HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.054.93011_1399 (2)including facilities financed through bonds issued by the Medical Care Commission, and
continuing care facilities, and require that any property valuation exclusion formula provide
for a higher test of "charity, " to include a calculation of the cost of non reimbursed care
delivered.
3. Manufactured Home Taxes - Support legislation to require all taxes levied on a
manufactured home to be paid before the home may be moved, repossessed or sold on site.
4. Sales Tax Exemption - Support legislation to exempt counties, cities, school boards and community
colleges from payment of state and local sales taxes on purchases within North Carolina. The
legislation shall contain a provision permitting the state to repay the last refund over a multi-year
period to minimize state budget impacts. Alternatively, the Association will support legislation to
restore public schools' access to sales tax refunds.
5. Investment and Administration of Post Employment Benefit Investment Pool Funds — Support
legislation to permit, but not require, investing assets for other post -employment benefits similar to
retirement funds.
6. Taxes Paid before Building Permit Issued or Deed Recorded — Support statewide legislation to allow,
but not require, a county to withhold issuing a building permit or recording a deed until delinquent
taxes are paid.
7. Central listing and assessing of cellular and cable companies — Support legislation to centrally list
and assess cellular companies and cable companies as public service
companies.
OTIO by Commissioner Johnson to approve the Tax & Finance goals with the exception of #7
which should be deleted.
VOTING: Ayes — 5; Nays — 0.
Public Education
1. Public School Capital Building Fund - Support legislation to assure that the Public School Capital
Building Fund remains intact and to direct the State Treasurer to report on long-term commitments
that are dependent on this Fund.
2. Education Current Expense Funding -Support legislation to assure that the state define and support
an adequate basic education in all local school systems and appropriate adequate operating funds to
fully fund its education initiatives with revenue that is earmarked to pay the costs of those initiatives.
Specifically, the state should:
• continue to fully fund the Low Wealth School Fund,
• reinstitute state funding to meet local school system utility costs,
• appropriate funds to add school health personnel in all counties so that each school system
reaches a nurse/student ratio of 1: 750, and
• appropriate funds for school resource officers on the basis of one position allotment for each
middle school and high school building for all school systems across the state.
3. Community College Funding and Governance - Support legislation:
• to fund expansion budget requests of the community college system to meet demands resulting
from increased enrollment and to train and retrain workers responding to a changing economy,
and
• to study the effects of community college low wealth funding" provisions included in the 2006
amendments to the Current Operations and Capital Appropriations Act of 2005 to determine
whether the provisions create a more equitable funding formula; and
• to review the process through which members of the various boards of trustees of the several
community colleges are appointed, to determine whether the system provides for adequate
representation from counties responsible for supporting multi -county campuses.
4. Education of Children in Group Homes - Support legislation to amend G.S. 115C-140.1 to provide for