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By Griff Wigley, on January 30, 2010, 10:52 am
 I attended the first hour and the last hour of Monday’s Northfield City Council goal setting session held at the Northfield Hospital Board room from 5-10 pm. The husband/wife team of Richard Fursman and Irina Fursman, Global Synergy Group (GSG), were the meeting facilitators.
For reference, see the 2009 Council Vision and Goals and 2009 Council Goals and Initiatives.
See the photo album of the meeting (mostly photos of Council-generated content posted on the walls), the large slideshow, or this small slideshow:
Continue reading What were the results of the City Council’s 2010 goal setting session?
By Griff Wigley, on January 26, 2010, 11:15 am
 The three of us reviewed the issues and themes emerging from our recent shows featuring three members of the Northfield City Council. And we tried to dissect the process deployed for the hotel market study that recently came to light.
Click play to listen. 30 minutes:
You can also download the MP3 or subscribe to the podcast feed, or subscribe directly with iTunes. Our radio show/podcast, Locally Grown, usually airs Mondays at 6:00 PM and Sundays at 10 AM on KYMN 1080 AM.
By Griff Wigley, on January 26, 2010, 11:02 am
  Does the City Council want citizen feedback on how it performed on its 2009 goals? It’s not clear, as there hasn’t been any effort that I know of to get feedback prior to tonight’s goal-setting session from 5-9 pm at the Northfield Hospital Board Room.
See these PDFs: 2009 Council Vision and Goals and 2009 Council Goals and Initiatives. Also, see the Jan. 5 Northfield News guest column, Mary Rossing: How do we measure the city’s success?
By Griff Wigley, on January 12, 2010, 6:43 am
 Our guest this week was Northfield Second Ward City Councilor Betsey Buckheit. We discussed her reflections of her first year on the Council, which she wrote about on her blog last month in a post titled What I’ve learned so far.
Click play to listen. 30 minutes:
Continue reading Podcast: Northfield Second Ward City Councilor Betsey Buckheit
By Tracy Davis, on January 10, 2010, 10:25 am
To avoid frequent government closures on Federal holidays, many of which fall on Mondays, the City Council has changed their regular meeting dates to the 1st and 3rd TUESDAY of each month.
In the interests of streamlining processes between the Planning Commission and the Council, PCZBA meetings will now be held on the 2nd and 4th 1st and 3rd THURSDAY of each month.
These changes had a domino effect on a couple of other meeting dates/times, so be sure to check the City calendar for a current, updated list of meetings. You can also subscribe to the City’s Meeting RSS feed.
By Griff Wigley, on October 21, 2009, 2:22 pm
 The Northfield Area of Commerce sponsored a forum this morning at the Community Resource Bank‘s Community Room. Purpose: "… for local employers, property owners, and our city government leaders to hear from each." See the agenda screenshot on the right.
I captured the audio and took two dozen photos. (continued)
Continue reading Photo album, audio: City of Northfield takes some heat from Chamber audience of local employers and property owners
By Griff Wigley, on October 6, 2009, 8:29 am
Our show took a ‘bye’ last week, using the Twins’ schedule and Tracy’s vacation as an excuse. We were back at it this week, though, meandering (intelligently, of course) from topic to topic (Victor! MTT! CIP! Open meeting laws!) without a guest to anchor us.
Click play to listen. 30 minutes.
Continue reading Podcast: the Triumvirate, back in the saddle, meandering
By Griff Wigley, on September 17, 2009, 12:05 pm
  Last spring, the Northfield City Council adopted a vision statement and four goals for 2009. (See pages 47-56 of the April 6 meeting packet.) Two documents (PDFs) are now available on the Council’s web page: 1) a one-page vision and goals statement; 2) an eight-page outline of the goals and related initiatives. This new Council has been in office for 9 months; it’s been 5 months since the goals were adopted. How are they doing? (continued)
Continue reading City Council goals for 2009: how are they doing?
By Griff Wigley, on September 13, 2009, 8:01 am
 On the Agenda for Monday’s Council meeting (pages 18-20 of the packet) is Approve RFP for Prosecuting City Attorney Services. Evidently, the process for selecting civil legal services is proceeding with the four finalists but they’re starting over for criminal prosecutorial services. It’s not really clear why, other than the oblique statement: (continued)
Continue reading What’s up with the City Attorney selection process?
By Griff Wigley, on September 2, 2009, 1:49 pm
 
Yes, it’s old news but Monday’s Northfield City Council work session was the first time I actually brought devices to the Council chambers and used the open wi-fi connection. Nice. Thank you Melissa Reeder!
By Griff Wigley, on June 9, 2009, 9:50 pm
With our new schedule (recording and air-time on Mondays) we can’t quite get organized in time to line up guests so once again, it was just us yammering, mainly about the Council’s skatepark decision and subsequent plan to proceed without the PRAB’s input.
Click play to listen. 30 minutes.
Continue reading Podcast: The Triumvirate on the skatepark decision aftermath
By Griff Wigley, on June 8, 2009, 12:33 pm
By Griff Wigley, on April 23, 2009, 6:10 am
 Our guest this week apparently was Ward 2 Councilor and blogger Betsey Buckheit, discussing the state of the Northfield City Council now that she’s served for 100+ days.
I say ‘apparently’ because I wasn’t there and my lame colleagues neglected to take a photo. Here’s a recycled one from Betsey’s appearance on the show back in November.
Click play to listen. 30 minutes. You can also download the MP3 or subscribe to the podcast feed, or subscribe directly with iTunes.
Continue reading Podcast: Councilor Betsey Buckheit on her first 100 days
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I attended the first hour and the last hour of Monday’s Northfield City Council goal setting session held at the Northfield Hospital Board room from 5-10 pm. The husband/wife team of Richard Fursman and Irina Fursman, Global Synergy Group (GSG), were the meeting facilitators.
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