02-22-1988 - Agenda Packet City Council - regular meeting

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21788.4 COUNCIL MEETING TO: Mayor and City Council FEB 22 1 ��J 066 FROM: Mark Bernhardson, City Administratot�\ CITY OF ORM DATE: February 17, 1988 SUBJECT: Administrator's Information 200 Hollander Road - The contractor for the owner removed the barn commencing on the 16th and the majority has already been completed. The property owner did request that he be allowed to retain the five trees that were removed from around the barn which are to be left on the property and be cut up for fire wood within the next thirty days with it removed no later than May 15, 1988. Greater Minnesota_ Corporation - On February 9, 1988 I attended a workshop on the Greater Minnesota Corporation (GMC). The GMC, a public corporation, was created by the Minnesota Legislature in 1987 and received, in the form of a trust fund, $95 million from the available State surplus. The presentation consisted of the initial surveys of and goal setting for the economic development of outstate or greater Minnesota. The primary purpose is to use the interest generated by the trust fund for funding research projects throughout the state, which will hopefully lead to production jobs in Greater Minnesota. While the public --- orao-ion has geared itself to projects in rural Minnesota, the 1 '-eo,� speaker Majority Leade of the Senate Roger Moe, i,..icated that it was something not just for outstate Minnesota, tit for the entire state. The Greater Minnesota Corporation was one of four elements that was established by the Legislature to help the economic development of the State. The other three were a Rural Development Authority, a Public Facilities Authority for waste water and water treatment facilities and a training component to upgrade skills for "dislocated" workers. The one element that Roger Moe, who is the author of this legislative package, indicated that it was strictly for outstate Minnesota was the Rural Development Agency, which in his mind was a rural "Metro Council".