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<br /> . <br /> Direct funding should be provided for establish a joint budget that would be -- <br /> smaller cities that are not provided with governed by a board of elected officials. <br /> turnback financing through the Cities that participated in this joint <br /> municipal state aid system. entity would not be required to <br /> undertake any formal consolidation <br /> activities. <br /> Cooperation Between - <br /> LE-16. Cities under 5,000 population that were <br /> Counties and Cities Over not eligible for M.S.A. through this - <br /> County Roads Within Cities cooperative agreement practice should - <br /> be able to use county municipal accounts - <br /> Problem: Some counties want increased and the five percent account of the <br /> contra] over county roads that lie within highway user distribution fund. W <br /> city boundaries. - <br /> Uses of countv municipal accounts <br /> Solution: A formal system of mediation should be statutorily modified so that . <br /> should be implemented to help resolve counties can dedicate these funds for <br /> technical and aesthetic decisions about local arterials and collector streets <br /> county and county state-aid roads within within cities under 5,000 population. In . <br /> cities. A negotiated system of review addition, the five percent set-aside <br /> will offer both governments the account in the highway user distribution ,. <br /> opportunity to produce better road fund should be used to meet this funding <br /> projects. Local city and county officials gap. <br /> should use available opportunities for <br /> alternate dispute resolution of the issues. I <br /> Universal arbitration by unaffected LE-18. State Aid for Urban <br /> parties should not supersede local Road Systems I <br /> authority. <br /> Problem: Current rules governing <br /> LE-17. State Aid for Roads in municipal state aid expenditures are I <br /> restricting the efficient use of these funds <br /> Cities Under 5,000 and do not adequately acknowledge the <br /> constraints of road systems in urban city I <br /> Problem: Cities under 5,000 population environments. <br /> do not receive any nonproperty tax funds <br /> fuz [heir coilector and aneriai streets. Solution: Rules affecting the municipal I <br /> state aid system need to be changed to <br /> Solution: State statute should be acknowledge the technical and practical <br /> modified to encourage cooperation and restrictions on construction and . <br /> improved transportation systems by reconstruction of urban road systems. <br /> allowing contiguous cities that jointly New municipal state aid design I <br /> represent a combined population of standards should not apply to <br /> 5,000 or more to be eligible for reconstruction of existing state aid <br /> Municipal State Aid (M.S.A.). streets that were originally constructed -. <br /> Participating cities would enter into a under different standards. Future <br /> formal joint powers agreement and changes to state aid rules should <br /> 14 League of Minnesota Cities I <br />