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I I i I I I I I I I ! i I ! I ! I adjustment was made for the cities receiving their minimum aid amounts because the legislature limited the funds available for this "grandfathering" to $6,400,000.21/ ARGUMENT I. Because There Is No Genuine Issue A.s.To A~.~; Material Fact, This Case Is Ri'~e ~or Summary J.udgment. This case is before the court on defendants' motion for summary judgment pursuant to Minn. R. Civ. P. 56. It is elementary that the first requirement for an award of summary judgment is that no material facts be in dispute. Although plaintiffs may contend otherwise, that requirement is satisfied in the instant case. Plaintiffs seek a declaratory judgment that the local government aid formula is unconstitutional. All the facts necessary to the determination of that~ legal issue are known and cannot be disputed. The statutory formula that is challenged is a given. It is found at 1983 Minn. Laws, ch. 342, art. 5.22/ Although the (Footnote continued) figure did not change. Ramsey's final local government aid figure for 1984 was $171,311. See Ex. 3, lines 32-37. 21/ Because it does not appear that plaintiffs challenge this aspect of the aid determination process, the method of making these adjustments is not described in detail. Since Ramsey's aid amount is not based on its minimum factor, this adjustment (Ex. 3, lines 38-42) does not apply. 22/ As described above, the local government aid formula was amended by the 1983 Legislature and is now different in several significant respects from the formula that was in existence at the time plaintiffs initiated this lawsuit. Because plaintiffs seek only declaratory and injunctive relief, their challenge to the constitutionality of the formula that existed prior to the 1983 amendments is necessarily moot. To the extent that their (Footnote ~ontinued -14-