Rob Williams
Rob Williams
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In the '90s the government decided that any profits made on a property were tax-free up to $500,000.
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If we get can get concerns addressed while they are on site I think things will start looking better down there.
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This is one minute, an eternity in television, in which we're walking an 8- to 12-year-old audience through how to use a cancer stick socially. It's called product placement, where products are written into story lines of TV shows.
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Basically, it says you can work legally in the United States and you can travel in and out of the country. But it doesn't give you benefits or really anything else.
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This is great news. This is great news for us and it is also great news for the region's electrical energy supply.
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The current budget for the plant upgrade is sizable at approximately $75 million, including $56.6 million in a guaranteed construction contract. While historical system financial performance has been healthy, adequate coverage on the 2006 bonds will require a significant increase in net revenues. The city council and sanitary district boards have already approved rate increases of 32% in fiscal 2006 and an additional 59% over the next three years, to $65.68 in fiscal 2009. While high, these rates would not be the highest for comparable sanitary districts in northern California, and the rate increases have gone through the required public hearing process.
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Every time we do have a freeze or disaster it exposes the reality that agriculture is dependent on workers who basically don't have a social safety net to help them. That is one of the many reasons why I think immigration reform is so essential.
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The county has experienced strong property appreciation trends over the past several years, with total assessed value increasing by a very strong 49% since 2003 to $4.0 billion in fiscal 2006. Since 1998, the unreserved fund balance has ranged between a high of 6.7% of expenditures in fiscal 2003 to a low of 2.0% of expenditures at the end of fiscal 2004. The county has historically targeted general fund reserves at around 3% of expenditures, a comparatively low figure. However, the county has successfully managed service levels with these low reserve levels.
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We all agree that CSI needs to grow and prosper but the funding needs to be more equal.
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The problem in agriculture in Florida is, every year we have 15,000 to 20,000 new workers who enter and all those new workers are undocumented from Mexico and Central America.
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We want to make sure the road is temporarily protected in advance of a full-scale scheme.