A couple of other items that escaped my initial
attention:
1) HERITAGE PARK: Any unencumbered amount of
development money in one section of the bill may be
spent to finance improvements to Heritage Park.
There's no specific dollar amount attached.
2) FUJI-YA SALE: The MPRB can spend a portion
(approximately half) of the proceeds of the Fuji-Ya
property sale on land acquisition under the "Above the
Falls" Master Plan, and at least 25,000 dollars must
be allocated from the sale for the East Phillips
Community and Cultural Center predesign. The text is
below.
3) DNR STUDY OF FORT SNELLING OFFICERS ROW PROPERTIES
MANDATED: The DNR is mandated to present a plan to the
legislature regarding the rehabilitation, reuse or
demolition of the officers row properties adjacent to
the Neiman complex. That text is at the bottom.
aaron klemz
cooper
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.] 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.
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board must certify
to the commissioner of finance, in a form required by
the commissioner, that any net proceeds from the sale
under this section realized by the board are spent on
capital improvements that meet the
constitutional requirements for expenditure of state
bond funds, and such capital improvements are state
bond financed property under Minnesota Statutes,
section 16A.695.
(a) Up to $750,000 of the net proceeds of the sale may
be retained by the Minneapolis Park and Recreation
Board to make capital improvements to a public parking
facility constructed on the Fuji Ya site if the board
has entered into a 99-year lease
agreement with the owner. This allocation is
contingent on an equal amount committed from nonstate
sources. The lease payments the board makes for the
site may be used as nonstate match.
(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. 50. [DNR PLAN FOR FORT SNELLING OFFICERS ROW.]
The commissioner of natural resources, in consultation
with appropriate federal agencies, other state
agencies, and local governments, must develop a plan
for the buildings in the officers row area of Fort
Snelling that are in disrepair. The plan must include
recommendations on which buildings should be
demolished, renovated and reused, or sold. The
commissioner must present the plan by January 1, 2006,
to the chairs of the house and senate committees with
jurisdiction over natural resources policy and
finance, state historical sites, state capital
investments, and ways and means or finance.
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