This meeting will include approval of the ML 2024/FY 2025 OHF Bill language.  Additional agenda information can be found by clicking the link below.

If you would like to provide public comment - either in person or in writing - please contact Amanda Schnabel at amanda.schnabel@lsohc.mn.gov or 651-284-6430 no later than 4:00pm Wednesday, December 6, 2023.

This is a hybrid hearing and may be viewed live via the following method:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpJfIRbmwRZ0N8BuzQtf0IQ/?guided_help_flow=5


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 amanda.schnabel@lsohc.mn.gov or 651-284-6430

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Notice: This is a hybrid hearing. Some members may be participating remotely in accordance with Minnesota Statutes 13D.015.  This meeting is being held in accordance with Minnesota Statutes 13D.

Public viewing is available on YouTube.

1. Roll call attendance

2. Approve minutes for November 16, 2023

3. Members report potential conflicts of interest regarding today's business - LCCMR Members 2024 Conflict of Interest

4. Director's report

5. Completed Project Presentation: M.L. 2019, First Special Session, Chp. 4, Art. 2, Sec. 2, Subd. 04f - Improving Drinking Water for Minnesotans through Pollution Prevention, U of MN, Raymond Hozalski, $345,000 - Presentation from Raymond Hozalski

6. Completed Project Presentation: M.L. 2019, First Special Session, Chp. 4, Art. 2, Sec. 2, Subd. 05b - Connecting Students to Boundary Waters, Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness, Alison Nyenhuis, $450,000 - Presentation from Alison Nyenhuis

7. Action: Request for approval to purchase land in public ownership - M.L. 2021, First Special Session, Chp. 6, Art. 6, Sec. 2, Subd. 09u - State Parks and State Trails In-Holdings (2021-371), MN DNR State Parks and Trails Division, Shelby Kok, $2,560,000
- MN DNR Letter dated November 21, 2023
- M.S. 116P.18

8. Information: Final reports for projects completed in 2023

9. Action: Approve 2025 RFP
- LCCMR Member 2025 RFP Feedback Survey Results
- 2025 Request for Proposal (RFP)

10. Action: Approve M.L. 2024 Recommendations
     a. Peer review results (if available)
     b. Draft bill language

- 2024 recommendations spreadsheet (without project summaries)
- 2024 funding process and recommendations summary

11. LCCMR Other Business

12. Public Testimony
The public is asked to keep their comments brief. If you would like to testify, please contact Diana Griffith at diana.griffith@lccmr.mn.gov by 4:00 pm the day before the meeting. Please specify to which agenda item your testimony relates and the form of your testimony (oral or written). The chair will accommodate testimony at the requested agenda item as time allows.

13. Adjourn

Public viewing is available on YouTube.

1. Roll call attendance

2. Organization of Subcommittee - Strategic Planning Memo
     a. Election of chair(s)
     b. Other

3. Calendar

4. Overview of 2019 strategic planning

Strategic Planning Presentation
2019 Stakeholder Input Results

5. What additional data and input to seek in 2024

6. Public Testimony
The public is asked to keep their comments brief. If you would like to testify, please contact Diana Griffith at diana.griffith@lccmr.mn.gov by 4:00 pm the day before the meeting. Please specify to which agenda item your testimony relates and the form of your testimony (oral or written). The chair will accommodate testimony at the requested agenda item as time allows.

Verbal testimony from Mayor Pete Hyduke, City of Hibbing (Agenda Item #5)

7. Adjourn

Additional Materials
- Current Six-Year Strategic Plan for Minnesota's ENRTF (14 pages)
- 2019 ENRTF Strategic Planning Process Report (130 pages)
- Draft 2025 RFP