FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Re: Who authorized bluebird tag increase?

[K Dean EDWARDS <kde@xxxxxxx>]

Given all the [censored] that has been going on in Nashville the
last couple of years, I was very concerned about the increase
Wallace mentioned.  I did a search on the News-Sentinel website
and came up with nothing but quickly found the following on the
WBIR webisite (Knoxville's NBC-TV affiliate).  It was posted on
Christmas Eve and deals with the Friends of the Smokies tag but
likely the bluebird tag is similar.  Would still like to hear
that confirmed by Pete Wyatt or someone else at TWRA.

Dean Edwards
Knoxville, TN
Home of UT whose new motto is apparently:
"We may have the lowest paid professors in the country but that's
not going to stop us from spending $20 million on a swimming pool."

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From www.wbir.com


SMOKIES GROUP SURPRISED BY PRICE HIKE FOR CAR TAG

It was a surprise to the Friends of the Great Smoky Mountains to find the
price of specialty license plates had been hiked. The state didn't bother to
tell the group.

Executive Director Jim Hart found out when a member called to ask him what
gives.

The group aids the National Park Service in preserving and protecting the
Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The Friends raise funds and public
awareness, and provide volunteers for needed projects.

The Legislature raised the price of specialty plates by 40 percent -- from
25 dollars to 35 dollars. It's the first change in price since the plates were
first issued in 1985.

There are about 24-thousand Smokies tags in circulation.

It took several calls, but the Friends finally confirmed it will receive
all the ten-dollar increase. Most groups, because of the way their specialty tag
law was drafted, must split their increase with the state highway fund and state
arts commission.  Hart worries the increase may price out some supporters.

The Smokies Friends receive a half-million dollars a year from the specialty
plate in Tennessee. The groups gets another 100-thousand dollars a year from
a 30-dollar tag in North Carolina.

12/26/2002 10:41:02 AM
Reporter: Associated Press Copyright



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