HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 99-88 - Intent to Exercise the Local Transit Levy Option for Taxes Payable in 2000 - 06/15/1999 CITY OF EDEN PRAIRIE
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN
RESOLUTION NO. 99-88
DECLARING INTENT TO EXERCISE
LOCAL TRANSIT LEVY OPTION FOR TAXES IN 2000
WHEREAS,Laws of Minnesota for 1996, Chapter 455, Section 4(the"Local Levy Option
Act"), allows the Cities of Eden Prairie, Chanhassen, and Chaska,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 Eden Prairie, Chanhassen, and Chaska,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 Eden Prairie that it declare its intent to
exercise the local transit levy option for taxes payable in 2000.
NOW,THEREFORE,BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Eden Prairie as
follows:
1. The City hereby declares its intent to exercise the local transit tax levy option for taxes
payable in 2000 as 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 2000 in accordance with the notice attached hereto as Exhibit A and incorporated
herein by reference.
ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Eden Prairie this 15th day of June, 1999.
N y T -Luke ,Acti Iayor
ATTEST:
at een A.Porta, City Clerk