Register for BlueStarMN.org

To begin the process to receive Blue Star recognition for your city or township, you must register through the Blue Star Program website. Registering through the site does not commit a community to conducting the assessment, but it is required to satisfy eligibility requirements for the Blue Star Program.

Only communities themselves, or organizations formally designated to represent a community may register. There are five simple steps to registration:

  1. Provide your community contact information by filling out the registration fields below.
  2. Indicate community size/type by filling out the registration fields below.
  3. Select your information sharing preferences.
  4. Certify your role as the person designated by your city or township to conduct the Blue Star assessment.
  5. (Optional) Pass a community resolution to participate in the Blue Star Program.

Once your registration is submitted, you will be able to access your community profile on the Blue Star Program website. From there, you can log in and log out at your leisure - allowing you to conduct the assessment at your own pace.

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    15. Contact Information — Secondary Contact




    26. County/Community





    29. Data Sharing Preferences


    The Blue Star Program is designed to recognize communities that are achieving excellence in stormwater management. As such, the Blue Star Program will list all award recipients on this website.

    However, there are additional information sharing options available to your community – each of which is designed to help peer communities learn more about how they, too, can excel in stormwater management. Please indicate your information sharing preferences below:

    Public Information

    If a community earns a “Top 10” overall Blue Star Assessment score, we’d like to post that community’s score on the Blue Star Leaderboard. If your community scores in the “Top 10” overall, are you willing to share your Blue Star Assessment score with other communities and the public via the Blue Star Leaderboard?*

    30. Private/Internal Information

    (Information sharing available ONLY to communities registered on the Blue Star website.)

    Many communities that don’t score high enough to win the Blue Star Award may look to make improvements by emulating peer communities with higher scores. If your community wins the Blue Star Award, are you willing to make your assessment subtotal scores (by sections and sub-part) available to peer communities that have registered on the Blue Star website? Note: these scores are not made available to the general public – only to other communities that have registered through this website.*

    31. Contact Information

    If your community wins the Blue Star Award, are you willing to make your contact information available to other registered cities/townships via the Blue Star Program website? This will assist your peers in learning more about how they can make improvements in their own stormwater programs?*

    32. Reminder

    Information and scores for communities that conduct the assessment but do NOT earn Blue Star Status are NOT made public or shared with peer communities. Only communities that win the Blue Star Award are included on the Blue Star website.

    Community Resolution (optional)

    The Blue Star Award Program aims to provide Minnesota communities that excel in stormwater management the positive public recognition they deserve. While a city council or township board resolution is NOT required for community participation, you may feel that leadership from your city council or township board is advantageous to the process, or even necessary to successfully participate in the Blue Star Award Program.

    Below is an editable community council sample resolution with language that can be easily tailored to fit the unique situation in your community. The sample also includes a menu of optional “WHEREAS” statements that may be included in the resolution.

    Download: Resolution to Participate in the Blue Star Award Program

    Certficiation

    I herby certify that I, the Primary Contact Person listed above, have been designated by the community indicated above to conduct the Blue Star Recognition Program’s Municipal Stormwater Management Assessment on its behalf. All information included in this assessment will be, to the very best of my knowledge, accurate and reflective of the spirit and intention of the Blue Star Program’s self-assessment protocol.*


  33. * — required field