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Published January 9, 2009 by Bonnie Obremski

City could stream video by 2010

Melissa Reeder, Northfield’s Information Technology Department manager, has set a goal to begin uploading streaming videos of the City Council meetings to the Internet in 2010, so long as there is money in the budget for the $8,000-$10,000 upgrade.

With streaming videos, image files flow to a video player on a Web site in a continuous stream and play when they arrive. Before streaming technology, a Web user would have to download an entire file before watching a video, which could take a long time. Reeder referenced Burnsville’s Web site as an example of a nearby community that uses streaming video.

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Published January 8, 2009 by Griff Wigley

Podcast: Mayor Mary Rossing

Our guest this week, fittingly so for the first show of the year, was Mary Rossing, the new mayor of Northfield as of Monday evening.

She’s been on the job for dozens of hours but unfortunately, as you’ll hear, has very few accomplishments she can point to. Recall, anyone?

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Mary Rossing

Published January 6, 2009 by Bonnie Obremski

New Northfield Mayor Mary Rossing talks about her first day

I surprised Mayor Mary Rossing in her store Present Perfect this morning with my video camera. I mostly asked her questions that had to do with Monday night’s City Council meeting, which you can read a bit about here. We touched upon her changes in meeting procedure, her tactics on facilitating meetings and her outlook on information exchange in Northfield and on the financial health of the city’s businesses.

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Published January 6, 2009 by Griff Wigley

Photo album: the 2009 Northfield City Council takes over

Mayor Mary Rossing put on a happy face from outgoing Mayor Lee Lansing at the start of last night’s Northfield City Council meeting.

See the album of 8 photos or this slideshow:

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Published January 6, 2009 by Griff Wigley

Photo album: Way Park public hearing

Citizens packed last night’s Northfield City Council meeting last night for the Way Park public hearing. A dozen addressed the Council at open mic.

I’ve closed comments here. Continue the discussion in this message thread attached to a previous blog post.

See the album of 17 photos or this slideshow:

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Published January 5, 2009 by Griff Wigley

Way Park public hearing tonight on closure of 1st Street West

I got this email yesterday from a Way Park area citizen, Tom Kotula:

On Monday, Jan 5th, the city council will hear discussions about whether or not to close off first street west to connect the two halves of Way Park. Perhaps this might be a good place to start a discussion concerning that possible decision.

See the agenda item and addenda pdfs for tonight’s council meeting.

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Published January 5, 2009 by Griff Wigley

The City of Northfield ‘Friday Memos’ for Dec. 24 and Dec. 31

The Friday Memo, written by interim Northfield City Administrator Joel Walinski and many of the department directors, managers, and supervisors, summarizes many of the staff activities for the week.

Although it’s directed to the mayor and city council, it’s helpful for citizens to see what’s going, too. The Friday memos are published and archived in PDF form at the bottom of Joel Walinski’s web page.

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Published January 4, 2009 by Griff Wigley