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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION Date: February 8, 2021 Item No.: 9.d Department ApprovalCity Manager Approval Item Description:Authorize Mayor and City Manager to Execute a ProfessionalServices Agreement with the Saint Paul Area Chamber of Commerce and a Cooperative Funding Agreement with the Cities of Maplewood and St. Paul Regarding 2021Funding of the Rice & Larpenteur Alliance 1 B ACKGROUND 2 Dating to the summer of 2016, the City has been actively engaging with the cities of Maplewood and 3 St. Paul, along with Ramsey County, regarding revitalizing and re-envisioning the Rice Street and 4 Larpenteur Avenue corridor. Since then, the cities and County commissioned a Rice and Larpenteur 5 Area Visioning Plan, which was accepted in 2018. To begin implementation of that plan, the cities 6 and County sought Requests for Proposals in early 2019, ultimately selectingthe Saint Paul Area 7 Chamber of Commerce (SPACC) to provide consulting services surrounding implementation of the 8 Vision Planthrough creation of the Rice & Larpenteur Alliance. 9 On April 22, 2019,the City Council authorized a Professional Services Agreement with SPACCand 10 aCooperative Funding Agreement with the cities of Maplewood and St. Paul for Rice & Larpenteur 11 Alliance efforts from April 22, 2019 thru March 1, 2020. On March 9, 2020, the City Council 12 authorized the same agreements for funding the Alliance for a second year. The Professional Services 13 Agreement(Attachment A) provides funding to SPACC for professional services to run the Rice & 14 Larpenteur Alliance. Since Roseville serves as the fiscal agent to the Alliance, the Cooperative 15 Funding Agreement (Attachment B) is with the cities of St. Paul and Maplewood, who provide their 16 Alliance funding to the City of Roseville, who uses it, coupled withCityfunds, to pay for SPACC’s 17 professional services. 18 Kim O’Brien with SPACC, who serves as the Executive Director to the Rice & Larpenteur Alliance, 19 provided a2020Rice & Larpenteur Annual Report outlining activities and accomplishments from the 20 past year (Attachment C). Moving into the thirdyear, the Alliance willcontinue on with its current 21 structural model whereby SPACC provides professional services to the Alliance. As such, City staff 22 seeks authorization to enter into the necessary contracts to fund the thirdyear, which runs from March 23 2, 2021–March 1, 2022. Exhibit A to the Professional Services Agreement consists of a Work Plan. 24 The final Work Plan will be prepared during the Alliance’s annual meeting, which is tentatively th 25 scheduled for February 17. Once finalized, staff will insert into the agreement. 26 P OLICY O BJECTIVE 27 The corridor of Rice and Larpenteur that borders southeast Roseville was originally identified in the 28 City’s Policy Priority Plan in 2016 as an Economic Development Strategic Initiative. This initiative 29 continues to be a focus area in the City’s currentPolicy Priority Plan. Page 1of 2