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Authorizing the City to submit information to the Minnesota Public Facilities Authority (MPFA) and to enter into a Grant Agreement with the MPFA.
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WHEREAS, under the provisions contained in Minnesota Session Laws 2026 chapter 130, article 1, section 24, subd. 64, $13,000,000 was appropriated to the MPFA “For a grant to the city of St. Paul for the Trunk Highway 5/West 7th Street Improvement Project to predesign, design, engineer, construct, and equip improvements to the publicly owned underground sanitary sewer infrastructure under West 7th Street. $6,500,000 is designated for the section of West 7th Street from Kellogg Boulevard to St. Clair Avenue and $6,500,000 is designated for the section of West 7th Street from St. Clair Avenue to Interstate Highway 35E.”
WHEREAS, to receive this money, the City of St. Paul must submit required information and enter into a Grant Agreement with the MPFA; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City of St. Paul has the legal authority to apply for the grant, and the financial, technical, and managerial capacity to ensure proper construction, operation and maintenance of the project for its design life; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, by the City Council that Deb Barber, Public Works Director or designee be authorized to apply for these grants; and
In the event of disability or resignation or other absence of either such officer, the Grant Agreement may be signed by the manual signature of that officer who may act on behalf of such absent or disabled officer. In case either such officer whose signature shall appear on the Grant Agreement shall cease to be such officer before delivery of the Grant Agreement, such signature shall nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all purposes, the same as if he or she had remained in office until delivery; and
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the City will secure and retain receipts for all eligible work on publicly owned underground sanitary sewer infrastructure under West 7th Street.