HomeMy WebLinkAbout6252 - ADMIN Resolution - City Council - 1979/04/16APRIL 16, 1979
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RESOLUTION NO. 6252
RESOLUTION SUPPORTING MINNESOTA COMMUNITY EDUCATION
ASSOCIATION LEGISLATIVE PROPOSAL
WHEREAS, the City of St. Louis Park and the St. Louis Park School
District No. 238 jointly sponsor the St. Louis Park Community Education
Program; and
WHEREAS, the Community Education Program, the basis for providing
community services, is an education -based partnership between the com-
munity and the formal education system whereby the resources of both are
available for the continuing growth or betterment of both; and
WHEREAS, local educational agencies have the fiscal authority to
levy and operate Community Education programs based upon the identified
needs and resources within the community; and
WHEREAS, costs for maintaining existing Community Education programs
have increased due to inflation; and
WHEREAS, the need to provide additional services as a result of
community demands requires additional financial resources; therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED that the City of St. Louis Park supports and endorses
the Minnesota Community Education Association's legislative proposal for
funding Community Education programs during the 1980-81 biennium as follows:
1) To increase the state match from $.50 to $.75 per capita
for 1979-80 and to guarantee small districts $5,000 in
1979 and $7,000 in 1980;
2) To give local school districts the option to increase their
community services levy from $2 to a maximum of $3 per capita.
Adopted by the City uncil April 16, 1979.
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City Clerk
Manor
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