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 invoices presented for payment, the Administrator's report or the "information only" portion at the end of the agenda.  The meeting materials are also available below as PDFs of the individual agenda items:

1. Call to Order and Roll Call

   • Oath of Office Administered to Manager Raby

2. Approval of the Agenda

   • May, 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 April 18, 2018 regular meeting

   2. Receive and file May 2018 Financial Report

   3. Presentation of invoices for payment

      1. Burns & McDonnell - for February 2018 engineering services

      2. Frenette Legislative Advisors - for January, February & March lobbying services

      3. Pace Analytical Services - for Chloride monitoring of Ike's Creek

      4. US Bank Equipment Finance - for April & May copier rental

      5. Coalition for a Clean Minnesota River - for sponsorship of MN River Congress

      6. Metro Conservation District - for Children's Water Festival

      7. Metro Sales - for copier maintenance agreement

      8. Rinke Noonan - for March 2018 legal services

      9. Steinkraus Development LLC - for April & May office rent

      10. Naiad Consulting, LLC - for February 2018 admin services & expenses

5. New Business

   1. Presentation by Kim Musser from Minnesota River Data Center

   2. Presentation by Ted Suss from Friends of the Minnesota Valley

   3. MN River Congress request

   4. 2017 monitoring presentation by Scott County SWCD

      1. Approval of Scott County Monitoring Agreement

   5. Corps of Engineers - Lower Minnesota River Watershed District Storage Assessment

   6. 2018 Cost Share Program Applications

      1. City of Carver

      2. 10831 Quebec Avenue South, Bloomington - Larson

      3. 3113 Chelsea Court, Burnsville, - Zepeda

      4. 3100 Chelsea Court, Burnsville - Schwartz

      5. 1437 Valley Drive, Burnsville - Glassen

6. Old Business

   1. Hennepin County Landslide project

   2. Metro-area Watershed Based Funding Pilot Program

   3. MAWD Summer Tour

   4. Dredge Management

      1. Review process for funding of maintenance of Navigation Channel

      2. Vernon Avenue Dredge Material Management site

      3. Private Dredge Material Placement

   5. Watershed Management Plan

   6. 2018 Legislative Action

   7. Education and Outreach Plan - No new information to report since last update

   8. 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

   9. Project Reviews

      1. ​​​​City of Burnsville - Dodge of Burnsville

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

      3. City of Burnsville - Xcel Energy Black Dog Plant

      4. MNDOT - I35W Bridge replacement

   10. Boundary Change - RPBCWD, NMCWD, MCWD, and LMRWD

   11. MPCA Soil Reference Values

7. Communications

   1. Administrator Report

   2. President

   3. Managers

   4. Legal Counsel

   5. Engineer

8. Adjourn