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Housing & Redevelopment
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WORK SESSION MINUTES
1. Call to Order
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March 10, 2020 — 6:30 pm
Council Conference Room
Golden Valley City Hall
7800 Golden Valley Road
The meeting was called to order at 6:30 pm by Chair Fonnest.
Present: Chair Larry Fonnest, Commissioners Maurice Harris, Shep Harris, Gillian
Rosenquist and Kimberly Sanberg
Staff present: HRA Director Cruikshank, Physical Development Director Nevinski, Planning
Manager Zimmerman, Finance Director Virnig and Planner Campbell
2. Housing Strategic Plan
Planning Manager Zimmerman provided background information and an updated on the
progress of developing the City's Housing Strategic Plan. He introduced Ms. Cathy Bennett of
Bennett Community Consulting. Ms. Bennett said she had been hired to identify the housing
needs and priorities in the City. She detailed the process used to identify the housing priorities
and said based on the information collected, the top three were to preserve existing housing
and tenant protections, increase housing affordability and diversify housing options and
opportunities and to increase the diversity of voices in the decision making. Ms. Bennett said to
focus on these priorities, she recommended that the City hire a dedicated person whose primary
job was to implement and administer the new and existing housing policies. Ms. Bennett
detailed each of the top priorities and said to support and achieve the goals identified and
increase the financial capacity, the City could create a HRA Levy, establish a Local Housing Trust
Fund and/or establish City's Public Subsidy Policy. Ms. Bennett answered questions from the
Commissioners. HRA Director Cruikshank answered questions from the Commissioners.
The Commissioners thanked Ms. Bennett for her work and discussed the top housing priorities
that were identified, the creation of a new Housing and Economic Development Manager staff
position and whether to move forward with the HRA levy. The Commissioner's consensus was to
move forward with the Housing Strategic Plan and the HRA Levy.
HRA Director Cruikshank said the item would be added to the next Housing and Redevelopment
Authority meeting on April 21.
3. HRA Levy and Budget
Finance Director Virnig presented the staff report which included background information on
approving the HRA levy and the HRA meeting schedule needed to consider the levy and she
answered questions from the Commissioners. HRA Director Cruikshank answered questions
from the Commissioners.
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City of Golden Valley HRA Work Session Meeting Minutes
March 10, 2020 — 6:30 pm
Fair Housing Policy
Planner Campbell presented the staff report and discussed the policy's purpose which he said was
to encourage better and more equitable housing for all individuals. He provided information on
what the external and internal responsibilities of the policy would be. Mr. Campbell said staff felt
now would be a good time to adopt the policy because the City committed to adopting a policy in
the grant agreement and application with the Capacity Building Grant from the Minnesota Housing
Finance Agency and he said other federally funded grant opportunities require a city to have a policy
to be eligible for funds. He also said adopting the policy now would make sense because of the
HRA's interest in hiring an additional staff member whose focus would be on housing initiatives.
Commissioner Sanberg said the first paragraph of the policy did not include all of the individuals in
the City's Welcome Statement. Mr. Campbell said the language in the policy could be updated to
include the information from the Welcome Statement.
The Commissioner discussed the proposed Golden Valley Housing & Redevelopment Authority Fair
Housing Policy and the consensus was to move forward with the policy at the April 21 HRA meeting
with the addition of the language that better reflects the City's Welcome Statement.
S . Adjournment
The meeting adjourned at 7:39 pm.
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