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<br />lIL l~eWS
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<br />10LUME XXV, NUMBER 5
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<br />MARCH 19, 1976
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<br />PUBLISHED By THE CITIZENS LEAGUE
<br />
<br />Tax Base Sharing Is Reducing
<br />Differences in Local Valuation
<br />
<br />Differences in commercial.industrial
<br />nluation per capita are being reduced
<br />among metropolitan area municipalities
<br />as a result of the fiscal disparities law.
<br />But the so-called big "losers" under
<br />the law (those which contribute much
<br />more valuation to the metropolitan pool
<br />than they .receive in return) still end up
<br />)eing highest in commercial-industrial
<br />'aluation per capita.
<br />jte findings emerged in a Citizens
<br />Lea nalysis of the distribution of the
<br />poo .'{ 1975 valuations (which are used
<br />10 calculating 1976 property taxes)
<br />completed in early March by ChlrIes
<br />Lefebvre, Anob County Auditor. .-
<br />l'efebvre serves as adm~nistrati\"e auditor ..
<br />for the fiscal disparities law.
<br />County officials throughout the
<br />metropolitan area now are calculating.
<br />mill rates for 1976, the second year of the
<br />law's implementation.
<br />Lefebvre's figures show the metro-
<br />politan pool of nluations grew by $50
<br />nillion, from $137 million -to $187
<br />nillion from 1974 to 1975.
<br />The range in commercial-industrial
<br />aluation per capita for 1975 is from a
<br />ow of $341 to a high of $2,091 among
<br />nu." lities over 9,000 population. If
<br />he rities law were not in effect, the
<br />:ange would be from a low of S230 to a
<br />ligh of $2,368.
<br />Under the law, every municipality
<br />:nd township contributes 40% of its
<br />let ~rowth in commercial-industrial
<br />
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<br />:30.8:30 A.M.
<br />
<br />Thursday, April 1
<br />"State Regulation of
<br />Telephone & Utility Rates"
<br />
<br />Larry Anderson
<br />Executhoe Secretary, Minnesota
<br />Public Service Commission
<br />
<br />I valuation over 1971 to a metropolitan pool
<br />of valuations. Every municipality and.
<br />township then is assigned b~ck 3. share
<br />of the pool on the basis of population
<br />adjusted for differences in real market
<br />\'alue per capita.
<br />Despite net contributions to the
<br />metropolitan pool of valuations ranging
<br />from $1 million to $13.2 million, the
<br />following .cities still rank -highest among
<br />municipalities over 9,000 population in
<br />total commercial"industrial valuation
<br />per capita:
<br />
<br />1975
<br />City Comm.-Ind.
<br />Val./Capita
<br />Golden Valley $2,091
<br />Maplewood 2,079
<br />Eden Prairie 1,862
<br />Edina 1,841
<br />Shakopee i,778
<br />Bloomington 1,731
<br />Roseville 1,510
<br />Hopkins 1,461
<br />Eagan 1,455
<br />Burnsville 1,448
<br />Fridley 1,428
<br />
<br />At the other end of the scale, after
<br />receiving net gains in valuation under
<br />the law ranging from $900,000 up to
<br />$2.6 million each, the following cities
<br />still were lowest in commercial-
<br />i'ldustrial valuation per capita:
<br />
<br />City
<br />
<br />Oakdale
<br />Mounds View
<br />Apple Valley
<br />White Bear Lake
<br />South St. Paul
<br />North St. Paul
<br />Crystal
<br />Stillwater
<br />Robbinsdale
<br />
<br />1975
<br />Comm.-Ind,
<br />Val./Capita
<br />$341
<br />368 '
<br />381 .
<br />391 \
<br />393
<br />445
<br />469
<br />474
<br />483
<br />
<br />Bill Pending to
<br />Monitor School
<br />P~rformance
<br />
<br />Legislation implementing key
<br />recommendations of a 1972 CL report on
<br />accountability in education is now pending
<br />in the Minnesota House of
<br />Representatives.
<br />Closely following
<br />UP D AlE recommendations in
<br />the League report,
<br />. "Accountability in .
<br />Schools: Not a Threat, But a Real Hope,"
<br />the proposed legislation would require
<br />local school boards to:
<br />· Develop. and adopt !l written
<br />educational policy which establishes .
<br />educational goals, a process for achie\'ing
<br />the goals, and procedures for evaluating
<br />and reporting progress towled the gOlls.
<br />· Develop and implement an .
<br />instructional plan to achie\'e the goals .
<br />established in the district's educational
<br />policy. . ~..:: ,-
<br />The legislation urgt'S local school
<br />districts to use 11Ji'tlIllrable instructional
<br />objectives to monitor progress in
<br />~chieving its goals.
<br />An annual evaluation of progress
<br />would be conducted in each school district
<br />
<br />(Continued on page 3)
<br />
<br />League Election
<br />Set for April 30
<br />
<br />The annual Citizens League board
<br />of directors election will be held Friday.
<br />April 30.
<br />.' Every member of the League is
<br />eligible to vote. Ballots, voting
<br />instructions, pictures of candidates and
<br />information about their League activities
<br />will be mailed to all members in mid.
<br />April. .
<br />TwelYe candidates are bein~ selected
<br />by a nominating committee to compete
<br />for eight positions.
<br />Members of this year's nominating
<br />committee are: Carol Berde, Charles Clay.
<br />Joan Forester, Roger Hale, and Paul
<br />Magnuson.
<br />A complete listing of the nominees
<br />for this }'ear's Board election will be
<br />published in the next issue of the CL
<br />News.
<br />
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<br />(Shoreview also is one of the lowest
<br />in commercial-industrial ,oaluation per
<br />capita, $368. Howe\'er, Shoreview was a
<br />slight net contributor to the pool,
<br />because such a ]ar~e proportion of its
<br />commercial-industrial ,growth has taken
<br />place since 1971.)
<br />Minneapolis, with a commercial-
<br />industrial valuation per capita after
<br />(Continued on p.lge 2)
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