Commitment To Innovation The Dodge and Olmsted Community Corrections program received the Lead Innovator Award from the Minnesota Association of Community Corrections. This award is recognition of the innovations Community Corrections have applied and modeled for…
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People Use County Services Year End Totals: The Property Records and Licensing team does a lot of customer service, which means we receive many phone calls. There are five general phone numbers that come into…
2023 Highlights Four New County Commissioners. Spent a lot of time orienting new commissioners to all of the areas of county responsibilities. Public Health Care Insurance Renewals After the pandemic the Federal Government required that…
Passports 5,563 passports were processed by county services in 2022. 7,629 photos were processed. We will surpass this number by the end of October, 2023. The U.S. Department of State Passport Services conducts and oversight inspection of…
September 21, 2023 Maximum Property Tax Levy Increase Set at 5.2% The State of Minnesota distributed quite a bit of money this year to Counties; however, not all costs were covered by the State money. The…
Graham Park The County Board continues to work on plans to upgrade the facilities at Graham Park. The upgraded facilities will enhance the ability of the community to use park and increase the ability of the…
Nature Center The new Olmsted County Nature Center at Zollman Zoo is now open. The new nature center will be able to increase the capacity to educate students on the natural world. Here is a video…
Third Avenue SE Changes Third Avenue SE between 12th Street and Highway 63 South, will receive a bituminous overlay and lane striping that create a center left turn lane. This portion of third avenue is a County…
Rochester and Area Libraries $1,386,022 is appropriated from the Olmsted County Budget to support area libraries: Rochester Library Operations $1,157,200 Rochester Library Capital $57,909 Chatfield $33,120 Pine Island $58,600 St. Charles -$19,596 Stewartville -$59,597 Anaerobic Solid Waste Digester Olmsted County…
Olmsted’s Housing Stability Team Receives and Award The 2022 Community Service Award was presented to the Olmsted County Housing Stability Team. The award was presented by the Zumbro Valley Medical Society. The award recognizes the “outstanding leadership and quantifiable…
Open Space Planning County Planning is responsible for planning uses for the land outside of the Rochester and the small cities. This included land for agriculture, rural businesses, migratory routes and protected sensitive land (for instance…
2022 Election No incidences were reported at any of the polling places. The election ballot board is made up of eight people. The eight ballot board members represent both major political parties. Following the ballot board’s determination, the…
I look forward to serving the people of District 3 in 2023-24. I thank the voters for re-electing me and for their continued support. I also welcome the constituents who have been added to District 3 in…
Veterans and Fly Fishing Olmsted County Veteran Services partnered with Minnesota Department of Natural Resources to sponsor a fly fishing retreat Veterans. Twenty-five veterans and their families participated. The event was funded by the DAV and the…