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Special Interest <br />Articles: <br /> <br />• Water Summit 9/12 <br /> <br />• Recycling Hauler <br /> <br />• City News, Page 4 <br />Scheduled Recycling <br />Dates: <br /> <br />• September 8 <br /> <br />• September 21 <br /> <br />• October 5 * <br /> <br />• October 19 * <br /> <br /> <br />Check the Facebook <br />page for updates on <br />recycling pickup. <br /> <br />See page 3 for the <br />Facebook page link. <br /> <br />* October recycling dates <br />may be subject to change <br /> <br />Water Summit Scheduled for September 12 <br /> <br />An important informational meeting will be held on <br />September 12 at 7:00 p.m. to discuss the Gem Lake <br />water plan, which was recently completed by SEH, <br />which functions as Gem Lake’s City Engineer. <br /> <br />Potential funding options for a possible municipal <br />water system will be discussed. The MPCA <br />(Minnesota Pollution Control Agency) will be on hand <br />to give an update on city well testing, and any <br />progress on investigating the source of the <br />contamination. <br /> <br />Late last year, the City Council of Gem Lake began to <br />look at options for dealing with the discovery of small <br />amounts of pollution in 22 private wells in the city. <br /> <br />The Informational Meeting on September 12 will be <br />designed to look at the complex options that are <br />available to the city, and to get feedback from the <br />people who live here on what direction the city should <br />take. <br /> <br />(Continued on page 2) <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Preliminary Budget for 2023 Presented 9/20 <br /> <br />Minnesota Statutes require cities to certify their <br />preliminary property tax levies by September 30 each <br />year. Once the preliminary property tax levy is <br />approved and certified to the County Auditor, the city <br />can lower the levy during the remaining budget <br />planning cycle, but cannot exceed the certified <br />preliminary levy. For this reason, most cities certify a <br />levy using worst-case budget scenarios, which is the <br />case with the City of Gem Lake’s 2023 preliminary <br />property tax levy and budget. <br /> <br />The 2023 preliminary property tax levy is proposed at <br />$748,879, which is a 23.159% increase from the 2022 <br />certified preliminary property tax levy. The 2023 <br />preliminary levy consists of a debt levy of $84,418 (a <br />decrease of $2,864 from the 2022 preliminary debt <br />levy) and the general operating levy of $664,461 (an <br />increase of 27.59% from the 2022 preliminary tax <br />levy). <br /> <br />(Continued on page 3) <br /> <br /> <br />Gem Lake News <br />September 2022 | Volume 16 | Issue 6 Gretchen Artig-Swomley, Newsletter Editor <br />