Notices of Sales $600,000,000 State of Minnesota General Obligations State Bonds Comprising: 

This web site contains a Preliminary Official Statement, dated July 27, 2009 (the "Preliminary Official Statement"), relating to the State's General Obligation State Bonds (Bonds). Information contained in the Preliminary Official Statement is subject to completion and amendment. The Preliminary Official Statement shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of the Bonds by any person in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.

For purposes of Rule 15c2-12 promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Preliminary Official Statement alone, and no other document or information on this web site, constitutes the "Official Statement" that the State has deemed "final" as of its date in respect of the Bonds, except for certain information permitted to be omitted there from.

No person has been authorized to give any information or to make any representations other than those contained in the Preliminary Official Statement in connection with the offer and sale of the Bonds and, if given or made, such information or representations must not be relied upon as having been authorized. The delivery of the Preliminary Official Statement shall not under any circumstances, create any implication that affairs of the State are unchanged since the date of the Preliminary Official Statement or that the information contained in the Preliminary Official Statement is correct at any time subsequent to its date.