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E;= <br />greater willingness to absorb essential tax increases might be <br />forthcoming. In any case, though, the information, if used <br />creatively, would provide an excellent starting paint for a <br />discussion on community fiscal priorities. <br />Summary and Conclusions: <br />Mounds View residents are quite anti-tax in orientation. <br />However, they are not willing ta see service reductions in mast <br />areas to avoid higher taxes. Therefore, even thought tax <br />increases would be a very hard sell in the community, they would <br />not be an impossibility. Certainly, street maintenance and park <br />upkeep are two service areas around which a judicious tax in- <br />crease could be successful at the polls. <br />There is also a great degree of ambiguity abaut the property <br />tax share the City of Mounds View takes. In order to build a <br />durable reservoir of good will toward the City, communications <br />with residents need to spotlight this figure. In part, this <br />tactic will show the City as a prudent spender of tax monies. <br />Residents already do not feel that there total property tax <br />burden is onerous; perhaps the City should move more aggressive <br />to demonstrate that one reason for this state of af airs has been <br />judicious and careful spending practices. <br />34