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Item No: 3 <br />Meeting Date: August 7, 2023 <br />MOLNDtSIEWType of Business WS <br />Admin Review <br />City of Mounds View Staff R <br />To: Honorable Mayor, and City Council <br />From: Nyle Zikmund, City Administrator <br />Item Title/Subject: Community Center — Local Options Sales Tax <br />Introduction: <br />Council is very familiar with the Community Center Expansion as well as legislation passed <br />providing a local option sales tax. <br />Discussion: <br />While the legislation passed, there is some ambiguity regarding the issue and council <br />requested, and included in this packet is a memo from Kennedy and Graven detailing the <br />process while considering the ambiguity. That ambiguity is specific to the definition of "General <br />Election". <br />Staff is aware that Bloomington, Rochester, Edina, and Golden Valley are moving forward this <br />year with their Local Options Sales Tax referendum with Detroit Lakes still deciding (along with <br />Mounds View). <br />There is a substantive advantage to having that community decision specific to the Bonding Bill <br />request as having the local 50% required match confirmed significantly improves the request in <br />the legislative process. <br />Of note, Representative Moeller has reached out and confirmed our desire and her submission <br />of asking the House Capital Investment Committee to consider including the project on their <br />"tour" list. <br />There is also a fiscal consequence, should the voters reject the sales tax, specific to moving <br />forward with the bonding process. While discussion and decision should and will occur, it is <br />probably unlikely that we would continue with the bonding process and our monthly contract <br />with the governmental relations firm (Libby Law) can be cancelled at any time. <br />The K & G memo details the process with the next step required being adoption of a resolution <br />addressing the Process as detailed in item V of their July 21, 2023 memo. <br />Direction Requested: <br />Determine if resolution should be brought forward to declare general election in 2023. <br />Respectfully, <br />Nyle Zikmund <br />City Administrator <br />The Mounds View Vision <br />A Thriving Desirable Community <br />