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CITY OF ST. AIMTHONY COUNCIL M I UTES OCTOBER 28j, 1975 The meeting was called to order at 7:30 P.M. by Mayor tlledtke. Present at roll call : Sauer, Sundland, Miedtke, Stauffer Absent: Haik Also present: Jerry Dulgar, City Manager Jim Fornell , Adm. Asst. Addendum to the agenda was proposed by Mayor Miedtke and Mr. Dulgar. Senator Eugene Stokowski , who was in attendance at the meeting, said that although he was unable to accept the Council 's invitation to attend their budget meetings, he had found this opportunity to attend the meeting and he could answer any questions and find out what impact the state legislation of the last few years had on the community of St. Anthony. The senator said he realized that unlike Minneapolis and Columbia Heights in his • legislative district, the municipality of St. Anthony had been shorted in this year's distribution of taxes although he pointed out that the citizens them- selves had benefitted through tax cuts and transfer of welfare costs to the state. He explained that 68% of the taxes collected by the state are returned to the residents through the schools, counties and municipalities. The legislator asked that city officials let him know before January of 1976 what legislation would benefit this particular municipality. Mr. Dulgar suggested one way of cutting down legislated expenses was to modify that legislation which forced St. Anthony to pay overtime to employees to keep the municipal office open for voter registration since in the 20 hours the offices were open in 1974 only 4 people registered and so far in 1975 only 2 people have showed up to reaister during the 17 hours provided for their convenience. Senator Stokowski agreed there had to be some differential between highly mobile communities and well-settled communities like St. Anthony. He felt this might be rectified by granting the county auditors some discretion in regulations governing voter registrations. The minutes of the October 14th council meeting were corrected as follows: Page 4, para. 7: Association of "Petro" Municipalities rather than "Minn" Municipalities. Motion by Councilman Sundland, seconded by Councilman Sauer to approve the mintues of the October 14th meeting as corrected. Motion carried unanimously.