Agenda - Council - 06/24/1984 - Laserfiche WebLink

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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I TO: Mayor and Councilmembers FROM: City Administrator RE: Staff Report 1) Finance - The following is hereby submitted on this item: a) Cash rio':' report for June 1984 - You will receive this at the meeting. The major hold-up here is the processing time requirement at Anoka's computer and the workload here at our office. When our own computer is up and running, this problem will be eliminated excep~ for the unplanned crisis. b) Revenue and expenditure report for June 1984 - The same is true here as above. c) July 1984 tax settlement - I thought you would be interested in seeing the tax settlement and the breakdown of it. d) Fiscal disparity - The time has finally arrived when Minneapolis is now paying more into the fiscal disparity fund than they are receiving from it. It should also be noted that fiscal disparity is now beginning to give the City of Ramsey a rather large tax break. I think that now you will see Minneapolis joining the southwest suburbs in lobbyin~ against fiscal disparity and trying to work a gimmick where'sy they will receive more local government aid in that they are losing their financial support through the fiscal disparity program. Inasmuch as Ramsey has always opposed fiscal disparity. We surely wouldn't agree to anything that would be detrimental without a thorough study of it. ~ Consequently, in this next session we are going to have to watch all local government and tax legislation ver~- carefully. e) Local government aid - As you will note, we have now received our first local aid payment which does reflect our increase. f) Industrial reven~:e bonds - We didn't do so well in regards to the new law that was passed which is too bad. The reason we didn't do too well is because of the lack of use of the industrial revenue bonds in previous years. We can still use the IRB's but now we will have to use the State's pot and they will have a say in who will receive these dollars. There is one bright side. Bob Muller's project which is in the making, was grandfathered in according to Ralph McGinley's letter which I enclosed in the agenda. 2) Computer - This is currently being installed at the City Hall which is creating an added burden and it will until it is completely up and running. 3) Economic Development - We are having more inquiries from individuals who want to develop in Ramsey in the past six months than we have had in the past six years. I'm not talking about housing developments. I'm referring to commercial/industrial development. 4) General - We are just very busy here at City Hall with all the demands that are being placed on us.