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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Carolyn
Marinan, Communications, 612-348-5969
County board actions
Board votes approve program to prevent lead poisoning, add sheriff's deputies and award Youth Sports Program grants.
The board approved three contracts to help create safe and healthy homes as part of Hennepin County’s 2015 Lead Hazard Reduction Grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. These contacts with Sustainable Resources Center and the St. Paul-Ramsey County Department of Public Health will bring about at least 185 hazard reduction projects and at least 200 in-home lead education. More than half of those will take place in Hennepin County.
Read about the efforts to reduce lead poisoning in Hennepin County.
The
board voted to accept a $250,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community-Oriented Policing Services, to offset tthe cost of employing
two additional law enforcement officers over three years, in an effort to
increase community policing capacity.
For additional information, read the full
release on the Sheriff's Office website.
The board established a fee of $85 per ton
for mixed municipal solid waste delivered to the Brooklyn Park Transfer Station
and Hennepin Energy Recovery Center by waste haulers who do not have waste
delivery agreements with the county. This is an increase from $65 per ton and
was established in order to minimize the amount of unexpected waste being
delivered to county facilities. The fee covers the county’s cost of
transporting and managing excess waste in accordance with state law and
requirements of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. The county has waste
delivery agreements with most, but not all, licensed municipal solid waste
haulers for disposing of waste at county facilities. These haulers pay a
tipping fee of $55 per ton up to a maximum delivery amount established by the
county, after which the fee is $85 per ton.
Read more about the county's changes to the gate-tipping fee.
The following Hennepin County residents were selected to participate.
Minnehaha Creek Watershed District
- Brian Shekleton
- William Becker
Hennepin County Library Board
Adult Mental Health Local Citizens Advisory Boards
Provider
- Oduwa Aganmwonyi
- Carrie Franstead
Family
- Leslie Kreofsky
- Colleen Livermore
- Chakita Lewis
Consumer
- Shelley Burns
- Danae Curtis
At large
- Rick Crispino
- Angela Conley
Learn about Hennepin County's Citizen Advisory Boards.
The County Board approved five facility projects and 21
small equipment grants. They will be funded through the Hennepin County Youth
Sports Program, excess sales tax proceeds earmarked to expand library hours and
promote youth sports activities. The Minnesota Amateur Sports Commission
administers the grant process and makes funding recommendations.
Since the program began in 2009, the county has awarded
$17.4 million to 108 facility projects and 179 small equipment projects.
2016 facility projects
City of Dayton
$25,000 for playground
improvements at Riverbend Park
City of Long
Lake
$25,000 for playground
improvements at Nelson Park
City of Robbinsdale
$25,000 for playground
improvements at Triangle Park
Village of
Minnetonka Beach
$25,000 for playground
improvements at Halfmoon Park and City Hall Park
Intermediate
School District #287
$25,000 for playground
improvements at South Education Center
2016 equipment grants
City of
Richfield
$7,465 for two full size soccer goals and four youth soccer goals at Christian Park and Richfield
STEM School
City of
Robbinsdale
$2,450 for a
pitching machine, three hitting tees, four bownets and a line marker at Lee, Spanjers and Manor parks
City of
Saint Bonifacius
$9,995 for a backstop, dugout, outfield fencing, infield
materials, batting cage, shed and accessories at Towns Edge Park
Elk River
Area School District #728
$8,368 for gaga ball pits at Hassan Elementary School
Minneapolis
Public Schools
- $2,798 for
glass backboards at Anwatin Middle School
- $5,290 for a
wrestling mat at Edison High School
- $1,870 for three volleyball nets, football down markers, two drinking stations and an equipment
wagon at North High School
- $7,699 for a discus cage at Patrick Henry High School
- $3,909 for eight portable soccer goals, eight nets and a storage
container at Washburn High School
- $2,500 for 40
hurdles at Washburn High School
- $3,399 for two full size soccer goals at Southwest High
School
- $3,118 for two glass backboards at Roosevelt High School
- $1,500 for a
soccer passing machine at South High School
- $8,500 for a
wrestling mat at North Commons Recreation Center
- $10,000 for gym
floor refinishing at Martin Luther King Park
- $6,700 for bleachers
at Luxton Park
- $4,000 for four youth soccer goals at Hiawatha School Park
Minneapolis
Park and Recreation Board
$10,000 for bleachers
at Bossen Field
Richfield
Public Schools
$10,000 for six youth soccer goals at Richfield Middle School
Robbinsdale
Public Schools #281
$7,500 for a
utility vehicle and groomer at Armstrong High School
Three Rivers
Park District
$5,464 for 20 sets of youth skis at Elm Creek Regional
Park
Learn about the Youth Sports Program.
County Board Chair Jan Callison will deliver the 2016 State of the County address on Tuesday, April 19, at 9 a.m. The event will be held at the Hopkins Center for the Arts, 1111 Mainstreet, Hopkins.
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the Hennepin County website at www.hennepin.us/news.
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