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RESOLUTION NO. 8744 CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW COUNTY OF RAMSEY STATE OF MINNESOTA RESOLUTION APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING EXECUTION OF JOINT POWERS AUTHORITY DISSOLUTION AGREEMENT AND LEASE TERMINATION RELATING TO FIRE TRAINING FACILITY ASSOCIATION WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority set forth in Minn. Stat. § 471.59, the City of Fridley (the "City") and Spring Lake Park, Blaine, Mounds View, and Brooklyn Center (collectively the "Cities") entered into a Joint Powers Agreement in 1991 entitled Joint Powers Agreement — Fire Training Association (the "JPA") for the construction and operation of the Fire Training Association (the "Association"), a joint powers entity under Minnesota law; and WHEREAS, the Association originally consisted of four Member Departments with Spring Lake Park, Blaine, and Mounds View collectively considered one Member Department ("SBM") and Fridley, Columbia Heights, and Brooklyn Center individually comprising the other three Member Departments; and WHEREAS, at the time they entered into the JPA, the City and the Cities determined that it was to their mutual advantage to form a single joint powers entity under Minnesota Statutes Section 471.59, to jointly and collectively construct, use, and maintain a fire training facility; and WHEREAS, the fire training facility, comprised of several structures, improvements and fixtures, and alternatively referred to as the fire training center or the building (collectively, the "Facility") was constructed on real property owned by Fridley located at 348 71st Avenue NE, Fridley, Minnesota or alternatively identified as 300 71st Avenue, Fridley, Minnesota (the "Property"); and WHEREAS, the Cities amended the JPA in 1994 with the execution of the Amendment Of Joint Powers Agreement For Construction And Operation Of Fire Training Site (the "Amendment"), which terminated the participation of one Member Department, Columbia Heights, from the JPA; and WHEREAS, following the construction of the Facility, the City and the Association entered into a twenty-five year lease, the Fire Training Center Lease Agreement (the "Lease") for its rental in 1997; and WHEREAS, the Property is now being redeveloped as a part of the City's construction of the new City Hall Campus, the Facility's location conflicts with those redevelopment plans, and the Member Departments, including the City, have determined that there is no longer a need for the JPA; and