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Resolution 2007-056
Affirming 2007 Goals and Legislative Priorities
Be it resolved that the attached goals, issues for study, and legislative priorities are
hereby adopted by the City Council for 2007.
Adopted by the City Council on January 23, 2007.
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City Council Goals
Continue Update of Comprehensive Plan.
Conduct a fiscal analysis of the cost of potential infrastructure expansion to serve
Northwest Plymouth, including the costs associated with possible County Road
47 upgrades.
Implement Street &t Utility Maintenance/Reconstruction
Program.
Refine financing strategies and continue to seek additional funding to preserve
public investments in streets and utilities through maintenance and reconstruction.
Complete a fiscal analysis of the cost to replace water and sanitary sewer main.
Address Transportation Issues.
Advocate for funding sources to allow the building of high quality, efficient
transit and highway systems. Create a corridor commission to raise awareness of
safety, congestion and other issues related to Highway 169, and advocate for
addressing these issues on a regional level.
Identify Options and Plan for Greenway and Park Land.
Identify potential sites to create the framework for the Northwest Greenway and
park land as envisioned in the parks, open space and greenway referendum.
Initiate Proactive Policing Strategies.
Implement crime analysis, mapping and strategic personnel and resource
deployment to better identify emerging crime trends and target repeat offenders.
Advocate for Legislative Priorities.
See attached.
Issues for Study:
• Study new water quality improvement options as part of water quality plan
updates.
Coordinate communication among community transportation providers and
evaluate Plymouth Metrolink routes.
Forecast General Fund revenues at least two years beyond the current budget year
and review revenue sources.
Evaluate the City's recycling program.
2007 Legislative Priorities
Local Control. The City opposes legislation that erodes local
control or creates mandates without a corresponding state
appropriation or funding mechanism.
• Levy Limits. The City opposes the reenactment of levy limits.
State -imposed limits on local decision making are inconsistent with
local accountability.
• Market Value Homestead Credit. The City supports full funding
of the Market Value Homestead Credit in order to remove
unpredictability in budgeting and improve transparency.
• Transportation and Transit Funding. The City encourages the
legislature to identify long-term funding sources with growth
potential to allow the building of high quality, efficient transit and
highway systems. The City supports preservation of suburban transit,
and the expansion of the transit taxing district.
• Firefighter Staffing. The City encourages the State to enact
legislation to enhance recruitment and retention of paid -on-call
firefighters.
• Affordable and Life Cycle Housing. The City urges the
legislature to maintain and increase resources to the extent possible
in order to encourage the development of affordable housing.
• Sales Tax Exemption on Local Government Purchases.
The City supports legislation to reinstate the sales tax exemption for
all local government purchases.
Utility Relocations. The City supports efforts to ensure relocation
of utilities in a timely manner, as well as efforts to increase service
reliability.
• Cable Franchise Authority. The City supports the continued
authority of local government relating to franchising of cable
services.
• Primary Seatbelt Law. The City supports legislation for a primary
seatbelt law.
• Median Barrier Completion. The City supports efforts to
extend the median cable barriers on 1-494 from TH 55 south to 1-394,
and from Bass Lake Road north to the Fish Lake Interchange.
• Fiscal Disparities. The City encourages the legislature to
reexamine the fiscal disparities program. Many of the factors which
supported the original fiscal disparities law in the early 1970's may
no longer be valid.