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District Memorial Hospital City Council adopts motorized improves service recreational vehicle ordinance In an effort to encourage initiated alternative-care pro- Following the recommen- vehicle operators, (2) a '5 use of the district hospital grams, such as swing bed, dation of the Washington mph limit on City road,, which serves Hugo, numer- transitional care, and respite County Sheriff's Department property trespass, and (4) ous changes have been made. care. All commercial insu- and requests from area resi- regulations regarding opera- The district hospital pro- rances and private payers are dents, the City Council tion in the public right-of- vides 24 hour ambulance ser- accepted. One of the newest adopted an ordinance regu- way. For those interested, vice and advanced life sup- services offered by the hospi- lating the operation of motor- complete copies of the ordi- port. Paramedics are trained tal is providing an on duty ized recreational vehicles. nance are available at the to handle trauma cases and physician in their emergency This ordinance deals primari- Hugo City Hall. can begin emergency room room. The area served by ly with: (1)limiting the age of procedures when they arrive District Memorial Hospital at the scene of an accident. consists of Hugo, Forest New state laws can be costly Their 49 bed acute care facili- Lake,Centerville,Lino Lakes, ty has an active medical staff and the Townships of Colum- consisting of 11 family prac- bus and Forest Lake. District Each year the Minnesota of these new laws and pro- consisting physicians,a general sur- Memorial Hospital is located legislature passes hundreds grams. The legislature has an of laws and administrative unlimited credit card and the geon, a pathologist,and radi- in Forest Lake,464-3341. ologist. The hospital has changes for the purpose of bill is mailed to each taxpayer State betterment. These laws in the spring of the year. dealing with education, wel- Some State leaders are of the Elmcrest Avenue fare, hospitals, health care, opinion that the legislature improvements considered pensions,employee relations, should be required to identi- handicapped, recycling, pub- fy the cost, and who will be Recently the Lino Lakes south of Washington Co. Rdlic safety, rural development, required to fund all new leg- City Council indicated an in- #8. The success of this effort and the environment have islation passed by them,as is terest in participating with will depend greatly on the merit in most cases. Unfortu- required of local govern- the City of Hugo on improve- level of participation by Lino nately, the legislature is not menu. ments to Elmcrest Ave. The Lakes and the willingness of required to identify the cost overall effort will call fora abutting property owners to House leader three phase program involy- help finance the cost. The ing long term improvements, City has discussed the possi- Studies state mandates as well as annual mainte- bility of public hearings on nance. Phase 1 of the pro- this project some time this In a recent public appear- result of new legislative rules posed improvement program winter. Affected property ance, the minority leader in and mandates forced on cit- will include Elmcrest Ave. owners will be notified. the House stated that the re- ies, counties, and school dis- sults of a study done by his trict. He stated that cities State aid staff indicated that of the should not be blamed for tax for roads not available property tax increases imple- increases when they are mented by local units of gov- forced on them by the state or Earlier this year, the Hugo bill not get considered, there ernment in 1989, 65% was a federal laws. City Council requested the have been overtures toward Minnesota Legislature con- eliminating future M.S.A. State to sider revising its require- funding by the time Hugo ex- fund Some mandates ments for municipal state aid ceeds the 5,000 population el- eligibility. Not only did this igibility. The new tax bill approved language requiring the State by the Minnesota Legislature to provide funding for pro- Property tax indicates that there is an ef- grams mandated in their bar- fort by the State to provide rage of new bills passed an- statements will be sent In April funding for certain legislative nually. This plea fell on deaf mandates dealing with wel- ears by most legislators, and The mailing date for prop- prior to payment due. This fare and education. The bill it appears that cities will con- erty tax statements, normally change is a result of the new does not appear to cover oth- tinue to levy local tax incre-- received in late January, has Truth in Taxation law passed er local government pro- es to fund new State requi been changed to April 15th. by the legislature. Mark your grams required by the legisla- programs. This reflects a 30-day notice calendar accordingly. ture. Cities lobbied for ::.::.... :..:.. . ...:::.:.:::::: . ....:... City of Hugo Newsletter Page 2