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Maplewood will join doesn't overrule Dakota thusiasm for carrying parities bill popping up
Burnsville in defending County District Court forward with it (defend- in the current session of
any appeal of a district Judge Robert Breunig, ing against an appeal)." the legislature.
court decision on the fis- who declared the act un- He cited this as reason "I'd say it (fiscal dis-
cal disparities act. constitutional. why Maplewood should parities) is dead only for
The village council, in Under the provisions "take a little more ac- this year," he stated. "I
taking the action 5-0 last of the act, adopted by tive interest in the wouldn't want to say for
week, obviously hopes the state legislature in cam a moment there aren't
that a higher ,court 1971, communities in the Maplewood council- legislators who might
- seven-county Twin Cit- man Don Wiegert said not start right in trying
ies metro area had to• he had another concern to make the bill worka-
share 40 per cent of their — a revised fiscal dis- ble."
new commercial and in-
dustrial tax base:
Maplewood stood to
lose about $900,000 in as-
sessed
s-
sessed valuation that
way.
Maplewood's attorney,
Don L a i s, said that
Burnsville, which chal-
lenged the fiscal dispari-
ties act originally, also
would have gained as-
s e s s e d valuation this
year.
"They (Burnsville offi-
cials) were quite sur-
prised by this," Lais
commented. "It takes
away a little of their en-