Mayor Jacob Frey said he plans to run for office next year.

“I’m getting ready to do it (run), but I haven’t made an official announcement yet,” Frey said in a text Monday.

Frey was elected mayor in 2017, defeating incumbent Betsy Hodges, after representing Ward 3 on the Minneapolis City Council from 2014 to 2018. His first term was rocked by the COVID-19 pandemic, the killing of George Floyd by police and the ensuing unrest that destroyed blocks of houses. and spread across the world.

While a majority of city council members called for defunding the police, Frey resisted and instead promised reforms, angering a crowd of protesters who marched to the door of his house a few days after Floyd’s murder. Minneapolis residents sided with him when they rejected a 2021 ballot measure to replace the police department with a new Department of Public Safety and re-elected Frey.

Police reforms continue to dominate his tenure, as state and federal officials are force the police to court-sanctioned surveillance due to discriminatory policing. Meanwhile, the Police Department continues to hemorrhage manpower: The department has about 578 sworn officers, down from nearly 900 in 2019, a 36% decrease.

THE Reverend DeWayne Davissenior minister of the Plymouth Congregational Church, announced his intention to run for mayor on October 17. Before his ordination in 2012, he worked as a member of Congress. He co-chaired Frey’s Community Safety Task Force in Minneapolis, which recommended public safety reforms.

Minneapolis council member Emily Koski said Monday she is “strongly considering” running for mayor. She campaigned with Frey in 2021, when she was elected to represent Ward 11 in south Minneapolis, and was considered one of his key allies on the council. But she broke ranks with Frey on her $15 million plan to replenish MPD ranks; sided with the council’s progressive majority in overriding Frey’s veto of changes to carpooling regulations; and voted against Frey’s proposal to build a new downtown Third Ward police station.

If Koski runs, she’ll follow in her father’s footsteps: Albert Hofstede was a city council member before being elected mayor of Minneapolis in the 1970s.