2008-035B
RESOLUTION 2008-035
CITY OF HOPKINS, MINNESOTA
U.ESOLUTION IDENTIFYING TIlE NEED FOR
LIVABLE COMMUNITIES DEMONSTRATION ACCOUNT FUNDING AND
AUTIIORIZING AN APPLICATION FOR GRANT FUNDS
WIIEREAS the City of Hopkins is a participant in the Livable Communities Act's
Housing Incentives Program for 2008 as determined by the Metropolitan Council, and is
therefore eligible to apply for Livable Communities Demonstration Account funds; and
WHEU.EAS the City has identified a proposed project within the City 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
WIIEREAS the City has the institutional, managerial and financial capability to ensure
adequate project adlninistration; 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 July 21, 2008; 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 or key components of the proposed project
can be replicated in other metropolitan-area comlnunities; 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 TI-IEREFORE 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 component(s) 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 not occur within two years after a grant award unless Livable Communities
Demonstration Account funding is made available for this project at this time.
3. Represents that the City has undertaken reasonable and good faith efforts to procure
funding for the project component 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 two years and
states that this representation is based on the following reasons and supporting facts:
No other reasonable source of funding for these activities has been identified.
4. Authorizes its City Manager to submit on behalf of the City 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 this 15th day of July, 2008.
By:
~~~
Eug e J. axwell, Mayor
Attest: