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Jean Kidd (Golden Valley City Council Member, Minnesota, candidate 2025)
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Jean Kidd ran for election to the Golden Valley City Council Member in Minnesota. She was on the ballot in the general election on November 4, 2025.[source]
Kidd completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
[1]Biography
Jean Kidd provided the following biographical information via Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey on October 6, 2025:
- High school: Edina HS
- Associate: North Hennepin Community College, 1992
- Gender: Female
- Profession: Technology Consultant
- Incumbent officeholder: No
- Campaign slogan: Golden Valley Reimagined
- Campaign website
- Campaign Facebook
- Campaign YouTube video
Elections
General election
General election for Golden Valley City Council Member (2 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Golden Valley City Council Member on November 4, 2025.
Candidate | ||
Aaron Black (Nonpartisan)  | ||
| Joanie Clausen (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Steve Dent (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Tracey Fussy (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Andy Johnson (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Jean Kidd (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Chris Queitzsch (Nonpartisan) | ||
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| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
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Election results
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Kidd in this election.
Campaign themes
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Jean Kidd completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Kidd's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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My former career as a firefighter brings a perspective and experience focusing on planning, measurable objectives and goals, and review. A recent water supply emergency highlighted the need to improve emergency action plans and communication to our citizens, commercial partners, and neighboring cities.
Soon the city will engage in unprecedented large scale capital improvement projects. These will demand effective planning and oversight. The cost of not setting up these projects thoughtfully will result in overages that could be extreme on projects of this scale. Our city needs to install metrics to ensure projects are set up properly from start to completion. This ensures the community has the tools to stay informed.
We need community voices as the driving force on city decisions. Decisions and initiatives must represent our community. This election is critical to restoring the voice of our citizens to the top of the decision tree. Without filtering city decisions thru the lens of our community, we will lose our control and identity of our community.
I enjoy working in a collaborative environment and public service provides, in addition to being unpredictable, challenging, and rewarding work. I look forward to the serving you as a member of your city council.- Public safety is our priority. The city must ensure the police department receives the necessary focus and thoughtful evaluation in choosing the leadership of the department. Clear expectations, resources, and support, and clearly expressing the values of the community will help to ensure out next police chief's success. The police chief is not just an employee. The chief represents the community values, their officers, and the law. Recruiting the best person for this position requires the city to clearly set up expectations, the relationship needed between management, council, and the citizens. It is a relationship like no other between an agency and the community it serves.
- Emergency preparedness showed itself as a community need in the recent loss of water in the city. Readiness evaluation, implementation, and training are critical in serving the community. The work of emergency preparedness is time consuming and requires training to ensure all members included in the plan, know their designated roles and responsibilities long before an emergency happens. The members of the community need to know their roles in an emergency as well. Community needs to know how emergency communications will be handled and what actions they may need to consider, as individuals or families, before an emergency occurs. Familiarity with our emergency alerting systems and effective communication ensures the best outcome.
- Transparency and accountability are terms we are hearing often in this election. As a community it is difficult to really follow along with the actions taken by the city. We need to revamp our website, establish metrics corresponding to project reports and budget, clearly identify projects with specificity in planning, building, and completion status, bid review, line item accounting of expenditures in the budget, and reports that capture projects from inception to completion with meaningful data and updates. It is difficult finding information on how projects are progressing and if they are meeting project objectives, deadlines, and budget considerations. Citizens deserve a clear accounting of the city budget and its liabilities.
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See also
2025 Elections
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