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^ T ^ — — <br />^v7^- <br />4901 Manilou Road, Tcnka Bay. Minnesota 5533 1 i- i -tra ryy-t <br />4 YOB <br />H. Haufl June 12, 1991 <br />OUNCIL <br />Btndittoar <br />M««n Johnson <br />lOUfiM Killer <br />Ihn Semscaii <br />Mr. Gene Stronunen, Executive Director <br />Lake Minnetonka Conservation District <br />OMINISTRATOR 900 East Wayzata Boulevard, avig cniiltir Suite 160 <br />Wayzata, MN 55391 <br />Dear Hr. Stronunen: <br />The Tonka Bay City Council has recently had the opportunity to <br />review the 1992 LMCD Budget. As a result of this review, we <br />would like to make the following comments, questions and <br />concerns: <br />1) Court Fines - Revenues are up $3,000, however prosecution <br />costs have increased $5,000 resulting in a net deficit of <br />$2,000. Apparently the cost of prosecution was under-budgeted <br />in previous years. Fact - The cost of prosecution has nearly <br />doubled in the last two years while the amount of court fines <br />has decreased by $2,000 since 1990. <br />2) Telephone - Increase of 59% from 1991 budget. Most of <br />the increase is for an additional phone line. Are three phone <br />lines for a staff of 3 1/2 really necessary? <br />3) Postage - This item is proposed to increase 75% for 1992. <br />We feel this is excessive due to the fact that only $3,100 was <br />spent for postage in 1990. Granted there was a 16% increase <br />in postal rates, but if we take the $3,100 spent in 1990 and <br />add 16% we come up with a more reasonable figure of $3,596. <br />Given the current fiscal crisis, all government agencies are <br />being encouraged to reduce the amount of unnecessary mailings <br />by eliminating people from mailing lists, consolidating <br />mailings, etc... The LMCD should also be expected to reduce, <br />not increase, the number of mailings and thus the overall cost <br />of postage. A 75% increase in postage costs is unacceptable. <br />Fact - The LMCD's cost of postage has more than doubled since <br />1990. <br />Printing — Here again we have a major increase (33%) in <br />an area that we should be looking for ways to reduce the <br />amount of printing that we do. An inflationary increase would <br />appear more acceptable, but $500 or 33% is not. <br />•aV.1^. t.