75-2432 CI�'Y OF HOPKINS
Hennepin Cbunty, Minnesota
RESOLUI'ION N0. 75-2432
F�SQLUTION REJEGTING MINNE�'OLIS TAX STtJDY
AND PROVIDING FOR FURT�R. INVESTIC�TION OF
FAGTS AND C'ONTINC�tCIES.
Wf�1�EAS, the Minneapolis Dawntc�m Council and the Minneapolis Industrial
Gatcmissi� rec�ently caused a study to be made which contended that State tax laws
should be modified tA pravide additional state aid to the Gity o£ Minneapolis, and.
WHEREAS, the study implied that the City of Minneapolis has been sub-
sidizing suburban Hennepin County oomrnuiities, and
W�REA.S, the release of the study on January 16, 1975 was done to
influ�ence m�mbers of the Sta.te Legislature to support modifications based upon
said study, and
WI�RF.AS, several of the suburban chambers of catar�eroe and suburban
cca�cnunities have taken the initiative to respond to the study with preliminary €acts
that de.manstrat� the inaccurateness of :the M.inneapolis study, and
WI�RFAS, the City Council has detem�ined that considerable additice�al
research and investigation is required before such a study can be realistically
utilized by the Legislature, therefore
HE IT RESOLVID by the City Cbuncil of the City of Hopkins that the State
I�gislature is hereby requ�sted to withhold any action based upon the Downtown
Minneapolis Study until such time as the entire facts and implications can be appro-
priately investigated and reported, and
BE IT FU.t�[�R RESOLVED that the City Oouncil of the City of Hapkins endorses:
a ccenprehensiv� study of the tax and fiscal matters and the relationship of suburbs
and the City of Minneapolis, to include the irrpact of changes in tax aid fornnulas on
the entire sta� as �11 as the metropolitan area, and
SE IT F`U�R RESOLUED that (1) the suburban chambers of c�aranerce set up
a municipal gavernm�nt task force to pravide input for said studies, and (2) that
the City of Hopkins hereby designa�s its Ma.yor an�d Gity Manager to represent the
City ari such task force.
Passed and adopted by the Cauncil of tYie Gity of Hopkins, Minnesota, at a regular
m�eting the � 'I'�uesday, the lst day of April 1975.
H. E. RICHP�RDSON, I� POKOF�]Y, JR..,
City Clerk Mayor
JOSEPH C. VESELY,
City Attorney