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RESOLUTION NO. <br />10-057 <br />STATE OF MINNESOTA <br />COUNTY OF RAMSEY <br />CITY OF NEW BRIGHTON <br />A RESOLUTION APPROVING A TERM SHEET THAT WOULD SERVE AS THE <br />FRAMEWORK FOR AN AGREEMENT TO BRING A RAMSEY COUNTY REGIONAL <br />LIBRARY TO THE FAMILY SERVICE CENTER IN NEW BRIGHTON <br />WHEREAS the Ramsey County Library Board of Trustees has recognized the need to <br />relocate the Arden Hills regional library, and <br />WHEREAS the City of New Brighton has space currently available at the New Brighton <br />Family Service Center, and <br />WHEREAS the City of New Brighton City Council is interested in partnering with the <br />County in an effort to provide a needed regional service, and <br />WHEREAS placing a regional library in the New Brighton Family Service Center meets or <br />exceeds all of the site criteria and values as stated in the Ramsey County Library Facilities <br />Master Plan, and <br />WHEREAS locating the library in New Brighton would place it in an area that is three times <br />more densely populated than Arden Hills, has access to public transportation, serves a greater <br />demographic of users, provides the library with larger community rooms for special <br />programming events that will occur throughout the year, has a traffic volume that is 4 <br />times higher than the alternative location and over twenty years will cost less money than the <br />alternative location, and <br />WHEREAS City Staff and County Staff have negotiated a draft term sheet that would serve <br />as the framework for an agreement between Ramsey County and the City of New Brighton, <br />and <br />NOW THEREFOR BE IT RESOLVED that the City of New Brighton Mayor and Council <br />respectfully request that the Ramsey County Library Board Trustees recommend the New <br />Brighton Family Service Center be selected as the site for the Ramsey County regional <br />