In reply to Paul Udstrand.

My goodness Paul is dense. Minneapolis does not have a 4-5 times higher cost to serve each resident. You made that ridiculous claim. The budget is larger because the city does more stuff than St. Louis Park. Your calculation of total city budgets divided by total population is terrible. The city of Minneapolis has many more people buying its services than it does residents.

Minneapolis sells water to other municipalities, sells parking, sells waste pickup runs a convention center etc. These are in its budget, SLP does none of those things, hence not in their budget skewing per captita comparisons. Minneapolis only receives 9% or its budget from outside sources, SLP at 6%. Figure out simple arithmetic.