Mr. Hill characterizes 69 bills being introduced in the House from the period of Oct. 24, 2004 to June 20, 2005, which received Royal Assent as a skimpy agenda. We've sustained over 40 votes of confidence. We passed legislation to implement the fundamental forms of equalization. We passed legislation on civil marriage. We passed legislation and implemented a new deal for cities, the offshore accords--I mean, that was not a skimpy agenda that we've just gone through and presented to the House. Now, this fall we're going to build on that agenda,
Quotes about equalization (8 Quotes)
You could take this equalization burden away from Ontario and it's still going to have those dollar issues, and the commodity prices issues.
This will put the value within the tolerance the State Board of Equalization will accept.
Ontario is not growing as fast as other areas. Is it appropriate to blame that on equalization I would say no,
The tax levy (16 million) that we went to the voters with back in May has not changed, ... The equalization rates have changed and the assessments have changed and they are both outside the control of the school district.
In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.
That's fine if that's what (the league) thinks going to happen. I don't know, nobody knows, until the state board reviews the data and gets back to the judge - we don't know if there's an equalization issue or not.
He has helped us out so much with equalization over the past few years. Without him, we would not have an equalization plan.