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River MEMORANDUM TO: FROM: DATE: SUBJECT: Mayor and City Council tr ~ ~'/~ Pat Klaers, City Adminis December 8, 2003 .~ Truth in Taxation Public Hearing Introduction The City of Elk River tax levy and budget public hearing is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Monday, December 8, 2003 at the Elk River Senior High School - Small Theatre. This public hearing is required by the truth in taxation state law. The purpose of this public hearing is to receive citizen and property owner input on the proposed 2004 city budget and tax levy. The public hearing notice plus a news article on the proposed 2004 budget, tax levy, and public hearing was published in the December 3, 2003 Elk Ra'ver Star News. Budget and tax levy information plus the public hearing date/location was also in the November city newsletter and is on the city website. The city cable TV bulletin board also includes a notice of this December 8, 2003 truth in taxation public hearing. In compliance with the truth in taxation state law, the county has sent out notice of this public hearing to each property owner in the city. The notice included information on the property owner's proposed city, school district, and county taxes for 2004. Background The City Council is familiar with the 2004 budget and tax levy issues as it has held a series of worksessions on these financial issues over the last few months. Accordingly, the presentation at the public hearing is mainly for the public in attendance at the meeting. In previous years, this truth in taxation hearing was on cable TV and everyone had to be careful that the information presented was understandable to the audience at home. This is not the case for the upcoming meeting as we are not broadcasting the City Council meetings that are being held in the High School Small Theatre. Nonetheless, the challenge for this meeting is to present the budget and tax levy information in a clear, concise, and understandable manner to the citizens and property owners in attendance who have not had the benefit of being at the budget worksessions and therefore, are not familiar with all of the revenues, programs, functions, services, etc of the city.