Subject: URGENT- Call your legislators TODAY to save the TIF funding sources
for NRP
Urgent Action Requested to Save tax increment funding sources for the NRP
Program- Please call TODAY!
Action Alert from the Minneapolis Center for Neighborhoods, 5-15-01
What- The Senate and House Tax Committees are meeting in a conference
committee this week to work out the final version of the Omnibus Tax Bill.
a.. The Senate version will save NRP.
b.. The House version will gut NRP.
c.. We need the language from the Senate version to prevail in the
Conference Committee.
d.. Call your State Reps. and Senators TODAY!
e.. Forward this email to others you know.
When- the tax conference committee is meeting THIS WEEK. The Session closes
at Midnight on Monday April 21st. Calls from neighborhood leaders need to be
mobilized TODAY!
Why- the Omibus Tax bill that has been written by House Republicans has
language that will
a.. Drastically reduce the tax increment sources of revenue that the
MCDA uses to fund the 20 million dollars a year of the NRP Program. The
House version of the tax bill would leave the MCDA with very few funds left
above their TIF debt servicing obligations.
b.. Make it impossible for the MCDA to use TIF dollars to fund
neighborhood NRP planning and implementation costs.
c.. Make it impossible for neighborhoods to spend their NRP Phase I
dollars that have not yet been spent.
d.. Drastically reduce the TIF funds which the MCDA uses to do housing
and economic development work, especially for affordable housing development
How- Please be courteous when contacting legislators, they and their staff
are under tremendous stress.
a.. Call you own House and Senate members of the Minneapolis Delegation.
Urge them to ask the Tax Conference Committee to adopt the Senate language
and drop the house language, in order to save the Neighborhood
Revitalization Program. To get the phone or email of your State Senator or
Representative call 651-296-6013, http://www.leg.state.mn.us
b.. Call the Senate leaders of the Tax Committee (one of which will be
assigned to Conference Committee) to urge them to keep the Senate language
which protects the TIF funding sources for the NRP Program.
c.. Sen. Larry Pogemiller, Minneapolis, 651-296-7809,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
d.. Sen. Ann Rest, St. Paul, 651-296-2889, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For more information about these proposed laws please contact
a.. Center for Neighborhoods, Gretchen Nicholls, Sean Gosiewski,
612-339-3480, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
b.. Bob Miller, NRP, 612-673-5141, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
a.. See attached list of the phone numbers and emails for the
Minneapolis Delegation
b.. See attached memo from MDCA
This Message sent by Sean Gosiewski, Corcoran Neighborhood
Phone numbers and emails for the Minneapolis Delegation
State Senators
Linda Higgins (DFL) District 58 , (651) 296-9246 ,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] s
Lawrence J. Pogemiller , District 59, (651) 296-7809,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Myron Orfield District 60, (651) 296-4191,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linda Berglin , District 61, (651) 296-4261
http://www.senate.leg.state.mn.us/members/sendis61_email.htm
Julie A. Sabo , District 62, (651) 296-4274,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jane B. Ranum, District 63, (651) 297-8061,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
State Representatives
Joe Mullery, 58A , 387 , (651) 296-4262
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gregory Gray, 58B , 327 , (651) 296-8659
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Len Biernat, 59A , 303 , (651) 296-4219
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phyllis Kahn, 59B , 255 , (651) 296-4257
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Margaret Anderson Kelliher, 60A , 231 , (651) 296-0171
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Scott Dibble, 60B , 369 , (651) 296-9281
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Karen Clark, 61A , 307 , (651) 296-0294
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Neva Walker, 61B , 213 , (651) 296-7152
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jim Davnie, 62A , 335 , (651) 296-0173 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wes Skoglund, 62B , 251 , (651) 296-4330
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jean Wagenius, 63A , 239 , (651) 296-4200
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mark Gleason, 63B , 313 , (651) 296-5375
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Attached memo from MDCA- (FYI for more background information)
To: Members of the Minneapolis Legislative Delegation
From: Steve Cramer, Executive Director, Minneapolis Community Development
Agency
Date: May 11, 2001
Re: Impact of Senate and House Omnibus Tax Bills on City�s Development
Activities
The Omnibus Tax Bills of the House and Senate would have distinctly
different impacts on the development activities of the City and the NRP. The
House Tax Bill would be disastrous for NRP and the City�s redevelopment
efforts.
a.. Encumbered but as yet unspent NRP funds from Phase I (approximately
$60 million) need protection from TIF limitations so that they can still be
spent for NRP. The Senate bill has the appropriate language. The House bill
does not.
a.. The class rate reductions and the shift in school funding to the
State proposed by the House results in an initial annual shortfall in TIF
revenue of approximately $21,250,000. Proposed class rate changes in the
Senate will not decrease the amount of TIF revenue available for NRP and
City redevelopment activities.
a.. Redefining what has so far been non-TIF revenue as TIF eliminates
the MCDA�s financial capacity to fund its planning and implementation costs
of NRP (approximately $1.3 million annually). Sen. Pogemiller�s office has
the required language to fix this.
a.. Eliminating pooling for pre-90 TIF districts removes the MCDA�s
ability to pool TIF for future redevelopment within the Common Project
(examples are included at the bottom of the page). This provision is not in
the Senate bill.
a.. The Senate bill increases the number of allowable parcels in a
housing replacement district from 100 to 200. This tool is used to help fund
our affordable housing initiatives.
Many current and proposed projects are jeopardized if the provisions in
Articles 2 and 12 of the House Omnibus Tax Bill are enacted. These are just
some of the projects and programs:
Grain Belt housing, Historic Mills District, SEMI industrial park, The
Coliseum (Lake St.), Stinson Tech Center, E. Hennepin/University housing ,
Affordable Housing program, McPhail/housing/office , Lowry Avenue
redevelopment , Tenth & Washington redevel. , Commercial Corridors , Urban
Village mixed income housing , Near Northside / Hollman redevelopment ,
Transit Oriented Development , Children�s Village/Hope Community housing ,
Many Rivers Housing , Village in Phillips , Boarded housing rehab , Humboldt
Greenway housing , Tower at Elliot Park, Bottineau Commons mixed income
housing, Brownfields cleanup, Graco (industrial) , Shingle Creek housing ,
Village Green / Harmon, NRP, Small business/micro loans
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