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Greetings,
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Warm regards,
Jan Callison
August 7, 2018
Probationers will gain job skills working on library, parks construction projects
The board approved two construction contracts that provide jobs
and training for people on probation, through the county's Productive Day
program.
At least 15 participants will work with Noor Companies on
refurbishments at Hennepin County Library – Hosmer in south Minneapolis. Noor
Construction previously worked with a Productive Day crew on the new Estes
Funeral Chapel in North Minneapolis.
Three Rivers Park District will also work with a crew on various
projects through 2018, beginning with a wooden bridge project at Elm Creek Park
Reserve in Maple Grove.
Read more about the Noor Construction contract.
Read more about the Three Rivers Park District contract.
Learn more about the Productive Day program.
Funding will help people with serious mental and chemical health challenges re-enter the workforce
The board voted to accept renewed state grant funding for the
Vocational Services program, which helps people with serious mental and/or
chemical health challenges re-enter the workforce. Participants work with the
program at all stages of the employment process – from preparing for and
finding a job to maintaining and advancing in a career.
Read more about this action.
Board appoints citizen advisory board members
The board appointed the following candidates:
August 21, 2018
8 projects receive bikeway grants
The board awarded $585,275 of bicycle capital improvement grants
to expand the county's bikeway network. The following projects will receive
funding:
- City of Bloomington, $90,000 to
expand and reconstruct a multi-use trail along France Avenue
- City of Excelsior, $20,000 for
a feasibility study of bicycle and pedestrian facilities along Mill
Street
- City of Hopkins, $100,000 to
construct a multi-use trail along Excelsior Boulevard
- City of Minneapolis, $100,000
to construct intersection safety improvements and a multi-use trail along
East Hennepin Avenue
- City of Minnetonka, $100,000 to
construct a multi-use trail along Plymouth Road
- City of New Hope, $55,275 to
construct on-street bicycle facilities along Boone Avenue North and
off-street trail improvements between Medicine Lake Road and 28th
Avenue
- Three Rivers Park District,
$100,000 to design and construct a culvert at the railroad bridge at Baker
Park Road to connect to bicycle facilities
- Three Rivers Park District,
$20,000 for a feasibility study to close a regional trail gap on the West
Mississippi River Regional Trail
Read more about this action.
Read more about the bicycle capital improvement program.
County to study health outcomes of people on probation
The board accepted $72,647 from the University of Minnesota to
conduct a study on how disparities in the health care and criminal justice
system overlap. The study will include data analysis and interviews with
probation clients, probation officers and health care providers.
Learn more about this action.
In addition to our regularly scheduled board meetings, the board
often meets on Thursday mornings to receive board briefings. These are
informal opportunities to discuss emerging issues. No decisions are
made. Board briefings occur in the board room on the 24th floor of the
Hennepin County Government Center and are open to the public.
August 9, 2018
Protected bikeways and road safety
Transportation staff presented the enhanced bikeway network study to Commissioners and then discussed road safety. Staff has identified 48 miles of county roadways that are best suited for consideration of enhanced bikeways. Next steps include a combination of policy issues (city cost participation and cost share policy) and technical issues (continued studies and plans, resident and partner agency outreach, and clarifying real costs). Staff then presented on the current state of road safety which included crash statistics, investments in road safety, and our next steps of a Road to Zero deaths implementation plan and workgroup and engagement with outside partners.
August 23, 2018
Census update
Staff presented on the preparations for the 2020 Census and provided updates on the Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA) and the Complete Count Committee (CCC). The county's Center of Innovation and Excellence (CIE) has been working with the state demographer's office and other partners on coordinating census preparation efforts. For the 2020 Census, the U.S. Census Bureau plans to provide the Internet Self-Response Instrument and Census Questionnaire Assistance in 12 non-English languages. Next steps from staff include continuing to represent Hennepin County on the state demographer's CCC and organizing a CCC for Hennepin County and conduct the first meetings.
Rules presentation
The county attorney liaison for the board and administration presented proposed changes to the County Board Rules and Procedures. These rules control how the county board operates and have not been updated since 1993. Many of the proposed changes clean up current rules and procedures to make them more clear and reflect how the board currently operates, others bring rules up to current technological expectations and create greater accountability for commissioners.
September 18, 2018
Public hearing on county's report to HUD
The county will host a public hearing to gather comments on
its 2017 program year report to the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development relating to housing and community development grants.
When: Tuesday, September 18, 1:30
p.m.
Where: A-2400 Hennepin County Government
Center Board Room
300 South Sixth Street,
Minneapolis
Read more about the public hearing.
Housing and Redevelopment Authority meeting rescheduled
The September 18 Housing and Redevelopment Authority meeting is
rescheduled for September 25.
September 27, 2018
Nine Mile Creek Watershed District Board Vacancy
One vacancy for the Nine Mile Creek Watershed District Board is currently open and the board is seeking applicants. The application period is scheduled to close on September 27, 2018, with interviews scheduled to be held during the County Administration Committee meeting on October 2, 2018.
A member may not be a public officer of the county, state or federal government and must be a resident of the district. The cities of Hopkins, Bloomington, Edina, Richfield, Eden Prairie and Minnetonka have land within the District.
Members serve three-year terms.
Visit the county webpage for more information.
September 28-29, 2018
License and ID services unavailable
All eight Hennepin County service centers will be unable to process driver's licenses, instruction permits and state ID transactions on Friday, September 28 and Saturday, September 29. Service centers will remain open during this time and continue providing all other services, including vehicle titles, tabs and plates.
Hennepin County service centers will begin processing two additional driver's license options on October 1 - REAL ID and enhanced driver's license. As part of this change, the new vendor is replacing camera equipment for ID photos, which will cause the interruption in services.
Residents can call 612-348-8240 or email license.gc@hennepin.us with questions about these service interruptions.
October 2, 2018
Public hearing on proposed revisions to Ordinance 13 - Recycling
The county's 2018 Solid Waste Management Master Plan calls for revising the county's recycling ordinance to improve conventional recycling and require organics recycling for cities and businesses to meet the state goal of 75 percent recycling and the county goal of sending zero waste to landfills.
A public hearing to obtain comment on revisions to Hennepin County Ordinance 13 - Recycling will be held before the Public Works Committee of the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners.
When: Tuesday, October 2, 2018
1:30 p.m. or as soon thereafter as practicable
Where: A-2400 Hennepin County Government Center Board Room
300 South Sixth Street, Minneapolis
Ridgedale Library grand reopening celebration
Ridgedale
Library grand reopening celebration is September 24
When: Monday,
September 24, 5 p.m
Where: Ridgedale
Library, 12601 Ridgedale Drive, Minnetonka
Please join
us to celebrate our refreshed library, with a short ceremony and a
ribbon-cutting.
Learn
more about the Ridgedale renovation project.
Hennepin County Public Health 2017 annual bulletin
Hennepin County's Public Health department has made great strides to fulfill their mission: To improve the health of all county residents by addressing social and environmental factors that impact their health and offering programs and services that help them be healthy. The work completed in 2017 both internally and with community partners, has resulted in many achievements in the community health of the county. The newly released 2017 annual bulletin addresses the departments eight strategic priorities and what we are trying to accomplish with each of them.
You can read the bulletin here.
The board scheduled public hearings for adoption of the 2019
budget and levy. The meetings will proceed as follows:
County administrator presents proposed 2019 budget to board
Tuesday, September 18, 1:30 p.m.
Operations/Library
Thursday, October 4, 1 – 4:00 p.m.
Human Services
Thursday, October 18, 1 – 4:00 p.m.
Capital Budgeting Task Force and fees
If needed, public hearing for transportation sales tax
projects
Thursday, November 1, 9 a.m. – noon
Health
Thursday, November 8, 9:00 a.m. – noon
Public Safety
Tuesday, November 20, 9:00 a.m. – noon
Public Works
Tuesday, November 20, 1 – 4:00 p.m.
Truth-in-Taxation public meeting
Tuesday, November 27, 6:00 p.m.
Administrator and commissioner amendments
Thursday, November 29, 1 – 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday, December 5, 1 – 4:00 p.m.
Board vote on 2019 budget and levy
Tuesday, December 11, 1:30 p.m.
Read the related board action.
Sheet
pilings are long structural steel sections that keep soil in place. These were
installed in spring 2017 to allow crews to construct the temporary bypass lanes
for the Long Lake shoreline restoration.
County Road 112 in Long
Lake and Orono
Crews remain busy along
shoreline
Bypass lanes removed
Earlier
this month, crews began removing the temporary bypass area along the southern
half of Wayzata Boulevard between Martha Lane and Cemetery Road. This week,
crews completed the removals.
Underground utility work
nearing completion
Over the past two weeks and continuing this week, crews will wrap up underground utility work in the
shoreline area, remove the last of the temporary road features and begin
grading for the new roadway.
Once
grading is complete, crews will begin constructing the permanent roadway
features to include concrete curbs and gutters, driveway aprons and paving.
Sheet piling
removal
During
the week of August 20, crews removed the temporary sheet pilings along
the southern half of Wayzata Boulevard.
Utility work and pavement
removals to the east continue
Utility work to continue
this week; will impact access
Crews
continue underground utility work along the southern half of Wayzata Boulevard
between Glenmoor and Greenhill lanes. Underground utility work is expected to
continue this week.
During
this work, there will be intermittent closures of Glenmoor, Heather, Russell
and Greenhill lanes entrances as crews continue work in the area.
Local
residents and their visitors on these connecting streets will still have access
during these intermittent entrance closures as we will keep at least one
entrance open at all times.
To
inform residents which entrances are closed, we will place signs along Glenmoor
Lane where each of the side streets connect.
Staying safe
It is important to
follow posted speed limits and construction signs to help you navigate through
work zone, including evenings and weekends. Please allow yourself some extra
time to reach destinations in the area.
Contact
hennepin.us/countyroad112
612-543-4275
countyroad112@hennepin.us
 The Hennepin County Board of Commissioners consists of one commissioner from each of seven districts. I am proud to represent Deephaven, north Eden Prairie, Edina, Excelsior, Greenwood, Hopkins, Long Lake, Minnetonka, Minnetonka Beach, northern Mound, Orono, Shorewood, Spring Park, Tonka Bay, Wayzata and Woodland.
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Jan Callison
Commissioner
6th District
612-348-7886
Allyson Sellwood
Policy Aide
612-348-6885
Christine Hoyles
Administrative Assistant
612-348-3168
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