Budget Committee: May 2008 Archives
On April 29th, 2008 the House Finance Committee passed the bill to Cost an Adequate Education 13-9. The committee then amended the bill to hold the donor towns harmless and set a transition plan so that no community will receive more than 15% above their current grant, and no community will receive less than their current grant. The following link ( SB539HsFin.pdf ) is from the New Hampshire School Board Association. The chart estimates the impact to towns of the House amendment. Moultonborough is on page five.
MCA
When you get your property tax bill later this year, add your state senator to the list of people to whom you should complain.
The Senate is on its way to gutting HB 1645 — a measure designed to give the state retirement system long-awaited and badly-needed reform. The bill was initiated in and passed by the House earlier this year, but advocates for the state's taxpayers knew the Senate had the trump hand and leaders of unions representing public employees knew it, too.
After all, it was the public employees unions that were calling the shots.....
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Union Leader
Thursday, May. 1, 2008
The Senate Executive Department and Administration Committee voted 6-0 yesterday to approve the plan.
The Senate version of the House's reform bill will give annual 2.5 percent cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) to all New Hampshire Retirement System retirees on July 1. The increase would apply only to their first $30,000 in annual pension payments. Retired workers who make more than $30,000, about one third of all NHRS pensioners, would see a $750 increase next year.
Those who make $20,000 or less would see a $1,000 bonus check each year, plus.....
