Folks, We are receiving notice from the city to get our campaign bus off the street. The city received a complaint of the bus parked on the street. Therefore, we need to locate an off-street storage location. Anyone knows of a spot contact us soon. In addition, we must maintain the tabs and insurance, the tabs (about $100.00) and 6 months of insurance (about $600.00) are due for renewal in March 09. Our commitment to keeping the bus requires the campaign to raise the funds for the 2 items mentioned above prior to March 09. Thanks to all for your support Timothy D. Utz CCCR Candidate, Minnesota State House 50-A www.timutzforhouse.com This communication is considered private and not transmittable or reproduced without written authorization from the candidate. ******************************************************************************** The Citizen's League just came out with their comparison of Property Tax review. If you do some comparisons between the cities, the city with the most items similar to Columbia Heights is actually South St. Paul. Their population is only 2,000 more than what we have in Columbia Heights. Their average property values are about the same. The taxes that they pay are very similar. Even the increase that they had in their taxes are very similar to what we had in Columbia Heights. Note the salaries of their 3 highest paid city workers in South St. Paul.:City Administrator - $110,589.00; City Engineer - $103,974.24; Police Chief - $100,426.80. This notice is published October 2, 2008 We are paying our city workers much higher and our cities are about the same size and both are suburbs of a larger city. Why the big discrepancy? We shouldn't be comparing ourselves to Brooklyn Center - they have over 10,000 more residents than we do. We shouldn't be comparing ourselves with Brooklyn Park - they have over 55,000 more residents than we do. Crystal might be close to what we should be comparing to-they only have about 4,000 more people than we do. Their home values run close to what ours do, maybe a little higher. But they average a little bit higher taxes than we do, also. Average salaries for city managers in 2006 For chief admin officer/city manager 2006 average = $104,571, average increase 3.4% Population 10,000 - 24,999 average = $104,339 Geographic: North central mean = $97,594 City type: Suburban mean = $108,369 Form of government: Council-manager = $106,955 League of MN Cities salary survey, 2007 City manager/administrator Metro cities, 15,000 - 25,000 population Average = $109,890 Crystal city manager = $112,500

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