Editing Floodwood, Minnesota (section)

==Government==
Floodwood has a [[mayor-council government]] and operates under the provisions of state statutes concerning city government (which is true of every Minnesota city that has no home-rule charter). The [[mayor]] is Dave Denoyer,<ref>{{Cite web | title = Government Structure | publisher = City of Floodwood | url = http://floodwood.govoffice.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={10DD713E-48AB-45C6-B8AA-0B49A0FC3ED0} | access-date = 2010-01-19 }}</ref> who presides over meetings of the [[city council]]. The position of [[City Administrator]], created in 2002 to handle the day-to-day operations of the city's administration, is held by Jess Rich.

In May 2009, when city leaders from throughout Minnesota made the trek to the [[Minnesota State Capitol|State Capitol]], Mayor Kletscher made statewide news when he said: "My toolbox is empty. We've been facing this for years. We're a very poor city and we can't afford to see tax rates go up."<ref>{{Cite news | title = MAOSC Board Member Floodwood Mayor Jeff Kletscher Makes Statewide News Fighting For Small Cities | publisher = Minnesota Association of Small Cities | url = http://www.maosc.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={4F351BE1-F53F-4271-9764-190BC81C5F33} | access-date = 2010-01-19 }}</ref> City leaders were arguing against cuts to state funding for communities in Governor [[Tim Pawlenty]]'s budget cuts.<ref>{{Cite news | last = Staff writers and news services | title = House sustains Pawlenty veto of health care program | newspaper = [[Star Tribune]] | location = Minneapolis, MN | publisher = The Star Tribune Company | date = May 17, 2009 | url = http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/45224857.html?elr=KArksD:aDyaEP:kD:aUq9_b9b_jEkP:QUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU | access-date = 2010-01-19 }}</ref> Kletscher, among others, argued that smaller communities did not have things like libraries that they could close to save funds and that the only way they could continue to function in the face of cuts in state funding would be to raise property taxes, which they did not want to do because residents of these communities are often poor, and they feared the burden would be too much for them to handle.