners who invest in their communities.
- Expanding Access & Safety: Increased housing access, implement cost controls and rent caps, and expand safety improvements.
- Safety Standards: Ensure rental property owner safety requirements, with incentives for those who invest in upgraded safety tools for their community.
- Encourage Community Partnership: Require facilities to offer places to stay, for homeless people. Part of a broader incentive program for owners, tied to direct needs for homeless people.
Bottom line is: everyone needs a safe, sheltered place to live.
Transportation Strategy
Safe, reliable, and affordable transportation keeps our city moving: connecting residents, workers, and visitors, while strengthening our local economy.
- Safety & Accessibility: Ensure safer and easier access to transportation across the city.
- Expand Citywide Connectivity: Connect and enhance the Green Line for bikers.
- Increased Security: More security for all forms of public transit.
- Daily Costs: Lower cost per day for riders.
Enabling easier transportation for residents and tourists help people commute to work safely and affordably, and also bring spending to businesses, artists, and community services which also lowers costs.
Education Strategy
Our children and their parents expect to send their children to learn and be safe. It’s our duty to provide that with schools, bussing, mini-businesses, and school hosted events.
- Strengthened Security: Enhanced entry and exit security in our schools. Consider trained armed guards in some cases.
- School-Based Micro-Businesses: Build mini-businesses at schools that can drive more school funding, and teach our children how to build and operate businesses.
- End Unsafe Fundraising Practices: STOP sending our children to random doorsteps selling things (candy bars, sponsorships, etc.) to residents, as this increases their safety risk!
- Teacher Empowerment: Empower teachers to control their classrooms more, including no cell phones during class and more control over inappropriate behaviors.
- School Programs: Expand before and after school programs that teach living skills, community giving, etc.
Driving game changing revenue improvements, lifting up our businesses, arts and entertainment, and delivering significant safety enhancements and lower taxes to our residents and businesses is how we get better. Doing it together along with experts and technology will enable our Minneapolis to be a best-in-class city.
~ Andrea Revel
