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Mounds View City Council January 24, 2005 Regular Meeting Page 19 not looking for any direction or action this evening, but would be bringing it back for the EDA’s 1 consideration on February 14th. He stated that if this becomes a situation where there are 2 competing off ers and the Council feels this is something it needs to consider for a possible 3 acquisition, a special meeting could be held of the EDA on February 7th. 4 5 Mayor Marty stated that they have been trying to sell it off and on for the last year and a half, 6 an d they haven’t had any takers. He stated that in order to fix and straighten out County 10, 7 those properties would have to be acquired in order to do that, but it would create a larger piece 8 of property where the road exists now just south of Jakes, so he thought they should probably 9 direct staff to look into that. 10 11 Council Member Stigney asked how much assistance the Doughnut Connection had received 12 from the City. 13 14 Director Ericson stated he wasn’ t aware that they had received any. 15 16 Council Member Stigney asked if they were in a TIF District now. 17 18 Director Ericson stated he didn’t believe the parcel was in a TIF District. 19 20 Council Member Stigney asked if he could check on the funding. 21 22 Director Ericson stated he would look into it. He stated that this property and the gas station 23 property are on the City’s list of properties that could be acquired. 24 25 Council Member Stigney stated that when you buy something to speculate after a certain period 26 of time of getting something back on it, and then when it gets ti me to get something back, they 27 are willing to sell it to the City, that doesn’t look like it’s really a good plan. 28 29 Mayor Marty stated that if they were willing to sell it to the City for less than its appraised value 30 by Ramsey County, that’s worth looking into. 31 32 Council Member Stigney stated that he wants to know how much went into it. He stated if this is 33 the policy, these people get their money up front, and then after their use is out of it, then they 34 want to sell and get out of there, and then the City pays them off again. 35 36 Mayor Marty asked Director Ericson to report back on the history of it. 37 38 Council Member Flaherty stated that his initial reaction would be to do an environmental 39 assessment of the site since gas stations are notorious for leaky tanks, and cleanup is not the 40 easiest and cheapest thing to do. 41 42 Mayor Marty stated that that was a good point, and the City had had to clean up sites where gas 43 stations used to be in order to make the property marketable, so that was something to keep in 44 mi nd. 45 46