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I've yet to hear anything that convinced me that iowa would be a better place to live and raise a family thank you and of course We have the one about the property tax assessments which is the one who Is giving us the most trouble and i definitely and i think most all of us definitely Want to do something about this session as to how, we can Equalize, and make more fair the property tax assessments between ag land and the residential property There's no way in the world we will have fulfilled our responsibilities By that time, we won't even have taken care of the democratic priorities they talked about when the session started for example lined Use will have no chance of being considered Mandatory deposits so-called ban the can bill will not be considered a a German plans have been made before remember the push for may first but this time it sounds serious And after all it's only temporary adjournment a special session of the general assembly will return in june to settle a pending pay raise bill dick voss news 5 Every weekday grade school children here in madrid crossed this intersection on highway 17 the intersection doesn't have any stoplights and city officials here in madrid say they feel it isn't safe enough well We haven't been able to meet the deadline simply because? We don't have the the academic or the engineering criteria to meet the d-o-t requirements for the use debt program I was under the impression that they That the requirements [weren't?] set but in fact they are they're set and they Do need it you need an engineered plan and you need some Requirements that can all be compiled by consultant and i'm not a consultant nor am i qualified and a qualified engineer either so i couldn't Do that type of work unless someone gets killed or seriously injured Here it looks Like the city of madrid will have to come up with money for an engineering study and Wait a year or more to make what some consider to be a dangerous intersection safe phil bell news 5 My estimate is that would be about three years from there and not more than five and we would Pretty, much have i say largest amount of Country already metricated at That point okay fine She misses a ball this one over here is college It makes some sense to go to productivity We've been hesitant to jump that direction because We felt that it could well be that many others would have to pick up the difference but we find now that with price of commodities as it is That there wouldn't be that great shift and so the farm there really isn't any reason why eight to five has to be So rigidly adhered to there are families Who were in both the mother and father work And if one of those people can come into work at ten o'clock And work till six or come in at 9:00 and or rather 7 come at 9:00 and work till six That will have a i just think it will ease a lot of tensions in people's families i think those those thinking and reasonable persons Recognize that we are unnecessarily giving criminal records to to principally young people for something that cannot be shown to be dangerous And you might think you're kidding the people of state of iowa by having a seven amd a half percent cap and said it's not going to affect your assessed valuation but, believe me a Year from now that's going to come home When a homeowner in the city des moines or waterloo or davenport that's paying $1200 a year on their property tax and it goes $1,800 Explain that shift that didn't exist Month and it goes up $10 a Month he don't really know what happened to it in polk county and I had a guy Call me yesterday out in the lounge and if it will vote our pocketbook one of the agriculture problem are doing something like We've done is yes you that 13% is going to be placed on the homestead You know what there is a uniformed officer Largest percent of them on our two night shifts And we'd like to get it so we could have a minimum of five officers working on each shift Which would give us at least one officer to be walking on central campus and hopefully we can get enough by this fall to do that and it will Probably be about three more officers we'll need in order to reach that goal We've decided that we should try to get out of this ourselves if we can and then if we can't then We'll have to go to supervisors what's gonna happen to the fair if you sell the land can you get along without it oh yes, we can Exist without this land We thought that maybe we could sell part of it and keep part of it what's gonna happen if you can't sell the land We're not sure what's gonna happen then i think that will be we'll have to wait for time and see what progress is going along This line Fair board officials hope that they can sell the land within a couple of weeks if they don't they're Going to have to find another way to pay off their debt they do stress however that one way or another they Want to clean up this mess by next fall from marshalltown gary shapiro news 5 they Wanted us to take the touch-tone phones On condition that we would get free color By taking touchstone at that time Only a few hours later they opened up with advertising that everybody could have free color with touch-tone or with Any kind of telephone for that matter they proposed that we Asked the customer whether or not he or she wants to be told of the lowest priced service alternatives available we not only, agree with that, we propose to go one step further and tell the customer what that lowest priced service alternative is The guy from (inaudible) I called him First of all of course the limited resources of the people themselves at least the ones that that we interviewed in this study There's also reluctance in their part to incur debt and There's, also, some independence and pride that prevail in smaller rural communities that certainly has a an effect if you're going to look at the (inaudible) this project (inaudible) turn down 300 students in horticulture every 9 weeks every quarter (inaudible) the nation what cost is that what this