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Clerk presents Guidehouse-backed comparison of municipal councils; commission asks for fuller report in January
Summary
City staff summarized Guidehouse and internal research comparing Minneapolis to five large U.S. cities on elections, representation, committees, staffing and budgets, and asked commissioners to identify priorities for follow-up; the commission directed staff to finalize the Guidehouse report and return in January with addenda.
City Clerk staff presented a landscape analysis — informed by Guidehouse and the city’s Legislative Research & Oversight team — comparing Minneapolis to other large, executive-mayor U.S. cities on a set of governance indicators.
Mister Carl said the research focused on election timing and methodology, representation and member-to-constituent ratios, standing-committee systems, and dedicated institutional…
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