The Cottonwood County Board of Commissioners met during their regular meeting on Tuesday, June 6th. During their meeting, commissioners had a motion to allow, if needed, the Auditor/Treasure to advertise for bids for the clean-up and/or removal of buildings on tax forfeiture parcels, a motion to approve resolution 23-06-06A “A Resolution Calling for a Public Hearing on Proposed Tax Abatement for a new Residential Project”, a motion to appoint ISG as the engineering firm for County Ditch #38, a motion to allow Public Works to purchase the two Ford pickups that were thought to be cancelled by Ford and allow the Ditch Inspector to use Buffer funds to purchase one of the two Dodge pickups that were purchased in December 2022, and a motion to add Juneteenth on June 19th to the holiday listing in the personnel Policy.
The Community Center will be hosting a Riverfest Fireworks Watch Party on their patio Saturday from 7pm-10pm. During the Watch Party, the Community Center bar will be open and food trucks will be available before the fireworks at Riverfest Saturday night. Seating will be available, but you can bring your own lawn chair.
During the Windom City Council meeting on Tuesday, councilmembers reviewed a report about this year’s Citywide Cleanup. City Councilmember Jenny Quade says overall, Citywide Cleanup went pretty well this year.
Quade says for the most part people complied with the new 10 large items on your front yard guideline, but there were a few areas where people didn’t follow the new rules…
Quade adds that Hometown Sanitation was nice to leave flyers for those not in compliance…
The report the City of Windom received said there were 46.1 tons taken to the landfill this year for Citywide Cleanup. The Windom City Council thinks they’ll do the Citywide Cleanup the same way again next year with maybe some tweaks based on any input they may receive on how to do things differently for next year’s Citywide Cleanup.
Riverfest in Windom starts tonight. Gates open at 6pm with food trucks, beverage and ice cream venders, the Jeremy Dewall Band at 7pm and Hairball takes the stage at 9pm. Emily Cenzano, Executive Director of the Windom Chamber of Commerce says there are some things to know while you’re at Hairball like bringing lawn chairs…
Cenzano also says there will be limited parking available for $5…
Advance Hairball tickets can be purchased until noon today for $30 and at the door for $35. You can also buy VIP Hairball tickets for $100 which includes free drink tickets, a free meal, and private bar access.
During the Murray County Board of Commissioners Meeting, the Murray County Medical Center gave an update that as of May 11th, the Federal Health Emergency officially ended as did many of the waivers that were in place during Covid. The Murray County Medical Center also updated their masking guidelines and the vaccine mandate for staff is no longer in place. They’re also exploring an Accountable Care Organization partnership with Signify Health for a Medicare Shared Savings Program. The Murray County Medical Center is also requesting no changes to the Ambulance Service Agreements for 2023 due to several legislative developments that will impact Rural Emergency Medical Services.