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City of Centerville Council Meeting Minutes March 11, 2020 Ms. Katie Dufault, 7045 Centerville Road, asked Council why are not voting tonight. You have 5 acting members here, it was on the agenda, and you are looking at a room full people who have express concerns. What is your reason for not voting? Mayor Paar explained again, being that he is going through a divorce, he does not feel comfortable on voting being that he is not sure if he will still be living in Centerville. He did state that he is for this project. Ms. Dufault stated the reason this is being discussed is that people are concerned about their taxes. It was stated earlier that we need more roof tops to get business in town. She stated 100 people is not going to bring the population to 5000 and if the majority of the residents voted on keeping their existing tax amount same verses the risk or the speculation of what it might be when the apartments are built and we want to keep it the way it is now. Are you making decisions based on what the resident would like to see? Ms. Dufault stated Council is putting the citizens of Centervi generates any income and that is a ridiculous amount of time for TIF. Someone asked if you talked to other Cities and did you ask them how long they did/do more than 10 years. She also asked, how long the apartment building is going to take to be built. If there is a 16 year TIF and it takes them She stated that she leading with presuming at her taxes will go down but others in the City will go up. There will be more kids in the schools, so that would mean a school levy. We are going to possibly need more City staff, police and fire. Mayor Paar stated he is having a hard time understanding where there is only 100 people that gets us towards the 1000 but yet those 100 people are going to cause the City to hire more staff, police and fire. The taxes is the biggest thing he gets complaints about and raising taxes as inflation goes up, he stated thlid point. Again, we can disagree on that issue. The kids in school, he address in the beginning, Lino Lakes is building 250 houses that will be going to Centerville Elementary, with the 75 house that Centerville has going they are going to Centerville Elementary. If to hire more staff, police and fire, regardless, because we have 75 more homes being built in town that could be 4 people living in verses 1 or 2. There are a lot of what ifs and this could be a good thing buy bringing more businesses like Dunkin Donuts and coffee shops. He stated that new businesses east of town are now going to be on the tax base for Centerville and this is a good thing. He stated when the City bought property, they got a lot of heat for doing that, but we had control on what would go there. He stated you make a lot of gambles based on what is best for the City. Mr. Jon Brinkman, 1580 Sorel Street, has a couple of question in regards to numbers that shocked him a bit. He questioned council about the $10 million total cost for the project but then you said the valuation was $6 million how do you come up with that and what does that mean? Administrator Statz stated the valuation of the apartment building is different than the valuation of a single family resithe building will sell for, its about what income it can produce. Mr. DeJong explained for purposes of valuing commercial properties, they look at resale, construction costs and they look at income generated. Because there are restriction on this requiring subsidized portion for some of those units it will not be valued at same level as complete market rate apartment. Mr. Brinkman asked does that mean the tax rate is base off of the $6 million. Mr. DeJong said yes. It is generally at reduced price for valuation purposes. What you can sell your property for is general not what you are being Page 8 of 18