2009-03-26
06:44:24
It's lobby day for the city of International Falls.
Administrator Rod Otterness is taking the city's concerns over cuts to municipal aid programs to the state's house and senate representatives.
Otterness says governor Tim Pawlenty is treating the city unfairly.
He says their calculations show that several more urban Minnesota cities are losing a 1/10th of the amount of state aid per capita that International Falls is being asked to give up in the governor's proposed budget
The city also disputes the governor's claim that the reduction in L-G-A is only about 5 per cent.
Otterness says they're figure show a 9 per cent cut for this year and a whopping 31-per cent state aid cuts in 2010.
