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MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING This MEMORANDUM OF JNDEIi TANDING (MOU) ish ;rt by made and entered into by and between the community of h C. rys,s 1241 (hereinafter "community„), the tr , Snowmobile Club (hereinafter "club"), and the Minnesota United Snowmobile's Association (hereinafter "association") PURPOSE: The purpose ofthis MOU is for the parties to cooperatively work together to advance and promote safe snowmobile access routes to services located within the community while criticising the community as a `Snowmobile Friendly Community' to bereft its tourism development efforts. I. STATEMENT OF MUTUAL BENEFIT AND INTERESTS: A. The community hosts a variety of businesses which offer fuel, food, lodging, and/or repair services required by snowrnobilers. B. The club and association represent the organized snowmobiling public and work to foster safe and dependable access routes for snowrnobilers. C. Stnowmobiling provides important winter tourism that generates substantial economic impacts through visitor spending and tax revenues. In consideration of the above premises, the parties figas follows: III THE COMMUNITY AGREES TO: A. Provide safe and reliable access routes by snowmobile to designated community businesses which can provide: #fuel, lodging, food, repairs and supplies for srrowmobilers B. Promote itself as `snowmobile friendly' to aid snawmobilers with their trip planning C. Provide trail maps or other informational material to aid snowwmobiler trip planning D. Consider ordinances or policies that allow residents to travel by snowmobile from their homes on designated plowed streets or roadways to either the outskirts of the community or to designated snowmobile trail mutes E. Consider ordinances or policies that allow snowmobiles to access businesses by either groomed trails or other properly designated ovvr-snow routes including plowed streets or roadways F. Manage Local snow removal efforts, to the extent feasible, to help prevent creating safety hazards caused by snow removal operations unnecessarily depositing snow onto groomed snowmobile trails and conic tirrg routes G. Manage: local snow removal efforts, to the extent feasible:, to help prevent unnecessarily removing all snow cover from designated connecting routes (streets and road shoulder) needed for snowmobile access to key fuel, lodging and food services H. Promote good road sharing etiquette and road crossing regulation for snowmobile -automobile; interaction I. Lave designated representatives meet with the club at least annually to help coordinate snowmobile -friendly policies and to address snowmobile: management issues III. THE CLUB AGREES TO: A. Support th•e community in its efforts to be a Snowmobile Friendly Community 13, Promote the community as a Snowmobile Friendly Community on its website as well as in its publications or other appropriate snowmobiling promotional materials C. Support the community by helping to provide snowmobile safety information and training 11