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Lester Prairie Public School
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,400

Arts in the Schools

McLeod
Recipient
Kennedy Community Center
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,285

Arts Legacy Grant

Kittson
Marshall
Recipient
Northfield High School
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,150

Arts and Cultural Heritage Grant

Rice
Recipient
Chamber Music Live
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Arts Access
Blue Earth
Dakota
Dodge
Fillmore
Hennepin
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Winona
Recipient
West Side Theater Project
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$22,000
Arts Access
Ramsey
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$207,778

Partner: Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans

Statewide
Recipient
Minneapolis Riverfront Partnership
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000
Hennepin
Recipient
MN DNR
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$141,000
Statewide
Recipient
University of Minnesota
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,739
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$148,900
Fund Source

This project will promulgate a nitrate water quality standard to address aquatic life toxicity, and gather information needed to support the development of total nitrogen (N) loading reduction strategies for Minnesota’s waters and also address Minnesota’s contribution to marine water hypoxia. Project will also develop a framework for a watershed nitrogen planning aid that can be used to optimize selection of Best Management Practice (BMP) systems for reducing nitrogen.

Statewide
Recipient
University of St. Thomas
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$95,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$95,000

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Blue Earth
Le Sueur
Nicollet
Recipient
Benton Soil and Water Conservation District
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$431,000
Benton
Morrison
Recipient
Wenck Associates, Inc.
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,811
Fund Source

This project will support updates to the Draft Bald Eagle Lake TMDL. The updates will address comments received during the public comment period. The comments resulted in the development of individual Wasteload Allocations for stormwater sources in the Bald Eagle Lake watershed.

Anoka
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
Richfield Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,960
To hire a qualified professional to update the interpretation of the Riley Bartholomew House, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Hennepin
Recipient
St. Paul Parks & Recreation
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$604,472
Fund Source

Perform aesthetic upgrades to the Phalen Beach House focused on improved bathroom and changing rooms, concessions, staff space, storage, and seating areas.

Ramsey
Recipient
Renville County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$193,000
Fund Source

Acquisition of a 56 acres addition to the current 302 acre park and development of trails, restroom, prairie restoration and parking.

Renville
Recipient
Shingle Creek WMC
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$725,000
Fund Source

Installation of a 43,000 sf infiltration gallery in Becker Park in the City of Crystal to infiltrate 0.5 inches of runoff from a 147 acre currently untreated mixed use subwatershed with 51% impervious surface. The project will reduce total phosphorus to Impaired Water Upper Twin Lake by 118 pounds annually, and reduce street flooding on Bass Lake Road (Hennepin County Road 10).

Hennepin
Recipient
Becker SWCD
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$254,897
Fund Source

With over 500 public water lakes in Becker County, we are blessed with abundant and diverse lake resources that, like those of much of lake country, are at risk of degradation due to increasing development pressures, redevelopment of non-conforming lots, rising stormwater runoff and land use changes within their watersheds.

Becker
Recipient
Beltrami SWCD
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
Fund Source

The Beltrami SWCD proposes to partner with citizen and non-profit groups to complete projects that will reduce stormwater runoff and retain water on the land. The majority of the projects will be in the Lake Bemidji lakeshed which has recently been identified in the WRAPs project as being on the verge of impaired for nutrients. With the City of Bemidji being a regional hub for Northwestern Minnesota and the First City on the Mississippi, there are ample opportunities for citizen involvement and ample opportunities for stormwater improvements.

Beltrami
Recipient
Wright County
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$700,000
Fund Source

Development of trails, access roads, parking, restrooms, picnic shelter, sand volleyball and improvements to the rental chalet.

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

Acquire the 62 acres of the Bertram Chain of Lakes. This property consists of 1,200 acres, including four undeveloped lakes (5.75 miles of lake shore and 1.5 miles of streams), in Wright County. This project will expand a new regional park, which is currently 370 acres in size along the I-94 growth corridor.

Wright
Recipient
Beth El Foundation of Minnesota
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,900

To hire a qualified historian to research the history of Beth El Synagogue in Minnesota.

Hennepin
Ramsey
St. Louis
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,106
This traveling exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution chronicles the history and experiences of Indian Americans in the United States. A Minnesota-themed extension will augment the exhibit, which opens April 30, 2016, containing artifacts that illustrate stories of Indian Americans in Minnesota and their contributions, culture, and accomplishments. The Minnesota section will be co-created by representatives of the state's Indian American community, who will advise MNHS on a community-based marketing strategy.
Statewide
Recipient
Itasca County Soil and Water Conservation District
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,365
Fund Source

"This project will meet the following goals: develop, implement, and evaluate the impacts civic engagement outcomes for the Big Fork River Watershed; create a citizen understanding of the Watershed Restoration & Protection Strategy (WRAPS) and Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) process and the role citizens and stakeholders can play in attaining water quality restoration and protection; provide opportunities for citizens and stakeholders to assist local partners and state agencies in developing priorities for restoration as well projects to accomplish protection of high quality waters; and

Itasca
Koochiching
Recipient
Big Lake, City of
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$551,264
Fund Source

Construct wastewater treatment improvements to meet more stingent discharge requirements

Sherburne
Recipient
Crow Wing SWCD
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$310,000
Fund Source

The Crow Wing Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) proposes to complete stormwater best management practices (BMPs) that will reduce 40 pounds of phosphorus and 40 tons of sediment per year from entering Big Trout Lake. The Crow Wing County (CWC) Water Plan identifies Big Trout Lake as a priority lake to enhance due to its significant decline in water clarity and high ratio of impervious surface surrounding the lake. The 2015 CWC Assessors Property Tax Assessment reports that Big Trout has the second highest taxable land value in CWC at $4,200 per foot of shoreline.

Crow Wing
Recipient
City of Bigfork
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To prepare a comprehensive plan for the renovation and preservation of the Bigfork City Hall, eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.

Itasca
Recipient
U of MN
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$281,000
Statewide
Recipient
Wayzata Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To print and publish a biography on a turn of the twentieth-century Lake Minnetonka resident, Royal C. Moore of Moore Boat Works.
Hennepin
Recipient
St. Cloud State University
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$364,000
Statewide
Recipient
U of MN
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000
Statewide
Recipient
Sherburne SWCD
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$70,005
Fund Source

The funds requested will provide Big Lake Township with the technical and financial assistance necessary to retrofit up to six locations for stormwater treatment practices within the direct drainage area of Birch Lake, an impaired water body which is very close to meeting state standards. The projects have been identified as high priority in several water quality plans including a TMDL, a subwatershed assessment, the County Water Plan and the Mississippi River (St. Cloud) WRAPS.

Sherburne
Recipient
Washington Conservation District
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$160,000
Fund Source

In recent years, nutrient enrichment has occurred in Lake St. Croix due to increasing amounts of phosphorus entering the lake from the watershed. According to the TMDL, approximately half of the phosphorus-loading to Lake St. Croix is in the soluble form, and agriculture has been identified as one of the largest contributors of that phosphorus. In addition to the TMDL, subwatershed analyses were completed to identify, assess, and prioritize phosphorus-reducing practices in rural areas draining to Lake St. Croix in Washington County. This project will reduce phosphorus discharges to the St.

Washington
Recipient
Bois Forte Tribal Government
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To gather information about military service of Bois Forte Band of Chippewa members, to be placed in the Bois Forte Heritage Center research library.
Koochiching
Recipient
Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$62,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$62,000

To increase the Ojibwe language fluency, proficiency and literacy fo the Bois Forte Indian Community through partnerships with existing language perservation programs to develop a curriculum for pre-K learners, and K-6th grade.

Koochiching
St. Louis
Recipient
Renville County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,019

To add 35 standard Minnesota history titles to broaden public accessibility.

Renville
Recipient
Ce Tempoxcalli
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To construct a historically accurate account and thorough context of the 1995 Hunger Strike.

Stearns
Recipient
Crow Wing Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
Fund Source

Based on the Minnesota Waters Lake and River Association database, Crow Wing County has the highest number of lake associations in Minnesota. Currently, there are over 136 lake association groups in the county, which does not include neighborhood, resort or religious groups. These lakes aer a cornerstone to the state's tourism econmy and there is a great demand for stormwater management incentive program to protect these local water resources.

Crow Wing
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Kanabec County Agricultural Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

To showcase the history and heritage of logging in Minnesota.

Kanabec
Recipient
Equity Alliance MN
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000

The Equity Alliance MN will bring to life absent narratives of Latino, Hmong, Native, Asian, African American, and women of the Civil Rights Era in a collaboration among youth, social studies teachers, Full Circle Theater (FCT), and St. Paul Neighborhood Network. The narratives, researched by youth, will be transformed by FCT into a six person play that will be presented, video recorded, and distributed with accompanying curriculum written by social studies teachers for teachers across the Equity Alliance MN and the state.

Anoka
Dakota
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
Brown County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$54,836
To fabricate and install an exhibit based on considerable research and consultation with numerous stakeholders about the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 for the 150th observance in August 2012.
Brown