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LRRWMO Special Meeting Minutes • July 11, 1996 Page 2 interested. Lord. advised that of the $15,000 needed to match the grant, $8,500 is in-hand and if Anoka County Highway contributes, it would increase to $13,000. Lord explained that to apply and qualify for this grant, the State expected groups to establish a Joint Powers Board and then adopt a resolution to accept the grant funds. However, only a very short timeframe was allowed (malting this not feasible) so the ADC intends to submit the grant application with the indication that if the grant is awarded, the WMO's will form a Joint Powers Board. Jankowski asked if data collection will be focused on the areas that contribute. Lord answered affirmatively and explained the State will probably not agree to extending the grant application deadline. He explained since the deadline is tomorrow, he will be submitting a grant application with copies of the minutes and resolution indicating the WMO's agree to form a Joint Powers Board if grant funds are awarded to them. Weaver asked how this would be implemented and whose jurisdiction the intern would operate under, the LGU or ACD. Lord explained the person could be housed at ACD but it will depend on how the JPA is structured. Lord advised 4hat the. types of data collected will be to identify locations of drained wetlands (tiled • familands}which would be more cost effective for wetland restoration locations: He stated this type of data will be of significant benefit to the entire watershed district. Lord suggested the. first stage include work on a drained wetland inventory, review of existing functional assessment methods, modification of NWI for Arc Info, Mapping wetland types, landfills and zoning by subwatershed, getting the County Biological Survey into GIS format and to map heritage communities by subwatershed. Lord explained this is probably the beginning of a two-year plan and grant funds would have to be applied for again next year. Jankowski indicated there would benefit for Ramsey to prepare a local wetland plan. Lord noted that Anoka's area of wetlands would be small but it may still be advantageous to be part of this because there are not many wetland areas that would have to be inventoried. Weaver asked if "control" of this issue is a consideration; having another level of authority involved. Jankowski stated he does not believe this will happen in this case since the intern will only gather information and develop a strategy for the city's individual use in preparing their own local plan. Haas noted that once the data is provided, the city would still have to prepare and adopt a local plan before the city qualifies fora 1:1 mitigation on DNR wetlands. Lord stated this is correct. Jankowski asked if this will qualify: for the data`collection.section included irr the Plan Update: • Lobermeier indicted it would and also enhances the opportunity for future grants.