Mankato city officials are scrambling with Governor Tim Pawlenty's recent announcement about cuts to local government aid...LGA is used to create parity in tax and services for smaller cities, regional cities and core urban cities.But with less money coming in... Cities are forced to rethink how to write their budgets.News 12's Max Jensen has the story.City officials say the cuts will be deep... requiring them to reduce services by over two million dollars.Over the past six years, Minnesota cities have lost 750 million dollars in state aid, and as a result property taxes have increased more than 65 percent statewide.The City of Mankato's Public Information Director Shelly Schulz says the city will make every effort to preserve core city services... including police, fire and streets among others.Shelly Schulz says, "Our goal at the city of Mankato is to provide outstanding service in spite of the cuts."Max Jensen says, "But Schulz says quality of life services such as parks, airports and the Civic Center will see less funding."Schulz says, "There's a lot of services that the city delivers that contribute to the quality of life and we're just going to have to, like all businesses, look at everything we do and evaluate it for maximum return on investment."Because of the Governor's unallotment... the city expects to lose another one point four million dollars in LGA in the year 2010.Schulz says that means 15 to 20 jobs will be cut citywide... affecting both the quality and responsiveness of core services...Schulz says, "Our employees are being asked to do more with less and we expect that everything is going to be looked at."But Schulz says city officials remain committed to a budget that protects residents from steep property tax increases and painful cuts to services.In Mankato, Max Jensen, News 12.