HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 2023-51 Livable Communities Account FundingRESOLUTION NO. 2023-51
RESOLUTION IDENTIFYING THE NEED FOR LIVABLE COMMUNITIES DEMONSTRATION
ACCOUNT FUNDING AND AUTHORIZING APPLICATION FOR GRANT FUNDS
WHEREAS the City of Edina is a participant in the Livable Communities Act's Local Housing Incentives
Account Program for 2023 as determined by the Metropolitan Council, and is therefore eligible to apply for Livable
Communities Demonstration Account funds; and
WHEREAS the City has identified a proposed project (or projects) within the City that meets the
Demonstration Account's purposes and criteria and is consistent with and promotes the purposes of the Metropolitan
Livable Communities Act and the policies of the Metropolitan Council's adopted metropolitan development guide; and
WHEREAS the City has the institutional, managerial and financial capability to ensure adequate project
administration; and
WHEREAS the City certifies that it will comply with all applicable laws and regulations as stated in the grant
agreement; and
WHEREAS the City agrees to act as legal sponsor for the project(s) contained in the grant application(s)
submitted on August 14, 2023; and
WHEREAS the City acknowledges Livable Communities Demonstration Account grants are intended to fund
projects or project components that can serve as models, examples or prototypes for development or redevelopment
projects elsewhere in the region, and therefore represents that the proposed project(s) or key components of the
proposed project(s) can be replicated in other metropolitan-area communities; and
WHEREAS only a limited amount of grant funding is available through the Metropolitan Council's Livable
Communities Demonstration Account during each funding cycle and the Metropolitan Council has determined it is
appropriate to allocate those scarce grant funds only to eligible projects that would not occur without the availability of
Demonstration Account grant funding.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that, after appropriate examination and due consideration, the
governing body of the City:
• Finds that it is in the best interests of the City's development goals and priorities for the proposed project or
projects to occur at these particular sites and at this particular time.
• Finds that the project components for which Livable Communities Demonstration Account funding is sought:
o will not occur solely through private or other public investment within the reasonably foreseeable future;
and
o will occur within three years after a grant award only if Livable Communities Demonstration Account
funding is made available for this project at this time.
CITY OF EDINA
4801 West 50th Street • Edina, Minnesota 55424
• Represents that the City has undertaken reasonable and good faith efforts to procure funding for the project
components for which Livable Communities Demonstration Account funding is sought but was not able to find
or secure from other sources funding that is necessary for project component completion within three years and
states that this representation is based on the following reasons and supporting facts:
Project Name Amount Requested
5780 Lincoln $ I ,500,000
• Authorizes its Affordable Housing Development Manager to submit on behalf of the City an application or
applications for Metropolitan Council Livable Communities Demonstration Account grant funds for the project
component(s) identified in the application(s), and to execute such agreements as may be necessary to implement
the project(s) on behalf of the City.
Adopted this 15th • • .:u§t, 2023.
Attest: 16-4
Sharo rAllison, City Cleric James B. Hovland, Mayor
STATE OF MINNESOTA )
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN) SS
CITY OF EDINA )
CERTIFICATE OF CITY CLERK
I, the undersigned duly appointed and acting City Clerk for the City of Edina do hereby certify that the attached and
foregoing Resolution was duly adopted by the Edina City Council at its Regular Meeting of August I 5, 2023, and as
recorded in the Minutes of said Regular Meeting.
WITNESS my hand and seal of said City this 15th day of August 2023.
City Clerk
CITY OF EDINA
4801 West 50th Street • Edina, Minnesota 55424