Kentucky Votes Forum

Introduced in the House on January 8, 2008, to expand the Department of Revenue to create a new property valuation bureaucracy and give to it unspecified regulatory powers

The vote was 94 in favor, 1 opposed and 4 not voting

(House Roll Call 0 at House Journal 0)

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good idea....Riiiiiiiigggggggghhhhhhhtttt

This is the most political piece of legislation every to be rendered in Frankfort! 1995 Commission On Quality & Efficiency recommended that 70 PVA statutory positions be eliminated saving state millions of annual appropriations without hurting assessing of properties statewide. You want to create more annual state expense KY cannot afford by enlarging state bureaucracy! 120 PVA's are draining state's annual funding today and the Governor just told Kentuckians this past evening the bad economic story of Ky for 2008! Surely majority of legislators will see through this piece of legislation as being purely selfishness! Kentucky has 70 to many PVA's as it is! Their state salaries are on the aveage 20% higher than other local county salaries, yet their contribution to Kentucky's tax compliance is nil; to assessment process they have too many drawing overly generous salaries! I suggest eliminating 70 PVA positions and using savings of estimated $1.8 million over next 30 years to reduce $18 billion state employees retirement deficit! The other 50 PVA's tend to assessment responsibilities of 120 counties without missing a beat, relegated to state merit system employee replacing overly generous PVA pay scale with merit system employee pay. Bill Huff

we do not need increases,only decreases,not more money going out in salaries,but reducing what we are paying now.

Those of you who previously commented must not have read the bill. There is no new funding involved with this bill. It will not cost any more taxpayer dollars. It only creates a committee to equitably distribute the costs of running the local PVA offices among the 120 counties.