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Minnesota Heritage Finance Division

FOURTH MEETING

2007-2008 Regular Session - Monday, February 12, 2007

STATE OF MINNESOTA FOURTH MEETING
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EIGHTY-FIFTH SESSION

Minnesota Heritage Finance Committee

MINUTES


Representative Mike Jaros, Chair of the Minnesota Heritage Finance Committee, called the meeting to order at 4:05 PM. On February 12, 2007, in Room 200 of the State Office Building.

The Committee Legislative Assistant noted the roll.

Members present:


Jaros (Chair) Laine
Gardner (Vice-Chair) Madore
Bly Sailer
Dean Peterson
Eken Urdahl
Johnson Anderson
Kahn



Members not present:

Nornes

At 4:10 a quorum was present.

HF 388, Representative Cornish, A bill for an act relating to appropriations; appropriating money for the Minnesota Agricultural Interpretive Center in Waseca.

Chair Jaros moved HF 388.

Testifiers:

Representative Cornish

Barbara Maher, Volunteer and Board Member at Farm America in support of HF 388.

William Hoversten, Director and Board member of Farm America, provided financial and informational overview of Farm America.

Tom Hagerty, Farm America Board Member, provided additional information regarding Farm America's need for funds.

Chair Jaros moved HF388 be laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill.

Representative Eken moved approval of the minutes from January 22, January 29 and February 5, 2007. THE MOTION PREVAILED.

HF 583, Representative Eken, A bill for an act relating to the Indian Affairs Council; appropriating money for property acquisition.

Representative Eken moved HF583.


Testifiers:

Representative Eken

Jim Jones, Cultural Director for the Indian Affairs Council, provided testimony in favor of the bill.

Representative Eken moved HF 583 be laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill.

Representative Gardner, Vice Chair of the Minnesota Heritage Finance Committee, assumed the gavel at 4:43PM.

HF 318, Representative Jaros, A bill for an act relating to state government; strengthening heritage education by creating the Commission on Minnesota Ethnic Heritage; appropriating money; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 15.

Representative Jaros moved HF 318.

Testifiers:

Representative Jaros

Dr. Odell Bjorkness, retired Director of Concordia Language Villages and International Studies at Concordia Colleges, provided testimony in favor of House File 318.

Linda Nelson, Manager of Special Programs with Sons of Norway, provided testimony in favor to House File 318.

John Borden, Executive Director of International Institute of Minnesota, provided testimony in favor of House File 318.

Representative Jaros moved HF 318 be laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill.

The meeting was adjourned at 5:15 PM



Representative Mike Jaros, CHAIR


Diogo Reis
Committee Legislative Assistant
More Info On This Meeting..

HF388 (Cornish) Waseca; Minnesota Agricultural Interpretive Center operations provided.
HF318 (Jaros) Commission on Minnesota Ethnic Heritage established.
HF583 (Eken) Indian Affairs Council funding provided to acquire burial site in Becker County
Jim Jones, cultural director for Indian Affairs Council
More Info On This Meeting..

HF779 (Bly) Native American languages; Council on Indigenous Languages funding provided.
HF692 (Morrow) Nicollet County Historical Society funding provided for improvements to the Treaty Site History Center in St. Peter.