1st Engrossment - 88th Legislature (2013 - 2014) Posted on 02/28/2013 12:34pm
A bill for an act
relating to capital investment; appropriating money for replacement of schools
damaged by flooding in Rushford and Moose Lake; authorizing the sale and
issuance of state bonds.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
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(a) $40,000,000 is appropriated from the bond
proceeds fund to the commissioner of education.
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(b) The lesser of 75 percent of the total project cost or $20,000,000 is for a grant to
Independent School District No. 239, Rushford-Peterson, to predesign, design, construct,
furnish, and equip a single prekindergarten through grade 12 school facility in the city
of Rushford, to replace school facilities severely damaged by flooding on August 18
and 19, 2007.
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(c) The lesser of 75 percent of the total project cost or $20,000,000 is for a grant to
Independent School District No. 97, Moose Lake, to predesign, design, construct, furnish,
and equip a single prekindergarten though grade 12 school facility in the city of Moose
Lake, to replace school district facilities severely damaged by flooding on June 21, 2012.
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(d) Buildings and land acquired, improved, or constructed with this appropriation
may not be located within a floodplain, as defined in Minnesota Statues, section 103F.111,
subdivision 4.
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(e) The commissioner must not award a grant under this section until the school
district has conducted a successful referendum for the school project under Minnesota
Statutes, section 475.58.
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To provide the money appropriated in this section from the
bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue
bonds of the state in an amount up to $40,000,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with
the effect prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the
Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.
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This section is effective the day following final enactment.
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