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Authorizing the Department of Parks and Recreation to accept Hazardous Tree Removal and Replacement funds, enter into a grant agreement, and amend the financing and spending plan in the amount of $66,321.51.
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WHEREAS, the Legislature appropriated funding to the Metropolitan Council for grants to regional parks implementing agencies “to remove hazardous trees and replace ash trees with more diverse, climate-adapted species within the metropolitan regional park system”; and
WHEREAS, the City of Saint Paul is designated as a regional parks implementing agency by Minn. Stat. 473.351, subd. 1; and
WHEREAS, Minnesota Session Laws 2023, Chapter 60--H.F. No. 2310, Article 1, Section 5, Paragraph (e) designates funding for "implementing agencies to remove hazardous trees and replace ash trees with more diverse, climate-adapted species; and
WHEREAS, no grant application or matching funds are required; and
WHEREAS, the appropriation to Saint Paul Parks and Recreation for hazardous tree removal and replacement is $66,321.51 for State Fiscal Year 2024; and
WHEREAS, the Department of Parks and Recreation wishes to accept said grant funds and establish a financing and spending plan for said Metropolitan Council grant; and
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that there is a public purpose in the removal of hazardous trees and improving the urban canopy in the regional parks; and
WHEREAS, the Mayor, pursuant to Section 10.07.1 of the Charter of the City of Saint Paul, does certify that there are available for appropriation funds of $66,321.51 in excess of those estimated in the 2023 budget; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Saint Paul, that $66,321.51 is available for appropriation in the 2023 budget, and said 2023 budget, as heretofore adopted by the Council, is hereby further amended as indicated on the attached financial analysis; and, be it
FURTHER RESOLVED, that Council authorizes the appropriate City offic...
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