Mel wrote: > Victoria Heller wrote on 11/29/01 that Mpls. > already owes $1,739,954,000.00 1.7 billion dollars. > > Doesn't anyone realize how much money this is? > Doesn't anyone realize how this may harm our credit rating?
Some good background and context for what all these zeros mean and how they relate to the City's debt capacity and population can be found in the State of the City Report 2000 on the City of Minneapolis website (see link below) http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/citywork/planning/soc00/soc-toc.html Start with the index to find the pages on debt in the Government Management Section. _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
