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• Meet with appropriate staff and consultants who are engaged in this project including: City elected officials, city staff, public relations professionals, and an owner's representative (construction manager and architect). We would like to reaffirm the scope of the project and the cost. These meetings would be used to make sure all players are on the same page. A collective team approach will dramatically ensure the chances of success. We would like to review any documents already prepared that will support an application to the State Department of Management and Budget for a construction grant. • Meet with key project staff to develop a strategy to secure additional local and State support for this project. • Meet with any other groups that the Mounds View City Administrator and Libby Law Office deem necessary. Phase II - State activities • Prepare a bill and secure legislative authors for funding in the 2023 session. • Meet with the respective Chairs of the House and Senate Capital Investment Committees to present this initiative and to secure their support. • Assist in the development of arguments as to why this initiative is of regional or statewide significance. • Assist in the preparation and submission of the state grant application to the State Department of Management and Budget. This submission will be the responsibility of the City of Mounds View. • Develop a strategy to secure grassroots support for this project. More local and regional support leads to broader legislative support for this initiative. • Meet face-to-face with all Capital Investment Committee members and educate them on the specific merits of this initiative with the goal of securing their support. • Meet with legislative leadership to secure their support. • Meet with the Governor and/or the senior executive team in order to present this initiative and secure their support. • Assist the project team as they develop materials to be used in individual meetings with legislators and for presentations before the State Capital Investment Committees. • Assist project representatives with all presentations before legislative committees. • Assist in scheduling a proposed project site visit for the House and Senate Capital Investment Committees. TIMELINE We suggest that we become engaged with the project as soon as possible. It will take several months to plan and develop this project sufficiently enough to be ready for introduction and action at the start of the 2023 legislative session. We need to spend the remaining time in 2021 and the first six months of 2022 to refine the project scope, establish a grassroots network, identify possible authors and allies, coordinate legislative and philanthropic activities and gather political intelligence on proponents and opponents.