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LAW OFFICES OF <br />JENSEN, BELL, CONVERSE & ERICKSON, P.A. <br />Roger A. Jensen 1500 Wells Fargo Place Telephone (651) 223 -4999 <br />James C. Erickson, Sr. *$ 30 East Seventh Street Facsimile (651) 223 -4987 <br />Caroline Bell Beckman St. Paul, MN 55101 <br />Charles R. Bartholdi <br />Mitchell W. Converse * Also Admitted in Wisconsin <br />Kari L. Quinn* tOf Counsel <br />Carol A. Baldwin $ Certified Civil Trial Specialist <br />Mark F. Gaughan <br />James C. Erickson, Jr. <br />Robert C. Bell t <br />Willard L. Converse t <br />May 24, 2007 <br />VIA E -MAIL <br />Ms. Stephanie McNamara <br />Administrator — Wetlands <br />Vadnais Lake Area Water <br />Management Organization <br />800 East County Road E <br />Vadnais Heights, MN 55127 <br />RE: Amendment to VLAWMO Joint Powers Agreement <br />Our File: 3518.1 <br />Dear Stephanie: <br />You have asked me to draft an amendment to Article VIII of the VLAWMO Joint Powers <br />Agreement, dealing with apportionment of the various members' shares of the operating and <br />capital improvement budgets. This modification to the Agreement is being required by Brad <br />Wozney of the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources (BWSR) who you and I met with <br />along with a representative of the attorney general's office. Their objection to the current Joint <br />Powers Agreement funding provision is that it allows any individual member to disapprove the <br />operating budget and capital improvement budget allocations and thus, in their words, "each <br />member has veto power on budgets and projects ". <br />The modifications to the Joint Powers Agreement, contained in the amended language of Article <br />VIII, a marked up and a clean copy of which I enclose herewith, provide for the following: <br />1. Members are given the opportunity to review and make recommendations to the <br />VLAWMO Board regarding the proposed operating and capital improvement <br />budgets for the following calendar year. <br />2. The VLAWMO Board makes a final determination on the operating and capital <br />improvement budgets and the allocation of the costs among members. <br />2 <br />I 2OCT? <br />