There’s a new Construction Bulletin newsletter out this week that contains a Northfield listing on a “Governmental Office(s) Study For Possible Additions & Renovations To City Hall” with Hay Dobbs Architecture listed as the contact. Last year, city hall renovation was a hot and divisive issue (that links to our blog posts tagged with that [...]
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I’ve noticed that our City Officials and Staff have recently suggested breaking the proposed $1.2 million for City Hall renovations into phases. Apparently the first phase will be a few hundred thousand dollars for window replacement. A recent piece on MinnPost makes me wonder…maybe we can get Obama to pay for the windows at City [...] It was just us co-hosts yesterday, doing the fluff treatment of the new owner of KYMN 1080 AM, Jeff Johnson, and then spinning conspiracy theories about the city hall renovation petition fiasco. Tender ears warning: the audio is PG-13 rated because of Tracy’s bullshit. Scheduling warning: the program will air on KYMN next Wed, Sept. 24, 5:30 [...] The editorial in today’s Nfld News is titled: Bonding proposal should go to voters (links below are mine): Several downtown establishments have joined together to present a petition to put the bonding question before voters. Petitions are available at Froggy Bottoms, Rueb ‘N Stein, Tiny’s and the Contented Cow. As long as the vote can be [...] Newly appointed interim At-Large Councilor Dixon Bond (no relation to James) was our guest this week. Main topic: the plans to renovate City Hall. See Ross’ blog post City Hall Renovation Tops a Million Dollars to continue the discussion on that issue. We also chatted about the liquor store relocation. Click play to listen. 30 minutes. [...] Late last week I heard that with the latest “add”, the cost of renovating the City Hall is now over a million dollars. Already at $800,000, there’s now a quarter million dollar addition from Johnson Controls. This has been one of the strangest on-going stories, at least to me, in a year full of strange stories. When [...] Kathleen ‘Mac’ McBride, the City of Northfield’s EOF (Empress of Finance) was our guest this week. (She’s also known as the city’s Finance Director). We mainly talked about the city’s Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) that’s currently in draft form, awaiting further input from citizens. Mac sent us her CIP PowerPoint presentation from the 6/2 public hearing and [...] |
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