WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:11:08" NOTE recognizability:0.804 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.835660862307692 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.270 Just first of all, governor, NOTE Confidence: 0.835660862307692 00:00:01.270 --> 00:00:03.279 why are you running for a second term? NOTE Confidence: 0.868987125 00:00:03.450 --> 00:00:05.354 Well, we are very pleased with what NOTE Confidence: 0.868987125 00:00:05.354 --> 00:00:07.279 we got done in the first term, NOTE Confidence: 0.6962320774 00:00:09.450 --> 00:00:12.990 education's largest tax decrease NOTE Confidence: 0.6962320774 00:00:12.990 --> 00:00:15.470 met our goals on transportation, NOTE Confidence: 0.6962320774 00:00:15.470 --> 00:00:16.466 but there's a lot of work, NOTE Confidence: 0.6962320774 00:00:16.470 --> 00:00:18.390 particularly on the education side, NOTE Confidence: 0.6962320774 00:00:18.390 --> 00:00:20.364 whether it be literacy or whether NOTE Confidence: 0.6962320774 00:00:20.364 --> 00:00:22.590 it be teacher pay and benefits. NOTE Confidence: 0.6962320774 00:00:22.590 --> 00:00:24.126 We put those programs out there. NOTE Confidence: 0.6962320774 00:00:24.130 --> 00:00:25.402 We know they're going to have NOTE Confidence: 0.6962320774 00:00:25.402 --> 00:00:26.640 to be adjusted going forward. NOTE Confidence: 0.6962320774 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:28.558 And what's really important to me is NOTE Confidence: 0.6962320774 00:00:28.558 --> 00:00:30.608 that we move the ball on literacy. NOTE Confidence: 0.6962320774 00:00:30.610 --> 00:00:32.422 Get all kids reading proficiently at NOTE Confidence: 0.6962320774 00:00:32.422 --> 00:00:34.996 the end of the third grade and that NOTE Confidence: 0.6962320774 00:00:34.996 --> 00:00:36.618 we create an atmosphere atmosphere NOTE Confidence: 0.6962320774 00:00:36.618 --> 00:00:38.526 where our kids are high school NOTE Confidence: 0.6962320774 00:00:38.526 --> 00:00:40.776 kids want to be teachers in Idaho NOTE Confidence: 0.6962320774 00:00:40.776 --> 00:00:42.618 so we'll have to keep modifying NOTE Confidence: 0.6962320774 00:00:42.678 --> 00:00:44.388 to make sure that happens and NOTE Confidence: 0.728089714666667 00:00:44.440 --> 00:00:45.525 let's stick with the education NOTE Confidence: 0.728089714666667 00:00:45.525 --> 00:00:46.999 thing I was going to ask you. NOTE Confidence: 0.728089714666667 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:49.100 What do you think is the biggest NOTE Confidence: 0.728089714666667 00:00:49.100 --> 00:00:50.655 priority next year after where a NOTE Confidence: 0.728089714666667 00:00:50.655 --> 00:00:52.500 lot of the funding went this year, NOTE Confidence: 0.728089714666667 00:00:52.500 --> 00:00:54.360 allowing districts to go to optional NOTE Confidence: 0.728089714666667 00:00:54.360 --> 00:00:56.179 all day kindergarten if they choose NOTE Confidence: 0.728089714666667 00:00:56.179 --> 00:00:58.283 what's going to be the issue next year? NOTE Confidence: 0.891543391666667 00:00:58.380 --> 00:01:01.230 Well, we'll see how that worked. NOTE Confidence: 0.891543391666667 00:01:01.230 --> 00:01:03.246 I was fortunate that I got the NOTE Confidence: 0.891543391666667 00:01:03.246 --> 00:01:05.412 legislature to agree with me to put a NOTE Confidence: 0.891543391666667 00:01:05.412 --> 00:01:07.170 lot of flexibility in there because. NOTE Confidence: 0.891543391666667 00:01:07.170 --> 00:01:08.934 Problems I was in Jerome yesterday NOTE Confidence: 0.891543391666667 00:01:08.934 --> 00:01:11.370 and they have a great dual immersion NOTE Confidence: 0.891543391666667 00:01:11.370 --> 00:01:12.970 dual language immersion program NOTE Confidence: 0.891543391666667 00:01:12.970 --> 00:01:15.229 which is really great for Jerome, NOTE Confidence: 0.891543391666667 00:01:15.230 --> 00:01:18.184 but it's different in other areas so. NOTE Confidence: 0.891543391666667 00:01:18.190 --> 00:01:20.311 We want to see the creativity of NOTE Confidence: 0.891543391666667 00:01:20.311 --> 00:01:22.168 school districts and we're just about NOTE Confidence: 0.891543391666667 00:01:22.168 --> 00:01:24.433 ready to go live with our dashboard to NOTE Confidence: 0.891543391666667 00:01:24.433 --> 00:01:25.714 where everybody will be able to see NOTE Confidence: 0.891543391666667 00:01:25.714 --> 00:01:27.080 what kind of progress we're making. NOTE Confidence: 0.891543391666667 00:01:27.080 --> 00:01:29.288 The literacy we get that longitudinal NOTE Confidence: 0.891543391666667 00:01:29.288 --> 00:01:30.024 data back. NOTE Confidence: 0.891543391666667 00:01:30.030 --> 00:01:32.510 Then we'll be able to help teachers and NOTE Confidence: 0.891543391666667 00:01:32.510 --> 00:01:34.397 districts move the ball on literacy, NOTE Confidence: 0.69134905 00:01:34.450 --> 00:01:35.634 so it's still literacy. NOTE Confidence: 0.69134905 00:01:35.634 --> 00:01:37.178 Oh yeah, and teacher pay? NOTE Confidence: 0.79190274 00:01:37.270 --> 00:01:39.076 Well, we spend half our money on NOTE Confidence: 0.79190274 00:01:39.076 --> 00:01:40.679 education if kids aren't reading, NOTE Confidence: 0.79190274 00:01:40.680 --> 00:01:42.840 we're not doing our job overall, NOTE Confidence: 0.911214072857143 00:01:42.910 --> 00:01:44.268 and you can just pick one thing. NOTE Confidence: 0.911214072857143 00:01:44.270 --> 00:01:45.660 What is your top priority? NOTE Confidence: 0.611561583333333 00:01:45.910 --> 00:01:48.258 Well, that's literacy is really it, because. NOTE Confidence: 0.611561583333333 00:01:48.258 --> 00:01:50.346 For every dollar state tax you NOTE Confidence: 0.611561583333333 00:01:50.346 --> 00:01:52.620 pay half of it goes into K12, NOTE Confidence: 0.611561583333333 00:01:52.620 --> 00:01:54.000 and if these kids aren't reading, NOTE Confidence: 0.611561583333333 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:56.712 we're just and and we continue NOTE Confidence: 0.611561583333333 00:01:56.712 --> 00:01:59.046 to lighten the regulatory load NOTE Confidence: 0.611561583333333 00:01:59.046 --> 00:02:01.674 on small businesses in the state. NOTE Confidence: 0.611561583333333 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:03.465 And that's where a lot of our NOTE Confidence: 0.611561583333333 00:02:03.465 --> 00:02:05.832 economy explosion is coming from NOTE Confidence: 0.611561583333333 00:02:05.832 --> 00:02:08.204 is a regulatory difference between NOTE Confidence: 0.611561583333333 00:02:08.204 --> 00:02:10.556 us and almost every other well, NOTE Confidence: 0.611561583333333 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:12.108 actually, every other state. NOTE Confidence: 0.611561583333333 00:02:12.108 --> 00:02:16.450 And so I was with a group of new businesses. NOTE Confidence: 0.611561583333333 00:02:16.450 --> 00:02:18.627 Two nights ago and they were all NOTE Confidence: 0.611561583333333 00:02:18.627 --> 00:02:20.467 talking about how great it is NOTE Confidence: 0.611561583333333 00:02:20.467 --> 00:02:21.867 to do business in Idaho. NOTE Confidence: 0.611561583333333 00:02:21.870 --> 00:02:22.200 Staying NOTE Confidence: 0.904533561666667 00:02:22.210 --> 00:02:24.868 with education for one more question, NOTE Confidence: 0.904533561666667 00:02:24.870 --> 00:02:26.795 do you believe critical race theory is NOTE Confidence: 0.904533561666667 00:02:26.795 --> 00:02:28.739 being taught in Idaho public schools? NOTE Confidence: 0.817693205714286 00:02:28.830 --> 00:02:31.168 Well, the the debate on the floor. NOTE Confidence: 0.817693205714286 00:02:31.170 --> 00:02:32.622 I signed the first critical race NOTE Confidence: 0.817693205714286 00:02:32.622 --> 00:02:34.310 theory bill in the United States, NOTE Confidence: 0.817693205714286 00:02:34.310 --> 00:02:36.702 but the debate on the floor was we're NOTE Confidence: 0.817693205714286 00:02:36.702 --> 00:02:39.010 worried about it coming from other states. NOTE Confidence: 0.817693205714286 00:02:39.010 --> 00:02:41.089 But there's really no evidence of it NOTE Confidence: 0.817693205714286 00:02:41.089 --> 00:02:44.966 and Idaho, but we do that in Idaho, NOTE Confidence: 0.817693205714286 00:02:44.970 --> 00:02:46.550 for better or worse, we. NOTE Confidence: 0.817693205714286 00:02:46.550 --> 00:02:48.675 That's what I say called NOTE Confidence: 0.817693205714286 00:02:48.675 --> 00:02:49.525 blocking legislation. NOTE Confidence: 0.817693205714286 00:02:49.530 --> 00:02:51.740 You see something happening in NOTE Confidence: 0.817693205714286 00:02:51.740 --> 00:02:53.944 Seattle or Portland or California NOTE Confidence: 0.817693205714286 00:02:53.944 --> 00:02:56.548 and we put in blocking legislation. NOTE Confidence: 0.817693205714286 00:02:56.550 --> 00:02:58.846 And for the most part that that NOTE Confidence: 0.817693205714286 00:02:58.846 --> 00:03:00.275 Bill was blocking legislation NOTE Confidence: 0.817693205714286 00:03:00.275 --> 00:03:02.858 and and even the sponsors of it. NOTE Confidence: 0.817693205714286 00:03:02.860 --> 00:03:03.570 Admitted that NOTE Confidence: 0.884837169473684 00:03:03.580 --> 00:03:04.987 and so you've seen no evidence or NOTE Confidence: 0.884837169473684 00:03:04.987 --> 00:03:06.844 no one has presented evidence to you NOTE Confidence: 0.884837169473684 00:03:06.844 --> 00:03:08.344 that there are specific examples, NOTE Confidence: 0.91511697 00:03:08.360 --> 00:03:09.584 no, but we still want to NOTE Confidence: 0.91511697 00:03:09.584 --> 00:03:11.960 be cognizant of it. OK, NOTE Confidence: 0.821463664 00:03:11.960 --> 00:03:12.700 of course, as you know, NOTE Confidence: 0.821463664 00:03:12.700 --> 00:03:15.717 the state recently passed one of the NOTE Confidence: 0.821463664 00:03:15.717 --> 00:03:17.739 most restrictive abortion bans in NOTE Confidence: 0.821463664 00:03:17.739 --> 00:03:19.570 the country banning abortion after NOTE Confidence: 0.821463664 00:03:19.570 --> 00:03:21.910 six weeks of pregnancy and also NOTE Confidence: 0.821463664 00:03:21.910 --> 00:03:23.909 allowing for family members to sue NOTE Confidence: 0.821463664 00:03:23.909 --> 00:03:26.080 a Doctor Who performs an abortion. NOTE Confidence: 0.821463664 00:03:26.080 --> 00:03:27.580 You signed it into law, NOTE Confidence: 0.821463664 00:03:27.580 --> 00:03:29.704 but you also raised some very NOTE Confidence: 0.821463664 00:03:29.704 --> 00:03:31.120 serious concerns about it, NOTE Confidence: 0.821463664 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:34.270 and particularly the enforcement mechanism. NOTE Confidence: 0.821463664 00:03:34.270 --> 00:03:36.154 Do you have any second thoughts NOTE Confidence: 0.821463664 00:03:36.154 --> 00:03:37.830 about signing that bill now NOTE Confidence: 0.821463664 00:03:37.830 --> 00:03:39.246 that it's being challenged? NOTE Confidence: 0.845214583333333 00:03:39.550 --> 00:03:41.320 I mean, I have I literally NOTE Confidence: 0.845214583333333 00:03:41.320 --> 00:03:42.205 have three choices. NOTE Confidence: 0.845214583333333 00:03:42.210 --> 00:03:44.050 I can sign a bill and say nothing. NOTE Confidence: 0.845214583333333 00:03:44.050 --> 00:03:47.012 I can veto a bill, or I can sign and say NOTE Confidence: 0.845214583333333 00:03:47.012 --> 00:03:48.887 I see some fundamental problems there NOTE Confidence: 0.845214583333333 00:03:48.887 --> 00:03:51.337 that maybe that we need to address. NOTE Confidence: 0.845214583333333 00:03:51.340 --> 00:03:53.072 Next year or sometime. NOTE Confidence: 0.845214583333333 00:03:53.072 --> 00:03:55.906 And and of course, there's going to be NOTE Confidence: 0.845214583333333 00:03:55.906 --> 00:03:57.930 a big decision from the Supreme Court. NOTE Confidence: 0.845214583333333 00:03:57.930 --> 00:04:00.149 Probably the end of June or July, NOTE Confidence: 0.845214583333333 00:04:00.150 --> 00:04:03.120 and then it's going to be a whole different. NOTE Confidence: 0.845214583333333 00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:05.927 It's probably going to be a whole NOTE Confidence: 0.845214583333333 00:04:05.927 --> 00:04:07.767 different set of circumstances NOTE Confidence: 0.845214583333333 00:04:07.767 --> 00:04:11.710 for what we do to to protect life, NOTE Confidence: 0.845214583333333 00:04:11.710 --> 00:04:13.943 and so that has been stayed here NOTE Confidence: 0.845214583333333 00:04:13.943 --> 00:04:16.472 in Idaho and we'll wait and see NOTE Confidence: 0.845214583333333 00:04:16.472 --> 00:04:18.722 what happens at the federal level. NOTE Confidence: 0.845214583333333 00:04:18.730 --> 00:04:20.095 And I'm sure we'll have to do NOTE Confidence: 0.845214583333333 00:04:20.095 --> 00:04:20.680 something next year. NOTE Confidence: 0.817474947 00:04:20.690 --> 00:04:22.260 And you know, the nearby NOTE Confidence: 0.817474947 00:04:22.260 --> 00:04:23.830 states are even ramping up. NOTE Confidence: 0.817474947 00:04:23.830 --> 00:04:26.196 For the women here who may cross NOTE Confidence: 0.817474947 00:04:26.196 --> 00:04:28.289 state lines to get abortions, NOTE Confidence: 0.817474947 00:04:28.290 --> 00:04:29.655 does that concern you at all that NOTE Confidence: 0.817474947 00:04:29.655 --> 00:04:31.098 the bill may be too restrictive? NOTE Confidence: 0.85252502 00:04:31.150 --> 00:04:34.436 Yeah, yeah it does, and you know, NOTE Confidence: 0.85252502 00:04:34.436 --> 00:04:36.626 because our goal is just NOTE Confidence: 0.85252502 00:04:36.630 --> 00:04:38.034 to basically protect life, NOTE Confidence: 0.85252502 00:04:38.034 --> 00:04:40.140 whether it be here or whether NOTE Confidence: 0.85252502 00:04:40.211 --> 00:04:41.968 it be in a in another state. NOTE Confidence: 0.85252502 00:04:41.970 --> 00:04:43.993 But it we're going to have much NOTE Confidence: 0.85252502 00:04:43.993 --> 00:04:45.706 more clarity when the Supreme NOTE Confidence: 0.85252502 00:04:45.706 --> 00:04:47.278 Court decides this decision. NOTE Confidence: 0.913488678333333 00:04:48.980 --> 00:04:50.318 Also, of course, as you know, NOTE Confidence: 0.913488678333333 00:04:50.320 --> 00:04:52.040 you proposed in the legislature, NOTE Confidence: 0.913488678333333 00:04:52.040 --> 00:04:55.640 signed the largest tax cut in state history. NOTE Confidence: 0.877146802 00:04:55.650 --> 00:04:56.770 Thanks for bringing that up, NOTE Confidence: 0.910819430666666 00:04:57.660 --> 00:04:59.712 of course, but I want to know are you NOTE Confidence: 0.910819430666666 00:04:59.712 --> 00:05:01.656 gonna do even more of that next year or NOTE Confidence: 0.910819430666666 00:05:01.656 --> 00:05:03.754 is it going to depend on the economic NOTE Confidence: 0.910819430666666 00:05:03.754 --> 00:05:05.760 situation as we see with inflation? NOTE Confidence: 0.79691688 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:07.300 We did and we did. NOTE Confidence: 0.79691688 00:05:07.300 --> 00:05:08.800 We did two things. NOTE Confidence: 0.79691688 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:10.675 We did ongoing tax relief. NOTE Confidence: 0.79691688 00:05:10.680 --> 00:05:13.560 We did some property tax relief. NOTE Confidence: 0.79691688 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:15.095 We did payroll tax relief NOTE Confidence: 0.79691688 00:05:15.095 --> 00:05:17.180 and then we did the rebate. NOTE Confidence: 0.79691688 00:05:17.180 --> 00:05:18.988 And for the second year in a row. NOTE Confidence: 0.79691688 00:05:18.990 --> 00:05:20.480 Did the rebate because we NOTE Confidence: 0.79691688 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:21.970 don't know what normal is. NOTE Confidence: 0.79691688 00:05:21.970 --> 00:05:24.610 There were $6 trillion worth of stimulus put NOTE Confidence: 0.79691688 00:05:24.610 --> 00:05:27.448 into the economy by the federal government, NOTE Confidence: 0.79691688 00:05:27.450 --> 00:05:30.096 and we know some of our revenue NOTE Confidence: 0.79691688 00:05:30.096 --> 00:05:33.087 is a result of that $6 trillion. NOTE Confidence: 0.79691688 00:05:33.090 --> 00:05:36.079 Idaho and other states what Idaho's doing. NOTE Confidence: 0.79691688 00:05:36.080 --> 00:05:38.999 The most other states are doing is NOTE Confidence: 0.79691688 00:05:38.999 --> 00:05:41.509 we're not spending all that money. NOTE Confidence: 0.79691688 00:05:41.510 --> 00:05:42.834 We're paying off debt. NOTE Confidence: 0.79691688 00:05:42.834 --> 00:05:45.410 We're putting away money for rainy day fund. NOTE Confidence: 0.79691688 00:05:45.410 --> 00:05:47.370 We're rebating at the taxpayers. NOTE Confidence: 0.79691688 00:05:47.370 --> 00:05:49.326 We are investing it in transportation. NOTE Confidence: 0.79691688 00:05:49.330 --> 00:05:51.298 Education in other areas but we NOTE Confidence: 0.79691688 00:05:51.298 --> 00:05:53.621 we want to see what normal is NOTE Confidence: 0.79691688 00:05:53.621 --> 00:05:55.812 and if we see what normal is, NOTE Confidence: 0.79691688 00:05:55.820 --> 00:05:58.868 we'll probably continue to adjust taxes NOTE Confidence: 0.63625707275 00:05:58.940 --> 00:06:01.540 because you brought the the income tax down. NOTE Confidence: 0.63625707275 00:06:01.540 --> 00:06:03.353 Do you think that would be a NOTE Confidence: 0.63625707275 00:06:03.353 --> 00:06:04.875 possible step again next year or NOTE Confidence: 0.63625707275 00:06:04.875 --> 00:06:06.816 are you going to kind of rely on NOTE Confidence: 0.63625707275 00:06:06.816 --> 00:06:08.580 this ongoing relief as the package? NOTE Confidence: 0.730287502 00:06:08.590 --> 00:06:11.680 We'll see what normal is. NOTE Confidence: 0.730287502 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:14.900 We'll see what you know right now. NOTE Confidence: 0.730287502 00:06:14.900 --> 00:06:16.750 You know, one of the biggest concerns NOTE Confidence: 0.730287502 00:06:16.750 --> 00:06:18.060 is growth and housing prices. NOTE Confidence: 0.730287502 00:06:18.060 --> 00:06:20.646 And what do we do to? NOTE Confidence: 0.730287502 00:06:20.650 --> 00:06:22.978 To help people afford their homes, NOTE Confidence: 0.815266328888889 00:06:23.130 --> 00:06:24.558 that was actually one of my next NOTE Confidence: 0.815266328888889 00:06:24.558 --> 00:06:26.775 questions too, is what do you do NOTE Confidence: 0.815266328888889 00:06:26.775 --> 00:06:29.120 about managing rapid growth in Idaho NOTE Confidence: 0.815266328888889 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:31.440 and the soaring housing prices? NOTE Confidence: 0.8132690925 00:06:31.510 --> 00:06:35.046 Well, let me kind of split your question. NOTE Confidence: 0.8132690925 00:06:35.050 --> 00:06:37.190 Rapid growth is best decided NOTE Confidence: 0.8132690925 00:06:37.190 --> 00:06:38.902 by your County Commissioner, NOTE Confidence: 0.8132690925 00:06:38.910 --> 00:06:41.190 your city, your local community, NOTE Confidence: 0.8132690925 00:06:41.190 --> 00:06:42.990 because some communities and NOTE Confidence: 0.8132690925 00:06:42.990 --> 00:06:44.340 that's their prerogative. NOTE Confidence: 0.8132690925 00:06:44.340 --> 00:06:46.276 Don't want to grow and you know when NOTE Confidence: 0.8132690925 00:06:46.276 --> 00:06:48.128 you elect your county commissioner, NOTE Confidence: 0.8132690925 00:06:48.130 --> 00:06:49.834 your City Council, that's. NOTE Confidence: 0.8132690925 00:06:49.834 --> 00:06:52.940 That's part of our local government system, NOTE Confidence: 0.8132690925 00:06:52.940 --> 00:06:55.220 but what we're doing to help them with NOTE Confidence: 0.8132690925 00:06:55.220 --> 00:06:57.514 growth and to help with housing affordability NOTE Confidence: 0.8132690925 00:06:57.514 --> 00:07:00.398 is we're putting a lot of money into sewer, NOTE Confidence: 0.8132690925 00:07:00.400 --> 00:07:05.012 water, roads, broadband schools, NOTE Confidence: 0.8132690925 00:07:05.012 --> 00:07:08.728 teacher pay, teacher insurance. NOTE Confidence: 0.8132690925 00:07:08.728 --> 00:07:11.668 Those are all often property tax. NOTE Confidence: 0.8132690925 00:07:11.668 --> 00:07:13.950 So if the state's paying for it there NOTE Confidence: 0.8132690925 00:07:13.950 --> 00:07:15.959 should be less property tax and there NOTE Confidence: 0.8132690925 00:07:15.959 --> 00:07:17.789 should be more houses available. NOTE Confidence: 0.8132690925 00:07:17.790 --> 00:07:18.980 But when you put money in there, NOTE Confidence: 0.8132690925 00:07:18.980 --> 00:07:20.879 it takes a while before the houses get built, NOTE Confidence: 0.8132690925 00:07:20.880 --> 00:07:21.277 so. NOTE Confidence: 0.8132690925 00:07:21.277 --> 00:07:24.850 It it doesn't match up on an immediate basis, NOTE Confidence: 0.8132690925 00:07:24.850 --> 00:07:26.410 but you know, we gotta have. NOTE Confidence: 0.8132690925 00:07:26.410 --> 00:07:27.770 We gotta have more houses. NOTE Confidence: 0.8132690925 00:07:27.770 --> 00:07:29.108 We gotta have more affordable houses, NOTE Confidence: 0.919014492 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:30.920 yeah, and you know there. NOTE Confidence: 0.919014492 00:07:30.920 --> 00:07:33.727 Critics saying that you know what the NOTE Confidence: 0.919014492 00:07:33.727 --> 00:07:36.179 legislature did this year for housing. NOTE Confidence: 0.919014492 00:07:36.180 --> 00:07:37.960 For the housing crisis and NOTE Confidence: 0.919014492 00:07:37.960 --> 00:07:39.740 and home property tax relief NOTE Confidence: 0.919014492 00:07:39.809 --> 00:07:41.526 just wasn't enough, do you? NOTE Confidence: 0.919014492 00:07:41.526 --> 00:07:43.227 Well have an idea for next year? NOTE Confidence: 0.804147230333333 00:07:43.290 --> 00:07:48.132 Well, if you pay if the state pays for. NOTE Confidence: 0.804147230333333 00:07:48.140 --> 00:07:50.576 Functions that are paid for property taxes, NOTE Confidence: 0.804147230333333 00:07:50.580 --> 00:07:52.407 then it's up to the City Council and the NOTE Confidence: 0.804147230333333 00:07:52.407 --> 00:07:54.300 County commissioner to lower their levy rate. NOTE Confidence: 0.804147230333333 00:07:54.300 --> 00:07:55.260 You know the fair market NOTE Confidence: 0.804147230333333 00:07:55.260 --> 00:07:56.510 value is a fair market value, NOTE Confidence: 0.804147230333333 00:07:56.510 --> 00:07:58.484 but they can adjust the levy NOTE Confidence: 0.804147230333333 00:07:58.484 --> 00:08:00.510 rate right here in the next. NOTE Confidence: 0.804147230333333 00:08:00.510 --> 00:08:01.898 Week or two, everybody, NOTE Confidence: 0.804147230333333 00:08:01.898 --> 00:08:04.520 all all of the viewers will be NOTE Confidence: 0.804147230333333 00:08:04.520 --> 00:08:06.845 getting their property tax assessment. NOTE Confidence: 0.804147230333333 00:08:06.850 --> 00:08:08.705 I'll guarantee you they're gonna be up NOTE Confidence: 0.804147230333333 00:08:08.705 --> 00:08:10.520 but that doesn't make the difference, NOTE Confidence: 0.804147230333333 00:08:10.520 --> 00:08:11.906 so it makes the difference is NOTE Confidence: 0.804147230333333 00:08:11.906 --> 00:08:13.030 what the levy rate is. NOTE Confidence: 0.804147230333333 00:08:13.030 --> 00:08:15.662 And if a school doesn't need to NOTE Confidence: 0.804147230333333 00:08:15.662 --> 00:08:18.028 do a supplemental levy to pay for NOTE Confidence: 0.804147230333333 00:08:18.030 --> 00:08:19.798 kindergarten and teacher insurance, NOTE Confidence: 0.804147230333333 00:08:19.798 --> 00:08:22.450 then they can let some of NOTE Confidence: 0.804147230333333 00:08:22.530 --> 00:08:24.489 those supplementals expire. NOTE Confidence: 0.804147230333333 00:08:24.490 --> 00:08:26.905 You know, that'll be up to them, NOTE Confidence: 0.804147230333333 00:08:26.910 --> 00:08:28.896 so that's part of the property NOTE Confidence: 0.804147230333333 00:08:28.896 --> 00:08:31.449 tax and then we put $50 million. NOTE Confidence: 0.804147230333333 00:08:31.450 --> 00:08:33.860 To affordable housing to basically NOTE Confidence: 0.804147230333333 00:08:33.860 --> 00:08:35.306 do gap financing. NOTE Confidence: 0.804147230333333 00:08:35.310 --> 00:08:38.118 To help people that build workforce NOTE Confidence: 0.804147230333333 00:08:38.118 --> 00:08:39.409 housing build more housing, NOTE Confidence: 0.804147230333333 00:08:39.409 --> 00:08:40.774 they'll get some federal help. NOTE Confidence: 0.804147230333333 00:08:40.780 --> 00:08:42.636 They get the state help and then the NOTE Confidence: 0.804147230333333 00:08:42.636 --> 00:08:44.329 developers got to put some money into it. NOTE Confidence: 0.804147230333333 00:08:44.330 --> 00:08:46.730 But we're trying to keep the cost of NOTE Confidence: 0.804147230333333 00:08:46.730 --> 00:08:48.926 housing down to where we got enough NOTE Confidence: 0.804147230333333 00:08:48.926 --> 00:08:51.318 places for our young people to stay here. NOTE Confidence: 0.838115433888889 00:08:51.570 --> 00:08:53.649 Talk to a couple mayors recently about NOTE Confidence: 0.838115433888889 00:08:53.649 --> 00:08:55.581 managing growth and one of their NOTE Confidence: 0.838115433888889 00:08:55.581 --> 00:08:57.216 things is about public transportation, NOTE Confidence: 0.838115433888889 00:08:57.220 --> 00:08:59.100 and the state doesn't provide NOTE Confidence: 0.838115433888889 00:08:59.100 --> 00:09:01.856 any funding for public. We do. NOTE Confidence: 0.838115433888889 00:09:01.856 --> 00:09:03.848 Public transit, should we do more NOTE Confidence: 0.768084676666667 00:09:03.900 --> 00:09:05.956 well, we. I mean we there is and NOTE Confidence: 0.768084676666667 00:09:05.956 --> 00:09:07.731 and there's actually some money NOTE Confidence: 0.768084676666667 00:09:07.731 --> 00:09:09.736 that's ARPA money that's available. NOTE Confidence: 0.768084676666667 00:09:09.740 --> 00:09:11.994 We put I put money into rails, NOTE Confidence: 0.768084676666667 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:14.416 which is that that is not very applicable NOTE Confidence: 0.768084676666667 00:09:14.416 --> 00:09:16.658 in Idaho because we don't have any NOTE Confidence: 0.768084676666667 00:09:16.658 --> 00:09:18.600 place where we use regular rail. NOTE Confidence: 0.768084676666667 00:09:18.600 --> 00:09:20.774 But you know, we do underwrite NOTE Confidence: 0.768084676666667 00:09:20.774 --> 00:09:23.252 buses that the state and the federal NOTE Confidence: 0.768084676666667 00:09:23.252 --> 00:09:25.028 government does in a lot of areas, NOTE Confidence: 0.768084676666667 00:09:25.030 --> 00:09:25.978 and there's probably going. NOTE Confidence: 0.768084676666667 00:09:25.978 --> 00:09:27.400 There's going to have to be NOTE Confidence: 0.768084676666667 00:09:27.452 --> 00:09:28.617 more of that going forward, NOTE Confidence: 0.768084676666667 00:09:28.620 --> 00:09:30.948 but I think what most you're NOTE Confidence: 0.768084676666667 00:09:30.948 --> 00:09:32.500 mayors are talking about. NOTE Confidence: 0.768084676666667 00:09:32.500 --> 00:09:35.188 Is some kind of a light rail issue, NOTE Confidence: 0.768084676666667 00:09:35.190 --> 00:09:36.462 and if we're going to do NOTE Confidence: 0.768084676666667 00:09:36.462 --> 00:09:37.310 light rail right now, NOTE Confidence: 0.768084676666667 00:09:37.310 --> 00:09:39.193 we need to start buying right away NOTE Confidence: 0.768084676666667 00:09:39.193 --> 00:09:41.062 because you can imagine you look at NOTE Confidence: 0.768084676666667 00:09:41.062 --> 00:09:42.960 the rail line from Nampa to Boise. NOTE Confidence: 0.768084676666667 00:09:42.960 --> 00:09:44.724 Can you imagine what it's like NOTE Confidence: 0.768084676666667 00:09:44.724 --> 00:09:46.530 if that backs up Eagle Rd? NOTE Confidence: 0.768084676666667 00:09:46.530 --> 00:09:47.950 Yeah, what kind of a mess? NOTE Confidence: 0.768084676666667 00:09:47.950 --> 00:09:48.810 That's gonna be right. NOTE Confidence: 0.768084676666667 00:09:48.810 --> 00:09:49.860 So if we're gonna do rail, NOTE Confidence: 0.768084676666667 00:09:49.860 --> 00:09:51.428 we gotta start by and right away NOTE Confidence: 0.768084676666667 00:09:51.428 --> 00:09:53.180 so we can do overpasses over. NOTE Confidence: 0.768084676666667 00:09:53.180 --> 00:09:55.043 And so that's gonna be quite a ways out. NOTE Confidence: 0.829059928571429 00:09:55.060 --> 00:09:58.141 And we saw how long it took to get the NOTE Confidence: 0.829059928571429 00:09:58.141 --> 00:10:00.970 right away rights of way for Hwy 16. NOTE Confidence: 0.829059928571429 00:10:00.970 --> 00:10:02.770 We're not done yet on Hwy 16. NOTE Confidence: 0.873156672 00:10:03.440 --> 00:10:05.380 We'll get there, but it's. NOTE Confidence: 0.873156672 00:10:05.380 --> 00:10:08.116 And the thing about Hwy 16. NOTE Confidence: 0.873156672 00:10:08.120 --> 00:10:10.080 It was all farm ground when we started. NOTE Confidence: 0.873156672 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:12.896 You start buying right away on Eagle Rd. NOTE Confidence: 0.873156672 00:10:12.900 --> 00:10:14.313 You can imagine what it's going to be like. NOTE Confidence: 0.7258223286 00:10:14.330 --> 00:10:17.670 Yeah, governor going forward into, NOTE Confidence: 0.7258223286 00:10:17.670 --> 00:10:21.220 say, 2023, what do you see as the NOTE Confidence: 0.7258223286 00:10:21.220 --> 00:10:22.979 biggest challenge facing Idaho growth? NOTE Confidence: 0.896961206 00:10:24.070 --> 00:10:25.370 Just how how do we? NOTE Confidence: 0.896961206 00:10:25.370 --> 00:10:26.370 How does the state? NOTE Confidence: 0.896961206 00:10:26.370 --> 00:10:27.370 How do our schools? NOTE Confidence: 0.896961206 00:10:27.370 --> 00:10:28.590 How do our universities? NOTE Confidence: 0.896961206 00:10:28.590 --> 00:10:29.810 How do our counties? NOTE Confidence: 0.896961206 00:10:29.810 --> 00:10:31.385 How do our roads cope with growth? NOTE Confidence: 0.848436574615385 00:10:31.610 --> 00:10:34.034 And finally what do you see as the NOTE Confidence: 0.848436574615385 00:10:34.034 --> 00:10:35.658 biggest opportunity for Idaho growth? NOTE Confidence: 0.87232506 00:10:36.610 --> 00:10:39.028 We're going to have increasing incomes. NOTE Confidence: 0.87232506 00:10:39.030 --> 00:10:41.806 We're going to have increasing new new jobs, NOTE Confidence: 0.87232506 00:10:41.810 --> 00:10:44.468 better jobs, and so they're they're, NOTE Confidence: 0.87232506 00:10:44.470 --> 00:10:47.070 you know there's a little pro and a con with NOTE Confidence: 0.87232506 00:10:47.138 --> 00:10:49.348 both of them a lot of my old friends said NOTE Confidence: 0.87232506 00:10:49.348 --> 00:10:51.368 we don't need anymore growth than Idaho, NOTE Confidence: 0.87232506 00:10:51.370 --> 00:10:54.146 but it's still pretty nice that we've got. NOTE Confidence: 0.87232506 00:10:54.150 --> 00:10:56.414 Nicer things, better schools, NOTE Confidence: 0.87232506 00:10:56.414 --> 00:10:58.261 better opportunities. But you know, NOTE Confidence: 0.87232506 00:10:58.261 --> 00:10:59.920 I've I've got a pretty good record NOTE Confidence: 0.87232506 00:10:59.971 --> 00:11:01.747 of working with cities and counties, NOTE Confidence: 0.87232506 00:11:01.750 --> 00:11:03.989 and I want to work with them to where we can NOTE Confidence: 0.87232506 00:11:03.989 --> 00:11:05.879 best handle growth going into the future. NOTE Confidence: 0.80794478 00:11:06.090 --> 00:11:07.998 Thank you, governor.