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AND REASONABLE USE OF LAKE MINNETONKA BY BEING AN INFORMATION SOURCE AND <br />ADVOCATE FOR THE PUBLIC AND LAKESHORE OWNERS AND BUSINESSES AND TO <br />ADMINISTRATE, MONITOR AND PAY FOR AQUATIC INVASIVE SPECIES CONTROL PROGRAMS." <br />LMA promotes Cl"d contracts with only two service providers. Freshwater Scienc Services for <br />weed surveys and PLM for actual treatment. With the new LID's is this intended to guarantee an <br />annual income source for their service providers? They also contend that treatment improves <br />native plant population and diversity. Orono has all the data from Carman's Bay dating back to <br />2018, weed surveys, financial report, annual meetings, etc. I have gone over the weed surveys <br />and find the information misleading. The spring report never shows the native plant numbers, <br />but only shows results after treatment has occurred. Year over year several of the native plants <br />have decreased in population. How many actually existed prior to treatment that were affected <br />by the chemicals. Coontail, a native plant has decreased dramatically over the years. <br />Stubbs's Bay said they had nothing more for data than what is posted on their website. How <br />have they gained DNR approval to treat in years past without weed surveys? <br />Each time I have researched (via Hennepin County Tax map) the organizers of a LID in any <br />particular bay all have marginal lakefront property. They purchased property in historically high <br />weed and silt basin shoreline. It appears they now want all of us to contribute equally to <br />improve the quality of their lake shore by year over year treating the lake. They are promoting <br />that we will all benefit equally and that the cost is minimal. Given the inherent liability and <br />continual use of chemicals we strongly disagree. <br />What is Lake Minnetonka Association's end game? They have found and are pushing the <br />formation of LID's to reduce their need for fund raising to satisfy their $250,000.00 annual <br />budget? Are they working towards a guaranteed source of revenue for their two service <br />providers? I have heard repeatedly about "fund raising fatigue" from Stubb's Bay, Harrison's Bay <br />and North Arm, is this now the case for LMA? <br />Orono City Council, please "pull back the curtains" on the truth behind Lake Minnetonka <br />Association and stop the formation of LID's in our city. <br />