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<br />1 <br /> <br />.. <br />~ <br /> <br />RAMSEY COUNlY <br /> <br />Office of the County Manager <br />Paul L. Kirkwold, County Manager <br /> <br />250 Court House <br />15 West Kellogg Boulevard <br />St. Paul, MN 55102-1614 <br /> <br />Tel: 651-266-8000 <br />Fax: 651-266-8039 <br />e-mail: www.co.ramsey.mn.us <br /> <br />MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />TO: <br /> <br />FROM: <br /> <br />Jan Wiessner, President <br />Ramsey County L~ague of Local Govemments <br /> <br />Paul L. Kirkwold, County Ma~ <br /> <br />June 19, 2003 <br /> <br />DATE: <br /> <br />SUBJECT: <br /> <br />Report on City Managers Meeting - June 11, 2003, on <br />Dealing with the Deficit Report <br /> <br />On June 11, 2003, Terry Speiker, Nick Riley, and I met with the City Managers to <br />discuss the RCLLG Report, Dealing with the Deficit - Addressing Expenditures, <br />Revenue Generation, Restructuring and Consolidation. This meeting was a follow-up to <br />the two previous RCLLG meetings held in March and April where initial ideas for dealing <br />with the State deficit were generated and prioritized. <br /> <br />During the meeting, the group of local government administrators reviewed the <br />prioritized list, discussed current collaborative efforts, considered potential new projects, <br />and began to establish procedures on how to implement ideas. <br /> <br />Historically, local governments in Ramsey County have worked well together for the <br />benefit of providing quality services to the citizens in the most cost-effective way. Some <br />examples include: <br /> <br />· Ramsey County Sheriff's office provides law enforcement services to seven Ramsey <br />County municipalities. . <br />· Merger of the Ramsey County and City of St. Paul Public Health Departments. <br />· Merger of the Ramsey County and City of St. Paul Workforce Departments. <br />· Functional consolidation of the road system in Ramsey County <br /> <br />During the past -several months, Ramsey County has worked with different <br />municipalities on projects that will be critical to the future delivery of quality services, as <br />welf as the .future financial viability of each partner. Some of the larger projects include: <br /> <br />Minnesota's First Home Rille County <br /> <br />printed on rocycled p:lper '..ith :I minimum of lOX p<l!t-consumer content <br /> <br />~ <br />