04-11-1988 - Agenda Packet City Council - regular meeting

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a In January of 1988, the Metropolitan Parks and Open Space Commission reviewed the attached staff report on LMCD 1987 activities and forwarded its recommenda- tions to the Council. On February 2, the MSC reviewed the recommendations and, as described in the Introduction, returned the document to s,-ff for consider- ation of more alternatives. Metropolitan System Committee Findings about the RecoamendaLions and about LMCD Act! -.pity in 1987 1. During the 18 months since the Council made its report to the State Execu';ive Council, LMCD had done too little to respond to specific recommendations such as convening the meeting to reach a memo of under- standing. It c-..ild have begun some tasks using its own resc•.rrces. It has not done so. 2. The Council will not support more study without adequate assurance about a satisfactory outcome. Committee members also expressed some fee'_:_ng that the pr•orosed study was unnecessarily large and costly. 3. MSC wil'. not recomend a grant but might consider a loan from a local planning assistance fund if there could be an it -unclad agreement meeting the concerns in 2, above. 4. -here is no assurance that LMCD, constituted from local government repre- sentatives, will adequately provide for the wider intere.�'. "ouncil finds important for this regional resource. 5. The MSC concern about the long schedule fcr a plan is joiner' co doubt about success where so many plans have failed to be linkage was made to the impasse on a Lake Minnetonka Regional Park. Committee Direction C',aff was directed to prepare a revie.4 of otYsr alternatives which mi:;'it reach the Council's goal for LaKi Minnetonka, including at least the following: 1. Reconstituting LMCD, giving its present authorities to a new body of directors. 2. Abolishing LMCD, placing its present responsibilities with ot`:er agencies. Specific recommendations included DNR and SHRPD. 3. Recommending LMCD continue its planning rocess, but under a sharply accelerated schedule. Funding tc aid the acceleration would be considered from local planning loan assistance funds if binding assuranc,b were made that LMCD would mal•:e every effort to meet the Council's gals. 4. Recommending the Council pursue a Metropolitan Significance review of LMC') and its planning to develop recommendations about instit,:tional arrangements.