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From YouTube: 2014 Minneapolis Inauguration Ceremony
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January 6, 2014
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B
Hodges
will
also
take
her
oath
of
office
in
front
of
all
of
you
today
before
we
continue,
of
course,
I'd
like
to
take
a
moment
to
bring
our
previous
mayor
rt
ryback
into
our
thoughts
sent
him
wishes
for
restored
health.
I
know
he's
very
disappointed.
He
can't
be
here
today.
We
thank
him
for
years
of
service
to
this
great
city.
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So
here
we
are
first
day
of
school,
I'm
guessing
some
of
you
are
a
little
nervous,
but
that's
okay,
because
that
means
this
matters
because
you've
been
entrusted
with
an
awesome
responsibility,
but
know
this
you're
up
to
the
job,
because
each
of
you
brings
so
much
to
this
work.
Amazing,
varied
and
interesting
backgrounds,
deep
connections
to
the
communities
that
make
up
this
great
city,
a
passion
for
caring
for
justice,
for
building
an
even
better
city
that
works
for
everyone
who
lives
who
works?
Who
plays?
Who
learns?
Who
worships
in
this
amazing
place?
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Power
in
this
system
is
diffuse
by
design,
that's
a
good
thing,
but
understand
how
to
be
effective
in
that
context,
and
even
if
you
have
a
good
long
run
your
time
in
public
service
is
limited,
so
notice.
It
treasure
it
be
fully
present,
be
deliberate
and
thoughtful,
certainly,
but
also
be
impatient,
because
the
time
for
justice
for
equality
for
freedom
is
always
right.
Now.
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E
E
My
grandmothers
lived
on
the
edge
of
life
in
minneapolis,
uncertain,
but
full
of
love,
hoping
for
a
brighter
future
for
their
children
and
grandchildren
and
great
grandchildren,
their
great-granddaughters.
Now,
ten
and
six
and
a
half
are
home
in
minneapolis
we
are
home
last
week
they
got
to
see.
The
mayor
are
not
sworn
in
at
the
kids
ceremony,
our
daughters
attend
minneapolis
public
schools
where,
where
it
on
days
where
it's
not
too
cold
their
teachers,
teach
them
well
and
believe
in
them,
and
support
them
and
guide
them
to
become
fabulous.
E
E
Let
us
embrace
the
call
of
our
past
and
the
fierce
promise
of
today,
as
we
rise
to
create
together
one
minneapolis,
where
every
child
can
look
to
this
podium
and
into
the
eyes
of
this
new
mayor
and
this
new
city
council
and
see
in
her
future
in
his
future
that
some
distant
day
ahead
themselves.
They
are
standing
here
leading
their
beloved
community
forward.
E
Our
sacred
responsibility
is
to
work
together
to
listen
to
one
another,
to
daily
practice,
empathy
and
compassion
and
radical
hospitality
to
put
down
our
weapons
and
lift
up
our
hearts
and
our
hands
seeking
mutual
understanding
and
respect
to
make
it.
So
this
new
day,
we
ask
your
blessings
for
this
new
mayor.
E
B
B
F
G
Irony
overflows
from
the
chain
of
lakes,
parrots
walk
their
people,
people
push
stroller
dogs
and
cats
on
leashes
leap
at
passing,
sales
in
the
streets
of
uptown.
We
add
snow
to
ski
in
winter,
melt,
hot
pavement
for
art
in
the
summer
and
in
between
take
nice
ride
urban
cruises
to
islands
of
outdoor
seating.
J
We
are
such
rootless
bodies
most
of
our
lives,
all
of
us
seeking
urgently
what
we
cannot
name,
many
of
us
not
from
around
here
we
leave,
we
dream,
we
wander,
we
roam
city
of
beautiful
lakes
and
lovers,
fathers,
mothers,
sisters,
brothers,
ice,
rink,
winters,
swimming
summers,
show
us
how
to
make
this
place.
This
refuge
this
gift,
our
home.
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D
L
M
A
few
weeks
ago,
I
had
the
opportunity
to
meet
with
president
obama
and
I'll
be
honest.
There
were
moments
of
awe
at
being
in
the
same
room
with
the
leader
of
the
wealthiest
and
most
powerful
nation
on
earth,
but
I
wasn't
there
to
get
my
picture
taken
or
to
gape
at
the
portraits,
although
I
did
both
of
those
things
and
it
was
pretty
cool.
M
M
It's
a
powerful
thing
to
tell
your
president
that
it's
more
powerful
to
do
it.
Every
elected
leader
in
this
rotunda
today
was
sent
here
by
the
people
of
minneapolis.
To
do
three
things
grow.
Our
city
continue
to
run
it
well
and
eliminate
the
gaps
between
white
people
and
people
of
color
that
divide
us
from
each
other
and
will
hold
us
back
from
being
more
than
great.
M
We
were
sent
here
by
the
people
of
minneapolis
to
grow
our
city
to
grow
our
city
and
make
it
more
than
great
means,
above
all,
that
we
must
grow
a
population
where
five
hundred
thousand
people
nope
five
hundred
thousand
and
one
people
live
and
thrive
in
minneapolis
with
the
greatest
density
along
our
transit
corridors.
That
goal
is
ambitious
and
it
is
critical
to
our
success.
M
M
M
The
population
is
growing
at
a
faster
clip
than
the
rest
of
the
city,
and
they
are
adding
jobs
and
businesses
faster
than
the
rest
of
the
city.
Arts,
commerce
and
housing
make
these
neighborhoods
destinations
in
their
own
right
and
modern
rail.
Lrt
and
streetcars
spur
this
growth
as
they
make
their
way
through
the
streets
and
through
our
neighborhoods
in
downtown
minneapolis.
Nicolette
mall
is
the
envy
of
every
other
street
in
the
country.
M
Hennepin
avenue
is
not
only
a
destination
for
the
arts
and
culture,
but
a
great
place
in
its
own
right
in
southeast
minneapolis.
Both
students
and
long-time
residents
have
homes
in
green
walkable
neighborhoods
that
have
led
the
way
in
maximizing
the
benefits
of
urban
rail
transit
in
southwest
minneapolis.
M
We
were
sent
here
by
the
people
of
minneapolis
to
grow
our
city.
We
were
also
sent
here
to
continue
to
run
it
well
and
now,
let's
be
frank,
over
the
past
decade,
we
have
been
great
at
running
the
city.
Well,
no
one
played
a
larger
role
in
that
than
rt
ryback,
who
we
miss
here
today
and
wish
a
speedy
but
thorough
recovery.
M
We
ran
the
city
well,
not
by
luck,
though,
but
through
hard
work
and
our
willingness
to
make
really
tough
choices.
We
watched
our
bottom
line
and
we're
better
off
for
it.
We
have
delivered
structurally
balanced
budgets
in
which
the
large
majority
of
taxpayers
have
paid
less,
or
at
least
no
more
in
property
taxes.
For
three
successive
years
we
took
on
a
tough,
seemingly
no-win
challenge
to
reform
a
broken
closed
pension
system.
We
didn't
back
down
and
taxpayers
and
pensioners
are
better
off
for
that.
M
M
As
a
result
of
that
work,
the
elected
officials
in
this
hall
today
have
the
opportunity
to
govern
a
city
that
is
in
great
shape,
one
that
has
recovered
economically,
faster
and
better
than
any
other
major
city
in
america,
but
we
still
have
tough
choices.
To
make
to
be
more
than
great,
as
we
run
the
city
well,
we
must
continue
to
keep
a
firm
hand
on
the
tiller.
We
must
do
this,
even
in
the
face
of
temptation.
M
M
We
were
sent
here
by
the
people
of
minneapolis
to
continue
to
run
it
well,
but
we
were
also
sent
here
finally
to
eliminate
the
shameful
intolerable
gaps
in
outcomes
between
white
people
and
people
of
color
in
our
city
and
again,
let's
be
frank:
we've
been
good
at
some
aspects
of
doing
this
work,
but
we
haven't
been
great
and
we
need
to
be
more
than
great
and
a
crucial
component
is
acting
like
one
minneapolis,
as
we
become
one
minneapolis
too
often,
we
see
ourselves
as
great
pieces
of
a
city.
Our
lakes
and
parks
are
wonderful.
M
Our
marquee
arts
institutions
are
championed,
our
riverfront
is
a
crown
jewel,
and
all
of
that
is
true.
Those
things
make
our
city
great,
but
that
conversation
about
ourselves
as
a
set
of
pieces
rather
than
a
whole
highlights
the
divisions
in
our
city.
The
absence
of
all
parts
of
our
great
city
in
that
conversation
allows
our
gaps
to
persist,
let's
think
bigger
about
ourselves
and
our
city
minneapolis.
Let's
have
an
imagination
for
ourselves
that
includes
everyone.
Every
neighborhood
imagine
promoting
the
native
american
cultural
corridor
on
franklin
avenue.
M
Imagine
letting
the
world
know
that
east
lake
street
is
a
cosmopolitan
destination
for
food
and
shopping
and
culture.
Imagine
taking
your
out
of
town
guests
to
the
myriad
opportunities
for
recreation,
dining
and
community
along
38th
street.
Imagine
west
broadway
in
its
renaissance
every
store
front
thriving
easily
accessed
by
a
modern
streetcar,
connecting
it
to
the
rest
of
the
city
and
the
region
with
housing
for
long-term
and
new
residents
both
and
please
right
now.
Let's
take
a
moment
to
think
about
cedar
riverside
pause
to
remember
with
sorrow.
M
M
M
What
does
this
have
to
do
with
eliminating
the
disparities
and
outcomes?
We
face
everything
everything
there
are
and
will
be
many
detailed
policy
prescriptions
to
come
about
ending
these
gaps
about
housing
and
transportation,
employment
and
health
kids
before
they're
born
and
kids,
while
they're
in
school.
We
must
align
all
of
our
goals
at
the
city
to
ending
our
gaps
between
white
people
and
people
of
color
and
our
work,
and
our
policy
must
reflect
that.
M
But,
along
with
that
policy,
we
must
also
invite
ourselves
to
think
bigger
about
who
we
are
and
what's
at
stake
for
ourselves,
as
well
as
all
of
our
neighbors.
When
we
get
this
right,
yes,
being
more
than
great
at
ending.
These
disparities
is
the
smart
thing
to
do,
because
when
we
do
it,
there
will
be
no
limit
to
our
growth
or
to
our
greatness
as
one
minneapolis,
but
it
is
also
the
right
thing
to
do,
not
because
it's
about
charity
or
obligation
when
we
lose
connection
to
our
neighbors
when
we
lose
each
other.
M
This
way
we
ourselves
are
diminished.
We
lose
something
fundamental
in
our
lives
that
we
don't
fully
know
is
missing
until
we
try
and
recapture
it.
No,
it
is
not
about
charity
or
obligations,
it
is
about
people
coming
together
and
caring
for
one
another.
It
is
about
people
coming
together
and
valuing
one
another.
When
we
do
that,
collectively
we
become
a
true
community
and
somehow,
at
the
same
time,
we
restore
ourselves
fully
as
individuals.
M
This
past
november,
we
as
a
people
elected
new
and
returning
leaders
who
carried
the
message
of
one
minneapolis
we
are
now
transitioning
together
into
governing
government,
and
specifically
local
government,
is
one
of
the
key
places
where
we
as
a
community
as
come
together
and
decide
who
we
are
as
a
people
government
is
one
reflection
of
whom
collectively
we
have
decided
to
be
government
is
where
we
answer
questions
like.
Will
we
be
a
nation
where
anyone
really
can
become
president?
M
Will
we
be
a
state
where
everyone
is
allowed
to
marry
the
person
that
they
love,
and
will
we
be
a
city
where
every
kid
walks
a
path
that
can
lead
to
success
and
local
government?
Specifically,
the
government
of
the
city
of
minneapolis
is
where
we
have
the
power
and
the
duty
to
heed
the
call
to
become
more
than
just
a
great
city
when
we
heed
that
call
when
we
head
together
towards
something
bigger
than
ourselves
and
by
so
doing
find
one
another.
That
moment.
M
M
So,
yes,
the
leaders
on
this
stage
are
charged
with
fulfilling
promises.
We
made
to
the
people
of
minneapolis
this
last
year
to
grow
our
city,
to
run
it
well
and
to
end
our
gaps,
but
more
than
that,
we
are
charged
with
heeding
the
call
with
making
manifest
the
promise
of
this
city
and
our
people.
This
is
a
call
to
more
than
simply
service.
This
is
a
call
to
become
servants
to
a
people
who
entrust
us
with
decisions
about
our
collective
future.
N
N
We
are
embarking
on
a
new
day
with
seven
new
colleagues,
and
that
has
really
been
quite
a
story
since
the
election
happened,
as
I
think
over
our
city's
recent
history.
It
actually
is
not
without
precedent.
When
mayor
ryback
was
elected,
we
had
a
new
mayor
and
seven
new
council
members
and
also
in
the
1970s.
There
was
a
big
transition
with
a
new
mayor
and
six
new
council
members,
all
of
whom
were
very
young
actually
at
the
time.
N
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N
N
I
also
want
to
thank
right
now,
our
city
clerk,
who
is
the
person
who
swore
us
in
for
all
the
hard
work
on
preparing
this
program
today
and
these
employees
that
have
helped
so
hard
during
this
transition
and
inauguration
the
clerk's
office,
our
wonderful
municipal
building
commission,
which
takes
such
good
care
of
this
building,
our
communications
department,
police
and
fire
and
all
the
other
city
departments
that
had
a
part
in
preparing
us
for
this
great
day.
Thank
you
very
much.
O
You've
been
our
shelter
in
the
stormy
blast,
you
are
our
eternal
home
and
even
as
we've
come
now
to
this
inauguration
moment,
even
as
we
heard
the
oath
taken,
we
hear
soul
help
me,
god
we're
mindful
that
government
is
instituted
among
men
by
you.
We
are
aware
that
you
are
the
author
and
the
finisher,
the
developer
of
purpose
and
the
setter
of
outcomes,
and
so
now,
lord,
as
we
have
this
extraordinary
new
mayor
as
we
have
these
council
people
taking
office,
we
ask
that
you
will
set
into
their
minds
and
into
their
hearts
your
purposes.
O
We
do
want
to
be
a
great
people
living
in
a
great
city.
We
do
want
to
be
mindful
of
those
who
have
the
greater
need.
We
do
want
to
be
mindful
that
you
have
knit
us
together,
because
that
is
your
purpose
and
plan
that
we
be
one
people
in
one
great
city
and
one
great
nation
in
one
extraordinary
world.
So
thank
you
for
this
moment.
O
B
Thank
you
reverend,
thanks
to
all
of
you
for
joining
in
this
wonderful
joyous,
civic
celebration.
That
concludes
the
ceremony.
There's
going
to
be
a
receiving
line,
they
know
better
where
than
I
do,
but
there
will
be
a
receiving
line
with
the
council
members
and
the
mayor,
so
you
can
greet
them
and
we
have
like,
I
said
about
45
minutes,
and
then
they
get
to
work
up
in
the
council
chambers
shortly
after
that.
So
thank
you
very
much
have
a
good
day.
Stay
warm.