2022-15RESOLUTION NO 2022-15
Supporting Blair Ag LLC Infrastructure Development
COUNCIL MEMBER WOLFF INTRODUCED THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION:
Whereas, the City of Blair supports the development of infrastructure to support the development
new business, jobs, and economic opportunities within City of Blair and the City's two-mile
planning and development area; and
Whereas, BLAIR AG LLC, is located at 450 Industrial Park Dr., Blair, NE 68008 in the City's
two miles planning area, and
Whereas, BLAIR AG LLC is desirous of expanding their infrastructure to allow for a more
comprehensive transportation infrastructure by adding additional rail offloading and the creation
of port offloading for barges on the Missouri River, to allow for the expansion and increased
business capacity and job creation, while reducing the dependency on truck traffic in and out of
the facility; and
Whereas, the City of Blair is an eligible applicant for State and Federal infrastructure grants to
help expand the transportation facilities in the Blair area; and
Whereas, BLAIR AG LLC has expressed a desire to enter into a future agreement to pay all local
costs incurred by the City of Blair for submittal of grant applications and to pay for all required
grant matching funds should the City be successful in obtaining grant funds.
Therefore, be it resolved by the Mayor and City Council that the City Staff shall work with
BLAIR AG LLC to apply for available State and Federal grants for the improvements to the rail
infrastructure at BLAIR AG LLC and the development of river port facilities to allow BLAIR
AG LLC to expand their business investment in Blair while creating additional job opportunities.
Further be it resolved that should the City of Blair be successful obtaining grant funding to help
make BLAIR AG expansions feasible, that the City staff shall work with BLAIR AG LLC to
develop a development agreement between BLAIR AG LLC and the City of Blair for
implementing said improvements as approved in the applicable grant agreements.
COUNCIL MEMBER WOLFF MOVED THAT THE RESOLUTION BE ADOPTED AS
READ, WHICH SAID MOTION WAS SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER RUMP UPON
ROLL CALL, COUNCIL MEMBERS VOTING "AYE" SCHANK, HALL, WOLFF, WILLIS,
RUMP, STEWART, HAFER AND SHEPARD. COUNCIL MEMBERS NONE VOTING
"NAY", THE MAYOR DECLARED THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION PASSED AND
ADOPTED THIS Mii DAY OF APRIL 2022.
CITY OF BLAIR, NEBRASKA
BY
RICHARD HANSEN, MAYOR
ATTEST:
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A WHEELER, CITY CLERK
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BRENDA R. WHEELER hereby certifies that she is the duly appointed,. qualified and acting
City Clerk of the City of Blair, Nebraska, and that the above and foregoing Resolution was
passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the Mayor and City Council of said city held on the
12th day of April 2022.
ERK
BRENDA WHEELER, CITY C