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This same committee will be meeting again on August 3rd at 9:00. They will be trying to dwindle down the list some more before the pass their recommendations on to the Livable Community Advisory Committee. Another disappointing event was that the Met Council staff had not distributed staff comments to the review panel members until right at the start of the meeting. I know that there are some positive staff comments in regards to our application. If we make it through the next meeting, our application may have a better chance with actual staff reviewing the application versus volunteers serving on the review committee. There were only a couple of applications from small Cities. The projects that were eliminated were from St. Paul, Minneapolis, Brooklyn Center, Robbinsdale, West St. Paul, Osseo, St. Paul Park, Blaine, Oak Park Heights and St. Francis. A number of the larger Cities submitted multiple applications. One of the highest ranking projects was from the City of Oak Park Heights. They are requesting over $7.5 million dollars. If they are awarded a grant in the full amount, the process becomes a mute point for the remaining 16 finalists. I am not sure how the funds will be divided between development and pre - development projects. The review panel only kicked out 2 of 18 projects that are in the pre - development stage. I am not going to advocate that we submit an application for the Met Council opportunities prcgrc:r.. ".t tic meeting, Met Council staff distributed a list of ten projects that they were supporting for the opportunities site program. This program is only going to be able to help four communities. I believe we would be wasting our time chasing this grant. However, the Mayor received a flyer from DTED in regards to a redevelopment grant program that they are sponsoring. They have six million dollars available. Our downtown revitalization project may be a fit for this program. I plan to attend their upcoming grant workshop on this program. I am pleased that we have made it this far in the process and I am going to remain optimistic. This has been a good learning process and if we are not funded we will prepare to gather the Met Councils recommendations and resubmit for next year. We will continue to pursue all available grant opportunities. * One week to Fete des Lacs. All events seem to be on track. Posters from the carnival arrived this morning and will be distributed to area businesses over the weekend. Ballfield fences have been completed at LaMotte Park. Thank you to the volunteers, Lion's and public works for bringing this project to completion. * The bid opening for Hunter's Crossing is scheduled for this afternoon at 2:00. * The Ordinance #4 workshop had about six citizens in attendance. The consensus was to send the Ordinance back to the Planning and Zoning Committee. The overall length of recreational vehicles being 28' was an issue with most people. If the lenghth was increased to 35', it appeared that most people would be satisfied. An additional public hearing will have to be scheduled for comment on these changes. * Grand opening for Centerville Beach is scheduled for tomorrow at the Regional Park. * Enjoy your weekend! 7/21/00