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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Carolyn
Marinan, Communications, 612-348-5969
County board actions
 Chet Cooper to assume role as assistant county administrator
 The board appointed Chet Cooper as assistant county administrator, effective September 3. This position oversees management of the county's Operations line of business and proposes direction to other county leaders.
Cooper, who most recently served as director of the Department of Community Corrections and Rehabilitation, has been with the county since 1985. He has many years of leadership experience with the Hennepin County Sherriff’s Office and the Department of Community Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Cooper succeeds Judy Regenscheid in this position, who will retire in December. Regenscheid is a long-term Hennepin County employee with roles in Human Services, Information Technology and County Administration.
She served as the county’s chief information officer and is the current chief
operating officer. She has held many leadership roles in and outside the
organization and has mentored many staff throughout her career.
Read more about this appointment.
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The board approved 11 Green Partners environmental education
grants for projects that empower residents to take actions to improve the
environment. The grant agreements are for projects with the following
organizations:
- Climate Generation: A Will
Steger Legacy, Minneapolis, Edina, Hopkins, Eden Prairie - $20,000
- Freshwater Society, northern
and western Hennepin County - $20,000
- Lao Assistance Center of
Minnesota, Minneapolis and suburbs - $19,900
- Minneapolis Area Synod of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Bloomington, Maple Grove,
Minneapolis, Plymouth - $20,000
- Minneapolis Public Schools -
$7,100
- Minnesota Interfaith Power
and Light, Brooklyn Park, Minneapolis, Minnetonka, Plymouth, Osseo - $20,000
- Move Minneapolis - $7,800
- Orono Public Schools - $4,700
- Robbinsdale Area Schools,
Robbinsdale, Crystal, New Hope, Brooklyn Center - $8,000
- Spark Youth, Minneapolis -
$18,000
- Twin Cities Public
Television, Minneapolis - $8,000
Since 2012, the
Green Partners program has awarded 122 grants totaling more than $1.1
million.
Learn more about the Green Partners
environmental education program.
Read
the board action.
The board awarded
$79,500 of Natural Resources Opportunity grants to protect water quality and
enhance natural resources. Grants were awarded to:
- City of Medina: $20,000 to
implement five stormwater best management projects that will reduce
sediment and phosphorous that reach Lake Ardmore
- Pioneer-Sarah Creek Watershed
Management Commission: $59,500 to stabilize eroding ravine in the
Baker Park Reserve draining into Lake Independence
To date, Natural
Resources grant programs have provided more $1.2 million in county cost-share
grants to landowners and local governments for 79 projects.
Read more about Hennepin County Natural Resources grants.
Read more about this
action.
The following candidates were appointed to the board:
- Dorothy Pederson of Shorewood
- Richard Ward of Eden Prairie
Read more about this action.
Read more about Hennepin County citizen advisory boards.
Current and archival board meetings, agendas and minutes are available online. View at www.hennepin.us/boardmeetings.
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