IV.3. Resolution of Support to the Hennepin County Environmental Response Fund; Imihy
CITY OF HOPKINS
City Council Report 2025-151
To: Honorable Mayor and Council Members
Mike Mornson, City Manager
From: Laila Imihy, AICP - Special Projects and Initiatives Manager
Date: October 21, 2025
Subject: Resolution of Support to the Hennepin County Environmental Response
Fund
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RECOMMENDED ACTION
MOTION TO adopt Resolution 2025-061 supporting an application to the Hennepin
Country Emergency Response Fund for Central Park.
OVERVIEW
The Hennepin County Environmental Response Fund (ERF) is a grant program which
helps reuse contaminated sites where the added cost of environmental cleanup is a
barrier to improvements or redevelopment.
It has been long known that some level of contamination existed within the Central Park
site due to its former use as an unregulated landfill. As part of the 2026 park renovation,
the City is seeking funds from the ERF to support clean up of contamination which was
confirmed over the summer through soil borings done by the City’s consultant, Braun
Intertec.
Clean up of the soil in this park is essential to ensure the improvement of field quality and
water quality within the Nine Mile Creek Watershed District.
SUPPORTING INFORMATION
• Resolution 2025-061 - Resolution of Support for an Application to the Hennepin
County Environmental Response Fund
Administration
CITY OF HOPKINS
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION 2025-061
Resolution of Support for an Application to the Hennepin County Environmental
Response Fund
WHEREAS, the City of Hopkins intends to clean up contaminated soils at Central Park;
and
WHEREAS, the City seeks funding through the Hennepin County Environmental
Response fund.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City of Hopkins
hereby City of Hopkins approves the Central Park project, for which an Environmental
Response Fund grant application is being submitted to the Hennepin County
Environment and Energy Department on October 31, 2025 by Special Projects and
Initiatives Manager, Laila Imihy.
Adopted by the City Council of the City of Hopkins this 21st day of October, 2025.
By:___________________________
Patrick Hanlon, Mayor
ATTEST:
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Amy Domeier, City Clerk