Minnesota Legislature
Office of the Revisor of Statutes
Minnesota Session Laws - 1998, Regular Session
Key: (1) language to be deleted (2) new language
CHAPTER 404-H.F.No. 3843
An act relating to public administration; authorizing
spending for public purposes; authorizing spending to
acquire and to better public land and buildings and
other public improvements of a capital nature with
certain conditions; authorizing state bonds;
appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 1996,
sections 16A.105; 16A.11, subdivision 3a, and by
adding a subdivision; 16A.501; 16B.30; 85.019,
subdivision 4a; 103F.725, subdivision 1a; 116.16,
subdivision 5; 116.182, subdivision 1, and by adding a
subdivision; 446A.072, subdivisions 2, 4, and by
adding a subdivision; 473.39, by adding a subdivision;
473.399; 473.3994, subdivisions 5, 10, and 12; and
473.3998; Minnesota Statutes 1997 Supplement, sections
16A.641, subdivision 4; 16B.335, subdivision 1;
116.18, subdivision 3c; 124C.498, subdivision 2;
268.917; and 462A.202, subdivision 3a; Laws 1963,
chapter 305, sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, and
11; Laws 1986, chapter 396, section 2, subdivision 1,
as amended; Laws 1990, chapter 610, article 1, section
16, subdivision 4; Laws 1994, chapter 643, section 2,
subdivision 13; Laws 1996, chapter 463, sections 13,
subdivision 4, as amended, 14, subdivisions 2 and 6,
and 22, subdivision 7; and Laws 1997, chapter 202,
article 1, section 35, as amended; proposing coding
for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 116J;
repealing Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 473.3994,
subdivision 11; Minnesota Statutes 1997 Supplement,
section 446A.072, subdivision 4a; Laws 1985, First
Special Session chapter 15, section 36; and Laws 1986,
chapter 396, section 2, subdivision 2.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
Section 1. [CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT APPROPRIATIONS.]
The sums in the column under "APPROPRIATIONS" are
appropriated from the bond proceeds fund, or another named fund,
to the state agencies or officials indicated, to be spent for
public purposes including to acquire and to better public land
and buildings and other public improvements of a capital nature,
as specified in this act. Unless otherwise specified, the
appropriations in this act are available until the project is
completed or abandoned.
SUMMARY
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA $ 138,300,000
MINNESOTA STATE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES 143,080,000
CENTER FOR ARTS EDUCATION 1,395,000
CHILDREN, FAMILIES, AND LEARNING 62,405,000
FARIBAULT RESIDENTIAL ACADEMIES 9,225,000
NATURAL RESOURCES 130,251,000
OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSISTANCE 3,500,000
PUBLIC FACILITIES AUTHORITY 44,050,000
BOARD OF WATER AND SOIL RESOURCES 19,800,000
AGRICULTURE 500,000
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS 1,750,000
ADMINISTRATION 46,250,000
CAPITOL AREA ARCHITECTURAL AND
PLANNING BOARD 9,544,000
AMATEUR SPORTS COMMISSION 11,020,000
MILITARY AFFAIRS 1,230,000
TRANSPORTATION 93,300,000
HUMAN SERVICES 19,975,000
VETERANS HOMES BOARD 12,055,000
CORRECTIONS 14,185,000
PUBLIC SAFETY 2,230,000
INDIAN AFFAIRS COUNCIL 1,700,000
TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 225,680,000
HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY 6,000,000
MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY 13,110,000
BOND SALE EXPENSES 500,000
CANCELLATIONS (11,993,000)
TOTAL $ 999,042,000
Bond Proceeds Fund
(General Fund Debt Service) 438,184,000
Bond Proceeds Fund
(User Financed Debt Service) 25,611,000
Transportation Fund 34,000,000
General Fund 500,047,000
Trunk Highway Fund 1,200,000
APPROPRIATIONS
$
Sec. 2. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
Subdivision 1. To the board of regents
of the University of Minnesota for the
purposes specified in this section 138,300,000
Subd. 2. Higher Education Asset
Preservation and Replacement 4,000,000
To be spent in accordance with
Minnesota Statutes, section 135A.046.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 3. Twin Cities - Minneapolis
(a) Amundson Hall 1,250,000
To construct, furnish, and equip an
addition for the Chemical Engineering
and Materials Science program and
remodel existing space. This
appropriation is contingent upon
$2,488,000 of nonstate matching money.
The nonstate money is in lieu of
one-third debt service payments.
(b) Art Building 730,000
To design and prepare construction
drawings for the construction of a new
facility.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
(c) Digital and Utility Infrastructure 3,500,000
To predesign, design, and complete the
following projects:
(1) $1,000,000 is to replace and
upgrade the information technology
infrastructure serving Mall District
buildings. This appropriation is from
the general fund.
(2) $2,500,000 is to separate the
combined storm sewer and sanitary sewer
systems and for air conditioning Mall
District buildings using chilled water
clusters.
(d) Folwell Hall Renovation 690,000
To design the renovation and upgrading
of classrooms.
(e) Walter Digital
Technology Center/Science
and Engineering Library 53,600,000
To design, renovate, furnish, and equip
the Walter Digital Technology
Center/Science and Engineering Library
on the Minneapolis campus.
Subd. 4. Twin Cities - St. Paul
(a) Gortner and Snyder Halls 4,000,000
To design and remodel selected biology
laboratories.
(b) Greenhouse Renovation and Replacement 900,000
To design for upgrading plant growth
facilities for teaching and research.
The project will renovate or replace
obsolete greenhouse and headhouse space
and construct a biocontainment facility
to support the teaching and research
activities of both the university and
the Minnesota department of agriculture.
(c) Peters Hall, Phase II 6,950,000
To renovate, furnish, and equip
classroom, research, and office space.
Subd. 5. Use of Facilities
The board of regents is requested to
use the molecular cellular biology
building and the remodeled Gortner and
Snyder Hall laboratories in a manner
that increases the interdisciplinary
opportunities for collaborative
research to the benefit of plant,
animal, and human health applications,
and ensures that agriculture research
and outreach is enhanced through the
use of these facilities, programs, and
services.
Subd. 6. Women's Athletics Fields
and Facilities 3,000,000
To design and rebuild the soccer
complex on the St. Paul campus, design
and rebuild the softball complex on the
Minneapolis campus, and design and
construct women's athletics office
space in the Bierman complex on the
Minneapolis campus.
Subd. 7. Crookston
(a) Facility Improvements 3,800,000
To design, construct, furnish, and
equip four projects:
(1) Early Child Development Center new
construction;
(2) Knutson Hall remodeling;
(3) Owen Hall Addition remodeling; and
(4) University Teaching and Outreach
Center stable expansion.
(b) Kiehle Building Renovation
and Addition 180,000
To predesign and design the Kiehle
building renovation and addition on the
Crookston campus.
Subd. 8. Duluth
(a) Library 22,300,000
To construct, furnish, and equip a new
library.
(b) Academic Space Renovation 200,000
To design the renovation of vacated
academic and laboratory space on the
Duluth campus in Heller Hall, MW
Alworth Hall, Business and Economics,
and the existing library building.
(c) Glensheen Mansion 600,000
For capital repair, reconstruction, or
replacement of the foundation and
heating, ventilating, and air
conditioning system of the Glensheen
Mansion, subject to the requirements of
Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.695.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 9. Morris 28,200,000
To construct, furnish, and equip
existing space and the additions and to
demolish the physical education annex.
This project consists of four
components:
(1) an addition to the existing science
building;
(2) renovation of the science
auditorium/lecture hall;
(3) expansion of the heating plant; and
(4) an addition to the Physical
Education Center in partnership with
the Morris community.
Subd. 10. Agricultural Experiment
Stations 4,400,000
To design, construct, furnish, and
equip the following experiment station
projects:
(1) $2,600,000 for swine research
facilities at Morris and Waseca.
$200,000 of this appropriation is for a
low input systems research facility at
Morris and $200,000 is for an extensive
confinement (including Swedish deep
bedded system) research facility at
Morris;
(2) $700,000 for the
Arboretum/Horticultural Research Center
laboratory in Victoria;
(3) $800,000 for Cloquet Forestry
Center dormitory remodeling; and
(4) $300,000 for Grand Rapids
Administration Building addition.
In addition, the university shall
contribute $833,000 of agency operating
funds towards construction of these
projects.
Subd. 11. Debt Service Responsibilities
(a) The projects in this section shall
not be assessed one-third debt service
if the board of regents completes the
following projects by July 1, 2002:
(1) at a cost estimated at $35,000,000,
design a new Molecular and Cellular
Biology Building, construct the
facility's shell, and demolish all or
part of the existing
Jackson-Owre-Millard-Lyon Hall complex;
(2) at a cost estimated at $14,600,000,
design, construct, furnish, and equip
an addition to the Architecture
Building;
(3) at a cost estimated at $9,000,000,
renovate Murphy Hall; and
(4) at a cost estimated at $9,900,000,
renovate Ford Hall.
(b) If the board of regents does not
complete the projects specified in
paragraph (a) by July 1, 2002, the
board shall reimburse the state for
one-third of the debt service
previously paid and pay one-third of
the debt service accruing after July 1,
2002, on state bonds sold to finance
appropriations in this section except
those in subdivision 3, paragraph (a)
and paragraph (c), clause (2). After
each sale of general obligation bonds,
the commissioner of finance shall
notify the board of regents of the
amounts for which it is assessed each
year for the life of the bonds.
(c) The commissioner shall reduce the
board's assessment each year by
one-third of the net income from
investment of general obligation bond
proceeds in proportion to the amount of
principal and interest otherwise
required to be paid by the board. The
board shall pay its resulting net
assessment to the commissioner of
finance by December 1 each year. If
the board fails to make a payment when
due, the commissioner of finance shall
reduce allotments for appropriations
from the general fund otherwise
available to the board and apply the
amount of the reduction to cover the
missed debt service payment. The
commissioner of finance shall credit
the payments received from the board to
the bond debt service account in the
state bond fund each December 1 before
money is transferred from the general
fund under Minnesota Statutes, section
16A.641, subdivision 10.
Subd. 12. Separate Account
The appropriations in this section are
conditioned on the board of regents
adopting a resolution establishing an
account for regular repair and
maintenance at the university, and into
which appropriations from fiscal years
1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002 could be
deposited.
Sec. 3. MINNESOTA STATE COLLEGES
AND UNIVERSITIES
Subdivision 1. To the board of trustees
of the Minnesota state colleges and
universities for the purposes specified in
this section 143,080,000
Subd. 2. Higher Education Asset
Preservation and Replacement 43,000,000
This appropriation is for the purposes
specified in Minnesota Statutes,
section 135A.046. This appropriation
is from the general fund.
$31,615,000 of this appropriation is
for code compliance, including health
and safety, ADA requirements, hazardous
material abatement, air quality
improvement, building or infrastructure
repairs to preserve existing buildings
systemwide. The chancellor shall
determine project priorities as
appropriate based on need. Priorities
may include but are not limited to:
Anoka-Ramsey Community College
($1,080,000); Riverland Community
College ($1,339,000); St. Cloud
Technical College ($1,378,000);
Northland Community and Technical
College ($1,546,000); Minneapolis
Community and Technical College
($2,735,000); St. Cloud State
University ($1,900,000); Southwest
State University ($1,390,000); Metro
State University ($1,148,000); Bemidji
State University ($1,088,000); Mankato
State University ($5,322,000); and
Moorhead State University ($3,556,000).
$11,385,000 of this appropriation is
for facilities replacement, as follows:
(1) $1,720,000 to construct a
replacement classroom for the Staples
West Campus of Central Lakes Technical
College;
(2) $500,000 to design and construct an
electrical distribution tunnel for St.
Cloud State University;
(3) $305,000 to design and construct a
Chiller Plant for Bemidji State
University;
(4) $5,030,000 to design, construct,
furnish, and equip a renovation of
Nemzek Field House at Moorhead State
University;
(5) $3,145,000 to design, construct,
furnish, and equip a renovation of
Dille Center for the Arts at Moorhead
State University; and
(6) $685,000 to design, construct,
furnish, and equip a renovation of
Livingston Lord Library at Moorhead
State University.
Subd. 3. Master Facilities Plans 1,400,000
Complete and update college and
university master facilities plans. Of
this appropriation, up to $400,000 is
for Minnesota West Technical and
Community College and Northwest
Technical College. This appropriation
is from the general fund.
Subd. 4. Anoka Hennepin
Technical College and Century Community
and Technical College 800,000
To prepare regional academic and
facilities master plans and predesign
the facility needs for each college.
The board is not restricted to current
buildings in developing the plan.
Anoka Hennepin College plans must be
for facilities within Anoka county.
Subd. 5. Bemidji State University
and Northwest Technical College, Bemidji 1,000,000
To predesign and design facilities
required to colocate all programs of
the technical college and the state
university's industrial technology and
nursing programs. The board of
trustees may consider, among other
options, the remodeling of the former
Bemidji high school. The board may
acquire the former Bemidji high school
and may convey the former technical
college to the school district.
Minnesota Statutes, sections 94.09 to
94.16 and 103F.535 do not apply to
these real estate transactions.
Subd. 6. Century Community
and Technical College 3,200,000
To design and construct an all-season
footbridge connecting Century's two
campuses, traffic control measures, and
reroute campus traffic.
The board and the department of
transportation shall cooperate in the
design and construction of this project.
Subd. 7. Fond du Lac Community
and Tribal College
The board of trustees may design,
through construction documents, a
classroom addition using money from
nonstate sources. The college is
encouraged to seek additional nonstate
matching money to offset a portion of
the cost of construction. The total
cost to construct, furnish, and equip
the classroom addition must not exceed
$7,500,000.
Subd. 8. Hibbing Community
and Technical College 16,000,000
To construct a new facility, adjacent
to the community college, for technical
programs, administrative services, and
customized training. Upon completion
of this facility, the college must
vacate all classroom buildings of the
former technical college. The city
shall provide sewer and water, and a
perimeter street. The board of
trustees shall dispose of the former
technical college land and classroom
buildings. The proceeds may be
retained by the board pursuant to
Minnesota Statutes, section 136F.71,
subdivision 1. Minnesota Statutes,
sections 94.09 to 94.16 and 103F.535 do
not apply to these real estate
transactions.
Subd. 9. Inver Hills Community College 11,000,000
To design and construct a new
instructional building and renovate the
existing science building. The new
building will include space for the
emergency health services program,
chemistry and biology laboratories, an
interactive television classroom,
general instruction classrooms,
activities/fitness rooms, faculty
offices, small group meeting rooms, and
conference rooms. Up to $600,000 may
be spent for the new entrance to the
college.
Subd. 10. Mankato State University 11,000,000
(a) This money is for: (1) the design
of Phase I and Phase II of the project
to renovate the indoor and outdoor
athletic facilities, and (2) for
construction and renovation work in
Myers Field House, Pennington
Foundation Building and tennis courts;
add required chiller capacity at the
utility plant; and selected remodeling
in Otto Arena, Highland Center,
Highland North, Blakeslee Stadium, and
outdoor track. Phase II of the project
consists of completion of the remaining
construction and renovation work in
Highland Center, Highland North, Otto
Arena, Blakeslee Stadium, and the
outdoor track. Money for Phase II of
this project is not included in this
appropriation.
(b) Notwithstanding Laws 1997, chapter
183, article 3, section 37, subdivision
6, the Mankato state university
foundation may build a black box
theater on the Mankato state university
campus at a site approved by the
board. Prior to the beginning of
construction, the board must approve
the design and the foundation must
agree to donate the theater to the
state. Title to the building shall
pass to the state immediately upon
donation.
Subd. 11. Mesabi Community and
Technical College 500,000
To predesign and design a new learning
resource center and remodel classrooms,
computer labs, and offices at the
Virginia campus.
Subd. 12. Metropolitan State University 1,000,000
To design a new library and information
access center on the university's St.
Paul campus, including space for
collections of the St. Paul public
library and community library services.
Subd. 13. Minneapolis Community
and Technical College 500,000
To design an addition and remodel the
existing library and other space. The
addition will include a library and
media center and an instructional
technology center. The remodeled space
will include classrooms, laboratories,
faculty offices, student services, and
interactive television classrooms.
Subd. 14. Normandale Community College 240,000
To predesign and design the renovation
or new construction of science
facilities.
Subd. 15. North Hennepin Community
College, Phase One 10,400,000
To predesign, design, construct, and
equip an addition and remodel existing
facilities for a science center. This
appropriation is also to predesign and
design phase two to remodel and
renovate classroom and office space.
Subd. 16. Northland Community
and Technical College 4,000,000
To design and construct an addition and
remodel existing space for student
services, women's center, bookstore,
customized training, administrative
services, and classrooms.
Subd. 17. Pine Technical College 1,700,000
To predesign, design, and renovate for
a telecommunications/media/technology
center, student services,
administrative services, classrooms,
and a regional economic development
center.
Subd. 18. Red Wing/Winona Technical College 1,500,000
To design and construct a new classroom
and garage facility for the truck
driving program at the Winona campus.
The facility may be separate from the
main campus building, as appropriate to
accommodate safety, traffic, and
programmatic concerns.
Subd. 19. Ridgewater Community
and Technical College 7,600,000
To design and construct a new addition
and remodel existing facilities at the
Hutchinson campus for nondestructive
testing facilities, a library and media
resource center, student support
services, and child care center.
Subd. 20. Riverland Community and
Technical College 1,000,000
(a) To design, construct, and remodel
the Austin campus, including remodeling
for student services and health science
programs, and reconfiguration of
building entryways, sidewalks, and
roadways to better connect the two
separate facilities.
(b) The board may enter into an
agreement with the city of Austin
whereby the city agrees to construct,
improve, and maintain a road at city
expense that provides access to and
improves the safety of the north side
of the Austin campus. In exchange for
the city's services, the board may
convey title to the roadway and a
parcel of land not to exceed five acres
that is not needed by the college for
education purposes. The land shall be
used to promote a technology center
that is compatible with the college's
education mission. City plans and
actions for the land shall be developed
in consultation with the college and
the board. Minnesota Statutes,
sections 94.09 to 94.16, and 103F.535,
do not apply to these real estate
transactions.
Subd. 21. Rochester Center 6,000,000
To predesign, design, and renovate
existing facilities and install
telecommunications infrastructure
improvements to create an instructional
development and digital media center to
improve education in southeastern
Minnesota. This appropriation is from
the general fund and will be
supplemented by an additional
$3,237,000 from other sources.
Subd. 22. Rochester Regional
Recreation and Sports Center 5,000,000
To predesign, design, and construct
phase 1 of a regional community
recreation and sports activity complex
adjacent to the Rochester Center,
including a field house, sport and
fitness center, aquatics facility,
outdoor football and soccer stadium,
soccer and baseball fields, and surface
parking lots. This appropriation is
not available until the board of
trustees has determined that an equal
amount has been committed by the city
of Rochester. Operating and management
costs shall be shared by the city of
Rochester and the Minnesota state
colleges and universities in proportion
to their relative use of the facility.
Subd. 23. St. Cloud State University
St. Cloud State University may design
and construct a building to house a
bookstore and student services,
following consultation with the
university community, including the
student senate and the bookstore
committee. After submitting the design
and the financing plan to the board,
the board shall submit it to the
legislature as provided in Minnesota
Statutes, section 16B.335, subdivision
2.
Subd. 24. St. Cloud Technical College 1,000,000
To design and construct an addition and
remodeling of graphic arts and dental
space, including classrooms, and design
remodeling of most of the remaining
space.
Subd. 25. St. Paul Technical College 10,000,000
To design, construct, furnish, and
equip an addition to the library and
learning resource center and renovate
existing space for student services,
chemical technology laboratory, and to
renovate the building control system.
Subd. 26. Southwest State University 40,000
To predesign the renovation of the
library. The renovation will include
replacement of HVAC systems and
installation of wiring for computer
technology.
Subd. 27. Winona State University 200,000
To design the remodeling of Maxwell
Library into offices and classrooms.
Subd. 28. Land Acquisition 5,000,000
To acquire real property land adjacent
to or near the state college and
university campuses. Of this amount at
least $2,500,000 is for Winona State
University and $1,000,000 is for St.
Cloud State University. The board of
trustees shall report annually to the
legislature on purchases made from this
appropriation.
Subd. 29. Debt Service
(a) The board shall pay one-third of
the debt service on state bonds sold to
finance projects authorized by this
section, except for subdivisions 10 and
22. After each sale of general
obligation bonds, the commissioner of
finance shall notify the board of the
amounts assessed for each year for the
life of the bonds.
(b) The commissioner shall reduce the
board's assessment each year by
one-third of the net income from
investment of general obligation bond
proceeds in proportion to the amount of
principal and interest otherwise
required to be paid by the board. The
board shall pay its resulting net
assessment to the commissioner of
finance by December 1 each year. If
the board fails to make a payment when
due, the commissioner of finance shall
reduce allotments for appropriations
from the general fund otherwise
available to the board and apply the
amount of the reduction to cover the
missed debt service payment. The
commissioner of finance shall credit
the payments received from the board to
the bond debt service account in the
state bond fund each December 1 before
money is transferred from the general
fund under Minnesota Statutes, section
16A.641, subdivision 10.
Subd. 30. Separate account
The appropriations in this section are
conditioned on the board of trustees
adopting a resolution establishing an
account for regular repair and
maintenance at the colleges and
universities, and into which
appropriations from fiscal years 1999,
2000, 2001, and 2002 could be deposited.
Sec. 4. CENTER FOR ARTS EDUCATION
Subdivision 1. To the commissioner
of administration for the purposes
specified in this section 1,395,000
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 2. Administration/Classroom
Building Renovation 780,000
To design, furnish, equip, and renovate
the administrative/classroom building.
This project is to include upgrades to
building hallways, conversion of a
temporary student computer lab to a
student commons area, reconfiguration
of support and classroom spaces, and
partial renovation of the cafeteria
food service and seating areas.
Subd. 3. Asset Preservation 465,000
For asset preservation improvements on
the campus including, but not limited
to, design and construction of
sprinkler systems, demolition of the
main entry to the
administration/classroom building,
foundation repairs, reconstruction of
campus roads and parking areas, and
replacement of deteriorated sidewalks.
Subd. 4. GAIA Building Renovation 150,000
For the partial renovation of spaces
currently used for student instruction
to spaces that will be utilized for
adult professional development and
related administrative support services.
Sec. 5. CHILDREN, FAMILIES, AND LEARNING
Subdivision 1. To the commissioner of
children, families, and learning for the
purposes specified in this section 62,405,000
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 2. Early Childhood
Learning Facilities 5,000,000
For grants to state agencies, political
subdivisions, Indian tribes, or private
nonprofit organizations to construct or
rehabilitate facilities for programs
under Minnesota Statutes, section
268.917. Facilities financed with
these grants may be owned by Indian
tribes or private nonprofit
organizations.
Subd. 3. Youth Enrichment 5,000,000
(a) For grants to local government
units to design, furnish, equip,
renovate, replace, or construct parks
and recreation facilities and school
facilities to provide youth, with
preference for youth in grades 4 to 8,
with regular enrichment activities
during nonschool hours, including after
school, evenings, weekends, and school
vacation periods, and that will provide
equal access and programming for all
children. The buildings or facilities
may be leased to nonprofit community
organizations, subject to Minnesota
Statutes, section 16A.695, for the same
purposes. Enrichment programs include
academic enrichment, homework
assistance, computer and technology
use, arts and cultural activities,
clubs, school-to-work and workforce
development, athletic, and recreational
activities. Grants must be used to
expand the number of children
participating in enrichment programs or
improve the quality or range of program
offerings. The facilities must be
fully available for programming
sponsored by nonprofit and community
groups serving youth, or school,
county, or city programs, for maximum
hours after school, evenings, weekends,
summers, and other school vacation
periods. Priority must be given to
proposals that demonstrate
collaborations among private,
nonprofit, and public agencies,
including regional entities dealing
with at-risk youth, and community and
parent organizations in arranging for
programming, staffing, transportation,
and equipment. All proposals must
include an inventory of existing
facilities and an assessment of
programming needs in the community.
(b) $1,000,000 is for enrichment grants
within the city of Minneapolis.
(c) $2,000,000 is for enrichment grants
within the city of St. Paul.
(d) $1,000,000 is for enrichment grants
in metropolitan statistical areas
outside of the cities of Minneapolis
and St. Paul. Priority must be given
to school attendance areas with high
concentrations of children eligible for
free or reduced school lunch and to
government units demonstrating a
commitment to collaborative youth
efforts.
(e) $1,000,000 is for enrichment grants
for areas outside of metropolitan
statistical areas and outside of the
cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Priority must be given to school
attendance areas with high
concentrations of children eligible for
free or reduced school lunch and to
government units demonstrating a
commitment to collaborative youth
efforts.
(f) Each grant must be matched by one
dollar from nonstate sources for each
two dollars of state money. In-kind
contributions of facilities may be used
for the local match. The value of
in-kind contributions must be
determined by the commissioner of
finance.
Subd. 4. Recreation and Community
Center Grants 10,800,000
(a) Unless otherwise specifically
provided, the commissioner may not make
a grant from this appropriation until
the commissioner has determined that at
least an equal amount has been
committed to the project from nonstate
sources.
(b) The commissioner may not make a
grant under this subdivision until the
commissioner has determined that, if
the center will charge a fee for use of
the center's facilities, the plan for
operating the center includes free or
reduced-rate use of the facilities by
individuals and families that have a
household income at or below 150
percent of the federal poverty income
guidelines.
(c) The commissioner may not make a
grant under this subdivision until the
commissioner has determined that the
recipient has the ability and a plan to
fund the program intended for the
facility.
(d) Dawson-Boyd Educational
and Community Center 1,000,000
For a grant to independent school
district No. 378, Dawson-Boyd, to
design, construct, furnish, and equip
an educational and community center.
(e) Detroit Lakes Community
Center 1,500,000
For a grant to the city of Detroit
Lakes to design, construct, furnish,
and equip the Detroit Lakes Community
Center.
(f) Granite Falls Area
Multipurpose Community Recreation and
Education Center 1,000,000
For a grant to the city of Granite
Falls to design, construct, furnish,
and equip a multipurpose community
recreation and education building.
(g) Hallett Community
Center, City of Crosby 300,000
For a grant to the city of Crosby to
design, construct, furnish, and equip
the Hallett Community Center.
(h) Hastings Municipal Water
Park 500,000
For a grant to the city of Hastings to
design, construct, furnish, and equip a
municipal water park.
(i) Hermantown Community Indoor
Sports and Physical Education Complex 1,000,000
For a grant to independent school
district No. 700, Hermantown, to
design, construct, furnish, and equip a
community indoor sports and physical
education complex with an indoor track.
(j) Isle Community Center 1,000,000
For a grant to independent school
district No. 473, Isle, to convert a
school building into a community
center. Programs located at the
converted facility must include the
alternative education program, early
childhood family education programs,
centralized school district kitchen
facilities, and other community
programs.
(k) Lake Crystal Area
Recreation Center 1,500,000
For a grant to the city of Lake Crystal
to design, construct, furnish, and
equip the Lake Crystal Area Recreation
Center.
(l) Proctor Community
Activity Center 1,000,000
For a grant to the city of Proctor to
design, construct, furnish, and equip a
city community activity center designed
to provide facilities for city
government, library, arts, museum, and
other public functions.
(m) Redwood Valley Multipurpose
Education and Community Center 1,000,000
For a grant to independent school
district No. 2758, Redwood Falls, to
design, construct, furnish, and equip a
multipurpose education and community
center to be constructed and operated
under a joint powers agreement with the
city of Redwood Falls.
The center must provide: (1) expanded
physical education curriculum for
Redwood Valley students; (2) a latchkey
program and an after-school program for
at-risk youth; (3) expanded healthy
lifestyle community education and
recreation programs for all age groups
in the community; and (4) community
conference and meeting facilities.
(n) Windom Area Multipurpose
Center 1,000,000
For a grant to the city of Windom to
design, construct, furnish, and equip a
multipurpose center.
Subd. 5. Metropolitan Magnet Schools 22,200,000
For awarding metropolitan magnet school
grants to groups of qualified
metropolitan school districts under
Minnesota Statutes, section 124C.498.
$1,900,000 is for the completion of the
Downtown Integration magnet school in
Minneapolis.
$3,800,000 is for planning, design,
acquisition of land, architectural
fees, and engineering fees for the East
Metropolitan Integration magnet school
in the East Metropolitan area. Of that
amount, $2,800,000 is for land
acquisition.
$14,500,000 is for the construction of
the Metropolitan Integration magnet
school in Robbinsdale.
$2,000,000 is for the Southwest
Metropolitan Integration magnet school
in Edina.
Subd. 6. Community Schools
Partnership, St. Paul 14,030,000
For a grant to independent school
district No. 625 to acquire and better
achievement-plus facilities.
(a) $2,180,000 is to remodel and
renovate the Monroe community school
and $2,400,000 is to remodel and
renovate the Dayton's Bluff elementary
school. Neither of these two
appropriations is available until the
commissioner has determined that an
amount equal to the total of the two
has been committed from nonstate
sources to either or both of the
projects. Any amounts raised in excess
of the amount needed as match for these
two projects may be used to satisfy the
match required for the project in
paragraph (b).
(b) $9,450,000 is to acquire land for,
design, construct, furnish, and equip a
new achievement-plus facility. This
appropriation is not available until
the commissioner has determined that
the following amounts have been
committed to the project:
(1) $940,000 is available upon receipt
of a commitment for an equal amount.
(2) $2,680,000 is available upon
receipt of a commitment for an equal
amount.
(3) $5,830,000 is available upon
receipt of a commitment for an equal
amount.
Subd. 7. Fridley Middle School
Boiler and Windows 90,000
For a grant to independent school
district No. 14, Fridley, for a new
boiler and new exterior windows at
Central Middle School. This
appropriation is from the general fund.
Subd. 8. School Building Accessibility
Grants 1,000,000
For school building accessibility
grants under Minnesota Statutes,
sections 124C.71 to 124C.74.
Subd. 9. Mississippi Education Center 1,400,000
For a grant to independent school
district No. 318, Grand Rapids, to
design and construct a new library in
Grand Rapids. This appropriation is
not available until the commissioner
determines that $4,820,000 has been
committed from nonstate sources.
Subd. 10. Library Accessibility
Grants 1,500,000
For library accessibility grants under
Minnesota Statutes, section 134.45.
Subd. 11. McLeod West Interdistrict
Cooperative 500,000
For a grant to the McLeod West
Interdistrict Cooperative, made up of
independent school district Nos. 421,
Brownton, and 426, Stewart, to design
and acquire land for a new
prekindergarten through grade 12
educational facility.
Subd. 12. Little Falls Carnegie
Library ADA Grant 500,000
For a grant to the city of Little Falls
for design and construction of capital
improvements for handicapped
accessibility to the Little Falls
Carnegie library. This appropriation
is not available until the commissioner
determines that $500,000 has been
committed from nonstate sources.
Subd. 13. Minnesota Lake 385,000
For a grant to the fiscal agent for the
public school building in Minnesota
Lake for repair and improved energy
conservation.
Sec. 6. RESIDENTIAL ACADEMIES AT FARIBAULT
Subdivision 1. To the commissioner
of administration for the purposes
specified in this section 9,225,000
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 2. Asset Preservation 725,000
For asset preservation improvements on
both campuses at the Faribault
residential academies including, but
not limited to, asbestos removal and
replacement of roofs, windows, fire
protection systems, and sidewalks.
Subd. 3. Tate Hall Renovation 4,000,000
To design, remodel, furnish, and equip
Tate Hall on the campus of the
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf.
This project is to include asset
preservation improvements, installation
of a ventilation and humidity control
system, remodeling to expand bathroom
facilities, and renovation of new space
for a home living skills center.
Subd. 4. Lysen Expansion
and Renovation 4,500,000
To design, construct, furnish, and
equip an expansion and renovation of
the Lysen learning building on the
campus of the Minnesota State Academy
for the Blind. This project is to
include expansion or remodeling of
classrooms, offices, recreation areas,
and related spaces in this building.
Sec. 7. NATURAL RESOURCES
Subdivision 1. To the
commissioner of natural resources
for the purposes specified
in this section 130,251,000
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 2. Office Facility
Consolidation 7,391,000
To acquire land, design, construct,
furnish, and equip offices and service
facilities at consolidated office sites
in Tower and Windom.
Subd. 3. Statewide Asset Preservation
and State Park and Recreation
Area Building Rehabilitation 6,500,000
For repair and renovation of the
department of natural resources land,
buildings, or other improvements of a
capital nature throughout the state;
and to design, repair, rehabilitate,
construct, or add to state park
buildings throughout the state,
according to the management plan
required in Minnesota Statutes, chapter
86A. The commissioner shall determine
project priorities as appropriate based
upon need.
Subd. 4. State Park and Recreation
Area Building Development 5,535,000
To design, construct, furnish, and
equip new buildings and associated
utilities in the state park system,
according to the management plan
required in Minnesota Statutes, chapter
86A.
Subd. 5. State Park and Recreation
Area Betterment and Rehabilitation 2,750,000
To upgrade, repair, or rehabilitate
improvements of a capital nature at
state park and recreation area
facilities throughout the state,
including, but not limited to, resource
management projects, trail
rehabilitation, campground
rehabilitation, and road and bridge
repair. The commissioner shall
determine project priorities as
appropriate based upon need.
Subd. 6. State Park and
Recreation Area Acquisition 2,250,000
For acquisition from willing sellers of
private lands within state park and
recreation area boundaries established
by law. The commissioner shall
determine project priorities as
appropriate based upon need.
Subd. 7. Metro Regional Park
Acquisition and Betterment 14,400,000
(a) $9,000,000 is for payment to the
metropolitan council. The commissioner
shall pay the amount on a reimbursement
basis to the metropolitan council upon
receipt of a certified copy of a
council resolution requesting payment.
The appropriation must be used to pay
the cost of rehabilitation,
acquisition, and development by the
council and local government units of
regional recreational open-space lands
in accordance with the council's policy
plan as provided in Minnesota Statutes,
section 473.315. This appropriation
must not be used for research,
planning, administration, or tax
equivalency payments. This
appropriation may be used for the
purchase of homes only if the purchases
are included in the work program
required by law and they are expressly
approved by the legislative commission
on Minnesota resources.
$840,000 of this appropriation may be
used by the metropolitan council to
reimburse Washington county for
acquiring St. Croix Bluffs regional
park in 1997.
(b) $3,900,000 of this appropriation is
for a grant to the metropolitan council
to prepare a site for, design,
construct, furnish, and equip,
including utility infrastructure, the
Como Park Education Resource Center,
Phase One. The grant is contingent
upon the city of St. Paul maintaining
Como Park zoo as a free attraction for
the life of the bonds. The city may,
however, charge a fee for use of the
Como Park golf course and the
conservatory and for special event
facility rentals at the park, including
the zoo and the conservatory.
The center must report to the chair of
the senate environment and agriculture
budget division, the chair of the house
environment and agriculture finance
committee, and the chairs of the senate
and house environment and natural
resources policy committees as soon as
the center has secured half of the
total project costs from nonstate
sources.
(c) $1,500,000 is for a grant to the
metropolitan council for capital
expenditures necessary to carry out the
Harriet Island Redevelopment in
accordance with the Lilydale/Harriet
Island master plan. This appropriation
is not available until the commissioner
determines that an equal amount has
been committed from nonstate sources.
Subd. 8. Dam Improvements 1,300,000
For the emergency repair,
reconstruction, or removal of publicly
owned dams. Up to $300,000 of this
appropriation is for the Sauk River Dam
and up to $100,000 of this
appropriation is for a study of removal
of the Rapidan Dam. Up to $300,000 of
this appropriation is for a grant to
the city of Appleton for removal of a
dam located on the Pomme de Terre river
in Swift county. The commissioner
shall determine remaining project
priorities as appropriate based upon
need as provided in Minnesota Statutes,
section 103G.511.
Subd. 9. Flood Hazard
Mitigation Grants 30,000,000
For the flood hazard mitigation grant
program to local government units for
publicly owned capital improvements to
prevent or alleviate flood damages
under Minnesota Statutes, section
103F.161.
$1,500,000 is to construct ring dikes,
whether publicly or privately owned.
$500,000 is for a grant to Clay county
to remove houses in the Crestwood
addition in Kurtz township on the Red
River that are endangered by the
collapsing river bank.
The commissioner shall determine other
project priorities as appropriate based
upon need.
As soon as the United States Army Corps
of Engineers section 205 flood control
study for the city of Breckenridge is
complete, the commissioner shall make a
recommendation to the legislature for
the funding necessary to complete flood
hazard mitigation efforts in the city.
Subd. 10. Forest Road and
Bridge Projects 2,000,000
For reconstruction, resurfacing,
replacement, or construction of other
improvements of a capital nature to
state forest roads and bridges
throughout the state. The commissioner
shall determine project priorities as
appropriate based upon need. Of this
amount, $500,000 may be used for forest
roads in northern Minnesota peat areas.
Subd. 11. Forestry Land Acquisition 800,000
To acquire private lands from willing
sellers within established boundaries
of state forests throughout the state.
The commissioner shall determine
project priorities as appropriate based
upon need.
Subd. 12. White Pine Management 300,000
For planting of stands of white pine
and management of white pine resources.
Subd. 13. Forestry Recreation
Facilities 750,000
For improvements of a capital nature to
rehabilitate, improve, or develop
forestry recreation facilities
throughout the state. The commissioner
shall determine project priorities as
appropriate based upon need.
Subd. 14. RIM Wildlife Management Areas,
Critical Habitat, and North American
Waterfowl Management Plan 7,000,000
$1,000,000 of this appropriation is to
acquire land for wildlife management
areas under Minnesota Statutes, section
97A.135; $5,500,000 is for the critical
habitat private sector matching account
under Minnesota Statutes, section
84.943; and $500,000 is for acquisition
and wetland restoration under the North
American Waterfowl Management Plan.
The commissioner shall determine
project priorities as appropriate based
upon need.
Subd. 15. RIM Fish Hatchery
Rehabilitation 1,000,000
For improvements of a capital nature to
rehabilitate, improve, or develop fish
culture facilities.
Subd. 16. RIM Wildlife,
Habitat Improvements 2,500,000
For improvements of a capital nature to
develop, protect, or improve wildlife
management areas and other state lands
throughout the state. The commissioner
shall determine project priorities as
appropriate based upon need.
Subd. 17. Stream Protection
and Restoration 1,000,000
For the acquisition of easements and
aquatic management areas on streams for
fisheries management purposes, and
stream restoration on portions of the
Whitewater river and Sandy river.
Subd. 18. Scientific and Natural Area and
Prairie Bank Acquisition and Improvement 3,000,000
To acquire land related to scientific
and natural areas and prairie bank
easements and for development,
protection, or improvements of a
capital nature to scientific and
natural areas throughout the state.
$2,200,000 is for scientific and
natural area acquisition, $400,000 is
for scientific and natural area
restoration and development, and
$400,000 is for Prairie Bank
easements. The commissioner shall
determine project priorities as
appropriate based upon need.
Subd. 19. Metro Greenways
and Natural Areas 4,000,000
To acquire and improve natural areas
and greenways in the metro region
through purchase of conservation
easements or fee acquisition. The
commissioner shall determine project
priorities as appropriate based upon
need and shall consult with
representatives of local units of
government, nonprofit organizations,
and other interested parties.
Subd. 20. Accelerated Wildlife
Habitat Management 500,000
For wildlife habitat improvement. Of
this amount, $400,000 is for winter
wildlife habitat improvement for
pheasants and other grassland wildlife
in key farmland areas and $100,000 is
for brushland and forest habitat
renewal for sharp-tailed grouse and
other species of birds dependent on
open brushlands in forest areas.
Subd. 21. Water Access
Acquisition and Development 2,000,000
For public water access acquisition
development and rehabilitation on lakes
and rivers, including water access
through the provision of fishing piers
and shoreline access.
Subd. 22. Trail Acquisition
and Development 10,250,000
For acquisition and development of a
capital nature on state trails as
specified in Minnesota Statutes,
section 85.015. Projects include
$500,000 for the Willard Munger Trail,
$1,000,000 for the Root River Trail,
$140,000 for the Lanesboro Trailhead of
the Root River Trail, $1,350,000 for
the Luce Line, $500,000 for the
Heartland Trail, $2,000,000 for the
Paul Bunyan Trail, $1,050,000 for the
Goodhue Pioneer Trail, $800,000 for the
Blazing Star Trail, $1,310,000 for the
Blufflands Trail development, and
$350,000 for the Gateway Trail. The
commissioner shall determine additional
project priorities as appropriate based
upon need. $1,250,000 of this
appropriation is for the state
targeting accessible recreation trails
(START) project to complete the trail
survey, prioritizing, and
preengineering work for all 100 major
recreation areas and to improve
accessibility in up to 35 of these
areas.
Subd. 23. Metro Regional Trails 5,000,000
For grants to the metropolitan council
for acquisition and development of a
capital nature of trail connections in
the metropolitan area as specified in
this subdivision. The purpose of the
grants is to improve trails in the
metropolitan park and open space system
and connect them with existing state
and regional trails. Priority shall be
given to matching funds for an ISTEA
grant.
The funds shall be allocated by the
council as follows:
(1) $1,050,000 is allocated to Ramsey
county as follows:
(i) $400,000 to complete six miles of
trails between the Burlington Northern
Regional Trail and Bald Eagle-Otter
Lake Regional Park;
(ii) $150,000 to complete a one-mile
connection between Birch Lake and the
Lake Tamarack segment of Bald
Eagle-Otter Lake Regional Park;
(iii) $500,000 to acquire real property
and design and construct or renovate
recreation facilities along the
Mississippi River in cooperation with
the city of St. Paul;
(2) $1,050,000 is allocated to the city
of St. Paul as follows:
(i) $250,000 to construct a bridge over
Lexington Parkway in Como Regional
Park; and
(ii) $800,000 to enhance amenities for
the trailhead at the Lilydale-Harriet
Island Regional Park pavilion;
(3) $1,400,000 is allocated to Anoka
county as follows:
(i) $1,100,000 to construct a
pedestrian tunnel under Highway 65 on
the Rice Creek West Regional Trail in
the city of Fridley; and
(ii) $300,000 to construct a pedestrian
bridge on the Mississippi River
Regional Trail crossing over
Mississippi Street in the city of
Fridley; and
(4) $1,500,000 is allocated to the
suburban Hennepin regional park
district as follows:
(i) $1,000,000 to connect North
Hennepin Regional Trail to Luce Line
State Trail and Medicine Lake; and
(ii) $500,000 is for the cost of
development and acquisition of the
Southwest regional trail in the city of
St. Louis Park. The trail must connect
the Minneapolis regional trail system
at Cedar Lake park to the Hennepin
parks regional trail system at the
Hopkins trail head.
Subd. 24. Lake Superior
Safe Harbors 5,000,000
For acquisition, design, and
development of safe harbors and public
accesses on Lake Superior. $1,500,000
is for Taconite Harbor and $3,500,000
is for Two Harbors. This appropriation
is not available until an equal amount
in federal matching funds has been
committed.
Subd. 25. Lake Superior Zoo 1,300,000
To the commissioner of administration
for a grant to the city of Duluth for
capital improvements to the animal care
center, including veterinary hospital,
laboratory, clinic, and quarantine
area, and the childrens' zoo at the
Lake Superior Zoological Garden.
Subd. 26. Local Initiative Grants 8,000,000
For matching grants to be provided to
local units of government for
acquisition, development, or renovation
of a capital nature of local parks,
trails, and natural and scenic areas.
Recipients must provide a match of at
least one-half of total eligible
project costs. The commissioner shall
make payment to local units of
government upon receiving documentation
of reimbursable expenditures. The
commissioner shall determine project
priorities as appropriate based upon
need.
$3,500,000 of this appropriation is for
grants to units of government to
acquire and develop outdoor recreation
areas, and for grants to units of
government to acquire and better
natural and scenic areas under
Minnesota Statutes, section 85.019,
subdivision 4a.
$1,000,000 of this appropriation is for
cooperative trail grants of up to
$50,000 per project to acquire or
construct trail linkages between
communities, trails, and parks.
$3,500,000 of this appropriation is for
trail grants for the following locally
funded publicly owned trails serving
multiple communities: $1,400,000 for
Beaver Island Trail in Stearns County,
$1,400,000 for Skunk Hollow Trail in
Yellow Medicine and Chippewa Counties,
and $700,000 for Unity Trail in
Faribault County.
Subd. 27. Environmental Learning
Centers 2,350,000
$1,000,000 of this appropriation is for
a grant to independent school district
No. 621, Mounds View, to renovate the
Laurentian environmental learning
center located in the Superior National
Forest. This portion of the
appropriation must not be used to
expand the bed capacity of the center.
It may be used to renovate and replace
existing facilities. $300,000 of this
appropriation is available
immediately. The balance is available
to the extent matched by money expended
from other sources after the date of
final enactment of this act.
$1,350,000 of this appropriation is for
a grant to Kandiyohi county to
construct a trailhead at the Prairie
Woods environmental learning center.
This portion of the appropriation may
not be used for overnight facilities.
Subd. 28. Sand Dunes State
Forest Center 150,000
For predesign and design of an office
facility/visitor center in Sand Dunes
State Forest.
Subd. 29. Willernie Erosion Control 75,000
For a grant to the city of Willernie
for publicly owned capital improvements
to forestall erosion from a natural
waterway. This appropriation must be
equally matched by nonstate funds.
Subd. 30. Hartley Nature Center 1,500,000
For a grant to the city of Duluth for
the purpose of constructing capital
improvements to the Hartley Nature
Center. This appropriation is not
available until an equal amount has
been committed from nonstate sources.
Subd. 31. International Wolf Center 350,000
To the commissioner of administration
for capital improvements to the
International Wolf Center, including
repair of grounds and buildings,
improvements to the heating and
ventilation system, the wolf enclosure,
and the children's exhibit room, and
added facilities for vehicle garaging
and a workshop.
Subd. 32. Savage Water Supply System 800,000
For a grant to the city of Savage for a
water supply system.
The Department of Health shall assign
the amount of additional priority
points necessary to place the city of
Savage in the fundable range of the
intended use plan for the Drinking
Water Revolving Fund under Minnesota
Statutes, section 446A.081, for a water
supply and treatment system to protect
the Savage Fen Wetland Complex. The
amount of the loan shall be
$10,000,000. The system must implement
uniform demand management measures and
provide for alternative sustainable
water sources while protecting the
Savage Fen Wetland Complex and the
water resources of the aquifers.
Conservation and demand reduction
measures must be adopted. The system
may be constructed under authority of
Minnesota Statutes, section 471.59,
471.591, or other law. The alternative
sources of water must be approved by
the commissioner and comply with permit
requirements under Minnesota Statutes,
chapter 103G.
Subd. 33. Bald Eagle Center 500,000
To the commissioner of administration
for a grant to the city of Wabasha for
construction of the American bald eagle
center. The city of Wabasha may enter
into a lease or management agreement
with a nonprofit corporation under
Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.695.
This appropriation is not available
until at least $1,000,000 has been
committed from nonstate sources.
Subd. 34. Work Program
The commissioner must submit a work
program and semiannual progress reports
in the form determined by the
legislative commission on Minnesota
resources and request its
recommendation before spending any
money appropriated by subdivision 3, 4,
5, 6, 7, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18,
19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 31, or
33 of this section. The commission's
recommendation is advisory only.
Failure to respond to a request within
60 days after receipt is a positive
recommendation. Work programs
involving land acquisition must include
a land acquisition plan.
Sec. 8. OFFICE OF
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSISTANCE 3,500,000
To the office of environmental
assistance for the solid waste capital
assistance grants program under
Minnesota Statutes, section 115A.54.
Grants under this section are exempt
from the requirements of Minnesota
Statutes, section 16B.335.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
$375,000 is for a grant to the
Prairieland Compost Facility Board, a
public body, for an air emissions
project at the Prairieland Compost
Facility located in Martin county.
Sec. 9. PUBLIC FACILITIES AUTHORITY
Subdivision 1. To the public
facilities authority for the purposes
specified in this section 44,050,000
Subd. 2. Matching Money
for Federal Grants 15,000,000
For state matching money for federal
grants to capitalize the water
pollution control fund and the drinking
water revolving fund under Minnesota
Statutes, sections 446A.07 and 446A.081.
The expenditure and allocation of state
matching funds between funds shall be
based on the amount of federal funds
appropriated to the funds. This
appropriation must be used for
qualified capital projects.
Subd. 3. Wastewater
Infrastructure Program 15,300,000
For supplemental assistance to
municipalities under Minnesota
Statutes, section 446A.072.
The authority shall reimburse the city
of Isanti for costs it has incurred in
construction of a project that reduced
discharges into outstanding resource
value waters in order to comply with
more stringent wastewater standards
required to protect those waters. The
amount of the reimbursement shall be
equal to the reimbursement the city
would have received pursuant to
Minnesota Statutes, section 446A.072,
subdivision 4, as it is amended by the
1998 legislature.
To the greatest extent practicable, the
authority should use the funds to first
match grant funds on a 50 percent basis
with USDA rural development projects
prior to using the funds for
non-USDA-eligible projects.
The authority shall also give priority
to multijurisdictional projects
connecting areas with failing on-site
treatment systems with an existing
wastewater treatment system.
The authority shall set aside up to
$500,000 to provide 50 percent grant
funding for the cost of equipment and
installation into an existing municipal
wastewater treatment system. The
project must demonstrate the
application of existing technology that
currently is not being used in the
treatment of municipal wastewater, but
has the potential to improve the
treatment of wastewater or make the
treatment process more cost effective.
The authority should work with the
pollution control agency to solicit
proposals from municipalities willing
to share the risks and cost of removing
the equipment if it does not perform.
$1,300,000 must be used to make a grant
to the city of Hawley to repair and
update sewer lagoons.
Subd. 4. Storm Sewer
Matching Funds, Stewart 1,000,000
For a loan to the city of Stewart for
storm sewer projects as matching money
for the federal small cities
development program.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 5. City of St. Peter 3,000,000
To the commissioner of trade and
economic development for a grant to the
city of St. Peter for the construction
of a new wastewater facility outside
the floodplain.
Subd. 6. Planning Grants 100,000
For grants under Minnesota Statutes,
section 446A.071. This appropriation
is from the general fund.
Subd. 7. Bayport Sewer
Reconstruction 650,000
For a grant to the city of Bayport to
pay the cost of a preconstruction study
and engineering for a storm sewer
reconstruction project within and
adjacent to the Minnesota correctional
facility-Stillwater. The study and
design of the project, including how
the costs of the project will be
assessed against property owners whose
properties will be served by the
project, must be reported to the chairs
of the judiciary finance division in
the house and the crime prevention and
judiciary budget division in the senate
by January 15, 1999. The assessment
must include the costs of predesign,
design, and construction, including
this appropriation and amounts
previously spent by the cities of
Bayport and Oak Park Heights and the
county of Washington. The benefit
allocation of the costs of this
improvement must include consideration
of the allocable volume of water
generated in the winter by the property
owner and drained by the reconstructed
storm sewer.
Subd. 8. State Revolving Fund
Supplemental 9,000,000
For deposit in the water pollution
control fund under Minnesota Statutes,
section 446A.07, for the agricultural
best management practices loan program
under Minnesota Statutes, section
17.117, except that none of this
appropriation may be used for
conservation tillage equipment.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Sec. 10. BOARD OF WATER AND SOIL RESOURCES
Subdivision 1. To the board
of water and soil resources for the
purposes specified in this section 19,800,000
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 2. RIM and PWP
Conservation Easements 15,000,000
This appropriation is for the following
purposes:
(1) to acquire conservation easements
from landowners on marginal lands to
protect soil and water quality and to
support fish and wildlife habitat as
provided in Minnesota Statutes, section
103F.515; and
(2) to acquire perpetual conservation
easements on existing type 1, 2, 3, and
6 wetlands, adjacent lands, and for the
establishment of permanent cover on
adjacent lands, in accordance with
Minnesota Statutes, section 103F.516.
Up to $250,000 may be used for the
acquisition of flood storage easements
that allow haying, grazing, or other
activities approved by the board when
the flood storage is not needed, and
for the cost of constructing related
dikes and other structures necessary to
maintain water in the flood storage
easement areas. Up to ten percent of
the appropriation may be used for
professional and technical services
related to acquisition of the easement.
The board, in consultation with the
commissioner of natural resources, must
select at least two local government
units for participation in the flood
storage easement pilot program based on
the potential and need for flood water
storage in the local area. The board
may acquire the easement directly or
provide grants to the local government
units for their acquisition of
easements that conform with the
requirements established by the board.
A conservation easement must be for at
least ten years. The board or the
local government unit must make the
following payments to the landowner for
the conservation easement and agreement:
(1) to establish conservation practices
required by the easement, up to 75
percent of the total eligible cost, not
to exceed an average of $75 per acre;
and
(2) 25 percent of the payment rate for
20-year easements acquired under
Minnesota Statutes, section 103F.515;
or
(3) an alternative payment system for
easements as may be determined by the
board, in consultation with the
commissioner of natural resources.
By January 15, 2000, the board, in
conjunction with the commissioner of
natural resources, shall report to the
senate environment and agriculture
budget division and the house
environment, natural resources, and
agriculture finance committee on the
acquisition of easements under this
paragraph. The report must include an
analysis of the benefit to expansion of
the program in other areas of the state
that are prone to flooding and on the
adequacy of payments under the pilot
program.
Up to $1,000,000 is for professional
and technical services necessary to
administer the program.
Subd. 3. Local Government
Road Replacement 2,750,000
To acquire land for wetlands or restore
wetlands to be used to replace wetlands
drained or filled as a result of the
repair, maintenance, or rehabilitation
of existing public roads, as provided
in Minnesota Statutes, section
103G.222, subdivision 1, paragraph (m).
The purchase price paid for acquisition
of land, fee or perpetual easement,
shall be the amount deemed reasonable
by the board. The board may enter into
agreements with the federal government,
other state agencies, political
subdivisions, and nonprofit
organizations or fee owners for
acquisition of land and restoration and
creation of wetlands with funds
provided by this appropriation.
Acquisition of or the conveyance of
land may be in the name of the
political subdivision.
Up to $400,000 is for professional and
technical services necessary to
administer the program.
Subd. 4. Quad-Lakes Restoration 300,000
For a grant to the Faribault county
soil and water conservation district
for the quad-lakes restoration project
in Faribault and Blue Earth counties.
Subd. 5. Lakeshore Easements 250,000
To acquire conservation easements for
sensitive shoreland and riparian areas
on lakes.
Subd. 6. Area II Minnesota
River Basin Grant-in-Aid Program 500,000
For grants to assist local governments
in acquiring and constructing
floodwater retention systems in area II
of the Minnesota river basin. Projects
may include flood control reservoirs,
road retention structures, and other
floodwater mitigation improvements.
This appropriation must be matched by
at least $333,000 from nonstate
sources. Grants under this subdivision
are exempt from the requirements of
Minnesota Statutes, section 16B.335.
Subd. 7. Feedlot Water Quality 1,000,000
For grants to soil and water
conservation districts for cost-sharing
contracts for water quality management
on feedlots. Priority must be given to
feedlot operators who have received a
notice of violation and for feedlots in
counties that are conducting or have
completed a level 2 or level 3 feedlot
inventory.
Subd. 8. Work Program
The board must submit a work program
and semiannual progress reports in the
form determined by the legislative
commission on Minnesota resources and
request its recommendation before
spending any money appropriated by this
section. The commission's
recommendation is advisory only.
Failure to respond to a request within
60 days after receipt is a positive
recommendation. Work programs
involving land acquisition must include
a land acquisition plan.
Sec. 11. AGRICULTURE 500,000
For a grant to a political subdivision
that is chosen as a site for a soybean
oilseed processing and refining
facility, constructed by a
Minnesota-based cooperative. This
appropriation is for site preparation,
predevelopment, and other
infrastructure improvements, including
public and private utility
improvements, that are necessary for
development of the oilseed processing
and refining facility. This
appropriation is available until
December 31, 2000.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Sec. 12. MINNESOTA ZOOLOGICAL
GARDENS 1,750,000
To the Minnesota zoological gardens for
design, repair, and reconstruction of
roadways, pathways, parking lots,
outdoor lighting, and public plaza
areas. This appropriation is exempt
from the requirements of Minnesota
Statutes, section 16B.335.
Sec. 13. ADMINISTRATION
Subdivision 1. To the commissioner
of administration for the purposes
specified in this section 46,250,000
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 2. Capital Asset
Preservation and Replacement (CAPRA) 15,000,000
To be spent in accordance with
Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.632.
The commissioner of administration, in
cooperation with the commissioner of
finance, president of the University of
Minnesota, and chancellor of the
Minnesota state colleges and
universities, shall review how state
agencies and state higher education
institutions plan and budget for
ongoing asset preservation needs in
capital and operating budgets, examine
alternative methodologies and formulas
for future agency requests, and report
the commissioner's findings by January
15, 1999, to the chairs of the senate
committees on finance and the house of
representatives committees on ways and
means and capital investment.
The legislature intends to use the
report in considering future capital
and operating appropriations to state
agencies and state higher education
institutions for asset preservation,
repair, and replacement budgets.
Subd. 3. Ely Revenue
Building 2,200,000
This appropriation is to predesign,
design, construct, furnish, and equip a
new building for the department of
revenue's Minnesota collection
enterprise operations in Ely. The
unencumbered balance of the
appropriation of $650,000 in Laws 1997,
chapter 202, article 1, section 12,
subdivision 3, to acquire the building
in Ely currently used by the department
of revenue is canceled.
Subd. 4. Capitol Square
Building 3,100,000
To relocate the department of children,
families, and learning (CFL), and the
higher education services office (HESO)
and pay rent in a new facility and
conduct a predesign study of future
facilities for CFL and HESO.
Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes,
section 16B.24, the commissioner of
administration must retain the capitol
square site.
Subd. 5. Labor Interpretive Center 6,000,000
For renovation and upgrades to the East
Building of the Science Museum for use
for the Minnesota Labor Interpretive
Center.
Subd. 6. Department of
Revenue Relocation 5,350,000
To relocate the department of revenue
from a leased facility to a new
state-owned facility in the Capitol
complex. This appropriation includes
staging equipment and furnishings
necessary to complete the relocation
and to continue critical operations at
the new facility. Any computers
replaced as a result of these
relocations will be offered to the
Center for the Arts in Golden Valley.
Subd. 7. Agency Relocation 2,490,000
For relocation of state agencies as
determined by the commissioner of
administration.
Subd. 8. Electrical Utility
Infrastructure 5,350,000
To upgrade the primary electrical
distribution system in the Capitol
complex and to upgrade the mechanical
infrastructure in the east Capitol area.
Subd. 9. Capitol Security and
Plant Management Facility Predesign 45,000
To conduct a predesign of a new
facility for the department of public
safety's capitol security division and
the department of administration's
plant management division.
Subd. 10. Real Property Acquisition 2,800,000
This appropriation is from the general
fund for acquisition of land and to
purchase options in order to hold
properties that meet state development
needs.
Subd. 11. Bureau of Criminal
Apprehension Facility Design and Site
Acquisition 3,815,000
To design a new building for the bureau
of criminal apprehension, including
offices and forensic laboratories and
to select and acquire a site for the
building in St. Paul and predesign of a
satellite laboratory facility in
northern Minnesota.
Subd. 12. Dahl House Relocation 100,000
This appropriation is from the general
fund to relocate the Dahl House near
its original site, stabilize, and
restore the structure. Up to $150,000
from the plaza percent for art budget
may be used for the restoration and
related art objects.
Subd. 13. Department of Human Services
Consolidation
Within the limits of available
appropriations, the commissioner of
administration and the commissioner of
human services may enter into a
contract with a third party to
consolidate the department of human
services central office operations into
one location.
Sec. 14. CAPITOL AREA ARCHITECTURAL AND
PLANNING BOARD
Subdivision 1. To the commissioner
of administration for the purposes
specified in this section 9,544,000
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 2. Capitol Building
Structural Stabilization 6,600,000
To stabilize the Capitol building's
structure and provide related facility
improvements.
Subd. 3. Capitol Building Accessibility 1,500,000
To design, construct, renovate, and
replace exterior doors on the Capitol's
ground, first, and second floors to
meet code requirements.
The commissioner of administration and
the capitol area architectural and
planning board shall study and report
to the legislature by January 15, 1999,
on possible improvements of the stairs
from the tunnel to the Capitol, so as
to encourage greater use of stairs and
less use of elevators.
$150,000 of this appropriation is to
predesign improvements to the heating,
ventilation, and air conditioning
system in the State Office Building
hearing rooms. This appropriation is
also to design and construct storage
behind members' chairs in hearing rooms
of the State Office Building and to
design and construct improved access to
the hearing rooms of the State Office
Building.
Subd. 4. Security Lighting 734,000
To improve security lighting for
pedestrians parking in lots and ramps
north of the Capitol and, to the extent
money is available, for
pedestrian-scaled lighting on the mall
south of the Capitol.
Subd. 5. Statuary Restoration 120,000
This appropriation is to restore the
statuary immediately in front of the
Capitol.
Subd. 6. Capitol Mall
Memorials 440,000
This appropriation is to repair and
rehabilitate the reflecting pool and
sculpture at the veterans services
building, the plaza and wall of the
Floyd B. Olson memorial, and the paving
stones at the Lindbergh memorial.
Subd. 7. Women's Suffrage
Memorial Garden 150,000
This appropriation is to complete the
Minnesota women's suffrage memorial
garden.
Subd. 8. Greening the Mall
The capitol area architectural and
planning board shall solicit
contributions of labor, trees, and
other landscape materials from
individuals and groups willing to
assist with replacing and increasing
vegetation on the capitol mall in
preparation for the Capitol's
centennial celebration in 2005.
Sec. 15. AMATEUR SPORTS COMMISSION
Subdivision 1. To the amateur
sports commission for the purposes
specified in this section 11,020,000
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 2. National Sports Center 4,800,000
$1,700,000 is to purchase and develop
land adjacent to the National Sports
Center in Blaine for use as athletic
fields.
$3,100,000 is to develop the National
Children's Golf Course. The primary
purpose of the National Children's Golf
Course is to serve youth of 18 years
and younger. Market rates must be
charged for adult golf.
Subd. 3. Giants Ridge Facility 690,000
For a grant to the Iron Range resources
and rehabilitation board to enhance the
Giants Ridge cross-country ski event
facility.
Subd. 4. Minneapolis Urban
Sports Center 600,000
For a grant to special school district
No. 1, Minneapolis, to complete funding
for an urban sports facility, to be
owned by the district. This
appropriation is in addition to the
project appropriation of $3,400,000 in
Laws 1996, chapter 463, section 14,
subdivision 5, paragraph (a), and
subject to the conditions contained
therein.
Subd. 5. Tennis Facility 800,000
For a grant to the city of St. Paul to
design a tennis center to offer indoor
tennis facilities, subject to the
requirements of Minnesota Statutes,
section 16A.695. The center may be
constructed only after endorsement by a
national governing body member of the
United States Olympic Committee.
Subd. 6. Ice Centers 2,000,000
For grants for ice centers under
Minnesota Statutes, section 240A.09, of
up to $250,000 each.
Subd. 7. Mt. Itasca Ski Area 130,000
For a grant to the Iron Range resources
and rehabilitation board to expand the
facilities at Mt. Itasca ski area.
Subd. 8. Richfield Athletic Fields 2,000,000
For a grant to the city of Richfield
for planning, designing, constructing,
and equipping recreational facilities
needed to replace facilities lost due
to improvements to Wold Chamberlain
field. The city must spend the money
in a manner consistent with the
recreation asset replacement study of
the Richfield community services
department.
Sec. 16. MILITARY AFFAIRS
Subdivision 1. To the adjutant
general or other named agency for the
purposes specified in this section 1,230,000
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 2. Kitchen Renovation 880,000
To renovate kitchen facilities at
National Guard training and community
centers in Thief River Falls, Bemidji,
Detroit Lakes, Marshall, Litchfield,
Anoka, Fergus Falls, and Pine City.
This appropriation is exempt from the
requirements of Minnesota Statutes,
section 16B.335.
Subd. 3. Asset Preservation 250,000
For asset preservation improvements at
military affairs facilities statewide.
Subd. 4. Military Affairs/Emergency
Management Facility Predesign 100,000
To the commissioner of administration
to predesign a joint military
affairs/emergency management facility.
Sec. 17. TRANSPORTATION
Subdivision 1. To the
commissioner of transportation for
the purposes specified in this section 93,300,000
Subd. 2. Local Bridge
Replacement and Rehabilitation 34,000,000
This appropriation is from the state
transportation fund as provided in
Minnesota Statutes, section 174.50, to
match federal funds and to replace or
rehabilitate local deficient bridges.
Political subdivisions may use grants
made under this section to construct or
reconstruct bridges, including:
(1) matching federal-aid grants to
construct or reconstruct key bridges;
(2) paying the costs of preliminary
engineering and environmental studies
authorized under Minnesota Statutes,
section 174.50, subdivision 6a;
(3) paying the costs to abandon an
existing bridge that is deficient and
in need of replacement, but where no
replacement will be made; and
(4) paying the costs to construct a
road or street to facilitate the
abandonment of an existing bridge
determined by the commissioner to be
deficient, if the commissioner
determines that construction of the
road or street is more cost efficient
than the replacement of the existing
bridge.
Subd. 3. Transitways 46,500,000
(a) This appropriation is to match
federal and local funding for the
planning, design, engineering, and
construction of transitways in the
metropolitan area.
(b) $40,000,000 is for the preliminary
engineering, final design, and
construction of light rail transit in
the Hiawatha Avenue corridor from
downtown Minneapolis through
Minneapolis-St. Paul International
Airport and the site of the former Met
Center or surrounding area with a
terminus in southern Hennepin or
northern Dakota county.
The Hiawatha Avenue corridor management
committee created pursuant to Minnesota
Statutes, section 473.3994, subdivision
10, shall establish an advisory
committee of:
(1) individuals who reside near the
proposed corridor;
(2) representatives of businesses
located within one mile on either side
of the corridor; and
(3) elected officials, including
legislators, who represent the area in
which the Hiawatha corridor is located.
The advisory committee shall advise the
corridor management committee on issues
relating to the preliminary
engineering, final design, and
construction of light rail facilities,
including the proposed alignment for
the corridor.
(c) The funds in this paragraph must be
distributed as grants to appropriate
county regional rail authorities as
follows:
(1) $3,000,000 to match federal funding
for a major investment study,
engineering, and implementation in the
Riverview corridor between the east
side of St. Paul and the
Minneapolis-St. Paul International
Airport and the Mall of America;
(2) $1,500,000 to match federal funding
for a major investment study,
engineering, and implementation in the
Northstar corridor linking downtown
Minneapolis to the St. Cloud area and
to study the feasibility of commuter
rail and other transportation
improvements within the corridor;
(3) $500,000 to study potential transit
improvements and engineering studies in
the Cedar Avenue corridor to link the
Hiawatha, Riverview, and Northstar
transit corridors with Dakota county;
and
(4) $500,000 to develop engineering
documents for a commuter rail line from
Minneapolis to downtown St. Paul
through southern Washington county to
Hastings.
The commissioner of transportation, in
coordination with the North Star
Corridor Joint Powers Authority and the
St. Cloud area planning agency, shall
study the transportation needs within
the St. Cloud metropolitan area.
(d) $1,000,000 is available as grants
to appropriate county regional rail
authorities to conduct major investment
studies and to develop engineering
documents for commuter rail lines in
the following corridors:
(1) the Young America corridor from
Carver county to Minneapolis and St.
Paul;
(2) the Bethel corridor linking
Cambridge with the Northstar corridor
in Anoka county;
(3) the Northwest corridor from
downtown Minneapolis to the Northwest
suburbs of Hennepin county; and
(4) other commuter rail corridors
identified in phase II of the
department of transportation's commuter
rail service study, except for the
corridors identified in paragraph (c).
The appropriation in this paragraph is
not available until the completion of
the commuter rail service study as
provided in Laws 1997, chapter 159,
article 2, section 51. The funds may
be made available only after approval
by the commissioner of transportation
of an application submitted by county
regional rail authorities that is
consistent with the results of the
commuter rail service study and
demonstrates a coordinated
implementation strategy.
Subd. 4. Rural Transit Assistance 5,000,000
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
$2,500,000 of this appropriation is for
grants to local units of government to
acquire rolling stock for transit
systems under Minnesota Statutes,
section 174.24. $1,500,000 is for
public transit subsidy program grants
to eligible recipients under Minnesota
Statutes, section 174.24. Priority
must be given to projects involving
collaboration between transit operators
and local government.
The following appropriations are not
available until equal amounts have been
committed from nonstate sources:
$675,000 is for renovation of the
Duluth transit operating facility.
$100,000 is for renovation and roof
replacement at the Duluth Transit
Center. $100,000 is to design and
construct a transit hub on or near the
campus of St. Cloud State University.
$125,000 is to renovate the heating,
ventilation, and air conditioning
system at the Mankato transit building.
Subd. 5. Forest Highway 11 and CSAH No. 90 3,050,000
To fund the nonfederal matching
requirement for Forest Highway 11 in
St. Louis and Lake counties and County
State Aid Highway No. 90 in Blue Earth
county. The amount for Forest Highway
11 is $1,650,000 and the amount for
County State Aid Highway No. 90 is
$1,400,000.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 6. Port Development Assistance 4,500,000
For port development assistance grants,
the grants must be made to political
subdivisions for capital improvements
constructed after the effective date of
this appropriation under the provisions
of Minnesota Statutes, sections 457A.01
to 457A.06. Any improvements made with
the proceeds of these grants must be
publicly owned.
Subd. 7. Seaway Port Authority
of Duluth 250,000
For a grant to the Seaway Port
Authority of Duluth to design a new
warehouse.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 8. Exception
Notwithstanding any provision of
Minnesota Statutes, chapter 398A, the
Hennepin county regional railroad
authority may expend up to $400,000
from its funds to fund a circulator
vehicle pilot project in South
Minneapolis. The funds may be used for
capital or operating costs.
Sec. 18. HUMAN SERVICES
Subdivision 1. To the
commissioner of administration
for the purposes specified
in this section 19,975,000
Subd. 2. Capital Roof Repairs
and Replacement 1,900,000
For critical repairs of a capital
nature and replacement to roofs of
department of human services service
facilities statewide.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 3. Asset Preservation 4,000,000
To be spent for asset preservation
needs at state regional treatment
centers. Priority must be given to
fire alarm systems and sprinklers.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 4. People, Inc. North Side Community
Support Program 375,000
For a grant to Hennepin county to
purchase, remodel, and complete
accessibility upgrades to an existing
building to be used by the People, Inc.
North Side Community Support Program
which may provide office space for
state employees.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 5. METO Construction,
Cambridge 1,500,000
To undertake site improvements
including demolition, and to design
construct, remodel, furnish, and equip
12 additional beds for the Minnesota
extended treatment option (METO)
program on the Cambridge regional human
services center campus.
Subd. 6. Building Renovations, Moose Lake
Sexual Psychopathic Personality Center 8,000,000
To design, construct, furnish, and
equip additional residential and
ancillary service facilities for the
Minnesota sexual psychopathic
personality treatment center at Moose
Lake. The facilities are expected to
provide two 25-bed residential units
plus eight beds in an isolation unit.
Subd. 7. Crisis and Respite
Residential Capacity 1,200,000
To develop crisis and respite
residential capacity. In the
development of this capacity, the
department shall consider the use of
existing surplus space in the public
and private human service system.
Debt service costs on the bonds sold to
finance projects for crisis and respite
capacity shall be paid to the
commissioner of finance in accordance
with Minnesota Statutes, section
16A.643, with funds appropriated to the
commissioner for this purpose.
Subd. 8. Building Renovations, Willmar 3,000,000
To renovate building 3 (MTC) and
building 14 at the Willmar regional
treatment center.
Sec. 19. VETERANS HOMES BOARD
Subdivision 1. To the commissioner
of administration for the purposes
specified in this section 12,055,000
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 2. Minneapolis
Veterans Home 6,340,000
For design and construction of capital
infrastructure improvements to tunnels,
piping systems, and utility systems at
the campus of the Minneapolis veterans
home.
Subd. 3. Hastings Veterans Home 5,715,000
For design and renovation of the power
plant, boiler, and related utility
infrastructure systems at the campus of
the Hastings veterans home.
Sec. 20. CORRECTIONS
Subdivision 1. To the
commissioner of administration
for the purposes specified in
this section 14,185,000
Subd. 2. Asset Preservation 3,500,000
For asset preservation needs at state
correctional facilities. $1,250,000 of
this appropriation is for fire/life
safety needs at the Stillwater
correctional facility. $1,225,000 of
this appropriation is for new plumbing
for the education building at the St.
Cloud correctional facility. The
remainder of the appropriation is for
installing fire sprinklers and
replacing roofs, where needed.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 3. Inmate Bed
Expansion, Shakopee 4,645,000
To design, construct, furnish, and
equip a two story 62-bed living unit at
MCF-Shakopee and expansion and
modification of related support service
areas. The living units must be able
to be double-bunked.
Subd. 4. Administrative
Segregation Unit, Lino Lakes 340,000
To construct, furnish, and equip an
80-cell administrative segregation unit
to provide more restrictive and
staff-efficient housing for inmates who
are unable to live in the general
population. This appropriation is
contingent upon $7,592,000 in federal
matching funds.
Subd. 5. Health Care
Improvements, Oak Park Heights 3,000,000
To convert Complex 4 from a 52-bed
living unit to a 45-bed departmentwide
mental health unit, convert an existing
42-bed unit to a 39-bed departmentwide
infirmary, and provide predesign and
partial design funds for a new 60-bed
high security unit to replace beds lost
in the previous improvements.
Subd. 6. Intake Center,
St. Cloud 1,500,000
To design and renovate dayrooms into
offices and inmate processing areas.
Subd. 7. Security Fence,
Red Wing 1,200,000
To design and construct a security
fence and purchase related lighting and
security equipment at MCF-Red Wing.
This subdivision is exempt from the
requirements of Minnesota Statutes,
sections 16B.33, subdivision 3, and
16B.335.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Sec. 21. PUBLIC SAFETY
Subdivision 1. To the
commissioner of public safety, or
other named official, for the purposes
specified in this section 2,230,000
Subd. 2. State Patrol Camp
Ripley Training Facility 1,200,000
To the commissioner of transportation
to design, construct, furnish, and
equip a state patrol training facility
at Camp Ripley in Little Falls. This
appropriation is from the trunk highway
fund.
Subd. 3. Fire and Public Safety
Training 150,000
To develop a statewide master plan for
siting, ownership, and operation of
fire and public safety training
facilities. The commissioner of public
safety will consult with the Minnesota
state colleges and universities, the
department of military affairs, and the
peace officer standards and training
board in preparation of the master plan.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 4. Regional Emergency
Response and Industrial Training Center 880,000
For a grant to the Southwest Regional
Development Commission for an award to
a community for constructing a regional
emergency response and fire training
center following a site selection
process. The community will contract
with Minnesota West Technical College
to provide instruction for the center.
The community selected will operate and
maintain the facility. This grant is
not available until at least an equal
amount has been committed from nonstate
sources.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Sec. 22. INDIAN AFFAIRS COUNCIL 1,700,000
To the Indian affairs council for
construction of the Battle Point
Cultural and Education Center. The
center must be publicly owned. The
Indian affairs council may enter into a
lease or management agreement for the
center subject to Minnesota Statutes,
chapter 16A.695.
Sec. 23. TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Subdivision 1. To the commissioner
of trade and economic development or other
named official for the purposes specified
in this section 225,680,000
Subd. 2. Redevelopment Grant Program 4,000,000
For purposes of new Minnesota Statutes,
sections 116J.561 to 116J.567.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Priority must be given to projects in
areas of high unemployment, to projects
that enhance the property tax base on
the site or adjacent to it, and to
grants that will be used in conjunction
with remediation activities.
Subd. 3. Direct Reduction Iron
Processing Facilities 10,000,000
For grants for construction of up to
three direct reduction iron processing
facilities. The commissioner of trade
and economic development and natural
resources must jointly agree on and
issue the grants. This appropriation
is from the general fund and does not
cancel but is available until June 30,
2003.
Subd. 4. Phillips Neighborhood Job
Creation, Green Institute 1,500,000
To the city of Minneapolis for a grant
to the Green Institute to design,
construct, furnish, and equip a
building to house the Phillips
Ecoenterprise Center in the Phillips
neighborhood in south Minneapolis to
create up to 200 jobs in businesses,
many of which specialize in energy
conservation, renewable energy,
environmental technology, recycling,
reuse, and related fields. One-half of
the job openings must be targeted for
persons on public assistance or below
150 percent of the federal poverty
level. This grant must be matched on a
one-to-one basis from nonstate sources
of debt and equity. The city may enter
into a lease or management agreement
with the Green Institute subject to
Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.695.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 5. Taconite Mining Grants 500,000
For the taconite mining grant program
under Minnesota Statutes, section
116J.992.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 6. St. Paul RiverCentre
Arena 65,000,000
This appropriation is from the general
fund to the commissioner of finance for
a loan to the city of St. Paul to
demolish the existing St. Paul
RiverCentre Arena and to design,
construct, furnish, and equip a new
arena. This appropriation is not
available until the lessee to whom the
city has leased the arena has agreed to
make rental or other payments to the
city under the terms set forth in this
subdivision. The loan is repayable
solely from and secured by the payments
made to the city by the lessee. The
loan is not a public debt and the full
faith, credit, and taxing powers of the
city are not pledged for its repayment.
(a) $48,000,000 of the loan must be
repaid to the commissioner, without
interest, within 20 years from the date
of substantial completion of the arena
in accordance with the following
schedule:
(1) no repayments are due in the first
two years from the date of substantial
completion;
(2) in each of the years three to five,
the lessee must pay $1,250,000;
(3) in each of the years six to ten,
the lessee must pay $1,500,000;
(4) in each of the years 11 to 13, the
lessee must pay $2,000,000;
(5) in year 14, the lessee must pay
$3,000,000;
(6) in year 15, the lessee must pay
$4,000,000; and
(7) in each of the years 16 to 20, the
lessee must pay $4,750,000.
(b) The commissioner must deposit the
repayments in the state treasury and
credit them to the youth activities
account, which is hereby created in the
special revenue fund. Money in the
youth activities account is available
for expenditure as appropriated by law.
(c) The loan may not be made until the
commissioner has entered into an
agreement with the city of St. Paul
identifying the rental or other
payments that will be made and
establishing the dates on and the
amounts in which the payments will be
made to the city and by the city to the
commissioner. The payments may include
operating revenues and additional
payments to be made by the lessee under
agreements to be negotiated between the
commissioner, the city, and the
lessee. Those agreements may include,
but are not limited to, an agreement
whereby the lessee pledges to provide
each year a letter of credit sufficient
to guarantee the payment of the amount
due for the next succeeding year; an
agreement whereby the lessee agrees to
maintain a net worth, certified each
year by a financial institution or
accounting firm satisfactory to the
commissioner, that is greater than the
balance due under the payment schedule
in paragraph (a); and any other
agreements the commissioner may deem
necessary to ensure that the payments
are made as scheduled.
(d) The agreements must provide that
the failure of the lessee to make a
payment due to the city under the
agreement is an event of default under
the lease between the city and the
lessee and that the state is entitled
to enforce the remedies of the lessor
under the lease in the event of
default. Those remedies must include,
but need not be limited to, the
obligation of the lessee to pay the
balance due for the remainder of the
payment schedule in the event the
lessee ceases to operate a National
Hockey League team in the arena.
(e) By January 1, 1999, the
commissioner shall report to the chair
of the senate committee on state
government finance and the chair of the
house committee on ways and means the
terms of an agreement between the
lessee and the amateur sports
commission whereby the lessee agrees to
make the facilities of the arena
available to the commission on terms
satisfactory to the commission for
amateur sports activities consistent
with the purposes of Minnesota
Statutes, chapter 240A, each year
during the time the loan is
outstanding. The amateur sports
commission must negotiate in good faith
and may be required to pay no more than
actual out-of-pocket expenses for the
time it uses the arena. The agreement
may not become effective before
February 1, 1999. During any calendar
year after 1999 that an agreement under
this paragraph is not in effect and a
payment is due under the schedule, the
lessee must pay to the commissioner a
penalty of $750,000 for that year. If
the amateur sports commission has not
negotiated in good faith, no penalty is
due.
Subd. 7. Minneapolis
Convention Center 87,145,000
To the commissioner of finance for a
grant to the city of Minneapolis to pay
principal costs on city of Minneapolis'
$178,985,000 general obligation sales
tax refunding bonds, series 1992. It
is the expectation of the legislature
that the city will issue bonds and pay
all capital and operating costs
associated with an expansion of the
existing Minneapolis Convention
Center. This is the final state
appropriation for this facility.
Subd. 8. Minneapolis Convention
Center Circulator 220,000
To the Metropolitan Council in
cooperation with the Office of Tourism
at the Department of Trade and Economic
Development and the Scenic Byways
program at the Department of
Transportation from the general fund
for planning and start-up costs of a
pilot transportation project:
(1) connecting the Minneapolis
convention center and other locations
in downtown Minneapolis with
multicultural tourist, heritage, and
cultural resources in Phillips, Stevens
Square, Whittier, Central, Powderhorn,
Seward, Loring Park, and
Cedar-Riverside neighborhoods in
Minneapolis and contributing to the
revitalization of those neighborhoods
by increasing urban tourism;
(2) generating additional spending by
expanding the selection of tourism
activities provided by the convention
center and downtown Minneapolis; and
(3) promoting state and local tourism
activities which provide a richer, more
culturally diverse experience of
Minneapolis urban life as an
alternative to larger, more commercial
attractions.
Subd. 9. Duluth Entertainment and
Convention Center 12,000,000
For a grant to the Duluth entertainment
and convention center authority for the
purpose of planning, designing,
constructing, and equipping of capital
improvements to the Duluth
entertainment and convention center.
This appropriation is not available
until the commissioner has determined
that the necessary additional financing
to complete a project with a total cost
of at least $20,000,000 has been
committed from nonstate sources.
Subd. 10. Mayo Civic Center
in Rochester 2,800,000
For a grant to the city of Rochester to
acquire land, design, construct,
furnish, and equip an expansion and
remodeling of the Mayo Civic Center.
This appropriation is contingent upon
demonstration of an equal amount in
nonstate matching funds to the
commissioner of finance.
Subd. 11. St. Cloud Community
Event Center 6,100,000
For a grant to the city of St. Cloud
for Phase I of the Central Minnesota
Events Center, including predesign,
design, land acquisition, site
preparation, and construction.
Subd. 12. Fergus Falls Convention
Center 1,500,000
For a grant to the city of Fergus Falls
to acquire land, predesign, design,
construct, furnish, and equip a
convention center in Fergus Falls.
This appropriation is contingent upon
demonstration of $1,500,000 in nonstate
matching funds to the commissioner.
Subd. 13. Hutchinson Community
Civic Center 1,000,000
For a grant to the city of Hutchinson
to design, construct, furnish, and
equip a community civic center, subject
to the requirements of Minnesota
Statutes, section 16A.695. This
appropriation is not available until
the commissioner has determined that an
equal amount has been committed from
nonstate sources.
Subd. 14. Humboldt Avenue Greenway
Project 7,000,000
To the commissioner of natural
resources for a grant to Hennepin
county as the state contribution for
the Humboldt Avenue greenway project in
accordance with the multijurisdictional
reinvestment program plan established
in Minnesota Statutes, section
383B.79. The purpose of the grant is
to acquire land for green space and
infrastructure improvements in the
vicinity of Humboldt Avenue North;
reclamation of wetland amenities for
public use; and construction of a
parkway. This appropriation is not
available until the governmental
jurisdictions participating in the
multijurisdictional reinvestment
program have committed in the aggregate
$12,000,000 for the project. The
governmental jurisdictions, however
constituted, may use any nonstate money
under their control to meet the match
requirement.
Subd. 15. Prairieland Expo 3,000,000
To the commissioner of administration
for a grant to the southwest regional
development commission to construct and
equip Prairieland Expo. The southwest
regional development commission may
enter into a lease or management
agreement for Prairieland Expo subject
to the requirements of Minnesota
Statutes, section 16A.695. This
appropriation is contingent upon
demonstration of $1,500,000 in nonstate
matching funds.
Subd. 16. Montevideo Downtown
Revitalization 1,500,000
For a grant to the city of Montevideo
for engineering, architecture, and
development of a public capital
improvement downtown revitalization
project following the 1997 flood. This
appropriation is not available until
the commissioner has determined that
$1,500,000 has been committed to the
project from nonstate sources.
Subd. 17. Paramount Arts District
Regional Arts Center 750,000
To the commissioner of administration
for a grant to the city of St. Cloud to
construct, furnish, and equip the
paramount arts district regional arts
center, subject to Minnesota Statutes,
section 16A.695. This appropriation is
not available until the commissioner
has determined that the necessary
additional financing to complete at
least a $5,400,000 project has been
committed by nonstate sources.
Subd. 18. Veterans Memorial Performing
Arts Amphitheater 315,000
For a grant to the city of St. Louis
Park to construct a veterans memorial
performing arts amphitheater. This
appropriation is for a portion of a
larger project to which at least an
equal amount of funds from nonstate
sources must be committed.
Subd. 19. Brooklyn Center Earle Brown
Heritage Center Restoration 2,500,000
To the commissioner of administration
to make a grant to the city of Brooklyn
Center to acquire land and improve it
for parking and to design, construct,
furnish, and equip an additional
building, together with connecting
structures and the remodeling of
existing buildings at the Earle Brown
Heritage Center.
Subd. 20. Valley Technology Park
in Crookston 600,000
For a grant to the city of Crookston
for capital development of its Valley
Technology Park located adjacent to the
campus of the University of Minnesota
at Crookston. This appropriation is
not available until an equal amount has
been committed from nonstate sources.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 21. Minnesota Agricultural
Interpretive Center (Farmamerica) 1,500,000
For a grant to the Minnesota
Agricultural Interpretive Center
(Farmamerica) to construct its
visitors' center. This appropriation
is from the general fund.
Subd. 22. Owatonna Infrastructure 500,000
For a grant from the general fund to
the city of Owatonna to defray costs of
city infrastructure for the Heritage
Halls Museum/Cabela's project.
Subd. 23. United States Hockey
Hall of Fame 250,000
For a grant to the city of Eveleth for
construction, remodeling, and
renovation of displays celebrating boys
and girls amateur and high school
hockey in the United States at the
United States Hockey Hall of Fame.
This appropriation is not available
until the commissioner has determined
that an equal amount has been committed
from nonstate sources.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 24. Minnesota African-American
Performing Arts Center 2,250,000
To the commissioner of administration
for a grant to the city of St. Paul to
predesign, design, construct, furnish,
and equip the Minnesota
African-American performing arts and
education center. The city of St. Paul
may contract with a nonprofit
organization to operate the center,
subject to Minnesota Statutes, section
16A.695. This appropriation is not
available until the commissioner has
determined that an equal amount has
been committed by nonstate sources.
Subd. 25. Phalen Corridor 3,850,000
For a grant to the St. Paul Port
Authority for the removal of blight by
property acquisition, site preparation,
and redevelopment activities on and
around the former Stroh brewery
property and to acquire a roadway
right-of-way in the Phalen corridor.
The city shall consider the potential
for connection with an adjoining
transit hub and any connector roads.
Subd. 26. Sewer and Water
to Community College 500,000
For a grant to the city of Cambridge
for extension of pipe for sewer and
water service including extension under
the Rum River to the community college
campus at Cambridge.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 27. Red Lake
Educational and Training Facility 2,600,000
For a grant to the Red Lake tribal
council to construct an educational and
training facility and a production
facility on land assigned by the
council on the Red Lake reservation.
The educational and training facility
will provide a site for Northwest
technical college to offer basic skills
and vocational training to adults to
help them overcome the effects of
underemployment and unemployment and to
prepare them for meaningful employment.
Training will utilize personalized,
computerized programs designed to
prepare participants for college and
other further training as well as
direct access to the work force.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 28. Headwaters Science Center 200,000
To the commissioner of administration
for a grant to the city of Bemidji for
design of the Headwaters Science Center.
Subd. 29. Little Falls Conference
and Retreat Center 100,000
For a grant to the city of Little Falls
to equip a conference center and
retreat site on the Mississippi River
in Little Falls.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 30. Itasca County School-to-Work
Technology Center 2,000,000
For a grant to Itasca county to design
and construct a school-to-work
technology center in conjunction with
the school district, the city of
Nashwauk, and private industry. Each
dollar of state money must be matched
by $1 of nonstate money.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 31. Mankato Technology Center 4,500,000
For a grant to the city of Mankato to
acquire real property, design, and
construct a multiuse facility that
includes a technology incubator, a
community technology park, an education
center, headquarters space for the
Institute for Wireless Education,
laboratories, and office and
administrative space. This
appropriation is not available until
the commissioner has determined that at
least $4,500,000 has been committed by
the city of Mankato and other nonstate
sources.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Sec. 24. HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY 6,000,000
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
(a) $4,000,000 is for transfer to the
housing development fund for the
purpose of making loans or grants for
temporary or transitional housing under
Minnesota Statutes, section 462A.201,
subdivision 2, including loans or
grants for housing homeless youth,
homeless families, battered women, and
individuals leaving prostitution.
At least 25 percent of the
appropriation under this section must
utilize youthbuild, Minnesota Statutes,
sections 268.361 to 268.366, or other
youth employment and training programs.
Eligible programs must consult with
appropriate labor organizations to
deliver education and training. In
making grants under this section, the
commissioner shall use a request for
proposal process.
(b) $2,000,000 is for transfer to the
housing development fund for the
purpose of making loans for permanent
housing under Minnesota Statutes,
sections 462A.21, subdivision 8b, and
462A.206.
Sec. 25. MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Subdivision 1. To the Minnesota
Historical Society for the purposes
specified in this section 13,110,000
Subd. 2. Historic Site
Preservation and Repair 1,500,000
For capital repair, reconstruction, or
replacement of deferred maintenance
needs at state historic sites,
buildings, exhibits, markers, and
monuments, including replacement of the
permanent exhibit at the Lindbergh
Historic Site Visitor Center. The
society shall determine project
priorities as appropriate based on need.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 3. County and Local
Preservation Projects 1,150,000
To be allocated to county and local
jurisdictions as matching money for
historic preservation projects of a
capital nature. Grant recipients must
be public entities and must match state
funds on at least an equal basis. The
facilities must be publicly owned.
$175,000 of this appropriation is for
the Veterans Memorial Hall Project at
the St. Louis County Heritage and Arts
Center.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 4. Split Rock Lighthouse
Visitor Center Improvements 780,000
To design, renovate, and expand public
restrooms and related facilities at the
Split Rock Lighthouse visitor center.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 5. Northwest Company Fur
Post Interpretive Center 1,500,000
To design, construct, furnish, and
equip the North West Company Fur Post
Interpretive Center.
Subd. 6. Historic Fort Snelling 600,000
For the abatement of hazardous
materials at Historic Fort Snelling and
design for the renovation of building
no. 17 at Fort Snelling for its
possible future use as the Fort
Snelling International Hostel.
Hosteling International of Minnesota
must enter into a lease with the
Minnesota historical society to operate
the hostel. State operating funds must
not be used for the operation and
maintenance of the hostel.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 7. St. Anthony Falls
Heritage Education Center 4,000,000
For structural stabilization, landscape
improvements of a capital nature, and
design in the St. Anthony Falls
Historic District.
Subd. 8. Herman Monument in
New Ulm 400,000
For a grant to the city of New Ulm for
the restoration, enhancement, and
protection of Herman Monument. The
appropriation must be matched with
nonstate contributions sufficient to
provide and install the four decorative
copper lions depicted in Julius
Berndt's 1885 architectural drawings of
the monument. The nonstate
contribution may be any combination of
materials, in-kind, or cash
contributions. The city of New Ulm, in
consultation with the director of the
state historical society, must develop
interpretive displays depicting the
significance of Herman in the history
of German people and their immigration
to America and with the director of the
office of tourism to develop and
implement a program to inform and
attract national and international
visitors to New Ulm and Herman Monument.
The appropriation is available
proportionally as the match is raised
by the city of New Ulm.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 9. Treaty Site History
Center 400,000
For a grant to the Nicollet county
historical society to design and
construct a new central exhibit at the
treaty site history center, subject to
the requirements of Minnesota Statutes,
section 16A.695. This appropriation is
not available until an equal amount has
been committed from nonstate sources.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 10. Humphrey Museum and
Learning Center, Waverly 1,000,000
For a grant to the city of Waverly to
renovate the existing village hall as
the Hubert H. Humphrey Museum and
Learning Center. The city may enter
into a lease or management agreement
for the center subject to Minnesota
Statutes, section 16A.695. It is
expected that the city of Waverly will
construct an addition to the building
with funds from nonstate sources.
Subd. 11. Bemidji Historic Railroad
Depot 650,000
For a grant to the city of Bemidji to
pay up to one-half of the total costs,
including acquisition, design, other
preliminary work, construction costs,
furniture, fixtures, and equipment, to
convert an abandoned historic railroad
depot within the city to a historical
museum and facility for the Beltrami
county historical society. This
appropriation is in addition to the
appropriation of $50,000 for the same
project in Laws 1997, chapter 200,
article 1, section 18, subdivision 5,
paragraph (g).
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 12. Montevideo Railroad
Depot 130,000
For a grant to the city of Montevideo
for exterior improvements to the city's
historic railroad depot and for design
and development of a related parking
area, trailhead, and public facilities
at the site.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Subd. 13. Red River Valley Center 1,000,000
For a grant to the city of Moorhead for
capital remodeling and new construction
to expand the Red River Valley Center
under Minnesota Statutes, section
138.93. The state's share of the
remodeling and expansion must not
exceed 50 percent of the cost of the
project.
This appropriation is from the general
fund.
Sec. 26. BOND SALE EXPENSES 500,000
To the commissioner of finance for bond
sale expenses under Minnesota Statutes,
section 16A.641, subdivision 8. This
appropriation is from the bond proceeds
fund.
Sec. 27. [BOND SALE AUTHORIZATIONS.]
Subdivision 1. [BOND PROCEEDS FUND.] To provide the money
appropriated in this act from the bond proceeds fund, the
commissioner of finance, on request of the governor, shall sell
and issue bonds of the state in an amount up to $463,795,000 in
the manner, upon the terms, and with the effect prescribed by
Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the
Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.
Subd. 2. [TRANSPORTATION FUND.] To provide the money
appropriated in this act from the transportation fund, the
commissioner of finance, on request of the governor, shall sell
and issue bonds of the state in an amount up to $34,000,000 in
the manner, upon the terms, and with the effect prescribed by
Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the
Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7. The
proceeds of the bonds, except accrued interest and any premium
received on the sale of the bonds, must be credited to a bond
proceeds account in the state transportation fund.
Sec. 28. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 16A.105, is
amended to read:
16A.105 [DEBT CAPACITY FORECAST.]
By December 1 of each even-numbered In February and
November of each year the governor commissioner shall submit to
the legislature prepare a debt capacity forecast to be delivered
to the governor and legislature according to section 16A.103,
subdivision 1. The debt capacity forecast must include
statements of the indebtedness of the state for bonds, notes,
and other forms of long-term general obligation
indebtedness that are not accounted for in proprietary or
fiduciary funds, including general obligation bonds, moral
obligation bonds, revenue bonds, loans, grants payable, and
capital leases. The forecast must show the actual amount of the
debt service for at least the past two completed fiscal years,
and the estimated amount for the current fiscal year and the
next six fiscal years, the debt authorized and unissued, the
condition of the sinking funds, and the borrowing capacity for
the next six fiscal years.
Sec. 29. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 16A.11,
subdivision 3a, is amended to read:
Subd. 3a. [PART THREE: DETAILED CAPITAL BUDGET.] The
detailed capital budget must include recommendations for capital
projects to be funded during the next six fiscal years. It must
be submitted with projects rank ordered in two ways: in order
of importance among all budget projects as
determined recommended by the governor, and in order of
importance among that agency's requests as determined by the
agency originating the request.
Sec. 30. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 16A.11, is
amended by adding a subdivision to read:
Subd. 6. [BUILDING MAINTENANCE.] The detailed operating
budget must include amounts necessary to maintain state
buildings. The commissioner of finance, in consultation with
the commissioner of administration, the board of trustees of the
Minnesota state colleges and universities, and the regents of
the University of Minnesota, shall establish budget guidelines
for building maintenance appropriations. Unless otherwise
provided by the commissioner of finance, the amount to be
budgeted each year for building maintenance is two percent of
the cost of the building, adjusted up or down depending on the
age and condition of the building.
Sec. 31. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 16A.501, is
amended to read:
16A.501 [REPORT ON MATCHING MONEY EXPENDITURE OF BOND
PROCEEDS.]
The commissioner of finance must report annually to the
legislature on the degree to which entities receiving
appropriations of bond proceeds contingent upon obtaining
matching money have been successful in raising have encumbered
or expended that money. The report must be submitted to the
chairs of the house of representatives ways and means committee
and the senate finance committee by February 1 of each year.
Sec. 32. Minnesota Statutes 1997 Supplement, section
16A.641, subdivision 4, is amended to read:
Subd. 4. [SALE AND ISSUANCE.] State bonds must be sold and
issued upon sealed competitive bids in the manner and on the
terms and conditions determined by the commissioner in
accordance with the laws authorizing them and subject to the
approval of the attorney general, but not subject to chapter 14,
including section 14.386. For each series, in addition to
provisions required by subdivision 3, the commissioner may
determine:
(1) the time, place, and notice of sale and method of
comparing bids;
(2) the price, not less than par for highway bonds;
(3) the principal amount and date of issue;
(4) the interest rates and payment dates;
(5) the maturity amounts and dates, not more than 20 years
from the date of issue, subject to subdivision 5;
(6) the terms, if any, on which the bonds may or must be
redeemed before maturity, including notice, times, and
redemption prices; and
(7) the form of the bonds and the method of execution,
delivery, payment, registration, conversion, and exchange, in
accordance with section 16A.672.
Sec. 33. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 16B.30, is
amended to read:
16B.30 [GENERAL AUTHORITY.]
(a) Subject to other provisions in this chapter, the
commissioner shall supervise and control the making of all
contracts for the construction of buildings and for other
capital improvements to state buildings and structures, other
than buildings and structures under the control of the board of
trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and
universities. Except as provided in paragraph (b), a state
agency may not undertake improvements of a capital nature
without specific legislative authority.
(b) Specific legislative authority is not required for
repairs or minor capital projects financed with operating
appropriations or agency receipts that:
(1) are undertaken for asset preservation or code
compliance purposes;
(2) do not materially increase the net square footage of a
facility; and
(3) do not materially increase the cost of agency programs.
Unless the commissioner determines that an urgency exists,
the commissioner of an agency undertaking a project with a cost
in excess of $50,000 pursuant to this paragraph shall notify the
chairs of the senate finance committee, the house capital
investment committee, the house ways and means committee, the
appropriate house and senate finance divisions, and the director
of the legislative coordinating commission prior to incurring
any contractual obligation with regard to the project. Any
agency undertaking any project pursuant to this paragraph during
fiscal year 1999 must report all such projects to the
legislature by January 1, 2000.
Sec. 34. Minnesota Statutes 1997 Supplement, section
16B.335, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
Subdivision 1. [CONSTRUCTION AND MAJOR REMODELING.] (a)
The commissioner, or any other recipient to whom an
appropriation is made to acquire or better public lands or
buildings or other public improvements of a capital nature, must
not prepare final plans and specifications for any construction,
major remodeling, or land acquisition in anticipation of which
the appropriation was made until the agency that will use the
project has presented the program plan and cost estimates for
all elements necessary to complete the project to the chair of
the senate finance committee and the chair of the house ways and
means committee and the chairs have made their recommendations,
and the chair of the house capital investment committee is
notified. "Construction or major remodeling" means construction
of a new building or, a substantial alteration of the exterior
dimensions addition to an existing building, or a substantial
change to the interior configuration of an existing building.
The presentation must note any significant changes in the work
that will be done, or in its cost, since the appropriation for
the project was enacted or from the predesign submittal. The
program plans and estimates must be presented for review at
least two weeks before a recommendation is needed. The
recommendations are advisory only. Failure or refusal to make a
recommendation is considered a negative recommendation. The
chairs of the senate finance committee, the house capital
investment committee, and the house ways and means committee
must also be notified whenever there is a substantial change in
a construction or major remodeling project, or in its cost.
(b) Capital projects exempt from the requirements of this
section subdivision include construction, renovation, or
improvements to dams, demolition or decommissioning of state
assets, hazardous material projects, utility infrastructure
projects, environmental testing, parking lots, exterior
lighting, fencing, highway rest areas, truck stations, storage
facilities not consisting primarily of offices or heated work
areas, roads, bridges, trails, bike paths pathways, campgrounds,
athletic fields, dams, floodwater retention systems, water
access sites, harbors, sewer separation projects, water and
wastewater facilities, campgrounds, roads, bridges, port
development projects for which the commissioner of
transportation has entered into an assistance agreement under
section 457A.04, ice centers, or any other capital project with
a construction cost of less than $200,000 $500,000.
Sec. 35. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 85.019,
subdivision 4a, is amended to read:
Subd. 4a. [NATURAL AND SCENIC AREAS.] The commissioner
shall administer a program to provide grants to units of
government and school districts for the acquisition and
betterment of natural and scenic areas such as blufflands,
prairies, shorelands, wetlands, and wooded areas. A grant may
not exceed 50 percent or $200,000 $500,000, whichever is less,
of the costs of acquisition and betterment of land acquired
under this subdivision.
Sec. 36. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 103F.725,
subdivision 1a, is amended to read:
Subd. 1a. [FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE; LOANS.] (a) Up to
$24,000,000 $36,000,000 of the balance in the water pollution
control revolving fund in section 446A.07, as determined by the
public facilities authority shall be appropriated, may be
provided to the commissioner for the establishment of a clean
water partnership loan program.
(b) The agency may award loans for up to 100 percent of the
costs associated with activities identified by the agency as
best management practices pursuant to section 319 and section
320 of the federal Water Quality Act of 1987, as amended,
including associated administrative costs.
(c) Loans may be used to finance clean water partnership
grant project eligible costs not funded by grant assistance.
(d) The interest rate, at or below market rate, and the
term, not to exceed 20 years, shall be determined by the agency
in consultation with the public facilities authority.
(e) The repayment must be deposited in the water pollution
control revolving fund under section 446A.07.
(f) The local unit of government receiving the loan is
responsible for repayment of the loan.
(g) For the purpose of obtaining a loan from the agency, a
local government unit may provide to the agency its general
obligation note. All obligations incurred by a local government
unit in obtaining a loan from the agency must be in accordance
with chapter 475, except that so long as the obligations are
issued to evidence a loan from the agency to the local
government unit, an election is not required to authorize the
obligations issued, and the amount of the obligations shall not
be included in determining the net indebtedness of the local
government unit under the provisions of any law or chapter
limiting the indebtedness.
Sec. 37. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 116.16,
subdivision 5, is amended to read:
Subd. 5. [RULES.] (a) The agency shall promulgate
permanent rules for the administration of grants and loans
authorized to be made under the water pollution control program,
which rules, however, shall not be applicable to the issuance of
bonds by the commissioner of finance as provided in section
116.17. The rules shall contain as a minimum:
(1) procedures for application by municipalities;
(2) conditions for the administration of the grant or loan;
(3) criteria for the ranking of projects in order of
priority for grants or loans, based on factors including the
extent and nature of pollution, technological feasibility,
assurance of proper operation, maintenance and replacement, and
participation in multimunicipal systems; and
(4) such other matters as the agency and the commissioner
find necessary to the proper administration of the grant program.
(b) The agency shall award the amount of additional
priority points necessary to place a project in the fundable
range of the intended use plan if the agency determines that the
project would repair a facility that is an imminent threat to
discharge untreated or partially treated sewage to the Boundary
Waters Canoe Area Wilderness if it fails.
(c) For purposes of awarding independent state grants, the
agency may by rule waive the federal 20-year planning
requirement for municipalities with a population of less than
1,500.
Sec. 38. Minnesota Statutes 1997 Supplement, section
116.18, subdivision 3c, is amended to read:
Subd. 3c. [INDIVIDUAL ON-SITE TREATMENT SYSTEMS AND
ALTERNATIVE DISCHARGING SEWAGE SYSTEMS PROGRAM.] (a) Beginning
in fiscal year 1989, up to ten percent of the money to be
awarded as grants under subdivision 3a in any single fiscal
year, up to a maximum of $1,000,000, may be set aside for the
award of grants by the agency to municipalities to reimburse
owners of individual on-site wastewater treatment systems or
alternative discharging sewage systems for a part of the costs
of upgrading or replacing the systems.
(b) An individual on-site treatment system is a wastewater
treatment system, or part thereof, that uses soil treatment and
disposal technology to treat 5,000 gallons or less of wastewater
per day from dwellings or other establishments.
(c) An alternative discharging sewage system is a system
permitted under section 115.58 that:
(1) serves one or more dwellings and other establishments;
(2) discharges less than 10,000 gallons of water per day;
and
(3) uses any treatment and disposal methods other than
subsurface soil treatment and disposal.
(d) Municipalities may apply yearly for grants of up to 50
percent of the cost of replacing or upgrading individual on-site
treatment systems, including conversion to an alternative
discharging sewage system, within their jurisdiction, up to a
limit of $5,000 per system or per connection to a cluster
system. Before agency approval of the grant application, a
municipality must certify that:
(1) it has adopted and is enforcing the requirements of
Minnesota Rules governing individual sewage treatment systems;
(2) the existing systems for which application is made do
not conform to those rules, are at least 20 years old, do not
serve seasonal residences, and were not constructed with state
or federal funds; and
(3) the costs requested do not include administrative
costs, costs for improvements or replacements made before the
application is submitted to the agency unless it pertains to the
plan finally adopted, and planning and engineering costs other
than those for the individual site evaluations and system design.
(d) (e) The federal and state regulations regarding the
award of state and federal wastewater treatment grants do not
apply to municipalities or systems funded under this
subdivision, except as provided in this subdivision.
(e) (f) The agency shall adopt permanent rules regarding
priorities, distribution of funds, payments, inspections,
procedures for administration of the agency's duties, and other
matters that the agency finds necessary for proper
administration of grants awarded under this subdivision.
Sec. 39. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 116.182,
subdivision 1, is amended to read:
Subdivision 1. [DEFINITIONS.] (a) For the purposes of this
section, the terms defined in this subdivision have the meanings
given them.
(b) "Agency" means the pollution control agency.
(c) "Authority" means the public facilities authority
established in section 446A.03.
(d) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the pollution
control agency.
(e) "Essential project components" means those components
of a wastewater disposal system that are necessary to convey or
treat a municipality's existing wastewater flows and loadings,
and future wastewater flows and loadings based on 50 percent of
the projected residential growth of the municipality for a
20-year period.
(f) "Municipality" means a county, home rule charter or
statutory city, town, the metropolitan council, an Indian tribe
or an authorized Indian tribal organization; or any other
governmental subdivision of the state responsible by law for the
prevention, control, and abatement of water pollution in any
area of the state.
(g) "Outstanding international resource value waters" are
the surface waters of the state in the Lake Superior Basin,
other than Class 7 waters and those waters designated as
outstanding resource value waters.
(h) "Outstanding resource value waters" are those that have
high water quality, wilderness characteristics, unique
scientific or ecological significance, exceptional recreation
value, or other special qualities that warrant special
protection.
Sec. 40. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 116.182, is
amended by adding a subdivision to read:
Subd. 3a. [NOTIFICATION OF OTHER GOVERNMENT UNITS.] In
addition to other applicable statutes or rules that are required
to receive financial assistance consistent with this
subdivision, the commissioner may not approve or certify a
project to the public facilities authority for wastewater
financial assistance unless the following requirements are met:
(1) prior to the initiation of the public facilities
planning process for a new wastewater treatment system, the
project proposer gives written notice to all municipalities as
defined in 116.82 within ten miles of the proposed project
service area, including the county in which the project is
located, the office of strategic and long-range planning, and
the pollution control agency. The notice shall state the
proposer's intent to begin the facilities planning process and
provide a description of the need for the proposed project. The
notice also shall request a response within 30 days of the
notice date from all government units who wish to receive and
comment on the future facilities plan for the proposed project;
(2) during development of the facility plan's analysis of
service alternatives, the project proposer must request
information from all municipalities and sanitary districts which
have existing systems that have current capacity to meet the
proposer's needs or can be upgraded to meet those needs. At a
minimum, the proposer must notify in writing those
municipalities and sanitary districts whose corporate limits or
boundaries are within three miles of the proposed project's
service area;
(3) 60 days prior to the municipality's public hearing on
the facilities plan, a copy of the draft facilities plan and
notice of the public hearing on the facilities plan must be
given to the local government units who previously expressed
interest in the proposed project under clause (1);
(4) for a proposed project located or proposed to be
located outside the corporate limits of a city, the affected
county has certified to the agency that the proposed project is
consistent with the applicable county comprehensive plan and
zoning and subdivision regulations; and
(5) copies of the notifications required under clauses (1)
and (2), as well as the certification from the county and a
summary of the comments received, must be included by the
municipality in the submission of its facilities plan to the
pollution control agency, along with other required items as
specified in the agency's rules.
This subdivision does not apply to the western Lake
Superior sanitary district or the metropolitan council.
Sec. 41. [116J.561] [CREATION OF ACCOUNT.]
A redevelopment account is created in the general fund.
Money in the account may be used to make grants as provided in
section 116J.564 and to pay for the commissioner's costs in
reviewing applications and making grants.
Sec. 42. [116J.562] [DEFINITIONS.]
Subdivision 1. [SCOPE OF APPLICATION.] For purposes of
sections 116J.561 to 116J.565, the terms in subdivisions 2 to 5
have the meanings given.
Subd. 2. [REDEVELOPMENT COSTS OR COSTS.] "Redevelopment
costs" or "costs" means the costs of land acquisition,
demolition, infrastructure improvement, and ponding, or other
environmental infrastructure.
Subd. 3. [DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY.] "Development authority"
includes a statutory or home rule charter city, county, housing
and redevelopment authority, economic development authority, and
port authority.
Subd. 4. [METROPOLITAN AREA.] "Metropolitan area" means
the seven-county metropolitan area, as defined in section
473.121, subdivision 2.
Subd. 5. [MUNICIPALITY.] "Municipality" means the
statutory or home rule charter city, town, or, in the case of
unorganized territory, county in which the redevelopment is
located.
Subd. 6. [PUBLIC BENEFITS.] "Public benefits" include job
creation, environmental benefits to the state and region,
efficient use of public transportation, efficient use of
existing infrastructure, provision of affordable housing,
multiuse development that constitutes community rebuilding
rather than single-use development, crime reduction, blight
reduction, community stabilization, and property tax base
maintenance or improvement.
Sec. 43. [116J.563] [GRANT APPLICATIONS.]
Subdivision 1. [APPLICATION REQUIRED.] To obtain a
redevelopment grant, the development authority shall apply to
the commissioner. The governing body of the municipality must
approve, by resolution, the application.
Subd. 2. [REQUIRED CONTENT.] The commissioner shall
prescribe and provide the application form. The application
must include at least the following information:
(1) identification of the site;
(2) a redevelopment plan for the site;
(3) a detailed estimate, along with necessary supporting
evidence, of the total redevelopment costs for the site;
(4) an assessment of the development potential or likely
use of the site after completion of the redevelopment plan,
including any specific commitments from third parties to
construct improvements on the site;
(5) the manner in which the municipality will meet the
local match requirement; and
(6) any additional information or material that the
commissioner prescribes.
Sec. 44. [116J.564] [GRANTS.]
The commissioner may make a grant to an applicant
development authority to pay for up to 50 percent of the
redevelopment costs for a qualifying site. The determination of
whether to make a grant for a site is within the sole discretion
of the commissioner, subject to sections 116J.561 to 116J.566
and available unencumbered money in the redevelopment account.
The commissioner's decisions and application of the priorities
under this section are not subject to judicial review, except
for abuse of discretion.
Sec. 45. [116J.565] [PRIORITIES.]
Subdivision 1. [CHARACTERISTICS.] (a) If applications for
grants exceed the available appropriations, grants shall be made
for sites that, in the commissioner's judgment, provide the
highest return in public benefits for the public costs
incurred. In making this judgment, the commissioner shall give
priority to redevelopment projects with one or more of the
following characteristics:
(1) the need for redevelopment in conjunction with
contamination remediation needs;
(2) the redevelopment project meets current tax increment
financing requirements for a redevelopment district and tax
increments will contribute to the project;
(3) the redevelopment potential within the municipality;
(4) proximity to public transit if located in the
metropolitan area; and
(5) multijurisdictional projects that take into account the
need for affordable housing, transportation, and environmental
impact.
(b) The factors in paragraph (a), clauses (1) to (5), are
not listed in a rank order of priority; rather the commissioner
may weigh each factor, depending upon the facts and
circumstances, as the commissioner considers appropriate. The
commissioner may consider other factors that affect the net
return of public benefits for completion of the redevelopment
plan. The commissioner, notwithstanding the listing of
priorities and the goal of maximizing the return of public
benefits, shall make grants that distribute available money to
sites both within and outside of the metropolitan area. The
commissioner shall provide a written statement of the supporting
reasons for each grant. Unless sufficient applications are not
received for qualifying sites outside of the metropolitan area,
at least 25 percent of the money provided as grants must be made
for sites located outside of the metropolitan area. The
commissioner shall consult with the metropolitan council about
metropolitan area grants.
Subd. 2. [APPLICATION CYCLES.] In making grants, the
commissioner shall establish semiannual application deadlines in
which grants will be authorized from all or part of the
available money in the account.
Sec. 46. [116J.566] [LOCAL MATCH REQUIREMENT.]
In order to qualify for a grant under sections 116J.561 to
116J.567, the municipality must pay for at least one-half of the
redevelopment costs as a local match from any money available to
the municipality.
Sec. 47. [116J.567] [SALE OF LAND.]
Bond proceeds funds in the account may only be used for
redevelopment costs for publicly owned property. Nonbond
proceeds funds in the account may be used for redevelopment
costs as defined in section 116J.562, subdivision 2, provided
that the land upon which the improvements are made will
ultimately be sold to a private developer at the fair market
value of the land. Net sale proceeds, up to the amount of the
grant, must be paid to the account by the development authority
within two years of the sale.
Sec. 48. Minnesota Statutes 1997 Supplement, section
124C.498, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
Subd. 2. [APPROVAL AUTHORITY; APPLICATION FORMS.] To the
extent money is available, the commissioner of children,
families, and learning may approve projects from applications
submitted under this section. The grant money must be used only
to design, acquire, construct, expand, remodel, improve,
furnish, or equip the building or site of a magnet school
facility according to contracts entered into within 24 months
after the date on which a grant is awarded.
Sec. 49. Minnesota Statutes 1997 Supplement, section
268.917, is amended to read:
268.917 [EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING AND CHILD PROTECTION
FACILITIES.]
The commissioner may make grants to state agencies and
political subdivisions to construct or rehabilitate facilities
for Head Start, early childhood and family education programs,
other early childhood intervention programs, or demonstration
family service centers housing multiagency collaboratives, with
priority to centers in counties or municipalities with the
highest number percentage of children living in poverty. The
commissioner may also make grants to state agencies and
political subdivisions to construct or rehabilitate facilities
for crisis nurseries or child visitation centers. The
facilities must be owned by the state or a political
subdivision, but may be leased under section 16A.695 to
organizations that operate the programs. The commissioner shall
prescribe the terms and conditions of the leases. A grant for
an individual facility must not exceed $200,000 for each program
that is housed in the facility, up to a maximum of $500,000 for
a facility that houses three programs or more. The commissioner
shall give priority to grants that involve collaboration among
sponsors of programs under this section and may give priority to
projects that collaborate with child care providers, including
all-day and school-age child care programs, special needs care,
sick child care, and nontraditional hour care. The commissioner
may give priority to grants for programs that will increase
their child care workers' wages as a result of the grant. At
least 25 percent of the amounts appropriated for these
grants must be used in conjunction with the youth employment and
training programs operated by the commissioner up to $50,000
must utilize youthbuild under sections 268.361 to 268.366 or
other youth employment and training programs for the labor
portion of the construction. Eligible programs must consult
with appropriate labor organizations to deliver education and
training. State appropriations must be matched on a 50 percent
basis with nonstate funds. The matching requirement must apply
programwide and not to individual grants.
Sec. 50. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 446A.072,
subdivision 2, is amended to read:
Subd. 2. [TYPE OF SUPPLEMENTAL ASSISTANCE.] Supplemental
assistance shall be in the form of zero percent loans, with loan
repayments beginning February 20 or August 20 following the
scheduled date of the project obtaining grants. If one year
after the initiation of operation of the project, the project
does not meet the operational performance standards established
by the agency, the grant must be repaid. Upon receipt of notice
from the agency that the project operational performance
standards have been met, the authority will forgive the
scheduled loan repayments made under this section. If not
forgiven, loan Grant repayments shall be deferred upon request
from the commissioner of the agency for six-month periods,
provided the commissioner has determined that satisfactory
progress is being made to achieve project performance or is
developing or implementing a corrective action plan.
Sec. 51. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 446A.072,
subdivision 4, is amended to read:
Subd. 4. [FUNDING LEVEL.] (a) The authority shall provide
supplemental assistance for essential project component costs as
certified by the commissioner of the pollution control agency
under section 116.182, subdivision 4.
(b) A municipality may not receive more than $4,000,000
under this section unless specifically approved by law.
(c) The authority will calculate the grant amount needed
for the essential project component costs by first determining
the amount needed to reduce a municipality's monthly residential
sewer service charge to $25 or to an annual residential sewer
service charge in excess of 1.5 percent of the municipality's
median household income, whichever is less, and then multiplying
that amount by 80 percent to determine the actual award amount
to supplement loans under section 446A.07 or provide up to
one-third of the amount of the grant funding level required by
USDA/RECD for projects listed on the agency's intended use plan.
(d) The authority shall provide supplemental assistance for
up to one-half of the eligible grant funding level determined by
the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development
funding for projects listed on the agency's project priority
list, in priority order. For municipalities that are not
eligible for United State Department of Agriculture Rural
Development funding for wastewater, the authority shall provide
supplemental assistance for: (1) essential project component
costs calculated by first determining the amount needed to
reduce a municipality's annual residential sewer costs to 1.4
percent of the municipality's median household income or $25 per
month per household, whichever is greater, and then multiplying
that amount by 80 percent to determine the actual award amount
to supplement loans under section 446A.07; and (2) up to 50
percent of the incremental costs specifically identified by the
agency as being attributable to more stringent wastewater
standards required to protect outstanding resource value waters
or outstanding international resource value waters.
(d) Notwithstanding paragraph (b), in the event that a
municipality's monthly residential sewer service charges average
above $50, the authority will provide 90 percent of the grant
amount needed to reduce the average monthly sewer service charge
to $50, provided the project is ranked in the top 50 percentile
of the agency's intended use plan.
(e) Notwithstanding paragraphs (b), (c), and (d), a
municipality with an annual median household income of $40,000
or greater shall not be eligible for a grant, except for
incremental costs specifically identified by the agency as being
attributable to more stringent wastewater standards required to
protect outstanding resource value waters or outstanding
international resource value waters.
(f) The authority shall provide supplemental assistance to
a municipality that would not otherwise qualify for supplemental
assistance if:
(1) the municipality voluntarily accepts a sewer connection
from another governmental unit to serve residential, industrial,
or commercial developments that were completed before March 1,
1996, or are on lots whose plats were recorded before that date;
and
(2) fees charged by the municipality for the connection
must take into account state and federal grants used by the
municipality for the construction of the treatment plant.
The amount of supplemental assistance under this paragraph must
be sufficient to reduce debt service payments under section
446A.07 to an extent equivalent to a zero percent loan in an
amount up to the other governmental unit's project costs
necessary for connection. Eligibility for supplemental
assistance under this paragraph ends three years after the
agency certifies that the connection has met the operational
performance standards established by the agency.
Sec. 52. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 446A.072, is
amended by adding a subdivision to read:
Subd. 13. [PLANNING GRANTS.] In order to determine the
feasibility of providing wastewater treatment in unsewered areas
and encourage multijurisdictional coordination, the authority
may provide grants to local governments to prepare preliminary
engineering plans and develop, as appropriate, intermunicipal
agreements, joint powers boards, or sanitary sewer districts.
Planning grants shall be equal to one-half of the eligible
engineering, legal, and administrative costs as determined by
the authority, up to a maximum of $50,000. The authority shall
award planning grants based on the severity of the environmental
need and the potential for cooperation among local governments.
Sec. 53. Minnesota Statutes 1997 Supplement, section
462A.202, subdivision 3a, is amended to read:
Subd. 3a. [PERMANENT RENTAL HOUSING.] The agency may make
loans, with or without interest, to cities and counties to
finance the construction, acquisition, or rehabilitation of
affordable, permanent, publicly owned rental housing located in
the area designated under Presidential Declaration of Major
Disaster, DR-1175. Loans made under this subdivision are
subject to the restrictions of subdivision 7. In making loans
under this subdivision, the agency shall give priority to
projects that increase the supply of affordable family housing.
Sec. 54. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 473.39, is
amended by adding a subdivision to read:
Subd. 1f. [PROHIBITION OF CERTAIN OBLIGATIONS.] The
council may not issue obligations for construction of light rail
transit in the Hiawatha corridor.
Sec. 55. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 473.399, is
amended to read:
473.399 [LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT; REGIONAL PLAN AND COMMUTER
RAIL PLANNING.]
Subdivision 1. [GENERAL REQUIREMENTS.] (a) The council
shall adopt a regional light rail transit plan to ensure that
light rail transit facilities in the metropolitan area will be
acquired, developed, owned, and capable of operation in an
efficient, cost-effective, and coordinated manner as an
integrated and unified system on a multicounty basis in
coordination with buses and other transportation modes and
facilities. The plan may be developed and adopted in phases
corresponding to phasing of construction of light rail. To the
extent practicable, the council shall incorporate into its plan
appropriate elements of the plans of regional railroad
authorities in order to avoid duplication of effort.
(b) The regional light rail transit plan or first phase of
the plan required by this section must be adopted by the council
before the commissioner of transportation may begin construction
of light rail transit facilities and before the commissioner may
expend funds appropriated or obtained through bonding for
constructing light rail transit facilities. Following adoption
of the regional plan, each regional railroad authority and the
commissioner of transportation shall act in conformity with the
plan. The commissioner shall prepare or amend the final design
plans as necessary to make the plans consistent with
the regional light rail transit plan.
(c) Throughout the development and implementation of the
plan, the council shall contract for or otherwise obtain
engineering services to assure that the plan adequately
addresses the technical aspects of light rail transit.
Sec. 56. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 473.399, is
amended by adding a subdivision to read:
Subd. 1a. [INTEGRATED TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM.] The
commissioner of transportation, the metropolitan council, and
the regional rail authorities shall ensure that the light rail
transit and commuter rail facilities are planned, designed, and
implemented: (1) to move commuters and transit users into and
out of, as well as within, the metropolitan area, and (2) to
ensure that rail transit lines will interface with each other
and other transportation facilities and services so as to
provide a unified, integrated, and efficient multimodal
transportation system.
Sec. 57. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 473.3994,
subdivision 5, is amended to read:
Subd. 5. [FINAL DESIGN PLANS.] (a) If the final design
plans incorporate a substantial change from the preliminary
design plans with respect to location, length, or termini of
routes; general dimension, elevation, or alignment of routes and
crossings; location of tracks above ground, below ground, or at
ground level; or station locations, before beginning
construction, the commissioner shall submit the physical design
changed component of final design plans to the governing body of
each statutory and home rule city, county, and town in which the
route changed component is proposed to be located. Within 60
days after the submission of the plans, the city, county, or
town shall review and approve or disapprove the plans for the
route changed component located in the city, county, or town. A
local unit of government that disapproves the plans change shall
describe specific amendments to the plans that, if adopted,
would cause the local unit to withdraw its disapproval. Failure
to approve or disapprove the changed plans in writing within the
time period is deemed to be approval, unless an extension is
agreed to by the city, county, or town and the commissioner.
(b) If the governing body of one or more cities, counties,
or towns disapproves the changed plans within the period allowed
under paragraph (a), the commissioner may refer the plans, along
with any comments of local jurisdictions, to the metropolitan
council. The council shall review the final design plans under
the same procedure and with the same effect as provided in
subdivision 4 for preliminary design plans.
Sec. 58. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 473.3994,
subdivision 10, is amended to read:
Subd. 10. [CORRIDOR MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE.] A corridor
management committee shall be established to advise the
commissioner of transportation in the design and construction of
light rail transit in each corridor to be constructed. The
corridor management committee shall consist of the following
members of the light rail transit joint powers board established
pursuant to section 473.3998 and one representative from each
city in which the corridor is located. Additionally, the
commissioner of transportation and three representatives of the
metropolitan council shall each appoint a member to the
committee. For the corridor between Minneapolis and St. Paul,
the University of Minnesota shall appoint one member to the
committee. A member representing the metropolitan council shall
chair the committee:
(1) one member appointed by the joint powers board
established under section 473.3998;
(2) one member appointed by each city and county in which
the corridor is located;
(3) the commissioner of transportation or a designee of the
commissioner;
(4) two members appointed by the metropolitan council, one
of whom shall be designated as the chair of the committee;
(5) one member appointed by the metropolitan airports
commission, if the designated corridor provides direct service
to the Minneapolis-St. Paul international airport; and
(6) one member appointed by the president of the University
of Minnesota, if the designated corridor provides direct service
to the university.
The corridor management committee shall advise the
commissioner of transportation and the regional railroad
authority or authorities in whose jurisdiction the line or lines
are located on issues relating to the alternatives analysis,
environmental review, preliminary design, preliminary
engineering, final design, implementation method, and
construction of light rail transit.
Sec. 59. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 473.3994,
subdivision 12, is amended to read:
Subd. 12. [ALTERNATIVES ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW.]
For light rail transit lines to be constructed in the
metropolitan area, the regional railroad authority or
authorities in whose jurisdiction a line or lines are to be
constructed and the commissioner of transportation shall jointly
prepare an alternatives analysis, the environmental review
documents required, and the preliminary engineering plan. The
council must approve the design for the alternatives analysis
and the completed alternatives analysis. The department of
transportation shall be the responsible governmental unit. An
alternatives analysis is not required for the Hiawatha corridor.
Sec. 60. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 473.3998, is
amended to read:
473.3998 [LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT JOINT POWERS BOARD.]
A light rail transit joint powers board shall be formed
under section 471.59 consisting of one voting member from the
regional rail authorities of Hennepin, Ramsey, Anoka,
Washington, Dakota, Scott, and Carver counties.
The board shall review and approve light rail transit
system standards to be used by the commissioner in designing and
building a light rail transit facility and shall review and
approve the plan for community involvement and the marketing
program. The board shall advise the corridor management
committee established pursuant to section 473.3994, subdivision
10, and the commissioner on the method of implementation. All
members of the board shall be members of the corridor management
committee established pursuant to section 473.3994, subdivision
10.
Sec. 61. Laws 1963, chapter 305, section 1, is amended to
read:
Section 1. [DULUTH, CITY OF; ARENA-AUDITORIUM
ENTERTAINMENT AND CONVENTION CENTER.]
There is hereby created an arena-auditorium administrative
board entertainment and convention center authority for the city
of Duluth, hereinafter referred to as the board authority, which
shall consist of seven the directors, who shall be appointed to
membership on such board authority, and who shall have and
exercise the powers, perform the duties, and be subject to the
obligations, as hereinafter set forth in this act.
Sec. 62. Laws 1963, chapter 305, section 2, is amended to
read:
Sec. 2. The board authority created under this act shall
consist of seven 11 directors, who shall seven appointed by the
city of Duluth and four appointed by the governor. The
directors serve without compensation but who may be reimbursed
for authorized out-of-pocket expenses incurred in the
fulfillment of their duties. The original term of three of the
directors shall be for one year; the original term of two of the
directors shall be for two years; and the original term of two
of the directors shall be for three years, and until their
respective successors are appointed and qualified. Subsequent
terms of directors appointed by the city shall be for three
years. All terms shall expire on June 30 of the appropriate
year. Directors appointed by the governor serve at the pleasure
of the governor. Whenever a vacancy on such board authority
shall occur by reason of resignation, death, removal from the
city, or removal for failure or neglect to perform duties of a
director, such vacancy shall be filled for the unexpired term.
All appointments and removal of directors of the board authority
appointed by the city shall be made by the mayor, with the
approval of the city council, evidenced by resolution. Every
appointee who shall fail, within ten days after notification of
his appointment, to file with the city clerk his oath or
affirmation to perform faithfully, honestly, and impartially the
duties of his office, shall be deemed to have refused such
appointment, and thereupon another person shall be appointed in
the manner prescribed in this section.
Sec. 63. Laws 1963, chapter 305, section 3, is amended to
read:
Sec. 3. Subdivision 1. Within 30 days after the members
of the board authority shall have qualified for office, the
board authority shall meet and organize, and adopt and
thereafter may amend such rules and regulations for the conduct
of the board authority as the board authority shall deem to be
in the public interest and most likely to advance, enhance,
foster, and promote the use of such arena-auditorium the
entertainment and convention center and its facilities for
activities, conventions, events, and athletic and cultural
productions. Such rules and regulations shall at all times be
in harmony with this act.
Subd. 2. Such directors shall elect from among their
number a president and a vice-president, and shall also elect a
secretary who may or may not be a member of such board authority.
No two of such offices may be held by one director. The
officers shall have the duties and powers usually attendant upon
such officers, and such other duties and powers not inconsistent
herewith as may be provided by the board authority.
Subd. 3. The authority shall select a specific site within
the city of Duluth for location of a national class
entertainment and convention center, and may spend money
appropriated, or otherwise available to it for that purpose, to
acquire property for the center and to plan, design, construct,
equip, and furnish the center. The authority shall administer,
promote, and operate the center as a state facility, but for
which the state assumes no financial responsibility or liability
beyond the amounts appropriated for the facility.
Sec. 64. Laws 1963, chapter 305, section 4, is amended to
read:
Sec. 4. Subdivision 1. The city treasurer of the city of
Duluth shall be the treasurer of the board authority. The
treasurer shall receive and have the custody of all moneys of
the board authority from whatever source derived, and the same
shall be deemed public funds. The treasurer shall disburse such
funds only upon written orders drawn against such funds, signed
by the manager and approved by the president, or in his absence,
the vice-president of such board authority; and each order shall
state the name of the payee and the nature of the claim for
which the same is issued. The treasurer shall keep an account
of all monies coming into his hands, showing the source of all
receipts and the nature, purpose, and authority of all
disbursements, and at least four times each year, at times and
in a form to be determined by the city council, the board
authority shall file with the city clerk a financial statement
of the board authority, showing all receipts and disbursements,
the nature of the same, the moneys on hand, and the purposes for
which the same are applicable, the credits and assets of
the board authority, and its outstanding liabilities.
Subd. 2. The board authority has the exclusive power to
receive, control, and order the expenditure of any and all
moneys and funds pertaining to the arena-auditorium center
operations.
Subd. 3. There are hereby created in the treasury of the
city of Duluth a special arena-auditorium entertainment and
convention center fund, hereinafter referred to as the special
fund, and an arena-auditorium entertainment and convention
center operating fund, hereinafter referred to as the operating
fund. The moneys in the special fund shall be used solely for
the acquisition and preparation of a site, and for the planning,
construction, and equipping of the arena-auditorium center. The
special fund shall consist of:
(1) All moneys derived from the sale of bonds by the city
to provide funds for the acquisition and preparation of a site,
and for the planning, construction, and equipping of an
arena-auditorium the center.
(2) All moneys appropriated or made available to the city
of Duluth for the acquisition and preparation of a site, and for
the planning, construction, and equipping of the
arena-auditorium center.
(3) The proceeds of all financial aid or assistance by the
city or state governments for the acquisition and preparation of
a site, and for the planning, construction, and equipping of the
arena-auditorium center.
(4) All moneys received from the United States of America
to aid in the acquisition and preparation of a site, and for the
planning, construction, and equipping of the
arena-auditorium center.
(5) All moneys received as gifts or contributions to the
acquisition and preparation of a site, and for the planning,
construction, and equipping of the arena-auditorium center.
The operating fund shall be used for maintenance,
promotion, operation, or betterment of the arena-auditorium
center, and for expenses of the board authority. The operating
fund shall consist of all moneys of the board authority derived
from any source other than moneys credited to the special fund
as hereinabove provided.
Subd. 4. At least once in each year the city auditor shall
make, or cause to be made, at the expense of the board
authority, a complete examination and audit of all books and
accounts of the aforesaid board authority; and for such purpose
the city auditor shall have the authority and power to inspect
and examine such books and accounts at any time during regular
business hours and such intervals as he may determine. One copy
of such yearly audit shall be filed by the city auditor with the
city clerk as a public document.
Subd. 5. The authority shall annually submit to the
governor and the legislature a report detailing its activities
and finances for the previous year. The report shall also
include a proposed budget for the succeeding two years, showing
in reasonable detail estimated operating and nonoperating
revenues from all sources, and estimated expenditures for
operation, administration, ordinary repair, and debt service.
Subd. 6. The legislative auditor shall make an annual
audit of the authority's books and accounts once each year or as
often as the legislative auditor's funds and personnel permit.
Sec. 65. Laws 1963, chapter 305, section 5, is amended to
read:
Sec. 5. Subdivision 1. Wherever the word
"arena-auditorium" are "center" is used in this act, such words
shall mean and include the municipal arena-auditorium
cultural it means the entertainment and convention center
complex of the city of Duluth, including the land upon which it
stands and land appurtenant thereto.
Subd. 2. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained in any law, or in the charter of the city of Duluth,
or in any ordinance thereof, passed by the city council, or
approved by the electors of the city, there is hereby conferred
upon such board authority the power and duty to contract for and
superintend the erection, construction, equipping and furnishing
of such arena-auditorium the center, and to administer, promote,
control, direct, manage, and operate such arena-auditorium the
center as a municipal facility.
Sec. 66. Laws 1963, chapter 305, section 7, is amended to
read:
Sec. 7. Subdivision 1. No motor vehicle, either privately
or publicly owned, may be parked upon any parking lot or
facility operated by the board authority except as authorized by
this section. The operation and supervision of all such parking
lots and facilities are vested in the board authority. It may
fix and collect rents, charges, or fees in connection with and
for the use of any parking lot or facility operated by the board
authority.
Subd. 2. [RULES AND REGULATIONS.] The board authority may
adopt and enforce rules and regulations governing the parking of
motor vehicles upon any such parking lot or facility so operated
by it. Such rules and regulations shall be approved as to form
and validity by the city attorney, shall be published once in
the official newspaper of the city, and a certified copy of such
publication filed with the city clerk, and thereupon such rules
and regulations shall have the force of law.
Subd. 3. [REMOVAL AND IMPOUNDING OF VEHICLES.] Any motor
vehicle parked upon any parking lot or facility operated by the
board authority not in conformity with the rules and regulations
of the board authority governing the operation and use thereof
shall be deemed a public nuisance and the board authority shall
provide for the abatement of such nuisance by rules and
regulations, including provision for the removal and impounding
of such motor vehicle. The cost of such removal and impounding
shall be a lien against the motor vehicle until paid.
Subd. 4. [VIOLATIONS.] Any person, city official, elective
or appointed, firm, association, or corporation which violates
any of the provisions of this section or any rule or regulation
made by the board authority hereunder is guilty of a misdemeanor
and upon conviction thereof shall be punished in the manner
provided by law.
Subd. 5. [MONEYS COLLECTED.] All moneys collected by the
board authority as rents, charges, or fees in connection with
and for the use of any parking lot or facility shall be
deposited in the arena-auditorium entertainment and convention
center operating fund.
Sec. 67. Laws 1963, chapter 305, section 8, is amended to
read:
Sec. 8. The board authority shall have the power:
To adopt and alter all bylaws and rules and regulations
which it shall from time to time deem best for the conduct of
the business of the board authority, and for the use of the
facilities of the board authority, and for the purposes of
carrying out the objects of this act; but such bylaws, rules,
and regulations shall not be in conflict with the terms of this
act.
To appoint and remove a manager and such other employees as
the board authority may deem necessary, who shall not be within
the civil service classifications of the city, and to prescribe
the duties and fix the compensation and other benefits of such
manager and employees, without regard to any provision contained
in the charter or any ordinance of the city relating to civil
service, or to any provision contained in Minnesota Statutes
1961, Sections 197.45 to 197.47, inclusive.
To procure and provide for a policy or policies of
insurance for the defense and indemnification of the city of
Duluth, its officers and employees, and directors, manager, and
employees of the board authority, against claims arising against
them out of the performance of duty, whether such claims be
groundless, or otherwise. Premiums for any policies of
insurance required by this act shall be paid for out of the
funds of the arena-auditorium administrative board entertainment
convention center authority.
To implement and carry out the provisions of section 7 of
this act.
To utilize the services and facilities of the city so far
as the same are offered by appropriate city officials and
accepted by the board authority, and to pay the city for all
charges and costs for such services.
To operate and maintain and to lease from others all
facilities necessary or convenient in connection with the
arena-auditorium center and to contract for the operation and
maintenance of any parts thereof or for services to be
performed; to lease the whole or parts thereof, and grant
concessions, all on such terms and conditions as the board
authority may determine.
To authorize and direct the city treasurer to invest, in
the manner provided by law, any funds held in reserve, or
sinking funds, or any funds not required for immediate
disbursement.
To fix, alter, charge, and collect rates, fees, and all
other charges to be made for all services or facilities
furnished by the board authority for the use of the
arena-auditorium center facilities by any persons or public or
private agencies utilizing such services or facilities.
To make and execute contracts, agreements, instruments, and
other arrangements necessary or convenient to the exercise of
its powers.
Sec. 68. Laws 1963, chapter 305, section 9, is amended to
read:
Sec. 9. The manager of the arena-auditorium center shall
be responsible for the custody and control of all moneys
received and collected from the daily operations of the
arena-auditorium center until such moneys are delivered to the
city treasurer and he shall have obtained a receipt therefor, or
until such moneys are deposited in a bank account under control
of the city treasurer.
The manager shall give bond in favor of the city of Duluth
in a sum equal to twice the amount of money which will probably
be in his hands at any time during any one year, that amount to
be determined at least annually by the board authority; such
bond to be conditioned upon the faithful discharge of his
official duties, and be approved as to form, correctness, and
validity by the city attorney, and filed with the city auditor;
such bond, however, shall not exceed $300,000. Premiums for
such bonds shall be paid out of funds of the board authority.
Sec. 69. Laws 1963, chapter 305, section 10, is amended to
read:
Sec. 10. The board authority shall regulate the making of
bids and the letting of contracts through procedure established
by the board authority, subject to the following conditions:
(a) In all cases of work to be done by contract or the
purchase of property of any kind, or the rendering of any
service to the board authority other than professional services,
competitive bids shall be secured before any purchase is made or
any contract awarded where the amount involved exceeds the sum
of $2,000.
(b) All bids shall be sealed when received, shall be opened
in public at the hour stated in the notice; and all original
bids, together with all documents pertaining to the award of the
contract, shall be retained and made a part of the permanent
file or record, and shall be open to public inspection.
(c) Purchases of $2,000 or less may, through procedure
established by the board authority, be delegated to
the auditorium center manager. Contracts involving more than
$2,000 shall be awarded only after authorization by the board
authority.
(d) The board authority may reject, or through procedure
established by the board authority, authorize the auditorium
center manager to reject, any and all bids.
(e) Contract shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder,
and purchases shall be made from the responsible bidder who
offers to furnish the article desired for the lowest sum.
(f) In determining the lowest responsible bidder, in
addition to price, the following may be considered:
(1) The ability, capacity, and skill of the bidder to
perform the contract or provide the service required.
(2) Whether the bidder can perform the contract or provide
the service promptly, or within the time specified, without
delay or interference.
(3) The character, integrity, reputation, judgment,
experience and efficiency of the bidder.
(4) The quality of performance of previous contracts or
services.
(5) The sufficiency of the financial resources and ability
of the bidder to perform the contract or provide the service.
(6) The quality, availability, and adaptability of the
supplies or contractual service to the particular use required.
(7) The ability of the bidder to provide future maintenance
and service for the use of the subject of the contract.
(8) The number and scope of conditions attached to the bid.
(g) Specifications shall not be so prepared as to exclude
all but one type or kind, but shall include competitive supplies
and equipment; provided, however, that unique or noncompetitive
articles which are determined by the board authority to be
sufficiently superior for the service intended by the board
authority, may be purchased without regard to other bids.
Sec. 70. Laws 1963, chapter 305, section 11, is amended to
read:
Sec. 11. The arena-auditorium board authority shall not
exercise the powers of eminent domain, but the city may acquire
lands for the arena-auditorium authority by exercise of the
power of eminent domain at the request and expense of the board
authority. The arena-auditorium board authority shall not have
the power to raise any moneys by taxation in any form
whatsoever, nor to levy assessments for local improvements, nor
have the power to pledge the full faith and credit of the city.
Sec. 71. Laws 1986, chapter 396, section 2, subdivision 1,
as amended by Laws 1987, chapter 55, section 4, and Laws 1989,
chapter 54, section 2, is amended to read:
Subdivision 1. [ACTIVITIES; CONTRACTS.] The city may
acquire, design, construct, equip, improve, expand, control,
operate, and maintain the convention center and related
facilities. The city shall have all powers necessary or
convenient for those purposes and may enter into any contract
for those purposes, including the financing of the convention
center and any related facilities.
The city may contract for construction materials, supplies,
and equipment in accordance with Minnesota Statutes, section
471.345, except that it may enter into contracts with persons,
firms, or corporations to perform one or more or all of the
functions of architect, engineer, and construction manager with
respect to all or part of a project to build or remodel the
convention center and related facilities. Contractors shall be
selected through the process of public bidding provided that it
shall be permissible for the city to narrow the listing of
eligible bidders to those which the city determines to possess
sufficient expertise to perform the intended functions and the
city may negotiate with the three lowest responsible bidders to
achieve the lowest possible bid. Notwithstanding any other law
or charter provision to the contrary, the city may, at the
discretion of the city council, enter into agreements relating
to the convention center, related facilities or any other city
construction project with appropriate labor organizations and
contractors which provide that no strike or lockout may be
ordered during the term of the agreements. These provisions and
necessary procedures may be utilized for the purpose of
maintaining employment stability and avoiding delay or
interference with the performance of the fast-track construction
schedule in connection with the project. The city may require
any construction manager to certify a construction price and
completion date to the city. The city may require the posting
of a bond in an amount determined by the city to cover any costs
which may be incurred over and above the certified price,
including but not limited to costs incurred by the city or loss
of revenues resulting from incomplete construction on the
completion date and any other obligations the city may require
the construction manager to bear. The city shall secure surety
bonds as required in Minnesota Statutes, section 574.26,
securing payment of just claims in connection with all public
work undertaken by it. Persons entitled to the protection of
the bonds may enforce them as provided in Minnesota Statutes,
sections 574.28 to 574.32, and shall not be entitled to a lien
on any property of the city under the provisions of Minnesota
Statutes, sections 514.01 to 514.16.
Sec. 72. Laws 1990, chapter 610, article 1, section 16,
subdivision 4, is amended to read:
Subd. 4. For the labor
history center 550,000
This appropriation is to plan and
design the Labor History Center. The
society shall develop a facility
program document that defines the space
and programming needs of the center
including operating expenses. The
society shall determine, through a site
location assessment study, the location
of the center on a site adjacent to the
history center and prepare working
drawings for the project. Cost
estimates for all elements necessary to
complete the project must be submitted
to the chairs of the agriculture,
transportation, and semi-states
divisions of the senate finance and
house appropriations committees for
their recommendations. The
recommendations are advisory only.
Failure or refusal to make a
recommendation promptly is deemed a
negative recommendation. The total
cost of the project must not exceed
$12,500,000 $14,000,000. The project
cost may include exhibits and
audio-visual devices and systems.
Sec. 73. Laws 1994, chapter 643, section 2, subdivision
13, is amended to read:
Subd. 13. St. Louis County
Heritage and Arts Center 750,000
This appropriation is for a grant to
St. Louis county to construct an
addition and improvements to the St.
Louis county heritage and arts center
in Duluth, subject to new Minnesota
Statutes, section 16A.695.
This appropriation is available only as
matched by $2 of nonstate money for
every $1 of state money.
Sec. 74. Laws 1996, chapter 463, section 13, subdivision
4, as amended by Laws 1997, chapter 246, section 29, is amended
to read:
Subd. 4. Renovate Capitol
Building
8,435,000
$4,800,000 is to predesign, design, and
reconstruct the northeast terrace and
predesign and design the northwest
terrace terraces of the capitol
building.
$1,400,000 is to renovate the lantern
and related structures on the capitol
dome.
$2,235,000 is to predesign, design,
construct, furnish, and equip the
renovation of the capitol cafeteria
including full-service kitchen and
related spaces. The appropriation is
available after review and comment by
the council on disability.
The balance of the appropriation in
this subdivision that is not needed for
the projects specified may be used for
other structural stabilization projects
at the capitol or to improve the
capitol mall.
Sec. 75. Laws 1996, chapter 463, section 14, subdivision
2, is amended to read:
Subd. 2. Ice Center Grants 8,000,000
(a) $6,500,000 is for grants of up to
$250,000 each to construct new ice
arenas and renovate existing arenas
throughout the state, according to
criteria in Minnesota Statutes, section
240A.09.
(b) $500,000 is for renovation grants
for arenas that are at least 20 years
old, which may be in amounts up to
$125,000.
(c) All new and renovated facilities
receiving grants must be publicly
owned. Projects receiving grants from
appropriations in items (a) and, (b),
and (d) are exempt from the
requirements of Minnesota Statutes,
section 16B.335.
(d) $1,000,000 of this amount may be
used only for a national curling center
in the Virginia, Mountain Iron,
Gilbert, and Eveleth area. The
facility may only be constructed after
endorsement by a national governing
body member of the United States
Olympic Committee.
Sec. 76. Laws 1996, chapter 463, section 14, subdivision
6, is amended to read:
Subd. 6. National Volleyball Center 2,300,000
For a grant to the city of Rochester to
design, construct, furnish, and equip a
national volleyball center, to be
located on land owned by the city.
This grant is contingent upon a local
match of at least $2,300,000 from
nonstate sources. The facility may be
constructed only after endorsement by a
national governing body member of the
United States Olympic Committee. This
project is exempt from the requirements
of Minnesota Statutes, section 16B.335.
Sec. 77. Laws 1996, chapter 463, section 22, subdivision
7, is amended to read:
Subd. 7. Battle Point 500,000
For a grant to independent school
district No. 115, Cass
Lake-Bena, Notwithstanding subdivision
1, this appropriation is to the Indian
Affairs Council for capital
improvements at the Battle Point
historic site. This appropriation may
be supplemented with money from other
sources.
Sec. 78. Laws 1997, chapter 202, article 1, section 35, as
amended by Laws 1997, chapter 246, section 34, and Laws 1997,
Second Special Session chapter 2, section 24, is amended to read:
Sec. 35. BOND SALE SCHEDULE
The commissioner of finance shall
schedule the sale of state general
obligation bonds so that, during the
biennium ending June 30, 1999, no more
than $565,457,000 $554,691,000 will
need to be transferred from the general
fund to the state bond fund to pay
principal and interest due and to
become due on outstanding state general
obligation bonds. During the biennium,
before each sale of state general
obligation bonds, the commissioner of
finance shall calculate the amount of
debt service payments needed on bonds
previously issued and shall estimate
the amount of debt service payments
that will be needed on the bonds
scheduled to be sold, the commissioner
shall adjust the amount of bonds
scheduled to be sold so as to remain
within the limit set by this section.
The commissioner may use the amount
needed of this appropriation to redeem
and prepay the state general obligation
taxable state various purpose bonds
dated July 1, 1988, and to also pay
expenses related to redeeming and
repaying these bonds. The amount
needed to make the debt service
payments is appropriated from the
general fund as provided in Minnesota
Statutes, section 16A.641.
Sec. 79. [ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC CONVENTION AND
CIVIC CENTERS.]
Subdivision 1. [PURPOSE.] The state has a strong interest
in the proper development, marketing, and coordinated planning
for the use and funding of public convention and civic centers
throughout Minnesota. The state further recognizes the need for
a joint effort among convention and civic centers in planning
and marketing the wide array of choices of state public centers
to the convention and tourist business.
Subd. 2. [ESTABLISHMENT.] The advisory committee on public
convention and civic centers is hereby established. The
advisory committee will be made up of the following members:
(1) a chair appointed by the governor;
(2) one member from any political subdivision receiving a
state subsidy for a convention or civic center, to be appointed
by the city council or board of county commissioners;
(3) four members of the public, appointed by the governor,
two of whom are representatives, members, or employees of
convention bureaus or trade associations, and two of whom are
representatives of other businesses or employee organizations
that benefit from the operation of public convention and civic
centers; and
(4) the commissioner of trade and economic development or
the commissioner's designee.
Subd. 3. [DUTIES.] The duties of the advisory committee
include:
(1) development of methods and principles for coordinating
the marketing and use of public convention and civic centers
throughout the state;
(2) development of a plan to implement coordinated
marketing of all the facilities in the state to national,
regional, and state conventions and hospitality shows;
(3) development, in conjunction with the department of
trade and economic development, of an electronic database that
will promote the variety of state convention and civic centers
to interested parties outside the state including national and
international shows;
(4) solicitation of advice from the general public,
convention and tourist organizations, state companies with an
interest in displaying at conventions, and other individuals
with regard to the improvement of the use of convention and
civic centers; and
(5) review of proposals for state funding of new convention
and civic centers or major remodeling or additions to existing
facilities and preparation of funding recommendations to the
governor and legislature.
Subd. 4. [OBLIGATIONS OF GRANT RECIPIENTS.] Any political
subdivision that has accepted state funding for a convention or
civic center shall:
(1) work cooperatively to determine the formula to be
applied to economic impact estimates for convention and civic
center usage in Minnesota;
(2) submit an annual report of the activity of the previous
year including usage days; local, state, regional, national, and
international conventions hosted; number of hotel room nights
generated; and economic impact to the area based on the agreed
upon formula; and
(3) work cooperatively to generate new meetings and
convention business to Minnesota from outside the state and to
avoid using the state subsidy to undercut existing in-state
business from using other convention and civic center facilities
throughout the state.
Sec. 80. [YOUTH ENRICHMENT AND COMMUNITY CENTER GRANTS.]
The commissioner of children, families, and learning shall
consider establishing a youth enrichment and community center
grant program. The commissioner shall report to the legislature
by January 15, 1999, recommendations on whether the program
should be established and what criteria should govern the
program.
Sec. 81. [RIVERCENTRE ARENA; PROCUREMENT.]
(a) With respect to the construction of the RiverCentre
Arena, the construction manager may: (1) guarantee a maximum
cost of construction; and (2) provide payment and performance
bonds or other security reasonably acceptable to the city in an
amount equal to the guaranteed maximum cost of construction, and
shall comply with all employment requirements applicable to
other city contracts for construction, including prevailing
wages, affirmative action, and outreach.
(b) The lessee under the arena lease described in paragraph
(c) or the construction manager may enter into contracts with
contractors for labor, materials, supplies, and equipment to
demolish the existing arena and equip and construct the new
RiverCentre Arena through the process of public bidding.
(c) The lessee or the construction manager may, with the
consent of the city lease representative as defined in the arena
lease among the city of St. Paul, the civic center authority,
and a lessee, dated as of January 15, 1998: (1) limit the list
of eligible bidders to those that the construction manager
determines possess sufficient expertise to perform the intended
functions; (2) award contracts to the contractors that the
construction manager determines provide the best value, which
shall not necessarily be the lowest responsible bidder; and (3)
for work the construction manager determines to be critical to
the completion schedule, the construction manager may award
contracts on the basis of competitive proposals or perform work
with its own forces without soliciting competitive bids if the
construction manager provides evidence of competitive pricing.
Sec. 82. [RIVERCENTRE: LEASE; LICENSE; REAL ESTATE
TAXES.]
Notwithstanding any contrary provisions of law or charter,
the arena lease among the city, the civic center authority, and
a lessee, dated as of January 15, 1998, is authorized and the
civic center authority and the city of St. Paul may otherwise
lease the use and operation of the civic center arena for any
period of time by agreement in which the city retains title to
the property. If the lease of January 15, 1998, is amended to
provide that the lessee will make to the city a payment in lieu
of taxes of at least $2,500,000 a year, increasing to over
$6,000,000 by the end of the lease, the use and operation of the
civic center arena, whether by the civic center authority or its
licensee or lessee, including any use arising from the arena
lease referred to in this section or demolition and construction
of the arena, is declared a use, lease, or occupancy for public,
governmental, and municipal purposes, and the civic center arena
is exempt from taxation by the state or any political
subdivision of the state during the use.
Sec. 83. [CANCELLATIONS.]
(a) $1,200,000 of the appropriation in Laws 1994, chapter
643, section 8, subdivision 2, for homes for state-operated
waiver services is canceled. The bond sale authorization in
Laws 1994, chapter 643, section 31, subdivision 1, is reduced by
$1,200,000.
(b) The $10,000,000 appropriation from the state
transportation fund in Laws 1994, chapter 643, section 15,
subdivision 6, for light rail transit is canceled. The bond
authorization in Laws 1994, chapter 643, section 31, subdivision
2, is reduced by $10,000,000.
(c) The $150,000 appropriation from the bond proceeds fund
under Laws 1994, chapter 643, section 23, subdivision 31, as
added by Laws 1997, chapter 246, section 25, to the commissioner
of natural resources for a grant to the city of Taylors Falls to
prepare a preliminary design for the St. Croix Valley heritage
center is canceled. The bond sale authorization in Laws 1994,
chapter 643, section 31, subdivision 1, is reduced by $150,000.
Sec. 84. [REPEALER.]
Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 473.3994, subdivision 11,
is repealed.
Minnesota Statutes 1997 Supplement, section 446A.072,
subdivision 4a, is repealed.
Laws 1985, First Special Session chapter 15, section 36, is
repealed.
Laws 1986, chapter 396, section 2, subdivision 2, is
repealed.
Sec. 85. [EFFECTIVE DATE.]
This act is effective the day after final enactment, except
that section 30 is effective for all operating budgets and
budget projections for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1999,
and thereafter, and sections 61 to 70 are effective the day
after the governing body of the city of Duluth complies with
Minnesota Statutes, section 645.021, subdivision 3.
Presented to the governor April 10, 1998
Signed by the governor April 21, 1998, 9:35 a.m.
Official Publication of the State of Minnesota
Revisor of Statutes