July 18, 2024
July 18, 2024
Admin Message
First. I'd like to acknowledge the support and feedback you have given CMRC the past couple of years when I took on the role to facilitate CMRC,
We are taking the summer off as far as convening monthly CMRC meetings. In the meantime you might find worthy well to revisit some of the topics that CMRC covered in the past.
- Housing: Housing Alliance Housing Status ,
- DEI: City of Rochester DEI Action Plan, Olmsted County Joint Studies on Racism,
- Workforce: City of Rochester and DMC Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Barrier Study ,
- Higher Education: UMR Campus Plan, RCTC/Perkins
- CMRC member programs: Journie's 8 Step Promotion Program, C.E.R.T Affiliated Programs
Upcoming Events as of July 18, 2024
Please visit Community Beam for up-to-date Beam event calendar and Contact us if you have an event to post on Beam
| Start Date | Title | Description |
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| Jul 20, 2024 12:00 PM | Vegan Grill Out (#2 July) | Join us at Kutzky Park (right next to the tennis courts) for a laid-back grill out, but all plant-based! Food will be provided, but feel free to bring your own dish and/or drink. We'll have Vegetable Kababs, Veggie Burgers, meat-alternative burgers, "hot dogs," fruit, and water! |
| Jul 20, 2024 04:30 PM | UTSAV: The Festival of Colors 2024 | Join us on Saturday, July 20th, 2024, from 4:30 PM to 8:30 PM for UTSAV: The Festival of Colors, a vibrant celebration of the diverse cultural heritage of the Asian Indian community. This event is open to all, and we welcome everyone to come and have fun! Enjoy delicious food, color splash, captivating dance performances, mesmerizing music, and explore a diverse array of products available for browsing. |
| Jul 22, 2024 10:00 AM | Rochester Clinic: Cognitive Health | Please join Dr. Dawn Jacobson, MD certified in Bredesen Protocol for Alzheimer's cognitive health. Also, a simple cooking demo will showcase a healthy recipe for the brain. |
| Jul 22, 2024 06:30 PM | Rochester City Council Ward 2 Candidate Forum | |
| Jul 23, 2024 01:00 PM | May 2024 Rochester Vision 2050 Community Engagement | Our city has undertaken a broad array of initiatives to create a bright future for her citizens and constituencies. These should be guided by a clear, optimistic, aspirational vision. 2050: Far enough for limitless possibilities; close enough to begin today to serve Rochester’s next generation and beyond. Vision 2050 Steering Committee guides this initiative A large volunteer group will put “Vision in Action”, using co-design to engage the community to share ideas and priorities for Rochester’s future. |
| Jul 23, 2024 01:00 PM | ACHLA: Come learn about FAFSA! | Financial Aid Specialists will be available to help students complete the FAFSA |
| Jul 23, 2024 06:30 PM | LWV-R Candidate Forum Rochester City Council Ward 4 | |
| Jul 24, 2024 11:00 AM | Women’s Foundation of Minnesota Community Connect Event | Community Connect is an informal biannual gathering for community members from across the state to meet and find serendipitous connections to their next funder, accomplice, or co-conspirator. This event is not just for the outgoing and social—we’re confident it will be a meaningful and welcoming experience for extroverts and introverts alike. |
| Jul 24, 2024 01:00 PM | ACHLA: Come learn about FAFSA! | Financial Aid Specialists will be available to help students complete the FAFSA |
| Jul 30, 2024 06:30 PM | LWV-R Candidate Forum Olmsted County Commissioner District 3 | |
| Aug 01, 2024 06:30 PM | FORUM WITH COUNCIL MEMBER-AT-LARGE AND WARD CANDIDATES | Share this with those in the community for this important primary election. We are calling for questions that reflect the issues of our action teams and all of the community. We will share questions received ahead of time with our candidates. |
| Aug 03, 2024 10:00 AM | RPS Community Ed 50th Anniversary Community Celebration | A team of dedicated staff have been working for months to plan our 50th Anniversary Community Celebration on Saturday, August 3, 10 AM to 2 PM, at Cascade Lake Park (see attached map). We'll have a wealth of activities for participants, including musical, dance, and our own Poetry Out Loud performers, arts and crafts for kids, cultural artifacts and henna, outdoor games, story time, face painting, and lots of Community Education information. |
| Aug 12, 2024 07:00 PM | LWV-R Rochester Public Schools Nov. referendum | |
| Aug 17, 2024 01:00 PM | Back to School Block Party & Parade | Food, Hair Cuts, School Supplies, Family Activities |
| Sep 25, 2024 07:00 PM | Screen Agers: Growing Up in the Digital Age | Join us on Monday September 25 7pm-8:30pm. RPS Middle Schools are collectively offering a three-part event series to support parents and caregivers to students ages 10 - 18. This series will navigate concerns about growing up in the digital age, uncovering skills for stress resilience, and addressing vaping, drugs, and alcohol. After each film screening a discussion will be hosted by one of our School-Based Mental Health Practitioners. |
Latest Community News
July 17, 2024: City of Rochester Home Ownership Creation Program
Home Ownership Creation Program - Prairie Ridge: "NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Common Council of the City of Rochester, MN hereby approves the contribution of $4,000,000 to the Prairie Ridge development to support the creation of 201 for-sale homes via the Home Ownership Creation Program.
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July 13, 2024: Center for Chronic Disease Reduction and Equity Promotion Across Minnesota (C2DREAM) New Mayo Clinic, U of M framework aims to guide future research. The framework defines structural racism as the “totality of ways in which societies foster racial discrimination through mutually reinforcing systems of housing, education, employment, earnings, benefits, credit, media, health care and criminal justice.”
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July 11, 2024: City of Rochester Home Ownership Creation Program
PB Reporting Housing Projects Proposed $68M 187-unit rental townhome project. Olmsted County Trailside Apartments $13 million project 36-Unit Senior Apartments, Bear Creek Development and Three Rivers Community Action $22.7 million Restoration Glen, 48-Unit Apartment Complex,
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July 10, 2024: United Way of Olmsted County
$1.1 million funding for 48 participants 2024-07-10 FoodSecurity noun “limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways” (USDA).
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July 01, 2024: Targeted Business Enterprise Utilization
2Q 2024: June 2024; May 2024 - Admin Message, TBE Report; April 2024 - Admin Message, TBE Report 1Q 2024: Feb 2024 - Admin Message, TBE Report; Jan 2024: Admin Message, TBE Report Special callouts: Women in Construction; City of Rochester Equity in Development
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June 26, 2024: City of Rochester: 2020 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Action Plan
June 24, 2024 City Council Study Session: Justice Equity Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Audit per Goodenough Departmental Audit reports of: Human Resources; Rochester Public Library; Parks & Rec
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June 22, 2024: Rochester Area Volunteer Administration
Volunteer Recruitment Effectiveness: What can advertising teach us? Volunteer Process Assessment
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June 21, 2024: Somali American Social Service Association
SASSA to receive $1M from MN to train workers for high-demand employment. The funding is awarded under the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) Targeted Populations Workforce Competitive Grant Program.
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June 20, 2024: City of Rochester: 2020 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Action Plan
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June 15, 2024: Homes for our Neighbors Calling for Community Support at Community Meeting: The most recent Olmsted County Maxfield Study found that from 2020-2030, housing demand required 18,000 new housing units. 71% would need to be general-occupancy and 29% age-restricted senior housing.
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June 13, 2024: Mix Housing Mayo Civic Center Parking Lot June 3, 2024 City Council Meeting
Council action is requested to continue development negotiations with Sherman Associates and conditionally approve development assistance of up to $13,000,000 in Tax Increment Financing (TIF) assistance and up to $3,000,000 in DMC General State Infrastructure Aid.
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June 11, 2024: PossAbilities June 20, 2024 Skills Class: The Art of Theatre
Collaboration with CMRC: Presentation Slides, Video Recording Clip
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June 11, 2024: Three Rivers Restorative Justice Three River Restorative Justice and Project Legacy Restorative Circle re Century High racial hate incident
Circle included Kendall Hughes, co-founder of Three Rivers Restorative Justice, a partner of Project Legacy
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June 09, 2024: Community Health Assessment Process Report contains info:
1. Demographics 2. Population by age 3. Diversity 4. Foreign-born population 5. Languages and ancestry 6. Educational trends 7. Household income 8. Poverty status 9. Health factors 10. Housing and living 11. Labor force 12. Unemployment rate 13. Election trends 14. Community safety 15. Environmental factors 16. Highlights 17. References
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June 09, 2024: ISAIAH
Focus Area: Housing; Our Next Generation; Healthcare; Community-Building; Climate Activities: Rochester Faith in MN & ISAIAH Calendar and Strategic Missions Reference: CMRC June 24, 2024 Meeting Presentation Video
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June 07, 2024: Metro State University White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (WHIAANHPI) Economic Summit in St. Paul, MN on July 2, 2024
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June 03, 2024: Minnesota Compass
May MN Compass Newsletter Importance of data disaggregation: Minnesota's Asian Population, Minnesota's Black communities
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May 29, 2024: Journie 2024 Recognition
$1K Scholarship: 2024 Rochester H.S. Graduate: Application and Nomination, Sponsorship and Donation support Facebook photos of 2024 Mr. and Miss Juneteenth
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May 27, 2024: BioRochester and MedHub 3.0
DMCC Board Updates: 1. May 2024 Status Memo to DMCC Board 2. Feb 2024 DMCC Board Meeting: Video Clip of Discussion at Feb 1 2024 DMCC Board - DMC part of MedTech 3.0; Memo to DMCC 3. Nov. 2023 Video Clip of Discussion at DMCC Board Meeting about MN MedTech 3.0 Description and Webinar References: US DEA Tech Hub Awardees
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May 24, 2024: Destination Medical Center (DMC) Proceedings
May 2024 DMCC Board Meeting and City, County, DMC Joint Meeting Feb 2024 DMCC Board Meeting
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