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DISSOLUTION AGREEMENT This Dissolution Agreement (the “Agreement”), is entered into by and between the City of Fridley (“Fridley”), the City of Brooklyn Center (“Brooklyn Center”), the City of Spring Lake Park (“Spring Lake Park”), the City of Blaine (“Blaine”), and the City of Mounds View (“Mounds View”), all Minnesota municipal corporations, hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Cities”, and Spring Lake Park Fire Department Incorporated, a Minnesota non-profit corporation. RECITALS WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority set forth in Minn. Stat. § 471.59, the Cities entered into a Joint Powers Agreement in 1991 entitled Joint Powers Agreement – Fire Training Association (the “JPA”), a copy of which is attached hereto, as Exhibit A, for the construction and operation of the Fire Training Association (the “Association”); 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 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”), a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit B, which terminated the participation of one Member Department, Columbia Heights, from the JPA; and WHEREAS, the Property is being redeveloped, the Facility’s location conflicts with those development plans, and the Member Departments have determined that there is no longer a need for the JPA; and WHEREAS, based upon the foregoing circumstances, Cities and their respective Member Departments desire to dissolve and terminate the JPA.