Senate approves soft freeze on local property tax growth
Des Moines Senate passage of Senate File 2378 limits city county property tax growth to an inflation based measure for 1994 and 1995, excluding schools. It freezes levy dollars, preserves rate limits, allows disaster appeals, and aims to curb state funding shifts to taxpayers, with debate over local control and possible mergers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gace Des Moines
Senate
Terry Branstad
House
Sen
Alvin Miller
Ventura
Senate rejects state ethics board in Iowa session
DES MOINES supporters aimed to pass a revamped ethics bill after the Senate defeated the Ethics and Campaign Finance Disclosure Board proposal 18 to 29. The measure would have created an independent special counsel appointed by the chief justice to investigate ethics complaints, while exempting local officials from state disclosure rules.
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John Kirsch Lazette
Des Moines
Senate
Jean Lloyd-Jones
Crowa City
Lloyd-Jones
Iowa Trust Fund
Joe Welsh
D-Dubuque
Iowa Supreme Court
Running leaves Senate to seek House seat in Iowa
Des Moines Senator Richard Running, a Cedar Rapids Democrat, is running for House District 54 to avoid facing fellow Democrat Wally Horn in the new 27th Senate district. The former four-term House member and current Senate veteran notes the House’s familiarity and efficiency while continuing to focus on human resources issues at Kirkwood Community College.
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John Kirsch
Uazette
Des Moines
Richard Running
Cedar Rapids
House
Iowa
Senate
Tony Bisignano
Jack Hatch
D-Des Moines
Wally Horn
Running
Kirkwood Community College
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Solon
Richard Drake
Muscatine
Paul Pate
Marion
Jack Rife
Durant
Michael Connolly
Dubuque
Iowa City
Dale Tieden
R-Elkader
State
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Cedar Rapids Symphony
Paramount Theatre
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7Th Avenue
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