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and improvements thereon and the construction and equipping of the facility and such facility and equipment will be initially owned by the Company and leased to and operated by Anderson. & Dalen, Inc. who are primarily engaged in the business of sheet metal fabricating, and will result in the emplo.vment of additional persons to work within the facilities; (f) The City has been advised by representatives of the Company that conventional, commercial financing to pay the capital cost of the Project is available only on a limited basis and at such high costs 6f borrowing that the economic feasibility of operating the Project would be si~nificantly reduced; (g) No public official of the City has either a direct or indirect financial interest in the Project nor will any public official either directly or indirectly benefit financially from the Project. NOW, T~_EREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of ~amse¥, Minnesota, as follows: 1. Th~ Council hereby indicates its preliminary intent to undertake the Project pursuant to the Minnesota Municipal Industrial Development Act and to issue the Revenue Bonds in the maximum aggregate principal amount of $$,000,000 pursuant to the Act to finance the Project. 2. On the basis of information available to this Council. it appears, and the Council hereby finds, that the Project constitutes properties, real and personal, used or useful in connection with one or more revenue producing enterprises engaged in any business within the meaning of'Subdivision la of Section 469.1S3 of the Act; that the Project furthers the purposes stated in Minnesota Statutes, Section 469.152; that the availability of the financing under the Act and willingness of the City to furnish such financing will be a substantial inducement to Company to undertake the Project, and that the effect of the Project, if undertaken, will be to encourage the development of economically sound industry and commerce, to assist in the prevention of the emergence of blighted and marginal land, to help prevent chronic unemployment, to help the City retain and improve the tax base and to provide the range of service and employment opportunities required by the population, to help prevent the movement of talented and educated persons out of the state and to areas within the State where their services may not be as effectively used, to promote more intensive development and use of land within the City and eventually to increase the tax base of the community. $. The issuance of the Revenue Bonds by the City is subject to, among other things, (a) the holding of a public hearing on the proposal, (b) the approval of the Project by the ~.oo~.678. ~. 2 I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I