City Council Meeting Date: June 3, 2025
To: Mayor and City Council
From: Ben Martig, City Administrator
Brenda Angelstad, Finance Director
Title
Consider Resolution Amending Budget for 2024 and 2025 related to Northfield Hospitals + Clinics (NH+C) recreation donations.
Body
Action Requested:
The Northfield City Council is being asked to consider a resolution to approve a budget amendment for 2024 and 2025 related to Northfield Hospitals + Clinics (NH+C) recreation donations.
Note: Approval requires a supermajority (5/7) votes from the City Council.
Summary Report:
The City Council is being asked to approve an amendment to the 2024 and 2025 budget related to recreation contributions from the Northfield Hospitals + Clinics (NH+C) that will not be received.
The City and NH+C have had an agreement where the NH+C would contribute to community health or youth initiative or both. The previous agreement ran through 2022. City staff and NH+C staff have been working on an updated agreement since 2023.
With the financial hardships that the medical field has experienced in recent years, NH+C have decided they will be unable to offer their planned contributions for 2023, 2024 and 2025. The intent had been to agree to pay this amount even late into 2024. So, this was an unforeseen change in the processing that had been discussed previously. However, continued financial challenges lead to the determination in early 2025 to not continue for this time period.
The following is a reference to the "Northfield City + Hospital Playbook: best practices to guide an enduring and effective partnership" that has been adopted by the City Council and Hospital Board as it relates to the contribution (highlighted in yellow):
Financial Contribution from Hospital to City
Gifts need to comply with restrictions in the City Charter, City Ordinance and any other laws, or compliance rules, and are subject to the operational financial health of the medical center in any given ...
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