St. Paul Councilwoman Cheniqua Johnson, Ward 7, hugs Nathan Annan after her oath of workplace in the course of the St. Paul Metropolis Council Inauguration at Ordway Middle for the Performing Arts in St. Paul on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. The youngest and most various metropolis council within the historical past of Minnesota’s capital metropolis was sworn into workplace Tuesday, formally elevating the primary all-female St. Paul Metropolis Council into public service at Metropolis Corridor. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
St. Paul Metropolis Councilwomen Anika Bowie, Ward 1, takes the oath of workplace on the e-book “The New Jim Crow,” by Michelle Alexander, in the course of the St. Paul Metropolis Council Inauguration at Ordway Middle for the Performing Arts in St. Paul on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. The youngest and most various metropolis council within the historical past of Minnesota’s capital metropolis was sworn into workplace Tuesday, formally elevating the primary all-female St. Paul Metropolis Council into public service at Metropolis Corridor. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
St. Paul Metropolis Council President Mitra Jalali, Ward 4, provides her dad, Dr. Hossein Jalali, a hug after her oath of workplace in the course of the St. Paul Metropolis Council Inauguration at Ordway Middle for the Performing Arts in St. Paul on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. The youngest and most various metropolis council within the historical past of Minnesota’s capital metropolis was sworn into workplace Tuesday, formally elevating the primary all-female St. Paul Metropolis Council into public service at Metropolis Corridor. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
St. Paul Metropolis Council President Mitra Jalali, Ward 4, speaks in the course of the St. Paul Metropolis Council Inauguration at Ordway Middle for the Performing Arts in St. Paul on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
St. Paul Councilwoman Nelsie Yang, Ward 6, takes the oath of workplace in the course of the St. Paul Metropolis Council Inauguration at Ordway Middle for the Performing Arts in St. Paul on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. The youngest and most various metropolis council within the historical past of Minnesota’s capital metropolis was sworn into workplace Tuesday, formally elevating the primary all-female St. Paul Metropolis Council into public service at Metropolis Corridor. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
St. Paul Councilwoman HwaJeong Kim, Ward 5, acknowledges her supporters after her oath of workplace in the course of the St. Paul Metropolis Council Inauguration at Ordway Middle for the Performing Arts in St. Paul on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. The youngest and most various metropolis council within the historical past of Minnesota’s capital metropolis was sworn into workplace Tuesday, formally elevating the primary all-female St. Paul Metropolis Council into public service at Metropolis Corridor. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
St. Paul Metropolis Councilwomen Saura Jost, Ward 3, takes the oath of workplace on a metal building guide being held by her son, Jaire Johnson, 5, in the course of the St. Paul Metropolis Council Inauguration at Ordway Middle for the Performing Arts in St. Paul on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. The youngest and most various metropolis council within the historical past of Minnesota’s capital metropolis was sworn into workplace Tuesday, formally elevating the primary all-female St. Paul Metropolis Council into public service at Metropolis Corridor. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
St. Paul Metropolis Councilwomen Rebecca Noecker, Ward 2, takes the oath of workplace surrounded by her household in the course of the St. Paul Metropolis Council Inauguration at Ordway Middle for the Performing Arts in St. Paul on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. The youngest and most various metropolis council within the historical past of Minnesota’s capital metropolis was sworn into workplace Tuesday, formally elevating the primary all-female St. Paul Metropolis Council into public service at Metropolis Corridor. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
Minnesota Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan speaks in the course of the St. Paul Metropolis Council Inauguration at Ordway Middle for the Performing Arts in St. Paul on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter speaks in the course of the St. Paul Metropolis Council Inauguration at Ordway Middle for the Performing Arts in St. Paul on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
The youngest and most various metropolis council within the historical past of Minnesota’s capital metropolis was sworn into workplace on Tuesday on the downtown Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, formally elevating the primary all-female St. Paul Metropolis Council into public service at Metropolis Corridor.
“St. Paul is instructing everyone what management seems to be like, and this election has been observed throughout the nation,” stated returning Council Member Mitra Jalali, who shall be appointed council president on Wednesday.
The council members had been joined on the Ordway by Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, former St. Paul Mayor Jim Scheibel and an viewers of tons of. Carter recalled serving on the town council 16 years prior:
“At 28 years outdated, I used to be the younger one, the one individual of shade,” stated the mayor, noting he served alongside former Council President Kathy Lantry, then the one lady.
All-female council
St. Paul is believed to be the most important metropolis within the nation to be led by an all-female council. Jalali, the daughter of immigrants from Iran and Korea, stated the historic second had not come with out pushback, particularly from social media.
“An entire bunch of people that had been snug with majority male, majority white (metropolis councils) throughout the nation are instantly sharply involved about illustration,” she quipped, to widespread laughter. “My ideas and prayers are with them presently.”
Jalali additionally used the event to reiterate her help for residential hire management, renters’ protections, elevated public funding in housing and new pathways to house possession, in addition to local weather motion and a cease-fire in Gaza.
The seven council members, all of them beneath 40 and 4 of them new to the function, will host their first official public conferences on Wednesday.
Right here’s how committee and fee assignments are slated to shake out, together with mayoral appointments to metropolis and out of doors boards.
Anika Bowie
St. Paul Metropolis Councilwomen Anika Bowie, Ward 1, takes the oath of workplace on the e-book “The New Jim Crow,” by Michelle Alexander, in the course of the St. Paul Metropolis Council Inauguration at Ordway Middle for the Performing Arts in St. Paul on Tuesday. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
Bowie has been appointed by the mayor to serve on the Go to St. Paul board of administrators, the Ramsey County Dispatch Coverage Committee, the Household Housing Fund and the Board of Water Commissioners. The town council is poised to nominate her to serve on the Ramsey County Prison Justice Coordinating Council.
HwaJeong Kim
St. Paul Councilwoman HwaJeong Kim, Ward 5, acknowledges her supporters after her oath of workplace. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
Kim has been appointed by the mayor to serve on the Ramsey County Dispatch Coverage Committee, the Joint Property Tax Advisory Committee and the Metropolitan Transportation Advisory Board. Kim is poised to be appointed secretary of the town’s Housing and Redevelopment Authority.
Mitra Jalali
St. Paul Metropolis Council President Mitra Jalali, Ward 4, provides her dad, Dr. Hossein Jalali, a hug after her oath of workplace. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
Jalali has been appointed by the mayor to serve on the Go to St. Paul board of administrators, the Ramsey County Dispatch Coverage Committee and the Joint Property Tax Advisory Committee. Jalali additionally will chair the council’s price range committee.
Cheniqua Johnson
St. Paul Councilwoman Cheniqua Johnson, Ward 7, hugs Nathan Annan after her oath of workplace. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
Johnson has been appointed by the mayor to serve on the St. Paul Port Authority, the Ramsey County Workforce Innovation Board, the Pink Rock Hall Fee and the Joint Property Tax Advisory Committee. The council on Wednesday is poised to approve Johnson as vice-chair of the town’s Housing and Redevelopment Authority.
Saura Jost
St. Paul Metropolis Councilwomen Saura Jost, Ward 3, takes the oath of workplace on a metal building guide being held by her son, Jaire Johnson, 5. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
Jost has been appointed by the mayor to serve on the Board of Water Commissioners and as an alternate on the Metropolitan Transportation Advisory Board. Jost is poised to be appointed treasurer of the town’s Housing and Redevelopment Authority and chair of the St. Paul Public Library Board.
St. Paul Metropolis Councilwoman Rebecca Noecker, Ward 2, takes the oath of workplace surrounded by her household in the course of the St. Paul Metropolis Council Inauguration at Ordway Middle for the Performing Arts. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
Noecker, who had as soon as expressed curiosity within the place of council president however withdrew her title, has been appointed by the mayor to serve on the Nice River Rail Fee, the St. Paul Kids’s Collaborative and the Go to St. Paul board. She additionally will chair of the town’s Housing and Redevelopment Authority and the council audit committee.
Nelsie Yang
St. Paul Councilwoman Nelsie Yang, Ward 6, takes the oath of workplace. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
Yang has been appointed by the mayor to serve on the St. Paul Port Authority, Ramsey County League of Native Governments, the Household Housing Fund and the Board of Water Commissioners.
