1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital improvements; appropriating money for the Shell Rock River 
1.3 	Channel Redevelopment and Blazing Star Landing plan; authorizing the sale 
1.4 	and issuance of state bonds. 
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION.
 1.7 	$810,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund to the commissioner of 
1.8 	employment and economic development for a grant to the city of Albert Lea to predesign, 
1.9 	design, and construct retaining walls along the Shell Rock River Channel between 
1.10 	Fountain Lake and Albert Lea Lake, to construct a public access for the river channel 
1.11 	and other amenities as part of the Blazing Star Terrace, and to prepare the Blazing Star 
1.12 	Landing for development through a comprehensive site plan, grading, and seeding.

1.13 	Sec. 2. BOND SALE.
 1.14 	To provide the money appropriated in section 1 from the bond proceeds fund, 
1.15 	the commissioner of finance shall sell and issue bonds of the state in an amount up to 
1.16 	$810,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with the effect prescribed by Minnesota 
1.17 	Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota Constitution, article XI, 
1.18 	sections 4 to 7.

1.19 	Sec. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 1.20 	Sections 1 and 2 are effective the day following final enactment.