#302 05-16-67 Request Purchase of Land North Hennepin State Junior College6 6'
Resolution No. 302
May 16, 1967
Member Garis introduced the fallowing resolution and MOVED its adoption:
RESOLUTION REQUESTING HENNEPIN COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS TO PURCHASE LAND AND
PROVIDE UTILITIES FOR NORTH HENNEPIN
STATE JUNIOR COLLEGE
WHEREAS, the Minnesota State Legislature by Chapter 809, Section 31,
Subdivision 1 and 2, Laws of 1965, did provide for a state junior college
to be situated in the Northwest Hennepin County area, and
WHEREAS, the Minnesota State Junior College Board did investigate a
number of sited for the location of said Junior College and on February 17,
1967, determined to locate the junior college on "a plot of at least ninety
acres, as nearly square as possible, contiguous to County Road 109 and
County Road 103 and Southeast of the intersection of these roas," and
WHEREAS, the motion passed by the board reads as follows:
7To designate the above location as the permanent site for North Hennepin
State Junior College, Provided that the land would be donated to the state
and that utilities would be brought to the site at no cost to the state",
and
WHEREAS, the State Junior College Board did establish a college which
opened in September of 1966, using temporary facilities provided by the
Board of Education of Independent School District No. 279 (Osseo), with
1111 equivalent full time students, and it is projected that said college
will have an enrollment of 3000 students by the year 1975, and
WHEREAS, the need for a junior college in Northwest Hennepin County
is great and will pr&vide an institution of higher education close to an
area which has been totally devoid of such facilities, and
WHEREAS, the North Hennepin State Junior College provides the closest
facility to the following 25 governmental units, Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn
Park, Champlin Township, Champlin Village, Corcoran Village, Crystal, Dayton
Township, Dayton Village, Golden Valley, Hassan Township, Independence, Long
Lake, Loretto, Maple Grove, Maple Plain, Medicine Lake, Medina, New Hope,
Orono, Osseo, Plymouth, Robbinsdale, Rockford, Rogers, and Wayzata; which
have an estimated population of approximately 165,000 people, and
WHEREAS, Chapter 728, Minnesota Laws of 1965 (M.S.A. 136.65) provides
authority for a city, village, borough, county,school district, or unorgani7,ed
territory either jointly or severally to acquire by gift, purchase or codem-
nation a site for a state junior college if the site has been designated by.
the state junior college board as the site of a state junior college and said
unit or units of government may convey such site to the State of Minnesota
for state junior college purposes, and
WHEREAS, it is impractical if not totally impossible to allocate
and reach agreement by the aforementioned communities as to a monetary
contribution to acquire and provide utilities for the aformentioned site
and impossible to kneow the method by which each community or unit of
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government would or could raise its share of any allocation, and
WHEREAS, the facility will provide a benefit for all of Hennepin
County, and
WHEREAS, the county encompasses all of the aforementioned communities
and has all of these residents as taxpayers, and
WHEREAS, Ramsey and Washington Counties jointly, and Anoka and Dakot a
Counties have all provided sites for the state junior college board, and
WHEREAS, it is necessary that the land be purchased under option or
condemned by January 31, 1968, to be eligible for federal assistance,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE VILLAGE COUNCIL OF THE VILLAGE
OF GOLDEN VALLEY:
1. That the Hennepin Board of County Commissioners be respectfully
requested to purchase or condemn and provide utilities for the aforementioned
junior college site.
2. That Hennepin County donate said site to the State of Minnesota
who will erect and operate a state junior college under the supervision
of the State Junior College Board.
3. That a copy of this Resolution be sent to Commissioners Cott,
Janes, Provo, Hanson and Robb with a request to be placed on the agenda
for the earliest possible date.
4. That the Mayor, Village Trustees, and any interested citizens
appear before the Board of County Commissioners to expand on the material
included in this Resolution and answer any questions that the individual
commissioners may have as it relates to this request.
The m
Acting Mayor
Attest:
Village Clerk
The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly seconded
by Member Stockman, and upon vote being taken thereon, the following members
voted in favor thereof: Bies, Garis, Stockman, and Teresi; and the fol-
lowing 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.