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Home My WebLink AboutOrdinance - 291 - Repeating Ordinances No. 45, 112 and 131 Regarding Parks, Recreation and Natural Resources - 05/27/1975 ORDINANCE NO. 291 AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A PARKS, RECREATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES COMMISSION FOR THE CITY OF EDEN PRAIRIE AND REPEALING ALL PREVIOUS ORDINANCES DEALING WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A RECREATION AND PARK COMMISSION, INCLUDING ORDINANCE NOS. 45 , 112 and 131. =} Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Eden Prairie: SECTION I. PARKS, RECREATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES COMMISSION a CREATED. Subdivision 1: There is hereby created a Parks, Recreation and Natural Resources Commission for the City of Eden Prairie, Minnesota. q Subd . 2: The Commission shall consist of eleven members as follows: a, One member to be appointed from the Board of Education of Independent School District No. 272 by the Chairman of the Board for a term of one year. x b. One member from the City Council to be appointed by the Mayor ( with the consent of the Council for a term of one year. C. Seven members at-large to be appointed by the Mayor with the consent of the Council for three year terms. d . Two youth members of Middle or High School age to be appointed by the Mayor with the consent of the Council for a one year term . All appointments to be made in January of each year, except the School Board representative who will be appointed in July of each year and the youth r . representatives who will be appointed in August of each year. Members duly appointed shall continue to serve until the replacement is selected and ratified. Subd. 3: Members of the Commission shall serve without compensation. SECTION II. ORGANIZATION OF THE COMMISSION. Subd. 1 : The Commission shall organize by electing such officers as may be necessary and adopt such rules, bylaws and regulations for the conduct of its work as is deemed necessary and advisable. Subd. 2 ; The Commission shall meet at least once each month . y Subd. 3: A quorum for a regular or special meeting of the Commission shall be constituted by a majority of the adult members presently appointed to the Commission. SECTION III. PURPOSE AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE COMMISSION. Subdivision 1: The Commission shall advise the Council on all matters pertaining to the acquisition and development of a complete system of parks and recreation facilities for the City of Eden Prairie, including: a. The development of a System Plan for parks and recreation facilitie s. b. Recommend studies as necessary for the development of such a System Plan. c. Recommend policies for the implementation of the plan. d. Recommend a capital improvement program for the implementation of the plan. e. Recommend site plan for the development of the different parcels of property which will compose the system. s f. Review development proposals for consistency with the System Plan. Subd. 2: The Commission shall advise the Council in all matters pertaining to the conduct of the complete program of recreation opportunity within the City and charging the Commission with review of development proposals, Including.- a, Review proposed and existing recreation programs and advise the Recreation staff on programming and the operation of all such opportunity. b. Recommend policies to the Council on matters pertaining to the operation of recreation facilities and programs. C. Recommend an annual budget for the operation of said programs and facilities to the Council in time for inclusion in the budget process . d. Cooperate and coordinate recreation and other leisure opportunity programs and proposals with other City groups, school groups, community groups, and county, state and federal agencies that have application within the City. Subd. 3: The Commission shall advise the Council on all matters pertaining to the inventory, preservation and management of natural resources within the City, including: a. Make a study and inventory of natural resources in the City. b. Recommend plans and policies for the preservation of natural resources in the City. C. Review major land use proposals for consistency with natural resource preservation. d. Make recommendations to the Council for action programs to insure preservation of natural resources . e. Cooperate with and coordinate the environmental programs and proposals with other City groups, school groups, and county, state and federal agencies that have application within the City. f. To establish programs and disseminate information to better inform and guide environmental choices of residents of the City. SECTION IV. REPEAL. Ordinance No. 45 of the City of Eden Prairie as amended is hereby repealed. SECTION V. ADOPTION. Adopted by the City Council, City of Eden Prairie, this 27th day of May 1975 . David W. Osterholt, Mayor 1 i ATTEST: �f. joh . Frane, y Clerk J 6 t y J SUNNEWSPAPERPS 41_'w.° , AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION ' HOPKINS , UN t. M � O�� MINNETONKA �� ..�. T 6601 W. 78th St. Bloomington, Minnesota -` State of Minnesota l County of Hennepin ss. � t J. R. RITCHAY, being duly sworn, on oath says he Is and during all times here stated has been the vice president and printer of the newspaper known as The Hopkins-Minnetonka Sun and has full knowledge of the facts herein stated as follows: (1) Said newspaper is printed in the English language in newspaper format and in column and sheet form equivalent in printed space P P fir � a r r to at least 900 square inches. (2) Said newspaper is a weekly and is distributed at least once each week. (9) Said newspaper has 5017, of its news columns devoted to news of local interest to the community which it purports to serve and does not wholly duplicate any other publication and is not made up entirely of patents, plate matter and advertisements. (4) Said newspaper _ ' a ' is circulated in and near the municipalities which it purports to serve, has at least 500 copies - +dtXa► regularly delivered to paying subscribers. has an average of at least 751:,;, of Its total circulation currently paid or no more than three months in arrears and has entry as second-class matter t , 'Z, in its local post-office. (5) Said newspaper purports to serve the Cities of Hopkins and Eden Prairie and that portion of Minnetonka serving School District No. 274 in the County of Hennepin " and it has its known office of issue in the City of Bloomington in said County, established and open " as during Its regular business hours for the gathering of news, sale of advertisements and sale of JktES3�r subscriptions and maintained by the managing officer or persons in its employ and subject to his direction and control during all such regular business hours and devoted exclusively during such �:'t�� regular business hours and devoted exclusively during such regular business hours to the business w rg Ryr#+rw z of the newspaper and business related thereto. (6) Said newspaper files a co of each issue "' P copy immediately with the State Historical Society. (7) Said newspaper has complied with all forego• ing conditions for at least two years preceding the day or dates of publication mentioned below. (8) Said newspaper has filed with the Secretary of State of Minnesota prior to January 1, 1966a and each January 1 thereafter an affidavit in the form prescribed by the Secretary of State and 7 - signed by the publisher of said newspaper and sworn to before a notary public stating that the * � newspaper is a legal newspaper. t ' D f 291 >r He further states on oath that the printed Ordinance No. hereto attached as a part hereof was cut from the columns of said newspaper, and was printed and published therein in the English language, once each week, for OnA uccessive weeks; �` � `'M• ��' a b. that it was first so published on Thure the 3 day of July 19 ?5 L e•• T F a and was thereafter printed and published on every to and including ,; c. the _day of 19 and that the following is a printed copy of the lower case alphabet from A to Z. both inclusive, and is hereby acknowledged as being the size and kind of type used in the composition and publication of said notice, to-wit: " abcdefghijklmnopgrstuvwxyz j Ij, yx i Subscribed and sworn to before me this 7 day of July , 1975 � r A x,� ,l\otanal Seal) Muriel L. Quist, Notary Publ3 Hennepin County, Minn. My Cnmrnission Expires July 28th, 1978