Conditions of Use

• All Assisi Heights policies shall be followed an outlined in the contract.
• Rooms and equipment are to be returned in the condition and location in which they were found.
• In the event of emergency weather conditions, all activities will be cancelled.
• Use of tobacco products, weapons and illegal drugs are not permitted on Assisi Heights grounds/facilities.
• All damages and accidents must be reported to the reception desk at 507-280-7441 within 24 hours.
• You assume liability and agree to be fully and exclusively responsible for the safety of you, your guests, and individuals you invite to Assisi Heights, and any property brought with you while at Assisi Heights.
• For security and safety reasons, please do not prop outside doors open.

Additional Information

• The Assisi Heights Spirituality Center and its facilities are available on first come, and first serve basis. We reserve the right to change rooms depending on group sizes and numbers. We will contact you if this becomes necessary.
• Beverages and packaged snacks are available through the Assisi Heights catering service. For all catered functions, you will be billed for the number of attendees provided 1 week in advance of your event. For more extensive meal requests, catered food from other venues may be brought into the building.
• You will receive an invoice after the event. Payment is due upon receipt of invoice. All delinquent accounts will incur a finance charge of 2% per month.
• Groups or individuals with facility rental balances sixty days past due will not be allowed to use or reserve additional facility space.
• Assisi Heights reserves the right to negotiate rates with groups that would serve in the best interests of the mission of the Sisters of Saint Francis.
• Assisi Heights reserves the right to deny access to any group based on prior actions that were not in alignment with the values and mission of the Sisters of Saint Francis.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT STATEMENT

An Indigenous Land Acknowledgment is an effort to recognize the Indigenous past, present, and future of a particular location and to understand our own place within that relationship. It is:

• an important way to understand the history that has brought us to reside on this land;
• a celebration of indigenous communities who were the original inhabitants of the area where we live;
• a simple way of resisting the erasure of indigenous histories & working toward honoring and inviting the truth;
• a sincere action, and includes a pledge of how we can repair by our actions (i.e.) honoring mother earth; working for native peoples’ treaties; consciousness-raising, etc.

In doing so, we need to:

• always be aware of the names of the tribes, to recognize they are still here. In our case, here in Rochester they are the Dakota and Ho-Chunk Peoples;
• understand the native peoples’ displacement & the fact that to this day, all treaties are not honored; and
• to show respect and gratitude to indigenous people.

What needs to be done:

• Recognize and mention this at beginning of any gathering (meetings, webinars, church services, community events).
• Make a pledge to repair with our actions.