2009-03-27
12:48:53
It will be some time before the city of International Falls knows if its lobbying efforts at the state capital Thursday were effective. City Administrator Rod Otterness joined hundreds of municipal representatives across Minnesota in St. Paul in trying to convince lawmakers of the important of the sustained local government aid.
"It certainly isn't certain how this story is going to end," said Otterness Friday, "but we do believe we got our message across about the importance of the work local government does every day."
The city is trying grapple with a loss of $222 thousand in local government aid from 2008. Otterness says they are looking at delaying some capital projects as a result. Otterness says they may not know if they were effective they were in St. Paul until the state finalizes its budget in May.
