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STATE OF MINNESOTA <br />DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE <br />July 28, 1989 <br />To: Mayors, City Managers and City Clerks of all Minnesota Cities <br />Chairs of County Boards and County Auditors of all Minnesota Counties <br />Board Members and Superintendents of all Minnesota School Districts <br />Attached to this letter is the sequence which the Department of Revenue requests that <br />counties, school districts and cities with populations over 2,500 follow in setting and <br />reporting dates for public budget hearings. As you will recall, each county, school district <br />and city with a population over 2,500 must notify the county auditor of its property tax levy <br />no later than November 9, 1989. <br />Also attached to this letter are new criteria which the Department is asking local <br />governments to follow in choosing a newspaper or newspapers in which to publish the <br />required notice of the date, hour and place of their public budget hearings. <br />You will notice that the sequence for setting and reporting budget hearing dates assigns to <br />the county auditor the role of coordinator of the entire process -- receiving notification of <br />the date established by the county and informing the school districts, receiving notification <br />of the dates established by the school districts and informing the cities, and receiving <br />notification of the dates established by the cities. <br />In addition to asking counties, school districts and cities to establish dates for public budget <br />hearings, the Department is also asking that each county, school district and city with a <br />population over 2,500 establish and report to the county auditor a date for reconvening its <br />public budget hearing in the event the initial hearing must be recessed. We are asking that <br />each county, school district and city with a population over 2,500 establish a date for <br />reconvening a recessed public budget hearing even if it does not expect that it will be <br />necessary to recess their public budget hearing. <br />Finally, I want to take advantage of this opportunity to assure you that any proposal for <br />property tax reform which the Governor presents to a special session of the legislature will <br />avoid provisions which would lead to delays in the mailing of property tax bills by <br />counties. Thus you can be assured that, under any proposal introduced by the Governor, <br />property owners will have sufficient time to pay their first half property tax bills by the <br />regular May 15th deadline. <br />e <br />ohn Ja'►'s <br />Commissioner <br />Enclosures <br />AN EOUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER <br />Page 123 <br />