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Page 2 Golden Valley News September 22, 2011 _
Capitol Report
By Shirley Meyer
State Representative,
District 36
A Piece of the Past
Getting in or out of what appears to be an area farm building after a blizzard is not an easy
task. This photo is undated and the men aren't identified• (Photo Courtesy of the Golden
Valley County Historical Society.)
ancing
Once I had a case of influenza
so bad I missed close to a month of
graduate school. I ran a fever and
coughed until it felt like my whole
world was turned upside down.
Because I'm a geologist, not a
medical doctor, I, nicknamed that
bout of illness "the plague." But
what I experienced was a walk in
the park compared to the real
McCoy.
The sheer virulent power of
plague is a tale of human history
that's a warning ringing across the
centuries. But the story takes its
most interesting turn recently, as
science has been unraveling more
and more mysteries of the Black
over
uries
R()c Dec
By Dr. E. Kirsten Peters
advanced technologies of the sort
that have even been applied to the
remains of animals as old as the Ice
that date before the Black Death,
but it is found in human remains in
places like the London mass grave-
yard established outside the city
walls.
The great good news for us
today is that antibiotic drugs kill
bacteria, the cause of the plague in
all its forms. They don't help with
viral inflections - like the one that
laid me low long ago as a student -
bat they can help enormously with
bacterial infection. That - plus
improved sanitation - has created
modern populations that haven't
had enormous trouble with the
plague for a long time.
I have been asked several times in
the past few weeks exactly what the
voters will be asked to vote on when
the property tax measure is up for a
vote in 2012.
I guess the best way is to read it
for yourself and decide if it's some-
thing you can support. The lan-
guage below is the text that will be
on the ballot.
During the course of the 2011 leg-
islative session, concerns were artic-
ulated about the merits of the school
district mill levy reduction program
and about the state's ability to sustain
its involvement in the program. The
program's appropriation for the
2011-13 biennium was $295 million.
While the 2011-12 interim Taxation
Committee will have the principal
charge with respect to tax policy, this
committee will have to ensure that
any potential impact on money flow-
ing to the state's school districts will
not have inequitable or unacceptable
results.
In addition, the secretary of state
has approved for inclusion on the
June 2012 ballot, an initiated meas-
ure prohibiting the Legislative
Assembly and all political subdivi-
sions from levying a tax on the
ABBREVIATED
NOTICE OF INTENT
TO AMEND
ADMINISTRATIVE RULES
relating to
Social Work Licensure
ND Board of Social
Work Examiners
will hold a public hearing to address
proposed changes to the N.D. Admin.
Code.
State Capitol
Sakakawea Room
600 East Boulevard Ave.
Bismarck, NO
Thurs., Oct. 27, 2011
9:00 a.m. CST
A copy of the Proposed rules may be
assessed value of real or personal
property. Measure No. 2 states that:
1. Taxes upon real property
which were used before 2012 to fund
the operation of counties, cities,
townships, school districts, park dis-
tricts, water districts, irrigation dis-
tricts, fire protection districts, soil
conservation districts, and other
political subdivisions with authority
to levy property taxes must be
replaced with revenues from the pro-
ceeds of state sales taxes, individual
and corporate income taxes, oil and
gas production and extraction taxes,
tobacco taxes, lottery revenues,
financial institutions taxes, and other
state resources.
2. The legislative assembly shall
direct as much oil and gas produc-
tion and extraction tax, tobacco tax,
lottery revenue, and financial institu-
tions tax as necessary to fund the
share of elem~ and secondary
education not funded through state
revenue source8 before 2012. The
state cannot condition, the expendi-
ture of this portion of elementary and
secondary education funding, in any .
manner and school boards-have sole
discretion ill how)to allocate the
expenditure of this portion of the ele-
mentary and secondary funding pro-
vided.
The 2011-12 interim Property
Tax Measure Review Committee has
been given primary responsibility for
reviewing the ramifications of meas-
ure No. 2. The Education Funding
and Taxation Committee should
work closely with the Property Tax
Measure Review Committee not to
duplicate the effo(ts of that commit-
tee but to attempt to fully understand
the implications that passage of the
initiated measure could have on the
school districts of this state and the
manner in which the districts are-
funded.
I can be reached at sjmey-
er@ nd.gov or by phone at 225-2736.
Missouri River Royalty Corporation (MRRC) is
currently paying $ TOP DOLLAR $
to lease minerals in the Williston Basin.
MRRC also pays top dollar for mineral
rights, existing production, and top leas-
ing minerals. We specialize in the Bakken
Formation and are headquartered in
North Dakota. Please call today to
compare competitor's lease
terms. Have the Section,
Township, and Range
ready for appraisal.
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