Britt Ackerman alerted me to this item/photo posted to the Carleton College Facebook page: Northfield Cafe and Jesse James Bar in Kathmandu “Carleton’s influence extends to Nepal. Here’s the Northfield…
Category: <span>Gov’t & Policy</span>
A downtown business owner grumbled to me this week about the condition of the grass on Bridge Square, wondering why, if the park is the crown jewel of downtown, the…
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…
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?
Our guest this week was District 2 Rice County Commissioner Galen Malecha, discussing the proposed MotokazieLand Recreation Park (PDF) in the highway commercial zone between I35 and Cty Rd 46…