98-62 CITY OF CHANHASSEN
CARVER AND HENNEPIN COUNTIES, MINNESOTA
DATE:
June 22~ 1998
RESOLUTION NO: 98-62
MOTION BY:
Berquist SECONDED BY: Engel
DECLARING INTENT TO EXERCISE LOCAL TRANSIT LEVY OPTION
FOR TAXES IN 1999
WHEREAS, Laws of Minnesota for 1996, Chapter 455, Section 4 (the "Local Levy Option
Act"), allows the Cities of Chanhassen, Chaska, and Eden Prairie, to make a local transit tax levy in lieu
of receiving assistance from the Metropolitan Council under Minnesota Statutes, Section 473.388,
subdivision 4; and
WHEREAS, said local transit levy will replace a similar transit tax levy which would
otherwise be made by the Metropolitan Council; and
WHEREAS, in order to effectively exercise the local transit tax levy option, it is necessary that
each of the Cities of Chanhassen, Chaska, and Eden Prairie, notify the State Commissioner of Revenue
and the Metropolitan Council of its intent to levy the taxes before July 1 of each levy year and to
include in the notification the amount of the City's proposed transit tax for the levy year; and
WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of the City of Chanhassen that it declare its intent to
exercise the local transit levy option for taxes payable in 1999.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Chanhassen
as follows:
The City hereby declares its intent to exercise the local transit tax levy option
for taxes payable in 1999 in an amount not to exceed that permitted by Local
Levy Option Act and as certified by the State Commissioner of Revenue in
accordance therewith.
The City Manager is authorized and directed to give the State Commissioner
of Revenue and the Metropolitan Council of the City's intent to exercise the
local transit tax option for taxes payable in 1999 in accordance with the notice
attached hereto as Exhibit A and incorporated herein by reference.
Passed and adopted by the Chanhassen City Council this 22nd day of June, 1998.
ATTEST:
Don Ashworth, City Clerk/Manager
Nancy Mancino, Mayor
YES
NO
ABSENT
Mason
Senn
Engel
Berquist
None
Mancino