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Collection of Noteworthy CNG Documents

This is a list of documents that are deemed to be important to preservation a background knowledge of CNG. The list is sorted by date of creation. You can change the sort order by clicking on the column heading.
Creation Date Title Description Item Type
Oct 22, 2013 09:22 AM Community Initiatives Group Mtg Rpt 10-17-13, Draft (1).pdf Steve Borchardt's Summary of RAF meeting File
Nov 22, 2013 08:43 AM Community Planning Document of Understanding (Version 0.1) A Document of Understanding proposed by initial group File
Dec 11, 2013 09:54 AM Review comments snapshot Comments on DOU File
Dec 13, 2013 12:13 PM Who's who and attendance log Early year attendance log Page
Oct 06, 2014 09:16 PM DMC Community Conversations Summary Report Draft Final 7 19 14 CNG steering committee keeping a copy of Destination Medical Center's forum conversations summary for possible baseline use. File
Oct 13, 2014 05:38 PM Harwood Institute Notes from Audrey Betcher Audrey's notes after she had conversations with Harwood Institute about community engagement framework File
Oct 16, 2014 06:25 PM Memo Harwood Institute in Rochester 10 A letter from Harwood in response to CNG request for scope of work File
Dec 09, 2014 08:45 AM CNG Facilitation November 2014 v1 (1) Elaine Case facilitates CNG retreat File
Dec 18, 2014 09:42 PM CNG Facilitation November 2014 Initial Results v1 CNG vision workshops facilitated by Elaine Case File
Apr 09, 2015 09:49 AM Resilience Capacity Index Model Suggested by Sheila as a good example of community resiliency metrics Page
Apr 16, 2015 05:04 PM CNG Agency Letter to DMCC: Importance of Social Determinants Of Health CNG signatories include: Diversity Council, United Way, Area Foundation, NAMI, Senior Center, Families Services, Y, Olmsted Couty Community Services, Aldrich Nursery, Rochester Public Library, American Cancer Society, Recovery is Happening, Fernbrook Famil Center, CHannel One, Boys and Girls File
May 28, 2015 09:12 AM May 2015 Planning to Succeed Presentation File
Oct 28, 2015 06:08 AM CNG Agency Client Transit Needs Survey Results Data made available to public sector transportatation planning professionals as they roll up various information sources to feed into their plan document construction. Page
Feb 24, 2016 05:53 PM CNG Request for City Funding for Community Dashboard CNG supporting city funding request for Community Dashboard. Result: Olmsted County and Rochester City both provide funding support to add Public Sector support for this work and supplements social sector funders: United Way and Rochester Area Foundation. Page
Mar 17, 2016 08:20 PM Dashboard Gains/Pains Summary CNG convening an agencies discussion on community dashboard needs that go beyond initial baseline template of 2016. Page
Apr 26, 2016 01:17 PM P2S: Rochester 2040 Comprehesive Plan (March 28 2016 Updates) Sheila took CNG through salient points (Healthy Community, Transportation, etc) from this presentation deck. Page
Apr 27, 2016 05:48 PM Healthy Community Design Principles CNG help elaboration of recommendations from the Olmsted County Public Health Services Advisory Board Incorporating Healthy Community Design Principles into the Rochester Comprehensive Plan to the Olmsted County Community Health Board: Page
Apr 28, 2016 09:51 PM CNG Transportation Survey Report Jennifer Woodford who leads the CNG Transit subgroup took CNG through the Transit Survey results. Result: CNG transit subgroup provided data that reinforces the importance of multi-node transit system. Page
Jun 19, 2016 03:17 PM Workforce Challenges Survey Results The following is 2016-06-21 results from CNG questions regarding non-profit workforce challenges. Data prep'ed panalists to tailor their talks. Page
Jun 27, 2016 08:36 AM Community Dashboard Contract CNG Steering Committee working with the CNG community at large and funders of community dashboard executed a contract with Wilder Research on producing a community dashboard for Olmsted County. Page
Aug 17, 2016 03:27 PM Rochester Olmsted Compass Point 2016 1st Draft of Rochester Olmsted Compass Points (Community Dashboard) - reviewed with CNG large group. Page
Oct 27, 2016 04:51 PM 2016 Compass Points for City of Rochester and Olmsted County Official release of 2016 Compass Points (Community Dashboard) of Rochester and Olmsted County Page
Feb 09, 2017 10:38 AM Feb 2017 CNG Transit Focus Meeting Notes Bryan Law's presentation and info link and misc notes Page
Dec 20, 2017 07:58 AM December 2017 CNG Steering Committee Meeting Notes File
Dec 21, 2017 11:19 AM White Board Capture of Convesations with Rochester City Administrator Page
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Del Webb Senior Housing

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