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✓'Ib Iowa Avenue //��//�� c ��pp `' 0. Box j22 Vll.innesota Association o/ small a iN Std ee,MN56479 Ep 6) eO4a27e Myrton 0. Wegener i MOU f Box 3e Director and Lobbyist he, MN ON31 February 22, 1989 s�,e�llllOtb�� Dear Mayor; Of the 855 cities in Minnesota, over 700 are receiving what we, The Minnesota Association of Small Cities, feel is less than a fair share of State Aids. I am writing to you as Mayor of one of the cities which loses under the current unfair formula to ask your help in changing this formula, which has been in effect since 1979. The M.A.O.S.C, has been conducting a vigorous membership drive in recent months. We have met with as many cities as possible and responses have exceeded expectations. I want to thank those ui you who have joined our ranks ano are supporting our lobbying efforts, which will help finance the attempts to enact a more fair and equitable Aid Formula. If the Small Cities and their Associates do not get the job done, who will? If you are not a member of M.A.O.S.C. please consider the benefits of an equitable formula for the State of Minnesota as a whole and contribute what you feel would be your fair share in helping the M.A.O.S.C. accomplish this. We have been working together with The Minnesota Association of Town- ships and Counties to gain their support for a new Local Aids Formula and to help them get back what they will lose in State Aids in 1984 and 1985• Rural Minnesota must work together to generate the strength to maintain their fair share from the Legislature. We do not expect support from the three major cities, Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth. We must realize that when our M.A.O.S C. proposal is considered by the Legislature we will face formidable opposition. That is why we need your help. We not only need the funds but also, your active support on a political level. If the Association of Small Cities is to be successful in its' efforts to change the formula, and thus obtain equalized distribution of tax money for cities, we need your help in winning the support of your local House and Senate member. We urge you and each member of your City Council and staff to contact your local Legislators and demand that they support the Aid Formula proposed by the M.A.O.S.C. We also need the attendance of all of you at the Annual L.M.C. Confer- ence at the Radisson St. Paul Hotel on the 13th and loth of March, 1984 to join your colleagues to speak up and voice your strong objection to the dominance of Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth on the issue of State Aids. If enough member cities insist, maybe we can obtain the support of the L.M.C. in this matter. If you want more information, please call or write me at the above address, or call or write your Regional V.P. as listed in the Small Talk. Lets let the Legislature know their is an active and concerned Rural M. Yours truly, t�yrton Wegener, Exec. Dir, Making big things happen for small otgeat