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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY FOR ACTION
CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: OCTOBER 20,1992
AGENDA ITEK: LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM
AGENDA SECTION:
ADMINISTRATORS REPORT
PREPARED BY: STEPHAN JILK
CITY ADMINISTRATOR
AGENDA NO. /
ATTACHKENTS: 1. DAK. CTY. LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM
APPOVE BY:
2. LMC 1992 POLICY ADOPTION
3. AMM POLICY ADOPTION
A. In preparation for the 1993 State Legislative session the League of
Minnesota Cities, the Association of Metropolitan Municipalities and Dakota
County Cities will be working up legislative issues packages for
consideration in the next session.
The League of Minnesota Cities and the AMM have scheduled their annual
policy adoption meetings. Notices are attached. I would recommend
attendance at them.
B. In past years Dakota County Cities have developed legislative position
papers on important issues through the City Administrators group and
supported by City Council approval with final positions presented for
Legislator consideration at an annual breakfast. It is the feeling of the
City Administrators that this process has not worked well. The initial
"Buy In" by the Legislators and the follow up, during the session, has not
been successful. A new format to this process is being suggested. Please
refer to the attached letter from Eagan City Administrator Tom Hedges.
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I believe this approach, utilizing City Council Members and Legislators
would be more effective in reaching the Legislative voters on issues
important to the cities and I recommend your support for it and request
that you individually offer to get involved in the process.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: 1. MOTION TO SUPPORT THE PROPOSED DAKOTA COUNTY'
LEGISLATIVE PROCESS.
2. MOTION TO AUTHORIZE ATTENDANCE AT THE LMC
AND AMM LEGISLATIVE POLICY ADOPTION MEETINGS.
COUNCIL ACTION:
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TO: DAKOTA COUNTY CITY MANAGERS/ADMINISTRATORS
FROM: TOM HEDGES, EAGAN CITY ADMINISTRATOR
DATE: OCTOBER 5, 1992
SUBJECT: DAKOTA COUNTY LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM
A special committee comprised of Steve Jilk, Tom Melena, Doug Reeder and I met on
Friday, October 2, 1992 to consider a revised format for developing a legislative agenda
for 1993. Historically, the City Managers/Administrators have met in the fall and prepared
a legislative agenda that is then presented by local elected officials to the Dakota County
Legislative Delegation at a breakfast in January or February prior to the session. The
presentation has been well documented and generally, each legislative position is
presented by a local elected official Unfortunately, these breakfast meetings have not
always received a strong attendance by local and state elected officials and the follow-up
of monitoring legislation during the session has been all but absent in recent years.
At the direction of the Dakota County Managers/Administrators group, our committee
evaluated the process and results of recent years and is suggesting a new format
somewhat modeled after the League of Minnesota Cities legislative resource committee.
The committee's recommendation is to establish a group that would consist of local and
state elected officials, no later than mid-November, to work on a legislative platform for
1993. The group would attempt to limit the number of issues to approximately three, but
certainly the by-play regarding other issues is o cigrtTz=t pa.1 of the process. As an
example, a couple of issues that were suggested were D.A.R.E. funding and the
transportation utility bill.
It is the feeling of the committee that involving all legislators, both Senate and House, from
Dakota County or selecting a few from the Dakota County Legislative Delegation on this
committee will provide both accountability and ownership as the legislative platform is
developed for 1993. Again, the committee would consist of the entire Legislative
Delegation or a select few, local elected officials and some City Managers/Administrators.
The committee will meet in November, December and January to adopt a legislative
platform.
On behalf of our committee, we would like each of you to review our recommendation
with your Mayor and City Council. If you like the format and one of your elected officials
would like to serve on the committee, please respond with a name and any suggested
topics you would like considered. Please remember that it is our recommendation that
this committee would screen the topics to approximately three that were of interest to all
Dakota County communities.
I would appreciate a response back by our next Dakota County Managers/Administrators
meeting held on Thursday, October 29 at 10:00 a.m.
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Thursday, November 19,1992
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League of Minnesota Cities
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT
Karen Anderson
Minnetonka
VICE PRESIDENT
David Childs
New Brighton
PAST PRESIDENT
Bob Long
St Paul
DIRECTORS
Don Ashworth
Chanhassen
Bill Barnhart
Minneapolis
William Burns
Fridley
Joan Campbell
Minneapolis
Tom Egan
Eagan
Richard Enrooth
St. Anthony
Jerry Unke
Mounds View
Kenneth Mahle Jr.
Woodbury
Betty McCollum
North St. Paul
Frank Ongaro
St Paul
Barbara Peterson
Orono
Jim Prosser
Richfield
Craig Rapp
Brooklyn Park
Tom Spies
Bloomington
Brenda Thomas
Roseville
Gene White
Prior Lake
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Vern Peterson
as�ocia�ion of
metro itan
municipalities
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October 9, 1992
TO: Managers/Ad, 'strators
FROM: Vern Petersen Executive Director
Enclosed are copies of the proposed AMM Policy for the 1993
Legislative session as recommended by the policy committees
and the Board of Directors.
Please distribute them to your Mayor and Councilmembers
for review.
This year's policy adoption meeting will be held Thursday,
November 5, 1992 at the Decathlon Club in Bloomington.
The 7:30 P.M. business meeting will beprecededby dinner
at 6:30 P.M., Social Hour at 5:45 P.M. and an optional tour
of the Mall of America at 4:15 P.M. Details for
reservations to follow.
It would be helpful if your council reviews the policy for
action prior to the meeting and indicates your city's top
five priorities on one of the tear -off covers to be
forwarded to the AMM for policy prioritization.
Thank you.
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