SF 525

1st Engrossment - 80th Legislature (1997 - 1998) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to public administration; modifying ownership 
  1.3             restrictions for privatization of capital intensive 
  1.4             public services; providing for the nonpublic status of 
  1.5             internal competitive proposals; amending Minnesota 
  1.6             Statutes 1996, sections 13.37; 471A.02, subdivisions 
  1.7             6, 11, and 13; 471A.03, subdivision 3; and 471A.10. 
  1.8   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.9                                  A
  1.10     Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 471A.02, 
  1.11  subdivision 6, is amended to read: 
  1.12     Subd. 6.  [CAPITAL INTENSIVE PUBLIC SERVICES.] "Capital 
  1.13  intensive public services" means the prevention, control, and 
  1.14  abatement of water pollution through wastewater treatment 
  1.15  facilities as defined by section 115.71, subdivision 6, and the 
  1.16  furnishing of potable water.  Capital intensive public services 
  1.17  may be limited (1) to the acquisition, design and construction, 
  1.18  and ownership or (2) to the operation and maintenance, by the 
  1.19  private vendor of related facilities, but.  Capital intensive 
  1.20  public services does not include the furnishing of heating or 
  1.21  cooling energy. 
  1.22     Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 471A.02, 
  1.23  subdivision 11, is amended to read: 
  1.24     Subd. 11.  [RELATED FACILITIES.] "Related facilities" means 
  1.25  all real and personal property used by the private vendor in 
  1.26  furnishing capital intensive public services, excluding any 
  2.1   product of the related facilities, such as drinking water, 
  2.2   furnished under the service contract.  Related facilities may be 
  2.3   owned by the municipality or the private vendor or jointly by 
  2.4   both. 
  2.5      Sec. 3.  Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 471A.02, 
  2.6   subdivision 13, is amended to read: 
  2.7      Subd. 13.  [SERVICE FEE.] "Service fee" means the payments 
  2.8   the municipality is required under the service contract to make, 
  2.9   or cause to be made, to the private vendor, including payments 
  2.10  made by third parties to the private vendor for products or 
  2.11  services and credited against payments the municipality would 
  2.12  otherwise have to make, or cause to be made, under the service 
  2.13  contract.  The capital cost component of the service fee may be 
  2.14  paid over the term of the service contract or in one or more 
  2.15  lump sum payments during the term.  
  2.16     Sec. 4.  Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 471A.03, 
  2.17  subdivision 3, is amended to read: 
  2.18     Subd. 3.  [PROCUREMENT PROCEDURES.] The municipality may 
  2.19  agree under the service contract that the private vendor will 
  2.20  acquire and, construct, alter, repair, or maintain any and all 
  2.21  related facilities without compliance with any competitive 
  2.22  bidding requirements, provided (1) the municipality, or 
  2.23  municipalities if the related facilities furnish capital 
  2.24  intensive public services to more than one municipality, has in 
  2.25  the aggregate either no or no more than a 50 percent ownership 
  2.26  interest in the related facilities, and (2).  The municipality 
  2.27  enters may enter into the service contract only after requesting 
  2.28  from two or more private vendors proposals for the furnishing of 
  2.29  the capital intensive public services, under terms and 
  2.30  conditions the municipality determines to be fair and 
  2.31  reasonable.  After making the request and receiving any 
  2.32  proposals in response to the request, the municipality may 
  2.33  negotiate the service contract with any private vendor that 
  2.34  meets the requirements specified in that responds to the request 
  2.35  for proposals. 
  2.36     Sec. 5.  Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 471A.10, is 
  3.1   amended to read: 
  3.2      471A.10 [PUBLIC EMPLOYEE LAWS; SALE OR LEASE OF EXISTING 
  3.3   FACILITY.] 
  3.4      (a) Unless expressly provided therein, and except as 
  3.5   provided in this section, no state law, charter provision, or 
  3.6   ordinance of a municipality relating to public employees shall 
  3.7   apply to a person solely by reason of that person's employment 
  3.8   by a private vendor in connection with services rendered under a 
  3.9   service contract. 
  3.10     (b) A private vendor purchasing or leasing existing related 
  3.11  facilities from a municipality or operating or maintaining the 
  3.12  facility shall recognize all exclusive bargaining 
  3.13  representatives and existing labor agreements and those 
  3.14  agreements shall remain in force until they expire by their 
  3.15  terms.  Persons who are not employed by a municipality in a 
  3.16  related facility at the time of a lease or purchase of the 
  3.17  facility by the private vendor are not "public employees" within 
  3.18  the meaning of the public employees retirement act, chapter 353. 
  3.19  Persons employed by a municipality in a related facility at the 
  3.20  time of a lease or purchase of the facility by a private vendor 
  3.21  shall continue to be considered to be "public employees" within 
  3.22  the meaning of the public employees retirement act, chapter 353, 
  3.23  but may elect to terminate their participation in the public 
  3.24  employees retirement association as provided in this section.  
  3.25  Each such employee may exercise the election annually on the 
  3.26  anniversary of the person's initial employment by the 
  3.27  municipality.  An employee electing to terminate participation 
  3.28  in the association is entitled to benefits that the employee 
  3.29  would be entitled to if terminating public employment and may 
  3.30  participate in a retirement program established by the private 
  3.31  vendor. 
  3.32                                 B
  3.33     Sec. 6.  Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 13.37, is amended 
  3.34  to read: 
  3.35     13.37 [GENERAL NONPUBLIC DATA.] 
  3.36     Subdivision 1.  [DEFINITIONS.] As used in this section, the 
  4.1   following terms have the meanings given them. 
  4.2      (a) "Security information" means government data the 
  4.3   disclosure of which would be likely to substantially jeopardize 
  4.4   the security of information, possessions, individuals or 
  4.5   property against theft, tampering, improper use, attempted 
  4.6   escape, illegal disclosure, trespass, or physical injury.  
  4.7   "Security information" includes crime prevention block maps and 
  4.8   lists of volunteers who participate in community crime 
  4.9   prevention programs and their home addresses and telephone 
  4.10  numbers. 
  4.11     (b) "Trade secret information" means government data, 
  4.12  including a formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, 
  4.13  method, technique or process (1) that was supplied by the 
  4.14  affected individual or organization, (2) that is the subject of 
  4.15  efforts by the individual or organization that are reasonable 
  4.16  under the circumstances to maintain its secrecy, and (3) that 
  4.17  derives independent economic value, actual or potential, from 
  4.18  not being generally known to, and not being readily 
  4.19  ascertainable by proper means by, other persons who can obtain 
  4.20  economic value from its disclosure or use. 
  4.21     (c) "Labor relations information" means management 
  4.22  positions on economic and noneconomic items that have not been 
  4.23  presented during the collective bargaining process or interest 
  4.24  arbitration, including information specifically collected or 
  4.25  created to prepare the management position. 
  4.26     (d) "Parking space leasing data" means the following 
  4.27  government data on an applicant for, or lessee of, a parking 
  4.28  space:  residence address, home telephone number, beginning and 
  4.29  ending work hours, place of employment, and work telephone 
  4.30  number. 
  4.31     (e) "Internal competitive proposal" means a proposal to 
  4.32  provide government services that is prepared by the staff of a 
  4.33  political subdivision in competition with proposals solicited by 
  4.34  the political subdivision from the private sector. 
  4.35     Subd. 2.  [CLASSIFICATION.] The following government data 
  4.36  is classified as nonpublic data with regard to data not on 
  5.1   individuals, pursuant to section 13.02, subdivision 9, and as 
  5.2   private data with regard to data on individuals, pursuant to 
  5.3   section 13.02, subdivision 12:  Security information; trade 
  5.4   secret information; sealed absentee ballots prior to opening by 
  5.5   an election judge; sealed bids, including the number of bids 
  5.6   received, prior to the opening of the bids; internal competitive 
  5.7   proposals prior to the time specified by a political subdivision 
  5.8   for the receipt of private sector proposals for the services; 
  5.9   parking space leasing data; and labor relations information, 
  5.10  provided that specific labor relations information which relates 
  5.11  to a specific labor organization is classified as protected 
  5.12  nonpublic data pursuant to section 13.02, subdivision 13. 
  5.13     Subd. 3.  [DATA DISSEMINATION.] Crime prevention block maps 
  5.14  and names, home addresses, and telephone numbers of volunteers 
  5.15  who participate in community crime prevention programs may be 
  5.16  disseminated to volunteers participating in crime prevention 
  5.17  programs. 
  5.18     Sec. 7.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  5.19     Sections 1 to 6 are effective the day following their final 
  5.20  enactment.