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disparities for 1975 and 1976 will mean a
net loss of property tax dollars of ap-
proximately $350,000 and $250,000 in tax
dollars lost to the city of Maplewood,
schools and other taxing districts af-
fecting Maplewood property owners."
Miller stated that St. Paul,White Bear
Lake, Dellwood and North Oaks are all
taxing districts within the area benefit-
ting from fiscal disparities.
Friday the St. Paul Dispatch reported
that St. Paul Mayor Larry Cohen had
been able to reduce property taxes while
still increasing the city budget because of
increased state aids.
Since there are no "across the board"
changes in valuation for industrial and
commercial property, residential
properties will be picking up a
disproportionate amount of new taxes,
Miller indicated.
After listening to some of Miller's
comments, Wiegert observed, "I think
we'll see a remarkable jump in
residential taxes at the same time we're
in a very tight fiscal bind.
"I don't know what we're going to be
able to do with the tax rate ourselves but
we're going to get a lot of the blame for a
proportion of this," he added.
Miller said that the crux of the problem
is that Maplewood has little or no growth
taxes to collect while everyone else's
budget is increasing tremendously with.
the cost-of-living.
"They (the state) sit there and try to
tell us that the property tax is the most
inequitable thing in the world," Miller
noted. "And yet they sit here and tell the
city of Maplewood they have to use the
property tax."
Interjected Councilman Norman
Anderson,"That is why if we have more
commercial development it will cost the
taxpayers more money."
Wiegert agreed. "That's where we're
gr+ting to if we haven't gotten there
already," he said.
Wiegert added that the city's plight
could become even worse if the U.S..
Congress decides to attach strings to
federal revenue-sharing funds once the
act expires in 1976..
The city has used federal revenue
sharing funds to help patch holes in its
budget. "If they the Congress) decide it
should be for all new programs we'll be in
a terrible bind," Wiegert predicted.
Mayor Bob Bruton agreed that the city
should publicize its plight to the com-
munity. The city expects to make a
special point to alert citizens that its 1976
budget will be adopted Oct. 9.