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Mounds View City Council September 13, 2004 Regular Meeting Page 7 1 Mayor Linke stated this is the same 4 percent as the item before this. 2 3 Council Member Stigney stated that it’s just for gas. 4 5 MOTION/SECOND. Marty/Stigney. To waive the reading and adopt Ordinance 747, 6 an Ordinance Implementing a Franchise Fee on Center Point Energy Natural Gas 7 Operations within the City of Mounds View. 8 9 ROLL CALL. Linke/Marty/Stigney/Gunn. 10 11 Ayes-4 Nays-0 Motion carried. 12 13 I. Resolution 6338 Authorizing Certification of the Proposed General Fund Budget and 14 Property Tax Levy for Fiscal Year 2005. 15 16 Mayor Linke stated that these are the preliminary numbers and on the high side, and the full 17 intent is to be working to cut these numbers down. 18 19 Finance Director Hansen stated that the budgeted as presented here is what was seen at the Work 20 Session a week ago. He stated one change he had made from last week is since there are no levy 21 limits this year, he proposed putting a little bit less of the tax levy in the special levies and a little 22 bit more in the base levy, and the total is the same. He stated the residents would see the same 23 tax bill either way. He stated that depending on what the State does with levy limits next year, 24 this might provide the next Council with a little bit of flexibility in the 2006 budget if levy limits 25 are reimposed, or it might not make any difference if the legislature takes a different track. 26 27 Council Member Stigney asked if he had any figures in dollar amounts that this proposed budget 28 would increase the tax base on the median home. 29 30 Finance Director Hansen stated that from his memory, the tax median value home was $1,740, 31 and that would include the total tax bill, and with this levy, plus with the estimates from the 32 school district and the county and so forth, and his educated guess is that it would go to 33 something between $2200 and $2300 in 2005. 34 35 Mayor Linke asked what percentage of that $500 would be coming from the City of Mounds 36 View. 37 38 Finance Director Hansen stated it was possibly $200 or $300 of it. 39 40 City Clerk/Administrator Ulrich stated that according to a chart that Finance Director Hansen had 41 prepared, for a total tax burden of $2,139, the City’s portion of that would be $658.68, so roughly a 42 third. 43 44 Council Member Stigney asked what that was the previous year, and City Clerk/Administrator Ulrich 45