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CITY OF PLYMOUTH
R ESOLUTION N O. 2023-267
R ESOLUTION A PPROVING A PPLICATION TO THE
T AX B ASE R EVITALIZATION A CCOUNT (TBRA) C LEANUP G RANT P ROGRAM
WHEREAS, the City of Plymouth has received a request from Commercial Investment Properties,
for the City of Plymouth to submit a Tax Base Revitalization Account Cleanup Grant Application (the
“Application”) to the Metropolitan Council on October 24, 2023, for the redevelopment and
environmental cleanup (the “Project”), as identified in the Application, of the former Prudential Campus
located at 13001 County Road 10 (the “Property”); and
WHEREAS the City of Plymouth 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 make application and apply for funds under the Tax Base Revitalization Account; and
WHEREAS the city has identified a contamination cleanup project within the city that meet the
Tax Base Revitalization Account’s purposes and criteria and are consistent with and promote 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 and grant administration; and
WHEREAS the city certifies that it will comply with all applicable laws and regulations as stated
in the contract grant agreements; 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 Tax Base Revitalization
Account grant funding.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PLYMOUTH,
MINNESOTA, that the City of Plymouth act as the legal sponsor for the Project contained in the
Application to be submitted by November 1, 2023 and that the City Manager is authorized to execute
such agreements as are necessary to implement the Project on behalf of the City of Plymouth.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City of Plymouth has the legal authority to apply for financial
assistance, and the institutional, managerial, and financial capability to ensure adequate project
administration.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City of Plymouth 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.
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that upon approval of its application by the state, the City of
Plymouth may enter into an agreement with the State of Minnesota for the Project, and that the City of
Plymouth certifies that it will comply with all applicable laws and regulation as stated in all contract
agreements.
APPROVED by the City Council on this 24th day of October, 2023.
STATE OF MINNESOTA)
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN) SS.
The undersigned, being the duly qualified and appointed City Clerk of the City of Plymouth, Minnesota,
certifies that I compared the foregoing resolution adopted at a meeting of the Plymouth City Council on
October 24, 2023 with the original thereof on file in my office, and the same is a correct transcription
thereof.
WITNESS my hand officially as such City Clerk and the Corporate seal of the City this ____________day
of ____________________, _____.
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City Clerk