Minn. Stat. § 383A.05
Ramsey County may, each year, appropriate enough money to defray the expense of making a proper assessment of all property in the county for the purpose of general taxation.
Ramsey County shall appropriate and expend, in the manner and in the amount that it considers necessary, the money needed to defray the expense of properly conducting the office of the county assessor; the expenditure to include the hiring of experts upon property values for any period considered necessary, the payment of the transportation expense of these experts or other employees in traveling from place to place in the county, and generally any expense reasonably and directly tending to the procurement of a fair and true assessment of property inside the county; but all expenses of this kind shall be made under the supervision of, and with the consent of, the county assessor.
Minn. Stat. § 383A.05
1974 c 435 s 1.0203