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SB89: Invasive species may lead to new fee for boaters
Practical Money Matters Making Sure Loved Ones are Prepared
for their Retiremnet Years by HALEY SOTELO, CAPITAL WEST
NEWS
SALT LAKE CITY - As Utah water sources become contaminated with
the Quagga mussel, some legislators say they think that boaters
should pay a fee to help fight the mus-sel invasion.
Quagga mussels appear to have come to Utah when boats from the
highly infected Great Lakes region subse-quently visited Lake
Powell. Recently, the mussel has been spotted at Deer Creek
Reser-voir in the form of "villagers," or small colonies that have
yet to become "established."
"If those things happen to establish themselves in Deer Creek
Reservoir it'll be a nightmare," said Sen. Scott Jenkins, R-Plain
City. He explained that the reservoir could then influence the
wa-ter quality of the Provo River which could impact the whole
central Utah water system.
"We've got some ex-tremely pristine waters in this state. When
you look at Bear Lake or Strawberry the fishery at Strawberry,
that's one of the greatest fisheries in the United States and the
idea that this could get estab-lished in those lakes scares you
half to death. You don't
SALT LAKE CITY - Ev-ery Friday at 7 a.m. during the Utah General
Legislative Ses-sion, the rural caucus, often referred to as the
"Cowboy Caucus," meets to discuss po-tential legislation that will
af-fect rural Utah. Popular topics revolve around land manage-ment,
environmental issues, natural resources, water, en-ergy, road
access, agriculture and education.
"It's a good opportunity to flesh out issues," said Rep. Mike
Noel, R-Kanab. "It's an opportunity to vet bills, vet is-sues."
After a quick breakfast sponsored by various asso-ciations with
rural interests, the legislators, lobbyists,and any other
interested members of the public, convene to be-gin discussion.
Following an agenda, topics are brought up, legislators and members
of the public discuss the topics, and then questions are asked.
At the Feb. 20 caucus meeting, the hot topic was oil and gas
production in the Uintah Basin. A Newfield Ex-ploration Company
represen-tative, Mike Johnson, spoke to the caucus at length about
horizontal drilling in Utah, and thereafter fielded ques-tions from
legislators.
Thereafter, Sen. Ralph
SALT LAKE CITY- A Huntsville Republican's plan to allow dying
patients to use experimental drugs passed the Utah House late last
week.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Gage Froerer, R-Hunts-ville, would
allow terminally ill patients to use drugs that have gone through
stage one of Federal Drug Administra-tion testing but remain in
trial. The FDA puts drugs through 3 stages of testing before they
submit for final approval.
Froerer said the bill is in-tended to provide a sliver of a hope
to terminally ill patients.
Rep. Eric Hutchings, R- Kearns, spoke in support of the bill. He
told of his ex-perience watching his mother die from bone marrow
cancer. It was difficult watching his mother after the doctors told
her there was nothing more
hardly know what to think about it," Jenkins said. Jenkins went
on to suggest that the mussels could spread into the water system
piping, destroy-ing everything
According to Quagga Task Force Chair Gene Shaw-croft, if the
mussels in Deer Creek become "established" the water supply to over
60 per-cent of Utahns receive could be affected. This includes the
Jordanelle, Strawberry, and Starvation reservoirs.
"From a water user standpoint, the water quality changes when
these quagga mussels eat the good algae out of the water and leave
the bad algae. That algae, the blue-green algae, makes treatment
much more difficult and can be much more expensive," Shaw-croft
said. "It is catastrophic. We will be able to deliver the water. It
will just simply cost more and it will be much more cumbersome. It
will be safe. We can make it safe. The tech-nology is there through
the treatment plants to make it safe."
Although the mussels have the ability to contaminate a whole
water system through waterways, they can travel via
Okerlund, R-Monroe, ad-dressed the caucus to discuss SB216, the
High Cost Infra-structure Tax Credits bill. This bill would
incentivize compa-nies to move into rural areas. "It's an exciting
time," said Okerlund, because businesses are expressing interest in
mov-ing to rural areas. The bill will go to Senate committee on
Monday, Feb. 23.
Noel took a personal privilege to thank Juan Palma, former
Director of the Utah State Bureau of Land Man-agement. Noel gave
Palma a White Cowboy Caucus Hat and noted the contributions of
Palma to the state.
Finally, Ben Hart, manag-ing director of rural business services
from the Governor's Office of Economic Devel-opment (GOED),
introduced newly appointed Director of the Office of Rural
Develop-ment Linda Gilmore.
"I'm happy that there is a 'Cowboy Caucus' in Utah," she said.
She is also happy that so many people attend to sup-port these
issues. "The state depends on us."
When the caucus started around 20 years ago, there were very few
members. "It was called the 'Cowboy Caucus' because it was just a
bunch of cowboys gathering
they could do, he said, adding that his mother lost all hope of
something to live for.
Hutchings said he didn't know if the drugs would have had any
medical benefit for his mother, but she was broken hearted that she
had nothing more to give. In addition to giving his her hope, his
mother would have found purpose in her final days by helping test a
drug that might someone else's life, he said.
"I think she would have reveled in the idea of being able to
potentially help some-one else," said Hutchings, who said that was
the most impor-tant part of the bill.
Froerer also shared an-ecdotes about people who had taken their
own lives be-cause they were unable to get potentially life-saving
medi-cines. While they can sign up
boat as well. Even with thor-ough cleaning a boat's bal-lasts,
which allow it to take on and release water, could trans-port the
Quagga mussel if it is not properly drained.
The Quagga Mussel is not just a health scare. Lake Michigan
spends 500 million dollars a year coping with the mussel.
Subsequently, Utah legislators want to institute a ten dollar fee
for boaters to create a fund for keeping Utah waters clean and
mussel-free. With 70,000 registered boat-ers, this fee could help
the Quagga Task Force finance the effort to head off the spread of
the Quagga mussel.
"If we get this infested throughout our state we'd probably be
at about 50 mil-lion dollars a year, we esti-mate, to manage that
here in the state. Pretty nervous about that right now," said Greg
Sheehan, Director of Utah An-imal and Wildlife Resources.
The House Natural Re-sources, Agriculture and En-vironment
Committee voted unanimously to favorably rec-ommend SB89 for
consider-ation by the entire Utah House of Representatives.
together to talk about rural issues," said Okerlund, who
attended the caucus as a com-missioner prior to becoming a state
senator. Since then, it has grown considerably. Today, the rural
caucus has about 30 members from both the House and the Senate. The
caucus is also highly attended by other interested parties
including educators, superintendents, department heads, and
com-missioners to name a few.
There are four chairs, two from the House and two from the
Senate. Noel is one of the House chairs. "Most of them (the
members) come from ur-ban areas," Noel explained, because there are
a few rural legislators. Okerlund also ex-pressed how important it
is to have the "urban guys" attend-ing so that they can understand
the issues that rural Utah faces.
"The purpose of the ru-ral caucus," explained Mike Peterson, "is
to help bring together interests from rural Utah and help educate
others about what's happening in ru-ral Utah."
For more information on these topics and for weekly updates and
stories on the top-ics discussed in the caucus, please visit
capwestnews.org .
for clinical trials, it's too dif-ficult to get in, said
Froerer. The bill will add hope, qual-ity, and a measure of
dignity, and even though the bill has been referred to as the
'right to try bill', he prefers to call it a `right to life' bill,
Froerer said.
Under the bill, a patient must be defined as terminally ill, the
drug or device must have successfully completed the FDA phase one
of testing, and a doctor must approve the drug for the patient.
The bill passed the house with a 72-1 vote. Orem Re-publican Val
Peterson was the lone representative to vote against passage. It is
not the legislature's job to be deter-mining who can get drugs, and
patients should use the process already in place, he said.
What if a sudden, debilitat-ing illness, fraud or economic
downturn affected your senior family member's retirement, estate or
long-term care issues? Would you be prepared to take over?
If the answer is no, you're not alone. Accord-ing to 2013
research (http://
www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/07/18/as-population-age s -more
-americans -becom-ing-caregivers/) from the Pew Research Center,
four in 10 U.S. adults are caring for a loved one with significant
health issues.
Don't wait for a crisis to initiate this conversation. Start-ing
early can help you plan and even safeguard your own career and
retirement planning. Here are some suggestions for start-ing the
conversation:
Identify the missing links. Find information gaps you need to
fill to help your senior rela-tive plan for retirement. If key
financial information invest-ment and banking accounts, le-gal
documents or doctors' con-tact information is missing, list any and
all unknowns to be researched and compiled.
Schedule a family finan-cial meeting. Schedule a spe-
by JASON ALDERMAN
cific day and time and create an agenda that meets the needs of
your senior relative. It is not always necessary to involve all
direct family members in a pre-liminary discussion, but make sure
that relevant individuals are aware of the meeting. After helping
your senior relative as-sess his or her financial situa-tion, make
sure to identify next steps and responsibilities.
Locate important financial documents. Ask your senior relative
to show you where his or her key documents and ac-counts are, such
as retirement and pension information, check-books, investment
statements, insurance policies and legal and estate data. Find out
where in-coming bills are kept in case you have to step in and help
manage monthly bills.
Consider seeking financial counseling. Any number of rea-sons,
from illness to fraud, may explain losing control of person-al
finances. If your relative has been working with a qualified
financial or tax advisor, the fam-ily team should consider meet-ing
with him or her if a need arises. If outside tax, financial or
legal help is needed, the team and your senior relative should
discuss who those profession-als should be, what their fees are
and what you expect them to do.
Make and agree on a plan. After all the information gather-ing
and discussion is complete, make a plan in writing, if pos-sible to
review the senior's wishes, set an action plan and assign
responsibilities as neces-sary. As mentioned above, you should
review this plan every year. And if problems emerge in any topic
area from retire-ment to health issues, you'll find guidance
throughout the Practi-cal Money Skills for Life web-site.
(http://www.practicalmo-neyskills.com/personalfinance/)
Bottom line: Asking older relatives about retirement, es-tate
and long-term care prepara-tions can be an uncomfortable
conversation. Making a plan and initiating early conversa-tions to
involve the right people can ease the financial strain and stress
on everyone involved.
Jason Alderman directs Visa's financial education pro-grams. To
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com/PracticalMoney.
Utah's 'Cowboy Caucus' powerful voice for rural concerns
by MAREN MCINNES, CAPITAL WEST NEWS
HB94: Bill to allow terminally ill access to experimental
drugs
passes House by MICHAEL A. KRUSE, CAPITAL WEST NEWS
