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CITY OF ST. ANTHONY HOUSING ARID REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY �a MINUTES February 8, 1983 The meeting was called to order at 6:00 P.M. by Chairman Sundland. Present for roll call: Sundland, Vice Chairman Letourneau, Secretary/ Treasurer Marks, and Commissioners Enrooth and Ranallo. Also present: David Childs, Executive Director; William Soth, Attorney; and Richard Krier, Westwood Planning & Engineering Co., Planning Consultant. Motion by Secretary Treasurer Marks and seconded by Commissioner Enrooth to approve as submitted the minutes for the Housing and Rede- velopment Authority meeting held January 25, 1983. Motion carried unanimously. The Chairman read a prepared statement in which he explained the purpose of the meeting was to conduct interviews and question the two developers who had submitted proposals for the Kenzie Terrace Redevelopment Pro- ject in conformance with the procedures which had been established at the H.R.A. meeting held January 25th. He emphasized that there would be no comments or questions permitted from the floor, not because such input would not be valued by the H.R.A., but in the interest of main- taining as high degree of fairness for each proposal as possible. Instead, Chairman Sundland requested that any questions or concerns about the proposals should be submitted in writing to Mr. Childs prior to February 11th when the H.R.A. and staff would be reviewing and evaluating the proposals. Former Mayor Sally Haik and a number of Planning Commission and Task Force members were among those residents who were in attendance. The Chairman gave the background history of the redevelopment project and acknowledged the Commission and Task Force involvement in the project planning process. He then advised those present that the H.R.A intends to make a tentative selection of a developer and a plan for the project during its meeting February 22, 1983, and following that decision there would be a 90 day period prior to the signing of contract with the developer in which the fine points of that contract would be negotiated with that developer and during which it is anticipated that both the Planning Commission and Task Force would be heavily involved. At 6:05 P.M., Mr. John Curry, President of the Knutson Construction Company, opened the presentation of his firm's proposal for the re- development project by introducing the members of the team which would be involved in the project. These included Tony Vavoulis, project manager; Bruce Knutson, architect, and Art Peel, who would be responsible for the financing. Included in the presentation were discussions of the firm's previous experience with housing projects of the same type as proposed for the Kenzie Terrace area, the reasons the developers