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CITY OF SHAKOPEE
Memorandum
TO: Mayor and Council
Mark McNeill, City Administrator
FROM: Gregg Voxland, Finance Director
SUBJ: Debt Levies
DATE: July 14, 2010
Introduction
Several debt service funds have cash balances higher than needed and therefore reducing the
tax levy for debt is suggested.
Background
There are restrictions on the amount of interest that can be earned in a debt service fund which
is a function of amount of cash in the fund. Several funds have more cash than needed at this
time and therefore decreasing the tax levy in support of those funds is recommended.
Reducing the tax levy for debt for 2010/2011 and then reinstating it for 2011/2012 results in an
undesirable fluctuation on the total tax levy tax impact. In order to stabilize the tax levy, an
offsetting operating levy increase to be used "one time" expenditures (fire station construction)
is recommended. The goal is to maintain the same tax levy from 2009/2010 to 2010/2011.
The projected effect of the proposed change in scheduled debt service tax levy is:
Scheduled
Levy Revised Change
Levied 2009 887,244 898,244 11,000
Levy 2010 881,856 145,788 (736,068)
Levy 2011 1,068,723 610,210 (458,513)
Levy 2012 1,348,920 1,101,404 (247,516)
Action
No action — discussion as part of the budget process.
Gregg Voxland
Finance Director
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