OUR POSITIONS

Positions of LWV Roseville Area

GOVERNMENT

• Support opportunities for citizen participation in city government, including early public participation in the decision -making process, and open appointment for advisory committees. (1988)

• Support City Manager form of government for Maplewood and Roseville (Plan B).

• Recommend community police departments improve data collection of police activity to ensure accountability for avoiding racial profiling and track that officers dispatched to domestic violence and mental health crisis situations have appropriate training.

• Recommend that all cities periodically evaluate police cost-analysis and service delivery.

• Support the Memphis Model, or a substantial equivalent Crisis Intervention Training (CIT), for police officers dealing with mental health crises. Support the St. Paul Blueprint for Safety, or a substantial equivalent training, for police officers dealing with domestic violence.

• Support diversity training for all police officers. Recommend that the LWVMN advocate for more state funding for CIT training for police officers dealing with mental health crises and for development of additional mental health facilities and community based services. (2016) 

SOCIAL POLICY

• Support emergency medical services in Roseville with user fees. (1978, 1981, 2003)  

• Support volunteer fire fighters with appropriate wages and benefits; oppose fees for fire department services. (2003)  

• Support transportation options that serve the needs of the area. (1983)  

• Support safe nonmotorized pathways with costs assessed areawide. (1983)  

• Support equal opportunity for all students in public schools with use of unbiased  educational materials free of gender stereotypes. (1984, ’85, ’86, ’87 ’88, 2000)  

• Support electing School Board members at-large for Districts 621, 622, 623. (1985,  updated 1988)  

NATURAL RESOURCES & ENVIRONMENT

• Support organized refuse collection contracted with haulers by the city. (1985, 2010)  

• Support action to remove yard waste, newspaper, glass, metal and other recyclables from the waste stream going to land-fills; and government support of yard waste composting  by encouraging individual composting and providing and maintaining sites for  community composting. (1982)  

LOCAL STUDY ITEM

• Continue Affordable Housing Study with a focus on advocacy.