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AGENDA ITEM: SET SPECIAL MEETING FOR COMMISSION
AGENDA SECTION:
APPLICANT INTERVIEWS
NEW BUSINESS
PREPARED BY: LINDA JENTINK, CITY CLERK
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The selection process has begun for commission positions open. Applications will be received through March
7th, 2003. Council has a goal setting workshop set for March 14 and 15. Saturday morning, March 22nd has
been suggested as a possible time for interviews. Please check your calendars and a date can be discussed.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: MOTION to set a Special Meeting for the purpose of interviewing
applicants for city commissions on
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CITY OF ROSEMOUNT
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY FOR ACTION
CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: March 6, 2003
AGENDA ITEM: Great River Energy: Proposed Generation
AGENDA SECTION:
Project
New Business
PREPARED BY: Jim Parsons
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Community Development Director
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ATTACHMENTS: A hand -out will be distributed by Great
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River Energy at the meeting
Background
Staff has previously made the City Council aware that Great River Energy, a generator of
electricity for power cooperatives serving a large portion of Minnesota, proposes to build a
power plant in Rosemount. Great River Energy's Vice - president Rick Lancaster will present
a summary of the proposed plant. The plant would be fueled mostly by natural gas, and
would be located east of Highway 52 and north of Co. Rd. 42, just east of the golf course.
State law authorizes the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board to pre -empt a city's zoning
and other local controls in locating a power plant. The Minnesota legislature has also granted
exemptions from the personal property tax on machinery and equipment for a number of
power plants built in recent years in the state. Great River Energy is seeking such an
exemption; nevertheless, the City of Rosemount - would receive a significant amount of real
estate tax front the facility. Great River Energy would purchase far more land (over 250
acres) than is needed for the plant; how and whether that land would be developed is
unknown at this time.
Great River Energy is seeking the City of Rosemount's support for its request for an
exemption from the personal property tax. Staff suggests that this support be offered only in
exchange for understandings between Great River Energy and the City of Rosemount
regarding the future development of its unneeded land and other important issues.
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Discussion.
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