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Residents press council on airport leases, local services and tax fairness at public hearing
Summary
Multiple residents used the open-forum portion of the meeting to raise grievances about airport hangar lease enforcement and inconsistent municipal service at the city edge; officials explained statutory limits and offered follow-up with staff.
Forest Lake — Several residents used the council’s open forum during the Truth in Taxation meeting to highlight long-running local service complaints and an airport hangar dispute the council did not immediately resolve.
Donald E. Shipp, who identified himself as a Forest Lake Airport hangar owner and longtime commercial pilot, told the council the city ‘‘has violated hangar owner contracts’’ by applying an extra fee schedule to some hangar owners after a 2016 MnDOT Aeronautics grant and said owners who paid the fee were never…
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