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1 <br />General Obligation Bond Proceeds <br />MUNICIPAL PUBLICLY OWNED INFRASTRUCTURE <br />INFLOW/INFILTRATION GRANT PROGRAM <br />INTERGOVERNMENTAL GRANT AGREEMENT <br />BETWEEN <br />METROPOLITAN COUNCIL AND LINO LAKES <br />This Intergovernmental Grant Agreement (“Grant Agreement”) is made this 16th day of <br />November, 2016, and entered into by and between the Metropolitan Council a public corporation <br />and political subdivision of the State of Minnesota (“Council”) and, Lino Lakes a Minnesota <br />Municipal corporation (“Grantee”). <br />BACKGROUND RECITALS <br />1.The Minnesota Legislature has appropriated to the Council in the 2014 Session Laws <br />Chapter 294, Section 17, subdivision 4, $2,000,000, for a grant program to be administered by <br />the Council. In addition, the Minnesota Legislature appropriated to the Council in the 2015 <br />Session Laws Chapter 5, Section 11, $1,500,000, for a grant program to be administered by the <br />Council. Also, this grant includes $656,800 of residual funds from the 2012 I/I Grant Program - <br />Session Laws Chapter 293 Section 17, Subdivision 3. Therefore the total 2014 I/I Grant <br />distribution shall be $4,156,800. Each appropriations is for the purpose of providing grants to <br />municipalities for capital improvements to public municipal wastewater collection systems to <br />reduce the amount of inflow and infiltration to the Council’s metropolitan sanitary sewer <br />disposal system (“I/I Municipal Grant Program”). <br />2.The monies allocated to fund the appropriation to the Council are proceeds of state <br />general obligation bonds authorized to be issued under Article XI, § 5(a) of the Minnesota <br />Constitution. <br />3.The Council has gone through a public process and formally adopted Guidelines for <br />the I/I Municipal Grant Program. Grantee has read and understands the Council Guidelines <br />(“Council Guidelines”). <br />4.Council has identified Grantee as a contributor of excessive inflow and infiltration to <br />the Council’s metropolitan sanitary sewer disposal system and thus an eligible applicant for grant <br />funds under the I/I Municipal Grant Program. <br />5.Pursuant to its authority under Minnesota Statutes § 444.075 [or other authority, if <br />different], Grantee operates a municipal wastewater collection system identified as Lino Lakes <br />Wastewater Collection System (“Wastewater System”) and has submitted an application to and <br />been approved by the Council for grant funds in the amount of $38,433.67, for performance of <br />functions and activities for its inflow and infiltration mitigation capital improvement project to <br />the Wastewater System in accordance with Council guidelines.