Q&A With Mayor Mary Hamann-Roland
Apple Valley Patch talks with the mayor about issues on her agenda as she heads into her fourth mayoral term.
Apple Valley Patch sat down with Mayor Mary Hamann-Roland, who was re-elected in November to her fourth term, to talk about the issues the city will be working on and how residents and businesses are affected by current economic conditions. Apple Valley Patch: What is the most immediate issue you will tackle as your next term begins? Mary Hamann-Roland: I'm going to tell you my top three areas in which we're going to focus on. It's a tough economy. People are very challenged, people have lost jobs, there's downsizing, there's furloughs and other strategies that companies have employed in order to make there bottom line. So we're going to be very careful about the City of Apple Valley raising taxes. That's not going to happen. We're doing …