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- =- can be dedicated to transportation Solution Current city franchising programs. Cities should receive - authority should be replaced in favor of revenues necessary to meet present and local permitting authority: future transportation needs. If funding I does not come from the state, cities . State and federal governments must should have funding options available to develop and enforce minimum them to raise the dollars necessary to I technical and connectivity standards adequately fund roads and transit. and rate regulation in the absence of competition; With the exception of funding for the I state patrol, all nontransportation . The state should license programs should be funded from a telecommunications providers to source other than the highway user I ensure they have the financial, distribution fund. The revenues of the technical, and legal qualifications to highway user distribution fund are provide proposed services; collected from transportation users and I should be dedicated to transportation- . The state legislature should develop related services. I legislation to protect cities' interests in the management of local public rights-of-way and restructure and LE-15. Turnbacks of County I' simplify the regulatory framework and State Roads for telecommunications service providers in the state. Problem: As road funding becomes I increasingly inadequate, more roads are LE-14. Adequate Funding for being "turned back" to cities from counties and the state. I Transportation Solution: Turnbacks should not occur Problem: Current funding for roads and without direct funding or transfer of a . for transit systems across all government funding source. A process of negotiation levels in the state is not adequate. and mediation should govern the timing, I funding, and condition of turned-back Solution: Minnesota should value, and roads. City taxpayers should receive the adequately fund, all transportation same treatment as township taxpayers. I systems in the state. The state needs to The requirement for a public hearing, provide an objective basis to determine the complete needs of the road and standards about the conditions of . transit systems, their present condition, turn backs, and temporary maintenance and their impact on the economic health funding should also apply to county of the state. This should include turnbacks to cities. At a minimum, . acknowledgement that delaying current proposed roads to be turned back to a expenditures wiII increase costs in the lower government level should be .- future. Cities support an increase in the brought up to the standards of the gas tax and urge the legislature to receiving government or should be institute additional revenue sources that compensated with a direct payment. I 1995 City Policies 13