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Rochester Male Chorus, Inc.
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,720
General Operating Support
Goodhue
Olmsted
Recipient
Sing Out Loud AKA Bella Voce Young Women's Choir
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,720
General Operating Support
Carver
Dakota
Dodge
Fillmore
Goodhue
Hennepin
Mower
Olmsted
Ramsey
Scott
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Southeast Minnesota Bluegrass Association
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,720
Southeastern Minnesota Bluegrass Association Bluegrass Festival
Fillmore
Houston
Winona
Olmsted
Wabasha
Recipient
Southeastern Minnesota Youth Orchestras AKA SEMYO
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,720
General Operating Support
Dodge
Fillmore
Goodhue
Mower
Olmsted
Recipient
Theatre du Mississippi
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,720
General Operating Support
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Vega Productions, Inc.
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,720
General Operating Support
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Germanic-American Institute
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000
To hire a historical architect to conduct a conditions assessment of the George Gardner House, listed in the National Register of Historic Places and currently in use by the Germanic-American Institute.
Ramsey
Recipient
City of Maplewood
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,800
To conduct an archaeological survey of the Gladstone Railroad Shops site using ground-penetrating radar preparatory to a masterplan
Ramsey
Recipient
National Eagle Center
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Dakota
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Olmsted
Rice
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Goodhue County Fair
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

To improve the arts display area at the Goodhue County Fair. Funds will be used to upgrade display cases and shelves, improve lighting by replacing and repairing windows, and making the building handicap accessible.

Goodhue
Recipient
Goodhue County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,800

To create Goodhue County entries for the MNopedia project for online research.

Goodhue
Recipient
1006 Summit Avenue Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To prepare a comprehensive interpretive plan for the Governor's Residence to identify how best to reach their audience.

Ramsey
Recipient
Department of Administration
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$81,500
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$91,750

Per Minnesota Laws, 2011, 1st Special Session, Chapter 6, Article 4, Section 2, Subd. 6, "These amounts are appropriated to the commissioner of administration for grants to the named organizations for the purposes specified in this subdivision.

Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Chippewa
Chisago
Clay
Clearwater
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Jackson
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Koochiching
Lac qui Parle
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Mahnomen
Marshall
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Norman
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pine
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Ramsey
Red Lake
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Roseau
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Statewide
Stearns
Steele
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wabasha
Wadena
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Wilkin
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
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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
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
Twin Cities Daily Planet
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,625

To compile source materials about theater history throughout the state of Minnesota from 1959 to 1981.

Ramsey
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
$7,000

This project requests funding to conduct and transcribe twelve oral history interviews focusing on the religious experience and interactions among immigrant groups in nine Twin Cities neighborhoods in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 

Ramsey
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
Kanabec County Art Association
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
IMAGE Art Show 2012
Chisago
Isanti
Kanabec
Mille Lacs
Pine
Recipient
District 7 Planning Council
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,500
To document in 10 interviews the history of the immigrant gardening in Saint Paul
Ramsey
Recipient
Metropolitan Council
2009 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$67,899
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$79,070
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,783
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$64,020
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$85,473
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$70,469
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$179,573
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$160,004
Fund Source

In 2005, Metropolitan Council was directed to carry out regional water supply planning activities under Minnesota Statutes, section 473.1565. Working closely with the region's many water supply stakeholders and under the guidance of a metropolitan area water supply advisory committee, Metropolitan Council developed and adopted a metropolitan area master water supply plan (master plan) in 2010. The plan provides a framework for water supply planning and identifies actions needed to achieve the goal of ensuring sustainable water supplies across the region.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
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
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
St. Paul Parks & Recreation
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,500,000
Fund Source

Harriet Island-Lilydale Regional Park. Implement plan improvements, roads, trails, utilities, vegetation.

Ramsey
Recipient
Twin City Model Railroad Museum
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To prepare a comprehensive interpretive plan for better public access to the history of model railroading.

Ramsey
Recipient
James J. Hill Reference Library
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$36,300
To restore and abate water infiltration of the marble entrance stairs on the James J. Hill Reference Library, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Ramsey
Recipient
Sholom Community Alliance
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To document in 6 intergenerational interviews the history of how Jewish migration to Minnesota is transmitted to succeeding generations.

Ramsey
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
Capitol Region Watershed District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$275,000
Fund Source

This project will compile and review previously conducted studies and will prioritize best management practices (BMPs) based on a cost-benefit analysis of their pollutant load reductions and life cycle costs. It will also support the design and construction of BMPs, such as rain gardens and infiltration practices, within the Villa Park subwatershed of the Lake McCarrons watershed.

Ramsey
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
Theatre L'Homme Dieu
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,900
Legacy Arts and Cultural Heritage
Douglas
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
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