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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL WORK SESSION—OCTOBER 15, 2024 4 Mayor Grant wants to be sure he has the most current versions of everything. Interim City Administrator Jagoe said the option agreement for the civic site, the MOU for the parks, the cooperative agreement have not changed. Councilmember Monson asked if the green energy is a new item. Interim City Administrator Jagoe said that will be new but that has previously been identified as one of the development agreement items to be drafted. Councilmember Holden commented and Interim City Administrator Jagoe concurred that it was previously part of the white paper. Councilmember Monson asked if it was just the old agreements from before the lawsuit. She asked for clarification if Staff is asking Council to look at those agreements and reaffirm, noting there may be some changes because the purchase agreement has changed. The purchase agreement is no longer phased so some things will be different. Interim City Administrator Jagoe confirmed. Any changes to the cooperative agreement would be changing dates. There has been no direction to change any of the original content. Mayor Grant said we have to sit down and negotiate with Alatus. He asked Council how they want to handle that. Councilmember Fabel outlined the current Term Sheet noting it was created by two councilmembers that had worked with Alatus and that Council had adopted. He said presumably those two councilmembers were the two members from the JDA, the Mayor and Councilmember Holden. Mayor Grant said that's not entirely true, it was no more than two at a time. He noted that the City Council approved the document at the time. Councilmember Fabel stated he thinks it makes sense for the two councilmembers to begin with the document we have and if there are terms that Council doesn't want included anymore or if there is something Council wants added, the councilmembers involved in the negotiations can bring those forward. Councilmember Holden said it wasn't only two members who were negotiating. She said everyone, such as Steve Scott, Fran Holmes, were at the table negotiating at different times. They made sure everyone's opinion was included. Councilmember Monson asked Interim City Administrator Jagoe to confirm who the two primary councilmembers were who participated in previous negotiations and if they were the JDA members in 2022. Interim City Administrator Jagoe recalls the primary discussions included the two JDA representatives and former City Administrator Perrault met individually with the other councilmembers to go over the discussion items. The primary discussions with the developer occurred with the two JDA representatives.