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Accepting grant funds, authorizing execution of two grant agreements with indemnity obligations, and amending the operating budget for the City's sponsorship of a Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) Contamination Cleanup Grant, and a Metropolitan Council Livable Communities Act Contamination Cleanup Grant for Prior Works Creative Enterprise Zone, 755 Prior Avenue North (District 11, Ward 4).
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WHEREAS, in RES 23-469 and RES 23-501, the City Council of the City of Saint Paul resolved that the City may act as the legal sponsor in Prior Works Creative Enterprise Zone DEED grant, and Metropolitan Council grant applications and, thereby, authorized these applications to DEED and to the Metropolitan Council related to the Prior Works Creative Enterprise Zone project located at 755 Prior Avenue North (each an “Application” and, collectively, the “Applications”); and
WHEREAS, DEED accepted the Application and awarded the City a $174,981 contamination cleanup grant for the benefit of Prior Works Creative Enterprise Zone (the “DEED Grant Funds”); and
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Council accepted the Application and awarded the City a $174,900 Contamination Cleanup grant for the benefit of Prior Works Creative Enterprise Zone (the “Met Council Grant Funds”, and, collectively with the DEED Grant Funds, the “Grant Funds”); and
WHEREAS, the DEED and Metropolitan Council grant contracts (the “Grant Agreements”) require the City to indemnify DEED and the Metropolitan Council, respectively; and
WHEREAS, the Mayor, pursuant to Section 10.07.1 of the Saint Paul City Charter, does certify that there are available for appropriation funds of $349,881 in excess of those estimated in the operating budget; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Saint Paul:
1. that upon the recommendation of the Mayor that the $349,881 is available for appropriation in the Operating Budg...
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