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I-933 will cost taxpayers $7 - $9 BILLION says WA Office of Financial Management

By noemie maxwell
Wed Sep 20, 2006 at 02:56:45 PM PST
Section: Washington State Topic: Initiatives and Referenda

Firefighter and Covington City Council Member Bud Sizemore speaks for No On I-933. Washington State Council of Fire Fighters has joined with over 250 other Washington organizations to endorse "No on I-933". This measure may interfere with their ability to fight fires.

Washington State's Office of Financial Management has just released its report on how much I-933 is going to cost us. The report is entitled: Potential Financial Impacts of I-933: Concerning Government Regulation of Private Property. Here's the crux:

Initiative 933 is estimated to cost state agencies $2 billion to $2.18 billion over the next six years for compensation to property owners and administration of the measure. In the same time period, the initiative is estimated to cost cities $3.8 billion to $5.3 billion, based upon number of land-use actions since 1996, and is estimated to cost counties $1.49 billion to $1.51 billion.

Also see this Washington State Department of Ecology analysis, which says I-933 would likely mean the loss of our state's authority to enforce clean air and water regulations. The federal government would take over federal waters within the state. Air and state waterways would go unprotected. Federal sanctions against the state, including loss of some federal funding, would likely apply because we would slide out of compliance with federal clean air and water laws.

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I-933 will cost taxpayers $7 - $9 BILLION says WA Office of Financial Management | 3 comments (3 topical)

WAKE UP DWIGHT! Groen & 933 & McGaggit

are all about the same campaign,

even if they are different legal entities.

I just heard mikey's! latest ad on the boob tube talking about government waste and tax dollar waste, AND

it is fundemantly the same message as Groen's crap, and as the message of this stupid initiative.

So Dwight,

what is up with the Dem "leaders" in this state?

you gonna fight these bastards 24*7 everywhere, anywhere, anytime ?

OR you gonna WHINE about meanie unethical thugs?

are you all so afraid of rocking the boat cuz you'll be ostracized at Husky / Mariner's games in the rich boy sectionc,

cuz when you are walking down the dock at the rich boy docks some mover and shaker won't talk to you?

are you all that freaking spineless? OR,

are that freaking clueless?

Groen got WAY to close yesterday, AND

it is YOUR & the pansy Dem 'leadership', of this state's fault.

you all getting along to go along so you can get a nice job like Do Nothing Gary did for himself after ... breathing? ... in the gov mansion for 8 years?

rmm.

http://www.liemail.com/BambooGrassroots.html

by rmdSeaBos on Wed Sep 20, 2006 at 06:40:46 PM PST

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multimodal and other words of the day by m3047, 09/20/2006 08:27:50 PM PST (5.00 / 1)
Not censors; three agin my better judgement by gibney, 09/20/2006 09:24:07 PM PST (none / 0)

I-933 will cost taxpayers $7 - $9 BILLION says WA Office of Financial Management | 3 comments (3 topical)

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