[applause] [cheers and applause] c oh come on. Good morning. Thank you for that warm welcome and thank you for being in person all the people watching on line or listening remotely we say thank you for joining us for the 2024 state of the state. Youve all been thoroughly welcomed this morning but i want to give a special shout out to a few people in the course ive got to start with first Lady Catherine and her family members she spirit their sister julie and her cousin lisa and watching on line to the rest of our rest of our extended families and their sons joe and tom and her daughter jesse and their extended families. When you serve your family serves with you so i want to be sure to at this time thank them for all their support in the seven years in todays a special day because its jesses birthday and so we need on a one, two, three everybody to yell happy birthday jesse. It will be the Largest Group to ever yell her birthday at the same time. One, 23, happy birthday jesse [applause
[applause] [cheers and applause] c oh come on. Good morning. Thank you for that warm welcome and thank you for being in person all the people watching on line or listening remotely we say thank you for joining us for the 2024 state of the state. Youve all been thoroughly welcomed this morning but i want to give a special shout out to a few people in the course ive got to start with first Lady Catherine and her family members she spirit their sister julie and her cousin lisa and watching on line to the rest of our rest of our extended families and their sons joe and tom and her daughter jesse and their extended families. When you serve your family serves with you so i want to be sure to at this time thank them for all their support in the seven years in todays a special day because its jesses birthday and so we need on a one, two, three everybody to yell happy birthday jesse. It will be the Largest Group to ever yell her birthday at the same time. One, 23, happy birthday jesse [applause
Is taking care of our constituents at home. Voices from the states on cspan. Maine Governor Paul Lepage delivered his final state of the state address last week at the statehouse in augustine. He said he will not move forward to a voter approved measure to expand medicaid because the state legislature hasnt determined to pay for it. He leaves office in january of 2019 after eight years on term limits. [applause] thank you so much. Members of the 128th legislature, distinguished guests, and my fellow citizens, i want to briefly remember Paul Mitchell of waterville, brother of senator mitchell, who passed away this weekend. He was a dedicated Public Servant and a good friend. As i begin the last state of the state address of my time as governor of this great state, let me be first to thank my wife. Honey, please stand. [applause] first of all, she looks gorgeous. [laughing] [applause] she has been unwavering as a representative from the governor to the people of the state of maine. And h
For him. This portion looks at the Lessons Learned from the housing and financial crises of 20072009, and what you cities have done since event to prepare for future market fluctuations. This is one hour 15 minutes. Its my pleasure to invite tracy gordon who is a senior fellow in the brookings urban tax policy center, she is a leading scholar and specialist in the air of state and local finance. We are so delighted to have her as part of the urban team and working on these issues, shes going to present work and research she done with colleagues at ucla, and kick off our next panel conversation. Tracy. Thank you very much, erika, thank you to my colleagues at the urban institute and the Lincoln Institute of land policy put together such a terrific program, very excited to be a today talk about some of my work with my coauthors at ucla and uc berkeley. First i wanted to take a couple minutes to explain why my paper is different from the previous paper that was discussed. First, argued of
It probably should be 793,000 . In front of us. Have the balance come from the state reserve, correct . Okay. So i wanted to clarify that, and glad that that was amended and changed. I know that young and other folks at the School District have been working hard with the Mayors Office to work on that number and really trying to work that number down in a way that didnt jeopardize the credentialing program so i want to thank the School District for making the effort to do that. So i am very supportive of the reduction to that level. I think thats a good sign. The area where i still continue to have problems with the supplemental has to do with the source of fundings and i think expressed before. I think that itwx t z is ifs the School District who is indicating to us that this is a top priority of the School District i do think that it is incumbent on the School District to also put some funding into the supplemental, even if weij are i know theres a lot of controversy around using th