In Birmingham — a city of just over 200,000 — Woodfin said investing in minority-owned businesses, constructing affordable housing and strengthening child mental health care will be high on his priority list.
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“Our Civilian Review Board will provide authentic community voice, involvement and engagement,” the mayor said. “It is a platform for moms, pastors, community activists and professional minds to assemble to work to promote the best Birmingham has to offer from a law enforcement prospective.”
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El martes 20 de abril, el alcalde de Birmingham, Alabama, Randall Woodfin, anunció que otorgará indultos a 15.000 personas con condenas menores por marihuana en su expediente.
Más concretamente, la ciudad más grande de Alabama concederá indultos a los cargos de 15.000 personas con condenas por delitos menores de marihuana entre 1990 y 2020.
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Mayor Randall Woodfin on Tuesday announced the pardons of more than 15,000 Birmingham residents convicted of marijuana possession, declaring that “one small mistake should not define an entire lifetime.”
The pardons — which were announced April 20, an unofficial holiday celebrating cannabis — cover residents with closed marijuana possession cases in the Birmingham Municipal Court between 1990 and 2020.
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“Our Civilian Review Board will provide authentic community voice, involvement and engagement,” said Woodfin. “This is an opportunity to build bridges to cultivate trust to creating more checks and balances and for ensuring justice.
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Birmingham will receive just more than $5 million to combat homelessness from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s American Rescue Plan Act, it was announced Thursday.
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“Birmingham does not have the luxury to watch what everyone else is doing,” Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin said. “These decisions to save lives may not be popular, but it’s the right thing to do.”
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Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin was one of several mayors and elected officials who today called on the Biden Administration to remove a ban on local hire programs in federally-funded infrastructure projects.
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After officially kicking off his re-election campaign last week, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin filed year-end reports today showing $1,003,783 raised so far with $1,000,756 cash on hand for the upcoming campaign.
The donations to Woodfin are records for any Birmingham race in both the amount raised and the number of contributors. In all, Woodfin received more than 2,000 contributions.
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“This is another tool for the city to help our residents as they deal with the economic impact on their lives due to the pandemic,” Mayor Woodfin said. “I made this a priority for our team to secure these funds once they were made available by the U.S. Treasury Department. We moved swiftly to work closely with our partners in Washington, particularly U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell of Alabama’s Seventh District.”
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Mayor Randall Woodfin is among the first candidates endorsed in 2021 by The Collective PAC, a D.C political action committee that funds Black candidates for public office.
“The three candidates we are endorsing today are staunch progressive leaders who will fight to make their communities fairer, safer, and more inclusive for all people and The Collective PAC is proud to support their campaigns,” the PAC said in a statement.
Read MoreBirmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin released a report Friday on the city’s minority business spending, showing the city spent $24.2 million in fiscal year 2020 on work with minority-or-women-owned businesses.
Read MoreOn the Friday before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Washington Post global opinions editor Karen Attiah will speak with Mayor Steven L. Reed, Montgomery, Ala., and Mayor Randall Woodfin, Birmingham, Ala. Their cities were central battlegrounds in the civil rights era. Reed and Woodfin are part of a new wave of Black mayors elected in Southern Black cities in the past decade.
Read MoreLeading up to the 2020 president election, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin studied the field of eminently qualified candidates to represent the Democratic Party and knew he could only choose one to support.
Read MoreBirmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin, seeking a second term in office, raised $270,226 from more than 500 contributors last month, in the week beginning August 24, when candidates for the office could begin raising money.
Read MoreMayor Woodfin, three years in to his first term, said in a recent tweet that he was “honored and humbled” to be selected.
Read MoreA brotherhood of Black mayors, mostly from the South, talk to one another on a group chat. As COVID-19, a cratering economy, and mass demonstrations sweep the nation, they’re finding that these conversations are a lifeline.
Read More“Throughout the pandemic we’ve all had to make personal sacrifices and adjust the way we do business. Through it all our administration has remained committed to our number one priority, that is neighborhood revitalization,” Woodfin said. “Today, I want to assure you that the work to build a better Birmingham and a better community continues to move forward.”
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