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CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM Minnesota Statutes Section 473.147, Subdivision I, requires that the Metropolitan Council's Regional Recreation Open Space Policy Plan "...include a five-year Capital Improvement Program, which shall be revised periodically and shall establish criteria and priorities for the allocation of funds for such acquisition and development." Policy 12 (page 28) of this policy plan states that "the Council will prepare the five-year capital improvement program for regional recreation open space from master plan information and needs identified in the system planning process. The capital improvement program will be completely revised in each even-numbered year. The allocation of available funds will be revised on a system-wide basis .each year." The Council has adopted an Investment Framework that provides for a comprehensive Council analysis of capital financing for all regional systems. Regional Recreation Open Space is one of these systems. The Council reVlews the individual and cumulative effect of the planned expenditures on the Metropolitan Region. The capital improvement program (CIP) for recreation open space reflects the current status of the system and directs its development in the immediate future. Table 3 delineates expenditures for five bienniums. Projects have been considered for funding on the basis of their contribution to the goals and objectives of the plan (pp. 21-23). The CIP groups activities in recreation open space into six categories, defined below. Each project category is shown in a column in Table 3. CATEGORY A: Funds for region-wide functions necessary for continuation of the reglonal recreation open space system, including: - System-wide research and planning; _ Acquisition of inholdings i.e., several tracts of land, usually with buildings, lying within the boundaries of regional parks, park reserves and trail corridors; Rehabilitation of natural resource areas in conservation zones of park reserves and regional parks; and - Contingency reserve, currently funded from interest. CATEGORY B: Acquisitions of parcels critical to completion of the planned recreation open space system, including: _ Parcels in unprotected regional park sites (that is, sites without established boundaries) with high recreational potential or in unprotected park reserve sites on landscape types not represented in the recreation open space system. Sites in this category must be scheduled for acquisition in the current biennium of the recreation open space plan. _ Parcels in existing regional parks or park reserves which, in the current biennium, are one or more of the following: 1) Threatened by another, incompatible, use which would remove their utility to the park; 1