HF 3992

as introduced - 92nd Legislature (2021 - 2022) Posted on 03/03/2022 02:05pm

A bill for an act
relating to metropolitan government; modifying the basis for determining operation
and maintenance expenditures for metropolitan-area regional parks; amending
Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 473.351, subdivision 3.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 473.351, subdivision 3, is amended to read:

Subd. 3.

Allocation formula.

By July 1 May 15 of every year each implementing agency
must submit to the Metropolitan Parks and Open Space Commission a statement of the next
annual anticipated operation and maintenance expenditures of the regional recreation open
space parks systems within their respective jurisdictions and the previous year's actual
expenditures from the most recent annual audited financial statement. After reviewing the
actual expenditures submitted from the most recent annual audited financial statements,
and by July 15 of each year, the parks and open space commission shall forward to the
Metropolitan Council the funding requests from the implementing agencies based on the
actual expenditures made from the most recent annual audited financial statements. The
Metropolitan Council shall distribute the operation and maintenance money as follows:

(1) 40 percent based on the use that each implementing agency's regional recreation
open space system has in proportion to the total use of the metropolitan regional recreation
open space system;

(2) 40 percent based on the operation and maintenance expenditures made in the previous
year by each implementing agency in proportion to the total operation and maintenance
expenditures of all of the implementing agencies; and

(3) 20 percent based on the acreage that each implementing agency's regional recreation
open space system has in proportion to the total acreage of the metropolitan regional
recreation open space system. The 80 percent natural resource management land acreage
of the park reserves must be divided by four in calculating the distribution under this clause.

Each implementing agency must receive funding of no less than 40 percent of its actual
operation and maintenance expenses to be incurred in the current calendar year budget,
from the most recent annual audited financial statements as submitted to the parks and open
space commission. If the available operation and maintenance money is less than the total
amount determined by the formula including the preceding, the implementing agencies will
share the available money in proportion to the amounts they would otherwise be entitled to
under the formula.

EFFECTIVE DATE; APPLICATION.

This section is effective the day following
final enactment and applies in the counties of Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey,
Scott, and Washington.