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September 25111, 2017 Mr. Nyle Zikmund Interim City Administrator for City of Mounds View 2401 Highway 10 Mounds View, MN 55112 RE: Renewal of the Mounds View Community Center Lease for Creative Kids Academy Dear Mr. Zikmund, Mr. Ericson had requested our written proposal for renewing our current lease between the City of Mounds View and Creative Kids Academy (CKA). We are very interested in continuing to provide quality childcare and early education to the community and fostering our relationship with the city. We have been a committed partner with the City of Mounds View for over 15 years, a model tenant, have served over 2000 children as well as families, and have made significant investment in the community through this relationship. The following is our lease renewal proposal: • Rent would increase to $11,000 per month effective August 1, 2018, an increase of 52% from the current rent of $7274.75. • Creative Kids Academy would be financially responsible for the property tax for the portion of the building occupied by CKA. • Lease term of five years effective August 1, 2018. We provide these unique benefits to the community as a provider which should be considered: • Access to over $200,000 in reduced or free childcare grants. • FREE enrichment programs to children such as Yoga, Music, Spanish classes, Karate, Gardening, story telling and more. • FREE local transportation to and from schools for before and after school children. • FREE breakfast, snacks and lunch to all children. • Highest accreditation by NAEYC and MN parent aware that attests to our quality based early childhood education programming. • Continued vibrant participation in the Mounds View community by collaborating with local schools, and educating, employing, and housing the citizens of our community. Retaining us will ensure the continued access to quality child care without the resultant disruptions to families children staff and community. Any new provider would not have accreditation status or access to the scholarship grants. It is unlikely that a new provider would retain our free enrichment programming transportation, andfor nutritional meals. We sincerely appreciate our relationship with the city and hope we can continue to provide services that contribute to the prosperity to the famili of our community. -' - _J Rajiv Garg Sangeeta Jain