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Motion by: Busse Seconded by W illiams
RESOUJTICET FAVORING THE DISTRIBUTION OF RAILROAD & TELEPHONE GROSS EARNINGS
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TAXES. TO CITIES
REAS, property taxes tend to be highest and most burdensome in cities, and
the absence of some action,,by State Legislature, municipal property taxes'
in the City of Prior Lake will increase in 1976 and,1977,. and
w! E'ms,, the City Council .of Prior bake stronsU f avors the; reduction of
miuii" ipal property taxes, and the most' feasible way - of acc omplishing this with –
out drastically�'iducing essential. municipal services is through the distribij–
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tion•of railroad and telephone gross earnings taxes to cities as'proposed by
Governor Anderson, and
WHEREAS, local units of government receivee:no property texas or other taxes
frem railroad or telephone 'and the" City
property of Prior Lake will receive -!
approximately $28 ..00 under the proposed distribution of telephone and
railroad grope earnings in 1976, and
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WAS, this mothod of tax reduction is preferable to other alternatives
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being:,ponsiderec�.
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Nowivomm Bs IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of Prior Take respect–
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" urges the Wmesotta State Legislature to distribute all the telephone
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and ra lxead gross earnings taxes,, amounting to $46 million in 1976 and $1+9
r .million in 1974 on a per capita basis, and that the taut monies lost by the
State not, be recouped by an additional tax, and
XT FURTHER RESOLVED,, that copies of this resolution be transmitted to the
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Governor of the State of .Minnesota, Nmmbera of the State Legislature and the
League of Municipalities.
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itness hand and official seal. of Prior I�ake ` Minnesota this 7th
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