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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Lake Elmo does hereby determine; 1. That it is necessary and proper in order to achieve the purposes of said Joint Exercise of.Power Agreement, and therefore in the public interest, that various private persons, including members of the Challenge Committee if they desire to do so, be allowed to join in the pending lawsuit and other actions, if any, which the Challenge Committee may deem advisable in the future, as individual plaintiffs. 2, That to the extent any such private persons or elected riiembers of the Challenge Committee shall join in any pending or future lawsuit as individual plaintiffs, their action in so joining shall be deemed necessary to assist this City in satis- fying the technical legal. requirements of maintaining such a lawsuit and there- fore in aid of the City's public purpose. 3. That each and every private person who desires to join the pending lawsuit and other actions, if any, which the Challenge Committee may deem advisable in the future, shall seek and obtain the approval of the City Attorney, who shall ascertain that said individual is the registered owner of: real property in this City and is liable for the payment, of real estate taxes thereon. Each private person shall thereafter execute in a form acceptable to the Challenge Committee a written agreement, that he will not seek private damages in the pending lawsuit or other actions undertaken by the Challenge Committee. 4. That any money expended by the 1-94 Challenge Committee for the purpose of pursuing such actions, shall riot be deemed an expenditure for a private purpose even though various private persons including members of. the Challenge Com- mittee may join therein as individual plaintiffs. On the contrary, all reasonable distributions of money made by the 1-94 Challenge Committee for the purpose of advancing said lawsuits shall be deemed for a public purpose - namely those purposes set forth in the Joint Exercise of Power Agreement.