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Organization: City of Rochester, MN

Sector: Government Agency

Organization Mission: The City of Rochester will RISE to the top in Customer Focus through Respect, Integrity, Safety, and Excellence.

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Related News and Status

Status Reports / News

Related PlanScape Status on: Business Process, Civic Engagement, Commitment, Diversity and Inclusion, Economic Development, Entrepreneurship, Governance/Public Policy, Health, Housing, International, Intelligence, Neighborhood, Pandemic, Public Safety, Recreation & Open Space, Sustainability, Transportation, Vision/Identity

Key reports on: City of Rochester, MN

2024 Destination Medical Center (DMC) Updates (April 27, 2024)

DMC Updates April 29 Presentation to City Council Study Session

Transit Village

Business Development

Historic District

City Council Meeting Agendas (March 17, 2024)

City Council Meetings Log:

1Q 2024 Council Meetings and Study Sessions

City Council: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Updates; Housing; International Relations (March 04, 2024)

DEI Presentation Topics: Language Access and Accessibility; Equity in the Built Environment; 2024 Initiatives

Economic Development Incentives for Housing

Mayor Updates: Black History Month, Luther College: Mutable City; International Relations Committee

Announcing two new part-time roles to ensure accessible services to all communities. (January 25, 2024)

Two parttime roles

Community Connector – Somali Speaking

Community Connector – Spanish Speaking

City of Rochester, MN (December 04, 2023)

Mayor Norton Honors 2023 Mayor's Medal of Honor Recipients

Mayor Norton Honors 2022 Mayor's Medal of Honor Recipients

Mayoral Communications (August 30, 2023)

Mayor Norton PB Op Ed; 2023 Fall Fit City Challenge; End Childhood Hunger Taskforce

City Council NLC Racial Equity Study Session (April 13, 2021)

4/12/2021 City Council NLC Racial Equity in Local Government Study Session.

City of Rochester, MN Study Session on DEI (March 17, 2021)

Rochester City Council session on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

City of Rochester, MN - Covid Impacts and Branding (March 07, 2021)

(1) Study Session (2) Covid Impact (3) Unify branding of City departments and teammates

Library offering free virtual tutoring service (October 11, 2020)

Rochester Public Library free tutoring program.

City of Rochester, MN (October 10, 2020)

CARES Act Grant Status

City of Rochester, MN (Round 2: Keep it Local) (August 25, 2020)

More CARES Act Funding to Keep It Local

Keep It Local Grant (May 19, 2020)

To help local economies, cities need to get creative. In Rochester, MN, Mayor Norton has created a grant program that enables businesses to help each other weather this crisis.

PSAs: Supporting Local Businesses & Park restrictions ( In English and Khmer) (April 01, 2020)

Supporting Local Businesses: Options for deferment of liquor license renewal payments, Municipal parking ramp, Emergency Economic Development Loan, & On‐street parking

Park usage restrictions

Community Service Officers and Cub Foods Partnership (March 31, 2020)

March 31, 2020 – Rochester, Minnesota – The Rochester Police Department’s Community Service Officers (CSO) and Cub Foods have developed a unique partnership to help the at-risk and elderly residents of Rochester.

2018 Supplemental Budget Information Resident Survey (September 02, 2018)

2018 City Survey.

August 30, 2024: CMRC Legacy and Future

CMRC pausing public activities and investment potential white paper availability announcement.

August 27, 2024: SBDC Celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month

Sept. 16^th: Workshop: Finding your First Customers and sell without being salesy; Sept 21^st: Workshop: Financial Literacy; Sept. 28^th: Workshop: How to Start a Business from Scratch (Part 1); Oct. 5^th: Workshop: How to Start a Business from Scratch (Part 2);

August 16, 2024: Tax Breaks to Landlords

PB reporting: A local program providing tax breaks to landlords in exchange for maintaining lower rents is being tweaked to encourage future development of affordable housing.

August 12, 2024: Community Healthcare Simulation Center Co-Design Report

Jun 2021 Co-design Report

2024-08-12 PB Reporting GRAUC leads project to build prototype sim center The Southeast Minnesota Community Healthcare Simulation Center is set to open in downtown

Rochester by mid-October

August 08, 2024: Anti-Hate Rally and Forum

Racism, Anti-Semitism and the Fight Against Hate

"Abolishing racism, hate crimes, and white supremacy isn’t a problem for one group to face alone; it’s a shared burden that requires a strong and unified response."

August 08, 2024: Transportation: ROCOG Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP)

2024 - 2027 Transportation Plan

2023 - 2026 Transportation Plan: The Rochester-Olmsted Council of Governments (ROCOG) has released a draft of the 2023-2026 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP), for a 30-day public comment period.

August 07, 2024: Age-Friendly Olmsted County (AFOC) Plan

August 2024 Report : Age-Friendly Olmsted County (AFOC) activities implementing the Age

Friendly Olmsted County 2022-2025 Action Plan since our annual report in February 2024.

August 05, 2024: Second Half 2024 Targeted Business Enterprise Utilization Plan Reports

3Q2024: July 2024 Admin Message and Reports

August 02, 2024: Rochester Vision 2050

The visioning effort calls for soliciting broad community input to help propose desired strategic initiatives based on desired outcomes through 2050.

July 27, 2024: C2C Summer 2024 Sparklers

Newsletter Highlights:

Systems Change Designation; Data Updates; Network Updates; Contributors

July 17, 2024: Bryk Apartments Rental Eligibility Amendment

July 17, 2024 City of Rochester: Adopting a Resolution authorizing an amendment to the Development Assistance Agreement and the Declaration of Restrictive Covenants to revise the affordability covenants related to the 80% Units.

March and May 2023 reports to DMCC including video, documents and presentations.

July 17, 2024: City Housing Support

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.

July 13, 2024: How does racism impact people’s health?

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.”

July 01, 2024: First Half 2024 Targeted Business Enterprise Utilization Plan Reports

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

June 26, 2024: City of Rochester - Justice, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (JEDI) Audit Status

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

Community Anchor Participation:

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Impacts

The work of this organization may have impacts on the following areas:

PlanScape

Lvl 1: Business Process ; Civic Engagement ; Commitment ; Diversity and Inclusion ; Economic Development ; Entrepreneurship ; Governance/Public Policy ; Health ; Housing ; International ; Intelligence ; Neighborhood ; Pandemic ; Public Safety ; Recreation & Open Space ; Sustainability ; Transportation ; Vision/Identity

Lvl 2: Society ; Diversity and Inclusion

DMC Impact:

Community Health Impact area:

Projects/Programs

Confirmed Project Involvement: City of Rochester Initiates New Budget Process and Publishes Digital Format ; Destination Medical Center (DMC) ; LINK - Bus Rapid Transit ; Planning To Succeed: Rochester 2040 Comprehensive Plan (P2S) ; Police Assisted Recovery (PAR Program) ; RPD Accountability Dashboard ; Rochester Police Department Expansion (More Space and Staff) ; Rochester, MN Transit Development Plan Update ; Sustainability and Resiliency Action Plan ; Targeted Business Enterprise Utilization ; Update Intercultural Cities Initiative (ICI) Index

Potential Projects

Project Involvement Candidates:

Known Collaborators

Onboard Collaborators: County of Olmsted, MN

Potential Collaborators

Potential Collaborators:

Organization Life Cycle Assessment (Pause, Startup, Steady, Isolated Impact, Collective Impact Unknown)

Collective Impact ; ICI

Site Information

Project Phase Definitions

The following defines the various project phases:

Available - a product, program or service is in production
Develop - program or application is being developed
Plan - idea is solid, stakeholders are identified, and there is strong commitment to go forward from all parties.
Concept Phase - idea scoped out with enough details to give an early sizing and/or to build a proof of concept
demonstration
Pre-concept Phase - an early idea or a requirement.

About Beam

Community Beam (dmcbeam.org) is a registry of private and public resources (organizations, projects, initiatives, programs) that underpin economic and social developments of greater Rochester:

For the commercial sector, we tend to register startup activities (new companies and new commercial projects) that bring diversification and high-impact opportunities to the area.
For the non-profit sector, we wish to shine light on all the organizations and services that otherwise labor under relative obscurity.
Our hope is that dmcbeam.org will encourage cross-sector collaborations and creative solutions.

While there are a number of registries in the community, dmcbeam.org's distinct value is to pilot a database with a data structure and categorizations that answer the questions such as: What organizations or projects/programs in our community that have purported relevance with some of the over-arching focuses put forward by initiatives such as DMC, J2G and Health Improvements?

This database could be used as one of the ways to explore the capacities of the community. If you are someone on an exploratory journey to learn about the greater Rochester community. dmcbeam.org could be an interesting first step.

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Key reports on: City of Rochester, MN