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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Carolyn
Marinan, Communications, 612-348-5969
County board actions
The Hennepin County Board approved funding to support families, named a new county highway engineer, accepted funding for withdrawal management services and more.
 Grant will bolster program to strengthen families
The board accepted a grant of $529,868 from the Minnesota Department of Human Services to increase staffing in the Family Group Decision Making program. Under the program, trusted friends and family members gather to support families and children, to help them resolve issues of safety, permanency and well-being. Specially trained Hennepin County social workers facilitate the meetings for families with open children’s services cases, children in long-term foster care working toward self-sufficiency or emancipation, families with open family assessment cases, and families that are seeking family support and preservation services.
Learn more about the grant and about Family Group Decision Making program.
 The board named Transportation Project Delivery Director Carla Stueve to a one-year term as Hennepin County highway engineer, effective May 22, 2018. Stueve is a professional engineer, registered under the laws of the State of Minnesota, and is a certified professional traffic operations engineer.
As the county highway engineer, Stueve is responsible for delivering the county’s road and bridge projects in the capital program, amounting to approximately $50 million annually.
She was appointed to the post previously held by Jim Grube, making her the ninth — and first female — Hennepin County highway engineer.
Learn more about the highway engineer appointment.
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The board accepted a $200,000 grant from UCare to expand medical-supervised withdrawal management services at 1800 Chicago Avenue, Minneapolis. The aim of
the project is to reduce demand on high-cost crisis care. The county expects to see benefits in serving clients through withdrawal management at the facility, rather
than in the emergency department, including reduced costs and improved outcomes.
Learn
more about the grant and the program.
The County Board will host a special meeting to discuss and hear public comment on the Green Line Extension. The board expects to vote to approve or disapprove upcoming Southwest Light Rail Transit funding actions. The meeting will be held on Thursday, May 31, at 1:30 p.m., in the County Board room, A-24, 300 South 6th Street, Minneapolis.
The board voted to accept a $300,000 grant from the Minnesota Department of Human Services, and to allocate $150,000 to support the the Co-Parent Program, based at NorthPoint Health & Wellness Center. Since 2010, NorthPoint Health & Wellness Center and its partners has provided supportive services to help families build parenting skills and knowledge. The Co-Parent Program’s goals are to establish paternity and support co-parenting to improve social, emotional and financial outcomes for children, families, and communities.
Learn more about the Co-Parent Program.
The
board voted to accept a federal grant of as much as $100,000 to continue
development of TPT NOW, a public health and safety broadcast channel designed
to help government officials and partners to promote community resiliency, including health, safety, emergency situational awareness and public alerts.
The channel will provide programming in English, Spanish, Hmong and Somali.
This project was funded by the Department of Homeland Security and is
administered by Hennepin County Emergency Management on behalf of emergency
management departments metro-wide.
Learn
more about TPT NOW.
The board approved as much as $500,000 in funding to construct an outdoor plaza as part of the expansion and renovation of the Capri Theater on West Broadway in Minneapolis. The county’s investment in the $9.5 million Capri Theater Renaissance project, led by the Plymouth Christian Youth Center (PCYC), is part of a larger effort to redevelop vacant properties at four high priority intersections on Penn Avenue: Lowry Avenue, West Broadway Avenue, Golden Valley Road and Glenwood Avenue. PCYC will expand the existing Capri Theater from 18,800 square feet to more than 30,000 square feet. The project will support 55 new jobs. The Capri Theater, built in 1927, is a community asset and historically significant cultural landmark. Though North Minneapolis once had 13 movie houses, the Capri is the only one that remains.
Learn
more about the Capri Theater project.
The board approved as much as $164,000 from the Economic Development
Infrastructure Fund to help offset redevelopment costs and facilitate new construction
that will allow multiple businesses in downtown Robbinsdale to relocate,
reconfigure and expand. This work will help retain 47 existing jobs with wages
of at least $14 per hour, and indirectly support 28 jobs in neighboring
businesses. The completed project is expected to more than triple the parcel’s
market value to about $1.5 million and add more than a dozen jobs.
Learn
more about the project and the Economic Development Infrastructure Fund.
Current and archival board meetings, agendas and minutes are available online. View at www.hennepin.us/boardmeetings.
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