02-08-1988 - Agenda Packet City Council - regular meeting

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0 3. The District should have review authority for any research or other project having lake impact. 4. The District should request that its authority be extended to provide for planning, funding, acquisition, development, ownership and operation of launching facilities and other means of public access to the lake. 5. The district should request per diem and expense allowances for board members. 6. The Lake Minnetonka Conservation District levy should be exempted from municipal tax levy limitations. 7. The district should receive boating safety Viands for planning, research and regulation. 8. A11_ agencies and political subdivisions of the state should be required to notify the district prior to conducting research on Lake Minnetonka and to keep the district informed about the progress and results of such research. 9. The district should request that both boating safety funds and their allocations to high activity areas be increased by the legislature. 10. The district should request that boating safety and other state and county funds allocated to the Water Patrol be increased and distributed by usage and activity to support an expanded program. 11. The district should request that lake maintenance funding for the count be supported from boating safety or from other special funds establishe the state and county and be increased. 12. The district should request regional funding for public access facilities. 13. The district should request that the boat registration procedure should be updated, be made more efficient, and that license fees should be increased. Number 2, assessing property owners for costs of cleanup and number 5, per diem for board members, are local housekeeping in nature. The remainder, numbers 1, 4, and 12, merit greater attention, as follows: Lake Use Permit 1 - LMCD should receive authority to set fees and require permits of watercraft using Lake Minnetonka. This was reported as an issue but not endorsed in the Council's 1986 report. It was included at the request of a minority :)f the 1985 task force. Mn/DNR opposes this recommendation as an infringement on their statutory authority to license watercraft. Several operating agencies also have pointed out that if this lake becomes the subject of a special permit, it likely that every heavily used lake in the state will form some body to request a local permit.