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Budget Update: Special Session By September 30?  After signing six bills, vetoing one bill outright, and using her line item veto on two bills that fund education and health care spending, Governor Brewer's veto letters indicate that she opposed parts of the budget "due to the lack of a comprehensive state revenue strategy for FY2010 and future years." She also reaffirmed her support for a 1/2 cent sales tax referral, saying "the people of Arizona deserve the right to be heard on this critical manner and we should trust and follow the will of the voters."The enacted provisions of the budget included nearly $20 million in county impacts, including a shift of $14 million in county transportation funds to DPS, increasing local shares of salaries for Justices of the Peace and increased cost for local governments associated with the Arizona State Hospital. The vetoed bill (SB 1025) contained additional county impacts including a $22 million transfer from Maricopa and Pima counties as well a reduction in the class one assessment ratio for future voter-approved bonds and overrides (to view CSA's analysis of county impacts in the FY10 budget as signed and vetoed on Sept. 4th, click here).
The Governor also pointed to a number of agencies, including the Departments of Housing, Revenue, and Transportation, who would be impacted be the veto of SB 1025, and she asked the legislature to return the provisions relating to those agencies to her by September 30th. (To see the Governor's veto letter for SB 1025, click here). The Governor also indicted that she would like to see Rio Nuevo reforms and the $22 million transfers from Maricopa and Pima counties in the final budget measures.
Sending the bills back to Brewer would require another special legislative session. Legislators this week got a briefing from the Joint Legislative Budget Committee on the status of the budget after the veto. Leadership is assessing the impact of the Governor's vetoes and evaluating their next steps.
The CSA is thrilled to announce that Governor Jan Brewer will attend the CSA Legislative Summit hosted by The CSA Legislative Summit is the organization’s annual policy development event, during which supervisors identify strategies to collaborate with state government in order to promote efficient, responsive constituent services. The Fifth Annual CSA Legislative Summit will be held October 27-29, 2009, at the Hilton Garden Inn/Pivot Point in
 Please click here to register on-line for the CSA Summit. Hotel reservations may be made by calling the Hilton Garden Inn hotel directly at (928) 783-1500. A block of rooms is reserved under “County Supervisors Association of Arizona” with a single government rate of $86 plus tax per night. The room block cutoff is October 9 and the CSA registration deadline is October 15. Please register now . . . we look forward to your participation.
With the opening of early registration for http://www.federalreporting.gov/ on Aug. 17 and the increase in outflow of Recovery Act funding, the Oct. 10 reporting deadline for all recipients approaches. On Sept. 17, the National Association of Counties (NACo) will host the “Essentials of Recovery Act Reporting” webinar to provide updated information for recipient counties to help meet reporting requirements. Among the topics that will be discussed is the White House Office of Management and Budget’s anticipated deployment of the federal government liaison network. These experienced federal employees will serve as field representatives to assist Recovery Act funding recipients through the reporting process. To register for the webinar, please go to https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/869565379. For questions, contact Mike Belarmino at mbelarmino@naco.org or at 202/661-8840.
 NACo, in partnership with the Alliance to Save Energy, and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), is supporting an important project to collect U.S. local-level Best Practices in energy efficiency and renewable energy to share with developing nations. With funding and support from the U.S. Department of State, the most innovative and successful programs will be highlighted in a Compendium of Best Practices. The compendium will be used to provide a resource of replicable models for China , India, and other developing countries. This is an opportunity for your county to be recognized as a leader in energy efficiency and clean energy efforts.If your program is selected, you will receive international visibility — the compendium is expected to be used as a U.S. government resource to assist developing countries by showcasing proven programs, policies, or initiatives that are working in the United States. It will be distributed to top government officials and leading private companies via the international networks of REEEP, the Alliance to Save Energy, ACORE, the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate (APP) and other networks. If you would like to submit your program for consideration, please fill out this short online survey ( http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/159012/compendium) by early September. The program must:
For questions please contact Kelly Zonderwyk, NACo Project Manager, at kzonderwyk@naco.org or 202/942-4224. CSA Outreach in Eastern AZ Next Week CSA will head to Graham and Greenlee counties next week, followed by a stop in Yavapai County on September 21.
CSA appreciates all the counties for visiting with us during our outreach tour. See you on the road!
Visit the CSA Calendar of Events at www.countysupervisors.org/calendar.
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