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1 Committee, said he certainly wasn't going to support a later closing 2 time for Minneapolis bars, perceiving an adverse impact on St. 3 Anthony if that bill passed and perceiving this type of legislation to 4 be the wrong approach to drunken driving. 5 Except for the reinstatement of the renters credit, Representative 6 Rose said he didn't expect much from this session relative to property 7 tax reform, but hoped the next time around the legislature would 8 address that issue the way it should be. He told Councilmember 9 Ranallo he believed it was better to wait for tax reform legislation 10 because there wouldn't be enough time left this session to give proper 11 airing to testimony from the Minnesota Taxpayers Association, 12 homeowners, and officials like the City Council related to the impact 13 reform would have on the different groups. However, Representative 14 Rose said, he anticipated there would be some across the board school 15 aids which along with the $200,000 grant to help the school district 16 in its cooperative efforts, should alleviate some of the financial 17 problems for the whole Village. 18 Councilmember Marks sought the legislator's perspective on future aids 19 to local governments, Representative Rose told him he personally was 20 waiting to see the study being done to eliminate those aids altogether 21 at the same time the state took over all school aids, leaving property 22 taxes to be used exclusively by the municipal governments to fund the 23 services they alone provide. The legislator said school districts 24 are finding that only 18% of their residents have students in the 25 public schools so when they come to the taxpayers for support, there 26 is little there to support what is a real societal need, a strong 27 educational system. 28 When Councilmember Makowske raised the question of whether eliminating 29 local support might also mean complete loss of local input into school 30 affairs. Representative Rose told her that although a lot of con - 31 troversy has grown up around that point, most legislators had to 32 acknowledge that control had already eroded so much in the last 20 33 years that they now had to seriously consider the trade-offs. He 34 pointed to legislation which will probably pass this session which 35 mandates AIDS education in the schools in spite of the fact that all 36 the school districts already have the capacity to take care of that 37 themselves without direction. 38 C H E M Council to Take More of an Advocacy Role Than Predecessor, 39 Chemical Awareness Committee 40 John Pugleasa, 2948 Pierce Street N.E., newly selected President of 41 the St. Anthony/New Brighton Chemical Abuse Information Committee 42 (C.H.E.M. Council) indicated he was present to thank the Council for 43 the support they had always given the Chemical Awareness Committee and 44 to report the reorganization of that group resulting from the strate- 45 gic planning the Committee had done in January. 7