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will explore issues and make recommendations to the City Council but generally has no <br />� authority to act on its own and no significant budget. <br />. 2. Housing and Redevelopment Authority <br />s� As deiined in the EDA Handbook, "An HRA is a public corporation with power to <br />., undertake certain types of housing and redevelopment or renewal activites. What state <br />� legislation conveys authority for housing and redevelopment in each City, it is up to the <br />. City Council to formally establish an HRA before it can do business and use its powers. <br />� Once a council legally establishes an HRA, it may undertake certain types of planning <br />. and community development activities on its own with council approval." <br />.. An HRA has substantial authority, including budgetary, but is limited in its scope to <br />providing affordable housing or addressing substandard, slum or blighted areas that <br />cannot be redeveloped without government assistance. An HRA can have up to seven <br />members, who must be residents of the City. Councilmembers often serve on the HRA <br />and the entire membership of the HRA may consist of councilmembers. <br />���� HRAs are recognized as "special taxing districts" with a maXimum general allowable <br />operational levy of 0.0185 percent of the previous year's estimated market value of all <br />property in the city. Because the HRA is considered a separate political subdivision, the <br />HRA levy is not subject to city levy limts or city debt limits. <br />3. Economic Development Autho�ity <br />An EDA is a legal entity created by a city or a county to facilitate a well-rounded <br />_ development program by taking advantage of some of the port authority powers and all of <br />� the HRA powers. EDAs have much broader powers to stimulate economic development <br />� and it does not have to be directly related to either blight or affordable housing. EDAs <br />. can acquire property but cannot issue debt without an election. <br />r An EDA can have three, five or seven members and the City Council can choose to serve <br />. as the EDA Board of Commissioners or create a board composed of councilmembers and <br />: community members. <br />.� The EDA levy can differ from the HRA levy. The EDA does not have the capability on <br />� its own to raise a levy, but rather the city levies on its behalf. Because the EDA levy is <br />�� part of the city levy, it is not a special levy and therefore is subject to the city's overall <br />c levy limit with one major exception. If the EDA enabling resolutions indicate that the <br />�: EDA is adopting all of the powers of an HRA, then it can do anything the HRA could do, <br />��: including having a"special taxing district" levy that is not subject to city levy limits. In <br />F� other words, it is possible to give the EDA all of the powers of the HRA in addition to its <br />�:�� increased economic development flexibility, but it is not possible to do the reverse. An <br />�; �� HRA can not take on all the powers of an EDA. <br />`- 4. Port Authority <br />F�� Certain cities, including Roseville, have received special legislative permission to create <br />�: Port Authorities. A Port Authority is an entity with authority more expansive than either <br />c_ HRAs or EDAs combined. For instance, a Port Authority can require a city to levy up to <br />� the maximum limit and the Port Authority may issue bonds without election whereas <br />� HRAs and EDAs must have an election to issue bonds. <br />� The City of Roseville's Port Authority is made up of the City Council. <br />Page 2 of 4 <br />