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PROPOSED RESOLUTION <br />Whereas property taxes tend to be highest and most burdensome in cities, and in the <br />absence of some action by the state legislature municipal property taxes in the city <br />cf will increase in 1976 and 1977, and <br />Whereas the city council of strongly favors the reduction of <br />municipal property taxes, and the most feasible way of accomplishing this without <br />drastically reducing essential municipal services is through the distribution of <br />railroad and telephone gross earnings taxes to cities as proposed by Governor <br />Anderson, and <br />Whereas local units of government receive no property taxes or other taxes <br />from rail- <br />road or telephone property and the City of will receive <br />approximately $ <br />under the proposed distribution of telephone and <br />road gross earnings in 1976, and <br />Whereas this method of <br />considered. <br />tax reduction is preferable to other alternatives being <br />NOW THE REFORE BE IT RESOLVED TEAT THE CITY COUNCIL OF <br />rail- <br />respectfully urges the Minnesota State Legislature to distribute all of the tele -phone <br />and railroad gross <br />earnings taxes, amounting to $46 million in :976 and $49 million <br />in 1977, to local units of government as proposed by Governor Anderson, <br />BF IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be transr.!_ted to tt:e fsvern_;r <br />of the State of Minnesota, Members of the State Legislature Ina ipagyle , Minne- <br />sota Municipalities. <br />/�tiGil <br />arta -kat 4ti4 fr% <br />eery 1,01 <br />d ti e ss Z- f(,„(: , <br />4 ....C. &c✓6 4 f t,< t <br />U fro - / =_V _ _ ze <br />% &t> <br />tc : z (% <br />