July 2, 1969 (12 pages)

ee, cree. TO Rh ee mM EY Re. Nevada. County Nugget epnctaenraa June 25, 1969 Be Tag! sctisin eit ae Last da V'cone rete roe Senator reports By SENATOR STEPHEN TEALE If you have visited my Sacramento office in recent weeks, chances are very good that you didn't find me there and Ware — "the senator's in comm: ° Committee hearings take up most of my attention at this *time of the: year and I thought it might be of interest toread*ers in the district to know where I am these days and why. I serve on three standing committees and several joint committees. The committeewith which I spend the greatest amount of time, and in which I am very interested is the Committee on Finance. I am vice chairman of this commit. tee and chairman of a subNEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO, 318 Broad Street, Nevada City, Ca. 95959" Telephone 265-2471 Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California. Adjudicated a legai newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court , Mong’ pes Decree No, 12,4 fabeceipeian Rates: one year, $3,00; two years, $5, 00, 1997 a a of the committee of finance. All bills which have an expense or an implied state expense must come before the Finance Committee. As vice chairman, I head a sub-committee which last year handled about $3 billion of a more than $5 billion budget. . My sub-committee makes a line by-line examination of the budget in such areas as higher education and mental hygiene. It's a slow and pain‘ful process of weeding out the unneeessary and making decisions about continuing or upgrading existing or new programs. A sub-committee report then goes to the full committee. The bill approved by the committee becomes the budget bill and is brought to the full Senate for a vote. The same process is now taking place on the Assembly side and invariably there are differences in the twoversions of the budget bill. These differences are ironed out by a conference committee of three members from each house, Over the past several years I Have been named tothe conference committee and each June we are locked up in long sessions hammering out a a acceptable to both houses before the June 30th deadline. But it's not all time spent in the Finance Committee. I am also a member ofthe Rules Committee. Rules assigns all _ bills to the proper committee and is also responsible for the i Assessor mails 28,000 cards to taxpayers Nevada County Assessor Elton A, "Bub" Tobiassen announced today that his office is mailing out approximately 28,000 assessment cards to taxpayers in Nevada County. These cards will indicate to approximately 10,000 property owners an increase in assessed value. The other 18,000 property owners will receive the card for information purposes only. All recipients of the card -are asked to compare the figures with those on the 19681969 tax bill to ascertian whether or not their valuation has increased before making an unnecessary call to the assessor's office, : Commander DONALD F. MacGINNIS is the commander of Banner Mountain. Post No, 2655 for poured THE LAST BUCKET of cement was poured into the massive new: dam at Bullards Bar Wednesday afternoon, symbolizing that this flood control facility just outside the Golden Empire in Yuba county is virtually finished. Many people living in and around Grass Valley and Nevada City have been employed on this $1 bil, lion plus construction project. As can be seen, water backed up behind the dam already has reached capacity. This aerial photo was taken by Publisher R. Peter Ingram in a plane piloted by Downey Clinch, NC Library to increase fines The Nevada City Library has announced -effective July 1 fines on overdue books will be raised from two cents to five cents per day. The library is also issuing identification cards which may be used té6 borrow books in all libraries within the Mountain Valley System. These libraries are Auburn-Placer County, El Dorado County, Lincoln Public, Sacramento City-County, Sutter County, and Grass Valley. According to Elsie Flynn, librarian, borrowed books can be ’ returned through the Nevada City library and the bookmobile will return them to the library of origin. : Requests or information concerning books which are not available at the local library will be referred to the AuburnPlacer County Library. * Library hours in Nevada City are 12 noon to 9 p.m. week. days, and 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.Saturdays. ‘ee State contre besieged by tax relief queries SACRAMENTO State Controller Houston I. Flournoy said today his office is receiving several thousand inquiries about the Homeowners'~Property Tax Relief payments, many of which can be answered only by the inquirer's county assessor, bank or, in some cases, legal counsel. The controller said that inthe five working days of the first week following the June 15 distribution of the $70 warrants to some 2,237,000 property owners, his office received 2,876 mail inquiries and his administrative: office in Sacramento alone handled 751 telephone calls. The mail and the calls are still coming, he said, ~ "We are trying to make a helpful reply to each letter and call," Flournoy said, '"Unfortunately, many of the inquiries are of such a nature that they can be answered only by the county assessor or. the claimant's local bank -and some which involve private legal questions can be answered only by the claimant's own attorney." He explained that under. the law, determination of eligibility‘ for each payment must bemade by the county assessor who then must certify approved applications to the Controller for payment. The State warrants are drawn payable to those persons certified by the assessor as the eligible claimants, During the week following June 15 there were 516 mail inquiries on eligibility problems which the Controller suggested be reférred to assessors, The most. mail inquiries (1,505) concerned problems of endorsing warrants where one or more of the payeees was deceased, In most of these cases, the claimant's local bank can assist unless there is some legal question. Flournoy said. Another 100 inquiries concerned problems of endorsement where divorce had occurred. Unless resolved by the divorce decree, these may involve private legal questions, the Controller said. The. most telephone calls (400) and-another 369 mail-inquiries were from applicants who had not yet.received their warrants. These calls and letters are increasing with each passing day. . Applications certified for payment still are being received from the county assessors, Flournoy pointed out. All received by today will be included in a mailing to an estimated 200,000. applicants on July 9, Certified applications received “subsequent to June 27 will be paid as quickly as possible after July 9. All inquiries: about the status of any individual application should be directed to the county assessor concerned, the Controller said. Other piles ee the first week involved a wide variety of problems, Changes of address accounted for 80 and another 35 were reported lost, stolen or destroyed, ‘Buy U.S. Savings Bonds “

ee, cree. TO Rh ee mM EY Re. Nevada. County Nugget epnctaenraa June 25, 1969 Be Tag! sctisin eit ae Last da V'cone rete roe Senator reports By SENATOR STEPHEN TEALE If you have visited my Sacramento office in recent weeks, chances are very good that you didn't find me there and Ware — "the senator's in comm: ° Committee hearings take up most of my attention at this *time of the: year and I thought it might be of interest toread*ers in the district to know where I am these days and why. I serve on three standing committees and several joint committees. The committeewith which I spend the greatest amount of time, and in which I am very interested is the Committee on Finance. I am vice chairman of this commit. tee and chairman of a subNEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO, 318 Broad Street, Nevada City, Ca. 95959" Telephone 265-2471 Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California. Adjudicated a legai newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court , Mong’ pes Decree No, 12,4 fabeceipeian Rates: one year, $3,00; two years, $5, 00, 1997 a a of the committee of finance. All bills which have an expense or an implied state expense must come before the Finance Committee. As vice chairman, I head a sub-committee which last year handled about $3 billion of a more than $5 billion budget. . My sub-committee makes a line by-line examination of the budget in such areas as higher education and mental hygiene. It's a slow and pain‘ful process of weeding out the unneeessary and making decisions about continuing or upgrading existing or new programs. A sub-committee report then goes to the full committee. The bill approved by the committee becomes the budget bill and is brought to the full Senate for a vote. The same process is now taking place on the Assembly side and invariably there are differences in the twoversions of the budget bill. These differences are ironed out by a conference committee of three members from each house, Over the past several years I Have been named tothe conference committee and each June we are locked up in long sessions hammering out a a acceptable to both houses before the June 30th deadline. But it's not all time spent in the Finance Committee. I am also a member ofthe Rules Committee. Rules assigns all _ bills to the proper committee and is also responsible for the i Assessor mails 28,000 cards to taxpayers Nevada County Assessor Elton A, "Bub" Tobiassen announced today that his office is mailing out approximately 28,000 assessment cards to taxpayers in Nevada County. These cards will indicate to approximately 10,000 property owners an increase in assessed value. The other 18,000 property owners will receive the card for information purposes only. All recipients of the card -are asked to compare the figures with those on the 19681969 tax bill to ascertian whether or not their valuation has increased before making an unnecessary call to the assessor's office, : Commander DONALD F. MacGINNIS is the commander of Banner Mountain. Post No, 2655 for poured THE LAST BUCKET of cement was poured into the massive new: dam at Bullards Bar Wednesday afternoon, symbolizing that this flood control facility just outside the Golden Empire in Yuba county is virtually finished. Many people living in and around Grass Valley and Nevada City have been employed on this $1 bil, lion plus construction project. As can be seen, water backed

up behind the dam already has reached capacity. This aerial photo was taken by Publisher R. Peter Ingram in a plane piloted by Downey Clinch, NC Library to increase fines The Nevada City Library has announced -effective July 1 fines on overdue books will be raised from two cents to five cents per day. The library is also issuing identification cards which may be used té6 borrow books in all libraries within the Mountain Valley System. These libraries are Auburn-Placer County, El Dorado County, Lincoln Public, Sacramento City-County, Sutter County, and Grass Valley. According to Elsie Flynn, librarian, borrowed books can be ’ returned through the Nevada City library and the bookmobile will return them to the library of origin. : Requests or information concerning books which are not available at the local library will be referred to the AuburnPlacer County Library. * Library hours in Nevada City are 12 noon to 9 p.m. week. days, and 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.Saturdays. ‘ee State contre besieged by tax relief queries SACRAMENTO State Controller Houston I. Flournoy said today his office is receiving several thousand inquiries about the Homeowners'~Property Tax Relief payments, many of which can be answered only by the inquirer's county assessor, bank or, in some cases, legal counsel. The controller said that inthe five working days of the first week following the June 15 distribution of the $70 warrants to some 2,237,000 property owners, his office received 2,876 mail inquiries and his administrative: office in Sacramento alone handled 751 telephone calls. The mail and the calls are still coming, he said, ~ "We are trying to make a helpful reply to each letter and call," Flournoy said, '"Unfortunately, many of the inquiries are of such a nature that they can be answered only by the county assessor or. the claimant's local bank -and some which involve private legal questions can be answered only by the claimant's own attorney." He explained that under. the law, determination of eligibility‘ for each payment must bemade by the county assessor who then must certify approved applications to the Controller for payment. The State warrants are drawn payable to those persons certified by the assessor as the eligible claimants, During the week following June 15 there were 516 mail inquiries on eligibility problems which the Controller suggested be reférred to assessors, The most. mail inquiries (1,505) concerned problems of endorsing warrants where one or more of the payeees was deceased, In most of these cases, the claimant's local bank can assist unless there is some legal question. Flournoy said. Another 100 inquiries concerned problems of endorsement where divorce had occurred. Unless resolved by the divorce decree, these may involve private legal questions, the Controller said. The. most telephone calls (400) and-another 369 mail-inquiries were from applicants who had not yet.received their warrants. These calls and letters are increasing with each passing day. . Applications certified for payment still are being received from the county assessors, Flournoy pointed out. All received by today will be included in a mailing to an estimated 200,000. applicants on July 9, Certified applications received “subsequent to June 27 will be paid as quickly as possible after July 9. All inquiries: about the status of any individual application should be directed to the county assessor concerned, the Controller said. Other piles ee the first week involved a wide variety of problems, Changes of address accounted for 80 and another 35 were reported lost, stolen or destroyed, ‘Buy U.S. Savings Bonds “