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2. 3. <br />CC Work Session <br />Meeting Date: 11/26/2024 <br />Primary Strategic Plan Initiative: Not Applicable <br />Information <br />Title: <br />Review Final Draft of Lower Rum River Watershed Management Organization Joint Powers Agreement <br />Purpose/Background: <br />Purpose: <br />The purpose of this case is to review the draft 2025-2034 Joint Powers Agreement (JPA) for the continued <br />operation of the Lower Rum River Watershed Management Organization (LRRWMO) in preparation for <br />approving the JPA during the regular City Council meeting per the companion consent agenda case. <br />Background: <br />The draft 2025-2034 LRRWMO JPA was drafted by the LRRWMO attorney at the direction of the LRRWMO <br />Board of Managers to update the language in the current JPA to remove historic language that is no longer <br />needed, more accurately reflect how the Watershed Management Organization actually operates, and provide for <br />its continued operation through January 1, 2035. The current JPA will expire January 1, 2025, <br />The draft 2025-2034 JPA addresses review comments submitted by the three member cities, including Ramsey <br />City Council comments made during their work session on October 8, 2024. Attached is a copy of the October <br />8th work session case with copies of the previously executed JPA's attached, along with a redlined version of the <br />May 12, 2024, draft 2025-2034 JPA.. Also attached are approved meeting minutes from this work session, along <br />with an email summarizing staff and City Council comments that was submitted to the LRRWMO by the City <br />Engineer/Public Works Director on October 10, 2024, for consideration during the LRRWMO Board meeting on <br />October 17, 2024. A copy of the draft meeting minutes from the October 17, 2024, LRRWMO Board meeting is <br />attached, along with the agenda from the November 21, 2024, LRRWMO meeting and the JPA update case, <br />which includes a clean version of the draft 2025-2034 JPA and draft supporting Council resolution. A relined <br />version of the draft 2025-2034 JPA is also attached to this case for reference. <br />Councilmember Musgrove is the City of Ramsey's Commissioner on the LRRWMO Board and serves as Chair of <br />the LRRWMO Board of Commissioners. <br />Time Frame/Observations/Alternatives: <br />A companion case has been added to the regular City council meeting consent agenda requesting approval of the <br />attached draft 2025-2034 LRRWMO JPA. Should the City Council request additional revisions, the consent <br />agenda case will need to be pulled from the agenda and staff will work with the LRRWMO to incorporate the <br />requested revisions into the draft 2025-2034 LRRWMO JPA with the goal of obtaining City Council approval on <br />December loth, the last regular City Council meeting of 2024. <br />Recommendation: <br />Staff recommends approving the attached 2025-2034 LRRWMO JPA before January 1, 2025. <br />The City Attorney has reviewed the draft 2025-2034 LRRWMO JPA and approved it as to legal form. <br />Outcome/Action: <br />