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CASE #15 IMPLICATIONS OF RECENT LANDFILL AND SALES TAX LEGISLATION By: Sandra Ashley Helling, Acting City Administrator Background: A revisor copy of CCRHF0303, A Bill for an Act Relating to Waste Management: 1) places a moratorium on activities related to the siting of mixed municipal solid waste disposal facilities; and 2) establishes a replacement siting process which includes representatives from the seven metropolitan counties, in consultation with the metropolitan council and the office of waste management developing a specific process for siting and developing a disposal facility ... unless each county and the council agrees that a mixed municipal solid waste facility will not be needed within the next 15 years to adequately manage metropolitan waste; and 3) The counties shall design the siting process to avoid siting facilities where those facilities could have relatively strong negative impacts on aquifers; and 4) The counties shall report the proposed process to the legislative commission on waste management by December 1, 1991; and 5) The legislative commission on waste management ... shall recommend legislation by January 1, 1992 ... shall make a formal recommendation to either allow the repeal of the existing metropolitan landfill siting process to take effect as scheduled or reinstate that process. In addition to the legislation involving the landfill siting process, the final tax bill passed by the Legislature (and Governor Carlson is expected to sign) includes the "Local Option Sales Tax" whereby 2 cents of sales tax revenue is to be dedicated to local aids and the sales tax would be increased from the current 6% to 6-1/2%. The League of Minnesota Cities is urging all cities to support their county in the adoption of the local option sales tax. If a county fails to adopt the 1/2 cent additional sales tax, the county and its cities and townships would lose ALL of their aids -- LGA. HACA and disparity reduction aid. If the county does not adopt this tax, the sales tax rate in the county would not drop - it would stay at the current 6% and 1-I/2 cents of the sales tax revenue would go into a local government trust as a windfall for all local governments in other counties. The Anoka County Board of Commissioners plans to consider the ratification of the sales tax as proposed by the State of Minnesota on June 11, 1991. If the County does not act by July 1, 1991, city councils representing a majority of the County's population would be placed in the position of deciding by August 1 whether to retain this tax and the state aid, With the short timeline, there is no certainty a majority of the cities in Anoka County could form a coalition and act by August 1, 1991. Enclosures: o Copy of CCRHF0303, A Bill for an Act Relating to Waste Management Copy of the letter received from Senator Dahl relating to the above. Copy of letter received from Dan Erhart, Chair of the Anoka County Board of Commissioners Copy of League of Minnesota Cities Bulletin Number 20 cover sheet which includes article entitled "Cities Should Urge County Boards to Adopt Local Option Sales Tax" Proposed City of Ramsey Resolution #91-05-XX entitled "City of Ramsey Urges Anoka County Board to Adopt Local Option Sales Tax"