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Hennepin County commissioner updates Richfield on housing, mental health, trees and infrastructure
Summary
Hennepin County Commissioner Debbie Goettel briefed the Richfield City Council on county programs and grants including affordable-housing funding, mental-health partnerships with police, a new YouTube livestreaming and captioning rollout, and infrastructure and tree-planting initiatives.
Hennepin County Commissioner Debbie Goettel told the Richfield City Council on June 24 that the county is continuing investments in affordable housing, mental-health supports and tree canopy programs and has added YouTube live streaming with closed captioning to increase public access.
Goettel said the county awarded $19.5 million in capital funding to create and preserve affordable housing and funded 23 projects through county programs. She also said the county awarded about $17.3 million in grants through a local affordable-housing program to boost…
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