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MICA briefs Stearns County on 2025 legislature: funding wins, cuts and program changes
Summary
Representatives from the Minnesota Inter-County Association (MICA) presented a session recap covering property-tax trends, transportation and bonding outcomes, environment and solid-waste items, and multiple human services and corrections funding actions that will affect counties including Stearns.
Representatives from MICA (an association of larger Minnesota counties) presented a detailed 2025 legislative recap to the Stearns County Board on Aug. 12, outlining state actions that will affect county finances and programs in coming years.
Key takeaways included: • Property tax and local-aid changes: MICA presenters showed Stearns’ shifting property-tax base from 2020 to 2025, with residential increases and a dip in commercial-industrial value. Presenters said the legislature faced a multibillion-dollar structural deficit and that some previously anticipated local aids were cut or altered. • Cannabis local government aid: Funding that had been slated from cannabis gross-receipts tax (10% to counties/10% to cities under 2023 law) was not protected this session; presenters said the expected receipts had been minimal and the deduction was not preserved. • Aquatic invasive species (AIS) aid: A new quality AIS aid was set to start in…
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