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Community Agreements and Summit

Central Corridor Community Assembly

Sunday, March 28, 2:00 – 4:00 pm

Central Corridor Resource Center (1080 University Avenue W.)

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“To be successful, the light rail line must not only improve mobility, but must also serve as a catalyst to strengthen and enhance existing and future neighborhoods, workforces and businesses along the line.”

-- Saint Paul and Minneapolis Community Summit, March 7 & 8, 2009

Over the past year, community members, businesses, organizations, and elected officials have come together in a variety of settings — two Central Corridor Community Summits and several smaller Community Compact Exploratory Talks — to discuss how we can work together to ensure that all neighborhoods and communities along the Central Corridor benefit equitably from Central Corridor Light Rail Transit investment and the development that follows. These discussions culminated at an August 10, 2009 Community Assembly where it was agreed to create a Central Corridor Community Agreement(s) to realize this common goal.

On Sunday, March 28, 2010, the greater Central Corridor Community is being assembled again, this time to set in motion creation of the Central Corridor Community Agreement(s).

The primary work of the Assembly is to endorse a Coordinating Committee to implement and oversee this initiative. The Community Agreement(s) will build on great deal of specific work that is already underway around affordable housing, equitable development, small business support, workforce training and hiring goals, minority- and women-owned business contracting goals, energy and environment, neighborhood livability, transportation equity, and public art.

The purpose of the agreement(s) is to:

• articulate a shared vision and set of development principles that draw from community process and planning work to date;

• formalize commitments to invest in that vision;

• serve as a basis for coordination, collaboration, transparency, and communication; and

• hold partners accountable to their commitments.

The August 2009 Community Assembly envisioned a broad-based and inclusive Coordinating Committee heading up the Community Agreement(s) initiative. The Assembly created a Nominating Committee, to be convened by the District Councils Collaborative of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, and charged it with preparing a slate of Coordinating Committee candidates for endorsement at a future assembly. It also provided general guidance on composition and structure of the Coordinating Committee.

The Nominating Committee, which consists of representatives from community-based organizations and elected bodies, is proposing a 30-member Coordinating Committee composed of 20 community representatives, to be endorsed at the March 28 Assembly, and 10 appointed representatives — eight from local governments and one each from the Metropolitan Council and the University of Minnesota. (There will be three open seats on the community slate, which will be filled with nominations from the floor.)

It is envisioned that the Coordinating Committee will meet on a monthly basis and be supported by a Working Group of staff from respective organizations and governmental entities working on plans and implementation strategies. It is anticipated that Issue-based Teams will form to study and make recommendations with respect to issues inherent in realizing the larger community vision.

For more information about the Community Agreement(s) initiative, please contact Carol Swenson, Executive Director of District Councils Collaborative of Saint Paul and Minneapolis at 651-249-6877 or carol@dcc-stpaul-mpls.org or go to www.dcc-stpaul-mpls.org.

Members of the Community Agreement(s) Nominating Committee

Anne White, Chair, Central Corridor Community Agreement Nominating Committee;

Union Park District Council, Saint Paul;

Chair, District Councils Collaborative Governing Council Phil Anderson, Prospect Park East River Road Improvement Association and District Councils Collaborative Governing Council Member

Melvin Carter, III, Saint Paul Council Member

Toni Carter, Ramsey County Commissioner

Diane Dube, Wm Mitchell Law School, Community Development Clinic

Metric Giles, Community Stabilization Project

Cam Gordon, Minneapolis Council Member

Nancy Homans, Mayor Chris Coleman’s Office

Mona Langston, Housing Preservation Project

Vic Rosenthal, Jewish Community Action

Hussein Samatar, African Development Center

John Slade, MICAH

Russ Stark, Saint Paul Council Member

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