DEPARTMENT: Physical Development Administration
FILE TYPE: Consent Action
TITLE
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Authorization Of Second Amendment To Conveyor Lease With Holcim - MWR, Inc.
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PURPOSE/ACTION REQUESTED
Authorize the execution of Second Amendment to a Conveyor Lease with Holcim - MWR, Inc. (Holcim) (formerly Aggregate Industries) on County property located in City of Empire (City).
SUMMARY
Dakota County (County) owns 80 acres of real property [Parcel Identification Number (PIN) 12-00500-02-010)] in the City, where the Empire Transportation Facility and Communication Center are located. Aggregate Industries, Holcim is an international corporation with four business segments: cement, ready-mix concrete, aggregates, and building solutions and products, operating on 350 sites in 43 states. Holcim acquired Aggregate Industries (A.I.) and owns the 80-acre parcel (PIN 12-00500-01-010) immediately east and a 50-acre parcel (PIN 12-00500-75-011) southwest of the County property where it is actively mining sand and aggregate under an interim use permit from the City. Holcim also owns two parcels totaling 311 acres and mineral rights on a third 152-acre parcel - all immediately adjacent to Whitetail Woods Regional Park.
In 2009, A.I. requested a Conveyor Lease from the County to install, operate, and maintain a 1,322-foot-long conveyor belt across the southern portion of the County property, legally described as "the South one hundred fifty (150) feet of the West 1/2 of the Northeast 1/4 of Section 5, Township 114 North, Range 19 West in the City of Empire" (Lease Area) to move the mined aggregate to an A.I. processing facility to the west.
By Resolution No. 10-007 (January 5, 2010), the Dakota County Board of Commissioners approved the Conveyor Lease with A.I. with the following terms:
A.I. will pay $6,750 per year, adjusted annually using the Minneapolis-St. Paul Consumer Price Index for Urban Area (CPIU) for the previous 12 months, as calculated by the U.S. Department of ...
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