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A RESOLUTION ELECTING TO BEGIN PARTICIPATING IN THE LOCAL HOUSING INCENTIVES ACCOUNT
PROGRAM UNDER THE METROPOLITAN LIVABLE COMMUNITIES ACT.
CALENDAR YEAR 2001
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act (Minnesota Statutes Section 473.25 to 473.254)
establishes a Metropolitan Livable Communities Fund which is intended to address housing and other
development issues facing the metropolitan area defined by Minnesota Statutes section 473.121; and
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Livable Communities Fund, comprising the Tax Base Revitalization Account, the
Livable Communities Demonstration Account and the Local Housing Incentive Account, is intended to provide
certain funding and other assistance to metropolitan area municipalities; and
WHEREAS, a metropolitan area municipality is not eligible to receive grants or loans under the Metropolitan
Livable Communities Fund or eligible to receive certain polluted sites cleanup funding from the Minnesota
Department of Trade and Economic Development unless the municipality is participating in the Local Housing
Incentives Account Program under the Minnesota Statues section 473.254, and
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act requires the Metropolitan Council to negotiate with each
municipality to establish affordable and life -cycle housing goals for that municipality that are consistent with and
promote the policies of the Metropolitan Council as provided in the adopted Metropolitan Development Guide;
and
WHEREAS, by June 30, municipalities electing to participate in the Local Housing Incentive Account Program
must identify to the Metropolitan Council the actions they plan to take to meet the established housing goals; and
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Council must adopt, by resolution after a public hearing, the negotiated affordable
and life -cycle housing goals for each municipality; and
WHEREAS, a metropolitan area municipality which elects to participate in the Local Housing Incentives Account
Program must do so by November 15 of each year, and
WHEREAS, for calendar year 2001, a metropolitan area municipality that did not participate in the Local Housing
Incentive Account Program during the calendar year 2000, can participate under Minnesota Statutes section
473.254 if: (a) the municipality elects to participate in the Local Housing Incentives Account Program by
November 15, 2000; (b) the Metropolitan Council and the municipality successfully negotiate affordable and life-
cycle housing goals for the municipality; (c) the Metropolitan Council adopts by resolution the negotiated
affordable and life -cycle housing goals for the municipality; and (d) the municipality agrees to establish that it has
spent or will spend or distribute to the local housing incentives account the required ALHOA for 1997 through
2000.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City of Hugo, Washington County, hereby
elects to participate in the Local Housing Incentives Program under the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act
during the calendar year 2001.
Motion to approve this resolution was made by: Debra Barnes
Seconded by: Jim Leroux
Upon roll call, members voting AYE: Barnes, Haas, Leroux, Petryk, Stoltzman
Voting NAY: None
Whereupon said resolution was declared adopted by the City Council this a day of June, 2000.
Attest:
Walter L. Stoltzman, Mayor Mary An reager, City Clerk