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Mayor and City Council:

• Member contact information

City Departments and Services:

• Administration: Oversees day to day operations of the City. Provides a variety of services, including holding elections, maintaining City records, assembling City Council agendas, and providing absentee ballots

• Community and Economic Development Department: Oversees the building department. Responsible for plan review, permitting (commercial and industrial building; commercial/industrial/multi-unit; commercial electrical; sewer and water; plumbing; mechanical; sign) and inspection of new construction.

• Environmental Resources

• Finance: Manages the City's finances, billing, and budget. Utility bills include fees for water, sanitary sewer, street lighting services, surface water management, and state testing.

• Lakeville Area Arts Center: Promotes cultural enrichment and artistic experiences for the community by offering youth and adult art classes including drawing, painting, as well as a variety of theatrical productions. Address located at 20965 Holyoke Avenue.

• Planning: Oversees short and long term land use, zoning, and residential development activities

• Provides dog licenses

• Public Works: Overses the Utilities Division Water Treatment Facility and Streets Division. Oversees the design, management, and construction of the City's infrastructure, including streets, drainage, sanitary sewer line, water lines, street lighting, and other projects to support residents and businesses. Responsible for maintenance, repair, snow removal, and ice control of City streets. Individuals should visit the website or call to report potholes.

Provides a licensed assisted living facility with a small-capacity residential setting (approximately 11-50 residents). Services include:

• Daily devotions/exercises

• Elderly and respite care

• Housekeeping

• Laundry

• Medications

• Nutritious meals

• Personal care

• Private and double rooms

• Recreation

• Registered Nurse on call

• Supervised independent living

• Transportation for medical appointments

Provides opioid addiction treatment and recovery services that may include a mix of the services below. Opioid addiction treatment specialists provide each patient with custom plans designed to support recovery.

• Counseling in individual, group, or family settings

• Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT): Methadone, buprenorphine, or Suboxone to address withdrawal symptoms and cravings

• Medical exams to ensure safety

• Medically supervised withdrawal

• Referrals to related resources

Partnership with the Greater Mankato Area United Way, Mankato Clinic and Mayo Clinic Health System - Mankato. The overall goals of the program are to help pregnant women have healthy babies, promote child health and development, and strengthen family self-sufficiency. The Coordinator is located within the obstetrics departments of the Mankato Clinic and Mayo Clinic Health System. The Coordinator serves pregnant women and families with young children (birth - Kindergarten age), offering them additional support, and connections to resources and supports within their community. First Steps Home Visiting provides support to families with children prenatally to 3 years of age with home visits focusing on education, health, and resources to strengthen the parent-child relationship.

Provides fresh and healthy foods to low income residents of the East Side of St. Paul. Utilizes a client choice model, participants shop for their specific needs while satisfying individual, family, and cultural preferences. Program provides both mobile food shelves and multicultural produce distributions. Eligible participants may use the food shelf once every calendar month.

Offered include independent skills training, guidance with daily living skills (such as: money management, home maintenance, health and nutrition, food preparation, transportation, socialization, community safety, and personal hygiene), and personal care services.

Adaptive Riding: Provides adaptive riding, and tier 2 adaptive riding is taught by PATH Certified Riding Instructors or therapists specialized to teach riding lessons to clients living with disabilities. Tier 2 adaptive riders are provided with additional levels of support to meet their individual needs.?? Hippotherapy Experiences: Provides hippotherapy in the purposeful manipulation of equine movement as a therapy tool to engage sensory, neuromotor, and cognitive systems to promote functional outcomes. Horsemanship Experiences: Horsemanship experiences are dependent on the individual and may include riding a horse with staff assistance, or it may include interacting with a horse in other ways including petting, feeding, or grooming. Additional Treatments include:

• Craniosacral therapy

• Home Programs

• Myofascial Massage

• Range of Motion Exercises

Licensed occupational therapists provide skilled therapeutic intervention during the entire therapy session. ?

Offers an outreach center. Services provided:

• Community resource information

• Food shelf with available food items to anyone in need. Accepts donations of food.

• Meals on Wheels program

A short-term, work-focused program that provides recipients with support in moving to unsubsidized employment and increased economic stability. Families must work with an Employment Services provider in order to remain eligible. The program is limited to a maximum of 4 consecutive months in a 12-month period.

Offers a nurse line available 24 hours/7 days a week for individuals who may need to speak with a nurse about medical care and where to go for care. Nurses can provide medical advice on what potential options are available such as virtual care, primary care, urgent care options, or seek emergency care if needed at a Sanford Health Systems location.

The Energy Assistance Program helps pay heat and electricity costs. Payments for energy bills are sent directly to the household's energy company or fuel provider for propane, fuel oil, or wood. Financial assistance varies depending on household income and fuel costs. The Energy Assistance Program provides additional grants for eligible households who need help with:

• Getting reconnected to heat and power after disconnections

• Paying for emergency fuel deliveries of propane, heating oil, or biofuel

• Preventing disconnection

• Some emergency heating fuel funding through Reach Out For Warmth (ROFW)

• Small grants (up to $500) for past-due energy payments

• Financial counseling, vendor negotiation, and advocacy for households in crisis

Weatherization Program: Free home energy audits, insulation, and heating system evaluation and repair as a cost-effective way of reducing energy bills ?Energy-related Repair Program

Direct Access allows individuals to go directly to a provider they choose to receive a comprehensive assessment and access care immediately. Services include:

• Assessing individuals who need help paying for a substance use assessment or treatment services through the Behavioral Health Fund

• Pre-petition screening for civil commitment

• Referrals to local community service providers for a substance use assessment or treatment services. Individuals may go to any provider of their choosing for the assessment and/or treatment

Provides help to improve reading, math, and writing skills, GED test preparation, and GED testing. Also offers citizenship classes and English as a Second Language.

Provides food, basic needs, and connections to other services for any school district family, as well as any low-income, food-insecure neighbor requesting assistance. Supplemental food supply (25 pounds per person in the family) for area residents available by appointment. Usage limited to once every 30 days.

Provides investigative and intervention services for child abuse, neglect, and/or abandonment. Services include:

• Accepts reports of alleged abuse or neglect

• Assessment the initial referral

• Consultation to individuals who suspect abuse

• Consultation with the family to determine the nature of the problem

• Dependency investigation

• Explanation of reporting statutes and answer questions regarding agency practices

• Ongoing support services for children and their families

• Temporary placement of children who are removed from the home

• Works with the family toward unification or reunification

Services including:

• Flu shots (October - March) for ages 6 and older, and shingles shot year round

• Local prescription delivery in Duluth only

• Pharmacists available during business hours to answer questions about medication

• Prescriptions or over-the-counter medications

• Safe medication disposal drop box

Provides inpatient and outpatient behavioral health care services including:

• Crisis care

• Medication management

• Psychiatry and psychology for adults and pediatrics

Provides services and resources to retain, attract, create, and expand businesses, and quality employment opportunities in Freeborn County. The Albert Lea Economic Development Agency consists of two separate agencies; the Albert Lea Port Authority and Greater Jobs Inc. Services include:

• Business membership

• Business development

• Business mentorship

• Entrepreneur services

• Opportunities for students

Discount home improvement stores that sell new and like-new furniture, appliances, building materials, and more. Inventory comes from donations of goods from people in the area and is always changing. Proceeds help build Habitat for Humanity homes in the Twin Cities area.

Provides legal advice on bankruptcy-related issues and full representation on qualifying Chapter 7 bankruptcies, Bankruptcy Adversary Proceedings, and student loan hardship discharges.

Provides a refugee and immigrant helpline that acts as a connection to helpful information, resources for jobs, food, health, housing, legal help, language classes, and services in the community.

Provides a support group to those living with diabetes. Group discussions are led by knowledgeable healthcare professionals and focus on topics such as nutrition, exercise, medication management, and emotional well-being.

• Jail

• 9-1-1 emergency service

• Civil process service

• Criminal investigation

• Minority and female internship program

• Neighborhood crime watch

• Child passenger safety seat inspections

• Foreclosure records

• Dive team

• Canine unit

• Computer forensics unit

• Court security

• Dakota County Drug Task Force

Prescription Drug Drop Off

• Individuals can safely and anonymously dispose of prescription drugs

• Medicines Accepted from Households: Prescription, over-the-counter and pet medications. No medicines from businesses, including health care facilities, long-term care facilities, pharmacies, doctors' offices, and veterinary clinics can be accepted.

• Group homes

• In-home support services for individuals who live in a home of their own, but still need some assistance. Individuals receive 2 - 6 hours of assistance each week, as determined by the Olmsted County Community Services Department. Some skills include: Budgeting, cleaning, cooking, managing medication, using public transportation, and other skills are provided as needed.

• Semi-Independent Living Skills Program (SILS) for individuals who live in their own home, or their family's home. Individuals receive 5 - 10 hours of assistance each week, as determined by the Olmsted County Community Services Department. Some skills include: Budgeting, cleaning, cooking, managing medication, using public transportation, and other skills are provided as needed.

• Toll-free information and referral helpline for all veterans and their families with information about medical treatment, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) counseling, benefits advocacy, food, shelter, employment, training, legal aid, suicide prevention, and more

• Resource center for information on Veterans Affairs benefits, employment, and events?

• Employment job opportunity postings