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Order, please.

Roll call.

Bowie.

Here.

Coleman.

Here.

Chair Johnson.

Here.

Kim.

Yang.

Here.

Vice Chair Jost.

Here.

There are six present, one absent, that being Commissioner Kim.

Item number two for discussion is resolution twenty-five-one seven seven six.

Resolution approving one, the adoption of a second amended and restated spending plan for various tax increment financing districts under Minnesota statutes, section four six nine.

Subdivision four N and two.

So this item you received a staff report on previously from Jenny Wolf.

It's in response to the 2025 state legislation that amended the temporary TIFF law by authorizing TIFF authorities to extend the date by which transferred increment may be used to the end of 2026 and to enable the HRA to utilize the additional revenues as authorized in the 2025 legislation and extend the date by which the transferred increment may be used.

We need to amend our spending plan, which is what is before you today.

Again, you um received information previously, and we are also available for any additional questions if you have them at this time and we recommend approval of the item.

Thank you, Director McMahon.

Are there any questions from my colleagues?

Um Chair Johnson, do you have any questions?

Good.

Okay, perfect.

Um with that, I'll take a motion from uh council president Naker to approve the item.

All in favor say aye.

Aye aye.

Anyone opposed?

Aye.

We have to do a sorry, roll call.

Oh my gosh, sorry.

Of course.

Um I'll take a roll call vote, please.

Thank you.

Uh aye.

Coleman, aye.

Johnson.

Aye.

Kim?

Aye.

Naker.

Aye.

Yang, aye.

Chair Vice Chair Joast?

Aye.

Seven in favor, zero opposed.

Resolution is adopted.

Item number three is resolution 25-1854.

Authorization to extend the tentative developer designation of JB Vang Partners, Inc.

as a tentative developer of 694 and 680 Minihaja Avenue East, St.

Paul, Minnesota, District 4, Ward 7.

Um, so uh these items, the next several items we were presented to uh in a staff report last week um for all of these um tentative developer designations.

I guess Director McMahon, do you have anything that you want to add?

Nope, nothing dad.

Okay, great.

Um so that'll be kind of the next the next couple of items here.

So I'll take a motion from council member Johnson to approve this item.

Roll call vote, please.

Bowie, aye, Coleman, aye, Johnson.

Aye, Kim, aye.

Naker, aye.

Yang, aye.

Vice Chair Joe's aye.

Seven in favor, zero opposed.

The resolution is adopted.

Item number four is resolution 25-1855.

Authorization to extend the designation of Gloryville LLC, a Minnesota limited liability company as a tentative developer of 1570 White Bear Avenue in St.

Paul, Minnesota, District 2, Ward 6.

Um, and again, this is a similar item to the previous one.

Um, I will take a motion from Councilmember Yang to approve this item.

Is there any discussion?

Councilmember Yang.

Thanks, Chair Joel.

So I just wanted to make a comment um not just for this, but for all of the uh for all of the items in front of us related to tentative developer statuses.

So I'm supporting all of them.

And I just wanted to say thank you to the developers.

I know that um when we had our last HRE meeting, they were here and in the crowd and shang I see you from Gloryville, and um and so I really appreciate them.

I've gotten a chance to connect with some of them and and know that they are very hardworking and committed to their projects and doing really uh amazing work for our city and and just want to do the best for our residents too, and so they come here with a lot of passion and determination, and so I really am grateful to them for their willingness to continue pushing through for their projects too, and really grateful to our staff as well for uh your partnership and um just the ways that you've been supporting the developers as well.

So very excited for this, and I hope that we can get all of these very important projects to the finish line.

Thank you, Councilman Yang.

Any other comments from my colleagues?

All right.

Um I think I did already make the motion on the table, so uh are you I called on you to make the motion for um on the table, so roll call vote, please.

Bowie, aye, Coleman, aye.

Johnson Aye Kim?

Aye, Naker, aye.

Yang, aye.

Vice Chair Joast, aye.

Seven in favor, zero opposed.

The resolution is adopted.

Item number five, resolution 25-1856, authorization to extend Rondo Community Land Trust, a Minnesota nonprofit corporation as tentative developer of HRA owned parcels located at Zero Marshall Avenue and 1036 Marshall Avenue, St.

Paul District 8, Ward 1.

And I'll take a motion from Councilmember Bowie to approve this item.

Is there any discussion?

Roll call vote, please.

Bowie?

Aye.

Coleman, aye.

Johnson.

Aye.

Kim?

Aye.

Naker?

Aye.

Yang, aye.

Vice Chair Joast?

Aye.

Seven in favor, zero opposed.

The resolution is adopted.

Item number six, resolution 25-1857.

Authorization to extend the designation of face-to-face health and console cons counseling service, Inc., a Minnesota Nonprofit Corporation as tentative developer of 1170 Arcade Street, St.

Paul, Minnesota, District 5, Ward 6.

Um, all right.

This is uh our last tentative developer item, and thanks again, Councilmember Young for your comments and for the folks that uh are here today and uh were here in the previous week.

Uh I'll take another motion from Councilmember Yang to approve this item.

Is there any discussion?

All right, roll call vote, please.

Bowie.

Aye, Coleman.

Hi.

Johnson.

Hi.

Chair Kim.

Hi.

Hi.

Yang.

Aye.

Vice Chair Joast.

Aye.

Seven in favor, zero opposed.

The resolution is adopted.

Item number seven, resolution 25-81860.

A resolution approving the final 2026 HRA budget and certifying the final HRA property tax levy payable in 2026.

Um, so uh this is the approval of our HRA budget, which I'm really excited about.

Um, I'd like to um uh make a motion to adopt the budget and move version two, which is um amending uh the the current version that we have.

Um is there any discussion?

Chair Johnson.

Well, I uh voted to this today and sole purpose and really keeping to uh present this budget for all I'm sure that we're all the way over as well for community to know just how it's gonna be significant.

Chair, we're having a hard time hearing you.

You're cutting out just a little bit.

Okay, I'll be short.

Okay.

Is this better?

Yes.

This is a significant year with a lot of um intentionality behind council and the housing and redevelopment authority to make budget decisions that just truly make sense.

We as a body have several things that we wanted to invest in this year.

Housing, the downtown infrastructure, um, ensuring that the housing and redevelopment authority is able to move on our own properties that we own and want to see developed in our city.

We also substantially assisted in many ways addressing both the funding gap for 2025 that has been identified by the city and multiple budget cells for several of the council priorities this year um through the HRA budget.

And I just want to share that that's not that's not a small feat.

So thank you all for your partnership.

Thank you all for being so clear in your priorities.

Um I think each of us have small have small and some big wins within this budget.

Um and special shout out to uh both our budget, like I will say extraordinaries.

Um Deputy Director Green, who joined us this year as the HRA CFO, the first HRA CFO that has truly just came in and um and jumped into the budget process, has identified unspent dollars with her team, has worked in partnership with so many of us.

Um truly this budget would not be what it is right now without that without uh Deputy Director Green.

Uh to enter interim director McMahon, who also joined mid-uh budget cycle and taking on the rams of the HRA director role.

That is not insignificant and it's not been unappreciated.

Um, and obviously to our entire budget team and uh to the Office of Financial Services, we appreciate your continued partnership in this endeavor.

But there is several things here that I hope all of us are proud of.

But the one thing that I'm most proud of this year was the partnership between us as a body um and the communication that we've had together on priorities.

So I'm really proud of the budget.

I had to come and vote on the budget.

I will be at the council meeting also voting on the budget, and I have a five-day old who um is not ready to make his camera debut, but genuinely has allowed me to um put things into perspective.

But this is really important for our city, and it's really important for our HRA.

So just really appreciate being able to be here today, and not in person, but for sure.

Y'all y'all see me sitting in the room right there.

I'm really excited about it.

Thank you, Chair Johnson.

Uh, any other comments on the HRE budget?

Council President Acre.

Uh thanks, Vice Chair Joast.

And I'll save most of my comments, which will be brief for the council meeting, but uh in this sort of more intimate moment, um, Chair Johnson.

I I just wanted to thank you so much for everything you've done to get us to this point with the HRA budget.

You um you dove right in your attention to detail, your highly organized thinking, your way of bringing all of us and staff along and sharing credit and being open to other ideas and feedback has been really um remarkable.

And the fact that you're here with a five-day old um and looking so great, uh, is also pretty incredible.

So um, so thank you.

Thank you.

Any other comments from our board members.

Um, I will just I'll echo everything that Chair Johnson said.

Chair Johnson, really happy to have you have you here today um for this for this vote.

I I really appreciate um your leadership as HRA chair this year, and uh I appreciate you uh trusting me to be your vice chair.

Uh I've learned so much, and I I just again I also really um want to bring attention to your your thoroughness, your thoughtfulness, your attention to detail, and the way that you um really clearly uh kind of explain and and and uh present everything that that we're doing and why I think that's important for especially for our you know transparency of how how the HRA operates.

I think a lot of folks don't don't necessarily know what the HRA is, and so but we're such a such an important body in this year with this budget.

We are making some very important improvements that are gonna very positively impact our residents.

And so I thank you for that.

And I also want to thank all of uh all of our staff and folks that that have helped us get to this point today.

Um I'm really really excited that we reached this milestone of passing the HRA budget and Chair Johnson.

All of that is um uh under your leadership is just very much appreciated.

Um so I think if I already made the motion on the table, so let's take a roll call vote on the budget.

Bowie, aye, Coleman, aye, Johnson.

Hi Kim.

Aye, Naker, aye.

Yang, aye, vice chair joast.

Aye, seven in favor, zero opposed.

Version two of resolution 25 1860 is adopted.

Item number eight, resolution 25-1878, amending the 2025 housing redevelopment authority HRA budget to transfer unspent funds to the city general fund citywide.

Uh thank you.

So this item is basically uh um transferring available balances in the HRA to the city city general fund.

Uh I also in this case will be um making a motion to approve this item with with version two amending it.

Uh I would like to turn it over to Chair Johnson if she has any has any comments.

Again, to be brief, uh to ensure that folks are able to hear me since I am joining remotely.

I will simply share that this is another way that the housing and redevelopment authority is showing up for the city right now and showing up for St.

Paul residents.

Um several of the transfers here are well, all of the transfers that are requested are in place to cover the um the shortfold that we have right now in the 2025 budget.

We have um unspent dollars that we identified through the work of PED's team and staff.

As a result of that, the recommendation coming from the chair and what you see in front of you is essentially um unspent dollars from our inspiring communities uh revenue that we have this year that was designated towards inspiring communities that was not spent, as well so as uh transfer from the housing and redevelopment authorities loan enterprise fund.

Essentially, those two transfers are ways that we can step up right now and a crucial part of our budget process for 2025.

And so thank you for your partnership and thank you for your trust in that and feedback.

We adjusted it accordingly.

You'll note that we will require a report in January 2026 um for the Office of Financial Services and the city to come back with their actual um budget actuals for 2026 to share the I mean sorry, year-to-date actuals for 2025 that they will share with you all in the in the new year.

Great.

Thank you, Chair Johnson, so much for explaining that and for um for all of your work and and uh collaborating with OFS to get this figured out.

Um we faced as you'll hear many challenges this year, and when we're looking ahead to the budget, and I'm just really appreciative of everyone's effort to to find a solution to this.

Um other comments from my colleagues.

All right, uh roll call vote, please.

Bowie.

Aye, Coleman, aye, Johnson.

Hi Kim.

Hi Naker, aye Yang.

Aye, Vice Chair Joe, aye.

Seven in favor, zero opposed.

Version two of resolution 25-1878 is adopted.

Item number nine is a staff report.

25-262.

Introduction to sale of 77 Congress Street East to Iglesia Necrisco.

Cristo.

Thank you.

I'll turn it over to Director McMahon.

Hello, good afternoon.

So this item and the next item before you actually are really they showcase the continued work being done in PED related to HRA owned property.

So I know I've been before you a few times already talking about HRA owned property and talking about our disposition strategy for it.

And so these are sort of you're starting to see the fruits of that labor and all the work that folks have been doing within PED to move that strategy forward.

So starting with this first item.

There we go.

Noting that the total paid for the parcel was just under $20,000.

Additionally, we have had ongoing expenses related to dumping and other activity in the area, as well as just normal ongoing right maintenance of property, a tree falls down, things like that that have occurred with the typical maintenance.

The original intent and the reason it was acquired actually was to facilitate development of a nearby parcel and was successfully used for that purpose as staging area for construction in 2026.

That construction on the nearby parcel was completed and it has sat vacant since 2026 ever since.

So we have had those ongoing operating expenses, like I talked about since 2026 and acquiring that property.

The proposal is to sell this parcel to the church that is immediately adjacent to it.

And I think I'll go back here.

You can see the grass area there basically is a parcel.

So you can see it is both very small and in a really challenging position in terms of looking at actual development because of this proximity and being right there to the adjacent parcel.

So the action would facilitate the sale of the HRA parcel at an appraised fair market value to that adjacent church.

That um agreed upon appraised for market value is 2450.

The church then can use that space as yard space for church activities.

They would be responsible, obviously, as the owner as on the ongoing maintenance.

If there's dumping, if a tree falls down, anything like that, church's property and church would be responsible for it and can really utilize to benefit the community there.

So that's the recommendation.

Um happy to answer any questions.

The action would take place next week before you as a body.

Thank you, Director McMahon.

Any questions for our commissioners?

Council President Acre.

Thanks, Vice Church Host.

Not a question, just a thank you to you, Director, um, as well as your team.

As you mentioned, we are one of our goals for this year was to try to get property off of our uh rolls onto the tax rolls.

Um, guess this isn't going on to the tax rolls because it's a church, but uh off of our uh responsibility to be putting money into and taken care of and into a productive use really um makes a lot of difference.

So thank you for your efforts on that.

Looking forward to more of those parcels to come.

Thank you, Council President.

Any other comments?

Chair Johnson.

I would just simply add an echo the same sentence as council president as we head into 2026.

You're cutting out a little bit again, Chair Johnson.

Sorry, just like closer.

Okay, uh commissioner to think about in 2026 opportunities in their ward, HRA owned parcels.

Just don't want to let this opportunity go by without sharing, but this is an example of another way that we are able to work with pre-existing uh entities to ensure that we're you making the best use of land that we currently own.

So super supportive of this item in part because of that.

Great, thank you, Chair Johnson.

Any other comments?

Um, so as uh Director McMahon mentioned, this item will be before us next week for action by the HRA.

Item number 10, staff report 25-263, introduction to conveyance of HRE owned land, chestnut park parcels to city district nine ward two.

I will turn it back over to Director McMahon for our staff report.

Just trying to make full screens.

If you go to view in the menus, there we go, and then full screen.

There we go.

Sorry.

My apologies.

No worries.

All right, Chestnut Plaza, on to the next one.

This is also an example of the HRA disposition strategy, really moving forward.

And so I'd mentioned again previously in presentations that there are some of these liver parcels that you look at and you're like, but why does the HRA own that?

I put this one into that category.

So this is um these are remnants from a previously owned much larger HRA land.

So that land was remediated and developed into upper landing.

Many of you have probably been there, whether to enjoy food and beverage at city house or to walk along the river.

Chestnut plaza is part of that upper landing development and was dedicated to the city, so that new pathway proper landing was integrated into that trail system on the river.

Chestnut plaza itself maintained operated by parks.

Parks began a renovation of Chestnut Plaza this summer.

Here we go.

They began a renovation of Chestnut Plaza this summer.

At that time, I executed a temporary right-of-way entry to allow the parks department to access the HRA owned land as part of the construction and improvements on Chestnut Plaza.

Again, this was a situation where you look at it and the HRA has to give parks legal authorization permission to enter the land and use land to improve what everybody walking by would say this is this is the park.

This is Chestnut Plaza.

So the action before you would be to transfer those three HRA owned parcels at no cost to parks.

So parks is already maintaining the parcels.

It is part of the park there.

So it's a great example of again doing that deeper dive into the history and the current use of some of these remnant parcels and looking at who is the best to actually own and maintain this property, in which this case it would be parks, and we've discussed with parks, and they are looking forward, I think, to having not have to get right-of-way entry permits if they want to do anything else in Chestnut Plaza again.

And the action will be next week on this item.

Thank you, Director Van.

Any questions or comments from our commissioners.

All right.

Um well I agree, Director Man.

I think I'm really looking forward to this uh to this project as well.

Um thank you for sharing that.

And to Mike Fishers, I as she mentioned this will be um before us for action next week.

All right.

Um well that is the last item on our agenda.

Uh before we're we um sign up for today, I oh, didn't he?

I was gonna okay, yes, Chair Johnson, please.

I simply didn't want to adjourn without um simply uh sharing and saying thank you to Vice Chair Joe for um being willing to chair the meetings in my absence.

Most likely this will be my last um HRA meeting until I return in March on maternity leave.

Um and so I just really wanted to to say thank you, uh Vice Chair Joe and Council President uh as well um for just uh kind of taking on this this role and I'm very confident in your leadership and very confident in your ability to channel your inner self as well as you know in our chnequa in my in my absence as well.

Thank you so much, Chair Johnson.

I was gonna similarly say um this is our last meeting of the year, and I just want to uh thank our chair again for um or not our last meeting of the year, sorry.

I said that at the library board meeting.

This is the last meeting where Chair Johnson will be here.

Um but uh I I just want to um again appreciate everyone and uh uh as Chair Johnson mentioned, I will be um chairing the meetings meetings moving forward, and uh just really again appreciate all my colleagues for all their help.

And we will um see Chair Johnson in a few a few months.

So uh thank you to and and yes, of course, and at council actually we'll see her in about an hour.

Um so thank you so much to everyone, and with nothing else to come before us, we are adjourned.

Thank you.

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