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Richfield directors outline top legislative priorities: housing aid, limits on local contributions to county/state projects, safety and sustainability asks
Summary
City staff proposed top priorities to guide Richfield's 2026 lobbying: making transition aid permanent for impacted communities, revising a 2024 restriction on local rental licensing for state-licensed group assisted living facilities, disrupting cycles of violence through a suite of public-safety and mental-health investments, and limiting local contributions to county/state projects; staff also flagged bonding requests for Nicollet ($10M) and an emergency water interconnect ($2.5M).
City staff presented a consolidated legislative platform to the Richfield City Council at the Nov. 25 work session, identifying four principal priorities and two bonding requests that the city's lobbyist and staff will advance in the coming session.
Courtney McCamp and the director team proposed: (1) support for making a form of transitional "aid" permanent and available to impacted communities (staff asked council whether the ask should seek "being made whole" or other language), (2) repeal or modification of 2024…
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