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Legislative Priorities
Each year the Edina City Council approves legislative priorities to advocate for the City at the State Legislature and U.S. Congress.
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State Priorities
Development of Parks
- Allow cities to collect park dedication fees for multifamily redevelopment projects
- Support an Edina Local Option Sales Tax
Local Authority
- Eliminate the exemption of Hennepin/Ramsey counties in the Motor Vehicle Lease Sales Tax Allocation
- Preserve utility franchise fees
- Support municipal liquor operations
- Eliminate city requirements for public notices in newspapers
- Increase City Manager authority to adjust for inflation
- Repeal statutory salary limitation on city employees
- Adopt enabling legislation to allow cities to implement local environmental protection measures
Environment
- Support advanced energy standards for commercial buildings
- Support limited liability for private commercial salt applicators
- Support local environmental public health programs
- Maintain local authority for building energy benchmarking
- Support Inflow and Infiltration (I/I) Municipal Grant Program
Transportation
- Support Municipal State Aid (MSA) funding
- Support cities’ ability to create street improvement districts
- Support Local Bridge Replacement Program Funding
Public Safety
- Support a bonding request for the South Metro Public Safety Training Facility
- Support funding of fire resources, training and statewide response teams
- Support railroad and hazardous substance safety
- Oppose statutory prohibition of residential fire sprinklers
- Oppose the expansion of retail fireworks sales
Housing
- Protect low- and moderate-income tenants
- Support regulatory tools for affordable housing
- Create new funding sources for affordable housing
Federal Priorities
- Invest in local transportation priorities
- Climate change
- Election security
- Affordable housing
- Local management of wireless siting
- Aviation noise
- Post office preservation
- Cable franchise fees
- Protection of municipal bonds
- State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction
See the 2020 Federal Priorities brochure (PDF) for details on these 10 priorities.
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City Council
Physical Address
4801 W. 50th St.
Edina, MN 55424
Phone: 952-927-8861
Associations - State
The City belongs to three city associations that set State legislative policies:
Associations - Federal
The City belongs to the National League of Cities to advocate for the City on the federal level. Members of the City Council attend the National League of Cities conference in Washington, D.C., each year in March.