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Regular Meeting Minutes dated January 22, 2013 Motion carried. Voting Yes: Vice Chairperson LeTourneau, Commissioners Kuzma, Tossey, Elvig, Riley, and Strommen. Voting No: None. Absent: Chairperson Backous. 5. HRA BUSINESS 5.01: Landform Professional Services, LLC's Contract with Ramsey HRA HRA Executive Director Ulrich reviewed the staff report that addressed recently raised questions of legality relating to the contract with Landform Professional Services. He recommended action be rescheduled to February 26, 2013, to allow adequate time for the HRA to review the document from the HRA Attorney that had been recently received and distributed under Attorney Client Privilege as a confidential document. HRA Executive Director Ulrich noted Development Manager Lazan may have additional comments. He stated questions have also been raised whether the HRA Attorney is too close to the issue to render an opinion so staff obtained a quote for an outside document review of $2,000. This would provide another check since this could be costly issue. HRA Executive Director Ulrich explained that at this point, the recommendation of staff is to continue to pursue and work closely with Landform for the balance of the contract unless the Council takes additional action to direct staff to do something else or enter into negotiations to renew the contract. Otherwise, it will expire March 31, 2013, and staff would then enter into discussion with Landform to transfer documents and possibly hourly services after the contract expires to wrap up loose ends. HRA Executive Director Ulrich read the following e -mail received from Chairperson Backous into the record: From: Randy Backous <randybackous@gmail.com<mailto:randybackous@gmail.com Date: February 12, 2013, 8:37:13 PM CST To: Kurt Ulrich < kulrich@ ci. ramsey. mn. us< mailto:kulrich @ci.ramsey.mn.us, John LeTourneau jletourneau @co2partners.com <mailto .jletourneau @co2partners.com Cc: david elvig <thebigd.1 @hotmail. com <mailto:thebigd.1 @hotmail.com Subject: Landform Contract Renewal Would one of you please read this into the HRA minutes tonight. Thank you. Dear Ramsey HRA Commissioners and Citizens: I am not able to attend tonight due to illness but I wanted to weigh in on the discussion regarding the Landform contract renewal. I applaud prior council for purchasing the former Town Center land for a fraction of its value so the city could clean up the issues, repackage it and rebrand it. I also applaud Landform for doing a fine job of cleaning up those complex issues. Housing and Redevelopment Authority / February 12, 2013 Page 2 of 6