Actually the tax cap initiative is a cap on property tax. Although if the state then has to kick in more money to towns for schools etc. then there might a lot less for State facilities including the UMaine. _____ From: The Maine Hockey Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Anthony DelMonaco Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 9:51 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Taxpayers ... never hurts to try and if the tax cap gets voted in i can only wonder how much funding the universities will get then... mosey Deron Treadwell <[log in to unmask]> wrote: I also want to throw this back into the stream.... The State of Maine government should be ASHAMED by the way (or lack there of) it supports its STATE university. I am sure there are many people, including Nonni, who can speak to the fact that Maine is woeful underfunded. BTW, I'm not down with the taxpayer argument either. I just want one game a year in Portland where all the alumni in this area can see a game in their own backyard! -Deron --- nonni daly wrote: > Reserving the right to jump back into the stream again ... > > Deron-- you thanked me for pointing out the financial constraints > that the department faces every year. May I also mention this ... > > Clair, there is no way in hell that the university gives the Athletic > Department enough money on ! which to operate. Travel costs alone are > an incredible part of the budget, since -- to quote Jack Cosgrove -- > "Orono isn't a place you go THROUGH, it's a place you go TO!" It's > also a place you go FROM and at the competitive levels at which Maine > now competes, it is very costly to cover all this travel. > > We also compete against a lot of schools who grant tuition waivers > for scholarship athletes -- all athletic scholarships are billed as > "in-state". No amount of proposing has ever given the powers-that-be > the inclination to reduce athletic costs at Orono by doing the same > thing. We have some sports that are there for no other reason than > to comply with the way-skewed Title IX guidelines ... they all cost > money and do not produce revenue. > > As a result, a good deal of what happens in 19 Division I sports at > Orono is supported by local corporate sponsors, luxury box buyers, > dasher/fence signage buyers, scoreboard buyers, single game > supporters ... is Maine supposed to take teams away from that all > important cash cow to play in a totally different venue where no such > support is forthcoming, sometimes even simply in the form of ticket sales? If you don't have the best of everything, make the best of everything you have -Shawn Walsh _____ Do you Yahoo!? vote.yahoo.com <http://vote.yahoo.com> - Register online to vote today!