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The Duluth Mayor's office plans to combat Duluth's housing issue with the proposed Housing Trust Fund. 

The decision has raised some eyebrows as it bypassed utilizing a local company in favor of hiring a Minneapolis firm.

The council still will need to approve individual expenditures. Written By: Peter Passi | × A pedestrian walks in front of Duluth City Hall on Tuesday, June 29, 2021. Mayor Emily Larson proposes to spend $12 million — or just north of 20% of the federal pandemic relief funds the city is slated to receive through the American Rescue Plan — to update air-handling and heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems at City Hall. The building currently lacks cooling. (Steve...

Fox21Online July 14, 2021 DULUTH, Minn. – The city of Duluth’s main tourism marketing arm since 1935, known as Visit Duluth, is a finalist for next year’s one-year contract, as Mayor Emily Larson looks to possibly go a different direction with a mission to “elevate the brand of Duluth,” according to the Request for Qualifications document put out by the city. The Mayor’s Office confirmed to FOX21’s Dan Hanger Wednesday that 28 marketing businesses (see below) applied to be conside...

Fox21Online Community Crisis Intervention, City Hall Ventilation Among Proposed COVID Relief Spending Discussed by Duluth Council More than a dozen citizens spoke out in support of what they call a community crisis response team independent of law enforcement. July 6, 2021 Council unanimously tabled the resolution, to further discuss the Mayor’s following suggestions to allocate the money: Affordable Housing: $20,678,130 Job Training and Workforce Services: $550,000 Utility Infrastructure and...

Fox21Online June 29, 2021 DULUTH, Minn.– Mayor Emily Larson and members of the City Administration announced their recommendations today on how the city should spend the $58 million dollars it received from the American Rescue Plan. The City of Duluth has now received half of the $58 million dollars from the American Rescue Plan, and today Mayor Larson proposed a way to invest that money, in hopes of creating a solid foundation for a strong recovery. The American Rescue Plan act allowed Dulut...

By Dave Strandberg Jun 9, 2021 | 4:50 AM DULUTH, MN (CBS-3) – Duluth Mayor Emily Larson is asking for $44.5 million in federal funding for five major projects in the city. The money would come from the Biden Administration’s Congressional Directed Spending program. Being the largest port in the Great Lakes, Mayor Larson is asking for $12 million for future repairs and restoration work on the Aerial Lift Bridge. Larson hopes Congress will also support a $4 million project to dredge t...

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) visited Duluth Wednesday to highlight tourism. She said, "Duluth is open for business," and she expects an "incredible resurgence" in the hospitality industry this summer. 

"Even if we dont ultimately choose the reinvestment plan that Mayor Larson put forward, it is clear based on what the SE Group has told us that we must choose reinvestment or we are by proxy choosing inevitable death for Spirit Mountain," Forsman said during Monday nights council meeting.  However, he ultimately supported the two-week delay because other councilors felt they had not gotten enough details to make an informed decision. "I do not think it is appropriate or responsible to ask the ...

Duluth Mayor Emily Larson addressed the media Thursday afternoon to offer recommendations for making the Spirit Mountain Recreational Area a more financially viable entity in the years ahead. The press event, held at Spirit Mountain at 2 pm on Thursday afternoon, offered recommendations based on a report from the Spirit Mountain Task Force and consulting firm SE Group. The report explored how to bring better financial footing and improvements to the recreation area, which has amassed a sizable...