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Authorizing the Department of Parks and Recreation to enter into an agreement, which includes indemnification, to accept $4,900 in cooperative cost-share funding from the Capitol Region Watershed District for implementation of shoreline restoration best management practices at Lake Como.
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WHEREAS, the City of Saint Paul, Department of Parks and Recreation, has received $4,900 in cooperative cost-share funding from the Capitol Region Watershed District (CRWD) for implementation of shoreline restoration best management practices at Lake Como; and
WHEREAS, the grant agreement requires that the grantee indemnify the CRWD, its agents and employees from any claims or causes of action arising from performance of the grant agreement; and
WHEREAS, accepting the grant funds will fulfill ecological principles of habitat restoration; and
WHEREAS, the expenditure of public funds, which includes the promise of indemnification, for such a purpose will facilitate and enable the City to implement the shoreline restoration best management practices at Lake Como; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, that the Saint Paul city council hereby authorizes the appropriate city officials to enter into an agreement with the Capitol Region Watershed District, which includes an indemnification clause, granting the City $4,900 for implementation of shoreline restoration best management practices of Lake Como.