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<br />'g Metro Transit <br /> <br />March 16, 2005 <br /> <br />Mayor Craig Klausing <br />City of Roseville <br />2660 Civic Center Drive <br />Roseville, MN 55113-1899 <br /> <br />Dear Mayor Klausing: <br /> <br />As you may have read in the news media this week, the regional transit system faces a $60 million budget <br />challenge over the next two-year funding cycle. This has prompted the Metropolitan Council to develop a <br />broad package of solutions - two of which, unfortunately, are a fare increase and service reductions. <br /> <br />I have enclosed details that might be of interest to you, your Council and your city staff. I also would be <br />pleased to have a Metro Transit staff member visit with your staff to talk through the changes as they <br />impact your citizens. Please call Arlene McCarthy, our director of service development, if you would <br />find that of value. Her number is 612-349-7766. <br /> <br />Please be aware that the Metropolitan Council has set seven public hearings on this topic for mid-April, <br />and the Council has activated a number of other feedback mechanisms so that citizens unable to attend a <br />public meeting can have their voices heard. <br /> <br />If the Metropolitan Council approves any changes during its meeting in late May, service reductions <br />would take place in September and December and a fare increase would be implemented July I >t. <br /> <br />Of course, we wish we did not have to propose these difficult adjustments in a time when the region needs <br />to expand its resources in the fight against congestion. The budget problem - prompted largely by <br />disappointing revenue forecasts from our major funding source, the motor vehicle sales tax money - with <br />rising fuel costs and other inflationary pressures leaves us without good alternatives. <br /> <br />Thank you for your suppOli of public transportation. <br /> <br />J:J~ <br /> <br /> <br />Brian Lamb <br />General Manager <br /> <br />Enc.: Metropolitan Council Business Item <br />Fare Adjustment Proposal <br />PowerPoint Presentation <br />Route-by-Route Detail <br />Service adjustment maps <br />Metropolitan Council News Release <br /> <br />A service of the Metropolitan Council <br /> <br />560 Sixth Avenue North <br />http://www.metrotransit.org <br /> <br />Minneapolis, Minnesota 55411-4398 <br /> <br />(612) 349.7400 <br /> <br />Transit Info 373-3333 TrY 341-0140 <br />An Equal Opportunity Employer <br />