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CO CIL RESOLUTION — GENERAL FORM
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RESOLVED, That the Council of the City of Saint Paul
hereby takes cognizance of the pendency of certain Proposed
legislation now before the Minnesota Legislature and embodied
in House File No. 1077, relating to the highway user tax
distribution fund and apportioning five percent of such fund
to the county State -aid highway fund for bridge purposes; and
FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Council of the City of Saint
Paul recognizes that if said proposed legislation is enacted,
it will have a detrimental effect in that it would reduce the
municipal state aid funds available for the City of Saint Paul;
and,
FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Council of the City of Saint
Paul hereby strongly opposes the enactment into law of said
Proposed legislation and urges the Ramsey County Delegations
to the Legislature to oppose passage of said legislation.
COUNCILMEN
Yeas Nays
Dalglish
Rolland
Loss
Mortinson
Peterson
Rosen
Mr. President, Vavoulis
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Council File No. 21179$ --By Milton
Resolved, That the Council of tfle
City of Saint Paul hereby takes cog-
nizance of the pendency of certain
Proposed legislation now before the
Minnesota Legislature and embodied
I' House File No. 1077, relating to the
highway user tax distribution fund
fundato theocougiityvState- aidthigllW,ch'
fund for bridge purposes; and Y
Further it of That the Council
of hatif said proposedtlegislation is ens
acted, it will have a detrimental ,effect
in that it would reduce the municipal
state aid funds available, for the City
Of Saint Paul; ' and,
Further Resolved, ThaC the Council
s
Of trongly h City Of Saint Paul hereby
pposes the enactment into
law of said proposed legislation and
urges the Ramsey County Delegations
to the Legislature to oppose passage
Of said legislation.
Adopted by the
1963. Council March 22,
Approved March 22, 1963.
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COUNCIL RESOLUTION — GENERAL FORM
PRESENTED BY
COMMISSIONER DATE
RESOLVED, That the Council of the City of Saint Paul
hereby takes cognizance of the pendency of certain proposed
legislation now before the Minnesota Legislature and embodied
in Houee File No. 1077, relating to the highway user tax
distribution fund and apportioning five percent of such fund
to the county State -aid highway fund for bridge purposes; and
FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Council of the City of Saint
Paul recognizes that if said proposed legislation is enacted,
it will have a detrimental effect in that it would reduce the
municipal state aid funds available for the City of Saint Paul;
and,
FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Council of the City of Saint
Paul hereby strongly opposes the enactment into law of said
Proposed legislation and urges the Ramsey County Delegation
to the Legislature to oppose passage of said legislation.
COUNCILMEN
Yeas Nays
Dalglish
Holland
Loss
Mortinson
Peterson
Rosen
Mr. President, Vavoulis
10M 8-82
In Favor
0
Against
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MAR 2 2
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Mayor
THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
OF THE
CITY OF ST. PAUL
INTER - OFFICE COMMUNICATION
March 20, 1963
Commissioner Milton Rosen
Department of Public Works
City of Saint Paul
Dear Commissioner Rosen:
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I believe it would be well if you would draw to the attention of
the Council the detrimental effect on Saint Paul of a bill which has been
introduced in the State Legislature. The bill is identified as H.F. 1077
and relates to the apportionment of Highway User Funds to the State,
counties and municipalities of Minnesota.
At the present time, the Highway User Tax Fund is distributed 62%
to the Trunk Highway Fund, 29% to the counties and 9% to the municipalities
of over 5,000 population. The proposed bill would take an initial 5% of
the Highway User Tax Fund and given directly to the counties for bridge
purposes and then would apportion the remaining 95% on the basis of the
62 -29-9 formula. Consequently, the funds available for the distribution
by formula would be 5% less, which 5% loss would then be spread propor-
tionately over the trunk highway, county and municipal systems. On the
basis of the total Saint Paul apportionment for 1963 of $1,617,289.00
the effect of the proposed bill would be to reduce the Municipal State
Aid Funds available for Saint Paul by about $81,000 per year.
The reduction of $81,000 per year in funds available to Saint
Paul for street improvements is a serious matter. However, the city
has received from Ramsey County each year an appropriation from the
Road and Bridge Fund and, consequently, it is possible that if the
County's share of state -aid is increased, a reasonable part of that
increase could be passed on to Saint Paul in the form of increased
annual appropriations. The difficulty would be that we have been metic-
ulous about using the County's appropriations strictly on county -aid roads.
If the $81,000 increment were available to Saint Paul in the form of
Municipal State Aid rather than a county apportionment, we would have much
greater flexibility in programming improvements and the aid could be used
at any point on a much larger system of major streets within the city.
Consequently, it is my recommendation that the proposed bill be strongly
opposed.
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Yours very /truly,
Eugene V. Avery
Chief Engineer
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Introduced by Hall
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Ref. to Con. on H ighw.,Ws
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
H.F. Iio. 1077
Companion S.F.
Ref. to S. Con.
RELA- =:'G TO Tr:3 EiGh7i]AY USER TAX
DISTRIBUTION FUND; APPORTIONING FIVE
PERCENT' OF SUCH ' U1ID TO THE COUN Y
STATE -AID HIGM-!AY FUND TOR BRIDGE
PURPOSES; PJ- 2NDI :;G MIti'tiTESOTA STATUTES
1961, SECTIONS 161.04, SUBDIVISION 1;
162.05; AND 162.11.
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BE IT ENACTED BY T.w __%.7 i.:L: "U. OF T'HE STATE OF :filtNESOTA :
Section 1. ZfEactivc Ju'_y 1, 1963. five percent o�
the net oroceeds of z-h^_ user tE:: distribution _fund
shall be deposited in the state -mid : ^hwny fund,
and distributed to the counties for bridge purposes, such
funds shall be distributed to the counties on the basis
of the relationship which the ,total county bridge mileM
on county state -aid roads bezrs to the total bridge
mileage on county state -aid roads in the state.
Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 1961, Section 161.04,
Subdivision 1, is amended to read:
161.04 (TRUNIC HIGHWAY FUND.] Subdivision 1.
[COMPOSITION.) After the five percent of the net proceed;
of the highway user tax distribution fund has been placed
in the county state -aid highway fund, the trunk highway
fund shall consist of 62 percent of the not balance of the
highway user tax distribution fund as provided in article
XVI of the constitution; the proceeds of the sale of any
bonds authorized by article XVI of the constitution;
money received from the federal government as aid in the
construction and maintenance of trunk highways; and any
other money otherwise allotted, appropriated, or legislated
therefor.
Sec. 3. Minncsota Statutes 1961, Section 162.05, is
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amended to read:
162.05 ( PAJIME- NTS INTO COUNTY STATS -AID HIGHWAY FUND.)
in- addition-te In acrttion to the five percent of the net
proceeds of the hi hway user tax distribution fund and
the 29 percent of the nee balance of the highway user tax
distribution fund there shall be paid into the county
state -aid highway fund all moneys accruing from the income
derived from the investments in the internal improvement
land fund.
Sec. 4. Minnesota Statutes 1961, Section 102.11, is
amended to read:
162.11 ( PERC=rk-AGE GF HIGHWAY USER DISTRIBUTION
FUND PAID TO MUNIC :PAL STATE -AID STREET FUND.) After the
five percent of the net Proceeds of the high -my user tax
distribution fund has been placed in the county state -aid
hiR� fund as orov'ded in saotion 1, nine percent of
the not balance of the Y:- gh%day user tax distribution fund
shall be paid into the municipal state -aid street fund.
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