The Sheldahl Anniversary Fountain on Bridge Square is back in action as of yesterday. Is it just me, or does the height of water seem less than previous years (see…
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Northfield Mayor Mary Rossing presented at an NDDC forum this morning, discussing, as noted in Ross’ NDDC blog post, “the City of Northfield’s plans for financing the Capital Improvement…
The headline says it all. 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…
I’ve been doing weekly recaps of City Administrator Joel Walinkski’s Friday memo for forever. Actually it was Griff who started it. We wanted to disseminate the information in the Friday…
I was surprised to learn this week that at the end of 2009, the City of Northfield spent $23,000 for a laserfiche/document management system (p. 13 of the disbursement PDF; company: Crabtree). I thought it was still being considered. I asked City Clerk Deb Little to point me to the council agenda, packet, and minutes where the purchase was discussed and voted on.
Surprise #2: Deb wrote:
This was approved through the budget approval process. In addition, the dollar amount falls under the cap that the City Administrator is able to approve.
No Council discussion? Not even a consent agenda item?
Kudos to the City of Northfield for now using links in the weekly Friday Memo. See yesterday’s as an example.
Sunram Construction resumed construction work this week on the trail extension between 5th St. and Riverside Park. Funding for the work is from the City’s Master Development District Fund.
The Northfield Carnegie Library turned 100 on Sunday. Schemers decided to have a little party and parade and team up with the Northfield Arts Guild which is in the middle…