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• 1. - 2. 3• . 4. Four of the Board mm bers Provided brief reports on the recent NAco 5. Legislative Conference in W ssh-ington, D.C. Ca zoissianer W Uhoit said the 6. entire agenda of the Taxation and Finance Sd ml&ttee dealt with revenue 7. Wig. One aspect being discussed was the speeding up of the first quarter pay_ $. merit of revenue mating f cinds. paying them. the hegi=ung of the quarters rather 9. than at the end of the quarters. CCmm Ssioner Willhoit added-that Congress seemed 10. to feel that there was a need to get the money out into the counties and cities in an 11. Commissioner Lloyd citad Senator Dole's speech, saying that Senator Dale 12. had "laid it out cal the line" and that: everyone has to c ont3�e and give same. 13. Commissioner Lloyd told of Senator Durenberger's speech which said that the 14. budget could be balanced by providing Only 'basic needs;" he contiTnaed, saying 15. that Senator Dureni�ger said that g=grams would be reduced and the ',e71- 16. bodied" would have to go to work. 17. Caimi.ssiomw Marshall said there was a difference in this Conference come- 'a- Pared to all the other Legislative Conference. She said the administration 19. representatives present were the lower levelled ones and they "tom to stone- 20. wall." She added that the a&inistration did not "work with" local officials 21. to solve problems; rather, they are "adamant" about pushir rt,oir programs. 22. Commissioner Marshall said with regard to "workfare" as a member of the Board 23. of Social Services she was cor=rned about "how and where the jobs are" as 24, well-as "transportation" and day, tee. She said there was no Plarring and no 25. y '%p front" for workfare and no information fordx=A ng about it. 26. Commissioner Whitted agreed with Caam:i.ssicner Marshall about the admin- 27. istratian's officials at this meeting. He added that Senator Durenberger wanted 28. to use revenue sharing to 'do my,, with deductions of local taxes' on State and -Federal 29. Income Taxes;local government is opposed to that-Commissidner Whitted said regarding 30. the Human Resources Programwaste., fraud and abuse were singled out for attmtion. 31. Drastic changes, he added., were in the CEM Program as of October 1, 1983. 32. He said he thought Congressman Ilse Andrew, whom the Board visited in Washington, 33.:wr�1d be_a stroatg voice for loco] Wit, 34. E. BaMm DFXMSIONS 35. 1. Relocation of Power Poles: Commissioner W:Ulhoit moved'. seconded by 36. Commissioner Marshall, of the authorization. of $8,593.21 to move six.additional 37. Purer Poles in the Community Development: area superseding the earlier authorized 38. mot- Vote: Ayes, 5; noes, 0. 39. 40-