Bill Text: MN SF1409 | 2011-2012 | 87th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Minneapolis Cowles center for dance and the performing arts bond issue and appropriation

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-09 - Referred to Capital Investment [SF1409 Detail]

Download: Minnesota-2011-SF1409-Introduced.html

1.1A bill for an act
1.2relating to capital investment; appropriating money for the Cowles Center for
1.3Dance and the Performing Arts; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5    Section 1. COWLES CENTER FOR DANCE AND THE PERFORMING ARTS.
1.6    Subdivision 1. Appropriation. $1,200,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds
1.7fund to the commissioner of economic development for a grant to the city of Minneapolis
1.8for the Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts, subject to Minnesota Statutes,
1.9section 16A.695.
1.10This appropriation is for construction operations relating to the proper capping
1.11and sealing of the abandoned well that once served the former West Hotel, to include
1.12costs related to the removal of any oil-lubricated pumps or other debris in a manner
1.13that does not compromise the two aquifers through which the well runs and any other
1.14expenses necessary to receive a certificate of full compliance from the commissioner of
1.15health. This appropriation may also be used for other purposes related to complying
1.16with environmental, ordinance, and code standards as a result of excavation required for
1.17connecting to utilities through public rights-of-way or near the well site, such as removing
1.18rubble, bricks, rocks, and pieces of debris, and infilling the excavation sites with approved
1.19material, such as class 5 gravel.
1.20This appropriation is in addition to the appropriation in Laws 2005, chapter 20,
1.21section 23, subdivision 16; and Laws 2006, chapter 258, section 21, subdivision 17,
1.22paragraph (b).
2.1    Subd. 2. Bond sale. To provide the money appropriated in this section from the
2.2bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue
2.3bonds of the state in an amount up to $1,200,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with
2.4the effect prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the
2.5Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.
2.6EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
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