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ITEM 2
TO:
MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL
FROM:
PATRICK KLAERS,
DATE: JULY 8, 1993
SUBJECT: LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
State Representative, Stephanie Klinzing, will be present at
this meeting to update the City Council on the 1993 Legislative
Session. Stephanie was a freshmen member of the Legislature in
1993 and is sure to have some interesting comments about the
legislative atmosphere in addition to some comments on the
actual laws that were adopted and signed into law.
In the last informational memo, the City Council received the
League of Minnesota Cities Legislative Bulletin which offered a
summary of the 1993 laws that were approved by the Legislature
and signed by the Govenor. The Councilmembers are encouraged
to review this document and come prepared to discuss with
Stephanie any new law (or existing law) which affects
municipalities and specifically, Elk River.
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Overall, the Legislative session was not as hard on
municipalities in 1993 as what has happened in previous years
or as what was discussed at the beginning of 1993. The
Governor's public employees wage freeze did not happen, nor did
his proposed reduction in Local Government Aids. On the other
hand, nothing overly positive happened for municipalities at
the Legislature. The Local Government Aid increases were not
as large as originally forecasted based on the Trust Fund
established in 1992 when the sales tax was authorized, and as
has been the State Auditor's practice for the last few years, a
bill which he authored and which definitely micro-manages
municipalities, was approved. The Legislative Update that the
Mayor, Finance Director Lori Johnson, and I attended on June 8,
1993, was relatively upbeat about how municipalities were
treated in 1993 by the State Legislature.
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