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of Mounds View Staff R <br />Item No: 1 <br />Meeting Date: December 4, 2017 <br />Type of Business: Work S ssion <br />Administrator review: <br />To: Honorable Mayor and City Council <br />From: Mark Beer, Finance Director <br />Item Title/Subject: Review Community Center Proposals <br />Introduction: <br />The Creative Kids Academy lease will expire at the end of July 2018. The City Council <br />directed staff to seek proposals for use of the space from Creative Kids Academy and the <br />YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities. City staff opened both proposals on Monday, <br />November 20, 2017 with representatives from both interested parties present. Each <br />representative was provided with copies of both proposals. <br />Background: <br />The lease space is approximately 8,300 square feet of space at the Community Center. <br />The space is ideally suited for a child care operation as the original build -out of the space <br />had such a use in mind. There has been a childcare business operating almost <br />continuously in the Community Center since it opened in 1997. Children's Home Society, <br />a nonprofit entity, was the original provider of services in that space. They closed their <br />operations on short notice in 1999 or thereabouts, after which time the City considered <br />other entities to fill the space. In 2001, the City entered into a five-year lease agreement <br />with Creative Kids and renewed that lease in 2006. In 2008, the owner of Creative Kids <br />indicated she had reached an agreement to sell the business and the City subsequently <br />approved an assignment of the lease to Creative Kids Academy. Creative Kids Academy <br />had subsequently renewed the lease for an additional 5 year term in 2013. <br />Discussion: <br />Representatives from Creative Kids Academy and the YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities <br />are present and will be given 10 minutes each to present their respective proposals. Once <br />both proposals have been presented the City Council can ask follow-up questions. Both <br />parties agree that a decision sooner is better than later. <br />Recommendation: <br />Staff would like some input and feedback from the City Council as to how you would like <br />to proceed. Attached is a summary of both proposal and the individual proposals for your <br />consideration. <br />Respectfully submitted, <br />Mark Beer, Finance Di ctor <br />