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Item No. 06F Meeting Date: June 12, 2017 Type of Business: Consent Agenda City Administrator Review: ______ City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Desaree Crane, Assistant City Administrator Item Title/Subject: Resolution 8770, Accepting the 2017 Twin Cities Gateway Grant Introduction Since 2009, the City of Mounds View has been a member of the Twin Cities Gateway. One of the Twin Cities Gateway’s programs is the “Member City Marketing Grant.” Beginning in 2011, the program was structured so that each member city receives an annual grant based on the percentage of lodging taxes collected from the prior year. Below is the breakdown of annual grant fund allocations for the City of Mounds View from Twin Cities Gateway: Year 2010: $2,000 Year 2011: $3,673 Year 2012: $6,600 Year 2013: $6,429 Year 2014: $6,504 Year 2015: $6,504 Year 2016: $8,872 Year 2017: $7,964 Discussion As part of accepting the 2017 grant funds, the City Council is required to enter into the attached agreement. Upon accepting the grant, the City must disperse the funds to community festival(s), and/or event(s) the City Council wants to support. Last year, the Mound View City Council chose to provide grant funds towards the Festival in the Park ($7,172) and towards website restructuring to market and promote program and events at the Mounds View Community Center ($1,500). During the June Work Session, the City Council consensus was to split the funds between the Mounds View Community Center Banquet Center in the amount of $1,000, and have the rest of the funds allocated to the Festival in the Park Committee in the amount $6,964. Staff contacted the president and the treasurer of the Festival in the Park committee. The committee revised their budgets to reflect $6,964. The Banquet Center will use the funds towards marketing and promotion of their facility.