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File #: 24-0975R    Name:
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 12/2/2024 In control: Personnel
On agenda: 12/9/2024 Final action: 12/9/2024
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: RESOLUTION ELECTING MEMBER TO THE BOARD OF MANAGERS OF THE DULUTH/NORTH SHORE SANITARY DISTRICT PURSUANT TO MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 442A.14, SUBDIVISION 7.

Title

RESOLUTION ELECTING MEMBER TO THE BOARD OF MANAGERS

OF THE DULUTH/NORTH SHORE SANITARY DISTRICT PURSUANT

TO MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 442A.14, SUBDIVISION 7.

 

Body

CITY PROPOSAL:  by the governing body of the City of Duluth, St. Louis County,

Minnesota, as follows:

 

Section 1. Recitals.

 

1.01 The City of Duluth, the Town of Duluth and the Town of Lakewood, all in

St. Louis County, Minnesota, in 1999 submitted a petition to the Minnesota Pollution

Control Agency (the “MPCA”) requesting creation of the Duluth/North Shore Sanitary

District (the “Sanitary District”) pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Sections 115.18 through

115.37, as amended and recodified under Minnesota Statutes, Sections 442A.01

through 442A.29 (the “Act”). (The City of Duluth, the Town of Duluth and the Town of

Lakewood are herein referred to collectively as the “Municipalities.”)

 

1.02 On January 25, 2000, the MPCA issued an order approving creation of the

Sanitary District (the “Order”). The Order was published in the State Register on

January 31, 2000.

 

1.03 On March 1, 2000, the time for appeal of the Order having expired, a

certified copy of the Order was duly filed with the Minnesota Secretary of State, and

creation of the Sanitary District was thereupon deemed complete under the Act.

 

1.04 The Act requires that the Municipalities elect a board of managers for the

Sanitary District (the “Board of Managers”) as soon as practicable after creation of the

Sanitary District.

 

1.05 Pursuant to section 442A.14, subdivision 7 of the Act, the Municipalities

may elect a board member or members by resolutions adopted by all of them

separately, concurring in the election of the same person or persons.

Section 2. Findings. It is in the best interests of the Municipalities and of the

Sanitary District that the following person, who is a voter residing in the area of the

Sanitary District, be nominated for election to the Board of Managers for the term

indicated:

 

a. Kevin J. Bovee, of the Town of Lakewood, Minnesota, for a term

commencing upon the passage of all concurring resolutions by the Municipalities,

and shall expire on the first business day of January, 2028.

 

Section 3. Election of Board of Managers. Election of the above-named

person to the Board of Managers of the Sanitary District is approved and such person is

elected for the term indicated.

 

Section 4. Authorization and direction to clerk. Upon receipt of concurring

resolutions from the Town of Duluth and the Town of Lakewood, the clerk is directed to

certify the results of this election to the secretary of the MPCA and to the auditor of

St. Louis County and make and transmit to the Board member elected a certificate of

the board member’s election.

 

Statement of Purpose

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE:  The purpose of this resolution is to elect members to the

Board of Managers of the Duluth/North Shore Sanitary District and to authorize the clerk

to perform certain procedural functions with respect to the election. The City has been

designated as the central related governing body in the order of the MPCA creating the

Sanitary District, and as such has the procedural duties described in Section 4 of the

resolution.