City of Bloomington, MN The BUZZ 2023, 25 May 2023

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From YouTube: Bloomington Today: The BUZZ May 25

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Good weather means construction season, what you need to know about projects happening in Bloomington. Plus, the City’s new internship program Bloom in Bloomington kicks off!

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Thank you. Welcome to Bloomington today, I'm Emily taplin thanks for joining us. First, we bring you the Buzz for the week of May 24th through the 30th work on I-35w in Bloomington may impact. Your commute. Mndot is completing a resurfacing project on 35W between 82nd Street and 106th Street project.

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Also includes some drainage improvements, they'll be adding uh Lanes on both Northbound and southbound, between 98th Street and 106th Street, as well as some Ada improvements at all of the intersections along the corridor.

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They're currently working on northbound 35W and they anticipate switching over to the southbound Lanes. In mid-june, the project started in early May and will continue through fall 2023.. There will be periodic Lane and ramp closures throughout the project, including weekend closures of Northbound and southbound 35W as work progresses to get traffic impact, details and updates visit the link on your screen. Some city streets will be getting a refresh as bloomington's pavement, Management program gets underway. We.

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Have just over 340 center lane miles of streets within the city of Bloomington and we keep up with our payment Management program with the street Mill and overlays in these street reconstructs. So we can cost effectively improve the roadways and the infrastructure in the city. This year is no different than a typical year. We have around eight and a half miles of Street, Mill and overlays that that work actually started in early May and will continue through September October of 2023 and for our street reconstruction project.

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We have around two and a half to three miles this year: Street reconstruction that is anticipated to start in late May early June and continue through October November of 2023.

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To view specific overlay and reconstruction locations, you can visit blm.mn, slash, PMP. The city's new internship program for youth. Kicks off bloom in Bloomington is a youth Workforce program offering young people ages 16 to 24 summer internship experiences. There are 12 people who will be part of the first group and have a broad variety of skills and experiences they'll be bringing to their internships. There are four employers that interns have been placed with the City Mall of America Larkin Hoffman and subtle.

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Synergy Learning System, a developing non-profit in Bloomington in January Priscilla mayoa, came to work with the city as an intern in community development through the Minnesota Capitol Pathways program and has spent her time helping Implement bloom in Bloomington. It's.

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Been really fun for me, because I've taken my experience and my knowledge and the theory that I'm learning in college and I've sort of had the opportunity to make it practical and so as an intern, you don't always get that like life experience when you're just in school or you're, navigating the world and so being able to create an internship program as an intern allowed me to explore that right to say: okay, all the things that I'm learning I'm going to create this and then the interns that this program is going to bring in then they can bring their life experience their knowledge into the work as well, because this is a first year program.

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So now our employers will know the city of Bloomington is looking to develop young people, and so how can we, as employers start to think about that too? Right? If they're not already having that conversation, how can we make space in our Organization for young people? How can we make space an organization for an accessible workplace right, not just young people, but people of diverse backgrounds? Right having that conversation.

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To learn more about bloom in Bloomington visit the link on your screen, that is the buzz on Bloomington today for the week of May 24th through the 30th. If you would like to watch other stories from the show go to this week's playlist, there you'll find a recap of the public works at Bloomington, Police Department, open houses plus. How does my water meter work? We'll explain it all thanks for watching foreign.