HomeMy WebLinkAbout2020-039 CCRMember Butler introduced the following resolution and moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NU. 2020-039
RESOLUTION IDENTIFYING THE NEED FOR LIVABLE COMMUNITIES
DEMONSTRATION ACCOUNT ("LCDA") FUNDING AND AUTHORIZING AN
APPLICATION FOR GRANT FUNDS
WHEREAS, the City of Brooklyn Center is a participant in the Metropolitan Livable
Communities Act ("LCA") Local Housing Incentives Program for 2020 as determined by the
Metropolitan Council, and is therefore eligible to apply for LCA Livable Communities
Demonstration Account and Tax Base Revitalization Account Transit Oriented Development
(Collectively, "TOD") funds; and
WHEREAS, the City has identified a proposed project within the City that meets LCDA
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 adequately
manage an LCDA grant; 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 acknowledges LCDA grants are intended to fund projects or project
components that can serve as models, examples or prototypes for LCDA development or
redevelopment 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
WHERES, only a limited amount of grant funding is available through the Metropolitan
Council's Livable Communities LCDA initiative 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 LCDA 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 pr7orities for the
following proposed LCDA project to occur at this particular site at this particular time:
JO Companies — Brooklyn Center
2. Finds that that LCDA Project component(s) for which Livable Communities LCDA funding
0s sought:
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a. Will not occur solely through private or other public investment within the
reasonable foreseeable future; and
b. Will occur within the term of the grant award (two years for Pre -Development
grants, and three years for Development grants,) only if Livable Communities
LCDA funding is made available for this project at this time.
Authol7zes the Business and Workforce Development Specialist to submit on behalf of the
City an application for Metropolitan Council Livable Communities LCDA grant funds for
the LCDA project components identified in the application, and to execute such agreements
as may be necessary to implement the LCDA
Mav 11.2020
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ATTEST:
City Clerk
The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly seconded by Commissioner
Graves
and upon vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor thereof.
Butler, Elliott, and Graves
and the following voted against the same:
Lawrence -Anderson and Ryan
whereupon said resolution was declared duly passed and adopted.
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