Friday, January 25, 2013
House Chief Fiscal Analyst Bill Marx will be giving a short presentation on the state budget before the legislators open up the meeting for questions and discussion.
Editor's note: The following is a press release from Lakeville and Burnsville's State House Representative Will Morgan, (D-District 56B). Lakeville and Burnsville State Representative Will Morgan (D-District 56B) willbe joining Sandra Masin (DFL – Eagan and Burnsville) and Senator Jim Carlson (DFL – Eagan and Burnsville) for a town hall meeting on at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 26, at Burnsville City Hall. House Chief Fiscal Analyst Bill Marx will be giving a short presentation on the state budget before the legislators open up the meeting for questions and discussion. Minnesota is facing a $1.1 billion budget deficit and still owes its K-12 schools another $1.1 billion. “Our budget needs to needs to reflect both the priorities of …
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Morgan is co-author of HF No. 1, a measure that would pay back what was borrowed from Minnesota's schools.
Editor's note: The following is a letter from Lakeville and Burnsville's State House Representative Will Morgan, (District 56B, D-Burnsville). Dear neighbors, On Tuesday, Jan. 8, I took the oath of office to serve as your state representative for the third time. It is an honor to work for our common interests at the Capitol, and I am grateful for the opportunity to continue to try to move Minnesota forward. Minnesotans have made it clear that they wanted to see expanded economic opportunities for our families and businesses. They wanted a balanced budget without tricks and gimmicks. We enter the session with a $1 billion deficit, and we owe our schools another $1 billion. Legislators must tackle this structural problem and stop kicking the…
Thursday, January 17, 2013
"When there is a budget surplus, law prohibits Governor Dayton from vetoing repayments of K-12 funding as he did in the last session."
Editor's note: The following is a newsletter from Lakeville's State House Representative Mary Liz Holberg, R-Lakeville. The 2013 legislative session convened this week with a focus on the budget and school funding. I will be serving in my eighth term in the Minnesota House and am honored to be able to represent the families and businesses of Lakeville. Paying Back the School Shift Republican policies led to a state budget surplus in 2012 of $2.5 billion which was promptly used to pay back a large piece of what was borrowed from MN schools. Some of the surplus was used to refill a state budget reserve account. The remaining $1.6 billion in surplus funds paid off all of the short-term borrowing enacted last year. School districts in the …
