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REQUEST FOR ACTION <br />TO ITEM NUMBER <br />Ci Council (. [~ <br />AGENDA SECTION MEETING DATE PREPARED BY <br />Administration anuary 3, 2011 Lori ohnson, City Administrator <br />ITEM DESCRIPTION REVIEWED By <br />Consider Resolution to Modify Economic Development <br />Authority (EDA) Enabling Resolution REVIEWED BY <br />ACTION REQUESTED <br />Consider Resolution modifying EDA enabling resolution to change the composition of the EDA. <br />BACKGROUND/DISCUSSION <br />The current EDA enabling resolution requires the Mayor to serve as an EDA. commissioner along with <br />three Councilmembers and three residents. Mayor Dietz has requested that he remain on the Utilities <br />Commission and not serve as a member of the EDA. In order to accomplish this, the City Council <br />would need to adopt a resolution modifying the membership of the EDA. <br />The attached resolution, if adopted, changes the composition of the Authority to include four council <br />members instead of the Mayor and three council members. This allows both the Mayor and Vice Mayor <br />to serve as commissioners of the EDA and guarantees that at a minimum one of them will be on the <br />EDA. Three residents of the City of Elk River who are not members of the City Council will continue to <br />fill the remaining three commission seats. <br />ATTACHMENTS <br />^ Resolution Modifying Resolution 87-63 Establishing an Economic Development Authority <br />for the City of Elk River, Minnesota <br />Action Motion by Second by Vote <br />Follow Up <br />N:\Public Bodies\Ciry Council\Lori\2011 \EDA Enabling Resolution Amendment.docx <br />