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RESOLUTION NO. 96 -172
Member Kristen Mann introduced the following resolution and
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION APPROVING HENNEPIN COUNTY APPLICATION TO THE
MINNESOTA HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY FOR COMMUNITY FIX -UP
FUND
WHEREAS, the Community Fix -Up Fund is a loan program offered by the
Minnesota Housing Finance Agency (MHFA) to provide home rehabilitation and remodeling loans
to qualified single family through four -unit residential properties; and
WHEREAS, Hennepin County will be applying to the MHFA to participate in the
Community Fix -Up Fund and has offered to provide the program in the city of Brooklyn Center; and
WHEREAS, the County's participation in the Community Fix -Up Fund would
provide needed home rehabilitation funds to residents of the city of Brooklyn Center; and
WHEREAS, in order for Hennepin County to offer Brooklyn Center residents
rehabilitation loans under the Community Fix -Up Fund, the City must approve the County's
application and designate a specific neighborhood to target with the loan funds; and
WHEREAS, based on the current waiting list for Community Development deferred
home rehabilitation loans, it appears the city's southeast neighborhood has a significant need for
home rehabilitation funds; and
WHEREAS, the City of Brooklyn Center supports Hennepin County's efforts in
providing additional home rehabilitation opportunities to Brooklyn Center residents in the city's
southeast neighborhood.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of
Brooklyn Center as follows:
1. The City Council approves Hennepin County's application to the Minnesota
Housing Finance Agency for the Community Fix -Up Fund program.
2. Hennepin County is hereby directed to target the city's southeast neighborhood
with Community Fix -Up Fund loan funds.
3. The boundaries of the southeast neighborhood are: 53rd Avenue North on the
south, Shingle Creek on the west, I -94/1 -694 on the north and the Mississippi
River on the east.
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RESOLUTION NO. 96472
ATTEST:
September 9, 1996
Date
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City Clerk
0 Mayor
The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly seconded by member
Kathleen Carmody and upon vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor thereof:
Myrna Kragness, Kathleen Carmody, Debra Hilstrom, Kristen Mann, and Charles Nichols;
and the following voted against the same: none,
whereupon said resolution was declared duly passed and adopted.