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MICA briefs Olmsted County on 2025 legislative session: mixed outcomes for county budgets, targeted wins for SSIS modernization, AMRTC expansion and clean water
Summary
Minnesota Intercounty Association (MICA) staff updated commissioners on the 2025 session, reporting statewide fiscal pressure that produced cuts in transportation and some local aids but also bonding and appropriations for SSIS modernization, AMRTC bed expansion, clean water funding and local road programs.
Representatives from the Minnesota Intercounty Association (MICA) gave an informational briefing to Olmsted County commissioners summarizing the 2025 legislative session’s effects on counties.
Nathan Jessen, MICA’s executive director, said counties faced a state budget constrained by a large structural deficit and described one notable outcome: changes in the composition of property tax shares and county program aid (CPA). “We’re a voluntary group of 17 counties from across the state,” Jessen said, and he noted Olmsted receives slightly above‑average CPA per capita; he described recent redistribution factors that will modestly increase Olmsted’s CPA in 2026.
Transportation and bonding: Amber Backus, MICA’s transportation liaison, described a difficult transportation negotiations process and a special-session transportation bill that reduced some transit and active-transportation funding and slowed a prior dedication…
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