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I I I I I I I ! I I I I I I I I I I I 2. ] and members of my staff have read the Minnesota Statutes pertaining to local government aid for 1972 through 1984. We have read the deposition of Richard G. Gardner taken on March 23, 1982; the "Report on the Study of the Local Government Aid Formula" prepared by the Department of Revenue in December 1980; the League of Minnesota Cities Proposed New "Local Revenue Base" Formula which was enacted in 1979; and the memorandum in support of Defendants' motion for Summary Judgement dated November 9, 1983. In addition, we have established a computer data base containing various statistical data on 175 cities for the years starting in 1977 through 1984. The sources of the data in our data base are various Department of Revenue computer-generated reports and the annual report of the State Auditor of Minnesota entitled Revenues, Expenditures and Debt of the Cities in Minnesota. The 175 cities we selected for inclusion in our data base were those which were subject to the levy limitation in 1980 and 1981. Accordingly, the conclusions I have reached and reported herein relate to the effect of the aid allocation to cities subject to the levy limitation. From this data base, we have performed various analyses as to the local government aid that was allocated to these cities under the formulas in effect for the years 1980 through 1984. To date, we have spent approximately 580 hours in our review and analysis of the local government aid allocations for the years included in our study.