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We Urge Your City to Send a Delegate to Vote for Your GEARS Committee Representative!!! Dear Mayor and Council Members: In April, a letter was sent from Metro Cities to each of your communities with preliminary information on an election process to fill positions on the Grant Evaluation and Ranking System (GEARS) Committee for cities in Anoka, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey and Washington Counties. The following packet is the follow-up information to that letter outlining the finalized, elections process. El lection. Date: July 2 1" Applications for the GEARS Committee Due: July 14th Location/Time,-, League of Minnesota Cities Building - Screening Board from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 am. State Capitol - General Election 130 p.m., — 3:010 p.m. Background: The 2,008 Transportation Finance Bill, Chapter 152, grants authority to Metro Area Counties to f6mi ajoint powers board and implement a quarter cent sales tax for transit purposes, in the seven county Metropolitan Area. Five of the seven countiles, have entered into a joint powers board agreement and levied the tax. These five counties have formed the Counties Transit Improvement Board (CTIB). In accordance with the new law) a Grant Evaluation and Ranking System (GEARS) Committee, consisting of eight elected city officials, five county, commissioners and the chair of the Met Council Transportation Committee is to be created for the purpose of ranking and evaluating eligible transit projects for submission to the CTIB. Metro Cities �Nras assigned, bly statute,, the task of conducting an election to select the city representatives on the GEARS conirnittee. Elections Process: The informational packet includes the following: An outline of the rules and elections process (Light Yellow) An application for the GEARS Committee (Blue) An RSVP card i(Gold) A letter from the CTI B requesting the city appoinunents to the GEARS committee, including: (White) o An olu,tline of the GEARS committee -member's responsibilities as found in law (Green) ol An outline of anticipated time commitment for GEARS, participants (Pink) o Eligible expenditures, for the quarter cent sales tax and a letter froin the Department of Revenue outlining projectied revenues (Purple) Metro Cities appreciates your city's willingness to participate and we look forward to working with everyone on July 21 ". If you have any questions please contact Sarah Erickson at, 651-215-4003 or sarah(iDamm 145.or Sincerely, anis C-allison Mayor,, City of Minnetonka President, Metro Cities,, 145 University Ave W *1 St. Paul,, MN 55103-2044 c Phone (654) 21 *15-4000 e Fax (6 51.) 281-1299 NTN"_.yamnU4$.org 13 U