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11/18/1997 - City Council SpecialAGENDA SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING Tuesday November 18,1997 5:00 p.m. Municipal Center Community Room I. ROLL CALL & ADOPTION OF AGENDA II. VISITORS TO BE HEARD III. DIRECTION RE: DEMOLITION AIRLINER MOTEL IV. REVIEW FINAL PLANS FOR BIDDING 2ND ICE SHEET V. REVIEW INFORMATION RE: LIVABLE COMMUNITIES PROGRAM VI. OTHER BUSINESS VII. ADJOURNMENT 4b�v city of eagan TO: HONORABLE MAYOR & CITY COUNCILMEMBERS FROM: CITY ADMINISTRATOR HEDGES DATE: NOVEMBER 14,1997 SUBJECT: SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING/NOVEMBER 18,1997 MEMO A Special City Council meeting was scheduled for the purpose of providing staff direction regarding the demolition of the Airliner Motel and to review the final plans for bidding the second ice sheet. Since the meeting was scheduled, the City Council has referred to Livable Communities Program to the work session to review any consequences the City might experience if it is the decision of the Council to discontinue participation at this time. The Livable Communities item is also scheduled under Old Business on the regular City Council agenda. DIRECTION RE: DEMOLITION AIRLINER MOTEL Home acquisition in the Highway 55 tax increment district is going extremely well. As the remaining property owners begin to consider alternatives, staff would appreciate direction on how best to deal with the redevelopment of the Kollofski's Addition property in general and the demolition of the Airliner and Spruce Motels in particular. Enclosed on pages .3 through _,6_ is a staff memo concerning this matter. The Kor family, which owns the Airliner and Spruce properties, have specifically asked that the City would consider acquiring their sites as well as the Kollofski's homes. Background information and discussion of issues is included in the memo. DIRECTION TO BE CONSIDERED: To provide staff direction concerning the demolition and possible acquisition of the Airliner and Spruce Motels and next steps concerning the preparation of a redevelopment master plan for the area. SECOND ICE SHEET The City Council has had an opportunity to review plans for the second ice sheet concurrently with the preparation of the Municipal Center Site Plan for additional parking and a municipal swimming pool facility. The purpose for scheduling this item on the workshop agenda is to review the timeline and any changes that have been prepared by the architect since the last review by the City Council so direction can be given to prepare final bid documents. This item will be scheduled on a regular City Council agenda for authorizing the final plans and preparing bid documents for the second ice sheet. Please review the regular agenda background concerning this item. Staff does not anticipate much time at the work session given the fact that the second sheet of ice has received extensive review and direction at previous work sessions. DIRECTION TO BE GIVEN: To provide the architect with direction relative to the timeline for bidding and construction of the second sheet of ice and direction regarding the final plans for the facility. REVIEW INFORMATION/LIVABLE COMMUNITIES PROGRAM At the November 3 City Council meeting. direction was given by the City Council to continue consideration of renewal of the Livable Communities Program until the November 18 City Council meeting to determine the consequences to the City if participation in the Program is discontinued. The statute calls on cities to establish affordable and life cycle housing goals in cooperation with the Metropolitan Council. The goal Eagan has adopted under the Livable Communities Program is to participate as part of a cluster of Dakota County cities. Enclosed on pages 2 through is a copy of a memo from Assistant to the City Administrator Hohenstein and Senior Planner Ridley who. under the direction of the City Administrator. reviewed the various programs that will not be eligible for funding if the City decides not to participate in the Livable Communities Program. There are additional Livable Communities Program programs under which either the Met Council or the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency will consider participation when awarding discretionary funding. These programs are outlined in the attached memo. Also enclosed on page tis a copy of an article that appeared in This Week newspaper entitled. "City will take another look at Livable Communities Program." DIRECTION TO BE CONSIDERED: To provide a discussion which will later be addressed under Old Business at the regular City Council meeting on November 18. /S/ Thomas L. Hedges City Administrator MEMO city of eagan TO: Tom Hedges, City Administrator FROM: Jon Hohenstein, Assistant to the City Administrator DATE: November 13, 1997 SUBJECT: Highway 55 TIF Activities — Airliner Motel Demolition The City has purchased the five homes in the Kollofski's Addition north of Highway 55. Efforts will be made to sell the homes for removal to minimize demolition costs for the redevelopment of the property. Staff has also held preliminary discussions with the Kor family who own the vacant Airliner and Spruce properties and the Imre family, owners of TMI Coatings, who have acquired much of the undeveloped space in and around the Kollofski's Addition for potential development. Both have been informed of the City's desire to see an overall redevelopment plan implemented for the area to avoid piecemeal redevelopment of small parcels. One of the major issues in considering a redevelopment masterplan will be the demolition of the Airliner and Spruce Motels. The Kor family in particular is interested in whether to participate in a redevelopment project or sell their properties to the City or some other developer. The purpose of this business item is to determine whether the City Council would consider authorizing the acquisition of the Kor properties for assembly with the residential parcels to facilitate a redevelopment masterplan. BACKGROUND The City created the Highway 55 Redevelopment TIF District with the intent of encouraging the commercial redevelopment of the area through the removal of substandard and incompatible land uses and incorporation of the properties in a larger redevelopment. The first part of that goal was met with the acquisition of the Lone Oak Road homes that were incorporated into the Eagan Business Commons Development. A second part of the goal was achieved when the Kollofski's homeowners approached the Council asking to be relocated from their homes through the auspices of the District. The City will be closing on the last of these properties on December 1. Concurrent with the Kollofski acquisitions, staff was informed of the intentions of the Kors and Imres to propose developments of their individual properties. Staff suggested to both parties that they might want to consider being part of a larger masterplanned redevelopment to permit more orderly and intense use of the land in the area. The parties' individual plans as presented would not have integrated well into a larger redevelopment and, in the Kors case, required substantial variances to be constructed. In addition, MNDOT will require a revised access to this area, which will likely require street or frontage road alignments over parts of the Kor properties. 3 The Imres contracted with a consultant to prepare a schematic plan that involved the removal of the Kor motel properties and all but one of the Imre buildings. The proposal would offer a land swap to the Kors for the development of a new hotel in an office and office -warehouse complex. The plan would provide internal circulation from Lone Oak Parkway at Highway 149, south of the pond through the Kollofski area with potential connections to Highway 55 and Blue Gentian Road. The lmres have met with the Kors to discuss this concept, but no partnership has formed to date. While it is not essential that these parties implement the redevelopment, they are the primary remaining property owners and will be involved in a redevelopment in some fashion regardless of the other parties. At the same time, the Airliner and Spruce properties remain an unsightly nuisance due to their blighted condition. The Kollofski homeowners provided early warning of trespassing and other activity at the motels. With their relocation, site security will depend upon the Kors and frequent police patrols and staff inspections. With this in mind, staff met with the Kors seeking the demolition of the properties. The Kors expressed their desire to see the costs of demolition incorporated into a possible redevelopment. ALTER- NATIVES The Kors are currently exploring their options. In a meeting with staff, the options identified were: 1. Private Demolition — The Kors, either voluntarily or by order of the City, could demolish the buildings at their expense and retain ownership of the parcels pending an overall redevelopment of the area. The cost of demolition is estimated at approximately $100,000 plus the cost of any asbestos abatement. The Kors prefer not to incur this as an out of pocket expense. 2. Public Demolition, Assessment of Costs — If the Kors choose not to perform the demolition, the City could demolish the structures following proper notice and due process and assess the cost to the properties over an appropriate period. The Kors would continue to own the property although the costs of demolition would become an obligation on their property taxes. This may or not be an amicable arrangement since it would result in increased obligation for the property without a direct relationship with a redevelopment program. 3. Public Acouisition and Demolition — The Kors have asked whether the City would consider acquiring and demolishing their property in the same way as the residential properties have been acquired. No discussion of price has occurred to date, pending Council direction regarding this request. At this time it is not known what the Kors have invested in the property. The current Assessor's market valuations have been declining due to the condition of the buildings. The Airliner was valued at $89,600 in 1997 and will be at $68,600 in 1998. The Spruce was at $100,500 in 1997 and will be at $81,300 in 1998. �f FINANCIAL STATUS OF THE DISTRICT At the present time, the City has expended $1.13 million in acquisition and relocation costs for nine homes. The closing for the final home on December 1 will add $115,000 to the total. These amounts have been internally financed and have not involved the issuance of outside debt. The TIF Plan anticipated $1.65 million in land acquisition costs. The original TIF assumptions were for the Eagan Business Commons to be built out over a period of years with full increment benefit of approximately $318,000 annually beginning in 2002. With the more aggressive construction of the project and three of the four buildings being completed this year, a substantial fraction of the full amount will come on line in 1999 and the full amount likely in 2000. If any other development occurs within the district, such as the redevelopment of the Kollofski area, it will increase the annual net revenue above the $318,000. Of this amount, the City's tax increment note with the developer calls for payments to Roseville properties of $77,880 per year from 2000 through 2004, leaving approximately $240,000 in net revenue available during that time period to cover costs incurred. While the district is in deficit currently due to its up front costs, much of the increment from 2004 to 2023 will be available for other eligible costs such as acquisition, demolition and public improvements. ISSUES 1. Facilitation of Redevelopment -_. As with the residential properties, the fewer the participants in the redevelopment, the easier it will be to implement. If the City were to acquire the Airliner and Spruce, it would own all of the redevelopment parcels in this part of the district. This would permit maximum flexibility in encouraging an overall development plan involving the Imres, some other developer or a partnership. Redevelopment in this area and its associated increase in tax base and tax increment revenues can probably happen more quickly if there are fewer owners in the redevelopment program. 2. Private Costs and Obligations — If the City were not actively involved in tax increment in this area, the alternatives available to the Kors would be to demolish the property themselves or to have the cost of demolition assessed against the property. If the City assumes this cost, is it underwriting a private property owner's obligation to correct conditions on their own property? Depending on the potential purchase price, the costs of demolition could be offset in whole or in part by the declining property value, such that the total cost is not out of line with the typical cost of a substandard developed parcel. 3. Relationship with Existing Property Owners — As with the residential portions of this district and the Cedarvale area, the City's approach has been to attempt to work with existing property owners and consider their interests in implementing redevelopment, whenever possible. For this reason, staff has encouraged the Kors to work with the Imres since a redevelopment they bring forward together would be the most likely to meet their respective needs. Since the Kors have asked the City to consider this option, however, this can be a means of meeting their needs and the City's simultaneously. S 4. Redevelopment Participants - The Kors and Imres are the only parties to be considered in a redevelopment, however. At the appropriate time, the Council will also need to address whether to solicit redevelopment proposals from other interested developers. Regardless of whether they are a lead partner or not, the Imres are likely to remain players in a redevelopment plan simply because of the amount of property they already own within and adjacent to the district. 5. Financial Considerations — As noted above, the district has significant up -front costs, but this is not unusual in a redevelopment district. The rapid development of Eagan Business Commons within the district makes it likely that the district can meet or exceed its initial cash- flow assumptions, especially if commercial redevelopment can be induced in the near term in the Airliner-Kollofski area. Even so, that payback will take some time. Redevelopment districts have long durations on purpose, recognizing this circumstance. DIRECTION REQUESTED OF THE COUNCIL: 1. Should the staff actively negotiate for the acquisition of the Airliner and Spruce properties with the costs of acquisition and demolition to be part of the redevelopment cost of the district? Or should the Kors be obligated to cover the costs of demolition through their own action or through City action and assessment of the cost? 2. Should the City continue to facilitate a potential redevelopment partnership between the Kors and Imres? Should the focus be shifted to the facilitation of a partnership between the Imres and other adjacent property owners? Or should the staff assemble the motel and residential properties and prepare an RFP for parties interested in redevelopment, including the Imres, adjacent property owners and others? Assistant to the City Administrator !lt�RlEl1�� city of eagan TO: Tom Hedges, City Administrator FROM: Jon Hohenstein, Assistant to the City Administrator Mike Ridley, Senior Planner DATE: November 13, 1997 SUBJECT: Relationship of Livable Communities Program to Regional Funding Programs In response to questions raised at the November 2 City Council meeting concerning the consequences of discontinuing participation in the Livable Communities Program (Minnesota Statutes 473.25), we have received information from House Research, Dakota County HRA and Lisa Freese. The Act was a compromise with Legislative interests who had proposed to limit local zoning authority, mandate certain uses throughout the metropolitan region and create penalties for non- compliance. The purpose of the Act was to permit voluntary participation in negotiated goals and to provide funding programs for program participants to pursue those goals. The purpose of this memo is not to discuss the policy advantages and disadvantages of participation, but to identify programs that are tied directly or indirectly to participation. The statute calls on cities to establish affordable and life -cycle housing goals in cooperation with the Metropolitan Council. Eagan has set its goals as part of a cluster of Dakota County cities. The cluster permits these cities to take advantage of concentrations of different types of housing throughout the County. Eagan meets certain of the goals individually and more of them within the cluster it meets. Participation in the program is required for Eagan to be eligible for funding from: • Tax Base Revitalization Account • Livable Communities Demonstration Account • Local Housing Incentive Account • DTED Contamination Clean -Up Grants Program These programs are more fully discussed in the HRA correspondence attached. In addition to the cluster activities administered by the HRA, the City individually submitted grant applications for Demonstration Account assistance with sidewalk and other pedestrian improvements in the Town Centre and Cedarvale areas. These applications were not funded in 1997. The Minnesota Housing Finance Agency and other agencies also apply eligibility points for cities that are participating in the program when considering funding for, • Minnesota Housing Implementation Group Funds • First Time Home Buyers Program These are also discussed more fully in the attached HRA information. In 199 D HRA program funds used in the City of Eagan came from these programs. In addition, the Metropolitan Council is required to consider whether a city is participating in Livable Communities when distributing discretionary funding such as: • ISTEA Funds — ISTEA provides assistance for flexible or non-traditional transportation improvements. The City has considered ISTEA funding in the past and likely will in the future. In particular, the regional trail system plan calls for a connection to be made through Eagan between the Cedar Avenue Bridge trail head and Lebanon Hills Regional Park. Other trail and multi -modal transportation projects may also be eligible for the program as the community is built out. • Local Planning Assistance Program funds - A Local Planning Assistance Grant for costs associated with the Comprehensive Plan update is pending for 1998 in the amount of $7,930. Under these programs, the City may continue to qualify if it discontinues participation in Livable Communities, but its applications would not score as well as comparable applications for participating cities. Please let us know if you need any additional information regarding this item. Assistant to the City Administrator u Senior Planner NOY-10-97 MCN 02:33 PM DAKOTA C~C. I 512423818© DAKOTA COUNTY HRA RE: Metropolitan Livable Communities Act * Community Participation Dear Mr. Ridley: FAX NO. 6124238190 P. 02 Homing & Redeveloprilent .-authority 2-.96..1451h 4c W. S R_,r=cjnr. ILV 5� rF. v TL` ', ; The information herein is per your request for a summary of the benefits that the City of Fagan K•ould be foregoing in the event it is decided that Eagan will. no Ionger participate in the Local Housing Incentives Program (thc "Program') established by the Metropolitan Livable Communities Act. Be assured that the Dakota County CIuster would suffer a true loss -vvithout the participation of the City of Eagan. It is the teamwork of all the communities within Dakota County that has caused the Dakota County Cluster to be held up as a positive example for all other participants in the metro area. Please do not hesitate to contact me at 423-8116 with questions regarding this information. l would be happy to provide you with any additional information you may feel is necessary. Thank you. Sincerely yours, Tracie L. Chamberlin Assistant to Executive Director Enclosure "AN EQUAL OPT'ORTLNITY BPI. OYER" 5124232120 NOV-10-97 MON 02:33 FM DAKOTA COUNTY HRA F -X NO. 6124238180 x,03 LOCAL HOtiSI-'G INCENTIVES PROGRAM ACCOUNTS: The purpose of the Act is to: (] ) promote:'preser% a living wage jobs in the fully developed area, (2) include a full range of housing opportunities in the developing area: (3) preservezrehab ilitate affordable housing in the fully developed arca; and (4) promote compact and efficient development in all communities. In order to take advantagc of those accounts established by y� the Act. a community must participate in the Local Housing Incentives Program, established by the Act. As a means of assisting participating communities in achieving the goals negotiated as part of their participation in the Local Housing Incentives Program, three funds .vcre established: Local Housing Incentives Ace ant Purpose: Grants, to be matched dollar for dollar by the municipality, to create affordable and life -cycle housing. 1he funds from this account will provide incentives to create and maintain affordable and fife -cycle housing throughout the metropolitan area. Eligibility: Municipalities that elect to participate must negotiate housing Coals and use their Affordable and Lite -cycle Housing Opportunities .amount (ALHOA). Cities and towns are eligible to apply - 199' $$: S500.000 Demonstration account Purpose: Grants and loans for proiects that foster more compact development, housing diversity and development within close proximity to transit and other services. The funds from this account AiIl be provided to interrelate development and transit, interrelate housing and employment centers, intensify land use. implement mixed use developments and introduce higher value housing in lower income areas tt, achieve a mix of opportunities. Eligibility: Must participate in the Local Housing Incentives Program. Counties, cities, and towns eligible to apply. 1997 SS: $4,100,000 Tax Base Revitalisation Account Purpose: Grants for contaminated sites clean-up, matching funds for DTED polluted sites grant. flus funds from this account will be used to cleanup contaminated land in the metropolitan area which will result in creating living wage jobs and expanding the existing tax base. Eligibility. Must participate in the Local Housing Incentives Program. Counties, cities and to%tins eligible to apply. 1997 $S: $7,500,000 ME 6 1242:,81 oo NOV-10-97 BION 02:33 PN DAKOTA COUNTY HRA r ;X N0. 612"42138180 P. 04 MULTI -FAMILY SUPER 1 r UES? FOR PI20POSA S R>F F This RFP is provided as a means of "one stop shopping" by consolidating and coordinating up to 12 loan resources previously- listed separately into one single Super RFP. Sponsors do not apply for specific programs, but request funding for a specific development concept. Representatives from the funding entities have formed a group called the Metropolitan Housing Implementation Group (MHIG). This group works with the variety of programs to fund selectaxi developments. The Super RFP involves the consolidation of the following MHFA deferred loan resources: * Affordable Rental Investment Fund Program (ARIF) * Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) * Housing Trust Fund Housing Program (HTF) * Publicly Owned Transitional Housing and Bartered Women and Other Crime Victims Housing Program (POTH) * Targeted HOME Program (TH) * Publicly Owncd Neighborhood Land Trust (PONL.T) * Rental Revitalization Program (Rrev) The Super RFP also makes available funds from several philanthropic and local government. entities. For developments in the seven -county metropolitan area, these are: * Metropolitan Housing Opportunities Program (MHOP), available from the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority * Metropolitan Housing Resource Program (MHRP). trade available from the Family Housing Fund * Local Housing Incentive Account Program (LHIA), made available from the Metropolitan Council * Metropolitan Council Housing Bond Credit Enhancement Program, made available from the Metropolitan CowiciI The criteria for obtaining funds through the Super RFP process clearly state that the funding proposals which do not utilize the NTHIG criteria typically rank lower than proposals utilizing these criteria. Specifically, the MHIG criteria award competitive points when "the project is being carried out as part of a cluster action plan." It is likely to be somewhat difficult for the Dakota County HRA to apply for affordable housing funding on behalf of a nonparticipating community. Such a funding application would begin at a distinct disadvantage due to the points lost in the competitive criteria for lack of participation in a cluster. 6124_`816© NOV-10-97 MON 02:34 PM DAKOTA COUNTY HRA FAX NO. 6124238180 P.0 DAKOTA COI:NTY HRA FIRST TIM HOME BGYER ROGRANIS: Eagan has long been a participant in the First Time Home Buyer Programs provided through the Dakota County HRA. In general, the structure of these programs often requires that a certain amount of time go by before funds can be utilized for the purchase of newly constructed Properties. However, it was recently determined that communities with negotiated affordable housing goals through the Local Housing Incentives Program would be able to offer the HRA's First Time Home Buyer Program funds for newly constructed properties immediately. Any Community in Dakota County not participating in the Local Iiousing Incentives Program would still be subject to the ten month lockout. In ccmjunction with the First Time Home Buyer Program. the HR -,k also operates a dow•npaymert assistance program. These funds are onlN available to qualified participants of the HRA First Time Home Buyer Program. There are never enough Dow'npayment Assistance funds to provide these additional funds for all those receiving mortgages through the TIRO First Time Home Buyer Program. All funds are on a first come first served basis. Thus. families purchasing in communities participating in the Local Housing Incentives Program would have the best chance of obtaining downpayment assistance when purchasing a newly constructed home. TEA-MWORK: Per the Act, there are certain circumstances under which communities electing to participate in the Local Housing Incentives Program can form a cluster for the utogether promote the development and preservation of affordable and life cycle ho sing. rTl ere al eady to exists in Dakota County, a county wide housing and redevelopment authority which addresses the public sector affordable housing concerns in most communities throughout the county. This already in place, it seemed that it would be to the advantage of all participating communities to work together to achieve the individual community goals negotiated per the Local Housing Incentives Program. The cluster provides a formal vehicle by which all participating communities in Dakota Countv can work together toward the goals of the Prograin. In addition, it protides a united voice from Dakota County regarding any issues that may arise in relation to the Program. as well as issues related to the it (Hollman, etc.). 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(Continued from front page) single-family housing rehab, downpayment assistance and the HRA tax leve." In 1998, Eagan will be re- quired to spend $48,630 if it continues with the program, according to staff. "The city will easily be able to expend this amount with the ongoing HRA tax levy and our commitments to single-family housing rehabilitation and downpayment assistance with the CDBG program," the staff report states. Egan said he's not in com- plete agreement with the Liv- able Communities Act, but it is better than alternatives pre- sented in the past. "The Livable Communities program is light years ahead of the social engineering that My- ron Orfteld and other people were trying to place down the metropolitan area," Egan said. Awada said she agrees that Livable Communities is the lesser of evils, but still can't vote in favor of it. Blomquist questioned where the money for Livable Com- munities comes from, and said this is the first time she's been able to vote on the issue. "I cannot vote for it in good conscience," she said. According to Egan, the entire council, including Blomquist, voted on this when it handled the application for financial assistance for the Cedarvale and Promenade areas. Council Member Sandy Masin said she believes it's a bad idea for Eagan to drop from the program. She added that the goals set forth are things the city is doing any- way. The council followed Hedges' suggestion. placing the item or, its next workshop and regular council meeting agendas. Both are set for Nov. 18. Hedges said that's three days past tht Met Council's deaditne, but he would ash for an extensmn. winch shouldn't be a pr obi, --r . business Stavrakis is family-owned jeweler since '81 Stavrakis Jewelers is a fam- ily-owned business located at 14625 County Road 11 in Burnsville's Summit Oaks Square center. Established in 1981, Stavrakis Jewelers offers a large inventory of gold, dia- mond and colored gemstone jewelry, as well as repairs, ap- praisals and custom designing. Owners Richard Stavrakis, his wife, Allison. his brother, Steve and his daughter, Jolene, are also involved in the Mrs. Minnesota International Pag- eant, which Allison. directs. Jolene, the store's assistant manager, is host of "Positive Living." a local cable series, which she co -produces with her fiancee. Rich Marek. "As we assist each other in our individual pursuits. we are investing not only in that per- son but also in the success of our family as a whole." she said. "We trust each other to give honest opinions and look out for each other's best inter- ests." Padgett offers scholarship to children of business owners High school seniors in Da- kota and Hennepin counties who are the children of inde- pendent business owners are eligible to apply for a $500 -scholarship offered by Padgett Business Services. Applicants must be graduat- ing seniors who plan to attend a post -secondary accredited institution. The applicant's le- gal guardian must be an active owner of at least 10 percent of the stock or capital in a local business that employs fewer than 20 people. Application deadline is March 1, 1998. For an applica- tion or more information, call Tony Morse, Padgett market- ing representative, at 890-7255. Regional scholarship winners will be eligible for a $4,000 grand -prize scholarship. November events set for Eagan Barnes and Noble . The following events are be- ing held at the Eagan. Barnes and Noble. All events are free and open to the public. • Monday, Nov. 10. 7 p.m.: Laurel Street Flowers will pre- sent creative decorating ideas for the holidays. • Tuesday, Noy. 11. 7 to 9 p.m.: The Minnesota Valley Humane Society holds a book fair. A portion of tht proceeds will go to its bene:::. • Tuesda3, Noy. 11. 7 to 8 p.m.: The non -f visor. book club will mit: Tr;s mon-, ,'s pro /I/ selection is "Message of the Sphinx — A Quest for the Hid- den Legacy of Mankind" by Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval. • Saturdav, Nov. 15, from 1 to 3 p.m.: Red Pine Elemen- tary is sponsoring a book fair featuring face painting, storvtime and an appearance by Spot the Dog. A portion of the proceeds will go to the school's benefit. For more information, con- tact Jennifer Graham at 683- 3 955. Bulk Mail CentE The United States P Service's Northland Dis which includes the Bulk Center in Eacan, was hot for the second consec Year in the Public Ag category of the Comm Choice Awards presentee Metro Community Service The Northland District c alternative commuting op to employees at the Bulk Center as well as the d, town Minneapolis and St. post offices. The Ride Choice Award gram was established to re nize outstanding area cot nies, agencies, and indivic who have successfully moted car pooling. transit other commuting options their employees. In addition to the North District honors won in : and 1997, the Bulk Mail $$ for purchases, ref Visit us ,at hftpJ/0UnV0W.eary> CASTLE MORMAC CORMRA I SCHOOL