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Home My WebLink About07-23-2007PROCEEDINGS OF THE MOUNDS VIEW EDA 1 CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW 2 RAMSEY COUNTY, MINNESOTA 3 4 EDA Regular Meeting 5 July 23, 2007 6 Mounds View City Hall 7 2401 Highway 10, Mounds View, MN 55112 8 6:05 P.M. 9 10 11 1. CALL MEETING TO ORDER 12 13 2. ROLL CALL: President Marty, Vice President Stigney, Commissioner Hull, 14 Commissioner Flaherty, and Commissioner Mueller. 15 16 NOT PRESENT: None. 17 18 3. APPROVAL OF AGENDA 19 20 MOTION/SECOND: Mueller/Flaherty. To Approve the Monday, July 23, 2007 Agenda as 21 Presented. 22 23 Ayes - 5 Nays – 0 Motion carried. 24 25 4. PUBLIC INPUT 26 27 None. 28 29 5. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 30 31 A. June 25, 2007 32 33 Commissioner Hull requested that City Administrator be changed to Executive Director Ulrich. 34 35 Vice President Stigney asked that the reconvened time be added. 36 37 Commissioner Mueller said it was shortly after 9:00 approximately 9:10 p.m. 38 39 President Marty asked that more information be added about what was talked about after 40 reconvening. On Page 2, add that no action was taken on this issue at this time. 41 42 Commissioner Flaherty Line 51, remove must build the road. 43 44 MOTION/SECOND: Mueller/Stigney. To Approve the Minutes of June 25, 2007, as Corrected 45 Mounds View EDA July 23, 2007 Regular Meeting Page 2 and by Submissions of Commissioners. 46 47 Ayes – 5 Nays – 0 Motion carried. 48 49 B. July 9, 2007 EDA Executive Session Minutes 50 51 Commissioner Flaherty asked about correcting the adjournment time. 52 53 City Attorney Riggs arrived at 6:07 p.m. 54 55 MOTION/SECOND: Mueller/Flaherty. To Approve the Minutes of July 9, 2007 as Amended. 56 57 Ayes – 5 Nays – 0 Motion carried. 58 59 6. CONSENT AGENDA 60 61 None. 62 63 7. EDA BUSINESS 64 65 A. Resolution 07-EDA-233, Adopting the Global Release and Settlement 66 Agreement Including Various Releases 67 68 Community Development Director Ericson noted that an updated Staff report was provided at the 69 start of the meeting for the Authority to review. 70 71 City Attorney Riggs explained that all the documentation was provided and everything was 72 covered. City Attorney Riggs said that he understands that every issue that the City had concerns 73 with has been resolved. City Attorney Riggs was informed by the Attorney for Clear Channel 74 that the Attorney had some changes but those changes did not involve the EDA or the City. 75 76 City Attorney Riggs explained that there is no discussion of the City or the EDA paying for any 77 portion of roadways or anything like that and all issues brought up by the Council and EDA have 78 been resolved. 79 80 Commissioner Flaherty reviewed the status of each of the signs: Sign 1 stays out on 35W with 81 revenue to the City; Sign 2 stays with revenue to the City; Sign 3 needs to be removed by 8/31; 82 Signs 4 and 5 are gone; Sign 6 is a joint agreement with Medtronic and Clear Channel and that 83 will stay; Sign 7, on the Sysco lot, stays and is a revenue to the City sign. 84 85 City Attorney Riggs explained that there is a sign that is obstructed by tree cover and Clear 86 Channel has asked the State to remove trees in the right of way and the sign may go away if the 87 Mounds View EDA July 23, 2007 Regular Meeting Page 3 trees cannot be removed by the deadline. 88 89 President Marty asked about Exhibit A, Page 3, Relocation of billboards and whether the 90 $20,000 of clearing of site is a Medtronic expense. 91 92 City Attorney Riggs said that it is. 93 94 President Marty noted that the brick and masonry must be completed by September 5, 2007. 95 96 President Marty said he likes that the City was added to approval for alteration of the sign. 97 98 President Marty thanked the City Attorney and City Staff for the work involved in pulling this 99 together to be complete. 100 101 MOTION/SECOND: Mueller/Stigney. To Waive the Reading and Approve Resolution 07-102 EDA-233, Adopting the Global Release and Settlement Agreement Including Various Releases. 103 104 The Authority asked the City Attorney to draft a paragraph for the Resolution to clarify things 105 without having to refer to the Global Agreement. 106 107 This item will be continued to the end of the meeting. 108 109 B. Consider Resolution 07-EDA-236, Amendments to the Housing Replacement 110 Program Guidelines and Requirements 111 112 Community Development Director Ericson explained and reviewed the proposed changes to the 113 Housing Replacement Program. 114 115 Commissioner Mueller asked if there is a blighted home that becomes a problem, would the 116 changes in this document hamper the ability of the City to acquire that property. 117 118 Director Ericson indicated it would not at all impact that. 119 120 Commissioner Flaherty said that the Planning Commission did a great job on this 121 recommendation. 122 123 President Marty asked why tenant occupied buildings are not eligible. 124 125 Director Ericson explained that the City could end up in a relocation situation and have to pay for 126 18 months of relocation assistance. 127 128 Director Ericson thanked Kennedy & Graven for the language assistance and help with drafting 129 Mounds View EDA July 23, 2007 Regular Meeting Page 4 this document. 130 131 Commissioner Mueller said that under blight qualifications, Staff will arrange a tour of the inside 132 but she is wondering if it is inside or out or both. 133 134 Director Ericson indicated that Staff would have already driven past the outside and made the 135 inspection of the outside. 136 137 The EDA asked that inside and outside be added to the language. 138 139 Commissioner Flaherty said that this came up because the EDA put a moratorium on this 140 program to allow time to create some conditions prior to the next request. Commissioner 141 Flaherty said that he was pleased to see the language that any loans are at the discretion of the 142 EDA. 143 144 MOTION/SECOND: Mueller/Hull. To Waive the Reading and Approve Resolution 07-EDA-145 236, Amendments to the Housing Replacement Program Guidelines and Requirements. 146 147 MOTION/SECOND: Stigney/Mueller. To Amend the funding mechanism to be stretched out 148 over ten years with a 10% reduction per year. 149 150 Ayes – 5 Nays – 0 Amendment carried. 151 152 Commissioner Mueller said that she thinks that the Planning Commission and Staff have 153 provided an excellent standard for this tool to apply it to any situation that is presented. 154 155 Ayes – 5 Nays – 0 Motion carried. 156 157 The EDA recessed at 7:00 p.m. 158 159 The EDA reconvened at 10:10 p.m. 160 161 A. Continuation of Discussion on Resolution 07-EDA-233 Adopting the 162 Global Release and Settlement Agreement Including Various Releases 163 164 City Attorney Riggs reviewed the language drafted for Resolution 07-EDA-233, Section 1.12. 165 166 After hearing the language, the Authority took a vote on the previously made motion. 167 168 Ayes – 5 Nays – 0 Motion carried. 169 170 8. REPORTS 171 Mounds View EDA July 23, 2007 Regular Meeting Page 5 172 9. NEXT EDA MEETING: Monday, August 13, 2007 at 6:30 p.m. 173 174 10. ADJOURNMENT 175 176 President Marty adjourned the meeting at 10:13 p.m. 177 178 Respectfully submitted, 179 180 181 Recorded and transcribed by: 182 183 Joan Lenzmeier, Recording Clerk 184 TimeSaver Off Site Secretarial, Inc. 185