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Mounds View City Council June 27, 2005 Regular Meeting Page 9 469.101 talks about boundaries of districts being contiguous not overlapping. He expressed 1 concerns stating that there could be a conflict unless part of the district is decertified prior to 2 accepting a new district with new boundaries. He noted that he feels very strongly that 3 Medtronic is strong-arming and that this is an inappropriate use of TIF. He clarified his 4 understanding stating in 469.174, Subdivision 10, it has specific requirements for the type of land 5 placed into TIF. He asked the City Attorney if the legislation sets aside 469.174 noting that it 6 does have some specific rules that it adds, some rules that it changes, but it did not say that it set 7 aside 469.174. He stated that these are questions he thought the Council would be interested in 8 and would like to have them added for their conversation. 9 10 City Administrator Ulrich stated that he spoke with Kurt Mueller from the State Auditors office 11 and he indicated that they do not have standards or guidelines in terms of the percentage of tax 12 base within TIF. He stated that they do not have any other standards beyond what is allowable by 13 State Law. 14 15 Council Member Thomas stated that she had also discussed Mr. Amundsen’s question in regards 16 to the special legislation that was passed regarding the TIF district. She stated that she has not 17 gotten an answer yet noting that their tax staff at the house is a bit occupied at the moment. She 18 stated that it is her hope that she would hear from them soon. 19 20 Council Member Flaherty stated that he would like some clarification on the overlapping of 21 districts. 22 23 City Administrator Ulrich explained that there would be a de-certification of that portion of TIF 24 District 3, which currently is located on golf course land. He assured Council that it would not 25 be overlapping districts. He stated that there would be a concurrent de-certification and then a 26 creation of the new district that would contain Medtronic. He stated that this would be the new 27 25-year district. He explained that the new district would then be TIF District 5. He further 28 explained that TIF District 3 is the SYSCO District, which includes the western portion of the 29 golf course and would be taken out. 30 31 David Jahnke, 8428 Eastwood Road stated that he would like to thank Economic Development 32 Coordinator Backman for all of his work noting that he has done a tremendous job. He stated 33 that he feels bad when they say Medtronic is strong-arming. He stated that Medtronic is not that 34 type of a company noting that he has heard all these terms throughout this process and wanted to 35 express his concerns. He asked if there was a clear understanding of the term noting that it is not 36 a good term to use for such an outstanding company. 37 38 Dan Hall, 2200 Highway 10, stated that he would like to hear the views of each Council Member 39 as to how it has been to deal with Medtronic. He asked Council if they believed Medtronic is 40 strong-arming or are they an upstanding company. He stated that he truly believes this would be 41 the best thing for the city noting that then the city could then use TIF in a different way. He 42 suggested the possibility that the city might be able to purchase old housing stock, demolishing 43 and selling to developers in order to keep upgrading Mounds View and make it into a premier 44 city. 45