More news this week on the alleged glitch in the State’s Local Government Aid formula. A Star-Tribune story from yesterday described the problems that some city governments are going to have if the alleged glitch is not fixed.
The same glitch existed last year, but Governor Pawlenty fixed the glitch through a unilateral action. After he fixed the problem himself last year, the Governor advised the Legislature that he’d overlook the glitch for 2004, but that he expected the Legislature to fix the glitch during their 2004 session. The Legislature chose not to fix the glitch this year, so what are we to make of that? Was it an oversight? Was it intentional? Who knows. What we do know, however, is that the Legislature knew the problem existed prior to the 2004 sessoin and that they took no action to mitigate it during their 2004 session.
Net result for Eden Prairie: We are scheduled to receive $172,400 of Local Government Aid that we did not budget for in our 2005 budget.
Do we need it? No. We’ll be fine if we get it or not.
Will we use it if we get it? Of course.
Do I expect to actually get this “glitch money”? No, I don’t.
Somebody will cave, but who…………
More on the LGA Glitch
July 16, 2004 – 4:49 pm
