HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 2006-93 - Identifying the need for Livable Communities Demonstration Account funding and authorizing an application for grant funds - 07/18/2006 CITY OF EDEN PRAIRIE
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION NO. 2006-93
RESOLUTION IDENTIFYING THE NEED FOR
LIVABLE COMMUNITIES DEMONSTRATION ACCOUNT FUNDING AND
AUTHORIZING AN APPLICATION FOR GRANT FUNDS
WHEREAS the City of Eden Prairie 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 apply for Livable Communities Demonstration Account funds; and
WHEREAS the City has identified a proposed project within the City that meets the
Demonstration Account's purposes and criteria and is consistent with and promotes the purposes
of the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act and the policies of the Metropolitan Council's
adopted metropolitan development guide; and
WHEREAS the City has the institutional, managerial and financial capability to ensure adequate
project administration; and
WHEREAS the City certifies that it will comply with all applicable laws and regulations as
stated in the grant agreement; and
WHEREAS the City agrees to act as legal sponsor for the project contained in the grant
application submitted on July 17, 2006; and
WHEREAS the City acknowledges Livable Communities Demonstration Account grants are
intended to fund projects or project components that can serve as models, examples or prototypes
for development or redevelopment projects elsewhere in the region, and therefore represents that
the proposed project or key components of the proposed project can be replicated in other
metropolitan-area communities; and
WHEREAS only a limited amount of grant funding is available through the Metropolitan
Council's Livable Communities Demonstration Account during each funding cycle and the
Metropolitan Council has determined it is appropriate to allocate those scarce grant funds only to
eligible projects that would not occur without the availability of Demonstration Account grant
funding.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that, after appropriate examination and due
consideration, the governing body of the City:
1. Finds that it is in the best interests of the City's development goals and priorities for the
proposed project to occur at this particular site and at this particular time.
2. Finds that the project component(s) for which Livable Communities Demonstration Account
funding is sought:
(a) will not occur solely through private or other public investment within the reasonably
foreseeable future; and
(b) will not occur within two years after a grant award unless Livable Communities
Demonstration Account funding is made available for this project at this time.
3. Represents that the City has undertaken reasonable and good faith efforts to procure funding
for the project component for which Livable Communities Demonstration Account funding
is sought but was not able to find or secure from other sources funding that is necessary for
project component completion within two years and states that this representation is based
on the following reasons and supporting facts:
The City has explored other potential funding sources and finds no others for which the
project is eligible that are within the City's policies and wherewithal that are not already
assumed to be used to their maximum benefit to the project.
4. Authorizes its Community Development Director to submit on behalf of the City an
application for Metropolitan Council Livable Communities Demonstration Account grant
funds for the project component(s) identified in the application, and authorizes the Mayor
and City Manager to execute such agreements as may be necessary to implement the project
on behalf of the City.
ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Eden Prairie this 18th day of July, 2006.
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ATTEST:
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athleen Porta, City Clerk