# Dakota County Housing and Redevelopment Authority *Minnesota public agency (Dakota County), created by special act in 1971* The **Dakota County Housing and Redevelopment Authority** is the name under which the Dakota County Community Development Agency (CDA) was created in 1971. The project's at-issue record states that it was created by special legislation now codified at [[Minn. Stat. § 383D.41]].[^1] That record draws on two sources: the agency's own publications and the statute.[^1] Under the same record, the CDA levies its own [[special benefit levy]] under [[Minn. Stat. § 469.033]], subd. 6, separate from the county's levy. Its 2026 levy is recorded at $11,750,233, and the rate increase for that year required approval by the Dakota [[County Board]].[^1] The project pairs this arrangement, a second taxing authority under a special act acting with the approval of the county's governing body, with a March 2025 federal executive action on information silos.[^2] ## Who The CDA is a county-level public agency in Dakota County, [[Minnesota]]. The project's record describes it as operating under a special act, with its levy increases above the automatic authorization level subject to county board approval.[^1] The record does not set out the agency's full governance structure beyond that approval requirement. ## When The agency was created in 1971 as the Dakota County Housing and Redevelopment Authority, according to the project's at-issue record.[^1] The levy figures in the record are for 2026.[^1] ## How The record states that the CDA's special benefit levy is adopted under Minn. Stat. § 469.033, subd. 6. The agency's creating legislation is a separate special act, Minn. Stat. § 383D.41.[^1] ## How much The project's at-issue record states the following for 2026:[^1] - The special benefit levy was $11,750,233. - The levy rate rose from 0.0144 to 0.0156 percent of market value. - The increase generated roughly $903,864. - The increase required county board approval because it exceeded the automatic authorization level. ## In the at-issue record At-issue item AI-Dakota-081 places two documented facts side by side. The first is the CDA's separate statutory levy of $11,750,233 for 2026 under Minn. Stat. § 469.033, subd. 6. The second is that the 2026 rate increase, from 0.0144 to 0.0156 percent of market value, required county board approval.[^1] The project anchors the item to the White House presidential action *Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos* (March 2025). It treats a second taxing authority under a special act, governed by the same body, as a layered instrument.[^2] That anchor is the project's pairing. The record does not establish that the executive action addresses the CDA or county housing authorities. ## Notes [^1]: Dakota County Community Development Agency, *Dakota County CDA Annual Comprehensive Finance Report and Single Audit Report for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2025* (2025). This is the agency's audited financial report, a self-published source underlying the project's at-issue record AI-Dakota-081 on the agency's 1971 creation, its special-act basis, and its levy. https://www.dakotacda.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Dakota-County-CDA-Annual-Comprehensive-Finance-Report-And-Single-Audit-Report-For-The-Fiscal-Year-Ended-June-30-2025.pdf [^2]: The White House, *Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos* (March 2025). This is the federal presidential action the project uses as the anchor for at-issue item AI-Dakota-081. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/