Faribault County v. Minnesota Department of Transportation

OPINION

PETERSON, Judge.

The trial court issued a preliminary injunction enjoining the state from requiring local governments to comply with Minnesota’s prevailing wage law on projects financed in whole or part by state-aid funds until such a requirement is adopted as a rule by the Department of Transportation through a rulemaking hearing. We reverse.

FACTS

The Minnesota Constitution provides for the construction, improvement, and maintenance of a county state-aid highway system and a municipal state-aid street system. Minn. Const, art. XIV, §§ 3, 4. To pay some of the costs associated with these…