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. ~ e ~~HILLS Approved: June 27, 2005 CITY OF ARDEN HILLS, MINNESOTA CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION MONDAY, JUNE 13,2005,7:30 P.M. CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 1245 WEST HIGHWAY 96 Call To Order Mayor Aplikowski called the meeting to order at 7:30 PM. Present: Mayor Aplikowski, Councilmembers: Gregg Larson, David Grant, Brenda Holden, Lois Rem Absent: None Staff present: City Administrator, Michelle Wolfe; Community Development Director, Scott Clark; Assistant to the City Administrator, Schawn Johnson Closed Session . A closed session meeting was held to discuss GSA negotiations with the City Council from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM. TCAAP Nel!'otiations Diseussion Mayor Aplikowski reported that City Council and City staff met in a closed session from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM to discuss the ncgotiations with the General Service Administration (GSA) regarding the TCAAP property. Community Development Director Scott Clark provided an update on the TCAAP project and stated that the GSA has declined the City's 35 million dollar purchase offer for the property. Also, the City's current agreement with CRR has expired and therefore the City does not have any in-coming escrow revenue for this project at this time. He reported that the GSA will have to go through the land appraisal process a second time due to the passing of the June 15t negotiation deadline. Community Development Director Clark proposed the following steps be discussed by the City Council to consider how they would like to move forward with the TCAAP project at this time: 1. Is the City Council in agreement with continued support ofthe TCAAP redevelopment? 2. Based on the assumption that a GSA reappraisal of the property will take four months or more to finalize, does the City want to place the project on hold and do nothing during this period of time, or does the City Council want to advance various component parts of the process? . . The three processes that could be advanced during this time period are: 1. Request that the Army completes a draft FOSET document;