With the departure of Community Resource Bank from its downtown location, there’s now an empty parking lot in the heart of downtown—at least until the owner of the building, First…
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Two intersections, 5th St at Hwy 3 and 2nd St at Hwy 3, now have accessible pedestrian signals that countdown the number of seconds remaining before the lights change. But…
Über citizen Jane McWilliams was our guest this week, discussing city finances and the proposed police and fire facilities.
The “Friday Memo,” written by Northfield City Administrator Joel Walinski, department heads, and other City employees, summarizes the staff activities for the week. The Friday memos are published and archived…
I noticed last night that the Contented Cow put up signs pointing to the ‘secret’ public restrooms at the Archer House. Suffering from Hypopistoferone syndrome, I took the opportunity to…
@Ross Currier, my Locally Grown co-host, tweeted on Monday, “As citizens increasingly challenge politics as usual, is it no longer left vs. right, nor faith vs. reason, but individual vs. institution?”
Then Steve Clift @democracy retweeted this from @72prufrocks today, a report titled Listen, Participate, Transform: A social media framework for local government from the UK-based Young Foundation. It’s part of their Local 2.0 project (see the Local 2.0 Blog here), funded by the Department of Communities and Local Government.
The report’s emphasis on the importance of public officials building relationships with citizens, using social media in part, is encouraging and is the best writing I’ve seen thus far on the topic.
In Northfield, this is more than a little timely because:
- Significant budget cuts have to be made soon and the process is receiving some criticism
- Citizens are being asked to support a referendum for new police and fire facilities
- The Northfield City Council has a goal of improving communication with staff, citizen advisory groups and community
From the report’s introduction:
Archer House renovations are complete, including the ADA-compliant restroom facilities that are available to the public daily from 6:00 AM to 12:30 AM. The public use of the…
Paving and landscaping on the Riverside Trail Extension between 5th St. and Riverside Park was completed this week. Sean Simonson, City of Northfield’s Engineering Tech Coordinator, wrote in last week’s…
I’m bogged down in a work project and have not been able to review the memo to do a decent post. Here are the links – can you help out…