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MEMO TO: MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL FROM: ChERK-ADMINISTRATW� DATE: JANUARY 26, 1990 SUBJECT: 1990 LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM Pursuant to your direction I have developed a list of issues for your consideration as part of the City's legislative program for the 1990 Session. I developed this list after consulting with representatives of the League of Minnesota Cities (LMC), and Association of Metropolitan Municipalities (AMM), attending a meeting of the Ramsey County delegation and the Ramsey County League of Local Governments (RCLLG), and seeking input from the Department Heads. Clearly, there are issues the Legislature is already looking at that will be the "hot topics" of the Session. There are also some issues that are not so flashy, but will have an impact on us and there are a few that I would propose the Council consider raising that are of a more local nature. The issues and a discussion of each is as follows: A. Tax Increment Financing (TIF) - There is every indica- tion that the Legislature will again address the issue of TIF and what can be done to curb perceived abuses. The issue of TIF has come to the forefront for several reasons including Minneapolis' plan to refinance all of its districts thus giving a longer period of time to garner increments and the more aggressive positions taken by Hennepin and Ramsey Counties to call for controlling the number of projects and amount of captured property values. A draft report was on TIF was recently issued by Ramsey County's Policy Analysis Office. The report drew the attention of all of the cities in the County using TIF as it reached many conclusions not supported by fact. There have been three meetings of Ramsey County staff and City Administrators/Managers to discuss the report and hopefully minimize the damage. Two more meetings are scheduled for the week of January 29th to discuss a compromise position for recommendation to the City Council and County Board. No conclusions have been reached, but some of the areas of discussion include, 1. A County Economic Development Plan that can be used by the County in responding to TIF proposals and and cities in preparing their own plans.