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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I TO: FROM: RE: Mayor and City Councilmembers City Administrator Staff Report for October 1981 Construction Projects 1981 - These always create a very heavy workload on City Staff here in the Administration office. The 1981 projects have all been assessed out plus the carry-over projects from 1980. The special assessment rolls have been delivered to the County Auditor so they can be placed on the appropriate properties. This year we placed special assessments on 684 property parcels which involves a lot of work. We now have a total of 1,956 parcels of land with special assessments on them from all construction projects, commenc- ing since 1978. When the real estate world's economy picks up, I can foresee some harassment from them. 2. Legislation - The following is submitted on this issue: a) Meeting with Lieutenant Governor Wangberg on October 30, 1981: This meeting was suggested by Arnie Carlson, State Auditor, and accordingl~Councilman Cox then set the meeting up with the Lieu- tenant Governor. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the following issues with him: -- State Local Government Aid to Cities -- Taxes that affect large and'small commercial and industry Accordingly, Appendix "A" of this agenda dated October 27, 1981 has been submitted to Mr. Wangberg to background him on the forthcoming meeting on what we will be discussing with him that day. b) Municipal State Aid Street Apportionment Fund: It appears that the State of Minnesota is going to try and ignore the 1980 cencus for 1982 funding of M.S.A. streets. According to the recent report Consulting Engineers received, the Minnesota Transportation Depart- ment is still using pre-1980 federal census. We haven't received our copy of the Municipal State Aid Street Needs Report dated October 1981. c) State Local Aid: Met with Mayor Kaasa, Lake Crystal. They are getting some new computer runs on State Aid distribution which hope- fully we will ha~e for the next Council meeting. Non-conforming Uses - We still have a complete list of them by the end of the year. This pertains to a business being operated in a residentially zoned are~