IV.8. Application for the Tax Base Revitalization Account for 325 Blake Road; YoungquistCITY OF HOPKINS
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION 2018-034
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AN APPLICATION FOR THE TAX BASE
REVITALIZATION ACCOUNT FOR 325 BLAKE ROAD
WHEREAS the City of Hopkins is a participant in the Livable Communities Act's Local Housing
Incentives Account Program for 2018 as determined by the Metropolitan Council, and is therefore
eligible to make application apply for funds under the Tax Base Revitalization Account; and
WHEREAS, the City has identified a contamination cleanup project within the City that meet the
Tax Base Revitalization Account’s purposes and criteria and are consistent with and promote the
purposes of the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act and the policies of the Metropolitan
Council’s adopted metropolitan development guide; and
WHEREAS, the City has the institutional, managerial and financial capability to ensure adequate
project and grant administration; and
WHEREAS, the City certifies that it will comply with all applicable laws and regulations as stated in
the contract grant agreements; and
WHEREAS the City finds that the required environmental assessment or contamination cleanup will
not occur through private or other public investment within the reasonably foreseeable future without
Tax Base Revitalization Account grant funding; and
WHEREAS the City represents that it has undertaken reasonable and good faith efforts to procure
funding for the activities for which Livable Communities Act Tax Base Revitalization Account
funding is sought but was not able to find or secure from other sources funding that is necessary for
cleanup completion and states that this representation is based on the following reasons and
supporting facts:
• Additional sources of funding have been sought and were either not received or unable to fund
the extent of the environmental cleanup costs.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that,the City Council of Hopkins authorizes the Minnehaha Creek
Watershed District to submit an application for Metropolitan Council Tax Base Revitalization
Account grant funds and, if the City is awarded a Tax Base Revitalization Account grant for this
project, the City will be the grantee and agrees to act as legal sponsor to administer and be
responsible for grant funds expended for the project contained in the Tax Base Revitalization grant
application submitted on May 1, 2018.
Adopted by the City Council of the City of Hopkins this 17th day of April, 2018.
By:___________________________
Molly Cummings, Mayor
ATTEST:
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Amy Domeier, City Clerk