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Setting the 2012 maximum property tax levy for the City of Saint Paul.
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WHEREAS, in accordance with Section 10 of the City Charter, Mayor Coleman presented to the City Council on August 15, 2011, the Mayor's proposed budget, with said recommended budgets totaling $575,507,219; and
WHEREAS, in accordance with City ordinance, Mayor Coleman presented to the City Council on August 19, 2011 the Library Agency's proposed budget, with said recommended budgets totaling $17,847,364; and
WHEREAS, the Mayor did recommend, as part of the comprehensive 2012 financing plan for the City of Saint Paul, that the 2011 net property tax levy payable in 2012 be $99,247,119 as detailed below:
Mayor's Recommended Tax Levy:
City Levy for City Operations 72,538,404
City Levy for Debt Service 10,035,547
City Levy for Library Agency 16,673,168
Total Recommended: 99,247,119
Levy for Port Authority 1,511,700
Net Levy 100,758,819
Levy for Port Authority (1,511,700)
Net Levy for City Government 99,247,119
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that in accordance with Minnesota Statutes, Section 275.065 Subdivision 1, the City Council, after considering the Mayor's recommendations, but absent public hearings on the Mayor's budget proposal, does hereby accept the budgets for fiscal year 2012, as proposed by the Mayor, as constituting the proposed budgets for the City of Saint Paul and the Saint Paul Library Agency; and be it
FURTHER RESOLVED, that in accordance with the same referenced statute, the City Council, as a taxing authority, and after considering the Mayor's recommendation for property tax levies, including the requests of the Port Authority and the Library Agency, does hereby certify to the Ramsey County Auditor that the proposed maximum tax levy for the City of Saint Paul for taxes payable in 2012 (for use in calculating the Truth-In-Taxation notices to be mailed in November of 2011) as:
Net Levy (City Operations, City Debt, Port Authority, and Library Agency): 100,758,819