Legislative Updates
At this morning's Executive Committee meeting, the district's lobbyist, Cliff Traisman, was on hand to give updates. Here's how he put the atmosphere in Olympia - "They are sharpening their elbows." Meaning, of course, instead of sharpening their pencils to get to work, they are ready to elbow their way to get ahead to getting bills passed.
He said that all bills had reached the committee cut-off date last week and are technically dead but nothing is really dead until the end of the session (March 8th). He said bills with a fiscal note (and that includes the charter bill) have until Feb. 14th to be out of their house of origin. He said the next budget forecast is scheduled for Feb. 16th. He said the sales tax polling was going badly and that there is the feeling they may end up with across-
He said that all bills had reached the committee cut-off date last week and are technically dead but nothing is really dead until the end of the session (March 8th). He said bills with a fiscal note (and that includes the charter bill) have until Feb. 14th to be out of their house of origin. He said the next budget forecast is scheduled for Feb. 16th. He said the sales tax polling was going badly and that there is the feeling they may end up with across-
