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Buffalo Meeting Agenda

Wed, 1 Feb 2012 08:14:56 -0700

Carla has been working overtime to put together the details of the Spring Meeting in Buffalo on May 21 - 23.

Carla suggests that you make your reservations now, at either the Hampton Inn or Occidental Hotel.

Also, if you are a golfer and interested in golfing while you’re in Buffalo for the meetings, please contact Carla and let her know.

Here is the agenda for the meeting.

And... they’re off!

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:45:36 -0700

The legislative session won’t start until mid-February but the bills are already flying around the capitol.

You should have received a link to an interactive list of bills that you can view and comment on. The current list of bills we are watching can be seen on the Legislative Page.

Legislative Meeting

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:51:57 -0700

A missive from our President about the upcoming legislative meeting:

Hello WY County Treasurers,

Please mark your calendars. The 2012 WY County Treasurers Legislative Meeting:

Date: Wednesday, February 15, 2011
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Where: Laramie County Courthouse (Treasurer Office Conference Room), Cheyenne, WY

Thanks to Trudy Eisele, Laramie County Treasurer, for hosting the meeting. We are starting at 10:00 a.m. so that Tom will not be late.

Donna M. Baur

Quarterly Livestock Report

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:49:50 -0700

Sonja from the Wyoming Livestock Board has provided the quarterly report for predatory animal revenues. Click here to view the spreadsheet report.

Teton County Makes it a Success

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 08:04:38 -0600

Thanks to President Baur and her staff at Teton County for making the Treasurer meetings at WACO a great success.

The workshop on Generational Differences conducted by Frances VanHouton of RainMaker Coaching LLC was excellent.

Also thanks to the guest speakers; Bob Stauffacher, Deb Lopez and the DOT staff, Dan Noble and Mary Keating with George K Baum and Associates.

Carla agreed to host the WCTA Spring Meetings in Buffalo in May so start planning your trip.

WACO

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 08:47:01 -0600

The 84th Annual Convention of the Wyoming Association of County Officers will be held in Jackson on September 20-22, 2011. You should have already received your information packet and hopefully already booked a room at the Snow King in Jackson.

Registration for the Convention is all online at: www.wyowaco.org.

There will be two educational seminars held at the convention:

Wyoming Public Discrimination Issues: Soup to Nuts or Everything You Ought to Know at Least a Little About in Wyoming

and

Board Training: The Essentials of Board Service

More details about the seminars can be found at the WACO web site.

Spring Meeting Afterword

Sun, 29 May 2011 10:41:39 -0600

Thanks to Donna for putting on a wonderful meeting in Jackson. It was great to have it so well attended. Oh, and thanks to Tom for his efforts to make the meeting a success and for the job he did as President.

The committee information has been updated and so has the list of officers. Congratulations to those elected to new positions.

Information on the Spring Meeting

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:15:28 -0600

The information for the WCTA Spring Meeting has been finalized. Donna has been hard at work, with Tom’s close supervision (of course), to make it an excellent experience. See the Meetings page for details, the Official Agenda and the meeting registration form.

Remember to bring an unwrapped present for Tom door prize.

And the Winners Are....

Fri, 4 Mar 2011 14:46:47 -0700

Whew, it’s finally over. After a long, grueling legislative session, only 6 of the bills on our watch list became enrolled acts. You guys killed the rest of them - sometimes messily.

The new legislation that the association showed some interest in is:

HEA0062 (HB154) Multiple Handicapped License Plates

HEA0084 (HB208) Off-road vehicle registration exemption

SEA0005 (SF31) Off-road vehicle definition

SEA0020 (SF42) Disabled veteran choice plates

SEA0027 (SF77) County officers - removal from office

SEA0057 (SF128) Abandoned vehicles - storage fees

Wallis Blasts Local Government Spending

Tue, 1 Feb 2011 11:36:58 -0700

On the floor of the House today, during debate on the Sales Tax Distribution Bill, House Bill 34, Representative Sue Wallis (R-Campbell) was very critical of the spending habits of local governments.

Wallis allowed that she didn’t have any statistics at hand but contended that the growth of the State of Wyoming budget over the past few years has been due to the uncontrolled “growth of local government,” accusing cities and counties of expanding “salaries and payrolls” and budgets beyond what they could sustain. Wallis also indicted local governments for hiring additional people.

Listing other expensive items like buildings, machinery and equipment, Wallis implied that local governments are irresponsible with their budgets and spending in general and urged her colleagues to vote against the bill that would have given more of the sales tax revenues to cities and counties.

Wallis said her constituents had put her in office to “be responsible,” implying that reducing or limiting funding to local governments would result in more responsible spending.

Wallis currently serves on the House Appropriations Committee.

House Bill 34 failed on first reading, 22-37, in the House today.