top of page
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • X
  • Bluesky
  • Ambit_Icon_1Color_Black_edited

St. Paul Can Do Better Than the Surrounding Cities. Let’s Put St. Paul on the Map! 

  Public Safety Is an Absolute Must for Turning St. Paul Around

  • Community policing

​

  • Learn from other successful examples but adapt locally

​

  •  More effective ordinances and regulations

  • Recognize that Public safety shouldn’t be solely the responsibility of the Police Department. Organize and provide all the necessary infrastructure, such as criminal justice reform, with the County, State, and communities so that the Police Department can focus on crime prevention and effective crime reduction. 

  • Synthesize the best practices with the Police Department leaders to generate a local solution based on numerous successful examples from other cities.

  • Get feedback from our Police and Safety Inspection Departments about the bare minimum but essential and fair ordinances enforceable for public safety. Focus on enforcing these ordinances effectively. Determine what new ordinance will be vital in eliminating hot spot crime or other crimes. Ask City Council members to pass new needed ordinances and eliminate old unnecessary ordinances.

  Community Governance and Core Services

  • Community governance

​

  • Improve the performance of the Dept of Public Works

​

  • Improve the budgeting process for the Dept of Parks and Rec

​

  • Wisely utilize our other tax dollars for long-term projects developed by the Dept of Planning and Economic Development

  • Allocate sufficient funding for the district council system to effectively achieve community governance. District Councils will have 1) direct access to city employees, where neighborhood safety and street safety issues will be timely addressed and solved, 2) learn about the city’s plans and projects at an early stage so that projects are competently designed with the neighborhood’s input, and 3) initiate projects by coordinating with their City Council members with the support of city employees, where the budget and priorities are clearly spelled out. 

  • Utilize the best practices at the Department of Public Works to ensure that city streets are maintained/resurfaced according to schedule and priorities. Make streets safer according to priorities by having feedback from residents and traffic data to prevent future accidents. Keep the city clean and remove snow effectively in the winter.

  • Ensure the Department of Parks and Recreation budget includes short- and long-term programming, maintenance, and improvement plans so that our kids and residents have ample opportunities to play, socialize, and explore.

  • Work with the Department of Planning and Economics to prepare shovel-ready projects so that our city can utilize our tax dollars from the County, the Metropolitan Council, MnDOT, and Federal money to improve our city transit and infrastructures most effectively for future development.

  • Establish rent transparency then repeal rent control

​

  • Promote home ownership by providing mortgage insurance for first-time home buyers

​

  • Reduce property tax burdens for homeowners and renters to make our city competitive with surrounding cities

​

  • Streamline regulations to boost investors’ confidence

   Housing and Economic Development

  • Work with the State to establish transparency in rental prices for renters and landlords by introducing web-based software using algorithms based on existing historical data collected by our State. Ask the City Council members to repeal rent control once the software is online to ensure fairness for landlords and renters while stimulating housing development along all existing transit corridors, especially University Ave, the East Side of St Paul, and I-94. 

  • Work out a budget to allocate sufficient funding for mortgage insurance on a downpayment for first-time Saint Paul home buyers so they can pay a mortgage similar to their rent as long as they have established a good credit score to stimulate the St Paul housing market to boost our city’s tax base. Work with state, private, and non-profit organizations to develop a program where residents learn how to build credit scores and fundamental homeownership responsibility to be ready for homeownership.

  • Work with the County and School District to reduce the City’s overall property tax rate to be similar to and, eventually, less than the surrounding cities by increasing our city’s tax base. A competitive property tax rate is essential to attract commercial and residents to our city.

  • Strengthen our city departments through transparency, innovation, and collaboration. Eliminate unnecessary and cumbersome regulations. Implement result-driven approaches and evaluations. A city government with a clean and well-organized structure will give confidence to private investments, from commercial businesses to small businesses and private residents.

  Integrate the Homeless Population Back
  Into the Community

  • Develop jobs for homeless population in transition
     

  • Develop communities for the homeless people so that they have a community to lean on
     

  • Improve our current high school student career readiness

  • Generate a plan and allocate budgets with city departments to supply low-entry city jobs to organizations that plan to integrate our homeless population into the community.

  • Work with our County government and other non-profit organizations to establish facilities for the homeless population, including daytime and nighttime communities, where they can recover from past trauma and mistakes, connect to job opportunities, and have a supportive community so they can eventually graduate from the program and become independent.

  • Work with our school board to prepare our current high school population to be either college-ready or skill-job-trained so that high school graduates wouldn’t compete in the low-entry job market and to allow more job opportunities for the homeless populations when they graduate from city jobs. 

bottom of page