Overview: SILO Repeal /State Penny/Property Tax Equity Bill Passes Senate Ways and Means Committee on a Partisan Vote. HF 2663 <http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=BillInfo&Service=Billbook&ga=82&hbill=HF2663> was approved by the House with a strong bi-partisan vote of 59-41. However, the bill just cleared the Senate Ways and Means Committee on a partisan vote with two Republicans taking a pass on the bill. This partisan vote casts in doubt the plan to debate the bill in the Senate tomorrow. We have to work fast. Sens. Angelo, McKibben, Noble, Ward, and Zieman voted against the bill moving forward. Sen. John Putney and Houser passed and jeopardized our ability to bring the bill to the Senate floor. Without sufficient indication of Republican support on the floor, progress might be in jeopardy. Call the Senate Switchboard (515) 281-3771 and express your extreme disappointment and follow-up with an e-mail to your senator and tell them: We need your vote to move this legislation forward. The governor has indicated he will sign a bi-partisan bill, but without sufficient republicans voting yes, the bill wont move forward. Your lack of support might kill it and leave us with no equity, no property tax relief, and a SILO pool ripe for the picking to solve the state budget next year. This is about equity and property tax relief. Dont lose sight of the benefits over the politics of the constitutional amendment. Although a constitutional amendment would be better protection, HF 2663 is more secure than the current SILO pool. These protections don't exist in the current SILO pool. A yes vote means you want to protect this pool for infrastructure and property tax relief, even if the constitutional amendment doesn't get attached to it. There are millions of dollars of property tax equity reduction in this bill and residential sales tax reduction, too, which doesn't happen if we keep the SILO pool as is. Get other community members to do the same, especially to the following Senators: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
-- Tim Buenz Director of Technology Jefferson-Scranton CSD 204 West Madison St. Jefferson, IA 50129 http://www.jscsd.org (515)386-9256-office (515)386-3591-fax --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] --------------------------------------------------------- Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------
