While we haven’t always agreed on all points, the Lincoln Independent Business Association (LIBA) does feel that over the years the LPS Board and the LIBA School Liaison committee have done a good job of communicating and cooperating in an effort to make the Lincoln Public Schools the best that Lincoln taxpayers can afford. In 2006, LIBA asked the LPS Board to allow public comment at both the beginning and the end of board meetings …
LIBA invites policymakers, citizens and Senators to consider the following items for the welfare of our community: Build the South Beltway. LIBA would like to thank the Nebraska Department of Roads for including the Lincoln South Beltway in its 10 year priority list. This project is made possible through the dedicated funding provided by the Build Nebraska Act. We thank our State Senators for passing this bill. The construction of a South Beltway for Lincoln …
Senator Sen. Kate Sullivan and Members of the Education Committee: I write on behalf of the Lincoln Independent Business Association (LIBA) to express our opinion on the financing of public education in Nebraska and suggest changes which need to be made. Nebraska’s school aid formula was originally developed to relieve property tax rates across Nebraska.[i] Today, in Nebraska’s largest communities, the school aid formula not only fails to meet the goal of property tax …