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Minnetonka joins 12-city coalition; residents urge state emergency action and eviction moratorium
Summary
Minnetonka joined 11 other suburbs in a 'Cities for Safe and Stable Communities' coalition and approved staff's amicus brief; more than a dozen residents urged the council to press the governor for an eviction moratorium, expanded rental assistance and explicit protections for immigrant neighbors.
Minnetonka City Council on Feb. 2 announced the city’s participation in a 12-city coalition called Cities for Safe and Stable Communities and approved adding an amicus brief to the consent agenda in a case related to recent federal immigration enforcement activity.
City Manager Mike Funk told the council staff coordinated a press release and an amicus filing and has been meeting weekly with other city staff to monitor local ICE activity and its impacts. "We did have a press release go out today," Funk said, adding that the coalition has developed three central messages: community safety over politics,…
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