Agenda - Council Work Session - 11/26/2019

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Contract # C0004121 JOINT POWERS AGREEMENT NORTHWESTERN ANOKA COUNTY COMMUNITY CONSORTIUM "NWACCC" The parties to this Agreement are Anoka County, City of Andover, City of Anoka, City of Coon Rapids, 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 I. GENERAL PURPOSE The general purpose of this Agreement is to create an organization through which the parties may jointly and cooperatively create a community -wide vision for positive youth development which focuses on developing a detailed action plan to implement the results of the Search Institute Youth Needs Assessment Survey. The organization concentrates on encouraging community partnerships that improve the factors inhibiting healthy development identified in the aforementioned study. The organization works to promote both the internal and external assets identified in the study and assist youth in increasing their ability 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 attempt to diminish or eliminate influences that limit healthy youth development. The organization serves as a formal structure to assemble a permanent Child and Youth Task Force that is responsible for implementing this action plan on a permanent basis. The NWACCC has created a 501 (c)(3) corporation, Youth First, as an organization to implement the goals and desires of the NWACCC. The NWACCC may create additional 501 (c)(3) corporations as needed. ARTICLE II. PARTIES Section 1. The governmental units eligible to become parties to this Agreement are Anoka County, City of Andover, City of Anoka, City of Ramsey, City of Coon Rapids, Independent School District No. 11, and such other governmental units sharing common concerns and designated by the Board from time to time. Section 2. Any governmental unit desiring to enter into this Agreement may do so by the duly authorized execution of a 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. ARTICLE III. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Section 1. The governing and policy -making responsibilities of Northwest Anoka County Community Consortium (NWACCC) shall be vested in its Board of Directors, which shall control its property, be responsible for its finances, and direct its administrative affairs. 1