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Anoka-Ramsey Meeting- Feb. 27, 1969 The meeting was called to order at 8:00 p.m.~ at the Tec.. Center by the Chairman of the Ramsey Township Taxpayers Association, Mr.. Sanders. Ther will be two more meetings on Mar.. 13 and Mar~ 27. Mr. Elvig, Mr. Gesko and others will provide the answers for tonight's meeting and then at 'the next meeting the positive and negative sides of the ques- tion of Annexation will be taken up. Taxpayers Association has been officially recognized as legal arm of the Town Board. ANOKA FINANCE Ko. 1 "What is the bonded indebtedness of Anoka now?" $9,000,000 assessed valuation. 20% is legal for bonding. They are now bonded for ~250,O00 of 2/~ of their legal limito. No. 2 a:' "Is Anoka looking for more valuation to enable them to float more bonds? '~ They now have debt of ~1,250,OOO or 2/~ of their debt limit at present time. b. "By annexing ~amsey, won't Anoka float more bonds and i~crease taxes even more?" They did not thi~ so. No~ ~ "Would the rural areas he required to. pay for Anoka's bonded in- debtedness?'' Ramsey Township would have to pay on Anoka's bonded indebtedness. Two platted areas would be taxed the same as if it .was in Anoka but the bill to exempt these two areas was i~ the legislature and had passed the full committee by l:O0 o'clock today. This new bill would consider these two platted areas the same as rural. No housing areas in District 3 have been platted. No. $ a. "What com~ttments does Anoka now have that will become ~ddi~tional bonded ir~deb&edn~ss? ~not ~included in the~ f~ct-finding report)" uf~c~.asmng manta on 5ne ~um~mver xor meve±opzng a par~. School Distria~ has acquired 1OO acres of state hospital property. The City of Anoka is trying to acquire 300 acres at no cost.. A new law would require the state to sell state property at market value. When the state acquired the hospital propemty im the £irst place the City of Anok~ paid a good-sized share of the cost o£ this property and therefore they feel it only fair that they should get it back at no cost to them, that is the 300 acres they need for the park. b. "A new Rum River dam." Yes, Anoka is trying to get outside help to rebuild the dam. Anoka Council agreed to pay ~550,OO0 for a new dam but the low bid received recently was $671,000. Anoka feels the county sko. uld particiDate i5 the cost of this dam because it is canoe route from Princeton to Anoka.. They feel the state should also participate'because many police and. fire calls are