HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution 1997 (23) RESOLUTION SUPPORTING CONTINUED STATE FUNDING OF PRIORITY
WATERSHED PROJECTS WITHIN ST. CROIX COUNTY
RESOLUTION NO. l r 6
ST CROIX COUNTY, WISCONSIN
WHEREAS, the state of Wisconsin Non -Point Source Program has recognized
the importance of the St. Croix Lakes Cluster, South Fork of the Hay River, and the
Kinnickinnic River watersheds in St. Croix County, and has made the commitment to
provide funding to support efforts to improve and protect water quality in these priority
areas; and
WHEREAS, these projects have been planned by local staff and stakeholders
within new guidelines developed by the Department of Natural Resources to assure
cost - effectiveness; and
WHEREAS, innovative partnerships and collaborative efforts that went into the
planning of these watersheds would be lost and the trust and relationships built among
stakeholders would be difficult to re- establish with the elimination or reduction of
funding provided to St. Croix County; and
WHEREAS, the County's investment of staff time, money, equipment, and
credibility would be lost with the elimination or reduction of State funds committed to
these watershed projects; and
WHEREAS, the elimination or reduction of State funding to these watershed
projects would result in a failure to utilize Federal EQIP funding that has been
committed to the projects under the assumption that watershed staff would be used for
the implementation of conservation practices; and
WHEREAS, Since St. Croix County is rapidly changing and urbanizing, the
planning completed to date would be obsolete if these watershed projects were to be
revisited at a later time; suspension of these projects would essentially mean that all
efforts to this date would be irreclaimable
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, the St. Croix County Land and Water
Conservation Committee strongly encourages the State of Wisconsin to honor its
commitment to continue its funding of the existing priority watershed projects within St.
Croix County.
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Dated this a ` day of S , 1997.
Offered by: LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION COMMITTEE
Negative Affirmative
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Sue E. Nelson
County Clerk