Rochester council to weigh in on park priorities
With new members who ran alongside a successful $2 million park referendum, the Rochester City Council will discuss priorities for future spending on Monday. 7:00 am, Jan. 9, 2021 ×
Luis Santos, right, takes a shot while playing basketball with Raymundo Vargas and Adrian Dominguez on Monday, August 3, 2020, at Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Rochester. (Traci Westcott / twestcott@postbulletin.com)
Work continues to determine how the $2 million generated each year through a recently approved parks referendum will be spent.
“It’s obvious we need to have really clear priorities with what we are going to be doing with this annual funding,” Parks and Recreation Director Paul Widman said.
Government center changes after-hours access policy
Participants in most city and county meetings after 5 p.m. will have a 30-minute period to access the building, starting Monday.
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Post Bulletin staff reports | 9:47 am, Dec. 30, 2020 ×
Starting Monday, the city-county Government Center Rotunda doors (Door C) will only be unlocked for meetings after 5 p.m. when public meetings are scheduled or expected to occur after business hours. They will be unlocked for 30 minutes to provide access to meetings.
Anyone seeking to attend a public meeting in the city-county Government Center will have a narrow access window in 2021.
For most public meetings after 5 p.m, the rotunda doors, marked Door C, will be the only access to the building and will open 15 minutes before a scheduled meeting and be locked 15 minutes after the meeting’s scheduled start time.
Tighter Security at Olmsted County Government Center
Rochester, MN (KROC AM News) - Security will get tighter at Rochester’s central government campus next week.
Olmsted County announced Wednesday the Government Center Rotunda doors will only be unlocked for meetings after 5 p.m. when public meetings are scheduled or expected to occur after business hours.
The change begins Monday.
The county says the Rotunda doors will be open 15 minutes prior to a scheduled meeting and locked 15 minutes after the meeting’s scheduled start time (for example, if a meeting is scheduled at 6 p.m., the doors will open at 5:45 p.m. and lock at 6:15 p.m.).