St. Paul’s newest City Council member takes office Wednesday, and Molly Coleman tells Axios she knows she won’t have much time to get up to speed.
The big picture: City leaders will immediately launch a budget-writing process that could involve gut-wrenching trade-offs — all as St. Paul faces huge challenges with housing, homelessness, retail vacancies and a fragile downtown office market.
- “There’s not going to be a lot of time before you’re having to make very big decisions,” she told Axios shortly before her election on Aug. 12 for a three-year term. She represents Ward 4, which spans St. Anthony Park, the Midway, Merriam Park and parts of Macalester-Groveland.
Fun fact: She is the daughter of former Mayor Chris Coleman.
Coleman gave her take on St. Paul’s biggest issues:…