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Snowmobilers will have to follow vehicle traffic CROW WING COUNTY BOARD Senior Reporter Snowmobilers will have to consider which direction they are driving this winter.
Crow Wing County Tuesday authorized submitting of snowmobile proposals for grant-in-aid funding that would mean snowmobiles would have to travel the same direction as vehicle traffic as they traverse county road right of ways. Snowmobiles have been traveling both directions on one side of the road. By law, snowmobiles must travel with the traffic at night.
The move, done in coordination with area snowmobile clubs, makes the right of way change on County Highways 3, 11, 77, 18, 16, 36 and 1. County Highway Engineer Lyndon Robjent recommended the snowmobiles follow the same direction as vehicle traffic or one-way travel on each side of the road. The clubs want to add the right of ways to the trail systems in order to receive cost reimbursement from the DNR. The proposal is for the 2009-10 season.
In other business, the county board:
Approved a planned 18-month project at a cost of about $258,000 to put written paper records in the assessor's office onto computers. The Computer Aided Mass Appraisal Project or CAMA will use the Kelly temporary service staff for computer data entry. Now, every five years the data is moved by hand to another paper record. The computer work will encompass about 40,000 complex records.
"We need to put modern day tools in the hands of modern day appraisers," said County Administrator Tim Houle.
Appointed Commissioners Paul Thiede and Rosemary Franzen to the Water Plan Advisory Committee, which will now have a core of the commissioners and two Soil and Water Conservation District board supervisors. The committee may meet monthly and plans to have quarterly public meetings aimed at gathering more public input and greater communication.
Agreed to reorganize departments and put the assessor's department under the Land Services director, the Geographic Information Systems department under the Information Systems director and the facilities department under the county administrator.
Accepted a $75,000 grant from the Minnesota Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management to be used to purchase new equipment for the bomb squad.
Authorized seeking proposals for a phase two archeological survey for the Milford Mine Memorial Park area. The phase two evaluation determines whether the site meets the National Register of Historic Places criteria and could open the door to federal funds to develop the park.
Learned that 13 of 30 parcels or 43 percent of those offered in the 2008 tax-forfeited land sale were sold for $203,320.18. The appraised value of the entire sale was $747,189.93. Land Commissioner Tom Cowell described the sale, which lasted about 10 minutes, as dismal. Remaining parcels are available for sale over the counter.
Learned 2008 permits issued through Oct. 17 are 28 percent below permits issued in 2007.
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