Reminder! Parking Restrictions and Snow Removal
It is coming up on that time of year again! Snow!
REMINDER
TO THE RESIDENTS OF ORTONVILLE: PARKING
RESTRICTIONS ON CITY STREETS BETWEEN NOVEMBER 1ST
AND MAY 1ST
In accordance with City Ordinances, no person, except physicians on emergency calls or other
such emergency personnel, shall park any vehicle on any street or avenue in the City of
Ortonville between November 1st and May 1st after a snowfall with an accumulation of two
inches (2″) or more of snow. Vehicles parked on the street in these circumstances will be towed.
Parking may be resumed on individual streets and avenues as soon as the snow has been
removed from these streets and avenues.
Property owners are responsible for removing snow from their sidewalks within 48 hours of a
three inches (3″) or more snowfall. If snow has not been removed from sidewalks after a snowfall of
three inches or more, the City will remove the snow and bill the property owner.
Downtown business owners are responsible for removing snow from their sidewalks within 12
hours of a snowfall. If not removed, the City will remove and bill the property owner.
BY ORDER of the
ORTONVILLE CITY COUNCIL
The video below is taken from the 2018/19 Winter Season – it is quite a process to remove snow with our hills.
Ortonville – Small Cities Development Program
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January 2022 Update Page!
Thank you to all who have already responded by completing a pre-Application for the Small Cities Development Program (SCDP) – with those applications, the City of Ortonville has been approved to make a full application for the grant program. As Krist Fernholz of the Upper Minnesota Valley Regional Commission completes the full application, we are reaching out to the community to see if there is additional interest in this program – some that may not have heard of the program or others that may have missed the short deadline for the previous interest/application process. Below is the information for the program and how to submit your interest form.
The city of Ortonville, working with the Upper Minnesota Regional Development Commission (UMVRDC), is looking to apply for a grant from the Small Cities Development Program (SCDP) through the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED). This grant is for funds to help property owners rehab their buildings.
The SCDP program is set up to help homeowners by offering grants based on household size and income. Eligible homeowners could apply for up to $25,000 per home for eligible rehab projects such as gutters, windows, doors, siding, insulations, electrical, heating/furnace, water heater, fuse box replacement, energy efficiency improvements, plumbing, roofing, foundation, safety improvements, accessibility improvements, lead testing and removal, and building code violations. Commercial building owners could be eligible for up to $40,000 for the same types of rehab.
The SCDP grant is meant to help small cities in Minnesota help keep their current housing and to make sure commercial properties are safe, healthy, and affordable by assisting low to moderate-income individuals and reduce substandard commercial buildings.
How can you help make this program possible in Ortonville?
The city needs feedback from Ortonville residents to show there are enough eligible property owners interested in the program. If you have a need for any of the items listed above, please complete a short survey (links & info below) so that we can present the need in our community for this grant program – the more surveys completed the better chance of our community receiving the grant funds for this program. There will be an informational meeting on January 20th at 5:30 at the Ortonville Community Center if you’d like to ask questions and complete the interest form at that time.
A short timeline of this process:
- Deadline for Interest Forms is February 10th
- The full application is due March 11th
- Grant notifications will be early summer, likely July
- Project implementation & administration November/December
- Projects to be completed within three years
To complete the survey online click on one of the following:
Commercial Online Form
Below are links to print a PDF and handwrite & drop off at the City Office by Noon on November 11th.
Homeowner/Resident SurveyPDF print and bring to City Office LINK
Commercial Survey PDF Print/Bring to City Office LINK
If you have questions, you can contact Kristi Fernholz from the UMVRDC at 320-289-1981 x106 or [email protected]. or Vicki Oakes from the Ortonville EDA at 320-839-6155 or [email protected].
Child Care CORE Team Initial Meeting Scheduling
So, let’s get started by scheduling the first meeting. This initial meeting will take one full day if we meet in person and will be scheduled for a two-day session if we go with the online meeting. Please complete the form below & submit!
Tree Branch & Leaf Pickup
The Ortonville High school in cooperation with the Ortonville clean-up committee is offering a one-day tree branch and leaf service to citizens of Ortonville.
The School has setup an online form to complete at this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfcmzVvF2R8POJz7kr2K23w8wx_MmWtFoPdttf68puywO6XbA/viewform
RelaxURhere.com
relaxurhere.com – Our community landing page. If you’re just visiting or passing through, this is a great page to start – scroll down for links to check out the Chamber link, shopping, our 18-hole golf course, housing, employment, our City owned/Sanford Managed Hospital, Clinic, and senior housing and more!
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Site Map
Thank you!
And thank you to Tonya Barnhardt for sharing some photos of the work!
https://www.facebook.com/tonya.barnhardt.9/posts/4620164981343662
Parks: Do you have an Idea and/or Recommendation?
We’ve listed the Parks below along with the areas that are maintained. When giving your idea or recommendation (or both on multiple parks!), please include which park you’d like to see the activity within. We appreciate you taking the time to let us know your thoughts!
The Park System has one Fulltime Employee, meet Dave Davis!
Dave manages all the mowing, restroom cleaning, and projects for the parks listed below. He also mows all properties throughout town that are abandoned or do not mow according to the City Ordinance. Dave also maintains various open spaces – the water plant, city shop, substation area by Monarch Heights, water tower area, open space along First Street across from the flag park area, the open lot to the north of the hardware store across from the Fire Hall, the Welcome Sign area, the upper and lower parking lots (I’ve likely missed some of the open spaces!)
Lakeside Park
Foot of Lake Landing Area
Open Space behind Hartman’s
Old Water Plant Space
Pier Park
Pool Park
Peninsula Park
Peninsula Landing Area
Nielson Park
Central Park
Northside Ball Field Park
Riverside Camping
Dog Park (new 2021)
Flag Park Area
Skate Park (Rink)
Wells Park
City-Wide Cleanup Day
Attention residents of the City of Ortonville! On May 14 and May 15, the City will conduct the Annual Cleanup Ortonville Day! The City will provide several large dumpsters in which you may bring many of those things you have been wanting to get rid of but just didn’t know where to take them.
The dumpsters will be located at the city shop on Highway75 located between Casey’s Diesel Pumps and Ortonville Independent building.
Proof of residency will be required at the time of drop-off. A copy of a utility bill with an Ortonville address is an example of such proof.
Items that will be accepted will include mattresses, old furniture, other wood items, metal toys, bicycles, and other metal items as well as appliances such as stoves, water heaters, dryers, washing machines. A maximum of 4 auto tires per household will also be accepted.
Items that will NOT be accepted will be refrigerators, freezers, microwaves, construction material, electronics, paint, solvents, garbage, and tree limbs, branches, and other vegetative waste. Please note, tree branches and yard wastes can be disposed of at the city tree dump on scheduled days. The City tree dump is open every Saturday during the Month of May. Please call the City office for times (320-839-3428)
If you have items for the Ortonville Cleanup, you must provide the information on the PDF form (link below) to the City Offices at 315 Madison Avenue by Wednesday, May 12th, 2021. ADVANCED REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.
Drop-off may be done Friday, May 14 between 9 AM and 3 PM and Saturday, May 15th between 10 AM and 1 PM.
Anyone willing to volunteer your time to help load/unload items at the dropoff site, please call 320-839-3862 no later than May 8th. We want our city to be a place we can all be proud of and show our many visitors that come here for fishing, hunting, festivals, class reunions, etc. that our citizens take pride in the beautiful part of the world that we call home. We hope to make this an annual event so please consider volunteering!!
2021 Cleanup FORM PDF (download, complete & turn in to the City office)
Southwest Power Pool Calls Emergency Alert Level 3
Missouri River Energy Services (MRES) was notified that the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) declared an Energy Emergency Alert (EEA) Level 3 starting this morning at 6:15 a.m. The emergency alert means that electric generation in the region is not sufficient to meet the extreme and widespread demand for electricity. SPP began temporarily shutting down power, otherwise known as rolling blackouts, which will reduce demand on the system. MRES had hoped to provide advance notice to its members but SPP was unable to notify us in time.
… SPP remains in an Emergency Alert Level 3 because they are still operating below required minimum reserves. Therefore, MRES asks that its member municipal utilities do whatever they can to reduce power usage in their communities, such as requesting that customers voluntarily reduce electric usage by delaying running the dishwasher and clothes washer, turning down the heat, and shutting off lights.