Correspondence 1992-1993 Waldron

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� : 14 in northeastern Minnesota (including several counties in addition to St. Louis) were the highest in the state in 1987.� With the exception of seven grants to prosperous Hennepin County (site of Minneapolis and suburbs) and a concentration of ten grants in one western county, the other grants were scattered throughout the state, not concentrated in particular areas. A map of the distribudon of the largest grants, $247,500 to $500,000,� shows that S; . Louis County received many more than any other county (see Figure 2). Sixteen of the twenty grants made to communities in St. Lo�is County were at l�ast $247,500, and th� made up one-fifth of all large grants the program made. Only five other counties in the state received as many as three large grants. The distrib�tion of grants by state senate district also shows strildng patterns. The district of State Senatar pouglas Johnson, chair of the Senate 'Tax Cammitt�ee, receivexi 18 grants; five other Senate districts (out of a total of 67 districts) rec�ived ten or eleven gran�s. Johnson's district, which included a large part of St. Louis County and all of Lake and Cook counti�s, received one-eighth of th� program's grant funds. The senate district receiving the next largest amount of grant iunds received less than ha�f the funds of Johnson's district. Overall, the patterns of geographic distribution of grants by county and legisladve district suggest that important factors were influencing the dis�ribution of grants that did not �Breada K. Burk, "Regional Consumer Price Comparisons with Specific Applic�tion to Minncsota" (Mast�er's thesis, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Mannesota, St. P�ul� MN, Jan. 1989)� chap. 4. �'The program's appliGation manual discouraged requests for more than $250,000. The legisl•.�ian limitod grants to � maximum of $500,Q00. �247,500 is used because this amount plus a� administrative cast allo'vL�'-nce of 52500 is a 5250,040 gcant.