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RESOLUTION ENDORSING CANDIDATES FOR APPOINTMENT TO <br />MINNEHAHA CREEK WATERSHED DISTRICT <br />WHEREAS, the City Councils of many of the cities lying wholly or partly within the <br />boundaries of the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District (the District) have adopted resolutions <br />expressing concerns about the governance and conduct of activities of the District and resolving to <br />work cooperatively with other cities in the District to monitor and oversee the activities of the <br />District; and <br />WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Orono has determined that it would be in the <br />best interests of the public to appoint new members to the District who will provide a fresh <br />perspective, who will work in reasonable cooperation with the public and affected governmental <br />umts, and who will restore the faith and confidence of the public and the cities in the District, while <br />still accomplishing the objectives of the District; and <br />WHEREAS, Minnesota Statutes, Section 1 03D.311 , Subd. 3 provides that watershed district <br />managers are to be selected from a list of persons nominated by one or more of the cities and towns <br />affected; and <br />WHEREAS, a number of the cities lying within the District, acting through a Steering <br />committee, have solicited nomination from affected cities and have interviewed candidates for <br />appointment to the District; and the Steering Committee has found a number of well qualified <br />candidates who are capable of providing leadership in establishing prudent, consistent, reasonable <br />and fiscally responsible governance of the District: <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ^SOLVED by the City Council of the City of Orono that <br />the Council endorses the following candidates for appointment to the Minnehaha Creek Watershed <br />District and urges the County Boards of Hennepin and Carver Counties to make appointments from <br />the following list of candidates giving due regard to representation of the various hydrological areas <br />within the District as required by Minnesota Statutes, Section 103D, Subd. 3(C): <br />Hennepin County candidates: <br />Upper Watershed: <br />1 . Patrick Maloney (top ranked candidate in Upper Watershed) <br />2. Warren McNeil <br />Lower Watershed: <br />1 . Jim Calkins (top ranked candidate in Lower Watershed) <br />2. RonBaumbach <br />Carver County candidate: <br />1. Jerome Keehr (top ranked candidate in Carver County)