Charles Marohn
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I'm glad you're here. FYI, it's not ready yet, but tentatively in the first part of next year, we will be releasing some kind of budget tool to help with the macro trend analysis. I'm convinced the...
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Court cases are always tricky. In this case, they focused on equal protection principles. Here's the key quote, in my opinion: Ordinance No. 12023 is not constitutionally infirm in balancing these...
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You're right -- I don't have any such thing. If we look just at the revenue side, here in Minnesota we have 36 tax classifications, each city has a different tax rate, and of course this all varies...
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Can you just post a link to it?
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Can you post a copy of the study?
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Removing doglegs is one of those traffic flow obsessions. Widen the street and speed up traffic, then doglegs become really dangerous. Thus removing them is orthodox. This project is really frustr...
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You summarize this correctly, in my estimation. Here's an answer from GASB. Excerpt here, but I've got some thoughts afterwards. In general, governments are required to report capital assets at th...
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I wrote a plan to do exactly that. Here's the link.
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Yeah, you've reach the same problem I reached back in 2007. You can't scale costs this way, not in any reliable fashion. Even here in central Minnesota, with 200 feet of sandy glacial outwash to wo...
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This reminds me of the time that the city here in Brainerd decided to put bike lanes in front of one of the Catholic churches (not the one I primarily attend). Why bike lanes there? Because they we...
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