#137 01-18-66 Include the Watershed District in Hennepin CountyResolution No. 137
January 18, 1966
Member Flannagan introduced the following resolution and moved its
adoption:
RESOLUTION
(Respecting the Advisability of the County
Petitioning the State of Minnesota Water Resources Board
For an Inclusive Watershed District in Hennepin County)
WHEREAS, the County Board of Commissioners has called for a hearing
to be held on January 25, 1966, respecting the advisability of the County
petitioning the State of Minnesota Water Resources Board for a Watershed
District to include the watershed area of Bassett's Creek within the
County of Hennepin; and
WHEREAS, the Village Council of the Village of Golden Valley has for
a number of years been reviewing flood and drainage problems respecting said
Bassett's Creek watershed area with the corporate limits of said Village,
and has created a Flood and Drainage Committee to advise the Village Council
with respect to, among other matters, Bassett's Creek; and
WHEREAS, as a result of the work of the Flood and Drainage Committee,
investigation by the administrative staff of the Village of Golden Valley
and review of the matter by the Village Council, the Council is of the
opinion that certain problems relating to flood and drainage within the
Bassett's Creek watershed area of Golden Valley and surrounding municipal-
ities may best be solved by inter -municipality cooperation, particularly, and
beginning with, cooperation with Golden Valley's neighbors to the south,
south east and south west (namely, St. Louis Park, Minneapolis and
Minnetonka) rather than through the establishment of a formal watershed
district; Now, Therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the Village Council of the Village of Golden Valley
that at the aforesaid hearing of the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners
on January 25, 1966, the representatives attending said meeting on behalf of
the Village of Golden Valley advise said County Board of the position and
opinion of the Village of Golden Valley as aforesaid, and further request
said County Board to defer action with respect to any petition to the State
Water Resources Board for the creation of a Bassett's Creek Watershed District
until such time as the Village of Golden Valley and its aforesaid neighboring
municipalities have had opportunity to further investigate the possibility
and feasibility of arriving at a common plan or agreement between themselves
for dealing with the aforesaid flooding and drainage problem as may now or in
the future appear to affect each of them.
RESOLVED, FURTHER, that the duly authorized representatives of the
Village of Golden Valley notify the County Board at said meeting on January
25, 1966, that it is the further position of the Village of Golden Valley
that in the event said negotiations between Golden Valley and its neighboring
municipalities result in no satisfactory solution of common agreement
being arrived at, then the Village of Golden Valley and its aforesaid
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neighboring municipalities, and any other municipality that might be
affected by the Bassett's Creek Watershed District, themselves be given
the opportunity to petition to the State Water Resources Board for the
establishment of a Watershed District rather than said petition emanating
from the County Board.
The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly
seconded by member Schaphorst, and, upon vote being taken thereon, the
following members voted in favor thereof: Flannagan, Garis, Schaphorst,
and Teresi; and the following voted against the same: None, whereupon said
resolution was declared duly passed and adopted, signed by the Mayor and
his signature attested by the Village Clerk.
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