1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital investment; appropriating money for systemwide trail 
1.3 	connections in Minneapolis; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. MINNEAPOLIS; SYSTEMWIDE TRAIL CONNECTIONS.
 1.6 		Subdivision 1.Appropriation. $....... is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund 
1.7 	to the Metropolitan Council for a grant to the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board to 
1.8 	predesign, design, construct, furnish, and equip a network of public pedestrian and bicycle 
1.9 	trails, walkways, and parkways in the city of Minneapolis. Improvements shall range from 
1.10 	trail connections across geographic barriers to small connections that maximize existing 
1.11 	infrastructure and shall provide safer and more accessible routes, and include: a Plymouth 
1.12 	Avenue Bridge bicycle and walkway connection; the east bank trail on Nicollet Island 
1.13 	from Boom Island to Main Street; the Minnehaha Creek bike trail under the Lyndale 
1.14 	Avenue bridge to eliminate an at-grade crossing; the West Bank trail from Ole Olson Park 
1.15 	to 26th Avenue North; and a pedestrian/ski bridge over Theodore Wirth Parkway in south 
1.16 	Wirth Park. This appropriation does not require a nonstate contribution.
1.17 		Subd. 2.Bond sale. To provide the money appropriated in this section from the 
1.18 	bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue 
1.19 	bonds of the state in an amount up to $....... in the manner, upon the terms, and with 
1.20 	the effect prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the 
1.21 	Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.

1.22 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.