Agenda - Council - 06/23/1981 - Laserfiche WebLink

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TO: Mayor and City Council FROM: City Administrator $UBJ: Staff Report 1. Legislation - The following is submitted on this case: a. City's legal case in regards to the State Aid Law - I spoke to Mr. Paul P~nd, Tuesday, June 16, 1981 about his research as to whether we do have a case against the State of Minnesota and said he was about through with his research and would have a letter in the mail to us this weekend. Consequently~ I should be able to give you a report on this on Tuesday night. b. 1981 Legislative Session in regards to State Aids- The Legislator~ during this legislative session, did not change the State Aid Law. They did do the following: 1) 1982 there will be no increase in State Aid monies. 2) 1983 there will be an increase of approximately $21,000,000 in the total State Aid pot. c. Legislative Study Committee on the MetrO Council -I spoke to ~enator Wegner earlier this year, as he heads u~ this committee, to let us know when they will be meeting, which will be at different times between now and the next sessiOn. He has never gotten back to me on it, so I will try and contact between now and Tuesday. This committee will be reveiwing all the positive and negative reports on the Metro Council. 2. City Work Load - the following is submitted in this case: a. Comprehensive Pla% -We have been working to get this completed ~nd it is usurping just a lot of time. The proposed six (6) year CIP is coming before you for you~ review at this meeting, for adoption at youm next meeting, if there are not too many amendments to it. Secondly, we are also preparing our case on maintaining our 2~ acre lot size verses the MetrO Council desire that we maintain the 10 acre lot size in our rural and transitional areas. We have completed the land inventory and we find that we have approximately 4,000 acres of developable land out of the approximately 12,600 acres that are contained in rural and trans- itional areas.