Gary Schiff




								Hennepin County Commissioners Commissioner Peter McLaughlin Commissioner Gail Dorfman Mayor of Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak Minneapolis City Council Members Council Member Robert Lilligren Council Member Ralph Remington Council Member Elizabeth Glidden Council Member Gary Schiff Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board Commissioner Tracy Nordstrom Metropolitan Council Tom Weaver, Regional Administrator Allina Hospitals and Clinics David Orbuch, EVP, Corporate Responsibility and Community Relations Target Corp. Nate Garvis , Vice President Government Affairs Payne-Lake Community Partners Repa Mekha , Executive Director Midtown Greenway Coalition Christina Melloh Wells Fargo Bank Kelly J. Gosz, President and District Manager, Twin Cities Banking Xcel Energy Dan Pfeiffer, Manager, Community and Local Government Relations Lake Street Council Aaron Day, Chair Wellington Management Steve Wellington, President Metrolpolitan Transportation Services Arlene McCarthy MCW Chair Nate Garvis Past Chair Jim Campbell, Chairman and CEO, Wells Fargo (retired) Counsel Louis Smith, Smith Partners, P.L.L.P. .

			Background GARY SCHIFF was elected in 2001 to a four-year term as the City Council Member representing the 9th Ward of Minneapolis. Gary serves as the Chair of the Zoning & Planning Committee, and is a member of the Transportation and Public Works Committee. Prior to his election, Schiff served a three-year term on the Minneapolis Zoning Board of Adjustment, and was the board's Vice President. He is a board member of his local small business association, the Lake Street Council. Schiff is an appointee to the Twin Cities Family Housing Fund, where he helps preserve and expand quality affordable housing for families with low and moderate incomes in the seven-county metropolitan area of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. Previously, Schiff worked on the development team of the Central Community Housing Trust, one of the region's biggest developers of quality affordable housing. Gary initiated two charter amendments in 1997: the first limited public funding for new stadiums, the second applied civil rights laws to the Minneapolis Police Department for the first time. Both passed overwhelmingly. In 1998, Gary's passion for historic preservation led to the creation of Save Our Shubert, a lobbying effort that saved the city's oldest theater from demolition. Gary has been the treasurer of the Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Association, and a political consultant for Human Rights Campaign. He has been a member of AFSCME, the Midtown Greenway Association and the Citizen's League. He earned his B.A. in Women's Studies from the University of Minnesota and studied Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs with an emphasis on land use and economic development. Gary is an avid cyclist and lives in Minneapolis' Corcoran neighborhood with his partner James Berg.