On Tuesday, October 22, the Minnesota Senate Capital Investment Committee will visit the area as part of the third leg of its #MNfrastructure statewide bonding tour. The stops come at the beginning of the committee’s three-day bus tour of capital requests in Southwestern Minnesota.
In addition to site tours, the committee will also meet briefly at each location to hear from local officials regarding their project requests. The committee will make the following area stops:
- Project: U.S. Highway 212 four-lane expansion
- Site visit (10:10 a.m.): North of U.S. Highway 212 & Bongards Creamery (bus will park on the east side of County Road 51)
- Presentation (10:30 a.m.): Bongards Creameries Manufacturing Central Plant (13200 County Road 51, Bongards, MN 55368)
- Project: Henderson Area Minnesota River Scenic Byway projects
- Driving tour (12:00 p.m.): Sibley County Scenic Byway #6
- Presentation (12:20 p.m.): Henderson RoadHaus (514 Main Street, Henderson, MN 56044)
- Driving tour (12:45 p.m.): State Highway 93
*Schedule subject to change
The media is invited to join the committee at each stop. Key legislators, including Senator Scott Newman (R-Hutchinson), Senator Scott Jensen (R-Chaska), and committee chair Senator David Senjem (R-Rochester), will be available for media interviews. The press contact for the tour is Jake Schneider, who can be reached at jacob.schneider@senate.mn or (507) 215-2034.
Senator Scott Newman represents communities in McLeod, Meeker, Sibley, and Wright counties in the Minnesota Senate. He serves as chair of the Senate Transportation Finance and Policy Committee.
Senator Scott Jensen, M.D. represents Carver County in the Minnesota Senate. He serves as vice chair of the Senate Health and Human Services Finance and Policy Committee.