ENRTF?

[tangle tooth]

      Has anyone done much research or checking in to the Environmental and Natural Resources Trust Fund renewal? It will be a question on our ballots.
      We were discussing it recently at our rod & gun club meeting. I am not a tech savvy guy but I can't find the actual document anywhere.
      The way the question reads, as I understand things, is if you want clean water, vote yes. It does involve some  funding ($?) from lottery proceeds and appointed committees.
      If you can find it and help translate, that would be awesome.

[Steve-o]

we were discussing this on this thread...

https://mnoutdoorsman.com/forums/index.php?topic=43033.msg469582;topicseen#new

[tangle tooth]

      Thanks. I couldn't get to it. Message said it was missing or off limits to me.

[Steve-o]

Here was my first post in the thread. 
I think u need to ask HD for permission to the political forum to see the responses.

Ballot measure would create council charged with granting funds to ‘woke activist groups,’ critics say

“Shall the Minnesota Constitution be amended to protect drinking water sources and the water quality of lakes, rivers, and streams; conserve wildlife habitat and natural areas; improve air quality; and expand access to parks and trails by extending the transfer of proceeds from the state-operated lottery to the environment and natural resources trust fund, and to dedicate the proceeds for these purposes?”

Details are buried in legislation, NOT the ballot question

If this constitution measure passes...

• If passed, the Minnesota constitution would be amended to extend by another 25 years the annual transfer of 40 percent of state lottery proceeds to the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund.
• the legislation would require the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund to dedicate 1.5 percent of state lottery revenues to “expand the number and diversity of recipients who benefit from the environment and natural resources trust fund, especially in communities that have been adversely affected by pollution and environmental degradation.”
• the legislation would require the DNR commissioner to appoint 11 people to the council, two of whom must be members of “the Minnesota Ojibwe Tribe,” two who are members of the Minnesota Dakota Tribe and four members who “identify as Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, Asian, or Pacific Islander or as members of a community of color.”
• the legislation would also bar use of funds allocated by the trust for use in capital projects

If this measure fails...

• “A ‘NO’ vote does not remove the funding from the original amendment/implementation because it has not expired,” the organization said. “The current money will continue to fund environmental programs as Minnesotans desire and can be extended, when it does expire, by a simple renewal by the Legislature.”

The bottom line...

The legislature can/will continue environment funding from lottery proceeds without this constitutional amendment. 

“What this ballot question should say, if it was accurate, the ballot question would read, ‘should the state of Minnesota set aside roughly $11 million every year to give to woke activist groups?’”

Because that’s what this proposed constitutional amendment is going to do.

G'luck.   

[roony]

If you want a portion of lottery proceeds to continue to fund clean water and other environmental issues vote YES.
If you want that portion to go into the bottomless pit of the general fund vote No.

[tangle tooth]

      Thanks.

[Dotch]

Move to SD or IA...

[roony]

What you got against ND?

[Dotch]

Nothing. I lived there 3 years already. Rugby & Cando then on the Finnish reservation between Rolla & Rock Lake, 6 miles from Canada. Fewer White Claw cans in IA or SD for the ditch chickens to get hurt on vs. here. 

[roony]

I have a friend NW of Langdon a ways. He loves it there. To me it seems like long hard winters!

[glenn57]

What you got against ND?

more then likely has a warrant for his arrest?????

[roony]

I don't understand.

[Dotch]

What you got against ND?

more then likely has a warrant for his arrest?????

The statute of limitations on that one ran out a long time ago! I think. I did get a letter once from the Bismark police dept. requesting that I remove my Gremlin from the street or they'd arrest me. I'd traded it off in Cando on a pickup. One of the native Americans bought it & drove it to college there. It must've croaked so he abandoned it. They traced it to me & the letter said they'd issue a warrant for my arrest. I called & explained the situation. They would've had fun trying to find me.

I loved the area I lived in, especially the last place. Finnish farmstead complete w/rustic old woodburning sauna, secluded, across the road from the northwest end of the Armourdale reservoir. Absolute hunter's paradise especially this time of year for waterfowl. Devils Lake was only about an hour or so away. One of my college buddies married a ND gal. Worked & lived there. He's still there. I had a ND girlfriend who liked to come up & stay sometimes. Didn't marry her. If I had, I'd probably still be there. Miss the place in October & November. December & January not so much.

[Steve-o]

The way the question reads, as I understand things, is if you want clean water, vote yes. It does involve some  funding ($?) from lottery proceeds and appointed committees.

If you want a portion of lottery proceeds to continue to fund clean water and other environmental issues vote YES.
If you want that portion to go into the bottomless pit of the general fund vote No.

Actually, it is more complicated than that, roony. 

Yes, TT, According to the legislation that underpins the ballot measure, it approved, a new DEI-based agency council will be created which will control a percentage of state lottery-environment revenue to “expand the number and diversity of recipients who benefit from the environment and natural resources trust fund, especially in communities that have been adversely affected by pollution and environmental degradation.”  All council members will draw a state salary.  All council members will be paid per diem when they are working on state business.  If it passes, this group will have approximately $11 million per year they can spend by issuing grants for DEI projects.  This money comes right out of the state lottery-environment revenue.

Voting 'no' does NOT mean that state lottery environment funds will automatically start going to the general fund.  But it DOES mean that the DFL-controlled legislature WILL have to vote on what to do with the revenue stream after the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund agreement expires in 2025. 

In drafting this ballot proposal, the DFL-controlled legislature did NOT have to tie the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund extension to creating a new DEI-council with lottery funds, but they did.

[Leech~~]

Funny thing about the Libbers, they make a lot of noise for clean water and saving the Wolves, they just don't want to pay for it!   

[tangle tooth]

      Thanks, guys. I did a little more looking in to it before I filled out my ballot and handed it in this morning.
      I miss having a polling place to go to to vote. We used to meet neighbors, talk gardens, families, crops, livestock and such.

[glenn57]

      Thanks, guys. I did a little more looking in to it before I filled out my ballot and handed it in this morning.
      I miss having a polling place to go to to vote. We used to meet neighbors, talk gardens, families, crops, livestock and such.

wow, you live beyond the land of rocks and cows?