1991-055
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CITY OF HOPKINS
Hennepin County, Minnesota
RESOLUTION NO. 91-55
A RESOLUTION OF SUPPORT FOR 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
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WHEREAS an independent and democratically elected Suburban Hennepin
Regional Park District ~oard of Commissioners is essential to assure
public confidence in the activities and priorities of the Board of
Commissioners,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOL YED that the City Council of the City of
Hopkins. on this 16th day of April, 1991, expresses 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.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City of Hopkins, on
this 16th day of April, 1991 expresses unqualified support for legislation before the
Minnesota ~gislature in the 1991 legislative session that allows the Suburban
Hennepin Regional Park District Board of Commissions to formulate and
implement annual budgets for the Suburban Hennepin Regional Park District
without review or veto of the Hennepin County Board.
Passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Hopkins this 16th day of
April, 1991. .