2021-03-07 Certificate of Mayor and ClerkCERTIFICATE OF MAYOR AND CLERK
OF CITY OF BLAIR, NEBRASKA
The undersigned Mayor and City Clerk of the City of Blair, Nebraska (the "City") do hereby
make the following certifications with respect to the Community Redevelopment Agency of the
City of Blair, Nebraska (the "Agency"), and the redevelopment plan entitled "The Hayden Place
Redevelopment Project — Phase One" relating to the redevelopment of certain real property
within the City, which plan was given its final approval by the Mayor and Council of the City on
October 13, 2020 (the "Plan"), as follows:
1. All of the proceedings of the City which are set out in the annexed and foregoing
transcript with respect to the Agency and the Plan have been fully recorded in the journal of
proceedings of the City and the undersigned City Clerk has carefully compared the annexed and
foregoing transcript with said journal, records and files of the City which are in said City Clerk's
official custody and said transcript is a full, true and complete copy of said journal, records and files
which are set out therein.
2. The undersigned City Clerk has made a diligent search and examination of said
journal, records and files which are in her official custody and finds and certifies that the same
contain no material proceedings of the City had precedent to or referring to the creation of the
Agency or the approval of the Plan other than the proceedings set out in said transcript.
3. Said transcript contains all of the material proceedings had or done by the City
precedent to the creation of the Agency and the approval of the Plan.
4. With respect to the meetings of the City as shown in said transcript, advanced
publicized notice of each meeting included notice concerning availability of the agenda. The
subjects relating to creation of the Agency, declaration of blighted and substandard area and
approval of the Plan and all other subjects included in the attached and foregoing proceedings were
contained in the agenda for the respective meetings, kept continually current and available for
public inspection at the City offices of the City of Blair. Such subjects were contained in said
agenda for at least 24 hours prior to the respective meetings. For all meetings occurring after July
13, 2006, a current copy of the Nebraska Open Meetings Act was available and accessible to
members of the public, posted during the meeting or meetings (as reflected in the foregoing
transcript) in the room in which such meeting or meetings were held and that all in attendance at
such meeting or meetings were informed that such copy of the Nebraska Open Meetings Act was
available for review and were informed of the location of such copy in the room in which such
meeting was being held. At least one copy of all ordinances, resolutions or other reproducible
materials discussed at any of said meetings was available at the respective meeting for examination
and copying by the members of the public. The minutes of the Mayor and Council of the City from
which the foregoing proceedings have been extracted were in written form and available for public
inspection within 10 working days and prior to the next convened meeting of said body for each
respective meeting. All news media requesting notification concerning meetings of said body were
provided with advance notification of the times and places of said meetings and the subjects to be
discussed at such meetings. All members of said body were provided advance notification for each
of said meetings concerning the time, place and agenda for each such meeting. With respect to the
meeting of October 13, 2020, notice of the hearing before the Mayor and Council of the City with
respect to the Plan was given by first class mail, postage prepaid, at least ten days prior to the
president or chairperson of the governing body of each county, school district, community college,
educational service unit and natural resources district in which the real property subject to such Plan
is located and whose property tax receipts would be directly affected. The notice provided by the
City set out the time, date, place, and purpose of the hearing and included a map of sufficient size
and/or where one could be found to show the area to be redeveloped.
5. Prior to the creation of the Agency, the City had prepared and approved a general
plan for the development of the City.
6. No known litigationi of any nature is now pending or threatened against the City
relating to the approval of the Plan or the creation of the Agency nor in any manner questioning the
proceedings relating to the creation of the Agency or the approval of the Plan or any other matter
related thereto. Neither the corporate existence, boundaries or title of the present officers of the City
to their respective offices is being contested. No proceedings of the City relating to the creation of
the Agency or the approval of the Plan have been modified, repealed, rescinded or revoked and no
referendum petitions have been filed with the City Clerk relating any measure concerning the
creation of the Agency or the approval of the Plan or any related matter as of the date hereof.
7. The City has not designated more than 35% of its total area as blighted or
substandard or both.
8. There are no neighborhood associations which have registered with the City Clerk or
the City's planning department pursuant to Section 18-2115, R.R.S. Neb. 2012, as of the date of this
certificate.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have affixed our official signatures and the
City's seal as of this I7th day of March, 2021.
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Mayor
City Clerk
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