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Authorizing application to the Department of Employment and Economic Development for Contamination Investigation and Cleanup Grants and to the Metropolitan Council for Tax Base Revitalization Grants for the East Seventh/Reaney, Schmidt Brewery Bottle and Brew House, Hazelden/615 Drake, Phalen Middle Section/Hamms, West Side Flats Sites and Pioneer/Endicott Building.
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WHEREAS, the City has identified environmental investigation and clean-up projects within the City that meet the purposes and criteria of the Contamination Investigation and Cleanup Grant Program of the Department of Employment and Economic Development and the Tax Base Revitalization Account Grant Program of the Metropolitan Council; and
WHEREAS, the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota is a participant in the Livable Communities Act's Housing Incentives Program for 2010 as determined by the Metropolitan Council, and is therefore eligible to make application for funds under its Tax Base Revitalization Account; and
WHEREAS, the City finds that the required contamination cleanup will not occur through private or other public investment within the reasonably foreseeable future without Contamination Investigation and Cleanup and Tax Base Revitalization Account grant funding; and
WHEREAS, the City represents that it has undertaken reasonable and good faith efforts to procure funding for the activities for which Contamination Investigation and Cleanup and Tax Base Revitalization Account grant funding is sought but was not able to find or secure from other sources funding that is necessary for cleanup completion and states that this representation is based on the following reasons and supporting facts:
(1). State reductions in Local Government Aid leave the City of Saint Paul with no general fund resources to invest in remediation activities, and
(2). The expiration of some tax increment districts and the depletion of various development accounts leave the Housing and Redevelopment Authority of the City of Saint Paul with no development resources to invest in these remediation activities.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota hereby approves the contamination investigation and cleanup grant applications submitted to the Department of Employment and Economic Development and the Metropolitan Council on November 1, 2010 by the City of Saint Paul for the East Seventh/Reaney, Schmidt Brewery Bottle and Brew House, Hazelden/615 Drake, Phalen Middle Section/Hamms, West Side Flats Sites and Pioneer/Endicott Building; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota agrees to act as legal sponsor for the project contained in the cleanup grant applications submitted to DEED and the Met Council on November 1, 2010 and that the Director of the Department of Planning and Economic Development is hereby authorized to apply to the Department of Employment and Economic Development and the Metropolitan Council for funding of these projects on behalf of the East Seventh/Reaney, Schmidt Brewery Bottle and Brew House, Hazelden/615 Drake, Phalen Middle Section/Hamms, West Side Flats Sites Pioneer/Endicott Building; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City has the institutional, managerial, and financial capability to ensure adequate project and grant administration; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the sources and amounts of the local match identified in the applications are committed to the projects identified; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, the City certifies that it has not violated any Federal, State or local laws pertaining to fraud, bribery, graft, kickbacks, collusion, conflict of interest, or other unlawful or corrupt practice and that it will comply with all applicable laws and regulations as stated in the contract agreements; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that if the City is awarded any grants by the Department of Employment and Economic Development and the Metropolitan Council the City of Saint Paul will be the grantee and agrees to act as the legal sponsor to administer and be responsible for grant funds expended for the project contained in the Contamination Investigation and Cleanup grants and the Tax Base Revitalization Account grants submitted on November 1, 2010; and
NOW THEREFORE BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the Mayor and City Clerk of the City of Saint Paul are hereby authorized to execute such agreements as are necessary to implement the projects on behalf of the applicant.