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Duluth council reviews $1.4 million transfer to 1200 Fund; questions raised about Clayton Jackson McGee Memorial eligibility
Summary
Councilors discussed a proposed $1.4 million transfer to the Duluth 1200 Fund to administer a historic program fund and debated whether the non-building Clayton Jackson McGee Memorial would be eligible under the fund’s building-focused guidelines; Councilor Kennedy asked to pull the item for further conversation.
The City of Duluth city council reviewed a proposal to transfer $1,400,000 to the Duluth 1200 Fund, Inc. to establish and administer a historic program fund, and councilors debated whether the Clayton Jackson McGee Memorial—an historic, nonbuilding site affected by adjacent blight—would be eligible under the fund’s guidelines.
Councilor Kennedy raised questions about the fund’s eligibility language and asked that the item be pulled for further discussion. “It talks about buildings, but we also had discussed the Clayton Jackson McGee Memorial, which is not a building,” Kennedy said, asking whether the memorial could access the funds. Kennedy said language in the paperwork alternates between “buildings” and…
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