2020-035 Resolution Identifying the Need for Livable Communities Demonstration Account Funding and Authorizing Application for Grant Funds for Vista 44 CITY OF HOPKINS
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION 2020-035
RESOLUTION IDENTIFYING THE NEED FOR LIVABLE COMMUNITIES
DEMONSTRATION ACCOUNT FUNDING AND AUTHORIZING APPLICATION FOR
GRANT FUNDS FOR V1STA 44
WHEREAS, the City of Hopkins is a participant in the Livable Communities Act's Local
Housing Incentives Account Program for 2020 as determined by the Metropolitan Council, and
is therefore eligible to apply for Livable Communities Demonstration Account funds; and
WHEREAS, the City has identified a proposed project within the City to be developed by
Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative that meets the Demonstration Account's purposes and
criteria and is consistent with and promotes the purposes of the Metropolitan Livable
Communities Act and the policies of the Metropolitan Council's adopted metropolitan
development guide; and
WHEREAS, Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative has requested that the City sponsor an
application for Livable Communities Demonstration Account funds for its Vista 44 project in the
City of Hopkins; and
WHEREAS,the City has the institutional, managerial and financial capability to ensure
adequate project grant administration; and
WHEREAS, the City certifies that it will comply with all applicable laws and regulations as
stated in the grant agreement; and
WHEREAS, the City agrees to act as legal sponsor for the project contained in the grant
application submitted on or before July 1, 2020; and
WHEREAS, the City acknowledges Livable Communities Demonstration Account grants are
intended to fund projects or project components that can serve as models, examples or prototypes
for development or redevelopment projects elsewhere in the region, and therefore represents that
the proposed project(s) or key components of the proposed project(s) can be replicated in other
metropolitan-area communities; and
WHEREAS, only a limited amount of grant funding is available through the Metropolitan
Council's Livable Communities Demonstration Account during each funding cycle and the
Metropolitan Council has determined it is appropriate to allocate those scarce grant funds only to
eligible projects that would not occur without the availability of Demonstration Account grant
funding.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that, after appropriate examination and due
consideration, the governing body of the City:
1. Finds that it is in the best interests of the City's development goals and priorities for the
proposed project to occur at this particular site and at this particular time.
2. Finds that the project components for which Livable Communities Demonstration
Account funding is sought:
a. will not occur solely through private or other public investment within the reasonably
foreseeable future; and
b. will occur within three years after a grant award only if Livable Communities
Demonstration Account funding is made available for this project at this time.
3. Represents that Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative has undertaken reasonable and
good faith efforts to procure funding for the project components for which Livable
Communities Demonstration Account funding is sought but was not able to find or secure
from other sources funding that is necessary for project component completion within
three years.
4. Authorizes its City Manager to submit on behalf of the City and Beacon Interfaith
Housing Collaborative an application for Metropolitan Council Livable Communities
Demonstration Account grant funds for the project component(s) identified in the
application, and to execute such agreements as may be necessary to implement the
project on behalf of the City.
Adopted by the City Council of the City of Hopkins this 16th day of June, 2020.
By:
son Gadd, Mayor
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Amy Domeier, City Clerk