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. - , q A ite / ,t, ) igeog gesLe,c_4_ <br /> SOUTHWEST AREA OF ROSEVILLE NEIGHBORS <br /> SWARN <br /> (Midland Grove Neighborhood) <br /> Yesterday at the repeated requests of eight concerned SW Roseville residents <br /> kthe SouthWest Area of Roseville Neighbors) the City of Roseville released a <br /> 2012 Budget Fact Sheet (complete copy attached). That Fact Sheet gives a <br /> rnmprehensive look at the cumulative impact to Roseville taxpayers <br /> Council proceeds with issuing bonds for a new Fire Station ($8 lio), arks <br /> Improvements ($19 million), a 4% proposed maximum property tax increase, <br /> and a 60% increase in our water and sewer rates, combined with the <br /> legislature's elimination of the Market Value Homestead Credit. <br /> That Budget Fact Sheet, produced by the city's Finance Director Chris Miller, <br /> states in part the following: <br /> Combined Impact on Single Family Homeowners <br /> When all impacts for the proposed initiatives noted above are combined, it <br /> results in an ESTIMATED monthly impact for a <br /> approximately 24,66 typical home of <br /> Y $ per month. This represents a 25% increase over <br /> �---- 11. <br /> It is not as if the tax payers of Roseville have been starving local government. <br /> According to the Ramsey County web site's page entitled Property Tax Rates a <br /> Calculations (ramsev.mn.us/prr/TatRateCalc.htm) Roseville's tax levy over the last <br /> five years has grown by $3,056,684, or 22%. <br /> Our social security , pensions, salaries, and other income have not risen in any <br /> way commensurate with this rise in city spending. At the same time our property <br /> values have fallen. All this at a time of economic uncertainty, high <br /> unemployment, stagnant wages, and falling home values we believe it <br /> is unfair to ask Roseville property taxpayers to bear the sole burden of <br /> all these proposed initiatives, and respectfully ask the Council to <br /> reconsider their support of these initiatives at their current Proposed <br /> funding level, and find other means of financing them. <br /> Respectfully, <br /> jj j { <br /> i j <br /> I ! <br /> �.__..Z_1..� �� <br /> :-W _a16-v,afir , <br /> 2._,2_, D 144 1 (.1 L-Pi h 4 6 (Y b7 <br /> Midland Grove Petition to City Council <br /> 1 <br />