Hennepin County Commissioner Updates
Sunday, April 3, 2011 at 12:00AM;)
April 1 e-newsletter Board updates from Jan Callison, Hennepin County Commissioner:
FY2012 Federal Funding Requests Approved:
- Hennepin County Medical Center: $500,000 for family medicine residency educational facilities and equipment;
- NorthPoint Health & Wellness Center: $18 million for North Minneapolis Community Wellness Center;
- 911 Dispatch Center: $3.5 million for technology;
- Juvenile systems integrations: $700,000 for technology to move critical data electronically between justice partners;
- Electronic data and information sharing: $900,000 for develop,ent and enhancement;
- Minneapolis Interchange: $21 million for project development;
- Southwest Transitway: $1 million for environmental studies and project development
- I-35W and Lake Street: $6 million for road and transit access from Lake Street<<Nullam felis>>
March 29, 2011:
- A policy to ban use of tobacco products on all county property was approved. All county sites must be completely tobacco-free by December 31, 2011.
- Victory Memorial Drive re-dedication is scheduled for June 11. This year is the 90th anniversary of the World War I memorial which recently underwent a $6 million restoration and renovation.
- County commissioners return pay and encourage employees to take special leave without pay to help address county budget deficits.
- Approved the use of the Hennepin Energy Recovery Center (HERC) exterior walls for an artistice light projection display highlighting processes from within the facility that convert waste to energy. The light display is part of the Northern Lights' Northern Spark Art Festival June 4-5
- The board, acting as the Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority (HCRRA), approved Kimle-Horn and Associates, Inc. to conduct the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Bottineau Corridor for transitway development.
- The board accepted a $347,548 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to continue providing intensive case management services for multi-problem, chronic shelter-using families.
-The board approved an agreement with Project for Pride in Living Enterprisses, Inc. (PPL) and The Network for Better Futures to help increase reuse/recycling efforts while providing job training and living-wage jobs for hard-to-employ individuals.
- The board re-appointed or appointed several residents to citizen advisory boards.
For video and minutes of County Board meetings: Hennepin County website.
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