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00• ®00 e a• te® City of app I ell 14200 Cedar Avenue S. va ey Apple Valley, Minnesota 55124 City Clerk City of Little Canada 515 Little Canada Road Little Canada, Minnesota 55: Telephone 812, 432 -7105 February 17, 1976 Re: Local Government Aid Distributions Dear City Clerk: • I am sure that you are by now aware of the formula adopted by:;the 1975 State Legislature for the distribution of local government aid. Briefly, each local municipality's share is determined as a function of its 1970 Federal population census, the average of its last three year's -mill rates, and the sales ratio. This means that municipalities with rapidly increasing populations are not rec- eiving their fair share and that municipalities with declining populations are receiving, in affect, more than their fair share of the total funds available. The Association of Metropolitan Municipalities, Municipal° Revenues Committee last fall adopted a policy wherein the legislature was urged to make amendments to the effective population date, including allowing a special Federal census under' circumstances. The Committee's recommendation, when presented to the entire AMM membership in early January received 26 favorable votes and 17 no votes. Even though it received a majority of the votes, it did not become P.MM's policy because a 2/3 favorable vote is required for a position to become adopted policy. The no votes were cast as follows: Minneapolis -. 8 St. Paul - 5 Bloomington - 2 Columbia Heights - 1 Richfield - 1 All other suburban communities represented-at-the. January meeting voted in of.the proposed change. At this time, a bill has been introduced in the Minnesota Legislature (4F2143) which, if enacted into law, would allow any municipality to conduct, at-its expense, a special Federal census. Under the proposed bill, a municipality who conducts aH. special Federal census is entitled to have that result used by the State of Minn- esota in determining the amount of its local government aid to be received in the next subsequent and future years through 1980.. The special.census could be con- ducted at any time between now and 1980. Home of the Minnesota Zoological Garden