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RESOLUTION NO. 4188 <br /> CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW <br /> COUNTY OF RAMSEY <br /> STATE OF MINNESOTA . <br /> RESOLUTION URGING THE 1992 MINNESOTA STATE LEGISLATURE <br /> TO PASS LEGISLATION WHICH RESTORES THE INTEGRITY OF THE LOCAL <br /> GOVERNMENT TRUST FUND AND GIVES MINNESOTA CITIES "THEIR 2 CENTS" <br /> WHEREAS, the 1991 Omnibus Tax Bill provided for the creation <br /> of a Local Government Trust Fund to fund local government aid to <br /> Minnesota cities; and <br /> WHEREAS, Local Government Aid is a integral part of many <br /> cities ability to provide municipal services to residents; and <br /> WHEREAS, the continued practice of the State legislature to <br /> cut Local Government Aid in the middle of municipal budget cycles <br /> prompted the creation of the Local Government Trust Fund from which <br /> two percent of the sales tax would be dedicated to Local Government <br /> Aid; and <br /> WHEREAS, cities in Minnesota worked cooperatively with <br /> legislators to ensure the viability of the Local Government Trust <br /> Fund and felt confident that cities would work within the <br /> flucuations of the sales tax revenues and be able to adjust <br /> accordingly knowing that in good times there would be more revenue <br /> and in repressed times the money would be less; and <br /> WHEREAS, cities have done their part to work within a <br /> reduction framework; and <br /> WHEREAS, the Governor's veto which cancelled the section of <br /> the 1991 Monibus Tax bill which specified the growth in property <br /> tax rlief aids from the Local Government Trust Fund has serious and <br /> potentially devastating—impacts—to local governments; and <br /> WHEREAS, it is of the utmost importance to the citizens of <br /> every city in the state of Minnesota that the Legislature pass a <br /> new bill for distribution of the Local Government Aid Trust Fund to <br /> ensure the continued health and safety of all residents of <br /> Minnesota who are dependent on city services; and <br /> WHEREAS, the Trust Fund was designated for aid to local <br /> governments and not to be a fund source to be raided to balance the <br /> State-'s_ budget -or -to pay for non-related state- general fund <br /> expenditures . <br /> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT the City Council in and <br /> for the City of Mounds View does urge the members of the Minnesota <br /> Legislature to take the following actions: <br />