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RESOLUTION NO. 90-1 A RESOLUTION REQUESTING SUPPORT AND COOPERATION OF MEMBER CITIES REGARDING THE MANAGEMENT OF WATER RESOURCES WITHIN THE LOWER RUM RIVER k~TERSHED WHEREAS, in 1985 the Cities of Andover, Anoka, Coon Rapids, and Ramsey formed a joint powers agency known as the Lower Rum River Watershed Management Organization to comply with requirements established by Minnesota Laws of 1982, Chapter 509, and WHEREAS, the LRRWMO Commissioners have been meeting and preparing a watershed management plan as directed by state law and the Commission has operated doing the minimum required because it has been the belief of this Commission that the four member cities wanted the Watershed Management Organization to operate with the minimum interference to local control, and WHEREAS, since 1982 the concerns about water resources and water quality have increased substantially as the metropolitan area has become aware of water shortages and threats to underground and surface water resources, and the responsibilities of the Commission have been increased by the Legislature and by the realization that it is in the public interest to protect our water supply and water quality, and WHEREAS, the Minnesota Legislature has been alerted to concerns about a lack of uniformity in the manner in which water resources are being managed in different areas of the metropolitan area, and the Legislature established a task force known as the "Metropolitan Local Water Management Task Force" to respond to the Governor and the Legislature on methods for improving the way waters are managed in the metropolitan area, and that task force has met and taken testimony from numerous interested agencies and has conducted studies as to what has happened as a result of Chapter 509 and has made a substantial number of recommendations to the Legislature on what should be done to protect water quality and the water supply, and WHEREAS, a report entitled "Report of the Metropolican Local Water Management Task Force to the Governor and Legislature of the State of Minnesota" dated December 15, 1989, has now been circulated to water management organizations and to cities, counties, and other agencies concerned with the management of water in the metropolitan area, and said task force report recommends a substantial number of legislative changes requiring that water management organizations be responsible for managing underground and surface water and for establishing an administrative procedure which will provide uniformity in management practices, and the recommendations of said report are currently being drafted into legislation which will be introduced in the 1990 Legislature, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED By the Lower Rum River Watershed Management Organization as follows: 1. The LRRWMO recommends to the four member cities that they support their joint powers commission in carrying out the responsibilities mandated by state and federal law and to manage water resources in