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rage 1 w Jim March To: Wayne LeBlanc; Theresa Brenner; Tom Peterson; Tim Rehbine; Ray Devine; Michelle Moser; Lori Dom; John McLean; Jim Hoeft; Hanna Tilsen; Patricia Scott; Elizabeth Scheller; Doug Porter; Dave Kilian; Mary Capra; Aimee Fairbrother; City Council Subject: Week in Review Week in Review July 21, 2000 Building Permits this Period = 4 Building Permits YTD = 102 New Homes Year to Date = 27 :..... ....k... *,. *............ . *, ...,..> x.,...,....«****** ***....** *,..*.. * *. * **** **** * ** • I attended a meeting at the offices of the Met Council yesterday. The community development review panel met to rank the applications for the Livable Communities Act Demonstration Grant Program. There were 28 development applications in our funding category. Eleven applications have been removed from consideration. Our application was not one of the applications removed from consideration. The remaining 17 applications are requesting approximately $30 million worth of funding with only about $9.9 million available. Our application is currently on the borderline. It became apparent chat this initial review was soinewl puiiueai. Ti lei c were three County Commissioners on the review panel with several Councilmembers from large suburban communities. The first hour of the meeting was spent discussing conflict of interest by members of the review panel. An Anoka County Commissioner was not sitting on this panel. The group used a ranking system comprised as follows : +, +0, 0, 0 +, 0 -, -0, and -. This ranking system seemed confusing to the audience as well as the review panel members. Our application received a mostly positive, but a mixed review of 3 +, 5 +0, 1 0, 3 0 -, and 2 -. I was shocked to see that one of the panel members that gave us the lowest score was Lucy Thompson (one of our Design Team visit co- leaders). We had incorporated three of the Design Team recommendations in our proposal. The only item that I believe Lucy could be opposed to is the demolition of the public works building that a Design Team member had sketched as a future site of a potential "Heritage Museum ". I am concerned that her low score of our project could knock us out of the running for approximately $1.3 million dollars. 1 have contacted Mary Capra in regards to this issue and she is going to contact Theresa Brenner. I think that if our Design Team visit co- chairs would write a letter stating that the community is seeking to preserve our heritage in other ways and that the Heritage Museum has not remained a community priority, this may influence Lucy's opinion on the issue. 7/21/00