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ACTION REQUESTED: <br /> 1. Please contact your local legislators (Senators and <br /> Representatives) as soon as possible and once again <br /> explain to then the importance of TIF to your <br /> city. Urge them not to address TIF this session <br /> for the reasons outlined previously. <br /> 2. Contact your local Chamber of Commerce and Building <br /> and Trades Union Officials and urge them to help <br /> support the retention of TIF. (Have them also <br /> contact your local legislators) . <br /> 3. The County Associations are leading the 'charge' <br /> against TIF. Please do not hesitate to <br /> contact your local County Commissioner since <br /> individual Commissioners may better understand the <br /> importance of TIF to the local economy. <br /> 4. Please send a copy of any written TIF Communication <br /> to our office. <br /> 2 . LAND USE PLANNING BILL (HF 1654/SF 1510) : <br /> The Governor's Advisory Committee on State Local Relations <br /> (ACSLR) sponsored this bill and it was first introduced in <br /> the 1988 session but not acted upon. The bill was <br /> substantially modified based on a lot of input from the AMM <br /> and was again introduced late in the 1989 session. The bill <br /> as introduced last session was still not satisfactory to the <br /> AMM and the special AMM Land Use Committee, Chaired by Orono <br /> Administrator Mark Bernhardson, has continued to work on <br /> this bill since the end of last session. While the <br /> Committee has been successful in achieving additional <br /> positive amendments to the bill, some trouble spots remain <br /> and the AMM will continue to seek additional amendments. <br /> There were at least two alleged purposes for this bill: (1) <br /> to provide a uniform planning and zoning procedure for <br /> cities. rount_ies and towns and (2) deal with some fringe <br /> area planning/zoning concerns between cities and <br /> townships. The AMM has no quarrel with those purposes but <br /> unfortunately other changes were also made which were a step <br /> backward for metropolitan area cities. <br /> ACTION REQUESTED: No immediate action is needed but if you <br /> are discussing other concerns with your legislators, point <br /> out that we still have a problem with this bill and it <br /> should not be passed unless further modified. <br /> 3 . COMPARABLE WORTH <br /> The Department of Employee Relations (DOER) prepared an <br /> analysis of 37 cities, 24 counties, and 27 school districts <br /> Pay Equity plans. They developed scattergrams based on what <br /> -2- <br />