HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 91-72 - Support for Suburban Hennepin Parks Legislation - 03/19/1991 . CITY OF EDEN PRAIRIE
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION NO. 91-72
A RESOLUTION OF SUPPORT FOR SUBURBAN HENNEPIN PARKS LEGISLATION
WHEREAS, the Suburban Hennepin Regional Park District is a unit of local
government created to develop, manage, and maintain the Suburban Hennepin
Regional Park system, and is empowered to levy taxes on the owners of property
in the Suburban Hennepin Regional Park District and plan for the expenditure of
property tax revenues for the benefit of the Suburban Hennepin Regional Park
system; and
WHEREAS, an independent and democratically elected Suburban Hennepin
Regional Park District Board of Commissioners is essential to assure public
confidence in the activities and priorities of the Board of Commissioners;
NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved, that the City Council of the City of Eden
Prairie expresses unqualified support for legislation before the Minnesota
Legislature in the 1991 legislative session that would establish the Suburban
Hennepin Regional Park District Board of Commissioners as an all-elected seven-
member board, with commissioners representing districts of equal size within the
• Suburban Hennepin Regional Park District; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Council expresses unqualified support
for legislation before the Minnesota Legislature in the 1991 legislative session
that allows the Suburban Hennepin Regional Park District Board of Commissioners
to formulate and implement annual budgets for the Suburban Hennepin Regional
Park District without review or veto of the Hennepin County Board.
ADOPTED by the Eden Prairie City Council this 19th day of March, 1991.
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Douglas . Tenpas, Mayo
ATTEST:
Jo n "D. e, City Clerk