12.2. SR 04-26-1993 - Laserfiche WebLink

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. RESOLU'l"ION OF THE ST. CLOUD CITY COUNCIL ADVOCATING CORRECTIVE COURSES OF ACTION BE SUPPORUD AND ACCOMPLISHED RELATING '1'0 THE '1'RANSFBR OF SHERBtJRHE COUIft'Y AND '1'HAT PAR'!' OF SHERBURNE COtJIft'Y LOCAUD IN THE CITY OF ST. CLOUD FROM THE ST. CLOUD METROPOLITAN STATISTICAL AREA (SCMSA) '1'0 THE '!'WIN CITIES METROPOLITAN STATISTICAL AREA ('J.'CMSA) WHEREAS, the city of st. Cloud is located within three (3) different counties - Sherburne, Benton and Stearns; and, WHEREAS, on December 28, 1992, the Office of Hanagement and , Budget (OHB) announced the reclassification o.f Sherburne County, including a portion of the City of st. Cloud, from the st. Cloud HSA to the Twin Cities HSA; and, WHEREAS, removal of Sherburne County from the st. Cloud HSA results in a 41,945 (22%) reduction in the st. Cloud HSA population, including 5,240 residents of the City of st. Cloud (10.7%), which creates the false impression that the st. Cloud . metro area has lost population while the area in fact is growing at a significant rate; and, WHEREAS, OHB regulations allow the realignment or retention of an outlying county if any of six conditions are met. While condition number 3 of the regulations justifies realignment of Sherburne county with the Twin Cities HSA, conditions numbered 4 and 6 of the regulations justify retention of Sherburne County in the st. Cloud HSA; and, WHEREAS, while the realignment of Sherburne County into the Twin Cities HSA corrected economic inequities that previously existed between the Anoka area and Elk River area, it created an even more disturbing economic inequity between that part of the City of st. Cloud located in Sherburne County and that part of the . City of st. Cloud located in Benton and Stearns county; and,