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ao MINNESOTA POLICE RECRUITMENT SYSTEM 4642 IDS CENTER • 80 SOUTH EIGHTH STREET • MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55402 • (612) 337 -5222 November 19, 1996 MEMO TO: City Managers /City Administrators in Communities Which are Defendants in the Starks and Fields Lawsuits; Other Members of the MPRS Board of Directors FROM: Larry Thompson, Executive Director SUBJECT: Allocation of Damages from the Starks and Fields Lawsuits The purpose of this memorandum is to provide communities an initial estimate of the damages which have resulted from the Starks and Fields lawsuits. As you are aware, a resolution proposing an allocation formula has been distributed among the defendant cities, and it is my understanding that most cities have approved this resolution. Judge Solum has awarded $173,688 in damages to the two plaintiffs and $412,737 in fees to their attorneys, for a total award of $586,425. The above resolution provides that twenty percent of the total award be divided equally among the defendants and that eighty percent be divided prorata on the basis of the population served by each community's police department in January of 1993. I do not have 1993 population estimates, as required in the resolution, nor do I know which communities had service contracts covering areas outside of their jurisdictions as that time. Thus, I have prepared an initial estimate of the allocation of damages based upon 1990 population figures, assuming no service contracts. Attached is this estimate. If your community did not have service contracts covering other areas in January of 1993, and if your community did not experience abnormal growth between 1990 and 1993, the attached estimate should represent the maximum amount for which your community would be liable under the above resolution. If your community did have outside service contracts, however, or if it did experience abnormal growth during this period, your community's allocation of damages could be well above the amount shown. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions regarding the assumptions which were made in the preparation of these figures.