[Scott Dier]Is there a source and methodology for these numbers? Does that include school funding via local tax levies, for instance?
[Wendy] The number for Minneapolis is from Mayor Ryback, and the number from Dakota County is from the County Administrator, Brandt Richardson. It is an overall return on the tax dollars paid into the state. The state web site has some rather old figures on return on the tax dollar on their web site - http://server.admin.state.mn.us/cashflows/dollar.html . Since then, state aid has been eliminated to most suburbs, however, so the contrast is greater than what the old numbers would indicate. Minneapolis continues to receive very significant state aid monies - 20% of all the state LGA payments go to Mpls. The biggest returns on the tax dollar, however, are outside the metro. Interestingly, while Mpls gets 95 cents on the dollar, Hennepin County averages 49 cents on the dollar, so the Henn Cty suburbs are doing even worse, apparently. On transportation, I don't know what sort of return Minneapolis gets, but for Dakota County, the return on highway taxes paid in vs money received is about 27 cents on the dollar. For schools, Minneapolis has the highest per-capita funding in the state. Lakeville's state share is so low, that even with the maximum allowed local operating levy, we don't even get to average on per-pupil funding. Wendy Wulff Lakeville _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Metropolitan Issues Forum http://www.e-democracy.org/tcmetro Rules: Sign posts with real name. You may not post more than twice a day.
