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PERt1'S Le�islative Commission on this issue. No definitive agreement or resolution was reached. When the Hastings Relief Association submitted its annual reports for 1996 in early 1997, the State Auditor's Office told the Relief Association that state fire aid to the City of Hastings and the Relief Association would be withheld unless the Relief Association removed the service credit it had granted to each of the Plaintiffs. Mark Holmes, Treasurer of the Hastings Relief Association, contacted PERA to see if it would refund the City and Plaintiffs' pension contributions between 1990 and 1997 for the pay Plaintiffs received for non-scheduled overtime work PER.A declined to refund those amounts. The City of Hastings and the Relief Association eventually filed amended fom�s reducing the service credits for the individual Plaintiffs for the 1990 to 1997 period. The State Auditor approved the amended schedules and the Hastings Relief Association has continued to receive state fire aid. Plaintiffs commenced this action seeking a declaratory judgment that the Plaintiffs are entitled to receive both PERA and Relief Association pension credit for their service between 1990 and 1997. Plaintiffs also sought injunctive relief and damages for tortiotts interference with contract rights and deprivation of constitutional rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The State Defendants tiled a motion to dismiss the case pursuant to Rule 12 of the Minnesota Rules of Civil Procedure and for summary judgment under Rule 56.03. The State Defendants specifically assert that this Court lacks jurisdiction over the subject matter of this case and that the proper forum for review of the State Auditor's decision is the Minnesota Court of Appeals on a writ of