Remarks by Elizabeth Philbrick
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And then your general government, right? Yeah. I'm general government agriculture and tourism.
Yeah. Just ideally it more than anything, tell me what it is that you wish me to vote. No, I don't have a note in your proxy so that I can make sure that, Oh, that's easy then. I don't know. I mean, we don't have to go. We can just, We can be subtractive instead of additive. Just tell me what it is that you're... Because you, I mean, for the listening public, the commissioners divvy up legislative priorities by committee, and each of us has authority over specific committees. And so when someone is out of town or unable to make a vote themselves, we vote in proxy on behalf of those people,…
And Commissioner Porter-Norton, just to clarify again, because I believe I had heard you a few weeks ago that you were concerned about our participation in CCAT, but you now have decided that you are in 100% support of staying in CCAT?
A lot of it has to do with the fact that not every, I mean, I understand certain counties commissioners have a lot more time on their hands. We are as scheduled as scheduled can be. I look at all of my schedules side by side and there is not an hour free in my schedule all week long. When I look at commissioner and then parent, And business owner and I I can't drive right you know you have seven hours to have a two hour meeting. And it's a real missed opportunity that there isn't something as simple as one of these owls in the room, so that we can be part of the conversation and, most…
Yeah, it gets lost. And I will say in the last CCAT meeting that was up at Steamboat, I had put my hand up for a couple of questions that was never caught on. I was unable to interrupt into the room because no one could see us.
Yeah, it was not intended. It did not seem that it was intended for people to zoom in to have the same level of impact.
Yeah. It's a beautiful place to visit, but it is an entire day to get there. Oh my goodness. And there's no other way to get there than to drive.
Because I haven't seen the budget itself yet. I have no questions about the actual budget. I am interested to know, however, how we're looking at... Essentially, property and sales tax, I mean, 1.5% is essentially flat. How are we in relationship to the rest of the state?
My only question is if we have economic data in relationship to the rest of the state.