1991-034
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CITY OF HOPKINS
Hennepin County, Minnesota
RESOLUTION NO: 91-34
RESOLUTION OUTLINING CITY OF HOPKINS POSITION CONCERNING
BOARD OF WATER AND SOIL RESOURCES (BWSR) PROPOSED 509 RULES
WHEREAS, the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources has
established an advisory committee that has issued a
draft proposal of rules concerning Minnesota's 509
clean water requirements, the purpose of which are to
preserve and improve surface drainage quality, and
WHEREAS, the City has reviewed the proposed draft rules and
finds them to impose additional financial burden on the
city of Hopkins, to foster an additional and
unnecessary layer of >bureaucracy, to detract from and
intrude upon internal municipal operations, and to
intrude upon the cooperative working relations between
the City and its two water management organizations
(Nine Mile Creek Watershed District and Minnehaha
Watershed District),
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of Hopkins,
Minnesota:
1. The City records its concern regarding the BWSR
draft rules and their negative impact on 1:he
cooperative relations between the City and its water
management organizations.
2. The City further states its opposition to proposals
and programs that are assumed to be funded by local
government and would place a financial burden on its
citizens.
3. The City respectfully requests the BWSR advisory
committee to re-examine its purpose and course and
to make revisions addressing the City's concerns.
Adopted by the City Council of the City of Hopkins, Minnesota,
this 2nd day of April, 1991.
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