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d. State boating safety fund increases are recommended. The fund could be increased by legislative action increasing the annual allocation from existing sources. Added revenue to the safety fund coul•J alsc: come from increased boat license fees. A substantial portion of the increased safety funds should be granted for special projects to active agencies such as Hennepin County Sheriff's Patrol and the LMCD to support boating safety services. Increases to the agency grants should be tied to increased local effort. The MCTFLM also considered the issue of a separate license or sticker as a source of revenue from boaters on Lake Minnetonka. The task force found the source attractive for its applicability and equity but recogni_ed the policy issue it raises, namely, should DNR then enter into a special sticker fir every lake in the state which is attractive to large groups of boaters? The issue is a major problem to a lake license approach. v. The MCTFLM recommends the following schedule: a. Implementation of the recommendations of the 1983 task force for park- ing, new boat launches, and shoreline access should be carried out, or a firm schedule for their implementation agreed to, by the end of calendar year 1987. The actions will be carried out by DNR, LMCD and specific affected municipalities. b. A legislative rernmmendation for �iapitai and operating funding of the new regional rec tion open space entity, based upon a ge.eral plan prepared by the , lementing agency should be completed and igreed to by the agency, DNR. and Metropolitan, Counci', in time for presentation to the 1987 legislature. C. A legislative proposal for the increased o• modified authorities for LMCD and the recommended change in its levy structure should be pre- pared by October 1986 for presentation to the 1987 legislature. d. A legislative proposal to increase revenur.s to the state boating safety fund from either existing sources or from increased boat license fees should be prepared by October of 1986 for presentation to the 1987 legislature. e. The specifics of new boat launch site selection, to be worked out by LMCD, DNR, Metro Council a.id the regional implementing agency, are dependent in par, upon events at King's Point. if ONR were to heft development at King's Point for the 1986 season, with a clear intent to proceed in 1987 unless an apprapriate alternate site is found, stimulus to cooperate would seem to be there for LMCD, Minnetrista and the other south shore/upper lake communities. If that exploration of sites took place, a site for the regional entity as well as the "small boat/angler" site which DNR seeks could possibly be identified in the same process. It seems logical that DNR. Metro Council, the regional implementing agency, LMCD and the municipalities might all participate in that site review, with DNR reserving its intent and authority to proceed at King's Point if no specifics emerge. (Recommendation sub_Ject to position on Issue 2.) 17