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<br />- ---- <br />-~ <br />- ST. PAUL PIONE;ER PR,;~SS I SATURDAY:;~C;-;BER 2.4, ~005 I W,:^,V(TWINCITIES.COM <br /> <br />"!: -,-'- - :; ." - -"', '-' <br /> <br />I <br /> <br /> <br />ANOKA COUNTY <br /> <br />Cities seek <br />public vote on <br />stadium tax <br /> <br />ANOKA I <br />COUNty' <br />cm@ <br />. . I CHI!AGO <br />Blaine . ..~..lind tCOUNlY <br />lakes, . <br /> <br />t!!f-~i~r~ <br />:. .~, <br />._-'.;...1... . ...1 <br />. --~ , -, <br />; ..I!!J i <br />\nt!'nbapoIlS. ....' A <br />)~ . s.~ t.ur'. 4 LN <br />I /........t ~ <br />PIONEER PRESS <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />. Council members take aim at VIkings proposal <br /> <br />BY BOB SHAW <br />PioneeTPress. <br /> <br />stadium. In Spring Lake Park, <br />the City Councll voted unani- <br />mously to prepare an anti-tax <br />resolution for a finaI vote in <br />January. <br />On Tuesday, the 1Jn0 Lakes <br />City Counell voted to poD its <br />residents about the tax. Thurs- <br />day, a Coon Rapids City Coun- <br />en member announced plans to <br />get the counell to support a <br />public vote. <br />Tlle tm-get of each measure <br /> <br />Anoka County cities are <br />aftmalri11g the MiDnesota Wdngs <br />stadium proposal Hke a defen- . <br />sive lineman scrambling to <br />. bIindslde a quarl;erback. <br />On Monday, Ham Lake <br />joined. CentervDle and Oak <br />Grove in calling for a public <br />vote on a proposed sales tax <br />in~ .tQ...help.fD1aD.~the...... <br />I <br /> <br />is the same - a proposed <br />countywide 0.75 percent sales <br />tax hike, to be levied without <br />public approval. <br />'Tm not saying the Rtadhun <br />is good or bad, but I am ham- <br />mering on the voting issue," <br />said Coon Rapids Councn Mem- <br />ber Jim Hafner. "It defeats the <br />point of being a democracy." <br />Hafner said the counell <br /> <br />STADIUM TAX, 6B' <br />