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Have any questions? Call our 24-hour information line at 472-7437. Legislature plans focus on school aid, tax cuts SPENDING from page 1 Omaha Sen. Deb Suttle wants to indefinitely continue a sales-tax cut, which set the sales tax at 4.5 percent last session. The rate expires in July, and unless Suttle’s v bill (LB 125) passes, the tax will return to 5 percent. Suttle said her constituehts have made it clear to her that they want to keep the sales-tax cut. She said the bill has little chance of passing because senators want the money in the state’s coffers. Revenue that would be lost from a continued sales tax cut could be recouped by efficient budgeting and spending, Suttle said. Legislators may need to do more than prioritize to figure out what to do about the $22 million local school districts were overpaid last year and may have to re-pay out of 1999-2000 aid. Hastings Sen. Ardyce Bohlke, chairwoman of the Education Committee, said LB 149 would aim to prevent miscalculations of state school aid in the future. Bohlke on Thursday introduced LB 149, which would recalculate state aid to schools and push back tiie date schools find out how much# aid they are receiving. Schools are now notified Dec. 1, and the bill would move the date to Feb. 1. The Legislature could then use real dollar figures instead of esti mates to calculate how much to appropriate. “(LB 149) would give stability and predictability to the formula,” Bohlke said. The bill will need an emergency clause, which requires 33 votes, to pass in time to allow the date to be changed. Another question surrounding school aid is what to do when prop erty tax levies for schools drop from $1.10 per $ 100 of assessed value to $1 in the 2001-02 school year, Bohlke said. About $84 mil lion will be lost when the levies drop - a result of 2-year-old legisla tion that placed limits on the amount of property taxes that could be levied, Plattsmouth Sen. Roger Wehrbein said other areas of con cern this session may include lower ing to 0.08 from 0.10 the legal limit of blood alcohol content for drunk en driving offenses, phone deregu lation and environmental issues sur rounding the growing number of large hog confinement facilities. The Associated Press con tributed to this report. Everything For Your Wedding At Discount Prices •Table Covering & Skirting -Wedding Decorations '•Paper Plates •FeatheredPens •Plastic DrinkWear -Knives/ Cake Tops !* -Imprinted Napkins 'Unity Candles •Carlson Craft Wedding & Social Stationery Edgewood I Shopping Center 621 No. 48th St. (behind Blockbuster Video) (near Albertson’s) [5500 So 56th St. 421-7510 464-8201 Funds divide lawmakers, NU officials BUDGET from page 1 ByIevaAugstums Senior staff writer. With the Legislature’s increased focus on tight-fisted spending, univer sity officials are working to convince lawmakers their budget requests are "justified. But heightened concern over state spending may stop the university from receiving better technology and higher faculty salaries; officials are worried. “I sense a strong desire to help the university,” said University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor James Moeser. “We are a favored institution in the state, but we are living in an era of reduced flexibility. It’s not going to be easy.” Last JuJy, the in U board ot Regents approved the NU 1999-2001 biennial budget request that asked for a 6.8 per cent first-year increase for the 1998-99 budget of about $355.9 million. In February, Gov. Mike Johanns will present his budget to the Legislature for the next two years. Ron Withem, NU associate vice president for external affairs and direc tor of government relations, said the university will have to take into consid eration Johanns’ recommendation and the Legislature’s thoughts, then act on its requests. “It’s going to be a formidable chal lenge,” Withem said. “There is always more needs than dollars to go around.” The university’s legislative agenda includes increasing faculty and staff members’ salaries, funding for tech nology and general inflation costs. Moeser said faculty and staff mem bers ’ salaries are currently 5 to 6 per cent below the midpoint of UNEs peer institutions. _ “We are slipping, and our peers are moving away from us,” Moeser said. “We need and want to keep our faculty. We need to catch up.” But Regent Drew Miller of Papillion disagreed. “I believe in merit pay, not these ideas of averages,” Miller said. “We f ffri 1 Xyh'S^u " /?oT*J’* /^"’i*4 jT* *5^ ^;/>'{t */&*$* ^;?^vVpT/ i^T^Cl<Sr‘b.J^r^£ '•^v’^’X'^f?“ ;vf^i^ \^'‘Vf^5 Half of congress is made up of lawyers. No wonder congress doesn't get along. Speaking of lawyers, ours made us include this . disclaimer with our 12 menu items under *4, Plus tax. (Thank congress for that.) Not valid during Hailey's Comet. Must be hungry. Offer expires when you do. No swimming for one hour after dinner. Purchase required No sp aliens, please. * • . : V E , - ■ . ■ ■ : , ■ • :: E'EE- ' 4m Vine Street, 4664045, Lincoln 1 . _
