Minnesota Legislature
Office of the Revisor of Statutes
Minnesota Session Laws - 2005, Regular Session
Key: (1) language to be deleted (2) new language
CHAPTER 20-H.F.No. 3
An act relating to capital improvements; authorizing
spending to acquire and better public land and
buildings and other public improvements of a capital
nature with certain conditions; making adjustments to
previous bond authorizations; establishing new
programs and modifying existing programs; authorizing
sale of state bonds; appropriating money; amending
Minnesota Statutes 2004, sections 16A.671, subdivision
3; 85.019, subdivision 2; 116.182, subdivision 2;
116J.575, subdivision 1; 134.45; 136F.60, by adding a
subdivision; 174.52, by adding a subdivision; 245.036;
446A.04, subdivision 5; Laws 1998, chapter 404,
section 15, subdivision 2; Laws 1998, chapter 404,
section 23, subdivision 17, as amended; Laws 2000,
chapter 492, article 1, section 7, subdivision 21;
Laws 2002, chapter 393, section 22, subdivision 6;
Laws 2003, First Special Session chapter 20, article
1, section 11; proposing coding for new law in
Minnesota Statutes, chapters 16A; 446A.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
ARTICLE 1
APPROPRIATIONS AND RELATED LANGUAGE
Section 1. [CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT APPROPRIATIONS.]
The sums in the column under "APPROPRIATIONS" are
appropriated from the bond proceeds fund, or another named fund,
to the state agencies or officials indicated, to be spent for
public purposes. Appropriations of bond proceeds must be spent
as authorized by the Minnesota Constitution, article XI, section
5, paragraph (a), to acquire and better public land and
buildings and other public improvements of a capital nature, or
as authorized by the Minnesota Constitution, article XI, section
5, paragraphs (b) to (j), or article XIV. Unless otherwise
specified, the appropriations in this act are available until
the project is completed or abandoned subject to Minnesota
Statutes, section 16A.642.
SUMMARY
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA $ 108,383,000
MINNESOTA STATE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES 213,598,000
PERPICH CENTER FOR ARTS EDUCATION 1,083,000
EDUCATION 20,583,000
MINNESOTA STATE ACADEMIES 4,255,000
NATURAL RESOURCES 72,145,000
POLLUTION CONTROL AGENCY 10,000,000
OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSISTANCE 4,000,000
BOARD OF WATER AND SOIL RESOURCES 27,862,000
AGRICULTURE 3,919,000
ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN 22,640,000
ADMINISTRATION 7,279,000
CAPITOL AREA ARCHITECTURAL AND PLANNING BOARD 2,370,000
MILITARY AFFAIRS 4,000,000
VETERANS AFFAIRS 670,000
PUBLIC SAFETY 642,000
TRANSPORTATION 94,000,000
METROPOLITAN COUNCIL 30,914,000
HUMAN SERVICES 26,073,000
VETERANS HOMES BOARD 5,437,000
CORRECTIONS 98,694,000
EMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 167,199,000
HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY 12,350,000
MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY 6,000,000
BOND SALE EXPENSES 884,000
TOTAL $ 944,980,000
Bond Proceeds Fund
(General Fund Debt Service) 817,892,000
Bond Proceeds Fund
(User Financed Debt Service) 59,088,000
Maximum Effort School Loan Fund 18,000,000
State Transportation Fund 50,000,000
APPROPRIATIONS
$
Sec. 2. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
Subdivision 1. To the Board of Regents
of the University of Minnesota for the
purposes specified in this section 108,383,000
Subd. 2. Higher Education Asset
Preservation and Replacement (HEAPR) 40,000,000
To be spent in accordance with
Minnesota Statutes, section 135A.046.
Subd. 3. Duluth Campus
(a) Life Science Building 10,100,000
To design, renovate, furnish, and equip
the Life Science Building for the
pharmacy program and other academic
programs on the Duluth campus. The
renovation may include, but is not
limited to, improvements to correct air
quality problems, life safety and
accessibility code deficiencies,
asbestos, and fireproofing of the
facility.
(b) Recreational
Sports Addition 8,700,000
To construct, furnish, and equip the
recreational sports facility, an
addition to the existing sports and
health center. The facility will
include fitness and conditioning space,
multipurpose recreational space, and
office space.
Subd. 4. Morris Campus
(a) District Heating 4,000,000
To design, construct, and equip an
addition to the heating plant to
provide the capability to burn biomass
fuel to produce steam.
This appropriation is not available
until the commissioner of finance has
determined that the chancellor of the
University of Minnesota, Morris and the
station head of the West Central
Research and Outreach Center have a
written operations plan that provides
the West Central Research and Outreach
Center adequate access to the facility
for research purposes.
(b) Football Stadium 1,800,000
To construct a football stadium to be
shared with the Morris School District.
This appropriation is not available
until the commissioner of finance has
determined that the necessary
additional financing to complete the
project has been committed from
nonstate sources and that the Board of
Regents and the Morris School Board
have entered into an agreement
governing the use and operation of the
stadium by both entities.
Subd. 5. Twin Cities Campus
(a) Kolthoff Hall 17,400,000
To design, renovate, furnish, and equip
Kolthoff Hall and to correct air
quality problems in the facility that
may include, but are not limited to,
repair or replacement of the
mechanical, electrical, and HVAC
systems.
(b) Education Sciences 14,500,000
To design, renovate, furnish, and equip
the Education Sciences Building.
(c) Academic Health Center 11,600,000
To design, renovate, furnish, and equip
classrooms, laboratories, and the
veterinary medicine teaching center on
the St. Paul campus.
Subd. 6. North Central Research and
Outreach Center - Grand Rapids 283,000
To design, construct, furnish, and
equip a building to accommodate the
farm machinery repair, maintenance, and
carpentry shops.
Subd. 7. University Share
Except for higher education asset
preservation and replacement and the
Morris football stadium, the
appropriations in this section are
intended to cover approximately
two-thirds of the cost of each
project. The remaining costs must be
paid from university sources.
Subd. 8. Unspent Appropriations
Upon substantial completion or
abandonment of a project authorized in
this section and after written notice
to the commissioner of finance, the
Board of Regents must use any money
remaining in the appropriation for that
project for HEAPR under Minnesota
Statutes, section 135A.046. The Board
of Regents must report by February 1 of
each even-numbered year to the chairs
of the house and senate committees with
jurisdiction over capital investments
and higher education finance, and to
the chairs of the house Ways and Means
Committee and the senate Finance
Committee on how the remaining money
has been allocated or spent.
Sec. 3. MINNESOTA STATE COLLEGES AND
UNIVERSITIES
Subdivision 1. To the Board of Trustees
of the Minnesota State Colleges and
Universities for the purposes specified in
this section 213,598,000
Subd. 2. Higher Education Asset
Preservation and Replacement 41,500,000
This appropriation is for the purposes
specified in Minnesota Statutes,
section 135A.046.
Subd. 3. Anoka Ramsey Community College -
Cambridge 10,483,000
To design, construct, furnish, and
equip an addition to the main campus
building, and to renovate the main
campus building for a science
laboratory and academic support center.
Subd. 4. Bemidji State University -
Northwest Technical College 10,863,000
To renovate, furnish, and equip
Bridgeman Hall at Bemidji State
University and construct, furnish, and
equip an addition at Northwest
Technical College as part of phase 2 of
the Emerging Technology Addition
project.
Subd. 5. Central Lakes College 5,953,000
To design, construct, furnish, and
equip heavy equipment shop space at the
Staples West Campus and to renovate
vacated space at the Staples main
campus, and to design, construct,
furnish, and equip a music classroom
and a rehearsal addition and to
renovate, furnish, and equip vacated
space at the Brainerd Campus.
Subd. 6. Century Community and
Technical College
(a) Technology Center 4,888,000
To renovate, furnish, and equip
recently purchased space into a
technology center, offices, and smart
classrooms.
(b) Science Center and
Learning Resources Center 1,000,000
To design a new building for science
laboratories and classrooms and a new
library and learning resource center.
Subd. 7. Dakota Technical College 7,387,000
To renovate, furnish, and equip an
information technology and
telecommunications center of
excellence, as well as improve and
expand the library and academic support
center.
This appropriation is not available
until the commissioner of finance has
determined that at least $200,000 has
been committed from nonstate sources.
Subd. 8. Fond du Lac Tribal and
Community College 635,000
To design an addition to the library
and to design phase 1 of the Lester
Jack Briggs Cultural Center to provide
multicultural spaces and physical
education facilities.
Subd. 9. Inver Hills Community College 6,045,000
To renovate the College Center Building
and to construct, furnish, and equip a
one-stop student services addition to
it; enlarge and colocate central
services, the bookstore, and loading
dock; and remove a pedestrian safety
hazard.
Subd. 10. Lake Superior College 11,243,000
To construct an addition to house all
student services, high-tech classrooms,
open computer labs, space for workforce
development, and faculty and
administrative offices. The project
also includes space for student life
programs and instruction.
Subd. 11. Minneapolis Community and
Technical College 900,000
To design, through construction
documents, a Health Sciences Center and
renovation of existing outdated science
labs.
Subd. 12. Minnesota State College -
Southeast Technical College 3,802,000
To renovate, furnish, and equip a
one-stop student services center, a
bookstore, technology-enhanced
classrooms, a library and learning
resource center, a nursing department,
and construct a collegiate entry and
information center.
Subd. 13. Minnesota State Community and
Technical College - Fergus Falls 7,604,000
To design, construct, furnish, and
equip an addition for fine arts,
technology, and student services, and
to design, renovate, furnish, and equip
general and interactive television
classrooms.
Subd. 14. Minnesota State Community and
Technical College - Moorhead 7,061,000
To construct, furnish, and equip an
addition for allied health and
construction trades and renovate space
for student services. The project will
also expand and replace the campus
boiler, upgrade campus storage and
mechanical and electrical needs,
correct life safety and building code
violations, demolish temporary
buildings, and construct 40 additional
parking spaces.
Subd. 15. Minnesota State University -
Mankato 2,560,000
To design an addition to and renovation
of Trafton Science Center.
Subd. 16. Minnesota State University -
Moorhead
(a) Hagen Hall 10,477,000
To renovate, furnish, and equip Hagen
Hall for classrooms, science
laboratories, and related offices.
(b) MacLean Hall 500,000
To design a comprehensive renovation of
MacLean Hall.
Subd. 17. Northland Community
College 2,156,000
To construct, furnish, and equip an
addition for the Workforce Center;
renovate, furnish, and equip space
vacated by the Workforce Center to
expand nursing programs, and renovate
instructional and office space.
Subd. 18. Riverland Community
College 5,540,000
To design, renovate, furnish, and equip
science labs on the Austin and Albert
Lea campuses and general classrooms on
the Austin campus.
Subd. 19. Rochester Community and
Technical College 12,759,000
To design, construct, furnish, and
equip the renovation of the vacant
Rockenbach gymnasium and adjacent site
improvements, selected areas of the
Heintz Center, and portions of the
University Center Rochester main campus
buildings all for use as a health
sciences center for Rochester Community
and Technical College.
Subd. 20. St. Cloud State University
(a) Centennial Hall, Phase 2 3,150,000
To renovate, furnish, and equip
Centennial Hall to convert it from a
library to classroom and office space.
This appropriation is in addition to
the appropriation in Laws 2003, First
Special Session chapter 20, article 1,
section 3, subdivision 16.
(b) Brown Hall/Math and Science Hall 900,000
To design the renovation of, and an
addition to, Brown Hall and Math and
Science Hall. The renovation and
addition must address life safety,
fire, and air quality to provide space
for nursing programs and necessary
laboratory and classroom space.
Subd. 21. St. Cloud Technical College 15,056,000
To design, construct, furnish, and
equip a multistory addition and to
renovate classroom space into science
space, including two science
laboratories and a faculty office and
the colocation of a workforce center.
Subd. 22. St. Paul College 10,993,000
To design, renovate, furnish, and equip
construction trades and technology labs
and design and construct a new entryway
to link all floors of the original
building with the tower to include
offices, conference rooms, and student
study areas.
Subd. 23. South Central Technical
College 5,157,000
To renovate, furnish, and equip
teaching laboratories at the North
Mankato campus and for asset
preservation at the Faribault campus.
Subd. 24. Winona State University 11,118,000
To design, renovate, furnish, and equip
Pasteur Hall for classrooms, science
laboratories, and related offices.
Subd. 25. Systemwide
(a) Science Lab Renovations 6,668,000
To design, renovate, furnish, and equip
science laboratories. This
appropriation may be used at the
following campuses: Alexandria
Technical College, Anoka-Ramsey
Community College, Central Lakes
College, Staples, Century College,
Minnesota West Community and Technical
College, Granite Falls and Pipestone,
Pine Technical College, Ridgewater
Community and Technical College,
Willmar and Hutchinson, South Central
Technical College, Mankato, Southwest
State University, St. Cloud Technical
College, St. Paul College, and
Vermillion Community College.
(b) Workforce Training Classrooms 3,083,000
To design, renovate, furnish, and equip
classroom space into space designed to
address emerging workforce training
needs. This appropriation may be used
at the following campuses:
Anoka-Hennepin Technical College,
Century College, North Hennepin
Community College, Rochester Community
and Technical College, South Central
Technical College, Faribault, Minnesota
West Community and Technical College,
Granite Falls, Minnesota State
University Moorhead, Northwest
Technical College, Bemidji, East Grand
Forks, and Moorhead.
(c) Technology Updated Classrooms 1,019,000
To design, renovate, and equip learning
technology classrooms. This
appropriation may be used at the
following campuses: Minnesota State
College, Southeast Technical College,
Minnesota West Community and Technical
College, Granite Falls, Normandale
Community College, North Hennepin
Community College, Northland Community
and Technical College, Pine Technical
College, Riverland College, Albert Lea
and Austin, South Central Technical
College, Faribault, Southwest State
University, St. Cloud State University,
and St. Paul College.
(d) Demolition Initiative 1,625,000
To demolish obsolete buildings on ten
campuses.
(e) Program Consolidation 1,173,000
To design, renovate, furnish, and equip
spaces to allow for program
consolidation from one campus to
another.
(f) Land Acquisition 300,000
To acquire real property near the state
college and university campuses.
Subd. 26. Debt Service
(a) The board shall pay the debt
service on one-third of the principal
amount of state bonds sold to finance
projects authorized by this section,
except for higher education asset
preservation and replacement, except
that, where a nonstate match is
required, the debt service is due on a
principal amount equal to one-third of
the total project cost, less the match
committed before the bonds are sold.
After each sale of general obligation
bonds, the commissioner of finance
shall notify the board of the amounts
assessed for each year for the life of
the bonds.
(b) The commissioner shall reduce the
board's assessment each year by
one-third of the net income from
investment of general obligation bond
proceeds in proportion to the amount of
principal and interest otherwise
required to be paid by the board. The
board shall pay its resulting net
assessment to the commissioner of
finance by December 1 each year. If
the board fails to make a payment when
due, the commissioner of finance shall
reduce allotments for appropriations
from the general fund otherwise
available to the board and apply the
amount of the reduction to cover the
missed debt service payment. The
commissioner of finance shall credit
the payments received from the board to
the bond debt service account in the
state bond fund each December 1 before
money is transferred from the general
fund under Minnesota Statutes, section
16A.641, subdivision 10.
Sec. 4. PERPICH CENTER FOR ARTS EDUCATION
Subdivision 1. To the commissioner
of administration for the purposes
specified in this section 1,083,000
Subd. 2. Campus Asset Preservation 558,000
To be spent in accordance with
Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.632.
$90,000 is to replace lighting in the
theater and to reconstruct the stage to
allow its use for both teaching and
performances.
Subd. 3. Beta Building Demolition 525,000
To demolish the Beta Building on the
Perpich Center Campus, dispose of any
hazardous materials, and fill the site.
Sec. 5. EDUCATION
Subdivision 1. To the commissioner
of education or other named agency
for the purposes specified in
this section 20,583,000
Subd. 2. Independent School
District No. 38 - Red Lake 18,000,000
This appropriation is from the maximum
effort school loan fund for a capital
loan to Independent School District No.
38, Red Lake, as provided in Minnesota
Statutes, sections 126C.60 to 126C.72,
to design, construct, renovate,
furnish, and equip a new middle school
and the existing high school. The
commissioner and Independent School
District No. 38, Red Lake, shall report
to the legislature by January 10, 2006,
on the progress of the capital loan.
Subd. 3. East Metro Magnet
School - Crosswinds Middle School 1,083,000
For a grant to Joint Powers District
No. 6067, East Metro Integration
District, to repay a loan from
Independent School District No. 625,
St. Paul, that was used to complete
acquiring land for the site of
Crosswinds Arts and Science Middle
School. This appropriation is added to
the appropriations in Laws 1998,
chapter 404, section 5, subdivision 5;
Laws 1999, chapter 240, article 1,
section 3; Laws 2000, chapter 492,
article 1, section 5, subdivision 2;
and Laws 2001, First Special Session
chapter 12, section 2, subdivision 2,
for the same project.
Subd. 4. Library
Improvement Grants 1,000,000
For library improvement grants under
new Minnesota Statutes, section 134.45,
subdivision 5b.
Subd. 5. Early Childhood Learning
and Child Protection Facilities 500,000
To the commissioner of human services
for grants to rehabilitate facilities
for programs under Minnesota Statutes,
section 119A.45, except that a grant
may not exceed $75,000 per program and
$200,000 per facility.
Sec. 6. MINNESOTA STATE ACADEMIES 4,255,000
To the commissioner of administration
for asset preservation capital
improvements on both campuses of the
Minnesota State Academies, to be spent
in accordance with Minnesota Statutes,
section 16A.632.
Sec. 7. NATURAL RESOURCES
Subdivision 1. To the
commissioner of natural resources
for the purposes specified
in this section 72,145,000
Subd. 2. Flood Hazard Mitigation
Grants 27,000,000
For the state share of flood hazard
mitigation grants for publicly owned
capital improvements to prevent or
alleviate flood damage under Minnesota
Statutes, section 103F.161.
The commissioner shall determine
project priorities as appropriate based
on need.
This appropriation includes money for
the following projects: Ada, Austin,
Breckenridge, Canisteo Mine, Cannon
Falls, Crookston, Dawson, East Grand
Forks, Grand Marais Creek, Granite
Falls, Green Meadow Dam, Inver Grove
Heights, Little McDonald Lake, Malung,
Manston Slough, Minneapolis,
Montevideo, Oakport, Palmville, Roseau
River, St. Louis Park, Two River Ross
Impoundment, Warren, and Whiskey Creek.
$2,000,000 is for Austin for identified
capital improvement projects, and any
other authorized federal or state flood
mitigation projects in the area
designated under Presidential
Declaration of Major Disaster, DR-1569,
whether included in the original
declaration or added later by federal
government action. The area currently
included in DR-1569 includes territory
within the counties of Dodge,
Faribault, Freeborn, Martin, Mower,
Olmsted, and Steele.
$175,000 is for the state share of a
grant to the city of Cannon Falls for
predesign and design of capital
improvements to alleviate flooding
caused by runoff from the bluffs and
the flooding of the Little Cannon River
and the Cannon River.
For any project listed in this
subdivision that is not ready to
proceed or does not expend all the
money allocated to it, the commissioner
may allocate that project's money to a
project on the commissioner's priority
list.
To the extent that the cost of a
project in Ada, Austin, Breckenridge,
Dawson, East Grand Forks, Granite
Falls, Montevideo, Oakport Township,
Roseau, or Warren exceeds two percent
of the median household income in the
municipality multiplied by the number
of households in the municipality, this
appropriation is also for the local
share of the project.
There is no local share required for
the Canisteo Mine project.
For grants for Roseau River wildlife
management area, Palmville, and Malung,
the state share must be $3 for each $1
of nonstate contribution.
Notwithstanding the grant expiration
date of June 30, 2002, the commissioner
of natural resources shall extend until
June 30, 2007, the expiration date of a
grant made to the city of Stillwater
under Minnesota Statutes, section
103F.161, used to match certain federal
appropriations for flood hazard
mitigation.
Subd. 3. Dam Renovation and
Removal 2,000,000
To renovate or remove publicly owned
dams. The commissioner shall determine
project priorities as appropriate under
Minnesota Statutes, sections 103G.511
and 103G.515.
This appropriation includes money for
the following projects: removal of the
dam on Rush Creek in Chisago County;
repair of the bridge deck at Rapidan
dam in Blue Earth County; repair of the
Vermilion River dam in St. Louis
County; and replacement of the dam on
the Shellrock River. The grant to Blue
Earth County for the Rapidan dam
project is exempt from the local match
requirement under Minnesota Statutes,
section 103G.511.
Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes,
section 16A.69, subdivision 2, upon the
award of final contracts for the
completion of a project listed in this
subdivision, the commissioner may
transfer the unencumbered balance in
the project account to any other dam
renovation or removal project on the
commissioner's priority list.
Subd. 4. RIM - Critical Habitat
Match 2,000,000
To provide the state match for the
critical habitat private sector
matching account under Minnesota
Statutes, section 84.943, for the
acquisition or improvements of a
capital nature for critical fish,
wildlife, and native plant habitats.
Subd. 5. RIM - Wildlife Area Land
Acquisition 10,000,000
To acquire land for wildlife management
area purposes under Minnesota Statutes,
section 86A.05, subdivision 8.
A portion of this appropriation may be
used to acquire land in coordination
with the Central Minnesota Prairie to
Pines Partnership to provide a state
commitment under the federal Army
Compatible Use Buffer Zone program to
protect a buffer zone around Camp
Ripley.
Subd. 6. Fisheries Acquisition and
Improvement 1,050,000
To acquire land and interests in land
for aquatic management areas and to
make public improvements and
betterments of a capital nature to
aquatic management areas established
under Minnesota Statutes, section
86A.05, subdivision 14.
Subd. 7. Water Access Acquisition,
Betterment, and Fishing Piers 2,000,000
For public water access acquisition,
construction, and renovation to capital
projects on lakes and rivers, including
water access through the provision of
fishing piers and shoreline access
under Minnesota Statutes, section
86A.05, subdivision 9.
Subd. 8. Canoe and Boating Routes 300,000
To develop canoe and boating routes
under Minnesota Statutes, section 85.32.
This appropriation is to develop the
Red River of the North Canoe and
Boating Route.
Subd. 9. Stream Protection and
Restoration 500,000
For the design and construction of
trout stream restoration projects on
Trout Brook and Dark River.
Subd. 10. Reforestation 2,000,000
To increase reforestation activities to
meet the reforestation requirements of
Minnesota Statutes, section 89.002,
subdivision 2, including planting,
seeding, site preparation, and
purchasing tree seeds and seedlings.
Subd. 11. Metro Greenways and
Natural Areas 500,000
To provide grants to local units of
government for acquisition or
betterment of greenways and natural
areas in the metro region and to
acquire greenways and natural areas in
the metro region through the purchase
of conservation easements or fee
titles. The commissioner shall
determine the project priorities and
shall consult with representatives of
local units of government, nonprofit
organizations, and other interested
parties.
Subd. 12. Native Prairie Bank
Easements and Development 1,000,000
For acquisition of native prairie bank
easements under Minnesota Statutes,
section 84.96, and to develop and
restore certain tracts of prairie bank
lands for which the easement is
permanent.
Subd. 13. Scientific and Natural
Area Acquisition and Development 300,000
To acquire land for scientific and
natural areas and for development and
improvements of a capital nature to
scientific and natural areas under
Minnesota Statutes, sections 84.033 and
86A.05, subdivision 5.
Subd. 14. State Trail Development 7,910,000
To acquire land for and to develop and
rehabilitate state trails as specified
in Minnesota Statutes, section 85.015.
$1,500,000 is for the Blazing Star
Trail.
$435,000 is for a segment of the
Blufflands Trail, from Preston to
Forestville.
$200,000 is for a segment of the
Blufflands Trail, from Chester Woods
County Park to the city limits of
Rochester in Olmsted County, primarily
for nonmotorized riding and hiking.
$400,000 is for the Douglas Trail.
$400,000 is for the Gateway Trail.
$725,000 is for the Gitchi Gami Trail.
$500,000 is for the Glacial Lakes Trail.
$200,000 is for the Goodhue Pioneer
Trail.
$300,000 is for the Heartland Trail.
$300,000 is for the Mill Towns Trail.
$100,000 is for the Minnesota River
Trail.
$2,400,000 is for the Paul Bunyan
Trail: $1,500,000 is for an extension
across Excelsior Road in the city of
Baxter to connect with the Oberstar
Tunnel; $900,000 is to acquire
right-of-way in the city of Bemidji and
to rehabilitate the trail.
$450,000 is for the Shooting Star Trail.
Subd. 15. Trail Connections 885,000
For matching grants under Minnesota
Statutes, section 85.019, subdivision
4c.
$365,000 is to Stearns County for land
acquisition, engineering, and
construction of trail connections on
the Lake Koronis Trail.
$220,000 is for a grant to Stearns
County to link the Lake Wobegon Trail
to the Central Lakes State Trail.
$300,000 is for a grant to the St.
Louis and Lake Counties Regional
Railroad Authority to complete
constructing, furnishing, and equipping
Mesabi Station along the 132-mile
recreational trail known as Mesabi
Trail and located on Lake Mesabi at the
intersection of U.S. 53 and U.S. 169
and marked Trunk Highway 135. This
appropriation is dependent upon a
matching contribution of $800,000 from
other sources, public or private.
Subd. 16. County Forest Land
Reforestation 1,000,000
To provide matching grants to counties
for reforestation of
county-administered lands. The
commissioner shall determine project
priorities based on need and level of
county matching funds. The state
matching grants are available to
counties for site preparation, tree
planting, tree seeding, and are to
supplement, not supplant, county
funding for timber development
described under Minnesota Statutes,
section 282.08, clause (5), item (i).
These grants are not available until
the commissioner has determined that at
least an equal amount has been
committed from the recipient county.
Subd. 17. Fish Hatchery Improvements 1,700,000
For improvements of a capital nature to
renovate fish culture facilities at
hatcheries owned by the state and
operated by the commissioner of natural
resources.
Subd. 18. RIM - Wildlife Management
Area Development 600,000
For improvements of a capital nature to
develop, protect, or improve habitat
and facilities on wildlife management
areas under Minnesota Statutes, section
86A.05, subdivision 8.
Subd. 19. State Forest and Forest Legacy
Land Acquisition 1,500,000
To acquire private lands and interests
in lands from willing sellers within
established boundaries of state forests
established under Minnesota Statutes,
section 89.021, and within Forest
Legacy Areas established under United
States Code, title 16, section 2103c.
Subd. 20. Forest Road and Bridge Projects 300,000
For reconstruction, resurfacing,
replacement, and construction of state
forest roads and bridges throughout the
state under Minnesota Statutes, section
89.002.
Subd. 21. State Park and Recreation Area
Acquisition 2,500,000
For acquisition of land under Minnesota
Statutes, section 86A.05, subdivisions
2 and 3, from willing sellers of
private lands within state park and
recreation area boundaries established
by law.
$500,000 is to purchase land within the
boundaries of Greenleaf Lake state park
in Meeker county.
Subd. 22. State Park and Recreation Area
Building Development and Rehabilitation and
Infrastructure Improvements 1,800,000
For construction, rehabilitation, and
infrastructure improvements within
Minnesota state parks and state
recreation areas according to the
management plan required in Minnesota
Statutes, chapter 86A.
$300,000 is to predesign and design a
visitor's center and a maintenance shop
at Grand Portage State Park.
Subd. 23. Local Initiative Grants 1,000,000
For grants for local parks and outdoor
recreation areas under Minnesota
Statutes, section 85.019, subdivision
2; grants for natural and scenic areas
under Minnesota Statutes, section
85.019, subdivision 4a; and grants for
regional parks outside the metropolitan
area defined in Minnesota Statutes,
section 473.121, subdivision 2, which
may be for up to 60 percent of the
nonfederal share of the project cost.
Projects related to replacement of
urban forests are eligible for funding
under this subdivision.
Subd. 24. Lake Superior Safe Harbor 2,000,000
To design and construct capital
improvements to public accesses and
small craft harbors on Lake Superior in
cooperation with the United States Army
Corps of Engineers, and to purchase
buildings, piers, and capital equipment
from Lake County.
Subd. 25. Statewide Asset Preservation 2,000,000
To the commissioner of natural
resources to be spent for the purposes
set forth in Minnesota Statutes,
section 16A.632.
Subd. 26. Field Office Renovation and
Improvement 300,000
To design, acquire, renovate,
construct, furnish, and equip field
offices.
Sec. 8. POLLUTION CONTROL AGENCY 10,000,000
To the Pollution Control Agency to
design and construct remedial systems
and acquire land at landfills
throughout the state in accordance with
the closed landfill program under
Minnesota Statutes, section 115B.39.
Sec. 9. OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSISTANCE 4,000,000
To the Office of Environmental
Assistance for the solid waste capital
assistance grants program under
Minnesota Statutes, section 115A.54.
$2,000,000 is for a grant to the city
of Red Wing.
$2,000,000 is for a grant to Olmsted
County.
Sec. 10. BOARD OF WATER AND SOIL RESOURCES
Subdivision 1. To the Board
of Water and Soil Resources for the
purposes specified in this section 27,862,000
Subd. 2. RIM and CREP Conservation
Easements 23,000,000
This appropriation is to acquire
conservation easements from landowners
on marginal lands to protect soil and
water quality and to support fish and
wildlife habitat as provided in
Minnesota Statutes, section 103F.515.
$3,000,000 is to implement the program.
Subd. 3. Wetland Replacement
Due to Public Road Projects 4,362,000
To acquire land for wetlands or restore
wetlands to be used to replace wetlands
drained or filled as a result of the
repair, maintenance, or rehabilitation
of existing public roads as required by
Minnesota Statutes, section 103G.222,
subdivision 1, paragraphs (k) and (l).
The purchase price paid for acquisition
of land, fee, or perpetual easement
must be the fair market value as
determined by the board. The board may
enter into agreements with the federal
government, other state agencies,
political subdivisions, and nonprofit
organizations or fee owners to acquire
land and restore and create wetlands
and to acquire existing wetland banking
credits. Acquisition of or the
conveyance of land may be in the name
of the political subdivision.
Subd. 4. Area II Minnesota
River Basin Grant-in-Aid Program 500,000
For grants to assist local governments
in Area II of the Minnesota River Basin
to acquire, design, and construct
floodwater retention systems.
The grants are not available until the
board determines that $1 has been
committed to the project from nonstate
sources for every $3 of state grant.
Sec. 11. AGRICULTURE
Subdivision 1. To the Board of Regents
of the University of Minnesota for
the purposes specified in this section 3,919,000
Subd. 2. Agriculture Water Management
Research Partnership 619,000
To establish or expand agricultural
water management projects at the
Crookston, Morris, Lamberton, and
Waseca Research and Outreach Centers in
partnership with the Department of
Agriculture.
Subd. 3. Joint Plant Pathology
Research Facility 3,300,000
To design, construct, furnish, and
equip a level 3 plant pathogen
containment research facility on the
University of Minnesota St. Paul
Campus. This appropriation is not
available until the commissioner of
finance determines that at least
$1,600,000 in matching nonstate
contributions have been committed to
the project.
$100,000 is to complete the level 2
containment facility.
Sec. 12. MINNESOTA ZOOLOGICAL
GARDEN
Subdivision 1. To the Minnesota
Zoological Garden for the purposes
specified in this section 22,640,000
Subd. 2. Phase 1 of Master Plan 20,640,000
To design, construct, furnish, and
equip zoo facilities consistent with
the current Master Plan for the Gateway
to the North exhibit.
Subd. 3. Asset Preservation 2,000,000
For capital asset preservation
improvements and betterments, to be
spent in accordance with Minnesota
Statutes, section 16A.632.
Sec. 13. ADMINISTRATION
Subdivision 1. To the commissioner
of administration for the purposes
specified in this section 7,279,000
Subd. 2. Capital Asset Preservation and
Replacement Account (CAPRA) 3,000,000
To be spent in accordance with
Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.632.
Subd. 3. Asset Preservation 2,500,000
For asset preservation projects in
properties managed by the Department of
Administration, to be spent in
accordance with Minnesota Statutes,
section 16A.632.
Subd. 4. Parking 1,779,000
For renovation of the Central Park
Parking Ramp, located east and adjacent
to the Centennial Office Building in
St. Paul, to accommodate additional
parking stalls and for capital costs to
expand Capitol Parking Lot Q, located
at Cedar Street and Sherburne Avenue in
St. Paul, to accommodate additional
parking stalls.
The bond debt will be user financed
from parking fees collected and
deposited into the state parking
account under Minnesota Statutes,
section 16A.643.
Sec. 14. CAPITOL AREA ARCHITECTURAL
AND PLANNING BOARD
Subdivision 1. To the commissioner of
administration for the purposes specified
in this section 2,370,000
Subd. 2. Capitol Interior Renovation 1,200,000
To complete schematic design for the
phased renovation and restoration of
the Capitol's interior, including all
floors, ceremonial and public spaces,
office suites, and spaces currently
serving as hearing rooms. The design
may not include any building outside
the Capitol.
The appropriation in this subdivision
may not be spent on any project that
affects space under the control of the
senate without the approval of the
secretary of the senate nor on any
project that affects space under the
control of the house of representatives
without the approval of the chief clerk
of the house.
Subd. 3. Capitol Third Floor 1,170,000
To repair and restore the public
corridors, walls, and ceilings of the
third floor of the Capitol Building in
St. Paul. Restoration of the dome will
be addressed by private fundraising
efforts.
Sec. 15. MILITARY AFFAIRS 4,000,000
To the adjutant general to be spent for
the purposes set forth in Minnesota
Statutes, section 16A.632.
Sec. 16. VETERANS AFFAIRS 670,000
To the commissioner of administration
to complete construction of the World
War II veterans' memorial on the
Capitol mall. This is the final state
appropriation for the project and is
contingent on sufficient nonstate funds
being received and deposited into a
segregated account for perpetual
maintenance of the memorial.
Sec. 17. PUBLIC SAFETY 642,000
To the commissioner of public safety
for a grant to the city of Blue Earth
to acquire land for and to predesign,
design, construct, furnish, and equip a
fire and police station. This
appropriation is not available until
the commissioner of finance has
determined that at least an equal
amount has been committed to the
project from nonstate sources.
Sec. 18. TRANSPORTATION
Subdivision 1. To the
commissioner of transportation for
the purposes specified in this section 94,000,000
Subd. 2. Local Bridge Replacement
and Rehabilitation 40,000,000
This appropriation is from the bond
proceeds account in the state
transportation fund as provided in
Minnesota Statutes, section 174.50, to
match federal money and to replace or
rehabilitate local deficient bridges.
Political subdivisions may use grants
made under this section to construct or
reconstruct bridges, including:
(1) matching federal-aid grants to
construct or reconstruct key bridges;
(2) paying the costs of preliminary
engineering and environmental studies
authorized under Minnesota Statutes,
section 174.50, subdivision 6a;
(3) paying the costs to abandon an
existing bridge that is deficient and
in need of replacement, but where no
replacement will be made; and
(4) paying the costs to construct a
road or street to facilitate the
abandonment of an existing bridge
determined by the commissioner to be
deficient, if the commissioner
determines that construction of the
road or street is more cost efficient
than the replacement of the existing
bridge.
Subd. 3. Local Road Improvement Program 10,000,000
This appropriation is from the bond
proceeds account in the state
transportation fund as provided in
Minnesota Statutes, section 174.50.
$5,000,000 is for construction,
reconstruction, or reconditioning of
local roads with statewide or regional
significance under Minnesota Statutes,
section 174.52, subdivision 4.
$5,000,000 is for grants to counties to
assist in paying the costs of capital
improvement projects on county
state-aid highways that are intended
primarily to reduce traffic crashes,
deaths, injuries, and property damage,
under new Minnesota Statutes, section
174.52, subdivision 4a.
Subd. 4. Port Development Assistance 2,000,000
For grants under Minnesota Statutes,
sections 457A.01 to 457A.06. Any
improvements made with the proceeds of
these grants must be publicly owned.
Subd. 5. Northstar Commuter Rail 37,500,000
For final design and project management
of a commuter rail line serving Big
Lake to downtown Minneapolis; to
acquire land for stations, maintenance
facilities, and park and ride lots; and
for final design and project management
of an extension of the Hiawatha Light
Rail Transit Line from its terminus in
downtown Minneapolis to a new terminus
near Fifth Avenue North adjacent to the
proposed downtown Minneapolis commuter
rail station.
This appropriation is not available
until $37,500,000 has been committed by
local governments and approval to
proceed to final design has been
authorized by the Federal Transit
Administration.
Up to $10,000,000 of this appropriation
may be used for final design and
project management.
The final design must include an
examination of the feasibility of using
bio-diesel fuel in commuter rail
locomotives.
After a full-funding grant agreement
has been executed with the Federal
Transit Administration for the
Northstar Commuter Rail Project, the
remaining balance of this appropriation
not committed for final design and
project management or committed to
acquire land shall be available, after
notice to the commissioner of finance,
to construct, furnish, and equip the
Northstar Commuter Rail Line and to
construct, furnish, and equip the
extension of the light rail transit
line.
If the Northstar commuter rail line is
extended from Big Lake to the St. Cloud
area, regional rail authority members
of the Northstar Corridor Development
Authority who did not fund a portion of
the share of capital costs from
Minneapolis to Big Lake shall
contribute an amount for the extension
equal to the amount they would have
contributed for their proportional
share of the entire line from
Minneapolis to the St. Cloud area.
Subd. 6. Rail Service Improvement 2,500,000
For transfer to the rail service
improvement account under Minnesota
Statutes, section 222.49.
$1,000,000 is for a grant to the city
of New Brighton to construct a railroad
wye.
Subd. 7. Duluth Aerial
Lift Bridge 1,000,000
For a grant to the city of Duluth for
capital restoration of the aerial lift
bridge. This appropriation is
available when matched by $1 of money
secured or provided by the city of
Duluth for each $1 of state money.
Subd. 8. St. Paul - Holman Field
Flood Protection 1,000,000
For a grant to the Metropolitan
Airports Commission to construct a
permanent flood control perimeter dike
along the east and south edges of the
St. Paul Downtown Airport/Holman Field.
Sec. 19. METROPOLITAN COUNCIL
Subdivision 1. To the Metropolitan
Council for the purposes specified
in this section 30,914,000
Subd. 2. Cedar Avenue Bus
Rapid Transit (BRT) 10,000,000
For environmental studies, preliminary
engineering, bus lane improvements, and
transit station construction and
improvements for Cedar Avenue bus rapid
transit between the Mall of America in
Bloomington and the cities of Eagan,
Apple Valley, and Lakeville.
This appropriation may not be spent for
capital improvements within a trunk
highway right-of-way.
Subd. 3. Central Corridor Transit Way 5,250,000
For design, final environmental impact
statement, and preliminary engineering
of the Central Corridor Transit Way
between St. Paul and Minneapolis.
This appropriation may not be spent for
capital improvements within a trunk
highway right-of-way.
Subd. 4. Red Rock
Corridor Transit Way 500,000
For preliminary engineering and
environmental review of the Red Rock
corridor transit way from Hastings
through St. Paul to Minneapolis.
This appropriation may not be spent for
capital improvements within a trunk
highway right-of-way.
Subd. 5. Rush Line
Corridor Bus Way 500,000
To match federal money for right-of-way
acquisition and engineering for the
Rush Line Corridor Bus Way between St.
Paul and Hinckley and for related
construction of park-and-pool and
park-and-ride facilities for the bus
way.
This appropriation may not be spent for
capital improvements within a trunk
highway right-of-way.
Subd. 6. Metropolitan Regional
Parks Capital Improvements 14,664,000
This appropriation must be used to pay
the cost of improvements and
betterments of a capital nature and
acquisition by the council and local
government units of regional
recreational open-space lands in
accordance with the council's policy
plan as provided in Minnesota Statutes,
section 473.147. Priority should be
given to park rehabilitation and land
acquisition projects.
For purposes of Minnesota Statutes,
section 473.351, Columbia Parkway,
Ridgeway Parkway, and Stinson Boulevard
are considered to be part of the
metropolitan regional recreation open
space system.
$100,000 is for a grant to Ramsey and
Washington Counties, or either of them
as jointly agreed, to prepare
engineering design documents for the
development of a trail adjacent to
marked Trunk Highway 120 from its
intersection with Joy Road to its
intersection with 20th Street in the
city of North St. Paul, adjacent to
marked Trunk Highway 96 from its
intersection with marked Trunk Highway
61 to its intersection with marked
Trunk Highway 244, and adjacent to
marked Trunk Highway 244 from its
intersection with marked Trunk Highway
96 to and including its intersection
with Washington County Road 12. The
design must be consistent with the
recommendations of the Lake Links Trail
Network Master Plan prepared for Ramsey
and Washington Counties.
$388,000 is for a grant to the city of
St. Paul for park and trail
improvements in the Desnoyer Park area,
above the Meeker Island lock historic
site.
$4,676,000 is for a grant to the city
of St. Paul to design and construct
river's edge improvements at Raspberry
Island and Upper Landing and develop a
public park on Raspberry Island. Of
this amount, $676,000 is the local
match for an Upper Landing federal
TEA-21 grant.
$2,500,000 is for a grant to the city
of South St. Paul for the closure,
capping, and remediation of
approximately 80 acres of the Port
Crosby construction and demolition
debris landfill in South St. Paul, as
the fourth phase of converting the land
into parkland, and to restore
approximately 80 acres of riverfront
land along the Mississippi River.
Sec. 20. HUMAN SERVICES
Subdivision 1. To the commissioner of
administration or another named agency
for the purposes specified
in this section 26,073,000
Subd. 2. State-Operated Services
Forensics Programs 3,259,000
To design new facilities to be
constructed on the campus of the St.
Peter Regional Treatment Center for
individuals committed as sexual
psychopathic personalities, sexually
dangerous persons, mentally ill, or
mentally ill and dangerous.
Subd. 3. Systemwide Redevelopment, Reuse,
or Demolition 17,600,000
To demolish or improve surplus,
nonfunctional, or deteriorated
facilities and infrastructure at
Department of Human Services campuses
statewide.
(a) Up to $8,600,000 may be used to
predesign, design, construct, furnish,
and equip renovation of existing space
or construction of new space for
skilled nursing home capacity for
forensic treatment programs operated by
state-operated services on the campus
of St. Peter Regional Treatment Center.
(b) $4,000,000 may be used to prepare
and develop a site, including
demolition of buildings and
infrastructure, to implement the
redevelopment and reuse of the
Ah-Gwah-Ching Regional Treatment Center
campus. If the property is sold or
transferred to a local unit of
government, the unspent portion of this
appropriation may be granted to the
local unit of government that acquires
the campus for the purposes stated in
this subdivision.
(c) $1,000,000 may be used to renovate
one or more buildings for chemical
dependency treatment specializing in
methamphetamine addiction, and demolish
buildings, on the Willmar Regional
Treatment Center campus. If the
property is sold or transferred to a
local unit of government, the unspent
portion of this appropriation may be
granted to the local unit of government
that acquires the campus for the
purposes stated in this subdivision.
(d) Up to $2,210,000 may be spent by
the commissioner of finance to retire
municipal bonds issued by the city of
Fergus Falls and to retire interfund
loans incurred by the city of Fergus
Falls in connection with the waste
incinerator and steam heating facility
at the Fergus Falls Regional Treatment
Center.
(e) Up to $400,000 may be used for a
grant to the city of Fergus Falls to
demolish the city's waste-to-energy
incineration plant located on the
grounds of the Fergus Falls Regional
Treatment Center.
(f) The provisions, terms, and
conditions of any grant made by the
director of the Office of Environmental
Assistance under Minnesota Statutes,
chapter 115A, to the city of Fergus
Falls for the waste incinerator steam
heating facility that supports the
Fergus Falls Regional Treatment Center
and that may come into effect as a
result of the incinerator and facility
being closed, are hereby waived.
Subd. 4. Willmar Regional Treatment
Center Retrofit 900,000
To demolish buildings, predesign,
design, renovate, construct, furnish,
and equip buildings at the Willmar
Regional Treatment Center for reuse,
and renovate campus support buildings
and campus infrastructure, including
tunnels. These projects are to develop
the Willmar Regional Treatment Center
campus for health care, mental health
care, chemical dependency treatment,
housing, and other public purposes and
must be implemented consistent with the
recommendations in the final Willmar
Regional Treatment Center Master Plan
and Reuse Study prepared and approved
under Laws 2003, First Special Session
chapter 14, article 6, section 64,
subdivision 2, unless expressly
provided otherwise. If the Willmar
Regional Treatment Center property is
sold or transferred to a local unit of
government, the unspent portion of this
appropriation may be granted to the
local unit of government that acquires
the campus for the purposes stated in
this subdivision.
Subd. 5. Systemwide Roof
Renovation and Replacement 1,014,000
For renovation and replacement of roofs
at Department of Human Services
facilities statewide.
Subd. 6. Systemwide Asset
Preservation 3,000,000
For asset preservation improvements and
betterments of a capital nature at
state regional treatment centers, to be
spent in accordance with Minnesota
Statutes, section 16A.632.
A portion of this appropriation may be
used to acquire a residential property
located adjacent to the St. Peter
Regional Treatment Center.
Subd. 7. Grave Markers at
Regional Treatment Centers 300,000
To purchase and place grave markers or
memorial monuments that include the
available names of individuals at
cemeteries located at regional
treatment centers operated or formerly
operated by the commissioner of human
services. Individual monuments must
not be placed if the family of the
deceased resident objects to the
placement of the monument.
Sec. 21. VETERANS HOMES BOARD
Subdivision 1. To the commissioner
of administration for the purposes
specified in this section 5,437,000
Subd. 2. Asset Preservation 4,000,000
For asset preservation improvements and
betterments of a capital nature at
veterans homes statewide to be spent in
accordance with Minnesota Statutes,
section 16A.632.
Up to $2,200,000 of federal money
received by the Minnesota Veterans
Homes Board of Directors as
reimbursement for state capital
expenditures at the veterans homes must
be credited to the general fund and is
appropriated to the commissioner of
administration for asset preservation
at the homes in accordance with
Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.632.
Subd. 3. Luverne
Veterans Home 306,000
For the state's portion of the cost to
design, construct, furnish, and equip
an addition to the nursing care
facility, to be used as an
Alzheimer's/dementia wander area.
Subd. 4. Minneapolis
Veterans Home 1,031,000
For the state's portion of the cost to
remodel Building 4 to provide adult day
care services in the surrounding
communities.
Subd. 5. Willmar
Veterans Home Predesign 100,000
To predesign a veterans nursing home on
the Willmar Regional Treatment Center
campus, including a 60-bed skilled
nursing facility in the medical
treatment center annex building
(building 24) and possibly new
construction for a veterans geriatric
behavioral program.
Sec. 22. CORRECTIONS
Subdivision 1. To the commissioner of
administration for the purposes specified
in this section 98,694,000
Subd. 2. Minnesota Correctional
Facility - Faribault, Phase 1 84,844,000
To design, construct, furnish, and
equip an expansion at the Minnesota
Correctional Facility - Faribault, to
include, but not be limited to, three
new 416-bed, double-bunked wet cell
lockable living units, a new kitchen
and dining area, an expanded health
services area, additional programming
space, an upgrade to the existing
heating plant, and demolition of
several buildings and a utility tunnel.
Subd. 3. Minnesota Correctional
Facility - Stillwater, Phase 1 3,500,000
To demolish the former health services
building, renovate, and equip the
discipline and psychology/psychiatry
units, and design through construction
documents a new 150-bed segregation
unit.
Subd. 4. Minnesota Correctional
Facility - Willow River
(a) Activities Building 2,000,000
To demolish the Willow River Activities
Building and design, construct,
furnish, and equip a replacement for it.
(b) Space for Additional Beds 350,000
To purchase or to construct, furnish,
equip, and prepare foundation and
utilities for a new prefabricated or
conventionally built building to
accommodate up to 100 additional beds.
The commissioner may use this
appropriation and any other state or
federal money that may be available for
this expansion.
Subd. 5. Asset Preservation 8,000,000
For improvements and betterments of a
capital nature at Minnesota
correctional facilities statewide, in
accordance with Minnesota Statutes,
section 16A.632.
Sec. 23. EMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Subdivision 1. To the commissioner of
employment and economic development or other
named agency for the purposes
specified in this section 167,199,000
Subd. 2. State Match for
Federal Grants 14,380,000
(a) To the Public Facilities Authority:
(1) to match federal grants to the
water pollution control revolving fund
under Minnesota Statutes, section
446A.07; and
(2) to match federal grants to the
drinking water revolving fund under
Minnesota Statutes, section 446A.081.
(b) The expenditure and allocation of
state matching money between funds
described in paragraph (a), clauses (1)
and (2), must be based on the amount of
federal money appropriated to the funds.
(c) This appropriation must be used for
qualified capital projects.
Subd. 3. Wastewater Infrastructure
Funding Program 29,900,000
(a) To the Public Facilities Authority
for the purposes specified in this
subdivision. $29,300,000 of this
appropriation is for grants and loans
to eligible municipalities under the
wastewater infrastructure program
established in Minnesota Statutes,
section 446A.072.
To the greatest practical extent, the
authority must use the appropriation
for projects on the 2005 project
priority list in priority order to
qualified applicants that submit plans
and specifications to the Pollution
Control Agency or receive a funding
commitment from USDA Rural Economic and
Community Development before December
1, 2006.
$600,000 of this appropriation is to
implement the wastewater infrastructure
program.
(b) The grants listed in this paragraph
are not subject to the 2005 project
priority list nor to the limitations on
grant amounts set forth in Minnesota
Statutes, section 446A.072, subdivision
5a.
$1,500,000 is for a grant to the city
of Aurora to reconstruct its wastewater
treatment plant, damaged in an
explosion May 5, 2004.
$1,700,000 is for a grant to the
Central Iron Range Sanitary Sewer
District Authority to predesign and
design the necessary facilities to
collect, treat, and dispose of sewage
in the district, including a
pump-storage facility and a wind-energy
facility.
Up to $5,000,000 may be used as grants
to the cities of Dunnell, Dumont,
Henriette, Lewisville, McGrath, and
Ostrander to undertake corrective
action on systems built since 2001 with
federal money from USDA Rural Economic
and Community Development. A grant
must not exceed the amount of federal
money used in the construction of
systems that incorporated sand filter
treatment, fixed activated sludge
treatment, or mechanical package plant
treatment technologies.
$4,950,000 is for a grant to the city
of Duluth for design and construction
of sanitary sewer overflow storage
facilities at selected locations in the
city of Duluth. This appropriation is
available when matched by $1 of money
secured or provided by the city of
Duluth for each $1 of state money.
$1,700,000 is for a grant to the city
of Eagle Bend to predesign, design,
construct, furnish, and equip a
wastewater collection and treatment
system.
$1,500,000 is for a grant to the city
of Two Harbors to retire loans, whether
interfund or otherwise, incurred to
acquire land for, design, construct,
furnish, and equip a 2,500,000 gallon
equalization basin and a
chlorine-contact tank of at least
100,000 gallon capacity, adjacent to
the city's wastewater treatment plant.
The equalization basin is required
under the city's National Pollution
Discharge Elimination System permit.
This appropriation is not available
until the commissioner of finance
determines that $325,000 has been
committed to the project from nonstate
sources.
$1,550,000 for a grant to the city of
Bayport for the Middle St. Croix River
Watershed Management Organization to
complete the sewer system extending
from Minnesota Department of Natural
Resources pond 82-310P (the prison
pond) in Bayport through the Stillwater
prison grounds to the St. Croix River.
$2,000,000 is to the commissioner of
employment and economic development for
a grant to the city of New Brighton to
relocate a sanitary sewer interceptor
in the Northwest Quadrant to allow for
redevelopment of that area.
Subd. 4. Total Maximum
Daily Load Grants 2,000,000
To the Public Facilities Authority for
total maximum daily load grants under
new Minnesota Statutes, section
446A.073.
Subd. 5. Austin Flood Relief 2,000,000
For grants to local units of government
to assist with the cost of
rehabilitation and replacement of
publicly owned infrastructure,
including storm sewers, wastewater and
municipal utility service, drinking
water systems, and other infrastructure
damaged by flooding in the area
designated under Presidential
Declaration of Major Disaster, DR-1569,
whether included in the original
declaration or added later by federal
government action.
This appropriation may also be used to
acquire real property substantially
damaged by flooding in the area
included in DR-1569.
For the purposes of this appropriation,
criteria, limitations, and repayment
requirements in Minnesota Statutes,
sections 446A.07, 446A.072, and
446A.081, are waived.
Of this amount, $800,000 is for a grant
to the city of Austin for public
improvements in or near the city,
$600,000 is for a grant to the city of
Albert Lea for public improvements in
or near the city, $400,000 is for a
grant to Freeborn County for public
improvements in the Turtle Creek
Watershed, and $200,000 is for a grant
to the city of Blooming Prairie.
Subd. 6. Burnsville -
Water Treatment Facility 3,000,000
To the Public Facilities Authority for
a grant to the city of Burnsville to
design, construct, furnish, and equip a
water treatment facility that will
provide an additional potable water
source for the city of Burnsville using
water from the Burnsville quarry. This
appropriation is not available until
the commissioner of finance has
determined that at least $6,000,000 is
available in matching money from
nonstate sources. The first $6,000,000
from nonstate sources must be split
equally between the city of Burnsville
and the owner of the quarry. Amounts
spent since January 1, 2002, to plan,
design, and construct this project may
be counted as part of the nonstate
match.
Subd. 7. Crookston and Red Lake
Falls - Riverbank Protection 2,500,000
$1,900,000 is for the Public Facilities
Authority to make a grant to the city
of Crookston to acquire property for
and to predesign, design, and construct
emergency riverbank protection and
erosion control measures along the Red
Lake River in the vicinity of U.S. 2.
For the purposes of this appropriation,
the criteria, limitations, and
repayment requirements in Minnesota
Statutes, sections 446A.07, 446A.072,
and 446A.081, are waived.
$600,000 is for the Public Facilities
Authority to make a grant to the city
of Red Lake Falls to acquire property
for and to predesign, design, and
construct emergency riverbank
protection and erosion control measures
along the Red Lake River. For the
purposes of this appropriation, the
criteria, limitations, and repayment
requirements in Minnesota Statutes,
sections 446A.07, 446A.072, and
446A.081, are waived.
Subd. 8. Lewis and Clark
Rural Water System, Inc. 2,000,000
To the Public Facilities Authority for
grants to the city of Luverne, city of
Worthington Public Utilities,
Lincoln-Pipestone rural water system,
and Rock County rural water system to
acquire land, predesign, design,
construct, furnish, and equip one or
more water transmission and storage
facilities to accommodate the
connection with the Lewis and Clark
Rural Water System, Inc. that will
serve southwestern Minnesota.
The grants must be awarded to projects
approved by the Lewis and Clark Joint
Powers Board.
This appropriation is available only to
the extent matched by at least $1 of
local money paid to the Lewis and Clark
Rural Water System, Inc. for each $1 of
state money to be used to reimburse
costs incurred on eligible projects.
This appropriation is the first phase
of the state share for the Lewis and
Clark Rural Water System, Inc. project
as defined in the federal Lewis and
Clark Rural Water System Act of 2000.
Subd. 9. Roseau Infrastructure Repair and
Municipal Complex Relocation 13,220,000
(a)(1) $4,941,000 to the public
facilities authority for a grant to the
city of Roseau to assist with the cost
of rehabilitation and replacement of
publicly owned infrastructure,
including storm sewers, wastewater and
municipal utility service, drinking
water systems, and other infrastructure
damaged by flooding in the area
included in DR-1419. For the purposes
of this appropriation, criteria,
limitations, and repayment requirements
in Minnesota Statutes, sections
446A.07, 446A.072, and 446A.081, are
waived.
(2) $8,279,000 is for a grant to the
city of Roseau to design, construct,
furnish, and equip a new city hall,
auditorium, library, museum, and police
department located out of the Roseau
River floodway.
(b) Capital costs for the projects in
paragraph (a) incurred after the
effective date of this act are eligible
for reimbursement from the grants
authorized in paragraph (a), provided
that the city of Roseau has given the
commissioner of finance the information
that the commissioner requests to meet
federal tax law requirements.
Subd. 10. Greater Minnesota Business
Development Infrastructure Grant Program 10,000,000
For grants under Minnesota Statutes,
section 116J.431.
Subd. 11. Redevelopment
Account 15,000,000
For purposes of the redevelopment
account created in Minnesota Statutes,
section 116J.571.
$5,000,000 is for a grant to the city
of Mounds View for public improvements
for a commercial and industrial
redevelopment project. This grant is
exempt from the requirements of
Minnesota Statutes, sections 116J.572
to 116J.575.
$1,000,000 is for a grant to the city
of Willmar to pay part of the cost of
acquiring land for the city airport and
to construct, furnish, and equip
hangars and a precision lighting system
at the airport.
$600,000 is for a grant to the city of
Rushford to acquire real property for,
and to design, construct, and renovate,
furnish, and equip a facility for the
Institute of Nanotechnology.
Subd. 12. Bioscience Development 18,500,000
For grants to political subdivisions to
predesign, design, construct, furnish,
and equip publicly owned infrastructure
required to support bioscience
development in this state.
$2,500,000 is for a grant to the city
of Worthington.
Subd. 13. Buffalo Lake -
Maintenance Garage and Street Repair 690,000
For a grant to the city of Buffalo Lake
to design, construct, furnish, and
equip a municipal maintenance garage
and reconstruct city streets damaged by
a tornado.
Subd. 14. Detroit Lakes -
Regional Historical Pavilion and Band Shell 283,000
For a grant to the city of Detroit
Lakes to renovate the Detroit Lakes
Historical Regional Pavilion and Band
Shell. This appropriation is not
available until the commissioner has
determined that at least an equal
amount has been committed from nonstate
sources.
Subd. 15. Laurentian Energy Authority -
Wood Yard 2,000,000
For a grant to the Laurentian Energy
Authority, established under a joint
powers agreement between the cities of
Hibbing and Virginia, to construct a
wood yard for processing and prepping
agricultural biomass and forest-derived
biomass wood waste for biomass energy
facilities.
Subd. 16. Minneapolis
(a) Minnesota Planetarium 22,000,000
For a grant to the city of Minneapolis
to complete design and to construct,
furnish, and equip a new Minnesota
planetarium and space discovery center
in conjunction with the Minneapolis
downtown library.
(b) Heritage Park
Any unspent balance remaining on
December 31, 2004, in the appropriation
made by Laws 2000, chapter 492, article
1, section 22, subdivision 10, for a
grant to the city of Minneapolis, may
be used by the city for improvements to
the Heritage Park project.
(c) Minnesota Shubert Center 1,000,000
For a grant to the city of Minneapolis
to predesign and design and provide for
related capital costs for an associated
atrium to create the Minnesota Shubert
Center.
Subd. 17. Moorhead -
Heritage Hjemkomst Center 1,000,000
For a grant to the city of Moorhead for
asset preservation at the Heritage
Hjemkomst Center. The appropriation
must be used to predesign, design, and
construct replacement of the fabric
roof, replacement of the structural
support system for the hull of the
Viking ship Hjemkomst, and to install
security measures at the replica Stave
Kirke. This appropriation is not
available until the commissioner has
determined that at least an equal
amount has been committed from nonstate
sources.
Subd. 18. Orono - Big Island 2,000,000
For a grant to the city of Orono to
acquire the Big Island Veterans Camp in
Lake Minnetonka. Minnesota Statutes,
section 197.133, applies to this
appropriation.
The appropriation is not available
until the commissioner of finance
determines that an amount sufficient to
complete the purchase has been
committed to the project from nonstate
sources. The purchase may be completed
without waiting for other interested
governmental agencies to come forward.
Subd. 19. Rochester -
University of Minnesota/
Mayo Clinic Biotechnology Research Facility 21,726,000
To the Board of Regents of the
University of Minnesota to purchase
floors in the Stabile Building on the
Mayo Clinic Campus in Rochester. The
floors are to be used to accommodate
both basic science and clinical
researchers, along with research
infrastructure, that will be used to
support collaborative research efforts
between the University of Minnesota and
the Mayo Clinic. The floors will be
owned by the University of Minnesota
and operated by the Mayo Clinic through
a use agreement approved by the
commissioner of finance, subject to
Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.695.
Subd. 20. St. Paul - Phalen Corridor 4,000,000
For a grant to the city of St. Paul to
acquire land for right-of-way and to
complete contamination remediation and
construct Phalen Boulevard between
Interstate Highway I-35E and Johnson
Parkway.
Sec. 24. HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY
Subdivision 1. To the commissioner of
the Housing Finance Agency for the purposes
specified in this section 12,350,000
Subd. 2. Housing the Homeless 12,000,000
To the commissioner of the Housing
Finance Agency for loans and grants for
publicly owned permanent rental housing
under Minnesota Statutes, section
462A.202, subdivision 3a, for persons
who have been without a permanent
residence for at least 12 months or on
at least four occasions in the last
three years or are at significant risk
of lacking a permanent residence for at
least 12 months or on at least four
occasions in the last three years. The
housing must provide or coordinate with
linkages to services necessary for
residents to maintain housing stability
and maximize opportunities for
education and employment.
Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes,
section 462A.202, subdivision 3a, the
commissioner shall give equal
consideration to proposals for projects
serving individuals and those serving
families with children. Preference
among comparable proposals shall be
given to proposals for the acquisition
and rehabilitation of property.
Subd. 3. Supportive Housing 350,000
For a grant to the Hennepin County
Housing and Redevelopment Authority to
design 64 units of affordable, stable,
and supportive housing, including some
units targeted at those experiencing
long-term homelessness. The units must
be owned by the grantee and may be
located above a nonprofit social
service provider's site, and may be
operated by the social service
provider, subject to Minnesota
Statutes, section 16A.695.
Sec. 25. MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Subdivision 1. To the Minnesota
Historical Society for the purposes
specified in this section 6,000,000
Subd. 2. Historic Sites Asset
Preservation 4,000,000
For capital improvements and
betterments at state historic sites,
buildings, landscaping at historic
buildings, exhibits, markers, and
monuments, to be spent for the purposes
set forth in Minnesota Statutes,
section 16A.632. The society shall
determine project priorities as
appropriate based on need.
Subd. 3. County and Local Preservation Grants 1,000,000
To be allocated to county and local
jurisdictions as matching money for
historic preservation projects of a
capital nature. Grant recipients must
be public entities and must match state
funds on at least an equal basis. The
facilities must be publicly owned.
Subd. 4. Fort Snelling Historic Site 1,000,000
To design, construct, furnish, and
equip the most urgent preservation
projects needed for historic Fort
Snelling.
Sec. 26. BOND SALE EXPENSES 884,000
To the commissioner of finance for bond
sale expenses under Minnesota Statutes,
section 16A.641, subdivision 8.
Sec. 27. BOND SALE SCHEDULE
The commissioner of finance shall
schedule the sale of state general
obligation bonds so that, during the
biennium ending June 30, 2007, no more
than $780,536,000 will need to be
transferred from the general fund to
the state bond fund to pay principal
and interest due and to become due on
outstanding state general obligation
bonds. During the biennium, before
each sale of state general obligation
bonds, the commissioner of finance
shall calculate the amount of debt
service payments needed on bonds
previously issued and shall estimate
the amount of debt service payments
that will be needed on the bonds
scheduled to be sold. The commissioner
shall adjust the amount of bonds
scheduled to be sold so as to remain
within the limit set by this section.
The amount needed to make the debt
service payments is appropriated from
the general fund as provided in
Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.641.
Sec. 28. [BOND SALE AUTHORIZATION.]
Subdivision 1. [BOND PROCEEDS FUND.] To provide the money
appropriated in this act from the bond proceeds fund, the
commissioner of finance shall sell and issue bonds of the state
in an amount up to $876,980,000 in the manner, upon the terms,
and with the effect prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections
16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota Constitution, article
XI, sections 4 to 7.
Subd. 2. [MAXIMUM EFFORT SCHOOL LOAN FUND.] To provide the
money appropriated in this act from the maximum effort school
loan fund, the commissioner of finance shall sell and issue
bonds of the state in an amount up to $18,000,000 in the manner,
upon the terms, and with the effect prescribed by Minnesota
Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota
Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7. The proceeds of the
bonds, except accrued interest and any premium received on the
sale of the bonds, must be credited to a bond proceeds account
in the maximum effort school loan fund.
Subd. 3. [TRANSPORTATION FUND BOND PROCEEDS ACCOUNT.] To
provide the money appropriated in this act from the state
transportation fund, the commissioner of finance shall sell and
issue bonds of the state in an amount up to $50,000,000 in the
manner, upon the terms, and with the effect prescribed by
Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the
Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7. The
proceeds of the bonds, except accrued interest and any premium
received on the sale of the bonds, must be credited to a bond
proceeds account in the state transportation fund.
Sec. 29. [16A.502] [NONSTATE COMMITMENTS TO CAPITAL
PROJECTS.]
If a state appropriation or grant for a capital project or
project phase is not sufficient, by itself, to complete the
project or project phase, and thus requires a commitment from
other sources:
(1) the commitment, including any required match, must be
in an amount that, when added to the appropriation or grant, is
sufficient to complete the project or project phase; and
(2) the appropriation or grant is not available until the
commissioner has determined that the commitment is sufficient.
In making the determination, the commissioner must apply
generally accepted governmental accounting standards and
principles, including those that are particularly applicable to
capital projects.
Sec. 30. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 16A.671,
subdivision 3, is amended to read:
Subd. 3. [DEFINITIONS.] As used in this section, the terms
defined in this subdivision have the meanings given them:
(a) "General fund" means all cash and investments from time
to time received and held in the treasury, except proceeds of
state bonds and amounts received and held in special or
dedicated funds created by the Constitution, or by or pursuant
to federal laws or regulations, or by bond or trust instruments,
pension contracts, or other agreements of the state or its
agencies with private persons, entered into under state law.
(b) "Maximum current cash flow requirement" means the
commissioner's written estimate of the largest of the amounts by
which, on a particular designated date in each month of the term
for which certificates are to be issued, the sum of (1) the
warrants then outstanding against the general fund plus (2)
those that must be drawn on the fund before the same date in the
following month, in payment of claims due for expenditure under
all appropriations and allotments, will exceed the amount of
cash or cash equivalent assets held in the general fund on the
first of these dates an amount equal to five percent of the
actual working capital expenditures from the general fund in the
preceding fiscal year, will exceed the amount of cash or cash
equivalent assets held in the general fund, excluding the
proceeds of the certificates to be issued.
Sec. 31. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 85.019,
subdivision 2, is amended to read:
Subd. 2. [PARKS AND OUTDOOR RECREATION AREAS.] The
commissioner shall administer a program to provide grants to
units of government for up to 50 percent of the costs of
acquisition and betterment of public land and improvements
needed for parks and other outdoor recreation areas and
facilities, including costs to create veterans memorial gardens
and parks.
Sec. 32. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 116.182,
subdivision 2, is amended to read:
Subd. 2. [APPLICABILITY.] This section governs the
commissioner's certification of projects seeking financial
assistance under section 103F.725, subdivision 1a,; 446A.07, or;
446A.072; or 446A.073.
Sec. 33. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 116J.575,
subdivision 1, is amended to read:
Subdivision 1. [COMMISSIONER DISCRETION.] The commissioner
may make a grant for up to 50 percent of the eligible costs of a
project. The determination of whether to make a grant for a
site is within the discretion of the commissioner, subject to
this section and sections 116J.571 to 116J.574 and available
unencumbered money in the greater Minnesota redevelopment
account. Notwithstanding section 116J.573, if the commissioner
determines that the applications for grants for projects in
greater Minnesota are less than the amount of grant funds
available, the commissioner may make grants for projects
anywhere in Minnesota. The commissioner's decisions and
application of the priorities under this section are not subject
to judicial review, except for abuse of discretion.
Sec. 34. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 134.45, is
amended to read:
134.45 [LIBRARY ACCESSIBILITY AND IMPROVEMENT GRANTS.]
Subdivision 1. [APPLICATION; DEFINITION.] Public library
jurisdictions may apply to the commissioner of education for
grants to improve for improvements and accessibility to their
library facilities. For the purposes of this section, "public
library jurisdictions" means regional public library systems,
regional library districts, cities, and counties operating
libraries under chapter 134.
Subd. 2. [APPROVAL BY COMMISSIONER.] The commissioner of
education, in consultation with the state Council on Disability,
may approve or disapprove applications under this section. The
grant money must be used only to remove architectural barriers
from a building or site, to renovate or expand an existing
building for use as a library, or to construct a new library
building.
Subd. 3. [APPLICATION FORMS.] The commissioner of
education shall prepare application forms and establish
application dates.
Subd. 4. [MATCH.] A public library jurisdiction applying
for a grant under this section must match the grant with local
funds.
Subd. 5. [QUALIFICATION; ACCESSIBILITY GRANTS.] A public
library jurisdiction may apply for a grant in an amount up to
$150,000 $200,000 or 50 percent of the approved costs of
removing architectural barriers from a building or site,
whichever is less. Grants may be made only for projects in
existing buildings used as a library, or to prepare another
existing building for use as a library. Renovation of an
existing building may include an addition to the building if the
additional space is necessary to provide accessibility or if
relocating public spaces to the ground level provides improved
overall accessibility. Grants must not be used to pay part of
the cost of meeting accessibility requirements in a new building.
Subd. 5a. [PROHIBITION ON PORNOGRAPHIC USE OF INTERNET.] A
public library jurisdiction is not eligible for a grant under
this section unless it has adopted a policy to prohibit library
users from using the library's Internet access to view, print,
or distribute material that is obscene within the meaning of
section 617.241.
Subd. 5b. [QUALIFICATION; IMPROVEMENT GRANTS.] A public
library jurisdiction may apply for a grant in an amount up to
$1,000,000 or 50 percent, whichever is less, of the approved
costs of renovating or expanding an existing library building,
or to construct a new library building.
Subd. 6. [AWARD OF GRANTS.] The commissioner, in
consultation with the state Council on Disability, shall examine
and consider all applications for grants. If a public library
jurisdiction is found not qualified, the commissioner shall
promptly notify it. The commissioner shall prioritize grants on
the following bases: the degree of collaboration with other
public or private agencies, the public library jurisdiction's
tax burden, the long-term feasibility of the project, the
suitability of the project, and the need for the project. If
the total amount of the applications exceeds the amount that is
or can be made available, the commissioner shall award grants
according to the commissioner's judgment and discretion and
based upon a ranking of the projects according to the factors
listed in this subdivision. The commissioner shall promptly
certify to each public library jurisdiction the amount, if any,
of the grant awarded to it.
Subd. 7. [PROJECT BUDGET.] A public library jurisdiction
that receives a grant must provide the commissioner with the
project budget and any other information the commissioner
requests.
Sec. 35. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 136F.60, is
amended by adding a subdivision to read:
Subd. 5. [DISPOSITION OF SURPLUS PROPERTY.] (a) The board
may declare state lands under its control that are no longer
needed by the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system
to be surplus and may offer them for public sale in a manner
consistent with the procedures set forth in sections 16B.282 to
16B.286 for disposition of state lands by the commissioner of
administration. The parcels must not be exchanged or
transferred for no or nominal consideration.
(b) Proceeds from the sale or disposition of land under
this subdivision, after paying all expenses incurred in selling
or disposing of the land and then paying any amounts due under
section 16A.695, are appropriated to the board for use for
capital projects at the institution that was responsible for
management of the land.
Sec. 36. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 174.52, is
amended by adding a subdivision to read:
Subd. 4a. [RURAL ROAD SAFETY ACCOUNT; APPROPRIATION.] (a)
A rural road safety account is established in the local road
improvement fund. Money in the account is annually appropriated
to the commissioner of transportation for expenditure as
specified in this subdivision. Money in the account must be
used as grants to counties to assist in paying the costs of
capital improvement projects on county state-aid highways that
are intended primarily to reduce traffic crashes, deaths,
injuries, and property damage.
(b) The commissioner shall establish procedures for
counties to apply for grants from the rural road safety account
and criteria to be used to select projects for funding. The
commissioner shall establish these procedures and criteria in
consultation with representatives appointed by the Association
of Minnesota Counties. Eligibility for project selection must
be based on the ability of each proposed project to reduce the
frequency and severity of crashes.
(c) Money in the account must be allocated in each fiscal
year as follows:
(1) one-third of money in the account must be used for
projects in the counties of Anoka, Chisago, Carver, Dakota,
Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, and Washington; and
(2) the remainder must be used for projects elsewhere in
the state.
Sec. 37. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 245.036, is
amended to read:
245.036 [LEASES FOR STATE-OPERATED, COMMUNITY-BASED
PROGRAMS.]
(a) Notwithstanding section 16B.24, subdivision 6,
paragraph (a), or any other law to the contrary, the
commissioner of administration may lease land or other premises
to provide state-operated, community-based programs authorized
by sections 252.50, 253.018, and 253.28 for a term of 20 years
or less, with a ten-year or less option to renew, subject to
cancellation upon 30 days' notice by the state for any reason,
except rental of other land or premises for the same use.
(b) The commissioner of administration may also lease land
or premises from political subdivisions of the state to provide
state-operated, community-based programs authorized by sections
252.50, 253.018, and 253.28 for no more than 30 a term of 20
years or less, with a ten-year or less option to renew. A lease
under this paragraph may be canceled only due to the lack of a
legislative appropriation for the program.
Sec. 38. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 446A.04,
subdivision 5, is amended to read:
Subd. 5. [FEES.] (a) The authority may set and collect
fees for costs incurred by the authority for audits, arbitrage
accounting, and payment of fees charged by the State Board of
Investment. The authority may also set and collect fees for
costs incurred by the commissioner, the Department of Health,
the Pollution Control Agency, and the Department of
Transportation, including costs for personnel and administrative
services, for financings and the establishment and maintenance
of reserve funds. Fees charged directly to borrowers or
grantees upon executing a loan or grant agreement must not
exceed one-half of one percent of the loan or grant amount.
Servicing fees assessed to loan repayments must not exceed two
percent of the loan repayment. The disposition of fees
collected for costs incurred by the authority is governed by
section 446A.11, subdivision 13. The authority shall enter into
interagency agreements to transfer funds into appropriate
administrative accounts established for fees collected under
this subdivision for costs incurred by the commissioner, the
Department of Health, or the Pollution Control Agency. Fees
collected under this subdivision for costs incurred by the
commissioner of transportation must be credited to the fund or
account which is the source of the loan to which the fees are
related.
(b) The authority shall annually report to the chairs of
the finance and appropriations committees of the legislature on:
(1) the amount of fees collected under this subdivision for
costs incurred by the authority;
(2) the purposes for which the fee proceeds have been
spent; and
(3) the amount of any remaining balance of fee proceeds.
Sec. 39. [446A.073] [TOTAL MAXIMUM DAILY LOAD GRANTS.]
Subdivision 1. [PROGRAM ESTABLISHED.] The authority must
make grants to municipalities to cover up to one-half the cost
of wastewater treatment projects made necessary by wasteload
reductions under total maximum daily load plans required by
section 303(d) of the federal Clean Water Act, United States
Code, title 33, section 1313(d).
Subd. 2. [GRANT APPLICATION.] Application for a grant must
be made to the authority on forms prescribed by the authority
for the total maximum daily load grant program, with additional
information as required by the authority. In accordance with
section 116.182, the Pollution Control Agency shall:
(1) calculate the essential project component percentage,
which must be multiplied by the total project cost to determine
the eligible project cost; and
(2) review and certify approved projects to the authority.
Subd. 3. [PROJECT PRIORITIES.] When money is appropriated
for grants under this program, the authority shall reserve money
for projects in the order that their total maximum daily load
plan was approved by the United States Environmental Protection
Agency and in an amount based on their most recent cost
estimates submitted to the authority or the as-bid costs,
whichever is less.
Subd. 4. [GRANT APPROVAL.] The authority must make a grant
to a municipality, as defined in section 116.182, subdivision 1,
only after:
(1) the commissioner of the Minnesota Pollution Control
Agency has certified to the United States Environmental
Protection Agency a total maximum daily load plan for identified
waters of this state that includes a point source wasteload
allocation;
(2) the Environmental Protection Agency has approved the
plan;
(3) a municipality affected by the plan has estimated the
cost to it of wastewater treatment projects necessary to comply
with the point source wasteload allocation;
(4) the Pollution Control Agency has approved the cost
estimate; and
(5) the authority has determined that the additional
financing necessary to complete the project has been committed
from other sources.
Subd. 5. [GRANT DISBURSEMENT.] Disbursement of a grant
must be made for eligible project costs as incurred by the
municipality and in accordance with a project financing
agreement and applicable state and federal laws and rules
governing the payments.
Sec. 40. Laws 1998, chapter 404, section 15, subdivision
2, is amended to read:
Subd. 2. National Sports Center 4,800,000
$1,700,000 is to purchase and develop
land adjacent to the National Sports
Center in Blaine for use as athletic
fields.
$3,100,000 is to develop the National
Children's Golf Course. The primary
purpose of the National Children's Golf
Course is to serve youth of 18 years
and younger. Market rates must be
charged for adult golf.
The Minnesota Amateur Sports Commission
may lease up to 20 percent of the area
of the land purchased with money from
the general fund appropriations in this
subdivision for a term of up to 30
years to one or more governmental or
private entities for any use by the
lessee, whether public or private, so
long as the use provides some benefit
to amateur sports. Lease payments
received by the commission are
appropriated to the commission for the
purposes specified in Minnesota
Statutes, chapter 240A. The land
purchased from the general fund
appropriations may be used for any
amateur sport.
Sec. 41. Laws 1998, chapter 404, section 23, subdivision
17, as amended by Laws 1999, chapter 20, section 1, is amended
to read:
Subd. 17. Paramount Arts District
Regional Arts Center 750,000
(a) To the commissioner of
administration for a grant to the city
of St. Cloud Housing and Redevelopment
Authority to construct, furnish, and
equip the Paramount Arts District
Regional Arts Center, subject to
Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.695.
This appropriation is not available
until the commissioner has determined
that the necessary additional financing
to complete at least a $5,400,000
project has been committed by nonstate
sources.
(b) The Housing and Redevelopment
Authority must effect the transfer as
otherwise required or permitted by
law. Once the transfer is effected,
the city is the successor to the
Housing and Redevelopment Authority for
the purposes of the grant and Minnesota
Statutes, section 16A.695.
Sec. 42. Laws 2000, chapter 492, article 1, section 7,
subdivision 21, is amended to read:
Subd. 21. Harbor of Refuge at Two Harbors 1,000,000
To develop the harbor of refuge and
marina at Two Harbors, including public
access improvements, marina slips,
parking facilities, utilities, a fuel
dock, and an administration building.
This appropriation is not available
until the commissioner has determined
that at least $500,000 has been
committed from federal
sources. Notwithstanding Minnesota
Statutes, section 16A.642, this
appropriation and its corresponding
bond authorization do not cancel until
June 30, 2006.
Sec. 43. Laws 2002, chapter 393, section 22, subdivision
6, is amended to read:
Subd. 6. Fergus Falls
Regional Treatment Center 3,000,000
To design, renovate, construct,
furnish, and equip ancillary support
and program facilities, including
improvements to basic infrastructure,
hazardous materials abatement, and
demolition that will facilitate the
relocation of the facility's ancillary
support, treatment, and residential
programs from the Kirkbride
buildings and facilitate the
disposition of the Fergus Falls
Regional Treatment Center campus. If
the property is sold or transferred to
a local unit of government, the unspent
portion of this appropriation may be
granted to the local unit of government
that acquires the campus for the
purposes stated in this subdivision.
Sec. 44. Laws 2003, First Special Session chapter 20,
article 1, section 11, is amended to read:
Sec. 11. HEALTH MINNESOTA STATE
COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES 775,000
To the Board of Trustees of the
Minnesota State Colleges and
Universities to design and, construct,
and equip a community dental clinic at
Lake Superior Community College in
Duluth and design and, renovate, and
equip the Northwest Technical
College Minnesota State Community and
Technical Colleges dental hygiene
clinic in Moorhead, subject to
Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.695.
Sec. 45. [MINNESOTA ZOO MARINE CENTER DEBT SERVICE.]
Beginning in fiscal year 2006, the Minnesota Zoological
Garden is not required to pay any of the debt service costs on
bonds sold for the Marine Education Center authorized in Laws
1994, chapter 643, section 27, subdivision 2, as amended by Laws
1996, chapter 463, section 54.
Sec. 46. [CONVEYANCE OF SURPLUS STATE LAND AT REGIONAL
TREATMENT CENTERS.]
Subdivision 1. [WILLMAR REGIONAL TREATMENT CENTER.] (a)
Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, sections 16B.281 to 16B.287,
or other law, administrative rule, or commissioner's order to
the contrary, the commissioner of administration may convey to a
local unit of government for no consideration all or part of the
real property at the Willmar Regional Treatment Center for
public purposes consistent with the master plan and reuse
study. The conveyance shall be in a form approved by the
attorney general and subject to Minnesota Statutes, section
16A.695.
(b) The commissioner of administration may require the
local unit of government to reimburse the state for all or part
of any campus redevelopment funded and completed by the state.
(c) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 16C.23, the
commissioner of administration may convey to a local unit of
government for no consideration all or part of the personal
property determined by the commissioner of human services to be
no longer needed for human services operations.
(d) If the local unit of government sells any property
conveyed under this section to a private entity, the sale must
be at fair market value.
Subd. 2. [FERGUS FALLS REGIONAL TREATMENT CENTER.] (a)
Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, sections 16B.281 to 16B.287,
or any other law, administrative rule, or commissioner's order
to the contrary, the commissioner of administration may convey
to one or more local units of government for no consideration
all or part of the real property at the Fergus Falls Regional
Treatment Center for public purposes consistent with the master
plan and reuse study. The conveyance must be in a form approved
by the attorney general and subject to Minnesota Statutes,
section 16A.695.
(b) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 16C.23, the
commissioner of administration may convey to one or more local
units of government for no consideration all or part of the
personal property determined by the commissioner of human
services to be no longer needed for human services operations.
If a local unit of government sells any property conveyed under
this section to a private entity, the sale must be at fair
market value.
Subd. 3. [AH-GWAH-CHING REGIONAL TREATMENT CENTER.] (a)
Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, chapter 94, or any other
law, administrative rule, or commissioner's order to the
contrary, the commissioner of administration may convey to Cass
County for no consideration all the buildings and land on the
Ah-Gwah-Ching Center campus that are described in paragraph (c),
except the land described in paragraph (d).
(b) The conveyance must be in a form approved by the
attorney general and subject to Minnesota Statutes, section
16A.695. The commissioner of administration shall have a
registered land surveyor prepare a legal description of the
property to be conveyed. The attorney general may make
necessary changes in the legal description to correct errors and
ensure accuracy.
(c) The land and buildings of the Ah-Gwah-Ching property
that may be conveyed to Cass County are located in that part of
the South Half, Section 35, Township 142 North, Range 31 West
and that part of Government Lot 6, Section 2, Township 141
North, Range 31 West, in Cass County, depicted on the
certificate of survey prepared by Landecker and Associates, Inc.
dated April 25, 2002. The land described in paragraph (d) is
excepted from the conveyance.
(d) That portion of the Ah-Gwah-Ching property to be
excepted from the conveyance to Cass County is the land located
between the shoreline and the top of the bluff line and is
approximately described as follows:
(1) all that part of the Southeast Quarter of Southwest
Quarter, Section 35, Township 142 North, Range 31 West, lying
southeasterly of a line that lies 450 feet southeasterly of and
parallel with Minnesota Highway No. 290;
(2) Government Lot 4, Section 35, Township 142 North, Range
31 West;
(3) that part of Government Lot 3, Section 35, Township 142
North, Range 31 West, lying southerly of Minnesota Highway No.
290 and westerly of Minnesota Highway No. 371; and
(4) that part of Government Lot 6, Section 2, Township 141
North, Range 31 West, lying southeasterly of the 1,410 foot
contour.
The commissioner of administration shall determine the
exact legal description upon further site analysis and the
preparation of the surveyor's legal description described in
paragraph (b).
(e) Notwithstanding anything in this subdivision to the
contrary, a conveyance under this section to Cass County may
include a conveyance by a bill of sale of the water treatment
facilities located within the land described in paragraph (d)
and a nonexclusive appurtenant easement for the facilities over
the land upon which the facilities are located, including
ingress and egress as determined by the commissioner.
The easement must be in a form approved by the attorney
general.
(f) At the option of the state, Cass County must, until
January 1, 2007, allow the state to lease the space necessary to
operate its programs for the cost of utilities for the leased
space. During the term of the lease, the state is responsible
for any and all maintenance and repairs the state determines are
necessary for its use of the leased space.
(g) The Department of Human Services will sell or transfer
up to 150 nursing home bed licenses to a qualified vendor, upon
the sale or transfer of the Ah-Gwah-Ching campus.
(h) The commissioner of administration may transfer the
lakeshore parcel described in paragraph (d) to the commissioner
of natural resources upon the sale or transfer of the balance of
the campus to Cass County.
(i) The commissioner of human services shall develop foster
care services for 20 individuals in the Walker area.
Sec. 47. [TRANSFER OF MHFA BONDING AUTHORITY TO HESO.]
Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 474A.03,
subdivision 2a, paragraph (b), the Minnesota Housing Finance
Agency may enter into an agreement with the Higher Education
Services Office under which the Higher Education Services Office
issues qualified student loan bonds, up to $50,000,000 of which
are issued pursuant to bonding authority allocated to the
Minnesota Housing Finance Agency in 2005 under Minnesota
Statutes, section 474A.03, subdivision 2a, paragraph (a). This
amount is in addition to the bonding authority otherwise
allocated to the Higher Education Services Office under
Minnesota Statutes, chapter 474A. Notwithstanding Minnesota
Statutes, section 474A.04, subdivision 1a, 474A.061, or
474A.091, subdivision 2, bonding authority carried forward by
the Minnesota Housing Financing Agency from its allocation for
2005 under Minnesota Statutes, section 474A.03, subdivision 2a,
paragraph (b), are exempt from the requirement that the bonding
authority be permanently issued by December 31 of the next
succeeding calendar year.
Sec. 48. [SALE OF FUJI YA PROPERTY; USE OF PROCEEDS.]
Subdivision 1. [SALE.] After making the determinations
required under Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.695 and meeting
any other requirements of law, the Minneapolis Park and
Recreation Board may sell the property known as the Fuji Ya
Restaurant property, acquired with state bond funds appropriated
in Laws 1987, chapter 400, section 8, subdivision 5, as amended.
The sale amount must be at least the property's fair market
value. The property may be sold to a private entity.
Subd. 2. [PROCEEDS USE FOR OTHER PUBLICLY OWNED CAPITAL
PROJECTS FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES.] If the Minneapolis Park and
Recreation Board enters into an agreement with the commissioner
of finance governing the use of the net proceeds of the sale
that contains the terms and conditions of a grant agreement for
an appropriation of state bond funds, then notwithstanding the
requirements in Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.695, subdivision
3, with respect to the distribution of the net sale proceeds,
the proceeds must be distributed as provided in this subdivision.
(a) Up to $750,000 of the net proceeds of the sale may be
applied by the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board to prepay
the full lease amount for a public parking facility constructed
on the Fuji Ya site if the board has entered into a 99-year
lease agreement with the owner for at least 85 parking stalls.
(b) After providing for the parking facility under
paragraph (a), the remaining net proceeds, estimated to be
$1,750,000, must be split equally between the board and the
state. At a minimum, the state must receive $544,000.
(c) The board must use its share of the remaining net
proceeds as follows: (1) at least $25,000 for predesign and
design of the East Phillips Cultural and Community Center; and
(2) for acquisition and development of property in the
metropolitan regional park system that is covered by the "Above
the Falls" master plan. Property acquired or improved under
this paragraph is state bond financed property, subject to
Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.695. This allocation is
contingent on an equal amount committed from nonstate sources.
Sec. 49. [UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA; DULUTH PARKING.]
The Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota is
encouraged to expand the parking facilities at the University of
Minnesota, Duluth campus through the purchase of land and
property from willing sellers.
Sec. 50. [MAXIMUM EFFORT CAPITAL LOAN FORGIVEN; EAST
CENTRAL.]
Subdivision 1. [SALE REQUIREMENTS.] Independent School
District No. 2580, East Central, may sell its middle school
building in accordance with Minnesota Statutes, section
16A.695. The net proceeds from the sale of the property must be
paid to the commissioner of finance and deposited in the state
bond fund.
Subd. 2. [OUTSTANDING LOAN BALANCE FORGIVEN.] Any
remaining outstanding balance on the maximum effort capital loan
issued in January 1982 to former Independent School District No.
566, Askov, after the application of the sale proceeds according
to subdivision 1, is forgiven.
Sec. 51. [EFFECTIVE DATE.]
This article is effective the day following final enactment.
ARTICLE 2
ADJUSTMENT OF GENERAL
OBLIGATION BOND AUTHORIZATIONS
Section 1. [TABLE OF ORIGINAL AND ADJUSTED
AUTHORIZATIONS.]
Column A lists the citation to each law authorizing general
obligation bonds since Laws 1983, chapter 323, section 6, to
which a further adjustment is being made in this section.
The original authorization amount in each law is shown in
column B opposite the citation of the law it appears in.
The original authorization amount in column B is hereby
adjusted to the amount shown in column C. The adjustments
resulting in the column C amount reflect specific changes to an
authorization in law, executive vetoes sustained or not
challenged, administrative action reflecting cancellation and
abandonment of all or the unused balance from specific projects
for which the proceeds of authorized bonds were intended to be
used, and other action pursuant to law resulting in the adjusted
authorizations shown in column C. The amounts shown in column C
are validated as the lawful adjusted authorization for the cited
law as of February 1, 2005, for all purposes for which the
authorization is required or used.
Column A Column B Column C
L 1983, c 323, s 6 $ 30,000,000 $ 29,935,000
L 1987, c 400, s 25,
subd 1 370,972,200 369,560,500
L 1987, c 400, s 25,
subd 5 66,747,000 66,740,000
L 1989, c 300, art 1,
s 23, subd 1 142,585,000 135,060,000
L 1991, c 354, art 11,
s 2, subd 1 12,000,000 11,360,000
L 1992, c 558, s 28,
subd 1 231,695,000 219,085,000
L 1992, c 558, s 28,
subd 3 17,500,000 17,368,000
L 1993, c 373, s 19,
subd 1 54,640,000 53,355,000
L 1993, c 373, s 19,
subd 2 9,900,000 9,480,000
L 1994, c 643, s 31,
subd 1 573,385,000 564,650,523
L 1994, c 643, s 31,
subd 2 45,000,000 34,820,000
L 1995, 1SS c 2, s 14,
subd 1 5,630,000 5,590,000
L 1996, c 463, s 27,
subd 1 597,110,000 549,302,898
L 1997, c 246, s 10,
subd 1 86,625,000 86,192,000
L 1997, 2SS c 2, s 12 55,305,000 38,308,054
L 1998, c 404, s 27,
subd 1 463,795,000 104,478,674
L 1999, c 240, art 1,
s 13, subd 1 139,510,000 111,905,000
L 1999, c 240, art 1,
s 13, subd 2 10,440,000 -0-
L 1999, c 240, art 2,
s 16, subd 1 372,400,000 367,418,000
L 2000, c 492, art 1,
s 26, subd 1 426,870,000 487,730,000
L 2001, 1SS c 12, s 11,
subd 1 99,205,000 98,205,000
L 2002, c 393, s 30,
subd 1 920,235,000 567,312,000
Sec. 2. [EFFECTIVE DATE.]
This article is effective the day following final enactment.
Presented to the governor April 8, 2005
Signed by the governor April 11, 2005, 2:42 p.m.
Official Publication of the State of Minnesota
Revisor of Statutes