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Law summaries continued and employees on government data practices and records retention laws. Various effective dates apply. Housing Metro Section 8 Housing Program Chapter 112 authorizes the Metropolitan Council HR.A to operate joint Section 8 housing programs cooperatively with local jurisdictions in the metro area. The authorization is effective the day following enactment. Procedures changed for allocating bonding authority for city housing programs and planning Chapter 167 significantly affects cities with independent or joint housing programs. The law adds a provision that new assisted housing be Located in a city that has entered into a housing .affordability agreement with the Metropolitan Council, under which a city may make loans financed with the proceeds of mortgage bonds for the purchase of existing housing. Applica- tion to the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency for single-family housing program bonds are made due from June 15 to June 30 (currently July 1 to July 15). Allocation amounts to be made by the commissioner to the small issue pool are reduced from $65 to $55 million while amounts going to the housing pool are increased from $46 to $56 million. Application fees for projects of entitlement issuers will now have to be submitted to the commis- sioner with the notice of issuance of bonds, notice of use of mortgage credit certificates, and notice of carry forward. The housing pool allocations section is clarified to apply to residen- tial rental projects not restricted to persons age 55 or older and provides that if an issuer fails to issue obliga- tions equal to all or a portion of the allocation received within 120 days or returns the allocation to the commis- sioner, the amount is cancelled and returned for reallocation through the housing pool. The total amount of allocation for mortgage bonds for one city is limited. Obligations must be issued within 120 days or the authority will be cancelled and reallocated. The remaining balance in the small issue pool on the effective date, up to $20 million of bonding authority, is transferred to the housing pool except that the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency may accept applications between June 1 and 7,.1995. Various effective dates. ., Land use/planning/zoning Notice to municipalities required prior to licensing of certain youth detention facilities Chapter 12 requires the Commis- sioner of Corrections to give munici- palities 30 days written notice prior to issuing licenses to detention facilities for delinquent youth. The notice must be given before the first issuance of a license and annually thereafter only if the municipality requests annual notification. Notice is not required for facilities with a licensed capacity for six or fewer persons and occupied by either the licensee or the group foster home parents. State funding that would otherwise be made available to the detention facilities must be withheld where the required notice is not provided. This law becomes effective on August 1, 1995. Metro area comprehensive planning modifications Chapter 176 was sponsored by the Metropolitan Council to review local water management plans. Metropolitan municipalities are required to review and update their comprehensive plans. by December 31, 1998 and are prohib- ited, after August 1, 1945, from adopting fiscal devices and local controls which are in conflict with. their comprehensive plan or any metropoli- tan system plans. Plans may contain intergovernmental coordination and economic development elements and may designate redevelopment areas. Land use plans are required to contain water management plans. Local governmental units are required to review and, if n.,cessary, amend their entire comprehensive plan along with its fiscal devices and official controls by December 31, 1998 and at least once every 10 years thereafter unless an extension has been obtained from the Met Council. A report from the Met Council to the legislation on the need for local technical and financial assistance is due January 15, 1996. Metro area surface and groundwater management Chapter 184 provides for the revision of metropolitan water manage- merit plans on a priority schedule to be developed by the Board of Water and Soil Resources. Watershed manage- merit organizations will have 24 months from the date of notification to revise and submit a plan for review. They may receive aone-year extension from the Board. The plan should extend at least five years but no more than 10 years from the date of Board approval. Consistency with adopted county groundwater plans would be •i r1 ~J LS 10 1995 Law Summaries