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Hillcrest Knoll Park Dedication Cliff attended the dedication ceremony that was held July 1. The District contributed funding and staff- support to the City of St. Paul's Hoytl/Montana Flood Control Project in this area. He said it is worth the detour off White Bear Avenue if anyone is interested in seeing how nice it turned out. 7. TREASURERS REPORT AND BILL LIST Motion: Bob Johnson moved, Roger Lake seconded, to approve the Bill List and also the Supplemental Bill List for July 10, 2002. Motion carried. 8. SPECIAL ORDERS Well Sealing Resolution No. 02-08 Motion: Roger Lake moved, Jack Frost seconded, to adopt Resolution No. 02-08 to approve cost share funding for 14 well sealing program applications. Motion carried. Draft 2003 Budget and Work Program Review Cliff went through the items outlined in his July 9 memo. Due to the increased demands of office administration, he discussed several proposed increases in the budget. Adjustments to current program activities were discussed as well. Cliff also presented potential new program initiatives: ® Promote Environmental Recreation. A specific program and budget has not been developed, but possible components discussed would include biking, hiking, fishing, bird watching, observation decks requested by schools, and links to existing state and non-profit programs in an effort to increase knowledge and understanding of our water resource and habitat issues. ® Wetlands Information Transfer. Implement programs to protect the District's medium to high quality, wetlands by working with adjacent property owners on proper management for habitat improvement (similar to the DNR Neighborhood Wilds Program) and also, with cities to improve open space or greenway corridors. ® Watershed Management Plan Update. Several issues have been discussed over the last few years, including the need to revise the District wetland management plan. Plan revisions would not be final until completion of the Phalen Chain of Lakes SLMP in 2004. The public involvement element and public/agency review process would begin in 2004. Website and CD products would also be a spin-off of this update. The estimated budget would be $50,000 for both FY2003 and FY2004. Several program ideas were presented by Board members: ® Street cleaning problems. Paul Ellefson asked if the District should invest in capital expenditures or programs to directly resolve the problem. Roger Lake felt that the District should focus on identifying the various dimensions of the problem at this time, not the technique (as suggested through use of a state-of--the-art vacuum street sweeper). Bob Johnson felt that we need to identify the point where the sediment particles can be intercepted and removed in the most cost-effective way. Paul felt that we should at least address the issue as it affects critical wetlands in the District. ® NPDES Phase 2. Jack Frost suggested that street sweeping issues may be addressed when enforcement of these new regulations begins next year. Cliff noted that he did not propose to budget for NPDES Phase 2 implementation in 2003 due to the uncertainty of what the minimum compliance issues will be for cities. ® Research budget. Paul suggested a significant increase over the $10,000 allocated. Cliff noted that the current budget increased considerably due to the authorization of additional expenditures for the reed canary grass study. Roger suggested identifying our needs first, and Paul agreed that the District could then systematically implement research based on apre-determined plan. Page 4 July 10, 2002 RWMWD Minutes