At a recent Bloomington HRA meeting, a commissioner identified as Wooten (the name is difficult to make out in the meeting audio) made a public declaration required under Minnesota Statutes 471.87 and 471.88, the state's local-official conflict-of-interest law. The disclosure: she has applied for the city's rehabilitation loan program, and has in fact reapplied three separate times over three years.
Commissioner Wooten (Moot/Wooten, name garbled) made a required public declaration under Minnesota Statutes 471.87 and 471.88 disclosing that they have applied for a city rehabilitation loan program, noting they have reapplied three times over three years and received no special treatment.
She told the board she received no special treatment in the process, and city legal counsel was involved in the disclosure, according to the meeting recording.
Minnesota's conflict-of-interest statutes require local officials to publicly disclose personal or financial interests in matters before a body they sit on, rather than quietly recusing or letting it go unmentioned. The rehabilitation loan program the commissioner applied to is run by the city to help homeowners fund repairs; HRA commissioners oversee city housing programs, including that one, which is what triggered the disclosure requirement.