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. MINUTES OF THE ARDEN HILLS COUNCIL WORKSESSION MEETING MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1993, 6:00 P.M. - NEW BRIGHTON CITY HALL CALL TO ORDER Paul Malone called the meeting to order at 6:05 p.m. ROLL CALL The roll being called the fOllowing members were present: Councilmembers Paul Malone, Beverly Aplikowski and Dennis Probst. Also present: city Accountant Terrance Post, Park Director Cindy Severtson, Community Planning Coordinator Brian Fritsinger, City Administrator Dorothy Person and Recording Secretary Renee Kaulfuss. ADOPT AGENDA Malone moved, seconded by Probst, to adopt the Worksession Agenda as submitted. Motion carried unanimously. (3-0) 1993 TRUTH-IN Council was referred to the 1993 Truth-in TAXATION HEARING Taxation hearing scheduled for December 13, 1993 at the Mounds View High School cafeteria. . Mayor Sather arrived at 6:16 p.m. Public Works Superintendent Dan Winkel arrived at 6:23 p.m. Terry Post prepared a working draft of an outline and documents to use as reference for possible handouts at the Truth-in- Taxation hearing. On the circle graphs, a discussion arose regarding the Area Programs and whether this was regional or special taxing districts. This area should be defined as Regional Taxing District programs. On Page three, "Suburban City Tax Rates" illustration is showing that Arden Hills' tax rate is rated in the middle when comparing to the suburban communities surrounding Arden Hills. It was suggested to illustrate an example using a $100,000 home and taking the percentage of the tax capacity x this rate = city portion in dollars rather than rate. Page Four - "Analysis of Tax Capacity changes 1993 vs 1994", a definition of tax capacity was requested and to be located at the top of the page. It was further suggested to add another column to the right showing what the dollar changes do to the locally generated revenue. Upon further review it was suggested that the chart may be too involved and be used as reference, but not .