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