HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 214-04 RESOLUTION
• WHEREAS, State Local Government Aid has been an important source of
funding for the operational budget of the City of Rochester for over 30 years, and
WHEREAS, Local Government Aid has assisted the City in providing services
to Rochester taxpayers and citizens, and
WHEREAS, Local Government Aid had reduced demands on the local
property tax to fund needed government services, and
WHEREAS, the Local Government Aid certified for 2003 of $11.1 million was
reduced to $7.5 million as a result of the State budget crisis, and
WHEREAS the 2004 Local Government Aid of $7.5 million is projected to
decline to $5.9 million in 2005, and
WHEREAS such decline will reduce services or increase property taxes in
Rochester, and
WHEREAS, the Senate Tax Bill includes provisions for a revised Local
Government Aid formula and for $60 million in additional funding for Local
Government Aid for 2005, and
• WHEREAS, the formula change and additional funding would increase
Rochester's Local Government Aid funding from $7.5 million in 2004 to $8.2 million
in 2005,
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Mayor and City Council of
Rochester ,express support for the Senate Tax Bill formula revisions and the
additional Local Government Aid funding for 2005.
PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA, THIS DAY OF RVV , 2004.
E IDENT OF SAD COMMON COUNCIL
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CITY CLERK
APPROVED THIS DAY OF Mfi? , 2004.
MAYOR OF SAID CITY
.(Seal of the, City of
Rochester, Minnesota)