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Five neighborhood and business groups in and around Ward 7 collected grants from the $1 million the city awarded to 34 community organizations on April 30 to help commercial districts recover from Operation Metro Surge.

The Burnham Road bridge in Kenwood reopened after a two-day closure that began June 2, while crews continue a concrete-street rehabilitation on Sheridan Avenue South, 21st Street West and part of 24th Street West.

Ward 7's spring community-conversations series ran a renters'-rights forum at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church on March 28 and helped convene a regional school-safety panel March 5 featuring researchers from Hamline University's Violence Prevention Project.

Elizabeth Shaffer reached the Ward 7 City Council seat after serving as a Minneapolis park commissioner, a move between two separately elected governments that share the same neighborhoods.

Elizabeth Shaffer, a former Park Board commissioner, was sworn in as Ward 7 council member on Jan. 5 after unseating one-term incumbent Katie Cashman in the city's most expensive council race.

A Minneapolis council item moves from a subject-matter committee, where the public can testify, to a Thursday vote of the full council.

Four new members joined the Minneapolis City Council in January 2026, and the progressive bloc lost its veto-proof majority.

Elizabeth Shaffer won the Ward 7 council seat outright in the first round, taking 52 percent of first-choice votes.

The Ward 7 contest between Katie Cashman and Elizabeth Shaffer was the most expensive single City Council race in Minneapolis this cycle, drawing outside money into Lowry Hill and the lakes neighborhoods.

Four newcomers joined the Minneapolis City Council in January 2026, costing the progressive bloc the nine votes it needed to override Mayor Jacob Frey.

Katie Cashman lost Ward 7 to Elizabeth Shaffer by about 800 votes after a single term, even as turnout climbed in the ward's renter-heavy precincts.
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