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Mayor Frey vetoes parts of city council approved budget

Minneapolis council adopts budget that increases property tax levy 6.8% over 2024

After three days of budget revisions and a whopping 74 amendments, the Minneapolis City Council approved a property tax levy increase of 6.8% — the largest since 2010 — to fund the city budget next year.

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Mayor Jacob Frey vetoes 2025 budget approved by Minneapolis City Council

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey announced Wednesday afternoon that he is vetoing the 2025 budget approved by the city council late Tuesday night. The budget had passed with enough votes to override a veto.

KSTP-TV · 27m

City Council adopts 2025 budget with record-setting 71 amendments, Frey’s approval still needed

INITIAL STORY: 12/10/24 – Minneapolis City Council members proposed a record 70+ amendments to the 2025 city budget as of Tuesday. The previous record of 45 was set last year, according to Linea Palmisano, who formerly served as the Council’s Budget Committee chair.

Minneapolis Public Schools parents push back on class sizes

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Koerth: Overcrowded classrooms aren’t a solution to balancing Minneapolis Public Schools’ budget

"Overcrowded, chaotic classrooms filled with stressed-out children and exhausted staff and teachers have been the norm in [Minneapolis Public Schools] this year, with multiple grade schools around the district bringing complaints to the school board and administration,

CBS News · 1d

Minneapolis Public Schools parents push back on class sizes: "It's out of control"

A number of parents of Minneapolis Public Schools students plan to push back against the district's staffing decisions during a scheduled board meeting Tuesday night.

Yahoo · 1d

Parents attend Minneapolis school board meeting over class sizes concerns

Bigger class sizes and smaller budgets: it's a math problem many districts are struggling with. Tuesday night, parents packed the Minneapolis school board meeting to voice their concerns. WCCO's Frankie McLister looks at the challenges of this budget battle.

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Budget battle in Minneapolis leads to unusual mayoral veto

Minneapolis City Council members say they passed a budget that is responsive to its residents. "Today we passed a budget that ...

There is an ongoing battle of the Minneapolis budget

The Minneapolis city council and Mayor Jacob Frey are clashing over the recently approved Minneapolis budget. Tom Homan told Democratic officials to ‘get the hell out of the way’ of his sweeping ...

Mayor Frey to veto "problematic" city budget because he says funds "pet projects"

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said Wednesday he will veto a new budget that funds, what he calls, pet projects, and will cost the city more money in the long run.

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Mayor Frey vetoes city council budget appropriations, approves levy

But on Wednesday, Mayor Frey said in a press release he was concerned with what he described as "fiscal irresponsibility," ...

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