Wyoming caps tax levy at $3.3 million for 2012
Proposed $500,000 street repair levy cut
Alice Pickering
Wyoming Reporter
In a 4-1 vote on Tuesday, Dec. 6, the Wyoming City Council set the 2012 property tax levy of $3.3 million. Discussion during the public hearing lasted nearly 90 minutes. The amount represents the total levy, plus an EDA levy of $42,000.
Coming into the Truth in Taxation hearing last week, the proposed levy was $4,053,784, down from the not-to-exceed levy of $4,134,216 set in September.
At that time the levy for the General Fund was targeted at $3,416,028. This portion of the levy is where most of the adjustments were made during a budget workshop.
As promised, the council shaved dollars from the proposed levy before its final presentation to residents. They brought a new General Fund proposal of $3,096,361, down nearly $320,000.
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Wyoming caps tax levy at $3.3 million for 2012
Dec 22 2011 04:12:49
I’m stunned at what transpired at the Dec. 6, the Wyoming City Council and the press coverage it garnered in local papers. Most strikingly are the credence given the crowd who showed up wanting a flat city budget with no levy increases. Regarding our city streets its been over 18 years since they were improved in any major way. Now they are cracked, fragmented and patched with asphalt band-aids. Yet audience member Hestekin declared “it’s the wrong time” to seriously and finally, address this worsening infrastructure problem. And former councilman Russ Goudge said the current council should be “representing us; doing what’s best for us.” Whose “us” Kimosabe and just whose interests are you addressing and you say "us"?
The odd thing is that it appears four members of our Wyoming city government did, indeed, best representing our city's short and long term interests. Not for just a select few but for ALL the peoples of our greater combined community. Even anti tax Joe Zerwas swallowed hard and did, seemingly, the right thing. This while council member Linda Nanko Yeager called for a flat levy, saying “The people have spoken and spoken loudly. They can’t handle the increase,” (from the Forest Lake Press).
Councilwoman Yeager must have a better plan of her own in the works? One which will cut city staffing or department budgets eliminating needless waste and personnel? Certainly 30 people, mostly from the former township, wouldn’t sway her towards short term thinking. But I will say, on the surface, this appears to be a case of strange bedfellows and that one council member is out of step with responsible, sound, city planning.
I think the next many months so be very interesting as to where budget proposals for 2012-13, end up.
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Peterson Companies' request gets nowhere.
BY DENISE MARTIN
Wyoming City Council couldn't muster a second to the mayor's motion last week, so a request for tax aid for a longtime area business expansion plan was not even addressed.
Wyoming Mayor Eric Peterson made a motion calling for a public hearing September 6 for the Peterson Companies' abatement request, at which time the council could legally consider and act on the abatement. Nobody made a second and it died.
Council member Roger Elmore stated he didn't even support bringing the matter to a public hearing.
Applicant Jon Peterson was somewhat taken aback.
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Peterson Companies' request gets nowhere
Sep 09 2011 14:45:30
Another sad day for the citizens of Wyoming. This city has been business "unfriendly" since the days of Sheldon Anderson and I see it continues with the likes of Elmore and Phillips who are nothing more than Anderson-has-beens. These people just dont seem to get it.
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Sep 09 2011 16:01:49
In these tough economic times, businesses aren't exactly beating down our doors to come into our city. Other cities are willing to offer incentives to come into their cities. We need to be competitive.
People need to understand what a tax abatement really is. A year ago, I didn't. But, I took the time to understand how they really work. And if others took the time as well, they'd understand that this is the type of incentive that really doesn't cost the city anything and at the same time offers financial relief to a business moving into or expanding within the city. The end result is an increase in our city's tax base (which can reduce the tax burden on home owners and other businesses) , more jobs, and more patrons for existing businesses that will last for years to come.
If anyone would like to talk to me, and really understand how a tax abatement works, I welcome a call.... (651) 238-0245
Eric Peterson
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Re:Peterson Companies' request gets nowhere
Sep 13 2011 16:05:17
This situation is reminiscent of the hot stove syndrome. Your council is so politically motivated that if finds itself frozen with inaction. The Peterson Company is yet another victim of a poorly planned township-city merger. The cart was shoved in front of the horse back in the days of the Sheldon Anderson Administration. The horse trampled it, the cart and knocked its wheels off in the process. Now the horse, a poorly planned municipality cooperative, is dragging a cart with no wheels. All that does is kick up a lot of dust. Until the Wyoming City Council stops, finds the wheels and places them back on the cart, more opportunities are sure to be lost. The other alternative is for the citizendry to replace the council, next election, with totally new visionaries.
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AREA COMPOST SITE OPENS FOR
LINDSTROM, CHISAGO CITY, WYOMING, AND STACY
The Cities of Chisago City, Lindstrom, Wyoming, and Stacy announce that the Compost Site will begin operations Saturday, April 16th , 2011. It will remain open (weather permitting) until Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011 before Thanksgiving.
The Compost Site is Open Wednesdays from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Until Dusk in fall.)
The Facility is located by the Chisago Lakes Joint Wastewater Treatment Site (the new Sewer Plant) off of County Road 77. Chisago City residents can get to the site by going 1 mile north of the stoplights from Highway 8 on County Road #77. Lindstrom residents can go north on County Road # 14 (at the Lindstrom Quick Stop stoplights), to west (left) on County Road # 19 (Stacy Trail), to intersection of County Road #77, then go (right) North .3 tenths of a mile to site on right. Stacy residents can get there by going East on County Rd. # 19 to the 4-Way Stop (intersection of # 19 and #77), then North (left) on County Rd. 77 for .3 tenths of a mile to site on right.
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Music, Facebook breathe new life into old tradition
by Jonathan Kelly
Contributing Writer
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Tuesday, August 9, 2011 7:44 PM CDT
NORTHEAST METRO — Look around the next time you are in a grocery store.
Signs tout locally grown vegetables, meat raised on local farms and pictures of the growers on their farms right next to their products.
If you go one step further, you can even see many of those same growers in your hometowns, when they make their rounds at farmer’s markets from White Bear Lake to Wyoming.
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton recently declared Aug. 7-13 Farmer’s Market week and now is the perfect time to sample the delights of summer’s harvest. Farmer’s markets have sprung up all over the northeast metro area, following a nationwide trend of 60 percent growth over the last two years, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Part of the resurgence has been a desire to reconnect with where food is produced, said Bob Olson, director of the Midwest Food Alliance.
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Curtis Lendt was asleep as his Wyoming home burned
By Cliff Buchan
News Editor, Forest Lake Times
There is plenty of damage at Curtis Lendt’s home in Wyoming which is more than 100 years old after a late night fire on Saturday.
But Lendt, 88, is alive to see the damage thanks to the fast action of a city police officer and the fire chief.
The 100-year-old home owned by Curtis Lendt of Wyoming was damaged by fire late Saturday night, but the 88-year-old former county commissioner was helped from the building by Wyoming Fire Chief Dennis Berry and city police officer Tom Cockburn. Photo by Cliff Buchan
Lendt was awakened and helped from the home shortly before midnight after the two-story, wood-frame home caught fire in a second-story bedroom.
Wyoming police officer Tom Cockburn was first on the scene after the fire was reported at 11:24 p.m.. He was quickly joined by Wyoming Fire Chief Dennis Berry.
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