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The following forms of financial assistance are not considered a business subsidy: <br /> 1. A business subsidy of less than $150,000; <br /> 2. Assistance that is generally available to all businesses or to a general class of <br /> similar businesses, such as a line of business, size, location, or similar general <br /> criteria; <br /> 3. Public improvements to buildings or lands owned by the state or local <br /> government that serve a public purpose and do not principally benefit a single <br /> business or defined group of businesses at the time the improvements are made; <br /> 4. Redevelopment property polluted by contaminants as defined in section 116J.552, <br /> subdivision 3; <br /> 5. Assistance provided for the sole purpose of renovating old or decaying building <br /> stock or bringing it up to code and assistance provided for designated historic <br /> preservation districts, provided that the assistance is equal to or less than 50 <br /> percent of the total cost; <br /> 6. Assistance to provide job readiness and training services if the sole purpose of <br /> the assistance is to provide those services; <br /> 7. Assistance for housing; <br /> 8. Assistance for pollution control or abatement, including assistance for a tax <br /> increment financing hazardous substance sub district as defined under section <br /> 469.74, subdivision 23; <br /> 9. Assistance for energy conservation; <br /> 10.Tax reductions resulting from conformity with federal tax law; <br /> 11.Workers' compensation and unemployment insurance; <br /> 12. Benefits derived from regulation; <br /> 13. Indirect benefits derived from assistance to educational institutions; <br /> 14. Funds from bonds allocated under chapter 474A, bonds issued to refund <br /> outstanding bonds, and bonds issued for the benefit of an organization <br /> described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as <br /> amended through December 31, 1999; <br /> 15.Assistance for a collaboration between a Minnesota higher education institution <br /> and a business; <br /> 16.Assistance for a tax increment financing soils condition district as defined under <br /> section 469.174, subdivision 19; <br /> 17. Redevelopment when the recipient's investment in the purchase of the site and in <br /> site preparation is 70 percent or more of the assessor's current year's estimated <br /> market value; <br /> 18. General changes in tax increment financing law and other general tax law <br /> changes of a principally technical nature; <br /> 19. Federal assistance until the assistance has been repaid to, and reinvested by, the <br /> state or local government agency; <br /> 20. Funds from dock and wharf bonds issued by a seaway port authority; <br /> 21. Business loans and loan guarantees of$150,000 or less; <br /> 22. Federal loan funds provided through the United States Department of <br /> City of Mounds View Business Subsidy Policy <br /> Amended(Expected)January 2016 <br /> Page 4of8 <br />