This has gotten somewhat far away from the original posting, but it is time to interject a few facts from the 2002 Mpls budget. http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/city-budget/2002adopted/Section3.pdf
2002 Fire and Police expenditures: $139.0 million 2002 Total expenditures: $1,244.8 million 2002 Property Tax revenue: $151.3 million 2002 Total revenue: $1,002.8 million Property tax revenue only accounts for about 15% of Minneapolis' total revenue so you could pick almost any combination of departments and say that they account for most of the property taxes collected. I'll leave it up to the reader to determine how this fits into the debate because I am losing interest... Tom Searles Waconia, Twp -- where parking is plentiful and the police are respected. ------------ > [Brauer] "As we've seen in previous discussions, most Minneapolis property > taxes go for police, fire and public works." > > [Heller] What numbers are you looking at? According to the "2003 Truth in > Taxation Budget" - less than half of the City expenditures are for police, > fire and public works. > > Your statement reflects my point: There is vast confusion about city > finance. Why is that? It should be difficult for people to find out where > their money is going. > > Vicky Heller > North Oaks > REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
