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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Carolyn
Marinan, Communications, 612-348-5969
County board actions
Votes expanded a community policing partnership to the City of Crystal, approved the county's federal legislative platform, appointed members to citizen advisory boards and approved participation in a system that will save thousands on affordable housing costs.
 Funding will expand community policing to Crystal
The board approved $120,000 of funding to extend a
partnership to the City of Crystal that builds ties between law enforcement and
local cultural communities.
Crystal will join six Hennepin County cities already
belonging to the Joint Community Police Partnership. Each partnering city
employs a community liaison, recruits and trains cadets and community service
officers, provides cultural awareness training for officers, hosts community
meetings and meets with diverse groups of community leaders to discuss
community policing.
Read more about expanding the partnership to Crystal.
The board approved the 2017 federal legislative platform asking
Minnesota members of Congress to support the county’s safety-net health
services, health and human services, transportation, criminal justice and
housing and economic development requests.
Read the summary of Hennepin County's
federal legislative platform.
The board appointed the following residents to citizen advisory
boards.
County Extension
Committee Board
Human Resources
Board
Library Board
- Katherine Blauvelt
- Christopher Damsgard
- Timothy Dolan
Three Rivers Park
District Board
Workforce Innovation
and Opportunity Act Board
- Gwen Janes
- Pete Parris
- Vonnie Phillips
- Khadija Zeig
- Jeffry Wosje
- James Dow
- Jessica Bachaus
- Oksana O'Neill
- Christy Kierstead
Nine Mile Creek
Watershed District Board
Learn
about Hennepin County's citizen advisory boards.
The board approved county participation in MinnDocs, a
system that will save money and staff time by consolidating legal documents for
affordable housing projects.
By offering one set of loan documents to developers
receiving loans from multiple public funding sources, MinnDocs could reduce
affordable housing legal costs by approximately $10,000 per lender, per
project. Hennepin County will work with local housing finance agencies to
develop this system.
Read
more about MinnDocs.
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the Hennepin County website at www.hennepin.us/news.
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