HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 665 - Resolution Urging Eden Prairie Legislators to Oppose Senate File No. 410 Abolishing the Township System of Relief in Hennepin County - 03/13/1973 VILLAGE OF EDEN PRAIRIE
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION N0. 665
A RESOLUTION URGING EDEN PRAIRIE
LEGISLATORS TO OPPOSE SEINTA`TE FILE
N0. 410 ABOLISHING OF THE T0WNSHIP
SYSTEM OF RELIEF IN HENNEPI-N COUNTY
WHEREAS., there has been inn-roduced in the 1973 Session of the
State Legislature, :senate File No. 410 which proposed Iuh.at the town
system for caring; for the poor in the County of Hennepin be abolished,
and,
WHEREAS, such bill would ca:_se the cost of the Village for such
relief -to increase placing an additional tax burden upon our citizens,
and
WHEREAS, such a law would remove any Village control of the
administration_ of the welfare program, thereby preventing direct control
of expenditures, and
WHEREAS, the Village feels that it is capable of continuing to
perform this service for the citizens of Eden Prairie in an adequate
E- manner keeping the cost to the local taxpayer at a and nirmun, -therefore
BE IT RESOLVED by the Tillage Council of the Village of. Eden Prairie
that the Village hereby goes on record as opposing this bill and urges
its representatives to take all steps possible to prevent this additional
burden from being added to the Village taxpayers, and
HE IT FURTIiER RESOLED that the Village Clerk is hereby authorized.
and directed to provide the Village' s Senator and Legislator with a
certified copy of this resolution indicating the position of the Village
on this maser.
lYDOPTED by the Village Council on March 13, 1973.
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Paul R. Redpath, Payor
ATTEST:
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SEAL
Edna PSI. Holmgren, erk