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Staff Writer es to 6 per cent. would get for tax relief.
Some St. Paul area mu- MAPLEWOOD, for ex- And South St.Paul Coun-
nicipalities may not use ample, is faced with cut- Salm a he favors reducing
n James Metzen
any federal revenue-shar- ting $50,000 for park de- real estate taxes with the
ing funds to reduce prop- velopment from its 1973 $200,000 allocated to his
erty taxes, a Dispatch budget to stay within city.
survey has revealed, and state law limitations. IN NEITHER CASE,
even if they committed all Village Manager Mi- however, would the total
of their allotment to local chael Miller said he would property tax bill reduction
tax relief,most homeown- recommend using the exceed 4 per cent because
ers would see little change $95,000 Maplewood would the municipal tax levy is
get in revenue-sharing to just a small part of the
in their tax bills. retain the park program overall tax rate: South St.
Municipal and county funding and the remain- Paul's tax levy is only 20
der to help build a new
governments in Minnesota per cent of the amount
fire station that otherwise South St. Paul property
would receive $69.2 mil couldn't be financed next owners pay and Hugo's is
lion a year for five years year. even less. The remainder
under a revenue-sharing (which
bill pending in Congress. "I'm not planning to use goesl not forpschoolsse in(which
it (federal funds) for a tax
rev-
PRELIMINARY e s t i- reduction," he said, add- enue sharing) and metro-
mates of how much met- ing that the $95,000 would politan and county gov-
ropolitan municipalitiesonly reduce property tax- ernment.
would receive indicate es on a$25,000 house by$9 Counties will receive
real estate tax reductions a year. "I think most peo- money under the reve-
would be less than 5 per ple would rather continue nue sharing program,but
cent in most cases• the park development or whether it will be offset or
And because reductions build a new fire station," reduced by cutbacks in
could be a3 little as $10 Miller said. other federal funding is
per homeowner, someMany municipalities uncertain.
municipal officials are will_use part of the reve- The Ramsey County
proposing that the federal nue-sharing "windfall" to Turn to Page 2,Col.1
no-strings-attached funds reduce property taxes.
bey used to bolster their Some will use all of it for
1973 budgets -- which that purpose.
have been already pared
to comply with a state law Hugo Mayor Lynn Carl-