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Ilf' <br />TO: Mayor and City Council <br />FROM: Ron Moorse, City Administrator <br />DATE: March 19, 19% <br />as i99s <br />°«QNO <br />SUBJECT: Lake Minnetonka Goose Population Management Program <br />Several cities on Lake Minnetonka are coordinating an effon to bring all cities around th^ lake <br />together with the University of Minnesota, the LMCD and the MCWD in a joint effort to <br />manage the population of geese and to manage the problems caused by an over population of <br />geese in the lake area. At its February 26. 1996 meeting the City Council decided against <br />participation in the joint effort. The joint effort involves a joint grant application to the LCMR <br />for ftmding of efforts to manage the goose population and the problems caused by a large goose <br />population in the lake area. <br />I have attached two letters from the MCWD in support of the goose management program, and <br />indicating the MCWD will contribute $10,000 toward the joint program if alt 14 of the Lake <br />Minnetonka cities agree to panicipate in the program. <br />The city’s participation in the program involves participation in a grant application to the <br />LCMR, and a commitment to provide $1,000 in each of two years toward the goose management <br />program, <br />■ Tiiiirramf ■■■