HomeMy Public PortalAbout1996-061Mayor Theis introduced the following resolution and moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 96-61
RESOLUTION ELECTING TO CONTINUE PARTICIPATING IN
THE LOCAL HOUSING INCENTIVES ACCOUNT PROGRAM
UNDER THE METROPOLITAN LIVABLE COMMUNITIES ACT
CALENDAR YEAR 1997
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 Statutes 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, each municipality must identify to the Metropolitan Council the actions the
municipality plans to take to meet the established housing goals through preparation of
the Housing Action Plan; and
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Council adopted, by resolution after a public hearing,
negotiated affordable and life -cycle housing goals for each participating 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 1997, a metropolitan area municipality that did not
participate in the Local Housing Incentive Account Program during the calendar year
1996, can participate under Minnesota Statutes section 473.254 only if: (a) the
municipality elects to participate in the Local Housing Incentives Account Program by
November 15, 1996; and (b) the Metropolitan Council and the municipality have
successfully negotiated affordable and life -cycle housing goals for the municipality;
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT the City of Medina hereby elects to
participate in the Local Housing Incentives Program under the Metropolitan Livable
Communities Act during the calendar year 1997.
Anne E Theis, Mayor
ATTEST:
Paul Robinson, Clerk -Treasurer
The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly seconded by member
Mayor Theis and upon vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor thereof:
Johnson, Ferris, Mayor Theis, and Thies.
and the following voted against: None Absent: Zietlow
Whereupon said resolution was declared duly passed and adopted this 19 day of
November, 1996.