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Arden Hills Aaron Parish, Interim City Administrator, reported that their council has not formally considered this proposal, however, they would be supportive just to maximize some of the economies of scale. It would help to facilitate the ongoing participation in the Housing Resource Center and there is a lot of value in that. Being part of a large organization, the seven cities with the 135 coalition have been able to access resources that on an individual basis they would not be able to access. Arden Hills would need to look further at the allocation of funds as the population categories are a bit too broad. You could look at, at least on a one -to- one basis, linking percentage of population or percentage of funds or doing this as a tax capacity base or some combination thereof because a lot of people may not buy in if there is some perceived inequity. You could also look at tightening the spending parameters, spending parameters meaning allocations. All in all, Arden Hills does see value in the proposal. Commissioner Rettman responded she did do one review in terms of the trying to redo the formula and create a base line. Even though Blaine, Spring Lake Park and Gem Lake have a minimal number of people that are living there, they still pay taxes. If they were started out at a $5000 level and then went to a $25,000 for St. Anthony, Lauderdale and North Oaks, the disbursal could end up being $100,000 to Roseville and New Brighton, White Bear and Shoreview would be at $60,000 for $5000 more. This would be a .9% levy that would yield $790,000 total. There will be time to do some tweaking before the commissioners discuss this, but she was trying to make sure that everyone had some type of leveraging capacity to be in the ballpark. Discussion Mayor Kysylyczyn, from Roseville, suggested it would be nice to have a chart that displayed net tax capacity of each municipality versus Commissioner Rettman's recommended list of funding. A comparison could then be done to see exactly how much money they would be putting in versus what percentage they would get out. Roseville may support this idea provided the distribution is strictly based on net tax capacity. For example, if Roseville has 27% of the net tax capacity within the suburban jurisdictions and they received 27% of the money generated, Roseville would support that idea. Commissioner Weissner asked Mayor Kysylyczyn if he would like to see a proposal based on the 50% tax /50% population formula he stated the 135W corridor has. Mayor Kysylyczyn responded he would be opposed to that because what is - - being talked about here is a tax that would be applied based on net tax capacity or contributing. If this tax was raised based on population then it should be distributed via population. -10-