res_10444 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home

CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ROSEVILLE RESOLUTION NO. 10444 WHEREAS, Mounds View School Disllict 621 ("Mounds View") owns the real propel1y located at 2959 Hamline A venue North in the City of Roseville, consisting of approximately 3.3 acres (the "PropeI1y"); and WHEREAS, soils and groundwater at the Property are cUITently contaminated; and WHEREAS, Mounds View desires to clean up the existing contamination and sell the Propel1y to a developer who will constmct new housing on the Propel1y (the "Project"); and WHEREAS, Mounds View needs assistance with the cost of investigating and cleaning up the contamination and desires to seek such assistance through the Minnesota DepaJ1meut of Employment and Economic Development's Contamination Investigation & RAP Development Grant and Contamination Cleanup Grant programs, the Metropolitan Council's Metropolitan Livable Communities Tax Base Revitalization Account, and Ramsey County's Environmental Response Fund (collectively, the "Grant ProgralTIs"); and WHEREAS, Mounds View has asked the City of Roseville to act as the legal sponsor for the Project for purposes of submitting applications to the Grant Programs on November I, 2006 (collectively, the "Grant Applications"); and WHEREAS, the Project is consistent with the City of Roseville' s comprehensive plan for land use in the area; and WHEREAS, cleanup and redevelopment of the Property will benefit residents of the City of Roseville through remediation of existing contamination and increasing the tax base; and WHEREAS, the City of Roseville has the legal authOlity to apply for financial assistance, and has the institutional, managerial, and financial capability to ensure adequate project administration; and WHEREAS, the sources and amounts of the local match identified in the Grant Applications are committed to the Project; and WHEREAS, the City of Roseville has not violated any federal, state or local laws pel1aining to fraud, blibery, graft, kickbacks, collusion, conflict of interest or other unlawful or conupt practice; and WHEREAS, the City of Roseville is a participant in the Livable Communities Act's Housing Incentives Program for 2006 as detennined by the Metropolitan Council, and is therefore eligible to make application for funds under the Tax Base Revitalization Account; and WHEREAS, the Project meets the Tax Base Revitalization Account's purposes and critelia; 3538044.1