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City of Bloomington
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$235,200
Fund Source

Green Streets for Blue Waters is a collaborative effort to install curb cut raingardens and other stormwater management practices within public right of way and on private lands. The project development was funded by the City of Bloomington and the Lower Minnesota River Watershed District, who worked with Metro Blooms to identify the project area and goals.

Hennepin
Recipient
Comfort Lake-Forest Lake Watershed District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$176,047
Fund Source

Comfort Lake is one of Chisago county's largest recreational lakes. Comfort Lake is of regional significance with public access for boating, fishing and swimming. A pollution reduction study was conducted for the lake because of decreasing water quality. This study identified highly urban areas as one of the sources of nutrients.

Chisago
Washington
Recipient
Hamline University Law Library
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,190
To conduct and transcribe oral history interviews of several Hamline University School of Law faculty members, to commemmorate the 40th anniversary of the school's founding.
Hennepin
Recipient
Minnesota Land Trust
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$225,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$225,000

With this appropriation, the Minnesota Land Trust plans to protect approximately 500 acres of critical shoreline habitat along Minnesota's lakes, wetlands, rivers, and streams by securing permanent conservation easements and dedicating funds for their perpetual monitoring, management, and enforcement. Lands being considered for permanent protection in this round of funding are located in Becker, Beltrami, Blue Earth, Itasca, Kandiyohi, Lac Qui Parle, Le Sueur, Otter Tail, Pope, and Wabasha counties.

Becker
Beltrami
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Cass
Clay
Douglas
Faribault
Freeborn
Grant
Hubbard
Itasca
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Meeker
Otter Tail
Pope
Rice
Stearns
Steele
Stevens
Todd
Waseca
Wright
Recipient
Hennepin Medical History Center
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,000

To develop a new website that enables better public access to Hennepin Medical Center history.

Hennepin
Recipient
Hennepin County Agricultural Society

To host a variety of arts and cultural heritage activities at the Hennepin County Fair, and enhance the display area for fine arts exhibits. The fair will host a bluegrass band, a MN original singer/songwriter, a storyteller, and a variety of arts demonstrations.

Hennepin
Recipient
Seward Neighborhood Group
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,850

To produce a book-length manuscript on the history of the Seward Neighborhood, Minneapolis.

Hennepin
Recipient
Jefferson Township
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000

To edit a manuscript on the history of the Winnebago Creek Valley, Jefferson Township, Houston County.

Houston
Recipient
Friends of the Immigration History Research Center
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$23,794
To research immigrant strategies for community creation in the Twin Cities prior to World War II in eleven distinct neighborhoods.
Hennepin
Recipient
Houston County Fair
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

To increase and enhance arts and cultural heritage programming at the Houston County Fair. Funds will be used to upgrade an existing stage, install a display case to exhibit artistic and creative works of people with disabilities, and host the Minnesota Scandinavian Ensemble. The Ensemble will educate children and families about Scandinavian music and dances.

Houston
Recipient
Cook County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To hire a qualified and experienced HVAC engineer to evaluate current system preparatory to better control of the North Superior Lifeboat Station Lightkeeper's House, listed in the National Register of Historic Places and current home of the Cook County Historical Society.

Cook
Recipient
Aqua Terra Consultants
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$120,238
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$134,980
Fund Source

This project will continue HSPF watershed model construction beyond the initial framework development. The consultant will add representation of point source discharges to the model. The consultant will also compile flow data for the purposes of calibration and validation. Finally, an initial hydrologic calibration will be performed and submitted for approval.

Becker
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Douglas
Hubbard
Morrison
Otter Tail
Todd
Wadena
Recipient
Firefighter's Hall and Museum
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,950

To assemble historic resources necessary to complement a traveling exhibit about emergency response.

Hennepin
Recipient
Firefighter's Hall and Museum
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To fabricate and install an exhibit about the Interstate 35W Bridge Collapse for the fifth anniversary in 2012
Hennepin
Recipient
Kanabec County Art Association
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
IMAGE Art Show 2012
Chisago
Isanti
Kanabec
Mille Lacs
Pine
Recipient
Chisago Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$238,640
Fund Source

In partnership with the Chisago Lakes Lake Improvement District, subwatershed assessments for the communities of Center City, Lindstrom and Chisago City, all within the Chisago Lakes Chain of Lakes watershed have been completed. The tourism economy of these communities depends on the Chisago Lakes Chain of Lakes.

Chisago
Recipient
Wadena Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$82,950
Fund Source

As the City of Wadena is being re-built after an EF4 tornado, it has become evident that more needs to be done to reduce runoff by retaining or diverting stormwater. The purpose of this project is to provide subgrants to citizens to install various conservation practices on their properties including grassed waterways, rain gardens and tree plantings. Through this subgrant program the citizens of Wadena will have a greater understanding of the importance of stormwater management.

Wadena
Recipient
Minnesota Air National Guard Historical Foundation
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,925
To hire qualified archivists to make publicly accessible the Gen. Ray Miller Papers documenting the beginning of the Minnesota Air National Guard.
Hennepin
Recipient
Douglas County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$261,475
Fund Source

Multi-use trails including 640 feet of elevated boardwalk, new park entrance including 1800 feet of entrance road.

Douglas
Recipient
Kitchigami Regional Library
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$186,486
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$203,268

Minnesota’s 12 regional public library systems, which encompass 350 public libraries in all areas of the state, benefit from a portion of the Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Through State Library Services, a division of the Minnesota Department of Education, each regional public library system receives a formula-driven allocation from the annual $3 million Minnesota Regional Library Legacy Grant.

Beltrami
Cass
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Wadena
Recipient
Maritime Heritage Minnesota
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,997

To survey archaeological resources in six sections of Lake Minnetonka.

Hennepin
Recipient
Douglas County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
Fund Source

Acquire approximately 40 acres to expand existing regional park.

Douglas
Recipient
Chisago County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$577,000
Fund Source

Attempted to Acquire 108.5 acres of land adjacent to the 555 acre Janet Johnson WMA. The land is a mix of forest (29 acres), wetlands (35 acres on the NWI), and agriculture (44.5 acres).

Chisago
Recipient
Alexandria Public Schools
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,990
Copper Street Brass Quintet residency
Douglas
Recipient
Central Square, Inc. AKA The Central Square
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,500
Michael Johnson residency
Pope
Douglas
Grant
Stevens
Otter Tail
Recipient
The Minnesota Lakes Maritime Society AKA Minnesota Lakes Maritime Museum
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
Legacy Arts and Cultural Heritage
Douglas
Recipient
Theatre L'Homme Dieu
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,900
Legacy Arts and Cultural Heritage
Douglas
Recipient
Council on Black Minnesotans
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000

The Council on Black Minnesotans in collaboration with the Minnesota Humanities Center will conduct approximately six statewide community forums.

Benton
Hennepin
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rice
Sherburne
St. Louis
Stearns
Recipient
Lake Harriet Spiritual Community
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,750
To hire a qualified historian to prepare a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places for the Lake Harriet Methodist Episcopal Church.
Hennepin
Recipient
Three Rivers Park District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000
Fund Source

Lake Minnetonka LRT Regional Trail. Design and construct a trail bridge over Co Rd 19 in Shorewood. Match to $1 million Federal grant.

Hennepin
Recipient
Three Rivers Park District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$476,000
Fund Source

Luce Line Regional Trail. Design and construct a trail bridge over Co. Rd. 61 in Plymouth. Match to $1 million federal grant

Hennepin
Recipient
Douglas Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$78,450
Fund Source

This project will gather watershed data to support the development of a Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy with parameter-specific targets that will maintain or improve water quality for the Long Prairie River Watershed. This project will also provide an important framework for civic and citizen engagement and communication, contributing to long-term public participation in surface water protection and restoration activities throughout the watershed.

Douglas
Morrison
Otter Tail
Todd
Wadena
Recipient
City of Medina
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$334,450
Fund Source

Lake Sarah is a regionally significant lake and currently suffers from excess phosphprus levels. Loretto Creek, located partially within the Cities of Medina and Loretto, is Lake Sarah's east tributary carrying approximately 269 pounds of phosphorus to the lake each year. This is a joint project between the Cities of Loretto and Medina developed for the Loretto ballfields to address this problem.

Hennepin
Recipient
Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To document in 18 oral history interviews the history of the migration of the Minneapolis Jewish community from the city's North Side to St. Louis Park, 1945-1975.
Hennepin
Recipient
Sauk River Watershed District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$65,000
Fund Source

This Sauk River Watershed District project will conduct the Whitney Park river clean-up, adopt a river program and other community events as part of their healthy living programs; will collaborate with the city of St. Cloud to install a rain garden demonstration site at Whitney Park; use local radio and public television stations to promote the District’s “neighborhood rain garden initiative” and other incentive programs.

Douglas
Meeker
Morrison
Pope
Stearns
Todd
Recipient
MN DNR
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$707,000
Fund Source

This funding resulted in permanent protection of three strategically located parcels totaling 125 acres. Funding was used to protect high priority parcels within the Lower Root and Lower Zumbro River floodplains. This was part of a broad partnership working to improve habitat quality and connectivity in critical areas along the Mississippi River corridor. Two of the three parcels acquired are now being managed as State Forests (SFT), while the third parcel is being managed as a Wildlife Management Area (WMA).

Houston
Wabasha
Recipient
Cook County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$27,000
Fund Source

to complete improvements and enhancements on snowmobile trails near Lutsen

Cook
Recipient
Cannon Valley Fair
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

To better showcase the talent of local artists by enhancing the display areas of the open class and 4-H buildings. Will also create a "Minnesota Made" butterflies exhibit.

Goodhue
Recipient
Scott County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,650

This grant application is being submitted for funding for the implementation portion of the Scott County Historical Society’s upcoming exhibit “Marking Time:  The Rituals of Life & Death”.  Virtually every society in the world practice rituals marking the significant transitions between birth and death.

Scott
Recipient
Peter Henrikson
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,325
McKnight Individual Artist Grant
Cook