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Subject: DCSWD RECYCLING-URGENT REQUEST

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urgent request Wed 12/18

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Date Posted: 14:12:42 01/18/12 Wed

We need to try desperately in the next few hours to make every possible Senate contact we can in an effort to sway Senator Kenley from calling a vote on SB 210 on Thursday morning (9 a.m. hearing in Room 431 - no public testimony will be taken). More importantly, EVERY DISTRICT FUNDED THROUGH PROPERTY TAXES, needs especially to make this call to your Senator NOW! Though Senator Kenley seemed ready to mull over this issue (possibly through a summer study commission), the latest report is that he might well take a vote on Thursday.
Our message is simple:
1. Taking away property taxes for the district is bad for our community and bad for Indiana! We do not want the state determining how a district is funded and we do not want the state to take away our community's ability to fund itself through property taxes. Then, go on to tell them all that will be lost without property taxes. Dearborn County Solid Waste received about $600,000 from property tax (rate = $.0257) and about $100,000 from other sources in 2011. Without property tax the District may close as early as January 2013.
2. Urge Senator Kenley to hold (not take a vote on) the bill at the Thursday morning Appropriations Committee meeting.
3. If he does take a vote, encourage Kenley to strike the property tax language that will be so detrimental to 47 (more than half) of the state's solid waste districts.
� Senator Johnny Nugent's contact info is:
Statehouse Phone: 800-382-9467 or 317-232-9400
Email: Senator.Nugent@iga.in.gov
Please forward this request to every recycler you know! Our future depends on it.
Barbara J. Ault, DirectorDearborn County Solid Waste

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Re: DCSWD RECYCLING-URGENT REQUEST	durrr...	15:32:01 01/18/12 Wed
Re: DCSWD RECYCLING-URGENT REQUEST -- Sure, 15:55:42 01/18/12 Wed Re: DCSWD RECYCLING-URGENT REQUEST -- realist, 16:57:32 01/18/12 Wed