The EDA held its regularly scheduled meeting on Thursday morning.

Items of note:

• The EDA will be presenting a brief update on activities at the Dec. 4 City Council meeting.
• Rice County is planning to hire an Economic Development director by the end of this year.
• Updates from the Land Development subcommittee and Fiberoptics Initiative task force were postponed till the next EDA meeting on Dec. 14.
• There were three impromptu presentations/ Q&A sessions by organizations requesting funds from the EDA for the upcoming budget cycle (applications had to be received before today's meeting to be considered for next year). The applicants were the Northfield Downtown Development Corporation, the Northfield Chamber of Commerce. No action was taken; decisions about funding will probably be made at the Dec. 14 or Dec 28 meeting.

That's a wrap. Agenda and past minutes can be found here on the City website.