Sustainability and Resiliency Action Plan

Collaborators 

Lead Organization: City of Rochester, MN

Contact: Kevin Bright ; Email: kevinbright@dmceda.org ; Phone: TBD

Known/Likely Collaborators: 100% Renewable Rochester ; City of Rochester, MN ; Coalition for Rochester Area Housing ; Community Development (City of Rochester) ; County of Olmsted, MN ; DMC EDA ; In the City for Good Sustainability Subgroup ; Mayo Clinic ; Rochester Public Utilties ; Sierra Club, North Star Chapter ; University of Minnesota Rochester

Potential Collaborators: Community Mobilization Resource Coalition (CMRC) ; Rochester Area Family Y

Related Projects

America's City for Health ; Building Benchmarking ; Coalition for Rochester Area Housing ; Destination Medical Center (DMC) ; Discovery Walk Co-designing ; Equity in the Built Environment (Bloomberg) ; Journey of Peace

Impacts 

Major Impact:  Sustainability

PlanScape Impacts :

Level 1: Clean Air & water, Diversity and Inclusion, Governance/Public Policy, Health, Sustainability

Level 2: Best Practice, Sustainability

DMC Impacts:

Livable City, Health & Wellness

Community Health Impacts:

Type of Project

Planning  

LINKS:: 2021-05-11  2019-12-17  2015-07-31

2021-05-11

2019-12-17

Rochester Mayor @knorton29 invites #RochMN residents to join her in making a commitment to improving sustainability in our community by signing a Sustainability Pledge. A launch event will be held on December 16 at 5 p.m. in the rotunda outside of Council Chambers at City Hall. pic.twitter.com/HVML6XikOC

— DMCMN (@DMCMN) December 15, 2019

2015-07-31

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

The Climate Mayors Electric Vehicle Purchasing Collaborative (“the Collaborative”) agreement. 

May 2019 Presentation to DMCC Board.

Kevin Bright named DMC Sustainability Director

With support from the McKnight Foundation, Rochester will soon have an employee dedicated to sustainability initiatives.

Presentation

The city of Rochester has the potential to become a leader in energy efficiency and sustainability, according to two reports delivered at a Tuesday night Rochester Energy Commission special meeting.

Mike Bull gave the DMCC Board an update on energy study in October DMCC bord meeting.

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

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);

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

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 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.

3Q2024: July 2024 Admin Message and Reports

Newsletter Highlights:

Systems Change Designation; Data Updates; Network Updates; Contributors

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. 

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.”

2Q 2024: June 2024; May 2024 - Admin Message, TBE Report; April 2024 - Admin Message, TBE Report

1Q 2024: Feb 2024 - Admin Message, TBE Report; Jan 2024: Admin Message, TBE Report

Special callouts: Women in Construction; City of Rochester Equity in Development 

June 24, 2024 City Council Study Session: Justice Equity Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Audit per Goodenough 

Departmental Audit reports of: Human Resources; Rochester Public Library; Parks & Rec 

SASSA to receive $1M from MN to train workers for high-demand employment. 

The funding is awarded under the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) Targeted Populations Workforce Competitive Grant Program.