Agenda Packet Cc - regular meeting 2/22/1988

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2 2. The recommendation for the Council to support a study and plan pr ;"ration does not provide adequate reassurance that: a. The work will conclude within a satisfactory schedule. b. The product will be an implemented plan. 3. The MSC was not willing to consider a gran:, but might consider a loan from the planning assistance loan fund. The committee is aware these loans can only be made to municipalities, not to special governmental bodies such as the LMCD. Council members wished to see an ironclad agreement to meet 2a and 2b, above, between the loan recipient and LMCD, to be reflected in the agreement between the Council and the municipality receiving the loan. 4. The MSC is clearly concerned that LMCD, constituted by local governments on the lake, may not adequately provide for the wider regional interest in the lake. It is a regional resource and must tie managed in that perspective. 5. The MSC's concern about the long schedule was joined,to doubt about the probable success of this planning process where so many others have failed. Some :.inkage was made to the impasse on the regional park in Minnetrista. COUNCIL COAL Early implementaticn of an adequate comprehensive surface vse plan for the lake. This statement summarizes the Council's intent as seen from its actions in the five years since it accepted a 1983 task force report on the lake. It is consistent with the findings of the MSC. Specifically, the Council is seeking an implemented plan that incorporates the regional interest in the lake resource, provides long-term proteotion to the lake, balances local interests against demands coming from outside, and coordinates all research, enforcement and management activities which multiple agencies and governments conduct on Lake 'Minnetonka. Ti_e plan should make LMCD or another single authority the focus of a process to resolve issues in the areas listed and in any others that have the potential to affect the lake's quality and character. The Council desires to see a report and recommendations wh1zh can be made to the 1989 legislature. Finally, the Council clearly wishes to see a comprehensive plan implemented so that it may clear its own agenda of further involvement in issue resolution on the lake. COMMITTEE DIRECTION Staff was directed :o prepare a list of alternatives including at least the following, An immediate Council recommendation to the _egislature to reconstitute LMCD, giving th- authori":y to develop a comprehensive lake management plan to the new body. 2. A Council reco®endatf on to the legislature to abolish LMCD as a statuato.•y agency, placing the planning and managing responsibility for the lake into another agency's hands. Suggested agencies include MnDNR and/or SHRPD.