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Support for land trust plan remains strong despite the treasurer’s vocal opposition
Recent criticism by state Treasurer Jeff DeWit appears to have done little to dampen Republican enthusiasm for Gov. Doug Ducey’s proposal to increase state land trust payments to K-12 schools.
Treasurer opposes raiding trust fund for schools
Gov. Doug Ducey’s plan to reform the State Land Trust Fund found opposition this week from an unlikely source: Republican state Treasurer Jeff DeWit, whose analysis of the plan has some lawmakers second-guessing Ducey’s proposal.
Always conservative
The Ninth Floor used what it insists are conservative estimates of state land trust sales to reach the figures that Ducey touted in his K-12 funding plan last week. The governor’s office estimates an average of $100 million in land sales for each year of Ducey’s plan.
