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Resolution Authorizing Partnership Agreement with Capital Region Watershed District
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WHEREAS, the City, through its NSP, is acquiring and redeveloping foreclosed and vacant properties within targeted areas in the City of St. Paul using funding provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency; and
WHEREAS, the City seeks CRWD's assistance in preparing landscape plans for NSP properties that include stormwater BMPs, such as rain gardens, swales, and rain barrels, to minimize stormwater volume from the whole property and improve stormwater quality; and
WHEREAS, CRWD has a Stewardship Grant Program for Saint Paul residents and other entities residing or working in CRWD that provides technical design assistance and cost-share grants as defined by CRWD's 2010 Watershed Management Plan; and
WHEREAS, the goals of CRWD's Stewardship Grant Program include improving water quality by decreasing and/or treating stormwater runoff from residential properties in CRWD; and
WHEREAS, CRWD and the City seek to minimize stormwater runoff from NSP properties and improve water quality of the Mississippi River; and
WHEREAS, CRWD and NSP have engaged in a pilot phase of the partnership to integrate stormwater BMP into NSP site design, resulting in 15 landscape plans created in 2011 for NSP properties that will be implemented in 2012; and
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY MUTUALLY AGREED AS FOLLOWS:
1. CRWD will prepare, at CRWD's cost, up to 40 new landscape plans in 2012 (and each year this agreement is renewed) for NSP properties that shall include stormwater BMPs, such as rain gardens, swales, and rain barrels, as well as general, non-stormwater BMP landscaping features. The City shall implement up to 40 new landscape plans created in 2012 (and any renewal year) as well as up to 30 existing landscape plans created in 2011. CRWD shall reimburse the City for the construction costs (material and lab...
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