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LAKE <br />MINNETONKA <br />ASSOCIATION <br />May 2, 2025 <br />City of Orono Mayor and Council <br />2750 Kelley Parkway <br />Orono, Minnesota 55356 <br />Dear Mayor Tunheim & Council Members Alisa Benson, Claire Berrett, Steve Persian, and Jacqueline Ricks: <br />The Lake Minnetonka Association District strongly supports the petition to establish the Stubbs Bay Lake <br />Improvement District. <br />In 1990, the Governor of Minnesota signed the Lake Improvement District (LID) legislation into law giving <br />citizens the ability to address specific concerns within a waterbody that cannot be addressed under normal <br />governmental actions. Citizens willing to undertake such an initiative benefit from greater local involvement <br />in the management of their own lakes. While the effort and resources needed to protect a waterbody is borne <br />by the members of a LID, the entire public benefits. <br />Due to decades of misuse and neglect, Stubbs Bay has become very polluted and infested with non-native <br />plants that threaten the health of the bay and have become a nuisance to anyone recreating on the bay. The <br />signatories of the Stubbs Bay LID petition recognize their stewardship role in protecting the health of the bay <br />and creating a sustainable approach to assure the bay is well managed for years to come. <br />The Stubbs Bay LID follows the lead of the Carmans Bay LID and the St. Albans Bay LID in providing lake <br />property owners with the ability to implement programs, under the guidance of the MnDNR and others, to <br />control AIS and improve water quality. <br />Unless the City of Orono or another governmental body is willing to take on the role of managing Stubbs <br />Bay, there are no likely or practicable alternatives to the Stubbs Bay LID. LIDS have proved to work well on <br />other bays in Lake Minnetonka and in lakes throughout Minnesota. LIDs give a much needed voice and role <br />to property owners in protecting their lakes. <br />The Lake Minnetonka Association encourages the City of Orono to support efforts to establish a LID and <br />help lakeshore property owners to protect Stubbs Bay. <br />Best regards, <br />5-or f�a�or <br />Tom Frahm, President, Lake Minnetonka Association Board of Directors <br />273 <br />