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i LPA9 A' continued from page 1 April 15, 1996 be annually inflated by the price of government inflation index that is Mc Gary Carlson f currently used for the local government League of Minnesota Cities aid distribution. 145 University Avenue West ; Local performance aid is funded St. Paul, MN 55103 by reducing each city and county's Dear Mr. Carlson: HACA by $1 per capita and adding an additional $1 million of state resources ...As the chief author of the "Local Performance Aid" provisions of this year's to the overall pool. Combined, these omnibus tax bill (H.F. 2102, Article 3, Secs. 48 and 49),1 want to be clear that my two performance aid revenue sources intent is that every city and every county qualify jor performance aid for calendar year will generate approximately $4.1 1997. The threshold to qualify is very low: "affirm that it is in the process of develop - million to fund the program for cities. ing and implementing a system of performance measures." Each qualifying city will receive a per capita LPA distribution based on the So long as a city council or a county board has this as an item on the agenda prior to total available city LPA resources June 30,1 996, that city or county will qualify for performance aid. In fact, any city or divided by the total population of all county that presently tracks "workload input... has already begun the process of developing and implementing performance measures. In others words, ifa city or qualifying cities. county tracks the number of employee hours worked, number of applications pro- cessed, tons of garbage collected, number of police arrests, etc., that city or county The future of LPA qualifies... Representative Dawkins hopes to the local performance aid However, I also want to be clear that my intent is that cities and counties will make a gn .expand next legislative session. I n good faith effort over the course of the next year to move beyond simple workload tt ne- measurement and get to the next levels of performance measurement in due course... discussions with the League session. of sota Cities, he indicated that he would As you know, the final report of the Local Government Aid Distribution and Govern - like to increase the funding for the ment Service Delivery Subcommittee included an Appendix C which had examples program by $200 million which reflects from Minnesota cities and counties that already have performance measurement in the current of excess of property tax place. Please have your jurisdictions refer to that appendix for examples of what the collections over income taxes. Accord- legislature is expecting. ing to Representative Dawkins, adding new resources to the performance aid Finally, as 1 also explained our meeting, it is my o to reconvene the Local program will be tied to more stringent Government Aid Subcommittee e prior the start of f the the next legislative perform to eligibility criteria for local units of determine what will be in the 1999 7 tax bill regarding standards for focal performance aid and that it is my hope that the 1997 legislature will appropriate $200 million for government. Rather than simply the next round of performance aid, but this will only happen if cities and counties make gathering workload measures, local a good faith effort to meet the legislative intent contained in the 1996 tax boll and this units may be required to begin examin- letter. ing efficiency and effectiveness of the services provided to their local resi- Please call me with any questions you might have, and I thank you for your coopera- dents. Of course, details of these future tion in disseminating this letter, requirements have yet to be fully developed. Sincerely, Andy Dawkins If you have any questions about State Representative local performance aid, please contact Gary Carlson at the League of Minne- sota Cities or the property tax division of the Minnesota Department of Revenue. jr Unrtn A LMC Cities Bulletin