Minnesota Session Laws - 1991, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1991 

                        CHAPTER 183-H.F.No. 1179 
           An act relating to metropolitan government; providing 
          for legislative review of metropolitan agency budgets; 
          directing the metropolitan council to conduct a study; 
          proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, 
          chapter 473. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
     Section 1.  [FULLY DEVELOPED AREA; STUDY.] 
    The metropolitan council must conduct a study of the 
development patterns and needs in the council-defined fully 
developed area.  The council must direct its staff to: 
    (1) examine both the development patterns and the migration 
patterns in the fully developed area that have occurred in the 
last 20 years with special attention to household composition; 
    (2) compare the relative public costs of redevelopment in 
the fully developed area with the costs of development within 
the council-defined developing area.  This work should include, 
but is not limited to, transportation and transit, wastewater 
treatment, public safety services, housing, and education; 
    (3) examine the changing demographics of the fully 
developed area and other areas within the metropolitan region, 
and make projections regarding the economic and social condition 
of the fully developed area; 
    (4) examine the anticipated effects of a light rail transit 
system on the economic and social condition of the fully 
developed area; and 
    (5) recommend changes that would encourage the economic and 
social strengthening of the fully developed area. 
    In conducting its study, the council must use, along with 
other information, any available data from the 1990 census.  The 
council must present its findings to the legislature by February 
15, 1994.  The council must also present interim briefings to 
the legislature on work in progress at least annually between 
the effective date of this act and the completion of the study.  
    Sec. 2.  [473.1631] [LEGISLATIVE REVIEW.] 
    All metropolitan agencies shall file their budgets with the 
secretary of the senate and the clerk of the house of 
representatives on January 15 of the first year of each biennium 
for review by the committees of each body that have jurisdiction 
over the metropolitan agencies.  
    Sec. 3.  [APPLICATION.] 
    This act applies in the counties of Anoka, Carver, Dakota, 
Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, and Washington. 
    Presented to the governor May 21, 1991 
    Signed by the governor May 24, 1991, 5:35 p.m.