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z1 60 <br /> 'a0, <br /> PROPOSED ALLOCATION OF DAMAGES <br /> At the last meeting of defendants in the Starks and Fields lawsuits, the MPRS <br /> Executive Committee was directed to prepare a proposal for the allocation of <br /> damages among the defendants. The Committee further was directed to base such <br /> an allocation partly upon an equal "base" fee per defendant and partly upon the <br /> population of each defendant. <br /> The Executive Committee met on December 5th to discuss this matter, among other <br /> issues, and it is recommending the following formula for the allocation of damages: <br /> 1. Twenty percent (20%) of the damages would be divided equally among the <br /> defendants; <br /> 2. Eighty percent (80%) of the damages would be divided based upon each <br /> community's population served at the time of the lawsuits. <br /> These lawsuits were initiated in January, 1993, and it is the Executive Committee's <br /> recommendation that the estimated population at that point in time be utilized for <br /> the proposed allocation. It is proposed that Metropolitan Council estimates be <br /> utilized for communities in the metropolitan area and that State Demographer's <br /> estimates be utilized for nonmetropolitan communities. For communities with <br /> service contracts covering other municipalities, the populations of such <br /> municipalities would be included in the computation of population served. <br /> No one knows the total damages in these lawsuits, but the figure of$500,000 has <br /> been used as a "best guess" estimate. If this figure is accurate, the base fee charged <br /> to each defendant would be approximately $2,800 and the fee charged to each <br /> defendant- n population would be approximately fifty cents per person in <br /> tarea served. <br /> o , <br />