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BWSR Meeting Minutes October 29, 1998 Page Five organizing the stay in Lanesboro. Chair Roer and board members appreciated the opportunity to tour southeastern Minnesota. Chair Roer called for a break in the meeting at 10:00 a.m. The meeting reconvened at 10:15 a.m. State Cost-Share Rule Amendment for Farmstead Windbreaks -Wayne Zellmer explained that in 1997 the Minnesota legislature adopted statutes section 103C.501, subd. 6 as follows: The rules may provide that cost-sharing may be used for farmstead windbreaks and shelterbelts for the purposes of energy conservation and snow protection. The BWSR has not amended such rules. On September 23, 1998, the Cost-Share/Soil Conservation Committee convened to provide to the BWSR their recommendation on amending the State Cost-Share Program Rule to provide cost- sharing on farmstead windbreaks. The Committee Recommendation is: 1) The BWSR should enter into the rule amending process only if additional funds are legislatively appropriated. 2) The allocation policy should remain as it is. BWSR would give blanket approval for SWCDs to spend any part of their 20% technical and administrative portion on low priority erosion and water quality improvement projects, which presently includes farmstead windbreaks. 3) The BWSR would support a MASWCD legislative cost-share funding initiative for additional program funding. ** Moved by Allan Oehlke, seconded by Dwain Otte, to amend the committee recommendation to strike #2. Dwain Otte explained that #2 is null and void because water quality and erosion control does not qualify. Discussion followed. Roll calf vote: Opposed: Tripp, Anderson, Dahlvang, Roer, Uppgaard, Sando, Bloomgren, Massey, Heil. Affirmative: Otte, Annexstad, Oehlke, Krabbenhoft, Imholte, Cobb. Motion failed. Moved by PY7arv Tripp, seconded by Jim Anderson, to adopt #3. Discussion followed. Motion tivithdrawn. There are numerous demands on the Cost-Share Program from urban and lakes; that is water quality and erosion control related and new requests would better focus there than on other areas. ** Moved ~.;~ Pat Blocmgrer,, seconded by Marv Tripp, to adopt Alternative A, that BWSR should not enter into the rule amending process to provide cost-share for farmstead windbreaks. The focus of the program must remain on soil conservation and water 98-70 quality improvement and protection. Motion passed on a voice vote.