Olmsted County leads the way in affordable Housing The Olmsted County Board and Housing Redevelopment Authority has completed the first of 10 houses in a Pilot Project to prove that more modest size…
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…
Housing Olmsted County is an active participant in the Housing Coalition. You can see progress made by the Coalition at 9thAvenue SE (South of 4th Street) where Row Homes are being built. The Row Homes allow for more…
Apply to be an Election Assistant in the 2022 Elections A special election for the First Congressional Seat is needed because of the death of Rep. Jim Hagedorn. The election will take place on Tuesday, August…
Olmsted County will lease about 10 acres to a solar energy company. The company will build a solar field. The revenue from the solar field, will be used to keep our levy rates low. See video:
This is a census year. It is very important that everybody is counted. For Federal dollars alone each person represents about $2,500 per year in Federal funds. That could be a gain for Minnesota of $2,500 per person…
Board Sets Maximum Levy The projected total 2020 budget for Olmsted County is $199,132,421. To achieve this, the County Board set the 2020 Maximum levy at a 4.5% increase. This is about a $4.6 million dollar increase…
Do You Know the Cost of Burial? The cost of burying indigent residents is increasing. 2014 $114,299 71 Burials 2015 $148,560 79 Burials 2016 $141,994 76 Burials 2017 $146,667 80 Burials 2018 $199,417 103 Burials The county averaged 65% cremations versus direct burials. The County’s burial…
February State Budget Forecast Decreases The state budget surplus is projected at $1.05 billion. This is $500 million less than the November forecast. Lower state tax revenues and a slowing economy was the economists’ reason for the…
At the February 19thCounty Board Meeting, Olmsted County voted to purchase the parcel of land at 12thStreet and 3rdAvenue SE for $5,600,000. This is the site where the current Seneca food processing plant is now located. (This…
Federal Government Shutdown In January the Federal Government shutdown threatened the county’s housing stability. It was possible that federal payments for rent subsidies would stop. Many families depend upon the subsidies for housing. If the payments would…
The Truth in Taxation meeting will be held in the Board Room at the Government Center at 7:00 PM on December 6, 2018. At this meeting the County Board will discuss the proposed property tax…
The Olmsted County Housing and Redevelopment Authority has been providing affordable housing for many people and continues to work with other agencies to bring more affordable housing to the county. In 2018 the following occurred: Community…
Olmsted County has been notified about a phone scam where a taxpayer was asked to verify if they pay their property taxes via automatic withdrawal and for their bank account information. The call came from a…