Tim Meyer's Priorities

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Tim Meyer believes all Duluthians have the right to clean drinking water. In Duluth, the biggest pollutant of our drinking water is the lead service lines that deliver water from water mains to your house. Currently, 1/3 of Duluth homes are fed by this toxic infrastructure. Tim Meyer's top priority will be replacing lead service lines in quick order with historic funding bonding bill funds. 

Another major environmental concern in Duluth is the worrisome state of our precious trout streams. Amity Creek, Tisher Creek, and Miller Creek are important parts of our city's beauty and ecology. Unfortunately, decades of heavy rock-salt use on our city streets are destroying the trout populations and other important flora and fauna that make Duluth beautiful. The solution to this ticking time bomb is simple: modern snow removal equipment and, most importantly, brine spraying equipment. Rock salt applicators are outdated and inefficient, whereas spraying brine to remove ice from the roads is reliable and significantly more efficient. This means significantly fewer chlorides in our trout streams. 

Working-class families are struggling with inflation right now. Tim Meyer will advocate staunchly for the abolition of the lowest state income tax brackets to ease their financial burden. This will free up lots of cash for struggling families and help balance the effects of inflation combined with the stagnant wage growth our economy has seen. 

As an architect, Tim Meyer has a keen understanding of the forces stifling the construction of new and affordable housing in Duluth. One of the novel approaches he will take is to support small-time housing developers, the mom-and-pop shops that own less than  10 or 20 units but know and cherish every inch of the homes they manage. The DFL and GOP are only willing to legislate tax breaks for mega-developers, oftentimes from out of state, and usually, their level of respect for their tenants is wanting. Tim Meyer will empower local developers who are tackling small projects with the dream of creating just one or two units of affordable housing. While mega-developments might look good in the newspaper, they are not what create character-filled communities like we once built in Duluth. 

As a father of a young child, Tim understands the huge need for more Childcare options in Duluth. Skilled, intelligent workers are refusing job offers here in lieu of other opportunities in cities without the same childcare shortage as Duluth. If we want to see our economy grow and flourish, this is an issue we must combat with more resources and attention.   

Duluth's infrastructure is in a critical state. Left severely underfunded for the better part of three decades until recently, there is much-deferred maintenance that now can only be remedied with the complete reconstruction of many of our roads, bridges, water mains, storm sewers, and more. The city of Duluth simply does not possess the funds to tackle this widespread blight. There is no doubt that the only way to catch up is to ask the state for funding to repair our streets and other infrastructure.