Agenda - Council - 09/22/1981 - Laserfiche WebLink

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I '1 I I I I I I I t I I I I I I I TO: City Council I~OM: City Administrator SUBJ: September Staff RepOrt 1) P!ojects Rejected - Enclosure (D3-~) represents the Engineering time which will now be borne by the General Fund and was not budgeted fo~ in the 1981 budget. However, it doesn't show the Staff time (Administrative time) that gets involved in all these projects and usurps a tremendous amount of time. Consequently, I guess we are going to have to develop a better approach to reviewing projects before we get involved in the future. 2) Revenue ShFring - It appears that Federal Revenue Sharing may be going out with the new Presidential budget cuts. However, the tax breaks that will be made available to the citizens will allow local government to tax if they need these dollars which makes a lot of sense. We just won't be sending money to Washington D.C. in a leaky bucket and getting it returned to us in another one. The last of Revenue Sharing will not really affect the Ramsey City Budget as it will other cities. 3) Meet.ing W~h'Governor -As o[ his date, we have heard nothing from Repre- sentative John Weaver in reference to setting up a meeting with Governor Quie in regards to the following: a. State Aids to cities b. Taxes that affect Conmercial/Industrial development in MN It should be noted that news media has been giving the Governor's new program "Well Spring" a lot of publicity these past' few days in the launching of it. 4) New Legislative Session 1982 - It appears that the State Local Aids to Cities will be getting a trem~ffdous amount of attention this next session. The larger cities will be trying to recoup some of their last State and Federal Revenue from this source. Ramseywill really have to monitor this session quite closely so that we don't lose any State Aid Revenue. 5) Ordinance Project - I would hope that we have that wrappedup by the middle of November 1981.