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Palm hire as new City IT director ‘home run Mike Christopherson Crookston Times The Crookston City Council at a special meeting this week enthusiastically approved the hiring of Chad Palm as information technology director for the City, replacing Philip Barton, who resigned. Ward 1 Council Member Jake Fee said the hiring of Palm, a Crookston High School and UMN Crookston grad and previous City IT director in the early and mid-1990s, is a “home run” hire for the City. “We’re getting a very good one here…very talented,” Fee said. Palm also used to be a teacher in Crookston. Since leaving Crookston, he’s worked in IT for Becker County and is currently IT director in Chaska, Minnesota, in the seven-county metro area. He’ll be putting in his notice there, City Administrator Amy Finch said, and is poised to start in Crookston on Jan. 11, 2021. ....
City to boost B3 bottom line by $50K Mike Christopherson Crookston Times With a balance down to $4,500 and currently four applications for grants to be considered, the Crookston Housing & Economic Development Authority’s (CHEDA) Building Better Business (B3) initiative needs an influx of cash in order to continue. After much discussion, the Crookston City Council this week, citing the program’s benefit to the local business community since its inception in early 2019, agreed to take $50,000 from general fund undesignated reserve dollars to replenish the B3 budget. Money from the City helped launch the B3 program, and it was pretty slow-going at first, but as word spread about the program’s benefits, more local businesses have been requesting grants over the past year or so. In all, a dozen businesses have been granted funds for projects large and small, all of which require an investment of their own money as well. B3 dollars have hel ....
Mike Christopherson Crookston Times Asked by Ward 1 Council Member Jake Fee this week if the City of Crookston could potentially use City equipment to flood backyard skating rinks in the winter time, and potentially swimming pools in the summertime in order to be more user-friendly to its residents, council members, department heads and other City officials agreed the cons to offering such a service outweigh the pros. Instead, everyone expressed an interest in looking into a program that would give people who flood backyard rinks or fill larger swimming pools a break on their water bill at the time they use all of that water. ....