Mayor Jacob Frey says he plans to run for re-election next year.

“I’m getting ready to do it (run), but I haven’t made any formal announcements yet,” Frey said in a text message Monday.

Frey was elected mayor in 2017, defeating incumbent Betsy Hodges, after representing District 3 on the Minneapolis City Council from 2014 to 2018. His first term was rocked by the COVID-19 pandemic, the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police and the subsequent riots that destroyed city blocks. and spread throughout the world.

While most City Council members called for defunding the police, Frey resisted and instead promised reforms, angering a crowd of protesters who marched to his front door days after the murder of Floyd. Minneapolis residents took his side 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 forcing the police department under court-sanctioned surveillance due to discriminatory police action. Meanwhile, the police department continues to lose officers: The department has about 578 sworn officers, down from nearly 900 in 2019, a 36% decrease.

He Reverend DeWayne Davissenior minister of Plymouth Congregational Church, announced his plans to run for mayor on October 17. Before his ordination in 2012, he worked as a congressional staffer. He co-chaired Frey’s Minneapolis Community Safety Task Force that recommended public security reforms.

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

If Koski runs, he would be following in his father’s footsteps: Albert Hofstede served on the council before being elected mayor of Minneapolis in the 1970s.