What is going on in South Ogden?

It has been nearly a week since we have had a quality post on the From Where I Sit blog. That is no guarantee this post will be of top caliber. I took a hiatus from posting last week to accomplish some personal goals around the home. However it is time for a summary of what is happening:

SB 208 - We have been following this piece of legislation closely with a number of posts an quality debate between Joel Campbell and myself. The idea is to move public legal notices to an online website managed by the State of Utah.  This would essentially pull it from newspapers whom are understandably hesitant to the change.  Today the Utah League of City and Towns has endorsed the legislation giving it a huge boost. Of course they would, the savings to SLC alone would be $100,000. Lincoln's Legislative Blog (blog of ULCT) has a nice post explaining some more details of the bill. You can check out their post here (See Here).

HB 274 - Our Esteemed Rep. Wallis has been trying to push his first piece of legislation through.  It seems to have been bounced around the legislature.  During the House Political Subdivisions Standing Committee they discussed the bill regarding some of the issues.  It appears Mr. Wallis has done some good work to update the bill to make it an effective piece of legislation.    Rep. Wallis gave a great presentation with some guest speakers explaining how better use of the impact fees will protect and save the state money.  Everyone agrees impact fees is very confusing and this legislation will help clarify some of the confusion.  Mr. Wallis was praised for taking the time to work with everyone involved make the bill a top quality piece of legislation. The bill passed through committee with a favorable recommendation.   The overall feeling was Rep. Wallis has done such a great job on his first bill and people are very impressed at his work ethic. We made a great decision voting him to the legislature.

HB 66 - A funky property tax bill that threatened public education was defeated today.  No worries there. I have been receiving great emails about this as of lately.  People were passionate about this one.

$2.5 Million South Ogden Basketball Court - As far as we know this is a go, even thought South Ogden City Council admits the majority of South Ogden will not use the dang thing.  I hope we don't come back and wish we had done more on this one.  With the Municipal Elections coming up, it will be interesting to see what issues are brought up.  Raising taxes in election year is usually not popular.  

South Ogden City is having a short city council meeting to discuss the 2008-2009 fiscal budget.  I am excited to hear how we are doing fiscally going into this year.  Will Council member Bradly and Scott Darrington stick to their methodology that South Ogden is not in trouble financially? We will see tomorrow, however I will not be in attendance for tomorrows meeting.  I will be relying on the minutes and blog readers to fill me in on the conversation.  I will be attending our Weber County Lincoln Day Dinner and hope to Twitter and Blog about the night.

We will keep you posted soon.