{"id":842,"date":"2019-06-07T00:04:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T05:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.cariboulake.org\/?p=842"},"modified":"2019-06-07T00:04:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T05:04:09","slug":"legislate-update-from-mlr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cariboulake.org\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"Legislate update from MLR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caribou Lake association is a member of broader MN Lakes and Rivers Advocates organization. On 6\/6\/19 MLR delivered not only good news, but excellent results as well! <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With help of members like CLA lake advocates generated over 10,000 direct constituent communications with legislators on behalf of lake issues.<\/p>\n<p>The Legislature passed and Gov. Walz signed into law:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A $5.60 increase in the AIS surcharge on a three year boat registration restoring funding for DNR AIS programs and lake association AIS grants,<\/li>\n<li>Convince the legislature to rebate the sales taxes on the chemicals lake associations use to treat AIS,<\/li>\n<li>Reduce the State General Tax on cabin properties about 6%. This state property tax applies to cabin properties only and provides no revenue to local governments,<\/li>\n<li>Fund the Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center &#8211; science is our best hope for preventing the spread of AIS and more effectively treating already infested lakes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information visit: www.mnlakesandrivers.org<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caribou Lake association is a member of broader MN Lakes and Rivers Advocates organization. On 6\/6\/19 MLR delivered not only good news, but excellent results as well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88895,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cariboulake.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cariboulake.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cariboulake.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cariboulake.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88895"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cariboulake.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cariboulake.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"https:\/\/cariboulake.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cariboulake.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cariboulake.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cariboulake.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}