Legislature(2005 - 2006)SENATE FINANCE 532
02/01/2006 09:00 AM Senate FINANCE
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| SB171 | |
| Adjourn |
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| += | SB 171 | TELECONFERENCED | |
| += | HB 217 | TELECONFERENCED | |
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MINUTES
SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE
February 1, 2006
9:03 a.m.
CALL TO ORDER
Co-Chair Green convened the meeting at approximately 9:03 a.m.
PRESENT
Senator Lyda Green, Co-Chair
Senator Gary Wilken, Co-Chair
Senator Con Bunde, Vice Chair
Senator Fred Dyson
Senator Lyman Hoffman
Senator Donny Olson
Also Attending: REPRESENTATIVE JOHN HARRIS; SUSAN BURKE, Attorney
representing the North Slope Borough
Attending via Teleconference: From an offnet location: STEVE VAN
SANT, State Assessor, Division of Community Advocacy, Department of
Commerce, Community and Economic Development; MIKE BLACK, Director,
Division of Community Advocacy, Department of Commerce, Community
and Economic Development
SUMMARY INFORMATION
HB 217-FULL & TRUE VALUE OF TAXABLE MUNI PROP.
The Committee heard from the bill sponsor and the Department of
Commerce, Community and Economic Development. A committee
substitute was adopted and the bill was held in Committee.
SB 171-NPR-A COMMUNITY GRANT PROGRAM
The Committee heard from the sponsor, the Department of Commerce,
Community and Economic Development, and the North Slope Borough. A
committee substitute was adopted and amended. The bill was reported
from Committee.
9:09:07 AM
HOUSE BILL NO. 217(title am)
"An Act relating to the determination of full and true value
of taxable municipal property for purposes of providing
planning assistance to the Department of Education and Early
Development and the legislature, calculating funding for
education, calculating school district participating shares
for school construction grants, and calculating tax resource
equalization payments and excluding from that determination
the value of property in certain areas detached from a
municipality and the value of certain property involved with
oil and gas that is not taxed by a municipality."
This was the third hearing for this bill in the Senate Finance
Committee.
Co-Chair Wilken moved to adopt CS HB 217, 24-LS0427\G, as a working
document.
Co-Chair Green objected for an explanation.
Co-Chair Wilken noted the insertion of language on page 2, lines 7
through 10 to provide for the ability for the State assessor to
make a determination of full and true value of property in
organized areas that do not impose property taxes.
9:09:46 AM
Co-Chair Wilken stated that, as with current practice, every two
years the State assessor would do a modeling of the value to
determine the four-mil requirement. Every four years, the assessor
would undertake a thorough assessment similar to the assessments
done the previous year for the Delta region and currently underway
for the Lake and Peninsula Borough.
9:10:04 AM
Co-Chair Wilken remarked that this would assure that an analysis
would be done every four years for "the four boroughs and nine
first class cities that do not have a mechanism in which to
establish and validate property values" in the same manner done in
the rest of the state by "willing buyers and sellers in the free
market - that's how we establish our property values in the rest of
the boroughs."
9:10:40 AM
Co-Chair Wilken directed attention to a new fiscal note of $98,000
to assist the State assessor in those efforts.
9:10:53 AM
Senator Hoffman understood Co-Chair Wilken's intention to "level
the playing field between those school districts that tax on a
property tax base and those do otherwise, such as payment in lieu
of taxes." He gave the Northwest Arctic Borough as an example. He
also understood that these governments would be required to
contribute an amount equal to 50 percent of the annual increase in
property values, with the State providing the remaining 50 percent.
9:11:33 AM
Co-Chair Wilken affirmed that as provided in existing statute, as
the assessed value increases, the burden is shared by the State and
the local school assessed community.
9:11:50 AM
Senator Hoffman characterized this as "the next step" to the
process established by legislation passed in 2001 in distributing
the property value increases between the State and local
governments. This committee substitute would expand the
distribution to those school districts that receive local funding
through payment in lieu of taxes. He therefore asked if the intent
would be to further extend this practice to the payment in lieu of
taxes received by the State for federal lands.
9:13:12 AM
Co-Chair Wilken responded that this legislation does not
"contemplate anything having to do with federal land." The impact
funds received by the federal government are distributed across the
state. Some consider these funds as the local contribution for
unorganized areas of the state. This perception is untrue, although
the discussion is irrelevant to the legislation before the
Committee.
9:13:58 AM
Senator Hoffman argued that the federal funding is a payment in
lieu of taxes, similar to agreement between the Northwest Arctic
Borough and the Red Dog Mine in which the company provides funding
in lieu of taxes to be used for education. He did not recognize a
difference between privately owned property and federally owned
property in this context.
9:15:15 AM
Co-Chair Wilken reiterated that federal lands is not part of this
bill
9:15:24 AM
Senator Hoffman agreed but asked if the intention is to address
this in the future with separate legislation to ensure that all
areas of the state are treated equally.
9:15:36 AM
Co-Chair Wilken was not interested in dealing with federal lands.
9:15:39 AM
STEVE VAN SANT, State Assessor, Division of Community Advocacy,
Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development,
testified via teleconference from an offnet location that federally
owned lands are not included in the formula used to determine fair
value.
Mr. Van Sant informed that existing statute requires the Division
to visit each school district annually and make fair value
determinations. However, funding provided for this function has not
been sufficient to allow this to occur. This committee substitute
would establish a "cycle" in which to undertake these efforts,
while only requiring an on-site visit once every four years, and
would provide funding assistance to make this possible.
9:16:47 AM
Senator Hoffman asked if the intention of the co-chair was to
report this bill from Committee at this hearing.
9:16:54 AM
Co-Chair Green announced the bill would be held in the Committee
for one day.
9:16:59 AM
Co-Chair Wilken explained that Senator Olson had approached him
prior to this meeting and requested an opportunity to review the
committee substitute, as an area of the state could be
unintentionally affected.
9:17:18 AM
Senator Olson furthered that the inserted language could possibly
adversely impact the payment in lieu of taxes agreement between the
Northwest Arctic Borough and Cominco, regarding the Red Dog Mine.
He intended to secure advice from Cominco officials.
9:18:05 AM
Co-Chair Green withdrew her objection to the adoption of the
committee substitute and CS HB 217, 24-LS0427\G was ADOPTED as a
working document.
Co-Chair Green ordered the bill HELD in Committee. She then invited
the bill sponsor to speak.
9:18:26 AM
REPRESENTATIVE JOHN HARRIS, sponsor of the bill supported the
committee substitute and Co-Chair Wilken's attempt to enforce
current law. True value of property should be maintained and
adjusted on an annual basis.
9:19:58 AM
SENATE BILL NO. 171
"An Act amending the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska
special revenue fund; and establishing the Special Legislative
Oil and Gas NPR-A Development Impact Review Committee and
defining its powers and duties."
This was the third hearing for this bill in the Senate Finance
Committee.
9:20:07 AM
Co-Chair Wilken moved for adoption of CS SB 171, 24-LS0785/N, as a
working document.
Co-Chair Green objected for an explanation.
9:20:26 AM
Co-Chair Wilken indicated he would first outline deleted
provisions.
9:20:46 AM
Co-Chair Wilken recalled the discussion the previous hearing about
the use of "appropriation" versus "grant" in the language of the
bill. The Division of Legal and Research Services had advised him
that the verbiage is "transparent" in either form. However,
"appropriation" has been replaced with "grant" with regard to
expenditure of revenues received from the National Petroleum
Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) wherever it appears in the committee
substitute.
9:21:14 AM
Co-Chair Wilken next relayed concerns expressed by the Department
of Commerce, Community and Economic Development that the proposed
legislative committee would duplicate the Department's efforts in
reviewing and making recommendations on NPR-A impact grant
applications. The director of the Division of Community Advocacy
had suggested transferring the burden of analysis to the committee,
since its members would have recently visited the affected
communities. The Department would simply ensure proper receipt of
the applications. This suggestion has been incorporated into the
committee substitute.
9:22:45 AM
Senator Bunde asked the extent of the evaluation the Department
would be expected to provide; whether each application would be
directly forwarded to the committee, or if they would be first
reviewed to ensure they meet basic qualifications.
9:23:21 AM
Co-Chair Wilken replied that the Division would conduct an initial
review. The Department currently has a process in which staff
visits the affected communities and discusses the proper
application process with applicants.
9:23:53 AM
Senator Bunde clarified that the Division would provide some
analysis, but would not rank the proposed projects.
9:24:05 AM
Co-Chair Wilken affirmed.
Co-Chair Wilken then addressed a concern raised by the North Slope
Borough that the language of the bill would provide that
applications could not be accepted unless all "paperwork was in
order". Co-Chair Wilken acknowledged this issue and the committee
substitute would instead provide that the applications could be
accepted, although grant funds could be withheld until the details
of the application were in order.
9:24:40 AM
Co-Chair Wilken stated that the committee substitute would remove
all reference to a one-year lapse date of grant funding since each
appropriation would have a specified lapse date.
9:24:59 AM
Co-Chair Wilken spoke to Senator Olson's argument that the
Committee should include at least one member with "roots" in the
affected area. Co-Chair Wilken struggled with this and agreed to
the benefits of such representation on the committee. The committee
substitute stipulates a legislator representing the affected
election district would hold one seat on the committee. He detailed
the assignment of this seat. First priority would be given to the
legislator from the area who is also a member of either the Senate
or House finance committee. If both committees include a member
from the area, a decision would be made to select one. If neither
finance committee included a member from the region, the leadership
of both bodies would select a qualifying member of the legislature.
9:27:04 AM
Senator Olson expressed that both the Senator and the
Representative elected from the affected district should hold seats
on the proposed committee because the decisions of the committee
would impact the region they represent.
Co-Chair Green remarked upon the compromise made to designate one
seat whereas none had been designated originally.
9:28:37 AM
Senator Olson countered that two seats on the six-member committee
would not constitute an overwhelming majority.
9:28:51 AM
Senator Bunde opined that the proposed committee should consist of
"outsiders" to provide objectivity.
9:29:05 AM
Co-Chair Wilken continued explaining the committee substitute.
9:29:16 AM
Co-Chair Wilken referenced Senator Stedman's suggestion to carry
forward any shortfalls in the Alaska Permanent Fund. He reminded
that the impact grants receive first priority of the revenues the
State receives from NPR-A oil development activities. The amount to
be deposited to the Permanent Fund is then calculated from the
gross revenue amount. Senator Stedman had recommended that in the
event that a full 25 percent of gross revenues is not remaining
after payment of the grants, the shortfall should be included in
the calculations for future years until the amount has been paid.
Co-Chair Wilken noted that this provision inserted to the committee
substitute would be effective on the effective date of this
legislation. The shortfalls of previous years, including 2004,
would not be included.
9:30:45 AM
Senator Hoffman commented this practice would be similar to the
accounting of funds withdrawn from the Constitutional Budget
Reserve (CBR) Fund.
9:31:02 AM
Co-Chair Wilken relayed the North Slope Borough had questioned the
listing of the grant recipients and individual projects in the
annual capital appropriation legislation, as occurred in the FY 06
capital budget legislation. The committee substitute would
establish that this continue to occur.
9:31:38 AM
Co-Chair Wilken stated the committee substitute would provide that
future grants could be withheld if the recipient failed to meet the
requirements of accountability for previous grants.
9:32:07 AM
Co-Chair Green listed Mike Black, Director, Joan Grove, Grants
Manager, and Melanie Green, Grants Supervisor, of the Division of
Community Advocacy, Department of Commerce, Community and Economic
Development, were available to respond to questions.
Senator Olson asked the Department's input on the proposal to
remove its powers to administer the application process of the NPR-
A impact grant program, while it retains this ability for other
grant programs. He asked why the Administration is so agreeable to
allowing politicians to undertake these duties when staff is
available and dedicated to these functions.
9:33:27 AM
MIKE BLACK, Director, Division of Community Advocacy, Department of
Commerce, Community and Economic Development, testified via
teleconference from an offnet location that the NPR-A impact grant
program is unique to the other grant programs the Department
oversees. Current statute requires the Department to analyze and
make determinations on impact in addition to the qualifications of
the grant. Grant programs are normally "clear cut" in stipulating
applicable projects and guidelines to be followed, unlike this
program.
9:34:51 AM
Senator Olson questioned why the Department, as an administrator,
would be willing to transfer those duties to a committee of part-
time legislators with other legislation and matters that must be
addressed and who could be unable to devote as much time and effort
as Department staff could devote.
9:35:31 AM
Mr. Black understood the concern of the legislature regarding how
the grant applications have been evaluated. The Department has
determined it preferable for the legislature to express its intent,
rather than the current review committee and the Department
attempting to justify its analysis.
9:36:55 AM
Senator Dyson reiterated his question posed at the previous hearing
on this bill regarding the appropriateness or legality of NPR-A
revenues appropriated to address impacts from Prudhoe Bay
development activities.
9:37:23 AM
Mr. Black responded that, as expressed by Susan Burke, the legality
is not necessarily an issue. However, the program was established
with the intent that the NPR-A funds would be utilized to address
impacts caused by NPR-A activities.
Mr. Black qualified that separating the impacts caused from Prudhoe
Bay from those caused by NPR-A can be difficult. The proposed
legislative committee would need to make this determination.
9:39:01 AM
Senator Dyson asked whether the earnings brought to a community
within the NPR-A by residents employed at Prudhoe Bay would be
construed as NPR-A impacts.
9:39:28 AM
Mr. Black responded that employment outside the NPR-A has impacted
the economies of communities located within the NPR-A. He had no
knowledge of an application citing this as a major impact. An
argument has been expressed that population and environmental
changes resulting from oil and gas development are impacts.
Distinction between population changes and environmental impacts is
often difficult to determine.
9:40:59 AM
Senator Dyson asked if impacts from a contractor based in an NPR-A
community that performs work at Prudhoe Bay would qualify as an
impact to NPR-A.
9:42:05 AM
Mr. Black, upon clarifying the scenario did not recall such an
argument ever being presented. Arguments have been made in relation
to impacts on the economy, but not necessarily as to whether the
income is generated from sources other than the NPR-A.
9:43:13 AM
Senator Bunde asked if a resident employed outside the NPR-A who
expends earnings within NPR-A would raise the standard of living of
the community and subsequently the community would qualify for a
grant on the basis that the cost of living increased.
9:44:09 AM
Mr. Black knew of no application that specified positive and
negative impacts. Only the presence of an impact has been
expressed. No attempt has been made to mitigate positive impacts to
a community receiving additional income from employment of its
residents. The increased costs of certain goods and services as a
result of higher paying oil and gas development related jobs have
been discussed. The impacts most commonly cited are social and
environmental.
9:45:42 AM
Senator Bunde remarked that the stipulation should be made to
provide that only negative impacts from NPR-A development could be
considered. He opposed grant qualification based on impacts to a
community because its residents have higher incomes. It would be
counterintuitive.
9:46:22 AM
Co-Chair Wilken asked if the North Slope Borough was permitted to
include 1,000 or 2,000 oil and gas development employees in the
population calculations to determine funding for revenue sharing
and other distribution programs.
9:47:11 AM
Mr. Black was unsure how populations were calculated for the North
Slope Borough and requested time to research the matter.
9:47:36 AM
Co-Chair Wilken indicated he would investigate the issue as well.
9:47:48 AM
Co-Chair Wilken then pointed out that this is the first year in
which the grant awards were not announced by the time legislative
budget considerations were underway. He understood that
approximately $5.5 million in NPR-A revenues is available and asked
the schedule for announcing the amount that would remain after the
grants were awarded.
9:48:19 AM
Mr. Black responded that the awards had been determined and the
applicants were in the process of being notified. The awards would
be announced to the Committee after the applicants were informed.
He expected this would occur by 5:00 p.m. the following day.
9:49:51 AM
SUSAN BURKE, Attorney representing the North Slope Borough,
testified that the Borough's position remains that this legislation
is unnecessary.
9:50:56 AM
Ms. Burke commented to the announcement that the Department would
be willing to relinquish its ability to submit recommendations to
the legislature on the grant applications. She stressed that
although the Murkowski Administration has indicated willingness,
other gubernatorial administrations could decide otherwise. The
Alaska Constitution stipulates that the governor has the authority
to give any recommendations to the legislature he or she chooses.
9:52:23 AM
Ms. Burke next pointed to a language discrepancy between references
to applications allowed for "an activity or service" on page 4,
line 15 and "facility or services" on line 20. She recommended
identical verbiage in both locations. The court, in interpreting
statute, assumes that the legislature intends two different things
in such instances. She suggested "activity, facility or service"
replace the language in both subparagraphs.
9:54:09 AM
Senator Hoffman asked the procedure in the event a community
decided to not pursue a grant that was withheld because of
technicalities.
9:55:04 AM
Ms. Burke hoped this would not occur, she doubted that a
municipality would decide to not continue with the grant process,
once the application were awarded unless it was determined that the
impact to be addressed in the proposed project no longer existed.
In this event, she expected that the State would not insist that
the grant funds be expended. A grant award could be closed out upon
completion of a project if all the funds were not required and no
penalty should be levied.
9:56:20 AM
Senator Hoffman asked if Ms. Burke had concern that chances for
denial of grant applications could increase if the proposed
committee determined that the State required funding for a specific
purpose, such as the Permanent Fund.
9:56:52 AM
Ms. Burke responded this is a "huge concern". The existing
situation is difficult. The U.S. Congress has stipulated mandatory
conditions for acceptance of a share of NPR-A revenues. However,
the NPR-A is not a state resource, but rather a federal resource
and the federal government has agreed to share the revenues on the
condition that the State expend a portion of those revenues on
affected areas. Other needs exist in the state, although the
requirement to give priority to the local municipalities is
serious.
Ms. Burke acknowledged that since the lawsuit was decided and
subsequently the grant program was established, the State has
fulfilled its obligations satisfactorily. This would be more
difficult for a legislative committee to accomplish because the
members are elected to represent different areas of the state.
Ultimately, the decisions would be made in court.
Ms. Burke pointed out however, that the legislator's obligation is
as "sacred" as the Department's. When sworn into office,
legislators took an oath to not only uphold the Alaska
Constitution, but the U.S. Constitution as well.
9:59:57 AM
Senator Hoffman next referenced language on page 3, line 14 of the
committee substitute, which was also included in the previous
version of the bill providing that "a member" of the proposed
committee would be required to visit the affected communities.
During the previous hearing, Senator Bunde had questioned whether
this should read "each member".
10:01:14 AM
Senator Olson remarked upon the drastic change of how millions of
dollars would be allocated if this legislation were enacted. He
asked if Ms. Burke anticipated problems would arise with decisions
made by elected officials with "different agendas" rather than
State employees.
10:01:55 AM
Ms. Burke reiterated her response to Senator Hoffman's similar
question. State employees do not represent specific constituencies.
Legislators could attempt to retain funding to expend in their
election districts.
10:02:38 AM
Ms. Burke added that the current system in which the Department
makes initial determinations could ameliorate the tension regarding
this program because a third party, the Department, could be
blamed.
10:02:59 AM
Senator Olson contended that NPR-A development would impact the
communities and asked if the situation could be made worse if the
legislature was in charge of "doling out the money".
10:03:27 AM
Ms. Burke could not predict the outcome, although the "danger"
exists that real impacts would be overlooked. The legislature would
have difficulty fulfilling the duties imposed by the federal
government.
10:04:15 AM
Without objection, CS SB 171, 24-LS0785/N, was ADOPTED as a working
document.
Amendment #1: This amendment deletes "A" and inserts "Each" in
subparagraph (f) of Article 4A. Special Legislative Oil and Gas
NPR-A Development Impact Review Committee, of AS 24.20.580. Special
Legislative Oil and Gas NPR-A Development Impact Review Committee.,
added to AS 24.20 by Section 2 on page 3, line 14 of the committee
substitute. The amended language reads as follows.
(f) Each member of the committee shall visit each
community within the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska …"
Senator Hoffman moved for adoption.
The amendment was ADOPTED without objection.
10:04:49 AM
Amendment #2: This amendment inserts "facilities", following
"activity" in subparagraph (2) of AS 37.05.530(c) repealed and
reenacted by Section 4 on page 4, line 15. The amended language
reads as follows.
(2) shall conduct a preliminary evaluation of each
application; in conducting the preliminary evaluation, the
department shall determine if the application is for an
activity, facilities or service that involves planning;
construction, maintenance, and operation of essential public
facilities by the municipality; and necessary public services
provided by the municipality;
This amendment also inserts "activities" following "qualifying" in
subparagraph (3)(A) of AS 37.05.530(c) repealed and reenacted by
Section 4 on page 4, line 20. The amended language reads as
follows.
(A) all qualifying activities, facilities or
services based on the department's preliminary evaluation
made under (2) of this subsection;…"
Co-Chair Wilken moved for adoption.
The amendment was ADOPTED without objection.
10:05:40 AM
Co-Chair Wilken offered a motion to report CS SB 171, 24-LS0785\N,
as amended from Committee with individual recommendations and new
fiscal notes.
10:05:56 AM
Senator Olson objected and commented that the proposed process
changes would divert attention from the impacts for which these
grants were intended.
Senator Olson stressed that although he represents these
communities and is likely the best equipped sitting legislator to
travel to these communities, he has been unable to visit each area.
In addition the audit would cause a burden.
10:07:14 AM
Co-Chair Wilken responded as follows.
I wouldn't want anybody to miss how important this legislation
is. This is the only place we can find in our whole State
government that anything jumps in front of the deposit to the
Permanent Fund.
So to suggest that just the Department or we're going to set
up some rules that the Department will follow to evaluate
something called "impact", which to date has not been able to
have been defined, misses the point that each of these six
people on this Committee are going to be asked sometime in a
campaign or sometime in a meeting or sometime "How does one
place in our state, get in front of our Constitution?" We'll
answer that by talking about the federal law that was handed
to us in 1980, and how we take great time and effort with a
special committee to evaluate something called impact.
Now some seem to think that the pressures of the budget or
time of day or the weather of the day would determine whether
a grant is appropriate or not. In the presentation there's
three laws that we have to follow. The committee will have to
follow the federal law, the Alaska State law and the Alaska
regulations. That's shown on slide 25 of our presentation.
That's what we've sworn to do and that's what we will do.
Will there be shades of grey? Absolutely, there'll be shades
of grey. And the cut will be "Are we doing what was told the
people of Alaska to do?" That is: accept that before you get
money in your Permanent Fund you have to allocate monies to a
certain part of the State for something called "impacts
reasonably attributable to oil and gas development in NPR-A."
That's what this committee will do and it will do it time
after time after time. It'll do it for 40 years. And it will
do it because [of] how important this is.
The difficulty here, [what] we're struggling with and the
reason this legislation has to be put in place today, is
because we have allowed over the last 20 years, through no
fault on anybody, a system that has been porous as best. The
money will now flow from NPR-A and we need as a legislature to
set the path for the next generation on how we're going to
one, align ourselves with our constitution and the federal
law, and tell the people who put us here why we let one part
of the state jump in front our Permanent Fund.
That's the reason for this legislation and the difficulties we
face today aren't what we're trying to do, it's trying to
reconcile ourselves with what's been done in the past. Better
to swallow this medicine today than set the course for the
future and continue to let a system that's surely broken, as
any objective person would look at the past record, would have
to agree it's broken.
With that Madam Chair, I have great confidence in these six
people. It won't be an easy committee, but it's probably one
of the most important committees we'll have in our
legislature.
10:11:26 AM
Co-Chair Green thanked Co-Chair Wilken for work done on this. She
sympathized with anyone charged with justifying the existing system
given its shortcomings.
10:11:48 AM
A roll call was taken on the motion to report the bill from
Committee.
IN FAVOR: Senator Dyson, Senator Bunde, Co-Chair Wilken and Co-
Chair Green
OPPOSED: Senator Hoffman and Senator Olson
ABSENT: Senator Stedman
The motion PASSED (4-2-1)
CS SB 171 (FIN) was MOVED from Committee with a zero fiscal note
dated 1/25/06 from the Department of Commerce, Community and
Economic Development, and a fiscal note dated 1/25/06 for $20,000
from the Legislative Affairs Agency.
10:12:33 AM
Senator Dyson spoke in response to the "consternation" expressed
during the Committee meeting on SB 232, FY 06 Fast Track
Supplemental Appropriation for Energy-related expenses, regarding
the extent of the situation and the "clumsy" efforts to "bail folks
out of difficult situations". As a result, he has been considering
intent or qualifying language to define a mission for one State
agency to integrate all affected programs and to rationalize them.
He offered to provide this to be introduced by himself as personal
legislation, or introduced as legislation sponsored by the Senate
Finance Committee. He requested input from members on this effort.
10:13:57 AM
Senator Bunde noted receipt of information on the per capita
distribution of funding to municipalities for energy assistance
expenses that he had requested at the previous meeting.
ADJOURNMENT
Co-Chair Green adjourned the meeting at 10:14:40 AM
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