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Establishing the financing and spending plans in the Department of Parks and Recreation in the amount of $1,500,000 to recognize funding from the FY 2012 Parks and Trails Legacy Fund Allocation to continue the Harriet Island/Lilydale approved Regional Park plan and authorize the appropriate city officials to enter into an agreement to accept this funding.
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WHEREAS, Minn. Stat. ยง85.53 established the Parks and Trails Fund and establishes a formula for the Metropolitan Council to disburse appropriations it receives from the Parks and Trails Legacy Fund, considering the following factors:
--Population of each park agency's jurisdiction with no overlap when jurisdictions occur (e.g. Ramsey County parks population does not include City of St. Paul)
--Amount each park agency spent in the past year to operate and maintain its portion of the regional park system.
--Amount of land each park agency manages for its portion of the regional park system; and
WHEREAS, an adjustment is made for the 80% of park reserve land acreage that is set aside for natural resource protection/interpretation and the distribution is based on the following factors:
--Amount of total visits each park agency hosted in the past year
--Amount of non-local visits relative to all non-local visits each agency hosted based on the most recent visitor origin research data. A "non-local visit"is a visit by a person to a park that is outside that visitor's residential jurisdiction; and
WHEREAS, Saint Paul Parks and Recreation is one of the ten Metro Parks Implementing Agencies and is eligible to apply for this funding; and
WHEREAS, Saint Paul Parks and Recreation applied for and received this funding to continue the Harriet Island-Lilydale RP Phased implementation of approved Lilydale Regional Park master plan components focused on design and construction of park road re-alignment/reconstruction including trails, utilities, storm water management, site work and landscaping; and
WHEREAS, ...
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