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Approved <br />Minutes for Rice Creek Watershed District Regular Board Meeting of April 28, 2010 Page 6 of 9 <br />219 <br />220 <br />ROLL CALL: <br />221 <br />Manager Haake - Aye <br />222 <br />Manager Mastell - Aye <br />223 <br />Manager Ogata — Aye <br />224 <br />Manager Waller — Aye <br />225 <br />President Preiner - Aye <br />226 <br />Motion carried 5 -0. <br />227 <br />228 Water Resource Specialist Axtell stated a,question was raised when the City of Shoreview submitted two project <br />229 requests in one year and whether the District should allow a City to put in more than one request in one program <br />230 year. He stated from staffs perspective, there was funding and the projects were eligible and warranted. He asked <br />231 the Board if they wanted to fund more than one project from the same City in the same year. <br />232 <br />233 Manager Mastell stated he did not believe the District needed a policy, but rather to discuss them as the requests <br />234 came forward. <br />235 <br />236 Manager Haake stated the Board could probably do this temporarily, but she would like staff to again notice other <br />237 municipalities of the District's Urban Stormwater Remediation Cost -Share Program and show them the projects <br />238 that have been submitted for funding. <br />239 <br />240 Manager Mastell stated the Board would select and spend the budget on what the highest merit projects were. <br />241 He noted he was not against having two or three projects out of the same area. <br />242 <br />243 Manager Waller agreed a policy was probably not necessary and the Board should look at each project on a <br />244 project by project basis. He noted the Cities had been notified before, but if the Cities did not want to use the <br />245 money available, it was the opportunity to reallocate the resources. <br />246 <br />247 President Preiner stated her preference would be that there only be one request per City, but it would also <br />248 depend on the request. <br />249 <br />250 Manager Ogata stated with the two applications from Shoreview, one of the applications probably provided a <br />251 better public benefit. He noted it might end up submitting two projects could be a detriment to the City. <br />252 <br />253 Manager Haake stated the Board could consider the greater benefit to the public as a whole as a priority. <br />254 <br />255 g+w►_k .. Q$.'l�iEl3lAiL <br />256 Water Resource Specialist Mtell stated this project was an Urban Stormwater Remediation Program cost -share <br />257 agreement with the District on September 9, 2008 which was to provide $50,000 toward a water reuse irrigation <br />258 system as part of a larger downtown redevelopment project. He noted the redevelopment project had been put <br />259 on hold because of the slow -down in the economy. He indicated the City was proposing to move forward with <br />260 the construction of the water re -use system in advance of the full -scale redevelopment project. He stated this <br />261 would not affect the portions of the project that were originally considered eligible project expenses. He indicated <br />262 the water would be pumped from the LaMotte pond complex to irrigate the City's baseball field ,and other <br />263 parkland to the north, which would reduce the stormwater runoff volume, phosphorus and sediment to <br />264 Centerville Lake by an estimated 80 %. He stated the original cost -share agreement expires on September 5, 2010. <br />13 <br />