METRO CITIES LEGISLATIVE ACTION ALERT!
The House Property and Local Tax Division is scheduled to release its division bill this Friday, March 11th. This bill, which will eventually become an article of the House Omnibus Tax Bill, is likely to contain state aid/credit cuts and possibly provisions similar to the property tax freeze bill (HF 481) authored by Rep. Runbeck (who chairs the House Property and Local tax Division) that was heard last week and laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill. Metro Cities strongly opposes this bill, and testified in opposition to it last week.
HF 481 freezes city levies for 2012 and 2013, with no exceptions (this includes no exceptions for debt service on bonds issued after June 1, 2011). Cities could increase levies only with voter approval. The bill severely limits local taxing authority and decision making. A summary of HF 481 is included below. Again, Metro Cities strongly opposes this bill as well as further reductions of state aids and credits to cities.
ACTION: Please contact your state representative to express your concern/opposition to proposals that severely limit local decision making and budgetary processes. Click here for a list of legislators by city. Please click here for contact information for all House members and click here for a summary of the bill.
If you have any questions, please contact Patricia Nauman at 651-215-4002 or patricia@metrocitiesmn.org
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