HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Resolution 1991-146CITY OF PLYMUTE
Pursuant to due call and notice thereof, a regular meeting of the
City Council of the City of Plymouth, Minnesota, was held on the
day of March, 1991. The following members were present:
Mayor Bergman, Councilmembers Helliwell, Ricker, Vasiliou, and
Zitur. The following members were absent: None _
Qouncilmember Ricker introduced the following resolution and
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 91-146
RESOLUTION SUPPORTING HENNEPIN COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS'
POSITION ON LIMITING FISCAL DISPARITIES CONTRIBUTIONS
WHEREAS, the Fiscal Disparities Program was enacted by the 1971
Legislature and implemented in 1975; and
WHEREAS, the goal of Fiscal Disparities is to allow all
communities in the metropolitan region to share in the region's
commercial/industrial tax base growth, regardless of where that
growth occurs, without removing any resources which local
governments possessed in 1971; and
WHEREAS, about two-thirds of the shared tax base comes from
inflation on properties that were fully developed prior to the
program's enactment, resulting in tax shortfalls for cities
experiencing tax base losses; and
WHEREAS, eighty percent of all municipal tax base losses in 1990
were experienced in cities in Hennepin County, including $7.2
million loss in tax base exports from the City of Plymouth,
requiring a 14.6 percent increase in the city's property tax
rate; and
WHEREAS, Plymouth's tax base exports are $7.6 million 1991; and
WHEREAS, the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners has endorsed
a proposal to limit the size of the program to its 1991 level of
$291 million, thereby limiting the growth of municipal and county
tax base exports;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of
Plymouth that it hereby supports the position of the Hennepin
County Board of Commissioners and urges the Legislature to limit
the size of the tax base contribution pool as proposed.
The motion for adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly
seconded by Councilmember Zitur, and upon vote being taken
thereon, the following voted in favor thereof: Mayor Barg`
�uaciL�+�t1ers Halliwell, Ricker, Vasiliou, and Zitur. The
following voted against or abstained: None
Whereupon the resolution was declared duly passed and adopted.