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Lauderdale <br />Rick Getschow, City Administrator for Lauderdale stated their council had not <br />formally discussed this proposal, however, when the discussion had come up <br />previously regarding governance, etc., their city was very supportive. As a small <br />city, Lauderdale sees quite a few benefits to the program. They are facing major <br />issues of housing stock, redevelopment and neighborhood revitalization, so this <br />type program could be of benefit. There would be some questions regarding <br />some of the details, but the Lauderdale council has been supportive. <br />Gem Lake <br />Not represented /Sent letter (Attached) <br />Falcon Heights <br />Bob Lamb representing the city of Falcon Heights, said they are supportive of <br />this proposal, but not on a formal basis. Falcon Heights has a lot of emerging <br />housing problems and this proposal would facilitate them to address some of <br />these issues. It is important that each of the surrounding communities address <br />their housing problems as well because they all live as a city and govern <br />themselves as a state. He told the group, you can argue about the distribution <br />formula, the amount of dollars and all of that, but to the extent that housing is a <br />problem and to the extent that it is a value for everybody to get on the HRA <br />bandwagon and to the extent that this proposal, while it may not be perfect, <br />facilitates everybody getting on that bandwagon, Falcon Heights believes we are <br />all linked here together and are very supportive of this proposal. <br />Heather Worthington added that as a suburb they are facing several years of <br />redevelopment. This monetary resource could be helpful to achieve some of that <br />redevelopment and it would also help improve the property values in this area. <br />Bob Lamb continued that there is a recession and cities are getting less State <br />aid, but housing is still important. The welfare of the city and the welfare of the <br />community is based upon the value of the housing scenario and even though <br />Falcon Heights is going to work very hard to get by with no additional taxes, they <br />are going to try not to make any short term decisions because of all the tax <br />pressure that they have now. This would allow a problem that already exists to <br />become worse over the next few years. This should be looked at as a facilitation <br />program and there is some value to it. <br />Heather Worthington told the group some of these dollars would be used to help <br />with code enforcement. The age of the homes in Falcon Heights are quite a bit <br />older than in the rest of the county. <br />Blaine <br />Not represented <br />