1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to capital improvements; appropriating money for repair, restoration, 
1.3 	and shoreline stabilization of the glen area of Minnehaha Creek in the city of 
1.4 	Minneapolis; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds. 
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION.
 1.7 	$5,300,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund to the Metropolitan Council 
1.8 	for a grant to the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board to be used in conjunction 
1.9 	with the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District's plan to repair and renovate Works 
1.10 	Projects Administration projects in the glen area of Minnehaha Creek, to repair, restore, 
1.11 	and stabilize the shoreline and cavernous banks of Minnehaha Creek as it flows past 
1.12 	Minnehaha Falls, to restore fish and other natural habitat, and to provide storm water 
1.13 	retention and creek bank management at or below the Minnesota Veterans Home. 
1.14 	This appropriation is not available until the commissioner of finance determines that 
1.15 	$1,600,000 has been committed to the project from nonstate sources.

1.16 	Sec. 2. BOND SALE.
 1.17 	To provide the money appropriated in section 1 from the bond proceeds fund, 
1.18 	the commissioner of finance shall sell and issue bonds of the state in an amount up to 
1.19 	$5,300,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with the effect prescribed by Minnesota 
1.20 	Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota Constitution, article XI, 
1.21 	sections 4 to 7.

1.22 	Sec. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 2.1 	Sections 1 and 2 are effective the day following final enactment.