Anchor projects provide the backdrop of our community's major initiatives and have overarching impacts to the community:
Aging: Age-Friendly Olmsted County (AFOC) Plan Civic Engagement: 2024 The Year of Respect Co-designing: Co-design Tracker Diversity and Inclusion: Mobilizing Olmsted Voices for Equity (M.O.V.E) Diversity and Inclusion: City of Rochester: 2020 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Action Plan Economic Development: Destination Medical Center (DMC) Education: Rochester Public Schools Strategic Plan Education: Developing and Executing on Cradle to Career Plan Health Determinants: Community Health Assessment Process Housing: City of Rochester Home Ownership Creation Program Housing: Coalition for Rochester Area Housing Mobility: LINK - Bus Rapid Transit Regional Growth: Mayo Clinic Bold Forward Unbound Sustainability: Sustainability and Resiliency Action Plan Vision/Identity: America's City for Health Vision/Identity: Rochester Vision 2050 Workforce Development: Targeted Business Enterprise Utilization Workforce Development: Equity in the Built Environment (Bloomberg)
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National Sustainability Society awards Minnesota’s Climate-Smart Municipalities Program with 2024 Achievement Award
Last Updated September 18, 2024
Referendum to support: Strong Communities; Strong Schools; Strong Young People
Last Updated September 17, 2024
Reports Downloaded from C2C website
Childcare Insight Report
Breakouts
Last Updated September 15, 2024
2024 Debates
Last Updated September 13, 2024
August 27, 2024 Organization Updates
Last Updated September 09, 2024
CMRC pausing public activities and investment potential white paper availability announcement.
Last Updated August 30, 2024
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);
Last Updated August 27, 2024
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
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
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
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 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
3Q2024: July 2024 Admin Message and Reports
Last Updated August 05, 2024
Last Updated August 02, 2024
Newsletter Highlights:
Systems Change Designation; Data Updates; Network Updates; Contributors
Last Updated July 27, 2024
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
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.
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
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
$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