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<br /> - . .----...-.-------- .-- . <br /> . 't <br /> e St"?!f2. - i~l.r3W~ <br /> (ct4~ <br /> .. <br /> .v <br /> ,. <br /> , . <br /> Localitie$'Llsing <br /> , lease-:-purchasing <br /> l <br /> for new.facilities <br /> , to bypassvot~rs <br /> ! <br /> ; <br /> : By Jim Adams <br /> , Staff Writer <br /> . A small but apparently &rowing number of Minnesota <br /> cities and counties are financln~ new facilities such as <br /> county jails and municipal buildings throuah voter-proof <br /> leasing agreements. .' . . <br /> For example, last year Eden Prairie approved a $13.4 <br /> million renovation that cOnverted a fonner computer <br /> plant into a City Hall with spaCe for preschool c1assrooms <br /> and a food wholesaler. In. 'New Brighton, officials are <br /> building a $5 million community center that also will <br /> .1 house preschool programs, .agymn,asi)lm and a weight <br /> room. . <br /> Voters in both cities and in CotJaie Grove - which <br /> expects to use lease,purcha!C financing to build or remod- <br /> el three fire stations - previously defeated proposals to <br /> sell city bands ror the projects. Voters in AnO~ Dakota <br /> and Washiri~on counties never got the chance or refer- <br /> endums on Jails, because. their county boards used lease- <br /> putehase agreements to finance titem;. <br /> . <br /> Advocates. say lease.purchasing, which' doesn't reqwre <br /> vot,er ap~roval. is, a legal way to pay for' desPCl1llcly <br /> .... .! .,~ Funds continued on page SB _ <br /> . <br />
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