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Show 1 DegisDaftlve pireyiow Here is a list of key bills that have been pre-filed for the upcoming up-coming legislative session: SB 1 (Baird) would increase taxes on cigarettes and tobacco products by 94 percent. SB 7 (Blackham) would create a task force to study the consolidation consoli-dation of local public safety agencies including sheriff agencies agen-cies and city police departments. SB 13 (Money) would allow Utahns who pay for their own health insurance premiums to deduct 100 percent of the payment pay-ment from their Utah state income in-come taxes. SB 26 (Beattie) would require counties to send the second request re-quest for a taxpayer's affidavit disclosing all assessable real and personal property by certified mail. SB 31 (Richards) would authorize autho-rize the state to pay nonsectarian TOrair' tadlpfc mi Governor Michael O. Leavitt gave Utah taxpayers an early Christmas present when he unveiled un-veiled his $4.5 billion budget for fiscal year 1994-95 which contains con-tains no tax increases. With the state experiencing what the Governor Gov-ernor called "stunning" economic performance, the budget contains $201 million in revenue growth. Leavitt explained that some of the growth may not be recurring--the result of a temporary building build-ing boom-and therefore, should not be used for ongoing pro "Ifvou lose your house, how much of it will you get back?" With the AllsUle Home Replacemeat Cost Gaanslee, yon cm make sire that your hoise will be rebailt jasl the my it was. Evfi if it costs more thai yoir coverage. For details, call f intrx -- me.YoBllget AIISdln a lot back. You're in good hands. MAC BRIMHALL 303 East 400 South Springville 489-3661 1991 Allstate Insurance Co., Northbrook, ill. Subject lo policy terms and limitations. nexttaae, WoocvWorKs y-kTi S private schools which educate low income children in Granite, Jordan and Salt Lake school districts an amount equal to what the state would normally spend on the student. SB 36 (Hillyard) would require mobile homeowners to acquire and display a Tax Clearance tag indicating property taxes are paid before moving a mobile home. SB 43 (Baird) would require a county-wide property value adjustment ad-justment using sales assessment ratios when a group of properties being appraised for property tax purposes appreciates or depreciates depreci-ates more than 10 percent. SB 45 (Howell) would make various changes in Utah's hazardous hazard-ous waste fees. SB 47 (Beattie) would allow the State Tax Commission to employ private collectors for the grams. Instead, he proposed in what he called a "Boom Buffer" that $41 million be spent for onetime one-time projects and that $30 million be used to replace money that was taken from the "rainy day fund" to settle with federal retirees. retir-ees. He said the boom buffer approach was prudent because while Utah personal income grew by 7.3 percent this year, sales taxes have grown 12 percent, indicating that in good times people tend to spend ahead of their incomes. Winter weather and El Nino By Donald T. Jensen Utah Climate Center I have forecast that storms will bring slightly higher (105 to 110) than average precipitation to northern Utah during the winter months (December, January, Janu-ary, February); but no one has asked why. We really don't know what will happen locally, especially espe-cially months in advance. All we can do is evaluate the global-scale global-scale activities of the ocean and atmosphere and make educated guesses based upon "what has happened in the past. The fall (September, October, November) was quite dry in our region, and so why should we expect a change? It is due to El Nino and ENSO (El Nino Southern Oscillation). Oscilla-tion). El Nino and EnSO are terms frequently used by the news media. El Nino is the ocean Part of ENSO. It is the surface warming warm-ing of the tropical Pacific Ocean, particularly in the Southern Hemisphere. Originally it referred re-ferred to a warm ocean current that penetrated southward and . y . MPS!! collection of accounts that are unpaid over 24 months, requiring the release of confidential taxpay-; er information. HB 6 (Waddoups) would repeal the law authorizing counties to impose a' voter approved 110 . cent sales tax hike to fund art , organizations. HB 14 (Cannon) Recall of , elected officials HB 28 (Tanner) Notice of non voter-approved Debt HB 39 (Short) .would expand , the property tax exemption on . residential property from 29.. percent to 40 percent resulting in , a massive property tax, shift to business properties. HB 59 (Short) would change the property tax notice to list the aggregate assessed value of land and improvements rather than list them separately. HB 65 (Protzman) Income tax That leaves $128 million for ongoing spending hikes including a four percent compensation package increase for state, public education and higher education employees. The budget includes a bonding package of $88.6 million, mil-lion, technologyelectronic highway high-way expansion of $32.6 million, and additional funding of $14.3 million to address gang and crime issues. ' The Governor suggested that if revenue growth is ongoing, he may suggest tax cuts in future brought needed rains to the coastal coast-al desert areas of Peru about Christmas-time (hence, Nino, referring to the Christ child). The large-scale areas of warmer warm-er ocean surface water are responsible re-sponsible for. global-scale swings in climate. The SO refers to Southern Oscillation, or the atmospheric part of ENSO. The Southern Oscillation is the global atmospheric wave pattern that transfers the El Nino ocean energy ener-gy from the tropics to middle and higher latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere. Consequently, El Nino must be linked with the Southern Oscillation to bring changes to our area. Sometimes it is-sometimes it isn't. Warm, tropical Pacific events (El Nino) happen at about two to seven year intervals. Recent ENSO events include 1982-83, 1986-87 and 1991-92. During the year of an El Nino event it is usually "wet" in the southwestern part of the United States (Arizona) (Arizo-na) and "dry" in the North (Montana) (Mon-tana) from October through March. As the El Nino wanes, i re-bracketing HB 66 (Short) would adjust the qualifying income levels for the state property tax circuit breaker and increase credit amounts. Other bills not yet filed: 1. Health Care reform, 2. Real estate transfer tax, 3. Sales tax confidentiality, 4. Workers Compensation Com-pensation amendments, 5. Results of sales tax exemption review, 6. Corporate franchise tax revisions, 7. Truth-in-Taxation amendments, amend-ments, 8. Expansion of residential residen-tial exemption to offset loss of five percent intangible exemption, 9. Re-authorization of five percent per-cent intangible exemption, 10. Expansion of sales tax exemption to manufacturing equipment replacement, and 1 1 . Taxation of construction materials for charitable, charita-ble, religious and government organizations. nm years. Some have suggested cutting the 12 cent sales tax hike that was imposed "temporarily" to pay for flooding in the 80s. In his budget address, the Governor criticized the federal government's meddling in state the wetdry pattern reverses, becoming wet in the north and dry in the south. The fact that Utah lies between the two extremes ex-tremes makes it difficult to produce pro-duce seasonal forecasts. The two opposing wetdry areas are separated by a wide, fuzzy line that generally passes through the NephiLevan area in a southwest to northeast direction. direc-tion. This line shifts north and south with the change in ENSO and makes forecasting difficult for Utah. Last year the line pro 1(1 Caasonnaii IPDifflg fl ip9 ft fe$ I to ij All sales limited to stock on hand KEEBLER PACE Sandwich Crackers Chunky Salsa LITTLE DEBBIE CBLTLI Snack Cakes 15 oz Crushed Pineapple Tomato Juice 80 OZ 4l00 gl00 MINI TROLL GOLD SHIELD Graham Snacks Blanched Peanuts WINTER GLOVES ultra clean Laundry fc CJoff 18 loads 1L Manufacturer's Suggested Price 110 S. Main OPEN 9-9 WE ACCEPT Springville, Uf Mon-Safl FOOD STAMPS 489-0090 Closed! Sun January 5, 1994 - The Springville Herald - Page Three General surgeon joins staff at Mountain View Mountain View Hospital's Governing Board is pleased to welcome Robert V. McKeen, M.D. General Surgeon, to It's medical staff. Dr. McKeen officially opened his medical practice in Payson on December 20. He is located next to Dr. Adams at 50 Medical Drive, Payson. He is currently accepting new patients and can be reached by calling 489-4868. Dr. McKeen was born and raised in Oakland, California. He graduated from Claremont Mc-Kenna Mc-Kenna College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology. He earned his medical degree from Georgetown University in Washington, Wash-ington, D C. and completed a surgical residency at St. Agnes toes affairs by mandating what states must do. He said "...the decade of the nineties will be defined by who makes the decisions; the federal government, or the states." gressed as far north as southern Idaho. The result was that southern south-ern Utah received copious amounts of winter precipitation and northern Utah received above average precipitation. North of the line conditions were quite dry. What will happen this year? I think we will get average (or just slightly above average) precipitation precipita-tion in the winter. If ENSO continues, the spring will be slightly dryer in the south, slightly slight-ly wetter in the north. Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. He also attended the University of Tennessee with a research fellowship through the department depart-ment of surgery. Dr. McKeen has conducted research concerning both arthritis and prostaglandin and mediators in shock and response to trauma. He has published several medical papers with the most recent article concerning laparscopic surgery. His practice emphasis includes general laparoscopic and endoscopic surgery. The Mountain View Hospiti! staff is pleased to welcome Dr. McKeen and are excited about the wealth of knowledge, skill and experience Dr. McKeen brings with him. Dr. McKeen, his wife Susan and their daughter Brynne presently pres-ently reside in Provo. ... Z&iA Dr. Robert McKeen, M .D. 1 |