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COUNCIL MINUTES APRIL 14, 2003 City of Lino Lakes al 19 Consider Resolution No. 03 -52 Amending Joint Powers Agreement for Cable Commission, 20 Linda Waite -Smith — City Administrator Waite Smith summarized the staff report. 221 222 Councilmember Dahl moved to Adopt Resolution No. 03 -52 amending the Joint Powers Agreement 223 for North Metro Communications Commission. Mayor Bergeson seconded the motion. 224 225 Motion carried unanimously. 226 227 Resolution No. 03 -52 can be found in the City Clerk's office. 228 229 Consider Resolution No. 03 -51 Calling on the Minnesota Legislature to preserve local 230 government control, Linda Waite -Smith — City Administrator Waite -Smith summarized the staff 231 report. 232 233 Councilmember Dahl asked if this was in regards to the item Andover sent to Lino Lakes. City 234 Administrator Waite -Smith indicated Andover worked with other organizations to develop a 235 resolution to be able to send to the legislature. 236 237 Councilmember Dahl asked if that was what they were voting on tonight. City Administrator Waite - 238 Smith stated they were voting on letting local government maintain control. 239 IF40 Councilmember Dahl expressed concern that this could backfire on them when the State budget is 41 back in sync, at which time the State could say since they wanted to be on their own, they can be. She 242 asked for another example of decisions that would be reversed. City Administrator Waite -Smith 243 stated any decisions regarding budget, if they impose the tax levy restrictions. She explained that 244 what State Legislature is proposing to do is tie their hands so they could not recoup money, and would 245 eventually have to lay off staff to balance the budget. 246 247 Councilmember Reinert asked if the point of what was going on with the levy's being imposed and 248 salary caps was that some cities get a higher percent of their budget from the state, and the intent was 249 that cities would not increase taxes to recoup the loss of funds. 250 251 City Administrator Waite -Smith stated this was sent to the City Council two weeks ago to see if they 252 wanted to approve. It only says Lino Lakes would prefer that decisions that affect local government 253 be left to local government to make. She indicated her example showed an unintended result that 254 would occur by imposing this on all cities. 255 256 Councilmember Reinert stated this was kind of a non -issue for Lino Lakes, since only 2% of their 257 budget came from state funds. City Administrator Waite -Smith disagreed, stating when Target came 258 in, a tax abatement agreement was made, which says Lino Lakes could have a special tax levy to gain 259 the $103,000 per year in tax revenue. That would be lost if the State has their way. 260 261 Councilmember Reinert stated he was all for retaining local government control. 062 6