In reply to Paul Udstrand.

pdf page 30, or pg 24 as marked at the bottom of the page in the pdf. It is very clear the total government spend and business spend (enterprise funds in Minneapolis). Debt (interest) payments for the year 2014 is only $1.18m.

As mplsjaromir pointed out earlier, the document you referenced with ~$30m annual spending is entirely general fund expenditures and doesn't account for utility, capital, etc. If you go through each department in the first document I linked and add up total budgeted (not actual) expenditures from each group, you get a grand total (including capital spend within each department) very close to the $82 the end-of-year document details out. It's all right there. These expenses mirror the expense categories in every other city's budget, including Minneapolis.

$30m for SLP ($625/capita) would put it well below any other peer suburbs like Edina ($1,873), Eden Prairie ($1,518), and Bloomington ($2,758). Do you honestly believe St Louis Park is spending well below half what Edina spends per person?