Comments from new board chair Mark Thein on Jan. 4, 2022
Comments from new board chair Mark Thein on Jan. 4, 2022
Commissioner Mark Thein assumed the role of chair of the Olmsted County Board of Commissioners on January 4, 2022. He shared these words at the January 4 Board of Commissioners meeting.
If you would like to make a difference in your community, Olmsted County has several volunteer openings on several advisory boards/commissions!
Olmsted County Public Health Services will be holding a clinic for individuals to receive their COVID Pfizer booster on Saturday, January 8, 2022 from 9 a.m. to noon. Only Pfizer boosters will be administered at this clinic and you must register in advance.
Getting the COVID-19 vaccine and booster, if eligible, is more important than ever as we continue to battle COVID-19 and its variants. As COVID-19 runs rampant in our communities, our hospital systems are facing significant strain. Our hospitals have been operating at or near capacity for months and in recent weeks, we have seen increases in the number of COVID-19 patients needing care.
Olmsted County’s Parks department is looking forward to a new amphitheater at Chester Woods Park, pending a $338,800 grant.
Olmsted County Planning Advisory Commission
The 2022 budget for Olmsted County and the Housing and Redevelopment Authority (HRA) combined totals $281,915,654. Of this total, $116,757,218 is funded with county and HRA property taxes of $112,822,877 and $3,934,341 respectively. The remaining $165,158,436 of our budget comes from intergovernmental revenues, charges for services, transportation taxes, bond proceeds, reserves, interest income, and other miscellaneous sources. The county’s $112,822,877 property tax is a 4.9% increase over 2021.
The Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) announced today that Olmsted County, in partnership with Hennepin, Wabasha, and Wright counties and Code for America, received the DHS Circle of Excellence Award. Organizations receiving the award have, according to DHS, “done an exemplary job of providing access to food, health care and other assistance to Minnesotans in need.”
Olmsted County Public Health Services (OCPHS), Mayo Clinic, and Olmsted Medical Center (OMC) encourage the public to continue following COVID-19 precautions throughout the holiday season.