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: �-Z-4 Z <br />TO: Parks Commission <br />FROM: Adam Edwards, P.E., City Engineer and Director of Public Works <br />DATE: March 7, 2016 <br />SUBJECT: Letter of Support for Hennepin Counties GreenCorps Grant <br />Reference: haps://www.pea.state.nin.us/quiek-links/minnesota-greencorps#about-8822c040 <br />Exhibit: Draft letter for support for Hennepin County. <br />1. Purpose. The purpose of this council action is to gain council approval for a letter for <br />support for Hennepin County's Green Corps grant application. <br />2. Background. Hennepin County's Environment and Energy department has requested Orono <br />Partner with them on a grant application for the GreenCorps Program. MN GreenCorps is a <br />federally funded program that is administered by the M\ Pollution Control Agency. The program <br />matches young professionals to a host sites for internships in a specific environmental areas. The <br />county is looking to secure an Urban Forestry intern. If successful, the MPCA would provide a <br />full time intern for a period of 11 months; those county would provide office space, supervision <br />and mentorship. There would be no cost to the City other than staff time to coordinate the <br />intern's activities within the city. <br />3. Scope for Project. The county proposes using the grant to conduct a tree inventory of the <br />county roads running through Orono and the city's collector roads and well as inventorying select <br />city nature parks. These inventories would allow the county and city to better asses the threat <br />emerald ash bore, Dutch elm disease and Oak wilt would pose and allow the city to more actively <br />manage the health of our natural parks. <br />4. Recommendation. I recommending approval of the attached letter of support. <br />COUNCIL ACTION REQUESTED <br />Motion to adopt the attached letter of support for the Hennepin County application for the MN <br />GreenCorps Grant. <br />