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Contract No. $O]2qT POWERS AGREEMENT NORTHWESTERN ANOKA COUNTY COM~VlT. TN1TY CONSORTIUM "NWACCC" The parties to this Agreement are Anoka C'ounty, City of Andover, City of Anoka, City of Ramsey, and Independent School District No. 11, all of which are governmental units of the State of Minnesota. This Agreement is made pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Section 471.59. ARTICLE L GENERAL PURPOSE The general purpose of this Agreement is to create an organization through which thc parties may jointly and cooperatively create a community-wide vision for positive youth development that would focus on developing a detailed action plan to implement the results of the recent Search Institute Youth Needs Assessment Survey. The organization would concentrate on encouraging COmmunity partnerships that would improve the factors inhibiting healthy development identified in the aforementioned StUdy. The organization would also work to promote both the internal and external assets identified in the study and assist youth in increasing their abktity to make positive choices in their lives. The organization will continually assess progress toward meeting that detailed aCtion plan to promote positive youth development and prohibit factors that limit healthy youth development. The organization would serve as a formal structure to assemble a permanent Child and ~outh Task Force that would be responsible for implementing this action plan on a permanent basis. ARTICLE II. PARTllgS Section 1. The governmental units eligible to become parties to this Agreement are Anoka COunty, City of Andover, City of Anoka, City of Ramsey, Independent School District No. 11, and such other governmental units sharing common concerns and designated by the Board from time to ti/ne. Section 2. Any governmental unit desiring to enter into this Agreement may do so by the d~y authorized execution ora copy of this Agreement by its proper officers. Thereupon, the clerk or other corresponding officer of the governmental unit shall file a duly executed copy of the Agreement, together with a certified copy of the authorizing resolution or other action, with the BOard of Directors. The resolution authorizing the execution of the Agreement shall also designate the first directors and alternate director. I I I I I I I I I I i ! i I