[Mpls] Republican Views of Minneapolis

[Steven Clift]

> Although budget analysis and planning is complex, there is a simple
> question that needs to be answered.  Is the debt being reduced or is
> it continuing to grow?  Is the city's budget just treading water and
> keeping the creditors at bay, shifting the problem into the future
> or are we actually reducing the portion of the city's budget that is 
> financing the debt?  

> Michael Atherton
> Prospect Park
> 


Does the city have a set of graphs and charts online that provide an overview 
of revenue and expenditures?

Sort of like this:
http://www.taxes.state.mn.us/taxes/individ/other_supporting_content/wheretaxesgo
02.shtml

I'd be interested in better understanding in graphical terms where property 
taxes revenues are coming from (both commerical and residential by area and as 
percentages over time) and something that brings home the reduction in 
commerical property tax and what needs to come out of residents.  I guess 
something that showed any reductions in school property taxes per the state 
spending shift and how other county taxes fit in would be useful.

Cheers,
Steven Clift
Standish-Ericsson