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Legislature plans focus
on school aid, tax cuts
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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.
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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
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