County Briefs
Published Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Shorland ordinance
Land & Resource Director Bill Kalar informed the county board that the revised Shoreland Management Ordinance will be effective May 1, 2008. A public hearing for lake reclassifications will be held at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, June, 3, at the county board room in the Government Services Center.
Work release
County Detention Facility Administrator Richard Akerman recommended, and the county commission concurred, the extension of a work release program in coordination with the State of Minnesota. The extension runs from July 1, 2008, to June 30, 2009.
Under certain conditions, an incarcerated individual can serve the final six months of his or her term — with the state reimbursing the county — under a work release program in Otter Tail County. In most cases the inmate would be released to work during the day and return to the detention center at night.
In these cases, Otter Tail County works with the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC).
Earth Day
The County Board went on record in recognizing Tuesday, April 22, as Earth Day. The late U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson, Wisconsin, is responsible for having developed Earth Day. Each year, since 1970, celebrations of Earth Day have taken place in Minnesota and across the nation.
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