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RESOLUTION NO.
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A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING 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
property owners of 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
Reginal 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 by the City Council of the City of
Shorewood as follows:
1. That the City Council hereby expresses its 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 equal size districts within
the Suburban Hennepin Regional Park District.
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That the City Council hereby expresses its 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.
3. That a copy of this resolution be transmitted through appropriate
channels to the Legislature of the State of Minnesota.
ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL of the City of Shorewood, Minnesota, this 13th
day of May, 1991.
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GEN OLSON
Senator, District 43
125 State Office Building
S1. Paul, Minnesota 55155
(612) 296-1282
Home:
6750 County Road 110 West
Mound, Minnesota 55364
(612) 472-3306
APR 1 7 1991
Senate
State of Minnesota
April 16, 1991
Barb Brancel, Mayor
5755 Country Club Road
Shorewood, MN 55331
Dear Mayor Brancel:
We are excited to announce the introduction of legislation in the
Minnesota House and Senate to establish the Suburban Hennepin
Regional Park District (Hennepin Parks) Board of Commissioners as
an all-elected seven-member board with full autonomy to formulate
and implement annual budgets for the park district. We are
writing to ask you to give your city's formal support to this
legislation. We have enclosed a copy of the proposed legislation
and a sample resolution expressing municipal support for your
council's consideration.
Currently, the Hennepin Parks Board of Commissioners is a seven-
member board with five commissioners elected and two
commissioners appointed by the Hennepin County Board. The
Hennepin County board also has the authority to review and veto
the annual park district budget as formulated by the Hennepin
Parks Board.
Since Hennepin Parks is a local unit of government empowered to
levy property taxes on the citizens of suburban Hennepin County,
we believe the Hennepin Parks Board should be fully accountable
to those citizens through the democratic election process. We
also believe that as an independent local unit of government,
Hennepin Parks should have the power to formulate and implement
annual budgets for the park district without review or veto by
the Hennepin County Board.
Furthermore, one cannot ignore growing public dissatisfaction
with controversies surrounding appointments to the Hennepin Parks
Board. We believe an independent and democratically elected
Hennepin Parks Board is essential to restore and assure public
confidence in the board's activities and priorities.
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SERVING: Deephaven, Eden Prairie (portions of), Excelsior, Greenwood, Long Lake", Minnetonka (portions
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The bill has strong bi-partisan support in both the House and the
Senate with Senators Merriam, McGowan, Riveness and Traub and
Representatives Segal, Knickerbocker, Garcia, and Limmer joining
us as co-authors.
We encourage you to help secure passage of this legislation by
approving a supporting resolution at your next council meeting.
Dedicated citizens working with us will be in contact with your
council to assist in this effort and to assure your support is
reported to the Legislature.
Thank you for supporting an independent and democratic Suburban
Hennepin Regional Park District Board of Commissioners and for
your efforts to improve local government in Hennepin County.
Sincerely,
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State Representative
Gen Olson
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Established 1867
Aoger Parkinson Publisher and President
Joel A. Kramer Executive Editor
Tim J. McGuire Managing Editor
Robert J. White Editorial Editor
Friday/February 22/1991
An al~-elected county parks board
The HennepIn County Board's deCIsion to over-
ride last fairs electIOn results and put David
Dombrowski back on the Suburban Hennepin
Parks Board was more than just a slap in the face
for voters. It was a slap in the Legislature's face as
well. :\nd legIslators should not let their 1991
session end without doing something about it.
That something should be to strip the County
Board of its powe, to appoint two Parks Board
members to serve alongsIde the five members
directly elected. The Legislature gave county com-
missioners the appointment authomy as a com-
promise between their deSIre for full control of the
parks system and the public's desire to keep the
parks independent of county politics.
The unusual arrangement was considered at the
time a reasonable ':;:av to balance the interests of
county government ;""ith the interests of park
users. .-\nd for several vears it worked reasonablv
wel!. Elected and appoiined board members genei-
ally pulled together. e';en on issues as bmerly
controversial as the acquisition of a new park on
Lake '\;linnetonka.
Recent!\'. however. a split developed between
elected ;nd appointed members. And when Dom-
browski - who had been appointed to the board
to fill a vacanc\' - was defeated in his first try for
election. the split exploded into open warfare.
~ow the board can't even agree on who should
serve as permanent chairman.
This is an intolerable situation that the Legislature
helped create and therefore has an obligation to
correct. But the Leg:islature has more to do here
than just repair itS o~n mistakes. It also nas a duty
- higher than any other - to uphold the demo-
cratic process and the right of the people to decide
who should represent them, and who should not.
That right has c1ear!y been violated by the Henne-
pin County Board's decision to put Dombrowski
back into a job from which the voters had ousted
him. To make sure that never happens again. the
Legislature should make the Suburban Hennepin
Parks Board what it ought to have been all along: a
body consisting entirely of members elected by
and representing the people of suburban Hennepin
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[REVISOR] HMW/KS 91-1791
Senators Olson, McGowan, Riveness, Merriam and Traub introduced--
S. F. No. 692 Referred to the Committee on Local Government
A bill for an act
relating to the suburban Hennepin regional park
district; setting the size of the board; removing
powers of the Hennepin county board to review and veto
reserve district budget; amending Minnesota Statutes
1990, sections 3838.68, subdivisions 1, 3, and 4, and
by adding a subdivision; and 3838.73, subdivision 1;
repealing Minnesota Statutes 1990, sections 3838.68,
subdivision 2; and 3838.69.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 383B.68,
subdivision 1, is amended to read:
Subdivision 1. Effective January 1, %983 1993, and
notwithstanding any provision of sections 398.02 to 398.04, or
any other law to the contrary, the board of park district
commissioners of the suburban Hennepin ~e~~ey regional park
reser.e district shall consist of seven commissioners e~~e~~eeo
er elected as provided in this section.
Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 383B.68,
subdivision 3, is amended to read:
Subd. 3. p~.e ~ park district commissioners shall be
elected as provided in this subdivision to represent those
portions of Hennepin county outside of the city of Minneapolis.
One park district commissioner shall be elected without party
25 designation from each of the districts established pursuant to
26 subdivision 4. Elections under this subdivision shall be held
27 at the same time and in the same manner as elections for the
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1 commissioners of the Hennepin county park reserve district shall
2 divide the territory of Hennepin county outside the city of
3 Minneapolis into ~~~e seven districts, which constitute the
4 suburban Hennepin ~o~~e1 regional park ~e~e~~e district. Each
5 district shall be composed of contiguous territory as regular
6 and compact in form as practicable and as nearly equal in
7 population as possible, provided that no district shall vary in
8 population more than ten percent from the average of all the
9 districts, unless compliance with this requirement requires
10 division of a voting precinct. After each federal census and by
11 not later than 120 days before the next ensuing general
12 election, after at least 30 days notice and public hearing, the
13 board of park district commissioners of the suburban Hennepin
14 ~o~~e1 regional park ~e~e~~e district shall redistrict e~e its
15 territory o~-e~e-He"~e~~"-~O~"e1-~e~~-~e~e~~e-e~~e~~~e into new
16 commissioner districts as necessary to comply with the
17 provisions of this subdivision. The districts established
18 pursuant to this subdivision shall remain effective until new
19 districts are established. Any person aggrieved by a
20 districting plan established pursuant to this subdivision may
21 challenge the plan in the same manner as a county commissioner
22 districting plan may be challenged pursuant to section 375.025.
23 The district court in reviewing any challenge to a districting
24 plan under this subdivision shall proceed in the manner
25 prescribed by section 375.025. Each districting plan
~6 established pursuant to this subdivision shall be filed in the
27 office of the director of finance of Hennepin county or any
28 successor office and shall be effective 31 days after its
~9 publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the county.
30 Sec. 5. Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 3838.73,
31 subdivision 1, is amended to read:
32 Subdivision 1. (LEVY.] To provide funds for the purposes
33 of the suburban Hennepin ~o~"e1 regional park ~e~e~~e district
34 as set forth in its annual budget, in lieu of the levies
35 authorized by any other special law for such purposes, the board
36 of park district commissioners may levy taxes on all the taxable
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1 Rules, the revisor shall change the term "Hennepin county park
2 reserve district" to "suburban Hennepin regional park district"
3 wherever it appears in sections 383B.68 to 383B.74, except in
4 section 383B.703.
5 Sec. 7. [REPEALER.]
6 Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 383B.68, subdivision 2;
7 and 383B.69, are repealed.
8 Sec. 8. [EFFECTIVE DATE.]
9 Sections 1 to 4, 6, and 7 take effect the day after the
10 suburban Hennepin regional~k district board complies with
11 Minnesota Statutes, section 645.021, subdivision 3. If the
12 board does not file an approval before August 1, 1991, the
13 matter shall be submitted for a vote of the people who reside in
14 the park district at a special election in 1991. The question
15 proposed shall be:
16 "Shall the suburban Hennepin regional park district board
17 be changed from a partly appointed to a wholly elected body?
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20 If a majority of those voting on the question vote ves, the
21 act shall be effective for the 1992 election and thereafter.
22 Section 5 takes effect the day after the suburban Hennepin
23 regional oarkdistrict board complies with Minnesota Statutes,
24 section 645.021, subdivision 3.
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RESOLUTION NO.
A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING 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
property owners of 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
Reginal 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 by the City Council of the City of
Shorewood as follows:
1.
That the City Council hereby expresses its 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 equal size districts within
the Suburban Hennepin Regional Park District.
2.
That the City Council hereby expresses its 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.
3. That a copy of this resolution be transmitted through appropriate
channels to the Legislature of the State of Minnesota.
ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL of the City of Shorewood, Minnesota, this 13th
day of May, 1991.
Barbara J. Brancel, Mayor
ATTEST:
James C. Hurm
City Administrator/Clerk
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