State budget enables Mohonasen to keep tax levy increase within cap | The Daily Gazette
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An unexpectedly-large increase in state aid enabled Mohonasen school district officials to curtail their proposed local tax levy increase to just over 1 percent – about one-fourth the size of the increase the board mulled prior to the state budget being finalized.
The school board last week adopted a $56.5 million budget proposal that will go up for voter approval May 18, which includes a 1.1 percent tax levy increase, right at the district’s tax cap. The increase is estimated to cost about $32 a year on a home assessed at $150,000.
Rochelle Baker, Local Journalism Initiative
Spencer Serin is one of the researchers exploring the possible benefits B.C. seaweed might have as cattle feed.
Image Credit: SUBMITTED/Spencer Serin January 29, 2021 - 6:00 PM Canadian scientists are investigating whether regional seaweeds might be the new superfood for cows, and battle climate change in the process. Belchy cattle are a big source of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that traps approximately 80 times more heat than carbon dioxide over 20 years. Methane makes up about 40 per cent of Canada’s agricultural emissions, with 90 per cent emanating from cattle and sheep. So scientists are eager to find ways to reduce methane emissions through possible changes to cows’ diets, and seaweed has great potential, said Spencer Serin, a researcher affiliated with North Island College (NIC) and Cascadia Seaweed on Vancouver Island.
Methane makes up about 40 per cent of Canada’s agricultural emissions, with 90 per cent emanating from cattle and sheep. So scientists are eager to find ways to reduce methane emissions through possible changes to cows’ diets, and seaweed has great potential, said Spencer Serin, a researcher affiliated with North Island College (NIC) and Cascadia Seaweed on Vancouver Island. Methane is produced in the rumen, or upper stomach, of cattle as they digest their feed. Created during the process of enteric fermentation, as microbes in the cow’s tummy predigest fibre and starches, methane is released as the cattle burp and exhale.