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Applicable Funding Formulas <br />Parks and Trails Fund (Minn. Stat. 85.53, subd. 3): <br />"(1) 45 percent of the money must be disbursed according to the allocation formula in section 473.351, <br />subdivision 3, to each implementing agency; (2) 31.5% of the money must be distributed based on each <br />implementing agency's relative share of the most recent estimate of the population of the metropolitan area; <br />(3) 13.5 percent of the money must be distributed based on each implementing agency's relative share of <br />nonlocal visits based on the most recent user visitation survey conducted by the Metropolitan Council; and (4) <br />ten percent of the money must be distributed as grants to implementing agencies for land acquisition within <br />Metropolitan Council approved regional parks and trails master plan boundaries under the council's park <br />acquisition opportunity grant program." <br />Operations and Maintenance Funds (Minn. Stat. 473.351, subd. 3) <br />"The Metropolitan Council shall distribute the operations and maintenance money as follows: (1) 40 percent <br />based on the use that each implementing agency's regional recreation open space system has in proportion <br />to the total use of the metropolitan regional recreation open space system; (2) 40 percent based on the <br />operation and maintenance expenditures made in the previous year by each implementing agency in <br />proportion to the total operation and maintenance expenditures of all the implementing agencies; and (3) 20 <br />percent based on the acreage that each implementing agency's regional recreation open space system has in <br />proportion to the total acreage of the metropolitan regional recreation open space system." <br />25 <br />