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