Specific Actions I will take During the 2009 Session:

  • Funding for holding tanks to help our sanitary sewer overflow problems

  • Turning Great Lakes Aquarium into a State Park

  • Fully funding Local Government Aid to Duluth and St. Louis County

  • Restoring funding to the state's Public Employee Retirement Account

  • Increasing Municipal State Aid to Duluth for street repairs

  • Increasing training dollars for Duluth Police and Fire

  • Funding Duluth to Minneapolis passenger rail

  • Supporting a new Master Plan for Spirit Mountain

  • Connecting Munger and Lakewalk trails

  • Completing the Grand and Central Avenue reconstruction projects

  • Assisting the next phases of Heritage Hockey Center development

  • Finding cleanup and development funds for the US Steel and Atlas Cement sites

  • Restoring the $15M for the Duluth airport removed last session

  • Supporting the MACV homeless veterans project