HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 224A-08 .......--- yyW RESOLUTION
• WHEREAS, the City of Rochester is a member of the Help Make Rochester Litter Bit Better!
steering committee that oversees annual city-wide clean-up events to reduce litter and protect water
resources; and
WHEREAS, the A Litter Bit Better!steering committee believes that we should also be educating
people to prevent littering in order to reduce the need for annual clean-up events; and
WHEREAS, the Rochester Area Foundation provides grant opportunity to help fund community
initiatives; and
WHEREAS, the A Litter Bit Better! Steering Committee wants to submit a preliminary application
to the Rochester Area Foundation for a grant to focus on long-term litter-prevention education; and
WHEREAS, since the A Litter Bit Better! Steering Committee is not an eligible organization to
submit a grant application, it is their wish to have the City of Rochester act as the lead organization
and fiscal agent for the grant project; and
WHEREAS, the A Litter Bit Better! Steering Committee also desires the services of one of its
Public Works— Storm Water Utility seasonal positions to administer this project as its contribution to
meeting the Public Education and Public Participation goals of its municipal storm water permit.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Common Council of the City of Rochester
authorize Public Works staff to submit a preliminary grant application to the Rochester Area
Foundation on behalf of the A Litter Bit Better! Steering Committee and agree to act as fiscal agent for
the grant, should it be awarded; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Common Council of the City of Rochester agrees, in
principle, to allow one of the two 2009 seasonal storm water utility positions to be assigned to
administer this project.
PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ROCHESTER,
MINNESOTA, THIS 2t5r DAY OF , 2008.
PRESIDENT OF SAID CO MON COUNCIL
ATTEST:
CITY 6CERK
APPROVED THIS 22N8 DAY OF /4PP-LL , 2008.
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MAYOR OF SAID CITY
(Seal of the City of
Rochester, Minnesota)
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