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No. 99-22 <br />CITY OF FALCON HEIGHTS <br />COUNCIL RESOLUTION <br />• Date: September 22, 1999 <br />ELECTING TO CONTINUE PARTICIPATING IN THE LOCAL <br />HOUSING INCENTIVES ACCOUNT PROGRAM UNDER THE <br />METROPOLITAN LIVABLE COMMUNITIES ACT <br />WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act (Minnesota Statutes 473.25 to <br />473.2541 establishes a Metropolitan Livable Communities fund which is intended to address housing and <br />other development issues facing the metropolitan area defined by Minnesota Statutes section 473.121; <br />and <br />WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Livable Communities Fund, comprising the Tax Base <br />Revitalization Account, the Livable Communities Demonstration Account and the Local Housing Incentive <br />Account, is intended to provide certain funding and other assistance to metropolitan area municipalities; <br />and <br />WHEREAS, a metropolitan area municipality is not eligible to receive grants or loans <br />under the Metropolitan Livable Communities Fund or eligible to receive certain polluted sites cleanup <br />funding from the Minnesota Department of Trade and Economic Development unless the municipality is <br />participating in the Local Housing Incentives Account Program under the Minnesota Statutes section <br />473.254; and <br />• WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act requires the Metropolitan Council <br />to negotiate with each municipality to establish affordable and life-cycle housing goals for that <br />municipality that are consistent with and promote the policies of the Metropolitan Council as provided in <br />the adopted Metropolitan Development Guide; and <br />WHEREAS, each municipality must identify to the Metropolitan Council the actions the <br />municipality plans to take to meet the established housing goals through preparation of the Housing <br />Action Plan; and <br />WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Council adopted, by resolution after a public hearing, <br />negotiated affordable and life-cycle housing goals for each participating municipality; and <br />WHEREAS, a metropolitan area municipality which elects to participate in the Local <br />Housing Incentives Account Program must do so by November 15 of each year; <br />NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT the City of Falcon Heights hereby elects to <br />participate in the Local Housing Incentives Program under the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act <br />during the calendar year 2000. <br />-------------------------- <br />Moved by: Jacobs ----------------- ---------------------------- <br />Approved by: .~a'w~,~/- <br /> Mayor <br /> September 22, 1999 <br />GEHRZ 3 In Favor ~ Date <br />GIBBON TALBOT (absent) <br />• HUSTAD (absent) Attested by: <br />JACOBS 0 Against ity Administrator <br />KUETTEL September 22, 1999 <br /> Date <br />