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RESOLUTION NO. 5697
RESOLUTION OPPOSING HOUSE FILE NO. 1 AND
SENATE FILE NO. 459
'MARCH 21, 1977
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WHEREAS, the St. Louis Park City Council fully supports and
approves previous legislation which established and funded municipal
boards of health and health departments; and
WHEREAS, the City Council feels strongly that the City of St.
Louis Park should continue to provide a full range of environmental
health services and certain health services including counseling for
senior citizens and teenagers, nursing services, food sanitation,
housing inspections, air pollution control, noise control, swimming
pool sanitation and rodent and insect control, to residents of St. Louis
Park; and '
WHEREAS, the City Council is aware of the highly competent and
rrofessional manner in which the City of St. Louis Park has performed
environmental health services; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has reviewed the law pro1.used to the
Legislature during the 1977 legislative session, filed as House File
No. 1; and
WHEREA--, the City Council is aware that the adoption of House
File No. 1 as presently drafted would repeal existing statutory provisions
which, among other things, (1) permit the organization of a city board
of health and health department (M.S.A. SS145.01; 145.913, Subd. 2);
(2) provide investigatory and enforcement powers for local boards of
health (M.S.A. S145.03); (3) exempt city property from the county health
department tax levy (M.S.A. S145.51); (4) allow the City -to adopt
stricter public health standards than the state or county (M.S.A. S145.53,
Subd.2); (5) mandate that at least 51 percent of the advisory board
cqnsist of local government officials (M.S.A. S145.913, Subd. 3); (6)
require City Council approval before the county can pre-empt the authority
of the City to provide health services (M.S.A. S145.914, Subd. 2);
(7) authorize the City to hire health service personnel, acquire property,
accept funds, collect fees, contract for services, and evaluate the
effectiveness and efficiency of community health services (M.S.A. S145.914,
Subds. 3-7); (8) empower the City to levy a tax for health services
(M.S.A. S145.916); and (9) provide a health service subsidy for the City's
health program (M.S.A. S145.921); and
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WHEREAS, the City Council is -further aware that House File
No. 1 and Senate File No. 459 would transfer the authority for the
planning, funding, and provision of community health services to the
Hennepin County Board of Commissioners and thereby seriously jeopardize
the viability of the City of St. Louis Park',s health programs and services;
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF'ST. LOUIS PARK,
that the City Council hereby urges that the Minnesota State Legislature
reject the passage of House File No. 1 and Senate File No. 459.
. t BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that copies of thus resolution be sent to
the City's representatives and certain other committee members and
committee chairmen in the Minnesota Legislature.
Adopted by the i ty Council March 21, 1977.
Attest:
.City Clerk j
Reviewed for administration:
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Approved as to form and legality:
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