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<br />City Manager's 2006 Budget Recommendations <br /> <br />Thursday, October 20, 2005 <br /> <br />Tax Comparison of Metropolitan Area Cities <br />for cities with populations between 25,000 and 45,000 <br />(Based on a home valued at $175,000) <br /> <br /> For Fiscal Year 2004 <br /> City <br /> Municipality Population Taxes <br />I Brooklyn Center 29,180 $ 918 <br />2 Cottage Grove 30,753 762 <br />3 Inver Grove Heights 30,150 714 <br />4 Richfield 34,876 709 <br />5 St. Louis Park 44,576 689 <br />6 Oakdale 26,906 627 <br />7 Maplewood 35,080 624 <br />8 Blaine 46,000 584 <br />9 Andover 27,446 549 <br />10 Fridley 27,469 531 <br />II Lakeville 44,750 526 <br />12 Shoreview 26,374 474 <br />13 Roseville 33,690 417 <br />Average 33,635 625 <br /> <br />Moreover, even when you compare Roseville's property tax to Metro cities much <br />smaller than Roseville, we compare very favorably, often having lower city <br />property taxes than cities smaller than us -- as well as having much lower prop- <br />erty taxes than those cities the same size or larger than us. Here are the data. <br /> <br />5 <br />