HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution 91-32RESOLUTION NO. 91-32
BEING A RESOLUTION URGING THE ANOKA COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS TO CONCUR IN THE
CONTINUANCE O,F THE ONE-HALF CENT SALES TAX PAST DECEMBER 31, 1991
WHEREAS:
The sales tax in Minnesota was originally adopted partially as an
alternate source of revenue to support local government services in
lieu of depending on additional property taxes; and
WHEREAS:
The 1991 session of the State Legislature passed legislation adding
one half cent to the existing state sales tax and dedicating it along
with 1½ cents of the existing state sales tax to support local
government services; and
WHEREAS~
This legislation requires concurrence by individual counties in the
State if this additional one half cent sales tax is to continue to
be collected in said county after December 31, 1991; and
WHEREAS:
The state legislation further provides that if a given county does not
concur in the additional one half cent sales tax, local government in
said county will lose state aids funded not only from One half Gent
sales tax increase, but a15o will lose funds provided by the existing
l½ cents share of the existing sales tax which will continue to be
collected in said county; and
WHEREAS:
Loss of local government aid in Anoka County would mean a loss of
approximately $9.4 million to help fund County government services~
and approximately $2~8 million to help fund City of Columbia Heights
government services, (far more than the one half cent sales tax would
raise in Anoka County); and
WHEREAS;
The loss of said local government aid would mean severe increases in
local property taxes to make up for the loss of local government aid,
severally reduce local government services, or a combination of the
t WO.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City of Columbia
Heights does urge the Anoka County Board of Commissioners to concur
in the additional one half cent state sales tax continuing past
December 31, 1991, so that the property taxpayers of the City of
Columbia Heights and Anoka County will not be called upon to pick
up this approximately $12.2 million loss of local government aid,
while stil! having to pay 1½ cents of the existing state sales tax
which then would be used to fund local government services in other
counties of the sta~e,
Offered by:
Seconded by:
Roll call:
Nawrocki
Ruettimann
All ayes
Passed this 28th day of May, 1991.
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