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C�TY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ROSEVILLE RESOLUTION NO. WHEREAS, Mounds View School District 621 ("Mounds View") owns the real property located at 2959 Hamline Avenue North in the City of Roseville, consisting of approximately 33 acres (the "Property"); and WHEREAS, soils and groundwater at the Property are currently contaminated; and WHEREAS, Mounds View desires to clean up the existing contamination and sell the Property to a developer who will construct new housing on the Prnpei-�y (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 Department 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 RevitalizationAccount, and Ramsey County's Environmental Response Fund (collectively, the "Grant Programs"); and WHEREAS, Mounds View has asked the City of Roseville to act as the legal sponsor for the Project for purposes of submitting applicationsto the Grant Programs on November 1,2006 (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 authority 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 pertaining to fraud, bribery, graft, kickbacks, collusion, conflict of interest or other unlawful or corrupt practice; and WHEREAS, the City of Roseville is a participant in the Livable Communities Act's Housing Incentives Program for 2006 as determined by the Metropolitan Council, and is therefore eligible to make application for funds under the Tax Base Revitalization Account; and WHEREAS, the Proj ect meets the Tax Base Revitalization Account's purposes and criteria;