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Sustainability and Resiliency Action Plan

National Sustainability Society awards Minnesota’s Climate-Smart Municipalities Program with 2024 Achievement Award

Last Updated September 18, 2024

Rochester Public Schools Referendum Nov 2024
RPS Superintendent Video and Presentation Slides

Referendum to support: Strong Communities; Strong Schools; Strong Young People

Last Updated September 17, 2024

C2C Report Child Care Report

Reports Downloaded from C2C website

Childcare Insight Report

Breakouts

Last Updated September 15, 2024

League of Women Voters - Rochester Chapter

2024 Debates

Last Updated September 13, 2024

Three Rivers Restorative Justice Announcements
Two positions: Program Manager; Admin Assistant

August 27, 2024 Organization Updates

Last Updated September 09, 2024

CMRC Legacy and Future

CMRC pausing public activities and investment potential white paper availability announcement.

Last Updated August 30, 2024

SBDC Celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month

Sept. 16^th: Workshop: Finding your First Customers and sell without being salesy; Sept 21^st: Workshop: Financial Literacy; Sept. 28^th: Workshop: How to Start a Business from Scratch (Part 1); Oct. 5^th: Workshop: How to Start a Business from Scratch (Part 2);

Last Updated August 27, 2024

Tax Breaks to Landlords

PB reporting: A local program providing tax breaks to landlords in exchange for maintaining lower rents is being tweaked to encourage future development of affordable housing.

Last Updated August 16, 2024

Community Healthcare Simulation Center Co-Design Report
Jun 2021 Co-design Report

2024-08-12 PB Reporting GRAUC leads project to build prototype sim center The Southeast Minnesota Community Healthcare Simulation Center is set to open in downtown

Rochester by mid-October

Last Updated August 12, 2024

Anti-Hate Rally and Forum

Racism, Anti-Semitism and the Fight Against Hate

"Abolishing racism, hate crimes, and white supremacy isn’t a problem for one group to face alone; it’s a shared burden that requires a strong and unified response."

Last Updated August 08, 2024

Transportation: ROCOG Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP)

2024 - 2027 Transportation Plan

2023 - 2026 Transportation Plan: The Rochester-Olmsted Council of Governments (ROCOG) has released a draft of the 2023-2026 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP), for a 30-day public comment period.

Last Updated August 08, 2024

Age-Friendly Olmsted County (AFOC) Plan

August 2024 Report : Age-Friendly Olmsted County (AFOC) activities implementing the Age

Friendly Olmsted County 2022-2025 Action Plan since our annual report in February 2024.

Last Updated August 07, 2024

Second Half 2024 Targeted Business Enterprise Utilization Plan Reports

3Q2024: July 2024 Admin Message and Reports

Last Updated August 05, 2024

Rochester Vision 2050
The visioning effort calls for soliciting broad community input to help propose desired strategic initiatives based on desired outcomes through 2050.

Last Updated August 02, 2024

C2C Summer 2024 Sparklers

Newsletter Highlights:

Systems Change Designation; Data Updates; Network Updates; Contributors

Last Updated July 27, 2024

Bryk Apartments Rental Eligibility Amendment

July 17, 2024 City of Rochester: Adopting a Resolution authorizing an amendment to the Development Assistance Agreement and the Declaration of Restrictive Covenants to revise the affordability covenants related to the 80% Units.

March and May 2023 reports to DMCC including video, documents and presentations.

Last Updated July 17, 2024

City Housing Support

Home Ownership Creation Program - Prairie Ridge: "NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Common Council of the City of Rochester, MN hereby approves the contribution of $4,000,000 to the Prairie Ridge development to support the creation of 201 for-sale homes via the Home Ownership Creation Program.

Last Updated July 17, 2024

How does racism impact people’s health?

The framework defines structural racism as the “totality of ways in which societies foster racial discrimination through mutually reinforcing systems of housing, education, employment, earnings, benefits, credit, media, health care and criminal justice.”

Last Updated July 13, 2024

Norsq Cos Townhomes & Two state-supported Mayowood housing projects

PB Reporting Housing Projects

Proposed $68M 187-unit rental townhome project.

Olmsted County Trailside Apartments $13 million project 36-Unit Senior Apartments, Bear Creek Development and Three Rivers Community Action $22.7 million Restoration Glen, 48-Unit Apartment Complex,

Last Updated July 11, 2024

United Way of Olmsted County Report

$1.1 million funding for 48 participants 2024-07-10

FoodSecurity noun “limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways” (USDA).

Last Updated July 10, 2024