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r> -2- • Program Amount Includes Police $507 ,952 Police , prosecution costs , animal control. Public Works $421 , 415 Street maintenance , equipment maintenance , parks , tree and weed care. Fire $314 ,433 Fire, civil defense . Finance '$128 , 690 Accounting, insurance, audit, assessing, and elections . Building Maintenance $108 ,000 Including City Hall rental and City utility costs . General Management $ 76 , 550 Management and general legal costs . Mayor/Council $ 35 , 300 Council and contingency funds . Inspection Services $ 16 , 990 Building, plumbing, heating and planning/engineering . TOTAL $1, 609 , 330 To offset the decreases in liquor revenues and the level of state aids which are still $33, 000 below 1983 funding levels , an increase in pro- perty taxes will be required. For a home in St . Anthony Village with an assessors market value of $81 , 000 , the increase in the City ' s share of property taxes will be $19 . 44 per year. For a $100 , 000 home that increase will be about $26 . 95 . The Council felt that this increase in taxes was necessary to make up for losses of other revenues and to avoid reductions in staffing in the police and fire departments and to maintain current levels of street maintenance , snow removal and other public works activities . The St. Anthony City Council has consistently been conservative in levying property taxes and we feel that the proposed increase , although more than we would have liked, still maintains the tradition of sound financial management and responsiveness to rising costs faced by all of our taxpayers . I invite questions about the budget, city operations and future . plans and ask that you address them to me, Bob Sundland, Mayor, 3301 Silver Lake Road, St. Anthony, MN 55418. I will answer questions directly or when of general interest. I hope to be able to answer in a future issue of Mayor ' s Memos . •