Our monthly spotlight series,
this month: Albert Lea
Over the next several months, the APA Minnesota website will feature news and information from cities, townships and counties across the State of Minnesota. If you have an idea for a spotlight feature, please contact Trisha Rosenfeld: trisharosenfeld@msn.com.
APA Minnesota Spotlight on Minnesota: Albert Lea, Bob Graham
The Minnesota Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA Minnesota) is a non-profit statewide organization of over 900 planning professionals, educators, local officials and planning commissioners who are involved in planning-related activities on behalf of state and regional agencies, counties, cities, towns, educational institutions and the private sector.
Planning involves the use of many tools, including economic and demographic analysis, natural and cultural resource evaluation, goal-setting, visioning and strategizing.
Besides being the only profession specially trained to look at how these elements fit together, planners bring something more. Planners can offer options so communities & citizens can achieve their vision of the future.
Attention all Planning Commissions, Boards or Councils:
Do you have a need to know what is going on with planning in Minnesota? Do you wish the opportunity
to attend seminars or Brown Bag Lunches or conferences at a reduced rate to help you with your
work as a commissioner? As we have done in the past few years, APA Minnesota is again offering
a reduced membership fee for your entire planning commission or board. The usual fee of $150
dollars is being reduced until February 29, 2012, and instead, the fee will be only $100 dollars for the
registration of your entire planning commission. (Or an individual Planning Commissioner can become
a member for $30 dollars.) This limited membership will also give our Minnesota Citizen Planners
a chance to attend our educational events and conferences. In addition, if your commission is new
to our chapter, you will receive free a CD with the latest version of our Citizen Planner Handbook. If
you are a returning commission, you will receive any updates from 2011 to add to the Handbook you
received last year. Anyone interested in this membership, please contact the APA Minnesota office at
mnapa@buffleheadweb.net or call 1-888-882-5369 for an application.
