Hello all: We're meeting this Thursday 12-1pm in the 5th floor conference room of the Joseph Vance Building, 1402 3rd Ave (at Union). Initiative guru Katherine Bragdon will be coming to talk about volunteer signature gathering efforts for ballot measures.
And, speaking of ballot measures, here's our ballot title and ballot summary from the secretary of state:
Ballot title [This is what would appear on the ballot]
Statement of subject: Initiative Measure No. 417 concerns taxes and fees.
Concise description: This measure would repeal the state property tax supporting public schools and impose a new fee on fossil fuels, directing the fee revenue to education, low-income people, alternative-energy research, and business tax reductions.
Should this measure be enacted into law? Yes [ ] No [ ]
Ballot measure summary [This would appear in the voters pamphlet and elsewhere, but I don't think it would appear directly on the ballot.]
This measure would repeal the state property tax for the support of the common schools and reduce certain taxes on businesses. It would also impose a new fee on the extracting, processing, refining, or importing of fossil fuels, including natural gas, petroleum, or coal. Revenue raised by the fee would be used for alternative energy research at universities and colleges, common school education, payments for low-income people, and reductions to the business and occupation tax.
Food for thought, and please post your comments online or via email or bring your thoughts on Thursday! You can see more (including Tim Eyman's I-419, also a property tax measure :) on the Secretary of State's website.
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