This meeting will continue the public hearing for the Watershed Management Plan Amendment.

The Lower Minnesota River Watershed District Board of Managers meeting starts at 7:00pm in the County Board Room of the Carver County Government Center (2nd floor), 602 East 4th Street, Chaska, MN.

Most meeting materials are available in one document: FULL PACKET.  It does not include the meeting minutes (Item 4.A.), invoices (Item 4C), Administrator's report and the "information only" at the end of the agenda.  The meeting minutes and Administrator's report will be added when they are ready. The meeting materials are also available below as PDFs of the individual agenda items:

1. Call to Order and Roll Call

2. Approval of the Agenda

   • April 18, 2018 Agenda

3. Citizen Input on Non-agenda Items:     

   • Citizens may address the Board of Managers about any item not contained on the regular agenda. A maximum of 15 minutes is allowed for the Forum. If the full 15 minutes are not needed for the Forum, the Board will continue with the agenda. The Board will take no official action on items discussed at the Forum, with the exception of referral to staff or a Board Committee for a recommendation to be brought back to the Board for discussion or action at a future meeting.

4. Consent Agenda

   1.  Approval of Minutes for February 21, 2018 and March 21, 2018 regular meetings

   2. Approval of Financial Report

   3. Presentation of invoices for payment

      1. Carver County - for 1st quarter 2018 financial services

      2. Freshwater Society - for sponsorship of 2018 Road Salt Symposium

      3. Kaul Design Group, LLC - Final invoice for logo redesign

      4. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. - for 2018 surety bond premium

      5. MAWD - for 2018 membership dues

      6. Pace Analytical Services, LLC - for chloride testing of Ike's Creek

      7. Time Savers Off Site Secretarial - preparation of January & February 2018 Board meeting minutes

      8. State of MN - for publication advertisement for engineering & legal services proposals

      9. US Bank Equipment Finance - March copier rental

      10. Greg Zeck - Dec & Jan webmaster services, web hosting & domain name renewals

      11. Burns & McDonnell - for Dec & Jan engineering services

      12. Culligan Bottled Water - bottled water for Chaska office

      13. Rinke Noonan - for Jan & Feb legal services

      14. Steinkraus Development LLC - for March office rent

      15. Naiad Consulting, LLC - for January 2018 admin services & expenses

      16. Scott County Treasurer - for reporting to auditor for annual audit

5. Public Hearing

   1. Continuation of October 25, 2017 Watershed Plan Amendment Public Hearing

6. New Business

   1. Hennepin County Landslide Inventory

7. Old Business

   1. Engineering & Legal proposals

   2. Metro-area Watershed Based Funding Pilot Program

   3. Dredge Management

      1. Review process for funding of maintenance of Navigation Channel

      2. Vernon Avenue Dredge Material Management site

      3. Private Dredge Material Placement

   4. Watershed Management Plan

   5. 2018 Legislative Action

   6. Education and Outreach Plan

   7. LMRWD Projects

      1. Eden Prairie Area #3 Stabilization

      2. Riley Creek Cooperative project - Hennepin County Flying Cloud Drive/CSAH 61 reconstruction project

      3. Floodplain Lake Coring Project with Freshwater Society

      4. Seminary Fen ravine stabilization project

      5. Analysis of Dakota County Monitoring

      6. East Chaska Creek - CSAH 61 & TH 41 Transportation improvements

   8. Project Reviews

      1. City of Chaska - MCES L-71 lift station project

      2. City of Chaska - Indoor Dog Park

      3. City of Bloomington - Jefferson High School

      4. Scott County - TH 169/41 Interchange

      5. City of Minneapolis - Comprehensive plan

      6. City of St. Paul - Comprehensive plan

      7. City of Bloomington - Local Surface Water Management Plan

      8. City of Bloomington - Hyatt House; 2343-2373 Old Shakopee Road

      9. City of Chaska - Local Surface Water Management Plan Amendment

      10. City of Chanhassen - Comprehensive Plan/Local Water Management Plan

      11. City of Lilydale  Local Water Management Plan Amendment

      12. City of Burnsville - Xcel Energy Black Dog Plant

      13. MNDOT - I35W Bridge replacement

   9. MPCA Soil Reference Values - No change since last update

8. Communications

   1. Administrator Report

   2. President

   3. Managers

   4. Legal Counsel

   5. Engineer

9. Adjourn