City gets Bremer Grant

The City of Minneota has received a $60,000 grant from the Otto Bremer Trust to replace critical safety equipment for the Minneota Fire Department.

“We are very pleased that we were able to receive this as it makes a significant impact on the residents of the community,” Minneota Mayor John Rolbiecki said.

Rolbiecki said the fire department will be using the grant to replace the SCBA units that are no longer usable.

The grant will cover half the cost and the department will be covering the other half.

“These will ensure that the fire department has proper and up to date safety equipment,” Rolbiecki said, “We are able to make our dollars stretch further and utilize some money that would have been spent here on other safety and/or capital improvement.”

Rolbiecki said the newer technology will allow the fire department to continue to provide safer interior firefighting duties.

“We’d like to thank the Otto Bremer Foundation for their commitment to the areas that they do business in. They made the process relatively fast and easy and we can’t say enough about the importance they put on investing in the communities where they are located,” Rolbiecki said.