I haven’t even finished following up on items from last week’s meetings, but the Black Binder reappeared on my doorstep in the dead of night.
It’s a light week for city meetings next week for me
Monday, March 2: Regular City Council Meeting. Highlights include several items related to the annexation of 530 acres in the NW [...]
Archive for February, 2009
It’s back already
Posted in Council agendas on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ames Park/Skate Park update
Posted in Uncategorized on February 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »
First, here are some of the other views on what happened about Ames Park and the Skate Park during the very very very long Council worksession on Monday:
Griff Wigley reports on Locally Grown that he ran into Mayor Mary Rossing and Councilor Erica Zweifel and:
they said that the Council ended up directing staff to try [...]
The Black Binder returns
Posted in Council agendas on February 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I tripped over the Black Binder when I stepped outside to get the newspaper this morning – another one of those odd occupational hazards of the City Council member.
Coming up next week on the Northfield City calendar for me:
Monday, February 23: Council Meeting and Work Session. It’s a short agenda, but includes considering approval of [...]
Out and about
Posted in Uncategorized on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of the unexpected side effects of elected office is that I keep finding myself in print and on-line where I didn’t quite expect to see myself.
But, as you can see, I did attend the League of Women Voters event to thank elected officials on Friday the 13th. I told Marcia Walters, one of the [...]
Another week
Posted in Uncategorized on February 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
President’s Day Holiday on Monday (what will I do Monday night with no Council meeting or worksession?). All that’s on my plate are meetings of the boards for which I am the liaison: Library Board Tuesday and Historic Preservation Commission Thursday.
Friday and Saturday, Mayor Mary Rossing and I head to a League of Minnesota Cities [...]
Short winded
Posted in Uncategorized on February 14, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Continuing the story of Carleton’s wind turbine and its attempt to get Northfield to write some legislation just for them…as the Council liaison, I attended the Planning Commission meeting last Tuesday when it held the required public hearing for the new wind ordinance.
City Planner Dan Olson stated that he was no expert on wind ordinances [...]
The Key in the News
Posted in Uncategorized on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Key threw a birthday party for itself last week – it’s 15! I went to the party along with quite a few other Northfield adults (and the Key board and other Key kids, of course-Griff Wigley has more pictures and a blogpost over at Locally Grown). Right after this picture was taken I asked [...]
