HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 689 - Recommending State Legislature to Increase Natural Resource Funding for Local Units of Government - 04/24/1973 VILLAGE OF EDEN PRAIRIE
HENNEPIN COUNTY, 1/1INNESOTA
RESOLUTION NO. 689
A RESOLUTION RECOMMENDING TO THE STATE
LEGISLATURE AN INCREASED AMOUNT OF NATURAL
RESOURCE FUNDING FOR LOCAL UNITS OF GOVERRJ-
MENT IN PARKS AND OPEN SPACE
WIEREAE, the State of Minnesota has recognized the importance
of parks, recreation, and open space in the quality of life for the
residents of Minnesota, and has assigned_ a high priority to the provision
of said parks, recreation, and open space areas and facilities;
;,TEI,REAS, the State Legislature has established a Natural Resources
Fend in the amount of $9,750,000 for the last biennium for regional and
local park, recreation, and open space needs to be used to snatch federal
grant assistance for said programs;
WHEREAS, federal allocations for parks recreation, and open space
programs have been reduced from approximately �6,000,000 in the last biennium
to an anticipated $400,000 for the federal Government' s fiscal ;year 1974;
WHEREAS, demands for parks, -recreation,and open space have increased
substantially, i,hus requiring a greater effort on the part of all units and
levels of government to meet this demand.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Council of the Village of
Eden Prairie does hereby request the Minnesota State Legislature to approp-
riate an amount of at least $5,000,000 to the Local Assistance Account of
the Natural Resource Fused, otherwise referred to as paragraph g. These
monies to be distributed to rrninicipalities within the State of Minnesota
by the State Planning Agency, Office of Local and Urban Affairs, on a 50-50
matching basis -to assist in meeting the park, recreation, and open space
needs of the State of Minnesota, said monies to be distributed to munici-
palities without regard to federal grant assistance.
The Council of the Village of Eden Prairie does also support the
concept of accelerated acquisition of regional parks and open space facilit-
ies within the Metropolitan Area and, therefore, supports bonding authority
to this end.
ADOPTED, this 24th day of .April, 1973.
ATYEST: Paul R. Redpath, Mayo
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Edna M. Hdam ren, C�erk