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Senate votes to sustain Gibbons’ 2007 veto

By Cy Ryan (contact)

Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009 | 12:38 p.m.

CARSON CITY – The Senate voted 20-0 to sustain a 2007 veto of a bill to allow rural counties to raise their property tax rate by 4 cents to operate juvenile detention centers.

The bill was introduced two years ago by Sen. Mike McGinness, R-Fallon, and was approved by the Senate 11-10 and then by the Assembly 38-3.

Gov. Jim Gibbons vetoed the bill after the 2007 session ended.

Senate Bill 146 would have permitted county commissioners in counties with less than a population of 100,000 people to impose, through a two-thirds vote, the property tax up to 4 cents.

Discussion: 1 comment so far…

  1. By bobbeers
    2/19/09 at 10:35 p.m.
    Suggest removal

    This, clearly, runs contrary to the will of the people, expressed in the LV City Council's crystal clear mandate to raise taxes in order to fund a grander City Hall. Where was the City's substantial lobbying team for this vote? Why aren't our Council Members recovering in a suite of Carson City hotel rooms as I write?

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