1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital improvements; appropriating money to renovate the 
1.3 	Minneapolis Sculpture Garden; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. MINNEAPOLIS SCULPTURE GARDEN.
 1.6 		Subdivision 1.Appropriation. $8,500,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds 
1.7 	fund to the Metropolitan Council for a grant to the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board 
1.8 	to predesign, design, and construct the renovation of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, 
1.9 	which displays art owned by the Walker Art Center, subject to Minnesota Statutes, section 
1.10 	16A.695. The renovation will include improving irrigation, drainage, the parking lot, 
1.11 	security, granite substructures, concrete, and fixtures, in order to update them with more 
1.12 	ecologically sustainable options that are less expensive to maintain; increasing physical 
1.13 	accessibility in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act; transplanting and 
1.14 	replacing trees and plant materials; and improving the mechanical plant, piping, and 
1.15 	flooring of the Cowles Conservatory to permit its flexible reuse in a way that is more 
1.16 	ecologically sustainable and less expensive to maintain.
1.17 		Subd. 2.Bond sale. To provide the money appropriated in this section from the 
1.18 	bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue 
1.19 	bonds of the state in an amount up to $8,500,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with 
1.20 	the effect prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the 
1.21 	Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.

1.22 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.