97-45 CITY OF CHANHASSEN
CARVER AND HENNEPIN COUNTIES, MINNESOTA
DATE: June 23, 1997
RESOLUTION NO: 97-45
MOTION BY: Berquist
SECONDED BY: Mason
DECLARING INTENT TO EXERCISE
LOCAL TRANSIT LEVY OPTION FOR TAXES IN 1998
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 1998.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Chanhassen as
follows:
1. The City hereby declares its intent to exercise the local transit tax levy option for taxes payable
in 1998 in the maximum amount permitted by Local Levy Option Act and as certified by the State
Commissioner of Revenue in accordance therewith.
2. 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
1998 in accordance with the notice attached hereto as Exhibit A and incorporated herein by reference.
Passed and adopted by the Chanhassen City Council this 23rd day of June, 1997.
ATTEST:
Don Ashworth, City Clerk/Manager
YES
NO
Mancino
Berquist
Mason
Engel
Senn
Nancy K. Mancino, Mayor
ABSENT
None
EXHIBIT A
NOTICE OF INTENT TO EXERCISE
LOCAL TRANSIT TAX LEVY OPTION FOR
TAXES PAYABLE IN 1998
The State Commissioner of Revenue and the Metropolitan Council are hereby notified that the City of
Chanhassen, Minnesota, intends to exercise the local tax levy option for taxes levied in 1997 and
payable in 1998 pursuant to Laws of Minnesota for 1996, Chapter 455, Section 4.
The proposed amount of the City's transit tax for the 1997 levy year is $614,504, or the 1997 levy
amount ($549,473) multiplied by the maximum levy limit for the City of Chanhassen, e.g.:
($549,473 X Implicit Price Deflator + % Growth in # of Households from 1995 to 1996)
whichever is less, all in accordance with the Laws of Minnesota for 1996, Chapter 455, Section 4, for
taxes levied by the City in 1997 and payable in 1998.
By order of the City Council of the City of Chanhassen.