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Motion carried. Voting Yes: Chairperson Riley, Members Strommen, Schindel, and LeTourneau. Voting No: None. Absent: Members Elvig, Kiefer, and Steffen. Chairperson Riley commented on the need for more industrial parcels in the City. Economic Development Coordinator Sullivan indicated there is land available in the economIC development district and smaller parcels available in the redevelopment district. The next meeting will include a discussion regarding the industrial land inventory and how to proceed with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency in relation to additional industrial land. Case #2: Consider Membership in Anoka County Economic Development Partnership DBA Anoka County Partners Economic Development Coordinator Sullivan reviewed that at the Business Connection Meeting on January 26, 2006 David Piggott, the Executive Director of Anoka County Partners spoke to the area businesses. The message was about unification of cities within Anoka County to work together. Anoka County Partners is a start-up company, and there are a lot of things that will be starting in June of 2007, including rolling out the web site www.anokacountypartners.com. Anoka County Partners will be paying for the food for the Business Connection Meeting in May and has sent many prospects to the City over the course of the past year. The Board has been provided with the work plan for Anoka County Partners. Staff supports this organization and requests the EDA's financial support. The amount of support is based on population. Membership payment for Ramsey would be $10,020.00. Member LeTourneau questioned what Anoka County Partners accomplished for the City last year. Economic Development Coordinator Sullivan replied a lot of the efforts were in getting the needed technology due to the outdated equipment. A website was started with data compiled. Capital was needed to start the organization. Mr. Piggott has been working hard with the public sector, as well as the private sector generating funds. Mr. Sullivan stated he received numerous inquiries and business prospects through Anoka County Partners, although none of them panned out. However, as this group gets more visible, he believes the amount of prospects will increase. With this being a county-wide organization, there is greater opportunity to bring in the larger prospects from out of state. The concept is good, and the organization is going on its second year. He would support giving Anoka County Partners another chance to see if what they are doing is working. If the results are similar to last year and do not increase, and there are not more visible results, he would think about committing dues for 2008. Chairperson Riley inquired if there is a finite purpose of the organization. Economic Development Coordinator Sullivan explained Anoka County Partners is to be the clearing house of business prospects and marketing for Anoka County. Prospects coming from out of state or in-state would go to the organization and have all of this information available to them; Chairperson Riley asked if there is any prospect for the organization being self sufficient. Economic Development Coordinator Sullivan replied he would think once it is up and running the only costs should be maintaining and marketing costs. Economic Development Consultant Mulrooney advised the vast majority of funding today comes from government agencies. The organization does not have a revenue source because the services are provided for free to the Economic Development Authority/May 10,2007 Page 3 of7