07-25-1988 - Agenda Packet City Council - regular meeting

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City of ORO:s RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUN( NO. 2471 RESOLUTION OF SUPPORT FOR THE CITY OF MINNETRISTA AND ITS LEGAL CHALLENGE TO LEGISLATION ALLOWING FOR THE OVERRIDE OF LOCAL APPROVAL FOR THE ACQUISITION AND CONDE14NATION OF LAND WHEREAS, the Minnesota State Legislature has passed this session legislation allowing for the override of local approval for the acquisition and condemnation of land for a Lake Minnetonka Regional Park; and WHEREAS, said legislation established a precedent that has specific significance for Lake Minnetonka communities and general significance for local governments everywhere; and WHEREAS, said legislation circumvents the constitutional protection of local governments by treating Hennepin Parks Board and the Metropolitan Council as a local unit of government being given increased authority; and WHEREAS, said legislation gives the power to authorize such condemnation of private property to politically appointed bodies; and WHEREAS, the Minnesota State Legislature can pass general laws affecting the local units of government equally but is prohibited from passing special laws that affect a single unit or group of units of local government withost the approval of their governing board or majority of their voters, said protection found in Article XII of the Minnesota State Constitution; and WHEREAS, said legislation was achieved by incorporating it in the traditional "garbage bill", the bill funding departments of state government; and WHEREAS, said "garbage bill" practices are a flagrant violation of the Minnesota Constitution Article X prohibiting laws from embracing more than one subject; BE IT RESOLVED, that the City of Orono, Minnesota, considers Lake Minnetonka an important public resource, important to the life and health of each of the lake communities;