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41Pram,.., l5 <br /> • MEMO TO: MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL <br /> FROM: CLERK-ADMINISTRATO' <br /> DATE: MAY 31, 1990 <br /> SUBJECT: 1990 LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY <br /> The 1990 Session of the Minnesota Legislature was clearly a <br /> significant one in that the Legislature adopted several pieces <br /> of legislation having major impact on cities. These pieces of <br /> legislation included amendments to the Pay Equity and Truth In <br /> Taxation Laws as well as a tax bill which again modifies Local <br /> Government Aids, levy limits and the property taxation <br /> structure in the State. <br /> Before getting into exactly what happened during the last <br /> legislative session, I would like to review for you two bills <br /> that were not adopted in this Session but are likely to be <br /> reintroduced in 1991. The first is the Land Use Planning bill <br /> which has been around the Legislature for at least the last <br /> two sessions . An interim study committee will again be <br /> evaluating the need for modification to the current statues <br /> regulating land use planning in the State of Minnesota. The <br /> Association of Metropolitan Municipalities has been very <br /> . active in this area and will continue to oversee this <br /> legislation on behalf of its member cities. <br /> The second piece of legislation that was not acted upon in <br /> 1990 but likely to be reintroduced in 1991 is contractor <br /> licensing. This bill has also been around for at least two <br /> years and proposes that the state assume authority for <br /> licensing contractors on a State-wide basis, thus prohibiting <br /> individual cities from licensing contractors. The difficulty <br /> as I see it with this legislation is not the loss of revenues <br /> which we definitely would see should the State take over <br /> contractor licensing, but the fact that it would be more of an <br /> enforcement problem to make sure that all contractors working <br /> in the City are licensed than we currently experience under <br /> our local licensing ordinances. Although the State would be <br /> licensing these contractors and determining whether or not <br /> they meet their standards, any resident in Mounds View who has <br /> a problem with the contractor would still be expecting the <br /> City to assist them in mediating that situation. Our <br /> difficulty in those types of cases would be that we would no <br /> longer have the "hammer" of a license to hang over the <br /> contractor when the work that is being performed is clearly <br /> inadequate. <br /> 411 <br />