The Lyon County Extension Council executive board will not seek to form an extension district with Chase County, Brian Creager, chairman of the board, announced this morning at the Lyon County Commission meeting.
In a statement during the public comment session, Creager said the timing was not right.
“While the Lyon County Extension Council executive board members feel strongly that forming an extension district would be an educationally and financially sound decision for the citizens of Lyon County,” Creager said, “it was determined that the timing was not right to pursue the issue any further at this present time.”
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Posted by dale011 (anonymous) on October 8, 2009 at 2:55 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Finally someone understands that right now is not necessarily the best time to add taxes.
Posted by Steve_Corbin (anonymous) on October 8, 2009 at 6:24 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Thank you for listening to the taxpayers concerns.
Posted by neighbor (anonymous) on October 8, 2009 at 7:41 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Very wise decision.
Posted by pizza (anonymous) on October 8, 2009 at 10:25 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Don't you suppose they knew they didn't have the votes on the commission to pass it? This is a face saving move. For an organization that is becoming more obsolete every day they sure have a lot of wants. Leave the 4H and the gardening parts and let the rest go. The internet can provide much of the agricultural information as can seed, equipment, fertilizer and chemical suppliers. There is no way one local agent can keep up with all the technology in today's agriculture.
Posted by tbluma (anonymous) on October 9, 2009 at 9:45 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Pizza are you a farmer or in anyway associated with Ag?
The timing probably wasn't right but I don't believe there was going to be any new tax.
The way I interpreted it was that the mill levy would have been moved from the county to the extention district. No more tax just from a different entity.
Posted by neighbor (anonymous) on October 9, 2009 at 9:58 a.m. (Suggest removal)
It was move to allow them to obtain additional funds, without having the county commission telling when and how much they could have. Creative taxation would have followed.
Posted by HenryVIII (anonymous) on October 9, 2009 at 10:14 a.m. (Suggest removal)
The system works! I don't know why people get so up in arms about it all the time...
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Posted by logical (anonymous) on October 10, 2009 at 1:09 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Pizza- Your comments couldn't be more wrong. Extension offers a very important service and with the current economy their services are more in demand than ever! FACS teaches a lot of life lessons not only to youth but also to adults. Horticulture benefits everyone. 4-H promotes positive youth development and the leaders of tomorrow! Do you realize the impact of agriculture on our community? Many businesses benefit tremendously from ag!! Extension has something for everyone.
Posted by YY4U (anonymous) on October 10, 2009 at 2:49 p.m. (Suggest removal)
JROTC promotes positive youth development and the leaders of tomorrow too. JROTC is a program that is funded by the department of defense. Defense is important to everyone and a lot of people say support the troops but you don't hear any demand for this program in this locality. ESU eliminated the ROTC program by refusing to support it. I say get rid of 4-H and extension agents. People have the internet and they can Google up answers to their questions about food preservation or bunny rabbit recipes. If we need someone to help in the garden there are a lot of illegals who will get all the weeds out cheap.
Posted by tbluma (anonymous) on October 10, 2009 at 7:27 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I guess Pizza is going to answer me so I will assume (and we all know what that does to us every now and then) that Pizza is not associated with ag.
I am therefore going to do it twice (assume) that YY4U isn't either.
There is much more to the Ext. office than 4H and preserving food.
Pizza may have been a little right about one agent keeping up with everything, but then wasn't that the reason they want to combine the agencies? It would have made them more cost efficient and better able to serve the communities.
People really shouldn't bitch about the extention office, 4H or farmers when their mouths are full of some of the best and cheapest food in the world.
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