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Minutes from Special City Council Meeting- March 14, 1992 • 3 The meeting began at 9:00 A.M.. 4 Council Present: Clarence Ranallo, Mayor, Councilmembers Dorothy Fleming, Dick 5 Enrooth, George Wagner 6 Absent: George Marks 7 Staff Present: Tom Burt, City Manager 8 CR: ......you were leaving town this afternoon and I talked with George and about the only 9 time that George really had a chance to meet was late this afternoon and Monday 10 was out so he said to go ahead and have the meeting without him and he would talk 11 to Tom Burt Monday morning and see what we had discussed today. 12 So the two things on the agenda will be a letter to the Governor along with letters 13 to the state senator and state representative and then some ideas that each one of 14 us have that we can give to Tom between now and the Council meeting on the 24th. 15 I know we've got a work session set for March 31st, but this is so drastic that I think 16 we need to look at taking some action at our 24th Council meeting. So, if that's OK, 17 those two items on the agenda. Has anybody got anything else they want to add to 18 the agenda or that needs to be taken care of? Then we'll go with those two items. 19 What I did as far as trying to alert as many people as I could to this meeting is that 20 I had Connie and Tom call the Bulletin, Neal directly, and call Margo Ashmore of 21 the Northeaster directly advising them of this meeting. A fax to the Focus, and it's 22 been posted as usual plus on the Kiwanis board. So far I've had one person 23 responding to the Kiwanis board. 24 Over the past 2 or 3 days, I've talked with the League of Minnesota Cities and the 25 AMM. The first alert that we had was that they were looking at cutting 8% of our 26 revenue base, cutting all cities 8.2% of their revenue base. AMM calculated that out 27 to be $127,316 for St. Anthony. In fact, the maximum of our local government aid 28 and that was only 7.5% of our revenue base. Since then that's been confirmed that 29 that is what the figure is. 30 There is some ontroversey over this 8.2%. The governor said that in order to make 31 up for the big shortfall, he's proposing that local government aid be cut by $71.6 32 million for this year's cities budgets. The cuts are limited to city aid other than 33 HACA. Since then, someone alerted him to the fact that not all cities had local 34 government aid. So now they're saying, "Wait a minute, if all cities don't have local 35 government aid, we still want 8.2% of their tax revenue base so we better look at HACA." There is a possibility that we could lose some more money.