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Mounds View City Council June 27, 2005 Regular Meeting Page 12 workings as she has dealt with them outside of this issue and can honestly say that she would be 1 more than happy to be working with Medtronic again. She stated that they do their job to stand 2 up for their company and to do the deal they need to do in order to do good business. She stated 3 that this is the type of company she would like in Mounds View that makes good business 4 decisions. She stated that she feels Medtronic has dealt with the city extremely fairly and 5 extremely above board. 6 7 Council Member Stigney agreed stating that no one strong-armed him or coerced him in any 8 manner. He stated that all he saw was a very upstanding company presenting options that they 9 were willing or capable of doing. He stated that they have bent over backwards recalling that 10 Medtronic only asked for 40-percent of the TIF they qualify for. He stated that Medtronic is a 11 very above-board and outstanding company. He stated that it is his hope that everyone has the 12 opportunity to work with company like this. 13 14 Mayor Marty stated that he has gotten to know Mr. McCombs the best noting that he has been 15 very impressed and Mr. McCombs has his respect. He stated that he has no problems with any of 16 the individuals he has spoken with. He assured the residents that no one has tried to strong-arm 17 him noting that everything has been totally honorable and above board. 18 19 Barbara Haake, 3024 County Road I, referenced Ms. Sebesta’s concerns regarding her house 20 being in a TIF District and clarified that when Director Ericson drove through the community to 21 identify parcels it was with the intent to identify parcels that would be eligible for purchase by 22 the city and if the resident chose to sell their home to the city they would use the excess TIF 23 funds to purchase the parcel. She further clarified that the TIF funds would be available for the 24 city to use if Ms. Sebesta or any other resident in a TIF District were to ever choose to sell their 25 home to the city. 26 27 Mayor Marty clarified that if a property owner was not able to sell their home and they 28 approached the city and it was determined that the home was not on the list it could take up to a 29 year to qualify the property for purchase. He stated that the city was only trying to streamline the 30 process. He explained that the city has been approached in the past by homeowners and the city 31 has either not had the time to certify the property or the city has decided not to purchase the 32 property. 33 34 Council Member Thomas further clarified that this list is just for the Comprehensive Plan and the 35 only thing this list does is that it allows the city to use TIF dollars instead of the General Fund. 36 She stated that it is only the difference in how it is financed noting that the Metropolitan Council 37 requires the city to use the list if using TIF funds. 38 39 Brian Amundsen, 3048 Wooddale, stated that he had asked if the City Attorney would address 40 the issues of 469.174, Subdivision 10, which has three specific criteria about when a 41 redevelopment district can be declared and whether the City Attorney felt that the legislation set 42 aside the three criteria for some reason when it was not specifically stated. He stated that he 43 would also like to comment that for anyone to think that a company that says they have 3000 44 employees they want to keep in Minnesota and if they can’t keep them in Minnesota would then 45