MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING OF

THE MINNEHAHA CREEK WATERSHED DISTRICT

BOARD OF MANAGERS

June 30, 2010

CALL TO ORDER

The special meeting of the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District Board of Managers was called to order by Vice President Brian Shekleton at 10:00 a.m. at the District offices, 18202 Minnetonka Boulevard, Deephaven, Minnesota. 

MANAGERS PRESENT

Brian Shekleton, Lee Keeley, Richard Miller, Jeffrey Casale.

MANAGERS ABSENT

James Calkins, Pamela Blixt, Mike Klingelhutz.

OTHERS PRESENT

Eric Evenson, District Administrator; Dave Mandt, Operations Manager; James Wisker, District Planner/Program Coordinator; Mark Ten Eyck, District Land Conservation Program Manager; Julie Westerlund, Education/Communications Manager; Tom LaSalle and Brent LaSalle, District Real Estate Consultants; Andrew Donohue, District Appraisal Consultant; Laura Graf, District Real Estate Counsel; Chuck Holtman, District Counsel.

REGULAR AGENDA

The Board and attendees reviewed the status of the District’s acquisition of 427-429 Blake Road in the City of Hopkins and its broader land conservation program efforts focused on the Minnehaha Creek corridor.  Discussion concerned the relation between the land conservation program and the District’s capital project programming to reestablish a naturalized creek corridor and improve water quality by working on its own property and with cooperating riparian landowners on the creek reaches between Blake Road and Methodist Hospital.

ADJOURNMENT

There being no further business, the special meeting of the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District Board of Managers was adjourned at 11:35 a.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Lee Keeley, Secretary