The start of week three of Minnesota's shutdown brought a dose of bad news for new nurses, auto dealers, Minnetonka Beach.
The shutdown special master Kathleen Blatz recommended that the Nursing Board cannot be funded to accept applications for nurses licenses, the state's Drivers and Vehicle Services department cannot keep the electronic vehicle registration system running for auto dealers and the state Health Department cannot review the city of Minnetonka Beach's water main plans. The Ramsey County District judge in charge of shutdown litigation agreed with Blatz's assessment.
Although may cause significant hardship, funding is limited to core government functions and those requests simply did not fit that criteria, the special master wrote.
Store to Door, a nonprofit that provides meals to homebound elderly, had better luck.
The special master agreed that feeding the elderly is a "critical core function of government" and ordered funding for the State Nutritional Support grants and the State Nutritional Expansion Fund.
Read the order below.
The special master will continue hearing requests.Here's the list of petitioners for Tuesday. (Opens as word documents.)
