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Sayles Belton is involved in race equality, community and neighborhood development, public policy, women's, family and children's issues, police-community relations and youth development. In 1978 she co-founded the
Harriet Tubman Shelter for Battered Women in Minneapolis. She is a co-founder of the
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The city also addressed archaic utilities billing, outdated water treatment and neighborhood flooding. By the end of the decade, Minneapolis had increased property values, the city had its first increase in population since the 1940s, and there was reversal of a "50-year economic slide." Fraser
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In 1993, she announced her candidacy for mayor. With the help of three phone banks and a staff of ten, she was elected on a platform that included reform of the police department, the first
African American and the first woman mayor in the city's 140-year history. She defeated DFL former
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credits Sayles Belton with stabilizing neighborhoods amid racial tensions, supporting the school system, and being an able and savvy city manager. Critics opposed the use of city subsidies for downtown development, said to total $ 90 million combined for the Target store and Block E.
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Sayles Belton worked in community affairs and community involvement for the GMAC Residential
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