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Thn Council has very specific administrative responsfbiiity in ihe regional <br />park systam. The laH provides ChaC "the Metropotican Council shall review, � <br />with the adviee of the Cammission, each master plan to determine wheeher it is <br />conaisteni with ehe Council's poliey plan.^� Tne Iaw further provides that <br />"the Metropoiitan Council, with the advice of the Cofmnission, may makn grants <br />from any funds available to iC for reereation open spaca purposes, Co any <br />munieipality, park district or caunty located wholly or partially in the <br />netropolitan Area, to cover ehe cost, or any portion of the cost, of acquiring � <br />ar dnveloping regional reereation open space in accordanee�xith�Che poT�icy� <br />plan." Howaver, Che U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Minnesota�ONR are . <br />not required to submit master pians to ehe Council for parks under ehair � <br />jurisdictiod that are part of tha regianai park Sysiem. And ehe Council aan�wc��� <br />maka grants to either agency for purooses of acquiring or deveioping thesa <br />facifities. <br />U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Minnesota ON0. ac.ions that Orovida reereations�. <br />opportunity in Che Metrapoliian A�ea have a su6siantial impact on the Councii's � <br />pians for the regional park system. The eoncentration of s;ate parks outs�ids <br />the Metr000litan Area wae a Pactor in the beginnings of the regional system. <br />The Hennepin County Park Reserve District was estabiished in 1957 to provida� <br />similar parks in Hennepin County. Since chen, the counties, toge:her with thn� <br />park reserve district and a few municipalities, have assumed primary <br />r:sponsi6ility for providing regional recreation open space in ehis Area, with r' <br />regional administrecion provided by ihe Coweil and Cammission. ' <br />There aro t.ro basic alternatives�for addroesing chis issue. One would be to � <br />retain C^e funetionat systam approach, and a5R [he siate lecistaCU�e to require <br />th¢ Mieresota DNR to suhmit mas.er plans to the Councii ;or s.ate oarks in the-.. <br />Metropofitan Araa, as weli as the manayemene plans it suemi:s�to the S.ate � <br />Ptanning.Agency. . <br />The seeond appraach would be to rertqve state parRS and�Pederal urtits from � � <br />the reqionai park system. �These compiementary facili:ias �ould still 6e � .� <br />cansidered in regional planning. . <br />MASTEA PLaNS FOR REGIONAI RECAEi1T10N.OPEN SAACE <br />Tnree queatians regarding which agencies should prepare mas.er-plans for <br />regional recreation apen spaee shoutd be addressed. <br />(1) <br />The 1974 <br />plans ?o <br />"a plan <br />raereati <br />