ANNUAL REPORT06 - 0324 Calendar Year 2005

Serving the People ofKandiyohi, McLeod,Meeker, and Renville Counties

Since 1974.

MID-MINNESOTA DEVELOPMENT

COMMISSION

Phone: 320-235-8504Toll Free: 800-450-8608

Fax: 320-235-4329E-mail: mmrdc@mmrdc.orgWeb Site: www.mmrdc.org

333 Sixth Street Southwest, Suite 2Willmar, MN 56201-5615

MID-MINNESOTA DEVELOPMENT COMMISSIONServing the People ofRegion Six East

To Those We Serve:

We are pleased to provide you with the 2005 Annual Report of the Mid-Minnesota Devel­opment Commission (MMDC). This report describes achievements of the Commissionand its staff in carrying out the Commission's mission. The report highlights the programsand projects of the MMDC during Calendar Year 2005. The enclosed year-end financialdata is for Fiscal Year 2005 (July 1, 2004 to June 30, 2005).

Throughout the Commission's 31 years in operation the primary priority for the organiza­tion has been to provide technical service to our jurisdictions, businesses and citizens. Theinformation provided in this 2005 annual report highlights a wide diversity of technicalservice that has been provided over the past year. In 2005 staff have assisted with thewriting of comprehensive plans, zoning ordinances, hazard mitigation plans, an airportmarketing plan, and a county jail study. Businesses were provided assistance in a numberof ways including JOBZ assistance and providing loans through the Commission's revolv­

o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Doing loan fund. Several communities were assisted with their public facility projects. Busi-o 0 nesses and counties have also been assisted with preparing environmental assessmento ... the primary 0 worksheets. Two water districts were also given assistance over the past year. Our Build-o 0o priority for the 0 ing Inspections Department continues to provide a number of jurisdictions with stateo organization has 0 building code assistance along with other specialty inspection services. These are justo 0 some of the many examples of assistance the Commission offered to our clientele during~ been to provide ~ 2005.

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o 0 During the past year the MMDC has hired a second staff member to work on geographicalDourjurisdictions, 0 information systems (GIS). GIS is computer mapping tied to data. There are numerouso 0o businesses and 0 applications that are open to local governments and businesses. We are very pleased to beo citizens. 0 able to offer this service to our region. A couple of the bigger projects underway areo 0 county parcel mapping and county drainage ditch maps. A number of GIS projects in-o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

volved providing mapping for the Commission's other technical assistance projects. Wehope you will spend some time reading more about our GIS Department inside the annualreport.

Lastly we are; pleased to report that the Joint Powers Agreement with our three neighbor­ing Regional Development Commissions in Southwest Minnesota for operating the new27 county Minnesota River Area Agency on Aging (MnRAAA) has been progressing verywell. It has been challenging to learn to work together and to provide services with re­duced funding levels.

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Respectfully yours,

DuWayne UnderthunChair

Donn WincklerExecutive Director

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State Certified Building Inspection ServicesThe Mid-Minnesota Develop­

ment Commission (MMDC) hadtwo fully certified state buildingofficials on its staff that provide in-

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spection and plan review servicesfor communities that have adoptedthe State Building Code during2005. The Commission's Eco­nomic Development Director isalso a fully licensed CertifiedBuilding Official. This gives theDepartment the added ability to usehis assistance on occasions whenwork gets very busy. The StateBuilding Code sets constructionstandards to assure the health,safety, comfort, and security ofbuilding occupants.

MMDC had contracts with 19local units of government in pro­viding this service during the calen­dar year. These jurisdictions in­cluded: in Kandiyohi County: At­water, Blomkest, Dovre Township,Kandiyohi, New London, Pennock,and Spicer; in McLeod County:Brownton and Stewart; in MeekerCounty: Cosmos, Darwin, Dassel,and Grove City; in RenvilleCounty: Bird Island and Fairfax; inWright County: Cokato and Stock­holm Township; in Stearns County:

Paynesville and Richmond. Thecombined population for these juris­dictions served is over 20,000 per­sons. The Department also assistedthe City of Cold Spring with com­mercial plan reviews and inspections.

Additional inspections are beingmade in the communities of BuffaloLake, Sacred Heart, Hector, andLake Lillian under the State Hazard­ous Building Act. Staff also providesaccessibility inspections on occasionfor Renville County.

Department staff have receivedtraining and provided service with

lead-based paint inspections and risk as­sessments. u.S. Department of Housingand Urban Development regulations re­quire these inspections in housing pro­jects that they participate in. As few per­sons have both the training and equip­ment to provide this service in SouthwestMinnesota, MMDC provides this servicewithin and outside of our four-countyRegion. Analysis of asbestos concerns isanother service the Department offers.Lastly, the Building Inspectors providehousing rehabilitation inspection servicesfor both the Hutchinson and WillmarHRAs.

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Community Development and Planning Technical Assistance

• Assistance was given to thenewly formed Middle ForkCrow River Watershed District.

• A taskforce in Renville Countywas assisted with preparing aJail and Human Resource Study.A report that summarized thistaskforce's final recommenda­tions was prepared.

• The Commission assisted bothMeeker and Kandiyohi Countieswith six different EAWs.

• The Meeker County Comprehen­sive Plan Update was completed,as was a Comprehensive Plan forthe City of Lester Prairie. A pro­posal to assist the City of Litch­field with preparing a Compre­hensive Plan as well as updatingtheir zoning ordinance was ap­proved to begin work in 2006.

• Infrastructure project assistance,including applying for grantfunds was given to the cities ofLake Lillian and Blomkest.

The Commission also took thelead in planning and implementing avery successful Minnesota AggregateConference held in St. Cloud onMarch 30 - 31,2005.

profit agencies, private citizens, andunits of government data from theCensus and other informationalsources free of charge. GeographicInformation System (GIS) mappingservices are highlighted in anothersection of this report.

Other principal accomplishmentsand activities that have been under­taken by the Community Planning/Development Department over thecourse of the past calendar year arehighlighted below:

In 2005, the Commission pro­vided a wide variety of assistance tothe Region's counties and cities. Oneof the largest projects was the con­tinuation of work in developing Haz­ard Mitigation Plans for Kandiyohi,Meeker and Renville Counties. The

Emergency Response Cycle Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000,.. passed by the United States Con-

gress, requires that all states andcounties prepare comprehensiveAll-Hazard Mitigation plans toidentify risks and develop strate­gies to reduce losses. These plansare based on prioritizing the likeli­hood of damage to life and prop­erty from natural or technologicaldisasters, then laying out steps tominimize those risks. In preparingthese plans, staff is working withcounty, city and township officials,emergency managers, policechiefs, fire fighters, planners, andothers. Grants were received toconduct these plans. During theyear, the Commission has also sub-mitted an application for a grant to

conduct a Hazard Mitigation Plan forMcLeod County. The funding deci­sion for this grant will occur some­time in 2006.

The Community Development De­partment is able to provide a wide ar­ray of community development, plan­ning projects, and miscellaneous ac­tivities for local units of government.This particular program area is not tiedto any State or Federally funded pro­gram, but funded through servicecharges that are subsidized by the useof the Commission's general fund.Consequently, the Commission primar­ily provides technical services wherethey are most needed to local units ofgovernment.

Each year the staff offers assis­tance to local units of government on awide range of services, including com­prehensive land use plans, zoning andsubdivision ordinances, ordinancecodification, grant and loan writing,community surveys, public facilitiesplanning, housing studies, and map­ping projects, as well as many othertechnical services. As one of Minne­sota's State Data Centers, the MMDCregularly provides businesses, non-

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Economic Development Assistance and Revolving Loan Fund

The Mid-Minnesota Develop­ment Commission's economic de­velopment program is designed toassist local units of government andbusiness in the Region with activi­ties that create or support the crea­tion of jobs and investment. Pro­gram activities are funded by agrant from the U.S. Department ofCommerce, Economic DevelopmentAdministration, and the local taxlevy. The Commission operates a$1.4 million Revolving Loan Fundprogram within the Region's fourcounties. Two separate advisorycommittees assist the Commissionwith the economic development ac­tivities. The first committee pro­vides recommendations to the Com­mission on the priorities and goalsof economic development in the Re­gion. The second advisory commit­tee provides review and recommen­dations on the Commission's Re­volving Loan Fund program.

A major portion of the stafftime in economic development isdevoted to technical assistance andadministering the Revolving LoanFund. Businesses, individuals, andgovernmental units can request andreceive economic developmenttechnical assistance. Requests

range from business assistance in­formation to business finance analy­sis, infrastructure improvements,tax increment financing, and grantand loan writing.

The Revolving Loan Fund wasestablished to assist businesseswithin the Region with gap fmanc­ing. Businesses must be deemedviable and involve job creation orretention. Loans are made forworking capital, land, buildings,and equipment. The amounts givenout as loans range from $5,000 to amaximum of $100,000. The Re­volving Loan Fund was originallycapitalized primarily through Eco­nomic Development Administrationfunds, but also from funds from thefour counties, the State of Minne­sota, the Southwest MinnesotaFoundation, and from the Mid­Minnesota Development Commis­SIOn.

Economic development activi­ties during the past fiscal year in­clude:

• Provided technical assistanceon the State of Minnesota JobOpportunity Building Zone(JOBZ) Initiative. More spe­cific assistance was given toWinsted Township regardingJOBZ program and a manufac­turing business wanting to lo­cate within their jurisdiction.

• Continued to serve as the fiscalagency and provided technicalassistance to the West CentralGrowth Alliance. The Alliancedecided to disband its opera­tions in March.

• Authored annual update of theComprehensive Economic De-

velopment Strategy as requiredby the federal Economic Devel­opment Administration (EDA).

• Received invitation and authoredEconomic Development PlanningGrant Application. The applica­tion was approved and funded.

• Provided ongoing grant admini­stration assistance to BuffaloLake regarding its tornado recov­ery grocery store/bakery project.

• Staff served as a co-chair of aKandiyohi County Economic De­velopment Partnership RevolvingLoan Fund Committee.

• Staff gave a presentation to abusiness capital seminar forKandiyohi County.

• Staff served on Ridgewater Col­lege's Small Business AdvisoryCommittee.

• Approval was given to two Com­mission Revolving Loan Fundloans and the RLF received ongo­ing management.

• Staff provided technical assis­tance to the City of Hutchinson­Housing Redevelopment Author­ity for home rehabilitation ef­forts.

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Area Agency 'on AgingThe Minnesota River Area

Agency on Aging (MNRAAA) isdedicated to helping older peoplein Southwest Minnesota, whichincludes Kandiyohi, McLeod,Meeker, and Renville Counties,lead comfortable, independentlives. MNRAAA is governed by aJoint Powers Board of the four Re­gional Development Commissionsin a 27 county region of SouthwestMinnesota. The goals of the AAAare to enhance service offeringsand ensure that the needs of thesenior population are met. The2005 AAA budget for MMDC is$165,141. This budget supportsprogram development, senior out­reach specialist, health insurancecounseling, and medication man­agement assistance functions.There are two MMDC staff thatwork for MNRAAA. The positionsare a Program Developer and Sen­ior Outreach Specialist.

Family Caregiver Support

The Older Americans Act wasreauthorized in November 1999,which resulted in new federalfunding to states for the develop­ment of resources for family care­givers. Mid-Minnesota AAA re­ceived $80,000 from the NationalCaregiver Support Program. Thesuccessful bidder for this programwas Lutheran Social Services(LSS) of Moorhead. LSS hired JanNovotny from Willmar as the pro­gram director for this region. Thefocus of the program is to developsupport services for caregivers.Caregiver support groups and res­pite services are now available inall four counties as a result of thisprogram. In the fourth quarter of

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2004, LSS received a grant fromBremer to add a component to this pro­gram that promotes a consumer­directed option available to caregiverswho are interested. An example of thisoption is that a family member mayhire respite to be provided by a certi­fied nursing assistant (CNA). In thiscase, the family acts as the employer;and the CNA is a subcontractor.

Long Term Care Activities

Minnesota's goal to re-balancelong-term care continues to be a pri-

mary focus for the Minnesota Board onAging and the Area Agencies on Ag­ing. The development of services thatsupport people who wish to remain intheir own homes if they choose contin­ues to be a priority for policymakers.The Gaps Analysis conducted in 2001was updated by counties in 2003 andfocused on housing. Additionally, theRegional Analysis conducted in De­cember 2002 identified overall agingpopulation characteristics for the re­gion. In general, it was found that ser­vices rated as high priority includedtransportation, and services that fosterindependence for persons choosing toremain in their homes.

Other AAA Activities

Staff also provides a wide varietyof technical assistance to various agingorganizations and causes. Some of theactivities of the past calendar year in­clude:

• Conducted numerous MedicarePart D information sessionsthroughout the region for bothconsumers and professionals. As­sisted 290 people with medicationplan comparisons.

• Volunteers provided 566 hoursbetween October and Decemberfor Part D assistance.

• Facilitated local White HouseConference on Aging event inconjunction with National WhiteHouse Conference on Aging.Event focus to identify nationalreforms.

• Made numerous presentationsabout AAA services including in­formation on health insurancecounseling topics such as Medi­care Approved Drug DiscountCards and Senior LinkAge Line®.

• Participated in the Life Connec­tions Expo and other area SeniorHealth Fairs.

• Participated in the Medicare FYIRobert Wood Johnson MedicareSavings Programs.

• Participated on the Advisory Com­mittee of the West Central Integra­tion Collaborative.

• Co-sponsored 4th Annual Care­giver Event held in Willmar, Octo­ber 2005.

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The Commission has providedassistance to the Highway 15 Coali­tion. The new Coalition was formed,with MMDC assistance, to work to­wards raising awareness of the ac­cess, safety, and capacity challengesfacing the Highway 15 Corridor. In2005, much of the work that wasdone was working on getting theCoalition up and running. One of theprimary first goals of the Coalition isto seek a Congressional allocation ofdollars to be able to conduct a corri­dor study to identify specific safetyand access needs along the corridor.

Kandiyohi County is conductinga roadway jurisdictional study to becompleted in 2006. The Commis­sion is assisting the county with thisstudy. The project involves the ex­amination of each roadway segmentand objectively determining whichlevel of jurisdiction should logicallyown and maintain it. Roadway sig­nificance, tax capacity, and spacing,among other variables, are all beingexamined to make the determina­tions.

Another major transportationproject that has begun in 2005 andwill be completed in 2006 is MeekerCounty's Pedestrian and BicycleTrail Plan. Staff if assisting theMeeker County Trails Committee inpreparing this plan. The plan sets inplace goals, policies, and implemen­tation steps for future trails. Majortrail corridors are identified as anideal countywide future trail networkto work towards. In addition, theplan is also intended to provide guid­ance to those groups and localities

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Established September 2004, withthe signing of the Joint Powers BoardInteragency Agreement. The obj ec­tive of this agreement was to serve asthe legal entity effective January 1,2005 for the anticipated new AAA.The MNRAAA Joint Powers Boardwas in full operation during calendaryear 2005 with DuWayne Underthunas the Chairperson. Richard Brooksand Dorothy Lindstrom also served asvoting members. Marilyn Schaferwas appointed as a non-voting mem­ber and represented the AdvisoryCouncil. Underthun and Schafers'terms terminated December 31, 2005.

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region. MMDC contracts a portion ofthe funds to Schneider ConsultingServices, Inc. to implement this strat­egy. A primary activity of this fund­ing is to provide technical assistanceto agencies seeking Community Ser­vice Development Grants from theMinnesota Department of Human Ser­vices, or other funding sources.

Respite Care/Living at Home BlockNurse Program: Counties of Kandi­yohi, McLeod, and Meeker(}:-utheran Social Services, GroveCity CARE)

Medication Management: MinnesotaRiver AAA direct service Regions6E, 6W, and 8

EDP-ElderCare Development Part­nership, formerly known as SAIL(Seniors Agenda for IndependentLiving) MMDC receives state fundsfrom Region Nine AAA to addresshousing with services needs in the

Health Insurance Counseling Volunteer Jim Schnell assists a clientwith Medicare Part D options at the Willmar Senior Center.

Congregate Dining and Home Deliv­ered Meals: Nutrition Services, Inc.(NSI) provides both congregate andhome delivered meal service.

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The AAA has an advisory councilcomposed of eleven possible repre­sentative consumers and organizationschaired by Richard Brooks of ruralDarwin. The advisory council meetsup to seven times per year and has aprimary responsibility of establishingpriorities and reviewing and recom­mending projects for funding. In2005, MNRAAA established a Fund­ing Task Force comprised of Advi­sory Council members representativeof the four RDCs. This committeereviewed applications, conducted in­terviews, and made final projectawards to the Joint Powers Board.Although priorities and projectschange, the following list of priorityareas and projects funded during cal-

• Provided grant writing assistancefor Community Service Develop­ment grants to various organiza­tions.

• Secured Alzheimer's Demon­stration Grant for region; focuson consumer directed model ofservice.

• Facilitated Eldercare Develop­ment Partnership Long TermCare Coordinating Council for13 counties. Goals focused onsupporting community develop­ment of services to support eld­erly persons living independ­ently.

• Established a Memorandum ofUnderstanding with Rice Memo­rial Hospital Health InsuranceCounseling Program to sharevolunteer and training activities.

• Established Health InsuranceCounseling Program sites atWillmar Senior Center and Hut­chinson Event Center.

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Geographic Information Systems (GIS)MMDC has been providing

GIS mapping services since1996. In 2005, MMDC hiredits second full time GIS staffperson to keep pace with thedemand for these Commissionservices. Through the years ofoperation, the Commission hasalways provided a means ofassisting clientele with theirmapping needs. Since thattime the Commission has madeover 500 specialty maps for avariety of clients. By movinginto GIS, the Commission of­fers a much more sophisticatedlevel of computer map-makingthat is tied to databases. Notonly can staff quickly and eas­ily update maps, but they canuse the software program tomake in-depth analysis on avariety of topics. GIS is a"computer-based tool for map­ping and analyzing things thatexist and events that happen onearth. GIS technology inte­grates common database opera­tions such as query and statisti­cal analysis with the uniquevisualization and geographicanalysis benefits offered bymaps." (ESRI)

GIS has become widelyused in recent years. There arelimitless applications for whereand how it can be used. Majorareas of application include:urban planning, zoning, planreviews, transportation plan­ning, environmental impactand management analysis, ve­hicle routing, public facilitiesmanagement, and business lo­cation analysis to name just afew.

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Economic Development Assistance

• Staff served as an ex-officio mem­ber of Kandiyohi County Eco­nomic Development PartnershipOperations Board.

• Staff prepared a successful grantapplication to the Minnesota His­torical Society for the City ofLitchfield's historic Opera Houseto stabilize the structure to preventany further deterioration.

• Staff prepared a marketing planfor the new Willmar Regional Air­port.

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Transportation Planninginterested in pursuing the construc­tion of a new trail or the expansionof an existing trail.

Commission staff was also ac­tive in the following transportationactivities during the 2005 CalendarYear:

• Serving as a member of theKandiyohi Area Transit(KAT) Operation Committee.

• Working with MniDOT toprocess functional classifica­tion changes on a case-by-case

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• Preparing comprehensive plansthat include transportation compo­nents and issues.

• Attending RDC TransportationPlanners meetings during the pastyear. These quarterly meetingsallow the planners to share infor­mation and coordinate planningefforts.

• Participating in this past year'sATP Enhancement Committeeproject review process.

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MMDC started working in2005 with both MeekerCounty and Pipestone Countywith creating county parcelmaps. These county parcelmap projects are very timeconsuming endeavors.

Staff has assisted the Mid­dle Fork Crow River Water­shed District in creating theirlegal boundary and the par­cels included in the district.The watershed needs to de­fine their legal boundary sothey can move ahead in get­ting funds from taxes appliedto the district. This undertak­ing was a shared project withthe Auditors of the four coun­ties the watershed district ispart of.

In addition to these pro­jects, GIS staff have created avariety of maps for projectsMMDC worked on. In par­ticular, a number of mapshave been created for EAWprojects and Hazard Mitiga­tion Plan maps.

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The Commission has purchased software that will allowstaff to set up internet mapping within the Region. The abil­ity to publish spatial data andmaps to the internet allowsMMDC and each county in theRegion to create dynamic websites reflecting certain mappingpurposes.

In 2005, staff wrote and re­ceived a $3,750 grant to com­plete metadata documentationfor many of the Commission'sdata sets and to provide trainingin each of the four counties onhow to create the metadata fordatasets GIS users have."Metadata makes spatial infor­mation more useful to all typesof users by making it easier todocument and locate data sets.The growing availability of dataof all kinds from many differentsources has helped GIS technol­ogy become more useful andwidely adopted. With metadatasupport, data producers can pub­lish information about data, anddata consumers can search forthe data they need." (ESRI)

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Fiscal Report

- Recap­Revenue and Expenditure

Fiscal Year 2005

- Recap­Current BudgetFiscal Year 2006

Revenues

FEDERAL $ 401,484Economic Development Administration $ 49,796HHS - Area Agency on Aging 241,141Department of Employment &

Economic Development 110,547

STATE $ 180,052Agricultural Credit $ 20,889Department of Transportation 50,000State Nutrition 81,532State LTC/SLL I&A 16,721Department of Employment &

Economic Development-EBL 10,910

LOCAL $ 776,328Property Taxes $ 205,475Interest Earnings 8,230In-kind 25,746Building Inspections 317,601Revolving Loan Fund - Administration 30,617Small Cities Repayment Monies 3,193Technical Assistance Contracts/

Miscellaneous 91,237Other 94,229

Revenues

FEDERALEconomic Development AdministrationHHS - Area Agency on Aging

STATEAgricultural CreditDepartment of TransportationState LTC/SLL I&A

LOCALProperty TaxesInterest EarningsIn-kindBuilding InspectionsRevolving Loan Fund - AdministrationTechnical Assistance ContractsOther

$ 139,241$ 52,628

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$ 76,624$ 21,032

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324,40030,542

223,41271,973

TOTAL REVENUES

Expenditures

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TOTAL EXPENDITURES

$1,357,864

$ 571,26810,86819,952

299,10365,74673,32116,588

189,14825,746

7,2235,050

$1,284,013

TOTAL REVENUES

Expenditures

PERSONAL SERVICESSUPPLIES & PRINTINGCOMMUNICATIONSDIRECT CONTRACTSSERVICESTRAVEL & TRAININGCOMMISSIONINDIRECTIN-KINDCAPITAL OUTLAYVOLUNTEERS AND OTHER USES

TOTAL EXPENDITURES

$1,101,106

$ 631,54110,28122,205

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McLeod County RepresentativesBill Schaeve TownshipsCharles Warner MunicipalitiesBill Arndt. City of HutchinsonSheldon Nies _ County

Meeker County RepresentativesArchie Peters TownshipsVernon Madson MunicipalitiesRon Kutzke CountySherron Reilly Public InterestRichard Brooks, Vice-Chairperson Public InterestDorothy Lindstrom, Treasurer Public Interest

Renville County RepresentativesDelbert Wetzel TownshipsRonald Degner, Secretary MunicipalitiesJohn Stahl CountyRichard Loftness Public InterestJames Schafer Public InterestFrancis Schweiss Public InterestKen Anderson Public Interest

Commission StaffExecutiv~:·~.'.~ :Donn Winckler

Office Manager. Kristen Rosenboom

Financial Director Sue Gimse

Aging Program Director Kate Selseth

Senior Outreach Specialist.. Taryn Sietsema

Economic Development Director Les Nelson

Community Development Director Matthew Johnson

GIS Planner Rick Moore

GIS Planner Natalie Hayenga

Planning & Administrative Assistant Kim Hawkenson

SCDP Grants Administrator/Building Inspector Bernard "Butch" Schulte

Building Inspector Jim Solheid