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4. Operating and maintenance costs for boat launch sites operated by munici- <br />palities were also suggested as significant cost areas by Minnetrista and <br />by verbal input from Tonka Bay (during information meetings). <br />No date or estimates on this topic were included in the work plans <br />received. Staff inquiries for specifics from the municipalities were <br />unsuccessful. A regional recreation agency collected operating costs for <br />two large active boat launch sites on other Hennepin County lakes. In 1985 <br />they were approximately $9,000 and $11,000, respectively. The $11,000 <br />figure included material and labor costs for a make-ready dock and rip - <br />rapping. <br />Maintenance costs on the larger and more active boat launches on Lake <br />Minnetonka are supported by Hennepin County Department of Transportation <br />(DOT). Hennepin County DOT also provides toilets and trash pickup at <br />several other public access sites on the lake (presumably those are along <br />county roads). Operation and maintenance of new free public boat launch <br />sites on Lake Minnetonka -,)uld be the responsibility of the implementing <br />agency. <br />Findings <br />Acquisition, development and operation and maintenance costs of new fre- <br />boat launch and other public access sites on Lake Minnetonka should be the <br />responsibility of the implementing agency. <br />2. The 83TF listed highway accessibility as one criterion for access site <br />selection. If the site selected is on a city street, the municipality may <br />need help for road improvement expenditures compelled by the access site. <br />tre may be significant costs to municipalities for providing police, fire <br />,' emergency medical service to public access sites on Lake Minnetonka. <br />Tric scale of current expenditures by municipalities for these costs is not <br />known. <br />4. Maintenance costs for those public access sites on Lake Minnetonka which <br />provide the greater number of reliable car -"trailer parking space for public <br />use are provided by the implementing agencies. The amount of ooerating and <br />maintenance costs expended by municipalities on other sites on the lake <br />which provide free public access is not known. <br />Recommendations <br />The costs to municipalities and other operating agencies for providing free <br />public access to Lake Minnetonka should be itemized and confirmed by LMCD <br />and the municipalities. <br />2. LMCD should develop recommendations to meet costs of providing free public <br />access to Lake Minnetonka from a non -local source at a level commensurate <br />with expenditures municipalities make to provide access to users outside <br />their constituency. <br />W <br />