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1 General Obligation Bond Proceeds MUNICIPAL PUBLICLY OWNED INFRASTRUCTURE INFLOW/INFILTRATION GRANT PROGRAM INTERGOVERNMENTAL GRANT AGREEMENT BETWEEN METROPOLITAN COUNCIL AND LINO LAKES This Intergovernmental Grant Agreement (“Grant Agreement”) is made this ____ day of _______________, 2019, and entered into by and between the Metropolitan Council a public corporation and political subdivision of the State of Minnesota (“Council”) and, Lino Lakes a Minnesota Municipal corporation (“Grantee”). BACKGROUND RECITALS 115.The Minnesota Legislature has appropriated to the Council in the 2017 Session Laws Chapter 8, Section 16, subdivision 3, $3,739,000, for a grant program to be administered by the Council. In addition, the Minnesota Legislature appropriated to the Council in the 2018 Session Laws Chapter 214, Section 17, subdivision 2, $5,000,000, for a grant program to be administered by the Council. Therefore, the total 2017 I/I Grant distribution shall be $8,739,000. Each appropriation is for the purpose of providing grants to municipalities for capital improvements to public municipal wastewater collection systems to reduce the amount of inflow and infiltration to the Council’s metropolitan sanitary sewer disposal system (“I/I Municipal Grant Program”). 116.The monies allocated to fund the appropriation to the Council are proceeds of state general obligation bonds authorized to be issued under Article XI, § 5(a) of the Minnesota Constitution. 117.The Council has gone through a public process and formally adopted Guidelines for the I/I Municipal Grant Program. Grantee has read and understands the Council Guidelines (“Council Guidelines”). 118.Council has identified Grantee as a contributor of excessive inflow and infiltration to the Council’s metropolitan sanitary sewer disposal system and thus an eligible applicant for grant funds under the I/I Municipal Grant Program. 119.Pursuant to its authority under Minnesota Statutes § 444.075 [or other authority, if different], Grantee operates a municipal wastewater collection system identified as Lino Lakes Wastewater Collection System (“Wastewater System”) and has submitted an application to and been approved by the Council for grant funds in the amount of $43,099.63, for performance of functions and activities for its inflow and infiltration mitigation capital improvement project to the Wastewater System in accordance with Council guidelines. 120.Council has reviewed and found eligible Grantee’s application for grant funds and has awarded such grant funds (“G.O. Grant”) to Grantee to construct a capital improvement project to 12th November