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I I I ! I I ,I I I I I I I I I I 2) The following people from the League of Minnesota Cities were completely involved in the legislation that submitted the proposed new local revenue base formula (This is for your information. You may or may not want to use it.): a) Mrs. Arlin Waelti is currently employed with the law firm of O'Connor and Hannan, phone 341-3800. In 1979 she was employed by the League of Minnesota Cities and worked on the local government aid to Cities legislation. She no doubt drafted up Enclosure 6 which is contained in my memo to you dated March 17, 1982. b) ~'. Roger Peterson is employed by the Association of Metropolitan Munici- palities and his title is Director of Legislative Affairs. He also was very much involved in the developing of the proposed new local revenue base formula and no doubt assisted in preparing the contents of Enclosure 6 in my memo to you dated March 17, 1982. c) They also had what they called League committees which consisted of City officials, elected and appointed, which also had a hand in developing pro- posed new local revenue base. I will try and get a list of the people who served on that committee to you. I do know that Mr. Stanley Kehl who now works for the law firm of Holmes and Graven, phone 338-1177, at that time worked for the City of Minneapolis. He was very involved in the proposed new local revenue base formula because at that time, Minneapolis was in the process of trying to get the State to bail out their pension funds by using State local aid funds and yet not Suffer any loss in their local government aids. He worked very closely with the League of Cities in getting his mis- sion accomplished. One of the things the City of Minneapolis did was let the League of Cities use their computer in proving their new formula which was then adopted by the legislators. Our comments at that time to the League in regards to having Minneapolis prove the formula on their computer was like letting the fox guard the hen house and as it later proved, we were right. 3) I will also get a copy of the League by-laws and forward that to you for your information. The Cities of the first class can really munipulate legislation through the Minnesota. League of Cities and the legislators I don't think are aware of the powers that the Cities of the first clasee have in this association.