As former Mayors of Edina, Dennis Maetzold and Fred Richards are quite pleased with how the City of Edina has grown and improved under the leadership of Mayor Jim Hovland. 

The MN-RPAC Board of Trustees endorse candidates based on a variety of factors including, a record of willingness to work with Minnesota Realtors® on issues of common interest, authoring/co-authoring legislation supported by Minnesota Realtors®, and demonstrating leadership on key housing and tax policy issues of importance to Realtors® and homeowners throughout Minnesota.

Mayor Jim Hovland is a leader of principal, integrity, and authentic, broad-based community partnership. He does not pivot his key messaging according to audience or stakeholder. He does not need to because his message and his hard work are in service of elevating and amplifying all of Edina.

Misinformation and Disinformation in political races has now reached Edina. Let’s not let what is happening nationally happen here. Truth matters in our country and it matters in Edina, too.

We often hear a lot of questions about TIF, tax increment financing. So what exactly is TIF? How has it been used in Edina? For answers to these questions, watch this informational video.

Voting before election day, called absentee or early voting, begins Friday,  Sept. 20 for the Nov. 5 General Election. A voter can place their completed ballot directly into the ballot  counter (direct balloting) 18 days before an election, which is Oct. 18. Prior to 2024, the period for direct balloting was only seven days.

To the Editor: The advantage that Jim Hovland brings to the Edina mayor’s election this November is that we know very well how he will serve our community, based on his clear record of service in that position. We know that he loves working with people to make our community better and that he does this with great dedication, integrity and stamina.

This coming election is an important one for the city of Edina. I have lived here 17 years. During that time, my daughter attended our wonderful school system, beginning with French Immersion and graduating from EHS in 2020. During that time, I have paid attention to city government and have interacted with the Mayor and every City Council.

View the key findings from the 2023 Quality of Life Survey. Edina residents enjoy an exceptional quality of life. Edina residents continue to rate the quality of life highly, with 93% of survey respondents awarding excellent or good marks in 2023. This rating was higher than national benchmark and similar to peer communities in Minnesota. About 9 in 10 respondents indicated that they would recommend living in Edina to someone asks and would remain in the City for the next 5 years. About two-thirds of residents rated the sense of community in Edina as excellent or good.

I was quite surprised to read in the Minnesota Star Tribune (“Edina residents question tax incentives for redevelopment project,” Aug. 18) that the City Council of Edina, acting in its economic development capacity as Edina’s Housing and Redevelopment Authority, as stated by the reporter, “advanced nearly $23 million worth of tax-increment financing (TIF) to help fund a $300 million project planned for the 8-acre site that’s currently home to Macy’s Furniture Gallery.” This is a misunderstanding of the action taken by the Edina HRA on Aug. 15.

On August 5, 2024, Alaina Rooker of the The Edina Sun Current wrote: "It’s official: Hovland will seek mayorship this fall". James Hovland confirmed to the Sun Current that he is seeking the office in the Nov. 5 General Election. If he wins, Hovland will begin his sixth term, having held the office since 2004. Before that he served terms as a councilmember beginning in 1997.