Agenda - Council - 09/24/1985 - Laserfiche WebLink

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I I I I ! I ! I I I I I I I I I I I Oouncilmember adoption; introduced the following resolution and moved for its WHEREAS, in the 1960's there existed a wide variation in tax base and tax rates among oo~munities in the metropolitan area; and WHEREAS, o0mmercial and industrial growth would occur in the areas in which State and regional servioes were available; and W~, taxing districts were reluctant to site regional parks and other tax-free facilit/es; and W~JtEAS, there must be a o0mpensating factor to the areas that have been eliminated frc~ this (xarmercial and industrial develolm~ent and areas that have large amounts of tax-free land in their jurisdictions; and W~REAS, the Minnesota State Legislature enacted a tax base sharing program called fiscal disparities as a way of addressing the problem of unequal fiscal capacity of taxing districts; and W~FRF2~, fiscal disparities p~cwides for the sharing of tax benefits from the growth and develolm~ent of commercial and industrial property among taxing districts regardless of where the growth or develo~ent actually occurs; and WHEREAS, the Minnesota Supreme Court upheld the validity of fiscal disparities; and WHEREAS, the ratio between the City with the highest per capita commercial/industrial valuation and the lowest would be almost 15 to 1 without fiscal disparities and with fiscal disparities this ratio drops to 4 to 1; and W~FREAS, the City of Ramsey itself reoeives a net gain of $152,316 as a result of the fiscal disparities program; and W~REAS, without fiscal disparities, the City of Ramsey would have to raise property taxes or greatly reduce services to the citizens of the City; and WHEREAS, there may be a proposal to exempt a billion dollar develo~rent, including existing oo~mercial/~ustrial property, from the fiscal disparities pool; and WHEREAS, any exemption from the fiscal disparities pool destroys the integrity of fiscal disparities; and N(~ T~EREFORE, BE IT RESiLV~n BY ~]~E CITY (~. OF T~E CITY OF RAMSEY, ANOKA O~ONT~, S~%TE OF MINNESOTa, as follows: 1) That the City Council of Ramsey opposes any attempts at exclusions from fiscal disparities. 2) That the Ramsey City Council supports a review of fiscal disparities in order to assure equitable operations of tax base sharing.