Two bills relating to the learning community (ok “learning communities” but we all know there’s only one) are being discussed in a Revenue Committee hearing this Thursday.
One is Sen. Scott Price’s LB418, which I have blogged about before here. I encourage everyone who cares about tax fairness in Douglas and Sarpy counties to attend the hearing and support [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Revenue Committee’
March 22, 2009
More Learning Community Bills in Committee This Week
March 19, 2009
Public Risk for Private Profit – Here We Go Again
Government-business partnerships are the bane of liberty, but some people in the Unicameral don’t seem to understand this. Several bills before the Revenue Committee today are aimed at enabling counties to set up special districts with tax authority to fund the building of “Entertainment and Sports Attractions”. They also want to let these districts get some [...]
February 14, 2009
LB418 – Tax Fairness in the “Learning Community”
Introduced by Scott Price from District 3 (Bellevue) , this is a bill to establish property valuation fairness in the newly created Learning Community that covers Douglas and Sarpy counties. This new political subdivision has the power to levy taxes on property owners in the two counties on behalf of the school districts.
Currently, Douglas and Sarpy counties vary [...]
February 2, 2009
LB377 will allow higher taxes
All readers should be aware of LB 377 introduced by Senator Pankonin (2). This bill will allow any government entity including airport authorities, schools, cities, villages, counties, etc to get in a contractual relationship with the federal government. The federal government could possibly guarantee bonds issued by the government entity. The second questionable activity is [...]
January 7, 2009
The Unicameral Begins Session Today
Today’s Lincoln Journal Star discusses a few things related to the beginning of the session. Since the session begins in a little over an hour, and looks to be largely a pro-forma meeting to formally assign committees and elect officers, I thought I might just toss the Journal Star’s items out there for consideration. Obviously, [...]
