HomeMy WebLinkAbout1975 10-16 Maplewood adopts 28% higher budget DISPATCH Thurs.,Oct. 16, '75 $t.Paul Dispatch (E) 7
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The Maplewood City Council five police officers, one sergeant Offsetting the property tax in-
last week adopted a 1976 budget and a police clerk. About half of crease to some extent, Miller
of $3,250,000, a figure about 28 the cost of the new positions said, is the state "circuit-break-
per cent higher than last year's will be charged to the paramedic er" tax relief system, which will
budget. program,Miller said. go into effect in 1976.
Also adopted was a tax levy of•
$2.3 million, which will mean an
increase of 4 mills in property
owners' tax rate, or $31 for a
$20,000 home.
HOWEVER, a 10 per cent val-
uation increase imposed by
Ramsey County on residential
property will add $70 to the tax
bill on such a home, for a total
increase of $101, City Manager
Michael Miller explained.
The budget increase, he said,
is due to the increased cost for
the first full year of the police
paramedic program (a $141,000
increase over 1975), increased
equipment purchases and other
capital improvements (a$271,000
increase) and inflationary in-
creases in all other costs.
Miller noted that purchases of
equipment were delayed in 1975
in the hope that state-aid monies
would increase in 1976, but the
expected increase never came.
MAJOR items in the 1976
budget include the addition of