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Set Shingle Creek Watershed Mgmt Commission 2024 maximum levy at $986,265 and West Mississippi Watershed Mgmt Commission 2024 maximum levy at $159,075 for projects to improve water quality
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Resolution:
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BE IT RESOLVED, that the 2024 maximum levy for the Shingle Creek Watershed Management Commission be set at $986,265; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the 2024 maximum levy for the West Mississippi Watershed Management Commission be set at $159,075; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the levies for both commissions be certified to the county auditor and be placed on all taxable property under the jurisdictions of the Shingle Creek Watershed Management Commission or the West Mississippi Watershed Management Commission.
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Background:
The Shingle Creek Watershed Management Commission requests a levy of $986,265 to fund five priorities in the commission's watershed management plan - two water quality cost share programs, a maintenance fund, and two water quality projects. The projects will support the commission's goals to improve water quality throughout the Shingle Creek Watershed and downstream resources including the Mississippi River.
Descriptions of the programs, funds, and projects to be paid in part by the levy funds are:
* The Maintenance Fund - This project will fund activities that are necessary in order to ensure the success of past capital projects such as ongoing long-term efforts to manage invasive carp or curly-leaf pondweed, maintenance of fish barriers, or water quality projects installed as research projects. These activities will occur at various locations throughout the Shingle Creek watershed. The commission requests a 2024 levy of $53,025 for its maintenance fund.
* The Pike Creek Stabilization Project (Plymouth and Maple Grove) - This project will stabilize 1,000 linear feet of streambank along Pike Creek near its discharge point into Pike Lake, upstream of Hemlock Lane. The project will stabilize banks...
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