2012-083 Gallery Flats ProjectCITY OF HOPKINS
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION NO. 2012-083
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING APPLICATION FOR THE TAX BASE
REVITALIZATION ACCOUNT FOR THE GALLERY FLATS PROJECT
BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Hopkins, Minnesota, as follows:
WHEREAS, the City of Hopkins is a participant in the Livable Communities Act's Local
Housing Incentives Account Program for 2012 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 clean-up project within the City that meets
the Tax Base Revitalization Account's purpose/s and criteria; 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 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, if the City is awarded a Tax Base Revitalization Account
grant for this project, the City Council of Hopkins, Minnesota acknowledges it will be the grantee
and agrees to act as legal sponsor administer and be responsible for grant funds expended for the
project contained in the Tax Base Revitalization grant application submitted on November 1, 2012.
Adopted by the City Council of the City of Hopkins this 7"' day of November, 2012.
SIGNED: WITNESSED:
Le�_ -
Eug a J. axwell, Mayor Kristine A. Luedke, City Clerk