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September 18, 2024: Sustainability and Resiliency Action Plan

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

September 17, 2024: Rochester Public Schools Referendum Nov 2024

RPS Superintendent Video and Presentation Slides

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

September 15, 2024: C2C Report Child Care Report

Reports Downloaded from C2C website

Childcare Insight Report

Breakouts

September 13, 2024: League of Women Voters - Rochester Chapter

2024 Debates

September 09, 2024: Three Rivers Restorative Justice Announcements

Two positions: Program Manager; Admin Assistant

August 27, 2024 Organization Updates

August 30, 2024: CMRC Legacy and Future

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

August 27, 2024: SBDC Celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month

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

August 16, 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.

August 12, 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

August 08, 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."

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. 

August 07, 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.

August 05, 2024: Second Half 2024 Targeted Business Enterprise Utilization Plan Reports

3Q2024: July 2024 Admin Message and Reports

 

 

August 02, 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.

July 27, 2024: C2C Summer 2024 Sparklers

Newsletter Highlights:

Systems Change Designation; Data Updates; Network Updates; Contributors

July 17, 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. 

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.

 

July 13, 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.”

July 11, 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,

 

July 10, 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).

 

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