Session Year 2015, Special Session 1

Bill Name: SF0004

Relating to capital investments

ARTICLE 1 - APPROPRIATIONS

Appropriating
money to the University of Minnesota Willmar poultry testing lab, the St. Paul
campus veterinary isolation facility replacement, providing for unspent funds,
to the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) for Anoka Technical
College, Dakota County Technical College, Minnesota West Community and Technical
College Canby and Jackson campuses, St. Paul College health and science alliance
center addition, for debt service and providing for unspent appropriations, to
the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) for a grant to Otter Tail county for
flood hazard mitigation and for other
projects as prioritized by DNR, to the
pollution control agency (PCA) capital assistance program projects in Clay,
McLeod and Dodge counties and the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District, for
the Polk county project, for the superfund drinking water program for a drinking
water system in the city of Spring Park in Hennepin County and Bayport in
Washington county, to the board of water and soil resources (BWSR) for grants to
local governments in Area II of the Minnesota River Basin for floodwater
retention systems, to the commissioner of agriculture for window replacements on
the East Grand Forks potato inspection facility, to the commissioner of
administration Capitol restoration out-of-scope projects, including addressing
water infiltration, settlement, and deterioration issues and for Capitol
security enhancements, to the Minnesota amateur sports commission for HVAC
improvement and ice center grants, to the commissioner of transportation (DOT)
for local bridge replacement and rehabilitation, local road improvement fund
grants and for a grant to Sandstone for a new road and bridge to provide access
to an area of the airport being converted to a business park and for the Willmar
Wye project, to the Minnesota Valley Regional Railroad Authority, Plymouth

highway-rail grade separation for the Vicksburg Lane crossing, to Koochiching
county highway-rail grade separation to establish an alternative route around
the rail crossing, to Richfield 77th Street underpass, for trunk highway
projects (U.S. highway #53), to the metropolitan council for inflow and
infiltration grants, to department of veterans affairs for the bridge over
Minnehaha Creek to the Minneapolis Veterans Home, to the commissioner of
corrections for replacement of the food processing facility at the Northeast
Regional Corrections Center, to the commissioner of employment and economic
development (DEED) for Greater Minnesota business development infrastructure
grants, transportation economic development grants, Eagle's Healing
Nest, the
Public Facilities Authority for wastewater infrastructure funding, to the
Minnesota Historical Society to predesign a visitors center facility at Historic
Fort Snelling, providing for bond sale expenses, bond sale authorization and
bond sale schedule, cancels the 2014 bond appropriation for the Bagley library
project, which is
not bondable

ARTICLE 2 - DISASTER RELIEF


Appropriating money for disaster relief needed due to storms and flooding
that occurred on or after June 11, 2014, in the disaster declaration area known
as DR-4182, the area includes the counties of Beltrami, Blue Earth, Brown,
Carver, Chippewa, Dodge, Faribault, Freeborn, Hennepin, Jackson, Koochiching,
Lac qui Parle, Lake of the Woods, Le Sueur, Lyon, Marshall, Martin, McLeod,
Murray, Nicollet, Nobles, Pipestone, Ramsey, Redwood, Renville, Rice, Rock,
Roseau, Scott, Sibley, Steele, Todd, Wadena, Waseca, Watonwan, Wright and Yellow
Medicine, and the Indian Reservations of Bois Forte (Nett Lake), Prairie Island
Community and Red Lake; appropriating money to the commissioner of natural
resources (DNR) for facility and natural resource damage, flood hazard
mitigation grants for Prior Lake-Spring Lake watershed district, the board of
water and soil resources (BWSR) for Reinvest in Minnesota (RIM) conservation
easements, for the erosion, sediment and water quality control cost-share
program, local road and bridge reconstruction, the Minnesota Historical Society
for a grant to the city of Jordan for damage and repair of historic structures,
to the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) for a grant to
the Children's museum of southern Minnesota for flood loss, for sale expenses,
bond sale authorizations

ARTICLE 3 - MISCELLANEOUS

Authorizing state
appropriation bonds to pay for the next phase of the Lewis and Clark Regional
Water System project, including completion of the pipeline to Magnolia,
extension of the project to the Lincoln-Pipestone Rural Water System connection
near Adrian, and engineering, design, and easement acquisition for the final
phase of the project to Worthington, requiring a nonstate match, providing for
annual debt service payments from the general fund from fiscal year 2017 through
fiscal year 2038; specifying that the Minnesota Valley Trail between the
Bloomington Ferry bridge pedestrian crossing and the Cedar Avenue bridge must be
a paved trail primarily for hiking
and bicycling; modifying the amateur sports
commission grant program for ice centers to cap air quality improvement grants
at $200,000 and R-22 elimination grants at
$50,000 for indirect cooling
systems and $400,000 for direct cooling systems, authorizing
the housing
finance agency (HFA) to issue $10 million in bonds, appropriating up to $800,000
per year beginning in fiscal year 2017 for debt service on the bonds; extending
the availability of the 2008 appropriation for specified state park projects
until December 31, 2017; extending the availability of Minnesota Valley Railroad
Track Rehabilitation of the 2008 appropriation to December 31, 2017, the 2009
appropriation to December 31, 2017 and the 2010 appropriation to December 31,
2017; amending the Southwest Minnesota State University, Marshall science lab
project appropriation that MnSCU has determined not to do and allows that money
to be used for HEAPR on the same campus; authorizing the amount remaining from
the 2012 appropriation for the Minneapolis Veterans Home to be added to the 2013
appropriation; correcting the location of the Cottage Grove Health and Emergency
Response Occupations (HERO) center, eliminating the match requirement and
changing the partner from MnSCU to the city of Woodbury;
modifying the project
descriptions for the 2014 grants to Little Canada and Shoreview
to allow
replacement of railroad safety warning devices as well as installing new;
modifying a grant to the International Falls Airport; amending the Minnesota Sex
Offender Program, St. Peter 2014 appropriation to change the building
being
renovated from the Bartlett Building to the Tomlinson Building and parts
of Green Acres and Sunrise; amending early childhood learning and child
protection facilities for the YWCA of Minneapolis project to allow the money to
also be used for the entire HVAC and sprinkler systems, and the pool walls and
ceiling; modifying the Alexandria redevelopment project description of the 2014
appropriation; correcting the 2014 appropriation to refer to Inwood Avenue
instead of Lake Elmo Avenue for the Lake Elmo water supply project; allowing the
Minneapolis Brian Coyle Community Center 2014 appropriation to be used toward
the renovation and expansion of the center; modifying the Minneapolis Hennepin
Center for the Arts grantee for the 2014 appropriation from Minneapolis to
Hennepin County; Red Wing River Renaissance project scope reduction;
St. Paul
Historic Palace Theater renovation grantee change from the city to the
St.
Paul Housing and Redevelopment Authority; Virginia U.S. highway #53 utilities
relocation; modifying the 2014 project description for the St. Paul Minnesota
Children's Museum, reducing the nonstate contribution required; providing for
the Minneapolis Community and Technical College sale of aviation training center
and appropriating the net proceeds of the sale of the aviation training center
at the Flying Cloud Airport to MnSCU to use for HEAPR projects at the
Minneapolis Community and Technical
College campus; authorizing the Joint
Powers District No. 6069, West Metro Education Program, to convey the real and
personal property of the FAIR (Fine Arts Interdisciplinary Resource) school in
downtown Minneapolis to the Minneapolis school district and the FAIR school in
Crystal to the Robbinsdale school district; conveying state financed property
from the state to Hennepin County; responding to closure of St. Anthony Lock,
requiring the chairs of the House and Senate capital investment committees to
each, or jointly, convene meetings with business owners and other stakeholders
affected by the
closure of the St. Anthony Lock
(ra)