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Mayor and City Council:

• Member contact information

City Departments: Administration Department

• Responsible for financial activities, personnel activities, elections, communication, and general government administration

Building Department

• Oversees all residential and commercial building permits within the city

Engineering Department

• Responsible for planning, design, management, and construction of city infrastructure

Planning and Zoning

• Responsible for adhering to the city's planning and zoning codes and subdivision regulations

Public Works

• Repairs and maintains city parks, streets, street sweeping, street light maintenance, storm and sewer systems, traffic signs, and water system

Medicare Savings Programs have four sub-programs:

• Qualified Disabled and Working Individuals (QDWI): Helps pay for Part A premiums only. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply.

• Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB): Helps pay for Part A and B premiums as well as deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply.

• Qualifying Individual (QI): Helps pay for Part B premiums only. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply.

• Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary (SLMB): Helps pay for Part B premiums only. Monthly income limits for individuals and married couples apply. Monthly income limits and countable resource limits apply for individuals and married couples. Countable resource include money in a checking or savings account, stocks, and bonds. A home, one car, a burial plot, $1,500 in burial expenses (if the amount is put aside), furniture, and other household, and personal items do not apply for the resource limit. Generally under these programs, premiums are put back into the monthly Social Security check making participants' monthly income increase, which takes a couple months to process.

Emergency medicine for severe and life-threatening situations that require immediate medical attention including:

• Bleeding that's not controllable

• Broken bones

• Chest pain

• Heart emergencies, including heart attack and cardiac arrest

• Major allergic reactions

• Poisoning

• Serious burns

• Severe breathing problems

• Stroke

• Traumatic injuries, especially head injuries

Provides nutritional education and supplemental foods to promote good health for pregnant, breastfeeding, and postpartum women and children ages from birth - 5. Services include:

• Breastfeeding support

• Food vouchers for specific nutritious food items and a list of grocery stores

• Referral to other county and community resources

Provides financial education and housing services to support economic stability, wealth-building, and homeownership in the African American community. Services include:

• Financial Wellness: Programs focused on budgeting, debt reduction, credit building, and long-term financial planning

• Homebuyer Education - "Realizing the American Dream": Provides a nationally recognized curriculum covering readiness, budgeting, credit, mortgages, home search, closing, and post-purchase responsibilities

• Prepurchase Counseling: One-on-one counseling to guide participants through mortgage options, budgeting, and the homebuying process for informed, sustainable homeownership

• Loan programs for low and moderate income homeowners to make repairs and improvements to existing homes

• Weatherization Program: Provides grants to energy assistance clients to make their homes more efficient

Comprehensive therapy and skills help individuals decrease symptoms and maintain safety. Program teach mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness skills that improve quality of life. Programs are Minnesota Department of Human Services certified and accredited nationally as a provider of DBT. Adult DBT Programs:

• Adults age 18 and older
• Comprehensive intensive outpatient, standard DBT, and one-day weekly options are available, based on level of need.
• Coordinated care with other community providers
• Aftercare program is available.

Adolescent DBT Program:

• Ages 14 - 18
• Meets twice weekly
• Monthly parent education component (optional)

Early Adolescent DBT Program:

• Ages 12 - 14
• Meets twice weekly
• Weekly parent/caregiver involvement (required)

Horizons DBT Program:

• For individuals with mental health issues as well as developmental challenges
• DBT presented at a basic level
• Meets three times weekly

• Provides prescription help for persons 65 or older and eligible for medicare. - For information call Senior Linkage Line

Small claims court where citizens may sue any resident of Carver County or company located in Carver County who owes him/her money (maximum claim of $19,000). Settlement of disputes.

Responsibilities of the County Attorney's Office include:

• Adult prosecution

• Child custody decrees

• Child protection cases

• Child support and paternity matters

• Civil advice

• Family services

• Juvenile prosecution

• Pursuing improvement and prevention: Plays an important role in seeking new laws to strengthen law enforcement, criminal justice, child protection, victim's rights, and other areas. Also participates in efforts to prevent or reduce crime in the local communities and statewide.

• Victim/Witness Assistance

Helps individuals and families with low incomes (including temporary low incomes) get the food they need for nutritious and well-balanced meals. Provides extra support to help stretch a household's food budget - it is not meant to cover all the groceries a family needs. Monthly benefits are loaded on an Electronic Benefit Transfers (EBT) card, which looks and works like a debit card. The card can be used to buy groceries at authorized stores, farmers markets, and online retailers. Learn more about where to shop and what can be bought. The amount of benefits received is based on income, expenses, and number of people in the household. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Employment and Training (SNAP E&T) program provides free employment and education training and support for people getting SNAP benefits. SNAP E&T participants gain support, skills, training, or experience to reach their goals. Many organizations, including technical and community colleges, community-based organizations, county agencies, tribes, and CareerForce Centers provide SNAP E&T programs and services. Programs can include carer planning, job search, training for in-demand jobs, student support, financial support, and continued support once a participant has a job.

Provides state-funded food assistance to legal noncitizens ages 50 or older who do not qualify for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly called Food Stamps or Food Support) because of their citizenship status. Monthly benefits are loaded on an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card, which looks and works like a debit card. The card can be used to buy groceries at authorized stores, farmers markets, and online retailers. Learn more about where to shop and what can be bought. The amount of benefits received is based on income, expenses, and number of people in the household.

Independent and assisted living services, including:

• 24-hour on-site staff

• Activities

• Beauty and barber shop

• Community, guest suites, and dining room

• Dogs under 35 pounds, cats, fish, and birds are welcome

• Elevators and laundry facilities

• ER system throughout the building

• Heat, sewer, trash, and water included in rent (electricity covered for Assisted Living)

• Home Health Care services

• Indoor heated garage parking

• Library

• Lunch and dinner offered 7 days a week (breakfast added for Assisted Living)

• No mandatory meal program

• Park and lake with walking paths within one mile

• Religious services offered

• Secured building with 24-hour front desk staff

• Transportation to scheduled events, medical appointments, and grocery stores at no charge

• Walkway to the drugstore within the building

A twice-a-year program held in January and October offers several free services for guests to access in the same place. These services include but are not limited to:

• Assistance with Minnesota birth certificates

• Chair massages

• Free lunch

• Foot care

• Hair trims

?- Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) testing

• Warrant resolution and driver diversion

• Vaccines

Mayor and City Council Member Contact Information: Visit the website https://atwatermn.gov/council Departments:

• Clerk/Treasurer

• Public works

• Recreation

• Active Teens (fitness sessions)

• Basketball

• E-sports

• Flag football

• Girls' basketball camp

• Lego League

• PeeWee ball

• Soccer

• Softball

• Summer day camps

• T- ball

• Volleyball

• Weight lifting grades seven and eight

• Y Scramblers (Rock Climbing)

Cash-grant program for adults with low incomes experiencing a household emergency. Adults can receive assistance once every 12 months. The assistance received must resolve the crisis. Adults must use their own money first. The amount of assistance provided might not cover the entire emergency, but it can help. Emergency General Assistance provides short-term, one-time assistance for persons in a financial crisis because of fire, flood, storm, illness, accident, theft, utility shut-off, eviction, foreclosure, moving expense, necessary home repairs, or need for furniture or appliance replacement or repair.

The community center offers an intimate setting for the public, such as:

• Congregate meals for the public for breakfast and lunch. Also, offers frozen and home-delivered meals.

• Party room rentals for small parties or events

• Charity Care: Offers financial help to patients who cannot pay all or part of their medical bills. 50-100% of the bill may be paid.

• Pharmacy Assistance Fund: Provides one-time (once a year) prescription assistance to patients experiencing financial hardship. Request must not exceed $500.

• Uninsured Discount: Provides a discount on medically-needed services for uninsured patients

Services are victim-centered, which means individuals will guide their own process, make their own decisions, and have staff provide information, support, and referrals. Services include:

• Advocacy: Assistance in obtaining Emergency Protective Orders, Permanent Restraining Orders, Stalking/Harassment Orders, Temporary Restraining Orders, housing, community services, and medical appointments

• Confidentiality

• Community education and professional training

• Crisis line

• Emergency Services: Transportation to medical facilities, law enforcement, safe housing, etc.

• Individual and group support

• Prevention and/or Rapid Rehousing: Services provided by the Family Homeless Prevention and Assistance Program - FHPAP

• Safety planning

Professional therapists provide counseling sessions for individuals

Elder services include the following:

• Monthly newsletters to keep communication available on planned activities (i.e. concerts, pow-wows, etc.) and other information

• Nutritious meals served Monday - Friday at Nett Lake and Vermilion Community Centers with home-delivered meals available to elders who are unable to go to the sites

• Transportation for shopping monthly

?- Wisdom Steps Program: Preventative health program. Encourages elders to actively participate in programs that promote health screenings, health education, healthy living activities and evidence-based health programs. Elders who become members of the program and complete a minimum of 46,000 steps per year, and complete health screenings and exams become eligible to attend the annual Wisdom Steps Conference Free of charge. Participants earn incentives and recognition at the conference for their work towards becoming healthy and the number of steps that they walk during the year through a Tier system.

Provides financial wellness counseling including creating a budget, understanding credit, and making plans to reach financial goals. Provides free, 1 or 2 day financial wellness class utilizing the FDIC Money Smart curriculum that covers a variety of topics, including budgeting, money management, how to access and understand your credit report, how to manage your credit history and debt, and how to protect your identity and assets. Class materials are provided and offered virtually via Teams.

Provides investigative services in city law enforcement matters. Priority is placed on violent crimes such as sexual assault, assault, robbery, and death investigations. Assists with theft and identity theft.

Helps people develop skills and knowledge to improve their lives and communities. Offers a variety of programs for learners of all ages. Class offerings include babysitting safety courses, cooking classes, CPR certification classes, driver's education, extended day program to expand students' learning opportunities, first aid certification classes, sports and recreational activities, swimming lessons, youth enrichment programs, and more.