2007-042RESOLUTION NO. 2007-42
CITY OF HOPKINS, MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION IDENTIFYING THE NEED FOR
LIVABLE COMMUNITIES DEMONSTRATION ACCOUNT FUNDING AND
AUTHORIZING AN APPLICATION FOR GRANT FUNDS
WHEREAS the City of Hopkins is a participant in the Livable Communities Act's Housing
Incentives Program for 2007 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 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 the City has the institutional, managerial and financial capability to ensure adequate
project 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 July 16, 2007; 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 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 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 19th day of June, 2007.
By:
Euge J. axwell, Mayor
Atte
erry O maier, City Clerk