Meridian Lions Meeting, End of Session Review

What a great bunch of folks! Early breakfast meetings are normally a hard meeting to have fun in, but these folks know how to do it. They are doing some great work for our community and we should all make sure that when we have some time to lend them a hand that we step up and do just that. From Easter Baskets for the needy to the local Rodeo, these folks are involved in making our community of Meridian a better place to live... Thanks for that!

We had some time at the end of the meeting to review the 2007 Legislative activity this session and there were many questions regarding topics that were relating to funding. Regardless of the topic, it all comes down to how much does the state have to spend and where should it be spent to take care of the services that are most needed by our citizens.

We discussed everything from GARVEE funding to community planning and services. I think a great summary are within the two pictures I'm going to "borrow" from the Idaho Legislative website below.

What's in the "State's bucket of Money" and where it comes from.... and the second chart is where the money is spent....

These charts are out of the final 2007 Legislative "Sine Die" Report of the session. It includes a summary of each of the bills passed, where money was spent and those bills that did not become law due to veto. There is a ton of great information in this report, I'd recommend that you take a look at it and bookmark it for your ref. as to where our Idaho dollars are coming from and are going.

(FYI it is a rather large .pdf document so if you are on a slow line, be prepared to wait for a bit)

Thanks Meridian Lions for the opportunity to review our session with you. I look forward to working with you in the future.

Cheers,

Marv