DEPARTMENT: Environmental Resources
FILE TYPE: Consent Action
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Appointment To Lower Minnesota River Watershed District Board Of Managers
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PURPOSE/ACTION REQUESTED
Appoint a Dakota County representative to the Lower Minnesota River Watershed District (LMRWD) Board of Managers.
SUMMARY
The LMRWD is located just south of the Twin Cities along the Minnesota River. Portions of the communities of Mendota Heights, Mendota, Lilydale, Eagan, and Burnsville are located within the LMRWD boundaries in Dakota County (Attachment: Map of Dakota County portion of LMRWD). The LMRWD is a Special Purpose Unit of government formed under Minn. Stat. ? 103D. Upon establishment, the LMRWD became a legal entity for providing local participation to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to construct a navigational channel. With this purpose in mind, a nine-foot navigation channel was developed from the mouth of the Minnesota River to mile 14.7 at Savage, Minnesota. Construction of the project began in 1966 and was completed in 1968. The LMRWD is still actively involved today with the maintenance of the channel and also works with local units of government, private citizens, and local organizations to provide strategic resource evaluation and management.
Theresa Kuplic, the Dakota County representative on the LMRWD Board of Managers whose term expired February 29, 2024, wishes to be reappointed. No other residents of the LMRWD sought appointment to the Board of Managers.
Minn. Stat. ? 103D.311 maintains that a "person may not be appointed as a manager who: (1) is not a voting resident of the watershed district; and (2) is a public officer of the county, state, or federal government, except that a soil and water conservation supervisor may be a manager." Theresa Kuplic applied to be reappointed as Dakota County representative on the Board of Managers of the LMRWD and meets the eligibility requirements set forth in the statute.
Members of the LMRWD Board of Managers serve thr...
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