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NEW ULM Brown County commissioners approved a bid abstract summary for a concrete overlay project on CSAH 13 between Hanska and 220th Street, near New Ulm on Tuesday.
Action came on a motion by Commissioner Scott Windschitl, seconded by Commissioner Jeff Veerkamp.
Work is scheduled to begin on or before June 7 and take up to 60 working days to complete. Bids were opened Feb. 24. The project will be funded with federal, state aid and Local Option Sales Tax funds.
The county highway department sent paperwork to the low bidder and Minnesota Civil Rights Office and waiting for approval of the low bidder’s DBE (Disadvantaged Business Enterprise) application and State Workforce Plan.
(2/3/2021)
The Winona County Board is exploring the possibility of a sales tax to help fund the planned new jail facility.
The county has issued $10 million in bonds to get the initial capital to build the jail, with plans to bond for a total $25 million. Those bonds will have payments due, just like if an average resident was to get a loan to buy a car. Normally Winona County would pay the bonds off with an increase in property taxes paid by residents of the county. However, that strategy could change in the near future.
The County Board plans a discussion at its next meeting about whether or not to make some of those payments through the implementation of a new countywide sales tax.
The Carroll City Council will be convening for the second time this week tonight (Wednesday) at 5:15 p.m. for a Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) budget work session. The meeting will be closed to in-person attendance, but can be viewed live on the city’s YouTube channel, a link to which is included below, or on local access CAAT6 cable channels. Since the council is reviewing the budget, there will be no public participation, it will be presented as a “view only” option. During their first two work sessions, council members identified three specific areas requiring changes that will be discussed tonight. This includes a line-item error in the Carroll Airport General Fund that should have been $500 instead of $1,500. The council will discuss the allocation of $260,000 from Local Option Sales Tax (L.O.S.T.), as was done in FY21, for the Carroll Rec Center building project design services and another allocation from L.O.S.T. of $7,500 for the Timberline Road sidewalk design services. The e
The Glidden City Council is getting into Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 budget preparation after holding their first work session on the topic last week. City officials