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Establishing the financing and spending plans in the Department of Parks and Recreation in the amount of $296,000 to recognize funding from the FY 2012 Parks and Trails Legacy Fund Allocation to restore the Phalen Park waterfall as a park amenity and return the feature to an operable condition.
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WHEREAS, Minn. Stat. ยง 85.53, Subd. 3 requires the Metropolitan Council to disburse appropriations it receives from the Parks and Trails Legacy Fund. Recipients' shares are based on a formula in the law that considers 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 is allocated 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, the grant agreement contains a requirement for the City to indemnify the Metropolitan Council, and the Council finds that the provision has a public purpose in that enables the City to obtain the money for the uses below; and
WHEREAS, the Phalen Regional Park Water Fall was originally constructed as a means to replenish low lake levels in Lake Phalen from a nearby well; and
WHEREAS, landscape plantings, lighting, a...
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