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The SHIP grant has ended for Freeborn County but Kehr is staying there until the start of the new year so she and her cronies can suck it dry.

I'm sure not getting the grant had nothing to do with how the Chamber was using it as free money for every business that stuck their hand out.

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$1,067 to Riverland College*

$1,000 to Alamco*

$1,000 to Zumbro River Brands*

$2,000 to Cargill

$1500 to the Albert Lea Freeborn County Chamber of Commerce

$530 to The Children’s Center*

$2,000 to Alliance Benefit Group*

$1,000 to Freeborn Mower*

$500 to City of Albert Lea

$2,000 to Lou Rich

$4,000 to Trails Travel Center

$7,000 to District #241*

$4,000 Albert Lea Medical Center*

$1,000 Albert Lea Family Y*

$1,000 Thorncrest Retirement Center*

$1,000 Mrs Gerry’s Kitchen

$1,000 Interstate Packaging

$5,000 Albert lea Select Foods

$2,915 Freeborn County

*Tobacco Free Grounds

All further Worksite Grants will be listed here.


How is it that Mrs Gerry's only gets $1000 and the Chamber got $1500 with only a couple employees. Of course our elected officials don't have the balls to look into that, they wouldn't want to offend the chamber. Then again if our elected officials had a set she wouldn't have ever been put in that position in the first place.

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State and local officials announced last week Freeborn County will not receive funding in 2012 through the Statewide Health Improvement Program.

The Minnesota Department of Health awarded 18 grants — covering 51 counties, four cities and one tribal government — to receive funding totaling about $11.3 million.

The Goodhue region — made up of Freeborn County and nine other southeastern Minnesota counties — was not awarded.

“I think it just geographically and financially wasn’t in our favor,” said Ellen Kehr, Freeborn County SHIP coordinator. “We were all very disappointed, but the funding was cut back so dramatically there was just not enough to cover all of the counties in the state.”

SHIP, first signed into law in 2008, seeks to reduce heart disease, cancer, diabetes and other chronic diseases related to insufficient physical activity, poor nutrition and commercial tobacco use.

Since July 2009, Freeborn County has received a total of $260,000 through the SHIP program, of which $160,000 has gone toward grants, $80,000 toward salaries and $20,000 toward marketing materials.

SHIP money has gone toward everything ranging from disc golf courses, to bike lanes to trail signage. It has also supported healthy eating in the county’s school districts, worksite wellness and even school gardens — much through local partnerships with organizations such as the National Vitality Center and Pioneering Healthier Communities.

Kehr said she and others will continue to find ways to build on the projects that have already been completed. She hopes that at some time SHIP funding will again be available to everyone in the state.

“I believe we can still move forward,” she said. “We’re all about action in Albert Lea. The question is whether we will move forward as quickly as we have been.”

Kehr’s SHIP position will end at the close of the year.

http://www.albertleatribune.com/2011...locally


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Let me get this straight. They take our tax money and give it to corporations and Kehr gets 1 of every 3 dollars for handing it out?

Why that sounds like an awful deal for taxpayers. Why are we doing this?


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If the grant money has dried up why is she being allowed to continue working until the end of the year? She should have been gone they day after we found out that we were not getting the SHIP grant money.

Someone needs to get a copy of the books and see exactly how much money she funneled to her husband at the Chamber.

You know the local media should be questioning how much went to the Chamber if for no other reason than the Workplace Wellness Grant where the Chamber got nearly 3X as much as The Children's Center. Of course as long as the publisher sits on the Chamber's board they know that they don't have anything to worry about.


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Let's start out this way.

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$2,000 to Lou Rich
Doug Olson, Lou-Rich (Chamber Board Chair)
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$4,000 Albert Lea Medical Center*
Virginia Larson, Mayo Clinic Health System Albert Lea (Vice Chair)
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$1,067 to Riverland College*
Steve Bowron, Riverland Community College (Past Chair)
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$1,000 to Freeborn Mower*
Jim Krueger, Freeborn-Mower Cooperative Services (2nd Vice Chair)

That's everyone of the executive Chamber Committee of the Chamber of Horror.

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Let me get this straight. They take our tax money and give it to corporations and Kehr gets 1 of every 3 dollars for handing it out?

Why that sounds like an awful deal for taxpayers. Why are we doing this?

I'm honestly surprised that after County Commissioner Belshan pointed this out earlier this year that we paid her that much to disburse perhaps about 3x what she was paid, there wasn't more of a reaction.  Instead, just crickets chirping.

SHIP is not a non-profit, but still to think that admin costs of this program were a good 25% to 33% of the budget, that would get a FAIL from any charity review board.  Nobody should have to spend that much on admin overhead to give away money.

And just as our local fishwrap looks the other way, most elected officials didn't say a word lest they offend one of their own, since a city council member was the SHIP administrator.

As long as this town chooses to keep the same inbred people in office, nothing will change.
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Or the Worksite Wellness Committee...

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Worksite Wellness Committee


Brad Arends, Alliance Benefit Group
$2,000 to Alliance Benefit Group*

Sue Berg, Lou-Rich, Inc.
$2,000 to Lou Rich


Dennis Dieser, Albert Lea Family Y
$1,000 Albert Lea Family Y*

Trent Gordon, Trail's Travel Center
$4,000 to Trails Travel Center

Patti Hareid, Mayo Clinic Health System Albert Lea
$4,000 Albert Lea Medical Center*

Weston Hulst, Thorne Crest Retirement Center
$1,000 Thorncrest Retirement Center*

Judy Jensen, Freeborn - Mower Cooperative Services
$1,000 to Freeborn Mower*

Faye Madson, ALAMCO Wood Products, Inc.
$1,000 to Alamco*

Teri Rauenhorst, Riverland Community College
$1,067 to Riverland College*

Erin Sauer, Mrs. Gerry's Kitchen
$1,000 Mrs Gerry’s Kitchen

Molly Urness, Cargill Balue Added Meats


http://www.albertlea.org/committee.htm


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Well, when you figure Kehr got 1/3 of all those dollar  figures and those figures are just part of it, it looks like her SHIP came in.

This SHIP thing is really proof that our system is out of control. When we vote to tax ourselves and then hand out money like this it doesn't even make any sense.


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working to promote health and wellness is a good idea in any community.
but why did it have to be a PAID position?
working together and collaborating with other non profits, businesses, and healthcare facilities and other diciplines could have been done on a VOLUNTEER basis!  plus it could have involved a whole lot more people in the community other than department heads!
they could have used students from ALL the area schools to spread the word and organize promotional teams to get out there and promote health and wellness.  generally people DO like to be involved and be a part of something they can feel good about, but this community never seems to utilize its real talent...the citizens!!!


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 generally people DO like to be involved and be a part of something they can feel good about, but this community never seems to utilize its real talent...the citizens!!!

Course not.  Once some of these local primadonnas got elected, they think don't have to listen anymore cause they got all the answers.
What they fail to realize is that when (not if) the revolution comes, they'll be the first ones against the proverbial wall.
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Constituents have asked me why Freeborn County has hired a Coordinator through Express Personnel for the SHIP  (State Health Improvement Program) grant, without opening it to the public, or internally assigning the job and saving money for the County.  This $27 per hour ($56,160 per year) position loses $6 per hour to Express Personnel to handle the payroll.  I called and/or emailed each county to see what they did.  Here are the results.

None of the other Counties below told a temp service to interview only one  applicant to apply for the job, as was done by our now retired County Nurse . This circumvented the Equal Opportunity Employment Act and created the wasteful spending situation we  inherited.  



COUNTY                       QUALIFICATION                              HIRING PROCEDURE  

 Freeborn  3 yrs study Sociology&SpEd  only 1 applicant allowed to apply

Wabasha                      Public Health Nurse                               internally assigned
Dodge               Masters degree health promotion         Open to public 15 applied

Mower                       Public Health Nurse                                     Open to public

Fillmore           Degree in Health Education                         internally assigned
Houston          Masters in Public Health                                internally assigned
Steele                Masters in Health Science              contract &  internally assigned
Goodhue          Degree Community Health             Open to Public 30 Applied

Olmsted              Health Educator Degree             Internal & Open to Public

Waseca         Health Education Degree                     Open to Public

LeSueur      Health Education Degree                       Open to Public

Nicollet        Public Health Educator            Open to Public  & internally
Brown            Public Health Educators          Open to Public & internally
Martin                      Masters Degree                              Open to Public

Faribault                  Masters Degree                              Open to Public

Watonwan              Masters Degree                                Open to Public

Anoka                      Public Health Nurse Degree         Open to Public

Goodhue                 Degree  in Public Health              Open to Public

Blue Earth                BS Community Health                Opened internally
Cottonwood          Health Educator Degree           Opened to Public

Jackson                   Health Educator Degree            Opened to Public

Redwood                Health Educator Degree             Opened to Public

Renville                   Health Educator Degree             Opened to Public

Nobles                   Public Health Degree          Opened to Public  10 Applied

Rock                       Public Health Degree                Opened to Public

Pipestone            Health Educator                        Opened to Public 20 Applied

Lyon                     Health Educator                         Opened to Public

Lincoln                Health Educator                          Opened to Public

Murray                Health Educator                           Opened to Public

Carlton                Bachelors Degree                         Internally Assigned
St. Louis             Bachelors Degree                 Opened to Public & Internal
Koochiching    Health Educator                    Opened to Public filled Vacancy

Cook                  Bachelors Degree                            Opened to Public

Lake                   Bachelors Degree                        Opened to Public

Aitkin              Bachelors Degree                            Opened to Public

Itasca              Bachelors Degree                            Opened to Public

Had we internally assigned (like some counties listed above ) and asked volunteers from a public committee (appointed by the County Board) to recommend grant receipients. We could have utilized another $100,000 of  grant money instead of spending it on salaries and marketing.



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