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14669 Fitzgerald Avenue North, Hugo, MN 55038 • (651) 762‐6300 • www.ci.hugo.mn.us November 15, 2021 Alyssa Soderlund Administrative Assistant, Board of Commissioners Washington County Office of Administration 14949 62nd Street North Stillwater, MN 55082 Dear Ms. Soderlund, Thank you for your notice of an upcoming vacancy on the Rice Creek Watershed District. The City of Hugo wishes to provide John Waller as a nomination to the list of nominees submitted by towns and municipalities for the vacancy. We are perplexed by your request that the City of Hugo submit its own list of three nominees to the Board, since that is not what the statute contemplates. You also mention that the County Board may receive more than one list, which is incorrect. Each individual city is to only make nominations, not lists of nominations. If the County receives at least three nominations (jointly or separately) from towns and municipalities for the vacancy, those nominations will form a single list. It is this list that we recommend be provided by you to the County Board as “the list” from towns and municipalities. If this list is formed and submitted, it is our recommendation that the Board select John Waller from that list. If three nominations are not received, then presumably a list will not be formed or submitted. In that case, the County Board may choose who it wishes from towns and municipalities within the district. We recommend John Waller be that selection. In order to ensure that the City is not disqualified from the process you have outlined, as improper as it may be, then we hereby submit our own list of nominees, with three identical names, each of them being: John Waller. Sincerely, Bryan J. Bear CC: Honorable Mayor and Council