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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Boondoggle" data-source="post: 246655" data-attributes="member: 6537"><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I'm glad the fiscal note was brought up because I've been waiting to post.  Thebill includes a fiscal note that estimates the cost of the proposeddatabase.  The estimated cost to build and maintain a database of unknownparticipation appears reasonable to me.  </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Here are a few key things I gathered from the fiscal note:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">-$250K to build the database and mapping application.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">-$892 for 6 new FTE to administer landowner agreements and database/mapping application.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">-Add them up and it's $1.142M for 2019-2021 biennium</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">-$892K for the 2021-2023 biennium (without database construction)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">-Average those numbers and it's roughly $500K/year for the first 4 years.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">-The fiscal agreement estimates 3,166 posting agreements, equating to a cost of roughly $160/posting agreement.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">-Assuming 140K licenses and $500K/year budget, that equates to roughly a $3.50 license fee increase.  There's no way the legislature will appropriate millions for a hunting database.  If license numbers decrease in the future, expect license fees to fund the database would increase.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">*The proposed database grows government by 6 FTE at a time when state government is offering voluntary separation incentives to reduce its size.  We don't even know what will be included in the database/mapping application.  </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">*An opt-in "no hunting" database would be ridiculously expensive and that's why it wasn't proposed.  Signs are much cheaper.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">**The most important line of the fiscal note is on page 2, 3B.  <u><span style="color: #ff0000">"This does not provide an authentication solution to verify the landowner, lessee, partnership (trust, life estate, LLC/LLP)."</span></u>  I'm not an attorney, but that's a significant statement IMO.  The State's database/mapping application could be in error.  The State would be transferring the burden of verifying legal land ownership on to you and me.  At least Plots lands are </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">verified by signs.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The database proposal should be an easy defeat.  It's too expensive and it doesn't include a land ownership authentication solution.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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