We actually did more than this in our recommendations. The Policy Board spent a great deal of time yesterday discussion the future of NRP and approved several recommendations for the Council. These were strongly supported with only three members abstaining (Ostrow, Fey and Mullory). I supported them as well.
I beleive that, if acted upon, they represent a compromise that will allow the neighbrohdoods to continue to amek and implement plans with community developemnt dollars and allow the City to have funds to perform its more centralized community develop projects. I do have mny doubts about the Council accepting them in totality, but I think they represent a strong, yet cooperative, stance on the part of the Pilcy Board. As an aside to Lisa M. and concerns about Common Project adminstration costs we did discuss shifting the administration to City finance staff to free up some additional dollars for NRP and asked for a full accounting of costs to see if we couldn"t save some money there. I don't have the full text of the resolution, but here is the jist of the seven major points we approved: 1. We supported the Lane amendments as a way to recolve the competing claims on the Common Projhect revenues; 2. We are asking the City to Commit to using all of the Common Project revenues as projected in Finance Officer Born's Common Project review of 6/4/03 for NRP; 3. We recommend using Community Development Block Grant (CDGB) funds for CDGB eligible neighborhood plan expenditures to supplement the Common Project revenues committed annually to NRP; 4. & 5. Maintain an independent NRP "Joint Powers" Policy Board with an independent NRP staff; 6. We basically agreed to Lane's proposal to �Advance� $3 million annually of the Brookfield repayment for City Council/MCDA discretionary economic development projects by waiving any claim to Brookfield proceeeds over $20,000 in 2009 7. We clarified that any interest earning on any unexpended NRp appropriated funds in addition to the Common Project funds in #1 goes to NRp. ================ More was discussed during the productive session. UNfortunately I need to run, but I wanted to make sure folks we care about this got the info as soon as possible. Cam Gordon Seward Neighborhood, Minneapolis, Ward 2 SD 59 (612) 332-6210, 296-0579, 339-2452 TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
