1997-07-23 - CC Packet - (Admin.)

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W1319K XW REVX1RW Edition # 23 7 -14 -97 through 7 -18 -97 Building permits issued this period = 3 Building permits issued YTD = 93 * The EDC sub - committee met on Monday evening to discuss the future of the downtown. Many ideas were generated on the issue. Tim Rehbein and Paul Montain will be working on a draft of the committee's recommendations to present to Council. * Odyssey Lures was in on Wednesday with their builder. Sid Inman from Ehlers was present to discuss the establishment of a TIF district to benefit their development. As you may recall, the Council previously indicated that we would be willing to assist Odyssey Lures up to a maximum of 90 %, the same as Northern Forest Products. They have a very nicely designed building. The company has plans for additional employment. They should be a great asset to our Industrial Park. They indicated they would like to break ground as soon as possible. The TIF district will take a minimum of 45 days to establish. The ball will start rolling on this new district on Wednesday night. * A meeting was held with Met Council representatives on Thursday afternoon to discuss impacts on their sewer interceptor. The last heavy rainfalls created an impact on their system. We need to complete our Inflow /Infiltration study, conduct a possible sump pump inspection and may have to take action to remove I/I from our system next spring. We have a good chance of receiving grant dollars to make some of the needed corrections. The Met Council staff will be tying some sort of restrictions to the approval of our comprehensive plan based on our discussions. Their sewer expert indicated that we could continue to grow as long as the peak demand flows were not being exceeded during wet weather events. We can discuss this in more detail at our next meeting. * The Senior Housing project is starting to come together. We are having a meeting with Tom Dillan of Dunbar Development on Friday afternoon to discuss a timeline for this project and to coordinate the building phase with the financing phase. We should have more information available by the next Council meeting. Tentative closing date for the Barett property is July 31, 1997.