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• 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 deems necessary. 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 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 local fiscal partner. • 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 Since the legislature begins the new biennial session on January 3, 2023, we suggest that we become engaged with the project as soon as possible. During the 2023 session, we need to spend time to refine the project scope, establish a grassroots network, identify allies, coordinate legislative and philanthropic activities and gathering political intelligence on proponents and opponents. State general obligation bonds will be used to finance 50% of this project. According to state law, these GO Bond construction grants can only be made to a local government as the fiscal partner. As such, the local fiscal partner will need to pass a resolution of support before a bill is introduced in 2023 session of the legislature. The sooner we would start the more time we have to collectively develop options and to make any project or political adjustments. Although complex, your project is a part of a process that will have several activities occurring at different times. There are many steps to the process and 4