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Law summaries continued were funded at these levels: Rental Housing Assistance for persons with mental illness: $2.4 million Affordable Rental Investment: $6.0 million {50 percent units financed to be outside metro area) Community Rehabilitation: $5.8 million Capacity Building Grants: $250,000 Rural and Urban Homesteading: $372,000 Rental Assistance: $3.0 million Family Homeless Prevention: $400,000 Mortgage Foreclosure Prevention/ $200,000 Rental Assistance: ~99~99 (line item veto) Residential Lead PaindContaminated Soil Abatement: $568•;989 (line item veto) Housing Rehab & Accessibility: $8.6 million Home Equity Conversion $ 50,000 Livable wageslcorporate welfare _ Chapter 224, section 58 requires government agencies that provide grants or loans in excess of $25,000, or tax increment financing, to a business, to set wage level and job creation goals for the business, which must be met within two years of receiving the assistance. Local governments must report the goals and the results for each project to DTED, which must publish the findings each June 1. Elections Allocation of election expenses, schedule of certain city elections, terms of office Most of Chapter 8 provides for school district election changes to comply with uniform election law, however, several sections pertain to city elections. Section 3 replaces current language regazding the ailoca- lion of the cost of conducting com- bined elections with school districts. Section 3 also provides for the Secre- tary of State to develop procedures for allocating costs among counties, cities, townships, and school districts for concurrent elections. Section 5 modifies the schedule for city general elections and authorizes cities to hold elections every other year rather than annually. Home rule charters are not exempt from this provision, so this provision applies to both home rule and statutory cities. Other provisions in this section authorize two or four yeaz mayoral terms, and four year counciimember terms. Section 6 modifies the transition schedule for cities electing more than one counciimember in each ward. The transition schedule in such cities provides for only one counciimember per wazd to be elected in any general city election, in order to make the change from odd to even yeaz elec- tions, or vice versa. Sections pertaining to city election schedules and terms of office are effective the day following final enactment. For cities with annual elections, the transition to even or odd numbered year elections must be completed by November, 1998. Time off to vote in legislator elections Chapter 20 allows every employee eligible to vote time off work to vote in elections to fill vacancies in the offices of state senator and state representative This law became effective March 28, 1995. Election judges Chapter 34 authorizes elections judges to serve outside the county. in which they reside. Effective August 1, 1995. Presidential primary Chapter 224, Section 73 delays the date of the next presidential primary until after l 999. A future legislature will determine whether to appropriate funds for local balloting in the yeaz 2000, which is the next presidential election year. Effective August 1, 1995. Environment Solid waste assessments. Chapter 111 clarifies some issues surrounding the state's solid waste assessment of $2.00 annually per home and $.60 cents per cubic yard of waste collected from businesses. The law addresses churches, apartments buildings, and other waste generators. Bag or sticker based collection systems are addressed by allowing some flexibility in establishing an equipment per bag charge ($.03 per 35 gallon bag, for example). Effective retroactive to January 1, 1995. Environmental Appropriations Bill Chapter 220 contains several sections applicable to cities, including: • Providing $.1,946,000 for the clean water partnership program. • Creating an advisory task force to "examine the point source permit- ting programs in the water quality division of the MPCA" that will report by November 30, 1995. • Requiring an MPCA report by January 1, 1996, of all wastewater treatment facility upgrade and construction projects necessary to meet existing and proposed water quality standazds and regulations, and other related information. • Providing $28 million in SCORE block grants to counties. • Allocating $1.8 million in local government matching grants for local park and recreation areas, natural and scenic areas, trail linkages, and a conservation partners wildlife habitat improve- ment program. Various effective dates. r~ • LS 2 ~- 1995 Law Summaries