MINNEAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL

The 'Minneapolis City Council' is the governing body of the City of Minneapolis. The City Council is composed of 13 single member districts, called ''wards''. Barbara Johnson (Democratic-Farmer-Labor [or ''DFL''], Ward 4) is president of the council. The council is dominated by members of the DFL Party with 12 members. The Green Party has one member. The city has never had more than 13 wards, but at one time there were three representatives from each area, for a total of 39 city council members. The council assumed its current size in the 1950s. Because of a quirk in the election cycle, 2005 marks the first Council races since post-2000-Census redistricting. There were no Republican candidates for either Mayor or any City Council post in the 2005 election, however one Republican ran for the Library Board.
The council elected in 2005, and which took office in January 2006, is composed of:

Ward	member	party
1st	Paul Ostrow	DFL
2nd	Cam Gordon	Green
3rd	Diane Hofstede	DFL
4th	Barbara Johnson (President)	DFL
5th	Don Samuels	DFL
6th	Robert Lilligren (Vice President)	DFL
7th	Lisa Goodman	DFL
8th	Elizabeth Glidden	DFL
9th	Gary Schiff	DFL
10th	Ralph Remington	DFL
11th	Scott Benson (Council Majority Leader)	DFL
12th	Sandy Colvin Roy	DFL
13th	Betsy Hodges	DFL

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Zimmermann controversy

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Zimmermann controversy

In September 2005 Green Party Council Member Dean Zimmermann was served with a federal search warrant to his home by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The affidavit attached to the warrant revealed that the FBI has Zimmerman on video and audiotape accepting bribes for a zoning change. [1]
Zimmermann subsequently lost his re-election campaign, and was convicted in federal court on three counts of accepting cash from a developer and found not guilty of soliciting property from people with business with the city.

See also

★ Minneapolis municipal elections, 2005

★ Minneapolis City Hall

External links

★ Minneapolis City Council official page