HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 967 - Resolution requesting Comm. of Taxation to Access and Equalize All Property Within Metro Area - 03/25/1975 CITY OF EDEN PRAIRIE
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION NO. 967
WHEREAS, the Commissioner of Taxation ' s 1973 Real Estate Assessment
Sales Ratio Study again indicates that Hennepin County communities are
leading all counties in the metropolitan area with respect to equity in
assessing , and
WHEREAS, the aggregate sales ration indicates that the counties of
Carver, Dakota, Ramsey, Scott and Washington are failing to maintain
appropriate assessing levels, thereby shifting the burden for metropolitan
area services and functions to the taxpayers of Hennepin and Anoka Counties,
and
WHEREAS, by law the Commissioner of Taxation is charged with the re-
sponsibility of equalizing the assessments in those counties failing to
provide for a proper level of assessment, which responsiblity to date the
Commissioner of Taxation has failed to exercise,
NOW, THERFORE, BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
( OF EDEN PRAIRIE that this Council hereby requests that the Commissioner
of Taxation require local assessors and Boards of Review to properly
assess and equalize all property within the metropolitan area so as to
correct the grievous errors which have appeared in the 1972 and 1973 Real
Estate Sales Ratio Studies conducted by his department, so as to more
properly provide for equalization in assessments among all properties in
the metropolitan area, and FURTHER, that the Council of the City of Eden
Prairie herby pledges its support to the Commissioner of Taxation in
carrying out these responsiblities, AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies
of this resolution be sent to the members of the Hennepin County legislative
delegation.
ADOPTED this 25thday of March, 1975.
David W. Os terholt, Mayor
SEAL
ATTEST:
Joh D. Frane_, _ �f erk
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